The Taft Tribune (Taft, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 40, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 12, 1948 Page: 4 of 12
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Citv Drug Store Is New Busing
Recently Opened In Portland
SDAY, FEBRVAH 1 !-•
ry CHESTER
Bor AFtefi
GeT iT HOWCe. * PAPE
PAGE FOUR.
AIN'T IT THE TRUTH
The Taft Tribune
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KlUKOVS KAXINCP
K.OR.M "'ANP ONLY
229, AMP HERES
SOME SMOE-8RAMP
KRAOT. PH, AMP
SHALL WE TRY
SOME OF THESE
•fo HEAiR THE MISSUS
TALK, YOUP THINK
THE BlG-ClTY POOP
MERCHANTS WERE
INI BUSINESS JUST
FOR THEIR health
Published Every Thursday at T«»t. Texas, i
THE RICHAROS COMPANY
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Next to Postoffice
Managing Editor
Society Editor and Office Mgr.
Henry C. Richards
Ida E. Richards
The . a client kno*,
,r innrini msurti*,
>rdcd In England is |
TOMAME TOMATOES.
'Hi'fOXAY • OKAY r
jnml but for. th' iuva
mtffl PETE. DON'T FORGET.
I'VE GOTTA HAUL
i?-l Aj -THIS STUFF ALLA
MuSfl WAY HOME ! .
Come In and Inspect Ok
New Line Of Everyday
at tin- l>u«t office
nr"’*|p»7I^Mi »8 gecond-etone matter May 1» f**t
•Oft T«lt. Texas. undiw the Act. of March S. 137!#.
s T 0 NE’S
■ TAFT DRUG STOSE
" TAI1,
TIME, TEETH, AND T AFT
»'*»k Zahter, 81. of Cleveland. Ohio said he didn't
w«M» his wife locked M«* amt of the house five t.rt»»s in three
months and gave him a hrf foot while
, lMd to false teeth that was too much.—THE TAFT TRIBE* K
This aoHld never have happened in Taft, Editor Rich**. Al-
though « are not greatly furpmed at the odd didoes ,hat tr«n3;
Dire north of the Mason & Dixon lane, we do harboi a contif uuu,
complacency regarding the domestic tranquility which prev d ,
m households in Taft and other towns in these parts In all - s
Lg and progressive history. The Tribune has probably neve
ten called upon to record an usona. shut-out w.thtn the Jts
and bounds of Taft such as v-u have discovered >n far off Utvt
land Jolte over your way reside in peace and quiet and the do-
SSic Spring hangs on the outside per riially. F 'rthermore
Time has smiled bemgnantly upon the residents of your town.
L. wx. are ready to put our la,t penny on an old-fashioned
"Jetting'’ game in support of our belief that there's not a 31-year-
old resident of your cito who Ls not in full possession of his me
tivc ^ of molars The calcium. Vitamin,., and other tmnetals tnat
abound in the well-balanced menus on the family tables over your
S do a better job of preserving teeth than ail the pastes and
powders that keep radii, comedians on the a.r and alive. There
5T we opine, no ersatz teeth in Taft; but. even if a pair were to
Show up now and then among newcomers, we are ready to believe
St there are no plate purlovners among the fine housewives of
Deaceful city. Not a one,
Ph*nc
wsWtWWVWM
to t»*ar down *
sion to make v*
shire.
Hundreds of v
ing f >r a place
fine residence,
made into a hi
families, is to b
It was beautif
doubly
IMtelUlHMUHIUUlUniHlIlHIIHtlun'i""*
public interest in hie financial
offairs of the natiiwwl govern- j
!m*ru which new requires fori
its support approximately three
tin,.\ the amount of t»xei; re, j
. quired to support state■ ar*Jl '
units of government. Other fed
oral budget facts cited it
analysis included:
; ‘ Estimated federal expel
tubes this year,
average, already
approximati ty 21
each dollar of th
come of people of the
States-and now the
•n-al budget for the ISM#! <•> fiscal
vear calls for an increase m fed-
eral outlay, of $1.9+1.000,800
this year's expected expenditure-.,
2. Proposed federal spending
in the coming year i, equal
' more than eleven weeks of
■ average persons personal incoi
r as compared with seven wn
in pre-war 1941. six weeks
1939 and two weeks in !:M9.
Included in the new i
ce House
......................—......................................................
Tiie Chinese have a proverb
| which goes like this
, ’ He who knows not an
nation that he knows not. tn
equal tOHe who knows and xn
s out of! that he knows, awaken
lal in knows not and kn
United i tlneit he knows not, shun
new fed:jhi, u a |{e wh>
that he knows-
ovt 1 • t\ Texas town bad a mayor,
'who during the days of an oil
I boom, launched a vast program
!„f improvements, financed
through a bond issue The boom
j collapsed and there were bonus
[for a million- m two to »<• l>a‘d
new” bud-I off b>' r4,'flatH citizetvdup
substantial ! But they kept electing and i«-
, be spent electing the mayor when a
yet author- stranger asked why. a natw.*
such as j ‘oi^ Brfovn us into
and> by 'r:,rky' '" a
:A ■’mil'it.tr’v donn-'i have to git let -ut.
Irsman will pick up
Our route
laundry and dry cle
beautiful now beciiwe ' - ,,
1 : fhe touch of ^1 th:M>:: x
: l)( mernofie:. that p-rv-c" • '■ o
m ?|big high cmhnged inonu U ♦
n,,*lwn the sum- of balls and dirt- J
"" :ners fn Paris, »t w.uld be mhi- . J
kn'"' •• , [-bateau; m Italy. •' ♦
follow him. . . n,., ,, .-land for centum #
■ar it d"wn. so : ♦
her grocery store - Z
don't have enough ♦
o-,v to fill the shelve-: Z
; w'e already have. x
at vour
QUICK SERVICE Call 2-2524
at Corpus ( fsnsti ot drop us a c^d
TEXAS LAUNDSY;
& DRY CLEANERS
■Texas’ Share of Federal
Government Spending
To Be $1,578^26^00
(IrantfrrKjthfr's pctUo>.•’
| jrj Eryruidciupihtf'r * wardr
I spring. It may !)• hn^Lt
! !.1 riiibi w:
, JUST FOLKS
»■' By Edgar A. Guest
or pus
MAN IN OVERALLS.
Condemned to work with ^ |
* ii1 p iv'prnrnipnt in the cop.'ng’ vent,
t;ti::vr!,ziT%mne & »«-1^-.
H •. cent.iv submitted by the ( <«-
Dy’ ,, '„r„. will be $1,578,826,200 ac-
srrjsxru». ,^g«gTsrcs2
hood !executive vice president at th<
And sets aright what's wrong |South Texas Chamber of Corn-
tor me. i mere* , . ,
T wish such things I understood. ] On the average, tins amount
iSlA* »i- ;*sv,.’z&i! 8Jf^
I watch him as to work he gee-. ts ar_ ouliay for federal g»y-
To mend a wire or turn a screw, | ernment spending alone o.
And think: Now, what that fel- Is''®'f;“^ad ported out that the
Sow knows * Congress, whose leaders have in
I wish devoutly that l knew. jdicated an intent to make sub-
limdcr the hood he quickly sees ^tantial cuts in the proposed leu-
w" , : h,™ -1
see. vc-i.-,:, leontd, -.nd during t1,..t
What bothers me. h-- doe.- w:tu . v.d! h< i.-eeptive t» es
ease ! pressions ot 'back noree opm-
'tM to have such .-'nil h* rie ions federal sre.-n< mg-
Oh, glad am 1 in trouble time The ^/proposed' h-d
To see that smiling tare appeal - ; ’ j‘ .Vpenditure:. in the 1848-4!
Bomewha* ive-:i are-.l V’ m ... < . -j'V,
and firirri#.*. plainet! h Ch L»* t l> ■ ■
For then I know V •* help ol t Texas in Kiln
near. ,
T had burr with m c ! elate , t. !fni„,-| States, aocordir.
When he nr-.p^od- utiU' my t*,f. [■ s Deuartrnvnt of (.
1 epVv him anvi think ‘a^ ir. r... The share a-, con
That uw'u! man in overail T,
Th- firs* musical
snuff boxes which t.or .• • a u u ^ ( , ,n -I;mUill v t„ tt
tune when -renc) an-- ‘ ^ by Prv .dent ilarn
vented during the U'- - TrL..: . r, .
-------------------------- \n mV rr-rr:ting spendmfc y.u*
More than i 000 wildcats wer^ tf th<1 'ed-ru! executive bran-
M hv been u-il tuhtorma ,, ,, ,f amount- that w..u
caught by mc-* . ... . „« Texas pocketbool
trappers last Y(,ai, ., ir>' ...ppi.asi/ed the need f
state figures. ____________1_--------------------------------
.Wmm f t Pttn*l t^wa
Grots VrKch W*ugn/ Soivt?: 4 700 ***«.
Brand NEW!
Bonus duitt too
over 139 Niw mm
WiDiST TRUCK-WORM C0VW«!
COOKS WITHOUT THK COOK
let m give yw the facts on Bonus* Built ... the
life-extender factor available m Ford frocks only!
4 /00 lBSl- gross vehicle «K
RATING through 21,900m
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ano platform Mm
mi mW
When the biai k roof of a large j
factory was painted white, the re-
iult was an interior which was
cooler by several degrees in hot
weather
GAS RANGES
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Richards, Henry C. The Taft Tribune (Taft, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 40, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 12, 1948, newspaper, February 12, 1948; Taft, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth748810/m1/4/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Taft Public Library.