Weather and River Summary for Keller Memorial Bridge
Morning river readings at Keller Memorial Bridge show 21.54 feet on the river and sea level 555.84 feet. TVA lake stages listed include Guntersville 594.3, Wilson 506.7, Pickwick 414.0, Wheeler 555.8, Chickamauga 682.1. Forecast calls for variable clouds and warm humidity with isolated thundershowers, highs near 90 today and Friday, lows around 68. Winds southerly 5 to 12 mph, gusty with storms.
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Keller Memorial Bridge
TVA
Guntersville
Wilson
Pickwick
Wheeler
Chickamauga
Markets and cotton futures report from Decatur and New York
Decatur markets list prices for cottonseed milk and grain products with no strong changes. New York cotton futures opened steady with quotes for July through December contracts around 21 to 28 cents as the market showed slight shifts.
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New York
Wall Street declines in late session with mixed gains
The market slipped on light volume about 6.2 million shares as trading eased toward the close. Major decliners included Motorola Becton Dickinson Xerox and Texas Instruments while IBM and Johnson & Johnson posted small gains.
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New York
Benguet
Motorola
Becton Dickkinson
Xerox
Texas Instruments
United Aircraft
Sears, Roebuck
American Cyanamid
du Pont
Standard Oil New Jersey
American Tobacco
IBM
Johnson & Johnson
Ray McDermott
Kennecott
Boeing
NASD Over the Counter Securities Quotations
Quotations compiled by the NASD at about 10 am show inter dealer prices for Alabama and Tennessee life and banking stocks and insurance issues. Bid and asked prices are given with adjustments for approximate value. prices exclude retail markup, markdown or commissions.
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Alabama
Tennessee
Sanatorium faces nurse shortages and wage dispute
Dr Shaffer urged higher pay to attract qualified nurses at the TB sanatorium, noting starting salaries far below neighboring hospitals. He outlined per diem contrasts and warned that without state support counties may bear responsibility. The board accepted his resignation and tasked the executive committee to replace him.
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Decatur
Shaffer
Jewel Archer
Board of Trustees
Ora Sanders
Archer
Record
Williams
W. H. Y. Smith
Bureau of Preventive Diseases
State Health Department
Smith
M. F. Henley
Husky
Dr. Shaffer
U.S. Army tests relay satellites link long distance
Five ground terminals around the world will relay traffic via seven communications satellites. Each links up to 10,350 miles between ground stations from Washington to Viet Nam. A Titan 3 will launch eight more satellites in August if needed, with a third launch planned next spring. The eighth satellite tested gravity stabilization using two 52 foot booms to keep an arm pointed at Earth.
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U.S. Army
Washington
Viet Nam
Titan 3
Perwodhien
Earth
Cotton Farmers Win Support For New Promotion Program
Senate floor leader Senator Herman Talmadge says the cotton promotion bill aims to help growers and notes broad farmer organization backing except the American Farm Bureau Federation. He compares research and promotion spending by synthetic fiber groups to cotton and explains a producer-chosen board will administer the cotton program.
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Herman Talmadega
Dga
American Farm Bureau Federation
Talmadge
Secretary of Agriculture
Obituary of Homer Nunn Crowe of Hartselle
Homer Nunn Crowe 59 of 105 N Nelson St Hartselle died Wednesday at 2 45 am in a local hospital. Funeral Friday 2 pm at Hartselle First Church of God with Rev M L Hamon officiating. Burial in Hartselle Memory Gardens. Survivors include widow Pearl Crowe daughter Mrs Bobby Hanners son Jimmy N Crowe two sisters Mrs M G Whitten Mrs Hobson McKelvy three brothers Davis C Crowe Jesse Crowe Herman Crowe two grandchildren. Nephews pallbearers and fellow Masons honorary pallbearers. Crowe a TVA employee since 1933 and member of the church and a Mason. Body remaining at home until services.
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Hartselle
Homer Nunn Crowe
N. Nelson St
Hartselle First Church of God
M. L. Hamon
Hartselle Memory Gardens
Peck
Pearl Crowe
Bobby Hanners
Jimmy N. Crowe
Decatur
M. G. Whitten
Hobson McKelvy
Arab
Davis C. Crowe
Jessie Crowe
Herman Crowe
Crowe
Belinda Fields Dies in Hanceville Community
Belinda Fields age year old of Hanceville died Wednesday at 5 p.m. at her residence. Services Friday at 11 a.m. at Pleasant Grove Methodist Church in the Hanceville community. Burial in the adjoining cemetery. Reynolds Funeral Home directing. Survived by parents two sisters Geri and Attie Fields five brothers Odis Howard James Jerome and Terry Fields all of Hanceville.
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Belinda Fields
Day Fields
Hanceville
Pleasant Grove Methodist Church
Reynolds Funeral Home
Geri
Attie Fields
Odis
Howard
James
Jerome
Terry Fields
Hanceille
Death of Jim Ligon in Columbia Tennessee at 81
Jim Ligon 81 died at a rest home in Columbia Tennessee at 3 a.m. Services will be announced later by Oakes and Nichols Funeral Home. Ligon moved to Tennessee in December 1965 from Hartselle and previously ran a grocery business in Decatur.
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Columbia, Tenn
Jim Ligon
Decatur
Oakes and Nichols Funeral Home
Columbia
Ligon
Tennessee
Hartselle
Mrs McCleskey Rites Set At Basham Church
Mrs. Maudie Elizabeth McCleskey 83 of 918 Lamar St SE died Tuesday at 11 am. Services 2 pm Friday at Basham Methodist Church with Rev. Mitchell Owens. burial Gunthorp Funeral Home. Survived by two daughters, three sons, a sister, three brothers, 15 grandchildren and 12 great grandchildren. Pallbearers named. Body returned to home. Lifelong Chapel Hill Methodist member.
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Maudie Elizabeth McCleskey
Lamar St
Basham Methodist Church
Mitchell Owens
Gunthorp Funeral Home
M. J. Lake
Decatur
Walter Ryan
Russellville
W. E. McCleskey
Neal McCleskey
Robert McCleskey
Hartselle
Sam McDougle
Hydro
Okla
Wheeler Pitt
Johnny Pitt
Carnegie
Wilburn Pitt
Cordell
Dewey Miller
Dan Sparkman
Lowell Standridge
Milton Rogers
Roy McDougall
Donald Rogers
Chapel Hill Methodist Church
Funeral services held for Erskine Gayle Pickens
Erskine Gayle Pickens age 38 of 2401 Stratford Rd SE died Monday near Smith Lake in Double Springs after a boating accident. Services at Westminster Presbyterian Church were led by Rev. Edwin Dalstrom with burial in Pine Hill Cemetery at Auburn Gunthorp. Survivors include widow Jenetta Wear Pickens a son Billy Wear Pickens a daughter Marie Gayle Pickens mother Mrs Russell Pickens eight brothers and two sisters. Pallbearers included Quilla Reed and Martin Gilbert.
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Erskine Gayle Pickens
Stratford Rd
Jenetta Wear Pickens
Billy Wear Pickens
Marie Gayle Pickens
Decatur
Russell Pickens
Mt. Hope
Gene
Redger Pickens
Cecil Pickens
California
Hoyt Pickens
Jasper
Ben Pickens
William Earl Pickens
Carlsbad
N. M
Harold Pickens
Cleveland
Ten
Largest county burglary leaves trail of valuables missing
Mrs. Tanner reports a wide ranging theft from her home with items including mink stole, sterling silver, luggage, a adding machine, jewelry and clothing. Deputies say it is the county's largest burglary, with about $20,000 more coin value than a prior 1965 Decatur theft. Investigators worked all day but no arrests or major clues. Tanner operated stores near the Tanner Heights Shopping Plaza.
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Tanner
Louis Bell
Decatur
Diamond Jewelry Co
Dep. Harris
E. B. Watts
Bob Hancock
Hartseller
Harris
Tanner Heights
Mansfield calls for direct US China talks on Vietnam peace
Mansfield argues for high level US Chinese talks to discuss peace in Vietnam and Southeast Asia. He compares potential talks to the Geneva 1961 62 meeting between Dean Rusk and Chen Yi and warns against ceremony over substance while noting limited hope for a full breakthrough.
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Viet Nam
Southeast Asia
Mansfield
China
United States
Dean Rusk
Chen Yi
Geneva
Hose
Decatur Diary Continued from Page One
Local diary column continues with brief community notes and social updates from Decatur. The item aggregates small hometown happenings, daily routines, and brief remarks about residents.
Fire damages neon sign at Matthews Machine Shop
A neon sign at Matthews Machine Shop on U S 31 was lightly damaged by a fire last night around 10 30 as reported by the Decatur Fire Department. Police said a portable GE TV was stolen in a break in at Theo Hill Appliances on 11 E Moulton St Sunday night with initial reports noting nothing missing.
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Matthews Machine Shop
U. S. 31
Decatur Fire Department
Theo Hill Appliances
E. Moulton St
Five Hour Stand By Marines Ends Viet Cong Encirclement
From a hilltop 25 miles northwest of Chu Lai, 18 U S Marines held a five hour stand against a 250 strong Viet Cong force. With ammo nearly gone they fought with knives and rocks until air and ground support routed the enemy. An earlier Saigon outbreak saw Western newsmen flee as guards at the citadel opened fire and an American car burned near the Buddhist Institute during curfew.
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1St Division
Saigon
Chu Lai
U.S
Welfare Department clash over Alabama welfare compliance
Welfare Barnes predicts a federal review if Alabama faces a cut off. He argues the state can pledge non discrimination in direct programs but cannot guarantee third party practices such as integrated waiting rooms or nursing home mixing. Joel Cohen says Alabama has not met federal rules and threatens ending roughly $100 million in federal aid.
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Barnes
Welfare Department
Alabama
Joel Cohen
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Board wrestles with governor call and Medicare fears at meeting
Trustees discuss a possible call from Gov Cleckler and a telephone crank while state health officials maintain neutrality. B D Peck cites a Limestone County campaign manager relaying a request to resegregate. The meeting also advances a rehabilitation program with a $35,000 total cost and $5,000 hospital funding, aiming to reduce future patient dependence.
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Henley
B. D. Peck
Limestone
Cleckler
Peck
W. H. Y. Smith
Bureau of Preventable Disease
State Health Department
Montgomery
Smith
Board of Trustees
NATO Moves Headquarters Amid France Force Withdrawal
American war stocks totaling about 575000 tons were shifted out of France as part of De Gaulle's demand that NATO forces leave the country. The action marks the first major compliance while NATO leaders had already agreed to relocate the alliance's military HQ from Paris to Belgium. McNamara aimed to prevent an appearance of rupture.
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France
de Gaulle
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NATO
Alliance
Paris
Belgium
McNamara
World cotton stocks near record as consumption rises
World stocks exceed 800 million bales with 1965 66 consumption projected at about 51 million bales. A 40 nation intergovernmental committee notes expected US and other crop cutbacks, suggesting world consumption may surpass production next season to start reducing the surplus.
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United States
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Chenault
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Ralph Agee
Russell Bolding
Gil Crane
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B.T.U
S.E
C. T. Stephenson
Bethel Road
Foster Sanders
Charles L. Jones
A.K.C
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Tillman Bowling
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Raymond Robertson
Mc.Crory’s
Auburn University
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