The Albany News (Albany, Tex.), Vol. 79, No. 1, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 6, 1962 Page: 2 of 8
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THE ALBANY NEWS
Albany, Texas, Thursday, Sept
JOHN H. McGAUGHEY, Owner and Publisher
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SEPTEMBER BRINGS n lot of activity.
School opened T uetday, and claatrooni
I work it reported jjoin* nloni; •monthly. A
good faculty, and tome 550 to 600 itu-
denti ■iiureo another Rood year.
Activitiea ara plenty till. week, what
, with the band and pep <quad gutting ready
I for the opening football game Friday
ni(ht.
WH AUK SURF] most of tin- reserved Rents
will be taken Friday night for the opening
game. Olney will bring a good team, and they
will be after revenge. Albany beat them <10-12
last year, and they haven't forgotten that,
fn fart, all the teams Albany has been beating
the past two years will tie trying to stop the
Clastt A state champs this year. There's going
to be some good football this season.
Bill Hill and a few readers are wanting to
know how the game will come out, so we won't
keep them waiting: It'll be Albany on top of u
20-14 score.
WE KEEP TALKING about the mast
polio vaccination program on Sumlay af-
ternoon, Sept. 16, but we think it if worth
a lot of talking. There's no need to endan-
ger people because w« do not take advan-
tage of the vaccine* that prevent the dis-
ease, The Salk and Sabin vaccines have
done wonders. Fact of the matter, this
J>re«k-through againrt a crippling chil-
dren's disease is one of the marvels of the
ages.
Remember, Sept. 16 is the day to get
that polio oral vaccination. All you have
to do is drink a cup of distilled water that
containes 2 c.c. of vaccine.
IT SEEMS THAT A SURE WAY to bring
• big down-pour in Albany is to schedule a
Labor Day golf tournament. Last year Hie
tournament was shut down because of rain,
*nd some of the matches were not completed
for n week. .Sunday afternoon a big rain stop-
ped play—the second day of matched play.
However, the golfers went to work Monday
Mid completed a very fine tournament.
This year's tournament was one of the best,
with 104 entered. . Excellent prizes, coupled
with a (food golf course, and a hospitoble com-
munity that makes visitors welcome, arc the
Ingredients that makes this tournament one of
the most popular in. West Texas.
THE LONE STAR GAS CO. i« sponsor-
ing the annual Home Safety Month again
this year, and has a supply of literati#e
that will help the hoine-owner ... if he'll
heed it.
We note from the literature that an ac-
cident occurs in Texas homes at the rate,
of one every 10 seconds, and victim of
a home accident dies every seven hours.
Also, it states, accidante are the leading
cause of deaths in the one to .15 age
group. Nearly fifty percent of all acci-
dental injuries annually reported occur in
the home.
The Lone Star is to be commended for
its efforts in bringing to our attention
the fact that the home is an accident-
prone place.
A NUMBER OP ALBANY PEOPLE called
our attention to an article in the Star-Telegram
recently entitled "This Day In Texas" by (Cur-
tis Bishop. As we all like history, we are
printing the part that pertains to a story in
an early edition of the Albany News:
"On this day in lHKfi the editor of the
Albany 'News look sharp issue with a
story published in a Kentucky journal.
"Wrote the Kentucky sage: 'The drouth
in Texas is so intense that potatoes are
cooked in the ground arid all the people
have to do is to dig and eat them. The
workmen carry salt in their pockets and
don't have to go home for dinner.'
"The Albany scribe denounced such re-
ports as outrageous lies.
"They were not. not in that year. The
Taylor County 'News' for instance reported
the weather as so dry that 'the (Hi In the
creeks are carrying toadstool for parasols.
Water is so carce that the Baptist and
Campbellite. are beginning to favor bap-
tism by sprinkling. One prominent pro-
hibitionist has ordered a caw of beer as
evidence that he wants lather to shave
himself.'
"The unhappy truth was that no drop of
rain fell in We t Texas between IKHI
and 1**7.
"Cattle died by the thousands, of course;
crops never came up and the Texas Legis-
lature voted -jm-( ial benefits to the drouth-
stricken population."
IT'S ROUND-UP TIMF. AGAIN for
West Texas Rehabilitation Center in Abi-
lene.
C., A. (Charlie) Mnrrin, chairman of the
Cattlemen's Round-up for Crippled Chil-
dren, announce* the appointment of chair-
men over a wide geographic section of the
state. Morris pointed out that due to the
ever increasing number of patients being
referred to the West Texas Rehabilitation
Center from throughout Texas, the addi-
tional rhairmen will work their various
home districts. I he Cattlemen's Round-
up for Crippled Children is one of the main
financial suppo-ts of the West Texas Re-
habilitation Center.
Appointed as round-up area chairmen in
Albany are Watt Matthews and Gene Pick-
ard. At Baird the chairmen are James
Snyder and Hugh Ross.
THE NEWS ACKNOWLEDGES receipt of a
small jar of beautiful orange prickly pear jelly
sent by Mrs. Casey Murrie of Hermit.
I he jelly is too pretty to eat, so we are
going to keep it and show it for a few days.
_ Mrs. Murrie recently sent a clipping to the
News about her cactus jelly, which we carried.
Also we announced the arrival of the Caseys*
new grandson. So she sent us the jelly. Thanks.
Now she says: "Wonder if you ever heard of
making jelly from the beans of mesquite."
She's going to try it, as she has a shipment of
mosquito beans. Maybe we'll get some of that
jelly, too.
School Afjout
DRIVE CAREFULLY
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AT THE 1962 STATE FAIR OF TEXAS, OCT. 6-21,
OPPORTUNITIES EXIST FOR BRIGHT YOUNG MEN...
... To get the real Imlde ttory on
1963 automobiles
•.. and to comider careen in America'*
nuclear-powered Navy,
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,. To take a dote-up look at the
livestock business
, and to enjoy a sociable meal
some of the older men.
with
Looking Ahead
...fcy Dr. ••erg* S. Ismon
PRESIDENT—NATION Al
IOUCATION mOSRAM
Sssrty,Arkinso
How Prices are Fixed
I here seems to be new evi-
dence that the public does not
understand the mysteries of
business. An opinion polling
concern has revealed to it.,
private clic nts that it finds
the general public, and busi-
nessmen as well, quite concern-
ed about the market dominance
of our top industrial giants.
This is interpreted to mean
strong public support for the
government's vigorous anti-
trust activity, so as to prevent
concentrations of power in the
market place.
Another poll by the same or
ganizatiori asked whether there
ought to be more or less gov-
ernment regulation of business.
Of its sample, .'!!) per cent call-
ed for more and •'!!» per cent
called for less.(Twenty-two per
cent were undecided.) Answer-
ing the same question in lft53,
however, f>0 per cent said they
were epposed to more govern-
ment regulations, with 25 perl
cent favoring more govern-'
ment involvement. Asked ''
whether competition can lie de-
pended upon to keep prices
fair or whether government
Macy lower it.; price, (iimbels | ted identical bids on govern-
meets it, or vice versa, A tiro I ment contracts.
dealer will sell two tires for | The suit was dimissed, but
ill'.!»!», and lii competitor will | not before it was revealed that
do the aitw, For a portable j government purchasing agents.
TV, .?!»!» may be the going rate, l sometime informed high bid-
whether at Hoe's or Aloe's. To I del s that tb"ir bids were too
avoid being priced out of the high, a practice which led to
market on the one hand, and identical bids. The drug firms
were being sued by one branch
New Frontier
(Port Worth Star-Telegram
Augunt 13)
The function of the Senate-
House group headed by Sena-
tor Harry F, Ryrd is implicit
in its official title—the Joint
Congressional Committee on
Reduction of Nonessential Fed-
eral Expenditures. In view of
that name, the rommittee must
have felt somewhat frustrated
in making its latest report.
Among tho items in that re-
port :
1. The federal payroll, which
at the peak of World War II
was ,<S billion, reached an all-
lime height of $14 billion dur-
ing the fiscal year which ended
June 30.
2. Tho number of civilians
on the go\ernment's pnvroll in
June was 2,490,455, the highest
in 10 years was 77,351 above
the figure for June 1001.
3. In June alone, civilian em-
ployment in the federal gov-
ernment rose 34,1)21, the larg-
est Increase in such employ-
ment in any month In the last |
AT THE
Audi* Murphy.
Dan Duryea mm ,
in "Six Black
sal'* outdoor
or, coming to tha 4
and Saturday,
forsake welter
how specUculi
are hi* film fo
Audie, who,
knows, is a
make-believe hem.«
World War IVn
serviceman, feeU |
brush has won it*
mately.
"There's never
he appraise*, "all
good guy and
And that'* the
be."
Many pcrfor
comedy to be the
lous form of ex
for lovely nctre«»
who co-stars with
nor and Tony Rand
E, I,ovine'* "Boy»'
to play a scene for!
far from hard work,
"Hoys' Night Out" i
'0 years with tho exception of i tho Aztec theatre
March IflflO, when there was a I Monday.
heavy addition of temporary
employes for the purpose of
census-taking,
As one comparison, it might
lie mentioned that the $14 bil-
lion cost of paying the salaries
of this Immense bureaucracy
exceeded by $1.3 billion the
entire net income of all the
farm families in the United
States last year,
And the report, on the bur-
geoning number of federal em-
ployes might be set against the
declaration of President Kenne-
dy last October that "I am
especially desirous that the
number of government em-
ployes he linmited to the min-
imum consistent with getting
the job done."
All this loads to wonder as
to what job is being done, or
is contemplated, that requires
such a proliferation of em-
ployes. One thing is certain:
The New Frontier is anything
but a lonely and unpopulated
place.
control is needed, the current
poll turned up 43 per cent
preferring to rely on conipe-1
tition and 43 per cent seeing |
n""d foe government action.'
Hut in I!*.i3, only 2*1 per cent
were for government action
and 57 per cent favored the'
competitive sy tern.
Distrust of Business?
The picture of public opinion
appears to reveal a need for
continued s.udy and communi-
cation regarding the principles
of otir private enterprise eco-
nomy. Apparently, the recent
anti-trust actions, followed by
orders and judgments against
some or our biggest and oldest
names in industry, have led
some to have an increasing dis-
trust of business and to feel
that m-ire government duress
is in order. Others have doubt-
less found themselves agreeing
with the anti-business attitudes
found in the executive branch
of the federal government.
What some citizen- may not
realize i< that competition,
while holding the general level
of prices low, may properly
tend to bring about uniform
product pricing. This is a nor-
mal process that may look like
price-fixing, vet it i only the
free market in operation and is
certainly not to be described
;is restraint of trade, Tile gov-
ernment, too, has been eager to
confuse competition with price
fixing. Hut identical prices may
mean, instead of collusion, the
most Intense competitive ac-
tion..
The Same at Mac's
How does pricing work in
the free market? Well, when
inciting a price war on the
other, many bu ine; men and
their competitors arrive at
Identical, or nearly identical,
pri( os. They don't necessarily ' tually,
call a convention or meet in
the back alley.
Identical pricing is often
forced upon business large and
small by sharp buyers and
brisk competition. Even the
Supreme Court put this down
in a l'.'2f> decision: "In tho casr.
of a standardized product sold
M'liolesale to fully informed
professional buyers . . . uni-
formity of price will inevitably
result front active, free and
unre trained competition." Re-
cently, however, government
anti-trust officials have been
making uniform price look like
collu ion and conspiracy —
violation of the law.
Competition at Work
Undoubtedly, most of our
uniform prices in consumer
marketing as well in inilu -
j trial purclia itig have resulted
| from intensely competitive con-
dition- that 'end generally to
; force prices downward and
I hold them at the lowest possi-
ble levels. The government in
l''»x sued fi\» drug manufac-
turer , charging them with con-
spiring to iix prices on Salk
vaccine because all had submit
LOOKS AND
MASHES LIKI
BAKED
ENAMEL
of the federal government for
what they had done at the sug-
gestion of another branch. Ac-
tho company that sella
a product at the lowest price
may be on the way to building
a monopoly. This is prevented
only by his competitors who
succeed in meeting his prices.
Hut this is quite another thing
from price-fixing.
"With comedy,"
Miss Novak, "I feel
the world, so well
comes a breeze, I look j
to going to the
morning bccnune I
spirit will be wholi
gay on the set."
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