The Canadian Record (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 69, No. 3, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 16, 1958 Page: 3 of 10
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THE CANADIAN
By VERN SANFORD
Texas Press Association
AUSTIN — Education has
been a prime concern of Tex-
as government for more than
a century and a quarter. But
seldom, if ever, has the sub-
ject loomed so large in public
discussion as now in the sat-
ellite age.
Austin, site of the Capitol
and state university, is the
center for a swirl of confer-
ences and statements on the
direction in which education
should move.
Mirabeau B. Lamar, known
as the "father of education in
Texas," admonished early
lawmakers with the famous
statement, "The cultivated
mind is the guardian genius
of democracy."
In the past few months,
since Sputnik, statesmen have
taken up this theme in dif-
ferent words, but with great-
er-than-ever urgency. They're
saying, in effect, that unless
the tempo of training can be
stepped up immediately to
train more people better, de-
mocracy is doomed.
In Austin this challenge
has set off lively debates and
given heavy new significance
to the planning conferences
of those who set educational
policy. Current ^eramples in
the news:
Science and Math study in
Texas public schools will get
a critical examination by a
group of school principals
with advice from business
and industry leaders.
State Board of Education
set up the study group which
is to complete its project by
end of 1959. Goal is to find
means to enrich the schools'
curriculum in some areas, set
standards in others.
Board has previously raised
graduation standards in Tex-
as high schools, taking away
from the students the chance
to pass up math and science
in favor of "snap" courses.
This action, taken before the
current science emphasis, was
"somewhat prophetic," com-
mented one board member.
No Tax for Teachers would
do more than scholarships
and new buildings to raise
level of instruction, said the
secretary to the Commission
on Higher Education.
Jack D. Cox said exempting
'.eachers from income taxes
would have the effect of rais-
ing salaries without levying
additional taxes.
Poor Pay for Profs was hit
even harder by a University
of Texas faculty member in
an Austin talk. He cited sal-
ary incentives as crucial in
comparing Russian and U. S.
school systems.
According to Dr. B. H. Am-
stead, an American college
professor can expect to dou-
ble his salary in a lifetime;
his Russian counterpart can
achieve 15 times his begin-
ning wage. American teach-
ers make 10 per cent less
than factory workers, said Dr.
Amstead, Russian teachers
2>¿ times more.
Proposed federal seholar-
/ ships will be useless, he
opined, unless there's also
more money to attract people
to run schools.
"Survival Depends on the
quality of our schools," Sen.
A. M. Aikin jr. of Paris told
the Texas Association of
School Administrators.
Aikin, leading legislative
spokesman for education, re-
ported on the aims of the
Hale-Aikin Committee of 24
set up by the Legislature to
make an over-all study of the
state's school needs.
"Specific recommendations
from the people of Texas on
many important school mat-
ters are needed by the study
group," Aikin said. Success of
the study depends on how
well the people get behind it
and participate, he added.
It was begun, said the sen-
ator, "before foreign develop-
ment re-emphasized the fact
that education is a vital part
of our national defense."
Land Leasing Set
School Land Board has set
March 4 for sale of oil and
gas leases on public lands.
Some 34,000 acres of tide-
lands plus several hundred
tracts on state prison farms
will be offered for leasing.
It will be the first time tide-
lands leases have been offer-
ed since the federal govern-
ment filed suit contesting
Texas' claim to land more
than three miles from shore.
State officials were unsure
how attractive the land would
be under the circumstances.
Optometrists At Odds
Rival groups of Texas op-
tometrists are apparently on
their way to the Texas Su-
preme Court to settle differ-
ences over what practices are
legál for that profession.
Disagreement centers on two
issues: (1) whether optome-
trists may advertise, and if
so, who and (2) whether they
may have offices in part of
the space of a store.
Atty. Gen. Will Wilson ruled
unconstitutional the portion
of the Ophthalmis Dispensers
law passed last spring that
pertained to advertising. Rea-
son, a familiar one: the topic
was not mentioned in the
bill's caption.
Members of the Texas Opto-
metric Association disagreed
with the opinion. They have
brought suit asking that the
State Board of Examiners in
Optometry be enjoined to en-
force a no-advertising rulé.
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Phone 33
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SAVINGS H. IOAN ASSOCIATION
i, Hemphill County, Texas
Jacqueline Sharp Wins CHS Title
Homemaker of Tomorrow for '58
WHEN IN TEXAS . . . —Morocco's King Mohammed V, on a
tour of the United States, appears in Kingsville, Tex., as an
adopted son of the state. The Mideastern leader borrowed
khaki pants, stuffed them in cowboy boots and donned a 10-
gallon hat for his sight-seeing on the famed King Ranch.
Mohammed poses with Michael Reynolds* nephew of the
ranch's owner. Richard Kleberg.
Canadian FFA Has
29 Pigs, One Steer
In Houston Show
The Canadian FFA has en-
tered 29 barrows and one An-
gus steer in the junior di-
vision of the '58 Houston Fat
"Stock Show, February 19
through March 2.
The show, held in the
-south's largest city, is offer-
ing approximately $216,500 in
cash premiums and special
awards to exhibitors and con-
testants. Air conditioned cat-
tle barns will house the esti-
mated 10,000 head of swine,
sheep, quarter and cutting
horses, poultry, rabbits and
twelve breeds of cattle that
have been entered.
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The Betty Crocker Home-
maker of Tomorrow in Cana-
dian High School is Jacque-
line Sharp.
She received the highest
score in a written examina-
tion on homemaking knowl-
edge and attitudes, adminis-
tered Dec. 3, to senior girls in
the graduating class. Her ex-
amination paper will be en-
tered in competition to name
this state's candidate for the
title of Ail-American Home-
maker of Tomorrow and will
also be considered for the
runner-up award in the state.
For her achievement, she will
receive an award pin design-
ed by Trifari of New York.
The national winner in the
fourth annual Betty Crocker
Search conducted among 327,-
Pvt. Curtis Hall
In Training Unit
Now in Germany
NEW ULM, Germany (AH-
TNC)—Army Pvt. Curtis Hall,
whose wife, Jane, lives at
3405 Lometa Dr., Amarillo, re-
cently participated in a field
training exercise conducted by
the 538th Field Artillery Bat-
talion near Munsingen, Ger-
many.
Hall, a truck driver with
the battalion's Service Bat-
tery, is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Rayburn Hall of Allison.
He entered the Army in Janu-
ary 1957 and was last sta-
tioned at Fort Carson, Colo.
The 23-year old soldier is a
1952 graduate Of Allison High
School and a former employee
of the Dew A. Hicks Construc-
tion Co., in Amarillo.
Dr. Reese Nowlin
Dr. Gens K. Smith
OPTOMETRISTS
Office Hours
9—12 A. M. 1—5 P. M.
Saturdays 9—1 P. M.
109 S. Main
Phone 5481
PERRYTON, TEXAS
000 young women in 11,800 of
the nation's public, private
and parophial high schools
will be named April 17 at a
banquet in the Waldorf-As-
toria Hotel in New York City.
Each State Betty Crocker
Homemaker of Tomorrow will
receive a $1,500 scholarship
and an educational trip with
her school advisor to Wash-
ington, D. C., colonial Wil-
liamsburg, Va., and New York
City. A $500 scholarship will
be awarded the second rank-
ing girl in each state. The
school of the state winner will
receive a set of the Encyclo-
paedia Britannica.
The scholarship of the
young woman named All-
America n Homemaker of To-
morrow will be increased to
$5,000. Girls who rank second,
third and fourth in the na-
tion will receive $4,000, $3,000
and $2,000 scholarships, re-
spectively.
CLASSED-IN—Seated behind
a tumbler and a decantar,
Aneurin Bevan, treasurer of the
National Executive Committee
of the British Labor party, re-
moves his glasses during a ses-
sion at Brighton, Sussex, Eng-
land. Bevan was re-elected to
his post at the party's 56th an-
nual conference.
VOTE FOR Edward Detrixhe
for County Commissioner, Pre-
cinct 2. (Paid PoL Adv.) 2 tfc
ELLIS COUNTY HEREFORD BREEDERS
ASSOCIATION
6th Annual Sale
Monday, Ian. 20, 1958
At SHATTUCK. OKLAHOMA
At the Fair Grounds — Heated Building — Plenty of Seats
Selling! 26 Bulls -~ 9 Females
from 12 top herds in this area
Top Quality — Popular Bloodlines
Herd Bull Prospects — Top Commercial Bulls
Bred and Open Heifers
Show and Sale Judging Starts at 9 A. M.
Sale Starts at 1 P. M.
For catalogues and information write
W. O. Smith, Secretary, Arnett, Okla.
FUNDS PLACED
WITH US ARE:
(1) Safely Protected—Each Account insured
Up to $10,000.00 M
(21 Earn 3Va% per Annum
(3) Ready When Needed
Open your account by mail M
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SEEING DOG - Finally get-
ting a good look at the worl i
around him is Apache, a near-
sighted Dalmatian. His spe-
cially made glasses were fitted
by a Chicago optical firm. Held
in place by a leather harness,
the spectacles enable the my-
opic caninc to sec as well as he
should
Since the case involves con-
stitutionality of a law, it can
be appealed to the Supreme
Court.
Another suit was brought by
a group of optometrists pro-
testing a state board ruling
that an optometrist's office
cannot share space in a store.
Attendant publicity result-
ed in the resignation of
Charles M. Babb of Austin as
executive secretary to the
State Board of Optometry Ex-
aminers. Babb was criticized
for holding that position while
also serving as legal counsel
to the Texas Optometric As-
sociation — i.e., serving both
the regulators and the regu-
lated.
Short Snorts
Travis County grand jury
gave state officials and em-
ployes a clean bill of health
after two months' searching
for "any further evidence of
misconduct." It did, however,
recommend tighter regulation
of notaries public and insur-
ance company officials hand-
ling company funds . . . Rail-
road Commissioner Olin Cul-
berson made the first state-
wide political announcement
by stating that he would seek
a fourth term in his present
office . . . Persons wanting to
buy under the veterans land
program will have a chance
Jan. 21 to buy land of pre-
vious owners who failed to
meet payments. Forfeited land
Includes 58 tracts In 21 coun-
ties, said Land Commissioner
Earl Rudder . . . Lt. Gov. Ben
Ramsey named Judge Joe J.
Fisher of Jasper, Judge A. R.
Stout of Waxahachie and Earl
Smith of San Antonio to the
Law Enforcement Commission
created during the special le-
gislative session. Three were
appointed to the commission
by the governor, three more
will be appointed by the
House Speaker . . . J. T. Ellis
jr. of Weslaco has been ap-
pointed to Governor Daniel's
staff to assist with water, Job
classification and fiecal mat-
ters. Ellis resigned as state
representative to take the
pent
WHILE CAR PRICES WENT UP THROUGHOUT THE
INDUSTRY,THE PRICE OF THIS CAR WENT DOWN
Here's good news: Ford has priced many of its
'58Bnodels lower than corresponding 1957 models!
Ford Custom 300's are priced as much as $50 lower
than last year. This is based on a comparison of
manufacturers' suggested retail delivered prices.
Who'd ever guess
its the lowest priced
of the low-price three
In case you haven't yet gotten
around to pricing this elegantly
styled 58 Ford Custom 300, put
your mind at ease. When you com-
pare manufacturers' suggested retail
delivered prices, you'll find that this
Ford is priced lower than any sedan
in its field. And Ford has the lowest-
priced station wagon and convert-
ible, too!
But price isn't everything. The 58
Ford was the first car ever to use
the whole world as its test track!
This meant taking the all-new Inter-
ceptor V-8, combining it with new
Cruise-O-Matic Drive, and tacklin]
some of the roughest roads we coul
find on three continents. This terrific
power team proved it could handle
any drivfng youH ever dot
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Ezzell, Ben. The Canadian Record (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 69, No. 3, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 16, 1958, newspaper, January 16, 1958; Canadian, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth183883/m1/3/: accessed April 28, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hemphill County Library.