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Newspaper
Syracuse Herald Journal
Location
Syracuse, New York, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1950
Page
8
Government reduces tax on everyday items and services including luggage cases alarm clocks and toilet preparations cut from 20 to 10 percent with selective exemptions. Admissions to movies sports and events gain partial relief while certain venues and operators retain higher rates. Freight travel and telegraph rates see reductions with specific exemptions noted.
The Navy will allow women officers to wear gold stripes like male officers. The change, optional now and mandatory by July 1952, replaces light blue stripes with gold on Waves uniforms. Navy nurses will switch to single-breasted dark blue coats matching Waves.
The proposal reduces taxes across multiple categories including coal transport four to two cents per ten, home freezers under seven percent, electric light bulbs taxed at 20 percent repealed, matches down to one cent per thousand, and various items from sporting goods to photographic equipment receiving cuts or exemptions. It also preserves some taxes on tires while exempting small tires for toys and buggies and lowers the alcohol medicinal tax from three to two dollars per gallon.
The piece outlines Democratic and Republican battles across Alabama Ohio and Indiana as 1952 nominations loom. Alabama fights over party loyalty with Lister Hill facing McNeil and John Crommelin entering as independent. In Ohio Taft faces no GOP primary opposition while Dems seek a November foe amidst six of twenty three Congress members without primary challenges. Indiana centers on Rep. Cecil Harden facing Russell I Richardson as the state selects 11 House nominees and eyes a Senate race.
The report notes the Democratic nomination fight in June conventions appears wide open as candidates vie to challenge Republican Senator Homer Capehart, with attention focused on party unity and key state races.
An eight state police alert is issued for a 20 year old male questioned in a hatchet attack on 40 year old divorcee Yvonne Lavalle. She is in critical condition at Worcester City Hospital after being found unconscious in a friend's apartment.
New York May Day parade drew mixed cheers and jeers with a small turnout. Police estimated 13 400 marchers while the parade committee put about 70 000.
Ambassador Hussein Ali said Iran faces a poor grain crop, business failures, unemployment and a new wave of Communist activity. He reported Washington weighing urgent requests for a U S loan ranging from 100 million to 500 million dollars in addition to military support already planned.
The Brinckerhoff, a 50 year old Hudson River ferryboat, leaves Kingston today bound for Mystic Connecticut. It will join the Marine Historical Association's exhibit of American ship types as the last of its kind in a permanent display.
Gertrude Moran announces two points no romance exists today and she will discard her worn lace panties, a claim accompanied by no current romantic involvement.
Public notices detail Miss Moran denying romance rumors with a suitor as Pat Di Clecco, a Hollywood agent, was absent to comment on the situation during an exhibition event.
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