Texas Tobacco Taxes Produce Substantial State Revenue
A look at Texas tobacco taxes shows more than 260 million dollars this year from cigarettes cigars pipe tobacco chewing tobacco and roll your own. Cigarette tax of 18.5 cents per pack accounts for about 240 million while cigar taxes bring roughly five million and other tobacco products about four million. Tax money largely funds the general revenue with small shares for state parks the Available School Fund and enforcement costs. Snuff remains untaxed by tobacco taxes and falls under the sales tax.
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State Treasurer's Office
General Revenue Fund
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Mrs. Dora Fultz Rites Held At Port Arthur
Funeral services for Dora Fultz 89 of Port Arthur were held there at 2 p m Sunday May 11 with grandson Minister Wendell Winkler of Fort Worth officiating Graveside services were at 2 p m Monday May 12 at West Boone Prairie Cemetery with Minister Winkler again officiating She was born in Lawrenceburg Tennessee and moved to Robertson County as a child later living 45 years in Port Arthur where she belonged to the Church of Christ Survivors include three daughters and two sisters Mrs Bill Tyler New Baden and Mrs Albert Daughtery Marlin.
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Dora Fultz
Port Arthur
Wendell Winkler
Fort Worth
West Boone Prairie
Winkler
Fultz
Lawrenceburg
Tennessee
Robertson County
Church of Christ
Bill Tyler
New Baden
Albert Daughtery
Marlin
Cooking Treasures Zucchini Pickles Recipe Card
Zucchini Pickles combine zucchini and onions in a vinegar sugar mix with celery seed turmeric dry mustard and salt. Heat the brine pour over sliced vegetables then simmer and pack hot into sterilized jars sealing promptly yields six to seven pints. A note cites an $800 billion energy independence aim for 1985.
Garden Guide Aspidistra a shade loving house plant
Aspidistra ela tior is a common garden plant in our area and a strong interior option for shady spaces. It thrives in loam soil with peat moss or leaf mold, needs watering about weekly, and feeding every two to three months. It prefers indirect light, resists most diseases though scale can occur, and blooms underground with small mushroom like flowers.
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Second Street
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