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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Apr 07, 1968
Page
6
Editor notes a De catur revenue officer Charles Smith enforces city licenses and taxes. He arrests a magazine salesman lacking authority, and explains duties from gross receipts, gas, tobacco and amusement taxes to privilege licenses. With more staff in a new city hall, he expects higher revenue through broader audits.
Smith, a 20 year city employee and former policeman, explains the department’s role in enforcing business privilege licenses. He notes some firms operate undetected until discovered, and warns that failure to pay license fees leads to strong action. He highlights job pride and funds directed to schools fire police and the dog pound. Smith, a Memorial Dr Church of Christ deacon and Austin High Rooster Club member, lives with his wife Gena and three children at 1010 Betty St.
Champion Papers plans a ground breaking ceremony April 16 at 11 a.m. in Courtland for a $100 million pulp and paper mill. Roy J. Lund and other executives will turn the first dirt as area leaders look on. The plant, intended as Lawrence County’s largest industry, should begin operation in late 1970. Invited guests will attend a barbecue and picnic after the ceremony. A construction contract is expected to be awarded soon.
Mobile Alabama leaders impose a curfew from 7 p.m. to 5 a.m. after Friday night violence and looting. Mayor Arthur Outlaw orders closures citywide and references an Alabama National Guard standby. Police report rock throwing, window smashing, and lootings with some arrests. no injuries reported.
Hollywood AP reports the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences postponed the Oscars for the first time in 40 years due to national mourning after Martin Luther King Jr. is killed. The event will be held Wednesday at 7 p.m. with the Governors' Ball canceled this year.
About 400 persons initially, the project will be loaded on roughly 1,400 acres of Tennessee Riverfront Property near Spring Creek, located about two and a half miles west of here.
New South Wales in Australia traces discovery to Captain Cook in 1770 and first settlement in 1788. This note observes its status as the oldest state and early colonial origins.
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