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THE GROOM NEWS, GROOM, CARSON COUNTY, TEXAS
THURSDAY, JULY 25, 1957
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contend that paying for the dams
would raise the price of water
they use from $1 to $10 an acre
foot. Private utility spokesmen say
the dams would produce more
power than anyone wants at a
higher price than anyone will pay.
And people* living near Possum
Kingdom fear that raising the dam
level would flood their land.
Net result: the BRA plan, first
launched 21 years ago, still has
troubles.
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AUSTIN—A big change is forth-
coming in the operation of the
largest law enforcement division
of the State.
In keeping with recommenda-
tions of the Texas Research Lea-
gue, following a two-year study,
the Texas Department of Public
Safety will reorganize into six
commands. Each command will be
responsible to the central office in
Austin.
Headquarters of the six regions
will be in Lubbock, Corpus Christi,
Waco, Houston, Dallas and Mid-
land. Two Highway Patrol dis-
tricts will be within each com-
mand.
Col. Homer Garrison will con-
. tinue in the Austin office, in over-
all charge, with the rank of major.
Heading the various commands
will be Capt. R. A. i(Bob) Crow-
der (Lubbock); Chief Kent Odem
(Corpus Christi); Chief W. J. El-
liott (Waco); Capt. Glenn Rose
(Houston); Capt. Guy Smith
(Dallas); and Capt. W. E. Speir
(Midland).
In addition to the regional re-
organization, the new plan calls
for four central divisions in Aus-
tin. Identification and intelligence
services will be in charge of Chief
Joel Tisdale. Motor vehicle records
and services will be handled by
Chief A. F. Temple. Personnel and
staff services will be directed by
Chief Glen McLaughlin. And in-
spection and planning will be
headed by Chief G. W. Busby.
Colonel Garrison said the move
would result in more efficient ser-
vice and greater economies. “The
Texas Rangers also will come
under the regional grouping,” Gar-
rison stated. “A ranger captain
will be within each region, and
responsible to the regional com-
mander.”
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AUSTIN—"School days, schools
days, all around the state,” may
stray somewhat from the original
song, but it means that come Sep-
tember, around 263,000 little Tex-
ans will be going off to school for
the first time.
In anticipation of this the Bur-
eau of Vital Statistics of the Texas
State Department of Health is
girding itself for the annual last
minute onslaught of thousands of
requests for birth certificate pho-
tostats.
It seems that each year the sit-
uation repeats itself. Most school
districts require proof of birth in
the form of a birth certificate or
photostat for students entering
school for the first time in the
first grade.
Harried mothers all too often
forget about this requirement un-
til middle August. By then the
Bureau of Vital Statistics is
flooded with thousands of similar
requests for photostat copies re-
sulting in a delay in the receiving
of the copy for two weeks or more.
In efforts to speed up the pro-
cess, the bureau each year hired
extra help and works overtime, in
addition to using certain speed-up
techniques to aid in the location
of the original certificates on
permanent file at the Department
of Health.
Most of the requests will be for
six-year-old children. Knowing
this, vital statistics personnel ar-
range the record books containing
the 217,470 certificates of birth
for the year 1951 and part of the
“stacks” for 1950 so that success
will be easier and quicker.
The removal and replacement of
the certificates for photostating is
done at the “stacks” by the extra
personnel instead of at the photo-
stat machine by the technicians in
the usual manner.
In this way a staggering pile-up
of record books is avoided and the
issuance of birth certificate photo-
stats is greatly speeded.
State Registrar Don Carrol asks
that requests for photostat copies
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To Dam Or Not To Dam . . .
A slice of the sort of troubles
that plague Texas water develop-
ment planning is shown in the
current problems of the Brazos
River Authority.
At Gov. Price Daniel’s request,
BRA directors held a statewide
conference in Austin. Purpose: to
reconcile the numerous conflicting
views on how best to use the
waters of the 1,300-mile stream.
Scores of people came and spoke
their minds, but reconciliation was
hard to find.
BRA directors suggest a six-dam
program on the Brazos. It would
include raising the level of Pos-
sum Kingdom Dam and construct-
ing six more dams between it and
Whitney Dam. Cost is estimated at
$183,000,000. BRA hopes to borrow
$50,000,000 from the federal gov-
ernment, get the rest from private
bond sales. All would eventually
be repaid, according to the plan,
by revenue from sale of power and
water.
But downstream water users
and private power companies are
dead set against the plan. Repre-
sentatives of South Texas indus-
trial and agricultural interests
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Steep Grades Ahead . . .
State Highway Department is
taking a long look at its ambitious
road - building, land - buying pro-
gram and wondering if it can meet
the cost.
“We have $13,500,000 in projects
ready to go, but only $8,000,000 in-
come that will be available,” said
State Highway Engineer D. C.
Greer. He said inflation in prices
of materials and labor may force
a plan to build 48,000 miles of road
in 13 years to be spread over 20
years instead.
One cost-cutting suggestion was
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Penny Pinching Due . . .
If the Legislature meets in spe-
cial session this fall, members may
have to ration every paper clip to
get by financially.
State Treasury has hardly an
extra nickel. There is, however,
$460,000 appropriated last session
for interim legislative expenses.
But State Comptroller Robert S.
Calvert has raised a question as to
whether this could legally be used
for special session expenses.
If the attorney general rules it
cannot, legislators will have to
amend the appropriations bill in
order to get at the $460,00. Even
i so, it may be nip and tuck to get
by. Previous special sessions have
cost about $500,000.
Numerous economy measures
have been proposed. Sen. David
Ratliff suggested a swift three to
six-day session with no pay. Rep.
Louis Dugas proposed cutting the
number of secretaries.
House Speaker Waggoner Carr
is polling members as to whether
they (1) favor a special session,
(2) would serve without pay and
(3) favor a tax to pay session
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CARSON COUNTY ABSTRACT CO.
Realtors, Abstractors of Titles
Prompt, Dependable Service
Phone 70 Panhandle, Texas
to buy up right of way far in ad-
vance of construction in order to
get land before it becomes devel-
oped and, hence, more expensive.
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F-M Change Suggested . . .
Texas’ farm-to-market road sys-
tem should pay its own way, sug-
gests a Research League report.
Laws creating the F-M system
earmark millions annually for con-
struction of the roads, but none
for maintenance. This has to come
from regular Highway Depart-
ment funds.
Eventual result, says the League
report, will be more farm high-
ways than needed and an “intoler-
able burden” of upkeep. It recom-
mends the law be amended so that
F-M construction funds could be
used for upkeep as well.
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Texas News Briefs . . .
Trial of Ex-Rep. James E. Cox
of Conroe has been postponed un-
til Oct. 7. Cox is charged with con-
senting to accept a.bribe.
Texas Republicans take a dim
view of the 55th Legislature.
GOP’s official “minority” report
charged the lawmakers had (‘failed
miserably” to cope with corrup-
tion, lobby control, loan sharks,
congressional redistricting and fis-
cal problems. It blamed one-party
control.
Texas Highway Commission an-
nounced the highest-in-history op-
erating budget for the coming fis-
cal year—$72,498,650.
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263,000 FIRST GRADERS FOR
TEXAS SCHOOLS IN 1957
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Tempest At Tech . . .
Gusts from a political-educa-
tional storm that swirled up out
of the Plains blew into the State
Capitol.
In a closed session, directors of
Texas Tech at Lubbock fired Pro-
fessors Byron R. Abernathy and
Herbert M. Greenberg and abol-
ished the job of Dr. Per Stensland.
In explanation, Board Member J.
Evetts Haley said Drs. Abernathy
and Greenberg “did not measure
up to academic standards.” He
called the adult education pro-
gram in which Stensland was en-
gaged “boondoggling.”
But numerous observers at-
tributed the dismissals to the pro-
fessors’ liberal ' political views as
contrasted to the ultra-conserva-
tive platform on which Haley ran
for governor last summer. There
were protests and demands for re-
consideration.
Governor Daniel made no com-
ment on the professors, but said
he thought the secret session was
“a mistake.” Tech President Dr.
E. N. Jones predicted the board
would have another session on the
subject soon.
Capitol reporters compared the
case with the furore that resulted
when Dr. Homer Price Rainey was
fired as University of Texas presi-
dent.
retreat at Ceta Canyon near here
Friday, Aug. 2 through Monday,
noon, Aug. 4.
Speakers include Rev. Ray N.
Johnson, evangelist of Abilene,
and Eugene F. Jud of Waco.
Johnson, a former pastor at the
First Church, Vernon, is a member
of the Northwest Texas Confer-
ence. Jud is Central Texas Confer-
ence lay leader.
Ray N. Nichols heads the con-
ference board of lay activities and
will preside. Nichols, editor of the
Vernon Daily Record, is also chair-
man of the General Board of Lay
Activities of the Methodist
Church.
An attendance of some 500 men
is anticipated.
Jhe ^room Tlews
Edited and published by MAX and HELEN WADE
Office Phone No. 3311—Residence Phone No. 3541
Entered as second class mail at the Post Office at Groom, Carson
County, Texas, under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879.
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Wade, Max & Wade, Helen. The Groom News (Groom, Tex.), Vol. 32, No. 21, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 25, 1957, newspaper, July 25, 1957; Groom, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1487395/m1/2/: accessed July 12, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Carson County Library.