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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 09, 1939
Page
8
Texas lawmakers could raise an extra 17 million dollars to fund the state social security program, countering Gov. W. Lee O Daniel’s estimate of a 35 to 40 million dollar annual tax bill. A 12 item survey lists sufficient needs totaling 17.26 million, with 200 blind recipients at 30 dollars monthly split between state and federal funds.
The state constitution caps aid to dependent children at 1.5 million dollars yearly. The old age pension fund owed Dallas banks 2.23 million on Oct 1 1939, with 130 thousand repaid, leaving 2.1 million to be repaid. An estimated 150 thousand pensioners may result from current laws, up from 121 thousand, an increase of 30 thousand.
Comptroller George H. Sheppard announced that the last fiscal year’s gasoline tax collections totaled 51,574,914 dollars. Texas produced 8,040,154,026 gallons, but the tax was paid on 1,289,372,862 gallons sold within the state, with 83.7 percent going to interstate or export trade. Buy your Printing in Whitewright.
COLLEGE STATION Moving to stop chiseling by a few producers through multiple farm operations the AAA will make no parity payments under the 1940 program to a producer offsetting performance on one farm by overplanting allotment commodities on other farms in which he has an interest E N Holmgreen state AAA administrator announced the producer must plant within the total of the acreage allotments of corn cotton rice tobacco and wheat established for his farm in order to qualify for price adjustment payments Under the 1939 program Holmgreen explained a producer could qualify for payment by adhering to the allotment for one commodity even though he overplanted the acreage allotment of another commodity on the same farm or overplanted the same crop or other commodities on another farm The new provisions make it possible for the county or state ACA communities to withhold all or part of the payment in such cases under the 1940 program With the exception of these two requirements the 1940 cotton price adjustment payment provisions are the same Holmgreen said Rates of price adjustment payments will be announced later after the 1939 season average prices are determined since the rate for any crop cannot exceed the amount by which the 1939 average farm price is less than 75 per cent of the parity price Holmgreen said The new provisions will make the administration of the program more effective the administrator pointed out than had been possible under previous regulations
Texas should be last to levy a sales tax Rep Leighton Cornett Clarksville said on state radio He argued wealth should not escape taxes and attacked S J R 12 the sales tax amendment The speech cited propaganda by the American Taxpayers Association and listed major financiers and utilities as backers of a sales tax campaign
Porter area notes announce the birth of a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Murl Wilkinson since the last report. A series of Sunday visits occur among local families including Hicks Wait Gunter Wilkinson and several others with relatives in Dallas Marvin Arledge Ridge and Sherman.
Washington. Jesse H. Jones Federal Loan Administrator told Americans not to fear a business relapse after year’s start. He said business should be fair and not boom, with only a slight slackening in loan applications by small businessmen noted as a potential sign of improvement.
Want Ads list farm mules flowers reduced prices and several real estate offers around Whitewright and Savoy. Also notes auto financing through AUTO FINANCE COMPANY with loans and refinanced payments available in Sherman.
Classified notice lists multiple farms with sizes from 100 to 154 acres near Whitewright Dorchester road Tom Bean Van Alstyne and Sherman. Also includes card of thanks for sympathy and a legal citation in Grayson County seeking heirship declarations for Alfred and Polly Young in 1940. Will H Evans Co Sherman Texas advertises phone 942.
County Judge Jake J. Loy, former Texas lawmaker and current head of the Texas County Judges and Commissioners Association, addressed the Rotary Club on government. He urged legislative cutbacks and full time pay, critiqued bicameralism, and praised state and county administration. Rev H G May attended and spoke briefly. Attendance was reported at 100 percent.
A devotional poem titled The Lord Is My Shepherd expresses faith in God as guide healer and protector with imagery of green pastures still waters and mercy. The piece credits Mrs L O Watkins and Pauline Magers and ends with a non sequitur tea bushes live more than 100 years.
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