The Daily Sentinel from Scottsboro, Alabama (2024)

July 9, 1992

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The Daily Sentineli

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Scottsboro, Alabama

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Thursday, July 9, 1992

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Thursday July 9 1992 Leaders Weather Statlad Photo By Bjroo Woodfla Public urged to attend 911 meetings Sports Page 8 a Dutton man charged with theft A need Barron to build on Mini Page Page 8 public confidence tMCOOfKISJLAlrtgMraMrwd Deaths Index Local Notes SmUmI Photo By WlHlom Byiwm Scottsboro Alabama 50 Cents By BYRON WOODIN Sentinel Staff By WILLIAM BYNUM Sentinel Staff By WILLIAM BYNUM Sentinel Staff By WILLIAM BYNUM Sentinel Staff Boaz: Bailey Jacksonville: Wilson The Scottsboro All Star Belles were eliminated from the District 4 Belles Softball Tournament by the Huntsville American All Starts 28 12 Tues day night at Veterans ield a boils down to a lack of communica1 non and understanding Stewart said He was referring to a recent problem with communications equipment in the western end of the county were Stewart said Wednesday and we were fed weather was drawn by Dustin Craig Beard 7 of Woodville The forecast calls for sunny skies today with a high in the upper 90s Southwest winds at 10 mph The National Weather Service is pre dicting a heat index of 105 degrees or more today and warns that heat stroke is a danger Caution is advised when participating in outdoor activities join her husband in Athens Ga Livingston said the board of direc tors have begun screening the appli cations and have narrowed the appl arent (he only ones who need to attend the 911 meetings lance board members police depart ment people department people everyone who responds to emergencies needs to go to these 911 will be a great thing when it is' implemented across the county Stewart said going to take a joint effort to make it he added all got to work together And the first step is com municating All departments need to sit down and work out the problems got throughout the Senator Lowell Barron said Monday night the most important function of state legis lature is sometimes to kill bad bills less we do the better off the people Barron said in an address to the Stevenson City Council we passed every bill that comes before us the people of this state could not breath with Congratulatlons Nathan Smith and Justin Watwood on your homeruns in the 14 year All Star game at Sylvania Congratulations Jonathan Baugh on making the big leagues Congratula tlons Vlckey Robbins for passing EMT National encouraged Applicants will be screened by a committee in an attempt to assemble a broad representation from Jackson County Hereford said no age restric tions exist The cost of the program is $200 and is being sponsored by the Cham ber of Commerce the Jackson Coun ty Economic Development Authority and the Auburn Extension Agency The participants will meet nine times during the course of a year in day long sessions The program will begin Oct 8 of this year and conclude June 10 1993 Hereford said it is important for the success of the program that the first class of the leaders be of high quality and that the program itself be designed to give the greatest benefit to the participants She said that the class helps a com munity by providing leaders with broad understanding of problems facing the county and enhances com munication within the community as class partipants interact during the course of the program She said one of the underlying pur poses is to encourage leaders to seek political office but she said the makeup of the program is non partisan Chamber president Steve Livings ton announced that 66 applications have been submitted for the Chamber position The position came open when Gloria Balentine announced she will retire in order to bunch of bull But I think we need to get into name calling Like I said it boils down to a lack of com munication and Stewart said he hold the volunteer fire department association responsible for the problem Stewart said he feels many prob lems across the county could be sol ved if emergency responders started attending the 911 meetings on a regular basis all need to know going he said going to affect every one of Stewart said volunteer firemen were able to kill it The senator said public offi cials all across the nation are the targets of public outrage never seen as much unrest and dissatisfaction with elected offi he said tried to anal yze iL I think found the problem" Everytime you turn on the tele vision news or pick up a big city paper Barron said are hit with something negative and awful The media is always telling the American public that we are in a grave situation And just not the Barron said he can not remem ber better times in Stevenson Jackson County or in Alabama remember things ever being better in my lifetime" he said rates are down" he said economy is picking up ut if the media keeps spewing poison and the public keeps swallowing it things can never Barron encouraged the city council to the positive" need to build the See Barron Page 2 The 1992 Summer Olympics will be held in Barcelona from July 25 until August 9 Mini Page takes a look at the second largest city in Spain Abby Page 4' Amusem*nts Page 6 Classified Page 7 Sports Page 8 Mini Page Page 5 1 Section 8 Pages A Dutton man was arrested Tues day in connection with a recent burg lary at Pisgah Charles Lindsey Beavers Jr 32 was arrested and charged with third degree burglary and first degree theft The arrest came as a result of an investigation by the Jackson County Department Investigator Tommy Holt said several pieces of stolen property were recovered in the process of building a case against Beavers A gold bracelet a gold herring bone chain an RCA camcorder a 22 calibre lever action Marlin rifle and a 22 calibre handgun were recovered The total value of the recovered property is estimated at $2400 Holt said some of the property was recovered from a pawn shop at Rosa lie and some was recovered from Beavers Beavers has an extensive criminal history in lorida Holt is in the pro cess of checking with law enforce ment officials in that state to deter mine whether or not Beavers is on parole or probation In an unrelated case the department has recovered three fire arms stolen from DeKalb County Jackson County investigators recov ered a Ruger 44 Magnum Super Blackhawk handgun a 22 calibre revolver and a 12 gauge Mossburg pump action shotgun The guns were recovered from two Jackson County juveniles who have been arrested and face criminal charges in DeKalb County in con nection with the theft of the guns In another unrelated case investigators have recovered two speakers an amplifier and approxi mately 44 cassette tapes that were stolen from a Toyota truck in lat Rock on June 14 The estimated value of the recov ered property is $510 Two juveniles have been charged in connection with the case Holt said the 44 casset te tapes were recovered in Jackson County The speakers and amplifier were recovered in Georgia Recovered firearms Jackson County Investigator Tommy Holt displays some of the stolen merchandise that was recovered this week James Stewart of the Aspel Limrock Volunteer ire Department said Wednesday he hopes represen tatives from every emergencyresponse organization in Jackson County begin attending the 911 meetings them why not hold the tax reform election on the same day as the primary elections or the general elections They told me if we held it on a special day voter turnout would be lower and they would have a better chance of getting the thing Barron said the tax reform bill would have benefited power com panies insurance'companies and banks people of this state would have been put undo a great he said why we out asking someone for killed it and 1 am proud that we pvaiiiuoiviu The senator said a bill intro duced several yean ago provides a good example of the legisla responsibility to kill bad bills senator introduced a bill that would have outlawed riding in the back of pick up trucks" Barron said was the worst bill ever seen Bills like that take away our freedoms and important to safeguard against things like that" The tax reform bill which was introduced during the most recent legislative session is another example of Bar ron said was not a tax reform" the senator explained would have burdened the people of this state with the single largest tax increase in the history of Barron said the propo nents tried to past the people of Alabama we had Essed the bill the people would ve been able to vote on the he said they were going to put it in a special election sometime in Barron said asked Jackson County is looking for leaders Jackson County will begin a Lead ership 2000 program that will help train potential leaders to fill any void that might occur it was announced Wednesday at a Scottsboro Jackson County Chamber of Commerce Ear ly Bird Coffee According to Lynn Hereford a graduate and current chairperson of the Huntsville Leadership 2000 program the purpose of the program is train potential leaders in a com munity These leaders according to Hereford help to fill any gaps in leadership that might occur in a community In addition to serving as the Lead ership 2000 chairperson Hereford is the district coordinator for Congress man Robert Cramer of Huntsville The need for such a program said Hereford became apparent a few years ago when a plane crash took the lives of several leaders in the Atlanta area leaving a leadership void in that city The Jackson County leadership program which is being modeled after the Huntsville program will have an intial class of 20 participants Individuals and businesses are being encouraged to nominate people who already exhibit strong leadership qualities Self nominations are being icants to what he called is manag recently in a retreat to formulate able plans for the forthcoming year He also announced that Chamber mem Livingston also reported that the bers will be making a trip to Chamber board of directors met Washington DC in September Jaily jj I 11 iiii tri El 5 program started in Jackson the county to understand that board meetings are open to the public interested in what we are doing should she said will be glad to answer any questions and explain any part of the implementation The board is xharged with the whole problem had resDonsiniiiLV or imniemrnunw a countywide Enhanced 911 system Hahn has projected that the system will be on line within a year The board is currently in the process of re addressing the county and is pre paring to purchase the equipment needed to implement the system Members of the Jackson County Enhanced 911 Board of Directors will start their meetings an hour ear lier beginning with the meeWBf" 'i Rubye Hahn who chairs the board said the August 6 meeting will begin at 4 pm The board has been meeting on the first Thursday of every month at 5 pm The panel will continue meeting on the first Thurs day of each month Hahn said she wants everyone in Good Morning Early Bird speaker Hereford center assistant to Congressman Bud Cramer discusses the Leadership 2000 program with Jackson County Commission Chairman Houston Kennamer and Scottsboro businessman om Hodges 3 i rj xj i i Gt 1 1 Xi rn 1 i a AdRi a 4 111 is III II Wi i A iiwrv 11 9 iff 4 1 iBL Sand Mountain teams advance in tournament See Page 8 50 Cents Scottsboro Alabama S'.

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