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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1976
Page
2
Mrs. Cottingham and her daughters, longtime readers of The Decatur Daily, redesigned an old metal newspaper box into a calico art mail box. She cut cats and dogs from calico, used fabric letters to spell THE DECATUR DAILY, and plans to waterproof and finish the piece with varnish.
Mrs Cottingham outlines a step by step home project starting with a tee ane and bric. she describes preparing a box with a coated surface, applying translusion, and drying at room temperature. The final assembly involves varnishing and attaching the completed box to a post by the husband, per her instructions.
A lone gunman robbed Union 76 on 19th Ave SE Sunday night, taking $743 from attendant Emmitt Cheatham after forcing him to lie on the floor. Cheatham was uninjured, though shaken, and the suspect fled with the cash, police said.
Morgan County public hearing on a $500,000 Community Development grant drew no participants. Clerk Willa Cutts said a committee reviewing nine bids for rental space for the stamp office will delay a recommendation to the commission until Thursday. Recreation has top priority for the CD grant, according to North Central Alabama Regional Council of Governments planner Leon Felts, though the final decision remains open to citizen input.
Public hearing set for Dec 27 at 10 a.m. on grant spending with $500 000 if received. Bids on food office contracts discussed with no decision yet. Resignation of Paul Collier from North Alabama Mental Health Board accepted. New Center for Developmentally Disabled incorporation approved. County to buy a new automobile for Parks Director Scotty Maples.
Community response brings groceries toys and clothing to Wayne Johnson of Ebenezer but cash for his aggressive neuroblastoma treatment trails. His father Kenneth was laid off and the family lacks insurance with medical bills exceeding 3,000. A trust fund at First Alabama Bank in Hartselle has raised 631.20 as of today. donations are urged by calling 773-6501 or mailing to P O Box 840. Wayne begins chemotherapy in Birmingham with potential nightly return home to Ebenezer.
Kitty Roberts, a page at Wheeler Basin Regional Library, gathers books from the sunlit auto-page boxes along 704 3rd St. SW, continuing her routine during pleasant weather.
Bridge on sea level noted at 551.38 with TVA lake stages listed for Chickamauga Pickwick Guntersville Whitesburg Wheeler Wilson and other data. Forecast calls for increasing cloudiness cold tonight rain chances Tuesday highs near 50, lows in the 30s. Temperatures Sunday 58 high 43 low average 51 and precipitation 0.13 inch. Extended outlook through Friday shows highs in the 50s and lows in the 30s.
A slight chance of rain returns to the Tennessee Valley on Tuesday as a stationary front lies over northern Alabama. Colder air moves in from the north with highs near 50 in Decatur through Tuesday and lows dropping tonight. Rain totals over the previous 24 hours ranged from a half inch to an inch and a half regionally.
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