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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1968
Page
1
A. M. Rosenthal describes the Columbia University chaos after protests that left Grayson Kirk’s office wrecked and policing visible. Students, staff, and bystanders recall the night of violence and fear as the campus darkened and echoes of “Kirk must go” linger.
A 54-year-old Birmingham truck driver, Joseph Leon Burchfield, died when a 40-foot tractor trailer veered across lanes and struck McBride & Sons Grocery at 402 6th Ave SE. The Alabama Highway Express vehicle carried 21 000 pounds of brass ingots bound Chicago to Birmingham. Debris trapped Burchfield under the cab as the store’s front was demolished. two employees escaped major injury. Coroner John McBride planned to rule on death soon. witness William Vaughn confirmed the driver appeared dead before impact.
U S District Court for North Alabama opens its first full time probation office in Decatur serving the Tennessee Valley of Alabama. Dalton Moss, with 29 years in the northern district probation office, will prepare probation reports for three federal judges and cover Decatur and Morgan, Lawrence, Limestone, Cullman, Madison and Marshall counties.
Sixteen high school and college students were arrested on charges from burglary to grand larceny in connection with break-ins of several railroad cars near Hillsboro. Warrants have been issued for six additional Colbert County youths.
The Decatur Post Office launched a nationwide program giving residents the right to object to mail they find erotically arousing or sexually provocative. The individual shopper must decide if material qualifies, with the post office acting on written complaints after receiving a copy of the item.
The AP notes Governor Nelson Rockefeller of New York, not a candidate when polls opened, achieved an upset write-in victory. Reports from March Air Force Base indicate former President Dwight D. Eisenhower is progressing satisfactorily after an unspecified attack.
A state study on the Cotaco school bus crash of April 23 was mailed to Montgomery last night. State Superintendent Ernest Stone said a public release is planned Friday with a news conference after a 10 30 a m briefing in his office. He emphasized the public deserves the full truth and declined to reveal causes before the announcement.
Chicago wheat mixed on good late demand. Corn higher in good late trade. Oats lower from speculative liquidation. Soybeans mixed with light trade. Butcher hogs 25 to 75 cents lower with receipts 5,500 and top 21.50. Slaughter steers steady with 7,000 head receipts and top 30.25.
The Decatur Daily reports Mutual Savings Life Insurance Co and The Decatur Daily join to provide rapid election results. Dual Savings Life will run totals from 45 Decatur Morgan County polling stations and feed cards into Mutual Savings Life’s computer center for near instantaneous tallies.
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