Legislature Pay Standoff Remains Thorn in Alabama
Alabama lawmakers face a pay dispute for legislature workers tied to Lt. Gov. Beasley's office. House and Senate proposals diverge on funding and a $1,500 Beasley expense allowance, with Baxley ruling pay must come from a legislative act. The stalemate persists as the regular session resumes.
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Montgomery
Ala
Jere Beasley
Alabama
House
Senate
Beasley
Ways and Means
George C. Wallace
Mathews
Bill Baxley
Baxley
Legislature
Outdoor cookery class shifts to coed home economics at Austin High
Benny Price the sole male in a new outdoor cookery unit stays in the program as 35 senior boys signed up for next year. Mrs Judith Jackson and a staffer lead a practical course covering cooking maintenance child care marriage and family living. Amy Lorenza won prizes that funded grills and Auburn tuition benefiting the school program.
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Benny Price
Austin High School
Benny
Jacksonville State
Amy Lorenza
Auburn
Farm Bureau Insurance Co
Hartselle
Amy
Family Recipes for Barbecue and Marinades from Mrs Jackson
Inside By Phylliss Sidebotham presents recipes attributed to Mrs Jackson including White Barbecue Sauce for chicken Master Barbecue Sauce and a Bean Salad. The notes describe marinating steak with onions lemon garlic bay leaf and wine and suggest serving with cold vegetables and crisp lettuce.
Chamber backs bills for Alabama State Docks upgrades and authority
The Alabama Chamber of Commerce endorsed two bills to expand State Docks statewide. One proposes a 115 million bond to rebuild and enlarge Docks in Mobile and 13 others, including Decatur. The other would create a State Docks Authority with a seven member board, reducing governor control.
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Tommy Stevenson Montgomery
Alabama Chamber of Commerce
Alabama
Mobile
Decatur
State Docks Department
State Docks Authority
James J. Britton
Britton
Gulf Coast
Briton
Alabama Developme
Department Agriculture
House
Senate
Tennessee
Alabama-Coosa
Warrior Tombigbee
Chattahoochee
Selma
Columbia
Florence
Claiborne
Demopolis
Cordova
Tuscaloosa
Jackson
Phenix City
Allen Discusses Revenue Sharing at Alabama Municipalities Meet
Senator Jim Allen says Alabama city leaders will steer congressional action on special revenue sharing funds. Mayors councilmen and commissioners from over 350 municipalities attend the Alabama League of Municipalities convention in Birmingham. Governor Wallace is set to address Governor's Night as the event continues through Tuesday.
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Birmingham
Ala
Jim Allen
Alabama
Allen
Alabama League of Municipalities
Congress
George C. Wallace
Army Helps Build Baseball Field and Range for Patriots
Nine Army engineers from Ft. Benning in the 43rd Corps Co. D arrive at Brewer High to carve a baseball field a practice football field and a rifle range plus improve the track and football field The project reduces cost and trains soldiers while providing Brewer with its first usable field Coach Harold Prittle and principal James Tucker welcome the Army effort and Sgt Glenn Clement highlights the public works mission and peacetime value of such community projects
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Florette
Brewer High School
43Rd Corps
Ft. Benning
Brewer
Harold Prittle
3A Patriots
Cotaco
Glenn Clement
Decatur Recruiting Office
Army
Sgt. Clement
James Tucker
Engineering Corps
Clement
Jimmy Watson
University of South Alabama
Mobile
Tuscaloosa
Watson
Army Corps of Engineers
Sgt
Corps of Engineers
Emergency Numbers and Crisis Lines Listed for Alabama Areas
A Decatur Daily notice provides emergency contact numbers for Limestone County Hartselle Decatur Athens Lawrence County and the Crisis Call Center. It includes 911 numbers for emergencies and guidance to dial 0 if unsure which line to call.
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Hartselle
Limestone County
Action answers from The Decatur Daily readers
Reader questions cover cost of living changes from 1972 to 1973 with a 4.8 rise noted by the Department of Commerce and requests for a Parkinson's Disease research foundation address, which ACTION cannot locate. The National Business Academy in Huntsville inquiry yields a default judgment against the school’s perpetrators and a collection obstacle due to unknown whereabouts.
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L. D. Bagsby
Department of Commerce
University of Alabama Hospital
Birmingham
Better Business Bureau
National Business Academy
Huntsville
F. McCown
Hartselle
Tom Brassell
Consumer Services
Attorney General’s Office
Guard Hosts Blood Drive at National Guard Armory
More than 50 pints of blood were collected Saturday during a visit by the bloodmobile to the National Guard Armory. Officers and enlisted from the Headquarters Detachment of the 142nd and the 279th Signal Battalion participated. Morgan County Red Cross assisted as the drive ran from morning through the day.
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Bloodmobile
National Guard
142Nd
279Th
Morgan County
Red C
Armory
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Pete Mathews
Clay County
Judith Jackson
By Phylliss Sidebotham
Redstone
Highway Patrol
Athens
Lawrence County
THE
Decatur Daily
Cullman
43Rd Engineering Corps
Ft. Benning, Ga
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