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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1966
Page
1
Dr. Robert K. Oliver, medical director at Hale Memorial Tuberculosis Hospital in Tuscaloosa, will become medical director and superintendent of the Decatur TB sanatorium in October. The appointment was announced today by George Biggers III, city editor.
City school board plans a three mill school tax election for January 17 and will ask the Board of Revenue and Control to call it. Superintendent H R Leeman and County Superintendent J C Pettey agreed on the date. This will be the third school tax vote within a year. The story notes a resignation and a salary discussion related to Dr. Oliver, who becomes TB control officer for Tennessee. He is a former Hale Memorial director and ex MT hospital administrator.
Decatur Fire Department answered a call to Austinville Road and 5th Ave SW at 12 25 a m. Several bales of hay were totally destroyed according to firefighters with details to follow on page two.
G J Tankersley of Decatur has been elected president of East Ohio Gas Co. He is the son of Mrs H K Tankersley of Decatur and is a Decatur High School graduate. He attended Auburn University where he met his wife Mary. The couple has two children Betty Carol 19 a Hollins College student and G Jack Jr 17 a Woodberry Forest prep student. Tankersley previously worked with Western Kentuck noted in the article. DECATUR on Page 2
A new industrial firm Frostee Malt Equipment and Leasing Inc will operate at Hartselle Fun Center within a month. It will produce Frostee Malt vending machines, lease the Bruns wick building, and dedicate 13 000 square feet for 600 machines monthly. The company formed Nov 24 with Doyle Banta as chairman and a seven member board including Thomas Summers and Ulse Reid.
Bekins Worldwide Moving and Storage advertises services with contact Daniel at 353 4014 for residential and commercial moves.
In East New York a violent clash erupted between residents and police as guns bottles and rocks flew through a tense racially mixed slum. An 11 year old boy named Eric Dean was killed by a sniper shot. Multiple police fire and residents were injured and eight arrests followed.
National Guardsmen patrolled Cleveland's East Side after four days of violence that began with shootings and looting and shifted to arson and hit and run attacks in the Hough area. More than 85 fires were started overnight, many with gasoline bottles. Dawn brought renewed calm as police and about 1,000 troops remained on duty.
Hollywood actor Dean Jones was listed in fair condition at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital after a motorcycle crash with a coyote on a dirt road in Mexico. He was flown back to Decatur with his parents cited from Chapel Hill Road.
U S Marines fought through the night against a large North Vietnamese division near the 17th Parallel. Dawn air strikes prevented retreat toward Laos as the 324 B Division pressed hard. By dawn the estimated Communist toll topped 1,000, with U S pilots downed and one rescued.
U S officials declined comment on speculation that 19 North Vietnamese sailors captured near the Gulf of Tonkin may be involved in any prisoner exchange with American pilots. Ambassador Harriman said the sailors were from torpedo boats. other Communist prisoners have been turned over to South Vietnam. A State Department spokesman would not confirm or deny potential exchanges.
Gemini 10 mission ends with John W. Young and Michael Collins returning to Cape Kennedy after 70 hours in orbit. They docked with an Agena satellite, reached 475 miles altitude, and Collins conducted two spacewalks while retrieving a recording package. The flight yielded seven space firsts and a near perfect Atlantic landing.
Eugene Bud Pylant, 34, of Athens died at Athens Limestone Hospital about 13 hours after a one truck crash on Nick Davis Road. He was a passenger in Larry Thornton's vehicle which overturned at 4 40 p m Thursday three miles east of Athens. Pylant was taken by McConnell Funeral Home ambulance to the hospital and later to Spry Funeral Home. funeral services will be announced.
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