January Drives Offer Help Despite Tight Budgets
Barrett Shelton Jr urges Morgan County residents to support United Fund, Christmas Seals, March of Dimes, and blood drives. He notes fund shortfalls risk curtailing welfare programs and emphasizes filling pledge cards, continuing campaigns, and donating blood on January 14 at St Johns Episcopal Parish House.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barrett Shelton, JR
United Fund
Drive
Kenneth Shelton
Morgan
National Foundation
John Gort
Morgan County
St. Johns’ Episcopal Church
Red Cross
Decatur Junior Chamber of Commerce
Legislators Back Wallace on Textbook Reform Push
Legislators say Gov Elect George Wallace will back new laws to curb textbook abuses. Sen Roscoe Roberts and Sen Larry Dumas report Wallace is open to investigation findings and will support corrective measures. The hearings emphasize openness and prior public notice for State Board of Education meetings and textbook adoptions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Wallace
Roscoe Roberts
Madison
Roberts
Wallace
Sen
Larry Dumas
Jefferson
Bookmobile Schedule Pages Through Town Stops
The list outlines a January 8 bookmobile route with stops at Thatch Vining's Grocery Pittman's Store and Elkmont area locations. A separate line notes Ontario boasting over 74 000 miles of highways mostly paved with some lane division.
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Thatch
Vining’s
Holland’s
Pittman’s
Pettusville
Howard’s
Locke’s
Hobb’s
Elkmont
Head’s
Ontario
Ancient hunters in the Tennessee Valley at Stanfield Worley site
Stones and bones reveal Transitional Paleo Indians in the Stanfield-Worley Bluff Shelter Colbert County Alabama dating about 10 000 years ago. Radiocarbon dating places charcoal at 9640 years ago with a 450 year margin. The site shows long camps use stone boiling and a mix of bone antler wood and possibly basketry tools.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
University of Michigan
Tennessee Valley
North America
Parakeet Care Topics and Archaeology Club Notice
The Morgan Limestone chapter of the Alabama Archaeological Society meets Monday at City Electric Auditorium to discuss programs and projectile point types. Also included are parakeet care tips covering nail trimming, beak shaping, foot issues, mites, and when to seek veterinary help.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morgan-Limestone
Alabama Archaelogical Society
City Electric Auditorium
H. B. Dowell
Deaths Probe Ties Two Marshall County Cases
Investigators link two deaths in Marshall County to suspects Ted Varnes Sherman Hill and Mace Nell Pike. Pike 28 was found burned in Bearden’s car on Christmas Eve. Atchley 103 oldest resident was robbed of 1600 then died ten days later after being attacked December 19. Bearden says he was with Pike when the car ran into a ditch and left to seek help.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ee Ee
Mace Nell Pike
Bearden
Ted Varnes
Sherman Hill
Thomas A. Atchley
Marshall County
Atchley
Hill
Miss Pike
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Gus King
Cam
Capitol
BY Forrest Cassleberry
Don’s
W. Moulton St
Davidson Plumbing CO
Sherman St
By James W. Cameron
Christian Science Reading Room
2Nd Ave. N.E
Princess Theatre
Christian Science Monitor
Lerge Stock
Redice
Tansistors
S*ereos
Buschs
2Nd Avenue
Chevrolet
America
Corvair 700
Corvair Monza Club
Alabama
Decatur
Dial
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