President seeks rural development via reform and funding
President Nixon urged Congress to back his rural development plan in his first annual report. He called for revenue sharing of at least 1.1 billion dollars annually to aid state and local growth through local credit agencies and industrial development. He also pushed welfare reform for poor farmers and Cabinet reorganization to streamline rural aid.
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Congress
Capitol Hill
Administration
Funeral services held for Sally Rose 91 in Rogersville
Mrs Sally Rose 91 died Wednesday at Limestone Nursing Home Rogersville 3. Funeral service Friday at 2 30 p m Spry Funeral Home Chapel with Rev Lewis Fiat officiating. Burial Temperance Oak Cemetery. Survivors include widower Ingram F Rose five daughters three sons a sister thirty seven grandchildren eighty seven great grandchildren eighteen great great grandchildren and many others. She was a Lauderdale County lifelong resident and Temperance Oak Baptist Church member. Grandsons were pallbearers.
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Athens
Ethel Fleming
Osceola
Ark
Lennice Moody
Senate panel backs Nixon revenue sharing rural bill
Eight Agriculture Committee members including Hubert Humphrey and Herman Talmadge sponsor a Rural Development Revenue Sharing bill. Opponents from J Phil Campbell and William Blunt Jr. speak at a subcommittee hearing. The measure would create a Rural Development Credit System with grants loans guarantees and subsidies to aid local growth.
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Hubert H. Humphrey
D-Minn
Herman E. Talmadge
D-Ga
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Six Horses Die of Disease in Mobile County
Six horses died in Mobile County over the past week with en cephalomyelitis diagnosed by private vets. Cases occurred at Axis Chunchula and Eight Mile north of Mobile. Public health officials note Eastern encephalomyelitis in one Axis horse and one Chunchula horse. four others lack samples. Mosquito trapping will be tested at the state lab as embargoes on horse and mule shipments from several states remain in effect.
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George Newburn
Texas
Senate Reunion Set In August
The Alabama State Senate reunion will be Aug 3 in Montgomery. Senator Jim Allen, former State Senator from 1946 to 1950 and past president of the Senate Association, plans to attend and was named Outstanding Member of the Legislature.
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Washington
Alabama State Senate
Montgomery
U.S
Jim Allen
Allen
Senate Association
State Senate
21 Arrested On Liquor Violations In Two States
Law enforcement and Treasury agents arrested 21 people in Middle Tennessee and northern Alabama on liquor charges. A former Waynesboro officer, James Earl Stricklin, faced conspiracy to defraud the U.S. government along with 11 others on that count. Bonds ranged from 1000 to 10000 as suspects were arraigned in Columbia, Jackson, and Alabama. Names include Stricklin, Skinehorns, Overton, Dickey, Skelton, Bunch, White, Harbin, Dowdy, Riddle, Williams, Kilpatrick, Raney, and Smith Triplett and Francis from Hardin, Perry, Giles, and Wayne counties.
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Barney Bunch
Lee White
Price Harbin
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Lauderdale County
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David Riddle
Savannah
Tenn
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Lewis County
Claude Kilpatrick
Watt Raney
Jimmy Raney
Perry County
Wallace Signs Bill For Special Kids In Alabama
Governor George C Wallace signed a law requiring Alabama school systems to provide 12 years of education for exceptional children. The bill, drafted by Sen Don Horn, passed the Legislature unanimously and allows the attorney general to sue districts that fail to meet standards.
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Alabama
House
Senate
Chamber County
Don Horn
Neale
Thursy
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