Refugio Timely Remarks (Refugio, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 27, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 16, 1953 Page: 2 of 12
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Progress in finding and producing oil is an’old story to
the oil country. Nearly everybody has heard about the oil
industry’s day-to-day miracles in exploration and production.
Now we all have a new series of miracles to wonder at —
the transformation of petroleum hydrocarbons into chemical
products of astonishing variety. These chemicals from petro-
leum have even added a new word to the American vocabulary
— petrochemical.
Progress in the field has been amazing. The capital invest-
ment in new industries based on the petrochemicals has
mounted to hundreds of millions. The new plants have created
thousands of new jobs. And petrochemicals, as an industry,
have provided a wider, a more complete, use of the country’s
oil resources.
Butadiene and butyl for synthetic rubber, toluene for
TNT, solvents, aldehydes, and many other petrochemicals —
even alcohols—are now produced in oil refineries. For example,
the Humble Company, at its Baytown, Texas, refinery, is build-
ing facilities to manufacture paraxylene, the raw material for
the new fabric called dacron.
The day may come, and very quickly, when you can be
clothed from tip to toe in synthetic fabrics derived from
petroleum; when petrochemicals provide the rubber for your
tires, the plastics for your car’s interior fittings, the fabric for
the seat covers, the vehicle for body paint and polish.
The petrochemicals spell progress . . . progress to which
the oil industry contributes research, capital, manufacturing
facilities and, most importantly, an enterprising spirit.
for little more than a
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The House has backed up Repre-
sentative Max C. Smith of San
Marcos, chairman of the appro-
priations committee, in his state-
ment that under House rules no
other appropriation bill may be
acted upon until the general ap-
pripriation measure is passed by
both houses.
That rule stymied public school
teachers, who have been pressing
hard for action on a measure that
would give them salary increases
of $600 per year.
Charles Tennyson, secretary of
Texas State Teachers Association,
says that no smaller amount will
be acceptable to the teachers. It
is provided in a bill by Representa-
tive Lamar Zivley of Temple.
■ The administration is support-
ing a measure by Representative
Joe Kilgor of McAllen to up the
teachers’ salaries by $450 per year.
In an attempt to woo the teach-
ers, Kilgore changed the figure in
his bill from $240.
A third bill by Representative
Floyd Bradshaw of Weatherford
would raise the salaries of begin-
ning teachers by $600 per year,
but the increases of older and
more experienced teachers would
be lower.
Twelve hundred teachers were
in the gallery when the House ap-
propriations committee held a
hearing on the teacher’ pay bills.
At the hearing, R. L. Proffer
of Denison, president of the teach-
ers association, said, “If we don’t
do something constructive for the
teachers in the immediate future,
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South Bend, Ind., former dean of
the Notre Dame law school.
Manion spoke of the “evil con-
centration of power in the execu-
tive branch of our federal govern-
ment.” He urged that this power
be broken up and returned to the
states and to the local communi-
ties within the states.
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Land Commissioner Bascom Giles
pledged a “fight to the last” on
any amendment to the Veterans
Land Program which would take
away from the veteran mineral
rights he now owns.
Veterans now receive, in land
purchases under the program, a
minimum of 50 per cent of the
oil rights, Giles said, and every
fourth veteran who has purchased
property is ahead of his payments
because of revenue from mineral
development.
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Legal action will be taken
against distributors of Communist
propaganda in Texas if they can
be arrested, said Attorney General
John Ben Shepperd.
Shepperd disclosed that one of
his assistants went to New York
for the purpose of conferring with
the attorney general of that state
in an attempt to apprehend the
persons who mailed Red leaflets
to Texans recently.
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SHORT SNORTS: There was a
birthday Sunday at the Confederate
Home for one of the only four
surviving veterans of the Confed-
erate Army. . . . He is Thomas
Evans Riddle, who was at Gettys-
burg. ... He is now 107 years
old. . . . Passed by the House was
a bill freeing radio and television
stations from liability for what is
said over the stations, except by
their own employees. . . . The State
School for the Blind is now part
of the Texas. Education System and
is no longer under the- jurisdiction
of the State Board for Hospitals
and Special Schools. ... A law
providing for the change was sign-
ed by the governor.
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One of Austin’s bright minds
came up with some new definitions
this week: “An economist—a man
who tells you what to do with the
money you would not have if you
had followed his proposals”—and
a statistician—“A character who
can draw a mathematically pre-
cise line from an unwarranted as-
sumption to a foregone conclusion”
—and an expert—“Someone who
can take something you already
knew and make it sound confus-
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By VERN SANFORD
Texas Press Association
Austin.—House and Senate
wrestled this week with a new kind
of appropriation bill—one that un-
dertook to budget not only the
state’s general revenue fund, but
also the all other sources such as
federal aid and direct income such
as highway taxes and college fees.
Last week a joint conference
committee agreed on the total of
expenditures for the next two
years: $1,194,266,221. It was high-
er than the amount set by either
House or Senate in their appro-
priation bills.
The general revenue figure was
put at $166,569,347. Previous ap-
propriation bills have dealt only
with this fund.
Appropriations as set by the
committee were estimated to be
within the revenue that the state
will receive during the coming
biennium, thus it would call for no
new taxation.
The bill provides $180 a year
pay increase for state employees
and up to $300 a year pay hikes
for university and college teach-
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to pot.”
Kilgore warned the House that
“it will require the biggest tax
bill in the history of this Legis-
lature if the school folks get a
$600 per year general raise with
state funds.”
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The Legislature, meanwhile,
seemed little inclined to pass new
tax bills.
Hearings continued on a pro-
posal to raise $84 million a year by
increased taxes on oil, gas, beer,
and various natural resources, and
by placing new taxes on chemical
industries and presently untaxed
resources.
Passage of this omnibus bill is
considered very doubtful.
Other tax propositions are dead
or dying. The House revenue and
taxation committee killed a two
per cent levy on merchandise sales.
A new tax bill on natural gas
pipelines is comatose in the com-
mittee, with no hearing set. A one-
cent increase in the gasoline tax
is in the same condition.
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Letting bills die in committee is
the way the Legislature gets rid
of most of them.
At every sessjon, more bills are
introduced than the members can
possibly consider, much less de-
bate and either pass or defeat.
Thus it was that a house com-
mittee gave an overdose of sleep-
ing powders to a bill by Represen-
tative Maury Maverick of San An-
tonio to regulate lobbyists.
The bill would force members of
the “third house” to register, tell
whom they represent and how, and
list their expenses.
The committee heard arguments
for and against the bill, then sent
it to a sub-committee, from whence
it is ‘ not likely to emerge.
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A fight was promised by labor
organizations against a bill by
Representative W. H. Abington to
rewrite the workmen’s compensa-
tion laws.
The Texas Federation of Labor,
the Texas CIO and the rail broth-
erhoods contend that the bill would
reduce partial disability benefits
for many workers and exclude oth-
ers from benefits for which they
are now eligible.
Industry spokesmen said they
might not support the bill in its
present revised form, although
they favored it as originally writ-
ten.
The bill has been passed by a
committee.
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Texas Manufacturers Association
entertained members of the Legis-
lature during Texas Industrial
Week at a dinner where the main
speaker was Clarence Mamon of
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