Oilmen Savings Highlight Depletion Tax Writeoffs
A House Commerce Committee report shows producers kept books on depletion allowances and saved hundreds of millions in taxes. It cites 50 percent and 274 percent allowances, notes opposition from Sen Williams and Sen Aiken, and details company writeoffs totaling over 600 million dollars for 1950 to 1952.
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Harry Wilson Sharpe
House Commerce Committee
John J. Williams
George D. Aiken
Senate
Husablet Land Refining Co
Ips
Peirsleum, Barn ‘Lle
Ohio
Standard Oil
California
Justice Department
Anti-Trustes
Paw E. Hadick
National Oil Marketers Association
For
Charles A. Wolverton
R-N. J
Travan
Scoreboard on Major Legislation in Congress Today
Washington reports show Senate Finance approves a one billion excise tax cut bill, and House action on general tax revision pending. Other items include Bricker Amendment reconsideration, coffee pricing regulation, statehood measures, highway and academy proposals, labor act drafts, voting age amendment, housing, health, postal rates, salaries, social security, Korea aid, cotton acreage changes in North Carolina, and a local obituary note from Waynesburg.
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Senate’ Finance
House
Senate
Petition visit sparks clash over rights in Duval county
Participants including Mary Mattson and speakers from Shivers' group demanded fair treatment and an end to second-class citizen status. The exchange stressed regional grievances and a call for truthful government, while noting Canada controls over half of the world's fresh water.
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Shivers
Mary Mattson
Freer
Fife County
Duval County
Canada
La Porte approves alarm system and peddler limits
La Porte commission okayed an automatic alarm tied to a leased telephone line for businesses and homes with no charge at the fire station receiver. It also reviewed compensation benefits for city employees, liability insurance, and peddler regulations amid traffic and safety adjustments.
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Commission
la Porte City
Maryland Casualty Co
R. R. Runnels
H. Hi. Casey
Houston
Industrial Accident Board
Ciy
la Porte
M. D. Burgin
A. B
Eighth Street
Utah
Burgin
County plans push road work and new health facilities
The county will buy rights of way later to avoid buying recent improvements. Houston sanitation authority names three directors with Baytown represented, planning two years before results. Ground breaking for a $16 million city county hospital is set for August amid questions on operating costs and a statewide constitutional amendment. Juvenile and mental detention wards are under study with new facilities eyed near Alvin. The new courthouse complex advances with expanded courts, offices modernized, and new theaters noted across Texas.
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Page
City of
Cety-County
Texas
Corey
Hertis
Juventee-Mentat
Soy
Anething
Avace
Lanant
Aavntawn Houstan
Fitiern Exnaneion
Manta
Toft Nevis
Ata Chnivet Courts
Pétice
La Porte Bayshore Neighbor Center Organized
Campaign workers in La Porte call on residents this week to form the La Porte Bayshore Neighborhood Center, formerly the La Porte Recreation Association. The group, with 40 active members, seeks $1 dues to fund programs like swimming, dancing, crafts, and summer playgrounds. a report is due Friday.
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la Porte
la Porte- Bayshore
la Porte Recreation Association
Nen
Sick List Names and Addresses Fragment from Bay Town
The notice lists individuals including Jack D Ramsey Liberty, Mrs George F Catenings Bay Town, Bette Jane Burch Bayshore drive, John W Hayes Jr 516 West Francia, Mrs Oliver Walch 1220 Parkway drive, Hunt T Corley Livingston, Walter Davis Diaz 1223 Pine, Joseph Thomas Mody Jr 508 San Jacinto, Connecticut as the first state to enact legislation apart.
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Jack D. Ramsey
Liberty
George F. Catenings
Baytown
Bette Jane Burch
Bayshore Drive
John W. Hayes, Jr
West Francia
Oliver ©. Walch
Parkway Drive
Hunt T. Corley—Livingston
Walter Davis Diaz
Pine
Joseph Thomas Mody, Jr
San Jacinto
Livestock prices steady at Fort Worth sale
USDA weekly livestock report from Fort Worth shows cattle mostly steady from last Friday with tops for slaughter steers at 22.75 and heifers at 21, cows 13.50, bulls 14.50, stocker yearlings 19.50. Hogs steady with week’s tops at 26.50 for butchers and 24 for sows.
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Fort Worth
USDA
Stork Delivers Daughter for McConathay Family
Mr and Mrs W W McConathay of 404 Scott announce the birth of a daughter Melanie Ann on March 1 in a Houston hospital. Baby weighed 8 1/2 pounds.
Baytown Sun publication details and rates
The Baytown Sun lists editorial staff and office details in Baytown Texas. It shows subscription rates by mail including monthly and yearly options, with price values and terms in a standard periodical notice.
Young prodigy Thomas Young learned 14 languages by age fourteen
Thomas Young, an English scientist, showed extraordinary early talent and linguistic ability. He reportedly could read Mother Goose as a child and, by age fourteen, could write in fourteen languages.
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Thomas Young
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