Lincoln Created IRS 100 Years Ago By FRANK CORMIER
Lincoln created the Internal Revenue Service when he signed the first graduated income tax amid Civil War debt. The 100th birthday centennial notes IRS collects about $100 billion annually and spends about half a cent per dollar in expenses. Taft later pushed constitutional amendment work toward a federal income tax.
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Abraham Lincoln
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William Howard Taft
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Ducks in Flight and a Call for Species Based Management
Minnesota conservation chief argues for a fall teal season and more liberal bluebill limits but warns hunters must learn to identify ducks in flight. He proposes pilot, tightly controlled regional seasons as research to test species management and hunting readiness.
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Turkey Growers Rejected National Marketing Order in Referendum
The Agriculture Department reported that turkey producers voted 56.6 percent against a proposed national marketing order in a June referendum. Of 7,188 voters, 4,072 opposed and 3,116 supported the order, short of the required two thirds. The measure would have limited marketing amounts, not production.
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Agriculture Department
Centerville cutworms devastate Appanoose corn and beans
Extension Director Harold Holder reports wide damage from inch long black cutworms across Appanoose County Iowa with some fields plowed and replanted to beans. The worms resist earlier insecticides. In New York former Iowa researcher Charles E Swanson named vice president of Curtis Publishing Company after earning a University of Iowa doctorate.
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Charles E. Swanson
Curtis Publishing Co
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Swanson
University of Iowa
Services set for Northwest Bell veteran John H. Kremers
Omaha notes services planned Saturday for John H. Kremers 63 retired vice president of Northwest Bell Telephone Co who died Thursday night He retired in 1960 after a 40 year career His survivors include son Robert of Sioux City.
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John H. Kremers
Northwest Bell Telephone Co
Robert
Sioux City
Mrs Lucy Martinussen to Mark 100th Birthday Quietly
Mrs Lucy Martinussen of Mason City to be honored on her 100th birthday with a quiet dinner by her surviving three daughters. She has resided in the area for 50 years and is one of five children.
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Lucy Martinussen
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Railway union leaders to meet over arbitration dispute
W Louis J Wagner of Cedar Rapids Iowa president of the Order of Railway Conductors and Brakemen will be among five executives of railroad brotherhoods attending a meeting here next Friday to consider a recommendation they arbitrate a dispute over how many.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa
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TV Actress Mauled by Lion During Show Fight
Los Angeles AP report says television actress Shirley Yelm twenty three was mauled by a four year old lion while filming a show. A NBC official said she and Vic Damone sat in a car with the animal when it struck. The lion bruised her back and scratched her arm. A trainer calmed the animal and Yelm was treated at the scene.
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Shirley Yelm
National Broadcasting Co
Miss Yelm
Vic Damone
Iowa leads in high mental group Navy enlistments May
Des Moines report shows Iowa volunteers led the nation in high mental group enlistments for the Navy in May. The Navy Recruiting Station notes 77.5 percent of Iowa volunteers were trainable versus a 63.7 percent national average. Iowa's top two category recruit rate reached 54.9 percent, higher than the 37.1 percent national figure.
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Feud erupts as Muscatine mayor, council clash over permit
City Alderman John Hilton files charge of building without permit or bond against Mayor May Bosch after a dispute tied to the resignation of city engineer Joseph Normoyle. Hilton says a stop order was ignored. Bosch says permit and bond were secured.
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John Hilton
Robert Bosch
Hilton
Bosch
Joseph Normoyle
Normoyle
Clifford Bennett
Plan and Zoning Board
Minnesotans Named to Lutheran Church Council
Minnesota figures including Morton Bjerkquist of St. Paul and Bernhard Le vander of Minneapolis joined the 30 member executive council of the Lutheran Church in America. The slate includes judges, pastors, and lawyers assigned to boards overseeing education pensions publications social ministry and missions.
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Bernhard Levander
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Lutheran Church In America
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Robert Holmen
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Paul L. Graf
Bernard Spony
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