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THE WINKLER COUNTY NEWS, Kermit, Texas
PAGE TWO Monday, July 31, 1961
Civil Defense Effort
Geared to Individual
President Kennedy last week called upon Ameri-
cans to sacrifice for the future of their country . . .
to sacrifice in conveniences, broken educations, mili-
tary service and possibly higher taxes.
While on many of these issues we as individuals
do not have much choice or even much opportunity to
help, there is one other area in which we can assist
... Civil Defense.
It is in this area that every man, woman and child
can help himself and the country in chances for sur-
vival and defense. Military leaders have reported, that
contrary to popular opinion, unless an area is hit with
a direct nuclear blast, the residents can survive ... if
they are adequately protected in a fallout and blast
shelter.
The President has asked for a huge increase in
Civil Defense Agency funds. They will be used to mark
and prepare shelters in communities around the coun-
try and other related activities.
But the big job is not for the government. The big
job is with the individual.
No one would think of walking into the center of
a tornado, but we daily allow ourselves to walk closer
and closer toward a possible holocaust which has the
potential to destroy us all ... without even attempting
to protect ourselves.
Our County Civil Defense Office, under the lead-
ership of Winkler County Judge W. E. Cook, has long
attempted to influence home buyers and builders to
start constructing shelters.
The cost is nominal, especially when you consider
the possible savings . . . your life. Plans for shelters,
individual, neighborhood or community-wide, are
available from the office of the Civil Defense Director
in the Courthouse.
Perhaps today you may be a little more interested.
Tomorrow may be too late._'
THE WINKLER COUNTY NEWS, Kermit, Texas
Published Every Monday and Thursday in Kermit
The County Seat of Winkler County, Texas
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wide network of radio and
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It’s hard, therefore, for
Britons to focus attention on
the words of Mr, Kennedy’s
address itself, fateful as they
may prove to be in the future.
All this is part of the drive
in Britain toward some solu-
tion of her economic difficul-
ties. Also, when discontent
of this kind arises, there’s
always a chance 6f a general
election and a change in the
party in: power.
Certainly, as Khrushchev
... , purveys the scene, he must
troubles;r bfU thd’t assume that the Western al-
concerned over the liance is far from the strong
instrument of political power
that it is cracked up to be.
But, if there is one thing that
would solidify the alliance
overnight, it would be Mr.
Khrushchev’s misreading of
the Dassing scene in Western
Europe. For only in free coun-
tries do they publicly discuss
Soviet Union has plenty of
troubles, too. It is not so easy,
even for a dictatorship, to
manage the affairs of 200,000,-
000 people.
President ’Kennedy’s speech
of course, had been heralded
in advance as of transcend-
ent importance. The Ameri-
can President is still a new
personality to Europeans, but
his words carry the prestige
of the government of the
United States.
Looking back a few weeks,
it now seems to have been a
wise move for Mr. Kennedy
to have gone to Vienna to
meet Premier Khrushchev.
That meeting has taken the
edge off the idea that a per-
sonal conversation “at the
summit’’ can ease tension or
settle any fundamental issues.
There isn’t the pressure now
for “summit’’ conferences as
a cure-all. On the contrary,
the feeling today among offi-
cials of the various govern-
ments in Western Europe is
that President Kennedy has
cleared the air for the kind of
policies that he has just pro-
claimed.
Because the speech was
really of mop^ direct concern
to the American people than
to Europeans — for defense
budgets and military prep-
arations undertaken by the
United States -are not subjects
with which the people here
are very. familiar — the main
Perhaps the balanced per-
spective ik’ to be found in a
■■ country like Denmark, where
memories of the Nazi occu-
. patron during World War II
have-not vanished, and where
there'is today a curious fatal-
ism about the future. As one
Danish official puts it: “We
would worry ourselves into a
condition of real distress if
we didn’t train ourselves to
take calmly the ups and downs
of international controversy.”
Naturally, what affects the
British people this very week
or month, rather than what
might happen on the Berlin
issue later on, is of para-
mount concern to them. “Aus-
terity” is being put into effect
as a policy by the British
government. This means high-
er taxes on cigarettes, on gas-
oline, on beer, on whiskey,
and on tea, cocoa and sugar,
as well as on kitchen equip-
ment and electrical goods.
The idea is to cut down on
and force the production of
more goods for export. Along
with this is projected a “tem-
porary freeze” on dividends
and wages. The interest rate
There will be NO tax increase or
valuation increase.
Improvements will virtually as-
sure continuance of operation of
FAA Station at the airport. It has
approximately $90,000 in annual
payroll.
We can make use of present $1
million investment which includes
runways l1/^-miles long with ade-
quate foundation for any type of
plane.
Safety of location away from any
dense population.
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The present airport land is avail-
able at no cost while other land,
if available, would he expensive.
The airport is the last stop en-
route west to El Paso. Radio navi-
gation aids are presently installed
and in operation.
The airfield serves as an emer-
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point conveyed was the sense
of determination and firmness
on the part of the American
government in insisting on the
maintenance of allied rights
in West Berlin. This had been
consistently forecast in the
newspapers in Europe for
several days, so it didn’t
come as a Surprise.
What worries all these coun-
tries really is the possibility
of American increase in
expense for military purposes
will have to be followed by
similar additions to already
strained budgets in this part
of the world. To a nation like
Britain, which is struggling to
keep her money from being
devalued further, this pre-
sents a serious threat to fi-
nancial stability.
The mobilizing of 'force —
whether it be limited in mili-
tary scope, or economic—car-
ries with it a degree of dis-
comfort and a fneasure of dis-
ruption of normal life that
may take time for these peo-
ple, as well as for their part-
ners in the United States, to
absorb. But, as an alternative
to nuclear war, it will be ac-
cepted stoically as an inevi-
table, though painful, sacri-
fice.
State Capital News
BY VERN SANFORD
Texas Press Association
AUSTIN — House members
burned midnight oil in an ef-
fort to get a tax bill to the
Senate before the mid-point
of the brief 30-day session.
In the long, long sessions
and seemingly endless succes-
sion of approaches, amend-
ments, substitutes and sub-
stitutes for the substitutes, it
was often difficult to tell who
was winning what. Showdown
votes indicated that it is still
easier for members to agree
on what they don’t want than
on what they do.
Rejected, at least for the
time being, was a package
bill recommended by the Rev-
enue and Taxation Committee,
a sales tax, with exemptions,
on items costing $5 or more.
It also included more utilities
taxes, natural gas taxes, a
transfer of funds from the
permanent school fund, a re-’
vised franchise tax and a
bookkeeping transfer.
Also turned down were pro-
posals for a 4 per cent cor-
porate income tax by Rep.
Bob Eckhardt of Houston and
a 1 per cent general sales
tax by Rep. Tom Andrews of
Aransas Pass.
Rep. Charles Ballman of
Borger, chairman of revenue
and taxation, was pushing for
a package bill that closely
tracked Gov. Price Daniel’s
recommendations at the be-
ginning of the session. It dif-
fered from the committee-
written package chiefly in
that it included a Pennsyl-
vania-type sales tax, apply-
ing only to items listed in the
bill.
Despite the House prob-
lems, on Aug. 8 finish may
still be ^possible. Senate, gen-
erally, is swifter and more
nearly of one mind on money
matters. It agreed on a tax
bill in the regular session in
approximately one-third the
time spent by the House.
Hardest part is getting an
agreement on one plan from
both House and Senate — and
finally — from the governor.
FUND BILL — House has
given second reading approv-
al to a bill appropriating
$2,527,00,000 for the next two
years.
It is slightly higher than the
bill passed earlier by the Sen-
ate and eventually differences
will have to be worked out
by a conference committee
of the two houses.
A group of conservatives in
the House were foiled — at
least temporarily — in an ef-
fort to'cut the bill by $27,-
000,000 by economy meas-
ures. Among items they felt
could be deleted or put off
were recarpeting the House
chamber and refinishing the
members’ desks • for $250,000,,
adding an office for Ahe gov-
ernor to the Governor’s Man-
About Your Health
Some units of Texas Nation-
al Guard can trace their be-
ginnings back to the defend-
ers of the Alamo.
Texas’ constitution is 43,000
words long.
Texas had 11 different cap-
itals before settling cm Austin
in 1840.
A 60-year-old grandmother
refused her physician’s sug-
gestion of a chest x-ray to
help him - diagnose her ail-
ment.
She had heard how x-ray
might affect the health of her
grandchildren. They were
healthy youngsters, she ex-
plained, and she wanted, to
keep them that way. The in-
cident has become a classic
example of a disconcerting
misconception about radiant
energy.
Just for the record, the
physician would have thought
long and seriously before or-
dering x-ray if the patient had
been an expectant mother.
But it could hardly have been
dangerous for grandchildren
who lived somewhere up north
at the time.
Radiant energy is like fire
or electricity. Used unwisely
it can kill or mairp. Used
with caution it becomes man’s
servant, bringing him fabu-
lous benefits.
For decades, radiation de-
vices in the hands of skilled
persons have been tools of un-
paralleled importance in med-
icine and dentistry. X-ray and
fluoroscopic machines, prop-
erly operated, actually permit
a physician or dentist to pho-
tograph the interior of the
human body. “Aimed” beams
of deep-penetrating rays —
sometimes pushed by two mil-
lion volts of electricity — may
efficiently treat cancer in
practically any body organ.
Within recent years indus-
trial uses of radioactive iso-
topes — another type of radi-
ant energy — have grown to
enormous proportions. More
than 400 individuals and firms
in Texas are presently regis-
tered to use them under State
Board of Health rules and
regulations.
With isotopes oil men can
Put your prescription
in qualified hands
Your registered pharmacist uses the
skill born of many years of exacting
training in filling your prescription. He
keeps abreast of pharmaceutical science
in order always to meet your doctor’s
needs.
locate underground oil leaks,
and' engineers can detect
flaws in structural steel or
measure the , life. . of cutting
tools. , The thickness of paper,
the fullness of a sealed can,
the; effectiveness of a washing
machine, the wearing quality
of floor wax can thus be
gauged.
These endless advantages
are trie reasons for possible
peril. It is simple arithmetic:
the more you use anything,
the greater is the chance for
misuse.
But the very fact that dan-
ger exists is a sort of safety
factor. Persons engaged in
peactime uses of radiation
equipment and materials,
acutely aware of the chances
of a miscue, handle ,them with
extreme caution. *
Since radiation; usage -ri;in*--!
creasing, it makes good ’sense
for- everyone to be alert. And
this much is certain: Un-
necessary exposure to radi-
ation — using x-rays to judge
Miss Good Posture contests
and in personnel monitoring
against theft of company
property, or full-body x-ray
as part of new baby care—is
sheer folly.
(A weekly feature of the
Texas State Department of
Health Education Division,
Health.)
sion for $50,000, installation of
a sprinkler system on the
Capitol lawn for $20,000 and
several other expenses of that
nature.
Economy group also wan-
ed to trim back some increas-
es in the bill for salaries and
travel expenses for state per-
sonnel and eliminate paying
legislators a salary for the
period between November,
1960, when the annual pay
amendment was approved,
and the start of the session
in January.
SCHOOL BILLS — A bill
to provide more liberal state
aid for sparsely populated
school district^ has been ap-
proved by the House Educa-
tion Committee.
Rep. Sam F. Collins of New-
t9n is sponsor of the measure
which would provide $378,000
to pay for 90 additional teach-
ers in rural areas. Most of
the extra teachers would be
for negro schools.
Objectors to the bill said
it would perpetuate the prob-
lem of having school districts
too small to provide a strong
school program.
On the other side of the
Capitol, the Senate Education
Committee gave reluctant ap-
proval to a more economical
teacher pay raise plan than
the Hale-Aikin plan it already
had approved. Sent to the
floor was a bill by Sen. Bruce
Reagan of Corpus Christi
which would give teachers a
$600 a year raise this year,
$200 *■ more in 1963 and $200
more in 1965. Hale-Aikin pro-
vides for $810 a year more
immediately.
ANTI-POLLUTION — A bill
qreating a board to control
water pollution is under study
by the House Conservation
and Reclamation Committee.
Similar bill was passed by
the House last session but
died in the-Senate. Rep. R. H.
Cory of Victoria,. sponsor of
the measure, said that unless
the state acts now to control
pollution, the federal govern-
ment will take over.
Under the Cory bill, a nine-
member commission would be
created with power to can-
cel an industrial firm’s per-
mit to operate if it persisted
in activities causing water |
pollution. 3
A bill to reorganize the z
State Highway Commission, 3
is under study by the same
committee. Under the pro-
posal by Rep. Franklin Spears
of San Antonio, a chief engi-
neer would be in charge of
administrative and technical
functions and a board would
make policy.
LOBBY BILL — A hill to
provide additional lobby reg-
ulation attracted neither en-
emies nor friends to a hearing
before the House State Affairs
Committee.
Pro and con views were
presented solely by members
of the House before the meas-
ure was sent to subcommittee
for study. Proposed bill would
require lobbyists to file a re-
port showing who received
any amount above $50 spent
to influence legislation. It
would also prohibit a lobby-
ist’s calling a member off the
floor during session without
advance permission.
Critics declared the legis-
lators didn’t need a law to
enable them to stay put at
their desks if they wanted =,
to.
BEST TAX IS NO TAX—
Citizens for Fair Taxation,
an anti-sales tax committee,
announced, as expected, that
its poll showed a majority
against a retail sales tax.
It also seemed to show that
the people polled were not
very much in favor of any
kind of new tax. CFT an-
nounced that 78 per cent of
tljose opposed were against a;
retail sales tax on items of
25 cents or more, and 61 per
cent were against selective
excise or sales taxes if. they
hit any of the necessities.
Eighty per cent were against
a personal income tax.
A majority in the CFT poll
favored the abandoned prop-
erty bill, raising franchise
taxes on interstate corpor-
ations and a corporation in-
come tax.
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Williams, Nev H. The Winkler County News (Kermit, Tex.), Vol. 24, No. 25, Ed. 1 Monday, July 31, 1961, newspaper, July 31, 1961; Kermit, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth848644/m1/2/?q=%221961-07%22%26grid%26grid: accessed August 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Winkler County Library.