HR510 Summary

• Commends Eric O. Cates, Jr., for outstanding professional achievement and service to Alabama

• Recognizes his 35 years of military service as a combat veteran of World War II and the Korean War, retiring as a colonel in 1975

• Honors his career as county director of the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service (ASCS) for 16 years and his service in the Alabama House of Representatives beginning in 1974, including cosponsorship of current-use property tax valuation legislation

• Acknowledges his decades of statewide agricultural leadership through roles in the Alabama Farmers Federation, Cattlemen's Association, and ALACO, as well as his membership in the Alabama 4-H Hall of Fame

• Recognizes his 30 years of service as a Sunday School teacher at Fort Deposit Methodist Church since 1946 and his appointment to the state's Agricultural Advisory Board by former Governor Guy Hunt