Birmingham Writer John Temple Graves II Dies in Mobile
John Temple Graves II a Birmingham columnist and lecturer collapsed and died of a heart attack while addressing the Mobile Bar Association Law Day program. Graves a longtime advocate for states rights spoke against violence and referenced Civil War era themes. He authored The Fighting South and had 24 southern newspaper syndications and two daughters survive.
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Four Are Fined In County Court
In Morgan County Court Judge R. L. Handley disposed of about twenty cases Friday. Fines were issued to Shelby Drinkard for leaving the scene of an accident, L. B. Walker for issuing a worthless check, John Ragdale and Douglas Berryman for prohibition law violations.
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Shelby Drinkard
L. B. Walker
John Ragsdale
Douglas Berryman
James Thomas
Martha Shull Flanagan
Joe Griffin
Hazel Leach
Thomas Decatur
Martha Shull
John Garland Shull
Pleas Benford
J. B. Womack
Sullivan Crow
Kenneth Wright
Joe A. McCutcheon
Helon Vernell Scott
Hugh Russell
500 Expected At 4-H Rally
About 500 Morgan County 4-H Club members are expected at the Decatur Coliseum rally. Assistant agent Joe Bob Stephenson says the event features 4 picnic field events and 100 awards presentations. Participants should bring a lunch. soft drinks will be served. Field events include foot race sack race and bread jump. activities run 9 a.m. to 12 30 p.m.
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Christian Science Lecture Here Sunday
A free public lecture on spiritual awakening and freedom will be given Sunday at 3 30 p m in the church at 6th Ave and Johnston St The speaker is Sylvia N Poling of Phoenix Arizona a member of The Christian Science Board of Lectureship She will present Christian Science Reveals The Door To Life More Abundant Miss Poling holds degrees from Arizona State University UCLA and USC and resigned from teaching in 1950 to devote herself to Christian Science healing becoming an authorized teacher eight years later.
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Reynolds Plans Big Expansion At Sheffield Alloy Plant
Reynolds Metals Co. announced a $2.5 million expansion of the cast house at its Sheffield alloys plant. The upgrade adds two holding furnaces with 80,000 lb capacity and two melting furnaces with 100,000 lb capacity. The new melting furnaces will triple the current melting rate.
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Charlene Callaway Wins Howard College Pharmacy Honor
Miss Charlene Callaway of Decatur is among 23 students honored at Howard College Division of Pharmacy Honors Day banquet. She received the Lunsford Richardson $500 regional award. Charlene is the daughter of Mr and Mrs C E Callaway of 213 10th Ave SW.
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Antitrust Ruling Against United Mine Workers in Coal Case
In Knoxville on May 19, the United Mine Workers Union and welfare fund trustees were found guilty of conspiring with major coal companies to monopolize the soft coal industry. The jury awarded Phillips Brothers Coal Co. 90 000, tripled under antitrust law to 270 000, with a pending cross claim and motions to set aside the verdict.
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Thoughts Turn At Sockdolager
A recollection by J L Roberts on the term sockdolager and a Tennessee family history. The essay recalls origins of the word through a grandfather figure, a pioneer ancestor, and Maury County roots touching religion education and early American settlement.
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Reynolds expands Listerhill plant with six story extension
Reynolds announces a 175 by 140 foot six story addition to the cast house at its Listerhill reduction plant as it marks 21 years of operation. Officials say the project follows a rapid build to meet industrial demand.
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Gov Davis Band Probed as Quartet Goes On Leave
Three members of Gov Jim Davis Plainsmen on state payroll are on indefinite leave without pay amid payroll fraud probes. The quartet’s members Goodman Bunch and Welborn face investigations after being cut off May 15 by the Agriculture and Immigration department. Mainard from Insurance earns 320 dollars monthly.
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Thurman Bunch
Howard Welborn
Kansas City
Des Moines
Iowa
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Bunch
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Welborn
Louisiana Sweet Potato Advertising and Development Commission
Mainard
Neel Seeks To Raise Funds For Community Projects
Neel Community aims to raise 1000 dollars for improvements after winning the 1961 Morgan County Rural Improvement program contest. Planned fundraisers include a July 4 picnic, civic club events, and cotton farming on five rented acres. A business committee led by Guyer Brown includes R L McNutt Nell Johnson Ruff Ellis and Mrs Ellis.
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Morgan County
Guyer Brown
R. L. McNutt
Nell Johnson
Ruff Ellis
Ellis
Venezuelan journalism class names itself after Fidel Castro
The University of Venezuela journalism graduates voted 18 to 14 to adopt Fidel Castro as the class name. Anti Castro students proposed honoring Francisco Pellemeno for the feature and the class adopted the Cuban leader’s name for the group.
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Caracas
Venezuela
University of Venezuela
Fidel Castro
Francisco Pimentel
Parachute History from Da Vinci to Modern Flight
A reader contest winner is announced as Harry Cleckner from St. Petersburg Florida. The text traces parachute ideas from Leonardo da Vinci in 1514 through Fausto Veranzio and the Montgolfiers to Blanchard and Gumerin, noting seat pack designs and military adoption in 1919, with light jokes and sample dialogue embedded.
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St. Petersburg
Fla
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Fausto Veranzio
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Jacques Montgolfier
J. P. Blanchard
Andre Gumerin
Paris
U. S
Pirate on the Mayflower Aboard A Hidden Meermin Plot
Sal Boyd awake on the pirate craft Meermin loses track of his ship and is carried off to the Mayflower. Captain Jones debates the intruder with Puritans and a shipboard clash of loyalties ensues as Sal awakens among saints and strangers. A storm then hurls him into the sea with a rope in hand and survival hangs in the balance.
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John Alden
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Priscilla Mullins
Matthew
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Clarke
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