Cedar Hill Chronicle (Cedar Hill, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 10, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 25, 1968 Page: 5 of 6
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* THURSDAY, JULY 25, 1968
OEIMR HILL CHRONICLE
PAGE FIVE
Editorial
What Price Kids?
There's no price tag on kids ?t our house. We learned
long ago that any parent who thinks he can budget a precise
figure for shoes, pants, vacations, doctor bills, church and
school activities and the inevitable unforeseen expenses
is stark, raving mad or soon will be. How much food can a
teenager consume, for example, in a year?
But Uncle Sam very confidently does set a price tag on
our kids. $600. That figure was established by the 1939
Internal Revenue Code. That's what the government allows
us for each dependent child, as a deduction on our income
tax.
Several million young married couples who were not yet
born in 1939 are raising families and paying taxes now under
that antiquated $600 deduction per dependent. And while we
all struggle, Uncle Sam is establishing new dependency "al-
lowances" everywhere you look.
For example; it costs the government $7000 a year for
each member of its Job Corps. Not $600, mind vou, but
$7000.
The cost of maintaining an inmate in a federal prison is
$2300. Social Security pays up to $186 a month to some
persons. That is to be compared with the $50 per month
deduction we are allowed for each of our kids.
The Aid to Dependent Children programs pays more than
$800 a year for the upkeep of an illegitimate child. Refugees
from Castro's Cuba are allowed a minimum of $1200 a year
by the government with an additional $1000 a year budgeted
for each Cuban child entered in school.
In New York City's Harlem, poverty-war officials have
been shovelling out $190 a month to hundreds of teenagers
requiring only that the payee stay out of trouble with the
police.
In short, when Uncle Sam "adopts" a dependent, that $600
business goes out the window. Believe it or not, last year's
budget for the Vista program (Volunteers in Service to Amer-
ica) reflected an expenditure of more than $15,000per trainee.
How would you like to have that much for your college-bound
youngster's expenses next year?
That 27-year-old $600 deduction is preposterous by any
measuring stick. Making it even more ridiculous is the fact
that we have a 42 cent dollar today as compared with 1939.
Realistically the $600 deduction is only $252!
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RYALS' RUMBLES
BY:
Cecil Rytli
While roaming around down
in the eastern part of Texas
this past week-end I realized
at one point along the way I
was within five miles of a
small town, where some
friends, I had attended school
with over fifty years ago had
moved there back in the early
nineteen hundreds. I had
thought many times of driving
over there to see them, but
something always happened to
prevent it. This time I did
take the time to pull off my
intended route to go by. To
my sorrow I found out when I
inquired about them, I had
waited almost twenty years
too long. I had seen them
only once, a short time after
they moved away from our
home community.
The girls were all several
years older than I but there
was one boy a few years
younger. The mother, father
and the two girls had all
passed away, the last one
about fifteen years ago and the
boy left soon after that and
is somewhere near Houston.
It's hard for any of us to
realize at times that it's la-
ter than we think and time
gets away pretty fast.
As I stood reading the his-
torical marker, that was
erected and dedicated to the
town only a few days before my
arrival, I could hardly picture
it as being the same town that
I remembered as being the
first time I saw it, with it's
many business houses, sal-
oons, cotton gin and four
churches and a fine school
for that day and time. As I
stood there thinking the words
of Dr. Martin Luther King's
words came to my mind, "I
Have A Dream.' I'm sure
when this town was first set-
tled and in a few years started
growing by leaps and bounds,
the many people living there
had a dream. But the com-
plete story about that as well
as many other peoples dreams
will be told in my book that
I'm now in the process of
writing. Some historical
background will be given in
each case as well as many
amusing incidents that hap-
pened along the way, and the
cause so many of those dreams
being shattered. If I don't
change it fore I'm through
that will be the title of it,
"Shattered Dreams." Of
course there is lots of digging
to be done to get all the facts
and the events, especially
when they extend back as far
as 1848. I don't want it to
sound like a book on Texas
History, because I'm anything
else but a historian but I
hope to make each chapter an
interesting story of human in-
terest.
We are all born dreamers,
little boys always dream of
being policemen or firemen.
Little girls want to be nurses,
of course our dreams change
with the years. But now you
know my dream, I hope before
it's finished it don't become
shattered.
Showers Given
Miss Kay Clark
Miss Mary Kay Clark,
bride-elect of Ronny Geddie
was honored with a bridal
shower Monday night at the
Community Center.
Hostesses for the shower
were Mrs. Gladys Potter,
Mrs. Gladys Jorgensen, Mrs.
Wilma Cawthon, Mrs. Emo-
gene Brown, Mrs. Paulette
England, Mrs. Dorothy Hartin,
and Mrs. Bennie Woodrum.
Tax Man Sam Sez
Every year there are a
number of Texas couples who
decide to "split the blanket."'
Divorce is enough misfortune,
without getting into tax prob-
lems in the process. Under
Texas community property
laws, the earnings of both
spouses up to the date of
divorce is community income.
When the couple files their
income tax return for the year,
each spouse has to have the
total earnings up to the date
of divorce, the total withhold-
ing tax and the total itemized
deductions or tax credits,
since by law each is required
to file an income tax return
on their one-half share. They
must also declare their separ-
ate income, credits and deduc-
tions for the rest of the year
after the date of divorce. It
works out much better to set-
tle the entire matter at the
time of the divorce. In any
case, don't be one of the sev-
eral thousand Texans that will
get involved in an income tax
audit of your income tax re-
turn for the year of your di-
vorce.
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College vocational nursing
students are currently in an
intensive 7 1/2 month clinical
training period at three Dallas
area hospitals. Students are
assigned to Medical Arts Hos-
pital or Presbyterian Hospital
of Dallas, or to Memorial Hos-
pital of Garland.
The students completed the
campus phase of their one-
year vocational nursing pro-
gram June 28. Upon comple-
tion of the hospital phase of
their training they will be eli-
gible for the state licensing
examination.
During their hospital af-
filiation the students will have
an opportunity for experience
with such services as medi-
cal, surgical, obstetrics, new-
born, pediatrics and recovery
room.
Assigned to Medical Arts
Hospital are Mrs. Dorothy
Bayless, Mrs. Lena Broad-
nax, Miss Guadalupe Hernan-
dez, Mrs. Jacqueline Herod,
Miss Sharon Ross, Miss Caro-
line Spring, and Mrs. Gene
Wahl, Dallas; Mrs. Irene Lee,
Duncanville; and Mrs. Evelyn
Hubler, Grand Prairie.
Assigned to Presbyterian
Hospital are Miss Sigrid Al-
bach, Miss Mary Austin, Mrs.
Eddie Baker, Mrs. Virginia
Black, Mrs. Ester Evans,
Miss Barbara Gause, Miss
Carnie Howlett, Miss Henri-
etta Vann, and Mrs. Willa
Walker, Dallas; and Mrs.
Eleanor Cook, Richardson.
Assigned to Memorial Hos-
pital of Garland are Miss
Phyllis Ates, Miss Shirley
Harris, Mrs. Freddie Sears,
and Mrs. Patricia Strickland,
Dallas; Mrs. Betty Doublin and
Mrs. Helen Talcott, Garland;
Mrs. Janice Hall, Mesquite;
and Mrs. Ernestine Denson,
Richardson.
Registered nurse instruc-
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Reamy, Mrs. Marilyn Martin,
and Miss Sue Cauthron.
A new Vocational Nursing
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Teen Topics
By Irene Con ley
Judy Moseley, Cathy and
Debbie Templeton are going
to East Texas Cheerleaders
School next week. They will
be leaving Sunday and return-
ing Friday. Have fun!!
***
JoNell Johnson, Kathy Hol-
loway, Paula and Janie Tem-
pleton left Wednesday to at-
tend 4-H Club Camp at
Trinidad. They will be re-
turning Friday.
***
John Sims and David King
gave a surprise party for
Eddie Knight Saturday night.
***
David King, Roger Coley
and Mr. W. S. Permenter at-
tended the state FFA Con-
vention last Wednesday,
Thursday, and Friday at Texas
Tech in Lubbock.
***
Johnny Knight is having a
garage sale at his house.
***
Pete Murdock is back on
his feet again after his car
was totaled Wednesday.
***
The front of Johnny Cal-
laway's car received all of the
damage after we had a col-
lision Sunday afternoon. No
injuries though.
***
The Cowbell Rodeo in Mans-
field is becoming a popular
spot for some of the local
teenagers on Saturday night.
Donald Bland is pretty much
of a regular there. Last
Saturday night Reba Holveck,
and Jeannie Mobley were also
in the stands.
***
Peggy May had surgery last
week to remove a chipped bone
from her hip. An injury re-
ceived during basketball sea-
son.
***
Peanuts is in Room 130 at
Methodist Hospital recovering
from injuries received when a
horse fell on him. He has
had a broken shoulder. He'll
probably get out today.
***
I've needed a good luck
charm at my house this week.
My sister broke her collar
bone, I had to miss two days
of work from a bad sunburn.
stuck a rusty screw in my
foot and had to get a tetenus
shot and a penicillen shot and
then the climax came Sunday
when I was involved in an ac-
cident that bent up the family
car a bit. Wonder who is
sticking pins in my voodoo
doll.
Fire Calls
July 16--Grass and brush
fire, Mansfield Road.
July 16--Brush fire, Mans-
field Road.
July 18--3 false alarm
calls reporting a house fire
on Lee Street.
July 19--Rescue call, 3 car
accident at Highway 67 and
Belt Line Road.
Personal
Sherry Conley, nine year
old daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
J. N. Conley, fell last week
and broke her collar bone.
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