Calendar of Community Events and Meetings Listed
Calendar items include watch night services at multiple churches around 8 p.m. and 7 p.m. dates, a film at First Bible Church, a New Year ball by Cahaba Shrine, local meetings in Decatur Huntsville and Hartselle, voter registration deadline for Jan 18 amendments, and several club gatherings with times and locations.
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Cahaba Shrine Temple
Carter’s
Skateland
North Memorial Parkway
Huntsville
State taxes rise 15 percent in December report
Alabama Department of Revenue data show December sales tax up 15 percent from a year earlier, with total state tax receipts up 14.7 percent to 41.57 million dollars. Highlights include 18.82 million in sales tax and 9.92 million in gasoline tax, up 12.25 percent.
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Alabama Department of Revenue
Financial Institution
Thirty Trial Cases Set in Limestone County Court
Limestone County Circuit Civil Court under Judge R L Hundley schedules thirty cases for the week starting January 17. Fourteen are damage suits. others involve businesses and individuals seeking delinquent accounts and promissory notes. A grand jury will be empaneled January 17 from 111 summoned jurors.
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Athens
Limestone County
R. L. Hundley
Funeral services announced for deceased individual
Two others were injured in a Thursday one car crash in Cullman County on Alabama 74 eight miles west of Cullman. Injured were Frankie R. Roberts seventeen and Jackie H. Powell thirty nine of Cullman. Condition not immediately available per Cullman Hospital officials.
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Cullman County
Frankie R. Roberts
Jackie H. Powell
Cullman
Alabama 74
Cullman Hospital
Actor Duel Dies From Head Wound in Suspected Shooting
Police say a single head wound killed the actor known as Duel born in Rochester New York and famed for Hannibal Hayes in a ABC series. A week old spent bullet found at the residence raised questions while another bullet remained unexplained. Miss Ray was questioned and released. Detectives were sent to the home after an anonymous call around 130 AM. The actor also appeared in The Fugitive The Bold Ones Combat and Name of the Game.
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Miss Ray
Konstantaros
Duel
Deuel
Hannibal Hayes
Ben Murphy
Rochester
N.Y
St. Lawrence University
Family Service Group
American Theater Wing
Hollywood
Bold Ones
Combat
Egyptian Air Incidents and Sinai War Exercise Report
The report details unconfirmed phantom sightings and a 40 minute flight interrupted by bad weather that prevented interception. Egypt's Middle East News Agency cites a week long exercise simulating crossing the Suez Canal and Sinai retaking with water crossings tank battles air support artillery paratroopers and logistics. Tel Aviv reports Lt. Gen Haim BarLev hands over command to Maj. Gen David Elizar noting Syria Lebanon and northern Jordan actions in 1967 war. BarLev cautions Egypt may start new battles on the Suez front but questions their strategic clarity.
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Egypt
Middle East
Suez Canal
Sinai
Tel Aviv
Haim BarLev
Armed Services
David Elizar
Syria
Lebanon
Jordan
Coggin Seeks Third Circuit Judge Post
Coggin, a Cumberland Law School Samford graduate, is running for the third circuit judge position in the eighth judicial circuit. He notes that when in session two judges would try cases in separate courtrooms.
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Cumberland Law School
Samford University
Coggin
Eighth Judicial Circuit
Peace On Earth And Pass The Ammunition Analysis
James Reston surveys 1971's paradoxes from Nixon's dual calls for peace and bombing North Vietnam. He notes the administration's trust breakdown with the press, Nixon’s dramatic moves including Cambodia and Laos incursions, and the political stakes of a presidential election year.
Price panels mandate visible ceiling lists in stores
The Price Commission requires retailers to post price ceilings where customers can easily see them and asks the IRS to start checking compliance January 3. Rumsfeld expects only part of a 12 percent wage rise for 11,000 North American Rockwell workers to be approved and Meany warns Pay Board may be paralyzed by many appeals unless policy changes.
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Afl-Cio
George Meany
Donald Rumsfeld
Cost of Living Council
Chicago
Rockwell Corp. Aerospace
Rumsfeld
Council
The
Price Commission
Commission
Internal Revenue Service
Salvage Sale Details For Launch Complex Equipment
The sale covers cranes boom hoists elevators motors stainless steel tubing and about 185 miles of copper and steel cable with launch complexes including fire service and support towers weighing about 9244 tons and up to 381 feet tall. GSA sets bid opening February 1 and a pre bid conference January 12 with a guided tour and sale terms explained. Successful bidder gets nine months from mid March to finish salvage.
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GSA
Bombings Highlight Nixon Dilemma in Vietnam Policy
In Saigon the Nixon administration weighs heavy air strikes on North Vietnam, balancing the danger of anti Communist forces losing ground without air cover against risking freedom for over 300 American airmen held captive in the North. The five day bombing push signals continued U S air support amid a precarious search for a political solution.
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Saigon
Nixon
U.S
North Vietnam
Vietnam
Indochina
United States
Hanoi
Washington
Laos
Johnson's Memoir of War Crimes and Escape from Vietnam
The account recounts a U S soldier describing August 27 1968 when he killed a seven year old Vietnamese girl who held grenades and later killed a man with a knife amid attacks at Phu Bai. He details torture executions by Tiger Force and his own desertion to Canada and refuge in France.
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Phu Bai
Johnson
Tiger Force
United States
Canada
Vancouver
FBI
Vietnam
Leavenworth
France
Hearing in Beating Case Is Reset in Athens
A preliminary hearing for 18 year old Charles Edward Malone charged with first degree murder in the beating death of eight month old Nicole Turner was continued to January 14. Malone remains jailed without bail in Limestone County. Also set for January 7 are hearings for nine others tied to a Limestone drug raid, while two Madison County men faced grand jury action on illegal stil. Sheriff Evans said the still had a 480 gallon capacity.
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Athens
Charles Edward Malone
Malone
Nicole Turner
Dillard Feigley
Limestone County
Limestone
Lan
Madison
Grand Jury
Jester McClain
Bobby Erwin
M. W. Buddy Evans
Electric Group Speakers Named for AREA Meeting
Senator John Sparkman Governor George Wallace and Barrett Shelton Sr publisher of the Decatur Daily will speak at the 25th Annual Meeting of the Alabama Rural Electric Association in Montgomery January 10 and 11. REA Administrator David Hamil and Mrs Mary George Waite also named along with E H Ham Wilson and Dail Gibbs announcing.
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Montgomery
John Sparkman
George Wallace
Barrett Shelton Sr
Decatur Daily
Alabama Rural Electric Association
AREA
Dail Gibbs
REA
David Hamil
Mary George Waite
Alabama Bankers Association
E. H. (Ham) Wilson
Alabama Cattlemen's Association
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Northern Ireland
Housing Executive
Bogside
Londonderry
IRA
Vaidermose Baptist Church
Pine Grove
of Christinning
Alabama 24
Somerville Pentecostal Church
Stanley
Glory Echoes
Flint Baptist Church
Chapel Baptist Church
Chestnut St
Israel
First Bible Church
5Th Ave. SE
Robert Suran
Lawrence County
Ca Congregational Christian Church
Decatur
T. C. Almonenter
Morgan-Limestone
Alabama Archaeological Society
City Hall
Tom Cornell
Morgan County Board of Registrars
South Vietnam
Mu Gia
Ban Raving
Ban Karai
Ho Chi Minh Trail
James D’entremont
Vinh
Air Force
Thanh Hoa
Central Intelligence Agency
Air America
St. John’s Episcopal Church
Fice
Altrusa
Dorothy Livingston
Runnymeade, S.W
Marjorie Wilson
Anniston
Morgan-Lawrence Community Action Service
Hartselle Recreation Center
Old County Court Building
Rkman St
Hartselle
Ken-Bar Inn
Southeast
Decatur Homemakers Club
Edgar Verchot
Morningside Ct
Friendship Club
Summer Manor
Edwin L. Hodges
Fifth Avenue Baptist Church
American Society For Personnel Administration
Hank Houser
Monsanto
St. Louis
Pilot Club
Decatur Inn
Lev
Suez
James Reston
New York Times News Service
China
North
Moscow
South China Sea
Peking
Russia
Defense Laird
Kennedy
Pat Brown
California
Brown
Cambodia
India
Richard Nixon
America
Pakistan
McCracken
Plain of Jars
USS
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