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IF YOU BUY A CAR, A HOUSE; If any of your policies expireCALL tr . ‘Bow’ Williams Automobile and General Insurance 624 Lamar GR 2-0545 AUSTIN, TEXAS Represents ICT Insurance Co. and other standard stock companies LET’S ABOLISH THE POLL TAX’ THE NEW BILLS AUSTIN Governor Daniel is supporting a doubling of the college tuition rates from $25 to $50 a semester, the Observer has learned. The bill, by Rep. Murray Watson, Jr., Mart, would raise $5 million in revenue. Daniel had eight members of the House to lunch last Tuesday noon and asked how many had decided on doubling the rates. Four of themReps. Dugas, Orange; Korioth, Sherman; Hollowell, Grand Saline, and Zbranek, Hull-Daisetta said they were against the plan. Daniel indicated he was for it. \(The others present were Reps. Cline, Wharton; Crosthwait, Dallas; Murray, HarRep. Jerry Saddler, Percilla, introduced a bill to raise $52 million a year by a one percent tax on the annual gross receipts of all manufacturing and importing concerns in excess of $25,000 a year. Sen. Floyd Bradshaw, Weatherford, wants to penalize life, health, and accident insurance firms 12 percent if they fail to pay valid claims within 30 days and to require fire insurance firms to justify rate requests to the state. Sen. George Parkhouse, Dallas, wants to let life, health, and accident companies o w n branch office buildings if they occupy 50 percent of the space in them and to broaden investments for life insurance company funds. Sen. William Fly, Victoria, introduced the State Bar Assn, bills to prohibit payment to a legislator or legislative candidate for appearing before state agencies except t h e Industrial Accident AUSTIN Seventy-seven members of the House signed a resolution asking the Congress to limit federal tax to 25 percent of income and to repeal the Sixteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The limit could be suspended for not longer than one year periods in wartime, by three-fourths vote of each house, or when there was a national debt, except that all additional revenue so raised would go to reduce the national debt. “The Congress shall have no power”the resolution further propons”to levy or collect any tax, duty, or excise with respect to the devolution or transfer of property, or any interest therein, upon or in contemplation of or intended to take effect in possession or enjoyment at or after death, or by way of a gift.” The signers: Pressler, Sutton, McCoppin, Ferrell, Ramsey, Blaine, Ehrle, Blanchard, Dugas, Pool, Hosey, Bell, Huffman, Osborn, Ballman, Holman, Huebner, Kothmann, McDonald, Sadler, Roberts, Laurel, Seeligson, Pipkin, Thurmond, Armor, Woolsey, Sheridan, Koliba, Watson, Martin, Puckett, Duff, Storey, Walling, ShackelBoard \(penalty for violation, up abolish the mandatory continuance in lawsuits where legislators are employed as lawyers. Sen. Searcy Bracewell, Houston, wants to increase the penalties for bribery to from one month to 25 years and from $500 to $5,000, as well as forfeiture of office. Sen. Jarrard Secrest, Temple, wants to license youths 14 to 16 operating motor-driven vehicles. Sen. Crawford Martin, Hillsboro, wants to finance 21 parole officers on state pay in 1958 and 41 for 1959. Rep. Sam Parsons, Henderson, proposes a constitutional amendment to require officeholders, except legislators, to resign before they can be elected to another job. Sen. Charles Herring, Austin, proposes using space in the new state courts building, and Rep. Raymond R. Russell, San Antonio, in the new state office building, for the state archives. Other plans in the House hopper last week: Prohibiting future use of words “national,” “federal,” “United States,” “state,” “Texas,” and the like, in business names \(Joseph, systems from gasoline taxes circumstances under which officers can impound citizens’ autoqiuring registration of persons representing others before state And investigating the terrific accident problem \(Foreman, AusBartram; Cr o st h wa it, Huffor, Cline, Wohlford, Forsyth, Schram, DunLee, Bishop, Hollowell, Terrell, BristOw, Joseph, de la Garza, and two indecipherable. CLASSIFIED MAKE $75 UP WEEKLY, spare time. Sell liquid fertilizer to farmers. Exclusive franchise available. Liberal profits. Free local advertising. No investment, no experience required. Write “NaChurs” Plant Food Co., 345 Monroe St., Marion, Ohio. LEGALS THE STATE OF TEXAS COUNTY OF TRAVIS In the name and by the authority of the State of Texas NOTICE is hereby given as follows: TO: Mollie Gregg, Nellie Gregg, Ella Gregg, Clyde Walton Hill and wife Louis Oram Hill, and J. S. Prado, and the unknown owner or owners of the property hereinafter described or any interest therein; the heirs and legal representatives and the unknown heirs and legal representatives of each of the above named and mentioned persons who may be deceased; and the corporate officers, trustees, receivers and stockholders of any of the above named or mentioned parties which may be corporations, defunct or otherwise, together with the successors, heirs and assigns of such corporate officers, trustees, receivers, and stockholders, and any and all persons, including adverse claimants, owning or having or claiming any legal or equitable interest in or lien upon the following described property delinquent to Plaintiff herein, for taxes, to-wit: All that certain lot, tract, or parcel of land lying and being situated in the County of Travis, State of Texas, described in Block number One hundred City of the City of Austin, Travis County, Texas according to the map of the City of Austin on file in the General Land Office in the State of Texas; being the same property that was conveyed by C. R. Puckett to Nellie Gregg by Deed dated June 1, 1873 and recorded in Volume 40, page 518, in the Deed Records of Travis County, Texas. lArhich said property is delinquent to Plaintiff for taxes in the following amounts: $273.37, exclusive of interest, penalties, and costs, and there is included in this suit in addition to the taxes all said interest, penalties and costs thereon, allowed by law up to and including the day of judgment herein. You are hereby notified that suit has ben brought by the City of Austin as Plaintiff, against the above named persons, and the State of Texas and the County of Travis, as Defendants, by petition filed on the 20th day of December, 1956, in a certain suit styled City of Austin vs. Mollie Gregg et al for collection of the taxes on said property and that suit is now pending in the District Court of Travis County 53rd Judicial District, and the file number of said suit is 105788, that the names of all taxing units which assess and collect taxes on the property hereinabove described not made parties to this suit are, NONE. Plaintiff and all other taxing units who may set up their tax claims seek recovery of delinquent ad valorem taxes on the property hereinabove described, and in addition to the taxes all interest, penalties, and costs allowed by law thereon up to and including the day of judgment herein, and the establishment and foreclosure of liens, if any, securing the payment of same, as provided by law. All parties to this suit, including Plaintiffs, Defendants, and Intervenors, shall take notice that claims not only for any taxes which were delinquent on said property at the time of this ‘suit was filed but all taxes becoming delinquent thereon at any time thereafter up to the day of judgment, including all interest, penalties, and costs allowed by law thereon, may, upon request therefor, be recovered herein without further citation or notice to any parties herein, and all said parties shall take notice of and plead and answer to all claims and pleadings now on file and which may hereafter be filed in said cause by all other parties herein, and all of those taxing units above named who may intervene herein and set up their respective tax claims against said property. You are hereby commanded to appear and defend such suit on the first Monday after the expiraand after the date of issuance hereof. the same being the 11th day of March, A. D., 1957 \(which before the Honorable District Court, 53rd Judicial District of Travis County, Texas, to be held at the courthouse thereof, then and there to show cause why judgment shall not be rendered for such taxes, penalties, interests and costs, and condemning said property and ordering foreclosure of the constitutional and statutory tax liens thereon for taxes due the Plaintiff and the taxing units parties hereto, and those who may intervene herein, together with all interest. penalties and costs allowed by law up to and including the day of judgment herein, and all costs. of this suit. Issued and given under my hand and seal of said court in the City of Austin, Travis County, Texas, this 23 day of January, A. D., 1957. 0. T. MARTIN, JR., Clerk of the District Courts, Travis County, Texas By GEO. W. BICKLER, Deputy. CITATION BY PUBLICATION THE STATE OF TEXAS TO Ethel Scott Defendant, in the hereinafter styled and numbered cause: You are hereby commanded to appear before the 126th District Court of Travis County, Texas, to be held at the courthouse of said county in the City of Austin, Travis County, Texas, at or before 10 o’clock A.M. of the first Monday after the expiration of 42 days from the date of issuance hereof; that is to say, at or before, 10 o’clock A. M. of Monday the 11th day of March, 1957, and answer the petition of plaintiff in Cause Number 105991, in which John 0. Scott is Plaintiff and Ethel Scott is defendant, filed in said Court on the 23rd day of January, 1957, and the nature of which said suit is as follows: Being an action and prayer for judgment in favor of plaintiff and against defendant for decree of divorce dissolving the bonds of matrimony heretofore and now existing between said parties; plaintiff alleges cruel treatment on the part of defendant towards him of such a nature as to render their living together as husband and wife altogether insupportable; plaintiff further alleges that no community property has been accumulated; plaintiff further prays for cost of suit and relief, general and special; All of which more fully appears from Plaintiff’s Original Petition on file in this office and to which reference is here made: If this citation is not served within 90 days after date of its issuance, it shall be returned unserved. WITNESS, 0. T. MARTIN, JR., Clerk of the District Courts of Travis County, Texas. Issued and given under my hand and the seal of said Court at office in the City of Austin, this the 23rd day of January, 1957. 0. T. MARTIN, JR., Clerk of the District Courts, Travis County, Texas By BOB BAKER, Deputy. CITATION BY PUBLICATION TO Mary E. Pulatie, Defendant, in the hereinafter styled and numbered cause: You are hereby commanded to appear before the 126th District Court of Travis County, Texas, to be held at the courthouse of said county in the City of Austin, Travis County, Texas, at or before 10 o’clock A.M. of the first Monday after the expiration of 42 days from the date of issuance hereof; that is to say, at or before, 10 o’clock A. M. of Monday the 18th day of February, 1957, and answer the petition of plaintiff in Cause Number 105377, in which Earl J. Pulatie is Plaintiff and Mary E. Pulatie is defendant, filed in said Court on the 12th day of October, 1956, and the nature of which ; said suit is as follows: Being an action and prayer for judgment in favor of plaintiff and against defendant for decree of divorce dissolving the bonds of matrimony heretofore and now existing between said parties; plaintiff alleges cruel treatment on. the part of defendant towards him of such a nature as to render their further living together as husband and wife altogether .insupportable; Plaintiff further alleges that no community property has been accumulated; plaintiff further prays for cost of suit and relief general and special; All of which more fully appears from Plaintiff’s Original Petition on file in this office and to which reference is here made. , If this citation is not served within 90 days after date of its issuance, it shall be returned unserved. WITNESS, 0. T., MARTIN, JR., Clerk of the District Courts of Travis County, Texas. Issued and given under my hand and the seal of said Court at office in the City of Austin., this the 4th day of January, 1957. 0. T. MARTIN, JR., Clerk of the District Courts, Travis County, Texas By BOB BAKER, Deputy. CITATION BY PUBLICATION THE STATE OF TEXAS TO Andy L. Allen Defendant, in the hereinafter styled and numbered cause: You are hereby commanded to appear before the 126th District Court of Travis County, Texas, to be held at the courthouse of said county in the City of Austin, Travis County, Texas, at or before 10 o’clock A. M. of the first Monday after the expiration of 42 days from the date of issuance hereof; that is to say, at or before, 10 o’clock A. M. of Monday the 4th day of March, 1957, and answer the First Amended Original petition of plaintiff in Cause Number 105,854, in which Edwena Allen is Plaintiff and Andy L.