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Newspaper
Silsbee Bee
Location
Silsbee, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1959
Page
7
Time Inc reports net income for the first half of 1959 rose 13.2 percent from 1958 to 6,043,800 dollars or 13.09 per share. Revenues across publishing, broadcasting, paper products and other sources reached 131,802,400 dollars, while costs rose to 120,815,300 dollars.
Senator Martin Dies Jr issues a statement to Third District voters warning the Texas Legislature must pass an adequate tax bill or state operations will be crippled. He cites funding for public schools pensions colleges highways and state employees and notes Gov Daniel set a Sept. 1 deadline.
Thomas C. Morrison of Morrison Furniture Company Inc pleaded guilty in Federal District Court Houston to a false tax return for 1953. He allegedly owed 16082.50 in income tax and has prior jail experience for failing to produce company records. Sentence set for August 7 1959.
A 1907 style reflection urges passage of a broad tax bill to fund Sept. 1 pension checks for 225,000 old age recipients, noting multiple earlier votes for taxes on gas, autos, tobacco, alcohol, and utilities. It defends compromises as necessary for public schools and urges support for lawmakers. It also recalls 100 years ago notes on Marines finger print history and a 1859 treaty granting U.S. transit rights in Mexico.
An advertisement for Yoakum’s History of Texas from 1685 to 1846 with portraits maps and pictures. Extended Appendix in two volumes 8vo 1050 pages. Bound in sheep. It notes this is the only opportunity to purchase as the edition is nearly exhausted and another will not be printed.
In a retirement note the U S Senator lauds a Texas focused volume as authentic and valuable linking general affairs with official documents. Send by mail for $5 to Francis D. Allen a Galveston bookseller near the Post Office in Texas per the Austin Southern Intelligencer.
When Sergeant James Maguire joined the Naval aviation camp at Annapolis Maryland as a mechanic on November 6 1912 he became the first enlisted man in Marine Corps aviation.
A cryptic equation links 90 mile cars, 60 mile roads, and 380 mile drivers to ATH. The statement suggests a metric or event topology connecting vehicle types, road lengths, and driver ranges under the ATH designation.
Chester E. Cook M D of Silsbee was named medical director of Southwestern Life Insurance Co by president J Ralph Wood at a board meeting. He will assume duties August 1, succeeding retiring Dr C Frank Brown after 12 years of service. Dr Cook a UT Southwestern Medical School graduate and diplomat of two boards has served since 1953 as assistant and associate medical director.
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