Low Texas city tax rate tops 1955 survey
Round Top in Fayette County posted the lowest municipal tax rate in Texas for 1955 at 15 cents per $100 of assessed value, a University of Texas Institute of Public Affairs survey found. The report lists seven towns at 25 cents and eight cities at the constitutional maximum of $2.50, with nine small cities levying no property tax.
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Texas
Round Top
Fayette County
University of Texas Institute of Public Affairs
Lynn F. Anderson
Institute
League of Texas Municipalities
League
Anderson
Avery
Red River County
Beverly Hills
McLennan County
Blum
Hill County
Byers
Clay County
Point Comfort
Calhoun County
Rio Vista
Johnson County
Woodsboro
Refugio County
Olmos Park
Terrell Hills
Bexar County
Richland Hills
Tarrant County
Fairfield
Freestone County
Roma
Starr County
Iraan
Pecos County
Newton
Newton County
Camp Wood
Real County
Roanoke
Denton County
Breckenridge
Cisco
Eastland
Edinburg
Lockhart
Mercedes
Ranger
Weslaco
Full Gospel Church Holds Revival
A revival starts Monday night June 11 at the Full Gospel Church two and a half miles north of town. Rev. Wallace Kealand will preach each night at 7 30. The public is invited, per pastor Mrs Geneva Busley.
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Full Gospel
Wallace Kea
Nederland
Geneva Busley
Don’t Scratch That Itch Instant Drying Medicine
An ad promoting ITCH ME-NOT promises relief in 15 minutes with a money back guarantee. It claims instant drying on contact to kill germs, suitable for eczema ringworm foot itch and other surface itches available today at TM stores.
May marriage licenses issued by County Clerk
Clarence McNeely reports thirty four marriages in May with partners listed by name and date May 1 through May 33. The long list includes Hughes Vaughn and Dorothy Vaughan through Hanley McCarty and Emma Cooper with various spouses.
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Clarence McNeely
Hughes J. Vaughn
Marius Dorothy Vaughan
Henry B. Duncan
Pat Steinmelly
John B. Conner
Arthur Lee Conner
Gilbert P. Perry
Barbara Alice Powell
Leo D. Low
Gladys Blanche Franklin
Arnold L. Holland
Rebecca Jean Johnson
Andrew J. Waldrop
Shirley June Cooley
Roland Matte
Elite Hebert
Herbert E. Richardson
Juanita Frazier Kirby
D. W. Cleaver, Jr
Burneeta Delois Gatson
Charles E. Willis
Claudia Coleta Murphy
Bertis Francis Mobley
Bessie Leona Hurst
Don L. Follis
Carol Ann Henson
James M. Jackson
Gene Drake
Guy B. Stark
Sybie Lee Shiver
Benjamin W. Gray
Wands Bourgeois
Jimmie W. Whiteside
Florence Metz
James A. Butts
Mary Ann Hart
Thomas E. Phillips
Louise Fountain
Rudolph V. Tippitt
Debra Jerrene Hayes
Cecil MacKay
Evaline Young
Newell J. J. Allen
Velma Marie Brasseaux
Albert Neil Allen
Kim Hilton
Benno H. Jaeger
Prince Ella Kiel Ward
Theodore D. Cone, Jr
Betty Rathaline Sterling
Ed Cravey, Jr
Lillie Mae Palmer
George O. Lavergne
Marilyn Carol Isbel
Billy W. Jeffcoat
Claudia Vee Jones
Cleveland Young, Jr
Kent Newman Visits Bee During Silsbee Stop
Rev. Kent Newman former minister of First Christian Church in Silsbee and Rev. Pat Johnson visited the Bee office on Tuesday. They are on the staff of Camp Wilbur a summer camp for church youth at Village Creek six miles south of Silsbee.
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Kent Newman
First Christian Church
Youth director arrives for summer at First Methodist
Miss Marty Broughton of Bay City Texas arrives to serve as assistant youth director at the First Methodist Church for the summer months. She will return to Southern Methodist University in Dallas as a junior in the fall and is lodging at the Hargrove Hotel.
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Marty Broughton
Bay City
Texas
First Methodist Church
Miss Broughton
Southern Methodist University
Dallas
Hargrove Hotel
Byron Skelton Thanks Hardin County Demos
Wm Free of Silsbee Texas receives a letter from Byron Skelton chairman of the Democratic Advisory Committee and a former state convention delegate. Skelton thanks Free for support at county and state conventions and expresses intent to serve as Democratic National Committeeman for Texas.
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Wm. Free
Silsbee
Dallas
Byron Skelton
Democratic Advisory Committee
Texas
Free
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Arthur Kennedy
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William Gargan
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