Wallace Vetoes Seven Bills at End of Alabama Session
Gov. George Wallace used a pocket veto to kill seven bills on the session’s final day. He struck five local measures and a liquor agent proposal, plus an interim Highway Department study panel, while signing appropriations and various modernization acts. An ethnology note about Philippine first inhabitants follows.
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Montgomery
George Wallace
Highway Department
Senate
Wallace
Morgan County
Airman Carideo Named Wheel Guard At Moffett Field
Airman Pasquale Carideo aged 24 earned the 35th wheel guard honor since 1957 for firing three red flares to alert a landing pilot with wheels up.
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Moffett Field
Calif
Pasquale Carideo
Baltimore Flags Half Mast for Birmingham Killings
Baltimore Mayor Theodore R. McKeldin ordered city flags to fly at half mast and urged observance of a day of commemoration for the four Birmingham Sunday School bombing victims. He urged that their deaths awaken the national conscience against bigotry and intolerance. The Baltimore CORE chapter announced a silent march to honor the four victims and William Moore, the Baltimore mailman killed in Alabama during integration protests.
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Baltimore
Theodore R
McKeldin
The
Congress of Racial Equality
William Moore
Alabama
Mississippi
Ross Barnett
Texas Firm Seeks Oil in Alabama Drilling Plan
At Dallas the Texas firm American Petrofina negotiates a major oil exploration program in southwest Alabama. The pact with Scotch Lumber Co charges 20 wells on 150000 acres in Clarke County with four wells yearly for five years. Wells to 3000 to 4000 feet, tests possible deeper.
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American Petrofina
Grove Hill
Clarke County
Driving Both Sides of the Street Crackdown in Kansas
In Topeka Kansas the state began a 1962 crackdown on legally blind drivers who receive welfare for blindness. Over 15 months 136 individuals surrendered their driver's licenses as proof of their condition.
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Topeka
Kan
Kansas
City Man Heads Accounting Unit
Joe T. Jones of the Chemstrand plant presided as incoming president at the meeting.
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City Man Heads Accounting
Joe T. Jones
Chemstrand
Birthday Dinner Honors Fletcher Turney at 90
A group of friends and relatives celebrated Fletcher Turney's 90th birthday at his home. J. L. Sivley began his freshman year at Athens College last week. Giles Steelman home partially destroyed by fire Sunday afternoon. cause unknown.
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Fletcher Turney
Giles Steelman
J. L. Sivley
Athens College
North Alabama Chapter Forms New Officers in Huntsville
The North Alabama Chapter of the National Association of Accountants met in Huntsville Tuesday night. T. K. Murrell of Fruehauf in Decatur will be secretary. Decatur heads include Milton J. Hughes employment Robert L. Raney programs and Carlos A Del Rio special activities. Principal speaker was Robert J. Hinz chief accountant Brown Engineering Huntsville. Andrew S. Jones Chemstrand received silver pen for five years perfect attendance. Kenneth A. Erikson Chemstrand welcomed as one of seven new members.
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North Alabama
National Association of Accountants
Huntsville
T. K. Murrell
Fruehauf
Decatur
Milton J. Hughes
Robert L. Raney
Carlos A. del Rio
Hughes
Thiokol Chemical Co
Raney
del Rio
Chemstrand
Robert J. Hinz
Brown Engineering Co
Andrew S. Jones
Kenneth A. Erikson
Champ Pickens Dies At 87, Blue-Gray Promoter and Rose Bowl Pioneer
William Champ Pickens founder of the Blue-Gray game died at 87 in a Tuscaloosa nursing home after illness. He helped name the Million Dollar Band and guided Alabama’s first Rose Bowl trip in 1926. Survived by two daughters, a son, and a sister. funeral plans incomplete.
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Tuscaloosa
Ala
William
Champ) Pickens
Pickens
University of Alabama
Alabama
The
Tide
Floyd Curry
Mexico
Mary Champ
Rose
California
W. H. Pickens
Hampton
Pratt Taratt
Livingston
Reverend Bobby Osborne Studying at Athens College
Pastor Rev. Bobby Osborne is enrolled as a student at Athens College while serving his congregation. Larry Winton remains a patient at Hartselle Hospital after recent surgery.
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Bobby Osborne
Athens College
Larry Winton
Hartselle Hospital
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J. Price Waddell
Decatur Electric Motor Service
Mid-South
Electrical Apparatus Service Association, Inc
EASA
St. Louis
Waddell
Murphy Miller Jr
Knoxville
Tenn
Walter Brush
Birmingham
Charles Vaughn Jr
Union City
International Trade Organization of
North America
Division of Conservation Department
Gulf State Park
Alabama Boys Industrial School
Mt. Meigs
Gettysburg
University of South Alabama
Mobile
State Sovereignty Commission
Philippines
Asia
Texas
Birmingham-Southern College
Freddie Lewis
Jada Winton
Anne- Howard Fenn
Ricky Evans
Katherine Warren
Vivian McDonald
Mobile Post Office
Morgan County Center Springs
Arlene Sivley
Champ Pickens
Church Street
N.E
State National Bank
Member
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Sixth Avenue N.E
General
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