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THE PALMER RUSTLEF. Thursday, January 5, 1966
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LBJ’S VERDICT on his portrait, according to artist Peter
Hurd: “The ugliest thing I’ve ever seen.” Hurd, of New- Mexico
and reportedly one of the Presidents favorite artist, was
commissioned by the White House Historical Assn, to do the
painting. But the President rejected it as too large and other-
wise “unacceptable” as an official White House portrait.
Pros and tons
Parking Meters
Studied, Texas
By JACK DONOVAN
The automobile has done much
to change the face of American
cities. Now some are striving to
get part of that original face
back.
The face is that of the down-
town shopper, who, when auto-
mobiles become more numerous
and parking places become few-
er turned toward the mushroom-
ing suburban shopping centers
with their acres of free parking
as the place to shop.
When downtown parking first
became a problem about 30 years
ago, some officials saw in it a
way to solve another dilemma—
the need for added city revenue.
They found the answer to both
situations in the parking meter.
Now in some cities there is a new
problem: the meter.
A few Texas cities, at the in-
sistence of downtown merchants
or civic groups who contend that
parking meters have turned
their customers to the shopping
centers, have done away with the
meters on an experimental bas-
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MARINES OPEN MEKONG RIVER ASSAULT-U.S. Marines in personnel carriers roll ashore
in the Phu Tan district of Kien Hoa Province to begin the long-awaited offensive assault
gainst Communist forces in the Mekong River Delta.
T
to Draft Legislation for
Consideration of Farmer-Rancher
WASHINGTON—The Agricul- beef,” Teague said. “It doesn’t
ture Department admitted mak take a very smart person to see
ing an error in estimates of that the producer isn’t the cause
beef imports, Congressman Olin of higher food prices. The beef
is. At least one, Lubbock, has re-
moved them permanently.
Other Texas communities are
watching the outcome before
acting.
"If we have done anything in
the downtown area that has help-
ed strangle it, it has been to in-
stall parking meters,” said Char-
les Maedgen, Lubbock banker.
In March 1965 the Lubbock
City Council agreed to suspend
E. Teague said today.
The Congressman, who had
earlier challenged the Depart-
ment’s estimates on which im-
port restrictions can be based,
said the admission of error came
in a reply to his request for a
review of the figures. Teague
producer, for instance, isn’t get-
ting parity for his products, and
hasn’t in many years. He just
isn’t getting a fair return on his
investment and his labor.”
As the year 1966 closed, the
beef parity index stood at 83.
Official releases from the De-
partment of Agriculture report-
ed a 3% decline in farm prices
in November and a continued de-
had challenged the Department’s
figures as “suspect” and alleg-
ed the Department was giving
first consideration to foreign cline in December. Beef prices
beef producers at the expense reported by the Department were
of domestic growers.
as follows:
Teague said he received a re-
ply from Winn F. Finner, the
Action Director of Agricultural
Economics.
“The letter begins by noting
that there was an error in the
earlier estimates,” Teague said.
"I'm pleased that the experts
over there have found the er-
Farmer’s Price, December 15,
1966—Parity December 15, 1966
ror, but I am not satisfied yet
that they’re interested in pro-
viding the consideration for
Cattle, per cwt. $21.00 $27.40
Calves, per cwt. 25.30 31.30
As 1966 closed, beef imports
were approaching the 900 mil-
lion pound mark. This is the
equivalent of more than 2 mil-
lion head of cattle.
Such conditions threaten the
industry, and pose a real threat
to the consumers, Teague point-
American producers which was ed out. He said a disrupted do-
intended by Congress.”
Teague said that the law pass-
ed by the 89th Congress permits
the Secretary to impose import
restrictions when its estimates
of foreign beef are at a certain
level. He said the restriction
level is based on a rather compli-
cated formula which allots a
percentage of the market to
foreign beef.
“I intend to review the law.
Membership in
TSTA Increases
Past 116,000
AUSTIN—Membership in Tex-
as State Teachers Association for
1967 has boomed past a mighty
116,000, TSTA Executive Secre-
tary Charles H. Tennyson an-
nounced today.
Last year’s TSTA rolls num-
bered 102,500. Tennyson said
final totals this year might reach
117,000 before the counting is
over.
Texans in Sporti
By HAROLD V. RATLIFF
Texas never showed its in-
terest and attention on one team
as much as the Dallas Cowboys.
Here is a team that’s consider-
ed the personal property of vir-
tually every fan from Panhandle
to Gulf, from, piney woods to
El Paso.
city council agreed To - Tennyson said the big mem-
parking meters for 90 days. It bership jump shows Texas edu-
later extended the ban to June cators ai.e united in their desire
1966 and now has removed all to build the state's educational
meters and sawed off the posts, offerings into “the very best.”
At the outset of the removal, 6
Maedgen estimated a 15 per cent
increase in business downtown.
He said the city lost $60,000 a
year in revenue from the meters.
Lubbock installed a two-hour
parking limit and hired meter
maids to mark tires and to tic-
ket violators.
One criticism of the new met-
erless parking is that persons
employed downtown monopolize
much of the public parking
mestic beef industry would mean
“real problems at the meat
counter for the housewife.”
He said that producers are be-
ing squeezed by rising produc-
tion costs, and that higher beef
nt the counter is nutting the
pressure on at that end. The
higher beef prices, the Congress-
man noted, are based mostly on
higher middleman costs.
I am considering legislation
which will base import restric-
tions on a different system, pos-
sibly pegged on parity in some
manner.”
Teague said that the Agricul-
ture Department plans to make
estimates soon of imports and
domestic production in 1967.
“I hope they are a little more
realistic this time,” Teague said.
“I hone they give a little more
consideration to the U.S. ranch-
er and farmer who is getting con-
siderably less than parity for his
product.”
Teague said he plans a "realis-
tic review of the law imposing
import restrictions which, as it
turns out, aren’t restrictions at
all."
We were intimindated by a
veto threat by the Department
“Certainly, the beef produc-
er hasn’t shared in America’s
unprecedented prosperity,” he ir
said. “At today’s cattle prices,
of Agriculture,” Teague com-
plained. “Instead of restrictions
as Congress intended, the import
restriction bill has in effect pro-
vided a guaranteed U.S. market
Goose Tatum
Team at SMU
Sat., Jan. 21
Tennyson said: “This new
membership record shows Texas
teachers want a strong profes-
sional organization. The states
with strong and active profes-
sional associations are the states
which make progress in their
schools and colleges.
space. However, under the park-
ing meter system, some down-
town employes fed the meter all
day.
Port Arthur suspended use of
parking meters two years ago
but the sidewalk posts remain
standing. The City Council is still
studying the issue.
Port Arthur merchants plan
to spend $40,000 to acquire and
clear land for off-street parking.
Abilene embarked Nov. 1 on
a 90-day trial period of no down-
town parking meters. Several
merchants estimated their vol-
ume of business increased notice-
ably in November over the same
month in 1965.
Of Abilene’s 700 meters, only
43 remain. Abilene officials esti-
mate the loss in revenue from
the meters at $4,000 a month.
there is no way a producer can
get any reasonable return on his
investment and his labor. Add
to the problems the growing
threat of foreign beef, and it
becomes obvious that something
must be done.” Teague said his
staff is currently reviewing beef
production costs, the markets,
and effect of imports. He said
he plans to consult officials of
producer groups and draft legis-
lation that "will give the U.S.
farmer and rancher first con-
sideration.”
THREE BURN TO
DEATH IN WACO
WAICO. (AP).—Flames swept
. a 2-story frame house on/ it h e
east side of Waco today, burning
to death Lee Hampton, 65. and
for foreign beef."
Teague said that the market
conditions, caused in part by the
foreign imports, is threatening
a basic industry which in the
long run would be disruptive to
the economy.
“The imports are sold to the
American public on the basis of
price structure, and cheaper
two of his grandchildren -
The childern were Lula Mae
Moore, 5, and onle-yeaer-old Lulu
Vinessa.
Waco authorities said Hamp-
eon managed to save five other
children and lost his life trying
to save the two who died.
CUSTOM MADE
RUBBER STAMPS
UPCO PRINT SHOP
Receipts and
Disbursements
In Precinct 2
Precinct 2 receipts for Dec,
1966 were, $54,003.55:
Ad Valorem Taxes, $52,771.88
Interest on Investments, $450
S. P. Watkins, junk, $15
Bob Crittenden (Kirven Farm)
culvert, $10.69
Frank Tripp, culvert, $21.38
F-M Pct. 1, asphalt, $24.75
Earl Muirhead, culvert, $13.71
J. L. Sain, lumber, $403.44
Willie Skrivanek, culvert,
$258.38.
J. R. Winningham, scrap
You should read some of the
fan mail coming to the Cowboys
as a club.
There’s one that states simply
“I love you.”
Another says “to me I think
the Cowboys are the best pro
team in the world.”
“I like your team best be-
cause I always play Cowboys and
Indians,” reads a third.
One was a little confused as
to teams because it also asked
for a picture of George Blanda.
Blanda plays for Houston’s pro
club in the American Football
League. But the Oilers are pret-
ty popular themselves.
Newspapers of Texas carry
virtually every scrap of informa-
tion concerning the Cowboys.
It’s a far cry from 1960 when
Roberts Radiator, repairs,
$30.75
Texas Power & Light, repairs,
$5.05
Concrete Pipe Co, culverts,
$451.48.
Henry Oil & Gas, hardware,
$7.00
iron, $34.32.
December disbursements for
Precinct 2 were $11,233.95:
December Salaries and Wages,
$5,476.89
Blue Cross-Blue Shield, hosp.
ins., $64.22
Auto Salvage Co., repairs,
$9.80
Southern Auto Store, repairs,
$227.47
Automotive, Inc., repairs $8.18
Earles Welding, repairs $33.
Story Mobil Station, repairs,
$36.05
Valek’s Garage, repairs, $16.22
Bruce Brown Chev. Co., re-
pairs $5.05
Fallen's Electric, repairs, $2.50
Berry Bros., repairs, $168.91
Welders Supply Co., repairs,
$9
W. D. Dickson, gravel, $275
Frank Martin, gravel, $100
DALLAS. Jan. 10. — Basket-
ball’s most fabulous pensonal- -----, -
ity—Reece "Goose" Tatum and Dallas entered the National Foot
his Harlem Roadkings will clash ball League by paying $600,000
’for the franchise and players.
Folks said that was a lot of
money to give for a club that
had to be built up with the cast-
with the New York Olympians
in an exhibition professional
basketball game in the Moody
Coliseum at SMU Saturday night,
January 21, under the auspices
of Lon S. Varnell, former Cen-
"It is not coincidence that
California, whose schools are
rated at the top, is the state with
the largest professional educa-
tion association,” he said.
“Among the 50 state profes-
sional education associations in
the U. S.," said Tennyson, "TSTA
ranks second.”
Tennyson said that 1942 has
been the only year in TSTA’s
existence when membership rec-
ords were not surpassed.
“Today, even when Texas is
in the midst of the worst teach-
er shortage since 1942,” he de-
clared, “the teachers of this state
are continuing to band togeth-
er in the cause of better educa-
tion.”
tral Texas cage official and now
head basketball coach atth e
University off the South. Game
time is 8 p.m.
offs of the other clubs.
Today the franchise is worth
$8,000,000. The players would
bring about $2,000,000 on the
open market.
Of course, the club lost about
$5,000,000 getting started. But
An entertaining halftime show it still is well ahead. It has been
also has been arranged for the making money for several years
amusement of the large crowd now.
anticipated f or the game as Dallas drew 473,373 attendance
Tatum, is one of the most popu- | for several home games this past
lar sports and entertainment fig-
ures with Dallas area fans.
Mail orders for the game are
being accepted by the Basketball
Ticket Office at SMU. Reserved
chair seats are $2.50, courtside
seats are $2, and general admis-
sion tickets are $1.50 for adults
and $1 for children. Over-the-
counter sale of tickets will be-
gin Monday, Jan. 16, at the
Moody Coliseum ticket office
and at the Downtown Ticket Ag-
ency at 1609 Bryan, Dallas.
season. That’s almost $3,000,000.
Television paid the club another
million or so. It got close to a
million from games plaved on
the road. There is a $30,000
guarantee unless gate receipts
nay more. The visiting club gets
40 nercent of the gate.
Waco reported a smooth start
a six-month test of meterless
parking downtown. A two-hour
limit went into effect Dec. 9.
“So far we’ve had nothing but
good words,” said R. D. Arm-
strong, president of Downtown
Waco, Inc. “Everyone is well
pleased.”
Armstrong said he does not
expect many parking tickets to
be issued to shoppers. Police and
meter maids issued 137 tickets
the first two days, a “little more
than usual,” officials said.
“People can do a lot of shop-
ping in two hours, while the one-
hour parking meter did not allow
quite enough time,” Armstrong
said.
Odessa studied the parking
meter problem late in 1965 but
did nothing beyond eliminating
them on Saturdays for a time.
Meters are still in use there.
NAVY EASES
ENLISTMENT
REGULATION
The U. S. Navy is now accept-
ing applications for enlistment
in the regular Navy from men
who made a score of 21 to 30 on
the Armed Forces Qualification
TEST, E. E. Varner, local recruit-
er said today.
Chief Varner explained that
“persons testing in this scoring
range were not accepted pre-
viously but due to a change in
regulations, such persons can
now be considered.”
At the same time, it was an-
nounced that the Navy is in dire
need of ex-service personnel re-
gardless of their branch of ser-
vice. In many cases these men
can be enlisted in the regular
Navy in the asme pay grade held
at time of discharge or separa-
tion of service, the local re-
Recognized as one of the ten
best players in the history of
basketball „Tatum holds many
national and international scor-
ing records—but Promboter Var- I
nell has promised that Goose
will not let his cage perform-
amice interfere too much with his
entertaining antics. "Goose is
the king of the cage clowns—but
he does not have to wear a
clown’s mask as he does his en-
tertaining with basketball mag-
ic,” Varnell said.
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In Business Area
Big Cave-in at.
Dallas of Block
Drops 15-30 Ft.
DALLAS. (AP).—A massive
cave-in a block or longer drop-
ped part of Elm Street in down-
town Dallas 15 tot 30 feet below
the surface early this morn-
ing.
The cave-in—about the width
of one traffic lane—ran the
length of the street beside one
main place—a gigantic construc-
tion project.
An inspection showed that the
Shaw Equip. Co. repairs
$434.05
Trinity Concrete Co, asphalt,
$396.72
Leon Baird, lumber, $355.29
Sinclair Refining Co, gas and
oil, $602.12
Shook Tire && Rubber, tires,
$338.40.
Johnny Evarts, mileage ex-
pense, $100
Southwestern Bell Tele. Co,
tele, serv., $3.66
Continental
$32.36
Lone Star
$3.99
Motors, repairs,
Gas Co., utilitie.
Humble Oil Co., diesel fuel,
sue dthis column for branding
$118.77
Anthony Estate, gravel, $85.50
Conroe Creosoting Co, lum-
ber, $399.89
Clyde Dent, lumber, $101.60
Sonoma Welders, bridge ma-
terial, $32
Lone Star Laundry, laundry,
$6.60
City of Ennis, utilitie, $5.75
Ross Crumley Hardware, nails
and hardware, $72.11.
Lawson Brothers, st eel,
$678.57
club finally managed to win
enough to get into the playoff
bowl.
The first three years found
the Cowboys competing with the
Dallas Texans for the sports dol-
lar. The first sizable boost in
attendance came in 1963 with
the Texans transferring to Kans-
as City.
This year, with one of the best
clubs in the league, it has be-
come a problem just to buy
tickets for seats close enough
to see who’s playing. Twice the
Cotton Bowl was sold out—twice
a week in advance. There could
have been 150,000 tickets sold
The guarantee never is taken:
crowds averaging more than 50.-
000 at each stop mean the Cow-
boys took home several times the
guarantee from the gate receipts.
Attendance this year at the
Cotton Bowl has averaged more
than 67.000 per game. One dav
in 1960 there was an estimated
10.000 in the stands. It looked
1 like a convention of ants from
the air. Whether there actually
were 10.000 people there isn’t
known since they didn’t even
for the NFL playoff game with
Green Bay had there been
enough seats.
Winning indeed is wonderful.
And the smooth operation of the
Dallas franchise also must be
created with making the club
attractive.
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Reserved seats, Monday thru Thursday after,
noons and Saturday morning, January 28, $2.50
(Rows 1 thru 9) and $2.00 (Rows 10 thru 12); AU
nights and Friday, Saturday and Sunday after-
noons, $3.00 (Rows 1 thru 9) and $2.50 (Rows 10
thru 12). Prices include admission to Stock Show
Grounds. Send check or money order. Specify
exact performances. Address mail orders to
Southwestern Exposition and Fat Stock Show,
P. O. Box 150, Fort Worth, Texas 76101.
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71st LIVESTOCK EXPOSITION
11,000 HEAD FINE LIVESTOCK
McCormick Is
Again Speaker
WASHINGTON. (AP).—John
McCormick was re - elected
House Speaker today. The vote
was 246-to-186—strictly along
party lines.
cruiter noted.
Further information on the
Navy’s prgrams can be obtained
from the Navy Recruiting Sta-
tion located at the Post Office
Building in Waxahachie between
the hours of 8 a.m. and 5 p.m.,
Monday through Friday, and
from 8 a.m. until 12 noon Satur-
day. The phone number is WE7-
4735.
The Waxahachie Navy Recruit-
ing Station’s area includes all of
Ellis and Navarro counties.
been dug for a basement sever-
al stories deep.
A rupturd gas main caught
fire. For a time water gushed in-
to the lengthy break.
street did not slide into the ex-
cavation for the new building
complex—where ground h a s the region,
Experts at the scene were un-
able to pin-point the cause of
the cave-in.
Dallas Power and Light Com-
pany said that, contrary to ear-
lier reports—there was no dis-
ruption in electrical service in
use turnstiles.
When Dallas got into the lea-
gue it didn’t expect to have a
j winning team for several years
but the assumption was that the
visiting teams, with their nam-
ed stars, would bring out good
crowds,
Such was not the case, how-
I ever. The Cowboys had to start
winning on their own to get the
the fans out.
As the club strengthened, the
fans turned out in increasing
numbers, the average going from
21,417 to 24,571 in 1961, back
j down to 21,781 in 1962, up to
26,961 in 1963, to 38,237 in 1964
land to 55,559 in 1965, when the
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