Slate to push cigarette tax bill in House today
Rep. Ralph Slate of Morgan County will introduce a bill to raise the cigarette sales tax by one cent per pack. Three fifths of the revenue would go to the State Health Department and two fifths to Bryce Hospital in Tuscaloosa. Dr. Myers will seek a public hearing before Sen. Pete Mathews on July 14 or 15. The tax is expected to yield about 2.2 million dollars, with 1.5 million for the Health Department.
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Winford Turner
Ralph Slate
Morgan County
State Health Department
Bryce Hospital
Tuscaloosa
Dr. Myers
Pete Mathews
Clay County
Senate
Finance and Taxation Committee
State Revenue Department
First Combined U.S. Vietnamese Paratrooper Action Near Saigon
U.S. and Vietnamese paratroopers joined in the war's first such operation near Saigon with about 1 200 troops moved in by helicopter. An American paratrooper from the 173rd Airborne Brigade was killed and another wounded as Viet Cong detonated a grenade. Australian troops of roughly 800 reinforced the effort later in the day.
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Malcolm W. Browne
Saigon
Viet Nam
U.S
U.S. Army
173Rd Airborne Brigade
173Rd
A. U.S
North
Hanoi
Senators Fear Remap Tieup
Alabama lawmakers start a holiday week with a possible recess by Thursday. The Senate faces a party of urban filibuster on congressional redistricting and a live threat of a House filibuster on legislative reapportionment. Senator Larry Dumas opened a floor fight over Jefferson County being split into three districts, prompting an adjournment for the weekend.
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Montgomery
Ala
Alabama
Senate
Jefferson County
Larry Dumas
Dumas
Decatur Curb Market Opens and Local Wreck Reports
The Decatur Curb Market operates 6 to 11 a.m. Wednesday selling green beans cucumbers squash tomatoes cabbage peaches corn okra baked cakes canned goods and pickling cucumbers. The Decatur Fire Department answered a call to 1302 Alpine St SE at 7 04 p.m. Monday for a slightly damaged vacant house owned by J B Frazier. Alabama Highway Patrol logged four wrecks Monday near Cullman Decatur Trinity Madison Huntsville Moulton and Cullman with multiple vehicles involved including a 1961 Comet a 1957 Chevrolet a 1963 Chevrolet a 1963 Chevrolet a 1959 Ford a 1957 Ford and a 1965 Plymouth.
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Decatur Curb
Decatur
Alpine St. SE
J. B. Frazier
Alabama Highway Patrol
Cullman
Alabama 157
Jimmy Wayne Judkins
U.S. 31
Charles Edward Morris
Trinity 1
James A. Collins
Madison 3
Hervey Cunningham
Huntsville
Moulton
Alabama
Haskwell M. Agee
Birmingham
Highway
Talmadge Filgan
Cullman 10
Harvey C. Slaughter
Doctors Put Off Surgery For Child Kidney Transplant
In New Orleans surgeons postponed the delicate kidney transplant for 13 year old Johnnie Gail Honeycutt of Anniston until Thursday. She will be reconnected to an artificial kidney briefly as doctors report only a slight change in her condition.
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New Orleans
John H. Honeycutt
Johnnie Gail Honeycutt
Anniston
Junior College Dean Selected
Dr John Fawcett a Georgia native named dean of the new Tennessee Valley Technical Junior College by the State Board of Education Carlton Kelley said he will receive his doctorate from Florida State this summer and come highly recommended The new dean will resume duties when the school opens Sept 1 Construction of the college adjacent to the Tennessee Valley State Vocational School is set to begin soon with loans approved for new dormitories on Alabama Lee JUNIOR page 2
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Montgomery
John Fawcett
Georgia
Tennessee Valley Technical Junior College
State Board of Education
Carlton Kelley
Fawcett
Florida State
County Road Work Ordered by Morgan County Board
The Morgan County Board of Revenue and Control authorized the county engineer to resurfaced about 36.3 miles of county roads at an estimated cost of 56000. Engineer Ben Wheeler said resurfacing will occur in all four districts with roads including Iron Man Neel Road and Vauaha Bridge Road.
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David Knight
Morgan County Board of Revenue and Control
Ben Wheeler
Iron Man-Neel Rd
Vauaha Bridge
Eva-Flor
Markets At A Glance
New York reports a broad market slide with heavy trading. Bond and cotton activity are quiet while Chicago wheat shows firmness and corn and oats weaken. Soybeans fall sharply as old crop months drop. cattle prices steady to strong with top slaughter steer at 29.25.
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New York
Chicago
Hartselle Youth Dies In Traffic Crash
A 14 year old Hartselle boy Clarence Bernard Carpenter died at Black Chandler Hospital after a motorcycle collision with a car and a tractor trailer. In a separate Crane Hill accident O B Harris a 44 year old Cullman County man was killed when a tractor overturned trapping him.
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Hartselle
Cullman County
Clarence Bernard Carpenter
Main St
Black Chandler Hospital
O. B. Harris
Cullman
Crane Hill
Clarence Carpenter
U.S. 31
GOP Program Aims to Win Negro and Youth Votes
Republican leader Ray Bliss outlined a nationwide effort to recapture support among Negro voters and young people in big-city areas. He said the plan would expand programs to attract college students and other youths, targeting cities where GOP support fell from 41 percent in 1960 to 32 percent with Goldwater.
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Washington
Ray C. Bliss
Republican National Committee
Bliss
Barry Goldwater
Alabama legislative panel brands SNCC as communist dominated
A Montgomery committee report to the state legislature declares the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee extensively communist dominated. It also calls CORE an arm of pro communist conspiracy and claims SCLC led by Martin Luther King Jr is actively promoting the communist line. The report says King likely not a member of any communist party but links his rise to a broader unrest.
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Commission To Preserve the Peace
Alabama Legislatture
Congress of Racial Equality
CORE
America
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
SCLC
Martin Luther Jr
King
Communist Party
Ame
Senate subcommittee backs limited antitrust exemption for major leagues
The Senate Antitrust and Monopoly subcommittee approved legislation to grant professional baseball football basketball and hockey a limited exemption from antitrust laws.
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Washington
Senate Antitrust and Monopoly Subcommittee
Alabama Education Dept Backs Civil Rights Act Compliance
The U S Office of Education says Alabama's Department of Education agreed to comply with provisions of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
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Washington
Alabama
Department of Education
U.S. Office of Education
Exchange Hits Trading Peak In Turbulent Session
New York AP reports a volatile market with heavy volume as the Dow Jones average rose to 845.31 at noon after earlier gains, then fluctuated. Short sellers bought to cover positions, aiding the late rally as traders described technical momentum on the Big Board.
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New York
The
Exchange
Pilot nurses damaged Pan American jet to safe landing
Pan American Flight 84 with 143 passengers and 10 crew lost 20 feet of wing and an engine after takeoff from San Francisco. Captain Charles H. Kimes guided the 707 to Travis Air Force Base for a safe landing with no injuries reported. A Coast Guard plane and fighters aided the escort.
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San Francisco
San Francisco International Airport
Charles H
Chuck) Kimes
Danville
Calif
San Bruno
Kimes
Iles
Travis
Coast Guard
Travis Air Force Base
Decatur Joins National Head Start Flag Raising
Decatur will join communities nationwide in a 2 p.m. Head Start flag raising at City Hall to open the Federal Head Start preschool program. City officials, Morgan County officials, Sheriff Dick Fleming, and Center Directors H R Leeman W R Riley and Athelene Banks will participate alongside invited local leaders. See DECATUR on Page 2.
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Decatur
Washington
Lyndon Johnson
White House
J. Gilmer Blackburn
Mor
Dick Flem
Morgan County Commission
One Roberts
H.R. Leeman
W. R. Riley
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Thornton Fleming
Donald Hobby
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Leslie Doss
Hugh L. Spriggs
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Lee County
Reeves Bruit Stead
Herteelfe
lAlc
James E. Collins
Young Carpenter
Bill Tucker
Harris
By Jack Bell
Jet
Carpenter
Tommy Putman
Athelene Banks
Quickies
Ken Reynolds
Eae
W. Pyreikch
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