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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1968
Page
2
Children aiming to take part in Delano Park parade must pre register with Parade Marshal Bert Unpingco. First 250 pre registered receive free flags. Thursday morning registrants may buy flags. Contact Unpingco at 355 1838 or 355 0503.
Four county area Morgan Limestone Lawrence and Cullman to see full patrol with radar setup from 6 pm Wednesday to midnight Sunday. Capt. John Williams notes 43 traffic fatalities this year in area up from 20 last year and urges 100 percent driver attention. Public Safety Director Col. Floyd Mann confirms all available troopers on duty.
Police investigated a barroom disturbance at Friendly Cafe on 2nd Ave last night. One man, described as intoxicated, was charged with disorderly conduct.
Morgan County sheriff cites forty charges last weekend with thirteen liquor violations and five driving infractions. The Morgan County Board of Registrars meets July 1 and July 15 at the county courthouse with sessions 8:30 a.m. to noon and 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. to register voters who have six months county and one year state residence and are at least 21. The Decatur Jayceettes executive committee will gather at Mrs Joe Pen e home on Old Moulton Road Wednesday at 7. The McCarthy for President committee meets tonight at 7 at the Decatur Inn. contact Garry Nungester for details.
Qualifying for the Aug. 13 Moulton city elections ends at 5 pm today per City Clerk Barbara Coffey. Seventeen candidates have qualified for five council seats and the mayor’s post, including H. H. Slim Hambrick Place Four and F. L. Holland Place Two. Incumbents and contenders span Places One through Four with multiple names listed.
More than 700 state Republican leaders back replacing the party convention nominating system with primaries. The plan requires approval from the State Executive Committee later this month. Delegates chosen at Mobile will lean Nixon and some Reagan. several incumbents and newcomers were nominated for national and state posts.
SELMA Ala AP Julius Talton owner of WHBB radio was named Sunday to the seven member small market radio committee of the National Association of Broadcasters.
Monsanto Co. promotes Daniel H. Mullis to manager compensation and personnel practices in textiles. Larry M. Wallace rises to a technical center position as a dye chemist. Mullis previously supervised technical recruitment and salary administration at the plant and plans to relocate to St Louis. Wallace, born in Decatur, holds a chemistry degree from Athens College and joined Monsanto in 1963 as a lab technician.
A man missing 12 days was found in a submerged car in a river. Two fishermen discovered a car on Sunday in the Paint Rock River near Huntsville containing the body of 33 year old Ted Hyland Kennedy of Route 2 Grant Alabama.
Athens councilman Lester Cole withdraws from the re election bid leaving 28 candidates for five council seats and the mayor’s post. Cole plans to move to Florida after his term ends September 30. Charley D White qualified for place four and W T Osborn for place one. Several traffic deaths are reported in Alabama over a weekend tallied by the AP.
A Civil Defense course in radiological monitoring for instructors begins at 1 p.m. July 8 at Decatur High School and runs daily 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. through July 12. Director Howard Proctor says the program aims to qualify instructors and provide core training for radiological defense officers and related personnel. Applicants should have a background in physical science or mathematics. teaching experience is preferred but not required.
The Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville Alabama observed its eighth birthday with no special ceremonies. It began operations July 1 1960 with 4400 employees and facilities valued at about 8400 million. real property at 140 million and capital equipment at 260 million. It was formed by transferring the Von Braun rocket team from the Army Ballistic Missile Agency at Redstone Arsenal and developed the Saturn rockets for the moon program.
University of Alabama Medical School receives a seedling from Athens Greece via Air Express. It will be planted on the lawn of the Medical Center Library under construction in a few weeks. The center says the prognosis is good for a healthy addition to campus and notes the seedling’s beauty surpasses poetry.
William S. Coles, vice president of State National Bank of Alabama, named director of personnel for the State National Bank system based in Decatur, effective July 1. President C. W. Nelson cited system growth and expanded Northern Alabama operations as reasons for the new role. Coles, lauded by the Alabama Bankers Association as Outstanding Group Chairman, has engaged with more than 12,000 North Alabama students in banking talks. He was born in Nashville, educated there and at Western Kentucky University, and joined State National in 1963 after time with Commerce Union Bank of Nashville and First Peoples Bank of Johnson City, Tenn. He is married to Faye Dailey. they have one child.
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