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Water Conservation Yarborough, in Moody Speech, Cites L. C. R. A. Project AUSTIN Citing Texas’ water and soil conservation problem as one of the state’s most serious, gubernatorial candidate Ralph Yarborough has outlined a program aimed at saving millions of gallons of water which annually flow unused into the Gulf of Mexico. His program was made public in a speech at the annual banquet of the Moody Chamber ,of Commerce and e Agriculture. It is excerpted here. With the exception of the basic need for restoration of honor and integrity in our state .government, no problem facing Texas today is more criticaland more desperately in need of solutionthan our water and soil conservation problem. Increasingly, Texans are raising their voices and taking up their pens to point out the need. Our scholars, our engineers, our chambers of commerce, our business, financial, and agricultural leaders have entered their plans for a sound water program for Texas. These goals for Texas LCRA has ac Their pleas have gone unanswered. And complishedand without the levying of Texas remains 48th on the list of the 48 any taxes by the authority, without any states in the amount spent per person per tax remissions, and without any direct year on water conservation. We are last, appropriations by the state of Texas, exwhen, since Texans know better than cept an original loan of $5,000.00 which most men the worth and need for water was repaid to the State by LCRA. and soil, Texans ought to be first. LCRA has always operated on sound Let me trace for you the story of the business principlesmeeting all its exonly territory in Texas with reasonable penses from its own revenues. It was fiwater storage facilitiesthe Lower Colonanced to begin with by revenue bonds of rado River Valley. the State of Texasgood on any bond market in. the world. LCRAone of the outstanding water and soil problem solutions in the nation cost the taxpayers of Texas not a single solitary cent. But it increased values and farm income and prosperity and helped the State. The flood waters that once ran to the Gulf of Mexico, carrying lives, homes and precious irreplaceable soil with it. now are stored for use for the irrigation of crop lands, for cities and towns and industry, and for the making of power.. By Contrast, the U.S. Geological Survey reports that 81 percent of the average runoff of Texas streams occurs as floods flow, and on other Texas streams, most of this water runs into the Gulf of Mexico and is lostl Because there has been water behind LCRA dams, a tremendous finapcial gain has come about for the counties near the river’s mouthColorado, Wharton, and Matagorda. There has been a gain in rice income alone in these counties of more than $60 million in. the past 15 years. And all this water for irrigation of rice was first used to make electricitywag made to do double duty for Texas. Without the storage facilities of LCRA, there would have been in. these past few years of burning drouth, serious, crippling water shortages in the cities along the Colorado Valley. Tie cities below thd dams on the Colorado now have ample water. The flow on an average day from LCRA storage reservoirs is about 646 million gallonsequivalent to more than the maximum daily consumption of Texas’s 10 major cities. Yet more than 80 percent of all the flood waters of Texas roll into the Gulf of Mexico unused, while industry goes eastward for water, the cities of Texas ration water even for home use, and the farm lands are parched. Originally principally an agricultural region, the LCRA area in recent years has expandedbuilding industries, producing, consumer goods, developing the area’s rich mineral and soil resources. Now diversified industries, new and expanded service facilities, with emphasis on commercial recreational facilitiesall are bringing about an economic revolution in the territory. None of this would have been possible without Texans working together in harmony to build LCRA. It succeeded. What Texans have done once, in one river valley, they can do . again, in another watershed. The LCRA plan may not fit every river. But Texas brains fashioned the LCRA, and Texas ingenuity can solve any problem. In the Tecade of indifference through which we have just passed, there has been no attempt to turn Texans loose to solve their problems. There has been no activated water plan for Texas in these indifferent years. We neeu more plans and action on the rivers and streams of Texas. The neces sary dams and other facilities could tala financed exactly as those of the LCRA were financed by the sale of revenuer bonds. These bonds would not take a single cent of tax money, directly or indirectly, to retire. They would be paid for out of the money earned by the various, authorities, just as LCRA paid its of without spending a penny of the State’s money. I see Texas standing today at a crossroads, a fk teful branching of trails. Take the one trail, the one we have trod this past decade of indifference, and water will continue to roll down our streams into the Gulfgone where it cannot ever be call .!4:1 back for use. Our dry soil will continue to be scraped from the ground by the winds, rolled up into choking clouds, ane. blown away forever. Continue_ indifference will bankrupt us of the precious soil and water heritage we received from our forefathers. It will filch these from us and we will have nothing to leave our sons and daughters save dry badlands, shifting desert dust, eroded .eock, and debt. Take the other road and the Texas of tomorrow will be a Texas men will marvel at, a place of wealth and happiness for all Texans. _ Dairymen Ask Aid AUSTIN Southwestern milk producers want to raise the price of milk, , and they have petitioned Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson to approve it. If he does so the result will be an increase of at least a penny a quart to the consumer. The president of the Texas Milk Producers Federation, B. E. Stallones of Houston, explains it this way: “The dairy farmer is not getting his share. Letting him Starve is no way to solve his problem. Raise his milk price, that’ll solve it. If we don’t get the price increase, we’ll put production down. We’ll do like in 1933. Produce two quarts of milk, drink one and sell one, and we’ll see m holt starve first.” THE TEXAS OBSERVER Page 7 May 2, 1956 As a Key to Solving the Statewide Shortage ductive these precious natural resource twins, water and soil. LCRA began in 1934during the administration of that great Democratic statesman, James V. Allred. I was a member of its original board of directors. Here is what we Texans, working together, set up the LCRA to do: 1.Control the wasteful and devastating floods. 2.Conserve by storing, preserving and distributing the waters of the Colorado and its tributaries for irrigation. power, and other useful purposes. 3.Develop, generate, distribute, and sell water power and electricitythe sinews of modern industry, the nerves that make modern cities possibleall for the benefit of Texas consumers. 4.Protect the watershed land resources through aiding in the prevention of soil erosionone of your blackland area problemsand floods, and by saving and developing the forests of the watershed area. In the lower Colorado River valley, where I have made my home since 1931, . the problem was solved by Texans who banded together in the Lower Colorado River Authority, the LCRA for short. LCRAthe fruition of a hundred-yearold dream for harnessing and putting to work the Colorado Riveris today universally recognized as one of the outstanding examples of river development in the entire United States. It is proof positive of what Texas can do together through their own government and their own enlightened enterpriseto make pro LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS CITATION BY PUBLICATION THE STATE OF TEXAS TO Al Beckman, Defendant, in the hereinafter styled and numbered cause. ‘ to appear before the 12Gth Judicial District Court of Travis County, Texas, to be held at the courthouse of said county in the City of Austin, Travis County, Texas, at or before .10 o’clock A.M. of the first Monday after the expiration of 42 days from the \(fate of issuance hereof ; that is to say, at or before, 10 o’clock A.M. of Monday the 4th day of June 1956, and answer the petition of plaintiff in Cause Number 103,982, in which Zelphie Betkinan is Plaintiff and Al Beckman is defendant, filed in said Court on the 17th day of April, 1956, and the nature of which said’ suit is as follows: Being an action and prayer for judgment in favor of plaintiff and against Defendant for decree of divorce dissolving the beads of matrimony heretofore and no existing between said parties. Plaintiff alleges cruel treatment on the part of defendant toward plaintiff of such a nature as to render their further living together as husband and wife altogether insupportable. Plaintiff further alleges that no children were born of said union and no community property was accumulated; Plaintiff further prays for the restoration of her maiden name of Zelphie Allred and for costs of suit and relief, general and special; All of which more fully appears from plaintiff’s original petition on file in_ this office, and to which reference is here made. If this citation is not served within 90 days after date of its issuance, it shall be returned unserved. WITNESS, 0. T. MARTIN, JR., Clerk of the District Courts of Travis County, Texas. Issued and given under my hand and the seal of said Court at office in the City of Austin, this the 17th day of April, 1956. 0. T. MARTIN, JR. Clerk of the District Courts, AllIcrz`fi ‘Hamm ria Ael sexes, tssunoa spie.ea, THE STATE OF TEXAS TO: Thomas Puckett., Caleb Garrett and wife, Irene Garrett, C. R. Puckett, Miranda Puckett McRae, Lorenzo D. Puckett, S. W. Hotchkiss, John Champion and wife, Mary E. Champion, Cornelia F. Hotchkiss Brown Willenberg, Martha E. Hotchkiss Bostick Whitten, Nathaniel Moore and Puckett, Hanna B. Puckett, Daniel W. Hotchkiss, Maple Willenberg Dietrick, William Henry Hotchkiss, Milton S. Hotchkiss, Dewitt H. Hotchkiss, John B. Walters and unknown heirs, John F. Weber and unknown heirs, Jesse I. Graham and unknown heirs, E. D. ‘Townes and unknown heirs, T. J. Moore and unknown heirs, Nancy Puckett and unknown heirs, Mary E. Champion, wife of John Champion and unknown heirs, A. F. Boyce and unknown heirs, J. Y. Cain and unknown heirs, Sugar M. Cain and unknown heirs, M. R. Jones and unknown heirs, Mrs. R. A. Jones and unknown heirs, A. F. Jones and unknown heirs, Seborn Higging and unknown heirs, Berry Fowler and unknown heirs, W. F. Smith and unknown heirs, Mack Collins and unknown heirs, Ada Collins and unknown heirs, Tommie Green, Vincente Castillo, the heirs and legal representatives of each of said named Defendants who are deceased, the heirs and legal representatives of each of the heirs of the named Defendants, if the heirs of each of said named Defendants are deceased, the heirs and legal representatives of each of the heirs of the heirs of the e.nmed Defendants are deceased : and all persons claiming any title whatsoever to the land hereinafter described. . Noia ajuj each, qt .you, are, ireeke,eoranlatidect to Travis County, Texas, at the courthouse thereof, appear before the 98th Judicial District Court of at or before 10:00 a.m., on the first Monday after . from the date of issuance hereof, the same being the 11th day of June, 1956, in a suit numbered 103,994 on the docket of said :court, and styled Dick Lockwood vs. Caleb Garrett, et al, wherein Dick Lockwood is Plaintiff and the persons named aboveare Defendants, filed in said court on the 19th day of April, 1956, ‘and the nature of said suit being Trespass to Try Title to 24 acres of land located in Travis County, Texas, in the J. B. Walters Survey, and described as folloes: BEGINNING at the N.E. corner of a tract described as SECOND TRACTs in a deed Recorded in Book 857, page 196 of the Travis County Deed Records, from Sanchez to Lockwood ; THENCE along the East line thereof in a southerly direction 729.5 varas ; THENCE east along an extension of the South line of the above tract 181.75 varas THENCE northerly parallel to the East line hereof 732 varas, THENCE Westerly 195.75 tetras to the Beginning. . which suit is brought by Plaintiff against the Defendants wherein the Plaintiff is alleaecl to own and be entitled to the possession of said property although the Defendants claim and assert some interest therein and have questioned the title of Plaintiff and have dispossessed him and damaged him, and Plaintiff seeks an adjudication of title and possession as well as damages. days after the date of its issuance, it shall he returned unserved. WITNESS 0 .T. MARTIN, JR., Clerk of the 98th District Court of Travis County, Texas. Given under my hand and seal of said court, in Austin. Travis County, Texas, this 24th day of April, 1956. 0. T. MARTIN, JR., Clerk of the 9Sth District Court of Travis County, Texas By : 0. T. MARTIN, JR. Issued this 24th day of April, 1956. 0. T. MARTIN, JR., Clerk of the 98th DistrictCourt of Travis County, Texas By: 0. T. MARTIN, JR CITATION BY PUBLICATION THE STATE OF TEXAS To Thelma Elizabeth Young, Defendant. in the hereinafter styled and numbered cause: You are hereby commanded to appear before the 126th District Court of Travis County, Texas, to be held at the courthouse of said county in the city of Austin, Travis County, Texas, at or before 10 o’clock A. M. of the first .Monday after the expiration of 42 days from date of issuance hereof ; that is to say, at or before 10 o’clock A. M. of Monday the 21st day of May, 1956, and -answer the petition of plaintiff in Cause Number 102,560, in which Cecil H. Young is plaintiff and Thelma Elizabeth Young is defendant, filed in said Court on the 5th day of Oct., 1956, and the nature of which said suit is as follows: Being an action and prayer for judgement in favor of Plaintiff and against Defendant for decree of divorce dissolving the bonds of matrimony heretofore and now existing between said parties ; Plaintiff alleges cruel treatment on the part of Defendant toward him of such nature as to render their further living together as husband and wife altogether insupportable : Plaintiff further alleges that no children were born of said union and no community property accumulated ; Plaintiff further prays for relief, general and special ; All of which more fully appears from Plaintiff’s Original Petition on file in this office and to which reference is here made; If this citation is not served within 90 days after date of its issuance, it shall be returned unserved. Witness. O a T. Martin, Jr.. Clerk of the Dis trict Cou i rts of Travis County, Texas. Issued and e iland and the seal of said Court at office in the City of Austin, this the 2nd day of April, 1956. 0. T. MARTIN, Jr.’ Clerk of the District Courts, Travis County; Texas By Geo. W. Dickler, Deputy THE STATE OF TEXAS To any Sheriff or any Constable within the State of TexasGREETING : You are hereby commanded to cause to be published, ONCE, not less than ten days before the return day thereof, in a newspaper printed in Travis County, Texas, the accompanying citation, of which the herein below following is a true copy\(but if there be no newspaper so printed in said county, then that you cause the said citation to be posted for at least TEN days before the CITATION BY PUBLICATION THE STATE OF TEXAS To all persons interested in the estate of /dm Minnie Deen, deceased, No. 15,764, County Court, Travis County, Texas, Mrs. Dora Deen von Rosenberg, Administratrix thereof, filed in the County C-curt of Travis County, Texas, on the 24th day of April, A.D. 1956, her Final Account of the condition of the Estate of said Mrs. Minnie Deen, Deceased together with an application to be discharged froth said Estate. Said Final Account and Application will be heard and acted on by said court on the first Monday next after the expiration of ten days