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Monday, May 29,1967
The Winkler County News, Kermlt, Texas
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The Winkler County Mewf*
GOLDEN WEST FREE PRESS, INC. KERMIT, TEXAS’
109 S. Poplar ZIP CODE 79745 TELEPHONE JU 6-25611
M. M. Donosky . ~..................Publisher
BUI J. Beckham.............. General Manager
Maud Green.................Managing Editor
Elgin MaikeU...........Mechanical Superintendent
Henry Isaacs...............Advertising Manager
Member of the Texas and West Texas Press Associations.!
Dedicated to the spirit of civic progress; to the unification
of the townspeople in a common purpose for the betterment!
our community; to our churches, schools and homes, that
ir^prmit shaU ever be a good place in which to live and rear!
our children. And, above all, honesty, decency, justice, tol-
erance, faith in Almighty God — These shall be our citadel.!
Message For
Young People
The government system of the United States was originally
dedicated to the proposition that the freedom of the individual
was of paramount importance and that with due regard for the
rights of others, he should be left free to manage his own
affairs and profit from his abilities.
All we have to do is look around us to realize that this way
of doing things has been an unparalleled success. Our whole
system depends on maintaining opportunity for the individual,
and it depends on individuals who wish to pursue that oppor-
tunity — to compete, to work, to build and to create the things
that add up to the material wealth of our nation today. Many
people are concerned that our affluent society is not producing
enough of the kind of individuals among our young people
who will carry on the challenging competitive atmosphere so
essential to the productive accomplishment of our economic
system.
A Harvard Business School survey has indicated that only
12 per cent of today’s college students plan to go into business
as a career — 88 per cent were disinterested. Many of them
seei^i to feel that business does not offer a challenge, that it
is l^fclng. One typical view being, ‘ Business isn’t where the
action is.” Commenting on this, a well-known industrialist,
F. Rockwell Jr., observes; ‘‘Youth says that it doesn’t like
the competitive nature of business life. Somebody needs
to tell these young people that ‘challenge’ and ‘competition’
go together by definition of the words themselves. And perhaps
we all need to do a better job of telling youth about the tre-
merttbs contributions to a healthy and dynamic society made
by business every day of our lives.” In conclusion, he expresses
the option that a more determined effort should be made”
... to show the adults of tomorrow that business has much
to offer to those who have something to give.”
The future belongs to the young people of today. Nothing
could be more vital than that they understand, support and
work to preserve the private property, free enterprise, econo-
mic system on which their well-being and political liberty
depend.
The Oil Patch
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While the nation as a whole
has been rapidly moving for-
ward in education, Texas has
advanced more slowly. Our
State has the nation’s sixth
largest gross income and has
23 per cent of the total annual
value of mineral production.
Despite the wealth, Texas
ranks 32nd in education. Thirty-
one of the fifty states are mak-
ing a greater effort in edu-
cation than Texas — the rich-
est state of all in natural re-
sources.
Texas has the fifth largest
population and has the third
largest public school attend-
ance. But last year, Texas
WASHINGTON AND
spent only $450 per student national average to start with,
while the national average was One of our neighboring states,
$533, and New York State spent Arkansas; improved at the rate
$869 per student — nearly twice
as much per student in Texas.
This is a poor rating for Tex*
as, but what is worse is that
Texas is not improving its
position. In the last 10 years,
Texas ranked 31st among the
states in the per cent of in-
crease of the expense for each
student. Our increase of effort
was 69.7 per cent for the full
10 years, which sounds pretty
good, until you consider that
the national average was 81.2
per cent improvement in that 10
years, and we were below the
"SMALL BUSINESS ’
By C. WILSON HARDER
I thought you said you wanted an Inside job.
Paul Harvey News
We Cannot
Legislate Love
Guest Editorial
Small Towns Can
Flourish If People
Want Them To
^ (Reprinted from The Waco Tribune-Herald)
What may well be the most important handbook for small
town progress in all the history of Texas has just been pub-
lished by the West Texas Chamber of Commerce. It is the fruit
of a seven-month task force study by 23 West Texas leaders, into
which were drawn hundreds of other West Texans as suppliers
of information and ideas, and it ought to be required reading
for persons who look on their own small towns with mis-
giving or skepticism.
Even more, the WTCC publication, entitled “The Small
Community in West Texas,” should be required reading for all
persons who hope to or want to do something about improving
the quality of life in a small town.
The stories of success and failure as recited by West
Texans in their own direct, colorful language in this publication
can be valuable sources of ideas for Central Texans who want
their small communities to live and thrive.
sections™/ it 1='p^iUos ol ten «— OoUars anCfive yea-s in
communities of 12,000 or fewer population but reached to the prison.
Several members of Congress are sufficiently incensed
over recent incidents of ‘‘flag burning” that they are today
considering making desecration of our flag a federal offense.
Never has our flag meant so little to so many.
Two factors contribute to this increasing disrespect. One
contributory cause is the fact which we have discussed pre-
viously; The press throws gasoline on these flames.
By focusing public attention on instances of shocking mis-
behavior, every youth determined to‘‘shock” is provided with
a sure-fire attention-getter.
Millions of Americans daily stand to salute, proudly display
or otherwise honor this symbol of ‘‘the Republic for which it
stands.” But these are not news.
The one unwashed beatnik who makes a torch of our flag
gets his picture in a thousand papers.
There is another sickness of our citizenry of which this
flagrant disrespect is a symptom. It has to do with the fact that
the republic, lts&f, is less ‘‘respectable” than it once^was.
You and I grew up in an era when patriotism was aj two-way
street. We defended our country and our country protected us.
It is not easy for us to comprehend the contradictions
which confound today’s school-agers.
Their flag does not always protect them in foreign coun-
tries.
Indeed, today’s American youth has been drafted to fight
warless wars under a mongrel flag; wars which we were afraid
to win and ashamed to lose.
Further, our nation, ‘‘with liberty and justice for all,”
now penalizes the hard workers, subsidizes the lazy.
Our nation orders our sons to travel 6,000 miles from
home to prevent the advance of Communism ...
Yet they are told to tolerate that same menace just 90
miles from Florida.
You and I have been around longer and we can rationalize
that our republic, for all its imperfections, is still the best
there is . . . ^
But our still idealistic sons and daughters see a fugitive
from justice re-elected to the Congress and Old Glory hangs
limn and soiled over our nation's Capitol.
I am not defending them. I am trying to help explain some
of their disdain for the values you and I treasure.
Today a House Judiciary subcommittee is considering an
assortment of new laws against misuse of our flag. Some would
An alarming story appeared
in the Indianapolis Star, re-
porting a warning by economist
John Kenneth Galbraith, that
with corporate giants increas-
ingly depending upon govern-
ment contracts for survival, the
division between the big com-
panies and the Federal Govern-
ment will one day be nonexis-
tent.
* * *
Galbraith
predicts so
secure a mar-
r i a g e be-
tween big
business and
the larger ad-
ministrative
complex of
government
that it will C. W. Harder
be recalled with amusement,
“the pretense that once caused
people to refer to General Elec-
tric or DuPont or Vickers as
private business.”
* * *
Carnegie Corporation recent-
ly warned in the foundation’s
ing about an annoyance, it is not annual report, “The Nongov-
enough for you to point out how ernmental Organization at
it looks, sounds, or smells. You Bay,” of increasing use by the
must also show that it is not ap- government of private scholar-
propriate to the location. professional and cultural
For in the eyes of the law. when organizations health, welfare
, y i . and community action agencies,
you choose youi lesidence ,c non-university research insti-
are also choosing your envuon- tuteSj technical and advisory
ment. Choose the amenities and organizations and independent
the excitement of the city, and you educational agencies to pursue
also choose its clatter and its assignments for a fee or grant
dirt. They are a normal—even an from Washington,
essential—feature of urban living. * * *
As one judge pul it: Carnegie cautions that a num-
ber of these organizations are
becoming accustomed to receiv-
ing so substantial a portion of
their Income from Federal proj-
ects that eventually the private
foundations may lose their iden-
tity and independence and be-
come “little more than appen-
dages of government.”
THE
FAMILY
LAWYER
Pig in the Parlor
Is an ugly junk yard a nuisance.’
Is a noisy radio a nuisance? Is an
odorous henhouse a nuisance
Consider this definition by the
United States Supreme Court:
"A nuisance may be merely a
right thing in the wrong place—
like a pig in the parlor."
In other words, in complain-
of 134 per cent; while Kentucky
had an improvement figure of
116 per cent; Mississippi, 102
per cent; and Alabama, 90 per
cent.
Texas ranks 50th among the
States in child welfare pay-
ments per child for children
under 21 years of age. Not
one Single state spends less
money on each child than does
Texas. We spend about 50 cents
per year per child in Texas
while the national average is
$4*$5 per child and New York
State spent $13.72 for child wel-
fare per year.
We need to improve the sal-
aries we pay our teachers. The
national average for teachers*
salaries &st year was $6,500,
bit te^as averaged only $5,950,
By contrast, California teach-
s, in one of the best systems
receive an aver.
150. Ai*fT*nare fall-
behto# fvt
ks
the
teiche
But, Carnegie ofter?
tionable alte||MI^^^>
government .......
funds to the^riihieltton* u»
related to specific projects, for
the purpose of maintaining the L
foundations by subsidizing their ' AO Ye
essential expenditures. j^orease
* ♦ * • v T njljifaster
, .. years than we
Just how these organizations ^et's look at _ __
could maintain feelr indepen- .JA T had ' m|teracv
dence and still be dependent, Jexa* ^Wteracy
upon government for susten- ra*e 01 per cent,, ranking
ance is an issue not explained; '44th among the
* * * means that over
Federal tentacles have also
grasped leading universities,
where the larger institutions
gvery year,
the
& oi in-
leftover
riy-two
t*aeh-
paft 10
Texas,
tpdtg. In
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to read or wr
cent of all T
s. This
people
write.
fSS that
Ability
32 per
who take
* tost fail
'require-
(Army,
our educa-
as. The
thanatton ranks
32nd In education. In my 10
years in the Senate I have
worked for all these federal
educational program#. This
ranking of 32nd can be better;
our children deserve more.
tional system In
richest state inthf
have received increasingly;
greater governmental grant*,
especially for research. Univer-
sity programs, and perhaps pol-
icies, are influenced by the
dominance of the Washington
investment.
* * *
Alert educators and univer-
sity heads, aware of Impending
federal domination, are taking
steps such as promoting educa-
tional programs to attract mon-
ey from private Industry, The
Wall St. Journal recently ran
a page one story about the
“new breed of college preri-
dents” who are not as degree-
heavy as their predecessors,
but more aware of life outside
their campuses.
* * *
President Vern Alden has
raised private contributions to
his Ohio University from an
insignificant $304,000 in 1962,
to a gigantic $3.7 million in 1966. ______ ^
Alden awards scholarships, and p0nCy to a Modified Life Plan
created a merit pay-raise sys- shortlv after this new plan was
tern for professors. ‘ 1
* * *
In such a way is indepen-
dence from overwhelming gov-
ernment established.
Veterans
information
Q.— I converted my National
Service Life Insurance term
Resentment in Congress is being called a ‘‘patriots’
bB.Ckl2.Sh.* *
‘‘We’ll teach those young hooligans they’d better respect
our flag, or elsel”
There should, indeed, be a penalty for flagrant expressions
of disrespect.
But we should have learned by now that love cannot be
legislated.
And in Congress, before all this steam blows off in the
whistle, perhaps our energies should be directed toward cor*
recting the hypocrisies and inconsistencies which discredit
our ism. . tT,
While we’re singing‘‘God Bless America,” let’s give Him
some good reasons why He should.
state and federal government levels and to industrial organiza-
tions active in West Texas. All of this is reflected in the pub-
lica^n by the task force. For small towns not involved, the hand-
booW^ives the directions and road signs for similar studies,
starting with an inventory of assets and handicaps and going on
from there.
.Cultural, social, economic and geographic factors affecting
smttt towns are laid out in the West Texas study in a way that
anybody can understand. So are the human elements, including
the influences of strong personalities, business and industrial
leadership, church groups and agricultural families ... In
short, the handbook is down to earth in the preface and stays
there through the index.
Lest anyone make the mistake of assuming that this hand-
book is of interest only to residents of small communities, it
should be remembered that no metropolitan area can grow
and prosper without the adjacent smaller communities* support.
It is as much a matter of Waco*s interest that the small com-
munities in the heart of Texas find new life and spirit and
strength as is Waco*s own future development for Wacoans.
There hasn’t been enough close communion in Central
Texas between the people who make things go in the counties
comprising this populous and prospering section. It is hard
to find the time to get together and even harder to find the time
for far-sighted unified planning.
The Heart O’ Texas Council of Governments, organized
here last week, is a step in the right direction. So is the Eco-
nomic Development District to be based at James Connally
Technical Institute. For all concerned in these new public bodies
as well as for all others who take an interest in the health
and strength of Central Texas, the WTCC handbook can become
a md^S important source of knowledge and ideas.
John Ben Shepperd, president of WTCC and inspiration for
the task force study of small towns, said of the project:
“Small towns are our last citadels of graciousness, neigh-
borly concern and true hospitality . . . they have been and can
continue to be an important element in West Texas’ economy
and are representative of the democratic way of life in which
a man is free to make choices and achieve security through his
own efforts.
“The small town Is a symbol of freedom and of self-gov-
ernment and loss of that independence, identity and image so
characteristic of the initiative and self-reliance that has made
West Texas great would be irreparable.
“But these reasons are prpbably too visionary for the
detached planner, misguided prophet ofprogress, politician more “It’s nice to have the grass
concerned with votes than principle, apathetic small town leader . . ,, ,.
and the individual who refuses to learn the lessons of the past... turn green 11 onJy u wouldn t
The facts are amazing. They reveal not only hope but unlimited row »_Louis Nelson Bow-
opportunity for the small town ...” g
The West Texas Chamber of Commerce and John Ben Shep- man, King City (Mo.) Tri-
perd have offered all communities of Texas a tool that can help
build abetter state than would have been possible otherwise. County News. ,
Winkler County News
Kermit, Texas
Dear Editor:
As we close another school
year I am reminded of the
many individuals that we owe a
word of thanks for their serv-
ices and support. The coverage
which your newspaper gives the
school system is instrumental
in developing good relation-
ships between school and com-
munity.
I look forward to the 1967*
68 school year and a continued
close relationship with the Ker-
mit paper. If there is any way
that we in the Jal School System
may be of service to you, please
feel free to call upon us.
Sincerely,
Calvin R. Trice
Superintendent
Jal Public Schools
"Without smoke. Pittsburgh
would have remained a very
pretty village."
Complaints about nuisances may
he judged not only in terms of
the general community or the
particular neighborhood but even
in terms of feet and inches. For
example:
A home owner was denied an
injunction against cooking odors
blown from the house next door,
when the court ascertained that
there was a space almost 30 feet
wide between the two buildings.
But an apartment dw'eller was
granted relief from the cabbage
and onion fumes aimed his way by
the people directly across the hall.
Of course, to the person an-
noyed. the mere location of the
annoyance is not the whole story.
Not every individual has the same
"threshold" of irritation. A smell
or noise that vexes one neighbor
may leave another—equally close
'to the source — totally uncon-
cerned.
But as a practical matter, the
law must decide according to
average, not individual, tastes and
sensibilities. Thus, a court re-
fused to interfere w-ith blasting
noises which were irksome only
lo an especially nervous woman
in the neighborhood.
Even if it tried, the law could
please everybody. Inevitably
iroueJaT
if
'ifc----;
ma,de available. I was assured
that since my'term policy par*
tiqipated in an annual dividend
distribution, that my Modified
Life policy would also be “par*
ticipaiing,’’ When will I receive
a dividend?
A.-**. Nafc|ps never,.It is true
that a Modified Life Policy
converted from a participating
policy is also- “par-
tfpptyfcig* Dividends are dis*
tribute from reserves that
hife eccumulated bvan amount
necessary to pay claims. The
preturn rales for ^Modified
jfe plan are ami s0 low
" as v
Sadicat'
FEDERAL DANCE—In dis-
cussing ways to cut the big
federal budget, Rep. George not
Goodling (R.-Pa.), observed, it would run afoul of those people
“When our boys are dying in who
the swamps and jungles of Viet ^dei
Nam, when many in our coun-
try are not properly clothed A public service feature of the
and are constantly hungry, American Bar Association and the
, 1 , 11 „ j.*„__ State Bar of lexas. written by
have we lost all sense of direc-
tion when one federal agency >VlM Bern‘*rd;
intends to spend more than c 1967 American
one-half million dollars for ‘De-
in one court's words, "con-
all noises offensive except
those they make themselves.”
Bar Association
A PARENTAL PROBLEM
I have in my files a news-
paper clipping (AP) that de-
scribes a little “shindig” held
in New York in recent months.
The party was described by
the article as the “most fabu-
lous” in the history of that
city. There were better than
20,000 masked and costumed
kids involved. It was staged in
Central Park.
Everything went well! The
children behaved themselves
quite well. There was the dough,
nut-eating contest, followed by
the apple-dunking contest, and
no one lost his temper. It came
time for the toys to be given
out. Pandemonium reigned! Not
with the kids, but with the par-
ents. As the toys were passed
out, “the kids were fine, but
the mothers and fathers turned
the fiesta into a fiasco,’’Mother
scratched mother, and daddy
punched daddy. The prize they
sought? Why, yo*yo’s and penny
balloons. Needless to say, the
kids saw it all.
The clipping concludes by
saying that the “spectators
laughed.” And I suppose it
would be funny to us all if it
were not for the fact that an
incident such as this is but a
symptom of a deep-seated di-
sease, immaturity. Parents
10 YEARS AGO
Mr. and Mrs. ^mR]^ Zym-
walt are at h^w»« ihelr
wedding in Trinity
Christian dhurch, The bride re:
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county officials, represent^ Wisconsin. What
tives of Kermit Chamber of take to insure ^ -
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delegates, a delegation from P&id promptly I ma
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