Moulton Jaycees Install Officers and Eva Picnic Plans
The Moulton Jaycees will install new officers at 7 30 p m today with awards at the banquet. The Kiva Activity Association sponsors an all day picnic July 4 at Eva High School starting at 10 a m with men's softball, Little League baseball and girls softball, plus food and refreshments.
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Moulton
Moulton Jaycees
EVA
Kiva Activity Association
Eva High School
Association
John G. Norris
Courtland Boosters Sponsor Barbecue for Fourth of July
Courtland High School hosts a Courtland Boosters Club barbecue during an old-fashioned Fourth of July celebration. The event begins at 10 30 a m and is part of a community lineup tied to local festivities. MOULTON mayoral race qualifiers close Aug 13 at 5 p m with 17 candidates filed for six posts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Courtland Boosters Club
Courtland High School
Moulton
Barbara Coffey
Young Democrats to Meet at Tower House Restaurant
Morgan County Young Democrats gather at the Tower House Restaurant Wednesday at noon for their monthly meeting with State Rep. Leslie Doss as guest speaker. Regular Assembly of Decatur Council No 81 meets Wednesday at 7 30 p.m. in the Masonic hall. A 6 year old boy, Danny Farrish of 1818 College St SE, was injured when struck by a car driven by Betty Ellis, 33, of 613 14th Ave SE. Ellis was charged with violation of the prohibition law after four beer cans were found. The Red Cross Bloodmobile will visit Delano Park Thursday for Fourth of July Spirit of America donations, sponsored by the Decatur Sales Executive Club.
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Morgan County
Tower House
Leslie Doss
Decatur Council No
Royal and Select Masters
Masonic
Danny Farrish
College St. SE
20Th Ave
Betty Ellis
14Th Ave. SE
Baugh “Wiley
Red Cross Bloodmobile
Delano Park
Decatur Sales Executive Club
Dr Sherrill Named To State Medical Religion Committee
Dr Fred O Sherrill of Falkville is appointed to the new standing Committee on Medicine and Religion by the College of Counsellors and House of Delegates at the 107th Annual Session of the Medical Association of Alabama. His term runs until 1971.
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Fred O. Sherrill
Falkville
Medicine
College of Counsellors
House of 9
Medical Association of
State of Alabama
Adams to Speak on The Tenets of Communism Tonight
James Adams will discuss the Tenets of Communism at 8 tonight at the Mutual Savings Life Theater Building. The talk is part of the Wheeler Basin Regional Library summer program for high school students.
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James Adams
Mutual Savings Life Theater
Wheeler Basin
Décatur Curb Market Opens Wednesday With Fresh Produce
The Décatur Curb and Country Market at 1st Ave and Grant St SE will be open from 6 30 a m to 5 30 p m Wednesday. Items on sale include beets white corn okra squash tomatoes cucumbers shelled and unshelled peas and Kentucky cantaloupes.
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Décatur
1St Ave
Grant St
Kentucky
Athens College Eyes 3 Million Expansion Plan
Athens College outlines a long range master plan costing about 3 million dollars to add a modern library classrooms a women's dormitory and a nursing school. Phase one already added four men s dormitories and a new student center at roughly 1 35 million dollars.
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Athens
Athens College
Frank N. Philpot
Philpot
Hobbs Street
Bids Opened For Athens Street Work
Athens Ashburn and Gray Inc of Huntsville submitted an apparent low bid of 39813.75 for resurfacing about four and a half miles of streets including Brown's Ferry Road Hines Schilling Market Hobbs Marion Frazier Houston Pine Forrest South Green and Madison Other bidders were G W Asphalt of Decatur 47058.85 and Burgreen Contracting 48636.75 The low bidder will have 45 days to complete after award Contracts will be let after state approval Lighting at Fifth Ave Baseball Park city tennis courts on Market Street and Jaycees Youth Park also approved.
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Athens
Ashburn and Gray Inc
Huntsville
Brown’s Ferry Road
Hines
Schilling
Market
Hobbs
Marion
Frazier
Houston
Pine
Forrest
South
Green and
Madison
G & W Asphalt
Decatur
Burgreen Contracting
Fifth Ave
Market St
Massey Promoted to Head of Alabama Flour Mills Division
Shelby C. Massey of Decatur is promoted to general manager of the Alabama Flour Mills division of Nebraska Consolidated Mills Co. He will supervise milling operations in the southeastern states including Decatur Tunnel Hill and Macon Georgia. He coordinates sales for Red Hat and Birdsey Feeds. Claude S. Carter also named Newton plant manager in Decatur and Dennis H. Croft named manager of egg processing and sales for the Alabama division.
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Shelby C. Massey
Decatur
Alabama Flour Mills
Nebraska Consolidated Mills Co
Massey
Tunnel Hill
Macon
Red Hat
Birdsey Feeds
Alabama
Georgia
Claude S. Carter
Newton
South
Dennis H. Croft
New Principal Expected For West Athens Elementary
Athens Board of Education plans to name a new principal for West Athens Elementary School and to name a new street bounding the campus on the east. The current only applicant published is James Cowart, from Athens High School staff. The vacancy arises after J D Clanton left for Limestone County Board of Education in June. The new street could provide a quicker route between W Hobbs and U S 72.
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Athens
Athens Board of Education
Bruce Sherrill
James Cowart
Athens High
Sceponen
J. D. Clanton
Limestone County Board of Education
Sherrill
W Hobbs
U.S. 72
Three More Qualify For Athens Race
Athens division reports three more candidates for the mayor council race in the August 13 general election. Carl F. Edgemon and Bob Dunnavant Jr placed in four and Malcolm Moore placed in one. Edgemon, a retired Alabama State Trooper, works security at Huntsville Jetport. Dunnavant is a DAILY staff writer for the Decatur Daily. Moore, with Rand Furniture, seeks his first public office.
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Athens
Guore
Carl F. Edgemon
Bob Dunnavant Jr
Malcolm Moore
Edgemon
Alabama
Limestone County
L. J. Swinen
Huntsville
Dunnavant
Decatur Daily
Council
Rand Furniture
Sentinel Logistics Command to Move to Huntsville
The U S Army Sentinel Logistics Command formed in April and headed by Brig Gen Mahlon E Gates will relocate from Washington to Huntsville by late summer. It will grow from a 109 person staff to support logistics for the Sentinel System, including inventory management and maintenance engineering across involved Army agencies.
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Sentinel Logistics Command
Huntsville
Huntsville. Ala
U.S. Army Sentinel Logistics Command
Washington
Army
Mahlon E. Gates
Kilby Inmate Held For GJ
Kilby State Prison inmate Charles D. Kahela, 35, of Jefferson County, is held for the Montgomery County grand jury in the slaying of fellow inmate James Benny Shivers, 32, found with a slashed throat at the prison cotton mill. Kahela faced burglary grand larceny and false pretense convictions.
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Montgomery
Ala
Kilby
Montgomery County
Grand Jury
Curtis Simpson
Charles D. Kahela
Jefferson County
Grand
James Benny Shivers
Sumter
Simpson
Kahela
Judges Rule JP Traffic Fee Unconstitutional in Alabama
Three federal judges in Birmingham ruled that the traffic violation fee collected by Bibb County justices of the peace is unconstitutional as applied. The decision nominally affects Bibb County and could set a precedent for other counties. The ruling cites the seventh amendment and notes no conspiracy. sheriff’s department and others were dismissed.
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Birmingham
Ala
Justice of the Peace
Alabama
Justices of the Peace
Bibb County
U.S
Sheriff's Department
Court Orders New Hearing On Prisoner Cruel Punishment Claim
The 5th U S Circuit Court of Appeals ordered a hearing on Willie Beard's claim of cruel and unusual punishment in Alabama prisons. Beard, an inmate at Atmore Prison Farm, sought an injunction or release after his district court petition was rejected. The court found Beard alleged sufficient grounds for a forum on his punishment claims.
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New Orleans
5Th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Alabama
Willie Beard
Atmore Prison Farm
U.S
Beard
4 H Club Garden Helps 16 Families in Decatur
Sixteen families in Decatur participate in a 4 H Club garden project using a vacant two acre lot donated by Mrs. Paul J. Wolfer. Extension agents organize plots 30 by 140 feet with each family growing vegetables. Prize money totals 100 dollars plus contributions from Dr. W. P. Baugh and Morgan County Extension.
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Paul J. Wolfer
Decatur
Wolfer
Department of Pensions and Security
Cannon
Elouise Lipscomb
W. P. Baugh
Morgan County Exchange
H.R. Speegle
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Moulton Jaycee
McCarthy
Gary Nungester
Eamdeer
Morgan County Board of Registrars
Courtland
Young Democrats
Adams
AC Eyes
Charles H. McCauley
Frank Philpot
R. Carl Martin
Lty
Allen
Iowa
Shelby Massey
Sheffield
B’countess
Poke
Westland Elementary School
Eddie Cannon
K. C. Sheffield
Lakeside High School
Morgan County Extension
Charles Rut
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