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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1976
Page
2
Pam Evans, 19, emerged as a budding cartoonist with three years of drawing focus. She began in 1974 as a high school senior at Austin and now attends Calhoun College as a freshman. She plans to shift from dental assistant studies to the arts this fall.
Pam Evans, a Mooreville youth living at 913 Betty St SW, sketches cartoons from newspaper clippings and sunlit sessions in her yard. She enjoys swimming and skiing, has drawn the old Mooresville post office, and hopes to pursue art further, turning copying into a budding talent.
Washington AP reports that Ford calls Reagan letters and state inquiries fail to sway many Republican convention delegates still uncommitted. Poll shows uncommitted delegates heading to Kansas City increasing as pressure to decide grows.
Actor III Andy Devine, aged 70, remains in stable condition at a Santa Rosa California hospital following kidney dialysis treatment. The item includes surrounding publication details and a mix of unrelated notes and local notices.
Community calendar lists multiple meetings and events across Morgan County. American Diabetes Association chapter gatherings, church fundraisers, a pancake sale, car wash, curb market, and a jamboree near Waldermose Springs are noted, with contact numbers and admission details. Also includes church services, canning demonstration, toastmistress club, extension service programs, and a county-wide gospel singing schedule.
The NRC may require operation delays for Browns Ferry reactors if hearings end and the board approves. Seven fires since March 1975, mostly from welding incidents, prompted no reporting violation by TVA but raised concerns TVA follows its safety guidelines. Nuclear fuel was removed from Units 1 and 2 after the 1975 blaze amid fears of fuel escape.
Malcolm Johnson, Pulitzer Prize winner for his New York waterfront crime series, dies of cancer in Middletown hospital. Survived by son Haynes Johnson, a 1966 Pulitzer winner. Johnson covered major cases from the Ku Klux Klan to the Lindbergh kidnapping and WWII Pacific campaigns. His landmark waterfront investigation inspired the film On the Waterfront.
Siamese twin girls born last week at University Hospital in Birmingham Alabama died Thursday June 17 at 6 30 p m CDT after admission to the newborn intensive care unit on June 8. A hospital spokesman reported the brief statement. The twins were admitted to the NICU shortly after birth.
Funeral services are held for Phillip Daniel Richardson 57 of Russellville at Frankfort Baptist Church with burial at Rock Creek Cemetery, directed by Spry Funeral Home. Survivors include parents seven sisters and three brothers with many relatives listed. A separate service for J C Vaughn 57 of Gainesville Florida is at Brown Service chapel with burial at Roselawn cemetery, pallbearers from 5th Ave Baptist Church. Vaughn is noted as a World War II veteran with three sons, two sisters and three brothers among survivors.
Wet weather returns as lingering showers and thundershowers move through Tennessee Valley into tonight. Temperatures ease from the 90s to around 80 with winds 10 to 18 mph as a cold front nears. Rain chances run about 80 percent today and 60 percent tonight, then decline Sunday morning.
Athens police charged six people with nine counts of illegal alcohol sales after several raids and weeks of undercover work. Police Chief Richard Falk said bonds were set at 300 dollars each. the charges are misdemeanors.
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