Hidden Taxes Loom Large Behind Everyday Purchases
The article highlights the burden of hidden taxes in daily costs from bread to cars. It cites Ben Price and Tax Foundation figures, noting about 20 percent of spending is taxed and describing large invisible components in a $1500 yearly earner’s bill. It argues the true tax load includes many indirect levies.
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Ben Price
Associated Press
Michigan
Breadh
Price
Tax Foundation
Dickson J. Preston
Scripps-Howard
Steel wages and prices rise as mills set Monday boosts
Workers in steel mills gain an automatic wage increase starting Monday, with price hikes expected to accompany the rise. STEEL magazine forecast a $5 to $6 per ton price rise, while wage costs could add about $10.26 per ton. Industry and union leaders clash over true cost impacts amid a three year pact. Production fell for the third straight week to 85.2 percent capacity.
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Steel Magazine
David J. McDonald
United Steelworkers of America
STEEL
American Iron and Steel Institute
Bug Dust Warning On West Virginia Highways This Weekend
Starting today through July 4 and next weekend, heavy traffic and high danger loom on West Virginia highways. Authorities urge staying home unless travel is essential as excessive speed and driver behavior drive crashes. In 1956, 40,000 deaths and 2.3 million injuries occurred nationwide.
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West Virginia
National Safety Council
Community urges caution to prevent Fourth of July tragedies
The city council launches a Back the Attack on Traffic Accidents campaign urging drivers to slow down and obey speed limits. It warns July dangers include drowning fireworks sunstroke and heat illness and offers tips for driving fishing boating camping and fire safety to reduce holiday deaths.
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Council
Clean Hazardous Device Debate In Nuclear Arms Policy
James Marlow analyzes Eisenhower's push for a completely clean hazardous device capable of killing many without fallout. He notes experts dispute feasibility, cites past uses like Hiroshima Nagasaki, and ponders a race with Russia to end tests or advance cleaner weapons.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Europe
Ernest O. Lawrence
Edward Teller
Lawrence
Teller
Alvin C. Graves
Los Alamos Atomic Laboratory
Congress
Prayer Blesses Courage to Do Right, Not War
A devotional prayer from Kiroy Page of La Habra California asks God to strengthen faith and hope and love. It pleads for moral courage to choose righteousness over aggression and to avoid the Way of War while seeking the Prince of Peace.
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Kiroy Page
la Habra
Calif
Famous Men Linked By One Thing Goat
New York essay links Alexander the Great, John Barrymore, Kubla Khan, Maupassant, Luther, Wesley, Newton, Darwin, Talleyrand, Johnson, Pitt, and others. They all suffered gout, the disease of greatness. The writer asks where would you live if you could live anywhere. Many prefer staying where they are. Americans crave food, and exotic dishes rise with prosperity. Rice feeds Asia’s vast population and a former Korean War officer subsisted on it for seven days behind enemy lines.
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Eisenhower
May Craig
Hiroshima
Nagasaki
New York
Alexander the Great
John Barrymore
Kubla Khan
Guy de Maupassant
Martin Luther
John Wesley
Isaac Newton
Charles Darwin
Talleyrand
Samuel Johnson
William Pitt
Alfred Tennyson
Gen
Winfield Scott
Edward Gibbon
Francis Bacon
William Harvey
Asia
Korea
1907 land sale in Slab Fork District near coal region
A county clerk record shows a nearly $100,000 sale by H H Fay of Massachusetts and John W and J T McCreerry to Justus Collins covering 75 acres of fine coal in Slab Fork District. Display ad seeks 100 coal miners for drift mines and soft coal work in Raleigh West Virginia. Halleck M Scott and J W Maxwell returned from Morgantown after attending State University. Dr G P Daniel of Marstes visited with his son Dos, Beckley Seminary student.
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H. H. Fay
Massachusetts
John W
J. T. McCreerry
Justus Collins
Slab Fork
Raleigh
Coal and Coke Co
W. Va
Halleck M
Beck ley district head named by Metropolitan Life Insurance Co
1932 Raleigh Register tile note says J T Lynen of Ashtabula Ohio was named manager of the Beck ley district of Metropolitan Life Insurance Co succeeding R I Fast who moved to Bluefield. Torrential rains 4.06 inches in 18 hours disrupted rail traffic and caused a slide at Cotton Hill.
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West Virginia
Global births surge and political satire in brief
United Nations reports births total about 3 000 per hour worldwide prompting a joke about babysitting. In Eastville seven city officials ousted as voters chose their wives. Pravda cites Dedov predicting moon fly missions. Nehru rides scooter instead of limousine to save money.
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United Nations
Eastville
L. I. Dedov
Pravda
Moscow
Earth
Moon
India
Nehru
Pat Beene on April Love set in Kentucky Indiana
New York. Steve Allen show guest Pat Beene relates a filming mishap in Lexington Kentucky where he and Shirley Jones fell into a gravel pit during a stunt for April Love. He explains the Kentucky setting for a film about Indiana and notes his wife Shirley Foley is expecting a fourth child.
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New York
Pat Beene
Steve Allen
Shirley Jones
April Love
Lexington
Shirley
Pat
Furte
Hollywood
Kentucky
Indiana
A-Beamin
Red Foley
Grandpa Red Foley
Springfield
Perk Up Your Memory with Names and Odds on a Challenge
A psychologist manuscript advises memory tricks to recall names. It suggests a husband wife contest with ten cent stakes, offers cognitive tips to form clear impressions, repeat introductions, and create mental associations to imprint new names for quicker recall.
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George B
Kuncheon
America
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