Harried Taxpayers Face Global Tax Comparison
An Associated Press survey shows families in six world centers pay 13 to 20 percent of income in taxes, with higher brackets reaching 45 to 77 percent. Bus drivers in New York, Frankfurt, London, Paris, Tokyo, and Rio de Janeiro are used to compare tax shares, highlighting how Rio’s 63 percent of earnings go to taxes for a $100,000-a-year man, while U.S. per capita taxes rise from 1900 to 1962.
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Associated Press
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Tokyo
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Rio
United States
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Tax Foundation
U.S
Unitarian Church Plans Sobell Spy Case Film
The Unitarian Church will show a 30 minute film strip Sunday at 8 about Morton Sobell who has been in prison since 1954 for conspiracy in the Julius and Ethel Rosenberg spy trial. Mrs. Sarah Hammond a member of the Sobell relief group will lead a discussion after.
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Morton Sobell
Julus
Ethel Rosenberg
Sarah Hammond
Sobell
Lost pass books reported by City Savings Bank Pittsfield Mass
City Savings Bank reports three lost pass books 106603 144718 and 151730. Request return to the bank at once. Treasurer Robert H. Bolza Pittsfield Massachusetts July 25 1963. Also probate notice from Berkshire Probate Court regarding James Dickie late of Pittsfield Massachusetts. A petition to probate a will by Charles A. Barnes of Pittsfield asks to be named executor without bond. Objections must be filed by August 2 1963 with Vines F Anthony Hanlon Esquire Judge. Henderson Brennan 74 North Street Pittsfield Mass.
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Pittsfield
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Commonwealth OF Massachusetts Berkshire
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Dickie
Pittsfield Inseid County
Charles A. Barnes
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Vines
F. Anthony Hanlon
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J James W. Carolan
Henderson & Brennan
Dlorth St. Filtsfield
Nigerian minister denied tea for lack of tickets in House
In Lagos, K. 0. I Mbadiwe, the federal minister of State, was refused tea in the House of Representatives after he failed to present a booklet of tea tickets. A parliamentary secretary's plea failed to move the waiter. the secretary then paid six pence for the tea and ordered the waiter fired.
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Nigeria
UPI
K. 0
I Mbadiwe
House of Representatives
50 Ton Army Tank Shown in Britain
London AP reports Britain unveiled the 50-ton Chieftain battle tank described as the world’s hardest hitting. It features a 120 millimeter main gun, runs on all fuels, and is hailed as at least five years ahead of NATO rivals by Maj. Gen. W L M Hutton.
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