Weather and river report for Decatur and TVA lakes
Decatur area weather forecast calls for fair and warm today and tomorrow. River reading at Keller Memorial Bridge this morning 18.30 inches, sea level 552.60 feet, TVA lakes Chickamauga 679.9 and Pickwick 410.8 feet, Guntersville 593.9 Whitesburg 553.6 Wilson 507.2. Yesterday high 86 degrees at 4 30 p.m. low 49 early today. temperature 83 at 10 55 a.m. tonight clear and cool with slight variable winds.
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Decatur
Tennessee River
Keller Memorial Bridge
TVA
Chickamauga
Pickwick
Guntersville
Whitesburg
Wilson
Protection For Valachi Raised
U S marshals intensified protection for gangster informer Joseph Valachi after anonymous tips warned of a bomb in the hearing room and possible shooter in the audience. The Senate hearing room was searched with no bomb found, and guards remained heightened as the subcommittee proceeded.
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U.S
Valachi
McShane
Underworld
Subcommittee
John L. McClellan
D-Ark
Births in Somerville and Moulton Families Welborn Steeples
A son to Mr and Mrs Raymond Mote of Somerville born Monday at Baugh Wiley Smith Hospital. A daughter born Sunday to Mr and Mrs Cadle Welborn of Moulton at Lawrence County Hospital. A son born Sunday to Mr and Mrs James Steeples of Moulton at Lawrence County Hospital.
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Raymond Mote
Somerville
Baugh-Wiley-Smith Hospital
Cadle Welborn
Moulton
Lawrence County Hospital
James Steeples
Deaths Mrs Henry Kracke 85 Hart selle
Mrs Henry Kracke 85 of Hartselle died today in a local hospital. Funeral services will be Wednesday at 4 p.m. at the Hartselle First Methodist Church Rev S E Paulk will officiate. Interment in Hartselle Cemetery Peck Funeral Home directing. Survived by three sons a daughter 13 grandchildren 14 great grandchildren two sisters a brother and a son the late Dr Roy Kracke first president of the University of Alabama Medical School Memorials to charities requested. Body to be returned to residence today and lie in state at church 3 to 4 p.m. Wednesday.
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Henry Kracke
Hartselle
Hartselle First Methodist Church
S. E. Paulk
Peck Funeral Home
Lee H
Jacksonville Beach
Fla
Ernest A
Emma Parks
Detroit
Tex
Walter Cryer
William Puryear
Kracke
First Methodist Church
Roy Kracke
University of Alabama Medical School
Alabama Eye Foundation
University Hospital
Dr. Roy Kracke
Hartselle First Methodist Church Building Fund
Obituary of Olin A. Mason of Decatur Illinois
Olin Akron Mason 39 of 1009 18th Ave SE Decatur died in Geneva New Center Baptist Church services are set for Wednesday at 2 p.m. with Rev Huie Turner and Rev Coleman Taylor officiating. Burial in New Center Cemetery Gunthorp Funeral Home in charge Survivors include daughters Patricia Pamela Mason Kalamazoo Michigan three sons Tony Michael Timothy Mason Kalamazoo Michigan four brothers J F Mason Decatur H W Mason Vinemont O E Mason Somerville A A Mason Eva three sisters Mrs Lola Farrow Mrs Lottie Rothfuss Mrs Lucille Sherrell Decatur The body arrives this afternoon at 2 15 p.m. and will be returned to the residence Nephews will serve as pallbearers.
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Olin Akron Mason
18Th Ave
Geneva
New Center
J. F. Mason
Decatur
H. W. Mason
Vinemont
O. E. Mason
Somerville
A. A. Mason
Eva
Lola Farrow
Lottie Rothfuss
Lucille Sherrell
Speakman Rites Set for Hartselle Resident
Tom Speakman 76 of Hartselle died today at 5 45 AM Funeral services are scheduled for Wednesday at 3 PM at Forrest Chapel Methodist Church with Rev Tom Aaron Rev Harold Wright and Rev W R Sessions officiating Burial will follow in the adjacent cemetery Peck Funeral Home is directing Survivors include wife Mattie Speakman six daughters including Lucy Roberts Lois Story Julia Wallace Bonnie Lee Flowers Virginia Sims and Elizabeth Hill three sons Howard Simon and T L Jr a sister Arley Ward a brother Coffer Speakman 31 grandchildren and 29 great grandchildren Grandsons will serve as pallbearers
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Tom Speakman
Hartselle
Forrest Chapel Methodist Church
Tom Aaron
Harold Wright
W. R. Sessions
Peck Funeral Home
Mattie E. Speakman
Lucy Roberts
Lois Story
Julia Wallace
Bonnie Lee Flowers
Sheffield
Virginia Sims
Clarksville
Tenn
Elizabeth Hill
Birmingham
Howard
Simon
T. L. Jr
Arley Ward
Coffer Speakman
Mrs. Eula Lawrence Dies at 66 in Falkville
Mrs. Eula Lawrence 66 of Falkville died Monday at 9 40 p m in a Hartselle hospital. Funeral services at Powell's Chapel Church with Rev Douglas Dexter officiating. Interment in adjoining cemetery Peck Funeral Home directing. Survived by daughter Emmalene Wilhite four sons Manual Charles Jessie Wesley two half sisters O M Smith and Gertrude Handley and five grandchildren.
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Eula Lawrence
Falkville
Hartselle
Powell’s Chapel
Douglas Dexter
Peck Funeral Home
Emmalene Wilhite
Manual
Charles
Jessie
Wesley
O. M. Smith
Gadsden
Gertrude Handley
Bremen
Civil Air Patrol to field radiological readiness exercise
Col Dyer announces a Civil Air Patrol exercise with about 10 planes and 50 CAP members plus 22 Civil Defense officers from North Alabama to Decatur. The seven point program covers aerial radiological monitoring courier service air surveillance light transport flights and more. Briefing starts 10 a.m. Sunday and ends 3 p.m. The CAP aims to aid search and rescue cadet programs and aviation interest in the community and nation.
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National
Col. Dyer
C.A.P
Proctor
North Alabama
Decatur
Civil Air Patrol
Dyer
Mansfield sees Kennedy seeking support before wheat sell to Soviets
Senate Democratic leader Mike Mansfield said Kennedy may require backing from congressional committees and farm groups before approving large wheat sales to the Soviet bloc. He noted no firm offer has been made and emphasized the decision is economic and political. The New York Times cited Soviet diplomats approaching U S officials for four million tons of wheat.
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Washington
Senate
Mike Mansfield
Kennedy
Montana
Farm
Mansfield
New York Times
U.S
Moulton Police report three arrests Monday
Moulton police announced three arrests Monday for running two stop signs destroying Town of Moulton property and obstructing traffic.
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Moulton
Hospitals list of Cullman area names
A roster of patients and residents includes Margie Pruett Opal Gorham Eddie Prickett Gladys Wilhite Brenda Kay Anders Luther Preston Irene Preston Minnie Knight Mary Jane Barnett Ima Jestine Patrick Manual Banks Clara Aderholt Virgie Cooke Florence Maddox Etta Pierce Anaher Brannan James Frand Sherrel Hancock George Hende Willie Lee Mary Lay Shirley Morgan H C Rutherford Truman Stewart Louis White Betty Rider Lavada Overton William Artist Helen Allred Gary Camp Comner Denny Lois Freeman Ruby Quick Edith Joyce Rauch Jeanette Scott Arthur Woods and others. The list covers Cullman Garden City Hanceville Holly Pond Eldridge and Birmingham area names.
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Brenda Kay Anders
Cullman
Luther Preston
Birmingham
Irene Preston
Minnie Knight
Mary Jane Barnett
Hanceville
Ima Jestine Patrick
Garden City
Manual Banks
Clara Aderholt
Virgie Cooke
Florence Maddox
Etta Pierce
Anaher Brannan
James Frand
Eldridge
Sherrel Hancock
George Hende
Willie Lee
Mary Lay
Shirley Morgan
H. C. Rutherford
Truman Stewart
Louis White
Betty Rider
Lavada Overton
William Artist
Helen Allred
Gary Camp
Comner Denny
Holly
Lawrence County Admissions List Reflects Local Residents
The document lists residents admitted in Lawrence County including Grady Moody and Sharline Dutton from Moulton, James Daily from Moulton, and several others from Moulton, Trinity, Hillsboro, Hartssel, Mount Hope, and Hartsville. Counts next to names indicate multiple admissions or entries.
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Grady Moody
Moulton
Sharline Dutton
James Daily
Larry Lanier
Hillsboro
Jeanette Day
Trinity
Nell Campbell
Jeffrey Morgan
James Steeples
Cadle Welborn
Local Notices List Residents and Families in Decatur Area
A compilation of names and addresses includes Mrs. William R. Hannah of Decatur and several others such as Master Danny Joe Carson, Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Tenley, Mrs. Fred W. Davis, John Thomas Eubanks in Athens, Mrs. Odell Teague, infant children of Mrs. Burgess C. Harris and Mrs. Charles B. Dodson, and neighbors like Mrs. Thomas L. Morris, Mrs. R. E. Franks, C. C. Collins, Mrs. Alice Ellen Shelton, Mrs. Boshie Dotson, Little Miss Susan Garmon, Walter Britt Smith.
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William R. Hannah
Decatur
Danny Joe Carson
Freeman Ave
Mary Elizabeth Tenley
18Th Ave
Fred W. Davis
Diane St
John Thomas Eubanks
Athens
Burgess C. Harris
Moulton
Charles B. Dodson
Royal Dr. SE
Thomas L. Morris
Harrison St. SE
R. E. Franks
Russellville
C. C. Collins
Hillsboro
Alice Ellen Shelton
2Nd Ave
Boshie Dotson
5Th Ave
Susan Garmon
Mark St
Walter Britt Smith
Brentwood Apt
Baugh Wiley Smith Fe L Benfield and Poteet Realty Listings
Notice details a trio of property or resident listings including L Benfield at 1216 5Sth Ave SE and Mrs C P Poteet at 1008 W Moul. The fragmentary item records possible real estate or occupancy notices in a local column.
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FE. L. Benfield
C. P. Poteet
W. Moul
Parachute Jumpers End Exercise Amid Shoreline Landing
Five jumpers recently returned from Eglin Air Force Base conducted exercises near Decatur with Col Cobb injuring his ankle in a home accident. Cobb, age 43, praised landing on water and hoped to jump again at the site. Maj Qualls noted the Special Forces Group has 800 members across Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana and another exercise is planned November 23 downstream from today’s site.
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Eglin Afb
Fla
Col. Cobb
Decatur
Special Forces
Charles H. Qualls
Florida
Alabama
Mississippi
Louisiana
Deaths and Funeral Rites in Decatur and Surrounding Areas
Funeral services held for Bobby Lee Bell Kelley 14 drowned in a river inlet will take place at Union Grove Trinity Baptist Church with interment at Sykes Cemetery Reynolds Funeral Home. Survivors include his mother two sisters one brother and two grandmothers. Quincey R Julian died at Huntsville Hospital and a funeral is set for Currey Chapel C M E Church Waldermose Springs with two sons and other relatives surviving.
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Bobby Lee Bell Kelley
Union Grove Trinity Baptist Church
Sykes Cemetery
Reynolds Funeral Home
Mary Kelley
Margaret Ann
Donna Kay
Winder W
Lula Bell
Roberta Kelley
Decatur
Quincey R. Julian
Huntsville Hospital
Currey Chapel
Waldermose Springs
Paul Hubbard
James R. McGahee
J. P. Julian
Roosevelt Julian
Louisville
Bertha Milton
Falkville
Traffic Collisions, Meetings, and Local Notices on Monday
Multiple traffic crashes reported on 4th Ave SE and Moulton St with injuries in one incident. Woodrow Norman reported a house break in near old Moulton Rd. Building permits issued and local club meetings announced. Community notices include a cancer education committee meeting and garden club gathering.
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Young Construction Co
5Th Ave
Home Builders, Inc
Moulton Heights
Jimmy Adams
Gateway Shopping Center
Billy Reeves
9Th St
Jack Gillespie
3Rd Ave
Morgan Boy Struck By Auto on Alabama 231
Three year old Steve Stepinstall was struck by a car Monday afternoon at Trail er Haven Trailer Court on Alabama 231. Deputy A. J. Hallmon said the boy was not seriously injured and was taken to Huntsville Hospital where X rays showed no concussion or broken bones. The incident occurred as he played Cowboys and Indians and ran in front of the vehicle. The bumper knocked him down but the car did not roll over him. driver identity was not established.
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Alabama
Trailer Haven
Morgan County
A. J. Hallmon
Hallman
Steve Stepinstall
Huntsville Hospital
Unclear Readers List of Dismissals and Names
A fragment shows names and locations with dismissals noting Miss Patricia Powell Decatur and Danny Mardis Town Creek alongside Mrs Dexter Hill and an infant daughter Trinity.
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A. J. Posey
Arab
Patricia Powell
Decatur
Danny Mardis
Town Creek
Dexter Hill
Trinity
World Health Experts Track Birds for Virus Spread Study
World Health Organization researchers trap and band birds across regions to study how wild avian populations influence the transmission of viruses and disease outbreaks.
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World Health Organization
Markets Decatur Cotton And Grain Prices And Livestock
Market notes show cotton inch middling at 34 cents, loan 33.97. Cottonseed 45 per ton. Milk grades and byproducts listed. Grain prices include No 2 Yellow Shelled Corn 1.25, No 2 Yellow Ear Corn 1.10, No 2 Oats 0.70, No 2 Milling Wheat 1.50, Soybeans 2.45. Cattle and hogs trading with steadiness and various weight bands. calves and weaners steady. hogs down modestly.
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Decatur
Local Securities NASD Quotation of Numerous Stocks
NASD nominal quoter quotes a wide list of stocks including Acme Steel Allis Chal Am Air Am Can Am Mot Am T T Am Tob Anaconda Armour Babcock Bell How Beth Stell Boeing Chrysler Coca Cola Cola Palm Collins Radio CBS Comn Ed Con Edis Cont Can Cruc Stl Delta Air L Don Chem Du Pont East Air L Int Harv Int Paper Int Rectif Kaiser Kress KVP Suth Ligg Lockh Air SPerry Rd Std Brand Foremost Dairy Std Oil Cal Goodyear Greyhound Gulf Oil Hercules PDR Unit Fruit Unit Gas Co US Steel West Un Tel Westg Elec Winn Dixie Woolworth Worth.
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Acme Steel Allis
Baker Am Can
Sugar
T&t Am
Anaconda Armour
Babcock & W
Bell & How
Beth Stell
Boeing Borden Burl
Ind Calum & H Cater Trac Delanese
Chef & Ohio Chrysler
Coca Cola Cola
Palm Collins Radio
CBS
Cruc
Delta Air L
Don Chem du Pont East Air L
Kaiser
Kress
KVP Suth
Ligg & My
Lockh Air
Sperry “Rd
Brand Foremost Dairy
Goodyear Gt A&p Greyhound
Gulf Oil Hercules
Irregularly higher stock close with sugar and auto leaders
The market closed higher in active trading as motors and sugar shares led gains late in the session. Chrysler topped the auto group with about a 3 point rise setting a 1963 high, while RCA U S Rubber and Westinghouse also advanced and volume neared 4.5 million shares.
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New York
Chrysler
Motor
Twentieth Century-Fox
RCA
U.S. Rubber
American Motors
Westinghouse
U.S
IBM
Ford
American
Radio and phone service disrupted by alley blaze
WMSL radio went off air for about an hour after a power box fire on 210 6th Ave NW cut the remote feed from Southern Bell. Avery Taylor said 225 phones were knocked out. service returned by 11 p.m. WMSL operated an emergency feed and resumed full power at 5 p.m.
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WMSL
6Th Ave
Southern Bell Telephone Co
Avery Taylor
The
Telephone Company
Sugar Firms Rally With Mixed Market Moves
Market notes show Central Aguirre Sugar, South Puerto Rico Sugar, Great Western Sugar and Holly Sugar rising over 1 percent each. Westinghouse and Grayson Robins also traded higher, while Avco slipped more than 1 percent.
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Central Aguirre Sugar
Puerto Rico
Great Western Sugar
Holly Sugar
Westinghouse
Grayson Robins
Avco
Eggs show ample supplies and competitive prices
In Birmingham the AP reports ample egg supplies with strong demand. Consumer grade prices to retailers up to 9:30 a.m. today include Grade A white large 45-50 cents, mediums 37-39 cents, small 30-32 cents, with store door delivery and minimum one case sales.
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Birmingham
Poultry Prices and Slaughter Totals Reported
Birmingham and Atlanta AP dispatches describe live poultry markets with near adequate supply and mixed demand. Slaughter today about 850000 head, farm quotes 12 cents per pound for broilers and fryers, delivered plant prices 12.5 to 14 cents, Georgia listings show farm quotes 12 percent, fob plant 16 to 17 cents for heavy hens and 8 to 4 cents for light hens, with balanced supplies and fair to good demand.
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Poultry Birmingham
Atlanta
Georgia
Cattle and hog market snapshot from Tennessee and Georgia
Nashville market reports show cattle slaughter steers and heifers steady weak cows mostly up 25 to 50, bulls steady with various weight classes. Calves and vealers steady. hogs steady to 25 lower with barrows and gilts 15.75 to 16.25 and sows 13.00 to 14.00. Thomasville area hog receipts list steady to 25 lower across multiple markets. barrows and gilts 190 to 230 pounds 15.75 to 16.25.
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Nashville
Tenn
Thomasville
Albany
Columbus
Moultrie
Dothan
Ala
Jacksonville
Fla
U.S
Two Auburn game tickets and a package deal offered
Classified snippet advertises two tickets to an Auburn game on Sat Oct 12 and two tickets to Auburn Georgia on Sat Oct 19 plus a package deal. Also lists two 30 by 60 buildings for sale or rent, a 1954 Ford station wagon for sale, and rental listings at 2903 Truman Ave and 1812 Olive St SE with contact numbers.
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Auburn
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Fomalhaut
South
Jupiter
Saturn
Mercury
Investment Services
Mrs
Helen Tooker
Highway
Glidden Paint Center
Decatur Squadron
H. L. Hester
Col
Morris K. Dyer
R. L. Underwood
Howard Proctor
Roger Olive
A. D. Ashcraft
E. W. Stephenson
C. S. Browning
Hamilton Masters
Air Force Bases
Margie Pruett
Opal Gorham
Eddie Prickett
Gladys Wilhite
Lawrence County
Fredrick Albright
Virginia Hagood
Woodrow Burks
James Earl Hill
Cleveland Drake
Paul Holliman
Mount Hope
Hazette Echols
Decatur General
Mrs. Odell Teague
All State Trailer Court
4Th Ave
Eugene Murphy
Cedar St
Clifford Glenn
Decatur 1
Glenn
Moulton St
James Sullivan
Rayland Dale Bently
7Th Ave
6Th Ave. SE
Sherman St. SE
Odelle Annie Ward
7Th St
Sherman St
Joe
Williford
8Th Ave. NW
Dodge
Oldsmobile
Mother’s Study Club
Melvin Ozier
13Th Ave. SE
2Nd St
Summer Ave
Marion E. Sims
Seldon G. Freeman
Woodrow Norman
Montgomery’s
Old Moulton Rd
Decatur Independent Automobile Dealers Association
United Fund
Happy Atkins
Skip Meadows
Alabama Motor Finance
Lyle Cheatham
Olen Cooper
Claude Honus
Brookmeade Dr
6Th Ave. NW
12Th Ave
5Th St.nw
Trinity Gin Co
Locust St. SE
Bobby Joe Patterson
W. T. Jordan
Morgan County Cancer Education Committee
Board of Revenue
Frances Nelms
Muscle Shoals- Decatur
Riverside
Green Thumb Garden Club
Frank McLaughlin
Stratford Rd
Tower House
Morgan Boy
Local Securities
Ala, Tenn
American Foundation Life Insurance Co
Brown
Downtowner Corp
Nat’l. Bk
Ala. Secon
Guaranty Sav. Life
Jefferson Standard Life
Eecenee
Kentucky Life
Liberty National Life
Life & Casualty A
Mutual Saw
Lifell Liffe Ala
Life Ala
National Life Ae
Consolidated
Pioneer
Protective Life
State National Bank Southern United Een
Jim Walter Corp
Vulcan Life
Wall Street
Blaze
Cotton New York
1St Ave. S.W
Austinville
Call
Truman Ave
Olive St. S.E
Old Deer Springs Tourist Court
Hwy
Keystone Custodian
Keystone
Keystone Growth Common Stock Fund
A. B. Love Semmes & Co., Inc. Investments Securities
Decatur Shopping Center
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