Johnsons Alabama Farm Shows Small Net Profit
Wallace Canterbury, overseer, reports Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson’s Alabama farm earned a net profit of 284.23 in 1963 from 2,463.41 gross and 2,179.18 expenses, after 1,958.64 gross and 674.45 expenses in 1962. He notes tenants on site and a plan to save the land for her children, rejecting soil bank options to avoid displacing tenants. A 270 land rent from 1963 remains unpaid and tree planting gains are delayed until the President retires.
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Johnson Land
Canterbury
Tere
Decatur Mayor Gilmer Blackburn Named to Alabama League Board
Mayor Blackburn of Decatur was elected to the Alabama League of Municipalities executive committee at the league convention. The committee directs the league program and staff, with the new term starting Sept 1. Other members include Mayors Langan, Pruette, Little, James, Dear, Dark, Rodney, Purdy, Tuck, Jackson, Griffin, and council leaders from Leeds and Birmingham.
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Gilmer Blackburn
Alabama League of Municipalities
Ed E. Reid
Blackburn
League
Reid
Decatur
League of Municipalities of Alabama
Alabama
Joseph N. Langan
Mobile
Sam Pruette
Bay Minette
W. G. Little Linden
Earl James Montgomery
Claude Dear
Anniston
Joe P Dark
Sylacauga
William L. Rodney
Alexander City
Fred Purdy
Ft. Payne
William H. Tuck
Eutaw
J. H. Jackson
Clanton
W. R. Griffin
Cullman
Jane Culbreth
Leeds
M. E. Wiggins
Birmingham
First American plant explorers admitted to Soviet Union
The first American plant explorers since 1929 were permitted into the Soviet Union recently and returned with body shoots from wild apple, pear and cherry trees.
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Soviet Union
Alabama drops late charges in highway striping case
Circuit Judge Eugene Carter dismissed income tax and bribery complaints against Montgomery contractor Joe T. Barton, who painted center and edge lane lines during Gov. Patterson’s era. The state will pay Barton 20 000 dollars. civil claims against two ex-finance directors and Sam Engelhardt remain unresolved. Walter Craig was acquitted on bribery charges in the same controversy.
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Montgomery
Eugene Carter
Richmond Flowers
Joe T. Barton
Alabama
John Patterson
Barton
Carter
Walter Craig
Craig
Selma
Patterson
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