Milk Board Meets Tonight in Alabama Price Row
The Alabama State Milk Board votes to abolish the 58 cent cap and adopt a new pricing formula tied to four economic indexes with a Dec 15 effective date. Chairman Dr. Wallace Miller and Agriculture Commissioner Richard Beard opposed the raise. Gov. Brewer may act to resist.
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Montgomery
Ala
State Milk Board
Wallace Miller
Miller
Richard Beard
Albert Brewer
Brewer
Land fill plan eyed by Loon County and Morgan officials
Morgan County officials and Board of Revenue Chairman Thorton Fleming discuss a proposed central sanitary land fill to serve all municipalities including Decatur Hartselle Falkville Trinity and Flint. The plan aims to replace three dumps with one efficient system to cut disease risk and coordinate regional waste management.
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Morgan County
Board of Revenue
Thorton
Dick) Fleming
Fleming
Decatur
Hartselle
Falkville
Trinity
Flint
C. _L. Kaufman
Charles Martin
Athens UGF Drive Ends With 93 Percent of Goal
Athens closes its 1969 United Fund Campaign with 93 percent of the $50,242 goal. Local organizers report strong community support as the drive wraps up, outlining next steps and acknowledgments.
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Athens
United Fund
Community events and notices clutter Athens area pages
PTA meeting at Woodmeade School with a 7 30 pm Christmas program. Hartselle report: William H Kent 38 charged with illegal liquor possession after deputies found 13 pints in his rural home. Bloodmobile visit at Knights of Columbus Hall 6th Ave SE 1 7 pm sponsored by Knights and American Legion. Austin bands hold Christmas concert 8 pm at high school auditorium. Cotillion Club dance table reservations via Mrs Douthitt. Vietnam serviceman Stephen D Peoples address listed. Decatur Duplicate Bridge Club meets 7 15 pm for a Special Master Point game. West Morgan High School Christmas program 7 30 pm with WM Band and Chorus. tickets advance 1 for students 1 25 adults. at door 75 cents 1. UGF canvass totals and praise from Semmler Brock indicate $47 000 raised. remarks on civic duty and Limestone County.
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West Morgan High School
WM Chorus
Larry Gatewood
W. 8. Kimbrell
Mary Russell
Alberta Holland
Julia Stockton
Hartselle Eyes Gun Firing Law
The Hartselle City Council will consider an ordinance to restrict firing of guns within city limits after complaints of youths firing air rifles. City attorney Murphree to study nearby ordinances and report recommendations. The meeting may also approve a new gross-revenue based business license code and hear Ranch Drive-in owner Mitchell’s suit over license fees. Bids for a police car will be opened.
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Hartselle
Charles Murphree
Tanner School Hepatitis Outbreak Prompts Early Closing Hint
Limestone County officials decide by Wednesday whether Tanner School will close December 13 or 20 for Christmas holidays to install additional sanitary facilities after an outbreak that has reached 13 cases. PTA leaders, trustees, and health officials discussed causes and possible water and sewage fixes while noting the school’s restrooms serve 750 students. If work isn’t complete by January 6, a closure up to 60 days is possible, though no epidemic is declared. Basketball game at Tanner was canceled and moved. Gerald Perry became acting principal after Principal Harry Richter contracted hepatitis.
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Tanner
Limestone County
PTA
Jim Hardage
Hardage
David Rice
George Braly Jr
Harold Stacy
C. S. Pettus
Board of Education
Rice
John Bryan
U. S. Public Health Service
Tanner School
Calhoun Junior College
Priceville
Gerald Perry
Harry Richter
Athens Plans Water Lines Beneath I 65 Route
Athens to install three 12 inch water connections under I 65 before highway segment from Alabama 253 to U S 72 is completed. Mayor Charles Bailey says plans extend sewer and gas lines, adding water connections to tie into Brookwood Forrest and East Hampton. lines run beneath I 65 near future I 65 link about a mile south of U S 72.
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Athens
Charles Bailey
Anly
Brookwood Forrest
East Hampton
Alabama 253
U S. 31
U.S. 72
Lawrence County lands 20 mechanics trainees in state program
Moulton Alabama The 20 farm machinery mechanics positions will be funded by a state administered federal training program approved this week Training will start in January and applicants will be selected by the Decatur district office of the Alabama Employment Service Charles D Sibley head of the Small Communities program announced the plan after a group of farm machinery dealers supported it
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Bob Dunnavant
Moulton
Lawrence County
Charles D. Sibley
Decatur
Alabama Employment Service
Search Goes On For Robbers In Hillsboro HoldUp
Two men with stockings over their faces beat and robbed Ruben Austin Basden of 16000 and a new truck Sunday afternoon in Hillsboro. Basden was bound with a gun threatening to kill him if he spoke. The truck was found undamaged two hours later on Chalybeate Springs Road as investigators pursue clues. The action also notes the formation of the Lawrence County Farm Equipment Dealers Association and a training program for mechanics at Calhoun Junior College with six months on the job training. Three months of classes and six months on the job will run for county residents with wage payments during training. Deputy Sheriff M.V Evans described the Belle Mina shooting of Mrs Georgia Mae Rogers as accidental with a shotgun wound to the left hand at Baugh Wiley Smith Hospital.
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Moulton
Hillsboro
Truth
Bob Hancock
Ruben Austin Basden
Basden
Chalybeate Springs Rd
Calhoun Junior College
Belle Mina
Georgia Mae Rogers
Baugh-Wiley- Smith Hospital
Limestone County
M.V
Buddy) Evans
Mininauts to Meet Von Braun at Decatur Bank Opening
Decatur five young mininauts who completed a 75 hour space flight will meet Dr. Wernher von Braun at First State Bank’s Gateway Office grand opening. Von Braun will award certificates to Lane Manor David Robertson and brothers James Sammy and Mike Silver. The event also marks the bank’s first branch opening with dignitaries invited.
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Decatur
America
Wernher von Braun
von Braun
NASA
Marshall Space Flight Center
Huntsville
First State Bank
Gateway
Gateway Shopping Center
Lane Manor
David Robertson
James Silver
Sammy
Mike
First State
William R. House
Charles Gunthorp
House
Albert Brewer
Hall & Colvard
Bryson Construction Co
Johnson St
Gov. Brewer
Sam Boykin, Jr
Ingalls Iron Works
Birmingham
Frank P. Gresham
Gresham, Williams and Johnson Co
Withers Peebles
Agribusinessman
Mooresville
Norman D. Pless
Exchange Security Bank
Frank W. Troup
Coca-Cola Bottling Co
Joe Worthey-Anderson Butane- Protane Gas Co
Decath
William D. Sellers
Baggett Transportation Co
Aid to the Blind Residents in Alabama Nursing Homes
Twenty eight people receiving aid to the blind were cared for in licensed nursing or skilled nursing homes in September with vendor payments made to the institutions by the Alabama Department of Pensions and Security.
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Alabama Department of Pensions and Security
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Milk Board
Milton Wright
Decatur Optimist Club
Don Acton
Alabama Sheriff Association
Lonnie McDaniel
Loon County
Lee Sentell
DAILY
Point Mallard
Gary Voketz
North Central
Alabama Regional Planning and Development Commission
Robert Abercrombie
Julian Harris
Guy Roberts
Harris
Doug Crabb
Bennett McRae
Crabb
North Alabama
Karl Oliver
Calhoun
Witold W. Turkiewicz
Samford University
Knights of Columbus Hall
6Th Ave. SE
Knights of Columbus
The
American Legion
Austin
George Douthitt
Vietnam
SSG
Stephen D. Peoples
Arty
APO
San Francisco
Calif
Decatur Duplicate Bridge Club
Pet Hospitality Room
Robert Semmler
Cutler-Hammer
Semmier
Semmler
Macon Brock
UGF
Agricultural Committee
Brock
John DV. Long
L’rence
Lawrence County Farm Equipment Dealers Association
Doyle Carson
Sibley
Alabama Employment — Service
Meredith Woodall
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