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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1961
Page
6
As the legislature gaps widen, priority calendars set to move 129 bills on July 11 after a Fourth of July recess. Senate total pending redistricting and reapportionment measures could reach 373, with filibuster threats complicating final votes and potential strategy shifts among regional blocs.
The Elmore Coosa Telephone Co. asks the Public Service Commission for authority to set a new rate schedule and borrow 94000 dollars. A hearing is scheduled for August 7.
Applications filed with the Patent Office for trademarks in 1960 totaled 22 802, compared with 23 064 in 1959.
Linda Page labeled Space Queen will lead an open house at Marshall Space Flight Center for Space Day celebrating the center’s first birthday. From 8 30 a m to 3 30 p m visitors can view two assembled Saturn stages a Mercury Redstone rocket and a Saturn engine firing while Dr Wernher von Braun introduces the event.
Lawrence County notes list Mrs J W Reed and families visiting relatives in Cleveland Ohio and Moulton. Robert Haederson and son Bobby visited Grace Stewart. McCoy Wallace and children visited Norman Rucker and Paula Kay. Fred White and family visited Walker McCullough and Ann. Wanda Bruton of Tuscumbia stayed with Nelle and Connie Thrasher. Robert Terry and son attended a coon on the log near White Oak. Hatton High welcomes new principal Prof Marshall Wilson Lauderdale and family from near Guntown Miss. Jane Hagood hosted her cousin last week.
Reported arson fear after a fire burned downward through flooring supports in three areas. Florence residents Miss Gay Wilson and Mr Clyde Posey visited relatives, including Mrs Gertrude Flannagin and Mrs Clayton Flannagin and girls, on Thursday.
Dairy princess titles across 19 counties are set to be awarded this evening as winners are crowned in local ceremonies and celebrations across the region.
Deputy Fire Marshall Darrell S. Fitts of Andalusia stated that the upward burning pattern and charred supports suggest fire as the start, not natural causes. Embers will likely be sent to Auburn for chemical analysis by the state toxicology department.
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