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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1968
Page
3
A fair and cool pattern continues across Alabama with high pressure lingering through Wednesday. Morning reading 50s statewide, 61 in Mobile, freezing points in the north overnight, and lows near 20s to 30s. Rain from the northwest Gulf remains limited to extreme southwest by late Wednesday, with warmer days ahead.
BREWTON Ala AP The Alabama Rural Electric Cooperative Association manager says bills will be introduced at the next legislature meeting to set specific service areas for electric utilities. Cail D Gibbs told a Brewton civic club that the plan would stabilize service areas, avoid duplication and reduce wasteful expense benefiting electric users statewide.
Fair to partly cloudy and warmer today and tonight. Wednesday mostly cloudy and mild. Winds from the west at 5 to 12 mph today and tonight turning easterly 3 to 12 mph by late Wednesday. High today 62, low tonight 33, high Wednesday 60. Jupiter and Regulus visibles tonight with hints of future planetary motion.
River reading at Keller Memorial Bridge this morning was 16.30 feet with sea level 550.60 feet. TVA lake stages: Chickamauga 675.6, Pickwick 408.5, Guntersville 593.2, Whitesburg 551.0, Wheeler 550.5, Wilson 505.6. Monday high 55 at 3 pm, low 29 at 5 am, 8 am temperature 44. No rainfall recorded.
U S Rep Armistead Selden of the 5th District plans a Senate bid stop in Morgan County. He will address Morgan County High School students in Hartselle on Friday at 9 30 a m and open a Decatur area campaign office 3 to 6 p m. The tour includes Montgomery Houston County Mobile Tri Cities and Tuscaloosa stops this week. A student production titled Old South Day will be staged at the school.
Lakeside presents two performances of The Best of Broadway this Wednesday at 2 and 8 p.m. The national touring cast includes Dolores Baurer Deborah Horston Leonard Hayward Pearl Gaines and Ronald O’Neal with songs from My Fair Lady and a Gilbert and Sullivan tribute plus numbers from Around the World in 80 Tunes. Tipton a Pittsburgh native and Penn State alum has Broadway Kwa mina and Black New World credits and Miss Harris a Juilliard trained performer debuting publicly at age three has appeared across the U S and Europe.
Jacksonville State University lists Caren Lee Barker among 163 dean’s list students for the fall semester. County students Robert Abercrombie Patricia Morris Ebrahim and Anna Schaefer Walker also near the dean’s list cutoff with strong records.
The Monrovia Junior High gymnasium, built during the depression, burned last night. Loss estimated over 100000 with 30000 insured and 2000 contents. Fire crews from Huntsville Madison and a Harvest civil defense unit prevented spread to adjacent buildings. Coach Bill Mitchell and students noticed the blaze during spring practice. Fire started likely from electrical wiring. Location is near S 72, eight miles west of Huntsville.
West Limestone High School hosts the area’s first 1968 political rally. Fifteen Democratic candidates for Limestone County offices, plus campaign workers for statewide nominees, speak at 7 p.m. A turkey meal for $1.50 is served 5 to 7 p.m. A band plays 6:30 to 7. County Judge D L Rosenau Jr., Circuit Court Clerk Louis Winem and Supt. of Education S Pettus are unopposed in the May 7 primary.
Three federal judges Walter P. Gewin Frank M. Johnson and Virgil Pittman were named to hear a suit by the Alabama State Teachers Association seeking to block the four year Auburn University Center project in Montgomery. No hearing date was set. The suit contends the center would be unconstitutional and socially discriminatory.
Harold L Fry is named senior instrumentation engineer and John J Murphy becomes senior project engineer in Monsanto's Decatur plant. Fry, a 1966 hire from Newport News shipyard background, is an NC State EE graduate. Murphy, a 1965 hire with UT mechanical engineering degree, is from Carthage Tennessee and lives with Betty in Trinity 2.
The Daybreak newspaper reports the South African government is considering a nationwide life book plan carrying each citizen's vital statistics to streamline personal documents. The proposal signals a major move in civil identity services and administration.
A Decatur family announces a 1963 Decatur High School graduate now seniors majoring in mathematics and economics.
Officials in Pensacola say charges will not be filed against an 11 year old boy who admitted accidentally starting a candle fire that killed his 6 year old father. Fire authorities report the boy told officers he started the blaze while seeking a blanket after becoming cold. The Sun Day night fire at a downtown residence injured no one besides the child. The family included Carl Anthony Mims and Caldonia Mims with nine siblings surviving.
Washington reports five Alabama Army servicemen killed in hostile action in Vietnam. Three were previously listed as missing and identified as 2nd Lt Ordon K Hughes of Huntsville Spec 4 Stanley Johnson Riderwood Pfc Charlie A Stewart Jr Birmingham and Pfc Ronnie Harrell Semer along with Spec 4 Stanley R Lewter of Huntsville.
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