Decatur Eyes Recreation Park From Old City Dump Site
City and Park and Recreation Board plan long range development of the 40 acre Southwest Decatur site into a year round recreation complex with an indoor Olympic size pool tennis courts basketball fields baseball venues and golf greens. The project remains tentative as trash settling and potential school land use must be resolved. Albert Melton would be director with a new year round staff. sketches exist but details are not final.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Park and Recreation Board
Old City
Ing
Decatur
Vince Kantola
Joe Jones
Charles Norman
Lester Smith
Donald Branum
Albert Melton
Park and Recreation Department
Decatur Welcomes Miss U.S.A. Maria Remenyi
A cloudy Saturday morning turned bright as the motorcade for Maria Judith Remenyi Miss U.S.A. 1966 crossed the Tennessee River into the city. Local residents lined streets to greet the outgoing titleholder and celebrate her visit in the daily page coverage.
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U.S.A
Maria Remenyi
Sears, Roebuck
George Evans
Holly Hoyt
Daily Women’s Page
Maria Judith Remenyi
Tennessesee River
Decatur Diary: Student Celebrated Amidst Theft and School News
A junior at James M. Thames University of California in Decatur arrives by Lincoln Continental to a hotel poolside scene after a theft report involving a red tri cycle. District nurses association holds a refresher course at Baugh Wiley Smith Hospital. The Morgan County Humane Society reports a stray pony in custody. Details on See DIARY on Page 2.
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James M. Thames
University of California At
Ave. NW
Decatur po-Berkeley
Maurice
Tater Gilmer Blackburn
Holiday Inn
Plymouth
16187Rette
District 14 Nurses Association
Baugh-Wiley-Smith Hospital
Decatur
J. P. Smith
J. R. Guice
Walter Duncan
Speeding Car Kills Hartselle Mother and Son
In a mid morning crash near Hartselle a speeding car struck and killed Audrey Bean 39 and her son William Marcellus Bean 14. Authorities traced the car to a possible late model dark blue Cadillac after autopsy findings. An oncoming motorist reported being run off the road by a dark Cadillac earlier along Alabama Highway 67 east of the scene.
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David Knight
Audrey Bean
William Marcellus Bean
Hartselle
Morgan County
Clarence Harris
Alabama
Here
Bobby Kennedy
Leads Checked In Slaying Of Baileyton Man
Sheriff Waldrop and deputies pursued strong leads in the shotgun murder of 60 year old Cole C Kyle found in his Baileyton area home. Kyle sustained birdshot to the face and two stab wounds in the chest. About $40 was found on the body. See Leeds on page 2.
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W. C. Waldrop
Friay
Waldrop
Cole C. Kyle
Cullman 9
Here
Kyle
Decatur Sees Pageant Crowns Miss Decatur and Junior Miss
Shirley Johnson and Lynelle Weber were named Miss Decatur and Junior Miss at Decatur High School auditorium. Each received $150 scholarships and will represent Decatur in the statewide Miss Alabama and Junior Miss contests. Runnerups were Sarah Wicker and Yvonne Sidebotham with Karen McWaters named Miss Congeniality.
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Decatur
Decatur High School
Lynelle Weber
W. W. Weber
Sarah Wicker
Dear Crabby and Fathers in Focus on Decatur Daily
Read Crabby's answers to tough questions in Perspective on Page A-5. Holly Hoyt leads Dad's Day story on the women's page C-1 with Fantasy of Fatherhood. Decatur Folks greet Miss U.S.A. during Decatur visit. George Evans photographs on Page B-8. Arnold Palmer leads U.S. Open coverage in sports.
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Crabby
Decatur Daily Women’s
Holly Hoyt
Decatur
U.S.A
DAILY
George Evans
Arnold Palmer
Decatur Daily Sports Pages
Wallace pressure on TB hospitals intensifies civil rights dispute
Gov George Wallace’s renewed request that Alabama tuberculosis sanatoriums resegregate their facilities heightens a funding squeeze as state per diem support barely covers operating costs. Hospital officials fear loss of state funds and question potential federal aid implications while planning to seek increased funding next session.
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George Biggers III
George Wallace
Alabama
Wallace
Robert Cleckler
Cleckler
Gadsden
State Tuberculosis Association
Newton B. Powell
Decatur
Albert Brewer
Johnson accepts Raborn resignation as CIA chief
President Johnson announces Adm William F Raborn will resign as CIA director after less than a year in office. Richard Helms, deputy director and first career intelligence officer to reach the top, will take over the agency. Johnson also mentions a possible 1966 anti inflation tax cut and plans to appoint a Negro to the Atomic Energy Commission.
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Frank Cormier
Washington
Johnson
Viet Nam
Adm
William F. Raborn
Central Intelligence Agency
Atomic Energy Commission
Johnson's
Oval Office
Raburn
CIA
Richard Helms
Saigon Celebrates Armed Forces Day Under Ky Regime
Saigon marked Armed Forces Day and the first anniversary of Premier Nguyen Cao Ky’s military government with officials declaring calm amid Buddhist unrest. Ky said the situation is “no problem at all” as he hints at another year in power while new curbs and economic decrees target Buddhist protests in Saigon and Hue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saigon
Armed Forces
Nguyen Cao Ky
Ngo Dinh Diem
Hue
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Decatur Eyes Recreation
Miss
Morgan County Humane’ Society
Bekins
Daniel
H’ Selle
Baileyton
Leeds
Shirley Johnson
Ture. M. F. Henley
Flint
Decatur Daily
LBJ
Davidson
iAdy
R.ation
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