Wallace Third Party Machine On The Rack
Alabama governor George C. Wallace could run in 31 states totaling 306 electoral votes with a renewed campaign effort, potentially reaching 14 more states for 205 additional votes, depending on ballot access and petition rules. Officials note legal and procedural hurdles as timelines loom before key dates in Maine, Kansas, Michigan, and other states.
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George C. Wallace
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Mickey Griffin
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Four inmates hunted after Draper escape including Glenn Dolvin
Four prisoners remain at large after escapes from Draper Correctional Center over 10 days. Convicted kidnapper Glenn Dolvin is among the fugitives along with Cecil Tiner Colvin Joseph Cornelison and Robert Warren Smith. Colvin and his wife Sue were jailed for the 1970 kidnapping of Charles Ray Lovett. Lovett is missing. Sue Colvin held at Julia Tutwiler Prison.
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Colvin
Sue
Morgan County
Charles Ray Lovett
Decatur
Lovett
Decatur Daily
Athens Nursing Home Craft Circle Keeps Busy
At Athens Nursing Home a group of women meet each weekday after lunch for a two hour craft session. They work with needles quilt scraps potholder looms and other supplies in the activities room.
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Athens Nursing Home
Cordelia Robinson
Nursing home craft program boosts patient morale and activity
Miss Gwen Myers, director of nurses, praises the crafts group at the nursing home where patients like Lula Garrett describe newfound abilities after eight months of making items from egg carton baskets to plaster casts. The program started with ten dollars, funds itself, and now funds events while planning a June bazaar. Women lead, men show little interest yet, and exhibition displays line the hallway.
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Gwen Myers
Lula Garrett
Miss Myers
Gelettie Austin
Cordelia Robinson
Virginia Howard
Nancy Bullington
Alabama Wins Federal Grant To Fight Gonorrhea
A federal grant of 547 500 dollars was awarded to the Alabama Department of Public Health to attack gonorrhea, a venereal disease reported as rampant in the state by a health officer.
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Montgomery. Ala
Alabama Department of Public Health
Athens to begin 3 million sewer upgrade in July
Mayor Bobby Higgins announced a seven month sewer renovation starting in July costing about $3 million. Eight city areas will gain service. owners face about $7 per foot unless HUD funds reduce it to $5. The 13 year old plant will double capacity and 360+ new customers are planned. The protest hearing continues at 7 p.m. at city hall.
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Sonny Turner
Athens
Bobby Higgins
Higgins
Here
U. S. 31
Floyd Jernigan
Reed, Mullins and Associates
Judge Steps Down In Buzbee Trial
Circuit Judge Jack Riley disqualified himself from the case of Cullman County Sheriff Orrin Buzbee amid a nine count indictment for allegedly accepting bribes. Riley also recused from two Mobley transporting cases and an arraignment is set for June 2 before Roy Mayhall with trials slated the week of June 25. Buzbee remains free on five thousand dollars bail.
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Cullman
Jack Riley
Cullman County
Orrin Buzbee
Riley
Kenneth Mobley
Howell Heflin
Alabama Supreme Court
Talladega County
Luke Brewer
Buzbee
Mobley
Mayhall
Groundbreaking Set for Ranch Site Near Here
Morgan Sheriff John C. McBride invites NEEL-Boosters and area sheriffs to a ground breaking at the ranch site near here this Saturday. A 10 a.m. motorcade from his office will lead to the site with Alabama Sheriffs Boys Ranch staff in attendance.
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NEEL
Boosters of
North Alabama Sheriffs Boys
Morgan
John C. McBride
McBride
Alabama Sheriffs Boys’ Ranch
Selma
Bob Smith
Two Seek Cullman Seats On August Fire Commission Race
Cullman businessmen Gerald Colson and Al Gasser announced plans to seek the city council fire commissioner's post in the August municipal election. Incumbent James Berry is at National Guard camp and may seek reelection. Other incumbents for sanitation and street posts also qualified. Cecil Romine has not said if he will run.
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Cullman
Gerald Colson
al Gasser
James Berry
National Guard
Clifford Burns
L. J. Carr
Charles McConnell
John
Clem VFW Head Elected District Commander of the Year
Athens man Robert V. Clem was chosen as VFW District One Commander of the Year during a Decatur meeting. District One covers eight posts in the area.
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Athens
Robert V
Bob) Clem
VFW
Decatur
Athens Extends Five-Mill Tax for School Bond Financing
Athens City Council voted to extend a five-mill ad valorem tax for 22 years to fund a 2.2 million high school project and 500000 bond issue. The move followed legal consultation on surplus funds and provisions mandating use for educational bonds. Groundbreaking for the school and football stadium was set for today at 2 p.m.
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Athens
Athens High School
W. W. Malone Jr
Alfred Rose
Malone
Birmingham
Stern, Agee and Leach
City Board of Education
U.S. 31
Here
Wright Named To College Post Wright Named To College Post
Huntsville’s W H Wright has been hired as public relations and institutional development director at Calhoun Junior College. He fills the vacancy left by Harry Rice who resigned to direct Point Mallard Park. Wright is an Hinds Junior College and Florence State University alumnus and formerly worked in NASA public relations in Huntsville.
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W. H. Wright
Huntsville
Calhoun Junior College
Carlton Kelly
Kelley
Wright
Harry Rice
Point Mallard Park
Hinds Junior College
Jackson
Miss
Florence State University
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Calhoun
No Decision On Moving Wallace
SILVER SPRING Md No decision has been made on when or where Gov George C Wallace will be transferred for surgery to remove a bullet lodged next to his spine press secretary Billy Joe Camp said today Camp said reports Wallace would be transferred to University Hospital in Birmingham today are unfounded.
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Silver Spring
George C. Wallace
Billy Joe Camp
Camp
Wallace
University Hospital
Birmingham
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