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SOME MEN IN SERVICE MUST

ASK FOR RENEWAL OF STAR

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back, a new ruling of the nostat|
fice department, effective as ot |
July 1, requires that personnel 07
the navy, marine corps and coast
guard on duty overseas must seng
a written request for subscriptions
to The Star, or for renewal of
present subscriptions.

Relatives and friends may pay
for the subscriptions or renewals,

 

Fs but you boys in these three se:-

vices must send a request, and

“that request must be given to the

publisher of The Star for examina-

tion by Postmaster H. A. Drake if
he asks to see it.

All

. Star will continue to get it until

their present subscription expires.
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Seasick With Merchant Marine
Mack Higdon, who last week re-

turned to his job with the St. Joe.

Paper Company after having: served
18 months with the merchant ma-
rine, reports that even though he
was seasick for the entire time, he

_ really enjoyed a mariner’s life,

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On Espiritu Santos

‘Daye Maddox writes in that ne |
hag. finally landed on Espiritu San-|

tos, one of the islands of the New
Hebrides group near Australia.
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Back From Pacific
Frank H: Lagrange, son of Mrs.
Gus Sempler, has returned’ after:
4wo years andeight months in the
navy, two years of which he spent
in the South. Pacific. ‘He is now a
 pharamcist. mate-.first. class
has received several merit badges

and ‘been recommended for a Press |

idential citation.’
tora 3
Gets Special Training

Capt. Frank Bennett, a former
plant office manager at the St. ‘Joe
Paper Company ‘before joining the
army in 1941, has been selected to

“attend the joint assault signal
company operations course of the
‘field artillery school at Fort Sill,
Okta., to receive special training |
in amphibious: operations. tactics.

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PAPER COMPANY ‘SHIPS
wooD TO OTHER MILLS

The St. Joe Paper Company, in
order 4o keep up peak production
of kraft paper im the South, has
been shipping pulpwood to other |
miils in the South which have nov
been as fortunate in securing woou
as the local company.

During the month of May 418;
cars of wood were shipped to three |
other mills and last month 289 |
cars were diverted to other mills.

fei ne ee

Vigiting Here for Two Weeks

Miss Betty Roberts, a nurse in
St. Margaret’s Hospital, Montgom- ;
ery, Ala., arrived here Monday for!

a visit of two weeks with Mr. and ;

Mrs, W. A. Roberts.
See ;
Week-ending Out of Town

 

Mr. and Mrs. B. W. Hells and|
Mrs. Ned Porter will leave today |

for Ponte Veda Beach to spend the }
week-end with Mr. and Mrs. Marc
Fleishe!, Jr.
Sines caer lanteste
Sperida Week-end With Parents
Miss Onnie Louise LeHardy, who
is attending business college im

Dothan, Ala., spent the week-end,
here with her parentg, Mr. and:
Mrs. James Greer.

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Return To Home In Texas
Mr. and Mrs. Fred: Stockton, who
have been connected with the Pure!
Oil Company here, left Sunday to
return to their home in Houston,
Texas,

those now receiving The

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The Home Newspaper of Northwest Florida’s Future Industrial Center

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Official
Newspaper
of
| Gulf County

 

 

 

 

VOLUME Vill

PORT ST. JOE, FLORIDA FRIDAY, JULY 13, 1945

NUMBER 41

 

 

F lorida’s First

' Revenue Act Was
for Sumof $92, 500

Collections Were 50 Per Cent
Short of Expected Returns;/
Expenses Almost 35 Per
Cent In Excess of Estimates

 

 

By R, W. PATRICK

Member ot Governing Board, P. K. Yonge
Library of Florida. History, Univ. of Florida

The members of the present leg-
islature of Florida, who enact rey-
enue measures for a state that re-
quires more than $100,000,000 year-
ly may look back with envy on the
‘apparently simple task which con-
fronted the dirst general assembly
100 years ago, for at that time the
state government needed little
more than $50,000 for operating ex-
penses. : /

In spite of the limited needs of
the state, the general assembly,
which convened on June 28, 1845,
an intricate problem in
writing a revenue bill. AS, many
Floridians had, opposed the coming
of statehood on the grounds tha
Florida, with a sparse population
|and wealth, could not afford the
texpense of operating a self-gover-
! ning commonwealth, the demand

for ecdnomy in government was
i widespread. These first legisla:
; tors, moreover, lacked! the neces-
| sary information, such as the
amount. and value. of land under
cultivation, the volume of: busi-
[eee ,the number of inhabitants
iene in general those facis upon
which an intelligent system of tax-
ation could be established.

Notwithstanding the difficulties
confronting them, the house of rep-
jresentatives committee on finance
reported a revenue bill on July 7,
fifteen days after the assembly
| naa convened. In making their re-
port, the finance committee menr-

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‘principles which they considered
| tundamenta: to a sound fiscal pol-
icy: namely, that the state shoula
ee all expenses in cash from cur-
| rent income, avoid the éreation of
}@ public debt, insist upon an eco-
‘'nomical government, and allow no
favoritism in taxation.

The members further stated that |

me had written their bill by;
inst ascertaining the probable ea-
| penses of ‘government, after omit-
iting all importan“ offices andi es-.
itimating salaries on a moderace
[Rasie: and then planning taxes to
| meet these projected. expenditures.
‘ixpenses were estimated at $41,-
| 500 for which a tax of $52,500 was
ito be tevied, $11,000 of which repre-
i sented the cost of collections and
corrections for excessive calcula:
tions of probable revenue.
After days of debate a modifiea
‘form of the committee’s ‘bill. was
' passed ‘by the house on July 15, ‘by
the senate three days later, and
signed by 7 Governor Moseley on
iJuly 24, 1845. This. first revenue
tact of the state of Florida levied
- | taxes of from one-fourth to three-
' {fourths of a cent per ‘acre on land
and 10 cents per hundred dollar
valuation of town lots and: buila- |i
| ings, from which an income of
$20,000 was expected. A tax of
138745 cents per slave and a $3 per
| capita tax on free» male negroes
between the ages of 21 and 60 was
to net $12,500, while levies against
[stocks of merchandise, and on the
gross incomes of commission mer-
chants and from auction sales was
to account for $10,000. Revenue
(Continued of Page. 2}

 

bers laid down a series of basic | Vice-Chairman;

| Softball Resulis

| Only; game played in the St. Joe
| Sotthali League this. week was be-
tween the Kiwanis Club and tne
| High School, with the school lads
running riot to win by a score of
15 to 6. Seems that: with Kilowatt
| Parnell on the mound for the K’s
that their game has gone a bit flav.
However, he may :improve witn
Ho The box score:

Team— 12345867—R HE

Schoo} 305511015 12 8

Kiwanis . 040 2. 0 0 0— 6 12
The tilt between the Paper

Makers and Maintenance Was, post-
foned due to lack of players whu
couldn’t be on hand as they were
working at the paper mill during
the shutdown. The same applied to

the Legion-Kiwanis game sched-
wled for Tuesday night.

CLUB. STANDINGS
Team— WoL Pct.
American Legion .... 1 0 1.000
High School ........ 21 1 500
Kiwanis Club ..... v1 2 500.
Rotary Club ......5. 0.1 000
Maintenance ....... . 0 0 .000
Paper Makers --» 09 O 000

The Rotary Club and Mainten-
ance aré scheduled, to play this
evening; High School and Main-
tenance Monday night, and Paper
Makers and Legion ‘Tuesday night.
+
, Have Week-end Guests
Mr. and Mrs. V. J. Joyner and
daughter Shirley of Pensaco‘a and
Mr, and Mrs. A. G. Hoffman .ana
son of Panama City. ‘were guests
of Mr. and Mrs. W. Howes weil’ over
the “week-end. *

 

 

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MINUTES OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS

 

Wewahitchka, Fla., July 10, 1945

The Board of County Commis-
sioners of Gulf County met this
‘day in regular session with the
following members present: W.R.
Connell, Chairman; W. C. Roche,
J. S. Daniels and
J. C. Martin. Clerk, Sheriff and.
County Attorney were also present.

The meeting came to order at
10:00 a. m. and the following
business taken un:

Minutes of stated and interven-
ing meetings we:e read and adopt-
ed. Commissioner W. C. Roche
jhaving filed his «ffidavit alleging
{the loss of the following Tax Cer-
| titicates, to-wit: Certificates Nos.
16, 17, 28, 24, 31, °3 of the Tax Sate
of July 5, 1948, the Clerk of this
Board was authorized to issue du-
plicates, of said Certificates “as
provided by law. . |

Whereas, an Act of Legislature
provides that the County Con:
missioners determine the amount
to be paid Deputy Registration Of-
ficerg. in transcribing the names or
the voters in the revision of the
registration books of the County,
it was dleterminec that the amount
paid will be 15¢c for each name
transcribed.

The tentative Budget for the
fiscal year beginming October 1st, |
1945 and ending September 30th,
1946, having been prepared, it was
ordered that same be published in
‘The Star as provided by law. ; |

Application of The Star to be!
designated as the official organ to |
publish the Laws of Regular and!
Extraordinary .Sessions of the |
Florida Legislature, 1945, was pfe-
sented to the Board, but no action
;could be taken until at such time,
.that the Laws have been certified
from the Secretary of State. |

Whereupon the following bills |
were presented, examined, ap-

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‘ship; Henry Maige, Rotary educa-

| tivities;

 

Kenney Named
To eae Rotary

Other Officers and nirecters Are
Elected and Committee
Chairmen Appointed

 

At the regular meeitng of the
Port St. Joe Rotary Club held on
Thursday of last week, Basil E.
Kenney was elected as president
of the organization for the forth-
coming club year. Other officers
famed were Herbert Brown, vice-
president; Mark Tomlinson, secre-
tary; Joe Mira, treasurer; Dr, A.
L. Ward, B. B. Conklin, J. Lamar
Miller and Floyd Hunt, directors;
Jimmy Greer, sergeant-at-arms.

Committee. chairmen appointed

 

by the new president were: Her-
bert Brown, club service; J. Lamar
Miller. community service; B. B.
Conklin, vocational service; Nobie

Stone, international service; B. BH.
Kenney Jr., singing; Henry) Camp-

bell, ctassification; Gail Traxler,
public information; Floyd Hunt,
membership; S. L. Barke, enter-
tainment; Jimmy Greer, fellow-

tion; Mark Tomlinson, attendance;
Herbert Brown, programs; Cc, G.
Costin, boys’ work; W. A: Biggart,
scholarship; Otto Anderson. rec-
reation; Paul Fensom, war-time ac-
Horace Soule, rural ur-
ban work; A. L. Ward, Boy Scouts.
cnet, eS

Spend Week-end In Alabama

Mr. and Mrs Opp Moore spent
‘the week- end . W Alabez ta visiting |
relatives and: Gein

 

proved and ordered paid from the
several funds ag follows:
General Fund

Floyd Alford, repairing
locks, ete.
Star Publishing Co., a/c ..

Ty. A. L. Ward, a/c ....... 3.50
J. E. ‘Pridgeon, cost bill “ 4.50
J. E. Pridgeon, ineanity in-

vestigation ............ 2.00
Dr. Thos. Meriwether 2 5.00
Dr. A. L. Ward eae 5.00
B. F. Lanier 7 ee. 2.00!
City of Pori St. Joe, bal-

anee of aliocation ...... 1500.0u

City of Wewahitchka, bal-
ance of allocation
The Gulf County Breeze,
stationery, ete.

1500.00

21.75 1

 

St. Jos. Tel & Tel. Co. a/c 5.68
Robt. Scott. salary less tax 122.80
E..Clay Lewis, Jr. ” 39.50 |
C..G. Rish = 74.30
Postmaster. county postage 12.00 |
Pearl J. Whitfield, salary

and tvayvel expense ..... 100.00
W. R. Connell, salary, less

CAN aateaay beh is cana evavautate SiGe 49.9u
‘J. S. Daniels, salary and

mileage, less. tax ....... 51.90 !
J. C: Martin .... 0 7 1... 56.90
Basil E. Kenney Jr.” 54.90
W. C. Roche .... ” .... 54.90
Polly Hardy, county indigent 10.00]
W. T. Strange... ” .... 10.00
Mrs. Etta Rhames Sa 10.00
20% Tax a/c, withheld 17.00 ;
H & W B Drew Co., a/c .. 68.64
R. A. Crav, Secty. of State,

certified) copy .......... 3.00
Bishop Office Equipment {

Company, afG .icievsads 7.02
J. R. Hunter, Clerk, salary,

less taX .ecceeeeeeeeees 137.40 |
B. E. Parker, cost bills ... 46.50
'Wewahitchka P. L. and I.

Co., water and lights .. 63.32
|Gaskin Bros Lumber Co., Net

gcreen frames ........05 6.40 |

Fine and Forfeiture Funa

J. E. Pridgeon, cost bills. .$162.5u
Game and Fresh Water Fish

Comm., reports 1047-1050 17.50:
E. Clay Lewis, Jr., salary

and convictions ......... 150.00
J. R. Hunter, Clerk, recorda-

ing convictions ......... 18.75
iB. BE. Parker, cost bills .... 835.56

Road and Bridge Fund

 

Sunny State Service, gas i
BiGe, ip shws See eee .$ 26.60

(Continued on Page 2)

; have

! dressing;

No Cooking Fats,
No Meat, No Soap!
‘So What'll WeDo?

A Good Idea Is To Drag Out
And Brush Off That Dusty,
Trusty Old Cook Book and
Use Some Ingenuity.

 

 

In talking with local grocery and
meat store operators we find that
there seems to be somewhat of «
shortage on various meats, fats
and cooking oils, not to mention
soap, canned fruits and a number
of other items, such as, black pep-
per. And they alt say that when
customers come into the store they
appear to be almost desperatv.
Personally we think they, ‘merety
put on a show in the, hope that
the store owner has some “under
the counter” items that he’s hold-
ing ‘back for preferred customers
and that if they put up a pitiful

;enough story they can wangle a

few scarce items, ‘

However that may be (and we
don’t care much for the practice ox
holding out goods for so-calfeu:
“preferred” customers) these pevu-
ple aren’t half as ad off as. they
think or pretend they are. They
merely become accustomed
to various items that they believe

i are absolutely essential. What they

need to do is dig out that old dust-
covered cook book that probably: '
hasn't “been used ‘for yearsbrush:
it off, and try augmenting their
own ingenuity.

When the red points run low and
the butcher is out of meat (which
provides proteins), take a ‘ook
around—there are a number of
protein foods that do not require
points. Take cottage cheese (we
like it) and slap together a one-
dish meal on one of these warm
evenings. Moisten the cheese witn
cream, evaporated milk or salad
flatter it with choppea
nuts, or onion juice (yum, yumy, '
and parsley or cucumber. juice;
put in the center of a large plat-

|ter and arrange slices of tomato,

cucumber, green pepper, hard-
boiled eggs, celery and other raw
or cooked vegetaibles around it.
Serve with either mayonnaise or
French dressing.
(Continued on Page 3)
. SSS
MILL RESUMES OPERATION
AFTER WEEK’S SHUTDOWN
The St. Joe Paper Company mill
resumed operations Sunday after

j being shut down for a week in or-

jder to make necessary mainteu-
ance repairs.

The mill had been in continuous
aperation for 184 days at the time
of the shutdown,

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Undergoes Tonsilectomy

‘Miss Myrtice Coody underwent
a “+onsilectomy Thursday of last
week at the municipal hospital and.

|has been missing from her job at

the Quality Grocery since then.

:She is recuperating nicely,

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Have Guests Saturday

Mrs. Royce Coln of Santa Bar-

bara, Calif.. and Mrs. ‘EB. C. Prid-

 

-geon and Ward McDaniel of We-

wahitchka were guests Saturday
afternoon of Mr. and Mrs. EB. C.

, Prigeon, Jr

i
Guest for Summer
Miss Doris Greer of Cresetta,
Ga., is the gnest of her paren‘s,
Mr. and Mrs. James Greer, for the
summer.