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Page 2 — THE MATHIS NEWS — Friday, Oct. 16, 1953, Mathis, Tex. *-
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IN 20 YEARS
The October issue of the American Mercury features an
article by Paul L. Martin, Chief of the Washington Bureau of the
Gannett newspapers, which is of direct personal interest to every
citizen. It deals with government spending during the 20 years
which have just ended. Here are a few of the many facts he
records:
In those 20 years, the government spent more than $775,000,000,
000 and ran up a net deficit of more than $239,000,000,000. In other
words, it spent almost half again a smuch as it was able to
collect, despite ever-increasing taxes.
At the end of fiscal 1933, the national debt amounted to a
fraction less than $18 for each American. Now the figure is above
$2,000.
In 1933, a typical family with a $4,000 a year income paid $44 in
federal income taxes — now it must pay close to $500.
In the fiscal year, tax collections were 2,100 per cent greater
than in 1933.
Read those figures again. Then answer this question: How long
can any nation stand such a trend without going bankrupt?
CONSERVATION IS THE THEME
This year Oil Progress Week will be observed October 11,17.
Special emphasis will be placed on conservation — on what the
Industry is doing to obtain maximum benefit from our petroleum
supplies. The strictly negative approach in which a hole is drilled
and then pumped until it goes dry has been out of date for over
50 years.
One of the best conservation methods was hit upon by accident
in Pennsylvania when water trickled into oil-bearing formations
and pushed oil into old wells which were supposedly dry. Since
that time water has been pumped back into oil fields with amazing
results. Often the second crop of petroleum has exceeded the first.
Natural gas is used instead of water to repressurize some fields.
Largely, as a result of such conservation methods, more than
half of the oil wells drilled in this country since 1859 are still
producing. New methods of recovery are being developed which
promise even greater results.
Today in oil company labratories all over the country some
15,000 researchers are constantly at work on the other important
phase of oil conservation — getting the most out of the oil we take
from the ground. More than $100,000,000 a year is spent on such re-
search and it has resulted in new petroleum by-products which are
the source of drugs, plastics, resins, varnishes, wrapping materials,
fabrics and many other valuable commodities.
The oil industry is less than a 100 years old. It is a monument
to the effectiveness of competitive free enterprise.
THE MATHIS NEWS
Published every Friday in Mathis, Texas
PUBLISHED BY THE GUTHRIE PUBLISHING CO.
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Bobby Helm______
-Managing Editor
Entered zs second-class mail matter, Jan. 21, 1945 at the post
office at Mathis, San Patricio County, Texas, under the Act oi
Congress on March 3. 1879.
NOTE: Any erroneous reflection upon the character, standing or
imputation of any person, firm or corporation, which may appear
In The Mathis News will gladly be corrected as soon as it is brought
to our attention.
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AUSTIN, Tex. — Politicians are
working up a head of steam that
will blow off when President Ei-
senhower visits Texas this month.
As far as any public announce-
ment is concerned, the reason for
Ike’s Texas trip is to join Presi-
dent Adolfo Ruiz Cortines of Mexi-
co in the dedication of Falcon
Dam on the Rio Grande.
But it is clear that H. J. Por-
ter of Houston, Republican nation-
al committeeman, will use the
presidential trip as a means of
rallying G. O. P. support in Texas. w
When Eisenhower gets to Texas, ^ and‘other7^tttitio^“7ece'iv^d
sions of grandeur” on the question
of making Texas a two-party
state.
In other words, the Shivers
Democrats were for Eisenhower
— that does not mean that they
will move over into the Republi-
can ranks in the Texas political
tattles of nest year.
At the Falcon Dam celebration
there will be represented a third
political faction, the Texas Demo-
crats who supported Adlai Steven-
son.
Senator Lyndon Johnson, a Ste-
venson Democrat, is expected to
be present at the border celebra-
tion.
Porter, by the way, has an-
nounced that the Texas Democrats
will put up the strongest candi-
date they can find to oppose
Johnson next year.
That candidate may be Ben
Guill, who once served as a Texas
Republican congressman from the
Panhandle district.
Guill is now an executive assist-
ant to Postmaster General Sum-
merfield.
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Workers in state departments
and some of those in state hospi-
his official host will be Governor
Allan Shivers. The president will
stay at the Shivers’ palatial home
at Sharyland, near Mission.
While Shivers led the Democra-
tic Party of Texas in helping to
elect Eisenhower last year, there
is no indication that the governor
and his political friends will line
up with the Texas Republicans
as a permanent arrangement.
On the contrary, Shivers has
said that the G. O. P. has ‘‘delu-
IT’S THE LAW
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Tired of your name? Perhaps
you can change it. To most of us
our name is too much an integral
part of our everyday life to want
to change it. There are occasions,
however, when a legal change of
name is desired, and Texas laws
contain provisions for changing the
names of individuals, business
firms and corporations.
Being tired of a name is not
sufficient in itself to warrant a
legal change. There are occasions,
however, when a change of name
may be of sufficient benefit to a
person to justify a change under
the statutes. For example, a name
may be so long and cumbersome
or so difficult to pronounce as
to become a business or social
handicap.
A legal change of an individual’s
name is this state involves a pro-
cedure in District Court. The per-
son desiring a change must file
an application in proper form in
the District Court of the county
of his residence, setting forth the
reasons for his desire for a new
name. If the Judge is convinced
that it is for the interest or benefit
of the applicant to change his
name, he may decree that the
adopted name of the person shall
be substitutued for his original
name.
In addition to the provisions for
change of name in ordinary cases,
our laws permit the court in en-
tering a divorce decree to include
an order changing the name of
either party especially petitioning
for such a change in proper man-
ner during the proceedings.
Provisions for changing the
name of a minor are the same
as for an adult, except that the
application for change must be
filed by his guardian or “next
friend”. By this latter term is
meant a parent or some other
person who is looking after the
interests of the minor.
A change of name will not be
allowed to injure third persons
under our laws. The change does
not operate to release the appli-
cant from any responsibility which
he may have incurred under his
original name. Nor will it defeat
or destroy any rights or property
of cause of action which the
person may have had or held in
his original name.
Any person transacting business
in Texas under any name other
than his real name is required to
file in the County Clerk’s Office
in each county in which he con-
ducts his business an “assumed
name certificate”, giving the name
of the business and the true full
name and post office address of
each person carrying on the busi-
ness. Whenever there is change in
ownership or in the name of the
business, a .new certificate is re-
quired to be filed setting out the
facts.
Whenever the name of a cor-
poration is changed, Texas laws
require that its corporate charter
must be amended and the amend-
ment filed with the Secretary of
State.
(This column, based on Texas
law, is written to inform — not
advise. No person should ever
apply or interpret any law without
the aid of an attorney who knows
the facts because the facts may
change the application of the law.)
$15 per month pay increases i
the first of this month.
Increases ranging up to $300 per
year went to faculty members of
state colleges and universities.
And some state workers receiv-
ed “Incentive” raises amounting
to as much as $50 per month
under a new law authorizing such
boosts out of savings effected by
decreasing the number of employ-
ees.
There will be more pay hikes if
the courts uphold the Texas natur-
al gas gathering tax, Governor
Shivers has said.
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Death took George B. Butler,
49, chairman of the Texas Board
of Insurance Commissioners.
Butler died of a malignancy in
a Temple hospital, and funeral
services w.ere held. in Austin.
Another member of the Board,
Paul H. Brown, has been at Mc-
Closkey Hospital, since he suffer-
ed a heart stroke last February.
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Twenty-one church schools form-
ed an association and will ask
Texas business and industry for a
million dollars to balance their
budgets this year.
Texas Foundation of Voluntar-
ily Supported Colleges and Uni-
versities is the long name of the
organization, whose board of di-
rectors will meet in Dallas Nov-
ember 1.
Dr. R. W. White, president of
the foundation and head of Baylor
■University, said the organization
already has the support of the
National Association of Manu-
facturers, the Texas Association
of Manufacturers, and the United
States Chamber of Commerce,
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To be employed by the Texas
trunpike Authority is a firm of
consulting engineers — yet to be
named — who will survey the
Dallas-Fort Worth toll road pro-
ject and determine its economic
feasibility.
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Following the survey, and when
bonds are sold in the amount of
$30 million or more, the authority *
will be ready to go into the road-»
building business.
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