Chamber Committee Backs Docks Bonds
The executive committee of the Chamber of Commerce endorses the $43 million bond issue to improve Mobile docks and opposes annual legislative sessions and the union shop bill. The measure aims to upgrade docks for the Tennessee Tombigbee Waterway, with completion expected in seven years. Roy McAllister urged legislators to defeat the union agency bill for its business impact.
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Chamber of Commerce
Mobile
Chamber
Roy McAllister
Union Agency
Decatur Judge Named Regional Coordinator for Annual Sessions
Circuit Judge Richard Hundley of Decatur was named regional coordinator for the Committee for Annual Sessions. He will campaign for voter approval of an amendment to create annual legislative sessions. The panel aims to inform voters and counter claims of higher costs. State voters face a referendum Tuesday. Also named were William McDermott, Conrad Fowler, and Roscoe Roberts. In Montgomery Grady Hall, 65, founder of Hall Brothers Dairy, died of an apparent heart attack.
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Richard Dominick
Richard Hundley
Decatur
Hundley
Dominick
William McDermott
Mobile
Conrad Fowler
Shelby County
Roscoe Roberts
Huntsville
Montgomery, Ala
Hall Brothers Dairy
Grady Hall
Montgomery
Flies Plaguing Valley Cattle Farms Hit Several Counties
Face flies are worse this year in Morgan Limestone Lawrence and Cullman counties. Extension agents say the pests irritate cattle eyes possibly spreading pink eye and calf blindness. They note a mild winter and insecticide limits, with worm and army worm issues in crops and no major tick or flea reports. A five member civil defense survey team began Decatur Morgan County readiness work under government plans.
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Morgan, Lawrence, Limestone
Cullman Counties
Morgan
Limestone
Lawrence
Charles Rutledge
Morgan County Extension Service
Dean Parris
Lawrence County
Parris
D. L. Salter
Limestone County Extension
Manuel Whisenant
Cullman County
Salter
Whisenant
Cullman
State Department of Civil Defense
Decatur
Morgan County
Morgan County Civil Defense
Howard Proctor
University of Alabama
Russell Bolding
Morgan County Commission
Thornton
Dick) Fleming
Proctor
Three Lives author recounts deadly spy work and persistence
Herb Philbrick, once a counter spy for the FBI, spoke at Austin High School about his undercover years in the Cambridge Youth Council and the American Communist Party. He described his risky role, the FBI’s caution, and his belief in America's resilience.
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Randy Quarles
Herb Philbrick
Philbrick
America
FBI
Austin High School
Austin
The
Alabama Christian College
U.S
Communist Party
Cambridge
Mass
Cambridge Youth Council
Young Communist League
American Communist Party
Justice Department
J. Edgar Hoover
Herbert A. Philbrick
Black Panthers
Washington, D.C
U.S. Press Association
Narcotics Unit Eyed For Area In Northwest Alabama
Florence based pilot narcotics unit planned to curb drug flow in Limestone Lawrence Lauderdale and Franklin counties. Region One coordinator Doug Miller said the one year program will pool investigations and resources of sheriff and city police. Florence officer Dicky Sanderson to head the unit.
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Athens
Florence
Alabama
Limestone
Lawrence
Doug Miller
Alabama Law Enforcement Planning Agency
Miller
Lauderdale
Franklin
Dicky Sanderson
Weather and river readings from Keller Memorial Bridge area
Decatur area weather update reports river reading 20.97 at Keller Memorial Bridge and sea level at 555.27. TVA lake stages listed include Chickamauga 681.8 and Pickwick 413.3. Forecast calls for sunny to partly cloudy with thunderstorm chances today 70 percent, tonight 60 percent, Friday 20 percent. highs near 88 today, mid 80s Friday. lows 60s. Extended outlook shows fair conditions Saturday to Monday with highs in the 80s and 90s locally.
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Decatur and Vicinity River Reading
Keller Memorial Bridge
TVA
Chickamauga
Pickwick
Guntersville
Whitesburg
Wheeler
Wilson
Fair North and Central
Heavy Showers Forecast Across Region Tonight
The National Weather Service reports increasing cloudiness tonight with a 60 percent chance of thunder storms in some areas and locally heavy downpours possible as a cold front nears North Alabama. Elsewhere a 40 percent chance of thundershowers tonight with a cooler Friday.
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National Weather Service
Alabama
Child Sees Odd Clarity In Neighborhood Boy Richard
A small blond child in the neighborhood is noted for a clear perspective. Richard combines innocence with curiosity in an offbeat way and is described as protective in life. On Wednesday he was busy at work.
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Richard
Richard’s birthday wonderer asks big questions
A boy named Richard, approaching his eighth birthday, fills note scraps with his name and a reminder to others. He curiously asks about food origins, wonders if broccoli and lettuce grow underground, and expresses awe at a Nashville swimming meet and the Wheeler Refuge signs.
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Richard
Nashville
Huntsville
Jetplex
Wheeler
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Joe Hedricks
Hedricks
Tennessee Valley Authority
Browns Ferry
Floyd Thomas
Thomas
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Reuben Wheelis
South Alabama
Wheelis
Robert Hope
Hope
J M. Scott
Scott
Decatur Station
Tri-County District Health Service
Tennessee
Heav
Bobby Herbert
NOAA
U.S. Dept. of Commerce
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