Operation New Decatur marks first year of progress
One year after Decatur launched Operation New Decatur the city highlights progress in recreation centers housing projects and urban renewal. The plan includes a domed gym swimming pool at 5th Ave SW a Carrie Matthews center and a southeast center near the Tennessee River with a Point Mallard recreation area. Voters approved a 1.5 million bond for three centers and land has been acquired for Hunt Park Morgan Park and Bank Street Plaza with work planned over five years. The Second St urban renewal effort advances with a 1.86 million contract and an 18 month building schedule across a seven story courthouse project.
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Decatur
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Bank Street Plaza
Champion Plant hailed as major pulp project in Courtland
The Champion Paper Co official announced a $100 million Courtland mill to produce over 500 tons of bleached sulfate pulp. Moulton Police Chief Raymond L. Null was fired by the city council after a heated clash with Police Commissioner Eddie Mitchell.
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Champion Paper Co
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Alabama Planning and Industrial Development Board
Courtland Industrial Development Board
North Alabama Industrial Development Association
Decatur
J.gilmort Blackburn
Courtland
R. E. Simpson
Longbine
Moulton
Raymond L. Null
Null
Eddie Mitchell
Mitchell
Lucian Royer
Imogene Stephenson
Orie Thrasher
Kumpe Brewer
Ben Corum
Waco
Tex
Acion
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Ottis Abbott
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City Hall
F II Fighter Missing in Southeast Asia
Defense officials report one F111A fighter bomber missing on a bombing mission over Southeast Asia. The aircraft, part of a squadron based in Thailand since March 17, vanished after last radio contact over Laos. Pentagon says no further details at this time.
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Associated Press
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Thailand
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Laos
Ta Khli
Governor Wallace’s health shows little change doctors say
Gov Lurleen Wallace remains treated for a possible blood clot in the left lung with doctors reporting little change in condition. Acting secretary Ed Ewing provided the latest update as the lung issue is monitored.
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Montgomery
Ala
Lurleen Wallace
Ed Ewing
Judge Upholds Bond Legality in State Park and Hospital Funding
A Montgomery circuit court judge ruled that the states 15 million bond issue to fund Decatur s 4.2 million mental retardation hospital and two constitutional amendments for mental health funds and 43 million in state park bonds are valid. Judge Richard Emmet issued the decision in a suit by a Montgomery County taxpayer challenging the measures. The 400 bed Decatur facility is slated to begin May construction and will be named the Lurleen Burns Wallace Mental Retardation Hospital. No reasons for the ruling were given.
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Decatur
Montgomery
Richard Emmet
Emmet
Montgomery County
Lurleen Burns Wallace
Gov. Wallace
Birmingham
World’s First Space Pilot Yuri Gagarin Dies In Crash
MOSCOW AP Yuri A Gagarin the 34 year old cosmonaut who flew the first manned space mission in 1961 died in a training flight crash along with Col Vladimir S Seryogin. Their ashes will be placed at the Kremlin Wall. Nine US astronauts have also died in space related incidents. Gagarin’s death marks a second major Soviet space loss within a year after Col Vladimir M Komarov’s Soyuz crash.
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Charles A. Bassett TI
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Edward G. Givens
Clifton C. Williams
Robert H. Lawrence Jr
Vladimir M. Komarov
Earth
Ass Vostok
Smelovki
United States
Alan B. Shepard Jr
Alabama Sports Hall of Fame Board names eight men
HATTIESBURG Mississippi AP eight men named to the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame Board to organize the hall honoring Alabamians for athletic contributions. A new federal indictment charges 18 white men with plotting the 1966 firebomb attack that killed Vernon Dahmer, a Negro voter leader.
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Montgomery
Ala
Alabama Sports Hall of Fame
Hattiesburg, Miss
Vernon Dahmer
Memphis March Ends In Violence
In Memphis Tennessee hundreds of African American demonstrators led by Martin Luther King Jr clash with police during a protest march. Looting and window smashing take place on Beale Street and Main Street as teargas and armed officers clear the downtown area. King returns to the church as police form a blockade to disperse the crowd.
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Memphis
Tenn
Tin Luther King
Beale Street
Main Street
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