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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1946
Page
7
County Clerk Lloyd Payne reports 11 198 marriages in 1945 in Las Vegas, a city of 20 000, vs 4 000 divorces. It costs $7 for a license and takes six weeks to obtain a divorce, while a marriage can occur in six months for about $180. A reader asks about the word gopher. the answer links it to the French gaufre meaning honeycomb.
Editor notes a Q and A on 1945 tax filing penalties. It covers penalties for late declarations underpayment and underestimation rules including farmer versus non farmer thresholds and amended declarations by January 15. It also notes no penalty if estimates used 1944 income with 1945 rates and exemptions.
Six war veterans in Oklahoma City decide to incorporate as Veterans Associated to sell stock to 300 ex servicemen and fund building low cost homes for World War II veterans. Labor will be recruited from Seabees and other veterans who built military installations.
In San Francisco the PGA tour tees off in the $25,000 San Francisco Open with Byron Nelson leading a strong field including Ben Hogan Sam Snead Harold McSpeden E J Harri son and Sam Byrd as he seeks to extend his all time earnings record after last week’s Los Angeles Open win.
W C Reeve, manager of Farmers Union Corp, reported his six month old springer spaniel missing. At 2 am the next day officers heard scratching, opened the door, and the puppy was unjogged and lay at their feet. Q and A about carbonated beverage temperature note 40 degrees.
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