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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1963
Page
6
The Mobile commission approved a one percent gross income tax on professions with a 21 vote. Charles Trimmier opposed, seeking an injunction to block city collection. The levy will take effect as specified.
A Montgomery recorder's court heard a case against a youth charged with shooting his 14 year old sister Eva Mae with a .22 rifle on July 14. Initial statements varied as detectives noted changing stories and confessed to the act.
In Gordo Alabama an 80 year old man is jailed in connection with the fatal shooting of a teenage boy in a watermelon patch. Authorities initially reported an arrest tied to the incident but later clarified no charge had been filed against him.
Bus drivers hold talks on a tentative extension with no action yet from the commission. The union seeks a 2 percent wage hike and a 15 cent per hour pay raise as part of the deal.
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