The Paducah Post (Paducah, Tex.), Vol. 58, No. 26, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 17, 1964 Page: 2 of 8
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THE PADUCAH POST, PADUCAH, TEXAS, THURSDAY, SEPT. 17, 1964
Published Every Thursday by
Post Publishing Company
Serving Cottle-King Counties for 57 Years
JAMES P. LAWRENCE
.. Owner & Publisher
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
The Paducah Post is an independent Democratic Newspaper,
publishing the news impartially and supporting what it
believes to be right regardless of party politics.
TEXAS
©
P RESSj 1 Association
1964
Cottle County History
25 Years Ago—Sept. 21, 1939
Representatives of the Lions
Club, the Parent-Teachers Asso-
ciation and Paducah’s four fed-
erated women’s clubs will meet
next week to draft plans for
establishing a public library in
Paducah. Although no plans
have been announced, the or-
ganization probably will propose
construction of a two room li-
brary with the aid of WP’A or
NYA funds.
GUTHRIE — John F. Gibson
of Paducah, who came West
from Graham as a cowpuncher
in 1883, when there was not a
house in Cottle County and
there was only five box dwell-
ings in King County, was honor-
ed on his eightieth birthday
with a party at the home of his
son, Roy Gibson, here Sunday,
Sept. 10. He worked for the JF
Ranch and later the Ross. In
1889 he returned to Young
County, married and brought
his bride here to live in a dug-
out.
Lt. J. C. Bailey, Air Reserve,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles C.
Bailey, Dumont, is on active
duty with the 34 th Attack
Squadron at March Field, Cali-
fornia. Lt. Bailey graduated
from Paducah High School; at-
tended Texas Technological Col-
lege, Lubbock, for three years
and then in June 1936 enlisted
in the army at Randolph Field,
Texas. In 1937 he was appoint-
ed to the Primary Flying
School, Randolph Field, and one
year later graduated from the
advanced Flying School, Kelly
Field, Texas.
Enrollment in Paducah pub-
lic schools for the 1939-50 term
has reached 926, an increase of
46 over last year, according to
figures released today by Supt.
J. D. Wilson.
Rev. W. E. Fisher, pastor of
the First Methodist Church of
Paducah, will be principal
speaker at a zone meeting of
Paducah, Childress, Matador and
Turkey Lions at the Cottle Ho-
tel tonight at 8 o’clock.
will be used for the first time
Sunday morning.
45 Years Ago—Sept. 18, 1919
Last Thursday night, while
out car riding, Miss Agnes
Alexander suffered painful
wounds as a result of the car
in which she was riding being
struck by the driver of the J. B.
Sneed auto.
In response to the fire alarm
last Saturday afternoon about
7 o’clock, the fire boys went
post haste to the residence of
Jim Christian where they found
the wash house on fire. Due
to their quick work the flames,
which were leaping from the
top of the building and mak-
ing rapid headway, were ex-
tinguished before the roof fell
in. Had the department not
done such effective work there
is no doubt thas his residence
would soon have been a flam-
ing mass, because the burning
room was only a few feet from
the kitchen of the dwelling.
Mr. Christian presented the fire
boys with $25.
The Paducah band, under
the direction of Mr. Blake, is
becoming daily a more needed
factor in the development of
the town. The music rendered
by these musicians during the
big picnic last week was en-
joyed by several thousand peo-
ple and on every side compli-
ments were freely passed upon
the good work they did.
Chas. Chamberlain and wife
of Mineral 'Wells have moved
here to make this their future
home.
Geo. W. Lively of Salt Creek
was in the city the first of the
week looking after interests.
Paducah’s enlarged and re-
modeled First Baptist Church
will be dedicated next Sunday
morning by the launching of a
two weeks revival meeting,
Rev. Franklin E. Swanner, pas-
tor, announced today. The
beautiful new structure was
completed last Tuesday and
See “The Heart of Humanity,”
starring Dorothy Phillips, at
the Zana Theatre, Saturday,
Sept. 20.
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Phone 492-3439 or 492-3655
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SEPTEMBER 20
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PALACE THEATRE
Hunter McLean, chairman of
the State Board of Insurance,
will head the Johnson-Humph-
rey campaign in Texas, Gov.
John Connally announced at a
news conference.
At the same time, Connally
said he himself may have “no
precise role” in the presidential
campaign, although there is a
possibility he will make some
out-of-state speeches for the
ticket.
Selection of McLean ended
some speculation over whether
a Democrat of the moderate-
conservative group which backs
Connally or the liberal faction
would run the Texas Johnson-
Humphrey show.
McLean is a close friend of
the governor and one of his
first major political appointees.
He is also a longtime supporter
of the president.
Connally acknowledged he
contacted McLean about the
campaign director’s job after
talking the matter over with
Johnson.
“The choice was completely
satisfactory to the President
and me,” Connally told report-
ers. “The President was de-
lighted.”
McLean, former Fort Worth
insurance executive, is taking a
leave of absence from the board
of insurance and will open a
campaign office here, Connally
said.
Goldwater-for-president head-
quarters under direction of Tad
Smith of El Paso, working with
State Republican Chairman Pe-
ter O’Donnell of Dallas, already
is operating full blast a few
blocks from the state capitol.
SPENDING REQUESTS UP —
State financial outlook is rosier
than ever, but state agency
spending plans are breaking
all records too.
Gov. Connally gave reporters
a briefing on fiscal matters in
a photo-slide illustrated press
conference.
State agencies, he reported,
are asking a whooping $689,-
472,181 increase in spending for
the 1966-67 fiscal period. He
emphasized, however, they are-
n’t likely to get it.
Connally pointed to possibil-
ity of a $82,500,000 surplus at
close of the 1964-1965 period
next August 31. He also esti-
mated there will be $623,800,000
available for appropriation by
the Legislature next year. This
is some $153,400,000 more than
the present level.
State agencies, however, have
proposed spending of more than
$813,000,000 from the general
fund, $3,800,000,000 from all
funds.
Connally said he wanted to
make “abundantly clear” that
review of the requests did not
represent his approval.
“The money is going to be a
little harder going out than it
was coming in. My own recom-
mendations (to the Legislature)
will probably differ to a mark-
ed degree (from these figures).”
This is the way the requests
break down:
Judiciary — asking an in-
crease of $962,808; hospitals and
special schools, up $51,600,000;
departments and agencies, up
$229,100,000; public and higher
education, up $331,700,000 (not
including a $76,000,000 figure
for pay raises being sought by
school teachers).
TRAFFIC FATALITIES IN-
CREASING — A steadily-in-
creasing highway death rate is
bringing demands for corrective
action.
The death rate is up 14 per
cent from last year. Total
number of fatal accidents is up
13 per cent.
There have been 1,860 fatali-
ties this year, compared with
1,631 in 1963.
EMPLOYMENT — The advent
of cotton-picking in Texas off-
set the decline in the number
of workers employed in vege-
table, fruit and nut activities
from mid-June, and the Texas
Employment Commission report-
ed that farm employment ran
346,300 workers by mid-July,
and total employment in the
state rose for the seventh suc-
622,600 — an increase of 2,100
cessive month to a total of 3,-
from June and up 60,800 from
July, 1963.
The Commission also stated
that only 4.2 per cent of the
total labor force was unemploy-
ed in mid-July, compared to
4.8 per cent in July, 1963, and
4.4 per cent in June, 1964.
Lubbock Picked
As School Site
The Board for State Hospitals
and Special Schools has select-
ed Lubbock as. the site for a
new special school for the
mentally retarded.
Lubbock was chosen from a
list which included Plainview,
Odessa, El Paso, Levelland,
Midland, Fort Stockton and
Amarillo.
The 1963 Legislature author-
ized establishment of a special
school “west of the 100th me-
ridian.” The board’s capital
budget request for the two-year
state fiscal period beginning
Sept. 1, 1965, includes $2.5 mil-
lion for the school.
SS Representative
Here on Sept. 23
A representative of the Lub-
bock Social Security office will
be in Paducah on Wednesday,
Sept. 23, in Room 101 at the
courthouse at 9 a.m.
If you’ve decided to retire,
the representative will help you
in claiming retirement benefits
for yourself and members of
your family who might get
benefits on your record. He
will help you get whatever
proofs are needed to go with
your claim, such as proof of
age.
The representative. stated
that whether you’ve decided to
retire or not, yGu should visit
the social security office three
months before you reach retire-
ment age.
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The
JVational Outlook.
Unfilled Jobs and Unemployed People
By GEORGE HAGEDORN
The Department of Labor has (from a mere count of job open-
ings, what their effect is on the
employers’ opreations. Inability
to fill a job may represent an
emergency which seriously im-
pedes production. Or it may be
merely an inconvenience which
is met by minor procedural ad-
justments.
It is anticipated that the new
job-vacancy data will help to
settle arguments on the couses
of unemployment. Is unem-
ployment in this country main-
ly “structural” in the sense
that it results from an inability
to match the available jobs?
Or is unemployment the result
of more basic economic diffi-
culties which interfere with the
announced that it is undertak-
ing a series of surveys to de-
termine, in certain labor mark-
ets, the number and character
of job vacancies. This will in
a sense be parallel to the De-
partment’s unemployment sur-
vey—they have been counting
the people who can’t find jobs
and now they will count the
jobs that can’t find people.
It is certainly appropriate to
seek such information on a
systematic basis. If the gov-
ernment is to spend money on
training programs to help un-
employed people, it had better
know what kind of skills em-
ployers are looking for. The
new data on job vacancies
should also help the agencies,
government and private, who
counsel young people and the
prospects for careers in various
fields.
Question of Definition
But statistics always have
their limitations, and we should
be aware in advance of some
of the problems of collecting
and interpreting figures on job
openings.
A job vacancy will be de-
fined as an opening for which
the employer is “actively seek-
ing” an applicant. This is sim-
ilar to the definition of an un-
employed person as one who
is “looking for work.” But in
both instances there are wide
variations, from case to case,
in the amount of effort put into
the search. In practice con-
siderable subjective judgment is
involved in the decision as to
whether or not to include mar-
ginal cases.
The unemployment statis-
tics give no information on
whether those unemployed are
suffering any hardship. In a
similar way we will not know,
job-creating process?
Caution will be needed, how-
ever, in determining the' bear-
ing of the job-vacancy data on
these questions. We can’t autd^
matically regard each job open-
ing as a potential opportunity
for increasing the employment
total by one.
Understanding Needed y
An employer might have
sufficient manpower on his pay-
roll to fill all the orders he can
expect to get. But; he might
still report a number of job
openings because he is looking
for people with particular
skills—people who can help him
put his operation on a more
efficient basis. If and when he
finds them, it seems unlikely
that the end result would be a
net increase in his payroll while
he is doing the same amount
of business.
New statistics of this type
can be helpful in throwing
light on national problems. But
only if those who use them
take the trouble to understand
them thoroughly.
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R. ERNEST LEE
STATE REGISTERED
Civil Engineer — Land Surveyor
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