Migrant couple seeks burial aid after loss in Montgomery
Four children of an unemployed migrant couple are in protective custody after they drove from Hawthorne Florida with a dead infant in their trailer to Montgomery Alabama and asked WBAM radio for help paying for a burial. Police say the couple identified as Mr and Mrs Steve Trent said they found their 3 month old boy dead near Springfield Missouri.
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Montgomery
Ala
Pat Webb
WBAM
Florida
Ed Wright
Arkansas
Decatur
Pack Self
Self
Mike Mize
Plaza St
Decatur General Hospital
Mize
Mike
Browns Ferry
Cauthen Seeks Aid In Police Academy Action
State Rep. David Cauthen asked LEAA head Jeris Leonard and Rep. Bob Jones for help in convincing LEPA to fund a Calhoun Junior College police academy. He cites North Alabama training needs and says Gov. Wallace backs the effort. Copies went to Wallace, Atty. Gen. Baxley, and U.S. Atty. Dement.
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David Cauthen
Law Enforcement Assistance Administration
Bob Jones
Alabama Law Enforcement Planning Agency
North Alabama
Calhoun Junior College
Jeris Leonard
LEAA
Jones
Cauthen
Lepa
Calhoun
Law Enforcement Planning Agency
North
Alabama
Patromen
Academy
Leonard
George Wallace
Chill prompts gas requests as temps drop
With freeze warnings in effect and temperatures in the low 30s a flood of last minute gas turn on requests hit the City Gas Department. Officials said service was stretched but every effort would be made to help. Continued cool weather and a 40 percent rain chance forecast for Saturday frame the situation.
Hubcaps Stolen From Dragoset Car And Tape From Stereo Center
Police report notes two hubcaps were taken from W H Dragoset at 2006 Woodmont Dr SE from the right side of a parked car. A tape recording was stolen Thursday night from The Stereo Center at 123 Austinville Rd SW.
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W. H. Dragoset
Woodmont Dr. SE
Dragoset
Stereo Center
Austinville Rd
Decatur High School Band Invited to Vienna Festival
The Decatur High School Band earned an invitation to the International Band Festival in Vienna next July as the state’s only entrant in Youth and Music in Vienna 1973. Officials estimate a 100 member, two week trip could cost about 60000 dollars, with boosters seeking funds. The festival is run by the International Association for Cultural Exchange and National Scholarship Foundation, neither of which provides money for attending bands.
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Decatur High School
Vienna
Austria
Curtis Sellers
Sellers
Decatur High School Band Boosters Club
Emergency crisis numbers and helplines across Decatur
The Decatur Daily lists the Crisis Call Center numbers 355 8000 and instructions to contact hospitals or physicians for possible poisoning. It advises dialing zero if unsure of the emergency number and notes department hotlines 353 4612, nights 953 4739.
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Decatur Daily
Kinship and Plaster Bind Sherman Football Families
Charley and Jack Sherman share more than kin in Austin. Dylan and Wendall Sherman clash for the Pee Wee Rams and the Pee Wee Rams with Joey and Dylan for the Austin Black Bears. Four players suffer multiple fractures as they target the season’s end.
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Pee Wee
Joey Sherman
Dylan
Wendall Sherman
Jack
Charley Sherman
Charley
Wendall
Joey
Austin Black Bears
Pee Wee Rams
Austin
Lee
Huntsville
Rams
Bears
Dr. Sims
Prone to injuries Joey returns as team braces for Austin game
Inside By Billy Mitchell chronicles multiple injuries in a football family. Joey breaks a collarbone before Austin's opener against Scottsboro and returns to the lineup with medical approval amid ongoing rolls of injuries to Dylan Wendall and others.
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Joey
Austin
Scottsboro
Lee
Dylan
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James R. Woodall
Denise Woodall
Spencer Cary
Brentwood Apt
Kathy Cary
Cullman
Cullman Hospital
Baptist Medical Centers
Birmingham
Somerville Rd
Ricky Brooks
Shermans
Bobby Herbert
DHS
Sherman
Billy Mitchell
W. A. Sims
Phillip
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