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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1968
Page
9
Jurors hear testimony on a missing woman’s denture evidence and bodies. Officials recount the scene near the boat dock and the clothing found in water. Dentists from Decatur identify Mary Faye Hunter’s dentures as part of the evidence.
The notice describes prams and tennis sea Penns on types 12 percent. It mentions trading fair offerings as fully adequate with ten hens. Prices at farms show heavy type 14 and light type 4.
Absenteeism in city schools ranged around 7 to 15 percent with totals by school listed. Attendance figures for Austin High and Decatur campuses show many absentees while court proceedings moved from a small to a main courtroom amid testimony and crowding.
Police acted swiftly at a trailer sighting near the Four girls aged 17 to 22 and three other men were charged with vagrancy.
Cold wet weather keeps students home with high illness levels. In Lawrence County 88 percent attendance, down from 92 percent normal, blamed on bad roads and weather. Limestone reports 10 percent absence, Pettus cites weather as a major factor while nearby Giles County Tennessee closes schools through Monday due to sickness.
Hospital records list names of patients and dismissals including Mrs. Gertrude Wa ger, Mrs. Linnie Richardson, Mrs. Anne Knox, Luther King Jr Hillsboro 2, Miss Phyllis Montgomery, Thomas Gat lin, and others. Dismissals include Alfred Cowan, Walter Herbert, Michael Casey, Pamela Gilmore, Kenneth Bolling, Dewey Speegle, Billy Orr, Jane Thomason, James Richey, and more.
Neighbors and firemen found McCluskey dead in a chair near a stove after checking his Athens home. A sign outside noted an invalid lived there as relatives recount his return from hospital to live alone. Funeral plans and survivor list released by his daughter Mrs Poole, with several other children and a grandchild noted.
A statement outlines possible compromise on foreign troop presence and Viet Cong infiltration. It mentions accepting information from all sides including Americans and Chinese or Vietnamese regarding infiltration of American agents. It notes India, chairing the control commission, might be asked to accept additional modern equipment for border duties.
A list of new babies includes Kimberly Lynn Marbut and Baby Boy for James H Phelps, along with births for Carolyn Garner, Tania Hancock and others. Mr and Mrs Truman G Glasscock, Ronny Norwood, and Gilbert Davis welcome sons and a daughter at Decatur General Hospital with locations and parent names noted.
Soviet doctors challenge Dr. Barnard's pioneering transplants while Pravda hails the success as proof foreign hearts can work. Surgeons seek close genetic matches, blood type alignment, and new tissue typing to reduce rejection, with a cadaver kidney transplant showing early promise.
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