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Birmingham Post-Herald from Birmingham, Alabama • 26

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II PAGE C4 BIRMINGHAM POST-HERALD Wfnnday April 16 1975 Prices Effective Wed 4-16-75 Through Tues 4-22-75 Quantity Rights Reserved No Sales Made To Dealers IIWY BESSEMER 715 SHANK CGQMJGnmD County will farm leased land as start Jefferson County will get Its farm project going this year despite the slow start due to rainy weather County commissioners Tuesday gave the go-ahead for leasing of more than 100 acres at a cost of about $1400 after it was learned the rain and amount of land clearing necessary will make it impossible to have the proposed farm site at Coalburg ready for use this spring Six tracts ranging in size from S3 acres to 30 acres will be rented for this year All are cleared and ready for crops Commissioner Chriss Doss who is in charge of the farming operation said They all were farmed lastyearhesaid Doss also got approval of the other two commissioners to hire three laborers as truck drivers He said he would use jail labor for many of the operations but thought the operation of the mobile equipment needed permanent employes Approval was given in addition for the conty to place an order for $6500 in assorted seeds plus $1500 for fertilizer Funds for the first year farm operation will come from federal revenue sharing money but Doss said he hopes the project will become self-sustaining within a year or two The county farm he hopes will supply produce for county jails the county home at Ketona the Family Court Merqy Hospital and the Courthouse cafeteria Food orders for those institutions indicate going to be a big operation For example the monthly consumption of cabbage now runs around 1600 heads Lettuce is used at the rate of 23 dozen heads a month or about 276 dozen heads a year and potatoes are used at the rate of about 4240 pounds a month or 50880 pounds a year When the farm goes into livestock and chicken raising in addition to gardening the task will be even more monumental according to statistics For instance 1400 fryers 5850 dozen eggs 1740 pounds of bacon 425 hams and 1300 pounds of hamburger are supplied for these tables each month HAM ROAST LB LB SLICED BACON 'SZ 98' GIB? CQ3EDGD I ft ZEIGLER CELLO CONEYS ZEIGLER SLICED 1202 MIOCIU ZBGLER'S ORIGINAL FORK SAUSAGE ZEKSUffS PLANTATION SMOKED SAUSAGE lb ZEKSUER SLICED BACON ana 88c 98 FRESHLY GROUND BEEF FRESHLY GOUND CHUCK FRESH FROZEN SUCH) BEEF LIVER FRESH FROZEN SLICED PORK LIVER LUMBERJACK SLICED BOLOGNA LUMBERJACK WIENERS US CHOICE BONELESS STRAINED FRUITS AND VEGETABLES GERBERS BABY oi SHURFINE CORN CHILI BRICK 'hco" $1 17-OZQO CANS 00 ZEI GLEB'S PLANTATION 10-LB SHURFINE FRUIT COCKTAIL 215-CZ CANS SAUSAGE BOX 121 'Driveway bill' sent back to Senate unit Post-Herald Bureau MONTGOMERY A House-passed "driveway to allow counties to work on private property in 16 counties ran into a detour Tuesday in the Senate The bill was recommitted to the Senate Local Government Committee after first going to the Local Legislation Committee where it normally would have received automatic approval A request that it get a closer look came from Sen Obie Littleton of Clanton chairman of the local legislation committee Littleton said the measure had more widespread FOOD KING SHORTENING Montgomery calling Vof it ejl uiik Smjm! 4-OZ JARS WHY PAY MORE? WHY PAY MORE? in- BOOBY'S CREM0RA 1 SHURFINE flour 71k SOFUN BATH TISSUE VS1 59' SOFUN JUMBO "soil TOWELS 89 WORTZ I SALTINES DEL MONTE CATSUP 79- ROYAL CUP GROUND COFFEE lb 88 LIBBY'S POTTED MEAT LIBBY'S VIENNA SAUSAGE OVEN GOLD BUNS A ROUS CASTLEBERRY BUFFET CAN MEATS SHASTA CAN DIET DRINKS KELLOGG'S CORN FLAKES 51 31 31 6 $1 68 ASSORTED FLAVORS DIXIELAND ICE MILK FRESH BREAD WHITE COLD BRAND SHURFINE FHOTDUKS SHURFINE PEACHES 4 CAN Vi GAL CTNS 2V-QZ 24-OZ PKGS WHY PAY MORE? application than a local bill and asked that it be studied by a committee which studies local government problems on the statewide level The House-passed bill was an offshoot of one introduced by Rep Robert Crowe of Townley to allow county crews to do private work on private property in Walker County The bill was amended on the House floor last week to include 13 other counties but to limit the work to gravel and grading rather than paving As passed by the House the unadvertised bill also applies to population brackets that include Clay Lowndes Crenshaw Henry Lamar Winston Geneva Butler Franklin St Clair Colbert Houston Marion Jackson and Madison Littleton said the bill became more than a purely local measure when the amendments were tacked onto it Senate oks supernumerary sheriff A bill to provide a rarity if not a one-of-its-kind in Alabama cleared its first hurdle Tuesday in the Alabama Senate The chamber passed a bill by Sen Dudley Perry of Tuske-gee to create a supernumerary sheriff in Pike County He would draw $250 a month and could qualify after 12 years' service if he was 60 or older Supernumerary sheriff is a legislative name for a retired sheriff There are numerous supernumerary circuit judges and district attorneys and there is a move on to create supernumerary probate judges Panel approves two medical bills The Senate Health and Welfare Committee Tuesday approved two bills which would loosen requirements generally on out-of-state or out-of-country doctors practicing in Alabama One would abolish the State Board of Examiners of Basic Sciences and remove a requirement that licensed out-of-state doctors would have to take tests on basic sciences Among other things it would allow the limited licensing of any doctor working in prisons or mental institutions The two bills are sponsored by Sen Bill King of Huntsville Death penalty hearing slated The House Judiciary Committee will conduct a public hearing at 10 am Wednesday on a bill reinstating the death penalty in Alabama The bill sponsored by Rep Jack Biddle of Card end ale makes the death penalty mandatory in cases involving first-degree murder but redefines cases in which the Jury might find a defendant guilty of murder in the first and second degrees A similar bill already has been killed in the Senate Judiciary Committee but Biddle said he will push tar passage of the House bill and expects it to be approved and sent to the Senate Under the bill first-degree murder includes killing law enforcement officers in the line of duty murder during the commission of another crime such as rape extortion robbery or child molestation or of witnesses subpoenaed to testify against the defendant The death penalty also would be mandatory for murder of the president or vice president of the the governor or lieutenant governor of the state judges presidential candidates murder for hire murder by a convict under a life sentence or murder by a bomb Other intentional killings would be second-degree murder punishable by 10 years or more in prison Ethics proposal hearing set today The House State Administration Committee will hold a public hearing at 10 am Wednesday on a Senate-passed bill to remove attomeysand most appointed local board members from provisions of the state ethics law The Senate passed a bill to allow attorney-legislators to practice before state agencies except the Public Service Commission and State Board of Adjustment and to serve as city and county attorneys for fees They were prohibited from both by the state's first ethics law passed by the 1973 Legislature in a tumultous session The bill also will allow appointed local officials in cities of 10000 and under to serve on local boards without filing financial disclosure statements with the State Ethics Commission BORDENS SINGLE VMIAF SLICED CHEESE is? 99- TROPICANO FROZEN Orange Juice 3 CANS SOLID VEGETABLE MARGARINE lb 39 MR Gt FRENCH FRIED POTATOES 2 £49 FRESH COUNTRY EXTRA LARGE EGGS ml 69 FRESH COUNTRY LARGE EGGS doz 68 FRESH POTATOES 10-LB BAG 12-OZ CANS CEEQSHDG0QIDIS CffiBGHMD STOCK UP COLD MEDAL HATOWAISE QEMQ GllSOOSCIi?.

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