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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Oct 06, 1968
Page
3
High near 72 with increasing clouds and scattered thundershowers tonight. Low around 48, with southeast winds about 18 mph and gusts near storms. 20 percent rain chance today, rising to 70 percent this afternoon as skies cloud over.
Hospital records show multiple patients with stays in Dorsey Camp Hanceville Cullman and surrounding areas. Names include Geneva Carnes Shirley Ann Cates Millie House Elmer Ellis Leverett George W. Lynn Rame L Nichols C M Peak Lillian Phillips Nettie M Powell Evelyn L Robinson, along with dismissals Vera Allen Helen Barbee Catherine Cullum Ruth M Couch Lennie Davis Clara Edge Euna Cleo Fortenberry Glenda Fulgum Billy D Gandy Evelyn Hopper Jayne Ann Key Minnie Lena Mann Shelby E Smith and Phillip Stone.
Dr. Lee McBride White, 81, well known retired Baptist minister, died Saturday after an extended illness. He founded a school for birth injured children in Birmingham that serves Alabama and beyond after a 23 year ministry. He pastored churches in North Carolina Florida and Alabama and authored How to Know Yourself. Survivors include Mrs. Cleon Yates. Funeral services announced later by Peck Funeral Home in Hartselle.
Mrs. Eunice Schneider, a former Decatur resident, was killed Saturday in a Detroit Michigan automobile accident. Funeral services will be announced later by Gunthorp Funeral Home.
Funeral services for Mrs. Strona Bradford 85 of Tennessee Valley Rest Home Flint died Friday at a local hospital. Services 2 p m today at Guntharp Funeral Home Chapel with Rev C P Davis officiating. Burial Maple Hill Cemetery Huntsville. Survivors include several nieces and nephews. Pallbearers named Ben Morgan Dewey Richards Alton White W G Hazelrng Howard Bricoe Jr Earl Reynolds.
The Wheeler Basin Regional Library Bookmobile visits multiple sites October 7 to 10 with times at schools stores and churches in the area. It remains at headquarters Friday. The article also notes Italian astronomer Schiaparelli and his 1877 discovery of canal markings on Mars.
Norris A. Palmer aged 66 of 1115 10th Ave SE died Saturday afternoon of an apparent heart attack while on a hunting trip. The death was reported by local authorities and followed a day’s outing.
An Athens man, Bobby Jarrett, 30, a hemophiliac, is in a Detroit hospital with uncontrolled bleeding. He has received 20 pints of blood with 50 more needed for recovery. Sheriff M W Evans urged local donors to contact his office. blood will be drawn at the next Red Cross bloodmobile visit. Clifford Jarrett, father, has gone to Detroit to be with him at Detroit General Hospital.
Mrs. Lela Mae Terry, 62, of Joiner Arkansas, died Saturday at 8 a.m. at West Memphis Hospital. Funeral arrangements were to be announced by a local funeral home in West Memphis Arkansas.
The Legislative Council may be called into a special session to consider a probe of the Public Service Commission. Vice chairman Rep. Phil Smith said a preliminary report was submitted Friday and may be taken up later this month with Education Study Commission findings on long range school funding. Public hearings on rural telephone service are also planned.
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