Rio Grande Herald (Rio Grande City, Tex.), Vol. 32, No. 6, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 7, 1974 Page: 9 of 20
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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7,1974 THE RIO GRANDE HERALD
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DAY
Inaugurating the
UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE
JULY t 1971 *
A Letter
To The Editor
County Commissioner's Court
Starr County, Texas.
Gentlemen:
I respectfully request that effective action be taken at once to
clear the entrance to our track of land, which joins the south-
eastern corner of Britton Avenue. Failure to do this will result in
loss of anticipated crops due to the fact the planting season will be
over soon.
If any person claims squatters rights on this part of Britton
Avenue he or she should file their suit in the District Court where it
belongs.
The right of ingress and egress is an old established law well
known to Starr County Citizens. There is no reason for you to delay
this matter any further since this delay will cause irreparable
damage to us.
The South end of Britton Avenue is very easily determined by
reading the metes and bounds as shown on a Deed issued to
Luciano Gonzales by Luciana Davis, daughter of the founder of Rio
Grande City, Texas. This Deed was filed for record Sept. 2, 1925 and
recorded on 3rd day of September 1925
The flaunting disregard of a direct order by the Road Superin-
tendent was all the encouragement needed for further en-
croachment into a Public Street and in full view of the Courthouse.
Apparently someone in the Courthouse is encouraging these
unlawfull acts and the duly constituted authorities are looking the
other way. Perhaps this is the clue to the mounting crime rate in
Starr County.
Respectfully
George Lund
Investment credit
can reduce taxes
Note: This is the third of six
weekly articles on income tax
management for farmers and
ranchers.
To assist farmers and ran-
chers in their income tax
management, the Texas
Agricultural Extension Service
is sponsoring a Tax Seminar
Meeting at the First State Bank
(Community Room) in Rio
Grande City on Wednesday,
February 13, 1974 at 7:30 p.m.
All ranchers and income tax
consultants are cordially in-
vited to attend.
Investment tax credit is a
massive tax saver and can be
applied to a great deal of farm
property, says Dr. Wayne
ilayenga, economist for the
Texas Agricultural Extension
Service.
"Seven per cent o" the
qualified investment in new or
used property with a useful life
of seven years or more can be
claimed," points out the
economist. "For a $10,000
tractor, the top investment
credit would be $700; that's
equal to $2,800 in added
depreciation deductions for a
taxpayer in the 25 per cent
bracket. For a 14 per cent
bracket taxpayer, the $700 is
equal to $5,000 in extra
depreciation deductions in
terms of tax savings.
"The tax saving is significant
because investment credit
offsets your calculated income
tax doilar for dollar," em-
phasizes the Texas A&M
University System specialist
Besides the usual array of
machinery and equipment,
breeding stock is also eligible
for investment credit And such
things as tile drains, fences and
feeding floors are eligible.
Buildings generally are not
eligible, but credit may be
claimed on storage facilities
such as grain bins and silos
used for bulk storage of fungible
commodities
"Recently, both structures
and equipment in livestock
confinement systems have
qualified The test is whether
the structure houses property
used as an integral part of
production, manufacturing or
extractive activity Farming
should meet that requirement,"
contends Hayenga. "Also, the
structure must be so closely
related to the use of the
equipment that it can be ex-
pected to be replaced when the
equipment is changed."
Generally, investment credit
is taken the year the eligible
property is placed in service
tecause that is usually the time
of acquisition. "More per
cisely," says Hayenga, "it is
the year depreciation is first
claimed, or the property is
placed in a condition of
readiness and availability for
use, whichever comes first.''
Overweight
Austrian*
W arned
VIENNA — Some 70
per cent of Austrian women
and 40 per cent of Austrian
men are overweight.
The Austrian minister of
health, Dr. Ingrid Leodolter,
who revealed this, said some-
thing that most Austrians knew
anyway by just watching their
waistlines.
But the minister, a medical
doctor, told a recent news con-
ference that being overweight
was not only a problem of ap-
pearances but a medical prob-
lem as well.
Secret Ingredients In Alcoholic
Drinks To Be Revealed Next Year
WASHINGTON - Would you
buy the gang at your friendly
neighborhood tavern a round of
water, ascorbic acid, EDTA,
heptyl paraben, and
diethylpyrocarbonate?
Well, you may have.
That's what actually lurks in
many a beer mug - as
flavoring, preservative, foam
stabilizer, and "anti'gushing"
agents " and the ( ureau of
Alcohol, Tobacco, and
Firearms plans to unmask the
secret ingredients of your
favorite brew sometime next
year.
The Bureau plans to hold
hearings in the first half of this
year on proposed regulations
that would require producers of
alcoholic beverages to list on
the label all the ingredients of
the drink.
The two consumer interest
organizations which are
pushing for the regulations also
want a warning against
drinking and driving included
on the label, as well as a
statement about the nutritional
content and calorie level of the
beverage.
"Great beer bellies are made,
not born," a report by the
Center for Science in the Public
Interest, one of the backers of
the regulations, says "Except
for the riboflavin and niacin in
beer, booze is essentially devoid
of vitamins, minerals, and
proteins but does contain a
lot of calories "
The two groups behind the
labelling effort - the Science
Center and Consumers Union -
are serious about their
proposals
"We believe people have a
right to know what they're
talking into their bodies," CU
attorney Marcia Cain said.
"Many people want to avoid all
additives in their food and
drink," she said, "And some
persons are sensitive or allergic
to certain ingredients in these
beverages,"
"For example," she said,
"some wines contain sodium,
and people who are on a low-salt
diet might want to stay away
from those wines."
Dr. Michael Jacobson, co-
director of the science center,
acknowledged "There is no
tremendous (chemical) health
hazard" in what Americans
chug, sip, and nurse But, he
says, several products contain
"questionable chemicals"
which, he says, have not yet
been adequately tested.
The science center report
says that while most brewers
pasteurize beer to prevent the
growth of micro-organisms, a
few use a synthetic chemical
preservative - heptyl pareben -
which. Dr. Jacobson says, has
not been adequately tested and
is not as safe for pasteurization.
A relatively safe chemical
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Trejo, Raul. Rio Grande Herald (Rio Grande City, Tex.), Vol. 32, No. 6, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 7, 1974, newspaper, February 7, 1974; Rio Grande City, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth194445/m1/9/: accessed May 21, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Rio Grande City Public Library.