Bottom Scratchers Club Turns Diving Into Social Skill
SAN DIEGO Calif The Bottom Scratchers Club a beach fraternity that requires members to dive to the bottom and bring up sea life has admitted three new members expanding the nine member roster The group emphasizes underwater skill and social bonding with initiation rites and notes practical benefits from abalone gathering and regular ocean dips.
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San Diego
Calif
Bottom Scratchers
Walrug Glenn Orr
Jack Corbaley
Oregon
Ben Stone
Jack Prodanovich
Bill Batzler
Wally Potts
Lamar Boren
Ineman
Robert Rood
C. Tucker Miller
Boren
Rood
Miller
Mound City Youth Killed In Action
Washington reports the War Department lists 412 U S soldiers wounded in action in Asiatic North African Pacific and Southwest Pacific theaters. The release notes casualties by area based on next of kin notices. Among names is PFC Edward H. Goehring from Mound City.
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Washington
War Department
United States
U. S. Army
Sicily
Edward H. Goehring
Carl Goering
Mound City
Golden Submarine to Race at State Fair Stirring Debate
Look back at Huron news recalls Barney Oldfield, famed driver and world champ, planning a match race against Duray for the dirt track title at the state fair. Also noted are local military promotions, travel, frost, school openings, and community visits across Huron and Tulare with brief local updates.
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Fair
Barney Oldfield
Duray
E. J. Sparks
Sparks
Austin
Camp Devens
Mass
Jack’ ‘Longstaff
John Longstaff
Scott Taylor
Rochester
Minn
Huron
Huron College
Bruce Francis
Huron City
State’council of Defense
Military furloughs and arrivals reported in Central South Dakota
Local service members and families are noted with furloughs and arrivals. Sgt Ebner Pigney from Camp Perry Ohio visited his mother in Central South Dakota while Pvt James Allison from Camp Dodge Iowa plans end of week leave. Pvt Donald Kearney from Camp California arrives to visit family. Pvt Wayne Van Der Aarde, Vermillion station, visited parents. Sgt Everett Meehan from Mobile Alabama on furlough to see relatives. Pfc Paul Johnson heads to Chandler Arizona. Charles Yada, USN, reported missing in action. Pvt Harold Johnson returns home for leave. Corp Richard Flesner home on furlough then reassigned to Salt Lake City.
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Ebner Pigney
Camp Perry
Ohi
James Allison
Camp Dodge
ST. Lawrence
Everett Meehan
Signal Service
Mobile
Ala
Orient
Paul Johnson
Chandler
Ariz
Web Davis
Charles Yada
USN
Eugene
Ore
Harold Johnson
Texas
Corp
Richard Flesner
Salt Lake City
New Jersey
Lieutenant Takes On Four Tanks With Machinegun
First Lt. David C. Weybur of Montclair California led a reconnaissance platoon against four Italian light tanks near a canyon bridge in Sicily on July 17. With three vehicles wounded, he charged the enemy under moonlight using a tommy gun, disabling a tank and forcing its crew to abandon two other tanks as reinforcements arrived.
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AEF
Sicily
David C. Weybur
Mont
Calif
Third Infantry
France
Waybur
A Ican
Leutenant
Brin
New Music Dean Mitchell at Dakota Wesleyan University
Lyle M. Gilbert of Green Bay Wisconsin has been elected dean of the School of Music at Dakota Wesleyan University. He will direct the university band and a cappella choir and has radio experience with WTAQ Green Bay. He previously directed Clinton Town High Schools for five and a half years and has eleven years as House director. He is a Morningside College graduate with postgraduate work at Iowa and Michigan. He is married with three children Scott verry and Michael. The cowbird travels about on the side of cattle picking off insects.
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Morningside College
Nni
University of Iowa
University of Michigan
Mr. Gilbert
Scott
Verry
Michael
Net income tax repealed while sales tax retained in 1943
The state legislature repealed the net income tax two years after lowering rates and increasing exemptions. The sales tax remained with loopholes closed. Tax records show $10,578,810 collected since 1933 from incomes of businesses and individuals. The 1943 law aimed to ease direct tax burden by a graduated gross income tax and earmarked 45 percent to the common school fund.
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Wik
Wilder
Tax Relief Act Replaces Prior Income Levy in 1935
The entity operated until July 1, 1935, faced two court challenges, including a constitutional test in which Governor M. Q. Sharpe opposed it. In two years it earned $5,646,094 in gross income tax. The 1935 property relief act replaced it with rates from one to eight percent on personal income and two percent on sales, directing proceeds to the general fund and school districts.
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M. Q. Sharpe
General Fund
Schoal
Legislative tax history notes half-year income dip and later rebound
Tax figures show last half income tax brought 98 899 dollars while operating proceeds reached 468 187 dollars in the first fall of the fiscal year. A half-mill department record hit 910 950 dollars in 1940 41 and exemptions plus rate cuts to six percent altered yield. By 1941 42 better times yielded 685 055 dollars before the tax’s final peak. The state levy, once four mills, was restored to two mills after being discontinued in 1933.
Sigierdsons Purchase Frankfort Cafe
Mr and Mrs Callist Robinson have purchased the Frankfort Cafe from Mr and Mrs M Sigierdson. The cafe will be remodeled and closed two weeks before re opening under new management. Mileage ration stamps should be placed on left rear side window to facilitate checking gas purchases and avoid front view obstruction.
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Sigierdsons
Frankfort Frankfort
Callist Robinson
Frankfort
M. Sigierdson
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Peterson
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South Dakota
Virgil Pvt
Wayne R. van der Aarde
Pb.c. van der Aare
Vermillion
By HU Boyle
Asphrey Mayon
New Music
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Padlevas Fedeal Estate
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