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The Montgomery Advertiser from Montgomery, Alabama • 20

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SUNDAY, MAY 25, 1975 ivtttm ALABAMA JOURNAL PAGE 20A Hotel Meet Setting Enhances THE OLD FASHION HANDYMAN IS BACK! By BUSTER MacGUIRE Advertiser State Editor FORT PAYNE Forty-two innkeepers and their associates from throughout Alabama gtahered in this beautiful northeast Alabama setting Friday for their Spring-Summer Hosted by Mr. and Mrs. John Kilbreagh, the two-day session of the Alabama Hotel-Motel Association included tours of local tourist attractions and a business session designed to fatten the coffers of the State Department of Education in the Bureau of Publicity and A.J. Rane, president of the association, said he was happy to see so many association members attending and announced his group will enterain the legislature and members of the news media in Montgomery June 18. Among the business matters, the association adopted forms and flows on a mountain top and also flows in a canyon.

Manitou Cave contains a stalagtite, The Hay Stack, 40 feet high and 30 feet wide, which is estimated to have been 184 million years in the making. Sequoyah is called the Looking Glass Cavern because of its mirror-like reflection pools and into the canyon. The members also visited the DeSoto State Park, Little River Canyon and Manitou Cave in Sequoyah Caverns. DeSoto, atop Lookout Mountain, has swimming, boating and fishing and completely equipped cabins available. Little River Canyon is the deepest gorge east of the Rockies and boasts of the only river in the U.S.

which Remember how nice it was when you could pick up the phone and call the neighborhood handyman when your home had a small you had an idea for an you just wanted to update a resolution endorsing support of legislation that would restore captial punishment lor certain crimes. Rane said his group will, at its next meeting in Birmingham, select a Miss, and Mrs. Alabama Hospitality from membership, giving the honor to the person who most typifies the best in Southern Hospitality. The association collects a four per cent lodging tax, of which three per cent goes for education, and the remaining one per cent to promotion of the state tourist industry. Members attending the meeting here, in the mountain foothills of the Appalachians, were treated to visits of five of the area's scenic attractions of "unsurpassed beauty." Included in the tour were visits to Canyon Land Park.

It features the only chairlift in the state which descends Former A-J Operator Beaten, Robbed of 8200 the old homestead? Bet you thought we'd all dis appeared. Well, we re back and we have the case was unsolved late Saturday. Mrs. Edwards, who is an aunt of Atty. Gen.

Bill Baxley, was taken to the military hospital at Maxwell AFB, treated for minor injuries and kept overnight for observation, a hospital spokesman said. an experienced staff of professionals who believe no job her purse and then kicked her, police said. A witness said the man started to walk off, then came back and kicked her again. A friend of the woman said the robber made off with $200 from her purse. Police said there might be another man involved and A 75-year-old Montgomery woman was beaten and robbed Saturday afternoon, according to police.

Mrs. Nettie Edwards of 742 Adams retired chief switchboard operator for The Advertiser-Journal, was robbed in front of a laundry on Adams Street when a black man came up behind her, knocked her down, took is too small. We'll do it right the first time-at pre-inflation prices, too. FAB Vice President Elected Lions President lit All-Rut Roof, gave Gutter Repair Lock Changes Paneling Wainscoating Screening Storm Windows Doors Painting Wallpapering ClkrtnteSd! A George Kenmore, Frank Knowles, Larry Laws, W.V Lyerly, Frank McGough, Al- Burglar Bars Security Locks Supended Ceilings lyn McKeen, Oakley Melton Curtis Moon, Joe Phelps John Prim, James S. Sims Sebie Smith, Charles Stake-ly, Felix Tankersley, Leslie Ceramic Tile Utility Room, Closet Bath Storage Concrete walks, driveways patios Tile Vinyl Sheet Flooring Custom Kitchen Cabinets Formica Countertops Windows replaced and Doors installed Room Additions Plane Common Sense Do business by Montgomery Aviation Air Taxi Service.

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Call Fred Mayer at 288-7334 MONTGOMERY AVIATION -'since 1945 Win ColorTV LkA 1 PRICES WILL NEVER BE LOWER "BIGGEST SELECTIONS iu P.C. Campbell, vice president and trust officer of First Alabama Bank of Montgomery, has been elected president of the Montgomery Lions Club. Campbell and other officers and directors were chosen during the civic club's semi-annual election and will serve from July 1 through December. Other new officers include Franklin Parker, first vice president; Marvin Carroll, second yice president; W.J. Boroughs, third vice president; Walter McKee, secretary; Tranum Fitzpatrick, treasurer, Gene Kovarik, Lion Tamer, and Junie Pierce III, Tail Twister.

New directors are Mark Anderson, Jimmy Brown, Clinton Carter, Eugene Carter, James S. Coleman, Ralph Franco, Dr. Harry Glazer, James T. Inscoe, Watson, Edwin Wells and Ed Teague. Dr.

Harris P. Dawson, the only surviving charter member of the club, was named an honorary lifetime member of the board of directors. Truck Accident Jams Highway NASHVILLE (AP) A truck loaded with more than 8,000 live chickens overturned Monday forcing thousands of suburban commuters to find an alternate route to work, police said. 1 The driver of the truck, Johnny Davenport, Dayton, told police his rear wheels locked. MONTGOMERY" RCil The AROAKL I I AutllOriltd I Model Gr729 I S(ry( I I Cfitr Call 264-2047 We'll be happy to give you an estimate on any home repairs or improvements.

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