Show e I I J J r Ie i I J I MI I J I M J I I J J I i i iThe I t The Column I Boys toy S 1 TIlE TEST TEST of a man is the fight that he THE HE makes grit erit that he dally daily shows Tye he stands on his s feet and takes takesI v way Tye pates Fates I numerous bumps and nd blows can smile when there Is IsA A coward A naught to fear When ben nothing his progress bars takes a man to stand up and But nut it cheer While some other fellow stars knocks that you take and the Iho the tM Its It's Jolts y you get Bat The shock that your courage stands of sorrow and vain regret hour bout The The prize that escaped your hands test your mettle and prove your t That Tn worth isn't the bl blows WS that you deal But it the earth blows you take ake o on this good old earth show if it your stu stuff is s real That ina Author A thor Unknown I I FOR NEW NEWS WEVE WE'VE BEEN drumming away for lor 70 trying to get people to send their vears years in to f for this weeks week's e paper Instead news waiting until next week or the week of ot Ster when we carefully file It away o In ina after f handy wastebasket Recently at our oura request a news of 01 former residents which h took Place in California on Sunday was in incur our next issue having reached us by airmail That's the way It should be lad and we feel that local residents should be able to do as well And while were we're on the subject we might as well add that we cant can't quite their see why y brides cant can't write up their weddings before the ceremony and get them to to the newspaper on time Instead of ot waiting until the honeymoon is over and then expecting the paper to publish an account one two or three weeks late Then too theres there's the reader who has some news doesn't tell us waits to see 1 If we e print it and then Jumps all over us because we didn't I. I I WHAT BUT ARE AUE FATHERS 51 MADE DE OF on onA A FATHER Is a thing that is forced to endure childbirth without an anesthetic tic A father is a thing th that t growls when it feels good and laughs loud when scared half to death A father lather never feels worthy a of the worship in a childs child's eyes Hes He's never quite the hero his daughter thinks things never quite the man his son believes him to be and this worries him sometimes h So he be works too hard to try and smooth the rough places in the road for those of his own who will wUl follow him A father Is a thing that gets very angry when the first school grades arent aren't as good as he thinks they should be He scolds his son though he knows Its It's the teachers teacher's fault Fathers are what give daughters away to other men who arent aren't nearly good goodenough goodenough enough so they can have grandchildren grandchildren grand grand- children who are smarter than anybody's any any- body's Fathers make bets with Insurance companies about who'll live the longest One day they lose and the bets paid of off to the part of them they leave behind I dont don't know where father goes when he dies But Ive I've an idea after aftergOOd a good rest rest wherever it is he wont won't Just sit on a cloud and wait for forthe forthe the girl hes he's loved and the he the children she bore Hell He'll be busy there too repairing the stairs oiling the gate Improving the streets smoothing the way Paul Paul Harvey In AH Mag v v v TAXES A AND D PRICES THE INDIVIDUAL t taxpayer a x p payer a y e r now knows knous that his Income tax payments are the highest in history More money than ever before is being withheld from our pay checks More money oney than ever before before be be- be- be fore Is flue due the go each March 15 What is true of ol loney the he individual is also true of 01 Industry I Oil is Js an excel excellent ent example A publication publication pub pub- of the American Petroleum In Institute Institute Institute In- In tec recently pu published a number of excerpts from the 1951 financial reports or ot representative oil companies It was fc not t at all fall I unusual for these concerns t to Pay government far more In taxes than ian was paid to stockholders In divi- divi In some cases the combined taxes paid on a company's operations and products products pro pro- ducts even exceeded the total wages Paid Pale to its ita And this year the tax x burden Is substantially greater than it was was' asin in 1951 It is estimated that in 1951 the federal state and local taxes levied against the oil Industry's operations and PrOducts reached reache l the staggering total of at II It the hundreds hundred's of ol assorted assort assort- eel ed taxes i concerned had been combined k into have nto ave a single tax on crude oil all it would f t worked out to on each barrel Continued on Page Two t I The Boy ys y's V Column I I Continued f from ri Page One n produced during the year In 1945 by contrast St St. when we were at the height of the war war effort fort this tax tats equivalent would have ve amounted ni to but but per b barrel Keep that In mind next time you buy gas or some other oil oU products product and feel Inclined to kick abo t the price One of ot otI I the biggest reasons for high prices Is taxation o 0 o o oTHE TilE THE SPIRIT OF OJ 1976 LEADERS In all lines of activity are Increasing efforts to maintain the hIghest highest highest high hIgh- est levels of Integrity In the operation of business and Industry They are aware of the peril perU to the moral standards of |