Tax rules on business meals spark restaurant confusion
The National Restaurant Association and IRS officials clash over when meals are deductible. The dispute centers on the term goodwill and whether business meals merely to promote goodwill can be deducted. The IRS says clarity is coming with a new directive soon.
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Revenue Service
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Agent Burned In Home Blast Leaves Miss Johnston Critical
Frederick staff report Miss Kittie Johnston Tillman county home demonstration agent since 1945 remains in critical condition after a bathroom heater exploded. She suffered burns covering over four percent of her body with extensive third degree burns. The blast, around 4 20 p m Sunday, appears caused by gas buildup and damaged only the bathroom. Johnston, who lived alone in the Greever building, is at Memorial hospital with no visitors allowed.
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Kittie Johnston
Tillman County
Miss Johnston
Greever
Memorial Hospital
Toll rises to 120 in Ecuador school disaster
The death toll in Biblian Ecuador climbed to 120 after 15 more bodies were found in the collapse of a religious school during chapel services. Victims included several nuns. Condolences came from Pope John XXIII and Chilean President Jorge Alessandri. Scripps-Howard Newspapers donated $500 and launched a Houston public collection.
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Ecuador
UPI
Biblian
John XXIII
Jorge Alessandri
Chile
Scripps-Howard Newspapers
Houston
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