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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1966
Page
20
Local notices include an AA meeting at Open Dooroom 1813 Sherman St Sundays and Wednesdays at 8 PM and another at Valley Health Building. various personal notices advertise sale items at Ira's Book Shop and Henry Wade’s contact numbers, a Card of Thanks for Jo Ann Willingham, lost and found items including an adrift Eldocraft boat and a truck title found near Fruehaus, with owner contact cues.
Classified listings show Cottingham Electric Service and Glenn Drilling Co offering residential and commercial services with free estimates. Miller and Speakman advertise home repairs from additions to roofing while Hoyt Lane seeks water wells to drill. Other ads promote carpet cleaning, painting by Sherwin-Williams, and air conditioning repairs in Hartselle.
Classified notes offer roof refinishing claims by Bill Oakley with contact 353-2803. Also ads for Mizell Drilling water wells 355-0684 and well drilling by Charles E Halbrooks. Additional entries seek in home ironing at 353-9652 and septic tank cleaning 353-0451 with related equipment ads and a contact 353-.
The Decatur Daily’s advertising departments won three awards in eight categories at the Georgia Alabama Newspaper Advertising Executives Association meeting in Atlanta. The display department earned first for best use of locally prepared display color and second for best promotion of retail advertising. The classified department placed second for best promotion of classified advertising.
In New Delhi and Bombay a controversy erupts as yogis and sadhus face demands to prove powers such as water walking, with L S Rao attempting a water walk amid public scrutiny while Prime Minister Indira Gandhi questions the claim. Skeptics and supporters clash over yoga's renunciations and feats.
Athens authorities charged David E. Moss and Bobby Ray Crow with grand larceny after $214.20 was reported stolen from Doug Meadows Shell Service Station where Moss worked. Bond set at $750 each. The theft was one of several incidents investigated by Limestone county and city officers. Crow is a local cab driver. Meadows vacationing in Florida.
Default made in a 1962 mortgage by Ray Whisenant and wife Peggy Sue Whisenant. The deed, recorded in Morgan County Probate Court Mortgage Record Volume 692 at Page 7, was later assumed by Pauline Martin on October 28 1963. The notice concerns foreclosure proceedings under Alabama law.
Mortgagee First Federal Savings and Loan Association of Decatur announces foreclosure sale of 4 acre Morgan County tract in the Liz of the SW% of Section 25 Township 6 South Range 1 West for debt, interest and costs. Sale in front of Morgan County Courthouse July 11 1966 during legal hours. Attorney Edwin D. Breland. Also notices of other foreclosures and probate estate administrations follow in the same publication.
Classified ad seeks a mature typist. Pays $275 weekly with exclusive spot. Benefits offered. Five day assignment. Call Patty Macon at 355 1882 for details.
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