The Clarendon Press, November 8,
Page 6
Texas' [and Clarendon's own] Jim Moore makes his 94-yard
Jim
punt return during Saturday's game against SMU.
Moore's TO run was as easy as eating chocolate candy
That 94-yard touchdown run that'Texas'
(and Clarendon's) Jim Moore made Saturday
afternoon in the Cotton Bowl was as easy as
chocolate candy, says Jim.
Moore, son of Dr. and Mrs. R. L. (Rip)
Gilkey, plays end for the Texas Longhorns.
Local residents will remember his fabulous
broken field running qualities from his high
school days at Clarendon .High. And for 3
years, he's been making those good runs for
the Texas Longhorns.
But back to that chocolate candy run.
Texas was playing SMU Saturday in the
Cotton Bowl, and was behind 14-7. SMU
faced a fourth down situation, and was going
to punt.
Jim had just come from the dressing room,
following the half. And Jim had just put a
Baby Ruth candy bar in his mouth to eat.
Coach Darell Royal called on Jim to get on
the punt receiving team, and Jim, not
knowing what to do with his candy bar, stuck
it in the top of his helmet, and ran onto the
field.
The punt came right to Jim on the
6-yard-run, and he began to run, making cut
after cut, following his blockers, and
wondering how his candy bar was doing. Thq
end result was a 94-yard touchdown
which tied the score and allowed Texas to
on to win the needed game.
The candy bar? Well, it was a little
mushy, but tasted all the better after
94-yard touchdown run.
Hightower to be honored in events
Senator Jack Hightower of environment and attract industry at the same time f ---- ---
Two
appreciation
events
honoring
Vernon are scheduled this month in Plainview and Wichita Falls.
Mayor John Stoneham of Plainview announced today that On the energy front, Hightower introduced the only piece of
Governor Dolph Briscoe will attend a steak dinner for Hightower
there on Thursday, November 15.
U.S. Senator Lloyd Bentsen, Jr. will be a special guest,
according to committee chairman Rhea Howard, at a reception
for Hightower in Wichita Falls on Friday, November 30.
Plainview's dinner will be the Hale County Agriculture
Center, starting at 7 p.m. The Wichita Falls reception will be at
Midwestern University's Clark Center from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30
p.m.
Theatate's top Democrats are joining in the double-lmrreled
tritg: a man who has served in the Tex Senate since I965.
Hightower was elected President Pro Tern of the Senate in
1971 and served as Governor for a day in April that year.
Representing 29 counties in District 30, he is one of five senators
on the important Constitutional Convention Planning Committee
and is also active in the interim as chairman of the West Texas
Sub-Committee of the Citizens Advisory Committee on Water.
As chairman of the Senate's Administration Committee during
the 63rd Legislature, Hightower helped to cut more than
$200,000 from expenses in the previous session. This was
accompanied by staff reductions and computerization of the bill
filing and recording procesS.
Among his 24 bills passed, second highest in the Senate, was
an air pollution control measure that will help clean up the Texas
legislation that would have provided more oil during the next five
to 10 years.
Hightower served one term (1953-54) in the Texas House of
Representatives before he was appointed and then re-elected
twice as District Attorney of the 46th'Judicial District.
He was president of the Texas District and County Attorneys
Association and was named "Outstanding District Attorney of
Texas" for 1959. Hightower was appointed by Governor Price
Daniel to the Texas Law Enforcement Commission in 1957 and
has served as vice president of the Texas Junior Bar Association.
He was vice chairman of the Board of Regents of Midwestern
University and is currently serving as a member of the Board of
Trustees of Bayior University.
A Navy veteran of World War II, Hightower earned his BA and
LLB degrees from Baylor and received an honorary LLD degree
from Howard Payne College.
Long active in church and fraternal and civic organizations,
Hightower was a member of the board of directors of the Baptist
Standard and the Human Welfare Commission of the Baptist
General Convention of Texas. He served last year as Grand
Master of Masons in Texas.
A native of Memphis where his mother still lives, Hightower is
married to the former Colleen Ward of Tulia. They have three
daughters: Ann, Amy and Alison.
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tion has many advantages. It can
result in a reduction o/waste vol.
ume o/ up to 8 to 1. Modern in-
cineration can be virtually poilu-
tion./ree and can serve as a power
source. Also, large incinerators
can be located in or close to large
metropolitan areas, where space
for landall is not available.
Family
ITEM: Each year Americans
consume the equivalent of two
billion dollars worth of snacks.
ITEM: According to the most
recent research findings, sixty
percent of all teenage girls and 40
percent of all teenage boys have
poor, unbalanced diets.
ITEM: If the present migration
trends continue, nearly half of the
United States population will live
in suburbs by the year 1985.
ITEM: Chunky pretzel sticks
make a good snack for young chil-
dren. To make them, just alter-
nate slices of hot dogs and cheese
cubes on pretzel sticks.
ITEM: The work week is ex-
pected to shorten to four days by
1985 and to three days by the
year 2000,
ITEM: Two companies have co-
operatively designed a collection
of pantyhose specifically for black
women.
AUSTIN, TeL--Over 200 leaders of industry and
representatives of professions met in in the capitol last week to
review the new state laws governing campaign contributions,
expenditures and lobbying.
Secretary of State Mark White and Attorney General John Hill
discussed the major legal changes brought about by the
"reform" legislation of the last Texas legislature.
"We re living in a period of legal transition," the Attorney
General told the business and professional men and women.
"My office has produced over 200 opinions so far this year--more
than the total last year--and over 100 opinions are stacked up to
be prepared.
White outlined his recent "campaign contributions and
expenditures directives" at the meeting sponsored by the Texas
Society of Association Executives.
Other speakers reviewed the details of the new lobby law and
the sections of the penal code which affect campaigns and
lobbying.
"H.B. 2--the new lobby law--is unconstitutional," stated
Frank Maloney, Austin attorney. "It violates both the first and
fifth amendments to the constitution."
He cited federal cases which supported his opinion on the new
Texas lobby law, and other speakers pointed out that several AG
opinions are needed in this state to clarify sections of the
campaign expenditures law and lobby law.
Political action committees for state businesses and
associations are being formed as a result of the new laws.
Labor unions must go the PAC route in Texas now also,
because they are prohibited under the new law from
contributiong to political campaigns.
Speakers on the program indicated that the Sharpstown
scandal and Watergate investigations are going to make office
holders, candidates and those who work and contribute to
campaigns very wary about future political activities in this state.
"Until we get more information from the Secretary of State's
office, and additional Attorney General's opinions, most
representatives of business, professionals, labor and industry
are going to be very cautious about participating in political
campaigns and contributing to campaigns," one spokesman for
the group said.
"None of us wants to be the first 'test case' under these new
laws," he concluded.
Others observed that it was going to be harder to get good
people to run for public office because of the tough new laws,
and predicted the strict campaign laws would make it easier for
incumbents to remain in present offices.
Both Jack R. Martin, Houston, president of TSAE, and Gene
N. Fondren, chairman of the TSAE Government Relations
Committee, outlined the need for future briefings for state
business and industry leaders on the new laws governing the
mechanics of "Texas politics."
Details of the lobby law were explained by Austin attorney
Gaylor Armstrong.
LEGISLATURE GETS REVISION--A proposed 13,5000-word
rewrite of the 97-year-old Texas constition has now been handed
the legislature for its consideration.
A blue ribbon, 37-member revision commission presented the
document to legislative leaders last week with an urgent request
that it serve as a starting point in the 1974 constitutional
convention starting January 8.
It. Gay. Bill Hobby, House Speaker Price Daniel Jr. and Gay.
Dolph Briscoe accepted the commission's redraft--which
streamlined the much-amended 55,000-word 1876 constitution-in
historic ceremonies.
Hobby noted that delegates to the 1875 convention faced a
"crisis of confidence" similar to that confronting lawmakers who
will be 1974 revision delegates.
"The people no longer trust government because so much
corruption and villainy has been uncovered," said Hobby. "We
must act to end this crisis, at least in so far as state government
is concerned."
Daniel said a vast majority of the 181 lawmakers already have
agreed that the commission document should be used as a guide
at the convention. He again predicted delegates can complete
their work in 90 day. The convention, said Daniel, is "the best
prepared ever to assemble in the history of our nation."
Nobody claimed the new document is perfect.
"It is not a purely 'pure' constitution of fundamental
principles, but neither is it a purely 'political' constitution,"
Commission Chairman Robert W. Calvert said. "But we assert
with the utmost confidence that, if the convention will use this
document as a basis from which to work it will find far
areas of agreement than of disagreement; and it will f'md
that our work has minimized its labors."
The convention's final work will go to voters
or rejection.
APPOINTMENTS-.Gov. Dolph Briscoe appointed Ben.
McDonald, former mayor of Corpus Christi, executive director
the Texas Department of Community Affairs.
Briscoe appointed Judge Paul G. Peurifoy of Dallas
presiding judge of the first administrative judicial
Dallas.
He named O.V. Mullins of Henderson to the board
managers of the Texas State Railroad, succeeding E.M.
Jr. of Jacksonville.
Frank B. Farrell of Dallas and Edwin H. Balschke
were selected for State Board of Registration for
Engineers appointments.
Lt. Gay. Bill Hobby picked as his emergency
successors (in case of disability due to enemy attack) Steven
Oaks and Dr. June Hyer of Houston and Don Rives of
Named to the board of regents of Texas State
Institute were Tom Patterson of Amarillo, O. Dale
Irving and Lance Sears of Sweetwater.
James R. Arnold of Dallas is director of the
safety office.
MARIJUANA CASE REVIEW ORDERED-The Board
Pardons and Paroles has been called on by Governor
review marijuana possession felony convictons under old
law where less than four ounces of the substance was
Although the Court of Criminal Appeals has struck
portion of new state law providing for resentencing of
convicted of felony possession, Briscoe said the le
obviously intended that sentences of minor offenders
lowered. New law effective last August lowered the
first offense possession of small amounts of marijuana
misdemeanor.
About 800 are serving time in Texas prisons for
offenses. Briscoe is particularly interested in granting
to first-time offenders who had small amounts of
their possession.
GOVERNOR ANNOUNCES FOR
Briscoe, addressing more than 9°000 at record
dinner in his honor, announced he will run for a four-
next year.
Estimates of income from tlie dinner ran in the
range, less $100,000 expenses.
The governor designated former Congressman Joe
Austin attorney, as his 1974 campaign manager.
Sponsors of the Briscoe dinner termed it one of the
successful of its kind ever staged for a state candidate in
TERMINAL DECISION POSTPONED--Texas
Terminal Commission put off for a month a recommendation '
endorsement of an offshore mooring system for
from supertankers to allow time for examining a
Galveston officials to build an on-shore deepwater port.
Galveston Wharves proposed a 60-mile, 100-foot-deep
to accommodate deep draft vessels. TOTC agreed to
November 27 action on two phases of its seven-part report
legislature on feasibility and site location of a future
terminal.
SHORT SNORTS
q
Tyler Oilman Jack Warren announced his candidacy
chairmanship of the State Republican party. The election
Stac GaP Executive Committee, will be held November
South Central Texas cotton farmers have been
extension on cotton stalk destruction on a personal-need
only.
State agency heads received a briefing from top officials
benefits of new zero-base budgeting.
Sen. O.H. (Ike) Harris of Dallas will serve as governor f°fl
day December 1--the first Republican to hold the position"
Linda Ruth Land of Houston and Judith Ann Prince
are the first women graduates of the Texas Department
Safety's Academy.
