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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1976
Page
3
A dense stock list from a 1984 New York market page highlights numerous tickers with prices and percent changes. Companies include Disney, Exxon, General Electric, Coca Cola, Ford, Delta Air, Chevron, Chase Manhattan, Citicorp, and Dow components among others, with varied gains and losses.
Alabama college leaders defer to State Supt. Wayne Teague on higher education funding. Athens State College and Calhoun Community College expect continued support but note last year’s $1 million span was the bare minimum. Tuition remains fixed: Athens State $150 per quarter, Calhoun $70 per quarter.
Frazier Ladone Jones 25 was charged with second degree burglary after his Decatur arrest by detectives. The May 20 Gray's Fashionwear break in on Bank St. NW is tied to the case. Jones is in city jail. Eddie Matthews said someone broke two windows at his home, no charges yet. John Dearmand reported $400 in tools stolen from his car at Decatur Inn parking lot.
Decatur markets record price quotes for cotton in Augusta Montgomery and Memphis with No 2 soybeans at 5 77 a bushel No 2 milling wheat at 3 26 No 2 white corn at 3 20 and No 2 yellow corn at 2 92 per bushel.
Quotation from the NASD shows representative interdesier prices as of about 10 a m. Interdesier market moved today. Prices exclude retail markup markdown or commission.
Morgan County deputies seek Robert Conrad Adkins of Huntsville who walked away from the courthouse Friday afternoon while assisting Probate Bryan McAfee with moving books. He was jailed on a worthless checks charge and had been helping in the courthouse library for two to three weeks.
City council meeting at 4 p.m. to authorize a $130 000 loan as part of the Point Mallard park takeover. The loan raises the bond sale to $4 million from an original $3.87 million, with bonds paid from municipal utilities revenues. Mayor Russell Bolding says takeover likely won’t raise local taxes.
A two car crash Monday night on Cedar St SW near State Ave SW left five people injured including three Trinity residents Ronald Fore Sr 38 Josephine Fore 36 and Ronald Fore II 15 along with Pamela Haney 17 and Deborah Haney 16 of Decatur. All were treated and released at Parkway Medical Center. AAA Southend Ambulance transported them from the scene. The collision occurred about 10 15 pm and damaged both vehicles heavy. A pecan tree in the yard of C E McWright 1203 Cedar St SW was uprooted by one car.
Deanna Jones and Richard McGahan, graduates of Austin High School, were named April Teenagers of the Month by Decatur Elk Lodge No 655. Jones is daughter of Mr and Mrs Joseph A Jones of Decatur. McGahan is son of Mr and Mrs W B McGahan of 1925 Woodmead St SW. Selection honored character leadership service citizenship and scholastic achievement.
Sunday ceremonies dedicated the Central Baptist Church renovation, a $430,000 project begun in February to redesign front entrances and fully renovate the sanctuary. Guest of honor was Rowe Sams of the Texas construction firm. committee members Melvin Hyatt, Ewell Briscoe, Judge J. H. Crow, and Ellis Baggs attended with Sams.
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