Church and community meetings and events listed
Calendar lists gospel singing at Donald Baptist Church 7 p.m. with King's Messengers Quartet and Flint Baptist Church singing at 7 p.m. Open house at Athens water treatment plant Easter Ferry Rd. 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. Woman's Society meeting at First United Methodist Church parlor 10 a.m. Rising Sun Lodge 29 F&AM meets 7:30 p.m. Dr John Chenault speaks on AMA at Decatur Rotary 12:15 p.m. at Decatur Inn.
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King’s Messengers
Donald Baptist Church
Town Creek
Athens
Easter Ferry Rd
Woman's Society of Christian Service of
First’ United Methodist Church
John Chenault
American Medical Association
Decatur Rotary Club
Decatur Inn
Registration Set At Bernard CULLMAN
St. Bernard College will become fully coeducational for the second semester with women admitted at all grade levels. Freshmen register January 8, upperclassmen January 9, classes begin January 12. Dormitories will be available for women this fall. commuting students may enroll now.
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Cullman
St. Bernard College
St. Bernard
Gas explosion destroys Wetumpka drugstore downtown
A gas explosion leveled Little's Drug Store in Wetumpka Alabama early today. Fires persisted beneath nearby buildings and gas was cut off in the block while evacuation and roadblocks kept people away.
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Wetumpka
Ala
Little’s Drug Store
Winston A. Edwards
DempThrash
Elmore County
Montgomery
Kennedy's Connaughty Tragedy The Chappaquiddick Incident
The fragment details Ted Kennedy's vehicle accident near the bridge on Chappaquiddick Island. Miss Mary Jo Kopechne died after the car entered the water. Kennedy pleaded guilty to leaving the scene and received a suspended two month jail term. An Edgartown inquest is planned to determine the legal cause of death. Deputy Look reported seeing a car with two occupants near 12:45 a.m. prior to the event.
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Olsen
Miss Kopechne
Sen. Kennedy
Edgartown
Christopher Look Jr
Kennedy
Chappaquiddick
Agnew Seeks Swift Vietnam Message Amid Public Opinion Pressure
Vice President Agnew warned against misreading antiwar sentiment and urged timing aligned with Tet to influence U.S. opinion. He praised South Vietnam's local government rise and Thieu’s representative government while criticizing an opposition crackdown as isolated. He urged resilience to support Vietnam policy.
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U.S
South Vietnam
Nguyen van Thieu
Thieu
National Assembly
Nixon
Chiang Kaishek
United States
Formosa
China
Chiang
United Nations
Vietnam
Agnew
Ellsworth Bunker
Saigon
1St Infantry Division
Flu Puzzle Pondered by U S Health Experts
Government disease detectives seek answers to why six states Mississippi Oklahoma Texas Wisconsin Nebraska and Hawaii escaped last winter's Hong Kong flu wave. They hope solving this could help prevent a nationwide epidemic this winter amid Europe wide flu crisis.
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Frank Carey
Washington (Ap
United States
Europe
America
Alaska
Puerto Rico
Mississippi
Oklahoma
Texas
Wisconsin
Nebraska
Hawaii
End of New Year cease fire sees mixed clashes and casualties
U S command reports 115 enemy attacks on allied forces during 24 hours of cease fire with 61 deemed significant causing casualties. Six Americans and 167 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong soldiers died, 14 U S troops wounded. South Vietnamese losses include 17 government soldiers one police officer and seven civilians killed and 66 soldiers one police officer and seven civilians wounded. Several incidents involved Americans firing first as positions were threatened. The 40 hour cease fire follows shorter truces with varying tolls in past years.
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Agnew
U.S
Attacks on Police Rise, FBI Reports 1969 Year Review
FBI Director J Edgar Hoover reports over 100 attacks on police by black extremists in the last six months of 1969 with at least seven police killed and more than 120 injured. He cites Black Panther and other groups while warning of rising Klan recruitment and SDS violence. He notes 4,000 campus arrests, $3 million in damage, one death, and 125 injuries across 225 campuses in 1968-69.
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Washington
FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
Hoover
Black Panther Party
Black Panther
Justice Department
Department
Ku Klux Klan
Robert M. Shelton
United Klans of America
Shelton
Congress
New Left
Students For A Democratic Society
United States
Weatherman
SDS
Expansion continues on national defense against ICBM threats
The piece discusses U S strategic defense planning under Johnson and Nixon administrations to protect against accidental or unauthorized ICBM launches from Russia and China. It notes shifting emphasis due to intelligence, potential Safeguard deployment delays, and possible basing adjustments at Warren and Whiteman AFBs. A burglary report mentions a store losing five watches and praise for sheriff’s arrests.
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Russia
China
Nixon
Malmstrom Air Force Base
Montana
Grand Forks Air Force Base
North Dakota
Minuteman Fields
Warren Air Force Base
Wyoming
Whiteman Air Force Base
Missouri
Soviet Union
U. S
New York Stock Exchange Prices Nears Afternoon
AP report notes weak market in Birmingham with fair and ample capital. retail prices for consumer goods include large items at 68 cents, mediums 65 to 68, and smalls 52 to 55 cents.
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NEW York (Ap
New York Stock Exchange
Birmingham
Ala
Cases Inc
Wall Street Rises as Tax-Loss Selloff Reverses
The New York market extended gains amid late trading as tax-loss selling eased. The Dow Jones average climbed to 808.28 at 2 p.m., with broad advances among steel, motor, rubber, aircraft, electronics, utilities, metals, chemicals, oils, and airlines.
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New York
New York Stock Exchange
Sybron
General Motors
Alabama poultry prices and slaughters show strong demand
Alabama and Georgia live poultry markets report firm demand and adequate supplies. Broilers and fryers bring 14 to 28 cents at farm quotations with heavy hens around 18 cents and light types at 10 cents. estimated week end slaughters reach 1,740,000 in Alabama and 590,000 last Friday.
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Birmingham
Ala
Alabama
Atlanta, Ga
Cat Skin Lesion Needs Veterinary Checkup Says Doctor
Reader from Pine Grove asks about a dime sized bare spot below a cat eye. Dr. Eagle warns it could be ringworm or other conditions and urges laboratory diagnosis and veterinary examination before treatment.
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Eagle
Connecticut Area and Population Figures
Connecticut has an area of 5,009 square miles and a population around 2,540,000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Connecticut
Various rental and sale notices for small apartments and vehicles
Downstairs unfurnished two bedroom apartment with TV antenna and water furnished. Three room unfurnished apartment in west section, adults only. Four room furnished apartment with lights and water furnished. 419 E Moulton address. 1968 12 by 62 mobile home with three bedrooms. '59 Bonneville Pontiac in good condition. 1966 Volkswagen for sale or trade. By owner two bedroom brick home with central heat and air, two baths, built ins, finished garage, enclosed patio, fenced yard. equity and loan terms.
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F&am
Mary Lou Dancy
CES
Joe Davis
Grant St
Southeast Homemakers Club
Joe Black
11Th Ave
Women’s Chamber of Commerce
Chamber of Commerce
Joe Wheeler
United Daughters of Confederacy
W. F. Frazier
13Th Ave
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Knights Templar
Masonic Temple
William Barton
Associated Press
Powers
Howell
American Exchange
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Mtstatt
Wall Street
Ford Motor
Eldon Grimm
Walston & Co
Dow Jones
Saiibeos
T.V
E. Moulton
Volkswagen
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