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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1968
Page
2
The next enrollment date for business education at Calhoun State Technical School is Tuesday for day classes and Wednesday for night classes. Carlton Kelley president urged applicants for secretarial or junior accounting programs to contact the school for entrance forms.
A Salem area meeting to discuss forming a one square mile incorporation is set for 7:45 p.m. at West Limestone High School in the vocational education building. Wallace Steele, spokesman for the organization, is quoted describing the plan.
Athens Jaycees volunteer as daytime radio announcers for the second annual Jaycee Radio Day on WKAC. They sign on at dawn and sign off at dusk, spinning records reading newscasts and operating the station to raise funds for shoe programs and the Jaycee children park.
The fourth annual advanced hair styling show at Calhoun State Technical School is set for September 15 with a styling course September 16 to 18. I C Craig and Curtis Dolan invite enrollments and outline contest rules for licensed barbers from multiple states. Joe Carlow and Billy Luke headlining for demonstrations and a wide range of demonstrations and booths will accompany the event.
At Gate and Randolph Ross intersection about 12 10 p m officer Gaskin was killed after stopping a Huntsville man Morgan Burgess 35 who fled and opened fire with a .38 caliber revolver. Burgess was captured nearby and charged with first degree murder.
Controversy surrounds the sport's origins with authorities split between the English game of rounders and American claim by Abner Doubleday who is credited by some as the inventor.
After a year of controversy Morgan County plans a 2.3 mile Berry Road paving project near Brooksville but work cannot start until residents sign the required right of way deeds.
MOULTON The city council approved an 87.50 operating license for Moulton Billiard Hall after county closure, as the pool parlor had been shut to enforce a law against pool rooms outside city limits. Wayne Huguley hired as new policeman at 400 monthly. raises approved for street supervisor and city workers. County right of way issues delay Berry Road paving. deeds signing expected to unlock spring construction.
Aud de Lee Seagroves of Huntsville was sentenced in Madison County Circuit Court to concurrent life terms after pleading guilty to first degree murder and rape for the 1964 rape and murder of Marie Putman, a Redstone Arsenal secretary. The Alabama Supreme Court previously set aside a death penalty.
Athens Mayor Robert Allen Tinnon reported to the city council that Athens will end the fiscal year in better shape than four years ago, despite a roughly $25,000 revenue shortfall. The current year budget is .870 with ten months of expenditures totaling 555487.98 leaving 100382.02 for the rest of the year. The council approved street light at Brown's Ferry and Allyn, Plato Jones, and East McClellan and Rogers intersections. Extension granted for Martin Cobey Construction on city court room and police department renovations due to chair shortages from wartime timber. The council also approved 700 as its share of the joint city county paving project around Trinity High School and Lincoln-Bridgeforth Park.
ATHENS A 110 name venire of Limestone County voters has been drawn to form the grand and trial juries for the circuit court term. The 18 member grand jury will be empaneled Sept. 9 by Assistant Court Clerk Robbie Bauer. Civil court meets the week of Sept. 9 with Judge Newton B. Powell presiding. Criminal court starts the week of Sept. 16 with Judge D L Rosenau Jr. presiding, resolving at least 160 cases. A TV tower in Tokyo style stands as the third largest man made structure.
The state court ruled the confession entered as evidence inadmissible. Seagroves was 15 years old at the time of the crime.
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