The Levelland Daily Sun News (Levelland, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 46, Ed. 1 Tuesday, January 18, 1955 Page: 4 of 6
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State CAP IT O L
By VERN SANFORD
Texas Press Association
AUSTIN, Tex. — Cigarettes and
gasflttae are to be the prime tax
tarots of the 34th Legislature.
Ii¥ his message to the Legisla-
ture, at a joint Senate and House
Session, Governor Allan Shivers
put his finger on those two items
as the answers to Texas’ financial
problem.
He suggested a two cent per
gallon boost in gasoline taxes and
a one cent per pack increase in
the cigarette tax.
The former would add $*'> mil-
lion to the highway fund and $14.5
million to the school fund. The lat-
ter would bring in an additional
$16.5 million to the general fund.
Gasoline now carries a state tax
of 4 cents per gallon. Cigarettes
are taxed 4 cents per pack.
Also recommended by the gov-
ernor was an increase to $50 in
the tuition charge made by state
colleges to Texas students. Present
fee is $25. for Texas residents. The
$150 charge assessed out-of-state
students would not be changed.
Shivers also asked for better
water laws, insurance laws, crime
and juvenile delinquency measures
and congressional and judicial re-
districting.
Opposes Increase
First signs of opposition to in-
creased taxation have come from
Rep. Waggoner Carr of Lubbock.
Carr, who may be voicing the
opinion of other conservative legis-
lators, says that much of the need-
ed money could come from trim-
ming present state expenses.
(Jeneral Fund Low
State Comptroller Robert S. Cal-
vert estimates the state’s general
fund, now slightly more than $9
million may hit bottom temporar-
ily in February, and put the state
on a general fund deficit for a
short time.
If the state goes in the red, it
will be the fir%t time in 12 years.
Calvert estimates that there will
be only $10,344,000 in the fund by
the close of the fiscal year, Sep-
tember 1.
New House Speaker
Rep. Jim T. Lindsey of Texark-
ana is the new Speaker of the
House.
He was elected unanimously the
first day of the 1955 session as
lawmakers wasted no time getting
down to business.
Veterans I-and Board
First official act of the 54th Leg-
islature was to order a complete
look into the Veterans’ Land Pro-
gram.
Investigatfons were resumed a
day later by the Senate General
Investigating Committee.
A Feb. 15 completion deadline is
set.
Dennis Wallace, a 20-year em-
ployee of the State Land Office,
is now acting executive secretary
of the Board. He took over tem-
porarily upon resignation of Law-
rence C. Jackson.
Col. J. Earl Rudder, land com-
missioner, hag announced the re-
signation of two other key em-
ployees: U. S. McCutcheon, first
assistant executive secretary, and
H. Lee Richey of Austin, appraiser
for the South Texas area.
Conservative leaders
Two conservatives head impor-
tant House committees in the Tex-
as Legislature. They will have a
lot to say about finding and spend-
ing $135 million for state opera-
tions.
Rep. Max C. Smith of San Mar-
cos was re-appointed chairman of
the House appropriations commit-
tee.
Rep. Stanton Stone heads the
revenue and taxation committee.
Prison Board
Members of the Texas Prison
Board will not ask the Legislature
for more building funds although
they admit construction is needed.
Chairman French Robert son said
that prison population is at an "all-
time high, that facilities are need-
ed, but that cost would be tre-
mendous.
Women Jurors
A new law providing for women
jurors will be presented the Legis-
lature by Rep. DeWitt HaKof Cor-
pus Christi.
Hale would eliminate the quali-
fication that a juror must be a
county householder or state free-
holder.
He will also ask for exemptions
for nurses, expectant mothers, and
mothers of young children.
Fair Trade Bill
A "disguised” fair trade bill
may be introduced in the Legisla-
ture, says a former House mem-
ber.
It will be masked as a curb to
"discount houses” but will basical-
ly be a measure to keep merchants
from cutting manufacturers prices.
No state fair-trade bill has ever
been enacted in Texas. Unfair com
petition is barred by Texas’ anti-
trust law.
Short Snorts
Dan Moody Jr., or Austin, son
of former Gov. Dan Moody, has
been appointed parHanrtentarian of
the senate by Lt. Gov Ben Ram-
sey. . .Rep. Jerry Sadler of Per-
cilla says he will introduce legis-
lation increasing state: junior col-
leges to 51 and cutting off the first
two years of instruction at the
University of Texas. . .U S. Dis-
trict Attorney Charles F. Herring,
whose resignation vy»$ refused by
the Attorne/ General of the United
States, calls Texas ‘‘A National
gateway" for bootleg drugs. De-
partment of Public Safety Narcot-
ics expert W. E. Naylor says mil-
lions of dollars worth of narcotics
are being illegally transported into
the U.S. from Mexico, over the
Rio Grande. . .Plans of the Trinity
Improvement Association-'call for
large lakes and seven locks on-the
Trinity River between the Gulf
Coast and the Dallas-Ft. Worth
area to make the river into a
navigable canal.
Walton Miller Gets
Promotion in Navy
ATLANTIC FLEET (FHTNC)—
Walton G. Miller, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Walton W. Miller of White-
face, has been advanced to fire
control technician third class, USN
while serving aboard the destroyer
USS Trathen.
Before entering the Navy in July
of 1951, he attended Whiteface
High School.
ANN DUPRE RECEIVES HONOR
A verification was received by
Miss Ann Dupre Monday morning
stating that she had been selected
to take part in the All-State Band
to be held in Dallas for four days
in February. Feb. 9 begins «the
first day of the perform ancf-
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Solon Denounces
Hammarskjold
TripasFailure
MARLOW
News Analyst
it) *-- Once more
nd of California, the
,,frr leader in the Senate,
n evidence he will remain
lem to the White House,
expressed disappointment
yesterday over Red China’s failure
to release the 11 captured Ameri-
can airmen. Others before him, in-
cluding Eisenhower, had done the
same. It was the way Knowland
did it which made the difference.
Eisenhower had asked Amer-
icans to avoid talk of "reprisals
or retaliation” against the Red Chi-
nese while the United Nations tries
to win freedom for thev fliers im-
prisoned on spying charges the
United States has termed false.
Earlier, Knowland had called for
a blockade of China-^a reprisal—if
Red China did not free the air-
men. That idea of blockading Red
China has been in Knowland’s
mind almost from the time Eisen-
hower stepped into the White
House in 1953, although the reasons
have not always been the same.
In Eisenhower’s first month in
office, while the Korean War was
still going on, Knowland urged
that Red China be blockaded.
Knowland wasn’t Republican Sen-
ate leader then. He didn’t become
leader until Sen. Robert A. Taft’s
death in the summer of 1953.
When Taft became ill, he chose
Knowland as acting leader. After
the Ohioan died, the Republican
senators—not Eisenhower—ratified
the choice. Knowland fought hard
for Eisenhower on many issues
but on some he differed with the
White House.
Knowland has said he considers
himself in a dual role: he repre-
sents White House views to the
Senate and the Senate’s views to
the White House. But so far, he
could hardly claim to be express-
ing the views of a majority of the
Senate when he advocates a China
blockade. There is no sign of ma-
jority support to back him.
Last July, when it was already
American policy to try to keep
Red China out of the U.N., Know-
land said he would resign his Sen-
ate leadership and fight to take
the United States out of the U.N.
if Red China was admitted. This
led Eisenhower to say all over
again the United States was op-
posed to U.N. membership for the
Red Chinese.'
Knowland again moved down an
opposite path from Eisenhower
last November when he denounced
the idea of coexistence with com-
munism although Eisenhower had
said peaceful coexistence was the
hope of the world.
Next Knowland called for a
blockade of Red China to force
the release of the captured Amer-
ican fliers. He wanted the U.N.
to help but suggested the United
States do the blockading alone, if
that was necessary.
Eisenhower and Secretary of
State Dulles shortly afterward re-
pudiated the idea of a blockade.
Both said a blockade was an act
of war.
On Dec. 15, before U.N. Secre-
tary Dag Hammarskjold had set
out for Red China to seek the
fliers’ release, Knowland said he
doubted the mission would succeed.
Again he mentioned the ideq of a
blockade.
He returned to this theme Dec.
19 when he advocated economic
sanctions against Red China, if
Hammarskjold failed, and, if sanc-
tions didn’t work, Tie suggested
"the other civilized nations join
the United States in a blockade.”
He said on Jan. 12, while Ham-
marskjold was returning from Pei-
ping, that if the Swedish diplomat’s
mission had failed, the U.N. should
blockade Red China.
The only thing thoroughly clear
about the statements given out by
Hammarskjold when he reached
New York Jan. 13 was that he
had not obtained the release of the
fliers, at least yet.
Eisenhower expressed disap-
pointment but asked for American
patience while there still seemed
a chance the U.N. might get the
fliers freed. Hammarskjold said
the airmen might be released if
tensions were eased, whatever that
meant.
Had the Red Chinese put a price
tag on the airmen such as de-
manding membership in the (J.N.
Hammarskjold said there were no
deals. But he said It would be
1‘very useful" if the Red Chinese
were "directly represented here/’
That seemed to mean membership
in the U.N.
Yesterday Knowland called
Hammarskjold’s mission a failure,
and said one obvious Red Chinese
goal is a U.N. so art.
YOUR INCOME TAX-1
Almost Everyone Must File
101 czzc mw833acs 18
WASHINGTON iff)—Deputy Sec-
retary of Defense Robert Anderson
of Vernon, Tex., had five Texas
congressmen for lunch yesterday.
Reps. Bell, Bright, Rutherford,
Ikard and Rep. Thbmberry were
the guests.
tax 1
Thm
K Ar^PMNK O’BRIEN
AP NcsUcuturi-M ’
This i£ Use time of year when
every or resident of the
United States who had as much
as $600 income last year ($1,200
if you were 65 or older) must file
a federal income tax return.
You will be filing this year under
a revamped income tax law that
made 14 major changes for the
individual tax payer, all 14 in the
taxpayer’s favor.
Later Filing
First off, the new law gives you
until April 15 to get your return
made out and mailed to your dis-
trict director of internal revenue.
That is a month more filing time
than you had under the old law.
But it's stHl the early filer who
gets the early refund, and the late
and hurried filer who is likely to
make costly mistakes.
The 1954 Internal Revenue Code
introduced something new that
will take a direct bite out of the
liability of millions of people,
is the “tax credit” which
may allow you to deduct a per-
centage of your income from divi-
dends, or retirement funds, direct-
ly from the tax you otherwise
would pay.
The previously existing deduc-
tions, exclusions and exemptions
of income are carried over into
the new law. Some new ones have
been added. But in addition, there
are the two new tax credits for
those who can claim them. You
cannot claim these credits if you
use form 1040A. They can only be
claimed on form 1040.
This new concept has brought
about considerable revision of the
tax forms, but the same forms —
1040A and long or short 1040 —
are still the basic returns for all
taxpayers, and the district direct-
or’s office still does the figuring
for users of 1040A. In making out
an income tax return you are still
going through the same basic pro-
cess you always have — reducing
your total (gross) income to your
taxable income.
New Credits
But the new credits may add a
profitable final step for those who
have either dividend or retire-
ment income.
Under the old system, you first
set aside, out of the tax laws'
reach, all possible income under
the headings of exemptions, ex-
clusions and deductions. That gave
your taxable income, and told how
much tax you owed for the year.
Under the new system, persons
with enough retirement or dividend
income, from specified sources,
will subtract a percentage of that
income from their tax liability.
That will give them their tax.
In addition to any tax rductiqn
that comes your way because of
th nw tax law,, you ar paying
at rates which, for most people,
are about 10 per cent lower than
rates of a year ago.
Pick Your Form
The revenue service has mailed
each taxpayer the same kind of
Canal is Drained
In Search for Girl
SUFFIELD, Conn. <ff) — Police
resume draining a frozen canal
here today in their search for 20-
year - old Celia Cienski, whose
bloodied undergarments were
found on its banks after her dis-
appearance Sunday night.
Police said she had gone to the
canal on a parking date with 35-
year-old Joseph DeMaio, of Spring-
field, Mass.
Sought in a 16-state alarm, De-
Maio is charged in the warrant
with assault with intent to rape.
Chief Sutula said Celia and her
sister Ann, 22, had met DeMaio
and Jerry Celetti, 34, also of
Springfield, in a Thompsonville ho-
tel Sunday afternoon. The two
couples double-dpted until late Sun-
day when Celia asked DeMaio to
take her home, Chief Sutula said.
Chief Sutula said DeMaio and
Celetti had criminal records in
Massachusetts — DeMaio for rape
and Celletti for assault.
He said a warrant had also beep
obtained for the arrest of Celetti
on the same charge of assault
with intent to rape, although police
gave po indication he was at the
canal with Celia.
Arm of Law Longer
Than a Friendship
AFTON, Okla. iff* — Friendship
of your
Legal Records.
Among the list of legal Instru-
ments filed in the county clerk’s
office the past week were:
Warranty Deeds
George Pendleton Bailey, et ux
Bettie Evelyn to W. W. Bailey,
lot 4 and E-2 3, block 153, South-
side addn., Levelland. •
L. C. Killion, et ux Mary A. to
W. L. Breshears, W 70 ft. lot 12,
block 187, Southside addn., Level-
land.
James Oliver McDonald Post
4506, Veterans of Foreign Wars,
Inc. to W. L. Breshears, lots 4, 5,
6, 7, 8, 9, 10, block 201, Southside
inst. No. 2; less minerals. •
R. N. Kayal and F. K. Robinson
to W. L. Breshears, lot 12, less
W 70 ft., lot 13, 14, 15, block 187,
Southside addn.
Hf C. Denson, et ux Etta to W.
L. Breshears, lot 11, block 185,
Southside addn., Levelland, less
minerals.
George Keene, et ux Marie to
W. F. Burleson, et ux Ruby, W-2
of labor 8, league 2, Jones CSL;
less minerals.
W. R. Lewis, et ux Ngjlie to Jack
L- Stanley S 72.5 ac. labor 6 and
15.9 ac. labor 15, league 78, De-
Loaches’ subdv. of Whiteface farm
Jack L. Stanley, et ux Opal to
W. R. Lewis, labor 25, league 723,
SCL 193 ac. ,
D. C. Caswell, et yx Mary Ellen
to Ertiory Thomason, et ux Pauline
N 56.65 ft. of lot 1, block 199, 2nd
installment, Southside addn., Lev-
elland.
F. R. Stovall, et ux Irlene to R.
D. Orman, NW cir. tr. 41, league
40, Maverick pt., less minerals.
Edwin Paxton, Jr. to Howell N.
Harpole, lot 8, E 14 lot 7, block
3, Lea & Brown addn., Levelland,
less minerals.
Stanley B. Stuart, et ux Mary
N. to Howell N. Harpole, lot 10,
block 191, Southside addn., Level-
land, less minerals.
John P. McCrory, et ux Martha
E. to Guadalupe Gerr Cobarrubia,
lot 4, block 92, O. T. Levelland.
Herbert Sudduth, et ux Wilma
to George Keene, et ux Marie W-2
of SW-4 of section 95, block A, R.
M. Thompson.
Lloyd Warter, et ux Waycie Odel
la to J. L. Pearcy labor 11, league
29, Garza and Atascosa.
Harry R. Finch, Jr., et ux Hazel
Odessa to Eugene Yeager, et ux
Treva lot 7, block 185, Southside
addn., Levelland.
J. E. Armes, et ux Bonita to
H. W. Fulton, section 57, block
A, R. M. Thompson.
Oil and Has Leases
C. E. Pendergrass, et ux Mary
E. to Humble Oil and Refining Co.
NW-4 of section .74, block A, R. M.
Thompson. (165.8 ac. 5 yr. term).
J. G. Marrow, Jr„ et ux Ouida
M. to A. E. Gamole labor 11,
league 728, SCL (10 yr. term).
Mineral Deeds
W. H. Armes, et al to H. W.
Fulton 1. Undv. V» int. in O & G
in N-2 of section 57, block A, R. M.
Thompson. 2. Undv. 20.2-329.6 int.
in S-2 of section 57, block A, R.-M.
Thompson.
Tffx.,.was tunofig
fades fast when one
friends arrests you.
That’s what happened to Russell
Noland, 41-year-old farmer from
Maud, Okla., when he was appre-
hended by State Trooper Bert
George. Noland was transporting
22 cases of liquor from Missouri
into Oklahoma—a dry state.
The state trooper stopped his
neighbor as he was driving along
U.S. Highway 66. “I just wanted
to sit and visit a spell,” the trooper
said. Bttf, when he noticed tire
repair tools on the floor behind
the front seat of Noland's car, ho
became suspicious.
"Why haven't you got that in the
trunk?" the trooper asked. “What's
in the trunk?”
Noland nervously replied, "Oh,
nothing.”
~'J'bc .trooper decided to have a
look for himself,
WASHWfl
(Walls,:
Heath of .*****» <
those aboard the NaVy‘Supercon- gin and a case of malt beer. They
stellation which went down over all bore Missouri license stamps
Newfoundland yesterday. 1 The friendship ended there
&/f$e trunk were 19 cases of
Whisky, a ease of wine, a case
TAIPEH, Formosa (ff) — More
than 140,000 pounds of food donat-
ed by the American people to the
needy of Nationalist China were
destroyed in the Communist bomb-
ing of the Tachen Islands Jan. 10,
U.S. officials said today. That was
about 70 per cent of the total sent
to the Tachens.
Herald Sun News Want Ads Pay
form he used last year. But you
should use the form best suited to
your 1954 income.- You can get ad-
ditional forms of all kintjs .from
your local bank or post office, or
at any revenue service office. Have
enough forms to keep a copy of
your return, and hang on to the
receipts and other records that
back up your return.
During tax payihg time, the rev-
enue service spots its agents all
over the country as tax counsel-
lors. Their services are free, and
their instructions are to help you
get the benefits of the law as well
as to help you comply with the
law. •
The major benefits to the indi-
vidual taxpayer under the new
revenue code not already mention-
ed are:
A new joint return provision for
widows or\vidowers; new exempt-
ion provisions for children, other
dependents and individuals sup-
ported by more than one taxpayer;
and exclusion for sick pay income;
new deductions provisions for ex- i
penses of employees; a deduction
for soil and water conservation
expenditures.
A new method for computing ex-
clusion of incomeN from annuities
and pensions and additional meth-
ods for computing dpreciation; ad
ditional deductions for contribut-
ions; a deduction for interest on
installment debts; additional de-
ductions for medical expenses, and
a deduction for child care.
Booklets Help
These are discussed in the in-
truction booklet mailed with your
return. An index to them is on
page 3 of the instructions. An in-
ternal revenue service book, avail-'
able for 25 cents at banks, post
offices and government offices,
called “Your Federal Income Tax”
goes into the new provisions at
length. The instructions and "Your
Federal Income Tax" also review
the other main provisions of the
tax law, in language intended for
the layman’s understanding.
This series of 10 daily articles
is intended as a guided tour
through the business of making
out your income tax return. As
nearly as practicable, it will take
up subjects in the order they come
up as you work through your re-
turn form. ■;
Article* Listed
Since your first decision is what
form to use, that will be the sub-
ject of the next article. Then
comes the joint return, where ’
there are important new provisyantf*^
for recent widows and widowers,
and provisions under which you
may file a head of household.
The fourth article will deal with
exemptions; the fifth with exclu-
sions, and the sixth with the new
tax credits.
At that point, all subjects nec-
cessary for filing the 1040A form
will have been covered.
The seventh article will deal with j
business-connected deductions; the .
eighth with personal deductions; •
the ninth with reporting of income
other than wages from which tax
has been withheld, and the tenth
will be a guide to winding up the
return by finding or computing
your tax, entering any tax credits
due to you, and finding your final
tax.
(Next: Choosing yur form.)
Deaths in Nation:
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
RUTLAND, Vt. — John W. T.
Wettleson, 90, managing editor of
the Rutland Herald from 1928 until
his retirement in 1941. Bom in
Houghton, Wis. Died yesterday.
ROCHESTER, N. Y. — Andre de
Ribaupierre, 61, concert violinist
and a faculty member at the East-
man School of Music. Bom in Clar-
ens, Switzerland. Died yesterday.
ESCONDIDO. Calif. — Russell J.
Walsh, 64, president and general
manager of Overland Greyhound
Lines, Omaha, for the last 20
years. Died Sunday.
COVINGTON, Ky. — The Rev.
Joseph Z. Aud, 36, former dean at
Villa Madonna College at Coving-
ton and a chaplain in Korea for
four years. Born in Silver Creek,
N.Y. Died yesterday.
CHICAGO — Joseph L. Moss, 70,
former treasurer of the American
Public Welfare Assrt., and for 20
years Cook County (Chicago) wel-
fare director. Died yesterday.
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