Robot Tax Center at Martinsburg Moves Tax Checks Forward
A Martinsburg building houses the IRS national computer center checking millions of returns. A 78-person staff works with a Bowdoin College programmer and a 20-year-old secretary as the IBM machine processes data from Atlanta and Philadelphia tapes. The system flags errors, issues notices, and may trigger audits or liens. The machine’s speed helps handle growing volumes. its output depends on data quality.
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Shenandoah Valley
National Computer Center
Internal Revenue Service
Bowdoin College
John E. Stewart
Naomi Hoomes
Razor sharp fight over foreign stainless steel razors
U S manufacturers rush to meet England made stainless steel blades competition. Wilkinson Sword exports to U S and Canada while Eversharp and American Safety Razor Division roll out blades in Milford Connecticut New York city and Pennsylvania markets. Krona plus and Persona blades expand to nationwide distribution by year end with solid sales in early 1990s style reporting.
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New York
Wilkinson Sword Co
London
England
Wilkinson
United States
Canada
Eversharp, Inc
Philip Morris, Inc
Gillette Co
Ar Eversharp Schick
Patrick Frawley Jr
Eversharp
Milford
Conn
Rawley
New York City
Scranton
Pittston
Pennsylvania
Local Weekend Visits Highlight High View Notes
High View residents hosted and visited relatives over the weekend including Mary Shepard and sister-in-law Pat Russell of Grimes, Frank Dickens from Hamilton, and the Hyltons with the Wines family in Olney Maryland. Eyvery- Reedy in England reports first personnas, with production starting at Staunton Virginia and pricing at five for 79 cents. Gillettes Boone Gross cites progress on a stainless steel blade to roll out in multiple countries soon.
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High View
Mary Shepard
Pat Russell
Grimes
Frank Dickens
Hamilton
Arthur Hylton
Warren Mehring
Karen
Arlington
John Bauserman
Orville Hylton and
Eyvery- Reedy, Ltd
England
Staunton
Boone Gross
Gillette
LaFollette Family and Local Movers In Yellow Springs News
Mrs. Benson LaFollette is hospitalized at Winchester Memorial Hospital. The LaFollette couple Curtis and two daughters Jeannie and Pam, with Mrs. Glenn Bland and son, spent the weekend in Washington visiting relatives. Fredericksburg visitors Linda Oates joined Leyburn Brill and Virgil Oates as they hosted relatives. Asbury Boyce welcomed a son born March 23 while Rosa Boyce remains ill at her son Willard’s home in Florida. Leyburn Brill shopped in Winchester Saturday.
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Yellow Springs
W. V
Benson LaFollette
Winchester Memorial Hospital
Curtis LaFollette
Jeannie
Pam
Glenn Bland
Washington
Dick LaFollette
Roland Oates
Linda
Fredericksburg
Leyburn Brill
Virgil Oates
Asbury Boyce
Rosa Boyce
Willard
Florida
Baltimore boy earns pay feeding cats and locksmith costs
Eric Metzler, 11, in Baltimore, was paid 5 by neighbors to feed their cats. He lost the house key and paid 5 for a locksmith, then dropped the new key in a storm drain and paid 0.35 for an extra key. He estimates 30 days of labor to cover feeding for another neighbor at 0.10 per day.
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Baltimore
Eric Metzler
Eric
Producer Into the Act
Howard Erskine, a producer who also acts, joins the suspense play Calculated Risk as a replacement for Ben Hayes. Hayes leaves to join the Tyrone Guthrie repertory company in Minneapolis. This marks Erskine’s first stage work since 1952, with prior involvement in the management side of four shows.
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New York
Howard Erskine
Erskine
Ben Hayes
Hayes
Tyrone Guthrie Repertory Company
Minneapolis
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IRS
Martinsburg
Neil Hoke
Stewart
Hoke
Ceu
IBM
Sren Sy
Tuscaloosa
Boston
Dorothy McCullough
Naomi
Evening Star
Oo Nascaaen
U.S
Jack Lefler
AP Business News
Toronto
Hamsted
Sweden
Marvin White
Glenn White
Marshall Sehley
Robbie
Barbara White
Kevin
Winchester
Jack Einstein
Alexandria
Charles Einstein
Tracy Einstein
Yellow Spring
Mrs. Leyburn Brill
Ake
Breyers
Winchester Park & Shop
Winchester Automobile Dealers Association
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