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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1957
Page
2
A notice lists a Friday March 22 mass at 7 30 pm at St Anthonys Catholic Church in Wit ting. The issue includes many social updates showing residents and families from Shiner Houston and nearby towns visiting relatives and spending weekends with local households.
Mr and Mrs Edward Liebicher welcome an 8 lb 3 oz baby daughter named Diana Susette born at Shiner hospital on Monday March 11th. The Liebichers now have four daughters.
Congressman Clark W. Thompson of the 9th Texas district reports on House actions to curb the peacetime budget, the failed farm legislation compromise, and ongoing agriculture reviews. He notes debates over cotton programs, foreign markets, forest policy, price supports, and drought, plus housing finance concerns for G I home loans and 4 to 5 percent rates.
The piece argues Martin Dies as best qualified for the U.S. Senate, citing 18 years in Congress and statewide election as representative at large. It defends freedom, critiques communism, and criticizes farm policy and subsidies while urging regulation of insurance and lawmakers. It links Lyndon B. Johnson’s woes to farm mechanization and parity subsidies.
A citizen pleads in a letter for a new farm program addressing declining family farms. The writer asks Congressmen Clark W. Thompson and Lyndon B. Johnson to grant cotton price support and graduated subsidies to benefit most farmers, warning current policies push farmers to cities.
The Internal Revenue Service office in Victoria offers a free booklet titled Federal Use Tax on Highway Motor Vehicles. It explains the Highway Revenue Act effective July 1, 1956, clarifies taxable vehicles, gross weight, exemptions, forms, returns, payments, and includes a vehicle category use tax schedule. The tax funds highway expansion and runs until June 30, 1972.
The article notes crime in the nation rose 14.4 percent while Texas saw a 9.8 percent increase in the same period. If the trend holds, 1956 would show an 18.3 percent rise over 1955, with Texas up 11.8 percent. State police director credits better training and tighter cooperation among law enforcement for hopeful declines ahead.
The Secretary of the Treasury may pay cash rewards up to ten percent of taxes penalties and fines collected for information leading to untaxed income or tax evaders. Director Phinney notes the Austin office and field offices receive detailed tips daily and the informant’s identity is kept confidential.
A friend complains to Sam Levenson about a teenage girl wanting a strapless gown for the school dance. He worries she is not old enough, and Levenson quips that if it stays up she is old enough.
A second floor tenant yelled at a below neighbor to stop playing the saxophone. The reply claimed the music had already ceased an hour earlier. Mrs. Charles Luksovsky and Mrs. E W Zimmerman and Lannie visited Yoakum on Saturday.
Sincere gratitude to the thoughtful community for deeds of kindness during the sudden death of husband and father Dr J C Burt. Such acts will be long remembered by Mrs J C Burt and children.
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