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THE ALTO HERALD, ALTO, TEX \s, ..\UGUST 27, 1931.
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ALTO HIGH SCHOOL ENT!TLED
TO RECEIVE STATE AID
The following tetter verifies the
statements of our eligibility to re-
ceive aid:
The Bulletin Board
COTTON MEETING
Austin, Texas
Aug. 17, 1931.
Section 13. Any schoo) district
which has a tax valuation for schooi
purposes of not to exceed One Miiiion Mr. G. S. Hart
Oollars and any consolidated schooi Alto, Texas.
district which has a taxable vaiua- Dear Mr. Hart:
tion for schooi purposes of not to ex-[ In your tetter of August 14, to Mr. i
ceed one and one-haif miiiion doiiars Conn, you stated that Aito had a val-
and which levies and coiiects a tax of uation of iess than a miiiion doiiars,
one doiiar ($1.00) on the One and that the tax rate was one dollar.
Hundred ($100.00) Doiiars vaiua-} If Aito has the high schoo] enroil-
tion of property, and which is main- ment of more than forty pupils it will
taining a high school of fifty or more
resident scholastics shall receive from
the apportionment for each high
school pupil enroiied in schooi for
that schoiastic year.
The above is a copy of The State
Aid Law, enacted by the iast Legisla-
ture. According to the above section,
Alto High Schoo! wili be entitled to
receive an rmount equai to the state
per capita apportionment for each
resident high school pupii enroiied
for this year.
It is expected that 140 pupils wili
be enroiied in the high school. The!
per capita apportionment, at present
is $17.5(^ per capita. One hundred;
$17.50 equals $2450.00
eligible to receive high schooi per
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capitr. aid.
Yours very truiy,
Burl Bryant,
Chief Supervisor cf State Aid.
Signed, G. S. Hart, Supt.
[NTERMED1ATE B. Y. P. U.
PROGRAM
Subject: "The Bible and Work."
Daily Kblc Readings—Mrs. Brit-
tain.
Leader—Doris Wood.
Afraid of Work—Leader.
Joseph—Ciara Durham.
Two Spies—Helen Trantham.
Jeroboam—Lois Norwood.
Nehemiah—Minnie Leo Whitehead.
Paui—Lois Brunt.
Jesus, the Worker—Marie Scaies.
Study your Daily Bible Reading:'
Approximately fifty farmers and
other interested persons were in :t<-
I tendance at a meeting of the Texas
I Cotton Co-operative Association held
, on the Cotton Belt Shed Wedsesday
' afternoon.
F. A. Caperton of Dalias was
present to taik to the farmers and
plan the work of the association with
^hem for the coming season. He'
called attention ta the request of
Robert Murray, newly eiected presi
dent of the association, that members
of the organization attempt to "co-
operate and to co-ordinate their ef-
forts in order to make the most of
the season."
"I feel sure that the price of cotton
will begin to rise shortly after the
first of the year," the speaker saw.
I "!t is oniy a matter of waiting untti
money begins to circulate again," the
speaker intimated, and this should b'
under way by January.
CHEROKEE COUNTY
FAIR CATALOGUE
BEtNG PRINTED
The Hcrjld force wiit begin this
week o'i the Cherokee County Fair
Catalogue, which wiit comprise more
than sixty pages, and the first run
wili bo a thousand copies.
Premiums are being awarded on
all kinds of farm produce, attck,
fruits, vegetables and varioUB things
made and g own on farms in thin,
county.
Funds to be derived from -advor
tising will pay the cost of the pub-
lication, and every merchant in Alto
will find it a profitable investment
to have an ad in the cataiogue, as it
will be distributed in every part of
Cherokee county.
HAYNE NELMS DIED IN HOUSTON
TEXAS' TAX PROBLEM
forty times
state aid.
This aid is granted provide! certain
requirements of the State Depart-
ment of Education are met. Some of
these requirements affecting this and be on time
school are as follows: Sanitary drink
ing system, sanitary toilets, adequate,
library facilities and a minimum
salary schedule, listed as follows:
Principal $165.00.
H. S. Teachers $105.00.
Int. Teachers $95.00.
primary $105.00. "Do men gather grapes of thorns,
In mating the salary schedule the, or figs of thistles?" Destroy the tree
total increase in ali teachers salaries of fundamental Americanism or su;—
amounts to $185.00 per month. The plant 4t by the ugiy shrub of Bot-
$2450.00 High School Aid received shevism, and you must expect a dif-
from the state wiil pay the increase, ferent kind of fruit.
in saiaries and leave a net gain of
$785.00 for the school. This appro-
priation of $5,000,000 for the bi-
ennium 1931-32 and 1932-33 has al-
ready been passed by the iegisiator.
Hogs Wanted
Wiit pay good price for ali kinds
of hogs. Phone 3 rings on 20.
tf. W. E. Bailey.
Popular Carnival
Company 1 or
Tyler Pair
of Tex,, requiring 30 doubie iength
transport cars and employing over
300 pctiplt. In addition to the 10
Ti linp Juices, which will furnish
plenty of thrills, they have 15 high-
class -htw.s and the usual number of
conce^ ion The shows include an
up-to-<iat^ Minstrel with Sonny Boy
irnv.-n well known colored
eomodia: who provoke much laugh-
' - ft !' ' crowds; other shows are
Water Sh vr; Wrestling Show; Iola
of the Lach- Human Enigme and many ad-
ditional si le attractions.
Featured on opening night wiil be
Last week the tax upon cigarettes
went into effect.
Mr. J. H. Synnol!) and daughters,
Claire and Florence of Beaumont,
were guests of Mr. ytt.d Mrs. B. M.
Ray Saturday night..
Many thousands of pleasure seek-
ers are expected to turn out on Mon-
day, September 14th, and participate
in the opening of the East Texas
Fair, which will run throughout the
entire week, and will be entertained
by carnival attractions
man-Carson shows.
The East Texas Fair grounds have
been placed in first-class condition Captain Dan Riley a Lion tamer, who
and will be a veritable fairy-land with ?<"* a number of years, was connected
the coming of darkness each evening, 'with the Hagenbeck Zoo in Berlin,
Thousands of vari-coiored lights Germany
will send their rays in all direction as Truly a wonderful aray of enter-
the big week of fun will be opened tainment is being assembled for the
mid playing of bands and the laugh- ^2nd nnr.ua] East Texas Fair, the
ter of the happy crowds that will ' Frosyenty Fair of 1931."
throng the midway. j
The Lachman-Carson Show is otc The m::n who i; satisfied with
cf the iargest operating in the State himself a failure to be pitied.
Unpopular from the beginning, it
is improbable that this impost will re-
piain upon the statute books a minute
beyond the first opportunity given
the legislature to revoke it. And in
such an eventuality, it is well to con-
sider what a money-hungry, d!s
traught legislature is apt to do.
Special taxes levied against oil,
sulphur, gas and cement production
afford fairly reliable evidence that it
is Texas policy to assess much of the
. expense of government against in-
! terests that exptiot Texas naturai re-
i sources. Unfortunately, however,
Texas has gained a reputation for
I levying "punitive" rather than rev-
j enue taxes. The reputation has been
built because the disposition has been
j to pyramid levies against ccrtain re-
I source industries, rather than to
spread the burden equitably amongst
all resource industries.
Houston, Texas, Aug. 25.—Judge
Hayne Nelms, 61, former president
of the East Texan Chamber of Com-
merce, died in a hospital here Tues-
day afternoon after an illness of sev-
eral weeks.
Judge Nelms was a resident of
Groveton, where he was president of
the First National Bank of Groveton
and president of the East Texas His-
torical Society. He is survived* by his.
wife, two daughters, Mrs. J. B. Vic-
tory of Houston and Miss Mar'htt.
Nelms of Groveton and a son, Lswi^
Witt Nelms of Beaumont.
Julge Nelms took an active part itr
the East Texas Chamber of Com-
merce work from the beginning am),
was an ardent advocate of goc
roads. He had practiced law at
Groveton for many years. )
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All members of the Alt.i Schoot
faculty are expected to be at thes
school building next Wednesday
morning when plans will be outlined
jfor the coming term. It is expected
that all of the trustees who can wiit
also be present.
Texap' lumber production, taxed at
Lonisiana rates, would produce near-]
ly three-quarter million doiiars ofj
revenue; taxed at Arkansas rates j
the income wou'd be almost four
hundred thousand doiiars. Mercury,
gypsum, coai, salt, gold, silver, mar-,
Me, stone, Fuller's earth and ciay are,
among others, natural resources j
whose exploitation has escaped the
form of special taxation imposed
upon sulphur, oil, gas and cement.
Without competition we would be
clinging to the clumsy and antiquated
processes of farming and manufac-'
ture and the methods of business of
long ago. But though commerciaf
competitors we a re commercial
enemies we must not be.
This nation must not repose in:
fancied security that we can forever
setl everything and buy little or no-
thing. A system that provides a mu-
tual exchange of commodities is man-
ifestly essential to heaithful growth.
It might be well for legislators to
be studying, now, the revenue pos-
sibilities of these untaxed natural re-
source industries. To pyramid furth-
er the taxes levied against the four
industries already taxed is both im-
practicable and unfair. Yet a reve-
nue deficit stares us in the faco
The playfulness of our people
sometimes results in them being un-
justly accused in handling serious
and sacred subjects; but humor is a
safer sign of strong convictions antC
perfect sanity than is guarded saiem.-
nity.
We are not in a condition to enjoy"
riches until we can be happy witf)^-
out them.
T*MTHOLEUM JELLY—an honored remedy in every family
medicine chest—but what a trouble-maker in your motor oi!!
for when you step on the starter in winter—it is petroleum
jelly that make?your oil stiC and unresponsive. And when your en-
gine warms up it is petroleum jeHy that makes your oi! water-thin.
Petroleum jeHy has virtually been stripped from Sinclair Opaline
Motor Oil—a new process requiring specially designed refriger-
ating equipment, operating at as low as 60" below zero—a
much lower temperature than is required for just removing wax.
A11 grades of Opaline are refined for year-around use—(See Sin-
clair Law of Lubrication booklet which we will gladly give you).
We sell Sinclair Opaline according to the Sinclair Law of Lubri-
cation. This law is based on the fact that the space between piston
and cylinder wall is widened by wear. The grade of oil which
filled this space at 3,000 miles cannot safely bridge the gap and
prevent gasoline dilution at 15,000 miles.
Sinclair Opaline is refined from selected parafHn base crudes in
various grades—one of them is designed to fit your engine accord-
ing to its present state of wear. Your speedometer will tell us the
grade you require.
A Superior
Food Service
That's what you'll find this grocery offers you. We do not merely
sell groceries-—we maintain an intelligent, helpful service that en-
ables you to save time, work, money, and unpleasant experience in
the preparation of y our daily meals the year around.
You Must Be Satisfied
when you ^hop here. Any difficulty or unsatisfactory experience
wili quickly and willingly be adjusted, should there be any.
Every order, large or smalt, receives prompt persona! at-
ten!ion. You will be served quickly and efficiently when you come
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Weimar, F. L. The Alto Herald (Alto, Tex.), Vol. 31, No. 17, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 27, 1931, newspaper, August 27, 1931; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth214604/m1/5/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Stella Hill Memorial Library.