Who Audits The Auditors In Alabama
Gov. George Wallace and his cost control survey committee call for an independent audit of the Department of Examiners of Public Accounts. The 178 page report says current law requires audits but none exist for this department. Officials support study while Wallace reviews the findings and aims to implement 40 to 50 percent of recommendations.
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Winford Turner
Montgomery
Department of Examiners of Public Accounts
George Wallace
Division of Control’ Accounts
Eriter
Division of Control and Accounts
Legislative Committee On Public Accounts
Gov. Wallace
Wallace
Spain Rehabilitation Center
Birmingham
Melba Till Allen
Decatur Native Secures Jamaica Post With Project Hope
Decatur native Fred Price, after eight years of waiting for a tough low paying post, lands a job in Jamaica with Project Hope. The 30-year-old will endure hard labor in a challenging living and working setup as his new assignment.
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Fred Price
Decatur
Price
Jamaica
Project Hope
Price to Direct UWI School of Anesthesia in Kingston
Price, a 1960 Decatur High School graduate, will direct the University of the West Indies School of Anesthesia in Kingston. A former Army medical officer who served in Vietnam, he aims to train native directors and keep the program self supporting while teaching at UWI for about 18 months. He previously worked at Decatur General Hospital and Baptist Medical Center in Birmingham and recently returned from Yuba City California.
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Price
University of the West Indies
Kingston
Project Hope
Decatur High School
University of Alabama Medical Center
Southwest Missouri School of
Vietnam
Decatur General Hospital
Baptist Medical Center
Birmingham
Yuba City
Calif
Hope
Brazil
West Indies
Dan ‘Price
Sth Ave
Idaho Falls mother seeks clues to dead father in Decatur
Mrs Patricia Jones and her daughter Pamela arrived in Decatur to trace James Reed born around 1906 and believed to have lived with Decatur Fire Chief E L Ford about 1910. They will search school records and may consult local firemen, hoping to locate Harold or Harry Reed, his possible brother, last seen in 1914.
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Patricia Jones
Pamela
Jones
James Reed
Ogden
Utah
Mr. Reed
Chattanooga
Decatur
E. L. Ford
James
Harold
Harry
Wallace Back In Hospital in Alabama
Governor George C. Wallace returned to Montgomery this afternoon for a routine checkup at Spain Rehabilitation Center as part of his ongoing treatment. He had two abdominal abscesses drained after gunshot wounds from a May 15 assassination attempt in Laurel Maryland and had recently been discharged to Montgomery.
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Birmingham
Ala
Govy
George C. Wallace
Montgomery
Spain Rehabilitation Center
Wallace
Holy Cross Hospital
Silver Spring
Laurel
Spain
Emergency contact numbers and crisis guidance notice
The Decatur Daily lists the Crisis Call Center numbers 355 8000 for personal crises and possible poisoning advice. It advises calling 0 to reach an operator if unsure of the correct emergency number and provides department phone lines for the newspaper.
L and N Freight Train Derails Near Decatur
A Louisville and Nashville freight train derailed about five miles south of Decatur interrupting service. Seven cars were derailed, no injuries reported, damage considered minor, and operations were to resume later in the day. Cause under investigation.
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Louisville and Nashville
Decatur
C. W. Ashby
Ashby
Second Trial Opens in Lonnie White Robbery Case
The second trial of Lonnie White, charged with armed robbery of a Lawrence County service station last April, began in Moulton with jurors hearing about the earlier mistrial. Witness Jesse Brazelle refused to link White to the crime, while co-defendant Brazelle pleaded guilty and received 30 years. The April 26 holdup at Kayo Service Station on Alabama 20 involved gunpoint coercion, a car ride to Mallard Creek Rd, and the loss of about $100 in cash plus company funds. White also faces a kidnapping charge related to the incident.
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Moulton
Lonnie White
Lawrence
White
Jesse Brazelle
Dist. Atty
Tom Pettus
Brazelle
Kayo
Alabama 20
Jamie Stewart
Mallard Creek Rd
Stewart
Protect Belle Mina Opposes Route That Harms Historic Sites
The Morgan County Historical Preservation Society urged planners to choose an 1-565 route away from Belle Mina and Mooresville due to potential harm to the Belle Mina mansion built in 1826. They stopped short of opposing the project, and endorsed listing the house on the National Register. The group also planned nomination papers for the Dancy Polk House.
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Huntsville
Mooresville
Belle Mina
Limestone County
Thomas Bibb
Morgan County Historical Preservation Society
Ed Horton
Greenbriar
Thomas Bowles
Bowleses
Society
Douglas Fuller
Fuller
Dancy- Polk House
Railroad St
Ned Anderson
Limestone Liquor Petition Filed for November Referendum
A petition containing nearly 2500 signatures was filed with Limestone County Probate Judge James Newby seeking a liquor referendum. If 2250 valid names are confirmed, the vote would be set for November 7. The count was to be completed later today.
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Athens
Limestone County
James Newby
Newby
Jeane Dixon to Speak at Athens College Gym
nationally syndicated columnist Jeane Dixon will lecture at Athens College on October 26 at 8 p.m. in the school gymnasium. Dixon, author of several bestsellers and the daily Jeane Dixon Horoscope, rose to prominence from Ruth Montgomery's book A Gift of Prophecy.
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Athens
Jeane Dixon
Athens College
America
Decatur Man Kicked by Horse Suffered Head Injury
Yancey V. Hughes Jr. of 1502 Fairview Drive was kicked in the head while working at his father's Courtland area farm. He was found in fairly good condition at Baugh Wiley Smith Hospital after an ambulance transfer from Courtland.
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Decatur
Baugh-Wiley-Smith Hospital
Courtland
Yancey V. Hughes Jr
Fairview Dr
Hughes
Baugh- Wiley-Smith Hospital
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Union Springs
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Idaho
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W. H. Rogers
Dan Nelson
Nelson
Billy C. Burney
Butner
Lewis
Edward Goode
Limestone Liquor Petition
Tennessee River
Steve Allen
New Hampshire
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