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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1967
Page
21
Morgan County 1967 shows 726 marriage licenses issued by the Probate judge up from 636 last year, while divorces in county and circuit courts fell from 271 in 1966 to 261. June leads in marriages with 85 licenses. August leads divorces with 31. Cruelty remains the most common ground for divorce, with 183 cases.
County health records show 1 528 births and 628 deaths through November 1967 in Morgan County. Females led by 16 over males with 777 girls and 751 boys born. 15 stillbirths included. October had most deaths at 66 and September the peak births with 224.
Decatur City Schools under Supt. H. R. Leeman plans a new $750,000 Blackburn Park elementary school and a $300,000 central office, both funded from a $3.5 million bond issue. The district targets 1969 for the septagon shaped elementary building and aims for accreditation by the Southern Association by year end. Morgan County Schools under Supt. J. C. Pettey will build a $300,000 intermediate school in Hartselle for grades six seven and possibly eight, on an 18 acre site near Morgan County High School, with future central office expansion and a county wide master plan from Auburn University influencing steps in 1968.
Construction starts on a $620,870 recreation center in Blackburn Park on 5th Ave SW as part of Operation New Decatur to revamp city recreation. The complex will house a gym domed pool and football and baseball fields with plans to add more neighborhood parks and a separate Parks Department head appointed earlier.
The Morgan County Circuit and County courts showed a slight rise in cases and hearings in 1967. Circuit judges Newton Powell Bloodworth and James Bloodworth along with County Judge C Bennett McRae spent about 220 days in court as civil equity and criminal matters were heard.
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