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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1930
Page
10
Babson Park Massachusetts reports that public works and utilities spending of 3 billion dollars in 1930 mitigates a 46 percent drop in residential building. Gains in public projects, bonds and long term financing expand road and utility construction boosting employment and future growth.
Melvin Holt county surveyor is employed to survey Morgan streets and draft concrete paving specs. September 8 is the protest hearing date. The cost shares: city one third and property owners two thirds.
Athens Alabama residents will see paving on several unpaved streets and main streets in the Coleman Heights addition. The city council approved the ordinance to proceed, noting most of Athens was paved a decade ago while Coleman Heights remained unfinished.
State and city governments and public utilities push speedier public works to soften business depression. Long range planning, budgeting, and scientific methods are urged as essential to future facilities and expenditure control. Babson chart shows 16 percent below normal versus 12 percent above last year.
Ruth Barron, 20, of Los Angeles, trained six months and became the seventeenth woman in the United States to receive a transport pilot license issued by the Associated Press.
Two new machines valued at 10000 dollars each have arrived at the Alabama Hosiery Mills marking the first step in a large expansion plan. Additional units are expected to arrive at a rate of about two per month as the project proceeds.
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