Palacios Beacon (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 52, No. 6, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 5, 1959 Page: 6 of 8
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PALACIOS BEACON, PALACIOS, TEXAS
Thursday, February 5, 1959
Safely Should Be
Taught At Home,
School And Area
By J. 0. MUSICK
General Manager
Texas Safety Association
Like charity, safety should be-
gin at home—then followed up at
school and in the community.
Regrettably, far too few parents
realize the importance of proper
home training in the development
of safety habits. Habits that may
in later years mean the difference
between a health, fruitful life or
one of injury, regret and, possibly,
an early death.
By proper home training I don’t
mean just plain, “No! No! Johnny
—that’ll hurt.” Certainly, the kind
I’m speaking of requires direction
and the dictation of the do—and—
don’t type but the most important
lessons will be learned from par-
ental example.
Tell a child to be careful when
riding a bicycle, or not to dash into
the street, is of little avail if he
sees father driving past a stop
sign, or mother jay-walking to the
dress shop across the street.
If you doubt that parents are
safety thoughtless, ask any school
patrol boy. He will tell you that
it is generally the parents who
have the last regard for traffic
safety rules; it is the parents who
do the double-parking (“. . . I
have to get back home; . . . it’s
only for a minute; ad infinitum,”
who get out from the wrong side of
a car or disregard crosswalk mark-
ings.
Anyone of these, and dozens of
other such careless habits, are not
of tremendous importance when
singled out, but when viewed in the
whole—as a child might do—they
build an attitude in the young-
ster’s mind (one of careless re-
spect) that lasts a lifetime.
Without question, a universal
respect of safety rules, for the
common good is the ultimate an-
swer to our safety problems—
whether they be at work, play,
home or in traffic.
How great is the need for proper
traffic safety training? It is great
enough that if our present traffic
habits go unchallenged we can ex-
pect every second pre-school child
in Texas, today, to experience a
traffic accident before he or she
reaches voting age.
Lest I sound like an alarmist,
let me hasten to add that such a
Statement isn’t so far fetched in
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About Your
HEALTH
A weekly pvbllc Stnrlct feotwre In*
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HENRY A. NOLLE, 1. D
Ctaolitliui af Hoallk
Better be extra wary of that
chicken or turkey you buy for Sun-
day dinner. Unless it carrys an in-
WED.-THUR.— FEB. 11-12
CARL MOHNER
BARBARA SHELLEY
"THE CAMP ON
BLOOD ISLAND"
the light of present facts.
This year, according to Texas
Safety Association records, two
arid a half million Texans will op-
erate more than four and a quarter-
million motor vehicles in excess of
forty-billion miles. And, in so do-
ing, they will pile up a total of
nearly 275-thousand accidents. The
cost? It has been conservatively
placed at $275-million.
Indeed, this is not a bright pic-
ture and promises to worsen as
Texas population increases with
greater and greater rapidity.
What can we do to extricate our-
selves from the horns of this traf-
fic dilemma? The first step should
be taken in the home, through con-
sistent safety training by both par-
ents. Secondly, by careful examples.
Finally, by combining the first
two steps to build healthy safety
attitudes.
Spring Semester At *
W.C J.C. Opens With
100 New Students
WHARTON.—The spring semes-
ter opened at the Wharton County
Junior College Monday with ap-
proximately 665 students enrolled.
The enrollment figure is incomplete
and unofficial, because of late en-
rollees, and incomplete registra-
tion.
College transfers, recent high
school graduates, former students
returning, and new students ac-
count for approximately 100 of the
spring registrants.
Earl Glen Smith, Jr., of Palacios,
is one of the new students who had
registered through Friday.
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REBUILDING OF OUR KITCHEN
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spection tag you might get one that
isn’t fit to eat.
For the vast majority of Texans,
odds have probably increased since
January 1, that the bird they se-
lect will not have been inspected
for wholesomeness.
This state of affairs developed
when the federal government, ef-
fective on the first day of this
year, made i; mandatory that all
poultry products shipped across a
state line must first be checked
for wholesomeness by a federal
inspector.
What this means is obvious; Tex-
as poultry' products which are not
of sufficient quality to pass federal
inspection and subsequent out-of-
state marketing are going to be
marketed at home.
Texas has no mandatory state-
wide inspection law for poultry,
Rather, it has legal provisions
whereby a poultry plant can vol-
untarily—and that’s the key work
—arrange for inspection services
and thereby win the right to attach
an official legend of approval on
wholesome birds.
You’re lucky if you happen to
live in Houston, Pecos, Wichita
Falls, Midland, or Brenham. Of
all Texas cities only these five
presently are known to have local
ordinances prohobiting the sale of
uninspected poultry products.
Similar ordinances are pending
in Tyler, Lubbock, Amarillo, Odes-
sa, Waco, and Big Spring. Every
other city in the State faces the
possibility of becoming a dumping
ground for unfit poultry.
Under present circumstances, the
only way a city can be sure the
consuming public is not being vic-
timized is by spelling out in or-
dinance the fact that all poultry
sold within city limits must have
been examined by federal, state, or
local officials.
So-called “spot checks” won’t do.
Adequate, health protecting in-
spection of poultry means having
a trained, full-time man in the
plant.
Housewives shopping for poultry
can tell if the bird they choose
has been inspected by looking for a
tag showing “Inspected and Pass-
ed” by the agency which made the
check.
Don’t mistake the large wing
tag reading “Grade A” to mean the
bird has been inspected for whole-
someness. It may or it may not.
Always look for the “Inspected
and Passed” legend. This is the
statement that protects your health
by insuring inspections for whole-
someness under conditions of good
sanitation. (A weekly public ser-
vice feature from the State Health
Department’s Health Education Di-
vision.)
Federal Aid Only
Helps In Building
Texas Highways
AUSTIN.—“Texans must not
feel that Uncle Sam is going to
solve all our highway needs with
federal money. Texans still have a
tremendous responsibility in solv-
ing their own traffic needs.”
These words of warning come
from Marshall Formby, Chairman
of the State Highway Commission.
Formby stated that too many
people in Texas, after reading
about the huge amount of money
which the federal government is
going to spend on the interstate
system of highways, believe that all
Texas highways needs are solved.
“The 3,033 miles of interstate
highway in Texas, when completed,
will carry only about 16 per cent,
certainly never more than 20 per
cent of our Texas traffic. It is up
to Texans to work out our own
solution for this other 80 to 84
per cent of traffic.”
Formby explained that the big-
gest problem in Texas highways
is the 16,000-mile "primary" sys-
tem which links most of the state’s
major cities and towns.
“Two out of three autos travel
this system,” Formby said. “Ye(
at the present rate of improve-
ment it will take us 22 years to put
the primary roads in top condition.
By that time, these roads will need
further improvement.”
Chairman Formby stated that
1,000 miles of the busy primary
system are built with four lanes,
and that another 5,500 miles should
be four-laned within the next five
years,
“Thousands of miles need should-
ers paved, and 4,200 bridges need
to be widened. It would cost more
than $2 billion to put the primary
roads in first class condition for
safe travel under the present traf-
fic load.”
Formby predicted that 500 lives
and $50 million property damage
from accidents could be saved an-
nually if the primary system were
built to proper standards.
“We are proud of the progress
made on our 32,000-mile farm-to-
market road system,” Chairman
Formby said. “These paved rural
roads are of much benefit to the
farming and ranching areas and
school bus and mail routes. We
have added nearly nine thousand
miles to the farm-to-market road
system since I joined the Highway
Commission in 1953.”
Formby stated that the 50-50
right-of-way purchase law enacted
by the last session of the Texas
legislature has been a great aid to
the primary system and to the
counties and cities desiring high-
way improvement.
“However, right of way is ex-
ceeding the estimated cost. When
more money is required for right
of way, it has to come out of the
construction money, and so less
road-miles can be built,” Formby
said.
Pfc Raymond Michalik
Is Medical Aidman In
Baumholder, Germany
BAUMHOLDER, GERMANY—
Army PFC Raymond E. Michalik
of Palacios, Texas, recently par-
ticipated with the 8th Division’s
28th Infantry in observance of
“friendship day” in Baumholder,
Germany, honoring the visiting
soccer team and city officials of
Ettelbruck, Luxembourg.
After an inspection tour of the
infantry, the day was highlighted
by a soccer game between the visit-
ing Ettelbruck team and the 28th
Infantry Lions in which the host
team was victorious.
Michalik, a medical aidman in
the Infantry’s Headquarters Com-
pany, was stationed at Fort Sam
Houston, Tex., before arriving for
duty in Europe.
The 20-year-old soldier, son of
Mr and Mrs. John Michalik, Star
Route, is a graduate of Palacios
High School.
HONORED—Army Colonel Russell D. Fagin (right)
of Palacios, Texas, receives congratulations and a cer-
tificate of achievement from Brig. Gen. Sherburne Whip-
ple Jr., Chief of Staff, U. S. Army Advisory Group,.
Korea. Colonel Fagin was commended for outstanding
performance of duties while assigned at the Adjutant
General School, Fort Benjamin Harrison, Ind. The
colonel, whose wife, Angus, lives in Palacios, is a grad-
uate of Altus (Okla.) High School and a graduate of the
University of Oklahoma. Colonel Fagin entered the
Army in 1942.
Hope For Return!
Belter File Income
Tax By April 15th
Every citizen of the United
States who had a gross income of
$600 or more in 1058, including
minors, must file a Federal income
tax return on or before April 15,
1959, Robert R. Jones, Administra-
tive Officer of Internal Revenue
Service for Bay City said today.
If the taxpayer is 65 or over by
January 1, 1959, he is not required
to file unless his gross income was
at least $1,200.
He added even though a tax-
payer is not required to file under
these rules, he must file to obtain
a refund of any tax withheld from
his salary or wages.
There is one exception to the
general rule. Self-employed per-
sons must file an income tax re-
turn and pay a self-employment
tax if net earnings from self-em-
ployment are $400 or more.
He explained that self-employed
persons are those carrying on ai
trade or business as sole proprie-
tors, as members of a partnership,
or rendering services as independ-
ent contractors.
The deadline for filing is April
15, 1959, but he urged taxpayers
to file as soon as possible and
mail the return to the “District
Director of Internal Revenue” for
the district in which the taxpayer
lives.
He added checks or money orders
for any tax due should accompany
the return and should be made
payable to the “Internal Revenue
Service.”
“Taxpayers having questions
about their Federal Income tax re-
turn should telephone or visit their
local Internal Revenue office, pre-
ferably on Mondays, when special
arrangements are made to assist
taxpayers needing help.”
James Polk was the only speak-
er of the House of Representatives
to become president. According to
research experts with The World
Book Encyclopedia, Polk ran
against Henry Clay in 1844. It
was the only campaign in which
both candidates were former speak-
ers.
According to a survey conducted
by Nation's Business magazine,
executives of leading U. S. com-
panies expect 1959 to be a good
year for the economy. Of more
than 175 executives polled, 93 per
cent predicted an increase in sales.
A high percentage said they plan-
ned to spend more than in 1958 on
product improvement, introduction
of new products, and expansion ol
plant and facilities.
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