Tax Free VA Gratuity and Benefits Part of 1948 Reports
Veterans Administration states gratuity payments and many VA benefits are tax free for income tax purposes. Exempt items include subsistence allowances for GI Bill training, readjustment allowances, disability compensation, pensions, and paraplegic home grants. By late 1948 many veterans had exhausted education benefits while others were rehabilitated. a Dutch award honored Dr James Cudlyford for aid to camp survivors.
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Veterans Administration
Yva
Dutch consul credits doctors for liberation aid in Europe
Orange Nassau with Swords shows Stanley Redeker, vice consul for the Netherlands in Denver, praising Dr Cullyford and his brother doctors for their unselfish service. Dr Cullyford, in the 12th Army Group post D-Day, served as public health officer in civil affairs, directing medical care and evacuation for starving prisoners from camps such as Buchemwald.
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Orange-Nassau
Stanley Redeker
Netherlands
Denver
Redeker
Cullyford
12Th Army
Europe
Buchemwald
Noted home economist to speak during ranch farm week
Miss Beth Peterson of Du Pont Extension Division will discuss fabrics from calico to nylon and how modern fabrics move from test tubes to consumer use during Ranch-Home-Week. She is an Iowa State and University of Chicago alumna who later joined Du Pont as a home economist.
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Harold Hurich
Beth Peterson
du Pont Company
Wilmington
Delaware
Marco Bll
Milady
Verna J. Hitencock
Wyoming Agricultural Extension Service
Iowa State College
University of Chicago
Fort Dodge
Towa
Iewa State College Extension Service
Peterson
Iowa
P E.O. Women’s Organization
Delta Zeta Social Sorority
Epsidon Sigma Phi Extension Fraternity
Iowa Home Economics Association
Farmers get aid under Agricultural Conservation Program
The Agricultural Conservation Program offers farmers payments for wind and water erosion controls and irrigation improvements. Eligible practices include ditch construction, tile systems, irrigation reorganization, small reservoirs, land leveling, and erosion control structures. County committees guide plans and payments, with direct help from local agents. Four new farmhouse plans are added to the Farm Buildings Plan Service, suitable for Western conditions and ranch living, ranging from one to two stories with up to four bedrooms.
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Guy O. Woodward
Wyoming Agrcultum Extension Service
Woodward
Fann
Wyoming Agricultural Extension Service
Robert G. Wihute
Entertainment set for Ranch Farm Home Week in Wyoming
Wyoming hosts its second annual Ranch Farm Home Week March 8 to 11 with movies group singing teas dances and concerts. A tea and open house is planned March 10 by the Home Economics department at the University followed by a social and dance in the Union and an organ solo by Mrs. Keith Blackner on March 11. The event features a cattle production film Thirst Acres and a Step Saving Kitchen showcase plus a barber shop quartet contest at the Liberal Arts auditorium. Residents must mail room reservation cards to the county agent in Laramie by March 1.
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Wyoming
Harold E. Benn
The
College of Agriculture
Home Economics
University
Keith Blackner
Unita County Home Demonstration Council
Society For Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartette
America
Liberal Arts Auditorum
Hill
Secon
Laramie
Benn
Wyoming Miss Wyoming Contest Sees Entrants Rise to 23
The 1949 Miss Wyoming contest at the University of Wyoming lists 23 entrants after 10 new entries. Oleta Kurtz and Joy Putnam of Cody join Merrillyn Rabb and Medheme Bow among the contestants, with the winner earning an expense-free trip to the National Miss America Pageant in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
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Larami
University of Wyoming
Alantic City
N. J
Oleta Kurtz
Joy Putnam
Cody
Merrillyn Rabb
Medheme Bow
Finalists announced for Wyoming pageant at University of Wyoming
Barbara Creswell from Ft Collins and a long list of contestants including Peggy Webner Evanston Joann Small Laramie Glen na Atkinson Torrington Mard ean Johnson Esther MacLeod Shondon Francs Louie Wood Alladin Patricia Cadwell Riverton Carol Lee Nickerson Launa Lee Dakin Phoenix La Barbara Kahn Cheyenne Barbara Baker Laramie Mardean Butler Lusk Jeanne Wilson Casper Jane Eaton Walden Cole Velda Jeanne Schultz Cody Emma Helen Rea Hyattville Kay Evans Casper. The final contest is set for Thursday April 7 at 8 pm at the University of Wyoming and will be designed after the Atlantic City Pageant. Each finalist will perform talent bathing suit and formal gown segments. Miss Card Held Miss Wyoming 1948 will reign and crown her successor after the final vote.
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Barbara. Creswell
Ft. Collins
Cole
Peggy Webner
Evanston
Joann Small
Laramie
Glenna Atkinson
Torrington
Margene Johnson
Esther MacLeod
Shondon
Francs Louie Wood
Alladin
Patricia Cadwell
Riverton
Carol Lee Nickerson
Launa Lee Dakin
Phoenix
Ariz
Barbara Kahn
Cheyennne
Barbara Baker
Mardean Butler
Lusk
Jeanne Wilson
Casper
Jane Eaton
Walden
Velda Jeanne Schultz
Cody
Emma
Helen Rea
Hyattville
Dorothy Bain
Thermopols
Kay Evans
University of Wyoming
Atlantic City
Highway fatalities and Navy notes from wartime records
Weekly highway fatalities for Feb 26 1949 total nine for the year and 11 for 1948. Navy actions include air transport hours over seven per plane daily, and Berlin Airlift cargo totals. Snorkel devices and ground controlled approach units are noted with various figures.
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Navy
Mars
Church Notice for Sunday Services at St John the Baptist
Services at St John the Baptist Church will be held at 4 00 pm. on Sundays. Rev Judson Leeman delivers the notice.
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St. John the Baptist Church
Judson Leeman
Residents report road closure skims their outside trips
Johnny Chrisman notes snow blocked the road to his ranch from January. Local residents like Frank Ball Jr and Paul Scherbel travel between Kemmerer and Salt Lake City as others return from California. Ice and snow have slowed travel with regional points easing their access.
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Johnny Chrisman
Frank D. Ball, Jr
Kemmerer
Salt Lake City
Las Vegas
Nevada
Uncle Sam Promotes Savings Plans For Washington Lincoln
The piece notes February birthdays of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln and contrasts their thrift with the U S Savings Bonds payroll savings plan. It explains options for employees to specify a payday allotment and for the self employed to use Bond a Month plans. It states a 10 year return of 4 dollars per 3 invested.
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George Washington
Abraham Lincoln
U. S
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Pinedale
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London
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Church of St. Anne
Big Piney, Wyo
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Utleson
California
Scherbel
U S. Navy
Anderson McGinnis
Son-Inlaw
Fred Schaffer
Lower
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Lucy Walker
Kemmerer Hospital
Marbleton
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Uncle Sam
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