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Vol. 48 , JULY 25, 1956 10c per copy No. 14 State Offices on Line Saturday AUSTIN Monday night television program that The Democratic voters of .Texas Shivers-Daniel Meeting, Money, was presented on stations all over the go to their school .houses and fire state. stations SatUrday to 'vote for the W. Lee O'Daniel boasted he'd win men they want to run Texas govern- CIO's . Role Are Hotly . Debated without a runoff. "When I sell thein ment and politics for the next two they stay sold,". he said "I learned in areas of public ethics, labor-man- "He was driven to the back door of that ixi the f tour business." years. agement relations, state taxation, so- the Governor's Mansion that night. Precinct conventions will decide cial welfare, states' rights, and inte- He conferred with the Governor Daniel asked hoW "a man" (O'Dan-, whether the loyalists who won the gration of the schools: (Shivers) alone. He left at night and iel) "can say he's running on the Golden Rule", and then "seem to be' Presidential • conventions of May. or Most voters have probably made up was flown out of Austin. Shortly trying tomake it appear that . I'm still the forces that have been led until re- their minds, but the candidates -let fly thereaftcr he announced for Governor cently by will control I know this because the man Who a member of the Veterans' . Land With last-minute - sensations, nonethe- Board.", 0 'the..Texas. Democratic Party. In . the less. took him told me so," Haley said. backgrourtd is the question of the re- The Observer contacted Haley at Reuben Senterfitt charged' that placement of the Shivers-appointed J. Evetts Haley charged that Price Odein, and he said he was certain that Daniel "sold out" Texas conservatives State Democratic Executive Commit- Daniel flew into Austin in a "private the report was correct. "Daniel still to get the backing of Lyndon Johnson tee at the Septeiriber ,state convention. corporation" plane and conferred with has plenty of time to deny it, but all by avoiding "any mention" of the At the stake in the first primary is Governor Shivers at the Mansion, Texas knows by now he hasn't got the May or July political conventions. the direction of the state government leaving the 'same night. guts," Haley said. Senterfitt said he had been ap- Ralph Yarborough spoke to 1,500 proached by agents of the highest- followers' at Fort Worth and was in- spending candidate (Daniel) trying to terrupted 15 times for applause. He get him out of the race. He said he Belden. Sells His Poll noted the Daniel billboards advertis- refused. • J. J. Holmes said he knows 'who --Mg the "junior senator" as "b9st for DALLAS has not offered the poll to any news- Texas." "They made a mistake there," killed Sam McCollum III in the car- The Observer has learned that papers in the last three weeks and Yarborough said. "They Should have bombing at Brady. He also said he is Joe Belden sells his "Belden Poll" that whoever buys it is prohibited said 'best for the Texas Company'." for integration of the schools. Con- from publishing it. tacted about this at Mathis by the Ob- on the governor's race to private in- Daniel said at Kerrville that "Wal- "Two months before the election server, he added : "But I'm not trying terests, including politicians, and ter Reuther and the northern and to be the candidate of the nigger race." will not publish another one before. we stop doing anything publicly," Bel- Eastern . CIO" are trying to elect den told the Observer. He said the Several Rotarians walked out on the election. their candidate for governor," who, he Haley at Beeville when he . said the newspapers can't pay enough for it, said, "is the. same one the CIO sup- It is also understood here on good and "there is a great demand for it Supreme _Court integration decision authority that the last BeIden Poll, ported last time." He also showed his • is "pure blasphemy." Others ap- commercially, and a greater opportun- workers in Kerrville a photograph of completed about two weeks ago, ity for a profit." plauded. showed Ralph Yarborough first, W. Reuther presenting a check for $75,- The head of the Young Democratic Lee O'Daniel second, and Price Dan- He said he sells it to candidates or - 000 to the N.A.A.C1P. Clubs of Texas, Rep. Edgar Berlin, iel third.' people interested in candidates. "We- Yarborough charged Daniel has a announced the group asked all candi- A reporter quoted a Daniel sup- ye done lots of work for Allan Shiv- $1,250,000 - fund with which he is dates for governor if they would sup- - porter as saying that a Belden Poll ers in years past and for Senator blanketing state radio and television port the DemOcratic nominees: "Ralph (as of 30) had been bought by a Johnson ... they've bought it thein- the last week. Daniel said the figure Yarborough was the only gubernator- privte party and showed Daniel first, selves." Had Senator was incorrect and is actually $12,500. ial- candidate who gave us an unquali- Yarborough second, and O'Daniel bought it this year ? he was asked. Daniel had Fess Parker, the Texas fied pledge," Berlin said. third. Joe Greenhill, Daniel's cam- "We'll have to let him tell you 'yes actor who played Davy Crockett in (See pages 4, 5, and 8 for other paign manager, said Daniel didn't buy or no'," Belden replied. the movie and on television; on a details.) it,• and he, Greenhill, knows nothing about it. - . • The Observer understood that this poll was offered to some daily news- Ralph W riorough, papers and was rejected for publica- tion, but Belden has an entirely differ- ent explanaticin. An Editorial Belden says categorically that he

. AUSTIN sifts through the stacks of notes for example, Historian Haley, who Drouth Aid Awaited For four years Ralph Yarbor- and cliPpingS. for the essential ele- knows a fact frorn a fancy and does ough warned the people of the ment,, a real - love .of the people is not confuse them, revealed that AUSTIN- Austin corruption. At some points -still the best, decisive trait in a Daniel .flew into Austin in the .dead Farmers and ranchers across .Texas even his friends thought he was candidate. Never, at any pOint of night to confer with Shivers, are waiting' to see what U.S. Depart- since the race took form, .has.,there sneaking out of town the same ment of Agriculture officials will do too insistent, too persistent... The been the faintest doubt that Ralph night a n d announcing shortly about a drouth :relief program for the veterans' land and insurance scan- state proposed by the newly appointed dals, permanent stains on the his- Yarborough is the people's candi- thereafter. Daniel is , the approved Dropth Emergency. COmmittee. . tory of Texas, have finally con- date. Shivers candidate,- there is no Kenneth L.. -Scott, U. S. D. 'A. di- vinced all right-thinking people Price Daniel, who joined Shiv- doubt about that. rector of agricultural credit service, that Ralph Yarborough was right. ers in . supporting the Republican This isia time for Texas.citizens the:plan' Which calls for nominees in 1952, says he is "best to right, at the ballot box, the is 'studying When the people went to their aid to TeXas farmers . in purchasing • for .Texas',". and Yarborough. quite wrongs that have . been stored up conventions last May, they had to feed and roughage. The prOposal • is accurately insists that he should in their Austin government. They that certificates for .$1 or More be choose between Allan . Shivers and have said, ."best for the Texas cannot do it by voting for the Shiv- his corrupt . administratiOn on one granted for each 100 pounds of feed Cotnpany." W..Lee O'Daniel says ers-heir Or the demagogue O'Dan- or -roughage needed, with county corn-. hand and Lyndon Johnson and the he's' the "Cointhon citizen's candi- ,iel. In this hot and dusty summer mittees - todetermine those eligible and loyal Dernocrats of. Texas on the' date," he who tried to burden all of 1956, Ralph Yarborough, a their needs. . other. They rejected Shivers and The proposal was sent to Scott by the people of Texas with' a two Christian gentleman,' the only all his cohorts by a margin some perCent sales tax on everything steady • Democrat in the race, a Agricultural Cornmissioner • John say was ten to one. White with a letter saying that "long- they bily, he who voted Republican friend of workers, farmers, and range emergency credit is needed deS- Standing. with the people in this in the Senate more often than any small business, the champion of a perately.....we need more than just decisive verdict was one, and only Democratic .senator from 1942 to fine, progressive program f o r enough to keep our livestock alive. one, of • the six gubernatorial can- 1948. Reuben Senterfitt wants the Texas, is the symbol and the per- The farmers and "ranchers must have didates. His name again was Ralph support of the oil millionaires but sonification of this state's future. extended credit and loans or they can't . Yarborough. can't get it, since Daniel has it. J. He - lead into a runoff' by a afford to participate in any program," We have been close students, of Evetts Haley is as candid an good margin and win going away. White wrote. the governor's race here at the Ob- Arnerica-firster and an extremist We will vote for him proudly — Karnes County Judge W. S. Pick- server. We have personally inter- right-winger as' vote for him to return to Austin a ett,' chairman of the D.E.C.; charged O'Daniel is a devi- that grain and feed dealers associa- viewed every candidate; we have ous one. sense of the public honor, a re- tions- are principal opponents of some followed every important issue; About the only good that has sponsiveness to the general I,N-elfare, drouth aid programs. "Their objective we haVe trailed the major candi 7 come out of the clatter from these and a simple love of and member- is to keep us from receiving anything—. dates around on the stump. It has various contestants for the Shivers ship with the people which have free for' fear that it might cause them almost gone out of fashion to be mantle has been an occasional quite been lacking here for woe, these some :loss of sales," Pickett declared. for "the people," but when one startling revelatiOn. Just last week, many years. o `Wait, We're Democrats, Too'

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Bartlett Appears Exclusively in The Texas Observer Let those flatter who fear, it is -not an American art. —JEFFERSON O'DANIEL DUPLICITY . HOUSTON . On a. television program Sunday While Ralph YarborOugh will al- night, ' he called the newSPapers- of • Texas "communistic;" simply:because And AIL . . most certainly lead the six -candi- they oppose. him. Like ,the late , Joe dates in the Saturday. voting; it McCarthy, he wilt call- anybody- who The victory that Senator Johnson Committee has defiled its trust be- ?grieves one to suspect that W. Lee opposes him a communist,' no matter kicked away at DallaS last May yond all restoration by placing on O'Daniel will finish second, ahead how ludicrous the accusation. the Saturday ballot three irrational of Price Daniel. • must be won again this 'Saturday. - and hate-rousing issues; We recom- • He said he was born and raised a -NOt only does Yarborough have the Democrat and has "always voted the •Precinct' conventions all over the mend the voters vote no on every. advantage of two statewide campaigns state will decide who will run the one of them ; if they cannot do so be- 'Democratic ticket." This • in.. face of in which he. Made thousands of the. evidence compiled by a United Democratic Party in Texas, the hy- canse:of the questions' loaded form, friends and collected; in the summer States ' Senate Investigatina Commit- brid crowd who turned it over to the they might . simply cross them off the of 1954, 680,000 votes; he also has the tee that he was paid $127,0006 to cam- Republicans in 1652 (and will again ballot. strongest present claim to the "silent paign. against Roosevelt in 1944, $25,- this year if • they get: the chance) or If Texans are to have an end to vote" which rose up and smote Allan 000 of it from Republican Senator E. May conven7 the loyal Democrats who Will sup- this sort of political prostitution, Shivers in the recent - H. Moore of Oklahoma and another. tions: The drouth-plagued peoPle - of port the national nominees. • $25,000 from Hugh 'Roy Cullen of they must declare themselves — South and West . Texas are sick of The State Democratic Executive again—at their preCinctS Saturday. Eisenhower, and they remember ,Dan- Houston. • iel's--suppOrt • of the Republicans in He said he "never did favor a sales 1952. - tax," when the plain record' of the . With his.. slippery genius for eva- year. 1939, written, for - example, in &lien Sion,,misstaternefit, and blanket indict- Seth.McKay's. histories 'of Texas poli- ments of all who oppose him, Dema- tics; is that he 'urged the Legislature Price, Daniel's secret visit to Al- Joe ,Belden 's poll on the govern- gogue succeeded in.con- to pass Senator Weinert's_ two per or'S race is sold to the candidate ceabling from most of the voters his cent general sales tax and bitterly lan Shivers at the Governor's Man- who can afford his price. We under- advocacy of a general sales tax in fought the "Immortal 56" who killed ., 1939, his total failure .as a United it in the House. • sion—in the dead •of night—poses stand on excellent authority it States Senator, his Republican-fin- ; more irre- showed Ralph Yarborough ahead, -But worst, more brazen interesting possibilities. Did they anced campaign against Franklin D. sponsible, and ultimately puniest is his Lee O'Daniel second, and Price Roosevelt in 4944, and his statement work out Daniel's timing to let position on the Supreme Court- of the Daniel third. Joe Belden no longer in: 1947. that he would agree to run on United States. Shivers or John* Ben Shepperd get a third-party ticket with Douglas Mac- deserves any public confidence as a Arthur. In three months on the road, A reporter - read him this statement an inside track on Daniel's Senate pollster. If he will sell his polls dqr- Ile has, indeed, made a comeback ; he he. had" madeon the stump : a good bet to finish second,.• with ing the last two months of the cant-, is . cowards, seat? Did Shivers give Daniel his Daniel third. 'Those nine old men are paign, after releasing early figures. and' every man who backs them up is campaign organization? Daniel's Daniel thought he was indispensa- showing -Daniel ahead, he is in ef- ble; that was his first mistake. He vis- the same thing." silence is •eldquent. fect misleading thelpeOple. ited Shivers in secret at night at the He was asked if he would call Earl Mansion to •get his signals ; that was Warren of California - or Toni Clark his second mistake. He underrated of Texas "a coward to his face." He Yarborough's unshakable strength said he would. . with loyal Democrats ; that was his He was asked, if he would call Ei- Trxas Minim third mistake. He announced for gov- senhower ,"a coward to his face." He ernor that was his fourth mistake. did not have the guts to say that but Reuben Senterfitt has , been :cam- merely repeated that. "every man who paigning a year, but in a: few months backs them up is the same thing." Incorporating The State Observer, combined Staff correspondents: Ramon Garces, Laredo; J. Eyetts Haley has made a more suc- with The East Texas Oernocrat Clyde Johnson, Corsica na: Mike l Mistovich, He -gutted organized labor and ,now Bryan ; JUles. Loh, Central Texas ;, Jack Morgan, cessful appeal to the know-nothing, says. he's for labor ; he opposes "wild' JULY 25, 1956 Port Arthur: Dan St ra wn, Kenedy ; and reporters Ronnie Dugger, Editor and General Manager in San Antonio, Dallas, El Paso, and Big do-nothing right - wing element in and reckless government spending" Bob Bray, Associate Editor Spring. Texas.' Haley will finish fourth ; Sen- - and..promiSes . a hair-brained great Sarab Payne, Office. Manager Staff contributors: Franklin Jones, Marshall; Published once a week from Austin, Texas. Minnie Fisher Cunningham, New Waverly: Rob- terfitt fifth. lakes plan for the Panhandle and a Delivered postage prepaid $9 per annum. Adver-• ert G. Spivak, Washington, D.C.: John Igo, San "Superficially it staffds to reason that tising rates available on request. Extra copies 10c Antonio; Edwin Sue Goree, Burnet; J. Henry $500 - million Veterans' bonus ; he each. Quantity orders available. Antonio; Edwin Sue Goree, Burnet; and others. J. - J. Holmes would get the vote of scores "the capitalists" he will sell out Emered as second:class matter April 26, 1937, at the, Post Office at Austin, Texas, under the Staff, cartoonist: Don Bartlett, Austin. Car- the sporting- crowd, • since he is for toonists: Bob Eckhardt, Houston:. Etta Hulme, to. • act of March 3, 1879. Houston. We will serve no group or party but will hew parimutuel, horse race betting, but he's The people who vote for•him cannot hard to the truth as we find it and the right, as MAILING ADDRESS: 504 West 24th St., Aus- such a dud as a candidate, he'll be be blamed. The enormity of: his du- we see it. We are dedicated to the whole truth, tin, Texas. to tr.:man values above all interests, to the rights EDITORIAL AND BUSINESS • OFFICE: 604 lucky to finish sixth in a field of six. plicity is too' much for them to grasp. of man as the foundation of democracy: we will West 24th St., Austin, Texas. take orders from none but our own • conscience, Their fault is they trust him ; the sin and never will we overlook or misrepresent the TELEPHONE in Austin : GReenwood 7-4146. WORD about O'Daniel. he lives is that he betrays them. truth to serve the interests of the powerful or HOUSTON OFFICE: 2501 Crawford St., Hous- A cater to the ignoble in the human spirit. ton, bin. R. n. Randolph, treasurer. He will stop at nothing., • RONNIE D uGGER priced. at $6,783 each and the other 16 ,were-liSted at $6,794 each. for a total Daniel and the Land Board Cost of $217,232'. Qnlysone of the 32 veterans linvolYed , was a resident of AUSTIN Gubernatorial Opponents Charge Him With Deaf Smith County, while 25 listed In 1949, the their addresseS as Dallas. Charles Ma- instituted a multi-million :dollar pro- Complicity or Unwitting Scaindal Assist thews represented Daniel at the meet- gram to help its \Vol-ld War II vet- ing. • then. ,turn around and put another than Daniel attended, over. the four erans buy land. At the land. board meeting of Octo- .member i.ii the-Governor's chair." year period. joeSGreenhill, currently ber • 17, 1950, 28 of the total 94 com- - Governor Allan Shivers, Land YarhOrOugh'S charges have not been Daniel's state campaign manager, rep- '-CorninisSioner Bascom Giles, and At- mitments were for purchases of land -as strong, but they have been plain: resented Daniel at three of the meet- in Hidalgo County.. In 25 of the sales ' torney General Price Daniel were des- "You can't stop corruption unless you ings. ignated by legislative authority as -acreageS involved varied from . 39 to elect someone who has no ties with Since all veterans' land - purchase •46 acres, and 21 pieces of the land hrsolde : Of. .the purse strings for the that crowd ... The junior senator giant project. commitments were taken as individual -were 'priced between $7,000 and $7,- flew all the way frOm•Washington, in . 500; the .maximuM at that, time. The The -faot that the program. devel- applications, it would baVe been diffi- 1954 to 'make - speeches for his land cult, •but not impossible, for land total price was approximately $200,- oped . into the state's biggest corrup- board buddy 'While bigger. deals were. 000. Daniel attended the session. tion scandal, with Giles sent to prison boare Members to •have deduced - that being made." `Some were "block deals." The. board and many others indicted; is history. YarbOrough says Daniel voted- for .But the issue, so far as some Texas would • meet. and - consider -a list of • N 0 BLOCK DEALS are 64 block , land de_ als when he' was on from 50 to more than 300 commit recorded on the face of the minutes. voters-- is concerned, won't be settled the board. until July 28, or possibly until August ments, usually listed alphabetically-. This, in facts-was the principal line of •25. - Daniel has taken heated ,exception There were a dozen instances, re- defenSe used by Governor Allan Shiv- to O'Daniel's remarks, particularly The question of what legal, consti- - fleeted-. in the search of- the records, ers and Daniel's successor 611 the where the former governor has left an where "block deals" may have been board, Attorney General- John Ben tutional, or moral responsibility, if implication that Daniel still is: a mem- any. Price Daniel had in the veterans' -stiggested in the minutes by the fact -Shepperd. They both said they could ber of the land board. He emphasizes that from 20 to 50-odd veteran appli- not tell from the minutes that .block land scandals has deVeloped into a ma- that he hasn't served on the board in jor campaign talkins- point. Ralph - cants were listed for purchase of land deals were being approved. - Only the four years. in a single .county and 'Most would - names of the veteran applicants and Yarborough and W.b Lee (Pappy) • -O'Daniel have in varying. - degrees •seek the maximum loan of $7,500, or --essential: details. of .their purchases SEARCH of minutes of ...show in- the minutes. .charged Daniel with . being a party, to A nearly that amount: • the scandals or at least giving them an land board meetings, brings out some -.Counties where the suspected deals The senator's answer to O'Daniel's 1111W i i-ng assist. interesting, facts and figures on the occurred include . Deaf Smith, Fort charges is the only public hint that board's activities during -Daniel's ten- Daniel might have O'haniel has levelled almost point- - Bend,. - Hidalgo .(3)s . .. Maverick (3), -- suspected; or blank accusations of complicity ure as attorney general. Medina, ReeVes, and ..Zavala. feared, -graft in the land program. "I against Daniel. In a television speech For example, the minutes show that was the first person to oppose promo- in Austin last week he said there were Daniel attended 15 of the 16 land For example,-Minutes, of the meet- tional type block landdeals," he said "many people involved in the "lard board meetings in 1949, 16 of the 28 ing of. Feb. 5, 1952, show. that 32. of in Victoria. "That . policy was never -scandals who had not yet been ex- meetings in 1950, only six of the 31 the 141 commitments for that- date changed with my knowledge or con- were for, 40-acre tracts in Deaf Smith sent." posed and that Daniel was being run meetings in 1951, and none in 1952. • -for the office to- make sure the inves- However, when Daniel did not attend County. Sixteen of the tracts were BOB BRAY tigation wasn't completed. the meetings, he was represented by a FRANKLY SPEAKING O'Daniel. has repeatedly stated 'Member of his staff. "The people of Texas are not - going Charles Mathews, an assistant- . at- to send one member of the corrupt torney general, attended the meetings Veterans Land Board to „prison and more than 50 times, more meetings Some Speculation on Moderatiori MARSHALL in as committeewoman ? The Johnson- As a new set of precinct conven- ites 'were too crude even to hide the The Listening Post tions approach, it • is, time to specu- ball ; they preferred to bang the liber- late on the gains of moderation.. als in the face with it. — .....The Observer has obtained a ble • from the businessman's view- What will be the success of the But back to the future, so to speak. point." In the contested Senate races, copy ,o f the ultra-conservative Texas of the Johnsonites in erasing a part No rational person expects as great a Manufacturers' Assn. list of candi- the T. M. A. endorsements go to Bill Democratic landslide at the precinct dates for the Texas House and Sen- Wood of Tyler, Joe Pyle • of Fort of the defeat they snatched from the conventions as occurred last May. ate who are "considered most favora- Worth, Johnnie B. Rogers of Austin, jaWs of victory a. Dallas? Thanks to Johnson, a "Shivercrat-Re- Jack Fisk of Wharton, Bill Shireman A new pamphlet „from . the "Texas publican" (to borrow a phrase) com- of Corpus Christie, Abraham Kazen Democratic_Party," headquarters San mittee will organize the September of- Laredo, Floyd Bradshaw of Antonia- . again reminds us that the convention. How many actual Demo- ,Weatherfords George Moffett of Chil- first step in insuring victory for•Dem- crats may expect to be on the tempor- licothe, 0. E. Latimer of San Antonio, ocrats is "delivery of the control of ary roll of delegates where their op- and Grady Hazlewood of Amarillo. the Democratic Party machinery out ponents have sent in a rump delega- Either Rogers Kelley of Edinburg or of the hands of the ShivercratsRepub- tion ? Could the. Democrats complain H. R. Hudson of Brownsville is all lican leaders" and warns militants "to if the committee embraced by the sen- right with -T. M. A., and they check watch . outi (at precinct conventions) ator should follow his illustrious ex- both and Carroll Cobb for the fast-moving politicians who ample and conduct the entire business in. Lubbock. may take the ball and run with it be of the convention with the delegates Is That a Crime? fore you even Show up - or may try the seated on the temporary roll as the Reps. Jack Brooks and Clark hidden-ball trick While you are look- rro- the Editor : Thompson were ranked best only voting body of the session? think. (Senator Daniel has) been . in a ing." I Texas AFL-CIO assessment of the Ah, pundits of the inside circle! inisinformed about the "organized la.- There,is'an old, French proverb that They issue a call- to "Follow through voting records of Texas Congressmen; runs : "Never mention a rope in the bor leaders trying to take over. politi- With "right" votes first and "wrong" to make certain that you won't wind cal power." I think they- are trying to house of a man who has been up",with a bunch of the wrong people votes second; the congressmen were hanged." One can. but..wonder " bow help a good Man be elected to the rated this way: representing .you at the state conven- governor's chair who will not "court this call to vigilance - will appeal to, tion." The lie is deep in the rough af- capital" and sell the laboring class of Brooks and Thompson, both 19-4; -say, the Dallas County -delegatibn of ter the dubbed shot at Dallas, and lit- people down the river in order to -.Thornberry and Wright, both 18-4; last - May., Did it not swelter outside . tle wonder they cry out now: "Quick, feather his own nest...If the friends Ikard, 18-5; Patmail, 17-4; Kilgore .Convention hall while Senator John- caddy, the niblick-!" of a candidate (be he union or not) and Mahon, both 15-8 ; Poage, 14-9; son tried to. force Mrs. Lloyd Bentsen FRANKLIN TONES Rutherford, 13-10; Thomas, 12-10; want to help him get elected to office , is that a crime ? Rogers, 12-11; Bell, 11-8; Teague, 11-10; Burleson, 11-12; Fisher, 9-13; MRS. ETHEL W. JACKSON The 3727 San Jacinto, - Dallas 4 Dowdy, 8-14 ; Dies, 7-15 ; Alger, 3-20; Indecent' Referendum Gentty, 2-18. —By.Countryside Shocked. Twenty-three issues were selected, and ToWn among them support of reciprocal NEW WAVERLY To the Editor : There are three sections of the ref- trade, aid for underdeveloped nations, It As a loyal Democrat with unbroken is hot. It is dry. There is;a. COn- . erendum. Number one . • is worded mutual aid to -friendly nations, a $20 stant wind. trickily, and whichever way yisu mark record for supporting liberals and a tax cut for each dependent, the •1 fervent admirer of the Observer I was . . Once a long time ago, when people • it you cannot be sure that it will be minimum wage, 90 percent farm price had "continued fever" instead of -ty- what you thought it would be. Num- shocked by editorial in July 11 issue. supports, public power projects, the Adinitting both Wilson and Moore phus or typhoid and "intermittent ber two calls -fog a law which is al- soil bank, extended social security, fever" 'instead of malaria which rises ready on the statute books of the State wer fine public figures and that Wils public housing, federal highway build- son (is) more likely to insist on law and falls on a regular schedule .... of Texas. And ,number- three is just ing, and the Fulbright-Harris natural once we had a July like this when the plain treason. enforcement .(in Galveston County) gas bill. how can you say Moore is better qual- furniture was hot to the touch and Those candidates who plan to meet ified for attorney general? What has The first road signs for'Price the sheets on the bed were as hot as federal troops with the Texas Rangers happened to the proud banner, "We Daniel identified him as a U.S. Sena- though they had been freshly-ironed. , on the Louisiana border of -Texas just will serve no grail) or party but will tor. This was recognized as a mistake, But there was no primary election possibly might Meet themselves on the hew hard to the. truth as we find it since it suggested the fact that he has bearing down on the wings=of the cal- way to the federal prison in Atlanta and the right as' we see it"?' two more years of his Washington endar, and there'wereTlenty of Ovate;- if they really have the resolve they BILL DAZEY term to serve, and new posters iden- melons and cantaloupes and peaches. boast they do. Texas City tifying him by name only replaced Now the armadillos eat the watermel- . SO what to do? For myself . 1 will them. ons and cantaloupes before they ripen, have no part or parcel in it. There are (We're sorry if you're disillu- and some mineral or such has gone sioned, but as the editorial sought fifteen lines of printing in that lower .... Judge John Young of Cttspus, from the soil, and the nematodes have right hand corner of the ballot. to explain, we feel there are moi* castigating incumbent Congressman come in, so the peach trees are all I shall issues -involved than the one you .accepting $28,000 in "le- draw a line clear and straight through John Bell for dead. And down in the lower right every single one of them. regard as decisive.. As for the gal fees" frorn promoters of block vet hand corner of the ballot is that in- • M.F.C. banner, it is: still on the mast, and land deals, said : "This campaign will decent so-called referendum every we are still trying to live by it.— be no more sordid than the record of word of which is an insult to the peo- THE TEXAS OBSERVER Ed.) my opponent." ple of Texas. Page 3 July 25, 1956 A VOTE AGAINST AN AMENDMENT THE Special to the Observer and collect the benefits to which he women under social security from 65 BALLOT WASHINGTON would be entitled if he were 60, "even to 62. It passed 86-7. Senator Price Daniel was recorded though he may be only 31." [In Texas, Ralph Yarborough, can- against a key expansion of the social • didate for governor, said Daniel FoR,GOVERNOR—Price Daniel, J. Ev- security system to totally and perma- The George amendment permits the should "explain publicly" his vote etts Haley, J. J. Holmes, W. Lee O'Daniel, nently disabled persons 50 years old or persons covered by social security who against "security to 250,000 crippled Reuben Senterfitt, Ralph Yarborough. over last week. He was one of only become permanently and totally dis- Americans—many of them Texans." FOR LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR — A. half a dozen Democratic senators who abled at age 50 to receive checks aver- • opposed the measure. aging about $75 a month as a matter ["He voted against the Democratic M. Aikin, Jr., C. T. Johnson, Ben Ram- Party . and against Sen. Lyndon. B. sey, . Senator Lyndon Johnson stated dur- of right. It was opposed by the Eisen- Johnson who had made this humani- ing the debate on the amendment, of- hower administration. tarian measure a part of his Demo- FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL — Ross fered by Sen. Walter George of Geor- Daniel was recorded for an amend- cratic 'program with a heart'," said Carlton, Curtis E. Hill, Tom Moore, Will gia and supported by all but a few ment to lower the eligibility age for Yarborough.] Wilson. Southern Democrats: "The' Senator from Texas (John- FOR ASSOCIATE JUSTICE, SU- son) is satisfied with the pending PREME COURT, PLACE 3 — Robert G. . Hughes, James R. Norvell. amendment and intends to support it." Phillips Explains a Fee Daniel, campaigning for governor AUSTIN and have done a lot of work for FOR JUDGE, COURT OF CRIMINAL in Texas, paired his nay APPEALS—W. A. Morrison, Jesse Ow- -vote with an Senator Jimrny . Phillips has all but them," Phillips told the Observer aye vote that was cast by Sen. Thomas dropped out of political sight since he about the fee. "I guess that's the pen- ens. Kuchel, Republican of • California. withdrew from the governor's race, alty of practicing law. I try cases, do Sen. Clements • announced that "the FOR TREASURER — Warren Harding, explaining the couldn't raise enough case work, investigate a lot, and do Jesse James. Senator from Texas (Mr. Daniel) is money to run. The Observer noted in everything else for a lot of compan- absent on official business." A paired the records at the Insurance Commis- ies:" FOR LAND COMMISSIONER — Ned vote is not counted but is recorded in sion last week that American Na- The sum was listed for "legal ser- Price, Earl Rudder. the Congressional Record. tional Insurance Company of Galves- vices," not as a retainer fee. FOR AGRICULTURE COMMISSIONER Johnson took part in the debate, ton, a company of the Moody empire, Phfllips said of, the governor's race: —Jim Barber, Bill Jones, John C. White. pointing out at one point that a U.S. paid Phillips a $3,000 fee for "legal "When I throwed my hand in, I senator- may be 31 years old when he services" in 1955. was out of it from then on. I'm not FOR CONGRESSMAN AT LARGE — becomes disabled and still may retire "I represent a number of corripanies taking any part in it." Martin Dies, Bill Elkins. FOR U.S. REPRESENTATIVE—District 1—Wright Patman, Kenneth Simmons; Dist. 2—Jack Brooks, Melvin Coombs; Dist. 3—Lindley Beckworth, R. E. (Pep- py) Blount; Dist. 7—John Dowdy, Gilbert Spring; Dist. 9—Jerome Korenek, Clark W. Thompson; Dist. 14—John J. Bell, John Young; Dist. 16—Bill Blanton, J. T. Rutherford; Dist. 17-0mar Burleson, Dan Kralis. RACIAL QUESTIONS Number 1—Mixing white and Negro children in-public schools: For or against Specific legislation ex- empting any child froth compulsory at- tendance ,at integrated schools attended by white persons and Negroes. Number 2—Intermarriage between Ne- groes and whites: For or Against specific legislation per- fecting state Laws against intermarriage between white persons and Negroes. Number 3—Interposition: For or Against the use of interposition to halt illegal federal encroachment.

ELECT Ralph Yarborough Is FOR: SAM A. LaRUE State Representative *A $30 per month raise in old age pensions—for the fathers PLACE NO. 1 and mothers, the builders, of Texas. • A real water con- I voted Democratic in 1952 and servation program. • A real soil conservation program. shall vote Democratic in 1956 • More and better schools. • Higher teacher pay (and the Your vote and support will be retirement pay raise to be voted on in the faU). • A real APPRECIATED youth development program. • A real juvenile delinquency Subject to action. of Democratic program. • A real anti-narcotics law for Texas, with the Primary July 28, 1956 (Paid . Political Advertising) strongest possible penalty for heroin peddlers. • A lobby registration law. • Adequate legislative pay. • Higher • workmen's compensation and better industrial safety laws. • Expanded public health and,hospitalixafion. .• An honest program for Veterans Benefits. • Modem medical treat- ment for the mentally ill. • State to pay fell. share of cost of rights-of-way for State Highways. • More and bet- ter rural electrification, farm-to-market roads and highways. Ralph Yarborough OPPOSES: • Any additional State sales taxes or any State income tax. * . . AND HE WILL CLEAN UP THE CORRUPT MESS IN AUSTIN!

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Page 4 July 25 , 1956 JOHNSON, C. T. Johnson, Austin, has based For Lieutenant Governor his campaign on demands for a "corn-. plete cleanup of corruption"' coupled John Lee Smith, Lubbock, is seek- He said the time has come to "out- says, "would attract and hold capable with a platform for state improve- ing re-election- to the office .he held law the NAACP. These out of state teachers It is not so much for the ments. from 1943 to 1947. agitators are preaching a doctrine of teachers as it is for the children." Johnson proposes an elected utility Smith brands Ramsey a "do-noth- hate toward the''South." He has also urged voters to support commission to control electric, gas and ing lieutenant governor ..(who) by ig- Smith says he is for raising pay of amendments allowing defendants in telephone rates ; pensions ,of $75 per noring the calendar of the Senate, has state employees, lunacy proceedings to waive trial by month , for the aged instead of the Placed the lobby in control of the Tex- jury and permitting the investment present $35 monthly ; a statewide a- as Senate." He charges. that "corrupt AIKIN of university permanent funds in cor- gency which would buy on a whole- of ficeholders and conniving lobbyists" A. M. Aikin, Jr., Paris, who's wide- poration stocks which have paid div- sale basis for all counties instead of have bilked Texans of millions of ly known for hits work in the Gilmer- idends for ten years or more. current plan of purchases by each dollars. Aikin program of state education, has Aikin, who has restricted most of county, and loans fOr construction of . He has declared . ' that the ...people spent much of his time urging sup- campaigning to speeches before civic 100,000 small dams and a canal paral- I "refuse to recognize or enforce this port of an amendment to increase clubs, advocates "lobby registration lel to the Gulf coast for water con- left-wing, anti-constitution Supreme teacher retirement 13 .yments. with some teeth in it so the people servation. Court." Adoption of the amendment, he will know who represents who." The Austin contractor charge that "under 's administrations we have had the worst depression in governmental principles in history of Texas. Not one time has RarriseYs For Attorney General voice been raised against the loan sharks and the veterans' land and in- MOORE lobbyists who work for. "special self- , titled to, until they areable locally to ish interest groups." take care of such enforcement through surance scandals." Tom Moore, McLennan County, is their own officials." He refers to his three opponents as the district attorney who assisted the WILSON -"Republicans." • grand juries_ which indicted A. B. He, would use every. effort to en- Shoemake and investigated the U.S. Will Wilson, Dallas County, a Su- preme Court. Justice who resigned to force the laws in Galveston "the-same • RAMSEY T,rust & Guaranty collapse and also in- as every other county in Texas." Ben Ramsey, San Augustine, is _ icted Texas Press Association official enter the campaign, is a former dis- trict attorney and two-time assistant However, before using the attorney .seeking re-election on a platform ad- Vern -Sanford in connection with ad- general's injunctive powers to wipe. vocating strict curbs on lobbying, elim- vertisements for Lt. Gov. Ben Ram- attorney genefal. • . Wilson declares that corruption is out the "Galveston vice situation," ination of • loan sharks, and stiffer' sey. not an issue. "The only issue is who Wilson would try to persuade Galves- penalties for.narcotics violator.s. Moore ig pledged to clean up state is best-qualified to clean it up." He tonians that the county's future "lies Ramsey -has promised to work for corruption. He is "not satisfied" with promises to • "organize the. attorney in the building of a clean, wholesome efficient government. "I am proud the investigation of Texas insurance general's offices so it will reflect credit family resort and the elimination of that Texas is a debt free state....gov7. scandals. "I felt that some of the state on. Texas. It is of supreme importance the crumby and evil." ernment .should i not be devoted to. flow .,• senators ... should have been in- that the vast property interest of much Money •it can spend; but rather dicted," he declared. He proposes to CARLT.ON, HILL Texas, its schools and colleges have 0.1:11 to see to itAhat it gets' full return and, . investigate and audit the State hoard capable, efficient and highly organized At Ross. Carlton, Dallas County, an or- services for the money it does spend." $ of Control. professional service and represents- ganizer of the Associated Citizens The incumbent was .one of the can- Moore branded interposition a tion." • Councils of Texas, has based hi's, cam- didates whom Duval County `political "dangerous and irresponsible doctrine. Regarding the segregation question, paign on promises to fight- desegrega- boss said he -Would support, Ramsey H we can defy the Supreme Court on Wilson has • stated that "segregation tion. The one-time assistant attorney said he wants Parr's vote without any integration, it can be defied on any ought to handled on a local basis." general under Gerald Mann plans to "strings attached." . ruling. This means thae none of us As a member of the State Supreme continue the fight waged by -Attorney Ramsey sees no need for an annual. would then have any assurance we Court he concurred in the ruling last 'General , who is session of the Legislature or any need can maintain freedom of the press, October that state school. funds could . not seeking reelection, to block the Su- for barring closed sessions of state speech, and property rights. - be spent on integrated schools. In that preme' Court integration rulings. grotlps. "There are very few . closed . "People who advocate interposition ruling, the State Supreme Court Curtis E. Hill, Dallas County, for= sessions at Austin and no need fOr advocate defiance of the law. The only pointedly quoted Section 2 of, Article mer county attorney in Up&hur them except in instances where closed :thing between the American people VII of the U. S. Constitution: County, hasn't waged an active earn- sessions are for the good of the peo- and slavery is the Constitution of the "This ':Constitution and- the •laws of Paign- ple," he says. United States as interpreted by the the United States which shall be made Supreme Court of the United States. in pursuance thereof shall. be the su- "The Supreme Court left it to local preme law of the land ; and the judges school boards to work out segrega- in every state shall be bound thereby, tion problems. The individual boards anything in the constitutions or laws have sense enough to work it out in of any state to the contrary notwith- Be Sure To Vote For their own way and should be allowed standing." to do so." Wilson promises to "carry through Except in the cases of syndicated to completion" the cases against Criminal operations too big for the George Parr and others in Duval county to cope with, Moore wants to County. "I will follow this matter leave law enforcement tip to local au- . through as far as is necessary to as- , thorities. Specifically, he said he would sure the law abiding citizens of that not make "police raids" on Galveston count the law observance they are en- gambling unless his assistance was asked by GalveSton County people.. Moore has committed himself to fighting for a "realistic loan shark control program" and' control of the (Pol. Adv. Paid by Stuart Long) 0. Dr. Eugene H. Hughes, Univer- sity of Houston professor, says Houston faces "stagnation" by 1960 unless new water resources are devel- For Economy - Efficiency - Integrity oped to supply growing industrial needs. AND HONESTY, ELECT • A technicality defeated a proposal at the State Bar convention that WARREN G. HARDING telecasting and broadcasting of crim- inal trials be banned. YOUR STATE TREASURER O NBC news reports that Sen. Lyn- Warren G. Harding has no outside in- don Johnson's doctors say his health precludes his presidential can- terest and does not compete with pri-, didacy. Johnson staff aides call this vate enterprises. report fantastic and untrue. Warren G. Harding has . no connec- tions with any Bank as Director, JOHNS Stock Holder, or otherwise. Your Democratic Candidate Warren G. Harding has no connec- for with the Veterans Land or In- . .. • LT. GOVERNOR tions surance Scandals. "HONESTY IS STILL THE BEST POLICY" • Reduce high taxes will make a full • State utility commission Warren G..Harding • $75 monthly pension. at 65 time Treasurer for all the People of HDQRS.: 1901 RALEIGH AYE., AUSTIN' Texas.. (Political Adv) .It's Time. for a Chente 'FIST TERM THE TEXAS OBSERVER (Political Advertising) 'Page 5 July 25, 1956 -0 Governor Shivers told the Inde- • Twenty-six men of the 49th Ar- pendent Grocers' Alliance in New mored Division, - undergoing na- York, "I don't knoW offhand of any THE WEEK IN TEXAS tional guard physical' and educational DeMocrat with a possibility of being * year before the first payments are tion with a nuclear-powered aircraft training at Fol't Hood, were stricken nominated who could beat Tresident made to claimants in the U.S. •Trust with food poisoning. Eisenhower in Texas." - program. and Guaranty receivership case. • • Louis (Chicken Louie) Ferran- • Starr County tuditor Joe C. • Texas Manufacturers .. Associa- . tello -Dallas , gambler who ono- tion - • The Public Housing Administra- Guerra. asked District Attorney President George W. Arm- tion agreed to sign loan contracts with served a year in jail for "'contempt:: strong, Jr., said iridUstrial growth of Sam Burris to "take steps to collect" after refusing to answer questions of Waco, Wichita Falls, Kingsville, and $1799 he says County Commissioner Texas is bringing. heavy labor activity Wellington to furnish $5.9 million as a State House Crime Investigating and causing the danger of a "labor Efrain Duran owes the county from Committee, was fatally shot by a.jilied government." 90 percent of the cost of. 498 new low- motor vehicle license collections. girl friend. rent homes. Duran called the charge "politics." . • Attorneys for W. L. Moody III, • Treasury Department Agents are -0 When school board _members seeking to break the will of the . • Ross Phillips, 76-year-old Tyler trying to learn who has b_ een late multi-inillionaire W.. L. Moody, . voted to integrate the upper three bachelor, secured an injunction in _ passing counterfeit $5 bills: - in San Jr., of Galveston, won their fourth grades 'at. Seguin High School, local district court restraining Mrs. Guinn-, . Antonio. straight court skirmish and the right NAACP president • Rev. R L. Sad- doline Madden,' about 45,. of Alto, berry said, "We will not be -satisfied from showering her attention on him. • Mrs. Hulette Nabors of ' Ennis to inspect the trust account records of has filed 'a $15,000 suit in •federal Mrs. Libbie._Shearn Moody. with anything short of complete *inte- . . gration. We . anticipate, and hope, the • District Judge Charles E. Long court in Dallas on the complaint that District Judge. C. Woodrow board won't stop at this point." of Dallas suspended the licenses a bottle of patented hair-remover Laughlin ruled E. • Trevino,- anti- of five osteopaths: at the Hoxsey Can- turned her face "strawberry red." 0. Texas State Hospitals • and Spe, cer Clinic in Dallas to practice for a Parr candidate, winner in an election • U._ S. Rep. •Vi)% R. Poage of Waco suit for a place on the San Diego City cial _schools Director Dr. James period of one year. A. Bethea announced the next Lees, has ordered further- hearings to Council. TrevinO was ruled to have investigate the recent increase in gaso- won by a single vote. lature will be asked to increase: state• • The Railroad Commission ruled institutions' operating budget • from that Texas oil operators now will line prices to Texas farmers.

• A group of Texas newspapermen . $27 to $41 million. have to provide complete evidence • Mrs. Glady Ward - of Angleton took a three-day, 479-mile bus .0 Senator Lyndon Johnson has that an oil well is, a new discovery be- . has filed a $125,000 damage suit trip to inspect the _agricUltural, indus- fore asSignment of a temporary dis- against Brazoria County Sheriff Jack trial ancl.other potential of the Brazos promised the Texas Shrimpers covery allowable. River. valley. Association a "full . investigatiOn" of • Marshall on allegation that his deputf,„ their charges of "piracy" • against The Senate Post Office Commit- Robert Goode, mistreated her when . • Attorney General John Ben Shep- Mexico. The Mexican government has teehearing on alleged attempts of he arrested her on a drunk charge. perd praiSed Houston American- seized 17 American shrimp boats GOP national committeeman Jack Legion petitions urging Congress to since March for allegedly fishing in- • The House Public Works Com- Porter of Houston to get politiCal con- mittee in Washington has ap- return to the state the power to pun- Side Mexico's territorial waters. tributions from federal • 'employees in ish sedition and subversion. . proved plans for construction of a • 'Southwest Research .Institute Texas probably will start as soon as $24.4 million federal courts and office ID District Judge Charles O. Betts •plans construction of a $600;000 Congress adjourns. building in Dzillas. estimates it will be sometime next "ho_ lab of San Antonio in connec-

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AUSTIN The Observer , has come into Possession, by undeniably clan- . destine means, of a campaign let- ter for Price Daniel written on blue stationery by three alumni of the_ University of Texas chap- ter of an exclusive social sorority, Kappa Kappa Gamma. One of the three, Martha Shu- ford Greenhill, is the wife of Joe Greenhill, the senator's state cam- paign manager.' But to get this thing out of the The letter is presented in its dream theme variety—YOU, my entirely below, except for 'the se- dear, are going to have to get up cret sorority signature, which out of your lazy chaise and take was, naturally, omitted : take yourself and a CAR FULL OF. NEIGHBORS to the .poles (sic) come July 28 and vote for KAPPA KAPPA GAMMA Price Daniel for Governor. Dear Kappa, Be a good - Kappa and heed the Feel sure that by now you are call to arms ! Do realize that your entirely familiar with the fact vote will count more than you that Mrs. Price Dap,iel is' our own can ever believe. Jean Baldwin, a Beta Xi (that is, (Secret 'Signature here) Un iversi ty of Texas—ed.) Loyally, Kappa. Martha Shuford Greenhill Kappa meetings at the Man- Katherine Anderson Spence sion! Kappa meetings at the Roxibeth Birdwell Patton Mansion! My, what a lovely mu- 7/ sical sound that has ! Like the title At least one • Kappa here was to the latest hit tune—DEFIN- indignant about the letter. when - ITELY "our"' theme song for the contacted by the Observer. "Good Prtmary. heaveis!" she said.

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THE TEXAS OBSt,' RVER Page 6 July 25, 1956 The next day, Sanchez states, a lady was brOught in by a city fireman, and Questionable Absentee Voting a note had to be taken away from her "after she started to vote." On July AUSTIN 12.a deputy constable :from Oilton The Observer has been granted ac- Affidavits Presented; Candidates brought in a voter; another voter had cess to the startling documents with a note with hiin, which he put in his which the Reform Party in Laredo pocket when it was challenged. is demanding a state.investigation into Call For. Full Investigation Sanchez makes an interesting. entry absentee balloting in Webb County. for the voting of July 16 : - At present prospects for the inquiry If, indeed, the assertion's of the af- Party .absentee voting supervisor Ro- • fidaviti and statements are correct, the dolfo A. Sanchez- (who was fired "Jose Charles ... came over to the do not seem certain in spite of much county clerk's office and asked for six sound and many headlines. C. B. W. Observer cannot testify to the extent from his job in a 'bank the morning of .these abuses. That, indeed, would after he announced for city secretary applications to vote absentee which Dick, Reform candidate for senator, Mrs. Charles was going to send to his and two others asked'Rep. Wade Spil- be a 'project for a state investigation. recently). However the material collected by the family at Corpus Cli•isti. I call the _at- man of McAllen to start a probe with The Observer will not use names tention to Mr. Kazen that the voters his House Investigating Committee, Reform ;Party appears to be serious of. the Latin-American voters who are in import. had -to write in and request the appli- and he replied that he'd study it. At- involved in many of the episodes, but cation. Mr. Kazen told me that tune torney General John Ben Shepperd The Webb County machine is now they.are - readily available. • was getting short. Mr. Kazen' even said it ought- to be done. Then endorsing: a king slate of candidates. On July 13, Sanchez' noted that a was going to give this man the Official _man said Shepperd can do it if he One of the devices by which the word housewife had come in to vote. Ballot, but he forgot and told his hors wants to so badly. Shepperd then sent is passed to faithful Old Party voters "I, Rodolf o A. Sanchez, caught that from now on if someone collies an assistant to Laredo. These ex- is a "strip," a long, folded-up strip of (her). using a sample ballot to vote. I in like this to, them the holew changes occupied many feet of news- paper cut from the left side of a sam- call this to the attention of Mr. Lon- works, even thee Official Ballot, be- print in the daily press. ple ballot, with 'the names of alL but gOria and Zapata and' (she) was dis- cause time was getting short." But Shepperd said he couldn't take the Old Party candidates marked qualified (did not vote). - Mr.. C. Ka- action until after the election. Tom through.. The voter can place this strip zen told" Zapata to call this lady and It was, indeed. The next day, July Moore, a candidate to succeed Shep- on the ballot proper and imitate the let her vote." 17, there is this entry: perd, who is not seeking re-election, marks if he wishes to vote the party Longoria and Zapata • are deputy "At 3 :25 p.m. Mr. C. Kazen -call all called for an investigation of the alle- line faithfully—although it is illegal to county clerks ; Charles Kazen is the his deputies (and the watchers—cA) gations now. D.-A. James Kazen said vote in this manner.. county clerk. .... and told us that an investigation in Laredo that it's all an effort to get The Old Party's slate of candidates On the same day's voting he - noted has i ,been called on the absentee, voting. "publicity at the expense of our - in. Webb County, as shown by these of other voters:- . • Mr. C. Kazen asked his deputies if county." "strips" . "This _lady was using a -little •piece they have seen or ,done anything wrong. with respect with the absentee A. W. Gates and George Byfield, Price . Daniel for governor,• Ben , of.paper with.a number on it." leaders of the Reform • Party, were in Ramsey for lieutenant governor, Will "This lady had a -sample ballot in voting, they say no, and that' if they Austin last week stating the , party's WilsOn. for . attorney_ general, JeSse. her pocket ..and - it was -taken away were afraid of an 'investigation, they case. Gates displayed an envelope James for treasurer,. Earl Rudder for when I . call . attention to• Mr. Zapata.. say no. Then he stated that if .a thou- which contained •a•-lint of 71 people land commissioner,: John _White for The sample ballot was Old Party." sand investigator. came in they shOuld -who he said' were the responsibility of. agriculture commissioner,, Bill Elkins - On July 9, Sanchez noted that ;ca. continue their work as they have done a police sergeant who had td get them for congresSman at large, James Nor- Latin voter was, brought in by- a dep- before. Everybody was surprise poll taxes and see that they voted. He veil for Supreme Court, W. A. Mor- uty sheriff and used "a list of candi- A number of shocking practices are said'the envelope was thrown over his rison for Court of Criminal Appeals, dates he was supPosed . to - vote. for." alleged in affidavits and signed state- back yard fence at night. ' and a Iong• list of local candidates, "I ... call the attention to Mr. Juan ments that have been collected.by the Essentially the Reform Party headed by A6rahain Kazen for -state LOngoria but nothing was done about Reform Party. R.: D. spokesmen with whom the Observer senator. . it." (To be concluded) consulted maintain that absentee-bal- Daniel has disavowed support for . loting is being used as a means of in- him announced by George Parr of If this citation is not served within 90 days after date of its issuance, it shall be returned _ structing some Old Party followers Duval County. He said it was a trick CLASSIFIED unserved. WITNESS, 0. T. MARTIN, JR., Clerk of the whom to vote for ; and they •have affi- by Parr designed to hurt him.• District Courts of Travis County, Texas. ' davits in which the persons under oath HELP WANTED Issued and given under my hand send the seal WANTED: Man for profitable Rawleigh business of said Court at office in'the City of Austin, this say that poll taxes are bought for vot- THE: FIRST type of evi- in Pt. Austin or SE Travis Co. Products well the 3rd day of July, 1955. known. Real opportunity. See E. II?. Stevenson, 0. T. MARTIN, JR., ers and that city or county employees dence the investigators would find if 96% Red River, Austin, or write Rawleigh's Clerk of the District Ceurts, have told them they had to get so Dept. TX0-1771-119., Memphis, Tenn. Travis County, Texas they deeided.on 'an On-the-spot .probe By GEO. W. BICICLER, Deputy many poll taxes to keep their jobs. • 'would be the notations of Reform NOTICE OF INCORPORATION Notice is hereby given that Harry Peterson CITATION. BY PUBLICATION and Fred Barge, composing the firm of Hillcrest THE STATE. OF TEXAS Farms have incorporated such firm under the To Jackie Nanyes, defendant, in the herinefter name of Hillcrest Farms, Inc., on June 1, 1956. styled and numbered cause: You are hereby commanded to appear before The Costs of HILLCREST ' FARMS the Candidates By Harry Peterson and •Fred Barge, Partners the.126th District Court of Travis County, Texas, to be held at the courthouse of said county in AUSTIN the City of' Austin. Travis County, Texas, at or. Ramsey listed: contributions, $1 .5,- LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS before 10 o'clock A. M., of the first Monday af- At least where spending is con- 920, debts, $10,000; spent, $20,410; ter the expiration of 42 days from the date' Smith reported: contributions, $6,- CITATION BY PUBLICATION of issuance hereof ; that is to say, at or before, cerned, Price Daniel is leading the THE STATE OF TEXAS 10 o'clock A. M. of Monday the 13th day of Au- field of six gubernatorial candidates, 785 ; debts, $8,656, spent, $20,259 ; A. TO Billy Seldon Defendant, in the hereinafter gust, 1956, and answer the first amended peti- styled and numbered cause : tion of plaintiff in cause no 104,4o9, in which according to expense reports filed M. Aikin, Jr., listed contributions, You (and each of you) are hereby commanded Frank Nanyes is plaintiff and Jackie Nanyes is $20,595, spent, $15,180; C. T. John- to appear before the 126th Judicial District Court defendant, filed in said Court on the 27th day last Saturday with Secretary of State of Travis County, Texas, to be held at the court- of June, 1956, and ,the nature of which said -son reported cOnfributions, $5,300 suit is as follows : Tom Reavley. house of said county in the City of Austin, Travis Being an action and prayer for judgment in fa- spent $2,969. County, Texas, at or before, 10 o'clock A.M. of vor of plaintiff and against defendant for de- the first Monday after the expiration of 42 days cree of divorce dissolving the bonds of matrimony Daniel's statement showed he had from the date of issuance hereof ; that is to say, heretofore and now existing beta-eon said speilb $116,102, more than twice as 'In the 'attorney general race, Will at or beTore, 10 o'clock A.M. of Monday the 27th parties ; plaintiff alleges cruel treatment on the WilSon listed expenditures totaling day of Auguste- 1956, and answer the petition of part of defendant toward him of such a nature as much as, Ralph Yarborough, who plaintiff in Cause Number 104;633, in which Mae to render their further living together as hus- $54,162, - approximately 20 times as Belle Seldon is Plaintiff and Billy Seldon is de- band and wife altogether insupportable; Plain- placed seccusigl, in the spending field fendant, filed in said Court on the .12th day of tiff further alleges that one minor child; born much as. Tom Moore, who has spent July, 1956, and the nature of which said quit is with expenses of $53,976. Daniel of said union, Paul Ray Nanyes, should be a- $2,648. Wilson's contributions total as follows: warded to plaintiff ; plaintiff further prays for listed contributions totaling $124,009 Being an , action and prayer for judgment in partition of community property of the parties $36,732, while Moore . lists gifts of favor of plaintiff and against defendant for de- and for relief, general and special: and debts of $9,758 compared • to cree of divorce dissolving the bonds of matri- $2,942 and $1,995 debts. All of which more fully appears from plain- Yarborough's contributions totaling mony heretofore and now existing •between said tiff's first amended original petition on file in parties. Plaintiff alleges cruel treatment on the this office and to which reference is here made: $49,574 and debts of $9,892. part of the defendant toward plaintiff of such a If this citation is not served within 90 days nature as to render their further living together after date of its issuance, it shall be returned as husband and wife altogether insupportable. unserved. Other reports showed Reuben Sen- , • RE-ELECT Plaintiff alleges one child was born - of said union, Witness 0. T. Martin, Jr., Clerk of the District terfitt has spent $36,281,. received con- a girl, Ramona Antoinette Seldon, 2 years of age Courts of Travis County, Texas. and plaintiff further prays for the care, custody Issued and given under my hand and the seal tributions of $30,871 and hasn't in- Steve Heffington and control' of said child and asks that defendant of said Court at office in the City of Anarn, be required to pay child support until said child this the 27th day of June, 1956. curred any debt. J. Evetts Haley's ex- Assessor and Collector of Taxes has reached the age of 1-8 years. Plaintiff further 0. T. MARTIN, Clerk of the- penses total $19,264 and he listed con- Travis-County, Texas alleges that no community property was accumu- District Courts, Travis County, Texas. A proven Record of Honest, lated. Plaintiff further prays for costs of suit By James Fletcher, Deputy, tributions totaling $21,097 and debts Courteous and Efficient Service and relief, general and special; All of which more fully appears from plain- CITATION BY PUBLICATION of $783. Your Vote Will Be Appreciated tiff's original petition on file in this office, and THE STATE OF TEXAS (Pol. Adv.) to which reference is here made. To dotty Mose Watts, defendant, in the herein- W. Lee O'Daiiiel and J. J. Holmes If this citation is not served within 90 days after styled and numbered cause: after date of its issuance, it shall be returned un- You are hereby commanded to appear before had not reported. nerved. the 126th District Court of Travis County, Texas, Ben Ramsey and John Lee Smith, WITNESS, 0. T. MARTIN, JR., Clerk of the tcs be held at the,courthouse of said county in the 'District Courts of Travis County, Texas. City of Austin, Travis County, Texas, at or be- both listing expenses totaling more Issued and given under my hand and the seal fore 10 o'clock A. M. of the first Monday after of said Court at office in the City of Austin, this the expiration of 42 days from the date of is- than $20,000 each, led` campaign the 12th day of July, 1956. snance hereof ; that is to say, at or before, 10 .spending in the race for lieutenant 0. T., MARTIN, JR., O'clock A. M. of Monday the 13th day of August, Clerk of the District Courts, 1956, and answer the petition of plaintiff in governor. TON Travis County, Texas. cause No. 103,775, in which Irene Watts is plain- By ELI GREER, Deputy. tiff and Jotty Mose Watts is defendant, filed in said court on. the 19th day of March, 1956, and MOORE CITATION BY PUBLICATION the nature of which said suit is as follows: THE STATE OF TEXAS Being an action and prayer for judgment in If you favor an TO James F. Overton, Defendant, in the here- favor of plaintiff and against defendant for de- Independent inafter styled and numbered cause: cree of divorce dissolving the bonds of matri- the You are hereby commanded to appear before mony heretofore and now existing between said Judiciary the 126th District Court of Travis County, Texas, parties; plaintiff alleges cruel treatment on the to be held at the courthouse of said county in the part of defendant toward her of such a nature Vote to City of Austin, Travis County, Texas, at or be- as to render further living together as husband Democrat's fore 10 o'clock A. M. of the first Monday after and wife insuPPortalbe; plaintiff further alleges Promote the expiration of 42 days from the- date of issu- that four minor children, born of said union, ance hereof ; that•is to say, at or before, 10 o'clock are now living With plaintiff who is the • proper A. M. of Monday the 20th day of August, 1954, person to be awarded, their custody, and for ROBERT. G. CANDIDATE' and answer the petition of plaintiff in Cause which she prays; plaintiff further prays for or- Number 101,384, in which Frances V. Overton is der requiring plaintiff to contribute a reasonable HUGHES Plaintiff and James F. •Overton is. defendant,• sum for support of said children; plaintiff fur- filed in said Court on the 9th day of May, 1955, ther alleges that there is no community proper- to the for and the nature of which Said suit is as follows: ty plaintiff further prays for relief, general Being an action and prayer for judgment in and special ; • Supreme Court of Texas favor of Plaintiff and against Defendant for All of which more fully appears from plain- decree of divorce dissolving the bonds of matri- , tiff's original petition on file in this office, and HUGHES , 56„. has been an a pel-p ATTORNEY Jun t mony heretofore and now existing between said to which reference is here made. late Judge since 1947. In 1954, he wrote the parties '• Plaintiff alleges cruel treatment on the If this citation is not served within 90 days opinion in the Texas Mutual Insurance ease part of Defendant towards her of such a nature after date of its issuance, it shall be returned which shocked the State into . .demanding GENERAL as to render their further living together as hus- unserved. Insurance law reforms. • band and wife altogether insupportable ; plaintiff Witness 0. T. Martin, Jr., Clerk of the District Judge and Mrs. Hughes have four children, further alleges that no children were born of Courts of Travis County, Texas. two grandchildren. said union and no community property accumu- Issued and given under my hand and the seat Judge Hughes has always supi,orted Demo- lated; Plaintiff further prays for relief, general of said Court at office in the City of Austin, cratic nominees. - and special; this the 27th day of June, 1956. Judge Hughes is Texas reared, Texas edu- THE TEXAS OBSERVER All of which. more fully appears from Plain- 0. T. MARTIN, Clerk of the eated and Texas experienced. tiff's Original Petition on file in this office and District Courts, Travis County, Texas. Page 7 July 25, 1956' to which reference in here made; By Gee. W. Dickler, Depui ► • 0 • ' • • THE SIX WHO WANT TO

Ralph Yarborough Price Daniel W. Lee O'Daniel Ralph Yarborough, Austin attorney, is making his Price Daniel, Liberty, was elected to the V. S. W. Lee O'D-aniel, Dallas, was governor of Texas third bid for governor. His principal support comes • Senate in 1952. - from 1938 to 1941 and- then U. S. Senator until from loyal Democrats. He has opposed Governor Most of his support conies* from previous backers 1948. Shivers unsuccessfully in two previous elections. of Governor Shivers. He declares that out-of-state His stipport comes largely from rural areas, He is pledged to support the national Democratic "labor bosses," principally . Walter . Reuther of the especially East Texas and the German cotinties.. nominees. • . CIO, are trying to take over Texas politics. He As *governor , he advocated a "transactions tax" He has campaigned against corruption in office wants the states' to. originate a constitutional amend- and then endorsed a two percent general sales tax. and for "humanitarian services" financed in part by ment in effect nullifying the Supreme Court -rul- As a senator he opposed' the draft law three months a natural gas tax. He opposes "any additional state ing on.. school integration. • before Pearl Harbor, opposed gas rationing, cam- sales taxes". or a state income tax. He opposes the - He will not _divulge his tax plan except to say that paigned against Roosevelt in 1944, and voted for use of force to bring about school integration. he will "tap some untapped resources and cut out the Republicans more than any other Southern Among the platforms in his program : • 'tome waste in government." Among planks in his Democrat. In 1947 he said he would accept nomina- Water and soil conservation, ,with many small• platform: tion for vice-president on a third-party ticket dams ; a $30 a month old age pension raise ; a state "Simple honesty and moral integrity in govern- headed by General Douglas MacArthur. drotith relief program; higher unemployment and .ment,i' with an 11-person law enforcement commis- He says he will return. to Austin and dean up workmen's compensation; higher teacher salaries, sion to investigate official fraud ; a strict lobby reg- "the mest." He says he will force schools that have adoption of the teacher retirement -amendment; istration law ; a listing of legislators' retainer fees integrated to 'back up." He calls all the members more school buildings; more aid to dependent chil- and other income sources; prohibition of legislators of the Supreme Court and every person who 'agrees dren and needy blind. • practicing before state boards and agencies; with them on school integration "cowards." School construction,*teacher salary and retirement . He criticizes "the little junior senator," 'corm-nun- Youth development and delinquency prevention increases "with Texas money" • the maximum en- istic labor racketeers". "the millionaire clique," "the programs ; a stiff anti-narcotics law ; alty of death fpr 'peddling heroin to minors in capitalists," "prOfessional politicians," "the kept A lobbyist registration law, With heavy fines and Texas ; better highways and a state drivers' educa- press," and "lying reporters." jail penalties; higher pay for legislators;prohibition tion program in the schools; His platform: The Ten , Commandments; full, of legislators from practicing before state boards; Higher old age pensions; better treatment for probe of the land scandals; a veterans' bonus as big a better industrial safety program ; modern medical the destitute, mentally ill, and retarded; attracting as any other state's ; an old age pension as_high as treatment. not confinement, for the mentally ill; new industries; resisting "federal encroachment" On any other state's; creation of a great lakes in the State payment of a fair share of the cost of, high- oil and gas ; "better labor relations"; vicinity of Amarillo by piping water from the Mis- kway rights-of-way; "more and better" rural electri- Water conservation; soil conservation; state-fed- sissippi; a 'discount" of 25 percent on federal in- fication, farm-to-market roads, and highwayS. eral co-operation on construction of dams. • - come tax ; no desegregation.-

I. Eveits Haley Reuben Senterfitt J. J. Holnies J..Eyetts Haley, Canyon rancher and historian, is Reuben Senterfitt, San Saba, twice • speaker of J.' J. Holmes, Austin contractor, is running on a running on a platform of states' rights. He says the House of Representatives, styles himself a "con- plank of parimutuel betting on horse raCes in Texas. _ is the only way Texas can finance he will call out the Texas Rangers to stop school servative reform" candidate. He says this He is against school integration. He will not sup-_ needed programs. He estimates jt would bring in integration if necessary. He is against"federal en- port Adlai Stevenson for president whether the $100 million. - croachment!' on all fronts. • Democrats nominate him or not. He is againit any On the stump earlier in the campaign, Holmes Haley advocates a limit of 25 percent on the new state taxation until a study can determine how said he wants to be the candidate of all the people, federal income tax, which is now scaled from 22 much waste can be cut out of state government. including Latin-Americans and Negroes, but was for segregation. Last week in Corpus, he said he . to 91 percent. He resigned from the. Constitution He favors lobbyist registration but does not want Party of Texas to make this race. legislators required to list their private clients. was for school integration.

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