Southern States Liberalizing By William L. Chaze
Southern legislatures ease liquor laws after decades of prohibition influence. Tennessee repeals bone dry rule and allows liquor by the drink for 18 year olds while other states move toward mixed drinks in cities and resort areas. Many counties remain dry or partially wet. New Orleans shares the 18 age rule.
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Atlanta
Tennessee
Texas
Virginia
Mississippi
New Orleans
Nashville
Memphis
Southern states vary as liquor laws shift in dry and wet counties
The piece notes Alabama with 31 wet and 36 dry counties under local option law, Florida with 56 wet and 11 dry counties, and North Carolina where no counties are fully wet and several towns vote liquor by the drink. It highlights legal quirks in Moore and Mecklenburg counties and in Kenansville and Faison, citing religious groups and bootleggers reacting to the liquor vote.
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Alabama
Florida
North Carolina
Kenansville
Faison
North Carolina General Assembly
Moore County
Mecklenburg County
Groused
Lee Southern
Ironworker dies after 45 foot fall at Browns Ferry plant
Samuel T. Christian, 59, of Decatur, fell about 45 feet while bolts were being applied on a steel beam in the Turbine Building at Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant near Athens Decatur. He had worked 13 years for TVA and was on site since July 1967. no safety harness was used per ironworker practice.
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Athens
Decatur
Browns Ferry
Here
Tennessee Valley Authority
TVA
Samuel T. Christian
Cedar St. SW
Christian
LBJ Remains Uncommitted on Bombing After 1964 Vote
The Baltimore Sun reports Lyndon B. Johnson stayed skeptical about bombing North Vietnam following the 1964 election. The Pentagon papers cited Robert McNamara proposing a 1967 coalition government for Vietnam. The Sun notes a December 30 1964 memo to General Maxwell D. Taylor and others.
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Associated Press
Pentagon
Baltimore Sun
Lyndon B. Johnson
North Vietnam
Knight Newspapers
Defense
Robert S. McNamara
Vietnam
Sun
Washington
Philip Potter
Maxwell D. Taylor
LBJ
Alabama Legislature ratifies 18 year old voting age amendment
Both houses passed identical resolutions to ratify the federal measure lowering the voting age to 18. The Senate approved 26 to 4, the House 80 to 19, with Alabama only provisions allowing 18 year olds to vote if a statewide referendum approves and to enjoy all citizenship rights. Gov. Wallace would sign, veto, or let it become law.
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Montgomery
Ala
Alabama
Senate
House
Morgan, Limestone, Lawrence and
Cullman
Morgan County
Ralph Slate
David Cauthen
Lawrence Limestone
Tommy Carter
Wayland Cross
Cullman County
Finis St. John
Tom Drake
Rules Committee
George C. Wallace
Senate House
Disease suspected in Morgan County man death
Morgan County health officials investigate death of Earl Leon Anderson 53 Somerville after hospital arrival in Birmingham with a possible contagious liver disease. Autopsy results pending while officials consider leptospirosis as a cause linked to two overseas dogs. Mrs Anderson critical. coroner and doctor caution awaiting tests.
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Hartselle
State Health Department
Morgan County
Carraway Methodist Hospital
Birmingham
Earl Leon Anderson
Somerville 1
Anderson
Hartselle Hospital
Carraway Methodist
William Crunch
Crunch
Morgan
Betty Vaughan
Guy Hollaway
Hollaway
Decatur
Bud Bryan
Bryant
South
Alabama
Bryan
Mr. Anderson
Peck Funeral Home
Vietnamese bases fall near DMZ as soldiers retreat
North Vietnamese troops drove South Vietnamese infantry from a base just south of the demilitarized zone and an adjacent artillery outpost was abandoned. In Paris the North Vietnamese spokesman accused President Nixon of direct involvement in the Vietnam war. In Los Angeles a predawn natural gas explosion killed one and left 16 missing 178 feet underground. a survivor says all 16 are dead. One body was found. Cash & Carry Building Materials said the concrete order was for another site.
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Saigon
Demilitarized Zone
Paris
North Vietnam
Nixon
Vietnam
Los Angeles
Cash & Carry Building Materials Inc
Tragedy Near Cuautla Train Fell Into River
On this date in 1881 a rail accident near Cuautla Mexico killed about 200 people when a train plunged into the river. The notice appears in today’s calendar and classified pages with weather and contact details for ads.
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Cuautla
Mexico
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