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THE WINKLER COUNTY NEWS, Kermit, Texas
PAGE TWO Monday, October 2, 1961
Why Help Drug Peddlers
Control of the opium traffic has long been a
grave and extremely difficidt international problem.
Many and various regulations have been imposed
through agreements among the nations. Potentially, the
most effective instrument of control is known as the
Protocol of 1953, which needs the signature of only
one more country to put it into force.
But this, and other existing treaties and controls,
would have the ground cut from under them if the
Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs of 1961, which
was adopted last March by a Plenipotentiary Confer-
ence convened by the United Nations, has its way.
Controls, under the terms approved by the Con-
vention, would be seriously relaxed. For #xample,
countries not previously exporting opium would be
allowed unrestricted production and export of as much
as five tons a year without accounting.
The Washington Post has said this: “The osten-
sible purpose of the Convention was to codify and
supplement all the existing treaties relating to the
opium traffic. Actually, in the opinion of Eugene N.
Beesley, president of Eli Lilly & Co. of Indianapolis
(one of the severely-regulated American pharmaceuti-
cal concerns which provide morphine, codeine and
other opium derivatives for legitimate medical and sur-
gical uses), the( effect of the Convention would be vir-
tually to ‘negate international control of the use of
narcotics.’ Mr. Beesley hopes that the United States
will reject the proposed Convention and will stand
hrmly by the Protocol of 1953 ...”
Everyone who believes in reducing the illicit use
oi soul and body destroying narcotics should hold the
same hope.
T hrough
The Years
20 YEARS AGO
Kermit housewives felt the
impact of the defense pro-
gram inspired higher cost of
living this week when bread
joined the ranks of commod-
ities that are soaring and
climbed from 10 cents to 11
cents a loaf.
Winkler County will have a
ounty agent for 1942 as it has
had since 1936 under an
agreement between ranchers
of the county and the Com-
missioners Court. Ranchers
protested they had not known
the Commissioners had lop-
ped off the $900 a year sal-
ary for the county agent.
Kermit’s religious move-
ment took on fresh force the
past week with the Baptist
Church driving for $7,000 for
building a $14,000 rock veneer
auditorium adjacent to the
present church. Community
Church is pointing toward a
successful Promotion Day at
its Sunday School Department
Sunday.
• I Give You Texas
BY BOYCE HOUSE
Recollections of a visit to
the West in the summer of
1960:
An archway of antlers spans
the street of a Wyoming town.
In the mountains to the west
of Denver is this intriguing
sign, “Popcorn Motel.” Es-
tablished by a former picture
show manager?
Electric signs giving the
temperature read, for ex-
ample, “plus 81” — which
means (I think) above zero.
I’m sure that a “minus” is
used in winter but I don’t in-
tend to be there to see!
Wyoming cafes uniformly
serve excellent beef.
On a highway bordering a
mountain stream, my first
sight of dams built by beav-
ers; at one point, instead of
a bridge for a pedestrian, a
chair on a trolley; slim white
birches and graceful aspens
which flutter when all other
trees are motionless.
IpN Ifrst time I ever heard
of Laramie was in connection
with the writings of Bill Nye,
the most widely-read Ameri-
can humorist of his era. It
was a surprise, therefore, not
to see his picture on the wall
in the lobby of the main hotel
nor a copy of even one of his
books in the hotel’s lending
library nor a book by, or
about, Nye on display in the
book store windows.
Nye was postmaster in Lar-
amie and tendered his resig-
nation in a highly amusing
letter to the President.
If you haven’t read “A Re-
sign,” do yourself a favor;
read it; also his account of a
cyclone. Bill Nye deserves a
kinder fate.
Would you believe it
Honey Mellody was the
name of a man?
And not only that but he
was a prize-fighter — and one
of the best of his day.
Mark Twain’s recipe for
happiness, “Good friends,
good books — and a sleepy
conscience.”
15 YEARS AGO
L. G. Edwards, formerly of
Dallas and recently honorably
discharged from military
service, is announcing the
opening of his new appliance
and furniture store for Satur-
day, Oct. 5.
Mr. and Mrs. Quincy Earle
gave a 1 o’clock Sunday din-
ner honoring Mrs. W. G.
Crowley on her birthday.
10 YEARS AGO
Pvt. Charlie D. Teasley,
who is stationed at Fort Sam
Houston, San Antonio, spent
the week end here visiting his
wife, the former Miss Mary
Peacock, and other relatives.
State Capital News
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Those Rocks Are Formidable—But This Hew Weapon
Is Incredible!'
Today in National Affairs
BY DAVID LAWRENCE
WASHINGTON — Great
speeches by spokesmen for
modern governments are
rare. But when such an ad-
dress is made, it is quickly
recognizable as a work of
transcendent merit.
This appraisal may readily
be given with respect to the
address of President Kennedy
before the General Assembly
of the United Nations* For he
expressed in words, as the
President of the United States,
what the people of this coun-
try really feel during the cur-
rent period of tension in inter-
national affairs.
Oratorical at times, epi-
grammatic in its phrasing,
but comprehensive in its
treatment of the issues of the
day, the speech stated un-
equivocally American ideals
and American purposes.
All subscriptions cash in advance to comply w*th postal reeula- While severely critical of the
tions. Subscription rates: $4.00 year in Winkler County $5 00 Soviet Union’s policies, it was
THE WINKLER COUNTY NEWS, Kermit, Texas
Published Every Monday and Thursday in Kermit
The County Seat of Winkler County, Texas
By
GOLDEN WEST FREE PRESS, INC.
D. . J _ Nev H. Williams, Publisher
Richard E. Dwelle President; Nev H. Williams, Executive Vive-
President; David Donosky, Treasurer.
year elsewhere.
Nev H. Williams
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Entered as Second Class Matter at the Post Office in Kermit,
Texas under the Act of March 2, 1879.
dignified in its restraint yet
unmistakable in its meaning.
The address will have
world-wide repercussions. For
it will be widely re-broadcast
and will be read throughout
the free world, though unhap-
pily the Soviets will keep their
own people from hearing or
reading this hopeful and help-
ful pronouncement which
could be made the basis of a
real peace if the Soviet people
could exert upon their govern-
ment the influence that is di-
rected every day toward free
governments.
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Excerpts do not do justice
to the- text of the whole of the
President’s address, but there
were certain passages which
are examples of directness
and forthrightness in defining
the controversies of the day.
He said, for instance, to the
so-called “non-aligned” na-
tions:
“In this hall there are not
three forces, but two. One is
composed of those who are
trying to build the kind of
world described in Articles I
and II of the Charter. The
other, seeking a far different
world, would undermine this
organization (the U. N.) in
the process.”
As for the suggestion of the
Soviets that the office of
Secretary - General be a
three-headed a.ffair; with an
official from each of the Com-
munist, the Western and the
“neutral” blocs, like the
“Troika” — the Russian ve-
hicle drawn by three horses
abreast—Mr. Kennedy made
this caustic comment:
“Even the three horses of
the ‘Troika’ did not have
three drivers, all going in dif-
ferent directions. They had
only one — and so must the
United Nations executive.”
. Most eloquent and emotion-
al was the President’s treat-
ment of the whole armament
question as he said:
“Men no longer debate
whether armaments are a
symptom or a cause of ten-
sion. The mere existence of
modern weapons — ten mil-
lion times more powerful
than anything that the world
has ever seen, and only min-
utes away from any target on
earth — is a source of horror
and discord and distrust . . .
“But we are well aware
that issues of principle are
not settled — and that prin-
ciples alone are not enough.
It is therefore our intention to
challenge the Soviet Union,
not to an arms race, but to
a peace race — to advance
together step by step, stage
by stage, until general and
complete disarmament has
been achieved.”
The President was not dis-
mayed by the argument that
a utopian condition cannot
possibly be attained. He call-
ed for a program of “steady
reduction in forces, both nu-
clear and conventional, until
it has abolished all armies
and all weapons except
those needed for internal or-
der and a new United Nations
Peace Forcq.,,
insisted that
Mr. Kennedy
this wouldn’t
‘dependent’ lives under gov-
ernments installed by foreign
troops instead of free institu-
tions — under a system which
knows only one party and one
belief — which suppresses
free debate and free elections
and free newspapers and free
books and free trade unions
“usher in'thti era of the super- —and which builds a wall to
state — but it would usher in keep truth a stranger and its
an eVa in' which no state own citizen prisoners. Let-i
could annihilate or be annihi- us debate colonialism in full >
lated by another:’” 1 —and apply the principle of ;
’Perhaps.Jthe' President was :fheef cho^ce’ and the ^ practice f
al his best when lie' lashed of free Plebiscites in every
out at the#hypocrisy of the corner of the globe. ’ • 1 -
Communists as they mis- As said before, the entire
chlevously champion the speech merits careful reading,
cause against “colonialism” It has been in preparation for
in other lands. He said on this
point:
“ . . . There is no ignoring
the fact that the tide of self-
determinatibn ; has not reach-
ed the Communist empire
where a population far larger
than that officially termed
a long time. It Represents
the composite thought of
many advisers from both par-
ties, inside and outside the
government. It also reflects
accurately at this time the
public opinion of the United
States.
BY VERN SANFORD
Texas Press Association
AUSTIN — As the weeks go
by and new emergencies
arise, Gov. Price Daneil finds
more reasons for calling Tex-
as Legislators back to Austin
for another special session.
In addition to the Govern-
or’s unfinished program, Hur-
ricane Carla has produced
other reasons.
It is definite now that the
Governor will ask for more
money for the Highway Patrol
and for the National Guard.
He had to advance money to
the Guard, from his emergen-
cy fund, to pay salaries and
expenses of Guard units call-
ed up for hurricane duty.
Major General James E.
Taylor, the state adjutant
general, said that the 2,300
men and 800 vehicles called
out for hurricane duty made
up the largest peacetime op-
eration in Guard history.
After Gov. Daniel’s aerial
tour of the hurricane-struck
coastal area, he estimated
that some 3,000 lives would
have been lost had it not been
for the organization of civil
defense, co-ordinating with
local groups, to evacuate the
area.
He also estimated $400,000,-
000 loss to public and private
property.
“I can see now that we need
to provide more money for
the National Guard and we
need to provide more High-
way Patrolmen, too,’ said the
Governor. “I am sure I will
add those to the call for a
special session.”
Rep. C. W. Pearcy Jr. of
Temple proposed that the leg-
islature permit cities and
counties to issue bonds to
make loans to disaster vic-
tims.
Speaker James A. Turman
asked the House general in-
vestigating committee to start
an inquiry into the payment
of insurance claims as a re-
sult of Carla. He said many
hurricane victims were sur-
prised to learn that much of
the damage was not covered
by insurance. Adjusters held
that their windstorm and hur-
ricane policies did not include
flood damage even though
caused by the hurricane.
Governor Daniel, irked over
the adjusters’ interpretations,
urged policy holders not to be
too hasty in settling their
claims.
. STORM CROP DAMAGE—
The U. S. Department of Ag-
iculture at Austin says the
ecent hurricane .caused the
most extensive wind &nd rain
damage to crops, fields and
pastures, ever experienced.
Of the prospective 100,000
bales of cotton in the fields,
about $11,000,000 worth was
probably lost, the USDA said.
Additional losses will result
from grade reductions, the
agency states.
JANUARY SESSION — The
chances are that Gov. Daniel
will have legislators back in
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up a grass-roots committee
of citizens to bring in pro-
posals for removing inequities
in the new sales tax law for
action at the special session.
Comptroller Robert S. Cal-
vert continues to explain the
law. He ruled that the Ameri-
can Red Cross is exempt from
the sales tax on its purchases,
since it is an agency of the
Federal government.
Calvert is studying a re-
quest from some large indus-
trial firms that they be al-
lowed to be “direct” payers
of the tax. Theory is that life
would be simpler if they could
keep records and pay the tax
once each quarter, instead of
paying it hundreds of times
a day in the normal course of
business.
TAX DOLLAR ANALYZED
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has taken a new look at
where the State’s tax dollar
comes from and where itA
goes. ™
Study reveals that 52 per
cent of it is derived from the
several types of sales taxes
levied in the state, including
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2 per cent limited sales tax.
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Williams, Nev H. The Winkler County News (Kermit, Tex.), Vol. 24, No. 43, Ed. 1 Monday, October 2, 1961, newspaper, October 2, 1961; Kermit, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth905280/m1/2/?q=%22Places%2b-%2bUnited%2bStates%2b-%2bTexas%2b-%2bWinkler%2bCounty%22: accessed June 12, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Winkler County Library.