Senate Extends Billboard Plan in Highway Bill
The Senate approved a multi billion dollar highway financing measure with a two year extension of the billboard control bonus plan. The bill provides 11 year federal funding increases totaling 11.56 billion and raises next year’s interstate apportionment to 2.4 billion. It now goes to the House for concurrence as supporters push to preserve the billboard provisions.
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Washington
Senate
Leferee
Kennedy
House
Board
Centrol
George H. Fallon
D-Md
House Public Roads
Radio Television Logs Detailing Evening Schedule
The Decatur Daily lists a far evening lineup with Mutual News at 10 30 Night Watch at 10 35 News at 11 00 Night Watch at 11 05 News at 11 30 Night Watch at 11 35 News at 12 00 Sign Off then Educational programming at 9 00 and Keyboard at 9 30 followed by Sign Off at 10 00.
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Doug Edwards
Westinghouse
Michael Shayne
Huntley Brinkley
Tob Bunter
Nanette Fabray
Law and Mr. Jones
Jack Paar
Sige
Three Men Hurt In LPG Truck Blast At Mobile Firm
A flash fire and LPG truck explosion at a Mobile gas company seriously injures Walter D. Grubbs 60 Woodrow Glover 50 and Hilary Braxton 68 all of Mobile while repairs are made on the vehicle. The blaze is extinguished and injured treated at a local hospital.
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Mobile
West Mobile
Walter D. Grubbs
Woodrow Glover
Hilary Braxton
Welder Odell Walls Killed at Huntsville Garage
Odell Walls 54 was killed Thursday night while welding a motor in a Owens Cross Roads garage in Huntsville Alabama. The report notes the accident occurred during work with equipment described as similar to alcoholics where one in twenty may reform.
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Huntsville
Ala
Odell Walls
Owens Cross Roads
Youth Injured Hitting Taxi In Danville
A six year old boy was bruised after running into a taxi at the intersection of 4th Ave SE and Sherman St. The child was treated at Baugh Wiley Smith Hospital. Taxi driver M P Parker, 60, was northbound on 4th Ave. No other injuries were reported.
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Danville 3
4Th Ave
Sherman St
Bager
Baugh-Wiley-Smith Hospital
M. P. Parker
Curtis W. Self
Hanceville
Sth St
Fatality After 220 Volt Outlet Incident
A man died after being plugged into a 220 volt electrical outlet. Details about the incident, including location and identities, were not provided in the readable text. Authorities are investigating the case as a possible accidental electrocution.
Zebra and Ostrich Interactions in African Herds
Zebras in Africa sometimes mingle with ostriches as their long necks provide watchful lookout benefits during grazing.
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Africa
Dear Helen Letters on family bonds and trust in reform
A reader asks how to handle a brother's academic slump and a fire rescue that changes a view of his feelings. A second letter argues not to judge a husband who once stole, suggesting he prove reform before marriage. The advice weighs parental pressure, trust, and second chances in tough cases.
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Helen
Reform School
Senate halts push for extra truck levies in highway bill
The Senate trimmed Kennedy’s proposed new funds including heavy truck levies and billboard incentives. Senate action defeated efforts to add all requested truck levies, crediting trucking industry influence. Only three states have signed the billboard incentive program to date.
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Kennedy
House
Senate
Paul H. Douglas
D-Ill
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