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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1969
Page
1
The Pentagon defends plans for a new manned bomber while removing secrecy labels on information given to a key Senate Democrat, but officials say there is no commitment to actually build the warplane.
A University of Alabama screening committee expects to recommend a new chief executive officer by month’s end. Chairman John Caddell says trustees will get the report within 30 days, though the exact number of candidates remains undisclosed.
NASA prepares for the Apollo 11 team after their July flight to the moon. The astronauts will enter a sealed quarantine van on recovery, stay in isolation for three weeks, and only leave through a controlled air tight tunnel to a lab at the Houston center.
About 1 135 women filled labor survey forms in Decatur and Hartselle Friday and Saturday. Mike Roberts, director of the Industrial, said two stations in Decatur reported the figures.
Memorial Day weekend deaths rose to eight with a drowning near Talladega, a Heflin head on collision, a Friday wreck, a Huntsville smoke inhalation death, and a Muscle Shoals electrocution. Victims include James Leroy Messer and family members in Wedowee and Wayne Turner of Thomasville. A separate survey notes 971 women signed forms for Morgan County jobs and up to 250 could be hired.
Tickets go on sale this week in North Alabama for the Spirit of America Country Music Jamboree at Decatur High School Stadium on July 5. Co chairmen Louis Blizzard and Winford Turner list sale points in Decatur Athens Hartselle and Moulton with additional outlets planned in Huntsville Cullman and more in the Tennessee Valley. Advance prices are 3 for adults 2 for children 6 12 and free for under six. In rain, two shows will be held in the high school auditorium.
Decatur water department managerGeorge Godwin Jr. says normal Sunday demand is 12 million gallons. He notes six hour shutdown today and potential restart of processing due to storage over five million gallons and pressure changes.
Alabama educator Dr. Ernest Stone criticizes campus radicals as academic failures and treasonous for burning draft records while praising youth. He cites generation gaps widened by Apollo 10 and praises Dr. Frank Philpot as Alabama College president amid 171 graduates and 24 advanced degree candidates.
Andalusia’s Jackie Beck and Centerville’s Lisa Thomas have entered Decatur’s Spirit of America Beauty Pageant to be held during the July 4 6 festival. Beck sponsored by BPW Andalusia is 19 and Thomas 18 a Bibb County graduate who will attend the University of Alabama. The Decatur BPW sponsors entries with a June 15 deadline and judging based on looks poise talent and scholarship. The pageant is part of a three day Spirit of America Festival expected to draw thousands.
Senator Edward M. Kennedy told 2,100 graduates at the University of Massachusetts that South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu must make concessions for peace or face a future alone. He criticized Thieu’s stance on coalition government and noted U S. support for Nixon’s peace plan. Kennedy praised American resolve and urged leaders to end the conflict without clinging to power.
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