The Tulia Herald (Tulia, Tex.), Vol. 56, No. 13, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 31, 1966 Page: 2 of 22
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THUMOAY, MARCH 31, IMA
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_ «y H. M. BAGGARLY
Dear Editor
This morning I assisted with an
appendectomy in Brewster County
Memorial Hospital The heating sys-
tem was out of kilter, and we sweated
through the ordeal. There was noth-
ing like this in New Guinea under
thp tent* of an evae hospital'
The reason I am telling you is that
this heating system combines cool-
ing. ventilation and heating jn one
system As 1 wrote you some time
back, it is not wise to combine these
systems in a hospital. The cooling
and ventillating systems can be com-
bined, but the heating system should
not be.
When heating is by convection, the
fine dust, laden with bacteria, is
stirred up and re-distributed in an
unpleasant and perhaps dangerous
manner. Heating should be by radia-
tion. As I told you the best system
is a heated concrete slab floor with
conduits of wrought iron (which has
the same meftetent as concrete)
through which warm water is circu-
lated at controlled temperatures. Thia
is silent, dust free heating. A hospi-
tal should be silent.
Fresh air should be introduced in-
to a room near the ceiling. Heat
should be introduced near the floor.
Refrigeration of the fresh air is OK,
and in your climate this air should be
filtered free of pollen and dust, and
moisture near 50% should be added.
You are going to haw a fine hos-
pital. Now is the time to plan and get
tiie best.
Kind regards,
W. E. LOCKHART, M. D.
«1 N. Fourth
Alpine, Texas
Dear Editor.
May I come io the defense, along
with Linda Scroggins, of western
music? I agree wlwlchearedly with
you concerning Ernest Tubb and the
Beatles and "Beatle-type” songs. 1
get so weary of those "yeah, yeah,
yeah’s" with precious little else to be
understood during the wiiole song.
But there is quite a bit erf “western"
music that is pretty, and western
singers who arc good. For instance,
I believe you like Jimmy Dean —
and 1 think lie is one of the best. Yet,
the disc jockey in the town that I
live in puts him in the category of
"Country and Western Music” and
will play his songs only during the
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vertiser has created .in us a desire ,(or his product and
we go Into a store to buy it only to lie told that they
don't have that particular brand but do have one
"just at good."
Maybe it is just as good, but it isn't just as good
, for us. Even if we accept the substitute, even if it
performs satisfactorily, we have been robbed of pride
of ownership, appreciation for the product. Same peo-
ple can he just as proud of a Spiegel label as one from
NViman-Mnrcus. , but we aren't one of them.
We used to drive to Plainview just to eat a Mexi-
can dinner at "old Mexico." And we finally quit be-
cause more times than not they were out of what we
; wanted and we I tad to accept a substitute,
# KYMLM. YKAIU A<*» wo were in the market for
9 a Hammond organ. Stores at Amarillo and Lulv-
bock had been trying to sell us a Hammond for years,
but when wo bought, we looked up Bemie Howell who
had bought an interest in a music store.
Bernie, while staff organist at KG.N’C, had per-
formed several small courtesies for us, had been a
friend wen when he didn't have to be. . .and it
paid off with die sate of an organ.
Just goes to prove how the human element plays
a part in getting business. Yet we sometimes find
mereliants who have great competence as teachers
. . .of a course on “How to lose friends and alien-
ate people.” Remember. . .tliat pei'son to whom you
don’t speak might some day be a potential customer'.
Insurance is often sold through friendship.
When we were in our late teens we traded in Am-
arillo more than any other town. . .but we had to
have 16 tooth cavities filled and we came to Dr. Mc-
Casland at Tulia. We didn't know a dentist, so were
completely unprejudiced. Dr. McCasIand came to
Happy with a group from the Tulia Kiwanis club to
present a program of entertainment and to create
goodwill. U'e met Dr. McCasIand for the first time
that night. He seemed to bo a person who might be
sympathetic towards someone unable to pay for a
mouth full of dental work. We felt that we could ap-
proach him not as a stranger. .and we did'.
Yes. . .we can learn a tot just by studying our-
selves. our own buying habits.
■ >' RECENT WEEKS we have learned another les-
| son. In towns served by Southwestern Public Ser-
vice, that company is one of the newspapers' best ad-
vertisers. In towns served by Southwestern Bell Tele-
phone Co., that company is a major advertiser. So
it is with Pioneer Natural Gas Co.
Some ask: “Why should these companies spend
thousands of dollars advertising themselves? They
have no competition where they serve. Isn't this a
waste of money?”
Let’s consider Bell Telephone, for example. One
can hardly pick up a national magazine without see-
ing the familiar Bell trademark with interesting in-
formation explaining to the public how the system
operates, how it spends millions in research seeking
to discover more efficient, more economical telephone
service. It tells the public what happens during an
ice storm when telepltone employees work all night
restoring service. It tells us, in so many wards, that
when new inventions come in communication. Bell
will be the first to bring them to us. The same infor-
mation appears in daily and weekly papers, on na-
tional radio and television.
0KIBT HEBE IN' TULIA we have discovered how
subconsciously the people have been sold on
Bell telephone service. To all of us. Bell represents
the Gibraltar of telephone service. It is tiie symbol of
first class service. Today Bell Telephone stack is
worth more in Tulia than ever before. . .and
we don't mean the kind of stock sold on the New York
Stock Exchange.
It is lor the same reason that we loel secure when
our insurance is carried hy a big. strong wellknown
com pan« dial has earned our confidence
IT IS SKVKi: U. months until the November general
I election, but ii isn't too early- to noto some ra-
ther asinine and s.upid allegations by hopeful candi-
dates seeking olfice.
For instance. Republican Congressional candidate
Bob Price of Pampa, who hopes to unseat Congress-
man Walter Rogers, is having much to say about tiie
water problems of this area In fact he is going so
far as to sro, "If T were Congressman for the lStii
District. . .1 would be insisting that the Texas Pan-
handle, West Texas, and the State of Texas be in-
cluded in any western region water development un-
dertaken by the Federal government.”
Come, come. Mr, Price. . .while we ore glad to
know that you stand foursquare for water, we think
you are rather presumptuous when you make water
an issue in this campaign.
In the first place, we know of no man in Washing-
ton who is more conscious of the water problem than
Walter Rogers. That is even safer territory' than the
old "mother, home and country" platform that, in re-
el \ t weeks, has boon broadened to include a hatred
for ftee love and syphilis.
Congressman Rogers joined Ralph Yarborough in
boosting the Canadian River project. Congressman
Rogers was the featured speaker at Lubbock several
months ago when the topic under consideration was
feasibility of bringing water from Alaska to the arid
Southwest for irrigation purposes.
Not only is Congressman Rogers as pro-water as
Mr Price but he is on the Congressional committee
which lias to do with water. Should Mr. Price go to
Congress, his voice on the subject of water would bo
limited to one vote on water issues tiial finally reach-
ed tiie House
Because of his interest in water, his advant-
ages due to tenure in the House, his committee as-
signment, and tiie geographical location of his district,
we doubt if any other man in tiie House would have
more power anti influence on water projects titan
Congressman Rogers.
Now. Mr. Rogers may have some faults. He
may have sprained a political muscle or two trying to
please Pampa Birchers and Swisher county Ameri-
cans at one and the same time, he may be suffering
from chronic frustration after being caught between
Louise Evans and The Tulia Herald so many times,
but lie still knows the difference belween irrigation
water and toilet water as campaign issues. Further-
more. if Air Price's Pampa boosters don’t oven want
water from the Canadian, why should they want water
from the Columbia River?
We like tiie one about Rogers being a wild-eyed
liberal or a pro-Communist much better. By the way,
what ever happened to Brother Humphrey of Amarillo?
Where's lie preaching now?
rfk S BEN E/.ZKI.I., one who appreciates deeply tiie
breadth of vision of the would-be Congressman
from Pampa, wijote in The Canadian Record, "Most
government planners haven't dared dream dreams so
big. . but Bob Price is not only a man of vision
but a Master plumber. He apparently has got it all
figured out that by including ail the state of Texas
in the plan, it will be possible to channel the tail wa-
ter from the Columbian Basin system into the Gulf of
Mexico, thereby avoiding any waste at all.
"We find this plan particularly impressive com-
ing from a man who is n candidate of the extreme
conservative wing of the Republican Party. . .an
element that usually appears in opposition la any
project bearing the 'federal' label.
"Politics does, indeed, produce some' strange
sounds.”
AKNK THING HE CAN say for the conservatives,
those who hate Uncle Sam and profess Io dis-
like those dirty federal dollars that, bqy 35c lunches
for school kids, that keep tiie wolves away from the
doors of oldsters, that destroy the initiative of work-
ers by offering them a social security pension at age
65. . .they may hate "creeping” socialism but they
sure like the galloping kind! They don’t bat an eye
when they ask for one billion federal dollars to bene-
fit Dallas industry or 100 million federal dollars to
retire obsolete airplanes belonging to Brani/f Air -
ways.
VNK AMAKIU.O 1’APKK is - already getting up
| steam to back the Republican candidate for
President, whoever he may be, in 1972.
At the present time, only two serious Democra-
tic possibilities have been mentioned. They, erf
course, are Hubert Humphrey and Robert Kennedy.
We need not speculate on the treatment any Kennedy
would get from the Amarillo paper. Last week, Hum-
phrey was referred to in an Amarillo headline as
"Hubic". The implication was all too clear. The head-
line writer always has a problem with a long name.
But there are many ways of shortening "Humphrey”
including “HIIH,” "Veep,’' and the like. No one would
over refer to another in a newspaper headline as
"Hubie” unless he was out to cut his throat.
Why couldn't wo call Humphrey "3-H”? 4-H. . .
3-H. . . Ha! . . . Humph!
lAfHKX WE WANT to know the mind of Lyndon
fl Johnson, we always follow carefully the syn-
dicated column of Leslie Carpenter who writes for
several Texas dailies. Carpenter and Johnson have
been close in days past. Mrs. Carpenter. . Liz
. . is Lady Bird’s press secretary. When Carpenter
says something about the President, we sometimes
have tiie feeling that '(1) Johnson is using Carpenter
to leak a story, or (2) Carpenter is reporting the sin-
cere conviction of the President.
Carpenter wrote recently: "Nervous Texas poli-
ticians and businessmen who are vigorous supporters
of both men wonder I vow a public break between
President Johnson and Texas Gov, John Connally
can be avoided, the way things are going.
"To date, the President lias been remarkably
quiet and patient white Connally, one of his closest
friends for 25 years, has blasted away at the LBJ
poverty program and, most recently, at a member
of the President’s cabinet.
"Connally's strong words indicate he is obsessed
wilh proving to the last doubter that he and not John-
twn Is running Texas.
"Connally last summer was the first governor to
veto a Neighborhood Youth Corps project. His reason
was he didn’t think the Farmers Union should spon-
sor it. Only two other governors have used the veto
since, "Montana’s Tim Babcock, a Republican Gold-
wateritc, and Alabama’s George Wallace.
"This year, he threatened to close the Camp
Gary Job Corps Center, the first established in the
nation, accusing federal employees t lie re of telling
the slate how to run it.
"The latest bomb exploded after Att’y Gen. Nich-
olas Katzenhach sent FBI agents into 12 Texas coun-
ties to gather evidence on whether the 15 days set
aside for voter registration was enough time. Katzen-
baeh, who informed state officials of his plan in ad-
vance and heard no objection then, explained that he
would be unable to get a federal court, to order an
extension of the registration period unless he had evi-
dence to support that 15 days was not long enough.
“Connally is on the safest political grounds in
Texas with his blistering attack on Katzenbach All
the facts become obscured when folks with a provin-
cial nature get riled up about the ‘feds' coming in
to snoop on their state and local officials.”
wikgmtlJB WE USUALLY TAKE alleged Johnson -
wW Connally rifts as well as Carpenter’s column
with a grain of salt, the paragraphs about the Youth
dopes sound rather significant.
Of one thing we can be sure. Johnson is not now
nor ever again will he be in a position where he has
to depend on the support of Texas conservatives to
win any election. On tiie other hand, His problem from
now on will be to acquire and maintain so - called
liberal support. While we aren’t able to assess the
depth of his friendship with John Connally, this we
know'. . .he and Connally can never again be po-
litical allies.
Lyndon Johnson does not burn bridges. . .just as
as he burned no bridges between himself and the Re-
publicans back in his Senate days. We were with him
and others in a room in the Herring Hotel in Ama-
rillo on an occasion during the Eisenhower adminis-
tration when everybody in the room was mad at John
Foster Dulles. . yet Johnson would not utter a word
of criticism even though he was in tiie midst of Demo-
crats. Even now lie goes out of his way to accom-
modate political enemies in both the Democratic
and Republican parties. Sometimes we wonder if he
doesn't love his enemies better than his friends.
time alloted for western music, even
one of his latest ones, "The First
Thing Every Morning and The Last
Thing Every Night" which is a beau-
tiful song, with "meaningful lyrics,
and goad background music. I do not
believe one can say that all western
music is bod or corny, for Jimmy
Dean certainly isn’t, por are those
he presents on ills TV show; for
example Molly Bee and Eddy Arnold.
1 believe radio should present a
variety of music because many peo-
ple with different types of music
"appreciation" listen. But I found
that if the radio dial were left on
the Tulia station during the week,
there would be precious little music
to worry over; as most of the time
is taken up with “Kress Calling”,
"The Trading Post", “Farm & Ranch
News", "Hints for Women” and the
like. I listened for three hours one
morning and heard one — and only
one — song. However, one Saturday
recently, KTUE played some real
good western music — and we en-
joyed it.
[hiring the day, radio's majority
of listeners are the housewives; and
how much easier their work goes to
the tune of a good song. (Not opera,
please). Of course, it is just a fact
that five rage today among teenagers
is the Boatlo-typc music. But in the
daytime, most children are at school,
and tlxise who are not are either out-
side playing or in front of tiie TV
for cartoons, and most men are at
won. This leaves the woman at home
as the radio’s biggest fan.
As for the messages western songs
convey — they are for the most part
sad. But they are good for reminisc-
ing and some people enjoy being
sentimental at times for one reason
or another. Songs bout train wrecks,
mine disasters, sensational murders,
and wars aren’t subjects we can
orientate ourselves with in actuality.
Maybe ours is a sadder generation,
brought on by a sadder world. On
the other hand, maybe we are just
assuming that music of former eras
interprets exactly their societies;
maybe they, too, enjoyed western
music. I know, too, that there are
many people who like western music,
but who would not dare admit it
strictly because it is called "coun-
try and western" music — hence,
something to be laughed at. I real-
ize how that can be, as the word
“country” sort of rankles me, too.
I just hope our disc jockeys won’t
abolish this type of music; a steady
diet of Frank Sinatra and the “Go-
Go Boys" would be hard to take.
Thank you for allowing me to take
this moans of trying to explain a
little bit why there are still some
who would like to keep western mu-
sic and artists around.
And as I have told you (last sum-
mer in the coffee shop of then “Food
Town” grocery store) and many,
many others in Tulia, I admire you
so much and am so proud of Tulia,
one of my favorite places in die
world, has an Editor such as you:
one who will stand up and say what
he believes, and say it so interest-
ingly. We "devour” the Tulia Herald
each week and look forward to it ao
much.
Once again, let me tell you how
much we think of you and your
"nerve” — which is ■omcthkig Hint
is grossly deteriorating in a lot of
us these days. We love your paper
and your ideas. You make us think
a lot. In fact, this subject is the
only tiling I've ever disagreed with
you on. But I do not mean my letter
to be contentious.
I would like my name withheld.
Thank you.
A READER.
★ ★ ★
(EDITOR'8 NOTE: Bosk yun for
your tetter. I must not have matte
in.V*etf char to ike editorial to quewt-
iott. I wax neither defend tog nor
eoatteaming any porlteator type d
muxte, ralher I was Utsfsftog that
whatever ictod it wan, it 8HOULD he
good aeeordtog to the accepted stand-
ard* of it* particular type. I potoled
«u« tout wnim western ntogers who
have gained following* are NOT good
western singer*. Even western stag-
er* are expected Io sing m key, Bar
exam pie. Secondly, I did not criti-
cise *oogs with melancholy or and
thtwot — rather, I criticised Ike
huge majority of song* that taM of
unfaithful wives or husband*, broken
homes, and the like. Here is the di-
rect quotation: “We are not narrow -
minded when it comes to nmole.
Some, music fascinates us, some we
can lake, some we caa tolerates nad
some we can't tolerate! Hut we can
have a certain annual of respect tor
all of it if it is GOOD for what M
proposes to he. We respecj gaud
operatic music, good symphonic Om-
sk', good religious music, good coun-
try and western musk', good light
music, and even good popular moidc
including that rendered hy such
freaks as the Beatles. Understand,
we rcs|MH'l it for being g<iod of Ms
kind ev'ti though we detest Its kind
. \ . I Hit wc are unable io under-
stand how even the most devoted
admirer of country music can sto-
mach some of tlicse country music
singers heard cn network tetevkdon.
Even worse than these singers are
the songs they sing. to the
cooiitry field today, it seems that
thi per cent of the stings have a*
their *nhjevt a man unfaithful to Ida
wife, a woman unfaithful to her bus-
ha ad, a lover who has lost his love
to another, a man going from one
hunky took Io another looking for hto
wayward wife, consoling his small
child because mama is out with an-
other man, a man longing to be free
from his mate. . . ” I like Eddto
Arnold, Jimmy Dean, and many of
Ihe so - oaths! country or western
singer* who have pleasant voices,
pleasant itorsonalllies, and who re-
*|>cct the fundamental* of music.
Many of the country and western
singers and histnmicnotHsts are top
flight musicians ami are to toe bus-
iness IsH'aiise of commercial reason*.
Kemenils-r the okl National Barn
Dance from WI.S to Chicago? The
“fiddlers” were all members d the
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How will the Bond Funds be used?
$155,000 Sewer System Improvement Bonds
. .. . Approximately 6,600 of 12’’ and 15” clay
tile sewer pipelines will be added to the Sys-
tem, running from the intersection of Dallas
and South 3rd Streets to the existing sewage
disposal plant. These lines will relieve the
present sewer “outfall” line which trans-
ports collected sewage to the disposal plant;
This line is now overloaded.
An addition will be made to the existing
sewage disposal plant. This addition will in-
clude a new grit chamber, clarifier, digestor,
high rate filter, sludge beds, and recirculation
pumps. The old plant is greatly overloaded,
as it is ample for a population of only 2,800
people based on current stream pollution re-
quirements. The above new additions will be
designed to treat sewage for a population of
10,000, and, when added to the existing plant,
will be adequate for a total population of
12,800.
$•45,000 Waterworks Improvement Bonds . , .
The City’s most pressing water needs is to
drill aind develop two new water wells and
provide the necessary supply line and fittings
for these wells.
The total present capacity of all existing
wells is 3.3 million gallons of water per day,
while peak day usage of water in summer,
1965, was in excess of 3.2 million gallons. The
two additional wells and supply line will al-
low the City to adequately produce and dis-
tribute water this summer.
Will any taxes be involved with these
Bonds?
ELECTION WU N MHO
TUESDAY, Ana 5. 1»M
•KM A.M. I* 7M0 P.M.
AT THE TUUA
CITY HALL
Will a Water or Sewer rate increase
be necessary to pay for these Bonds?
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