Two Decatur traffic accidents claim one life and injure two
Sunday crashes in Decatur and Huntsville leave Ronald Maron Payne 21 of Trinity dead after his car veered off Dead Man's Curve. William A. Courtney II 10 died at a Huntsville rock quarry while cycling with friends. Brenda Savage 17 and Nancy Lovelady 19 are injured, Lovelady critically ill in Nashville.
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Decatur
William A. Courtney II
St. John Courtney
Huntsville
Ronald Maron Payne
Trinity 1
Courtney
Spry
Old Huntsville
Brenda Gayle Savage
Lafayette St
5Th St
Nancy Ann Lovelady
Stratford Rd
Vanderbilt University Hospital
Franklin
Tenn
Payne
Wolverine Tube
AAA South End Ambulance Service
Moulton
Morgan County
Guy Hollaway
Hollaway
James W. Payne
Lynn Pitt
Trinity
Elliott Funeral Home
Decatur Friendliest Shopping Area Spotlight
Alabama feature notes Decatur as a friendly shopping area in the Daily Calendar Classified. It mentions 1787 On This Date delegates met in Philadelphia to draft the U S Constitution. Quick Weather forecasts hover near seventy with mid forty nights.
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Decatur
Alabama
Philadelphia
U. S
Antiwar Group Spying Plot At White House Aide's Offer
Former White House counsel John W. Dean III allegedly tried to form an undercover espionage network to infiltrate antiwar protesters before the 1972 national conventions. He offered an Interior Department official, Kennith Tapman, cash to participate or run the operation, which Tapman reportedly rejected. Investigators are reviewing whether infiltration occurred.
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Seymour M. Hersh
New York Times News Service
Washington
John W. Dean III
White House
Dean
Interior Department
Miami Beach
Kennith Tapman
Tapman
Martha Mitchell denies trip to mental hospital
Mrs. John N. Mitchell publicly rejects reports she was hospitalized last week. The Times quotes her as saying she is at home and seeking privacy while a hospital source confirms she arrived and was admitted after midnight with an escort.
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Martha
Charlotte Curtis
New York Times News Service
New York
John N. Mitchell
the Times
Martha Mitchell
Mitchell
Manhattan
Four finalists named for Watergate special prosecutor
Atty Gen Elliot L Richardson disclosed four final candidates for the Watergate special prosecutor post. The list includes Harold R Tyler Jr and David Peck, federal judges in New York. William Erickson of the Colorado Supreme Court. and Warren Christopher, Los Angeles attorney and former Justice Department official. Senator Stuart Symington said White House aides tried to involve the CIA in covert matters beyond the Ellsberg psychiatrist burglary. Craft workshop announcement and contact details follow.
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Washington (Ap
Elliot L. Richardson
District of
New York
Harold R. Tyler Jr
David Peck
William Erickson
Colorado Supreme Court
Warren Christopher
Los Angeles
Justice Department
Washington
Stuart Symington
D-Mo
White House
CIA
Daniel Ellsberg
Ry Carter
Cauthen Considers Abolishing State Blue Law
Rep. David Cauthen said he may introduce a bill to repeal the state blue law that bars Sunday store openings. Three Decatur shops were arrested and found guilty, fined $100 each plus costs, for violating the law. Cauthen cautions against forcing seven-day workweeks and notes possible limits on Sunday hours for small employers.
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David Cauthen
Cauthen
Decatur
Recorder’s Court
Morgan County
Ralph Slate
Bob Harris
Election set for county wide education tax in Decatur Morgan
Morgan County Commission sets June 19 for a three year one cent county wide sales tax and one cent use tax to support education. Revenues estimated at 1 million annually with 48 percent to Decatur and 52 percent to Morgan County schools based on attendance. The measures expire Sept 30 1976 and funds go to education only.
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Morgan County Commission
Decatur
Morgan County
Curtis Sellers
Sellers
No Action On Judges' Secretary Salary Order
Morgan County Commission met in executive session to discuss a court order directing raises for circuit judges' secretaries. Chairman Fleming declined to reveal details and said no action was taken, including no decision to appeal, at the 10 a.m. meeting. The secret session preceded the regular session at the courthouse annex.
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Bob Lowry
Morgan County Commission
Commission
Thornton
Dick) Fleming
Fleming
Skylab lifts off with nine astronauts for long orbital mission
Skylab, America's first space station, blasted into orbit from Cape Kennedy aboard a Saturn V rocket for a 28 day first crew mission. Astronauts Charles Conrad Jr Joseph Kerwin and Paul Weitz led the crew with others observing from nearby rockets as visibility passes over the Tennessee Valley and Decatur area. The mission aims to study life in space and examine earth resources for future long duration flights and potential space manufacturing.
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Cape Kennedy
Fla
Skylab
America
Earth
Huntsville
Tennessee Valley
NASA
Marshall Space Flight Center
Decatur
Charles Conrad Jr
Joseph P. Kerwin
Paul J. Weitz
Donald K. Slayton
Conrad, Kerwin and
Weitz
Cape Kennedy Beach
Houston
Tex
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Moulton Rd
Judy Stone
AAA
South End Ambulance Service
11Th Ave
William Szczepanski
Athens
John Dean
By Ben Windham
Southern Association of Colleges and Schools
Southern Association
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