The Cameron Herald and Centinel (Cameron, Tex.), Vol. 88, No. 14, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 14, 1947 Page: 4 of 18
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TEXAS BRIEF NEWS—from Over the State
BATTLESHIP TO BE STATE
SHRINE
Texas’ school children, civic clubs
and veterans organizations will be ask-
ed to cooperate in raising the $50,000
needed annually to maintain the USS
“Texas ’ as a State shrine, the Battle-
ship Texas Commission has announced.
The battleship is to be anchored near
San Jacinto battleground.
CELEBRATE €5TH WEDDING
ANNIVERSARY
Mr and Mrs. A L. McDaniel old-
time residents of Comanche county,
celebrated their sixty-fifth wedding
anniversary recently in their home
eight Ernies ~fiOrtirj/est of Sidney Mr.
McDaniel is 85 years old, and h:s wife
is 83 They are the parents of eleven
children, of whom one is dead.
Gi SCHOOL APPROVAL DELAYED
Governor Jester has announced that
no more schools will be approved un-
der the GI training program until
October 1, because the State is not pre-
pared to make the necessary surveys
until then.
RAT CONTROL PROGRAM URGED
A continuous rat control program in
every urban and rural area In Texas
is being urged by State Health Officer
Cox as “necessary* to public health.''
TEACHERS WANTED FUR
OVERSEAS
The University of Texas is one of 12
educational institutions in the United
States asked to cooperate with the Fed-
eral government in providing teachers
overseas, Eh*. Hob Gray chairman of
the Teacher Placement Committee,
said Teachers are wanted for chil-
dren of American couples in Germany,
Dr Gray explained, and s,x will be
chosen from each institution.
MAN DIES ON VISIT TO WEDDING
SITE
Ar. 84-year-old man died in Marshall,
Harrison county, while he and his wife
were visiting the place where they
married, 63 years ago He died of a
stroke suffered a week previously. The
Bernsteins, who live in Memphis came
to Marshall for a visit, their first in five
years They were married at the home
of Mrs. Bernstein's parents. Mr. and
Mrs. Joseph Grossman August 17,1884.
WHITNEY DAM DEDICATED
From the highlands of New Mexico
to the waters of the Gulf, residents of
the Brazoe river basin flocked to Whit-
ney, Hill county, early in July to par*
tidpate In the dedication and see Gov.
Beauford Jester break ground for
Whitney Dam. key project in the vast
Brazos river conservation plan.
TEXAS CITY GETS AID FROM
COSTA RICO
The Costa Rico town ,of Cartago,
grateful for aid received from the
American Red Cross following an
earthquake in 1910, has contributed
$625 to help victims of the Texas City
explosion The contribution, announc-
ed by Walter J Donnelly, United States
ambassador to Costa Rico, represented
individual gifts and proceeds of social
functions.
PARKS BOARD BUDGET CUT
The State Parks Board has announc-
ed that the sharply trimmed budget
for the year beginning September 1
will be sufficient only for salaries and
some maintenance work in the State's
36 parks A budget of $218,600 was
cut by the Legislature to $130,595 for
the first year of the biennium No
improvement of existing facilities or
construction of new buildings will be
possible with the limited amount, of-
ficials stated
FIRST VACATION IN 57 YEARS
For the first time since they entered
business. 57 years ago. Herb and
George Park, hardware merchants in
Alvardo. Johnson county, decided to
have a vacation together To eliminate
business worries, they sent out a notice
to ail their customers: "Our store will
be closed during the week of July 6.
For 57 long years, since 1890, we have
served you faithfully, and we have nev-
er had a vacation together. But this
time we are long gone Sorry No
phone orders, no mail orders, and no
curb service ”
OLD BUFFALO HUNTER DIES
R C. Parrack. age 94, one of the last
old West buffalo hunters, died recent-
ly in Lubbock Parrack killed entire
herds of buffalo without leaving his
stand, fought Indians, and once saved a
child from a stampeding herd of long-
horns in Abilene, Kans., by dismount-
ing from his horse and fighting the
herd leader with only his quirt. He
had lived in Lubbock 48 years
EXTENSIVE INDUSTRIAL
DEVELOPMENT
Industrial development in Texas in
the period 1940-46. inclusive, was
greater than in all previous history of
the State, according to the 1947-48 edi-
tion of the Texas Almanac, just pub-
lished by the Dallas Morning News.
The number of industrial employes
during that period increased 100 per
cent even after the closing of many of
the large war plants, the Almanac said.
STATE WATER LAW REVISION
NEEDED
The Texas Water Conservation Asso-
ciation is making an intensive study of
the need for revision of the State's wa-
ter Jaws. New* laws are needed, ac-
cording to association officials, to in-
sure the proper development, protec-
tion. conservation and utilization of
Texas water resources Recommenda-
tions made by an 11 -man committee
named by the organization will be
available to the next Legislature.
BIG INVEST-
MENT IN TEXAS
ROADS
Texas has invest-
ed nearly a billion
dollars in its State
road network in
the 30 years since
e s t a blishment of
the State Highway
Department. says
Chairman John S.
Redditt of the State
Highway Commis-
sion. Paved mile-
age in the State's
road system has
more than quad-
rupled since it was
first measured ac-
curately in 1929.
Radditt said in re-
viewing more than
a quarter of a cen-
tury's w'ork by the
department.
MANY ALIENS SUBJECT TO
DEPORTATION
North Texas is crowded with aliens
subject to deportation, but the United
States Bureau of Immigration and
Naturalization does not have the per-
sonnel to cope with the situation, ac-
cording to W. C. Young, inspector in
charge of the 65-county area. Young
said he frequently received letters,
both signed and annoymous, giving
locations of aliens subject to deporta-
tion.
PAINTER SURVIVES FIVE-STORY
FALL
Kelly Hall, a Dallas painter, tumbled
halfway down the side of a five-story
warehouse when his scaffold collapsed
crashed through the roof of a loading
dock and into a small storeroom, then
got up. opened the door and walked
out. Hospital attendants later said the
fall cracked five or six ribs, but added
that his condition was not serious.
TRUMAN INVIT-
ED TO BIG BEND
P r e s i dent Tru-
man has been in-
vited to dedication
of Big Bend Na-
tional Park, which
may be held next
year. Secretary of
the Interior Julius
Krug and National
Park Director New-
ton Drury have al-
ready planned to
attend the dedica-
tion. The park can-
not be opened, how*-
ever. until the
State builds a road
from Alpine to the
park entrance.
CLAYTONS GIVE MILLION FOB
RESEARCH
A gift of 20,000 zhare* of common
itock In the Anderson-Clayton Com-
p«ny aggregating a million dollar*,
has been donated to medical research
by Undersecretary of State and Mra.
WilL F. Clayton of Houston- It is urv-
derstood the money will be used in in-
fantile paralysis research. m
WEST TEXAS TO GET EARTH-
QUAKE STATION
A seisrnographic station capable of
recording earthquakes and seismic dis-
turbances all over the world is to be
established at Texas Technological Col-
lege. Dr. Leroy T. Patton, head of the
geology department, has announced.
The new* station will be the only one in
operation betwen St. Louis. Mo., and
Tuscon. Arizona. The college w*ill co-
operate with the United States Coastal
and Geodetic Survey and will send re-
ports of all seismic disturbances to
them.
ROSE FESTIVAL TO CROWN-
QUEEN
A “court of beauty.” with more than
fifty girls from Texas and ten other
States, representing famous beautiful
w’omen from history and fiction will be
the theme of the 1947 Texas Rose Fes-
tival coronation of the Queen of Roses (
to be held in Tyler October 2 and 3.’
The coronation, tenth to be held since
the inauguration of the annual festival,
will be staged on two occasions this ‘
year at the Tyler municipal auditor-
ium The ceremony will be presented
twice, because the auditorium has in-
sufficient seating capacity for a one-
night performance as was the custom
in the past.
Kip
BIG TOURIST SEASON SEEN
Texas will play host this summer to
the largest number of visitors since the
centennial year of 1936. according to
Paul W. Curtis executive secretary* of
the Southwest Motor Club Curtis at-
tributes the new interest in Texas as a
vacation spot to better highways, more
national publicity and the glowing
stories servicemen stationed here dur-
ing the war carried back to their home
States. The motor club is an affiliate
of the American Automobile Associa-
tion.
NEW LAW ON AUTO MOTOR
NUMBERS
A new* law to end the legal confusion
incident to exchanging motors in cars
and trucks has gone into effect, follow-
ing its passage by the Fiftieth Legisla-
ture. Since a vehicle is legally identi-
fied and its ownership established by
its motor number, it is important that
the title papers be corrected when the
owner installs a new* or exchange mo-
tor. Otherwise he might find himself
not the legal owner of the car. All
county tax assessor-collectors and the
State Highway Department at Austin
have forms and instructions for making
application for proper numbers to be
die-stamped on the new motors which
bear no number. The law* now* bans
the practice of stamping the old num-
ber on the new motor
TEXAS CITY
FIREMENS KIN
SHARE $91,347
PAYMENT
Checks amount-
ing to $91.347 25
are in the hands of
27 widow*s and dependents of Texas
City volunteer firemen killed in the
April 16 disaster. Fire Chief Fred
Dow*dy said that each immediate sur-
vivor received a check from the Con-
tinental Insurance Company for $3,000
and $383.25 from the city fire depart-
ment relief fund for a total of $3,-
333 25.
TEXAN NAMED TOP AID FOR
YOUNG DEMOCRATS
Roy Baker, of Sherman, Grayson
county, president of the Young Demo-
crats of Texas, has been named asso-
ciate national director bv the executive
committee of this organization. Baker
will make visits to Young Democrat
clubs throughout the Southwest.
COMBINES SPEED NEW TEXAS FLAX HARVEST
Flax has become an important new cash crop in Texas. From a mere 1.000
acres in 1937, the size of the Texas crop has grown to an estimated 150.000
acres the past year. Karnes county, in South Texas, had a third of this acre-
age. or 50,000 acres. This acreage, it is claimed, places Karnes county first
in the U. S. A., as a flax-producing country. International Harvester self-
propelled combine machine, owned by J. J. Pogue. Jr., of Kenedy, is shown
above at work on his 2,850-acre farm. 1.650 acres of which were in flax. lie
said he was the first man to grow flax commercially in Karnes county.
TEXAS REVENUE
RISES 2 PER
CENT
A tw*o per cent
increase in internal
revenue collections
in Texas during the
1946-47 Federal fis-
cal y*ear ending
June 30 has been
reported by the
University of Tex-
AIR INDUSTRY ASKED TO AID L\
IMPROVEMENTS
The Texas Aeronautics Commission
has asked the flying industry to help it
in three major projects: air markings,
airport registrations, and standardiza-
tion of GI flight training. Proper mark-
ing of airports to aid fliers was char-
acterized by Commissioner Director A.
W. Meadows as “wholly incomplete” in
Texas. Chairman A1 Buchanan of San
Antonio told the commission that the
air industry's aid in promoting cityi
markings and registration of airports
is of the first considerations.
WAIN WRIGHT STATE PARK
AUTHORIZED
Creation of a State park named for
Gen. Jonathan M. Wainwright has
been authorized by the State Parks
Board The park will be located at
Lake Bridgeport, approximately five
miles from Bridgeport. Wise county,
and will cover about 50 acres of wood-
land. The reason given for naming
the park in honor of General Wain-
w'right was that many young men from
Wise county had served in Texas' fam-
ed lost artillery battalion and were im-
prisoned with the general in Japanese
prison camps.
as Bureau of Busi-
ness Research. Total collections for
the year were $1,085,574,212. Income
tax collections climbed two per cent
during the year, employment taxes 18
per cent and withholding taxes jump-
ed two per cent. Miscellaneous taxes
declined four per cent. June collections
slipped downward four per cent from
June. 1946. to 897.716,438. In April and
May collections had run 20 per cent
ahead of collection figures for the same
months last year.
OLDEST PRACTICING DENTIST
IN U. S. -
A birthday cake with 80 candles and
a telegram from the Texas State Dental
Association congratulating him on be-
ing the oldest practicing dentist in the
United States greeted Dr John E.
Story, of Beaumont, Jefferson county,
as he celebrated his birthday last
month. Doctor Story. w*ho once filled
a tooth of Joe Jefferson, the famous
actor, and pulled a molar of the glam-
orous Lillian Russell, is still going
strong. He has completed 25 sets of
teeth in his own laboratory since the
first of the year, doing all the work
himself. Besides having put 55 years
of dental practice behind him, Doctor
Story has studied surgery, has been a
cowboy and is internationally famous
as a fly-fisherman.
STATE ACQUIRES OLD FRENCH
EMBASSY
Title to the “French embassy” in
Texas has passed to the State, w'hich
in turn is transfering the property to
the care of the Daughters of the Re-
public of Texas for restoration. The
two-and-one-half-story colonial resi-
dence. built of native Texas pine and
furnished with window panes import-
ed from France, was the Austin home
of Alfonse de Saligny, representative
from the French government to the
Republic of Texas.
DRIVING TO BE SAFER IN TEXAS
Many of the practices heretofore rec-
ommended to Texas drivers in the driv-
er’s handbook will be law after Sep-
tember 5. The uniform traffic code,
passed by the 50th Legislature, will
become effective then and is expected
to cut the mounting toll of traffic
deaths and injuries. For instance, a
driver now can make a left turn from
the right traffic lane, on a four-lane
highway, and he’ll be within the law*.
Also, he can make a right turn from
an inside lane. He'll not get a ticket
for either practice, before September
5, but both practices are unsafe. The
new* code will require a right turn from
the right lane, nearest the curb, and a
left turn will be made only from the in-
side lane nearest the center stripe. An-
other big improvement in the law will
give the State Highway Department
the right to. designate “no passing”
zones and will deal with legal driving
operations on multiple lane roads and
designate right of way.
$12,000,000 FOR VET TRAINING
New contracts became effective last
month, calling for about S12.000.000
of Federal funds to finance vocational
and rehabilitation training for veterans
in Texas public schools. W. E. Lowry,
executive director of vocational educa-
tion in Texas, said there were 122.000
GI's registered in the State's universi-
ties. colleges, public and private
schools. He said there w*ere 750,000
Texas returned GI's from World War II
and that 22 per cent were entered in
public and private schools. The $12.-
000.000 aid fund is to be expended un-
der Lowry's direction, hut with the ap-
proval of the State Board of Education.
The new* contracts will expire June 30.
1948. Books, tools and equipment will
be furnished veterans under these con-
tracts for vocational training and for
vocational rehabilitation.
FOXES MENACE TO 10 COUNTIES
Dr. George W. Cox. State health offi-
cer. has issued a proclamation declar-
ing sufficient foxes are infected with
rabies to be a menace to the health of
citizens in 10 Texas counties. Under
a new law* passed by the 50th Legisla-
ture. the State Department is offering
a S2 bounty for each fox destroyed in
nine east and southeast counties and
one Central Texas county.
COLLEGE BUILDING
AMENDMENT
On August 23, the voters of Texas
will have an opportunity to vote on the
College Building Amendment to the
Constitution, an amendment that will
provide, for the 16 State-supported in-
stitutions. a $60,000,000 30-year build-
ing program. The amendment was pro-
posed by college officials and alumni
as the best plan to ease overcrowding
in the colleges and to provide for their
future orderly development. The Tex-
as Legislature has submitted the
amendment to the people for disposi-
tion.
EROSION COMPARED TO ATOMIC
BOMB
Soil erosion is just as destructive to
civilization as the atomic bomb, accord-
ing to Paul H. Walser. State conserva-
tionist for the U. S. Department of Ag-
riculture in Temple. Bell county. Wal-
ser stated that the destructive force of
soil erosion is more draw*n out than the
destructive force of an atomic bomb.
“Lots of us still take the land for grant-
ed—as _ God's beauty continuously
forthcoming." he said, “but erosion is a
destroyer of mankind and all he has.”
Erosion, he explained, is caused either
by w*ind or w'ater. In Texas, it has
gone so far that topsoil originally nine
inches in depth has been reduced to
less than six inches. More than three-
fourths of the topsoil has been lost on
46.000.000 acres in Texas, and 11.000.-
000 acres are totally destroyed for* fur-
ther profitable use.
NEW POTENTIAL INDUSTRY FROM
TEXAS PLANTS
Dr John R Clopton. supervisor of
agricultural research for the Texas
State Research Foundation, said re-
cently several hundred native Texas
plants which have never been employ-
ed commercially w'ould be suitable for
use in producing perfumes, cosmetics
or medicine. The research foundation
is presently engaged on a survev of na-
tive Texas plants, which Dr. Clopton
estimates number from 6.000 to 10.000.
When sufficient information has been
accumulated on certain oil-bearing
plants under investigation in the
foundation’s laboratories, the field
should be ripe for establishment of a
top flight drug and cosmetic factory in
the State, he said. The foundation’s
staff of scientists is experimenting w*itb
plantings of more than 1.000 varieties,
of soybeans, to determine those best
suited for cultivation by Texas farm-
ers.
THE FLOP FAMILY
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White, Jefferson B. The Cameron Herald and Centinel (Cameron, Tex.), Vol. 88, No. 14, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 14, 1947, newspaper, August 14, 1947; Cameron, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth577910/m1/4/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Lucy Hill Patterson Memorial Library.