Decatur Directors Named For Better Business Bureau Unit
Four executive board members were named as directors for the Better Business Bureau in the Decatur area with a fifth to be added soon. The expansion places Decatur under the Greater Northern Alabama BBB, including Florence and Muscle Shoals as secondary areas. The Decatur directors will advise on handling abuses while maintaining support for legitimate businesses, with a direct Decatur Huntsville line to be added by late October enabling free reports.
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Better Business Bureau
Decatur
Irvin Commander
Decatur Transfer & Storage Co
Roy McAllister
Chemstrand
Monsanto Corp
Paul Robinson
Robinson Furniture Co
W. J. Hubbert
Hicks Chevrolet
Direc
Waylon Hawkins
Huntsville
Huntsville-Madison County
BBB
Hawkins
Alabama
Florence
Tuscumbia
Sheffield
Muscle Shoals
Bureau
Clara's Name Brand Discount Shoes Opens on 6th Avenue
Walter and Clara Martin open Clara's Name Brand Discount Shoes at 1414-B 6th Ave SE offering ladies' shoes by size arranged racks. The semi self service store features lay away with new image concepts. Owners plan a future move to Decatur while employing three staff plus Mrs Standridge and two part timers. Hours are 9 to 6 Mon Tue Wed Sat and 9 to 9 Thu Fri.
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Clara
Discount Shoes
6Th Ave
Walter
Clara Martin
Brown Engineering Names Kay Slayden Vice President
Brown Engineering Co. promotes Kay W. Slayden to vice president overseeing corporate contract administration planning and control. The 31 year old native of Lyons Georgia joined in 1960 and previously led the Astrionics and Electronic Systems divisions while directing the corporate operations office. He holds a Auburn University engineering degree and is a member of AIAA IEEE and the Brown Management Club.
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Brown
Joseph C. Maquin
Slayden
Lyons
Columbus
Auburn University
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
The
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Brown Management Club
Jeffreys Promoted to Senior Fiber Quality Engineer
William J. Jeffreys Jr. is named senior fiber quality engineer at Decatur Chemstrand, directing work in the Polyester Quality Section of the Quality Control Department. A 14 year Chemstrand veteran, he joined as a lab assistant in 1952 and has held multiple supervisory roles, with degrees from Florence State College and George Peabody College. He and his wife Marie reside in Moulton with their two children.
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William J. Jeffreys, Jr
Decatur Chemstrand
Cole Downing
Decatur
Jeffreys
Chemstrand
Aerilan
Lawrence County
Florence State College
George Peabody College
American Society of Quality Control
Marie
Moulton
Linton Named New Athens Bootery Manager
H M Linton of Athens has been named manager of Athens Bootery a new shoe store opening at the Athens Shopping Center next to the Big K. The co owner brings 33 years in shoe sales and the store will offer men women and children footwear across 3000 square feet of floor space opening soon.
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Athens
H. M. Linton
Athens’ Bootery
Linton
Neety W,ll
Decatur Man Qualifies for New York Life Top 10 Club
Bobby Murphy of Decatur has qualified as a member of the 1966 Top 10 Club of New York Life Insurance Co. He will attend this year's educational conference August 29 to September 1 at Kiamasha Lake, New York.
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Bobby Murphy
Decatur
New York Life Insurance Co
Kiamasha Lake
N. Y
Auto Industry Will Feel Tight Money Squeeze Too
New York AP reports rising interest rates tighten auto financing and mortgage markets. Dealers face higher costs as finance companies charge 6 to 6.5 percent, banks 6.2 percent, likely passing increases to buyers. The credit squeeze also affects business inventories and investor shifts from stocks.
TVA Pays Bills Of S652 Million
The Tennessee Valley Authority bought equipment, materials and services totaling more than 652 million dollars in the year ending June 30. Purchases covered every state in the continental U S and the District of Columbia, with 419 million outside TVA’s seven-state valley. Nuclear fuel and many manufactured items came from outside the Valley states. coal and raw materials were mostly purchased inside the seven states.
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Tennessee Valley Authority
U.S
District of Columbia
Tennessee Valley
TVA
Congress
DISCO Names Two Key Personnel Appointments
Decatur Iron & Steel Co president Herman L. Hennessey announces George F. Gross as production manager and John W. Travis as industrial relations manager. Gross came from Brown Stove Works in Cleveland Tennessee and has Chattanooga roots and a University of Chattanooga BS in industrial engineering. Travis' background spans Space Craft Inc Brown Engineering Hayes International and Alabama Flour Mills, and he moved to Decatur in 1956. He lives in Madison with his wife Gertrude and their two children, plus a son in Decatur.
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Decatur Iron & Steel Co
Herman L. Hennessey
George F. Gross
John W. Travis
Indus
Gross
Brown Stove Works Inc
Cleveland, Tenn
Brown Stove Works
Combustion Engineering Co
Chattanooga
Tenn
University of Chattanooga
Dorothy
Decatur
Travis
DISCO
Aerospace Industries
Huntsville
Space Craft Inc
Brown Engineering
Hayes International
Aerospace Industry
Alabama Flour Mills
Food Prices Continue Up
New York AP reports food prices rose again this week with bread milk eggs and butter up sharply. Weather cuts grain vegetables and fruit supplies while higher labor costs affect all items from lettuce to watermelons. Butter hits highest since 1952. Forecasts expect short crops of corn peas beans and cherries with higher prices for fresh and later canned and frozen varieties. A large pear crop remains. Meat prices vary by region with beef ribs veal pork and turkey showing mixed changes.
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New York
Pacific Northwest
California
Portland
Ore
San Francisco
Midwest
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Joyce Gilchrist
Alverine Montgomery
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