Wallace Faces Road Bond Money Gamble in Education Fight
Alabama Governor Wallace holds final say over the road bond funds administered by the Highway Authority and will influence how much goes to cities and counties. Lawmakers return for a second session as districts press for new tax revenue to cover a looming education deficit and other state needs.
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Alabama
Alabama Highway Authority
Wallace
House
Senate
Gilchrist
Brewer
Road bond debate underscores education funding clash
Legislators discuss funding roads and education with Gov George Wallace backing an administration plan. Sen Gilchrist opposed the bill citing weak safeguards and tax concerns while Brewer stays hopeful about education gains and retirement fund improvements.
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Brewer
George Wallace
Gilchrist
Madison
Roscoe Roberts
Highway Department
Abandoned Cars Found. Local Meetings and Political Visit
Two abandoned cars were found in ditches early Saturday by city police at Spring Ave and Moadus Rd and on 10th Ave NW. A 1948 Plymouth registered to Johnny Holmes was towed after blocking traffic. a 1955 Chevrolet registered to Hubert Garrett was left at the scene. Community groups hold meetings and a notable political visit is announced for Birmingham on April 5 by Senator Thruston Morton, with details on location and dinner price.
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Spring Ave
Moadus Rd
Plymouth
Johnny Holmes
Hartseller
10Th Ave. NW
Hubert Garrett
Binford St
Huntsville
Birmingham
United States
Thruston Morton
Kentucky
Republican Campaign Committee
Alabama
Morton
Senate
Deaths William Sanford Dickinson 79 Florence obituary
Funeral services for William Sanford Dickinson age 79 of 405 Oak Street will be held at 2 30 p m today at the Morrison Elkins Funeral Home Chapel in Florence with Rev Billy Stephenson officiating. Burial will follow in Florence City Cemetery. Survivors include his widow Elizabeth Dickinson. Nephews will serve as pallbearers. Dickinson was a First Baptist Church Decatur member, American Legion Post No 15 member, and a World War I veteran.
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William Sanford Dickinson
Oak St
Florence
Morrison-Elkins Funeral Home
Billy Stephenson
Florence City Cemetery
Elizabeth Dickinson
Dickinson
First Baptist Church of
Decatur
American Legion
Lensmen Catch JFK Sunning
President Kennedy enjoyed a nine minute luncheon cruise at Palm Beach aboard the Honey Fitz with a sun bath, a rendezvous with Joseph P. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy on nearby vessels. The party exchanged greetings and the President briefly exposed his chest to the sun before returning to the yacht.
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Frank Cormier
Palm Beach
Fla
Kennedy
Lake Worth
Robert
Joseph P. Kennedy
Robert F. Kennedy
Bond Funds Promise Within 90 Days A Big Boost
A terse notice states money from bonds will flow within 90 days, promising a terrific shot in.
Miss Washington Linda Beaupre Wins Personality Award
The pageant finalists include Miss Washington Linda Beaupre 17 of Bellvue voted by 50 contestants for the personality prize. Judges declare prelim winners from several states with Miss Roxanne Hooper from Arizona and Miss Pam Robinson of Ohio taking early titles. Finalists from Pennsylvania, Montana, Kentucky, Iowa, and others compete for a $6,000 top scholarship and crown.
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Pennsylvania
Montana
Iowa
Ohio
Kentucky
Washington
Linda Beaupre
Bellvue
Mississippi
C! Scales
Jackson
Carol Case
Rapid City
S.D
Roxanne Hooper
Springerville
Ariz
Pam Robinson
Dayton
Miss Hooper
Miss Robinson
Dana Lichty
Mason City
Jows
Brownette
Kay Shenesky
Koppel
Penn
Linday Taylor
Kalispell
America
Oklahoma
North Dakota
New York
Alabama
Island
New Hamp
Safflower Growth Regions Across the United States
The report notes that most domestic safflower is grown in California Montana North Dakota Nebraska Colorado and other Western and Midwestern states highlighting regional production patterns.
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California
Montana
North Dakota
Nebraska
Colorado
Thomas J. Sims Rites Noted In Northside Church
Thomas J. Sims 70 of Apopka Florida died Tuesday at Orange County Convalescence Home in Orlando. Funeral services were held Saturday at 2 p.m. from Northside Church of Christ with A J Rollings officiating. Burial followed at Gatlin Cemetery with Spry Funeral Home directing. Survivors include his widow Edna B Sims four daughters and one son plus eight living siblings and many grandchildren and great grandchildren He was a member of Plymouth Church of Christ in Plymouth Florida.
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Athens
Thomas J. Sims
Apopka 2
Fla
Orange County
Orlando
Fila
Northside
Church of Christ
A. J. Rollings
Ificizting
Gatlin Cemetery
Spry Funeral Home
Edna B. Sims
Nick Thomas
L. J. Carroll
Leesburg
W. R. Boyd
Ardmore
Tenn
J. R. Wolford
Plymouth
Buford Sims
van Sims
Rawleigh Sims
Fred Sims
Coxie
Ala
Cartrell Sims
Cullman
Grady Pugh
Will Brooks
Rogersville
Sims
Plymouth Church of Christ
Edward M Wise obituary notes long railroad career
Edward M Wise 91 died Friday after a long illness. Funeral services are today at 3 p.m. at Gunthorp Brown Service Funeral Home chapel with Rev. James C Bodley. Burial in Decatur City Cemetery. Survived by widow Mae Crosby Wise Decatur a son Edward C Wise Dallas Texas a niece and other relatives. He was a pioneer railroad official in Mexico and Cuba holding posts with Pan American Railroad Cuba Northern Railroad and Vera Cruz Terminal Co. He lived in Flint since 1926 and headed Morgan County Red Cross chapter. Active pallbearers listed. honorary pallbearers named.
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Edward Moore Wise
Decatur 4
Gunthorp- Brown Service
Funeral Home
James C. Bodley
Decatur— City Cemetery
Gunthorp-Brown
Wise
Mae Crosby Wise
Decature
Edward .C. Wise
Dallas
Tex
Sam H. Wheat
Ben Britnell
Owen Pace
Alvis Briscoe
J. C. Howell
Raymond Britain
H. C. Greer
Carlisle Blackwell
Jim Price
Grady Davis
Mr. Wise
Morgan County
Mexico
Cuba
Pan-American Railroad
Cuba Northern Railroad
Vera Cruz Terminal Co
Flint
The
American Red Cross
Rev William Higgins Former St Ann's pastor dies
Higgins former assistant pastor at St Ann's Catholic Church in Decatur died Friday in St Jude's Catholic Hospital in Montgomery. Body lay in Johns Ride Out Funeral Home in Birmingham from 8 to 11 a.m. then transported by hearse to Atlanta and on to Everett Massachusetts for funeral arrangements with the Charles J Murphy Funeral Home in charge.
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William Vincent. Higgins
St. Ann's Catholic Church
Decatur
St. Jude’s Catholic Hospital
Montgomery
Johns Rideout Funeral Home
Birmingham
Atlanta
Everett
Mass
Charles J. Murphy
Broadway
Alabama Education Expenditures and Teacher Salaries Across States
Alabama ranks 45th in per capita state and local education spending in 1961 with 82.77 dollars, while California leads at 170.60 and Mississippi 43rd at 84.56. In 1961 local school per capita spending Alabama is 47th at 62.63 with California at 126.20 and Florida 78.90. Alabama teachers average 4104 dollars in 1962-63, 47th nationally, with California at 7500 and Mississippi last at 3700. Over a decade Alabama shows 59.1 percent salary growth. Mississippi 107.5 percent, Georgia 75.2 percent. Dr Philpot cites teacher morale as key amid salary competition.
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Alabama
United States
California
Mississippi
Georgia
Florida
Philpot
Marriage Licenses and Small Debt Transfers Noted
Daily records show Wilber H Lemley owing Loyd Hays ten dollars and Sarah Lorene Oden owing Loyd Hays one dollar. Marriage licenses list William Harold Daniel and Wanda Gail Palmer, Charlie Arvel Johnson and Rachel Mae Crum, along with addresses and occupations.
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Wilber H. Lemley
Loyd Hays
Sarah Lorene Oden
William Harold Daniel
Decatur
Worthington Corp
Wanda Gail Palmer
Hartselle
Charlie Arvel Johnson
Falkville
Rachel Mae Crum
Cashen St. NW
Thomas Scott Cowart, Jr
Riverview
U. S. Navy
Joyce Ann Kirby
Somerville
Decatur Plastics
Two-Car City Crash Injures Passenger on Vine Canal
A two car collision Saturday at 5 05 p m at Vine and Canal streets injures Glenda Dill 2 a passenger in the Ford. Charles T Major 56 of 611 Canal St drove a 1959 Chevrolet south and Hollis Herman Dill 34 of 2005 Endlam Blvd SE drove a 1963 Ford owned by Dick Coffey Ford.
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Vine and
Canal Streets
Charles T. Major
Canal St
Hollis Herman Dill
Endlam Blvd
Dick Coffey
Ford
Glenda Dill
Chevrolet
Funeral planned for Father Higgins with parish honors
Survivors include his mother Mrs. Sabina Higgins of Everett two brothers Frank Higgins and James Higgins of Dorchester Mass three sisters Mrs Mary Spicer Medford Mass Mrs Reta Jodine Maryland and Mrs Eleanor Kennedy of Everett. Father Higgins had been an ordained Catholic priest for 14 years and was a World War II veteran. The office of the dead will be held Tuesday afternoon and the funeral Wednesday at 10 o'clock at the Immaculate Conception Church Everett Rt Rev Msgr John M Horgan of St Ann's Decatur will celebrate a funeral Mass for Father Higgins at 8 am Monday at the church.
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Sabina Higgins
Everett
Frank Higgins
James Higgins
Dorchester
Mass
Mary Spicer
Medward
Reta Jodine
Maryland
Eleanor Kennedy
Father Higgins
the Immaculate On Church
John M. Horgan
St. Ann's Catholic Church
Decatur
Soviet Overflights Protest As US Notes Response
The United States protested Soviet overflights of Alaska on March 15 1963 in a brief note to Vasily Kuznetsov. Two Soviet reconnaissance aircraft flew near Kuskokwim Bay Nunivak Island and Nelson Island at 17 000 to 30 000 feet. President Kennedy was informed and commented no public statement.
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Russia
Pol
U.S
Eisenhower
Soviet Union
Washington
Greenwich
Defense Department
Trail
Alaskan
Bering Sea
Kuskokwim Bay
Hooper Bay
Nunivak Island
Nelson Island
Pentagon
Maske
Kremlin
Moscow
Kohler
Vasily Kuznetsov
Alaska
Rue Beach
Fla
Kennedy
Pierre Salinger
U S Chamber Proposes Budget Cuts
The U S Chamber of Commerce urged eight point four percent cuts to Kennedy spending authority and four point five percent for 1963-64 arguing the reductions would avoid recession. It estimated nine point one billion could be trimmed from a one hundred seven point nine billion proposal across 117 items from defense to migratory bird conservation. A spokesman said the four point five billion cut for 1963-64 would be detailed next week.
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Whitney Shoemaker
Washington
U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Kennedy
Chamber
Unclear Road Scene Mention on Canal and Vine Streets
Fragmentary line describes a Ford traveling east on Vine Street near Canal Street with limited context and no clear incident or outcome available.
Weather and river notes for Decatur and Vicinity
The report covers March 18 weather with sunset at 5 58 p m and sunrise at 5 54 a m The river reading at Keller Memorial Bridge is 22 65 feet down 05 feet in 24 hours Sea level 556 95 feet The forecast calls for considerable cloudiness warm conditions with scattered showers and a few thundershowers tonight clear to partly cloudy cooler Winds southerly 10 to 25 mph with stronger gusts in storms shifting to northwest tomorrow High 72 degrees observed 6 45 p m Saturday temperature 65 The planets Mars Venus and Saturn are noted with Venus brighter and rising times given for CST
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Decatur
Tennessee River
Keller Memorial Bridge
March Blizzard Halts Traffic and Strands Motorists
A March blizzard sweeping the northern Great Plains caused up to 100 mph gusts and 12 to 18 inches of snow in the Black Hills and Rapid City area. Roads were blocked from the Wyoming border to Wall South Dakota as officials urged travelers to stay off highways. Damaging winds, tornadoes in Missouri Illinois and Iowa, plus heavy rains hit flood areas along the Ohio River Valley and record cold spread to New England.
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Associated Press
Great Plains
Colorado
Kansas
Iowa
Missouri
Illinois
Ohio River Valley
New England
Black Hills
Rapid City
South Dakota
Wyoming
Wall
S.D
Wasta
Cape Girardeau
Cotaco High Plans Junior Play The Inner Willy
The Cotaco High School junior class presents The Inner Willy in the high school auditorium Thursday at 7 30 p m. Advance tickets cost 25 cents for students 50 cents for adults and doorsales are 30 cents for students 60 cents for adults.
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Cotaco
Cotaco High School
Hospital Dismissals List From Cullman Area
A lengthy hospital discharge roster lists numerous patients from Cullman, Hanceville, Arab, Vinemont, Baileyton and nearby towns. Names include Marlin Hollingsworth, Virginia Ballard, Millard Alldredge, Walter Williams, Mary Tucker, Sherry Burke, Susie Brown, Edison, J C England, John Dunlap, Marsha Chappell, Weeks, Arlene Bullen, John Culp, Jerry Bell, Norman Childers, Margaret Ledlow, Edna Moody, Mary Crider, Emmett Oden, Ferever, Speegle, Nicklaus, Asa Smith, Sandlin, Scott, McDaniel, Coggins, Young, Melanie Sims, Dora Cox, Luther Johnson, Fortenberry, Prickett, Holcombe, Willie Franklin, Freeman, Leibenhewer, Helen Holcomb, Johnny Helms, Leamon Powell, Leslie Holmes, Billy Harbison and others.
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Cullman
Marlin H. Hollingsworth
Virginia R. Ballard
Hanceville
Millard Alldredge
Walter Alex Williams
Mary W. Tucker
Mary Smith
Sherry Ann Burke
Susie Elizabeth Brown
Charles W. Edison
J. C. England
John F. Dunlap
Arlene Lee Bullen
John E. Culp
Jerry Wayne Bell
Vinemont
Norman J. Childers
Margaret Ledlow
Ednad Moody
Norman Crider
Emmett S. Oden
Arnold H. McDaniel
Chester Boyd Coggins
Joseph Young
Melanie Sims
Cullman Admissions
Billyrone Dora Cox
Edna Moody
Luther Johnson
Local Residents Listed in City Directory Snippet
A readable OCR fragment lists several residents and addresses including Annie Pearl Owens at 132 9th Ave SE, J M Butler Prospect 2, C W Chandler Tanner en Pruitt at 413 E Lafayette, Melinda Ray 215 5th Ave, Janet Towe Jones Trinity, Sheila Ann Walden 814 5th Ave SE, T T Thornton 313 Canal St NE, Grace Prickett 488 Johnston St SE, and Ruth Barr Decatur 2.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Annie Pearl Owens
9Th Ave
J. M. Butler
Prospect 2
Tonn
C. W. Chandler
Tanneren Pruitt
E. Lafayette
Janet Towe Jones
Trinity
Shiela Ann Walden
5Th Ave
T. T. Thornton
Canal St
Grace Prickett
Johnston St
Ruth Barr
Decatur
Decatur General Admissions List Of Names And Addresses
A roll of admissions lists multiple individuals with addresses and infant names including Nora Odell Sharp 601 2nd Ave SW Decatur and Julia Humphrey 318 5th Ave NW plus infants and several others associated with Decatur Hartsel Cullman and Courtland locales. Names include Masters and Mrs titles with entries like Debra Longmire and Catherine Askew among others.
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Decatur General Admissions
Nora Odell Sharp
2Nd Ave
Faren Keith Weeks
Trinity
Julia Mel Humphrey
5Th Ave
John Baugh, Jr
Hart+ selle
Cicero Stevens
Cullman
Billy E. White
Town Creek
Archie McNutt
Falkville
Michael Keith Deason
Williams St
Mastre Thomas Arnold Johnson
Decatur
Charles Wayne Anthony
Athens
Julian Arnold Pyle
Johnston St
Debra Ann Longmire
Nell St
Little Catherine Askew
Stratford Rd
Irvin State
Kenneth Ray Sutton
18Th Ave
William R. Sanders
Somerville
Robert W. Hill
Courtland Wiley Gains Randolph
State Ave
William R. Sessions
W. Moulton St
Hulon Henderson
Lenoke
William Guy Parker
Courtland
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Morgan
C.W.F
First Christian Church
C.M.F
Kappa Delta
Decatur Public Library
Morgan County Board of Registrars
John Hatch
Redstone-Tennessee Valley
AFCEA
Squirrel Hill Officers Club
J. L. Nordbusch
RCA
Atlantic Missile Range
Rocket Room
2Nd St
Decatur Rd
Ann Black
Memorial Dr
Claude Gilchrist
Stokely, Montgomery
2Nd St. SW
William Dickinson
Rising Sun Lodge
Masonic Temple
H. Lakey
W.M. C
Kenton
JFK
Miss Scales
Kenneth Scales
Mobile
Arizona
Edward M. Wise
William Higgins
Vine
Sagittarious
Mars
Venus
Saturn
Associated Press High Lower
Albany
Bismarck
Boise
Boston
Buffalo
Chicago
Cincinnati
Cleveland
Denver
Des Moines
Airbanks
Fort Worth
Honolulu
Indianapolis
Jacksonville
Juneau
Miami
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St. Paul
New Orleans
Omaha
Philadelphia
Phoenix
Pittsburgh
Portland Me
Portland
Ore
Richmond
St. Louis
San Diego
San Francisco
Seattle
Marsha Kay Chappell
Clarence D. Weeks
Occie H. Ferever
Eual Speegle
Terry Wayne Nicklaus
Asa N. Smith
Charles E. Sandlin
Edgewood
Meggie Lee Scott
Wilburn A. Fortenberry
Falkvile
Shirley Prickett
Julia Holcombe
Willie Mae Franklin
Martin T. Freeman
Logan
Abvha B. Leibenhewer
Helen M. Holcomb
Baileyton
Johnny Lester Helms
Ae Mersha Chappell
Hancer
Mary Elizabeth Abbott
Leamon R. Powell
Leslie Holmes
Eva
Billy Gene Harbison
Bremen
Melinda Ray
Cecil Howard Turner
Satche
Baugh-Wiley-Smith Clin
State National Bank of Decatur
First National Bank of Decatur
Semmes & Co. Incorporated
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