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Volume No. 2—Established June 25, 1948.
ODEM, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25, 1950.
10 PAGES — Number 33.
Governor Shivers Explains
Existing Situation Regarding
Eleemosynary Institutions
By ALLAN SHIVERS
Governor of Texas
Next Tuesday. January 31, the
Texas Legislature will meet in
special session to make appropri-
ations for our state hospitals.
The bill for food, clothing, med-
ical care and badly needed build-
ings and repairs will rim at
least $25,000,000 for the year be-
* ginning next September 1.
That is a lot of money —
especially when the State doesn’t
have it, as it does not at the
present time.
m- Letters coming to the Govern-
ors office from over the State
indicate that a good many citi-
zens do not fully understand the
present situation. The Governor
is often called upon to answer
such questions as these:
1. Why .is it necessary to
have a special session of the
Legislature?
2. Why wasn’t the state hospit-
al program properly financed at
the regular session a year ago?
3. Why do we say that the
State has no money for the
hospitals, when the Treasurer’s
Report shows we have around
$50,000,000 in the General Reve-
nue Fund and about $120,000,000
in )ther state funds?
4. What went with that $100,-
000,000 surplus we were supposed
to have had a year ago?
5. Why can’t the appropria-
tions for other things be reduced
so as to provide funds for the
eleemosynary institutions with
out raising taxes?
These are perfectly logical
questions, and th§y deserve logic-
al answers. To inform the people
about this problem, which is
theirs just as much as it is the
Legislature’s and the Governor’s,
I will try to set dowp the pertin-
ent facts of the situation.
To begin with, our State hospit-
+ als are badly run down. Little
has been done m a number of
years to improve, add to or even
maintain the buildings at Austin,
Abilene, Wichita Falls, Rusk,
Terrell, San Antonio and other
long-established hospitals for
<4nental cases and epileptics. The
tuberculosis hospitals at Tyler
and Mission are old army camps;
the Mexia hospital for seniles
and mentally deficient children
is a former German prisoner of
war camp.
Some places are worse than
others, but in general we find
the hospitals badly overcrowded
and many buildings unsafe. The
Governor
Polio Epidemic Over BUT Not lor Him!!
GOVERNOR ALLAN SHIVERS
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Edroy Times.
These features,, as most of you
already have discovered, are in-
tended to inform and entertain.
The Odem-Edroy Times believes,
they achieve that aim as well
or better than comparative mat-
erial in any of the large metro-
politan papers.
Take a lqok at the inside
pages of your newspaper now.
The Odem-Edroy Times is proud
to have you do so.
Board for State Hospitals and
Special Schools, which has
charge of these institutions, esti-
mates that it would take more
than $40,000,000 just to elimin-
ate the firetraps and add enough
buildings to care in an adequate
way for the unfortunate people
who are in these institutions to-
day. I have personally inspected
nearly all of these hospitals.
This is not a problem that de-
veloped overnight, but one that
has been building up over a long
period of years. The Legislature
tried in 1941 and again in 1943
to do something about he build-
ing needs. One appropriation
was vetoed by the then Gevernor;
then the war came along and the
building program was shelved
for the duration.
The late Governor Jester rec-
ognized the crying needs of the
state hospitals for more buildings,
more doctors, more nurses and
better facilities for treatment. He
advocated a laige appropriation
for buildings, as well as a larger
operating budget. The Legisla-
ture1 last year was sympathetic
with his ideas, but heavy appro-
priations for other purposes used
up most of the available reve-
nues. On top of that, a sharp
cut in Texas oil production caus-
ed an estimated $22,000,000 drop
in tax receipts.
Announcing he was not satis-
fied to see the job only halfway
done, Governor Jester vetoed
the state hospital appropriations
for the second year of the bienni-
um (the year September 1, 1950,
to August 31, 1951). At the
same time he promised he would
call the Legislature together in
January 1950 ,to provide for the
state hospial operaion and build-
ing needs.
A few days afer that promise
was made, Texans received the
shocking news that Governor
Jester was dead. His promise,
however, must be kept. Other-
wise, when another fiscal year
begins next September 1, there
will be no funds for food, cloth-
ing and care for the more than
23,000 people who are now in
our insane asylums, tuberculosis
hospitals, epileptic hospital and
the special schools for the blind,
deaf and otherwise physically
handicapped.
I think these facts will suffice
to answer the first two questions:
Why is a special session of the
Legislature necessary, and why
hasn’t the Legislature already
provided the necessary funds?
Actually, as has been shown,
these two questions are one and
the same. The thing that matters
most now is that the funds have
NOT been provided—and they
must be.
What happened to the State’s
money? In another article I
will attempt to answer that ques-
tion with official figures from
the State’s books. The people
of Texas certainly have a right
to know.
Report of San Patricio Soil Conservation
District Shows Much Progress During
Past Three Years; Future Looks Good
This district contains all the
land within the boundary of
San Patricio County, an area of
approximately 441,000 acres.
There are about 1,250 farm and
ranch units in the district with
approximately 250,000 acres in
cultivation.
The district began field op-
erations in March, 1947, when
the Soil Conservation Service
made available technical assist-
ance to the district with a work
unit at Sinton. Field work start-
ed immediately with groups of
farmers and ranchers. Since this
date a total of 20 conservation
groups have been assisted with
a total of 256 applications for as-
sistance from farmers within
these groups. Seven of these
groups came into being in 1949.
We are of the opinion that
farmers and ranchers are satis-
fied with the standards of work
followed by the district. This
is clearly shown by a review of
the following accomplishments
by landowners, and tenants
working with the district and re-
ceiving technical help on their
complete conservation plan.
Total acres planned for a com-
plete conservation program, 1949,
16,285; to date, 60,329. '
Number of farms planned,
1949, 73; to date, 206.
Acres cropland put on contour,
1949, 5,916; to date, 21,636.
Acres legumes grown for cov-
TO THE VOTERS
OF PRECINCT NO. 2
DEAR FRIENDS:
This is to announce my can-
didacy for re-election to a sec-
ond term as Justice of the
Peace.
When I announced two years
ago, I told you if elected I
would do all that I could to
help make Odem a better and
safer place in which to live.
I have done my best, and
again ask your vote and sup-*
port on the same basis.
R. T. (Bob) WHITTEN.
Mrs. Ward Moore and Mrs. J.
V. Montgomery and husbands
had as recent guests their moth-
er, Mrs. J. S. Jenkins of Bloom-
ington, and aunt and uncle, Mr.
and Mrs. J. It. Reed of San An-
/
tonio.
Odem Owls Beat
Orange Grove 98
To 8 Friday Night
The high scoring Odem Owls
beat the Orange Grove A team
98 to 8 Friday night, January 20,
in the Odem High School Gym.
This was an 86 B district game.
Individual score for the “A”
string boys of Odem were: Wil-
son Herndon, 24; Richard Perrin,
23; Raymond Rentz, 12; Eugene
Maxwell, 12; Jimmy Mayfield,
12, and Doyle Curtiss, 6. High
score man for Orange Grove was
Cornelius with 3 points."
In the “B” tilt the Odem Owls
won by a score of 49 to 13.
Wayne ‘‘Peewee” Stanley was
high point man for Odem with
22; Jimmy Mayfield was second
with 9 and Jimmy Lane had 7.
High point man for the visitors
was Fuhrken with 4.
Coach Roy E. Gregory states
that there will be a triple header
Friday night, January 27 when
the Odem Owls “A” and “B”
teams and the Orioles, girls’
teams, all play the Mathis teams
here in the Odem Gym.
The “B” game will begin at
6 p .m. Girls’ game will begin
at 7:00 and the “A” boys’ game
will begin at 8:00 p. m.
Owls Have Out-Of-Town
Games Scheduled With
Agua Dulce And Calallen
The Odem Owls will play two
games soon away from the Odem
Gym. The first will be with
Agua Dulce at Agua Dulce Janu-
ary 31, and the second with Cal-
allen at Calallen Feb. 3.
Basketball fans will enjoy the
games and also enjoy a trip
away from home if you attend
these games and >also give our
boys a boost by being present to
root for them.
er crops, 1949, 6,525; to date, 12,-
619.
Acres crop residue handled
Property, 1949, 7,197; to date,
32,650.
Acres range land improved
through range conservation,
1949, 1949, 470; to date, 3,526.
Acres pasture land improved,
1949, 470; to date, 3,526.
Acres seeding of4 permanent
grasses,- 1949, 248; to date, 580.
Number farm and ranch ponds
built, 1949, 3; to date, 4.
Miles terraces built, 1949, 49;
to date, 261.
Miles field diversions built,
1949, 1.16; to date, 1.2.
Acres properly drained, 1949,
280; to date, 340.
Acres wildlife areas improved,
1949, 78; to date, 78.
The Board of Supervisors en-
tered into the following activi-
ties during the past year:
1. Furnished fifty-two new
district cooperators with a year’s
subscription to the Soil Conser-
vation magazine. The funds for
this magazine were made avail-
able through donations by busi-
ness firms within the district.
2. Board received and mailed
out 1,000 copies of a pamphlet
giving facts on the district.
These pamphlets were donated
to the Board by a local business
man.
3. The Board sponsored Soil
and Soul Sunday in churches
in the district and also sponsored
the essay contest on soil conser-
vation on cooperation with the
Fort Worth Press Awards Pro-
gram .
4. Four field trips wefe made
within the district to observe
conservation on the land and one
trip was made outside- of the
district to observe grass plantings
at the Soil Conservation Service
Grass Nursery in San Antonio.
5. The Board received and
distributed 1,000 pounds of Tex-
as Wintergrass seed for trial
plantings in the district. This
seed was made available to us
by the Soil Conservation Service.
6. ^The late William Heuer-
man, Edroy, Texas, was nomi-
nated and received a plaque in
recognition of his interest as a
farmer in soil conservation and
the district program.
The Board has had excellent
cooperation from all agencies in
following district standards and
practices. Among these agencies
are the Soil Conservation Ser-
vice, Extension Service, and P.
M. A., as well as the Veterans’
Vocational Schools.
We believe tiiat the planting
of 6,525 acres of legumes on 206
farms prqves fhat this phase of
the district’s work made the
most progress during the year.
Hubam sweet clover and Dixie
Wonder peas have especially
showed an increase the past two
years. Guar, a summer legume,
was introduced into the district
for the first time with over 3,000
acres planted on a trial basis.
The Board feels that Guar
prove ditself to be a very satis-
factory summer legume for this
district.
Two difficult phases of the
district’s work to put' over with
the farmer are the planting and
proper handling of legumes and
the establishment of protected
terrace waterways for excess
terrace water when needed
ahead of terrace construction.
The educational work as car-
PENNYWEIGHT
Your Weight Will
Set Your March Of
Dimes Contribution
The March of Dimes cam-
paign is on now everywhere,
and Odem and Edroy are no
exceptions. Mrs. Mary Bog-
gus, local chairman, states that
the envelopes are being mailed
out this week here and that
the campaign will really get
underway Saturday when she
and committee appointed ‘ by
the president of the Odem Wo-
man’s Study Club will have a
set of scales on the street cor-
ner and ask everyone to con-
tribute a penny for every
pound of their weight.
Everyone is supposed to eat a
sack full of bananas just before
they come around the corner, of
course.
The committee from the Odem
Woman’s Study Club, who have
voted to get behind the drive
and help put it over, are Mrs.
J. S. Edgar, Mrs. Lynn Lowe and
Mrs. Boggus.
Mrs. Floyd Scull, chairman of
the' Edroy community, reports
that Edroy has already exceeded
its quota of $300.00. So far she
has not let us in on the secret
of HOW she accomplished this so
fast.
Odem’s quota of' $1,000,00 will
nothing like meet the amount of
what the Foundation has spent
every year for the past few years
on patients from here, so let’s
do our part and contribute lib-
erally.
Modern Building Being
Completed In Business
Section For Dr. Voss
Helen Hayes
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The Odem basketball fans re-
ceived more than one thrill
Tuesday night when they wit-
nessed a double header between
the Odem Owls both “A” and
‘‘B” teams and the Banquete
Bulldogs, and as a special treat
the Owl Band played several se-
lections under the direction of
Bandmaster Jack Hutgins, and
the pep squad was also on hand
to yell their support and approv-
al. This was a district 86 B
gamej but the unusual feature
of the occasion was that it was
free. The attendance was good.
The score for the “B” game
was 44 for the Owls and 31 for
the Bulldogs. High point man
for Odem was Jimmy Mayfield
with 18 points and Wayne Stan-
ley followed with 14. High point
man for the Bulldogs was Wil-
liams with 8" points.
In the “A” game the score was
63 for Odem and 20 for Ban-
quete. High point man for the
Owls was Richard Perrin with
33 and Wilson Herndon with 20.
High point man for the Bulldogs
was Hessong with 7.
Actress Helen Hayes, whose 19-
year-old daughter, Mary Mac-
Arthur, died of polio last Sep-
tember, has accepted the post of
national chairman of women’s
activities for the National Foun-
dation for Infantile Paralysis.
Miss K*yes will enlist the par-
ticipation of women volunteers in
the 1950 March of Dimes appeal
and in the year-round service pro-
gram of the National Foundation#
Odem Boys To
Orioles Participate
In Golden Girls
Tournament, Win
The Odem Orioles, ' girls’ bas-
ketball team, participated in the
Golden Girls Tournament at !Ben
Bolt last week, playing Pawnee
Friday, winning the game with
a score of 24 to 14. High point
player for the Orioles Friday
was Barbara Jean Stinnett.
Saturday they played their
second game, playing against the
Mathis girls who • won over the
Orioles by only one point. The
score was 24 to 23. High point
player for the Saturday game
was Betty Frances Lane.
The Orioles will meet the
Mathis girls here Friday night
when there will be three games
played in the Odem Gym. The
“B” string boys’ team will play
the Mathis “B” string beginning
at 6:00 p. m. The girls will play
at 7 and the ‘‘A” string boys
will play at 8:00.
C. T. Carpenter, advisor of the
local chapter of the F. F. A.
states that a number of his boys
will have entries in the San Pa-
tricio County Livestock Show to
be held in Sinton Jan. 30-31.
They are: . Darrell Whiteley,
one fat barlow class; Jimmy
Mayfield, one; Paul Botello, one;
Eugene Helm, one; Doyle Cur-
tiss ,one; Ted Sanchez, one, and
Lupe Santellana, one.
Gilts—Robert Compton, one;
Doyle Curtiss, two, and Eugene
Miller will have the only entry
from the Odem chapter in the
sow class.
Mr. Carpenter also states that
a local judging team will be se-
lected before the show to par-
ticipate in the judging to be held
Monday morning.
The sale of.„the entries will be
conducted Tuesday.
There will also be commercial
exhibits by the merchants of
Sinton. There will also be on
display work of the Future
Homemakers classes of the va-
rious schools in the county. The
Odem girls plan to be on the
job, but have not decided just
what they will have.
a Uncompleted
VFW Building
Being Finished
Work is well underway for
the completion of the concrete
block building on the Odem-
Sinton highway that Dr. A. H.
Voss recently purchased from
the local V. F. W; post.
The building was begun ap-
proximately two years ago by
the V. F. W. post here, but was
never completed because of the
lack of funds, and the unfinished
building was recently sold to Dr.
Voss, who is hay ift it completed.
It was originally planned for
a two-story structure, but will
be finished as a. one-story 44 by
90 feet building with a partition
down the center the long way.
It will be painted inside and out
and the ceiling finished with
Celotex and the roof will be a
builtup roof with tar paper and
gravel finish. The floors will be
concrete throughout.
It will have two doors in the
front on either side of the di-
vision wall, and will have a very
attractive front of glass tile and
plate glass. Concrete walks will
be built across the front of the
building.
The south half of the building
will be occupied by the offices
of Dr. Voss and the other half
will be rented to some business
concern.
J. L. Bounds is the contractor
in charge of the completion of
the building. H. V. Senden is
the plumbing contractor and A.
C. “Ted” Peeks is the electrician
in charge.
The building will be up-to-
date in every detail and will be
quite an addition to the busi-
ness district of the city.
Odem Members
Attend Meeting
Of Brotherhood
ODEM—Several members of
the Odem Baptist Church attend-
ed a joint business session of the
Sinton and Odem Brotherhood at
Sinton last • Thursday night to
hear the Rev. Vernie Pipes, pas-
tor of the Mathis Baptist Church,
.explain the procedure followed
by that church in successfully
financing the construction of a
new church building which was
recently completed at Mathis.
Those from Odem attending
the meeting were the pastor, the
Rev. O. R. Bowman, Bernard
Clark, Jim Bloomfield, E. H.
Green, Ray Childress, Crawford
Whetstone, Roy Whiteley, O. W.
Nolen, and W. L. Nolen of Lou-
ise, Texas, who was visiting his
brother.
Cub Scouts Meet,
Plan For Pack
Meeting, Banquet
The Cub Scouts met at the lo-
cal Methodist Church Wednes-
day afternoon cf last week with
Daniel Bartek opening the meet-
ing. Carey De Eads and Bently-
Baylor presented the flags and
the group gave che pledge of al-
legiance. James Williams, the
Cub song leader, led the group
in singing two songs.
The remainder of the meeting
was devoted to practicing of a
rope trick, painting of the plas-
ter candle sticks and other
preparations for the Pack meet
and Blue and Gold Banquet
when the Cubs will honor their
fathers.
The boys’ books were checked
for achievement awards.
Those present were: Daniel
Bartek, James Knight, Carey De
Eads, Bentley Baylor, John Lee
Brough, Richard Gale Smith, Al-
bert Day, James Williams, Rich-
ard Whatley, Ronnie Lane, John-
ny Huntsinger, Orville Maxwell,
Jr., Mike Parker, H. E. Raab,
Stanley Webb and the denners,
Ernest Williams and John Wal-
ker Ehlers, and the den mothers,
Mrs. J. E. Williams and Mrs.
Wilson Baylor.
Mr. And Mrs. J. J. Hall, Sr. Celebrate
Golden Wedding Anniversary With
Family Reunion At Home In Odem
Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Hall Sr.
celebrated their 50th or Golden
Wedding Anniversary this month
with a family reunion at their
home here. They are the. parents
of ten children, all of whom
were present for the occasion,
the first time all four sons and
daughter live in Odem. They
are George, John Jr., Don and
Verne and Mrs. George Raun.
Those coming from a distance
were Mrs. Edwiri Marshall from
Dale Indiana, Mr. and Mrs. F. C.
Eck and son Lowell J. from
Forrest Hall from Rosedale, Miss-
ouri, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Hall
and daughter Sharon from Aber-
deen, Washington and Lowell
N. Hall who is at present Marine
recruiting officer out of St. Louis,
Missouri. , ,
Even though the open house
that had been planned could hot
be held it was a memorable oc-
cassion for the family. Mr. and
Mrs. Hall received many cards of
rememberaftces from friends
from Odem friends and also
from friends and relatives away
from here, all of which
(Continued From Page 1) Hyannis, Nebraska, Mr. and Mrs. (deeply appreciated.
JOHN SAYS
In England, profits have
been taxed and attacked for
years or drained away from
business in so-called benefits,
instead of being left in the
business for re-investment.
The business earned the money
but couldn’t keep it for new
machines — the tax collector
got there first.
Result is that today English
business does not have the
machines to produce efficient-
ly enough to trade with the
world for England’s needs.
That’s why the English work-
ing man scarcely has enough
to eat—he may work hard, but
he hasn’t the modern machines
with which to produce a high
standard of living. He ate his
“cake” years ago in “benefits”;
he can’t have it today, too.
The same visious philosophy
is being preached in America
take the profits oaf business
and give them away. The
worst sufferer here, as in Eng-
land, would be the working
man. The only security for
your tomorrow’s standard of
living is profits today placed
back into business. You can’t
eat cake and have it, too, any
more than they found they
could in England.
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