Decatur Events Share Alabama Conference And Community Activities
Tom Collier of Decatur presides at the Alabama Conference of Child Care in Birmingham with state agency executives and welfare workers. A Decatur Western square dance Benefit by Promenaires at 6:30 features caller Mack Leston. Tony’s Pizza moderator Reed leads a restaurant convention panel in Birmingham. Decatur Altrusa hosts Tickled Pink rummage sale. Decatur Jaycettes council meets at 7:30. Demolay Commandry 14 holds regular convocation at the Masonic Temple.
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Decatur
Boy’s Club
Promenaires
Mack Leston
Sheffield
3Rd Ave. St
Altrusa Club
Western Auto
2Nd Ave
Knight Templar
Masonic Temple
Morgan County Association names directors and chair for Christmas Drive
The Morgan County Association named Meredith Woodall Jaine Shirley Bill Jenkins Milton Wood Bill Standridge John Eyster Dr Betty Vaughn Mrs Catherine Riethmaier and Mrs Betty Qualls as directors. Shirley will chair the Christmas Seal Drive. Groundbreaking for a University of Alabama in Huntsville Student Union was held today. The union will house a snack bar book store student government offices and rooms for meetings. Memorials chairman Joe Sims was named for the Alabama Heart Association to receive gifts year round through Mrs Betty Vautier. Sims works at First National Bank in the Six Avenue branch. The third annual Calhoun Junior College instrumental music clinic will be Nov 23 with Robert Stephens noting 1,500 bandsmen attended prior clinics. Fall enrollment reached 1,614 with 1,200 day and 400 night students. The Alabama division of elementary music teachers fall convention is Oct 10-11 at Calhoun JC and Holiday Inn Downtown Decatur. Calhoun Offices filled Diane Murphree was elected president of the Calhoun JC student chapter of music educators national conference. Other officers Myrna Robinson Karen Prater and John Goree. A piano festival for area teachers and pupils is Dec 7 at Calhoun JC with Witold Ace as guest clinician. The event runs 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
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Morgan County Losis Association
J. R. McWhorter
Meredith Woodall
Jaine Shirley
Bill Jenkins
Milton Wood
Bill Standridge
John Eyster
Betty Vaughn
Catherine Riethmaier
Betty Qualls
Shirley
Joe Sims
9Th Ave
Morgan County
Alabama Heart Association
Betty Vautier
Northwest
Sims
Vatuier
Alabama Division of Elementary Music Teachers
Calhoun Junior College
Holiday Inn
Decatur
Calhoun
Diane Murphree
Music Educators National Conference
Myrna Robinson
Athens
Karen Prater
John Goree
Students May Cancel Dr Leary Speech At Spring Hill
Mobile readers report that Spring Hill College students may undermine the Student Government Association to referendum on inviting LSD advocate Dr Timothy Leary. A petition drive led by Vietnam veteran Ray C Davis seeks student approval of how their $20 activity fees are spent and whether Leary should speak November 11.
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Mobile
Ala
Spring Hill College
LSD
Timothy Leary
Leary
Father of the
Ray C. Davis
Vietnam
Davis
Maddox Endorses Wallace At Hilton Head Speech
Gov. Lester Maddox praised George Wallace in Hilton Head urging local control of schools and a people first government. He urged sending Washington bureaucrats back to school and endorsed Wallace's third party bid to meet American needs.
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Hilton Head
S.C
George Wallace
Washington
Lester Maddox
Maddox
Georgia Oilmen’s Association
Wallace
American Independent Party
Alabama
Decatur Firm Low Bid For College Gym Ready 1969
Bryson Construction Co. submitted the apparent low bid of 907,763 for the college gymnasium and facilities to be ready for occupancy by the 1969 Warhawks season. The project will be financed by Title One funds, Appalachian region grant, local funds, and cafeteria leftovers.
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Decatur
Calhoun Junior College
Bryson Construction Co
Carlton Kelley
Renis Jones
Jones
J. E. Johnson and Co
Hails Construction Co
McAlister and McQuinn
Tackett, Brown and
Decatur Honors Its First Secretary To Commission
Mary Gibson retired this week after 11 years as Decatur’s secretary to the commissioners. She oversaw a growing city staff, witnessed a form of government shift, and praised the commission system as bringing officials closer together. She plans time for home projects and visiting her son in Tampa, Florida.
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Mary Gibson
City Hall
New Heights
S. Gibson
Knox McRae
Roy Odom
Murray Dodd
Wilson Morgan
J. Gilmer Blackburn
Decatur
Gibson
Larkin Yates
Carl Gibson
Carlin Tampa, Fla
Gibsons
West Moulton St
Central Baptist Church
Lawrence County to pour out confiscated beer and whisky
Sheriff Pete Rutherford of Lawrence County will pour out 150 cases of Tennessee beer and whisky seized over months at the Moulton city dump. The latest haul includes 35 cases of untaxed beer on Spring Creek Road north of Courtland. A warrant has been issued for the action.
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Moulton
Lawrence County
Pete Rutherford
Tennessee
Rutherford
Spring Creek Rd
Courtland
ESTRELLITA Horoscope For Tomorrow Plans And Prospects
The reading highlights a good day for business and long range ventures while advising relaxation in the evening. It notes a promising year ahead for a birthday person with occupational gains and strong personal relationships except a brief mid July dip. December to next year promises high enterprise and support from well-wishers. A child born today may become a successful business executive or designer.
Child's Parents Charged In Death
In Sheffield Alabama Frederick Wayne Hyde and Margaret Ruth Hyde were charged with murder after Candy Mae DeKorte two and a half died from injuries linked to mistreatment. Police had called three times to the home before a hospital report prompted the arrest. The toddler suffered bruises and a ruptured bladder and died the following day.
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Sheffield. Ala
Candy Mae DeKorte
Colbert County
Frederick Wayne Hyde
Candy
Margaret Ruth Hyde
Hyde
Mrs. Hyde
Tests Ordered For Defendant in Alabama and Georgia
Autauga County Circuit Court orders a sanity examination for Benny Brown 23 of Lafayette Georgia at Bryce Hospital Tuscaloosa. Brown faces murder charges in Montgomery Alabama and Summerville Georgia including the slaying of Harry Boyd and the shooting of his son and three others with a trial likely delayed to early next year.
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Prattville
Ala
Autauga County
Georgia
Alabama
Benny Brown
Lafayette
Bryce Hospital
Tuscaloosa
Arthur Hanes
Birmingham
Fred Posey
Brown
Montgomery
Harry A. Boyd
Cobo
Summerville
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Tom Collier
Baptist Children’s Home
Thomas Jefferson
Inirmingham
Collier
Baptist Children’s ‘Home
Troy
James Reed
Tony’s Pizza
Alabama State Restaurant Association
The
Decatur Jaycettes
Kenneth Culbreath
Bellemeade, SE
UAH
Huntsville
University of Alabama In
Robert Stephens
Stephens
Witoldace
Samford
Bryson
Athens College
Roy McAllister
Decatur Monsanto Co
Frank N
Spring Hill
College
William J. Rimes
Jesuit College
Student Government Association
Freda Burgreen
Ed Burgreen
Athens High School
Lawrence
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