The Winkler County News (Kermit, Tex.), Vol. 24, No. 39, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 11, 1960 Page: 8 of 17
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*THE WINKLER COUNTY NEWS, Kermit, Texas
Page 2—Sec. II Thursday, August 11, 1960
It's Your Celebration
The Winkler County Golden Jubilee Celebration
is almost upon us.
As a matter of fact, one might say that the cele-
bration is already upon us.
The official start of the celebration, August 30, is
approximately two and a half weeks away. In prepar-
ing a celebration of the magnitude this affair must
have, two and a half weeks is not much time.
Until last week activities had been moving along at
a fair pace, but without any definite direction. With
the arrival of Lloyd West, representative of the John
B. Rogers Producing Company, the program has now
taken a firm and straight course.
But, there is still much that needs to be done be-
tween now and August 30.
Casting and rehearsals for the historical pageant,
Winkler Wonderama, have just gotten under way. Con-
struction of the stage, collection of relics and antiques
to be used in the pageant and for displays have barely
started.
Brothers of the Brush and Celebration Belles are
beginning to perk up their activities. A kangaroo
court was held last Saturday afternoon on the Court-
house lawn. Mass meetings of the two groups were held
Saturday.
What has or hasn’t been done is not mentioned in
rebuke to anyone. Rather, it is mentioned in an effort
to stimulate greater action.
Everyone is busy. Businessmen must devote time
to their concerns, housewives to their homes and fami-
lies.
No matter how busy you are, you should find some
time to participate in the fiftieth anniversary cele-
bration of your county.
| Perhaps you haven’t joined the Celebation Belles
| or Brothers of the Brush because no one has asked
you personally. Possibly you didn’t show up at the
casting meeting for the pageant for the same reason.
Were you ever invited to your own birthday par-
ty? The Golden Jubilee celebration is exactly the same.
You do not need an invitation from anyone to
take part. All you need is the desire to participate and
help in making the affair the type program Winkler
County residents would like it to be.
Actually, if you want an invitation to participate,
here is one. You are needed, you are wanted. Won’t
you take part in your celebration?
Casting and rehearsals for the pageant are going
on each night at the community center. In addition
to the many needed for parts, others will be needed to
help back stage.
If you can’t make the evening meetings, why
don’t you call the Jubilee office at the Chamber of
Commerce building and offer your services.
It’s your celebration. But only by joining in with
the fun—and the work—can it be a truly tremendous
celebration.
This Is
The Law
In Texas
Back in 1860 when there
were no women lawyers in the
United States the spirited and
highly intelligent wife of a
young Illinois lawyer suggest-
ed that he teach her to be an
attorney.
This was a time when wo-
men were expected to stay
home to attend their knitting.
Nevertheless, James Brad-
well had the courage to allow
his wife to defy convention.
In 1869 she passed her ex-
amination and was certified
for admission to the bar of the
Supreme Court of Illinois.
That court refused her appli-
cation on the ground that she
was married.
Undaunted by the adverse
decision of the Illinois court,
Mrs. Bradwell carried her
case to the United States Su-
preme Court. In 1873, after
holding the case for a lengthy
period without decision, the
Supreme Court 'affirmed the
Illinois court. Mrs. Brad-
well had lost her battle but
she had won a war for the
fair sex. The widespread in-
terest engendered by her case
became the opening wedge.
Soon the barrier of prejudice
was down and women were
being admitted to the practice
of law throughout the Nation.
After she had been refused
admission to the bar Mrs.
Bradwell operated a highly
successful legal publication
business and became the lead-
er of numerous reform move-
ments.
She was so busy in these
ventures that she never sought
admission to the bar again.
When in 1890 this was brought
to the attention of the Illinois
Supreme Court, the court au-
tomatically made her a mem-
ber of the bar. Not only did
the court accord her this rare
honor but its order of admis-
sion was made retroactively
effective in 1869, the date of
her original application.
Property Protection Is
Foreign Investment Need
I Give You Texas
Letter To
The Editor
Mad Dog to Underdog
J. Edgar Hoover, Director of Federal Bureau of
Investigation, writes in a message directed to all law
enforcement officials: “We are faced today with one
of the most disturbing trends that I have witnessed in
my years in law enforcement—an overzealous pity for
the criminal and an equivalent disregard for his vic-
tim.
“This dangerous tendency is inherent in the var-
ious theories and systems now being suggested, many of
which are aimed at making sweeping changes in our
established methods of dealing with the lawless ....
“One proposal, which proponents attempt to jus-
tify from an economy standpoint calls for a vast de-
crease in the number of persons sentenced to prison.
Other diverse schemes being propounded, if adopted,
would have the effect of virtually opening the doors of
our prisons or turning them into little more than re-
strictive resort hotels. These plans, of course, would
remove the threat of the thing most feared by the crim-
inal—punishment for his misdeeds ...
“Americans are noted for favoring the ‘underdog.’
But all too often we have witnessed a ‘mad dog’ trans-
formed into an ‘underdog’ by certain people who
quickly forget or choose to ignore the great suffering
by innocent victims of hardened and professional crim-
inals.”
About Your Health
Dear Sir:
In June of this year my
sister and I were out in your
nice city and believe me that
is so right. “Nice City”.
We spent two weeks with
our sister and brother-in-law,
Polly and Butch Medford of
the Medford Gro. & Mkt. and
in those two weeks we met
a lot of wonderful people. We
found out what the word “hos-
pality” means during our va-
cation in Kermit and are look-
ing forward to coming back
real soon.
Your City is one to be proud
of with the fine Schools —
Churches and so many new
and beautiful homes. When
you enter a place with these
great qualifications you can
be sure there are good people
in the town and with such
beautiful surroundings the
Chamber of Commerce can
be thanked and Mr. Pearson,
I am sure with men as your-
self have helped make Kermit
for what she is — a nice,
clean and friendly town to
come to.
Thank you sir — thanks to
Kermit — and to the many
we met in June, I am
Sincerely
Lou Stephens
By BOYCE HOUSE
To seek or not to seek the
gold of Pete the Hermit?
was a detachment of Texas
Rangers and the captain was
That was my problem.
Stationed in Fort Worth
a friend of mine. So I con-
sulted him and he said,
“There’s one way to find out
if there really is a treasure
or if it is a practical joke
and that is to go out there.
If you want to go, I’ll go with
you—and if anybody springs
anything, we will see who gets
surprised.”
But 1 was working that day
and then we had a spell of
unfavorable weather; then the
paper sent me out of town to
cover the campaign of a can-
didate for Governor and the
whole matter faded from my
mind.
About two years later, in
clearing out my desk at the
office, I came across the
bulky envelope with the letter
and the map. I had never
received a second communi-
actionand surely I would have
if the story was genuine for
the man in Philadelphia would
have grown impatient and
would have written to urge
me to act or ask whejn I was
going to send him his two-
thirds of the $13,000.
I walked to the city editor’s
desk ki the center of the big
news room the better to view
the logical suspects, my col-
leagues. My eye (actually,
both eyes, but that’s the way
writers write) fell upon a fel-
low reporter, E. D. Alexan-
der, a solemn-faced individual
who was known for his
practical jokes. (Incidental-
ly, we worked side-by-side as
his desk was next to mine.)
Marching to his place where
he was pounding away on the
typewriter, I slammed the
letter down and demanded,
“What do you know about
this?”
He looked up and said, “So
you did get it!”
For two years he had won-
dered whether it had ever
been received — but he
could not ask without thereby
revealing that he was the per-
pertrator or at least that he
knew about it. We had a
laugh and I told the others in
the office and they were a-
mused, too.
But that was not quite the
end of the story of the trea-
sure. The office boy (“copy
boy” is the newspaper term)
asked for the letter and the
map as souvenirs. He took
them home and one day,
while he was at work, an old-
er brother came across the
documents. He did not know
anything about the story and
was so fascinated by the de-
tails that he went out to
Mary’s Creek and dug all day
for the $13,000 in gold (which
had never existed), belonging
to the late Pete, Ranger’s
hermit (who had never exist-
ed, either). When the “copy
boy” told him the facts that
night, the man was very mad.
And that is my treasure ex-
perience.
My Neighbors
“In this dream, Congress-
man, what do you answer
when the taxpayers ask about
government waste?”
BY DAVID LAWRENCE
WASHINGTON, — After all
the big talk at the two nation-
al political conventions about
the need for a “firm” for-
eign policy, Congress next
week has an opportunity to
do something concrete to pro-
tect the lives and properties
of American citizens abroad.
There’s little sense in ap-
propriating billions for “for-
eign aid” or for assisting the
United Nations to protect the
lives of foreigners in such
areas as the Congo, when no
provision is being made to
protect the properties of citi-
zens who already have built
their homes and businesses
abroad.
Why should American com-
panies be encouraged now or
hereafter by our government
to invest capital in foreign
countries when, as in the case
of Cuba, for instance, such
properties are confiscated
without satisfactory arrange-
ments for adequate compen-
sation.
The United States is being
asked to assist the new gov-
ernment of the Congo. Yet,
in the face of firsthand testi-
mony to the contrary, the
Congo Prime Minister says
it’s a lie that foreign women
have been raped and mis-
treated.
American taxpayers are
footing the bill for supplies
being sent to the Congo
through the United Nations,
but there is no sign of any
recognition by the Congo Gov-
ernment of its responsibilities
to the foreigners. Indeed, the
hew Prime Minister, Patrice
Lumumba, who was wined
and dined only a few days ago
in Washington, has just ap-
proved an order by his cabi-
net whereby all properties
abandoned by the Belgians
when they fled from the Con-
go will be grabbed by the
government at Leopoldville
unless reclaimed within eight
days. This is a plain case of
thievery. It is a result of the
action of the Congo govern-
ment’s own troops, who en-
gaged in the very atrocities
which directly caused the
flight of thousands of Bel-
gians back to civilization.
Instead of depending on a
world court to secure pro-
tection for the legal rights
of American citizens, it would
be far better to enter into
bilateral agreements with the
governments of individual
countries that seek American
aid, and to require a written
understanding that, if dis-
putes arise over confiscation
or “nationalization” of pri-
vate businesses, there would
come into operation judicial
machinery that had been set
up in advance. Special arbi-
tration tribunals, with repre-
sentatives of neutral coun-
tries, could be provided for,
which would render judg-
ments in specific cases. Fail-
ure to abide by such decisions
should give the government
of the United States, or of
other countries which follow
the same course, the right,
granted by treaty beforehand,
to use their armed forces to
take over any properties con-
fiscated by a foreign govern-
ment where no proper system
of compensation has been es-
tablished. If the United Na-
tions, for instance, is to send
in joint military forces to
police, troubled areas, it cah
use them also to protect prop-
erty rights.
Superficial thinking some-
times attributes less import-
ance to property rights than
to “human rights”—as if the
two could always be separat-
ed. Yet, in the Congo tens
of thousands of natives are
suffering the loss of jobs be-
cause an immature govern-
ment has recklessly driven
out all the managers, the
technicians and the trained
employees of foreign business
establishments. Also, nearly
all of the doctors of the com-
munity have been forced to
flee. It will take years now
to train substitute personnel,
and in the meantime the na-
tive population will suffer.
This is indeed a human tra-
gedy.
There is lots of talk in
Congress about “foreign aid,”
and it is frequently referred
to also in the speeches of
officials of the executive
branch of the government.
But there can be little ac-
complished to stabilize the
economy of small countries
just by “giveaways.” There
has to be also a solid founda-
tion of private investment.
Unhappily, the neglect of
these basic issues by the gov-
ernments of the United States,
Britain and France and other
governments in the free
world, has produced a form
of international anarchy. This
will not be overcome until
those same governments re-
assert the traditional right of
a citizen to be protected
against thievery by new gov-
ernments boasting of their de-
sire for “freedom and inde-
pendence.” The assumption
of power must be commensu-
rate with a sense of responsi-
bility and, if this is absent,
discipline has to be imposed
from the outside by the mili-
tary forces of an international
organization. .
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Cancer and heart diseases
s«t a grim new record last
year, accounting for almost
half the 73,754 total deaths in
Texas during 1959.
Final tabulation of State
Department of Health death
statistics shows 24,629 deaths
from heart diseases and 11,-
086 from cancer.
The cancer death rate in
Texas is still well below the
rate for the United States as
a whole. Texas registered
117 deaths from the disease
for each 100,000 population
compared to the national can-
cer death rate of close to 150
per each 100,000 population,
Texas has a younger pop-
ulation, which probably ac-
counts for the disparity be-
tween the Texas and national
cancer death rates. Cancer
strikes most frequently at
people past 45 years of age.
Of the 11,000 cancer deaths
last year, 9,768 were past 45.
Heart diseases are demon-
strating a significant in-
crease. Three years ago
there were 22,888 deaths from
heart, diseases—a rise of 1,741
fof 1959 over the number reg-
istered for 1956.
Most of the increase is in
the older age groups. Of the
total heart disease deaths,
23,519 were past 45 years of
age. The heart disease rate
for all ages during 1959 was
261 per 100,000 population.
As life expectancy increas-
es, more and more people are
going to fall victim to heart
diseases and cancer by vir-
tue of living into the ages
when they are more vulner-
able to the ravages of the
twin menaces.
Here is a simple four-point
regimen for general good
health:
1. Eliminate exc e s s i v e
weight that taxes your heart.
Do not overeat.
2. Ask your family physi-
cian about a plan of exercise
suitable for you. A non-
strenuous hobby is beneficial.
3. If you must smoke; do
it in moderation. There is
strong evidence linking ex-
cessive smoking to increases
in lung cancer.
4. Above all, see your fam-
ily physician at least once
annually for a thorough phys-
ical examination.
THE WINKLER COUNTY NEWS, Kermit, Texas
Published Every Monday and Thursday in Kermit
The County Seat of Winkler County, Texas
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Facts of Medical History
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•
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expensive and the expense
can be lost overnight if a
new and better drug is de-
veloped.
One company had 28,000 rabbits for use in
the production of 33 types of pneumonia
serums. This lasted 18 months.
Discovery of sulfa made the
serums obsolete because pneu-
monia was cured more effective-
ly.
Joe Arledge and Bob Green, Registered Pharmacists
Kermit Pharmacy, 810 myer lane
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