Selma Man Tapped as Health Director by NAHSA
Joe Knight, former director of the Alabama-Tombigbee Rivers Regional Planning And Development Commission in Selma, will be recommended to lead the North Alabama Health Systems Agency at its Huntsville Decatur Jetport meeting. NAHSA to begin formal operation July 1 serving 12 counties and about 68 300 people. Knight previously directed the Selma Community Action Committee and organized the local mental health center.
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Selma
North Alabama Health Systems Agency
NAHSA
Charles E. Grainger
Joe Knight
Alabama-Tombigbee Rivers
Dallas County
Grainger
Knight
Nahsa Council
Dennis Opheim
Decatur
Huntsville
Muscle Shoals
Opheim
North Central Alabama
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
North Alabama
City Police Join Summer Traffic Crackdown
The Decatur Police Department joins a 19 county crackdown on speeders aiming to reduce traffic violations. Police urge drivers to slow down and obey posted limits during the summer enforcement push across multiple jurisdictions.
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Decatur
City Man Charged In Breakin In Gateway Shopping Center
Johnny Wade Tucker 18 of Decatur charged with second degree burglary after a breakin at Kwik Chek in Gateway Shopping Center. He was found in Decatur General Hospital with a broken leg and listed in good condition. Detective Jerry Bottom led the arrest with Sgt. Doyle Ward and officers.
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Decatur
Decatur General Hospital
Kwik Chek
Gateway Shopping Center
Johnny Wade Tucker
4Th Ave. SE
Jerry Bottom
Bottom
Tucker
Doyle Ward
Henry Hall
Joseph Greer
Cotton crop damage warned across four North Alabama counties
Extension officials in Morgan Cullman Limestone and Lawrence counties report heavy cool damp weather harming cotton. Estimates vary with up to about one third of area acres possibly lost and stand failure common in Cullman Morgan and Lawrence counties. Insects compound losses in Lawrence with red spiders attacking fields.
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Auburn
Alabama
Morgan
Cullman
Limestone
Lawrence
Bob Spears
Spears
Morgan County Extension Service
Charles Rutledge
Rutledge
Lawrence County
James Pinion
659 Graduates At CCC Sunday
Calhoun Community College held graduation exercises Sunday for 659 graduates. Dr. Robert Guillot of the University of North Alabama delivered the commencement address to 152 participants. Pres. Carlton Kelley and Dean William Osborn presented diplomas, with 31 graduates earning honors including 28 named to Phi Theta Kappa and ten to Who's Who Among American Junior Colleges. Steve Pirkle of Decatur received the Brewer Cup as outstanding student of the year.
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Calhoun Community College
College and Technical Pols
Robert Guillot
University of North Alabama
Carlton Kelley
William Osborn
Phi Theta Kappa
Steve Pirkle
Decatur
Decatur Bikers Trace Natchez Trace on Memorial Ride
Twenty members of First Bible Church from Decatur rode 170 miles along the Natchez Trace from Jackson to Tupelo over Memorial Day weekend. The group left by bus, started the ride at 7 a.m. Saturday, with Buck Monroe of Huntsville on hand for potential mechanical help.
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Natchez Trace
Mississippi
Decatur
Jackson
Tupelo
First Bible Church
Bailey Terry
Buck Monroe
Huntsville
Monroe
Terry
Jackson, Miss
Carol Murphy
Bikers on Natchez Trace Tour Plan Historic Stops
A group of travelers ranging from ten to older ages embark on a Natchez Trace trip, staying in Kosciusko and Matherson and aiming to reach Tupelo by 6 p.m. They will use a bus for supplies and backup rides, and organizers say there are no speed records planned.
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Kosciusko
Matherson
Tupelo
Bailey
Natchez Trace
Decatur
Mobile Youth Drowned in City Drainage Ditch
The Associated Press reports four accidental deaths in Alabama during the Memorial Day weekend. An 11 year old Mobile boy, Clifford Cain, drowned in a drainage ditch after entering water over his head. Also killed were 18 year old Robert Lee Thomas of Phenix City in a motorcycle collision, 42 year old Sanford Ellison of Clanton in a single vehicle crash on Alabama 22, and Donald Ray Norris who died when his car fell from a Baldwin County bridge.
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Alabama
Clifford Cain
Mobile
Robert Lee Thomas
Phenix City
Lee County
Opelika
Thomas
Sanford Ellison
Clanton
Donald Ray Norris
Baldwin
Associated Press
Weather update for Alabama shows improving sunshine scattered storms
National Weather Service reports Tuesday partly sunny with scattered thundershowers across Alabama by mid afternoon. Highs near 90 today, warm humid night in mid 60s, rain chances 20 today 30 tonight 40 Tuesday.
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Alabama
National Weather Service
Tennessee
Weather and river readings for Decatur area today
River reading at Keller Memorial Bridge this morning was 21.77 feet and sea level at 555.07 feet. Today and tomorrow forecast: partly cloudy, high in the upper 80s, low around 60s, with a 20 to 40 percent chance of rain and a thunderstorm risk rising tonight. Extended outlook calls for mostly cloudy skies with thundershowers midweek, highs in the low to mid 80s and lows near 70 Wednesday, upper 60s Thursday and Friday.
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Huntsville
Decatur
National Weather Service
Tennessee Valley
Decatur and Vicinity
Keller Memorial Bridge
Decatur Station
Tri-County District Health Service
Bill Would Repeal Judicial Retirement
Rep. Warren C. Moore of Limestone County will introduce a bill to repeal the judicial retirement program and forego future benefits for new appointees or elected judges. The measure, backed by 51 House co sponsors, would base retirement on a 2.0125 percent per year times service years times final salary, with existing beneficiaries unaffected.
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Montgomery
Warren C. Moore
Limestone County
House
Moore
Togard
Supreme Court
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