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HIGHLIGHTS AND SIDELIGHTS
Bible thought for this week . . .
God is our refuge and strength,
a very present help in trouble.
Psalms 44:1
THE CLIFTON RECORD
Congressman Poage's
Washington Report
September 1, 1966
From Your State Capitol
~ —A T D A
EDITORIAL PAGE
Thursday, September 8, 1966
Clifton, Texas
Dear Friends
AUSTIN. Tex.—It seems that a
power struggle between House
and Senate leaders on the Legis-
lative Burget Board cost Direc-
tor Vernon McGee his $20,000 a
year job.
Board is made up of five state
senators and five house mem-
bers. In the past they have fash-
ioned the State budget - mainly
behind closed doors.
House Speaker Ben Barnes
maintains that the budget should
One of the most misunderstood
activities of our government is
the Mohole Project which was
deleted from the recent Approp-
riation Bill. The reason for this
action was basically "political”.
Some Members of Congress
found that George Brown had
contributed to the "President’s
Club”. Of course, Mr. Brown has
been a close friend of President
Johnson for many years. More
important, Mr. Brown does not
now own "Brown & Root”, the
prime contractor on this job.
This company was sold to the
Haliburton Company some time
ago.
In spite of the facts, it was
too easy to make this look like
a case of favoritism. As a result,
a really valuable scientific pro-
gram was killed. Nor did the
fact that we already had spent
many times more than now was
involved stop those who wanted
to give the impression that there
was some wrongdoing. I am
afraid no money was saved. Cer-
tainly, a great deal of the work
already done was lost, and we
still are without any of the know-
ledge of the earth’s interior
which we had hoped to secure.
Some day man is going to drill
through the earth’s crust and
doubtless will harness the tre-
of energy
A Glance at Past Events
From The Files of The Clifton Record
REAL PROUD
act. Connally went to New
Braunfels to meet the marchers
who were on a 400-mile trek to
the capital for a Labor Day rally.
Short Snorts
Texas business activity drop-
ped four per cent in July —
sharpest break since last fall and
second sharpest since 1963.
State Health Department urges
Texans to destroy all possible
mosquito breeding places (water
traps) to combat disease.
An Employ - the - Handicapped
Conference will be held here Sep-
tember 23 by the governor’s
committee.
Another $1,500,000 in Neighbor-
hood Youth Corps projects for 27
counties has received the gover-
nor’s approval.
Texas Department of Public
Safety is seeking authentic ob-
jects, used by Texas Rangers
during any period, to be perman-
ently placed in a public museum
being organized at the depart-
ment headquarters in Austin.
Wendell Wallace. New Squad-
men that showed - promise of
making a strong team are backs
Billy Beckner, "Pinky" Canute-
son, Freddie Pilant, and Don
Holt; linesmen Bill Whitley, Bil-
ly Harvey, Neil Hulings, Charles
Gustafson, Bobby Jackson, Mor-
ris Alfie, Orville Langeth, Gerald
Rice and Charles Bronstad. Due
to an accident which broke three
toes, Co • Captain Doyle Hulme
will be out of uniform four to
six weeks.
Mrs. Pierce Davidson, of Dal-
las, and Mr. and Mrs. Murray
Ford, of Austin, were week-end
guests of Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Ten-
nison.
20 Years Ago
Sept. 4, 1944
The douDie wedding last Satur-
day night, August 31, in the Clif-
ton Baptist Church of the popular
couples, Murzel Elder and Miss
Joyce Hundley and Herbert Lub-
ke and Miss Oleta Elder, attract-
ed wide interest in Clifton.
The members of the Presbyter-
ian Church of this city are pleas-
ed to announce that their new
pastor will begin holding services
here on Sept. 8. The Rev. Cecil
H. Smith comes to this communi-
ty from Palestine, Texas, to
serve the local church as resi-
dent pastor holding services here
on the second and fourth Sundays
of each month and in Turners-
ville on the first and third Sun-
days.
be written "on the floor” by the
lawmakers and that all commit-
tee hearings on it should be open
to legislators and the public.
Barnes wants the House to
have a larger role in writing the
- dollar state gen-
multi - billion
eral appropriations bill. He also
wants to put
ence committee powers.
He feels that a new budget
chief, without close ties in the
senate, will aid his drive for a
joint legislative rules amend-
ment to restrict conference com-
mittees to adjusting differences
between bills, rather than writ-
ing new legislation in secret ses-
sion.
’ McGee has helped process the
State's $3,600,000,000 biennial
budget during the past 17 years.
Speaker Barnes, while praising
McGee’s ability, said the budget
director had become too power-
ful and was too close to veteran
state senators who have long
dominated budget writing.
Lt. Gov. Preston Smith favored
re-employing McGee. But the
board voted 6-3 against rehiring.
One senator joined representa-
tives in the vote for discharge
and another voted "present”,
Patrol Gets Short Week
Uniformed Texas highway pa-
a brake on confer'
Mrs. Davidson is the
daughter of the latter. The above
group drove to Morgan Sunday
to join other relatives in cele-
brating Mrs. T. J. Ford’s 91st
birthday. Mrs. Ford is Mrs. Ten-
nison's mother.
Monday, Sept. 9, will be regis-
tration day for the fall session at
Clifton Junior College, with con-
tinued registration and formal
opening exercises being held on
Tuesday, Sept. 10. C. Tyssen,
president, stated that the College
was preparing for an enrollment
of between 100 and 120, the great-
est in the history of the College.
Coach M O. Juel was highly
pleased with his prospects for
the football season ahead when
38 men reported for practice this
week.
Football training got underway
| Monday in earnest at Clifton
High School after equipment was
issued. Seven lettermen,
Bosque County is equipped with rune
schools, located in Clifton, Valley Mills,
Meridian, Cranfills Gap, Morgan, Kop-
Back To The Revolution
This month, according to preliminary
estimates available from the Texas Edu-
cation Agency, 2.530.083 pupils will re-
turn to classes in Texas’ far-flung public
school systems.
Many of them, primarily the younger
ones, will be unaware they are the benefi-
ciaries of a revolution in education. New
concepts of learning, new equipment,
better teachers, more comfortable class-
rooms and better textbooks will be the
order of the day for many of them —
although not all of them.
The so-called “revolution in educa-
tion” bears some thought, as classes be-
gin again. It was in 1957 that the Russians
launched their Sputnik I satellite. So,
this year is one decade after the event.
And what an event!
The lofting of Sputnik was greeted
here at home, we all remember, with
loud and erroneous outcries t h a t the
public schools were not doing their job
—that, in the paraphrased words of some
critics, “that the schools were turning
out uneducated children.”
The baseless criticism still continues,
despite the fact that the U. S. is ahead,
or at least, even, with the Russians in
space science. Of course, earth-orbiting
Clifton Record Gains 53
New Subscribers in August
During the month of August
157 persons renewed their sub-
scriptions to The Clifton Record,
and 53 persons from the following
towns were listed as new Record
subscribers;
Austin — Harold Blankenship,
Wendell M. Larson.
Cranfills Gap
Bertelsen.
Mrs, Anna Paulson
Allen D. Chaney
Completes Course
Army Private Allen D. Chaney.
18, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Perne.v
A. Chaney, now V Midland but
formerly of Clifton, completed a
leadership preparation course ai
the Non - Commissioned Officer
Academy at Fort Polk, Louisiana,
on August 26.
Private Chaney received two
indud- weeks of intensive training in
ing five starters returned. They leadership, map and compass
are Captain Amos Elder, Kirby reading, weapons, and drill in
Humphries. George Busch. Clyde preparation for assuming a ju-
Seljos, and R. O. Bass, regulars: nior position of leadership in ad-
and Sherman Jorgenson and vanced infantry training.
mendous resources
which are supposed to exist in
the heated interior. I had wanted
our country to get there before
the Russians.
This is written on Thursday
as I am going to Texas tonight
to receive an award at Texas
A&M University tomorrow morn-
ing. I will be back in Washington
Sunday. We have been voting on
a large number of bills this past
week and probably will do so
next week; but we don’t seem to
reduce the log jam of so-called
“must” bills which prevent any
prospect of an early adjourn-
ment. .
A few minutes ago the House
approved the Conference Report
on the Foreign Aid Bill. I voted
against it. It seems to me that,
are faced
education this year of 2.5 million young
Texans in the state’s public schools. Pub-
lic education in Texas is indeed better
than it was 10 years ago.
Why?
The outcries of education’s critics in
1957 helped build a fire under public
willingness to finance better schools. And
that is one reason why the schools are
doing better jobs today. Years before
Sputnik I, teachers and administrators
went unheard as they cried out for funds
necessary to upgrade education and to
keep it relevant to the changing times.
The parents of the 2.5 million kids in
Texas public schools this year, as with
their counterparts all over the nation,
look to the schools for much. And the
schools, by and large, will supply very
much.
It’s a good time to remember, how-
ever, that the schools can’t do every-
thing to make Johnny the perfect speci-
men of human happiness, wise in all
things, matchlessly prepared to meet and
conquer his future.
The home still must play its part and
so must the church. Society in general,
the busy streets and the open cities, are
learning experiences for Johnnny, too.
What he sees and hears in those “class-
rooms” may impress him as much or
maybe more than the science lab or Eng-
lish class.
Life is just too complicated to mea-
sure out a child’s education in sharply
defined segments and areas. The school
teachers can’t do it all but they are try-
W. Bellamy
Clifton
Mrs. T. C. Boedecker Jr., W. W ,
McLennan, Mrs. W. E. Lee, Paul
M. Miller, Walter Wiede, Mrs.
Berta Standefer, Mrs. Joe Bole-
man, Arbra Holloway, H. R.
Wuensche, John L. Lambert,
Mrs. Sadie Randall.
Conroe —- Tommie Roetschke.
Dallas — Mrs. Glenn Crawford
and Robert B. Lane.
Fort Worth—Jimmie Roetschke.
Groves — Charles Mitchell.
Hamilton — Mrs. J. B. Smith.
Houston — Larry Wallace and
Miss Anna Marie Olson.
Jonesboro — Cecil B. Trigg.
Kopperl — L. T. Bateman.
Laguna Park Station, Clifton —
James S. White, Tommy Allen,
R. M. Dickerson, Robert W.
Hammack, A. R. Emerson, J. C.
Wilkison.
Meridian — Sheppard Drug, R.
E. Wyatt.
Morgan — Vivian Kuykendall,
Richard A. Hanson, A. D. and
Hattie Miller, T. M. Ganze, Lon-
nie K. Green, Anna Phillips, W.
F, Fulton, J. C. Lyerla, O. W.
Jamar, B. G. Estill.
Pasadena — Coy E. Smith.
trolmen are going on a five-day
week as the Department of Pub-
lic Safety moves to recruit and
keep qualified officers and pro-
vide better law enforcement.
Col. Homer Garrison Jr., di-
rector of the DPS, says there are
125 vacancies in the patrol ser-
vices. Next deadline for applica-
tions is October 17.
Treasury Surplus Climbs
Biggest fiscal year-end surplus
in the general fund in Texas’
history was recorded August 31
by State Treasurer Jesse James.
Total ran $138,000,000.
James reported the surplus as
$1,600,000 higher than the previ-
ous year. Current biennium ends
August 31, 1967.
Attorney General Roles
A road district can be formed
which encompasses territory ly-
ing in more than one county. So
held Atty. Gen. Waggoner Carr
in an official opinion. However,
the entire area of each county
making up such district must be
especially when we
with serious inflation, we should
at least try to limit our aid to
those items which we have in
surplus. The recipients of our aid
never seem to realize that unless
we can maintain our own econ-
omic health that it will be im-
possible for us to continue to
give them any kind of aid.
As an example of what I have
in mind, I want again to refer
to the agricultural aid to India.
We are supplying India with tre-
mendous quantities of wheat.
Wheat is no longer in great sur-
plus here. Cotton, on the other
hand, is in substantial surplus.
India puts more acres into cotj
ton
We strive to lighten the
burden for the bereaved
in every way possible . . .
through beautiful sur-
rounding* that bring tran-
quility.
included and counties involved
SSL-i must be contiguous to each other.
’. olna' "Road districts", says Carr,
"Jk,™ “may acquire right of way or
re nave use by tbe state Highway De-
a. P™?' partment to improve and extend
to help the state Highway System.”
, cotton Millions Asked For Buildings
uld helD State Department of Mental
, the in. Health and Mental Retardation is
strings” seeking $53,600,000 for new build-
■fuses to ings and for expansion of exist-
ing facilities during the next bi-
ennium.
aee Money would go to facilities at
Abilene, Austin, Denton, Corpus
Christi, El Paso, Lubbock, Luf-
■lers will kin, Mexia, Richmond, Big
'over for Spring, Kerrville, San Anton-
H excite- io. Terrell, Wichita Falls and in
San An- the Rio Grande Valley (site to
Hemis- be selected).
starting Board for MH-MR was in‘
intinnine formed that mental hospitals at
ere site Rusk, San Antonio and Wichita
, historic Falls fel1 below standards of the
ibits and Joint Commission on Accredita-
nt Hem- tie" and cannot participate in
diversi- Medicare benefits until they cor-
Western rect shortcomings,
started, Connally Says No
d, and Governor John Connally told
Charles R. Gales.
Waco — Mrs. Hulda Siepert.
Carrabelle, Florida — Ray-
mond Zuehlke.
Granada Hills, California —Dr.
John B. Holder.
Keithville, Louisiana -
Mickelson.
Las Vegas, Nevada -
M. Wallace.
Arlington, Mass
—Mrs. C. 0. Bennett Jr.
N S A F Academy, Colorado
Donald R. Stryker.
Newport, Rhode Island
Mary S. Poe.
Eddie
Mrs. Schow's Brother
Succumbs in Abilene
Coleman F. Smith, 75, of Abi-
lene, a brother of Mrs. E. E.
Schow, of Clifton, died at 5:00
o'clock on Tuesday afternoon,
August 30, at the Hendricks Me-
morial Hospital in Abilene fol-
lowing a long illness.
Funeral services for Mr. Smith
were held at 2:30 o'clock on
Thursday afternoon, September
1, at the Tye Methodist Church,
with interment following in the
Tye Cemetery.
Mr. and Mrs. Schow went to
Abilene early the day of the
services and remained there
with relatives until the following
Friday afternoon.
Area Happenings
CLIFTON
FUNERAL HOME
“Every Service A Perfect Tribute
Robert
News from Neighboring Towns
The Valley Mills Tribune
The Gatesville Mesaenger
Construction work on a new
$451,000 unit at the Gatesville
State School for Boys began
Thursday, Sept. 2. GSSB Busi-
ness Manager R. G. Woolever
said the new facilities will prob-
ably be ready for occupancy next
July or August. It will be located
a quarter-mile east of the Ter-
race unit.
The Itasca Item
A new building has been start-
ed behind the present school
building and wiU be completed
the latter part of September.
the fledging organization, was
elected as the club’s first pres-
ident.
The Hico News Review
Hico’s new post office building,
under construction the past three
months, was nearing completion
this week.
The Meridian Tribune
Seventh Cedar Brake Trail
Ride will be bypassing Meridian.
The Caravan will form at Hico
City Park and depart at 7 a.m.
Friday, Sept. 30, for Hamilton.
From there they will proceed
through Gatesville and McGreg-
or, arriving at the Heart O’
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