Armed forces Enjoy An Old Fashioned Christmas Dinner
Overseas service members miss home at Christmas and receive entertainment programs from the USO and military theater commands. About 100 entertainers are planned to travel to overseas posts while troops receive turkey mincemeat and other holiday foods. USO troupes visit Korea Greenland Labrador Manila Naples Kodiak and other locales with varied customs and performances.
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Arma
Wivervs
U.S.C
Washington, D.C
Army Quartermaster Corps
No Escape From Taxes At Yuletime
Tases on many Christmas gifts will be just as high this year as last. All excise taxes scheduled for reduction April 1, 1956 were extended until April 1, 1957. Household appliances have 4 percent federal tax, jewelry, furs and luggage are 10 percent, night club and cabaret fun are 20 percent for Uncle Sam. Some federal taxes are added to the retail price while others are included and therefore not apparent to the average buyer. Added to these federal bites are the nips taken by some state and city taxes. What items are taxed and what are not sometimes confuse manufacturers, retailers and the last man on the totem pole—the purchaser. Any electrical or gas household appliance is subject to a federal excise tax, but items used outside the home are not. Nevertheless a power lawn mower is taxable. Washing machines, actually a household appliance, are not taxable, but driers have taxes attached. A combination washer drier? It’s taxed. Hair tonics are taxable but shampoos are not. Witch hazel has a tax but not alcohol. Foot powders and lotions take taxes but foot pads don’t. A manicure set case calls for a tax but not the combs and brushes except those ornamented with gold or silver. And, for the men and women who want to be sociably acceptable, it costs money. Deodorants are taxable.
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Uncle Sam
New Madrid Court Fines and Bonds Reported
In New Madrid County Judge Eric Wright presided over sessions where eighteen were fined on misdemeanor counts and thirty truck operators appeared. Albert Gibson was bound over to circuit court on a grand larceny charge. Fines ranged from 11 to 42 dollars for traffic offenses, with several drivers cited for no licenses or improper registrations. Some overweight trucks carried fines up to 160 dollars.
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New Madrid
Eric Wright
Albert Gibson
Wright O
Vau
Odda L. Ham
J. L. Sutton
James Ray Roberts
Roy Alexander Bizell
Daniel Martin
Willie B. Mile
James Bostic
Frank Mix
Lin
Lue
Tavis
David William LaRue
Isaac Haskins Jr
Jack Eugene Gremore
Roy L. Hall
Lynn R. Welsh
Carl H. White
Still Gin Company
Southwest Freight Lines
Employee roster names on historic page
A list of workers appears with names including Roy L Beck Roy M Beck James Boston Woodrow Brashears Vernon Buck Betty Campbell Webster Clark Loretta Cobb Miner D Cobb John Cohen Bill Dodson Jim Dozier Ava Baker Charles Eaton Vaudean Gimlin Gladys Givens Charles Graham Frank Grimm.
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Roy L. Beck
Roy M. Beck James Boston Woodrow Brashears
Vernon Buck
Betty Campbell
Webster Clark
Loretta Cobb Miner D. Cobb
John Cohen
Bill Dodson
Jim Dozier
Ava Baker
Charles Eaton Vaudean Gimlin
Gladys Givens
Charles Graham
Frank Grimm
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Armed Forces
USO
Valent
French Riviera
Sixth Fleet
Korea
Democracy
Northeast Air Command
Labrador
Greenland
Baffinland
Newfoundland
Narsarrsuak
Air Force
Philippines
U.S.O
Manila Bay
Navy Hospital
Sangley
Kodiak
Alaska
Naples
Enlisted Wives Club of
Naples U.S.C
Arelean
Church School
Cise
Nlays
Bucye
England
Yuletime
Ow Spa
Auto and Home Supply
Sikeston, Missouri
Odree
Missouri
Plant Food Company
Sikeston, Mo
Bob Hambrick
Don Harper Nella Hill
Clarence Hilterbrand
J. W. Johnson
Earl Joyce
Edward Kirby
Dwight McAdoo
Victor McCoy
Stonewall Lockhart
Celia Mandrell
Joe Matthews
C. C. Perry
Ema Pierce Trick Poe
Edith Porter Lorene Proctor
Herman Ray
Lee Reynolds
Glen Rice Eugene Scism Doyle Shell Lois Sifford Morris Simmons
Jess Simpson Willene Smith
Charles Solomon James Stephenson
Joe Sting Delmor Taylor O. V. Thornton
Carl Tidwell
Adron Werneck Flavel Westfall
Jack Willcutt DeWint Zarbor
Elon Proffer
Pres
Ernest Moxley
Alwin Gasser
Sec
James Stephenson
E. A. Story
E. S. Nelson
John Dirnberger
Louis Albrecht
Louis Mayer
R. G. Stroud
J. H. Spradling
Earl F. Weeks, Sr
Jesse Bennett
Scott-New Madrid-Mississippi Electric Cooperative
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