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Vol. 49 TEXAS, FEBRUARY 28, 1958 10c per copy No. 48 WITH FERREE IN MEXICO Pupils Denied; (Sixth in a series) HARLINGEN For all the help Valley people have given Frank Ferree, encomiums for his work have come hard for them. Layoffs Grow He is introduced, now and then, to church congregations he visits. Lt. Eric Johnson, an outlander stationed here, proposed him for a An Inquiry Freedom Foundation Award in 1955, and the Split at TEC foundation responded with a medal, $50, and HOUSTON, DALLAS, AUSTIN a citation honoring‘him "for his aid to Mexi- FORT WORTH. AUSTIN Two weeks ago at a press can indigents." How many men are out of The most generous local acknowledgment of his work where? Without an ap- conference of the Texas Em- work came from the Harlingen Kiwanis proach to answers to this, the ployment Commission (Obs. which, on Nov. 20, 1956, honored him at a lunch and pyramid-point fact that 181,- Feb. 21), two reporters — gave him a scroll. 200 Texans were unemployed Stuart Long of Long News The scroll remarks on the "critical" situation of as of January 31 suggests lit- many migrant families in the border area and "of- Service and Lyman Jones of tle about the texture of the The Texas Observer—asked ficially designates" Ferree as "the good Samaritan recession seeping into the of South Texas." Ferree, it says, "without personal lives of the citizens. questions aimed at discover- funds, but with a big heart and a burning desire Most of the impact has been felt, ing TEC attitudes on pay-. to help, has, for the past several years, worked of course, in industrial areas, al- ment of unemployment com- tirelessly in providing a minimum of food, clothing, though plunging farm income has and medical care to these people." pensation to working college decimated, if less dramatically, students who lose jobs in The U. S. government has been officially friendly many small town economies, and toward Ferree, authorizing his Volunteer Border the multiplier is sending shock compensation law - covered Relief, Inc., to distribute surplus food from U. S. waves into all cities and towns, employment. farms and, so far, sending him seven freightcars- large and small. The questions were not answer- full. TEC's state office in Austin ed. But it was made plain that As long as he was working solely as an individual, said 77,784 persons were on un- the three commissioners—S. Perry his relationships with official Mexico were also employment compensation in Brown, chairman and public rep- cordial. During a 1952 outbreak of eye sickness Texas the week ending Feb. 20 resentative, Maurice Acers. em- along the border, the Mexican government shipped compared with 75,746 the week ployer representative, and Robert him 200 bottles of penicillin from Mexico City. On ending Feb. 13 and 43,558 the week F. Newman, employee representa- Sept. 23, 1952, Ignacio Vertti Suarez, a high-up ending Feb. 21, 1957. As of Feb. 1 tive—were split on the eligibility official in the department of health and assistance this year, TEC was paying out to of such workers for compensa- in the capital, wrote him: Texans in unemployment corn- tion, that Newman held one view "The government of Mexico in general, and the pensation $1,100,000 a week; the and that Acers and Brown held secretary of health and assistance in particular, figure for all of 1957 was $31 another. The opposing views, and thank you for the disinterested social labor unfold- million. the reasons for them, were not ing on behalf of our 'bracero' countrymen ..." 'EL SAMARITANO' The Observer has sounded out made plain. The Mexican consul in Brownsville, Gonzalo Or S,o the Mexicans Have Named Him various sensitive areas in the Obregon, wrote him a letter of introduction to of- state's two densest industrial ficials in Mexico City saying he matrixes in and around Houston had done "very meritorious acts Tamaulipas frontier our humble There had already been a few and Dallas-Fort Worth. Lyman Jones of philantrophy, so that he has people have received benefits of warning episodes. In 1953 Ferree Unemployment in the Houston been widely identified as a grand gifts of clothing, food supplies, took food to 600 needy -people at metropolitan area may be between The Observer this week friend of Mexico." On Dec; 20, and medicines. God grant and cir- Valle Hermoso. General Gonzalez 40,000 and 50,000 out of a work searched pertinent TEC records. 1954, Mexican customs officials at cumstances permit that you go on Cantu, commander , of the Mata- farce of 435,000. Ordinarily there The records showed that Newman Matamoras and Reynosa were in- with your humanitarian labor...." moras garrison, was, according to would be, at this time of year, repeatedly in recent months has structed to let him enter freely press reports, removed from his about 10,000 claims for unemploy- charged Brown and Acers with The governor did not write with "medicines, edibles, clothes, post and char,ged with sending ment compensation filed from the misconstructions of unemployment without cause: Ferree was running and other effects" for the needy. soldiers along with Ferree's bus, area, but the figure is 24,000 now. compensation law and with re- He had an especially cordial contrary to orders. Again, a friend Where is the Houston unem- versals of legislative intent in connection with Horacio Teran, along with Ferree had photo- ployment? Labor union officials, cases involving student compen- governor of the Mexican state of Ronnie Dugger graphed a Mexican accepting contacted by Al Hieken, the Ob- sation claims. Tamaulipas. In 1955 Teran and a food. Mexican officials destroyed server's correspondent there, indi- The three-man commission sits large entourage came to Harlin- into resistance at the customs- the film, and Ferree was barred cated that a substantial amount from time to time as a quasi= gen to present him a gold medal, houses. Perhaps Mexico had from Mexico for a short time. has developed in the building judicial "court of last resort," re- the government of Tamaulipas's learned, from Washington or the The surplus food deliveries be- trades and in steel plants, chemi- viewing, among other matters, "Honor Al. Merito Civico." Teran Valley, that the U. S. International gan in December, 1956. Ferree cal plants, oil tool companies, and decisions of lower TEC echelons wrote him a letter Feb. 6, 1956, in Cooperation Administration was took over large quantities him- railroad carshops. Lesser amounts of officials denying compensation which he said, in part: about to approve him as a distrib- self, but he turned forty tons of also were reported in bakeries, eligibility. In many such cases "Your uplifting philanthropic utor of surplus foods. To a nation red beans over to the Red Cross furniture factories, meat packing heard by the commission in De- labor on the altars of necessity proud as Mexico, the friendly ges- for distribution: "They wouldn't plants, and a variety of other cember last year and January reveals a highly commendable tures of a kindly old man are one let us give it to 'em any more." types of manufacturing establish- this year, all involving aptleals by human attitude. ... But not only thing, and accepting food from Early last year the president of ments. To some extent it has af- student claimants, Newman wrote were your sentiments manifested the rich and suspect Collossus of the Reynosa Chamber of Corn- fected almost every industry. severely-worded dissents to ma- ... also along the length of the the North is quite another. (Continued on Page 8) Among the plants where largest j ority opinions by Brown and numbers of layoffs were reported are Sheffield Steel, Hughes Tool, Acers finding against the students. Dow Chemical (in Freeport), Following, telescoped from TEC Rheem Manufacturing, Brown & records, with claimants' name de- Sales or Income Tax Root, and Phillips Chemical. leted, are recent cases in which American Oil in Texas City has SAN ANTONIO survey shows that the officers (which at the Dallas meeting rec- Newman dissented from the (Continued on Page 5) Stripped of supporting ver- and directors of our organization ommended a tax on net corporate Brown-Acers majority findings biage, the opinions of the (115 businessmen in 93 South income) : "To suggest adding a (Brown and Acers not citing rea- sons for their major witnesses appearing be- Texas cities or towns in 52 coun- general sales tax or any further findings): fore the second hearing of ties) ... favor retention of the regressive taxes to the present SEWELL MIGHT present system of limiting the tax picture outrages the sensi- the Texas state tax study AUSTIN cost of state government to an- bilities of anyone dedicated to commission chaired by Sen. Dist. Judge Jim Sewell of A student at East Texas State ticipated revenues, oppose new or fair and ,just taxation." William Fly of Victoria (the Corsicana says he will decide College, Commerce, for 14 or 15 increased taxation, and advocate Walter S. Curlee of Fort Worth, commission's first meeting whether to run for governor months attended school full-time more stringent economy and chairman of the legislative com- was at Dallas ; Obs. Jan 24) in about two weeks. and worked full-time in a fac- greater efficiency in state gov- mittee of the Texas Assn. of (mu- assumed these sk elet on He told the Houston Post by tory, on a shift beginning at 4:30 ernment. If, however, the acquisi- nicipal) Assessing Officers, sub- shapes : telephone, "There are certainly p.m. and ending at 1 a.m. He was Carey E. Thompson, associate tion of additional revenue is un- mitted 18 specific recommenda- a lot of people encouraging me laid off for lack of work for his professor of economics of the avoidable, a general sales tax was tions for tax legislation. Chief to run, and I shift. Because his course of study University of Texas (speaking as favored ... Other possible sources, among these was "legislation am honored at the interest they are show- is offered only in the daytime, he an individual expert on taxation): in order of priority, are severance abolishing the statewide ad va- ing." could not transfer to another "My own ranking preference is taxes on minerals now untaxed lorem tax." Asked if he might annoutice shift. He filed for compensation. for, first, the personal income tax; and a tax on chemicals ... we are Richard M. Casillas, chairman he will run on March 15, he Citing from the law which says a second, the corporate income tax; unalterably opposed to any in- of the legislative committee of said, "Well, that's about the claimant must, in order to be and third, a general sales tax." crease in taxes on the oil, gas, the American GI Forum of Texas: time the dogwood blooms, and eligible for compensation, be Herschel E. Nix, executive vice- and sulphur industries ..." "You name the misery, our low- I want to wait until the dog- available for work, he was held president of the South Texas Fred H. Schmidt, secretary- income people suffer it. To these wood blooms." ineligible. Chamber of Commerce: "... our treasurer of the state AFL-CV) (Continued on Page 8) (Continued on Page 4)

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Let those flatter who fear, it is not an American art.—JEFFERSON `It Seems to Me I'veHeard That Song Before' /, OatL and .760 to When the designated chief of the porters from taking part in its work Democratic Party in Texas, Gov. by requiring them to break an oath Allan Shivers, and other state offi- before they can dissent from its de- cials who had accepted Democratic cisions. Can a test be conceived to nominations, Price Daniel for ex- exclude from conventions persons ample, endorsed the Republican acting in bad faith, Republicans presidential nominee, they repud- and Dixiecrats who intend to help iated a commitment implicit in their shape the Democrats' decisions and accepting high offices from Demo- then vote for Republican candi- crats. The leaders of a party have a dates, but to admit independent duty to lead their party, not the op- Democrats (they are not many, position's. true, perhaps 10,000 in Texas, but The plan for a party loyalty oath no one can really say) who insist had its incipience in such outrage- on reserving– judgment against the ous defections of party leadership. rare cases when party candidates Unraveling over the last few years, turn out to be real duds ? however, the idea has become tan- Suppose the statement was to gled up with one of the attributes read, "I am a Democrat and intend any good society must wish to en- to support the nominees of the courage in its people, independence Democratic Party." This. it would of judgment. seem. would more effectively con- The provocations Texas Demo- front infiltrators with the dishonesty crats have had to abide have been of their position, since it would enormous. Republican infiltration of deal, not with a pledge observed in Democratic precincts has been no- the breach, but with personal in- torious : Dixiecrats like. H. L. Hunt tentions. Alternately, a clause might and John Ben Shepperd and Shiv- be added, "and I will abstain from ers and Daniel have encouraged supporting or voting for the nomi- their minions to pervert Democratic nees of any other party this year"— conventions in favor of Republican an agreement that should an event- programs and candidates. Under the ual party nominee be decisively re- Bartlett Appears Exclusively in the Texas Observer pressures of such drives the Demo- pugnant to a voter's ideals, he would crats of Texas and predecessor not vote for anyone else—he would groups have worked to find a way refrain from voting. to preserve the party's identity and The step we would like to see the TV TREACHERY ' integrity. It is perfectly clear that Democrats avoid is requiring a citi- a line must be drawn. zen, as a condition of participating WASHINGTON or in your easy chair at home watch- DOT is campaigning for a party in good faith in the party of his ing TV, and without your realizing (U. S. Rep. Jim Wright this it these impulses are being registered registration bill : this would be an preference. to pledge that under week introduced a bill which some circumstances he would "sup- on your subconscious. excellent reform. Persons would would prohibit "subliminal" ad- On the lighter side, try to imagine designate themselves, on their poll port," that is, at least, vote for, a vertising on television. Wright set what would happen to the old bank taxes. as Democrats, Republicans. nominee whom (as it might, and on out his reasons for opposing the account if, during your wife's favor- or independents ; they could change rare occasions does work out) he new ad technique in a newsletter ite daytime television program, some to his constituents. The Observer the designation up to 30 days be- believed to be a net minus a dis- advertiser started sneaking in flashes grace to democracy, or a dangerous here prints the applicable por- to "Buy a Mink Stole Today." To- fore conventions ; registered party tions of the letter.—Ed.) members could take part in the pri- demagogue for the wrong princi- morrow it might be "Buy a New Car," maries and conventions of their ples. One of the most insidious and po- and the dear girl would be telling the exact truth when she told you later party without any further pledges. It may be that people with such tentially dangerous developments of recent months is the new propaganda she really didn't know what had made In the meantime, DOT proposes scruples cannot properly be desig- her do it. that the statement to which Demo- nated as "independent Democrats," gimmick known as "subliminal adver- tising." But this is not a laughing matter. cratic primary voters must sub- perhaps there is no such thing as an It is anything but. I feel so strongly independent Deniocrat, perhaps all It is a refined form of brainwash- scribe, "I am a Democrat and pledge ing. It is accomplished by means of a about it that I have prepared for in- myself to support the nominees of Democrats ought to be dependent special projection system which troduction a bill to outlaw this de- this primary," modified to "party" upon and compliant with the ma- flashes the message on a movie or TV vice on television. instead of "primary," be made also jority decision of the party, per- screen at frequent intervals but so Certainly we need to be careful haps that is the meaning of mem- very briefly that viewers are not con- about inhibiting in any way the free- a condition of participation in pre- dom of communication. Yet it seems bership in a political party. If so, scious of having seen it. It acts wholly cinct conventions the night of the to me that such a prohibition in this primary election. the application of a pledge to sup- on the subconscious mind. This system was brought to the case is necessary in the interest of The purpose, of course, is to keep port all the party's nominees as a freedom itself. The subliminal device condition of participation in party public attention by Vance Packard in out of the precincts the 150.000 or his recent book, The Hidden Persuad- seems clearly to constitute an invasion so right-wingers who wilfully per- conventions properly enough will ers. One moviehouse employing the of the individual right of privacy. vert the deliberations of the party tell all folk with such scruples to frequent split-second flashings for the Our freedom is founded upon the at the precinct level and then sup- stay home and mind their own busi- comparatively harmless purpose of assumption that the American public ness on primary-precinct day. selling popcorn and cold drinks has can see and hear both sides of any port Republicans. controversy and can reason its way There is, however, another ele- But "The Democratic Party is the reported amazing results. People flocked to the foyers to tank up on through to a satisfactory solution. But ment in the situation. The independ- people's party, it is the party of no let the public know what it is seeing, ent Democrat—the citizen who so one because it is the party of every- this stuff without having the faintest idea why. that its conclusions may be the pro- one." A too-narrow view of its mem- regularly considers himself a Demo- The real danger, of course, lies in duct of reason, not of mesmerization. crat that he wishes to act on behalf bership, insisting on definitions the method's possible employment to The mind is a sacred instrument, of and within the party but cannot which bar from its councils many of propagate a political philosophy or to the expression of the soul. It should agree to pledge his judgment in ad- its good-faith supporters, seems to brainwash the public into some course not be subjected to such wholesale vance to a position regardless of us to be a way to weaken it, to make of action by short-circuiting their tampering as this latest form of "com- munication" would seem to involve. the circumstances—is also barred it provincial, brass-collared, and reason. from the conventions by this state- less effective for the generation of Just think of the awesome poten- JIM WRIGHT ment, or test. new ideas, and to penalize one kind tiality it would present for an un- scrupulous and overly ambitious pub- We believe a great national party of political independence unneces- lic official to broadcast these flash im- terni should not discourage its real sup- sarily. pulses to a nation-wide TV audience i on election day or in a period of na- * Price Daniel should stop worry- tional crisis. The public, quite literally, ing about his big-oil campaign would not. know what had hit them! contributions and concern himself A few years back, George Orwell with the problems of the Texas un- Zir &leas astrurr wrote a book entitled 1984 in which he foresaw a time when freedom and employed. Cuts in oil production hiz•-',IIIM:131■ 10 human dignity would be things of the caused only 2,300 unemployment Published by Texas Observer Co., Ltd. Published once a week from Austin, past and people would be reduced to over last year's figures ; the state- FEBRUARY 28, 1958 Texas. Delivered postage prepaid $4 per the status of robots activated by a re- wide total is 180,000. annum. Advertising rates available on re- mote "Big Brother." At the time, I Ronnie Dugger quest. Extra copies 10c each. Quantity * We hear Ben Ramsey's going Editor and General Manager prices available on orders. thought, "Haw ridiculous !" But this Lyman Jones, Associate Editor is almost enough to make you won- to run for a fifth term. The lieu- Sarah Payne, Office Manager We will serve no group or party but der ... tenant governorship is the most Dean Johnston, Circulation-Advertising will hew to the truth as we find it and the right as we see it. We are dedicated Exactly how effective the device is powerful post in state government, EDITORIAL and BUSINESS OFFICE: to the whole truth, to human values a- remains to be fully proven. It is be- and the defeat of pro-sales tax, anti- 504 West 24th St., Austin, Texas. Phone bove all interests, to the rights of man as lieved that, like other forms of hyp- union, anti-Negro, anti-REA, un- GReenwood 7-0746. the foundation of democracy; we will notism, its effectiveness is less when reconstructed-reactionary Ramsey HOUSTON OFFICE: 1012 Dennis, Mrs. take orders from none but our own the intended victim realizes what is R. D. Randolph, Dean Johnston. conscience, and never will we overlook being attempted and has his guard up. ought to rank very high on the sum- Entered as second-class matter, April or misrepresent the truth to serve the mertime schedule of Texas Demo- 26, 1937, at the Post Office at Austin, interests of the powerful or cater to the But that's just the point. There you Texas, under the Act of March 3, 1879. ignoble in the human spirit. sit, relaxing at the neighborhood movie crats. " ..*•**48okrowarawao.sgasioomooftmaivissim

'They're Federal COMMITTEE ON OVERLOOKING munications' MARSHALL by the right people, brother Oren be- Texas. Why the boys up north went The times have brought us delight- gan to foresee trouble for some who into such a dither over Joe Martin's ful interludes in the race to see who were close to him. He first tried to $100 a plate dinner rightly puzzled can get the most dead people on the restrain the doctor by refusing to give Jack and friends. Yet here was some- moon first. Outstanding is that pro- him subpoena powers and blocking his 'thing Oren couldn't overlook : his pet duced by the doings of the well named every move behind the scenes. Dr. bill was dead, and all his back stage Democratic Committee on Legislative Schwartz was too astute to be stayed. checkmating of Dr. Schwartz could not now receive full recompense. Oversight and by the appreciation din- Next the overlookers began to look ner for (not by) Joe Martin at Hous- over Dr. Schwartz. A pale shade of ton. The committee takes first place. The handsome Arkansan had al- McCarthyism must have whispered ready boasted that he had in his day as A nice genteel prod at executive in- in Oren's ear, and he sallied forth with a prosecutor sent five men to the elec- terference with the functions of regu- an investigation of the investigator. tric chair, and after the curtain fell latory boards was desired by the com- By now we bewildered onlookers on the last act of Pal Joey, he really mittee's creators. The stage seemed could not tell the hounds from the lowered the boom on Dr. Schwartz. properly set for this, even to the ex- hares, or who was looking over whose "Put up or shut up" was the tenor of tent of clearing the proposed chief in- shoulder for what. At this point the his cry ; but he reckoned without his vestigator with Gerald Morgan of the prcifessor was supposed to have investigator's shrewdness. That in- White House to make certain he was meekly resigned, leaving the field to grate had actually preserved the evi- "safe." Dr. Bernard Schwartz seemed the Overseers •in order for them to dence supporting his charges, and to fit the bill for the position, being a correct their first oversight in not Oren's boom became a boomerang. good Republican, and Oren Harris, selecting a "blind" counsel. After Eisenhower Democrat (Flori- daddy of the gas decontrol bill, smiled But the audacious little egghead dan, not Price in Texas) Mack was benignly as he stood in position, as dared the committee to fire him, and directly accused, and Secretary Sin- LATE DECISION chairman of the parent committee, to the charge that Oren had offered the clair Weeks pointed out as waiting in AUSTIN horse trade for votes in the greatest investigator's scalp in exchange for the wings with Thomas E. Dewey, The hell with taxes and nine-day Johnson-Rayburn tradition. The Corn- votes in support of his gas bill had to the chairman decided the committee allowables and alll that fiscal jazz. As mittee on Oversights was now in posi- be looked over by the committee on had better look over a four-leaf clover far as I'm concerned the burning ques- tion to Overlook. oversight in return. While Oren was it had overlooked before. tion of our time is, what happened last Saturday between 6 and 6 :30 p.m. proclaiming his innocence, left hand The inquiry continued : no one on Its first oversight was that Dr. over heart, right upraised, Jack Por- to make KTBC-TV, Sen. Lyndon Schwartz was one of them wild-eyed the moon, the FCC chairman rather ter put on his production of Pal Joey plaintively complaining that if he had Johnson's monopoly of the cyclops perfesser fellers, with no understand- down Texas way. eye business in Austin, ,change its ing of the niceties of the American gotten as much as ten thousand dol- mind about Harry Truman? lars up Spokane way there would be system of government. He didn't Now there was nothing original Something happened. Because, as a something to talk about, and the only seem able to pull his punches, and about a candidate promising to vote Mohawk Indian I know used to say when he failed in his duty, as Counsel for a proposed legislative measure, if casualty—Ethos. when he'd had one over his firewater of Oversight, to overlook bribes made he were given campaign funds, in FRANKLIN JONES limit, brothers, attend: At 6 p.m. the girls who answer KTB C-TV's telephones were still telling callers, as they told them all last week, no, I'm sorreee, but we do Senator Smith Remembers not have that program scheduled. That is, KTBC-TV would not, repeat not, WASHINGTON son-in-law of Roy Cullen. Another moted to "special consultants" by carry the Columbia Broadcasting Sys- The reason why forthright Senator Cullen son-in-law, Corbin Robertson, B rannan. tem's public service telecast of former Margaret Chase Smith of Maine was a sponsor of the dinner for Joe Those who know him say Wooley President Harry Truman ripping the quietly resigned from the GOP Sen- Martin, also a sponsor for a similar has never forgotten this blow to his hide from the GOP elephant at the ,ate campaign committee over the dinner given to Democrat Lyndon pride. He later went to work for the Saturday night $100-a-plate dinner of $100,000 from that Texas Joe Martin Johnson. Mrs. Smith also knew that pro-Republican American Farm Bu- the national Democratic committee in dinner was very simple. She remem- Vic Johnson, who really runs the reau Federation, where he has been Washington. bered how Texas money had reached GOP Senate campaign committee for busy ever since lambasting farm poli- But at 6 :30 p.m., as I sat transfixed all the way up to Maine and bank- the reelection of senators, is hand-in- cies he formerly fought for as a New in my living room by a commercial rolled an opponent to run against her glove with Texas oilionaires and was and Fair Dealer. implying that the road- to : -successful' in the Republican primary in 1954. suspected of financing opposition to snobbery leads through the dining her. The payoff came when Wooley room of the Driskill Hotel, I heard a He was Robert L. Jones, who re- tried to attach a "communist" tag on disembodied voice saying: ceived contributions from Texas oil- That's why Mrs. Smith not only production payments to cotton farm- "Be sure to stay tuned to KTBC- ionaires including Douglas Marshal, resigned from the committee but re- ers. This, like the wool payment plan, TV at 9 :30 tonight for a speech by marked privately to friends: is inherited from the original Bran- former President Harry Truman." nan proposal which Wooley helped "Those rich Texans not only want' Or words to that effect. to draft. The admonition was repeated at 7, to keep their money through oil de- 7:30, 8, 8 :30 and 9 p.m. ERRAND BOY pletion allowances and make the rest An Unnamed Senator of us pay extra taxes, but they also How many Central Texans missed hearing Harry because there were HOUSTON send their money all over the country (Pearson's column for Feb. 24 re- only six spot announcements adver- Charles Murphy, lobbyist for the to defeat senators who don't agree veals the contents of Dr. Bernard with them. They want to make the Schwartz's secretly-recorded inter- tising his speech, and those at the Texas Manufacturers' Assn. who is view with FCC Commissioner Richard .next-to-the-last moment ? Hundreds? now running for the Houston seat in Senate of the United States a rubber- stamp for Texas." A. Mack, who accepted money, part Thousands ? And how many more the Texas Senate from which Searcy would have heard him if KTBC-TV Bracewell is retiring, has written a let- of which he 'described as "gifts, ad- Pro-Republican Bureau vances, or what-have-you," from had made up its mind earlier, and ter calling attention to his lobbying Thurman Whiteside, the Miami at- said so? for TMA and soliciting support. Fists almost flew at a recent hear- torney who asked him to grant a KTBC-TV's wasn't the only mush- , ing of the House agriculture commit- multimillion-dollar television license to mouthed performance in re the Tru- The letter, dated Feb. 6, and written tee, when Rep. W. R. Poage of Texas National Airlines.) man , speech. on Murphy's stationery as an attorney, challenged Frank Wooley, counsel of was 'received by a TMA member in On Jan..29 Paul Butler, chairman the American Farm Bureau Federa- The commissioner hinted that, if of the national Democratic committee, conjunction with an invitation to a tion, to meet him "in the alley" after Houston TMA dinner for Asst. Secy. called on the witness stand, he might wrote a letter to Jim Lindsey, chair- Wooley charged that communists implicate an unnamed . senator. of the Air Force Dudley Sharp March man of the state . Democratic execu- were behind a Southern-backed pro- tive committee. The letter noted that 4. The invitation was signed by Inge. duction payment plan for cotton. "I can show you a letter from a Grant, chairman of the Houston TMA senator ..." he said. "I was rather CBS was to carry the Truman speech chapter. Wooley didn't accept the challenge. amused to get , it because he wants a on public service time and asked that definite commitment out of me." Lindsey lead a campaign to get all Murphy noted in his letter he was However, what the committee CBS affiliates in Texas, radio and running for the Senate and had been didn't know was that he would have The investigators ignored this crack television, to carry the speech. a representative eight years from been found in the same "communist" and pressed the commissioner for Provided a copy of the letter, this Houston. Then he wrote : category if the calendar were turned more details about his financial ar- writer called the SDEC, asked for "Following this eight years' service, back a few years. For Wooley is a rangements with attorney Whiteside. Jake Pickle, was told that Pickle was I served as Special Counsel for the disgruntled former New Dealer who Truman-Go-Round in Laredo with Gov. Price Daniel. I Texas Manufacturers' Assn. for two was eased out of a top job at the agri- asked the girl who answered the tele- (2). years. In this position, I negotiated culture department. At that time he Harry Truman speeded up his re- phone if she knew of any effort to get with the Officials of Labor and their advocated price-supporting crop pay- cent speech so much to get within his the Truman speech on the air. She attorneys in planning amendments to ments, which he now wildly attributes allotted TV time that most people did not. our Workmen's Compensation Laws to communists. didn't notice an indirect but deliberate I called Jake Jacobsen, assistant to to be presented to the Texas Legis- In fact, for a time Wooley was crack he took at Sen. Lyndon John- the Governor and the SDEC's secre- lature. I might add that the result of known among colleagues as "Mr. son and Speaker Sam Rayburn's boy- tary. Jacobsen said he had no knowl- this work in the form of H.B. 433 Price Support," so avidly did he cott of the Democratic Advisory edge of the letter and that he didn't passed with the overwhelming support plump for production payments to Committee. Truman went out of his believe Butler had sent a copy to Dan- of all concerned. farmers. way to quote from the committee's iel. Wooley came to the Agriculture policies in which Johnson and Ray- I called Lindsey. He said he "I feel that my lona. experience with Department in the '30's under Henry burn have refused to. participate. State government and my knowledge couldn't recall having received the Wallace, stayed on to serve as deputy Elmo Roper, the pollster, has com- Butler letter. "I don't remember that and understanding of the problems boss of the production and marketing pleted a secret survey for the AFL- facing the citizens of Texas in all particular one," he said. administration under Secretaries Clin- CIO regarding labor attitudes in the phases of our social and economic Is anyone on the SDEC doing what ton Anderson and Charles Brannan. South. The survey reveals that the Butler asked ? Lindsey was asked. structure qualify me. ... (I) will ap- Early in 1949 he had a major hand in South is so anti-union that the AFL- preciate your support." He replied : "Well, I imagine they drafting the Brannan Plan of direct CIO has abandoned plans to unionize are ... I just couldn't say ... I've crop payments. In 1950 he and his new industries moving south of the been kinda out of touch ... I've had THE TEXAS OBSERVER boss, PMA administrator Ralph Trigg, Mason-Dixon line. the flu." Page 3 February 28, 1958 were' eased out of their jobs and de- DREW PEARSON LYMAN JONES "Actually, the statutory pro- vision is in these terms: 'An un- TEC SPLIT OVER PUPIL RIGHTS employed individual shall be eligible to receive benefits with (Continued from Page 1) claim because she is still available ability of securing' the kind of measured, not by whether there 'respect to any benefit period only He appealed. His appeal, wrote for work during the same evening job he wants. He is thus speak- are vacant jobs which he is quali- if the commission finds that: (d) J. R. Caldwell, TEC appeals ex- hours that she earned her wage ing of the claimant's possibility of fied to fill, but rather, by whether He is available for work; ...' aminer, was turned down be- credits on her claim," but she obtaining suitable work. The true or not there are jobs in the labor "There is no mention of 'full- time employment.' But, even if cause he "has not been available "has not been available for work inquiry ... is whether the claim- market area, either filled or va- the law did require availability for work during normal work during normal work hours .. is ant is in a labor-market area cant, which he is qualified to fill. for full-time employment, the hours from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. The primarily interested in obtaining which normally furnishes the His availability must not be claimant is primarily interested an education." Brown and Acers type of job the claimant seeks. measured by the probability of his claimant in this case would meet the requirement. For 19 months in obtaining an education and is, upheld the initial decision. It is not an inquiry as to whether finding an open job. he attended school and worked a therefore, not a bona fide mem- Wrote Newman: there are unfilled or vacant jobs "If that were the measure used, full-time shift, from * 3:30 or 4 in ber of the labor force." The corn- "... the appeals examiner ap- of the type in question. If the then the original purpose of the the afternoon to 11 or 12:45 at mission found against the claim- pears to be basing his holding of test of availability is whether unemployment compensation act night. He earned all his wage ant. unavailability on the fact that there are unfilled jobs, then un- would be defeated because in a credits while so working and at- Said Newman's dissent: there are no unfilled second shift employment insurance programs deep depression when employers tending school. He was laid off in "In this case, as in several re- jobs in the labor market area. would be completely inefficacious were laying off workers rather Again, I express the opinion that every time a business recession than hiring them, nobody would a reduction in force. He wants cent cases, the majority of the work and is seeking work. commission has affirmed a ... if there must be vacant jobs or depression occurred. be paid benefits since it would be highly improbable that any- "The record is full of testimony decision holding ineligible for which employers are seeking to "If claimants are available body would have a chance of be- that night shifts are available all benefits, because not available for fill for a claimant to be held to within the meaning of the law ing hired ... over the industrial area around work, a student who has earned be available for work, we could only when there are vacant jobs, "In the present case, the claim- Beaumont. He is therefore in a all of his wage credits while at- not pay benefits even during the then the whole purpose of the ant was available for the identical labor-market area which affords tending school. I cannot agree. deepest depression. It is common unemployment program would be defeated." job in which he had earned his the kind of work which he wants ... The determination with re- knowledge that unemployment wage credits." to do." spect to student availability for laws were put on the books in Other pertinent Newman com- work after school hours is de- order to tide workers over pe- 4 ments from other recent dissents: pendent in large measure upon riods during which there are no 5 A graduate student of the Uni- A full-time shipfitter in a "Employers pay unemployment the kind of labor-market area job openings to be filled." versity of Texas worked for a Beaumont shipyard was also a taxes on the wages of students where he is. If it is one wherein hotel as a storekeeper. He was full-time college student. He was who are working just as they pay jobs of 'the type the student- 3 laid off, filed for compensation, A full-time college student from laid off in a production cutback, taxes on the wages of workers claimant is equipped to perform and had his claim turned down, Dallas worked full-time as a filed for compensation, but said who are not attending school. If are performed, a student-claimant radio repairman in an aircraft wrote Appeals Examiner A. J. he would neither quit school to benefits are to be denied these seeking work after school hours plant. Laid off in a general reduc- Ridder, Jr., "because his hours of accept employment nor take day- student-workers just because they is truly available for work. Cer- class attendance limited him to tion of the work force, he filed a time work and attend school are student-workers, then it tainly, it is common knowledge claim for compensation, saying he jobs beginning after 1 p.m., and nights. The latter, he said, would hardly seems fair or equitable to that the Greenville-Commerce was available for work before or also because the claimant insisted mean cutting down on semester tax the employers on their labor-market area ... is one which after his school hours. Of this that he would not quit school in hours and would extend the pe- wages ..." ' normally affords job opportunities claimant, Bob R. Crozier, appeals order to accept employment, if riod of his education. Appeals "In my opinion, a factor which to students. In my opinion, the examiner, wrote: the employment offered him con- Examiner M. R. Gill, when the should be considered in connec- claimant is available for work "In order to be available for flicted with his class hours." Acers case reached him, upheld the tion with these student-claimant and is eligible for benefits." work within the meaning of the and Brown upheld Ridder. But, initial finding of ineligibility, say- cases is the current labor-market (unemployment compensation) wrote Newman: ing that, as he construed the un- situation. We are in a period of 2 "'This case involves the avail- employment compensation law, layoffs and cutbacks. Einploy- A female East Te3ias State stu- act, an individual must be avail- ability of a student who earned the claimant must be "available ment is dipping and unemploy- dent who had been working a able during the normal, customary all his credits while attending for full-time employment." Right, ment is rising. It seems to me that factory second shift lost her job daytime hours ..." and "claimant school. Because he was complet- said Brown and Acers. Wrong, the very purpose of the unem- in a cutback of her plant's whole is not available for such hours ing his university work and ac- said Newman, writing: ployment act is to afford a par- labor force. She applied for corn- unless he was offered an ex- cepted a teaching job (beginning "... it might be well to point out tial salary substitute to unem- pensation. TEC said "she feels cellent job, which he has little several months later), his em- that the appeals examiner, in his ployed workers and a cushion to she is entitled to benefits on her probability of securing." Brown and Acers upheld the ployer discharged him. He had decision, states that ... 'the act the economy in such a period. denial of eligibility. Newman worked for this employer almost provides that an unemployed in- ... The payment of insurance in wrote: two years at the time ... dividual, in order to be eligible such circumstances seems exactly "The appeals examiner says "I am of the opinion that a for benefits, must be available in line with the policy expressed that the claimant has 'little prob- worker's availability must' be for full-time employment.' by the unemployment act." A Review of the Week in Texas • The Railroad Commission cators Life Insurance Co. of Fort "the American cause" has been • L. Walter Hensle.e, former having set an unprecedented Worth since 1952. betrayed "by Communists in our executive director of the nine-day limit on the flow from midst, aided and abetted by 'lib- Galveston housing authority, was • Mayor R. L. Thornton of Dal- Texas oil wells, the Governor's erals' and collectivists "who com- convicted of concealing federal las remarked in a city coun- oil imports study commission bine in a pattern for worldwide funds and making false reports cil debate: "We undertake to rep- heard a two-day stream of wit- revolution." with intent to defraud the gov- resent all the people regardless of nesses blame oil imports for the ernment. what viewpoint they have on seg- industry plight and many of the • Dallas liberals won from the. BRA I NPOWER regation. Whatever happens ... • Chairman H. C. Pittman of state's tax and general economic commissioners' court re- this council is for law and order the industrial accident board IS OUR MOST troubles. and peace. This is our view—I versal of an order appointing as blasted the workmens' compensa- VITAL RESOURCE! precinct election judges persons • The University of Texas an- will state it anywhere or any tion. system he oversees as "a You can't -dig education out of nounced that its test-identi- time." other than duly-elected precinct model-T operation in a jet age," the earth. There's only one place fied top 250 freshmen will each chairmen. In some cases, con- said "15 law firms handle 80 per where business and industry can • The insurance board made cent of the cases from the plain- year be designated "junior fel- servatives who had lost races for get the educated men and women lows" in arts and sciences, get un- final regulations to cut credit tiffs' standpoint," called for mod- so vitally needed for future insurance (small lenders') income precinct chairmanships had been progress. That's from our col- limited library privileges, be en- ernization of compensation laws leges and universities. couraged to skip elementary about $8 million a year. named election judges. and regulations. courses if they can pass the Today these institutions are • Lone Star Gas Co.'s 1957 • Dallas Police Chief Carl doing their best to meet the exams, be brought into close con- O The University of Texas earnings rose to $2.32 a share, Hanson said he has ready need. But they face a crisis. The tact with senior and , visiting bureau of business research demand for brains Is increasing up from $2.19 a share in 1956. This for publication a 91-page manual scholars, and get chances to study said life insurance sales in Texas fast, and so is the pressure of represented a profit increase of he'll use to train his policemen college applications. at other universities with the aid went up by 27 per cent last year, $800,000 (up to $15 million for "in special techniques on handling "making it the best sales year in More money must be raised of a foundation grant. 1957), said the Wall Street Jour- racial problems" in preparation the state's history." each year to expand ficilities — nal. bring faculty salaries up to an • Sen. Charles Herring's in- for desegregation of Dallas public O The Shelby County Cham- adequate standard — provide a vestigating committee met in • Gov. Price Daniel said the schools. Hanson said the manual sound education for the young Dallas on Preferred Life and will not be made public and told pion opened a story of a people who need and deserve it. Texas minimum penalty of grand jury investigation of al- other matters. In Austin Insurance two years for first-offender nar- reporters he'd recently }Wade a Asa practical business meas- Cmsr. Harrison ordered Estate trip to Little Rock, Ark., to study leged ballot irregularities with ure, help the colleges or univer- cotics peddlers is "too low." The Life of Amarillo to show cause police problems "in connection this lead: "The old practice in sities of your choice—now! The last legislature raised the maxi- Shelby County of finding out how returns will be greater than you March 10 Why it should not be put mum penalty to life for second with integration there." think. a voter votes brought a grand out of business for insolvency. offender peddlers and to death for O Labor union spokesman in jury investigation ..." The Cham- If you want to know what the college • A Houston Post - exposed sale to minors under 19. pion said ballots often are stored crisis means to you, write for a free Washington asked the federal Cuban invasion plan with Bryan Dist. Judge W. T. in cardboard cartons or unlocked booklet to: HIGHER EDUCATION, arms obtained in, and a boat • labor department to make drastic Box 36, Times Square Station, NOW MacDonald has set trial of a boxes and that "in the past cer- cutbacks in the number of bra- York 36, New York. launched from, Texas, was suit brought by two Bryan women tain candidates have found the thwarted by federal agents' ar- seeking entrance to Texas A&M ceros to be allowed entrance to identity of persons who cast votes Shaw rests. for March 17. the United States this year. against them ..." O State insurance receiver J. • J. D. Wheeler, state liquida- O State AFL-CIO's education O The state Supreme Court re- D. Wheeler filed suits against tor of bankrupt insurance director, Hank Brown, at a fused to lift an injunction five San Antonio loan companies, Transportation firms, resigned as of March 1, labor school in Dallas, said Texas which has the effect of outlawing alleging a scheme whereby loan giving as his reason he didn't like ranks 26th among the states in the practice of naturopathy in company agents acted also as being caught in the middle of per capita income because it is Texas. agents for the defunct Home Life Company, Inc. the dispute whether the liquida- "the No. 1 open shop state in the tor is under the insurance board O Gov. Price Daniel at Rock- and Accident Ins. Co. The com- E. P. SHAW, PRESIDENT nation." or the Austin district courts. springs said he wants the panies: Garza Finance Co.. Na- Houston, Texas James M. Williamson, appointed O Mrs. Frederic Groves, presi- dormant state industrial commis- varro Finance Co., Berry Finance Page 4 February 28, 1958 by the board to replace him, has dent-general of the national sion reactivated to help bring Co., King Finance Co., and Best THE TEXAS OBSERVER been attorney for National Edu- DAR, said in San Antonio that new industry to Texas. Finance Co. IN USTRIAL LAYOFFS The LBJ (Continued from Page 1) also were machinists.) Co. Chance-Vought is up for renewal laid off about 150 workers, ac- March 8. "Right now," he said cording to J. Elro Brown, Oil, last Saturday—before entering sideration to the problem, based Chemical and Atomic Workers 200 a Day negotiations this week—"it looks With black headlines but on its - merits," Johnson said. union District Four director. Some 35 persons have been like a strike to me." About 500 facts not nearly so startling, Jenkins bore down on a de- Brown, whose district comprises added in the offices of TEC in of the 10,000 workers at Chance- Washington reporter Neil scription of both of these as form the south half of Texas and the Houston to handle the soaring Vought have been laid off. McNeil and Texas Scripps- transmissions, entirely routine. state of Louisiana, said the pic- number of applicants and process Five hundred workers were Howard newspapers last week KWTX-TV won the channel, a ture "was not good." He reported their claims. At the Bell street laid off at General Motors in Ar- took out after Senator Lyn- competitor losing out. 1,180 laid off in his union's bar- office of TEC in Houston 200 linyton Monday, reducing the don Johnson's family's inter- On Apra! 29, 1955, KWTX-TV gaining units in the district. which initial claims are being filed every force there from 2,150 to 1,650. est in radio and television protested the action of FCC in would indicate other layoffs in day presently, whereas last year Evans said half the 2,000 workers stations in Texas, which fall granting, without a hearing, non-organized plants. the usual number of new claims at Bell Aircraft at Hurst have under the regulatory judsdic- KTBC-TV's request for an in- Brown reported the following filed was between 50 and 60. been sent home. About 1,000 of tion of the Federal Communi- crease in power and range. The figures on layoffs by plants in his TEC is opening a new office in Temco Aircraft's 6,500 workers at cations Commission. Johnson family's firm, said the district where the Oil Workers Houston and will desegregate the Grand Prairie, Garland. and As is well known, but not well complaint to FCC, "has violated are the bargaining agent: other offices under a directive Greenville have been laid off, he publicized in Texas, Mrs.. Johnson and is continuing to violate the Goodrich Gulf, Port Neches, 15; received from Washington, the said-500 of them at Grand Prai- and the Johnsons' two daughters American Oil, Texas City, 150; Observer learned. The Pasadena rie. own most of the LBJ Company, Sherman Act and the Clayton Act ... against undue concentration of Republic Oil, Texas City, 35; Gulf office of TEC has been snowed which in, turn owns KTBC-TV, "We can't put any of our peo- control and favoring free enter- States Asphalt, Houston, twelve; under; it had to stay open until the only television station in Aus- ple to work anywhere alse," prise to the great financial detri- . Delhi-Taylor, Corpus Christi, six; 8 p.m. several nights recently, it tin.; 50 percent of KRGV-TV in Evans said. "There are an awful ment of KWTX-TV ..." which, Corn Products Refining Co., Cor- was learned. Weslaco; and 29 percent of lot of people in my office every said the complaint, was only 96 pus Christi, 30 (with the remain- Cheerful headlines have been KWTX-TV in Waco. day looking for jobs." miles away. The Johnson firm also ing workers on a four-day week); appearing in the Houston news- On the crest of the FCC in- controlled KANG, a UHF radio Gulf Refining, Port Arthur, seven; papers. The Houston Post Sunday vestigation in Washington, Mc- station in Waco, it was pointed Phillips Chemical, Houston. 160; said in one, "Employed Are Sav- Wage Cuts Neil, in three stories bannered in out. The LBJ Co. denied any at- Shell Chemical, Houston, six; Olin ing More and Paying Bills." An Temco Aircraft is inaugurating the Houston Press and El Paso tempt to freeze out KWTX-TV Mathiesen Fertilizer, Pasadena, editorial the same issue was en- a series of wage cuts from ten to Herald-Post, reported that: titled, "Unemployment Reflects and challenged the existence of eight; Texas Pipeline, North Texas 52 cents an hour. A company 1. Two communications from Economic Adjustment That Can an overlap. The FCC indicated it Division, 16. spokesman said they are incident Waco citizens to Johnson about Be Healthy." would not act on the complaint; These type plants heretofore to "reclassifications" caused by KWTX-TV were transmitted in a This outlook contrasts, however, it was withdrawn on May 16, 1955. have been hiring and expanding layoffs and low seniority brackets routine manner from Johnson's with other indications of con- Disposing of KANG, LBJ Co. instead of laying off and cutting which left the plant overloaded office to the FCC, but without cern by large businesses. South- acquired 29 percent of KWTX-TV down. with skilled workers. UAW offi- recommendations, and well be- in 1956. Furniture Workers Union offi- western Bell Telephone Co. has cials said 53 high skilled workers fore the LBJ Co. acquired its in- McNeil's conclusions were that cials in Houston reported that sent letters to all of its employees, at Temco received the first wage terest in KWTX-TV. Johnson took "an official interest about 250 of their members are urging each one of them to "sell" cuts Friday; further cuts contin- 2. Also before LBJ Co. bought in the license application of a jobless. telephone service, color sets, and ued this week. From 800 to 1,000 into KWTX-TV, management of TV station that is now owned in L. so forth, on their own time The workers in the Dallas area are Tom Fox, secretary of Oil KWTX-TV accused LBJ Co.'s part by a company controlled by telephone company has declined expected to be affected. Workers Local 4-227, said that KTBC-TV with violating anti- his wife," and that KWTX-TV to re-employ about 300 workers B. J. Thurman, president of about 400 members of the 4,000- trust laws; the complaint was charged KTBC was violating anti- member local have been laid off; who had taken maternity leaves Temco-Garland UAW Local 1081, until a full year expires. Ordi- dropped a month after it was trust laws "less than a year be- 200 have lost their jobs since said he had met with two high filed. fore" LBJ Co. got 29 percent of Dec. 15. His figure for Gulf States narily, according to Local 6222 company officials to try to stop 3. Austin is "by far the largest KWTX-TV. President T. 0. Parsons, these the cuts but to no avail. He said Asphalt, 30 to 40, seemed to be city in the state of Texas where later than Brown's. employees ordinarily would have high skilled jig builders, some of On March 12, 1956, the LBJ Co. been re-employed in about six only one (regular) television asked FCC for permission to take The Meat Cutters Union re- them Class A employees for four weeks after the birth of their channel has been assigned." over 50 percent of KRGV-TV, ported a decrease of 300 in mem- years, had taken cuts from $2.76 children. While the third point received Weslaco, owned by the Taylor bership on account of layoffs at to $2.15 an hour. In the garment industry in less attention than the first two, Broadcasting Co. of Wichita. Per- Borden, Armour, and Eastern TEC officials in Fort Worth Houston, Dallas, and San Antonio it is probably of more importance mission was granted. LBJ Co. Poultry. The Bakery Workers say unemployment there is fairly unemployment and part-time em- for Johnson's political welfare. loaned the Weslaco interests Union reported that about 1,000 widespread and "continuing." TEC ployment have increased sharply, O'f the 579. outstanding shares $243,000; _4, return, J211.-___Co_ got were working regularly as com- figures released"thiS week show especially in the last six months. of stock in the LBJ Co., McNeil the 50 percent. Of the _stock. pared with 1,200 at the same time 197,500 people employed in the In Dallas, some shops have not area compared to 205,500 in Janu- quoted FCC officials, Mrs. John- KRGV liabilities in net worth last year. son, chairman of the board, holds opened their doors for the past ary, 1957. TEC records reflect were almost a quarter of -a mil- Fred Lucas, Carpenters Union 352, and each of the Johnsons' two two weeks. In the past year sev- 15,200 unemployed now, compared lion dollars when LBJ Co. entered district secretary, reported 1,000 daughters have 74 each in two eral small shops have gone out of to 10.800 unemployed. in January, this picture, FCC records showed. members of the 4,000-member trusts for them. Other sharehold- business, and some of the large 1957. The 15,200 unemployed per- Local 213 idle. At least twice that ers, and their shares: shops have curtailed their work- sons represent, 7.1 per cent of the number of unemployed carpen- ing forces by as much as 25 per total labor force for January. In J. C. Kellam, president, 32; Paul ters have registered with the Bolton, secretary (and KTBC's cent. January, 1940 TEC records showed Texas Employment Commission news director), 17; Walter Jen- SAVE NOW At Rockdale, Alcoa laid off 250 16 per cent unemployed. offices in this area. Bad weather kins, treasurer (and Johnson's ad- men and Industrial Generating State unemployment insurance was one factor. ministrative assistant in Wash- Company another 87. R. R. Sugg, checks totaling $481,950 were paid for M. A. Graham, business repre- ington), 21; Oscar P. Bobbitt, Alcoa plant manager, said the out in Fort Worth in January. An sentative for the Building Trades seven; Donald S. Thomas, secre- company continues "to think be- additional $231,818 was paid to un- Council, and N. E. Coward. sec- tary, one; W. W. Moursund, one. The Future! yond what appears to be short employed in the TEC's Fort retary of the Houston Labor and McNeil called incorrect a term fluctuations." Alcoa's 250- Worth district—Mineral Wells, -re- Trades Council, agreed that at port by Drew Pearson (Obs. Feb. man layoff was distributed among Wichita Falls, Vernon, Denton, least 3,000 building trades union 7) that LBJ Co. was given a many towns—Rockdale 50, Taylor and Brownwood. In January, 1957, members are idle at this time. "quickie" grant for KTBC-TV in 23, Thorndale 23, Caldwell 17, payments in Fort Worth were Open Graham said that only about 300 1952. It was, however, one of the Cameron 16, Thrall 10, and the re- $158,699, with an additional $138,- of these have filed unemploy- first grants after TV channels maining 111 in numerous other 556 paid out for , the other five ment compensation claims thus were unfrozen, he said. Pearson towns in a large area around offices in the district. far. had said KTBC was licensed one Your Account Rockdale. Employment in the aircraft in- E. C. Wolff, general chairman, morning after an application had Unemployment compensation dustry, heavily concentrated here, T. & N.O. car department, Hous- been filed the night before. FCC • t claims were up in Laredo 1,000 appears to be stable, with no at ton, said 375 carmen have been records showed the application over last year. The Salvation Army wholesale layoffs or rehiring fore- laid off, and that he had been reported that the issue of gro- seen. was on file for four months, and hearing reports that a new cut no one had contested it. ceries doubled from December Bell Helicopter Corporation was imminent. Common. Laborers The first letter from Sen. John- last year to January 1958. Several spokesmen said the "outlook is Union officials reported between son to the FCC on KWTX-TV was hundred people gathered In Bruni bright." Employment there has Alice 150 and 200 jobless, but they said Feb. 4, 1952, and merely trans- Plaza to receive food bags given leveled off at 2,500. A recent this was due to bad weather which mitted a letter from Wm. J Bos- out by Mexico de Afuera, an or- multi-million dollar Army con- curtailed outside employment. well of Waco to Johnson asking ganization headed by Homero Al- tract for Bell's turbine-powered Machinists Union officials re- about FCC procedure on the TV Savings & Loan varado. Army HU-1A, plus other military ported 64 laid off at Cameron channel application and outlining In Corpus Christi Agriculture and commercial business, is ex- Iron Works, between 75 and 100 the proposed owners of KWTX- Commissioner John White said pected to keep Bell's employment at W-K-M, and between 40 and TV. FCC Chairman Paul Walker the recession "is the result of a figure at 2,500, spokesmen said. 50 at McEvoy oil tool. (Some of replied to Johnson March 3, "the Association sharp decline in the purchasing August C. Esenwein, vice presi- the unemployed at Dow Chemical determination would be based power of agriculture. ... Right dent of Convair and general man- upon the facts as shown in the now farmers need 30 percent more ager of the company's Fort Worth Page 5 February 28, 1958 application." CURRENT DIVIDEND RATE 'acreage for cotton; and the sup- plant, said employment at Con- April 30, 1953, Johnson wrote port price should be maintained vair has been stabilized at 21,000 enclosing a resolution of the Waco at 90 percent of parity." He said since last fall and "there are no board of commissioners concern- Member of the American farmers with less income buy foreseeable plans for layoffs or fewer tractors, trucks, imple- ing the TV channel. "I will ap- 3Y2% Society of Piano rehiring." preciate your giving serious con- PER ANNUM Technicians ments, and this affects all who Convair is now in initial pro- deal in these items. duction of the B-58, plus sub- Douglas R. Strong Roy Evans, president of United contracting work, building for- partment reflect a heavier unem- Insured by an Agency of Auto Workers Local 893 at ward fuselage sections of the F- ployment picture in rural areas. the Federal Gov't PIANO TECHNICIAN Chance-Vought aircraft and a 106, which are shipped to Con- Welfare officials say an unem- Tuning, Repairing, leader in Dallas labor circles, vair's San Diego (Cal.) plant for ployed worker can occasionally says "the companies are trying to assembly. pick up a day or so of work in Rebuilding BOB MULLEN, Vice President use the job squeeze to knock Fort Worth's city welfare de- the city, when such work gen- JAcks 011 3-1276 wages down and to knock the partment has reported an increase erally isn't available in rural Mullen Building Alice, Texas 808 Harold, Houston 6, Texas seniority situation out of the con- in claims for assistance, while areas. tracts." His local's contract with records at the county welfare de- A.H., E.F , R D Days of FDR Recalled Dallas Demo Women DALLAS leader who was not afraid of ,wander from job to job on the Four hundred North Texas government and who believed farms, 75,000 of them have to Drop Truman Invitation liberals filled a banquet hall government should do for the peo- leave the state to eke out a live- in Dallas one night last week- ple what the people couldn't do lihood. Poorly housed, inade- Officials at the Texas Re- Temple Daily Telegram edi- end to pay honor to Franklin for themselves." "To me he's the quately paid, more poorly clothed search League are badly I torializes: "The people of this Roosevelt. They were man who saved the nation." and fed, accompanied by their stung, and very much put out, by country have taken all the beat- greeted with congratulatory Throiigh price supports he gave children, the citizens of tomorrow, the Observer's editorial remarks ing they can stand from oil im- wires from Eleanor Roose- farmers "bargaining power," said they roam unperceived by the last issue identifying the league ports." velt, a speaker at the affair in Alexander. overwhelming majority of their as the Texaco Research League. previous years, Sen. Paul fellow Texans. I believe Franklin Says Texas Businessman of Gilbert Garcia, speaking for I Douglas (D.411.), ex-Sen. Roosevelt would have taken cog- A liberal at the Roosevelt Day the nine - day allowable: the Texas GI Forum, said New V Herbert Lehman (D.-N.Y.), nizance of this pathetic condition." dinner in Dallas wore a but- "Texas newspapers did not turn Deal farmers' aid let some of his ton, "Democrats for Hoover," a the rules and border the stories and James Carey, president younger brothers continue in of the International Union of "In Texas," he said, "the aver- genuine relic. in black, but the announcement school while he and older ones age income of the Latin-American last week ... was, in truth, the Electrical Workers. They quit school and went to work. Democratic Women of Dallas were in high cotton, in fact : ... is less than $985 a year. That's death notice of a reigning sov- not good. It cannot forebode County, who had invited ex- Mrs. Margaret Carter, Fort SR. ERNESTO ZORIA, Mexi- ereign. Oil is King no more in good." Pres. Harry Truman to speak in Texas." Worth, told them, "When can consul in Dallas, said the Dallas March 15, bridled at co- the Dallas News devotes its evening's speaker, Sen. Henry Gonzalez said "the greatest re- operating and sharing proceeds I Dick West of the Dallas News Gonzalez of San Antonio, "is the Sunday newsmaker feature forms" needed in state govern- with the Dallas County Demo- complains in a column that to Frankie Randolph one evident and eloquent expression ment concern the legislative pro- "national magazines have suc- of the open feeling of possibilities Sunday and to Nat Wells the cess. "There has crept into our ceeded in building up a myth" that all the Mexican-Americans next, brother, we've written legislature a creeping, but stead- about "those feelthy-rich Texans." have in this state of Texas." He some poll taxes." ily creeping, corrupting influence Political Intellioence An article on the Porter letter said Roosevelt had, with his good Six speakers told what Roose- ... to proper parliamentary pro- in New Republic this week (by neighbor policy, "opened for velt meant to them. C. M. Savage, cedure," he said. In the Senate, crats and having one f union rep- an Observer staffer) is entitled, north, south, and central America president of the Dallas AFL-CIO "any eleven men can defeat any resentative at the head table, "Any Friend of Oil is a Friend of the fruitful road of good neighbor- Council, said Roosevelt's philoso- proposal, any time the eleven voted not to have the dinner and Texas." liness." phy was "that the government men can get together and agree to withdraw the invitation to J. Edwin Smith of Houston, owed the working people protec- Gonzalez, introduced by Ronnie to knock it out." Truman. I tion, the same as it owed pro- former chairman of the Har- Dugger of the Observer, told the Lt. Gov. Ben Ramsey, the pre- Speaker Waggoner Carr said tection to business." But for his ris County Democrats, and Jus- crowd he had responded to a siding officer in the Senate pre- social security, wages and hours, in Fort Worth he'll be re- tice Robert Hamilton of Midland, newspaper columnist's speculation pares a list of measures to be collective bargaining, and other elected by a comfortable margin. appointed to the El Paso court of he might run for lieutenant gov- considered each morning. He does welfare legislation, Savage said, His opponent, Rep. Joe Burkett, civil appeals by Gov. Shivers, are ernor with a remark he would not follow the regular legislative "we would have the depression of Kerrville, says the same thing. both stumping the state for Jus- not consider it until the lieuten- calendar except on unusual oc- the 193ft again now. It is easy for tice W. St. John Garwood's Su- ant governor's quarters at the casions. Since legislation is there- Sen. Ralph Yarborough in- to see what we owe Franklin preme Court seat. (Garwood is us Capitol were enlarged to ac- fore being taken up "out of the serted Dawson Duncan's fea- Roosevelt." stepping out.) comodate his seven children. regular order of business" as a ture on Mrs. R. D. Randolph into the Congressional Record, re- John Wilson, chairman, Dallas "Can you imagine me running matter of routine, and since the Dallas GOPers plan at least marking first: "Mrs. Randolph is I County Democrats, said, "There for statewide office and going to Senate's rules require a two-thirds three races this year, writes the leading lady in Texas politics was a candidate whom all the East Texas to campaign?" he vote for this to be accomplished, Bob Hollingsworth of the Times '- today, and is destined to remain forces of reaction and greed could asked. "The only way I could do any eleven senators can prevent Herald: against Sen. George Park- the leading lady in Texas politics not down. There was something that would be to have a safe con- a measure from reaching the house and County Commissioners for a good many years. . . She about this man that created a duct medal from the Governor." Senate floor for debate. Bill Coyle and Denver Seale. ranks high among the fighters for state of mind." He said he had jested to re- Gonzalez said it is "impossible good government in all of Texas Carter Wesley of the Houston porters that Gov. Daniel would to have full and free debate ... U. Simpson Tate, regional di- if a man arrives at his desk, sees history." Informer analyzes the cur- rector of the NAACP, said Ne- not attend the black and white rent posture of ex-Sen. William ball in San Antonio because, 300 bills for consideration, and Bill Gardner writes in the groes became "politically mature" doesn't know what bills are going Blakley: "... Blakley, in throwing judging from the title, the ball Houston Post of Jim Sewell's and were first fairly recognized to be discussed that morning." up his balloons to see what his was integrated. "A lot of people possible candidacy for governor, under FDR. Before his time no He said he imagined better legis- chances are to be elected to a got angry with me, and I was just "The fact that he is blind creates Negroes held civil service jobs; lation was written 50 years ago regular term, is attacking the Su- joking," he said to uproarious a handicap, of course, but his po- now 26 percent of all federal em- than under "these corrupting in- preme Court and generally de- laughter. litical sagacity, legal ability, and ployees are Negroes, "on the fluences." He was not, he said, fending segregation." alert intelligence are unques- basis of merit and not of color." He said in his written. speech criticizing Ramsey. "Any day a tioned:" Gardner said organized / Under the headline, "Disillus- As long as FDR's ideas prevail he had "not really entertained" majority of the Senate make up labor is not greatly concerned ioned Tribune Breaks With among Democrats, Tate said, thoughts of running for lieuten- their minds to enforce the rules about the governor's race, how- President," Ray Zauber, editor "nothing that any Republican can ant governor but added: "Now, I of the Senate, that's the day we ever, and this might hurt Sewell's and publisher of the Oak Cliff ever say will dissuade me from must confess the idea is tempt- can have ... a better, a purer, a Tribune, writes: "The breaking being a liberal Democrat." ing, if for no other reason than candidacy. more just procedure in the Sen- point as far as we are concerned to try to bargain with the incum- Richard Alexander, secretary of ate," he said. Meeting in San Antonio, the is Modern Republicanism . out- bent to recognize me more often the Texas Farmers' Union, paid (Gonzalez's speech concerned I state Young Democrats' ex- doing the New Deal—Fair Dealers on the floor of the Senate in ex- tribute to "this great courageous mainly his approach on maintain- ecutive committee planned to in- in their own game ... there are change for a promise not to run. ing freedom in a mechanized vite Harry Truman, Dist. Judge now two liberal parties in this ... Now my friends, I am speak- economy. It will be published in Jim Sewell of Corsicana, and country—each trying to out- ing facetiously, I am joking. This a later Issue.) others to speak to their state con- socialize the other." statement must not be taken ser- Fred Schmidt, the emcee, and vention in Austin May 9-10. Reso- iously." Sen. Henry Gonzalez. San MARTIN ELFANT Texas AFL-CIO state secretary, lutions adopted criticized Jack said of the liberals assembled, Antonio, may be considering Having just returned from Wis- Porter's letter, spreading unem- "What we are interested in is running for lieutenant governor. Sun Life Assurance consin, Illinois, and Indiana, he ployment, hard money; endorsed people. That's all in the world His speech in Dallas last Saturday said he was "waiting to see who a Senate Democrats' anti-recession we're concerned with." Otto Mul- emphasized larger problems of Company of Canada is the first to accuse me of run- program, including tax cuts, eased linax, Dallas attorney, speaking liberal thought, and he continues Suite 201 Century Building ning for the presidency. At least credit, and more public works; for the sponsoring Dallas Chap- to repeat his response to specula- I could be the favorite son of the the code of ethics proposed by ter of Americans for Democratic tion he might run for lieutenant 2120 Travis, Houston 2, Texas West Side ..." Action, said, "We are opposed to the Democrats of Texas; the fed- governor that he won't consider IN TEXAS, Gonzalez said, "125,- CA 4-0686 ID 3-1210 depressions, whether individual eral agencies probe; and the it until they enlarge the lieuten- 000 people are condemned to or in large communities." world's fair exhibits. ant governor's apartments to take care of his seven children, which obviously could be done easily. I The state AFL-CIO, in a On The Observer press release distributed to Texas labor papers, discusses DALLAS some political possibilities: "Gov. Fred Schmidt, emcee at the Daniel will, of course, run for a Roosevelt Day dinner here second term. There is much talk and secretary-treasurer of the about an opponent against him, Texas State AFL-CIO, told the but so far they are all in the 400 banqueters the Observer rumor stage. Dist. Judge Jim COMPLETE had "left its mark on the his- Sewell of Corsicana ... is among tory of Texas these last few those reported considering the years more than any other race. Dist. Atty. Tom Moore of publication." He said critics of Waco is also reported thinking the Observer who charge it is INSURANCE about it." "Although Senator the mouth organ or apologist Ralph Yarborough has not yet of labor, the NAACP, or the said what he will do, observers liberal Democrats of Texas generally expect him to wait SERVICE obviously don't know what until April to announce for a full they're talking about, they haven't opened up the paper term as U. S. senator ..." "Atty. Gen. Will Wilson now expects to one day and found their hides nailed to the wall." Encourag- run for a second term and may not have serious opposition." "Lt. WIGINTON-HALL LEAGUE CITY ing guests to subscribe, HALL'S Schmidt said, "whether we Gov. Ben Ramsey ... has some INSURANCE AGENCY INSURANCE AGENCY INSURANCE AGENCY agree with it or not, it'll be opposition in sight. Sen. Jarrard Dickinson, Texas Alvin, Texas League City, Texas good for us and it'll be good Secrest of Temple, Sen. Charles for our children who are com- Herring of Austin, and former ing along." Sen. George Nokes of Waco all are considering that race." of publication of this citation, the surveyed November 14, 1955, by same. being the 17th day of March, Claude F. Bush Jr., Licensed 1958, and answer the Petition in State Land- Surveyor. Action to Declare. Heirship, in THE ABOVE SALE TO BE Cause Number 19,468, in which MADE BY ME to satisfy the Martha Wood Clawson, joined pro above described judgment for forma by her husband, Joe CI; w- $59,576.00, and for foreclosure of son, has filed a Petition in Action Plaintiff's equitable lien, in favor to Declare Heirship, filed in. ,ail of Plaintiff, together with all costs Court on the 21st day of Febru- of suit, and the proceeds applied ary, 1958, and the nature of which to the satisfaction thereof. said suit is as follows: T. 0. Lang Sheriff, A suit to determine, declare and Travis County, Texas, erans' land and insurance scan- seen.—Bob Cooper, Box 295, Col- adjudge the Plaintiff as the only By HENRY KLUGE, Deputy. Not Since Allred heir of Fannie Wimberley. De- Austin, Texas, dals ... I'd like for the present lege Station. ceased and Ike Wimberley, De- February 18, 1958. To the Editor: members of the SDEC to be named "Your paper is drifting too far ceased., We have not had a Democrat to the left for me. I do not be- All piersons interested :n said SHERIFF'S SALE and also just whom each sup- estate are hereby cited to appear BY VIRTUE of a certain Order as governor since Jimmy Allred, ported for President in 1940, 1944, lieve in the ruthlessness of -big before said Honorable Court at of Sale issued by the - Clerk of the and Allan Shivers is the most Re- 1948, 1952, and k1956. ... I hereby business but neither do I follow said above mentioned time and District Court of Travis County, place by filing a written answer Texas, 98th Judicial District, on publican of them all. Like it or challenge the Shivercrat SDEC to you to the extreme left."—J. E. contesting such petition should the 17th day of February 1958, in not the gang now in control of put up or to shut up on (the Seibert, 1602 South New Braun- they choose to do so. a certain Cause Numbered 104,103, the state Democratic executive party registration bill), let's get fels, San Antonio. The officer executing this writ wherein Austin Discount Corpora- shall promptly serve the same ac- tion Inc., is Plaintiff, and Wilbur committee must defend and be the Republicans out of Demo- "My I congratulate you on your cording to requirements of law, B. Allen and wife Winnie Allen, held responsible for the chain of cratic conventions. ... There is, and the mandates hereof, and jointly and severally, are Defend- objective and refreshing news re- events connected with ... the vet- there can be no compromise with make due return as the law di- ants, in favor of the said Plaintiff portin.g."—Mrs. H. P. Smith. 4141 rects. for the sum of Two Thousand and the present SDEC, they rule the Tuam, Houston 4. GIVEN UNDER MY HAND no/100 ($2,000.00) Dollars, with Democratic Party to suit not true AND THE SEAL OF SAID interest thereon at the rate of 6 COURT at office in Austin, Texas, per centum per annum from the Democrats, but Republicans, Dix- this the 21st day of February, 15th day of February 1958, sub- CANDIDATES iecrats, Shivercrats, etc. .. A. D. 1958. ject to all right, title interest and JOHN R. COVEY SR. EMILIE LIMBERG, equity of the Mutual Savings In- LEGALS Clerk of the County Court, stitution, and the further sum of Rt. 2 Box 277, Snyder (Seal) Travis County, Texas. $48.75 (1/2 of Court Costs), that * George Echols, Sr., Houston CITATION BY PUBLICATION By M. EPHRAIM, Deputy. being the amount of a judgment oil millionaire, announced THE STATE OF TEXAS recovered by the said Plaintiff, in Stamped On the District Cpurt of Travis he'll run for the House on a plat- TO All Persons Interested in SHERIFF'S SALE the Estate of Mary E. Waterston County, Texas, 98th Judicial Dis- form of liquor-by-the-drink and BY VIRTUE of a certain Order trict, on the 16th day of January To the Editor: and Laverne Waterston, Minors. of Sale issued by the Clerk of legalized horse racing. He de- No. 14,096, County Court, Travis 1958. I, a Democrat of Texas, since the District Court of Travis Coun- I, on the 17th day of February plored a state raid on 25 clubs and County, Texas. The Austin Na- ty, Texas, 98th Judicial District, the first day of organization— tional Bank, Guardian, in the 1958, at 21:07 o'clock A. M., have lounges in Houston. Paul Floyd, on the 12th day of February 1958, levied upon, and will, on the 1st and since I first voted 28 years above numbered and entitled in a certain Cause Numbered 107,- attorney, announced for Place 4 estate, filed on the 20th day of day of April 1958, that being`the ago—wish to allay all suspicion 010, wherein William M. Mea- first Tuesday in said month, at in Houston. February, 1958 its verified account cham, is Plaintiff, and R. K. Ab- that your paper is the "mouth for final settlement of said estate the Cottrthouse door in the City brat, Vincent Caltagirone, and W. of Austin, within legal hours, pro- * Incumbent House members organ''' of our party. I am sure I of Mary E. Watersto:i, Minor and A. Thomas, are Defendants, in requests that said estate be settled ceed to sell for cash to the high- seeking re-election, but to be have been angrier at you, and favor of the said Plaintiff for the est bidder, all the right, title and and closed, and said applicant be sum of Fifty-nine Thousand Five opposed, with the challengers in discharged from its trust. Mary E. interest of Wilbur B. Allen and have thrown your sheet down and Hundred Seventy-six and no/100 wife Winnie Allen, as said im- parentheses: Louis Anderson, Mid- stamped it, more times than a lot Waterston, Minor is now married ($59,576.00) Dollars, with interest and of lawful age. plied vendor's lien existed on the land (Pat Morgan, Brown Bailey); of those who gave birth to the thereon at the rate of 6 per centum 15th day of January 1958, subject Said application will be heard per annum from the 20th day of and acted on by said Court at 10 to all the right, title and interest Jack Bryan, Buffalo (W. A. Kiels, accusation. Please accept my sin- January 1958, together with all and equity of the Mutual Savings o'clock A.M. on the first Monday costs of suit, that being the Jr., Teague, Lloyd C. Martin, Nor- cere wishes for your continued next after the expiration. of ten Institution, in and to the follow- amount of a judgment recovered ing described property levied mangee); E. J. Cloud, Rule (Don- reporting of the facts in the news. days from date of publication of by the said Plaintiff, in the 98th this citation, the same being the upon as the property of Wilbur nell Dickson, Seymour); John VIRGINIA L. RAGSDALE Judicial District Court of Travis B. Allen and wife Winnie Allen, 17th day of March, 1958, at the County, Texas, on the 20th day of Crosthwait, Dallas (Wm. F. Sal- 207 W. Louisiana St., McKinney County Courthouse in Austin, to-wit: January 1958, and for the fore- Lot No. Three (3), Section One lis); B. H. Dewey, Jr., College Texas. closure of • Plaintiff's equitable All persons interested in said (1), Block "C", Bellaire Heights Station (E. R. Alexander) ; Dixon Research League lien. Addition, a subdivision of the. estate are hereby cited to appear I, on the 12th day of February Holman, Fort Worth (B. A. Cor- before said Honorable Court at City of Austin, Travis County, neilius) ; H. V. Puckett, Quitman To the Editor: said above mentioned time and 1958, at 3:31 o'clock P. M., have Texas, according to the map or place by filing a written answer levied upon, and will, on the 1st plat thereof as recorded therein (Wm. J. Whitten, Mineola) ; Jerry ... the Texas Research League day of April 1958, that being the Book 7, Page 81, Plat Records of ... represents big business only. contesting such application should Sadler, Percilla (Ben M. Douthit, they desire to do so. first Tuesday in said month. at Travis County, Texas; together If big business wanted to be fair the Courthouse door in the City with all improvements thereon Palestine) ; Tommy Shannon, Fort The officer executing this writ of Austin, within legal hours, situated. they would now be channelling shall promptly serve the same ac- Worth (George Richardson, Jr.); cording to requirements of law, proceed to sell for cash to the THE ABOVE SALE to be made Herschel Sherrill, McDade (Bill some of their excessive profits highest bidder, all the right, title by me to satisfy the above de- and the mandates hereof, and and interest of R. K. Abbrat, Vin- Pieratt, Giddings, Sug Sanders, back into circulation to stop the make due return_ as the law di- scribed judgment for $2,000.00, rects. cent Caltagirone, and W. A. subject to all the right, title,. in- Bastrop). depression they have brought on Thomas, as said equitable lien ex- terest and equity of the Mutual us. ... GIVEN UNDER MY HAND AND THE SEAL OF SAID isted on the 30th day of Novem- Savings Institution, together with * New candidates for the S. W. NICHOLS COURT at office- in Austin, Texas, ber 1955, in and to the following the sum of $48.75 Original Costs; described property levied upon as and the proceeds applied to the House, with the retiring in- Rockdale this the 20th day of February, the property of R. K. Abbrat, satisfaction thereof. cumbents in parentheses: William A.D. 1958. EMILIE LIMBERG Vincent Caltagirone and W. A. T. 0. Lang, Sheriff, D. Winston, Lufkin (D. B. -Byrd, A Suggestion Clerk of the County Court, Thomas, to-wit: Travis County, Texas, that certain tract or parcel of By HENRY KLUGE, Deputy. Huntington) ; Charles E. Owens (Seal) Travis County, Texas, land lying and being situated in Austin, Texas, Wharton (W. A. Cline, Jr., Whar- To the Editor: By M. EPHRAIM, Deputy. Travis County, Texas, and more February 18, 1958. Everybody wants the depression Particularly described as follows, ton) ; Jim Bates, Edinburg, 0. V. CITATION BY PUBLICATION to end before it gets started, but to-wit: Bridges, Mission, and Wm. J THE STATE OF TEXAS BEGINNING at an iron pine at CITATION BY PUBLICATION nobody is willing to sacrifice in- TO All Persons Interested in Condon, Mercedes (J. T. Ellis, the Estate of Frank P. Bertram, fence corner at the Northeast THE STATE OF TEXAS Weslaco); Ernest Harris, Tyler come to 'stop it. corner of that certain 71% acre TO William T. Wells Defendant, Deceased. No. 18,166, County tract conveyed to William H. Mea- (Ben Ferrell, Tyler); W. B. Allen Let me suggest a way for us, Court, Travis County, Texas. Mar- in the hereinafter styled and garet W. Bertram, Administratrix cham by deed recorded in Vol- numbered cause: Bertram (Harold G. Kennedy, the consumers, to handle the sit- ume 236, Page 135 of the Deed uation. Suppose that we demand in the above numbered Lnd 'en- Records of Travis County, Texas, You are hereby commanded to Marble Falls, running for the titled estate, filed on the 17th day appear before the 126th Dierict a buyer' market on a full-fledged for the Northeast corner of the • Senate); Joe Crumbie, Don Glad- of February, 1958 her verified ac- tract herein described; Court of Travis County, Texas, to scale. Let us tell the seller that count for final settlement of said be held at the courthouse of said den, Fort Worth (Jim Moore); estate and requests that said THENCE with the fence along his product is too high, and then the East line of the said Meacham county in the City of Austin, Harry Jannette, Jr., Dallas (Bare- estate be settled and closed, and tract, S 29 deg. 56' W. a distance Travis County, Texas, at or be- foot Sanders, running for Con- politely retire from his presence said applicant be discharged from of 1495.82 feet to an iron nipe set fore 10 o'clock of the first Mon- without buying. ... her trust. 4,y after 'the expiration of 42 gress); Ray Sanderson, Tulia, and Said application will be heard at fence corner for an angle point J. J. BATES in the East line of this tract; days from the date of issuance Thomas Toliver, Plainview (Le- and acted on by said Court at 10 THENCE continuing, with -the hereof; that is to say, at or be- roy Saul, Kress, running for the Waco, Texas o'clock A.M. on the first Monday said fence. S 30 deg. 17' a dis- fore, 10 o'clock A. M. of Monday next after the expiration of ten the 17th day of LTarch, 1958, and Senate); Bob Wilson, Hal E. Dean, tance of 1074.08 ft. to an iron pipe days from date of publication of set in the center of Little Walnut answer the petition of plaintiff in El Paso (Dick White). this citation, the same being the Cause Number 109,211, in which Judgments 17th day of March, 1958, at the Creek at the Southeast corner of the said Meacham tract for the P. E. Wells is Plaintiff and Wil- * County Courthouse in Austin, liam T. Wells is defendant, filed New candidates for House "Your editorial entitled "By the Texas. Southeast corner of this tract; positions whose incumbents THENCE with the center of in said Court on the 30th day of Millions" (Obs. Jan. 17) was one All persons interested in said Little Walnut Creek N 19 deg. 04' January, 1958, and the nature of have not announced their plans, estate are hereby cited to appear which said suit is as follows: of the finest statements I have before said • Honorable Court at W. 632.57 ft. to an iron pipe set incumbents in parentheses: James for the corner from which an Elm Being an action and prayer for said above mentioned time and judgment in favor of Plaintiff and V. Adams, Mount Pleasant place by filing a written answer 12" in dia. marked "X" bears N 87 deg. 05' W 35.85 ft., and a Wil- against Defendant for decree of (George Ford, Bogota); Leon contesting such application should low 14" in dia: marl:zed "X" bears divorce dissolving the bonds of BOW WILLIAMS they desire to do so. matrimony heretofore and now Thurman, Anson (Moyne Kelly, The officer executing this writ S. 8 deg. 50' W. 44.5 ft; A utomobile and THENCE continuing with the existing between said parties; Afton); Oscar Bean, Kirbyville shall promptly serve the same ac- Plaintiff al_eges cruel treatment General Insurance cording to requirements of law, center of Little Walnut Creek (S. E. Shackelford, Kirbyville); with its courses and distances as on the part of defendant toward Budget Payment and the mandates hereof, and plaintiff of such a nature as to John Allen, Longview (Cecil tnake due return as the law di- follows: N. 19 deg. 39' W. 426.97 Plan ft., N 45 deg. 30' W. 320.0 ft. N. 6 render their further living to- Storey) ; Wm. Floyd, Honey Grove rects. gether as husband and wife al- Strong Stock GIVEN UNDER MY HAND deg. 01' E. 321.79 ft.. N. 59 deg. 20' (James Turman, Gober); Harry It E. 292.92 ft., N 13 deg. 18' W. together insupportable. Plaintiff Companies AND THE SEAL OF SAID further alleges that no children Joiner, Wichita Falls (J. B. Wall- COURT at office in Austin, Texas, 1144.22 ft.. to an iron pipe drilled on rock in the East line of the were born of said union and no ing) ; Joe Cannon, Mexia, Walter 624 LAMAR, AUSTIN this the 19th day of February, community property was accum- A.D. 1958. Manor Road for a corner of this Gantt, Groesbeck (Jack Welch GReenwood 2-0545 tract; ulated. Plaintiff further prays for EMILIE LIMBERG the restoration of her maiden Marlin). (Last three paragraphs Let's Abolish the Poll Tax! Clerk of the County Court, THENCE with the East line of the said Manor Road as follows: name of Patricia Elizabeth Bar- based on Austin Report.) (Seal) Travis County Texas, nett and for costs of suit and re- By M. EPHRAIM, Deputy. N 54 deg. 55' E. 189.89 ft. N 51 dea. 02' E. 222.19 ft., N 42 deg. 53' E. lief, general and special; 70.49 ft. to an iron pipe set at fence All of which more fully appears CITATION BY PUBLICATION from plaintiff's original petition THE STATE OF TEXAS corner for a corner of the tract Insurance herein described; on file in this office, and to which TO the Unknown Heirs of Fan- reference is here made. Over $100 Million In Force nie Wimberley, Deceased, and Ike THENCE S 54 deg. 51' E. a dis- tance of 620.29 ft. to an iron pine If this citation is not served Wimberley, Deceased, Defendants, within 90 days after date of its in the hereinafter styled and num- set for an inner corner of this tract; issuance, it shall be returned un- bered cause: served. You (and each of you) are THENCE N 27 deg. 26' E. a dis- hereby commanded to appear be- tance of 198.30 ft. to an iron pipe WITNESS, 0. T. MARTIN, JR., fore the County Court of Travis set for a corner of this tract in Clerk of the District Courts of County, Texas, to be held at the the North line of the said Mea- Travis County, Texas. courthouse of said county in the cham 71 3/4 acre tract; Issued and given under my City of Austin, Travis County, THENCE with the fence along hand and the seal of said Court HOME OFFICE — 5011 FANNIN, HOUSTON Texas, at or before 10:00 o'clock the North line of the said Mea- at office in the City of Austin, A.M. of the first Monday ,,Iter the cham tract, S 50 deg. 45' E. a dis- this the 30th day of January, First life insurance company in Texas with $1,000,000 expiration of ten days from date tance of 1116.85 ft. to the place of 1958. beginning, containing 71.25 acres 0. T. MARTIN, JR. Capital and Surplus paid in cash prio to writing business Page 7 February 28, 1958 of land, being 70.3 acres in the J. . Clerk of the District Courts, C. Tannehill League and 0.95 acre Travis County, Texas. THE. TEXAS OBSERVER in the J. A. G. Brooke Survey, as By ELI GR,EER, Deputy. With Ferree at His Clinic in Matamoras (Continued from Page 1) Christian Soldiers, Marching as print-paper and wrapping it up, The women with the dignity. The A crippled boy's mother gets a merce, Rogelio G. Rendon, wrote to War, With the Cross of Jesus, folding under the ends. The peo- babes in arms. The old woman in can of Meals for Millions. to Mexico City that "la gente Going on Before ...' " ple watch quietly through an open great pain. in her joints. An al- Ferree passes over to the clinic, humilde," the humble people, call His bus is equipped with a window (there is no glass in it, most black Indian girl, a babe they surround him, tugging at his Ferree "El Samaritano" and that white kitchen table, a small ice- nor anywhere else to be seen in under her black serape. Bare feet, sleeve, his torn coat tail. he had helped many poor fami- box without a top, a sink, seats the district) and from the door- torn clothes. Here and there a Back he says, "I need to set it lies. Rendon asked that Ferree be on the sides; the middle is cleared. way. noble face, clear, open eyes, in- up so that when I'm gone the permitted to import a freight-car "Ayuda voluntaria a la frontera," telligence. work will go on. As it is now if of cheese that had arrived (from says the sign on the outside. One A Long Line Ointment from jelly cups; Curi- I go the work would stop in two the U. S. government). Ferree was Monday morning he carried days. I need somebody to carry Ferree is in charge. When he tal from a beer mug. "See we ain't promised the permission, but aboard a dozen newsprint rolls, on." moves among them they come up got nothin' we need a cup for the six months passed before it came. old clothes, a few cans of beets, to the middle of his chest; he medicine," he says angrily. A woman. her nostrils flaring cardboard boxes full of hard Ferree says he was told by a looks like a giant. They clutch at A wife asks can she bring her her lips taut angry in the crowd candy, a bucket of penicillin. oint- Mexican official that "they were him and ask him for tickets for husband, he has an ear infection. outside. ment he had mixed himself with investigating my life to see if the the milk, but he refuses most of Yes, bring him, he tells her. They The milk gone and thirty or the blade of a saw, and what was are poor, they have no money. Russians, were behind it, or may- them, their reasons are not good forty outside in line with tickets be some church. ... They've been left of a five-gallon jug of Curital. enough. Bring him. for it. "You're not poor, they are very investigating my life for two "Well, you better make a note, They line up at the front door Time to let the children line up poor, you have clothes," he tells years." it's Monday morning, and Ferree of the bus, into a very long line. and get their candy. "No hay. No a woman. "You don't get much encourage- goes out on his program with He sits down behind the driv- leche mas. No hay." Coming, they keep coming. A ment. Every time you feed them, faith, three cents in his pocket er's place in the bus, and his two The children come through little boy with his pants down for there's opposition," he says. and oil and gas, and nothing nurses stand by the kitchen table. again, some of them happily, but an injection in. his flank, scream- . "The Catholic Church or the else," he says. From somewhere a box of used others, a girl in her earliest teens, national pride, that's the main motel-size s'o'ap bars materializes ing with fear. A young man with dignity, gravely looking Down the Valley's highways thing. They sent word they didn't on a seat. The people begin pass- turned away because he works. down at the candy in her hand. want us to distribute a little the old bus rattles, Frank Ferree ing through. Children clutching their single "Well," says Frank Ferree, paper book, St. John, St. Luke, high in the driver's seat, his long For the sick, penicillin ointment bars of used motel soap. when there is a little candy left, fingers curled around the hori- with no denomination. Then last behind the ears; rarely, an in- Cans of "Meals for Millions" and no more children to ask for year at Christmas a group went zontal steering wheel. At customs j ection ' of penicillin. vitamins for bad cases. A beet it, "I think we've got everybody over from the First Baptist a uniformed Mexican walks For the ones with tickets, milk falling to the floor, rolling, re- served." Church Sunday School class, for through the bus slowly and nods in brown paper. trieved, eaten red-handed. A boy Leaving colonia popular he a special Christmas party, and to Ferree as he leaves. For each one, a bar of soap, and with a bloody ear waiting for an stops to give a lift to a boy, eleven injection. A mother saying she the next day, about half a block Driving through Matamoras, 'a beet forked out of a can into a or twelve, with a twisted foot, so has no milk in her breasts, and away from us, a big yellow car "There used to be poor people all hand. that he is on crutches; and his no ticket; he does not give her a drove up, and they began to give over the streets," Ferree says. young pal. Boils, colds, sores, risings; weak ticket. out Christmas tickets—this was "They put 'em out there in colonia Thinking, on the' way back to eyes, bad teeth, fever, infections. More cans of milk are opened. the Catholic Church, they told me. popular so the Americans won't Matamoros, he says, "Out of a The dirty children with the Children drink the beet juice "This is only the third time see 'em." thousand people, maybe you can I've said this in my life: the lovely faces. Their staring at you. out of the can. save a life once in a while." Catholic Church maybe don't On the way out of town he want us to help those poor peo- stops and buys half a dozen ple. They don't help 'em, and oranges for nine cents. A mother maybe they don't want us to. passes with a young child: they SALES OR INCOME TAX are in rags. "She's not poor," Ferree says. "She's not poor." (Continued from Page 1) wealth. cigarettes, personal luxuries, and No Stopping How can he tell? "Shoes. The people, an extra penny (in taxes) "Taxation of wealth has largely a tax on services." "But we're getting so much baby 'had shoes. The children for gasoline means one less slice taken the form of the general His group's officers and direc- help that we couldn't stop our never have shoes in a poor fam- of bread or spoon of beans. ... property tax, which can no longer tors were evenly divided, Nix said, program if we wanted to," Ferree ily." We say it is high time that some serve as a significant source of on the question of instituting adds. of our legislators and public of- state revenue. The possibilities of severance taxes on minerals on Past Boys' Town about a mile ficials stop being the baby darl- 4 Dr. Bernard Pearson, who has this tax, such as they are, have which no such tax is now levied. his own clinic on the outskirts of is another settlement, out on the ings of TMA and the vested in- been strained to the limits by ex- The South Texas Chamber of Harlingen, believes Ferree must open plain, more than a thousand terests. It is time that they cease ploitation at the local level. This Commerce also proposed, through carry on. "It gives them some lean-tos, board shanties, nailed- and desist giving Texans re- leaves income and consumption as Nix, creation of a "Texas 'Hoover hope," he says. "It opens the win- together hovels of every shape tainer-fee legislation and begin the only feasible options for state Commission.' " Such a body, he dow so they can look out. When and substance. The only commun- imposing taxes according to abil- use. We are moving rapidly said, ought to study "the whole Frank goes in and gives 'em a ity facilities are a small school- ity to pay. We say that a tax on toward the day when we have to financial structure of the state" shot in the arm, it's beautiful—I house built of raw boards and corporate income is now impera- make a choice between taxing one and investigate state spending "to do believe. Frank Ferree's clinic, built for tive. ... It is time that share- or the other ... or some combina- the end that unnecessary and ex- "He's saved hundreds of lives. him by the Longorias of Mata- holders of corporations, domes- tion of the two." cessive spending practices be cur- How many cases of nephritis he's moras. The clinic stands in the tic and foreign, be asked to con- Thompson, who appeared at the tailed or eliminated ..." prevented, I wouldn't try to say. middle of a vacant block, con- tribute. ... It is time that our commission's invitation, said he In Dallas Schmidt had said that He brought a child over with spicuously white on the dry-dirt public officials take a more sober favored the personal income tax a corporate profits levy would not anaemia, we gave him blood trans- ground, the only painted building look at the living conditions of over a tax on corporate income or deter the moving of 'industry to fusions and vitamins: that boy's among the thousand. little 'Joe Smith' ..." a general sales tax because "in- Texas. Dr. John Stockton of the come is a better measure of eco- life was saved. And mastoids— Joggling along a mud road University of Texas bureau of imagine how many children have toward it one sees a darkly hand- Taxing nomic well-being and taxable business research, a commission been spared that—hundreds of some girl in her high teens, lean- capacity than is consumption; our member, asked Schmidt for data them. Look at the people who ing her arm on a wooden barrier Non-Texans present tax structure already to support the contention. rests so heavily on various spe- Schmidt told the commission would have died from pneumonia near a hut. Thompson, after a detailed dis- cific kinds of consumer expendi- that the UT bureau under Stock- if Frank hadn't been over there." cussion of the merits and demerits The bus 'pulls up, and children tures that additional major bur- ton's direction had surveyed a Ferree's belief that a penicillin of sales and income taxes told and mothers, and a few men, be- dens on this base would be un- number of companies moving into ointment applied to the arteries the commission, whose political gin to gather; babies' crying and wise; the use of either or both of Texas and had determined that bdhind the ears cures most every- coloration is conservative, that women's and children's talk en- the income taxes would involve "less than 10 per cent listed thing, and his reliance on "Curi- "we should recognize that strong velops the bus. less total burden on the state's the Texas tax structure as a fac- tal," a Valley herb drug (which state and local government, to taxpayers, in raising the same tor in determining whether or not he has people drink, though the Ferree's two nurses and a young which we. are all prone to give label says it is not for internal amounts of revenue, because some to migrate ..." Schmidt added man go inside one of the clinic's frequent lip service, cannot be ex- use), does not commend his medi- considerable portion of the addi- that the UT study was supported two rooms and open cans of pected to exist without adequate tional state taxes would come, in in its findings by a similar study cal methods to M.D.'s like Pear- powdered milk, pouring the dry financial support. Such govern- son. effect, out of the federal treas- made by 'the University of Okla- ment is not a free good; it has its powder tonto pieces of the news- ury; the income taxes. would pro- homa. Pearson says he is going to hire costs—substantial ones. for Ferree's operation two Mexi- vide a means of exacting contri- The AFL-CIO supplemental "I would point out that those of can doctors and a couple of Mexi- butions from non-residents who statement made an additional us who are particularly interested can surgical nurses to make the obtain income in the state but point, that the tax burden of the TWo Delinquencies in maintenance of the 'historic medical part of the work scien- who would be touched lightly or Texa ► of below-average annual tific. "He's opened the way so role of the states' in. the federal , not at all by a general sales tax." income is higher than the burden AUSTIN framework are under a special that other people can go in," he of the average-or-better income The state Democratic execu- says. obligation to urge the state to ac- Texan. Schmidt said that, work- tive committee's "accounts Taxing Sales But Ferree doesn't quite know cept all the governmental respon- ing with figures from the com- payable" as of the end of 1957, sibilities which it can discharge. Nix said a poll of his organiza- about this: he is perhaps suspic- mission's first public report, "The noted the Austin accounting Quite clearly the full assumption tion's officers and directors ious of science. "The doctor don't Taxes We Pay" (Obs. Feb. 21), it firm of Mulhollan and Conk- of such responsibilities will in- showed that 65 per cent favored a talk very favorable," he says, "but had been determined that "the lin, included the cost of sub- volve spending and raising addi- general sales tax, 85 per cent op- you gotta get food to the hungry, poorer (are) paying more than the scriptions to two newspapers. tional revenues." posed both personal and corpor- you got to get out and do it, you richer." If there is to be adequate sup- ate profits income taxes, 65 per gotta do it on a pretty broad The committee owes, said Bexar County Judge Charles port of expanding state govern- cent were against a tax on chemi- scale. If people will work with . the accountants, for a year's Anderson joined Curlee in calling ment activities, said Thompson, cals, 75 per cent for the 'Coyness truth and justice and righteous- subscription to The Texas Ob- for abolition of the statewide ad "we must consider much more plan' (of transferring about three- ness..." server ($4) and the Houston valorem tax. So did Bexar Corn- seriously than we hitherto have quarters of all future revenues of Chronicle ($10.50). missiOners Sam Jorrie and Albert the possibilities of new sources of permanent school and university Pena and Harold Keller, presi- A Day With 'Him revenue. The desirability of funds to state available funds), dent of the San Antonio Taxpay- These days Ferree loads up 'broadening the base' for taxation and that 70 per cent favored ers League. what he thinks the Mexican in Texas has often been approved broadening "the tax base so as to Sen. Fly said the commission bridge officers will pass and sets NOTE in principle. But it does not seem bring in, wherever possible, new would meet March 14 at Houston out in his old bus, hoping for the (The 'second article in the Hous- to be so generally recognized that sources which are now escaping and March 28 at Abilene. taxation." His officers and direc- best. "The only way I can get ton school board series was there are only three broad bases L.J. across the bridge is to sing a song crowded out this week; the series from which tax revenue may ef- tors, said Nix, listed these "new as I cross. Sing a song, sing a will be resumed in the next issue. fectively be drawn—net income, sources" this way: "minerals, Page 8 February 28, 1958 song," (and he sings) " 'Onward —Ed.) consumption expenditures, and property tax, chemicals, liquor, THE TEXAS OBSERVER