Palacios Beacon (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 23, No. 29, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 17, 1930 Page: 9 of 10
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With state and federal aid Tyler
County expects to upend $000,000 on
highway construction with its $1)00,000
bond issue that was held in June.
The longest unpaved gap in the Texas
section of the Bankhead Highway will
be closed when the recently let $371,-
000 contract for paving the road thru
Friendly Bootlegger—"Looks like HIGHWAYS GIVE
l-ain." |
Collegiate—"Yes, but it tastes faint- EMPLOYMENT TO
ly like yeast."
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to broaden their activities and em-
' ployment.
Stimulation of construction by gov-
1V/I A M V If 1V/IF M ornmenta' un'ts might, seem at first
"IAIN I WU1y^.1V1E..IN j giance an artificial means of bring-
MAKES RECORD
WITH LONGEST
66,000 VOLT LINE
Big Spring's growth is seen in the
increase of its postal receipts from (joviviUNITIES
NEEDED
$24,000 in 1926 to nearly $59,000 in
Mitchell County is completed. Dimmitt 1929. Abilene's new airport was open-j
and Maverick Counties have agreed (.() with appropriate ceremonies. llar-
on plans for paving their parts of the, lingen is considering issuance of $100,-
Brownsville-San Diego Highway. Pe- 000 bonds for construction of a mod-
cos County voted June 1 on a $1,000,-^ em airport. Big Spring voted $.'10,000
000 bond issue for road improvements, bonds for improvement of its port.
NOT BUILDING
PROJECTS CON-
ritlBUTE TO LULL
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Perspiration Odors Removed
the Modern Valetor Way
ORDINARY prc-sing methods cannot
remove offensive perspiration odors.
Valetor pressing — using regulated steam
pressure — removes perspiration odors
quickly without harrying the most delicate
fabrics.
Valetor pressing also kills germs, destroys
moth eggs and larvc raises the nap of the
fabric, and makes clothing look and fit like
new.
Send your clothes h;;re to be pressed the
modern Valetor way.
N. L. HAYES
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By E. E. Duffy
Because there is urgent need for
more smooth pavements, and because
pavement construction provides a con-
siderable volume of work, communities
throughout the country are discover-
ing that accelerated highway pro-
grams are greatly relieving unemploy-
ment.
Representative of what a pavement
program can do for a state is the pres-
ent situation in Iowa, a state with a
penchant for determining the whys
and wherefores of its road expendi-
tures, Thirty thousand workmen on
Iowa roads are engaged this year in
earning for themselves no less than
$18,000,000. This means that more
than half of the $33,000,000 Iowa is
j spending in 1930 on roads will go di-
| rectly into the pockets of workmen,
i Further, all this road money will rep-
resent backed up purchasing power
that will stimulate businesses and in-
dustries not even remotely connected
with highways.
Incidentally, Iowa's roads were nine-
tenths mud in 1920; at the end of 1930
they will bo 80 per cent surfaced thru
the wise use of bond issue money,
j Iowa is keeping her money in cir-
I culation.
I Superior, Wisconsin, has, like many
other cities been engrossed in solv-
ing the unemployment problem. And
Superior, similar to countless other
cities, has a real need for additional
smooth hard surfaced streets. Accord-
ingly, advantage is being taken of pres-
ent bargain prices of pavement con-
struction, with 50 blocks of concrete
pavements doubtless to be installed
before the year is ended. This con-
struction program is not only provid-
ing considerable employment but the
i example is inducing private businesses
Reliability
Economy
Good Performance
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TUB NEW FOHD TUDOR SEDAN
.
YOU are buying proved performance
•when you buy a Ford. You know it
has been built for many thousands
of miles of satisfactory, economical
service.
Letters from users in every part
of the world show the value of
the sound design of the car, good
materials aud accuracy in manu-
facturing. You sense a feeling of
sincere pride in the oft-repeated
phrase—"Let me tell you what my
new Ford did."
Further tribute to the sturdiness,
reliability and general all-round per-
formance of the new Ford is shown
in the repeated and growing pur-
chases by government bureaus, by
police departments, and by large
industrial companies which keep
careful day-by-day cost records. In
most cases, the new Ford has been
chosen only after exhaustive tests
covering speed and power, safety,
comfort, ease of control, oil and gas
consumption, low yearly deprecia-
tion, and low cost of up-keep.
They have found, as you will find,
that the Ford embodies every feature
you want or need in a motor car at
an unusually low price.
NEW LOW FOIKD PRICKS
Roadster 8135
I'hneton . 440
Tudor Sedan ......... 495
Coupe 495
Sport Coupe 525
De Luxe Coupe 545
Three-window Fordor Sedan .... 600
Convertible Cabriolet ...... 625
De Luxe Phaeton • . . . .' . . 625
De Luxe Sedan 640
Town Sedan 660
(All prices f. o. b. Detroit, plus freight and de-
livery. Bumpers and spare tire extra, at low cost.)
Universal Credit Company plan of time pay-
ments offers another Ford economy.
ASK FOn A DEMONSTRATION
NOT very far from wherever you are is a
Ford dealer who will be glad to give you
a demonstration ride in tlie new Ford.
FORD MOTOR COMPANY
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I
ing back natural prosperity. However,
in regarding public construction on
the basis of weed alone it becomes ob-
vious that the requirement for pub-
lic structures is not imaginary. For
example, no community as yet can
■*ay that it has enough, or almost j
enough, well paved highways. Con- \
seqUently those communities that are'
doing nothing to speed up the build- j
ing of needed improvements are real-
ly contributing to a continued lull in'
business.
CENTRAL POWER AND LIGHT CO.
RECENTLY COMPLETE NEW
TRANSMISSION LINE
OUR PLAN
Want a plan to lift every cent of
property tax in Texas and have snot
cash every day in the year to run all
the schools, pay all the expenses, build
all the roads and never hurt a soul?
Well, here it is:
Tax gasoline 6 cents a gallon. Put
automobile registration fees back to
where they were or more.
Put two cents a package of 20 on
all cigarettes and one cent each on all
cigars.
Tax every radio, regardless of make
and price $10.
And every piano $10.
All other musical instruments ac-
cordingly.
Put a 25-cent tax on every new
automobile tire sold.
And 5 cents per pound on all can-
dies.
A mill tax on every 5-eent drink, 2
mills on every 10 cent drink; 3 cents
for every 15-cent drink and. so on.
Make cities operating their own
system of lights, water and sewage
pay 5 per cent of the earnings and an
annual franchise tax of $250 for each
industry.
Put a heavy tax on all cosmetics
perfumes and toilet articles of every
description.
This can be carried on indefinitely
and never touch a necessity.
It would provide additional millions
and, as stated, positively relieve every
other form of taxation and provide a
steady flow of money.
It wouldn't hurt a soul #and give
property values and industry a boost
that would prove to be the marvel of
the ages.
As silly as it looks^ it will work.
—Bay City Tribune.
HELPING TO
BUILD TEXAS
The new Wooten at Abilene and the
new Hilton at Marlin were among the
auspiciously opened new hostelries in
Texas during May. Se*wn fl«ors of the
new 12-story Hotel Brownwood have
been completed and the new 325-room
Hilton at El Paso is to be opened in
the fall.
Andrews, county seat of Andrews
County, is building a new hotel, office
building and several business houses.
Laredo is starting on an ambitious
civic improvement program which in-
cludes a $300,000 high school, $50,000
sewage disposal plant and an airport.
El Paso buliding permits showed a
gain of 44.8 per cent for the first
four mbnths of this year over the
same period in 1928 and April's total
was 339 per cent ahead of the same
month last year.
Dallas realtors estimate total build-
ing projects for 1930 will total $30,-
000,000. The skyline of the North
Texas metropolis will be materially
altered before the end of the year.
One recent permit was to the Dallas
Gas Co. for a 10-story $800,000 office
building, one of the handsomest util-
ity structures in the Southwest. Cor-
pus Christi has $2,000,000 worth of
new construction just completed, un-
der construction or to start soon with
a million-dollar amusement park in
prospect. Potter County (Amarillo) is
having plans drawn for a new $400,-
000 courthouse. The $2,500,000 South-
western Bell Telephone Co. office
building at San Antonio is well under
way, with work on a million-dollar
apartment hotel soon to be started.
DON'T BE
ALL HOT
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Dr. Ptpper Co.
DalUs,Tex.,1930
What is perhaps a record for long
distance transmission of electric power
at 00,000. volts was recently establish-
ed by the Central Power and Light
Company when, by the completion of
a_ new transmission line connecting
Laredo with the company's Gulf Coast
district at Robstown via Falfurrias,
electric current began flowing from
company's generating plant on Devils
River, Del Rio, through the Winter
Garden and Laredo districts to Robs-
town and beyond, a distance of 362.3
miles.
"The recently completed line from
Laredo to Robstown, interconnecting
two of our company's power districts,
is of great value to electric service in
general in South and Southwest Texas
and represents the largest single
expenditure on the company's budget
for the year 1930," said E. B. Neis-
wanger, president of the Central Pow-
er and Light Company. The completed
line closes a network of transmission
lines operated by the company ex-
tending from the north edge of Val
Verde County in the west to the
Wharton County line east of El Campo
in the east.
The completion of this line is a part
of the company's program of inter-
connecting the whole of South and
Southwest Texas with transmission
lines. There still remains one major
item on this program—that of con-
nection the lower Rio Grande Valley
with the transmission system of the
rest of the South and Southwest Tex-
as. This interconnection will be made
by a transmission line extending south
from Falfurrias and interconnecting
at some point in the Lower Rio Grande
Valley as soon as it is economically
possible, according to Neiswanger.
The new Laredo-Robstown line is
153.3 miles in length and required
nearly three and a half months to com-
plete it. It provides transmission line j
service by local generating plants, |
and the communities of Bruni and i
Oilton received their first electric ser- i
vice from it. The new line, in addition j
to being a very important and strate-
gic link in the transmission system of I
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South and Southwest Texas, has
brought to many communities in-
creased protection to electric service,
and has made abundant power avail-
able for the benefit of agriculture and
industry in the entire Laredo-Robs-
town area.
Electric current generated at the
company's new steam plant at Del
Rio is now flowing over this line in-
to the Gulf Coast district, where it
assists in fortifying service in the
Guadalupe and Colorado River valleys.
"Under ordinary circumstances it is
not necessary to transmit power over
such long distances, "Neiswanger ex-
plained, "but consumption of electric
current is, to a large extent, seasonal
in the districts, and by maintaining
sufficient interconnections between tho
main power districts, power can be
transmitted from one district to an-
other to help take care of the seasonal
fluctuations. In this manner, power
shortages are practically eliminated
and interruptions to sei-vice are kept
at a positive minimum."
Guarantee of the present feasibility
of Trinty navigation is seen by the
personnel of the men directing the
efforts of the Trinity River Naviga-
tion Association behind which stand
the most progressive and influential
citizenry of Fort Worth, Dallas and
the towns along the Trinity water-
shed. John W. Carpenter was named
president by the board- with Walter
B. Scott, Dr. J. B. Cranfill, Roy Mil-
ler, Vanzandt Jarvis, Frank P. Hol-
land, Mayor William Bryce, James M.
North, Jr., Hugh Prather, John P.
King and F. F. Florence, vice-presi-
dents.
Fedrral government projects in Tex
as include a prospective new post of- j
fice building at Gorgetown; $615,000
for doubling size of pi-esent Houston '
post office; expenditure of $7,126,000
n improvements about i??° San An-'
tonio camps.
Patronize BEACON Advertisers
Five additional Federal highways
for Texas were disignated in Wash-
ington recently. Extension of U. S.
Highway No. 67 from Dallas to Pre-
sidio through Cleburne, Glen Rose,
Stephenville, Brownwood, San Angelo,
Fort Stockton and Alpine was one of
the projects. Extension of No. 77 Ok-
lahoma City to Denton to Fort Worth
was another, to be known as No. 377.
Highway No. 83, running from Per-
ryton, Ochiltree County, to Browns-
ville, a distance of 860 miles and the
longest state highway in the United
States was third. No. 60 was extended
from Enid, Olka., to Amarillo, Texas,
and the fifth was approval of the
Carlsbad Cavern route from the Ok-
lahoma state line through Paducah to
Lubbock^
END THE QUEST FOR THE BEST I5Y fiOING TO—
BRANDON'S
FOR ALL-
DRY GOODS & NOTIONS
NEW WASH DRESSES
—IN THE LATEST STYLE-
MEN'S DRESS PANTS, SHIRTS, HATS,
WORK CLOTHES
SHOES—For Men, Women and Children
"STAR BRAND SHOES ARE BETTER"
—"FOR THE ENTIRE FAMILY"—
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Under The Sterling Plan
Taxes Will Be Reduced
in Matagorda County!
The taxpayers of Matagorda County, including the farmers,
home owners and business men are now assessed an average tax
of approximately 57 cents on the $100.00 valuation to pay for the
construction of State Highways, a tax that should be born by the
State.
UNDER THE STERLING TAX REDUCTION PLAN
the State will assume this obligation and pay for it out of the
Gasoline Tax.
THE STERLING TAX REDUCTION PLAN
will place the burden of paying for the state roads your County
has built on the traffic, where it belongs.
THE STERLING PLAN
will provide the state with adequate funds to build a connected
state system of hard surfaced, all-weather highways and for pav-
ing the gaps over the State without County Aid and without in-
creasing the gasoline tax one penny.
THE STERLING TAX REDUCTION PLAN
provides that No Property Tax shall ever be levied to carry out
its purposes.
Vote For R. S. STERLING
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R. S. STERLING
Houston
Candidate for Governor
Explanatory Note:—The estimated reduction in the tax rate
has been calculated in accordance with the best available
information.- The exact figure will depend upon varying con-
ditions in each county. Mut that a material reduction of the
ad valorem taxes would be affected under the plan is certain.
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