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THOSE WHO KNOW THE CANDIDATES SAY:
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. Newton talks common sense on energy and is ready to go to bat for all
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In Church Restoration
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drilled 3.942 toot trom the south
andeeoteet from the east toot
We re proud of the relationship we have had with area educators and
their families over the past year and invite you to join us in celebrating
our 1st Birthday. There will be plenty of door prizes, lots of refresh-
ments and a special gift from your Credit Union.
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A10 YEAR OLD CRISIS IN SCHOOL FINANCING
WILL DOUBLE YOUR TAXES! THE PROBLEM SHOULD
HAVE BEEN SOLVED BY NOW! YOUR STATE
SENATOR HAS BEEN IN OFFICE 16 YEARS...
AMORE YEARS WILL GIVE USA DISASTER’
The British founded Halifax.
Nova Scotia, in 1749
advice on how 44 spread it
around a bit
V British forces retreated from
North Carolina in 1781 and sur-
-rendered in Virginia
Ot all the candidates in this important race we believe Jon Newton is
• ■ ■ meet the needs of this new day for the commission."
Dallas Morning News April 19 1976
FOR STATE
SENATOR
2 2nd DISTRICT
The Times now favors Newton, who has a substantial amount of ex-
perience in energy matters This term will be one when the public will ex-
- pect and demand of the Commission a performance more judicious and
exacting than ever before in history Newton should be nominated El
Paso Times' Apnr~25 'i • — 1 ———
Saturday, May 1st
9:00 a.m. — 5:00 p.m.
By TOM OVERTON
NTSU Journalism Siudent
Claude Watson Bryant of Ml
Tarleton Street retired from the
lumber business in 1M0 He was
82, an age when most folk*
would stop, or at least begin to
slow down, but not Bryant
Educational Employees Credit Union
. Stephenville Branch Office
1481 S. Loop, Suite 6, in The Mall
We needmen like Jon inevery capacity in-state government Beeville
• Bee Picayune Jan 19 1976
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A Beeville attorney Newton has served on several important councils
and commissions He is hard working, intelligent and personable, and has
a special interest and knowledge of the business and responsibilities of
the Railroad Commission. Galveston News April 25 19*6 _ ,
A French munitions ship ex-
plodd in Halifax harbor in 1917
killing about 2,000 persons
v’ filing
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- married he never tSc to worry
McMahon -Bullington Drilling
Co of Witchita Falls completed
—"Ask Jon Newton is becoming the byword around the Capitol when it
comes to energy and utility regulations Houston Post political column.
Feb 15 1975 v
Operator let the 4 M-inch
casing at feet Totaldepth
was 4 086 feet, and plugged
back to 3,870 feet
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VOTE FORTHE RESPONSIBLE DEMOCRAT
FOR THE TEXAS RAILROAD COMMISSION.
Paidiorby Joh Newton Carroaign Committee TomHagan Treasurer °o 80x1952 Austin Texas78762
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broadcast was made March 12,
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The American Legion, an or-
ganization of war veterans, or-
ganized March 15, 1919.
Jimmie Grissom i
Commissioner, Precinct No. 1
Erath County
Paid Polilicot Adyertisement-by Jimmie Grissom
Murjo Oil A Royalty Co. and
J. Ceci Rhodes of Fort Worth
staked two locations 10 miles
east of Santo in the Brazos, East
(Caddo) Field Sites are on a
5 424-acre lease
No 11 Ladd-Carr will be
bastiand County Regular
Field has gained two new wells
Fine Petroleum Energy Inc
of Sherman completed No 1
Irene H Massa man seven miles
north of Rising Star
- Amended location is 350 feet
from the north and 1022 feet
from the east lines of John F
Sapp Survey A-435
Daily potential:was 76 barrels
at 38 4 gravity oil. plus 15
barrels at water Flow was
through a 12-64-inch choke with
800 pounds easing and 350
pounds tubing pressures
It is producing from per-
forations at 2.970-80 feet,
fractured with 2,000 pounds of
sand with treated water
Operator set the 4^-inch easing
at 3.025 feet total depth
Gas-oil rtio wai 203-1
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$9,23
one mle south at Bethesda to
Parker County
Location is 1,800 feet from the
north and B80 feet from the tut
lines of W M Law Survey 307,
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Absoluts, open flow WSS
4.500,000 cubic feet of dry gas
daily from pertorations st 4.7M-
62 feet, treated with 500 gallons
at acid. The pay was tractured
with 20.000 pounds of sand
Operator set the 4M-inch
casing at 4,928 foot. Total depth
was 4,929 feet and plugged
back to 4.850 feet
qualifications superior Victoria Advocate Feb 15. 1976
Mac Coalson as
Mr Newton has spoken as vigorously for the consumer as for the pro-
ducer He talks energy problems in terms of realities and without pie in
the sky promises to givejhe consumer something for nothing, and to give
producers unlimited license in terms of pricing The era of cheaper fuel...........
has passed and what s needed now—in the face of rising cost—is some
assurance that increases will be reasonable enough to assure supplies of
fuel but not so unreasonable as to completely flatten the consumers
pocketbooks We think election of Joh Newton to the Railroad Commis-
sion wi# go far to provide that assurance Ei Paso Herald-Post. April 26.
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Jon Newton is armed with the knowledge necessary to fight the
energy battle that is vital to our states future Newtons candidacy is
drawing widespread support in the state because he is not tied to any
segment and is pledged to represent the broad public interest Houston
Chronicle April 25 1976 ‘
He has worked successfully for consumer and environmental causes,
he is for a realistic and wise use of our states resources and he has
spoken out in federal forums for adequate energy policies Port Arthur
News April 20. 1976
------JonNewtonisanunusuatty wett-qualified candidate for this office
which today is of tremendous and growing importance to our state and
nation h qore News Herald April 18 1976
There is one among the eight Democratic candidates who stands out
above the others tor his merit for his knowledge of the energy industry
■ and its problems and lor a record that shows he is attuned to the public
interest He is State Rep Jon Newton bt Beeville Abilene Reporter-
News April 24 1976 a ‘
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Mr Newton, an attorney from Beeville, has served three terms in the
Texas House where he has become an acknowledged expert on energy
matters With his wide background and knowledge in the energy field, we
feel certain that Mr Newton would protect consumers interest while at
the same time being fair to the industries he would regulate Dallas
Times Herald April 25 1976 -
‘gets a < hance to open hr*
mouth
The perfect gill lor someone
who ba* everything i» • little
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Later that year, "that writin’ which is a very important
fetter ‘’ -compteted a - book.* EiR*------a-stabilizeF in-Hife,"-
"Lumibering Along in Texas " temnperance and a conservative "
It is a personal account of nature He said that implicit
Bryants 63 years in the lumber faith in Cod us the biggest thing
business, and offers some in life Tm sure it has had an
interesting Texas history on the influence on my health. I
side. Bryant said tie wrote the abstain from hard liquor and
book because "more should be never eat too much, and P try
written for the record regard- not to go to extremes on
ing the lumber business." He anything" Bryant gives his
parents credit for raising him
. right He described them as
Since his retirement, he has said he wanted to share his
taken a journalism class at personal and business exper-
Tarleton State University, ience with friends, other
written a book contributed lumbermen and allied inter-
articles to magazines and ests
served his community in many Bryant grew up and was
ways. - -- graduated from high school in
Today, at 97, Bryant appears Kosse, near Waco He attended
to be in excellent health and is Toby’s Business College in
still going strong Sitting in the Waco and took his first job in
crowded "office" of his home, Lott in IB®7 Bryant has lived in
surrounded by shelves sagging other small-to-medium sized
from the weight of books and Texas towns, including Dublin,
magazines, Bryant was eager Comanche and Stamford, work-
to talk about his newest job - ingin various lumber yards as
publicity chairman of his "yard man, bookkeeper and
church's bicentennial project manager
That church was- built in He worked in Sulphur Springs
1899 " he said, motioning to a from 1914 to 1924 as manager .
picture of it on the wall, and and-part owner of the Other well,isWelcome "el
. , HarrisBrvant Lumber Co Service and Boykin Brothers of
we are going to move it so.it Harrisrzant Sweater to Abilene No 1 conrad a Cecu
won t be torn down It was a then moved to Sweetwater to Miller, four miles north of
Presbyterian church, which has manage another lumber com- astland
not been in use fo« some time, pany he. owned Bryant served Location la 2.310 feet from the
located on property now wned two terms as mayor of north and 330 feet from the east
by a Baptist church The Sweetwater where he was also lines of Section 34 Block 4.
Baptists needed the property a miember of the'Rotary Club HkTC Survey. , s.a
for a new building and the for seven years In Stephenvil- CompietedonapumD Ithad
Presbyterians wished to pre le; he has been a Rotarian for 27 adailypotentialsotzbareisos
serve the..... chureh, so ihey years, has served one term on Uwrtert'proapctioni“ss
movedit Bryants involvement Me EyfouneH gand was perforations at -3,483-89 and
with this—and -other—chureh—4president—ol-theChambenof- TWI to 3.502 feet treated with
community projects exempiiC r umn icrcc -from 1938 trr l‘J40 500 gallons of acid
lea hi» energy ami drive_______Bry ant spent the last 26 years of__
Bryant retired in 1960 just in his lumber career as general <
time to enroll in a journalism manager of Clay Building Co ’
class at Tarleton Each Participation in the March of
member of the class was Dimes, Texas United Fund and
assgned a "beat " to cover, and US ) is also a part of Bryant's
Bryant was to cover the weekly effort to help his community Of
imeeting of the Senior Men, a all the councils and organiza-
Stephenville community group buns hr has served, Bryant said
Bryant was older than most of that he "as proudest of being an
the "senior ’.men, but that did elder in the -Presbyterian
not bother him Bryant recalled church, a governing body he
that one of the men would has served on for more than 40
always say. Yonder comes years
that writin’ feller," when lie Bryant attributes his lung life
saw him approaching to an abiding faith in God,
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M feet from th* north and 4 JIB
feet from th* west lines of
James Thomas Survey A-IMS
RC Am** at Croat Plains
staked No 4 BA A Ray Elliott
at a proposed 450-foot wildcat in
Callahan County
Location ia nine mile* north of ..
Putnam on a 240 acre lease
it spots 1.720 feet from the
north and 1.920 feet from the
east lines of Section 1. DADA
Survey.
Davis Brothers No. 1 Davis,
880 feet trom the north and DO
teet trom the west lines of
Section 47, Block 1A TAP
Survey, wildcat four miles
northeast at Hawtoy. total depth
2,420 tet.
Our confusing langage
department A 1st < hane eand a
slim < hane e are the same thing
being proud and very religious,
with a strong sense of right and
wrong "They were Baptists
who attended the same church
all their lives," he said.
Since writing his book,
Bryant has eontributed articles
to magazines and written a few
columns for a newspaper He
glanced over at his large, black
typewriter, then pulled a box
down from a shelf From the
box, he selected several
legal-size pages stapled togeth-
er and said, "Here's an article I
wrote for ‘County Progress' ”
He explained that "County
Progress ", is a magazine for
Erath County concerned with
agriculture, business, and
■'things like that " He continued
to search through the box until
he came to some old yellowed
newspapers. These are the
only copies I have of my
column; I didn't write very
much, he said Bryant has also
— written a family story and a- -
short history of Kosse, his
hometown. •
Bryant said divorce is "one of
the most serious problems
facing this country today," and
said that he thought that might
be because people do not give
proper consideration to what it
means to be married He said
that drinking may be another
cause
\ Bryant was married in 1914 to
Pearl Wattum, and has three
sons, Martel. Alton and David
His wife died last year at the
age of 89
Tall, sturdy and enthusiastic
about life. Bryant does not dote
on the past, but carefully
schedules his day o he will
have enough time to get
everythin*: done He still drives
out to the church every day to
see how things are going and
' worries about others more than
himself Most folks would slow —
down after retirement, but
apparently not Bryant
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Maikell, Elgin. Stephenville Empire-Tribune (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 107, No. 89, Ed. 1 Friday, April 30, 1976, newspaper, April 30, 1976; Stephenville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1500564/m1/4/: accessed July 4, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Dublin Public Library.