The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 13, 1952, Page 2

i t THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Che Key West Citizen i daily (except Sunday) by L. P. ‘Artman, owhet and bu owhet and put *, from The Citizen Building, corner of Greene And Ann Sire ~ Have Tried Ii Without Any Sue Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County — By ED CREAGH .P. ARTMAN - ——__—. Editor} WASHINGTON ®—Once upon a | |time, as March 15 crept up on him,; Television Set NCRMAN | D. ARTMAN _. Business Manager | a certain taxpayer fell to brow iing| The Internal Revenue Bureau, of Entered at Key West, Florida, as Second Class Matter Page 2 Thursday, March 13, 1952 Rent .. about the high cost—to him—of | Course, turned him down on all |running the government. agg! oe ns. sees he carried a is | And so he looked through the |e matter ourt—and won out peat 77 ee and Tes | fine print of the tax rea and /0n almost every item! Member of The Associated Press—The Associated Press is exclusively |there he discovered a loophole. | This reduced his net income, for entitled to use for reproduction of all news dispatches credited to it} ‘Medical expenses,” it ‘ said | tax purpcses, to zero. not otherwise credited in this paper, and also the local news |there, included ‘‘amcunts paid for) And the only flaw in an otherwise published here. the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, delightful Story is that the taxpayer treatment, or prevention of di-\is purely imaginary and so is the sease, or for the purpose of af-!court decision in his favor. fecting any structure or function’ Both were made up by John P of the body.” | Hodgkin, a certified accountant for So, happily, the taxpayer listed! Price, Waterhouse & Co., Phila ‘such “medical expenses’’ as: | delphia, who wrote a tcague-in- | | Viember Florida Press Ascociation and Associated Dailies of Florida | ub cription (by ADVERTISED RATES MADE KNOWN rrigr) 25c per week, year "$12.00, single copy 5c APPLICATION The Citizen is an open forum and invites discussion of public issue} Food $1,500 jeheek piece on the subject in the and subjects of local or general interest, but it will not publish] Cle-hing | current issue of “Taxes,” a maga- iat ommunicatior | Cigarettes 150 | zine published by Commerce Clear- aa abit a Sanaa ian LANAI chic scsssesces, ..200 |ing House inc., Chicago. — Officials at the Internal Revenue ‘Bureau here were much amused |by the article and said they felt ' sure nobody would take it seriously enough to claim any of the “rec- ommended” deductions — all « which actually are personal ex | penses and can’t !e deducted. The imaginary court in the ar- | ticle, however, takes a more liber- | al view. : Food, for example, is held to be a medical expense because it “is jMecessary for the preventioi | malnutrition, pellagra and st: ‘ tion.” Political Announcements DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY, MAY 6, 1952 ' For State Representative | BERNIE C. PAPY | “For Re-Election” IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN More Hotels and Apartments. Beach and Bathing I-wvilion. Airports—Land and Sea. Consolidation of County and City Governments. Community Auditorium, gers For State Representative i d * ‘4 jit prevents frostbite and sunburn— J. Y. PORTER and also because the non-weari For State Aitorney _ lof it ‘will lead to prolong | carceration in the lc J HELIO (MONT) GOMEZ. | | which would be bad jor ‘sectee diate Series eer re | and physical health. For State Aitorney Cigarettes? They may, as some J. LANCELOT LESTER | magazine articles say, be bad for ae Hao ck COA lcourr the health. If so, they obvica For Clerk of Criminal Court are ‘affecting a function of HARRY DONGO ___, | body,” as the tax law puts it—and For Clerk of Circuit Court the law doesn’t say the effect on EARL R. ADAMS | the kody has to be favorable. Liquor: “Even a aed Pe ccs 7 ade results in impairment of the mental RAYMOND R. LORD | processes, thickening of the speech {and loss of equilibrium. Since all — ~ ‘the abc-ve are functions of the body For County Tax Assessor | this deduction is allowed.”” CLAUDE A. GANDULFO Internal revenue dfficials said all -—— the items listed in ihe article e For Sheriff been claimed by actual taxpayers LOUIS M. J. EISNER as medical expenses at one time wees or another—and always have been WATCH LOWER KEYS GROW WITH ASSURANCE OF ELECTRICITY | We in Key West, as iamiiiar with electric light as | we are with sunshine, may be inclined to underrate the importance of the column story, with a five-column head- line, The Citizen ran Tuesday about the electification of the lower chain of the Florida Keys by next July 1. But the story was not played-up too much. It was not playea- up enough when we consider the jubilation in Key West when it got electric tight in the early 1890s. Up to that time, Key Westers used kerosene lamps. Ifa wick was turned up tod much to get more light, the chimney became sooty with ‘smut; if the wick was left normal, often the flare was so dim one had to strain one’s | eyes to read or to sew, or hold up a lamp to comb one’s hair. Kerosene lamps tried one’s patience, so that there | JOHN eo ae est. ieee nck was sound for Mid hurrahs of Key Westers over the | ———|low who claimed a $500 deduction | ‘For Clerk of the Criminal “Court | for liqu dical rati f i ; de wor on medical grounds. Said | “ee it tee 3 a f sae street lights were ih- C. SAM B: CURRY Sa Hes epee eRe lamps, that got their light from iad Geb ee —|didn’t have a drink. stalled, The night Late fa For County Commissioner | And there was anc hex: taxvaver electrically burning sticks of carbon, were turned on, boys | CLARENCE S. HIGGS ee he couldn't do his job and girls and many grown-ups too peiormed a sort of |_ os Thira Pe a ikeibaticn: “goaiuc pie hint t. rn Indian dance under the lamps. For Member School Board - Hence, Key West's “oldtimers fully appreciate. the GERALD H. ADAMS feeling of joy residents of the lower Keys entertain over |___‘Second District the assurance that they will shortly get electicity. Harnes-| For Member of School Board sing electricity is the world’s greatest invention, One, un-| WM. BILLY FREEMAN thinkingly, may assert that the telephone, the telegraph, radio, television, or the teletypesetters that operate in The Citizen’s office are greater, but they would be use- Second District ‘For Member School Board : JULIO CABANAS, JR. less without electricity. They and many other inventions Fourth ven: are outgrowths of electricity. For School Board The lower keys, except Marathon, which has running H. EARL DUNCAN water, electricity and a fairly good system of roads, have Fourth ee. | been backward in their growth. They have running water hut they need more lateral roads, and are getting them, and now it won't be long before they will have electricity Watch them grow from now on. The growth may not be noticeable at first, because of the thousands of unde HARRY H. JOHNS 35 S. E. 8th ST. veloped-acres, but we will wake up one of these days t« First District One Block West, off Route 1 un realization of a decided progress on the southerly chair |—--— Por Constable | MIAMI, FLORIDA of Keys. Many Key Westers and residents of other cities, HARRY LEE BAKER who own loth or acreage in that area, will build homes, First District country places or rentable structures, such as hotels, mo- tels and apartments, now that they have assurance of the installation of electric light and power. mental We Service All Mat:es of Cars, Specializing in... CHRYSLER PRODUCTS Bill's Southernmost Garage BILL TYLER, © 707 Whitehead St., Corner Angela ee LOW DAILY RATES Beautiful rooms. Private baths and showers. Ample Parking, FREE Special Rates to. Service Men | HOTEL ‘For Justice ui the Peace IRA F. ALBURY First District | For Re-Election SEMINOLE For Constable ~~ For Juvenile Judge EVA WARNER GIBSON | For County Sudss ee. Why work yourself to death? Let nature take its HILARY U, ALBURY = | course and you will die atthe proper time, anyway. For Constable s Se enn Second District | The big corporations which have most of the war cH ARLES G | PAPY For Constable Second District - JOSE ESPINOSA “SMOKY JOE” Fur Re- plete sed | yusiness will, just rely have most of the peace busi- ness. SLICE OF HAM. For Justice of “the Peace JAMES j LIGHTBOURN FORT Second District | For Justice of the Pesce | Second District | ROY HAMLIN | For Re-Election For County Commissioner Third District uHARLES W. WELLS For County Commssioner Fifth District | MILTON 0. PEACOCK For County Commissioner Fifth Distriet i HARRY HARRIS mee | Tioeecdhents. ton semen HOWARD E. WITSON But You'l i (For Re-Election) Learn / | Fer County Tax Collector GEORGE G.GOMEZ | For “County Commissioner | | J. M. FERNANDEZ, JR. i First District ADULTS ONLY Doors Open 10:30 > Show 10:40 _ AP Newaloateros ae SVP | ee erent | and Food, Cigarettes, Liquor Deductible 8-29 Superforts aoa White reat _ “Medical Expense3?”; Some Taxpayers On Instrum "Fo De: SAN ANTONIO The Vas Corner bomber shattered, One scattering Here are authoritative answers ! ments and bodies over i ins ri the ster Administra- area. The other glided do Veterans Administ al miles av exploded — and hree questions of inter- turned } “ies a » servicemen: The planes were cn training ‘ t ag a pay ork flights from Randolph Fores UnGee ae eee Base here. On | ano ine other eig ‘ 4 . =—s STRAND connie Condit he shattered plane a hilltop on the Guf K The other glided down on th Thursday - Friday - Saturday THE INVITATION of J. W. Heard, San Antonio oil man. | with & NN JOHNSON AND DOROTHY D. C. MeDonald, SUM WeGUIRE «a nearby ranch, said~he saw | (Comedy Dramad the planes flying in formation Coming: THIS WOMAN 1S He Give tule recs DANGEROUS jlenly one crease: KK Pennis v |went down and the other kept on | f over a Clothing is ruled deductible since } small intake ! | ! Sin More Deadly Than AViper’s POISON! vrxam and Joan Crawtord MONRO’ E cont, Thursday - Friday - Saturday On Moonlight Bay Sunes clipped the from the other plane. One plane flying on a level kee altitude as if undamaged. No one jumped. The plane came in low | windmill on the He i with good ranch, just barely missing it derly the left wing dipped and bers went into the und. The rigt DOMES DAY AND GORDON wing cut off huge tree. 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