The Levelland Daily Sun News (Levelland, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 251, Ed. 1 Sunday, August 2, 1959 Page: 2 of 14
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•AGE TWO
^-E»/c.LLAND DAILY SUN NEWS, Levellanj, Toxa«, Sunday, August 2, 1953
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Taxed items under new
®y GARTH JONES .tired blood probably will cost a and metals and furs adds an $18
AUSTIN <AP> — For more than nickel more a fifth to take care tax to a $600 mink stole, ft is un-
Six months you ve heard talk, of the 28 cents a gallon hike in'certain whether the new tax cov-
8bout a new tax bid. , liquor taxes. J 01s watches.
The fi6th Legislature passed it Grandma’s cooking sherry may I Take a trip and get away from
go up a dime with the 20 per cent it all? Your $8 hotel or motel
increase in wine taxes. I room will have 24 cents added for
this week 185 million dollars
in income for 1960-1961.
Now you want to know how
much of that new income will
come out of your pocket.
Let's look and see-:
Beer escaped so far. [each night’s occupancy. That’s
Cool off. A $300 window air con-1 another new 3 per cent tax.
ditioner wall have a $9 tax added. I A $500 fishing boat and motor
A $1,200 central air conditioning costs $*7.50 extra becuase of the
Beginning Sept. 1, the start of system will be plus $36 tax. Its new 1.5 per cent sales tax. A
the slate's bookkeeping year, each a new 3 per cent levy. I $1,200 water skiing rig of runabout
pack of cigarettes will cost you 3 A $50 portable radio has a tax | and motor has a $17.p0 tax.
cents more state tax. That's 30jof $1.50 instead of $1.10 - up 2.21 Automobiles'got hit too. A fam-
panies probably will trickle down
to the homeowner. The total tax
now will be about two per cent
in big cities, less in small towns.
No raises for telephones and tele-
graph.
The much discussed new natur-
al gas tax called a severance
beneficiary tax by the few who
know what it means— may aiffect
home owners also. The 1$4 per
rents a week, $15.60 more per
year, if you smoke about a carton
a week.
Smoke cigars instead? There’s
a new 11 j eenf tax for the nickle
si/e which already costs consider-
ably more. The tax on roll-your
own and chewing tobacco will be
up several cents. Snuff is left out.
The Saturday night cure for
to 3 per cent. The tax on a $300
TV set is up $6.60 to $9. What’s
more there's a new 3 per cent tax
on any parts needed to repair
either set.
A $75 diamond ring has a new
ily car — of the $2,500 variety —
has a sales tax of $37.50 instead
of $27.50. The tax went up from
1.1 to 1.5 per cent.
No new taxes on gasoline yet
Other taxes won't be as easy
$2.25 state tax. That’s in addition I to notice.
to the $7.50 federal tax on the A 20 per cent increase in the
same ring. The 3 per cent levy on | tax on the gross income of gas,
semi-precious and precious stones [ electric and water utility com-
VICTIMS OF LITTLE-KNOWN FOOD POISONING
Botulism kills two in Idaho city;
four others confined in iron lung
By JOHN' V. HURST I two people who had eaten them [no longer draw.
IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (APi — vere dead. Two ujhers lay nearl The four - and two others less
The beets had an odd taste, a'death, iron lungs pumping the [gravely affected were victims
'unnv smell. Within three days,! breaths their ravaged bodies could! of botulism. It’s a little-known
food poison produced by a germ
listed
firms point out that the tax on
the other 50 per cent of produc-
tion will come from tne two mil-
lion gas users in Texas -which in-
cludes about 1,800,000 meters on
residences.
But all is not lost. Some people
got their taxes repealed.
Are you a "patent medicine ped-
dler, textbook publisher, auction-
eer, pawnbroker, sleight of hand
cent tax on the fir st purchaser | performer, waxworks operator,
of natural gas is aimed atf pipe- [ ship’s broker, or maker of hobby
lines which take about 50 per cent horses?
of Texas' gas production to pother No? Then reach for your pocket-
states. However, haturat?¥gas l book, partner.
IN SPEECH TO PEOPLE
Red radio accuses
Nixonof distortion
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: that is harmless in the open air
[ but deadly when shut away from
[ oxygen. The poison is most often
[ found in home-canned foods which
| haven't been processed well
! enough. Foods low in acid are the
j nost likely hosts to the gerrr
with beans topping the list. Others
j are corn, beets, spinach, anc
hard vegetables such as aspara-
gus or artichokes. Meat product?
j have sometimes produced botul-
: ism.
| Usually, boiling the food for
five minutes is all that is needed
| to kill the germs and prevent
I botulism.
The germs secret their poison
! >nly when shut away from oxy-
| gen, as they would be a jar ol
j preserved food. They live in the
j soii and appear to be harmless
| V long as they stay there. Sci-
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LONDON (AP) Radio Moscow'
Saturday night accused Vice Pres-
ident Richard M. Nixon of distort-
ng Soviet foreign policy in his
radio and television addres# to
the Soviet people. >8 **
In the first public Soviet cbm-
ment on Nixon’s unprecedented
TV appearance in Moscow Satur-
day, a Soviet broadcast said:
"In his speech, there were
many good words and interesting
ideas. A valuable point was his
understanding of the might and
strength of our country.”
But Soviet commentator Yakov
Viktorov charged Nixon dodged
Youth sdn.its he
bludgeoned typist
DALLAS (APi — Dallas officers
said Saturday that Orvell D. Mc-
?allum, 19. after being confronted
with an autopsy report, admitted
he bludgeoned Miss Mary Elia
Simmons. 19. with an unopened
beer can.
The service station attendant is
charged whth murder in the death
rf the former Midland, Tex., off.ee
typist.
MAKING FRIENDS
Pat Nixon, wife of Vice President Richard Nixon, makes
friends with a Russian youngster during a visit to the
area on Europe-Asia border near Sverdlovsk. The boy s
father is on the right.
McCallum first said he hit the
girl with his fists, but a prelimin-
ary autopsy report showed the girl
died last week of a hemorrhage
beneath the scalp and collapsed
ungs.
tists say fresh fruits and vege-
j tables may be eaten safely ever
j bough they carry dust loaded
| with the germs.
Botulism attacks the muscles 0/
j the eyes, the eyelids, the vocal
1 chords and, finally, the respira-
! tory center. The pupils of the eyes
| dilate. Victims complain of dou-
j ble vision, difficulty in swallowing
j and speaking Their breathing be-
| 'omes labored: if it is paralyzed,
death usually follows.
| The symptoms vary with the
I amount of poisoned food the vic-
| tim eats. They may take from two
i > 36 hours to aope'"-
| Doctors say the damage can't | .he Cockrell Hill area
./ corrected <>n<-e it's dune even j McCallum said in
if the patient li\
The poison his killed two per- when she kicked him.
sons here Farmer Aaron Gru-t
well, 7-!. Idaho F ills and Wanda j _ , ,
nelson. 15. of Kansas City, Mo. icAnPrt VPCHflLpC
The four survivors are hospital-1 ■ wC5t<IUI\™5
zed. Two of them are in iron1 « • n •
lungs Kenneth Nelson 45. Wan 0(111 111 NOVV ^VICW
Vi s father, and his w ife Naomi I r ' •
II. Gruwell's wife. Lavicia, and' SAN FRANCISCO. Calif. < Spl >
mother Nelson child, Martha 4 ,
second class. USN, son of Mr. and
Homicide Capt. Will Frife' said
the lung collapse indicated some
.’orm of strangulation.
The girl's nude body was found
n the back yard of a home near
the question of American bases
encircling the Soviet Union.
In his address Nixon said the
bases were for defensive not ag-
gressive purposes and would be
removed whenever the United
States no longer felt threatened.
"Does Mr. Nixon really think
'hat the Soviet people are so naive
as to believe that the American
military bases, which are placed
thousands of kilometers from the
U.S.A. and very close to the So-
viet Union's frontiers, are intend-
ed to defend America’s frontiers
on whom no one ever has made
or will make attacks?” Viktorov
asked.
”lo be stilh more convincing,
Nixon even tries to delve into the
past, distorting Soviet foreign pol-
icy and the history of its develop-
ment.
"But what did history say. now
that-Nixon has been able to con-
vince himselfof the love of peace
of the Soviet Union?
"How is one then to explain
the establishment of American
atom and rocket installations in
other countries at a minimum dis-
tance from the Soviet Union?
"He has no answer to that ques-
tion nor could he have.”
Viktorov’s comments came in a
Svvedish-language broadcast from
Moscow. There was no indication
w'hether his remarks had been
put out to Soviet listeners.
Tw-o and a half hours after Nix-
on’s address radio Moscow’s do-
mestic news bulletin had nothing
io say about Nixon’s TV appear-
ance.
CHEMICAL PLANT BURNS
Firemen run hoses past exploded chemi- land, Conn. Thirteen tanks of industrial
cal tanks as they fight a blaze at the Phil- chemicals blew up in the fire. Heavy dam-
lips Brothers Chemical Co., plant at Port- age, but no casualties, were reported.
Little Rock School Board assigns
6 Negroes to various city schools
Members of the Levelland Gar-
den Club met Friday morning at
the home of Mrs. Paul Burgett,
president.
A family covered dish patio sup-
per will be served at 7 p.m., Aug-
ust 27, at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Walt Smith.
1 , • , . 1 Two members joining the club
| venge on hrs wife may be sweet. |were Mrs M G w tt and Mrs.
previous but chances are it will cost him Fred Stoughton
statement to police he hit the girl ™me time m .he penitentiary Attending the called meeting
I P'>bce said dhe mans wife called 1 were-Mmes Vera Latim Huff
| them to p„ k up a drunk. They PoiK> Harry Williams. Leon Law-
Revenge on wife
sweet, but costly
DALLAS 1AP) A man's re-
LITTLE ROCK. Ark. (AP) —
The Little Rock School Board has
assigned six Negroes to once-
white public high schools which
the board intends to reopen
iTT September, a board member
said today.
Fifty-five Negroes registered for
the fall term at Little Rock’s
three white high schools which
were closed last year in the inte-
gration dispute.
Three Negroes were assigned to
Central High School and three to
Hall High under the first use of
an Arkansas pupil placement law.
The board chose the pupil as-
signment system in order to obey
a federal mandate for integration
of the Little Rock School District
and at the same time hold deseg-
regation to a minimum.
Mrs. L. C. Bates, president of
the Arkansas Branch of the Na-
tional Assn, for the Advancement 1 four public high schools who feel
of Colored People, charged the | they are dissatisfied are entitled
School Board was not acting "in to pursue administrative reme-
good faith” in making so few Ne- I dies between now and school-
gro assignments. I opening,” Tucker said.
"I'm sure we'll appeal this The pupil placement plan allows
board action to the federal court,” j for assignment appeals to the
she said. school board.
Everett Tucker Jr., president of [ It provides for assignment of
the school board, said he felt the students on the basis of such fac-
board was proceeding in good j tors as educational aptitude,
faith in assigning the six Negroes, j health and availability of trans-
"Any of the 2,250 white and Ne- j portation facilities. Race is not a
gro students registered for' the j factor.
McWHORTER'S
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in Levelland
Covered dish meal
set by garden club
$100
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I f‘Td ’’ u as hpr !lu-sband. sofT George Keene, Harry Mat
He became progressively more thews. B D Carter. H F Jay-
, enraged when he thought of how n0s and A A Grimes.
| iiis vv.fe tipped police.
, So at the station he confessed j SAO PAULO, Brazil (API The!
j a string of auto thefts, a burglary [ w'orld congress of the Presbyte-
Robert B. Vest electrician’s mate ‘'"f h,,[/'h(Hl< 1>assin*?- Ho rian Alliance will ake place here
— w' ated his wife. Aug. 8-12 with 400 delegates from
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visit at the Gruvvell farm last! P''*helt' took 1X111 in a full-scale
Monday The family ate the beets I niU'al . review antl v's>l to San
•he next day. Gruvvell died Thurs- Flaruisc0' Cal>L, July 17-20, after
Jay, Wanda Friday night.
Hearings on early
arrow hunt slated
completing a major exercise, held
iff the California coast
The 150,000 men an i 26 ships of
the tj. S. First Flee' were review-
ed by Admiral Hr rbert G. Hop-
wood, USN, the Commander-in-
a t•QTiM A 0 * Chiof of ,ho U s Pu'-iff Fleet.
ALXitiv (APi A series of hear-j as they passed under the Golden
mgs on the proposed pre-season | Gate Bridge
lunt for how ynd arrow hunters' The exerc se which proceeded
was announced Saturday by H. C. | the San F ancisco visit involved
„ odgen. executive secretary of the • fast-movir aggressive attac k car-
State Game and Fish Commission. | rier tear s which struck at simu-
The archers will have an oppor-jlated r ainland targets as naval
’unity to pass on recommenda- air pa rol squadrons and submar-j
, tions concerning the hunt in the ines held the defensive roll,
hearings to be held in each of Exercises of this type are do-
he regulatory areas. The meet- j sinned to give advance training to
j ng dates and locations will be set j personnel prepraring to make emi-
rs soon as the law her omes ef-1 ses with the U. S. Seventh Fleet;
ective Aug. 11. 1 in the Western Pacific.
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( the Visual Welfare of their patients. This
seal will identify them.
C. W. PAYNE
Optometrist
713 Ave. C-TW 4-2330
WAYNF W. HARDY
Optometrist
509 Ave. L — TW 4 4610
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OPTOMETRY ; The Art and ScitHit oj l Huai Care
“Oh, what a shame!
Jimmy had to put on glasses — and he’s so young!**
*'Yes, Clara, he did. But you know what......Dr Roberts said
that such an eye problem as his couldn’t have been corrected 2)
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"Back in those days youngsters with Jimnjy’s eye problem grew
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Brewer, Orlin. The Levelland Daily Sun News (Levelland, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 251, Ed. 1 Sunday, August 2, 1959, newspaper, August 2, 1959; Levelland, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1122773/m1/2/: accessed April 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting South Plains College.