The Denison Press (Denison, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 32, Ed. 1 Friday, February 11, 1949 Page: 2 of 3
This newspaper is part of the collection entitled: Texas Digital Newspaper Program and was provided to The Portal to Texas History by the Grayson County Frontier Village.
- Highlighting
- Highlighting On/Off
- Color:
- Adjust Image
- Rotate Left
- Rotate Right
- Brightness, Contrast, etc. (Experimental)
- Cropping Tool
- Download Sizes
- Preview all sizes/dimensions or...
- Download Thumbnail
- Download Small
- Download Medium
- Download Large
- High Resolution Files
- IIIF Image JSON
- IIIF Image URL
- Accessibility
- View Extracted Text
Extracted Text
The following text was automatically extracted from the image on this page using optical character recognition software:
!
THE DENISON PRESS
•Entered u second-claas matter Hay 16, 1141, at
tea Post Office at Denton, Taxaa, under the aet
of March 3. 187#.*
Offic-
Teiephone Hp. 300
ot Publication 206 W.
Issued Each Friday
Main
fi®$ggpja»
I,ir.ROY M. ANDERSON........Editor and Publisher
National advertising represeniative Inland News-
paper Representatives, Inc., Wrigley Building,
Chicago, 111.______ -
Dedicated to clean and responsive government;
to individual and civic integrity; to individual and
civic commercial progress. _
BOX NUMBERS, Care Denison Press, will be given
advertisers desiring blind addresses._
ERRORS: The Denison Press will not be re
sponsible for more than one incorrect insertion.
CLOSING HOUR; Copy received by 9
be published the same day._
will
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
By the month..................................-................ 20c
By the year ............................................«... $2.50
One year in advance .................................... $2.00
Six months in advance------------------------------ $1.00
(Outside county add 25c each six months)
OUT OF TOWN ORDERS for classified ads
strictly payable in advance.
wa would have a heftk of a dead tdfen»
tOO.” ,•* I |
Well, that answer to the .socialistic-
minded city commissioner was not strong
enough.
In the light of what has happened in
the recent ice storm to our light, phone and
gas service, the latter concern fortunately
suffered relatively little, what would have
a Denison, depending on its reserves, re-
sources of men, material and equipment,
been able to do to bring relief to the peo-
ple? That’s the $64 question.
Any service company like the ones
serving our town must be ready for any
and all emergency. To do that they must
have a profit sufficient to lay up over a
wide area a capacity for service. A small
margin of profit in every center where
they serve the people will provide an over-
all sufficiency for such catastrophes as the
recent ice storm. Local companies owned
by a municipality can not accumulate
enough funds as profits for a financial
shock such as this storm brought to this
area. Fortunately corporations can per-
form this service and at the same time give
the people lower rates over all than may
be had from any other source.
billion bildgct for fiscal i960, down~*or this nation will get up Senatobia, Miss.
"Will Congress follow the rec-
ommendations of the .Hoover com-
mission for trimming between
some morning and the Govt, will
be such a big affair that all the
average citizen can do Is go over
three and four billion dollars a in the corner and be quiet.
year off the federal administrative
cost, or will it vote the $4.0 bil-
lion tax increase?” he asked.
To answer it was necessary first
to point out that the $41.9 billion
budget was a bit misleading. For
if refunds of taxes were handled
by the same bookkeeping as now
the total would read $4.1.9 billion.
The future request of $1.0 with
which to begin the rearming of
Western Europe, to be requested
latur the President states, should
be added to the total.
Then there are at least another
$1.0 billion in contract authoriza-
tions that should be figures in.
Finally, in view of all past exper-
ience, there will be a "deficiency''
But 1 can see one good omen.
The paper says that the taxpayers
in 20 states are getting together
to see how-coine they are the goat
and must dig up the taxes to build
Govt, powerhouses in some far
away state—and where, soon
the Govt, power plants get run-
ning, will start competing with
these same states for business.
'Taftit fair, these 20 states say—
it is getting them, coming and go
ing. A good omen, I calls it—this
waking up. Now, 28 more states
can take note—get off the dime—
read Uncle Harry’s budget figures
and cut out the ho-hum.
Yours with the low down,
JO SERRA.
appropriations next year which I -
properly should be charged to the Jexag Blue Blood
1950 budget. q ■ np « »-»
So, we told the retailer, chances StOCk I akes r ancy
were that the final figure for the Prizes at Fort Worth
1950 budget, on a basis eompar-1
able with past experiences would I
run close to $48.0 billions.
The President hasn’t said any-
Grand champion quarter horse
mare Is Little Peggy H of the
Buckle L. ranch, Childress, Tex.
Reserve champ Is Powder Parks,
owned by Roy Parks of Midland,
Texas.
Go Slow on Plan to
Expand Air Force
Into 70 Groups, Urged
FORT WORTH. — An Illinois
bull, a Mississipp'i cow, and a Tex-
as quarter horse mare have won
thing noteworthy about economy! blue- ribbons at Fort Worth’s
late]y Southwestren Exposition
To balance the 1950 budget, we
CANCELLATIONS must be received by 19 a. m.
in order to avoid publication in current issue.
CHARGE ACCOUNTS are acceptable from persona
having telephone listed in their own name and up-
on agreeing to remit when bill is presented. 10 per
Iter
cent will be added on upaid private accounts a
30 days from date of first insertion.
Any erroneous statement reflecting upon the
character or reputation of any persons will be
gladly corrected if brought to the attention of the
publishers. The Denison Press assumes no respon-
sibility for error in advertising insertions beyond
the price of the advertisement.
What If Denison Had?
Within our memory not too many
years back one of our city commissioners
remarked when a newspaper man register-
ed an objection to his idea to have the city
take over the gas company as a municipal
project, that ‘‘Why, don’t you know that
if we have the gas company, the power
and light plant and the telephone company
to add to our water works, we would
have a tax-free town?”
The answer he received was ‘‘Yes and
At a time when the motor activity of
youth is at its most pliable point, we have
for the boys of America the Boy Scout
movement now 39 years old. It has af-
fected the lives in a constructive way of
more than 15 and a half million boys and
men during that time. Always employing
the highest of patriotic motives and shot
through and through with the Christian
spirit, it has guided youth into construc-
tive lines of activity and displaced the
temptations of youth with a constructive
program of work and play educational and
highly advantageous all the way through
pointed out to our retailer friend,
that extra $4.0 billions might well
be needed. And that’s assuming
that from now until July 1, 1950,
the present level of national pros-
perity is about unchanged I
Then the retailer told how his
company—a small business as na-
tional corporations go — will pay
approximately a half million dol-
lars in federal taxes along on 1948
operations.
"Talk of how to get the new
federal revenues,” we continued,!
“indicates an increase in corporate
rates from the present top of 38',
to 45%.’’
"How much must a man pay
the federal government?” the Tex-
and Fat
Stock Show.
The grand champion Angus bull
is Silcenmere 1000th, owned by
the J. Garrett Tolan farms of Plea-
sant Plains, 111.
Champion female polled Here-
ford is I1SF Beau Queen 5th,
shown by the Double E ranch at
WASHINGTON. — The legisla-
tive chairman of the national
guard association went before
congressional committee this week
and urged congress to go slow on
a bill to expand the air force to
70 groups. Major-General Milton
Reckord said the bill as drafted is
“dangerous" because it would put
the air national guard under the
thumb of Pentagon generals and
might ultimately destroy the whole
guard.„
Veterans Administrator Carl
Gray, Jr., told hte house veterans
committee that proposed automatic
pensionion of world war veterans
at the age of 60 does not fit into
government theories. Gray said
such an idea docs not consider
whether the recipient could earn a
living. But he said he will not take
a position cither favoring or op-
posing Representative John Rran-
kin’s bill to pay such pensions.
Man Stabbed With
Ice Pick at Perrin
Base, Back on Job
Charles C. Major, Denison man,
who was stabbed with an ice pick
in an altercation at the NCO club
Friday last is able to be back on
the job as clerk at the club after
a week off following the alterca-
tion. -
The story is that major was
stabbed with the pick in the hands
of a Sherman iceman, Richard
Pressley, employee of the Southern
Ice company of Sherman when
Major interfered in a fight which
Pressley was having with Wesley
Moss, an employee of the Glenn
Eden dairy company of Denison.
Major was removed to the ba.se
hospital for treatment and then to
the McKinney veterans hospital.
It was found the pick had not
pierced the abdomen as at first
feared, but had missed by a small |
margin entering the vitals.
Prescription*
Designat'd
Pharmaoy for
Denison'* Five
Railroads
Kingston’s
Phone IS
• I
Wo Repair
All Makes
Yours for
Better
_ Listening
TEXOMA RADIO COMPANY
126 W. Chestnut Phone 2850
Diamond
TV*
Diamond Brand
BUTTER
Brand
UraUon Poultry
and H(* Co.
Denleon, To*.
Lady G o d i v a rode naked
through the streets of Coventry
to protect onerous taxes on her
husband’s subjects.
VALENTINE GIFTS
life from boyhood to manhood. Denison,
as usual, will give full support to this fine as retailer' pleaded. "After we
work. * I pay them that half million we’ll
have to pay them a lot more ini
a gift of JEWELRY
He was able to be about in a
couple of days and was advised to I
rest a week befov going back on
the job at the base.
RATES
Contract rates will be given
upon application. Legal rates at
one cent per word per Insertion.
1 time lc per word.
3 times 2c per word.
6 times 3c per word.
(for consecutive insertions
Minimum charge is for 12 words
FOR THAT
GOOD OLD
‘‘HAM
AN’ ”
at it’s bast
WAFFLE HOUSE
Across from Postoffice
^Mexican Foodi "fcSen Foods
★ Juicy Steaks
GOLDEN BROWN WAFFLES
SERVED AT ALL HOURS
Best Coffee To Be Had
224 W. Woodard—Phone 2087
BRATCHER-MOORE
FUNERAL DIRECTORS
401 W. WOODARD
Phone 113
J. R. HANDY
AGENCY
GENERAL
INSURANCE
Phone 104
303V* Woodard
a gift that PLEASES
V/L
HARRY E. KAIN
Right after one has completed his in-
come tax report is a good time when the
blood pressure is up to write a dissertation
on how near this country is into the bog of
socialism
Right now there are those who wish
to stop and split hairs over what constitutes
private and free enterprise while the situa-
tion becomes more and more what is de-
sired by the socialistic maneuverers. We
still have that tribe of characters like San-
b&llat and Tobiah who would retard good
by seeking debate in the valley.
taxes on the dividends we stock-
holders get.”
Now here’s the way this Texas
business executive made the im-
pact of federal taxes strike home.
"Our company has 66 outlets.
Twenty-five of these (38% of the
total) must work full time 12
months a year and apply ALL of
their net earning just to pay our
company’s CORPORATE federal
taxes. If the rate goes up to 45%
then two and one-half more of our
outlets must be set aside just to
pay Federal corporate taxes.”
Local Elks Club
Sponsoring Essay
Contest in School
The Bare Facts
Told About The
Finance of Texas
An essay contest to be had
among students of the Denison
high school in the theme of "Why
Democracy Works,” is to be pon-1 The bare facts are told in the
sored by the local order of Elks,, following bulletin issued from the
it was announced this week. The: office of the East Texas Chamber
contest is a part of the order’s! of Commerce, With our legislators
Americanization program and car- i seemingly bent on robbing the
ries a first prize of $1,000 as to! state General Fund and with al-
the national prize. Local prize ready enough bills proposing
awards are $50, and $25 respec- spending these funds to run our
tively for first and second prizes, state far into the red, if the bills
All essays must be submitted be- go through ,it is time the tax pay-
fore the first day of March. ers read the truth and then write
Funds. Some are small special
funds. Typical of these is the Ar-
chitects Registration Fund. Open-
ing balance for the 1947 fiscal
year was $14,649.42. Receipts
were $11,590.00. Net transfers
The Low Down
From Hickory Grove
I been reading where the Govt,
says us taxpayers must dig up
some more millions for more dams.
out: $150.00.'Disbursements: $6,- for Hungry Horse dam 24 mil-
.lion. For the Missouri, 87 million.
411.81. Closmg balance: For Central VaUey, 63 million.
And for a dozen more—-all in the
The committee on judging the
essays is to be selected later and
all essays submitted will be blind,
the name of the party writing it
being withheld from the judges so
as to insure absolute impartiality.
Whitewright high school will also
be included, however judges from
the representative to start practic-
ing economy.
The bulletin states that nearly
all of our younger representatives
are likely confused at the emphfo-
sis placed on the amount of 75
million in the general fund. That
fund finances the general opera-
that city will be chosen for thcjtion oft he state and is about the
students of the neighbor town. only fund over which the legisla-
The three best essays of the two lure contro‘, but that 7., mil-
towns will be forwarded to an ''on cal1 *)e dissipated quickly un-
English professor of some state
college for final passing, his selec- pointed out.
-ion to be passed on to the state
,! less caution is exercised, it is
finals.
Winners in the national contest
will receive first, second and third
awards as follows: $1,000, $500
and $250, with other smaller cash
awards for the runnersup.
Denison and Sherman
Pastors Cooperate in
Services at Perrin
Read the bulletin which is in
brief and abridged form, but it
tells a story which all should read
and ponder and above all act by
telling their representatives and
senators to go slow. The bulletin
folows:
There are more than 100 State
Negroes Seeking Entrance To
White School, Starts Trouble
EAST ST. LOUIS, III. — The
! question of racial segregation
Pastors of both Denison and dosed down a junior high school in
Sherman have joined forces in j this city this week,
conducting series of services at Some 400 white pupils of Rock
Perrin Feild base, it has been an-
nounced by base Chaplains Maj.
Herbert W. Wicher and Capt. Les-
ter E. Burnette.
The plan is for the pastors of
the two cities who are members of
the Ministerial Alliances take
turns in delivering special mes-
sages at the field base chapel.
Each speaker will bring members
of his choir or others to help furn-
iob tb>> music, it is announced.
The general theme of the series
of talks is announced as “What’s
the Idea of Religion?”
junior high walked out of their
classes when they learned negro
children were in the school trying
to enroll. Some white students at
East St. Louis high also walked
out when six negroes tried to en-
roll there.
Groups of whites pgfaded
around the Rock school, which is
restricted to whites, demanding
that the negroes be kept out. Pol-
ice were on hand, but there was
no disorder. The negroes remained
in the school watching the whites
parade.
Then there arc trust funds such!
as the Permanent School Fund. At i
the close of the 1947 fiscal year
it had more than $100,000,000 in
its bond account plus more than
$9,000,000 in cash.
Clearance Funds confuse the!
unwary. Good example is the high-j
way motor fuel tax fund. For fis- s
cal 1948 it had an opening cash
balance of $6,590,000. After de-
posits to the state highway fund,
available school fund, county and
district road fund, motor fuel tax
enforcement fund, and general
fund totalling $70,892,000, there
remained $15,690,000 Tax refund
claims to $14,878,000. Closing bal-
ance: $7,402,000.
Some of the state’s business is
handled through what we call
"trustee” funds. The unemploy-1
ment compensation trust fund is
one. It had nearly $170,000,000,;
collected from Texas employes, a.L
the beginning of the 1948 fiscal
year.
The state comptroller’s condens-j
ed report on Texas state finances}
for fiscal 1948 showed consoli-
dated beginning balances for ALL
funds of $302,416,000 cash—and
$238,934,000 in securities.
Total revenue receipts, all state
funds, fiscal 1918, according to
the same condensed comptroller’s
report: $508,267,000:
Total “governmental cost expen-
diture"—net spending—$403,984,-
000; and
Consolidated closing balances:
$360,672,000 cash and $284,791,-
000 in securities.
We pass from these considera-
tions of state finance to federal
spending and taxes. The same vot-
ing Texas citizens have to carry
both!
A man who in his own lifetime
has helped organize and now di-
rects one ol Texas largest systems
of retail outlets was asking us
about the President’s new $41.9
big millions. And who knows where
they are or what they will do to
} people who live elsewhere. Some-
; body is going to take more than
ho-hum interest—put their foot
Whether you want
to spend a little or
a lot, you’ll find a
suitable Val-
entine re-
membrance
among our gift se-
lections. Scat ter
p i n s, cigarette
lighters, wrist
watches—t h e s s
are only a few sug-
gestions! Stop in
today!
ATTORNEY AT-L-AW
Security BjIldlnK
Pkone 1703
DENISON, TEX Al./
Highest Cash Prices
Paid/or Dead
or Crippled Stock
You Always
Look Swell
When you let us
do your cleaning. ^
Reasonable Hate* __
Seelye Cleaner*
Phone 115
joa w. Main
LEWIS
S rvicecenter
Quality
CENTRAL HIDE &
RENDERING CO.
Road Service Open Around
Tho Clock
Main-At-Hpuston Phone 2221
For fmmtJitrfr Sm+kt Hum
979 COLLECT
DENISON, TEXAS
CARL AKINS
YOUR .✓'Tv DEALER
220 W. MAIN ST.
530 W. MAIN
PHONE 74
PHONE 220
Growing With Denison-Helping Denison Grow
SNOW-WHIT6
Launderers, Cleaners, and Dyers
PHONES 716-717
Active Officers
G. A
A. J. MARTIN.
COOLEY, Vice-President
W/ E. WINTER, Cashier
JAS. A. WOODRUFF, Asst. V.-Pres.
President.
M. A. REGENSBURGER, Asst. V.-P.
RAY A. ANDERSON, Asst. Cashier
TRUETT, Asst. Cashier
jlKO EPPENll
o aldwiIN
PLUMBING, ELECTRICAL and SHEET METAL WORK
308-5 W. Woodard St. Phone 32
C. R.
Directors
W. J. SMITH
DENISON MACHINE & SUPPLY
E. D. RODOCKER
Welding- and Machine Work
Automotive work, Motor Rebuilding
Crankshaft Grinding in or out of car.
823 w. CHESTNUT ST.
PHONE JM
Chairman of the Board
President, W. J. Smith Wood Preserving Co.
F. O. BABCOCK
President, Babcock Bros. Auto Supply Co.
J. D. BOND
President, Lingo-Leeper Co., Lumber
A. R. DAVIS
President, State National Bank
Garland, Texas
J. LEE GREER
Investments
D. K. JAMISON
Physician and Surgeon
A. J. MARTIN
President
E. MUNSON
Vice-President
President, Denison Cotton Mill 0
W. B. MUNSON, III
President, Munson Realty Co.
Vice-President and Treasurer
of Denison Cotton Mill Co.
VERNE W. MURRAY
President
Gate City Mutual Ins. Co.
yXoels
^ >»»»» l*i Mss i»4 Up
325 W. Main
Phone 420
FOR ALL YOUR BANKING NEEDS
The DIM! MTIOML KM
MEMBER FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORP.,
CAPITAL $200,000.00 SURPLUS $200,000.00
Steakley Chevrolet Co.
fhe Place to Buy O. K. Used Cars
TELEPHONE 231— —208 S. BURNETT AVE.
Upcoming Pages
Here’s what’s next.
Search Inside
This issue can be searched. Note: Results may vary based on the legibility of text within the document.
Tools / Downloads
Get a copy of this page or view the extracted text.
Citing and Sharing
Basic information for referencing this web page. We also provide extended guidance on usage rights, references, copying or embedding.
Reference the current page of this Newspaper.
Anderson, LeRoy M. The Denison Press (Denison, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 32, Ed. 1 Friday, February 11, 1949, newspaper, February 11, 1949; Denison, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth527892/m1/2/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 5, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Grayson County Frontier Village.