The Orange Leader (Orange, Tex.), Vol. 56, No. 209, Ed. 1 Sunday, August 30, 1959 Page: 3 of 24
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art about 72 per .r*«t sate* taxes
paid by consumers and about 28
per cent paid Dy industry.
Briefly the new money raisers
include:
A levy of per cent on the
first purchase of natural gas or
a severance beneficiary tax, mo-
tor vehicles sslp*. tax increased
from 1.1 to-1.5 per cent, cigarette
tax increased from five to eight
cents a pack, new 1»4 cents tax
on cigars costing five cents or
more and proportionate new tax-
es on chewing tobacco and other
forms Of tobacco exetpt snuff;
utilities gross receipts tax in-
creased by 20 per cent, telephone
and telegraph excepted; corpora-
tion franchise taxes Increased
$1.25 for 1960 and SO oents extra
for 1961;
Boats and motors, new 1.5 per
cent sales tax; air conditioners,
new 3 per cent sales tax; radio,
television, phonograph sets and
parts, 3 per pent sales tax; furs.
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THE ORANGE LEADER
AUSTIN (AP)—Living costs in
Texas go up Tuesday.
A series of new and raviaed
taxes handed down bv the last
Legislature become effective at
the beginning of the state's new
fiscal period. Sapt. 1.
State officials expect tax pay-
ers to chip in 93 million dollars
a year in new taxes toward in-
creased costs of operating the
etate government.
The new and increased taxes
Texas Jobs
Are Way Up
From 1958
AUSTIN (AP)—The Texas Em-
ployment Commission said Satur-
day that a 78,400 more jobs are
available in the state than a year
ago.
parts. 3
semi-precious metals and stones,
Based on mid-July figures an 3 per cent of iteim over $25; m6-
; estimated 3,461.400 jobs are gvail- tel and hotel rooms, 3 per cent
able, up 1,000 from June. The fig- sales tax on the room rate; liquor
ures include seasonal farm work-, tax increased 28 cent a a gallon,
ers and contract workers from wine tax increased 20 per cent.
Mexico. The tax laws also provide a
The TEC said the 1,900 decrease, new $5 a year l-tenses for per-
in non-farm employment resulted I sons selling phonographs, radio,
’> from labor disputes in petroleum ! and television sets and parts;
t refining, completion of repair
t work at a refinery and a seasonal
decrease in food processing. Full
effects of the steel strike, which
» began at mid-month in July were
- reflected only to a small extent.
"The early autumn outlook ap-
pears bright except for effects of
the steel dispute,'4 the TEC said.
The state’s non-farm employ-
ment was 56,000 Vpher than 1958
' on Aug. 1. Unemployment dropped
to 160,800 and a labor force ra-
tio of 4.4 per cent, as compared
j to 169,900 and 4.7 per cent in
( June.
Oil Wildcats
On Increase
mission member
says.
That’s the reason he gives for
twice as many Texas women hold-
ing jobs now as in 1940. He pre-
dicts the present 32 per cent ratio
. Jwill increase more and that by
AUSTIN (APT—Ljrry Radant, 1965. four Out of 10 workers will
19, escaped convict from Wiscon- be women
sin, was charged Saturday with] ••They’ll' invade any field of
kidnaping. promising jobs,” says Newman,
Conviction csrr.es a maximum who represents workers on the
Women of Texas Getting More Jobs
Because They're Smart, Versatile
AUSTIN (AP)—Today’s women of available men between 25 and 34
in Texas “are smarter, more ver-jwill not increase \tomen will grab
satile and much more deter-! at least 128,000 of the new posts, he
mined,” Texas Employment Com- said.
R. F. Newman “The TEC’s 1959 estimate is
890.000,” he said, “the 1950 census
showed 533,194 women working
here.”
Ike May Be
Godfather
BALMORAL, Scotland (AP)
sentence of death in the electric
chair.
Justice of the Peace J. H. Wat- __
^ordered Radant held without J cants, “l9 T^fOTMt^Tn'd j ! e^cted^rTbe ^adETSate engineers, armor
commission. .
“Last month, the TEC filled over Word went around (he Scottish
17,200 jobs wi'h feminine appli- highlands today that President
jbond.
R * d * n * wa« arrested here managerial positions.
Thursday. He and David Kry- Texas’ economy will create
shak another escapee, allegedly more than 300.000 new jobs the
robbed an Austin city planning jnext 5 years. Because the number
commissioner, Marvin Braswell 1-----
; AUSTIN (AP)—Oil wildcats In
■ Texas showed another increase
over last year’s drilling, the Rail-
? road Commission said Saturday. .......
In unproven territory, 14 oil ^"eV'Paso‘then “hei’d Brtfweii, _.
? were^no"££ S5u.' Fo^h* .r«ptiveon • 600’mile drive 10 Aus- Tmy Girl Lives
year, 317 oil and 45 gas wildcats: iy^ng the arrest, Kryshak ThrOUnh Oir/pfl/
volver at Police Capt, K. R. Her-
oes
j There were 108 drv holes, 4,102 for
the year and 4,179 last year.
Oil well completions hit 220 the
’ list seven davs and gas wells 21.
It upped the year marks to 7,803
and 1.278 compared to 8,460 and
1,543 last year. There were 108
dtheh°Sal average calendar day «laria*
oil allowable increased 10,476 bar- .
: <*«**. «* Oil Anniversary
year’s total increased to 6,292
compared to 6,590 last year.
bert and waa shot dead by Detec-' year-old girl was carried 903 feet
tive Charlie Jonea. -
Both youths escaped
fishing and 96 in professional and Qu«en Elizabeth’s expected child. m;llion and counties M mil.
‘ * Royal aides wou:d not comment,;ii0n dollars
but the people of the glens were1 '__
saying nothing would be more - ... , _ . ,
natural than for the 33-year-old EX-King Or Belgium
Queen to invite the President to —
the christening or to name a
proxy.
For one thing, they said, the
Queen and her husband Prince
Philip are on the closest terms
of personal friendship with Eisen-
hower.
From the moment he arrived
Reserve officers of the Army,
Ngvy. National Guard, and Ma-
rines were reminded today that
they may maintain an active
status and comp'ete satisfactory
years for retirement purposes by
enrolling in the Beaumont 4160th
U S. Army Reserve (USARj
School, now entering its ninth year
of operation.
The new schoo1 year begins
Wednesday at 7:?5 p.m., and the
school is located at 3020 Colleee
St., in Beaumont. Col. Brudge E.
Kyle is commandant ol the school
which has a present membership
of 125. The Besumont Armed
Forces Center serves Orange, Jef-
ferson, Trinity, Houston, Polk, Ty-
ler, San Jacinto, Chambers, Jas-
per, Newton, Hardin and Liberty
counties.
Many courses are offered and
availableiso officers may increase
their military education and keep
abreast of current developments in
the armed services.
Officers assigned to troop pro-
gram units in the Army Reserve
must be educationally qualified
for such units bv being a graduate
of the advanced course of their
branch for field grade officers or
j the company course for company
j grades.
DALLAS (AP)—The Texas Con-' BV enrolling in the appropriate
tractor said Saturday that 1959 is ““rs« at„.the Beaumont USAR
a cinch to be another billion-plus' School> officers can fulfill their
year in Texas building. military educational requirements
The industrial publication report-1 in a Period of three years,
ed that through the first eight’ Reserve officers who have a
months, contracts total $813 923- mandatory military obligation also
229. This total does not include may enroll in the Beaumont USAR
residences, which the magazine School and satisfy their require-
does not tabulate. ments each year by participating
The trade pOblication estimated actively,
that construction in Texas next! Instructors at the school are well
year will be more than a billion qualified, Col. Kvle said, and it
and a half dollars, exclusive of offers officers an opportunity for
residential building. fellowship and to meet old ac-
The Contractor estimated fed- quaintances.
era! participation at nearly 300 Instruction is offered in corn-
million dollars. City' spending is mand and genera! staff, infantry,
-■ ■ —and ordinance
of Mexico City. The quake caused widespread
damage and casualties in five Mexican states.
(AP Wirephoto)
Construction
Still Way Up
BOULDER, Colo. (AP) - Al-
in an irrigation ditch Saturday,
21 93 feet through underground pipe.
on the first and third Wednesdays
of each month, and staff and fac-
ulty meetings are reheduled on the
second and fourth Wednesdays.
Active duty for training at summer
To Leave Son’s Horn.
BRUSSELS. Belgium (AP)-The
Belgian government announced
ex-King Leopold III has agreed
to move from voung King Bau-
Boy Killed by Truck
CORSICANA (AP)-Reecie Mil-
douin’s Laeken Castle to the gov-
emment-owned Ar-enteuil domain ” 5hLby « P.
ass rat!
Celebration Ends
from a
Radant told police about a six-i Kathering Elizabeth Bowton, ... ...
day series of car thefts and bur- daughter of Mrs. Donald Turner, was treated more like a fa^
..... El Paso, of Boulder. toddlH into the ditch iv?r.,te uncle than * v,sltln* head of
1 in the north part of the city near sta,e’
her home. She was swept along The Queen, expecting her third, .
with its waters under two streets baby early next vear, went to the The Suez Canal Authority now
and an alley. castle gates to meet him. employs 220 pilots from 16 coun-
‘ " tries. Not one Briton or French-i
man is included.
outside Brussels. The decision for
Leopold to leave Laeken with his
wife and three children was made
May 26 after press criticism of his!
alleged influence over his son’s
regal acts.
Police said he ran in front of the
truck.
At West Oronqe
Mrs. Al Chatlosh, Ph. TU «-MW
WEST ORANGE (SpQ — Mem-
bers of St. John’,* Methodist
WSCS will hold a regular monthly
A neighbor milled'the child out
unconscious. Firemen could not i rrr . **■ a
TITUSVILLE, Pa. (AP)—A 25-jducern breathing or pulse when ti lOftS 10 AVSTt
division parade replete with bands:they, applied re^urcitation. After . . _ ,, . . ,
and floats moved over a three-1 about half an hour she responded bAp/lfr SffllfP Mn/ip
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mile long route Saturday as thr and was hospitalized in fair con-
oil industry fended * week long dition.
celebration of its 100th birthday
Listed
In Band Roundup
meeting at the church Wenesday theme of oil and its history. Many
at 9 a.m. OrigmaHy scheduled oil company executives from ail
for Tuesday, the drte was changed parts of the world were on hand
so as not to conflict with the first!for the final Uav of the birthday! LAKE CHARLES (Spl) — Two
day of school. Mr.j. Archie Lloyd, celebration. Orange students are presently reg-
president, will preside. j Many of the parade’s floats car- istered for the McNeese State
Returning last week after visit- ried some reference to Col. Ed- College annual band roundup start-
* ing relatives in Oak wood and win Drake who drilled the first ing Sept. 6.
Hearne were Mr and Mrs. Bobby well and struck o>! here on Aug. They are Shelby Adams and
' Joe Biggs and sons, Dennis and 27, 1859. Fred Patterson.
Tony. 1 The historic Drake well is to- Purpose of the event. Norman
Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Penry and cited two miles-from Titusville. Smith, band director, explained ia Mon^y* "Both* Unions' have
children are visiting in Luliag this: - — to issue instruments, music andiprove<j a str,i(f
weekend with tiie*r son-in-law DueLinA (uniforms, to review marching fun-!
daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Rpy Beck.' JUrOriTy iNUSniflCJ damentais and band policies and
Mrs. Robert E. McKinley is di- — D , ia io |to learn new formations for thei
retting the new Sunday school |Q DC jCpT. lu*IO i first football snow.
CHICAGO (API — The govern-
ment moved Saturday to trend off
a strike in the meat packing in-
dustry starting with a conference
Monday.
The Mediation and Conciliation
Service said mediation conferences
have been scheduled for 2 p.m.
Monday with Swift & Co. and
Wilson & Co. and leaders of two
unions, the United Packinghouse
Workers and the Amalgamated
Meat Cutters ar.d Butcher Work-
men.
Contracts expire at midnight
ap-
reeting tne new suna«y
j class lor 2 and 3-vear-olds at St.
: John’s Methodist Church.
Mr. and Mrs. D. D. Donham
and sons, Donnie, Dan and Dar-
win, have returned to Morgan
City, La., a f t e r spending two
SAI^orESMCNra<eS‘'sta« Soviets Completing
Icebreaker
hellenic convocation in the Mc-! LENINGRAD, Soviet Union
weeks here with Mrs. Donham’s Neese student center, from 4 to (AP) — Tass reports the Soviet
brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and 5 p.m., Linnie Lacv, counselor to!atomic turboelectric icebreaker
women students, announced.
Offered to M-Neese coeds inter-
ested in ieining college sororities,
the convocatien will precede a se-
ries of rush week parties slated
for Sept. 10 through 13, Miss Lacy
Mrs. J. L. (Bud) Schllcher.
Other recent guests in the
Schlicher home were their son
and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs.
Kenneth Schlicher, and Jimmy
Guthrie of Grctra, La.
E. L. Henry Sr
. jor sur;
underwent ma- !said.
gery Fridat morning ai
Baptist Hospital in Beaumont.
Today is Fall Roundup Day at
St. John’s Methodist Church. Sun-
day school attendants may dress,
in Westetm attire for the 10 a.m.
,class.
Ex-Mayor Claims
Charge Hits Him
I
depar
McKINNEY (AP) — George announced.
Smith, immediate past mayor of
McKinney, said in an interview
here this weekend that the recent
indictments aga-nst former police
.chief Jack Pike were an attempt
to strike at him through Pike.
A Collin Countv grand jury last
week handed down four felony
theft indictments against the po-
lice chief and also hit at opera-
tions of the corporation court.
Smith, radio station owner $nd
- the mayor when Pike was hired
about two years ago, said he per-
sonally checked Pike’s references
before he employed him and
that he enjoyed a reputation as
a capable, efficient and honest
law enforcement officer.
I The postal money-order system
;was established Nov. 1, 1Q64.
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Lamar Tech Appoints!
English Instructor
BEAUMONT (Spl) - Mrs. Mary!
P. Kerf of Beaumont, has been
appointed an instructor in the
English department at Lamar.
Tech, Dr. F. .L. McDonald, pr«si-|
Lenin is getting '!s finishing touch
es and final tests and will be
ready for servi-e soon. The 16.008-
tonner, examined by U.S. Vice
Adm. Hyman G Kickover on the
Nixon tour, is bui't to cruise for
a year without touching port.
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Browning, J. Cullen. The Orange Leader (Orange, Tex.), Vol. 56, No. 209, Ed. 1 Sunday, August 30, 1959, newspaper, August 30, 1959; Orange, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth558289/m1/3/: accessed June 22, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Lamar State College – Orange.