Refugio County Record (Refugio, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 14, Ed. 1 Monday, November 23, 1964 Page: 1 of 4
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By Vmrei
Austin. — State Representatives
who were sworn to the 1965 Leg-
islature on Monday have military
matters very much on their minds.
Constituencies of those lawmakers
with military bases in their dis-
tricts stand to be affected by both
Federal and State proposals.
Some lawmakers were sworn in
with the knowledge that many
Federal workers in their districts
stand to lose their jobs by U. S.
Defense Department cutbacks.
Operations will be cut out at
James Connally Air Force Base at
Waco and Amarillo Air Force Base
and cut down at Dyess Air Force
Base at Abilene and Eagle Moun-
tain Army maintenance facility at
Fort Worth.
San Antonio bases and Carswell
AFB at Fort Worth stand to gain
iby the big shift. And that also
will present new problems for State
Representatives.
OIL ALLOWABLE
Texas Railroad Commission set
December oil allowable at 29 per
cent of maximum for prorated
wells, compared to 28.4 per cent
in November.
Increase is expected to be 29,914
barrels a day higher than the es-
timated 'November average of 2,-
541,909 barrels a day.
REDISTRICTING
Congressional redistricting, one
of the major problems facing the
1965 Legislature, may cause a
headache for legislators whose dis-
tricts embrace bases.
Bob Johnson, executive director
of the Texas Legislative Council,
believes the Legislature could—if
it chose—leave out military and
State hospital popultions in decid-
ing the “population” of a county
for redistricting purposes.
By State consitutional provision,
persons in State mental hospitals
cannot vote, nor can persons in
military service who enlisted in
other states. Therefore, they could
be left out of population totals if
the Congressional redistricting
goal of “one man, one vote” is
considered paramount.
However, Johnson conceded that
the mathematics involved in par-
ing down population in communi-
ties as heavily military as, say,
Bexar County might become so
complicated that the Legislature
would choose to proceed on full
population figures.
LBJ RANCH
Orders involving President John-
son’s ranch home near Stonewall
from the Parks and Wildlife Com-
mission and the iState Highway
Commission raised the question of
whether tourists from Texas and
elsewhere ever will get glimpses
of tlie President at his “little
White House” as Washington, D.
C., visitors enjoy at the big White
House.
Parks and Wildlife Commission
authorized creation of a Lyndon B.
Johnson State Park directly across
from the LBJ Ranch. Commission
said the proposed park—located on
some 245 acres between Ranch
Road 1 and Highway 290—would be
created in cooperation with Gilles-
pie County. Commission does not
have authority to condemn land for
parks but the County does.
The question came up a day lat-
er when the Texas Highway Com-
mission granted the U. S. Secret
'Service’s requested authority to
restrict traffic on that part of
Ranch Road 1 when President
Johnson is there—in the interest
of presidential safety.
The President returned home
last Thursday and is due to remain
on the LBJ Ranch until after
Thanksgiving.
BORDER DISPUTE
Gov. John Connally, Land Com-
missioner Jerry Sadler and Attor-
ney Wilson Fox of Taylor, mem-
bers of the State School Land
Board, filed a protest with Loui- j be leased by the state during the
siana’s Board of Mineral Develop- j oil and gas lease sale on Febru-
•ment over the Sabine River bor- j ary 2, 1965.
der dispute. j State Health Department reports
Area in dispute is the western only six cases of paralytic polio in
half of the Sabine River and Sa- Texas this year, five of which were
bine Lake and a pie-shaped wedge \ children four or under,
of the Gulf of Mexico pointed at! Parks and Wildlife Department
the month of the Sabine and wid- j is seeking men between 21 and 40
ening sharply until it reaches the to fill 15 game warden openings,
was next; and Fort Worth follow-
ed with 65. However, there were
dozens of little towns which boast-
ed big industrial boosts.
COLLEGE FUND PLAN
ADOPTED
Texas Commission on Higher
Education has adopted a plan for
distribution of $11,700,000 in fed-
eral building funds among 90
junior and senior colleges in 1965.
Forty-five per cent of points al-
located to schools under the sys-
tem must be based on projected
enrollment increases and utiliza-
tion of existing facilities.
Formal applications of schools
can be submitted after the U. S.
Office of Education approves the
state plan — probably about De-
cember 1. January 15 is deadline
for applications.
RIO GRANDE WATER
ESTIMATED
Texas Water Commission has
estimated Rio Grande Valley has
water supplies to irrigate up to
680,000 acres over the requirement
for municipal and industrial pur-
poses.
Commission figured 124,000-acre
feet annually would be needed for
municipal and industrial uses. Re-
port was written for the attorney
general who is participating in a
giant lawsuit over Rio Grande wa-
ter rights involving Starr, Hidalgo,
Cameron and Willacy Counties.
TB CONTROL PLAN MAPPED
A sweeping new plan for tuber-
culosis control aimed at consoli-
dating all TB services under one
agency and providing treatment
of patients close to home has been
recommended by the Governor’s
Committee on TB Eradication.
Committee found the state’s pro-
gram, now divided among four
agencies and costing some $16,200,-
000 a year, not equal to the job
at hand. It proposes placing all
related activities in the TB Ser-
vices Division of the State Health
Department.
Recommended treatment proced-
ures, calling for shorter hospitali-
zation but careful at-home treat-
ment after the infectious period is
passed and a lifetime “follow-up”,
would cost more but would be more
effective, the committee believes.
COURTS SPEAK
Third Court of Civil Appeals up-
held most of a trial jury’s verdict
against three East Texas oilmen
penalized $304,800 for slant well
drilling. Court held that the pro-
duction penalty was in error be-
cause the State and Railroad Com-
mission had not established of pro-
duction days from the slanted well,
and reversed that portion of a dis-
trict court’s ruling.
Supreme Court held lower courts
were wrong in refusing Fort Worth
an injunction to block an apart-
ment structure in an area zoned
for single and two-family dwel-
lings.
Constitutionality of a 1933 law
providing state regulation of Tex-
was attacked in arguments before
as border liquor exporting firms
Third Court of Civil Appeals. Law
set a stiff licensing fee and other
requirements.
SHORT SNORTS
Uniform shell dredging regula-
tions for Texas coastal bays may
result from a Parks and Wildlife
Commission decision on an appli-
cation by Heldenfels Bros, of or-
pus Christi to dredge for shell in
Copano Bay.
School Land Board may increase
royalty charged producers on min-
eral leases which it has extended,
Attorney General Carr held in an
opinion.
Land Commissioner Jerry Sad-
ler announced a December 12 dead-
line for prospective lessees to sub-
mit nominations of tracts of State
Permanent School Fund land to
rtaxu^ic County Library
c/o belra U. Bxaolette
607 Connerce
nefo-ic, Leras
10/6
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VOLUME XI—NO. 14
REFUGIO COUNTY, TEXAS, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1964
TEN CENTS PER COPY
Union Thanksgiving
line three miles out where Loui-
siana’s offshore boundary lies. Be-
yond that point, the area extends
to Texas’ outer offshore boundary
of 10.5 miles.
Controversy grew out of Loui-
siana’s offer of two oil and gas
lease tracts which lie in an area
claimed by Texas, but also claim-
ed by Louisiana. Governor Connal-
ly has requested Atty. Gen. Wag-
goner Carr be brought into dis-
cussions, so he will be fully in-
formed should the dispute travel
to the U. S. Supreme Court.
INDUSTRIAL GROWTH
A study of UT’s Bureau of Busi-
ness Research’s monthly reports
on industrial growth from January
through November shows that a
total of 611 new plant locations and
significant plant expansions were
announced for Texas in those 11
months.
The Houston metropolitan area
led all others with 126 new plants
and expansions; Dallas with 81
after completion of four-months’
training at A&M University.
A study released by Texas Re-
search League recommends a new
finance building to house the State
Comptroller and Treasurer and
close cooperation between State
and City of Austin in future cap-
ital area planning.
City of Paris application to ap-
propriate 61,610-acre feet of wa-
ter annually from proposed Pay
Mayse Reservoir on Sanders Creek
in Lamar County has been set by
Texas Water Commission for De-
cember 17.
Library To Close
For Thanksgiving
Refugio.—Mrs. Celma Bramlette,
librarian, has announced the Re-
fugio County Library will be clos-
ed Thursday, Friday, and Satur-
day, November 26, 27 and 28, for
Thanksgiving.
Vets, Dependents
Receive Annual
Questionnaire
Refugio.—C. E. Brandon, Refu-
gio County Veterans Service Offi-
cer would like to caution all vet-
erans, widows and children who
are receiving disability or death
pension benefits and some depen-
dent parents receiving death com-
pensation, that they will receive
their annual income questionnaire
cards with their pension checks on
or about December 1, 1964. These
people will have until January 31,
,1965 to return the completed cards
to the Veterans Administration.
Please do not fold or mutilate
these cards, as the cards have
been perforated for use on an IBM
machine. If persons receiving these
cards will contact the Veterans
County Service Office, located in
Room No. Ill, County Courthouse,
we will be glad to assist them in
completing these cards.
Nighttime accidents dropped 65
per cent along a fourlane park-
way after the edges of the road
were painted with reflective paint
in a test program, according to
the U. S. Bureau of Public Roads.
REFUGIO COUNTY
TRAFFIC TOIL
1964
DEATHLESS DAYS
Last Traffic Death Nov. 4
DEATHS THIS YEAR
8
1963 TRAFFIC DEATHS
1
HARBOR ISLAND EMPLOYEES look on as Super-
visor W. E. Harris receives safety award from Vice-
President Brown at No. 1 Dock. Taking part in the pre-
sentation ceremony are left to right P. H. Yolland, Gen-
eral Manager; W. H. Huffman, Training and Safety
Advisor; Brown; Harris; B. R. Bowden, local Safety
Chairman; and G. W. Oliver, Area Manager.
U.S. Infant Death Rate Too High,
March of Dimes Physician Says
By VIRGINIA APGAR, M.D.
Director, Division of Congenital Malformations, The National Foundation-March of Dimes
Did you know that 10 nations have a lower infant mortality rate than the United
States? That every year we lose about 105,000 babies aged one year or less?
That this , tragic and discreditable situation exists despite the fact we have the
best trained physicians, . the^-
most medical schools, more
hospital beds than any other
nation, and probably more pre-
natal clinics than any other
country?
How, if at all, can our infant
mortality rate be lowered?
In the course of my work
with the program of The Na-
tional Foi dation - March of
Dimes to eliminate birth de-
fects as a leading cause of in-
fant mortality and disability,
I have talked to scores of ob-
stetricians and pediatricians,
leaders in public health and
other experts to seek answers
to the problem of the infant
mortality rate in our country.
All feel that better prenatal
care would help.
Everyone agreed that prob-
ably the most blameworthy
culprit is a young woman we
might call Sally B. She is 20,
reasonably pretty, a high school
dropout after a year, and she
is married to a laborer whose
education ceased at age 12. She
has had one baby stillborn and
two miscarriages, and more
such shattering experiences are
probably in store for her.
.: Intimately acquainted with
this prototype is Vera R. Keane,
now research director at Yale
University School of Nursing,
New Haven, Conn., and for-
merly director of parent edu-
cation, New York Hospital-
Cornell Medical Center. She
has had long experience as a
public health nurse, and to me
she describes the group to
which Sally B. belongs in these
terms:
“At any given time in the
United States, we estimate that
there are some two million
women pregnant. Of these,
about 500,000 belong to that
hardcore, lower socio-economic
group who turn a deaf ear to
prenatal advice and refuse to
attend prenatal clinics because,
they say, they don’t consider
pregnancy as being ‘sick.’
“When you ask these women
and girls why they won’t go to
prenatal clinics in communities
where these facilities exist,
they say they don’t need any
advice or, if they do, they can
get. it. from a. girl, friend
INFANT MORTALITY RATES
REPORTING COUNTRIES, 1950-1962 OR LATEST YEAR
(Rates are deaths under 1 year per 1,000 live births)
COUNTRY
1962
I_1950
Percent
Decrease
Since '50
RANK
RATE
RANK
RATE
NETHERLANDS
1
15.3
3
25.2
39.3
SWEDEN
2
15.3
1
21.0
27.2
NORWAY
3
18.9*
5
28.2
33.0
FINLAND
4
19.2
11
43.5
55.9
AUSTRALIA
5
19.5**
2
24.5
20.4
DENMARK
6
20.1
7
30.7
34.5
NEW ZEALAND
7
20.3
4
27.6
26.5
SWITZERLAND
8
21.0**
8
31.2
32.7
UNITED KINGDOM
9
22.1
9
31.4
29.6
IRELAND
10
St'jfe:
24.2
ESI
13
D
46.2
47.6
LUXEMBOURG
12
26.2**
12
45.7.
42.7
CANADA
13
27.2**
10
41.5
34.5
JAPAN
14
28.6**
15
60.1
52.4
REPUBLIC OF GERMANY
15
29.2
14
55.6
47.5
I960
1961
Sources of Data: United Nations, Statistical Office, and U.S. Department of Health,
Education, and Welfare, National Vital Statistics Division.
neighbor; or they don’t have
the time; or they don’t have
the money for transportation
to the clinic and for a baby-
sitter while they’re away from
home; or even if they are
pregnant they’re much more
concerned about their husband
being out of work, or worried
about where they are going to
get next month’s rent or the
money for this week’s food.
They just poohpooh the whole
idea of the protective and pre-
ventive heali i service. That’s
your typical Sally B.”
But let me say to women in
early pregnancy that even if
they do feel some reluctance
about making their first- visit
— to a prenatal clinic we usually
find.thajLonly about one jn five
will need to return frequently.
Those who are requested to
return at close intervals are
the high-risk cases where we
find such disorders as diabetes,
high blood pressure, anemia
and obesity. I hasten to add
that in these cases there are
remedial measures that can be
taken.
If our infant mortality rate
remains shocking and fright-
ening, that tragedy is no jus-
tification for doing nothing to
improve it. The time is long
overdue for us to roll up our
sleeves and get to work. We
most certainly can make our
prenatal clinics more inviting
and less wearing on those ex-
pectant mothers who should
use them,,_______ ___________________ .
Houston.—The management and
employees of Harbor Island Ter-
minal of the Humble Pipe Line
Company, Aransas Pass, Texas,
were recently presented the Jo-
seph A. Holmes Safety Association
Award for meritorious accomplish-
ments in the field of industrial
safety.
The Joseph A. Holmes Safety As-
sociation was named for the first
director of the U. S. Bureau of
Mines. Founded in 1916, the or-
ganization commemorates Dr.
Holmes’ efforts toward safer work
practices in the mineral industry.
Many industry and safety organi-
zations belong to the association.
The award was made to Harbor
Island personnel for working 1,-
131,784 manJhours without a dis-
abling injury. The period for which
the award was made covers thir-
teen and one-half years, from July
1, 1950 through December 31, 1963.
This is the longest period of work
in the history of Harbor Island
Terminal without a lost-time indus-
trial injury. The crew during this
time was composed of an average
of forty employees.
Presentation of the award was
made by S. Brown, Vice-President
of the company, to W. E. Harris,
station supervisor at Harbor
Island, Monday, November 16, at
the terminal’s regular scheduled
safety- meeting. Mr. Brown com-
Refugio. — Union Thanksgiving
Service will be held at the As-
sembly of God Church Thanksgiv-
ing Day, Thursday, November 25
at 7:30 p.m. The Rev. Vernon D.
Grumbles will preside.
The order of service as an-
nounced by Rev. Grumbles will be
as follows:
Prelude—Mrs. H. O. Pipkin;
Leading i n Congregational
Hymns, Norman Briggs;
Invocation—The Rev. James W.
Campbell, First Methodist Church;
Responsive Reading—The Rev.
Lee Samson Block, Episcopal
Church of The Ascension;
Scripture Lesson—The Rev. R.
Bruce Brannon, First Presbyterian
Church;
Thanksgiving Prayer—The Rev.
Robert H. Hogg, First Baptist
Church;
Announcements—Rev. Lee Sam-
son Block;
Offertory;
Sermon—The Rev. M. A. Groff,
Assistant District Superintendent
Assemblies of God;
Benediction — Rev. Vernon D.
Grumbles.
Special hymns will be sung by
the First Baptist Church Trio, Nor-
Refugio to Host
Angus Breeders
Refugio. — The annual meeting
and sale of the South Texas An-
gus Breeders Association will be
held in Refugio on Saturday, No-
vember 28.
Hosts for the meet will be the
Refugio County Fair Association
and the Refugio County Chamber
of Commerce.
A total of 78 Angus cattle, 56
bulls and 22 females, are consign-
ed to the sale by South Texas
breeders.
The Angus consigned will be de-
livered at the Refugio County Fair
Grounds on November 27. The
sale will begin at 1 p.m. on the
28th with Gayle Ingram of Co-
lumbus acting as auctioneer.
New
Arrivals
Mr. and Mrs. Francisco Tijerina*
of Woodsboro, are the parents of a
boy bom Monday, November 16,
1964.
Mr. and Mrs. John Talbott, of
Refugio, axe the parents of a boy
bom Tuesday, November 17, 1964.
mended Mr. Harris and all the oth-
er employees for this outstanding
safety achievement and extended
every good wish for continued safe
working habits. P. H. Yolland,
General Manager from Houston,
and G. W. Oliver, Area Manager
from Corpus Christi, and other
members of management from the
Houston and Corpus Christi offices
attended the ceremony.
This Week m Ref u
Each week the time and place of the meetings and
events of your organization will be listed in this calendar.
To have your group listed, call the County Record,, LA
6-2400, before 3 p.m. on Fridays.
Monday, November 23
American Red Cross, Commissioner’s Court Room, 3:30
p.m.
Business and Professional Women, Mrs. Carl Baumgart-
ner Residence, 7:30 p.m.
JayCees, A.A. Building, 7:30 p.m.
Refugio Lodge No. 190, AF&AM, (Masons) Masonic Hall,
Woodsboro, 8 p.m.
Rotary Club, City Hall, Noon.
Tuesday, November 24
Beta Sigma Phi, Mrs. Don Hawkins Residence, 7:30 p.m.
Chamber of Commerce, CofC Office, 7:30 p.m.
City Council, City Hall, 10 a.m.
Volunteer Fire Department, Fire Station, 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday, November 25
Union Thanksgiving Service, Assembly of God Church,
7:30 p.m.
American Citizens Civic Club, American Legion Hall, 8
p.m.
True Vine Lodge No. 74, True Vine Lodge Hall, 7:30 p.m.
Friday, November 27
Bobcats vs. Beeville Trojans, Basketball Game, Here,
“B” Game 6 p.m.; Varsity Game, 7:30 pm.
Sunday, November 29 r
Church Services, All Refugio Churches.
Monday, November 30
Jaycees, 4.A. Building, 7:30 p.m.
Rotary Club, City Hall, Rotaryann Night, 7:30 p.m.
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Refugio County Record (Refugio, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 14, Ed. 1 Monday, November 23, 1964, newspaper, November 23, 1964; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth709561/m1/1/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 9, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Dennis M. O’Connor Public Library.