Decatur High Race for March of Dimes Saturday
The Hi Y and Tri Hi Y of Decatur High School sponsor a March of Dimes race Saturday starting in front of the Alabama Drug Store and ending at the Armory. Decatur pros Marvin Breeding and Bob Freeman will compete to raise funds for the Morgan County Teen March of Dimes, with dimes moving the runners forward. Peanuts will be sold downtown to boost donations for the 25th annual March of Dimes.
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Hi-Y
Tri-Hi-Y
Decatur High School
Alabama Drug Store
Armory
Decatur
Marvin Breeding
Bob Freeman
Morgan County
Breeding
Washington Senators
Freeman
Washington Football Redskins
Limestone Smoke House Destroyed by Fire in Athens
A smoke house on Holt Road was destroyed by a blaze reported by the Athens Fire Department. The fire caused slight damage to a truck owned by Pete Biles of Athens Produce Co. the morning after the incident at 6 42 a.m. Oakley Holt owned the smoke house.
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Athens
Oakley Holt
Holt
Athens Fire Department
Pete Biles
Athens Produce Co
Cup Shaped Water Tower Mark Dixie Cup Plant HQ
A cup shaped water tower marks the Dixie Cup plant as its headquarters in Lexington Kentucky. The distinctive tower stands above the facility, signaling the plant's identity in the city.
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Lexington
Dixie Cup
GOP Lays Plans For Limestone Area At Meeting
Alabama Republicans outline expansion efforts in Limestone County with plans to boost organize grassroots support in the Tennessee Valley area. John Grenier criticizes federal school integration suits while urging broader mobilization ahead of 1964 electoral goals.
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Limestone
Limestone County
GOP
Athens
Alabama Republican Executive Committee
John Grenier
Birmingham
Young Repub
Tennessee Valley
Grenier
Bobby Kennedy
Alabama
Huntsville
Sparkman
Wilson White
Limestone County Republican Committee
Jerry Barksdale
Limestone County Young Republicans
Manyon Millican
Republican Executive Committee
Mary Ellen Miller
Mobile
Teamwork Nets Two Suspects In Cullman Auto Theft Case
Four agencies joined forces Thursday evening to arrest James W Myere of Huntsville and Charles L Cantrell of Hazel Green on grand larceny charges after they allegedly stole a 1957 Chevrolet station wagon in Cullman. They were captured at 6 45 p m atop Hartselle Mountain on U S 31 by Alabama Highway Patrol Hartselle Police Flint Police and Morgan County Sheriff's Office officers who pursued the suspects after the car was reported missing. The nine-officer arrest followed the owners report and rapid radio alerts.
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Madison County
Cullman
James W. Myere
Huntsville
Charles L. Cantrell
Hazel Green
Cullman County
Hartselle Mountain
U. S. 31
Alabama Highway Patrol
Hartselle
Flint Police
Morgan County
Highway Patrol
E. M. C. Parrish
Cadet
S. P. Roberts
R. Ju Underevga
Cook Shafer
Higkway Patrol
W. D. Norman
Hartselle Police
Odis. Simpson
Flint Popolice
Pat Patterson
A. J. Hallman
Paul Smith
1170 Cubans Arrive on Shirley Lakes at Port Everglades
An American freighter, the Shirley Lakes, brought 1,170 Cuban refugees to Port Everglades in Lauderdale after a voyage across choppy seas. The evacuees arrived seeking asylum and a new free life in the United States, following the loss of their material possessions.
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Ft, Lauderdale
Fla
United States
Shirley Lakes
Port Everglades
Fort
Flint Forms Rescue Squad Elects Officers
Dr. Marshall Carrier Jr was elected president of the Flint Rescue Squad in its first meeting. Officers include Odis Simpson Jr as vice president Hershal Henderson as secretary and Mayor T V Day as treasurer. A Feb 7 meeting was set at the Holiday Inn conference room.
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Flint
Marshall Carrier, Jr
Flint Rescue Squad
Odis Simpson, Jr
Hershal Henderson
T. V. Day
Simpson
Holiday Inn
Decatur
Huntsville Adds Three Firms to Industrial Park Plans
Huntsville officials announced three more companies planning to locate in the Industrial Research Park. Space Technology Laboratories will take 17 acres for a new facility, Thiokol Chemical Corp. has optioned a 10-acre site for division offices, and Tec-Productions plans five acres for a 20,000 square foot building.
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Huntsville
Ala
W. L. Halsey Jr
Huntsville Industrial Expansion Committee
Space Technology Laboratories, Inc
Thiokol Chemical Corp
Tec-Productions, Inc
Space Tech Labs
Redondo Beach
Calif
Reuben F. Mettler
Thiokol
Redstone Arsenal
Tec-Productions
Frontier style crib for week-old Kelly Farrell in Miami
Kelly Farrell, one week old, sleeps in a glass paneled climate controlled crib in Miami. Parents Mary and Walt Farrell, both UM psychology majors, claim the box keeps the baby germ free at an 80 degree steady temperature and reduces noise and diaper changes.
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Miami
Fla
Kelly Farrell
Kelly
Mary and
Walt Farrell
University of Miami
Mary
Walt
Lauderdale Returns Cuban Prisoner Casualties Relatives
Lauderdale transports a human cargo back from the space used to deliver ransom supplies for Fidel Castro. Among the Cubans are 13 stretcher cases and seven paralytics, mostly relatives of the 1,113 invasion prisoners released last month.
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Norman Albright
Smoke
Blaze
Anderson Business College
Decatur, Ala
First National
Federal Deposit Insurance
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
FDIC
U.S
Sville
Baby
Decator
Welers - Officuars
Sao Avenue
Admiral
O’brien
O'Brien
Ist ‘Ave
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