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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1973
Page
2
The Athens National Guard Unit begins accepting women effective immediately. The unit, once all male, will add nine female positions as noted by 1st Sgt. Billy Swanner, expanding opportunities for service alongside the weekend warriors.
Lt Col Jack Quarles says Decatur Guard units will admit women within two to three months. Eligible single women 17 to 35 and certain married or experienced applicants will train at Ft McClellan and drill monthly at weekend centers. Women will not perform combat or hazardous duties and barracks and restrooms will be updated for mixed units.
Morgan County Young Democrats will meet at 7:30 p.m. to choose the 1974 officers selected by a nominating committee. President Bob Milam announced the meeting will be held at the Morgan County Courthouse.
Morgan County Commission reports a $200 000 drop in expenditures in the second half of the fiscal year covering April 1 to Sept 30. First half total was $849 288.42, second half $628 671.50, with large cuts in miscellaneous appropriations. The panel rejected a land purchase request near the Deer Springs landfill and approved several routine items. The group also tabled a road striping funding agreement and discussed flood damage repairs and SCS aid.
Emergency guidance lists the Crisis Call Center numbers 355 8000 for personal crises and poisoning, plus options to call a hospital or family physician. If unsure of the emergency number, dial 0 and describe the emergency to the operator. The source is from THE DECATUR DAILY.
Montgomery Advertiser poll of 65 residents shows about half want Nixon to resign or be impeached after Washington shakeup. Of 51 aware of events, 37 oppose firing Cox, 10 support, 4 unsure. 19 favor resignation, 21 oppose, 10 unsure. In Dothan, new election laws gain federal tacit approval after a 60 day window.
A state site review team will visit the Lurleen B. Wallace Developmental Center to assess eligibility for Medicaid funds that could add about 1.5 million dollars yearly to its budget. Director Dennis Griffith cited three funding avenues including Medicaid certification and a renewed Social Security contract. The center’s current budget is 2.4 million, with potential billing plans to be implemented after record-keeping upgrades.
Skylab the orbital workshop will be visible over the Decatur area for seven days starting tonight if skies are clear. It will appear at 6 22 p m for 2 minutes 29 seconds with a maximum elevation of 11 degrees and a distance of 908 miles at its peak. Subsequent passes include Wednesday at 7 12 p m for 7 minutes with a 77 degree peak and 282 mile range and further sightings through Monday with varying times elevations and ranges as it moves across the sky.
A Morgan County grand jury indicted Decatur resident James O Nicholson on transporting charges after an earlier injunction barred his home as a liquor nuisance. He posted a $1,000 bond and faces a $3,000 cash bond requirement to be posted Thursday.
Police arrested 60 year old Joe Cal Carter on a grand larceny charge after a bicycle valued at 45 dollars was stolen from Paul C. Davis Hardware on Moulton Street. He was identified as 507 11th Ave NW. A separate report notes a 20 year old man, Charles M. Jones, injured in a one vehicle crash on Chapel Hill Road SW after swerving to miss an animal. He was treated at Baugh Wiley Smith Hospital after the vehicle struck a power pole. damage to the pole was estimated at 500 dollars. Additional incidents include two BB gun shootings damaging two vehicles on Danville Road SW, vandalism to a mobile crane at 2nd Ave and 8th St SW with dirt placed in its crankcase and radiator, and a fire at Wayne Poultry Co. plant near Bank Street that destroyed a storage shack with witnesses seeing youths nearby prior to the blaze.
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