The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-21
EXPOSED BECAUSE DEPOT
 IS TOO SMALL
Children Forced To Stand In Cold At Parrish
 Is Claim
(State Capital Bureau.)

Af0NTGoMERY, Ala, Aug. 20.- Sick people, women and children are eEbosed to rain and cold as a result tf inadequate facilities of the present depot at Parrish, to avoid enlarging of wkiEh the Southern and Northern Ala baEna railroads have filed injunction proceedings in MontgoEbry circuit Nepft, according to figures from the record in the case.
 The stenographic report of the hear fn3 before the public service commis- &i6n showed that Mayor W.-L. Gentry Of Parrish testified as to inadequate facilities of the Parrish depot as fol- lows: 'sThe worst thing is sick people goins to the hospitals, and there is no WAY to keep them out of the rain. have seen them there on cots and if they had a shelter there to take care of them it wouldn't be so bad"
 w. J. Jones, town marshal of Par xishs testified to having seen the wait ing room so crowded that women and children could not get into it to escape suffering from cold. "In cold weather yoascan't get in there at all," he tes- titled.
 Fixtures obtained by the commission showed that the present depot at Par. Fishs was built in 1900 when Parrish had about 150 population, while today the population is twelve to fifteen hun dred with about $500 in the immediate vicinity. The two waiting roo:ss are each il by .13 feet, capable of accom- mndating 20 to 9 people.
 70. H. Ohme, inspector of the com mission, testified at the hearing of the case that for five months ending with April, 1923, sale of tickets at Parrish amounted to ,2S9, an average of 143 per day. He testified that the wait ing rooms would accommodate 20 to 25 passengers, depending on the size of the passengers.
 The record shows that no evidence was submitted by the railroad at the hearing of the case, John Bankhead, representing the Southern railroad, an- bouncing after the compliments had closed, that i've are not going to sub nit any evidence" The case was talk eF under adyisement and later an order issued by the public service com mission requiring enlargement of facil- ities at the depot, including building ef an umbrella she'd The Southern and Northern Alabama railroads, Tues day applied for an injunction to re- strain the application of the order.
 Bond Sale Authorized Alabama Public Service Commission today granted authority to the Mobile Elec. tric company to sell $65,000 worth of five per cent bonds maturing in 1946 to reimburse it's treasury for betterments and improvements made in the last. twelve months.
 plication of the Alabama Power Com pany for a transmission line to serve Fort Deposit.
 booklet, describing Alabama's resources and opportunities for homeseekers, new capital and industries, will be issued by the htate department of agriculture for distribution at the southern exposition an New York next January. Fl. o. Da- ViB, of Auburn, and Jesse B. Hearin, secretary for Alabama for the Southern opposition, and manager of the farm section of the Montgomery Chamber of Commerce, were in conference with Commissioner of Agriculture J. NJ HIoore today and assured him of their NR-ypcHdLtOH III HIS plduS TOT the lSSu- ance of the booklet. It will give an account in attractive form of what Ala baina has to offer to the outsider and will be distributed among visitors to the Alabama section at the exposition.
 To Go To Camp-G Governor W. W. Brandon and members of his staff will leave Friday for Camp Mcclellan. Sat uFday is Governors Day at the Ma tiOnal Guard encampment," at which time the governors of Louisiana and Mississippi, as well as Governor Brandon, will be on hand, troops from the three states being in training at Camp Mcclellan. An impressive cere- mony. has been arranged for the presen- tation of colors to the 167th Infantry on this occasion.
 10. Have Opposition Congressman B. Bankhead will kave republican expedition in his race for reelection from the Tenth Congressional district. w.. A. McMurray of RussellvilIe has notified Secretary of State S. H. Elan that he has been nominated on the re. punliean ticket to oppose Bankhead.