European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 19, 1953, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes Page 7 v Andy to Mark 25th year Iii radio Freeman Gosden and Charles  Are made Law their roles As Amos a Andy respectively. Gosden left and Correll chuckle Over a line in a radio script during one of their rehearsals. J new York March 18 special. To trill be exactly 35 years Tomor Jeff since two men stepped up to a primitive radio microphone and Joe Jan the most fabulous career in i Ift history of broadcasting. Shey were Tali Rangy Freeman  and his close Friend Short Viii Fly Charles Correll now known a world Over As Amos h Andy a heard by uni Lions every sunday since that Date when radio was taking its first hesitant Steps Jio body had Ever heard of n Andy great changes taken place for both the. Two m and the Industry. And today Gosden and Correll who were a major Factor in making the radio Industry great Are famous and wealthy.  rewards did t come cheaply or easily. On March 19, 1928, when the first Amos n Andy show was Broad cast the studio was just a. Room sound proofing an acoustics were almost nonexistent there were few stations Only  fraction of to Days number of receiving sets very few sponsors and no diet works. Most performers were unpaid and by was very Small for the Lucky few who got anything at All. Gosden and Correll were no total strangers. To a Dollar Bill when they threw in their lot with radio. But they of fifi confident that the awkward infant would become quite a sturdy lad. They were right. Today they stand at or very near the top of the radio Heap. The television ver Sion of Amos Nardy is one of the medium s leading shows adjust last fall they were braved in the newspapers find magazines of the world on the occasion of their 10,000th broadcast. They went coast to coast As a live show six nights a week m August i929j As the first nightly strip continuity broadcast. Their achievement in the past 25 years is such As few men have equalled in any Field. An1 Ain t Dat sum pin � in those United states tax savings Washington March 18 Cap i a medical and dental expenses would be deductible for income tax purposes under a Bill proposed by Frances a. Bolton a Ohio. F in Der present Law a taxpayer j3$r deduct Only that part of he medical expenses which exceeds Slier cent of his Gross income. A i. It of b ii wimp a v Iii i aids Hubby dispute Fralo n.y�, March Iff the . Tax court has ruled that a joint income tax return May be filed by a couple having an interlocutory divorce decree which has not become final. The decision involved Marriner s. Eccles former chairman of the Federal Reserve Board who is now a banker in Utah. Eccles filed a joint return with Maysie y. Eccles his divorced wife for the year 1949. Their preliminary divorce decree was granted aug. 2, 1949, to become final after six  internal Revenue Bureau maintained Eccles had no right to file a joint return and billed him for the $5,479 for which he would have been additionally liable As a divorced Man. The court ruled against the Bureau s position pos to puts hads in Back seat in Home life Philadelphia March 18 up fathers As head of their Homes have a duty to see that television programs which the family watches Are morally beneficial the National Catholic conference on family life was told. Dean Mccarthy director of Tele vision of the National Council of Catholic men Washington told the conference that in Many Homes dad has been displaced by a Tele vision set the father is no longer first incomes Mccarthy said. He has been relegated to the last not ably the last to select those to programs which will be seen in his Home by his wife and children Evec by himself. Such a condition in which a creature of god Oas be ii displaced by an electronic brainchild does not promote proper family  said the television Industry is to Keg Steps to remove some dirt clouding television s window on the world. The Pace of these Steps however will be hastened or retarded by the manner in which we cooperate with the  ,.,.,. Mccarthy warned the Ion to lathers does not end with a willing Ness to criticize bad programs they also must be Quick Tif depress a word of gratitude to those responsible for excellent programs he said