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THE GROOM NEWS, GROOM, CARSON COUNTY, TEXAS 79039
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1971
CARSON COUNTY ABSTRACT COMPANY
Realtors, Abstractors of Titles
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Phone 537-3561.
222 Main St., Panhandle, Texas
Regular Week-Day Meat Prices:
FROM EXTRA GOOD GRAIN FED CALVES
PROCESSED AND READY FOR YOUR FREEZER
53c lb.
61c lb.
73c lb.
Phone 248-3321
Groom, Texas.
BRING YOUR
PRESCRIPTIONS
Groom, Texas
Phone 248-2741
buy-
policies
protecting
others
surance pool in 14 coastal counties.
We appreciate your business.
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GROOM LODGE
A. F. & A. M.
No. 1170
.State flational J3an.lt
Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Groom, Texas
Phone 248-3521
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StateCAPITOL
PHONE 248-4431 FOR
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Open at 7:00—Close at 9:00
OPEN EVERY DAY
FRONT QUARTER, 80 lbs., up
HALF BEEF, 180 to 220 lbs.
HIND QUARTER, 90 lbs. up
pointed.
Gevernor
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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NATH, BERTIE & MIKE
HELTON
HOMEN MEAT COMPANY
Bill and Leon Bohr, proprietors
TO US—FOR SAFE, DEPENABLE SERVICE
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
Stated Meeting 2nd. Tuesday
April-Sept., Incl.—8:30 p.m.
Oct.-March, Inci.—7:30 p.m.
Visatons Welcome
Members urged to attend.
CURTIS SCHAFFER, w.M,
TED MAJOR, See’y.
You can rest assured
if your important
papers and
precious keepsakes
areinoneofour
safe deposit boxes.
Vaughan of Sherman was
Bank vault protection against fire or
theft or prying eyes. The cost is small, but
the security it gives may be priceless.
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The House General Investigating
Committee is gathering material
concerning the vending industry
controversy and- Chairman Rep.
Menton Murray of Harlingen has
• Juke Box Hearings Set . . .
, The new Texas Vending Com-
mission decided to 'air its prob-
lems in a series of seminars over
the state after being hit with criti-
cism over the regulations it must
enforce.
Atty. Gen. Crawford C. Martin
suggests Commission-led seminar
discussion of the coin operated
amusements machine industry and
pertinent laws.
Meanwhile, State Senator Chet
Brooks of Pasadena called on Gov.
Preston Smith to remove Raymond
B. Williams of Dallas, a vending
Smith made offiical
damages inflicted by reserve dep-
uty sheriffs or constables to per-
sons or property, but they are not
liable for injuries to the reserve
officers.
*A local option election to legal-
ize liquor sale cannot be conducted
in a new Randall County precinct
because it has not been in exist-
ence 18 months.
*The State Comptroller must
transfer to the Texas Vending
Commission all records and mem-
oranda needed in enforcing coin-
machine license fee requirements.
Counties are not authorized to
contract with cities for the muni-
cipal tax assessor-collector to as-
sess all property for tax purposes,
but can contract for appraisal or
assessment recommendations that
do not abrogate the county tax
assessor - collector’s constitutional
duties.
* School districts may purchase
liability insurance for employees
who are exposed to individual lia-
a.
to remove
ton and Austin attorney Robert C.
McGinnis were named to the State
J udicial Qualifications Commis-
sion, and District Judge R. C.
AUSTIN, Texas. — Hearings of
major interest to insurance policy
holders are scheduled here Dec. 8.
The State Board of Insurance
slated for that date public airing
of new regulations to prevent in-
surance companies from arbitrar-
ily cancelling coverage and a pro-
posal to lower auto policy rates
through “shock-absorbing” bump-
ers.
Allstate Insurance Company of
Illinois recommends a 10 per cent
premium discount for new cars
equipped with the tough bumpers
beginning next year. Rates would
be reduced by 15 per cent if cars
can by demonstration take a five-
miles-per-hour front end crash and
a 2% -miles-per-hour rear end wal-
lop. Rates would drop 20 per cent
if the bumpers can absorb a five-
miles-per-hour blow fore and aft.
New federal regulations call for
the shock-absorb bumpers with
five mph (front) and 2%-mph
(rear) capacity by 1973 models.
Proposed regulations would pro-
hibit cancellation of hazard and
liability insurance which has been
in effect 60 days or more unless
holders fail to pay premiums or
lose a driver’s license (auto cover-
age) .
Under the rules to be examined
at the early December hearing,
companies would have to give at
least 30 days’ written notice if
they do not intend to renew a pol-
icy at the end of a year. Unless
the notice is given, renewal would
be required for another year.
Firms Which violate the rules
could lose their licenses to operate
in Texas.
The latter regulations resulted
from special legislation passed
this year following repeated com-
plaints of motorists who claimed
policies were cancelled without ad-
vance notice.
A hearing was scheduled earlier
for December 7 to consider all
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aTenon
aspects of problems in operating
the new catastrophe property in- bility in their duties, but may not
his 18 appointments to a Commis-
sion on Intergovernmental Rela-
tions.
Dr. James H. Granberry of Lub-
bock and Mrs. Holt Atherton of
San Antonio are co-chairmen of the
Texas delegation to the Southern
Republican Conference.
Earl Luna of Dallas is new State
Democratic Executive Committee
counsel.
against tort claims for bodily in-
jury and property damage.
*No certificate of authority can
be issued to an automobile club
whose services constitute an in-
surance business.
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• Appointments . . .
Hugo H. Lowenstern Sr. of Ama-
rillo, John McKee of Dallas and
Hulen Marshall of Houston were
appointed by Governor Smith to
the Committee on State and Local
Tax Policy.
Smith named William M. Strek-
ert of Brownwood and Morris E.
Bailey of Amarillo to the Texas
. State Technica] Institute Board of
machine tycoon, as chairman of, Regents.
the Commission. Smith noted the! He appointed Robert J. Long of
law provides for three industry1 Austin to the Lower Colorado Riv-
representatives to serve on the er Authority.
Commission, and said it is too late
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• Courts Speak . . .
A state law declaring desecra-
tion of the flag a felony was up-
held by the Court of Criminal Ap-
peals in a Dallas case where a 20-
year-old flag burner got a four-
year prison sentence.
The Court’s opinion called such
acts “an invitation to violence”
and said they are not protected by
constitutional guarantees of free
speech.
The State Supreme Court said
it had no jurisdiction in a damage
case involving a contractor's suit
for damages over failure of metal
rods used to raise the “top house”
of the famous Tower of the Amer-
icas in San Antonio to its lofty
place.
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First Court of Civil Appeals As-
Williams. Williams । sociate Justice Phil Peden of Hous-
said he has no intention of resign-
ing.
indicated a probe may be directed
at a later meeting.
Commissioner Williams and the
other two industry representatives
vowed publicly they will not use
their official positions to get infor-
mation about their 2,800 competi-
tors from Commission files.
* • *
• Pay Raises Ordered
The state proposed to begin the
last half of this month granting
state employes and school teach-
ers pay raises approved by the
Legislature unless stopped by the
Federal Pay Board.
Governor Smith said an applica-
tion has been sent to the Pay
Board requesting permission to
make retroactive raise payments
to September 1 when the new state
budget took effect.
The Pay Board set a 5.5 per cent
salary increase guidepost on ex-
piration of the wage-price freeze.
The Legislature approved a 6.8
per cent pay raise for state em-
ployees. Texas was the only state
government in the country blocked
by the freeze from employee pay
raises this year. Hikes m other
states took effect before the presi-
dent’s order.
• » ¥
• Attorney General Opinions . . .
“Surge” brakes for small trail-
ers (such as those used in hauling
boats) will meet the new require-
ment of central braking systems
for trailers, Attorney General Mar-
tin held.
In other recent opinions, Martin
concluded:
^Counties are responsible for
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• Vaccination Out . . .
Compulsory vaccination for
smallpox has been lifted by the
State Board of Health as a re-
quirement for entering school.
Required immunizations effect-
ive next January I include for
grade school pupils diphtheria,
tetanus, poliomyslitis, rubella and
measles (if the child hasn’t’ had I
measles). The- U.S. Public Health
Service recently held compulsory
smallpox immunization is no long-
er necessary in the U.S. since risk
of the disease is so small here.
Last known cases were in 1949 in
the Rio Grande Valley.
• # •
• Texas News Briefs . . .
Atlantic Richfield Foundation
gave Texas Conservation Founda-
tion $5,000 (its first major cash
gift) to buy and preserve public
lands.
The 26th amendment to the U.S.
Constitution lowering the voting
age will have enfranchised 664,646
new Texas voters by November,
1972, acording to the University of
Texas population research center.
Projections see a total of more
than 1.4 million young Texas vot-
ers who were not old enough to
vote in the 1968 general election.
A 523.3 million textbook order,
largest in history, was placed last
week.
Governor Smith is calling for a
“take crime out of Christmas”
campaign to curb the crime wave
which frequently accompanies the
Yule season.
The State Board of Public Wel-
fare met Monday to discuss re-
visions in the food stamp program
and policy changes required by
lawsuits.
Gubernatorial candidate Dolph
Briscoe demanded an investigation
of use of state employees to turn
out mailing lists for campaigning
Lt. Gov. Ben Barnes, also a candi-
date for governor.
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Jhe ^room Vlews
Entered as second class mall 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. 38, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 18, 1971, newspaper, November 18, 1971; Groom, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1512176/m1/2/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Carson County Library.