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Show Property Taxes Increase In 6 Major Cities CHICAGO (U.P.) Property taxes are going up in six major cities, the Public Administration Clearing Clear-ing House reports. Chicago, Dallas. Houston. Louisville, Lou-isville, Philadelphia and Seattle are getting more money from their property taxes, the clearing house says. Its information comes from the Municipal Finance Officers Of-ficers Association. The cities are using three ways to increase their municipal income. in-come. They are boosting the tax rate; they are placing a higher valuation on property; or they are assessing property closer to its full value. This is the picture the clearing house gives: Philadelphia Revaluation of property increased the assessment assess-ment by $271,000,000. Tax income should increase $7,700,000 by the action. Houston Adds $9,000,000 Houston Revaluation has added add-ed $9,000,000 to the tax rolls. Seattle King county property now appraised at 50 per cent of its value. Louisville Jefferson county assessment increases should add S3.500.000 to valuations. Dallas Revaluation is being underwritten to compensate for skyrocketing real estate prices. Chicago Property is now assessed as-sessed at 100 per cent of its value rather than the former 68 per cent. Although tax rates have decreased, taxpayers arc paying an average S12.50 more property taxes this year. The Finance Officers Association Associa-tion says the actions are being taken to defray the mounting cost of local government. Many smaller small-er communities, the association says, are following the same pattern. DAILY HERALD Monday, April 21, 1947 Navy Demonstrates What's New With the Buzz Bombs ' MI: yr v , . FOR MOTHER o o o o -Iff TeUphoto) Poised aboard its launching catapult, Navy's KUW-1 Loon modified version ol :rman VO b"e' is ready for demonstration for the press at Naval Air Missile Test Center Point Mugu. CaW : The Loon. capable cf speeds in excess of 425 mph. having a range of 150 miles, has been radically iniproved by Uie NaPvy with addition of radio control, giving it surprising accuracy at distances ol "f "am"Csorfsd with pulse jet type engine, the missile is capable of bsing launched from runways, catapaults or rocWW, giving it the flexibility of either land or shipboard launchings. Fred Allen Gibe Cut Off the Air NEW YORK, April 21 (U.R) Fred Allen was cut off the air for more than half a minute last night by the National Broadcasting Broadcast-ing company to eliminate a jest about a mythical network official. Allen was explaining to Portland Port-land Hoffa, his wife, why their program had been cut off the previous week. It had run overtime. over-time. "There's a little . . ." was as far as he got last night. Cut by the network was the following dialogue: ". . . man in the company we work for. He's a vice president in charge of program ends. When our program runs over time he marks down how much time is saved." "What does he do with it?" Portland asked. "He adds it all up," Allen replied, re-plied, " 10 seconds here, 20 sec onds there and when the vice president has saved up enough seconds, minutes and .hours to make two weeks he uses the two weeks of our time for his vacation." vaca-tion." The network said it had asked Allen to change the script before he went on the air, but that he had not complied. The gibe violated vio-lated a network ruling prohibiting prohibit-ing the broadcast of unkind remarks re-marks about anyone in radio or the network, NBC said. . When the program went back on the air after a 40-second break, Allen's first joke laid a mild egg with the studio audience. audi-ence. Apparently unaware that the control room had blotted out his earlier sequence, he cracked. "If they want to cut something, they should have cut that." Priest Stabbed i By Psychopathic ItW UKLtAKS, L,'d., April Zl (U.R Stabbed four times with a pocket knife by an unemployed ex-marine after hr had completed distribution of communion at high mass in the Church of the Immaculate Immac-ulate Conception hi: re, the Rev. James Courtney, S. J., today was given "better than an even chance" to recover by doctors at Mercy hospital after a "satisfactory" "satisfac-tory" night. The condition of the 47-year-old Jesuit priest was described as "very good" following receipt of I blood plasma. Officials at the hos-j'pital, hos-j'pital, who received enough offers I of blood "for an army" from per-Isons per-Isons of all faiths, said no trans-! trans-! fusion appeared necessary. I Police meanwhile continued i their efforts to get from Don L. Laurentz of Houston, Tex., sullen former serviceman, an explanation explana-tion for the attack. But the stocky 27-year-old Laurentz. believed to have arrived in New Orleans four days ago on a merchant ship, only stared at his questioners at the police station. He did, however, how-ever, admit that he was a non-Catholic. non-Catholic. Police Lt. Warier B. Phillips described him as "a nondescript psychopathic case of some sort." Navy Calls Its 3-Ton Flying Bomb Greatest Guided Missile WEST GETS NEW SKI LIFT MT. SPOKANE. Wash. U.R A new ski lift costing nearly S70,-1000 S70,-1000 and rivaled in the 'west only i by the lift at Sun Valley, Ida., ihas gone into operation on 5,800-foot 5,800-foot Mt. Spokane. It can carry 350 passengers per hour and will operate six days a week. By FRANK II. BARTHOLOMEW United Pre Staff Correspondent ; PORT MUGU. Calif.. April 21 jr.i! The navy revealed today that it has the greatest guided missile in the history of warfare.! It was a three-ton flving bomb ' officially called the KUW-1. The j 1700 naval and civilian scientists) 'and personnel of this heavily; iguarded air missile test center; 'call it the loon. i i Here are some of the things it iwill do: Increases the effective heavy; imiiimaruintiii range oi xnc navy I from 25 miles, the extreme figure I achieved against Japan, to 150 1 miles. I Radio controlled, it can change i .its course in flight to seek out I I its target with deadly accuracy, j I Its speed is in excess of 425 I miles per hour: its weight 6,000 j pounds; its cost $15,000. I Seventy - five correspondents. photographers and newsreel cameramen cam-eramen watched a demonstration last week of the radio-controlled bomb. The navy permitted them today to describe what they saw. i The Germans invented the I bomb and coupled it with pulse jet engine invention stolen from ithe United States. The result was the V-J buzz bomb. 5,500 of which were fired across the English Eng-lish Channel and almost wrecked London. Now the U. S. Navy has taken the German composite and made it many times more effective effec-tive by equipping it for remote control by radio. The loon is subsonic, as was the V-l; that is, its speed is less than that of sound. Whether or not the navy is working on a loon designed to parallel the German V-2 which was supersonic super-sonic is a matter Captain A. B. Scoles, director of tests, refused tp discuss. Also on the no-comment list was the question as to whether or not the original G)er-man G)er-man inventors of the V-l and V-2 were helping build and test the loon here. Not so secret was the wide supply of captured German Ger-man rocket equipment in a quon-set quon-set hut on this isolated sandspit between Santa Barbara and Los Angeles. For hours before the loon was fired over the ocean last Friday from Point Mugu (they pronounce pro-nounce it M'goo here) patrol planes scoured the Pacific to and beyond the Santa Barbara Channel islands, warning shipping ship-ping away from the path of the flying bomb. Woman Wins Fly Casting Title LOS ANGELES. April 21 (U.R) If you're looking for a fishing partner today you might consider Dorothy Hunt of Long Beach, Cal. She won the class A wet fly accuracy casting event at the Southern California Sportsmen's Sports-men's show last night over a field of 40 men and two other women with 98 out of a possible pos-sible 100 points. Mystery Trail Ends at Waterfall ITHACA, N. Y. (UR Patrolman Don Wallenbeck and Charles Manning, a Cornell university proctor, have learned about "Eu-taxocrinus "Eu-taxocrinus Ithacansis (Williams) Sherborne, foot of falls in Fall Creek Gorge." A note containing the mysterious mysteri-ous wording was found one dark night by a campus night watchman. watch-man. Wallenbeck and Manning feared some Cornell student, despondent de-spondent over a failed examination, examina-tion, had decided to end it all at the foot of the gorge. They searched, without finding much of anything except water, ice and, oh yes, some Eutaxo-crinus Eutaxo-crinus Ithacansis. It turned out that a botany student stu-dent must have dropped the note. The Greek wording was for a form of moss discovered years ago by a man named Williams in the Sherborne rocks at the foot of the falls. "Don't give me the old oil" Deacon Damon would say if he drove today Deacon Damon blamed his first grey hair on the old fashioned oil that choked his Dort with carbon. So of course he'd cheer for RPM Motor Oil because its detergent compound com-pound keeps carbon from settling set-tling down on pistons, and then carries it out of the motor when oil is changed. Students Date Girls For Price AUSTIN, Tex. (U.R) Students who used to work their way through college as magazine salesmen lacked imagination. Here are a couple of Texans who date women for a price to raise next semester's fee or the cost of new text books. Vincent Roby of Houston and Robert Cummings of El Paso an-no'oced an-no'oced their new escort bureau in the Daily Texan, the campus nevvspaper. The rates are $1 plus all expenses on week nights and $2 plus expenses on Saturday night. Formals cost $5 plus expenses. ex-penses. The boys claimed the girls were still getting the best of the bargain. bar-gain. Nothing modest about these chaps. "Our service caters only to those who can afford the best," said Roby. "The women of distinction." Deacon Damon was proud as punch of his sporty Rollins but he didn't get to enjoy it long. Rust the unseen cause of 80 of engine wear sent it to the junk heap long before ,its time. Naturally, Deacon 'Damon would love "RPM'" rust-proof compounding ... it makes cars last lots longer. A Twentieth Century Fund 1 study says that from 1939 to , 1944 prices of farm products rose 1 nearly 100 per cent; raw materi- I his. tiO per cent, and finished I t goods, 25 per cent. ' So if Deacon Damon's ghost could speak today, he'd tip you off to ask for RPM Motor OiL It's designed for bigger, faster modern cars, compounded com-pounded to gurd engine hot spots, stop motor deposits, eliminate rust, corrosion and foaming. Get the oil that ends all these engine troubles switch to premium-quality "RPM." 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