Goodwin Trial Starts Soon in Tax Case Connections to Wallace Campaign
Selma industrialist Earl Goodwin faces a federal income tax charge over a $3,000 campaign donation to late Governor Lurleen Wallace in 1966 and a disputed advertising invoice. The trial in U S District Court in Selma is set after a separate case concludes, with Goodwin denying wrongdoing and calling it a witch hunt. Other defendants, including Seymore Trammell and Elton B Stephens, are tried separately in related matters.
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Rex Thomas Montgomery
Ala
Selma
Lurleen Wallace
Earl Goodwin
George Wallace
U.S. District Court
Goodwin
Stephens
Cottingham
EBSCO
Mrs. Wallace
Trammell
Charles C. Ditmars
Gadsden
Edward L. Roberts
Edwards
Montgomery
Wallace
Alabama Communist party seeks ballot access in November
Leaders say they will file a federal suit after Alabama Secretary of State Mabel Amos ruled their petition invalid for illegible signatures and missing addresses. The Birmingham based group claims more than 5,000 signatures and vows to place its candidates on the ballot this year.
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Birmingham
Ala
Alabama Communist Party
Jim Bains
Tuscaloosa
Mabel Amos
Alabama
Bains
Refuge Deck Seen As Boon For Tourism
Wheeler National Wildlife Refuge aims to boost tourism with a two level observation deck and a dike. The Interior Department will seek bids in early April for dike work with a June start and a planned August completion. Larry Givens notes the levee will enlarge Parker Slough to about 25 acres of permanent high water and the deck will host 35 visitors at a time.
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Wheeler National Wildlife Refuge
Department of Interior
Atlanta
Larry Givens
Parker
Tennessee River
Givens
Wheeler Refuge
Interior plans long range wildlife refuge deck in Decatur
Interior officials push to start the observation deck and visitors center at the Flint Creek refuge before June 30. A Huntsville firm won the contract for detailed drawings as funds earmarked in the current year and July 1 budget begin. Harry Rice backs the project promising two reasons for visitors to come to Decatur.
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Interior
T. C. Almon Recreation Center
Interior Department
Bob Jones
Huntsville
Givens
Atlanta
Flint Creek
Harry Rice
Decatur
Department of Interior
Point Mallard
Plans for Point Mallard ice rink and courts
The Decatur Daily reports plans for an ice rink and related facilities at Point Mallard. Tennis courts at T C Almon Center were deemed too costly for immediate development, while planning continues for courts at Calhoun Junior College. The Morgan County Board of Registrars holds its last session of the month Monday at the courthouse basement.
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Point Mallard
T. C. Almon Center
Decatur
Calhoun Junior College
Jimmy Johns
T.C. Almon Center
City Recreation Department
Morgan County Board of Registrars
Ann Bell
Foul Play Ruled Out In Decatur Dentist Death
Autopsy results indicate no foul play in the death of Dr. Jerome W. Priest of Decatur who was found fully clothed in a Holiday Inn South room. Coroner Guy Hollaway noted the final autopsy report awaiting completion within a week, with no evidence of foul play and pills found in Priest’s pocket.
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Decatur
Guy Hollaway
Jerome W. Priest
Phillips Ct
Vann Pruitt
Priest
Holiday Inn South
Hollaway
Emergency numbers and crisis lines list by agencies
Emergency phones for highway patrol, sheriff, and fire department by county with numbers such as Morgan 353-6256 and Limestone Athens 353-4141. The Crisis Call Center is 355-8000, available for personal crises or poisoning guidance. Dial 0 to reach an operator if unsure which emergency number to call.
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Highway Patrol
Nita
Fire Department
Morgan County
Centenarian Mary Phillips Aids Racially Joined Churches
Phenix City Alabama resident Mary Phillips, claimed 110, shuffles with a cane to raise funds across Phenix City and Columbus. Over four years she donated about 412.89 to churches and youth groups, despite her illiteracy and slavery era birth, saying she works for God and travels for donations.
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Columbus, Ga
Mary Phillips
Phenix City
Ala
Columbus
Franchise Baptist Church
Phenix-Russell Boys Club
First Baptist Church of
Enterprise Baptist Church
Marion Wiggins
Wiggins
Alabama teachers urged unity and solid backing for pay raise
Miss Marcia Vann Bowers, new Alabama Education Association president, urged solidarity and action among teachers. Gov. George Wallace addressed the convention noting Alabama tax levels offset lower salaries and citing 56 percent rise since his first election, while NEA leaders urged federal funding for quality education.
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Birmingham
Ala
Marcia Vann Bowers
Alabama Education Association
Miss Bowers
Sidney Lanier High School
Montgomery
AFA
Educators
Catherine Barrett
Syracuse
N.Y
National Education Association
NEA
AEA
George Wallace
Alabama
Tower calls Wallace a magnolia scented Harold Stassen
Senator John Tower on a television panel compared Alabama Governor George Wallace to Harold Stassen as Wallace won Florida and Nixon discussed a halt to school busing. Tower claimed he knew of the White House deliberations before Nixon's China trip and doubted Wallace’s effectiveness this year.
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Austin, Te
John Tower
Alabama
George Wallace
Harold Stassen
Tower
Wallace
Florida
Nixon
China
Towers
Tense Moment as Mother Threatens Infant From Roof
City police respond to a Friday evening incident on Somerville Rd where a mother held her month-old baby atop a roof at 7:30 p.m. She threatened to throw the child if threatened. After a brief dialogue officers persuaded her to descend. The husband said the couple were having problems and would seek resolution. no charges filed.
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Somerville Rd
Nyone
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Michigan
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