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Page 4—Hondo Anvil Herald, Friday, October 14, 1966
NATIONAL NEWSPAPER WEEK
OCTOBER 9-15
How Newspapers Began
This week (October 9-15) is Na-
tional Newspaper Week. We would
like to share with Anvil Herald read-
ers part of the Newspaper Story as
prepared by the Newspaper Public
Information Committee of Newspa-
per Association Managers.
Weekly newspapers, such as
the one you are now reading, reach
approximately 32 million homes in
this country, including your own.
The size of a hometown community
newspaper does not determine its
success and is not related to the
quality thj^ service it renders or to
the importance of its enterprise.
A newspaper such as ours (and
yours) records community life and
events and reflects views that take
form in public sentiment on current
issues. It serves as a liaison between
the source and the recipients of pub-
lic information. It is a dependable
means of communication between
advertisers and readers. Its adver-
tisers are also among its most ob-
servant readers.
The following story, as credited
above, tells How Newspapers Began:
When cave men met along their
jungle pathways, more than likely
they greeted each other with,
"What's new?" People ever since
have been asking, "What's new?"
Most of mankind, from antiq-
uity through the Middle Ages, lived
with only hand-written or word-of-
mouth communications to inform
each other. Julius Caesar, as early
as 60 B. C., was posting hand-writ-
ten bulletins of battles, fires, elec-
tions, and actions of the Senate.
The Peking Gazette was esta-
blished in the 7th or 8th century in
China, where paper, ink, type and
engraving had already been invent-
ed. Transmission of news in Europe
was confined to the spoken word:
town criers, ballad singers and even
wandering minstrels. Traders and
rulers exchanged private letters re-
garding foreign developments.
Until Johann Gutenberg devel-
oped printing with movable type in
1450, most men and women lived
in intellectual as well as physical
serfdom. Gutenberg unknowingly
revolutionized communications by
providing the means of spreading
ideas, as well as news, quickly and
inexpensively.
Within 50 years, printing press-
es were turning out leaflets and
pamphlets of various kinds and soon
news began to appear in print. Feu-
dalism had already started to crum-
ble, but it was the hammer blows
of ideas that brought the walls
crumbling down. Ideas made men
dissatisfied with their lot, making
them demand a change.
The first "newspapers", called
corantos, were smuggled into Eng-
land from Holland. Then came diur-
nals in England, covering happen-
ings in Parliament. Most were de-
clared illegal, but a few were li-
censed and,fen^^.,^4(^go^qlV
LEGISLATIVE GOALS
Shape of Gov. John Connal-
ly’s major legislative goals is
beginning to emerge.
He gives high priority to his
proposal for a constitutional
convention to rewrite the
state’s basic laws.
Modernization of local gov-
ernments is essential to state
progress and effective
management of local af
fairs “Functional government
by federal guidelines" is the
likely alternative to a “renais
sance of local responsibility,”
Connally warned.
Governor outlined a tough,
seven - point traffic safety
program including driver edu
cation for all youngsters, sc
vere penalties for violations of
driving laws and a minimum
licensing age of 16.
“Without question,” he ack-
nowledged, “the 60th Legisla-
ture is looking at a raise in
our state taxes, but it is im
possible to tell exactly how
large or how small."
He also ticked off these
subjects from his lists of leg
islative “essentials”:
Revision of the penal code
and of criminal procedure; ad
ditional sources of revenue for
growing cities; substantial sal
ary raises for state employ
ees; continuation of progress
in education, tourist and in
dustrial development, com
munity services for the men
tally ill and mentally retarded
and park system development
and improvement.
In discussing streamlining ol
local government with county
officials, the governor declar
ed:
“We cannot progress on a
preconceived notion that mod
ernization is politically impos-
sible.’
SCHOOL STRETCHOUT
Texas children ought to start
to school younger and stay in
school longer. So concludes the
State Board of Education in
its 16-point legislative pro
gram.
Board proposes schooling for
five - year - olds, state-sup-
ported summer school for all
grades, a study of feasibility
of a 10 months school year and
seven - hour day, and higher
salaries for teachers.
AG OPINIONS
Atty. Gen. Waggoner
Carr
has held that a county may
provide ambulance service for
its citizens under the authori-
ty given counties to spend pub-
lic money on public health
services.
In another opinion, Carr said
1 hat the Department of Men-
tal Health and Mental Retard-
ation may join forces contrac-
tually with the Texas Educa-
tion Agency to initiate and
supervise “half - way houses”
to help restore mental retard-
ates to society.
Carr also held that children
with only a language skill de-
ficiency do not legally qualify
as “exceptional children," so
no special classrooms may be
set up for them.
SCREWWORMS
Texas’ screwworm epidemic
still is present in the South-
western and South Central
part of the state. However, Dr.
S B. Walker, director of the
Texas Animal Health Commis-
sion, says the end may be in
sight.
Texas’ worst infestation
since the screwworm eradica-
tion program began reached
its height two weeks ago.
Number of cases levelled off
last week. Federal, state and
private resources are being
used to battle the worm.
SHORT SNORTS
Parks and Wildlife Commis-
sion has granted two extra
weeks for quail hunting in A-
ransas, Bee, Cameron, Dim-
mit, Frio, Hidalgo, Jim Wells
Live Oak, Starr, Webb, Willa-
cy and Zavala Counties.
Agri Com. John C. White
announced that the lower Rio
Grande Valley has been free
ol Mediterranean fruit fly in-
festation for 60 days and the
quarantine can be lifted if no
additional insects are found in
the next two months.
State Bar of Texas has re
ceived a $5,000 grant from
Houston Endowment, Inc. to
help it revise the Texas penal
code for submission to the 61st
Legislature in 1969
H. Kenneth Jackson, former-
ly driector of the Field Serv
ices Division of the Texas
State Library, has been nam
ed assistant state librarian un-
der Dr. Dorman J. Winfrey,
who also announced that Mrs.
Marie Schultz will move up to
Jackson’s old post.
Through Our
Neighbor’s Keyhole
COW POKES
By Ace Reid
Yet, Mr. Writer, we still have cattle ttampedes... nearly eYerytim*
we head 'em toward a feed troughl"
Sure enough, a few days la-
rained and not a drop
Old Philosopher Tells About Solving
World Crises By The Bucketful
n»tA- nu Dka all disappeared, hut Jiot ^qw
During the struggle between
Parliament and King Charles I, the
press enjoyed relative freedom in
England, but when Cromwell be-
came Lord Protector in 1649, sup-
pression became the rule. The press
in England fought licensing con-
tinuously and it finally disappeared
in 1695.
But the government was still
reluctant to permit public criticism in
the press. "Libel laws" were enact-
ed which forbade such criticism. Both
British and American newspapers
fought such libel laws for nearly 100
years before they were repealed.
The first attempt at publishing
a newspaper in America in 1690
was suppressed after the first edition
because the publisher did not secure
permission to print it. The first li-
censed newspaper in the colonies
began publication in 1704. It was
The Boston News Letter and it was
heavily censored.
Within the next century, many
more newspapers sprang up in the
13 colonies. All were weeklies or
semi-weeklies until 1783 when The
Pennsylvania Evening Post and Daily
Advertiser became America's first
daily newspaper.
By 180C, there were 235 news-
papers being published in the United
States, only 24 of which were
dailies.
Today there are more than 10.-
700 newspapers being published in
the United States of which 1,751
are published daily and more than
9,000 weekly.
We add: The Anvil Herald is
proud to be one of the nation's
more than 9,0C0 weeklies. We are
proud, too, and appreciative of our
almost 3,000 subscribers.
—EGM
KARNES CITY
Poland’s Millennium will be
celebrated at P a n n a Maria,
Texas, October 23, 1966.
The Millennium means the
achieving of 1,000 years of con-
tinuous identification as a na-
tion — is in itself a singularly
rare and praiseworthy accom-
plishment. Of far more mean-
ingful significance is the rec-
ord during that period of con-
tributions the people of Polish
descent have played in the
growth and progress of Amer-
ica.
BRENHAM
Four suspected cases of a
horse disease which can also
infect man have been found
this week in Washington Coun-
ty, according to the Brenham
Health Department.
The disease is equine en-
cephalitis or sleeping sickness
among horses. It is highly fa-
tal to both horses and man
and is spread by the Culex
T r a s a 1 i s mosquito, accord-
ing to City Sanitarian Dick
Mgebroff.
Mgebroff said the cases arc
of great concern to the local
health authorities because
there is strong evidence that
there are infected Culex trasa-
lis mosquitoes in the Brenham
area. He said immediate con-
trol measures must be taken
to avoid spread of infectious
encephalitis.
EAGLE PASS
Architects have been hired
by the School District to draw
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Berger, President; Fane L.
Burt, Publisher; Edna McDade,
Editor.
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be corrected upon being
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publisher.
plans and specifications for a
new high school. Site of the
proposed building and cost es-
timates have not been report-
ed, but School Board officials
at the recent all - agencies
meeting on county-wide tax e-
qualization mentioned an up-
coming $2Mi-million bond issue.
NAVASOTA
Twenty - five Red Cross
Christmas gift packages for
soldiers in Viet Nam have
been prepared by Red Cross
volunteers of Grimes County.
Each bag received a ball-
point pen, plastic soap dish,
wash cloth, foot powder, pock-
et comb, small package of tis-
sues, paperback book, writing
paper, address book, lighter
(unfilled), nail clipper, playing
cards and small plastic bags
to provide moisture protection
for personal possessions.
FORT STOCKTON
Ranchers in Pecos County
were issued 85 antelope per-
mits this season, reports Jer-
ry Gulihur, game warden for
the county, and 55 animals
have been killed so far.
Gulihur said the other | r-
mit holders probably will ar-
rive in the county this week-
end to try to bag their tro-
phies. The game warden said
he is expecting a 100 percent
kill this season
FALFURRIAS
Coach Richard Lewis tenta-
tively has scheduled a number
of Cross Country meets for
this season’s competition. Lew-
is has an 11-man squad this
season, led by defending stale
champ Robert Gonzalez. Gon-
zalez, a senior this year, is
back to assault his old rec-
ords, including his state rec-
ord of 9:20 set last year. The
second annual Falfurrias Invi-
tational Cross Country meet
will run and is tentatively set
for Oct. 22. The two-m i 1 e
course will be laid out on the
Municipal Golf course, north
of Falfurrias.
HEREFORD
Machine harvesting of toma-
toes for the first time in all
of Texas was completed on a
farm northwest of Hereford
this week.
The tomatoes were drilled
into beds and are a hybrid to-
mato named VF-l-45, especial-
ly developed for mechanical
harvesting. The tomatoes are
slightly smaller than tennis
balls and a bright red-orange
in color.
Tonnage is considered fairly
good. The field here at Here-
ford is producing about 22 tons
per acre.
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this week.
Dear editar:
An unusual thing happened
to me a few days ago. 1 didn't
find just one newspaper, I
found a whole stack, tied with
a piece of string in a ditch a-
longside a road out here near
this Johnson grass farm, but
Ihey weren't all recent papers,
some of them were several
years old.
Just to be doing, 1 brought
them to the house and started
reading, apd you know what, I
have hit on a new theory of
how the world solves its big
problems.
For example, a few years a-
go the Suez Canal was the big
crisis, England threatening to
go to war over it, every news-
paper headlining the problem
ii very day. ^at^nen ..alj ovgr
the,world Wgce.confennB a-
ffgtrt it*w “
giving advice.
But I kept reading the old
papers and gradually the Suez
Canal disappeared from the
headlines on the front page,
moved to the inside, and then
disappeared altogether.
I followed several other big
problems like this, and they
.oXlt Jolmscm’ grass
farm has found a big stack of 'hey were s0
newspapers, which may “ Hprp’s where
plain a much longer
Here’s where my new theory
letter! comes in. My theory >s that
^ the world solves its big prob-
lems like the itinerant repair-
man who fixed a leak in my
neighbor’s house.
This neighbor had a small
leak in the roof over his kitch-
en and his wife nearly nagged
him to death about it He trie ,
but he just couldn’t fix it. Ev-
ery time it rained a little
trickle of water dame down
through the ceiling.
One day this itinerant re-
pairman came by and my
neighbor grabbed him. Can
you fix a leaky roof?" he ask-
ed. . ,
“Sure I cjm,” the man said.
‘That’s my specialty."
“You guarantee it?”
“Certainly. Show me where
it’s leaking."
He looked it over, said he d
fix it for $25.
. ““Go on about your work, 4 11
—a.’Sft, J_-.xm-.nn.. In Jht attic ajjtJ ghLflt
^ajT’in an hour he was
back down.
‘It’s fixed,” he said.
‘Now you guarantee it?" my
neighbor asked.
“If water comes down
through that kitchen ceiling
the next time it rains, I’ll re-
lund your money the next trip
I’m by here."
ter it
0{ water came through.
"Well, finally,” his wife
said, and m,v neighbor sighed
and said he was glad that
problem was licked.
A week later it rained a-
gain, and the water began to
trickle through the ceiling in-
to the kitchen.
My neighbor rushed up into
the attic to see what had hap-
pened
Under the spot where the
water was coming through the
roof was a bucket. It had
held all the leak from the
first rain, but was now full
and overflowing.
That, if you ask me, is the
way the world solves most of
its big problems. Just tempor-
arily, but it’s fine while it
lasts.
Yours faithfully,
J.A.
CLINT GRELL, CLU
1222 N. Main—CA 2-01M
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McDade, Edna. The Hondo Anvil Herald (Hondo, Tex.), Vol. 80, No. 41, Ed. 1 Friday, October 14, 1966, newspaper, October 14, 1966; Hondo, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth810903/m1/4/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 20, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hondo Public Library.