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THE GROOM NEWS, GROOM, CARSON COUNTY, TEXAS
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THURSDAY, JULY 6, 1961
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Telephone 5201
222 Main, Panhandle, Texas
SUBSCRIPTION RATES:
See Us for All Your Building Needs
One year subscription (in Carson and adjoining counties)... .$2.00
One year elsewhere in the United States
$2.50
Phone 2141
Groom, Texas
Al’s Texaco Service Station
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AL HOMER, Proprietor
PHONE 3801
GROOM, TEXAS
FIRESTONE TIRES—ACCESSORIES
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WASH & LUBRICATION SERVICE
Oils—Grease—Diesel—At Wholesale!
Tractor Tire Repair Service!
WE ARE OPEN 24 HOUR A DAY!
SPECIALS!
GROOM, TEXAS
PHONE 3321
Wheeler-Evans Grain Company
GRAIN MERCHANTS
Federally Licensed
STORAGE
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FROM EXTRA GOOD GRAIN FED CALVES
PROCESSED AND READY FOR YOUR FREEZER
WE SOLICIT THE PATRONAGE OF
THE PRODUCERS OF THIS AREA
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.
• Toledo Bend Dam Studied . . .
Texas Water Development Board
has given tentative approval to a
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ruled Texas—France, Spain, Mex-
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federate States of America and the
United States.
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CARSON COUNTY ABSTRACT CO.
Realtors, Abstractors of Titles
Prompt, Dependable Service
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AUSTIN, Tex.—Within a few
weeks the tourists and school chil-
dren who flock to Austin will be
able to get a lesson in Texas his-
tory by visiting the most beautiful
of all new buildings on the state
capitol grounds.
It is the State Library and
Archives Building, now nearing
completion on a site directly east
of the Capitol.
For many years history-minded
Texans decried the fact that the
priceless early documents of the
state had no real home. Finally
these documents were moved from
a mouldy basement to a Quonset
hut. There many feared for their
safety.
Now, the new edifice provides
the state’s historic documents with
a magnificent home. In addition
there are quarters for the State Li-
brary and the General Land of-
-fice.
More interesting to the visitor
same six nations. Smaller bronze
emblems decorate the heavy metal
doors at the front. Across the back
of the structure, even larger
shields. These also represent the;
same six nations. Smaller bronze
emblems decorate the heavy metal
doors at the front. Across the back
of the structure, even larger
shields, bearing the six nations’
seals in colored ceramics, are
mounted on the face of the build-
ing. Pink granite, the “official”
stone for state buildings, is used
for the entire exterior. Carved in
the granite across the left front are
these words:
“The People of Texas do now
constitute a free, sovereign and in-
dependent republic and ... we
fearlessly and confidently commit
the issue to the decision of the Su-
preme Arbiter of the destinies of
nations.” (Texas Declaration of
Independence, 1836).
On the right front side is carved:
“All political power is inherent in
the people and all free govern-
ments are founded in their author-
ity and instituted for their bene-
fit.” (First Constitution of Texas,
1845.)
Although the building has four
floors, there are seven “stack
floors” where the building is divid-
ed for storage of books and docu-
ments.
One end of the main floor will be
devoted to the library. There you
will find a charge desk and a
large reading room.
Another large room will house
the archives. In it there will be a
large work room where researchers
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LUMBER, BUILDERS HARDWARE, PLUMBING
SUPPLIES AND FIXTURES, MARTIN-SENOUR
PAINTS, CEMENT, SAND AND GRAVEL.
may look at old papers.
Land Office, to be on the third
and four floors, will have a sepa-
rate entrance at the south end of
the building. (Building faces west.)
First floor lobby, like the Capi-
tol rotunda, will be a Texas show-
case. In its terrazzo floor is the
familiar wreath and star emblem
of Texas. Main walls are polished
granite and upper wall is sand-
stone. Above the center of the
area is a huge, spectacular oval
light fixture of red, white and blue
colored glass in a sunburst design
with a border of 50 stars.
Museum cases, recessed and
lighted, are built into the walls
around the lobby. Opposite the
lobby entrance is a large bronze
screen with 15 blocks on which are
wrought designs that present a
panorama of Texas development.
There’s an Indian with a toma-
hawk, branding irons, dueling pis-
tols, the first Capitol (a small
frame house), an early locomotive,
and a windmill on the prairie. Last
block shows a gushing oil well.
Building of the State Library and
Archives Building was authorized
by the Legislature in 1957 with an
appropriation of $2,500,000. Project
has been carried through by tire
State Building Commission for
which E. E. Adams is chairman
and Gov. Price Daniel and Atty.
Gen. Will Wilson are members.
Admiral H. R. Nieman is direc-
tor of the Building Commission.
State Archives Building is the
fourth of the new edifices erected
since the building program began
will be the way in which Texas his-1957. It is neither the largest
tory is dramatized in the architect-; nor the most expensive, but be-
ural decor of the building. On each! cause of the historical designs, it
side of the entrance ape six large is attracting the most attention,
flagpoles. From them will fly the Those who have had an advance
peek believe that it will, as intend-
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ing of a $60,000,000 Toledo Bend
Dam on the Sabine River.
The dam will create the largest
man-made lake in the south and
will supply water and power for
residents of both Southeast Texas
and Louisiana.
One of the first obstacles to be
faced is obtaining a permit from
the State Board of Water Engi-
neers. In this, the Sabine River
Authority is opposed by the owners
of timberland which would be
flooded by the reservoir.
Louisiana will be a partner in the
project, if it materializes. Louis-
iana voters already have approved
a $15,000,000 loan to meet its share
of the cost.
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• End of An Era . . .
One of the most colorful and
controversial names in 20th cen-
tury Texas politics passed from
the scene with the death of Mrs.
Miriam A. Ferguson.
Mrs. Ferguson, 86 years old, died
Sunday, June 25, at her home in
Austin. Doctors said she died of
“complications of old age.” She
suffered a heart attack last De-
cember and had been hospitalized
several times in the past year.
Though she preferred housekeep-
ing and flower raising, Mrs. Fer-
guson was the first (and only)
woman governor of Texas. Also
one of the only two women gov-
ernors ever to be elected in the
nation.
Beginning of the “Ferguson era”
was in 1914 when her husband, Jim
Ferguson, was elected governor, as
the champion of the Texas tenant
farmer. He was re-elected in 1916
but was impeached in 1917.
In 1924 Mrs. Ferguson ran for
governor, with the announced pur-
pose of clearing her husband’s
name. She was elected in 1924, de-
feated for re-election in 1926, but
won another term in 1932.
With her to the last was the nick-
name she disliked — “Ma.” Her
husband (who died in 1944) was
known as “Pa” or “Farmer Jim.”
• Rate Increase Explained . . .
Texans who are irked at the
prospect of an auto insurance rate
increase should take note that they
have had a year’s reprieve since
the increase was indicated, says
the Insurance Board chairman.
Claim costs indicated that a rate
increase was justified last year,
says Chairman Tom Ferguson, but
the 'Board postponed making it be-
cause the safe driving plan had
just gone into effect.
In that 12-month interval, said
Ferguson, drivers actually have
paid $20,000,000 less in insurance
premiums than cost figures show
they should have. As a conse-
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Wade, Max & Wade, Helen. The Groom News (Groom, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 19, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 6, 1961, newspaper, July 6, 1961; Groom, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1511549/m1/2/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Carson County Library.