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THE GROOM NEWS, GROOM, CARSON COUNTY, TEXAS
THURSDAY, JUNE 4, 1964
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Telephone 5201
222 Main, Panhandle, Texas
Open daily 7:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.—Sundays 7:30 a.m. to 10 a.m.
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Gene Carter, Registered Pharmacist, Proprietor
Phone 2741
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convention’s 2,834 votes.
name delegates to the Democratic
J. W. Stamps, owner, Box 667, Panhandle, Tex.
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BUILDING MATERIALS
Phone 2821
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WE SOLICIT THE PATRONAGE OF
THE PRODUCERS OF THIS AREA
of highways, so such construe- sible. Rather, it was our high-
tion activity generates employ- ways that made our wealth pos-
ment throughout the economy.” sible.”
pital system and
higher education.
He also noted
CARSON COUNTY ABSTRACT CO.
Realtors, Abstractors of Titles
Prompt, Dependable Service
GROOM HARDWARE
& LUMBER
Bill and Leon Bohr, proprietors
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STAMPS SPRAYING SERVICE
Phone 7781, Panhandle, (collect)
PRESCRIPTIONS
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FOR EMERGENCY Prescription Service After Hours and
on Sundays—Phone Groom Memorial Hospital, No. 4121
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tests involve 819 of the Houston
Highway construction gener-
ates employment not only in all
major, sectors of the economy
but also in all sections of the
country. Unlike certain other
industries which are concen-
trated in one area, highway
construction activities are, by
their very nature, widely dis-
persed. The Nation’s 3.5 mil-
lion miles of roads traverse
every county, and it’s a rare
county (if, indeed any such
exists) which does not have
some road work to do every
year.
Road-building is a big indus-
try in itself, but the chief em-
ployment benefits are the in-
direct ones that result from the
stimulus that new roads give to
the economy. New roads are
magnets for new stores and fac-
tories, new homes and apart-
ments, new schools and churches.
As the late Commissioner of
Public Roads, Thomas H. Mac-
Donald, commented many years
ago, “We were not a wealthy
Nation when we began improv-
ing our highways — but the .
roads themselves have helped
us create a new wealth, in busi-
ness and industry and land
values; so it was not our wealth
that made our highways pos-
national presidential nominating
institutions of
Although the highway indus-
try has made some remarkable
advances in the utilization of
labor-saving machinery, it is
still very true that roads are
built by people.
A recent report by the Bu-
reau of Public Roads estimates
that highway construction in
1964 will provide employment
for 870,000 workers. This in-
cludes 370,000 employees of
highway contractors working at
construction sites and 500,000
persons in off-site jobs in the
production, supply and trans-
portation of highway materials
and equipment.
An additional 500,000 people
are employed full time by Fed-
eral, State, county and munici-
pal highway agencies to plan,
design, supervise, maintain and
operate roads and streets.
The total annual payroll of
the 1,370,000 people employed in
highway construction and by
governmental highway agencies
has been estimated at $5.9 bil-
lion.
As a recent report by the U. S.
Department of Labor’s Bureau
of Labor Statistics puts it, “All
major parts of the economy are
involved directly or indirectly to
some degree in the construction
year. Key issue is whether the
convention will support the nation-
al platform and agree to support
ALL party nominees.
• President Honored . . .
President Lyndon B. Johnson re-
turned to Austin and Johnson City
to address commencement cere-
monies, talk politics and visit with
friends.
In his fourth trip to his home
state since becoming president,
Johnson addressed graduates of
Johnson High School in Johnson
railroad commissioners have called
on U.S. Secretary of Interior Stew-
art L. Udall to revise the oil im-
ports program before the next quo-
ta period starting July 1.
They particularly recommended
oil from the Texas region of sur-
plus be moved to the West Coast
where foreign oil continues to fill
almost total market growth. Con-
nally said deterioration in Texas
crude prices and production drop-
off ‘“threaten to erase the slight
progress of 1963 and assure a third
consecutive year of decline in the
State’s reserves and productive
capacity.” The domestic produc-
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firmed a Travis County District
court ruling of last June. Suit was
brought by landowners in the pro-
posed reservoir area, who claimed
the dam should be constructed 27.7
convention and select Texas na- i milesfrom Wichita Falls instead of
tional committee representatives. 11 miles from the city as planned.
Texas Democrats are united in Supreme Court agreed to review
support of President Johnson this cases where courts of civil appeals
• I ruled paying traffic fines in cor-
I poration court does not constitute
a conviction which can be counted
toward drivers license suspension.
• Oil Imports Changes Urged . . .
Gov. John Connally and State
convention will
on June 16 and for the convention
to embrace the National party
platform and all platform nomi-
nees.
Gov. John Connally said moder-
ate - conservative delegates will
comprise two-thirds of the duly
elected representatives at the June
meeting, and he does not want res-
olutions endorsing all planks of the
national platform.
The State Democratic Executive
Committee Chairman Frank C. ET-
win Jr. has named Austin attorney
Will D. Davis as head of a SDEC
panel to hear delegation contests
from Bexar, Dallas, Harris, Hutch-
inson, Edwards, Randall and Sher-
man Counties. SDEC will make
the final decision as to which dele-
em
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committee of the State Bar of Tex-
as judicial section has proposed
big pay boosts—of $12,000 a year—-
for judges. Under the Bar Com-
mittee’s plan, base salaries of dis-
trict judges would be doubled-
from $12,000 to $24,000 a year.
Court of Civil Appeals would be
raised from $16,000 to $28,000, and
the Supreme Court and Court of
Criminal Appeals from $20,000 to
$32,000.
Some civil appeals judges had
requested no raises at all until the
committee report came out,” Mc-
Gee said. But amended budget re-
quests now are being received and
the $12,000 raises supported in bud-
get hearings now underway.
• Rump Delegation Threatened
Threat of a rump liberal delega-
tion to the national Democratic
convention was posed by State
AFL-CIO President H. S. (Hank)
Brown.
Brown said a sure way to pre-
vent that is for all legally-elected
delegates to be seated at the State
Democratic convention at Houston
the legislative
Johnson received an honorary de-
gree from UT.
The biggest gathering of State
officials and lawmakers in the
capital city since the last legisla-
tive session turned out to hear the
President’s university speech and
gations to seat. The eight con-
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however, declined to name the
sponsor.
Repeated efforts to legalize over
the bar sales of mixed drinks in
Texas have collapsed in recent
sessions of the Legislature under ■ City, where he graduated 40 years
the combined weight of opposition | earlier, and the University of Tex-1
by dry forces and church groups. - - -
visit with him at a reception after-
ward.
• Courts Speak . . .
Sunday closing laws specifically
authorize emergency purchases Su-
preme Court held in a Nueces
County case. Case involved week
end sales by Shoppers World on
emergency certificates.
Decision did not pass on consti-
tutionality of the 1961 closing stat-
ute, although one judge said in a
concurring opinion the whole act
should be declared invalid.
The high court also concluded oil
and gas production formulas adopt-
ed by the Texas Railroad Commis-
sion are subject only to timely at-
tacks in court. Its opinion appar-
ently continues some 2,000 allocat-
ed formulas placed in doubt by its
1961 “Normanna” decision. The
court overturned lower court rul-
ings invalidating Calhoun County
gas field allocation. Aluminum
I Company of American claimed
! small track operators were per-
mitted to drain away $9,000,000
worth of gas from an Alcoa lease.
Texas Water Commission find-
ings authorizing the City of Wich-
ita Falls to build $12,500,000 "Hal-
sell Dam” on Little Wichita River
were upheld by the Third Court of
Civil Appeals. Commission af-
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“This is not a wet-dry issue,”
said non-drinking ex-restauranteur
Price. “Texans can buy anything
they want to drink right now. All
we are trying to do is make it con-
venient for a man who wants to
have a drink served in a dignified
manner at a nice restaurant to be
able to get one.”
Price, who also is secretary of
the Texas Tourist Council, said he
believes sale of mixed drinks “will
definitely stimulate the tourist
program in our state.”
Furthermore, he estimated, the
TRA bill would produce nearly $3,-
000,000 a year in new tax revenue.
• Sky’s The Limit” . . .
Legislative Budget Board mem-
bers heard a warning from their
executive director, Vernon McGee,
that “the sky seems to be the lim-
it” on state agency spending re-
quests for 1965-67.
As an example, McGee cited
budget proposals of the State hos-
AUSTIN, Texas — Texas Res-
taurant Association, headquartered
in Austin, is backing a proposal to
legalize the sale of mixed drinks
in Texas.
Executive Vice President W.
Price Jr., of the 2600-member or-
as. Both the President and Mrs.
ganization, reports that a six-
member committee of his group
has drawn a bill for presentation.
TRA’s bill would authorize local
option elections on the sale, by
food establishments, of distilled
spirits in sealed oentainers of two
ounces or less. Also it would ex-
tend the liquor curfew until 2 a.m.
Price said he has sounded out a
number of legislators and found
them enthusiastic. One of the most
prominent members of the House
of Representatives is expected to
introduce the measure. Price,
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Wade, Max & Wade, Helen. The Groom News (Groom, Tex.), Vol. 39, No. 14, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 4, 1964, newspaper, June 4, 1964; Groom, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1511787/m1/2/: accessed June 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Carson County Library.