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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1964
Page
12
Designer Herman H. York presents a compact 1262 square foot home with three bedrooms and a flexible all-weather terrace that can become a recreation room or extra porch. The terrace can be enclosed with removable panels for cold weather then expanded with a fourth wall for future living space.
A Nashville Tennessean report details the Ammons family tied to a grim case. FBI ten most wanted lists, arrest at a Rome Georgia supermarket, and a Gadsden Alabama home link. Children found decomposed in a septic tank near Waldensia Lake after a troubling series of events.
Caretaker L K Rackley tells police a break in at the Bow Line Theater yielded only a few packs of cigarettes. Police say entry was gained by displacing south door glass and cigarette and gum machines were broken open.
Mayor Arthur Stewart proclaims June 26 Steve Allen Day in Athens to honor the University of Alabama football captain and tackle. Coach Bear Bryant will speak to attendees in the Athens High School cafeteria as civic groups sell 400 tickets for the event.
The note encloses 50 cents for a baby blueprint on design H-29 and asks for the name printed clearly. The message indicates a request for a printed baby blueprint record and includes a payment.
The Decatur Chamber of Commerce announces a two day executive conference starting June 5 at Crescent Motel with about 150 attendees. Key speakers include H J Ross Mayor Gilmer Blackburn and Joe A McCluney. panels address merchant collaboration member motivation tourism. Mendell M Davis will speak on increasing profits and the Alabama river cruise is planned. The event closes with a banquet and remarks by Calvin D Johnson.
Lawrence County Superintendent Silas Cross announced a June 2 election to decide on summer school. Voters will decide by schools with some sites possibly hosting programs while others do not. Hays Smith appointed Hatton school trustee replacing resigning Marshall Terry.
Danville P T A elected officers Monday night at the school library. John Hughes was named president, Mrs Zeamon Crowe vice president, Mrs John Tanner secretary, and Truman Screws treasurer. The group approved $200 for grammar and high school libraries and established a library for grammar grades. Attendance banners were earned by the second and seventh grades.
Herbert Foster was convicted of murder in the second degree in Morgan County Circuit Court. The sentence was fixed at 25 years in the state penitentiary after a guilty plea reduced the original first degree charge to second degree. There will be no court today. Want ads get results.
In Crossville Tennessee sheriff quotes mother Mrs Faye Reed Matthews saying she agreed to assist in the killing of her two children Rose Marie Reed five and John Anthony Reed four before they were removed from her arms and were about to be thrown into a septic tank. Charges filed against 21 year old mother and Sammie Ammons twenty nine and his wife Barbara twenty seven for murder.
The Rev. Ted Swan, pastor of Danville Baptist Church, will begin work with Capshaw Baptist Church in Limestone County in June. He has served Danville for two and a half years.
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