Planetarium Show Highlights Florence Skies Tonight
Florence State College hosts a planetarium program tonight at 3 p.m. featuring the winter skies with bright stars and constellations and a second show on January 21. Local meetings include Decatur Chapter No. 5 Licensed Practical Nurses Tuesday at 7 p.m. at Black Chandler Hospital Hartselle. Disabled American Veterans Auxiliary Wheeler-Brown-Hendrix Chapter 11 Monday at 7 p.m. at the DAV Home. Decatur Stamp Club Monday at 7:30 p.m. at city hall. Mary Lou Dancy Chapter No. 320 Order of the Eastern Star Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. in the Masonic Hall with an initiation.
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Florence
Florence State College
Decatur
Black Chandler Hospital
Hartselle
Disabled American Veterans Auxiliary
Wheeler-Brown-Hendrix Chapter
DAV
Decatur Stamp Club
City Hall
Mary Lou’ Dancy
Order of the Eastern Star
Masonic Hall
Madison names new patrolman Bobby G Houk
Madison announces Patrolman Bobby G Houk joins the police force replacing Officer Schrimsher who resigned. Houk is a Madison County native with prior Huntsville Police Department experience including academy training in 1961 and 1963 and traffic investigation coursework under the Alabama Highway Patrol.
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Madison
Bobby G. Houk
Huntsville Police Department
Madison County
Houk
Huntsville Force
Huntsville Police Academy
Alabama Highway Patrol
Marthage Thomas
Huntsville
Vernie L. Houk
B. F. Schrimsher
Alabama May Form Alliance To Smash Cigarette Black Market
Alabama and four southern states consider joint action to dismantle a multi million dollar bootlegging operation centered in North Carolina. Officials say the added three cent per pack tax hike makes bootlegging more attractive, as Alabama’s total reaches ten cents with local rates up to fifteen.
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Alabama
Birmingham
Ala
Montgomery
North Carolina
B. B. Atkins
State Department
Bradley Brown
Jefferson County
Brown
Atkins
Hopes for Special School Funds Dim
Alabama faces a looming shortfall as 26 million dollars in conditional school appropriations from 1967 seem unlikely to be paid. If extra tax revenue materializes, absolute appropriations of 280.4 million for this year and 282 million for 1968 69 could be paid, but deficits loom without more income tax yield.
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Rex Thomas
Associated Press
Montgomery
Ala
House
Senate
State Revenue Department
Revenue Department
Lurleen Wallace
Former M omery Editor Steps Down From New Position
Grover C Hall Jr resigns as editor of the Richmond News Leader after a project announced by publisher D Tennant Bryan. Hall, 52, was born in Montgomery Alabama and has a long career including 31 years at the Montgomery Advertiser where he served as editor for 20 years.
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M'omery
Richmond, Va
Grover C. Hall Jr
Richmond News Leader
D. Tennant Bryan
Daily
Hall
Montgomery
Ala
Alabama
News Leader
James Jackson Kilpatrick
Florida
Richmond
Montgomery Advertiser
Morning Advertiser
The
Alabama Journal
Dr James Sussex to Speak at Morgan County Mental Health Meet
Dr James Sussex professor and chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at the Medical College of Alabama will be guest speaker at the Morgan County Mental Health Association annual dinner January 23 at the Decatur Inn beginning 7 p.m. Tickets are 3 dollars. Reservations via 353 1160. He will discuss The Changing Family and Mental Health.
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James Sussex
Medical College of Alabama
Birmingham
Morgan County Mental Health Association
Decatur Inn
Sussex
The
Medical College
National Naval Medical Center
Bethesda
Georgetown University School of Medicine
Fairfax County Child Guidance Clinic
Virginia
Northcote
Minn
University of Kansas
U.S Naval Hospitals
Mare Island
Calif
Philadelphia
Marine pilot makes forced landing near Marion Alabama
Marine Corps pilot Wyatt Baxter from Beaufort South Carolina aboard an F 8 fighter ditched emergency fuelless near Vaiden air strip Marion Alabama after radio and navigation gear failed en route to Memphis Tennessee. The landing was routine with no damage and no injuries reported. Baxter aimed for Meridian Mississippi but could not locate it. State troopers earlier said fuel exhaustion was reported before radar contact was lost.
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Marion
Ala
Marine Corps
Baxter
Memphis
Tenn
Vaiden’Air
Meridian
Miss
Vaiden
Craig
Magellan Killed in 1521 Mactan Island Battle
The record notes Ferdinand Magellan was killed on April 27 1521 during a clash with natives on Mactan Island ending his voyage.
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Ferdinand Magellan
Mactan Island
Toothpick Touch Takes Talented Trained Teacher
Lauren Smith notes sixth graders at Woodstock Avenue School in Anniston created a massive toothpick sculpture using over 5000 sticks. Mrs. Suzanne Bartek guided 29 students through design, balance, imagination and teamwork, converting two small pieces into one large collaborative piece over weeks of after school activity.
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Suzanne Bartak
Woodstock
Anniston
Lauren Smith
Associated Press
Ala
Suzanne Bartek
Woodstock Avenue School
Tek
Wreck Injures Man Near Cullman Alabama
A one car crash on Alabama 69 about 11 miles north of Cullman injured Larry D. Farley, 20, who was listed in fair condition at University Hospital Birmingham with a brain concussion. His car left the highway and struck a bridge embankment.
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Cullman
University Hospital
Birmingham
Larry D. Farley
Birmingham Hospital
Cullman Hospital
Highway Patrol
Alabama 69
Noel J. Mize
Farley
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Det. Smith
Gen. Eisler
Charles W. Eisler
Army Missile Command
Redstone Arsenal
Alabama Space Science Exhibit Commission
Houston
Tex
SEA
Small Business Administration
Clinton Building
Bobby Houk
Dr. Sussex
Craig Air Force Base
Selma
Wyatt Baxter
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