The Rockdale Reporter and Messenger (Rockdale, Tex.), Vol. 85, No. 52, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 9, 1958 Page: 2 of 16
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Woman to be 100
Years Old Sunday
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Killed in Crush;
Burial Saturday
Womans Club* Englniff Give*
5 Tf.XAS ! Ollarad Prize* Tip* on Care of
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For Their Church
TRACY—Work on th^ new
ehurat; building for the
Tracy Methodist church began
Tuesday, when volunteer workers
from the community began pour-
:ng the foundation
The new building is being con-
structed by men of the com-
munity who are donating their
time. They expect to complete
work in the near future.
The new 20 by 40 foot build-
ing will contain a kitchen, rest
rooms, and a recreation room. It
is being built on the church
grounds
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Farm Repair
Bills!
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Your costly tractor, field machinery, truck
and car last much longer .. . years longer ...
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Come in or phone us for ; -
our farm deal, and for in-
formation on the other fine
Texaco products used on
farms in ail 48 states.
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W. P. HOGAN
CONSIGNEE
Phone HI 6-5970 or HI 6-3433
Rockdale, Texas
Three Rockdale
Students Vie
For Scholarship
Three Rockdale high school
students, competing for the 1958
Alcoa Foundation scholarship,
will *ake scholastic aptitude tests
in Austin Saturday.
The Rockdal** students are
competing with five other Cen-
tral Texas high school seniors for
the college scholarship. All are
sons or daughters of Alcoans at
Rockdale Works.
The local applicants are Linda
Ga> le Graham, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. William L. Graham;
Rex Douglas Irby, son of Mr
and Mrs. O. A Irby; and Ginger
Nan Harriss. daughter of Mrs.
Fiora S. Harriss.
W.nner of the scholarship, to
be announced in the spring, will
receive S2.000, payment of which
is distributed over four years of
college. A selection board, which
will determine the winner, is
headed by Hinton H. Pruett, su-
perir.>f \T un c'.un'.y
schools.
Farmer Income
Tax Problems
Are Explained
Farmers and ranchers are
required by law to pay their
share of the Federal income tax
for 1957. The “who,” “when,”
“where," and “how” of it are
outlined here by A P. Andrews,
Administration Officer of Inter-
al Revenue Service, in Austin.
If the farmer or rancher had
gross income of $600 or more
during his taxable year and is a
citizen of the United States, he
must file a Federal income tax
return, even though no tax is
due. Th: > even applies to minor
children who are farm operators.
If the farmer or rancher is 65
years of age or over at the end
of his taxable year, he is not
required to file a return unless
his gross income is SI.200 or
more.
Andrews emphasized that re-
quirements for filing a return for
self-employment tax purposes,
which may lead to social security
benefits later, are different from
filing the usual income tax re-
turn.
WHEN TO FILE
If the farmer receives at least
two-thirds of his gross income
from farming and his taxable
year started January 1, 1957, he
has two choices of when to file
income tax. He may file his re-
turn and pay the tax on or be-
fore February 17, following the
close of his taxable year; or
file an estimate of his tax and
pay this amount by January 15,
following the close of his taxable
year. He then must file his re-
turn and pay any balance due by
April 15.
When the farmer’s business
year doesn't begin January 1, he
may file his return and pay his
tax on or before the 15th day
of the second month of the suc-
ceeding taxable year. If he
chooses, he may file an estimate
within 15 days and his return
within three-and-one-half months
after the end of his taxable
year.
FILE EARLY
Rpvf-nup iirgf>c fsrmfi't tn filr*
their income tax returns for 1957
“as soon after January 1, 1958 as
you can conveniently do so.”
Here’s why. By filing early, the
taxpayer usually saves himself
money by avoiding costly errors
due to the last minute scramble.
By filing early the taxpayer saves
his own tax money in the long
run by making it easier for Rev-
enue to process his return. Last,
but not least, by filing early the
taxpayer stands less chance of
forgetting this vital chore al-
together, thus making himself
liable to penalties for being de-
linquent.
WHERE TO FILE
Mail that return to the District
Director of Internal Revenue
Service for the district in which !
you live. The instructions ac- j
eompanying the return forms
lists directors’ addresses and
should be read carefully. Checks
or money orders should be made
payable to “Internal Revenue
Service.”
HOW TO FILE
Andrews revealed that Tax- |
payer Assistance Day, every
Monday, is the best time to take
your problems to Revenue when
absolutely necessary.
Revenue also suggests that |
every farmer should have a copy [
of the comprehensive but free
book published by IRS, the “1957
Farmers' Tax Guide.” This offi- '
cial publication may be obtained
from Revenue offices, and coun- 1
ty agricultural agents.
1 The investigating officer said
witne e- told him the Smith
! car w as overtaking a truck as
they approached the Perry (’reek
bridge on the divided highway.
The Smith car is said to have
hit the left side of the narrow
j bndge.
The Smiths had been visiting
a son in Austin and were return-
ing to their home in Temple.
Mr. and Mrs. Smith formerly
lived in Rockdale and were rnern-
■ bers of th** Fm«t Christian Church ,
here. They had retained an active
interest in Rockdale since leav-
ing here for Temple in 1938, and
had also maintained a deep-rooted
interest in the Christian church !
here. They made periodic visits;
to Rockdale through the years. I
Smith was a native of Miiam
county, bom nc-ar Rockdale July j
21, 1880 and lived in Rockdale
all his life prior to going to Tem-
ple where he ogranized the Tem-
ple Life Insurance Co. At the
time of his death he was secre- 1
tary of that company and also1
of the Security Life Insurance
Company of Temple. He was vice
president of the American Cas-
ualty & L;fe Insurance Company
of Dallas.
Although he had m ntained an
active interest in the Rockdale
Christian church, he was a mem- j
ter of the First Christian Church j
in Temple and an honorary elder. !
He was one of the church's or-j
ganizers and builders.
Funeral services were held at;
2 30 p.m. Saturday at the Temple
Christian church with the pastor, j
Rev. Howard Johnson, and Dr.
P. G. McCord, pastor of the Tem-
ple Christian Church, officiating, i
Burial was m Hiilcrest cemetery, j
Temple.
Pallbearers were Happy Smith,
Sr. and Happy Smith, jr., both'
of Temple; Don Smith and Ed-
ward Worley, both of Taylor;
Edwin Smith and J Frank Smith, j
both of Austin.
He is survived by his widow; j
three sons, W. B. Smith, Jr., and
Roger Smith, both of Dallas and j
Wallace Smith of Austin; four,
daughters. Mrs. J. S. Perry, Mrs. ;
O r M !!igan, Mr Novi Med art1
and Miss LuElla Smith, ad of
Dallas; one brother; J. Frank
Smith of Taylor. He is also sur- j
vived by a nephew, Happy Smith .
Sr. of Temple.
Three Sentenced
In Income Tax
Evasion Count
R. L Phinney, District Director
of Internal Revenue, Austin, an-
nounced today that on January 3,
three prominent Texas business-
men, Leon R. Collins, Waco,
Marcus L. Strum, Tyler, and Ray-
mond E. Pecot, Austin, each
waived indictment and pleaded,
guilty to an information filed by
Assistant United States Attorney
John E. Banks before Judge Ben
H. Rice, Jr., in Federal District
Court at San Antonio.
The information contained four
counts against each individual
charging them with: filing and
causing to be filed a false and
fraudulent tax return for Leon’s
Shoe Stores, Inc., Waco, Texas,
for each of the years 1951, 1952,
1953, and 1954.
The information charged that
for the four-year period the
corporation reported a net income
of $105,289.37 on which it paid
income taxes in the amount of
$32,869.65, whereas the corpora-
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the four-year period was $253,-
329.11 on which there were due
taxes in the amount of $116,-
679.60.
Leon’s Shoe Stores, Inc., oper-
ates The Cinderella Slipper Shop,
Waco: Icon's Slipper Shop and
The Booterie, Tyler; Leon's Slip-
per Shop, Austin, and other re-
tail stores located in Longview,
Victoria and San Antonio.
Judge Rice sentenced Leon R.
Collins, president of the firm, to
serve one year in prison, to bo
suspended if payment of fines
totaling $7,500 is made by him,
within a ten-day period. Collins
was also placed on probation
for a three-year period.
Marcus L. Strum, vice-presi-
dent of the concern was given a
one-year sentence; this sentence
to be suspended if he pays fines
totaling $7,500 within a ten-day
period and he was placed on
probation for three years.
Raymond E. Pecot, manager of
the firm’s Austin branch store
was sentenced to serve six
months, the sentence to be sus-
pended if fines totaling $2,500
are paid by Pecot within a ten-
day period. Recot was also placed
on probation for a three-year
period.
Phinney stated that in addi-
tion to having to pay the fines
totaling $17,500 the corporation
is also liable for payment of the
taxes evaded, totaling in excess
of $83,000, plus interest and a
50 per cent fraud penalty.
I was purely an accident."
The rancher where the**.* men
were hurting then told how or-
time he had walked up on two
big bucks standing just below
the rim between Marfa and the
Rio Grande.
“I shot at them 34 times with
my saddle 30-30 and never touch-
ed a hair,” he said. "When I fi-
nally got around to checking my
sights I found the front sight had
been accidentally knocked over
and I was missing these bucks by
37 inches at 100 yards"
Most hunters know they should
zero their guns before taking
a tnp. But it is a little hard now
to find a place for sighting in. j
About the best way is to join a
good club that has a shooting
range. If your home town has1
none, then how about organizing
one?
Building Brush Shelters
We often hear someone talk
about building brush shelters in
fishing water, especially in known
crappie waters. Some very mten- !
sive research work has been done
by a number of biologists to de-
termine whether brush cover in
water really is beneficial both to
fish and fishermen.
A test run on a Virginia lake
revealed a definite increase in
angier-success fox' biacr. ciappie.
Overall fishing pressure in this
particular lake increased 15 per
cent between 1955 and 1956 But
the harvest of black crappies in-
creased 40 per cent in 1956 after
installation of the shelters. Al- i
though only 22 per cent of the
fishermen used the shelter areas,
they harvested 57 per cent.
If you plan to build one of
these shelters, talk with your
game warden, area biologists of,
the Game & Fish Commission, or
your county agent. They can give
vou some good advice.
BOOKLETS AVAILABLE—An
18-page illustrated Farmer’s Bul-
letin on the construction of farm
ponds for bass and blue gills
has just been published by the!
U. S. Soil Conservation Service, i
You can get a copy by sending
15 cents to the Superintendent of j
Documents, US. Government
Printing Office, Washington 25.
D C. If you plan a farm unr *
year the bulletin will be most i
valuable.
For those of you interested in
wilderness areas, in National
Parks, there is a free bulletin. It ,
is called the National Park Wil- 1
demess and was printed with ‘
private funds. You can get your 1
copy of this 38-page booklet by
writing to the U.S. Park Service, !
Washington, D.C.
TROUT FISHING—A very in- ;
teresting letter has just come in
from a man who read a story-
on trout fishing which we sold to;
—Any
be ap-
wouldn't hit a bait or
help you can give me \
prociated.”
Some of you salt water fisher-
men might want to give this man
an assist. He signs his name
F’-ank Siegel, Route 1, Wing. Ala.
ODDITIES—A curious froglike
fish of Africa, caiied the Goby,
climbs trees to feed on wood
ants. Often one Goby will climb
while others stay below to nab
dislodged victims—In India there
i a "Window Oyster” which has
a fiat, translucent shell that can
be used as window glass—Homs
of the African rhino are not at-
tached to its skull. They grow out
of the skin. Among the Chinese
the rhino’s horn has high com-
mercial value. They use them for
medicinal purposes.
Milano Girls Win
Over Thomdale, 54-52
MILANO—The Milano girls
withstood a last-quarter rally by
Thomdale Friday night in Thom-
dale to take a close 54-52 basket-
ball decision.
After a nip-and-tuck first half.
Milano jumped to a 47-38 lead
at the end of the third period,
only to see Thomdale stage a
fur:ous final-period rally.
Milano trailed at the end of the
first quarter, 15-14. and pulled
to a 28-28 tie at halftime.
Janice Beavers and Jo Ann
Martin paced scoring for Milano,
dropping in 24 and 22 points re-
spectively. Dickerson and Jack-
son, with 20 and 18 points, led
Thomdale, while McAnulty had
10.
The Milano girls are competing
in the Blinn College tournament
this weekend at Brenham.
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THE REPORTER OFFICE
problem, work* out * nulutinfi nnd i
then tell* the *tory—in nil entry 1
f**r the 1958 Carol Lane Award*,
the nationwide program honoring
women * contributions to the field
A *mVijr through voiiuiiurii- j
, ty or state projects.
Individual women or women’s i
club* or parents’ groups who have j
organized and executed *uch safe-
ty programs during the period of;
! the calendar year preceding the |
! closing date of June 15, 1958, are!
eligible for the 1958 Carol Lane j
Awards.
Previous Carol Lane Awards j
; have honored women for work in
j such fields as vehicle legislation, j
j vehicle inspection, driver training j
j and bicycle and pedestrian safety.
The Carol Lane Awards are ad-
i ministered by the National Safe-
j ty Council through a grant of
Shell Oil Co. and are named for
Shell’s women's travel director.
Individual Carol Lane winners
receive a $1,000 savings bond and
a bronze sculpture symbolizing
"Womans protective instinct.”
Second and third place awards are
$500 and $250 in savings bonds,
respectively, and a bas-relief of
the sculpture.
The six award winners (three
individual and three women rep-
resenting clubs* are guests of [
Shell at the National Safety Con-
gress in October, when they re-
ceive their aw’ards at a special
luncheon.
For further information and
application blanks, write to: Miss!
Alice C. Mills, director of women’s
activities, National Safety Council,
425 N. Michigan Ave., Chicago 11,
Illinois.
Grizzly bears attain a height of
nine feet, weigh 1,000 pounds,
Beaumont is French for “beauti-
ful hill.”
Hi re an- suggestion* ttvm Ulii h
on winter nun him* tm*. Keep mn
chlrterjr under shelter when not
in use Coat with great* or u rust
preventative *11 bright me'*! part.
such a* mower ticket*, plow wing .,
..iittlujlnr -in ft othnr iiinw twiln’-
a* well as the working part* of
machinery. Rubber tires should b*-
blocked up to lake the weight of
the machine off of them while In
storage.
Gasoline should be drained
from auxiliary motors. Spark
plugs should be removed and
three or four ounces of cylinder
oil dropped into each cylinder.
Turn the motor over a few times
and replace the plugs.
The cooling system on all mo-
tors not used during the winter
season should be drained. Place
a cover over the engine exhaust
pipa to keep out moisture. Lubri-
cate all machinery when it goes
into storage and charge all bat-
teries. It’s a good idea, says the
engineer, to remove the batteries
from the motor and to check them
regularly to see that they remain
fully charged.
Finally, says Ulich, while the
machinery is in storage give it a
thorough inspection for worn and
broken parts. Make note of the
repairs needed so that the repair
jobs can be done in advance of
their next period of use.
With the continuing price-cost
squeeze, proper machinery care
can cut farm expenses and ma-
chinery replacement costs and
make the farm operation more ef-
ficient and profitable, concludes
Ulich.
Beavers live in colonies which
may persist for centuries.
Berlin is the largest city on the
European Continent.
Bermuda grass thrives best in
the extreme South.
TYPEWRITER
TROUBLES?
Call VAN
I am operating my typewriter and office
machine repair shop at my home. Leave your
m? chines with me,
E.B. VANMETER
522 E. BELL ST.
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The Bel A Ir 4-Door S edn». Ch«trjr’« A*
only cor in its field with Body by Fiiher
and Solely Plate Giast all aiovnd.
Coffee was first used in Abys-’j A queen bee can lay as many
sinia in the ninth century. i as 3,000 to 4,000 eggs a day.
Bimetallism is a monetary sys- | There are more than 10,000
tern wherein both gold and silver known species of beetles in the
art used as standards of value. United States.
In tht models most people prefer, a new Chevrolet costs less than the other two
low-priced cars*. Yet Chevrolet is the only truly new car in its field. And every Chevy
is lower, wider and nine lively inches longer.
Your dollars never had it so good! With
all its startling new advances and
stunning new style, Chevy is still priced
right down at the bottom of the ladder.
And look at what you get for the low
price you pay! You get boldly sculp-
tured new beauty with the quality crafts-
manship of Body by Fisher. You get
the year’s big buy—even the lowest
priced models bring you full measure
of Chevy's new length. You get Chev-
rolet’s own special brand of perform-
ance and economy. In fact, you get the
one car in the low-price field that per-
forms in the high-price class!
Stop by your Chevrolet dealer’s and
let him prove it. He’s making quick
appraisals and prompt deliveries!
Onh franch ifed Chevrolet den lent
display th is famous trndimark
See your local authorized Chevrolet dealer J or quick appraisal—prompt delivery!
♦ftASIO ON PACTOftY U$T PRICES FOR COMPARABLE SEDAN AND HARDTOP MODUS.
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