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THURSDAY, MAY 5, 1960
THE CANADIAN RECORD, Canadian, Hemphill County, Texas
PASE THREE
SJATE CAPITAL
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6u Vern Sanford
AUSTIN—Saturday is "speak
now or forever hold your
peace" day in Texas.
Or, to say the least, the voter
who does not express an opin-
ion at the polls and precinct
conventions this week should
hold his peace about what
happens in Texas during the
next two years.
A number of important de-
cisions as to office holders
will be made Saturday. Once
made, they're final—for two
years or even four years.
At this point in the cam-
paigns, almost all candidates
and their supporters believe
that if there is a big enough
turnout Saturday, their side
will win handily. And those
who aren't pleased with the
wav things turn out likely
will blame it on those who
don't bother to show up.
Equally as important as the
primaries are the precinct con-
ventions to be held the samo
day. This is the only means by
which the individual voter can
participate in the selection of
the presidential nominee.
New Hghway Signs Due
New highway signs, bigger
and more colorful than any
used before, will begin ap-
pearing soon on the interstate
highways in Texas.
Highway Commission has
ordered the posting of route
markers and guide signs on
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RE-ELECT
GOVERNOR
Price Daniel
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Best for Texas
For Unity, Progress,
and Good Government
SEE AND HEAR
STATEWIDE TV
Friday 7:30 P. M.
KGNC-TV
Mj hi. Adv.
707 miles of interstate high-
way now completed or under
construction in the state.
Conspicuously absent in this
marking system will be stop
signs. Completion of the 41,000
mile system of controlled ac-
cess roads will make possible
coast-to-coast and border-to-
border driving without a stop
sign or traffic light.
Motorists soon will become
familiar with the interstate
marker—a red, white and blue
shield. Texas Highway De-
partment designed the shield
which later was adopted for
the entire national system.
All markers and guide signs
will be larger than usual. Ad-
vance exit signs will be placed
about two miles ahead of in-
terchanges to give motorists
plenty of time to plan their
next move.
Guide signs will have white
letters and symbols on a green
background ,and signs for rest
and service areas will have
green letters on a reflectorized
white background. Warning
and yield signs will remain
in the familiar yellow and
black but will grow in dimen-
sions.
Texas leads the nation in
the number of miles of inter-
state highways completed and
under way. Texas' allotment is
3,033 miles of which 697 are
finished and 259 are in some
stage of progress.
Schools' Share Down
Texas is spending a smaller
proportion of its tax revenue
on education now than it did
10 years ago.
This statement was issued
by the Texas State Teachers
Association in support of its
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Spur of the Moment
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President headquarters in Austin, was in Canadian a couple of
weeks ago testing the pulse of the people for Lyndon B. Bowen
confidently declares that a powerful majority of Texans are
behind Lyndon Johnson all the way . . . and appears just as
confident that Lyndon is going to get the nomination.
Bowen is plugging for a Johnson-Kennedy ticket, and thinks
that Kennedy would accept the vice-presidential nomination
on a ticket headed by Lyndon Johnson if thafs the way the
convention wind blows.
Other political observers we've talked to recently . . . among
them the Associated Press' top-ranking political writer Pat
Morin . . . have expressed less confidence that the principals
would agree either on a Johnson-Kennedy or Kennedy-Johnson
ticket. Morin figures that Johnson and Kennedy will probably
go into the convention with about equal delegate strength . . .
and that a deadlock between them could easily result.
Bowen doesn't discount the possibility of a deadlock in con-
vention voting . . . but thinks that Lyndon Johnson, the ac-
knowledged master of the political maneuver, would be at an
advantage in this situation.
And he might be right, at that . . . but if Johnson gets Ken-
nedy to take second place on his ticket, he will have accom-
plished one of the greatest political compromises of a long
career built on compromise.
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CANADIAN. TEXAS
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Ezzell, Ben. The Canadian Record (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 71, No. 18, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 5, 1960, newspaper, May 5, 1960; Canadian, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth184003/m1/3/: accessed April 30, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hemphill County Library.