The Groom News (Groom, Tex.), Vol. 39, No. 18, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 2, 1964 Page: 2 of 8
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THURSDAY, JULY 2, 1964
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be locked from the main quarters of the
outside entrance door. It is now avail-
which touch them.
This plan would give all present
senators except two a chance for
East Texas in 1839 by a Republic
of Texas army, have failed in an
attempt to “recapture” claims to
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counties of Harris, Dallas, Bexar
| and Tarrant and attaching the
i slices to present senatorial districts
! the “no” sign to a proposed settle-
i ment of their claim to 2,500,000
acres of land in Smith, Cherokee,
Van Zandt, Gregg and Rusk coun-
ties.
Cherokee Indian Nation, through
general counsel, Earl Boyd Pierce,
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tentative recommendations of his
Committee on Education Beyond
the High School. But disagree-
ments over financial details pre-
vented the report from being a fi-
nal one.
Committee members will meet
again on July 13-14 to finish the
job. Chairman H. B. Zachry prom-
ised the report will be presented to
the Governor and Legislature by
the August 31 deadline.
Lawmakers of the 58th Legisla-
ture appropriated $175,000 for the
study aimed at pointing the way to
number 1 ranking for Texas col-
leges and universities. Less than
half that amount has been spent to
date.
from the traveled way that can
be used as bus stops.
A more significant adaptation
of the freeway to bus use would
be the provision of a special
freeway bus lane from _ which
other traffic would be excluded.
Providing such bus lanes would
complicate the design of the
freeway and add to its cost. But
the reserved lane would make it
possible to provide bus lines
with schedules comparable to
rail transit schedules, at sub-
stantially less cost than the cost
of constructing a rail transit
system. The Bureau of Public
Roads takes the position that
such reserved bus lanes are
reasonable if the number of bus
passengers using the lane ex-
ceeds the number of persons
who would normally be moved
in the lane in the same period
in passenger cars during a con-
gested period, or about 3,000
persons per hour.
The special bus lane, of course,
could be opened to other traffic
during non-peak hours, when
transit usage shrinks. Many
freeways are heavily used dur-
ing holidays and at other peri-
ods when there is little demand
for commuter transit.
The rail transit facility, on
the other hand, must pay for
itself during the relatively short
period of daily commuter move-
ments.
able after 5:00 p.m., each week day. There is no
charge for the facilities and reservation of dates is re-
quested.
and population tables, trying to see
how the new court rules on legis-
lative apportionment affect them.
One plan in general circulation in-
volves the Texas 'Senate. It en-
visions slicing up the four big-city
. , re-election, if they can get the
"8 . votes in the portions of the big
pared with 1963. However, rates
will vary from area to area.
Liability insurance rates reflect
a statewide increase of 3.8 per
cent, and medical payment cover-
age will increase about 8.7 per
cent. Collision coverage will be re-
duced .5 per cent.
Overall reduction in rates is due
primarily to a 15.5% cut in com-
prehensive coverage, due to low
wind and hail storm damages last
year.
of the State National Bank is now available for group
meetings, club meetings, etc. The room is equipped
with china, silverware, chairs, tables, refrigeration, elec-
tric burners, automatic dishwasher, hot and cold water
and rest room facilities.
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• New Auto Insurance Rates Set lands they were forced to leave.
Texas automobile owners willj Atty. Gen. Waggoner Carr gave
pay less for auto insurance begin- -
ning August 1.
State Insurance Board and indus-
try spokesmen agreed on the new
rates, which will average out 1.2
per cent cheaper statewide than
last year.
Board estimated motorists will
save $3,000,000 in premiums com-
several months ago proposed that
Governor Connally set up a histor-
ical fact-finding commission to re-
view the claims.
For each acre of land the com-
mission might find the Indians
were unjustly ousted, Pierce rec-
ommended one dollar be allocated
by the state to a trust fund for
higher education of worthy Chero-
kees. This money would draw five
per cent interest annually, and at
the end of 25 years, the Cherokees
would return the corpus of the
fund to the state, releasing all
claims.
Atty. Gen. Carr concluded: the
plan of settlement would require
an unconstitutional appropriation
by the Legislature, therefore neith-
er he nor the Governor is author-
ized to pursue it.
cities assigned them.
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• Education Sutdy Group
Gov. John Connally got a look at
There is nothing about a bus
which makes it unsuitable for
freeway operation. But many
freeways, unfortunately, have
not been designed for the ef-
ficient handling of transit oper-
ations.
Consequently, many people
are led to believe that the only
efficient transit is that which
runs on steel wheels. Over-eager
promoters of rail transit have
encouraged this belief.
As E. H. Holmes, Director of
Planning for the Bureau of Pub-
lic Roads, pointed out in a re-
cent speech, more than three
quarters of the transit patrons
in the United States ride on
rubber tires, not on steel wheels.
So transit patrons, to a large
extent, are dependent on high-
ways for rapid and efficient
movement.
The essential advantage of a
freeway over a conventional
highway is limited access, with
the points of entry and exit
limited in number. Related to
this advantage is the fact that
stopping on the freeway right-
of-way is prohibited except in
case of emergency. In order to
make it practical for operators
of bus lines to make the most
efficient use of freeways, it is
important that freeway inter-
change points be located in a
manner suitable for transit us-
age and that there be turnoffs
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• Funds Asked . . .
Officials of the Attorney General
Department have asked for more
funds to prosecute cases involving
slant-hole oil wells and Billie Sol
Estes.
They reason that judgments al-
ready awarded in the suits have
brought the state $577,000, or $3.00
for each $1.00 spent.
In 1963 the Legislature provided
$82,000 to handle these suits in
fiscal 1964 and 1965. Now, the de-
partment wants $100,000 for 1966
and 1967.
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• Hill-Burton Requests . . .
Texas cities which have request-
ed a total of $22,000,000 worth of
Hill-Burton funds to finance com-
munity hospitals and health cen-
ters will have to wait until Septem-
ber for any action from, the State
Health Department. Even then
some of them will be turned down.
Health Department won’t decide
which among the 39 projects to
recommend until congressional ac-
tion on renewal of the act is com-
plete in September.
Hill-Burton allocation for Texas
in past years has run just over
$13,000,000 for a year. Health de-
partment officials do not think it
will be any more this year.
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• Texas News Briefs . . .
Parks and Wildlife Department
will open bids on July 1 for con-
cession rights on the new Port La-
vaca fishing pier.
Program for tracing brucellosis
and qualifying for certification by
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• Lawmakers Face Tough Job
An already “tough” job faced by
Texas lawmakers in the 59th Leg-
islature will be complicated even
more by “issues of high emotional
content,” Lt. Gov. Preston Smith
feels.
These issues, according to the
lieutenant governor, include: pro-
posals to legalize parimutual bet-
ting on horse races, sales of liquor
by the drink in eating establish-
ments, control of oyster shell
dredging on the Gulf Coast, an
oil and gas “pooling” bill, further
controls on water pollution, repeal
of the poll tax and another propos-
ed constitutional amendment to
guarantee equal rights to women
in property and business manage-
ment.
“The Legislature will need a
combination of many virtues if it
disposes of all the inmportant and
controversial legislation laid before
it,” Lt. Gov. Smith told approxi-
mately 250 mayors and councilmen
gathered in the capital city for an
institute on municipal problems.
Three major “musts” confront
the Legislature next year, Smith
said. These include:" deciding the
future course of higher education,
financing education and ‘‘other vi-
tal state functions,” and congres-
sional and legislative redistricting.
Legislators are busy with maps
will kill 32 persons in Texas over
the three-day July 4th week end,
if Texas Department of Public
Safety estimates prove correct.
DPS Director Homer Garrison Jr.
urges Texans to make the July 4th
holiday week end the turning point
away from a two-year upward
trend in fatal traffic accidents.
Garrison describes the present
traffic situation as “critical.”
“Operation Motorcide’’ will be in
effect from 12:01 a.m. on July 3
through Sunday, July 5, he an-
nounced, “in an effort to focus pub-
lic attention on added hazards of
holiday road traffic and to encour-
age safety consciousness among
drivers.”
Additional highway patrolmen
from the license and weight and
motor vehicle inspection services
will supplement the regular patrol
staff over the holiday period.
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