The Wortham Journal (Wortham, Tex.), Vol. 73, No. 26, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 7, 1971 Page: 4 of 4
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THE WORTHAM JOURNAL. THURSDAY. OCTOBER 7. 1971
STATE OF TEXAS RECEIVES CITATION
FOR TRAVEL PROMOTION PROGRAM
AUSTIN.—For the second time
in four yeurs, Texas has reaped
a. pair of coveted DATO citations
for the finest state travel promo-
tion program in the United
Slates. The awards were pre-
sented on October 2 in Atlanta,
Go., at ceremonies climaxing the
annual convention of the nation’s
travel industry.
DATO, the Discover America |
Travel Organizations, Inc., lav-
ished high praise on the Texas
Tourist Development Agency and
the Texas Highway Department
fur their separate but coopera-
tive programs for stimulating
greater travel to and within the
state. Taking DATO’s top litera-
ture award was the Highway
Department’s new 208-page
travel book, TEXAS-LAND OF
CONTRAST. In addition, the
personnel and service of the de-
partment’s 11 tourist bureaus
were lauded.
The Texas Tourist Develop-
ment Agency was accorded
DATO’s highest advertising
award for its “brilliantly con-
ceived campaign comprising con-
sumer image advertising based on
the flexible theme, "Texas is ”
plus development of package
tours, US. and foreign travel
writer tours, and leadership in
establishing the new multi-state
Conquistadores Trail.
WANT-ADS
GARAGE SALE: Saturday, 3
a.m. to 6 p.m.—J. R. Rice resi-
dence.
LUMBER FOR SALE: Shiplap,
“tongue and groove,” flooring,
boxing planks, siding; also
tub, lavatory and commode,
kitchen caibinets, doors and
windows.—Ed Carr, 765-3362.
BTOTICE:
■Bid opening for the Housing
Authority of the City of Wor-
tham, Project TEX-86-4 has been
postponed from October 5 to Oc-
tober 19.
Christine LcFevre,
Executive Director
FOR SALE: 2 bedroom house
on nice lot. Mildred Simmons,
766-3348.
FOR SALE: 8-room house, two
story house, 2 baths. 765-3241.
FOR MONUMENTS see Will
Mathison, representing Central
Monument Works of Corsicans.
HELBROS WATCHES
Full or Part Time
First time ever . . . Offering
local distributorships for Hel-
bros watches, to restock retal
outlets. Total investment as
low as $2,495. Distributors will
be appointed immediately. Call
or write, including phone num-
ber: National Systems & In-
rfustires Coup., 2626 West
Mockingbird Ln., Suite 236,
Dallas, TX Phone 214/357-
3663.
■ The win awards were achieved
in the highest category ol compe-
tition among other states, feder-
al, and erritorial governments.
The committee of travel experts
selecting Texas for the 1971
J awards was headed by Stephen
E. Kelly, president of the nation-
al Magazine Publishers Associa-
tion, and included F. J. Mullins,
senior vice president of American
Airlines, and Robert J. Sullivan,
general manager of the San
Francisco Convention and Visit-
ors Bureau.
Both the highway Department
and the Tourist Development
Agency captured similar nation-
al awards in 1968 for Texas travel
promotion activities. Frank
Hildebrand, executive director of
the Tourist Development Agency,
said,. “The fact that the State of
Texas has been recognized twice
in four years for its tourist de-
velopment efforts is significant,
and highly gratifying. As far as
we know,” he said, “this is the
first time that a state has been
repeatedly honored by the na-
ional travel industry.”
Tom H. Taylor, director of the
Highway Department’s Travel &
Information Division, remarked
that DATO represents the real
travel professionals of the na-
tion. “And more important than
winning,” he said, “is the hope
that these awards signify we’re
on the right track in the exciting
business of promoting the Texas
visitor industry.
Currently, Texas attracks more
than 21 million visitors from out
of state each year. Their annual
spending reaches $1.5 billion. In
a series of enticing color ads in
national publications, the Tour-
ist Development Agency seeks to
create a travel image for Texas,
and expand the tourist flow.
Welcoming those who arrive,
Highway Department tourist bu-
reaus attempt to extend * he av-
erage stay by providing /acation
information and a wealth of col-
orful travel literature.
The cooperative programs of
the two agencies have nearly
doubled the Texas tourist indus-
try during the past eight years.
Both Hildebrand and Taylor said
that future prospects are just as
bright, but will require continued
aggressive promotion to meet the
challenges of competition from
other states and regions.
There are 146 gambling casinos
in France.
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ERNEST, HARRY AND MACK
[ Ethics Commission
Is Now Complete
AUSTIN. (TPA)—A new Ethics
Commission to polite behavior of
public officials is now complete
though top state judges have ex-
pressed doubt as to its effective-
ness.
Three members elected by the
Senate are Sens. A. M. Aikin of
Paris. Charles Herring of Austin
and Oscar Mauzy of Dallas.
House members elected Reps.
John F. Boyle Jr. of Irving,
Clyde Haynes Jr. of Vidor and
James E. Nugent of Kerrville.
Court of Criminal Appeals
Presiding Judge John F. Onion
Jr. appointed Rabbi David Ja-
cobson of San Antonio and Uni-
versity of Texas Law Professor
John Sutton Jr. of Austin.
Supreme Court Chief Justice
Robert W. Calvert earlier desig-
nated Baylor University Law
Professor 'Mrs. Margaret Harris
Amsler and Houston Attorney
Alf Roark.
First Court of Civil Appeals
Chief Justice Spurgeon Bell
picked Dallas Attorney J. W.
Hassell Jr. and retired Houston
newspaperman William H. Card,
ner, now of Austin, for the Ju-
dicial Qualifications Commis-
sion.
A weekly public Mtvlce feature from
the Tern State Depataeot of Health
J.E. PEAVY, HD.
—Coneitsiooer of Health-
Fall is putting a chill in the
air. Time for heaters and time
for caution because of an odor-
less, colorless, tasteless gas called
carbon monoxide. This gas can
lull a person into unconscious-
ness before the victim knows he’s
in trouble.
“Each year in this country
nearly 10,000 persons suffer car-
bon monoxide poisoning,” says
Texas Health Commissioner Dr.
James E. Peavy. “Nearly all re-
quire medical care or hospitali-
zation. Each year about 1,400
persons die as a direct result of
this deadly gas. In 1970, some
30 Texans died from carbon mon-
oxide poisoning.”
About 70 percent of the deaths
occur in the home. Most deaths
occur in the winter months when
the hazards are greatest due to
the use of heating devices and
fuel burning equipment. In re-
cent years, however, many deaths
have occurred during the sum-
mer, because of the increased
use of air conditioning. That
may seem contradictory, but the
fault is in the air conditioners’
air return systems which may be
introducing carbon monoxide in-
to the home.
A recent study reported by the
U. S. Public Health Service In-
jury Control Program illustrates
the potential seriousness of the
problem. Forty percent of t h e
homes and establishments inves-
tigated had one or more applianc-
es that were emitting unduly
high levels of carbon monoxide.
About one-fourth of these appli-
ances were discharging gas in
amounts exceeding 200 parts per
million units of air—a very dan-
gerous level.
Gas range ovens, gas floor
furnaces and gas space heaters
were the three leading applianc-
es inspected which were emitting
carbon monoxide. The study
clearly indicated carbon monox-
ide was emanating from many
different sources and was very
difficult to detect.
Early symptoms of carbon
monoxide poisoning include
yawning, headache, nausea, diz-
ziness, ringing in the ears, and
abdominal pains. Gaspy breath-
ing and unconsciousness quickly
follow. The victim should get
fresh air immediately and he
should be kept lying down and
warm. A physician should be
called promptly, and inhalations
of oxygen or oxygen-carbon di-
oxide mixture administered.
Since the nerve cells are in-
volved in the poisoning, tempor-
ary or permanent damage can be
done to the brain, with serious
disturbances of vision, hearing,
speech, and memory.
DEADLINE DATE
IS EXTENDED
AUSTIN. (TPA) — October 1
deadline has been extended 45
days for disabled veterans to get
special free license plates
(which also carry exemptions
from parking fees).
GOV. HEADS DELEGATION
AUSTIN. (TPA)—Gov. headed
a delegation to Mexico City to
open the new Texas Internation-
al trade promotion office there
last week end.
U. S. farms total 1.1 billion
acres.
ACROSS
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6 - Pkindorod
11 - To aonvr
12 - ... ado
14 • Routlao
13 - Every on* Indi-
vidually telb.)
16 - On tteway
17 - Preposition
18 - Land tract
20 - Modify tba
character of
22 - Slimmer
25 - Ardent
27 - Public notice
28 - Perform
29 - Parent
31 - Greek letter
32 - Sloth
33 - Brltlahwaete-
laprfw
36 - Pious
39 - Royal Order
(abb.)
40 - Roman trio
41 - Preposition
42 - City vdfUuU
43 - pish fin
48 - Roman 1100
49 - Make lace
50 - Speck
51 - Parent
52 - Great Lala
54 - Previously
55 - Retired for
the night
37 - Peruser
58 • Sovereigns
DOWN
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2 - To erect
3 - Indefinite
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5 - Mission
6 - Foamed
7 - Greek Island
S - Pugilistic fin la
9 - British school
10 - To support
13 • Malden beloved
by Zeus
19 • Inlet of the aea
21 - Decrees
23 - Every
24 - Bellow
26 - Unit
30 - Assist
33 • Strike repeatedly
34 - Sounded a bom
35 - A relative
36 - One who makes
an offer
37 - a the blood
system
38 - Food courses
43 - Unit of area
44 - Sun god
46 - Open Order
(ebb.)
47 - Mimlcker
53 - U.S. "Cora
State" (abb.)
56 - Exist
You Are the Detective
A tragedy has marred the fun
and gaiety of the annual circus
that has come to town. You are
in the dressing tent of the fam-
ous clown, Kooky, where he lies
dead on the ground, a bullet
hole in his right temple, and the
death weapon, a .38 caliber re-
volver, lying near his body.
Your eyes travel over the fam-
iliar costume of the victim, the
big brass buttons on the tattered
red coat, the bif yellow “butter-
fly” tie, the garishly-painted
face now relaxed in death . . .
the huge, rubber “duck” feet,
and the enormous, floppy, rub-
ber simulated hands encasing
his own hands—the resounding
clapping together of these latter
two items a familiar part of his
act.
“I sure never thought poor old
Kooky was even thinking about
doing a thing like this," exclaims
the circus manager, Joe Kane.
“Of course, he did have his low
moments, but most of the time
he was full of laughs even when
he wasn’t performing.”
“Who discovered him here like
this?” you ask.
“Me,” speaks up Tony Oarelli,
one of the trapeze artists. “I
heard the shot . . . didn’t think
too much of it for a moment.
Thought at first it might be the
animal trainer’s gun. He tests
it out every now and then. But
then I happened to glance into
Kooky’s tent here and saw him
lying on the ground like this.
What a way to go!” And Tony
shakes his head despondently.
You carefully pick up the gun
in your handkerchief, find that
one shot has been fired from it
] recently—then, after looking
' around the tented enclosure, the
little dressing table with its lit-
ter of grease (paints, wigs, and
other paraphernalia, the over-
turned chair in front of it, you
ask, “Has anything in here been
moved or touched since the body
was discovered?”
Both Joe Kane and Tony Ca-
rellr reply in the negative.
Then you state, “This was not
a suicide. The man was mur-
dered!”
How do you know this?
SOLUTIO N
It would have been impos-
sible for the victim to pull
the trigger of the gun with
those “enormous, floppy,
rubber simulated hands” ov-
er his own hands.’
PINK BOLL WORM
WARNINGS GIVEN
AUSTIN. (TPA)— Agriculture
Commissioner John C. White
warned of a pink bollworm in-
festation in North Central Texas
and said it is spread In North and
East Texas as well.
DID AN ANCESTOR OF YOURS SCRATCH
'G.T.T/ ON HIS LOG CABIN DOOR IN 1840!
Did an ancestor of yours
scratch “G.T.T.” — GONE TO
TEXAS—on his log-cabin door in
1840? If so, you may want to
join local, church, and family
historians who will meet in Aus-
tin, Texas; November 26-27,
(1971); Friday and Saturday af-
ter Thanksgiving; at the Stephen
F. Austin Hotel for the 12th Tex-
as Sate Genealogical Convention.
Anyone interested may attend.
Pollyanna Creekmore, Docu-
ments Librarian, East Tennessee
State University, will speak on
‘Tracing Your Ancestors in Ten-
nessee.” Dr. Kenn Stryker-Rod-
da, president of the National
Genealogical Society of Washing-
ton, D. C., will talk on “Let’s Be
Fair To Our Ancestors.” John
Insley Coddington of Borden-
town, New Jersey; Fellow, Am-
erican Society of Genealogists;
will direct a workshop on “Gen-
ealogy in Church Records.” Ar-
less B. Nixon, Librarian of Phoe-
nix, Arizona, and the former Di-
rector of the Fort Worth (Texas)
Public Libraries, will speak to
the Convention on “The Public
Library—Your Information Re-
search Center."
There will be a chartered bus
tour of Austin, Texas’ Beautiful
State Capitol, to see significant
high points of historical and gen-
ealogical interest such as the Tex-
as State Library and Archives,
the University of Texas Library,
the French Legation, and the
Lyndon Baines Johnson Library
and Historv Center.
There are 66 independent gen-
ealogical societies in Texas, and
more are being organized all the
time. Many of these societies
cooperate with their local public
library, such as the societies in
Ft. Worth, Houston, Dallas, San
Antonio, Corpus Christi, Waco,
El Paso, and elsewhere. The
members promote a shelf or a
room of local, church, and fam-
ily history books, magazines,
manuscripts, and microfilm of
U. S. Census Records. The so-
cieties hold free workshops
where they teach beginners how
to trace their family history in
a scientific, scholarly manner
with legal proof for each name
on their pedigree charts.
Genealogy is one of the fastest
growing hobbies in the United
States.
It is something everyone can
be interested in as they all have
grandparents, great grandparents,
etc. It is inexpensive aa much in-
formation can be gained by writ-
ing elderly kinfolks and visiting
the local library to trace their
migration west on the U S. Cen-
sus Records.
The Texas State Genealogical
Society was organized in 1960 in
Fort Worth, Texas, by its Presi-
dent and Editor, Mrs. Edna Perry
Deckler. It has over two thousand
members and subscribers to
STRIPES, the TSGS Quarterly
Magazine, all over the world. It
publishes articles on genealogy,
local history, heraldry and bi-
ography. Membership is open to
anyone interested and free soci-
ety folders and pedigree charta
are sent to all who write TSGS,
2528 South University Drive,
Fort Worth, Texas 76109, U.S.A.
Dues are $5.00 a calendar year
and include a subscription to
STRIPES.
Recent Opinions
Of Attorney General
AUSTIN. (TPA)—Texas Air
Control Board must keep “con-
fidential information” label on
data it collects in investigation
of air pollution matters where
parties insist, Attorney General
Martin has held.
In other recent opinions, Mar-
tin concluded:
In proceedings in eminent do-
main in Cass County, petitions
should be filed with the Fifth
district judge, and he will ap-
point special commissioners, re-
ceive awards and enter judg-
ments.
Deer hunting with dogs is law-
ful in San Augustine County
during open season provided in
a 1971 game bill.
Laws requiring additional wa-
ter safety equipment on boats
and specifying that children 12
or under aboard motorboats
must wear life preservers should
be enforced.
Texas Optometry Board may
use written exams made avail-
able by international associations
if they meet state requirements.
State Comptroller can require
proof of authorization for Parks-
Wildlife Department employees
to sign vouchers in reference to
deposit, expenditure and invest-
ment of department funds in the
state treasury.
Fifty dollar license fee for
mobile home manufacturers is
no longer required to be paid to
Bureau of Lrfbor Statistics.
WE WILL BE
CLOSED
MONDAY, OCTOBER 11
IN OBSERVANCE
OF
COLUMBUS DAY
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Beirponch, Dolores. The Wortham Journal (Wortham, Tex.), Vol. 73, No. 26, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 7, 1971, newspaper, October 7, 1971; Wortham, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1106237/m1/4/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Fairfield Library.