The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 111, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 1, 1959 Page: 3 of 10
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STATE OKs $50 MILLION
FOR FARM ROAD PROGRAM
Tuesday, December I, 1959 61)1 Baptmuu »un I
AUSTIN (AP)—Another 50 mi!
lion dollars to build larm roads
in Texas and improve present ru-
ral highways has been authorized
by t he Highway Commission.
There are 33,43 miles ol farm
roads in the state, Highway Com-
mission Chairman Herbert Petry
Jr. said in making the announce-
ment. The authorizations for 1,195
miles of construction in 1959 and
I960 at an estimated cost of $9,-1
137,000 will make a total of 34,333
miles.
Sane new road projects were
announced previously.
The new farm roads are financed
by allocation of 15 million dollars
a year directly from the general
revenue fund as provided by the
Colson - Briscoe Road Act. The
funds can be used only for build-
ing new farm roads.
Money for the improvements to
3,097 miles of farm roads in 1960
at an estimated cost of $20,195,000
comes from the Highway Depart-
ment’s share of gasoline tax reve-
nues.
Petry said the Highway Depart-
ment also must spend another
$15,200,000 a year in day to day
12, 39.6, $1,640,000.
13, 262.6, $1,210,000.
14, 97, $635,000.
15, 32, $815,000.
16, 284, $5565,000.
17, 227.3, $860,000.
18, 305.9, $1,185,000.
19, 1746, $670,000.
20, 80.1, $795,000.
21, 16.6, $730,000.
22, 112.6, $370,000.
23, 105, $670,000.
24, 82.5, $165,000.
25, 61.3, $500,000.
Edsel Called Victim
Of Small Car Swing
DETROIT (AP)—"When the au
tomobile industry quits chang-
ing,,’ an observer once said, "it
will die.”
He probably had in mind the
vast styling changes that are for-
ever taking place in American
cars. But the view could apply
equally as well to the basic make-
up of the industry.
The Automobile Club of Michi-
gan estimates some 2,900 makes
of cars from 2,500>companies have
been offered since Charles and
Frank Duryea turned out what is
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farm road system. * “j American gasoline-driven car in
The 1959 and 1960 farm road
construction program, by High-
way Department districts:
Dist. 1, 65 miles, estimated cost
$1,934,300.
2, 44.9, $1,404,400.
3, 39.3, $780,000.
4, $1,087,800.
5, 122.4, $1,222,500.
6, 76.5, $983,600.
7, 44.3„ $1,009,900.
8, 39.7, $1,028,400.
9, 53, $1,218,000.
10, 48.2, $1,077,500.
11, 42, $1,049,000.
12, 74.7, $3,103,700.
13, 34.3, $1,402,700.
14, 47.9, $1,031,800.
,15, 59.4, $1,107,000.
16, 41, $706,000.
17, 40.8, $1,022,500,
18, 27.4, $1,300,000.
19, 31.9, $1,049,200.
20, 24.6, $1,157,000.
21, 48.8, $1,291,000.
22, 18.2, $384,000.
23, 51.8, $1,153,800.
24, 30, $815,000.
25, 31.8, $808,000.
The 1960 farm road improve-
ment program, by districts:
Dist. 1, 123.9 miles, estimated
cost $1,430,000.
2, 20.5, $620,000.
3, 197.3, $680,000.
4, 19.6, $700,000.
5, 266.4, $1,010,000.
Companies sprang up like
weeds and by 1900 there were 93
manufacturing concerns. Produc-
tion that year reached a grand
total of 4,192 vehicles.
The roaring 20s brought another
rash of companies into the field-
more than at any time simee the
early years. But of the hundreds,
only Chrysler survived.
In 1925 the car buyer had a
choice of 53 makes, only nine of
which are still being built.
After World war II Kaiser, Fra-1
zer, Tucker, Crosley, Henry J
Allstate, Wiilys Aero were among
the new nameplates. None re-
mains in the passenger car busi-
ness.
Then came the industry's big-
gest year—1955. The public bought
seven million cars. Market re-
search showed the buyers were
interested in cars that were long-
lower, flashier. It was, the
researchers concluded, an ideal;on the market. In all honesty De-
time to market a new medium-itroit doesn’t know what will hap-|
price line of cars. I pen then.
6, 79, $525,000.
7, 87.5, $560,000,
8, 19.8, $780,000.
9, 79, $525,000.
10, 168.9, $1,160,000.
11, 97.4, $680,000.
King Alan Freed Will Be
Questioned For Pay Off
KWBA
1360—RADIO LOS
MONDAY thru FRIDAY
5:59 SION ON
6:00 NEWS
6:05 KAY BAY KORRAL
6:30 TIMEKEEPER
6:55 NEW8
7:00 TIMEKEEPER
7:25 NEWS
7:30 TIMEKEEPER
8:00 ABC WORLD NE
8.15 TIMEKEEPER
8:55 PAUL HARVEY
9:00 DON MCNEIL
10:00 BAYSHORE BILLBOARD
10:15 TAKE IT EASY
10:55 ABC NEW8
11:00 TAKE IT EASY
BC NEWS
NEW YORK (AP)—Disc Jockey
Alan Freed has been subpoenaed
to appear Monday before a grand
jury probing payola In the radio
and television industry.
The rock V roll platter king,
hunted by detectives all day
after he failed to show up
at the district attorney’s of-
fice, was located shortly after he
finished his “Big Beat” record TV
show.
Asked why he failed to show up
at the district attorney’s office,
Freed told newsmen: “I will not
volunteer for anybody. My grand-
mothr once told me, ‘never vol-
11:55 ABC NEWS
12:00 PAUL HARVEY NEWS
12:15 NOON NEWS
12:30 LEE BAKER (Mon. Wid Fri
12:15 RECORD RANCH
12:30 RECORD RANCH
<Tue«.-Thun.)
12:55 ABC NEWS
■1:00 KAY BAY CLUBROOM
2:55 ABC NEWS
3:00 KAY BAY CLUBROOM
3:55 ABC NEWS
4:00 ON THE GO
4:55 NEWS
5:00 SPORTS
5:05 ON THE GO
5:15 MOVIES IN REVIEW
5:30 ON THE GO
8:45 JOHN DALY NEWS
5:55 ARTHUR VANHORN
6:00 EDWARD P. MORGAN
6:15 SUPPER CLUB
6:55 ABC NEWS
•7:00 SUPPER CLUB
7:30 DOWN BEAT
7:55 ABC NEWS
8:00 DOWN BEAT
8:55 ABC NEWS
9:00 JOHN W. VANDERCOOK
9:05 DOWN BEAT
9:55 ABC NEWS
10:00 SIGN OPE
Weather On The Half Hour
unteer for anything.’
Fred said, however, he would
obey the subpoena.
Later he went on the WMCA
radio “Barry Gray Show’’ and
said he had nothing to tell the
grand Jury about payola—under-
cover payments to get songs
plugged on the air.
In his radio talk, Freed said he
never had taken gifts to play a
record either on his VVABC radio
show or his WNEW-TV "Big Beat1
program. Freed lost his WABC
spot after refusing to sign a state-
ment saying he never accepted
pay for plugs. Freed has been
fired from the "Big Beat” show
but is finishing up the week.
Later, he signed an affidavit say-
ing he never had done anything
improper.
He has denied publicly he ever
took payoffs.
On the WMCA program, Freed
made a distinction between pay-
ola and what he described as
Christmas gifts.
He said he never had taken a
gift in advance to play a record.
On the other hand, he said, hel
had received gifts for “inadvertent |
plugging” of a record.
Concerning any payola offer, I
Freed said: “I wouldn’t even talk'
to those people.”
Ike Asks Congress!
ToJoin UN World
Court In Session
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Presi-
dent Eisenhower says "the inter-
national community needs to find !
more effective means to cope with
and to prevent such brutal uses
of force" as the Communists em-
ployed in Hungary and Tibet.
The President said he intends:
to renew his request to Congress
to repeal a restriction on United
States participation in the Inter-1
national Court of Justice, or World |
Court.
At present this country reserves j
the right to decide whether an |
international issue falls within the j
World Court's jurisdiction. No i
case involving the United States i
can be taken before the World j
Court without this country’s ap- j
proval. Other countries also
serve this right.
“Elimination of this automatic |
reservation from our own declara-
tion accepting compulsory juris-
diction would place the United |
States in a better position to urge j
other countries to agree to wid
Jurisdiction of the International J
Court of Justice,” Eisenhower |
said.
The President’s views were ex-
pressed in a letter to Sen. Hubert |
H. Humphrey (D-Minn), chairman I
of the Senate Foreign Relations |
subcommittee on Disarmament, j
The Eisenhower letter, in reply to
one from Humphrey, was dated j
at Augusta, Ga., Nov. 17. Humph-
rey made it public yesterday.
AU A1BT SAltoSl
O'
Acting on this advice, Ford I
speeded up plans on Just such a I
car line. It spent more than 250 I
million dollars and in the late I
summer of 1957, with hoopla sel-1
dom if ever equalled even in this !
normally boisterous industry, the
Edsel was introduced.
The Edsel couldn’t make it.
Sales, never good, got steadily |
worse. Although throroughly re-
styled for 1960, it still didn’t sell. (
This month, after only two years
on the market, it died.
From birth the Edsel was an in-!
READY NOW MANY FINE CHAIRS IN OUR HOUSE FOR YOUR HOME
ALL AT GREATLY REDUCED PRICES FOR THIS HOLIDAY SEASON.
Along with the foreign cars.
Americans suddenly discovered
the compact Rambler and breath-
ed life into what seemed to be an
unsuccessful merge of two dying ;|
lines, Hudson and Nash. I1
The shaky marriage of Studeba- j
ker and Packard found solid j
ground in late 1958 with the Lark, j
another compact smaller car.
The big three finally decided
the public really wanted smaller
cars. Came the 1960 model yearj
jand new names—the Corvair, the i
j Falcon and the Valiant.
Can the other medium - price I
lines survive the new smaller |
cars? Division executives spoke j
optimistically at the new car pre-
views. Can’t hurt us, they cried.
Steel shortages have disrupted i|
production to such an extent the j
sales picture currently is distort-
ed. By the time it clears next I
spring more compact cars will be j
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Flying Granddad
Gets Earned Rest
LAS VEGAS, Nev. (AP)-Flying I
Grandpa Max Conrad took a well
deserved rest in this desert resort
today after flying a light plane
to a non-stop distance record from
North Africa to Texas. j
Conrad, 56, landed Thursday at
El Paso—6,911 miles from Casa-
blanca, where he coaxed his gas-
heavy Piper Apache into the air
more than two days before.
The 56-hour 26-minute flight in
the little blue and white mono-
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weighing under 3,900 pounds.
Then, after a bottle of pop and
walk to shake out the kinks,
Conrad climbed back into his
plane and took off again—this
time for his home in San Fran-
cisco. He landed shortly before
sundown at Las Vegas.
Conrad flew the same plane in
which he set a 7.668-mile record
for heavier aircraft last year from
North Africa to Los Angeles. On
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have a game license, which sells
for $3.15. No license is required
for persons over 65 or under 17.
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Hartman, Fred. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 111, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 1, 1959, newspaper, December 1, 1959; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1103858/m1/3/?q=%22~1~1~1%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.