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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1964
Page
7
Construction will begin this week on enlarged drainage structures under Railroad Street and L&N Railroad south of downtown. The Bureron Co of Athens contracted to proceed. State aid grant authorized by Gov. Geo followed a flood causing over 2 million dollars in damage.
A jury in Hartselle circuit court awarded Annie Pearl Scott $2,500 in a $25,000 case against Kath ryne Ann Warren after viewing the accident scene. The verdict came at 11:30 a.m. following a special request by jurors who could not reach a verdict Thursday.
The report states that the activity is to resume Monday but Blood worth does not expect completion before Wednesday.
A 12 inch natural gas pipeline of the Alabama Tennessee Natural Gas Co. spans the Tennessee River from Decatur Docks to the north side, about 2.2 miles in length. Lipsey & Co. of Houston built the weighted channel section every 40 feet, with completion expected in a few days and a request to the Federal Power Commission for early use this winter.
The Morgan County Board of Registrars will convene on Monday for the final session before the November 3 general election. The daylong meeting will issue numbers on a first come first served basis as lines form in the courthouse hallway. Each applicant must be accompanied by a qualified voter who will swear residency requirements. Last Monday the board issued numbers but few returned later.
A Hartselle fireman said Deputy Fire Marshal Howard Dees cannot come to investigate Friday’s explosion that destroyed a Chestnut Street house owned by Jimmy Smallwood and Bobby Joe Patterson. A state investigator is expected next week. The blast occurred about 1 30 a.m. Friday damaging the frame home.
A partial OCR fragment references using a favorable position in line to one's advantage. Details are sparse, but the text implies strategic or unfair use of ordering to gain benefit. No names, places, or dates are present in readable text.
A month old girl Denise Ficklen was beaten and left in a cardboard box in a Lexington yard. Police found her body nearly three hours later, covered with trash. Capt. Lloyd Lindsey led the juvenile division as detectives investigated.
A fragment notes a billiard parlor being near a reported explosion with a claim that those involved were out of town at the time, suggesting a possible alibi or absence from the scene.
The town police said a 10-year-old boy was charged with murder under juvenile law after admitting he took the girl to his house struck her with a belt and threw her against a concrete block church wall.
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