The Giddings Star (Giddings, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 50, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 14, 1957 Page: 4 of 8
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4- THE OIDDINGS STAR -THURS. MARCH 14, 1957
RATE;
Corner
DEMOCRACY IN ACTION’ ESSAYS
ization people have struggled con- homemaking building (bottom) at
building has six kitchens with com-
power to govern themselves., pictured above. Supt. Arnold Klein-
uniform storage room,music li-
—Photos by Brown 0. Spivey.
check of the Queen of the Bren-
G(
Phone
32-foot classroom and 100-by 32-foot
ments.
heard about America
office for principal, book storage,
This Newspaper
—Photo by Brown O. Spivey.
cent improvements at the Lexing-
Plan Valley Forge Scout Jamboree
and in 1946. In 1946 there were
in 1958,
Phone 35
We Deliver
verted to dial operation during
1956. These conversions placed
Official Poster of Fourth National Jamboree
44s
*
BOY SCOUTS...EXPLORER
tvog
to the
gram are reflected in the compari
son of dial-operated telephones now
Telephone Company Has Large
Construction Program Underway
stations in operation in 1946 were
dial. "
Exchanges in ten cities were con-
shop with tool storage, rest room,
and teacher’s office, a new primary
department with four classrooms.
state area, compared to 86,471 in
1956. With a total of 144.721 sta-
Ann Lee Winkelmann, as Trail
Boss Reese B. Lockett of the Salt
Mat
into ir
bove, along with Supt. Arnold P.
Kleinschmidt and Mrs. Ina Mae
5,492 telephones on dial operation.
In three other cities, larger dial
units were placed in operation,
and exchanges in several cities in-
stalled additional lines to central
In some ages this struggle was schmidt. and Band Director Allen
more successful than in others. Steele are in the top photo while
Sometimes democracy was won by Supt. Hleinschmidt and Mrs. Ina
KING OF THE COWBOYS Roy
Rogers plants a solid kiss on the
bilitation hospital. The Rev. Roy
H. May, pastor of the First Meth-
odist Church of Gonzales, is shown
holding a protestant service. Cat-
holic services are also held each
Sunday. The pulpit is open to any
minister who wished to serve
a particular people only to be
lost again. During all this time,
however, there has been slow but
steady progress toward democrat-
ic government for more and more
people.
BANANAS
pound 12c
LOST
please
phone !
FOR
Bel Ai
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for lif
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Star
freedom so they came to America.
The freedom of speeck and free-
dom of worship are in the first
amendments. We have many other
rights that are just as important.
To be able to do as you wish,
that is what Democracy means
to me.
We
REC
And G
Fre
FOR
8,000 .
new co
57.
Choosy folks roly on want
ads to sell, hire, ront. They
know they're dependable-
So wise, choose an ad in
South Texas cities and towns in-
cluded in the area described in a
United Gas industrial development
United Gas Ad in National Magazines
Features Area Invitation to Industry
of multiple underground conduit,
16,200 feet of large sized under
ground cable, 72,000 feet of aerial
cable, and 12 miles of exchange
aerial wire at Caldwell, Bryan,
College Station, $462,960.
Installation of 800 lines and
1400 terminals of additional Cen-
tral Office equipment at Bryan and
The Southwestern States Tele-
phone Company recently announc-
ed that it has established the lar-
| gest program in its history for
the construction of new and im-
| proved facilities for its four-state
operational area--Arkansas, Louis-
iana. Oklahoma, and Texas-dur-
ing 1957. Total program for the
year has been set at more than
$7%-million. . •
In announcing this record pro-
| gram, D. T. Strickland, vice-presi-
dent and general manager, com-
mented that this record expendi-
ture by the company- is necessary
to keep pace with the increased
population in the four states where
Additional employees have been
necessary to man these additional
facilities, and payrolls for the com-
pany's t employees have shown
steady increase. In 1946 the pay
roll for 1,042 employees amounted
to $1,350,132.82, while in 1956 the
1,270 employees were paid a total
of about $4 million. i -.
"Residents of this area will like-
ly be more interested in the opera-
tions of our company in their loc-
ality," Mr. Strickland said. “They
will be interested to know that
the construction program for the
South Tex. Division of The South-
western States Telephone Com-
pany for 1957 is of near record
proportion, with $1,003,680 set aside
for work in the Division."
This amount will be expended
for the following projects:
Placement of, about 25,000 feet
began borrowing, mostly with their
farms as security. Farm debt has
gress for a whopping, all-time-
record sum of >5,300,000,000 to be
spent or obligated by Secretary
Benson during the last half of
1957 and the first half of 1958. A
major proportion of that is to be |
used in either reducing production ,
or disposing of surpluses.
The budget request, if divided
equally among all farmers, would
average $1,500 per farm Of the
FRESH FISH
and OYSTERS
PINTO BEANS
10 lbs. 95c
Giddings is one of a number of Iwest Florida. Each ad in the ser- |
ies pertains to a different section |
In addition to Time Magazine,
the same ad is scheduled to ap-
the same ad is scheduled to ap-
pear in the March 18 issue of
Newsweek, the March 29 issue of
United States News & World Re-
port, the April 6 issue of Bus-
iness Week and the April 16 issue
of Wall Street Journal.
r The United Gas advertising pro-
gram, inaugurated in July 1939, is
now in its 18th consecutive year
and is said to be one of the long-
est sustained industrial develop-
ment programs ever recorded. O-
ver 200 advertisements have ap-
peared in national magazines in
the series. —'
Grass Trail ride looks on. Rbgers
flew to Brenham Saturday to start
the ride and was presented the
key to the city by Queen Ann Lee.
The Maifest is scheduled for May
10 and 11.
PICK
- AND
CHOOSY
the company operates exchanges in
168 towns, and also to keep pace office equipment.
Summer Sausage
pound 35c
Cabbage, Onion
Tomato - Plants
Mae Perry, homemaking teacher,
are shown in the bottom photo.
The new band hall contains an
auditorium with room for an 80-
piece band, three individual insu-
lated practice rooms in the rear
SALT BACON
pound 29c
WHOLE OR GROUND
Pound 57c
Perrry, homemaking teacher. Note
the complete cooking and storage janitor's room and two rest rooms,
facilities in the kitchen. Other re-
ment and demonstration materials
| of the auditorium, a cedar-lined I for that particular - lab. _ a
sent day fast-moving economy, the
only good service is one that is
continually improving." 1
indicative of the company’s ef-
forts to offer improved telephone
service, Strickland cited the fact
that the company has spent about
10.054 dial stations in the four- been rising by $2,000,000,000 a year,
to a record total of over $18,000,000 ■
elude trucks, tractors, machinery,
a remodeled fertilizer, pesticides, gasoline and
“ * 1 oil.
FRESH DRESSED
FRYERS - HENS
pound 39c
Critics of the farm program, and
there are many of them even
amount spent In the 1952-53 fiscal <_______- _________—________
year, the last full year of Demo- ham Maifest Junior division Miss
cratic Administration of farm ham Maiest, Junior division, Miss
Saddle
• 1 • Calf
Leathe
VALLEY FORGE - PENNSYLVANIA
JULY 12-18, 1957
BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
programs. Benson counters that
, the government still is paying for
j Democratic “mistakes."
The irony of the situation is
that almost everyone — President
• Eisenhower, Congress, farmers and
I city people—want less government
■ interference in agriculture. Yet the
trend definitely is in just the op-
■ posite direction.
This would be tragic except for
the fact that failure of the gov-
] ernment to meet the urgent need
of farmers would be disastrous.
Farmer# for five years have been
teetering on the brink of another
1930-33 full-scale depression, a
depression that plunged the whole
nation into economic chaos.
. | This, is more than a farm prob-
lem; it is a national problem. Al-
though farmers make up only 13% |
i of the national population, they
. buy more than 30% of factory out-
put of goods other than food and
, household furnishings. These in-
Fifty thousand Boy Scouts,
Explorers, and leaders from all
parts of the nation and some
from other lands will camp to-
gether at the Fourth National
Jamboree July 12-18.
A 1,500-acre tent city is be-
ing prepared at historic Valley
Forge in Pennsylvania. It will
have its own water supply, elec-
tricity. telephone service, post -----------_
offices, and other services for take part in principal events.
PURE
Black Pepper
pound 55c
(red) 10 lbs. 39c
(white) 10 lbs. 49c RIO COFFEE
savings accumulated during the
prosperous war and post-war
years. They used these, and then
With
raw
* Clinton Davidson
One of the most
significant and in-
teresting docu-
ments sent to Con-
gress by the Presi-
dent this year la
the U.S. Department of Agricul-
ture Budget for the fiscal year
starting next July.
It tells in dollars and cents the
tremendous expansion of Federal
| financial obligations made in an
| effort to reverse ,the long down-
1 ward trend in farm prices and in- ।
come. It involves more than 1,000 1
FRESH GARDEN SEED
bulk and package
among farm leaders, point out that
this is more than double the
clothing department with 10 sew-
ing machines and 48 individual
tote trays, three parallel mirrors
College Station, $116,000.
Removal of three positions of
old switchboards at Giddings and
installation of four- new switch
board positions, $28,160.
Installation of trunk circuits at
Bryan and College Station, $20,000.
Replacement of poles and cross i
arms at La Grange and Schulen-
burg, $9,870.
For extensions for new business,
routine replacements, station insta-
' llations. and other projects which
' may arise during the 1957 opera-
THIS WEEK
—In Washington
advertisement appearing in the
March 11 issue of Time Magazine.
The full-page, two-color ad is il-
lustrated with a road map of this
area and invites new and ex-
panding industries to investigate
the advantages of locating in this
territory. r -
The United Gas advertisement
is one of a series designed to
attract industry to the flourishing
"Gulf South," the area served by
United Gas in South Texas, East
Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, the
Alabama Gulf Coast and North-
(Editors note: Two of the first
place winning essays in the “Dem-
ocracy in Action” contest held at
Giddings Public School in connec-
tion with Public Schools Week are
published below).
Gwendolyn Zoch, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Elton Zoch of Gidd-
ings, was first place winner in the
third and fourth grade division.
Margaret Ann Stewart, daugh-
ter of Dr. and Mrs. John F.
Stewart of Giddings, was first
place winner in the fifth and six-
th grade division.
By MARGARET ANN STEWART %
We Americans do not know how • I
well off we are.
We can vote for the. man we
think would be the best.
We can worship as Catholics,
lions, the company is now 74
per cent dial operated, while only
of Bry
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Mr. ar
Another reason why farmers
have held on is that they have
been able to find either part-time
.. or full off-the-farm employment
about 22 per cent of the 46,494 to supplement their farm income
Half of all farmers earn 25% or
more of their total income through
. off-farm employment. The third,
of course, has been government
price supports and other direct
aids.
director. The new homemaking
with the ever-increasing demand
for telephone service.
mand for telephone service.
Representing the increased use
of telephones, Mr. Strickland point-
ed out that just 10 years ago, in
1946, the total number of local
calls placed over the company's
facilities was 108,260,900, as corn
pared to 161,432,323 local calls
in 1956. Toll call service has also,
reflected this great increase, as
indicated in comparing the 4,304,482
offered toll calls in 1946 to the
9,422.164 offered toll calls in 1956.
"Our company's policy has al-
| ways been to furnish good service,”
Strickland said. "During the pre-
tional year, $349,690, _
"W e believe this is evidence of
our efforts to. maintain the policy |
of furnishing the best possible tele-
phone service at reasonable cost-
a cost consistent with financial,
safety and fair treatment of em-
ployees,’’ Mr. Strickland conclud-
ed.-----
KRIEGEL’S STORE
Friday & Saturday
and her
DEMOCRACY IN ACTION
tinuously to obtain- and keep the the Lexington public school are plete cooking facilities in each.
Connected to the foods, lab is a
Protestants, and Jew’s.
We can write -of any thing we
would like’ to write.
We can talk of anything without
fear.
We do not have to fear the law
if we obey it.
We can work as we like.
We do not have to want. c
When we wrote the “Bill of Ri-
ghts" we began to feel free. The
“Bill of Rights” is the rights of
the people. One is that no man
can enter another man’s house
to search it without a warrant.
Another is a man can not be sent |
to prison unless he is found guilty.
All of these are the rights of the INTERIOR of one of the six ton school include
people found in the Ten Amend- kitchens of the foods lab in the agriculture building with a 30-by
People in other countries new homemaking building at Lex-
ington public school is pictured a-
with portable screens, ironing bo-
ard storage closet with asbestos over-all total, some $1,650,000,000
, . .s par-marked for direct payments,
for storing hot irons. Each lab These include $1,300,000,000 for soil
is equipped with bookcases and bank payments, $237,000,000 for the
sufficient storage space for equip- Agricultural Conservation Pro-
gram, $72,000,000 in sugar program .
payments and #35,000,000 wool in-
“centive payments.
DEMOCRACY IN ACTION
By GWENDOLYN , ZOCH t
The word , democracy comes
from two Greek words meaning
“people” and "to rule”. Thus a
democracy means "rule.” Thus a
democracy means "rule of the
people." It is applied to any gover-
7 nment in which the people retain
When farm income goes down,
farm buying declines. When farm-
ers can't buy, local merchants |
suffer and they, in turn, buy less
from wholesalers, and factory
orders decUne. Fewer workers are
needed, and as they're laid off they EMPHASIS ON RELIGION Min-
buy less and, thus, a depression 5 RELIGION Nin-
cycle is begun. : isters from churches of many de-
Why then, many ask, hasn’t the nominations atake turns” in brine
one-third reduction in net farm nominations take turns in bring-
income in the past five years ing religious services to patients
halted the growing national pros- Ie ,
perity? There are three reasons at trie Gonzales Warm Springs
why that hasn't happened, so far? Foundation, a non-sectarian reha-
First, farmers had considerable __________
CABBAGE
GREEN HEADS
pound 5c
Lettuce. 10c head
Tomatoes 20c pk.
Celery 15c stalk-
- POTATOES
Hake Sale March 23
Benefits Boy Scouts
Bake sale will be held at the
City Meat Market in Giddings
Saturday, March 23 for the ben-
efit of Boy Scout Troop 144.
Usual items of home-baked pas-
tries, breads, and cakes will be
on sale beginning at 10 a. m.
Scoutmaster, Otto Fick said.
supreme power and exercise that
power directly, or indirectly throu- NEW BUILDINGS AT LEXING- brary, repair facilities, two rest separate "programs." .
gh their elected representatives. TON—Exterior view of the new rooms, and an office for the band res en sen lower on- 1
Throughout the history of civil- brick band hall (top) and new
the largest gathering of boys in
the Western Hemisphere.
Jamboree campers, all of them
at least twelve years old, hold-
ing Second Class rank or higher, $26,693,965 over the past ten years
will share daily camp chores, i in converting common battery and
cook their own meals, take partl
in displays, campfires, demon- magneto exchanges to dial opera-
strations, intercamp visits, and tion, installing additional central
excursions to historic shrines in office equipment, outside construc-
andusE me as will tion, and other improvements.
+ E----*-----------— | Results of this improvement pro-
tonal JAMBOREE
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