Community Names and Merchants Listed in Local Notice
A long list of individuals and businesses appears in the continued page notice, including residents Mrs. Robert Floyd Lewis Sr. and Jimmie R. Higginbotham, plus firms such as Decatur Transfer & Storage Aycock & Neville Architects The Carriage House and Pepsi Cola Co. The array names local shops, banks, and service companies reflecting a community directory segment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Floyd Lewis Sr
Wilson J. O. Terry
J. T. Vinson
Nancy Vickery
Hartselle
Tommy Garrison
Marvin Hall
R. Maples
Travis Letson Farmer's Cafe
Tilden Dillard
Trinity
Jimmie R. Higginbotham
Athens
Frank Griffin
Tom. Sage
H. J. McKenny
Edyth Bosson Jr
H. B. Lewis
Decatur Transfer & Storage
Aycock
Return of Iwo Jima to Japan Prompts Historic Flashbacks
A wartime correspondent recalls Iwo Jima’s late battle and its symbolic handover. Fewer than 1,500 civilians lived there before the war, now coast guards remain to operate a navigation station. The island, once a key air base, saw over 6,000 American and nearly 20,000 Japanese deaths in battle. The scene of destruction, barren landscapes, and dramatic memories frames the relocation to Japanese jurisdiction on February 19, 1945.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iwo
U. S
Tokyo
Meemie
Earth
Decatur Candidates Eye Mayor Posts as Qualifying Ends
The article notes 14 council candidates and two mayoral hopefuls in Decatur, commissioner Charles Gunthorp and ex mayor Roy Odom, with a 5 p.m. Tuesday filing deadline at city hall. It mentions a Bridges Committee and Macedonia Presbyterian Church elder and 46 years residence in Decatur.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Macedonia Presbyterian Church
Decatur
Charles Gunthorp
Roy Odom
City Hall
U S Commands Abandon Khe Sanh For Mobile Front Stud
The United States abandons Khe Sanh citing rising enemy strength and new tactics. shifting to Landing Zone Stud aims to keep U S troops mobile while avoiding concentrated lines of communication. The move acknowledges Khe Sanh as overextended and vulnerable to artillery, yet warns that Stud presents its own challenges.
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Khe Sanh
U.S
Stud
Vietnam
Wallace film seized by Wallace bodyguard at Alabama event
ABC reported former Alabama Governor George C. Wallace ordered a bodyguard to seize and destroy ABC news film of him shaking hands with Robert Shelton imperial wizard of the United Klans of America at a fund raising dinner in Eutaw Alabama. Secret Service and state police watched as the guard took the tape. Shelton said he attended the rally and paid his money, noting he shook hands with many people including a Negro cook.
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New York
American Broadcasting Co
Alabama
George C. Wallace
ABC TV News
Wallace
Robert Shelton
Eutaw
Ala
ABC
Charlie Jones
Sam Donaldson
Shelton
Tuscaloosa
Donaldson
Secret Service
KKK
United Klans of America
U S Reports MIG Downed Near 19th Parallel Amid Khe Sanh Context
U S commanders said Navy F8 Crusaders shot down a MIG2 south of the 19th parallel marking the first MIG downed since February 14 after a bombing curtailment. Casualties for Americans and allies were released, with U S action in Khe Sanh continuing under Pegasus as troops reinforce and a mobile posture persists amid shifting frontline lines.
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North Vietnam
U S. Command
Johnson
U.S
Vinh
Khe Sanh
United States
The
U.S. Com
Ray Sneyd testifies at Bow Street in King killing case
In Bow Street Court Ray Sneyd under questioning and with his British counsel disputed key facts in the U S government extradition case. He admitted being the man arrested at London Airport on June 8 and denied killing Dr. King. The hearing adjourned to a later date with defense and prosecution detailing police testimony and fingerprint evidence.
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Bow Street
Roger Frisby
Frisby
Ray
London Airport
Dr. King
Isle
King
Memphis
Fpn
Calcutt
U.S
High Court
Milton
United States
Raymond George Sneyd
London
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Iwo Jima
Kaye Washburn
Austin High School
Delano Park
Roy L. Washburn
Khe San
George Wallace
William
Westmoreland
South Vietnam
Creighton W. Abrams
Quang Tri Province
Spirit of America
Scooter Hartselle
Dennis Clifton
Cliff Sheats
Webb Giles
Ricky Hartselle
Paul Marconteti
Frank Milton
Supt
Thomas Butler
Scotland Yard
Butler
George Sneyd
Bonebrake
FBI
Peter Hopkirk
London Times
Hopkirk
David Calcutt
Continental
California
Mt. Whitney
Death Valley
Bank St
Oquois
China
le Creuset
Nell Moore
SAM Frank & Moore
Bank Street
Lafayette
Church
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