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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1977
Page
5
A federal panel reviewing the FDA after 27 months study calls for major improvements including giving the FDA power to bar dangerous drugs, higher agency salaries, mandatory safety reports from drug makers, and a centralized Washington campus.
Noted continues listing surviving relatives of the Stallworth family including daughters Harriet and Eunice two sons Isaac Jr and Lavoisier III and extended kin across New York Cleveland Mobile and Monroeville with seven sisters and four brothers. Pallbearers and honorary pallbearers are named and donations are requested to charities.
Lawmakers from Lawrence, Morgan, and Cullman counties pushed bills to extend registrar working days by 50 in Lawrence County, revise voter registration laws, and fund courts. Other measures seek liability insurance for cars, restrict cooking alcohol sales to known alcoholics, and create the Alabama Code Commission with ongoing code revision.
Ten area young men enlist in the U S Air Force delayed enlistment program. Recruits include Wallace Storey Eric Keller Robert Groves Larry Cooper Steven Mann George Byars Rickey Motter Michael Craig Jimmy Hudson James Lemay all set to graduate high school and enter service with training leading to technical centers bases and credits toward an associate degree through the Community College of the Air Force.
The city lists bid items for urban renewal work from 1st to 4th Avenues SE including Line St behind the courthouse and Lee St widening. Notable costs: Line behind courthouse 44529, Lee St widening 100590, downtown alleys 22298, 4th Ave upgrade 69820, Moulton St resurfacing 7077, Jackson St drainage 14751, Line St screening trees 37007, traffic stripes 35151.
South Moluccan terrorists holding 55 or more hostages on a Dutch train asked the government for intermediaries to discuss demands. A Justice Ministry spokeswoman offered no details while a high official warned against optimism. A second group with four hostages at a schoolhouse did not seek intermediaries.
State troopers report multiple fatal incidents across several counties. A head on collision near Central killed Stephen Thorn ton andie Brown Gay both of Equality. Others drownings and crashes claimed lives in Selma Chambers Lanett Lay Lake Huntsville Gardendale and Evergreen with several young adults among the deceased.
Flippo discussed Roosevelt's first 100 days and the Budget Act urging Congress to balance the federal budget and evaluate energy proposals. He warned against full natural gas price deregulation and noted TVA may face cuts without gas. He cited waterway funding, Cuba aid limits, CETA passage, a fall welfare reform timeline, and the union wage debate. Andrew Young cited as perceptive on Carter.
Frank E. Coghlan receives a champagne shower from his wife Carmel after swimming from Marin County to San Francisco under the Golden Gate Bridge. He earlier swam the Verrazano Narrows from Staten Island to Brooklyn in New York seeking a new mark. Chip Car ter and his wife Caron will visit Britain June 6 to 12 for the Silver Jubilee events with Prime Minister Callaghan.
A parade of ballet and opera stars gathered as Queen Elizabeth II began the final two weeks of the Jubilee. BBC televised her Royal Opera House attendance live across the UK and Europe and via satellite to the United States. In Prague Lionel Hampton led an octet in a sell out concert at Lucerna Hall. CTK called it his first major Czechoslovak concert in 40 years. In Port Washington Captain Charles Blair plans a repeat of his 1940 Catalina flight across the Atlantic to Ireland with Maureen O Hara among the crew and a 22 hour schedule including a refueling stop in Newfoundland.
Limestone County Commission and Athens City Council consider using federal public works funds to build a $200 000 learning center for up to 40 handicapped people at Athens Elementary School. Weizenecker says center would include wheelchairs and physical therapy with funding prioritized by officials and chamber support.
The report lists multiple temple and church activities including end of Wednesday Vacation Bible School at Westmead Baptist Church through June 8 from 9 a.m. to 12 noon and youth sessions, a Summer Manor Friendship Club meeting featuring James Adkins, Parents Anonymous sessions, a Chalybeate School community meeting to discuss a new center, and Single Adult Fellowship at First Baptist youth center. Also notes about criminal code penalties, divorce proceedings, drug talks by Keith Russell, TVA Wives session, car wash and bake sale by Caddo Congregational Christian Church, United Methodist Women rummage and bake sale, a reunion for Old Collins School House alumni, Homecoming at First Assembly of God, Town Creek with Wiley Kitchens speaking, and Vacation Bible School at First Methodist Church, Flint, running until 8:30 p.m.
Rock Springs Baptist Church five miles west of Hartselle on Vaughn Ridge Road hosts a 7 30 p.m. program featuring the Sen the Commandments and the Serving Echoes.
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