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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1964
Page
2
Complete weather and celestial data for Friday includes sunset at 4 57 p m sunrise tomorrow 6 07 a m moonrise tomorrow at 2 22 a m nov 4 9 53 p m and positions of Jupiter Mars and Venus rising noted with times. Jupiter high overhead at 12 22 a m Mars rising 12 48 a m Venus rising 3 23 a m.
Troopers reported nine traffic incidents with a single injury. A 1962 Ford truck driven by Webb on Highway 157 near Moulton at 7 45 p m and a 1964 Ford driven by Luther McCarty of Florence ran off the road. Total property damage reached 400 for the two vehicles and 1640 for the other seven accidents. Only one occurred in Morgan County.
A Decatur mother told police two women and a man in a blue 1956 or 1957 Plymouth tried to lure her nine year old daughter near Somerville Road School. She provided the license tag, later checked and linked to a 1957 Chevrolet owner in Taft Tennessee.
Athens College becomes Alabama’s first to adopt a three 15 week trimester plan. The change aims to keep students in school year round to enter vocations sooner. A meritorious need based United Scholarship Fund program will provide up to 50000 dollars annually.
A 23 year old Decatur woman Carolyn Sandlin was injured when the automatic moulding machine doors closed trapping her hand at Decatur Plastic about 2 40 am. The machine can press 2000 to 5000 pounds and fellow workers freed her after she was caught for 5 to 10 minutes. She was taken to Baugh Wiley Smith Hospital and was reported resting well later today.
Laddie Arthur Owen 52 principal of Crestline Elementary Hartselle died today at 3 am in a local hospital. He lived at 607 James St SW Decatur. Services Friday 2 pm at Austinville Methodist Church. Burial in Roselawn Cemetery. Survivors include widow Eunice Hammond Owen two daughters Becky Lynne Owen and James W Glasgow's wife, mother, two brothers, one sister and a grandson. He taught and led Moulton Heights Junior High 19 years and Crestline Elementary three years. Funeral home will hold body. church service follows. pallbearers are nephews. Honorary pallbearers include Wesleyan Service and County Board of Education officials.
Francis Johnson 94 died Wednesday at his residence. Funeral at Gunthorp Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. W A Crim and H T Statum officiating. Burial in Roselawn Cemetery. Survived by wife Vennie. four daughters Elsie Grammer Elva Lou Johnson Robert Byars Jr Am on Davis. three sons Frank Johnson James Johnson Chad Johnson. 11 grandchildren 7 great grandchildren and several nieces and nephews. Active pallbearers Leonard Shankle Howard Berryhill W B Golden Jimmy Burden Paul Nesbitt Horace Standridge.
James M Kitchens known as Capp Madison Kitchens 62 died at 6 10 am at his Trinity residence Services will be announced by Gunthorp Funeral Home He is survived by his wife Elsie L Kitchens a son Samuel Kitchens Decatur a daughter Nettie Ruth Kitchens Trinity five sisters and two brothers with step relatives listed in the obituary
Mrs Clara Lemmond died Wednesday at 2 30 PM in a local hospital. Funeral services at Cee Methodist Church conducted by Rev Bob Osborne and another minister. Burial details not fully clear in text.
The Supreme Court refused to convene before election day to hear arguments demanding equal television and radio time for Sen. Barry Goldwater to answer President Johnson's Oct. 18 speech. Vatican Cardinals urge fearless reassessment of birth control teaching
Kenneth Eidum a 38 year old Chicago man held in Morgan County jail on false pretense was received from a U S Marshal after an automobile trade with a Decatur dealer. He is wanted by Park Ridge for possible car theft and faces trial on the false pretense charge before transfer to state or federal authorities. Two sheriff s deputies were arrested Wednesday for highway intoxication.
As of this morning the Limestone County Unit Education Fund has collected 7044 dollars toward a goal of about 34000 dollars led by A P Black in Athens and Limestone County. The first kickoff occurred last week and another drive is planned for early next week in the adjoining cemetery. Survivors include sons W T Lemmond Everett Lemmond and Bruce Lemmond. daughters Mrs Gertrude Siey Mrs Easter Hardy and Mrs Bernice Turney. one sister Mrs Chummy Mitchell. 40 grandchildren 58 great grandchildren and three great great grandchildren. The body will be taken to the residence today at 3 30 p m and in state at the church one hour before services. Grandsons will serve as pallbearers. Mrs Lemmond was a member of Center Springs Methodist Church and lifelong resident of the Winton community.
Emmett O Ellis 76 of Moulton died Wednesday evening after an illness. Services will be Friday at Pleasant Grove Baptist Church with Rev C E Aston officiating. Burial will be in Montgomery Cemetery Shoals. He was a member of Pleasant Grove Baptist Church.
The report lists grain and livestock prices including corn and yellow corn values, yellow and white ear corn, and trade activity. It notes active yet weak hog demand with prices for hogs and barrows, and specifies calf and lamb figures with weights and price ranges.
Wall Street edged higher in late trading with a narrow recovery as the market moved in moderate volume around 40 million shares. The AP report notes cautious activity and limited advances for major indices amid steady selling pressures.
J W Roan of Kennedy Motors reported the theft of a red 1964 Pontiac Bonneville parked on Grant Street with license 52 10377. Brenda F Baucom, 22, collided her 1964 Ford with a parked 1963 Chevrolet on 6th Avenue SW after swerving to avoid a bus. Morgan County Humane Society seeks homes for two puppies and a Persian cat. De catur Royal Arch Masons plan 7:30 PM meeting at the Masonic Temple to confer the concluding capitular degree.
Goldwater denounces Johnson as using false and degrading tricks in a Pennsylvania stop. He accuses the President of telling Americans he would tear up Social Security cards and asserts there is no truth to the smear. He eyes a 250000 vote margin in Philadelphia to win Pennsylvania.
Funeral rites for Mrs Sallie Scales died in Little Rock Ark set for Friday at 2 pm at St James Cumberland Presbyterian Church Burial planned at Royal Cemetery Madison with Reynolds directing Survivors include her husband McKinley Scales two brothers James Sanderfer Mooreville and Wesley Sanderfer Decatur and other relatives announcement of Cleveland Ohio burial plans to follow by Reynolds Funeral Home.
Decatur Electric Department reports TVA area residents saved over 4 million dollars in the 1963 1964 fiscal year vs national average. The average Decatur residential rate is 7.2 mills with 16 000 kwh yearly use, while the national rate is 1.4 cents per kWh.
A scanned hospital report lists names of new babies and recent dismissals. Notable entries include infants Connie Meadows and infant daughter of Mrs. Meville C. Newman, with parents in Athens Madison and Decatur areas. The list also shows multiple adults and infants connected to addresses in Athens Decatur Madison Ardmore and surrounding locales.
The notice lists admissions or acknowledgments for several individuals including Mrs. M. E. Busby of Decatur and Mrs. Gordon Terry of Trinity with dates noted. Also named are Mrs. L. L. Bates Hartselle James Johnson Florence Miss Sheri Rule Florence Tillman Moses Danville and infant daughter and others residing in Decatur West Court Apt Belle Mina and 1616 Chestnut.
Mr and Mrs Charles Bird welcome a girl born Wednesday at Decatur General Hospital. Mr and Mrs Charles Morris report a daughter born Wednesday at Baugh Wiley Smith Hospital. About half of chronically ill in the US are age 65 and older.
Multiple small town notices describe carnivals and programs at Gordon Bibb Riverside Somerville Road West Decatur Carver Negro Elementary and Walter Jackson. Events run 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. with cafeteria foods including hot dogs and hamburgers, plus rooms hosting games, cake walk and haunts. A talent show in the auditorium 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. and an art silhouettes segment are noted. Additional items include a pumpkin and fish pond, a six project fair, and a tree of other offerings. Separate notices mention a Halloween program from 4 to 7 and a costume or carnival theme with related food services.{" "}
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