Stamford American and The Stamford Leader (Stamford, Tex.), Vol. 41, No. 3, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 11, 1965 Page: 8 of 12
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Slights and sorNm—bv rot cr aig
Change in Ruling Poses Real
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Threat to Economy of County
page *nvo Stamford American
Stamford, Texas. Thursday, March 1L-1965
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' There is a strong possibility that
Jones County farmers will luse u lot
of cotton acreage — estimated by
some at as much as 60 per cent—anti
a meeting to protest a rule interpre-
tation which would bring this about
has been set for Tuesday night in the
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fior theHast three years, and again
this year, farmers have been permit-
ted to skip' one, two or three rows
when planting cotton and not have
from this’source as background, this
-won’t work in a factory, Charley
f Coin, local plant manager, said. lie
uses a small record player and mod-
ern' popular music is played — that
kind that moves at a fast pace.
As Another production stimulant.
SPLITTING hairs
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lhe^iaciury is aLp giving Green
l^mpTt^W
their daily quotas. Mr. Coin says it
really works, too.
♦ I.;- I,,u%di „t^i A partial answer to the crowded
The agricultural department
has
Indicated there 1s. a strong chance
that this will not be j>ernvitted
after the current . year. With one
third of all crop land in Jones County
being cotton land.-it is not hard to.
see what a tremendous adverse aftect
this would have, on the economy of
the minty.
ager, said Tueafcny that he has re-
ceived no definite infurmatitm that
the program will be eliminated but.
by the same token, he has. had no
encouragement that it will.
Put this together with the strong
chance that there will, la* an overall
cut in cotton acreage because "1 the
large carryover and you can see the
importance of the inert mg Tuesday
making. First National Hank is plan-
ning to create several hundred feet
of parking space just west of their
building.
Plans call' for tearing down all but
the building on Hamilton Street"
which bouses the offices of Bryant-
Link Co.'. (Uo Grande National Life
Insurance Company, Soil Conserva-
.. UuiL Sei;vxoxaxid others..---— r~.
The sjKice remaining will bo liard
surfaced and will care for several
dozen cars.
Likely the first use of Stamford
High School's new auditorium for a
non-school function will be the pres-
entati*»n here by the Music Club of
the Albany Fandangle Sampler the
latter part of April.
Mrs. K. L. McMillan plans to make
Would a man be Justified in
shooting his wife because she
wore curlers at the breakfast
tabic" I'here ace more than 1--
000.000 iKMiks in the Harvard
Law School Library, but not one
ot them even considers thai
' sassnaar*. «•-
U so obviously “No." There]
simply is not enough room for
argument. A question can Ih*-
-eome a legal isiyie only if It is
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or example, fstfpposf the mts-
band claims tliat ti/e shooting
was accidental i“l didn’t know
ttu* gun was loadisi“ <. or that i
he fired in self defense (“She
hit me first with a rolling pin“>.|
Tlycn there are. indeed legal
issues—issues close enough' for
the lawyers to really argue a -j
bout. I
Is this due to a sheer love of
hairsplitting on tile part of law
yers'.’ Noi at all Law is like
that because life is like that.
Anyone who has watched a Lrt- -
tie League baseball game knows
that it is tlie “close ones'' which
start tiie squabbles and test the
mettle of the umpire
And the world of law. is, large
ly. a world of close ones. It is
a world where ifs •■aiul maybe*
' tV*TV»' /
abound, and yeses and nobs are
few and far between. The law
willy-nilly’ must provide an
swers to questions like these:
PIONEERS ON. PARADE—TEARS AGO ..... ! -
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Eilah Blan Elliott To Be Reunion Sponsor
I II E Howie of B’g Spring has
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(25 Year* Agt> — Prom The Yp*vtment o? HivRr-aat-l Ink
Stamford American of March
8^ 1940 l
Eilah Blan Elliott, younger
stare will leavy lire latter part been named manager of Ihe
of this week, lor Brownfield I fairyland Creamery in Stain
where he has Accepted a pogb | ford ’Succeeding R K. P<1 xlon?*'
daughter ot Mr. and Mrs. T. Jffnon in the Tym Cobb Dry Goods [who lias gone to Mineral Wells
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Elliott, was seliVted by the di
rectors of the Stamfortf-Chirru.
Iht of Commerce Wednesday as
4-
Siam font's, sponsor for the Tex- Spur
storif.
Barrett will be succeeded
here by Joe Dick Glddt'ns of
Cowboy Reunion. July 2. T,| A rabbit drift* will be hf-M
what point. does “ipdi
shade into “mental
At
enTe’
ty "?
How much wear and tear is
“reasonable”?.
ale speed'.".’
When does a
line between
“drunk'
and 4, Mrs Steve Bennett, sec re- Tuesday starting at the,Ericks-
tiamb!
red"
*?«9.827 BT-wdl
r* tary of ‘the Chamber of Com
nuTco announc
.An esttxiiated
i>e offered to Jones County farm
JtfAJBa
Tiff TWO
..Plug r air.
dahl scliool at 8 00 Barbecue
dinner will be • serve at noon
Everyone is inv-ited to
C. TV Upshaw was elected as
a director of the Stamford Fed -
eral Ravings and Loan Assocla-
succeeding R M, Swenson,
meeting of the'board Thurs-
day morning. Upshaw lias
served as secretary of the as-t
sooiation wince its jin unizitllojj
continue to hold that
; oral
tion,
' ui a
attend J and will
office
and asked to'bring his own gun.,-......
id [ A^Can^ml^^^m^i budding^e^ Cleburne Huston was elected
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- .,____,...... and for putting tnjo! tier of East Campbell ’arid Norl
man cross the, tflect soil budding and
“high ‘ a»\d improvement practices.
Eugene Barrett who\has been and will cost approximately $7,- (member
range Anshn
will, be
1 •» No wonder one harassed judge, in charge of the drv
■■wmtftr-ktw •»***—«»
tions is like deciding 'when it
young lads gets to be an old
maid “
Perhaps
,ulu"“ T""• '!■".“'"••'.‘r ■"
of nati\«- rock \ emW| b M S^cji.soii 11c hoi been a
tile boerd since the
PIONEERS ON PARADE—10 YEARS AGO
the questions are
closest of .ill in the cases that (
reach the United State Supreme i
Court CtiieC Justhcc Charles |
Evans Hughes once estimated :
that at least one third of ttic (
Court’s cases are so close that j
unanimous decisions arc, hu-
manly impossible
So why shouldn't hairs ire;
split in the pursuit of justice’’
Mayor Will Ask Reduction In Square Size
10 years ago, from the Stam-
ford American, Thursday,
March 10. 19SS.
Mayor f! C. Carothers
ask the Texas Highway Depart
ment to proceed with their plan
to reduce the si/e of the square
to church services Sunday.
Birthday week of the organiza-
tion is March 13 20 which in
will eludes Miiili 17, recogn./.ed a-
the bificial birthday, ijiis year
the organization is 45 years old
Bill Glenn of Spur has been
as they bad propoaefl- several, pamed a field reoresenlailve In
•TruUi. SSId' 'trBTnrfan' ET-: nir.ltttiis ago. TTfs te *n mjlgrxwlK - Sp^.' for "Stamford’ p'rorfnft mrrf »kich will .occur tiu the School-
nest Renan,
dietinMion."
lies in the fine
of a piibhc bearing held Friday
aft'-rnooii by tlie City Council.
Stamford goes into its Red
A public service *eatore of the ^’ross campaign Tue»iJay.
an<1' March 15 Ix gmhing with dough-
American Bar Association
the State Bar of Texas Written
by Will Bernard.
£-MaaMdtoj&itoin*.1" with HtP -----niditen-untu in j.o.nim^fur tl>^«ventv
nmn breast . i . atMneoHe shift ihai a
long time ago ami t*> a i ei lain extent
it is still true. However, it is-not the
full story.
Music is ’being use»l to increase
protldction at the Carliafit lactorv in
- Stamfonj,. '.Anil “soothing" nai-ii- i-
not yroorl for this pui|»'-c.
Althouyrh many stores in Staml'orsl
have (’able-\’ision and use the music
Hi^hli^hts P'rom Austin—
GOP Redistrictinj» Plan
l>,
A better attraction lor this imrfmse
would la- difficult to find. The folks
at Albany have been staying this'
historical extravayran/.a for a lony
time and they are just about profes-
sional. There \\ ill be fine sinyrinyr
and-a fine story, to be sure. Robert
Nail, tin- nal ioiially-recoyrnized play-
wright who is a native of Albany,
ayain has done the seppt.
nuts and coffee for the workers
at Nat's Cate, at 7 00 p m.
Billy Dodd Stamford clwir-
man w'll be assisted by ropre-
srntatives from various service
clubs of the #Uy.
Corinth was the first commu-
nity to go .over-Its quota in ‘he
lu-d Cro-xx fund driye, Mrs.
Frank Gamhlln. executive spore-
,-|"T7T.,rr7:~'7l *:'&*»--------—~'’a
Credit Association He will re
pla(*e Rovce Williams who has
bx*cn assigned to Haskell and
will report there.about April 1
The sixteenth anniipl meinbi-r-
shi|> meeting of die Stamford
Electric Cooperative, lux-., "ill
be. hold March 16/beginning at
1 30 Ji m at Coombes Roundup
Hall at the Texas Co<Vt>oy !?•'
union'Grounds-
A large i (-presentation of the
member - hip. which nn lodes por-
tions ol several enmities, is ex.
peeled, to attend,. C, M Lester,
manager, s.'iill i
Two ' c:itulidntc<y are an-
uoum ed to t/H tl.e . vacancies
hoard ol tin- Stamford In iepend-
( nl Sell-nl Disli let Election WlU
be held N. • tu i d a y , A pi i I 2.
Terms of J-arr Mills and Sam
Baize c'pire at tins time. *^r.
Baize, bus derliped to run again
and Marv in lfmds lias consented
to Ire a caiididide for Rial place.
Mr .Mills lias Kinsented to run
lot |clcftiorr to llns post.
I zv. n. ..Mi Jiav as viiaaiiun
-j-T.-dxed XTffW-woth a 570 mmtr •
Stamford Camp -Firts Girls and
thauiuan .
By VERN SANFORD
Texas Press Association
J. .4. Sa vs I It* lias Ao Intuition of Getting
Mixed L /> in Rig Grou th of the ( ities
Editor’s nott The Old Pbd
OSOpher on his Johnson qr.vss
farm on Paint Creek' takes a
side look at b<g cities this
week.
Dear editar:
According to an arth lc I read
In a nrvvspsper vchich t-teyv a
gainst my hack rievr an<l J tisd
to pull down anyway to «o-e out
—1 know wher e the Iot»m> board
STz\MFORD
AMERICAN
ROT M CTlAn rartr-T- *na f*-ibll»her
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Publl«hff-<f ffvr*\ Ttrtr*-1xy xt »h«
enmfunt Aourla-i office, el 124 Sawn
ttxnutan atn-et. ateur-fortl. T»x»e
fnsWixber
The I -ex Iff - ryanauUdeteS
wflh American July 1, l^M
Entx-rd ax earond c.laax lux tier. Ainruai j
11. 1SJ4 at the tv»ti.ffir* at, Stamford '
Teaaa. under the Art of March S, 1**4 j
■ is tiu the step but I Rkc to .see
1 it before 1 put mv tool on it
■s.evcfrtv per tent r.f Jtri t S
f tnipirl.rtr'rn now liv es m or near
I big t itles.
i A.s you r n see this leaves 10
I per cent in small towns and the
cjiuntry. vhi< h is all t ight "ith
me 7is it s not 11 <• pej t entage
that counts, it's the quality, and
when it’, not the quality, it's the
’ distance anal t whir'll sonit-imes
i. neailv the same'thitigX
Rut
a!nnit the article was its state
ment that m 10 vesrs all these
big it is > will double in popula
Ron.
j I don’t see how* the cities ran
*tarrd- it i never heard of so!\
i itij tiu- proti’u in of ii • i-t-( row vie<l
noitv bv crowding in more What
| I mean is. go i.ito an-v big * itv
and try: to imagine it jr. ith tw ice
i the traffic snail it lias now.
and then multiply that bv a few
more blocks and while I don't
know what you'd tunic up with,
it's not for me I like my fellow
man, but not that many that
close. ,
I understand that the main
purpose .of most big cities is to
keeping glowing; any time a
census report shows one has
gained in population! it*- new spa-!
per* cqme out with trig head-
lines. but it seems to me the ci
the most important thinxj ,,>s may Le earn in* this too
lar. If they ail double in size in
4'V years, they'll be building
highway loops half wav around
the country just to I y-pass them,
and a man in the country want
ting tc get to another spot in
the country will have a choice
of driving. 200 miles tit get a-
round one or losing a week try-
ing to go straight through
1 don't know that there's any.
AUSTIN — Texas Republi-
cans. whose lawsuit resulted in
present congressional district*,
being invalidated have offered
,'ljvfir version of iurw the lines
should be ii-drawn l’l.-in is cm-
-bodied m a bill .sponsored by
Frank ( aboon of Midland, only
Repubhean in the 59th Legisla-
ture
The GOP priKfm t satisfies
many objections raised to oth
i-rs introduced so far. since it
disturbs fewer jncutnbents tlian
am- phrh to date. •
Onlv U S Re(is Graham Pur-
cell of Wichita Falls and Omar
Burleson oT Anson would in- far
mg each oilier as opponents in
a ' newly created Congressional
District 13. and U. S Reps.
Joint Dowdy of Athens nnd-Lind-
lev Beck worth rf Gladwatcr in
a new Iv-dclined District 3
Three new districts would ire
developed A District 23
Harris C ounty a third congress-
man District 17. giving Bexar
County and a group of South
Texas Counties a not iter repres
entative and District 7. giv-
ing Dallas County a second con
gressman U. ,S Rep. Joe Pool,
who lives in District 7. hut now
is elected statewide, could thus
retain a seat.
ry's proposal away
tnitteib
Frank Newsom, executive sec-
retary of Texas Racing Associa-
tion. said Ins group preferred
a full liv Rep Matinee Pipkin
of Brownsville --die doled for
House State Alfaus Committe-
luaring on MaVcji lMl That lull
would pei nut parimu'ual bel-
ting at lut-nsed
counties, sqbject
t leetiqns.
1 Mue Birds w ill begin Camp'Fire?
in sub com- V/eek tv wearing their uniforms
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DEPENDABILITY
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GUARD FORCES CUT
t tacks
Texas National Guard forres
will undergo reductions more
drastic than anticipated under
Guard \rmy Reserve merger
tiolif) allocation plans announc-
ed I»v ’be Pentagon.
Muj Gen Thomas S. Bishop,
t.t hie al option slate adjutant general.-said Tex
v ' j as personnel will in reduced 4.
t>45 from the 28 233 in the Guard
COMPLIANCE and .Reserves And 155 of the
pi esotit 3i'.7 xexisting units vv ill
be dnuppe'd if the proposal
fled federal auihot ities of cVim
pltaucg. vvttii school integration
INTEGRATION
NOTED
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Ttc-pend on your drug-
gist to fill prescri|>Jions
pecmatc-lv and pnim(itl>
. . . depend on him to
have health ne'e-ds and
other items <>n hand Bu-
yout '“honventenre-, I
pendability is one of tin*
AHv“a uf pinti tiu« > !
Tc-xiis Education Agency noti-
Fc-dctal Civ i
reciuti cmciits
liiglds Act
All but 1‘iO of 1 3>0( Texas
seluxil districts a-s'e- have agreed
to edit)ply, according to Dr. .1
\V Edgar, state education com
missioner.
Agreement is necessary to
giving! continue tc-c eiv ing $40,000,000
in federal tihool aid
. sfill subject nc negotiation— be-
come- final ; •
- Ties far exceeds the 25 per
cent 'reduction that we were
• advised to expect.' Bishop com-
mented.
Tlie Texas Highway Depart
ment operates a fleet of fret-
ferries across Galveston Bay. I
and li free tupnel under the
Houston t»liip channel
BUNKLEY
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LAND PROGRAM
PROPOSED
RENEWAL
its price!
Furthcrmoic-. 1 save a tele-.j-thing
yjstim tc*port Rie other nighty this
Ncrftff* To Th« PuMtr■ An/ •mm- \ showing one (dock in one citv
^tjwdb 1.800 people ‘liv mg in it
corynrxtlon wilt t>» *lxdl/ VOU try to pic ture 1 *kt0 people
(living.on ere Itlcu-k in-Stamforil
Mat ton
atvcdixi
•orrvctxd upon b#tn* miiad
pxtu of UM nubllxiMV
Riat can i)e done alKHit
or should hit* it's a prob-
lem 1 intend to watch from a
distance
Yours faithfully,
J A
COW POKES
By Ace Reid
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Voters will get another chance
to say whether they want to
continue the veterans land pro-
gram -under which thousands of
Texas veterans have purchased
farm property at low interest.
A proposed constitutional
amendment to extend the pro
gram—first amendment cleared
this session — was approved by
the Senate and sent to the gov-
ernor Amendment will be vot-
ed op in November. Rep Ous
Mutseher of Brenham and Sen
Criss Cole of Houston are the
sponsors. ,
combination
SMALL LOAN HEARING
A housewife from Dallas told
rpembers of the House Commit-
tee on Banks and Banking that
a *.Vt loan, which she later de-
rided she did not need in the
first place, cost her $1,500 over
a three year period by the time
she went through renewals and
additional loan* to -meet higb
Interest rated. *
She testified fat a hearing on
a btJJ„ by fiep. W Reed QuiL
bam Jf. of twibbock. which
would reduce interest rates on
loans $100 or less by onehalf
to two- tbirdd1.
An association of small loan
companies appeared to . oppose
the bill A cltizena committee
from Dallas and" ek Attorney
General Will Wilson, favored it
The bill went to a sub-coqimit-
HORSES STALLED
Rep V. IS. (Bed* Berry of
San Antonio was Wt at the post
again in Ms latest try to legalize
trace' tfack betting on the horses.
‘‘TYeriF royffln rwliTfor t&fng
when be argue<1 for a constitu-
tional amendment to 'permit
parimutuel wagering in Bexhr.
■ -f Palias. Tafran♦,.<Harris, Galves
ton, Hidalgo. Cameron. Midland
and Webb Counties on hk local
option basis.
House Constitutional
menu
Amend
Committee tucked Her-
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