State Campers Meet in Decatur at Point Mallard
Alabama state association of the National Campers and Hikers Association gathers in Decatur for fall campout with up to 300 mobile homes and about 1200 campers expected. Evening programs include music and skits at the park amphitheater as hydroplane racing on the Tennessee River nearby provides daytime activity. Officers for the year will be installed, led by Mr and Mrs Jim Haney of Gadsden as president and other pairs serving as officers.
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Alabama State Association
National Campers and Hikers Association
Decatur
Point Mallard
Tennessee River
Alabama Mountain Lakes Association
Jim Haney
Gadsden
Bill Garrish
Florence
John Brown
Lewis Cheatwood
Bessemer
Crisis numbers and helpline guidance from The Decatur Daily
The notice lists a Crisis Call Center number 355 8000 for personal crises and possible poisoning guidance. It directs calling the center or nearest hospital or family physician, with 0 as a universal operator number for unsure emergencies. The Decatur Daily lists Athens department contact 734 0342.
Hearings recap of major antiwar cases from 1968 to 1973
The text lists multiple antiwar era cases including HARRISBURG SEVEN with Philip Berrigan and six others accused of kidnapping Kissinger and vandalism but deadlocked. CAMDEN SEVENTEEN where seventeen protesters were acquitted. SPOCK-COFFIN with Spock and Coffin convictions later overturned. SEATTLE SEVEN with contempt and eventual dismissal. and PENTAGON PAPERS where Elisberg and Russo faced charges later dismissed amid fair-trial concerns and a break in at Elisberg's psychiatrist.
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Julius J. Hoffman
Harrisburg
Philip Berrigan
Henry A. Kissinger
Washington
Berrigan
Lewisburg
Berrigan’s
FBI
Camden
Draft Board
Yale
William Sloane Coffin
Boston
Marcus Raskin
1St
U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Spock
Michael Ferber
Coffin
Mitchell Goodwin
Seattle
Seattle Liberation Front
U.S
Pentagon Papers
Daniel Elisberg
Anthony Russo
Elisberg
White House
Cadet Spears Completes Army ROTC Summer Camp
Cadet Preston A. Spears son of Mr and Mrs Albert P Spears of Madison completed practical work in military leadership at the Army ROTC advanced summer camp from June 23 to August 3. A Jacksonville State University student, he was among about 7200 ROTC trainees across five U.S. installations. His wife Cindy resides at 311 Nisbet Street in Jacksonville.
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FT. Bragg
N. C
Preston A. Spears
Albert P. Spears
Dublin Circle
Madison
Army Reserve Officers’ Training Corps
Spears
Jacksonville State University
U.S
Three Types Of Tickets For Point Mallard Races
Three ticket options exist for the Point Mallard hydroplane weekend. Advance family passes cost 6 dollars for all three race days, with bathhouse access restricted. Daily individual race tickets are 2 dollars at the west gate near the aquatic center picnic ground, also denying bathhouse use.
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Point Mallard
Aquatic Center
New West Gate
Nd Beach
Murphy’s
Gateway Shopping Center
Super X Drugs
Decatur Shopping Center
AAA
Bank St
How Obedient Is Your Dog
The Jim Dandy Co vice president notes rising dog food prices hardly shift buying. He cites that owners view dogs as family members and prefer feeding them dog food over table scraps, despite changes in home cooking. Benny Jones of a dog food firm says scraps have declined as cooking habits shift and dog food remains cheaper.
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Jim Dandy Co
Benny Jones
Pot Sale Charged To Trinity Youth
An 18 year old Trinity youth identified as Robert H Yeager was arrested Friday and charged with unlawful sale of marijuana a felony He is held in Morgan County Jail on 1000 bond Yeager was arrested in Decatur with few details released by sheriff s department officials
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Trinity 1
Sheriff’s Department
Robert H. Yeager
Morgan County
Yeager
Decatur
Jury weighs need for tapes in VVAW case in Gainesville
Attorneys argued to jurors that replaying testimony by William W. Lemmer and Charles H. Becker would delay deliberations. The defendants named include Camil and Michelson of Gainesville and others from Austin Texas Hollywood Florida Hialeah Florida and Gainesville.
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William W. Lemmer
Charles H. Becker
Arnow
Lemmer
Becker
VVAW
Jacksonville
Fla
Camil and
Michelson
Gainesville
William J. Patterson
John Kniffin
Austin
Tex
Peter J. Mahoney
Hollywood
Alton C. Fodd
Hialeah
Donald P. Perdue
Roaches Parade Wall to Wall In City Home Study
A resident describes roaches as wall to wall and thriving due to an unfailing food supply. The insects eat custard pies rotten fruit TV insulation wires soap and paper. They will eat any organism that holds still even dead soft caterpillar-like matter.
Lawmen search woods for kidnaping suspects near Athens
More than 50 lawmen hunted through woods in Limestone County after a grocery operator was kidnapped and robbed at knifepoint. A car believed stolen by the suspects was found in a Hays Mills barn. Police chased Tommy Pylant, 20, an escapee, in the same case as Mrs Judy Blakely reported the robbery and abduction.
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Athens
Limestone County
Hays Mills
Tommy Pylant
Judy Blakely
A New Consensus Kissinger Calls for Bipartisan Foreign Policy
The Birmingham News weighs Henry Kissinger’s call for a new consensus in U.S. foreign policy. It notes erosion of bipartisanship since FDR and Johnson era, with Fulbright bloc resisting Nixon administration aims. Kissinger promises more open, better explained policy if a new consensus emerges.
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Birmingham News
Henry Kissinger
Kissinger
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Lyndon Johnson
Congress
Democratic Party
Nixon
Sen
J. William Fulbright
U.S
Sen. Fulbright
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Fulbright
Obedience Class Aims to Strengthen Decatur Dog Ties
Lee Sentell notes dog owners feel closer to pets than nonowners. Decatur’s German Shepherd Dog Club plans a 12 week obedience course at Delano Park and T C Almon Recreation Center Spot, awarding completion certificates to dogs meeting basics. Classes start Thursdays with screenings at the recreation center.
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Blackie
Decatur
Jim Coney
German Shepherd Dog Club
Coney
Shepherd Club
Couey
T. C. Almon Recreation Center
Delano Park
Morgan Women Free On Bond
Two Morgan County women were released on $750 bond each after charges of transporting 25 cases of beer. Sheriff John C. McBride identified Jessie Irene Haney, 50, of 1017 18th Ave SE, and Kathy Heaps, 22, of Hartseller, as the arrestees, with arrest by Chief Deputy Harry Perry and Deputy Danny Hall.
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Morgan County
John C. McBride
Jessie Irene Haney
18Th Ave
Kathy Heaps
Hartseller
Harry Perry
Danny Hall
Fire damages home on Sycamore Street NW. no injuries
A Friday fire damaged portions of a house on Sycamore Street NW. No one was harmed in the blaze and officials reported limited injuries. The cause remains under investigation by local authorities.
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Sycamore St
Wallace opens $10 million state road improvement plan
Gov. George C. Wallace announced Alabama will invest ten million dollars in road work across eight counties. Eleven contracts were let for resurfacing safety devices and signaling projects in Mobile Monroe Randolph Montgomery Shelby Limestone Pike and Covington.
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Limestone
Alabama
George C. Wallace
Wallace
Mobile
Monroe
Randolph Montgomery
Shelby Limestone
Pike and
Covington
Fire destroys home on Sycamore Street NW
Fire officials say a blaze started in a home occupied by Harris Toney at 819 Sycamore St NW. Toney reported a bed caught fire and could not determine the fire’s cause.
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Harris Toney
Sycamore St. NW
Toney
Bottle blocks cooling water at UK steel works
A bricklayer at a Sheffield area steel plant tried to chill lemonade by placing a bottle in the cooling water feed. The bottle fell into the water pipe, blocking flow and halting production until workers recovered the bottle.
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Sheffield
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Camping Chiefs
State Association
Point Mallard Park
Highway Patrol
911
Hartselle
Lawrence County
Cullman
THE
Decatur Daily
Brookhaven Baptist Church
Southern Baptist Church
Memorial Drive
S.W
ALL Services
John H. Tucker
Wayne Fields
Austinville
Church OF Christ
State Avenue
James W. Clark
Wajf Radio
Preston Spears
Cindy
Nisbet St
Trinity Youth
Tennessee Valley Printing Co., Inc
W.R. Shelton
Associated Press
By Lee Sentell
Morgan
Bottle Block
Stockbridge
England
Trinity Chapel
Decatur, Ala
St. John ‘S Episcopal Church
Raben Stewart
Iness
John McCormick
Chattanooga, Tenn
Moulton Heights
Old Moulton RD
Bible Conference
Lamar Ingle
16Th Ave
Beech St
S.E
Ken Chambers
Ninth Street
United Methodist Church
Freeman M. Smith
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