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AMENDMENT NO. 15 would authorize the State t. ma.-el
of funds which have been obtained from private or I
sources, to private, non-sectarian associationsori
za tions to assist handicappea persons. I
AMENDMENT NO. 11 would authorize rhe issuance of i
tional $200,000,000 in Texas water development bt
conservation and further development ?f water rej
AMENDMENT NO. 14 would remove restriction
rights of members of the armed forces.
The end of rhe 89th Congress
will begin a time of appraisal
for the work of the legislative
branch in the last two years.
Whether it work was con-
structive or destructive will
be fiercely debated, especial-
ly in the days remaining be-
fore the congressional elec-
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AMENDMENT NO. 16 would write into the Constitution
inite date on which newly -elected members of the U
ture would qualify and take office.
AMENDMENT NO. 9 would establish
peals consisting of five member
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can’s cost of living.
In addition, 1 have advocat-
ed these measures as a pro-
gram to combat inflation:
1. Submission tu Congress
of a new fiscal 1967 budget
reflecting a urplus in do-
mestfc spending.
2. Financing costs of win-
ning the war through delay?
and reductions in planned do-
mestic spenlng.
3. Maintenance during times
AMENDMENT NO. 13 would authorize the Legislate I
vide for the consolidation of some function; fgJ
in any counties exceeding 1.2 million inhabits'- 1
such counties or any political subdivi lor.: '.ocredl
County tn rnnrrict for Hit jr i li jm.tTr—■ ; ’.’"f
functions.
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to get out
and order.
"While, of course, all of our crime is not
>ne cau.e, it can hardly be denied
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if we remain unimpressed
store boycotts that, somehow,
taking plan "spontaneously” in
part of the country, presumably to
lat the food retailer is a heartkss
nai ing outrageous profits on the stuff
AMENDMENT NO. 7 would repeal the poll taxa a
for voting in Texas but provide fur an annual regisq
voters.
tions.
Already various groups are
giving it marks of one sort or
another. The New Republic,
a liberal journal published in
the nation’s capital, says that
Congress deserves a 13 plus
mark for its efforts. A spokes-
man for The New York Times,
AMENDMENT NO, 6 would provide for paymen- ; J
by the State to the surviving spouse ar/ t.v .- ■
law enforcement officers, firemen r /.. J
of tlie Texas Department of Correcti. .., wt . ..i
deaths in the performance of duty
AMENDMENT NO. 8 would liberalize voter
sions to permit Texans to vote on State office- a<
tions as well as presidential and vice presidential
without having fulfilled the residence requirerr -
are fully qualified otherwise.
Sensing The News
By Thurman Sensing
'his can be found in some of the
have stemmed from the boycotts,
out a food retailer who cut the
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Reviewing the Past
A Interesting items taken from the files ol Th*
f of ;en. twenty, thirty, forty, fifty, and
and price
necessary.
5. Protection of the inde-
pendence of the Federal Re-
serve System.
6. Fighting of unemployment
through meaningful human-
renewal education and train-
ing rather than by unending
welfare handouts and federal
make-work projects.
7. Ending the international
balance of payments deficit
and the out-flow of American
gold.
8. Elimination of overlap-
ping, duplicating federalbu-
reaucracies.
9. Creation of a non-parti-
san, Congressional review
commission to revisegovern-
ment spending and organiza-
tion.
10. Restoration to the states
of tax bases necessary to sup-
port increased initiatives by
state and local governments.
of priorities, I liave support-
ed >ome spending unwisely
cut by the Administration from
programs of importance to
Texans or to prosecution of
the war--such as soil and
water conservation, education
a sistance, Vietnam G. I. Bill,
and the school milk program.
On balance, my votes would
have resulted in restoring
black ink to the non-defense
budget.
I will continue to press for
such spending cuts and delays,
h no <ense for the
federal government to punish
its citizens by increasing tax-
es which can only further in-
Organized Mass Disrespect
ments of some self-appointed leaders of mi-
nority groups "to obey the good laws, but to
violate the bad ones’* -- which, of course,
simply advocates violation of the laws they ao
not like, or, in other words, the taking of the
law into their own hand' . .
* The remedy is as plain as the threat. It is
simply to insist that our governments, state
and federal, reassume and discharge their
’first duty’ of protecting the people against
lawless invasions upon their persons and prop-
erty by the impartial and vigorous enforce-
ment of our criminal laws and by the swift,
certain, and substantial punishment thereunder
of all persons whose conduct violates those
laws -- and to do so immediately, and hope-
fully before planned and organized crime has
spread beyond the capacities of our peace-
keeping machinery to control and suppress...”
(Former Supreme Court Justice Charles E.
Whittaker in the FBI Law Enforcement Bulle-
tin.)
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AMENDMENT NO. 10 wtuld validate, withe .: further J
taxes or bonds previously voted in any independeJ
district or in any junior college dL trier where a J
boundaries has occurred.
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protest against the delivery of such war gear
as surface-to-air missiles and MIG planes,
plu.. technical experts to show rhe North Viet-
namese how to shoot our men out of the sKie
Goodness gracious, no! Instead, our talk has
been of easing trade relations, opening air
traffic between Moscow and New York, and of
welcoming top Communists to Washington for
tete-a-te’e talks.
In the light of the Washington end of the
dialogue Brezhnev’^ remarks on our Presi-
dent’s "strange and persistent delusion” ound
very much like an expression of contempt for
such American ’ mellowing.”
Whatever we Americans think of that war in
Viet Nam -- whether we should end it by
getting out of it. or end it by winning a deci-
sive victory there, none uf us can reiish being
held up to contempt by those shysters in the
Kremlin.
And we should certainly line to hear Presi-
dent Johnson say that -- and then some more.
Clearly Brezhnev hasn’t been impressed by
Washington’s - weet-talk. Nor has Ho Chi Minh.
Nor Mao Tse-tung. Who then has been im-
pressed?
ber stamp for the legislation
that Mr. Johnson has sought.
Only in the case of repeal of
section 14(b) of the Taft-Hart-
ley Act. which permits state
right to work laws, did the
Congress rebel against pres-
idential dictation. On almost
everything else, the 89thCon-
gress went along in an ultra -
liberal direction. Medicare
was enacted. So was the dras-
tic Civil Rights Act of 1964,
and other measures which un-
dermine the rights of rhe
states and the self-reliance of
the American people
The Civil Rights Act of
1964 was the most radical
legislation enacted by the Con-
gress. It has done more to
weaker rhe fabric of American
constitutional government
than any other piece ot legis-
lation in years. What the Act
does is give federal officials
unprecedented power to pres-
sure and to harass public
school officials, school trus-
tees. and hospital admirals-
trators. The freedom oi’doc-
tors and hospital administra-
tors to make orderly, efficient
of high-level prosperity of a
significant surplus in the fed-
eral budget. helping reduce
pressures of the national debt.
4. Pursuit of fiscal policies
making arbitray federal wage
and nr’’guidelines un-
Seldom in our history has
inflation hit Americans so
hard. Our dollar is worthless
than ever before. Costs of liv-
ing are higher than ever. In-
terest rates continue to spiral
upward and "tight money"
plague- our economy.
Massive, unwise deficit
spending by the federal gov •
ernment is the cause of this
inflation. An unrealistic fed-
eral budget compounds the
trouble.
Much of the spending pro-
posed for this year was for
unnecessary foreign aid and
for new, unprovendomeStic
schemes which would better be
rystrirtpfi tn planning lauaic. —
until inflation is under control.
If we would hold current do-
mesti spending* at present
levels and not initiate new
Spending, the expanding econ-
omy soon would produce
enough revenues to balance the
domestic budget.
So far this session of Con-
gress 1 have voted tocutcome
$3.8 Billion on unnecessary
spending. I'll upport other
cuts this month. As a matter
arrangements for patients has
been threatened by federal
inspectors who put political
requirements ahead of the
needs of the sick.
Nowhere is the impact of the
Civil Rights Act felt more
strongly than in public educa-
tion. In recent months, school
boards have been reporting
the ugly pressures exerted a-
gainst them by the office of
the U. S. Commissioner of
Education, Harold Howe. They
ha 'e had orders given to them
over the telephone so that no
record of the federal ruth-
lessness would be left toprove
embarrascing to the Johnson
administration.
It is very clear that the re-
sult of this enactment by the
89th Congress is developing a
federal ministry of education
such as exists in totalitarian
countries. Local control of the
education of young people soon
may be a thing of the past
unless the composition of Con-
gress is dunged markedly
after the new year. The next
step for the federal govern-
ment, one can be sure, is
These possible changes in the Constitution needanedi
the attention of every qualified voter in Texas. Encourii
friends and acquaintances to vote on these propositi^ M
ber 8. 1966.
Saturday Is Poppy Di
TWENTY YEARS AGO
Alvin’s need for a swimming
pool Is being presented to
various local groups by Dale
Bates, city councilman and
member ofacommitteere-
cently appointed by the Lions
Club.
G. M. Gustafson was elected
to the city council as a re-
sult of a write-in campaign
in the citywide election held
last Thursday. S. O: Smith
and W. C. Bracken, whose
names appeared on the bal-
lot. lost in a campaign which
had drawn considerable in-
terest.
Everett McCracken has re-
signed as director of the Al-
repair the damage done to
the Constitution and to call
the bureaucrats to account,
as well as to cut the appall-
ing waste. Only by reinforc-
ing the opposition m the Con-
gress November 8 can the
American people end the havoc
caused by virtual one-party
rule in Washington.
AMENDMENT NO. 12 would provide the method and|
for dissolution of hospital districts.
AMENDMENT NO. 5 would give the Legislature ai
establish a statewide system of renremer.;,
death benefits for all officials and employees
ie State c
another liberal
voice -- gives it an even
higher grade, saying that the
Congress has initiated more
liberal legislation than any
since the first Roosevelt Con-
gress ihe weight of evidence
that tl
cay appeared in
of its law
death benefits for all officials and
and other political ubdivision of the
"Whc's winning* Clay or
Patterson?"
AMENDMENT NO. 2 would permit the Legisiat
for the creation of airport authorities, comt-
more counties. The airport authority would h
to levy a tax oi up to 75 cents on $100 va|uar
AMENDMENT NO. 4 would permit the Legislature
term of office of directors of conservau » -
districts from the present two-year term up •/<
Yer, in
seen an
A. E. ”Gene” Bowen...........................Editor and Publisher
Adelaide Jacob ................... Special Staff Correspondent
Anna Kettler .......... Society and Club Editor
A. G. Dunn ..................Display Advertising and Circulation
Benton B. Brown ...........................Classified Advertising
price of milk to 18 cents a gallon after house-
wives boycotted his store This happen.' to be
only a fraction of what the dairyman gets for
milk, so it will be interesting to see how long
that price cut last . Indeed, it is of a piece with
those widely publicized holiday sale in bir
< itie&, where the first customer to crash
through a plate glass door is allowed to buy a
mink coat or a color TV set for $1.98.
Our suggestion is that the demonstrators,
led by Mrs. Peterson, ought to take their ban-
ners, picket-boards and TV crews to Washing-
ton and do their stuff in front of the Capitol
and around 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. That, as
they say, is where the action is.
And on the subject of demonstrations, like
most people we’ve had just about enough. We
don’t think that prices or policies should be
dictated by unruly mobs. This i not democ-
racy, but moborracy, and utterly foreigntothe
American way of life. In fact, we uspe< t that
the kind of demonstration' we’ve been seeing
lately are similar in origin to that other man-
ifestation of liberal thinking, the sitdown strike,
which was tested extensively verseas before
it was introduced here to become a crippling
strike weapon.
Some import are beneficial to thiscountry,
but imports of this sort we can do without.
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AMENDMENT No. 3 would prevent Arfir.r ...1
from participating in the Permanent Univer r/p
amendment is a technical one in that it would um J
ton State College from receiving funds ?r -t !u,
tional funds ... the only State college so hv d J
ment.
The occasion for this
viet get -together in
Chairman Brezhnev
Johnson was under a
delusion” about the possibility of friendly
Russo-American relations while the United
State1 < ontinue t 'make war uponHoChiMinh
and his regime in Viet Nam.
Ihe question implied, but not actually ask-
ed. w.i why President Johnson could not rea-
lize that thi oviet Union was actually a party
to the trugglu in Viet Nam <•< an active and
deeply . otnmitted material and moral support-
er t Ho Chi Minh’' war of liberation, so-
called
'vhi’.c P.-, idriit Johnson’s recent and re-
peated friendly gesture, were not specifically
cited by Brezhnev, hi insulting remark about
L. B. J.’s delusion was clearly enough an
official rebuff. What Brezhnev does not have to
coinplain about is any harsh American protest
against the Soviet Russian contributions to the
Ho Chi Minh operation against us. So far as we
know, there h.> been no official American
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Everyone in Alvin will be asked to wear a Memorial!
in honor of the nation’s war dead on Poppy Day, to be 4
here on November 5, Mrs. Don Baker, chairman .f a -
Committee of Alvin Unit of the American Legi " -*1
has announced. I
Plans lor distribution of the little red flowers
brance throughout the city have been completed by Mr I
and her committee. A large corps of volunteer w.r-ej
been enrolled and assigned to station- for the da 1
have been received from Kerrville, where they were
disabled war veterans. !
’ The Auxiliary’s Poppy Day workers will be .-J
knowledge that they are bringing Memorial Poppi*'-- n
of the city as their only recompense ” said Mr •
will be giving hours of their timeanddoing bar-- ‘ra' ;
work. I hope they will be met with smiles and "i—
citizens of Alvin eager to wear Poppies in honor
died defending America.” ____
'a,bat iiijku us wonder is that in the center
of many i these demons'rations, we keep
t cmg. well within TV camera range, a little
lady named Peterson wh< cems to be the
Vcict. of the Administration. Anyway she
>pcaks (and speaks) but so far we’ve heard her
say net one w.-rd about the real reasons for
t day* high food prices.
Reduced to the simplest terms, the reason is
infl.vi.»n. *nd 'hat inflation is largely due to
policie set in motion and accelerated by the
admitii tration in fxiwer. That administration
put Mr.. Peterson on its payroll.
. in why scapegoats are needed, with
i. coming up. A lot of angry house
a t might pull the wrong levers. So
pontane ui ” itoredemonstratiomart
and simple
Southern States Industrial Council seems to be <w the :
The New York Times, namely
that the 89th Congress lias
been a truly radical Congress. -
For constitutionalists, the
record of the 89th Congress
is truly distressing During
the Kennedy years, the United
States moved down the left
side of the road at a brisk
pace. But there has been a
tremendous acceleration in a
leftward direction during the
period of the Johnson admin-
istration.
Indeed the 89th Congress
should be called the Johnson
Congress. It has been a rub-
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The Kremlin’s Contempt
Leonid Brezhnev, supreme boss of the So-
viet Union’s dictatorship, thinks that President
Lyndon B. Johnson is a simpleton, and says so.
was a recent Polish-So-
the Kremlin, and what
said was that President
“strange and persistent
“Ca.. any thoughtful person reasonably be-
lieve that a disorderly society can survive?
In .di recorded history, none ever has. On the
contrary, history :h w hat every society
whi.-h became lawless soon succumbed, and
fir t evidences of each society’s de-
of disobedience
v and the judgments of its courts,
are ancient and universal lessons.
•ecent times, all of us have daily
heard an ever-increasing number of
aci junts that show, with unmistakable clarity,
the rapid pread of a planned course of law •
i i nr land that threatens seriously
of hand and, hence, to destroy law
control over the books and
courses prescribed fcr stu-
dents.
The 89th C o . _1__
should be remembered for the
vast sums •• provided to the
wasteful anti-poverty pro-
gram. The program was en-
acted without appropriate con-
trols. The result is that ex-
convicts and other undesir-
ables have been employed in
the federal anti-poverty pro-
gram. In a number ofcommu-
nities, public funds have been
spent without anv acrnM»»tL’;g
The War on Poverty seems to
be exempt from rules and
regulations that apply toother
departments.
The 89th Congress failed
the nation in refusing to take
effective action tn the air
line union strike and in the
New York transit strike. It
lacked the courage io write
effective anti-inflation legis-
lation or to cut back on the
federal spending that fires
inflation.
The need, ft is clear, is a
Congress that has a large body
of members determined to
16 Amendments to Texas Constii
- to be voted on Hi
\MENDMENT NO. 1 would exempt farmersand - J
paying full taxes on land so long as ’h<*y
raiding livestock or growing crops. Ihc J/ .,
ural persons, would be assessed and taxed n?
relative to agricultural use rather than
vin High School Band fl
C. King of Houston hafl
elected to succeed hint |
Two brothers. SgtJj
R Villanueva of th* A1
Transport Command, afl
Joe Villaneuva of the UtB
borne Division rer*«lyj
the At sugiAirdrotWfl
shu. Japan. I
Mrs. Layman Hunt
by plane Tuesday ’’’1
from Washington. D cj
a visit here with her
Mr and Mrs. A. J.
j>gt. Newt AleJU^J
rived in A Ivin Sunday **•*!
ceiving
charge from the army
Hood, where he ha>
tioned after retur.^ •]
months m the
Postmaster B. J
announced that the de
m,U In Alvin
taaiweratlng » reB“J
delivery servfc*
per cent of the
don of the city r«“'^
service, end 60 P»°*’
busioeis district.
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due to any
that a large part of our current rashand rapid
i read / lawlessnes has derived from plan-
ned and rganized ma - disrespect for, and
defiance . f. the law and the court', induced by
the irrespiti Ible and inflammatory preach-
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