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THE POU COUNTY ENTVtPKISI. LIVINGSTON, TEXAS
THURSDAY. OCTOMR II. IMS
Enterprise
Editorials
HELP ASG MUSCUU&* DY-STROPKY
Aa Airport for Polk Coonty
Wbon the 59th Legislature passed the newtjr
authorised Texas Airport Aid Program a number
of communities west selected by the Texas Aero-
nautics Commission to receive state grants.
.— As the program Is new-It Is apparent that
citizens of the commiaritie* selected were on
their toes and knew what to do at the right
time. These communities selected to receive
aid in constructing an adequate airport doci-
lity are not towns of great population and power.
Thev are small towns like 1.1 vine* ton- Fore*.
irnu, iUumUQ was given 57,500: Caldwell re-
flarfeda w mm HiBeV
tsviUe received a grant for $10,000 and Plnfe-
land received a whopping $15,000. There are
others of comparatively small population which
received grants ranging from $8,00 to $12,000.
These communities are to be commended for
(heir foresight in finding a way to build an air-
port for their respective towns.
These funds may be used for the acquisition,
construction, or maintenance of airports, air-
strips, and other air navigational facilities In co-
operation with local political subdivisions, corn-
mini ties, persons and the Federal government.
Hearings on commtaiities seeking help under
this Texas Airport Aid program started Au-
gust 12 and will be scheduled as required until
all applicants have been heard.
The average Polk Countian might ask the
question. "Well, why get excited about building
an airport. There probably aren't a half a dozen
planes In the entire county.'
Well there arc probably not. \nd there is
another verse to that song ’*• were never will
be as long as there is no adequate place for
airplanes to land.
Anyone who thinks in these terms of ’who
needs an airport?- Is overlooking ooe very
important fact. It provides any community a new.
opportunity to better prepare itaelf for the in-
creased competition being encountered in at-
tractive new business and industry.
As sir travel advances It would be well for
all progressive Polk Countians to begin giving
serious consideration to the idea of a paved,-
"ilptwi; "i^Slgsrett i(ftpiDirt-'liK(Tgfl,’todN'lB'-itoilK*"’
County.
There ate only two basic restrictions imposed
upon the use of Airport Aid finds and Polk
County qualifies under both. They are:
First, none of the airport construction funds
appropriated may be expended for any town or
city In excess of 50,000 population 0960 census
figures),
It is further provided that no contractual
payment, grant or allocation In excess oftwenty
thousand dollars shall be made for the benefit
of any one town, comm ini ty or city.
With Lake Livingston a certainty, the Indian
Reservation Recreation project in the mill and a
barge canal a possibility, now is the time to
start working toward an airport for Polk County.
The fact that the Houston International Airport
is beiv! constructed just a short distance from
us is even more reason why we need an airport.
Let us keep up with the times so we may grow
and prosper as other communities do.
......
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SENATOR JOHN TOWER'S
WEEKLY PRESS RffORT
The people of Texas won a
tremendous victory when the
Semite refused to continue this
year with a proposal to strike
•down our State’s Right - to -
Work law. I was pleased topar-
tkipate In the •educational
campaign* which thwart* At-
tempts to repeal Section 14b
of the Taft - Hartley law .
I believe Texans should re-
tain the right to decide for them-
selves whether our., state is to
retain its Right - to - Work
law. not have that law wiped
out by Federal decree. We have
a better state and better unions
that will give an’hour's work
for an hour’s pay and void
of being forced to alow down
his operations to keep within
the purposely low standards es-
tablished by hit imposed lead-
ers;
Freedom from assessments
for dues and political activities
In sigjport of candidates and is-
sues a worker does not desire
to support;
Freedom to work for a pro-
motion without being hamatrui*
by arbitrarily set standards
that breed mediocrity, stifle
Initiative, and delay promotion;
This is what right to work
means. It is the freedom to work
----
perhaps _ .
should be, in my opinion, free-
dim to work:*
Freedom to work without be-
ing forced to join a union or to
pay tribute to a union, or to
any other organisation of work-
ing men with which the indivi-
dual worker does not happen to
agree;
Freedom to secure a job on
ability and to hold that job
by virtue of capacity to per-
form;
Freedom to work in a fashion
YOUR CONGRESSMAN
JOHN DOWDY
Handouts Create Mendicants fcefronU
A proposal that first came to public notice
a year or so ago, and then disappeared from
view, has made a new appearance. It is that
the federal government return a proportion of
the taxes it takes from the states back to the
states, to that they may be in a better finan-
cial position to meet the wants and needs of their
people.
TMs time the proposal has substantial politi-
cal airport. Whether anything ever comes of it,
the implications and the possibilities are worth
full public consideration.
The states, and local governments, have been
depending more and more on a wide assort-
ment of federal aids. Voters are encouraged
to promote all manner of local programs if
Unda Sam will pick tg> part or perhaps most
of the chit. What isn’t mentioned is that this
money has to first be taken from the people —
money has to first be taken from the people —
and that a substantial part of that take disap-
pears In paying the overhead of vast and mys-
terious Washington bureaucracies.
Worse than the financial question is that so-
called federal aid also means federal domina-
tion. So state and local rights, responsibilities
and pride of purpose are gradually eroded away.
In this, as In Individual aflhirs, handouts create
mendicants.
The best solution would be to end federal par-
ticipation in purely local affairs. Failing that,
a return of part of the federal tax take to the
states whence it came might give local govern-
ments some resurgence of independence and au-
thority that they so sorely need.
Things Have Changed
A.
Things certainly seem to have changed so ter
as repeal of section I4(b) of the Tafl - Hartley
Act is concerned. This is the section that
permits the states to pass right - to - work
laws forbidding compulsory union membership,
and I9 have done so. The repeal bill, backed
by the Administration and considered a number
I priority by organized labor, passed the House
with comparative ease. The general belief was
that the Senate would concur. «
But now reports from Washington say there
are grave doubts that the bill will come to a
senate vote this year. The ranks of the op-
ponents of repeal hSve stiffened. F.xtended de-
bate is promised.
Public opinion, as various polls attest, backs
the right - to - work principle. It doesn’t
do this because it is against organized labor
or the union movement. It does do it because
it believes that the right of a mar to join or
not to join any organization, as he so decides
without coercoin, is a fundamental freedom.
Let the uniona gain and hold their member-
shipa on the basis of good service — not with
the use of an indefensible power which permits
them to tell a man he must join and pay tribute
or enter the ranks of the unemployed.
Funds For Rural Facilities Are
Increased To 450 Millions
More than a million people
in rural \merica may benefit
from an expansion in financial
support for rural community
'“TScflltles arid family farms au-
thorized by recent legislation,
L. J. Cappleman, Farmers
Home Administration State Dir-
ector^for Texas said today.
Private investors will pro-
vide the bulk of the funds on
an insured basis through
LSDA’s Farmers Home Ad-
ministration,"
The legislation signed into
law by President Johnson on
October 7:
Authorizes an Increase from
S200 to $450 million in the
> Farmers Home Administra-
tion’s ability to insure loans
in any one year for rural com-
munity facilities including wa-
ter supply and waste disposal
systems, anil for “the develop-
ment and purchase of family
farms/ / 1
Provides for the first time',
this type credit for rural waste
disposal systems.
Authorizes, for the first time,
grants to supplement this type
of credit for rural water and
waste disposal systems. Grant
authority may not exceed 50
percent of the construction of a
project nor a total of $50 mil-
lion a year.
Authorizes, for the first time,
grafts totaling $5 million aycar
>arnor Mattie Ttppil I left I of Diitrict I. Pilot Club
•tienel, end Mrs. M. J. Whitehead, president of
Pilot Club of Livinqston durinq the rocent Official
to the Livinqston Club. Governor Tippit proisod
for its community service activities end
suqqestiofts for improvement of committee
ihe also said the Livmqston Club had the best
y in the district.
for comprehensive planning of
water and sewage systems.
Increases from 2,500 to 5,500
the size of towns eligible for
such assistance.
Increases from $1 to $4 mil-
lion the maximum size of a loan,
or a combination loon and grant
for water supply or waste dis-
posal systems._________
The 1,600 field offices of the
Fa*m*rs,Home Administration
are being ratified to accept
appllcations raider the expanded
credit authorities. Grant assis-
tance will rat be available until
"funds are appropriated by Con-
gress.
Applications for rural com-
munity facilities loans may be
made by public bodies and non
profit private organizations.
The $450 million in insured
loans plus the $55 million in
grants authorized yearly by the
}ct can help an estimated 800
rural areas containing approxi-
mately one million people obtain
needed water and waste disposal
systems and other facilities and
provide 18,000 farm families
with credit needed to-secure
their foothold on the land.
Witty this expanded authority,
we can be-for more effective
in helping rural communities
and family farmers obtain need-
ed resources, build their eco-
nomic strength. We must cease
looking to the cities for solu-
tions to rural problems. Wc
must work to make rural Amer-
ica strong.
Real Estate 16ans made In
•Texas since the Inception of the
Farmers Home Administration
are as follows:
Soil and Water Association
Loana — 273 for $28,263,340,
Soil and Water Individual
Loana - 1362 for $8,520,653.
Farm Ownership Loans —
8625 for $100,549,076. «
Rural Housing Loans -
5774 for $45,781,580.
Economic Opportunity Coop
Loana — 2 for $3,800.
Total All Real Estate
Loans —16,036 tor $185,118,449.
Real Estate made in the Polk
and Trinity County ltilt since
inception of the Farmers Home
Administration are aa follows:
Farm Ownership Loans—
38 for $407,895.
Soil l Water Individual
Loans _ 27 for $10M20.
Rural Housing
126 for $1,139,396.
SERVICEMEN’S INSUR-
ANCE: The House passed a bill
to permit servicemen to pur-
chase $10,000 groip life Insur-
ance at a cost of $2.00 per man
per month. Members of the
armed forces would each for
himself decide whether he wants
the Insurance; In other words,
this is a voluntary policy of
insurance, and if the service-
man wants it, the coat will be
deducted from his monthly pay .
1 believe this is a meritorious
Mil.
IT’S YOUt MONEY. A Uni-
ted States soldier (grade E-l)
fighting in Vietnam is paid $149
per month; the Itolted States
Poverty program pays $240per
mooth-to the school dropouts
\tsfio are'-enrolled In the Job
Corps. Thii^ seems to me to
be a reversal of the ‘equal
pay for equal work* proposi-
tion. Furthermore, these school
dropouts who are enrolled in the
Job Corps are coating the tax-
payers in the neighborhood of
$7,000 each, per year, In tax
v» money. It is reported that some
2,000 of the first 13,OOOof these
enrollees have already dropped
out of the Job Corps because
they became bored with the idee
of mastering a trade, or even
learning to read and write, and
that the dropout rate it in-
creasing. After free cross -
country trips to these training
camps, the enrollees are invit-
ed, rather than told, to study
and keep their rooms neat. Many
of them mutilate the walla, lie,
steal, commit assaults, and re-
fuse to bathe. At the very first
sign that they are expected to
act in a decent manner, they
demand a return ticket home,
and get it.
RENT SUBSIDY PROGRAM.
This program to have the tax-
payers subsidize house rent for
urban residents was amended
when it passed the House to
provide that only low • income
families would receive bene-
fits from it. HHFA has Issued
regulations for the program
which provide, among other
things, that a family may have
net assets up to three times
the annual income limit, and
still have hit rati subsidized
at the expense of the federal
taxpayer. This would mean a
family, if living in the right
a?ea, and having the right poli-
tical *pull,« could have net as-
sets as much as $25,000, with
an annual income of tome
$8,000, and still have the tax-
payers, including those of us
who live in rural areas, pay
part of their house - rent for
them. The House of Represen-
tatives, in passing the appro-
priation bill this week, did re-
fuse to appropriate the $6 mil-
lion which was to have been used
to start financing the program.
Last week the Agriculture
Bill was sent to President Lyn-
don B. Johnson to be signed Into
law, after both the House and the
Senate agreed on a Conference
Report that ironed out the dif-
ferences between the House and
the Senate bill.
This farm bill is especially
important for our state of Tex-
as, which ranks as one of the
Nation’s three top farm states
in cash receipts from farming,
with a total of $2,304,000,000
last year, 1964.
Texas has the largest num-
ber of farms in 'the Nation,
224.000 in 1962, with over
300.000 form families living on
thSm. Over half of our total ac-
reage in Texas is In farmland -
over 143 million acres. Tens
ranks first in the Nation with
total farming area, with 731
of all the lands farmed in Amer-
ica. In the total value of land
and buildings on farms and ran-
ches, Texas ranks second in the
Nation only to California with a
total value of land and buildings
in Tens of $11,759,000,000.
These statistics show how
important the farm bill is to
the farmers and ranchers of
Tens themselves, but this farm
bill is also important to every
person living in a city in Texas
or in the Nation. Without a
healthy farm and ranch com-
munity, the cities of our state,
and particularly the smaller
county seat towns, would wither
on the vine. The business of
supplying, processing, manu-
because of the law.
1 do agree with some who say , .
srnsrs*"'
vance. It means the freedom to
choose one’s employer, to se-
cure a job, and to hold that job
by virtue of one’s own ability.
Building May Be
Cheape^ Than
Remodeling
COLLEGE STATION,Oct. —
W hether to remodel one’s home
or sell it and purchase or
build a new one is a question
pondered by many families.
W. S. Allen, Extension agri-
cultural engineer at Texas A&M
University, suggests thata fam-
ily make sure the home la worth
remodeling before deciding to
do so.
•Unless the house is In good
condition, the cost of remodel-
ing may be as much or more
than building a new one,* he
said.
Here are suggested Items to
check: Are the foundation walls
cracked? Floors sagging or
shaky? Walls out of plumb?
Roof lines uneven? Do doors and
windows fit properly? Does sid-
ing, roof, chimney or stair-
way need replacing? Will a
complete job of plastering and
painting be needed?
If the answers are all yes,
the cost of remodeling probably
will be as much as the build-
ing is worth, Allen said.
As a further check, deter-
mine If modern conveniences,
such as plumbing, heating and
wiring can be put Into the pre-
sent home. Can the layout of the
rooms be changed for greater
convenience and privacy?
W hat about the location of the
house? Does it have easy ac-
cess to highways, schools,
churches and shopping centers?
w ould another location be more
convenient for your family now,
or in the future? Other factors
to consider are availability of
water, electric power, ease and
method of sewage disposal,
drainage and wind exposure.
Young children receive milk at one of the school
feeding programs conducted by Church World Service
in Latin; America. Some CROP contributions pay for
the distribution of government-donated foods such as
dry mflk which CWS exports to needy people. '•;><*
Plans Being Made For "Trick Or
Treat For Crop" Project Here
I will instruct thee and
teach thee in the way which
thou shall go.—(Psalms 32:8)
Every problem has its per;
feet answer in the Mind of God,
but we must be quiet all our
thoughts long enough so that
we hear the answer. God is al-
ways speaking the perfect word
of guidance for each moment
as it comes, but we must listen
for this guidance.
factoring, and merchandising
Terns farm and ranch commo-
dities is a $6.2 billion annual
business. The food processing
and associated agricultural
manufacturing industries in
Texas rank first in Texas in
the number of plants in opera-
tion as well as first in the num-
ber of people employed in Tex-
as.
W ith so many employees on
the farms and ranches themsel-
ves, and many more in related
farm processing industries, the
farm bill passed by the Con-
gress grows in importance in
sustaining the vitality of our
state’s economy. But, not only
does our state of Texas re-
quire a healthy farm corn-
mini ty, the whole Nation re-
quires it.
Texas ranks number one
in the United States in cotton
production and cottonseed pro-
duction, with an average
production of 4 3/4 million
bales a year, sold at an average
of 30 cents per pound, or $50
per bale. This represents al-
most one third of the Nation’s
cotton crop, which is the se-
cond largest industry in our
Nation.
As President Lyndon B. John-
son in his Agricultural Message
to Congress last year said,
more than a million people are
engaged in the production of cot-
ton In America, and an ad-
ditional 1 1/2 million Ameri-
cans are engaged Intheproduc-'
tion of cotton cloth and cotton
products for consumers. With
the prominent part which Tex-
as plays in our cotton industry,
it is essential that our farmers
have a reasonable income and
adequate economic opportuni-
ties. -•+
Texas is also the leading cat-
tle, sheep, and goat raising
state, and is a great producer
of grain sorghums, wheat, rice,
dairy products, citrus fruits,
and other products.
W ithout a healthy farm com-
munity with stabilized income
and adequate farm prices, the
economic future of this Nation
will be in jeopardy.
For this reason I am happy
to report to you that 1 sup-
ported this year’s farm bill,
and also have urged the Secre-
tary of Agriculture to make a
study as to how the agricul-
tural sector of our community
can more effectively prosper
and thus help the Nation to pros-
per.
FAMlir POT lUCKrs
T ar mclsn hah vl,
Canned tomatoes ana lima
beans (16 ounces each) are
sprinkled with flour, salt, pepper
and dotted with butter Mix in
2 slices of bread cut in cubes
and the casserole is ready for
a Moderate (375 F.) oven for
25 to 30 minutes
Chili quick, place canned chili
in a heavy skillet, top with corn
bread batter and bake. Invert to
serve in wedges A meal in one.
when it's paired with t salad
Shredded cabbage and raisins
make a good salad combination
Salt, sugar and creamy salad
dressing are the only extras
Pretty salad combines fresh
spinach leaves with tomato and
hard-cooked egg slices You’ll
need an oil and-vmegar dressing
Scallop sliced apples with
bread crumbs, sugar, cinnamon
and butter Bake until apples
are tender, serve with hard sauce
Make a seasoned ground beef
and rice mixture with plenty of
tomato sauce or the Sloppy Joe
mixture with rice added. It’s
wonderful served on French
bread buns. __
The annual community-wide,
Halloween ‘Trick or Treat for
CROP* project will be held in
Livingston again this year with
Mrs. Raymond Jones as Chair-
man . A committee of represent-
atives from several Livingston
churches will plan the door-to-
door campaign which has been
set for Friday night, October 29.
•CROP* is the Christian
Rural Overseas Program which
distributes food and medicine
and form tools through church
missionary' channels to needy
persons overseas. It is a
•people to people* type program
and la not connected In any way
to any government. Churcheaof
all denominations accept and
Soil L Water Association
Low, — 1 for $74,000.
Total All Real Estate
Loans — 192 for $1,729,511.
distribute materials from
CROP, including all major Bap-
tist groups, Methodists, Pres-
byterians, Episcopalians,
Church of Christ, Assembly of
God, Lutherans and others. All
of these same churches
cooperate in many towns
throughout Texas in the annual
Halloween fund raising project
as well as CROP’S year-round
program of securing do-
nations of various farm
products.
Across Texas, boys and girls
raised a total of over $57,000.00
last year, thus turning
Halloween into something useful
and constructive Instead of the
sometimes selfish and destruc-
tive holiday that it Is. In Liv-
ingston, approximately $145 was
raised and neatly $25 was
raised in Camden.Goodrichand
Corrigan did not carry out the
project last year u in previous
years.
Further details about this
year’s campaign will be given by
Mrs* Jones next week1.
OUTi OF THIS WORLD
CHOICE^
- W\M
Costumes, perfect for Halloween Eve . . from pretty \1 Tf
princesses to mischievous imps to spooky skeletons,” 1 'N
we have their favorite trick or treating costumes ‘ f
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