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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1968
Page
2
A busy Saturday Sunday television log lists morning to late night airings across many networks. Programs include The World Around Us, farm and agriculture shows, cartoons, Westerns, variety hours, and sports specials, with news and weather updates throughout.
The piece surveys evolving reforms across Czechoslovakia Hungary Poland and Romania noting Novotny's ouster and Dubcek reforms in Czechoslovakia the push for multi party government in Poland censorship protests in Warsaw and Cracow and rising dissent within the Soviet Union highlighting a widening ferment beneath the Iron Curtain and warning against suppressive crackdowns.
Louis Clyde Crawford 1 Baileyton died Thursday from an apparent heart attack. Services will be at 2 p.m. Sunday at Ryan Baptist Church with Rev Orville Frix officiating. Burial in Arab Memorial Cemetery. Survived by widow Annie H Crawford four sons Ronald Cocoa Beach Florida Robert Crawford Frankfort Germany Louis Jr Auburn James Michael Baileyton a daughter Bessie Ann Crawford Cape Kennedy Florida Alger Dr J M Crawford ArabWilliam Crawford Baileyton six sisters and three grandchildren. He was a Morgan County native farmer and Ryan community resident and member of Ryan Baptist Church. Body at Gober Funeral Home until church homegoing hours.
Funeral services are planned for Mrs D J Moore, 83, of Dora who died Thursday at a Falkville nursing facility. Her survivors and service details are to be announced by the family.
Funeral for a local resident will be today at 3:30 p.m. at Bell Funeral Home Chapel Sumiton with burial at McCormack Cemetery Jefferson County. Surviving are five daughters including Mrs. A. H. Putman, Mrs. Clyde Palmer, Mrs. H. M. Ellison, Mrs. H. N. Daniel, and Mrs. L. A. Harper, two sisters, twelve grandchildren and eleven great grandchildren. Grandsons will be pallbearers.
An 18 year old village girl in Amritsar and her family canceled an arranged marriage after accusing the prospective groom and his party of deceit. The family rejected the match and sent the groom away when they learned of the alleged duplicity.
Morgan County investigators say four Birmingham residents, Mickey Murrell Robert Smith Ruth Moss and Edwalyn Mooney, face illegal possession charges after 400 to 500 narcotics pills were stolen from Strickland Drug Co. in Hartselle. Bond set at 1500 each. A 13 year old Decatur boy was turned over to juvenile authorities for obscene letters and pictures. Deputy T T Compton resigns to join Ardmore Police Department with two other state line chiefs.
The Clover Craft Club will meet Monday at 7 p.m. with Mrs. Howard Culver at 1st Olive St SE. Veterans of World War I Morgan County Barracks 2405 and auxiliary meet Monday at 6 30 p.m. at the American Legion Home in Hartselle with a covered dish supper after the meeting.
A compilation of patient names and address fragments from various hospitals and neighborhoods. Includes numerous individuals from Athens, Decatur, Huntsville, Hartselle, Cullman, Madison, Moulton, and surrounding areas, with partial street listings and several infant entries.
Mr and Mrs Virgil Oneal Murphy Falkville 3 a son Thursday at Decatur General Hospital. Mr and Mrs Jerry Don Woodall South Railroad St Hartselle a daughter Thursday at Decatur General Hospital. Mr and Mrs Jimmy David Romine Daniel Sr a son Thursday at Decatur General Hospital. Mr and Mrs David Leon Sparkman Hartselle 2 a daughter Thursday at Decatur General Hospital. Mr and Mrs Claudy Ayers Washington St NW a daughter Friday at Decatur General Hospital. Mr and Mrs Claudy Ayers Decatur a daughter Friday at Decatur General Hospital.
Readable text describes a groom described as not 22 but closer to 50, toothless and lame. The fragment hints at a disputed age and poor health affecting the marriage narrative.
Fair to partly cloudy and warm with a 20 percent chance of scattered afternoon thundershowers. Highs 78 to 82, tonight's low 54 to 58. Mercury visible in morning sky heading east of Venus with reappearance in about six weeks. Moonset and First Quarter dates noted.
Miss Connick received Chrysler and Army honors. Austin High School sophomores Michael Griffith and Layton Lynch won firsts in the science paper contest, each presenting electron charge and ballistic pendulum topics. They, with Randy Holland of Athens, advance to a state event at Samford University on April 5.
Repairmen Smith and Johnson freed Mrs. Malone after finding the front door locked and bursting the back door open. Malone stayed inside while her daughter Bessie Sanders called for help as the home burned heavily. The incident follows a prior rescue by telephone worker Arthur Pevahouse who saved Linda Drinkard South from Flint Creek after a boat sank.
State witness Paul Glenn of Morgan County testified he paid to graze cattle on Ter by land. Special attorney general Norman Harris called this sub leasing and a contract violation. Tuttus contended Glenn only paid for pasturing and Gov Patterson approved. State signed leases with two towns.
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