South Limestone Authority Elects Officers in Athens
The South Limestone Water and Fire Prevention Authority elected Withers Peebles as chairman David LeCroix as vice chairman and Joe Bob Elliott as secretary treasurer. Directors are Peebles LeCroix and Henry Baucom. The group plans a $180000 water system for Belle Mina Mooresville and Greenbrier with bids sought in 2 to 3 weeks. Financing is being secured by FHHA in Atlanta and the act was introduced by Sen. Ed Horton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Athens
South Limestone Water and Fire Prevention Authority
Withers Peebles
David LeCroix
Joe Bob Elliott
Peebles
LeCroix
Henry Baucom
Atty
Buck Steele
BMG Authority
Belle Mina
Mooresville
Greenbrier
Elliott
FHHA
Atlanta
Ed Horton
Horton
Farmers Home Administration
Authority
Don Horton
Sam Kay
Sen. Horton
Helen Keller Nears 85 Quiet Life At Home In Connecticut
As Helen Keller nears her 85th birthday at Arcan Ridge in Easton Connecticut she enjoys a quiet retirement with flowers a garden her dog Tinker and birds. Friends say she remains in good health for her age though vitality wanes and she has curtailed travel writing and public speaking. Family tea cake and champagne are planned for a family birthday observance with her brother Phillips Brooks Keller of Dallas in attendance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miss Keller
Phillips Brooks Keller
Dallas
Tex
Palmer Heads WAJF Sister Station in Sheffield
Palmer to head WAJF sister station WSHF in Sheffield starting July 1 after 14 years at WAJF Decatur native Palmer began as announcer salesman and commercial manager and later earned a first class radio telephone engineer license. He is married with two sons and active in Lions Humane Society and Young Republican Federation.
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Robert Palmer
WAJF
Sheffield
WSHF
Palmer
Elkins Institute of Radio
Dallas
Texas
L. A. Palmer
Decatur
City
Decatur High School
Lion’s Club
The
Humane Society
Young Republican Federation
Sylvia Millsap
Robert Jr
Todd
Moulton Annex Plan Pondered in State Legislature
Rep Edsel Moore of Lawrence County introduces a bill to annex 263 acres northeast of Moulton the Pickens Estate. Billy Pickens confirms subdivision into 38 lots. Land ownership remains with the Pickens family and no immediate effect on others. The bill will be advertised four weeks in local weekly and becomes law only by act or vote.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edsel Moore
Lawrence County
Pickens
Moulton
Billy Pickens
Moore
White House sit in protesters jailed for six months
Seven demonstrators who staged a sit in inside the White House March 11 in protest of civil rights conflicts in Selma Alabama were sentenced to 180 days each in jail. The report notes 16 Alabama counties have not held a wet dry referendum since 1937.
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Washington
White House
Selma
Ala
Alabama
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BMG
Barberree Studio
Belk
2Nd Ave
Decatur, Alabama
Helen Keller
By Angelo Natale
L. Warren Tyson
Montgomery
Tuscumbia
Anne Sullivan
Dacrons
Jamaicas
State Pride
Onsane
Moulton City
Sta
Acc
Lawrence
Re UM Seneeve
Hudson
Kredit
Occatun
Buschs
2Nd Avenue
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