Lee County News (Giddings, Tex.), Vol. 78, No. 3, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 11, 1967 Page: 2 of 16
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LEE COUNTY, TEXAS, NEWS — Wednesday, January 11, 1967
LEE COUNTY
ITH 7
PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SATURDAY BY CAPITAL ASSOC-
IATER SERVICES, INC.. 1181 E. AUSTIN, GIDDINGS, LEE COUNTY. TEXAS.
Phone 542-3183
JOSEPH F. BREDLOW
Exec. Vice Pres. & Gen’t Mgr.
MARGARET WA
NANCY DUDLE
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JUD Y M A T T HI J E T Z......
ALBERT MIERTSCHIN ....
O TTO "POP" ASCHENBECK
BESSIE F. DUBE........
MARY ANTLE........
ADVERTISING MGR.
........EDITOR
CIRCULATION MGR.
. ... BOOKKEEPER
...SHOP FOREMAN
.......PRINTER
. PASTE-UP ARTIST
• PASTE.UP ARTIST
SUBSCRIPTION RATES:
IN LEE COUNTY........$3.00 OUTSIDE TEXAS.....$4.50
IN TEXAS..........$3.50 OUTSIDE U.S........$6.00
SERVICEMEN RECEIVE FREE COMPLIMENTARY COPY (OVERSEAS)
LEE COUNTY’S OLDEST BUSINESS INSTITUTION. ESTABLISHED IN 1888.
ENTERED AS SECOND CLASS MATTER AT THE POST OFFICE AT GID.
DINGS. TEXAS. UNDER THE ACT OF CONGRESS, MARCH S. 1879.
ANY ERRONEOUS REFLECTION UPON THE CHARACTER. STANDING, OR
REPUTATION OF ANY INOIVIOUAL, FIRM OR ORGANIZATION THAT MAY
APPEAR IN THE COLUMNS OF THIS PAPER WILL BE CORRECTED IF
BROUGHT TO THE ATTENTION OF THE PUBLISHERS. WE DO NOT HOLD
OURSELVES RESPONSIBLE FOR THE VIEWS OF OUR CORRESPONDENTS.
IN CASE OF ERROR OR OMISSION IN ADVERTISEMENTS, THE PUBLISHERS
DO NOT HOLD THEMSELVES LIABLE FOR DAMAGES FURTHER THAN
THA T PORTION OF THE ADVERTISEMENT WHICH WAS IN ERROR.
THE ENTIRE CONTENTS OF THIS NEWSPAPER ARE COPYRIGHTED BY
CAPITAL ASSOCIATED SERVICES. INC. 1967. ANY REPROOUC TION OF
NEWS OR ADVERTISING CONTENT IN WHOLE OR PART FROM THIS NEWS.
PAPER IS STRICTLY FORBIDDEN WITHOUT THE EXPRESS CONSENT
AND LABELED AS SUCH, OF CAPITAL ASSOCIATED SERVICES, INC. OR
THE LEE COUNTY NEWS. THE TITLES AND/OR ENTIRE CONTENTS OF
••THE GIDDINGS NEWS, THE GIDDINGS STAR AND LEXINGTON ENTER-
PRISE." ARE THE SOLE PROPERTIES OF CAPITAL ASSOCIATED SER.
VICES, INC. AN D ALL RE PRODUCTION RIGHTS ARE RESERVED.
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Business & Professional Directory
PHONE 542-3257
FOR
Unger Plumbing
& Sheet Metal
M. G. Kurio
American National
Life Insurance
Fire, Casualty, Polio
Loans — Notary Public
Phone 542-3312 - Giddings
Bill Brademan
Life - Accident - Health
Hospitalization
Write or call
Phone 542-2357 - Box 246
Giddings, Texas
Dr. C. Garrette Ray
GENERAL DENTISTRY
Office Hours 8:90 • 5:00
Except Wednesday and Saturdays
8:00 to 12:80 noon
307 West Travis Street
LA GRANGE, TEXAS
Telephone 968-3767
Lee County Land &
Abstract Company
Abstracts of Title to Land
Guaranteed Title Insurance
For your protection, require an
Abstract of Title or a Title In-
surance Policy on every tract of
land you buy.
We make Xerox copies up to legai
size.
Crayton Studios
Professional Photographer
CUSTOM FRAMING
FOR YOUR CONVENIENCE
CALL FOR APPOINTMENT
Phone 968-3740 LA GRANGE
WATER
WELL WORKS
Drilling, Workover Wells
Complete line of Gould Pumps
SELLING & SERVICING
PUMPS
BUDDY B. NELSON
Phone HI 6-2312
Rockdale, Texas
Phillips & Luckey
FUNERAL DIRECTORS
Giddings, Texas
Phone: Day & Night 542-3113
For Your Plumbing, Heating,
or Air Conditioning
— See or Call —
Modern
Plumbing Shop
Phone 542-2946 - Giddings
Hays Perry
ED TOBIAS JACK BURKETT
Giddings 542-3129 La Grange
Ellinger 378-2313 968-4549 - 249-2785
2347
Mid Gulf
Cattle Corp.
LA GRANGE, TEXAS 78945
CUSTOM FEEDING
Dime Box News
By Mrs. B. H. King
Dr. D. R. Taylor
Eyes Examined, Glasses Fitted,
Frames Repaired, Lenses Duplicated
CONTACT LENSES
OFFICE HOURS
Monday Through Saturday
Closed Thursday Afternoon and
Saturday Afternoon
Old Masonic Building
Phone 968-3953
LA GRANGE, TEXAS
Dr. James L. Ashley
OPTOMETRIST, LA GRANGE, TEXAS
Eyes Examined - Glasses Fitted - Contact Lenses
Adjustments • Repairs
Over Citizens State Bank Every Tuesday in Giddings
A Lee County News Feature
The Minimum Wage
And How It Affects
Lee County
Due to a 1966 amendment (P.L,
89-601) to the Fair Labor Stan-
dard Act, the minimum wage for
an employee engaged in interstate
or foreign commerce, will be $1.60
per hour. The increase will be
accomplished in two steps. As of
February 1, 1967, the minimum
wage shall be $1.40 an hour; on
February 1, 1968, it becomes $1.60
per hour.
The 40-hour workweek standard
for such employment remains the
same as before the 1966 amend-
ments. All hours worked over
40 in a workweek are compensable
at a rate of not less than one
and one-half times the employee’s
regular rate of pay unless anover-
time exemption applies.
What does this mean to Lee
County?
Simply this - In a few work
categories, wages will have to be
raised to avoid serious penalty.
Although an employer may not
have been covered by this Act in
the past, several additions have
been made. Employees of hotels,
motels, restaurants, cafes, dry
cleaners hospitals, nursing
homes, laundries, schools, and
construction firms are now co-
vered by this Act, but are ex-
empted from overtime.
In order to receive a complete
picture of the new Fair Labor
Standards Act, we would suggest
you write for information from
U. S. Department of Labor, Wage
and Hour and Public Contracts
Divisions, Washington, DC, 20210.
To give you an idea of the com-
plexity of this Act, we offer a
few examples:
Employees of service stations
with annual gross sales of less
than 250,000.00 are exempt from
the minimum wage. Employees of
retail enterprises (clothing, va-
riety, hardware, etc.) are subject
to the minimum wage if their gross
annual sales are more than $500,-
000.00 per year, as of February
1, 1967. On February 1, 1969,
these same employees are exempt
only if the gross sales of that
establishment are less than $250,-
000.00. Furthermore, as of that
date, the amendments provide for
coverage of the following enter-
prises, REGARDLESS of any busi-
ness volume: construction, laun-
dries, dry cleaners, hospitals,
nursing homes, primary and se-
condary schools, and institutions
of higher education.
The previous minimum wage and
overtime pay exemption for auto-
mobile and farm implement sales
establishments has been repealed,
but there is a new overtime ex-
emption for certain employees in
such establishments.
Further information will appear
next week.
EDITORIAL
Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Allen re-
turned from San Antonio Tues-
day having spent Christmas with
their daughter and family, Mr.
and Mrs. Geroge Allen.
Mrs. Alberta Kasper, Mrs. Es-
ther Leitko and Mrs. E. C. Al-
len were in Austin Wednesday of
last week, shopping.
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Tisdel
and daughter of Houston spent a
few days here this past week.
Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Lawrence
and Billie and Mrs. King spent
Sunday with J. C. Tisdel and wife
and went to church. We had
another turkey dinner and all the
trimmings. Thanks a lot.
Mrs. Frank Balcar is doing
fine after having an eye opera-
tion in Bryan several weeks ago,
J Mr. • sorge Mack fell in Jerry
Vavra a store one dec tans past
The Media Of News
By Nancy Dudly, Editor
As we launch Into another year, it is appropriate that we weigh with
consideration the importance of those things in which we are interested.
For instance, what might we eliminate because of our declining in-
terest and what should we retain because of our sense of values?
Whatever our conclusions or decisions concerning revision of rou-
tine, work and dally living, if we are to survive happUy, we must
have and retain creative interests.
It has been said, “The virtues and vices are all put in motion
by interest.* ---Rochefoucauld. This is more than a philosophy;
it is a fundamental law of life. It is a statistical fact that those
developing an interest in vice at an early age frequently pursue a
career shadowed by deeds of no credence to society, while those
directing their interests into constructive channels thrive, intellec-
tually, morally and materially.
We are going to be interested in something! As old as civilization
is man's tendence to associate with those about him. Even today is
provinces not considered civilized, according to our standards,
tribes are formed and the people composing them are close, loyal to
each other and cooperative according to their standards.
It is normal and wholesome to be interested in those with whom we
live and essentially associate. If we are to manifest interest in
those about us, in the activities of our community and area, we will de-
sire to be informed of existing activities and progress. By what
method will this be possible except through the media of news?
This was given recognition in the early era of civilization when
news was carved on stone “tablets” and proof of attempts to convey
it was centuries later discovered in phonetic transcriptions. How-
ever, like so many of the important things in life, news and the methods
of its conveyance is frequently taken for granted.
There are many who appreciate a newspaper, and who would find
it most undesirable to be deprived of this media of news; but relatively
few realize the expenditure of time and effort required to publish one
edition of a newspaper. Also, comparatively few are familiar with the
colorful history of the newspaper. In order to better appreciate
progress made in bringing news vital to interested citizens, it is
well to briefly review the origin of the media news as we have it
available today.
The modern newspaper originated with the •Notizie Scritte*, first
issued by the Venetian Government in 1556 and read on the payment of
a coin called the gazette. In 1622 was issued the first English news-
paper, Nathaniel Butter’s “Weekly News*. As early as 1609, Richard
Pierce of Boston issued the first number of “Public Occurrences,
both Foreign and Domestic,* which was promptly suppressed by the
authorities. “The Boston News-Letter*, founded by John Campbell,
April 24, 1704, was the first American newspaper to be regularly
issued.
The political controversies of the Revolutionary period resulted
in the publication, in 1774, of the first American daily, the “American
Dally Advertiser,* published in Philadelphia by Benjamin Franklin
Bache.
The early newspapers were in the form of pamphlets, and the news-
paper in its present form dates from 1785, when John Walter founded
the London Times. The American press followed the British pre s in
adopting the new form and also in the production of a cheap newspa, er,
which came into permanent existence in the U. S. in 1833 with Benja-
min H. Day’s New York Sun, which sold for one cent per copy.
News gathering facilities of modern newspapers extended greatly
with the development of telegraph, telephone, and wireless.
To illustrate the growth and popularity of the American Newspaper,
as late as 1850 the number of daily newspapers in the U. S. was
254, with a circulation of 758,454. On January 1, 1940, there were
1,8 8 8 newspapers in the V. S., with a circulation of 40,000,000.
Weekly newspapers numbered 1,902 in 1850, and on January 1,
1940, there were 10,246 weekly newspapers in towns whose popula-
tion was under 20,000, with a circulation of 13,863,454.
in more than a quarter of a century since these statistics, the
American Newspaper Industry has continued to grow, to progress and
to serve its purpose.
Yet, again comparatively few readers who are privileged to receive
the news, fully realize that while they glean pertinent facts regarding
their surroundings, the activities of their community, the progress of
their county, are provided schedules and statistics through the media
of news; that the news brought to them must be collected, composed,
set in type, and subjected to various other processes requiring mech-
anical and artistic skill before it can be made available. They may
read and discard a newspaper, and it has been appropriately said
that “nothing is so obsolete as yesterday’s newspaper.* However,
for those responsible for the preparation and circulation of a news-
paper, there is a never ending process. When one is completed, another
must be started!
Each individual recipient and reader of a newspaper has an oppor-
tunity and a responsibility to make contributions toward the growth
and progress of their paper. Constructive criticism and sugges-
tions are always invited, and voluntarily reporting items of interest
is a most welcome procedure.
We extend an invitation to our subscribers to assist us in bringing
good news! Yes, we are going to be interested in something. Then
let us direct a portion of our interest toward the media of news, which
has been important to man since it was sometimes conveyed by drums
in the jungles of tribes lacking the opportunities and privileges we
enjoy in our area today.
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week and broke his hip and was
carried to Austin. We all hope
he is doing o.k, and wish him
the best.
Mr. and Mrs. Willie Loewe spent
Monday with Melvin Loewe in Gid-
dings and saw the ball games in
color.
Mr. and Mrs. Claud Flippins
and his sister and family spent
the weekend here and attended the
dance at Carmine Saturday night,
and a lot of others from Dime
Box also attended.
Rainfall Report
The official rainfall report as
recorded at the Giddings Post
Office for the week of January 3
- January 10 was as follows:
Tuesday, January 10 - J3
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Dudley, Nancy. Lee County News (Giddings, Tex.), Vol. 78, No. 3, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 11, 1967, newspaper, January 11, 1967; Giddings, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1634189/m1/2/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 8, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Giddings Public Library and Cultural Center.