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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1972
Page
1
Mayor-elect Russell Bolding won a decisive Decatur runoff and will decide next week whether to take sole appointive power for city departments. Councilmen-elect Richard Lee and Byron Vann also won big and pledged support for Bolding’s choice.
Freida Jane Buttram, 16, Hazelwood High School junior, Town Creek, won Miss Lawrence County at Morgan County Fair. First alternate Ibby Irwin, 17, a Lawrence County High School senior from Moulton, and second runner-up Beverly Masterson, 16, Hatton, also placed. Miss Limestone County will be crowned tonight with competitors from Athens and East Limestone High, followed by Miss Morgan County on Thursday and the Miss Tennessee Valley Exposition vote Saturday. Entertainment features Tom T Hall and Sego Brothers. Judging includes bantams and cattle, with dairy results reported.
Bolding defeats Gunthorp by a wide margin to become mayor amid heavy voter turnout. Guntharp vows full support and vows to focus on business. Bolding promises accessible leadership and plans for a city coliseum and Beltline Road improvements. Lee and Vann win separate city posts as incumbents toppled.
A Senate revenue sharing bill would give small states more funds while suburbs may lose compared with the House plan. The Senate 63 to 20 vote rewrote the bill to remove income tax incentives and added a new section limiting federal funds for social services. The two versions still total $29.6 billion over five years, but funding formulas differ, reducing aid to 17 urban industrial states under the Senate approach.
Washington AP reports two Soviet aircraft flew a 12 hour reconnaissance mission Monday from bases in Cuba and returned there, the first time Russians carried out such a mission from Cuba and back. In Montgomery AP says IRS agent told a federal jury former state finance director Seymore Trammell had a tax deficiency of over $5 300 for 1967 and 1968.
Pope Paul VI denounced contraception abortion adultery and divorce as making modern man vulgar and sad in Castel Gandolfo. He warned psychoanalysis and sexual education fuel porno magazines and sex shows contributing to environmental immorality and narcotic addiction during his weekly audience.
Hilda Hudson of 1314 Fifth Ave SE sold her 1965 Ford Mustang with a low cost ad and gained 19 more responses. The paper promotes a Want Ad Round-Up Special offering 3 lines for 14 days at four dollars.
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