The Paducah Post (Paducah, Tex.), Vol. 49, No. 21, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 23, 1956 Page: 2 of 10
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THE PADUCAH POST, PADUCAH, TEXAS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 23, 1956
[Congress Sets Up
Research Program
For Farm Products
The PADUCAH POST
BANK NOTES
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Serving Cottle-King Counties For 49 Years
Published Every Thursday by
The Post Publishing Co.
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PE> YOU KNOW... 1
THE U.S. DOLLAR IS FIRMER AND-
TOUGHER THAN THE PAPER
CURRENCY ISSUED BY ANY OTHER
NATION. EVEN THE INK IS SPECIAL,
DOWN TO ITS RUB-OFF QUALITY.
More and more in political
circles we are hearing an ex-
pression which we believe is
here to stay. It is “the moron
vote.”
Unlike the “lunatic fringe”
which the big papers coined for
use against Democratic voters,
“the moron vote” has no politi-
cal implications. It refers to
those voters of all and no par-
ties who cast irresponsible votes.
It refers to those voters with
below-normal political IQ’s, those
who vote but who lack the pol-
itical intelligence to vote in-
telligently.
H. M. Baggarly in
The Tulia Herald.
Mofris G. Brown sent this
“unusual response to a request
for payment of a bill.” We
thought it was rather clever.
How about you?
My Dear Sir:
In reply to your request to
send a check, I wish to inform
you that the present condition
of my bank account makes it
almost impossible. My shatter-
ed financial condition is due to
federal laws, state laws, county
laws, mother-in-laws, brother-in-
laws, and outlaws.
Through these laws, I am
compelled to pay a business tax,
amusement tax, school tax, head
tax, gas tax, sales tax, liquor
tax, carpet tax, income tax,
food tax, furniture tax, and ex-
cise tax. Even my brains are
taxed.
I am required to get a busi-
ness license, car license, fishing
license, truck license, not to
mention a marriage license and
dog license. I am required to
contribute to every society and
organization which the genius
of man is capable of bringing
to life', to women’s relief, the
unemployed relief and the gold
diggers relief.
Also to every hospital and
charitable institution in the
city, including the Red Cross,
black cross, purple cross and
double -cross. For my own safe-
ty, I am required to carry life
insurance, burglar insurance,
earthquake insurance, tornado
insurance, unemployment insur-
ance, old age insurance and
fire insurance.
My business is so governed
that it is no easy matter for
me to find out who owns it. .1
am inspected, expected, suspect-
ed, disrespected, rejected, de-
jected, examined, re-examined,
informed, summoned, fined, com-
manded and compelled, until I
provide an inexhaustable sup-
ply of money for every known
need of the human race. Sim-
ply because I refuse to donate
something or other I am boy-
cotted, talked about, lied about,
held up, held down and robbed,
until I am almost ruined.
I can tell you honestly that
except for the miracle that hap-
pened, I could not enclose this
It has been proposed that ~
Congress appropriate $100 mil-*
lion to finance a program for
finding new uses for farm prod-
ucts. The American Meat In-
stitute urges that basic research
be stressed in carrying out that »
program.
In a statement to the Sen-
ate Committee on Agriculture
and Forestry, the Institute ob-
serves that “In spite of the won-
derful advances made by sci-
ence, there are great gaps in
our basic understanding of the
natural laws and the biological
processes.” It lists a number
of areas vital to progress in
the livestock and meat industry
in which augmented research is
needed.
These include studies of the
chemical composition and char-
acteristics of meat and meat
by-products, carcass quality of
beef and pork, meat preserva-
tion, nutritive value of animal
fats, meat favor and tenderness,
new commercial uses for animal
by-products, physical and chem-
ical properties of meat proteins, /
and meat pigment research. IriX
the case of farm products other
than meat, of course, there are
comparable areas where basic
research could open new hori-
zons of knowledge.
The Institute’s suggestion is ^
a sound one. Research — basic
as well as applied — has been
the very heart of industrial
progress. But in this all-im-
portant field agriculture has so
far lagged behind. There is
every probability that over a
period of time research could
create and develop vast new
markets for the products of ag-
riculture. That, conceivably,
could prove the solution to the
vexing farm surplus problem.
Entered as second class matter at the postoffice at Paducah,
Texas, under the Act of March 30, 1879.
Subscription Rates:
Cottle and adjoining counties, $2.50; elsewhere, $3.50
3Tie Paducah Post is an independent Democratic Newspaper,
publishing the news impartially and supporting what it
believes to be right regardless of party politics.
WORTHY CAUSE
A MIDWESTERN BANK ENCOURAGES
CHARITABLE GIFTS BY PROVIDING A
SPECIALLY PRINTED CONTRIBUTION
CHECK ON WHICH IT DOES NOT
CHARGE A SERVICE FEE.
Seems like no matter how we
say it, someone figures out how
to read it some other way!
Last week we prepared the
ad copy for local service stations
about a change in car-washing
prices. It read:
"NEW CAR WASH PRICES"
We’ll have to admit there is
room for argument, but it means
new prices on all wash jobs—
not just on new cars.
Grady Lackey in
The Texas Spur.
'MEMBER!
1956
BANKERS HOURS?
WITH THE INCREASING POPULARITY
OF SIDEWALK BANKING WINDOWS,
SOME BANKS NOW PROVIDE TELLER
FACILITIES FROM 7:30 A.A\.UNTIL
59.00 P.M.
MEMBER
G. M. (Pappy) Carr, who was
on a fishing trip in Arkansas re-
cently, says it’s so hot over
there they feed their hens crack-
ed ice to keep them from laying
hardboiled eggs.
Buford F. Davenport in
The Abernathy Weekly
Review.
The First Thirty Years,’ History
Of Lubbock’s Texas Tech Off Press
IT SEEMS RATHER funny,
But People who say,
What good is money?
Don’t Give it away.
H PLAINS Pm%S ASSOCIATION
The story of a vision goes®--
sale today when The First
Cotton acreage in the nation
has dropped 37 per cent since
1951' but production only 3 per
cent. The drop in Texas for the
same period has been 42 per
cent in acres but only 1 per
cent in production.
Texas egg producers who sell
on a grade basis are finding
that on-the-farm egg cooling
equipment when used with fre-
quent deliveries to the grading
station is both economical and
profitable.
Thirty Years, a history of Texas
Tech, issues from the presses.
The vision is that of early
pioneers of the South Plains
area who dreamed of the day
that such a college would come
to serve the West Texas people.
Urged as early as 1870, the es-
tablishment of the college be-
came possible with the grant-
ing of the charter by the 38th
legislature in 1923.
Written by Mrs. Ruth Horn
Andrews, daughter of Tech’s
first president Dr. Paul W. Horn,
the book deals primarily with
the period from the fall of 1925,
when classes were begun, to
the commencement of 1955.
The history tells, in an in-
formal and interesting style, of
how this college grew during
the three decades. Mrs. An-
drews, New York author and
widow of Joseph F. Andrews,
an engineer with the American
Telephone and Telegraph, has
known all of the principal per-
sons connected with Tech and
its growth.
And the growth has been'
outstanding. As Mrs. Andrews
tells it, the Tech campus when
she first saw it in 1923 was
simply “2,000 acres of tumble-
weeds.” Today the campus
boasts 50 permanent buildings,
wide expanses for farms and
agricultural experiments, and
more than 18 million dol-
lars worth of investment.
The first session, back in
1925, saw 914 students swarm
onto the campus, where six
buildings had been erected to
start things off. Growing stead-
ily, the college last fall topped
the *7,000 mark in enrollment.
At first Tech offered only
two years of college work. To-
day it offers a complete five-
school undergraduate program,
as well as graduate work lead-
ing to the masters degree in
30 fields and to the doctorate in
six.
Initial copies of the first
edition, which is limited to 2,-
000 books, are being autograph-
ed for the purchasers.
The publication of the book,
which was in preparation for
a year and a half, was made
possible by the action of Tech’s
Board of Directors, who en-
couraged the writing of the
We asked one man if. he had
seen any of the cotton East
Texas had stolen from West
Texas, and his reply was to the
effect that if what he saw was
some of that cotton that was
stolen from us, we at least must
have been smart enough only
to let them steal the worst cot-
ton.
Eddie Erwin in
The Morton Tribune.
V‘VnMTESTS
Post Ads get results I
fWSPAPEft
check. The wolf that comes to
many doors nowadays, just had
pups in my kitchen. I sold
them and here is the money.
Sincerely
M. G. Brown.
“Saunter With Sue” in
The Olton Enterprise.
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For today s low prices have helped move Buick
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That means we can come to terms on the
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Why not stop in and take us up on that—today?
*New Advanced Variable Pitch Dynaflow is the only Dynaflow
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tust between us — don’t you get a kick out of
J keeping a step ahead of the other fellow—
especially when it comes to cars?
So wouldn’t you find it fun to boss the newest
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And wouldn’t you like to have all this at a price
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Well, sir, we’ve got that kind of situation for
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Because this very day you can step into a 1956
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faculty are still teaching at
Tech.
Mrs. Andrews also interview-
ed many of the prominent peo-
ple who served the college
through its early days, includ-
ing members of early faculties,
former members of the Board
of Directors, and others who
knew the college in its infant
years. *
The publication follows close-
ly behind the celebration in
June of the thirtieth anniver-
sary of Tech, which in its few
years — for it is young, as col-
leges go — has grown to be
one of the state’s largest edu-
caitonal institutions.
Tech was also accepted into
the Southwest' Conference re-
cently — but that is part of
“The Second Thirty Years.”
First sales of the book will
be handled by the Texas Tech
Bookstore, under the supervis-
ion of manager W. C. Cole.
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Tooley, Kenneth. The Paducah Post (Paducah, Tex.), Vol. 49, No. 21, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 23, 1956, newspaper, August 23, 1956; Paducah, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1018860/m1/2/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 5, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Bicentennial City County Library.