The Hereford Brand (Hereford, Tex.), Vol. 80, No. 219, Ed. 1 Sunday, May 3, 1981 Page: 4 of 48
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When the Washington Post
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flic and turn off the program. Tonight is the last
program of the season. I could find out what
happens during the summer re-runs. (I hate to
admit that I watch those too). It is already a
known fact that they plan to leave us with
another hanging ending. All summer long we
will have to agonize again trying to figure out
who did what to whom.
I know all of that, but what will they think of
this time? What will they do about the death of
one of the stars? Will J.R. get his? Will Bobby
and Pam split up? Will that conniving blonde
expose the plot to overthrow a government?
I know the tail is wagging the dog. I even
know I am the dog being wagged. I know all of
that but I wish it were nine o'clock tonight
already. I am hooked.
Help
when you
need it.
And when
you don’t.
— Edward Asner, actor,
talking about a figure showing
him as TV’s Lou Grant" at
Movieland Wax Museum in
Buena Park, Calif.
But ACKS will help small
business in another very im-
portant way. The proposal
will sweep away the agoniz-
ing complexities of the pre-
sent tax code and replace
them with a simple, uniform
system understandable to all.
This will put small business
on a more equal footing with
large firms, and it will free
them from having to worry
about hiring more staff to
handle disputes with IRS
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on the lookout for frauds.
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were young left those editors
unprepared to face the
realities of life in the nation's
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A new bill in the state legislature has been
introduced by Senator Roy Blake of Nacogdoches
which would give some help to the cities of Texas in
repairing their streets.
The Blake bill would allocate $75 million from
general funds, to be called "A City Street Improve-
ment Fund," and each city in the state would receive
money according to how many miles of paved city
streets it has. —
Under the formula of $1.225 per mile of city street
the first year, Perryton would receive $40,920.
In order to qualify for these state funds, a city
would have to spend at least that much of its own
money on street maintenance.
Senator Blake calls attention to a problem that has
been growing for a long time and that is the fact that
city streets are wearing out faster than cities can
maintain them.
After all, over 80 per cent of Texas citizens reside
in cities. City dwellers buy the most motor vehicles.
gasoline tax
Yet all of this tax money goes into state funds to
be used on state highways and farm-to-market roads.
City dwellers also pay county taxes, money which
goes to repair and maintain county roads but not a
dime on city streets.
Senate Bill 951 would provide a way for the state
government to return tax dollars to cities in order to
maintain their streets
Since local citizen.* ave contributed the funds to
the Onmibus Tax Clearance Fund in the first place,
this tax relief measure seems to make a lot of sense
City dwellers have been largely ignored by state
agencies and especially in the area of street repairs
and maintenance We think Senator Blake has a good
idea, one that bears supporting.
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eluding agriculture. con-
struction, wholesaling. retail-
ing. real estate, and services
- small businesses claimed
over 60 percent. Clearly,
then. small business will get a
substantial share of the
benefits from the Administra-
tion's ACRS proposal.
capital. Second, past ex-
perience and our own recent
surveys strongly suggest they
would improve personal sav-
ings. our most vital but
depleted course of capital
Now consider the small
business case for the ad-
ministration's proposal to
reduce marginal tax rates
across the board by .10 per-
cent. According to the 1977
I RS Statistics of Income, over
14,700.(100 business tax
returns were filed by cor-
porations. including Sub-
chapter S corporations filing
as individuals, as well as
partnerships ami sole pro-
prietorships. Of this total only
1.000.000 or less than 12.5 per-
cent. were taxable as cor-
porations. Thus, nearly 90
percent of U.S. businesses
taxable in 1977 paid taxes at
the steeply graduated per-
sonal rates This represents a
tremendous universe of small
firms that stand to benefit
directly from the proposed
personal rate reductions
Editor's note: The Bootleg
Philosopher on his Deaf
Smith grass farm on Tierra
Blanca Creek reacts to the
Pulitzer Prize hoax, in a
minor way.
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And across the board rate
reductions would assist small
business in at least three
other ways. By automatically
reducing the maximum tax
on capital gains from the pre-
sent 28 percent, and by
eliminating the distinction
between earned and unearn-
ed income, they would
reverse the trend toward tax
shelters by promoting new in-
vestment and venture
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After a summer of agony, wondering who
shot J R.,you would think I would learn. May I
hasten to add that I may be the only person
alive who will admit it but I did not know who
did it.
You would think I would take the pledge. Go
to TV anonymous and swear off. You would
think I would never get hooked again on any
program not just Dallas. You would think I
could find something else to do on Friday
nights at nine.
I could catch up on reading the NANCY comic
strip. I have read that for twenty years thinking
she might someday do something funny. She
never has.
I could go contemplate important issues like,
what is the purpose of the little balls on the back
of women's tennis socks.
I know I should say, my bic no longer gives a
Teachers have always had to battle for pay
increases, and their situation has become
tougher with the rapid rise of inflation.
What was considered a teacher surplus a few
years ago has turned Into a teacher shortage
and this very fact is boosting efforts by teachers
to win pay hikes from the state legislature.
A survey by the Texas Association of School
Personnel Administrators found five primary
reasons for the teacher shortages: (1) Low
salaries and economic conditions; (2) Fewer
education majors graduating and being cer-
tified; (3(Better opportunities for women; (4)
Poor discipline in schools, and (5) Poor public
relations and low public opinion about teachers.
While the discipline problem has not been as
evident In rural areas, another study showed
that It is one of the causes of teacher shortages.
The Governor's Advisory Committee on
Education found "lack of discipline, disruptive
students and red tape "to be as significant as
salary problems.
William Bechtol, chairman of the department
of education at Southwest Texas State
University, said some of his graduates "are
scared to interview in Dallas and Houston"
because of discipline problems.
It is obvious that teachers need more pay, but
they also need a good working environment if
they are to teach young people the way Most
Americans want them to be taught. Court
decisions which diluted the authority of
teachers and school officials has something to
do with the discipline problems.
It's another example of some bureaucrat in
Washington, D.C., telling us how we have to
run our local school districts. The problem
didn’t arise overnight, however, and it won’t be
solved overnight.
Small business has
everything to gain from
passage of the Reagan tax
proposal and a lot to lose if it
does not. It's time to make
your voices heard in Con-
gress.
vulnerable and is being hurt
the most by high inflation,
taxation. interest rates and
regulation.
So what's the answer?
Aside from reducing the
growth of spending and
eliminating unnecessary-
regulation. which virtually
everyone but Ted Kennedy
and a few of his friends agree
must be done, what specific
changes in tax policy would
be most beneficial to small
business'' This very question
was put to me recently when I
testified for the Chamber
before the House Small
Business Committee. My
answer could not have been
more direct Pass the ad-
ministration's total tax
package, which consists of
two major proposals: The
first, the Accelerated Cost
Recovery System (ACRS).
would enable businesses to
accelerate their depreciation
of plant and equipment, and
the second would reduce all
marginal individual income
tax rates by 30 percent over
the next three years.
Whenever I make this
statement, people seem sur-
prised. Indeed, I've come to
the conclusion that although
the administration has put
together a tax package that
seems tailor-made for small
business, this fact remains
one of the best kept secrets in
America.
The whole purpose of ac -
celerating the depreciation of
plant and equipment is to pro-
mote new capital investment,
and thereby increase produc-
tivity and create new jobs
Still. whenever people talk
about accelerated deprecia-
tion we are led to believe it
will primarily benefit big
business
Wrong' We recently took
the time to go back and study
just who depreciates what
We discovered that in the
latest year for which full
records are available, 1975.
sml businesses claimed 40
percent of the total deprecia-
tion in many industries - in-
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got taken in by one of its own taken in occurred a few
reporters who made up a weeks ago in Iran Some Hi-
story . got it printed on the ternational sharpster in Pans
front page and won a Pulitzer convinced the Iranian leaders
Prize for it, only to have to he had 50 million dollars
give it back, the paper took worth of sophisticated
up over three pages of type military equipment to sell in
explaining and apologizing the black market, and they
This seems to set a bad shelled out. Then they found
precedent If every body who out he didn't even have a B-B
ever got taken in by a gun, and they’re out 50
political promise or a slick million.
salesman used that much
space regretting it, no paper Nobody likes to see
would have room for anybody get taken in. but if
anything else you'll recall the televised
I don't know what those scenes of those Iranian
editors were thinking about students parading those
when they let the story ap- blindfolded Americans in
pear without checking on it. front of the embassy and ub-
but obviously they weren't, ing the .American flag to haul
when they were young. trash in and the Ayatollah
among those of us who were bragging about rubbing thie
taken in by that ad that said U.S. nose in the dust, youu
send ten cents for a magical have a hard time keeping
gadget you could place under from laughing over their buy-
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friends by throwing your nothing
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"It took a licking and kept on ticking."
That familiar phrase has been heard by all of
us at one time or another. The Timex Watch
Company has used it a standard bearer In _
television and radio commercials for years, with
John Cameron Swayze touting the virtues of ’
Timex watches that withstood the roughest of
teats after being stropped to this and that while
its wearer participated in a variety of activities.
Those watches never stopped, but one owned
by a New York City man may be the epitome of
the unshakable, unbreakable, timepiece.
The unidentified man was faced with a.
mugging and quickly found the safest place he
could think of to stash his newly-purchased,
watch...he swallowed it.
You guessed Itl Despite the trauma of
digestive juices, the watch took an eating and.
kept on beating, to coin a phrase. ;
What is amazing is that the self-winding ;
watch kept working while in the man’s stomach j
over a five-month span, and was still ticking !
when surgeons removed it, complete with;
synthetic band and buckle.
According to Dr. Elliot Duboys, a surgical •
resident at Mercy Hospital In Rockville, Centre,;
N.Y., sometime after the mugging, the man!
was admitted to a hospital for treatment of a;
psychiatric disorder, and when examining a;
routine set of X-rays, technicians spotted it.
While apparently feeling no ill effects from!
his unusual meal, the man steadfastly refused •
for five months to have the watch removed by
surgeons.
The surgery was finally done after the man
was declared legally incompetent, and his
family approved the operation.
The date and time were wrong when the
watch was removed, but Dr. Duboys said he
didn't know if they had been properly set when
it had been swallowed!
But, still, it kept on ticking. John Cameron
would have been proud.
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Finally. they would do
wonders for worker produc-
tivity. Today. working people
are being taxed at un-
precedented rates on extra
earned income. The in-
evitable results of penalizing
additional effort are high
absenteeism, a refusal to
work overtime and a surging
underground economy.
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By RICHARD LESHER
U.S. Chamber of Commerce
WASHINGTON - I've often
stated in this column that one
of the U.S. Chamber's top
priorities is to strengthen
small business. Obviously,
we have a personal stake in
assisting small business,
because the overwhelming
majority of our members fall
into this category More fun-
damentally. however. people
who have studied our
economy understand that
small business is the most im-
portant source of new jobs,
technology and more
dynamic growth. Unfor-
tunately, it is also clear that
small business is more
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Nigh, Bob. The Hereford Brand (Hereford, Tex.), Vol. 80, No. 219, Ed. 1 Sunday, May 3, 1981, newspaper, May 3, 1981; Hereford, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1429905/m1/4/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Deaf Smith County Library.