The Canton Herald (Canton, Tex.), Vol. 78, No. 14, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 6, 1961 Page: 7 of 8
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One of these Chevy Corvairs wants
Along with all good citizens, we are in favor of
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See the Chevy Corvairs, Chevrolet cars and the new Corvette at your local authorized Chevrolet dealer's
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IN TEXAS, YOU PAY 90* TAX
ON 1O GALLONS OF GASOLINE
HERE ARE THE FACTS ABOUT
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e In Texas, you pay 90« tax on 10 gallons of
gasoline.
• You pay 9 tax a gallon—44 In Federal taxes
plus 54 in State taxes.
• Gasoline is taxed at a rate 5 limes as high as
diamonds.
• The average Texas motor vehicle owner pays
$78 a year in gasoline taxes.
• Since 1951 there have been three increases
In the Federal gasoline tax alone.
• In the last 10 years, gasoline taxes nation-
wide have skyrocketed 51%—yet the national-
average price of gasoline itself has risen only
5.5% during the same period.
... only on carefree cooking
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Gasoline taxes will be lowered —
If the latest temporary
Federal gasoline tax increase
expires on June 30th as scheduled by
the 1959 Federal Highway Act.
THE CAMPUS CHATTER
Canton High Schoo) Section of The Canton Herald
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Columbus Day holiday and add
May 30, Memorial Day, as a le-
gal holiday.
The House passed out of com-
New gas oven control lets you cook an entire meal
ready to serve hours before serving time.
Gives precision accuracy from high to new low - 140*.
There’s no fluctuation because it’s gas.
No warmed-over taste when dinner is delayed. No drying
of moist foods. Thaw frozen foods faster.
Warm dishes safely... even fine china. Smartest ranges
in town are gas with oven-with-a-brain and burner-
with-a brain. Make a smart buy now
during the Annual Spring Sale at
...
ultra-comfortable driving.
And they both handle and brake and perform beautifully. (Proof of the pudding is
the way the ’61 Corvair manhandled the recent Canadian Winter Rally, winning out-
right anti taking the first five places in its class in this rugged 1,265-mile
test.) Look ’em over at your dealer’s. And if you can’t decide which one
Easter comes in March or April.
Some farmers have already put
their plants in the field. Saw H.
B. Etheridge’s field of Red
C-00 TIME TO CHANGE,
O.UU DO NAILS. NO WORRY,
Either of these Corvairs would make you a wonderful traveling companion. (Any of
Corvair’s ten budget-priced models would, for that matter.) The Lakewood Station
Wagon earns its keep with a solid 68 cubic feet of cargo space, 10 of it under that lockable
hood. And the Monza Club Coupe, with its bucket-type front seats, lets you in on some
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PERFECT RESULTS ON OVEN-WITH-A-BRAIN.
like diamonds and mink coats.
Must gasoline taxes be so high? Most people believe
that gasoline taxes are high because the money is needed
to pay for our national highway program. This is not so.
The fact is that out of every highway-user tax dollar
collected last year by the Federal government, more than
40 cents was diverted to non-highway purposes.
If these highway-user tax revenues were spent for high-
ways—as they should be—gasoline taxes could be lowered,
and the highway program given a boost.
In fact, the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1959 provides
that when the added temporary Federal gasoline tax ex-
pires on June 30th, 1961, as scheduled, some $802 mil-
lion a year in highway-user taxes-now diverted to the
U. S. Treasury’s general fund-will instead be deposited
in the Highway Trust Fund.
As a result, if the latest Federal temporary gasoline tax
holidays observed by state
ployees. It would abolish
this has now been accomplish-
ed. House Bill 20 by Cory was
passed on Thursday, March 30.
This bill would change the state
increase expires on June 30th as scheduled-the national
highway program will actually get $225 million more
each year than it now receives from the latest Federal
temporary gasoline tax increase.
In January of this year, after an dnustive 2-year sur-
vey of national transportation pc icy, anpecial U. S.
Senate study group confirmed the wi sdom of th i s’ecision.
act amount that this bill will
bring in, the estimates vary from
33 to 43 million dollars. This bill
was passed on second reading on
Monday by a vote of 83 ayes and
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Ballman of Borger.
did not do any damage to the to-
mato crop. This is not to say that
some of our tomato growers
were not a little jittery on Fri-
day. March 31. We always have
a cool spell around Easter, so it
seems. Doesn’t matter whether
Thursday, April 6, 1961 THE CANTON HERALD — 7
The House of Representatives
has passed its first major tax
bill of the session. This was
er potatoes are chilled they start
to rot pretty pronto. When you
walk up to a potato house you
can tell pretty quick if there has
been any chilling of potatoes—
if there has been been—it smells
like a winery. Farmers should
Potatoes in storage should be
kept above 55 degrees Fahren-
heit. When the temperature in
the storage house drops below
55 the potato will be chilled. Aft-
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mittee and through the House
a Senate Bill to free certain
fees collected by the Veterans
Land Board for immediate use
by the General Land Office. This
will speed up the processing of
applications for veterans land
purchases by those eligible un-
take next fall. They would also
have to decide on entertainment
for the banquet and a prophecy
for the glorious leaders.
For almost 45 minutes the
group tossed the problems back
and forth. Finally, the issues
were settled. The juniors who
would be present at the Junior-
Senior banquet had decided, the
entertainment had been selected,
and a committee had been ap-
pointed to write the senior class
prophecy.
With these earth shaking de-
FREE STATE FARMING
not try to put potatoes in the
bed too early in the spring for
this same reason. If the soil tem-
perature has not warmed up to
55 degrees then the potato will
be chilled in the bed and will
rot. Van Zandt farmers do not
put potatoes in the field beds as
early as they did five years ago.
They won’t make slips anyway
until the soil warms up.
The Porto Rican variety is the
standard by which all other va-
rieties of potatoes are judged.
There are some reasons why the
Porto Rican is held in high es-
teem by Van Zandt growers. These
reasons are smoothness, taste,
keeping quality and yield. The
Porto Rican will yield better
than any other variety under
dry land farming. One interest-
ing thing brought out by Patter-
son was that under irrigation the
DECISIONS HAVE BEEN
REACHED BY JUNIORS
The president, Tommy Eubank,
raised his hands for silence. The
great noisy throng began to
quieten as the president called for
order. It was an important meet-
ing. They would have to find out
how many of their number would
Coach Chapman reports that
ey have another baseball game
with Edgewood which will prob-
ably be played this week. The
game scheduled for Tuesday,
March 28, was cancelled because
of rain
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Chiefs. They were really nice
plants. Jack Mewbourn of Mar-
tins Mill also has a field of the
Red Chief variety that was put
in the field last week Within the
next two weeks almost all of the
tomatoes will be in the field.
We had an early spring this
year. Grass is coming on and
growing faster than it did last
year. We should get more and
better grazing this year than
last.
Fifteen pople attended the
sweet potato meeting in Canton
March 31. Don Patterson and Dur-
wood Speights of the experiment
station led the discussion on va-
rieties. storage and general man-
agement problems with the pro-
duction of potatoes. One problem
which we need to work on, ac-
cording to Patterson, is the prob-
lem of storage. The number 55 is
magic in the storage of potatoes.
der the law. The Land Commis-
sioner had stated that by free-
ing this fund he can hire a few
more clerks and typists and
speed up the land purchase pro-
gram. It is my hope that this
bill will enable him to accom-
plish this goal.
be able to attend the banquet in --------------
April staged for the departing SPORTS REPORT
leaders whose place they will
Coach Dawson took his tennis
team to Gladewater to the ten-
nis clinic. They saw “Tut” Bart-
zen .professional tennis player, in
action.
Coach Owens will take his
track, team to Van Tuesday
April 4, to enter in the Van In-
vitational Track Meet.
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61 nos. It was passed on third
and final reading on Tuesday by
a vote of 85 ayes and 60 not. By
the pasage of this bill the Sen-
ate now has authority to get to
work on the tax problem of the
state. Under the Constitution
the Senate could not work on a
tax bill or any revenue raising
measures until the House had
passed some type of tax bill. This
bill will take care of about one-
half of the state’s deficit and, of
course, the House will be requir-
ed to pass several more tax bills
in order to take care of the def-
icit and provide for the cost of
state government for the next
two years. Speaker James A.
Turman and those of us who
have supported his program
along with the Governor worked
hard to get this bill out of com-
mittee and passed through the
House. It was not an easy job
and we did not know until the
final vote whether or not we
would be able to accomplish our
goal. We knew that if we were
to avoid unnecessary special
sessions that we had to pass this
revenue raising measure. There
is a group of members in the
House who have been opposing
all taxes, but their action not
but will delay the solution of a
only will cause special sessions,
problem that must be solved.
Another important matter con-
sidered by the House this week
was HJR 3 by Atwell This is a
proposed Constitutional Amend-
ment to Article 1 of the Texas
Constitution providing that equal-
ity under the law shall not be
denied or abridged because of
sex. This is sometimes referred
to as the equal rights amend-
ment. This measure passed the
House by a vote of 137 to 7. It
is my understanding that it has
not met with favorable Senate
consideration as of this date,
however, it is quite possible that
the Senate may pass this meas-
ure before the end of the session
Another matter considered by
the House this week was a pro-
posal to amend the U. S. Consti-
tution in order to allow the Dis-
trict of Columbia representation
in the electoral college Thirty-
eight states must ratify this pro-
posed maendment to the Federal
Constitution before it becomes a
part of the Constitution of the
U. S. It is my understanding that
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Annual Easter Cold Spell Makes Tomato
Growers Jittery; Ho Damage Reported
The annual Easter cold spell - • • ■ r
isions completed, the junior
class of tne Canton High School
broke up, some happy with what
bad taken place, some unhappy
but all happy with the fact that
in a few weeks they would no
longer be juniors.
Those poor unsuspecting kids.
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nificant increase in yield over
dry land farming. This is not
true with other varieties such as
Red Gold, Centennial and some
others. Most farmers have not
kept seed of the Porto Rican
which have good internal color.
The color is too pale, or light, on
the inside. Hudson Sides of the
Moore community has some of
the best seed of the Porto Rican
I have seen. He bedded down
about 900 bushels of the Porto
Rican. He got his seed from a
neighbor some three years ago
and has been increasing his seed
every year. These Porto Rican
have a good internal color, a cop-
per color. The taste is very good
—I tried some of them.
***
There has been 110 soil sam-
ples sent off from Van Zandt
county this year. These samples
were sent to the soil testing lab-
oratory of A&M. They were ana-
lyzed and fertilizer recommenda-
tions were given. This is one
service that farmers could and
should use more. It takes the
guess work out of what kind fer-
tilizer should be used for a crop
or pasture. Our thanks to the
stores and individuals who acted
as collection stations for the soil
samples over the county. These
people kept the samples until
they were picked up and sent to
the laboratory. There will prob-
ably be another campaign this
fall. However, anyone who wants
to send off a sample right now
will have to go ahead and send it
off by mail. The last samples
were picked up on March 13.
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Three communities have al-
ready entered the Community
Improvement Program for 1961.
They are Board-Elwood, Jackson
and Myrtle Springs. Any com-
munity that is interested in or-
ganizing for this program should
contact the county agents office.
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building the roads that the motoring public needs. 2 f enjoy a steadily improving highwa Y system, at a lower
But, in the last 10 years alone, Federal and State taxes H gasoline tax-rate. h“
nationwide on gasoline have skyrocketed 51% -sky- 19 Pe
rocketed to a point where gasoline, a basic commodity, ' ’
is actually taxed at a rate five times as high as luxuries
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Presented in the public Interest by the Gasoline Tax Education Committee,575 Lexington Avenue, New York 22, N.Y.
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