Local Youths Win Junior Achievement Honors At Conference
Junior Tim Downing son of Cole Downing receives the achiever of the year award and will compete with about 2000 top youths at a week long Indiana Bloomington conference. Miss Susan Jones earns recognition for her sales record. Milne Co. wins annual report and company of the year awards. Morgan County Medical Association funds Downing’s trip. Junior Achievement explains its future unlimited project with high school students forming baby corporations. Goodyear executive W H Edmund speaks at the event.
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Tim Downing
Cole Downing
Fairway Dr
University of Indiana
Bloomington
U.S
Downing
Morgan County Medical Association
Susan Jones
W. J. Jones
Milne Co
Jones Vending Co
Future Unlimited
W. H. Edmund
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co
National Division
Evening sky highlights and celestial timings
The report lists sunset at 6 44 p m and sunrise at 4 45 a m for Sunday May 16. Moonrise is 8 08 p m with Spica due south at 9 32 p m and The Twins setting at 10 53 p m. Mars is high in the southwest at 8 43 p m while Saturn rises at 2 00 a m.
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Spica
Mars
Saturn
Weather and river reading for Decatur area
The Tennessee River reading at Keller Memorial Bridge Friday morning was 21.43 with sea level at 555.73. Forecast calls for partly cloudy and warm weather with afternoon and evening thundershowers affecting 20 percent today and about 40 percent Sunday. Winds southerly to 15 mph. today’s high around 88 and low 63. Sunday high expected with details incomplete.
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Decatur
Tennessee River
Keller Memorial Bridge
Ambiguous OCR fragment hints at late page text
Fragmentary lines show garbled dialogue and missing context. The text references an administrator and someone named Prat with a speaking edge, but lacks clear event, date, or identifiable entities. Further readable material needed for a precise summary.
Social Security Benefits for Early Retirements Questions
The guide explains that both men and women may start benefits at 62 with permanent reductions. Reductions are 20 percent at 62, 13 1/2 percent at 63, and 6 2/3 percent at 64. It advises visiting a Social Security office to explore benefits while working and notes a 1901 born woman would need 12 quarters to qualify for benefits after her husband’s death.
Alabama Legislature Sees Actions and Vacations Marked
The Mobile delegation hosts and a Gulf Coast weekend highlight a halted session. Bills include health insurance for state employees backed by Gov. Wallace, pollution restrictions, PSC expansion to five members, and a two year extension for the Cotton Study Committee.
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James A. Simpsson
Birmingham
State Personnel Board
Gulf Coast
Mobile
Mobile and
Baldwin County Chambers of Commerce
House
Senate
Bill Nichols
Talladega County
Rep
Goodwyn
Montgomery
George Wallace
Kennedy visit to Windsor amid Magna Carta anniversary
Mrs Kennedy and her party traveled from the Thames meadow ceremony to Windsor Castle for tea with Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip. She later thanked Britons via the U S Embassy, calling the memorial a deep comfort. The crowd endured heat as Runnymede honors were marked with dignity.
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Thames
John
England
Rusk
Johnson
Caroline
Sen
Robert Kennedy
May 15 History Highlights Across 1965 and Earlier
On this date in 1951 General Omar Bradley told Congress that Douglas MacArthur’s proposals to widen the war with Red China would be the wrong war in the wrong time and place. Other notes recall 1918 air mail between New York and Washington and 1942 gasoline rationing starting in 17 eastern states.
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Omar Bradley
Congress
Douglas MacArthur
Red China
United States
New York
Washington
District of Columbia
U.S. Navy
Austria
Vienna
Nikita Khrushchev
Soviet Union
Hospitals List Dismissals Names and Addresses
The notice lists hospital dismissals and associated residents including Cash Maclin Athens Mrs John O Watkins Decatur Mrs Charles R Davis Alpine Street SE Louis L Knoblock 4th Avenue SE Mrs Donald W Laney Seton Avenue SE Mrs Ann Terry Courtland Mrs Charles A Simpson Hartselle and others Jewel R McWhorter Cedar Street SW William W Waine Robinson Street SW Herbert H May Trinity John O Anderson Somerville Sanya G Spivey Decatur Herbert Darin Boshell Moulton.
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Jewel R. McWhorter
Cedar St
Robinson St
Herbert H. May
Trinity
John O. Anderson
Ledbetters Tour Wolverine Tube After Meeting
Mr and Mrs W L Ledbetter of 104 5th Ave NW visited Wolverine Tube after a Decatur General Hospital business meeting hosted by the Chamber of Commerce.
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W. L. Ledbetter
5Th Ave
Decatur General Hospital
Ber of Commerce
Wolverine Tube
China test sparks protest as fallout prompts Japan ire
U S officials describe the explosions as devices rather than weapons, noting China has not yet built rockets capable of carrying warheads. Radio Peking announced a May 13 detonation at 10 a m local time. Japan protested the atmospheric test and urged world opinion to respect the nuclear ban. Nuclear physicist R Ralph Lapp speculated the device might have been air dropped using plutonium.
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U.S
Radio Peking
Peking
Japan
R. Ralph Lapp
Decatur Fire Destroys Living Room In City House blaze
The Decatur Fire Department battled a house fire at 2223 Morgan Ave SW extinguishing the blaze at 6 12 p.m. Friday with heavy loss to the living room. state troopers investigated a two vehicle crash six miles south of Mooresville on Limestone County Rd 36. no injuries reported. The Apes Club meets in Athens with supper at 6 30 p.m. at the Masonic Hall.
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Decatur Fire Department
Morgan Ave
Mooresville
Limestone County Rd
William S. Sibley
Sheffield
N. J. Miller
Moulton
Apes Club
Athens
Masonic Hall
Teachers Union Rally Over Salary and Talks Pact
Teachers union head Bull urges negotiation with the school board as a boycott continues over pay. Jardine warns the protest could breach contracts while police handle a bomb threat call to the superintendent’s home. The board offered 5200 for starting teachers, union seeks 5400, saying quality education hinges on discussion with officials.
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E. Bull
Jardine
Bull
Stevenson votes with 10 in OAS veto on Santo Domingo crisis
U S Ambassador Adlai E Stevenson joins ten others in backing an OAS action amid U S reservations over UN role. Cury accuses the bombing of rebel positions in Santo Domingo on consent or orders of U S forces. He asks Thant to intervene while Stevenson denies rebel claims of U S troop invasion of rebel-held Santo Domingo areas.
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U.S
Adlai E.stevenson
United Nations
United States
Organization of American States
Cury
Santo Domingo
OAS
Thant
Stevenson
Santo Romingo
Rebels Press Cease Fire Break as Skirmishes Intensify
Fighting erupts around the U S Embassy area in the international zone as rebels and junta clash. Two U S paratroopers die while U S forces and an OAS peace mission push for a solution amid mounting cease fire violations.
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U.S
OAS
Pablo Duarte
Santo Domingo
Parratroopers
U.S. 82Nd Airborne Division
inter-American Force
Managua
Senate
Cury
Organization of American States
Imbert
Col
Francisco Can ‘Mano
Deno
Junta
Hanoi reports Viet Cong raids across North Vietnam
The Hanoi broadcast said groups of fighters targeted Con Co Island and Ha Tinh and Nghe An provinces while an AP dispatch cited a downed plane. Vietnamese officials claimed 219 enemy dead and 53 captured after an action near Bac Lieu and AP Giai Long, with 18 South Vietnamese soldiers killed and 77 wounded. US forces reported four Americans wounded and gray smoke rose from AP Giai Long ruins after a six hour battle.
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Bac Lieu
Saigon
Uo An
AP Giai Long
U.S
AP Giai
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Orleans
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Aha
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Burgh
William E. Evans
Jimmy Clark
Sim.Thomas
Barbour
Fred Davis
Bibb County
Public Service Commission
Cotton Study Committee
Ethiopia
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Morgan County Teachers Association
Dewel C. Lott
Cotaco
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Eva
George Nancarrow
West Morgan
J. C. Pettey
Opa C. Stewart
Crestline
Jim Taylor
Cub Scouts of den 6
Hartselle
Flint Rescue Squad
Flint City
Darry
Alabama Hardware Men’s Association
Decaturs
Order of the United American Mechanics of Alabama
W .M. Chenault
Cham
Decatur General Admissions
John A. Hill
19Th Ave
Jamie Oliver
Nell St
Joe Kelley
Austinville Rd
Lapp
India
Oak Park GA
Oak Park Baptist Church
Diana Chumley
Jane Chumley
Jottin Cary
Fiveman
Antonio Imbert Barreras
Ramon Montes Arache
Montes Arache
U.S. State Department
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