Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 54, No. 31, Ed. 1 Tuesday, February 6, 1951 Page: 5 of 8
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Sweetwater, Texas, Tuesday, February 6, 1051_5
Red China Having Set-Backs
Dn Home Front And In War
By Harr)’ Perpson
VP Foreign News Kdlior
As of today, Red China is los-
ing I he war on two fronts —
the battlefield and at home.
She has lost the initiative in
Korea, her army has I teen oudly
mauled and there is tall now
about I'nited Nations forces
Onoving on up to the 38th par-
allel. Noi quite so much is
known about the plight on the
Proposed Tax
Program Would
Net 10 Billion
WASHINGTON (UP) —High-
lights of the administration’s
$ 10,000,000,000 tax program:
K\cis< Taxes
Automobile—Raise the tax on
new passenger cats, which man-
ufacturers pass on to consum-
ers, from 7 to 20 per cent.
Gasoline—Increase the federal
tax from l'.-j to 3 cents a gallon.
Appliances—Jump from 10 to
20 per cent the tax on radios,
television set a records and rec-
ord players, gas and electric
Ranges and other appliances.
Liquor—Raise the tax on dis-
tilled spirits from SO to S12 a
gallon. This would make the fed-
eral tax $2.40 a fifth for 100
proof, instead of the present
$1.80. Raise the beer tax from $8
td $12 a barre* and make varying
increases in wine taxes.
•Smokes—An increase from 7
to 10 cents a pack for eignrets
and various hikes in cigar taxes.
^ Individual Income Taxes
W Raise the rate for each bracket
four percentage points. This
would mean a tax increase of
one-fifth in tne lowest brackets
with smaller total increase in
others.
Snyder sain the new rates
would he higher for many single
persons titan in World War 11
liut that married couples would
pay “substantially less.”
The capital gains tax, levied
«in profits from sale of real prop
*my and securities, would ho in-
creased from 25 to 37L per cent.
An increase of eight percen-
tage points in ad corporate rates.
This won Id raise the tax on the
first $25,000 of corporation in-
come from 25 to 33 per cent and
hike the levy from 17 to 55 per
cent on income above $25,000.
The excess profits rate would
he jumped from the present 77
to 85 per cent. The ceiling on the
goial amount of corporate profits
mhat could lie taken by taxes
would he increased from 02 to
70 per cent.
Reduce the depletion allow-
ances for oil and gas producers
from 27 to 15 per cent and make
a corresponding reduction for
mineral producers.
Tax the undistributed earnings
of cooperatives, mutual savings
banks, and building and loan
.associations at the regular cor-
poration income tax rates.
Ice Covered Pond
Brings 3 Deaths
PENNSOROVE. X. L. (UP>--
Two brother- went through the
ice of a water - filled gravel pit
and two other hov and a man
gave their lives to stive one ot
.mem.
W Ralph Whittle. 17. and his
brother, Otis, 12. fell through
the ice on a sled.
Otis slaved afloat and two
bovs — Robert (“hecks, lti, and
Russell Shorts, Jr., 1 I — tried
to push another sled to him
and his brother. Rut they went
under themselves and were
drowned.
Then a neighbor, Charles Ran-
sbmo, 20, father of two small
children, went after the whole
Stroup, foil in and was drown-
ed. .
The father of the Whittle
hoys, Richard. 13, and a third
son arrived at this point but
they could rescue only Otis.
You’ll save con.-iderably on
your fuel bill if you plan oven
meltls rather than oven dishes.
Take advantage of the hot oven
to cook everything on the menu,
Concluding meat, bread, starch,
and vegetables.
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DAtAY T4tW
KEEP PUMPING, DAISY-
ITS GOOD PURE MILK FQOM
_ HOME DAIRY
THAT EXTINGUISHES”THE j
FIRE OF POOR HEALTH,
AND *-
FATIGUE.'
Chinese Communist home front
because most information un-
favorable to Communist fails
to penetrate the iron curtain.
Hut some of it gets through.
The best listening post the de
moorarles have is llong Kong,
which is close enough to Hed
China to get a fairly accurate
picture of what is going on in-
side the second biggest Com-
monest nation. United Press dis-
patches from Hong Kong say,
contrary to the Communist pro-
paganda, thai the rulers of Red
China are running into trouble
keeping the war going.
Three things with which \m-
oricans tire familiar — high
taxes, rationing and a shortage
of consumer goods — also tire
prevalent In China. The Com-
munists are no exception to the
inexorable law that when a na-
tion supports a big army and
fights a war something is go-
ing to happen to the Chilian
economy.
An American embargo has cut
off a good share of the raw ma-
terials China needs to keep her
industry going. Hong Kong re-
ports Chinese factories are clos-
ing and that them is consider-
able unemployment. Raw cotton
supplies are being rationed.
Trade in the big commercial
center of Canton has been re-
duced by half and the port of
Tientsin is stagnant in the last
three months of 1950 the Chin-
ese Communist currency depre-
ciated 30 per cent.
The American taxpayers may
he ahle to take some com-
fort from tho fact that the Chin-
ese Reds are having income tax
trouble too. The Chinese tax-
payer has difficulty finding out
from week to week how much
he will have to pay. There are
so mam taxes and the rates
fluctuate so wildly that the go-
vernment has been forced to
issue a fortnightly publication
railed “The Taxpayers’ Gazet-
te.” It lists the new rates and
the changes that have been
made in tho rules and regula-
tions.
Tho heaviest tax burden falls
upon the man who is the back-
bone of tho nation —the Chin-
ese peasant farmer. Not hav-
ing much money, he pays his
taxes in grain and in some
cases the government has taken
as much as 90 per cent of a
farmer’s crop. The Communists
had a land distribution tiro-
gram after they drove tho Chin-
ese nationalists from pow'or and
most of the peasants received
a plot of slightly less than two
acres. But along with tho land
each fatmer inherited any back
taxes due, and it will take some
of them years to pay off the
government.
Red publications admit there
are hundreds of thousands of
'■bandits" operating against tho
government. They are national-
ists guerillas and their number
has been placed as high as 2,000,-
jhOO. \rltially, the Chinese civil
I war is still under way on a
small scale tnd the Communists
jure taking severe measures to
suppress '.he guerrillas. Twenty-
right of them were executed in
Tientsin recently.
It would he over - optimism :
to say the Communists regiim j
is about to collapse under these
burdens. But it is well for tho
tree world to Keep in mind
that war is impartial in demand-j
ing of ail nations that they pay)
up in terms of blood and tro- !
asure.
Gulf Oil Plans
World's Largest
Ethylene Plant
PITTSBURGH, Pa., — The
world’s largest single unit for
manufacturing ethylene will be
built at Port Arthur, Texas, by
Gulf Oil Corporation. The an-
nouncement followed closely
Gulf’s plans to manufacture iso-
octyl alcohol, which marked its
entry into the field of petro-
chemistry.
Ethylene is a gas used exten-
sively as a raw material in mak-
ing chemicals valuable for na-
tional d e f e n s e. Tho new facili-
ties will produce nearly 2Mi bil-
lion cubic feet yearly, increasing
total C. S. production of this
highly important chemical com-
ponent In approximately 12 per
cent.
Included in tho project will he
an 8-inch pipe line 7(1 miles long,
and a 6-inch pipe line of 32 miles
to transport the gas to Gulf coast
chemical plants. Total cost will
he in the multi-million dollar
bracket, hut no exact figure was
disclosed.
The plant will mark a major
step in supplying the rapidly ex-
panding chemical industry of the
Gulf coast area with an essen-
tial raw material from an econ-
omical, large-capacity source.
The gas is used as a base or in-
termediate in scores of modern
chemical products.
The ethylene will he made
from by-product gases produced
in the refining processes at
Gulf's Port Arthur refinery.
These gases are at present used
principally as fuel for the plant’s
various operations.
Adaptation of the by product
gases to ethylene production was
described as “a significant ad-
vance in more economic utiliza-
tion of the refinery’s crude oil
stock.”
Occupying about two acres of
the refinery property, the ethyl-
ene plant will comprise a series
of fractionating towers for sepa-
rating ethylene, ethane and
other hydrocarbons from refin-
ery gases, and a series of crack-
ing furnaces for converting the
ethane to ethylene.
Auxiliary equipment to make
the unit completely self-suffi-
cient will include a power plant
for steam and electricity, water
cooling tower and circulating
system, tanks, sewers, fire pre-
vention apparatus, and pipe
lines.
Construction will begin with-
in two months and is scheduled
for completion within a year af-
ter breaking ground.
Laurence Jay Has
Special Training
Laurence Jay of Sweetwater,
has completed training at Rock
Island, Illinois, in wheel aline-
ment and wheel balancing. Mr.
lay is returning here after an in-
tensive study course at the Bear
Manufacturing Company's Auto-
motive Safety Service School.
The school, said to ho the only
one of its kind where alinement
is taught under actual service^
conditions, attracts students
from all over the world. Laur-
ence Jay will apply this expert
ability to make cars safer, run
smoother, more comfortable and
more economical, at his own
shop, Southwest Body Works,
Sweet water. Bear precision
equipment will Ite used In this
modern and efficient operation.
Preliminary Civil
Defense Plan In
County Is Begun
A committee to set up a dis-
aster organization to serve
Sweetwater and area in case of
enemy attack or other emerg-
ency was appointed Monday
night by L-e Boothe, County
Judge.
The committee will complete
an organization to take care of
and relief work. The organiza-
tion itself will be operated by
volunteers who will work ac-
cording to a master plan being
worked out, in co-ordination
with state and national relief
agencies.
A meeting was held at the_________„
County court room Monday I Jayeees, and H. D. Norris,
night for the purpose of discuss- Scout executive.
ing the disaster relief program j_
and representatives of various
local organizations were in at-
tendance.
George Ausburne, represent-
ing the V. F.W., presented a
will be followed in setting up
the local disaster unit.
The committee headed by
County Judge Boothe includes,
Ausburne of the V.F.W., Fire
Chief A. C. Forgay, Mayor Lis-
ter Reeves, Lingo Brown, repre-
senting the Civil Air Patrol and
Boy
Sugar Man Nominated
WASHINGTON (CP) — Ells-
worth Bunker, chairman of the
hoard of the National Sugar Re-
fining Co., has been nominated
by President Truman to he the
new ambassador to Argentina.
He will succeed Stanton Grif-
fis, who recently was made am-
bassador to Spain.
Bunker has been engaged in
sugar business with Latin Ameri-
ca over a period of 34 years. Dur-
ing World War II he was chair-
man of the cane sugar refiners
war committee which was a gov-
ernment advisory body.
the various phases of disaster master organizational plan that
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Abilene
FRIDAY and SATURDAY
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Matinee February 10, 2:00 p. m.
Reserved Seats
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1.80
1.20
General Admission
Students
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Matinee
Students .60
General Admission 1.20
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“Bless Reddy Kilowatt’s energetic little
heart! Things have certainly improved
at our house since I got my new electric
laundry equipment. Now, I have time
and energy to go places and do things!
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Reddy does the hard work for just a
few pennies.”
See a demonstration of worksaving
electric washers, driers and ironers at
your favorite electric appliance dealer.
“I JUST PUT MY CLOTHES IN THE
AUTOMATIC ELECTRIC WASHER,
add a detergent, set the dial, and go
about roy business while my wonderful
washer does the work.”
"THEY’RE DRY IN MINUTES
... no freezing to death hanging out
the wash since I got my electric dryer.
It’s grand 1“
“AND FINISHED PERFECTLY
. , . ironing’s no chore at all any more
My new electric ironer does everything
. . . from sheets to shirts . . . while I
simply glide the clothes through ’’
TEXAS ELECTRIC SERVICE COMPANY
L. L. ZEIGLER, Manager
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Baker, Allen. Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 54, No. 31, Ed. 1 Tuesday, February 6, 1951, newspaper, February 6, 1951; Sweetwater, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth748700/m1/5/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sweetwater/Nolan County City-County Library.