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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1972
Page
5
Fighting continued with laser-guided bombs as South Vietnamese artillery blasted the Citadel and North Vietnamese forces replied with 122mm and 130mm guns. A pall of black smoke hung over the ruined city, reflecting intense combat weeks after initial clashes.
Survey finds 25 percent consider busing important while 58 percent deem it unimportant. He predicted a plank against busing in the Republican platform amid minority criticism of busing as school integration. Platform hearings run 3 1/2 days, with a three day convention starting August 21.
Demo interviewed within 10 days of the raid. Liddy was dismissed June 28 by John N. Mitchell who led the reelection committee. Mitchell resigned July 1 after his wife urged him to leave politics. Liddy refused to answer FBI questions and remains silent to the press.
Athens council in a brief session on Monday named polling officials for the Aug. 8 municipal election. The body also approved a low bid of 2091.42 from Athens Motors for an electric department truck, with Littrell Chevrolet Co. and Jack Yarber Ford submitting alternative bids.
Reventlow, former husband of Jill St. John, died in a plane crash about 10 miles east of a mountain resort town. FAA said wreckage found before dark after a locator beacon was heard. bodies recovered this morning. He was a famed race car driver, later married Cheryl Holdridge.
Daily Records lists admissions and dismissals at Decatur General and related area facilities. Names include Charles Sims, Mrs. James Watts, Kerry Joe Mitchell, Miss Brenda Thrift, and many others. births and hospital notes note several new babies and parents at Decatur General Hospital and Limestone Hospital.
Weather and river data for Decatur and vicinity show Keller Memorial Bridge river reading at 20.90 feet, sea level at 555.20, temperatures reaching a high of 90 and a low of 72 today with a 50 percent rain chance, 30 percent tonight, 40 percent Wednesday. Extended forecast calls for warm, hazy conditions through Friday with widely scattered thundershowers and 90s highs, lows in the low 70s.
Governor George Wallace met with Alabama cabinet members for 25 minutes to hear routine state government reports. The session occurred during his stay at the Spain Rehabilitation Center where he is undergoing therapy and has resumed normal exercise after being paralyzed since the May 15 shooting.
In Washington AP reports Alabama Democrats John Sparkman and Jim Allen voted against a four month deadline for all US forces to withdraw from Indochina if Hanoi frees American war prisoners. The Senate still adopted the amendment 50 to 45 on Monday night.
Athens officials report resurfacing and blacktopping on the road from Athens to Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant. District One completed 21 miles of resurfacing last week under Commissioner John Moore, with work starting Monday on TVA Browns Ferry Rd.
Rev Bob Caufield Methodist minister will address Decatur First United Methodist Church at 7 pm. Decatur Safety Council and executive committee meet at noon at Shangri La Restaurant. Calhoun Junior College planning council meets 1 30 pm in Room 103 Library Building. Carl Witty Calhoun Allied Health chair speaks on health programs. Redstone division North Alabama Railroad Club meets 7 pm Room 410 Madison County Courthouse. film Tracks of the Iron Horse about Union Pacific. Decatur Chapter 38 Royal Arch Masons convocation 7 30 pm Ionic Temple with Mark Masters degree. Reorganized Church garage sale today and Saturday 9 am to 5 pm Alabama 36 W near Iron Man's Grocery Hartselle. Howard Borland Jr of Birmingham speaks at Decatur Christian Women's Club luncheon 11 45 am at Decatur Inn. Prentiss Clark demonstrates Cooking for Company with music by Peter Branum. Nursery provided at Central Methodist Church for children up to five. reservations via Ann Eyster 353 4785 or Judy Peebles 355 0384. Crawford of First Baptist Church Carthage Tenn speaks. Harold Tate Austinville Baptist directs the music. Monday Vacation Bible School at Rural Grove Baptist Church on Burelson Mt today through Friday 7 pm to 8 30 pm.
FBI agent Dale Johnson testified on day five of a federal auto theft conspiracy trial involving ten defendants across four states. He identified two of 46 stolen cars, a black Grand Prix and a red GTO, found with defendant L. M. Hilley and registered to Charles Aldridge Perry. Six defendants have pleaded guilty. two sentenced, four pending after the trial under U.S. District Judge C. W. Allgood.
In federal court R. J. Wooten pleaded guilty to wiretap charges tied to intercepting calls at a Huntsville residence during February 7 to February 14. Indicted by a grand jury, he was hired by the husband to monitor all calls to and from the wife and received three years probation.
Lane Gargone will speak on drug addiction at 11 a.m. at Mt Tabor United Methodist Church. No revival services will be held at Hopewell Baptist Church today through Friday with services at 7 30 each evening. Rev. John
Athens College students Robert N. Baskin of Huntsville and Walter T. Kunkel of Overland Park Kansas are intern in the Tennessee Valley Authority tributary area development program along the Elk River in Alabama and Tennessee. Baskin works on youth involvement in community betterment while Kunkel conducts an ecological survey of the Elk recreation riverway.
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