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BOSTON
Richard J. Desmond delivered an
address before the American Poultry &
Hatchery Federation at the Hotel Ken-more,
Boston, on December 7. His subject
was "Depreciation — Slow or Rapid."
CHICAGO
William Schwanbeck headed up the
1956 Tax Seminar of the Illinois Society
of Certified Public Accountants as chair-man
of that group's Committee on Taxa-tion.
The seminar was held at the LaSalle
Hotel on December 6 and 7. He was also
asked to speak at one of the sessions on
"Vacation Wage Accruals."
Speaking on "Internal Control,"
Charles Beauregard was the guest
speaker at a recent meeting of the
Hotel Accountants Association of Chicago
in the Morrison Hotel.
Visitors from the armed forces to the
Chicago Office recently were Peter
Kelly, Richard Clark, and Fred Pollard.
Word has been received that Ronald
Stone is now stationed with the Army in
Germany.
DAYTON
Herman J. Olt was chairman of the
1956 Education Meeting held December
7 at the Van Cleve Hotel by the Dayton
Chapter of the Ohio Society of C.P.A.'s.
Frank P. Rieser spoke on long-form
reports and Robert E. Minnear addressed
the group on special-purpose reports.
DETROIT
Donald J. Bevis addressed the Grand
Rapids Bar Association on January 9
speaking on the subject "The Practice of
C.P.A.'s." The theme of this talk was the
relationship between lawyers and certi-fied
public accountants.
Wallace M. Jensen served as spokes-man
for the accounting world on Novem-ber
20 when he appeared before the
Subcommittee on Internal Revenue Taxa-tion
of the House Ways and Means Com-mittee.
In the role of Chairman of the
Committee on Federal Taxation of the
A.I.A., Mr. Jensen pointed out the in-equities
which exist in the present statute
and asked that the subcommittee con-sider
the A.I.A.'s 262 suggested changes
which had already been submitted to
the Joint Committee on Internal Revenue
Taxation. Mr. Jensen and the A.I.A.
received the commendation of Repre-sentative
Mills (head of the Congres-sional
Committee), when he said: "You
are to be commended upon the very
public-spirited attitude that you have
taken in the past, and that you are still
taking as accountants in that direction. . . .
Sometimes we do not always agree with
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