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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1966
Page
1
Atlanta sports scene features Decatur invited to see the Braves play the New York Mets on Saturday July 23 at Atlanta Stadium. Press Box Chatter by Ron Tate notes in the Sunday edition.
CULLMAN The Cullman County grand jury has indicted a former service station manager on a charge of violating Alabama's Corrupt Practices Act shortly after an election law investigation.
Dr. Wendell Baugh was listed in fair condition at Baugh Wiley Smith Hospital after an apparent heart attack a week ago. Winford Turner reported a 1960s red Rambler convertible stolen from the Decatur Daily parking lot at 10 50 p m Friday, found not yet located by police.
Robert Mayhall 32 of Cullman County was indicted and released on $500 bond for distributing an unsigned political circular before the May runoff between Orlin Buzbee and B. R. Graves. The flyer urged Graves’s election and violated Corrupt Practices Act disclosure rules. Graves won the runoff and denied knowledge of the flyer.
Hart selle area teenagers aged 15 and 16 were arrested for assault with intent to ravish. The 16-year-old Kenneth Bottom of Hart selle was booked in county jail. The younger boy was placed with Morgan County Juvenile authorities at Flint detention after transfer. Details indicate the pair rode to a wooded area near Bethel Baptist Church on a motorcycle before the incident.
The listing promotes Bekins Worldwide Moving and Storage with a contact for Daniel at the local number 353 4014.
North Viet Nam's President Ho Chi Minh ordered a partial mobilization and urged the army to extend all out support to the Viet Cong in the south. The move follows a defense council communique urging mobilization of reserve officers and troops to aid the southern resistance.
U S Marines and government troops attacked Communist units just south of the 17th parallel while air strikes hit missile sites and convoys north of the border. The operation Hastings began at dawn Friday with helicopters aiding a force of several thousand. initial reports cite 62 Communist dead and light allied casualties as five helicopters were lost to enemy fire.
Chicago police identify Richard B. Speck as the mass killer of eight student nurses after fingerprints from a bloodstained townhouse match a hotel registrant seen in the city. The 25 year old suspect uses aliases Richard Franklin Lindberg and Richard Benjamin Speck and remains at large as a nationwide manhunt continues.
National Guardsmen and police restored order after four days of racial rioting in a Chicago West Side district. About 1500 guardsmen and 1000 police patrolled starting Friday night, with orders to shoot to kill if fired upon. sporadic incidents included a few arsons and sniper shots.
Lester obituary notes Dr. D. E. Jackson owner of Jackson Hospital for 26 years died Saturday at St. Thomas Hospital Nashville from an apparent heart attack. Funeral arrangements are pending with McConnell Funeral Home Athens. Relatives said the couple were in Memphis to visit a hospital.
U S Marines arrived in Miami Beach to escort Miss Universe contestants from 58 countries at the coronation events. Sixty five bachelor officers aged 21 to 25 were selected from 200 volunteers for the hardship post and will join the pageant weekend activities including a coronation ball.
A C119 troop transport crash Saturday night left 30 men aboard, all believed to have bailed out safely. The plane went down in pastureland 17 miles west of downtown Jacksonville after departing Brookley AFB Mobile for Cecil Field. The sheriff’s office had accounted for 29 passengers and 3 crew members. Lt Cmdr Ralph McClure called the outcome unbelievable and suggested everyone may be safe.
Dr. William J. Tally medical director of the Gadsden TB hospital says Alabama's TB control is lacking and that a $7.25 per patient per day budget is insufficient. He cites staff shortages and inadequate elderly patient care, and notes many hospital deaths are non TB related. He urged legislative decision on treatment funding.
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