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Newspaper
Fredericksburg Standard
Location
Fredericksburg, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1939
Page
4
State officials and Texas press laud Gillespie County for 96 percent tax collection, noting low tax rates, reduced borrowing, and savings on interest. The piece urges residents to take pride as a model democracy and keystone in public finance.
A Texas DPS pamphlet shows 1610 highway deaths in 1938, the second lowest in five years, with December the peak month. The report notes most fatal crashes involve one car meeting another, occur on open roads, on weekends, and between 8 and 10 pm, with men aged 30 to 49 most at risk. It urges Education Enforcement and Engineering and stresses driver responsibility behind the wheel.
A San Marcos editorial urges local shopping, arguing residents should buy locally when possible to support hometown merchants. It weighs tradeoffs, noting some items may require out of town orders, and mentions Coke Stevenson’s tax plan for old age pensions and potential compromises in the Texas Legislature, including severance and sales taxes.
Dr. Gerald G. Garcelon cites personal hygiene and housing as key to tuberculosis spread within families. Overcrowding, unsanitary dwellings, and shared items raise infection risk, especially for children, while proper ventilation and sunlight reduce death rates as shown in Liverpool and Detroit studies.
Household hint advises buyers to look for on label the exact phrase pure dye silk and to ensure only minimal other substances. If colored silk contains up to ten percent additives and black silk up to fifteen percent, other materials may bear the label pure dye but must include all three words pure dye silk.
The article reports Prof. H A Nelson of Southwest Texas State Teachers College advocating electric fencing to cut fencing costs by about 80 percent, noting its effectiveness for horses cattle and hogs. It also covers Texas railroads planning an 80 cent per 100 pounds cut on wool and mohair shipments from San Angelo to Houston, aiding farmers under the Texas Sheep & Goat Raisers Association. It lists representative local sales and ends with an Agriculture Department forecast of a large winter wheat crop potentially triggering a farmer referendum on sales quotas.
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