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4b—ROCKDALE (T«x.) REPORTER Oct. 14. 1954
EDITORIALLY SPEAKING
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Bacaiis** a small group of RockdaHans really lx.*-
lieved Rockdale should have u public library, the
Rockdale Public Library wiii be oniciuiiy opened Oc-
tober 18.
The story behind the opening of this library is the
story of some public-spirited people who have poured
their thoughts, their time and their efforts into mak-
ing the project a success during the past few months.
Actually, the project has had excellent public sup-
port Citizens generally have donated boons and mo-
ney. civic clubs have co-operated. But very few Rock-
dale people realize the work and the time that has
been put into getting the library ready for its opening.
All this has been done by the small group thut forms
the core of the Rockdale Library Association. Their
donations of time and labot has involved far more
than the regular two-nights-a-week work sessions each
Tuesday and Thursday.
Now that Rockdale's Public Library is a reality,
Rockdalians owe a vote of thanks to the members of
the Rockdale Library Association and those who have
worked so hard the past few months to see thut the
Library came into being.
That Dam Controversy
Quite a bit has been and is being said about the
building of a dam on the San Gabriel river and
whether it should be built at Laneport or near George-
town.
It occurs to this newspaper that perhaps a little too
much is being said, and in all likelihood there is a lot
of worrying in advance being done by a lot of people
that, like most worrying, really isn’t necessary.
This newspaper sort of likes the way Congressman
\V. R. Poage puts it: “We are not going to get a clam
on the San Gabriel if we have any substantial local
opposition to it. There are too many places in the
United States where everybody will be in agreement.
There is not enough money to go around and I think
that if we hope to get any dam we have got to do ev-
erything in our power to play down rather than to
magnify our local differences.”
There’s plenty of food tor thought in the congress-
man’s way of thinking.
Then Poage presents another idea that is worth
more than casual thought: “This dam should be lo-
cated wherever the engineers say that it will accom-
plish the greatest good for the least money. ... I be-
lieve that the engineers are the only proper agency to
determine this.”
So before everybody gets good and mad at every-
body else, why not back off and look at this thing in its
proper light. In the first place, the dam may never
be built. In the second place, if it is built, it is apt to
be quite some time vet before the money is actually
available. There are three dams ahead of it on the
government's schedule: the Bosque, the Leon, and
the Lampasas. If and when the money is available
and things get down to the dam-building stage, it is a
pretty sale bet that Army Engineers are going to make
a re-survey. And they are going to recommend that
the dam be built where their survey indicates it will
do the most good.
All the talk and arguing by people in this neck of
the woods*, all the public meetings anti declarations of
faith, and all the fiery words by those who say they
know where the dam should be constructed . ... all
these things are just like a teen-ager gunning the
old wreck and spinning the wheels just to hear the
tires shriek on the pavement. We're making a lot of
noise and burning rubber for nothing.
We might even lose our jalopy.
Small Town Gossip*
An* Advantageous
“Small towns have more gossips because it's more
fun watching a game when you know the players.”
so said one S. C. Barry.
A lot of stinging remarks about small town gossips
are just plain jealousy. In a little town you know
what’s going on, good and bad, most of the time. In
our larger cities, you know a little of what is going on
part of the time. The city dweller seems lost and out
of touch with the world when he goes to a small city
and finds everyone so well informed. You don’t have
to be very sharp to put something over in a big town
but you have to get up mighty early to pull the same
thing in a small, grass roots city. Kinda burns the
big bugs up to discovei thut the local citizenry tvokeis
to them) have figured them out so quickly.
So, even gossip, b«u ««.-> it usually »». lias it.-» good
points. Before you vent your wrath on a wagging
tongue stop and think . . . It’s mighty a good feeling
to know you live in a place where you know what is
going on and the neighbors know you and what you’re
doing . . . even though at times, you wish they had a
little more time to take care of their own business and
a lot less tune to run yours. We’ll bet that you
wouldn’t have it any other way. Whelan (Was.)
Valley Mirror.
THE TOLL THEY TAKE
“One of the most moving tributes ever paid to this
great country of ours came recently from a German-
born. naturalized American who left his estate of
$70,000 to the government of the United States. The
reason for the gift was that ‘my wife and I are so
much indebted for the blessings we have enjoyed as
citizens of this country.’ How much do those of us
who have always lived here appreciate the blessings
we enjoy?” Davis, Calif., Enterprise.
“I view with some alarm the rapid disappearance of
one of America’s most precious natural resources
our native supply of plain, old-fashioned common
sense.” Benjamin F. Fairless, U. S. Steel Corporation.
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THE ROCKDALE REPORTER
AND MESSENGER
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Yegua Ph i losopher:
Wants To Knmv H hut Comic Rooks
Sonw Of The Rig \lcn of History Rend
Editor’s note: The Yequa
Creek Philosopher on his
Johnson grass farm on the
Yogua gets around to discuss-
ing the comics this week, but
we’re not sure what point he
makes.
Dear edil.ir:
I live boon listening to the dis-
cussions and roudin about cm,
those discussions on comic books,
and while I'm not an authority on
this type of
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nothin nu>r«
puzzllri than to J. A,
come in Into on a comic series and
find somebody blecdin to death
and not be able to figure out
what's funny about it, but I have
been goin over the situation in my
mind and have come to the con-
clusion that il comic books have
the power to make delinquents out
of people, somebody sure ought to
investigate the comics the present
generation read when it was
young.
Anybody who could draw a
comic book Unit'd result in the
kind ol war like world we got on
our hands now must have been the
champion delinquent-maker of all
time.
Goin further back. 1 don't know
who drew the comic books Julius
Caesar, read, but he must have
been awlul.
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about 10,000 telephones. Today it
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Coming further up, who drew
Hitler’s funnies? Stalin's? By
the wAy, them Chinese funnies
must have been pretty devastatin
too.
Gettin out on another plane, who
drew the comic books all these
housin authority officials read
when they was young?
I don't want to name any names,
hut occasionally a Congressman
turns up givin evidence a few
comic books must have slipped
through to him when he was gmw-
in up, and nearly every state leg-
islature in the country produces
a few characters who obviously got
hold of some comic books when
they was .U the f..i mativ.- stare
When you stop to think about it,
this world from the start <>! his-
tory certainly would have been a
different and more peaceful place
if the comic book manufacturers
hadn’t been at work.
Understand, speakiu seriously,
I'm not in favor of Iced in children
on a diet of horror comics, but
while we're keepin them out of
touch with the comics, we’d bet-
tor shut cm off from 1he daily
news, too, because it’s frequently
lull of horror also. In fact, may-
be most children would come out
a lot belter if they didn't have to
come in contact with adults at all.
Yours faithfully,
J. A.
Four out of every five adults In
the U. S. today play cards—more
women than men. Five major com-
panies turn out 75,900,000 decks
of cards a year, and It’s a $50,000,-
000 business
DALE CARNEGIE
Author of
"How to Stop Worrying and
Start Living"
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B. K. MacDonald, 103 Duncan
Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia, wants
to share with you one of the in-
gredients he has found vital for
his recipe for success. He has sent
it to me to pass along to you.
Ho says: *‘It takes me approxi-
mately five minutes to drive from
my home to work—twenty minutes
per day for two round trips.
‘‘Twenty minutes a day adds up
to ten hours a month or one hun-
dred and twenty hours a year: in
effect fifteen full eight-hour days
per (year.
‘‘It is virtually Impossible for
mt n to make you know all the be-
nrfici.il result* l have gained by
having fifteen days a year in which
to relax and find succour from
fear and worry. But I'll do my best
so here is what I do with those in-
dividual five minutes.
‘‘When I start out on my drive
I at once relax my muscles com-
plelely thereby avoiding tenseness.
“Next i eivicr* business or per-
sonal worries and cares from my
mind.
‘‘Then I practice deep full
breathing, and to put myself in a
happier frame of mind. I sing.
“The result has been that at the
end of my drive I am relaxed,
amiable and better able to meet
situations calmly. I am more tol-
erant toward people, an effect
which carries over well Into the
mornings and afternoons.
“1 hope you try it for I believe
you too can find those few minutes
a day, which mutiply into hours
and days, and which if used to
good advantage can act like a tonic
and make for better mental and
physical well-being.”
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CONGRESSIONAL
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Q—What lending agency has re-
placed the reconstruction Finance
Corporation.
/v - i he nn mm tin; .-uitflu nv-
fen.se Plants Corportion have been
renlnred hv n new auenev The
Small Business Administration.
From July 31, 1953, when it was
inaugurated, through the first
quarter of 1954, May 1, 1954, the
SBA lias received applications for
loans from small business totalling
S!)7 million. It has approved $13
million, but had disbursed only $1,
189,000. The SBA also increased
interest rates from the standard
.v, , to 6' . with some SBA loans
(•listing up to H'i .
O What is meant by a deficien-
cy appropriation bill?
A -Such a bill carries* supple-
mentary appropriations for pur-
poses wherein the appropriations
made under the regular appropria-
tion bills have proved insufficient.
For instance, the «3rd Congress
passed six deficiency or supple-
mentary appropriation Gills total-
ing S3, 756,588.893.
0—What is the line of success-
ion to the Presidency.
A -Should the president die or
become incapacitated, the vice-
president would succeed, then fol-
lows the Speaker of the House,
the President pro tern of the Sen-
ate and then in order of rank, the
members of the cabinet, starting
with the Secretary of State.
O What monetary allowances
does the president receive?
A—The President receives his
salary of $100,000 annually; $50,000
ter traveling and entertainment
expenses and $300,000 in a special
i mei gency fund for unexpected
or unusual expenses to be spent at
the President’s discretion.
The state of Iowa, called "the
largest cornfield on earth," grows
better than half a billion bushels
in an average year, one-sixth of
the entire United States crop.
Reporter Adx get the Grape*.
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CHAMBER OV COMMERCE
CLIPPINGS
By Bob Greenwald, Mgr
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Open Letter To H. B. Fox
Editor, Tavlor Times
Dear Mr. Fox:
Seems as though either I’ve doiA*
.some inaccurate reporting or you’ve
done some Inaccurate interpreting,
nr mavlii* vi’o’v** <ln»u* a little of
both. One way or another, I think
your letter of September 29th, ad-
dressed to the Rockdale Reporter,
cillr. for an answer.
That hjt you said we were
talking through happens not
to ’be our liat at all but rather
fits the collective head of the
U. S. Army Engineers. As was
clearly stated in the letter we
sent to several of our legisla-
tive representatives (from
which you quoted), the area
along the Han Gabriel subject
to severe flooding was taken
directly from survey material
published by these same engi-
neers. We again refer you to
map No. 2, House Document
No. 535,
Perhaps, ns you say, there is
need for Hood control west of
Laneport. Only the Army Engi-
neers evidently don’t think it is
a critical area. Being human, it’s
possible they are wrong. Mean-
time, theirs is our only authorita-
tive source of information.
I think it ought to be made
clear that the policy of the
Rockdale Chamber of Com-
merce has uuly one purpose
and that is to help assure thut
EFFECTIVE Hood control is
provided on the San Gabriel
within reasonable limits of
economy and need. We don’t
pretend to be engineers but do
believe the Corps of Engineers
of the United States Army is
qualified to determine the
merits of all possible plans and
alternatives.
Wo believe they will take into
consideration the views oi all con-
cerned as well as the public In-
1 crest generally. We believe too,
that all interested parties will sup-
port their findings alter a fair and
impartial evaluation is made.
We’ve heard it said that rising
blood pressure and name-calling
episodes connected with this con-
troversy are somewhat premature,
if not. entirely unnecessary. We're
told that one or more resurveys
of the area involved would be
made in any event, regardless of
local opposition. Personally, I
think Congressman W. U. Poage
made good sense when he said in
a two-page answer to pur orig-
inal inquiry on the subject:
. . YVc arc not going to
get a dam on the San Gabriel
it we have an\ substantial id-
eal opposition to it. There arc
too many places in the United
States where everybody will
be in agreement. There is not
enough money to go around
and I think that if we hope to
get any dam we have got to
do everything In our power
to play down rather than to
magnify our local differences.
Else, w'e will continue to have
floods on the San Gabriel for
all time to come."
Bob Greenwald
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Scanning The News.
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NEWS
The battle for control of the
House and Senate in the 84th
Congress is develpoing into a i>oli-
ticul slugfest with both sides claim-
ing victory and with both parties
running scared.
As a result of the recent primar-
ies and the Maine election the
Democrats were given a shot in
the arm and surface indications as
well as historical tradition at this
writing give them the edge at least
in tin* House. The Maine election
set the Republicans hack on their
heels and while they attempt to
explain it away by declaring the
victory for the Democrats in the
governorship race was due to local
issues, such explaining will not
hold true with regard to the
sharply increased vote for Dcmo-
<■ in ihr* .Senatorial and Con-
gressional races. Democrats gained
a 40',, vole in the Senatorial race
and i onqrossman Robert Hale,
with a name as old as Maine,
barely squeezed through.
Generally speaking, the control
of the House of Representatives
may be decided in fifty congres-
sional districts where the winners
in the last election showed slightly*
more than 50r: of the vote. Laical
issues, however will play a part
in same districts. For instance, in
Republican San Diego, California
district, Admiral Ross McIntyre,
former president Roosevelt’s phy-
sician, is running on the Demo-
cratic ticket. San Diego is largely
an nll-Nuvy town and the Navy is
backing admiral McIntyre.
In the Senate, ns a result of
some deathg, 37 seats are at stake,
15 Republicans and 22 Democrats.
However, 14 of the Democratic
seats are from southern or other
rated safe districts, leaving 8 con-
tests*. These are Anderson, in New
Mexico, opposed by GOP Governor
Edwin Meehem; Burke, in Ohio,
opposed by Republican Congress-
man George Bonder; Froar in Del-
aware, opposed by GOP Herbert
Warburton; Gillette, in Iowa, op-
posed by Republican Congressman
Tom Martin; Humphrey, in Min-
nesota, opposed by Republican Val
Bjornson; Former Democratic Sen-
ator Joseph C. O'Mahonev is op-
posed by GOP William Henry Har-
rison in Wyoming; Former Demo-
cratic Congressman John Carroll
is opposed by Republican Lt. Gov.
Gordon Allott in Colorado; and.
Senator Murray is opposed by Re-
publican Congressman Wesley A
D’Ewart In Montana.
On the Republican side seven of
the 15 GOP scats an? relatively
safe leaving eight in doubt. Sena-
tor Cooper, of Kentucky, is oppos-
ed by former Vice ITesident Alben
Barkley; Senator Dworshak ot
Idaho is opposed by former Sena-
By VERN SANFORD
Texts Pm* Association
Austin, Texas?—Governor Allan
Shivers has lashed both Republi-
can and Democratic national
parties for refusal to let the South
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party policy.
Shivers’ criticism, delivered in
a speech at a testimonial dinner
lor Louisana Governor Robert
Kennon at New* Orleans, singled
out no particular party a:; major
culprit.
For too long the South as a reg-
ion has been "insulted and degrad-
ed by national parties and their
leaders," he said.
However, he served notice on the
Democratic party that it must get
in the middle of the road to win
southern favor.
Shivers appealed to people in all
forty-eight state to join in defend-
ing "the last great safeguard of
individual liberty" through sup-
porting local self-government oveY
powerful central government.
On Ballot
Gerald Weatherly of Rio Grande
City, refused to place on the Nov-
ember 2 ballot by Secretary of
State C’ E. Fulghwm, has seen the
decision reversed by the Supreme
Court.
A writ of mandamus ordering
that his name he certified for
placing on the ballot was granted
Weatherly by the Court.
He will oppose Sam H. Burris of
Alice for District Attorney in the
turbulent Seventy-ninth district
covering South Texas’ George Parr
famous Duval County.
Fulfihnm had rejected Weath-
erly's application "because so
many of the 560 signatures on peti-
tions were invalid that not enough
remained for Weatherly to
qualify".
Industrial Activity
Texas’ industrial business is*
picking up v/hile farm income is
declining.
Dr. John R Stockton, director of
the University of Texas Bureau of
Business Research, said the low
farm income was due to months
of continuous drouth laced by
farmers and ranchers.
However, ho reported that the
"high level of Texas business has
been maintained by expanding in-
dustrial activity."
The Bureau’s business index for
the state showed n 2 per cent de-
cline in August from July. August
totals were 7 per cent better than,
August, 1954, Dr. Stockton said.
DWI Law
Texas' motorists now face a
tougher penalty for driving while
intoxicated.
A Court of Criminal Appeals
ruling has labeled unconstitu-
tional the part of law that let a
presiding judge, at his own discre-
tion, commute a jail sentence
handed out in DWI cases.
Minimum punishment now is a
mandatory three-dav iail sentence
and a fine for DWI convictions.
Giik Finns
A five-year-old suit against ten
oil companies lor anti-trust viola-
lion has been ordered for trial by
the» Supreme Court.
Charges were made against the
firms in 1949 by former Attorney
General Price Daniel. Daniel alleg-
ed that the ten companies violated
Texas antitrust statutes by upping
wholesale gas prices several times
after federal price controls ex-
pired in 1946.
Defendants are Arkansas Fuel
Oil Company, Cities Service Oil
Company, Continental Oil Com-
pany, Gulf Oil Corporation, Hum-
ble Oil and Refining Company,
Magnolia Petroleum Company,
Sinclair Refining Company, Phll-
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tor Glen Taylor, Democrat; Sena-
tor Ferguson, of Michigan is op-
posed by Democratic Patrick Mc-
Namara; Former Congressman
Case is opposed by Congressman
Charles Howell, Democrat in New
Jersey; Senator Kuchet of Calif-
ornia is opposed by Democratic
Congressman Sam Yorty; Senator
Salstonstall, Massachusetts, Is op-
posed by Democrat former C on -
gresmnn Foster Furcolo, and in
Oregon Son. Guy Coixion is op-
posed by Democrat Richard New-
berge with public power a red
hot issue.
lips Petroleum Company, Standard
Oil Company and the Texas Com-
pany.
Toll Roads
Prospects of Texas’ first two toll
roads have faded from view with a
Oi,nM>ma f*Aurl rlorictnn that tin*
highways, to be built .and owned
by private firms, would be tax-
able.
Attorneys for the Texas Turn-
pike Company which had planned
;t toll road from Dallas to Hous-
ton. and the Sam Houston Turn-
pike Corporation, planning u Dal-
las to San Antonio route, told the
court the projects could not be rea-
lized without tax-exemptions.
Insurance
Insurance men have been warn-
ed that a move to place insurance
under federal control may soon
become a reality.
State Insurance Commission
Chairman Garland A. Smith charg-
ed that efforts are being made to
turn the “Texas insurance indus-
try into a "national scapegoat."
Smith said he was alarmed at
the number of letters his office
has received in the lust few months
from Washington political office
holders who are laying plans for
insurance investigation or advocat-
ing central control of the industry
Many of the groups have con-
tinuously singled out Texas for
unfair and untrue criticism, he
reported.
New Confession
An El Paso farmer has appeal-
ed to the state Pardon Board for
release from a 15-year prison sen-
tence, the request backed by a
confession of another man to the
same armed robbery.
Kenneth Massey, now n 19-
month prison inmate for armed
robbery of a drug store near F.l
Paso made his appeal as his at-
torney handed the confession to
the Pardon Board.
The confession is from another
convict now under death sentence
in Jowa.
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BOYCE HOUSE
GIVES YOU TEXAS
Here's a little poem by an un-
known writer which is called
"Tell Him Now."
If with pleasure you are viewing
Any work a man is doing,
If you like him or you love him,
Tell him now.
Don’t hold your approbation
Till the parson makes oration
And he lies with snowy lilie* O'er
his brow.
For no matter how you shout it,
lie won’t really care about it,
He won’t know how many tear-
drops you havo shod.
And lie can not read his tomb-
stone when he’s dead.
More than fame and more than
money
Is the comment kind and sunny
And the hearty, warm approval
by a friend;
For it give to life a savor,
And makes you stronger, braver,
And it gives you heart and spirit
to the end.
If he earns* your praise, bestow if.
If you like him, let him know lt;
Let the words of true encourage-
ment be said ;
Do not wait till life Is over,
And he’s underneath the clover,
For Ihe cannot road his tombstone
when he’s dead.
After your columnist once told
a story about the notorious outlaw,
Sam Bass, Mrs. L. T. Dillashaw of
San Antonio wrote a letter that the
horre on which Bass tried to escape
after being fatally wounded at.
Round Rock was owned by her
husband, though this was before
their marriage.
The animal was a fine race horse
named Osceola and had been stolen
from Mr. Dillishaw a short time
before the Rangers killed Sam. At
the time Bass took the horse, Mr.
Dillishaw followed the trail for
two days and nights—but fortu-
nate ly, Mrs. Dillishaw adds, he
didn’t catch up with the outlaw.
It turned out that because of
hard riding and the shock of the
gun battle at Round Rock, Osceola
was forever ruined for racing.
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Cooke, W. H. The Rockdale Reporter and Messenger (Rockdale, Tex.), Vol. 82, No. 39, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 14, 1954, newspaper, October 14, 1954; Rockdale, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth693952/m1/12/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Lucy Hill Patterson Memorial Library.