High Court Ends Busy Year With Civil Rights and Reapportionment
Supreme Court wraps a crowded year handling civil liberties labor cases and city politics. It barred school Bible and Lord’s Prayer readings, and ruled on reapportionment to enforce one person one vote while upholding Senatorial structure. The court also struck down a Subversive Activities Act section restricting Communist passport access. It overturned trespass convictions of sit in demonstrators and freed a challenged student arrest case.
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Bank Robbery Suspect Admits Theft in Wetumpka
Ernest Kenneth Owenby, a 21-year-old Selma radio announcer, confessed to robbing the Citizens Bank at Wetumpka of more than 8 700 last Thursday. He agreed to show investigators where the money is hidden and was arrested in Selma with mentions of girl trouble and suicide ideation. Authorities from state troopers, Dallas County, and local police, with FBI help, conducted the arrest and investigation.
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Birmingham Man Lands Textbook Depository Contract
Elton B. Stephens of Birmingham won a five year State Board of Education textbook depository contract over three other bidders. He replaces Northport’s Paul Malone after the board canceled Malone’s contract amid court rulings. Stephens offered a sliding rebate schedule totaling lower than Malone’s flat 3 percent, and the board cited Stephens’ firm capacity, 200 employees, warehouse and trucking facilities, and reliable delivery as key factors.
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Third Dynamite Case Reversed in Court Decision
Circuit Court Judge Elias C. Watson overturned the dynamite case against John Hall 35 of Gardendale. The state failed to prove its case and the charges were dismissed. Hall and two others had been linked to church bombing investigations though no link was proven.
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Charles Cagle
Birmingham
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Circuit Court
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Waterman Wins $1.3 Million IRS Refund Ruling
The U S government must pay Waterman Steamship Corp of Mobile 1 305 663 for income tax overpayments from 1947 to 1949 following a 5th Circuit order. Waterman sought 2 811 773 but the appeals court reduced the judgment to 2 241 388 in 1962.
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Daniel H. Thomas
5Th Circuit Court of Appeals
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Rainsville Phone Co-op Lands Rural Loan
The Farmers Telephone Cooperative of Rainsville received a 2.7 million loan from the Rural Electrification Administration to fund 125 miles of new lines. Alabama Senators Hill and Sparkman and Representatives Jones and Rains announced the action, with new exchanges established at Pisgah and additions planned for Flat Rock Geral dine Fyffe and Henager exchanges.
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Rural Electrification Administration
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Bob Jones
Albert Rains
Pisgah
Flat Rock
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Fyffe
Henager
Medical school expenditures reach $515 million in 1962 63
Expenditures by medical schools across the United States totaled 515 million dollars during the 1962 63 academic year, reflecting the scale of costs in medical education and related services nationwide.
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