Cotton harvest poorest since 1967 in four Alabama counties
The 1976 cotton harvest in Morgan, Lawrence, Limestone and Cullman counties is about 25 percent below the five year average, the Alabama Cooperative Extension Service says. Cold weather and heavy rains reduced yields with Limestone, Morgan, Lawrence and Cullman reporting lower bales and pounds per acre. some areas considered disaster aid eligibility while farmers replant and adjust acreage.
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Sonny Turner
Morgan
Lawrence
Limestone
Cullman
Alabama Cooperative Extension Service
Sion
D. R. Salter
Alabama
Madison
Salter
Morgan County
Charles Rutledge
Rutledge
Lawrence County
Farmers Home Administration
FHA
Bill Basell
Baswell
Cullman County
Polluters Face Billion-Dollar Coosa River Case
A group of 21 plaintiffs seeks 1 billion dollars in a federal suit against General Electric and Monsanto over PCB pollution of the Coosa River impacting more than 3,000 residents near Weiss Lake. The case cites EPA findings of dangerous PCB levels and GE plant discharges near Rome Georgia. The suit highlights potential record Alabama damages and pollution controls.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Birmingham, Ala
General Electric Co
Monsanto Corp
Coosa River
General Electric
Rome Ga
Coosa
Alabama
Weiss Lake
Alabama-Georgia
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Rome
EPA
Food and Drug Administration
Georgia
Monsanto
Bank holdup in Tuscaloosa leaves woman wounded
Mrs. Mary Hartley of Tuscaloosa is in satisfactory condition after gunshots during a Wednesday holdup at Parkview Branch of First National Bank. Police say four men, Ernest Witherspoon, Fletcher Williams, Johnny Lee Spencer of Tuscaloosa, and David Earl Young of Fosters, were arrested. two other men were detained. Money, two guns, and a mask were recovered. Hartley sustained two small caliber wounds to chin and wrist from point blank shots. The suspects face federal bank robbery charges with Witherspoon and Williams also charged with assault with intent to murder.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tuscaloosa
Ala
Mary Hartley
Parkview
First National Bank of
Ernest Witherspoon
Fletcher Williams
Johnny Lee Spencer
David Earl Young
Fosters
Witherspoon
Williams
Hartley
Pointblank Range
Work halted on Swan Creek watershed project in Limestone County
Construction of the 1.2 million Swan Creek Watershed project in Limestone County is paused until spring. Project engineer Bill Prince cites winter shutdown from Dec 13 due to cold and wet weather. Completion pushed to late summer 1977. Star Construction Co. of Opelika maintains some winter work clearing and excavation. Basketball inventor James Naismith is noted as 1891 originator.
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Athens
Swan Creek
Limestone County
Bill Prince
Prince
Star Construction Co
Opelika
Tennessee River
Physician Employed For Emergency Room At Cullman County
Cullman County Hospital adds full time emergency room physician Wayne B. Weathers M D to staff. Administrator Lowell Hamilton says the ER now has a dedicated doctor. ER patient load rose 27 percent in 1976. Weathers, a 1972 University of Alabama School of Medicine graduate, had been in private practice since then.
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Cullman
Cullman County Hospital
Lowell Hamilton
Wayne B. Weathers
Hamilton
Weathers
University of Alabama School of Medicine
Dog Racing Track Project Planned in Eutaw Alabama
A $3.5 million greyhound track is set to break ground near Eutaw, Greene County, on 320 acres. Paul Bryant Jr leads investors to build and operate the facility expected to generate about $8 million in local economic impact and more than $800,000 in annual direct tax payments plus local salaries and purchases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eutaw
Ala
Greene County
Paul Bryant Jr
Bryant
University of Alabama
Edwin Tuck
Racing Commission
West Alabama
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Daily Whimper
Montgomery
Martin Luther King Jr
Bobby Jackson
Montgomery Heritage Movement
Dr. King
Heritage Movement
James T. Hemphill
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
NAACP
Tromery Improvement Association
King
East Moulton
DIAL
Flint Baptist Church
Lighthouse Quartet
Flint Choir
Floyd Parker
James Chitwood
Swan
James Naismith
YMCA
Springfield
Mass
Kong
Alabama State Department OF Pensions and Security
Union St
Mobile
Jefferson
Blount
St. Clair
Departments of Pensions and Security
First Federal Savings and Loan Association
Thur
Decatur
Home Office
Jefterson
Hartseile
WLU
Meuiten
al Hwy. 4
Bau
Long John Silvers
Long John Silvers AP Seafood Shoppes
Theowgh
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