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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 10, 1953
Page
5
The article explains that anyone in the United States with a gross income of $600 or more in 1952 must file a tax return. It details what counts as gross income, which forms to use, and considerations for married and unmarried filers, including why some under-$600 earners still file.
Police hold a 51 year old former mental patient as a suspect in the attack that wounded 11 year old Margaret Hollowell and killed her escort Donald Matthews 19 in a lover’s lane near Portsmouth Virginia. The youth was a Churchland high school football star and the girl a Woodrow Wilson freshman.
United Press photo by Bert Brandt won best in show for the 17th annual Press Photographers Association of New York competition. The image shows President Eisenhower at Morningside Heights on June 10 during a routine assignment. Brandt used a speed graphic camera, 1 400th of a second, F-16, with stroboscopic light. The award included theaoe Randonearst memorial trophy and a $500 war bond.
Tennessee Democrat Leslie T. Massey of Memphis sent a telegram to the White House after Truman's January 15 farewell address congratulating on his administration. The reply came in from Dwight D. Eisenhower thanking Massey for the encouraging message.
Antoine Schott Halstein, 84, donated 308 500 dollars to the town council saying he was too old to bother with money. The gift was announced from Than France by United Press reporters.
Capt. Dolphin D. Overton III, who shot down five MiG-15s in four days in Korea, returns to Andrews with a hero’s welcome. His sister Monica Dale Overton, a portrait painter, plans a portrait. his father is a tobacco manufacturer. A motorcade greeted him, and he attends Legion events and a banquet before resuming civilian life.
The tax primer explains who must file, when to file if withholding occurred, and how to handle married couples living apart or divorced in 1952. It covers joint returns with separated spouses and widows remarried in 1952, clarifying liability and income inclusion.
AFL Teamsters Union leader Dave Beck aims to grow membership to three million. Meeting at the Monte Carlo Hotel with the Executive Council, Beck outlined goals to organize garages, filling stations, and taxicab workers, plus New York City and Washington cabdrivers and expansion in the East Central states. He cited a 28 million dollar treasury and a current 1.8 million membership, planning surveys in the South and a late 1953 or 1954 start.
Washington reports the Republican Congress begins hearings on Taft Hartley revisions. Rep Roy Weir cites strong opposition from a House bloc to weakening curbs on unions. Rep Wingate Lucas proposes industry wide bargaining ban, backed by some factions, opposed by labor and some managers. Senate hearings planned for March with CIO and AFL criticism of changes. Chairman McConnell defends thorough review without prejudging outcomes.
U S Britain and Iran oil negotiations stall with prospects unclear. Dulles may personally engage as talks slow after discussions on the Acheson plan. Iran seeks a pledge Britain will not press compensation before arbitration while Britain resists reserving such rights.
In Wolverhampton England a Boy Scout named John Haynes, 15, found a wallet hidden on a ledge under a billet roof. The wallet contained $11 and belonged to Robert T. McWhorter of St. Petersburg Florida, a former GI who had stashed it during World War II. The wallet was returned to McWhorter.
United Press reports a winter storm advancing from the Rockies into the Upper Mississippi Valley. Snow measured up to 14 inches in Wyoming and Utah, with 13 freight cars derailed in Utah and telegraph poles toppled. Temperatures ranged from 87 in Texas to 2 below in Wyoming as conditions varied nationwide.
A Judicial Commission of the Orange Presbytery unanimously demands the resignation of Rev. Charles M. Jones for alleged nonadherence to Presbyterianism. The commission informed him in Greensboro that his pastoral relationship with Chapel Hill Presbyterian Church would end if he does not resign. Jones had been on a one year leave of absence since September and is reportedly en route to Kingsport Tennessee.
Milwaukee marriage license clerk Harry L. Wilcox says there is a practical reason for couples to wed on February 14. He quips that each year the husband can give his wife a box of chocolates and kill two big tasks with one stone.
Burglars stole 2300 dollars from the Nagen's Hardware office safe in Philadelphia after using tools found on the counters to crack the safe. A police investigation is underway to identify suspects.
From 1696 to 1851 England taxed houses by window count, prompting owners to reduce window numbers to lower bills and comply with the levies. The reform era raised debates over urban design and living standards amid shifting tax policy.
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