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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1968
Page
9
The X-ray bus, funded by Christmas Seal sales, will visit Athens and Limestone County schools January 2 and 23. Readings by radiologists in Huntsville and Birmingham flag abnormalities and refer cases to the health department for follow up.
The text notes travel to Morgan County on February 5 and 6 with the bus stationed at the superintendent's office on Alabama 67 for county students. No schedule has been set yet for Lawrence and Madison County schools on School January 25.
A feature traces Nancy Sinatra’s image makeover turning her into a 18 hour day business figure. The piece examines who shaped her current public persona and why she consented to the change amid plans to fight poverty with agency support.
The Marshall-Morgan Community Action Agency outlines a proposal to run fulltime offices supervised by an activities coordinator with two counselors a secretary a stenographer and eight program assistants all eight assistants to be hired from poverty families. The $9000 coordinator would lead centers aiding poorer families with information on existing services and free help and offering health clinics homemaking advice and a family planning program.
The expansion includes cottages and facilities for the mentally retarded and ill at a Decatur site on U.S. 31 near District One Tuberculosis Hospital. The $192,500 figure comes from a $15 million bond approved for four hospitals in Mobile Birmingham Decatur and near Montgomery. The Decatur project may receive $4,212,500 with federal aid. The bond debt is repaid by a two cent per pack cigarette tax.
Mineral particles coated with fluorescent paint are used by researchers to trace the movement of stream-bottom sediments, enabling study of sediment transport patterns and deposition in aquatic environments.
Market notes list prices including wood at 65 and 45 and 3 dollars, pulpwood 13.50 per cord, corn at 1.22 for both yellow and white No 2 grades, oats 0.70, milling wheat 1.50, rye 2.00 per hundred, barley 0.95, soybeans 2.47 percent.
The Dow Jones average rose to 886.21 by 2 p.m., up 2.43, after an early surge that nudged the index higher by about six points. Market breadth favored advances over declines by more than 300 points, heavy trading surpassing 9.5 million shares by midafternoon as traders welcomed Johnson's State of the Union proposals with no surprises.
The Tennessee Valley Authority plans bidding on over 8.6 million dollars in Browns Ferry Nuclear Power Plant equipment before February end. The largest 6.5 million dollar package covers piping with bid opening set February 20. The project totals 392 million dollars with goals of full operation by November 1972.
Work resumed Tuesday at the Browns Ferry Nuclear Power Plant in Limestone County after a five day weather delay. The site now lists 1,027 employees, with 68 contractors on site. Pittsburgh-Des Moines Steel Co. finished welding the first four courses of the drywall vessel and welding reached 75 percent on the fifth course for unit one. For unit two, installation of 96 baffle pipes in the bottom section of the suppression chamber began.
U S military officials report that Gls 187th Airborne Infantry who arrived in South Vietnam last month killed Lam Hiep 28 commander of the Dong Hai Regiment D800 Battalion and another Viet Cong on a trail 25 miles north of Saigon. A third Viet Cong escaped.
A new US proposal seeks a 2.1 billion job creation program to employ 500000 unemployed via federal private sector partnerships and a 100 million slum rebuilding project.
Witnesses described the killings as a stroke of genius by the killer. The defense had not conceded Seibold’s guilt and questioned one witness’s identification before.
James Stanley Blakemore 56 longtime volunteer fire chief of Moulton died at Lawrence County Hospital after a heart attack at home. He also led the water department, served the Rescue Squad and church, and was a Huntsville native with ties to local officials.
A jumble of late classified notices lists rentals including a five room house on East Moulton and a 41 3 Bellemeade option with central heat and air. Items for sale range from a 62 Chevrolet convertible to a 1959 Ford Country Sedan Wagon and antiques at Borden's, with contact numbers and prices. People seek Chevys, six cylinder motors, and various homes in Decatur and nearby areas.
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