Birmingham Post-Herald from Birmingham, Alabama • 5

Birminahom Poit-Harald Saturdoy Fabwn) 27 IW1 A5 Trafford Elementary School will be closed Dog corps suffers burnout Last Schutzhund retires High McNeil will serve grades kindergarten through seven While the board indicated Graysville Elementary School will be closed and students transferred to Brookville Elementary the board postponed a decision until its March meeting By Kathariae Bide FMt-HtnMIhprtar Age and infirmity caught up with the Jefferaon County dog corps and now the last of the three-dog team is about to retire 1 Dr Marcua Martin calls it burnout After about eight yean on the police dog beat the lut member Of the canine corps ii calling it quit said the veterinarian who donatei hia service to the county The dog's two teammates have died Disbanding the team is no small loss for the department Each of the dogs is worth about $3000 on the market sow The three cost the county 6000 eight years ago The dogs are extraordinary German shepherds shipped from West Germany where they are trained and graded as Schutzhunds been a tremendous Sheriff Mel Bailey said they first came they couldn't understand English and our men under stand German so we put them all back to Bailey likes to distinguish his dogs from the IS now being used by Birmingham police are tracking dogs search and rescue Their lnt and they are not K-J Bailey says Schutzhunds attack only on command while an ordinary K-9 could be provoked into an attack we want to avoid is what happened to that Bailey said referring to a Birmingham incident in which a dog escaped from a wrecked patrol car and bit a nurse But Birmingham police say that is the only instance of a bystander being bitten in the K-9 SO years All police dogs are donated as puppies to the city and trained with the officer who keeps them County dogs arrive full-grown and are retrained with their new owners Bailey says each officer is paid 50 a month from the pistol permit fund to care for the dogs The dog food is donated to the department THRU SATURDAY PARK SOUTH CTR: VESTA VIA HwiDfifioim-om But Bailey says he'll have trouble using the fund for new dogs The Legislature gave the sheriff discretionary use of the pistol permit fund for law enforcement needs but Bailey says he already uses it for the pistol team training program weapons and more A recent state audit of the fund suggested Bailey prepare a budget to prevent overdrawals Some $3 from each pistol permit goes to the fund Birmingham trainers think any city dog is just as well trained as a county dog with a big-name brand "And we don't buy dogs" Birmingham Sgt Paul Price said Despite the obvious advantage of a free dog Bailey still is trying to raise money for the West German dogs Dr Martin has offered to spearhead the drive no comparison between the dogs that the Birmingham police use and these" Martin said work on command They're not outlaw 2 5 2 1 4 1 1 A A Broadway hit which in April 1977 has the right for family might even call it a G-rated with romance and the kind of entertainment that the heart are just about gone for this weekend with matinees today and tomorrow Tickets remain for shows at on Monday Tuesday and a great family show VlUAGt (AST 5TI-J0J0 the long-run opened ingredients entertainment You musical sentiment touches Tickets performances 2:30 sold out 8 nightly 'Annie' is By Emmett Weaver Fort-Htnld Reporter lizzards! arrived in Birmingham last night to a capacity crowd in the 000-seat Civic Center Concert Hall is the kind of musical that takes time to warm up to But if you have an affectionate spot in your heart for little girls dogs and fairy tales of the Great Depression this musical conic atrip will appeal toyou Mollie Hall 11 is winsome as the comic strip orphan waif She and her dog provide a number of highlights in the show All of the performers In the touring company could very well have stepped out as characters of the newspaper comic atrip which began in 1924 and is alive today in the-musical soon be made released as a movie Adding badly needed comic momentum was Ruth Williamson who played the tough bottle-tippling Mrs Hannigan who rum the orphanage Annie escapes from With her earthy humor she kept the show moving when it had a ten- NOWflWEDNESDAI The Jefferson County Board of Education yesterday voted to close one of the county's schools and to transfer two grades from another -Beginning in the fall students attending Trafford Elementary School will go to Warrior School and eighth and ninth graders at McNeil Junior High School will attend Pittman Junior 5HQW1MW OPEN MONDAY ACADEMY AWARD NOMINATIONS Including BEST PICTURE HKST ACTOR I li nn hkU HhsT At TKIXi Ik-phiiniX HI ST SI IWKTIV At Joik- Imuli HliSTIHKH llK M-utHuk HCSTM Kl Ml kUpulimi I IriMM llminpvin 111-SI- IM MAIlXKAmi Hilli Vk illuim ii -i IIKST HIM 11)1 ll)K Hubert I Moth1 One of the Year' 10 BcM Ins ludiitK lime MigBHrww kMhttrf um-H Ikuh htJUhimt wruti BtarMmM 1 Ml umcaAKNMkJuncFfc akw KATMABINEHEMJItN HENSYIQK -ON GOLDEN CIHUHA Wllfi 7IM47T AST WOOD 15M-4TJS'' -SMCIAl EASTWOOD WEDNESDAY 2 $250 7 ACADEMY AWARD NOMINATIONS Including BEST PICTURE BEST DIRECTOR tHWreomRE SPECIAL MATINS EASTWOOD MRV WNNCSOAV 790 PM $2 IQ I Sastwoqd The story of an American marrias SHQDT METRO-OOLDWYN-MAYER PRESENTS ALBERT FINNEY INANE KEATON HURRY LAST WEEK! 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Thia motion picture contains scene of extremely graphic and violent horror CINf A CITY I1J-WOO GRHH Sf M5-4771 MWIU WBMTf MOWS IMAMIMHNMnAHU INAOWNNai MIOHH0n3-O31J7T Drama review dency to slacken in pace Ron Holgite looking like a bald-pated Yul Rrynner was a standout as Annie's benefactor the millionaire He and Miss Hall had a couple of touching poignant scenes William Metzo was a believable reincarnation of FDR when the late president comes to visit Warbucks in act two Delivery of the songs in the show with the exception of a few familiar hits such as is spotty There are many changes of the scenery which is quite impressive and faithful to the Great Depression era with its extremes of poverty and wealth The costumes also had an authentic period flavor Between now and Wednesday when the national company ends its run here tickets to the show will be a hard to come by And it is understandable because usually gathers about 6 to 8 percent of the available television market well below the II percent share that WVTM usually receives for its pm show Broome said "We moved into that time slot with the ides of being the first news Mow on the sir And at the same time that we did that 13 also moved into that are committed to a local program We will not drop news But we will probably change the format pretty In the past channel 42 faced low ratings because it broadcasts on an ultra-high frequency Broome said distribution of cable television service and increasing numbers of television sets equiped to receive UHF have greatly reduced that drawback think probably the UHF versus VHP thing means just only a few rating points these Turner died at Lloyd Noland Hoe-' pital shortly before 10 pm Monroe said Turner had been with Up company about four years Turner's age was not available last night but Monroe said be was in his 20a Monroe said the Turner accident wu the first fatality at Hanna Steel which employs about 175 workers WATCH RATED MOVIES FROM THE PRIVACTLOFxYOUR CAP CINEMA DRIVE-IN SUPER HWY AT MIDFIELD FEATURE BEGINS 7:00 PM NOW-OPEN FOOD-DRMK-GAMES HUS Th SiH HU AM Tlmw "RAIDERS LOST ARK" AT Midnile NO OM UNDO! 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