The Orange Leader (Orange, Tex.), Vol. 58, No. 142, Ed. 1 Sunday, June 18, 1961 Page: 6 of 43
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SUNDAY, i'UNC II, 1*1
EDITORIAL FACI
HANDS Off — judge Gordon Gary
■esided as testimony wu prwented at-
tempting to pete Wish grouiide for e tem-
porary injunction egainst Port Neches. The
aim wis to prevent final passage of an
Ordinance annexing 25 square m«ee of
disputed territory. The action croase#
buffer «tripe Of both Orange and Port
Arthur. í
The two-hour session concluded with
all interested parties agreeing before the
court to refrifa from taking further an-
nexation action in the disputed afea,
import Neches, in effect, cannot take final
action on the annexation ordinance wnlcn
m on first reading until all litigation ceases
1 both existing suits instigated by Orange
And Port Arthur. ,
f The handsroff agreement, suggested by
Judge Gary will be reduced to a written
der and all further annexation action
iore the various city councils will be
The agreement applies to ordi-
applies
i disputed.
terri-
na! ted. the agreement
sncea dealing with the
. rv only.
* NEW RATE — New water rates went
into effect following paasage of i wittr
nd sewer ordinance amendment laat
feek by the Orange City- Council.
1 The amendment rtdüétt the minimum
Íkllonfege from near 4,000 gftllone to I
illons for the base rate of $
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courthouse employes to bid her farewelL
The farewell party wee given with
commissioner* fitting as a court; tMrs.
Dodd was brought down after a mock er-
res t in her office by Sheriff Chester
Holts. '
To let off the goodby, Mrs. Dodd was
given a straw hat with 50 one-dollar bills
sewed on It. The money wis donated by
the courthouse, workers.
LIST PROJECTS - The mayors of
Vldor and West Orange heve given lists
of drainage projects tor their respective
erees, which they consider preferential, to
the Orange County Conservation 4c Re-
clamation District board of supervisors.
Recommendations from Vldor were:
work on Terry ditch end its laterals ss
the first priority; Anderson ditch end
laterals as second; Tiger end Ceney. creek
drainage, third: and the Vldor school ditch
and South DeWitt Roed literals as fourth.
Recommendations from West Orange
were: Dayton Street ditch as top priority
and Winnona Park drainage as second.
SURVEY HELO — A survey to deter-
mine the direction in which the Orange
VMCA will move In the future and the
type program it should offer for ell age
an gad are the rates above the minimum.
É change hai been under considera-
Ion since March it. Assuming that 89
er déht ñt the present 6,14
Dntinue to use at least 4,000
Sionth, the rate change should result in
additions! Income of 194,118 annually,
a riGHT CONTINUES - The Orange
County Bar Aasodatlon will continue its
light to get e second district court created,
feveral members indicated lest week.
§ The firat attempt of the group was
Éefeated during the last session of the
Btite Legislature, but the move will be
punhed egain in 1948.
i There hes been no Indication that the
liar association might attempt to introduce
S bill for court creation duping the special
session scheduled by the legislature this
Summer.
DIRECTORY MAILED - The n e w
"Direct Distance Disling" telephone direc-
tory was put- into the mail Friday.
The directory contains instructions on
how the new DDD system works, includ-
ing area numbering plan codes which are
used to dial long distance calls direct.
The telephone compsny manlffcr said
that customers who have not received
their copies by June 22 should call the
telephone business office snd a copy would
be mailed.
BID GOODBY - Retiring District
Clerk .Mrs. T.M. Dodd was honored last
week at an Informal party by the county
pg on the community is now in prog-
Plans for the survey were completed
last week during an executive board
meeting.
In addition tp collecting data pertain-
ing to the future growth, information will
be assembled to determiné the future need
of a new YMCA building and the feasi-
bility of obtaining e structure should the
need arise,
The survey will include the mailing
of forms to county residents to get a
cross samDÜne of the community.
NAMED TO BOARD — A local plant
manager was appointed to fill the unex-
pired term of Charles H. Benckensteln Jr.
last week following his resignation as
resident of the Orange County Port and
avigation District board.
Remaining board members snpointed
R. A. (Bob) Byorum, who is emploved by
Spencer Chemical Co., to complete Benck-
ensteins term aa commilaioner at large
which expires next April.
Bentkenstein's letter of resignation
gave business reasons and moving out of
town as his reason for reslgnine. He has
been on the Port board aince 1950.
"INTMftST MOUMflHG—Considerable
interest is being shown by contractors tot
bidding on the county's mn.ior bridges to
be constructed as a part of the road pro-
gram.
County Engineer J. G. (Gus) Foyle said
that 20 contractors obtained bid propoeal
contracts from his office.
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Around Town end
Bribe of a Quarter
Brings Lifetime of Love
By JOE PKf&LÉt ^
lived in
saalter
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* ABOUT THE NEIGHBORHOOD *
Father Inspired Observance
Br LONA PINSON
Today is ths day on which fathers across the group from Southwest Texas State Teachers College.
"IH (rive voa a nickel If vou'Tl
call him 'Daddy'. " the three . .. .. ... zt~
saafl youngsters were told. There worlds a*, toffiddaalir la ttoae
was no rcfDOBM. (Mjfs or pnmiMTr communication,
MaítísSf« Spi? ««2 j8n£
noTMponse. Then after a few books made tremendo lmpres-
more inn it went to a quarter suns on readers, and story hooks
. . . s whale of a lot of money always led people to believe that
tor any kid during die very depth stepfathers wete Cruel.
of the Great Depression. And that But in the 30-plu* years I have
was as fciah as the offer went, knowa him. I have amr aeea a
This orooosition was made by single lastanee of cruelty. I search
one of MrrSmith's star boarders my memory at great length, and
down at Goose Creek a little over at no time durin- that period have
10 years ago to her youngsters. I ever felt the slightest shame in
She had bees the wi<bw him.
of a deputy sheriff who There was pride from the be-
had been killed a few yWl ginnin? . . . pride which has grown
before in liberty County. And as Into the biggest pedestal I can
a means of supporting ner youne- imagine. Therje is no greater msn
tins, she had opened a boarding to me and my brother and sisters,
house in booming Goose Creek. He !« • —Pile' with compás-
But her business ability was ter- skm and understanding.
rible and she was getting deeper He j< a man who always felt his
and deeper in debt seventh grade education was too
Then she met a held-head*d big a handicap for him to accept
young pipeliner named K. T. better ooportunities offered him.
Sm?'h. The lovebug b<t them both but which might have been a gam-
and thev slipped off to Houston ble. He slways has been sure of
and got married. himself in all v e n t u r e s. and
I was the smallest of the three through this confidence he role to
voun'stérs who could talk at the a responsible position before his
time, and naturally the least in- retirement some two years ago.
hibited by convention. So I won He is a dedicated Christian
th® quarter — fair snd sauar . whose faith I envy.. > . a leader
I was the first of the three who in his church:
called him "Daddy" and I'll never Mv biggest regret la that he
forget tie tingle I f«lt all cv - at can't fully share the outdoor ad-
the time. I seemed to have felt a ventures my son and. I enjoy so
mixture of guilt and oride at the much due to the two heart attacks
If I am able to attain that goél.
efforts
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land wll' be honored, and among them win be 00-
year-oW Edward A. Swineford of Drewrys Bluff,
Vs.. who Inspired the proclamation of the first
Father's Day by the state of Virginia.
His daughter, Mrs. Walter Burgess, obtained the
proclamation through a persistent campaign which
The tour began with a chartered bus trip to
such places as Colorado Springs, Rocky Mountain
National Park, Denver, Cheytnne, Wyo., Yellow-.,
stone Park, Salt Lake City, Utah, through Mon-
tana, Washington and Oregon, and on into Canada.
From Canada, she will go with the group by
begair lA lilt when she.wrote the Richmond. Vs.. steamship to Honolulu. After touring the Hawaiian
same time. And yet I wanted so he has had in recent years,
very much to call him Dad. I can th>iv of no rea r atnb-
The magic word opened his tion as a father than to have my
arms as he sat there on the front children love and respect me as
porch in that wicker chair. And much when they are my age as I
from the moment I ran to him and do my Dad now.
they, closed about me; I've known If I am able to i
no other father. He has been ev- I'll consider my life And
er"tvn« en-i far beyond — that a whopping success.
a father should be. My older broth- Because that's what Dad's has
er and sister followed quickly ia been.
THE GRAB BAG ...
Deer Season Never
Really, Really Closes
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Carelessness Still Doesn't Pay
By MAJIY ALICE LAKEY
News-Leader:
"I want my Dad to have á day of recognition.
Why don't we have a aatkmAI FAthir*s Day?"
The letter to the newapaper was only a part Of
Mrs. Burgess' campaign 42 years ago. She says:
"I talkfd to my teachers and to anyone else
who would listen. Finally ia' 1921, I persuaded the
¿riteitier of Virginia. E. Lee Trinkle, to iSaue a
proclamation setting aside the third Sunday ia
June as ofticial Father' Day -
She also obtained S certificate of Incorporation
for national Father's Day. She paid a yearly lee
to the Virginia Stat# corporation committee until
1932, when aha had the charter recorded ia the
U.S. patent office.
Mrs. Burgess does not claim to be the aole
founder of Father's Dey, but she says she Is tha
only one who hss a charter, and who followed legal
procedure for Its origination.
Sha says she if aware that others, Including
Mrs. J. B Dodd of Spokane. Wash., have Just
claims as the originators of Father's Day.
Mrs. Burgess, a free-lance fashion model, moved
Islands, the will fly back to Los Angeles for visits
to Disneyland, the Knott Berry Farm, and all the
other strractions in those parts. On the bus«trip
home from California, the group will visit such
places a* Sequoia Fark, Death Valley, the Hoover
Dam and Grand Canyon.
Then there are the Fréd Hurfordj who were off
this week to visit Mrs. Hurford's sister in Ssn
Franciso, before taking a jet for the HawaiiAn
Islands.
They were to go by car and planned to see
many of thé places previously mentioned plus Las
Vegts. th Petrified Forest, Mount Whitney, Yose-
mita PArk. Renp, Bryce CAhyon, LAke Tehoe And
oiAny ethers , *
The Hurfords heve visited all the 4ft ststes of the
U.S. Ma'nland, having visited their lsst six last
year. After Hawaii, they'll have only Alaska to go.
By BOB McHUGH
1«7
just 100
"- . .-100 .
days to go!"
Al Gerry wasn't counting the
days until Christmas. New Year's
or his wife's birthday.
That's how many days it will be
some Woman didn't want to make
alterations.
ONE YEAR AGO TODAY in Or-
ange County:
M. K. Tnomen Sr.. along with
before deer aaaaoa opens la the two former Orange ftiAyorS, Ray-
Big Bend: mood Sanders and Joe Runnels
"Jt!t. jetting closer all the
ne," Af Said with a faraway look
his eyes, flipping through the
llendar.
'Seems like It Ought to be ck -
than that," Buddy Crew chimed
hopefully.
Jr.. filed as candidates for mayor
of Orange.
Herb Meeks reported he would
not seek re-election as mayor of
Full accreditation awarded to
Orange Memorial Hospital for
Boy. 1 can hardly Wait." Mike three-year period.
Brown squealed as he snatched up Weather outlook: Partly cloudy,
a .270 and leveled it on a deer high of 93.
and thev now say they want their first month's bead mounted on the wall at the FIVE YEARS AGO TODAY hi
vacation when they will be driving to Fairbanks. Sportsman'a Shop. _ Orange Cduflty:
. 1 "tet'a make sure," Ai aaid. "I Sabine Area construction strike
could have miased a day . . . reported nearia* an end after 77
Fwnd out list week when they Invited me to nop^J[ ^S days ahead." _ days to equal atate's all-time
than 305. That's strike record.
their installation, tha West Orange Lioness Club la
íeliclous
•wowing tor soothe everyone's itchy fingers, tion battle.
H for was
bar mm Ml af people who
Htddea dangera can coat you,, says the State
Bar Association ef Taxaa . . . oast yea plent'y!
And, if suits ceald stem from those dangers,
It's wise la know what to.do end what not to
do in dAy to-day Uving. You see,, juries csn do
soma unusual ruling la cases and it s wise to Hi
prepared.
For instance, here 11 I case with a surprising
Outcome: "
John Jones owned a service station. One day,
he sold fia* In an open dirty point bucket to Aa
Angry looking customer who said It was for his
car. ' ¿«
It waant . .
to throw It Into a
had heckled him. He Ht Ike
resulting Masa burilad several people badly
- He wat caught and sent to prison—but that
wasrt't the last of tha incident. The burned bar
patraña sued the gas station • owner, claiming
that Jonen should not have sold the gas. A city
Isw said that gas should be pumped only in! c^r
tanks br into metal containers with csp or screw.
The court held that gas stations sell dangerous
foods and the city law aimed to protect the pub-
lic, snd that Jones was negligent In selling tha gaa
In an open bucket. A Jury decided It he was sup-
posed to know the gss might be wrongly used . ..
M so. he was liable for dAmAgee.
, ,h* "*<*lAtion: "if a person negUgently
•eta the .stsge for a later criminal act, he msy
hsve to pay for the damage If he eould have rea-
sonably foreseéa thé consequences."
Far fostaaea. If yea leave a loaded g«a laying
around and a delinquent neighbor boT.M it
*+• h a your
A cae famous among attorneys in this state
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THS 0SAN8I LEADER
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B. f. Krlfttdi .
j. k. CX>vl«
Is one wh ch involved a young lady who bought a
train ticket to one town aad mistakenly rode be-
yond the town which hsd Its nAme atAted oa her
tick:!.
a ' — -i,., -Mi ««awtaJ — — — -m
a oonoiicvor fliKwTvrvQ im vnWi vvoppM IBB
train aad put the girt eft virtually "la the mid-
dle al aowhOre." She waa forced la walk to the
east town, and to so dotag had to walk by a
known hobo camp, the hoboe attacked her
she sued the railroad.
The ceUi^held that the company was Hable
aad said tha conductor should have foreseen what
frljfrf happen.
Recently a construction firm left a bylldoser
unlocked. Vandals atarted the machine and droVe
It until unable to stop it. they headed it towsrd
a hill. ■■■'(.
Before It carjie to a stop. It rsn into several
homes And a car . . . tha court said the coa-
tractor should have foreseen the likelihood of van-
dals and locked the bulldocer. The contractor was
held Hablé . ,
Yoft're Also responsible tor accidents to per-
sons working on your property . . it's surprising
how much one matron was forced to pay whose
yard boy waa injured while ha #as mowing.
So, better consult your lawyer!
TIME SPECIALIST—People are always kidding
See Rinehart. bailiff 18 21th District Court, about
his profession and his avoeatioa -. . . both of them
deal with time. He's a watch repairman and in
couri he hears much about "doing timé." Rine-
hart also distributes matches to attorneys rush-
ing about their business and forgetful ef that
Item. . .
PHILOSOPHER—When Frank BéoOit. 14-year-
old son of Mrs. Edith Beaoit of the West Oraage
Water Control A Improvement District office, was
trying to find a free evening fot his mother to
Attend recreation events with him, ahe kept say-
ing: "No. I'm sorry. I have Ah egueibation hoard
meeting that night" He gave up fa despair with
thé' cómmént, "Well? mother, you'd Just aa well
move your bed down there."
WE HEAR—That Ellery W. Britt, Orange Coun-
ty Identification auperiataw(sBt, is planning to re-
tire Aug.a. 4!e has been quite in lately. There
already is much speculation as W his successor
. . maujr people think that DOputy Sheriff Bin
Pbtter wtJI take over.
CONTRAÍT—In values was Saea recently by a
teen-ager who delivered a bread new TV aet into
a home where Hving eoodithms shtotbd him. Said
he to his mother: "They liad a brand new refrig-
erator In that tumbledown house; the children were
and dirty, end there was a- hole in the
In PlorlJs with her husband 20 years ago. She a wonde-ful group. They can also mské delicious add-d almost
seea her father oace a year and aays he "Is in salads and cakes. With no oné member knowing ta «noth mm
gqod health, a greet reader, and has a- marvelous
memory, a precious father and lovsble to all six
children."
what it waa not long ago," Buddy West OrSi«e hired Houston At-
as if trying torney to fig
Orange in ailnexa
what Mad ef satod tha othars ware toakfae. bgefc with. "tatoam Raymond A. Houingshead Jr.
waa aet a single duplication. ~ Wr lig^eg^ttl«"Thar"Mg filed as candldate 'fOT Orange
buck ""
councilman's
I'm green with envy three days because of some
of the grand vacations thnt are being called to my
attention.
Prominent among them IS that of Ethel Bolton,
teacher at Jonss Sntk .School, who want to San
I trustees flréd
l^a Marcos Wednesday to Start a grand tour with a feet are killing ma.
* THE DOCTOR ANSWERS *
Dietetics Topp/e 'Nest Egg'
Br DB. HAROLD THOMA8 HTMAN. MX).
GIRL CLOSE TO My HEART-When Abby Van dear 'trip*™ ^uííd SS,"
Burtn. of Dear Abby fame, was Asked for a sou- thst's the way It'a been since last Weather outlook: Cloudy, seat-
venir for the Treasure Island Odditorium in Pan- Not4 on* tered showers, high of 89.
ama City. Fia., ahe presented the Celebrity Museum {¡¡¡T £¡¡jt wém't rteaM^ ^ad Dedicated totttñ to th K.ti-
wlü her list pair of pointed shoes. "I'm through that's the way it win be un'tii this ness world, an executive knows
suffering for die sake of fashion she said, "my season finally rocks around. aomething about everything, a
Actually, deer season never technician knows everything a bou'
closes. There's just a brief pause something - and the switchboard
in between so hunters ¿an visit operator knows everything.
their families, make excuses for - •
lb* *"to£eo^_UMt^ot away and t Career girl: A girl who'd rather
Time was when a feature ef the dining-room in
every farm house waa a piece of chiaa whose lid
was surmounted by a rooster and whose base was
a hollow dish that contained a collection ef odd
coina and dollar biHs.
With the contents ef Oil "hast egg," the for«-
er s Wile was able M purchase the little MUtriea
of Ufa to relieve the drab routiae of housekeeping.
And sometimes this fund helped put th¡e children
through trade schools or éoUege.
Today thfc"MSt egg" presidas lean pickings. Dal-
lara doten eggs aré a fond memory. ladead, only
by practicing the greatest economy is the eonsdea-
tioui fane wife able to do much better than break
even on her one# reliable cofomerciai enterprise,
aallisia aaai \ ' 'V • !
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What las brtugto the daw^aB of the aest en Ia
aot automation, strangely eao«|k It's
ta aiy
s,M «.«MP , . ..is; as* * o" "
mission, incidentally, reports that. ... '
the deer crop is in excellinr eon- He who thfñketh by the inch and
ditkm this yesr . . . And If we get talketh by the yfctd deserveth to
just a toir Amount of rain, the be kicked by the toot.
crop will be better than expected.
„ „ r Signing off thought: Nothing is
No K^made opened by mistake more often
ing processes that go on urithln the animal economy Ew notice
(metabolism) that permit some to deliver great man ever did such a good job that than the mouth!.'
quantities of a cholesterol end product and others,
like greyhounds and other lean organisms, Uttle or
Jto. ia keeping with these concepts, we urged our .
readers to coiitiaue to indulge themselves with ba-
cdb aad eggc for aa occasional breakfast and with
butter so long as they
their normanévéla.
te give
aaét sag to its for-
a'thin sprefd of
kept their weights at 6r
A pair ef reeeat
strong backlag to oa
tirwdaara _^M
sse^ay
aaer place al afftagn
A tean. of wairkers at the Rockefeller Institute,
experimenting with various amounts of protein, car-
bohydrates and feu in human diets, observed that
toé level of fats ia the blood (lipemla) was most
often determined by the manner la which the body
the past dacade has seen thé specter of arterio- converted carbohydrates (sugars) to fat and least
SeléfOSis as toe He. 1 Killer arisé in our midst. And often, by sa inherited lack or deficiency ef the éa-
with this specter hss srisen the équalty ominous Syma that digaats fat la the body.
Specter of éhaieHérW. And since egg yolk is ear Thus, the determinants ware, in toe first in-
richejt source tor dietary cholesterol, it has beea stance, the carbohydrates of the diet; and' in the
banned by aome from their tables together'With second a hereditery factor. Indeed the levels of
that other suspect, butter. blood triglycerides (which play aa importaet rale
Mow A féw of US have exposed ourselves to criti- In fat mstaboHsm) were lowest oa a diet that eon*
cism by emphasising two important priaclplsa re- tatoed 70 per cent fat and higheat oa one that coa-
feráble to the cholesterol problem. <
of
Col
tatoed no tot.
ragged ai
hall floor
The first ia the obvious raer that the level af .
Mood cholesterol is net dependent on the amouat er
quaUty of cholesterol in the diet. Otherwise, we'd jfer a copy of Dr. Hymaa's ISaflet "What
n6 cream from Our cows and precious Mtla Hardening of the Arteries?" sand 10 cents te Dr. v
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