The Nocona News (Nocona, Tex.), Vol. 62, No. 31, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 4, 1968 Page: 2 of 8
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EDITORIALS
COW POKES
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YOU MUST REGISTER TO VOTE!
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open-housing law.
Congress created
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NATIONAL POLITICS IN 1968
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GLASS TINTER
Nickel is used to produce
black, purple or amethyst tints
in the coloring of fine glass.
candidacy.
If he runs, it is quite ob-
vious that he will hurt the Re-
publicans more than the Dem-
ocrats.
People who will vote for Wal-
Users of LSD may be risking birth defects in their
children and grandchildren, warned Virginia Apgar, M. D.,
director of basic research for the National Foundation-
March of Dimes. They also may be exposing themselves
to an increased risk of cancer and early aging.
PRINCIPLES ARE WORTH
FIGHTING FOR!
One of the changes made in the recent revision of
election laws Is that everyone must register to vote. Prev-
iously those over 60 were not required to register but
that is no longer true.
At present the only place to register is the office
of the tax assessor-collector in Montague. One person
may register for all those in his Immediate family but
cannot register for other relatives or friends.
Tax Assessor-Collector Elton Winton has stated that
he will have registration offices set up in other towns in
the county during the month of January in order that regis-
tration may be done conveniently. However at this writing
those offices have not been named.
The year 1968 is a presidential election year in addition
to the election of county and state officials. It is an im-
portant year in the history of this nation because the nation
stands at -a crossroads and this could be the year that
the wrong path is taken leading to the loss of personal
freedom such as we have known in the past.
You have an obligation to cast your ballot in the elec-
tions this year. You have until January 31st to register
so that you may cast that ballot. We urge you to make
sure that you and members of your family are qualified
to vote.
..... Editor and Publisher
. Society end Personal News
Receptionist and Bookkeeper
Above all else, 1967 appeared to be a year when the
verities were questioned—in politics, in economics, in re-
ligion and in virtually every other element of the structure
of present-day society. What does it all mean? No one really
seems to know. Some claim the tearing down of old standards
reflects what might be called a healthy renaissance of ad-
vanced thought. Others view with foreboding a trend they
feel is leading to a moral breakdown and anarchy. The
experts are the most confused lot of all. Sometimes their
judgments of coming events are ludicrous. Typical of their
inability to assess the future was the recent statement
of one of this country’s leading financial authorities that
devaluation of the British pound was unlikely because the
English program of austerity was so fundamentally reas-
suring as to make a crisis improbable. By the time this
particular forecast was in print, the British pound had
been devalued, and no one knows what the future holds for
the monetary systems of the world.
Out of all the confusion of 1967, one fact has become
clearly obvious—self-government itself is on trial. This is
so because the very truths which are the mainstay of self-
government are being altered or swept away one after
another—truths that were once called “self-evident.” These
truths have to do with financial responsibility, the integrity
of the family, the inviolate rights of persons and property
under the law and concepts of individual self-reliance
and initiative that are Inseparable from freedom under
representative government A gradual decline in respect
for these prerequisites of liberty was never more apparent
in the observation of many people than during the crucial
months of 1967.
Outwardly, the United States is invincible. But, the
founding fathers warned nearly 200 years ago that the greatest
danger to the American experiment in free government
could well come from within. A debauched currency, a
weakening pride in individual Independence and the gradual
ascendancy of state authority are undeniably changing the
outlook for constitutional government as we have known it
in the United States. Few now living have the capacity to
view the present era as it will be recorded in the history
books at some distant time in the future. Our present
civilization, and more specifically our own country, measured
by material progress and the potential for future progress,
opens a vista that staggers the imagination. The precepts
under which civilization has advanced to this point, and
which have brought a greater measure of well-being to more
people than has ever been known in the world before, must
have a validity that the hippies, the malcontents and the
anti-American demonstrators have failed to perceive.
No political party, no single group of citizens is solely
to blame for the dismal drift that has put self-government
on trial, and as the elections of 1968 approach, we should
expect no miracles from our elected representatives. They
but reflect the temper and attitude of the electorate. The
signs became abundant during 1967 that a turning point
has been reached in the affairs of the world and our coun-
try. As we enter 1968, everyone of us should resolve to
be worthy of the heritage of self-government—a heritage
for which 500,000 men in Viet Nam are laying their lives
on the line.
NOTE TO CATTLEMEN
Here comes a dispatch hot
off the mimeographs saying that
scientists at Pennsylvania State
University have discovered that
ground up newspapers mixed
with molasses make a wonder-
ful food for cattle. This is an-
other first for the newspaper,
by golly. Television will never
be able to match this.
For 56 days, says the report,
scientists fed one group of hei-
fers on newspapers mixed with
molasses and another on high-
priced cattle feed without the1
nutrition and brain food avail-
able in the modern daily news-
paper. Each heifer ate about
2 1/2 pounds of newspaper a
day or somewhat less than that
marvelous encyclopedia of
modern life which the news-
paper delivers to your door
each Sunday morning.
At the end the heifers who
had foraged on newspapers were
just as healthy as those fed
on that highpriced pap. Also,
the newspaper fed heifers had
gained a great deal of weight,
possibly from taking on the New
York Times financial section.
None of the test heifers how-
ever had expressed any de-
sire for T. V. - Paul Crume
In Dallas News.
ROSCOE HAYNIE, president of Wilson Packing Company
is quoted as saying: “It disturbs me that so many young
people respond to surveys saying that the business com-
munity is too much of a rat race. . .too competitive. It
is not by accident that the United States has gone ahead
of other countries but because of the free enterprise system.
I suggest that most of the welfare advances. . .are in large
part made possible by business and the capitalistic system.
Free enterprise has done more to create more wealth
for more people than any other system in the world.”
Dere Editur,
It shure is a long way to
Texas from here. Ole Sandy
Klaus probly never will find his
wat to us out here an Im
shure he never got our letter
in time.
It has bin so cold sence
we left home youd think we were
at the north Pole, wherever
that is an we may be ’cause
It shure takes a long time
for mail to get here. Last
week’s Nocona News got here
Fridy of this week. This weeks
mite get here by new yires
day. If this here mail deliv-
ry gets improved enny more
we can mail nex yere’s Kris-
mus Kards the day after Krls-
mus for delivery nex Krlsmus.
Kaliforny sunshine dripped
and pored all over us. It snew
some and kivered the moun-
tings. In fact, the weather has
ben so turrible, even the Kal-
ifornians are apoligislng fer
it - probly think we brung it
from Texus, but we dldnt. We
kudnt of carryd that much wea-
ther even if wed wanted too.
Gess tho* will be home when
the spring thaw komes. Shure
hope we get the Nocona News.
Love to all the gang.
Pauline
TIME CHANGES THINGS
Here we are being hurled
headlong into 1968 and I haven’t
heard a single dissenter. Where
are the peaceniks, sittom -
downers and related goons? Do
they intend to let us go into
1968 without one word of pro-
test?
Everything else from the
Fourth of July to Christmas
has been "banned.” Why not
the New Year’ Is it something
sacred?
Just think, if they could do
away with New Years we would
be stranded in time and space
with no place to go. That kind
of chaos seems to be the state
of the world most of these
“Rover boys” want.
Perhaps they have a reason
for wanting 1968. At least a
friend of mine thinks they do.
He recently wrote:
“I feel very strongly that
this year 1968 Is going to be
a year such as we have never
experienced in the past. The
events of 1967 have merely
laid the foundation that will
develop into climactic activi-
ties during 1968. It is going
to be interesting to watch all
this.”
So here’s 1968. It may be
a year of Infamy.—Cecil Wag-
goner in Claude News
MAY WE FILL YOUR NEXT
PRESCRIPTION?
THEIR OWN LAW
Federal Housing Administra-
tion Offices in 76 cities have
received orders to make a
greater effort in providing
homes for minority groups in
white suburbs.
According to the New York
Times News Service, the order
also hinted that those who fail
in their task might be replaced
with men who have greater
“loyalty and zeal” for the prln- be more
ciple of open housing. Another
possible consequence of failure,
the order noted, would be the
gradual decline of the FHA
as an instrument of social
change.
Congress
to pass an
And, when
the FHA, it
to finance home buying. It was
not created as a bureau to af-
fect social change.
Under our form of repre-
sentative government, social
change comes from the people
through Congress. Federal bu-
reaus, part of the executive
branch, are created only to
carry out the people’s orders
as written into law by Congress.
Any deviation from this plan
corrupts the system that has
kept Americans free from the
centralized anarchy of a pow-
erful few that can lead only to
tyranny.
Whether It’s the FHA writ-
ing its own open-housing law,
or whether it’s the Agriculture
Department deciding that every
farmer must own at least one
cow, is not the problem here.
The problem is created by a
few government hirelings, with
no mandate from the people
through Congress, forcing their
idea of social justice upon the
nation.
Congress should end such bu-
reaucratic klngmanship.—
Dallas Morning News.
LEADING CAUSE OF
ACCIDENTS
“Ran off the road” was the
leading cause of fatal traffic
accidents in Texas last year.
Noting that 27.1 per cent of all
rural fatal traffic accidents oc-
curred when a vehicle left the
roadway, TEXANS FOR TRAF-
FIC SAFETY said that acci-
dents of this type are frequent-
ly caused by inattention and high
speed.
Edgar R. Hays .....
Mrs. Edgar R. Hays •
Mrs. Zelda Robertson
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BRIGHT SIGN
Another bright sign in the
Orient — related to the war
though not a part of it —
is the current mess in Red
China. Nationalist China’s
Chaing stated that the country
is falling apart and his troops
are ready to move in and take ,
over.
This column, still optimistic
about the eventual outcome over
there, still looks eagerly to
that possibility. It would be the
greatest set - back of com-
munism in its 50 year history
— the best news in 50 years
in the Interest of world peace.
After that the reds would fold
up soon in all of Asia and more
than a billion people would have
the opportunity to make some-
thing of their lives.—“Con”
Fetti in Muenster Enterprise.
OPTIMISTICALLY SPEAKING
Everybody’s talking and
guessing about the war in Viet-
nam and what should be done
about it from this country’s
point of view. So I don’t see
any good reason why I shouldn’t
join in the chorus, too.
It’s a hunch, purely a hunch,
but I think things are going
to break wide open in Vietnam
fairly early in 1968. A clear
cut victory will be scored by
the U. S. and its South Viet-
namese, Korean and Australian
allies in their effort to foil
Communist enslavement of
Southeast Asia.
I believe that by June,
probably earlier, about 80 per
cent of the people who’ve been’
highly critical of the policies
and results in Vietnam will be
cheering the news growing out
of events there.
The extreme liberals, the
peaceniks, the kooks and the
self - anointed “intellectuals”
won’t be cheering the news,
but, after all, they represent
very few, anyway. Instead of
cheering, they’ll be very quiet
—until, of course, they can hit The Dallas News, proves true,
upon some other divisive pro- 1968 politics will prove quite
gram. Then they’ll start again interesting. He recently point-
to make speeches, lie on streets ed out:
and sidewalks, scream “police We can’t list all the people
brutality” when they get a whack who have written asking about
on the noggin for spitting into the effects of George Wallace’s
a cop’s face, etc., etc.
Whether there will be any
formalities attendant upon final
victory, nobody knows. Maybe,
as recent visitors to Vietnam
have guessed, the Viet Cong will
simply disappear; Ho Chi Minh lace are evidently fed up with
will step down, “due to ad- both parties. They are particu-
vanced age and ill health,” larly hot against Lyndon John-
and the U. S. will then start son—primarily because of his
helping the Vietnamese to de- civil-rights legislation. If Wal-
slgn an orderly pattern of gov- lace is not in the race, they
ernment from rice paddies on will hold their noses and vote
up. Republican — for anybody ex-
Again, this is all a guess, cept Johnson.
I don’t know any more about If Wallace is on the ticket
what actually is going on in under the banner of a third
Vietnam day by day than Wil- party, those people will vote
lie Fulbright, Bobby Kennedy, for him — which means that
Martin King, Bennie Spock, or many more not voting Repub-
the longhaired kooks parading lican.
around with nasty signs. But Said Barry Goldwater recent-
it looks to me like the critics iy: “George Wallace and Lyn-
had better holler while they don Johnson make up a poll-
can, because before long, it’ll tical package which will be hard
be too late.—The Plainsman to beat in 1968. There is no
in Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, question in my mind that Wal-
lace can throw up to 10 per
cent of the vote to Johnson
by simply diverting it from the
Republican candidate, par-
ticularly if that (Republican)
candidate tries to echo LBJ.
Goldwater ought to know. He
carried only six states in 1964
against Johnson, and five of
them (Alabama, Georgia, Lou-
isiana, Mississippi and South
Carolina) were in the South.
If Wallace runs, undoubtedly
these Southern states — may-
will go for him,
particularly if the Republicans
nominate a liberal like Rock-
efeller, Romney or Percy.—
Cecil Waggoner in Claude News
Two Registered Pharmacists
On Duty!
Rabb
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Toes
Teen-Age Girl
Is Committed
To Stale School
A Dallas teen-age girl, Cher-
ry Carter, observed her 14th
birthday in Montague County
jail Thursday of last week and
on Friday was committed to
the Gainesville State School for
Girls for her part in the De-
cember 4th robbery of a Bo-
wie grocery store.
Mrs. Melvin Fenoglio of Mon-
tague, who had some contact
with the girl through an in-
terview for newspapers, baked
a cake for her on her birth-
day and she and her daugh-
ters took the cake and some
gifts to the young teen-ager.
Judge Louis T. Holland, serv-
ing as a juvenile court, con-
ducted a hearing for the young
girl Friday morning. She plead-
ed guilty as a “delinquent child
under law,” and the sentence
to the Gainesville school re-
sulted.
Judge Holland told the girl
-that the length of time she would
be committed to Gainesville
would depend upon her conduct.
She was charged with refusing
to submit to parental control,
that she habitually associates
with persons of vicious and
Immoral character, and that
she assisted in the commission
of an armed robbery in Bowie
on December 4th.
The girl’s mother and sis-
ter attended the hearing. Their
home is in Dallas, where the
girl was reared.
Three young men who have
been indicted for their part in
the robbery are being held in
jail at Montague without bond.
Next session of the Montague
County district court is
scheduled for January 22 when
the trio may be brought to
trial.
In other district court ac-
tion Friday, Judge Holland
heard guilty pleas in three other
cases. He sentenced the four
men involved to terms in the
state penitentiary, but probated
their sentences dependent upon
their behavior.
Two cases involved second
offenses on charges of driving
while Intoxicated. The other
case, involving three teen-age
Bowie boys, resulted from
charges of willful destruction of
private property.
The kindly district judge talk-
ed sternly to each defendant.
He reminded them of their
duties as citizens and their
freedom in this country. The
two DWIs were warned, “Don’t
take that first drink.” Judge
Holland admonished them to
“leave whiskey alone . . .
or you will go to the pen.”
In the hearing of the Bowie
youths, the Judge also instruc-
ted them to pay the cost of
their property destruction “be-
fore the sun goes down.”
When the last case was heard,
the Judge walked slowly to his
office. The county attorney
gathered up his files and fold-
ers. The sheriff led the de-
fendants to the clerk’s office.
Those with probated sentences
had papers to sign. Then the
sheriff led the teen-age girl
away to his car and drove to
Gainesville.
THE NOCONA NEWS
Published Thursday of each week at Nocona, Texaa.
Entered as Second Class matter «t the Post Office in Nocona,
Texas. under the Act of Congress of March 3,1879. Second
class postage paid at Nocona, Texas 76255.
LETTER TO THE
EDITOR —
(Editor;s note: The News’
roving reporter, Pauline Seay,
is out in “Sunny” California
mixing business with pleasure
and she sends us the following
report on that area.)
Dere Editur,
a small amount of nickel is
The Golden Anniversary of as allovinc element
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Week, September 24-30. and g01tL-----------------
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or reputation of any person, firm or corporation which ap-
—, m the columns of this paper will be corrected upon
due notice being given to the editor at his office. Comspoo
should be addressed to the Nocona, News, Box 539,
Nocona, Texas 76255.
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