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Newspaper
Bronte Enterprise
Location
Bronte, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1954
Page
7
A 1954 Texas joint resolution proposes amending Article VI Section 19 to guarantee jurors without regard to sex. It would include women in the terms men for grand and petit juries and set election procedures for approval by voters. The governor would issue the proclamation and publish notices per state constitutional rules.
A proposed Texas constitutional amendment would add Section 52 b to Article III prohibiting the Legislature from lending the state credit or public money to any toll road operators within the state. The measure sets an election for November 2, 1964, with voters deciding on the toll road financing ban.
Local families report weekend guests and visits across several states. Notable entries include Mr and Mrs Sam Smith hosting relatives from Oakland California, and Mr and Mrs Earl Cook hosting cousins from San Angelo. The Keating family mourned a 99 year old mother in Brownwood. Frank Brownfield, VA teacher.
Proposal to amend Article IX Section 4 authorizing county wide Hospital Districts in counties over 190000 and Galveston, with power to issue bonds and levy up to 75 cents per $100, to provide medical care, transfer property, assume debts, and require voter approval in a 1954 election while preventing state funding or charges. Governor to issue proclamation and publish notice.
House Joint Resolution proposes adding Section 16a to Article VIII to allow counties with fewer than ten thousand residents to hold elections on creating an Assessor-Collector of Taxes. If a majority vote yes at the 1954 General Election, the office would be added to the Texas Constitution and officials elected accordingly.
The column lists numerous visits and moves across towns like Duncan Oklahoma Lubbock Blackwell Robert Lee Rivera Monahans and Tahoka. It notes FFA members Jimmy Hipp James Byrd Weldon Henson and J L Hicks attending a convention in San Antonio last week.
Mr and Mrs Grover Young of Rogers announce their son Martin C Young has earned a corporal rating in Company M of the 44th Infantry at Fort Lewis Washington His family recalls he lived in Bronte until 1947 before joining the army in 1953 and training at Camp Roberts California He is married to Leola Barnfield and they have a son Clifford Wayne
Marvin Simpson, district co operator with the Coke Soil Conservation District, established 40 acres of blue panicum on his river ranch this spring. The high forage summer perennial shows promise for grazing and may defer rangeland use. Simpson notes ranges were damaged by drought and need time to recover.
Mrs Eu Nice Looney of Tomball writes that her son Douglas is gaining fame in Texas youth rodeos. He competed in Hallettsville Wharton and Rosenberg where he appeared as finals beckon in calf roping and breakaway calf roping.
Local guests including Mr. and Mrs. Lester Parker and family and Mr. and Mrs. John Bearden with Terry of Dalhart joined Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Wynne. Terry stayed on for a visit as the Wynnes recalled a snow ice cream party kept in a deep freeze from last winter.
A proposed Texas constitutional amendment seeks to grant voting rights to regular armed forces members who are qualified electors and to restrict military voting to the county of residence at service entry. It would repeal Section 2a of Article VI and amend Sections 1 and 2, set for a 1954 general election, with poll tax provisions and absentee voting to be addressed.
The measure amends Article XVI to add Section 63 granting credit in both the Teacher Retirement System and Employees Retirement System for all services as teachers or state employees. It enables credit for prior and active service of those employed in public schools colleges and universities and for state appointive officers. The draft includes an election on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November 1954 with publication and election expenses covered by law.
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