Committee Votes To Put Candidates On Ballot In Alabama
The Senate Privileges and Elections Committee approved a bill to place presidential candidate names on Alabama ballots while excluding presidential electors. The measure, backed by Gov. Brewer and leaders from both parties, changes the current practice that lists only elector candidate names.
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Alabama
Albert Brewer
Democratic Party
Republican Party
Mississippi
Tom Radney
Tallapoosa County
Robert S. Vance
Democratic Executive Committee
George Lewis Bailes
Jefferson County
George C. Wallace
Rodney
Vance
Wallace
Bailes
Tanner Water Authority Rushing To Meet Deadline
Tanner Water and Fire Protection Authority pushes to meet HUD July 1 deadline for revised water system plans. Chairman Herman Swanner Jr says Atlanta office must receive plans for a 40 mile network with about 10 customers per mile, totaling 400 committed water purchases. HUD loan and grant near $600,000 based on projected revenues. deposits for meter connections are being taken as plans are finalized.
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Tanner
Tanner Water and Fire Protection Authority
Housing and Urban Development Administration
Herman Swanner, Jr
HUD
Atlanta
Swanner
U. S. 31
Tennessee River
Lakeside Principal Honored As He Heads To Junior High
Lakeside High School principal Leon Sheffield received a campus farewell for 24 years of service during an assembly. A student gift of $24 honored each year of work while community leaders praised his dedication. He will lead Lakeside’s new junior high next year after the school district closes the upper grades.
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H. R. Leeman
Decatur
Leon Sheffield
Lakeside High School
Board of Education
Lakeside
Sheffield
H.R. Leeman
Chamber of Commerce
Art Belew
Sheffield Was
Montgomery
Athens
Trinity High School
Alabama A&m
Alabama State Teachers College
Moulton Height School
Morgan County Training School
Decatur Negro High School
Recall Of Jurors Eyed In Boulden Case
Thirteen jurors excused from the Billy Don Boulden murder trial five years ago may be recalled to determine if they were irrevocably opposed to capital punishment. U.S. District Judge Frank Johnson ordered a state jurisdiction ruling while retaining jurisdiction pending Supreme Court appeals.
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Billy Don Boulden
Newton Powell
U.S
Frank Johnson
Montgomery
Boulden
US Supreme Court
U. S
Powell
Johnson
Ad Valorem Tax Education Meeting Set at West Morgan
A meeting for residents curious about ad valorem taxes will be held Thursday at West Morgan School at 7 30 p m. The event aims to explain tax assessments and how they affect local bills.
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West Morgan School
Car Dealer Loses Rezoning Bid in Hartselle
Alvin L. Abercrombie failed to win zoning relief to convert six acres on U S 31 north from residential to business for a new car dealership. The Hartselle Planning Commission rejected the bid unanimously amid neighbor objections and a warning about spot zoning. He faces fines over daily violations for parking idle cars on residential property. a circuit court upheld the city’s ordinance in denying his challenge to the ordinance package.
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Hartselle
Alvin L. Abercrombie
U.S. 31 North
Hartselle Planning Commission
Abercrombie
Commission
David Arthur Bean
Planning Commission
Hartselle Approves Dump Use And Expansion Plan
HARTSELLE city council approves converting the northeast dump to a county wide sanitary landfill starting July 1. They hire a pest firm to exterminate rats, grade the site, and limit burning to weekends to reduce hazards near a Little League field.
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Hartselle
John D. Long
Long
Council Sanitation Committee
Jerry Putman
Horton
Park and Recreation Board
IRS Agent Pleads Guilty in False Refund Case
Former IRS supervisor Charles W. Ewing pleaded guilty in federal court to filing a false tax refund claim and two counts of forgery. Indictments followed IRS checking procedures, with about $5,000 involved. Judge Clarence W. Allgood ordered 90 days for psychiatric observation before sentencing.
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Internal Revenue Service
Charles W. Ewing
W. T. Coppinger
IRS
Alabama
Ewing
Huntsville
Coppinger
U.S. Dist
Clarence W. Allgood
Birmingham
Highway 157 Paving Set for 14 Mile Segment
Montgomery bid openings will award 21 contracts including a low bid for final paving of about 14 miles of Highway 157 in Montgomery. The state highway department reports $3 million in projects in 1% counties and ongoing paving of 12.28 miles of Alabama 157 south of Moulton at $29,958.60. The highway, opened last year, should finish this summer.
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Moulton
Montgomery
State Highway Department
Alabama
Speake
Limestone Farm Agent Nominated For National Award
Chelena Floyd Agee of Limestone County Extension is one of four Alabama nominees for the National Distinguished Service Award by the Alabama Association of County Agricultural Agents. The award will be presented in September at the National Association of County Agricultural Agents meeting in Atlantic City. Agee led the Limestone program since 1967 and helped form the Limestone County Feeder Pig Association, boosting farm income by 1.2 million over five years and engaging over 400 farmers in swine production. He directed major programs in diapause barn pest control, weed management, soil testing with over 10 000 samples, and a public relations drive for the Extension unit.
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Athens
Limestone
Chelena Floyd K. ‘Agee
Alabama Association of County Agricultural Agents
Agee
National Association of County Agricultural Agents
Atlantic City
N. J
Alabama
James Cooper
Tuscaloosa
R. Jeff . Martin
Brewton
C. Hoyt Webb
Dadeville
The
Auburn University Cooperative Extension Service
Jackson County
Limestone County
Monroe County
Auburn University
Auburn
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