Planner From City Named To Head 12 County Health Agency
Decatur health planner Dennis Opheim was chosen to head the North Alabama Health Systems Agency NAHSA starting July 1. He replaces Selma resident Joe Knight deemed ineligible for lacking qualifications in health planning. Opheim has led the North Central Alabama Health Planning Agency eight years and will direct the Decatur office at the airport.
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Gay Barber
Decatur
Dennis Opheim
North Alabama Health Systems Agency
NAHSA
Opheim
Selma
Joe Knight
Betty Vaughan
North Central Alabama Health Planning Agency
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Warren
Ohio
Fort Dodge
Iowa
Decatur Health Planning Agency
School of
Community and Allied Health Resources
University of Alabama
Birmingham
Alabama A & M University
Huntsville
North Alabama Appalachian Health Development Association
Public Works Committee
Robert Jones
Jetport
Danville Road Section Closed for Bridge Replacement
A one block section of Danville Road SW will be closed to rebuild a bridge over Dry Branch. A detour will route traffic along an eight and a half block detour off 5th Ave SW. The project costs 31200 dollars and should be finished in 30 days. Meanwhile Miss Virginia Lee will present Morgan County Historic Preservation Society findings on Decatur before Civil War families Thursday at 7 p.m. in the Wheeler Basin Library community room.
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Danville Rd
Dry Branch
Tom Craven
Mabry Engineering
Eleanor Dr
Westwood Dr
5Th Ave
Craven
Virginia Lee
Morgan County Historic Preservation Society
Decatur
Lee
Wheeler Basin Regional Library
Fred Lee
Man Charged In Theft Case In Decatur
A Decatur man, Charles O. Sheffield aged 22 of 401 Memorial Dr. NW, was arrested by city detectives and charged with buying receiving or concealing stolen property in the June 9 theft of a citizens band radio from a vehicle at Industrial Park. He was sent to Morgan County Jail. Detectives Pauline Langford and others reported two books of food stamps stolen and a vandalism probe at Brookhaven School with a broken soft drink machine noted Monday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Decatur
Charles O. Sheffield
Memorial Dr. NW
Jerry Bottom
Robert Clark
Sheffield
Morgan
Welfare Hiring Questioned Amid Stagnant Aid Rolls
Alabama budget official James V. Jake Jordan told a Senate panel that welfare authorities have added workers each month this year even as relief rolls shrink. Officials from Pensions and Security argue higher caseloads require more staff, despite a hiring freeze. Jordan says an $18 million surplus allows maintaining current staff and a 5 percent pay raise with increased welfare benefits, without general fund appropriation. Also, an Athens boy injured in a bicycle crash near East Limestone Road is treated in Huntsville Hospital for a head wound. Jimmy L. Ashby drove the car involved. The Prestolite Co plant plans to modify its wastewater treatment plant, awaiting AWIC review in Montgomery.
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Montgomery
Ala
Alabama
James V
Jake’’ Jordan
Senate Finance Committee
Athens 3
Huntsville Hospital
Benjy Scott
J. P. Hill
Donald R. Scott
East Limestone Rd
Athens
Jimmy L. Ashby
George C. Wallace
Jordan
Decatur businessman elected state ARC president in Huntsville
Robert Koenig, a Lawrence and Morgan counties ARC board member, was elected president of the Alabama Association for Retarded Citizens at the state convention in Huntsville. He also serves on the North Alabama Health Systems Agency board and the Partlow Human Rights Committee, and works as accounting manager at Champion International's Courtland Mill. He is married to Georgia Koenig, associate director of the North Central Alabama Center for the Developmentally Disabled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Decatur
Alabama Association For Retarded Citizens
AARC
Huntsville
Robert Koenig
Lawrence and
Morgan Counties
Suit Continued Against Kent's Dollar Store
A $25,000 suit against Kent's Dollar Store was continued this morning in Morgan County Circuit Court. Lee Carter Shackelford filed the suit claiming the youth was cut on the finger after a store employee negligently displayed a knife. The continuation means the case will be tried at a later date.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kent
Dollar
Morgan County
Tom B. Coggin
Lee Carter Shackelford
Emergency crisis help numbers and guidance
Emergency phone guidance outlines dialing 911 for personal crises and contacting the Crisis Call Center at 355-8000 for possible poisoning or other emergencies. It advises calling the nearest hospital or family physician if needed and tells callers to dial 0 if unsure of the correct emergency number.
Clouds Break Up Over Alabama With Scattered Thunder
Monday brought varied weather from calm skies in Alabama to scattered thundershowers in the Tennessee Valley. Hail measured up to one and a half inches in Madison, with ping pong size hail near Meridianville and a possible tornado sighting in north Huntsville that did not ground. Drying conditions are expected through Wednesday with partly cloudy days and near 80 to mid 80s temperatures, then a Thursday through Saturday patch of thundershowers and highs in the upper 80s to low 90s.
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Alabama
Tennessee Valley
Fort Payne
National Weather Service
Madison
Meridianville
Huntsville
Scottsboro
Morgan County
Decatur
North
River and Weather Readings from Keller Bridge Forecast
River reading at Keller Memorial Bridge this morning was 21.66 with sea level at 555.96. Monday high reached 77 at 3 p.m. and 60 at 6 a.m. today. Forecast calls for near 80 today, low 60s tonight, mid 80s Wednesday. Partly cloudy today through Wednesday with similar temperatures. Climate data for Monday.
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Decatur and Vicinity River Reading
Keller Memorial Bridge
Weather Outlook With Thunderstorms Duiring Extended Period
Weather figures show high temperatures in the upper 80s to low 90s and night lows from the upper 60s to low 70s. Precipitation shows no rain today. 30 day total is 5.86 inches and yearly total is 27.45 inches. Air pollution index at Decatur Station was 77 micrograms per cubic meter. Extended outlook for Thursday to Saturday calls for partly cloudy skies and scattered thundershowers with warm highs and mild evenings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lynn
Decatur Station
Tri-County District Health Service
County School District Act First Victim Of Martin's Refusal To Sign Local Bills
Morgan County faces a political setback as Representative Martin withholds approval from local measures. A bill to divide Morgan County into school board districts becomes the first blocked item, tied to Martin's refusal to sign local bills after his gas tax redistribution proposal was rejected by the delegation.
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County School District Act
Martin
Gay Barber
House
Senate
Morgan
Tommy Ed Roberts
Drake
Cullman County
Morgan County Board of Education
Roberts
Decatur
Morgan Sen. Bingham
County Commission
Iron River helped Alabama move goods to rail and road
Decatur’s role as a distribution point traces to the Tennessee River ferry days. The two mile TC and DRR rail spur to Tuscumbia opened 144 years ago this Wednesday, birthing an iron river that bypassed dangerous shoals and fostered rail over water transport. The TC and DRR became the first railroad west of the Alleghenies, with Joliet-era events and key figures like Col. Sherrod shaping early line finance and expansion.
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Decatur
Henry Rhodes
Tennessee River
Tuscumbia
Benjamin Sherrod
Iron River
Tuscumbia, Courtland and Decatur
Tc&drr
Allegheny Mountains
Virginia
Caroline Leadingham
Memphis & Charleston
M&c
Mississippi
Sherrod
Tc&d RR
Col
Samuel Tate
James C. Jones
Tennessee
Tc&d
LaGrange and Memphis Railroad
Memphis
Middleton
Tenn
Iron Dream and Deter mination of early Southern rail line
A Southern Railway feature traces the M&C railroad from Charleston to Memphis, completed in 1857 as a 760 mile system, with Memphis hosting a May 1857 jubilee and Decatur witnessing the first steam train in 1834, marking railroads’ rise before the Civil War and their strategic role. The article notes the line’s early operations, freight growth, and celebratory milestones.
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Charleston
Southern Railway
M&c
Southeast
Atlantic Ocean
Mississippi River
Memphis
Tennessee Valley
Atlantic
Decatur
Deep South
Marker honors Tuscumbia Courtland and Decatur Railroad in Alabama
A marker set by the Alabama Historical Association stands across Wilson Street from the Old Bank, noting the significance of the Tuscumbia Courtland and Decatur Railroad near the town’s first depot site.
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Alabama Historical Association
Tuscumbia
Courtland and Decatur
Wilson St
Change Eyed For Teacher Salaries
Alabama School Superintendent Wayne Teague proposed a salary plan to determine teachers pay by the highest degree held in their teaching field. He said he would recommend legislative action if needed to implement the system.
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Montgomery
Ala
Alabama
Wayne Teague
Teague
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Dr. Vaughan
Muscle Shoals
Jack Allred
Riley Gibson
Bob Plowden
Jerry Davis
Danville Road
Larry Terry
Pauline Langford
Adams Dr
Jerry Sharp
Dawson Long
Bottom
Clark
Brookhaven School
Prestolite Co
Alabama Water Improvement Commission
AWIC
Charles Horn
Prestolite
ARC
Koenig
Lynn Mitchell
Smith Lake
Blake Mitchell
Timberway
Tron River
W. A. Raney
James Fennel
Col. Hobgood
Col. Sherrod
New Jersey
Tennessee Valley Railroad
Pirst Railroad
Ruspousi Courtland & Decatur
Southern Rwy
By Lee Sentell
Senate Finance and Taxation Committee
Edwards
Department of Mental Health
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