The Mercedes Enterprise (Mercedes, Tex.), Vol. 46, No. 30, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 24, 1958 Page: 3 of 10
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J. Edwin Harvey — Editor and Publisher
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CITY RESIDENTS
AISO AFFECTED
BY CAMPAIGN
City people have a vital stake in
affairs of the Texas Department
of Agriculture just as much as
farmers and ranchers, Commission-
er John C. White said this week.
White, who is seeking re-election
as head of the state’s top farm
agency, said, “every housewife,
businessman or worker is some-
how served by nearly all the dut-
ies of my department. We keep
every grocery store scale accur-
ate, check proper measures on
gasoline pumps, make certain that
printed weights on all foodstuffs
are correct as well as maintain
sound and economical policies that
Your Vote
Will
Re-elect
MILTON D. RICHARDSON
COUNTY JUDGE
/ OF
HID,ALGO COUNTY
A Friend to All People
PLEASE GIVE ME YOUR SUPPORT, THANK YOU!
Paid Pol. Adv.
protect all phases of agriculture.”
The 33-year-old White predicted
a sweeping re-election victory in
the July 26 primary based on his
observations during a just-com-
pleted 1,600-mile tour of Central,
North and West Texas.
“You can’t argue with success-
ful policies that have made Texas
first in the South in modern farm
services,” White declared. “Peo-
ple assure me they want to keep
an efficient administration in of-
fice.”
Citing recent gains in agricul-
tural work, White pointed out that
the Texas Department of Agricul-
ture services have been increased
as much as 300 per cent on many
programs without making constant
demand's for new tax money.
Born and reared on North Texas
tenant farms, Whitewas head of
the Department of Agriculture at
Midwestern University, Wichita
Falls, prior to his election to of-
fice. He won re-election over two
opponents in both the 1952 and
1956 campaigns and was unoppos-
ed in 1954.
Keep Politics Out
Of Agrictulture Job,
Kothmann Pledges
Glenn H. Kothmann, candidate
for agriculture commissioner, be-
lieves that politics should play
no part in operation of the agri-
culture commissioner’s office. Ac-
cordingly, he has made this his
campaign theme:
“Take politics out of the agri-
culture commissioner’s office.”
Kothmann, a 30-year-old live-
stock man and legislator from
San Antonio, feels his wide back-
ground and experience in the live-
stock field and agriculture togeth-
er with service on all the major
agriculture committees of the Leg-
islature qualify him for the post
he seeks.
He has pledged himself to
serve all areas of the agricul-
ture and livestock business in Tex-
as, from the producer to the con-
sumer.” He says also:
I believe the office of agricul-
ture commissioner ought to be
operated for the benefit of all the
people of Texas. To do this, people
must be put ahead of partisan
political considerations.”
A native of San Antonio, Koth-
mann was educated in the San
Antonio public schools. He gradu-
ated from Texas A and M in J950
with a degree in agriculture.
He is in the livestock business
with his family who have been a
well known hill country livestock
and ranch family for more than
100 years. The Kothmanns have
operated from offices in the San
Antonio union stockyards since
1893.
STANDING WATCH on the
bridge of the destroyer USS
Beatty, is Midshipman Noret
E. Flood, Jr., son of Mr. and
Mrs. Noret E. Flood of Route
2, Mercedes. Midn. Flood is
a student at the University of
Notre Dame. He is on a two-
month training cruise to North-
ern Europe. Before returning
to Norfolk, Va., in early Au-
gust, he will have received
practical “at sea” training in
seamanship, navigation, engi-
neering and gunnery, to help
prepare him for a commission
in the Naval Service upon gra-
duation from college. Having
left Norfolk June 9, Midship-
man aboard the destroyer are
visiting Spain, Portugal, Hol-
land, Sweden and West Ger-
many between training opera-
tions.
Christian Science
Services
fulfillment of Jesus’ promise
“Ye snail know the truth, and the
truth shall make you free” (John
8:32) is a present-day possibility.
This i's a theme to be brought ou1
Sunday.
Scriptural texts and correlative
passages from “Science and
Health with Key to the Scriptures”
by Mary Baker Eddy comprise the
Lesson-Sermon entitled “Truth.”
Among the selections from Sci-
ence and Plealth will be read the
following (313:17-19, 24-26): “Mor-
tals try to believe without under-
standing Truth; yet God is Truth.
A personal sense of God and of
man’s capabilities necessarily
limits faith and hinders spiritual
understanding.”
The Golden Text is from Psalms
(25:5): “Lead me in thy truth,
and teach me: for thou art the
God of my salvation; on thee do I
wait all the day.”
Mercedes, Texas, Thursday, July^^SsIT*168 Enterprise Page 3
STATE CAPITAL NEWS
By VERN SANFORD
Texas Press Association
AUSTIN, Tex. — In 1876 a wag-
on with a team of oxen was good
transportation in Texas. But on
today’s city 'streets and super-
highways, the ox wagon would be
just a traffic bottleneck.
Some Texans now are saying
Texas’ 82-year-old, ox wagon-era
Constitution is a bottleneck on the
road to development of dynamic
20th-century government..
Consitutional revision is not one
of the currently sizzling campaign
issues. But, quietly and patiently,
numerous people in government,
in the bar, in professional and civ-
ic groups, the press and in pri
vate and public educational insti-
tutions are plugging away in a
make-haste-slowly campaign.
Principal objective now is to get
Texans thinking about what they
want and need in a state constitu-
tion today.
Their campaign gained official
blessing last year when the Legis-
lature passed a resolution in-
structing the Legislative Council
to do research on the subject and
report back in 1959. An 18-mem-
ber citizens advisory committee
was appointed to counsel with
the legislative study group. Dean
Robert G. Storey of the SMU Law
School is chairman; C. Y. Mills
of Mission and Mrs. Horton,Wayne
and Dan Moody Jr., of Austin.
Smith of Austin, vice chairmen'
'secretary.
Next meeting of the advisory
group is to be held in September.
Right now, one member admits
that progress toward revision is
itself moving at an ox wagon pace.
Reason is that those concern-
ed feel strongly that any action
'should be preceded by an exhaus-
tive, professional research job.
This takes money.
Legislative Council, with a staff
of seven, and 11 studies under
way, can’t go all-out on this one
thing, but is doing 'some fact ga-
thering during the summer. Both
Council and committee hope to
get money for the work, perhaps
by next year, from the Legisla-
ture and-or some private founda-
tion.
Advocates of Constitutional re-
vison advance these points, among
others, as reasons for concern:
1. It’s a staggering document,
47,000 words long, patched up with
133 amendments. If nine more
proposed amendments are approv-
ed next Novemever, it’ll be 54,000
words. Much of it is regarded by
lawyers as properly belonging in
the statutes rather than in a basic
document like the Constituion.
Much is cited as locally useless,
such as provisions for repelling
Indian raids.
2. Like Topsy, Texas’ h u g h
conglomeration of agencies, de-
partments, commissions and divi-
sions, “just grew.” It’s all so
loosely put together, say critics,
that folks don’t know who’s to
blame when things don’t suit
them. Same indictment is applied
to the fiscal set-up. It’s a billion-
dollar-a-year business, but con-
trol is mine erne ated among many.
State has more than 100 special
funds, representing about 8 per
cent of state revenue. These can’t
be touched by the Legislature,
even if they are not needed for
the purpose for which they’re ear-
marked and are desperately need-
ed elsewhere.
3. Another argument made is
that increasing concentration of
government in Washington can be
halted only if state governments
are sufficiently vigorous and
adaptable to meet people’s chang-
ing and growing needs. Some sug-
gest that Texas’ present Constitu-
tion may be a “strait jacket” on
state government.
HIGH COST OF DRIVING —
Texas drivers will have to “pay
the piper” next year in higher
auto insurance.
State Insurance Board has an-
nounced that, effective Aug. 1,
autos insurance rates will be sub-
stantially higher in most parts of
Texas. Average hike will be 32 per
cent on comprehensive coverage,
19 per cent on liability and 17 per
cent on collision. In Dallas County,
for example, a policy which now
costs $108 will jump to $142.
Premiums paid on the old rale
schedule have not nearly met ac-
cident claims, 'said Penn Jackson-,
chairman of the Insurance Board.
He attributed the insurance com-
panies’ “tremendous los'ses” to
four factors:
1. An increasing number of col-
lisions.
2. Higher cost of repairing to-
day’s swanky cars.
3. Higher cost of hospital and
medical care.
4. Generosity of juries in award-
ing damages to claimants.
Auto owners, said Jackson, mu'st
realize they set their own insur-
ance rates by the way they drive.
WATER FUTURE — Hope for
an ever-more-prosperous Texas is
found in the recently completed
state-federal survey for Texa's’ wa-
ter resources and needs.
Contents of the study were made
public by U. S. Sen. Lyndon B.
Johnson who requested the survey
a year ago. Texas Board of WaR
Engineers and three federal age.
cie's collaborated in compiling dc
ta.
Each major river basin was
studied and the possibility of
switching floodwaters from one
basin to another discussed at len-
gth.
“The scope of the economic im-
pact of large - scale water ex-
change in Texas is impressive,”
said the report. “If exploited to its
Highlights &and sidelights mor
logical conclusion, there is solid
evidence to indicate that the in-
crease in Texas income would be
of great magnitude.”
ON FISHING FOR INDUSTRY
A how-to-do-it booklet for com-
munities wanting to attract new
industry is now in circulation.
It was published by the new
Texas Industrial Commission with
private donations. In 6 pages, the
book tells how a community should
analyze itself, correct any inade-
quacies and bring all good points
to the fore in a promotional effort.
Commission members expressed
hope that passage next Novem-
ber of a constitutional amendment
to permit use of state funds for
advertising would make continua-
tion of their efforts possible.
HANDS OFF — State Board of
Education has gone on record as
officially — and positively — op-
posing any plan to tamper with the
permanent school fund.
Last legislature voted to make 1
per cent of the permanent fund
available annually for current ex-
penses. State Auditor C. H. Cav-
ness has proposed making part of
future income from school lands
available for pressing present
needs and putting only part into
the multi-million-dollar school trust
fund. But the school board de-
clared the fund should be “in-
violate.”
At the same meeting the Board
learned the school fund had run
$6,091,905 in the red for 1957-58.
Reduction in oil production, a
prime source of school revenue,
was blamed.
Per student state payments for
next year were cut from $82 to
$75.
Pvt. Arturo Flores
At Dental School
FORT SAM HOUSTON, TEX.
(AHTNC) — Pvt. Arturo Flores,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Antonio
Flores, 311 Anaquitas St., Merce-
des, Tex., recently completed the
16-week dental laboratory proce-
dures course at Brooke Army
Medical Center, Fort Sam Hous-
ton, Tex.
Flores received basic combat
training at Fort Carson, Colo.
The 23-year-old soldier is a 1955
graduate of Mercedes High School.
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Harvey, J. Edwin. The Mercedes Enterprise (Mercedes, Tex.), Vol. 46, No. 30, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 24, 1958, newspaper, July 24, 1958; Mercedes, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth723996/m1/3/?q=waco+tornado: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Dr. Hector P. Garcia Memorial Library.