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3—THURS. APRIL 16, 1964
..THE WYLIE NEWS
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NATIONAL OUTLOOK
By Oeoroe Haoedorn
The Mystery of the Non-Vanishing Poverty
Statistics are more Impres-
sive than words, and many
were shocked when the Ad-
ministration Informed us that
20% of the families In the
country were living In pov-
erty. But statistics, even more
than words, need looking into
and this one turns out to be
much less Impressive when
Its background Is explored.
The criterion for Including
a family In the poverty cate-
gory was an annual Income
below $3,000. This may seem
reasonable enough, but when
the President's Economic Re-
port was published it turned
out that, If the same criterion
were carried backward, 32%
of the nation's families would
have been classed as poverty-
stricken in 1947. This in it-
self makes us wonder whether
the criterion is realistic, in
any absolute sense. Certainly
in the immediate post-World-
War-II years practically
everybody, from the top to
the bottom of the income
ffale, thought of himself as
|ing in a period of un-
recedented prosperity.
In a book just published
an expert from the Census
Bureau calculates that in
1929 some 51% of American
families had incomes less, in
purchasing power equivalent,
than a current income of
$3,000. This makes the mys-
tery still deeper. Is It true
that an actual majority of our
population was living in pov-
erty in that year of peak eco-
nomic activity?
That is the queer result we
reach if the current statistical
measure of poverty Is applied
retrospectively. But statistical
studies of poverty are not
new and when we examine
the results of such studies
made In the past another
kind of mystery emerges. In-
variably, such studies reached
the conclusion that some 20
to 25% of American families
were living below what was,
at the time the study was
conducted, set up as a reason-
able definition of the bound-
ary between poverty and an
adequate income.
The explanation of this ap-
parent contradiction is ob-
vious. When poverty is de-
fined in statistical terms, we
tend to use an elastic stand-
ard which moves up in about
the same proportion as the
average level of all incomes.
There seems to be an in-
built psychological mechanism
which impels the authors of
such studies to choose a
standard which leaves just
about 20% of the population
below the poverty line.
Perhaps one could defend
a statistical approach which
makes poverty, by definition,
the lot of the lowest one-
fifth of our families on the
income scale. But the eradica-
tion of poverty, as so defined,
then becomes as impossible as
the squaring of the circle.
Poverty in the more ordi-
nary sense of the word—want
or destitution — undoubtedly
still exists in our country. But
the measurement of Its extent
has eluded the statisticians.
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STATE CAPITAL
HIGHLIGHTS
AND
SIDELIGHTS
By VERNE SANFORD
JIM LANGDON-A WINNER!
Railroad Commissioner
Jim Lartgdon is a 49-year-
old native Texan with a
winning record in public
office. When John Con-
nally appointed him to
the Railroad Commission,
the Governor said:
"I have for several
weeks been attempt-
ing to find a man I
consider to have out-
standing ability, in-
tegrity and honor...
I am nappy we have
found that man —
Judge Jim C. Lang-
don."
Jim Langdon has fully
i ha
lived up to Governor Con-
nelly's expectations. He has conducted his office in the
spirit of Governor Jim Hogg, who had the Commission
set up in 1891 to look after the public interest in rail-
road and freight rates. It now regulates also truck and
bus rates and the production of oil and gas. Judge
Langdon will continue to keep transportation rates in
line and see to it that our oil reserves are protected
against waste and greed. This will help keep down Texas
gasoline prices, already among the lowest in the nation.
Jim Langdon was elected District Judge twice and
re-elected Chief Justice of the El Paso Court of Civil
Appeals.
ON THE OTHER HAND—
Jim Langdon's Opponent Is a 10-Time Loser!
Jail* Oweni, 69-year-old aMorney, it still
running for office after 38 yeari and TEN
DEFEATS. He hat lost the following racei:
1926—Defeated for Sheriff of Foard County by L. D. Campbell.
1930—Defeated for District Attorney by John Meyeri.
1932—Defeated for District Attorney by Ed Gosiett.
1940—Defeated for District Attorney by T. Gene Rogers.
1946— Defeated for Court of Criminal Appeals by
Tom I. Baauchamp.
1952—Defeated for Court of Criminal Appeals by
K. K. Woodley.
1956—Defeated for Court of Criminal Appeals by
W. A. Morrison.
1958—Defeated for District Judge by Tom Davit.
I960—Defeated for Court of Civil Appeals by James Denton.
1962—Defeated for Teias Supreme Court by Meade F. Griffin.
A Winner All the Way—
Jim C. Langdon
for Railroad Commissioner
(Pol. Adv.—Paid for by Jim Langdon Campaign
Committee, Charlei C. Langdon, Chairman)
AUSTIN, Tex. - Only the
upper 15 per cent of Texas
high school graduates ought to
be taken in the state's top uni-
versities, the Governor's Com-
mittee on Education Beyond the
High School has been told.
A sub - committee also in-
formed the panel that some
type of higher education must
be made available to all and
that there is an urgent need
for general upgrading of the
college system. Enrollments
must be built up, dropouts re-
duced and standards steadily
improved, the study group
heard at a meeting last week.
COURT SPEAKS - State
Supreme Court upheld lower
court decisions that approval of
$65,000,000 Millican Dam on the
Navasota River is final.
Grimes and Brazos County
landowners challenged feasi-
bility of the big federal proj-
ect. Cities of Bryan. College
Station and Navasota asked
dismissal of the suit.
High Court also held an East
Texas oilman, Austin Stewart,
can keep on operating two
slanted oil wells that bottom un-
der his own property. Decision
overturned a district court or-
der which had knocked out a
Railroad Commission order
permitting Stewart to produce
from the wells.
Supreme Court upheld the
right of an irrigation district to
levy flat - rate assessments
against land — regardless of the
exact benefit it will obtain from
irrigation—when it affirmed a
San Antonio appeals court de-
cision on a Maverick County
case.
A resident of that county
sued the Maverick County Wa-
ter Control and Improvement
District No. 1 contending that
a $5.25 - per - acre assessment
on irrigable lands and a $2 per
acre assessment on lands which
could be irrigated by gravity
was illegal.
He said his land is rolling
and did not benefit as much as
level iand owned by others in
the district, but the trial court,
appellate court and the Supreme
Court ruled in favor of the wa-
ter district's right to flat-rate
assessment.
JUVENILE PROGRAM IM-
PROVING - Texas Youth
Council reports that there has
been a sharp and welcome drop
in the number of repeaters
among juvenile offenders sent
to Gatesville, Gainesville and
Crockett correctional schools.
In the fall of 1961, the rate
of returnees was 45'per cent.
Then the 1961 Legislature ap-
propriated funds for expansion
and improvement of school
facilities and for five council
parole officers. By August, 1963,
the return rate was down to 29
per cent and youth council
spokesmen say they hope to
hold this since the parole per-
sonnel was increased to 20 last
month.
The Rev. Clint Kersey, coun-
cil parole supervisor, said,
"We believe that by an in-
creased stay, we can keep them
in school. Then when they are
paroled, they are better able to
adjust and hold a job, and that
cuts the chance of return."
SCREWWORM APPRO -
PRIATION ASKED -Gov.
Connally has requested a $5,-
500,000 congressional appropri-
ation for continued protection
against the screwworm menace
A two - year program has
eradicated the screwworm from
Texas, Connally told congres-
sional leaders, and feasibility
of a barrier along the Mexican
border to prevent re-infestation
is proved.
While southwestern states,
livestock producers and
sportsmen have financed over
half the $12,000,000 program to
date, Connally said, it now is
an international matter and
should be financed by the U.S.
without local matching require-
ments.
The state, producers and
sportsmen would continue
to provide inspection, survey
and other services in the U.S.
OIL FIELD BRINE - The
Texas Water Pollution Control
Board scheduled a hearing for
July 1 at 9 a.m. on its order
prohibiting the surface disposal
of oil field brine in Area II of
the Ogallala formation— t h e
Middle High Plains. All area
II permit holders are to appear
at the hearing and show cause
why their permits should not
be amended to conform to the
no • pit order.
A May 27 hearing has been
set for Ogallala area I — the
Panhandle area —and a hear-
ing on Area IV will be held on
August 5.
THE JUDICIARY - All gu-
bernatorial candidates have
been asked by a State Bar
committee to pledge that, if
elected, each will consult the
bar committee on judicial ap-
pointees.
Vernon B, Hill of Mission
wrote all candidates that his
committee would propose no
nominees, but would rate each
considered for judicial appoin-
tees either exceptionally well
qualified, well qualified, quali-
| fied, or not qualified.
He said a similar procedure
j is followed by the President of
the U.S. and the Attorney Gen-
; eral and the American Bar in
J appointments to the federal ju-
diciary.
State Bar also has named a
committee to consult with news-
papermen and 1 a w officers
about the problem of publicity
1 or lawsuits and trials.
Talbot Rain of Dallas is
chairman, with former District
Judge Joe Frazier Brown of
San Antonio and Joe H. Rey-
nolds of Houston members.
Apparently, the group will
seek to work out some sort of
joint code for policing publicity.
"AIRPORT" OFF LIMITS
— The airstrip at the LBJ
Ranch, a single, 6,300 -feet
runway located 12 miles west
of Johnson City, has been de-
clared off - limits to all civil
and military aircraft, "except
those on official business with
prior permission to use the air-
port."
An order published by the
Texas Aeronautics Commission
for the Federal Aeronautics
Agency said aircraft also must
avoid flying within one nautical
mile of the presidential resi-
dence.
LEASE CALL - The State
is offering 369,786 acres of pub-
lic lands for lease to oil and
gas producers. Land Commis-
sioner Jerry Sadler has called
for sealed bids on 608 tracts to
be submitted by 10 a.m. on May
5.
Sadler predicted the leases
will increase the Permanent
School fund by several mil-
lion dollars.
SLANT-WELL SUITS - Atty.
Gen. Waggoner Carr announced
that nine new civil penalty suits
have been filed against 14 al-
leged slant-well oil operators
in East Texas, making the suit
total 106.
First suit to be filed outside
of East Texas, as well as the
first against an out-of-state de-
fendant, was filed in Jackson
County against John Wrather
of Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Carr also filed another "first"
suit, claiming a Rusk County
gas well was slanted.
APPOINTMENTS - Gov.
Connally appointed Lewis R.
Timberlake of Austin to the
Texas State Historical Sur-
vey Committee. He succeeds the
late Millard Cope, executive of
the San Angelo Standard -
Times. Timberlake is a past
president of the Texas Junior
Chamber of Commerce.
He named Charles H. King
Jr. of Dallas Commissioner of
Bureau of Labor Statistics. King
resigned as president of the Dal-
las AFL-CIO Council to accept
the appointment.
Connally picked Judge W. T. j
McDonald of the Texas Court
of Criminal Appeals to serve
as chairman of the Texas Ju- j
diciary Advisory Committee to j
the U. S. Olympics.
OPINIONS — Attorney Gen-1
eral Carr held in opinions:
Bee County Commissioners j
are not required to name a:
board of managers for a county
hospital at Beeville which has
been leased to Seventh Day Ad-
ventists;
A Bexar County man is en- j
titled to credit on his prison |
sentence for six months held in!
county jail;
Term of Titus County Jus-
tice of Peace Precinct 1, Place
1, began Jan 1, 1963 and ex-
tends through 1966, while the
Titus County J.P., Precinct 1, j
Place 2 (Unexpired term)
serves only through this year. I
WATER COMMISSION - j
South Texas Electric Cooper-1
ative, Victoria, received Texas j
Water Commission aporoval of |
application to take 23,400 acre j
feet of water a year from Gua-;
dalupe River in Victoria County
to cool steam - powered gen-
erators of its new electric plant.
Commission has published
a bulletin, "Research on Evap-
oration Retardation in Small
Reservoirs, 1958-63," for the
benefit of farmers and ranchers
through evaporation. Bulletin is
available free from the com-
mission's office, Austin, Texas.
SHORT SNORTS - Gov.
Connally issued an executive
order in support of the Texas
Education Agency's bid to get
the Federal vocational educa-
tion school contract for aban-
doned Gary Army Airfield at
San Marcos. . Water Pollution
Control Board approved three
applications allowing City of
Orange to continue sewage dis-
posal in Sabine River on con-
dition it improves its plant fa-
cilities promptly. . .Texas May
draft quota is only 258 men,
compared to 449 for April. . .
University of Texas Board of
regents placed law school pro-
tessor Hubert Winston Smith on
leave of absence without pay
during the time he is serving as
Jack Ruby's attorney. . Texas
Industrial Commission's pro-
gram of coordinating existing
development activities may pro-;
vide "the future pattern in in- j
dustrial development for other j
states to follow," according to j
a University of Texas Bureau
of Business Research staffer.
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RESERVOIR
TOTAL PERSONS
VISITING RESERVOIRS
ESTIMATED DISTRIBUTION
OF LAST MONTH'S VISITATION
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March 1
Sm jwl.M-.
Campus
Picnicking
fin nt inn
rxKjiin^
Fithnf
Hunting
SnjhtiMwg
Skiing
Semning
Ofhir
•elton
103,100
263,000
3,000
9,900
8,000
W,800
3,000
1*7,900
-
-
ll*, n
benbrook
1W,900
253, wo
1,600
22,000
8,100
69,000
2,300
lb,1**
•
-
12,300
dam
55,900
110, mo
9,100
6,600
7,300
28,500
-
13,300
-
•
garza - little
elm
131,200
292,000
5,000
17,200
18,800
33,500
u,0oo
5>1*, 700
700
100
3,6oo
grapevine
1u9.300
276,600
13,wo
22,100
13,000
116,600
-
32,900
-
-
2,00.
howos creek
11,300
26,300
1,700
2,800
3.wo
it.wo
-
2,100
•
-
W
l avon
257,700
551,800
9,800
38,900
3k, 100
138,600
2,200
58,600
-
-
navarro mills
79,500
165,500
1,800
7,700
700
6,200
-
63,500
-
100
itdo
proctor
37,300
68,900
900
3,200
6,1(00
15,800
700
12,300
100
100
l,
san angelo
109,700
33<t,200
2,100
ll ,900
10,500
w ,500
1,100
23,700
1,100
1,100
1,1'w
whitney
27u,900
8ul,700
30,300
30,300
25,600
156,200
-
ju,8oo
-
-
12,600
total
1,35u,800
3,183,800
73,700
175,600
135,900
658,100
114,100
1*19,200
1,900
T)
2,'300
59,co.-
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MEDITATION
from
Th« World'f Moit Widely Used
Devotional Guide
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O THI UMf* ROOM. NAJMVIIU. TINNISIU
THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 1964
If any man be in Chnrist, he I
is a new crature: old things are [
passed away; behold, all things j
are become new. (II Corinthians
5:17.)
In spring time we witnenss the
miracles of freshness, fragrance,
and newness. Hedgerows and
flowers, fields and gardens are
touched by the renewing power
of God in nature.
Dr. James Reid tells of seeing
a pond which was the scene of
desolation. The water was stag-
nant, and the pond choked with
mud and weeds and produced
only ugliness and decay. B u t
when help passed it sometime
later, all was .changed. It was
the same pond, but the weeds
were gone. In their place were
lilies. It was newness of life.
Some hand had been at work,
cleaning the old, planting the ne j
We have seen the miracle of j
newness happen in hearts and
in lives. When a person becomes i
a Christian, his life is under
new management. When a man is
in Christ and under His control,
that man walks in newness of |
life.
PRAYER: O Christ, we thank ;
Thee for coming to give new life I
to all who would receive it. We
praise Thee for the evidence of I
Thy transforming power seen in
the lives of those who have sub-
mitted themselves to Thy con-
trol. Visit us with Thy renew-
ing grace We ask in Thy spirit.
Amen.
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY
Christ within gives one the
power to be a new kind of per-
son.
J. Clifford Mitchell 'England*
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I will miss many of you, since this is a lorge County.
Your consideration of m.e as a candidate for re-elect-
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be truly appreciated.
I feel that it has been a privilege to serve as Tax
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efficient and courteous office holder. My experience,
gained by earnest work in the office at all times,
will help serve you better in the future.
Mrs. Doyle Nelson
OUR BEST
WISHES
To The
Wylie Clinic-Hospital
AND TO
Drs. T. M. Trimble & A. E. Vita
For Being Accepted As
Institutional Members
In The
American And Texas
Hospital Associations
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