City Eyes Takeover of Decatur Cemetery by Council
PAUL FOREMAN reports council members met with cemetery plot owners led by attorney Julian Harris to discuss the city’s legal right to take over and run Decatur Cemetery. Harris and Mrs. W. T. Jordan asserted state law allows city control of groundskeeping and burial, potentially delaying burials until ownership proofs are produced.
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Decatur Cemetery
Julian Harris
Harris
W. T. Jordan
Fuel License For Browns Ferry Unit 3 Expected This Week
Browns Ferry Nuclear plant officials expect NRC approval to operate Unit 3 by week’s end after loading begins for Unit 2 and readiness for Unit 3. Unit 2 enters its third day of fuel loading. Unit 1 remains idle.
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Sonny Turner
Browns Ferry
Nuclear Regulatory Commission
NRC
Jim Green
Unit 3
Unit 2
Green
Office of Reactor Regulations
Wreck Injuries Claim Boy 13
A 13 year old Falkville boy, Gary Strickland, died after his head was struck by a fence post in a Sunday traffic crash. Three other passengers were injured. He died about 2 20 a m in Huntsville Hospital after transfer from Hartselle Hospital.
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Falkville
Osburn Rutledge
Gary Strickland
Falkville 3
Huntsville Hospital
Hartselle Hospital
Human Fly Rides DC-8 at 220 MPH in Mojave
The Human Fly, a 29 year old masked daredevil, flew 100 feet above the Mojave Desert atop a DC8 at 220 mph during the California National Air Races. He saluted the crowd with a cross and clenched fist and claimed to be the greatest daredevil, while concealing his face with a red mask and denying personal fame.
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Mojave
Calif
Mojave Desert
Cyrus McCormick Granted Patent For Reaping Machine
In Today s Daily On This Date In 1834 the American inventor Cyrus McCormick was granted a patent for his reaping machine. Weather details note high through Tuesday in the upper 80s and lower 80s with night lows around the upper 50s. Complete weather map and river page referenced on page 2. It s a privilege to live in the Tennessee Valley.
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Cyrus McCormick
Tennessee Valley
Nixon aide says president drank occasionally and stayed in control
H R Haldeman tells of Nixon drinking on occasion yet remaining competent and in command. He notes Nixon was a movie fan but he and aides did not always understand films. The second in a series on Haldeman’s Nixon runs on page five.
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Nixon
H. R
Bob) Haldeman
Haldeman
Soybeans Rise as Farmers Reject Cotton Woes in Alabama
Agricultural officials report hundreds of farmers in Limestone, Lawrence, Morgan and Cullman counties file disaster payments as cotton yields collapse due to heavy rains and cold weather. Experts estimate losses exceed millions with 25 to 80 percent damage in some counties while many growers replant soybeans for the season.
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Sonny Turner
Wallace Steele
Agricultural Stabilization Conservation Service
Limestone County
Limestone
Lawrence
Morgan
Cullman
Steele
Alabama
Charles Rutledge
Morgan County
Cullman County
Bob Spears
Lawrence County
James Pinion
ASCS
Refugees Move Toward Greece Aboard Spiegel Grove
The Spiegel Grove carried 267 evacuees from Lebanon toward Athens after a 36 hour sea voyage. Among them were 110 Americans and 157 other nationals, many children, dogs, a cat, and a parakeet. President Ford ordered the sea evacuation amid ongoing fighting south of Beirut, codenamed Operation Fluid Drive, while Rumsfeld and the Joint Chiefs monitored progress from the Pentagon.
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Athens
Mediterranean
Beirut
Lebanon
Ford
Damascus
Syria
National Security Council
White House
Pentagon
Defense
Donald Rumsfeld
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Bosun
Glen R
Kennedy
Rhinelander
Wis
Ron Nessen
U.S
Supreme Court Upholds State Grants to Church-Related Colleges
The Supreme Court ruled 5 to 4 that states may grant funds to church affiliated colleges without violating church state separation. Maryland’s 1971 program funds private colleges, excluding those mainly awarding seminarian degrees. Institutions must prove funds aren’t used for sectarian purposes and report after a year. Notre Dame Loyola Baltimore Mount Saint Mary’s benefit. three-judge Baltimore court had upheld it.
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Supreme Court
States
Maryland
Baltimore
Notre Dame
Loyola
Mount Saint Mary's
Emmitsburg
Retirement pay for departing lawmakers highlighted by pensions
The AP report outlines pensions for retiring representatives and senators, with most benefits between 11000 and 51000 dollars. Speaker Carl Albert tops the scale with a combined salary and service that places him in the maximum bracket. Retirees after ten years receive about 10800 dollars. Separately, the Senate intelligence committee links a Brazilian connection to Castro possibly knowing of a CIA plot against Kennedy, strengthening the motive theory.
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Congress
Carl Albert
Senate Intelligence Committee
Cuba
Fidel Castro
John F. Kennedy
Race at sea sees collisions among tall ships
Seven sailing vessels clash at the start of the Bicentennial race from Bermuda to Newport with two square riggers quitting and two sailors injured as about 18 tall ships and 80 smaller craft contend the first leg Sunday.
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Bermuda
Newport
R.I
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