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THF. PALMER RUSTLER -Touradty Evening, June 2. 1955
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4 4n( of County
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In the County
6 Months. 50c
1 Year. $1.00
aid ... On June 14th, the day set apart for
honoring- the Star Spangled Banner, may it
wave from every flagstaff on every main
street and from every home from the At-
lantic to the Pacific and from Canada to
Mexico. In repeating last year’s drive for
“New Glory for Old Glory,” the 31,000 Posts
and Units of The American Legion and its
Auxiliary will go all out in making this Flag
Day the most inspiring demonstration of na-
tional unity, spirit and dedication the world
has yet seen.
Again this year, the nation’s 25,000 dry
cleaners will clean your flag free of charge
from. June first to June 11th, in return for
your promise to put it up on Flag Day. Amer-
ican Legion Post is ready and anxious to help
you or advise you in its proper display. Thus,
now is the time to get your flag out, see if it
needs cleaning or mending. And if it is too
tattered or faded, (or you haven’t got one)
order a new one quickly so you’ll be sure to
have it in time.
Now, if ever, is the time for Americans
to show their colors!
The Washington Merry-Go-Round
-ly DREW PEARSON--
Washington."This congressional
session, .so far devoid of any great
results and far below advance Dem-
ocratic hoopla, will get a business
bombshell from Congressman James
Rooseve\t of California.
He plans to introduce legislation
divorcing the big oil companies from
the retailing end of the business.
His investigation of filling sta-
tions has shown a shocking system
. by certain of the big oil companies,
■ especially Shell and Standard Oil of
Kentucky, to force filling-station
owners to carry certain tires, bat-
teries, and accessories which the big
oil companies want carried whether
the owner wants them or not. Fill-
ing-station operators who refuse to
• comply and who carry an indenend-
| ent brand of tires or batteries are
threatened with loss of franchise.
Witness after witness testified be-
fore the House small business com-
mittee that he was forced to stock
up with certain tires and accessories,
also forced to boycott other inde-
■ pendent makes.
As a result, Roosevelt and his fel-
low committee members will pro-
prise that the oil companies be di-
vorced from the retail business just
as the motion-picture producers
have been divorced from movie-
theatrt* exhibition.
, They believe that little business-
men are finding less and less op-
portunities open and that they must
| have at least free opportunity in
the'retail trade.
The bill won’t pass this session,
. but Roosevelt plans to draft and
propose it this summer.
—Who Comes First?—
Silver-crested Spessard Holland,
Florida Republican, and Congress-
man George Dondero, Republican
of Royal Oak, Mich., got into quite
a tiff over who should present a
desk set from Vice President Nixon
to Nicaragua’s President Somoza.
• The.*et was taken to Nicaragua
by a iohgressional delegation jun-
keting through Central America and
Holland argued that he should
make Che presentation because a
Senator is more important than a
, Congressman.
Dondero huffily replied that he
was older and had been in Congress
longer than Holland. Though only
a Congressman, Donero snorted, his
isenioriy gave him protocol rights
i over HdHand.
| In the end. both Holland and
• Dondero talked at once as they
deUrcrMI the desk set to the Pres-
ident of Nicaragua.
It looks as if the United States
might be in for a period of peace
in the Pacific—at least for the time
being. Several important things are
happening .In the backstage maneu-
vering of the diplomats Here are
some of them:
No. 1 and most important, the
Russians appear to have cut off
arms to China. This has made the
Red Chinese furious. It’s also held
up any all-out attack on the off-
shore islands. Some diplomats
think Moscow may develop a Chi-
nese Tito as a result, though this is
probably much too optimistic. At
any rate, what Moscow wants is no
boat-rocking of the peace while
they're still trying to woo the Ger-
mans away irom rearmament.
No. 2—India's crafty Krishna
Me non has been almost commuting
to Peiping to persuade Chou En-lai
to pipe down; also to release the
American prisoners. He appears to
be making progress.
No. 3—-Pakistan’s Mohammed All.
Burma’s U Nu and Indonesia’s All
Sastramijojo are also trying to calm
the Red Chinese, prevent any out-
break around Formosa
No. 4—Carlos Romulo. special
Philippine envoy and good friend
of the USA. has been secretly in
vited to visit Red China. He should
be an additional pacifier.
No. 5—Senator Know land of Cal-
ifornia, sometimes called the ‘'Sen-
ator from Formosa,” wisely decided
not to ropk the boat with any state-
ment-making during the British
elections. He wanted Eden to win.
knew his tough statements played
into Labor’s hands. The Knowland
silence worked well and he may con-
tinue It.
In brief. U. S. diplomats hope and
believe the Quemoy-Matsu tempest
will remain in cold storage for the
time being. It’s bound to lash out
eventually, however.
—Problems of Atomic Age—
A secret atomic energy report
warns that, in years to come, the
United States will accumulate a
dangerous amount of radioactive
waste from our atomic factories.
What to do with it will become a
problem.
At present this wnsto is bottled in
thick containers and buried in the
desert Bat’ the radioactive poison
will eventually eat through the con-
tainers and might pollute the na-
tion's* underground water supply.
After A dangerous amount of ra-
dioactive waste accumulates, there-
<>re, it may be necessary to remove
it completely off the earth. One
method, actually under considera-
tion. believe it or not, would be to
load the containers on rocket ships
and shoot them into space. If the
rocket hit Mars or some uninhabit-
ed planet that would just be their
bad luck.
—Capitol News Capsules—
Is Russia sincere?—Chancellor
Julius Raab has tipped off the West
that Russia’s signing of the Aus
Irian peace treaty will lead to i
sweeping redeployment of Soviet
army and air forces in Eastern Eu-
rope .... Raab is convinced the
Russians will give dramatic proof of
this by pulling back hundreds of
thousands of their troops and planes
in the satellite countries, replacing
them with limited defensive units.
If this does happen, it will be one of
t he most far-reaching moves to
establish real peace since the end
of World War II.
Dulles’ Nepotism—J. Faster Dulles
Is not much of a sentimentalist, but
he proposed a champagne toast to
his sister, Eleanor, during the Big
Four foreign ministers conference
This startled Russia’s Molotov some-
what. but he raised his glass along
with the French and British for-
eign ministers. Reason for the toast.
Dulles explained, was that Eleanor
Dulles, who works in the State De-
partment. spent three years of her
career rewriting the Austrian peace
treaty .... No Secretary of State
in years has had so many relatives
on the payroll as Dulles. His sister
is in the State Department and his
brother head of central intelligence.
County Agent Kruse
To Attend Meet At
Cleburne Thursday
County Agent Walter Kruse will
attend an all-day range and pas-
ture meeting Thursday at Cle-
burne. The meeting is being spon-
sored by the extension department
of Texas iA&M College.
Directing the program will be
Ted Trew and A. H. Martin of the
extension dejmrtment along with
Tici Martin, district agent.
It was disclosed today at the
county agent’s office that Tom
Plater and Mrs. Elsie Short of
College Station, agents for the
farm and home development for
the extension department were here
yesterday. They gave instructions
on farm planning to Kruse. Mary
Cotitraji, county home demonstra-
tion agent, and her assistant, Mr$<
Ann Bonner,
SANFORD
Association
,'AlfSTHfl, toL—Beer was tapped
for, the big pay-off as the Senate
rolled out a new tax bill-expected
to pour $108.00(),000 in new money
into the Treasury in two years. On
the 137th day of an overtime session
the Senate passed a m&ny-changed
version of the. Hov.se tax bill. It
left the last say to the House and
hoped for a quick wind up.
The bill is expected to produce
$62,000,000 during the next two
years—for the general revenue fund.
It carried a bookkeeping re-alloca-
tion feature which will give this
fund $3,000,000 more from current
taxes. Thus it offered the House
$9,000,000 more than the $56,000,000
required to unblock the record bil-
lion and a half dollars appropria-
tion bill. It provides about $44,-
000,000 in the biennium for high-
way purposes.
Three round pennies will carry
the brunt of the, burden of the new
tax structure — one cent more on
gasoline and cigarettes and a new
levy of a penny a bottle on beer.
In this, the sixth main version of
a money bill—the, Senate swung
back to the Houses’ proposal of 1
cent on gasoline and cigarettes.
But the ‘Senate substituted a
whopping $16,000,000 a year addi-
tional tax on beer for the House’s
$1,000,000 a year increase on beer
and wine dealers’ license fees.
Final passage was voted 18 to 13.
Stripped out of the Senate passed
tax bill were House, proposals for a
levy on cigars', snuff and tobacco.
Added was a token one-20th of a
cent levy on ‘‘dedicated” natural
gas — long - term exclusive con-
tracts. payable by the long pipelines
and expected to produce $2,000,000.
Gas pipelines were put under the
intangible assets tax.
Dropped were, Senate proposals
for manufacturing taxes and grass
receipts taxes on department s tores,
hotels and motels. Rejected by the
Senate was a gross receipts tax o n
the metals aj}d chemicals industries.
Senator Grady Hazelwood* slender
graying member froijq .Amarillo,
emerged with the winning combina-
tion to unblock the long and con-
fused Senate fight for new revenues.
At Friday's session. Senator Otus
Lock of Lufkin, who termed himself
the “coerced sponsor” of the tax
measure, offered a new “in between”
plan which salvaged part of Gov-
ernor Shivers' original recommen
datioip and made concessions to an
obdurate House.
Lock proposed a l'i cent increase
on gasoline, halfway between the
cents tire Governor wanted and the
1 cent the House voted—and 1
cents on cigarettes: along with a 25
cent per $1,000 franchise tax levy
on corporate stocks. It would bring
in the needed $56,000,000 to the
general revenue fund, he .-.aid.
But Senator Hazelwood came up
with his substitute and it was fav-
ored, 22 to 9, over the Lock plan.
The final vote put both House
$nd Senate on record for a 1 cent
only increase on gasoline, making
the entire bill more palatable for
House conucurrence.
Beer industry leaders who had
sucsessfully fought off a proposed
$1.30 per barrel increase in the
House and also in Senate commit-
tee (which would have raised the
total rate to $3.30 or to 1 cent per
bottle) suddenly found their indus-
try saddled with a tax of $5.30 a
barrel—or an additional 1 cent per
bottle tax.
VERF.RANS LAND
New batches of indictments
against former Land Commissioner
Bascom Giles were returned in Tra-
vis County. Five indictments clutrg-
ing theft linked B. H. Sheffield of
Brady with Giles. Eight charges of
forgery were made against Shef-
field. Then five more indictments
against Giles and Sheffield charged
theft and conspiracy of theft.
A conn of inquiry on Land Office
affairs droned on—questioning all
employes of the land office.
t Giles’ scheduled first trial at
San Antonio, on a bribe charge—
was postponed until August. Post-
ponment was granted on an affi-
davit that a House member, Rep.
Cecil Storey of Longview, had been
employed as one of his lawyers. This
was statutory grounds for post-
ponement until 30 days after the etui
of a session.
Both the trial judge, and the dis-
trict attorney criticized the law
forcing such postponment.
Rep. Dolph Briscoe Jr. of Uvalde,
author of a series of bills to clean
up the veterans' land administra-
tion, Immediately put in a bill to
restrict, employment of legislators.
Briscoe's bill would limit the auto-
matic postponement privilege to
legislators hired within one week
after a case or indictment was filed
or to cases where, the legislator was
the only attorney representing a
defendant.
SHORT SNORTS
Governor Shivers vetoed a bill
raising speed Units on all highways
from 60 to 63 miles an hour and to
70 miles on four-lane divided
highways. It would increase traffic
dearths and accidents, he ruled.
In all the turmoil of the tax dead-
“RIDICULOUS,” SAYS DEBBIE—Actress Debbie Rey-
nolds said Monday that rumors she and Eddie Fisher
have broken their engagement are “ridiculous” and
“Completely unfounded.” “We are very happy,” the pert
actress said after her return from a USO tour of the Far
East. “We have a small problem about our careers,” she
added. The couple are shown as they attended a theater
performance in New York recently. (NRA Telephoto)
Ennis Police Department Collects
Fines Totaling $915.25 During May
A total of $915.25 in fines was in the report.
collected by the Ennis Police De-
partment during May, according to
a monthly report released by City
Marshal M. G. Swafford.
The biggest portion, $488.00, was
from tickets issued for moving
traffic violations, Swafford stated
lock the House took time, out to
pass a constitutional amendment
resolution to create mosquito tax
districts.
A badly slassed Trinity River Au-
thority bill passed the Senate. A
feature was inserted to allow down-
river users additional water above
their old "normal flow” rights—
without paying for it.
Rep. J. O. Gillham of Brownfield
won House passage of his bill to
raise college registration fees from
$25 to $50 a semester. But it was
modified to exempt students work-
ing 20 hours or more a week. Sen.
Jimmy Phillips of Angleton prom-
ised to fight it until adjournment
if taken lip in th$ Senate.
Senator William H. Shir elm an of
Corpus Christi abandoned his bill
requiring lobbyists to register. Op-
ponents amended it until he said it
affected public officials more than
lobbyists.
Rep. J. E. Cox’s ‘‘unfair sales”
bill passed the Senate after it had
been waterevd down until opponents
said it was unconstitutional—but
meaningless even if valid. The,
Conroe representative’s bill was re-
stricted to grocery stores. Its pro-
hibition against selling below cost
also prohibited a merchant from
limiting sales or refusing to sell his
entire stock to competitors at the
advertiser prices. This would en-
able competitors to buy the bargain
merchandise before iiousewives had
an opportunity to take advantage
of the advertiser's specials.
Fines in docket cases, including
such offenses as drunkeness, fight-
ing and disturbing the peace, total-
ed $334.50.
Fines for overparklng at meters
totaled $92.75, the report showed.
TEXAS
BRIEFS
By United
Wa£o.—A grand jury here has in-
dicted Sgt. Marion Andrew Wash-
ington, a Fort Hood Negro soldier,
on seven counts in the Lovers Lane
slaying of Airman Henry Poole of
Spartanburg, S. C. Poole was killed
in April in a struggle with a Negro
bandit who threatened to criminal-
ly assault his fiancee as they were
parked on a lonely lane near her®!'
At the same time, two Waco police
officers. T. J. Richey and Earl Phil-
lips, divided $2,000 in reward money
for capturing the suspect. The in-
dictments against Sgt. Washington
are for rape and aimed robbery.
YOUR. . .
COUNTY AGENT
. . . SAYS:
Dairy Records
M. H. Broadfoot of Midlothian
has a herd of Grade Holstein and
Jerseys that ranked 24th In herd
production in Texas in 1964. Mr.
Broadfoot’s herd is listed as being
from Johnson County because there
is no testing association in Ellis
and his memberhlp Is in the ad-
joining county. His herd .produced
well over 10,000 pounds of miUc per
ccw.
Chlgger Control
Although it wouldn't be practical
to control the pests all summer,
entomologists say that 50 to 75
cents worth of toxaphene or chkr-
dune will kill the rel bugs on the
average home lawn for about seven
days.
Such a scheme is suggested to
picnic party or out-of-doors activity.
Or apply the insectides to areas
where the family sits or plays in
the yard.
One pound of five percent dust
of either of the insectides applied
to 1,000 square feet of lawn area
is recommended. The dusts are
available from most feed, drug and
grocery stores.
Sulfur has long been a popular
chlgger killer but toxaphere and
chlordane are more effective.
Dairy
Dairying is a specialized business
too. It’s the largest agricultural
enterprise in America. In 1954
slightly over 20 percent of all farm
income came from the sale of milk
and dairy animals as beef. In every
state in the union there are dairy-
men; about 2*4 million of U*em
in all. They produce the milk
which goes through more than
35,000 dairy plants and comes out
in bottles or as butter, cheese, Ice
cream and other dairy foods. There
arc about ten million people em-
ployed in the dairy Industry.. And
there are other millions building
the machines and trucks and fac-
tories and other equipment needed
to keep our river of milk flowing
fiom the farms to the consumers’
tables.
When you, as a consumer, go to
your back door or to the dairy
case in the grocery stove to pick
up your milk und dairy foods, you
don’t think about what has gone
into the production of those pro-
ducts. That’s as it should be, of
course. The dairy industry want
you to look upon its products In
in terms of the enjoyment and good
eating there is in them for you.
Cotton Insect Control
Remember to check for your cot-
ton insects as well as grasshopper
control. The important thing is tbpt
early control on both is cheaptifeapd
easier than it will be when the cot-;
ton is older.
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Austin.—The Senate has set $300
as the ceiling on small loans as it
began debate today on legislation
aimed at lifting the constitutional
limit of 10 per cent on interest.
Adoption of the proposed constitu-
tional amendment by the voters
would allow the legislature to fix
the interest on all loans unde r
$300. As originally approved by the
House—the proposal pegged the
ceiling on small loans at $1,500. Sen-
ator William Shireman of Corpus
Christi, who offered the amend-
ment cutting the limit to $300, pro-
tested.
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