Merchants Oppose 10 Percent Texas Sales Tax Debate
Texas merchants and labor advocates clashed before a Senate tax committee over a proposed two to ten percent sales levy. Retail and furniture associations argued it would burden low wage workers, while property owners urged taxes to retire public debt and fund roads and schools.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Texas
Senate
Hardware and Furniture Dealers
State Federation of Labor
Organized Labor
Wallace C. Reilly
Dallas
Texas State Federation of Labor
Reilly
Robert Kleberg
San Antonio
Kleberg
John T. Smith
S. L. Pandlett
Lancaster
Retail Hardware Dealers of
W. Ef,henna
Round Rock
30000 Mattresses Given to Indigent
Thirty thousand mattresses have been distributed to relief rolls as relief mattress factories operate at capacity. All but ten counties have access. clients in distress were served first. Beginning tomorrow beef sausage will be distributed from relief canning plants without affecting regular budgets, at three eggs per week for a family of five. Canned beef is cut from twelve to six per month, offset by seven carloads of cheese from the federal surplus relief corporation. A portable X-ray device will detect flaws in steel castings, capable of penetrating four inches of steel.
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Austin
Texas Relief Commission
Texas Relief
Federal Surplus Relief Corporation
Paris Cuts Capers Charters Granted
Gato Oil Corporation of Mission receives charter with capital stock 15000 and incorporators C. C. Bishop J. D. Brock and A. Van Desar. Amendments listed for Palo Duro Furniture Company of Amarillo including a decrease.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Gato Oil Corporation
Mission
C. C. Bishop
J. D. Brock
A. van Desar
Palo Duro Furniture Company
Amarillo
State Hearing On Oil December 22 In Texas
Austin December 12 The Texas Railroad Commission called a statewide oil proration hearing for Saturday December 22. It announced nominations would be requested on market demands for January February and March. Officials anticipated upward revisions of proration schedules after a Washington announcement that federal authorities granted Texas an increase of 33 000 barrels daily for January.
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Austin
Texas Railroad Commission
Washington
Thompson
Commission
Texas
Missionaries in China Held by Outlaws
Journal report from Shanghat says two American missionaries, R J Stam and wife from Paterson New Jersey and Holyoke Massachusetts, together with their two month old baby, were captured by bandits in southern Anhwei province. Captors fled government troops and have not yet been contacted. The Stam family and other missionaries E A Kofield and wife from Bend Oregon are affected by the incident near Tunki Anhwei, about 60 miles south of Tsingteh.
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Holyoke
Stam
China Inland Mission
E. A. Kofield
Bend, Ore
Tunki
Anhwei
Tsingteh
Facial Lifts More Popular With Men Say Surgeons
Plastic surgeons report a higher proportion of men seek face lifts than women, noting shifting preferences and growing acceptance of cosmetic procedures among male patients. The trend is expected to be discussed at an upcoming hearing.
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B. FP. McLain
Retail Furniture Association of Texas
James V. Allred
Allred
T. J. Holbrook
Galveston
McLain
Paris
Capers
Lucien Lelong
Bellans
China
Douglas
Thermer
Amarillg
Los Angeles
New York
English Field
Abso Rave
Pete i
Philco
Philco Radio-Phonographs
Philco Auto
Elon
Benes
Europe
South America
Nunn Electric Company
Shirley
Just
Randal Drug Store
Shirley Temple
IR Tn
Mickey
Min Oenie
Isley
Ing
Ansco
American Flyer Typewriter
Zipper Cutex
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