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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1973
Page
1
Councilman Richard Lee pushes to consolidate police and fire into a city department of public safety. He aims to remove both employes from the merit system and has yet to discuss with Councilman Byron Vann. He cites concerns over mandated salary increases for county deputies.
A NASA Solar Eruption photo from the White Light Coronagraph aboard Skylab shows a massive solar event about 220 times Earth’s diameter expanding at roughly one million miles per hour. The sun’s magnetic fields drive such eruptions, which can cause geomagnetic storms and disrupt radio transmissions when Earth-directed. The coronagraph’s occulting disk shadows the top of the instrument, part of the Apollo Telescope Mount built at Marshall Space Flight Center. In city budget news, deputies face a starting salary of $600 monthly, with police pay around $511.33 monthly bi weekly, and a potential 9 to 10 percent raise tied to reorganization. The plan, not finalized, would raise pay through merit while avoiding a rigid merit system. City officials aim to finalize the police budget, with total requests over $733,000 including $105,675 for operating expenses, compared with last year’s $621,557.
Calhoun Junior College will use a $139,047 Appalachian grant for a fifth year supporting an associate degree nursing program. The funding assists Morgan Lawrence and Cullman counties in workforce nursing efforts. About 112 students were admitted and 110 nurses graduated last year to address regional shortages.
A life sentence convict testifies at a panel hearing on Atlanta’s rising murders in 1972, describing a 1970 shooting of a stranger amid heroin use and self-hatred. He says police could not prevent most slayings. notes lack of talking support rather than drugs as key. Panel includes clergymen, sociologists, and law enforcement officials.
Pakistan Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto wrapped up a three day official visit with a 19 gun salute and red carpet departure as he heads to New York for the United Nations General Assembly. The White House said Vice President Agnew is not being pressured to resign with Nixon's knowledge. In Alabama, Judge William F. Thetford ruled the Dairy Commission lacked authority to cut a milk price increase after finding no public hearing was held before the order.
Huntsville attorney Edward L. Hopper claims his office was burglarized twice during his client M. Sgt. William E. Higdon's appeals. He says the break ins, in 1971 and last November, may be tied to a government effort to gather information about Higdon amid his larceny bribery graft conviction and related prosecutions.
In 1519 the Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan began his voyage from Spain seeking a western passage to the Indies. Weather notes mention a high near 80 and a low around 60 with a pleasant day ahead near the Tennessee River area.
The Justice Department moves to end a 178 year tradition of recommended bar association minimum fees. Deputy Atty. Gen. Bruce B. Wilson says investigations are ongoing into many bar groups. He notes 600 to 700 state or local bodies circulate guidelines and several associations have abandoned them. He calls the arrangements cartel price fixing. See LAWYER On Page A5.
The Morgan County Bar Association reduced its minimum fee guidelines to mere suggestions two months before the Justice Department signaled civil suits to curb such practices. Secretary David Bibb stated the resolution abolished binding fees and that members would likely use the schedule as a guide. The rules, adopted in 1968 and amended in 1969, were noted amid a broader antitrust concern raised by a House subcommittee.
Calhoun Junior College seeks a 500000 Title III grant to fund a 250000 learning resources center a 100000 Appalachian regional arts and crafts center and a 75000 institutional research office. Harry Rice says approval may come in December and notes the arts center would involve workshops demonstrations and public concerts.
A Morgan County grand jury refused to indict Decatur woman Juanita Sears on first degree murder in the July 4 shooting death of Maso Brooks. Police said Brooks produced a pistol during a family reunion dispute at 632 Sunset Dr NW and was shot in the yard. Sears testified at his previous assault trial where Brooks was acquitted.
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