The Groom News (Groom, Tex.), Vol. 32, No. 37, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 14, 1957 Page: 2 of 8
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THE GROOM NEWS, GROOM, CARSON COUNTY, TEXAS
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1957
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state tax dollars.
Tax Analyst John F. Sly of
Princeton said this reliance on
natural resources taxes has been
Texans depend on
erance taxes jumped from 16 per
cent to 30 per cent of the total in
that period. Texas’ state and local
taxes are $130 per capita com-
pared to the national average of
$158.
sacrifice because they had no feed.
Small grain and winter legume
prospects are extremely good,
says USDA, though d®y weather
is needed for additional planting.
Cotton Acreage Tussle . . .
For the third straight year East
Texas and cotton farmers are at
odds over acreage allotments.
State and county allotments are
to be announced by USDA before
Dec. 14 when cotton farmers will
vote on whether they want a mar-
ket quota program for 1958.
West Texas farmers contend
that their area has been penal-
ized. They say an undue portion
of the state’s cotton acreage is
allotted to the older cotton-grow-
ing counties of east and central
Texas. One group of West Texans
went to federal court last year to
try to get the allotments changed.
Opposing them is the Old Cot-
ton Belt Association which has
announced it will fight new ef-
forts to wrest acreage from its
area.
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Embarrassment Of Riches . . .
Combination of late spring rains
and early fall rains has caught
many Texas farmers in a squeeze.
There wasn’t enough time in be-
tween to raise a crop and get it
out of the fields. Agriculture
agents in North Texas reported
that farmers there stood to lose
millions from ruined cotton.
Some ranchers, according to the
U. S. Dept, of Agriculture, have
“a very unusual situation—more
grass than stock to eat it.” This
time last year those same ranch-
ers were selling off stock at a
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Delay Spotlighted. . .
Senate Investigating Commit-
tee is continuing its drive to es-
tablish whether the Insurance
Commission dilly-dallied with re-
ports of irregularities in a Dallas
firm.
Former Insurance’ Department
Examiner Wayne Tinkler told the
committee that he began an exam-
ination of Preferred Life last
March. He ran into difficulties,
and asked for help from the de-
partment’s legal counsel. He did
not get it, said Tinkler, and finally
' turned in a report in June.
His audit indicated that Pre-
ferred’s president owed the com-
pany some $194,000 due to stock
manipulations, Tinkler reported.
“But no action was taken in the
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insurance on Nie basis of price alone,
without considering all the nfuny other
important factors that may affect your
financial security.
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Bond Program Launched . . .
At least one phase of Texas
water conservation program now
has the official go-ahead.
By approving a constitutional
amendment, voters 'Cleared the
way for issuance of $200,000,000 in
bonds to finance local water pro-
jects.
Though only about one-tenth of
the electorate (185,000) turned
out all three proposed amend-
i ments received approximately 3-
ond call when it became apparent increasing over the years. Sly, in
that this issue couldn’t b e addressing a meeting of the Texas
squeezed into the final days of the. Research League in Austin, gave
first session. • | what may be a preview of the
House and Senate had difficulty searching study of Texas’ tax
coming to agreement on details of structure being undertaken by the
the first session’s five-point pro- League.
gram: water - planning, lobby con- Some Sly statistics: State taxes
trol, crime study, practice before increased from $123,000,000 in
state agencies and money for an 1940 to $625,000,000 in 1957. Sev-
Main topic for the second ses- nearly one out of every three
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School Work Okayed . . .
Improvements have been
AUSTIN—Days of old seem to j to-l majorities.
__________ _ _ ______Other two will provide increased
ers. They ended their first called । retirement benefits for state em-
session this week and launched in- l ployes and authorize higher old
to number two. I age pensions.
It’s the first time in more than
a decade that a governor has con-
vened a legislature in two rapid-
fire special sessions.
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C. L. COLVER - INSURANCE
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Speed Law Questioned . . .
Governor. Daniel has been re-
quested to ask the Legislature to
re-write the automobile speed
limit law.
A recent opinion from the Court
of Criminal Appeals called • the
law “vague and indefinite and
therefore invalid.” Involved was a
conviction for driving 90 miles an.
hour.
If this law is too shaky for
court tests, the Harris County .dis-
trict attorney told the governor in
effect, a new and stronger one
should be written immediately.
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Engineers Urge Water Plan . . .
Texas Society of Professional
Engineers has added its voice to
those- urging an extensive, long-
range water program.
Importance of water to Texas’
future justifies an annual expend-
iture of $100,000,000 in the opinion
of TSPE’s special water study
committee.
TSPE’s report recommended:
(1) adoption of the governor’s
proposed legislation-, (2) salary in-
creases for Water Board members,
(3) planning on the lowest level
possible to allow proper develop-
ment of an over-all program, (4)
sale of wafer storage acquired by
the state in federal reservoirs to
any qualified political sub-division
as quickly as possible.
when a brief conference
held.”
thorized by the State Board for
Hospitals and Special Schools for
nine schools and hospitals. In-
cluded are state schools at Abilene
and Austin, state hospitals at San
Antonio, Kerrville and Harlingen,
the Austin State School Farm
Colony and the Confederate Home
for Men. Costs will total $261,000.
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Mohammed hearing one of his
soldiers say, “I’ll turn my camel
loose and trust him to God,” said
to him, “Tie your camel, and then
trust him to God.”
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Man Making . . .
We all are blind until we see,
That in the human plan,
Nothing is worth the making if,
It does not make the man.
Why build those cities glorious,
If man unbuilded goes?
In vain we build the world, un-
less,
The builder also grows.
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A man was reading the birth
and death records in a public li-
brary. 'After doing some figuring
on a piece of scrap paper, he
turned to the man next to him
and said, “Do you know that
every time I breathe a man dies?”
“Very interesting,” replied the
neighbor. “ Would you mind
breathing,in the other direction?”
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Doctor: “You’ll have to stop
worrying and thinking about
yourself so much. Throw yourself
into your work.”
Patient: “But, Doc, I’m a
cement mixer.”
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The way to be nothing is to do
nothing.—Howe.
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Home Town &gene.
Jhe Cjroom /lews
Edited and published by MAX and HELEN WADE
Office Phone No. 3311—Residence Phone No. 3541
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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. 37, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 14, 1957, newspaper, November 14, 1957; Groom, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1487411/m1/2/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Carson County Library.