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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1969
Page
2
An 11 year old boy from Mobile Alabama travels to Galveston Texas for further burn treatment after suffering burns on 65 percent of his body from a gas oven explosion on June 1. John Francis Moore is the patient in the medical transfer.
Calhoun Junior College graduates hear J F Ingram of the State Department of Education urge education as the key to opportunity. He notes Alabama and the South are on the move and stresses ongoing study through courses, extension, or self learning to advance careers. The ceremony awards the Albert P Brewer and F O Smith prizes to top students and lists graduates by county.
Limestone County Board Association members pressed the Limestone-Morgan legislative delegation to add clerical staff for the circuit court clerk's office. The three-person unit now handles duties of two circuit courts plus a chancery register, due to historical consolidations and growing county needs.
George A. Berry named manager of Rhodes Decatur store after seven years with Rhodes Furniture. Berry, native of Pennsacola, Fla., to reside with wife Claudia and two children at 511 Carolyn St. SE. Judge Allgood reconvenes at 10 a.m. with a list of indictments spanning false statements and counterfeiting.
Alabama lawmakers show little chance of passage for the consumer credit code as the Senate antiflipping measure surfaces. Senate approval has moved to the House, which has adjourned without action, while Sen. Alton Turner signals willingness to accept the antiflipping bill if the full code fails. An identical antiflipping bill also cleared a committee and sits on the House calendar.
Darrel Bovel of St. Louis Missouri won the expert division at the Athens motorcycle races on Sunday. Ronnie Melton of Avondale Georgia took the amateur division.
A one car wreck 2.7 miles south of Decatur on County Rd 41 at 1 45 a.m. Sunday injured three Danville youths. Passenger Greg Hogan 19 was in critical condition at Decatur General while driver Richard Bibb 19 and Gary Fulmer 17 were listed in fair condition. Trooper C L McCullar investigated.
Morgan County Board of Realtors will convene Tuesday at 6 30 p m at Decatur Inn. The National Hairdressers and Cosmetologists Association affiliate meets tonight at Anita's Salon for Beauty at 7 30 p m. The 0 Newcomers Club gathers Wednesday at 11 30 a m at Wolverine Park for the summer picnic.
HARTSELLE Mayor and council discuss ending annual sanitation subsidies as they prepare a possible fourfold rise in the residential refuse charge to 2 dollars a month. The move accompanies plans to convert the city dump into a landfill and may aid a county wide disposal effort.
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