Pacific Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 15, 1959, Tokyo, Japan                                The stars and Sti lpns priv swapped sold and used to make Money sunday february is 1959 $ to giveaways not  tax headaches new York a what do people do wit the prizes they win on television shows usually they enjoy them. Positively the pay Federal taxes on them. Some prizes Are sold to friends or Stran Gers when the Winner can t use them. There even Are instances where an unusual prize has launched its Winner into a new Hobby or business. These Are among the things one learn from looking in on one of the most popular and generous of the Giveaway shows the Price is  although a Winner must pay taxes on al prizes none of the winners cited by the pro Gram reports any tax problems. Anyone who wins a new refrigerator for example is Happy to pay the tax on it. When prize values Rise into the thousands of dollars the methods to sell some of the prizes to pay taxes on the others. The program denies it helps winners sell surplus food donations up 12 pet. In 1958 Washington a the number of americans on Relief Rolls receiving donations of government surplus foods at the end of 1958 was the largest since 1942. Reporting this Tho agriculture department said he number in creased nearly 12 per cent in 1958. It is now 5,230,044, compared with4,719,300 a year ago. Pennsylvania had the most 829,-550. Numbers in Othor states and areas included puerto Rico 596,-076, Michigan 538,385, Mississippi 331,441, now York 348,871, okla homa 246,900, West Virginia 278,-223, Arkansas 219,354, Kentucky 254,377, Tennessee 154,551, texas127,098 and Louisiana 137,713. Cost $02 million the department reported that Thad donated 347 million pounds of surplus foods to americans in thelast half of 1958 at a Cost of $62 million. The foods included dry Benns butter cheese Corn meal flour dry milk Peanut butter Andrice. In addition to those on Relief Rolls donations were made to school lunch programs feeding 14million school children and to charitable institutions housing about 1.4 million. Superfluous prizes. Winners Don t have toyshop around to dispose of prizes they Don t want a spokesman said. Instead people Contact  when Paul Jones of Simpsonville s.c.,won an elephant he was contacted immediately by an animal dealer who wanted it. Jones also won an air plane which he shipped Home and tried to learn to Fly. But after a half dozen lessons at the local Airport i decided i d never make a flier he reports. So i sold it to the Airport and use the Money for a House at the  mrs. Jewel Bra Singham of Baytown tex.,told the Price is right what she did with a $6,000 swimming Pool i always wanted a House in a summer Home development near Baytown. I sold my swimming Pool to the owners of the develop ment in Exchange for a $2,000 lot and $3,000 Cash. My new Home now is going up right near the Pool. It s still my Pool because the new owners Are charging admission and 1 get a  among other things mrs. Blasingham won a 1928 Rolls Royce which she sold to an old car enthusiast. Jones a furniture Salesman won Amon Many other things an ice Cream Vendor s cart. He has informed the program that he got a Vendor s License and a Stock of ice Cream and has a pleasant Side business. Other Joneses the program has kept up with include mrs. Elinor Jones of Lawrence mass. Among her Many prizes were 22 pieces of Luggage. What do you do with 22 pieces of Luggage Luggage has become the family s favorit wedding and graduation gifts she says every time we have a major family gift occasion we take out another piece of new  Joy indifference reign in Snow Saucer ride Shirley Hod 5, registers Delight As she guides her Snow Saucer but her warmly Clad passenger snoopy Loose t seem to share her enthusiasm. The girl s dad is it col John r. Hed fighter Squadron commander of the Minnesota air National guard in Duluth. Associated press photo Blond 68, arrested on vice charge Chicago a flabbergasted police Are trying to determine How dowdy 68-year-old mrs. Grace Vanscoyk came by an untidy Fortune of $150,000. But the grading Blond said the answer was simple. It was her savings Over a 20-year period when men were Good to  she was arrested on charges of trying to sell and possessing pornographic . Van Scoyk volunteered that she was arrested about 50 times on prostitution charges Over the years. She smirked and added the police knew me All right. One Captain used to Call me t h e girl with a million Dollar  24 hours in custody for questioning she was released under $250 Bond for appearance in woman s court feb. 18. But she carried away from Central station Only receipts for $65,202 found in a closet of her eight room Bungalow a Bank de 2 negro boys in kissing Case freed from Reform school Raleigh . A two Small negro boys involved in North Carolina s much publicized kissing Case have been released from Reform school and turned Over to their mothers. Or. Elaine m. Madison state commissioner of correction and training announced the release of James Hanover Thompson 10, and David fuzzy Simpson 8. The boys will join their Mother sin Charlotte ., where the mothers were moved by the National Assn for the advancement of coloured people a act in an Effort toward rehabilitation. They lived in Monroe ., when the kissing incident took place. Madison said that since the mothers had been relocated the Home situation in each family has been improved and conditional re lease to their mothers is justified at this  the boys were committed to the Morrison training school nov. 5 after they allegedly trapped a 7-year-old White girl in a Culvert and forced her to kiss one of them. The Case attracted worldwide attention. Letters demanding re lease of the boys piled up in the office of gov. Luther h. Hodges and in . Embassies overseas. Posit Book showing a $58,512 bal Ance and keys to a Safe Deposit Box she estimated holds $25,000. The internal Revenue service assigned an agent to question her about her income tax returns. Police began checking Tho serial numbers of her larger Bills against those of about $300,000 paid for the Ransom of Bobby  of the $600,000 Ransom in the 1953 kidnapping in St. Louis never was found. The Money found in mrs. Vanscoyk s bedroom closet police admitted gave every indication of having been acquired a few Bills at a time Over a Long period. Twas crammed into four paper bugs a Strongbox and a Satchel. Even mrs. Van Scoyk was a Little awed As she watched the counting. I did t know there was so much Money she told  it s just what i saved. I was always afraid of not having enough Money 1n my old  not to be sneezed at Montgomery Ala. Up state rep. La Mont Glass wants to substitute the camellia for Golden Rod As Alabama s state Flower. He said Goldenrod is a Weed that originally grew Only in the North. Be sides it causes Hay fever. Unwed mom of 12 got $13,500 illegal Relief police say new York a an unmarried Mother of 12 children was among 17 persons arrested for allegedly defrauding the welfare department. This brought to 62 the number of  arrests in Manhattan in the past few weeks. District attorney Frank s. Hogan said the Mother identified As Norma Danbridge 35, of Brooklyn was charged with Larcenie total ing $13,555 since april 1954. Her children Range from 13 years to1 year old. Family unit until 1954 he said she formerly lived with Thurman Danbridge in Manhattan and that they had received Relief funds As a family unit until 1954. Then Hogan said they decided More Relief Money could be obtained by pretending the father had abandoned eight children that had been born up to that time. The father actually was earning$50 a week in a fruit store and visiting the family Hogan said. He said the father bought a new Auto Mobile last year paying $500 Down and making payments of $600 but later had to give up the car for failure to keep up the payments. Typist s error builds secret of installation Albuquerque . A a typist s error has resulted in an embarrassed re Fly from the Penta gon and a heretofore untold Story of a More than $2 million military installation never built. Last week the air Force said i would spend $2,383,000 in i960 at the Sandia Peak Beacon Annex East of Albuquerque a 400-maninstallation. Where was the Annex on san Dia Mountain most surmised. What was it air Force officials in Washington declined to say. Was it secret they did t know. People in Albuquerque Igot Curi Ous about the secret new   checking. They checked with the Federal aviation Agency which supposedly was operating the Annex. Check the atomic Energy commission said the Faa. Check begins they checked the dec then the department of defense the Arm Sandia base housekeeping service the air research and development omd the Forest service the National Park service and the Burea of land management. Everywhere the answer was the same we can t talk about it or Wedon t know anything about  then the Albuquerque journal Learned from Ardc officials that the installation was an unused world War ii Beacon which will be scrapped within the next few months. Reactivation people thought. No the Pentagon finally said. Typist goofed embarrassed air Force official admitted it was All a typist s mis take. The Money All $2,383,000, was to go to a special Sandia activity and not to the Beacon Annex. Everything went Fine they said until the typist skipped a line. In Washington the air Foresaid the Money should have been listed for unspecified special activities of the armed forces special weapons project. The project a joint service group operated by the defense depart ment has a Field command at san Dia base which conducts and plans tests of new weapons including nuclear weapons. Benefactor gets to sole of postmen s problem Detroit up postmen i Royal Oak mich., Are deeply indebted to Anthony Odoi. He walked into the Royal Oak Ostoffie and deposited 100 pain of Spike studded creepers shoe with Nail like spikes that give sure footing for walking on ice. Odoi explained that his Uncle used Toa postman and no letter car Rier should be without creepers in he kind of weather Michigan has been having. S Kin s screams save sex fireman from jail Norwich Conn. Up fireman Richard Mckittrick was spared a prison term on arson charges because of hysterical screams of his Mother and wife. Mckittrick was sentenced in Superior court from two to three years in prison on charges that he set fire to a new London House and a barn in Waterford last year. Mckittrick s wife and Mother became hysterical and collapsed when they heard the  Thomas Troland called him Back and suspended the Pris on term placed him on Proba Tion and ordered psych Larlo treatment for the former fire