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Newspaper
Brookshire Times
Location
Brookshire, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1956
Page
21
The National Bulletin piece urges Christmas prayer above gifts and notes VFW Auxiliary activity across the country. It highlights holiday aid to veterans, crippled children, and the elderly, with 1955 gifts totaling 163 861.82 dollars. Mrs J R Nesbitt travels to Midland for holidays to visit her daughter Doris Nesbitt.
National president of the Ladies Auxiliary to the Veterans of Foreign Wars urges 375,000 members to begin Christmas Day 1956 with prayer. She emphasizes Christmas as a day of worship and calls Americans to pray harder in troubled times worldwide.
State Bar of Texas column explains federal gift tax rules exclusions for gifts up to 3000 per recipient and 30000 exemption per giver, plus how transfers within three years of death are taxed. It contrasts gift and estate taxes with an example of a farmer gifting land and why wills may be preferable. Legal caveats urge consulting an attorney.
Game Warden Jack Woodford of Miami reports a dangerous trend in the Panhandle bobwhite quail population. Drought and habitat loss are driving a rapid decline, with estimates of nearly one bird per day dwindling as quail forage in bare ground and face increased predation.
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