Boy Drowns At Aquadome During School Outing
An 11 year old Brookhaven Middle student Calvin Ballentine drowned Friday at the Aquadome during a school sponsored outing. Lifeguards and EMTs responded but he died at the hospital. Officials said 29 students attended the last day activity with supervision by teachers.
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Brookhaven Middle School
Morgan County
Guy Hollaway
Calvin Ballentine
Mary Ballentine
15Th Pl
Hollaway
Ballentine
Bellentine
Aquadome
Curtis Sellers
Calvin
Sellers
Eleanor Blankenship
Jimmy Brown
Parks and Recreation Department
Parks Department
Golden Gate Bridge Opens in 1937
On this date in 1937 the Golden Gate Bridge spanning San Francisco Bay opened. The newspaper teases weather for Athens and Tennessee Valley with highs in the mid 80s and nights in the upper 50s, plus a note about a complete weather map on page 2.
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Golden Gate Bridge
San Francisco Bay
Nixon Brezhnev Ink Historic Summit Pledge
In Moscow President Nixon and Soviet leader Brezhnev signed a summit agreement of historic scope to curb the nuclear arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union. The accord signals a major easing of Cold War tensions and outlines steps toward restraint and transparency in strategic weapons development.
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Moscow
Nixon
Leonid I. Brezhnev
South Alabama writers tour Point Mallard Park stateside
Mrs. Reva Rand of FNB Travel Agency joined a delegation of South Alabama travel writers touring attractions in the top part of the state. They promote tourism under an Alabama Travel Council sponsorship during a weekend event.
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Reva Rand
FNB Travel Agency
Montgomery
Point Mallard Park
Mrs. Rand
South Alabama
Alabama Travel Council
South Magazine
Robert Sutton
White Bluff
Trade deficit tops 2 billion in 1972 imports exceed exports
Washington AP reports the 1972 trade deficit surpassed 2 billion dollars as imports outpaced exports by the second largest margin on record. Saigon AP notes North Vietnamese tanks advanced on Kontum from the north on Saturday, with Pleiku officials saying seven tanks were destroyed overnight.
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Washington
Commerce Department
Saigon
Kontum
Central Highlands
Pleiku
Wave Pool Highlight on Decatur Mini Tour
South Alabama editors and writers praised Point Mallard's wave pool during a Friday stop on a four day North Alabama tour. Reporters and locals lauded the attraction with enthusiastic quotes as they enjoyed the cool surging water and planned future visits.
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Ben Windham
Mallard
Decatur
South Alabama
North Alabama
Huntsville
Robert Ingram
Robbers Take About 30 Dollars in Hillsboro Station Holdup
Two armed men robbed the Kaye service station on Alabama 20 at about 9 p.m. Friday, taking roughly 30 dollars. Attendant John Miles said a pistol and a knife were used to threaten him and force entry to a storage room before the bandits fled east in a white Ford. Miles, 23, recently moved from Erie, Pa., and has worked at the station less than a week.
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John Miles
Kaye
Alabama 20
Hillsboro
Miles
Pennsylvania
Bobby Herbert
Alabama
Erie
Tanker Explosion Hurts No One. Damages Estimated
A rubber solvent tanker at Chem-Haulers Inc Alabama 20 W exploded Friday at 3 15 p m igniting a second tank and destroying a metal shop. Damages estimated 45 000 to 50 000 with no injuries reported. A Birmingham driver leaped from a blazing tanker to stop the fire as Decatur firefighters battled the blaze over an hour.
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Chem Haulers, Inc
Highway 20 W
Chem-Haulers Inc
Alabama
Charles Entrekin
Entrekin
Birmingham
Decatur
Escaped Prisoners Spark Multi-Ccity Manhunts in Alabama
The Associated Press reports two separate efforts to recapture four escapees in south Alabama. In Tuskegee, two inmates wrestled a gun from a guard and fled as gunfire erupted near the town square. one was later captured. In Montgomery, two fugitives hijacked a truck and drove to a department store near the state Capitol, where they bought clothing and fled before police arrived. Authorities also pursued eight inmates who escaped from Draper Correctional Center in the past 11 days, with unclear links to the other cases.
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Associated Press
South Alabama
Tuskegee Town Square
Tuskegee
Montgomery
State Capitol
Draper Correctional Center
Tuskegee Wig
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Region of
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Athens
Tennessee Valley
Kremlin
Vladimir Hall
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United States
Robinson Furniture
Second Ave
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