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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1971
Page
1
The Bell System faced a nationwide strike with up to 500000 telephone workers idle. In Alabama some 8000 workers joined the stoppage, including more than 300 from the Decatur area, while supervisors filled in at key operations and repair crews stood by.
Three people including a 15 year old girl were charged with second degree murder in the beating death of Joe Louis Harris. Identified suspects are Josie Long 20 and Willie Junior Collins 19 both of Cedar Lake. The juvenile Brenda Collins 15 was placed in detention. Harris body found near railroad tracks after a suspected Friday night fight. Autopsy pending. bond not set for the two men early today.
Montgomery AP brief reports the House Ways and Means Committee approved a bill to stop utilities from passing the 4 percent 1969 tax to residential customers. In Harlingen Texas AP notes a sleeping sickness like disease spreads among horses with Texas cases rising from 100 to 500 in a day.
Robert S. Dickinson 82 honorary board chairman of ConAgra died Sunday. Funeral services were held Tuesday in Omaha. Dickinson led Nebraska Consolidated Mills from general manager in 1930 to chairman in 1964 and helped relocate the Decatur Alabama plant, the first mill outside Nebraska. He is survived by widow Carrie, a son Robert Hugh and four daughters Jean Anne Rae and Shelia.
Nevada County sheriff and deputies scoured Bear River campground in the Sierra foothills for a suspect and motive after a knife attack killed Donna Fitzhugh and Jimon Satan and wounded three others. Officials said they had few clues and could not identify the attacker.
A federal court ruling requires the Decatur City Board of Education to appoint William England and Leon Sheffield as principals at Decatur High School within 30 days and to file non racial employment criteria within 15 days. The decision, by U S District Judge Frank McFadden, follows NEA and government motions. Benjamin Davis may not accept a principalship.
In 1789 the French Revolution began with the storming of the Bastille in Paris. Quick weather shows a 40 percent rain chance today and tonight, with highs near 95 and 69 at night, and a 40 percent chance again Thursday.
A severe thunderstorm roared through the Tennessee Valley on Tuesday night causing a toppled transfer truck, a damaged warehouse roof at Gobble-Fire Lumber Co., and widespread power outages in Decatur and nearby towns. Electric crews reported outages lasting up to three hours in parts of town with most areas seeing dimmed or blinking power. All three Huntsville television stations were off air for several hours during the storm. no injuries were reported. Baseball fans lost or interrupted on the All-Star telecast due to the blackout.
Mary Ann Wyatt, 21, arraigned on 10 counts of willful murder and arson in connection with the Westminster Terrace Presbyterian Home fire that killed nine residents. She helped evacuate 12 patients before the blaze. investigators cite start and duration uncertainties amid the 1.5 million building damage.
A coalition of environmental groups filed in federal court to stop the 386 million Army Corps project that would join the Tennessee and Tombigbee rivers with a 253 mile waterway across Alabama and Mississippi. They seek an injunction citing failure to comply with National Environmental Protection Legislation. The work was set to start this month and the project was dedicated by President Nixon in May.
Sen Pierre Pelham of Mobile says he may challenge Sen Junie Pierce's chairing of the Alabama Senate when Lt Gov Beasley is away Beasley heads to a Sun Valley Idaho conference and has named Pierce to preside in his absence
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