The Champion (Center, Tex.), Vol. 53, No. 43, Ed. 1 Wednesday, October 22, 1930 Page: 2 of 8
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THE CHAMPION, CENTER, TEXAS, OCTOBER 22, 1930
THE CHAMPION
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS
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T3EREAVEMENT brings re-
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tions of which many people
know little or nothing.
To throw light upon this un-
familiar subject and to insure
against painful mistakes, there
is a little book called “Funeral
Facts.” We shall be glad to send
you a copy upon request. No
obligations.
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ought to be ashamed for having elected them.
matter what work he is hired to do, should
If he is found not worth the money, dis-
as possible.
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Center Daily News
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The regular price of the Daily News per year is $5^.00.
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Advantages and opportunities offered by East Texas as
a section of well-balanced agriculture' are convincingly set
forth in an attractive folder that is being distributed by the
East Texas Chamber of Commerce in connection with the re-
gional agricultural exhibit at the State Fair of Texas. An out-
line map of Texas with the territory served by the regional
chamber shaded in orange is shown on the cover of the folder, |
along with the caption “East Texas—-the Most Productive Part
of the Nation’s Great State.”
The seventy-three counties in the East Texas region, in-
cluding Shelby County, are shown in a county-by-county map
of the regional organization’s territory on the back of the fol-
der, and also a coupon to be sent to the Ea^t Texas Chamber of
Commerce for a more detailed description^ of the region.
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Shreveport, La., Oct. 17
(UP)—Construction of a ten-
inch pipe line, 110 miles long,
from Van, Texas, to the Stan-
ard Oil Company’s pumping
station at Cutoff Junction, a
few miles east of here, has
been started by the Humble
Refining Company. The esti-
mated cost is $15,000 per mile.
Oil will be pumped from Van
to the Standard station and
thence to the Standard refin-
ery at Baton Rouge.
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ONE YEAR FOR
$3.50
The management of the Daily News' and The Champion
realize that the low price of cotton demands that other com-
modities be cut in price and that is the reason that we are of-
fering you these papers at such extremely low prices. You
can pay your subscription either at our office or at our booth
on the Fair Grounds.
SUBSCRIPTION STATEMENTS
Were mailed to all Champion subscribers in arrears this past
week. Please remember, that it is against the postal laws for
us to carry subscribers on our books who are in arrears. So,
if you have received a statement, be sure that remittance is
mailed to us at once. If you mail it this week you can take
advantage of our special bargain offer of one year for $1.00.
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Take Advantage of the SPECIAL BARGAIN OFFER of the
Center Daily News and The Champion for Fair Week.
The Champion
Everybody has a sale at one time or another andthis week we are having a sale
CHAMPION, Shelby County’s best weeklynewspaper. The regular price
CHAMPION is $1.50 per year but during thisweek, we are making a special offer of
ONE YEAR FOR
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Advertising Rates—Local readers 2 cents per word; display
rates made known upon application. All resolutions, cards
of thanks, programs and other matter not general news, will
be classed as advertising and charged for at the rate of one
cent for each word, and the sender will be held responsible for
payment of bill.
Man Who May Hang
For Murder Blames
Troubles on Women.
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The voter in the general election which is Tuesday, No-
vember 4, will find four constitutional amendment proposals on
his ballot. They are:
1. Extend legislative term to 120 days; divide session
for introduction, hearings and passage of bills, raise salary
and cut mileage of legislators.
2. Permit University of Texas to invest permanent fund
in its own securities, thus advancing its building program.
Permit west Texas counties to tax for local pui poses
This has the approval
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university lands within their borders,
of the university regents.
Abolish enforced quarter year vacations of appellate
This has the endorsement of the bar.
The first amendment is perhaps the only one which needs
explanation or discussion. But we will say a little about the
second which we doubt the wisdom of adopting. At the pres-
ent time the state university is receiving vast sums each year
from oil royalties. Under the constitution it cannot spend this
money, but must invest it in U. S. Government bonds, the in-
terest from which it may spend fob university support. The
amendment would permit the university to buy its own secur-
ities and get a higher rate of interest than is paid by a govern-
ment bond. Fifty years from now we might be sorry we gave
the university this power. The safety of an endowment fund
for the university should be our first consideration. Its oil
lands will yield it riches undreamed of by any other school in
the world it seems now so let’s keep it as safe and permanent
as the rock of Gibraltar.
The legislative amendment would change the length of
the regular session of the legislature from 60 days to 120 days,
cut down the mileage allowed and increase the pay of legisla-
tors. We believe the adoption of this amendment will result
in economy and efficiency.
The proposed change would allow thirty days for intro-
duction of bills, thirty days for consideration of bills by com-
mittees and sixty days for consideration and passage. Legis-
lative sessions over the past fourteen years have averaged 137
days counting the special sessions. Time has been wasted in
chopping up the legislative session into a regular session and
one or two special sessions. This has also been expensive.
The average cost of each thirty day session has been $108,000.
$12,000 has been the average cost of mileage.
It is believed the 120 days session without loss of time, for
^organization as is necessary with a called session, will be
_ ample for legislative work. The saving in time, mileage and
other expenses will more than offset the increase which it is
proposed to pay legislators.
But if this were not so it would be no excuse -for Texas
failing to pay its legislators a fair compensation. Some may
say they are worth no more than they are being paid. If that
is so we o”ght tn hn ashamed for having elected them. We be-
lieve every man no
.have a fair wage,
charge him as soon
Therefore the Herald will vote for the legislative amend-
ment, against allowing the university to invest its tiemendous
oil royalties in anything but the safest security in the world—
U. S. government bonds, for allowing west Texas counties to
tax university lands and for abolishment of enforced three-
months vacations for appellate courts. Since we pay judges
by the year, why make them take so long a vacation! Redland
Herald.
Kansas City, Mo., Oct. 16,
(U.P.)— Paul Kauffman, young
athlete and steel worker, who
in war could not stand the
sight of killing his enemies, was
reconciled today that he may
hang because he murdered a
young girl in a moment of mad
infatuation.
Kaufman was expected to
plead guilty here 'this after-
noon to the murder of Avis
Woolery, 17 years old, whom
he lured to the city, mistreated
and then killed in a park here
last August. . He confessed he
strangled her with a stocking
during a moment of “drunken
passion,” then concealed her
body in a shallow grave.
“Women, women, women—
that’s been the cause of all my
troubles,” the youthful slayer
said. “I’ve bee nobsessed with
women all my life.” His an-
fatuations made him a biga-
mist, started him through pri-
son life and finally culminated
in murder.
Kaufman went from the
Pennsylvania steel mills into
the war. “I don’t believe I
ever killed anyone in the warj”
he recounted. “Once my bat-
tery was caught in an attack
and there was hand-to-hand
fighting. I remember I used
a rifle, but I could not bring
myself to aim at anyone.”
“I suppose I’m just a degen-
erate. It looks as if I’ll go to
the gallows.” Kauffman, mus-
cular through labo rand train-
ing as a semiprofessional base-
’ ball player, wept.
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Lynch, John W. The Champion (Center, Tex.), Vol. 53, No. 43, Ed. 1 Wednesday, October 22, 1930, newspaper, October 22, 1930; Center, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1357025/m1/2/: accessed June 22, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Fannie Brown Booth Memorial Library.