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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1973
Page
3
NASD quotations show interdealer prices as of about 10 a.m. with many tickers listed and columned highs lows and last prices. The report notes interdealer market changes throughout the day and that retail markups and commissions are not included.
Cotton futures show a middling inch at 2.45 with a Decatur loan. Cottonseed priced at 40 dollars per milk. Grain quotes include No. 2 Soybean at 10 dollars, No. 2 White Shelled Corn at 3.15, No. 2 Milling Wheat at 2.70, No. 2 Oats at 0.80, and No. 2 Barley at 2.20. Wood and salmwood values listed with per cord and per hundred measures.
Bancshares merges with American Bank and Trust Co of Hartselle in a stock deal worth about 120000 Bancshares shares. Shareholders receive five Bancshares shares per Hartselle share with no staff changes planned. Hartselle deposits reach 11811407 and assets 13780721 as of May 31. Bancshares operates in Huntsville Birmingham Montgomery and Dothan.
Two men wearing masks forced entry at Underwood residence as his wife and daughters fled for help. Underwood, wounded in the confrontation, was treated and released. Investigators seek a brown Oldsmobile, possibly 1968, with no license tag found. No suspects yet.
Plant Johnson of Decatur worked four years as a sheet metal worker for Skyline Mobile Homes. Marvin A. Casteel, 76, died after a collision at the U S 72 and U S 95 interchange. Funeral services for Casteel were set at Spry Funeral Home Chapel with burial in Cement Cemetery. survivors include wife Laura and several children. Unofficial tax vote results showed sharp Decatur and county splits, with defeats at several precincts though some narrowly approved. Johnson funeral services planned for Thursday at Pleasant Hill Baptist Church with burial in Raper Cemetery.
River readings at Keller Memorial Bridge show 21.73 feet with sea level at 556.03. Temperatures ranged from 68 to 85 with forecasts for upper 80s and chances of thundershowers. Extended outlook through Sunday calls for mild nights and warm days in the 80s. Naumburg piano contest in New York offers 2500 prize and staged rounds at Town Hall. Suffolk County uses aerial photography to map 600000 parcels for tax assessment.
Morgan County Sheriff John C. McBride returned to duties this week after a heart attack two weeks earlier. He was treated at Decatur General Hospital starting June 6 and remains in stable condition according to deputies.
In Huntsville the Safeguard Missile Systems Command building was evacuated after a bomb threat. An Army bomb disposal team from Redstone Arsenal searched the facility, and about 1,000 people were evacuated.
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