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THE OENISQN PRESS, DENISON* TEXAS
TWO FRIDAY, MAY 15, 1939
Hie AJ).A. hornswaggle
When THE PRESS some two years ago called attention to
the actions and policy of the ADA, American Dairy Association,
and how they were cheating the milkmen and dairymen of this
area, we received a letter from Earl Cabell, one of the best in-
formed men in the south, indorsing the position of this editor.
Time passes and the condition for the milk producers of this
area has not improved. Rather they have grown worse.
Now comes information and charges made by spokesmen
for the Texas milk producers, that the milk being shipped into
Texas is abnormal and at higher prices than is good milk pro-
duced in this state.
The flat charge is made by Texas milk industry that the milk
being shipped into this state "is composed of 12 per cent pow-
der."
In an effort, belated as it is, a bill (SB 277) has been passed
through the Texas Senate presented by Senator Grady Hazel-
wood of Amarillo. It now awaits the lower house.
This bill provides, and rightly so, that imported milk sold
in Texas must be produced on dairy farms conforming to the
same rigid health standards as those located in Texas.
Texas has plenty of this "milk powder" but we don't palm
it off to human beings as pure milk. We do confess to using
it for our pets and for stock feed in some sort of fashion. But
neither our milk men nor our grocers go out for fooling the peo-
ple of Texas.
All Texas dairymen are backing the bill for pure milk in
Texas. If enough of our voters will write their Senator and tell
him what they want him to do, the bill should become a law.
Our Senator Kay Roberts has been active in supporting this
bill and should be commended. For the convenience of our
readers who will lend support lo the Senate Bill No. 277 we
are listing the names of our Texas senators. Just write "Senator
Aikin," addressing just the surname, to Austin and it will be
delivered.
The listed Senators are: Aikin, Baker, Bradshaw, Colson,
Crump, Dies, Fly, Fuller, Gonzalez, Hardeman, Hazlewood, Her-
ring, Hudson, Kazen, Krueger, Lane, Martin, Moffett, Moore,
Owen, Parkhouse, Phillips, Ratliff, Reagan, Roberts, Rogers, Se-
crest, Smith, Weinert, Willis, Wood
It is about the time of year we start on cleaning up the
streets and alleys. Maybe, in some cases downtown where we
would not dare say anything about it, some will act without the
usual prod and clean off their business lot or the premises. That
might hearten the others over the city generally to wake up to
the fact no favorites are being played.
THE DENISON PRESS
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at Denison, Texas, under the act of Mirch 3, 1879."
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TEXAS fTpReTS^IASSOCIATION
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DENISON and GRAYSON COUNTY
Grayson county, accredited by Texas Almanac 1955
of having the "most diversified economy of any Texas
county, with income from crops, livestock, manufacturing
and trade, oil, tourists and recreation seekers."
Blockland soils and terrain in the southeast, grand
prairies characteristics in the southwest, gray lands on
divide in central section,- sandy lands and hilly topo-
graphy in north part along Red River. Drains to Red
River on north, Trinity on south. Post oak, walnut, hickory,
pecan, elm, bols d' are. Oil. brick clay, cement material,
silica.
Lake Texoma has six million acre feet capacity, many
bays for fishing, boating on large scale, lake 1300 miles
around perimeter, and declared the ninth ranking in
capacity among the world's reservoirs. Lake four miles
north of Denison.
County has a [population of 79,500.53 4 per cent urban;
90.9 per cent Anglo-Americans; 8.7 per cent negro; .04
per cent Latin American. Annual rainfall 37.55 Inches;
temperature averagei Jan. 43 deg., July 84 deg., mean
annually 65 dtg.
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Sidelights
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AUSTIN, Texas—Senators and
representatives will have only a
brief breather between regular
and special sessions of the Legisla-
ture. Gov. Price Daniel announc-
ed that lawmakers would convene
bgain, the first of next week.
Big question around the Capitol
now is how many special sessions
will be needed to solve the state's
tax problem.
Since the lawmakers failed,
during their 120-day regular ses-
sion, to erase the $65,000,000 de-
ficit and balance the budget for
1960-61, that chore will be num-
ber one on their agenda. And
most observers think it will take
at least two, and maybe more, 30-
riay special sessions to iron things
out.
Only matters speefically offer-
ed by the governor may be con-
sidered during a special session of
the legislature, and all legislation
started during the regular session
must start over, practically from
Hcratch. Revenue-raising propos-
als will have to be introduced
again in the House, heard in com-
mittee, etc., before they can go to
the Senate.
"OPEN SHOP" TEACHING —
Any college graduate could teach
school in Texas—at least for a
year or two—under a House-pass-
td bill.
Bill 'would grant a teacher's cer-
tificate good for one year to any
bachelor's degree holder, whether
he had teacher training or not.
Certificates could be renewed
twice. After that, the applicant
vrould have to take 12 semester
hours of teacher education.
Miss Maud Isaacks of El Paso,
Uerself a teacher for many years,
sponsored the bill. Professional
educators were divided on the
merits of the plan.
Some .said it would increase
qualified personnel; others, that
it would attract to Texas the mis-
fits and ne'er-do-wells from "all
the freshwater colleges" in the na-
tion.
PLOUGHED UNDER —In the
final days of a session, there usu-
ally isn't time to revive a bill that
gets pushed aside. Among the bills
whose setbacks were interpreted
us death for this year are these:
MILK IMPORT REGULA-
TIONS, sponsored by Sen. Grady
Hazlewood of Amarillo. House
supporters couldn't muster the
two-thirds majority to take the
hill out of order. Proponents said
the restrictions on milk brought
across the state line was needed
for health reasons. Opponents
called it a trade barrier that would
raise the price of milk.
BROADENING THE COMMON
PURCHASER OIL LAW, by Sen.
Ilazelwood. Senate refused to take
up the bill which would require
pipelines to provide connections to
new fields or transport the oil to
market by track.
BAN ON SUNDAY AUTO
SALES, by Sen. George Park-
house of Dallas. It passed Senate,
but House refused twice to take it
"P.
BAN ON NUDIST CAMPS, by
Rep. James Turman of Gober.
Senate passed, but House refused
to call it out of committee. Com-
mittee had referred it to the At-
torney General who said it would
be legal.
HIGHWAY ZONING — Both
houses moved quickly toward pas-
sage of a bill to protect smaller
toad* from heavier truck loads.
Gov. Daniel asked for such reg-
ulation when he signed the bill to
increase permitted truck loads
from 68,420 to 72,000 pounds.
Proposed bill would allow the
State Highway* Department to
zone state highways and farm
loads for lighter truck loads and
gives same authority to County
Commissioners for county roads.
INSURANCE QUESTION
MARKS _ Whether the State
Board of Insurance should operate
full-time or part-time was an is-
sue expected to carry over into
the special session.
House made its preference clear
by putting full-time salaries in the
House appropriations bill by pass-
ing a bill specifically providing
foi a full-time board.
Senate version of the appropria-
tion bill provided for what would
amount to about one-third time
salaries ($5000 a year) for In-
surance Board members. Many
senators opposed a full-time board
in addition to a full-time commis-
sioner when the department was
re-organized two years ago. Since
then, they have been angered be-
cause the board retained Willliam
A. Harrison as commissioner after
the Senate had disapproved him.
Since no conference committee
was appointed to adjust differ-
ences between the two houses' ap-
propriation bills, it was abvious
the insurance hassle could not be
resolved in the regular session.
TOURIST BILL PASSES—The
much discussed and battered bill
to permit the state of Texas to
advertise its tourist advantages
finally was approved by both
houses of the Legislature before
adjournment of the regular ses-
sion.
As passed, the bill puts into ef-
fect the constitutional amendment
approved by a close margin by the
voters at the election last Novem-
ber. It differs in one important
respect, however. It does not pro-
vide that industries shall match
state funds—which was the sales
pitch that was used to effect pas-
sage of the amendment by Texas
voters.
Designated to handle the pro-
gram is the governor, the chair-
man of the State Highway Com-
mission, and the chairman of the
Texas Industrial Commission.
SHORT SNORTS—House pass-
ed a resolution opposing federal
tegulation of wages to imported
farm labor. It was sent to the US
Dept. of Labor and to Congress.
Some called it the "get your cot-
ton picking hands off our cotton
picking hands" measure . . . Sen-
ate approved the House-passed bill
to allow for abolishing the office
of county school superintendent in
counties not needing one. But it
was amended so it applied to only
two counties, Young and Parker
. . . Number of persons receiving
unemployment payments in Texas
is one-third fewer this month than
in the recession spring of a year
ago. Texas Employment Commis-
sion reported 58,410 jobless now
compared to 90,946 in May, 1958
. . . It was a rough session for a
presiding officer, but House
Speaker Waggoner Carr had "his
day." Many colleagues paid trib-
ute to Carr on Speaker's Day, and
Carr and his family received nu-
merous gifts.
Economic
Highlights
"An ever-increasing chunk of
your tax dollar goes to satiate
that Frankenstein monster known
as 'the farm problem.' It devours
5.4 billion dollars in this year's
gulp. And the money artvee noth-
ing!"
Thus writes John Strohm, one
of the country's leading agricul-
tural writers and editors in the
May issue of The Reader's Digest.
And the title of his article indi-
cates its premise: "Let's Stop
Trying to Legislate Farm In-
come!"
Just about everyone agrees that
the various federal farm programs
so far tried have been failures. So
new programs are being concoct-
ed for Congressional considera-
tion. One of these, which seems
to have considerable support, fol-
lows the principles of the Bran-
nun Plan which was suggested
some years ago. Under it, farm
pioducts would be sold in the free
market for whatever prices they
would bring, and the government
would pay farmers the difference
between that price and what the
law established as a fair price.
This scheme, as Mr. Strohm
sees it, has "a lot of political sex
appeal." Theoretically, it would
achieve a series of important goals
1.11 at once—that is food would be
consumed instead of stored; food
prices to consumers probably
would decline, and the farmer
would get his fair price.
So much for the credit side.
The debits, as listed, are of a stag-
gering character. If farm prices
were supported at 90 per cent of
parity, the direct-payment plan
would cost $10.7 billion a year
v. ithin five year.3. This would hap-
pen at a time when farm income
is at its historical high and our
farm efficiency and output "are
the envy of the Communist
world." Moreover, Mr. Strohm
makes this big point: "... farm-
ers have accomplished this in spite
ol', not because of, government
aid. To illustrate: livestock men,
who have successfully fought off
government price .supports, are the
most prosperous segment of agri-
culture today, while wheat and
cotton farmers, who have been
propped up most, are in the worst
ti ouble."
Also, according to the article,
an overwhelming majority of ag-
ricultural economists believe the
direct-payment program would
produce a long list of additional
unfortunate results. These in-
clude: stimulation of still more
unwanted production: the spread
of farm aid to all commodities;
patterns of farming would be
frozen; controls would be the most
rigid in history; a new army of
ugricultural officials would be
needed; inefficient farms would
be kept in business at the expenv
of the efficient; and, eventually,
food prices would rise.
What, then, should be done?
The first step, in Mr. Strohm's
view, is for Congress to "revise
unwise price policies of the past
and shut the government gran-
ary door to prevent further build-
up." Then our food disposal pro-
grams would gradually reduce the
incredibly large surpluses the gov-
ernment is holding.
Then something must be done
about "the two million families
whose farms do not bring them
a decent living ..." and who
"represents a problem that is more
sociological than agricultural."
Their lack of capital and know-
hew makes it impossible for them
to keep up. Mr. Strohm suggests
that government should help these
people find better opportunities,
either in or out of farming.
The big thing, in sum, is that
we need less farm legislation—
not more. Here is the article's
conclusion: "Farmers cannot ex-
pect—and, I'm sure, do not want
—a sure thing. All they want is
equality of opportunity, and free-
dom from too much government
help. The fact is, as Dr. Fred H.
Wiegmann of Louisiana State
University, points out: "Our main
farm surplus today may be a sur-
plus of legislation."
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Other Eds Thought!
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Can't be done
A politician in a letter to his
constituents recently stated:
"I worked hard to raise old age
pensions . . . sponsored a law
to provide $6 more per person
per month in medical care . . .
raised social security payments 7
per cent . . . authored bills for $20
million to rebuild flood and
drought ravaged Texas farms and
ranches; to help make it possible
for a million Americans to live in
better homes; for food relief to
get the minimum requirements
for a balanced diet. ..."
The letter added: "One of the
great concerns of our day is to
secure fiscal stability," and "my
bill for a reduction of personal
income taxes lost in 1958, but I
have just begun to fight."
We are not going to argue over
the politician's "generosity" in
doling out our tax dollars and
taking credit for himself.
What we resent is his inference
that we, and all his constituents,
are so stupid as to believe the gov-
ernment can increase doles and
lower the income tax at one and
the same time.
Such assininity is an insult to
the intelligence of every man, wo-
man and child In the state of Tex-
PUBLIC OPINION POLL
FOR
1960 While House Conference on Children & Youth
ABOUT
Problems of Texas Children and Youth
In my opinion the ten biggest problems of children and youth in Texas ate.
(examples: hunger, lack of spiritual training, juvenile crime, education, etc.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10
Checlc one:
I am over 21 Q
I am under 21 Q
Name
Address
MAIL TO
GOVERNOR PRICE DANIEL
Austin 11, Texas
Mayor's report to citizens first year
under City fflanager operation 1958
To bettor servo THE PRESS readers as to the services their money buys as related
to Denison under the city manager form of government, a series of articles coverieg
such operation is being printed giving the report by Mayor Martin.
ARTICLE NO. 8
Sewer extensions and improve-
ments:
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.► a c 2
5 5 -s £ u 5
O O tn o O) O
O H W O O. U
Iron ore sewage
treatment
plant $169,430.00 67%
Layne District
sewer lines 116,167.50 70%
Sewage
pumps 11,073.75 99%
Little Shaw-
nee sewage
treatment
plant 68,940.00 69%
Iron ore out-
bs. Or do we have people who
actually think a politician can
perform such a miraculous feat?
—Watchman, Carthage, Texas.
Annunciation Church
1618 Texas Avenue
P.O. Box 214
Houston, Texas, May 9,1959.
The Editor,
Denison Press
205 West Main St.,
Denison, Texas.
Dear Sir:
Our mutual friend, Arthur Le-
fevre, Jr., was good enough to
let me see the outstanding editor-
ial you wrote in your Friday, May
8 issue. Please send me three cop-
ies of this valued issue, if still
available; my check for 50 cents
to cover costs and mailing is at-
tached.
Thanking you for attention to
the above order and congratulat-
ing you again on your fine edito-
rial, I am,
Yours in Christ,
Anton J. Frank,
(Very Rev. Father Anton J.
Frank, Pastor.)
Home Town News
M/Sgt. Jessie F. Jett, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Cass F. Jett, Route
3, Denison, Texas, retired April
30 from the Army at Fort Sill,
Okla., after having served more
than 20 years on active military
duty.
Sgt. Jett was serving as com-
munications chief in the 13th Ar-
tillery at the fort before retiring.
He returned in January, '59 from
Korea where he served with the
1st Cavalry Division Area Sup-
port Command.
A heavy cruiser has more than
3400 light fixtures of which al-
most 3000 are for 60 to 100 watt
house-type lamp*.
fall line 182,331.84 72%
Interceptor
sewer lines 264,005.55 12%
Paw Paw treat-
ment plant and
lift station 50,580.00 0
Total sewer extensions and im-
provement contracts: $862,528.64.
Total lines installed:
27" 8,845 ft.
21" 6,985 ft.
4,370 ft. 11,355 ft.
18" 5,717 ft.
15" 2,228 ft.
12" 7,370 ft.
10" 4,528 ft.
8" 9,840 ft.
6" 2,013 ft.
Total 51,896 ft.
Respectively submitted,
John K. Smithen,
Director of Public Works.
Fire Department Annual Report:
Mr. David A. Harner
City Manager
Denison, Texas
Dear Mr. Harner:
The report of the Denison Fire
Department for the year of 1958
is as follows:
Fire calls for inside city limits:
Residences 96
Mercantile 13
Grass 217
Others 87
Total 413
Fire calls for outside city limits:
Residences 12
Mercantile 5
Grass 42
Others 8
Total 67
Drownings 5
The report shows an increase
in fire losses over last year. How-
ever, the number of fire calls al-
most doubled those in the year
oi 195*7. With the number of calls
increased, our losses are not much
greater than those in 1957.
We had a large number of
small losses with only one major
loss. This was the Mt. Zion Bap-
tist Church which will not show
in this year's report.
Work in the department includ-
ed major repairs on four of the
most used trucks. Our latest pump
truck which is a 750 G.P.M. is a
1942 model. It has had major
repairs and this will increase in
the future. Our other 750 G.P.M.
pump, a 1935 model, is still in
use but because of its age and use,
the repair bills increased in the
pr st year. Our booster truck is
in constant need of repairs and in
the near future will have to be re-
placed.
Plans for 1959 include, a
house-to-house inspection for fire
hazards which we hope will de-
crease our number of house fires.
Sincerely yours,
George L. Cravens,
Fire Chief.
Governor Daniel
seeks poll as to
youths' problems
Nearly all Texans have ideas
about the problems of children
and youth today, but seldom do
they get the chance to tell it to
their president or governor. Now
they can by simply filling out the
Public Opinion Poll on this page
and mailing it to Gov. Price Dan-
ial in Austin.
Actually, President Eisenhower
and Governor Daniel want each
citizen's idea about the state and
nation's future citizens. President
Eisenhower has called a White
House Conference on Children
in.d Youth, as each president has
done every year since Teddy
Roosevelt. This week Governor
Daniel issued a call for all Tex-
uns to look at barriers to the fu-
ture development of the state's
most precious resource—its chil-
dren.
Governor Daniel has asked offi-
cials in every county to organize
:i large local committee to study
all welfare, education, health, and
spiritual resources available in
each community to the juvenile
delinquent, the hungry child, the
student in each independent
school district, the ill and handi-
capped, those in day care while
their mothers work, and children
who need protection.
Meet our own problem
At the first meeting of the 129
prominent Texas civic leaders on
the governor's committee for the
I960 White House Conference on
Children and Youth, Daniel told
his appointees, "Our purpose is
not to go to Washington for some-
one to tell us what to do about
cur children. Rather, it is to gen-
erate public interest in how we
in Texas can meet the needs and
problems of our youngsters. Re-
sponsibility rests upon our homes,
our churches and our schools to
give training to qualify our chil-
dren for citizenship."
Governor Daniel has asked that
every Texan use time and
thoughtful interest in expreasing
his ideas through the poll appear-
ing in The Press, and mail it dl-
lectly to him. The results will be
tabulated and will represent Tex-
as' demand for attention at the
White House conference.
The Social Security Administra-
tion says that many parents of
workers who have died could qual-
ify for dependent parent's bene-
fits if they would make a claim,
if you were receiving at least one-
half of your support from a work-
ing son or daughter at the time
of her death, contact your social
security office.
Reliable man or woman to dis-
tribute line of cigarettes, candy,
nuts, and gum through automatic
merchandisers. No selling. We
establish accounts for you. To
qualify par'y must have car and
rash capital of $400 to $1'700
which is secured. Excellent
earnings part time. More full
time. Write Mr. George Conrad,
1201 Turners Crossroad, Minne-
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