The Winkler County News (Kermit, Tex.), Vol. 24, No. 14, Ed. 1 Monday, May 16, 1960 Page: 2 of 8
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HE WINKLER COUNTY NEWS, Kermit, Texas
GE TWO Monday, May 16, 1969
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That Super Highway The Law
State Capital News
The greatest highway program ever proposed in
any country is the one now being kicked around in
Washington. It’s the new Interstate and Defense High-
way Program, a 41,000-mile super structure which is to
cost $45 billion.
It has received a vast amount of public support,
and the feeling is general that it will make material
contributions to the economic welfare and the military
strength of this country. One of these super highways
would swing through this general area, usable by the
public in peace times but by the military only during
war.
The Reporter carries an interesting article on the
subject written by Daniel P. Moynihan, and he says
that “introducing a highway program in today’s Con-
gress is like letting a tariff bill loose in the old days:
The figures go up and up and up.” Vast numbers of
people have a direct interest in the program, and it is
cotmmonly approved by both liberals and conservatives
who disagree on many other matters. Moreover, he
adds, “Highway construction is especially important to
the professional politicians, since it provided the larg-
est single supply of money available these days to
support their activities . . . Public works represents
the most beneficent outlet yet devised for the politi-
cian’s need to make a living and at the same time
please the public.”
He points out that “with the railroads running at
50 per cent of capacity, a sudden, sharp increase in
intercity transportation facilities represented, if any-
thing, a threat to the economic stability of the entire
transportation industry. Almost certainly the mileage
figure is too great . .
Another objection which Moynihan points out is
the fact that when the Federal Government foots the
bill for any projects, the States lose their control.
He also doubts the wisdom of financing the program
through the gasoline tax. This levy, as he sees it,
“really amounts to a household tax.” Adding more
pennies to the already overloaded gasoline tax would
place a further burden upon the folk who must use
their automobiles and trucks in their businesses and
professions.
What will happen remains to be seen. An investi-
gation of the road program is now under way in Con-
gress. To quote Moynihan once more: “So much
thieving, mischief and blunder will be uncovered (if
not, it will be necessary to investigate the investigat-
ors) that the public should be prepared for a serious
reappraisal of the program by the next adminstra-
tion, Democratic or Republican.”
Security or Poverity?
In some old folks’ holmes, an oldster entering the
home must sign over all his posessions to the home
before he can be accepted. This has prevented many
older folks from entering a home until they have ex-
hausted all their own means, and some have lived al-
most a life of poverty in order to hold on to their
small homes or a few stock and bonds so their child-
ren may inherit these holdings.
In a sense, the Federal Government makes peo-
ple do the salme thing in its Social Security restric-
tions, as the Eugene (Ore.) Register-Guard points out.
Social Security is not a dole, not relief payment; it
is a fund into which both the employe and the em-
ployer have contributed.
Says the Register-Guard: “Under present law a
person must forfeit his Social Security money if he
makes more than $1,200 a year. This is unrealistic.
“It would be different if Social Security were
some kind of a largess from the Government, but it
isn’t. It’s something the oldster has coming to him.
He contributed to the fund, and so did his employer,
while he was working. It’s his money.
“He shouldn’t have to agree to live a life of pov-
erty in order to get it.”
In Texas
The outlook wasn’t very
bright for the home team
with the score tied, two op-
posing players on base and
only one out. “Spec” Tator,
a rabid fan, leaned forward
on his seat in the left field
bleachers. The pitcher got his
signal, the ball sped toward
the plate.
Then came two sharp
cracks. The first was the bat
on the ball. The second was
the ball on Spec’s head. Spec
was seriously injured.
To recover damages for his
injuries and medical bills,
Spec filed suit against the
baseball club. He charged it
with negligence in failing to
put a wire screen in front of
the bleachers where he sat
and in failing to warn him that
batted balls might come into
those bleachers and injure
him.
But the court said, “No” to
Spec. He had chosen to sit
in the unscreened bleachers
in preference to sitting behind
a screen where the tickets
cost more. Therefore, he had
“assumed the risk” of being
hit by a batted or thrown ball
during the playing of the
game. No recovery was al-
lowed.
In such cases, the courts
say that the spectator is an
invitee to whom the invitor
(the ball club) owes the duty
to exercise ordinary care to
render the premises reason-
ably safe for him.
“But,” say the courts, “the
invitor is not an insurer of the
safety of the invitee; neither
is the invitee protected
against all hazard, nor re-
lieved of all duty to himself
for his own safety. And to
the extent that the duty of
self-protection rests upon the
invitee, the duty of the invitor
to protect is reduced.”
The same rules as to “as-
sumption of risk” are applied
to most places of amuse-
ment and amusement devices.
A swimmer must anticipate
that a diving board will be
wet and slippery. A person
who rides on an amusement
device and sees flying sparks
takes the chance that a flying
spark may strike his eye.
And one who goes upon a
revolving floor device for the
purpose of being thrown from
it, accepts the dangers inher-
ent in the sport so far as they
are obvious.
On the other hand, if the
danger is not apparent or ob-
vious, the operator of the de-
vice has a duty to warn the
rider or spectator. It is the
ordinary risk that is assumed,
not the unusual. Where, for
example, a device was op-
erated on a particular occa-
sion at an especially fast
speed so that it jerked and
jolted violently, a rider who
was injured by these unusual
conditions was permitted to re-
cover.
SAL A«
Aerial Agreement Seen
Through The Years
20 YEARS AGO
The Kermit Post of the
American Legion Tuesday
night made, plans for reno-
vating the Guiberson build-
ing on the Jal Highway, which
the post bought recently.
Misses Rose Marie Rut-
ledge, Mildred Shafer, Lois-
Miller, and Jean Langston
spent the week end on the
Jim Waddell ranch and at-
tended the round-up.
The public is invited to visit
the Kermit WPA sewing room
during the week of May 20-25,
which has been designated by
Col. F. C. Harrington, Com-
missioner of Works Project
Administration as “This Work
Pays Your Community”
Week.
H. W. Froelich has just fin-
ished a three-room modern
house in the Underwood Ad-
dition.
Mary Dean Underwood is
the Valedictorian of the 1940
graduating class of Kermit
High School with a four-year
average of 94.
Wilma Howell was elected
by the journalism class to
edit the 1940-41 Yellow Jacket.
Wilma was the news editor
of the paper this year and
will be a senior next year.
In order to cut down on ex-
penses, the County Commis-
sioners this week voted to cut
down the whiteway lights
around the courthouse square
at 1 o’clock each night. Here-
tofore, the lights have been
running all night.
night to start immediate con-
struction on the American Le-
gion Home. The building is
to be located on lots 16, 17,
18, 19 and 20 in block 24,
north of the courthouse.
Mr. and Mrs. Tommy Mills
have purchased the home of
Dr. and Mrs. R. C. Roberts
and will move into it in the
near future.
A1 Robinson, son of Dr.
Cecil and Dr. Rose Robinson,
had his tonsils removed at the
local hospital Friday.
A move that would place
Kermit and Wink directly
athwart one of the vital
northeast-southwest highways
of the great Southwest was
launched this week at a meet-
ing in Lamesa to organize
support for continuing the
Kermit-Andrews highway to
Lamesa.
The Best Drug Store has
been closed all week for ex-
tensive repairs and will re-
open Tuesday at 9 a.m.
she rushed to school, thoughts
of screaming teachers and
snapping turtles racing
through her mind. She peek-
ed into the school room and
saw the teacher proudly dis-
playing the turtle and reading
about the Hare and the Tor-
toise.
Kermit population is 6,884
according to Mayor Joe Ar-
ledge, who received notifica-
tion from the Odessa census
office. Winkler County’s un-
official census count is 10,005.
Senior Girl Scouts of Troop
2 will leave Saturday to spend
a week at Balmorhea park.
Those to make the trip are
Reba Baker, JoAnn Bradford,
Julia Dragoo, Norma Jean
Fields, Freddie Mae Jackson,
Pat Kirkpatrick, Julia Ann
Meers, Billie Lou Mitchell,
Patsy Riley, Delores Stanley,
Lolisa Waddell, Helen Wight, ■ ures prepared to
Gerry Wilson and Janet l prise attack.
Wood. \ On April 29,
BY DAVID LAWRENCE
WASHINGTON—The shoot-
ing down of the American
plane over the Soviet Union
may yet prove to be a bless-
ing in disguise.
For it could mean that at
last the whole world will be
awakened to the danger of a
surprise attack that might be
ordered by the Soviet rulers.
The episode could force an In-
ternational agreement for
aerial inspection that would
aid the cause of disarma-
ment.
At first, it seemed that the
Department of State had err-
ed by admitting that an
American plane had been tak-
ing pictures over Soviet Rus-
sia. But the incident now
helps to focus attention on
what has been done and can
be done by aerial photog-
raphy — by satellites as well
as high-altitude planes.
Francis Powers was only
about 12,000 feet in the air,
but planes of the. type he was
piloting can travel five times
that height. Indeed, the
United States is building a
satellite that can photo-
graph places inside Russia
from a height of several hun-
dred miles. Golf balls on a
golf course have been photo-
graphed from a height of
nearly six miles in the air.
The Russians have had sat-
ellites crossing the United
States. What they may have
photographed in this way and
by balloons has not been dis-
closed. But the belief is
growing that Moscow has
learned about the remark-
able plans the United States
has in preparation for effect-
ive picture-making high in
the skies and doesn’t like the
outlook. Hence the furor
raised over the plane.
But with a surprise attack
by. missiles being a matter of
minutes—some say only 20
minutes — it is essential to
the safety of the United States
that Soviet missile bases be
accurately located in advance
so that air channels can be
patrolled and counter-meas-
resist sur-
port of the House Committee
on Appropriations said:
“In the final analysis, to
effectively deter a would-be
aggressor, we should main-
tain our armed forces in such
a way and with such an un-
derstanding that should it
ever become obvious that an
attack upon us or our allies
is imminent, we can launch
an attack before the aggres-
sor has hit either us or our
allies. This is an element of
deterrence which the United
States should not deny itself.
No other form of deterrence
can be fully relied upon.”
This is not *»■ new subject
to the military and intelli-
gence folks, but it is new to
most people. Actually, Pres-
ident Eisenhower at the last
“summit” conference in Gen-
eva made the following dec-
laration, dated July 21, 1955:
“I propose that we take a
practical step, that we begin
an arrangement, very quick-
ly, as between ourselves—im-
mediately. These steps would
include:
“To give to each other a
complete blueprint of our mil-
itary establishments, from be-
ginning to end, from one end
of our countries to the other,
lay out the establishments
and provide the blueprints to
each other.
“Next, to provide within
our countries facilities fdr
aerial photography to the oth-
er country — we to provide
you the facilities within our
country, ample facilities for
aerial reconnaissance, where
you can make all the pictures
you choose and take them to
your own country to study,
you to provide exactly the
same facilities for us and we
to make these examinations,
and by this step to convince
the world that we are pro-
viding as between ourselves
against the possibility of great
surprise attack, thus lessen-
ing danger and relaxing ten-
sions.
“Likewise we will make
more easily attainable a com-
prehensive and effective sys-
tem of inspection and dis-
armament, because what I
propose, I assure you, would
be but a beginning ...
“The United States is ready
to proceed in the study and
testing of a reliable system of
inspections and reporting,
and, when that system is
proved, then to reduce arma-
ments with all others to the
extent that the system will
provide assured results.
“The successful working out
of such a system would do
much to develop the mutual
confidence which will open
wide the avenues of progress
for all our peoples.”
Science has progressed rap-
idly since Khrushchev reject-
ed the Eisenhower proposal
in 1955. America now is way
ahead in the technique of
aerial photography. The So-
viets know it and are scared.
This may have been one of
the reasons why they raised
such a fuss about an unarm-
ed photographic plane, though
they themselves have used
balloons and other devices to
photograph sites on American
territory.
a formal re-
15 YEARS AGO
Mrs. L. L. Deaton joined
the staff of The Winkler Coun-
ty News this week ajs report-
er.
The members of the Ker-
mit American Legion Post de-
cided at a meeting Tuesday
10 YEARS AGO
Complete with supper, cor-
sages and a dance, the busi-
nessmen of Kermit welcomed
the residents of Dollarhide to
this city last Friday night at
a supper given in the new
school cafeteria. The supper,
celebrating opening of the
Dollarhide-Kermit road, was
sponsored by the Retail Com-
mittee of the Chamber of
Commerce.
Little 7-year-old Jack Ev-
ans was faced with a difficult
problem last week. His moth-
er had given him a bunch of
roses to take to his teacher.
Along the way to school, the
youngster found a turtle.
Which would teacher like
best? Jack decided on the
turtle. Later, when his moth-
er learned of what happened,
THE WINKLER COUNTY NEWS, Kermit, Texas
Published Every Monday and Thursday in Kermit
The County Seat of Winkler County, Texas
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AUSTIN — Texas Highway
Department soon will come
out with a brochure aimed at
attracting out-of-state tourists
to Texas.
Publication of the booklet
with State Highway funds has
been okayed by Attorney Gen-
eral Will.Wilson. State Comp-
troller questioned the legali-
ty of using road-use tax rev-
enue for non-highway purposes
and the Attorney General’s
opinion as to legality was re-
quested.
Actually, the brochure sticks
pretty close to the road. It
contains a map of the Texas
highway system, tells about
traffic laws and high way
markers and makes a strong
appeal for safe driving.
Its publication was declared
legal on grounds that to re-
fuse authorization would, in
effect, declare unconstitution-
al the amendment approved
by Sue people to allow adver-
tising of Texas with state
funds.
Expense of the brochure,
said Wilson’s opinion, “will be
refunded to the highway pro-
gram many times due to the
great increase in automobile
travel and the resultant in-
crease in gasoline taxes.”
Tourist spending in Texas
dropped by $100,000,000 last
year. This has been attrib-
uted by many to the fact that
other states have advertised
vigorously while Texas has
not.
TRAINING STUDIED —
State Board of Education is
considering proposals for re-
vising requirements for edu-
cation of public school teach-
ers. Decision is to be made
next summer.
Suggestions include:
1. Requiring all teachers to
take 18 semester hours in ed-
ucation courses.
2. Requiring elementary
school teachers to take 18
hours in subject matter and
skills to be taught plus an-
other 18 hours . in related
areas. An optional plan would
be 24 hours in one subject
and 18 in another.
3. Requiring future teachers
to spend six semester hours
of practice teaching. It was
suggested that this require-
ment could be set aside for
persons with a college degree
and three years actual teach-
ing experience.
DON’T TAKE IT EASY —
Biggest problem in driving on
the new long, straight, con-
trolled - access highways is
it’s too easy. Drivers* get
bored, inattentive, sleepy.
“Rhythmic hum of power-
ful engines mile after mile
... soft rumble of tires can
produce a decided hypnotic
effect,” says the State Health
Department Bulletin.
It sugests these ways for
a driver to keep awake and
alert: (1) Watch for police
cars. (2) Chew gum — a full
pack at a time. (3) Sing loud-
ly and talk to yourself out
loud, or to a passenger. (4)
Drive in your stocking feet.
(5) Sit on something hard.
(6) Keep moving your eyes.
(7) Don’t overeat before a
trip. (8) Make periodic stops.
Finally, says the Bulletin,
if you get sleepy, the only
real cure is to pull off the
road, stop, and go to sleep.
It cautions against artificial
stimulants and driving after
taking tranquilizers and anti-
histamines.
WHAT’S A BOMB? — Any-
one who buys a /jar of gaso-
line for his lawn mower could
be accused of violating the
state’s anti-bomb law, a Dal-
las labor lawyer argued be-
fore the Court of Criminal Ap-
peals.
His client was convicted of
having assembled materials
for a “Molotov cocktail”—a
homemade bomb consisting of
a jar of gasoline with a rag
stuffed in the top for a wick.
In the case at issue, the
bomb was exploded in the
driveway of a non-striking
employe during a Dallas la-
bor dispute.
Dallas assistant district at-
torney disagreed with the
charge that the law involved
is unconstitutional. He said
the statute makes it clear that
possession of gasoline for use
as a fuel is legal, but for
use in bomb making it is
illegal. He said the law had
been upheld seven times by
the Court of Criminal Appeals
and twice by the U. S. Su-
preme Court.
TRAFFIC COURT URGED
—More and more attention in
Texas is being given to plans
for setting up courts of record
to try traffic cases only.
Lawyers and law enforce-
ment officials have been con-
cerned for years.
Public interest was sudden-
ly sharpened this year when
the State Board of Insurance
adopted automobile insurance
rates tied to the driver’s
traffic violation record. Peo-
ple who had been paying fines
rather casually began to won-
der what kind of shake they
could get if they went to court
over a ticket.
A State Bar Association
Committee has suggested, a
two-pronged plan — one for
rural and one for metropoli-
tan areas.
Under this plan, county
seats with 50,000 or more pop-
ulation would set up a city
traffic court of record. • Less
populous areas could set up a
county-wide traffic court.
City judges would be appoint-
ed, county judges elected.
In each case, the new courts
would be restricted to traffic
cases, and usual corporation
and justice of the peace courts
would continue to function.
GAS TAX UPHELD — State
Supreme Court has ruled the
state has a right to collect
a tax on gas when it is taken
from the ground a second
time.
Francita Gas Company had
been taking gas from the
ground in Jackson County,
running it through a cycling
plant and then re-injecting it
into the ground.
It paid a tax for the first
extraction, but protested state
demand that it pay again
when it took the gas out
again. Supreme Court held
the company had to pay the
“7 per cent of fair market
price” production tax for the
second extraction.
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