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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1975
Page
9
A long broadcast grid lists programs across afternoon to midnight with many titles. Notable items include documentaries, cartoons, dramas, news and movies such as The Tramples and The Glass Menagerie along with sports and variety programs.
A crowded listing includes a D C Sorority garage sale at Elaine Buchman 1226 Ave, a Tent Revival Crusade behind Madison Church of God, Harmony Grove Holyness chicken stew at Johnny Roberts, Lawrence County High School 1965 reunion at Moulton Elementary, Afro American Day at Decatur Seventh Day Adventist Church, Collins family reunion at New Salem Baptist, Basham United Methodist dedication and open house with Bishop Carl J. Sanders, and a Veterans gathering at Gum Springs Baptist. Other items cover a Decatur Park and Recreation free concert, Bahar Faith discussion, Civil Air Patrol at Pryor Airport, First Christian Church circles, Huntsville Bachelor and Bachelorette Club dance at V F W Club, Decatur Pilot Club meetings, Title I Advisory meeting for Decatur City Schools, Friendship Club at Summer Manor, handicapped swimming in Hartselle, and more community notices.
Multiple gospel singings scheduled around the area including Elgins Crossroad sepa Church on Highway 72 at 7 p.m. with the West Quartet, United Pentecostal Church in Hartselle at 7:30 p.m. featuring the Triumphants and the Overton Family, and Priceville United Methodist Church at 7:30 p.m. with the Crowe Family and the Caledonians of Columbus Mississippi. Special guests include the Motes Family at Falkville Rest Home and the Devotion Singers at Plainview School Gym.
The note explains Saint Bernadette of Lourdes and her visions leading to the Lourdes shrine and basilica. it covers her life from birth at Lourdes in 1844 to canonization in 1933 and feast day in 1933, plus a column of riddles and a brief etymology of the word bomb. The item invites readers to submit questions with name, age, and address for a contest.
The schedule lists film titles and showtimes including The Tramp lers Where the Bullets Fly The Blackboard Jungle Want to Live Marked Woman The Happening Here Come the Co eds The Vampire's Ghost The Invisible Woman Something for the Birds Picture Mommy Dead and The Glass Menagerie plus Strategic Air Co screening.
The Dothan City Board of Education asks U S District Judge Frank M Johnson Jr to modify attendance lines by transferring 111 black students from Carver Junior High to Young Junior High to relieve crowding. Plaintiffs in the desegregation case have 10 days to show cause why the motion should not be granted.
ANNISTON AL A P G I C Brittain the dean of Alabama probate judges said he would resign August 1 for personal reasons The 77 year old Brittain was first elected in 1946 and re elected without opposition Gov George C Wallace will appoint his replacement He has served as probate judge longer than any other person in Alabama now serving in that position
Readers are invited to send riddles and jokes to the Knowledge Yearbook column titled RIDDLES JOKES TELL ME WHY including the Zip Code. Submissions likely explore clever wordplay and playful questions for inclusion in the next issue.
The Morgan County Probate Court grants letters testamentary for the estate of Alice A. Whisenant deceased. Executor Henry Frank Whisenant is authorized to manage the estate. Claims against the estate must be presented within the legal deadline to avoid bar. The notice is dated June 11, 1975.
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