Last Day For Filing Estimated Income Taxes In Lub bock
The January deadline for filing estimated income returns loomed as a skeleton staff at the Lubock IRS office in the National Bank building struggled to assist hundreds of taxpayers. L. B. Barkley urged a full crew to be in on Monday while outlining who must file, including single individuals with high wages or other income and married couples, with rules excluding $1,500 of military pay. Final returns due March 15. penalties apply for late declarations or payments. Also on the agenda are meetings in the courthouse to discuss price control regulation changes for meat markets, groceries, and produce hosted by Roy Farr and the War Price and Rationing board. Buy a War Bond TODAY.
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Office of Internal Revenue
Lubbock National Bank
Dallas
L. B. Barkley
Lubbock
Rkley
United States
Berkley
Canada
Mexico
Barkley
72Nd District
Roy Farr
Lubbock County
County War
Writer On Chemistry To Speak Tuesday At Knife Fork Club
William Haynes renowned writer on industrial chemistry speaks Tuesday at 7 pm in Hilton hotel for the Knife and Fork club on What Chemistry Will Do to Your Business and Your Home. Tickets are $1.25 and available before Tuesday moon. He has lectured at Yale Princeton MIT and before major industrial groups. His tour highlights the whirlpool of chemical revolution and its impact on business, industry, and consumers.
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William Haynes
America
Hilton Hotel
Knife and Fork Club
Haynes
Yale
Princeton
Massachusetts Institution of Technology
Moley Proposes 12 GOP Commandments in Indianapolis
Ray Moley, Newsweek columnist and former New Deal adviser, outlined 12 Republican commandments in Indianapolis. The first calls for stopping hatred of Roosevelt, warning that such politics help Roosevelt's vote. He notes Roosevelt may not run again and cautions GOP about future ideas and veteran returns shaping policy.
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Moley
Roosevelt
Formosa and Formosa area attacked by U S Third Fleet
Admiral Nimitz reported in a communique that 110 more Japanese ships and small craft were sunk or crippled and 66 planes destroyed or damaged in last Monday’s Formosa attacks. The flotilla’s moves across the South China Sea delayed the report as planes pounded four enemy convoys off French Indo China with additional losses at Keelung and other targets.
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U. S. Pacific Fleet
Pearl Harbor
Formosa
U. S
Adm
Chester W. Nimitz
South China Sea
Indo-China
Okinawa
Ryukyu Islands
Keelung
Hellox
Giran
Karenko
Tinan
Heito
Kochi
Toyohara
West Coast Oil Shortage Warned by Navy Official
Rear Admiral Andrew F. Carter said West Coast oil production is insufficient for Pacific naval operations. He noted sources would fill the slack, and he saw no need for a West Texas to West Coast pipeline, predicting Texas oil would move eastward.
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Pacific
Washington
Andrew F. Carter
Army- Navy Petroleum Board
Carter
Prnices
West Texas
West Coast
WPB
Texas
Sergeant Berutti’s Pacific round trip from SPAAF in 1948
Sergeant Chester Berutti of Lubbock served at South Plains Army Airfield then crossed the Pacific on a war-time itinerary. He logged stops from Hickam to Tarawa, including American Samoa, returning to SPAAF radio control. He recalls good outpost conditions, heavy concrete towers, and radio silence via signal lights, with battle damage on Tarawa. He notes a profitable local trinket trade with natives selling souvenirs at high prices, including his wristwatch.
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Chester Berutti
South Plains Army Airfield
Pacific
Baedeker
Hickam Field
Tarawa
Berutti
Lubbock
SPAAF
Hickhamfield
Army Air Forces
Hawaii
Lube Bock
American Samoas
United States
SGT CHESTER BERUTT RELATES WAR MEMORIES AND TRAVELS
Berutt recalls guarding valuables during campaigns and stories of would-be buyers. he mentions leaving a life of danger for safer postings. Assignments carried him to Christmas Island, Borabora, Penryn and Canton. the best trip was Hawaii to California. Malaria slowed him briefly before he returned to SPAAF control towers.
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Berutt
Christmas Island
Borabora
Penryn
Canton Islands
Hawaii
California
States
SPAAF
Rail freight haul rises 1922 to 1943 across America
The average freight haul on American railroads climbed from 308 miles in 1922 to 470 miles in 1943, a 53 percent increase reflecting growing rail utilization and longer distance shipments during the period.
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America
Sharp Patrol Blows Stir Italian Front
Allied forces report sharp patrol action on the Italian front under improving weather. American Fifth Army raiding parties penetrated toward Barchetta near highway 65 south of Bologna, met German fire, marking the farthest Allied advance on the Florence Bologna axis. Brisk clashes also occurred on the Eighth Army front as air forces bombed enemy lines and stores.
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Rome
Fifth Army
Barchetta
Bologna
Florence-Bologna
Eighth Army
Italy
Four U.S. servicemen Convicted in Looting Case
Four more enlisted men were convicted by a general court martial in Paris for looting supply trains. The third group tried, they received hard labor sentences from 35 to 40 years each.
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Paris
U.S
Australia Hit By Record Drouth and Wool Losses
Australia suffers its worst drought since white settlement with over 2,000,000 wool producing sheep killed and one third of the continent turned to dust bowls. Southeastern areas are hardest hit as rains restore hope but a month of steady rainfall is needed for real recovery. Meat and crop exports fall while barley oats and maize will be imported, with estimated losses to wheat farmers and wool growers totaling tens of millions.
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Australia
Canberra
City Dads Kill Two Birds With One Stone
Marshall officials solve two issues by reducing goat herd from 50 to meet weed control needs at waterworks and by canceling the annual banquet due to meat scarcity, ending the two long standing concerns with one action.
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Atuceoce
Tex
Avalanche-Journal, Sun
Knife Fork Club
Peuot
Saturday Evening Post
New Spring
Jablow
Formosa Mount
Sgt
Chester Berutt
DR. Anderson
Optometric Office
Optometrist
Dr. J. C. Anderson
Wm M. Cauley
Juanita Bennett
Maurine Wells
David Jarratt, Optician
Anderson Bros. Jewelers
Hell
Vitality
John F. Clara
John F. Class
John F
V. E. Cook Health Institute
Main St
TOM Biggs, Business
Mgr
Dorothy Gray
Hanna-Pope & Co
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