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Newspaper
Cameron Herald
Location
Cameron, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 02, 1939
Page
11
A unnamed congressional tax authority warns that a broad transaction tax would burden consumers and hurt small merchants. He cites higher administration costs, potential monopolies, and advantages for large chains, urging use taxes to offset interstate disparities. He compares the idea to France turnover taxes and notes added costs to price.
Cameron Council Knights of Columbus planned speakers for its meeting as part of its educational program. Dan Tyson discussed how Cameron city tax revenue is allocated and spent. Hon. M. G. Cox spoke on the governor inauguration and guest Niley Smith was introduced. Boy Scout Troop 52 to be discontinued. Coffee buns and hot dogs served after.
Mrs Ed Black of Milano traveled to Cameron on Monday for a business visit.
The Minerva column reports funerals in Houston for Mrs. Lottie Jahnke attended by relatives including Mr. and Mrs. Currey and Mr. Isiah Dyer. Local visitors G M Houston and daughter from Leander tour friends, and a Bluebonnet Union meeting in Cameron attended by Rev. Ann R Reed. Others note moved homes, shower for Sandra Jean House, weekend visits, PTA meeting plans for Fathers night, and a Saturday Methodist Church talk by William Bray of SMU.
A school hosted a Thursday morning program while Rev. Ann Reed attended a District Missionary Institute at Hearne on Friday. This brief item notes community education activities and religious training events involving district participants.
Sarah McCalla Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution placed a marker on Esther Cullins’s grave in the Beal family cemetery on Walkers Creek. The event featured floral tributes, a poem by Byrd Friend, and remarks on Cullins’s Texas lineage, including attendees from Georgetown Calvert Cameron and Cameron.
Public entertainment notice announces St. Rita’s Circle fundraising party on Wednesday February 8 at 8 p.m. in the old St. Anthony school building. Admission is 25 cents per couple and 15 cents for individuals.
A recruitment notice seeks a reliable man to call on farmers in Milam County no experience or capital required potential earnings up to $12 a day Write MeNESS Co Dept S Freeport Illinois.
Mrs John Cecil Culpepper and her son John Cecil Jr will spend the last of the week in Bryan with her husband who has business interests in the city.
Father T. F. O'Sullivan invites listeners to Sunday afternoon Catholic broadcasts sponsored by the National Council of Catholic Men on NBC. He cited private property as essential to liberty. Next Sunday at five, Monsignor Sheen will discuss Capitalism and Property on WOAT San Antonio.
Mrs Tenny Boykin of Ben Arnold spent the weekend with her daughter Mrs G A Plentl in the same town.
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