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T VISIT CONGRESSMAN WALTER ROGERS—This
group of Panhandle Girl Scouts and their leaders and
escorts, are shown in the office of Congressman
Walter Rogers in the House Office Building, Wash-
ington, D. C. Nineteen Girl Scouts and five adults
completed the 3,931 mile trip from June 29 to 5:30
p. m. July 16. Audie Morgan, district manager for
the Texas Highway Department, drove the school
bus the entire distance. Girls and leaders pictured
are: Brenda Williams, Joanne Lawson, Linda Mar-
tin, Linda Urbanczyk, Jean Biggs, Carolyn Vinson,
Judy Orr, Judy Jay, Carolyn Bell, Linda May, Son-
dra Price, Sharon Vance, Sherry Hearron, Beverly
Veteto, Beverly Davis, Marvon McGregor, Mary
Ruth Metcalf, Bette Edwards, and Martha Morgan.
Also leaders, Miss Mary E. Ewing, Miss Mar-
jorie Ewing, Miss Thelma Holman, and Mr. and Mrs.
Audie Morgan. Each Scout and leader contributed
$7(5 at the beginning of the trip. After all expenses
had been paid, Miss Mary Ewing refunded $5 to each
person. Some of the costs were: Food, $710.71; In-
surance, $68.00; Lodging, $303.25; Ice, sight seeing,
etc., $103.43; Transportation, $321.92. The school
bus needed $77.16 in repairs and consumed 520.4
gallons of gasoline. The entire tirip was made without
an accident and no one was ill. Interested friends are
invited to hear reports of the trip and to see films
made on the jaunt at 8 p. m. Monday, Aug. 4 at the
Maggie Weatherly Girl Scout House.
Council Approves
$48,745 Budget
Decrease of $1,532 Over Last
Year; Value Up About $71,000
CITY COUNCILMEN approved a
$48,745.00 operating budget for
1958-59 at the annual meeting re-
cently.
Mayor Howard Lane said that
the conservative budget was $1,~
500 below last year’s $50,277. The
saving was made possible through
cooperation of all city depart-
ments in an effort to operate the
city as economically as possible.
Budget items included:
Office expense -- $1,548.00
(includes such items as office sup-
plies, phone, postage, election ex-
pense, etc.)
Administration, salaries
for councilmen and mayor 700.00
Street Dept. ____________ 6,500.00
Sanitation Dept.________ 3,450.00
Fire Dept. ____________ 1,669.00
Park Dept. ____________ 1,250.00
(includes operation of swimming
\ pool)
Police Dept.___________ 2.400.00
Total________________ $17,517.00
(This money is from the general
fund)
Another $31,228.00 from reve-
nue funds will be spent for such
operations as:
Adm. Salaries ________ 4,500.00
; Clerical --------------- 1,200.00
Travel--------------- 100.00
Plant Salaries __________ 7,500.00
Postage ----- \______ 300.00
Utilities
Revenue Bond interest
450.00
and commission
Power for water
. 2,200.00
Pumps
Maintenance and
6,500.00
tools
4,100.00
Misc. Items
1,000.00
Total ___
$31,228.00
Total Budget
$48,745.00
mission studied all property in
the city and made adjustment
where they thought the value was
too high and also adjusted val-
uation on properties that had been
valued too low.
A general positive 5 percent in-
crease was not made.
Additional revenue bonds pro-
vided funds to drill and place in
operation another water well for
the city. The total cost was in
excess of $31,000. Bonds to in-
prove the swimming pool have not
been sold.
AUTO INSURANCE RATES INCREASED
EFFECTIVE AUG. 1: NEW POLICY OUT
Income from all sources is ex-
pected to be more than $60,000.00.
The difference between the bud-
get and income will go toward
paying off the indebtedness of the
city.
City finances are in good con-
dition. Money for the December
1958 bond payment is in the bank
and a small amount of money is
available for the payment in
1959.
The city has an assessed value
of some $1,598,362.50 and the
$1.50 tax rate produces approxi-
mately $23,794.00. Other revenue
is obtained from the sale of water
and various fees.
This spring voters approved a
general five percent increase in
the tax valuation of properties.
This increase is expected to boost
the total value about $72,000 and
provide approximately $1,080.00
more per year.
The City Tax Valuation com-
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Car and truck insurance rates
in Carson county and Texas have
been hiked by the Texas state
board of insurance. The increase
was caused by financial losses
sustained by insurance companies
over the past years, and the in-
crease in auto and truck costs.
The non-farm resident Carson
county family with a male driv-
er under 25 will pay $52 for usual
5-10-5 liability instead of the pre-
sent $41. Comprehensive coverage
(glass, etc.) will cost $56 instead
of $42 and collision with $50
deductible will cost $113 instead
of the present $85.
Families with a male driver
under 25 who reside on a farm
will pay about 20 percent less.
All rates quoted are on a new
4-door Chevrolet, Ford or Ply-
mouth without air conditioning
and in the $3150 price range.
Non farm families without a
male driver under 25 will pay
$35 for liability an increase of
Expect Turnout of 1,600; Only
Three County Posts Contested
$6; $56 for comprehensive, a
boost of $14 and $63 for $50 de-
ductible collision instead of $57.
Farm families also have a low-
er rate in this classification.
All insurance companies are of-
fering for the first time a $50
deductible clause in the compre-
hensive coverage. The new rate
with the $50 deductible is only
$28 compared to $56 with full
coverage. In other words, if one
puts in a new curved windshield
the cost to the insured with the
$50 deductible would be about
$45. Without the deductible clause
the insurance company would pay
about $95 for the glass and the
insured would pay $28 more for
the protection.
Single male drivers under 25
are almost discouraged by the
new rates. Liability will cost $87,
comprehensive, $56 and collision,
$157. These new rates compare
to: liability $63; comp. $42 and
See INSURANCE Page 5
DEMOCRATIC offcials are es-
timating a vote of 1,600 Sat-
urday out of approximately 2,-
600 potential voters in the county.
Candidates from governor and
United States senator to justice
of the peace will be nominated.
Nine Carson county polls will
be open from 8 a. m. to 7 p. m.,
according to Democratic Chair-
man A. J. W.eiser.
This year voters must express
their choice by scratching or
marking out all other names in
any particular race. The legisla-
ture abolished the system of
squares and the placing of an X
in the square by the desired can-
didate.
Carson county has contested
races in Commissioners’ Prect.
No. 2 and 4 and in Justice of
the Peace Prect. No. 1, all other
offices are unopposed.
Only eight state and district
races have more than one candi-
date.
The governor’s race drew four
men: Governor Price Daniel for
re-election and Henry B. Gon-
zalez, Joe A. Irwin and W. Lee
O’Daniel.
Lieutenant governor, Ben Ram-
sey for re-election and George
Nokes.
U. S. Senator, Ralph Yar-
borough for re-election and Bill
Blakley.
Supreme court, place No. 1,
Robert W. Hamilton, Wilmer
Hunt and J. Edwin Smith.
Place No. 4, Joe Greenhill for
re-election and Sarah T. Hughes.
Land office, Bill Allcorn for re-
election and L. J. Dimmitt.
Agriculture commissioner, John
C. White for re-election and Tom
Griffin and Glenn H. Kothmann.
94-F state representative, Ted
B. Springer for re-election and
another man from Amarillo.
Contested County Races
Commissioner, Prect. No. 2, J.
O. Murray, for re-election, and
F. A. Metcalf, Robert (Bob) Walk-
er and B. L. Dickson.
Commissioner, Prect. No. 4, J.
C. Jackson, for re-election and
F. J. Poe. Both men are residents
of White Deer.
Justice of the Peace, JP Prect.
No. 1, Sam R. Lanning, for re-
election and Herman Powell.
Voting Places
Box Place
1— Panhandle Court House
2— Liberty Club house
3— Abell Elevator
4— White Deer school
5— Conway Community bldg.
6— Groom school house
7— Gulf, probably at the W. D.
Ferrell home)
8— Skellytown school
9— Lark school house
Weiser said Wednesday morn-
ing that 89 absentee ballots had
MISSIONARY
HAIL SETS
COST RECOM
One 11-pound package to a mis-
sionary family in the African
Belgian Congo sent via air mail
cost $36.14 in postage. The spec-
ial package left the local post
office Tuesday morning.
Postmaster Lloyd Miller, said
the postage was the largest
amount he had ever seen on one
piece of mail to leave the Pan-
handle office. Employees could
not remember a more expensive
(postage-wise) package.
The box, addressed to Rev. and
Mrs. Charles H. Dawson, contain-
ed plastc food containers, var-
ious breakfast foods, a well
known gelatin and Coolaide.
It is a gift from the First
Christian church Sunday School
members.
Rev. Dawson had been asked
many times by members of the
First Christian church “if there
isn’t something we could send to
you.”
Finally the answer came, he
wrote: “please send food contain-
See MISSIONARY Page 5
been obtained from County Clerk
Mrs. Fannie Williams and that all
but eight had been returned by
that time. At the last primary,
in 1956, 73 absentee ballots were
voted.
Political observers are guessing
that Daniel will carry the county.
If the county votes 1,600, the
governor’s race is. guessed as fol-
lows: Daniel 900, Gonzalez 335,
O'Daniel 300 and Irwin 65.
Voters in Commissioners Prect.
No. 2 and 4 could boost the total
vote if the interest in the Com-
missioners races gets any hotter.
Commissioners Prect. No. 2 has
two voting boxes, Conway and
Liberty.
Commissioners Prect. No. 4 has
three voting boxes, White Deer,
Skellytown and Groom.
Weiser has asked all voting
judges to bring or call their re-
sults to the office of County
Clerk Mrs. Fannie Williams as
quickly after 7 p. m. as possible.
It is hoped to have the county
total complete before 8:30 p. m.
or about one hour quicker than
completed returns in 1956.
WHEAT GROWERS
MAY PURCHASE
LOCAL ELEVATOR
Stockholders of Panhandle
Wheat Growers, Inc. will meet
at 8 p.m. Thursday, July 31 in
the Carson County Living War
Memorial building to study ways
and means of purchasing another
local elevator.
Wheat Growers own properties
here and at Abell.
The concrete elevator, now be-
ing operated by the Wheat Grow-
ers, is the property of Frank
Robinson and O. D. Smith.
R. C. Durrett, president of the
cooperative, urged all members to
attend the important meeting.
Unknowns Return
B&PW Trash Can
Persons who swiped the
$60 Business and Professional
Womens trash receptacle that
had been placed in front of
the Post Office two weeks ago
returned it early Sunday
morning.
The receptacle was placed
in the driveway of the O. R.
Meaker home. Meaker, who is
the City Marshal, said he was
happy to ■ have the trash re-
ceptacle returned.
And the B&PW is happy
because the $60 paid for the
receptacle was hard to earn.
Let Contract for
66 Re-location
A $307,496.97 contract has been
awarded to an Amarillo firm for
re-locating a portion of U. S.
Highway 66 in Carson county,,
according to Charles W. Smith,
district engineer.
The contract also calls for con-
struction of 2.3 miles of the high-
way in Potter county.
Judge Clarence C. Williams was
told by engineers that the propos-
ed re-location would begin just
west of the R. W. Adams house
and continue northwest across
section 22, Blk. 4 and across the
N. O. Glenn section No. 20 and
the small strip listed as the W.
P. Snodgrass and E. Locke land,
thence northwest to FM 1912 and
U. S. Highway 60 just east of the
Amarllo Air Force Base.
It is believed that the highway
will be regular 4-lane divided
construction.
The firm, Gilvin-Terrill, Inq.
will be allowed 175 working days
to complete the 4.5 miles of road.
The new construction will join.
U. S. Highways 66 and 60 at a
point east of the Air Base.
Cliff Deet was returned home
from Pampa’s Highland General
hospital Tuesday afternoon. His
condition is described as “better.”
Precinct Conventions
To Be Held Saturday
Nine Carson County precinct
Democratic conventions are sched-
uled for 2 p. m. Saturday, July
26, according to A. J. Weiser,
Democratic executive chairman.
All Democrats are invited to
attend the conventions, Weiser
reported. He did not see any at-
tempt by a “splinter” group to
gain control of the county con-
vention through control of the
precinct meetings.
Sixty-one delegates will be
qualified at precinct conventions
to attend the County confab at
2 p. m. Aug. 2.
Precinct conventions will be
held in the following places: Pan-
handle, court house; No. 2, Liberty
at Liberty Club house; No. 3,
Abell at Abell elevator; No. 4
White Deer at White Deer school;
No. 5 Conway at the Conway com-
munity building; No. 6 Groom at
the school; No. 7 Gulf probably
at the home of W. D. Ferrell; No.
8 Skellytown at the school and
No. 9 Lark at the school.
Delegates to the county conven-
tion by voting precinct are: Pan-
handle 20; Liberty, 4; Abell, 3
White Deer, 12; Conway, 2
Groom 8; Gulf 0; Skellytown, 11
and Lark, 1.
H. J. Hughes said that the
Republican precinct convention
would be held on the same day
at his office.
To Carson County Republicans
Republican Party officials in Texas are asking
that you not participate in Democratic primaries this
summer or at any other future date for that matter.
There is a principle involved here that is dear to the
heart of any thoughtful American. This would not
benefit our party. It will bring to an end the confus-
ion and frustration in the party of the opposition.
We have plenty to care for in our own party. The
nation is not tottering on the brink of uncertainty and
..the lines are being clearly drawn. As a good Re-
publican we urge you to step forward and do your
duty by standing for the party principles that made
a proud nation great.
Yours truly,
H. J. Hughes
Republican County Chairman
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