The Giddings News (Giddings, Tex.), Vol. 62, No. 41, Ed. 1 Friday, September 29, 1950 Page: 2 of 16
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Business and Professional Cards
CAUGHT SHORT AGAIN!
S&S
of the great forges of Europe.
• • •
Insurance Agency
SABBS CREEK PHILOSOPHER
Johnson grass farm apparently
shows.
Cotton
same level with
over
HE NOW KNOW WHY it fell
THE TEXAS POLL
mand for a change.
there is
Danger Danger ain’t recommendin this policy
of
the left-handed column of per-
centages, but they are also in-
column with those who answer-
guess
ed “some danger.”)
THE OLD HOME TOWN
is not convinced that even this
of March 3, 1879. Member of the
Telephone 46W
Giddings, Texas
66
34
some danger, but don’t think it
would be great.
be great.
'• Most Texans
danger, or very little danger
that they will be bombed?'
Neither Russia, Red China
Seek Big War Now, Belief
All adults____
Adults in cities
over 5,000 __,
Adults in towns
the
tar-
1 reach it without stoopin
where’ the New York
67
71
wasn’t no further ahead after
a year of hard work, than i was
after a year of takin it easy,
noticed my wife nagged about
• “What about people living
in the same type of communi-
ty in the northern part of the
United States? Do they think
policy to me.
1 been toyin with the idea of
Adjournment
Held Up By
Emergency
TEXAS RENDERING CO.
Call Collect 131, Bastrop, Tex.
See Tad Simmang
or Leslie Smith
the
Ex-
Phillips-Luckey Co.
Phono 57. Day and Night
FUNERAL DIRECTORS
M. F. KIEKE
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
Giddings, Texas
All adults . ........- 33%
Adults in cities
over 50,000 .. _ 43
Prompt Removal of
DE D...
UNSKINNED or DISABLED
♦ CATTLE
♦ HORSES
* MULE6
• MOGS
Action is still to be completed on the war-necessitated tax increase
bill, wage-price control legislation, the omnibus appropriation bill, a
Communist control measure and a supplemental war appropriation.
Leaders have resigned themselves to a series of three-day recesses
at best, with the technicality of adjournment taking place near the
end of the year. -
5 Blocks North of Hospital
GIDDINGS. TEXAS .
Doubt Invasion of Formosa
Planned by Commie Forces
Congress will not adjourn until Just before the next
Congress convenes, early in January.
Congressional leaders had hoped that the nation’s
business could be wound up in time to adjourn, but
the load of war emergency legislation appears to
have spiked all such hopes.
Droemer
Concrete Works
NOPE;PAW- ITS
NOT ouR WASH-
You DON’T WEAR
. SOCKS!!
This amounts to $1,370,000 per
lay, including Sundays and holi-
days, seven days a week!.
Robert Nitsche
Painting and
Paper Hanging
— Floor Sanding —
Phone 108W
at the Post Office at Giddings,
Texas, under the act of Congress United States. But a majority
MONUMENTS
& MARKERS
$20 to $625
For Information So#
Clyde Jones
at Phillips & Luckey Co.
GIDDINGS. TEXAS
One hundred and thirty-one more
or less independent state agencies
would have been consolidated into
two executive branches: one with
six “departments having adminis- |
trative functions," and the other
with 14 "departments rendering di- |
rect public service." -
REACH
A CHOICE
MARKET WITH
NEWS WANT ADS
42
45
The people had neither oppor- j
tunity to study the problem that
faced them, nor opportunity to ex- i
amine the proposed reforms. Lack- 1
ing this information, they did not
demand passage of the reforms.
Lacking this demand, the reforms
were not made. -4
We Print Everything
• Letter Heads
• Envelopes
• Office Forms
1 THE GIDDINGS NEWS
hours, don’t want to glut the flat. We know why the
New York market and
AdideWASHINGTON
========== MARCH OF EVENTS =====
John Knox
INSURANCE
Fire. Tornado, Casualty
M. G. KURIO
INSURANCE
American National
Life Insurance
Fire, Casualty, Polio
NOTARY PUBLIC
j Phone 173 Giddings, Tex.
L. (Fate) Fariss
INSURANCE
Fira. Tornado, Casualty |
Life, Health. & Accident
Dr. H. R. Willard
VETERINARIAN.
Phone 362
’ Giddings, Texas
• IRON HAND IN VELVET—The new Senate
war investigating subcommittee appears to be tak-
Chiang Kai-shek ing an iron-hand-in-the-velvet-glove approach to
its task. _ —
Chairman Lyndon B. Johnson (D), Texas, has announced that the
probers will shun headlines, check politics at the committee door and
refrain from telling the generals and admirals how to map strategy.
Nevertheless, the unit firmly let Defense Secretary Louis Johnson
know that the investigators expect facts from the military—and no
glossing over of possible painful situations.
This was made clear by senators in their first meeting with the
defense chief. The chairman told the secretary at the closed-door
session:
"Even if your people think we are wrong in our evaluation of a
specific matter, we want a factual report upon which we can make
our own determination. If we are right, we expect a report telling
us what has been done to correct the situation."
Old-timers around Capitol Hill will note that, the probers are get-
ting off to much the same start as their model, the famed Truman
investigating committee of World War II,
For weeks after it was formed, the Truman committee made no
newa. Then, well-grounded, it went into headline-producing case
after case. Lyndon Johnson has told newsmen he expects his unit
will eventually use the "case" procedure.
• CONGRESS ADJOURNMENT—It is now just about certain that
Dr. R. L. Kennedy
OPTOMETRIST
Offices next door to
Western Auto
Eyes Examined
Glasses Prescribed
and Fitted -
Office Hour*
Wednesdays & Saturdays
Phone 341
for
Jaster Plumbing &
Sheet Metal
CONCRETE TILE
For Sale
great danger,some the same, year in and year out,
and it wasn’t no effort at all
HUMBLE SERVICE STATION
TOMMY ALEXANDER. Agent
Dr. L. G. Suehs
DENTIST
Teinert-Vogel Building
Giddings, Texas
Phone 327
Texas Press Association, and
Texas Gulf Coast Press
15% Rural Folks
In Texas Fear
Atom Bombings
By JOE BELDEN
Director, The Texas Poll
Texas Press Association, South presents * great danger.
This survey was conducted
BACK ROAD FOLKS —
“WILFREDS "ON THE PROWL AGAIN -
on 10. King Features
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Repairs on all types Refrigeration Equipment
Household & Commercial
Frigidaire
Commercial & Air Conditioning
Washing machine and motor repairs
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R. C. A. Victor Radios for Your Home
Repair Service on AU Makes
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See
ORSAG RADIO SHOP
marketing, his letter this week workin long hours, and what I
want to know is why cotton
Special to Central Press
• TV WASHINGTON—Government foreign policy experts are keeping
• their fingers crossed, but they believe that neither Russia nor
Communist China want to get Into a major war at this time.
The basis for their reasoning la that each has enough trouble at
home. This is known to be true in China, where famine faces the
population in the north In almost unprecedented proportions.
Moreover, Russia has been taking grain out of the country, a mat-
ter not likely to escape public notice despite strict
censorship. Because Of these factors officials doubt
that an invasion of Formosa will be attempted.
Peiping is expected to rely on a mere threat to
keep Chiang Kai-shek’s forces tied up. Other offi-
cials feel that Russia’s hands are tied because of
economic poverty. *
This factor tends to keep the administration
alert over Europe. A drive there is considered
most likely since Soviet economy, unable to get
along on its own, covets the Ruhr and all the rest
doesn’t recognize the vast dif- of them New York fellers havin
ference between producing and a nervous breakdown from
Taxes and Waste
In Government
Worry Texans
By JOHN REDDITT
State Chairman
Texas Economy Commission
(Editor’s Note: This is the see-
ond in a series of articles on the
Texas Economy Commission.)
You who are worried (or should
become worried) about the ever-
increasing demands for taxed to
run your Texas state government, |
you nave three choices before you:
(1) Pay more taxes and grumble
about it.
(2) Pay lower taxes and under-
go a reduction in public services.
And grumble some more.
(3) Examine your state govern-
ment for inefficiencies and waste;
then, on the basis of your factual .
findings, improve service without
increasing taxes, or lower taxes
without cutting service. .
The first and second choices ap-
peal to no one. The third choice
clearly is the one to make.
The Texas Economy Commission
has undertaken to make the third
choice. But our eyes are open to
certain pitfalls that must be avoid-
ed if we are to succeed in bringing
economy and efficiency into our
government
THIS REQUIRES some explain-
ing.
In 1929, the Legislature created
the office of State Auditor and Ef-
ficiency Expert to look into the
government. This new office, after
nearly a year of study, reported
that inefficiency, waste and disor-
ganization were growing as the
government’s expansion continued
| unrestrained.
Alarmed, the Legislature named
a joint committee of both its houses
to give thorough study to the prob-
lem. This committee employed an
impartial, professional staff of ex- |
perts in government management,
Griffenhagen and Associates, which
had been doing this sort of thing
successfully for s generation.
The Griffenhagen firm made an
exhaustive study and presented a
detailed report calling for extensive
reorganization of the government.
What's more, this vast sum is
spent, not through logically and
carefully controlled means. It is
spent out of more than 230 sepa-
rate, disconnected checking ae-
counta, Many of these accounts are
., ... .... ...- so far l ain’t gotten no where earmarked for special purposes and
“some danger" with it. Ain’t found a single fel- Recount no AT % furprua
se who answer- ler willin to SW ap. while other accounts are exhausted,
more taxes must be raised to re- |
plenish the exhausted accounts. |
That’s silly, I know. But that’s
how it is.
rotatin the whole system
under 50,000 _15
Adults on farms 15
As I see it, ain’t no chance
farmers don’t get up on
eluded in the
—- — -----„.., -___: past two 1
force decades have brought more disor- j
them birds longer hours. ... ganization, more inefficiency and I
T A i waste into our state government.
I used to work long hours. There was not enough popular de-
years ago, but I got to noticin I mand for a change.
THE GIDDINGS NEWS • In smaller towns and in
Published every Friday by rural areas, only 15 per cent
The Giddings News Publishing of those questioned figure the
Co., Drawer 29, Giddings, Texas danger of being bombed would
WE KNOW that a new structure
of efficient and economical public
service, provided through intelli-
gent taxation, cannot be erected
without the public’s understanding
of its need.
---------The people of Texas, through thia
series of newspaper articles,
through public discussion and de-
bate, through their local county
branches of the Economy Commis-
sion, will be advised of and take
nan in every stage of the Econ- ,
omy Commission’s work. If you
don’t like a certain recommenda-
- tion that has been submitted to
you, and if you come up with a
- better suggestion, the substitution
■ can be made.
Then the revised recommenda-
tions will truly be your recommen-
dations You will know what is
needed. The Legislature will know
what you want, and you, by your
own effort and understanding, will
succeed. .
The next article in this series
will discuss how the Economy Com-
mission operates at the local level
close to every Texas home The
writer will be Mrs. Charley Ward,
of Louise, state vice-chairman of
the Texne FAnomy Commission.
7 WELL, & WMAT I LIKE ABOUT!
FOLKS SAY ITS I TELLING THE TRUTH
THE ONLY RIGHT IS.. IS EASIER!,--
THWG TO pO!,N--
for me to figure out which
Lee County’s oldest business
institution. Established in 1888.
Entered as second class matter Russians might strike at
gets in the northern part of the
by a staff of 76 interviewers
two months after the Korean
war started. ____
A representative cross sec-
tion of the adult population was
asked these questions:
“In case of war with Russia,
do you think there is great
danger, some danger, or very
little danger that people in
this community will be bomb-
ed?"
danger of air attack.
What do people in Texas
think about this dangei?
To find out, The Texas Poll
asked one thousand men and
women in all parts of the state
| for their opinion.
Here is what the poll shows:
• As to be expected, resi-
, dents of large cities are most
concerned. One of every three
Dear editar:
1 read in a copy of a news- change? If we could raise cot-
paper I picked up out here the ton on the same hours it’s sold,
other day because it was hung you’d see me plantin more of
on a bobwire fence and I could the stuff
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since it don’t open till 10
o’clock in the morning, and
even I can: see a hour and a
half ain’t exactly no full day’s
work. Also, I notice the Cotton
Exchange on the rest of the
week opens at 10:30 and closes
at 3, which is 4 and a half
.rums . , t adults in cities of over 50,000
AUSTIN. The fact that Rus- population feels the danger of
sia is making atom bombs has bombardment would be great
prompted civil defense officials ,n case of war with Russia,
all over the country to give Another one-third recognize
more and more attention to the
This was logical. It was efficient.
,. It brought order and responsibility
gonna work but' under economical control.
or four .hours a day, ain't tofnd it fell flat 1D the Legisla-
no sense in me stretchin out my
------By STANLEY
Today we have, not 131 separate |
state agencies, but nearly 200. In
1930, the Texas state government I '
7.0 spent $103,100,000. In 1940, $165,-
72% to everybody, will com- 700,000. This ycar the state is
promise if the hard workin spending $500,000,000. That’s half 5
79 folks won’t recommend their a billion dollars’ |
2A-THE GIDDINGS NEWS Friday. September 29. 1950
J. A. Wants Same Hours as N. Y.
Cotton Exchange -- 4 Hours Per Day
Editor’s note: The Rabbs hours a day, with I suppose a
Creek Philosopher on his- hour off for lunch.
. As it is, here a regular cot-
, Cotton ton farmer works from ten to
Exchange voted to change its twelve hours a day, but I have
closin time on Saturday from figured if the men who sell the
12 noon to 12:30, because other- ctuice ain’ anho .1
wise it would be open only one three
and a half hours on Saturday,
Great Some
Yours faithfully, J. A.
Humble Products •
Tires, Tubes, and Batteries Gas, Oils, and Accessories
Washing — Greasing — Tira Repairs
WE APPRECIATE YOUR PATRONAGE
course to follow. Of course I
Falke Bldg. Phone 36
Adults in towns
under 50,000 ... 27
Adults on farms 28
(In the results for both ques- farmin and sellin in this coun-
tions, persons who answered try, let the farmers farm one
“great danger” are grouped in year then swap places with the
sellers and let them farm, but
(ALWAYS 2) ( YES. SIR I 1
3 ARE ‘ L(.ALWAYS., ABOUT
EVERYTHING ? X END
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