Alabama Used Car Dealers Seek Title Law and Tax Increase
Decatur leader Clyde McRae says about 400 Alabama car dealers will attend a Montgomery hearing on companion bills proposing a state title law a nine member licensing board and a one and a half percent auto sales tax raise. The package aims to standardize ownership proof boost credit loan access and close tax loopholes while funding schools. Gov Folsom support cited.
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Decatur
Alabama
O.K
Jack Walden
Montgomery
Ways and Means Committee
Alabama House Representatives
Clyde McRae
Used Car Dealers’ Association
McRae
Foresta
Alabama Used Car Dealers Association
James E. Folsom
North
Birmingham
Mcae
Ray's House of Beauty Opens in Decatur
Formal opening of Ray's House of Beauty in Decatur at 250 Grant St. features Miss Mamie Kerstiens as manager with assistants Miss Dorothy Aycock and Miss Iva Mae League. A style show 7 to 9 30 p.m. showcases latest cuts as Ray Reed expands from Florence where he earned awards.
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Ray
House of Beauty
Decatur
Grant St
Decatur Apothecary
Mamie Kerstiens
Miss Kerstiens
Southern Beauty School
Ray Reed
Dorothy Aycock
Iva Mae League
Elkmont Woman Dies On Birthday
Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Horton of Elkmont died Friday on her 90th birthday at 3 50 p m Funeral services were held Saturday at the First Methodist Church Elk mont with Rev A H Nabors officiating Interment was in Antioch Cemetery under McConnell Service Funeral Home She is survived by one daughter Mrs Roy Hatchett two sons Max and Marvin five grandchildren and four great grandchildren
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Athens
Mary Elizabeth Horton
Elkmont
First Methodist Church
A. H. Nabors
Antioch Cemetery
McConnell Service Funeral Home
Horton
Roy Hatchett
Max
Marvin
Youthful Composer Sandra Hendrix Earns Second Superior
Sandra Hendrix daughter of Mr and Mrs Roy Hendrix Mobile former Decatur residents has earned a second superior rating in the National Federation of Music Clubs junior composition contests She previously received a superior for Snowflake Waltz and earlier Birdie In The Tree at the 1954 contest The seven year old granddaughter of Mr and Mrs Koy Hendrix of Decatur began composing at age five under her grandmother's guidance and performed at the state convention in Anniston.
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Sandra Hendrix
Roy Hendrix
Mobile
Decatur
National Federation of Music Clubs
Sandra
Koy I. Hendrix
Birdie In
Jack and Jill Music Club
Music Federation
Anniston
Roy I. Hendrix
Four-Year-Old Bitten By Dog
A Decatur boy aged four was bitten on the left side about 10 30 a m yesterday. The dog belonged to Clayton Smith and was kept penned for 21 days. Rafford Milligan of 1119 10th Ave SE was the injured party.
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Decatur
Rafford Milligan
10Th Ave. SE
Clayton Smith
Hearing Monday on Insurance Firm's Role in Civil Suits
Lawyers Mutual Insurance Co. faces a motion to delay three damage suits until policy coverage is settled. Plaintiffs Frank Shackleford, 52, seeks about 200 000 in total for the May highway crash that killed two Decatur men and injured another. Equity Court in Lawrence County will decide if the company must represent the defendant.
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Lawyers Mutual Insurance Co
Newton Powell
Morgan County
Frank Shackleford
May & Highway
Decatur
Shackleford
Equity Court
Lawrence County
Dulles Says Reds Show No Disposition On German Unification
Dulles cables from Geneva report the Soviet delegation faces internal splits but shows no real will to unify Germany. He notes Bulganin and Khrushchev seem eager to fraternize while Molotov remains stubborn. Despite pessimism on Germany, Dulles is upbeat about other Soviet shifts and potential easing of tensions.
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Reds
Pearson
Drew Pearson
Geneva
Washington
Germany
Nikolai Bulganin
Communist Party
Nikita Khrushchev
Vyacheslav Molotov
Molotov
Bulganin
Far East
Red China
Stalin
Exchange Club to Hear Morgan County History Talk
Decatur Exchange Club members will learn early Morgan County history with Walter M. Jackson, superintendent of Decatur City Schools, speaking at 6 30 p m at the Cornelian Court Hotel dining room. He covers Decatur from 1817 to its 1826 charter and has written several regional history books.
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Decatur Exchange Club
Morgan County
Decatur
Tela
Cornelian Court Hotel
Walter M. Jackson
Jackson
Dudley
Rich
Alabama Historical Association
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