Athens School Board Approves Coaches Salaries Hike
The Athens Board of Education votes to raise supplements for 13 coaches and band staff by a total of 19,870 annually, amid hopes the booster club funds can shift to other projects. Principal pay rises exceed 2,000 annually, at five to seven percent.
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Athens
Athens Board of Education
Dale Weizenecker
Athens High School
Ronnie Phillips
Marvin Young
Bobby Coggin
Athens Middle
Jghnny Black
Bby Wood
Will Orman
Myra King
Martha Nichols
Angelo Azzarello
Jerry Hammon
Weizenecker
Athens High School Booster Club
Booster Club
Recalling Days Of Yore In Old Decatur Town
Alabama teacher Mrs. Mary Banks Terrell explained to LaFayette Street School pupils in the 1930s that tobacco stunts growth and harms health. Superintendent W. W. Benson then entered, praised the lesson, and held a long black cigar for the class to observe.
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Old Decatur
Alabama
LaFayette St
Mary Banks Terrell
W. W. Benson
Decatur Native recalls family roots and old landmarks
Mrs. Terrell of Omaha visits Decatur, recounting Banks and Stuart lineage. She recalls Vine Street homes, railroad crossings, and a 19th century reception with 300 Ku Klux Klansmen mentioned as ambrosia. She notes old bank residence above the Old Bank, historic cemetery on LaFayette Street, and her lifelong ties to Decatur.
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Pioneer Banks
Omaha
Gordon Bibb
Decatur
Reeder Banks
Stuart and Banks
Capt
J. B. Stuart
Vine and
Canal Sts
West Moulton St
Driskill Apts
Col. Lawrence Slaughter Banks
Railroad St
Church Sts
First Methodist
Stuart’s Merchantile
Bank St
McCartney
Mary Jane Stuart
W. H. Banks
Ambrosia
Old Bank
LaFayette St
Banks
Decatur Daily
Fair Weather Through Monday Across State
National Weather Service reports pleasant conditions statewide through Monday with showers mainly in the far south. Dry air from the Northeast yields upper 70s in the Tennessee Valley and 50s lows, with six to 11 hours of sun and light easterly winds. Extended outlook shows isolated Tuesday thundershowers in the southwest, followed by partly cloudy midweek with 70s and 80s highs.
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National Weather Service
Tennessee Valley
Muscle Shoals
Regional church singings and performances schedule
A sequence of gospel events across several churches and venues. Redan Church near Holly Pond hosts the Hardin Quartet at 7 p.m. Morgan Temple Baptist near Hartselle offers Heisman Quartet at 1 30 p.m. Pleasant View Holy Church of Christ and Mt. Hebron Baptist Church hold 1 30 p.m. singings featuring the Union Aires and Devotion Singers. Cobbs Family appears at Hickory House Restaurant in Athens and On White Grove Baptist Church in Cullman at 7 p.m. An all day Eva High School singing starts 10 a.m. with Joy Singers and others. Regular nursing home singing at Falkville Downtown Nursing Home at 2 p.m. features the Philadelphians.
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Morgan Temple Baptist Church
Hartselle
Heisman
Pleasant View Holy Church of Christ
Eva High School
Joy Singers
TVA says driest April on record in Tennessee Valley
Rainfall across the TVA region averaged 6.7 inches last month, about 2.5 inches above normal, while April received 1.1 inches, only a quarter of normal. Hydroelectric output at TVA dams fell to under 1.1 billion kilowatt hours, about half the May average, despite heavy rains in parts of the area. Highlands, North Carolina reported the month's highest total at 27 inches.
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Knoxville, Tenn
Tennessee Valley Authority
TVA
Highlands
N.C
Georgia-South Carolina
Conservationist Named for SCS Area Office in Decatur
Roy H. Lee was named conservationist for the Soil Conservation Service area office in Decatur, replacing Earl L. Norton who will be promoted to state resource conservationist in Auburn June 6. Lee will oversee administrative and technical direction of SCS programs in the l-county area. Norton will handle technical phases of agronomy biology woodland recreation plant and animal technology and the SCS plant materials program.
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Roy H. Lee
Soil Conservation Service
SCS
Decatur
Earl L. Norton
Auburn
Lee
L-County
Norton
Youths Sign Up For Cash Crops Program
A group of 26 area youths from north Alabama and southern Tennessee will grow and harvest crops this summer in Limestone and Lauderdale counties under the Elk River Development Association program. Sponsored by ERDA with TVA and local partners, each participant receives 100 dollars to fund their project, with no repayment required, and gains experience in financing, record keeping, and farm management while growing about 115 acres of tobacco, soybeans, corn, sweet potatoes, hay, pepper, and a feeder pig project.
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Athens
Alabama
Tennessee
Elk River Development Association
Limestone
Lauderdale
ERDA
Agri-Business Farms
The
Tennessee Valley Authority
TVA
TVA Leases Uranium Land for Utah Prospecting
TVA leased about 3150 acres in Grand County Utah for uranium exploration to secure future fuel supplies for its nuclear program. The deal pays Robert G. Rees $33000 upfront with ongoing exploration funding. royalties would total 10 percent of mined ore value if discovered and produced. TVA plans seven nuclear plants underway or planned by the mid 1980s.
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Knoxville, Tenn
Tennessee Valley Authority
Utah
Grand County
TVA
Robert G. Rees
Operaton
Action Action helps readers with consumer complaints
A reader asks for help getting a refund for a body beautifier paid through Family Weekly and later receives refund after Action intervenes. Another letter seeks help for a cereal offer tee shirt missing since May. after Action intervenes, a size eight shirt arrives.
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R.B
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Huntsville
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Jenny Miller
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Indianna
Kentucky
North
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Georgia
Tennesse
Gary Lloyd
Athens School Board
Dan Havely
Pat Bacon
Bernard Hendrix
Lee Sentell
NOAA
Gospel Singings
Redan Church
Holly Pond
Hardin
Mt. Hebron Baptist Church, Near
Hulace
Devotion Singers
Cobbs
White Grove Baptist Church
Cullman
Falkville Nursing Home
May
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Pat Thomas
the Boat Harbor
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