Many Cities Use Sales Tax Plan Across States
Illinois California and Pennsylvania push local sales tax to boost revenue. A Commerce Clearinghouse survey notes 944 Illinois communities including Chicago levy a 0.5 percent tax. California uses a 1 percent tax in 38 counties and 41 cities. In Pennsylvania, 20 cities Philadelphia and Pittsburgh levy local mercantile taxes on sales within jurisdictions, with three school districts adopting the tax.
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Illinois
California
Pennsylvania
Commerce Clearinghouse
National Reporting Authority On
Califrnia
Los Amecos
CCH
Cies
San Francisco
Philadelphia
Pittsburgh
Electric Sniffer Detects Tiny Air Leaks
Mass General unveils an electric sniffing device called the MS mass spectrometer leak detector. Developed for wartime work, it is 107 times more sensitive and pinpoints leaks in pressure systems and enclosures such as electronic tubes boilers and piping in seconds.
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Mass
Up—General
Famous Easter Pageant to Hold 33rd Annual Show Next Spring
The Easter Pageant Association, a United Fund agency since 1926, will stage its 33rd annual Easter service next April drawing tens of thousands. Founded 1925 by Rev. Aldes Wallock, the event costs about 15,500 annually and is funded by UF support, gifts, and coin boxes. The group, with 1,200 members, operates year round hosting six to nine dramatic programs at the Holy City and employs a 12‑member board and director.
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Easter Service Association
Pageant Association
Lawson-Fort Sill United Fund
Lawson
Lawton
Alds Wallock
Jack Batten
Maude Smith
Flory City
United Fund
Holy City
Tos
More Money Now But No Chickens In Kansas Wheat Harvest
A 1912 Kansas newspaper note shows harvest hands in Ulutehingsart and Meade County offered high daily wages with meals and rides for workers. It recalls a Pawnee County farmer advertising best looking girls amid rising rates from about $2.50 per day to around $12. The piece contrasts past and present conditions in the motorized wheat era.
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Topeka
Wan
Kansas Wheat Tields
Kansas Iscotgal Society
Ulutehingsart
Kan
Meade Couunty
Pawnee “County
Kansas
Combine
Hungarians Win Grants In Music
Six refugees from Hungary won scholarships to study at the Berkshire Music Center at Tangte wood. Arpad Andreas Darazs, Lajos Toth, Erno Sethy, Gabor Neuman, George Alexander Vas and Piroska Keilen were brought to the United States by the International Rescue Committee and the Lekrow Immigrant Aid Society. Their study in the United States is financed by the Aid to Hungarian Artists Program of the American Theater and Academy Cant.
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Lenon
Mupi
Hungary
Berkshire Music Center
Tangtewood
Arpad Andreas Darazs
Lajos Toth
Erno Sethy
Gabor Neuman
George Alexander Vas
Piroska Keilen
United States
International Rescue Committee
Lekrow Inmige Aid Society
Une
Small Woodlots Perplex Industry
CHICAGO UP The American Forest Products Industries a non profit group backed by the wood using sector says small woodlots are the nations chief forestry problem The plan to apply the American Tree Farm System to hundreds of thousands of small landowners has led to balanced timber growth and has expanded to 43 states covering over 43 million acres of private woodlands with about 219000000 acres in small woodlands under 500 acres each and an estimated 4500000 landowners remain potential timber sources nationwide.
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Chicago
American Forest Procucss ‘Industries, Inc
United States
Crowd Boos At Little Rock Line Show
Westbury New York audience booed a Long Island summer stock production of South Pacific when Fran Warrun without deviating from the script answered Little Rock in reply to the from where are you. The interruption halted the performance briefly as a school infestation dispute in Little Rock was referenced.
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Westbury
N.Y
Fran Warrun
Little Rock
Nellie Forbush
Long Island
South Pacific
Miss Warren
Richard Rodgers
Oscar Hammerstein II
Anonymous note to Hudson County treasurer hints at theft
An unnamed taxpayer sent 814 and a strange message to Hudson County Treasurer Frank J. Farley asking to place funds in the county treasury, claiming the money does not belong to either party and warning against temptation. The note highlights caution in handling suspect funds in Jersey City.
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Jersey City
Hudson County
Frank J. Farley
Top Secretary Hints On Work And Handling Boss
Hal Boyle profiles Sheila Ward a Montreal secretarial star who offers tips for ideal secretaries. She urges neat dress 30 percent of routine work handled without dictation and maintaining good office relations while keeping personal problems at home. Ward criticizes clockwatching and long coffee breaks as wasteful.
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Hal Boyle
New York
Sheila Ward
Montreal
Hasses
Sheila
Miss Ward
Wedding Bells Chiang Kai-Shek For Princess
London reports a possible April wedding between Princess Margaret and socialite Billy Wallace. The Sketch says the ceremony could be at Westminster Abbey with Prince Philip giving away the bride and Prince Charles and Princess Anne in the bridal party. Wallace, longtime associate of Herbert Agar, is 30. Margaret is 27. In Formosa, Adm. Felix Stump met President Chiang Kai-shek, details undisclosed, likely tied to mutual defense treaty talks.
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The
Daily Sketch
Margaret
Billy Wallace
Tabloau
Kim Art
West Indies
Westminster Abbey
Prince Philip
Prince Charles
Princess Anne
Philip
Elizabeth
Charles
Anna
Wallace
Herbert &. Agar
Taipei
Formosa
Felix B. Stump
U. S
Pacific
Chiang Tai-shek
Atom Test Delayed At Atomic Test Site
The 19th shot of the summer atomic test series was postponed due to wind conditions. The Atomic Energy Commission said winds would have shifted fallout toward Las Vegas and Indian Springs, delaying the test at the site.
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Atomic Energy Commission
Las Vegas
Indian Springs
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