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There's a Lot of 'New'
At Abilene State Park
Enter the 507-acre Abilene June, depending on the weather
State Park, located in south
Taylor County and the greeting
is a new type directional and
information sign, lettered in
yellow on a deep outdoor brown.
The sign points the way into
the natural beauty of the popu-
lar park which features a lot
of improvements this season.
Walk or drive around the park
and many of the changes are
noticable, but some of the
major work is unnoticed, such
as the new water lines.
Park Rangers Bob Watson
and Pete Funk began working
on the water system last Oc-
tober after a test performed in
Austin showed a large bacterial
organism count in the water.
The first step brought down
the old water tower. In its place
is a new system of lines and
pipe. A new chlorinator was
and how it will affect the work-
ing conditions for installing the
filter.”
The camper and picnicker cars
travel over six miles of gravel
road which has been rerouted
through the park from the en-
trance to the eight screened
and renovated shelters.
The enclosed 12 by 18 frame
shelters offer the public elec-
tricity, and a table on a ce-
ment floor. They are rented to
campers by reservation only at
a rate of $2.50 a day plus $1
per car.
Restroom facilities near the
shelter area are equipped with
tiled walls and hot showers.
Two other restrooms are in
operation at the park.
Unlike the past few years at
the park, all water testing will
be done by the Taylor County
added to aid in purifying the Health Department, instead of
water. This piece of equip-
ment and with over 900 feet of
new lines serve only the rest-
room facilities, concession area,
drinking water and ranger res-
idences. A separate line is
utilized for the swimming pool.
“We are building a filter sys-
tem for the pool to purify the
water and warm it up,” said
Watson. “We hope to open the
pool during the first week of
the old procedure of hand car-
rying samples to Austin. During
the 1965 season the health de-
partment will test the water
twice a month, double the test-
ing done earlier.
Cost of the work done and
now being done at the park is
close to $10,000 with more than
half of this amount going for
the swimming pool and water
systems.
Visitors this year will see a
good bit of new maintainance
equipment around the grounds,
including a new tractor, mow-
ing paraphernalia and a new
pickup truck which Watson
said, “We’re very proud of.”
Camping and picnic areas are
combined at this time with plac-
es for tents, trailers and shel-
ters. However, there is no pro-
vision for horseback riding at
the park.
Scattered throughout the
grounds are more than 90 tables
and 100 trash cans.
Of the 58 state parks Abilene
is ranked 6th in overall attend-
ance and 13th in the number of
campers.
Through July last year the
park registered 215,230 visitors
and 8,621 campers and Watson
says, ‘We are looking for a big-
ger crowd this year than last.
Watson cautioned that the
Rules and Regulations of the
Texas Parks and Wildlife De-
partment will be strictly en-
forced. There are 23 rules and
Watson says they’re “mostly
just common sense.”
Anyone wishing to obtain in-
formation about Abilene State
Park or to make reservations
for camping may address in-
quiries to Bob Watson, Park
Ranger, Abilene State Park,
Buffalo Gap.
Burleson District Doubles
Size, Gains 88,311 People
West Texas congressional dis- gest
tricts will range from 376,200
for Omar Burleson’s District 17
to 456,051 for Clark Fisher’s Dis-
trict 21 under the reapportion-
ment bill passed by the Legisla-
ture and sent to the Governor
early Sunday.
Burleson loses Scurry County
to Rep. George Mahon’s District
19 (Lubbock), and Parker
County to Rep. W. R. Poage’s
District 11 (Waco). But District
17 gains 12 other counties,
bringing the net number of
counties up from 14 to 24.
Added to District 17 are two
counties from District 13 (Wich-
ita Falls), Haskell and Throck-
morton; two from District 19
(Howard and Mitchell); one
from District 16 (El P a so),
Glasscock; and seven from Dis-
trict 21 (San Angelo - Odessa-
San Antonio), Sterling, Coke,
Runnels, Coleman, Brown, Con-
cho and Mills.
District 17 thus climbs from t
287,889 to 376,200.
District 21 becomes the big- las'
in the state both numeri-
cally and in vast distances cov-
ered. It had 27 counties with
262,742 residents before the re-
districting. It now has 27 plus
125,931 northwest Bexar County
residents and a population of
456,051.
It lost the seven counties to
District 17 but gained five (Ec-
tor, Crane, Upton, Reagan and
Crockett) from District 16, one
(Medina) from District 15 (Rio
Grande Valley), and one (Blan-
co) from District 10 (Austin).
Mahon’s District 19 dropped
from 20 to 17 counties and its
population gained from 424,774
to 425,517. It lost the two coun-
ties (Howard and Mitchell, Ma-
hon’s old home county) to Dis-
trict 17; two to District 18 (Pan-
handle), Bailey and Lamb; and
one (Dickens) to District 13. It
gained Scurry from District 17
and Midland from District 16.
Rep, Graham Purcell’s Dis-
rict 13 had only four changes.
It gained 64,026 from north Dal-
County (Richardson) and tion.
Dickens County came from Dis-
trict 19. It lost two counties, Has-
kell and Throckmorton, to Dis-
trict 17. Its 19 counties (18 plus a
part of Dallas) climbed from
326,781 to 381,829.
Rep. Walter Rogers’ District
18 (Panhandle) was unchanged
except to add two counties from
District 19, Bailey and Lamb.
Its population climbed from
363,596 to 394,582.
Rep. Richard White’s District
16 (El Paso) lost 7 of its 19
counties and declined in pop-
ulation from 573,438 to 394,679.
All districts in the state are
within 10 per cent of the normal
of 416,508, although District 17
is nearly 10 per cent below nor-
mal and District 21 is nearly 10
per cent above. Congress is con-
sidering a bill stating that dis-
tricts within 15 per cent of the
average meets the Supreme
Court’s one-person, one - vote
interpretation of the Constitu-
County residents who iost their
lives in the three conflicts.
Bryan Bradbury, speaker for
the annual observance, told
those present that the crosses
represent those who gave their
lives for great ideas. And these
ideals are forever enshrined on
the hearts of Americans every-
where.
“You do not weep in vain for
your sons who sleep around the
world. The grave is not the
end,” he told Gold Star mothers
seated in front of the speak-
er stand.
The program opened with a
salute to the dead by a Marine
honor guard.
Bill Bertram, chairman of the
organizational committee of the
sponsoring Veterans of Foreign
Wars, introduced guests. Tri-
bute was paid to the Gold Star
parents by A. R. Oglesby, Abi-
lene city councilman.
Mrs. Robert Tiffany read the
poem, “In Flander’s Field” and
her husband sang “Sleep, Sol-
dier Boy, Sleep.”
Another activity sponsored
Sunday by the VFW was the
raising of about 60 flags around
the 177 crosses.
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Congressional
Districts
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AUSTIN (AP) — Here are congression-
al districts as passed by both houses of
the Texas Legislature early Saturday:
1— Cass, Bowie, Red River, Lamar,
Delta, Hopkins, Franklin, Titus, Morris,
Camp, Marion, Harrison Panola, Rush,
Shelby, Cherokee.
2— Henderson, Anderson, Houston, Trin-
ity, Angelina, Polk, San Jacinto, Tyler
Jasper, Newton, Orange, Hardin, Liber-
ty, Montgomery, Walker, San Augstine,
Nacogdoches, Sabine. ;
3— Western Dallas County.
4 _ Grayson, Fannin, Collin, Hunt,
Rockwall, Kaufman, Rains, Van Zandt,
Smith, Gregg, Upshur.
5— Eastern Dallas County.
6— Southern part of Tarrant, southern
part of Dallas, Johnson,' Ellis, Navarro,
Hill, Freestone, Leon, Madison, Grimes,
Brazos.
7— Northwest Harris County.
8— Northeast Harris County.
9— Upper third of Brazoria, Galveston,
Chambers, Jefferson, Fort Bend.
10— Caldwell, Hays, Travis, Williamson,
Bastrop, Fayette, Lavaca, Colorado, Aus-
tin, Washington, Bureson, Lee Comal,
Burnet and Wallker.
11— Hood, Somervell, Bosque, McClen-
don, Coryell, Falls, Bell, Limestone, Rob-
ertson, Milam, Parker.
12— Tarrant.
13— Dickens, Kent, King, Stonewall,
Hardeman, Foard, Knox, Wilbarger,
IBayor, Wichita, Archer, Young, Clay
Jack Montague, Wise, Cooke, Denton
Northern part of Dallas.
14— Nueces, Aransas, Refugio, Calhoun,
Victoria, DeWitt, Jackson, Wharton, Mat-
agorda, southern Brazoria.
15— Zapata, Jim Hogg, Brooks, Hidal-
go, Starr, Kenedy, Willacy, Cameron, Kle-
berg.
16— El Paso, Hudspeth, Culberson, Jeff
Davis, Presidio, Brewster, Terrell, Pecos,
Reeves, Loving, Winkler, Ward.
17 — Haskell, Throckmorton, Fisher,
Jones, Shackelford, Stephens, Palo Pin-
to, Howard, Mitchell, Nolan, Taylor, Cal-
lahan, Eastland, Glasscock, Sterlings..
Coke, Runnels, Coleman, Brown, Coman-
che, Erath, Concho, Mills and Hamilton.
18 — Dallam, Sherman, Hansford,
Ochiltree, Lipscomb, Hartley, Moore,
Hutchison, Roberts, Hemphill, Coleman,
Potter, Carson, Gray, Wheeler, Deaf
Smith, Randall, Armstrong, Donley, Col-
lingsworth, Parmer, Castro, Swisher,
Broscoe, Hall, Childress, Cottle, Motley,
Lamb, Bailey.
19—Hale, Cochran, Hockley, Lubbock,
Corsby, Yoakum, Terry, Lynn, Garza,
Gaines, Dawson, Borden Anderws, Mar-
tin, Midland, Scurry, Floyd.
20 — Bexar.
21 — Ector, Crane, Tipton, Reagan,
Irion Tom Green, Crockett, Schlucher,
Menard, Kimble, Sutton, Val Verde, Ed-
wards, Real, Kerr, Kinney, Uvalde, Me-
dina, Bandera, Kendall Lampasas, Lla-
no, Mason, Gillespie, McCulloch, San
Saba, Blanco and Northwest Bexar.
23 — Maverick, Zavalla, Frio, Atas-
coas, Wilson, Gonzales, Karnes, Goliad,
Bee, Live Oak, McMullen, LaSalle, Dim-
mit, Webb, Duval Jim Wells, San j
Patricio, and southeast Bexar, * 1 11
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