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PAGE SIX
The Olney Enterprise
Plans Laid For
Rummage Sale
By Junior Forum
Complete plans for its rummage
sale, to be held here April 19,
have been made by officials of
the Junior Forum Club.
The sale will be held in the old
Lasater Building on Grand Ave-
nue, now the American Legion
buiding, it was announced this
week by Ann Bettis, and will be-
gin at 9 o’clock that morning and
last all day.
Rummage articles will be picked
up at homes on April 17 and 13,
j and the club this week asked those
I who have items for the sale to
have them ready for pickup by
I then.
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• Solids
Nothing is more
colorful, more
flattering along
about Easter time
than our newly
styled dresses.
• Rayons
• Bembergs
• Cottons
Others to $29.75
THURSDAY, APRIL 3, 1947
GOP Strategy Is Seen in Tax Refund
Bill, Gossett Is Told in Washington
GOP strategy is seen in the
Knutson tax refund bill by at least
one mmeber of congress, Congress-
man Ed Gossett reported in this
week’s letter to the Enterprise.
The 13th District congressman’s
repotr states:
The House last week passed two
major bills that were bitterly de-
bated. First, an appropriation bill
for the Labor Department and the
Federal Security Agency was
passed which cut $79,000,000 from
the budget request of $1,068,000,-
000. Funds for the National Labor
Relations Board were cut in half.
On Friday the House passed H.
R. 1, the Knutson tax reduction
bill, by a vote of 274 to 137. The
bill provides a 30 per cent reduc-
tion in taxable income up to
$1000; 20 per cent in incomes up
to $302,000, and a graduated re-
duction ranging to 10.5 per cent
on still higher incomes. Represen-
tative Knutson says it will reduce
government income by $3 1-2 bil-
lion while Senator Taft contends
it will reduce Federal income by
$5 1-2 billion. It seems to me the
bill’s worst feature is one making
reductions retroactive. If the bill
becomes law, the Treasury Depart-
ment will have to issue millions
of checks refunding billions of dol-
lars. One Democrat declares the
Republicans plan to have these
checks in the mail about election
time in 1948.
High Production
Cost Poses Tough
Problem On Farm
At Planting Time
Present record high prices for
most farm products and continu-
ing cool, damp weather over most
of Texas may prove a tough com-
bination for farmers in making de-
cisions on planting this spring, ac-
cording to C. H. Bates, farm man-
agement specialist of the Texas
A. and M. College Extension Ser-
vice.
Bates points out that many
farmers will likely aim at early
crops to take advantage of high
prices, and in doing so may sacri-
fice thorough seed-bed prepara-
ton and miss good stands of early
grains, cotton and other crops.
Although farm labor and ma-
chinery are somewhat more plen-
tiful this spring than last, says
Bates, some items are still scarce,
including good planting seed and
fertilizer. Crop and livestock pro-
duction costs will be higher this
pear than at any time on record—
fifty percent greater than in 1920
and two and a half times as high
as 1938 costs. And the experts are
predicting that a decline in prices
is “most likely” by late summer
or early fall.
What does all this mean? The
farm management specialist says
it means that each acre of crops
must produce as high as possible
in 1947, so farmers can cut down
costs per bushel, per bale, or other
crop unit. This, in turn, calls for
good stands from best adapted
crop varieties, use of the best
fertilizers available, and proper
tillage and harvesting methods.
Bates believes it will be the wise
farmer who has enough seed on
hand for replanting, if necessary,
but who has his seed-bed in con-
dition to save high price seed and
fertilizer.
More and better machinery for
crop production and harvesting is
appearing on the market, says
Bates, and use of these usually
aids in getting profits, especially
when margins may be narrowing
as appear certain for this pear.
Our sub-committee on immigra-
tion has been flooded with hun-
dreds of private bills which seek
to stay the deportation of various
aliens. We sat for several hours
this morning and disapproved all
such bills presented. Among bills
rejected this morning were the
folowing: A bill by Mr. Peterson
of Forida to legalize the entry of
four midgets known as the Sing-
er Midgets, who came here from
Czechoslovakia many years ago
and who have been acting in cir-
cuses ever since (they have been
here under visitors permits); a bill
by Mr. Hefferman of New York
to legalize the entry of a Ruman-
ian couple who came here in 1940,
and who came in—as have many
others—by paying $130 to a boat-
man to slip them across the Nia-
gara River just above Niagara
Falls in the dead of night; a bill
by Mr. Walter of Pennsylvania to
legalize the entry of two China-
men who came here from a tor-
pedoed freighter just off the Vir-
ginia coast in 1942; a bill by Mr.
Shafer of Michigan to legalize
the entry of an Italian who came’
here at the age of eleven and who
was convicted of selling narcotics
when he was eighteen, who has
been twice deported but has twice
returned, is married to an Amer-
ican, and has his own business
in the city of Detroit.
We have had to turn down num-
erous bills to legalize the entry
of seamen who jumped their ships
and remained in this country.
Other bills rejected would permit
stowaways to remain in the coun-
try. We must not reward or en-
courage illegal entries into the
country. We do not want our
vountry infiltrated with those \frho
will become a drain upon her re-
sources or who might seek to de- Most of the passengers became ilL
stroy her institutions. j Just behind me was an oW grey.
. ! headed negro who obviously was
The following incident is related j making his first flight. He . lost
by way of comic relief. I was his breakfast and was quite agi-
flying into Washington this week tated. After a few minutes I
on a big four-motored plane op- asked him how he was feeling. He
erated by American^ Air Lines, just shook his head and
Thirty minutes out of .Washington “Mighty pore pilot, mighty pora
the weather- became exceedingly pilot.” He will doubtless stick to
bad and the ship began to buck, automobiles hereafter.
said,. 'f
Wise Buying, Use
Of Farm Resources,
Taught 4-H Girls
Valuable incentives to rural girls
who aspire to become successful
homemakers are offered in the
iv;-.* Nr+knal 4-H Girls’ Record
program In this activity. which
is conducted under the direction
of the Extension Service, partici-
pants learn all phases of home-
making through 4-H Club projects
whcih serve to develop house-
keeping skills and home manage-
ment ability. To buy wisely and
use farm and home resources in-
telligently are featured in their
training.
A typical 4-H girl’s record in
homemaking shows that during
eight years in club work she pre-
pared and served 5,081 dishes for
family meals; sewed, made over or
mended 107 garments and canned
3,292 jars of food. She also made
80 home improvement articles,
raised 12 1-2 acre? of garden, pre-
pared 2,771 packages of food for
freezing, gave 59 demonsrtations
and served her club as junior
leader. In addition, her home
grounds beautification achieve-
ments won state honors.
As incentives for “all-around”
achievements in homemaking, mer-
it awards are offered by Mont-
gomery Ward for the twenty-fifth
consecutive pear. The awards in-
clude medals of honor to county
winners, an education trip to the
4-H Club Congress in Chicago to
the state winner, and $200 college
scholarships to six national win-
ners.
Last year’s state winner in Texas
was Margie Gail Burks of Mt.
Enterprise. County winners were
named in 61 counties.
According to Sterling Hart, edi-
tor of the Commerce (Tex.) Jour-
nal, the Texas-grown Bois d’Arc
timber, which is also known as
the Osage Orange of Arkansas, is
possibly the most durable of
American wods. One lot of tim-
ber, after 40 years’ service in a
railroad bridge, is now being used
on his farm for fence posts with
its soundness unimpaired. An-
other lot used for 50 years as
telephone poles shows no signs of
decay.
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Evans, Alfred. The Olney Enterprise (Olney, Tex.), Vol. 37, No. 8, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 3, 1947, newspaper, April 3, 1947; Olney, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1132632/m1/6/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Olney Community Library.