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THE BAY CITY NEWS
Thursday, November 1, 1956
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To THE NEWS:
(On November 6, 1956, there are
nine amendments to the state con-
stitution to be voted for or against
by the people of Texas. I would
call your special attention to
amendment four. This amendment
was passed by the State Legisla
ture almost unanimously. The state
organization of school boards in
session at Austin approved the
amendment unanimously. Our local
board of Education in regular ses-
sion with all present approved the
amendment unanimously.
The 'first teacher retirement law
was passed in 1937. At that time
the law was adequate, but this old
law is not adequate for present
times. Since this 1937 law is now in-
adequate, the Legislature passed
this proposed law known as
Amendment Four which will pro-
vide a new teacher retirement
system throughout Texas for
teachers and auxiliary employees
of public schools. The proposed1
law provides better retirement for
teachers, better survivor's benefits,
and death benefits for the families.
The level of education in a com-
munity or state depends upon the
quality of teachers employed. To-
day there is little choice in the
selection of teachers for there are
not enough teachers to supply the
demand of the public schools of
the state.
There are approximately 100,000
increase in the scholastic popula-
tion this year. This means that, we
will need about 300 new teachers
next year. By 1960 there will prob-
ably be an increase of 125,000
pupils. This means that we will
need about 4,100 new teachers at
that time. The probabilities are the
increase will continue after 1960.
We lose on an average of 7,000
teachers per year to industry and
other 'factors too numerous to men-
tion here. Thus, we will need about
10,500 teachers per year up to 1960.
This is serious. The approval of
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this teacher retirement law will
not solve the teacher shortage and
our school problems, but it will
certainly help us in solving these
problems. There will always be
problems, but we must do what we
can from time to time to solve
these problems. Let's attack the
problem, not the schools. This new
proposed law will attract new
teachers into the profession bo
cause of its many beneficial pro
visions too lengthy for this article.
It will help to hold many of the
teachers which we have now. This
is important to every community,
statewide, for we cannot operate
our school systems without teach-
ers. There are many schools in
Texas that need teachers at this
time.
You pay the cost of an atomic
bomb without saying a word. Is an
atomic bomb more important than
our children? Education is import-
ant. Education must go forward or
our entire community standards
will be lowered. We are told at this
time that the cost to you will be
nothing. There is no proposed new
tax law. The cost of the new pro-
gram for the state is $4,5000,000
annually. It will cost the teachers
the same amount annually. The
state has at this time available for
this purpose $45,000,000. This
means that the funds are now
available for the next 10 years.
During the next 10 years new
funds will be collected under the
existing tax laws. Out of the funds
that you are paying anyway, it
amounts to about 50 cents per per-
son. You will continue to pay this
amount regardless of whether or
not you approve this amendment.
Every vote counts. Jefferson,
Adams, and Hayes were elected
president by one vote. We received
our statehood by one vote. One
vote then is important. If you vote
for the amendment 4, you vote to
help the public schools; if you
vote against amendment 4, you
vote to lower the level of educa-
tion in Texas. Please vote Novem-
ber 6 and study carefully amend-
ment 4.
John H. Cherry
Bay City, Texas
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TEXAS SHORTHORN IS 3-TIME GRAND CHAMP
—Kamar Red Lavender 2d is pictured as she was made
grand champion Shorthorn female at the State Fair
of Texas, Dallas. It Was the third time this smooth red
Shorthorn had won grand champion honors, other being
at the Ozark Empire and Oklahoma State Fairs. Owned
by Schofield Ranch, Austin, the animal is shown by
Vernon Schofield while Allan Atlason, Chicago, secre-
tary of the American Shorthorn Breeders' Association,
presents the award.
NATIONAL SEEKS PERMIT
The National Geophysical Com-
pany, Inc., of Houston is seeking a
permit from the Corps o'f Engi-
neers, U. S. Army, to conduct seis-
mic operations in Matagorda Bay,
Oyster Lake, Tres-Palacios Bay,
Turtle Bay, Carancahua Bay, and
others along the Texas Gulf Coast.
MIDFIELD . . .
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Fetes Mr. Nemec
On 70th Year
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Keep up the godd work, NEWS!
By MISS MOLLY BULLARD
Midfield-Blessing Reporter
A surprise party was given in
honor of Charles Nemec on his
70th birthday last week.
Present were Mr. and Mis. Jer-
ry Bilicek and the Jerome Doratiks
of Taiton, the William Hickls of
El Maton, Mr. and Mrs. Steve
Kana of El Campo, the Mondriks
of Ashby, the Fred Klekars of
East Bernard, and the Adolph
Pesaks, the Ivan Kanas, the Joe
Kanas, and the Charles Nemecs
of Midfield.
The Midfield community extends
its sympathy to the Magee family
in the loss of their father and
husband, G. E. Magee.
Mr. Magee was born here and
lived here all his 63 years. Ser-
vices were held at the Taylor
Brothers Funeral Home Saturday
morning. Burial was in Hawley
Cemetery.
Mrs. Violet Alexander became
the bride of Clarence Talafuse of
Lane City Saturday morning in
Wharton.
The Fred Corneliuses, along with
the L. L. Chiles, attended the
birthday supper of Joyce Johnson
of Markham on her tenth birthday
Saturday.
Frankie Joe Hurta won a third
place ribbon on his hog in the 4-H
hog judging Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Johnny Maher o'f
Eay City spent Sunday afternoon
with the R. E. Coffins.
The Midfield Church will serve
their annual Turkey supper No-
vember 8 starting at 5 o'clock in
the afternoon. Plates are $1 for
adults and 75 cents for children.
Everyone is welcome.
Mrs. Theo Krenek spent last
week with her sister, Mrs. Anton
Bosak, of Houston.
The Robert Bullards had visit-
ing them Sunday their grand-
daughter, Frances, who is enrolled
in nurses training at Jefferson
Davis Hospital in Houston, and
Marshall Morris of Old Ocean.
Also visiting was a daughter
and her husband, Mr. and Mrs. C.
B. Keener, of Bay City.
Miss Charlotte Green spent the
week-end with her sister, Mrs.
Jack Nelson, in Bay City.
We are happy to report that
Mrs. Rudolph Wratislaw returned
home last week from the John
Sealy Hospital in Galveston.
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Civil Defense Topic
Of November 9
McCrosky Meeting
Program topic for the November
9 meeting of the McCrosky Home
Demonstration Club will be civil
dee'fnse with an emphasis on first
aid and home nursing.
Hostesses at the 2 o'clock after-
noon meeting will be Mrs. Gene
Laird, Mrs. O. D. Shaeffer, and
Mrs. R. H. Slater.
THE CEMETERY IS FULL OF
DRIVERS WHO HAD THE RIGHT
OF WAY!
Three Residents
One Year Older,
Snoopy Reports
By MRS. WILLIAM SCIIOTT
Pledger-Ashwood Reporter
Floyd Parish, Nellie Hobbins,
and Mrs. R. L. Taylor all are one
year older, although they don't
look it. Congrats!
Connie Malone and her ma-in-
law, Annie McMicken, who is visit-
ing her at Sealy, were here last
week.
Ethel Horvath has been wres-
tling with a very bad cold.
Clyde Shoemaker, now of Boling
but formerly pastor of the feder
ated Church here, is recovering
very satisfactorily from surgery.
Last Friday afternoon Myrtle
Parish and Margarette Balkum of
Danciger shopped in Bay City.
Eleise Shaw is sporting a beau-
tiful corsage, one of the "mums
for moms" she received when slje
and Herbert visited Devoy, their
son, at Kingsville and took in a
football game.
Norman and Gladys iMcLeod and
their little daughters, Bethel and
Delma, took in the Texas-Rice
game and spent the night in Hous-
ton.
That's all, folks. See you next
week.—Snoopy.
BRAZOS SEEKS PERMIT
The Brazos Oil & Gas Company
is seeking a permit from the Corps
of Engineers, U. S. Army, to con-
duct seismic operations in Mata-
gorda, Tres-Palacios, Lavaca, Kel-
ler, Cox, Chocolate, and Coon Island
Bays at a location central to a
point approximately eight miles
northeast from Port O'Connor,
Calhoun County.
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OF LIFE; KNOW TIIEM AND
OBEY THEM!
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live-wire Texas Gulf Coast weelfcy
newspaper!
Tex Says He s No
But He Be! ieves Ike ls^
The other night a bunch of us
were sitting around in the drug
store after the football game,
drinking coffee and talking. You
know how it is after a game in a
small town, especially after the
home team loaes. Nearly every
man in the crowd had a theory as
to why we didn't win the Kamc-
Most of them, of course, blamed
the coach. J couldn't help remem-
bering that before we consolidated
the county schools we didn't even
have enough boys to make up a
football team. And these same
football experts who were saying
what Rockne or Bud Wilkinson
would have dorie, up until a few
years ago they didn't know a foot-
ball from a watermelon.
But that's the way it is in a
small town (and in big ones, too,
I understand)^ 1 guess there's no,
real harm done, although some-
times it's pretty rough on the
coach.
I guess we have a right, in this
free country, to be self-appointed
experts in any line we want to
pick out. It seems to me that most
people choose either football or
politics.
Take this presidential election
coming up next Tuesday: During
the last few weeks I have heard
so man^ stories and theories frotn
so many different political experts
that I nearly get confused some-
times. I have to stop and think
that the fellow who is talking
probably doesn't know any more
about it than I do, and that helps
me keep straightened out.
In fact, I guess I have had my
mind made up all along. To make
no bones about it, I like Ike.
He's a man you can always look
up to and respect—the kind of
man you'd be proud to point out
to any person, from any country
on the face of the globe, and say!
"That's our President;!"
About Adlai, now, I'm not so
sure. Of course, if he was elected,
he would be my President, too,
and I would hope he'd do a lot
better than most people around
here seem to think he wouA.
This is something I don't think
we need to worry about, because
from all I can hear and read, Ike
is going to win it again.
It seems to me that if Adl^
ever had a chance around here, he
threw it sway when he came out
with that H-bomb business. Now,
the folks in our town don't know
much about H-bombs, except that
they don't want any personal
dealings with them. Our scientific
knowledge of H-bombs is about
on a par with our football knowl-
edge, I reckon. But we do know
one thing: We don't want some
misguided, inexperienced fellow
fooling around with our national
defense. When it comes to trust-
ing what Bulganin says or what
Eisenhower Rays, I'll take Ike. So
will the rest of the country, if I
don't miss my guess.
Just before we broke up the
other night Doc Brown came into
the drug store, and somebody
asked him: "Hey, Doc, how's Ike
doin'?" (Doc's a big' Eisenhower
man.) Doc said: "Well, it's" a
busy campaign for the medical
profession. Last week Ike went
and got his heart examined; and
I understand that this week AfHai
is going to get his head exam-
ined."
^JCq^ra truly,
(Pol. adv. paid to t by. lex as Democrat* for Eisenhower,
, WlMon Hart, Di jr.)
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LETS KEEP
A WINNING TEAM
ON THE
\
You know the old saying—"Stick with a winner'."
In IKE and DICK we've got a team of winners. No
question about it!
They have kept the peace in a tense and troubled world.
They have made America stronger than ever before.in
peacetime.
They have routed Communism from the government,
while protecting the rights of every citizen.
Their policies have brought you and me the greatest
prosperity this country has ever known.
They have done more to advance racial equality than
all the talking of nearly a hundred years!
They have restored morality and dignity to the office
of President of the United States.
They have added to the office of Vice-President the im-
portance and dignity it has long deserved.
Together they are a team of winners... for you and me!
Let's keep them on the job!
GO VOTE "IKE"
(POLITICAL ADV. PAID FOR BY MATAGORDA COUNTY DEMOCRATS FOR EISENHOWER.)
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Stewart, Bob. The Bay City News (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 20, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 1, 1956, newspaper, November 1, 1956; Bay City, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth428452/m1/6/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Palacios Library.