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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1973
Page
2
Oak Park Middle School offers a sign language course taught by learning specialist Mrs. Jean Watkins. Students learn the alphabet in initial sessions and increasingly communicate silently with hand signs, aiming to converse without spoken words.
Mrs. Watkins notes that after six weeks students learn about 200 signs and must spell many words to communicate. Many have deaf relatives and want to connect, while others teach peers and practice with deaf visitors, fostering acceptance and broader interest in deaf programs.
A Decatur carpenter was convicted of blackmailing an estimated $12,000 from a Cullman bank employee. Morgan County Jury sentenced 38 year old Buddy Franklin Mitchell to 12 months hard labor for the county after about 1.5 hours deliberation. The victim, Frank Baier Jr., testified that Mitchell posed as a federal officer and sought payment to avoid revealing an alleged incident on 2nd Ave SE.
A 29 year old Decatur man was arrested Tuesday night and charged with second degree forgery after attempting to rent a car with a lost or stolen credit card. The incident involved Hertz Rent A Car at 161 1st Ave NE. The report names Robert Franklin Eldridge of Kimberly Court as the arrestee.
Decatur grocer Jack Sherman owner of Sherman's Grocery at 323 Memorial Dr NW was fined $900 after pleading guilty to five counts of food stamp violations. Sherman admitted accepting food stamps for ineligible merchandise and reversed his earlier innocent plea before U S District Judge Clarence W Allgood. The judge handles cases from over 40 counties in the Northern Division, with many moved to Birmingham for courthouse renovations.
A public forum on vocational education will be held at Austin High School March 22 at 1 30 p m to allow the public officials businessmen and educators to share views The Alabama Advisory Council on Vocational Education sponsors the event to aid its advice to the State Board of Education on the state plan Other meetings will follow in Talladega Opp Thomasville Tuscaloosa Bessemer and Dothan through March and April led by council chairman Ray Jeffcoat.
Ardmore police charged a 20 year old Huntsville man with possession of marijuana. Police Chief Wayne Hicksen led the arrest and bond was set at 300 dollars.
Emergency number 911 system details for Decatur all departments including nights and holidays. Contact lines listed 353 4612 232 1535 153 4739 for emergency access and department coordination.
A two day conference on learning disorders in children will present the latest research to educators parents and physicians March 23 and 24 at Brookhaven Middle School. Dr. Marvin I Gottlieb and Dr. Donald Rampp will lead lectures and workshops on medical and educational aspects of learning disabilities including Minimal Brain Dysfunction and early intervention strategies.
Alabama Farmers Cooperative seeks a Department of the Army permit to build a 16 foot diameter sheet piling mooring cell on the Tennessee River at its property. Manager John Matthews says the project will aid ecology by removing old mooring barges and notes no plans for the Decatur Box and Basket Co. site beyond future expansion. The acquisition extends AFCs property toward Keller Memorial Bridge, with construction pending permit approval.
Three men were injured Tuesday in a Courtland automobile accident. Police identified the injured as George Iron Town Creek and Silas Agee 53 Town Creek and Louis D Lanier Town Creek 1. Iron and Lanier were taken byAAA Southend Ambulance to Decatur General Hospital Agee was taken by private vehicle to Colbert County Hospital Lanier was transferred later to Baugh Wiley Smith Hospital.
Dennis Griffith acting superintendent at the Lurleen B. Wallace Developmental Center was named Social Worker of the Year at a noon meeting of the Tennessee Valley unit of the Alabama Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers. Griffith earned a master of social work from the University of Tennessee in 1966 and served as Army captain social worker earning two commendations.
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