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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1968
Page
2
Applications are open for summer Head Start positions in Decatur City Schools including teachers aides and food handlers. The two month program starts June 10 offering kindergarten level classes for children from low income families. Apply via Miss Frances Nungester at Riverside School.
Harold E Marlow of Vinemont 3 completed his first solo flight at Decatur Athens Airways on Tuesday. The Decatur curb and Country Market at 1st Ave and Grant St SE will be open Saturday morning from 6 30 to 11 30 with sale items including strawberries new potatoes English peas green onions radishes cabbage turnip greens mustard greens poke salad canned vegetables jam jellies and homemade cakes.
Eleven members of Liberty National Life Insurance Co. district office qualified for the 1968 Torch Club meeting at the Diplomat Hotel in Hollywood Beach Florida June 6 9. Attendees include Division Manager Ww G Hall and agents L T Jones Calvin Gooch C H Edwards H H Kaylor Hoover Reding R C Reding A H Putman A B Woods and T H Garner.
The Decatur Daily reports continued reader letters with names and addresses of Vietnam servicemen. Mrs. Richard Jennings and others recall residents who volunteered or serve in Vietnam while families share addresses, hospital stays, and wartime updates. A May 26 printing will publish the compiled list for readers to write to the servicemen.
The jury in the E Byron Hale fraud trial returns to U S District Court in Selma to resume deliberations after failing to reach a verdict Thursday. Hale former bank president faced charges of misusing funds with witnesses citing loans and stock security tied to a $264 000 note. The Pine Apple bank closed February 1 1967 with total liabilities estimated around 3 800 000 by the FDIC.
The Tennessee Valley Authority will purchase a 1000 ton electric hoist to lift reactor vessels at Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant near Wheeler Lake in Limestone County. The gantry crane system will move vessels from barge to final placement, with a 180 foot lift and precise controls.
Southern Bell plans nearly 228000 in two projects to expand service in Browns Ferry and Lucas Ferry Rd areas. The $166000 rural project serves 210 customers with 68 new and 143 upgraded lines, plus a $61000 cable installation to link rural sites to the Athens central office. Both aim for completion by September.
Government officials report only 60 percent of India's urban population has safe drinking water while rural areas lag at about 50 percent. The findings highlight a widening water quality gap between cities and the countryside.
Lakeside High senior Jane Carolyn Woodruff plans to start her own modeling agency. The 17 year old is a Twiggy fan who enjoys fashion and often helps design clothes her mother makes.
TVA backed proposal urges year round use of Limestone County park facilities including high school gym access and a natural swimming pool site north of Snake Road. Plans call for a new bay culvert to improve circulation, boating south of the causeway, and on site survey with development likely next year. Jane Woodruff profile appears in the same clipping.
In Los Angeles AP reports a coin toss picked R. N. Daum Construction Co. and W. E. Lyons Co. as identical bidders for a 1,033,000 dollar regional library project at Norwalk Civic Center. A Lyons spokesman called heads and won the award.
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