Varnell Signals Return As Zoning Chairman If Council Supports
Former Athens ZBA chairman Frank Varnell, who resigned after a mortgage firm was blocked from a medical center site, said Thursday night he would accept reinstatement if all city council members vote for it. The appointment dates to Robert Tinnon's era.
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Sonny Turner
Athens
Frank Varnell
Athens Board of Zoning Adjustments and Appeals
Varnell
Robert Tinnon
New York Mortgage Company
Wheels Stolen From Car In Summer Manor Incident
Thieves lifted two front tires and wheels from a Summer Manor resident’s car early Thursday and replaced them with others. Mrs. J. E. Sims reported the tires replaced in the apartment parking lot and a battery possibly targeted. The ignition switch was found on, suggesting the car may have been driven away and returned. An 18-year-old Virginia resident was arrested Thursday for petit larceny after stealing a carton of cigarettes from Kroger valued at $3.99.
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Summer Manor
J. E. Sims
Virginia
Kroger’s
Fire damages J W Machine Shop on Beltline Rd
Firefighters fought a early morning blaze that gutted a small office wing of J and W Machine Shop on Beltline Road. Owner Jimmy Watson said the shop suffered smoke damage and emergency power was improvised to run one machine. No injuries reported.
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Beltline Rd
Jimmy Watson
Watson
Decatur
Wallace names Boyles Coroner for Lawrence County
Gov. George Wallace appoints Hershel Boyles 51 of Moulton as Lawrence County coroner to succeed Fred Gillespie who resigned. Boyles, a World War II veteran, will be sworn in by Circuit Judge Billy Burney, after being chosen from three nominees and having worked 17 years in the climate control industry.
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Moulton
George Wallace
Lawrence County
Wallace
Hershel Boyles
Fred Gillespie
Boyles
Billy Burney
Jimmy Speake
Fedders
Worthington
Climatrol
Harvey Elliott
Titus Blaxton
Gillespie
Gov
Parkway Medical Center project launches on Beltline Road
Construction begins on a four million dollar hospital replacing Baugh-Wiley-Smith Hospital. Buck Marsh of Burns Kirkley Williams notes site prep, tree removal, and phased bidding with bids on January 16 for foundation and steel. Caudell Rowlett Scott of Houston is architect. local subcontractors expected.
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Beltline Rd
Baugh-Wiley Smith
Baugh-Wiley-Smith
Buck Marsh
of Burns, Kirkley and Williams
Auburn
Parkway Medical Center
Marsh
Caudell, Rowlett and Scott
Houston
Plane wreckage found. pilot dead near Cheaha Mountain
Rescue crews reached a charred small plane on Cheaha Mountain southeast of Anniston finding the sole occupant dead. The aircraft, missing since Tuesday, was reportedly piloted by a New Jersey man, with Civil Air Patrol spotting it Thursday afternoon.
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Anniston
Ala
New Jersey
Civil Air Patrol
Cheaha Mountain
Crisis numbers and local contacts list for emergencies
Emergency phone numbers provided for crisis calls poisonings and unknown emergencies. The Decatur Daily lists Crisis Call Center numbers 355 8000 and 0 for operator guidance plus hospital and physician contacts and department numbers 353 4612 Athens 38 1835 253 4739 for nights and holidays.
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Athens
Physician recalls years in German POW camp
Dr. Garrold H. Nungester recalls nearly two and a half years as a prisoner of war after capture near Craus Austria while serving as a captain in a medics detachment. He treated some prisoners at the camp and noted treatment was decent though conditions were precarious.
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Garrold H. Nungester
Nungester
Army Infantry
Craus
Austria
Department of War
Former POW Doctor Returns Home After War Service
Mrs Nungester recalls letters from Tony Estes in a prisoner of war camp. He was censored about camp locations and aid details and viewed as a security by her. Estes, from Decatur, met Robert Atkinson in the camp and later practiced medicine there for 34 years after Tulane Medical School.
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Nungester
Tulane Medical School
Detatur
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Malcolm Moore
Jane
Stanley Hand
Doug Maund
Limestone County Equity Court
Moore
Harper House
Alexander
Ricky Brooks
Parkway Center
Medical Clinic Board
Cecil Townsen
Florence
Garrold Nungester
Tony
Estes
Somerville Road School
Doris Weems
Mike O’donnell
Johnny Adams
Rusty Harvell
David Terry
Gary Counts
Gary Engle
Clanton, Ala
Clanton
Dewey Hand
Hand
Cullman
Hartselle
James Bodie
Sborn
Aview Hospital
Richard Smith Jr
Tennessee
THE
Decatur Daily
Tony Estes
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