The Bowie News (Bowie, Tex.), Vol. 42, No. 36, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 5, 1963 Page: 8 of 14
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FROM OUR FILES
who founded t\e Bowie Golf and Country
Club.
9 Chamber funds were used to help
collect funds for a new rural fire-fighting
truck.
10. An industrial brochure was printed
and is available to send to companies In-
terested in locating here. . ..
11. Chamber backing is boosting a
Bowie Day at the Texas State Fair on
October 18 in Dallhs.
These are the more noteworthy ac-
complishments of the Chamber of Com-
merce during the past seven months. Noth-
ing earth-shaking, to be certain, but all
solid achievements which help build the
community and could well furnish the
foundation for more spectacular achieve-
ments later on.
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Chevrolet will be formally intro-
duced McaUy and nationally, Sat-
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Fred Bloom has issued a progress re-
port covering achievements of the Bowie
Chamber of Commerce daring the past
seven months.
It is a good report, showing solid
achievements during the time Fred has
served as fulltime secretary-manager of
*r4he organization.
Dues paying members of the Chamber
may read it with pride-—and should keep
it handy so they can show it to those who
wander “what does the Chamber of Com-
merce do, anyhow?"
For those of you who don’t belong and
haven’t seen a report, here's a few of the
many things your Chamber of Commerce
has accomplished during the past seven
months:
1. A fruit-marketing organization has
been chartered by the state and will use
the winter to acquire a hydro-cooler, pack-
ing shed and other facilities to be ready for
the fruit harvest next year.
2. Work is being done to get Montague
County included in the Great Plains pro-
gram of the United States Department of
Agriculture. This program offers added
advantages to farm and ranch owners over
the program now applicable to Montague
County land-owners.
3. Chamber support was very active in
encouraging city officials to go ahead with
the sewer renewal program now underway
and backing the citizens’ committee which
has bought land and hired architects for a
City hospital Further support for city im-
provement and the hospital program is
pledged.
4. Much credit can go to the Chamber
of Commerce and its committees for the
successful completion of the initial steps
toward creating a municipal airport for
Bowie.
5. Community visits to Bellevue and
to ForestbuTg were held in the spring and
Summer to bind our communities just a
little bit closer together and to offer
friendly assistance to,worthwhile pfeffets
in those communities.
6. Work on creating a public library
lor Bowie got underway.
7. Boat races at Amon Carter Lake
iwere jointly sponsored by the Chamber
and the firemen.
I: 8. Moral support was given to those
f Let cotleetiv® bargaining Work in the
cases where reasonable men can get to-
gether and reach reasonable agreements,
it ring In compulsory arbitration where
•agreement at the bargain table becumte
Established February 9, 1922.
Entered at the Post Office in
Bowie, Texas, as second class
mail under the Act of March 3,
1879.
Consolidated with The Mon-
tague County Times on April 1st,
1953.
Mr. and Mrs. Edward -JUlis
Plaxco, Jr., were hosts for the
Richardson-Plaxco wedding par-
ty rehearsal dinner on Friday
evening in the First National
Bank Community Room.
Guests were seated at a large
U-shaped table. The end table
was centered with an arrange-
ment of white stock and mums
and small companion bouquets
centered the other tables. Ropes
of Southern smilax extended
from the flower arrangements,
down the table and crystalized
wedding bells interspersed the
decorations.
Placecards tied with tiny wed-
ding bells and valley lillies were
used for 26 guests.
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EMERSON LYNW. JR.
Editor an<f PuMMwr
Published each Thursday at
206 Smythe street. BoWle. Texas
age of federal
i >56 per capita.
In Texas, the assistance aver-
aged |4B per citizen. Alaskana
ware high with a per capita av-
■ 23 Yean Ago
The jinx is riding the Bowie
Jackrabbits this week and shoul-
der and leg injuries will deprive
them of three valuable regulars
when they open with Archer City
Friday night in the curtain rai-
ser of the season. _______________
T. O. Edwards, manager of year. The paper will be stopped
Edwards Chevrolet Company when subscription expires.
It Years Aga
Enrollment In the Bo wit
schools including the high school
junior high, and three ward
schools, totaled an even 1,106 St
the close of registration Mon-
day afternoon according to Sept
Claude H. Thompson.
O. Doe Jackson's Grocery is
celebrating their 17th year in
business here this Week with a
special list of grocery bargains.
' Extensive improvements are
being completed at the abbstoif
plant of Qtiisenberry and Son In
north Bowie.
State Senator-Eleet Wayne W.
Wagonseller, Attorney Paul Don-
ald and Representative-elect Tony
Fenoglio attended the State Dem-
ocratic i onventton in Mineral
Wells Monday and Tuesday.
The probable starting Hne for
the 1990 season will be: James
Robinson, Clark Wheeler, Wil-
liam Hunt, Barton Massey, Tom-
my Smith, Darwin Watts, Bob-
by Ingram, Wilburn Booher,
Freddie Couch, Monty Roubi-
cheaux and Roy Gene Williams.
19 Teen Ago
E. L. Weatherford and T. O.
Morgan bought the Bowie drug
from W. T. Betts and took charge
Wednesday morning.
With a crowd that filled the
show house and overflowed into
the street, the Ritz Theater was
reopened Wednesday night.
One of the 326 members of the
largest freshman class ever to
enroll in Abilene Christian Col-
lege for the 1945-46 session is
Iris Ellen Cure.
Dale Jackson has been elec-
ted president of the eighth grade.
Also named to offices in the
same grade were Billie Jean
Pollard, vice-president, Thelma
Deaver, secretary-treasurer, and
Ben Morris, school paper report-
er.
Subscription price: The Bowie
News, one year for |3; six months
for >1.75, in zone composed of
Montague, Wise, Clay, Jack,
Wichita, Cooke and Denton coun-
ties in Texas and Jefferson coun-
ty, Oklahoma. Elsewhere $4 per
Of Refusing Federal Aid
By VERN SANFORD
AUSTIN, Tex. — Texas’ new
Parks-Wild life Commission has
In sorfle cases, however, ac-
ceptance is selective: Both Hou»>
ton and Dallas, which have loc-
al programs geared to prevent
student drop-outs, refused cash
grants for a similar federal
program.
Houston and Dallas also are
among the Texas towns which
reject federal funds for schodl
lunch programs. Others include
Odessa, Goose Creek. Wichita
Falls, Fort Worth, Henderson,
Longview, Borger and Alvin.
U. 8. AID --Abilene turned down
a >446,730 offer of aid for a
>3,000,000 sewer treatment plant
from the u. S. Department of
Health, Education and Welfare.
Federal grants for >3.000.000
worth of sewer treatment im-
provements in Texas are rec-
ommended and administered by
State Health Department offi-
cials.
Funds refused by Abilene were
distributed among the following
towns: Fritch, Gonzales. Graford,
Hidalgo Mirkum, Mineral Wells,
Richland Hills, Smiley,
Columbia and Windom.
TEXAS TAX TAKE-Although
the Lone Star State accepted less
federal money than many other
states during the fiscal year that
ended op June 30, it received
slightly njore than, it paid out,
according to a survey by Con-
gressional Quarterly.
Texans paid about 4 26 per
cent of all taxes received by the
federal government. It reaped
4.81 per cent of the >10,000,000
-plus federal grant total, or
>500,295,000.
National aven
aid received was
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DRUG COMPANY
PHONE TRimqht 22201 BOWIE. IIXaS
erage of $226. Low was New Jer-
sey with >34 per capita.
Schools and sewage systems
were just a few targets of fed-
eral aid. In fiscal 1962, this state
received >128,734,600 for highway
construction: >31,120,182 for un-
employment insurance; >62,832,
“ 854 for agricultural conser-
vation; $139,252,153 for welfare
assistance, and >13,350,583 for
the national guard, as well as
aid in other vields.
VENISON POPULAR FOOD—
State Parks and Wildlife Depart-
ment has a booklet available for
free distribution, which should
be of interest to ranchers, Hunt-
ers and just about everyone.
It’s title is “Texas Deer Herd
Management — Problems and
Principles.” Booklet was writ-
ten by James G. Teer, wildlife
biologist formerly employed by
the state. In his research, Teer
found that deer herds of Texas
provided more than 8,000 tons
of meat for family consumption
last year.
Another bulletin, newly-revised
can also be secured without
cost. It’s called “Po i s o n o u s
Snakes of Texas and the First
Aid Treatment of Their Bites.”
SALES TAX RECEIPT® BOAR
—State Comptroller Robt S. Cal-
vert announced that sales tax
revenues for the fiscal year
which ended on August 31 will
exceed his expectations.
Earlier, Calvert predicted
sales tax income for the state
w.ould total >177,975,013. Now he
says it will be >2,141.429 more,
or a total of >180,116,442
CONSTRUCTION INCREASE-
Residential construction account-
ed for >81,600.000 of the I142.OOQ,
000 worth of construction auth-
orized in the state in July It
was .the highest July and the
third highest monthly level in 17
years. •
So reports the UT Bureau of
Business Research.
GAS BILLS VARY-A study of
records, which the Texas Rail-
road Commission keeps on mu-
nicipal gas rate structures, re-
veals a wide variance in gas
rates across the state.
Lowest average year’s bill paid
by individual consumers in 1962,
among the 22 cities on the com-
mission list was >41.50. It waa
paid by citizens of a Corpus
Christi suburb.
Highest average annual gas
r o h« nn
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I UTIM BEF0M SWIMMING
V Q. A * harm/wl to to tooi^otint ihortlf
■ of tor ootiotT to
f A. R ndbabiy taft wRe, although studies am- ’
■ ducte<f »y virttos itosmted groups smw that
^CynentereSe water wHWn thirty
! minutes after eating. Whether this would apply
I -to the average person isn’t known. In any event,
I uafom • perm is a ti toll I athlete, it would be
I to Moto gtosral praatfcea in M regard.^
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I rate (bed-wetting), help may come from mg-
•estiaa. Tky to dbpet pomible worry the child
may have about expraaaiog Sggremiva frnliaga
sometime eantoeb fa a sign of aneertonty in
■ the Child—toM hie “plumbing" is not quiie right.
■ Most cases can bc'fifeto through adult undeT
B standfaag and encouragement, although some
3 caaea are admittedly very difficult to correct.
Clifford Kennedy®
Leave for Tehran
Clifford Kennedy will
join her husband in Kansas City
this Saturday and they will fly
on to New York City where they
will disembark for Tehran, Iran. ,
Mr. Kennedy, who has been
with Service Pipeline in Bowie
for several yean, has transfer-
red to the American Interna-
tional Oil Company. He has been *
In San Franciero this past week.
Mr. Kennedy will be a project
engineer for the company.
Mrs. Kennedy has been em-
ployed by First Savings and Loan
Co. while in Bowie. Their son,
Steve, will remain in the States
and will attend Baylor this fall
He hopes to join his parents in
Iran next summer.
Compulsory arbitration for the rail-
road dispute between labor and manage-
knent marks, I suggest, the beginning of ■
jnew era in public attitude toward strikes
end labor-management relations. An era iri
Which the prime consideration is given the
public at large—the community—instead
of to either labor or management.
Historically, we have gone through an
<ra in which management had the undis-
puted upper hand, into an era in which
labor was made powerful through laws
which greatly limited management’s pow-
er. We are still in this era but there are
signs al! about which proclaim its demise.
Bargaining between big business and
big labor has not produced the benefits for
the public at large which such competition
Is supposed to produce according to theory.
Instead of resulting in ideal working ar-
rangements, one of two things has hap-
pened. we have either seen collusion be-
tween the two'at the expense of the public
or we have had Mg strikes Which also af-
fected the general public as severely as it
riid those directly involved.
< Having tried two patterns without
.•howling succeto. it should not be difficult
Jo persuade the American people that a
4Mrd method is at least worth experimen-
tation. Instead of letting tabor and man-
agement fight out their battles without
■restraint, let’s look at theee disputes from •
f Hhe standpoint of the publie at large and
settle them before they damage the eeo-
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A splendid automobile and
totaiiti® >2,000 in value wi
given away by the Bowie X
to those Milin® the most sul
scriptions to the News.
lite Vocational Service
mittee of which Nathan G
chairman was in charge i
program presented to the
Rotary club at its regular meet-
ing at the Morrow Coffee Shop,
Wednesday noon. -
Work on the National Hotel
was completed last week. Loom
bricks above the west door were
taken out and replaced with new
ones before they had a chance
to fall.
Amber Farar’s Service Station
was burglarized sometime be-
tween 10 'p-m. Saturday and 5
a. m. Sunday morning.
ble for retirement
new law, effective
When a legislator has comple-
ted eight years of service, he
receives a >100 a month retire-
ment check. It increases >10 a
year as long as he remains in
the Legislature.
SHRIMPER NAMES COMMIS-
SIONER—Gov. John Connally has
appointed Virgil Versaggi of
Brownsville to the Gulf States
Marine Fisheries Commission.
He succeeds Weldon Cabanlss of
Rockport.
Versaggi has been in the
rhrimp business tn Brownsville
sinee 1949. He also operates
shrimping fleets out of Tampa,
Fla., and British Guiana, in par-
tnership With his four brothers
He was first president of the
Texas Shrimp Association. Also
first president of the Shrimp As-
sociation of the Americas.
LAND OFFICE RETURN®
Jerry Sadler has turned back to
the State's General Revenue
Fund >221,275 left over by the
General Land Office from its fis-
cal 1962 appropriation.
“Reasonable economy of oper-
ation,” Sadler said, “made this
refund possible.” *
AGRICULTURALISTS IN EU-
ROPE. — Agriculture Commis-
sioner John C. White, Sen. Culp
Kreuger of El Campo, Dr. Tyrus
Timm of Texas A&M and Dr.
Wayland Bennett of Texas Tech
are in Brussells, Belgium, to at-
tend a eonferenee on agriculture.
Sen. Kr4uger is vice-chairman
of the State Senate’s agricul-
ture committee.
EDUCATION GROUP TO
MELf-Leaders in the field of
development . of higher educa-
tion in Texag will meet in Aus-
tin on September 9.
Calling the group together is
the Committee of the Governing
Board! of State Colleges and Un-
iversities. Sen. Walter Richter
of Gonzales is executive secre-
tary of the privately financed
Committee. *
On the program will be Gov-
ernor Connelly. Dr. A. B. Mar-
tin. executive director <rf the
Governor's Committee on Edu-
cation Beyond the High School;
and Df. Lester HarrtH, direc-
tor of the Texas Commission on
Higher Education.
Purpose of the meeting is to
Spell out the Committee's goals
for the immediate fqture and de-
termine a means of attaining
them. Committee represents the
common interests of all the state-
supported senior colleges. It is
interested in supporting pro-
grams and activities aimed at
Improving the quality of and
support for higher education in
Texan
Comprising the Committee are
representatives of each board of
regents serving the 20 state-sup-
ported senior colleges and uni-
vexsitiee.
Fred’s report is liberal in giving predit
to scores of persons other than Chamber of
Commerce directors for the achievements
listed above. They are for the most part
community projects and many men work-
ing together deserve the credit for their
accomplishment.
But Fred himself deserves a long, en-
thusiastic round of applause for the way I _
in which he has taken hold as a “profes-1
sianal” Chamber of Commerce man and
performed for Bowie.
I’m not going to embarrass him by giv-
ing my estimation of how many C of C
projects would have failed without his
hard work, his determination, his organi-
zation and his salesmanship — but there
were more than a few.
Bowie is fortunate to have found a
man in its midst who could become in so 1 reclassified its personnel in keep-
short a time a competent manager for an ,nf ?**t*?. thf ^.siio.ooo budget
set by the Legislature. Reclas-
office as complex and as demanding as a Isification will result in an addi-
Chamber of Commerce is. tional >10,000 in salary expenses.
With a successful career as a pfpeliner Commissioners voted to keep
behind him, Fred has, we hope, embarked aH Personnel fr°m the old Parks
. ___ , , . A. u__I Board and the Game and Fish
on a new career which should prove | Commission on the payroll,
equally satisfying. Howgrd Dodgen
former^exec-
And, with him hard on the job, we utive secretary of the Game and
can rest assured that the progress report Fiji Crimmfitsion, will be retain^
you have just read will be a regular fea- ^i|®sJaon<^|"yUllant to the
ture from the Bowie Chamber of Com- ,, . . , . _
Commission also approved Ex-
merce. I ecutjge Director Weldon Watson’s
Bowie is gaining more and more mo-1 recommendation that the state
mentum as the months go by—and the! Park’ ,. syitera managed
J through the five regional offices
! used by game officials. Region-*
al headquarters are located in
LaPorte, Rockport, San Angelo,
Tyler and Waco.
NEW TREND — There seems
to be a new trend toward refus-
ing federal aid: The. Irving
School Board spurned an offer
of an >11,000 grant because “dt
the growing danger of federal
control of the school curriculum."
But most school systems still
accept educational assistance
„ . I from the U. 8. government. Tex»
This method should result m persuad- w Education Agency, looking at
ing the bargainers to get down to business preliminary figures for the 1962-
more eeriouely from the start; should ell-
minate unreasonable demands from either by federal programs,
side; and will most certainly end a thorn
in the side of our economy by eliminating
strikes which cripple areas or effect the
economy of the entire Country.
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The biggest danger in this proposal
lies in the difficulty of finding men who
can reaeb judgements in arbitration cases
which wiTTHe fair and practical for both
labor and management and will not result
in harm to the economy as a whole.
Men of wide experience, of unbiased
viewpoint and of absolute honesty would
be required. Corrupt arbiters wcaild, of
course, result in infinitely more damage to
the economy in the long run than strikes
or Inflation. *
Still, dangerous as the move could be,
a workable, arbitration system would be a
tremendous boon to our economy at a time
when out greatest need is not to improve
wages or working conditions but to ex-
pand the number of jobs available—a task
which demands co-operation between every
segment of the rffction.
Over the years capital and manage-
ment have made their point; there must
be a pfofit, there must be efficiency; labor
has matte ft* paint, too; working conditions
must be human, wages must afford a fair
Share of the wealth produced. It is time,
now, for the ctn«hunftjf aa fl whole to be
listened to: the eeonotiy rfmst CroW if the
nation te to progress and growth demands
that both tabor *d ntenagamant post (tone
their short-term gated in order to work
together to produce a bast for prosperity
in tbe years immediately ahead. I
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