The Paducah Post (Paducah, Tex.), Vol. 57, No. 20, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 8, 1963 Page: 2 of 10
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THE PADUCAH POST, PADUCAH, TEXAS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 1963
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Published Every Thursday by
The Post Publishing Company
Serving Cottle-King Counties For 57 Years
Corner of Eighth and Richards Streets
MR. AND MRS. E. KENNETH TOOLEY ........................ Owners
KENNETH TOOLEY ....................................... Editor & Publisher
JEANETTE McWILLlAMS .........................................News Editor
MRS. DORIS TOOLEY ............................................ Society Editor
ROBERT WORLEY .................................................................. Printer
€. E. WHITLOCK ........................................... Linotype Operator
CURTIS BURTON ............................................................. Apprentice
Sntered as second class matter at the postoffice at Paducah,
Texas, under the Act of March 30, 1879.
auDscnption Kates:
Cottle and adjoining counties, $2.50; elsewThere, $3.50
- Area Opinion Sampler -
Hie Paducah Post is an independent Democratic Newspaper,
publishing the news impartially and supporting what it
believes to be right regardless of party politics.
Regardless of what you do,
you just can’t please all the
people at anytime.
This is true in every busi-
ness, or in just living.
A newspaper has its many
drawbacks and Ray Dover o f
the Valentine (Nebraska) News-
paper recently came up with
comments that seem to describe
it most perfectly.
—o—
Publishing a hometown news-
paper has many compensations,
but being wTell-liked is not one
of them. Everyone hates the
editor.
An editor who takes a firm
stand on controversial issues,
and tries to print all the news
in an unbiased manner, may
be respected (in a fair-minded
community) but he will never
be popular.
Sooner or later such an edi-
tor will tread on the toes of
everyone who reads the news-
paper, be he friend or foe,
neighbor or stranger.
—o—
Prime sources of an editor’s
woes are weddings, obituaries
and court news. The descrip-
tion of grandmother’s dress
must be included in the wed-
ding write-up and uncle Joe’s
favorite poem must be append-
ed to his obituary or the editor
is an unfeeling barbarian, not
fit to associate with genteel
human beings.
Persons whose names appear
in the court news usually fall
into two classes — those who
were badly mistreated by the
law, and those who admit guilt
but want to protect someone
else by keeping their name out I
of the newspaper. This desire j
to protect dear old mother who
has a bad heart, or the grand-
children in school- or the min-
ister from embarrossment, has
led people to offer us bribes,
threaten us with mayhem and
check the possibility of filing
a libel suit. We have often
pointed out that we don’t make
the news, we just print it. All
anyone needs do to keep his
name out of the court news is
to stay out of court.
—o—
Other ways to incur the
wrath of readers are: Disagree
with them on a school issue;
misspell their name; give an-
other church more space than
you do their church; refuse to
print an item so old it has long
since ceased to be news; de-
cline to work at night on a
rush printing job for someone
who would have ordered it out
of town to begin with had he
not been in a hurry; suggest
on the fourth or fifth state-
ment that you would like to
be paid; decline to print all
the personal letters, magazine
articles and other material peo-
ple bring in; get poor repro-
duction of a poor picture, etc.,
etc., etc.
We sometimes think what
really irritates readers in the
crusty editor’s steadfast refusal
to drop dead. That seems to
be the only way to please a
big majority at one time.
Paducah
Lodge
No. 868
A. F. & A. M.
Stated Meeting at 8:00 p.m.
Tuesday Night, Aug. 13
All members urged to attend.
Visitors welcome.
GLENN A. KIDWELL, W. M.
W. A. BISHOP, Secretary
We of the Southwest knor" '
very well that the depreciatic
allowance on oil production ir
jome for federal income pm
poses has been a spur for o
exploration and development.
This incentive has accelerat
ed exploration.
How often has some explore
cory drilling or other explora
:ory expenditure been advance
:o get within a certain tax yea
because of the depletion allow
ance?
Not only is this true, but th
depletion allowance has prc
vided capital for expansion froi.
current production.
So those with this knowledge
also know that changes.^n min
eral tax provisions, designed t
mcrease taxes on U. S. oil an
gas production by $280 million
will likely result in diminution
in the same order of explora-
tion and production money,
eager to seek new production.
It has been an accelerator of
wildcat exploration.
In the last two congressional
sessions recommendations have
been made to reduce the de-
pletion rate, which has stood
for the past 35 years.
Despite the merits of the
27% per cent rate, despite
whether equitable or not, we of
the Southwest, through experi-
ence are prone to believe that
the change to a lower rate
would adversely affect the do-
mestic oil and gas industry,
our supplies of these fuels, the
national interest, but more
painfully the economy of the
place w’nere we live and work.
—Plainview Daily Herald.
When the first school bell
rings this September there will
be 264,783 six-year-old children
entering school for the first
time in Texas, according to es-
timated enrollment figures com-
piled by the Texas Education
Agency.
In addition to the million-
and-one chores that must be
performed- in getting the young-
ster ready for school — new
shoes, clothes, health examina-
tion — most school districts
require proof of age for begin-
ning students. A certified copy
of a birth certificate is usually
requested.
Anticipating this, the Records
and Statistics Section of the
Texas State Department of
Health is readying itself for
the onslaught of requests for
such copies that comes pouring
in during the middle and late
summer.
Years of experience have
eliminated nearly every bottle-
neck. The operation is smooth
and fast. Usually, the copy is
mailed within a day or two
after the request is received.
However one serious bottle-
neck still exists — persons who
insist upon waiting until the
last few days before school be-
gins to mail in their request.
In recent years the last-
ATTEND REUNION
Mr. and Mrs. Cletus E. Bur-
ton, Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Beau-
champ, Ray White, and Mrs.
Dan Latjyner attended a White
family reunion last week-end at
Pansye, Texas, in the home of
L. E. White.
The first Olympic Games re-
corded occurred in 770 B. C. in
Greece.
VERY ’63—Classic cotton cord,
a favorite for summer suits,
takes a new cut in this design
with a cropped top, rounded
neckline, and longer sleeves.
The Pepperell easy-care cotton
is striped in enamel yellow and
white.
RETURN FROM HOUSTON
Mrs. Annie Bridwell and
Mrs. Oma Dumont have recent-
ly returned from a three-week
vacation to Houston and other
points where they visited rela-
tives and friends.
Crop Hail Insurance
48-HOUR WAITING PERIOD
JONES & MULKEY INS.
Box 605 Paducah, Texas Pho. 492-3073
No Mutual Insurance Companies Represented
Public Accountant
Systems Installed
And Maintained
Tax Consultant
Income Tax
Audits
AFT0N WILLINGHAM
PADUCAH, TEXAS
823 Backus
Phone 492-3576
Palace
Theatre
Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Wilder
are cordially invited to at-
tend one of the following
movies next week.
THURSDAY - FRIDAY
August 8-9
Five Weeks In
A Balloon
Red Buttons
Fabian
SATURDAY
August 10
Taza, Son Of
Cochise
Rock Hudson
SUNDAY-MONDAY
August 11-12
Hud
Paul Newman
TUESDAY-WEDNESDAY
August 13-14
The Trouble
With Harry
Edmund Gwenn
John Forsythe
Shirley MacLaine
ninute rush hasn’t been quite
o bad, but it is still a serious
problem. Requests should be
lent in as soon as possible.
The State Health Department
iee for certificate copies is $1.50.
Certified copies can also be
jbtained from county clerks
and local registrars for similar
lee.
Most important aid for
speedy service — aside from
getting requests in early — is
jomplete and correct informa-
tion.
Parents should include the
jhild’s name, his place of birth,
date of birth and the parents’
name (including the mother’s
maiden name.)
Armed with the correct in-
formation, a certified copy or
oirth card will be speeded on
its way as quickly as many
/ears of experience and a well-
trained staff can send it.,
—Morton Tribune.
One must admire Governor
John Connally’s stand on the
civil rights issue as regarding
private business which serves
the public. The proposed fed-
eral law would deprive the
owners of private business of
the right to decide whom they
would serve and an accom-
panying proposal would give
broad powers of enforcement to
the attorney general of the
United States.
The Texas governor has
come out flatly against such
laws and says that he will op-
pose such measures in every
way. Connally has said that
Texas would live up to its re-
sponsibility to its citizens but
that “you can not assure eco-
nomic opportunity by legisla-
tion.” We wonder what the
business people of New York,
Pennsylvania, Illinois, think of
this new proposal.
—Lockney Beacon.
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VISIT HERE
John Bass Brothers Jr. visit-
ed his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
J. B. Brothers, last Friday and
took his wife and children,
Deborah and James, back to
their home in Arlington. Deb-
orah stayed several days last
week with her grandparents
and Mrs. Brothers and James
came to Paducah later to visit.
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How much is your monthly electric service bill? Probably more than
in years past. But that’s because you use more electricity today and
NOT because the rate is higher.
Truth of the matter is that as the cost of living has gone up and up,
the average cost of a kilowatt hour of electricity used in West
Texas homes is 17% less than 10 years ago.
But the USE of electricity has increased; many homes today are
using twice as much. Using more and getting more customer bene-
fits, for today there are 166 wonderful electric ways to bring more
comfort and convenience into the home, to save time and to elimi-
nate drudgery. Use in the long summer months may he even heavier,
because of continuous use of air conditioning.
Yes, the dollar you spend for electricity buys mor? «•!>■>n ever before
It’s today’s best value, biggest bargain.
Pick up your new
Frontier Catalog
now at these Paducah
Frontier merchants
Paducah Drug Company
Sossaman Feed and Seed
White Star Laundry
Paducah Cash Grocery & Market
Dell’s Dress Shop
Isbell’s Gulf Service Station
Quality Cleaners
White Auto Store
Garrett Fina Service Station
Remember it takes only 1200 stamps to fill a Fron-
tier Stamp Book - and you can redeem them at 144
W. Main in Childress or hy mail order*
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Tooley, Kenneth. The Paducah Post (Paducah, Tex.), Vol. 57, No. 20, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 8, 1963, newspaper, August 8, 1963; Paducah, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1018849/m1/2/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Bicentennial City County Library.