Accident report details in Decatur Diary
Decatur Police investigated several non injurious accidents today. At 11 50 a m Gordon Drive SE and 2nd Avenue involved a 1960 Chevrolet driven by John Thomas Martin 47 of 1607 1st Ave SW and a 1965 Chevrolet truck driven by David Raymond Greene 30 of Gadsden. See Diary on Page 2.
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Decatur
Gordon Dr
2Nd Ave
John Thomas Martin
1St Ave
David Raymond Greene
Gadsden
Burney Becomes Lawrence County District Attorney
Burney Billy Burney a Cumberland Law School Samford University graduate has assumed the duties as district attorney of Lawrence County. The post was created by a legislature action and he was appointed by Gov George C Wallace. He works out of Solicitor Tom Pettus's office and will soon move his family to Lawrence County.
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Moulton
Billy Burney
Cumberland Law School
Samford University
Lawrence County
Burney
Lawrence Countian
George C. Wallace
Tom. Pettus
Americans Hit Near Troops in Close Air Strikes
U S air cavalry near Tuy Hoa used air and artillery with bombs only 50 yards away affecting five wounded troopers. The action occurred during Operation Nathan Hale the fifth day with 347 enemy killed of an estimated 2,500. Thieu allowed Sept 11 assembly to draft a constitution by majority and veto override by two thirds. In Hue monks and soldiers arrested. two Buddhist mourners died earlier.
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Robert Tuckman
Saigon
South Viet Nam
USS
Air Cavalry
Central Highlands
Tuy Hoa
U.S
Red
Nguyen van Thieu
Seal Main Pagodas
Hue
Nguyen Cao Ky
Thich Tri Quang
Police Stop Racial Demonstration in Mississippi
In Philadelphia Mississippi police block a large crowd of Negro demonstrators at the Neshoba County Courthouse as armed officers deter angry whites. SNCC leader Stokely Carmichael urges action from courthouse steps while a few white participants support the protest.
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Philadelphia
Miss
Neshoba County
America
Stokley Carmichael
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Nance Watershed Agreement Signed
Moulton officials sign a $2.5 million Big Nance Creek Watershed pact with Lawrence County and the State Soil Conservation Service to fund the first phase. The 15 mile channel from Mount Moriah to Wren aims to begin bids in July with a August opening and county bridge costs.
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Moulton
Big Nance Creek
Lawrence County Board of Revenue
State Soil Conservation Service
Doug Symank
State Coatrol Service
Symank
Board of Revenue
Clyde D. Cameron
Mount Moriah
Wren
SCS
Danville Youth Killed in Friday Collision
A 16 year old Danville youth, Furman D. Duncan, was killed when his 1956 Ford collided head on with a 1958 bread truck driven by Willis Edward Riddle of Decatur. Riddle, 29, was critically injured and transported to Decatur General Hospital. The crash occurred about 4 10 p.m. ten miles south of Decatur near Flint Creek. Funeral arrangements were to be announced.
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Furman Duncan
Dan Ward Riddle
Danville Rd
Dailyville 3
Bob Bates
Danville 3
Decatur
Furman D. Duncan
Willis Edward Riddle
Graham Ave
Riddle
Decatur General Hospital
Southend
CAP Simulated Nuclear Attack Exercise In Alabama
Local Civil Air Patrol and Civil Defense volunteers will take part in a multi state simulated nuclear attack drill. Four private CAP aircraft will depart Pryor Field at intervals to scout the northwest region, with radiological monitors taking readings and sending data to Morgan County Court House and state headquarters in Montgomery.
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Civil Air Patrol
Civil Defense
Howard Proctor
Decatur - Morgan
County
CAP
Pryor Field
Morgan County
State CD
Montgomery
Proctor
Alabama Cap Wing
Air Fair Opens at Decatur Athens Airport
The Athens area hosts the AEA Fly-in and Air Fair with rides in a vintage Ford Trimotor and $2 admission per car. Time trials run from 10 a.m. to noon, a Huntsville parachute club show at 11 30 a.m., and Dr Werner von Braun is scheduled for 1 p.m. today.
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Athens
Jaycees
Friannual Aea
Decatur-Athens
Mack Graham
Graham
Huntsville Sports Parachute Club
Werner von Braun
Dodd Apologizes for Son Remark in Senate Inquiry
Senator Thomas J. Dodd issued an apology for remarks by one of his sons to a witness before the ethics committee probe into misconduct charges against the Connecticut Democrat. The apology followed the panel's warning against witness intimidation as focus shifted to international intrigue and possible assassination.
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Washington
Thomas J. Dodd
Senate
Connecticut
Dodd
John Stennis
D-Miss
Senate Ethics Committee
Senate approves safety standards and $465 million highway bill
The Senate quickly passed a bill directing the secretary of commerce to set new-car safety requirements by January 31, 1967, with permanent standards a year later. A companion measure authorizes a three year, $465 million program to aid states in driver education, auto-inspection upgrades, highway design, traffic control, and stricter law enforcement to reduce highway hazards. President Johnson hailed the action as landmark for a comprehensive highway safety push.
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Secretary Commerce
House
Johnson
White House
Senate
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Hollywood
Jim Garner
L’rence DA
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Nance
Danville
Jerry Lumpkin
Pat Patterson
Duncan
Gunthorp Funeral Home
Peck Funeral Home
Hartselle
Flint Creek
Air Fair
Quickies
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AEA
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