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Preston Citizen

Location

Preston, Idaho, United States of America

Date

Dec 16, 1954

Page

5

Feller Reflects On Baseball Life In Sporting News

Bob Feller says baseball owes him nothing yet gave him a lifelong career and family. He would choose baseball again, values his education and charitable work, and notes the game funded his sons’ schooling and his parents’ good home.

Bob Feller Bob Giants Feller Sporting News Ford The Indians Rollins College Mary Gore Virginia Winther Bobby

Property Taxes Still Best Way Says Committee

The Idaho interim governmental cost and tax structure committee concludes after 18 months of study that property taxes remain the best method to locally finance government. It notes inequalities exist but can be addressed by legislative and administrative revisions and argues uniformity of assessment between counties is not essential.

Idaho

Timber as Crop Exemption Urged In Idaho Tax Plan

A special report argues timber should be recognized as a crop and exempt from ad valorem taxes. It calls for state and local policy to support sustained yield operations, benefiting timber land owners while preserving county revenues in the long term.

Idaho

Idaho Tax Study Recommends Central Reform and Local Upgrades

A legislative committee assessing Idaho taxes for the 1955-57 biennium calls for strengthening the state tax commission, shifting income tax appeal duties, and improving assessment practices. Proposals include upgrading assessors salaries, adopting a variable levy plan, clarifying personal property rules, and more equitable inventory assessments tied to merchant fiscal year endings. It notes ad valorem taxes from counties totaling 4 million and over 15 million distributed via the minimum school program, totaling about 19 million or 38 percent of general fund appropriations.

State Tax Commission Tax Commission

Fashion patterns offer wide sizes and crochet guide

No 270 percent is cut in sizes 12 through 40 with a jumper and blouse described by yardage and finished sizes. Pattern No 113 includes a pansy potholder and a large crochet instruction chart. Send 300 with name address style number and size to Audrey Lane Bureau Madison Square Station New York.

Audrey Lane Madison Square Station New York

Holiday Recruiting Gives Airmen Leave

The U S air force recruiting announces a Christmas holiday enlistment window from Dec 16 through 81 for new airmen who will be on payroll and on official leave during the holidays. New recruits travel to Parks Air Force Base California after the holidays to begin basic training. For details contact Sgt W G Angel at the selective service office in Preston or the Ogden USAF recruiting office.

U.s.air Force Air Force Parks Air Force Base California W. G. Angel Selective Service Office Preston USAF Post Office Ogden

Idaho extends waterfowl hunting license validity to January 1955

The 1954 Idaho hunting license will be valid for waterfowl hunting January 1 to January 3, 1955, to cover the season after 1954. Vendors will be supplied by December 15 and the extension applies only to waterfowl hunting. other privileges remain unchanged.

Idaho Jamie Fish Jto Leonard Commission

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