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Decatur Daily

Location

Decatur, Alabama, United States of America

Date

Dec 16, 1976

Page

6

Delays Hit New Location for County Food Stamp Office

A committee tasked with choosing among nine bids to relocate the county food stamp office could not attend a county commission meeting. Real estate agents Allen Hamilton and Bob McWhorter were in Nashville and unavailable to present, delaying the decision as bids were to be opened Monday.

Russ Roberts Ee County Food Stamp Office County Commission Allen Hamilton Bob McWhorter Decatur Nashville Willa Cutts Hamilton McWhorter Commission Thornton Dick) Fleming Cutts Don Sims West Morgan-East

Auburn President Declines Unified Budget Control Push

Auburn University President Harry M. Philpott voiced pride in Alabama higher education progress while opposing a unified state board of regents. He urged decentralized administration and said accountability should stay with individual boards, noting efforts to implement requested accounting changes at Auburn take time.

Montgomery Ala Auburn University Harry M. Philpott Alabama Ilpott Jere Beasley Board of Regents Beasley Auburn Rhett Riley Riley Rice Rtt Bill Baxley State Board of Education Athens State Baxley Central Bak

Enrollments Rise at Calhoun and Athens Colleges

Athens State College posts 1,116 winter quarter enrollments, up nearly 40 percent from last year, largest since 1968 at about 1,600 students. Calhoun Community College records 4,475 total for winter quarter, 3,615 at junior college and 860 at technical school, up 0.9 percent from last winter.

Calhoun, Athens Colleges Athens Athens State College Thomas Rodgers Rodgers Calhoun Community College Harry Rice Rice Calhoun Community Collge

Thieves Hit Mobile Home Firm and Nearby Properties

Thieves removed five refrigerators three beds three bedroom suites and other furnishings from mobile homes and dumped them outside the premises. At the county club shop items including anti freeze an axe a logging chain and an air compressor were stolen. A purse with cash checks and a credit card disappeared from Edna Walker s car near 601 Lafayette St NW. An AM FM receiver turntable and tape player were taken from Charles Ray Ghost s home. No items appeared missing from the mobile home firm.

Doyle Ward John Babis Decatur Country Club Ward Edna Walker Trinity Lafayette St. NW Walker Tri-County District Health Service Yu Charles Ray 12Th Ave Steve Clark Keith Mickle

School Budgets To Be Studied At Monthly Board Meeting

The Board of Education will review individual school budgets this afternoon at its monthly meeting. Superintendent Dr Byron Nelson says budgets approved by local faculties will be considered along with a city tennis court project at Austin High School. A film Reading In the Middle School will be shown.

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