itnes-firortral (Established 1827) (Established 1890) VOL. 145. NO 172 Associated Press Leased Wire 12 PAGES TODAY SELMA, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 3, 1972 Full NEA Service focus State Local HENRY BRICK ANNOUNCES $2 MILLION EXPANSION OF PLANT HERE construction started on East Water Avenue site of firm. Brick Company Due To Expand The first day the 1973 license tags were placed on sale, 1,018 Dallas Countians purchased tags for their cars, according to figures from the license department at the court house. Figures show that 258 tags for pickup trucks and 10 motorcycle tags were also sold.
Circuit Judge Eugene Carter says Montgomery City Commissioner Cliff Evans practice of using city employes and equipment to pave parking lots for churches and other institutions violates the state constitution. The Birmingham Post-Herald today joined other-newspapers in the Scripps-Howard chain in endorsing President Nixon for reelection. A federal judge has approved a plan drawn up by the City of Montgomery to put black employes in higher-jobs under civil service. The Alabama Womens Hall of Fame will induct Agnes Ellen Harris and Margaret Murray Washington Wednesday in ceremonies at Judson College. Legal advertisem*nts have been sent out calling for bids later this month on oil and gas leases on several thousand acres of state land in northwest Alabama, the State Conservation Department said today.
Gov. George C. Wallace has paid a friendly visit to Air Force Maj. Edward Elias, a newly-freed prisoner of war who is undergoing medical tests and repatriation at a military hospital here in Montgomery. A new element was added to the clouded Washington County political picture today as Theron Cook, a candidate for sheriff, was sought for allegedly cashing a bad check in Alabama last year.
A fugitive warrant was issued on the eve of todays Democratic runoff election between Cook and incumbent Bryant Thurman. A 50-year-old Columbus. Ga. man is in Muscogee County jail awaiting trial on charges of slaying a IHienix City, woman whose body was found in a shallow grave at Ft. Benning last summer.
William R. Lynn, who had been convicted in 1950 for murdering his wife, has been indicted for murder by a federal grand jury and will be tried in U.S. District Court Jerry Wood, attorney for the State Mental Health Board, has been appointed U.S. attorney for the Middle District the -office which joined in recent litigation against the-mental health program. The National Education Association has sued the Mobile County School Board, charging the board with discrimination against black teachers and principals.
Funeral services were scheduled for Wednesday in Columbus, for state Rep, Cline Gilliam, 55, who was found dead in a Dallas, motel parking lot over the weekend. Texas officials said tests were being conducted to ascertain the cause of death. A native of Millport, Gilliam was a farmer, real estate developer and had insurance interests. A veteran of World War II, he is survived by his widow. Start of construction on a $2 million expansion by Henry Brick Company which will make it one of the most modern brick producing facilities in the nation was announced today.
President J. D. Henry announced the signing of a contract with Swindell-Dressler Co. of Pittsburgh to design and supervise the construction of the modem, fully automated brick plant. The new expansion will be on a site west of the present plant on Water and adjacent to the planned lligway 80 bypass which quts across Water Avenue and this portion of East Selma.
The additional 60,000 square feet in the fully automated plant will give Henry Brick production capacity of some Vk million bricks per week, approximately doubling their present capacity. It is expected to be placed in operation by next summer. Upon completion company officials said they expect to have a total employment for the combined operations of around 100 with an annual payroll of $700,000. This expansion will enable us to continue to meet the growing needs of our customers as well as provide increased quality and efficiency, Henry said. Installed in the new unit will be an 18 brick wide kiln, the widest being produced in the nation today.
Currently Henry has two six brick wide kilns in operation. Almost enough to construct one average sized home will be flowing from the new kiln on one car with a total of 8.064 bricks on each of them, allowing Henry to increase its statue as one of the top producers in Alabama and the Southeast. The firm markets 75 per cent of its brick in Alabama but also has a sales area covering the entire Southeast. In addition to Henry, other officers of the company are Art Gleason, vice-president in charge of slaes; and Ted Henry, vice-president in charge of production. Henry first entered the brick production market in 1945 when the company constructed what was at that time one of the most modern plants in the nation, producing at capacity 30,000 bricks per day.
Following operation of this plant for a year Henry purchased the old Selma Brick Company across the railroad from their location and the two maintained operations for the next 11 years. In 1958 a modernization program resulted in the closing of the Selma Brick Company operation and extensive changes which led to a production step-up to 90,000 bricks per day. Since that time continued expansion and production improvements have been made until today the plant produces some 100,000 bricks per day from the clay found in (his area and shale shipped from the Montevallo area lo Selma. In addition to the traditional red brick, the company offers a light colored brick and a variety of simulated used and antique faced brick. Nixon, Gromyko Put Arms Race Curbs Into Force WASHINGTON (AP) President Nixon and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko today placed into force accords to check the superpower nuclear arms race.
They joined in a call for continued efforts to remove the danger of war. The ceremony in the White House East Room included the firal steps on a treaty limiting defensive missiles and an executive agreement freezing for five years most of the two nations long-range nuclear arsenals. The accords were signed by Nixori and Soviet leaders in their Moscow summit talks last May. In comments lo an assemblage of 200 Cabinet officers, congressional and government leaders, both Nixon and Gromyko looked ahead to negotiations to broaden what Nixon called a first step in limiting the burden of nuclear arms and a first step in reducing the danger of war. The President said the accords were the beginning of a great historical process in which the two nations found they can make progress in checking the arms race.
He voiced hope that future talks will lead to a world that is much safer and a world that is possibly free from the danger of nuclear disaster. The goal, Nixon said is to lift the burden of fear of war from all the people of the world. The program called first for the two countries to exchange instruments of ratification signifying their agreement to limit each nation- to two antiballistic-inissile sites, one to protect the national capital and the other to defend an intercontinental-ballistic-missile site. Then came the business of formally signing the text of the treaty, an assignment handed to Gromyko and Secretary of State William P. Rogers.
Doctors Flee Threats Laser Is Used In Surgery National staff of Washington County Hospital, the only hospital in a county of 11,000 residents. They presented the county Hospital Board with a list of grievances which claimed hospital standards were not acceptable. The doctors packed up their families and left town Thursday after telling police anonymous telephone calls warned that unless Ihey returned to the hospital, their lives of those of their children would be endangered. CHIPLEY, Fla. (AP) Only one doctor remains to tend the sick in north Floridas rural Washington, County.
The otherWo have fled the county, claiming their lives were threatened. H. D. "Sam Shuemake, mayo of the county seat of Chipiey; said the threats and a rash of house and bam burnings during the past month are part of fear tactics by those who would like to control I he county. Drs.
James Craven and Norbert Wegmann resigned last Tuesday from the Simpson To Quit High Court Another strong earthquake has shaken Hollister, Calif, and rattled windows in neighboring Monterey County. No major damage or injuries were reported in the quake which occured at 11:31 p.m. Monday. A federal judge has issued a preliminary injunction preventing AFL-CIO President George Meany from taking over control of the Colorado Labor Council. Maj.
Gen. Alexander M. Haig, deputy to presidential adviser Henry Kissinger, extended his stay in Saigon today but U.S. Embassy officials insisted his schedule was flexible. Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Johnnie M.
Walters says shocking instances of tax evasion schemes by giant corporations have been discovered by the IRS. Walters told a meeting of tax executives Monday that a team -audft program had revealed schemes such as kickbacks and illegal payoffs to avoid tax payment by large corporations. Utilities Hike Left Up To PSC MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) The federal government has left it up to the Public Service Commission to decide whether rate increases by Alabama utilities are inflationary. But that doesnt give the PSC a blank check, the state agency says.
The Federal Price Commission has laid down guidelines which it expects the state to follow. They provide The utility must show that the proposed increase is based on actual costs and not on anticipated inflation. The increase must be the minimum required for adequate, safe service and future expansion. It must be the minimum to allow the utility to borrow money at reasonable cost without hurting its credit rating. The increase must not reflect labor costs above current wage guidelines, now fixed at 5.5 per cent per year.
The utility must take into account and put into effect obtainable productivity gains. SAN FRANCISCO (AP) An invisible laser beqm (hat cuts more sharply than any scalpel has been used successfully to remove dead skin from burn victims and repair damaged internal organs in animals, medical researchers report. Dr. James P. Fidler, director of the University of Cincinnati Medical Centers laser laboratory, discussed his research teams new surgical laser at the opening of the College of Surgeons 58th annual clinical congress here Monday.
Fidler said the technique uses an electric arc to excite molecules of carbon dioxide gas until hey send out a beam of intense, highly focused, and coherent radiation. resignations, is authorized to pick an interim justice for the remaining three months of Simpsons term. Bulletin WASHINGTON (AP) A proposed full-scale congressional investigation of the break-in at Democratic headquarters in the Watergate Hotel was rejected today by the House Banking Committee. Earlier story Page 2. MONTGOMERY, Ala.
(AP) Justice Robert T. Simpson, inactive due to ailments for most of the past year, plans to resign from the Alabama Supreme Court on Oct. 15. Simpson, 79, submitted his resignation to Gov. George C.
Wallace and requested that he be made a supernumerary judge. Sources close to the governor expected Wallace to accept the resignation as requested. Simpsons term normally would have ended this January since he did not seek re-election after 28 years on the court. Wallace, who is empowered to act on such An economic study reports that state and local governments for which revenue sharing is being enacted already are running a substantial budget surplus. Details Page 2.
The House has passed a bill to improve emergency medical services, and one congressman it could save 15,000 lives from highway accidents alone. Related story Pag.e 2. Appointment Of City Officials Held Up By Request International The United States pulls its Fill fighter-bombers out of combat after one of the planes vanishes on its first mission since returning to the Indochina war. Details Page 5. Sports City Attorney McLean Pitts passed out copies of sections of the code under which the city operates.
At one point during the meeting, the mayor admonished the spectators to be quiet. The well-attended meeting saw a group of people from Greene County including Sheriff Thomas Gilmore in the audience. Rep. Tom Reed and Lowndes County. Sheriff John Hulett were also present during the session.
They had come, they said, to watch the swearing-in ceremony of the five black councilmen. Morgan discussed the responsibility of council members and his role as president in the council. The chair will at all times be fair. There may be times when we disagree but all problems will be discussed as long as necessary. We should all vote in favor of continued progress in the interest of the citizens of Selma.
It is my sincere hope that we will lay aside all petty differences and move forward." Morgan said. Councilman James C. Kimbrough expressed his thanks at Morgan's speech saying, "we feel you are a fair man. We have asked questions; we have studied the code and had eome to the conclusion that certain things would take place. We did not come to halt the progress of the city," the new councilman said.
He said he was concerned about statements that have been made in the last few weeks concerning the council. Maybe the citizens of the city think we came to tear up the council but we are here to do the citys business, he said. Pitts discussed the city code and pointed out that it contains several errors in various sections which are contrary to state laws. And when there is a difference between the city and state laws, the state will always prevail, the attorney said. Councilman Irby Moore requested that the correct procedure for speaking during the session be followed.
'Hie procedure is those present must be recognized by the presideni of the council before speaking and should stand when talking. Shortly before concluding the session, the mayor commented that the four members of council joining in a suit against the city on its hiring practices should see that the suit is withdrawn. By NIKKI DAVIS MAUTE City Editor A resolution to appoint employes to fill city offices provided for in the City Code was tabled until the first regular session during City Councils organizational meeting Monday. Following the swearing-in ceremony for the coun-eilmen, mayor and council president, Mayor Joe Smitherman began his recommendations for these office holders and council had voted 8-1 on the appointment of Hugh A. Wall as city clerk and were moving to the next office holder when Councilman Frederick D.
Reese asked that the code dealing with this procedure be checked. The code stated that those officers of the city shall be appointed by the council at its first regular meeting. Council President Carl Morgan then entertained a motion to-allow the present office holder to continue in their positions until the regular meeting next Monday at which time the permanent appointments would be made. This resolution was unanimously adopted. The only other resolution passed during the hour-long session was one dealing with administrative procedure.
The six black members of Troy State Universitys football squad have lost their scholarships after staging a walkout at halftime of last Saturdays game, a school spokesman says. Details Page 7. Weather Details Increasing cloudiness through Wednesday. Page 12..
