Athens College to expand with library classroom and sports field
Dr. Frank Philpot announced an over 1 million expansion plan for Athens College as he was inaugurated as the 26th president. The proposal includes a new library, classroom additions, and an athletic complex with hockey, baseball, and a tract field, plus a 70 acre site purchase under board consideration.
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Philpot
Alumni Association
Alabama
Dr. Philpot
Board of Trustees
Jim Beasley
Philpot inaugurated as 26th president of Athens College
Dr. Frank Philpot, 55, a former Decatur native, was inaugurated as the 26th president of Athens College. He accepted the role with a pledge to add to the college’s history and tradition and to steer students toward worthy ideals amid a rapidly changing world.
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Winford Turner
Daily State
Athens
Athens College
Frank Philpot
Decatur
Historic College
Philpot
King Arthur
Decatur Eyes Civic Center Plans and Auditorium
The Chamber of Commerce surveyed teenagers who asked for an auditorium. City leaders plan to include an auditorium in a multi million dollar civic center and begin construction in 1971. Parks with recreation buildings are also planned. The YMCA and YWCA idea was dropped due to insufficient capital.
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Decatur
Chamber of Commerce
YMCA
YWCA
Jack L. Hummel
New Decatur
Goodwill collection boxes noted at two local supermarkets
A reader reports two Goodwill collection boxes in city parking areas. One is in the Fullers lot at Memorial Drive and Moulton Street, the other on the Bruno's side of the Decatur Shopping Center. The police chief says no parking enforcement authority on private property, as merchants placed the signs.
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Fullers Super Market
Memorial Dr
Moulton St
Bruno’s
Decatur
Pack Self
Why Letters to Vietnam Take Weeks
The reader asks why mail to Vietnam takes six to eight weeks, noting a See DATELINE report on Page A-3. The inquiry highlights long international transit times and the need for explanation of postal routing delays.
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Vietnam
Birmingham Tornado Kills One and Injures Sixteen
A tornado struck Birmingham causing one death Norah Peeler 59 of 1712 First Court West and sixteen injuries. Many homes and businesses including a barbecue site were destroyed with widespread damage, flooding, and power outages reported across the city and surrounding counties.
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Birmingham
Birmingham Baptist Hospital
West End
Norah Peeler
Peeler
First Court West
Weather Bureau
Morgan County Marine Killed On Bloody 'S861'
Pfc. James A. Randall of Morgan County died in the Hill 861 area near the Ho Chi Minh Trail as Third Marine Division units engaged near the Laos border. Randall, a Somerville native, had married Maggie before deployment and planned to pursue electronics work. He sang in church choirs and joined the Marines in 1966 to serve in rifle infantry.
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Morgan County
Alvin Benn
South Vietnam
U.S
Third Marine Division
Pfc
James A. Randall
Sommerville Rt. 3
Randall
Vietnam
Barkt Randall
Morgan
Madison Counties
St. John’s Missionary Baptist
Marine Corps
Infantry
Parris Island
S.C
California
Maggie
U.S. Bombers Hit North Vietnam and Khe Sanh Area
U S airstrikes target bunkers and troops in Northwest South Vietnam as Marines battle for Hill 881 North near Khe Sanh. In North Vietnam weather limits raids while the U S Command notes shelling near Gio Linh and little new ground action elsewhere.
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Edwin Q. White
Saigon
South Vietnam
Khe Sanh
Laos
U.S.S
North Vietnam
Panhandle
U.S. 4Th Marine Regiment
Gio Linh
U.S
Garrison accuses CIA of fakery over Oswald photo
New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison charged the CIA with supplying the Warren Commission a fake photograph of Lee Harvey Oswald. He linked the claim to a wider inquiry into a plot allegedly conceived in New Orleans to kill President Kennedy.
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Garrison
CIA
New Orleans
Jim Garrison
Central Intelligence Agency
Warren Commission
Lee Harvey Oswald
John F. Kennedy
Oswald
Lee
Local Decatur Forecast Warm With Morning Showers
The forecast for Decatur calls for sunny and warm conditions overall. Showers and a chance of thundershowers are expected to end in the morning, giving way to partly cloudy skies and warm temperatures with a high near 73 and a low around 48 tonight.
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Decatur
Limestone grand jury urges county investigator post
A Limestone County grand jury urges the county board of revenue and state legislators to create a full time county investigator for the sheriff's department to focus on felonies and serious crimes, in a report to the circuit judge.
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Winford Turner
Athens
Limestone County Board of Revenue
Sheriff's Department
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R. C. Martin
Setar Cate Em
Mary McMunn
Ed Bruchac
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GES
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Jefferson County
Batteryong
Davidson
Estone Jury
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