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Vol. 48 TEXAS, FEBRUARY 12, 1957 10c per copy No. 42 Say?' 'Fellows, What Would Billy Graham THE I CT STORY DALLAS, FORT WORTH, Lal?or's Try at Business On Sept. 4, Saunders and chief AUSTIN examiner Tom Robinson asked In 1952 a fast-talking man Reaches a Crossroads James Cage for a fuller statement who quoted Franklin Roose- pay them in the usual course of of its bonds and stocks, and, not COMPTROLLERS EST t velt rose to his six feet four business, but policyholders could receiving it within 15 dayS, or- NASS tV 1u1. CPIS.% and told the delegates at the demand from the unearned pre- dered a multi-state examination. Amarillo convention of the mium reserve of $2.9 million if Last Tuesday the report showing State Federation of Labor : the policies were cancelled, said insolvency was in; Thursday "Now the working people the order. Cage—according to Osorio—said have a voice." The company was examined by the deficit "couldn't be made up" That voice is anguished states in three insurance zones but "wanted a little more time." James Cage told the Observer I now: last year. The examination was at mid-morning Tuesday t h e The promoter, BenJack Cage, completed April 6, and the firm "mystery Tex a n" considering wheedled and wined the AFL was re-licensed. However, the ex- helping the company may wish to movement in Texas to entrust to aminers did not know about what bring in a fire and casualty com- him some of its money, most of its Insurance Commission Chairman pany to own and manage the insurance, and all of its faith. He John Osorio told the Observer firm, "and he will help put up the parlayed all three into the $30- money." Cage thought it possible million-a-year ICT business group. this might be worked out very This week tens of thousands of Ronnie Dugger shortly. He has stated the Insur- working men and women began ance Commission has said that 'in- to reap the harvest. was "a hidden contract by Ben- jection of $1.5 million into the ICT The Board of Insurance Corn- Jack Cage" between Jack Cage company would save it, and' he missioners ordered a show-cause & Co. (BenJack Cage's manage- feels chances are "excellent" this hearing on whether ICT Insur- ment firm), an Alabama insur- ance Co., a fire and casualty com- ance company, and a California will work out. "It's an honest 'philanthropic pany, should be put out of busi- college—a contract whose exist- move on his part," James Cage ness Feb. 19. It said the company ence increased ICT Insurance said of the unnamed Texan, who is "hopelessly insolvent." This is Company's liabilities. James G. AVVEAtve ct r4X would not control the company 4rose ComAprrec the picture it alleged: Cage took the matter to Insur- Admitted assets, $3.1 million; ance Commission Byron Saunders under the contemplated agree- liabilities except capital, $6.1 mil- and Attorney General John Ben ment. =7-7 lion; capital, $1.5 million; there- Shepperd when he discovered it All this remained to be seen. CI' in the summer of last year and Meanwhile, the president empha- l t ,n2Iditt fore, unassigned deficit surplus, SI,/ 84, $4.5 million and deficit surplus as Saunders approved a complicated sized that the company's diffi- kiss:W regards policyholders of $3 mil- adjustment which got the firm culty with a "hidden surety" was ..33i.....re4.r4,1 LOD 11,4 lion. out from under the theretofore "a thing of the past." concealed liability, • but not with- "If they don't show that they EKV The company owes $2.1 million —(See Page 8) in policy claims and could not out loss. (Continued on Page 5)

House, and even the chairmen of the key House committees like W. S. Heatly, Paducah, chairman of state affairs, and Frates See- Pool Bill Moves to Senate ligson, San Antonio, chairman of revenue and taxation, men with entrance to the House chamber fifths. Daniel had also personally direct life-and-death control over Senate Group Tuesday morning and let it be contacted members. Thirteen House legislators' projects and bills. known he was a possible Senate In the Tuesday debate the MALCOLM Mc GREGOR, El candidate. The effect was to House rejected various amend- Paso, gave the bluntest and most Eyeing Herring's strengthen the argument that ments, principally Fort Worth `Switch Voters' surprising answer. "I did it as a GOP candidate Thad Hutcheson Rep. Don Kennard's to require personal favor to the Speaker," would be a strong contender Rep. Martin Dies to resign his he said. against a split Democratic field. Congress seat as a condition of Explain Reasons "He (Waggoner Carr) called me No-Election Plan in there and asked me, and I said). running for the Senate office. It Price Daniel called a press con- AUSTIN ference the morning of the second was defeated 86-50. `Well, I'll do it as a personal favor AUSTIN Why, within 24 hours, did vote to announce if two-thirds ap- Rep. Lou DDugas sought to sub- to you'," McGregor said. The Pool bill for a Senate proved in the House he would stitute the Herring bill to call off 13 members of the House of J. B. WALLING, Wichita Falls, runoff next May goes to the make it emergency legislation in the April 2 election. It was Representatives change their who rose to speak for the Pool wire in the Senate this week. the Senate so two-thirds would tabled by voice vote. ' Rep. Bill minds and vote in favor of bill after having voted against it Trouble for it was expected, suffice there, too, instead of four- (Continued on Page 4) the Pool bill to have a Senate the day before, said: but no one would venture a runoff ? "Jake Jacobsen (Governor Dan- firm prediction. That question aroused highly iel's administrative a s s i s t ant) agitated interest at week's end in Committee hearing on the !Continued on Page 4) Osorio Appointment Fight . the Capitol, for the switches Pool bill and the Herring bill skimmed the bill over its highest to call the election off was hurdle, the 100 votes needed in scheduled Monday night. Is Nearing the Senate Floor the House, though it had obtained Pool Bell Votes Thad Hutcheson told the Ob- only 90 votes the day before • 'AUSTIN server from Houston he AUSTIN Cavness's report on the board Three other members switched The final vote to pass House would be on hand to oppose The fight on John Osorio, stating that the water engi- from support to opposition, but Bill 4, the Pool bill, was 103-46. the "infamous" Pool bill. Shivers-appointed chairman of neers had allowed a federal they were offset by three who For an account of the switched He was. the Texas Insurance Commis- agency to take over some state did not vote the first round but votes from the day before, see It passed the House Tuesday, sion, is expected to reach the geological survey authority. showed up the next day to vote related story. Cavness sharply denied the "aye." Rep. Jean Hosey, Galves- Every member voted except 90 to 57, to third reading. A hun- Senate floor this week.• The dred ayes were needed for im- Observer understands on un- report was aimed at having ton, felt so strongly he drove all Speaker Waggoner Carr. The mediate effect. impeachable, '-' authority that bearing on Dixon's confirma-; the way to Austin from federal Sp Aker does not vote as a rule. Within the next 24 hours the- 49sorio thought he had obtain- tion by the Senate. court in Galveston to cast his aye LThe 46 nay votes: "nay" voters were subjected to .4'.-17 ed an agreement from 4 Jake I Sen. George Parkhouse, Dal- vote. Not a single member was Baker, Ballman, Bartram, Bra- various pressures. Speaker Sam Jacobson, administrative aide las, a supporter of Dixon's, said absent, a fact no one could re- shear, Burkett, Byrd, Cloud, Cole, Rayburn telephoned Rep. Charles to Governor Daniel, that Dan- apparently Cavness is trying member duplicated in recent leg- Dewey, Duff, Dugas, Dungan, El- Hughes, Sherman, and Rep. Don iel would stay out of the mat- to run the state government islative sessions. 1iott, Fenoglio, Glass, Green, Har- Kennard, Fort Worth, asking ter. Some doubt was raised and has exceeded his authority The Observer polled the switch- rington, Heflin, Hollowell, Hol- them to switch (which they did about theagreement last week, as a "super-bookkeeper." ers, man by man, asking them stein, Huffor, Charles Hughes, not). Speaker Waggoner Carr had but the Observer's sources At his press conference, each, what new factors devel- Isaacks, Jackson, Jamison, Jones, Kennard, Korioth, Kothman, members into his apartment ask- would not confirm it as more Governor Daniel indicated he oped within the last 24 hours ing them to change. Reps. Frates than a rumor. does not think Shivers's part- which caused the vote change? Maim, Mullen, Myatt, Richardson, Seeligson, San Antonio, and W. Osorio -is a lawyer who was the appointments were "in An off-the-record view that Sanders, A. R. Schwartz, Shackel- S. Heatly, Paducah, chairmen of legal aide to Shivers. the interest of good govern- could be tapped at almost any ford, Sherrill, Will L. Smith, Ian, Wheeler, the potent revenue and taxation Meantime, another flare-up ment." He said he would not point o•n the House floor was that Springer, Stroll- committee and state affairs com- over a Shivers appointee oc- name any positions after Jan. the pressure was terrific, involv- White, Wilson, Winfree, Yezak, mittee, respectively, worked the curred. R. M. Dixon, chairman 1 of the year he leaves office. ing as it did the Senate Majority Zbranek. Every other member except members, too. of the State Board of Water "I'm looking over the appoint- Leader from Texas, the Speaker John White, the Commissioner Engineers, was implicitly criti- ments to see what position I of the House of Representatives, Carr voted aye. There was not a of Agriculture, appeared at the cized by State Auditor C. H. should take," he said. the Governor, the Speaker of the single "present, not voting." . ••(—%■,,milorMr,r07711.11101VP.,17

Let those flatter who fear, it is not an American art. —JEFFERSON , Hasn't Been Changed in Years

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The pressure applied for the Pool issue. They have been singled out by bill in the House was the worst the. entrenched machine in poWer, mass gang-up in years, a disgrace to and they have every right to go to the legislative process. Thirteen the people for satisfaction. We members couldn't take it, and they would not be surprised to see them switched their votes from "no" to both in - the runoff ; it would be "aye" within 21 hours. poetic irony. Sam Rayburn and Lyndon John- The Washington pressure—as son put on the pressure from Wash- severe and blatant as has ever been ington. Price Daniel telephoned applied on the legislature—should members and held a press confer- convince loyal Democrats (if any ence just before the House vote. yet. need convincing after the John- Speaker Waggoner Carr called son-Rayburn-Daniel steal of . the members back into his apartment Fort Worth ' convention) that as behind the House chamber and long as Johnson and Rayburn have asked them to back the bill. Carr's their Way, a grass roots party will chairmen of the key committees , never have a chance in the state. joined in what members call "the As for the bill to call .off the elec- sweat." tion, introduced by Senator John- Everybody knew on the face of it son's friend, Charles Herring, (a the bill was meant to gut Ralph good man for all that,) let us mere- Yarborough. To help pass it, Thad ly say this. Were th6 103 House Hutcheson was blown up as a con- members who voted for "majority tender. The fact that every election rule" to turn around and cancel the is decided by a plurality, , while election in favor of Johnson-Ray- every party primary is decided by a burn-Shivers rule, a convention of majority, seemed to count for no the dictionary writers would have to thing. - be called to re-define "hypocrite" as Yarborough and Hutcheson have "One who makes false professions ; been handed an electric campaign as, a Texas legislator." Bartlett Appears Exclusively in the Texas Observer

eAtniA euclyei The Slums of Texas Texans may be grateful that Gov- nancially 'struggling students. We AUSTIN decade. There are 5,000 pit privies ernor Daniel is striving to lead the ought to be moving toward univer- Within a two minute walk of the within the- city limits and almost as legislature to a responsible spending sity edilcation financed out of gen- spreading lawns of the Capitol many outdoor flushing toilets. Fifteen •program to help meet the needs of eral revenue, not in the opposite di- grounds, eight people live in three thousand San Antonio families do not the state. • rection: rooms, with wood for heat and no have bathing facilities in their homes; glass in the windows., - Our most serious misgiving con- And what conceivable justifica- 23,000 live in places without running water or dilapidated. cerns the Governor's tax program, tion, other than stopping On up the same street a MeXiCan . the gap, Thousands of San Antonio families and his attitude toward it. is there for transferring a hun- mother keeps her four children in two-- rooms with wide cracks between wash under outdoor faucets, when We hope he is correct that in- dredth of the Permanent School the they wash; use kerosene lamps for creased income from oil taxes will Fund (the public schools' historic floorboards, a hole cut in the wall for a kitchen light; cook on kerosene stoves or hot- net the state $40 million ; we will endowment) to current income? We window, and slats of rotted. plates; drink larvae-infested water soon know. We fear that if he is wood, supported by rocks, for back- are glad Daniel is against most of door steps. bought by the canful from the water wrong about this, he might not the Gayness Plan. President Logan vendors. They sleep four in a bed, the fight as hard for the natural gas Wilson of U.T. called it`.`eating our Across Montopolis bridge, along rest on the floor.. They try to find the river ridge, is a hideous melange tax he recommends as he has Seedcorn." This nibbling at the en- ways to keep the rats and the roaches of shacks, privies, and abandoned off the children at night. In the winter fought, behind the scenes and fin- dowment is the same thing. The frame houses. Some of them are on ally in the open, for the Pool bill. time is well past 'when we should the cold comes in. the edge of an unauthorized dumping "The City of the Sun" still toler- But we would not press this mis- have adopted basic tax reforms, but pit full of tires and garbage. giving at this point ; it would be un- ates corrals, rows of shacks encircling under the circumstances we cannot The most concentrated slums of the a community privy area and a water fair to assume he will not. object to this transfer, provided it city are in East Austin, where the Ne- spigot or two. Gas and electricity in We think the natural gas tax is thought of not as a precedent but groes live. Here in 1954 occurred 220 the rooms are rare and cost extra. he recommends is a good stop-gap as an act of desperation. of the city's 386 cases of tuberculosis, Used toilet paper litters privy floors. measure. it can be adjusted within The Governor carried out his 12 of the 13 deaths from it, because Some of San Antonio's worst slums limits.. to fill out the financing of the promises to recommend higher of the close quarters, the poor sanita- start two blocks from the downtown biennium. It will fall, in the first teacher, college faculty, and state • tion, and the. low educational level. area. .While the Rotary Club meets at instance, on the major oil and gas employee pay, added needed judges' At least 20,000 people in the heart the hotel, two blocks away 20 families companies that can well afford to -raises, and 'called for a paid proba- of Austin are existing in unsanitary use one toilet and live in a room per bear it and are, furthermore, smart or unfit habitations. family of ten or more. tion system to help convicts, young Next time you drive into doWntown enough to pass it on to consumers, Why does society permit such and old, readjust to society. His Dallas on Harry Hines Boulevard, more than half of whom are out-of- things ?' How does it happen ? Ben Na- $3,000 annual salary for legislators look for a sign on a grain elevator to than is one of San Antonio's biggest state people. is too low. We much prefer Truett the right, "Team Up with Tex() slum landlords. Listen to him: As a basic reform, it does not Latimer's $7,500 program, linked Feeds." At the foot of that elevator is "In my youth I was an idealist. I register. What is needed is a tax with annual sessions. a slum tumor • in the city's heart, 14 wanted a better life for everybody. system which taxes the people and But again, as in his first address to 15 blocks of splintery grayboard We were all idealists then ! But when corporations it starts out to, tax. A to the legislature, Daniel showed he lean-tos, rutted alleys, stinking privies you go into business it's dog eat dog. graduated corporate income tax, is a studious, well-informed, and and honky-tonks. But I havelyt eaten anybody !" such as Wright Patman suggests progressive Governor. The question The Negro women stop you and "The ethics of it?" he says. "It's for the .U.S., would do the trick ; remaining is not his policies but his ask if you want a date; the children business, and you compete with one play in the alleys: I was taking a pic- so would a personal income tax. But leadership. Can he carry his con- another. The ethics is if you get a cus- ture of some children knocking a tomer you make a reasonable profit." perhaps the legislature will be ready structive programs through a tu- baseball back and forth when a drunk- to face that problem next session. To the Legislature we say only this. multous and highly-pressured legis- en Negro woman stumbled out of a You cannot be asked to make life bet- We wholeheartedly oppose the lature? Will he himself fade in the shanty,,cursing, and picked up a wood ter for everybody. You cannot be ex- doubling of the college tuition. No home ,stretch under the blandish- slat from the alleyWay. The kids ran pected at one stroke to transform dec- cumbersome system of student loans ments and threats of the major in- off a little way, then stopped to watch. ades of deterioration and defeat into can materially alleviate the increas- terests that elected him ? We do not Three men came out toward the broad avenues and green parks and ed burden this would place on fi- know, but We wish him luck. . woman. One of them had an ice pick bright homes. in his hand. She picked up a brick But you can do this : and threw it at him ; it just missed his You can pass the Seeligson law per- head. With that it ende.d as it had mitting the cities that want to to enter Mir atlas Mhstrurr started, suddenly .... She went back into contracts with the United States

• inside, they settled down around out- to clear the slums and then let private i.111•-•2,1 • • 6 side, moving slowly. The kids had investors rebuild them. Ismerporating The State Observer, combined TELEPHONE in Austin : GReenwood 7-0746. inched up behind a privy to watAk. You can pass the Kennedy bill to with The East Texas Democrat HOUSTON OFFICE: 2501 Crawford St., Hous- •Such kids have little chance. About set up a state agency in the area of FEBRUARY 12, 1957 ton, Mrs. R. D. Randolph, treasurer. 120,000 Dallas County people live in municipal planning to eliminate waste Ronnie Dagger, Editor and General Manager We will serve no group or party but will hew dwellings which are sub-standard by and duplication in the cities' efforts to Bob Bray, Associate Editor hard to the truth as we find it and the right as U. S. Census Bureau standards. help their people. Sarah Payne, Office Manager we see it. We are dedi?ated to the whole truth, to human values above all interests, to the rights About 38,560 of the city's 181,000 In all the big cities—in Laredo, Published once a week from Austin, Texas. of man as the foundation of democracy we will housina units are below par. , Corpus Christi, Waco, Beaumont, Delivered postage prepaid $4 per annum. Adver- take orders from none but our own conscience, tising rates available on request. Extra copies 10c and never will we overlook or misrepresent the In Sanb Antonio, 41,000 of the city's Galveston—there are slums and more such. Quantity orders available.. truth to serve the interests of the powerful or cater to the ignoble in the human spirit. 110,000 dwelling units, more than one slums. Any progressive state will first Ltntered as second-class matter April 26, 1987, in three, rated sub-standard—an in- clean up its front yard. Will Texas? at the Post Office at Austin, Texas, under the MAILING ADDRESS : 504 West 24th St., Aus- act of March 8, 1879. tin, Texas. crease of 1,000 . a year the last census RONNIE DUGGER that is what is asked of the state bud- get planners." ANNUAL SESSIONS In discussing the proposed legis- `UPON WHAT MEAT lative pay increases, W. S. Montgom- Truett Latimer and Texas Jaycees Would Give Legislators ery, Midland, chairman of the Jay- cees' statewide project committee, HATH THIS, OUR More Money and More Time to Consider New Legislation frankly told committee members: AUSTIN were outlined by Latimer before a "You get less for your work than CAESAR, FED One of the most basic reforms recent House constitutional amend- the man who cleans up my office ; if before the legislature is Abilene ments committee hearing. He men- you aren't worth more you shouldn't be here. We think you should have By Countryside and Town Representative Truett Latimer's tioned the "flood of bills," a substan- pay commensurate with importance of What would we do without resolution for annual legislative tial number of which are good pro- your position ...' Shakespeare? Someone has called sessions and more pay for all legis- posals; which die as unsettled busi- his work an intellectual ocean lators. It is also being sponsored by ness at the close of each hi-annual ses- sion. Lobbyists opposition, is respon- S PECIFICALLY, house whose tides sweep every shore of the Texas Junior Chamber of Com- sible in some cases, but there are joint resolution one calls for regular merce. human experience. My Mother was many other bills which don't meet annual sessions of the legislature and a great student of the Bard. Her annual pay for each legislator of any concerted opposition but die be- mind was stored with quotations Huloii Brown of Midland, a former $7,500 with $12,500 each for the lieu- state representative who had first- cause the members simply do not have wh,ich fitted any situation.. For in- time to give them the study required. tenant governor and the speaker of hand opportunity to see the need for the House. In addition, the members stance, had she been present at the such a measure, did much of the Latimer pointed out the legisla- of each house would receive a per meeting of the Democratic executive necessary work in showing the state ture has been trying to pass some kind diem of $12 per clay for living ex- committee recently, when our Gover- Jaycee membership why such action of a congressional redistricting bill penses during the annual 120-day ses- nor excommunicated all Democrats is needed. for many years. He also cited the sion and for the first 30 days of each except his own (Democrats for Ei- To dispense with the tamer argu- need for study of a broad-base tax- called session. senhower) brand, I am sure that she ments, the real reason annual sessions structure against the day when the would have murmured, "Upon what and better pay are needed is to help state may need more money but will Members of each House would also meat h.ath this, our - Caesar, fed that break the stranglehold the lobbyists . not be able to count on oil and gas be entitled to mileage in going and re- he hath grown so great ?" have on state government. A principal revenues as heavily as now. turning from the seat of government In Russia the communists limit the tool now employed by lobbyists, as not to exceed the mileage rate estab- number and personnel of their party. most everyone must know, is a mass From his experience on the appro- lished in each biennial appropriation priations committee, Latimer said he You have to be a "card carrying" stalling action to cajole, coerce, and bill for state employees: Legislators member. But, until that grim Satur- sometimes bribe members to let bills knew it was impossible to give the don't get any salary now, but receive needed time and consideration to all day in Austin when Texans were they oppose die in committee or on $25 a day per diem. threatened with being haled into the session calendar. money requests. :He and veteran Rep. Carlton Moore both ponted out the The result would be that Texas court for being Democrats, I think no - Should annual sessions be held, one had ever attempted to say. who overnight the lobby would have to be- virtual impossibility of efficiently would be spending • about three times planning a two-year budget 30 months could and who could not be Demo- gin doing twice as much work, and as much as the current $1.8 million crats. We have had Hoover Demo- bthe pressure to get things stalled in ? advance and still operate the gov- per biennium on legislative expense ernment economically. "If a repre- crats and Regular Democrats, We would have to be many times greater but would have in return a chance for have had Shivercrat Democrats and to be effective. sentative of a major coMpany were to suggest his firm lay out its budget much improved government. Mont- Dixiecrat Democrats, More lately we gomery said, "We can't afford not to have had Eisenhower Democrats (and THERE ARE many other two years in advance, owners of the the record stands that our governor significant reasons for adoption of company would suggest he go have pay for good government." is one of 'these), but as yet no one annual sessions, several of which his head examined," said Moore. "Yet BOB BRAY has been imprisoned or dragged into court for his political party alignment. Nor do I believe that a simple reso- lution passed by a stolen convention BUSINESS REPORT MENTIONS LOBBY has the power to make political pris- oners of American citizens. But this .... Texas Manufacturers Assn. consideration of the segregation bills. .... The Houston Press editorial- is a matter worth testing in the members are invited to subscribe to The idea is to apply each church's ized : "We're in agreement with crit- courts. I did not vote for Hoover. I "The Texas Businessman" at $21 a formal position to each Member's po- ics of the proposed 'Code of Ethics' voted for Al Smith and spoke for him year for 26 reports a year on Austin for state legislators and state in 'Wisconsin, Tennessee; and North sition. Liaison between white liberals y em- and Washington business-political ployes whO testified at a recent hear- Carolina ( where I followed Senator- tides. The Feb. 4 issue- observes Dan- and Negro leaders is reported improv- ing that the bill was too 'weak-kneed' . elect Tom Connally on the stump). iel is friendly to business may ing as the hearings near. J. Evetts and would do more harm than good. I did not vote for Eisenhower. There have the same effect on itit liberals Haley, Canyon rancher, was in town It's tip to the House and the Senate is "a radiance in the darkness,'" - I am have had vis-a-vis spending. A good Wednesday collaring the members on to come up with a code ' with teeth proud to say that I voted for a great many Austin lobbyists "won't be stir- behalf of the bills. ("We will not in- in it that will deter legislators and man . of presidential stature : Adlai prised" if a lobby investigation is tegrate !" If the courts order it, "the state employees from serving inter- Stevenson. But the challenge of the called, it says. Other sample items: cap will blow off !" he said.) Haley ests whose objectives are opposed to Governor to the political freedom of "Don't be surprised if there's an at- might be considering announcing as a those of the general public." his fellow rexans leads me to say tack on state control of oil and gas candidate in the Senate runoff only, that I will ally myself with any politi- conservation." "Businessmen, state though he won't say so. .... Two U.S. Senate committees cal organization which Mrs. Ran- officials recognize they must deal now plan to look into the oil and oil dolph sees fit to approve. And I await with labor; prefer to do it without .... Commenting on the Mann pro- products price situation 'and what with interest the arrival of the sher- old snarling, snapping approach." posal in the House to limit income part Texas oilmen and the Texas iff. M.F.C. Daniel would veto a repeal of the tax to 25 percent of income, The right-to-work law. Yarborough is not State Federation of Labor column for labor's "ideal," but his election would the labor dailies observed : "That's Listening Post .... Governor Daniel is supporting be a "definite labor triumph." the kind of law that's supposed to be the Texas Legislative Council's pro- `equal' for everybody. Or as Vol- posal for a $3,000 annual salary for .... An analysis has been run of taire put it, the law majestic in its Railroad Commission have played in legislators rather than the $7,500 an- the religious affiliations of the mem- impartiality that forbids both the rich holding down production, Dallas nual salary for lawmakers advocated bers of the House state affairs com- man and the poor man to sleep under News Washington staffer -Walton C. by the Texas Jaycees. Moneywise mittee with a view to that group's the bridge." HOrnaday reports. there isn't much difference in the two pay plans since in addition to the .... Texas Agriculture, official $3,000 salary the 'council plan pro- publication of the Texas Farm Bu- vides for $50 per day expenses for Oil Profits Up 37 Percent reau, is supporting insurance rate each legislator during sessions, while proposals filed by ''Sen. Jarrard Se- the Jaycees favor $25 a day. Both WASHINGTON 1955. Standard of California shot crest and Rep. Reuben Talasek, both plans would give legislators around Oil Profits Zoom — Some of the from $174,030;000 in 1952 to $231.- Temple. It declares : "Farmers are $9,000 per year. senators now investigating the pro- 139,000 in 1955. discriminated against under the pres- posed Dulles Doctrine for the Near These companies also enjoy spec- ent law. If the AIL-Industry Rate bill, .... Harry P. Burleigh, Austin, East compare circumstances today ial tax - write-offs, such as the 27 /1 as it is called, is passed, they will be engineer of the U.' S. Bureau of Rec- with those of 1941 when Aramco per cent oil depletion allowance, able to buy better insurance protec- lamation, told the Texas congressional maneuvered the first American aid which other taxpayers cannot get. tion for less money." delegation in a meeting at Washing for the father' of King Saud. Today Freshmen Grumble—Freshmen Re- ton that "water supply is now the con- King Saud's treasury is also low, as publican senators are grumbling over .... The Fort Worth Star-Tele- ' trolling elethent" of the economy. a result of curtailed oil shipments the way they were shunted off to gram, while conceding that Governor "Today Texas stands on dead center, curtailed by the Suez stoppage, and minor committees. Every GOP new- Daniel's proposed budgetary increases economically. This is because firm and he seeks American economic aid. comer, for example, ended up on the may be justified, bemoans - that he did reliable water supplies are not as- In this ' connection, the senators committee that administers local Dis- not make any "suggestion that extra sured" for irrigated agriculture, in- trict of Columbia affairs. For their spending in one sector might be off- dustry and cities. "If an appropriate second assignments,, they drew either set by savings in another, or that in a water program is implemented, the Drew Pearson the post office or rules committee— billion-dollar-a-year government there way is clear to swift and incredibly have before them the recent profits the next two in order of least import- might,be places where money is spent profitable economic expansion." ance. unnecessarily or wastefully." of the oil companies, as compiled. by .... The Kountze News editorial- In contrast, every Democratic the House small business. -committee, ....While it does not take a stand izes : ".... The Pool runoff bill is showing their profits increased the freshman was assigned to at least one on the question, the Dallas Morning major committee. Three newcomers aimed at one man—Yarborough. That amazing total of 37 per cent during News finds that the trouble with pro- is why it is morally wrong and inde- the first three years of the Eisen- —Blakley of Texas, Carroll of Colo- posed annual legislative sessions is rado, and Lausche of /Ohio—drew cent. Of course, the bill is supported hower Administration. that legislators would probably find by Daniel, the six corporations who Profits of Standard of N.J. shot two major assignments. Senate Demo- time to pass more bills. cratic leader Lyndon Johnson has dic- run Texas, and Lyndon Johnson and up from $519,981,000 in 1952 to Mr. Sam, who last year sold out body $709,310,000 in 1956. Socony-Mobil- tated the policy of giving freshmen . Still another insurance scandal and soul to the masters of Texas .... oil went from a profits of .$177,092,- a break. New Republicans mut- is brewing. 000 in 1952 to $207,434,000 in 1955. tering openly that they wish the "Lyn- Texas Oil jumped from a $141,821,- don Johnson rule" would be applied THE STUMP this week is on page THE TEXAS OBSERVER 000 profit in 1952 to $262,730,000 in on the GOP side. six. Page 3 Feb. 12, 1957 Huge Water Program I 'Switch Voters' (Continued from Page 1) ough supporter, said there were Is Gaining Approval convinced me the Democratic "no new factors with me" in his Party had really sincerely tried change of vote. AUSTIN committee, saying it could be discuss this matter with .... fair- to have a primary. I talked to W. "The vote the first was to en- done when the measure reached • Legislative plans for a $400 ness and decorum. This bill is Lee O'Daniel, and while he didn't roll and engross the bill, and I the floor. million Texas water conser- one we must• pass to have any say he'd run, certainly he left the knew that if it didn't carry that But Sadler pressed the issue. vation and development pro- water program at all." door wide open. I felt with as time it would have an opportunity "All right, Leroy, where's your gram are progressing rapidly Sadler said water permits - for many Democrats running who to pass again. I'd still get an op- guts?" he inquired. He charged without serious opposition in appropriative rights to 32 million have the following they do have— portunity to vote for it. that there are only "three or four sight. acre feet have been issued, but I had to vote the other way." "At the time of the first vote Major steps last week included men" down there trying to hold that only 14 million acre feet Walling also said the defeat of I'd had letters from two constitu- Governor Price Daniel's proposal up water legislation. "Let's don't have been used. "Before we can the Kennard amendment to re- ents, both against it. I contacted of appropriations to get the pro- bow to the amendments corrunit- have a successful program we quire Marties Dies to resign as as many as I could before the gram rolling, House adoption of tee." must give the board authority to congressman at large and have final vote, nad they were over- a law to cancel unused water Rep. George Wilson, Newcastle, cancel unused water rights." The his successor elected at the ballot- whelmingly in favor of the bill." permits, and House water conser- added:. "The people have been measure passed its final reading ing for the new senator also in- Lee said that unless White and vation committee approval of one saying they want a water pro- 139-4. fluenced him. Walling voted for O'Daniel announce, a runoff be- of the $200 million state bond is- gram. Let's give them one to vote that amendment. tween Yarborough and Hutcheson sue plans. on." Daniel, in his budgetary ad- "I voted for the Pool bill with now "looms as the logical possi- The committee, after an amend- Saul withdrew • his motion to dress, pointed out: a grain of salt in my mouth," bility." White announced Monday. ment by Rep. Joe Pool, Dallas,: table the amendment, and the "Two separate bond programs Walling added. "They say this ROBERT L. BOWERS, JR., of cutting maximum interest to be amendment and bill gained quick have been recommended for ade- bill allows a majority to elect— Brownfield: charged the state on its bonds unanimous support. quate conservation and develop- the authors contend that. I'm op- "The big thing that I switched from four to three percent, unan- The committee action came just ment of the state's water resour- posed to a majority crossing party on was with these new entries in imously adopted the measure in- a few hours after Sadler had ces. Both require constitutional lines electing any candidate—I am the race—that made a definite troduced by Rep. Leroy Saul, made the principal floor addre ss amendments. The first would pro- firmly convinced a majority of a difference, ,e AhOSe Kress. in behallf of another water bill vide for a revolving fund to aid party ought to elect the candidates." He said he was ---- The conaikli4ttee, after approving giving the State Board of Water conservation districts in construc- dates for the general el9ction." thinking of White and O'Daniel. two k e y amendments, unani- Engineers authority to cancel ap- tion projects, and the second RUFUS U. KILPA,PRICK, "I can't see anything wrong mously approved the measure propriative water permits where would be for the purpose of pur- Beaumont, had "no cpmment." with majority rile." and recommended it to the House the water has not been used for chasing additional water storage WILL EHRLE, Childress, gave BEN D. SUDDERTH, Gustine, for adoption. The amendments ten years. behind dams to be constructed by two reasons for changiAg his vote. responded to the Observer's in- were one by Rep. Joe Pool, Dal- Sadler reminded legislators the federal government. "I had based my vote'Rn a pre- quiry with a statement he wrote r , las, cutting the maximum inter- that when they were seeking - of- "Both of these programs should sumption drawn from letters and out by hand. It „saict„,-- est to be charged the state on its fice most of them told the voters be administered by a new agency telegrams from people in my dig: , to the school of bonds from four to three percent, the ntunber one problem in the to be known as the Texas Board trict. A great many of those folks thought which( believes that a and the other by Rep. Jerry Sad- state was water. In an. Asso- of Water Development. I recom- in the last 24 hours were chang- representative should express the ler, Percilla, boosting the pro- ciated Press poll, most legislators, mend that this agency also be ing their stand," he said. desires of his people when those posed bond issue from $100 mil- he recalled, cited water as the authorized to conduct statewide "Second, on Tuesday (the day desires are expressed. When I lion to $200 million, as Daniel had most serious problem to be faced. planning and coordination, with of the first vote) I did not think first voted against H. B. 4 I did so suggested. "I agree. We started out the ses- surveys and research to assist lo- that the Republican candidate, because at that time I had a tele- Saul was reticent to have the sion with prayer breakfasts and cal districts in watershed and am- Thad Hutcheson, had a chance. gram signed in the name of the issue ' raised to $200 million in meetings and assurance we would derground water conservation. I On Wednesday morning, after Brown County Democratic Club hearing of forthcoming announce- and one other telegram. Also I ments by John White and W. did not at that time believe H. B. Lee O'Daniel and other reports 4 necessary. The Pool Bill in Senate concerning the Republican cam- "After voting against the bill on paign, I decided that Mr. Hutche- the first day I learned that the (Continued from Page 1) seen so much pressure," Kennard education tuition now ranks 46th son had a very valid opportunity telegrain signed in the name of Elliott sought to add a proviso said. "Pressure from the United in the nation and would be 39th to win a one-shot election." the Brown County Democratic that each candidate would have States senator—from the Speaker if the measure passes. Texas CIO J. C. HOOKS, Livingston. ex- Club was not authorized by the to pay $50,000 filing fee. of the House—from the Gover- executive secretary Fred H. plained: Democrats of that county and did Schmidt appeared in opposition. The most dramatic speech Tues- nor—and I regret to say, some "My mind just wasn't made up not express the desires of the "It is a form of tax," he said, "and day was by Barefoot Sanders of pressure from the Speaker him- too definitely to start with. I did Democrats of that county. I talked we should consider whether the Dallas, the only Dallas member self." not know for sure until I had to reliable people in my district, student is the right source to levy opposing the bill. Wednesday's When the vote was tallied it heard the debates. After it was and reliable people in my district this tax. I think there are many was Rep. J. B. Walling's talk in was 103-44. Thirteen had switched proven to me that the majority contacted me. Soon it became ap- better sources." explanation of his changed vote. from "no" to "aye," three from will should prevail, I went ahead parent that the people of my area Sanders pointed out that ma- "aye" to "no," and three absent Rep. Dixon Holman, Fort Worth, with it." were overwhelmingly in favor of jorities rule in party priMaries, Tuesday were present to vote offered an amendment aimed at JACK BRYAN, Buffalo, ex- H. B. 4. but in multi-party runoffs, as "aye" Wednesday. putting some teeth in the legis- plained: "Also I learned from very reli- general elections, "the high man The Observer interviewed the lative code of ethics bill. It would "I personally wasn't opposed to able sources that if this bill was wins the race." "When you put members who changed theh- votes require that each legislator and it to begin with. I was concerned not passed, W. Lee O'Daniel, people of different political par- and their explanations may be state employee file affidavits at about the cost of the election. Af- backed by millions of national ties on the same ballot, then the found on this page. the close of each session certify- ter I got that problem worked out Republican Party funds, would high man wins," he said. Byron Skelton, Democratic Na- ing they had not violated pro- with my courts (in his home dis- enter the race. Also I learned that Wednesday Walling rose to ex- tional committeeman from Texas visions of the bill. Failure to take trict), why, all right. My group John. White would get into the plain his change. "I personally and city attorney of Temple, was the oath would constitute a mis- feel like we can work out our race. called Lyndon Johnson last week. among those appearing in opposi- demeanor, punishable by a maxi- financial problems." "I changed my vote," Sudderth ... He was emphatic to me he tion to a bill setting a maximum mum fine of $1000 or 120 days in SAM WOHLFORD, Stratford, concluded, "to carry out the de- was not telling me how to vote. on the work week of city fire- jail. Filing of a . false statement said it was the "first time I ever sires of the people I represent and He did say Knowland has put it men. The proposal by Rep. Don would be punishable under exist- remember changing a vote." Why to prevent a U.S. senator from out he would call for reorganiza- Kennard, Fort Worth, would set ing perjury statutes. had he done so? being elected by a possible one- tion of the U.S. Senate immedi- up a maximum 60-hour work The Senate State Affairs com- "My constituents changed .," he eighth of the total vote cast." ately after the election of a Re- week for firemen in cities of mittee approved bills giving mar- said. "I was back there (in his 0. H. Schram, Taylor, was publican majority. more than 200,000 population and ried women the right to convey home district) last Saturday, and corded voting "no" Tuesday and "The same day I talked to a 63-hour week for those in cities their separate property without they were against it. But then "aye" Wednesday. He then ad- Speaker of the House Sam Ray- of 10,000 to 200,000 population. their husband's signature and do- they started changing over ... no- vised the Speaker he had actually burn. He said he was not for the Skelton, opposing the provision ing away with married women's tifying me in the last twelve voted "aye" Tuesday too and his from a standpoint of municipal separate acknowledgements. hours. I didn't make any differ- vote had been misrecorded. ' It Pool bill as such but a bill to al- * economy, said it was up to resi- low a Democrat to be elected by The Senate approved Sen. Dor- ence to me. It's a helluva bad bill was changed accordingly. Never- a majority to Congress." dents of cities involved to decide sey Hardeman's proposed consti- —well, the bill's not bad, but the theless, the mistake affected the the rate of pay for its employees. Walling then added that W. Lee tutional amendment reorganizing money and time (involved) is." total change recorded. O'Daniel had since told him: "'My He said that if the state wanted the Court of Criminal Appeals to ROBERT R. P.ATTERSON, Sny- The three who changed from friends have asked me to run, I to supervise working conditions have five judges instead of the der, jested with the reporter that nay to aye: for firemen and policemen it will not say definitely yes, but I current three, abolishment of the he was going about interviewing EARL HUFF O R, Huntsville, definitely am considering it'." should set up a "Gilmer-Aikin" court's annual vacation from July members of "the switchers' club," Texas, said that he voted for en- program for them such as the one Walling concluded a vote for through September, and authority eh? grossment "just to get it off the the Pool bill would keep the ma- for .teachers. for the court to sit in two other "I changed nay mind after ma- hook" and had advised many he jority leadership "in the hands of Tom Pinckney, • Austin, vice locations besides Austin. The pro- ture deliberation on my own intended to vote against the bill a Texan." president of the State Firefight- posal passed the Senate 29-1, with part," he said seriously. "I was on final passage. He voted no, "al- ers Association, said Dallas was Kennard followed Walling. Sen. R. A. Weinert, Seguin, voting not pressured on anybody's part. though a lot of pressure was put the largest city in the nation still "I too have spoken to Mr. Ray- in opposition. "A majority (of the House on me to change my vote," he working firemen a 72-hour week. burn ...With many Democrats The attorney .general was asked members) did favor the bill (on said. Sen. George Parkhouse, Dallas, is for a ruling on legality of a new filing and only one Republican the Tuesday vote), which had ED J. CLOUD, Rule: "No com- proposing an amendment to the gas-for-irrigation bill proposed by filing, it is a possibility that a some influence with me." ment." bill., which would exclude Dallas Sen. Grady Hazelwood, Amarillo. Republican will be sent to the JAMES E. COX, Conroe, said he RICHARD C. WHITE, El Paso, and Houston from its provisions. Senate.... But as strong a Demo- The measure "under study by the had "checked with my lawyers was for the bill, but did not think The proposal to double the Senate water and conservation back home. One particular man crat as I have always been, I it should go into immediate ef- present $25 per year state college committee would give farmers said he had been advised Eisen- have stronger a conviction that fect. Therefore he voted for its en- tuition fees for resident students the right to obtain wellhead gas hower would come down here and once the ball game is started we grossment but not for final pas- and double the annual $200 tui- for irrigation puinps. promote Hutcheson, and if he don't come in and change the sage by 100 votes. He favors the tion for non-resident students Sen. Charles Herring's bill to does, Hutcheson might be elected rules in the fourth quarter if Herring bill to leave Sen. Blak- was sent to sub-committee by the transfer the insurance commission and the state go Republican. I was we're running behind. ley in Washington until the next House State Affairs committee. liquidation division to jurisdiction afraid we'd get a Republican in "In the four years I have serv- general election as the "best com- Texas University President Lo- of Travis County's three district there. I understand he's gonna go promise." He believes that "the ed I have never, I have never gan Wilson spoke in support of judges was referred to a Senate onto television for him." general rule of majority rule is Page 4 Feb. 12, 1957 the bill pointing out Texas' higher insurance subcommittee. JOHN LEE, Kermit, .a Yarbor- all right." Hidden ICT Liability Was Discovered (Continued from Page 1) owner of bonds issued by St. of Oklahoma, Lone Star Boat, and adopted by voice vote. During that convention Holle- Michael's College in Santa Fe, N. Alamo Motor Freight Lines. Cage told the AFL in the 1952 man observed Jack Cage & Co. can clarify the deficit, I think it M., and Belin College in Chilli- He also negotiated extensively convention that the $200,000 is a major collapse," Osorio said. had given two $250 scholarships cothe, Mo. with one Stewart Hoppes, an in- needed from the unions had been "It's regrettable, but the board for the federation's program and Chapman College presented stu-ance adventurer of considera- raised in six weeks. (The federa- didn't have any choice about it. noted ICT Insurance Co. spent honorary degrees to both Pierce ble notoriety. Friends of the ICT tion itself has an investment of The legislature has set up a man- $25,000 in support of TSFL's pub- Brooks of Dallas, head of Na- companies do not feel that Cage only $1,100 in ICT Insurance Co.) date, and we're carrying it out." lic relations program. He ex- tional Bankers Life Insurance bested Hoppes in these negotia- But he mentioned it wasn't a par- pressed "sincere thanks." But on Co., an ICT-related firm, and tions. Hoppes now lives in a $250,- ticipating company with divi- the direct issue he said: "Your `Hidden Asset' former Atty. Gen. Shepperd. They 000 house on an island in San dends to the policyholders. Not secretary has been as active in were awarded in Dec., 1953. Francisco Bay. enough union salesmen, he ex- the affairs of the ICT Insurance Osorio called the crucial con- From a simple decision in 1951 plained, and besides, that would Group as time and other duties tract "a surety contract which to sell themselves insurance, the be "cut rate" business, contrary would allow." didn't appear on the records of `With God, We ...' federationists were to find them- to the "traditional AFL program The Observer has learned that the company. Jim Cage did his BenJack Cage w a s written selves involved in manufacturing, of a fair wage for a fair day's Dec. 15, 1955, a meeting took place best to straighten it out, but he down in many a union man's finance, stock manipulation, and work ... You merely reduce the in the Adolphus Hotel in Dallas couldn't." book as an all right guy. He was real estate. insurance agent's commission ..." between Holleman, BenJack Cage, Insurance companies can write against the Parkhouse bills. He None of it would have occurred "Labor is the biggest thing in and others, at which certain. mat- insurance only on the basis of as- told them they could "do business as it did without the manage- Texas," he said. "God willing, we ters became clear. By Dec. 22 Hol- sets and surplus. They cannot use with yourselves" and out-lobby ment contract and the continued will build for you a living memor- leman had asked Mullinax and their capital. But there is a handy the insurance companies. He gave willingness of the federation offi- ial to the working people of Wells to look into ICT affairs. way to "create assets." the federation $10,000 checks for cers to go along with Cage—a Texas ... By Jan. 28, 1956, it was agreed If you can find some city, col- its workers' education program. willingness which came to an end Wells of Mullinax and Wells Cage would give up his manage- lege, or school district that needs "With God in our corner we late in 1955. noted Ball had left the firm in ment contract, though he legally funds, it can issue bonds for the can't miss," he told the El Paso August, 1951, to become vice pres- still had 12 and a half years to go. amount it needs, the insurance convention in 1953. "I intend," he • About 150. totals ident of the Insurance Company From Dec. 22, 1955, onward, a company makes a down payment told them at Corpus in .1954, "I of Texas, labor's company. "The Holleman and others in the fed- N \ on the bonds and agrees to pay intend to come back here year af- Some 14,000 investors will suf- demand upon our tithe in the eration. have been co-operating \he rest out in, say, 20 years, and ter year and face anybody in this fer if the company goes under. courts and before the N.L.R.B. with James G. Cage, who took iheantime, the company can count hall and tell you what's happened About 150 of the Texas federa- and the wage board, and fighting over the insurance side in mid- the bonds at full value as assets to your company." tion's 800 local unions have in- injunctions and protecting your 1955 and became president early and write insurance against them But last year, he did not come vested up to $10,000 each (the legal rights, has made it impossi- in 1956, in. efforts to improve the at once, even though they are as- back. Instead he was living in a limit that was allowed) in the ble for us to keep up with the positions of the companies and, sets that merely represent debts. luxury apartment at 13 Sutton firm's stock. Union locals or union development of that fast growing as Fath said in his report to the In other words, you can promise Place in New York City. State men bought 35 to 40 percent of and greatly expanding I.C.T.," 1956 convention at Austin, separ- to pay off insurance policies with AFL leaders had gradually un- the stock—that is, about $5 mil- Wells said. ate ICT Insurance, ICT Life In- paper representing debts you raveled what he had been doing lion of it. Many of the policy- Mullinax and Wells were not surance, and ICT Corporation that haven't paid yet. with labor's investment and had holders are union people. asked to keep up with the devel- they might stand separately. BenJack Cage, Nile E. Ball, and forced him out. When Governor Daniel called opment, either, which is yet an- John G. Vaughan formed, in Oc- BenJack Cage flew two insur- for a special report from the In- other story. `At Ten Paces' tober, 1952, the Continental Union ance commissioners, Garland surance Commission and a legis- By 1953 Cage could tell the con- Insurance Co. of Birmingham, Smith and Byron Saunders, from lative inquiry into the ICT case, vention delegates at El Paso they James Cage is the kind of man Ala. Jack Cage & Co.—Cage's Miami to Havana in 1953 (Ob- he said it was "a terrible failure, had written "one of the most ex- ene would expect to find in the management company controlling server, Jan. 11 '56) and in 1955 to especially since this company had citing chapters in American busi- executive offices of, say, the Brit- ICT—put up $309,940; BenJack Las Vegas for an overnight stay. so many working people who ness since the turn of the cen- ish .Board of Trade, or the Man- put up $20, Ball $20, and Vaughan (Observer, April 25, '56). were persuaded to become invest- tury." The ICT group had $2.5 chester Guardian. Tall, immacu- $20. The main chance, which made ors by top labor leaders who million surplus, assets of $13 mil- lately and conservatively dressed, Chapman College, a Christian everything else possible for Ben- served on the board." lion, 3,500 agents in 25 states, pre- he sports a dashing bush of a college in Los Angeles, needed Jack Cage, was his "management The largest single shareholder mium income of $1.5 million a mustache, and is graying in a dis- money for a building program. contract" with the union leaders is J. M. (Silver Dollar) West of month, and an A Plus rating from tinguished manner about the ears. Continental Union of Birming- who controlled the board of di- Houston, who has $65,000 in the SpeCtator Rating Bureau. "What Throughout the crisis he seems to ham acquired Chapman College rectors. company. Most of the sharehold- a giant you have," he said. have maintained his aplomb per- bonds ($937,000 worth) in return When William J. Harris, the ers are working people, like J. D. But, for the second time, Cage fectly. for a down payment and a prom- state president of the federation, Downing, a pressman on the Fort confessed "errors." "Give it time. And well he might, for he saw ise to pay out the rest. and Paul J. Sparks, the executive Worth Star-Telegram, who had Give it an opportunity. It is go- 83 days' combat at Okinawa with But there was a fly in the cus- secretary, with a crucial assist about $2,500 of the stock. "I was ing to make errors," he said. "If the Marines. He entered a sec- tard. Chapman College wanted a from Nile Ball, then an attorney three-fourths sick," he said. "If the masses will continue to sup- ond lieutenant, came out a cap- guarantee that Continental Union in the firm of Mullinax and Wells, you lose your shirt pretty quick— port their company with greater gain. would complete the pay-outs, sold the TSFL on a plunge into butterflies in your stomach, you confidence, with greater push James Cage is generally cred- whereupon ICT Insm-ance Co. insurance in 1951, it was agreed know." from each individual person, you ited with good management of the was caused to place its credit be- by the terms of the resolution But Downing is more concerned are going to make American his- company since he took over. At hind Continental Union's obliga- that BenJack Cage would have a about an elderly couple who at- tory," he said. Then he gave the first loss ratios were as high as tions to Chapman College. Then contract by which he would run 'tended a meeting of investors in federation $10,000 for workers' 90 and 135 percent; by the end of Cage had Continental re-insure the company. Fort Worth. They had fed $8,000 education. the year Cage had them down some ICT Insurance Co. policies. But nobody said out loud, then into the company, all they. had. Sparks took the check and said to about 40 percent. For the first The amount of the surety was or later, what terms he had. "It worries me more to see those he would "argue a whole lot" time in its history the company $1,260,000 "not paid." His management firm, Jack elderly people lose it than it does with anybody who said ICT "is started making money on its cur- As Paul Connor, the commis- Cage & Co., took 15 percent of those people that are able to not a beneficial organization to rent operations after mid-year. sion's legal examiner, explains: the gross insurance' premiums and work," he said. the American Federation of La- In December, Cage says, the com- "It (ICT Insurance Co.) agreed 20 percent of all the stock sales Mack Williams, a reporter on bor in Texas." pany turned a $30,000 underwrit- to make payment if Continental of all the various ICT companies. the Fort Worth Press, put in ing profit on all business, includ- Union defaulted. The payment The firm had complete/ manage- $2640. P. E. Porterfield, father-in- ing that written when Jack Cage ment authority. law of Rep. Don Kennard of Fort New Officers & Co. was in charge. -was guaranteed by ICT to Chap- man College." From 1951 to Feb. 1, 1956, when Worth and a - district construction In 1954, new officers took over Cage has reduced the once-huge he was ousted from the ICT foreman for Southwestern Bell, in the State Federation of Labor board of the firm to 15 people— It will be recalled that Jack group, the companies he had spun put in $405. —Leroy Williams as president, two-thirds of them labor repre- Cage & Co. at this time had abso- off from the original insurance Most of the top officers of the Jerry Holleman as executive sec- sentatives in accordance with the lute control of the ICT group and company realized income from State Federation of Labor have retary. Sparks had resigned Nov. bylaws of the company. With Continental Union, and BenJack stock sales of about $15 million served on ICT boards in the last 1, 1953, to accept a position with Cage as non-labor members are Cage controlled Jack Cage & Co. (of which 20 percent is, of course, six years. Apparently that did not Jack Cage & Co. in Houston. Hol- Dr. J. C. Terrell, M.D., Stephen- $3 million. Half of the $15 million ville, chairman of two banks; C. James Cage and the directors in mean much until the management leman, who had been Sparks's came into the fire and casualty L. Wisseman, Ph.D., head of the the new (after BenJack) situa- contract was terminated. field 'assistant, took over. company.) ICT Life Insurance education department at S. M. U.; tion decided Continental Union The resolution 'by which the Cage complained at the Corpus Company alone wrote $46 million W. C. McMasters, insurance agent was not an adequate reinsurer. TSFL endorsed ICT in 1951 said Christi convention that year of worth of insurance in one 22- in Pasadena; and Gilbert Adams, The reinsurance was cancelled the federation's executive board "constant bombardment from our month period. Beaumont attorney.. April 1, 1956. Creekmore Fath, and its attorneys found the man- opponents" and of a stock control mell are Holle- general counsel for ICT CorpOra- It began with Insurance Com- agement "capable and experi- fight. "Do you want some of the The ten labor pany of Texas, which became ICT man, Willard Barr, Fort Worth; tion for several months last year, enced insurance men," the com- country club boys to get their Insurance Co. The life company Wallace Reilly, Dallas; Leroy told the 1956 federation conven- pany in good financial condition, mitts on it?" he asked. "You've Williams, Houston, president of tion in Austin ICT Insurance Co. lay dormant from 1950 to 1955, and the stock "well worth" $20 a got a $19 million little baby right but then it began selling insur- share. here and it hasn't even started, the federation; R a y Johnson, had to "absorb a loss of some Nile Ball of Mullinax & Wells, Longview; Kenneth Mabry, Cor- $300,000." ance at a great pace. ICT Dis- and a lot of people would like to count Corp., later ICT Corpora- the Dallas labor law firm, said the get their hands on it." Then he pus; Claude Ritchie, Wichita Falls; ICT Insurance Co. still had' to tion, was the' holding company. venture would provide union men gave another $10,000 check for Carl Knight, El Paso; William get out from under the surety to At one point the "ICT Group" insurance at a lower cost than workers' education. Holleman Cullen, Harlingen; and P. C. Chapman College. owned '70 percent of National ,standard and would strengthen said only: "Thank you very much Klien, Port Arthur. "In unraveling this transaction," Bankers Life, the Pierce Brooks them "in lobbying." He Made BenJack." James Cage was with Cravens, Connor told the Observer, "a insurance firm. other arguments. But he did not In 1955 at the Dallas convention 'Dargan & Co., an established gen- later agreement was made where- Neither ICT Life nor ICT Cor- convince John Conley of the Dal- Cage was even mor€ upset. "We eral. agency in Houston as mana- by ICT (Insurance Co.), in order poration are involved in the ICT las typographical union, who said were derailed on the time table" ger of the marine and special to dispose of this ... obligation to Insurance Co. action, both being it was "a form of socialism" and for insurance growth, he said, be- risks department,. and after the Chapman, then took from Con-, separate firms now.' that the federation "would have cause of the scandals in. Texas war he joined William H. Magee tinental Union various assets and ICT Corporation was the heart the responsibility of the proper insurance. The firm had been on & Co., a nationwide firm as vice released Continental Union from of the expanding matrix. Through conduct and the safety of the in- a "shakedown cruise" but was president in charge of the Pacific further obligations, and Chapman it Cage acquired A.R.A. Manufac- surance of that insurance com- "stabilized" and "looks very heal- Coast Division. agreed—they all released each turing Co., a large manufacturer pany, yet would not own any thy." Then he gave the federation ether." of automobile air conditioners; stock in the company." "a Lone Star cruiser," that is, a THE TEXAS OBSERVER ICT Insurance Co. found itself Sanders Manufacturing Company Harris declared the resolution boat. Page 5 Feb. 12, 1957 ever the score demanded, she could send the chorus scattering SA ANTONIO OPERA Harris Green into the wings like dry leaves and give the orchestra sixes and tainly it has never blatantly pro- note, "the Presentation of the famous third act trio, was of a SAN ANTONIO sevens in dramatic power and claimed itself "Opera Capital of Rose was got given THE defini- high and lovely order. My notes San Antonio's Thirteenth purity -of tone. Miss Farrell was the World" as Houston did dur- tive staging," which *was hardly are rather slim at that point be- Grand Opera Festival, a pre- more than enough for an entire ing a two day visit by the Metro- fair to director Anthony Stivan- cause I had abandoned all pre- sentation of the Symphony season. Consider that she was as- politan a couple of years ago. ello, whose admirable attention tense of critical decorum to join Society, got under way on sisted by a young tenor named San Antonio merely does its best, to detail and fine handling of in the tumultuous ovation that Saturday, February 2, with a Jon Crain, as Turiddu, who fully and quite frequently, as it was Hofmannstahal's complicated greeted the final curtain. Sharing most satisfactory production lived up to the expectations he this week-end, that is quite good, stage business was quite satisfy- the acclaim were William Wilder- of "Der Rosenkavalier" and aroused by his brief appearance ing. Nor had I noted the generally man whose Baron Ochs had been continued on Sunday with indeed. in "Rosenkavalier" the previous excellent conception conductor done to great comic if not musi- such acceptable treatments Glancing back through the evening, and you can understand Victor Alessandro accorded the cal effect and such capable bit of that apparently insepara- notes I took during the opening why we all looked forward to Strauss score or the unusually players as John Brownlee, Vir- ble duo, "Cavalleria Rusti- night presentation of "Rosenkav- something soothing such as "Fag- fine treatment it received by the ginio Assandri, and Rosalind Na- cana" and "I Pagliacci" that alier," I find myself troubled by liacci" and its two murders for a San Antonio Symphony. dell. I wish I knew the name of one is almost tempted to seize a host of minor mishaps which I breather. upon the occasion to unleash. an- annotated in terse, almost in- Lisa Della Casa, Frances Bible, those who played the baron's We were given no respite, other of those great gusts of chau- scrutable fashion. "Lights" refers and Dorothy Warenskjold were motley crew of servants, as they though. The minute a hither-to vinistic cant which have, in the to the slight fumbling with the not mentioned, eithero but I re- were easily the best of the many unknown young baritone named past, brought down upon this backstage switches that briefly quired no scribbling to remind groups onstage. Cornell McNeill stepped before state the combined wrath of Es- distracted during Act I. "Dulcet me of the exquisitely lovely per- Some back-stage leg work and the foot-lights and launched into quire and Bdna Ferber. Fortun- voice of prompter" crops up quite formances of these quite lovely, a few pointed questions asked of the prologue in strong, sure style, ately San Antonio, unlike its sis- frequently in the section headed quite talented ladies. Miss War- acquaintainces on the production we knew we were in for some- ter cities of Dallas and Houston, by Act II, and the succinct, al- renskjolk proved a rather rigid staff netted me the scoop that thing rewarding. Everyone ex- whose frequent attacks of para- most plaintive cry "Brass!" can actress as Sophie, but Miss Della Sunday's performances of "Ca- pected Lucine Amara to be a noia have furnished limitless be found throughout in protest to Casa and Miss Bible as the Mar- valleria" and "Pagliacci" had not lovely, lyrical Nedda and Walter copy for their more public-spir- those times when the horns were schaelin. and Octavian, respective- had as• much rehearsal time de- Cassel to make a good, solid Sil- ited amusements editors, looks unable to clear the considerable ly, had fine stage presences. voted to them as had "Rosen- vio, which they did. Few were upon such exhibitionism with hurdles set up for them by Rich- (They played, incidentally\ their kavalier." Conductor Alessandro prepared for Donald Dickson's haughty disdain. Perhaps its pos- ard Strauss. first scene where it should be and the symphony were attacking Canio, though, with its forced sessing the Alamo has resulted But none of these seems to have played: in bed.) And the singing Mascagni and Leoncavallo with singing, but awesomely graphic, in a more sobering outlook. Cer- mattered much. For instance, my of all three, particularly in the all the necessary brio, but the minute the chorus began to ga- quite terrifying acting. And by ther about the footlights for lack the time the comedy was finished, of nothing better to do, it was the stage was littered with con- painfully apparent that director tract players, nerves had snap- Stivanello's staging was not go- ped, and the audience was wild ing to be the miracle of motion with joy. and pace of the preceding eve- None of this proves, of course, ning. that San Antonio is the opera Satisfaction was found else- capital of the world or that La States, I had serious misgivings amend the constitution to author- where, particularly in the San- Scalla will soon be converted into The Senate Race about the decision because it ize the legislature to prescribe tuzza of Eileen Farrell. This a frozen pizza factory. But the To the Editor: overruled precedent and changed the qualifications of county judge. lady's appearance anywhere these week-end was graphic assurance Francis Harris (Stump, Feb. 5 a system that had been estab- He has also introduced HB 300, days is an event of first musical that Texas, which once had to '57) should take a look at the rec- lished for many years. The ... de- the. enabling statute, which will significance, and her appearing in depend upon Tennessee for its ord before making indiscriminate cision, however, was reached become effective if the amend- a staged presentation of "Caval- heroes, has at least found itself comparisons of U.S. senatorial after extended arguments and ment is adopted, and which will leria" had the cognoscenti agog quite capable of providing per- candidates with such great liberal long consideration and it is now require that county judges in all with anticipation. Dramatically formances of opera on its own Democrats as Franklin Roosevelt final. counties having in excess of 16,- she made a rather ponderous but that are, to use a word I have and William 0. Douglas.... Nei- "The Supreme Court is the 000 population be licensed attor- acceptable heroine. Musically, she already used in this critique, sat- . ther 'Roosevent nor Douglas ever highest authority under our gov- neys. We are very highly in favor gave ample evidence that when- isfactory, indeed. commended and endorsed the ernment as to the meaning of the of this legislation.... We see no ultra-reactionary, anti-labor Constitution. While the Constitu- justification for allowing laymen, "right to work" laws. Nor did tion could be amended ... there who are not trained in the law, Roosevent or Douglas ever turn is no practical possibility that to continue to occupy the judicial Liquor Stimul tes V „ te down an invitation to speak in a such an amendment would be benches of this state. The waste HOUSTON leggers" was in shivery, lumi- union hall because they feared adopted. in time, effort, and money in at- They were selling poll nous letters. the political consequence or ,felt "As the Supreme Court of tempting to practice law under taxes in the taverns and at Poll tax dances were held at they might be contaminated by Texas recognized • by unanimous a lay county judge is terrific.... the doors of churches here, which the poll tax is the ticket. the union members.... decision in the Big Spring school Considering the very important and the county is ready for a These were generally sponsored Dave Shapiro case, no state constitution or stat- construction of the probate code, massive fight between the by an individual, but the beer Austin ute can have any effect contrary title to land and estates handled wets and drys which has inci- flowed freely inside. Poll taxes (Mr. Shapiro is president, Uni- to the United States Constitution, by the county judge, the constru- dentally made Harris County were on sale at the door. versity of Texas Young Demo- which is the supreme law of the ing of wills, the liberty of men abnormally potent as a factor On the teeming North Side, crats.—Ed.) land. No act of Congress can determined by criminal trials, the in the Senate race. beer operators gave a free beer alter the United States Supreme guidance of the commissioners Poll taxes paid here are esti- to patrons who could produce a To the Editor: Court's decision in the case. court, condemnation proceedings mated at about 365,000, larger new poll tax. There have been .... Your article on Jim Hart "The only course which is left, involving property worth millions than the general election year reports of two and even three is unfair in its over-all picture. consistent with respect for law of dollars, examining trials in 1956 total of 339,809. The 1955 fig- free beers for a poll tax. This re- You describe as "cautious and and order, is to recognize the Su- criminal matters, injunction hear- ure was 194,369. porter was unable to confirm dry" the public statements of the s. preme Court's decision and com- ings, bail and peace bond hear- The dry forces are led by two that. one man in this race who has ply with it in good faith and ings, hebeas corpus hearings, etc., Baptist preachers who were given Rev. Paul made his positions clear without THE MINISTERS, with due deliberation. Good will, this amendment should have full support by the Baptist Pas- 0. A. Taylor, any consideration of the wishes Adams and Rev. restraint, and moderation must be been adopted years ago. tors Conference of Houston, • a of backers or of vote-getting ap- have been speaking to civic clubs, exercised by all concerned." Marvin.F. London 154-preacher group, in their plans women's groups, and to their con- peal. A considerable part , of the Who is cautious here, Mr. Dug- Bowie, Texas to call for local option elections gregations, as have other minis- page one columns of the story ger? (Mr. London is vice president is devoted to negative comments ters in the county. They have not Jim Hart has a long record of of the Montague County Bar been without opposition, howfver. rising like a miasma from a public service in varied and de- Assn.—Ed.) Kathy Smith A Lutheran minister, Rev: W. marsh of vague sources, worthy manding posts, a statewide repu- W. Stratman, spoke last week 'be- of Joe McCarthy.... tation for fearlessness and in- in Justice Precincts One and Two. I fore the Junior Chamber of Corn- Before the first primary in 1956 tegrity, and ability of the highest On Leadership These precincts take in most of merce, opposing active participa- the Texas Council of Churches .. 1 order. He is a liberal in the basic To the Editors: the city- of Houston. tion of churches and pastors in quotes this reply from Ralph sense of "liberal" as "free"; he (Lyndon) Johnson and (Sam) DRYS are bouyed up by the re- what he termed essentially a po- Yarborough to its questionnaire cannot be commanded by any (on whether the Supreme Court Rayburn have not only flubbed cent wins in Oak Cliff in Dallas litical matter. man cer group. Texans will serve Protestant churches haVe al- decision on segregation was with- on seniority and leadership in the and in Justice Precinct 3 in Har- the national interest as well as ways stood for separation of in the court's power) : Yar- Senate and Congress, but in their ris County, which takes in Bay- their own if they send to the church and state, he said, and borough: No answer. Q. If you influence and leadership in town and the North Ship Chan- Senate a man of his stature and should keep hands off in prohibi- answer in the negative, what Texas. Never again can Texas nel industrial area. In June, Pasa- distinction. tion or any other elections. course of action do you advocate? Democrats rely on them for lea- dena, on the South shore of the Mary Ann. Allan Rev. Adams answered Rev. Yarborough: I opened my cam- dership or trust them after the Ship Channel, voted dry 5-2, in 4178 Beechwood, Dallas 20 Stratman in a speech before the paign June 1, 1956, at Nacog- May and September conven- an election which turned out a Salesmanship club. Prohibition is doches with the following state- To the Editor: tions.... record vote for the year, includ- a moral rather than a political ment: "I oppose the use of force Ralph Yarborough has been The northern and eastern ing the November elections. issue, and the problem of drink- in the integration of public carrying the ball for real Demo- Democrats don't like him (John- The campaign has changed ing is a religious one, he said. schools. On this, as on all other crats for several years at great son), nor the national Democratic from the genteel slogans of the "We have a right to be con- questions, I avoid stirring up personal expense, probably 25 to committee, nor 700,000 real true- Pasadena election—"Beer belongs hatreds, strife, and dissension. I 30 thousand dollars. It is our debt, blue Democrats in Texas. How —an American institution," for cerned with any business 'which systematically educates our chil- do not denounce any race of peo- not his alone.... Let everyone or why does he think he can be the wets, and "Pray before you dren for vice—and the liquor ple nor do I try to set class who reads this (send him) a sum re-elected as senator, much less vote," for the drys. Churches of against class." equivalent to one hour's piiy at as presidential' nominee? Of all denominations have had poll business does just that." THE ELECTIION petitions will I do not yet know just what Mr. once.... course he will have the gas and tax deputies at the doors during be filed after the new poll lists Yarborough thinks about deseg- Marion Snuggs oil vote and money back of him, services all month, both Baptists, are drawn up, about April 1. Rev. regation.... Contrast this with 128 Main Plaza, San Antonio but they can't buy all the :votes. and Catholics, whom the Bap- Adams said the present plan is to Jim Hart's statement: I hope and pray that Yar- tists generally consider wet.

i have all the elections on one day. t I would like to state my views borough can be elected. We need One huge billboard on the It should be an exciting spring. on desegregation as clearly as Laymen Judges him in a position of influente Freeway at the heavily-traveled possible. To the Editor: and leadership.... Gulfgate intersection said: "Don't "At the time of the decision of Rep. Ben Sudderth has intro- Mrs. J. M. Jones pay your poll tax. Let the Boot- THE TEXAS OBSERVER the Supreme Court of the United duced HJR 25, which proposes to 705 North Main St., Temple leggers prevail." The word "boot- Page 8 Feb. 12, 1a54- to and including the day of judg- hand and the seal of said Court vis County, Texas, at or before ment herein. at office in the City of Austin, 10 o'clock A. M. of the first Mon- Houston Doctors Fight You are hereby notified that this the 23rd day of January, 1957. day after the expiration of 42 days suit has ben brought by the City 0. T. MARTIN, JR., from the date of issuance hereof; of Austin as Plaintiff, against Clerk of the District Courts, that is to say, at or before, 10 o'- the above named persons, and the Travis County, Texas clock A. M. of Monday the 4th State of Texas and the County By BOB BAKER, Deputy. day of March, 1957, and answer Salk Vaccine Program of Travis, as Defendants, by peti- the petition of plaintiff in Cause tion filed on the 20th day of De- Number 105,430, in which Central HOUSTON vaccination program. He declared: cember, 1956, in a certain suit THE STATE OF TEXAS Texas Builders, a corporation, is Should the doctors' "obli- "The medical profession is being styled City of Austin vs. Mollie To any Sheriff or any Constable Plaintiff and Ramon R. Coronado, viewed as .... placing fees above Gregg et al for collection of the within the State of Texas— Minnie Coronado, Elmira H. gation to raise the health of taxes on said property and that GREETING: Saenz, Enrique L. Saenz, Eduardo his community "be tempered the public good. Knowing the suit is now pending in the Dis- You are hereby commanded to Herrera and Regoberto M. Her- by consideration of the "pa- consecration and dedication of trict Court of Travis County' 53rd cause to be published, ONCE, not rera are defendants, filed in said tients' ability to pay?" many Houston physicians, I can- Judicial District, and the file less than ten days before the re- Court on the 22nd day of October, number of said suit is 105788, that turn day thereof, in a newspaper 1956, and the nature of which said This question was raised by one not believe this is generally true. the names of all taxing units printed in Travis County, Texas, suit is as follows: doctor during the controversy in. Many physicians have called me which assess and collect taxes on the accompanying citation, of Being an action and prayer for which the Harris County Medical to say they differ with the opin- the property hereinabove de- which the herein below following judgment in favor of Plaintiff and scribed not made parties to this is a true copy—(but if there be against defendants Ramon R. Cor- Society has blocked a mass polio ions voiced by the officials of the suit are, NONE. no newspaper so printed in said onado and wife, Minnie Coronado, vaccination prograin started by medical society." Plaintiff and all other taxing county, then that you cause the for its debt, including principal, Forrest Place Methodist Church Eight of twelve doctors con- units who may set up their tax said citation to be posted for at interest, attorney's fee and costs claims seek recovery of delin- of Houston. least TEN days before the return of suit and for judgment against tacted by Houston newspapers ex- quent ad valorem taxes on the term thereof as required by law.) all defendants foreclosing its con- Some 750 members of t h e pressed disapproval of the socie- property hereinabove described, tractor's, mechanic's and mater- church received their first Salk ty's action in stopping the shots. and in addition to the taxes all CITATION BY PUBLICATION ialman's lien on the hereinafter interest, penalties, and costs al- THE STATE OF TEXAS described land; vaccine shot at $1 each, but the An American Legion Post, using lowed by law thereon up to and TO ALL PERSONS interested Plaintiff alleges that it is the medical society halted the pro- the post surgeon as the attending including the day of judgment in the estate of Joseph Lee Per_ y, legal owner and holder of a cer- gram. Among major society ob- physician, went ahead and admin- herein, and the establishment and a Minor. tain promissory note in the prin- foreclosure of liens, if any, secur- No. 16,544, County Court Travis cipal sum of $1,520.00, made, exe- jections were that a doctor was istered shots to members and ing the payment of same, as pro- County, Tex a s. Hazel Perry, cuted and delivered by Ramon R. not on hand at all times to super- their families, and an Elks Lodge vided by law. Guardian, thereof, filed in the Coronado and wife, Minnie Cor- vise administering. the vaccine by voted to start a similar program. All parties to this suit, includ- County Court of Travis County, onado, payable in. monthly install- ing Plaintiffs, Defendants, and Texas, on the 6th day of Febru- ments of $25.00 to Southwest registered nurses; and that per- City Council approved two free Intervenors, shall take notice that ary, A.D. 1957, her Final Account Builders, Inc.; the payment of sons who received the shots were vaccine to be administered under claims not only for any taxes of the condition of the Estate of said note being secured by a con- not screened to determine if they the supervision of the city health which were delinquent on said said Joseph Lee Perry; A Minor, tractor's, mechanic's and mater- property at the time of this suit together with an Application to ialman's lien upon all of Lot No. 6 could afford to pay the standard officer. The council also ordered was filed but all taxes becoming be discharged from said Estate. in Block 2 in C. C. Moore addition, fee charged by most doctors. (The study of a joint city-county mass delinquent thereon at any time Said Final Account and Appli- Travis County, Texas; Plaintiff fee ranges up to $5.) innoculation program in which thereafter up to the day of judg- cation will be heard and acted further alleges that there is now ment, including all interest, pen- on by said Court on the first due on said note the sum of One major issue in the contro- all residents would be offered the alties, and costs allowed by law Monday next after the expiration $361:82, plus $36.18 attorneys' fee, versy is whether the church ac- shots at cost. thereon, may, upon request there- of ten days from date of Posting making a total of $398.00, which tually had the go ahead from The medical society has called for, be recovered herein without or Publishing this citation, the sum the defendants Ramon R. same being the 25th day of Febru- medical society officials to, insti- further citation or notice to any Coronado and wife, Minnie Cor- a special general membership parties herein, and all said par- ary, 1957, at the Courthouse there- onado, have failed and refused to tute the program. Mrs. James B. meeting for Feb. 13 to vote on a ties shall take notice of and plead of in Austin, Texas, at which time pay and for which Plaintiff prays Argue, a nurse and the wife of proposed program f o r "wide- and answer to all claims and and place all persons interested judgment; Plaintiff further prays in the Account for Final Settle- the pastor of Forrest Place church, pleadings now on file and which For costs of suit and for relief, spreaeuse of Salk vaccine." De- may hereafter be filed in said ment of said Estate are required general and special; made arrangements for setting up ! tails of`" the program were not cause by all other parties herein, to appear by filing a written an- All of which more fully appears the program, which was aimed at disclosed, but the society did say and all of those taxing units swer and contest said account from Plaintiff's Original Petition and application should they encouraging as many church above named who may intervene on file in this office and to which it felt "the medical profession is herein and set up their respective choose to do so. reference is here made for all in- members as possible to obtain best qualified to establish proce- tax claims against said property. The officer executing this writ tents and purposes; vaccine protection. dures which will give the patient You are hereby commanded to shall promptly serve the same If this citation is not Served Mrs. Argue says she contacted. appear and defend such suit on according to requirements of law, within 90 days after date of its the highest protection in the ad- the first Monday after the expira- and the mandates hereof, and issuance, it shall be returned un- city and county health officials ministrations of this vaccine" and tion of Forty two (42) days from make due return as the law di- s er-ved. and was encouraged to initiate that certain safeguards were "im- and after the date of issuance rects. WITNESS, 0. T. MARTIN, JR., the program, provided the medi- hereof, the same being the 11th GIVEN under my hand and the Clerk of the District Courts of perative." day of March, A. D., 1957 (which Seal of said Court at office in Travis County, Texas. cal society agreed with the plan. Meanwhile, Dr. J. E. Peavy of is the return day of such citation), Austin, Texas, this the 6th day of Issued and given under my She said she called Dr. M. D. Austin, director of the communi- before the Hongrable District February, A. D. 1957. hand and the seal of said Court EMILIE LIMBERG City of Austin, Levy, society president, and Dr. cable disease control section of Court, 53rd Judicial District of at office in the Travis County, Texas, to be held Clerk of the County Court, this the 14th day of January, 1957. Thomas M. Royce, chairman of the State Health Department, at the courthouse thereof, then Travis County, Texas. 0. T. MARTIN, JR., the society's public relations com- warned that Salk shots should not and there to ,show cause why By M. EPHRAIM, Deputy Clerk of the District Courts, Travis County, Texas. mittee, and that both offered no be delayed any longer, warning judgment shall not be rendered for such taxes, penalties, interests CITATION BY PUBLICATION By GEO. W. BICKLER, Deputy. objection to the plan. that "we're almost running into and costs, and condemning said THE STATE OF TEXAS T h e church purchased Salk property and ordering foreclos-, the polio season now." TO Andy L. Allen Defendant, in vaccine at wholesale prices and ure. of the constitutional and statl- NOTICE is hereby given that utory tax liens thereon for taxes the hereinafter styled and num- the partnership of J. S. Honig- secured supervisory services of CLASSIFIED due the Plaintiff and the taxing bered cause: blum, Howard W. Honigblum, a physician, who was at the units parties hereto, and those You are hereby commanded to James Glasberg and W. H. Gibson, appear before the 126th District an An- scene during some of the innocu- MAKE $75 UP WEEKLY, spare who may intervene herein, to- d/b/a Service Master of time. Sell liquid fertilizer to farm- gether with all interest. penalties Court of Travis County, Texas, tonio, was dissolved on D ecember lations and was on call the rest of ers. Exclusive franchise avail- and costs allowed by law up to to be held at the courthouse of 3.5th, 1955. Notice is also given the tune, she said. • able. Liberal. profits. Free local and including the day of judg- said county in the City of Austin, that J. S. Honigblum, Howard W. Travis County, Texas, at or be- Shortly after stories appeared advertising. No investment, no ex- ment herein, and all costs of this Honigblum and James Glasberg, perience required. Write "Na- suit. fore 10 o'clock A. M. of the first general partners d/b/a Aladdin on the mass innoculation pro- Churs" Plant Food Co., 345 Mon- Issued and given under my Monday after the expiration of Carpet Cleaning Company have gram, the church, city health offi- roe St., Marion, Ohio. hand and seal of said court in the 42 days from the date of issuance incorporated such firm, effective hereof; that is to say, at or be- cers, and officials of the medical City of Austin, Travis County, January 2, 1957, under the firm Texas, this 23 day of January, A. fore, 10 o'clock A. M. of Monday name of Aladdin Carpet Cleaning society received queries from in- LEGALS D., 1957. the 4th day of March, 1957, and Company. terested organizations and com- 0. T. MARTIN, JR., answer the First Amended Orig- J. S. HONIGBLUM panies on how similar programs 1HE STATE OF TEXAS Clerk of the District Courts, inal petition of plaintiff in Cause HOWARD W. HONIGBLUM COUNTY OF TRAVIS Travis County, Texas Number 105,854, in which Edwena JAMES GLASBERG might be instituted. At that point, In the name and by the author- By GEO. W. BICKLER, Deputy. Allen is Plaintiff and Andy L. Al- the medical society issued a curt ity of the State of Texas len is defendant, filed in said NOTICE is given of THE IN- statement saying the mass vac- NOTICE is hereby given as fol- Court on the 15th day of January, lows: CITATION BY PUBLICATION 1957, and the nature of which said TENTION TO INCORPORATE cination program had not been TO: Mollie Gregg, Nellie Gregg, THE STATE OF TEXAS suit is as follows: under the laws of Texas the un- given its blessing. The statement Ella Gregg, Clyde Walton Hill TO Ethel Scott Defendant, in Being an action and prayer for dersigned business firm, presently an independent enterprise, with was issued a week after the and wife Louis Oram Hill, and J. the hereinafter styled and num- decree of divorce dissolving the S. Prado, and the unknown owner bered cause: bonds of matrimony heretofore its offices located, 3018 Callie American Medical Association or owners of the property herein- You are hereby commanded to and now, existing between said Street, Houston, Texas. urged an all-out campaign to end after described or any interest appear before the 126th District parties; Plaintiff alleges cruel JACKSON NEWS AGENCY By: JOHN B. JACKSON polio by use of Salk vaccine. therein; the heirs and legal rep- Court of Travis County, Texas, to treatment on the part of defend- resentatives and the unknown be held at the courthouse of said ant towards her of such. a nature Levy and Royce said that they heirs and legal representatives of county in the City of Austin, as to render their further living NOTICE to Creditors of the Es- and Mrs. Argue had had a misun- each of the above named and Travis County, Texas, at or be- together as husband and wife al- tate of Brice Lynn Dillingham, derstanding of the matter. mentioned persons who may be fore 10 o'clock A.M. of the first together insupportable; Plaintiff Deceased. deceased; and the corporate offi- Monday after the expiration of further alleges that community Notice is hereby given that let- "We do not consider this a cers, trustees, receivers and stock- 42 days from the date of issu- property consists of a 1953 Cadil- ters testameLtary upon the estate proper way of going about vaccin- holders of any of the above ance hereof; that is to say, at or lac automobile, household furni- of Brice Lynn Dillingham, de- ations or similar medications," named or mentioned parties before, 10 o'clock A. M: of Mon- ture and effects and cash money ceased, were granted to The Aus- which may be corporations, de- day the 11th day of March, 1957, on deposit in the East End Sjate tin National Bank, the under- Levy said. funct or otherwise, together with and answer the petition of plain- Bank of Houston, Texas; Plain- signed, on the 14th day of Janu- The society officials' statement the successors, heirs and assigns tiff in Cause Number 105991, in tiff prays that the automobile, ary, 1957, by the County Court of left the church membership vac- of such corporate officers, trus- which John D. Scott is Plaintiff household furniture and effects Travis County, Texas. All persons tees, receivers, and stockholders, and Ethel Scott is defendant, be awarded to her and for par- having claims are hereby required cination program in a dilemma. and any and all persons, including filed in said Court on the 23rd tition of the cash money; Plaintiff to present the same to it within No physician who is a member of adverse claimants, owning or hav- day of January, 1957, and the na- further prays for such other and the time prescribed by law. The the society will supervise the sec- ing or claiming any legal or equi- ture of which said suit is as further relief, in law and in eq- residence of the Austin National table interest in or lien upon the follows: uity, to which she may be enti- Bank is Austin, Texas and its ond shots, or write a prescription following described property de- Being an action and prayer for tled; Post Office address is Drawer No. to obtain the needed vaccine. linquent to Plaintiff herein, for judgment in favor of plaintiff and All of which more fully appears 35, Austin, Texas. The pastor of the church, Rev. taxes, to-wit: All that certain lot, against defendant for decree of from Plaintiff's First Amended THE AUSTIN NATIONAL tract, or parcel of land lying and divorce dissolving the bonds of Original Petition on file in this BANK OF AUSTIN James B. Argue, struck back from being situated in the County of matrimony heretofore and now office and to which reference is I By B. C. TURNER; Trust Officer the pulpit, declaring that the Travis, State of Texas, described existing between said parties; here made; Independent Executor of the group's officials had approved the as follows: Lot number One (1) plaintiff alleges cruel treatment Witness, 0. T. Martin, Jr., Clerk Estate of Brice Lynn Dilling- in Block number One hundred on the part of defendant towards of the District Courts of Travis ham., Deceased. Sixty-four (164) in the Original him of such a nature as to render County, Texas. City of the City of Austin, Tra- their living together as husband Issued and given under my NOTICE vis County, Texas according to and wife altogether insupport- •hand and the seal of said Court at Notice is hereby given that the IF YOU BUY A CAR, A HOUSE; office in the City of Austin, this If any of your policies expire—CALL the map of the City of Austin on able; plaintiff further alleges business conducted by R. E. Pratt file in the General Land Office that no community property has the 16th day of January, 1957. at Sulphur Springs, Hopkins in the State of Texas; being the been accumulated; plaintiff fur- 0. T. MARTIN, JR., County, Texas, has been incor- `Bow' same property that was conveyed ther prays for cost of suit and re- Clerk of the District Courts, porated, and is now and will here- by C. R. Puckett to Nellie Gregg lief, general and special; Travis County, Texas. after be conducted by Pratt Pack- by Deed dated June 1, 1878 and All of which more fully ap- By GEO. W. BICKLER, Deputy ing Company, Inc., a Texas cor- Williams recorded in Volume 40, page 518, pears from Plaintiff's Original poration, and the Post Office ad- Automobile and in the Deed Records of Travis Petition on file in this office and CITATION BY PUBLICATION dress of its initial registered of- General Insurance County, Texas. to which reference is here made; THE STATE OF TEXAS fice is Magnolia Street, Sulphur 624 Lamar Which said property is delin- If this citation is not served To Regoberto M. Herrera. De- Springs, Texas. GR 2-0545 quent to Plaintiff for taxes in the within 90 days after date of its fendant, in the hereinafter styled R. E. PRATT, formerly doing AUSTIN, TEXAS following amounts: $273.37, ex- issuance, it shall be returned un- and numbered cause: business as Pratt Packing Represents ICT Insurance Co. and clusive of interest, penalties, and served. appear before the 98th District Company costs, and there is included in WITNESS, 0. T. MARTIN, JR., Court of Travis County, Texas, to other standard stock companies this suit in addition to the taxes JET'S ABOLISH THE POLL TAX' Clerk of the District Courts of be held at the courthouse of said rrat, TEXAS OBSERVER all said interest, penalties and Travis County, Texas. county in the City of Austin, Tra- costs thereon, allowed by law up Issued and given under my You are hereby commanded to Page 7 Feb. 12, 1957

DANIEL DETAILS COSTS OF HIS PROGRAM ■•■••••■ ported colleges and universities," velopment of the state's water the Comptroller to increase his $141 Million More Needed said Daniel. resources (page 4). He asked an estimates of anticipated revenues. In order to meet a large part expenditure of $2.2 million from I refer particularly to the possi- of the increase, Daniel recom- general revenue for the financ- bility of increased production of To Meet State's Demands mended the legislature increase ing of the planning and bond is- oil. The Comptroller has based the present tuition fees in these sues, one-half of which would be his December 12, 1956 estimate on AUSTIN institutions. "The present fee of repaid by the state when the bond less production of oil for each To finance his "program to meet the needs and responsi- $25 per semester," he said, "is the, programs became self-liquidating. year of the next biennium than bilities of our state government" Governor Price Daniel lowest in the nation. It was set actual production during the cal- recommended an all-time high two-year budget of $358 mil- in the depths of the depression. $3,000 for Legislators endar year of 1956. Existing cir-

lion, a 65 percent increase over the $21 . 7 million appropriated The $25 fee then was more diffi- • He also included in the bien- cumstances justify his calcula- from general revenue for the current biennium. cult to earn than $50 today. Our nium budget $4.7 million for tions. out-of-state tuition fees are also old age assistance; $548,000 for His proposed additional expenditures total $142 million, "However, it will be a sad day $3,000 annual salaries of legisla- not $32 million as reported in much of the daily press. among the lowest in the nation. for our state if the circumstances "By doubling resident tuition tors; $3 million for aid to the The Governor said it is his opin- which held our oil production to are being committed to out-of- fees and increasing non-resident physically and mentally handi- ion "that we would be able to 15 and 16 days per month during state users. Such contracts and fees as advocated by practically capped as provided in, the amend- pay every dollar of recommend- 1956 should prevail for the next the privilege of withdrawal all of the colleges and universi- ment passed last year; $150,000 ed expenditures" out of actual biennium. I have faith in the thereunder aite valuable rights ties concerned, as well as many for establishment and operation receipts under existing law -and ability of our country and our re- and properly taxable by the state. of the student bodies, state rev- of a state law enforcement corn- his recommended changes. • fining industry to alleviate these It is estimated that such a tax enues would be increased for the mission; $25,000 for a commission The Comptroller's estimate of restrictive circumstances." would produce in excess of $35 next biennium in the sum of $9 to study the overall tax structure, anticipated general revenue on million for the next biennium." million. the long-range future needs and The Governor declared that Dec. 12 was $266 million for the To finance the state's share of "I would be the first to agree revenue sources of the state, and "our low production allowables biennium, and Daniel estimated proposed 50-50 participation with that this $25 increase per semes- possible reorganization of the have been due to excessive oil that this amount will actually run cities and counties in the pur- ter should not apply to any stu- state executive agencies to im- imports, excessive gasoline stocks, $40 million higher due to price chase of highway right-of-way, dent whose attendance at college prove their services and elimi- and failure of major refiners and of oil increases. The $266 million Daniel recommended a ten per- would be made impossible due to nate duplication and waste of tax pipeline companies to provide includes some allowance for this cent increase in the motor vehicle such increase, but investigations revenues; and $1.3 million for adequate pipeline connections for factor. registration fee. He said the High- indicate that such • cases would be judges' salary increases ($12,000 independent producers. To con- A bill recommended by the way Department estimated the very exceptional with the loan for district judges, $16,000 for cede that these restrictive factors Legislative Budget Board to state's share of such a program and scholarship facilities now court of civil appeals judges, and will continue during the next transfer one percent of the Per- would cost about $8 million an- available," he added. $20,000 for member of the Su- biennium is to admit defeat in manent School Fund to the Avail- nually. preme Court and the Court of solving the problems which are able School Fund would mean $11 damaging and which will in time The budgetary message was de- For Special Schools Criminal Appeals.) million more, if it is passed as destroy domestic producers of oil, scribed by several legislators as Daniel hopes, and Daniel recom- • The Governor's recommen- especially independent producers. the most complete such report More Oil Production mends state college tuition in- dation for $78 million for In discussing his personal cal- I am not ready to concede de-; submitted in many years. creases calculated to produce an- state hospitals and special schools culations along with those of the feat...." is $18 million more than the cur- other $9 million, making an an- Comptroller's on anticipated gen- In completing his presentation, Higher Teachers' Pay rent biennium. ticipated general revenue total of eral revenue, Daniel said: Daniel told the joint session of $326 million. Earmarked in the proposed • The largest single item of 'I realize, of course, that the the House and Senate that "to the spending is $6 million for con- Daniel pointed out that this left recommended new state legislature cannot enact appro- best of my ability, this is a pro- $32 million recommended spend- struction and greatly increasing spending, by far, was an increase priation bills on my estimates of gram designed to discharge state staffs and supplies: "For mental ing that would be in excess of of $68 million for teachers' sal- anticipated revenues.... There responsibilities in a manner which estimated income. hospitals-35 doctors, 12 psycholo- aries for the biennium. Daniel de- are circumstances which could will protect the rights of our gists, 20 caseworkers, 196 nurses, But this does not necessarily clared: occur before the final month of state and meet the needs of our mean that an additional tax bill 318 attendants, 13 occupational "I believe one of the most ser- this session which might enable people." BOB BRAY will have to be passed to meet ious problems facing our state is therapists, $700,302 for additional the expenditures recommended, the provision of adequate salaries food. For schools for mentally re- he said. for teachers in public schools. tarded—additional $1,114,930 to "The greater portion of the in- With 100,000 new school children provide for increased population. Govenor Asks for Study creased spending ... is due to ex- each year and an annual loss over For tuberculosis hospitals—seven tensions and improvements of over 7,000 teachers, it is important doctors, 34 nurses, 10 therapists, present services necessary on ac- that we provide salaries which, nine caseworkers, $134,858 addi- Of Part of Cavness Plan count of the groWth of our state tional for drugs. For Youth De- will attract new teachers and re- AUSTIN any other proceeds from sales of and the rapid increase in popula- velopment Council—$199,670 for tain qualified personnel. Caught in a backfire from the capital assets of the Perma- tion. This is reflected in the esti- a parole system, $437,000 for new ,"The minimum beginning ,sal- his plan for using university nent School Fund," he went on. mates based upon large antici- buildings at Gainesville State ary in Texas of $2,805 simply pre- and public school endowment "That portion of the (Cavness) pated increases in enrollment in School." vents competition with business money for current operating plan which I think worthy of our public schools, junior col- and industry for the services of expenses, State Auditor C. H. study is the possible use of oil leges, institutions of higher edu- Parole System adequate and properly trained Cavness told the Observer he and gas lease bonus money and cation, hospitals and schools, a persons to teach our young peo- • For departmental appropria- has never asked legislators to rentals, which are in the nature rapid increase in prison popula- ple. I recommend legislation in- tions, Daniel recommended a support it and merely "re- of recurring income rather than tion, as well as continued increase creasing beginning teacher sal- biennium total of $49 million, an spectfully suggested" they sales of the property." in the costs of all types of ma- aries to a minimum of $3,204, to- increase of $8.9 million. These in- consider it. terial and services," the governor Cavness, interviewed in his of- gether with the increments and cluded an increase of $6.1 million Governor Price Daniel told leg- explained. fice on the fourth floor of the adjustments....0 n d e r present for the Texas Prison System to islators last week in effect that he He said that in the event a tax' Capitol by the Observer, empha- laws local districts will bear 20 provide a $4.2 million building agrees with Texas A&M and the bill should become necessary to sized he was fully within his percent of the increase ..." program, employ more guards, at University of Texas that the Uni- functions suggesting the plan. carry but his program, "I recom- better increases, and establish a Daniel was backing the versity Permanent Fund ought to "I have not down to now and mend for your consideration a tax $500,000 paid parole program. He be left alone. He limited his in- of three-fourths of one percent teachers' association request for do not intend to go and talk to base salary increases and increas- asked $1.8 million to complete the terest for "study" of the plan to any member of the• legislature per one thousand cubic feet of State Health Department's build- ing increments for the first five current spending of oil and gas- about it," he said. "I only said I natural gas withdrawn from gas ing program. lease bonus money and rentals reserves dedicated by contract, years of teaching from $6 to $10 think they ought to take a look per month: $6 per month for each He asked $8 million for higher of the Permanent School Fund. at it. I haven't made any effort such tax to be paid by the bene- state employees' pay but offered In 1956 the Permanent School ficial owner of the gas so dedi- additional seven years for a BA to try to put it over. / no specific formula. Fund received $37 million and the eted and for whom such gas is teacher; and $6 per month for 20 "I suppose it is reasonable for Permanent University Fund $37 withdrawn. additional years for an MA it to be called the 'Cavness plan,' holder. Insurance Examiners million. although it has been talked about "These dedication contracts," he The Cavness plan would re- explained, "are tying up gas re- • Out of special funds, Daniel for a long time," Cavness said. lease $65 million from the perma- Cash for Profs called for an increase of 32 A number of legislators have procurement and retention of re- nent funds for current education- in the number of examiners in asked him about it, he Aid; and serves in Texas in. many instances • For higher education, Daniel al spending in 1956. Daniel op- for as long as 20 or more years, the Insurance Commission, and there is "lots of interest," but "I recommended a total ex- poses parts of the plan which increases of personnel and the have no idea what they'll do." and at least half of the reserves penditure of $118 million, an in- would release all but $21.5 mil- salaries of engineers in the High- "This plan would not take any crease of $23 million over the lion of the $65 million. way Department and Railroad money out of the permanent current biennium. He asked $9.5 More specifically, Cavness Commission. funds," he insisted. "It's simply 'Democrats'? million for junior colleges. wanted released for current He also recommended that the defining as (current) income AUSTIN school spending all of the $.1.5 He noted that included in. the Department of Public Safety be which could go to the available million mineral lease rental and , The state Democratic ex- higher education figure was fi- authorized to expend an addition- funds from oil and gas, the same bonuses and 72.5 percent of the ecutive committee's conser- nancial provision for opening 300 al $5.4 million from its special definition that the Internal Rev- additional beds at the University $14 million oil and gas royalties vative majority has declared funds to increase the salaries of enue Department insists on with of Texas Medical School's John (to use 1956 figures), and he its intention of fighting the law enforcement personnel, add individuals and corporations and Sealy Hospital and $1.2 million wanted released all of the univer- group, "Democrats of 200 men to the highway patrol, any kind of organization that isn't sity fund's $23.7 million mineral Texas," which has elected for repairs to the medical double the size of the narcotics tax exempt, like the state is." branch's psychopathic hospital, lease rental and bonuses and 72.5 Mrs. R. D. Randolph, the na- division, and provide 30 addition- He explained' he excepted 27.5 the Negro hospital, and for the percent of its $13.6 million oil and tional committeewoman, its al license examiners to alleviate percent of the oil and gas royal- gas royalties. chairman. out-patient department: congestion at examination sta- ties from his original proposal on At its last meeting here the Also included was an additional Daniel rules out the university tions. the theory that individuals and committee voted to pay chairman $7.4 million for faculty salary in- fund diversion entirely, referring companies receive a 27.5 percent Jim Lindsey $15,000 a year and creases in state universities and $2.2 Million for Water to the objections of A&M and depletion allowance on their University of Texas ruling boards. give hiin an $80,000-a-year annual colleges. "This increase in salaries taxes. budget and authorized him to go is fully justified by the report of • Turning to the planned wa- '"They've made the study, and the He would not comment on Dan- ter program, Daniel pointed decision, as far as I'm concern- to court if need be to prevent the the Texas Commission on Higher iel's remarks. use of the word "Democrat" by Education and is vital for the out that two separate bond pro- ed," he said. such groups as "Democrats of adequately trained teaching per- grams have been recommended "I would not favor the use of THE TEXAS OBSERVER Texas." sonnel at the 18 fully state-sup- for adequate conservation and de- any of the royalty payments or Page 8 Feb. 12, 1957