The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-01
BAISON RESIGNS
 POST AS COUNTY
 HIGHWAY ENGINEER
Board of Revenue Names Off, ciaIs to Handle Affairs of Im- portant County lnStltu-
 tions-Some Re-eIected

Resignation of s. R. Batson, county highway engineer, was accepted by the board of reve- nue at an adjourned meeting held yesterday afternoon. It is effective March 1.
 When the matter of appointing a highway engineer for the county was brought up, the written resignation of MT. Batson was read. w. B. Copeland made motion that the resignation be made effective January i, but it was lost. as it failed to get second. Presi- dent D. c. Ball then made motion that the resignation be accepted. effective March 1, which was carried by vote of to 1. Lacey Edmundson- Thomas E. Huey, D. c. Ball and Jerry Gwin voted in favor and w. B. Copeland op- posing.
 According to Mir. Batson's resignation statement all road work now under construction will be completed by March 1, and he would then retire as highway engineer of the county. Lew Salter was reelected sanitary engineer. There were no other appli- cations for the place.
 SOME APPOINTED When the board was called to order yesterday morning at Il o'clock and the appointment of county employees was
 
 dor of the courthouse were thronged with interested spectators. Applications of six men for the posi- ton of highway engineer were read and included Charlie Dew, J. D. Truss, s. R. Batson, incumbent; w. H. Wise, George H. Clark and P. $. Milner. No action was taken at that time, as a mo- tion was made to pass the matter until the afternoon session.
 No applications for the place of coun- ty attorney were read, nor were those for the place of purchasing agent, which office it is expected the board will create. Chairman Ball stated these applications were for q position which the county did not have, and it was useless to read them.
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 On a motion of Lacey Edmundson, all appointments of county employees are to be effective on or before January l. Appointments were made as follows: Ed Wheeler, road( supervisor, suc- ceeding w. D. Wade, who was not an applicant for reappointment; pr. K. H. Hamrick, physician at the county jail; pr. w. J. Love, physician al the alms- house; Dr. E. P. Hogan, superintendent of the Hillman hospital; J. M. Erwin. superintendent of the pesthouse; Charles Hamilton, chief mechanic at the county farm; w. T. Nunnally and w. G. Powell, watchmen at the courthouse; Dr. H. c. Crelly, physician at the pest house; E. B. Sims superintendent at the alm shouse; R. V. Vines. night watch man at the almshouse; F. F. Downey, utility man at the courthouse; J. A. Snow, head mechanic at the county farm: Sam Elliott c. F. Dodson, W. M. Horton. Lee Hardin, NJ. F. Parker and R. NJ. Warren, wardens at the county convict camps; w. c. Dean. humane of ficer.
 ELIMINATE ONE The position of humane officer has been combined with that of transfer agent and he will also be charged with the duties of transferring the insane to the asylum at Tuscaloosa. It was de- cided by the board to have only two watchmen at the courthouse and to let them work out the plans of changing shifts so that the monotony of all night work for one would be broken.
 Foremen for the free labor camps were not appointed, action on this mat ter being postponed to allow the board to determine whether or not 1t will maintain the number now being oper- ated or will reduce the number Of