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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1971
Page
6
The page lists a dense Saturday schedule with show times and titles across channels and genres including 6 Bible Answers 6 Across the Fence 5 Summer Semester 6 Youth Speaks Out 13 Living Word 19 Dixie Digest and many cartoons dramas and news programs. It enumerates time slots from early afternoon to late night with entries for Sesame Street Dr Doolittle Jetsons The Twilight Zone and sport and film programs along with news segments and specials.
Monthly events span Flint Baptist Church 7 30 p m church singing and alumni banquets at Fairview High Cullman 7 30 p m with steak dinner. Huntsville Gem and Mineral Society Fossils talk 7 p m Room 325 courthouse open to public. Reunions at Delano Park Red Oak Grove Church and Deer Springs Baptist. County board of registrars sessions 7 8 30 a m and 1 2 p m. W S C S meetings Central United Methodist 9 15 a m and 10 a m with Mildred Taylor slides. Coffey Family Reunion Joe Wheeler Home 10 a m picnic. SBA rep in Acuff Building Huntsville 8 30 a m 4 30 pm to discuss loan policies. Tuesday AAUW annual membership fee 7 30 p m State National Bank Penthouse. Gold Age Club 10 30 a m Ninth Street Methodist with speaker Mrs. Russell Davis. Blanche Jones Bible Class 10 a m.
A dense listing presents in Wilmington and New York venues the Best Bets closing play in the 71st U S Amateur and opening round singles at the U S Open in Forest Hills plus a Little League World Series anniversary salute, pro football exhibition, and a Tom Jones special with guests. Also includes a slate of classic films and TV features across stations.
A newspaper note announces Tell Me Why soliciting questions with name age address and zip code for a Robert Bruce prize tied to The New Book of Knowledge. The text recounts Robert Bruce’s life from 1274 birth, through murder of John Comyn, coronation as Robert I, spider legend, Bannockburn victory, and 1328 treaty, ending with Bruce’s death and burial sites.
Classic 1950s bill shows James Stewart in Winchester 73 with Winters followed by Captain Tightfoot starring Rock Hudson and Barbara Rush. Frank Frankenstein melodrama stars Whit Bissell and Gary Conway at 11:30 and 12 p.m.
A comic exchange unfolds as a boy calms his mother about the painted floor and covers it with paper, while a doctor delivers a grim verdict about the wife’s mind, and a husband quips about decades of shared strain.
A brief note from Knowledge Yearbook explains varsity as a shortened form of university. The Washington Star Syndicate invites riddles and jokes and asks readers to send Zip Code for submissions.
Ocean City Maryland officials revoke a sightseeing helicopter landing permit after residents complain the frequent flights up to fifty a day create noise pollution and constitute a nuisance along the flight path. The move follows a city council response to local complaints about the chopper operations and their impact on residents.
Legal notice states Lindsay Clay Callaham Jr seeks publication against Wanda Callaham in equity. Defendant nonresident, age over 21, unknown address. plead by October 5, 1971. Also probate notice: Alfred Kenneth Ball estate administrator seeks claims by law deadline.
General admissions include many Decatur area individuals with numerous given names and surnames. Dismissals list multiple residents from Decatur Athens Moulton and nearby towns. Birth notices report newborns to couples in Decatur Alexander Moulton Athens Hartselle and related communities with hospital location Decatur General Hospital.
Public hearing set for October 12 1971 at 10 00 AM in Morgan County Courthouse Decatur Alabama to examine the amended viewers report and file exceptions as provided by law. Bryan McAfee Judge of Probate Morgan County Alabama notes four date sequence ending 18.
The Sunday column warns of a payoff year where actions by you and others come home to roost with mixed results. It notes natives are imaginative, romantic and musically gifted, and lists zodiac specific guidance including Aries, Taurus, Gemini and others with daily temperaments and tasks. The Chicago Tribune Underground Gallery Montreal note follows about a subway mosaic project across 26 stations by different architects.
This notice records the dissolution August 31 1971 of the Georgia Carpet Sales partnership formed by Robert B Foster Kenneth Lunsford and John L Broadwell at 1212 Fourth Avenue SE Decatur Alabama The remaining partners Lunsford and Broadwell will continue the business under the same name and assume all liabilities and debts PMID 9411918 G and WASphalt Co Inc gives notice of completion of contract with the State of Alabama for project 1115 T in Morgan County with four weekly notices September 4 1971 to September 25 1971 and invites claims at 1107 Beltline Rd SE Decatur AL The Decatur Gas Department seeks PSC approval to transport modularized gas from its plant at McEntire Lane and Highway 20 to the first regulating station near Vine Street to serve Monsanto Company Written objections to the transportation action must reach the Alabama Public Service Commission by September 30 1971 The Decatur Gas Department Decatur Alabama Also notes a Board of Zoning Adjustment meeting in Decatur.
The Board of Zoning Adjustment of Decatur will hold a 4:00 p.m. hearing on September 8, 1971, at City Hall on Lee Street for eight cases. Applications involve sideyard, rear yard, front yard, and lot area variances for properties on Eighth Avenue NW, Eleventh Avenue SE, Fink Street NW, Madison Street NW, Highway 31 South, and Fourth Avenue NE. Significantly, cases include Mrs. Brackin, B D Cagle, Ethel Picket, Ernest Mathews, Ross Malone Jr., S G Stanley, and Eyster Eyster and Key.
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