Austin 4A Champ: West Morgan Loses
Austin Black Bears rally from an eight point fourth quarter deficit to beat Wenonah 69-66 in overtime and capture the 4A state title. Coach Joe Jones becomes the first to win state championships in three classes 1A 3A and 4A. Sandifer named tournament MVP after a 43 point semi final. Stokes also on all tournament team.
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Billy Mitchell
Tuscaloosa
Austin
Black Bears
Wenonah
Joe Jones
Jones
Austinville
Billy
Dog) Sandifer
Talladega
Rickie Stokes
Bears
Carver
Southern Confederacy Constitution Adopted at Montgomery
In Today’s date 1961 the Southern Confederacy constitution was adopted at Montgomery. Weather: high 70s, low tonight upper 50s. with considerable cloudiness and showers likely today ending this afternoon. Partly cloudy tonight and Monday. Map and river page B-13.
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Montgomery
Stroke kills 'Bull' Connor
Eugene Bull Connor, famed Birmingham official who used fire hoses and dogs against civil rights protesters, died at 75 after a stroke. A longtime public figure, he led the Public Safety and later the Alabama Public Service Commission, with a career spanning the 1930s to the 1960s and notable runs for governor and national party roles.
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Birmingham
Ala
Eugene “Bull” Connor
Connor
Alabama Public Service Commission
Kenneth Hammond
PSC
Alabama
City Commission
Philadelphia
St Jude Downs West Morgan To Claim 2A Title
St. Jude defeated West Morgan 64 45 in the state 2A final to win the championship. The all black Pirates from Montgomery built a 45 31 lead after three quarters as West Morgan struggled with turnovers and St. Jude pressure. West Morgan coach Jackie Coulter praised the opponent while noting his team’s proud season.
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Tuscaloosa
West Morgan
Alabama
Memorial Coliseum
Rebels
St. Jude
Pirates
Montgomery
Jackie Coulter
WEST
Daily Want Ad Sells Volkswagen and Boots 14 More Replies
John Gaines of Sparrow Road sold his 1969 Volkswagen through a Daily Want Ad and drew 14 additional responses. The notice promotes low cost ads for selling unneeded items with a 10 day rate of four dollars. Open hours and dates are listed for the publication.
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Volkswagen
John Gaines
Sparrow Rd
Classified Ad Contact Numbers in Decatur Daily
Local classified advertisement page lists dial numbers 303 4612 and 353 4739 for nights and holidays listings with Athens area code 232 1535. Includes phone contact details for readers seeking ads and services.
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Dial
Athens
Decatur Daily
U S Withdraws From Wounded Knee Clash Ends
Federal roadblocks around Wounded Knee South Dakota were removed as militant AIM supporters celebrated. Leaders said they would stay in the village while the government vowed investigation into tribal abuses at Pine Ridge and pending indictments of some occupiers.
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Wounded Knee
S.D
U.S
American Indian Movement
Oglala Sioux
Pine Ridge
Washington
Justice Department
Ralph Erickson
Dennis Banks
AIM
Banks
Interior Department
Pine Ridge Reservation
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Richard Wilson
Rites Set For Harlan Hunter
Harlan Hayes Hunter 83 a former city alderman and founder of Hunter Furniture Co died Saturday at Montclair Baptist Medical Center Birmingham Services will be Monday at 11 a.m. at Brown Service Funeral Home with burial in Decatur City Cemetery. He helped form Valley Stock Yard and Decatur Plastics Co born 1889 in Columbia Tenn moved to Decatur in 1910 and joined Schimmel and Hunter Furniture Co in 1918 later buying out his partner He served as alderman 1936 1948 and held leadership roles in several local organizations Survivors include his widow Jane Pirie Hunter and a daughter See RITES On Page A 12
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Harlan Hayes Hunter
Hunter Furniture Co
Montclair Baptist Medical Center
Birmingham
Brown Service Funeral Home
Ralph Stout
Decatur City Cemetery
Mr.Hunter
Schimmel and
Valley Stock Yard
Decatur Plastics Co
Columbia
Nixon Seen Equalling FDR As Expansionist
Washington reports historians and scholars view Nixon as expanding presidential powers beyond any since Franklin D. Roosevelt. They note his moves to curb federal money powers, favor state and local authority, and challenge Congress, the Supreme Court, and the bureaucracy.
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Nixon
Fdr
John Herbers
New York Times News Service
Washington
Richard M. Nixon
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Congress
Henry Steel Commager
Eisenhower
Kennedy
Johnson
Supreme Court
White House
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Mary Carter
Landers
TV Log Financial
Frigidaire Sales & Service
Robinson Furniture
Second Avenue
Decatur
Vicki Harpe
Kenneth L. Harpe
Cedar St. SW
Chapel Hill
Tony Estes
Rebs
Ina
U. S
Harlan Hunter
Thomas E. Cronin
Center For the Study of Democratic Institutions
Santa Barbara
Calif
Harry Truman
Lydon B. Johnson
John F. Kennedy
Senate
North Vietnam
Cambodia
Laos
Soviet Union
Aleksei N. Kosygin
Politburo
Czechoslovakia
Roosevelt
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