The Odem-Edroy Times (Odem, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 21, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 8, 1971 Page: 4 of 8
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Auslm, iex. — ijrov. Preston
Smith has called on President
Nixon to declare 60 Texas
counties eligible for drought
disaster relief and requested
initial allocation of $5 million in
federal aid.
All the counties, said Smith,
received less than 1.5 inches of
accumulated rainfall in the
past six months, creating a
critical drought condition
which adversely affects ran-
ches, farms, dairies,
businesses and employment
throughout the entire state.
Smith said he would not call
for emergency disaster
legislation from the state
legislature because of the
“extremely c r i t i c a 1” state
financial problem. State and
local health, employment,
agriculture and welfare
agencies, the Governor stated,
are performing emergency
disaster duties as required.
Governor asked an initial
allocation of $5 million. In
addition, he urged that the U.S.
Department of Agriculture,
Department of Labor, Health,
Education and Welfare and
Small Business Administration
representatives be assigned to
counties to collaborate with
state and local officials in
inspections, cost estimates and
technical guidance.
Texas counties included in
the request (others may be
added), ranging from the tip of
South Texas to the top of the
Panhandle, are:
Armstron g,Aransas,At-
ascosa, Bandera, Bee,
Bexar, Blanco, Brooks, Bur:
net, Caldwell, Cameron,
Carson, Childress, Coke,
Comal, Cottle, DeWitt,
Dickens, Duval, Uvalde, El
Paso, Frio, Garza, Gillespie;
Goliad, Gonzales,
Guadalupe, Hidalgo, Hut-
chinson, Jim Hogg, Jim Wells,
Karnes, Kendall, Kenedy,
Kent, Kerr, Kimble, King,
Kleberg, Dimmit, LaSalle,
Lipscomb, Live Oak, Mc-
Mullen, Medina, Nueces, Old-
ham, Potter;
Refugio, San Patricio,
Schleicher, Starr, Stonewall,
Swisher, Val Verde, Webb,
Willacy, Wilson, Zapata and
Zavala.
Welfare Cut Averted? — Lt.
Gov. Ben Barnes announced a
way has been found to prevent
the sharp cut on May 1 in aid to
needy families with dependent
children.
Legislation has been in-
troduced to permit the Welfare
Department to transfer and
spend for AFDC necessary
sums not to exceed $6.8 million
for the rest of this fiscal year
ending August 31.
Barnes said about $5 million
is available in a contingency
fund of the Welfare Depart-
ment, and an additional $1
million or more will come from
federal matching-money.
A comptroller’s office
representative said there is no
question but what funds can be
used to avert the scheduled
AFDC reduction. Welfare
Board on March 22 ordered the
May cut which would bring the
average AFDC family grant
down from $118 a month to $80
and eliminate some 4,500
families from the rolls entirely.
Appointments — Governor
Smith named T. Louis Austin
Jr. of Dallas to Texas Board of
Corrections, succeeding
Walter Pfluger of San Angelo
on the key agency which
supervises the state prison
system policy.
Smith reappointed Reagan
Houston III of San Antonio as a
member of the Board of
Regents of Texas Woman’s
University and also named
John Shivers of Austin and
Mrs. Marcella Perry of
Houston as new members of
the TWU Board.
Douglas Bergman and
Walter C. Todd of Dallas were
reappointed to the Stephen F.
Austin State University Board,
and Robert C. Gray of Austin
was added.
State Supreme Court con-
cluded that a man who built a
cabin on an otherwise unoc-
cupied island in Galveston Bay
and camped there off-and-on
for 10 years did not gain title to
it by adverse possession. Court
said possession must continue
through a 10-year period to
take title under adverse
possession.
AG Opinions — A compact of
water districts and river
authorities may act for the
state in getting $40 million in
federal funds which the state
might otherwise lose for 1970-
71, Atty. Gen. Crawford Martin
has held.
In other recent opinions,
Martin concluded that:
An independent school
district may solicit bids from
class ring manufacturers and
grant exclusive privilege to one
such manufacturer to service
voluntary student purchases of
rings. Whether grant can
extend for five years is a
question before federal courts.
Section of a bill pertaining to
abandonment of mineral estate
without notice or hearing is
unconstitutional, but balance
of legislation is not.
Traffic Toll — Governor
Smith expressed “deep con-
cern and disappointment” over
the 1970 Texas traffic toll.
Smith noted an increase of
nine in fatalities — a rise to
3560 in 1970 — over 1969 and an
economic loss toll over $1
billion.
Governor said his only en-
couragement is that, with
nearly 500,000 more drivers
and a billion more miles
traveled over the preceding
year, the official death rate
per-mile-traveled remained
the same as 1969.
Smith pledged aid through
news campaigns and called for
public support of legislation,
police concentration on traffic
offenses and forceful treat-
ment of violators by judges.
School Sanctions Urged —
Texas Classroom Teachers
Association’s professional
rights and responsibilities
commission will recommend to
the TCTA executive board that
sanctions be invoked against
Crystal City Independent
School District.
If sanctions are ordered,
state and national accrediting
agencies will be notified of
unsatisfactory conditions for
both students and teachers in
the district. Teachers will be
encouraged not to accept
employment in the school
system. Some eight or nine
teachers will not be rehired
there, according to a TCTA
attorney after an investigation.
Travel Guide Out — Texas
looks better than ever, boasts
the new “Texas, Land of
Contrast,” travel guide just
released by the Texas Highway
Department.
Combining tourist in-
formation about 371 cities and
towns, the 200-page publication
also lists state parks, major
lakes, national forests,
national recreation areas, Big
Bend National Park, Padre
Island, National Seashore,
campground guide and basic
hunting and fishing facts.
Book will be distributed at
highway departments tourists
bureaus and by mail in
response to out-of-state
inquiries. It contains nearly
4,000 items of tourist and travel
information and 400 color
photographs.
SHORT SNORTS
Tax bill is due to be reported
back to the Senate State Affairs
Committee by a sub-panel on
the return from the
Legislature’s Easter holidays.
House Redistricting Com-
mittee conducted a round of
conferences with congressmen
in Washington.
Senate quickly voted a
resolution urging the pardon
for Lt. William L. Calley Jr.,
sentenced to life im-
prisonment for the 1968 My Lai
slayings.
House set up a general in-
vestigating committee and
asked state agencies to aid in
gathering data about the
Sharpstown Bank collapse and
the federal agency’s enjoining
of the National Bankers Life
Insurance Co.
An early House vote is seen
on the liquor-by-the-drink bill.
James R. Kane of Paris is
new executive director of the
Republican party of Texas.
Peter Roussel of Houston
joined United Nations Am-
bassador George Bush’s New
York staff as a press in-
formation specialist.
New Citizens Bank seeks a
charter in Fort Worth.
Course Planned
For All Types
Law Officers
The Coastal Bend Regional
Planning Commission will
offer a 42-hour training course
for law enforcement personnel
starting Thursday, April 8. The
objectives of the training
program are three fold:
1. To present to correctional
personnel in the juvenile and
adult field a body of current
knowledge considered im-
portant to corrections.
2. To help the total group of
correctional personnel to see
itself cohesively and improve
communication among
correctional personnel in the
region.
3. To emphasize the concept
of the correctional work as an
agent of change.
Louis J. Tomaino will be the
instructor for the course.
All costs are paid by the
Coastal Bend Regional
Planning Commission with
funds from Texas Criminal
Justice Council.
Beef Cattle
Suffer From
The Drought
Beef cattle which have been
on dry ranges for the past six
months are faced with serious
nutritional deficiencies. The
first deficiency is a lack of
sufficient range grass or
forage. It is further com-
plicated by the low quality or
absence of sufficient total
digestible nutrients. This kind
of roughage contains little or
no protein, energy, phosphorus
or Vitamin A.
Decisions are difficult to
make during such stress
periods. One management
practice is to attempt to get
animal units corrected to
forage supply. Calves may be
weaned earlier than usual or
creep fed to help relieve
grazing pressure and thus
improve cow condition. Less
replacement cattle should be
kept and herd culling is always
in order. Non-breeders, slow
breeders, irregular breeders,
and cows which have con-
sistently , produced lower
grade, lightweight calves need
to be marketed. Palpate cows
to determine pregnancy and
sell those which are not preg-
nant.
Check Labels
Before Buying
How many times have you
noticed a label on your new
mattress, pillow, or sofa
cushion that loudly proclaimed
“Do Not Remove Upon Penalty
of Law”?
The State Health Depart-
ment would like to see more
people begin checking those
labels before making their
purchases in the stores. Those
labels indicate whether the
material used passes both state
and federal safety
requirements.
The federal government is
now moving to strengthen
some of those requirements.
Analysis by the Department of
Commerce has led it to con-
clude that the existing stan-
dard does not adequately
protect children against
flammable sleepwear.
Research showed that
purchased items of children’s
sleepwear were readily ignited
when exposed to a small
natural gas flame for as little
as three seconds. Such fabrics
are capable of producing se-
vere injury or even death.
Recent federal tests indicate
that more than 37. percent of
the blankets now on the market
failed to comply with the
present flammability stan-
dards for wearing apparel.
Standards are also being
formulated for mattresses and
other bedding materials. At
present, there are no such
regulations.
The Southwest Research
Institute of San Antonio has
conducted several experiments
in which bed assemblies were
ignited by one of several small
ignition sources such as
cigarettes or matches.
Measurements showed that
hazards to life developed in
such fires from toxic fumes,
reduced oxygen in the at-
mosphere, suffocating con-
centrations of carbon dioxide,
smoke, and excessive tem-
peratures. Lethal conditions
were developed in each ex-
periment, except one which
used blankets, sheets and
mattresses treated with flame-
retardant chemicals. The
burning mattresses were found
to be the primary causes of the
lethal conditions. .
Standards are also being
formulated to measure the
surface flammability of car-
pets and rugs. Again, no such
standards exist at present.
The Texas State Health
Department has been enforc-
ing Jthe state’s own bed-
ding law since 1939. That
law prohibits sale of un-
sanitary bedding materials
and false labeling of concealed
materials.
Final Signup
Programs Set
Signup has been very light in
the 1971 Cotton and feed grain
programs. Friday, April 9,
1971, is the final signup day
which many producers may
not be realizing.
Cotton and grain producers
who have not intended to
signup should consider a few
important facts which affect
them. First, set aside is the
only production control for the
1971 cotton and feed grain
program. Once you meet the
set aside requirement (An
amount equal to 20 percent of
your cotton allotment, and - or
20 percent of the feed grain
base) and conserving base, you
can plant your entire farm to
cotton or grains. You do not
have to remain within the feed
grain base or cotton allotment
to participate. You are not
required to participate on all
farms if you participate on one
farm. You participate on farms
and in programs as you wish.
Next, a final, but a VERY
IMPORTANT point to con-
sider, is the insurance factor
we have if this drought con-
tinues. The provision of signing
in the program and with
drawing before certification
still apply. You can signup now
for the program and if we get
the needed rains and you do not
wish to participate, you have
until June 1st to withdraw. This
can insure against a total
financial loss to you.
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Winebrenner, Mary Cornett. The Odem-Edroy Times (Odem, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 21, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 8, 1971, newspaper, April 8, 1971; Odem, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1044541/m1/4/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Odem Public Library.