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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1949
Page
7
Refunds for 1946 overpayments push to about 2 million weekly at $50 each as the 1948 tax deadline nears. Officials expect up to 40 million taxpayers may receive around 2 billion dollars in refunds. most come from withholding excess.
Health officers warn that mushroom poisoning can arise from popular testing myths. Amanita phalloides often causes poisoning despite cooking, with symptoms like vomiting and diarrhea starting hours after ingestion and potential liver or kidney damage. Early treatment includes fluids, stomach washing, glucose injections, vitamins, calcium gluconate, and gradual refeeding.
The 1948 tax rules assume constant annual income and 52 week work year. Shorter periods lead to excess withholding. The act lowers rates, adds exemptions for seniors and the blind, and lets married couples split income to reach lower brackets.
The article notes skating as an ancient practice dating back at least a thousand years highlighting its long historical roots in sport and culture.
The State Highway Patrol and Public Safety Department outlined an aggressive push to reveal real highway fatality causes to Alabama motorists. Director Banh ead Bates and Assistant Director Bill Lyerly announced reports will detail reckless driving and driver responsibility, with 2,191 arrests last month and 519 for driving without a license.
Legal notices appear from Morgan County Alabama court records including orders of publication for nonresident defendants in a chancery case and a probate petition. The notices list numerous Higdon and related names with dates February 1949 and deadlines by March 24 1949 and March 31 1949 for pleadings and probate hearings.
The Walker County Sheriff Grover B. Baggett faced possible removal after a grand jury recommended impeachment. The panel charged incompetence and neglect of duty for allowing whisky operations by chief deputy John Pitzpatrick and three bootleggers, and for approving bail bonds by an unapproved firm. The report cites connections to The Peoples Loan And Bail Bond Company and notes changes in sheriff leadership as of February 1949.
William P. Screws of Montgomery has been named to a new six year term on the state Alcoholic Beverage Control Board, ending February. The governors office announced the renewal, marking the first time an official completed a term this administration has been reelected.
The document alleges bootleggers paid Fitzpatrick in the sheriff's office and courthouse corridors and at Fitzpatrick's home. Sheriff Baggett has served 26 months, succeeding Howell Hamner.
In 1955 a new appointee joined the board as the 12th member during Governor James E. Folsom's first two years. He took office last October after Oliver Taylor, a Georgiana merchant, resigned, completing a term begun in 1943 under former Governor Chauncey Sparks. A. C. Lee of Monroeville, a newspaper publisher, started that term.
The text notes Folsom appointed J. P. Faulk Jr. Samson to Lee’s seat after taking office four years earlier. It lists four chairmen under this administration in order: Bryce Davis, Cullman Lumb erman, former State Senator Lamar Kelly, Evergreen. Lowell Greg ory of Oneonta as insurance man. and current Chairman Frank Bunkley of Mobile. Gregory served 10 months, Davis five, Kelly seven, Bunkley nearly five months.
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