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Baytown Sun

Location

Baytown, Texas, United States of America

Date

Jun 03, 1955

Page

3

Compromise On State Tax Bill Talked

Senate and House discussed a compromise on a 100 million tax bill reducing beer levy and raising corporate tax. A conference committee reviewed changes, with talks of raising corporate franchise tax to 2.25 per 1000 and trimming the beer tax from six tenths to four tenths of a cent. Additional items on natural gas taxes faced opposition and possible removal.

C. B. Lloyd JR Austin Senate House House-Senate Sens Ottis Lock Lutkin Dorsey Hardeman San Angelo Searcy Bracewell Houston Grady Hazlewood Amarillo Carlos Ashley Liane Stanton Stone Freeport W. G. Kirklin Odessa James W. Yancy Jr E. F. Crim Henderson Ben Glasing Kingsville House Appropriations Committee D. B. Hardeman General Land Office Supreme Court Court of Criminal Appeals

Girl Scout House To Get Siding

The Ashbel Smith Dads Club will spend part of the $300 from last Saturday’s barbecue to put siding on the Girl Scout house at Seventh and Wright this weekend. They also mix and carry mortar for City Councilman Rufus Bergeron who will build a barbecue pit. Troop 71 will serve coffee and doughnuts. leaders are Mrs. James P. Moore and Mrs. T. E. Slack.

Ashbel Smith Seventh and Wright Rufus Bergeron James P. Moore T. E. Slack

Hizzoners to field in judges versus attorneys softball game

Chicago judges will have stand-ins to run the bases when they play attorneys Sunday in their annual softball game. Five pretty girls will do the leg work as the judges retire to the bench if they get any hits. Also, Mrs. Hilda Morse asks for return of a 50 cent keepsake coin from the Columbian Exposition, after a thief took $97 from her purse.

Chicago Hilda Morse

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