Income Tax Bill Advances in Senate Amid Budget Cuts Debate
The 4 billion dollar income tax measure cleared the House and reported to the Senate to be called up next week. Debate grows over delaying action until budget cuts are aligned with House reductions. House slashes Truman’s budget by 6 billion, Senate proposes 4.5 billion with surplus applied to debt.
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Washington
Senate
Millikin
R-Cole
Finance Committee
House
Truman
Bishop Receives Three Year Term For Grand Larceny
William Hurley Bishop of Kingsport Tennessee found guilty of grand larceny. He is sentenced to three years in the penitentiary by a Rockingham Circuit Court jury. The theft involved $570 from Sgt. T. M. Camden of Fairfield Virginia while Camden rode in a truck on February 7.
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William Hurley Bishop
Kingsport
Tenn
Rockingham
Bishop
Sgt
T. M. Camden
Fairfield
Camden
Winchester
Martinsburg
Grenville
Woodstock
Commonwealth
Dewain Emerson Kress
Kress
Scranton
Greenville
Winchester Tax Ordinance Establishes General Levy Rates
The Winchester Common Council adopts a 1947 general levy for city and school purposes. Taxes set at 1.65 per $100 on land and buildings and on tangible personal property. bank stock taxed at 0.40 per $100. penalties apply for late or unpaid taxes. taxpayers must file full returns with the Commissioner of Revenue and may appeal to the Council for revision.
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City of
Winchester
Commissioner of Revenue
C. R. Anderson
Winchester Traffic Ordinance Amends Parking Meters Rules
The Winchester City Council adopts changes to the traffic ordinance regulating parking meters. New provisions remove meters on Cameron Street from Fairfax Lane to Baker Street, add meters on Braddock Street from Piccadilly to Boscawen, and place meters on the north side of Rouss Avenue with no parking on the south side. Existing meters remain in place at the post office and Braddock Street chains. Time limits and coin requirements are specified, effective after adoption on April 1 1947.
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Cameron Street
Piccadilly Street
Baker Street
Fairfax Lane
Braddock Street
Boscawen Street
Rouss Avenue
Loudoun Street
City of
Winchester
Beauty operator found murdered in Alfey alley
In Rantoul Illinois on May 15 a 21 year old beauty parlor operator Miss Edna Lucille Kietzmen was found beaten and strangled behind a garage. A rope was around her neck, clothes torn, and robbery not the motive. John Scheurich found the body and estimated death 5 to 6 hours earlier.
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Rantoul
Ill
Edna Lucille Kietzmen
Herman Pearler
John Scheurich
Industrial experts favor our town for industry
A local reflection agrees with experts that small towns offer better housing, pleasant living, and wholesome recreation. Residents note they own homes, keep them tidy, enjoy social time, outdoorsy sports, and evenings with beer and good company.
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R. Crumpton
O A. F
N. Loudoun St
Flower Shop
E. Piccadilly St
Northern
J. W. Jones
State OF
Virginia
Common Council
Co. R. Anderson
Alfey
Nature
Doan
Joe Marsh
Doc Walters
Doc
Constitutional
United States
Ord
Hawthorne
Elieag
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