Education groups back amendment on corporate tax hike
Ross and Leeman joined in support of amendment No. 1 arguing a three to five percent increase in corporation taxes is a fair share to fund Alabama education. They say the plan would generate about five million dollars yearly for the special education trust fund, benefiting schools across the state.
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Special Education
Ross
Business
Leeman
H. R. Leeman
Decatur City
Alabama
Wives to Press for Freedom of Captured U.S. Officers
Mrs Mary B Stutts of Alabama travels to Washington to seek help in freeing her husband Captain Ben Stutts and join Mrs Suzanne J Voltz of Michigan whose husband Captain Charleton Voltz was captured by North Korea last May. Senators Hart Douglas and Sparkman support the effort and will accompany the women to the State Department for talks on Far East issues.
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Washington
Mary B. Stutts
Ben Stutts
Suzanne J. Voltz
Frankfort
Mich
Charleton Voltz
Sens
Philip A. Hart
D-Mich
Paul H. Douglas Dill
John Sparkman
D-Ala
U.N. Command
State Department
Far East
Police Still Hunt Robbers After False Lead
Police traced a false lead to Birmingham while pursuing two Black men suspected of robbing Louis Griffin at 524 Church Street Friday morning. Griffin said one man blocked an alley and another attacked him, taking 35 dollars. they fled east on Johnston Street. He described two suspects, one about 30, tall with a red mustache, and another 25 to 30, shorter with dark complexion.
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Birmingham
Louis Griffin
Church St
Bell Telephone
Johnson St
Griffin
H & H Drug Store
Johnston Street
Damage Only In Area Accidents
Alabama state troopers investigated two area accidents Friday. Paul M. Barnett 36 Vine Mont 1 and Lawrence M. Lowery 83 Danville 2 were involved in a collision at 4 30 p m three miles west of Danville on Ala 36 with $150 damage per vehicle. A second two car collision occurred at 6 30 p m one mile west of Athens on US 72 involving Connie Adams 40 Athens and James A Kerr 59 Florence with $200 damage to Adams car and $100 to Kerr's car.
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Alabama
Paul M. Barnett
Vinemont
Lawrence M. Lowery
Danville
Ala
Iives
Athens
U.S
Connie Adams
James A. Kerr
Veteran Newsman Henry C. Vance Dies in Birmingham
Henry C. Vance aged 72, a veteran journalist with over four decades in the press, died Friday in a local hospital. He started at the Mountain Eagle in Jasper, joined the Birmingham News in 1913, and wrote The Coal Bin column in later years. He published Day Before Yesterday about life in the South before 1900. Funeral services are at 2 p.m. Sunday at Johns Ridout's Funeral Home with burial at Elmwood Cemetery.
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Henry C. Vance
Vance
Jasper
Mountain Eagle
Birmingham News
South
Johns Ridout
Elmwood Cemetery
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