The Groom News (Groom, Tex.), Vol. 46, No. 35, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 28, 1971 Page: 2 of 8
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THE GROOM NEWS, GROOM, CARSON COUNTY, TEXAS 79039
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1971
CARSON COUNTY ABSTRACT COMPANY
Realtors, Abstractors of Titles
Prompt, Dependable Service
Phone 537-3561
222 Main St., Panhandle, Texas
Regular Week-Day Meat Prices:
FROM EXTRA GOOD GRAIN FED CALVES
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Phone 248-3321
Groom, Texas.
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savings stored in a hollow tree.
support of most SDEC conserva-
tives and some moderates.
Both candidates, the winner and
the loser, pledged future coopera-
tion with all factions.
Orr succeeds Dr. Elmer Baum
of Austin as SDEC chief until the
September, 1972, state party con-
vention.
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Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
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ments by Smith were the follow-
ing :
University of Houston Board of
Regents—Dr. J. Davis Amistead of
Lubbock, Robert Lee Grainger and
Mack H. Hannah Jr. of Houston;
reappointed, James A. Elkins Jr.
of Houston.
'Board of Regents, North Texas
State University—William W. Ja-
mar Jr. of Brownwood.
Texas Civil Air Patrol Commis-
sion (new)—'Louis C. Ways, George
E. Hadaway and D. Harold Byrd
of Dallas; John A. Goolsby Jr. and
Frank T. Cox of Austin; William
I. Williams Jr. and Luther C. Bo-
gard of Tyler; Claude L. Cham-
bers of Irving and Mike A. Burk
holder of Pecos.
State Board of Barber Examin-
ers—Thomas J. Hullum of Burnet.
Joe Reeder Jr. of Knox City was
named 50th district judge succeed-
ing Lewis Williams of Knox City
who resigned.
The provident squirrel’s
reserves do not increase
while in storage.
But your savings can
grow every day that you
leave them with us.
Open 8:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Tuesday through Saturday
CLOSED MONDAT
HAIRCUTS—$1.75
Your Patronage Appreciated!
Open 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., Monday through Friday,
and from 8:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Saturdays
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FRONT QUARTER, 80 lbs., up
HALF BEEF, 180 to 220 lbs.
ONE FOR
THE BOOKS!
The largest
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AUSTIN, Texas. — Ballot order
has been selected for 14 proposed
constitutional amendments to be
voted on at the Nov. 7, 1972, elec-
tion.
Major changes, including author-
ization for a constitutional conven-
tion, four-year terms for major
state officials, higher state bond
interest ceilings and equal rights
for women are included in the list.
The amendments, in the order
they will appear on the ballot, fol-
low:
1. A salary raise for legislators
from $4,800 to $8,400 a year.
2. To abolsh Lamar County hos-
pital district.
3. To provide for compensation
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For EMERGENCY prescription Service after hours or on
Sundays Phone 248-2741 or Res. Phone 248-5271
GROOM PHARMACY
John E. Homer, Registered Pharmacist, Proprietor
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• • Allowable Reduced . . .
: For the seventh consecutive
month, Texas Railroad Commis-
sion reduced the statewide oil al-
lowable.
A cut of .7 of a per cent sets the
November production factor at 62.5
per cent of potential. The allow-
able has been slashed 19.6 per cent
since last April.
A maximum production of 3,275,-
749 barrels daily will be permitted
under the November controls,
compared with 3,305,129 this
1 month.
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• Appointments . . .
Dan S. Petty, 31, formerly of
Texarkana, was selected by Gov-
ernor Smith as his executive ad-
ministrative assistant to succeed
Otice A. Green who resigned Oc-
tober 1.
Among other recent appoint-
The death penalty convictions of
a Refugio County man for slaying
a sheriff and a deputy sheriff in
1969 has ibeen upheld by the Court
of Criminal Appeals.
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• Disaster Aid Approved . . .
Texas Employment Commission
will pay disaster unemployment
compensation to persons made
jobless by tropical storm Fern,
Sept. 9 - Sept. 30 in 14 South Texas
counties.
Counties covered in the assist-
ance plan are Aransas, Bee,
Brooks, Duval, Nueces, Refugio,
San Patrcio, Jim Wells, Hidalgo,
'Starr, Willacy, Jim Hogg, Live
Oak and Calhoun.
Special aid determined in accord
with U.S. Labor Department reg-
ulations will correspond in amount
and duration to benefits paid un-
der the state unemployment insur-
ance program and manpower de-
velopment and training act. Max-
imum is $45 a week for 26 weeks.
Eligible include those who no
longer have jobs or a place to work
as a result of the storm or who
were unable to reach work, who
were injured or who were made
beads of households as a result of
deaths in the disaster.
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• Bond Sale Offered . . .
A total of $31.5 million in veterans
land program bonds will be offered
for sale November 1.
Land Commissioner Bob Arm-
strong said sale of additional
bonds is necessary to continue the
program under which 20,000 appli-
cations for low interest rate land
purchase loans have been made
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of all justices of the peace on a
salary basis.
4. To establish a constitutional
revision commission and call a
convention to revise the state con-
stitution in January, 1974.
5. To allow tax exemptions for
disabled veterans, their surviving
widows and children and widows
and children of armed forces per-
sonnel killed on active duty.
6. To provide a minimum $3,000
property tax exemption for resi-
dent homesteads of those 65 and
over.
7. To guarantee that equality
under the law shall not be denied
or abridged because of sex, race,
color, creed or national origin.
8. To provide four-year terms for
governor, lieutenant governor, at-
torney general, comptroller, treas-
urer, land commissioner, secre-
tary of state and other statutory
state officers.
9- . To allow soil and water con-
servation district directors to hold,
or be compensated for, more than
one office.
10. To require that proposed cbn-
stitutional amendments be describ-
ed twice in clear language by
statewide newspaper publication
(633 papers).
11. To fix an annual salary of
$22,500 for Speaker and Lieutenant
Governor.
12. To permit state employees to
serve on local governing boards.
13. To set a six per cent weight-
ed average annual interest rate for
constitutionally - authorized bond
issues.
14. To allow counties to reduce
their permanent school fund and
distribute money to independent
■and common school districts on a
per-scholastic basis.
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• Democrats Elect . . .
Feuding Democrats settled a
row over election of a new chair-
man with unexpected calm.
At a Dallas meeting, the State
Democratic Executive Committee
named Roy Orr, 39, mayor of De-
Soto, rejecting Governor Smith’s
preference for Agriculture Com-
missioner John C. White.
Orr won by a razor-thin 32 votes
to 30 over the veteran statewide
official. Backers of both argued
that their man would be the best
choice to unify the state party for
election-year battles ahead. White
had backing of liberal and some
moderate and conservative mem-
bers of the committee. Orr drew
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• Courts Speak . . .
The State Supreme Court af-
i firmed lower court findings that
state employees are ocnstitution-
ally banned from city council serv-
ice.
In another new decision, the
High Court set a hearing Novem-
ber 3 in the controversy over
■whether 588 acres were legally ac-
quired at Odessa for a new Uni-
versity of Texas of the Permian
Basin campus.
Third Court of Civil Appeals
here held a law preventing vend-
ing machine owners from holding
financial interests in taverns is
constitutional.
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' Entered as second class mail at the Post Office at Groom, Carson
County, Texas, under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879.
Edited and published by MAX and HELEN WADE
Office Phone No. 3311—Residence Phone No. 3541
Groom, Texas 79039
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Wade, Max & Wade, Helen. The Groom News (Groom, Tex.), Vol. 46, No. 35, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 28, 1971, newspaper, October 28, 1971; Groom, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1512173/m1/2/?q=lumber+does+its+stuff: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Carson County Library.