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per cent over the previous year, eluded.
8v John C, Whita. Commissionar
page 4 — NEW — Mathis, Texas, Thurs. Morning, March 24, 1960
Report Shows Amount of
Electricity Used Triples
Kilowatt hour use of electri-
city, generally regarded as a
reliable barometer of economic
conditions, reached an all-time
high in South Texas last year
and has more than tripled in
the past decade, Central Power
and Light Company reported to-
day.
These facts were revealed in
the utility company’s Annual Re-
port for 1959, which was mailed
to stockholders and employees
early.this week.
CPL’s total sales of electric-
ity amounted to .2,877,404,231
kilowatt hours in 1959, 13 per
cent more than in the previous
year.
The average South Texas fam-
ily used a record 3,181 kilowatt
hours of .electricity during the
year,- an increase of 262 over
1958. The number of customers
served by the company contin-
ued to increase steadily, and
widespread use of major elec-
tric- appliances was particularly
evident,. CPL President J. L.
Bates reported in his letter to
the stockholders. These two fac-
tors accounted for a large part
of' the gain in total usage of
electricity.
The use of electricity for in-
dustry, commerce and agricul-
ture also showed significant in-
creases in the past year, the
Annual Report stated.'
For the third year in a row,
the utility company spent more
than 821,000,000 to expand its
service facilities to meet anti-
cipated future growth. About
half the expenditure for new
construction was devoted to in-
creasing the generating capa-
city at the company’s two lar-
gest power stations.
Early in 1959, a third genera-
ting unit, with a net capability
of 175,000 kilowatts, was placed
in operation at Lon C. Hill
Power Station near Corpus
Christi. The new addition more
than doubles the capacity of the
plant.
Construction also progressed
during the year on a 110,000-kilo-
watt expansion of J. L. Bates
Power Station near Mission in
the Lower Rio Grande Valley
Upon its completion early this
year, CPL will be able to supply
more than 950,000 kilowatts of
electricity, almost five times as
much as 10 . years ago.
Central Power and Light Com
pany’s revenues exceeded the
50-million-dollar mark for the
first time in 1959, the .Annual
Report says. Total operating re
venues amounted to $51,145,923,
an tnarooco /vf wirTnc* cmTnr:
CPL‘s largest item of expense
in 1959 was the provision for
taxes, which amounted to $12,-
176,167, or about 24 cents out
of every dollar of gross revenue.
Total taxes exceeded the wages
and salaries paid to all em-
ployees and amounted to almost
twice as much as was paid to
the owners of the company in
preferred and common stock
dividends.
The company expressed con-
cern about the continuing en-
croachment of government-sub-
sidized. power systems, which
pay little or no taxes to help
support essential governmental
activities.
Pointing out that rural elec-
tric cooperatives have played an
important part in the electrifica-
tion of American farms, the
CPL report said the co-ops are
now straying from the original
intent of the REA law.
“Approximately three out of
every four new customers add-
ed by the co-operatives are non-
farm customers, and about 50
per cent of the co-ops’ total re-
venues come from . non-farm
customers,” the report empha-
sizes.
If the electric cooperatives
are to compete with investor-
owned companies for non-farm
customers, they should forego
the subsidies provided specifical-
ly to help speed farm electrifica-
tion, it continued.
The Annual Report also noted
that electric cooperatives in
CPL’s general service area pay
only 2.8 per cent of revenues
in taxes, compared to CPL’s
23.8 per cent. 'The cooperatives
borrow money from the govern-
ment at 2 per cent interest,
while the government must pay
interest rates in excess of four
per cent. “Taxpayers every-
where must make up for the
federal income tax. and interest
that the cooperatives do not
pay,” the report pointed out.
In discussing economic con-
ditions, the Annual Report-not-
?d the increasing importance of
ndustry in South Texas’ growth.
The CPL report stressed the
vvide diversity of the South Tex-
as economy as the most im-
)ortant factor in the area’s ra-
nd growth since World War n.
The increasing prominence of
he tourist business was also
cited as a “major economic
force” in the area.
All these many activities com-
bine to create a well-balanced
commercial, cultural and popu-
ation growth, the report con-
It. came as no surprise re-
cently when the U. S. Depart-
ment of Agriculture released its
figures on livestock population
at the beginning of 1960, show-
ing that cattle on Texas ranges
•had increased by nine per cent
over early 1959.
The USDA inventory reported
the total of all cattle in Texas
as of Jan. 1, 1960, at 9,276,000,
. compared with 8,510,000 at the
same time a year ago. This
nine per cent increase in popu-
lation was nearly double the
rate of the national increase,
which amounted to about five
per cent.
It also came as no surprise
when the USDA reported that
the total value of all livestock
— cattle, hogs, sheep, horses
and mules, poultry — had gone
down in spite of increased num-
bers in most categories. The
total valuation at the start of
1960 was placed at $16,236,408,-
000, compared with $18,092,870,-
000 a year ago.
Nationally, the livestock and
poultry population figures show-
ed these comparisons: Cattle,
101.520.000 this year and 96,850,-
000 last year; milk cows, 21,-
331.000 and 21,488,000; hogs,
58,46-1,0 and 56,924,,00; sheep,
83.621.000 and 32,945,; horses
and mules, 3,89,000 and 3,142,-
000; chickens 368,859^,000 and
383,529,000, and turkeys, 5,673,-
000 and 5,923,000. Horses and
mules declined two per cent,
chickens fell off four per cent
in numbers, and dairy cows eas-
ed off one percent.
At the same time, the USDA
estimated a sharp drop in value
per head of livestock, as fol-
lows: Cattle, $136 this year’ and
$153 last year; milk cows, $208
and $219; hogs, $16.50 and $20.-
30; horses and mules, $112 and
$101; chickens, $1.05 and 1,26,
and turkeys, $4.91 and $4.65.
Only horses and mules and tur-
nkeys showed a slight increase,
in price.
Release of the figures reem-
phasized the attitude of most
authorities in their outlook on
the 1960 cattle market,' Which is
that the time has arrived for
caution in planning any further
increases of the livestock popu-
lation on Texas ranges. Good
range conditions in general con-
tinue to ' encourage the trend
toward taking full advantage of
the conditions, but authorities
agree that extreme care should
be exercised before any further
heavy expansion is developed.
2,953 Nurses
Work With
Red Cross
Last year there were 2,953 re-
gistered nurses in Texas en-
rolled as volunteers with the
American Red Cross to provide
constant training and emergency
care in case of disaster or other
calamity, according to Frederic
S. 'Laise of St. Louis, manager
of the Midwestern Area Red
Gross Office. These profession-
als, Laise said, provided a
strong link in the nation-wide
Red Cross program of main-
taining community nursing "and
health resources.
Of all Red Cross services per-
haps nursing is the most tra-
ditional, changing constantly in
keeping with changing needs
since the program’s founding 50
years ago. From wartime duty
and pioneering in the field of
rural public health nursing in
1912 the organization has grown.
Today in Texas Red Cross stands
ready to recruit nurses for dis-
aster duty anywhere. It may
be a polio or other outbreak
of epidemic proportions, fire,
flood, or other catastrophe.
Home nursing which today
provides instruction in the gen-'
era! home care of the sick, and
injured as well as emergency
care in time of disaster, care
of mothers, infants, and the aged
and infirm became a part of
nursing programs nationally as
early as 1913. Special training
also is provided for volunteer
nurse’s aides.
Laise reported that in this
state, 10,830 men and women
were framed in home nursing
classes last year.
If Red Cross is to continue
this broad program of providing
nursing and health resources
and training families to care for
themselves and their neighbors
in time of accident, disaster, or
national calamity, Laise empha-
sized, then the total goal set
for funds in 1960 must be met.
Fish Studies
Made on Coast
By Commission
AUSTIN — Ecology surveys,
fish population studies, vegeta-
tion plotting, spawning ground
research, oyster reef investiga-
tions, pinpointing pollution, and
many other coastal fisheries
operations, both in laboratories
and on the waters, spelled a
full year in 1959 for the Texas
Game and Fish Commission.
The Commission hoped to
learn through the scrap fish sur-
vey, just what food or game
fish are caught in the menhaden
trawls off Port Arthur and the
manner by which these fish were
being disposed. At Port Isabel,
planting oyster reefs was an at-
tempt to extend the commercial
production of oysters in that
area where once great reefs
were abundant.
An- ecological survey contin-
ued in the upper Galveston Bay
and Trinity Bay areas. Fifteen
sampling stations established in
the areas recorded water salini-
ties and turbidity, air tempera-
ture, surface and bottom water,
temperatures, bottom types,
kinds of vegetation growing
there, and the animal life taken
at each station.
The fisheries biologists learn-
ed what types of bottoms are
found in Matagorda Bay area.
They studied fish populations,
hydrography, and -other biologi-
cal aspects of Corpus Christi
Bay, and plotted the spawning
grounds of the speckled trout
in the Laguna Madre.
These and other projects are
being continued in 1960.
New Variety
Of Pea Gains
In Popularity
COLLEGE STATION — South-
ern peas, a favorite vegetable
of the South for years, are gain-
ing fast in popularity. Since
World War 11, Southern peas
have become a welcome addi-
tion to the diet of many people
in the North. They are a lead-
ing staple in the diet of many
families — eaten as green snaps,
green shell peas, dried peas and
canned or frozen peas.
The groups of chief horticul-
tural importance coming under
the classification 'Southern
peas’ includes blackeye, purple
hull, crowder, black crowder,
speckle crowder, browneye
crowder, browneye, spotted
crowder, brown- crowder, cream
crowder and cream groups. The
Yard Long bean and the lady
cream pea are also members
of the Southern pea group.
A new publication discussing
Southern peas has been releas-
ed by the Texas Agricultural
Extension Service. It contains
much information about South-
ern peas, their adaptation and
how to grow them.
Intensive breeding programs
by institutions in the South have
done much in recent years to
improve the size of seed, color,
productiveness and flavor, the
publication points out. Cultural
practices, fertilizers, irrigation
methods, disease and insect con-
trol and utilization of the pro-
duct have been improved.
Rural Zoning
Proposed By
College Expert
COLLEGE STATION— Would
rural zoning serve as an aid
for more orderly plans for land
use in ,Texas? Reagan Brown,
extension rural sociologist, be-
lieves it would.
He says that forward-thinking
citizens are coming more and
more to believe that' the town
or county which leaves its fu-
ture to chan-ce and fails to con-
serve /the basic things so vital
to well-being is in for trouble.
A community, town or county
which fails to plan for the fu-
ture is permitting its resources
and particular advantages for
living, work and play to be
wasted, exploited and even des-
troyed.
Brown, in his work with the
leaders of organized rural com-
munities in all sections of Tex-
as, says- that many communi-
ties are caught in a haphazard
growth pattern. Once peaceful
agricultural areas have become
a hodge-podge, of .industrial ac-
tivity. Valuable farm land is
being, in many areas, used
where less productive soil would
have served the same purpose.
Rural residents, he adds, are
finding they have no control
over what use is made of land
purchased in their community.
City residents who have moved
TEXAS
. A & I
MUM
I Give You Texas —
BY BOYCE HOUSE
A highway marker near
Brownsville designates Resaca
de la Palma, scene of an early
battle in the U. S.-Mexico war;
Sitting in- the El Jardin lobby
Here’s Texas A&l Gollege’s
Lantana Queen Jamie Faivella
with members of her court.
Queen Jamie will be the central
figure in coronation ceremonies
April 1 and 2. Lantana Ladies,
elected by
(clockwise from upper right)
Kay Ashworth of Kingsville,
Delores Marek of Placedo,
Sharon White of Aransas Pass,
Glenda Brodnax of Edna, Joan
Westmoland of Edinburg, Kathy
anne Weaver of Chapman
Ranch. Also taking part in the
coronation will be duchesses
from many South Texas hi<gh
schools and colleges and repre-
sentatives of campus organiza-
tion.
The Texian Editor’s
Frontier Hews Flashes
Department of Journalism i Graphic Arts
University of Houston
the services Red Cross provides,
he added.
While some chapters in the
state secure funds through Unit-
ed Appeal fall campaigns, others
will be launching campaigns dur-
ing the traditional Red Cross
month of March. Heading up
the 1960 Red Cross Campaign
in Texas as national fund vice
chairmen are James H. Bond
of Dallas, and Ray S. Erlandson
Communities expect and deserveof San Antonio.
March 14-19, 1860
Plans and Movements of Gen-
eral Houston-.
Gen. Houston’s letter to the
press stated that he has receiv-
ed more than 80 applications
from parties who desire to raise
volunteer companies to defend
and proteot the frontiers of Tex-
as from further invasion.
Gov. Houston has advised
such companies to be raised and
placed under the command of
Check Now,
Avoid Delay In
S. S. Benefits
The old saying, “a stitch in
time saves nine”, is particular-
ly true of those persons who
plan to apply for their social
security retirement insurance,
according to George A. Miles,
Field Representative of the Cor-
pus Christi District of the So-
cial Security Administration.
The local office representa-
tives will assist an applicant to
complete his claim. However,
the applicant can help to speed
up the first benefit check by
bringing some necessary infor-
mation- when he comes in to
file his application.
A person who has worked for
wages should bring his W-2
Form, Wage and Tax State-
ment, from each 1959 employer.
This will save time in esta-
blishing the total * amount of
wages paid in the last year,
Miles explained.
If a person was self-employ-
ed during 1959, he should bring
an extra copy of his 1959 in-
come tax return. This copy will
be made a part of his file, and
it will be used in figuring the
amount of his benefit.
Every applicant should bring
some proof of his age with him
when he visits the social se-
curity office to file a claim.
Miles says that in addition to
the birth or baptismal certifi-
cate established at the time of
birth, other records such as a
Family Bible or a life insur-
ance policy may be acceptable
as proof of age.
officers in every county along
the frontier of Texas.
He advises these companies to
be always ready to defend the
country and in case of an alarm
to pursue and exterminate all
war like forces who may dare
to cross into Texas for the pur-
pose of ravaging the country.
LETTER FROM LAMAR
Lamar, Refugio County, Texas,
Feb. 16, 1860
I wonder if we poor denizens
this way have the right to com-
plain of the irregularity of the
mails? If so, we would like to
say to Postmasters generally
that Lamar is in the county- of
Refugio and not in- Lamar coun-
ty, Our mail should come via
Saluria, such is the mail con-
tract, but it has often come via
Victoria and (Heaven save the
mark) to judge by the lapse
of time, our letters and papers
take an airing into the interior
of the state.
LOCALS
Mrs. W. B. Summer and chil-
dren, Don- and Linda, from
Ocala, Fla., are spending sev-
eral days visiting with Mr. antd
Mrs. Charles Brown and family.
Mr. and Mrs. Sammy Cutfcs
of Austin spent the week-end
with Mr. and Mrs. Ed Harris
and boys.
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Covingtcxn
and son of Ft. Worth visited
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. M.
B. Covington, last week-end.
RENEW
Your
SUBSCRIPTION
Jan Sides Hurt
In Accident At
Lubbock Sunday
Jan Sides, a student at Tex-
as Tech at Lubbock, was in-
jured in a car accident there
Sunday afternoon. His parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Oran Sides, re-
ceived word of the accident
later Sunday afternoon and left
early Monday morning by plane
for Lubbock.
The Sides called Taft relatives
Monday afternoon and stated
that Jan suffered head injuries
but was not critically hurt.
They hope to bring him home
to recuperate soon-.
Cage Clinic
Planned For
March 30th
COLLEGE STATTTON —The
annual Cage Clinic, sponsored
by the Poultry Science Depart-
ment, Texas A&M College Sys-
tem, will be held on March 30.
The meeting is scheduled for
the Ballroom of the Memorial
Student Center on the A&M Col-
lege campus.
Ben Wormeli, extension poul-
try husbandman, says the pro-
gram will begin at 8:50 a.m.
and will consist of crisp, cur-
rent and concentrated discus-
sions by nationally known lead-
ers in their fields.
Bird Book
Sells Fast
In All Texas
AUSTIN — Although the Ro-
ger Tory Peterson Field Guide
To The Birds of Texas, pub-
lished by the Game and Fish
Commission, has been on sale
for only two weeks, approxi-
mately one fifth of the 25,000
.books available has already
been sold.
These books sell for $3 each
post paid, and can be bought
only from the Game and Fish
Commission in Austin, or at re
gional offices. This field guide
lists nearly 600 different Texas
birds for field identification. It
has been produced for bir-d lov-
cost.
in Brownsville, TV viewers see
and hear a commercial on
orange juice — Florida orange
juice!
In Harlingen, one of those tiny
foreign cars was parked with
a sign painted on it, ”go around
— not over”;
Just out of Harlingen at a
roadside stand was this* sign,
“Strawberries — 4 for $1”—
Texas really must grow big
strawberries (Someone said it
meant four boxes for a dollar.)
Paging Major Hoople! San
Benito' has an Owls Club.
A Harlingen man in a cafe
complained that half the time
he bit the filter end of the
cigaret. He said, “They ought
to put the filter in the middle.”
Real bargain in New Braun-
fels, “Hamburgers, 20 cents; 5
for 99 cents.”
In an Austin- store window
featuring “Luggage for your
trip to Europe,” one piece of
luggage was priced at $231. If
I bought that for my trip to
Europe, the trip would be off.
When I arrived in Eastland in
the summer of 1921 to become
editor of the Daily Oil Belt
News, the courthouse was a red
brick structure, trimmed in
stone. The building was three J
stories high. It is interesting to
know that the edifice cost $49,-
000.
Also as showing how times
change, shortly before, the dis-
covery of oil (1917) in the coun-
ty, Eastland’s business estab-
lishments included blacksmith
shops, two livery stables and
a wagon-yard.
Casey Jones is the most fa-
mous of all the thousands of
men who have ever worked on
railroads. Why? Because some-
body wrote a song about him.
Sam Bass is the best known
of Texas’ outlaws for the same
reason.
William F. Cody killed one
Indian in combat. (Some his-
torians dispute that hfe did even
this.) He took a contract to
kill enough buffaloes to provide
the Union Pacific Railroad con-
struction crews with meat. He
was also a pony expressri-der.
With these achievements as the
foundation, he is regarded un-
der the name of “Buffalo Bill”,
as the embodiment of the West.
| Why? He had a fine press agent.
to the country to find peace
and quiet may find a noisy mill
moving in across the road.
Brown believes that no town
or county need grow like
“Topsy,” and become a hodge-
podge of conflicting land uses.
Rural zoning, he believes, can
be a real aid for keeping deve-
lopment in rural areas orderly
and on a high plain-. Zoning,
Brown points out, is well known
in most cities but is relatively
new in rural areas: In 1929 Wis-
consin became the first state
to enact rural zoning legisla-
tion. Today about 90 percent
of all the states have passed
rural zoning laws.
At present, Texas has no rural
zoning law and before local
towns or counties can pass their
own zoning ordinances, the Tex-
as Legislature must pass enab-
ling legislation. But, concludes
Brawn, it’s time to give con-
sideration to this very impor-
tant aspect of rural living.
From the Richmond Examiner:
The cry of love for the Union
is a cuckoo song, and may titil-
late the ears of nonthinking
men. Some who find it useful
to themselves may sing it and
the idle people may find amuse-
ment in listening. The real peo-
ple of the South wish to know
what is doing to unite the peo-
ple whose rights these monoto-
nous song singers say are en-
dangered. They desire to know
why these gentlemen prize a
Union with Black Republican
enemies so highly and dread a
consultation with slave holders
so extremely. Let the people be
informed how much of this ab-
horrence of Black Republican-
ism is real — how much of
this story of injustice done to
the South is really believed by
the men who tell it. Let the
people know whether the dis-
trust of the South, -where the
opposition to Abolition is strong-
er with the Union-lovers. In
fact let men say whether they
do not prefer submission to
Black Republican- rule to united
action by the Southern States
to prevent it.
Sooty Mold
Scourge Of
Yard Plants
Sooty mold disease occurs in
all areas of Texas, but is likely
to be more common in areas
of high rainfall.
The black coating on the- sur-
The disease is apt to occur
on arbor-vitae, azalea, cape
jasmine, cedar, cottonwood,
gardenia, lemon-, ligustrum,
magnolia, oak, orange, peach,
pear, pecan,, pine and red bud.
Prevent the mold by controll-
ing the insects which leave se-
cretions on the leaves. Dusting
with sulfur sometimes helps to
remove some of the mold.
Local county extension agents
can supply additional informa-
tion-.
Heavy steel, fire resistant fifes a? excep-
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