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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1921
Page
8
Washington January 6 The cost of running the United States government each year amounted to approximately 6 064 000 000 as against about 11 728 000 000 in 1929 The total expenditures outside of payments on the public debt were revealed today in accounts obtained from the daily treasury statements Treasury officials paid tonight
Officials said expenditures would gradually liquidate war claims, with total revenue needs for future years rising to about 4 billion. The shortfall arose from loans to railroads and other burdens. For 1920 receipts, stationary estimates show 36.431 billion dollars versus 6.772 billion the prior year. Income and profits taxes collected totaled 3.57 billion, down from 4.34 billion in 1918.
Fort Wayne Ind January 6 Two persons are dead and two injured in a mysterious explosion that leveled the home of W Sheffer a nationally known fancy stock raiser at Auburn Ind about 290 miles north of Fort Wayne The dead are Hobber Sheffer 24 and Ellen Sheffer 12 his daughter and former wife are unnamed in the fragmentary account
Fulton county roads board hears renewed push for widening Peachtree Street from Forrest Avenue to North Avenue from 60 to 80 feet, with plans to extend the White Way to North Avenue and connect West and North Peachtree. Property owners led by John W. Grant and Charles P. Byrd back the project, awaiting city county cost split and a building-line agreement affecting tentative dates and curb-to-curb dimensions.
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