Decatur School Budget Approved as Record $3.6 Million
The Decatur city board of education approved a record 3.6237 million dollar budget for 1968-69, up 250000 from last year. The plan boosts salaries, adds teachers, and funds operation and maintenance for 14 city schools while noting state and federal funding and two new middle school sites approved by the state superintendent.
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Decatur
City Board of Education
Brewer
State Board of Education
Leeman
Georgia
Florida
Board of Education
Ernest “Stone
Stone
Lawrence County Teachers Denied Extra Pay
The Lawrence County board of education rejected a $200 annual supplement request from the Lawrence County division of Classroom Teachers citing lack of funds. The board estimated the cost at about $60,000 and asked a reporter to leave, preferring to handle the matter privately.
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Lawrence
Moulton
Lawrence County
Board of Education
L. P. Hopkins
Hopkins
Decatur Daily
Silas Cross
Cross
Campaigns Reviving Over Vietnam Issue
Reports of potential progress in Paris peace talks renew focus on Vietnam in the presidential race. Nixon supports a bombing halt if safe for troops and politically acceptable, while Thurmond warns against war-ending expectations before election day. Humphrey avoids Vietnam talk as labor votes shift to Wallace.
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Associated Press
Paris
Vietnam
Richard M. Nixon
Johnson
North Vietnam
Strom Thurmond
Nixon
South
Hubert H. Humphrey
Edmund S. Muskie
George C. Wallace
Curtis E. LeMay
Johnstown
U.S
Muskie
Chicago
Island nuptials set for Jackie Onassis
Jacqueline Kennedy arrived in Greece to marry Aristotle Onassis on his private island Scorpios. The wedding will be private with no reporters, helicopters ferry guests, and a Greek Orthodox ceremony is expected though religious issues loom.
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Jacqueline Kennedy
Kennedy
Greece
Aristotle Onassis
Athens
Onassis
Scorpios
Andravida
Corfu
Jackie
Mediterranean
Christina
Mrs. Kennedy
Preveza
John F. Kennedy
Tina Livanos
Olympic Airways
New York
Auchincloss
Stephen Smith
Peter Lawford
Lawford
Secret Service
D. Garofoulis
Ionian Sea
Onassis Divorced by First Wife in Alabama Case
Tina Onassis was granted a divorce from Aristotle Onassis in Washington County Alabama in 1960 for mental cruelty. Circuit Judge William G Lindsey found she met Alabama residency requirements by moving to Mobile buying a Dauphin Island lot and opening a bank account.
Apollo 7 steers spaceflight with record engine test
In Houston Apollo 7 astronauts fired the steering engine for 66 seconds, creating the most powerful manned spacecraft maneuver to date and sending a flame tail 120 miles above the Gulf of Mexico. Commander Schirra hailed the test as a success while wives watching near Clear Lake saw only cloudy skies.
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Moon
Schirra
Air Force
Donn F. Eisele
Walter Cunningham
Houston
Clear Lake
Manned Spacecraft Center
US seeks 24th talk with North Korea on Pueblo crew
Washington officials said the United States requested a 24th Panmunjom meeting with North Korea over the captured Pueblo and its 82 crew members. Hurricane Gladys approaches Tampa Bay area with deceptive strength in the Gulf of Mexico. Decatur dealer Robinson advertises 11 years on Second Avenue.
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Washington
State Department
United States
North Korea
Panmunjom
U.S
Pueblo
Miami
Fla
Gulf of Mexico
Tampa Bay Area
Decatur's
Robinson
Second Avenue
Vietnam Servicemen Mail List Call in Decatur Daily
The Decatur Daily asks readers to submit names addresses ranks and serial numbers of area service men in Vietnam for a Christmas mail and package list. Send entries to Vietnam Servicemen The Decatur Daily Box 1527 Decatur Alabama 35601 by November 12.
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Vietnam
Decatur Daily
Decatur
Ala
Wallace Home For Campaign Respite
George Wallace takes a day off at home with his children after an exhausting 11 day coast to coast campaign trip. He reported a bad cold but remained in good spirits as crowds in Fort Worth and Longview Texas offered support and distraction from earlier heckling.
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Montgomery
Ala
George
Wallace
Fort Worth
Longview
Tex
Washington, D.C
Midwest
Plains
Rockies
West Coast
Southwest
Mountains
Denver
San Diego
Hecklers
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Winford Turner
H. A. Alexander
Humphrey
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The
Beatles
Yoko Ono
London
David Alexander
Martha
Mary Alexander
Lonnie McDaniel
Alabama
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