Library sculpture model by Ike Hay for Wheeler Basin Library
Ike Hay, the city school sculptor in residence, presents a 12 foot sculpture model for the south side of the Wheeler Basin Regional Library. The piece will be donated by the Friends of the Library, per Paul Hargrove and Dalton Guthrie who chair the fine arts committee. Library director Nancy Agnew observes.
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Ike Hay
Wheeler Basin Regional Library
Friends of the Library
Paul
Guthrie
Hay
Decatur
Construction Services Inc
Mike Scroggins
Tom Coggin
Nancy Agnew
Sun Trap sculpture to grace Wheeler Basin Library grounds
The Friends of the Library donate a 12 foot steel sculpture by Ike Hay for the Wheeler Basin Regional Library. The Cor-Ten and mirror polished steel piece titled Sun Trap will reflect the sun from its interior surfaces. Fabrication cost is about 3400 dollars and Construction Services Inc. will handle the project.
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Hay
Dalton Guthrie
Friends’ Fine Arts Committee
1901 Army Was No Place For Sissies
Decatur resident Edward Waite recalls joining the U S Army in March 1901 at age 94 and heading to the Philippines for the Spanish American War. He describes strict discipline and harsh training as typical of the era.
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United States Army
Edward Waite
Waite
Decatur
Army
Philippines
New Brunswick
N.J
Newark
Decatur Veteran Edward Waite Reflects On War Years
Edward Waite of Decatur, a 94 year old retired master sergeant, recounts Philippine fighting, a Meuse Argonne era, and malaria in Cuba. He recalls Pershing’s gas shortage and Pancho Villa raids, notes Roosevelt pay raises, and now enjoys garden life with wife Ollie and mentions their daughter in Decatur. He praises Teddy Roosevelt and supports a library sculpture project by the Friends of the Decatur Library.
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Waite
Philippines
Jerky Smith
United States
Fort Douglas
Ariz
Pancho Villa
Columbus
N.M
John J
Pershing
Mexico
Villa
Cain
U.S
France
50Th Army
Meuse-Argonne
Goodyear
Theodore Roosevelt
Teddy Roosevelt
Ollie McGhee
Priceville
5Th Ave
John Harvey
Betty St
Decatur
Edward Waite
Army Minster
Bandit Robs Service Station. Several Thefts Reported
A lone bandit with a .45 pistol robbed Smith's Union 76 on Alabama 24 at about 10 p.m. taking a bank bag of cash plus checks and sales slips. The incident followed another earlier year robbery at the same station. Police also reported burglaries at Schmidt Gulf Oil Products and other thefts, plus a motorcycle crash injuring a man and the Tuskegee Syphilis Study case involving Fred Gray.
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Union 76
Alabama
Doyle Ward
Randell Smith
Dale Cottingham
Ward
Big Nance Creek Channel Cleared In Courtland Project
A Russellville excavating crew begins a $20,000 project to clear 8,500 feet of Big Nance Creek in Courtland under Soil Conservation Service direction. Jimmy Godsey operates a tractor winch while Carl Shaddix and Johnny Alford assist. Bert Pippen owns the property.
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Jimmy Godsey
Big Nance Creek
Carl Shaddix
Johnny Alford
Russellville
Courtland
Soil Conservation Service
Weather and River Readings for Decatur Area
River reading at Keller Memorial Bridge this morning was 20.97 feet and sea level at 555.27. Monday high 86 at 3 PM, low 66 at 4 AM. Expect today mid 80s, tonight mid 60s, and Wednesday mid 90s with mostly sunny skies.
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Decatur and Vicinity
Keller Memorial Bridge
Pleasant Alabama Weather With Warm Temperatures Ahead
The National Weather Service forecasts sunny skies and upper eighty degree highs across Alabama today and Wednesday. Tonight will be mild with lows in the mid 60s to low 70s as a high pressure system dominates the region. Widely scattered thundershowers are possible along the coast, with drier conditions inland and remaining fair into Thursday through Saturday.
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Alabama
Weather Service
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THE
Decatur Daily
Lee Sentell
North Alabama
Paul Hargrove
City Schools
By Randy Quarles
Teddy
Roosevelt
Hargrove
Friends
Lurleen Wallace
Flint
P.O. Box
Tony Estes
Schmidt Gulf Oil Products
Alabama 67
Alabama 20
Jerry Bottom
Bottom
E. C. Whitley
Stratford R. SE
Tarrance Payne
Freddie Leonard Patterson
Cullman
Spring Ave
Vestavia Dr
Dale W. Adams
Patterson
James Miller
Decature
Decatur General Hospital
Montgomery
Ala
Tuskegee
Fred Gray
Big Nance Clearing
Bert Pippen
Paul Foreman
National Weather Service
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