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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1975
Page
2
National Weather Service forecasts partly cloudy skies with afternoon and evening thundershowers through Saturday. Rain chances run 50 percent today and tonight and 30 percent Saturday statewide, with highs near 90 today and upper 80s Saturday and mid 80s in the north.
River readings at Keller Memorial Bridge this morning show 20.92 feet with sea level 555.22. TVA lake levels include Chickamauga 682 Pickwick 413.2 Guntersville 594.3 Whitesburg 556 Wheeler 555.2 Wilson 506.6. High today around 90 with a 50 percent shower chance. extended outlook calls for scattered thundershowers Sunday to Tuesday with highs mid 80s to lower 90s.
Groundbreaking ceremonies are planned for June 13 at the U S 31 S site for the North Central Alabama Mental Health Center with Center director Jim Meherg announcing a 2 p.m. start and State Mental Health Commissioner Taylor Hardin to speak. The project, adjacent to the Lurleen B. Wallace Developmental Center, aims to finish by mid 1976 with total costs near $513000 funded by federal state and local sources.
At a testimonial dinner in Huntsville John Sparkman will announce a Senate Foreign Relations Committee initiative to hold a fall series of hearings on U S foreign policy. The event features Sen Birch Bayh and a planned Jetport press conference and Civic Center speeches. More than 700 reservations were made for the reception and dinner.
Fourteen industrial scientists from five countries including the Soviet Union and East Germany visit Decatur and North Alabama for a three week TVA sponsored tour. They will tour river front complexes Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant Point Mallard and other sites with discussions on chemical and agricultural research at Muscle Shoals and cooperative programs with the University of Tennessee TVA NIASA and the National Academy of Sciences also represented.
The Morgan County Department of Pensions and Security seeks licensed family homes to care for children of working mothers. Homes may care for up to six children and must meet safety and care requirements. Interested individuals should visit 701 Bank St NE or call 353 8181. A separate item notes an oil well in Choctaw County expected to produce 312 barrels daily from the Smackover Limestone.
A simulated disaster at Decatur General Hospital had ER personnel treat a “tornado victim” named David Dunlap and others for hypothetical injuries during a 30 minute drill. Police report thefts involve two citizens band radios from Motel 6 on 6th Ave SE.
Maj. Gen. Taylor Hardin to retire after 35 years in the armed forces with retirement ceremonies at Fort McClellan Alabama. He was last commander of the Dixie Division and most recently led Alabama’s Headquarters Troop Command in Montgomery as state and federal officials attend.
In Tuscaloosa Mrs Debbie Shiles Peoples remains missing as Bryce Hospital security continues an investigation into a Sunday night escape. Hospital officials say staff are being questioned about an inside accomplice who helped a murder suspect flee a locked emergency door. The four involved suspects were undergoing mental evaluations at the time of the escape.
Miss Kristy Roundtree, 18, and Mrs. Sue D. Carpenter, 38, were injured in a two car crash at 8th Street and 2nd Avenue SW about 11:30 a.m. Both were taken to Parkway Medical Center by AAA Southend Ambulance Service. Roundtree admitted, Carpenter treated in ER.
Jim Grinfin 38 of Mallard Creek area formed the Wheeler Basin Bass Club in Decatur and serves as its first president. The group plans its First Annual Wheeler Lake tournament June 28 from 6 p.m. to 8 a.m. with $10 entry and prize splits, aiming to boost local bass fishing on Wheeler Lake and nearby waters.
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