Government Bailout Question Grows Over Lockheed Deal Phantoms
The guest editorial questions a proposed $250 million federal rescue for Lockheed amid bankruptcy fears, comparing with Boeing, SST, and Penn Central cases. It ponders whether government aid sustains mismanaged firms and how far public backing should go while preserving free enterprise principles.
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Congress
Lockheed Aircraft Corporation
Boeing
Senate Banking Committee
Secretary of the Treasury
John B. Connally
Lockheed
Penn Central Transportation Company
mid-Manhattan
William Proxmire
Connally
John Kenneth Galbraith
Athletics and Academics Link at Calhoun Junior College
Calhoun Junior College seeks to boost its athletic program to attract prospective students. As a state-supported school it provides no housing for scholar athletes, prompting a push to erect an athletic dormitory funded from outside sources.
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Alabama
Auburn
Tide
Tiger
Calhoun Junior College
Calhoun
Calhoun Junior College Booster Club to Form Monday
Inaugural booster club meeting prepared the charter for Calhoun Junior College. A 7:30 p.m. Field House session will launch membership drives with officers to be elected as promoters seek seven counties worth of athletic support.
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Calhoun Junior Club
Calhoun
Field House
Bob Shuttleworth
Calhoun Junior College
Gadsden State Junior College
Gadsden
Grand Jury Returns With 69 Indictments
A Morgan County Grand Jury met Monday and handed up 69 indictments to Circuit Judge R L Hundley. The panel heard 138 witnesses in more than 80 cases during the week. identities remain sealed until re-arrest. The jury also urged a padded cell in the jail for mentally ill detainees and reported the jail to be in good order. Foreman John Umber was appointed after illness sidelined Mrs. Jean Tune.
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Morgan County
R.L
Dick) Hundley
Dist
Mike Moebes
John Umber
Decatur
Jean Tune
Leon Tune
Tune
Betty Black
Valdermose Springs
Roy W
Weather outlook and temperatures for the region
High Friday reached 91 at 3 pm with a low of 68 at 6 am. Today’s high 88 to 92 and tonight’s low 66 to 70, with Sunday at 88 to 92. Forecast calls for fair to partly cloudy skies and warm conditions with a 20 percent rain chance. Monthly precipitation 1.08 inches. yearly total 30.05 inches, 4.5 inches above normal. Sunrise 5:32 am. sunset 8:04 pm.
Funeral services for Dawn Rogers Mitchell
Mrs Dawn Rogers Mitchell age 36 died Friday at a Huntsville hospital. Funeral services are Sunday at 2 p m at Westside Baptist Church with Rev E T Wadell officiating. Burial will be at City Cemetery under Gunthorp Funeral Home direction.
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Dawn Rogers
Mitchell
Decatur 5
Huntsville Hospital
Westside Baptist Church
E.T. Wadell
City Cemetery
Gunthorp Funeral Home
Student numbers show large U S group abroad
About 40 000 U S students and 5 000 teachers are involved overseas, indicating a substantial international educational program and staffing.
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U.S
Summer Employment Set For Low Income Youths
Seventy young men and women will be hired for summer work with public agencies through the Neighborhood Youth Corp Program funded by a $27,000 federal grant. The Morgan-Lawrence CAC in Decatur coordinates with the Decatur Chamber of Commerce and the state employment service to place youths aged 16 to 21 from low income groups in 234 hours of work at $1.60 per hour from June 28 to August 31 with local agencies including the Morgan County Commission and the city board of education.
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Neighborhood Youth Corp
Tom Wood
Morgan-Lawrence
Morgan County Commission
City Board of Education
City Recreation Department
City of
Decatur
CAC
Wood
Chamber of Commerce
Department of Pensions and Security
White Book details and Rostow plans on Vietnam war expansion
The 1965 White Book chapters trace U S and allied aims back to the 1950s and show plans to extend the war into North Vietnam. Rostow and McNamara proposals, including ground force use and intensified air strikes, are outlined along with Viet Cong and North Vietnamese reactions and critiques of U S strategy.
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U.S
North
Honolulu
North Vietnam
Pentagon
Henry Cabot Lodge
U.S. White House
Walt W. Rostow
U.S. State Department
Rostow
McNamara
Vietnam
Rusk
Hanoi
John McNaughton
Defense
McNaulton
McNaughton
Nguyen Huu Tho
National Liberation Front
South
United States
Newsmen quote on Times Pentagon papers leak briefing
The briefing stressed concerns over future leaks and labeled Times material as stolen goods while suggesting unauthorized possession. John W. Dean offered a milder framing. Attendees included reporters from Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, Des Moines Register, Washington Star, Los Angeles Times, Time, NY Daily News, and others.
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Congress
Times
Klein
The
Vietnam
John W. Dean
William F. Anderson
Chicago Tribune
Thomas B. Ross
Chicago Sun-Times
Robert 8. Allén
Publishers-Hall Syndicate
Richard L. Wilson
Emergency numbers for Alabama counties and poisoning line
The notice lists emergency contact numbers for DECATUR and surrounding counties MORGAN, LIMESTONE, LAWRENCE. It includes 911 and local numbers for fire and sheriff departments and instructs calling a hospital or physician for possible poisoning and dialing 0 for operator assistance.
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Decatur Daily
Tennessee Valley Printing Co., Inc
W. R. Shelton
Sally Diatan
Beyond Trade Zone
Anderson, S.C
Billy Mitchell
John L. McClellan
D-Ark
Schaefer
Ricchuiti
New York
Chicago
McClellan
Ricchiuti
Cudak
John F. Kennedy
Lawrence
Moulton
Herbert Dotson
Lawrence County
Billy C. Burney
Sarge
Saigon
Blackburn
Mr. Smith
Decatur and Vicinity
Mrs
Dawn Mitchell
Alexander M. Bickel
Yale University
Post
Republic
Gurfein
Whitney North Seymour
Seymour
Daniel Ellsberg
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ellsberg
Center For International Studies
Paul N. McCloskey Jr
R-Calif
McCloskey
Congressional
Truman
Eisenhower
Johnson
Nixon
Liberation Radio
Washington Post
Canberra
Australia
William Mahon
South Vietnam
Lyndon B. Johnson
White House
Washington
Tee
Limestone County
Het Ew
Athens
UOC
Athen
Aed
Lae
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