Evidence grows that gunman killed pilot after crash
Concord California reports a gunman may have shot pilot Ernest A. Clark and copilot Raymond E. Andress before the Pacific Airlines crash. A damaged .357 Magnum and a bone fragment with a hole were found at the hillside wreckage. FBI and FAA offered no confirmation.
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Concord
Calif
Associated Press
Tol
The
National Broadcasting Co
Washington
Ernest A. Clark
Raymond E. Andress
Civil Aeronautics Bureau
Editorial Urges Battle Against Mental Retardation
A guest editorial cites the American Medical Association stating mental retardation is a major childhood handicap. It notes 5.5 million affected in the U S and 126000 births yearly, with experts across psychiatry pediatrics neurology and general practice joining federal state local and voluntary agencies to expand care facilities and mobilize nationwide.
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American Medical Association
AMA
Multiple Local Crashes and Incidents Reported Friday
A two car collision at Shop-Ezy Shopping Center on 11th St involved a 1956 Chevrolet panel truck driven by Jack T Norwood and a 1964 Dodge driven by Margaret C Priry with no injuries. A spray painting incident at a house on Danville Rd SW prompted police response. a woman, Mrs. Floy Argend, admitted to Decatur General Hospital after an apparent throat cutting attempt. A separate two car collision 3 miles east of Moulton near old Moulton Rd caused minor damage to a 1958 Chevrolet driven by Lois Nelson and a 1955 Ford driven by Dallas Pointer with no injuries.
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Shop-Ezy
11Th St
Jack T. Norwood
Margaret C. Priry
Sherwood Dr
Robert Johnson
Danville Rd
Decatur
Floy Argend
Decatur General Hospital
Morgan County
Lewis C. Brown
James Argend
Moulton
Moulton Rd
Decatur Post
Lois Nelson
Danville
Dallas Pointer
Ford
Athens Church Names Mom Mother of the Year
Mrs. William Mitchell mother of two was honored as Mother of the Year by the First Methodist Church of Athens. The surprise banquet at Athens Elementary School drew 304 attendees. she lives at 428 Rogers Street and was praised by organizers Mrs. Jack R. Palmer and Mrs. Clyde Mabry.
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Athens
William Mitchell
First Methodist Church of
Mitchell
Rogers St
Jack R. Palmer
Clyde Mabry
Desert Collective Farm Machines Given
New Delhi AP dispatch reports Soviet Union assistance to Desert Collective to start a second 30 000 acre farm in the Thar desert at Jetsar Rajasthan with irrigation and power coming from Bhakranangal Dam in Punjab and Haryana coordinated systems planned.
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New Delhi
India
Soviet Union
Thar
Rajasthan
Jetsar
Puniah
Injunction Hearing Set For May 25 In Electrical Co op Case
Circuit Judge Bloodworth ruled that the Joe Wheeler Electric Membership Co operative must receive 10 days notice before a hearing to dissolve the temporary injunction granted by the supreme court. The May 25 hearing at 10 00 a.m. will consider the injunction's dismissal with the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 558 filing the motion. Attorney George Longshore argued the one day notice sufficed, but Norman Harris for the Co op said 10 days is required. The judge considered both sides after a Morgan County Courthouse session.
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James N. Bloodworth
Joe Wheeler Electric
Co-operative
Supreme Court
Blccdworth
Morgan County
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Afl-Cio
Judge Bloodworth
Atgney
George Longshore
Birmingham
Norman Harris
Joe Wheeler
Harris
Jimmie Davis
H. A. Alexander
George Bell
John Wiley
John B. Sewell
Hartselle
Mother of the Year award presented at church event
Mrs. Max Shipp of Holt Road Athens, honored two years ago as Mother of the Year, presented the award to Mrs. Mitchell. Rev. James E. Harris and Rev. Don Dowden were honor guests. Mrs. Margaret Jones' senior Sunday school class sponsored the program with entertainment. The event had been annual for five years but last year the banquet was canceled for lack of interest.
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Max Shipp
Holt .Rd
Athens
Mitchell
James E. Harris
Don Dowden
Margaret Jones
Passenger Purchased Insurance
FBI reports show a Pacific Airlines crash victim took out a large life policy on himself and another passenger carried a Magnum revolver with its own policy. Investigators note the gun had recently fired cartridges and the recorder captured the pilot crying out he had been shot.
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Smith & Wesson
FBI
San Francisco
Joseph E. Mohbat
Washington
Pacific Airlines
Contra Costa County
Pacific Flight 773
Wallace Opens Maryland Campaign Amid Guard Deployment
Alabama Governor George Wallace arrived in Baltimore to launch his Maryland preference primary bid. The Maryland National Guard moved 400 troops into Cambridge for Wallace’s speech, while a separate Negro rally is planned two hours earlier.
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Baltimore
Alabama
George Wallace
Maryland
National Guard
Cambridge
Milton A. Reckord
Wallace
Two Chicago Women Die In Limestone County Crash
Two Chicago women Lula Mae Gladney and Della Mae Coleman were killed in a one car crash north of the Tennessee Valley Vocational Tech School. Emma Jean Benison survived with non life threatening injuries while her husband Daniel, driver, was unhurt. The couple and a third passenger were en route from Chicago to Birmingham for a funeral when their 1960 Chevrolet ran off the road and overturned about 125 yards from the northbound lane. The victims were identified by Limestone County Coroner Charlie Sammett.
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Tennessee Valley
Cational Technical School
Limestone County
Charlie Sammett
Lula Mae Gladney
S. State St
Della Mae Coleman
E. 82Nd St
Emma Jean Benison
Chicago
Daniel
Decatur General Hospital
Gladney
Turner
Benison
Billy Faulkner
Sammett
Faulkner
Hays Murdered While Caring for Family in Alabama
Loyd Hays a Morgan County Conservation Officer and family man was killed in a brutal Alabama crime as he checked a car near Flint Creek last Friday. His oldest son Jim, 21, was set to complete electronics school in Birmingham in January, a goal Loyd hoped to see fulfilled.
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Phillip Kyle
Loyd Hays
Alabama
Loyd
Morgan County Conservation Officer
Jim Hays
Birmingham
State Conservation Department
Flint Creek
Hays
Eleven killed as Michigan tornado devastates area
A violent tornado struck southeast Michigan near Mount Clemens damaging roughly 200 homes and injuring at least 50. Gov. Romney left the state convention to visit the disaster site as Macomb County officials described heavy destruction and a two by three quarter mile path.
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Mount. Clemens
Mich
Michigan
George W. Romney
Grand Rapids
Macombe
Lester A. Almstadt
Almstadt
Chesterfield Township
Mount Clemens
New Baltimore
Macomb County
Civil Defense
Clem W. Skiba
Skiba
Gov
Romney
Selfridge Air Force Base
Annexation Landslide Joins Asbury Place to Mountain Brook
In Birmingham May 8 AP Unanimous 2 0 vote annexed Asbury Place to Mountain Brook unofficially. The new development has about six homes with only two long term residents eligible to vote. Mr and Mrs Jerry Pedota voted the street into Mountain Brook at the polling site. Probate Judge J Paul Meeks said results will be checked before official annexation.
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Birmingham
Asbury
Mountain Brook
Jerry Pedota
J. Paul Meeks
We Buy And Sell Used Furniture
Exchange Furn. Co. advertises used furniture buyers and sellers on Moulton Street with phone contact 353-4403.
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Exchange Furn. Co
Moulton St
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Selma Times-Journal
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