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THE PHAM PftESS, PHAM (HIDALGO COUNTY), TEXAS
THURSDAY, MAY 15, 1975
Texas
Taxe$
By BOB BULLOCK, State Comptroller
MOTHERS WHO W]EIRE HONORED AT THE RECENT PSJA
VOE banquet were, Mrs. B. F. Palmer, left, and Mrs. Jesus
Garza, right. Center is the VOE coordinator,- Mrs. Virginia
Linville, who was presented a corsage from the members
for her work.
VOE Sr. Lab Has Annual Banquet
buffet meal was
served, consisting of 22 different
salads, meat choices of turkey and
roast beef with all the trimmings,
The VOE Sr. Lab Banquet was ations.
held at the Echo Motor Hotel in a delicious
Edinburg. Presiding was Sandra
Suarez, OEA president. Arnoldo
Cantu, director of Jobs for Pro-
gress, Inc., was guest speaker and d;^CTts7‘and'fce"tea.
addressed the group of approxi-
mately 80 persons on the values of
vocational education.
The theme of this year’s banquet
was "The Dawning of Tomorrow"
Contest winners from both dis-
trict and area competitive events
were presented their personal
plaques for their earlier accom-
, .., ,, , . plishments, and two mothers who
to go atone: With the scrapbook had been active and
v» urAH ThY'AiirfWAiir T" UAnn i v
theme used throughout the year in
-various activities. The national
theme is "Founded on Pride —
Strengthened on Service."
The room was gaily decorated
with flower arrangements, butter-
flies, chapter displays, and activi-
ties manual — all of which were
the results of work done by OEA
members. As one entered the room,
he was met with a formal entry
Consisting of paper flower arrange-
ments on stalks with robbon droop-
ing from one arrangement to an-
supportive in OEA work were pre-
sented framed certificates in ap-
preciation for their efforts. Mrs.
B. F. Palmer, mother of OEAer
Mike Palmer and Mrs. Jesus Garza,
mother of OEA member Ismelda
Garza, were the honorees. VOE
Sweetheart, Sandra Suarez, was
presented a lovely bracelet as a
gift from her fellow classmen, and
Michael Palmer, VOE Beau, was
presented a beautiful keychain in
honor of his title. Both were en-
graved with names, title, VOE Lab
othcr and finally culminating in date. Sponsor, Mrs. Vir-
beautiful flower and butterfly ar- . . . ... ^ , . ,
rangements on lattice work. Palm
trees were also used in the decor-
Club Directory
Lodges —
(Other Lodges or Clubs who wish to
be listed in this directory, call The
Pharr Press, 787-2291.)
PHARR JAYCEES
Meet Every Wednesday at
Pharr Civic Center v
at 8 P.M. ^
Romeo Sifuentes, President
Tom Salinas, Secretary
Al) Young Men Welcome
VETERANS OF
WORLD WAR 1
McAllen Barracks
No. 1258
Meets Monthly, 2nd Sunday
2 P.M., VFW Post
127 E. Hiway, McAllen, Texas
All WWI Veterans Welcome
MASONIC LODGE
No. 1227 A.F.&A.M.
Meets Every First and Third
Tuesday. 8:00 P.M., at Lodge Hall
W. C. Womack, W. M.
Van Wheat, S.W.
Wm. Roberts, J.W.
A. B. Fields, Sec.
Visiting brethren are cordially
invited.
ginia Linville, was presented with
a beautiful corsage as an apprecia-
tion gift from class members.
KIWANIS CLUB
Meets every Thursday 12:09 P.M.
at Kiwanis Hall
OTTO HOFLAND
President
A. B. FIELDS
Secretary
-——U—
AMERICAN LEGION
Post No. 101
Meets 1st, 3rd Mon.
Leg. Bldg., 417 S. Cage
JAMES SULLIVAN.
Commander
ROGER PALMQUIST
Adjutant
NO. 3109
FRATERNAL
CITRUS AERIE
ORDER
OF
EAGLES.
Meets every Thursday
8:00 P. M. — 208 S. Cage
Harley Whitten, President
Hershel H. Hanshaw, Secretary
PHARR ROTARY CLUB
Meets every Tuesday, 12:05
P. M„ Texan Hotel
ARCHIE PURDUE
President
J. LEE FARMER
Secretary
Austin--A look at the
tremendous revenue Texas
gets from tobacco taxes
might make one think the
state smokes like a giant
smudge pot.
This current year we will
take in more than $250
million in taxes on cigarettes,
cigars, pipe tobacco, chewing
tobacco and tobacco for
roll-your-own.
This revenue ranks
tobacco as the state’s fifth
largest revenue producer,
coming behind sales taxes,
motor fuels, oil and natural
gas.
The historical pattern of
our tobacco tax income
indicates that smoking
Texans apparently haven’t
been changed by the
anti-smoking health
campaigns of the past few
years. In fact, in several past
years Texas smokers have
topped the national average
of an annual four per cent
increase in cigarette
consumption.
The great bulk of our
tobacco tax money comes
from cigarettes. The cigarette
tax is 18.5 cents per package
and that produces more than
$240 million of our tobacco
tax income.
Cigarette taxes have
increased much faster than
most taxes over the years,
going from 5-cents a pack in
1955 to 8-cents in 1959,
11-cents in 1965, 15.5-cents
in 1969 and on to 18.5-cents
in 1971.
The Comptroller’s office
administers the cigarette tax
laws although the distributors
make their actual purchase of
the cigarette tax stamp for
each package from the state
treasurer’s office. We deal
with .1 imore Than 35.000
cigarette
distributors.
who lesalers|
and
retailers
vending machine operators.
From these various types
of distributors the state also
receives about $300,000 a
year in permit fees. Everyone
handling cigarettes is required
to file monthly reports with
us and we examine and audit
their books once a
year--which is certainly one
of the most comprehensive
audit programs of any state
tax.
Besides the cigarette taxes,
the state gets just less than $5
million a year from cigar
taxes. Cigars are taxed
according to size and price.
These range from the little
cigars which are packaged like
cigarettes and taxed one
penny for each 10 cigars to
the largest and most
expensive which are taxed at
penny and a half each.
Another $4 million a year
tax money comes from all
other tobacco products--pipe
tobacco, chewing tobacco
and roll-your-own tobacco.
The tax for this catchall
category is 25 per cent of the
manufacturer’s list price.
With three small
exceptions all cigarette and
tobacco tax money goes into
the state’s general revenue
fund.
One penny of the
18.5-cents cigarette tax is
dedicated to the state parks
fund. In the current year this
will be $13.3 million.
Another small portion of the
tobacco tax income, dictated
by a complicated formula
written and rewritten many
times by the Legislature, will
send nearly $10 million to
the Available School Fund.
Another small portion is
earmarked for our
enforcement costs to
administer the tax. ;
The only form of tobacco
not taxed by tobacco taxes is
sri’tiff: But ■ nWbd!'dffT’'-'^ou
know thdt '^nuff is covered
under the sales tax!
----2--
Bill 1557 since I introduced it in
the Hoiise in late March. The una-
nimous committee vote showed that
the measure is indeed vital and I
await a favorable response from
the rest of my colleagues when it
comes up before them.
I am glad to report that a bill
which would greatly assist the vot-
ing process for Mexican-Americans
has been passed in the House. The
measure Would require all election
materials, including voter registra-
tion forms and ballot instructions,
to be printed in both English and
Spanish in counties whose popula-
tions are at least 5 per cent Mexi-
can-American. There can be no
doubt there exists a grave need for
the proposed Voting Rights Amend-
ment extension in the Southwest.
The legislation which Congress-
woman Barbara Jordan has intro-
duced in our national Capitol is one
which merit* attention and positive
action. I want to urge all of you to
let your Representatives and Sena-
tors know how you feel about this
issue.
Meanwhile, the growing concern
over the increased demand for ua-
lified doctors and medical treat-
ment may soon be diminished. The
House Higher Education Committee
has approved unanimously a bill to
create new medical schools in Fort
Worth and our Rio Grande Valley.
The measure calls for an allow-
ance of $22 million for the first two
years. An amendment to the pro-
posal requires that a minimum of
25 per cent of the students enrolled
in the schools must pledge to prac-
tice medicine in rural or medically
deprived areas for at least five
years. I feel that such a provision
is indeed just, and would greatly
assist the needs of our citizens.
Events of the past month indicate
a gradual increase in interest on
the part of many citizens. I am
glad to see Valley visitors in our
Capitol and I encourage you to stop
by my office when in Austin. Re-
cently, I sent out o questionnaire
with questions on some of the key
issues of the 64th Legislative Ses-
sion. Please return the forms as
soon as possible. Only by hearing
from you with regard to the many
legislative issues, can I be able to
fully represent your needs. Please
direct your comments and sugges-
tions to: Rep. A. C. (Tony) Garcia,
P. O. Box 2910, Austin, Texas 78767.
THE PSJA HIGH SCHOOL BEAR’S TALE received an Award of
Merit from the Interscholastic League Press conference re-
cently. Highest points were in sports news and features,
photography, art work and cartoons. Main staff members
are pictured above. Front, 1. to r.—Rieca Wiggs, Roselinda
Cruz, and Ginger Malone. Back—Mario Ramirez, Ralph
Lemley, Eddie Ramirez and Dorrie Ochoa. Sponsor is Miss
Wynette Jameson. —Photo by The Bear’s Tale.
Property Damage
Report at PSJA
Burglary and damage at PSJA
schools was less than some months
but still substantial, with much of
the loss from equipment stolen.
Here is a run down of the dam-
age and/or loss by schools for
March:
March 4 — Carnahan, broken
windows, $6.90.
March 10 — Fulton, window brok-
en, $1.35; property stolen, $82, in-
cluding filmstrip, cassette, reading
kit, three headphones.
March 14 — Ford School, broken
windows, $12; 'property stolen, $71,
including cassette tape recorder.
March 22 — Ford School, broken
windows, $27; property stolen, $129,
two tape recorders.
March 17 — High School, adding
machine stolen from library, $135.
March 11 — Jefferson, windows
broken, $10.
March 13 — Jefferson, gym win-
dows broken, $21.
March 17 — Jefferson, broken
windows and miscellaneous items
stolen, $67.
March 10 — Sorensen, windows
broken, $27; vandalism, $38.
A man went to see the head of
one of Washington’s top agencies
about a job.
"What experience have you had?”
asked the bureaucrat. "What can
you do?”
"Not a thing,” replied the appli-
cant.
“Good,” said the civil servant.
"Then we won’t have to break you
in!”
TRADE IN PHARR
Teachers Resigned
i: : .r.-l ‘li 1C
Resignations of the- following
teachers and other personnel were
approved by the School Board Mon-
day:
Teachers — 1974-75 — Florencio
Araguz, Esteban Soto, Lomeia
Staveley.
Teachers — 1975-76 — Diaman-
tina Alvarado, Rose Maria Calles,
Enedina Cantu, Santiago Davila,
Charles Jordan, Pedro Luna, Alicia
Pena, Dora D. Rodriguez, Dora del
Toro, Edward H. Torres, Lucille
Villegas.
Teachers — Maternity Leaves,
These last few weeks in Austin them were Mr. and Mrs. Norberto 3975-76 — Hermelinda Chavez, Nan-
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NEWS FROM THE ml
STATE CAPITOL W
BY ;
A. C. (Tony) GARCIA
YOUR STATE REPRESENTATIVE
4k:
cy Clop ton, Estella Flores, Sylvia
Rivei’a.
Personal Leaves, 1975-76 — An-
tonio Salinas, Baldemar Perez.
CETA Teacher, 1974-75 — Irma
Garza.
Cafeteria — Ruth Netz.
Clerks/Secretaries — Felix Ca-
Aides — Bertha Burton.
Maternity Leave, 1974-75 — Mary
Raul
STAY & SAVE
IN HOUSTON
have been filled with a full load of Perez of Brownsville, Irene Harris
committee meetings, visitors from of Weslaco, Abel Guajardo of
throughout our Valley, continued Pharr and Alice Lindsey of Ed-
discussions on utility regulation and couch. The occasion was truly "a
school finances, speeches on the gathering of all citizens — includ-
House floor, introduction of more ing teachers — to express concern
legislation, public hearings on some for immediate imyrovements in
of my proposals, and some "on- public schools and school financing m^TlT
again, off-again” Spring weather. in general.
A number of Valleyites were here Meanwhile, one of the key events
over the weekend for the Texas for me this past month has been Ann Navarro.
State Teachers’ Association rally the public hearings held on House Maintenance/Custodian
which was held on April 26. Among Bill 1557. The measure was intro- Villarreal.
duced in the Senate by Senator Bus Drivers — Jesus F. Cervan-
Raul Longoria. It addresses itself to tes> Francisco Lara, Raul Villar-
the licensing of labor agents and real,
would greatly curb the exploitation Teachers Retiring, 1974-75 —
of our migrant and seasonal farm- Mary Jeanette Dewey, Lola Jean
workers. Fallin, Ruby M. Hetrick, Vera
Appearing as research witnesses Elizabeth Johnson, Ruben D. Ra-
were Larry Kosta from the Texas mirez.
Department of Labor and Juan Secretary Retiring — Nell Vivian
Jos"e Martinez from the' National Young.
Fannworkers Information Clearing- Cafeteria —• Birdie Ann Posz,
house. Both gentlemen greatly as- Valleria Doop.
sisted me in my presentation of --------
this measure and were instrumental EniOrCIGnCV Numb©rS
in getting the bill out of the Labor ^ *
Committee with an unanimous vote. POLICE ................... 787-8546
I have spoken highly of House FIRE ..................... 787-2737
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★ A Salute to P-SJ-A Students ★
ROTARY GIRL OF THE MONTH
FOR APRIL
RACHEL
YILLESCAS
Rachel Villescas is the 18 year-old daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Pedro Villescas of San Joan.
As a Freshman, Rachel was in Slide Rule and a member
of the Freshman Class Council.
As a Sophomore, Rachel was a member of the Student
Council where she served as a representative.
As a Junior, Rachel was again a member of the Student
Council where she served as secretary. She was al member of
the Junior Cla?“ Council and helped lout in the Junior-Senior
Prom decorating committee. She also participated in the an-
nual March of Dimes Walk-A-Thon where she served as co-
chairman. She was inducted into the National Honor Society
chapter of Pharr-San Juan-Alamo High School. She was also
inducted into Mu Alpha Theta.
As a Senior, Rachel was elected Mu Alpha Theta Sweet-
heart, and Senior Favorite 1974-1975. She is presently ser-
ving as secretary of Mu Alpha Theta and is a Senator of the
Student Congress.
THIS SERIES IS SPONSORED AS A PUBLIC SERVICE BY THIS
FIRM THAT BELIEVES IN OUR YOUNG PEOPLE.
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Glover, Lloyd H. The Pharr Press (Pharr, Tex.), Vol. 52, No. 20, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 15, 1975, newspaper, May 15, 1975; Pharr, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth848429/m1/4/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 6, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Pharr Memorial Library.