Decatur High Band Boosters Meet. City Docket Lists Accidents
The Decatur High School Band Boosters Club will meet Thursday at 7:30 p.m. in the school band room. City police filed numerous accidents on the city docket including collisions on 6th Ave SE and NE, Sherman Street, and McDonald’s parking lot. The docket also lists multiple disorderly conduct and license violations, with various individuals named in the incidents. The League of Women Voters is set to meet Thursday at 9:30 a.m. in the Pet Dairy Hospitality Room. DIARY appears on Page 2.
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Decatur High School
6Th Ave
Charles Tucker
Detroit
Mich
Raymond D. Rochelle
12Th St
Benny Joe Compton
Eva
Church St
City Recorder
League of Women Voters
Pet Dairy
Junta Troops Occupy Rebel Radio Post
Dominican rebels lose key radio station control as junta forces secure northern Santo Domingo. U Thant envoy Mayobre reports junta leader Imbert Barrera believes victory ends cease-fire talks. US troops not in combat. five American soldiers wounded in rebel sniper fire.
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Junta
Robert Berrellez
Santo Domingo
Dominican Republic
Dominican Air Force
Nine Appeal
U.N
U. S
U.S
Jose Antonio Mayobre
Venezuela
U Thant
Antonio Imbert Barrera
Mayobre
Col
Francisco Caamano Deno
Keeping the Ten Commandments by grace through Christ
The reply states it is impossible to keep the Ten Commandments without Christ's transforming power. It notes all have sinned, that the law serves as a schoolmaster to bring us to faith, and that salvation comes by grace not works. Love to God and obedience flow from faith, not fear.
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Christ
Jesus
Decatur Wins Federal Grant for First Grade Prep Program
The Decatur public school system receives a 34992 grant from the U S Office of Economic Opportunity to fund eight weeks of preschool training at 184 centers assisting 630 workers state wide Alabama grants total 1165906 across 27 counties including Cullman Lauderdale Limestone and Madison. The local project costs 43484 with 34992 covering 80 percent and the city contributing in kind and cash. Dr Matthew Hall notes Miss Clio Levin will supervise attendance.
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George Biggers
Decatur Public School System
U.S. Office of Economic Opportunity
Decatur
Alabama
Cullman
Lauderdale
Limestone
Madison
Cullman City
Matthew Hall
Board of Education
Hall
Clio Levin
Morgan County Poverty Plan Stall Ties to Federal and State Action
Morgan County’s anti poverty effort stalls as the federal government and Alabama suspend progress. The 15 member Economic Opportunity committee elected Dr Matthew Hall as chairman but faces a joint county application with Marshall County to access Economic Opportunity Act funds.
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Matthew Hall
Morgan County Committee On Economic Opportunity
Crescent Motel
H. G. Long
Billy Carithers
George Biggers
Morgan County
Alabama
Committee On
Nomic
Guy Roberts
County Board of Revenue and Control
Roberts
Montgomery
Marshall County
Economic Opportunity Committee
Jeffco Solon Plans Penalty Law on Explosives
A Jefferson County legislator announced plans to push a state statute criminalizing possession of dynamite or other explosives without a special permit. The article notes the proposal and references more details on page 2.
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Jeffco Solon
Dynamite Law
Montgomery
Jeffco
McDonald withdraws protests. Abel named USW president
United Steelworkers President David J. McDonald withdraws protests to the union election and concedes I. W. Abel will take over as president on June 1. In New York, the Times reports the U S secretly launched eight military satellites into orbit with a single rocket on March 9.
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Pittsburgh
David J. McDonald
United Steelworkers
I. W. Abel
New York
United States
New York Times
Senators Ok a Declaration on Poll Taxes in Voting Bill
The Senate backed a declaration stating poll taxes in some states suppress Negro voters. The 69 to 20 vote aimed to clear a path for President Johnson’s voting rights bill. Sen Dominick warned of federal attacks on poll taxes, but Mansfield insisted the measure targets Alabama Mississippi Virginia and Texas.
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Washington
Senate
Johnson
Peter H. Dominick
R-Colo
Vermont
Mike Mansfield
Montana
Alabama
Mississippi
Virginia
Texas
Colorado
Dominick
85 Cong Killed In Air Attack in Vietnam
Vietnamese fighter-bombers killed 85 Viet Cong in an attack in Binh Thuan Province, U S officials said. The report from Saigon cites a U S spokesman.
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Edwin Q. White
Saigon
South Viet Nam
Binh Thuan
U.S
Market summary and commodity updates from New York and Chicago
AP reports a higher stock market with mostly steady bonds. Chicago wheat remains mostly steady with May weak. corn and oats lower on liquidation. Soybeans fall, old crop months down sharply. Hogs drop 25 to 50 cents to a top of 22.25. Slaughter steers rise up to 50 cents, top at 30.
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New York
Chicago
US Air Strikes Hit North Vietnam Near DMZ
A US forward air controller observed Viet Cong assembling in a mountain valley and called in Vietnamese planes. Fighter bombers attacked for 20 minutes, while Forty US Navy planes destroyed three barracks and damaged other installations in a second day of air strikes from the carrier Coral Sea about 40 miles north of the demilitarized zone.
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U.S. Navy
North
Viet Nam
U.S
Coral Sea
Gordon Bibb P-TA Panel Debates Obscenity Censorship
A four member Gordon Bibb Elementary P-TA panel discussed whether adolescents should not read obscene material. One side urged parental censorship and education, while others opposed censorship citing freedom and access to media. The discussion appeared at the monthly meeting with coverage continuing on page 2.
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Gordon Bibb
P-Ta
Todd Hails Farmer Role In Alabama
Alabama Agriculture Commissioner A W Todd of Russellville told Decatur Jaycees that 75 percent of people worldwide go to bed hungry and praised the free enterprise farm system. He said only 10 percent in America are hungry and emphasized food and fiber as top global issues.
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Winford
Turner County
Alabama
A. W. Todd
Russellville
Decatur Jaycees
Todd
America
Free Enterprise Farm System
Franklin County
Save On Sewing Machine Appointment with Glenn Butler
Quickies by Ken Reynolds notes a sewing machine sale and a phone appointment with Glenn Butler at 353 9579. No further details provided.
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Glenn Butler
Quickies
Ken Reynolds
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