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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1940
Page
7
A citizen with a wife and one child earning $3,000 a year calculates his federal tax bill rising from 27 to 49.70 due to a lower personal exemption and a 10 percent windfall tax. He also projects higher admissions taxes on theater tickets and alcohol, forecasting about $4 extra yearly cinema tax and increased costs for liquor.
The article analyzes rising federal taxes including whiskey excise and tobacco levies, noting an individual taxpayer Mr. Citizen faces higher costs as Congress boosts most excise taxes by ten percent. It highlights changes in cigarette taxes per pack and shifts in personal exemptions, with emphasis on income tax increases and July 1 1940 effective dates.
Funeral services for Mrs. Fannie Green Brooks will be held at St. Luke's Baptist Church Berryville at 3 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. The Rev. E. T. Johnson will conduct. Interment at Milton Valley Cemetery. She died Sunday evening after several months illness. Survived by mother Mrs. Emma Lincoln Berryville and seven children Emma Gardner Arlington Rosa Green Atlantic City Henry Green Mary Green Louise Brooks Randolph Brooks. Pallbearers: John Garner William Johnson Moses Williams Chester Jackson George Thomas James Thomas.
Waynesboro June 25 The Virginia Retail Merchants Association opened its annual convention on a cheerful note with Major Frank P. Evans chairman of the State Unemployment Compensation Commission presenting a forecast that the new merit rating plan to be enforced next January will affect unemployment costs. Evans sketched the merit rating scales under the 1940 act and noted employers need not initiate action. the system will likely salvage substantial state and federal revenues. Walter Evans of Richmond, Counsel, praised legislative independence. Mayor A R Harding urged delegates to aid farmers by improving packing and display to boost competition with out of state producers.
A cooperative flood control program will be submitted next spring to land-use planning committees in all Potomac watershed counties. The plan results from a yearlong survey led by federal engineers and local officials, with recommendations following a February completion.
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For sale a double frame house on Charles Street listed at 2650 dollars. Seller is Harry H. Willis. Posted in June.
A July 1 hearing before Merle D. Vincent will review the cold storage of apples in the Appalachian area and other regions as a seasonal industry under the Labor Standards Act. The session will consider fresh fruits and vegetables exemptions with written statements accepted in lieu of appearances and briefs due by June 15.
A six month old is described as the country’s youngest Willkie booster in Philadelphia during the Republican convention. His father Dwight C. Swanson leads the East Orange New Jersey Willkie Club and campaigns for Wendell L. Willkie of Indiana.
Officials from Virginia Maryland and federal road agency meet at Hilltop House Harpers Ferry to select a site for a new Shenandoah river bridge upstream of the 1937 flood old span. The project links a three state route crossing the Potomac near Sandy Hook Maryland and Virginia road work to connect with Harpers Ferry West Virginia.
Data requested cover weekly operating season lengths for each commodity in past seasons, and for plants handling multiple commodities. It also seeks the share of total volume across all commodities during the fourteen week peak operation period in prior seasons.
Vocational agriculture leaders from Northern Virginia meet July 5 at a camp site near Smithfield on the James River. The Parters of America hold an option to purchase the site and a feasibility decision may be made during the meeting.
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