The Groom News (Groom, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 30, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 24, 1959 Page: 2 of 8
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THE GROOM NEWS, GROOM, CARSON COUNTY, TEXAS
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1959
CATTLE SPRAYING
Anywhere in this area, reasonable rates.
NEW MODERN EQUIPMENT
RUDOLPH TUCKER
Ph. 2291
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Texas a matter of greatest con-
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No Bonds, No Boats . .
Highway Department has sea- treatment centers are to. receive
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Get You There And Back
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$1.00 per $100.00
AL’S TEXACO
A COMPLETE BANKING SERVICE
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Groom, Texas
Phone 3521
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Electric
Appliances
Oils—Grease—Diesel—At Wholesale!
WASH & LUBRICATION SERVICE
MEMBER PANHANDLE PRESS ASSOCIATION
AND THE TEXAS PRESS ASSOCIATION
brought the suit to test the
law. _
.State ^ationaf San
Frank P. Dove
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Specializing in Probate - Will
Administration of Estate
Panhandle Office Phone 4211
Groom Residence Phone 3471
Installation and
Service
PLUMBING AND
FIXTURES
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Pick Up & Delivery
FIRESTONE TIRES—ACCESSORIES
PURINA and DIVIDEND Brands of
Poultry and Livestock Feeds
We have a large selection of pest-control sprays
and poisons to treat lawns,, gardens, buildings.
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Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Swank
Phone 8021
GROOM, TEXAS
Groom Feed and Implement Co.
C. L. WIEBERG & W. H. OLLINGER
Proprietors
Swank
Electric .Shop
Complete Electrical Service
TEXACO SKY-CHIEF GASOLINE
MARFAK LUBRICATION
Your business is appreciated.
RCA
WHIRLPOOL
Goodlett’s Texaco Service
E. C. Goodlett, Proprietor
HAIRCUTS $1.00
SHINE CHAIR
City Barber Shop
BILL WEST, proprietor
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AUSTIN.—In previous presiden-
tial nominating years, Texas Dem-
ocrats have had their hands full
with in-the-family fights.
Who would control the Texas
delegation to the national conven-
tion was often a hotter question
than how the entire national con-
vention would go.
But this year the focus .is wider.
Many Texas Democrats hope and
believe that Texas Senator Lyndon
Johnson will be not only a front
runner but the winner of the party
presidential nomination.
This makes Texas strength in
way as well as roadway problems.
Current difficulty involves the
state-operated ferry between Gal-
veston Island and Bolivar Penin-
sula. Owners of submerged land
crossed by the ferries obtained a
court order requiring the ferry op-
erators to have personal liability
bonds against possible damage to
the property. Highway Depart-
ment sdid that neither the state
nor the ferrymen were able to pay
for the bonds.
It looked as if the ferries, which
carry some 95,000 autos a month,
would have to shut down. How-
ever, the landowners bringing suit
agreed to a stay of enforcement
on the court order until Sept. 28
to give time for something to be
worked out.
Al’s Texaco Service Station
AL HOMER, Proprietor
PHONE 3801 - GROOM, TEXAS
WE ARE OPEN 24 HOUR A DAY!
swing ullluugi lenas in ivuveii- Co-,
ber. His theme is to be “Recruit 11955
On With the Show . . .
Texas’ highway building pro-
gram can keep moving ahead, said
State Highway Engineer DeWitt
Greer, since federal enactment of
a one-cent hike in the gasoline tax
.promises more funds.
Greer said the expected funds
would enable Texas to move at
about 75 per cent its present
cern.
In this respect, Texas won, a
sugar-coated defeat at the Na-
tional Executive Committee meet-
ing. Rules .were changed so that
Texas now gets 61 delegate votes
out of a total of 1,511 instead of
56 out of a total of 1,372 under
the old formula.
Five extra votes sounds good,
but actual effect is to change
Texas’ share of the total from ap-
proximately 4.3 per cent to 4.1
per cent.
GOP Fires Round . . .
Texas Republicans, too, are stir-
ring themselves for the election
year ahead.
Big Year For TEC ...
Texas Employment Commission
paid out a record high $68,956,333
in unemployment benefits in the
fiscal year just ended. .
But TEC also reported a record
year • finding jobs for the unem-
ployed. It found work for 1,035,-
301 persons. More than 18 per
cent of the placements were per-
sons over 45, and 26,437 were
handicapped persons.
Texas’ job placement total for
the handicapped is the second:
largest figure for any state in the i
Since constitutionality of a law
is involved, the case may be ap-
pealed directly to the State Su-
preme Court.
Gas Tax Test Ahead . . .
Another court test is ahead after
natural gas pipeline companies
make their first payments under
the new severance beneficiary tax
passed by the Legislature last
summer.
Attorneys for gas companies say
meem
the number of states going “with” , he said,
Teyas a matter nf oreatect con- keel.”
Meanwhile, the Highway De-
partment went about its mam-
moth business. Low bids totaling
$18,045,080 were tabulated by the
Department on road and bridge
building projects put up for bids
this month.
Legislative committee of the
GOP aimed a sweeping broadside
at the activities of this year’s leg-
islature. There are no Republican
members in what the GOP called
“the worst Legisature in Texas
history.” It accused the “Demo-
cratic monopoly session” of spend-
ing $3,000,000 for its salaries,
staffs and expenses and enacting-
a heavy load of so-called “pain-
less” taxes. It also made some un-
complimentary remarks about ac-
tion or inaction in regard to water
law, election law, lobby law, etc.
Texas Republicans will probably
hear more calls to battle when
GOP National Chairman Thurston
B. Morton makes a seven-city
nation, and it has had above aver- |
age success in placing older work- ,
ers. Only 16 per cent of the job-,
seekers were over 45, but 18 per!
cent of those placed were in this
bracket.
the first payments are made in
October.
Gas companies won their court
battle against the old gas gather-
ing tax a few years back requiring
the state to refund the taxes paid.
Hospital Aid Due . . .
Fifteen Texas hospitals and
Groom, Texas P.O. Box 462
He Made Comeback . . .
Bob Wilcox, a meter reader who
suffered a 33,000-volt electric
shock and now holds a job with
the Community Public Service Co. |
in Clifton, is “Texas Handicapped'
Person of the Year.” •
Wilcox was honored in Austin at
the annual meeting of the Texas
Governor’s Committee on Employ-
ment Of the Handicapped. Also
cited were Lone Star Plastic Com-
pany, Inc., of Fort Worth and
Southwestern Industrial Electron-
ics Company of Houston for their
help in the hire-the-handicapped;
program.
Insurance Law Upheld . . .
An Austin district court has up-
held the constitutionality of a law
which authorizes the Board of In-
surance to decide whether insur-
ance company management is
competent, fit and worthy of pub-
lic trust.
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Jordan of
Dallas, formerly associated with
the Great United Life Insurance
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SUBSCRIPTION RATES:
One year subscription (in Carson and adjoining counties) . .$2.00
One year elsewhere in the United States .................$2.56
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some $11,500,000 in federal money
for improvements.
State Board of Health, which
has the responsibility for passing
on projects to receive Hill-Burton
hospital funds, announced the list.
All federal grants must be match-
ed by local funds.
Hospitals to benefit are Baptist
Memorial and Methodist' Hospital,
San Antonio; St. David’s, Austin;
Hansford County Hospital, Spear-
man; Newton County Hospital,
Cameron; St. Elizabeth’s and
Methodist Hospital, Houston.
Also Archer County Hospital,
Archer City; Corpus Christi Mem-
orial, Corpus Christi; Hillcrest
Hospital, Waco; R. E. Thompson
General Hospital, El Paso; Angel-
ina County Hospital, Lufkin;
Kahn Memorial, Marshall; Voca-
tional and Rehabilitation Center,
Dallas; Denton School for the
Mentally Retarded, Denton.
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“to keep us on an even suits challenging the constitution-
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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. 34, No. 30, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 24, 1959, newspaper, September 24, 1959; Groom, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1511419/m1/2/: accessed July 12, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Carson County Library.