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FRIDAY, JUNE 20v 1947
McGregor mirror mcgregor, texas
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I who
i to contribute far more to
! support of our state and its in-
j stitutions. I think that the State
j of Texas should tax the produc-
I tion of oil, gas, sulphur, etc. By
so doing, our state could make
me pay to support Texas roads
• TORNADO SEASON
During the summer months,
the| readers of the Mirror often pick
up their papers to read about a
tornado which tears- through a
community, leaving death and
destruction in its wake.
The tornado is one of nature’s
most destructive phenomena. Un-
the wind, has an area of rotation
that often exceeds three hundred
miles.
Whether the tornado and the
cyclone . originate from tiny
“whirlwinds,” which, -could be
relatively easilybroken up, or
whether they take form in the
higher atmosphere which sur-
rounds the earth is something
and Texas schools when I buy j like the hurricane, it strikes in a,
Texas gasoline in the District ofcompartively narrow path and-' wIlicl1 we do not know.
Columbia. I think that it is per
fectlv silly for Texas to continue
where it comes to grip with ma-
terial jthings, it tears them apart!
WORLD STUDENT EXCHANGE
There are .some 17,000 foreign
students going to school on Am-
■erican college campuses and a-
bout 2.500 American students
.aryl scholars studying in foieignj continue the American Infor-
countries. this latter number: ma^ion Program in foreign eoun-
would have been larger except: trjes j think a majority of the
for war-caused difficulties which J ]\xeirik)ers of both parties believe
prevented other nations from
accepting a larger number of Am
June 13, 1947 have inposed local taxes on those;
Dear Friends: j who come from States like Tex-!. , ,, , , „ ,
After two days of the hotest as which do not levy such taxes.1 ° pU ' t 16 111 ^ 611 C axa 10n _(m j inflicting injury upon all living
weather of the Season we are-1 have often pointed out that I j °m °^,n ^e°P e ^ c o n ltiij things that are caught in its
1 L > c. , 1 m 1 property taxes, gasoline taxes
1 this afternoon (Friday, June 13) j thought that our present exas et,cw]ien we could make the peo-j Scientists who are now exner
pvnpripnf'inff comp nf tba bn+pct tax system was unsound. I be- , p ,, , , , ,, , . f -ucniisrs, uno die now expei-
expenencmg some of the potest j ......, ---_ pie of other states share that bur- imehting with the production of
vien in proportion to the bene- rain arid snow bv the‘pelting of
fits they get from Texas natural clouds with infinitessimal parti-
argument of the session,
debate revolves around the
The —»■
bill!
erican students.
Dr. Kendrick Marshall, who
directs the International Edu-
cational Relations fo the U. S.
Office of Education, is anxious
to promote a two-way flow of
students, which, in his opinion,
will do more for world peace and
welfare than any other single
measure.
Dr. Marshall thinks that a re-
ciprocal program of education
will permit foreign students to
translate American modes of
thinking in their own country
:and at the same time give Am-
erican students an opportunity
to learn much from the foreign
students. Naturally, the pres-
ence of American students in
other countries will give them a
better understanding of the
foreign country, its people and
its problems.
One step in the carrying out
of the program of exchange is to
promote the visits of students
and teachers during the sum-
mer months. Two troop ships
have been set aside by the gov-
ernment to transport students
and teachers between thjs coun-
try and Europe, hut the details
have not yet been worked out
RURAL
PROGRAM
2.3,000
ieiefaA®Med
ml y&z&
There’s lots doing these days in
Southwestern Sell’s rural terri-
tory. We plan to connect 23,000
telephones in rhral areas in
Texas this year, and construc-
tion work is moving ahead.
The job of bringing good tele-
phone service to thousands c-r
farms in our 230 exchanges is a
big undertaking. It begins with a
survey of each exchange to de-
termine the kind and amount of
construction required. Then
farmers are interviewed, detailed
plans drawn up, materials or-
dered, and when they arrive, the
lines built and telephones in-
stalled.
The purpose of this planning,
organizing, and building is de-
pendable, up-to-date rural tele-
phone service. It’s the kind of
telephone service American
farmers need, and it’s the kind of
telephone service we plan to
make available, sooner or later,
to every farmer in our territory
•who wants it.
SOUTHWESTERN BELL
TELEPHONE COMPANY
we need some kind of program
to “sell the American way of
life to the rest of the world.” A
substantial group of Republicans
and some few Democrats still
feel that all we need to do is to
“thumb our nose at the rest of
the world and that we will be
perfectly safe. I cannot accept
this view, although I do share
the fear which is widely held
that many of the individuals
who have and who probably will
in the future direct this program
are far more radical than I would
like. I have never been able to
understand why the officials at
the head of such programs can-
not realize the importance of
building an organization of sound
thinking typical Americans. Af-
ter all, we want to give the world
a fair picture of America. Why
not, therefore, try to get typical
Americans to do it rather than
individuals from New York who,
as Cong. Gossett says cannot or
will not speak English.
I have spent much of the week
meeting and working with
friends from home who have
been here in the interest of the!
development of the Brazos and;
the Little Rivers. Last year we
secured an appropriation of
funds to begin contraction of' the j
Whitney Dam on the Brazos. This |
work is under way. We hope to I
get funds to continue the work. J
Last year Congress authorized j
the construction of the Millerj
Springs Dam on the Leon near.
Belton. We are asking for an ap-j
propriation to start the actual j
work on this dam, but we know!
that the policy of the Republican j
Majority is to start no new
works. • We do not, therefore,
know as yet what will be done,
but I know that our people pre-
sented a good case, and I feel j
that if anyone gets any money I
for new constracttion this pro-j
ject should. I know that it will!
suprise even some of the citizens!
of Bell and Milam counties to (
know that the Little River has
at times in the past carried al-
most twice as much water past
Cameron as the Mississippi is
carrying past Hannibal, Mo.,
right now.
We have a great program of
flood control on the Brazos and
its tributaries which requires not j
only the two dams I have men-j
tioned, hut which will require!
real soil conservation all overj
the watershed.
Early this week I took part in i
a successful fight to strike from;
the District of Columbia tax bill j
a provision which should have in
effect exempted from District of;
Columbia income taxes all ern-i
ployees here from States that!
have income taxes but would I
PLUMBING
Most items are in stock—
Water Systems, Plumbing
Fixtures, Hot Water Heat-
ers, Butane Systems.
LEE HARDWARE CO.
McGregor and Oglesby
resources. I don’t think
our farmers will ever get the
country roads they need or that
our teachers will ever get the
security to which they are en-
titled until we do tax our natural
resources which are each year
being removed from our state. I
that c]es tell lls that hurricanes, cy-
clones and tornadoes can be stop-
ped if caught in the beginning.
The trouble, of course, is to get
at the phenomenon when it is
small.
However, it would seem likely
that conditions which lead to the
started this fight for a fair natu- formation of the tornadre dis-
don't take a chance
INSURE/
ral resource tax while I was in
the Texas Senate nearly 15 years
ago, and I still believe that some
day Texas is going to proclaim
its independence of the oil, gas
and sulphur companies and write
its tax laws in the interest of the
people.
Be this as it may, however, I
think that it is the right of the
state of Texas to levy any kind
of taxes it wants and that neith-
er Congress or the District of
Columbia has any right to pena-
lize our citizens because our state
does not happen to levy an in-
come tax.
With best wishes, I am
Your ^friend,
~W. R. POAGE
It is difficulty to say which
may be most mischievous to the
human heart, the praise or the
dispraise of men.—Baker Eddl.
turbances will prevail over man-
made efforts to stop the process.
The tornado usually covers a
somewhat narrow path, running
from hundreds of yards to sev-
eral miles. The cyclone, which
is also a whirling or revolving of
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The McGregor Mirror and Herald-Observer (McGregor, Tex.), Vol. 59, No. 6, Ed. 1 Friday, June 20, 1947, newspaper, June 20, 1947; McGregor, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth890023/m1/2/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting McGinley Memorial Public Library.