YMCA Meeting Promises Start for Decatur Effort
A Tuesday night gathering in Decatur aims to spark a local YMCA. Gil Aldrich hosts in the City Electric Dept building with two YMCA professionals from Birmingham and Atlanta to explain needs and answer questions. Public invited to help lay groundwork for a possible Decatur YMCA and its broad benefits.
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Barrett Shelton, JR
Young Men’s Christian Association
YMCA
Gil Aldrich
Birmingham
Atlanta
Aldrich
Decatur
Estimating tax revenue questioned by legislative panel
Russell Hungerford told a legislative committee that tax revenue estimates are risky. The State Revenue Department revised downward its school tax projections for 1962-63, with a potential 6.5 million shortfall against a 148 million appropriation.
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Feds
Russelle Hungerford
State Revenue Department
Hungerford
Congress
Alabaam
Revenue Department
Moulton community to back center after star’s death
Moulton residents and Lawrence County business leaders push to establish a Model Youth Teenage Center prompted by the death of John Albert Chenault, a Lawrence County High senior and athlete. A meeting will discuss forming the center and honoring Chenault as a tribute to his leadership.
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Moulton
Lawrence County
Robert Frank May
John Albert Chenault
John
Ince Chenault
Lawrenceunty High School
Red Devils
National Guard
Lawrence County High
Kathleen Holland
University Hospital
Birmingham
Falkville P T A Reschedules March Meeting
Falkville P T A shifts its March meeting to the 7th due to A E A. February session was at the High School auditorium with Mrs Wesley Patterson presiding. Rev Ralph Alexander of Fairview Church gave devotional. C A Blevins reported on newspaper collections. Founders Day program featured a panel with several local ladies.
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Falkville P-Ta
A.E.A
Wesley Patterson
Ralph Alexander
Fairview Church of God
C. A. Blevins
ME. Conville
Lavon Jones
Harold Rowe
Jack Hart
Negro Teacher of Year Named for Lawrence County
The Lawrence County Negro Teacher's Association selects Mrs. Mary Davis Grant as Lawrence County Negro Teacher of the Year. Grant, a graduate of Alabama and M. College, teaches English at Central High School in Courtland.
Morgan Circuit Court Opens Two Week Term
A two week Morgan Circuit Court term begins Monday at 9 am with Judge James N Bloodworth presiding. About 35 cases are on the docket including one capital case State vs John Edward Thomas for first degree murder set for March 11. Thomas is charged in the January 8 Cedar Lake murder of his wife Jeannette Louise Thomas. Also on the docket State vs Robert Morrow for second degree murder set for Monday. Morrow is charged in the December 3 1962 slaying of Robert Garner in Hartselle. Elton Parker armed robbery case is continued to Limestone Circuit Court for late April or early October.
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Morgan Circuit Court
James N. Bloodworth
State
John Edward Thomas
Thomas
Tom Caddell
Charles Murphree
Morgan County Grand
Jeannette Louise Thomas
Cedar Lake
Robert Morrow
Morrow
Robert Garner
Hartselle
Bloodworth
of State
Elton Parker
Limestone
Local Family Visits Mentioned in Lawrence County Notes
An item notes visitors including Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Jackson and others from the area traveling to Birmingham on Sunday. It also mentions Mrs. Ann Armstrong of Fairfield visiting her daughter and Mr. and Mrs. Emmett Owens hosting relatives.
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Wilbur Jackson
Bob Wiley
Betty Gonzola
T. D. Hensley
Biddie Johnson
Birmingham
Ann Armstrong
Fairfield
Emmett Owens
Solon Proposes Parental Share Of New School Taxes
State Senator Walter Givhan of Dallas County urges parents to pay their share of any new Alabama school taxes. He releases a racial breakdown showing 34.6 percent of public school students in 1962 were Negro, with white teachers earning less on average than Black teachers. The data cover 1959 and 1962 enrollments and salaries, including 527,075 white and 280,212 nonwhite students in 1962, and teacher pay gaps.
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Alabama
Montgomery
Walter Givhan
Dallas County
Givhan
Birdie Golf Course Preserves Eagle Nest in Naples
The Big Cypress Golf and Club in Naples Florida opened with the course redesigned to protect an eagle nest found during clearing. Architect adjustments kept the nest undisturbed before any golfer teed off.
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Naples
Fla
Big Cypress Golf and Club
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Bill) Lee
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Falkville
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New Vista
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Walpole Ensemble
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Bonanza Sportabout
Red Hill
Jessie McCcaghren
Christian Science Reading Room
2Nd Ave. N.E
Princess Theatre
Christian Science Monitor
Solon
Nichiso
Buschs Kredit Jewelers
Opticians
Averces
Mixon
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