The Cuero Record (Cuero, Tex.), Vol. 71, No. 11, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 14, 1965 Page: 4 of 6
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who was relieved of some 16 ex-
tra board positions by an act of
the 1963 legislature, has indic-
ated he’d be glad to give up an-
other Job that takes time from
his big job as the State’s attor-
ney. Board of Control Chairman
Charlie Coates of Chappell Hill
says he'll do whatever the legis-
lature wants. But Connally’s
staff says the Governor hasn’t
made up his mind.
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State Capital Highlights and Sidelights
AUSTIN. Tex. - Surprises
ante* fa»t and furious on the
political scene in Austin.
yirst surprise of the new year
OK the resignation of veteran
Railroad Commissioner Ernest
O. Thompson.
Then came an even greater
turn.
Just as the Legislature was
about to open and everything
«as in readiness under the old
management ... presently con-
trasted with problems both old
and new ...Gov. John Connally
named House Speaker Byron
Turmell to fill Thompson’s old
•oat.
Thompson, once the battling
mayor of Amarillo and for more
than 30 years a scrapper on the
Railroad Commission, had been
111 for many months. Only re-
cently he had been moved from
an Austin hospital to his home
In Amarillo. He had two years
pet to serve.
- T\mnell is an East Texan. He
is the first person from the East
Texas oil area to serve on the
femmission in 23
pears. He was just beginning
Ms third term as legislator from
|he Tyler - Kilgore region and
expected to preside for a sec-
ond term as House Speaker.
I Immediately upon learning of
IVmneU's appointment, Rep.
$en Barnes of De Leon. Tun-
dell's first lieutenant during the
M3 session, began contacting
Legislators about the speaker-
chip. Barnes already had an-
nounced as a candidate for Spe-
-cker of the 1967 session.
“ Simultaneous with Barnes’
face for the speakership were
^similar activities by other
House members, either openly
or behind the scenes.
•nils list included Henry C.
Grover of Houston, Jack Woods
mi Waco, Paul Haring of Goliad,
George Richardson of Fort
Worth and Wilson Foreman of
Austin,
There were several other po-
tential candidates.
LONG SESSION — Most ob-
servers feel the 59th session
may run through the summer.
Certainly it will dominate the
1965 Texas political scene.
These results seem likely:
...Lawmakers will spend a re-
cord amount of money, much of
it to uplift higher education.
Budget projiosals of both Gover-
nor Connally and the Legisla-
tive Budget Board awaited Sen-
ators and Representatives at
their eapitol desks.
...School teachers will get the
$45 a month pay raise they are
asking. But they will have to
figure out who is going to foot
the bill.
...A few more exemptions arp
going to be removed from the
state sales tax. Just enough to
balance the budget, but not en-
ough to hurt much.
...Commission on Higher Ed-
ucation will be reorganized al-
ong lines recommended b y
Governor Connally. But the suc-
cessor agency may not get all
the [tower Connally would like
it to have.
...Stormy hearings will be held
over legalizing horse race bet-
ting and sale of liquor by the
drink. Both proposals may move
farther than they ever have be-
fore. Maybe all the way.
...A congressional reapportion-
ment bill eventually will be ado-
pted. However, it's difficult to
see any agreement on legisla-
tive redislricfing.
Other key issues which will
occupy the 59th Legislature are
statewide water planning and
financing, oil and gas tract pool-
ing, mental health and tuber
Only GocTs Help Will
Make Him Whole Again
(Editor’s Note: Dorsey Earn-
heart, 17, was thrown 64 feet in
an automobile accident last Oct.
17. He lived but not to tell
about it, because he may never
regain full consciousness. This
is the story of Dorsey Earn-
heart's tragedy and the grief
and financial strain it has
brought his family.)
By PRESTON McC.RAYV
DALLAS —<UPb - As she has
every week for 12 weeks, 17-
year-old Dorsey Eamheart's
mother drove 350 miles to Bur-
net,, Tex., and back Monday-
just to see him move his legs a
little, twitch his left arm, and
stare a blank stare.
Mrs. Marvin VV. Earnheart or
her pastor husband may make
the trip the rest of their fives.
Dorsey, who loved to sing, may
never sing, or see, or compre-
hend again.
“We just don’t know,” the
Rev Mr. Earnheart said at his
Oak Cliff Baptist Temple. “He
has made some improvement.
He is moving his legs a little.
’’His eyes are open hut his
right eye does not focus with
his left eye. He looks as us. But
whether he recognizes us, I
don't know. He moves his right
arm; his left arm is paralyzed.
“It's an injury at the stem of
the brain. Doctors say he will
be like this for the rest of his
life."
Dorsey, an avid horseman
was on his wey to a meeting of
the Cockrell Hill Saddle Club on
Oct. 17 and started to pass ano-
ther automobile.
A tire blew out He w a s
thrown 64 feet. Ihs right shoul-
der blade was broken ; nd his
skull fractured.
Drugs and calls from a phy-
sician run the .weekly bill for-
taking care of him to around
$120 a week.
The family had a small in-
surance policy. Members of Oak
Cliff Baptist Temple contribut-
ed $1,300. Other churches have
sent a total of about $1,300
The Cockrell Hill Saddle Club,
his old club, had what it called
a "play day” of eight riding
events Sunday and contributed
the proceeds — about $500. The
bills go on.
“The doctors told us” Pastor
Earnheart said, “there is noth-
ing medicine can do But we
have not given up hope ft is
in the hands of God.”
revision, judicial i cdisirictl n g,
state properly tax repeal, ex-
tension of the medical care for
the aged program as authorized
by con it ii utional amendment vo-
ted on November 3, equal rights
for women, gasoline tax exemp-
tions for municipal bus lines,
and enlat- oment <■>( slate tourist
and .Indus!rial attraction pro-
gram-*
GARY BEING ACT1VATED-
Texns Educational Foundation
selected Dr. Oscar .1, Baker,
superintendent of schools at
Dickinson, as director of now
Camp Gary Training Center
near San Marcos.
First group of 37 teachers will
arrive at the war-on-poverty
training base by February 1.
Then the first 300 students are
due in March.
Base eventually wilt enroll 2.-
000 trainees in 45 vocational pro-
grams and basic education.
R! TLDING COMMI SSI O N
SWITCH — Governor Connally
has yet to take a position on the
Texas Research League’s re-
commendation that he turn his
job as a member offcthe State
Building Commission to some-
one else.
But 1he other two commissio-
ners have indicated they would
not mind giving up one job too
many.
Commission administers State
building construction and oper-
ation This includes the State
Capitol and the six buildings
now in the Capitol complex. Al-
so, others in Austin and over the
State. Recently they recommen-
ded construction of another
multi - million dollar State of-
fice building. Also a new man-
si m for the Governor.
But the governor did not sup-
port the recommendation h e
helped make when he revealed
his 1966-67 budget proposal.
League suggested that the
Commission - now composed of
the Governor, Attorney General
and chairman of the Board of
Control - he made over and in-
stead be headed by three citiz-
ens appointed by the Governor
and approved by the Senate.
Atty. Gen. Waggoner Carr,
— Texas Research league has
called for a switch in water
planning funetions from the
Water Commission to the Water
Development Board.
League sees Commission's
role as a water rights’ admin-
istration agency.
Initial decisions on water sup-
plies needed for the next cen-
tury' must he made within six
years to assure Texas’ contin-
ued growth and prosperity. So
states the League in the first of
a series of four reports follow-
ing its two-year study.
League said the state mast he
prepared to finance “a reason-
able share” of some $4,000,000.-
000 in water development pro-
jects during the rest of this cen-
tury. It recommends broaden-
ing the purposes for which state
water development funds can be
invested
i COMMISSION ’’STUCK”
i WITH OIL — Railroad Commls-
I sion is having a difficult time
| getting rid of more than 107 000
barrels of oil. impounded be-
cause of illegal product i o n.
Some of it has been tied up
since 1938.
About 70.000 barrels of this oil
has been stored in Beacon Tanks
in East Texas for close to 30
years. State can’t find a buyer
for it because Federal law pro-
hibits the sale of illegal oil into
interstate commerce, says Fred
Young, attorney for the Com-
mission.
Young said the counties have
received some benefits from the
Commission’s problem. When a
well is shut down on an illegal
production order, oil at the well
is impounded in tanks at the
well site. When oil operators
JURY OF TEENAGE PEERS—Gary, Ind., high school students sit as jurors in court of Muni-
cipal Judge Richard 8. Kaplan (on bench, left), who Is experimenting with having teen-
agers help in deciding cases of other teenagers brought to court He has four Juriee of
six students each from Gary's eight high schools.
want to use their tanks, the Rai
road Commission will let them
give the impounded oil to coun-
ties for road construction tree.
COMPLIANCE PLEDGED—
State Board of Education voted
1.3-5 to comply with the 1964 Ci-
vil Rights taw, a necessary in-
gredient for acceptance of some I
$.37 000,000 in Federal funds for
public school operation.
But the Texas Commission on
Higher Education, which will ad-
minister the next Federal coll- j
ege construction grant program, I
says it has: not been reques-'
ted to sign any such agreement.!
SHORT SNORTS Governor j
Connally appointed Dr Melver
Furman of Corpus Christi to the ;
Texas Commission on ■ Alcohol-1
ism and reappointed Dr Ira
Woods of Grapevine and Dr N
Jay Rogers of Beaumont1 to the
Optometry ..Col Homer Gar-
rison Jr. of the Department of!
Public Safety urges motorists
to ’ start the new year with a
safet vehicle” by getting the
1965 vehicle insertion stickers
...Court of Criminal Appeals
picked its freshman member.
Judge W. T McDonald of Bry-
an, as presiding judge for the
next two-year term.. .Stale La-
tax- Commissioner Charles King, i
who held a two - day hearing j
on ways to improve regulation I
ol boxing and wrestling, says j
that boxing is the more ramhun-j
ctiotix problem child of the two
. ..Am. Gen Waggoner Carrj
held, in an opinion requested by
Dist Atty. James A Morris of t
Orange-, that the State Highway J
Department can Grid a bridge'
over Cow Bayou without heing
liable for com;'Cnsating 1 amicus - ‘
ners downstream State P.a ks
and Wildlife Director Weldon j
Watson has inspected a 27 000
acre tract of land north of Ei !
Paso in Franklin Mountains «« I
a j>oss)b!e state park.
Want More Credit
MEXICO CITY < UPI) - A
committee of cotton growers
from Co&huila exiled on Ag-
riculture Minister Juan Git Pre
dado to discuss a request for
extension of credit*, in order
to take rare of an accumula
tion of loans.
Custody Fight
SANTA MONICA. Calif, iUPI1
T ie six-vcai -old chi ill custody
battle la-tween Marlon Brando
and his ex-wife, Anna Kashti
has been continued until -Jan
21.
Superior Judge Edward Brand
continued the custody bearing
after attorneys for the litigants
expressed hope die case cmil i
tic settled mi! of court
Brando now has -rr [-• a: •
fij-tody of Christian IV\i 6
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Jennes, Ernest H. The Cuero Record (Cuero, Tex.), Vol. 71, No. 11, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 14, 1965, newspaper, January 14, 1965; Cuero, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth697928/m1/4/?rotate=270: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Cuero Public Library.