The Shamrock Texan (Shamrock, Tex.), Vol. 42, No. 45, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 14, 1946 Page: 3 of 12
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Thursday, March 14, 1946
THE SHAMROCK TEXAN, Shamrock, Texas.
Vote FOR the Hospital Saturday
Everyone votes at the City Hall
LET’S PUT THIS OVER IN
A BIG WAY.
DON’T PASS THE BUCK
AND LEAVE IT TO THE
OTHER FELLOW.
IT IS YOUR RIGHT AND
YOUR DUTY TO TAKE OFF
AND VOTE.
SOME PERSONS MAY
NOT UNDERSTAND THAT
THEY HAVE THE RIGHT TO
VOTE.
Everyone who is in doubt should
check carefully to see if you have the
right to vote. Nearly everyone does
(have this right. You may not have to
have a poll tax. Several classes of per-
sons are exempt from a poll tax and
have the right to vote. Some may feel
that they are required to have a prop-
erty tax receipt. THIS IS NOT TRUE.
You may have acquired property of such
recent date that you have not in fact
paid any taxes and yet you have the
right to vote. You may have no poll tax
receipt and no property tax receipt and
still have the right to vote. So check
(up with care and if you do have a vote,
use it as all good citizens will and go
and vote.
Every citizen of Shamrock, is direct-
ly interested in the result of this elec-
tion. We do not believe there is any
sound argument against voting these
bonds to build for Shamrock a great
“City Owned Hospital.” We are told by
city officers in position to know the fi-
nancial condition of our City Govern-
ment, that the building of this Hospital
willj not increase the taxes of any person,
firm or corporaion. If this is true and
I believe it is, then for what good reason
can anyone oppose such an important
undertaking on the part of our City and
People.
Right now, Shamrock is in the midst
of the greatest spell of growth expand-
ing and development ever known in the
life of the City. Every availaole piece
of building material, (even to scraps) is
being used to furnish housing for our
increasing population and for our ex-
panding business. Aqd yet in so far
as Doctors and Hospital service is con-
cerned, we are at the bottom of efficiency.
We can recall the time when our popula-
tion was no more than half what it is
now, and when we had Dr. B. A. Zeigler,
Dr. Joel Zeigler, Dr. Paul Zeigler, Dr.
W. W. Beach, Dr. J. W. Gooch, Dr. J. G.
Hamer, Dr. J. W. Shaddix and Dr. P.
Gardner, and later Dr. Oliver Gooch as
well as two open hospitals and smaller
.places to take care of the sick and injur-
ed. The presentf situation does not com-
pare with the past though the need, due
to accident in travel and increased pop-
ulation is five times greater.
GOING OTHER PLACES
Within the past thirty days and
without any specific investigation it
comes to our attention that Shamrock
has furnished patrons to doctors and
hospitals located in Wheeler, Wellington,
Pampa, Amarillo, Clinton, Oklahoma City,
Shattuck, Oklahoma, Fort Worth, Dallas
and Temple. Can we afford to allow this
to continue? It not only worked a great
hardship on the sick and their loved ones.
but was a financial loss to our business
interest and it’s a BAD ADVERTISE-
MENT for our town.
When we have relatives and friends
in the Hospital, we like to go see them.
And ip most! rases they would like to be
where this could be done. Especially
during the convalescing period. We can’t
do this if they are in Pampa. Amarillo,
Fort Worth, Dallas or Temple.
Sickness, accident and death are no
respectors of person. It may come upon
any of us. It is more likely to come up-
on the aged and they are more likely not
to be physically or financially able to go
to some other town or city. We cannot
see how' any elderly person would neglect
to get to the polls and vote for this hos-
pital. Even if additional taxes were re-
quired, it would be to the best interest of
the tax payers in the lower and inter-
mediate brackets to vote FOR the bonds
and thereby safeguard the health and
well being of their families. The ad-
ditional tax, if any, would not pay the
cost of a trip to Wellington. The tax
payer in the higher brackets, if taxes
were necessary, might have more to pay
than his hospital expense would be. But,
let him say to himself, “SHAMROCK IS
MY HOME AND I OWN CONSIDER.
ABLE TAXABLE PROPERTY, BUT I
MADE IT HERE WITH AND FROM MY
LESS FORTUNATE NEIGHBORS. I
WILL THEREFORE GO ALONG WITH
MY FRIENDS AND IGNORE MY OWN
SELFISH INTEREST, AND VOTE FOR
THE HOSPITAL. THE PROGRESS OF
MY TOWN AND PEOPLE HAS EN-
ABLED ME TO HAVE WHAT I OWN.
MY BUSINESS BENEFITS FROM ALL
CIVIC IMPROVEMENTS. THESE
THINGS WILL BRING ME STILL FUR-
THER GAINS. I am for the bond issue
and will so vote.”
Every business man in Shamrock has
prospered even in the face of Govern-
ment regulation. This prosperity can
be attributed to three causes. First, your
own ability and determination, Second,
circumstances. Third, THE WONDER-
FUL ADVANTAGES OF LIVING AND
DOING BUSINESS IN SHAMROCK.
Let us remember, that while farm
production is uncertain and extremely
hazardous, fraught with dangers of boll
worm wheat rust, grasshoppers, crows
and whatnot; but the 1946 crop of babies
will set a record. What ex-service man
and his wife, who waited for him so pa-
tiently, and both of whom pride them-
selves that they are citizens of Sham-
rock, would want to make out a birth
certificate for that little irresponsible but
inevitable fellow they are expecting and
show that he was born in Wheeler or
Wellington?
Let’s make ready for the coming of
these little soldiers and sailors. We are
proud of the record and the sacrifice of
their parents. Let’s have a suitable place
for them to discover America, in Sham-
rock.
NEXT SUNPAY’S DAILY PAPERS
WILL CARRY A STORY OF the result
of this election. It will be the greatest
FREE advertisement that our town has
ever had. < “Bond Election for City Own-
ed Hospital in Shamrock Goes Over Big.”
Make yourself a part of this progress by
voting. Don’t retard this forward
movement. In just a few years, and
when Shamrock has a population of six
to eight thousand and you pass this City
owned haven for the sick and afflicted,
you will take pride in the consciousness
that you helped do it.
GO AND VOTE
don’t leave it to
the other fellow.
M. Reynolds,
For myself arid at the request of Many
Tax payers of different brackets.
CITY’S FLYING
CLUB GROWING
IN MEMBERSHIP
charter members of the ‘'Bound
For Heaven Seven" Club: Don
j Robbins <no reflection on the Tex-
( an), Aaron'Fry (Cokes come in
_ handy), Wayne Fox, Perry Bear,
, Dola Gragg (milk and flying don’t
There has been a new club form- I mix), Bob Slemmer, and Wayne
ed, by certain prodigally Inclined | Carver.
males, whci spend their free (legal- | in a last minute news release, It
ly or otherwise) moments, in a ren- j was found that another member
dczvous at the Twltty air field. ( has been added. Mrs. Don Robbins
These selected few can be seen I is also blazing the skyways. No
at various times, banking and glid-
ing over the roofs of buildings,
exhibiting spins, loops, and waving
at wives. These very air-minded
veterans can see beyond today, and
look into the future, In which they
see helicopters, interstate air tran-
remarks about women drivers from
the opposite sex.
STATE WILL SELL
COUNTY OFFICIALS
INVITED TO A AM
SHORT COURSE ON CURRENT
PROBLEMS TO BE HELD
MARCH 20, 21 AND 22
AUSTIN BUILDING
AUSTIN—Weaver
I —ytcuvcj Baker, chalr-
sportation, and more expensive man of the State Board of Control,
lessons. *
announced Monday that a contract
As the members of this club have has been drawn up with the Amer-
no conception of their escapades i lean Legion to sell the Tribune
being revealed publicly, we would j Building for $850,000.
like to state, that any resemblance This property was acquired by
to actual persons or businessmen is j the state Oct 6, 1945, for $735,942
purely intentional. ; from the West estate to serve as’ an
The following names belong • to * overflow building for state offices.
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'MEETING THE EMERGENCY"
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COLLEGE STATION—A short
course on curreht problems of
county officials, especially county
judges and commissioners, will be
held here March 20-22 by Texas
A. & M. College in cooperation
with the County Judges and Com-
missioners Association of Texas.
Subjects covered will Include
road construction and mainten-
ance, mixed-in-place asphalt sur-
facing, developments in soil, sta-
bilization, soil conservation, county
agent work and tax delinquencies
and other tax problems. Lectures,
in addition to college staff mem-
bers, will include state highway
engineers.
Hotel reservations may be made
by writing J. A. Orr, professor of
civil engineering, who is director
of the short course. The program
is Jointly-presented by the college
department of civil engineering,
Extension Service and Agricultural
Experiment Station.
The program of the course fol-
lows:
March 20—Registration, 10 a.m.;
1:30 p.m.—Welcoming address by
Gibb ailchriest. president of Tex-
as A. & M. College; 2 p.m.—Sta-
bilization of soils for county roads,
by A. C. Love, senior laboratory
and research engineer, Texas High-
way department; 3 p.m.—Discussion
of soil stabilization, led by J. T. L.
McNew, cqllege vice president lor
engineering. 7 p.m.—banquet.
March 21—9:30 a.m.—Tax de-
linquency problems; 11 a.m.-^Our
Public Land, a talk by Bascom
Giles, state land department com-
missioner; 11:15—The Texas soil
conservation law and how it oper-
trative officer of the Texas State
Soil Conservation Board; After-
noon-tour of college facilities and
state highway department soil lab-
oratory at nearby Bryan.
March 22—9:30 a.m.—The Texa*
A. & M. College system and how
it serves Texas, by Dr. Ide P. Trot-
ter, director of the Texas A. & M.
College Extension Service; 10:39
a.m.—Construction and mainten-
ance of mixed-in-place asphalt
roads, by I. P. Crutcher, assistant
district engineer of the state high-
way department.
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BETHEL NEWS
Mr. and Mrs. Dewey Daberry and
children, spent Sunday afternoon
with Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Sloss and
family.
Mr. and Mrs. Lee Gipson and
family of Twitty, spent Sunday
with Mr. and Mrs. Roy Oswalt.
Mr. and Mrs. Buck Whitten of
Erick, Okla., spent Sunday with
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Woods and chil-
dren.
Charley Northcutt is recovering
after being ill for the past two
weeks.
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Howard
spent Sunday evening as guests In
the home of Mr. and Mrs. Gay-
lord Russell.
Bill and Mary Lou Wilson of
Shamrock, were guests in the home
of Mr. and Mrs. E. 8. Haney Sun-
day.
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PRESIDENT ASKS AID
FOR EUROPEAN JEWS
WASHINGTON—President 'iYu-
man today appealed to the nation
to assist 1,500,000 Jews left home-
less, hungry and sick In Europe In
the wake of Nazi destruction.
The president urged support of
the campaign of the United Jewish
appeal to raise $100,000,000 for ref-
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Montgomery, Arval. The Shamrock Texan (Shamrock, Tex.), Vol. 42, No. 45, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 14, 1946, newspaper, March 14, 1946; Shamrock, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth529181/m1/3/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Shamrock Public Library.