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The Montgomery Advertiser from Montgomery, Alabama • 20

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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1957 TEN THE MONTGOMERY ADVERTISER Low Bid Given For New Hufh Street School Paperhangers once signed their names on walls to date their work. Removal of wall paper in soma old homes revealed it had been oa $339,800, and Wyatt Construction $344,411. Seven Members Appointed To New Planning Group I the walls more than 100 years. WE WILL BE CLOSED THURSDAY ON ACCOUNT OF RELIGIOUS HOLIDAY We will appreciate you anticipating your needs and calling Wednesday for immediate delrvery. We will reopen Friday morning at 8:30 A.M.

WTalter McKee, associate superintendent of education; William Silas Garrett, assistant superintendent, and R. S. Morris, district engineer for the Housing and Home Finance Agency. Bids submitted were: Andrew Dawson, Bear Brothers Liles, McElvy Rutland, Algernon Blair, King Saud of Saudi Arabia has an American made mobile home to visit his outlying desert provinces. This bus-like vehicle includes a throne room with rose colored carpeting.

Andrew Dawson contractors yesterday submitted the low bid for construction of a new 22-room elementary school on Hugh street. Construction on the new school will begin immediately after acceptance of the low bid by the Board of Education, with the con-currance of the federal Housing and Home Finance Agency. Bids from five local firms were opened and read yesterday by M. K. Johnson and Al Williams, architects for the school, at a meeting of education officials with bidders and bonders.

Also present at the meeting were i 1 I fy) v. Seven members were appointed to the new City Planning Commission, which was authorized Sept. 20 by the State Legislature, yesterday at the city commissioners' meeting. The new planning commission replaces the old board under provisions of a legislative act introduced by Sen. Vaughan Hili Robi-son.

Robert H. Heilpern was approved by the commissioners as a new appointee, and six former 1 I SERVING MONTGOMERY SINCE 190J MERPACO OFFICI OUTFITTERS tUSINESS MACHINES STATIONERS PRINTERS OFFICE FURNITURE SOUND SYSTEMS ERCANTI LE NOTICE Closed all day Thursday because of Religious Holiday MONTGOMERY SHOE FACTORY HANK WILLIAMS JR. MAKES LIKE A COT50Y He Led Parade In Honor Of His Late Dad DOWNTOWN NORMANDALE WANT ADS WORK WONDERS members were returned to the planning commission: W. Pat-erson, George C. Starke, Cliff Htnderson, Thomas A.

Bell, Sol E. Brinsfield, and Mrs. Frances Gentry. The resolution approving the appointees also called for use of the old commission's balance of funds by the new commission. The appropriation in the present budget will be transferred to the new board.

In other city commission business yesterday, bids from seven local firms for sidewalk construction and street paving were opened and read. Representative bidders and bonders were present to hear the bids for the paving project. Final acceptance of low bidder will be announced at a meeting Friday at 11 a.m. Bids submitted were: Hodgson-Blake. Hailey Bumpass contractors, general contractor K.

G. Bradley, contractor D. D. Cooper, Cox Construction Deep South Construction Co. $110,236.00, and Thomason Associates, $117,989.12.

Streets which come under the paving project are Colbert from Clay to Bell; Gibson from near Cotton to Texas; Marguerite from Hall to Harriet; Midway from Texas to Barksdale; Primrose from Thomas to Southview; Texas from Gibson to Midway; Texas from Rigby to the Seaboard Air Line Railroad; W. Jeff Davis from Murray to Oak; and Yarbrough from Cotton to Texas. Sidewalks to be paved are on Clay street from Covington to Cullman. CAPUT City Hearing Postponed On ABC Stores' Zoning The public hearing scheduled Friday on the proposed ordinance zoning the city for ABC stores has been postponed pending study cf the ordinance by the city's legal department. City commissioners announced yesterday that the public will be informed of the new date for the hearing when the commission receives the legal department's opinion on the constitutionality of the proposed ordinance.

"There is some question as to the constitutionality of the proposed ordinance," the commissioners said. WW UuWoj ulyiuwii 1957 CARS AND TRUCKS IS OF VODKA -COLLINS AS HE 'nr Fin, 10 pages of oven cooking ideas It's the time of year to put your oven back to work. And there's a whole big section on oven cooking in October Better Homes Gardens. Recipes and baking ideas for pies, biscuits, bread, roasts, and cookies. Make more and better use of your oven this fall and winter than ever before.

Get October Better Homes Gardens today, wherever magazines are sold! delicious all the way I Memorial Day Parade Led By Hank's Son Eight-year old Hank Williams Jr. indicated here last night that he may not be exactly a chip off the old block. He said he'd rather be a scientist than a musician. The blond-haired, brown-eyed boy was here with his mother, Audrey Williams, for the Hank Williams Memorial Day exercises which ended last night at City Auditorium with a show put on by visiting artists of the country music field. Hank Williams, formerly of Montgomery, died Jan.

1, 1953, at the height of a meteoric career. Many disc jockeys and others in the business consider him the greatest country music star who ever lived. Yesterday afternoon Hank's family, visiting artists and other friends paid their respects to the star's memory in a brief service at his grave in Oakwood Annex Cemetery here. The service was conducted by the Rev. Henry L.

Lyon, pastor of the Highland Avenue Baptist Church. Then came a parade through downtown Montgomery led by Hank Audrey Williams, and Lycrecia Williams, Audrey's daughter by a previous marriage. Among the country music performers riding in the procession were the Everly Brothers Bye Porter Wagoner a Dell Wood, Rusty and Doug, Curtis Gordon, Billy Gray, Stonewall Jackson, Dee Kilpatrick (Grand Ole Opry manager), Jimmy Newman, Melvin Endsley and others. Earlier in the day most of the performers had entertained members of the Montgomery Kiwanis Club at its regular meeting. The Memorial Day exercises, second such observance here since Hank's death, were sponsored by the Alcazar Shrine Temple of Montgomery.

4 Assessed Fines On Traffic Counts Four men were fined for traffic violations yesterday in Recorder's Court and one was fined on a charge of carrying a concealed weapon. Recorder's Court Judge D. Eugene Loe fined John D. Brooks, 38 N. Capitol Parkway, $25 and costs for reckless driving; Phillip H.

Fullwood, 18 Clanton $50 and costs for reckless driving; Glenn Moseley, 63 Rosebud $50 and costs for driving with license revoked; and Marvin O. Thomas, 3805 Day $100 and costs for driving while intoxicated. Willie Gibson, Melbourne, was fined $25 and costs for carrying a concealed weapon, and $25 and costs for concealing his gmimoffc the greatest name in VODKA to Proof. DIst. from grain.

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