Surplus Tag is on County Labor Force

By Staff
Franklin County has been designated as a Group 4-A labor market area due to large numbers of unemployed people, it was announced this week by the United States Department of Labor.
Miss Mary Nettie Bendall, manager, Alabama State Employment Service, Russellvile, was advised of the action–which places Franklin Industries and business firms on a favored basis in bidding for government contracts–by Joe L. Coleman, director of industrial relations, Montgomery.
Under the department's program, a Franklin County firm will receive any contract it seeks if it is low bidder and can get the opportunity to match a low bid by industries not in a surplus labor area.
Man Sentenced for Holding Still
Mart Mears, 45, was sentenced to a year and a day in the state penitentiary in Circuit Court Dec. 15, 1954, before Circuit Judge Harold V. Hughston.
Mears was sentenced after pleading guilty to a charge of possessing a still.
Air Force to Rescue of Injured Countian
Although in a local hospital and possibly facing another operation, William S. Taylor, Phil Campbell, will be at home for a happier Christmas this year thanks to the U.S. Air Force and Orange County, Florida, welfare department.
Mr. Taylor, who was still in destitute circumstances, hitchhiked to Orlando, Florida, in the early part of October seeking work.
He obtained a permanent job but only worked about a week before he was seriously injured in an automobile accident.
Mrs. Elizabeth Taylor, his wife, was notified of his condition. She borrowed enough for transportation to Florida.
Mrs. Emma Adams, hospital welfare worker in Florida, contacted the Military Air Transport Service in search of transportation home for Mr. and Mrs. Taylor.
The MATS, which maintains a weekly evacuation run through Florida to transport servicemen to various hospitals, quickly arranged a flight and ordered an ambulance to meet the couple in Birmingham, but the flight was delayed.