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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1959
Page
3
City Auditor George Oliver described former Revenue Director R H Doss as a modern day Robin Hood who used city amusement tax funds for a neighborhood recreation program. Doss resigned after five years as director and faced trial in Circuit Court North Gadsden.
The 137th Athens College commencement will begin Sunday with a coffee hosted by President and Mrs. Perry B. James. Dr. James will deliver the baccalaureate message at First Methodist Church on the theme New Horizons Growing by Choice. A 4 p.m. ceremony at the church will feature Dr. Frank W. Oakes of Detroit as speaker on the Role of the Individual in Organized Action.
A Milwaukee man and wife ask a court to grant a legal name change to Bores citing pronunciation issues for their surname Borzy skowski and their five children. The couple argues the name is difficult for others to say and for their family to spell.
Defense witness Cecil Weatherbee testified that in 1956 Mayor Hugh Patterson praised Doss as the best revenue director in the state and advised him to use amusement tax funds as Doss saw fit for a youth program while denying any suggestion to falsify records.
A US District Court jury ruled Thursday in favor of Southern Railway Co. in a $1,850,000 case brought by business firms. The plaintiffs claimed the railroad gave competitors certain advantages.
Four oil wells on Boy Scout property at Citronelle are producing about 14 000 dollars annually for the Mobile area council. The district covers Mobile, Baldwin, Clarke and Washington counties. Executive Russell Faulkner told the Optimist Club on Thursday that the oil income has funded the purchase of 680 acres of land and a lake is planned.
The first large group of Alabama National Guardsmen to undergo two weeks of active duty training this summer will leave Saturday for Fort Stewart Georgia. The contingent will include several units and soldiers from the state ready for field maneuvers and training exercises aimed at enhancing readiness.
In Fort Walton Beach Florida C H Merrill from Dothan Alabama visited his brother William H Merrill 36 in jail and found him dead the man hanged himself after a cell check William Merrill had been charged with a $10 bad check and was to be released but his brother asked he be held due to nervous condition
About 3,000 members of the 226th Anti Aircraft Artillery group and three transportation and medical battalions, all units of the 31st Dixie Division, participate in a coordinated mobilization. Units prepare for transport and medical support roles in ongoing operations.
Fort Morgan Alabama secretary of the Historical Commission resigns from his $4,500 yearly post after two years. Pat Moulton of Mobile said he was informed by Rep. James A. Branyon II that the position was no longer on the payroll.
Jasper Whitacker, 50, admitted fatally shooting Mack Lewis, 56, in April at a Huntsville area house. The admission followed lie detector tests arranged by Madison County and conducted by Fred Nicol of Tuscaloosa. The case previously charged Whitacker with first degree murder.
In Tucson investigators report three break in targets at a local shopping center the Bank of Douglas Tucson Realty & Trust and Tucson Federal Savings and Loan. Loot totaled nothing as burglars damaged doors framed vault knobs desks and padlocks without recovering any cash or valuables.
A teenage girl Evelyn Holifield of Marion was elected head of Alabama Future Homemakers of America with strong leadership training. She has served as a national delegate and state recreation leader, joining Judi Clement Haleyville as secretary treasurer and other officers Jeanice Paul Elba parliamentarian Judy Baker Buckhorn reporter Barbara Hall Camden recreational leader.
Aged stamps dating to 1916 are redeemed by Mrs. G. E. Whitecraft for household goods in Atoka Oklahoma. She exchanges them for pillow slips and sheets in a local trading stamps transaction.
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