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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1945
Page
9
The Cedar Rapids IRS division chief notes March 15 rush for 1944 tax final returns. Many taxpayers face January 15 actions including amended estimates, complete 1944 returns, or farmer 1040-F schedules. Final 1944 returns and any due balances are settled by March 15.
The Cedar Rapids social security area for Linn Johnson Benton Iowa and Poweshiek counties shows an approximate 20 percent rise in 1944 old age and survivors insurance payments. John W. Donnelly, manager, cites 1,341 beneficiaries totaling $289780.44 yearly and details county by county distributions including 619 retired workers and 124 widows with young children among others.
The report shows assets totaling 599 036.59 with deposits of 563 004.68 and capital of 34 954.81. Bank officers R B Hayes president and J Warren McClintock cashier sworn to accuracy before notary GE H Squires in Linn County Iowa.
Attorney General Francis Biddle urged Congress to limit industrial concentration as the government plans to dispose of $100 billion in surplus war property. He warned against blanket returns to original manufacturers and proposed local and private project use to avoid excluding small business. His preliminary report, under the War Mobilization and Reconversion Act, notes further monthly disclosures of property above $1 million will follow.
R. B. Seger works manager of Lindberg Steel Treating Co. in Chicago will address the Cedar Rapids chapter of the American Society for Metals at the Roosevelt hotel Tuesday. Dinner begins at 6 p.m. Seger, 15 years in heat treatment, edits Heat Treating Hints and contributes to metals journals.
Lyle B. Marshall of the Cedar Rapids police detective bureau will speak on Phony Checks Their Symptoms and Cure at a dinner of the Cedar Rapids Retail Credit association Tuesday at 6 15 p m at the Roosevelt hotel. Merchants Protective association banks and Credit Women's Breakfast club invited to attend.
Dr Hillyer Hawthorne Stratton of Detroit preacher evangelist and author will speak at a dinner meeting at the First Baptist church at 6 30 p m Monday Jan 8 He will show motion pictures of the Northern Baptist Assembly grounds at Green Lake Wis Stratton educated at Mercer Macon Ga and the Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary has held pastorates in New York Philadelphia Muncie Ind and Detroit.
Bank clearings in Cedar Rapids for the week ended Jan 6 totaled 2 313 113 69 dollars, per Clearing House report. The prior year week ended Jan 8 1944 totaled 2 759 842 77 dollars. For the week ended Dec 30 1944 clearings were 1 695 006 03 dollars.
In December 1944 Linn County recorded 116 mortgages totaling 444 846.07 and 255 conveyances, the highest monthly totals since 1941. Conveyances and mortgag es through January 4 show 423 conveyances and mortgages aggregating 81 010.
More than 630 000 in payments covering the 1944 tax year will be paid for war housing projects built and owned by the federal government under FPHA regional authority. Payments go to local taxing bodies across counties townships cities and sometimes states in Region III including Illinois Indiana Iowa Minnesota Missouri Nebraska North Dakota South Dakota and Wisconsin.
At the Carpenter Paper annual sales conference in Omaha the man of the year honor was given to W. M. Brisbin of Cedar Rapids for leading the Des Moines territory in 1944. Iowa hog receipts across interior Iowa and Minnesota for 24 hours ending Saturday showed 56 30 hundredweight, with prices and weights listed for barrows sows and feeders.
New York reports promise of great postwar bargains in rail air and bus travel. Railroads plan faster schedules better equipment and reduced fares while airlines order dozens of new aircraft for long and midrange routes. Bus lines test postwar coaches with higher capacity and hybrid air road service to lure intercity travelers.
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