The Groom News (Groom, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 45, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 8, 1959 Page: 2 of 8
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THE GROOM NEWS, GROOM, CARSON COUNTY, TEXAS
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three other towns, who also had' heated legislative debate as they auto insurance rates,” as opposed
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present uncertainty as to whether
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DURING JANUARY, 1959, YOU MAY
Pay Your Poll Tax
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In Groom
MRS. MAX WADE is authorized to collect for,
GROOM LODGE
and issue, POLL TAX receipts in Carson County.
AERMOTOR WINDMILLS
YOUR COOPERATION WILL BE APPRECIATED
PITTSBURGH PAINTS
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Stated Communication Second
Tuesday Night in Each
Month at 7:300‘clock
KENNETH HUNT, W.M.
H. H. HUNT, Secretary
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MEMBER PANHANDLE PRESS ASSOCIATION
AND THE TEXAS PRESS ASSOCIATION
GLEANER HARVESTERS,
Graham-Hoeme Plows—Buda Irrigation Motors
WIEBERG FARM MACHINERY
C. L. Wieberg, proprietor, phone 2361, Groom, Texas
wanted their junior colleges ex-
panded.
HIGHWAY bills will abound.
Seen as likely are proposals to
(1) allow the Highway Commis-
sion to set higher speed imits on
new divided highways, (2) restrict
billboard advertising on new inter-
state routes, (3) prohibit location
of utility lines on highway right
of way outside of cities and (4)
Please get your poll tax receipts from her any day dur-
ing the remainder of January. She will have her office
in The Groom News Building. Poll tax receipts are nec-
essary in order to vote in elections to be held during 1959
and must be paid on or before January 31.
INSURANCE will, as usual, be the Board of Insurance should op-
the subject of a few bills. Prob- erate full-time or part-time.
ALLIS-CHALMERS (AC,
fALH AND SERVICE ”
GROOM HARDWARE and LUMBER
Glynn D Harrell
Phone 2821 Groom, Texas
KELVINATOR REFRIGERATORS
crystal goblets or coffee in paper
cups—their activities give Austin
its liveliest, newsiest months. One
frequent gallery-sitter, with no
particular legislative interest, said
he came regularly because a ses-
sion provided spectators absolute-
ly free “the excitement of a foot- '
ball game, the fervor of a revival
meeting and more education than
a year in the University.”
Some events and issues on which
interest is likely to focus immedi-
ately:
SPEAKERSHIP of the House of :
Representatives still is in doubt. :
Even those who claim it’s “sewed
up” know that pledges can come
unhitched. There’ll be a big crowd
on hand to find out whether the :
secret vote hands the gavel to .
Waggoner Carr of Lubbock or Joe (
Burkett Jr. of Kerrville. Secre- ,
tary of State Zollie Steakley will :
preside at the suspenseful opening (
session. . :
After the speaker is picked, at- 1
tention will shift to committee as-
signments—who’ll get the top
jobs. There’s also speculation as
to how well members who have ।
fought each other so hard in the
speaker’s race are going to get !
along afterward.
MONEY gets top billing on al-
most everybody’s list of legisla- i
tive problems.
Governor Daniel’s recommended I
budget calls for spending $2,311,- ]
434,306 during 1960-61. An extra 1
$185,000,000 in new tax revenue !
would have to be raised to cover
it and wipe out the current 1
deficit.
Overall, the governor’s budget is
a 10 per cent increase over pres-
ent spending. Almost all the in-
creast, he pointed out, would go to
meet a growing population’s need
for basic state services—education,
highways, welfare and hospital
and correctional institutions. Gov-
ernor Daniel said he had found "no
public sentiment” for reducing
these services.
Not included in this budget are
several items for which there is
certain to be demand, such as
teacher pay raises and medical aid
for persons on the welfare rolls.
EDUCATION, on all levels, will
be a broth that many will try to
stir.
For public schools, the Hale-
Aikin Committee of 24 is present-
ing a lengthy report on ideas for
improving programs. Included are
more pay for teachers, longer
school terms, special instruction
for the gifted, driver education,
etc. Total cost of the additions
would be $80,000,000 a year for
the state, about $32,000,000 a year
for local districts.
Both the Commission on Higher
Education and Governor Daniel
have recommended increased ap-
propriations for state-supported
colleges and universities. Both
also recommended Arlington State
College be made a senior College.
Not happy with these are (1)
University of Texas officials who
THURSDAY, JANUARY 8, 1959
regard the UT appropriation share' SMALL LOAN COMPANIES ably the most controversial will be
as too meager and (2) residents of | likely will be the center of some a measure to provide for “flexible
prohibit car owners’ registering
their cars in counties other than
where they live in order to escape
auto property tax.
SAFETY legislation, both to
punish the guilty and train the in-
nocent, has widespread support.
Recommended measures would
(1) allow chemical tests for drunk-
enness, (2) increase the State
Highway Patrol, (3) strengthen
traffic courts, (4) provide state
aid for driver education in public
Schools and (5) overhaul the driv-
ers license law.
WATER law will again be in the
news when the State Water Board
presents its report to the Legisla- 1
ture with the recommendation
that $5,000,000 be spent on water
planning in the next five years.
Texans lost hundreds of millions
in this decade through drouth and
uncontrolled floods-, the Board not-
ed. It suggested planning direct-
ed toward capturing for use some
20,000,000 to 25,000,000 acre feet
of the 42,000,000 acre feet esti-
mated to run annually into the
Gulf from Texas.
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AUSTIN, Tex. — Holidays are
over, but Austin is entering an-
other period equally festive, ac-
tive and exhausting for partici-
pants.
Tuesday (the 13th) the 56th
Legislature convenes, bringing
hundreds of new residents to the
State- Capital City for five or six
months or more. Their arrival
steps up demand in many areas—
for rent houses, hotel rooms, cat-
ering services, typewriters and
stenographers.
A week later comes the Inaug-
uration of Gov. Price Daniel, with
a parade, swearing-in ceremony,
Capitol reception and a multitude
of balls and special parties.
Thereafter, if the usual pattern
continues, there’ll be more social
activities for and by' the visitors.
Lawmakers’ wives, separated
from home-town friends, and often
from their husbands by long hours
of debate and committee hearings,
form their own luncheon clubs.
Many organizations send dele-
gations to Austin during the ses-
sion. These groups—over break-
fasts, luncheons, dinners, barbe-
cues or maybe just coffee—meet
with their legislators to tell them
their special woes and hopes.
Even school children come by
the busload to supplement their
civics studies by observation.
Last session, a period of uncom-
fortable concern over ethics and
lobbying, saw a dropping off in
the lavishness of party-giving for
legislators. This round may be
even more grim and business-like.
Lawmakers will face staggering
problems in trying to pull the state,
out of debt and find money for
new needs. No group would want
to appear too flush lest it be seen
as a likely tax target.
Whatever the social leanings of
the lawmakers—for champagne in
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have been in the past: ot the present state-set rates. Leg-
Texas Legislative Council has islative Council declined to en-
suggested a law giving the State dorse this, but suggested the
Banking Commission authority to Board of Insurance work on a
police the small loan industry and plan to reward careful drivers.
a contstitutional amendment to al- Several proposals are likely to
low the Legislature to fix interest emerge in an effort to resolve
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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. 33, No. 45, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 8, 1959, newspaper, January 8, 1959; Groom, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1511372/m1/2/: accessed July 12, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Carson County Library.