Decatur Cyclist Injured In Brookwood Collision
A 14 year old Decatur motorcyclist Kenneth David Boyd was injured Monday after a collision with an automobile at Brookwood. He was treated at Decatur General Hospital and released. The driver Dawn Michele DuBois 17 was uninjured.
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Decatur
Brookwood
Quince
Kenneth David Boyd
Murphree Rd
AAA Southend
Decatur General Hospital
Dawn Michele DuBois
Mountbrook Dr
Area Man Charged With Burglary Of Automobile
George Washington Brown 19 Cullman 5 was charged with burglary of an automobile after being arrested Monday while in possession of a stolen car. Sheriff Orrin Buzbee announced the charge. The Limestone County Board of Education met Monday night with the new superintendent.
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Cullman
George Washington Brown
Cullman County
Orrin Buzbee
Limestone County Board of Education
Selective Service Aides Appointed for Athens High School
Two Athens city school officials were appointed by State Selective Service Director Felix R. Petrey to register male students as they turn 18. Woodrow W. Wood of Athens High School and Mrs. Wilma Ingram of the central office will handle registrations on weekdays and Saturdays. Limestone County’s draft board moved to Huntsville, so local men must register there upon turning 18.
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Athens
State Selective Service
Felix R. Petrey
Woodrow W. Wood
Wilma Ingram
Central Office
Ingram
Wood
Limestone County
Huntsville
Security entourages for JFK era recalled in Decatur piece
Local minister Charles Huggin recalls 1960 Kennedy security in Norfolk when the city provided guards for the candidate. He notes small forces, no Secret Service or FBI presence, and attitudes before major assassinations changed security practices.
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Secret Service
George Wallace
Ed Kennedy
Decatur
Charles Huggin
Huggin
Norfolk, Va
John F. Kennedy
Kennedy
FBI
Norfolk
Decatur Council approves $2645 fogging machine purchase
City council grants approval to buy a $2,645 mosquito fogger to be used in a rat program in Decatur. The device sprays a chemical to combat mosquitoes as part of Sanitation measures.
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Decatur
Councilman
Charlies Martin
Hoot Holiman of Holiman Equipment Co
Jackson, Miss
Sanitation Department
No Handout For Indians Dean Says Indians Deserve Opportunity
Dr. Harold Lindbergh Martin a Cherokee from Virginia and dean at Samford University urged Decatur Rotarians that Indians do not seek handouts but jobs. He linked Wounded Knee and 1890 massacre to poverty on reservations noting many Sioux families survive on little food. He argued hunger worsens health and job prospects and emphasized sympathy for the Indian cause.
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Harold Lindbergh Martin
Virginia
Samford University
Martin
Decatur Rotarians
Arbitration Board
Wounded Knee
S. C
U. S
South Dakota
AIM
The
American Indian
America
Rotarians
Cullman to Add Funds for Pupil Employment Program
Cullman County Commission voted to add about 3200 to 3500 to the Pupil Employment Program to secure a $32000 federal grant from the U S Labor Department. The expanded budget would hire roughly 80 more youths and cover increased workman compensation premiums social security and administrative costs. The panel also signed a $433700 land reappraisal contract with James R Laird Co to begin immediately and finish by January 1976.
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Cullman
Cullman County Commission
U.S. Labor Department
PEP
Commission
Robert Harbison
Cullman County
James R. Laird Co
Gulf Coast Appraisers
Mobile
Laird
Chiarman Harbison
Guy Roberts
North Central Alabama Regional Council of Government
Ncarcg
Two Hurt In Area Accident Near Hartselle
State troopers reported a two vehicle crash north of Hartselle injuring Sollie Anders 60 and Harold B. Morris as passengers. Dorothy W. Jackson 31 of Hartselle escaped injury. Both men were admitted to Hartselle Hospital in satisfactory condition.
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Hartselle
Sollie Anders
Harold B. Morris
Anders
Dorothy W. Jackson
Peachi Orchard Rd
Hartselle Hospital
Water project loan hinges on engineering study in Cullman
Cullman County prepares for a $360,000 Farmers Home Administration loan to fund a $630,000 rural water system for Eva area in Cullman and Morgan counties. The hold up is an Ed O Tool engineer report due July 10. The plan would serve about 800 families and Eva School.
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Cullman — Allo
Eva
Cullman
Morgan Counties
Cullman County
Robert Harbison
Limestone County approves stone contract for multiple districts
The Limestone County Commission votes to buy 20 000 tons of crushed stone from Madison Limestone Stone Co. at 1.75 per ton for all four districts. Trinity Stone Co. bids 2.00 per ton. District Three stone price set at 3.30 per ton delivered from Trinity to Tanner. District Two buys a flatbed truck from Athens Motors at 3600, with Littrell Motor Co. and Jack Yarber Ford as other bidders.
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Athens
Limestone County Commission
Huntsville
Madison- Limestone Stone Co
Trinity Stone Co
Decatur
Trinity
Tanner
Athens Motors
District Two
Littrell Motor Co
Jack Yarber
Woman charged with transporting liquor in Limestone County
Limestone County deputies arrested 47 year old Mary O Neal of Russellville on Alabama 20 near Mooresville for transporting 30 cases of beer 2 cases of gin 1.5 gallons of vodka and a quart of whisky She had no driver s license and posted a 1100 bond Also charged was 42 year old Charles Rollins of Russellville with highway intoxication and carrying a concealed weapon Rollins remains in Limestone County Jail.
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Athens
Limestone County
Russellville
Earnest Knox
Randy Bates
Mary O’neal
Alabama
Mooresville
Charles Rollins
Rollins
Crisis numbers and guidance for emergencies
Public safety notes advise calling the Crisis Call Center at 355-8000 for personal crises or possible poisonings. If unsure of the correct emergency number, dial 0 and describe the emergency to the operator. Additional numbers 333-4612 232-1535 1353-4739 appear as contact references.
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Decatur Daily
Alton Borden
Ave
L B Chemical Co
Market St
8Th Ave
Don Poole Motors
Tennessee River
Decatur Harbor
Poole
Grant City Department
Prentis Davis
Chisholm
C. S. Pettus
Charles Huggins
Selective Service
JFK
By Tommy Stevenson
Harold Smith
Russell Bolding
Charles Sutton
Tri-County
Health Ice
Robert Kennedy
Jacqueline Kennedy
John Kennedy
Shiloh Baptist Chuch
Percy Byrd
Hillsboro 2
Lawrence County
Byrd
Hillsboro
Hancock
Dean
Harold Ling Berg H Martin
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