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Decatur Daily

Location

Decatur, Alabama, United States of America

Date

Jun 25, 1961

Page

6

Three Wrecks Reported Friday In City

The 1 p.m. incident involved M. E. Melton, 2001 College St SE, as his car was hit when Melton moved. At 4:52 p.m. W L Claborn, 16, 302 Church St, and John Lee Rea, 51, 417 8th Ave NW, collided at the intersection of 7th Ave SE and 4th St as Claborn traveled east on 4th St and Rea north on 7th Ave.

Claborn 4Th St Rea 7Th Ave

TVA to By-Pass Wheeler Dam With Roads Pipelines Marine Legs

TVA plans emergency river cargo transfer around Wheeler Dam after June flood damage. Grain, petroleum products, asphalt, molasses and other goods will move via new roads, marine legs, and pipelines. Saturn booster and 350 ton reactor vessel will use barges and special barge Palaemon routes to Cape Canaveral and Oak Ridge.

Wheeler Dam Tennessee River Alabama Saturn AEC TVA Wheeler Lock L. J. van Mol TVA Navigation of Midwest Georgia Tennessee United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration Cape Canaveral George C Marshall Space Flight Center Huntsville Tennessee-Mississippi Waterway Florida Cape Atomic Energy Commission Philadelphia Oak Ridge Tenn Cargill, Inc Minneapolis Upper Tennessee River Receivers Association, Inc Consolidated Blenders, Inc Fremont Neb Central Soya Co., Inc Ft. Wayne Ind Chattanooga O. J. Walls Co Guntersville Alabama Flour Mills Co Decatur Wilson Dam Wheeler Delta Refining Co Memphis NASA Joe Wheeler Palaemon Using Sheffield Florence

Location of Indian Fight Being Sought

Archaeologists from Florida State University search Horseshoe Bend National Military Park to locate the Indian barricade at the site of the 1614 battle near the Tallapoosa River. Artifacts from a 30 house village will be placed in a new $150000 visitor center opening in 1962. Nearby notes describe star colors by temperature.

Andrew Jackson Horseshoe Bend National Military Park Alabama Charles H. Fairbanks Clarence L. Johnson Tallapooosa Jackson

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