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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1972
Page
1
A private F86 Sabrejet taking off from Executive Airport crashed into Farrell's Ice Cream Parlor, killing 22 and injuring 26 as a birthday party group of 17 was served. The plane, converted to civilian use, plowed through the wall amid a crowd of about 100 people.
In Morgan County a jury of 11 men and 1 woman was selected for the first degree murder trial of Mrs Gail Vileno over the April 14 1971 slaying of her ex husband Michael George Vileno an engineering lecturer at Redstone Arsenal. The panel was completed shortly before noon after questioning and challenges.
North Vietnamese forces pushed attacks about 25 miles south of Da Nang aiming to seize access routes to Highway 1. A militia outpost held by 100 men reported under attack by two NVA companies. government troops near Quang Ngai City work to clear Highway 1 as rockets and mortars hit fronts. U S B52 bombers struck targets in North Vietnam while fighting continued in Thua Thien, Quang Tri, and Cambodia fronts.
North Vietnam's Prime Minister Pham Van Dong told a Hanoi audience that remaining pilots in captivity will be freed only when a war settlement is reached. He cited the seven point Viet Cong proposal for a total U.S. withdrawal and a coalition government. He endorsed the Paris statement on a three party coalition excluding Thieu but allowing Saigon to name a third of the government.
The piece notes that in 1942 wartime gasoline rationing was ordered in the United States. It appears in a Daily calendar section with weather details and mentions local contact numbers.
Gov. George Wallace's cost control report urges eliminating small districts to cut costs. A plan would abolish 52 districts with enrollments under 4,000, potentially ending Athens and Cullman systems with enrollments of 3,300 and 2,783 respectively.
AP dispatch notes Sargent Shriver saying Democrats for Nixon have little in common with most Americans. Briefs also report a massive gasoline storage fire in Chattanooga injuring seven and a bank robbery in Wetumpka with suspects fleeing north on U S 231.
The Morgan County Commission voted a 3,273,346.68 dollar general fund budget for the 1972 73 fiscal year, up by 390,721.74 from last year. Chairman Dick Fleming called it a good budget with increases across departments including clerk hire and sheriff automobile expenses.
Two Louisiana men, Louis Ricarte Jr. and Willard Joseph Martin, were to stand trial in circuit court on charges tied to the January abduction of Courtland Patrolman David Briscoe. Briscoe said he was kidnapped after stopping a car he believed carried an intoxicated driver. A gun was leveled and a warning given during the incident.
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