City Wins HUD OK to Use CD Funds for Renewal Plans
Decatur may use Community Development money as matching funds for urban renewal projects after HUD reversal, enabling the redevelopment plan lobbied by downtown merchants and residents. The decision, aided by a Washington meeting with HUD officials and Sen. Sparkman pressure, avoids an $800,000 loss and preserves the $1.7 million CD allotment for this year.
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Lee Sentell
City of
Decatur
Department of Housing and Urban Development
HUD
Federal Agency
Decatur Housing Authority
Grant St
Russell Bolding
Washington
John
Sparkman
Gary Voketz
David Meeker
Bill Thompson
Bob Hand
Birmingham
Meeker
City
Mathews Nominated for HEW Secretary by Ford
Rep Walter Flowers said the White House confirmed that University of Alabama President David Mathews will be nominated as secretary of Health Education and Welfare. The formal announcement was expected soon with a Senate referral in about two weeks. Mathews, 38, has led the Tuscaloosa campus for six years after serving as assistant to former President Frank Rose.
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Washington (Ap
Walter Flowers
D-Ala
White House
University of Alabama
David Mathews
U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Flowers
Senate
Bill Dickinson
R-Ala
Casper Weinberger
HEW
Dickinson
Montgomery
Albert Quie R-Minn
Education and Labor Committee
Mathews
Ford
Grove Hill
University of Alabama At
Tuscaloosa
Frank A. Rose
Roberts
Home Sales Surge In Decatur Area Shows Uptick In 1975
In Decatur the past two months saw a jump in new and used home sales and building. May building permits reached 32, a two year high, while 75 homes sold in April and May. Officials cite pre sold and pre lived in homes and rising costs as factors.
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Paul Foreman
Decatur
David Adams
Reneau Carrell
Commerce Department
Adams
Carrell
Decatur Realtors
TVA approves further heat research at Browns Ferry plant
The TVA Board extends heat reuse studies through September 1980 aiming to create a Southeastern Waste Heat Research Center at Browns Ferry Nuclear Power Plant. EPA funding and collaboration with land grant universities support greenhouse and livestock research to improve crop and animal production and environmental control.
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TVA Board of Directors
Browns Ferry
Environmental Protection Agency
America
TVA
Louis Gwin
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Congress
EPA
Boat Sale Ad in Daily Want Ads
Levoy Humphries in Decatur sold his 14 Runabout with 35 HP Mercury motor and factory trailer for 900 dollars. Electric start and like new condition. Daily Want Ads offers 3 lines for 10 days at 5.25 with contact numbers Athens 353 4739 and 232 1535.
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Levoyd Humphries
Decatur 4
Britain hands Suez Canal to Egypt in 1956
In 1956 Britain turned the Suez Canal over to Egypt after operating the waterway for 74 years. The note appears in Today’s Daily On This Day with a weather brief predicting highs in the mid 80s and lows in the low 60s, plus a map on page 2. It's a Privilege to live in the Tennessee Valley.
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Britain
Suez Canal
Egypt
Tennessee Valley
Swearing In for Priceville City Council Members
Attorney Tom Caddell swears in Priceville City Council members on Thursday. Seated from left are Charles Atkins James Watson Kenneth Clark and one more member yet unnamed in the photo.
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Priceville City Council
Tom Caddell
Charles Atkins
James Watson
Kenneth Clark
Brezhnev proposes pact to outlaw new weapons of mass destruction
In Moscow Brezhnev calls for an agreement by great powers to ban new weapons of mass destruction. In New Delhi India non Communist opposition agrees Gandhi no longer recognized as prime minister after conviction in securing her parliamentary seat.
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Moscow
Soviet Communist Party
Leonid I. Brezhnev
New Delhi
India
Indira Gandhi
Alabama House votes 74 20 to restore death penalty
Lawmakers approve restoring the death penalty amid opposition from black members who filibustered. The measure passes 74 to 20 and moves to the Senate. key supporters cite deterrence and prison expansion while critics doubt deterrence.
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