Editorial Review on Tax Policy for Hospitals and Consumers
A WV editorial questions the state Tax Commissioner's directive that 56 hospitals collect the Consumers Sales Tax from patients but remain exempt from paying the tax on their suppliers. It argues patients consume during treatment and questions exempting hospitals from supplier taxes. The piece notes the annual tax revenue from hospitals totals about $100,000.
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Reading
Milton J. Ferguson
West Virginia
Ferguson
First Aircraft Service Station Opens at Allegheny County Airport
Gulf Oil opens what it calls the first service station designed solely for fueling and lubricating aircraft at Allegheny County Airport. The 21 hour operation uses mobile refuelers with radio alerts to service planes on ground, offering windshield cleaning and cockpit floor sweeping and stressing quick, friendly service for private fliers. Future ideas ponder roaming flying service stations meeting planes in flight as speeds rise.
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Allegheny County
Gulf Oil Corp
Pittsburgh
President urges corporate giving to education and charity
In letters with Northwest Airlines head Harold B. Harris, President Eisenhower endorses 5 percent tax deductions for corporate donations to nonprofit ventures including education. He argues businesses have fiduciary duty to stockholders to invest in educational institutions, noting companies rely on educated personnel and must support such causes to sustain society and capitalism.
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Harold B. Harris
Northwest Airlines
Eisenhower
Harris
Red Cross
Congress
USO
Crusade For Freedom
The
Advancement of Medicine
Educa
The High Cost of Driving in 1953 Costs Rise
The American Automobile Association reports the average motorist drives 10,000 miles yearly and will pay 908 for upkeep in 1953, up from 801 in 1951. Fixed items total 559.92 annually versus 603.02 two years earlier. Gas, oil, tires, and maintenance reach 348 per year, up from 328. Parking remains a challenge as traffic worsens.
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American Automobile Association
March of Events Inside Washington
Special to Central Press reports that Admiral Kearny and General Ridgway told President Eisenhower Chiang Kai-shek could soon establish a bridgehead on mainlands of Red China. U.S. likely to urge restraint until a more opportune moment amid delicate Korean peace talks and Nixon’s return with observations.
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Washington
Robert B. Kearney
Navy
Matthew Ridgway
Army
Eisenhower
Chiang Kaishek
Red China
United States
Chiang
America
Richard M. Nixon
Hhis
Raleigh Register subscription rates notice and policy
Beckley Newspapers Corporation announces subscription rates for Raleigh Register evenings and Sunday morning editions. Rates shown for daily and Sunday plans, with advance payment terms, delivery areas, and tax note.
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Beckley Newspaper Corporation
Beckley
W. Va
Hinton
Mai
West Virginia
Beckley Newspapers Corporation
World Power Balance to be Affected by Dec 15 Meeting
Washington notes the Dec 15 deadline determines next fiscal year defense spending. The clash pits Treasury Secretary George Humphrey against Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson over defense levels and deficits. The National Security Council weighs a new look amid a Soviet hydrogen test and a projected $43 billion cost.
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Washington
National Security Council
Damon and Pythias
Security of the Treasury
George Humphrey
Humphrey
Secretary of Defense
Charles E. Wilson
Wilson
Air Force
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Joint Chiefs
William J. McNeill
Defense Department
McNeill
Treasury
Defense
Pentagon
United States
Council
Pay TV sparks Palm Springs battle among giants
Hollywood battles over pay television as Paramount backs Telemet er while 20th Century Fox withholds Cinemascope. Theaters, networks, ad agencies oppose coinbox TV, fearing loss of audience and revenue. FCC sits at the center as study and pressure mount to decide air access and payment.
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Hollywood
Palm Springs
Paramount Pictures
Telemeter
Paramount
20Th Century-Fox
Fox
Federal Communications Commission
Auto Industry Moves From Doldrums Toward 1954 Rise
Auto production shows rebound as the Big Three brace for a competitive 1954 season. Forecasters expect strong first half amid rising retail sales and money in circulation. Ford challenges Chevrolet for No 1, with potential price cuts on options and ongoing steel auto demand. Investment bankers at Florida meeting deny recession risk and push optimistic growth outlook.
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New York
Dun & Bradstreet
New York City
Detroit
Chevrolet
Ford
Florida
The
Investment Bankers Assn
You're Telling Me Headlines From A Wry Era
A jumbled note reviews wild headlines about a Tulsa owner losing a cat that traveled 1500 miles to Fresno, a new mosquito species, France's Premier Lanier winning a confidence vote 275 to 244, and a winter distraction noting locust plagues in Iraq Syria and Jordan.
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Tulsa
Okla
Fresno
Calif
France
Joseph Lanier
Monster Joe
Iraq
Syria
Jordan
Strike Highlights Paper's Role in City Life
Hal Boyle writes on a citywide newspaper strike in New York that shut down all major papers for the first time. He notes the midwinter absence left holes in daily routines, with even blind readers feeling the loss as television and radio failed to replace the printed word. His wife jokes about breakfast faces, shopping, and desire for real news as hunger for information grows.
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Frances
Humility and the press in a city without daily news
A writer reflects on the hunger for news during a strike. He laments the missing daily voice and the impact on readers from marriages to obituaries, ads, comics, and gossip. He notes 65,000 press agents seeking new outlets and the city’s loss of information, advice, and entertainment power.
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Joe
Masie
Broadway
Dubuque
Metropolitan
Daily Voice
Churchill Gains Point But World's Unexcited
President Eisenhower and Premier Laniel meet Churchill in Bermuda for a Big Three talk aimed at peace with Russia. No Big Four yet as Malenkov unlikely to attend. Berlin ministers discuss possible future talks, with skepticism on real progress and a push to unite Western Europe including Germany, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg. The French election complicates any decision on joining a single European army.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Lauiel
France
Winston Churchill
Bermuda
Russia
Malenkov
Churchill
Lanjer
Berlin
West
Molotov
Britain
West Germany
Italy
Belgium
Netherlands
Luxembourg
Germany
Laniel
Comic quip and dental floss rhyme headline
Cerfisms Eli Basse quips that his wife picks his clothes one pocket at a time on a quiz show. Ed Pullman, poet laureate of topical ticklers, shares a verse about a dentist who renames his lover to avoid Florence, calling her Dental Floss.
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Eli Basse
Ed Pullman
Archibald Moss
Miss Moss
Florence
It Seems Like Yesterday and Twenty Years Ago
A scrambled retrospective cites two anniversaries with multiple notes. It recalls Germany’s collapse predictions after Cassino and calls for a special legislature session to allow absentee soldiers to vote. It also mentions Hitler’s peace plan and high liquor prices amid Prohibition era enforcement.
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Pea
Germany
Japan
U.S
Cassino
Neely
Department of Justice
Harbor
Milwithin
Sany
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