The Fairfield Recorder (Fairfield, Tex.), Vol. 83, No. 3, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 2, 1958 Page: 3 of 10
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THB FAIRFIELD RECORDER, FAIRFIELD, FREESTONE COUNTY, TEXAS, THCRHD. Y, (MT 2, 1958—PAGE THREE
AUSTIN.—Through the sum-
mer campaigns “economy in
government” were words that
rustled about as harmlessly as
an evening breeze.
But with the approach of
winter and down-to-the-lick-log
budget-making time, the same
words have the cutting edge of
a blue norther.
Gov. Price Daniel stuck a pin
in any last rosy hopes that
“things might not be too bad.”
He sent back the money re-
quests made by heads of state
departments for 1960-61, saying
they were “wholly unrealistic.”
Governor Daniel had been the
last major hold-out against pre-
dictions of a major money crisis.
Other state officials had been
crying doom and foreseeing a
shortage of up to $140,000,000
for months.
Governor Daniel took note of
these predictions in asking de-
partment heads to re-examine
their budgets, eliminating any
non-essential items. A deadline
of Oct. 8 was set for the new
requests.
As originally submitted, the
requests would require a $2772,-
000,000 increase in spending.
“I think and hope this de-
cline in state revenues is a
temporary condition," said the
governor, “but a realistic ap-
proach . . . requires that 1960-61
requests should not exceed the
1958-59 level unless absolutely
essential.’ '
DEFICIT SOON—A further
glum note was the state comp-
troller’s forecast that the gen-
eral revenue fund would run
dry in October.
And it probably won’t be a
temporary thing, according to
Comptroller Robert S. Calvert.
Almost every spring the state
has a seasonal shortage just be-
fore tile April deadline for
franchise tax paying.
Calvert said this deficit, may
continue until September, 1850
and bring a return of some of
the squeezes of the 1930’s. Dur-
ing those years state employees
had to pay a discount of from
one to five percent to cash their
pay checks since the banks that
cashed them had to hold them
for some time waiting for the
state to get the money to make
them good.
Calvert said the general reve-
nue fund began the new state
fiscal year in September with a
$13,000,000 balance. This is not
a very big kitty for the govern-
ment’s billion-dollar-a - year
operation.
HARD DECISION—Education
Commissioner J. Edgar is the
man in the middle on the con-
troversy over accepting federal
aid for Texas schools.
Dr. Edgar has until the end
of this week to decide whether
to recommend to the State
Board of Education that Texas
participate in a new federal
school aid plan. This program,
prompted by national defense
concerns, is designed to help
step up training of mathe-
maticians, scientists and teach-
ers.
Edgar’s decision must be
made in the light of the recent
recommendation by the Hale-
Aikin Committee, a group of in-
fluential citizens and lawmak-
ers, that the state stop taking
some federal funds it is already
getting—for school lunches and
vocational training.
On the other hand, Sen. Ralph
Yarborough, a Congressional
sponsor of the new aid plan, is
strongly urging that Texas take
advantage of it. Others who
agree declare that to stay out
would mean Texas schools ed”—a quick, sharp rise, just
would lose millions—some of! “a gap between rising trends.”
it paid in by Texas taxpayers, j STATE SUES OIL COMPAN-
OENTLE REMINDER—Uncle) IES—Atty. Gen. Will Wilson
Sam still wants you—to regis-ihas filed anti-trust suits against
terter, at least. j three oil companies engaged in
This reminder comes
State Selective Service ____
quarters which says many' Standard of Texas, the Texas or]_ H*Sber
young men, usually through' Company and El Paso Natural
misunderstanding, are failing to I Gas Products Co. are charged
register cn time. jwith illegally agreeing to fix!
All males must register on j prices. Wilt.cn said a court of in-1
their eighteenth birthdays—or quiry confirmed reports that
within five days afterwards—(gasoline prices were artificially)
even if they’re in National high in El Paso. He said major
Gen. Mgr. O. B. Ellis in his elec- terrific for the type men needed pages over the state as of Sept,
tlon to the presidency of the Na- . . . Not since 1889 have there 1 Most of the strikes involved
tional Congress of Corrections, been so many cotton rats and construction work
SHORT SNORTS—Two good- mice loose in Texas, says the -o
paying state jobs are standing State Health Department
vacant. They are for an $11,500 What’s worse, the upcoming
from!re^n‘n8 an<l selling gasoline to'Pr°8ram examiner and a $10,000 cold weather may cause many
Head- i reUd'ers in the El Paso area. | finance examiner for the Com to enter homes in search of food
Education. .
. Texas Employment Com
But the Commission director j mission reports that 8,817 Tex-
says the salaries are less than ans were involved in work stop-
Economically, the coconut
palm Is one of the most im-
portant trees in the world.
It is estimated that the U. S.
population annually consumes
12 pounds of coffee pet capita.
Macie’s Beauty Shop
Phene 2261
Guard or have already been In
service.
Texas draft quota for Novem-
ber will be 556 men, according
to the state director, Col. Morris
S. Schwartz.
ADEVRTISING “MAJOR
STEP"—Proposal to use tax
money to advertise Texas got a
boost from one of the state’s
best-known economists, the di-
rector of the University Bureau
of Business Research.
Dr. John R. Stockton called
the advertising plan a “major
step in a program to promote
the continued growth of the
state.” Continued industrial ex-
pansion is essential, said Dr.
Stockton, since Texas no longer
enjoys its position of world
leadership in oil production.
Of the recent recession, the
brands had been selling for 34
cents a gallon in El Paso com-
pared to 21 cents for the same
product in Juarez, across the
Border.
PRISON SYSTEM PRAISED
—Texas Department of Correc-
tions has been getting applause
from all sides.
State Auditor C. H. Cavness,
whose official repeats frequent-
ly jab at flaws in slate agencies,
acclaimed the system for having
progressed from “one of the
worst in the nation to its pre-
sent and recognized position as
one of the nation’s best.” He
paid tribute to the general man-
ager and board for naving
achieved this without “an ap-
preciable increase in the cost
per Inmate per day.”
Also, Governor Daniel took
BBR director called it “V-shap-1 note of the recognition paid
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Kirgan, Joe Lee. The Fairfield Recorder (Fairfield, Tex.), Vol. 83, No. 3, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 2, 1958, newspaper, October 2, 1958; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1107158/m1/3/?rotate=270: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Fairfield Library.