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Dispatch Editorials
Thurs., Jan. 19, 1961
Ten lawmen now on job
Action by tho Garza County Commlwionors'
Court approving an agreement with the city for
tho joint payment of four radio operators to man
tho sheriff department's radio set-u- p signals another
step forward in this area's law enforcement.
This means that the sheriff now has a force
of himself, two deputies, and four deputized radio
operators to handle county law enforcement
problems.
Besides this, the city has n two-ma- n city
marshal's force, and ono constable is available
for other law enforcement duties.
AH told, tho community city and county
now has a total of ten law enforcement officials,
figuring In tho four radio operators, working on
a round-the-cloc- k basis.
Tho citizen In emergency can reach for his
telephone at any hour of day or night and phone
tho sheriff's office. Patrol cars can be imme
Let's unlock that senate
Gov. Price Daniel has submitted a list of
more than 100 state appointees to the Texas Senate
far its confirmation.
Now the Senate locks tho door In executive
sessions to consider whether the governor choe
wisely or not.
They eventually will vote secretly whether
or not to confirm and than come into open session
to announce their decision.
Why?
Why all the secrecy?
This Is just another portion of government
at state level which your elected public offtotats
deem nccossary to keep from you.
Confirmation of appointments at the state
level should be out in the epon where the people
are given the Information the 5rwl has upon
which to make Its judgment.
Who ever heard of one of President-elec- t
New industry search
With new officers and new directors taking
over tha Post Chamber of Commerce, a new
1061 program Is in tho making.
Might we suggest, as one who has always
been very Interested In tho Important work ef
the Chamber, that now Is the ihne to "jmsV the
new industry committee of the Chamber wMh bN
the best available brains ami talent.
It's high time we got to work en JtaMng, new
industry to eome to Poet.
With the ton fight to ehtnln the White Rrver
dam we have been teMtng BMCschroa that when
we get the dam tt wilt he time to go took tor
Industry, as with the dam we will have
thing to offar plenty of water.
Welt, the dam la enty the mint rot thin
away. It's high time to get organised ami get
started hunting industry.
needed
Goal topping strengthens Chest
Tho success of tho Oarw County Community
Chest In topping Its 1961 goal of $13,17! enn be
attributed to tho excellent cooperation of ihe
hundreds of Garsa counltan who so generously
donated and also to Ihe untiring and very deter
mined efforts of drive workers and loaders.
A successful fund drive onita tor careful
planning and plenty of volunteer work.
It Isn't easy.
It calls for real campaign leadership and the
ability to keep at the job until K's dene.
Garza County can well be proud of He Chost
accomplishment. The reoent drive was the hh
gest ever launched here. Drive tenders themselves
at the outset knew the goal would he ihe
toughest ever undertaken.
Out they stuyed with It and ran the Chost
drtvo with as much care and attention as they
Time to pay your poll tax
It's time for the annual editorial wurning
that If you don't get your poll tax paid by Jan.
31 you won't have the opportunity to exercise
your right to vote this year.
So this Is tho editorial.
Being considered an "off year" at the polls
as far as the national elections are concerned,
poll tax paying Isn't attracting the general Interest
It did last year.
But this Is the wrong attitude.
There are going to be elections this year and
very possibly some mighty Important elections
that haven't even arrived on tho scene this early.
What our contemporaries are saying
Yesterday was Alexander Hamilton's birthday.
What would that dollarwlse economist think
If he could see the state Into which U. S. finances
have fallen today Pat Bennett In The Crosbyton
Review.
Have you been Invited to the governor's inaugural?
We wonder how many out of 45,000 Invitation
sent out from the Austin committee
came to Floyd County. An accounting would
give us an Idea of how Floyd County stacks up
petMJcftHy In Texas, The invitations are In black
ami gold, the date i Jan. 17. Austin towns-pecnt-e
era footing the bill for the shindig, a quiet
one Into year, duo to cost about 119,000, Tho
WinMfmt f"fll I If Utjfcyl 1a
,v nwj JI VrvWsjSjsjr 4 VLIftWI Hssft
diately directed to the scene of the emergency
by sheriff's radio.
Another Improvement, too, as far as law enforcement
is concerned, is the effort now being
made by Sheriff Fay Clabom to set up a full set
of office books and records, both as to monies
handled, and aa flic for accident reports, Investigations,
etc.
The city, wo understand, is looking Into the
possibility of the establishment of a city court
through the employment of a part-tim- e Judge to
handle the cases. This would bo another step
forward to the city reallzlnz some returns from
the city arm of law enforcement through fines,
etc.
Considerable progress has been made In the
local field of law enforcement In the last couple
of years In answer to public demands for more
round-the-clocoperations.
officers, stricter enforcement, and
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Kennedy's new cabinet members being questioned
and voted upon by the U. S. Senate In secret.
Try to do that nnd the voters' howl would shako
down the foundations of the Senate chambers
and topple Washington's monument to boot.
If a governor's appointee can't stand Investigation
in clear public view, his nnmc should not
go to the Senate for confirmation.
Keep everything In the open, and nn unqualified
person can't be handed a juicy plum In payment
of a political debt, just because the governor
has the Senate votes.
This editorial Is meant to criticize "the present
system' of Senate confirmation, not the
governor, or his current list of over 100 appointees.
Hut we know what can happen behind closed
doors. We think Ms much better for the people
If the government's doors are always open-h- ere
in Post, in Washington, and In Austin. JC
It isn't an easy jot). It takes time and money
to run down leads, develop definite propositions,
ami then either try to wwk them out or decide
against them. It's nl competition, too, as many
ether bold communities are doing exactly the
same thing the best ways they know how.
An Industry committee wtH need plenty of
time to do an effective job. It wH need every-HAff- 'i
enonerntlen and some funds with which to
That means that to setting up such a
and chnrgsng it to organise tor an tt-o- ut
the Chamher need to expand and cow- -
It's a Mr order. But Ifs ane that needs to
he dene this year seen tMs month. As a
tew inanity with a Jhitore tot's de K together.
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would give their own
Drtve Chairman Leo Aaker and Ihe iloieni
who helped are to be congratulated.
A smccohsM Chest drtve paeh year
strengthens the Chest the confidence of the partition
ting agencies in fund ratoing the Chest way,
ami Ihe habit of our cltisens m giving generously
to a total caoee they know has been carefully
studied by loaders of their own organizetlen before
the goals for the year are determined.
Any ever labicriptinn to the Chost is care
tatty pot away in ihe hank tor another year
when Mm as may he more dMftouM and help may
There s sfcnnh nothing Mke success to breed
more success. Next year the Chest raising will
be just that much eailexv JC
It behooves every voter to keep that poll tax
paid whether he likes the poll tax or not We
don't ourselves, but not paying It isn't the way to
change it.
Maybe when the legislature arrives at the
final realization that the sales tax Is the only
solution to our state fund emergency, then the
poll tax, along with some of our other "nuisance
taxes," can be abolished.
Out, in the meantime, pay your $1.7 J and
keep on being a good citizen in 1941 by taking an
Interest In all levels of government and voting
your convictions. JC
Why expect children to tit In the comer
reading serious books while the parents spend
the evening looking at frivolous television programs?
Don Oynum in The Orownfleld News.
They say the best things in life are free . . .
It's the worst things that cost so darn much.
James Roberts In Tha Andrews County News.
Pity the puzzlement of arohaeloglsts digging
in the debris of tho present world a few eons
hence, when they find petrified airplanes In
caves, and the unquestionable Imprint of automobile
tires on the roofs of buildings. Douglas
Meador In Matador Tribune.
Remembering
yesteryears . . .
Fivo yoars ago
Last rltos for O. II. (Oliver) Cur
old-timtls,
e cowboy, who was
found dead In his home nt Justice-bur- g
at noon Friday, were conducted
Saturday in Bell Funeral Home
chapel nt Snyder; last rites for
Archie Leo Turner, n Post resident
from 1914 until 1912. were conducted
Tuesday afternoon In Blackburn
Shaw chnpcl In Amarlllo, with the
Rev. Nolan Kennedy officiating;
plans are shaping up for the Little
League baseball program to bo
sponsored here next summer by
tho Post Chamber of Commerce;
Mr. nnd Mrs. L. C. McCullough
nre announcing the b I r t h of a
er
daughter named Kothy Jo; a
honoring Mrs. Junior Smith
who was Miss Norma Ritchie before
her Dec. 24 marriage, was given
Thursday evening In the homo
of Mrs. M. S, Nichols; Mrs. Lee
Davis Jr., who was Miss Aita Jane
Prichnrd before her recent marriage,
will bo honored at a tea
this afternoon In the home of Mrs.
Wlllard Klrkpntrick; a remodeling
program, which will Include installation
of n e market, got
underway this week at the Plggly
Wlggly Store, Paul Jones, manager,
announced; funeral services for
Mrs. William G. Brookshlre, 59.
who died Jan. 10 nt her home in
the Grassland community, were
conducted at 3 p. m. Saturday In
the Tohoka First Baptist Church:
Garza and Borden county commissioners'
courts were In Austin Wednesday
to present to the Texas
Highway Department n proposal
for a secondary road from Gail to
Post; Mrs. James Minor has been
named to the conference rules
committee for the District
Parent-Teach- er
Association meeting, scheduled
for Anril 10 nnd 11 nt Monterey
High School.
Ten years ago
Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Chapman
of Tohoka arc parents of a son
bom Saturday morning In the West
Texas Hospital In Lubbock: only
170 bales of cotton were ginned In
Garza County this week, bringing
the season total to 13.509; Mike
Cornell, son of Mr. nnd Mrs. Jess
Cornell, is a polio patient In Hendricks
Memorial Hospital In Abilene:
funeral rites for Mrs. Lou-ol- a
Burrcss were conducted nt 2
o'clock Sunday nflcrnoon In Hud-ma- n
Go-set-
Funeral Chapel: Sonny t.
son of Mr. and
Mrs. L. K. (Buck) Goctt. Is recovering
from an nttack of polio
Feb. 7: Mrs. Charles King, the former
Miss Pat Rcld. wns named
hnnorre nt a tea shower from 2 until
4 o'clock Friday afternoon; the
Past bovs basketball team Is still
undefeated In district play; several
emDloves of the local PlgRly
Wlggly store were among the 500 to
660 guests at an arm relation dinner
erven at the Lubbock Country
Ctob Twday night by Plggly Wlggly
officials: Tuesday morning
Mayor John Herd accepted title
to the South Lake park nn behalf of
the city. George Samson. Chamber
of Commerce president, onnounced:
Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Jones. Rt. 2.
of the Gordon community are the
parents of n daughter, bom Jan.
16 In a Lubbock hospital; forty-si- x
people paid their poll taxes hero
during the past week bringing the
year's total to 4S. compared to
some 1.500 last year. Carl Ceder-holdeputy
tax assessor collector
reveals; a son. Allen Ross,
weighing 6 pounds, 4 ounces, was
barn to Mr nnd Mrs. Harvey StotU
of Lubbock Saturday night In Lubbock
Memorial Hospital.
Rffoon years ago
Gordon Suits, son of Mr. and
Mrs. A. A. Suits of this city, resumed
his radio work with station
WFAA today In Dallas; the annual
Post Invitational tournament got
oft to a good start yesterday afternoon,
and last night's fan crowd
all but filled the seating capacity
of the large gym; the public Is cordially
Invited to make plans to attend
the open house to be held at
the Youth Canteen on Friday night;
n fishing game, pinning whiskers
on the cat and dart games provided
much merriment for a group of
roungsters who helped Dannie Cock-ru- m
observe his sixth birthday on
Monday; prediction that sugar rationing
may end soon was made by
a district OPA
rationing executive
of Fort Worth last week when he
went out of office several dys ago;
W. A. "Billy' Hays, son of
Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Hays, arrived
In Post last Wednesday with an
honorable discharge from the Army,
a new club was being organized
for Pott High last week,
the Lctterman Club; Wayne Brlggs
relebrated his teventh birthday with
several of his friends and schoolmates;
Calloway Ta-hok- a,
Huffakcr of
present district attorney of
the 106th Judicial District, this
week, authorized the Dispatch to
announce his candidacy for hit second
term; after tarvlng the women
folk of Garza County for 33
years, Mrs. O. D. Cardwell announced
this week that she It retiring
from Post's business circle and has
sold her beauty shop.
The first regularly Issued dally
newspaper In North America was
published by John Dunlop In Philadelphia
in I7M. It was called Ihe
Pennsylvania Packet and' Dally
Advertiser.
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By BOYCE HOUSE
There Is no accounting far tho
ways of Hollywood.
When I was out there to serve
(fflirtlidaij.
Jan. 20
Elizabeth Irene Walls
Spencer Kuykendall
Mrs, Samlo West, Hereford
Jan 21
E. A. Warren
Steve Yancey
Mrs. Nathan Llttlo
Jasper Atkinson
Benny Don Seward
Wanda Joyco Foster
D. H. Kocnlnger
W. E. Huffman
Jan 22
Cordell Custer
Mrs. V. M. Stono
Hcttlo Holly
Billy Do Armon
Patricia
Jan. 21
Ruth Caffcy
Charles Nelson
Margie Castcel
Jan. 24
Campaign
Dell Klnman
Wanda Ann Helnti
Mickey Friday
Jerry De Wayne Pennell
Dick Wood
Reese Blvcns
Clara Frances Smiley, Sudan
Patsy Gibson
Linda Runklcs
Jon 25
Tyra Jan Martin
Mrs. Dale Stono
Jan. 21
Robert Strange, Staton
Linda Johnson
Mrs. T. R. Greenfield
Mrs. J. A. Stalling!
Bobby Terry
Pamela Carol Gray
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CHARLK DtOWAY
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Aay erroncoM reflection upon the character of any person or
ppwwg w mm coHunnc win be gladly and prompUy
corrected upon being brought to the attention of the mattofemant
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walto hofwMly for yotL
He U a mtoUer. A prfeM. A
rabU. A sm used to speaking
out , , tnaUng eWUions , . ,
taking act-io ṉ
for iilmnhT, for
hie coafMgatloa and hk com
xouaity. Hut where you're concerned,
he can only wait and
hope you wkH
coat.
SIMMS (
ns technical advisor and writing
consultant on "Boom Town," tho
chief script writer had come up
with a scene wherein two brothers,
rushed In and said they had just
completed two wildcats as gushers
and were In the "big money".
I explained that. In actual life,
tho shocstringcrs would havo had
enough trouble to get up the money
for one wildcat, also that the odds
wore very great against
hitting oil. Furthermore
tho script said this happened in
Arizona whereas up to the very
moment when wo were having this
story conference, no oil had ever
been hit anywhere In Arizona so
why not have them drill ono wildcat
and plncc ft In Wyoming, New
Mexico, Arkansas or almost anywhere
except Arizona?
But tha script stayed "as It
was".
People I could get along without:
The fellow who "uhs" nil through
his remarks.
And tho guy who nsks n gucs-tlo- n
nnd then doesn't listen to the
answer and asks his question
ngaln.
Tho marque of a motion picture
thoatcr at Bastrop a while back
road:
Never Steal Anything Small
Jackpot $370
Tho typical Hollywood glamor
photo shows n woman with parted
Hps and eyes half closed. If a
man assumed the same expression,
everybody would say he looked
stupid.
Champ Clark, who was Speaker
of tho National House of Representatives
In Woodrow Wilson's
administration, said, in his book,
that tho largest man who over
served In Congress was named
Slelcher and ho weighed over 400
pounds. Where was tho biggest
Congressman In history from? Why,
Texas, of course.
RESS
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