Rock Valley Bee (Newspaper) - January 30, 1947, Rock Valley, Iowa Oars Badly Damaged Saturday p.m Four Autos Damaged in 2 n i fit Francis Hudson route and a campanion were cut about the face and bruised when their car top a 1937 Chevy collided with the 1938 Packard driven by Ellis Skiles who lives with his family at the Warren here Mrs Skiles arid children were also the Packard but none were injured Whitehorn blamed bright lights for his inability to avoid the crash Damage to cars is QAA extensive Photo Senator J T Dykhouse Writes Of Plan for Ic More Sales Tax Des Moines Ta 25 1947 Dear I arn writing a few lines in re- gard to a few of the important matters that will be taken up at this session of the legislature biggest one of these will be the income lax it should be retained at the 50 per cent rate or allowed to go to 100 per cent The one in- lowers that rate 50 per cent gives the executive council permission to raise it to 100 per cent in case of an emer gency It is hard to tell just what the legislature will do Many m the Senate seem to think that as long as per cent income tax rate brings in just as much or more money as the 300 per cent does in normal times it should be retained at 50 per cent Then too even at the Cent rale income tax is er than any other state in the union with the exception of three or four states I introduced a to eliminate the personal income tax and low the Federal Government to have this field and have the State add one cent additional sales tax I am not in any way pushing this and feel that it will not pass I realise that this sales tax appears as though it is taxing the man but most of us know that if we will stop to that any tax imposed upon a man manufacturer or corporation is passed on to the consumer by adding it to the cost of his prod uct The only difference is of course that when the consumer pays the sales tax he notices he is paying a tax while if it is added to the cost of the product does not realize he is paying it v By eliminating the income tax we would save several thous and dollars a year and oE course that would beNj definite saving to all taxpayers especially the consumer The legislature is being con- fronted with demands for in- creases in salary from every de- and the Senate has de- to refer all these requests io one committee and will con- sider no new requests after ruary 21 This committee will then them and adopt the proposal Senator has outlined above does pass and the in- come lax is decreased There still remains the emergency clause which would present and may at some future date be enacted ing us both the sales lax and the higher In- come tax We agree that the cost of legislation has gone up along with so many other things but we do not it has gone up to such a degree that a little paring could not be done where foolish ing has been doing away with a great share of the dollars that are poured into the state treasury department The largest kick against an increase in sales tax or sales tax for thai matter is that there are no lines drawn as to whai should be for example is a viral necessity 46 life and health and should not he taxed in any way Legislation when ing to taxes especially where the voters are urged to accept them as strictly emergency measures should be just that and carry a terminating date extended only if the need and emergency still truly exists The financial condition of all stales on average is considered to-be good and Iowa can be included in the upper brackets Therefore where pray the gency and is an emergency where Rock Valley Bee Covers N Sioux County Like The Maize Sixty-Second 19 Rock Valley Iowa Thursday January 30 1947 Charter Oak la Gives Co Franchise Charter Oak Oak citizens stamped their approval on the Iowa Public Service com- pany in no uncertain terms at a special election Monday when they 305 to 2 in favor of extending the company's electric franchise 25 years the legal limit in Iowa This is the twelfth franchise extension given the Iowa Public Service company by Iowa towns during the last 18 months ing to the company Packard Chevy Tangle Headon Saturday Night Whitehorn Claims Bright Lights As Accident Cause Two cars a 1938 Packard and a 37 Chevrolet met in a collision near the Van Ginkel farm three and one-half miles west of Hock Valley on highway 18 at about 8 p m Saturday No serious injuries ed to any off the cars occupants but Francis Whitehorn Who lives in Sioux county on the Hudson S D route and his companion were shaken and bruised and re- minor cuts about the face Francis was driver the Chev- rolet which belongs to Walter Whitehorn of the Hudson route Passengers in the Packard were Mr and Skiles and two children were shaken tip a received no injuries Mr Skiles is employed at the Lyon County Reporter at Rock Rapids but lives at the Warren Secretary Agriculture hotel here Ion P Anderson has appealed to Skiles had dimmed his lights producers of Minnesota North as Whitehorn approached and was and South Dakota and Montana well over on the right-hand side to increase flax plantings at the There will be no ing held for the month of ruary ore of the road according to reports Whitehorn claimed he was blinded by the lights He was price 01 reportedly traveling near the for flaxseed Secretary Anderson ter of the road The cars met headon near the left front wheels of each Damage to both ears is sive The front wheel of the Whitehorn car was torn com- off and damaged on its left side making it unpractical to have it repaired The Stales auto was similarly damaged but without the loss of front wheel Being the ier car of the two damage to it slightly less Legion Members In Sioux County Number Sioux county is the first county in Iowa which has surpassed its i to an an- of Newton State Legion com- mander With a present membership of to a quota of some fair and uniform policy re- p garding these pay Both the House and the Senate 110 now hai the are fully organized now and membersh m committees are functioning and legislation should Progress smoothly and rapidly from now on Very truly J T Dykhouse in its history which itself broke all previous American Legion members THE BEE BUZZES EDITORIAL We are sure Senator Dykhouse has the best interests of the people he represents in mind and Ve heartily agree with him that probably won't be passed Here is tax measure was law back in the early thirties supposedly as an emergency measure We feel that the emergency has long since been over and that sales tax should be reduced or eliminated altogether not increased us suppose however the county organization Sioux county has several local hich state ra District Scouters Meet at S Center Monday Night Paul Collenbaugh and H L McCaughey attended a district scouters meeting in Sioux Center on Monday night of this week Sixteen men representing all the towns m Sioux county were present at the first meeting of the new year to plan the aims and objectives for the year for this district of the Prairie Gold Area council of the Boy Scouts of America Officers for this W City chairman York Johnson Hawarden vice- chairman St A Vander Sleep Orange City commissioner John Boone Orange and extension Chalterton Hawarden training Gilbert ders Hospers advancement Paul Collenbaugh Rock Valley finance The next meeting to be held February 27 followed by ings on April 28 September 22 and November 24 Sioux was chosen as the most ideally located spot in which to hold the meetings Rock Valley men sewing on of wheat acreage In announcing the new nt guaranteed price of that the 1947 winter wheat crop estimated at lion bushels is approximately 100 greater than the average annual production of all wheat spring for the period On the other hand said is in very short supply and an ex- acreage of this important oilseed for 1947 In view of the record winter wheat crop which is now in duction much prospective spring wheat acreage can ly be shifted to flaxseed in slates which produce both crop's The now minimum price represents an increase of per bushel above the support price announced last September This is expected to age producers to grow five lion acres of flax goal set by the Department of culture last November The decision to raise port price came after appeals by representatives of flax farmers These leaders indicated the higher guarantee would result in growers meeting the five million acre goal Although this would r-ii YT represent an increase of 90 per cent over the ed 1946 it is still far short of the acres sowr in 1943 Flax has been bringing in the cash market at apolis and flax buyers ket experts are of the opinion that this price will hold until the new crop starts to mg and Supt R A gust or September Alton health and safety It is of course impossible to and Peter B Mouw Sioux definitely predict a market Nso many months ahead but a re w aneau out a re- -j Meeting dates for the district cent survey made in the market of committee were set as indicates that the present price Amounted to 12 per cent present price will be maintained for some time to come Young Polio Victim Conducts Personal Dimes Drive Little Jennie Koenen ild daughter of Mrs John was stricken with in- antile paralysis last fall and spent two months in a Sioux City Koolhaas Sale Is Postponed Because Of Bad Weather C Koolhaas who was to have sold out his personal property at the farm located four miles cast and one and one-half miles south of Hull has postponed his sale to February 10th New sale bills will be put put this afternoon Thursday and will be followed by an ad in next week's Bee conditions Wednesday the when the sale was supposed to have been held are blamed for the postponement Sale Dales A art Van Veldhuizen who lives three miles east and two and one- half miles north of Ted service station here is going to hold a sale at that place on February 12 KOENEN where she was treated tor the affliction She came home from the pital on crutches but at the pres- ent time is almost recovered from the ill from the polio Jennie realizing that the dimes hat had beeri donated by friends were partly responsible for her good treatment and care decided she help out year by putting on a af her own Ji promoting dimes for the annual March of Dunes out with list and money and ed towards the goal which has been for Sioux county She made her rounds on foot and score people probably call on more people as the drive comes to a close her down Oil Shows -25 Pet Sales Increase At their annual meeting stockholders the Community Oil company elected the following officers to serve for a term F T and Carl president Keegan is vice- je president with Glen Benson AU help was re-hired for the year Elmer Miller is manager Jake Vande Weerd assistant manager and Clarence Miller tank wagon and salesman Have Good Year Sales for the past 25 per cent increase over the previous year to A Iowa teachers will have more inducement to remain in this state if the minimum salary prepared by the Iowa State cation association is made into law The would supplant the present sliding scale minimum of to a month antee ranging from a year for inexperienced teachers to 000 a year for experienced college graduates Teachers with two years of training and years of experience would receive a minimum of while year graduates with no ence would get at least a year The proposed schedule ho certificate based on less than two years of college ing whereas the present law places the two-year diploma at the top of the minimum Another difference is the lation of the yearly minimum as contrasted with the monthly ure in the present statute The holder of any valid certificate for the a minimum and the range advances to a month for holders of based on two years of college training In presenting the the out that in year past Iowa teachers salaries ben considerably below the tional average In the U S Office of Education listet the nation's average at while Iowa's average was In that same year Illinois paid at average pf Michigan 016 Minnesota and consin Conditions listed by the asso as at least i r A L Lock Struck by Auto Tues A M Applied Brakes Plus Slippery Snow Is Blamed for Mishap Dr A L Lock traveling along 18 about one and one- uarter miles east of Hock Valley vas struck by a car driven by Richard Liebermann of 28 lall Blvd Garden City N Y t about a m Tuesday of his week Lieberman was pulling up be- ind a truck as Dr roaching in his Chevrolet from he opposite direction He his brakes to slow down to Dr Lock to go by before to get around the truck As he applied the brakes on the road covered with y fallen snow caused him to skid ight out in front of the rig car and a headon collision vas the result The occupants of neither car very injured but damage to both is extensive and a great deal f repair will be needed to put hem back into running con- The accident was classed as un- avoidable and slippery roads Eagles Concentrate Along Mississippi River concentrations of bald eagles the bird of the national emblem ar reported at various ors to be awarded at the state convention in Sioux City in gust They Town Membership Alton Hospers gj Irelon Orange City Rock Sioux Center Other Sioux county posts are expected to reach quota soon They are located at Boyden and Granville Commander Halden praised the work of Sioux county and local post Legion officers in achieving their goal Carl Bierma of Sioux serving on ar resorted at various committees Collenbaugh locations along the non- are McCaughey organization and river The birds feeding on fish lea at tnc state t Total of the various fuels sold last year amounted to gallons The number of members in the company now total 536 The meeting was a success and financial statement for the calendar year 1946 extension Don Kiein and ence Mulder health and and Ben Meerdink finance The various committees out- lined their reports at the ing which was begun with song and closed by a light lunch Center is the county commander On a statewide basis Legion membership is also booming this year Commander Halden ed out Iowa now has a membership of more than which it is believed is larger than that of all other veterans combined The Iowa De- of he Legion is aiming at a 1947 membership of their favorite article of diet are found below the nine-foot nel dams where the water re- mains open all winter More than 30 of the great birds have been observed at Burlington and ob- servers report that they exhibit bandit Large brs of fish ducks in the same area are regularly robbed of their catch by the eagles which arc less proficient fishermen Except for their thieving tendencies bald eagles apparently not molest the ducks Alaska Living Cost In Alaska both pay and living costs average higher than in he 48 of the Untied Schemmers To Cleveland Ohio For Convention Mr and Mrs C H Schemmer left Sunday for Cleveland O to attend the International Heating and Ventilating Engineers con- vention They will return to Rock Valley on Friday Identical Osage claims some sort of a record when a legion bowling team turned in identical scores for one evening of ing Each of the five members of the team rolled three games and each came up with the same points per game departure of Iowa for jobs in business industry December 1941 and May 1045 Iowa led the nation in thi loss by a wide margin During the same period Texas with twice as many teachers lost only and Illinois with more than twice as many sent only into other work More than i third of the state's teaching per was lost in one war yea to the armed industry These losses were in addition to the normal turnover vere blamed for the cause of the rash Elected President of R V Baseball Assoc The Rock Valley Baseball held its n the Legion rooms here last Wednesday evening at which almost a hundred sports heard the financial report ead by K A Barnard and held an election of officers foi the coming Enthusiasm ran high as C H Schemmer was nominated and speedily voted in as president of association Following his election eight men were to The following four men were elected jy written ballot to assist Solly Schemmer for the coming Glen Benson Emmett Scanlan C and Miller The committee met after the meeting and elected Emmett Scanlan as secretary and John Dykstra as Following the election the new president said a few words about probable plans for the year and he placed particular emphasis on the club's duties to the youth in the community saying that the club should foster and aid any other minor team whether it be part to low salaries include the a team or other amateurs He added that the boys trained today would be the and professional players of tomorrow Last year's volunteer ticket takers were given a big hand for their work and volunteers accepted for the same job for the coming season Indications point to a belter than ever ball club this year It was noted that players would possibly be more difficult to ob- as there will be more tain for the coming season in- clubs formed this year than th TRAIN WAITS were last thus the competition players higher priced Uniforms The Milwaukee freight was all j Some discussion was brought coupled and ready to pull out of before the meeting about n town -U in town last Saturday but was ing for a load of hogs to come in from the country so they could be taken to market The truck uniforms for the team and in general the men were in favor of procuring colorful uniforms The final decision however was iin nc that was to have delivered them left to the committee had broken down however and I the train had to pull out without the load of hogs MARKETS Markets furnished through the courtesy of the Farmers Elevator Co Wednesday afternoon sub- ject to market changes No 2 Yellow R V Creamery Co To Hold Meeting On February 3rd The Rock Valley Creamery Oats Soybeans Butchers Packers -21.15 company hold its annual stockholders meeting Monday February 3 in the Orpheum atre The stockholders will hold an election of officers at the meeting hear the financial re port and mull over any other business that might come before meeting
