Jennie St. Clair Hartselle dies at 85
Mrs. Jennie St. Clair, 85, died today at 3 30 a.m. in a local nursing home. Services Friday at 3 p.m. Peck Funeral Home chapel with Rev. W L Carden officiating. Burial in Hartselle City Cemetery directed by Peck. Survivors include nieces and nephews. Pallbearers named. Native of Morgan County and member of Hartselle First Baptist Church.
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Hartselle
Jennie St. Clair
Peck Funeral Home
W. L. Carden
Hartselle City
Peck
Hugh Penn
Loyd Jones
Leo Barcliff
Henry Sherrill
R. N. Coker
H. L
State Health Board Refuses TB Sanatorium Accreditation
The State Health Department notes the TB sanatorium lacks sufficient nursing staff but has two full time physicians and plans to hire a third through a federal outpatient clinic program serving a 12 county area. Medicare eligibility remains possible with state approval, while Joint Commission criticisms include nursing shortages and other minor items. The hospital serves Morgan Limestone and Lawrence counties with $2 per day per patient support and $7 per day from the state. former director Calix left last August and a new medical director was appointed.
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State Health Department
Henley
W. H. Y. Smith
State Department of Health
State Department
Joint Commission
U.S. 31
South Hartselle
Morgan
Limestone
Lawrence
Arthur Calix
Decatur Community Diary Highlights Local Events
Corinthians Quartet to lead a Friday song service at First Church of the Nazarene 210 7th Ave SW at 7 30 p.m. Public invited. Decatur Toastmasters meet at Downtowner Restaurant 6 30 p.m. Karin Jayne Paulson of Decatur a Auburn freshman chosen for 42 voice concert choir at Dr. Harry S. Philpot inauguration. Moose Lodge hosts evening entertainment at 8 p.m. Oct 12 1960. Decatur High School Band Boosters cancel tonight’s meeting. No injuries in six automobile accidents across Decatur patrol area. Decatur Jayceettes meet at Lyons Hotel 7 p.m. Fence damaged at 401 7th Ave SW. Penny stash and two watches stolen from Vine Street Pool Room. Building permits issued for enclosed porch and electrical work amounts. Springhill Missionary Baptist Church to hold missionary society meeting Sunday 1 30 p.m. Rev Jesse Little presiding. Dinner served after morning services.
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Corinthians Quartet
Lawrence County
First Church of the Nazarene
7Th Ave
Karin Jayne Paulson
Decatur
Auburn University
Harry S. Philpot
Gerald Paulson
13Th St. SE
Springhill Missionary Baptist Church
Old Trinity Rd
Missionary Society
Missionary Baptist Churches
Jesse. Little
New Moon May 20 Brings Partial Solar Eclipse Across Europe Asia Africa
The forecast notes New Moon on May 20 with an annular solar eclipse visible as a partial eclipse across Europe and large parts of Asia and Africa. May 12 shows sunset at 6 41 p.m. and sunrise at 4 48 a.m. Moon rises at 1 32 a.m. tomorrow and is at apogee.
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Europe
Asia
Africa
Weather and River Readings Across Decatur Vicinity
Decatur area reports river readings at Keller Memorial Bridge this morning: 20.95 feet at sea level 55.25 feet. TVA lake stages include Guntersville 594.7 Whitesburg 556.0 Wilson 506.5 Pickwick 414.0 Whee ster 555.5 and Chickamauga 681.9. High yesterday 76 at 3:30 pm. today’s low 64. current 70 at 9:45 am. Forecast mostly cloudy warm and windy with occasional light rain. showers and thunder showers tonight. Friday showers end by afternoon cooler. southerly winds 10 to 20 mph. High today 81 tonight 68 Friday 75.
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Decatur
Tennessee River
Keller Memorial Bridge
TVA
Guntersville
Monuments toppled in cemetery prompt student arrests
Sheriff Evans said 20 to 30 monuments were overturned and damaged in the cemetery after arrests were made following tips. Empty beer cans and bottles were found. college officials cooperated as investigators Capt. Dennis W. Brown and Bob Troupe carried out the arrests. The cases will be tried in Limestone County Court amid other recent petit larceny charges involving students Galrick, Griffin and Landoli.
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Evans
Dennis W. Brown
Bob Troupe
Brown
Troupe Late Wednday
Methodist
Limestone County
David Galrick
Evergreen
N.J
Burl Griffin
Robertson
Birmingham
Patrick Joseph Landoli
Lawndale
N.Y
Motorcycle chase ends with driver pulled from ditch
Capt. Vinson of the third shift said the motorcyclist dodged a roadblock by entering a ditch. He pulled the bike free as it reemerged, at about 11 p.m. The rider was treated for injuries at Athens Limestone Hospital emergency room.
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Vinson
Son
Athens-Limestone
World Church Structures and Cardinals Count
The Roman Catholic Church maintains 2 006 residential archbishoprics and bishoprics worldwide and has 99 cardinals. The notice also references want ads and results for G and T.
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G&t
Sirmons Rites Set For John Russell Sirmons
John Russell Sirmons, 611 5th Ave SW, died today at 5 30 a m at home. Services Saturday at 3 p m Guntharp Funeral Home chapel with Rev John Rutland officiating. Burial City Cemetery. Survivors include six sisters in Decatur New Orleans and McMinnville plus three nieces and two nephews. A Georgia native and World War II veteran.
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John Russell Sirmons
5Th Ave
Guntharp Funeral Home
John Rutland
City Cemetery
Guntharp
Bernice Sirmons
Alice Sirmons
Josie Nelson
Decatur
Mary Sirmons
Myrtle McGaughy
New Orleans
Ardmore Man George W Magnusson Dies at 67
George Wesley Magnusson 67 of Ardmore died Tuesday about 1 30 p m Services were held today at Ardmore First Baptist Church with Rev L W Hart and Rev W K Stephens officiating Burial followed in Gatlin Cemetery under Rainey Funeral Home direction Surviving are his widow Mrs Sarah Wallace Magnusson Ardmore a daughter Mrs Wayne Wales Decatur a grandson Kevin Wayne Wales Decatur four brothers Cleo Magnusson Flournoy Magnusson Julius Magnusson and Oyville Magnusson all of Ardmore native of Giles County Tenn and a member of Ardmore First Baptist Church He was a retired farmer.
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Ardmore
George Wesley Magnusson
Ardmore First Baptist Church
L. W. Hart
W. K. Stephenson
Gatlin
Rainey
Sarah Wallace Magnusson
Wayne Wales
Decatur
Kevin Wayne Wales
Cleo Magnusson
Flournoy Magnusson
Julius Magnusson
Oyville Magnusson
Giles County
Tenn
Minnie Letson Moulton Rites Set At Smyrna Baptist
Mrs Minnie Letson Moulton 75 of Hillsboro died Wednesday at Lawrence County Hospital. Services Friday 1 00 p.m. at Smyrna Baptist Church with Rev Clyde Jones and Joe Henderson officiating. Burial in adjoining cemetery Elliott directing. Survivors include three sons Elmer Letson Trinity Junior Letson Golden Miss Floyd Letson Lafayette Ind. six daughters Pearl ee Brown Golden Miss Pernie Dick Mark tree Ark Vinnie Burks Hillsboro Lolia Kelley Hillsboro Lassie Nelmes Decatur Miss Dossie Brown Golden Miss a half sister Ovella Mayfield Texas three brothers Jimmy Kelley Hillsboro Wesley Kelley Hillsboro Newman Kelley Lawton Mich two half brothers Curtis Kelley Hillsboro Louie Kelley Trinity 68 grandchildren 42 great grandchildren
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Moulton
Minnie Let
Hillsboro
Lawrence County Hospital
Smyrna
Baptist
Clyde Jones
Joe Henderson
Elliott
Elmer Letson
Trinity
Junior Letson
Golden
Floyd
Letson
Lafayette
Ind
Pairlee Brown
Miss
Pernie Dick
Marktree
Ark
Vinnie Burks
Loilar Kelley
Lassie Nelmes
Decature 3
Dossie Brown
Ovella
Mayfield
Texas
Jimmy Kelley
Wesley Kelley
Newman Kelley
Lawton
Mich
Obituary of Ophelia M Grant of Sarasota
Mrs Ophelia M Grant 37 of Sarasota Florida died Tuesday morning. Services were held at Spry Funeral Home chapel with burial in Athens Roselawn Cemetery. Survived by daughter Miss Sharron Ann Austin, parents Mr and Mrs Jo Wimmer, sister Mrs Lucille Massey Threet, and a Baptist church member who had lived in Florida eight years. Pallbearers named J B Harbin Richard Harbin Elliott Harbin Nathah Oliver Shores and Johnny Williams.
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Athens
Ophelia M. Grant
Sarasota
Fla
Spry Funeral Home
Paul Griswald
Athens Roselawn
Spry
Sharron Ann Austin
Athens 7
Jo Wimmer
Lucille Massey
McDonald's breakfast meeting to be last until fall
About 300 Chamber members and guests are expected to attend next week's breakfast meeting at 7 30 a m in Decatur. C K Flip Timberlake will provide entertainment before Crow delivers the speech.
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Decatur
C. K
Timberlake
Crow
Trooper Chases Suspect After Car Theft Incident
Maddox fled in a 1957 Buick after a collision with Trooper Mize. The trooper pursued and was briefly bruised when the patrol car rolled away. Maddox later found in a ditch and charged with grand larceny before county jail. Italian children increasingly accept Santa Claus.
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Mize
Maddox
Mike
Befana
Army battles and SAMs in Vietnam war reported
Army reports note U S air losses exceed North Vietnamese kills while surface to air missiles manned by Vietnamese crews under Russian advisory help struggle. Russians also serve as trainers offering lessons on mobility of communist weaponry to U S missile units.
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U.S
1000 Expected To Attend GOP Meet In Cullman
More than 1,000 persons are expected to gather at Cullman High School for the Cullman County Republican Convention to select a slate of county candidates. The convention opens at 2 p.m. with Congressman James Martin as guest speaker at 7 p.m.
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Cullman
Cullman County
Cullman High School
James Martin
George Wallace
Cotton and dairy market notes from Decatur and mills
Cotton in Decatur with middling inck at 1.48. Cottonseed priced at 40 dollars per ton. Milk markets show Grade A at 96.56 per hundred weight and manufactured milk at 3.20 per hundred for four per cent. Direct ratio listed as .065 above four per cent and below four.
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Decatur Loan
Nashville Livestock Market Report Summary
Nashville cattle demand strengthened with 1050 lb slaughter steers at 25.50 and high good to choice cattle. Canner cows sold 15.00 to 16.00, choice vealers 32.00 to 34.50. Hogs steady with US 1-3 200-240 lb barrows and gilts 24.25 to 24.50 and 430-475 lb sows at 18.00. Sheep at 25 with no early sales.
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Nashville
U.S
Stocks Most Active Noon Listings Share Wide Range of Firms
Indian Head Noon Stocks lists many names with mixed fortunes from Am Bell to Xerox. Notable movers include Boeing 141% and Coca Cola 78% while General Electric 106% and Westinghouse Electric 29% show gains. Several utilities and oils hover around the 20s to 40s range amid a broad market read.
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New York
Paper Am
Baker
Kaiser Am Can
Suth Am
Sugar
Ligg & My Am
Lockh Air Am
Monson Beth Steel
Mont Ward Boeing
Nat Dairy Borden
Nat Distill
Burt
Ind
Calum & H
Owens Ill Gi Cater Trac
Penney Celanese
Pepsi Cola
Ches & Ohio
Phill Pet Chrysler
Polaroid Coca- Cola
Proct & G
Colg Palm Bar CA
Collins R
Rals Pur Cbs
Repub Sd
Rexall Com Sat
Reyn Met
Rey T
la Delta Air L
St Regis
Seab AL RR du Pont
Sears Roeb East Air L
Sinclair East Kod
Socony Firestone
Sou Co Fla
Sperry Rd
Fla
Ford
Winn Dixie
Woolworth Herc
Pdr
Worth Honeywell
Xerox
Wall Street Drops as Auto Industry Cuts Weigh Markets
The New York stock market slid late afternoon amid auto industry cutback worries. Volume reached 8.7 million shares while Ford gained on May sales, GM and Chrysler fell, and glamour stocks led declines. Dow fell over 13 points with Anaconda Kennecott Eastman Kodak among notable losers.
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New York
Ford
General Motors
Chrysler
Fairchild Camera
Motorola
Polaroid
Xerox
U.S. Smelting
Zenith
Raytheon
Anaconda
Kennecott
Eastman Kodak
Over the Counter Securities Quotation Snapshot
NASD compiled quotes at about 10 am show inter-dealer bids and asks for insurers banks and utilities. Prices reflect approximate market levels with retail markup and commissions excluded. Notable entries include Allied Life Bank of Huntsville Equity National Life First National Bank of Decatur Life of Alabama Vulcan Life Ins and Tennessee Natl Gas among others.
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Allied Life
Bank of H’ville
Equity
National Life
Food Corp.« of America
First Natl
Bank of Decatur
Alabama
Life of Alabama
Life of
United Life Ins
Bank of Alabama
Vulcan Life Ins. Co
Wells St Wreck Tied to Alabama 20-U Interchange
Decatur police officers Carlos Pressnell and Jerry Sharp investigated the accident in the Wells St area, part of the extreme western section of the Alabama 20 U S 31 interchange.
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Wells St
Decatur
Carlos Pressnell
Jerry Sharp
Austin High top seniors named valedictorian and appointee
Gerald Neher Jr is named valedictorian of Austin High School with Gary French as salutatorian and Wayne Maynard a West Point appointee. Neher, son of Gerald and wife, plans ceramic engineering at North Carolina State with ROTC. French, son of Leonard and Ard, will attend Alabama, majoring in chemistry or aerospace engineering and was all county football MVP. Maynard, son of Mr. and Mrs. [redacted], is noted as a Black Bears senior athlete and district finalist for a four year scholarship.
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Gerald Neher Jr
Austin High School
Gary French
Wayne Maynard
West Point
Neher
Gerald Neher
3Rd St. SW
L. W. Yates
North Caro
Lina State University
French
Austin High
Morgan County
Decatur Daily
Black Bears
Leonard A. French
Bradley St
University of Alabama
Maynard
Elmo H. Maynard
Vinca St
Decatur
Lanier High School
Montgomery
Viet Nam elections spark U N supervision call in Senate session
The Viet Nam debate includes Ribicoff and Gore urging a U N observer supervised elections if the Ky government runs them. They warn contested results could be rejected amid the Viet Nam power struggle. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee called Lodge to a closed session to discuss the matter.
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Ribicoff
Connecticut
Gore
Tennessee
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Lodge
Senate
Johnson
U.N
Five year old Delphia Jefferson drowned in Charleston
Service set for Sunday at 2 p.m. at St. Pauls Spiritual Church Newcomb St. NW. Bertha Lyle pastor officiating. Burial will be in Sykes Cemetery Reynolds Funeral Home. She is the daughter of Mr and Mrs Bill Jefferson formerly of Decatur. Survivors include sister Shelia and brothers Larry and Ricky. Grandmother Mrs Rozena Pryor of Madison. Father stationed with the US Navy in Charleston. Funeral arrangements for Emmett Gibson Madison 3 and Mrs Margaret Hobbs Madison 3 will be announced by Reynolds Funeral Home.
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Delphia Jefferson
Charleston
S.C
Bill Jefferson
Decature
St. Paul’s Spiritual Church
Newcomb St. NW
Bertha Lyle
Sykes Cemetery
Reynolds Funeral Home
Shelia Jefferson
Larry
Ricky Jefferson
Rozena Pryor
Madison
U.S. Navy
Ceausescu Speech Signals Hardline Stand on East Bloc Ties
Reports describe a lengthy Sunday speech by Nicolae Ceausescu, Romania's 48 year old Communist leader, attacking national interests in the Soviet Hungarian questions. Observers note the talk and the secrecy around Brezhnev's visit hint strained Moscow Bucharest relations. Excerpts show Ceausescu delivering the sharpest public language in five years of Bucharest independence.
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Brezhnev
Ceausescu
East
Europe
Moscow
Politika
Yugoslavia
Chou En-Lai
China
Romania
Bucharest
Ford Loses Ground Yet Posts May Sales Rise
Ford division Lincoln Mercury saw stronger results in the May 1 10 market with Lincoln Comet and Mercury. Arjay Miller cited harassment over auto safety as a factor. Higher consumer prices also slowed overall auto sales after a record first quarter.
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Comet
Mercury
Arjay Miller
Ford
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