Palacios Beacon (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 41, No. 10, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 4, 1948 Page: 3 of 8
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Thursday, March 4,1048
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Texas Slate Teachers Assn. One 01
Largest Professional Organizations
AUSTIN. — The Texas State
Teachers Association has grown
so rapidly in the last few years it
is now the largest professional or-
ganisation in the South and one
of the five largest in the Nution.
The organization which has mem-
bers in practically every city and
commimity in the state now has
40,100 persons on its rolls, or ap-
proximately 95 per cent of those
eligible.
Sixty years ago the Association
had less than 100 members. By 1918
it had 2,792 teachers on its roster.
Its growth has been especially
rapid during the last decade, B. B.
Cobb, executive secretary, announc-
ed here.
Supporting the numerous activi-
ties of the teachers’ Association
are more thun .750 affiliated organi-
zations. They include the Texas
Association of School Administra-
tors, the Equalization Aid Associa-
tion and the more than 700 district,
regional and local teachers’ organi-
zations.
“We are proud of the tremendous
growth of the Association,” Cobb
declared.
“Our sole purpose is to improve
education in Texas. There is a defin-
ite correlation between the growth
of the teachers’ Association and
the increase in funds allocated by
the legislature for our public
schools and the resultant improve-
ment in education.
“State records reveal that in 1880
the per capita apportionment was
Three Dollars. We had less than
100 members then. This year the
state allocated $55 per pupil, plus
equalization (rurnl) aid for several
thousand schools which qualified for
the supplemental funds.”
The equalization aid has kept
puce with the increase in per capita
apportionment, Cobb pointed out.
In 1915 it totaled a half million dol-
lars. This year it amounts to $18,-
000,000.
“Keeping in mind the fact that
we always have our eyes on the
goal of better schools for Texas, I
am proud to be able to say that the
State Teachers Association has been
100 per cent successful in its cam-
paigns for major improvements in
education through legislation.
“An example of efforts was the
successful sponsoring of two major
bills in the last legislature. One
increased equalization aid $4,000,-
000 a year. The other gave the
teachers who hold bachelors de
grees a minimum salary of $2,000
annually.
"As a result, Texus children now
have far more efficient instructors
than at any time in the history of
Texns.
"The huge increase in the cost of
living has, however, offset the sal-
ary increases the legislature grant-
ed us," Cobb pointed out.
That the improving of the cali-
ber of the schools in Texas and their
teachers has not been made at the
cost of other governmental func-
tions wus pointed out by the execu-
tive secretary.
He said thut during the last fiscal
year five per cent less of the total
tax dollar went to the schools than
in 1932-37.
Cobb said that only teachers’ or-
ganizations In the states of New
York, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Illi-
nois outrank the Texas association
in size.
“Should we maintain our rate of
growth we soon will be larger than
some of those groups,” Cobb Haid.
More members of college facul-
ties than ever before are now in
the state teachers association. Fac-
ulties of several colleges and junior
colleges are almost 100 per cent
association members, Cobb noted.
The Association will hold its 70th
annual convention in Dallas Novem-
ber 25-26-27.
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rural boy agid girl to meet their
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questions as youth longs to ask of
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New London School Blast Recalled
In Plea For Caution By Commissioner
A high school chemistry book lay
in the debris of the Consolidated
School at New London, Texas, after
an explosion hud crumpled its
walls the afternoon of March 18,
1937.
Its pages were soiled and blood-
stained.
Opened to a section titled “Ex-
plosions and Explosive Mixtures,”
the book discussed various chemical
reactions in which gases were form-
ed that may shove out and destroy
the walls which confine them. It
was a perfect illustration of the
tragic explosions which had just
killed 294 students and teachers on
that site.
That was eleven years ago, hut
the hnunting memory of the most
horrifying school disaster in Texas
history has not been forgotten.
We must be constantly on guard
to assure protection of our children
not only in school, but in other pub-
lic buildings and in the home.
We are yet a long way from be-
ing able to adequately protect our
school chijdren from a recurrence
of such a tragedy. The fact that
the New London disaster happened
eleven years ago does not lessen our
need for a strong, state-wide regu-
latory building code for public
buildings, schools and other build-
ings where large gatherings are
held.
In the absence of such regulatory
measures that should require skill-
ed and licensed technicians to in-
homes of the great, the magazine
will award five prizes of $10 each.
The awards will be based on the
appropriateness of the reasons giv-
en for the naming of a particular
American. The nature of the ques-
tions the entrant would like to ask
of his nominee will also be consid-
ered in determining the winners.
The contest is open only to rural
boys and girls from 13 to 20 years
and who live in one of the fourteen
Southern states: Georgia, Alabama,
Florida, Mississippi, Arkansas,
Louisiana, Kentucky, Tennessee,
West Virginia, North Carolina,
South Carolina, Virginia, Texas and
Oklahoma.
Entries will be made through a
ballot appearing in the March and
April issues of the mugazine. Edi-
tors of the five editions together
with their staffs will serve as judg-
es in the contest. The contest closes
April 30th.
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plumbing and wiring systems in
public buildings, school boards
should do no less than adopt such
standards themselves. Marvin
Hall, Fire Insurance Commissioner.
100th Birthday Is
Celebrated By Father
Of Mrs. C.W. Thatcher
John C, "Grnndt ,” Emigh was
born in Johnstown, F’a., Feb. 11th
1848, He came to Falls City, Nebr,,
at an early age and was united in
mnrriage to Delphlnc Ann Stephen-
son, March 3rd, 1872. He moved
with his family to Rooks County,
Kansas in the spring of 1876 where
he homesteaded on what is now the
townsite of Webster, Kansas. At
that time his homestead was the
farthest west in the nation. Most
of his life has been spent in Kan-
sas and Nebraska. Granddad Emigh
is the father of five children, three
of whom are living; grandfather of
thirteen; great-grandfather of 29;[
great great-grandfather of 4. His
three living children are Lucy Hat-
ler of Fresno, Calif., Candace
Thatcher of Palacios, Texas and
Zadok Emigh of Selden, Kansas.
Granddad Emigh celebrated his
one hundredth birthday as a guest
of his grandson, Don C. Emigh and
family at dinner Sunday. Everyone
at the dinner table sang “Happy
birthday to you” after the one
hundred candles had been lighted
on the large two tiered birthday
cake. Those present to enjoy the
occasion besides the honoree were
Mr. and Mrs. John Z. Emigh, Mr.
and Mrs. Norris Emigh, Keith and
Leigh and Garry; Mr. and Mrs.
Virgil Rogers, Joice and Virgil Jr.;
Mr. and Mrs. Don Emigh, Donna
Flo and Connie Kay.
Granddad Emigh has spent sev-
eral winters in Fresno, Calif., with
his son-in-law and daughter, Mr.
and Mrs. L. A. Hatler where he has
a host of friends. He also has spent
several winters here in the Gulf
Coast with his son-in-law and
daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Thatcher, where he enjoyed many
good fishing and oystering trips. He
has a number of friends here who
will be happy to read of his cele-
brating his one hundredth birthday.
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Dismukes, Mrs. J. W. Palacios Beacon (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 41, No. 10, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 4, 1948, newspaper, March 4, 1948; Palacios, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth726121/m1/3/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Palacios Library.