The Cotulla Record (Cotulla, Tex.), Vol. 58, No. 8, Ed. 1 Friday, March 25, 1955 Page: 3 of 6
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FRIDAY, MARCH 25, 1955
THE COTULLA RECORD
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DUNLAP
•HELP YOURSELF LAUNDRY
AND
TRAILER PARK
G. K. GUSTAFSON
REAL ESTATE
I io**rise«*
Nueces Philosopher Worried
Over Proposed Law Against Selling
Merchandise For Less Than It Cost
Editor’s note: The Nueces Phil jthan he paid, maybe he needs a law
osopher on his Johnson grass farm to keep him in business,
on the Nueces River may be unduly | But I got to thinking. I don’t
worried over the matter at hand this know what all “merchandise” would
week, but you can decide that from include, but I can see the day when
his letter. __ __: the courts would interpret it as
Dear editar: < ]■ jcattle. for example, or cotton or
The trouble with electing a man to corn or wheat or rice> and 1>m tellin*
Congress is that he considers it a you when they pass a law keeping
mandate as they say from the people a farmer from sellinS below cost>
to get his name on some legislation.I tbey’re gonna play thunder with
There ain’t nothing apparently more ^arm*nF‘
embarrassing to a Congressman than' 1 know farmers’ in fact I’m one
to visit back home and have to ad- of em’ who have been sellinK below
mit to the people he hasn’t gotten a cost for years> and you pass a law
law passed that he thought up, and putting a stop to “ and you’U throw
consequently this puts so much pres- a lot of us oUt work‘
sure on him he has torack his brain 1 Year before last> nearly anybody
to find a spot for a new law, because who sold a cow he’d bouSht th* year
if there’s one thing the United Sta- before that- sold il at below cost
what’s he gonna do for a living?
Yours faithfully,
J. A.
Rabies Control
Measures Ineffective
state’s dog populations.”
I “But," the department added,
“morbidity statistics indicate those
controls have been effeeeive in pre-
venting human cases of the disease.
Only 29 human deaths have been re-
corded in the period between 1944-
1955.
Although there has been consider-
' have enforced existing ordinances
providing for compulsory vaccination
and the collection of stray animals.
But with a decline in incidence, mu- 1
nicipal ordinances have frequently
been only perfunctorily enforced.”,
“Only 3 rabid foxes were received
by the department in 1944, and they
were all from a single county. In
Austin—Rabies control measures
currently in force in Texas are in- j ab*e fluctuation jn the number of contrast, 100 rabid foxes were sub-
effective, the State Department of rabid do8s from year to year, the mitted from 33 counties last year.”
Health said today. | overall state level of infection has | The department said it felt the
The department said a study re- rema*ned consistently high. J so'ution to the problem of wildlifs
cently concluded by Bureau of Lab-1 “Remedial measures have not been rabies is the “employment, on a
oratory officials reveals “current con- , un*formly or consistently applied, permanent basis, of skilled preda-
trol measures have proved ineffec- bnder the stimulus of a sharp in- tory animal trappers by either state
tual in eliminating rabies from the crease °f animal rabies, most cities oi federal government to insure that
tes has a surplus of, it’s laws.
and if this law had been in effect,
Nearly any situation you think of, b> now lots of farmers couldn,t
some Congressman has already tho- have gotten to their mail box for
ught of a law to cover it.
stumbling over dead cows.
, But the other day a Congressman T’m not in favor °f lt> but one of
thought up a new law, and I’m con-,the fundamental rights of a farmer
cerned over it. I has been to sel1 be,ow cost> and y°u
What he wants is a law to prohibit , eliminate that and there’ll be years
the sale of merchandise below cost. !wben a man cant plant a new ciop
Now off-hand this might sound fo1’ worrying where to put last year’s,
like a good thing, business has got! a druggist shouldn’t be al-
to make a profit to be worth any- ;,owed to sell tooth paste below cost
thing, and I guess if a man hasn’t or a merchant a formal evening
got sense enough to sell for more sown, but you stop a farmer from
'selling his products that way and
NOWON DISPLAYl
iSSsKSi gSCI kISSs
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fox and skunk populations are kept
below the level necessary to support
rabies in epidemic form.”
A bill passed during the special
legislative session last year author-
ized commissioners courts in coun-
ties of over 800,000 population to
regulate dog numbers outside the
boundaries of incorporated cities
during rabies epidemics.
However, since the bill applied only
to Harris County, it is felt current
-session should amend the act to in-
clude any county in which rabies is
a public health problem.
PROFESSIONAL NOTICE
DR. WAYNE DEWEESE
Optometrist
Open only on
Monday, Wednesday and Friday
8:00 to 12:00 • l:00to6;00
Visual Examination
Glasses Prescribed
| CITATION BY PUBLICATION
THE STATE OF TEXAS:
j T0: Manuel Herrera, Defendant,
Greeting:
■ YOU ARE HEREBY COMMAND-
ED to appear before the Honorable
!81st Judicial District Court of La
: Salle County at the Courthouse
thereof, in Cotulla, Texas, by fil-
ing a written answer at or before 10
o’clock A. M. 0f the first Mondav
next after the expiration of forty*
two days from the date of the issu-
ance of this citation, same being the
11th day of April, A. D. 1955, to
Plaintiffs’ Petition filed in said
court, on the 29th day of December,
A. D. 1954, in this cause, numbered
4036 on the docket of said court and
styled Casilda Herrera, Plaintiff, vs.
Manuel Herrera, Defendant.
A brief statement of the nature
jof this suit is as follows, to-wit:
A suit for divorce on the grounds of
abandonment and cruelty; as is more
|fully shown by Plaintiff’s Petition on
file in this suit.
If this citation is not served with-
in ninety days after the date of its
issuance, it shall be returned un-
!served.
The officer executing this writ
shall promptly serve the same ac-
j cording to requirements of law, and
the mandates hereof, and make due
! return as the law directs.
Issued and given under my hand
and the seal of said court at Cotulla,
Texas, this the 24tb day of February,
j A. D. 1955. * * ,
j Attest: GEORGE E. COOK, Clerk,
81st Judicial District Court, La
Salle County, Texas.
By R. O. GOUGER, Deputy.
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The Cotulla Record (Cotulla, Tex.), Vol. 58, No. 8, Ed. 1 Friday, March 25, 1955, newspaper, March 25, 1955; Cotulla, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1160995/m1/3/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Alexander Memorial Library.