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We are especially looking forward to serving our many
Texaco products customers for another year.. We know
our association with these fine people will be just as
enjoyable during the coming New Year as in 1958.
THE TEXAS COMPANY
MR. and MRS. LOU S URBANOVSKY
West, Texas
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FRIDAY, JANUARY 2, 1959
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ABBOTT NEWS
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Marek
and Stanley and Mr. and Mrs.
Ed Mikeska and daughters
spent Christmas Day In Ennis
with relatives and all enjoyed a
delicious dinner. All the Skri-
vanek sisters and brothers were
present to make it a happy oc-
casion.
♦ *
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Barton
and sons of Dallas spent the
Christmas Holidays with his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Rudolf
Barton.
• ♦
Visitors in the home of Mr.
and Mrs. E. W. Popp over the
Christmas Holidays were all
their children, Mr. and Mrs.
Johnny Popp of West, and Mr.
and Mrs. Gene Simmons and
Debbie, Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Gar-
ner and family and Mr. and Mrs.
Emil Popp Jr. and children of
Arlington.
♦ ♦
Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Marek and
children of Mart spent Christ-
mas Eve with Mr. and Mrs. Al-
bert Marek and Stanley and
Mrs. August Marek.
♦ ♦
Mr. and Mrs. William Lee
Robinson Jr. of Austin spent the
Christmas Holidays with her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Popp
and Aivin.
• *
Mr. and Mrs. Willie Hegar and
Mr. and Mrs. Willie Skarpa and
Billy Gene of Abbott and Miss
Esther Rydel and Miss Mildred
Soukup of West all enjoyed a
turkey dinner and all the trim-
mings, Christmas Day, at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Adolf
Janek and Elaine at West. Visit-
ors who called in the afternoon
were Mrs. J. J. Kostohryz and
Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Nemecek of
West and little Carol Kostohryz
of Fort Worth.
♦ ♦
Mrs. Stanley Helona and chil-
dren spent Sunday visiting with
Mrs. August Marek and Mr. and
Mrs. Albert Marek and Stanley.
♦ ♦
Jerry Kueera and Billy Gene
Skarpa of Abbott both employed
at HEB store in VVaco, and
Dorothy Kotrla and Mildred
Soukup of West attended a
Christmas party in Waco, Sun-
day afternoon, which was held
at the YMCA for the HEB em-
ployees and their families and
friends.
♦ ♦
We hope that everyone had a
very merry Christmas and with
a new year on us, we want to
take this opportunity and wish
each and everyone a Healthy
and prosperous New Year —
and also to say “Thank You” to
everyone who helped us in any
way
to those who refreshed us with
coffee and goodies where we
visited and with all the nice
people.
Mrs. Willie Skarpa
With West News
Subscribers
The West News wishes to ac
knowledge with thanks the fol
lowing new and renewed sub
scriptions received since last re-
port.
Frank Ruzicka, El Campo
W. H. Ihlenfeldt, Aquilla
Alphonse Vrba, Sherman
Jos. K. Urbanovsky, West
F. M. Rypel, West
Mrs. Anna Holloman, West
Mary Domesle, West
Miss Lizzie Heitmiller, West
A. F. Kauschuber, West
Clyde Newman, Austin
Louis V. Sykora, Mount Calm
Joe Kudelka, West
Mrs. G. H. Wilson, West ,
Rud. Janek, West
J. V. Dvoracek, Penelope
Mrs. Fred Holc'hak, Waxa-
hachis
Mrs. Agnes Plsek, Port Arthur
John Fich'a., Abbott
Marshall Koen, Waco
R.einhold Baese, West
Frank Kolenovsky, Bellmead
Freddy Uptmore, Waco
Leo Sulak, Ft. Worth
Eddie E. Mikeska, Abbott
Living Cost Will
Hold Steady For
Next Few Months
Prices of everyday necessities
will settle down for the next six
to nine months, predict the edi-
tors of Changing Times, the
Kiplinger Magazine. There may
be mild increases in the price
of hi-fi, shoes and plumbing
equipment, but reductions in
such important areas as food
and textile items will keep liv-
ing costs in check.
Borrowing money, however, Is
going to be another story. It will
get tougher. The screws are be-
ing tightened to contract the
money supply available for lend-
ing as an anti - inflationary
move. You’ll feel the effects
should you shop for a mortgage
or attempt to finance a car.
Prospective borrowers might as
well face it — they will have
trouble finding money and more
trouble getting a loan at an in-
terest rote within their expec-
tations.
“Found — Bird or hat which
flew or blew Into Brown’s Serv-
ice Station. It’s sort of round
with green and red feathers or
quills on it. If you have lost a
bird or a hat, or even if you
with the news. Especially haven’t drive by and see it; It’s
‘ worth the trip.”
--0-
A wise husband meets a mari-
tal crisis with a firm hand —
full of candy or flowers.
Aid-To- Education
Program To Get
Rolling In 1959
Government aid for student
loans, graduate fellowships, etc.,
will begin to be felt in a big way
when the recently passed edu-
cation bill goes into operation
In January, according to the
editors of Changing Times, the
Kiplinger Magazine. It is the
biggest single piece of legislation
ailecting education in decades.
Office of Education officials
are working feverishly with state
officials to get the measure in-
to operation.
How this new legislation will
affect both college and high
school students is explained in
the December issue of Changing
Times. Here is the editor’s run-
down.
College Loans: Just about any
school that wants to be includ-
ed in the federal college-loan
plan can be. The financial-aid
officers at individual colleges
will handle individual loan ap-
plications.
Money will begin going ' out
next month, in time for the new
semester, to hundreds of appli-
cants. Unlike a great many oth-
er loan funds available, this one
i; open to freshmen.
Under the student loan pro-
gram a student can borrow up
to $1.00 a year for a total of $5,-
000. The college will decide how
nuchi he should get. Interest is
three per cent on the unpaid
balance. Neither interest nor
repayment begins until a year
after he finishes his higher ed-
ucation. Then he has ten years
to repay, with time out if the
student enters the Armed For-
ces.
Borrowers who become public
school teachers can get portions
of the loan canceled; and the
entire loan Is canceled if the
borrower dies or becomes totally
disabled.
Every college student is eligi-
ble provided he is in good stand-
ing and needs the loan. Pref-
erence will go, however, to top
students headed toward teach-
ing and to top students in sci-
ence, math, engineering and
modern foreign languages.
Graduate Fellowships: These
are for students who plan to
teach in colleges and universi-
ties. Some will be granted by
February. Competition will be
tough because there aren’t many
of these fellowships — 1,000 the
first year and 1,500 each of the
three succeeding years.
The stipend is good — $2,000
the first year, $2,200 the second
and $2,400 the third, plus $400
a year for each dependent.
uGldance: To improve the
quality of professional guidance
help at individual high schools,
institutes will be established at
colleges for high school coun-
selors and teachers going into
counseling. Those who get in
will be eligible to receive $75 a
week plus $15 for each depen-
dent during attendace.
institutes should be in
tion by next June.
Cutting Our
Own Throats
What is accurately described
as “the vanishing dollar” is
certainly as tough and as urgent
A few !a domestic problem as this coun-
opera,-
try has
ishing"
deal with. The “van-
done by inflation.
Improvement In guidance will j since before the last world war,
mean that many more young-1 more than half af the dollar’s
sttrs will be able to get profes- purchasing power has been
eaten away.
sional advice on how to make
the most of their abilities. State-
wide tests will be set up, too, In
order to identify students with
outsanding aptitudes. If your !been the inexorable and success-
local high school doesn't al- ful efforts of labor in demand-
inflation has various causes.
One of the biggest aside from
chronic government deficits has
ready have a guidance coun-
selor, find out whether it will
get one under this program.
Languages: If you teach or
plan to teach a modern foreign
language, watch for institutes
in this field, too. Stipends will
be similar to those in the guide
institutes.
There will also be help for vo-
cational schools, help for re-
search in the use of television
and other such tools for edu-
cation, and funds for science
and language equipment.
Scholarships for undergraduates
were knocked out of the bill,
but there will probably be a
drive to get some In the next
session.
-O .....-
You Can Ring
In the New
Year, All Year
With a. little imagination —
and a lot of stamina — you can
ring in the New Year with more
than one celebration.
In fact, you can keep on
ing wage increases that have in-
evitably been followed by price
increases. An outstanding spe-
cific example, as a top official
of one of our major oil compa-
nies now points out, has been
labor’s insistance on and man-
agement’s acquiescence in the
so-called productivity formula.
This formula is deceptively
simple. Over a 50 year period,
It is said, industrial output in
this country has increased by see^eaually well
2y2 per cent a year — therefore,
the argument runs, workers
should be automatically given
an equivalent wage increase
each year.
THE DRIVER’S
SEAT
Think you’re a good driver?
Then how much do you know
about night driving, the tough-
est kind of traveling there is?
Fifty-four per cent of all
those killed in traffic accidents
last year failed this test. Would
you?
1. At night you see as well
traveling 60 m.p.h. as at 40
m.p.h. True or False?
2. The biggest danger in night
driving is fatigue. True or False?
3. Traveling a two-lane, un-
lighted highway as 60 m.p,h,
on a clear night, you suddenly
see on the roadway ahead a car
with no lights. You could stop
soon enough to avoid hitting the
,car ahead. True or False?
4. A driver has 20-20 vision.
So does his son. Both of them
at night. True
4. False. The son sees better
at night. Night vision decreases
with age.
5. False. Modern ’.raffle signs
made of reflective material show
c' ior and letten.ig better at
night because ti.ey contrast
w rh the surroun ur.g darkness
6. False. The most dangerous
driving Is at dusk, between five
and six o’clock. The confusing
half light, heavy traffic volume
and ill-marked hazards are
among the factors contributing
to the problem.
There, that should have been
easy for you. If you missed just
one question or more, beware—
it took just one night driving
mistake to kill nearly 21,000
drivers last year.
---<;-
The Question
Is How ? ? ?
Lyndon Johnson the Senate
Majority Leader says: “Ameri-
ens are a can-do, will-do people.
or False?
5. You can see traffic signs
better during the day than at
night. True or False?
6. The darker it is the more
dangerous it is to drive at night.
True or false?
Answers:
1. False. At higher speeds youi
■■’btiity to see objects is greatly
dustrial output from so many reduced.
2. False The inability of the
unaided human eye to see haz-
ards at night is the cause of
They believe In progress and
growth. They believe In ever-
higher Income and earnings for
all the people. And they want
tomorrow to be far better than
yesterday.”
Everyine will agree with such
general objectives. The question
is how to reach them.
If we are to have ever-hlgher
income and earnings, and If
tomorrow is to be better than
yesterday, we must have an ex-
panding and improving eco-
nomic machine. That means we
nust have tax policies, for in-
stance, that will encourage In-
vestment and risk-taking. It
■means, above all, that we must
have a climate which is favor-
able to the growth of business of
all kinds and all sizes.
Whether we will have such a
climate will in large part de-
pend on the actions and atti-
tudes of th Congress of which
Senator Johnson is so Influen-
tial a member.
Th® trouble is that produc-
tivity cannot be accurately re-
duced to formula. It involves
much more than so much in-
man hours. It involves quality
as well as quantity. It involves
such vital matters as new capi-
tal equipment, technological jniost after-dark accidents,
improvement, and management
skills. The productivity formula
ignores these.
The formula also has proven
unworkable. It has been used
or an absolute. Usually, union-
management contracts based on
it include cost of living esclator
clauses as well — and these
clauses amount to built-in in-
flation.
The oil spokesman said this:
“If we’re actually to combat in-
flation, we’re going to have to
restore the mechanism of pass-
ing on productivity gains, when
they are registered,
celebrating all through the year °hly 33 a floor —- not a ceiling
just by switching calendars.
The World Book Encyclopedia
says most of the Christian world
wipes the slate clean on January
1st.
But by trading in the Greg-
gorian calendar for the Julian
calendar, you can have another
New Year’s party on January
14th.
Take a few months to recover,
and you can join the Iranian
celebration on March 21st. If
that doesn’t wear you out, you
can turn over a new leaf in
autumn, when the Jews welcome
the New Year.
If you want to cut down on
travel time, you can confine
your party-hopping to India.
The Hindus are divided into
many different religious groups
and each group marks the be-
ginning of the year on a dif-
ferent date.
We will look to the new Con-
gress for many things, but not
raising the debt limit. WeTl
manage that ourselves.
Changing Times
3. False. It would take at
least 366 feet to stop but head-
lights on the average car illu-
minate only about 300 feet
ahead. Seven states are corn-
hating this visibility problem by
issuing safety plates that bnve
a reflective material on tntiti
The plates of some states can be i
seen from 2,000 feet away.
price reductions to benefit the
entire public. We’re only cut-
ting our own throats when we
turn over all productivity gains
and sometimes more than all of
through them, meekly to labor.”
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help so
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make dreams
come true
It pays to save
fer all the
Family!
Make regular saving a
fairily affair. Give your
children the thrill ol
watching money grow in
their savings accounts in
this bank.
Come in, bring the family
. . . start saving here.
THE STATE NATIONAL BANK
MEMiiEIt OF FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORP.
WEST, TEXAS
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