The Nocona News (Nocona, Tex.), Vol. 47, No. 44, Ed. 1 Friday, April 10, 1953 Page: 2 of 12
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'MEMBER5
1953
Bill Stoffle Motor Co
425
The
SCOTT BROS. BURIAL ASSY
W. E. SCOTT, Saint Jo.
W. L. SCOTT, Nocona
101
Clay
Nmmr
with
WHEN BETTER AUTOMOBILES ARE
rffl* LEE VAUGHAN MOTOR COMPANY
117 W. Walnut St
NOCONA, TEXAS
home was re-
Boys and girls
There are legislators
selfish gain ahead of
It’s only fair to warn you.
Drop in any time for complete financing
details and our free estimate of the quality
materials required for your improvements.
trial —
lU BMfcCK CTBCVS HOUR
— any Tend ay.
is a remarkable person, and at 94
In her childhood days
Now... Borrow np to
$2,500 tor needed
home improvements
Published every Friday at The Nocona News publishing office,
117 East Oak St., Nocona, Montague county, Texas
MR. AND MRS. ROWLAND R. PETERS, PUBLISHERS
Entered as second class matter at the postoffice at Nocona, Texas
under Act of Congress of March 3, 1879
Subscription rates payable in advance: Montague and surrounding
counties. 1 year, $2 00; other points, 1 year, $3.50
way. If the “get all we can get boys” win, we will soon
be a communistic nation like Russia, but if the spirit of
our pioneers lives we will continue to be a great nation.
Our flowers for the living this week go to Mrs. Fooshee
and Mr. Houpt for the part each played in helping to make
America what it is today—the greatest nation in the world.
They have handed to the rest of us the recipe for keeping
it that way. <
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LUMBER CO.
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THE UNION SERVICE
RESPONSE to the first union Good Friday service here
was sufficient to inspire the proposal that such a service
be held at one of the churches each Good Friday. Union
services on Good Friday are traditional in most American
communities. The theme of such services is woven around
the “Seven last words” on the cross. Twenty minute ser-
vices are held for each of the seven words. Last Friday
Nocona undertook such a service, but confined it to one
hour as a more or less test service.
The response was gratifying.
Friday program of 20 minutes for each of the seven last
words will be in order with pastors from Nocona and ad-
joining communities taking parts as they do in other com-
munities of the country. Such services can be held in
various churches which are able to accommodate the crowd.
In many communities, these services are held frqm 12
noon to 3 p. m. Also in these communities all businesses
close to permit their employes to attend, but those which
cannot close at least give their employes the privilege of
attending the services. Eventually, Nocona might reach
this position. After all, surely once a year is not too often
to close up shop for community consideration of what the
crucifixion and resurrection mean to the world of yesterday,
today and tomorrow. Nocona’s first union service was a
success. For this thanks are due to those who supported
it by attending. It can be an even better success next
year, and the years to come.
3y taking advantage of the FHA Pay-Out-
of-Income Plan you can secure of tow coat
amounts up to $2500 to repair or modernize
your property. You can have as long as 36
months to repay . . . without straining your
budget or disturbing your savings.
BIBLE THOUGHT
Take thee a great roll, and write in it with a man's pen.
- Isa. 8:1
was rugged.
pioneers endured would
ration, but they held on
ed while science was at
us of today.
At 82 Mrs. Fooshee
“Uncle Bud” is unbelievably active. 7 ' ----- - _
Mrs. Fooshee rode horseback for several miles to play with
other children, and she walked two or more miles to go to
school. “Uncle Bud” also went to school, but it was a
“subscription school” and his folks were not possessed with
sufficient money to keep him in school, but he is well edu-
cated by reason of his determination to keep up
things.”
During her wedded life, the Fooshee
cognized as a harbor for those in need,
both were taken in and given a home when they didnot
have one. Few, if any, of us of today would do as much.
Mrs. Fooshee and Mr. Houpt served America during the
era when Americans worked by what was to be done in-
stead of by hours. They thought nothing of working 12,
14 or 17 hours a day for which they received no overtime.
This is the spirit that built America. This is the
spirit that will preserve America if America is to be pre-
served as the greatest nation in the world. They knew no
selfish interests as we of today know, interests which
think only of what “we can get” instead of what they can
help to contribute to the overall promotion of the American
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FLOWERS FOR THE LIVING
WITHIN recent days the News has carried separate
feature stories about the pioneer lives of Mrs. J. A. Fooshee
and W. W. "Uncle Bud” Houpt, whose lives in Montague
county go back through the years when life in “these parts”
__J. The crude mode of living which these
not be acceptable to today’s gene-
and endured what had to be endur-
work making life easier for all of
| people would have everything to
gain and nothing to lose by the
taking of the tidelands by the
federal government. Of course
this is not true for the tidelands
issue is not a sectional one. Rath-
er, it is a question that involves
the fundamental concept of State
and private ownership of proper-
ty, and as such, is a matter in
which every, man. woman, and
child in the United States has a
vital stake. It exemplifies the
familiar spectacle of the Federal
Government usurping more and
more power from the states, and
it strikes at the very heart of the
historic organization of our gov-
KEEP THE INSPECTION LAW
IT must be heartening to those who favor greater safe-
ty on our highways to observe the defense which is being
waged at Austin in favor of Texas’ auto inspection law,
which, for some unknown reason, has been a controversial
issue since the law became effective around a year ago.
Among organizations, coming to the front for the law is the
Texas Congress of Parent-Teacher association, which has
joined the governor’s safety commission and every other
Texas safety group for the retention of the law. Legisla-
tors who are attempting repeal of the inspection law are
only inviting all of the unfit wrecks in the state to lake to
the highways at the very probable cost of human lives, per-
haps some one in their own families,
who will put political influence and
public safely.
The automobi’c in noction law
That object is to p”o’ P it the uac of any motor vehicle on a
public highway without proper inspection of its lights,
brakes, steering mechanism, horn and windshield wipers.
What objections can honestly be raised against such regula-
tions is not understandable. Defects in any one of these
five parts of an automobile can cause a fatal wreck. Wheth-
er or not it is fatal, a wreck is still a wreck and a loss of
personal property. The owner of a motor vehicle who
fears this law because he fears that his car will not stand
examination is a driver who should be taken off of the road
until his car is put into safe operating condition as most
other cars are kept by their owners.
It is significant that last year, the first year of the law.
there were 65 less traffic deaths in Texas than during the
previous year. It is not claimed that this reduction is
traceable entirely to the safety inspection law, "but certain-
ly common sense dictates that the law bad a part in reduc-
ing the state’s annual slaughter. Other states have bad
this law for years. Two of them, Pennsylvania and New
Jersey, have consistently reported from 40 to 50 per cent
less traffic deaths than Texas. ,Perhaps some revisions of
other elements of the law arc in order, but repeal of the law
would only send Texas back 15 to 20 years behind other
states, and it would tell jalopy owners: “Come on, bring
your unsafe cars onto the highways, you’re protected.”
Does Texas want this?
SAFE, SOUND, PROTECTION
For Every Member of the Family Up To
90 Years of Age — Home Owned
enunent.
Real question
The real question to be decided
was one of principle which was
whether individuals nnd states
that make up this Union have
rights and property that are sac-
red and deserve protection or
whether all of our ownership is
subject to the whims of an all
powerful federal government that
might divest us under the ill con-
ceived theory of “paramoun*
rights” as pronounced by the Su-
preme court.
This time of year marks the be-
ginning of the annual spring pil-
grimages to Washington. It is
estimated that within the next
month over 500.000 school stu-
dents will visit the capitol. I
wish that it were possible for
every high school student in the
country to spend a day or two here
going through the capito!, the
monuments, and fine public birld-
ings. It would certainly be an
inspiring experience, and no one
can see our Capitol City without
having a deep sense of pride in
being a part of sucn a great coun-
ty
quiet and efficiency, plus infinite smoothness
to and through every speed range.
There’s a lot more to be had, of course, in
these great new Buicks. Higher horsepowers
and compression ratios. A still finer ride.
Easier handling. Improved visibility. More
comfort and richer interiors.
But start with take-off — the greatest in
Buick’s fifty great years—and learn the rest
of the story from there. Can you drop in on
us this week?
• Standard on Road mas ter, optional at extra cost on other Series.
CARPENTER
IMPLEMENT
CO.
Nocona, Texas
When you try a new Buick with the sensa-
tional Twin-Turbine Dynaflow Drive,*
you’ll tingle all over with thrill.
You'll sweep your speedometer needle from
zero to 30 mph so quickly, you won’t have
time to breathe but twice. You’ll move from
a standing start to legal speed so quietly,
you’ll practically hear your heart beat. You’ll
experience such complete and utter smooth-
ness every step of the way, you’ll be wholly
relaxed, refreshed, and ready for more.
This is not dream stuff. This is real.
This is what actually happens when you’re
at the wheel of a new 1953 Buick with
TT Dynaflow.
Twin Turbines in the Dynaflow unit, instead
of just a single one-in addition to other engi-
neering advances — make the tremendous
difference.
So you feel a firmer and more immediate
“take hold” —get far faster getaway, new’
greatest name
in home
entertainment.
From The Halls
Of Congress
By Congressman Frank Ikard
Washington—Restoring title of
the states to the submerged
lands within their historic boun-
daries moved a step closer to real-
ization when the House passed the
so-called tidelands bill by a vote
of 285 to 108. The effect of this
bill is to confirm and establish
the title of the States to the sub-
merged lands within their historic
boundaries which, in the case of
Texas, is ten and one-half miles.
The senate will immediately begin
consideration of a similar bill,
and I feel certain that the action
there will also be favorable.
The debate on the bill in the
house reflected the fact that pro-
bably no issue to come before
congress in recent times has been
so widely misunderstood. Many
have seen fit to beat the drums of
prejudice and charge that this
bill was nothing but a gigantic
give-away. This has done much
to spread the widely held mis-
conception that the so-called tide-
lands matter was purely a section-
al issue that affected only three
or four states and that the other
has one nwh ob;ect J ”ates and the vast majority of the
JuM name the combineable crops!
They all meet their master when you
use a dependable John Deere No.l2-A
. . . the combine that makes harvesting
faster, easier, more profitable.
Its unexcelled performance is as-
sured by such features as full-width,
straight-through construction . . . ease
of operation . . . light weight and low
power requirements . . . and many
others. Cotn ia-e it, feature for feature,
“d you'U agree—the John Deere
Parts
“Your Ford Dealer
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WHAT THE RAILROADS MEAN
EVERY morning around 9:10 a westbound passenger
train stops at Nocona and every afternoon around 5:10 an
eastbound passenger train pauses here long enough to take
cn mail and passengers. In between, several ' freight
trains pass through here and, in addition, the Katy local
visits the city to pick up ancl deliver the city’s freight.
Now and then the (’.lay street crossing, sometimes both
the Clay and the Cooke street crossings are blocked and
motorists take off in all directions to get around the trains.
This is natural, but we need to know what these train stops
really mean to America, and Nocona is a part of that Ame-
rica. ,
Last year the nation’s railroads paid a tax bill to Uncle
Sam of one billion, two hundred and three million dollars,
the highest tax bill paid by America’s railroads in any
peace-time year in all American history. While, accumu-
lating such a tremendous tax bill, the railroads moved forty
million, five hundred thousand carloads of freight, which
included shipments into and out of Nocona.
During this period the rate of return on net investment
averaged 3.70 per cent against 4.23 per cent the preceding
year. Here is an example of the privately operated rail-
roads increasing their operating efficiency against infla-
Next year the full Good; tion, labor difficulties and other economical problems, in-
cluding that which is political, which should not enter’ the
railroad picture. This is indeed an achievement.
BUILT BUICK WILL BUILD tkfm
"THE NOCONA NEWS, NOCONA, TEXAS, APRIL 10, 1953
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