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Volume 54 TEXAS, JUNE 15, 1962 15c per Copy Number 11

COFFEE AND CARTOONS GOP Vs. GEORGE PARR Political Profile: New Uprising in Duval DUVAL COUNTY DUVAL COUNTY although Duval was still a one- Clarence Schroeder's quiet Texas' ambitious new Re- party county at the time. In No- Harris' Eckhardt bachelor life was altered publican Party and a young vember, a Parr-sponsored "Inde- HOUSTON the most eloquent and persuasive sharply nine months ago when attorney with a score to . settle pendent" candidate was placed on Bob Eckhardt's stocks-in- politicians in the state. he accepted the job as Duval with George Parr are provid- the ballot in opposition to Purcell. trade are a prodigious Texas Maurice Pipkin, a conservative County Republican chairman— ing valuable "foreign aid" in And the late-entering "Independ- hat and one of the thickest legislator from the Valley who sits a position in direct political the latest revolutionary efforts ent"—O. P. Carillo—was elected Southern drawls known • to next to Eckhardt on the back row opposition to a gentleman in Duval County, where Parr over Democratic nominee Purcell, man. Once, when he was cam- of the House, told the Observer named George Parr, the coun- and his father before him have although the county went 12 to 1 paigning in one of Houston's at the height of the pipeline tax ty's Democratic chairman. reigned politically for more for the Democratic Presidential *- big super-markets, a friend controversy last year: "People than 60 years. ticket. of Duval don't see A Duval County Republican or- stopped him and asked, "Eck- here don't agree with Eckhardt Residents County Attorney Carillo, now ganization was formed about a hardt, why the hell do you all the time, but there're very few George Parr in person much these snugly back in the Democratic year ago by leaders of the county's wear that dirty old hat?" Eck- people who don't respect him for days. The aging (about 60) Duke fold, is a key figure in the current hardt replied, "A fellow with what he is. When he gets up to of Duval seems to prefer the se- anti-Parr Freedom Party. At that attempt to squelch the revolution cluded life of affluent bankruptcy time, state Republican leaders a hat like that and a drawl like speak, they listen." His oratorical by disqualifying candidates nomi- this couldn't be a radical." style is calm and logical, punctu- in which he lives with his teen- promised to provide legal help nated in the county Republican age wife, Little Eva, inside the when and if the time ever came primaries this year. "Lincolnesque" is probably the ated with aphorisms and faintly thick, white walls of his sprawling that it was needed. The time came most particularly personal adjec- didactic asides. Reed Quilliam, a hacienda on the outskirts of San last week, when Duval GOP Publicity Exposure tive to describe him. Some of his freshman conservative from Lub- Diego, the seat of government of Chairman Clarence Schroeder, 44, tales should be included in the bock, cast a surprise vote for Eck- "Two things worried George the county many Texans call "The was jailed on a contempt of court next Sandburg anthology. The hardt's pipeline tax at one point Parr about that primary," Pur- Free State of Duval." charge growing out of a grand same unobtrusive in the 1961 session. Someone asked cell told the Observer. "One—Dr. jury investigation of the Republi- sense of humanity is him why in the world, coming Despite his comparative seclu- E. E. Dunlap, one of the most can May 5 primary in the county. beloved and respected men in Du- there, the same from Lubbock, did he do it. "I lis- sion and his official bankruptcy good - natured toler- tened to Eckhardt," Quilliam said, (a condition unofficially denied Schroeder's defense attorney is val County, was nominated on a former Duval countian, Walter the Republican ticket for county ance of its foibles "and he just simply convinced by a long, black, chauffeured car and follies. So is the me." and the heavily-staffed mansion), Purcell, 33, who now lives in Alice judge to oppose his nephew ten miles from the Duval line in Archer Parr. Two—about 3,000 persistent logic of Lobbyists who specialize in tes• Parr was the winning candidate adjcining Jim Wells County. Pur- qualified voters did not show the courtroom law- timony before key committees re- for county Democratic chairman cell won the Democratic run-off up at the polls for the primaries. yer, the delight in gard him rather uneasily. His fa- on May 5. It was the first time for county attorney of Duval That's about half of the county's politics and the po- miliar mode of questioning is pit- in five years he had sought an County in 1960 against a George vote and Parr could smell trouble Eckhardt litical animal. ted with hazards. One afternoon elective office, even though Parr candidate. But 1960 was a brewing for November." At 48 Eckhardt has been in the he took on every major lobbyist George Parr and his late father, Presidential election year and Whatever ' the motivation, re- Texas House a mere two terms. for the pipeline companies at a Archie Parr, have ruled Duval there was balloting in November, (Continued on Page 2) After he had been in and out of tax hearing and plainly bested County as rigidly as monarchs for Austin political circles for a num- them. all. the past 60 years. Their reign has ber of years, in 1959, his first When a lobbyist for a large pa- not been overthrown despite term, the capitol press corps per company warned the House Parr's current bankrupt condi- judged him the "most outstanding tax committee one day that liberal tion, numerous official charges of freshman legislator," an honor taxers had wrecked many another income tax evasion, a prison term, which might have been likened to state, that his company contrib- Parr's habit of pistol whipping Stan Musial's selection as Out- uted considerably more to Texas folks in such public places as the standing Rookie in the same year. than Texas contributed to it, and courthouse lawn, and other go- Many consider him the outstand- that the franchise tax revision ings-on which would place most ing liberal in Texas public affairs would just about drive his firm Texans in disrepute. today. Architect of the open into financial ruin, Eckhardt "The whole mess was almost beaches bill in 1959, one of Texas' asked: solved once and for all not long two or three top authorities on "Mr. Combs, can you tell the ago by a Texas Ranger," a Duval the intricacies of oil and gas tax- committee why your company de- County old-timer said last week. ation, he is without doubt one of cided to come to Texas?" "George Parr pulled a pistol on "What do you mean, Mr. Eck- the Ranger right over there on hardt?" the courthouse steps. The Ranger Grand Jury "Can you tell us why you de- suddenly got the advantage—like cided to locate in Texas rather a Ranger can, you know—and Indicts Bean than, say, Albuquerque, or Wich- was aiming right at George's head ita, Kansas, or Oklahoma City?" and about to pull the trigger when AUSTIN "I don't quite see what you're a lady happened to step out of the El Paso County Judge Wood- driving at." courthouse and jumped between row Bean, the unsuccessful "I wonder," Eckhardt said, "if them." congressman-at-large candidate it had anything to do with water George Parr and Duval County against Joe Pool, was indicted and trees." He proceeded to at- politics received considerable na- this week on five counts of tack big corporations which "come tional attention in 1948 through failure to file income tax re- down here and take our natural publicity given the now-famous turns by a federal grand jury. resources out of our earth, and (Continued on Page 2) SHROEDER IN THE DUVAL JAIL Bean, backed take our water and our trees, and by liberal and use our roads, and send their chil- labor groups dren to our schools, and don't be- during most of gin to give us a proper social pay- the first pri- ment in return." Unique Houston Movement mary campaign, HOUSTON At a GOP rally a candidate for claiming their specific religious admitted when ' That's My Fault information Eckhardt grew up in Austin, Conservative candidates in the legislature who was running loyalties. leaked to the where his father was a prominent Harris County must now pass against a more conservative op- At one of the last Republican ponent in the Republican primary rallies before the primary a can- press two weeks doctor. "He didn't have any ideo- a new test if they are to receive had just finished his speech when before the elec- logical position," Eckhardt says. the blessing of a new group of didate for the legislature, who lost a well-dressed lady in the front Bean "He just wanted to be free—to be religious-political activists who his bid for the nomination, spent row stood up and asked him: several minutes telling the crowd tion that he had not filed an in- his own man." He never paid his call themselves "The Fish." It is no longer enough to con- "Are you a Christian, and if so, come tax since 1952 and told a $25 fee for the special fund to how important it was for a candi- demn as "socialistic" all things what kind of Christian are you?" date to be a 100 percent Christian. Houston press conference he fight "socialized medicine," and public from schools to the post The astonished candidate could Republican political leaders would work for repeal of the tax when someone once urged him to office system; it is no longer a' only reply: "I am a Christian and sitting on the platform and in the if elected. He lead the first pri- segregate Negroes in his waiting sign of complete loyalty to pro- I think I'm a pretty good one!" He audience squirmed a bit, for they mary field. rooms, "he really got angry. He never knew the vernacular of lib- claim one's self a 99.44 percent added lamely, "What's that got had been aware of the work of When the AFL-CIO withdrew erals and conservatives. To him it pure conservative. To win the to do with this?" The Fish, both in the GOP and its support of Bean and asked him was just a matter of people being backing of The Fish one must be "I just wanted to know what among conservative Democrats to drop out of the race, he replied: treated as human beings." 100 percent conservative and, kind of a Christian we're voting supporting Edwin Walker. (Hank) Brown can go to hell if His mother still lives in the big, more important, 100 percent for." said the lady, with the If the GOP leaders were em- he thinks I'm going to withdraw two-story house on Rio Grande in Christian. rather satisfied grin of a detec- barrassed, it was because one of from this race." Support was also Austin. Once, when she went to The new criteria emerged dur- tive who has just solved a crime. their best-liked candidates sat on withdrawn by a number of news- Houston to telephone for Eck- ing the late primary at conserva- The quizzing of candidates at the platform waiting her turn to papers, including the Observer. hardt during his first campaign, tive rallies, both Republican and public rallies—and privately—re- speak. She was Mrs. Marjorie (Continued on Page 3) (Continued on Page 3) Democratic. sulted in several of them pro- (Continued on Page 3) A NIGHT IN GEORGE'S JAIL Baptists Duval's GOP vs. Parr's Democrats Criticize (Continued from Page 1) tion records as soon as he was to be examined by the grand jury because he has always delivered cent moves by County Atty. Ca- given a chance to if Carillo hadn't and others present. (John Cam- the votes to the winners." rib° and other county and district asked him that fearsome question. pos, a young assistant to the dis- Heated Exchanges The Trend officials who were elected with trict attorney, happened upon this Lawyer Contacted The procedure of the contempt SAN FRANCISCO Parr's endorsements have caused scene and declared it "somewhat The records Schroeder had were hearing was as surprising as the many here to doubt that Republi- irregular." He was promptly told Conservative delegates from copies of the originals sealed in air-conditioning which cooled the can nominees will be allowed to to leave the courthouse.) the West and Southwest, with the GOP ballot boxes and placed interior of the courthouse. Judge strong Texas leadership, re- appear on the November ballot. Later that day, District Attor- in the custody of county officials Laughlin, who issued the con- tained control of the Southern Schroeder's jail sentence, how- ney Sam Burriss, who had been on May 5. Schroeder had request- tempt citation, interrupted de- Baptist convention meeting in ever, appears to have been an ac- out of town throughout the con- ed that the GOP ballot boxes be fense attorney Purcell six times San Francisco and gave the cident of the dapper young Ca- troversy, returned and apologized deposited in Alice after the elec- with the remark, "Objection sus- impetus to a key resolution re- rillo's overanxiousness. to Schroeder for his arrest and tion, but District Judge C. Wood- tained; let's stick to the facts," affirming faith in the Bible as said he was free to go. This was The spotlight of publicity the row Laughlin ordered them placed when no objections had been "the infallible word of God." episode has turned on the county a Thursday afternoon. By the fol- in a cell in the Duval County jail. made by .the prosecuting attor- The resolution accused some could, others here believe, cause lowing Monday, June 4, Burriss After he told the grand jury neys. Baptist theologians of teaching Parr to call off the investigation had changed his mind, and joined that two deputies dragged him Purcell and Carillo engaged in false ideas about the Bible and of the GOP primary and concen- in filing the delayed-action con- from his office before he had a several heated exchanges and urged trustees of church institu- trate on his peculiarly efficient tempt of court charge against chance to get his election records, Judge Laughlin intervened each tions "to take such steps as shall vote-gathering technique. (Parr's Schroeder. He helped Carillo ar- Schroeder was given until 9 a.m. time in Carillo's behalf. In his fi- be necessary to remedy at once favorite candidate, John Connally, gue the case at the June 7 hear- the following day to comply with nal argument Carillo asked only those situations where such views for example, got 97 percent of the ing, which ended with deputies the subpoena. He returned to his that Schroeder be given a three- now threaten our historic posi- runoff votes on June 2. Margins again pulling in Schroeder—this office, he said, and telephoned day jail sentence, but Judge tion." for Jim Turman, Waggoner Carr, time toward a jail cell. Neil Terry in Alice (Terry pre- Laughlin included the $100 fine on At the center of the controversy and Woodrow Bean were almost But when the contempt citation his own. ceded Schroeder as Duval County over Biblical infallibility was a as astronomical.) GOP chairman) asking for advice. was served on the Republican Purcell's argument centered book by Ralph H. Elliot, The Carillo's eagerness first showed Several local lawyers were con- county chairman June 4, he con- upon his contention that "the Message of Genesis. Elliot, a on the morning of May 28, the day tacted but, for various reasons, tacted Walter Purcell in Alice and grand jury is not a body author- teacher at Midwestern Seminary Schroeder was arrested. Testi- were not interested in getting in- James Leonard at state GOP ized to investigate a primary elec- in Kansas City, said in his book mony at the contempt hearing in headquarters in Austin. tion unless a member of the party volved in the case. that the creation of the world as San Diego (the county seat) last Finally, Ralph Curry, a Dallas "After talking to Leonard and involved complains. set forth in Genesis should be week revealed that the subpoena attorney of Terry's acquaintance, Purcell," Schroeder said, "I felt "If the county attorney is going interpreted figuratively rather for Schroeder to appear before was called. Curry told Schroeder for the first time that some of us to make charges of fraud to the than literally. the grand jury with his primary in Duval County would no* be newspapers, which Mr. Carillo to mail him the records so he The resolution, which passed election records was issued by alone in this fight, We had made did," Purcell said, "let's investi- could photostat them before they 2-1, was introduced by K. Owen grand jury foreman G. R. Chappa, protest after protest in the past gate charges of fraud in the Dem- were turned over to the Parr White, pastor of the First Baptist another friend of George Parr's, to the state Democratic Party ocratic primary in Duval County. Democrats. Schroeder returned to Church of Houston. His motion at 9:45 a.m.-15 minutes before and nothing happened." I'll ask the county attorney now the courthouse the next morning stated: the grand jury convened for the "I saw it was a typical example to investigate and find out how and informed Judge Laughlin that "That the messengers of this first time since April 2. he had followed his lawyer's ad- of Duval County justice," Purcell John Connally got 97 percent of convention reaffirm their faith told the Observer. "It is just this the vote on June 2. Will you do Why did he issue the subpoena? vice. in the entire Bible as the authori- Purcell asked Chappa. County This news sent Judge Laughlin sort of thing that is driving Duval that ?" tative, authentic, infallible word countians into the Republican Carillo, flushing, nodded and Atty. Carillo asked him to issue and Carillo into a long conference of God. it, Chappa said. Later, however, in Laughlin's chambers. After the Party. They figure that nothing said, "Yeah." "That we express our abiding Carillo testified that Chappa had conference the GOP ballot boxes happens when protests are made "He says he will," Purcell then and unchanging objection to the asked for the subpoena, which is were brought up from downstairs to the state Democratic Party be- told the judge. "but I had no right dissemination of theological views the usual procedure. and opened, and their contents cause George Parr has too much to make such a request. I don't in any of our seminaries which influence in the Democratic Party even reside in Duval County." "Mr. Chappa testified that you were passed about the courtroom would undermine such faith in Later, Purcell charged that the asked him to issue the subpoena," the historical accuracy and doc- Republican ballot boxes were Purcell told the county attorney. trinal integrity of the Bible . . ." opened in private by someone in "Mr. Chappa made a mistake on A move to ban Elliot's book, the courthouse to see who had that," Carillo said. `Our One Main Plank' calling on the Baptist publishing voted Republican. Judge Laughlin, Regardless of the answer to the (Continued from Page 1) against the harsh South Texas house to withdraw all copies and red-faced, said angrily, "Mr. Pur- "who's on first?" testimony by "Box 13," which was reported four sunlight and grinned apologetical- cease circulating it, failed when cell, those boxes were never ex- Carillo and Chappa, the subpoena days after election day and gave ly when he walked out of the Dr. W. T. James, editor of the amined except in Mr. Schroeder's was issued and Schroeder walked courthouse and shook hands with Baptist Standard in Fort Worth, Lyndon Johnson an 87-vote state- presence. Let's stick to the facts." into the grand jury room two the men who waited there for and others branded the effort as wide victory margin over Coke When Judge Laughlin made his hours later to be met by Ca- Stevenson for U.S. senator. him. Meeting those who had too extreme. rillo's query: "Would you like to ruling the papers necessary to put But even before Box 13, the worked to free him from jail ob- Houston's White, in speaking plead the Fifth Amendment?" Schroeder in jail immediately Parrs had friends in high places. viously embarrassed the mild- for his motion, argued: "That's when I decided I better were already filled out and wait- George Parr was on parole from mannered oil company agent who .."We believe the Bible says talk to a lawyer," Schroeder said ing. the federal prison, where he had has only one gasoline station in what it means and means what later. "I didn't know what I was It took Purcell and Leonard 25 served three years of a sentence his Mobil district. it says. We find it difficult to charged with, but being asked a hours and 10 minutes to get the for income tax evasion, when accept some views which indi- question like that sure scared As he posed for a news photog- new — but already battle-scarred Harry Truman became president. cate it does not. me." rapher, Schroeder was asked to Republican—out of jail with a writ One of Truman's first official acts "We do not believe any reve- The fact is—according to the comment on his jail sentence and of habeas corpus secured from was to award a full pardon to the lation that comes to us now will testimony of all county officials the events leading to it. He nod- Federal Judge Joe Ingraham of Duke of Duval. conflict with what He has said who were witnesses at the hear- ded, pulled a folded paper sack Houston. Part of the delay was in the Bible. We do not believe ing—Schroeder was never charged Unlike most U.S. political from his right hip pocket, and caused by U. S. Commissioner He will ask us to create come- with anything until the judge said bosses, Parr does not rely pri- squinted at words penciled dimly James C. Martin, whose Corpus thing new. he was in contempt. Carillo testi- marily on political astuteness to on the wrinkled brown surface. Christi office was decorated with "We do not want our denomi- fied that he asked the Fifth maintain his power. His methods a large "All the Way With LBJ" "I did a lot of thinking in there nation to go down the road of Amendment question only because are of the old-fashioned school banner. Leonard and Purcell ar- last night," he said. "I wrote liberalism . . . and lose our evan- he wanted "to make certain most Americans thought went out rived in Martin's office with a some of it down . . . this sack was gelistic zeal. Schroeder had been informed with Prohibition. bond signed by Dr. Dunlap and all I had to write on. . . ." about his rights." Schroeder said "People are physically afraid to other substantial Duval citizens, "I've sensed among you that he would have brought in the elec- god against Parr," Walter Purcell, But he had scribbled those but Martin insisted that the bond you want to say to the whole - a former Duval county attorney, words in the midnight loneliness had to be signed in his office, denomination, to the churches, to members who couldn't come, M E N said. "His deputies, all wearing of a jail cell, waiting for the with Schroeder present. pistols, line up around balloting "But how do you expect us to to other denominations and to Learn to Operate courts to act on his appeal. Read- places and leer over your shoulder ing them again in the bright aft- get him out of George Parr's the whole world that Baptists are when you vote. There's no such ernoon sunlight, standing among jail?" Leonard asked. going to continue in this historic HEAVY thing as a secret ballot in Duval his friends, caused businessman "That's your problem," Martin position so, in the church and in County. Parr's pistoleros, as the Schroeder's face to redden. He said. the classroom, the trumpet will give no uncertain sound." EQUIPMENT Mexicans call them, naturally stuffed the brown sack back into Leonard then dashed to a Cor- Drag Lines don't lean too hard on some of his pocket. pus Christi bank and got a cash- Wallace Bassett, pastor of the Bulldozers, Scrapers the more established white voters. ier's check for $1,000, which Mar- Cliff Temple Baptist Church. "I never was one for writing," tin accepted as sufficient bond. Pull Shovels But in the Mexican precincts, they Dallas, spoke in opposition to the really throw their weight around." he mumbled. Then he added: Clam Shells, Graders Civil Rights Suit? motion. He said: -Y: >:- "What it all amounts to really, is "We ought not to say 'you've Trained men are earning $165 Monday, Federal Judge Reyn- per week and up. Thousands Clarence Schroeder blink ed that we hope to restore civil rights got to believe with me or you are aldo Garza ruled that Schroeder of additional men are needed to all the people of Duval County. a heretic.' right now to operate the What I wrote on that sack last was technically guilty of contempt heavy equipment used in "I don't want you to do a dis- night was something about how when he mailed the primary rec- building roads, bridges, dams, service to our churches in the airfields, etc. when I was fighting in the war ords out of the county after he West. But if you dub them fun- Complete training gives you MARTIN ELFANT I thought I was fighting for our had received the subpoena and actual experience on heavy damentalists and tell them they've civil rights . . I was with the ordered that the $100 fine must be equipment at resident center, got to be fundamentalists to be with employment assistance Second Division from Omaha paid. But he deleted the jail sen- upon completion. Sun Life of Canada Baptists, they will not unite with Beach to Czechoslovakia. . . . But tence. For complete information, Thursday, Schroeder's attorney Southern Baptists." send name, address, age, tele- guess that's pretty corny . . . said their next move had not yet Bassett said there was "nothing phone number and working You can just say that the one Houston, Texas new" in Elliot's book. To put hours to: main plank in our platform is to been plotted. Earlier, however, UNITED EQUIPMENT Purcell said he believed Schroeder restraints on the theologians, he get a secret ballot for Duval OPERATORS SCHOOL CA 4-0686 "has legitimate cause for a civil warned, would "mkae us the 4215 Graustark County, like the Constitution rights suit against Duval County." laughing stock of the Ch ► istian Houston 6, Texas Nays." J.M. J.M. world."'

( 'THE DRIFT TOWARD LIBERALISM' Thinker and Pragmatist in the Texas House

(Continued From Page 1) "There were First and Second lations that exist within the legis- with much more intelligence. At this is the most palatable role for me. You ultimately can't fail a voter told her: "We're favorably Internationale people, Trotskyites, lature itself. the same time, the lobby is more to succeed, but your position is in inclined toward your son, but Fascists, and New Dealers," he "I don't think the lobby will theoretical. The leaders of the line with the whole direction of we're worried about his stand on remembers. "Every political view- ever understand the legislature— lobby work out their strategy as relative, more Western civilization. But at the this race issue." She replied: "Oh, point was at least accepted from and that's the only real hope for if things were more same time, you don't really suc- I'm afraid that's my fault. I raised the standpoint of polemical dis- it, I suppose. D. B. Hardeman established. An intelligent person ceed personally, and you don't him to be a Christian." cussion. (leader of the House liberals in in the legislature can outguess the win. The victory is somewhere in He has a long line of political "There were those who said the early 'fifties) understood it lobby, but it's getting more diffi- the future." forebears. His uncle Harry Wurz- FDR was like a man trying to when he took the legislature away cult. Legislators want prestige, The second role he describes as bach was Republican congress- fix an old T-Model Ford with from the lobby back in '51 and creature comforts, women, but that of the "political organizer— man from the staunchly German rusty wire and didn't want to dis- passed the gas-gathering tax. primarily what they want is votes the position of the Frankie Ran- 14th District. His father's uncle, turb the rust and grease for fear "But the lobby in the last ses- at home in the next election. The dolphs. It holds people's feet to the Rudolph Kleberg, succeeded it wouldn't work. They wanted to sion was catching up again. The lobby that D. B. Hardeman was fire, it demands people's respect Wurzbach from the same district overhaul the old machine and lobby used to assume that every - competing with didn't realize this under Teddy Roosevelt. And a change it altogether. one could be bought off—bought importance of votes at home. The for people and groups, it puts conscience into direct action." cousin, Richard Kleberg, was "I defended the New Deal. I've off either for money or entertain- lobby today does." Finally, there is the role of the Democratic congressman from always been a political pragma- ment or prestige. It used to be a tist more than anything else. If crass sort of approach. The Three Roles politicians. "The politician, if he there during the New Deal; Lyn- Of all the liberal legislators it's working I want to patch it up "Most members of the House, stands for anything at all, needs don Johnson was his secretary. Eckhardt has seen at work in the and keep it going. I don't believe remember, are in their first or a thread of philosophy. He needs Richard Kleberg, Eckhardt's last four years, he believes Sen. anybody knows what will happen second term. They're usually to stand for something, to believe great-uncle, was the original King Franklin Spears of San Antonio when they completely overhaul rurally-oriented. The House is a in something. But there are cer- Ranch Kleberg. Bob Kleberg, the and Rep. Don Kennard of Fort it." fairly moral body—not corrupt. tain inevitable pressures. When present King Ranch man, is "a Worth, the Democratic nominee He and Creekmore Fath, a UT Especially in the 1947-1953 period, he runs for public office, those first cousin once removed." Eck- for the Senate from Fort Worth, classmate, opened up a law office the lobby really didn't concentrate who support him expect him to hardt's German ancestors — Kle- have the greatest talent and the in Austin in 1939, which Eckhardt on the House, rather on the Sen- win. He's got to try to win. bergs, von Roeders, and the oth- most promising futures. "Ken- now describes as "just about the ate. "It's honorable and necessary ers--came to America in the great nard knows the forces that moti- most unlucrative law practice any- "Nothing has changed about the for the panzer troops to set a 19th Century Germanic influx as vate a legislature. Spears knows body could ever have." House, but the lobby has changed. standard to shoot at, and for the "political exiles — protesters the political organizations within He particularly remembers It's not relying on crass, corrupt political organizer to devise a against the monarchistic tyranny. a community. They're good liber- their defense of the Red River means to influence the House. It platform worth winning on, but "Old Robert J. Kleberg was de- als. The test, isn't it, is how they Mining and Milling Company, in- operates now like a kind of for- the man in the position of the tailed to guard Santa Anna at vote and how they act?" volving a mineral lease on land eign service, with its ambassadors practicing politician has got to San Jacinto," Eckhardt says. "It Eckhardt, a pragmatic thinker owned by a fellow named Silber- in Austin representing the busi- have at least the practical possi- might've been because he was a and philosophical doer, sees three stein. A Negro named Benton and ness interests in Houston and bility of winning his race. He rather civilized man and not likely major ingredients in modern an itinerant preacher named Mc- Dallas and elsewhere. It's become misrepresents his role unless he to kill his prisoner." American liberalism. "First, al- Gill were in conflict with Silber- less a purveyor of beef and bour- thinks he can win." truism. Second, pragmatism—the Young Gentlemen stein over the lease date; McGill bon than an ambassador for the Eckhardt went to the Univer- kind of experimentation and Inevitable Drift and Benton were building a silver local chambers of commerce. It sity of Texas in the 'thirties, ma- modification that was implicit in What, then, is Eckhardt's view on mine under Silberstein's privy. now has more money, with more joring in zoology as a pre-med the New Deal. Third, respect for the future of liberalism in Texas? An old man named Deace had used paid representatives at home and undergraduate, then going on to individual freedom and dignity— "The short-haul view, I sup- a witchstick and told McGill and in Austin. In many ways the lobby a kind of broad tolerance for in- pose, is bleak. We've just lost in law school and graduating in 1939. Benton there was silver there. has taken a leaf from the school- dividuals. In that sense, I consider all the qtate races. In 1937 he edited the Texas Ran- This, Eckhardt recalls, confirmed teachers' notebook. It encourages myself a liberal. I believe in re- "But the longer view is always ger, the humor magazine, and be- a story told McGill by one Juan a lot of letters, visits to Austin, gan earning his reputation as a spect for the individual as an in- in favor of the liberal. The liberal Lopez, who had heard from his giving legislators the impression satirical cartoonist of the first dividual. I don't think everyone candidate may not win, but the grandfather that 30 Mexicans, that such-and-such an interest dimension. (He began drawing at who calls himself a liberal neces- conservative candidate has got with 30 burros laden with silver, represents a large and powerful 5, using limestone on sidewalks. sarily accepts all these ingredi- to become more liberal. The drift had put the silver there "at some element in the home electorate." Later, in the 'forties, he authored ents, but I'd say the caravan of of humane society is in that di- indeterminate time in the past." the famous full-page cartoons in 'Making Things Work American liberalism does accept rection. The lease called for mining of As a ranking veteran of two the old Texas Spectator.) all of them." "The liberal trend is inevitable. "minerals, metals, and substance The year he edited the Ranger, legislatures, and as the outside Similarly, Eckhardt sees three But it would be hastened, I be- of any kind." There were, Eck- he defended Daily Texan editor observer for some years before, broad roles for the American lieve, if Texas liberals had a hardt says, "all kinds of sub- Eckhardt, most political insiders Ed Hodge, who got into the usual liberal today. The first is what greater tolerance, a humaneness, stances of any kind because it censorship troubles, Eckhardt re- say, has perhaps the keenest per- he calls the "panzer troops of the toward fellow liberals in their was under Silberstein's privy, but calls, over an editorial on Cong. ception of the forces at work in liberal movement, like the old differing roles. With more toler- the only thing they found was a Buchanan entitled, "Leeches Don't Austin legislative politics of any- Spectator and the present Observ- ance and less ill-feeling toward rusty old .44 and a couple of four- one in the House. To Eckhardt, Like Light." He won a national er, setting down a conscience, a one another, we would hasten that bit pieces." When the case closed, this is how the legislature really cartoon prize for one of his draw- directive. development; and we would enjoy McGill got permission from the works: ings of the country-bumpkin this is the most palatable role much more personal satisfaction. judge to end with a prayer. He "Most people who have a strong "To a large extent, I suppose, W.M. Hobbs Boys. The cartoon showed prayed: "0 Lord, in thy infinite these lantern-jawed hillbillies interest in legislation," he says, wisdom embrace this honorable "are principally concerned with showing up at a dance in tie and judge and court and tell them tails down to the navel, naked making things work. In its broad- Juan Lopez' grandfather at the est terms, this becomes mostly a from there on. The caption read: Houston's New Group time of this lease brought 30 matter of passing a tax bill large "We understood this was to he a Mexicans with 30 burros upon this enough to finance an appropria- (Continued from Page 1) year, when opponents of the Na- semi-formal." property and put silver in this tions bill. It's not particularly Meyer Arsht, who is Jewish. Mrs. tional Council of Churches were At UT he became "something hole." They lost the case. ideological; it's mechanical. The Arsht is well known as a con- repudiated. of a student of Shakespeare," and main interest of people, for in- servative who has had an affinity read fairly extensively in Dickens, Then Politics Ingram has long been an active stance, like Daniel and Turman, for the John Birch Society. Burns, and Keats. He also helped After a homefront stint from supporter of movements against is not that the corporations be organize and was a luminary in 1940 to 1944 with the Air Force, the National Council. He was on protected, or the people be pro- the Young Gentlemen's Coffee Eckhardt returned to Austin as the reception committee for Gen. tected, but that the mechanism Colloquiam and Yacht Club, which general consultant for the Good Edwin Walker when Walker of- works, that it gets us through. met daily at the PK Grille in the Neighbor Commission under Coke The leader of the Fish would ficially began his campaign in "With this attitude prevalent, 3 to 4:30 p.m. interim when cof- Stevenson—"probably the first of- never have been known perhaps, Harris County. He has the invo- the lobby sits down to work out fee was served free. ficial organization any place in had not one of their Houston cation in Houston for speeches of its technique. The Citizens for a The Young Gentlemen were not the South which addressed itself leaders come forth to deny– GOP rightists, including John Birch Sales Tax last session utilized uninfluenced by the intellectual to the problem of local minor- statements that his organization founder Robert Welch. He has that impulse to make things conflagrations of the 'thirties. ities—and it did a damned good was a politically ultra-conse•va- also been a radio speaker for the work; they went into great detail. job." tive group. anti-United Nations organization, Jim Turman's change of vote In 1948 he began representing The man who came forward to Christian Americans, Inc., a from being against the sales tax Bean's Taxes the Communication Worker s, deny the criticism was Rev. T. group which formed in the Hous- in the regular session to being (Continued from Page 1) which he still does. He moved to Robert Ingram, pastor of Hous- ton area about a year ago and for it in the special session was which has been circulating anti- The grand jury charged Bean Houston, and after a time in the ton's St. Thomas Episcopal a perfect example of this attitude. with willful failure to file returns office of Dixie and Ryan, began Church. Rev. Ingram said the semetic propaganda. Most members of the House also from 1956 to 1960. The statute of his own private practice in 1954. Fish "is a symbol worn to profess Ingram said a jeweler in De- have that feeling—you ought to limitations prevents criminal From '47 on through part of the individual faith in Jesus Christ troit has been fashioning the fish come out with something to solve prosecutions for the years 1953 to '50's he represented labor as a according to articles of belief." It pins on order. the immediate problem. 1955. lobbyist before the legislature. is being worn in Houston and The pin—about a half inch long "On the other hand, there is a R. L. Phinney, district director In 1958 he was elected to the elsewhere in the nation by a --has on it the Greek letters competing feeling in the House of the Internal Revenue Service, House, was re-elected in 1960, and "number of people" who "decided ICTHUS—an anagram for the to cast a 'good' vote for the people again re-nominated in 1962 with- they wanted to identify others Greek words, "Jesus Christ, Son said the indictment resulted from at home and to hell with the peo- out trouble. He now lives in north who believed as they did in op- of God, Savior." an IRS investigation launched in ple who have the responsibility Harris County with his wife position to any fad or popular When the GOY officials looked September of last year. The in- for solving the immediate situa- Nadine. deviation from the Faith." askance at The Fish, Rev. Mr. dictment claims that Bean's total tion. This is the way the 'no tax' Rev. Ingram did not mention Ingram assured them that the gross income from 1956 to 1960 The Austin Lobby bloc in the House views things. what he opposed specifically, but group held no meetings, had no was $53,296. What was his most durable It's this kind of feeling in the he is a well-known adversary of chapters, or election of officers. If convicted, Bean could be sen- first impression of the legisla- House you won't understand un- his bishop, Rt. Rev. John E. But, he said, the Fish are "vot- tenced to a maximum of one year ture? less you're in it. Hines and his "modernist" ap- ers whose conscience requires that in prison and $10,000 fine on each "How little you really under- "The House doesn't operate proaches to theology. Ingram they make themselves known as of the five counts. stand it from the lutside. I'd been intelligently. The lobby operates Neither. Bean nor his lawyer, pretty close to it for ten years or said The Fish came into being professing Christians who seek Charles Herring of Austin, would Ho, but I didn't have the slightest THE TEXAS OBSERVER after the Episcopal General Con- to preserve the Christian struc- comment on the case. inkling of the intricate human •e- Page 3 June 15, 1962 vention In Detroit, Mich., last ture of American Society." S.F. PETITIONS AND BLACKLISTS eaciud Curtain Complaints about the Boss Counties and outright fraud have served well have usually been about as efficacious as the instruments of power. State- Observer Notebook as campaigns against illicit love, the wide elections, need anyone be re- AUSTIN a cent per vote, not counting, of common cold, and redbugs. After the minded, have been decided in the Boss DR. RUPERT KOENINGER, the latest episode involving the Republ- Country. In the most recent ones, the course, the money spent at the grass- quiet and capable sociologist who was roots by individuals who never report can county chairman in Duval Coun- hand-picked candidates—two conserv- fired after 15 years as department to state headquarters. ty, however, coming as it did on the atives and two liberals—won by mar- chairman at Sam Houston State by heels of another set of typically gro- gins ranging from 12 and 20 to 1. tesque election returns from there, And now, in Duval, they are trying C. S. Ramsey, Southwestern Bell's THE OBSERVER gat another we may legitimately wonder how long to destroy political opposition at its Ed Gossett, and the rest of the state friendly plug this week from our teachers' colleges board of regents erstwhile colleague of the Rambunc- Texans will tolerate a worsening situ- roots. ation which, if anything, should have without even being presented with a tious Right, Human Events, the na- list of charges, held a press conference tional journal published in Washing- withered with feudalism. We join the Houston Press, which The Dukes of Duval are harassing advocates that the state's election in Austin and reiterated his belief ton. Those kind fellows, discussing the Republicans in their domain, just laws should allow for the appointment that his dismissal was inspired by certain interesting aspects of our political reasons. He also urged a set treatment of the Estes case, said in as they have hounded Democratic op- of impartial election commissioners position in the past, out of the very "personally protected by the power of laws to prevent encroachment on the lead paragraph of its lead story: academic freedom. "Down in Texas there is a little week- simple and obvious motive that the of this sovereign state," defended ly published in Austin called the Tex- Republicans have deigned to oppose physically if necessary by the "lawful "The unrestrained use of power is them. Duval, like Starr, continues to presence" of Texas Rangers to insure tyranny," he said, "and was so under- as Observer. Its circulation is 7,064. crush democracy and civic decency free elections. And if that doesn't stood by the men who wrote the Unit- Yet it probably has more political power than some Texas dailies with behind its own imposing Cactus Cur- work, we propose an outright land- ed States Constitution. It is abundant- 20 or 30 times that circulation." By tain. Force, intimidation, purchase, grant to Tamaulipas Province. ly clear that we need to incorporate the existing rules of the board of re- our own count this is the third time gents or similar—or better ones—into that witty, authoritative, benevolent, statutes so that governing bodies can scholarly publication has so praised 5ree Publicity be made, if necessary by mandamus, our modest little enterprise, resulting to follow these just and orderly pro- in 20 new subscriptions and even few- We hope Cong. Henry Gonzalez will mailing "deceitful, dishonest, and cedures." er cancellations. continue to prod Post Office Depart- fraudulent." In an election which was Koeninger quoted the written poli- ment officials for a thorough investi- ultimately decided by few more than cies of the state teachers' colleges as ESTES' newspaper, the Pecos Daily gation, which he called for last week, 25,000 votes out of 1.1 million cast, saying : "A college administrator, News (Obs., June 1), continued to into the mailing of the campaign post- the misleading use of the San Antonio teacher, or employee has not only a publish after its owner was indicted, card in the closing days of the • gov- congressman's name on literature right, but an obligation to exercise but it had its troubles. Staff members, ernor's campaign. Endorsing Connal- circulated so extensively in Latin and as a citizen the rights of citizenship, once paid all too well by provincial ly, the card was in the form of a Negro areas could well have had an including the right to determine for standards, took voluntary cuts in pay. "Dear Neighbor" message, and it was important impact. The U.S. mails himself or herself any political ques- Once recently it came out on green signed "Henry B. Gonzalez." It also were employed in the project. It tion which may be presented." paper, the newsprint having been bore the same photograph, used so should not be an overly difficult mat- Several of the regents, Koeninger obtained at a bargain. This week extensively in the campaign, of Con- ter to trace the deed down. Find the said, had tried to help him. He talked twelve Pecos newsmen bought Estes' nally whispering into Jack Kennedy's printer, for instance, and you find with six of them. but Ramsey—the shares in the publication for $9,250. ear. your culprits, who richly deserve a brother of Uncle Ben—wouldn't even The federal receiver said Billie Sol Gonzalez himself has called the little free publicity. see him. When Koeninger's lawyer, at over a period of several months in- the recent hearings, asked if the board vested $199,415 in the project. had any grievances against his client's "character, integrity, or moral con- WHEN Walter Sterling defeated a A Zit& 5airnedi duct," it was Ramsey who replied: far-right candidate for secretary of The minority Republican counsel accepted at face value, and we see "This board is not here to answer the Harris County Democratic execu- on the Fountain subcommittee prob- little reason why it cannot, the whole questions from you or anybody else." tive committee this week, the Hous- ing into Billie Sol Estes' operations, handling of the Estes case in more Already one historian at Sam Hous- ton papers called it a victory for fired earlier for leaking a report on recent weeks—officially and other- ton State has resigned, saying he "moderates" or "moderate conserva- Estes' cotton allotment transfers to wise—has shown some distressing didn't like the general atmosphere on tives," which merely goes to show Earl Mazo of the Herald-Tribune (and tendencies. We heartily favor a thor- the campus and that he was more in- what the John Birch Society and later admitting, on his own accord, oughgoing airing of the facts; may terested in teaching than in contro- others in the Greater Order of Hook- that he wouldn't do it if he had it to the chips fall where they should. It versy. A petition in Koeninger's be- worm Boobery can do to the political do over again), had some disturbing is quite another matter to continue half is being circulated there. idiom. By any meaningful standard things to say about the testimony of using as something of a scapegoat, as The report on the matter filed by Sterling and his group within the an Agriculture Department official Miller's alleged switch might empha- Rev. Edmund Heinsohn and Corwin party in Houston are conservatives, before the committee last week. size, a politician in a lesser position W. Johnson for the Texas Association period. Most of them haven't support- Robert E. Manuel, the GOP counsel, of outright power who has publicly of College Teachers said that every- ed a national ticket in years ; the charged that the USDA official, Carl detailed his relationship with Estes, one interviewed "spoke in highest Richard Nixon wing of the Republi- Miller, lately demoted, changed his for the sake of protecting others in terms of Dr. Koeninger as a man, as can Party is as far to their left as the tune from an original interview and higher places. Whether friend, foe, a teacher, and as a citizen," that Ram- Nixonites are to the right of various substituted the name of Ralph Yar- or neutral has been involved in ques- sey was responsible for trying to oust homeless Trotskyites. And yet, in jux- borough for that of Lyndon Johnson tionable situations, we hope the com- him, and that the "pressures operat- taposition with the disturbed folks in testimony before the committee on plete truth will emerge. In the mean- ing in the situation seem to stem from in our stealthier action movements, a Estes' alleged use of names in "pres- time, a little fairness and a sense of the John Birch Society in Huntsville Walter Sterling is a "moderate" sim- suring" him, Miller. proportion might reasonably be ex- and from Mr. Ramsey's unhappiness ply because he is within the political Even if Manuel's charge cannot be pected. over some of Dr. Koeninger's political context; in other words, because he activities. These activities, in our is committed to the democratic proc- 'We Consider The Case Closed' opinion, were not only proper but ess. It is all too confusing. Indeed, we were sanctioned by the statement on find it a little damaging. It would be political activity adopted by the board considerably simpler to write the in 1949." Birchers out of the American politi- The National Association of Uni- cal idiom just as the communists have versity Professors has launched a been written out at the other end of comprehensive investigation, which is the spectrum. We long for those halc- expected to lead to blacklisting of Sam yon days when a dollar was a dollar Houston State and possibly all the and a conservative a conservative. state-supported teachers' colleges. In the meantime, academics all over Tex- SOUTHERN BAPTISTS, in conven- as would be well-advised to circulate tion assembled, have gone on record a petition of their own against this affirming their belief that the world flagrant action by appointed ward- was created in seven days and is now heelers who so obviously lack the 7,210 years old, or whatever that out- fortitude to tell why they did it. standing figure, that the whale swal- lowed Jonah and Jonah survived the JOHN CONNALLY'S campaign ex- experience, and that Eve sprang full- penditure reports, it is to be noted, born from her husband's rib cage. broke all Texas records. His spending The motion passed 2-1. Bumptious came to $493,462, plus an indebted- Baptist theologians who claim Genesis ness incurred of $79,017, for a total of is to be taken figuratively rather than $572,479. Since he got 565,000 votes, quite literally are to be firmly dealt he spent something like a dollar and (Continued on Page 5) THE TEXAS OBSERVER

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Published by Texas Observer Co., Ltd. Published once a week from Austin, Entered as second-class matter, April Texas. Delivered postage prepaid $5.10 per 26, 1937, at the Post Office at Austin, annum. Advertising rates available on Texas, under the Act of March 3, 1879. request. Extra copies 15c each. Quantity JUNE 15, 1962 prices available on order. Willie Morris EDITORIAL and BUSINESS OFFICE: Editor and General Manager 504 West 24th St., Austin, Texas. Phone Jay Milner, Associate Editor GReenwood 7-0746. Sarah Payne, Office Manager HOUSTON OFFICE: Mrs. R. D. Ran- Ronnie Dugger, Contributing Editor dolph, 2131 WelCh, Houston 19, Texas. NEW LYRICS? Some Unrhetorical Questions for Connally AUSTIN Johnson in 1964, how would he handle who are collecting it have a right to or would he hold the line on that Since 49 of 100 voters in the Dem- his announced opposition to federal ask of the Democratic nominee, subject? ocratic primary preferred Don Yar- aid to education and medical care for whether he intends to raise the rate How does Lobbyist for All the Peo- borough ; since John Connally, the the aged under social security? Are to three or four cents on the dollar. ple Connally stand on tightening the Democratic nominee, professes now there any details or hedges in his Or will he pledge to resist any in- lobby control bill to exclude non-paid to be determined to unify with Yar- mind about those positions that would crease in the rate? Does he intend lobbyists and include all the expendi- borough, although he does not say reassure nationally oriented Texas to extend it to groceries and medi- tures of professional, paid lobby- what he said to him, it is a fair ques- Democrats? Could statements of sup- cines? Or would he hold the line ists? against its extension? tion, what reassurances of substance port for Kennedy programs be ex- In questions of Democratic Party pected from the Mansion? Or would has Connally to offer the Democrats As governor, would Connally have procedure, will Connolly turn over on who voted for Yarborough? his support of Kennedy be subject to to be expected to make statements a new leaf and proclaim that he will We know that he is pledged to sup- characterization by the Republicans against a full-length national park respect the decisions of delegates at port Kennedy and Johnson for re- as, "I'm for Johnson, even though on Padre Island? He has favored the every convention level? Or should we election in 1964. That is an improve- Kennedy is a radical"? Would he in- speculator's position on this subject. expect more boss-run politics in the ment over 1952 and 1956 for Texas vite Kennedy to Texas in 1962 and Would he be willing to seek a little Democratic Party? Democrats. It is, indeed, a consider- 1963 and turn on the works for him? unity for this November by leaving able thing. Connally has campaigned on a pro- the subject alone? The people who voted for Don Yar- gram of cutting state spending. Texas T HESE are not rhetorical borough are mostly people who will people who are concerned about the questions for the Democratic nom- also want Ralph Yarborough renom- grotesque inadequacy of state wel- W HAT SORT of treatment inee. As he and his kind—Blakley inated in 1964. Would Connally use fare programs have a right to know could higher education expect from and such—are now nervously aware, the powers of the governorship just exactly what programs Connally him? Platitudes will not do. Would some Texas voters have become ram- against Senator Yarborough? What would cut. What, what for, and how he uphold academic tenure, even for bunctious on this question of princi- does he have to say to Texas Demo- much. It is acutely important, in light professors whose views he does not ples in politics. If the man the party crats on this score? Could Senator of his position against medical care like? Would he appoint to boards of nominates does not represent the Yarborough count on John Connally's for the aged under social security, regents men and women with at least party's national principles, they won- friendliness in the Governor's Man- that he state whether he would cut a reasonable amount of liberalism and der what's, going on and they consider sion? old age pensions, leave them alone, or an understanding of the problems of the alternatives. favor a substantial increase in them. colleges and universities and their We listen now for the new lyrics F CONNALLY is to cam- Consumers who are paying the professors and students? Could he be to John Connally's songs to Harmony, paign effectively for Kennedy and atrocious state sales tax and retailers expected to try to raise tuitions again, Unity, and Statesmanship. R.D. THAT MIDDLE FIFTY Observer Perspective on Our Medicine Notebook For an insight into the medicare gations, etc., but none that I know of grievance. In New York it is a) most issue by an English doctor, we excerpt which will cover even in part the cost difficult matter to obtain a house-call (Continued from Page 4) this article by Simon. Freeman from of drugs. during the day, while at night it ap- with by trustees and administrators. the Manchester Guardian. "In this 'middle of the road' 50 per- pears to be virtually impossible. This One outlander expressed amazement cent of the population, those whose state of affairs is not confined to New the other day that such things still "To those who bemoan the fact that plight if in need of medical care is York; the same difficulties exist in happen in an enlightened modern so- the prestige of the medical practition- the most serious are the retired and other cities. The reluctance to pay ciety. The truth of the matter, as we er has deteriorated in Britain since the the aged . . . visits is certainly widespread. The told him, is that Texas could house, National Health Service, a visit to general procedure appears to be that feed, and clothe as many as a couple the United States might prove equiv- "Savings and social security nor- the doctors give advice by telephone of hundred simultaneous Scopes trials alent to a hefty dose of shock therapy. mally give an income which cannot (for which he charges) and then tele- from Texarkana tb El Paso in this What are the facts? be made to cope with anything more phones a prescription to a pharmacy, year 1962 and still manage a few doz- than basic sustenance. Elderly people "It is not true, as widely believed and asks the patient to call at his of- en more in 1963 as well. Dallas could are prone to chronic illness—for in- fice when he feels fit enough to travel. keep ten going by itself. Clarence here, that in the U.S. if you have no stance, nutritional anemia, diabetes, money you can get no medical atten- I could get no satisfactory answer to Darrow would be considered a dan- bronchitis, circulatory disease. These my question about what happens to gerous Red, Charles Darwin a messen- tion. In New York about 40 percent do not require in-patient care as a to 45 percent of the entire population a patient who is seized with coronary ger from Sodom, and any kneejerk rule, but do urgently require medical occlusion while at home. insurance salesman with a piping can be labelled "indigent" and, as surveillance and drugs while still liv- such, are entitled to free medical care voice and a good case against intelli- ing in their own homes. The unfor- gence would be the hero of the hour at any of the 36 public health centers tunate aged who are without a fam- "A T THE SAME time. I scattered over the city. At each center and would likely be promoted soon ily to pay large medical and drug bills gained the impression that in smaller after to a place of prominence in the are doctors, nurses, ancillary services, are in a sorry plight. townships practitioners visit patients and consultants covering every major Texas legislature or on some board of on request as we do here. The sug- regents. specialty. The standard of service is gestion was put to me that most of very high. In addition, there are many our visits here were for trivial and first-rate municipal hospitals through- THE DALLAS NEWS must have quite unnecessary reasons. This was, blushed privately green with envy out the city where free medical care of course, an implied criticism of the is provided for the 'indigent.' when Newsweek Magazine came out behavior of our patients under 'social- with an article entitled "Houston. "At the other extreme in the social ized medicine.' By and large, the sug- Boomingest Town in the U.S.", but pattern, between five percent and ten gestion is false, as I pointed out. The if it did, our Oldest Business Insti- percent of the population have an failure to visit is yet another reason tution in Texas composed itself in income large enough to make it an why their standards must be con- time to produce a lead editorial for "The American Medical Association sidered inferior to our own. easy matter to pay any fees demanded makes no secret of the fact that it its Monday editions which exhibited for doctors, drugs, and hospitaliza- will go any length to maintain the "From my visit and observations, an only faintly condescending pride tion. So, in one way or another, ap- present state of affairs in medical two facts emerged which I found in the accomplishments of Dallas' proximately half of the population practice. I have not heard a single greatly heartening and encouraging. fledgling cousin. "Dallas joins the rest have some sort of medical cover. person say a word in praise of it. In First, I pay tribute to the work and of Texas in pleasure," the editorial a determined effort to raise the status sense of vocation of all doctors con- said, "at this tribute to the port city, but calls attention to the fact that OR THE other half, the of the general practitioner, the com- nected with the public health services. paratively new American Academy They are fighting valiantly to im- Texas has two 'boomingest towns.' problem of medical care can prove to The other, of course, is Dallas." Vari- be a nightmare. This class\ includes of General Practice (which is a simi- prove preventive and social medicine lar organization to our own College and to afford treatment of the high- ous downtown building projects were skilled workers, white-collar em- duly listed. "The Dallas boom is more ployees, teachers, small shopkeepers, of General Practitioners) is fighting est standard to those whose income a formidable battle and achieving a will not allow the normal cost of doc- than downtown buildings, however," etc. How can they deal with illness in he statement continued. "It is reflect- their household? As a general rule fair amount of success. If it can resist tors or drugs. Secondly, I cannot the temptation to enter the arena of speak too highly of the Health Insur- ed in many indices of growth and doctors' fees are very high indeed prosperity. Even the fact that The (even when we take into account the medical politics, and confine itself to ance Plan of the Montefiore Hospital its avowed principles of raising the of the Bronx, New York, and its arch- Dallas News has Texas' largest news- higher rates of pay in America) and paper circulation is part of this pic- the cost of drugs can be almost pro- status of the practitioner by more itect, Dr. George Silver. postgraduate study and more under- ture of leadership." And closing on hibitive. The middle-class citizen takes "This voluntary, contributory in- out all manner of insurance against graduate teaching of the finer points the expected lyrical note: "Dallas' and ethics of good general practice, surance scheme is the most compre- illness. This is a costly business, and hensive one of its kind over there, and civic and business leadership will it might well put American doctors cover is far from complete. The larg- offers each subscriber a choice of find thought-provoking reading in back to the status of respect and af- est health insurance concern in Ameri- family doctor, who can be visited by fection which our great profession Newsweek's tribute to our sister city ca is the Blue Cross. This provides should have. appointment at the clinic, where all at the other end of the Trinity." (The limited cover only, and then for a re- types of investigations are carried river, we assume.) "It will serve to in- siricted period, for the cost of a hos- "Another apparent weakness in the out free of charge; in addition, visits pital bed and the services of a special- structure of American practice is the to the home of the patient will be spire Dallas to do more, to recognize ist while an in-patient but does not marked reluctance of practitioners to made by his own doctor if required. more fully its present achievements

. cover the cost of drugs at any stage visit patients at their homes. At first It is unfortunate that the cost of and to plan with greater vision for of the illness nor of medical care or in- I thought that this might be due to drugs is not included in the service. the future—for that `challenge of vestigations carried on other than as a reluctance on the part of the patient At the same time, the scheme is the greatness' which must be met not by an in-patient. to pay the high scale of charges, but nearest approach to our own service, Dallas alone, Houston alone, or by "Other insurances can he taken out, this does not appear to be the case, and possibly is a pointer to the direc- at high cost, which will give limited since patients in all ranges of finan- tion which will be followed in that any other city, but by all of Texas, cover only for doctors' bills, investi- cial status put this to me as a definite country in the future." working together." every voice. critic—however wrong-headed he May be This is what our college newspapers Same Reflections The operators have started an organi- —should be permitted to express his can do, have done, and should be encour- zation to "tell the other side." They are opinions. aged to continue doing. From The Fields even bringing in some public relations But aren't patience and forbearance in men to work with them. They talk about the face of student error and abuse es- EAST TEXAS the "police state" methods of the Com- sential qualities of educators? Surely A Folk Singer No one here really knows what's going mission, and they may have legitimate they are if the teacher or administrator to happen in these oil field scandals complaint about the way the Commission accepts as one of the basic tenets of a (Obs., June 8), but everyone has an Finally Cleared has been getting evidence off their leases. liberal education that the developing opinion. Folk singer Pete Seeger, who can play After all, this is still private property. mind must be encouraged to test and Almost everybody in the area knew R.P. stretch itself, to put its convictions and Bach on his banjo, has been cleared of that an investigation was going on long contempt of Congress charges which its critical judgments into words—even before the Kilgore News Herald saw fit when they may be wrong. have pestered his career for the past seven years. to report this secondary piece of news. College Press Unfortunately, other considerations The Longview Morning Journal is be- Seeger is the son of distinguished par- come ahead of education in the minds of the story more play all ents who have taught music at Ivy ginning to give some college administrators today. They Encouraged League universities. He refused back in the time. The Tyler Morning Telegraph have come to regard students almost as a The issue of a free college press is a 1955 to tell the House Un-American Ac- has had some fairly good coverage. nuisance, who get in the way of the per- significant one in Texas, particularly at tivities Committee whether he was, or HE COUNTRYSIDE is full of Rangers, fectly functioning administrative ma- the University, where the great and free ever had been, a Communist Party mem- T Railroad Commission investigators, chine. They are not so much concerned tradition of the Daily Texan has been dis- ber. The HUAC, at that time, was look- and rumors—mostly rumors. You can that students shall have an opportunity mantled piece by piece for years. We re- ing into reports that Reds had infil- drive into the filling station and the to whet their critical faculties as that print this article from the Neiman Re- trated the entertainment industry. In Negro boy wiping your windshield will students shall not rock the boat at all. ports by John M. Harrison, former Nei- 1961, after an appeal hearing which had tell you how one independent operator One can almost sympathize with the man fellow and journalism teacher at been delayed for six years, Seeger was tried to hang himself; elsewhere you plaintive declaration of one such admin- Penn State: sentenced to serve a year in prison. His hear the same operator tried to do the istrator, sorely tried by what an out- A lot of hogwash has been written subsequent appeal of that verdict pre- trick with sleeping pills; in. the coffee spoken student editor had written: about the college press—its place in the vented him from every spending any time shop the men are laughing over all the "Habitually I am called upon to explain education scheme of things, how much in jail. Last week, a federal appeals talk about suicide. One fellow is already why the University's attitude is thus-and- freedom its editors should enjoy, the court reviewed the case and threw out in a mental hospital in Galteston. They so, when, as a matter of fact, it is the reasons why it shonld be free at all. the contempt charge. say he couldn't stand the taught of be- [student newspaper's] attitude and not To invoke the provisions of the First Appellate Judge Irving R. Kaufman, in ing without money after having it all the University's which I am called upon Amendment on behalf of college editors his ruling, wrote: "We are not inclined these years. to explain. I see no reason why I or any- is to miss the point. A newspaper oper- to dismiss lightly claims of constitu- The thing about all this trouble is that one should be put to the trouble which ates on campus at the behest of adminis- tional stature because they are asserted it will never bear a single name like this involves. Indeed I see no reason why trative officials, just as do social clubs by one who may appear unworthy of "Billie Sol Estes." It takes in more prom- educational funds . . . should be expended and political groups. Its rights and privi- sympathy. Once we embark upon short- inent and wealthy people than you can to subsidize a project which adds to our leges are defined and limited by presi- cuts by creating a category of the 'ob imagine. It is fantastic what all this hot difficulties and troubles." dents, boards of regents, trustees and viously guilty' whose rights are denied, oil money has done for them these last Poor fellow! His is indeed a thankless overseers—whoever makes and adminis- we run the risk that the circle will of the several years. For a good many of them job. He must watch out for his univer- ters educational policy. unprotected will grow." it has meant some tremendously ex- sity's relations with a board of regents, a This is true whether the newspaper is ARVARD-EDUCATED Seeger is the pensive homes and garages full of- cars legislature, an alumni association, and a in some degree an adjunct of the uni- H idol of East Coast folk music fans of and prestige in the community and the whole state's population—none of which versity, or operates outside the official all ages. When he plays Carnegie Hall it church. is likely to set much store by the ideas family. The most outspoken and un- is filled to overflowing, mostly by young A thief seldom brags about his mis- "those crazy college kids" are prone to trammeled campus newspapers today people who exhibit enthusiasm not un- deeds, but many of these East Texas peo- propound. But in his concern with all have little or no official status. The Har- like that shown by rock and roll fans ple seem to be a brazen lot. They bragged these, he has lost sight of his first respon- vard Crimson and the Michigan Daily for Elvis Presley. At each hearing, in- openly about what was going on. One sibility, which is the education of the are prime examples. Tradition confers cluding the one before the HUAC in operator became so indifferent that he young. And the young are a troublesome, on them an independence that is rela- 1955, Seeger has—With a wide-eyed can- talked openly of taking oil right out of feisty lot. They will explore the frontiers tively rare. dor—offered to sing all songs that, be- the pipeline. He enjoyed talking about of knowledge, and sometimes venture far Yet nothing prevents President Pusey cause of the wording of the HUAC how large his monthly income was. An- beyond, instead of being content to be from closing up the Crimson shop to- charge, seemed to be considered unpatri- other operator, East Texas people knew indoctrinated with the safe and tried. morrow. He could do it by and of several otic by Cong. Walter and his group. some time ago, was taking oil right out They will express new and revolutionary acts within his rights as Harvard's presi- "I'll sing for anyone who asks me," from under a cemetery, as if the caskets notions. They will be critical and alto- dent. An unholy howl might go up from Seeger kept insisting, "even if I disagree themselves contained a barrel or two gether disrespectful of their older and so many quarters. But no constitutional pro- with their politics." apiece. Such goings-on simply could not vision could help the boys on Plympton much wiser mentors. But Cong. Walter refused to listen to be disregarded by the Railroad Commis- Street one bit should he decide to take HE GENUINELY wise educator knows the songs cited in the HUAC charge, sion and the big companies. such action. T this, of course. Not only does he ex- many of which have since become juke It just got to be a way of life with some That he does not do so is rather a mark pect that young people will be critical; box favorites in versions by more com- of these fellows. Most of them probably of President Pusey's intelligence and of he encourages them to speak their minds. mercial folk-singing groups. One of the gave very little thought to what they his appreciation of the purposes student- He recognizes that this is an essential songs is, "Good Night Irene." Another is, were doing. Some people are in it who edited and written newspapers serve in aspect of the educational process. That "The Hammer Song."—"...I'll hammer were producing legitimately, and now a complex university than of his acknowl- is why he leaves them free to give tongue out love for my brothers and my sis- they too may go down the drain. There edgment that Crimson editors possess to heresy, and why he recognizes that a ters ..." would probably be a lot more people in any constitutional right to say whatever free and yeasty student newspaper is FEW DAYS before the 1961 appeal on it if the operators who did manage comes to mind. College newspapers like important. A hearing in New York, Seeger—exhib- hadn't been so greedy that they closed the Crimson, like the Michigan Daily, the One hopes that students who undertake iting his notorious naivity, which may the doors on the others. Cornell Daily Sun, and the Penn State to edit and publish a newspaper will as- have prompted the "unworthy" remarks Now those that were left out seem Collegian exist precisely because the tra- sume, a measure of responsibility com- by Judge Kaufman—invited a dozen or so pleased about the turn of events. A lot of dition of an independent student daily mensurate with the freedom granted newsmen to a "singing press conference" people are taking pleasure in the pros- exists on these campuses. They are sus- them. And, with an occasional exception, at a New York hotel. We were invited. pect that the people with money are in tained by administrative respect for these college editors want nothing so much as Most of the people there were staff mem- hot water. One suspects it is not so much traditions and the educational values to be regarded as reliable and responsible. bers of student newspapers at Yale, respect for the law and a desire to see they represent. Freedom provides a stimulus to respon- Sarah Lawrance, and other posh aca- justice done as it is to see the mighty HE REASONS why the college press sibility. For once a student knows he demic institutions in the area. Seeger toppled. Others are remaining loyal to T should be free have nothing to do will get either credit or blame for the entered the room somewhat crestfallen the operators because they realize how with students' rights. They are at the job he does as editor, he begins to be and informed the gathering that his at- much money is going out of circulation. very heart of the educational process in concerned about his own reputation. He torney had informed him, after he sent There is even an underground move- in a free society. These will suggest seeks advice before he acts, where other- out the invitations, that he could not, ment to turn in all Humble credit cards themselves immediately to the educator wise he would wait for a higher author- legally, discuss the case prior to the hear- —a strange quirk of moral indignation who is genuinely concerned that today's ity to correct his errors. He begint to ing. "But I can sing the songs Walter that the victim in this business should be college student develop a free and wide- learn the essential lesSon that freedom cast suspicion on," he said, brightening a scorned because he complains. Of course, ranging faculty for criticism. It is this never really is earned until the individual bit, apparently realizing this was some- one wonders just how clean are the hands faculty which is the mainspring of a proves that he can exercise it responsibly. thing he had heretofore been unable to of the big companies. It would seem, also, free society. Its withering away has been In this way, the college press stimulates do at a gathering in connection with the that the Railroad Commission is going to widely deplored by critics of today's edu- not just the critical faculty in the stu- contempt charge. He sang four folk songs have some questions to answer. How did cational system and the graduates it pro- dent, but also helps develop that more Walter, in 1955, had implied were capable they get the wool pulled over their eyes duces. sophisticated faculty—the responsible ex- of, or maybe even designed to, incite for 20 years? Outlets for the expression of opinion by ercise of freedom—which can be culti- anti-American emotions in the savage Many of the operators may go broke students are always needed. The need is vated in no other way. The notion that breasts of the folks in the picket lines or no matter how the case turns out, with especially great today when mounting responsibility can be injected intraven- at meetings. (Some of the organizations handsome legal fees and loss of produc- enrollments tend to isolate the student, ously and that, enough of it having been concerned are known Red-front groups, tion from deliberately junked wells or to make him feel he is more a cog in a administered, freedom can subsequently now, since much of the singing in ques- wells plugged by the Commission. machine than part of a continuing edu- be substituted in the syringe, is itself tion was done back in the '40's.) In each NE OPERATOR went out on his lease cational process. Student newspapers irresponsible and destructive. It is a fa- case cited there were less than half a O at midnight and plugged his wells in provide forums in which all kinds of vorite refuge of authoritarians. dozen—Seeger's appearance at the scene violation of a Commission order. This is problems are discussed, and not just by Thus, the case for freedom of the col- of whatever happened to be taking place what brought the Rangers in, to prevent the relative few who serve as editors. lege press, which is strong and persua- was duly reported in the local press, tampering with the wells and to protect UT SUCH a forum functions properly sive, too often is put in its weakest terms. making it very easy for the Walter Com- the Commission investigators. The Rang- B only in an atmosphere where the It has nothing to do with the protections mittee investigators to "dig up" informa- ers are prowling the field night and day free expression of ideas—including ideas the Constitution affords the press. What tion to present at the HUAC 1955 hear- on 12-hour shifts. On one of the leases that are critical of the status quo, un- is at stake is protecting these very con- ings. Seeger helped them, also, by ami- the other day a Ranger from Sonora sat popular ideas---is encouraged. Of course stitutional freedoms, which are based on ably consenting to interviews wherever 'in his car guarding the area. He was it requires forbearance to grant freedom a society whose members are free to he appeared. unspeakably bored, but the hammer was of expression to students hardly dry be- examine and criticize all institutions. Whether or not his songs, or was it his pulled back on the big .45 next to him on hind the ears, who may use this privilege These freedoms will survive only so long manner of singing them, stirred un- the front, seat. He talked of getting home to question the motives and abilities of as we make it a stated policy of our edu- American emotions in the dark, frustrat- by Christmas. The whole field lies under distinguished scholars and educators. Of cational system to stimulate the critical od souls of his pre-World War II and im- a. th rea t. Of unknown ppen n gm. You course it may demand patience beyond faculty, not suppress it because it some- mediate-post War audiences, their mere hen r apprehension and uncerta in ty in the ordinary to concede that the student times may cause embarrassment. (Continued on Page 7) (Continued from Page 6) commented that, since many of the Lo- Seeger grinned and nodded and carried total abstinence and no gambling at all. mention obviously rubbed Walter's tender max collection came from the mouths of on, accompanied by his infectuous banjo. More than half the members said gambl- patriotism sorely raw. When Seeger asked convicts, ex-convicts, and former slaves, Throughout the song, not one un-Ameri- ing is not "a matter of morality;" 85 for permission to sing them at the 1955 it was small wonder that HUAC fans had can growl was heard in the small room. percent of the men and 74 percent of the HUAC hearings, Walter roared that he low toleration for the message they of- J.M. women said they drink. This raises many was "not at all interested" in hearing a fered. interesting questions. We look forward to single note. HEN DISCUSSION of songs Walter studying results of morality polls in the So, six years later in a Manhattan W could not abide was finished, a gray- And Good News Baptist churches of Texas, which are hotel room, Seeger finally sang those templed New York Times reporter stood traditionally democratic. songs for public record in what may have in his Brooks Brothers suit and said that • been the only singing press conference he was not a folk music fan, but not Church Polls THE EDITORS of •the Austin American- in the history of journalism, with less many weeks before he had, in all inno- The June issue of Texas Game and ' Statesman have decided that, as a than a dozen newsmen and Ivy League cence so help him, purchased for his Fish is devoted to stories and pictures matter of principle, there will be some students there to listen. young daughter an album of songs for of places to camp in Texas—the coast, "Good News" on the front page every We noted that all but one of the songs children which Mr. Seeger had recorded. Palo Duro Canyon, Lake Texoma, the morning. This puts quite a strain on the Seeger said the HUAC has put on its list One of the songs in particular, he said, national forests, the Trans-Pecos, Possum supply and timing of good news in this were preserved for posterity by Texan had caught his tone-deaf fancy. Would Kingdom, the brush country, the Piney fair city. Headlines on the "Good News" Alan Lomax and his famous folklorist Mr. Seeger sing, the Times man asked, Woods—along with stories on "Fire" by feature give an idea of the strain: "Job- father, the late John Lomax, back when the song entitled: "The Itsy Bitsy Spider Frank Dobie, how to camp and cook out, less Rate Lowest Here," "Pretty Teen- they were touring the backroads of the Crawled Up the Water Spout"? and the State Parks, with a composite agers Overflowing City" (a Rainbow South and Southwest making tape record- Seeger said, indeed, he'd be happy to chart showing rights and facilities at all Girls' state convention), "Austin Growing ings for the Library of Congress. Seeger sing it if the Times man would sing the the parks. This is a pleasing and service- as 'Home Office' " (the Texas Funeral said, yes, a large percentage of all songs first few lines. "I recorded that album able issue of the state-sponsored outdoor Directors and Embalmers Association sung by all folk singers came from that way back before I was investigated," the magazine. has opened its state office here), "Build- extensive Lomax collection, still housed singer said, "and I've about forgotten ing Permits Show Giant Gain," "Credit in the Library of Congress despite Wal- how that one goes." HE ASBURY Methodist Church of Executives are Moving Here," another ter's apparent detection of heretofore The distinguished Times reporter sang T Prairie Village, Kansas, has polled trade association story, and "Moving to undetected hidden meanings. Someone a few lines of "Itsy Bitsy Spider," and its members on the church's position for Austin Planned by Many," who have written letters to the Chamber of Corn- ants; Thomas D. Moorman, indiv- for a relatively short period of Austin for itself and on behalf Clerk of the District Courts of LEGALS idually, and as administrator of time, but the defendant then of the Austin Independent School Travis County, Texas. merce. One morning the paper greeted the Estate of Helen Mar Hunni- commenced a studied and de- District as Plaintiff, against the Issued and given under my hand NOTICE cutt, deceased; George Moorman; liberate course of conduct toward above named persons, and the and the seal of said Court at office as good news a story that tipping customs THE STATE OF TEXAS plaintiff, without any just cause State of Texas and the County of in the City of Austin, this the 31st TO: J. R. HUnnicutt and Mrs. Edwin Moorman; Frank W. Moor- man; Harold N. Moorman; Cath- or provocation on the part of Travis as Defendants, by petition day of May, 1962. are changing, and people in Austin don't J. R. Hunnicutt, and the Un- erine Moorman Wineland, joined plaintiff, which constituted both filed on the 3rd day of May, 1962, 0. T. MARTIN, JR. known Heirs of H. P. Hunnicutt, by her husband, C. Wineland; mental and physical cruelty to- in a certain suit styled City of Clerk of the District Courts, tip as much as they used to. The paper deceased, and the Unknown Heirs Vernon Moorman; Wynant Moor- ward plaintiff. On or about Austin vs. Por' DeVaughn, et al Travis County, Texas. of Thos. B. Clark, deceased, and man; Alma Mae Moorman Davis, August 10, 1961, defendant left the for the collection of the taxes on By: JOHN DICKSON, Deputy. hailed the old Southern custom of stingy all persons entitled to claim by joined by her husband, R. K. home of plaintiff and defendant, said property and that suit is now or through H. P. Hunnicutt, de- Davis; Fred Moorman; John D. without any just cause or excuse, pending in the District Court of THE STATE OF TEXAS tipping so as not to "spoil the help." ceased, and by and through Thos. Cofer and G. Hume Cofer, com- and since such time plaintiff and Travis County, 53rd Judicial Dis- COUNTY OF TRAVIS B. Clark, deceased. Defendants posing the law firm of Cofer & defendant have not lived together trict, and the file number of said In the name and by the author- Austin people who don't like big cities in the hereinafter styled and Cofer; and R. C. Wilson are the or cohabited as husband and suit is 126,369, that the names of ity of the State of Texas, notice numbered cause: cross plaintiffs; Austin National wife. all taxing units which assess and is hereby given as follows: You and each of you are hereby and embalmers and get, rather than Bank, individually and in its Because of such cruel treat- collect taxes on the property here- TO: William W. W. Johnson, given notice that on or after the representative capacity, and all inabove described not made par- and the unknown owner or give, tips already regard this feature as fourteenth day after first publica- ment, outrages, and excesses on the other defendants in this cause the part of defendant toward ties to this suit, are, NONE. owners of the property hereinafter tion of this notice a commission other than the Moorman defend- described or any interest therein; one of the most controversial subjects in will issue to take the written plaintiff, their further living to- Plaintiff and all other taxing the heirs and legal representatives ants and their attorneys, J. R. gether as husband and wife is in- units who may set up their tax deposition of E. Wayne Thode, Hunnicutt, Mrs. J. R. Hunnicutt, and the unknown heirs and legal the city, but the American has a resi- whose residence is 5104 Fairview supportable. claims seek recovery of delin- representatives of each of the and J. R. Hunnicutt, Jr., the lega- Three children have been born quent ad valorem taxes on the Drive, Austin, Travis County, tees and devisees under the will above named and mentioned per- liency, an adaptability, nor is it given to Texas, the interrogatories having of and during the marriage of property hereinabove described, sons who may be deceased; and of Thomas B. Clark, deceased; plaintiff and defendant and plain- and in addition to the taxes all been filed on the 22nd day of and the unknown heirs of H. P. the corporate officers, trustees, re- the foolish consistency that is the hob- January, 1962, in the 98th District tiff asks that the custody and interest, penalties, and costs al- ceivers and stockholders of any Hunnicutt, deceased, and the Un- control of said children be award- lowed by law thereon up to and Court of Travis County, Texas, in known Heirs of Thos. B. Clark, of the above named or mentioned goblin of little newspapers. For instance, Cause No. 99,740, in which, ed exclusively to plaintiff. Plain- including the day of judgment parties which may be corpora- deceased are cross-defendants; tiff further requests that defend- herein, and the establishment and The AUSTIN NATIONAL WITNESS, 0. T. MARTIN, JR., tions, defunct or otherwise, to- just as its good news is sometimes bad ant pay suitable monies toward foreclosure of liens, if any, secur- gether with the successors, heirs BANK, Independent Executor of Clerk of the District Courts of ing the payment of same, as pro- the will of HICKLIN P. HUNNI- the support and maintenance of and assigns of such corporate of- news, so also its bad news is sometimes Travis County, Texas. the minor children. vided by law. CUTT, Deceased is Plaintiff: Issued and given under my hand ficers, trustees, receivers, and Thomas D. Moorman, of Travis and the seal of said Court at of- During this union there was a All parties to this suit, including stockholders, and any and all per- good news. Before the recent election a fice in the City. of Austin, this 6th relatively small amount of com- Plaintiffs, Defendants, and Inter- sons, including adverse claimants, County, Texas, individually and owning or having or claiming any front-page editorial traced "the liberal as administrator of the estate of day of June, 1962. munity property acquired which venors, shall take notice that Helen Mar Hunnicutt, deceased; 0. T. MARTIN, JR. plaintiff asks be awarded by,,the claims not only for any taxes legal or equitable interest in or ticket," Don Yarborough, James Turman, R. C. Wilson, of Travis County, Clerk of the District Courts, court to the plaintiff for the use which were delinquent on said lien upon the following described Texas; John D. Cofer and G. Travis County, Texas. and benefit of plaintiff and the property at the time of this suit property delinquent to Plaintiff Tom Reavley, and Woodrow Bean, back Hume Cofer, each of Travis Coun- three minor children of plaintiff was filed but all taxes becoming herein, for taxes, to-wit: All that and defendant. certain lot, tract, or parcel of ty, Texas, individually and as CITATION BY PUBLICATION delinquent thereon at any time All of which more fully appears thereafter up to the day of judg- land lying and being situated in to its true sources, BenJack Cage and members of the law firm of Cofer THE STATE OF TEXAS and Cofer; J. R. Hunnicutt, of from Plaintiff's First Amended ment, including all interest, pen- Travis County, Texas, and more TO Geraldine M. Rippy, Defend- Original Petition of file in this alties, and costs allowed by law particularly described as follows: Billy Sol Estes; but subsequent to the Austin, Travis County, Texas; Lot Twenty-seven (27) in Isher- The Austin Presbyterian Theo- ant, in the hereinafter styled and office, and which reference is thereon, may, upon request there- election, in a little editorial that fairly logical Seminary, a religious and numbered cause: here made for all intents and for, be recovered herein without wood Heights, a subdivision out educational corporation duly in- You (and each of you) are purposes. further citation or notice to any of outlots Forty-seven (47) and leaped from the editorial page, the paper hereby commanded to appear parties herein, and all said par- Forty-eight (48), Division "B" of corporated and existing under and If this citation is not served the outlots in the Government by virtue of the laws of the State before the 53rd District Court of within 90 days after date of its ties shall take notice of and plead rejoiced that Tom Reavley had done so Travis County, Texas, to be held and answer to all claims and Trace adjoining the City of Aus- of Texas, with its principal offices issuance, it shall be returned un- tin, Travis County, Texas, accord- in Travis County, Texas: The at the courthouse of said county served. pleadings now on file and which well (he carried Austin 3-1) and said he Board of Annuities and Relief of in the City of Austin, Travis may hereafter be filed in said ing to the map or plat of said sub- WITNESS, 0. T. MARTIN, JR., cause by all other parties herein, division recorded in Volume 1, the Presbyterian Church in the County, Texas, at or before' 10 Clerk of the District Courts of Page 80 of the Plat Records of should run again. We Austin people sub- United States, a religious corpora- o'clock A.M. of the first Monday and all of those taxing units above Travis County, Texas. named who may intervene herein Travis County, Texas. tion duly incorporated and exist- after the expiration of 42 days Which said property is delin- mit to our daily's apparently quixotic ing under and by virtue of the from the date of issuance hereof; Issued and given under my hand and set up their respective tax and the seal of said Court at office claims against said property. quent to Plaintiff for taxes in the laws of the State of Georgia, with that is to say, at or before, 10 following amounts: $78.25, exclu- arbitration of good and bad in our lives, its principal office at Atlanta, o'clock A.M. of Monday the 23rd in the City of Austin, this the 5th day of June, 1962. You are hereby commanded to sive of interest, penalties and Georgia; The Scottish Rite Edu- day of July, 1962, and answer the appear and defend such suit on for ours is not to question why, ours is 0. T. MARTIN, JR. costs, and there is included in this cational Association of Texas, a petition of plaintiff in Cause the first Monday after the ex- suit in addition to the taxes all charitable corporation duly in- Number 126,739, in which Horace Clerk of the District Courts, piration of Forty-two (42) days but to read and sigh; although some say Travis County, Texas said interest, penalties and costs corporated and existing under and G. Rippy is Plaintiff and Geral from and after the date of issu- thereon, allowed by law up to and we do this not from good sportsmanship by virtue of the laws of the State dine M. Rippy is defendant, filed By: JOHN DICKSON, Deputy ance hereof, the same being the including the day of judgment of Texas, with its principal office in said Court on the 1st day of 16th day of July A.D., 1962 (which herein. but because we don't have any alterna- in Travis County, Texas; Ersell June, 1962, and the nature of NO. 23,674 is the return day of such citation), You are hereby notified that C. Duke, Francis J. Amsler, and which said suit is as follows: before the Honorable District suit has been brought by the City Claude D. Wilson, the Board of Being an action and prayer for In the matter of the Estate of tive. Sam A. Callaway, deceased Court, 53rd Judicial District of of Austin for itself and on be- Trustees of the First Southern judgement in favor of plaintiff Travis County, Texas, to be held half of the Austin Independent and against defendant, for decree In the County Court of Travis Presbyterian Church, an unin- County, Texas Probate Division at the courthouse thereof, then School District as Plaintiff, corporated religious association, of divorce dissolving the bonds of and there to show cause why judg- against the above named persons, circulation pitches, though located in Travis County, Texas; matrimony heretofore and now NOTICE TO CREDITORS ment shall not be rendered for and the State of Texas and the The Shriners Hospital for Crip- existing between said parties: Notice is hereby given that such taxes, penalties, interests County of Travis as Defendants, M they arrive three or four a mail, do pled Children, a charitable cor- Plaintiff alleges that about one Letters Testamentary upon the and costs, and condemning said by petition filed on the 3rd day poration, duly incorporated and year prior to seperation, the de- estate of Sam A. Callaway, de- property and ordering foreclosure of May, 1962, in a certain suit not often contain interesting information, existing under and by virtue of fendant commenced a course of ceased, were granted to me, the of the constitutional and statu- styled City of Austin vs. William the laws of the State of Colorado, unkind, harsh and tyrannical con- undersigned, on the 6th day of tory tax liens thereon for taxes W. W. Johnson, et al for collec- but the current pitch from CORE, the with its principal office at Chica- duct toward plaintiff, which con- June, 1962, by the County Court due the Plaintiff and the taxing tion of the taxes on said property go, Illinois; The Texas Scottish tinued with slight intermissions of Travis County, Texas. All per- units parties hereto, and those and that suit is now pending in Congress of Racial Equality, gives an ac- Rite Hospital for Crippled Chil- until the time plaintiff and de- sons having claims against this who may intervene herein, to- the District Court of Travis Coun- dren, a charitable corporation fendant seperated. That on divers estate are hereby required to pre- gether with all interest, penalties ty, 53rd Judicial District, and the count on what is happening in neighbor- duly incorporated and existing occasions while plaintiff and de- sent the same to me within the and costs allowed by law up to file number of said suit is 126,368, under and by virtue of the laws of fendant lived together defendant time prescribed by law. My post and including the day of judg- that the names of all taxing units ing Louisiana that is of some interest to the State of Texas, with its prin- was guilty of excesses, cruel treat- office address is 1607 Alameda, ment herein, and all costs of this which assess and collect taxes on cipal offices in Dallas County, ment and outrages toward plain- Austin, Texas. suit. the property hereinabove de- Texans, especially East Texans who may Texas; The Grand Lodge of Texas tiff of such a nature as to render Jonnie U. Callaway Issued and given under my hand scribed not made parties to this (Ancient Free and Accepted their further living together in- suit are, NONE. be looking for a way to stop the sit-ins: Masons), a fraternal corporation supportable. Independent Executrix of and seal of said court in the City duly incorporated and existing by That during the marriage of the Estate of Sam A. of Austin, Travis County, Texas, Plaintiff and all other taxing "In Louisiana, last December 15th, the under and by virtue of the laws plaintiff and defendant there was Callaway this 1st day of June A.D., 1962. units who may set up their tax of the State of Texas, with its no child born, and plaintiff and 0. T. MARTIN, JR. claims seek recovery of delinquent Baton Rouge police were out for Ronnie principal office in McLennan defendant did not adopt a child Clerk of the District Court ad valorem taxes on the property THE STATE OF TEXAS hereinabove described, and in ad- County, Texas; The Grand Royal during said marriage. COUNTY OF TRAVIS Travis County, Texas. Moore. They waited with guns, tear gas, Arch Chapter of Texas, a fratern- That during the marriage of dition to the taxes all interest, In the name and by the author- penalties, and costs allowed by al corporation duly incorporated plaintiff and defendant they ac- CITATION BY PUBLICATION police dogs. For a murderer? A bank and existing under and by virtue quired out of community funds ity of the State of Texas, Notice law thereon up to and including of the laws of the State of Texas, one (1) 1956 Buick automohile, is hereby given as follows: THE STATE OF TEXAS the day of judgment herein, and robber? A madman? Worse, according to with its principal office in Mc- and plaintiff asks the Court to the establishment and foreclosure TO: Porter DeVaughn, Helen TO Vincenta Luna De Cole, De- of liens, if any, securing the pay- City officials—a 21-year-old Negro college Lennan County, Texas; The Grand award to him the 1956 Buick DeVaughn, Charles DeVaughn, fendant, in the hereinafter styled Chapter of Texas, Order of the automobile as his separate prop- ment of same, as provided by law. Porter DeVaughn, Jr., Hadley De- and numbered cause: All parties to this suit, including Eastern Star, a charitable cor- erty. Vaughn, Helen DeVaughn, Rachel student wanted to buy a cup of coffee poration duly incorporated and All of which more fully appears You (and each of you) are here- Plaintiffs, Defendants, and Inter- DeVaughn Knox, and Laura De- venors, shall take notice that existing under and by virtue. of from plaintiff's Original Petition Vaughn, and the unknown owner by commanded to appear before in an all-white lunch counter. For this, the laws of the State of Texas, on file in this office, and which the 53rd District Court of Travis claims not only for any taxes or owners of the property herein- which were delinquent on said with its principal office in Tar- reference is here made for all after described or any interest County, Texas, to be held at the he was set upon by dogs, bombarded by rant County; The Capitol Area intents and purposes. courthouse of said county in the property at the time of this suit therein; the heirs and legal repre- was filed but all taxes becoming Council, Boy Scouts of America, If this citation is not served sentatives and the unknown heirs City of Austin, Travis Count", gas grenades, jailed for 87 days and re- a charitable corporation duly in- within 90 days after date of its Texas, at or before 10 o'clock delinquent thereon at any time and legal representatives of each thereafter up to the day of judg- quired to post $12,500 bail! . . . He faces corporated and existing under and issuance, it shall be returned un- of the above named and men- A.M. of the first Monday after the served. WITNESS, 0. T. MAR- expiration of 42 days from the ment, including all interest, pen- by virtue of the laws of the State tioned persons who may be de- alties, and costs allowed by law ten years at hard labor. The charge? of Texas, with its principal office TIN, JR., Clerk of the District ceased; and the corporate offi- date of issuance hereof; that is to in Travis County, Texas; The Tex- Courts of Travis County, Texas. say, at or before, 10 o'colck A.M. thereon, may, upon request there- cers, trustees, receivers and for, be recovered herein without Criminal Anarchy! Perhaps the District as Colorado Lakes Council of the Issued and given under my stockholders of any of the above of Monday the 16th day of July, hand and the seal of said Court at 1962, and answer the petition of further citation or notice to any Girl Scouts of America, a charit- named or mentioned parties parties herein, and all said par- Attorney realized that public opinion able corporation duly incorporated office in the City of Austin, this which may be corporations, de- plaintiff in Cause Number 126,522, the 4th day of June, 1962. in which Lewis Cole is Plaintiff ties shall take notice of and plead and existing under and by virtue funct or otherwise, together and answer to all claims and could reach even to Baton Rouge. I say, of the laws of the State of Texas, 0. T. MARTIN, JR. with the successors, heirs and and Vicenta Luna De Cole, is De- with its principal office in Travis Clerk of the District Courts, fendant, filed in said Court on pleadings now on file and which assigns of such corporate of- the 16th day of May, 1962, and the may hereafter be filed in said 'perhaps,' because he told Ronnie he'd County, Texas; The American Travis County, Texas. ficers, trustees, receivers, and By: JOHN DICKSON, Deputy nature of which said suit is as fol- cause by all other parties herein, National Red Cross, a charitable stockholders, and any and all per- and all of those taxing units above let him plead guilty to sedition—five corporation, incorporated and ex- sons, including adverse claimants, lows: Being an action and prayer for named who may intervene herein isting under and by virtue of the CITATION BY PUBLICATION owning or having or claiming any and set up their respective tax years at hard labor." laws of Congress, with an affili- legal or equitable interest in or judgment in favor of Plaintiff and THE STATE OF TEXAS against Defendant for decree of claims against said property. ated office (Travis County Chap- lien upon the following described You are hereby commanded to This pitch was written by James Bald- ter of the American National Red TO S. W. Barczewski, Defend- property delinquent to Plaintiff divorce dissolving the bonds of ant, in the hereinafter styled and matrimony heretofore and now ex- appear and defend such suit on Cross) in Travis County, Texas; herein, for taxes, to-wit: All that the first Monday after the expira- the writer. The Childrens Home of Austin, a numbered cause: certain lot, tract, or parcel of isting between said parties: Plain- win, You (and each of you) are tiff alleges that shortly after their tion of Forty-two (42) days from charitable corporation, incorpor- land lying and being situated in and after the date of issuance ated and existing under and by hereby commanded to appear Travis County, Texas, and more marriage Defendant, disregarding the solemnity of her marriage hereof, the same being the 16th virtue of the laws of the State before the 98th District Court of particularly described as follows: day of July A.D., 1962 (which is of Texas, with its principal office Travis County, Texas, to be held vow, and her obligation to treat NO. 23,671 at the courthouse of said county Thirty-five (35) feet off the Plaintiff with kindness and atten- the return day of such citation), in Travis County, Texas; George before the Honorable District Estate of Annie L. Siegmund Moorman, of Edwardsville, Madi- in the City of Austin, Travis Coun- West Side of Lot Two (2) and tion, commenced a course of un- In the County Court of Travis ty, Texas, at or before 10 o'clock Twenty (20) feet off the East kind, harsh and tyrannical con- Court, 53rd Judicial District of son County, Illinois; Edwin A. Travis County, Texas, to be held Moorman, of Irvington, Moble A.M. of the first Monday after the Side of Lot Three (3) in the re- duct toward Plaintiff, which has County, Texas, Probate Division expiration of 42 days from the subdivision of Block Twelve (12) continued with very slight inter- at the courthouse theteof, then County, Alabama; Frank W. and there to show cause why NOTICE TO CREDITORS Moorman, Major General U. S. date of issuance hereof; that is to in Glenwood Addition of Outlots mission, to the time of the filing Thirty-two (32) and Thirty-three of this suit. On diverse occasions judgment shall not be rendered Notice is hereby given that Army, now stationed at United say, at or before, 10 o'clock A.M. for such taxes, penalties, interests States Army Element, SHAPE, of Monday the 23rd day of July, (33) in Division "B" in the City Defendant has been guilty of ex- letters of administration upon the of Austin, Travis County, Texas, cesses, cruel treatment and out- and costs, and condemning said A.P.O. 55, New York, New York; 1962, and answer the FIRST property and ordering foreclosure Estate of Annie L. Siegmund, de- Harold N. Moorman, Colonel, AMENDED petition of plaintiff according to the map or plat of rages toward Plaintiff, of such a in Cause Number 123,624, in which said resubdivision in Volume 2, nature as to render their further of the constitutional and statu- ceased, were issued to me, the United States Army, now stationed tory tax liens thereon for taxes at United States Army ROTC In- S. W. Barczewski is Plaintiff and Page 154 of the Plat Records of living together insupportable. undersigned, on the 6th day of S. C. Barczewski is defendant, Travis County, Texas. due the Plaintiff and the taxing structor Group, Dartmouth Col- No children were born of said units parties hereto, and those June, 1962, by the County Court of lege, Hanover, New Hampshire; filed in said Court on the 12th day Which said property is delin- marriage, and there was no prop- who may intervene herein, togeth- Travis County, Texas. All persons Vernon Moorman, of Clifton, Pas- of March, 1962, and the nature of quent to Plaintiff for taxes in the erty of any nature accumulated. er with all Interest, penalties and saic County, New Jersey; Wynaut which said suit is as follows: following amounts: $198.73, exclu- All of which more fully appears costs allowed by law up to and having claims against this estate Moorman, of Hopkinton, Middle- Being an action and prayer for sive of interest, penalties and from Plaintiff's Original Petition including the day of judgment are hereby required to present . sex County, Massachusetts; Alma judgement in favor of plaintiff costs, and there is included in this on file in this office, and which herein, and all costs of this suit. the same to me within the time Mae Moorman Davis and husband, and against defendant for decree suit in addition to the taxes all reference is here made for all in- of divorce dissolving the bonds of Issued and given under my hand R. K. Davis, of Honolulu, Honolu- said interest, penalties and costs tents and purposes. and seal of said court in the City prescribed by law. My post office lu County, Hawaii, Fred Moor- matrimony heretofore and now thereon, allowed by law up to and of Austin, Travis County, Texas, Ridge, man, of Buena Park, Orange existing between said parties: If this citation is not served address is 1114 Mission including the day of judgment within 90 days after date of its this 1st day of June A.D., 1962. Count y, California; Catherine Plaintiff alleges that plaintiff and herein. 0. T. MARTIN, JR. Austin, Texas. Moorman Wineland and husband, defendant lived together as hus- issuance, it shall be returned un- You are hereby notified that suit served. Clerk of the District Court Catherine Loney D. Wineland, of Hamburg, Cal- band and wife in comparative Travis County, Texas. houn County, Illinois are defend- peace and domestic tranquility has been bought by the City of WITNESS, 0. T. MARTIN, JR., Administratrix TILE TaXAS OBSERVER Page 7 June 15, 1962 DEFECTORS WARNED LYNDON AND RALPH Steps Toward November Counsel Charges poor While Republican Jack Cox, to fight his bill. borough's strong showing" in WASHINGTON counsel table and in the presence who will undoubtedly wage god( Bill McIntyre, Don Yarbor- coming so close "despite superior Robert E. Manuel, the dis- of Rep. Dwyer and her adminis- the most serious GOP guberna- ough's state campaign man- money resources" and despite the charged Republican minority trative assistant, Frank Keenan, torial bid in Texas history, plan- ager, sent a letter to campaign way Connally split loyalist Demo- counsel to the House subcom- I reminded him that in our inter- ned to campaign without letup leaders urging them to "keep the crat, Negro, and Latin groups. mittee investigating the Estes view he had mentioned Mr. John- through the summer, Democrat organization in fighting trim . . . por TRB, New Republic column- case, said this weekend that an son, and not Sen. YarboroUgh. He John Connally made his first If we do this, Don Yarborough ist, noted that some Texas Agriculture Department wit- admitted this and seemed re- moves to unify a badly-splintered will defeat Jack Cox in 1964." conservatives returned favors for ness testifying before the com- morseful. But he offered no expla- party. He has talked with other fr011r The dailies had a lot to say liberal help for Tower in 1961 by mittee changed his story on in- nation of why he had changed his Democratic candidates and is this week on the rumored supporting Don Yarborough this fluence brandishing and sub- story." likely to get the support of all of defection of liberals to the Cox time. "There is a healthy sign in stituted the name of Sen. Ralph Declines to Say them except General Edwin Walk- this spite-voting, paradoxical as Yarborough for that of Vice- camp. Bill Gardner of the Hous- When reporters quizzed Miller, er, who will probably go for Cox. it may seem," he wrote. "The President Lyndon Johnson. ton Post, in a broadside against the demoted chief of the ware- He has invited all Democratic public wants labels that mean Manuel, who was fired for "liberal - loyalists," commented: house division who approved a nominees for state offices and the something, Republicans 'conserva- leaking a report to Earl Mazo of "Anybody who disagrees with grain-storage bond for Estes be- legislature to his Floresville ranch tive,' Democrats 'liberal.' Above the New York Herald-Tribune, them either on candidates or lieved to have been much too for a barbecue Saturday. His all they want a choice. They are said the incident "points up the issues is, per se, not loyal. You low, on the alleged change of statewide headquarters have been tired in Texas of just being asked way this investigation is being gotta be loyal like the loyalists story about Johnson and Yar- to choose between two conserva- distorted and the truth suppres- are loyal, or you just ain't loyal borough, Miller said he could not tives. They won't get it this year sed, either because of shoddy pre- at all . . . The unvarnished truth remember "whose names I men- Political Intelligence in Texas, but we suspect Don paration or a willingness to cover is that the loyalists are loyal when tioned to Manuel." Manuel's ques- Yarborough isn't finished yet." up." moved from Fort Worth to it suits their purposes—in other tioning lasted until after mid- In a statement released less Austin, with Bill Fowler of Dallas words, when their side wins." g# Allen Duckworth of the night, Miller said, and the nature Gov. than 24 hours after his dismissal, in charge . . . On the face of it Citing the "whispers, hint s, Dallas News believes of their conversation had been the Republican counsel charged Connally will be the favorite in rumors" that many of them in- Price Daniel may want a place on "distorted." He declined to say, where that Carl J. Miller, the Agriculture the general election, but his prob- tend to go fishing or support Cox the Railroad Commission, however, whether he had mention- Department worker who is a sig- lem will be to get out a substan- in the general election, he added: a vacancy is soon expected. If so, ed Johnson's name. nificant figure in the Estes case, tial vote. Cox can except to get . a "The loyalists are hard losers, too. Daniel could resign as governor changed his testimony to impli- number of conservative votes They crow and chortle when they before he leaves office, and presi- Cong. L. H. Fountain, Demo- cate Yarborough rather than which went for Connally in the win, but oh how they grumble dent pro tempore of the Senate crat from North Carolina, replied Johnson. Democratic primary. A wholesale and groan when the count goes Culp Krueger would become gov- to Manuel's charges: "This is ob- Manuel's statement said: abstention by liberal Democrats— against them." . . . Sam Kinch of ernor and could appoint Daniel to viously a political statement." "On or about May 25, 1962, with or a combination of liberal absten- the Fort Worth Star - Telegram the commission. The GOP congresional cam- the permission of my Congression- tions and actual votes for Cox— said liberal support of Cox will paign committee issued a state- g# Rep. Byron Tunnell, the con- al members, I interrogated Mr. could throw the situation into a insure opposition for Ralph Yar- ment saying Manuel had been dis- servative who apparently Miller at his home in Alexandria, muddle; Connally is mindful of borough in 1964 and "long-lasting missed as minority counsel "when has the House speakership in the Va. Among other things, Mr. the consequences of the Tower- opposition for their future bids for he found out that Estes had bag, disclosed the names of six Miller told me in no uncertain Blakley phenomenon last year .. . state offices." Cong. Joe Kilgore Chummy contacts with the Vice- more Democratic nominees who terms that Billie Sol Estes had One statewide GOP candidate has of McAllen and Jim Wright of President ... Manuel was dumped, have pledged to him, bringing the sought to pressure him by invok- already bid for liberal support. Fort Worth are possible challeng- not by the Republicans who hired total to 101, more than two - thirds ing the names of the late Speaker Des Barry of Houston, Republi- ers against Sen. Yarborough in him, but by the Democrats who of the membership. Rayburn (D., Tex.) and Vice- can opponent of Dallas conserva- '64, Kinch believes. And if Con- control the subcommittee's purse President Lyndon B. Johnson. He tive Joe Pool for congressman-at- nally loses to Cox, he might take The Texas Manufacturers strings." large, attacked Pool for sponsor- on Yarborough two years from Association, in an analysis told me this happened in his office during a visit by Billie Sol Estes ing the bill in the legislature re- now . . . The Corpus Christi of legislative run-offs, concluded In his earlier statement, Manuel on Jan. 25, 1961. said it was "against this sort of quiring run-offs in U.S. Senate Caller - Times, arguing that liberal- that the Senate will be composed "When Mr. Miller appeared at special elections if no candidate ism in Texas "is anything but of 14 conservatives, 14 liberals, background of the way the corn.- the public hearing a few days gets a majority. The Pool bill, dead when its standard-bearer and three middle-of-the-roaders. mittee was operating that I de- Barry said, was aimed at Ralph Don Yarborough can draw almost The House, TMA figured, will later, however, his story was cided . . . to disclose the contents somewhat different. In reply to of the Department of Agricul- Yarborough's candidacy. (It did 49 percent of the total vote," said have 79 conservatives, 50 liberals, not take effect in time to apply liberals who vote for Cox are and 21 piddle-roaders. This is the questions from the chairman and ture's long-suppressed report on to the '57 election, which Yarbor- "misguided." Connally, the paper Demodratic lineup and "even the the chief counsel he admitted that Estes. The importance of this re- ough won.) "Sincere liberals will commented, is a "moderate con- most optomistic (sic) of Republi- Billie Sol Estes had indeed men- port was impressed upon me dur- not forget this in November," servative who represents the can prognosticators" believe 95 tioned several prominent names. ing a telephone conversation with Barry said . . . Pool, criticizing political center to which, at least percent of the places will be oc- But he gave no particulars, and the attorney general of Texas, Barry for "arguing against ma- for the moment, a majority of cupied by Democrats. when pressed by Rep. Dwyer and Will Wilson. Judge Wilson told jority rule," said Thad Hutchison Texans are attracted. Those who Rep. Langen, the minority (Re- me that the refusal of the De- 1111° Conservative De m o c r at of Houston, Barry's campaign pretend to find no difference publican) members, he said the partment of Agriculture and the Walter Sterling registered a manager, was a candidate in the between his philosophy and that names were the late Speaker Ray- Department of Justice to make victory over the right-wing fac- special Senate election of '57, of Cox are simply blinding them- burn and Sen. Ralph Yarborough, this report available to a Texas Harris County Demo- when "Hutchison and the other selves to reality." tion on the D., Tex. grand jury was impeding its in- cratic executive committee in the "At the conclusion of his testi- vestigation of the mysterious Republican state bosses came to goor Stuart Long, for his syndi- election for committee secretary. mony I called him over to the death of Henry H. Marshall It Austin and joined with ultra- cate of dailies, said Sen. He was supported by liberals. liberal left-wingers and other Yarborough "moved into a better minority selfish interest groups" position as a result of Don Yar- loof Bill Gardner of the Houston Post, in a survey, finds that ago * 12 state senators, more than one- It happened ZOO YEARS third, favor opening up to the press and the public the closed The oldest incorporated trade association in the country, 'Connally-Shivers' Senate sessions which are now the United States Brewers Association, was organized in held to consider appointments 1862 .. the same year that AUSTIN tion is now well established. It by the governor. E. B. Germany, president of should again_ set the DemOcratic

Lone Star Steel and a leading Tex- party in Texas in its true position frof Vice - President Lyndon John- as conservative, interpreted the of conservative leadership that son, speaking before the run-off June 2 as a victory for a once characterized it in national Arkansas Bar Association, had "Connally - Shivers combination." affairs. kind words for Sen. William Ful- In his weekly column appearing "Go to your state convention bright, who has conservative op- in several East Texas newspapers, 100 percent behind the governor position for re-election, Johnson Germany wrote: and the strong conservative team called Fulbright "one of the most "Conservative candidates sup- you have given him to support his responsible and valuable leaders ported by Allan Shivers won in program. our system has produced in this the run-off election handily. This "A conservative governor back- country." . . . Syndicated column- column joins most of Texas' ed up by a strong conservative ist Victor Riesel, in a column leading newspapers in congratu- cost-conscious lieutenant gover- front-paged by the Dallas News, late these publicly avowed advo- nor and speaker of the House in- said Johnson is participating in IN TEXAS .. near Galveston, Confederate General J. B. dicate that Texas is in for a cost- the Kennedy administration's Magruder piled cotton bales on the decks of little river boats. cates of state's rights and less These famous "cotton dads," manned by the 26th Texas "tightening" of ties with liberals federal interference in private conscious, budget-balancing ad- Cavalry, trounced the Federal war fleet then business. ministration that should put our and labor. Riesel listed Johnson's holding Texas' largest port. As the war ships The welfare state and other fed- state in splendid shape to invite appointment to the President's hastily departed, the event was toasted in good Texas-brewed beer. eral give-away promoters of the industry to come to Texas with committee on eqtial employment confidence. It is proof that our opportunities, the banquet given For then, as now, beer was the traditional bev- New Frontier can get little com- erage of moderation—light, sparkling refresh- fort from the results of this climate is good for industry. by 90 of the nation's top labor ment that adds a touch of Southwestern straight-out, down-the-middle de- "There has not been in many leaders for Johnson last year, his hospitality to any occasion. Texans have cision of the voters Of Texas. years a better and more favor- "first-name basis" relationship always enjoyed the good fellowship that goes with every glass. It should sober the thinking of able mandate from the people with most labor leaders, and a special luncheon given him by TODAY, In its centennial year, the United States some of our free-wheeling Con- for sound fiscal policy than today Brewers Association still works constantly to gressmen who, because of long and industry should respond glad- George Meany recently. "Since assure maintenance of high standards of quality friendships and patronage threats, ly to our encouragement to expand then Johnson has been as active and propriety wherever beer and ale are served. still hold on to their old jobs. They the present and bring in new in- on the liberal and labor circuit as should see that beyond any doubt dustry making new jobs for more an old country doctor with a It'\.i. I people are opposed to the give- people. broken buggy." S away, federally controlled econ- "Opportunity is the word! The 1 1) S \1 R'N . omy, they mo ardently promote. Connally-Shivers philosophy is THE TEXAS OBSERVER Ait• "The Connally-Shivers combina- good for industry! Page 8 June 15, 1982