New Inheritance Law Goes Into Effect Today
News from Washington outlines several new federal and state laws starting New Year’s Day 1977. California allows life support withdrawal with prior authorization, Virginia permits organ and tissue use forms on licenses, and 1977 tax revisions raise exemptions and new proof requirements for heirs.
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California
Virginia
Feder Tate
New York
New Jersey
Florida
Minnesota
Hartselle Fan Cecil Johnson Ties 27 Years of Football Attendance
Cecil Johnson a 1937 Eva High School graduate and Hartselle Morgan County football devotee has attended roughly 275 consecutive games across 27 seasons. He says he loves the sport and Hartselle is his team and plans to watch bowl games to start the new year.
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Webster
Cecil Johnson
Hartselle
Johnson
Eva
Morgan County High School
Atic
Hartselle Tiger football fan attends every game for 27 years
Cecil Johnson recalls his lifelong habit of watching Hartselle Tiger football, missing only a few games due to family and health factors. He and his wife Floy, plus son Ronald and daughter Sarah Morris, typically attend together, with trips once to Cherokee and another to Pisgah cited as the longest journeys.
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Cherokee
Pisgah
Floy
Ronald
Tony
Tigers
Johnsons
Sarah Morris
Cecil
Mayor chagrined by detour to Plains fuel stop
Tullahoma Tennessee Mayor George Vibbert Jr reports an 40 mile detour to a Plains Georgia filling station, only to miss Billy Carter and encounter high fuel prices and locals drinking inside the station. He notes rough ambience and a brief sightseeing stop on the Florida trip back home.
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Tullahoma, Tenn
George Vibbert Jr
Tullahoma
Plains, Ga
Billy Carter
Vibbert
Florida
Plains
Wibbert
Wibberts
New Year's Eve Roundup of Global Happenings and Local Weather
The year ends with notes from Rome and London as leaders call 1976 difficult and 1977 opening. In Italy a friar offers a costly charity dinner while Athens and Boston host festive events. Nearby New Year weather brings a cold front dropping into the single digits in North Alabama with ice on roads and a hunter rescued after a multi unit search.
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Giovanni Leone
Italy
London
Denis Healey
Ngland
Cherryville
N.C
Cozzo Lomellina
Angelo
Boston
Carter cabinet details draw mixed reactions in Anytown
The Anniston Star surveys the Carter administration key picks, noting Cyrus Vance at foreign affairs and Charles Schultzer as economic adviser. It highlights Juanita Kreps and Patricia Harris as powerful women in the first such lineup, with Doug Lance and Bert Bell among less impressive choices. Overall tone praises caliber relative to Nixon and Ford cabinets.
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Charles Schultzer
Council of Economic Advisors
Ray Marksall
Organized Labor
Juanita Kreps
Commerce
Joseph Califano
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HEW
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Nixon
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Patricia Roberts Harris
Housing and Urban Development
Luxemburg
Andrew Young
Atlanta
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Harris
Office of Management and Budget
Bert Lance
Georgia
Griffin Bell
Ernest Vandiver
Richard Nixon
Gerald Ford
Weather summary for Decatur area with Friday highs and weekend outlook
Friday midafternoon high reached 18 with a low of 8 in the morning. Expect highs in the upper 20s and a low around 20 today with Sunday turning cloudy and highs near the upper 30s. Sunrise 6:54 a.m. sunset 4:46 p.m.
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Freeze
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Tennessee Valley
Alabama
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Ebenezer
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Foodworld
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Commer
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