The Grand Saline Sun (Grand Saline, Tex.), Vol. 50, No. 14, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 18, 1943 Page: 2 of 8
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GRAND 8AUNE, TEXAS
“Garden Spot of the Golf Sooth”
POPULATION: 1639
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Owner
Entered/as Second Clan Mail Matter at the Postoffice in Grand Saline,
faiai, under the Act of March 2, 1879,
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iadly corrected uon due notice of same being given to the manage-
The Sun Office, Grand Saline, Texas.
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
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fhe Sun offers this warning to its readers who drive
th^ir own cars. Service stations have been told by
O/P. A. authorities to advise their customers to observe
tVe Federal speed limit which, they say is “35 miles per
jur, not 40.”
The Federal authorities have plain clothes men on the
road now in ordinary cars whose purpose it is to ap-
prehend speeders. The first offense brings a sharp
warning. The second will see the owner’s gas ration
book or tires, or both,'taken away from him for the dura-
tion. The authorties mean to stop burning up rubber on
the highway. The punishment designed will do more to
correct the situation than will fines or jail sentences.
A further step in curbing useless rubber burning is
evidenced in the OPA ruling forbidding the sale of pe-
troleum products on the credit. Effective February 1
service stations were require 1 ' > r 11 rrr rash only So,
instead of trying to get aroi rotations the motor-
ing public should be seeking out new ways of helping the
ripber saving campaign. It is strange that a people
ill not deny themselves luxuries in order that men
Ighting and dying to give them the privilege of enjoy-
ing such a way of life may have the necessary equip-
ment to do the job they are forced to do. The rubber-
saving program should be a voluntary effort.
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Well, the women have been set back on
their heels by the OPA order cutting
down the height of shoe heels but we
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Keep The Eagle Plying.
An old fable tells how a mouse released a lion by
gnawing the net that trapped him.
Millions of small taxpayers in this country, by their
tax payments, must gnaw away the debt net that now
enmeshes their government.
The immediate passage by Congress of a pay-as-you-
go tax measure to cover 1943 incomes, will enable all the
people'to start right now nibbling at the debt.
Wars cost money and the people must pay for them.
The sooner they begin to pay, the better. The smaller
the installments can be made, the easier taxes are to
pay-
So let’s face the facts and keep the Eagle flying high.
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Courtesy Los Angeles Examiner
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Your Federal Income Tax
Editor’s Note: This series of
articles covering every phase of
the Federal Income Tax problem
is furnished by the Bureau of In-
ternal Revenue and will be pub-
lished in 10 weekly installments
for the information o fthe public.
Post-War Challenge
Even now while guns of war are blazing through-
out the world, enterprising Americans are planning
miracles of change in a postwar development the like of
which the world has never seen.
When victory comes, our world must be reconstruct-
ed. East Texas boys will help rebuild Europe and Asia
and Africa. East Texas agricultural leaders and scien-
tists will help restock farms and dairies of Denmark
and Poland and Holland. East Texas engineers will re-
build the roads of China. A great new profession will
enlist men and women who are expert in putting famili-
es and communities back on their feet. This gigantic
world-wide reconstruction program with its demand for
unlimited products of American factories will go on for
years as an outlet for American energy and skill.
Here at home we will need ten million new homes
with air-conditioning, light-reflecting walls and all
manner of electrical gadgets to rid housekeeping of
labor; millions of new automobiles to take care of the
suddenly released consumer demand, made of plastics
with transparent tops, weighing half as much, running
100 miles an hour and getting forty miles to the gallon;
and a great system of super-highways all over America
that will be straight, level and safe. Television, syn-
thetic rubber, plastics, conquest of disease and new so-
cial science advances challenge our best brains.
Thousands of young men trained to fly airplanes
Will demand their own planes which will be cheap and
practically fool-proof. Passenger planes carrying 400
people will fly 500 miles an hour.
East Texas expects to be in the forefront of this ne\v , son nc,
Oif expansion and scientific miracles. Its products j ditional persons provided they were
of farms and forests will go into new and fabulous ma- un^er m years of age or incapable of
terials and utensils to broaden life. East Texans, ever J
alert to new ideas, will help rebuild a better and a more
’ WOUClCriUl wot JO, With a finer sense of social justice and turns, but must be taken by the one
a daring realistic common sense. Let no East Texas bov contributin^ the chief support. a
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by the one contributing the chief sup-
port. A credit for dependents may be
claimed by a father who provides the
support for his children living with his
divorced wife, if the support is pro-
vided as a result of a court decree or
as the result of an agreement between
husband sad wife.
The credit dor dependent /sllow*
able te • taxpayer filing os Fans
Installment No. 4
Credit for Dependents
A taxpayer is entitled to a credit
for each person other than husband
or wife, whether related to him or
not, and whether living with him or
not, .who during the taxable year was
dependent upon and received his chief
support from the taxpayer, provided
the dependent was either (a) under 18
years of age, or (b) incapable of self-
support because mentally or physical-
ly defective.
The cerdit for dependents is based
upon Actual Financial Dependency
and not mere legal dependency. It is
not necessary that the dependent be
related to the taxpayer, but the tax-
payer must have provided more than
one-half of the support, or there is no
dependency.
The term “mentally or physically
defective” includ not only those who
are mentally afflicted and physical-
ly crippled, but also persons who,
y reason of old age or impaired
health, are incapable of self-support.
The state of mental or physical de-
fect need not be of a permanent na-
ture, but if it existed for only a por-
tion of the year, then the credit for
only a portion of the year, then the
credit for dependent can. be claimed
only for that portion of the year dur-
ing which the dependent was sup-
ported by the taxpayer.
A person may not acquire a credit
for dependent by reason, of support of
a person qualifying as a dependent if,
as a result of such support, he ac-
quires a head of family exemption,
but may acquire a credit for depen-
dent by reason of additional persons
the number of months of dependency.
Thus, for a child born on July 1, the
credit allowable would be $175 (for
six imonths), and if a child became
18 years of age on July 1 the credit
allowable would be 3175. One-half a
month or less is not counted as a
month; more than one-half a month
is counted as a month in calculating
the credit.
A credit of $385 for each dependent
on July 1 of the year is allowable to
a taxpayer using Simplified Form
1040A.
that I was only 11 years old might
have had something to do with this
judgment.
I GIVE
YOU
TEXAS
BOYCE
HOUSE
When I was just a boy, I lived for
a few imonths in Taylor. Of those
longago :’ays, I can recall only a few
little things.
One of the pastimes at school during
recess was matching pecans. If you
came into possession of a tough-shell-
ed pecan ard another boy had a simi-
lar one, he (or you) would take the
two in the palm of one hand, clench
the hand, wrap the other hand around
that one, and squeeze. One of the
pecans would crack. If it was yours,
the other boy ate it; if his was crush-
ed, you ate it.
There was one fellow who -munched
of pecans all through recess
for two days. He would not let any
other boy do the crushing. At last,
a dissatisfied loser, who was bigger,
took the pecan away from him—and
qualifying as dependnts, whom he the secret of his success was found.
supports. Thus, if a person claims
head of a family exemption on account
of support of an aged (mother or
father, incapable of self-support or a
child, he would not be entitled
The pecan weighed about half
pound. He had cut a tip off, used a
hairpin to remove the contents and
had refilled it with molten lead. Na-
turally, the pecan wouldn’t ’ ? un-
credit for such dependent; but if he less hit with a sledge hammer or
supported imore than one such per-
1 son he could claim credit for such ad-
or girl think that opportunity is past. It’s just begin
ning. High adventure beckons everywhere.—Hubert M
Harrison—In East Texas Magazine
Additional evidence of the trend toward operating
is the action of the House Rules Committee in
_ th® Ramspeck resolution to investigate*
toe federal government has 1,000,000 too
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something of the sort!
Another little thing—though it
wasn’t little at the time—was the cir-
cus season. Not one but two cir-
cuses were coming to town in the
space of 10 days. I could afford a
general admission ticket to only one
of the shows. Which should it be:
Bells-Floto or Adam Forcpaugh? I
obtained every piece of highly-colored
literature that the rival attractions
issued and studied the pitcures and
pondered on the long words, such as
“breath-taking, death-defying spec-
tacle”, “mighty, man-eating kings of
the jungle” and, after weighing all the
idence, decided in favor of Adam
’orepaugh. I have
1 evar saw.
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Another Taylor occurrence was my
achievement in probably setting a
world’s record for eating sweet pota-
toes. One Sunday afternoon, I visited
a neighbor family and the big oven of
the kitchen stove was filled to the
brim with baked yams. The skins had
split and juices had oozed out. When
the sun sank that afternoon, there
were no potatoes left. The ships of
Xerxes at rocky Salamis or the host
of Sennacherib had not been destroy-
ed more utterly. Of course, I did re-
ceive some assistance from my young-
er sister and two sftnall boys of the
neighbor family. I am sorry that the
exact statistics on this feat of mine
were not preserved for the envy and
admiration of all future ages.
It was at Taylor that a schoolmate
covertly indicated a man was passing
and whispered, “He’s been in the pen.”
I turned and looked at him. Hie was
the first convict (or, rather, ex-con-
vict) I had ever seen and his appar-
ance is vivid even now: he was little
stooped, with hard features, hair still
stubby on his head and there was a
furtiveness to his look.
That day, he seemed to me some-
thing fearsome, half animal-like. Now
that I understand the disgrace and
shame he felt, the necessity of associ-
ating with his fellow men yet wishing
to shun them, he seems to have been
something pitiful.
And that will be about enough of the
recollections of a small boy in a small
city 35 years ago.
Employees of United
Gas Pipe Line Company
Serve in Armed Forces
Seven hundred- employes of United
Gas Pipe Line Company and its as-
sociated companies are -now in mili-
tary service, according to the latest
figures released this week by M. V.
Cousins, personnel director.
Many of these men are now serving
on the fighting fronts of the world
and at sea. Five have already given
their lives, three in airplane crashes.
Ranks of the tmen range from
colonel in the Army to buck private
and from lieutenant commander to
ordinary seaman. A large number of
former company engineers signed 'up
with the Seabees in the Navy V-7
class ar.d are now engaged in con-
struction work in Allied countries.
At home their fellow employes are
trying to fill ttRf gaips caused by their
leaving. Women do imen’s jobs in
many instances, ably dispatching gas,
handling the duties of firemen in the
gasoline plants and oilers in compres-
sor stations and work in many other
capacities formerly known as “men’s
jobs.” N
Employes of United and' its as-
sociated companies are showing their
faith in fellow employes with the
armed forces by investing ten per
cent of the companies ’gross payroll
In War Bonds ^nd the Treasury “T"
mar flies over all
want to remind you, brother, that it
took a war to bring it about.
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A well deserved tribute to the a-
bility of another native Van Zandter
is found in a recent issue of “East
Texas”, the official publication of the
East Texas Chamber of Commerce.
We refer to the comment regarding
the appointment of Brady Gentry, a
native of the Colfax community, as
chairman of the State Highway Com-
mission. The magazire points out
that, with the appointment of Mr.
Gentry as president of the American
Association of State -Highway Of-
ficials, Texas is given a man with two
important jobs. Just how important
his job is, can be surmised when it
is said the whole future of highway
transportation deperds upon the work
of this association. The appointment
certainly bring cnsiderable honor
recognition to Van Zandt County/
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The question as to how many chick-
ens a gunny sack will hold has been
definitely settled. Allen Pinkerton
says it will hold all of them except
two. If you don’t believe Allen’s
statement it will cost you two dollars
to prove it. That’s what it cost him
not long ago.
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We have been checking on a local
story that has been going around for
some time, trying to get some definite
idea as to the identity of the preacher
involved, but so far we have failed.
The story might be entitled “The
Preacher and the Chicken” with
apologies to the old song title, “The
Preacher and the Bear”. It seems
this Grand Saline preacher filled his
regular appointment at one of the
rural churches and after services was
the guest of one of his members at
dinner. After dining they went out
to the cistern for a drink of water.
While looking into the cistern, the
minister’s false teeth dropped into the
water. After some time spent in
fishing for the molars, a little boy of
the guest family solved- the problem.
He went into the kitchen, tied a
chicken drumstick to a long string and
lowered it into the cistern. No sooner
had it reached the surface of the
water than the teeth grabbed hold of
the drumstick and were hauled out.
'We still don't know th eidentity of the
preacher. Maybe you do.
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This one reminds us of the famous
story told of Col. Bill McDonald, cap-
tain of the Texas Rangers who went
single-handed to stop a Negro riot
some years ago:
Four U. S. Marines were playing
bridge on Guadalcanal when a sentry
reported 200 Japs, landing on the beach
near by. The Marines looked at each
other silently. Finally one of them
said: “I’ll go, I’m dummy this hand
anyway.”
YOUR HEALTH
By DR. GEO. W. COX
State Health Officer
Faulty Diet Cause of
Pellagra
Austin, Texias, Feb. 4—That the in-
clusion of proper foods in the daily
diet plays a very important part in
the maintenance of good health was
stressed in a statement issued this
week by Dr. Geo. W. Cox, State
Health Officer.
“One of the -most dreaded of all
diseases, pellagra, is caused entirely
by not eating the kinds of food which
would insure a properly balanced
diet,” Dr. Cox said. “The public is
prone to overlook the serious nature
of pellagra. At best it is an uncom-
fortable and unpleasant disease, but
aside from this, there is one possible
result that can be very tragic. All too
frequently pellagra leads to serious
mental disturbances," Dr. Cox warn-
ed, “and in some cases, actual insani-
ty.”
According to the State Health Of-
ficer, pellagra is known as a disease
which is no respector of persons.
There is danger of pellagra striking
at any age and either sex when the
diet is consistently faulty.
To make sure that the diet contains
the proper pellagra-preventive ele-
ments, it should include plenty of
milk -daily, some fresh, lean meat, and
as (many fresh vegetables, especially
green vegetables, as possible. Toma-
toes and whole wheat bread are al4£
very valuable. Eggs contribute theiy
share to pellagra prevention as do all
varieties of fresh fruits.
“It is not the amount of food you
prepare for your table, but the kind
of food included In their daily
which
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Applegate, C. The Grand Saline Sun (Grand Saline, Tex.), Vol. 50, No. 14, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 18, 1943, newspaper, February 18, 1943; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1004075/m1/2/: accessed June 29, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Van Zandt County Library.