The Mathis News (Mathis, Tex.), Vol. 41, No. 51, Ed. 1 Friday, December 14, 1956 Page: 2 of 8
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Page 2— THE MATHIS NEWS — Friday, Dec. 14, 1956, Mathis, Texas
AUSTIN, Tex. — Education hasman.
added two more “urgent” items
to the list of increased money
demands awaiting the incoming
Legislature.
First report of the new Commis-
sion oh Higher Education, strongly
recommends bringing college fa-
culty salaries in line with other
progressive states. Simultaneously,
it suggested raising tuition fees,
unchanged after 20 years of infla-
tion.
Texas tuition charges of $25 a
semester for in-state students, $150
for outsiders, lags far behind those
in other states. But even substan-
tial tuition increases would meet
only a portion of the cost of salary
raises, it was claimed.
Public school teachers also seek
higher pay. They term the need
an “immediate crisis” and ask
that the Legislature treat it as an
emergency measure.
Teacher salaries were last raised
in 1953. State - minimum wage for
a beginning teacher with bachelor’s
degree is $2,805 per year.
Texas State Teachers Associa-
tion’s House of Delegates also call-
ed for a full study of die “Cavness
plan” to ease school financing
problems. State Auditor C. H. Cav-
ness proposed some 18 months ago
that only 27 1-2 per cent of reve-
nue from school-owned oil lands
be invested in the permanent school
fund. This would free 72 1-2 per
cent of this revenue, an estimated
$20,000,000 to $25,000,000 a year, to
meet current expenses.
DANIEL LISTS GOALS — In-
coming Gov. Price Daniel said he
believes there are a -multitude of
other problems with which the leg-
islature can deal more effectively
tlian school integration.
He favors local determination,
rather than state-wide legislation.
At the outset of a series of con-
ferences with lawmakers, Daniel
emphasized these issues: (1) over-
all state financing, (2) narcotics
control, (3) teacher pay raises,
(4) water conservation, (5) lobby
control, (6) housing of state ar-
chives.
WATER LOCAL PROBLEM —
Texas’ water problems must be
met locally, says Rep. Waggoner
Carr of Lubbock.
Carr, unopposed candidate for
Speaker of the House, feels that
people in each water-shed area
should devise plans to meet their
own unusual conditions and carry
them out with possible aid of state
credit. He termed “futile” any fur-
ther effort to finance water con-
servation with a state-wide tax
that would be fair to all parts of
the state.
SALES ACT CONTESTED —
Texas’ new sales limitation act is
up for its first legal test.
State Supreme Court is consider-
ing a case stemming from the 1955
law which prohibits grocers from
limiting sales of items advertised
at below-cost prices.
Contestants are a San Antonio
grocer who defied the law and
the San Antonio Retail Grocers
Association which sought enforce-
ment through a court injunction.
A San Antonio district court re-
fused to grant the injunction.
Attorneys for the defendant con-
tend the law is unconstitutional and
discriminatory. It applies, they
point out, oply to grocers and not
to other retailers selling the same
merchandise.
Association attorneys counter
that control of “loss-leader” sell-
ing is needed “to keep the big
man from gobbling up the little
SHIVERS HONORED — More
than 2,000 Texans and a distinguish-
ed “ex” paid tribute to Gov. and
Mrs. Allan Shivers at a mam-
moth dinner party in Dallas.
President Eisenhower sent per-
sonal greetings. Leading statesmen
and businessmen saluted the man
who in a few weeks ends a record-
breaking tenure as chief executive.
Mrs. Oveta Culp Hobby termed
Mrs. Shivers an expert in “glass
house living.”
Wit abounded. Example by Su-
preme Court Justice Ruel Walker:
“I came not to bury Shivers, I
came here to praise him.”
STATE REGULATION CHAM-
PIONED — Atty. Gen. John Ben
Shepperd has gone to bat against
federal regulation of Texas insur-
ance companies.
Shepperd filed a friend of the
court brief in behalf of American
Hospital and Life Insurance Com-
pany’s fight against a Federal
Trade Commission ruling.
American Hospital is a Texas
firm. Its case has now reached
U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals
in New Orleans.
Shepperd contended the McCar-
ran-Ferguson Act specifically au-
thorizes states to regulate insur-
ance to the exclusion of the federal
government or any of its agencies.
AUDITOR REPORTS — State
Auditor C. H. Cavness’ lengthy
annual report on state departments
unearthed no scandals. But he
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suggested several agencies toe the
mark a little better in their fin-
ancial record keeping.
These included the State Board
of Morticians, Agriculture Depart-
ment, Austin State School, Surplus
Property Agency, State Board of
Medical Examiners, State Parks
Board, and Waco State Home.
Cavness noted that certain sec-
tions of the General Land Office
are .understaffed, but present per-
sonnel seemed qualified.
WCTU STRATEGY — Banning
of alcoholic beverages in grocery
stores will be the prime legisla-
tive goal of the Women’s Christian
Temperance Union next year.
A petition to this effect, bearing
100,000 signatures, was exhibited
at the WCTU convention in Austin.
A resolution, aimed at,the Leg-
islature, urged that public school
text books “have no discussion of
moderation, but simply teach the
students the bad effects of alco-
hol.”
SHORT SNORTS — Assessment
by senatorial districts has been
proposed for raising money for
the Texas Democratic Party. Fi-
nance committeemen have approv-
ed the plan, will recommend it to
the executive committee. . .State
Sen.-elect Charles Herring of Aus-
tin has proposed a two-term limit
be placed on Texas’ governorship.
It would take a constitutional
amendment. . .Two per cent gain
in income of Texas farmers and
ranchers has been reported by the
U. S. Dept, of Agriculture for the
period Oct. 15 to Nov. 15. . .Dallas
Social Security Rep,
In Mathis Tuesday
A representative of the Corpus
Christi social security office will
be in Mathis next Tuesday, Dec.
18. He will be at the Fire Station
at 9:30 in the morning.
The representative makes these
regular visits to assist eligible
persons to file applications for old-
age and survivors insurance bene-
fits and to answer questions about
social security.
leads the state in number of man-
ufacturing plants. Houston, San
Antonio, Fort Worth, El Paso Aus-
tin, Amarillo, Waco and Corpus
Christi follow in that order. . .
Texas construction is virtually cer-
tain of its greatest year in history.
Construction for the first 11 months
of 1956 hit $1,135,843,562. December
awards are expected to add more
than the $44,476,612 necessary to
match the all-time record set in
1953. . .Education, engineering and
enforcement were underscored in
an Austin conference studying
means of reducing traffic ac-
cidents. U. S. Air Force officers
from over the country joined the
Texas Department of Public Safe-
ty and Texas Safety Association in
planning a coordinated program.
. .State Game Commission has call-
ed on hunters to help reduce the
doe deer population in Gillespie,
Mason, Llano and Medina Coun-
ties. Unless some 5,000 excess does
are killed, starvation of many ani-
vals will- result.
Xmas Workers
Urged To Get
S. S. Card
Anyone Who expects to do tem-
porary or part-time work during
the Christmas season should have
a social security account number
card, says H. M. Cleveland, Dis-
trict Manager of the Social Se-
curity Administration in .Corpus
Christi.
“If a member of your family
plans to work at one of the stores,
now is the time for him to see
about his social security number,”
he said.
According to Cleveland, “most
storekeepers and other employers
require a new worker to show his
account number before he is paid
the first time.
3 Win Prizes At
Appliance Service
Center’s Big Party
Door prize winners at the Ap-
pliance Service Center’s Christmas
“To avoid inconvenience to him-
self or his employer, every worker
should have a social security card
in his possession when he first
reports for work on a new job.”
There is no charge for a social
security card. New workers and
those who had a card but lost
it, should apply to the Social Se-
curity Administration, 530 South
Water Street, Coi’pus Christi. Ap-
plications for the cards can be
obtained from that office or from
post offices in other towns and
cities. They may be filed in person
or by mail. '
- THE MATHIS NEWS
Published Every Friday in Mathis. Texas
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JOHN HADEN
MANAGING EDITOR
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MARCH 3, .1879.
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THE ATTENTION OF THE PUBLISHERS. _
party Saturday were C. A. Ward,
Mrs. Malcolm Maedgen and Mrs.
A. R. Ramsower.
Ward received the electric blank-
et, Mrs. Maegden, the fry pan and
Mrs. Ramsower the set of dishes
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