The Wortham Journal (Wortham, Tex.), Vol. 60, No. 4, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 29, 1958 Page: 4 of 4
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assured of viforous (apportion
from the liberal Democrats of
Texas led by Mrs. Frankie Ran-
dolph of Houston, Texas’ national
committeewoman.
DOT will have a statewide rally
in Austin May 31 to draw atten-
tion to its efforts to out the gov-
ernor from official party leader-
ship.
For the average citizen the pre-
cinct convention poses a more
ticklish problem than primary
voting. It may mean voting,
publicly, against a neighbor who’s
running for precinct chairman.
'Wars’ Watched
Atty. Gen Will Wilson says his
office is keeping close check on
the gasoline and m.lk price wars
that have broken out in major
cities.
In some areas gasoline prices
dropped as much as 10 cents per
tion has appraised the extremely
critical situation which inervl-
tably will confront the cotton
industry if action is not taken
by the present Congress to meet
this crisis. Without adequate leg-
islation this year, cotton faces
further major declines in its mar-
kets and a resurgence of its com-
petitors, both in this country and
abroad—developments that un-
questionably will mean drastic
and permanent losses to the U. S.
cotton industry.
Petroleum Imports into the United
States last year aggregated just
over gift billions, for example, and
coffee, the No. 2 import item, came
close to gl.4 billions.
As against this, expenditures by
Americans outside the country in
1957 were almost $1.4 billions, and
an additional quarter billion dollars
were paid to foreign carriers for
transportation, bringing the foreign
share of American travel expendi-
tures to more than $1.6 billions.
U.S. shipping companies and air-
lines benefited also, receiving over
$300 'millions in fares.
| TNCLE SAM has been lending a
helping hand to many parts of
the world for some time now with,
of course, the average American
helping to foot the bill
Now the world is beginning to
share even greater benefits in the
form of American dollars being
spent in a big travel boom.
Expenditures by Americans on
foreign travel are fast becoming a
significant economic force on the
international scene. How big is this
flow of dollars? Figures compiled
by the U.S. Department of Com-
merce estimate that foreign travel
by Americans Is on the verge of
becoming a $2 billion dollar busi-
ness. Expenditures in 1957 were
over $1.9 billions and a further rise
is expected this year despite un-
settled economic conditions.
By cent rest, expenditures by
Americana for foreign travel
were little mere than a billion
dollars ns recently as 1959, or
about half the current annual to-
tal. Foreign travel Is cue of the
American expenditures that has
shewn an exceptionally large ex-
pansion over recent years, with
the peroentage rise substantially
ercsodlng the growth In personal
income In the period.
From the point of view of the
international flow of funds and re-
lationship to world trade, expendi-
tures by Americans on foreign trav-
el have been providing the world
with more dollars than any single
iteaa imported into this country.
Mr. and Mrs. Reginald Wood-
ruff of Dalles visited her father,
J. C. Calame, over the week end.
Greenland's Icecap, a great flat
dome crevassed on the edges,
covers 700,000 square miles. In
some places the ice Is more *■»
10,000 feet thick
Renew subscriptions nromptly
JOURNAL WANT ADS
two toadies beaedclartos of
Amartoaa oxp—dlhwss abroad,
their share ef theee outlays add-
ing up to almost 49 par oaut ef
the total. Expenditures by UJ5.
travelers tat Canada emanated te
$349 mill!—a to 1997, and to Ven-
ice W jut under $$99 mllUens.
About a half bllUea dollars to
spent ip countries In Western
Europe, with Italy, France and
the United Kingdom to the toad.
This country likewise benefits
from expenditures by foreign visi-
tors to these shores. Such spending
in the United States, including
fares paid by foreigners to United
States carriers, came to almost
$800 millions in 1950, a larger
amount than this country received
in that year from such major ex-
ports as cotton or electrical ma-
chinery and apparatus.
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SiT ATE CAPITAL
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WL " Sidelights
FOR SALE: Large colored school-
house building with or with-
out contents. Bids will be ac-
cepted until June 5th, 1958, by
Wortham School Board. The
Board reserves the right to re-
ject any and all bids. 10%
must accompany bid. Mail to
James Goolsby, president, Wor-
tham School Board.
FOR SALE — Registered Cur-
ley English Shepherd puppies.
Natural heelers. H. J. Cannon.
Jr., Fairfield, Texas.
FOR SALE: 26 acres of land
joining city limits of Wortham.
Contact J. V. Lee.
Sec’y. of State Zollie i >>?kley,
Treasurer Jesse James, Comptrol-
ler Robert S. Calvert, Auditor
C. H. Cavness, Budget otricer
Jess Irwin and Col. J. T. Ellis,
Jr. of the governor’s administra-
tive _Ls.fr.
They are expected to work co-
operatively with the State Tax
Study Commission, a group of
legislators and outside experts
who have been surveying the
state’s fiscal position for some
months.
Under the present spending
pattern, it is estimated the next
legislature would have to scratch
up upwards of $100,000,090 in
wew revenue to balance- the
books.
As in a family that comes up
short at the end of the month,
the state's advisors, both official
and unofficial, are divided be-
tween those advocating getting
more money and those favoring
less spending.
Governor Daniel urged his exe-
cutives to try both angles. Speci-
fically, he suggested exploring:
1. Every possible economy in
use of state funds.
2. Possible elimination or com-
bination of duplicating services
among state agencies.
" 3. Compilation of a list of ad-
ditional state revenues which
AUSTIN.—A fresh task force is
being organized by Gov. Price
Daniel to attack the state’s mone-
tary problems.
With oil production still nover;-
tng at a historic low and a prime
aoorce of state revenue partially
throttled, Texss government is,
for the time being, at. least, “liv-
ing beyond its means.”
Governor Daniel named a six-
mo committee of executive de-
partment officials to study ways
of bridging the gap between in-
come and outgo. Members are
FOR SALE: 81 Vi acres for quick
sale nine miles southwest of
Mexia. Will also sell cattle,
hogs and all farm equipment.
Charles Ward, Real Estate
BUY — aciLc — rRADt
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JOURNAL WANT ADS
CHOICE URGED FOR COTTON FARMERS
BETWEEN MORE ACREAGE, LOWER PRICES
• BUSINESS DIRECTORY •
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AMBULANCE SERVICE
DAY AND NIGHT
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AGENCY
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HAROLD WALKER. Owner
Insurance Payable
Walker Furniture Co.
of Directors of the National Cot-
ton Council.
In releasing the report, Board
Chairman George G. Chance of
Bryan, Texas, pointed out that if
legislation is not passed the in-
dustry faces a cut of more than
20 per cent in acreage allotted for
cotton in 1959—from 17.5 million
at present to 14 million.
The Board urged adoption of a
“choice plan’’ as a “traditional
program pointed toward a com-
petitive, one-price system, cou-
pled with a permanent program
under which the price would be
at or more to a competitive level
as soon as possible.”
"It should avoid problems in-
into account,” the report added.
All elements at {he industry
were urged to unite in working
with the legislative and execu-
tive branches of the' government
in the enactment of the necessary
legislation immediately. The re-
port also urged two other steps:
(1) “In '’etermining marketing
quotas and acreage allotments,
provision should be made for
adequate supplies of cotton both
in the U. S. and abroad, with due
allowance for the quality require-
ments of the market and fer the
large margin of error which is in-
herent in forecasting production,
consumption and exports a year
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (Spl.j—A
program for cotton that would
give individual farmers a choice
between higher acres and a lower
price or lower acreage and a
higher price was advocated in a
report to the cotton industry. The
report was issued by the Board
POLITICAL
ANNOUNCEMENTS
The announcements of the fol-
lowing candidacies for office in
Freestone County have been au-
thorized subject to the action of
the Democratic primaries:
Electric Floor
Polisher lor Boot
HUGH D. REED
-a -tjli Ww ■*•'“>**
Attomey-ot-Low
For Stale Senator. 11th Dtotriofc
WILLIAM T. MOORE
of Brazos County
(Re-election)
BOWLEN BOND
of Freestone County
For Stale RsptesealsHvo.
43rd Distrlcti.
LLOYD C. MARTI:;
JACK C. 3RYAN
of Leon County
W. A. KEILS, JR.
For County Sahool
business in Texas. If any ques-
tionable transations are uncov-
ered, the company is required to
straighten them out before being
re-licensed.
During the past year, a period
of tightened regulation, there has
been no large-scale crack-up in
the industry. Many younger
companies have merged to
strengthen their positions by com-
bining assets.
Gun Selling Law
Whether Texas law regulating
sale of pistols is constitutional is
being considered by the Court of
Criminal Appeals.
Case in point involves a Hous-
tonite who was sentenced for
sale of a pistol to a minor. At-
torney for the defendant con-
tends the law is too vague and
confusing to be valid.
Texas penal code has two sep-
arate and sometimes conflicting
sections on sale of firearms, for-
bidding their sale to minors, per-
sons “under heat of passion” and
persons convicted of felonies.
Short Snorts
Texas Employment Commis-
sion has announced the first sub-
stantial drop in unemployment
claims this year. After weeks of
tabulating steady increases in
joblessness, TEC reports claims
had slid from 90,913 to 88,528.
Total benefits paid dropped $143,
07® for the week. . . Accompany-
ing this good news, TEC an-
nounced 1,127 new jobs created
in the state by the opening of
new businesses, Largest was a
Fairfield, Tasas
Walker Furniture
Company
SUN. A MON.. JUNE 1-t
• Double Feature 0
FAN HEFLIN in
Count Three and Prey
In Technicolor
— Plus Second Feature —
SAFARI
In Technicolor
with
VICTOR MATURE
JANET LEIGH
REAL ESTATE
Mmmm RO 5-3235
WORTHAM
Properly ier Sale h WHAe
Superintendent:
TILDEN R. CHILDS
For State Board of Edu
Sixth Educational Dis
MRS. WHjfe MILLER
ad Navafpo County
jack r. Dawkins
of Limiftoste Count
COME TO THE
Wortham Journal
. rod ALL YOUR
* jPRnrrmc needs
or more ahead. Provision also
should be made for increasing es-
tablished allotments by adminis-
trative action in the event a
quality shortage should develop
after an allotment has been an-
nounced.
(2) “Farmers should be per-
mitted, under reasonable regu-
lations, to transfer allotments
within a county or state under a
rental or purchase agreement.”
The Board in its report pointed
out that the delegate membership
of the Council in January urged
an “immediate increase in cot-
ton acreage in 1908 suffiieent to
produce adequate supplies at aB
qualities of U. S. cotton needed
to meet the requinaents at oqr
customers both
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la Technicolor
with
JOSE FERRER
TREVOR HOWARD
— Pfaw Second Feature —
Three Hours to Kill
In Technicolor
vUfr RORY CALHOUN
SIMMONS
fa Wortham
R. W. W
(Re-Eli
Judge:
WILLIAM FRYER
(ROLL. JR.
at homo
abroad.”
The delegates had railed
adoption of s long-range p
and production program
would move at rapMly as ;
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FRESH FRYERS
SUNSET TUNA
MRS. TUCKER'S
SHORTENING
DEL MONTE SEASONED
GREEN STRING BEANS
NIBLETS MEXICORN
KIMB ELL'S SMALL GREEN
LIMA BEANS
GRIFFIN'S CREAM STYLE GOLDEN
SWEET CORN
WEKBA MISSION SLICED YELLOW
PEACHES | lb., 1
WHITE SWAN
APPLE SAUCE 1 lb.,
CARROTS 2 b<
LEMONS
DIXIE ICE CREAM
FROZEN LEMONADE
JOE W.
sible toward: (1) expanded pi
duction and consumption of U.
cotton; (3) competitive prices I
U. S. cotton: and (3) a one-ne
system for U. 8. cotton that nut
mizes the use of normal tn
channels and minimises tha 8
of government in cotton tnsrtt
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Simmons, Mildred. The Wortham Journal (Wortham, Tex.), Vol. 60, No. 4, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 29, 1958, newspaper, May 29, 1958; Wortham, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1111159/m1/4/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Fairfield Library.