A2 -THE SELMA TIMES -JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 5, 1983 -Calendar Thursday The Selma Restaurant Association will meet Thursday at 2 p.m. at the Pancake House. Citizenship in the Community merit badge class for Boy Scouts will begin Thursday at the Alabama Power Co. auditorium at 7 p.m. George Bohorfoush is the instructor.
The class is open to any registered boy scout in the Selma area. Men in Motion, a communitywide Bible study luncheon for men at Elkdale Baptist Church will have its weekly meeting Thursday at noon. The Ossian Club will meet at 3 p.m. Thursday at the home of Mrs. John Joyce.
Masonic Lodge No. 305 will meet Thursday at 7 p.m. at the Masonic Temple on Water Avenue. The Master Mason degree will be conferred. Friday The Valley Creek Garden Club will meet Friday at 2:30 at the Smitherman building.
There will also be a 2 p.m. meeting of the Board of Gardeners. Saturday United Methodist Men of the Barrett Road United Methodist Church will have a yard sale Saturday at the church beginning at 8 a.m. Sewing notions, cosmetics and other items will be for sale. Vernon Male Chorus and Mt.
Olive Baptist Church choir will be in concert at the Summer Grove Baptist Church Saturday at 6:30 p.m. Beta Rho Chapter of Iota Phi Lambda sorority will meet at the home of Mrs. Gladys Chestnut Saturday at 2 p.m. Sunday The Old Depot Museum located on Historic Water Avenue will be open Sunday from 2-5 p.m. The Youth Department of the Ebenezer Baptist Church will present the Interdenominational Choir in concert Sunday, Jan.
16 at 3 p.m. at the Ebenezer Baptist Church. The public is invited. Monday The Council of Jewish Women will meet at 12:30 p.m. Monday at the Hohenberg Memorial Center.
Muriel Lewis will be guest speaker. Coming Up The Paul Grist Y.M.C.A. will begin a new session of "'The Y's Way To a Healthy Back" January 10 from 4-5 p.m. with classes meeting on MOndays and Wednesdays. This medically approved program is designed for people who suffer from back pain which will respond to relaxation, flesibility and muscle strengthening exercises.
For more information, call 874-7476. William Rufus King Chapter, Daughters of the Amermcan Revolution, will meet Jan. 13 at the Smitherman Building at 3 p.m. Mt. Ararat Baptist Church, Division Street, will present the Tim Patterson Singers of Birmingham in a musical concert Jan.
16 at 4:30 p.m. Donations will be $1. Notices Selmont water customers are asked to avoid washing and other heavy water use between a.m. and 24 p.m. this week.
The Selmont Water Works is flushing the system. All water will remain on, but customers may notice low water pressure or a slight discoloration. Volunteers are needed to help others with their tax returns as part of the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Program. For information, call the Internal Revenue Service's taxpayer education coordinator at 1-800-241-3868. Jones, Bruce, Pilcher, Wood, Nelson and Peeke at luncheon (Continued from Page 1) check." Alabama Power gave the authority a $362,000 check for the system, Pilcher said.
But the total price paid was more than $600,000. The balance came from some $300,000 worth of work on job orders for the authority and on renovations of the housing units now, being readied for sale or rental, he said. The sale should not affect electric rates for Craig Field customers, officials said, but it will change the billing agency. Craig tenants will receive January power bills from the airport authority. But by February, their bills will come from Alabama Power Company, Wood said.
"We will have our marketing people in Selma this week to work with the some 100 accounts that up to now have been served by the Craig Field Airport and Industrial Authority," he said. Once power contracts are signed by the customers, Alabama Power will become their provider. G.T. Nelson, Alabama Power's vice president for industrial development, said Craig Field is Bond (Continued from Page 1) Jones and about a dozen other probate judges did not meet the deadline. They were informed in a Dec.
28 letter from the state comptroller, Tom Brassell, that the bonds had not been received and were alerted to the "severity" of the situation. "I really think it's just an honest mistake (that the judges did not get their bonds in on time), but neverthless we have a very serious situation here," the spokesman said, citing Section 36-5-15 of the Alabama Code which states, "If any officer required by law to give bond fails to file the same within the time fixed by law, he vacates his Water's. (Continued from Page 1) Home had approved a $503,000 grant; then officials heard a $111,000 grant had been approved by the federal agency. But, when the state grant was announced, the FHA grant promise disappeared, he-said. "This is a big project for a small area like this to undertake with no grant whatsoever from the federal government," Barley said.
"EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) is telling us our water is substandard, while the FHS, another federal agency, is telling us there is no grant available to help. If no grant is secured, the town will seek a loan from the federal agency. Whether it's a grant or loan, FHA will set the water rates for the system, a process which Barley said will cause problems. Because Farmers Home views the project as a 11:35 a.m. Washington Street, motor vehicle Police report accident.
12:30 p.m.- Wilkerson person fell. Car break-in reported Lynn Sutton, 828 Durant Circle, told Selma police someone broke into her car late Sunday and removed eight cassette tapes, a tape player, a ladies coat, a ladies jacket, a man's jacket, an overnight case and a man's watch with a total value of about $592. In other incidents reported to police between 6 a.m. Tuesday and 6 a.m. today, thefts were reported by: Rodeller Williams, 1201 Apartment 1 Tremont who said someone took her social security check in the amount of $147 after she placed it under her pillow at home.
James E. Stallworth, 1416 St. Phillips who said he left his car parked in a driveway and when he returned found someone had taken the battery valued at $75. Alice Maye Tate, 1205 Roosevelt who said someone took $50 cash from her purse and said he would return it, but failed to do so. Patricia Nelson, 1013 Minter who said someone removed the right front tire of unknown value from her vehicle.
Criminal mischief was reported by: Tommy Burns, of the Selma Country Club, West Dallas Avenue, who said someone broke the pipes on two overflowing wells on the golf course and also damaged the iron fittings on the pipes, causing some $500 damage. Joseph Mitchell, 1926 Philpot who said someone cut two of the tires on his car while it was parked behind his home, causing about $85 damage. Mary Whitt, 614-A Minter told police someone entered her home after kicking the door open, then pulled a knife on her and left. Police arrested: Sara Smitherman, 35, 1510-B LeGrand and charged her with third degree burglary. Sheriff's report Emergency calls FIRE CALLS TUESDAY Reported by the Selma Fire Department 7:07 a.m.
Dallas Compress, no fire, checkout. 12:55 p.m. Hood Street, grass fire. 2:12 p.m. 219 Lakeview, childrens' playhouse burned.
2:15 p.m. 1319 Cole broken gas line, no fire. 10:07 p.m. Summerfield Road, car fire, major damage. EMERGENCY RUNS TUESDAY Reported by the Haynes Ambulance Paramedics 10:30 a.m.
Camden, sick person. Cindy Kitt Cindy Kitt, formerly of Minter, died Sunday in Pensacola, Fla. Services will be Saturday at 1 p.m. in Pensacola. Deaths Dewitt Davis Matthews Dewitt Davis Matthews, 74, died suddenly Monday afternoon in Dorchester, Mass.
Services and burial will be in Dorchester. He is survived by one daughter, Patricia MacTavish of Dorchester; one son, Johnny Matthews, U.S. Navy; nine sisters and brothers, Tissier Rice of Harlem, Loice Cotton of Perry, Richard Matthews of Columbus, Betty Ann Jordan of Aberdeen, Billy Matthews of Spruce Pine, N.C., Otis Matthews of Colorado Springs, Annie Barr, Jimmy Matthews and Wilma Webster, all of Selma. Mr. Matthews was born and reared in Selma, the son of Ettie and Dave Matthews.
He made his home in Dorchester all his adult life. William Albert Waugh DECATUR William Albert Waugh of Decatur died Tuesday in a Decatur hospital after a lengthy illness. Funeral arrangements will be announced. Burial will be in Decatur. A native of Marion Junction, Waugh was the eldest son of the late Matthew Vivian Waugh Sr.
and the late Nannie Randall Waugh. He was a civil engineer with the Alabama Highway Department for some 45 years before his retirement, and served as a steward of First United Methodist Church' in Decatur. He is survived by his wife, Sara McAlpine Waugh of Decatur; a son, Alan Randall Waugh of Decatur; a sister, Ann Louise Waugh of Marion Junction; three brothers, Matthew Vivian Waugh Jr. and Archie Giller Waugh, both of Selma; and Henry Randall Waugh Tuscaloosa; one grandchild and a number of nieces and nephews. Donald Max Luker Donald Max Luker, 50, of 116 Holiday Drive, died Tuesday in a truck accident in Choctaw County.
Services will be held Thursday at 3:30 p.m. at the Lawrence Funeral Home chapel with the Rev. Roy Johnston officiating with burial in Pineview Memory Gardens. He is survived by his wife, Marion E. Luker of Selma; five sisters, Kate Martin of Thomasville, Faye Glass of Linden, Audrey Miller of Selma, Gwen Huggins of Arlington and Jenila "Honey Latham of Selma; three brothers, Harold.
Luker and Willard Luker, both of Grove Hill, and Charles Luker, Montgomery. Pallbearers and honor: guards will be members of the VFW Post 3016. Man drives car into house police arrested a and the car hit a home. and charged him Selma police Chief M.E. under the in- Summerlin said Walter Allen Tuesday after the Williams, 34, 2302-B Minter control of his vehicle was charged with DUI News of the electric system sale comes only a few weeks after the airport authority was able to pay off two longstanding debts.
Last month, the authority issued $25,000 checks to both the city of Selma and Dallas County to repay the initial loans which helped get the authority off the ground, said Richard Roberts, executive director of the airport authority. "We were very pleased to do this. It was the first time in five years we have had any money. we could repay them with," Roberts said. The action came after the authority sold 50 housing units to the Selma Housing Authority for $1.3 million.
The houses will be sold by SHA under a federal home ownership program for moderate income families. "We not only paid back the city and the county, but we repaid the bank more than $500,000 for what we had borrowed to renovate the housing," he said. Another $354,000 from the sale went to release the 50 houses from a General Services Administration mortgage. "We really didn't net too much on the sale. We just paid off all our debts," Roberts said.
year term which ends Jan. 17, the spokesman said. She added that new bonds for the new sixyear term were due to be filed 40 days after their election was declared official. Most elections are declared official the day after an election. However, the spokesman said Secretary of State Don Siegelman this year declared Dec.
14 as the official bond deadline, and all probate judges were informed of the deadline in a Nov. 19 letter. The purpose of bonding officials who directly handle public money is, to insure the public money against theft. If the officials violate the law by embezzling or some other misdeed, then the bonding company will cover the amount of funds taken, then try to recover that amount from the official. costly.
The engineering study on the Dayton well project, completed by Almon and Associate, Inc. of Tuscaloosa, indicates that the area above Dayton "is a good source of water." The well area is in a different geological area than Linden, in the Tuscaloosa Strata, he said. CLASSIFIED ads are the answer Hospitals TUESDAY New Vaughan Hospital ADMITTED: Mrs. Linda Rogers, Mrs. Essie Cobb, Curtis Thomas, Mrs.
Dorothy Kennedy Porter, Mrs. Von McQueen, Mrs. Marion Hughes, Mrs. Lee Bills. DISCHARGED: Katrina Heard, Mrs.
Rusty Nichols and baby boy. Good Samaritan Hospital ADMITTED: Jack King, Alberta Martin, John Walton, Montrese Young. DISCHARGED: Alphonso Johnson, Leroy Stewart. Medical Center Hospital ADMITTED: Merle Walker, Doris Smith, Geraldine Todd, Lillian Smith, Randall Cleckler, Robert Fitts, Annie Cummings, Deena Loper, Oaisy Cochran, Prevella Holmes, Harold Bodiford, Julia Haskin, Erma Hunter, Ethel Friday, Ruth Hammond, Mary McDaniel, Marcella Hampton, Barnett Lewis. DISCHARGED: Frances Perkins, Sidney Ford, Shelton Peoples, Dennis, Essie Payne, Kimberly Switzer, Adelle Armour, Lettie McMerria, Sylvia Fitts, Lonnie Duncan, Johnny Farley.
TUESDAY New Vaughan Hospital Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Paul Gresham, a girl. and Mrs. Curtis Lewis Thomas, a girl.
Mr. and Mrs. Carroll DeVon McQueen, a boy. Weather Fair today, clear and cold tonight and fair on Thursday. High today Low tonight High predicted Thursday High Tuesday Low Tuesday night River level 36.64 feet, falling The extended forecast for Alabama is: Friday through Sunday partly cloudy.
Chance of showers Saturday. Lows in the 40s. Highs in the 60s. The agricultural weather outlook predicts: No rain expected next 36 hours. Moderate drying potential today and Thursday, 8 hours or more of sunshine today and Thursday.
Lowest relative humidity 40 to 45 percent today and Thursday. None. Selma local man with fluence man lost the state to utility and high- state that said. He and Dallas area. utility's purwill be a industry.
and to see and efcompany's in the as a signal to serve working to service at with the the lower judges Jones. which received preparing to the approbate are apwhen the probate aphave to be longer in the six- Linden one, instead of the first phase of a county system, which its promotors say it is, and because the median income in Linden is about $14,000 as opposed to about $8,600 in rural Marengo, all Linden water customers will have to pay about $1 per 1,000 gallons, while rural customers will pay less than 50 cents per 1,000 gallons. Barley said he will try to convince FHA officials not to set rates according to median income. "The whole county ought to be treated the same and they should not penalize Linden when it's Linden which is trying to be the moving force behind this project for the whole county. Barley said the town has previously studied the possiblities of building a water treatment plant or water reservoir, but both proved too Cartoon by Steve Richey, fourth grade, Edgewood School "one of the outstanding locations in attract industry." He cited the airport, connections, upcoming rail connection way access as advantages.
"I can think of no other area in the can offer more to industry," Nelson pledged APC efforts to help Selma County locate suitable industry for the Both Wood and Nelson said the chase of the Craig electric system further incentive for prospective "We have very experienced operating maintenance personnel located in Selma that service to customers is quickly ficiently provided," Wood said. "The industrial rates are among the lowest south. "This new arrangement will serve to industry that we are ready and able them in Selma." Wood said Alabama Power is now obtain a municipal rate for street light Craig. The company will file a request Public Service Commission to allow rate, he said. The spokesman said all other probate responded December letter expect She said if Jones' bond and two others were sent back for corrections are not by the end of this week, the office is notify the governor.
The governor is pointing authority in the case of vacant judgeships. The spokesman said the late bonds parently the result of confusion as to bonds could be renewed. She said some judges who were re-elected in November parently thought their bonds did not renewed until their old bonds were no effect. The old bonds were in effect for after his car caused about $1,000 damage to a Cole Street home at about 2:10 p.m. Summerlin said damage to Williams' vehicle was estimated at $450.
In another accident, Barnette Lewis, 31, 411 Dallas was injured when she lost control of the vehicle she was driving and it hit a power pole on Washington Street, between Furniss and Dallas avenues. Summerlin said the accident occurred at about 11:34 a.m. Tuesday and caused some $3,000 damage to the vehicle. Ms. Lewis was transported by Haynes Ambulance to the Selma Medical Center, where a spokesman said she is in stable condition.
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