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Newspaper
Delaware County Daily Times
Location
Chester, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1981
Page
3
Police say a .45 caliber bullet pierced a wall at 1312 Rainer Road Toby Farms and narrowly missed a year-old infant. Township Chief George Souder suspects possible racially motivated attack targeting a black family receiving state mail for weeks.
A two story row home on Rainer Road near Camp Upland was struck by a bullet that lodged in an interior wall between a front bedroom and bathroom. The incident followed hate mail targeting the Browns, who lived in Toby Farms for about two years, with FBI involvement to determine civil rights implications.
In Chester Township a substitute teacher, Mrs Brown, says a bullet pierced her bedroom wall while her child slept, in a racially mixed Toby Farms neighborhood. She recalls hate letters and threats preceding the incident and urges calm while condemning the shooting as an attempted killing.
President Reagan met GOP senators at noon amid a House panel voting to reject his tax cut proposal. He defended a 33 month, 25 percent across the board personal income tax cut and criticized opponents for calling it risky while arguing it favored the rich. He cited a $400 million break for commodity speculators and vowed to deliver $140 billion in savings over three years.
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