Single earners face higher tax under new withholding law
Washington May 8 The tax experts warn singles with annual pay above 2860 dollars will owe additional tax at year end 1948 under the new law. Withholding on the first 2000 of income plus a 600 personal exemption and 260 in deductions leaves some taxes unpaid for higher earnings while married couples gain larger relief and current withholdings cover more taxes up to 5720 dollars.
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Avalanche-Journal
Washington
Latin Club Banquet Honors Latin Week at Hilton Yaqui Room
Gens Tagata at Lubbock High ready for the annual Latin club banquet Monday at 7 p.m. in the Yaqui room of the Hilton. Bruce Brown hosts, Coleen Baldwin gives the invocation, and Peggy Terry reads the senior prophecy. A skit features Lena Joy Randolph and others, with Nan cy Davis performing and Theola Leonard reading. Bobbie June Mitchell wins first in Texas Junior Classical League essay. Coleen Baldwin acclaimed for 118 of 120 on International Latin exam. Certificates awarded to National Honor Society members for A averages: Claudyne Young, Kara Sam Dunn, Nancy Davis, Coleen Baldwin, Shelley Farr, Yvonne Hallmark, Carolyn Lipshy, Jo Morrow, Katherine Shafer, Meredith Smith, Milton West. Senior members listed include Bruce Own, Ladionna Berry, Thelma Cash, Marion Gibson, Jimmy Kennedy, Robert Leonard, John Norcross, Charlyne Smith, Peggy Terrell, Margaret Wilson, Claudyne Young, Lauwanna Coconougher.
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Hilton Hotel
Bruce Brown
Coleen Baldwin
Peggy Terry
Margaret Wilson
Lena Joy Randolph
Allan Rosen
Hubert Waddill
Kenneth Owens
Robert Leonard
Nancy Davis
Theola Leonard
Kara Sam Dunn
Bobbie June Mitchell
Claudyne Young
Shelley Farr
Yvonne Hallmark
Carolyn Lipshy
Jo Morrow
Katherine Shafer
Meredith Smith
Milton West
Novelle Newsom
Bruce Own
Ladionna Berry
Thelma Cash
Marion Gibson
Jimmy Kennedy
John Norcross
Charlyne Smith
Peggy Terrell
Lauwanna Cocanougher
Montana Man Leads Statewide Drive Against Parking Meters
P H Hagarty of Miles City Montana formed a statewide committee to circulate petitions to outlaw parking meters. The group has twelve members and will seek voter approval to ban meters. Hagarty previously ran for mayor of Miles City on an anti meter platform and finished third. A North Dakota effort has placed a similar measure on its June 29 primary ballot.
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Miles City
Mont
INS
P. H. Hagarty
Montana
Hagarty
North Dakota
Houston’s Fifth Polio Case Of The Year
Mont Wolf a 13 year old Lanier High student was Houston’s fifth polio case of the year. He lives near the city limits in southwestern Houston and fell ill Wednesday night. He was taken to Hedgecroft clinic yesterday afternoon, with five cases reported in the past three days and two more possible victims admitted to Jefferson Davis hospital last night.
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Houston
U.P
Mont Wolf
Lanier
Wolf
Hedgecroft Clinic
Jefferson Davis Hospital
Esther Williams Says Knitted Outerwear Row Sparks Debate
Hollywood May 8 Esther Williams pushes back at National Knitted Outerwear association over two piece bathing suits she called unfla tering and impractical. The group replies that they have not made scanty two piece suits for two years and Williams retorts they are still seen in the field.
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Hollywood
Esther Williams
National
Esther
New York
East Texas Airport Named To Incade Three Cities
The Civil Aeronautics Board on May 8 renamed the Longview Kilgore Gladewater airport to reflect service to three cities. The board said the twin city label no longer accurately describes the service provided to the public and the airlines.
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East Texas
Washington
Longview- Kilgore-Gladewater
Civil Aeronautics Board
Longview-Kilgore
Irport
Bryan Woman Dies in Bryan with Noted Banker Husband
Mrs. Byrne Conway Astin wife of E H Astin banker industrialist and plantation operator died in Bryan Funeral services set for tomorrow afternoon Survivors include her husband two daughters Mrs Seth Barwise Fort Worth and Mrs R A Rawlings Inca Peru two sisters Mrs Don Lee Fort Worth and Mrs Allie Conway Bryan and two brothers J H Conway Bryan and L R Conway Corpus Christi
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Byrne Conway Astin
E. H. Astin
Seth Barwise
Fort Worth
R. A. Rawlings
Inca
Peru
Don Lee
Allie Conway
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Corpus Christi
Briton Commands Arab Legion May Lead Palestine Attack
Brigadier John Bagot Glubb known as Pasha leads the Trans-Jordan legion, about 10,000 Bedouins, and could spearhead a Palestine invasion after Britain transfers mandate to the United Nations. Glubb, a professional soldier, lives in Amman with his English wife Muriel and son Faris, and is famed for desert leadership and flamboyant dress.
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Holy Land
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France
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Trans-Jordan
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Mandate
Syrian Desert
Tie
Slim
Muriel
Rosemary Forbes Glubb
Faris Godfrey
Amman
Faris
Glubbs
Mrs. E. S. Williams Dies in Austin at 78
Mrs. E. S. Williams 78, mother of a Lubbock man, died in Austin at 4 a m Saturday. She was a long-time resident of the state capital and had visited Lubbock several times. Survived by four other sons F B H Williams W L Williams R B Williams and B J Williams, all of Austin. Funeral services likely to be held this afternoon.
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Lubbock
FB. H
B. J. Willams
Austin
Collision of trains injures 53 in Utah open-cut mine
At Bingham Canyon Utah fifty three workers were hurt when a two coach work train collided with a mine waste train inside the Kennecott copper mine. Three workers were in serious condition. L F Pett assistant mines superintendent said the work train carrying miners to their jobs smashed into the standing waste train.
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Bingham Canyon
Utah
Kennecott Copper Corporation
L. F. Pett
Texan Wins Missouri Board Position in Fort Worth Link
William P. Bomar president of Bewley Mills Fort Worth was elected yesterday to the board of Missouri Kansas and Texas railroad shares and leadership noted.
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TEXAN
ST. Louis
William P. Bomar
Bewley Mills
Fort Worth
Sof
Missouri
Kansas
Soviet Taegliche Rundschau Decries Western Air Routes
The Soviet Army newspaper Taegliche Rundschau renewed its attack on western flights over the Soviet zone to Berlin. It claimed such operations threaten air safety and require Soviet approval, warning that lack of discipline in air corridors cannot be tolerated and order must be restored.
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Terlin
Taegliche Rundschau
Berlin
Tele
Price Cut Ordered by General Motors on Household Goods
General Motors announced a five per cent reduction in prices of household appliances and small electric motors used in such items, to take effect Monday. The move aims to ease consumer costs and stimulate demand amid ongoing market pressures.
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Detroit
General Motors
Man Sydnapped Job Seeker Steals 2300 at Oakland Plant
An unknown man visited the M and M manufacturing plant in Oakland seeking work. He was directed to wash up and vanished after Aiello, who had guided him to the foreman, later found 2300 missing from Aiello’s trousers. The money was from Aiello’s father Frank of Pittsburg for a bank deposit.
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Oakland
Col. May & (Ins
M & M_ manufacturing company
Joseph Aiello
San Leandro
Aiello
Frank
Pittsburg
Longtime Memphis Cook Lizzie Smith Celebrates 75th Birthday
Mrs. Edgar Butler marks that Lizzie Smith has served for 34 years without a servant problem and, though offered a pension, Lizzie wishes to stay in the kitchen as a valued cook.
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Memphis
Tenn
U.P
Edgar Butler
Lizzie Smith
Lizzie
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