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Heed Warning
Houston Chamber of Commerce President P. H.
Robinson recently voiced a warning to Harris County
cities that each would do well to ponder.
Robinson's warning was not a familiar one. In fact,
he is among the first to speak out against the danger
Inherent in annexation by cities merely for the sake
of annexation, or because of fear theif territory would
, be gobbled up by a neighboring city.
’ This so>cailed fear has led some Harris County
cities to carry out ridiculous annexation action, much
to the disappointment of a vast majority of the people
living in juid out of the cities and to industry.
Economic growth cannot possibly be limited to
•mall areas, especially in metropolitan Harris County
pvhH-e tar hub of this growth ismd-^yntteoe to~
be the City of Houstqp. Economic growth is regional,'
not sectional. Thja has been proved beyond doubt in
Harris County where industrial expansion has been
spread over the entire county.
Whatever one Harris County city does affects in
some way its neighbor, whether it be annexation or
passage of a so rung ordinance. This is true be*
cause cities follow essentially the same kind of rules
and regulations. One sets a pattern, the others follow.
Promiscuous annexation of the type we have wit*
bomed in Harris County in the recent past is, be-
cause of the very nature of its designs, a roadblock
to economic growth and expansion. Industry begins
to look elsewhere* for places to locate because of the
instability unwise annexation indicates. ^
It is incumbent uppn public officials iji Harris
County to consider the danger before Uking anv an
nexation action purely for the sake of talcing in addi-
tional territory on the premise that it might be swal-
lowed up by a neighboring city.
Cities should pull down the fences of annexation
and release prime industrial property, thereby indi-
cating they welcome new payrolls, new people, new
residences. >
Orderly municipal growth cannot be accomplished
by promiscuous annexation. Few cities in Harris
County are financially able to provide necessary
municiptr services in areas they have annexed, and
that should be the prime requisite of annexation.
Most of these cities find it somewhat difficult to
provide such services to their own people.
Robinson calls Harris County a “city region” for
the reason that any economic, political or business
factors that retard or enhance opportunities for de-
velopment and expansion of business and industry
will, in like measure, affect all cities of the region.
‘The economy and future of every city is inex-
tricably related to every other city within the region,”
Robinson said in a recent Houston address. '
“Economic growth will continue to appear on an
area-wide basis rather than on a city basis,” Robinson
said. “This growth must come within the present
framework of local city government and local govern-
ments must avoid creating blocks to our potential
growth.” •
The latest regional asset, he said, is the new Manned
Spacecraft Center which will be built on Clear Lake
by the National Aeronautics and Space Administra-
tion. ......r • -• .■'.....V. . .
“The impact upon the future of this region and the
state and Southwest is beyond our imagination”
Robinson said. “Certainly, we know it will attract
many great scientific minds of the country. Oppor-
tunities springing from this space research center
will not be confined any one city, but will have
far-reaching effects and be without limitations as to
geography.
He predicted that this area can never reach its
normal potential for growth and development if cities
In the area “build fences” which create blocks to
realization of our destiny.
. "At present there are 17 cities that have common ,
boundaries with the city of Houston. In Harris County
there are"27 incorporated cities and in the seven
adjacent counties, there are 60 incorporated cities.”
“Following a rash of annexations of undeveloped
land,-annexation fences have been built and fence lines
have crossed fence lines, leaving much prime industrial
property in dispute,” he said.
' ‘ "The fences that ~hav<f “befen built try competing
cities serve to fence out the very interests that would
have brought our opportunities to fruition.
"We should? work cooperatively together to bring
about a reasonable solution to these differences,”
Robinson said. 4 • .
New Faces, Old Issues To
'Haunt' Special Session
AUSTIN (A)—New faces and
old issues—that Will be the story
of the special legislative session
beginning Jan. 3,
Gov. Price Daniel wants some
surrender dormant accounts. A
House committee is studying the
subject.
Another item, if the comptroller
says the state can spare the cash,
is advertising to lure tourists to
more planks of hjs legislative pro-
gram nailed down before his cur- Texas. Daniel toid a committee of.
lent term ends in 1963. He is ex- ‘Texans for Tourists'conference
i bousp^juill iiave slight
blits roster-one in the
pected to lay Out a number of is-
sues the lawmakers looked over
earlier this year but did no* place
in the statute books'
-Each
changes
31-member Senate and five in the
House, which has 150 members.
Tbhse ape results- of two deaths
and four resignations, all of which
will be filled, by .special elections
by the time the session begins.
• Successors will be named for
Reps. Toby Korioth, Franklin
Tuesday he will ask for $300,000
a year for this purpose, as he
did without success last January.
Daniel told the Texas Famt Bu-
reau in Galveston last month he
will seek an appropriation tq
maintain farm-to-market roads.1
In August he vetoed a 315 million'
farm-to-market road appropriation
for one year on grounds the state
should not keep building more of
these roads without providing
funds to maintain them.
Spears and Pete tavaDe and Sen.|
Henty 'Gamier. Korioth quit to
Legislation to regulate the small
Iso has been talked
take a federal job. Shears to run
for Gonzales' Senate job, Lavalle
Jo become Galvestort Coupty judge
and Gonzalez to ran successfully
tot Congress.
Gtenn Kothmann was elected to
replace the late Rep. Marshall
Bell of' San Antonio. An Amarillo
Republican, Kenneth Kohler; wfil
take the seat left open when Rep.
3 Edgar Wilson of Amarillo died.
loan industry also I
up as a .prime object of the spe-
cial session. The legislature failed
to agree cm a bill in the regular
session. ' - |
Some observers contend the
loan shark issue is so complicated
and the legislature is so full of
divergent views on # that a SWay
special session isn't long enough
to deal with it. However. Atty.
Gen. Will Wilson and Houston
Rep. Grisg Cole have been work-:
| * The top priority item will be big to bring together the opposing
legislation gMng the state prooe- points of view, , ■
left In banks—money to which the
state a!ready has” a legal right.
*Jhe le»jsla tune went half way
w •*> Den«e) eaHier this vear, pn>-
vklin* fer escheat of abandoned
prooertv held by insurance worn-
groups also have sought revision
or toe sales tax . and the taxman
'dedicated gas reserves; an emer-
gency fund for the National Guard
ami other, disaster.) agendes; mu-
nicipal annexation curbs and im-
ymdgL utilities, raHtxwd* mte'oth- provement of law enforcement,
4F htHtreste Daniel has said he With empjjnsis. on juvenile crime
'
of the men
‘STS*
have anything
is no training
personnel capable
a training
Major complaints have come
from Fort Polk in Louisiana and
Fort Lewis in Washington.
There has been some dispute at
Fort Polk over who is doing the
complaining — National Guards-
men or reservists. ,One group is
accusing the other.
Men recalled to activa duty are
cripple the
lenea to
The absurd
of this
and Eisen-
War with
inadequate
military stocks because the Tru-
man administration had failed to
understand the purpose and de-
J, 11 "r urwierstand the purpose and de-
knowing where they
when they would re-
* Tn ‘ TSA* sur
*S2SltEXi
fective result
are
vival.
which lessens the
of our defense efforts, must not
notice* not
would go or when
tum. None of those recalled was
career men. They got out of serv-
ice when the opportunity came, in-
dicating they weren’t opposed to
doing a job but didn’t relish the
I do not mean to ba critical of
President Truman or his military
advisers. World War II still ap-
peared at that point in history to
be a victory for us. And because
Americans love peace, vast de-
«Bg&
idea of staying in uniform.
B I Ibk the great objective of
1mm spendings ate rfrsntsrt as
Hessary when
the hurried call-up — to put Rus-
sia on notice that we would de-
fend our commitments in Berlin
— has been accomplished. It
wasn't long after the call-up be-
gan that the tension to Berlin re-'
taxed
unnecessary when we are not act-
ually engaged IS a shooting war.
The Eisenhower administration
immediately increased military
and while it is always
Jack Cox Cites
Freedom's Needs
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possible to engage to s debate on
hew much is con# and bow
THE BILL COLLECTOR
Drew Pearson Says-
WASHINGTON—President Ken- made. However. K has had im- orbit around the moon for another
nedy is a man who believes to portant impact on our NATO ah two years,
using the telephone. Hi* aktes ' ^Th^nUed^ta has us^ However. VS scientists still
prtisa-civt insists a*
mous Harvard accent at the oth- more men. / ^ early as 1965. They hope to
ef end- „ Prime Minister Macmillan and do it by orbiting a space ship
Secretary of the Interior Stew- Chancellor Adenauer both know around the moon then detaching
art Udall answered the phone the what g means to pull men out of a small landing craft, with the
other day after having been business when there is no actual man to land on the moon. How
razzed in the press about wanting shooting. And having seen Ken- me man would get back from the
to get rid of some of the grotes-, n* dy do this, they have agreed to moon on to the mother ship in
% que statues that litter the scene in supply more troops to NATO. orbit remains the problem
* capital. ’ft)** calling-up of the U.S. re*
mairiJfth'^iomictn^c^rn serves was behind the Queens U.S. AMBASSADOR Frederick
on. making toe little mistakes, ill K.a,nt message to parliament Nolting has reported that the lat-
niake . the big wes^ Hanging the British call-up sys- est American'shipments to South
it was the president kidding his tem the Siatement by French De- Viet Nam, - sent to fight Commu-
5<^ve a/,L01o fense Minister Messmer calling msm, are piling up in ware-
. TfT morning before9. as- up more troops and the move by houses and are not reaching-toe
HStaw Secretary Mpnsf Minister Strauss to ex- troops that are fighting Commu-
^toctedim thetete- tend the ppnod of West German ymst gtiemllas. The ambassador
phone. It was toe president speak army service. ’ ✓ has urged President Diem to do
M v . something about it. , , . Adlai
„ mV?1,TTh OUR SPACE scientists who orig- Stevenson ought to take another
inally hoped to orbit the first look at M» proposal to let Egypt,
i™ American astronaut this week, Tunisia and Nigeria represent
ted gone over his newspaper tong m m workin franUcady to get the Middle East on the disarms-
Sf5L .talfT CMM Malign*. , , . «
syrtsjsssja . Rikla Vorco
thTmun within 60 days. Our sci- DIDl8 V6rS©
uiem longer man a year. admit orivatriv'that Rus-
The story obviously upset to# ^ thank, to?her big boosters,- LET LOVE be without dissimula-
^ probably will succeed in this spec- tion. Abhor that which is evil;
tacular space stunt. The United cleave to that which is good. Ro-
‘SSt^Mhe^MTiteXSve' ***** ^ * ab,e to mans 12:9
received 18,600 protests from’re- Mrs - ■ a v—* ^ ..........
ffiljf- jaautmmt iwm
Assistant Secretary Sylvester ...
told toe president that Secretary Published afternoons, Monday through Friday,
McNamara had made absolutely and gundays by The Baytown Sun, Ina,
that toe' reserves .....-. ■ -i;:-----XNtftt and Ashbel in Baytown. Texas.
Would be held longer than a year. Fred Hartman .......... Editor and Publisher
nor had he entertained any such Jim Boone ........... Business Manager ,
idea. ' Preston Pendergrass .......................... Managing Editor
“What basis could the Tribune Beulah Mae Jackson ............ Office Manager
have had for going out with a James H. Hale .................. Assistant to Publisher
story like this?’.' Kennedy asked. ; ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT
“Was there any paper around that Wad, ........................................... Manager
couid have given them such an Pau, putm;.......... Retail Manager
WWqkUIkua “ - Tntlrinw*r-
Latei*. in a press conference, toe Subscription Rates ■ .
jmUatt corrected toe mistaken----——-*-+ Carrier ILjg per Month $l7.4ff per Tear
report that toe reserves toight Mall rates oh reqtlMt ......— -------<-*
have to serve longer than a year; Entered as second elate matter at the Baytown, Texas, Post
and; at a subsequent press confer- office under the Act of Congress of March 3,1879. ..
ence, he expressed toe belief that ' ^ Represented Nationally By
they^could get off in lees than B - ^ Texas Newspaper Repnientatlves, Inc.
months. me;m®er of th* associated press i
The AooclAtid Pr»M I* entitled ocluslrtlj to the uae for retiubllctUon ot
c*uiHQ_TOE raere.to i«q a SZSi SST«"»SUSS
one Of toe most controversial ^ ai] other matter herein ere aleo reeerreA
moves President Kennedy has Member of Teaaa Dally Newspaper Asen. ana Tesae Frew asm.
spend on active duty.
York Herald
and Russia announced that
it didn't have to be Jan. 1, 1962.
after all, when toe Allies’ rights
to remain in East Berlin might
rtmSrnnmSSrWSTr
peace treaty,,with to Communist
government of East Germany.
This he had threatened to do by
Jan. 1.
Regardless of what President
Kennedy and his aides say. I be-
lieve there was some basis lot
newspaper reports that the Pen-
tagon had decided to extend the
time reservists would have to
The New
Tribune reported
in a story out of Washington that
Defense Secretary Robert McNa-
mara had deckled the time might
be kinder than a year.
This was denied by McNamara
and other Defense Department of-
ficials. and President Kennedy
noted in a recent news conference
that he was unhappy about the
pumiNieu it*poii.
Newspapers, those that enjoy
public confidence and respect, do .
not, as a usual thing, publish mis-
leading information. They know
public respect and confidence can-
not be gained, by printing misin-
formation or untruths, especially
when such misinformation or Un-
truth concerns a buildup of the
nation's military force* and there-
fore millions of people.
Regardless of whether it was
true ot false that the Pentagon
was considering holding the men
longer than a year, it quickly be-
came an irksome problem for high
government officials Irons the
President on down.1
Men taken from their homes .
dreary
atedi is too little, the Eisenhower
record dearly indicates that toe
military power of America has
been aufflctaot to deter toe Rus-
sians from netteasiy starting
World War JR No responsible Re-.
publicans of* my acquaintance .
have resisted appropriations for
defense purposes.
If toe militaiy and strategic
leaden ot this nation believe it is
necessary to spend $50-155 billion
a year in order to create the de-
fensive weapons sufficient to deter
the Russian threats. I assure you
the Republicans will support that
expenditure. But what we have
questioned and will continue to
question Is the expansion of other
federal spending in a future en-
largement of Big Brother activity
by the federal government.
It should be remembered that
ODESSA (AP) — Individuals
must assume their responsibilities
a« citizens if freedom is to be
preserved. Jack Cox said.
Cox, a candidUte for the Repub-
lican gubernatorial nomination.
Junior Chamber of
Coi
spoke at a
Commerce banquet honoring out-
of the Odessa
standing young men of the <
fundmSal ^W^^Goar tod -
that the constitution.^ form of
government is to serve the people.
This structure represents your
freedom and the American way
of life,” he said.
Cox said that toe greatness of
America does not lie in its natural
resources or the ancestry of its
peoples but in its belief in free-
am.-c
To preserve liberty. Cat said
citizens must know about their
country and believe in its heri-
tage. He urged individuals to par-
ticipate in politics at the precinct
level . .
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trick.
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to make aae of the queen «ff
hearts so as to develop two
heart triofes whew only on*
sently exiats. However, to do
this, wo have to lead s heart
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first for the play.
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■ Accordingly, at trick
lead tha five of spades to th*
nine. As It happen* Shot ham
and shipped off to some
military camp can’t be expected
to have high morale. It doesn't
make sense to e*
matter how many
too ac* wins It, sad return* *
diamond.
to expect that, no
many lectures about
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monds.
The beet way to approach the
‘of‘world Uw'il SSlra incite........
and had had plenty of time to put _ ,c0un]tin8 cash the queen of hearts, and
their lives back together. I I ” i .....
democracy being in peril or
how much flag waving is done.
The only thing these men can
think about is their families and
jobs. Many of them were just
getting started after Korea. Some
had been out of uniform Sytort,
. We take the king mu)
lead the six of spade* to th»
ten, noting with satisfaction
that both opponents follow suit,
| Now comes the low hearb
play from dummy. Luckily,
East has the king. He take* it,
cashes a diamond, and shifts to
8 dub.
This does not bother us,
since everything is now fulty
It was my experience in World
War n that morale was not much
of a problem in the youthful
army. Youngsters 17, 18, 19, 20
and 21, as a general rate, don’t
worry too much about leaving
home. In fact, some of them were
glad to get away.'
The morale problem affected
those of us long since out of the
teen and eariy 20 stages. We
didn’t like military life, although
we knew it was essential to the
we apply this rale to the pres-
ent deal, we see that there is a
TODAY'S GRAB BAG
By NAN JONES
Central Press Writer
THE ANSWER, QUICK! > FOLK OF FAME-OUESS THE NAMt
1. Who discovered Jupiter's
satellites?
2. If you ate gateaus would
you be eating cakes, birds or
stuffed piece* of rolled meat? •
8. In what two countries are
the Maritime Alps? ;
i. Is Neafehatel a kind of
wfn* bread or cheese?
5. Is the Bau haus a school, a
district or a bank?
2—Another man whose fame
hinges on a study of anatomy
IT'S BEEN SAW i
There are those who never
reason on what they should do,
but on what they have done; as
if reason had her eyes behind,
and oould only see backwards—
Henry Fielding.
is this English writer. He was
: 1677 and studied at Ox-
WATCH YOURIANOUAOE
ROTUND - (roe-TUND)
adjective; plump or rounded
out; full-toned. Origin: Latin—
rotundas, round.
' •
* YOUR FUTURE
Develop latent powers in the
coming year. Today's child will
HAPPY ^BIRTHDAY
To Walt Disney and to Vin-
cent Sheern, author. J
1—Founder of the science of
comparative anatomy was this
great French scientist. His an-
cestors were Huguenots, and at
first he studied for the ministry;
several years of tutorship con-
vinced him, however, that sci-
ence was his true field.
After appointment as assist-
ant professor at the Jardin des
Plantes he became permanent
secretary of the Academy of
Sciences, chancellor of the Uni-
versity of Paris and grand-
officer Of the region of Honor.
He was also a member of the
cabinet of Louis, XVm and min-
ister of the interior at the time
of his death in 1832. His “Ani-
mal Kingdom" is a classic. Who
wash*?
bom in
ford for the ministry. While
holding two church posts, he
continued to live in scholarly
retirement at Oxford.
He proclaimed himself a vic-
tim of melancholy, a malady he
cdncelved of as both physical
and mental; its cause, he said,
was Idleness, add to cure him-
self he busied himself by writ-
ing a book—called “The Anato-
my of Melancholy.” Terming
himself ‘Democritus, Jr." he
“turned my inside outward” in
the work, and depicted a mind
of his times with keen irony,
humor and philosophy. Who
Was he? *
(Names at bottom of column) ,
IT HAPPENED TODAY
On this date 180 years ago a
former U. 8. president took a
seat in the House of Represen-
tatives—John Quincy Adams.
......-r—j. '
HOW'D YOU MAKE OUT?
I. Galileo.
2.. Cakes.
3. France and Italy.
4. Cheese,
6. An architectural school. ,
A HOg
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nation’s security that we were
there and that we put everything
we had into getting the job done.
■ I had a morale problem the
entire time I spent in the army.
I never liked it from the find
day. I hate regimentation of any
kind and I resented taking orders
from people who didn’t know what
the score was. I would not teye
stayed in the army if they had
given me five stars, and I had a
lot of friends who felt the same
way. • .■ \ —
As soon as the war with Ger-
many ended, 1 began to do every-
thing I could to get a discharge.
At times I didn’t care whether it
was honorable or dishonorable. I
and many others felt we ted ac-
complished the job ye set out to
loser in each suit
The next thing to do, since
losing four trick* mean* down
me, Is to search for s way of
saving one of those tricks.
The first and most obvious
chance of gaining a trick is to
play the jack of . diamonds on
the opening lead, tine* there is
a good chance West led away
_ from the queen., - "
However, when we do this,
East produces the queen. We
win with the ace and tljen took
preserv-
three,
rid of 8
of heart*
'' tha
a heart
then lead the
ed two of spades to
This enables us to
club loser on the
and we wind up
contract, losing a
and a diamond.
The entire process require*
to* advance planning and 8
moderate amount of Kick. Tha
result was not guaranteed to ba
successful, since it depended on
how tha opponents’ cards were
divided, but at least we gave
ourselves the best chance to
make the contract.
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ful m
rt
box. 2
-KING FEATURE
ACROSS
do and we wanted to get back
I try to pick up the pic
ot our fives. We wanted i
home and t
cces
__________ no part of
the reserve business, We wanted
to be separated finally and for-
ever from the military service,
It made me mad when a char-
acter in a neatly-pressed uniform
on which battle stars were con-
spicuously absent insisted I should
in the reserves.
iM
mmsmm
mmm,
stay in the reserves.
“You stay in until they haul you
, off, Jack, if yoii like,” I told him,
“but this boy is going home to
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nhvsica!
iad been
m
When f entered the
they gave us a cursory
examination. If there had
anything wrong they; woflldnt
have found it, Tnere was a great
rash to get mm into uniform. I
guess they figured if a soldier had
a physical dfiabifity it would show
ip sooner or later.,
But it was a different stoty
when I was discharged (atVFort
Polk, La.). We spent about* four
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resistance
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wanted to make certain we
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Hartman, Fred. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 56, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 5, 1961, newspaper, December 5, 1961; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1057979/m1/4/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.