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Vol. 48 (Dt e • )0c per copy No. 48 N\-14,..\\ \ovs (2, f)43 WELL ALLAH enmity Prevails DAMN ME! AUSTIN hours on the campaign trail or at Yarborough is generally ex- Ralph Yarborough is a re- , his law office between elections, pected to join the Fulbright- lentless man. He ran for gov- trying to pay off his campaign Sparkman-Hill-Kefauver band of ernor three times, and he lost 1 debts. His friends have worried Southern liberals. He is not, how- three times. Through defeat that his work load, financial sac- ever, "a liberal's liberal." He is after defeat he would not be rifices, and pains of loss might on record against "forced inte- knocked down. His tenacity eventually make him bitter. gration." Just what this will became both a legend and a He hopes to have some time for mean in this session's civil rights joke, at one time or another his private life again—his read- fight is yet to be seen. (In spite dismayed most of his friends, ing, fishing, hunting, wood fire- of James Hart's stand for inte- and finally disorganized his place. He and Mrs. Yarborough gration, Yarborough carried the enemies. He is now the new are taking a temporary apartment Negro precincts in the cities over- United States senator from in Washington until the end of whelmingly this election.) Like Texas. this session (about the end of every other member of the Texas Though he won with a 38 per- July) and then will return to delegation, he is committed to de- cent plurality and is therefore "a Austin for the rest of the year. fend the oil industry's 27.5 per- miin.ority senator," Yarborough's In January he will have to go cent depletion allowance, and he showing was phenomenal in a back to Washington, and the 1957 opposes federal regulation 'ef nat- field of 19 candidates, six of them session won't be over before he'll ural gas prices. He is for "trim- politicians of parts. As the in- have to start campaigning again. (Continued on Page 4) cumbent he will be the man to beat in 1958, especially if the party registration bill passes the legislature. The Republican, Thad Hutcheson, got only a fourth of the vote but proved that when Pickle's Bets the Republicans vote for their AUSTIN own candidate instead of for the Pickle said Hutcheson would conservative Democrat, the Dem- Jake Pickle, who's now have won if he had played his cards right. ocrats divide about half and half working with Jim Lindsey along liberal • and conservative and Harold Winters for the "He dissipated his strength," lines. state Democratic executive said Pickle, "partly with the Pool Second-running Martin Dies, committee, lost his bets on bill operation. He was just too losing his second Senate race in the Repu,blioan candidate, cute about it ...,. Then he made 16 years with 31 percent of the Thad Hutcheson, in the Sen- a basic mistake, I think, he could vote, repeated his suggestion that ate race. have followed the same Republi- his Congressman-at-Large post "I bet Hutcheson would win. can line, against everything, Tru- As Many As b Solons ought to be abolishe Reports I'm glad to say, he didn't," Pickle man, Roosevelt, Stevenson .... circulated he might, .gai t politics ihe old moss-backs, you know," or run for the Senate again in Fagan Dickson, betting on. Pickle thought he could have 1958. Ralph Yarborough against the added this negative vote to his Involved in Testimony Yarborough's election not only field, collected a $25 hat from initial strength and won. secures the Democrats' Senate Pickle. (The report was out he The Pool bill, promoted by the AUSTIN died some of the money and, ac- majority and preserves Lyndon was calling Dallas to see if ho state committee and Governor Charges that one senator cording to testimony, became cus- Johnson's majority leadership, it coud find one for $250, but he Daniel, would have called a run- and some representatives re- todian of all the records of the also may have some influence on relented at the last minute.) off after the April 2 Senate vot- ceived payments from the naturopath lobby that year. Johnson himself. Washington ob- Pickle also lost bottles of whisky ing. It passed the House with a Texas naturopaths during Dr. Schlichting, contacted by serverS' seem to expect a liberal to Dickson's secretary and to Bill squeak but the Senate refused past legislative sessions are the Observer in Midland, was colleague to cause Johnson to Petri, a Yarborough leader in to take it up in time for the elec- under study by the House asked if he had testified in secret show more deference to the lib- Austin, Pickle betting Hutcheson tion. Hutcheson opposed it ve- Investigating Corrimittee and with the Department of Public erals in the Senate. would beat the field. hemently. the Travis County grand Safety. "I've been to Austin, yes An intellectual whose charac- Pickle, now sharing the S.D.E. Daniel and the committee are jury, the Observer has sir," he replied. He has not testi- ter is complicated by a plain de- C. suite behind the Governor's now working to pass through the learned. fied in open hearing. sire for public life, Yarborough Mansion in Austin, was with legislature a bill to prohibit use Although Rep. Wade Spilman, The Observer w a s advised has put aside his private interests Syers-Pickle & Winn, Austin PR of a pre-existing political organi- investigating committee c h a i r- Schlichting was under a strong so long, his friends have diffi- firm, but left the firm (retaining zation name that might suggest an man, declined to discuss the mat- injunction not to mention circum- culty remembering the way he a small interest in it) 15 months official sanction. The bill is ter, there are strong indications stances surrounding the matter was before '1952. When he first ago. After some independent aimed at "Democrats of Texas," that testimony on such payments and asked him if this was so. "I set out that year to bring to public relations work and a few a group seeking to assert control was the "major development" of- don't have any comment to make shambles the Shivers regime, he months in. Price Daniel's cam- of the party at the 1958 state con- ficially disclosed when the com- at this time," he said. "I just don't promised himself and others he paign for governor, he joined the vention. It is , led by Mrs. R. D. mittee postponed hearings pend- think- I should make any com- wouldn't go fishing again until he state committee. It has been re- Randolph of Houston, Democratic ing grand jury action. It is to be ment." Was he a member of the won, and he hasn't wet a hook ported he will receive part of the national committeewoman. The laid before the grand jury Thurs- legislative committee in 1955? he since. He has had to discontinue $80,000 budget the committee is Harris County Democratic exec- day or Friday. was asked. His voice full of emo- a lot of his reading (which is seeking to raise for its state staff. utive committee has refused to Dr. Howard Harmon says as tion, he replied, "Well—no com- mostly in history) and some of Lindsey as chairman is to receive raise a part of the state commit- many as six< legislators may be ment." his home life in favor of long $15,000 a year. , tee's budget. involved. This newspaper can further re- port that Dr. Robert Spears of Dallas, 1955 president of the na- turopaths, and Dr. Henry Schlich- HUCKSTERS TO GET TAX FUNDS? ting of Midland, a member of the naturopaths' 1955 legislative com- AUSTIN , An additional budget of $30,000 mittee, have given sworn testi- Apparently Texas and the 'Free Juice, Tree Plantings, is also set up for running the mony which has been confirmed nation are going to be inun- Texas Tourist Foundation. Back by lie detector tests. dated with even more bal- at the end of the pamphlet it is It is the Observer's authorita- derdash about .t h e great Styles Touted for Tourists estimated the program will cost tive information that Dr. Spears Lone Star State—this in the the state $1 million a year,, start- and Dr. Schlichting attested to name of tourism and the have pushed through a constitu- tools required- would be legisla ing the first few years at $500,000 details which jibed independ- merry jinglings of the local tional amendment to let ,the state tive representation," and not con- annually. ently. cash registers. spend tax money to advertise, or tent with this provocative gener- Sure enough, Rep. James Cot- Rumors on the House floor last Both the House and Senate "sell," Texas. alization, the firm provides a ten, Weatherford, noticed the week said some members of the have now passed, although in NOT, HOWEVER, without some $6,000 item in the budget for "legislative services item" and legislature might be involved in radically different versions, the embarassing moment s. Syers- "campaign organization and leg- told the House during last week's the testimony the House commit- Syers-Pickle and Winn promotion Pickle and Winn, the jet-powered islative services," plus another debate: tee turned over to the Travis on behalf of the Texas Tourist Austin PR firm which first at- $2,000 for "travel and expenses." "I don't know what that legis- County grand jury. Foundation. tracted considerable attention for Passage of the amendment. says lative service is or what they The Observer's information is During the carpetbagger era a its part in preparing the famous the S-P and W report, will de- spent that money for but it's right that the senator involved is al- clause was inserted in the state "Port Arthur story" campaign for pend largely on "handling of bill there in the book." leged to have received amounts constitution prohibiting using Gov. Allan Shivers, published a in the legislature" and "amount Rep. Bryan said he had hoped in 1953 and 1955—but not as much public funds to bring "immi- weighty tome on how they were of constituent organization to he wouldn't have to do this, but in 1955 as he was supposed to get. grants" into Texas. At the behest going to get this amendment bring pressure from home" he read from affidavits and bank Dr. Spears, president of the na- of the tourist-boosters, Sen. Car- through the legislature. On. page through "comprehensive organi- statements that "no money has turopaths in Texas in 1955, han- los Ashley and Rep. Jack Bryan . .27 it says that one of the "basic zation." (Continued on Page 5) Let those flatter who fear, it is not an American art. Legislators Work From Sun to Sun . . . . —JEFFERSON But the Housecleaner's Work Is Never Done

Zony 5irrte Mr. Yarborough goes to Wash- dence we can feel in him at this ington, and with him go the good point. wishes and good spirits of Texas 4' Democrats. We share in the jubila- We would like to congratulate tion of the liberal community , over Thad Hutcheson for a hard, sting- his long-awaited victory. It has ing, clean campaign that served his been a long, long time. Many times party well. jack Porter still rants he went to the bar of political con- on that the Republicans should con- flict, and many times he was bat- tinue to infiltrate the Democratic tered down. Few men have had so Party—a shabby, crumbs-grabbing much right to be discouraged, and doctrine at best. If the Republicans have not been discouraged ; few mean business in Texas they will men have been called upon to sacri- turn their leadership over to HUtch- fice so much for their beliefs, and eson and throw Jack Porter out. As have so sacrificed. In the end his we saw in this election, when Re- tenacity and courage won for him publicans vote for their own candi- and for the ideals he stands for. No date, the Democrats are about ev- matter what other honors come to enly divided. The Republicans , can him this is his finest hour. be a very strong minority party It is a good hour, too, for Texas. right now, and after the conserva- Let the good ideas exiled to the tive Democrats take, a few more wilderness by big money and the lickings, the Republicans — with rightist press return to the com- their perennial financial advantage munity of enlightened discussion. and some hard work—can attract Let the opportunists and syco- to their side great packs of the. erst- phants find another field to play-. while "Eisenhower Democrats" and Let the good men and women who pull even with the Democrats in po- • have fought the good fight without litical power. honor or reward have now the We would a 1 s o congratulate thanks of the people. James P. Hart for conducting the We believe Senator Yarborough intelligent and gentlemanly race Vitt will take his position with the Ful- that was expected of him. His bright - Sparkman - Gore group of moral leadership on the segregation Bartlett Appears Exclusively in the Texas Observer Southern liberals, national Demo- issue alone justified his candidacy crats who represent and serve the and confirmed the unqualified re- people. We all must wait and see spect in which his friends hold him. how he votes, of course, but we are His failure to communicate with THE PEOPLE WIN , expecting him to be a splendid sen- the people means, we believe, that AUSTIN as a triumph for all those Texas ator. His .slams at foreign aid seem some people belong in politics, while For the first time in more elec- Democrats who would rebuild their now to resolve into a hostility . others are natural leaders in the in- tions than most of us like to remem- party as the best political bulwark toward an exorbitant grant to oli- formal high. counsels of conscience ber, the People have brought in a for protecting and furthering human garchic Saudi Arabia; his expecta- from which emanate the society's winner at the ballot box. It was a rights. tion that he will vote with the Dem- best ideals.. long, hard, penny-pinching, uphill With the election of Senator Yar- Searcy Bracewell did himself no fight but as will eventually happen borough and the development of the ocrats more than 90 percent of the Democrats of Texas, we feel there is time should indicate he will support harm ; he ran respectably and is bet- in a Democracy, the People at last an awakening in the hearts and minds the foreign aid program in its fun- ter known for it. Congressman Dies won. of many Texans which will foment a damental aspects and magnitude. is correct that the congressman-at- When the fight started not even the return to the basic Democratic Party As for other; matters, let us wait large position is obsolete and should closest friends of Ralph Yarborough purposes, aims, and responsibilities and see and be glad of the confi- be abolished and assigned to Hous- realized the amazing bulldog deter- of political and social equality. In ton. We are glad he had the pers- mination of the ,man. Many became short, we believe, the People of this picacity to see this and to insist discouraged, deserted and returned, state are ready to kick out the per- upon his constructive suggestion. advised him to quit, and in the end, sonal politiCians who now operate As for John White . marveled . at his courage. Seldom has their offiees for self-interest and to ohe the nation seen such a campaigner. elect men of honor and integrity who Yarborough eventually won for will adhere to the vital cause of hu- We are now edified by a declara- one reason, and one alone. He had a manist Democracy. • Then, and only tion from the august Texas House positively unshakable faith that the then, can the voice of the Mexican of Representatives in favor of local People would rise up and throw out farmhand, the East Texas Negro, the underpaid laborer, and the many, option on the American Constitu- We see where AP reporter Frank the personal political machine which tion. The Sadler bill prohibiting in- had so thoroughly corrupted the many other havenots also be heard in Manitzas has evoked from John .their land. BOB BRAY tegration unless local school district state. Because of his tremendous ten- Osorio, chairman of the Insurance acity and his iron-grained conviction voters adopt it proceeds on the Commission, the assurance that it's that the People must govern, we be- theory that if a township doesn't safe to buy Texas insurance "from lieve he will not only make Texas a The Listening Post like the constitutional rule against a reputable company of long stand- great senator but will also lead in re- cruel and unusual punishments, it ing. " and US Trust & Guar- vitalizing the real Democrats of We have a report from Dal- can have an election and reinstate anty, says Osorio, "were not in my TeX'as. las that in some quarters Yarbor- the stocks and the lash ; if it doesn't mind insurance companies." Osorio A great deal has been said and ough's election was regarded as a like the constitutional guarantee of written about how Yarborough was didn't say whether the other 70 in- bgreater- - disaster than the tornado the free speech, it can adopt an ordin- surance-selling Texas companies the .candidate of the liberals and loy- same day. alists and left-wingers and unions ance by public vote prohibiting crit- that have collapsed were, in his icism of the local Birdbrain Lovers' and Negroes and others. Through it .... Throughout his campaign mind, book stores or hot dog all, the only thing we heard him say John White sent press releases up to Society ; if it doesn't like the consti- stands, so each reader will just have was that he was a Democrat, and if the Capitol press room blessed with tutional rule that segreo-ation . de- to live with hiS own best guess on this was true it was also inherent that his beaming portrait on Department prives Negro students of equal op- that question. Meanwhile, we will he was bound to be a candidate of all of Agriculture stationery. After the portunity, it can maintain segrega- go on trying to meet the payments these groups. Now that he has been Senate election there appeared on the tion by local vote. This is so absurd on our policy with Prudential of elected, he should as a Democrat as preSs room bulletin board this same that the only plausible explanation New York, leaving it to other Tex- well as a senator represent every beaming-portrait-on-stationery with a for its passage by almost 100 men- ans more astute than we to judge man, woman and child without re- single word in the middle of the sheet : 'Egad." tally coherent men and women is which of the Texas companies are gard to race, color, creed, or social that they thought it was a pretty status. .... Lyman Jones of Ralph Yar- reputable and have been standing We are confident that Yarborough, good joke. long. borough's staff says he's going to. the Democrat, will not forget that the take up the suggestion of a Dallas re- People must always come first ; that porter and go out and buy, for pre- dollars are incidental to people in the sentation to Price Daniel, the latest Trxas Obstvrtier scheme of life, not people incidental record by Patience and Prudence, the to dollars. He will remember, we feel singing stars who wired Yarborough sure, that the supreme test of a prop- their congratulations. The record 6 osition is not whether it will enrich Incorporating The State Observer, eornbined TELEPHONE in Austin : GRee ►wood 7-0746. starts : "Um hmm, urn hmm, I'm gon- with The East Texas Democrat the few, but whether it will benefit na get along without you now"—or HOUSTON OFFICE: 2501 Crawford St., Hous- the many. In judging the success of ton, Mrs. R. D. Randolph, treasurer. something like that. APRIL 9, 1957 the nation, he must consider first and "Lowrie Dugger, Editor and General Manager We will serve no group or party but will hew Bob Bray. Associate Editor hard to the truth as we find it and the right as most the plight of the poorest family. .... Commenting on the proposed Sarah Payne, Office Manager we see it. We are dedicated to the whole truth, His going into office, we believe, Code of Ethics, Senator George Published once a week from Austin, Texas. be human values above sli interests, to the rights should be the signal for Democrats Delivered postage prepaid $4 per annum. Adver- of man as the foundation of democracy ; we will Parkhouse of Dallas was overheard tising rates available on request. Extra copies 10c take orders from none but our own conscience, of Texas to drop their prefixes. to ask, "When a man won't live by each. Quantity orders available.. and never will we overlook or misrepresent the truth to serve the interests of the powerful or Yarborough's winning should not the goddam ten commandments, how Uttered as second-class matter April 2P. 10',7, cater to the ignoble in the human spirit be regarded as a liberal or loyalist at the Poet Office et Austin. Texas. enner toe MAILING ADDRESS: 604 West 24th St., Au• is the legislature gonna legislate mor- met •t Marsh S. 1379. tin, Texas. factional victory. It should be viewed als for him?" "All the newspapers in Dallas, Fort- Worth and San Antonio were against Will Lyndon Contro Ralph? Yarborough," reported the Texans, "plus most of the other newspapers. WASHINGTON So they'll be watching when he comes Yet a liberal Democrat beat a field Big question-mark in the minds of DREW PEARSON to Washingtonto see whether he is of 19 candidates. senators, as newly elected Ralph Yar- on charmed by Lyndon. • "It's like the sales-meeting of the borough of Texas arrives to take the "Ralph Yarborough," said one of dogfood company," explained Bill oath. of office, is whether he will be- The WASHINGTON them, "has so many knife-scars in Kittrell of Dallas. come part of the Lyndon Johnson his back where Lyndon has patted team. "The sales manager- said : 'We've MERRY-GO-ROUND him that he'll never fall for his got the best publicity in the world. Yarborough is the man who gives charm." All the newspapers are for us. We've the tall and charming Lyndon that his henchmen refused to seat several The Texas loyalists should not, got the best advertising in the world. continued crucial one-vote 'margin by hundred loyalist Democrat delegates. however, underestimate Lyndon. He And we've got the best sales force in which he can go on breathing as Sen- Mrs. Frankie Randolph of Houston, has fought valiant battles on some the world. Yet we're not selling dog- ate majority leader. But the big ques- Democratic national committee- issues. He has a shrewd capacity for food. What's the matter?' tion in the minds of Texans and Sen- woman, was among those who sat all picking able. senators and wooing ators is : will Lyndon control that one day in a cow-barn with the entire "A small voice piped up in the rear them. He recognized the ability of of the room. tell you what the vote? Democratic delegation from Harris Sen. Hubert Humphrey (Minn.) and County (Houston), biggest in the trouble is,' he said. 'The dogs don't Lyndon has . kept very hush-hush has partially wooed him into the like it'." state, and one of the few which went Johnson camp. He recognized the how he voted in the Texas election. down the line for Adlai Stevenson in But it is not hush-hush that he didn't abilities of Sen. Dick Neuberger of "That," concluded Kittrell, "was 1952 and 1956. Yet they were barred Oregon and has made him a some- the trouble with the Republicans and raise a finger to help elect the man from the Democratic state conven- who gave him that one-vote margin. time Lyndon satellite. Mike Mans- the Shivers Democrats. They had all tion because Lyndon Johnson didn't field of Montana has become a com- the newspapers in Texas, all the Some signs, furthermore, point to the like them. probability that he supported Yar- plete Lyndon satellite. publicity, and all the advertising. But borough's chief rival, Democratic Instead, Johnson played ball with So all the Senate will be, watching the people didn't like 'em." Congressman Martin Dies. For down Gov. Shivers, who twice worked hard the new senator from Texas. And most of Texas will also be watching Before the Texas election, Liz at Laredo, where Mayor J. E. Mar- for Eisenhower, and with Governor- Carpenter of the Houston Post tried tin, Jr. is the chief remaining Texas elect Daniel, who in 1952 worked to see whether it has two senators or just one. to query every Texan in Congress boss, Martin's' machine announced hard for Ike and in 1956 didn't work regarding his vote for --senator. All for Dies. Martin makes few moves for anyone except 'himself. Campaign Background "pleaded the 5th amendment"—no politically without checking with These loyalist Democrats, kicked At 4:30 the other morning I was comment—or else couldn't be located. Lyndon. around by Lyndon, were all Yarbor- faithfully following Secretary Wil- Actually most of them voted against Aside from this, Yarborough has ough boosters. They are the people son's advice "to do what's right and their own colleague, Congre:,•sman had Lyndon's effective opposition for who got out and beat the bushes last you'll sleep, well with yourself," when Martin Dies, and for Yarborough. some time in Texas. And few men week, and who, despite all the big oil jubilant Texans began calling me to Many would have voted for Judge can be more effective than the astute money for Dies and Hutcheson, de- announce the sweeping victory of Jim Hart, former chancellor of the majority leader of the Senate. When spite the opposition of practically all Ralph Yarborough for the U. S. University of T e x a s, if they'd Yarborough was running for gov- Texas newspapers, elected their man. Senate. thought he had a chance. ernor of Texas last year against Sen- ator Price Daniel, Lyndon maneu- vered a deal with Clyde Ellis, head of the rural electrification co-ops and valiant battler for public power. Oil Depletion Vote Off Price Daniel would vote for the Ni- Record agara power bill in the Senate, he WASHINGTON either for or against oil. But 87 sen- Aiken and his own (Williams') hand,. promised, if the REA men in Texas A little-noticed but vitally im- ators ducked out, didn't want the Republicans. would support Daniel . fou, governor. portant incident took place on the public to know how they voted on „Then .Douglas, a former economics Sure enough, Daniel voted for the Senate floor the other day. It oc- oil. professor at the University of Chi- Niagara power bill, and the REA curred in full view of the press gal- When you couple this with the acgo and a tav expert, proposed a boys in Texas plugged for Daniel. hundreds of thousands, of dollars further compromise. He urged that Daniel finally nosed out Yarborough leries, but very little appeared in. the newspapers about it. dumped into the presidential and little oil companies with a net income by.a scant 3,547 votes, and that mar- Senate campaigns last year, it indi- of less , than $1,000,000 be allowed gin might have been the result of Two senators, first a Republican, Williams of Delaware; then a Demo- cates a political circle of great im- the full 27y, per cent tax benefit. REA activity. portance to the American people. Companies with a net income of The new senator from Texas crat, Douglas of Illinois, tried to get a roll-call vote on a move to reduce The circle goes round and round, $1,000,000 to $5,000,000, he pro- knows this. So he owes no debt to like this : "The oil men get tax con- posed, should get 20 per cent allow- his fellow senator, Lyndon Johnson. the tax concessions given to the big oil and gas companies. They could cessions. They use the money they ance. Companies making more than Yarborough's Knife-Scars not get even 10 senators to raise save on taxes to elect their friends as $5,000,000, he moved, should get 15 Lyndon also waged a battle against their hands. senators and their man as president. per cent. liberal Democrats at the Fort Worth The 10 hands needed were not Then their senators cooperate by vot- This, however, was also roared Democratic convention last fall and necessarily to vote against the oil ing for continued tax concessions." down. Democratic leader Lyndon caused a bitter rift in the party when companies, but to record the vote Little of this, however, was re- Johnson led the chorus. corded for the public to read and to know about. Pocketbook Senator Then Douglas asked Here is the full story of what hap- for a roll-call pened. vote. He. needed 10 hands. The Dem- PIZENED! PIZENED! ocrats pride themselves on being the MARSHAI.L raised if this continued, so we gave Honest Tax Champion champions of little business and the As it comes to all, it is now our in to the specal interests as any good Sen. Williams is a stanch Republi- common man. Only six of them, how- turn to make a public confession. Texan should and generously ceased can turkey farmer and feed dealer ever, were willing to stand up and be counted : Lausche of Ohio, McNa- We of the old East Texas Demo- publication. who, coming from the Du Pont state of Delaware, could not easily be - mara of Michigan, Humphrey of crat pizened the Observer at its .in- But our sins will surely find us out. We persuaded John to transfer our elected if he were not a conservative. Minnesota, Carroll of Colorado, Neu- ception. Yessir, Jimmie Strong of He had been waging a long-time cam- berger, and Douglas. Three Repub- Carthage and other reactionaries ad—let us roll the term under our tongues—our ad to paign for honest taxes and honest licans also raised their hands : Javits joined with the writer in bequeath- the Texas Ob- server. So, our iniquity of inertia and tax collection. For a time, he got of New York, Aiken., and Williams. ing all of the properties of that insistence on the rear view mirror some support from Secretary of the While Williams and Douglas made right - wing organ. to the then outlook was fastened upon the Ob- Treasury Humphrey, who stated repeated pleas for a roll-call vote, a-borning Texas Observer. server. How many, how many mia publicly that the 27/ per cent deple- Senators Long, Kerr, Carlson and cu.ipas will it take to absolve us! tion allowance given the oil industry Dirksen, together with Lyndon John- Some uncharitable souls have sug- was too much. son, slipped around on the Senate gested that these assets consisted of Permit a backward glance in clos- Before the corporate tax bill came floor, urging colleagues to keep their a pied subscription list and a bucket ing. For a while we were, unbe- up for renewal last week, therefore, hands down. of tar and feathers intended for the knownst to us, stabled with such fan- Williams . Though Gore was minus' on the editor and publisher. Yet we must tastic undertakings as a pregnancy appealed to Humphrey to detector and with such lovelies as support a reduction Humphrey de- roll call, he did a great service to the bare all. The old East Texas Demo- country by carefully recording the re- crat had lived in'sin with that brazen Anita Ekberg. Gosh, Jimmie. Gosh!! clined. Williams nevertheless moved in the Senate to reduce the 27 41 cent contributions of the big oil com- huzzy, the I.C.T. Doubtless its views FRANKLIN JONES panies. Here is part of the oil roll were without its conscious knowl- per cent tax bonanza to 15 per cent. He got nowhere. call : edge warped to the right by a weekly Dear Franklin : So two fellow Republicans, Aiken The Rockefeller family of Stand- ad that John McCully had given us You think you've been stabled with ard Oil, $152,000 to Ike; the Pew from his agency. of Vermont and Potter of Michigan, some lovelies. How would you feel in gave him whispered advice to try a family of Sun Oil, $216,000 to Ike; We thought John was an angel the same 'stable with Bill Moore, the compromise at 20 per cent. He did so. the Mellon family of Gulf Oil, $100,- with a ten foot wing spread, as in- wild man from Bryan? That estima- 000 to Ike; officials of Tidewater Oil, deed he was. Each week we would But a roar of negative votes drowned ble senator, explaining why he took this proposal too. $27,000 to Ike ; plus officials of Phil- proudly count our dollars earned by $2300 from ICT when he was. chair- Those leading the "no" chorus lips, Skelly Oil, Cities Service, At- advertising, which somehow always man of the Senate Insurance Com- were Democrats Lyndon Johnson of lantic Refining, Richfield,. Texas, So- just balanced with the check sent us mittee, advanced the reason that the cony, Standard of California, Stand- by John. Then, ah, the shame of it! ICT committee should ask me if I Texas, great friend of the oil lobby, Russell Long of Louisiana, who owns ard of Ohio, Standard of Indiana, we would write glowing tributes to got all sorts of cash from ICT. Un- underwater oil lands in the Gulf of Standard of N.J.—a total of $344,- the status quo, saying that there was fortunately, I didn't appeal to Ben- Mexico, and Frank Carlson (Kans.) 000 to the Republicans ; $14,000 to no prophet but Allan, and that Dallas Jack as much as Anita, and he didn't - with Everett Dirksen (Ill.), Repub- the Democrats. was his mecca. give me a thin dime. However, the licans. This includes, the major oil com- Remorsefully, we admit that the Observer's ad balances were usually panies, not the independent oil men. insurance industry influenced us in rather close in totals to those received Williams then tried for a show of Many of the latter contributed to in- leaving the field. Too many of our from good old John, so I guess Wild hands to get a roll-call vote to re- dividual Democratic senators. readers were expiring in angry and Bill had a point. What I want to quire senators' names to be recorded DREW PEARSON flamboyant burst of apoplexy g,ener- know is why we didn't get in on for and against the oil companies. He ated from a mere reading of our those baths and massages at the Lake- got only four hands: Douglas (Ill.), THE TEXAS OBSERVER opinions. Rates might have to be wood Country Club.—Ed. Neuberger (Ore.), Democrats; with Page 3 April 9, 1957 TENACITY PREVAILS (Continued from page 1) ming the fat out of foreign aid," which he has also expressed as "drastic cuts" of as much as 50 percent in such aid. Otherwise he is an orthodox national Democrat. He predicts in an interview with the Ob- server that he will be voting with the Democrats more than 90 per- cent of the time. He is for REA, farm to market roads, 90 percent of parity, lower interest rates, higher postal salaries, federal aid for dams and roads, the Demo- crats' public housing program, effective limits on campaign spending, fewer government con- tracts for General Motors and more for small business, and a personal income tax exemption increase of $200 per person ("Let human beings that breathe and have souls get some of these tax cuts"). He . is for federal grants for school construction or federal credit to needy school districts. He campaigned for Adlai Steven- son after his own defeats in 1952 and 1956. "I generally find my- self in. agreement with the Demo- Senator-Elect and Mrs. Yarborough at Headquarters Russell Lee Photo cratic Party and the theory that Moments later he told them there will be no more 'stolen conventions' government ought to serve the people instead of the Republican theory of more profits for big Ralph Wins 167 business regardless of the wel- REACTION WARM, COOL fare of the people as a whole," he told the Observer in an earlier AUSTIN riman of New York kired, "Well Yarborough would find it possi- interview. Senator-elect Ralph Yar- done. Know you will have a great ble "to respect and represent all Counties to read career in the Senate. Warm re- Texans — the 63 percent who Does Yarborough feel his elec- borough was much more , warmly commended by na- gards." Yarborough said he had voted for other candidates as well AUSTIN tion will tend to confirm factional also received wires from Mennen as the 37 percent who voted for About 955,000 Texans differences among Texas 4Demo- tional Democratic leaders than by his colleagues in the Williams, Strom ThurMond, Hu- him. If he follows this course, he voted in the Senate race, {rats or to erase them? His re- bert Humphrey, Estes Kefauver, will have my cooperation in all ply: state party. 155,000 more than expected. John Sparkman,, Jim Folsom, and of his official actions which are Harris County had a record "The only split I I know of in Adlai Stevenson, Averell Harri- others. for the best interests of our state vote of 154,910, the highest the Democratic Party in Texas is man, Paul Butler, and other U.S. and nation." tally in Houston history ex- between Democrats who support Democrats congratulated . Yarbor- In Washington, Paul Butler, Hutcheson congratulated Yar- cept for presidential elec- the party and so-called Eisen- ough enthusiastically, while Sen- Democratic national chairman, borough on winning in "a clean tions. hower Democrats who don't sup- ator Lyndon Johnson said he had said the results were a tribute to campaign" and hoped "he will port the party. Democrats for Ei- Yarborough, "staunch • fighter for Ralph Yarborough won congratulated Yarborough, Sena- surprise many of -his critics." 167 counties, Martin Dies senhower — why that's like a tor William Blakley took his the principles and programs of Hutcheson said the GOP has Christian for Mohammed!" the Democratic Party," and the won 67, and Thad Hutche- leave of the Senate without corn- shown its strength among the son won 17. One reported a Yarborough says he will repre- menting on Yarborough's elec- returns reflect "the surge of dis- conservatives and has made a sent "all Texans to the best of illusionment" with the Republi- tie. tion, and Governor Price Daniel, start toward a two-party state. The Texas Election Bureau's my ability." At the same time, "I refraining from direct congratu- cans. John White offered coopera- final election tally, with 954,424 feel I am the choice of the major- lations, said he hopes Yarborough Johnson said he and Yarbor- tion with Yarborough "in behalf votes counted and about 1,400 ity of the Democrats of Texas." will represent the majority as ough "will work together." He of Texas agriculture." James uncounted: He pointed out that in 1954 he got well as "the 63 percent who voted said the result showed "Texans Hart said he had taken definite Yarborough, 363,834, 38.12 per- 48.8 percent of the votes in the for other candidates." believe in the Democratic, Party stands on controversial issues cent; Dies, 291,106, 30.50 percent; first primary and that he got Yarborough received congratu- and are faithful to its principles." that needed discussion. Hutcheson, 220,361, 23.08 percent; 49.9 percent of the vote in the latory wires from all of his five He added he had congratulated Yarborough, planning to go to Searcy Bracewell, 32,664, 3.42 per- runoff primary in 1956. "Jack major opponents except Rep.-at- Yarborough. Washington very soon to acquaint cent; James Hart, 19,371, 2.03 per- Porter called on the Republicans Large Martin Dies. He released Speaker S a m Rayburn was himself with pending legislation, cent; John White, 11,965, 1.19 per- to vote against me, and after each his wire to GOP candidate Thad pleased a Democrat was elected may not be certified until April cent; others scattered. election he boasted the Republi- Hutcheson: "Thank you for your and the Senate majority pre- 19, when Atty. Gen. Will Wilson Yarborough carried Harris cans had defeated me," Yarbor- telegram which reflected the served with Johnson the leader. has ruled the canvassing will be County, 50,815 to 46,409 for Hutch- ough said. "I'm confident that I clean and honorable campaign "I think that means a great deal completed. Yarborough hopes it eson, 36,504 for Dies, and 16,415 represent a majority of the Dem- you waged." "The same goes," he to Texas," he said. will be earlier. He gave credit for Bracewell. Hart got only 1,625 ccrats of Texas." added verbally, "for James Hart Daniel said the result wasn't for his victory to "-thousands of there and White only 561. Senator Johnson and Speaker and Searcy Bracewell." surprising with the "conservative people who have worked for five Hutcheson carried Bexar Sam Rayburn. do not have any Ex-presidential aspirant Stev- and moderate" vote split among years to break the grip of a ruth- County (San Antonio), with Yar- special hold on Senator Yarbor- enson wired Yarborough, "I am the other candidates. He hoped less political machine" in Texas. borough second and Dies third. ough. Rayburn endorsed him for delighted. Your great victory was governor in 1956 but the letter well earned and long overdue. didn't arrive in Texas until 4 p.m. Warmest regards." Governor Har- of the afternoon of the voting. Neither endorsed him for the he said. Asked earlier if he would Senate. cooperate with Johnson and Ray- There is the further fact that burn by the Associated Press, he the people who worked hardest had replied, "I'll work closely for Yarborough's victory are the with them or whoever the party same people against whom John- selects to maintain the Demo- son, with Rayburn assenting, cratic leadership." joined ex-Gov. Allan Shivers and Texas liberals have been on a Gov.-elect Price Daniel at the prolonged celebration since the Fort Worth state convention last election. At one victory party, September. Bitterness emanating toward 4 a.m., a Yarborough from that convention, especially backer who had seen him, and from the exclusion of the Hous- the liberals, go down again and ton and El Paso delegations and again in the state elections Democratic national committee- thought back to the reign of New woman Mrs. R. D. Randolph, Dealing Governor Jimmy Allred makes Yarborough cautious of too in the mid-thirties and said, over great a punt friendliness toward and over, "Ish been a long, long Johnson, especially since Mrs. time." Hundreds mobbed Yarbor- Randolph led usually conserva- ough's election headquarters elec- tive Houston into the Yarborough tion. night, including some who column in his last two elections. had not been seen there in some At coffee one day after his elec- time. Even a Humble Oil lobby- tion Yarborough was asked ist wandered over there and left bluntly, would he co-operate with muttering how curious it was. Lyndon Johnson? "I will co-oper- "No big shots there, just people," ate with the Democratic Party," he said. It was something new to THE TEXAS OBSERVER him, and new to post-war Texas. Mrs. R. D. Randolph and Senator-Elect Yarborough Page 4 April 9, 1957 RONNIE DUGGER "A great victory for the dedicated Democrats," the committeewoman said NEW SENATOR ENTHUSED MO RE BLAMES PRESS AUSTIN Moore Blames the Press Ranch meeting where the direc- BY PARTY VOTING PLAN Senator Bill Koor e, tors allegedly approved the docu- Bryan, admitted to Senate For Building Up ICT ment. AUSTIN "I feel that with a strong ICT investigators that he re- Prior to going to work for Senator-elect Ralph Yarbor- minority party with the will cials relating a $300 and $100 ceived more than $2,300 from agreement was "mistaken." Jacco and ICT, Newman had been ough has endorsed the party and courage to protest, the the ICT Insurance Company connected with a Dallas law firm The senator said the only work registration measure pending scandals of the last seven but said it was just for "legal which represented the Mercan- he ever did for ICT was legal in the legislature as "a good years couldn't have happened." fees" and asked if Texas tile National Bank. It was he who work, nothing ocncerning legisla- bill." Yarborough emphasized the newspaper's weren't more re- had worked on an agreement be- tion. He couldn't recall ever do- Asked by the Observer for bill would not prohibit anyone sponsible than he for "lead- tween the bank and BenJack ing anything for ICT in Austin his position on the proposal by from voting as he pleases in ing 14,000 stockholders down Cage in which Cage borrowed and did not even remember cir- Sen. Henrys Gonzalez, San An- the general election. He favors the path to insolvency." $200,000 to set up an insurance cumstances of an expense vou- tonio, and Rep. Tony Korioth, "free and untrammeled voting Moore said it was not true that company and was given an affi- cher showing he got $200 "for ex- Sherman, to require voters to in the general election," he he made a deal to get $300 re- davit by bank officials saying the penses in Austin during the spe- register as to party and to lim- said. He believes amendments tainer while the legislature was money was unencumbered. it them to their own party's added to the bill by House and cial session" of April and May, ..in session and $100 when it was Newman told the committee primaries a n d conventions, Senate committees to let in- not. He said the agreement was 1954. that despite the fact it is illegal Yarborough responded: dependents vote in one but that he was to receive a flat $300 Frankly ired at news stories to organize insurance companies "I think the honorable lead- only one party primary are monthly, but that later the com- concerning his payments from on borrowed money, there was ership of the Republican Party "bad." pany cut his retainer. to $100. He ICT, Moore said: nothing wrong with the transac- such as Mr. Thad Hutcheson "Party registration is solely said a letter from PaulP Sparks, "The time when I was receiv- tion, The money, he explained, exemplifies, opposes the par- for the purpose of permitting then State Federation of Labor ing payments. from the company was loaned to Cage, an individual ticipation of Republicans in the party to adopt the policieS executive secretary, to ICT offi- was four years ago. At that time, worth $350,000. The affidavit said Democratic primaries just as and programs which represent ICT presumably was a growing, the money was not encumbered much as I do. the views of the party mem- prosperous, solvent operation, at so far as the company was con- "He has so stated, as con- bers," Yarborough said. "Many "Dallas News to publish se- least insofar as most insurance cerned, and he insisted that wap trasted with the philosophy of states have this law. I think lected tourist - slanted excerpts experts were concerned, and ap- true. Jack Porter that the Republi- it helps in the bringing about from Texas Almanac brochure parently insofar as the newspa- James G. Cage, distant cousin can Party should be an ap- of a two-party system." form, with News imprint." pers of Texas were . concerned. of BenJack, and his ,successor as pendage of the Democratic Reported out of committees "Supply Highway Patrol with And yet these same newspapers head of the ICT, was recalled and Party and go along with keep- favorably, as amended, on both special free gift certificates to be today are seeking to tie to the disclosed that a mysterious de- ing the machine in power that sidps of the _Capitol, the plan given to the tourist with the larg- company'S insolvency my receipt posit box belonging to his rela- has been in the past seven has not come to a vote in ei- est family group entering city: of a monthly retainer for repre- tive had been found in Mexico years. ther chamber. idea being to keep the tourist senting the company as an attor- City, empty. there a while, 'etc." ney. Cage explained: "Mrs. BenJack "Nationwide essay con test "I ask: Am I, as a lawyer, sup- Cage told me and my wife in about Texas .... through selected posed to act as a certified public February, 1956, that a key has On 'Selling' Texas public schools." accountant and make a thorough been given her by her husband "(In the Valley,) free glass of audit of a company before I agree and that he had told her if any- (Continued from Page 1) state officials' names and pictures citrus juice to visiting tourists." to represent it? thing happened to him to go to been expended for anything from out of the state-paid advertising. "Publicize various mercantile "I ask: Who is more to blame Mexico City and get the contents the money deposited in that (`leg- Rep. Ben Ferrell, Tyler, tried to features of Texas in suitable for the insolvency of this com- of a safety deposit box. islative services') fund." limit spending under the program trade publications- .... If kept pany—Bill Moore, who drew a "She (later) flew to Mexico Syers-Pickle and Winn had put to $100,000 a year. Rep. James non-commercial, such material is monthly legal retainer, or the City and finally found a box that the reports or the legislators' Blaine, El Paso, responded that welcomed by trade publication newspapers o f Texas, which had been used by BenJack Cage desks earlier in the session, and Ferrell doesn't know about ad- editors ..." helped to build a glowing image a few weeks before. The key did some static had been heard about vertising and he, Blaine, does, "Publish selected Texas cow- of a healthy, lusty, prosperous not fit it and the box was empty," the $6,000 item. and that 47 other states have pro- boy songs in sheet music form to corporation which was going to Cage said. He added that an air- Cotten went to the back mike grams similar to the proposed be sent free to music department make union members in Texas line ticket reservation indicated and asked Bryan: one. of public schools through nation rich? And I cite for your infor- that someone traveling under the "What's gonna be done with the Seeligson said Florida uses half .... Many young children have mation, such items as tits glow- name of Benjack Cage had been money in that bank?" state and half private funds for strong influence on where family ing tribute to BenJack Cage to Mexico City a short time be- Bryan didn't know. the program. "They've told us it's vacations." which was published in the Hous- fore the empty box turned up. Earlier the House had accepted gonna be a wonderful deal. If "Arrange for qualified taxi- ton Post in 1952 and this one in Cage said he understood that an amendment by Rep. Frates they won't back it up with money, dermy service free to out-of-state the Dallas Morning News and his cousin had been employed by Seeligson, San Antonio, requiring I won't go along," he said. sportsmen as a compliment from this one in the Dallas Times Her- John McArthur, an official of that before any state funds are Rep Harold Kennedy, Marble the State of Texas ..." ald in 1954. You will note that Bankers Life and Casualty of Chi- spent on he program, "private Falls, asked Seeligson: "In that "Promote plan for, various sym- in most instances there is consid- cago, the firm that extended a sources" which his amendment way the legislation would be con- phony groups in state to dedicate erable advertising that goes along "loan" which ex-Land Commis- , did not specify will have to trolled by the industry instead of at least one program a season to with these glowing tributes to sioner Bascom Giles received in match the state money. the legislature?" "Yes sir," Seelig- out-of-state tourists ..." BenJack Cage and ICT. connection with a veterans land Rep. S'c o t t McDonald, Fort son replied. "Well," said Ken- "Promote all churches in the "And just to fill out the record scandal case. Worth, said he is opposed to the nedy, "I think it's been that way state adding a special welcome on responsibility for leading 14,- McArthur, in Chicago, told the state govern ment advertising too long, I'm for leaving it in the to tourists on their outdoor 000 stockholders down the path United Press that he had never Texas. Rep. Frank McGregor, legislature." plaques, or signs ...." to insolvency, I would like to employed Cage although he once Waco, replied: "I can't think o Rep. Louis Dugas, Orange, ar- "Promote ... a special Texas present to the committee these had approached him about a job. any segment of our economy that gued against final passage, saying food dish, such as T-Bone a la stirring examples of the build-up JAMES J. BROPHY, Dallas, won't be benefited." McDonald Texas is "already well adver- Texas—world's largest, or a tour- for BenJack Cage and ICT by no,000 a year accounting chief got an amendment added to keep tised," constantly in the news in ist Tempter that is NOT chili and Time Magazine a n d Business for Jacco, testified that checks "monthly national magazines," tamales." Week Magazine. he made out to J. Byron Saun- movies, and elsewhere. The con- "Promote qualified baby-sitter "And while I'm at it/ let me ders, former state insurance com- Voting Record stitutional proposal passed the service free at resorts and hotels call your attention to a publica- missioner, were "not connected House handily, 117-21. ... Such an example of Texas tion called the Texas Observer. with any business deal." Saun- hospitality will never be forgot- You gentlemen are all familiar ders had said the checks totaling The Seeligson amendment to FAR M 0 R E INTERESTING ten." with this publication. So, just for $7,000 were in payment for oil the constitutional amendment to than the debate is the document "Promote contact - with well- the record, I would like to ask properties he had sold to Ben- let the state spend tax money to produced by the Austin PR firm. known television, radio, and mo- Mr. Ronnie Dugger of the Texas Jack. advertise Texas requires that be- It notes the organizational com- tion-picture stars to speak briefly Observer, the fellow with the ho- Brophy also told the committee fore any state funds are spent, mittee of the tourist foundation on delights of Texas travel ..." lier-than-thou attitude, just how that so far as he knew payments an equal sum must be put up by includes officers of the Petroleum "Promote Nieman-Marcus spon- much money he has received of $300 each made to L. W. "private sources." This amend- Marketers Assn. of Texas, Gulf sority (sic) of an annual Texas from the ICT Insurance Corn- Blanchard and Robert Butler, ment passed the House 74-69, af- Oil, Texas Good Roads Assn., Tourist Fashion Show ... models pany. And you will note that his former state insurance depart- ter which the amendment cleared Premier Oil, and the Texas Res- to be invited from among female take from ICT was still being re- ment examiners, were not for any the House, as it had the Senate taurant Assn., and that the pro- guests of leading Texas resorts ceived right up to the day of col- "accounting" work. He said Cage before. Voting against the Seelig- gram was planned by officers and (the blue-chip bracket of heavy lapse," Moore said. told him the checks to Saunders, son amendment: agents of these groups and many spenders) ..." The Observer, a corporation, Blanchard, and Butler were to Anderson, Atwell, Baker, Bass, others, such as Humble Oil, the "Promote vacation contests for accepted ICT ads. Dugger said he cover expenses of the men for Bishop, Blaine, Blanchard, Bris- motor buses, Magnolia Petrol- in-state public schools .... Con- received nothing. helping get information necessary tow, Bryan, Bullock, Byrd, Chap- eum, the oil jobbers, the dairy tests to be staged with coopera- to setting up ICT in Pennsylvania. ANOTHER key witness before man, Cline, Cox, Crosthwait, Day, products institute, t h e Texas tion of teachers, they to select At week's end it appeared Ben- de la Garza, Dungan, Ehrle, El- Company, the hotel association, categories deemed most educa- the Senate committee was Frank Jack Cage and the ICT troubles Newman, Dallas attorney and liott, Fenoglio, Ford, Foreman, Southern Pacific and Burlington tional about Texas but with bear- might be about to receive na- former ICT and Jacco official..It Forsyth, Glass, Green, Harring- Railway, the motor court associa- ing on tourism; as essays on tional attention. Robert F. Ken- was he who drew up the famous ton, Heflin, Hensley, Holman, tion, the state outdoor advertising Yankee in Texas, etc." nedy, chief counsel of the U. S. Holstein, Hosey, Charles Hughes, association, and the Texas Medi- THIS, THEN, is the vista "forgiveness resolution" in which Senate rackets investigating com- the ICT directors excused Ben- Hutchins, Isaacks, Jamison, Jones, cal Assn. stretching ahead for Texans: mittee, called upon state investi- Kelly, Kennard, Kennedy, Kil- hordes of Yankess vying for the Jack Cage froth payment of more Exactly what would "selling gators for the record of the ICT patrick, Koliba, Korioth, Koth- tourist-of-the-month a n d Miss than $900,000 he reportedly owed Texas" consist of? That's in the failure. mann, Laurel, Frank McGregor, Texas Tourist awards, storming the insurance firm on stock sales. In Dallas, Austin, and Houston, book, too. Newman referred to the resolu- Malcolm McGregor, Mann, Carl- the cafes for free fruit juice, federal revenue agents filed fed- To start out, there would be a ton Moore, Myatt, Oliver, Par- humming "selected Texas cow- tion as a "stock sales settlement eral tax liens totaling $123,000 for "Miss Texas Tourist" contest, a agreement" and told the commit- sons, Patterson, Pool, Pressler, boy songs" the natives never income tax they say is still owed slogan on car licenses like "Texas tee "it was a matter of account- Ramsey, Russell, Sadler, Schram, heard before, and clamoring for by BenJack Cage for the years of Means Friends," and tourist-of- Sheridan, Will Smith, Spilman, "T-Bone a la Texas— W orld's ing" and that he "was not ad- 1953 and 1954. Cage, last heard the month awards "to pre-se- vised of the net effect." He in- Springer, Talasek, Terrell, Welch, Largest." It's a prospect to cheer from in Rio de Janeiro, was not lected 100 to 1000th visitor." Winfree, Yezak, Zbranek. the most melancholy merchant sisted he had never been told immediately available for com- how much money was involved Not voting: Robert Hughes, Then there are 100 "suggested and send the natives off to New ment. B.B. Saul, A. R. Schwartz, J. Edgar projects. Some may have merit; York State for some peace and and did not recall that any figure Wilson. some not." Among them: quiet. R. D. was discussed at the Lazy C Page 5 April 9, 1957 TIGRE-HUNTER BILL BACK FROM WILDS Arm-Chair Book on Latin-America LIBERTY The Growth and Culture of Latin is widely at variance with the The Glossary is, conveniently, teenth century. This ignores the Bill Daniel, the Governor's America, by Donald E. Worces- facts. One could, with equal lack at the beginning of the book. I reforms instituted in education brother, came back from ter and Wendell G. Schaeffer, of justification, write about the like that. Whether the defini- in Spain by the great surge of South America full of tales of Oxford University Press, New growth and culture of the Eng- tions are correct is another mat- Humanism. in the 15th and 16th his exciting trip as the Gov- York, 1956. lish Commonwealth — Trinidad, ter. They may be faithful to the centuries. This surge was spear- ernor's emissary. He traveled AUSTIN New Zealand, Scotland, Quebec, usage in the book; but they are, headed in New Spain in the early into the jungles of Colombia The writing of a book re- Hong Kong, etc. It is easy to sometimes, not in keeping with 16th century by such outstand- around the Magdalena River view is often, though not al- overreach when dealing with di- common usage in some places. ing figures as Vasco de ,Quiroga, in a helicopter loaned him by ways, a tedious task. Fre- vergent cultures. The fact that For instance, "averia" may be a Juan de Zumarraga, Pedro de an American oil company. He quently, if not always, it is Iberians (whatever that may "convoy tax"—but it properly re- Gante, and Alonso de la Vera borrowed two home-made ri- also a thankless task. It is mean, culturally speaking) set- fers to "damages." Also, "colegio" Cruz; to mention only a few. fles from local bandits and tedious because, usually, one tled among Indian people (what- could be a school for first-grad- Later in that same century, the shot down a 150-pound chi- reads for personal enlighten- ever that may mean) in the New ersi not only an "academy, sem- Compania de Jesus (the Jesuits) quiro (of the rodent family). ment and enjoyment rather World does not warrant lumping inary." The little hings count. made their indelible humanistic On a safari "into the head- than for didactic purposes, their various cultural products There is, on page 18, a sneering imprint upon education in the waters" of the OrinocO in and to be didactic about per- into one category, or one book. reference to Spanish reluctance Western Hemisphere. Scholasti- Venezuela, he shot several sonal things is, somehow, infra I have been just as guilty as to labor. Who in hell likes to do cism, in parts a highly defensible fierce "los tigres," to pass over dig and tedious. It is thankless others in this respect. But, an end objectionable physical labor that way of thinking, did not lay the as undramatic alligators, boa because some readers are always has to come to things such as he can pass on to some other guy! heavy hand of intellectual death constrictors, pumas, and some dissatisfied with the reviewer's this. Generalizing about Mexi- By the same criterion one could and decay on Latin America. In wolves. He bought in Colom- comments. The author likes the cans, Venezuelans, Argentinians, condemn the American house- fact, in the Sixteenth Century, bia, "at a bargain, you can be review. Some (or most!) readers and the rest as Latin Americans wife who hires a maid or who there was more progress away sure," a huge ranch. All this, do not. And the other way is like generalizing about Poles, buys a washing machine! Also, from Scholasticism i n Latin with pictures of two - rifle around. The reviewer is always Hungarians, Danes, Frenchmen, how did the Spaniards spread America than there was any- Daniel standing beside his gi- on the horns of a dilemma: he Portuguese, and Greeks as Euro- Western culture from Colorado where in Europe. I could cite a ant dead rodent, suckling a agrees (or disagrees) with some peans. That is just too much ter- to Patagonia in less than one variety of "reforms" in higher "tigre" cub on a baby milk features of the book while, at the ritory to cover in a credible hundred years—by sitting on education that were a radical de- bottle, and sitting beside the same time, he takes a dim (or work. The authors do a fine job their bottoms? How did a handful parture from Scholasticism in lovely Analida Alfaro, whom rosy) view of the ancestry (bio- of the underlying common back- of them under Cortes conquer such places as the Royal and Pon- he crowned "international cof- logical or academic) of the au- grounds, and of the individual Tenochtitlan? "Their attitude tifical University o f Mexico fee queen," appears in the thors. So it really is a tedious and characteristics of individual areas toward manual labor," indeed! (1553), and haw Scholasticism April 1 issue of the Houston thankless task. It is also a task —but they do have to generalize Even a jackass would pass his was thrown out of the window Press, without the refraction unfair to all concerned—author, in trying to put the two together. load on to someone else, if he long before the authors of this at the end one might have or- reader, and reviewer (to say It has been done here with over- were not a jackass! work imply that it was dominant. dinarily expected. nothing of the book publisher, Ones- of the "black legend," cou- THIS TENDENCY to under- I do not want to indulge in in- and the publisher of the review!) pled with tinges of the "good- write the "black legend"—even vidious comparisons, except for The present review is no ex- neighbor-policy." though mildly and, usually, indi- purposes of graphic illustration. ception to this "law." In fact, this Who are the latinos? Certainly rectly—is found throughout the Examine this work and apply its book. The authors freqently re- norms to an examination of HARMON TALKS review may illustrate the law so they are not one breed. Juan clearly that it may well establish Bimba and the vaquianos of Ven- sort to pat generalizations whose "English" North America, espe- ON HIS WORK ezuela are not the pelados and elements of truth serve only to cially the U.S.A. It will then be- AUSTIN it as an inflexible principle. So with this cynical preface I offer the muy hombres of Mexico. This illustrate their basic untruth. For come clearly apparent that this Naturopaths use tea s, book does little to bring out the example, a discussion of Scho- book is an uninspired arm-chair barks, steam, massage, elec- my comments on "The Growth and Culture of Latin America." distinctions symbolized by such lasticism on. page 73 seems to im- work, not based on an informed trical current, special foods, differences. So, • as a popular ply that education throughout identification with the subject- diet, vitamins, and minerals THE BOOK implies a uniform- work, let us go along; as a ref- all of Latin America was domin- matter under consideration. in their work on a person's ity in "growth and culture" that erence source, let us beware. ated by the norms of the thir- GEO. I. SANCHEZ health. They refuse to use drug's or surgery but they will refer patients who need such treatment to medical doctors. Oliver's Villainy Is Worth Seeing That, in sum, is how Dr. How- ard Harmon, the president of the AUSTIN that the subsequent speeches of behavior seem perfectly natural not Shakespeare's. For this lat- Texas naturopaths whose tape This troubled city has had just about everyone else but him even in such a hostile medium as ter commodity, I must refer you recording trapped Rep. James E. its fill of villainy of late, but are considerably pared. He gets the motion picture. By utilizing to Ben Iden Payne's production Cox in an Austin hotel room there was one grand exercise the ghosts, not Richmond, and scenery and costumes that pos- at the University of Texas which, bribe talk, describes the profes- in the sport recently wit- also the chance to hold forth to sess the flat, unreal charm of even at this moment, is probably sion he and 350 others in Texas nessed by we who live here his assembled hosts before the Uccello and (of all people!) Fra revealing an unsuspected depth practice. that I can heartily recom- battle. Angelico, he has established a in these dark shadows: Mr. Payne Harmon, in an Observer inter- has a way of doing this. Olivier, mend to all as a source of In case you wondered, the setting that is thus removed from view, said his father was a mis- I fear, did not here. 'Instead, he much delight: Sir Laurence "versions" of Cibber and Colley reality into a world where just sionary doctor to Indian tribes has offered us the spicery of vil- Olivier's splendid produc- are credited in. the foolish pro- about anything seems apt, prob- in Oklahoma. lainy, in Vista-Vision; the glow tion of "Richard III." Aside logue, though to me plenty of able, and really quite credible. Now, as head of the naturo- of pageantry, in. "colour" by from an asinine prologue that Shakespeare apeared to be ex- This approach, being both styl- paths, he accuses the Texas Technicolor; and the flow of a took an unconscionably long time tant, even if slightly 'awry in the ized yet strangely cinematic, gen- Board of Medical Examinery of handsome motion picture, all of to inform us that, historically, opening scenes. Howervein such erally works quite well, though using its four investigators to which I think are well worth Shakespeare was rather lax in pedantries are of somewhat less even when it fails him, as I fear `bird-dog us, watch our offices," seeing. his chronicle of the last of the than burning interest. After all, it did in the grand melee of Bos- and bring suits against them worth Field which is actually Plantagenets, it is a lively thing, "Richard" is hardly the wonder :- through state and local prosecu- beautifully done and full of the fully ,swift accumulation of pur- something of a mess, Olivier can Young Demos Plan tors. He said the naturopaths kind of vigor—or rather, "vig- gative horror that is, say, "Mac- alleviate the lack by an inspired treat 200,000 people in the state. our"—that only the English—or beth," just as Richard, himself, touch that manages to restore For Convention Sweep Many times at the Cox hear- the balance, as witness his final rather, Sir Laurence—seem to by being so determined to be a AUSTIN ings, legislators asked what na- shot of Gloucester writhing in have in their celluloid realiza- villain, fails to cause the ache Liberal Young Democrats turopathy is. Harmon says its se- tions of the Bard. After being we feel at the fall of such good meeting in Houston Saturday cret is that susceptibility to dis- wholly at sea with Orson Welles, men gone wrong as Hamlet and concluded that they will be able ease often comes from "lowered whose "Othello" and "Macbeth" Othello. Since Olivier has chosen Harris Green to maintain control of the Texas resistance." He goes on: proved so scuttled that they soon to make it into a starring vehicle, Young Democrats at their annual "Soils have been depleted year his death throes, still deadly, still sank beneath the waves, and the question should not be convention in Dallas next week- after year. We haven't put back game. Frankly, I can recommend bored to death with Joe Mankie- "Why?" but rather "How well end. what we took out. We think that no finer example of Shakespeare wicz and his funereal "Julius has he done it?" The answer is, Jim Lindsey, chairman of the sprays on vegetables have a cu- translated into cinematic terms Caesar," we bring to Olivier's "Superbly!" state Democratic executive com- mulative effect on the system. than his handling of Act III, "Richard" the same quick spir- mittee, has organized a conserva- Storage of unripened fruits and From the moment when he Scene VII, where he—but now I its and high hearts we take to tive effort to take over the state vegetables to permit transporta- comes hunching his way over to really must indent or I shall go the sick bed of a suddenly re- group. New conservative mem- tion prevents their maturing to the camera to take us into his on like this for inches. covered friend. bers failed in an effort to take contain he greatest amount of es- confidence and cause us to pad WHY, as yet I have not praised over the San Antonio club, but sential nutrients. Pasteurization INCIDENTALLY, old acquaint- obediently about after him Sir Ralph Richardson for some- rumors circulated that 50 new of milk destroys certain enzymes ances are hereby warned that the through the halls of the palace, how convincing us that Bucking- clubs were organized in East and essential nutrients. The re- friend has undergone an ampu- we are his. In the full realization ham could be such a tragic dupe Texas. moval of the germ of grains tation or two. This is, as I said, that such a thing actually dis- or Pamela Brown for wordlessly A tally of the probable distri- (takes) the life of the grain, and Olivier's "Richard," which means covered in our midst would un- imparting a nuance of Carnality bution of convention votes at the the bleaching of the flour renders that Queen Margaret is gone, that doubtedly be shot on. sight, we into her every muted bit or all Houston conferenc4 of liberal it pure starch—what your grand- her great scene with Queen Eliz- neverthelesS settle back into the the confidants, attendants, and leaders gave the liberals 200 and daddy used to make paste to put abeth and the Duchess of York comparative safety of an aisle hapless victims for speaking the the conservatives 110, the Ob- on wallpaper. The only thing that with its echoing tragic knells has seat, occasionally leaning for- lines with a good deal more son- server is advised. will eat white flour is a human gone into discard. and that Clar- ward to catch a hissed intention ority than did the Old Vic troupe Edgar Berlin, state president, being. ence. rather than pleading with and then, relaxing again, prepare on last month's televised snippet is expected to seek re-election, "Because of the use of these his murderers, is allowed to ut- for the worst and, secretly, wish of "Romeo and Juliet." Surely but he had not decided whether things, one out of four people are ter little more than a stifled bel- him the best of all possible luck. Claire Bloom did prettily wilt as to do so at last report. Dusty having to take tranquilizing low. That means that Glouces- Ah, it's a meaty part and, as Oli- the Lady Anne! And Sir John Rhodes of Abilene may also be a drugs, and it accounts for more ter's initial soliloquy must be vier serves it, hardly kosher, Gielgud gave the part of Clar- candidate. Melvin Handelman, millions of pounds of aspirin padded out with excerpts from however done to a turn, and ence such a. fragile dignity and national treasurer of the YD's, produced than even vitamin tab- his ominous muttering in the however garnished with all sorts his famous dream narrative such said Lindsey told him last week lets ... The deterioration of civ- third act of "Henry VI, Part III," of histrionics, a feast. a magnificent reading that we he would vote for Rhodes if he ilization, of the human element, just as the first part of the show It is a tribute to Olivier as' wish Olivier had not hewfi his were a delegate. results from our own. trespasses begins with the coronation of Ed- producer-director that the style scene with the murderers so. on natural living." ward IV from the same play, and he has utilized here makes such Ah, well! this is his "Richard," Page 6, April 9, 1957 (Spring and victory turn normal men to poets politic. In the Tornado's Wake We can't pass on the poetry, To the Editor: but we share in the mood The terrible tornado has fo- that evoked it.-Ed.) cused attention on West Dallas, cur much neglected fresh (?) air The Stickers Are Gone slum. There are miles and miles For five long years, as I clearly of dirt streets, with hub deep recall, mud at times-open ditches and I have openly declared to one Those stickers of red and yellow Has finally fallen in the grave pools of stagnant water-outside and blue of an ass. Bah toilets all over-a stinking quag- and all To the Editor: That Judge Ralph Yarborough Can be taken off, and the wind- With all of her glitter of sham mire when it rains-a stifling I just can not use your paper was just the man shield cleaned; and gold, dust heap when dry. To set matters aright with his From the harvest of ballots a ' She now lies buried as a tale any more. Get right with every- It is a disgrace to a metropoli- Democratic Plan. victory's gleaned. that is told body and do not criticize just a tan city like Dallas that such a Sh, Sh, dear ones, don't let out condition exists while we boast My hopes and ambition I did not Yet there's a deep secret I must few and I might help you fight no peeps, of our banks and office skyscrap- shield, confess: for the "government" we ain't For Bascom's crowd might take ers, our de luxe shops and de- As shown by stickers on my car's Though the "Judge" is pledged to got ... the creeps. partment stores, our oil and our windshield. 'clean up the mess, K. C. KMIECIK Just stand by quiet and keep realty rich millionaires and high Some were red, some yellow, I'm lacking in words to explain New Waverley your ropes handy speed expressways. while others were blue, how I feel For you might have a chance to Now that disaster has struck Declaring the "Judge" a Demo- Without those stickers on my Rah rope some dandy. there will be proposals, private crat loyal and true. car's windshield. To the Editor: R.. B. CROWSON, SR. and public, for helping the peo- But the stickers faded, as across BEN L. PARKER I couldn't do without your ex- ple in the stricken area to re- the years Station KBOP, Pleasanton The Tory from East Texas cellent paper-the only source of I bathed them often with sweat build their homes. This is good And Houston's little pet real facts in Texas politics. By 'but the City Council should and tears. To the Editor: At the polls on April second • 1960 the Texas Democrats should Yet time and again, with a will work out a long range over all Come close dear friends and Got their feathers good and wet. sweep out every one of • the project to drain and blacktop the to win, And so hats off to Ralphie gather round Janus-faced pre sent leaders. streets of West Dallas and make I cleaned the stickers; started Who gave the Gap a cramp And watch the machine come More power to Mrs. (R. D.) Ran- water and sanitary sewer ser- over again. And kept the U.S. Senate dolph. a-tumbling down. vices available to all. And now at last a dream has 0 that mighty machine that was In the good old Donkey's camp! MRS. W. G. DINGUS CARL BRANNIN come true; built of brass L. T. G., San Antonio Lubbock 5614 Ridgedale, Dallas

CITATION BY PUBLICATION Beginning at the Southeast- County, Texas, on. the 8th day of Bautista, Frank Segura, Alice Se- CLASSIFIED THE STATE OF TEXAS, most corner of said Thomas Gray March, 1957, in a certain Cause gura, J. G. Sosa, Mrs. J. G. Sosa, TO Thomas p r a y, Thomas Survey, at which point is located No. 105,905, wherein Louis John i and Louis Silberstein, as the TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: Grey, Thomas Kenney, A n n a rock mound with iron stake, is Plaintiff, and Sims Andrew same existed on the 26th day of Notice is hereby given that Kenney Mason, W. R. Mason, and said point being the north- Walker and wife Pearl L. Walk- July, 1951, and at all subsequent Richard E. Tumlinson, Martha Clarissa Kenney Burden, William eastmost corner of the Wm. Mc- er are Defendants, in favor of dates existed and still exists, in Lane Tumlinson, Jack B. Butler J. Burden, John C. Lee, Mary Cutcheon Labor, and also being the said Plaintiff for the sum of and to the following described and Mozelle Ann Butler, doing Jane Lee, R. H. Griffin, Martin located on the west line of the Eight Thousand Two Hundred property, levied upon to-wit: business under the firm name of M. Kenney, Allen M. Stubble- Wm. Brown Survey; Fifty and no/100 ($8,250.00) All of Lot 3, Block F, Ray- Tumlinson & Butler Tile Co., in- field, Chas. 0. Sorelle, E. T. Thence N. 30° E. along the di- Dollars, with interest thereon at mond Subdivision of Outlot 2, tend to incorporate such firm Moore, R. F. Campbell, J. T. viding line between. the Thomas the rate of 10 per centum per an- Division Z, of the City of Aus- without a change of the firm Lindley, J. R. Warren, Henry N. Gray Survey and the said Wm. num from the 15th day of Febru- tin, Travis County, Texas, ac- name. Duble, Thos. Chubb, W. L. Mann, Brown Survey for 2744 varas to ary, 1957, together with all costs cording to Plat recorded in Vol- TUMLINSON & BUTLER Walt e r Gresham, Francis B. stake in stone mound for corner; of .suit, that being the amount of ume 2, Page 29, of the Travis TILE COMPANY Forster, Dora Brooks, P. W. Sei- Thence N. 60° W. 618 varas to a judgment recovered by the County Plat Records. By Richard E. Tumlinson ders, H. B. Seiders, R. N. Skull, stake in stone mound on the east said Louis John, Plaintiff, in the THE ABOVE SALE to be made- Martha Lane Tumlinson Felix Hollis, each of such per- line of the Burke Trammel Sur- 98th District Court of Travis by me to satisfy the above de- Jack B. Butler sons, if living, and if such per- vey; Thence S. 30° W. along the County, on the 15th day of Feb- scribed judgment for $359.18, in Mozelle Ann Butler. sons are dead, then the unknown dividing line between the Tho- ruary, 1957. favor of Brown 'Securities Cor- heirs and legal representatives mas Gray Survey and the Burke I, on the 11th day of March, poration, together with the costs SALESMAN WANTED: of each and all of the above Trammel Survey for 2744 varas 1957, at 9:42 o'clock A. M. have of said suit, and the proceeds ap- HERE IS YOUR OPPORTUNITY named persons, and their un- to iron stake in stone mound at levied upon, and will on, the 7th plied to the satisfaction thereof. -Good Rawleigh Business now known heirs and legal represent- the Southwestmost corner of the day of May, 1957, that being the T. 0. LANG, Sheriff, available in part of Austin. Write atives, Third Party Defendants Thomas Gray Survey, which first ' Tuesday in said month, at Travis County, Texas, for information. Rawleigh's Dept. in the hereinafter styled and point is also the northwestmost the Court House door in the City By HENRY KLUGE, Deputy TXC-1771-502, Memphis, Tenn. numbered cause: corner of said Wm. McCutcheon of Austin, within legal hours, Austin, Texas, March 26 1957. Labor; proceed to sell for cash to the NOTICE OF INTENTION TO You, and each of you, are hereby commanded to appear be- Thence S. 60° E. along the di- highest bidder? all the right, title INCORPORATE viding line between the Thomas and interest of Sims Andrew fore the 126th Judicial District SHERIFF'S SALE The State of Texas Court of Travis County, Texas, to Gray Survey and the MCCutch- Walker and wife Pearl L. Walk- County of Harris eon Labor for 618 varas to the er, as the same existed on the BY VIRTUE of a certain Order be held at the Courthouse of of Sale issued by the Clerk of Notice is hereby given of the said County in the City of Aus- place of beginning, excepting, 5th day of June 1953, and at all intention of The Best Tool Com- however, Lots No. 5 and 6 in said subsequent dates existed and still the 98th District Court of Travis tin, Travis County, Texas, at or County, Texas, on the 1st day of pany, 7911 Airline Drive, Hous- before 10 o'clock a.m. of Monday subdivision, and containing 300 exists, in and to the following ton, Texas, to incorporate under acres of land, more or less; said described property levied upon, April, A. D. 1957, in a certain the 6th day of May, 1957, and an- Cause No. 105,430, wherein Cen- the name of The Best Tool Com- swer the petition of Third Party tract of land being the identical as the property of Sims Andrew pany, Inc., with the same mail- tract of thirty (30) lots contain- Walker and wife Pearl L. Walk- tral Texas Builders, a corpora- Plaintiffs in Cause No. 97,542, in tion, is Plaintiff, and Ramon R. ing address. which A. S. (Mac) Hull is Plain- ing ten (10) acres each, which is er to-wit: The Best Tool Company described and set forth in the A part of Block No. Fourteen Coronado, and Minnie Coronado, tiff and Mrs. Dora Thiele, a Elmira H. Saenz, Enrique L. widow; Mrs. Edna Thiele Weide- Plat of said lands recorded in (14) of Live Oak Grove Addi- Book 37, at Page 567, of the tion, a subdivision of the Bunton Saenz, Eduardo Herrera and Reg- man, joined pro forma by her oberto M. Herrera, are Defend- husband, Henry L. Weideman; Travis County Deed Records, ex- Homestead as shown by the, map cepting said Lots Nos. 5 and 6, or plat of said addition of Live ants, in which Order of Sale, Mrs. Annie L a u r i e Thiele judgment was rendered in favor LEGALS Freund, joined pro forma by her as aforesaid. Oak Grove Addition of record in Third Party Plaintiffs allege Vol. "Z", Page 615 of Deed, Rec- of the Plaintiff, on the 5th day of husband, Chester A. Freund; March, 1957, in said Court, Mary Thiele Callan, joined pro that on or about January 1, 1957, ords of TraIis County, Texas, they jointly and severally were and being more fully described against the Defendants Ramon R. CITATION BY PUBLICATION forma by her busband, John F. Coronado and Minnie Coronado, THE STATE OF TEXAS Callan; Fred W. Becker, Ger- and still are the owners in fee by metes .nd bounds in Judg- simple of the above described ment entered of record in Vol. for the sum of Three Hundred You are hereby commanded to trude Becker, a feme sole, and tract or parcel of land, claiming Ninety-eight and no-100 ($398.00) appear before the 53rd District Mrs. Bertha Thiele Achilles are 161 Page 477, Civil Minutes of title individually to the respec- the 98th District Court of Travis .... Dollars, with interest them- Court of Travis County, Texas, Defendants; and in which said the rate of 7 per centum Petition of Third Party Plaintiffs, tive lots set out and described in County, Texas. on at to be held at the courthouse of a deed of partition recorded in per annum from the 4th day of said county in the City of Austin, Mary Callan, joined by her hus- Vol. 610, pages 268-275 inclusive, The above sale to be made by October 1956, together with all Travis County, Tex' s, at or be- band, John F. Callan; Mrs. Dora Deed Records of Travis County, me to satisfy the above described costs of suit, and for the fore- fore 10 o'clock A.M. of the first Thiele, a widow, individually judgment for $8,250.00, in favor closure of Plaintiff's Contractor's, and as independent executrix of Texas; Third Party Plaintiffs . Monday after the expiration of are claiming title jointly to the of Louis John together with the Mechanic's a n d Materialman's 42 days from the date of issu- the estate of A. F. Thiele, de- lands described in Plaintiff A. S. costs of said suit, and the pro- lien, against all of the Defend- ance hereof; that is to say, at or ceased; Mrs. Edna Wideman, ceeds applied to the satisfaction joined by her husband Henry Hull's Original Petition, as heirs ants. before, 10 o'clock A.M. of Mon-: and devisees of Charles and Ber- thereof. I, on the 4th day of April, 1957, day the 22nd day of April 1957, Wiedeman; Annie Laurie Freund, tha Thiele, said lands being the T. 0. LANG, Sheriff, at 9:50 o'clock A.M., have levied and answer the petition of plain- joined by her husband Chester same and identical five lots of Travis County, Texas, upon, and will, on the 7th day of tiff in Cause Number 105,590, in Freund; Bertha Achilles, by and By HENRY KLUGE, Deputy May, 1957, that being the first through her Guardian, Annie ten acres each referred to as which Willie Smith is Plaintiff Lots 2, 3, 4, 8 and 12 in the Sub- Austin, Texas, March 27, 1957. Tuesday in said month, at the and Gloria Smith is defendant, Laurie Freund; Albert Becker, division of the Thomas Gray Court House door in the City of filed in said Court on the 16th Fred W. Becker and Gertrude Survey as recorded in Book 37, Austin, within legal hours, pro- day of Nov., 1956, and the nature Becker, a feme sole, are Third page 567, Deed Records of Travis ceed to sell for cash to the high- of which said suit is as follows: Party Plaintiffs and Thomas SHERIFF'S SALE est bidder, all the right, title and Gray, Thomas Grey, Thomas County, Texas; claiming title to Being an action and prayer for said lands by virtue of the five BY VIRTUE of a certain Or- interest of Ramon Coronado, judgment in favor of Plaintiff Kenney; Kenney Mason, W. R. der of Sale issued by the Clerk Minnie Coronado, Elmira H. Mason, Clarissa Kenney Burden, and teii and twenty-five year and against Defendant for decree statute of limitations; of. the District Court of Harris Saenz, Enrique L. Saenz, Eduardo of divorce dissolving the bonds William J. Burden, John C. Lee, Third Party Plaintiffs further County, Texas, 80th Judicial Dis- Herrera and Regoberto M. Her- of matrimony heretofore and now Mary Jane Lee, R. H. Griffin, pray judgment removing cloud trict, on the 14th day of March, rera, as the same existed on the existing between said parties; Martin M. Kenney, Allen N. A. D. 1957, wherein Brown Se- 10th day of August, 1948, and at Stubblefield, Charles 0. Sorelle, from title, for costs of suit and Plaintiff alleges cruel treatment relief, general and special; curities Corporation is Plaintiff, all subsequent dates existed and on the part of Defendant towards E. T. Moore, R. F. Campbell, J. All of which more fully ap- and Nieves Navarro, et al, are still exists, in and to the prop- him of such a nature as to ren- T. Lindley, J. R. Warren, Henry Defendants, in a certain Cause . erty levied upon, to-wit: Duble, Thos. Chubb, W. L. Mann, pears from Third Party Plain- der their further living together tiffs' Petition on file in this of- No. D-416,197 in favor of the All of Lot No. Six (6), in Block as husband and wife altogether Walter Gresham, Francis B. said Brown Securities Corpora- No. Two (2), in D. C. Moore Ad- Forster, Dora Brooks, P. W. Sei- fice and to which reference is insupportable; Plaintiff further here made for all intents and tion for the sum of Three Hun- dition, in Travis County, Texas, alleges that no children were ders, H. B. Seiders, R. N. Skull, purposes; dred Fifty - nine and .18/100 as per plat of said Addition of born of said union and no com- Felix Hollis, each of such per- ($359.18) .... Dollars, being prin- record in Book 5, Page 37, of the munity property accumulated; sons, if living, and if such per- If this citation is not served cipal, interest, attorney's fees and Plat Records of Travis County, Plaintiff further prays for gen- sons are dead, then the unknown within 90 days after date of its collection costs, with interest on Texas. eral relief; heirs and legal representatives of issuance, it shall be returned un- such sum at the rate of 6 per- The above sale to be made by All of which more fully ap- each and all of such above named served. centum per annum from 22nd me to satisfy the above described pears from Plaintiff's Original persons and their unknown heirs Witness, 0. T. Martin, Jr., day of July,' A. D. 1954, together judgment for $398.00, and for the Petition on file in this office and and legal representatives; Eu- Clerk of the District Courts of with all costs of suit, that being foreclosure of Plaintiff's Contrac- to which reference is here made; gene Wilson, A. S. Hull, and all Travis County, Texas. the amount of a judgment recov- tor's, Mechanic's and Material- If this citation is not served other parties owning or having Issued and given under my ered by the said Plaintiff, in the man's lien in favor of Central within 90 days after date of its any claim or interest in the lands hand and the seal of said Court District Court of Harris County, Texas Builder's, a corporation, issuance, it shall be returned un- or lots hereinafter described are at office in the City of Austin, Texas, 80th Judicial. District, on together with the costs of said served. Third Party Defendants; filed in this the 18th day of March, 1957. the 22nd day of July, 1954. suit, and the proceeds applied to WITNESS, 0. T. MARTIN, JR., said Court on the 18th day of 0. T. MARTIN, JR. • the satisfaction thereof. Clerk of the District Courts of March, 1957, and the nature of Clerk of the District Courts, I, on the 16th day of March, T. 0. LANG, Sheriff, Travis County, Texas. which said Petition of Third Travis County, Texas 1957, at 9:20 o'clock A. M., have Travis County, Texas. Issued and given under my Party Plaintiffs is as follows: By GEO. W. BICKLER, Deputy levied upon, and will, on the 7th By HENRY KLUGE, Deputy hand and the seal of said Court at Being an action and prayer for day of May, 1957, that being the Austin, Texas, April 4, 1957 office in the City of Austin, this judgment in favor of Third Party first Tuesday in said month, at the 8th day of March. 1957. Plaintiffs a n d against Third the Courthouse door in the City SHERIFF'S SALE of Austin, within legal hours, 0. T. MARTIN, JR., Party Defendants for title to and THE TEXAS OBSERVER Clerk of the District Courts, possession of the following de- BY VIRTUE of a certain Order proceed to sell for cash to the scribed tract or parcel of land, of Sale issued by the Clerk of highest bidder, all the right, title Travis County, Texas April 9, 1957 By GEO. W. BICKLER, Deputy to-wit: the 98th District Court of Travis and interest of Defendants, R. M. Page 7 Loan Shark Control Chances Dim AUSTIN server, March 14, 1956). However, say it needs to be remedied. On criticized Korioth for doing this sons, Patterson, Pipkin, Pool, Loan sharks apparently in his legislative address he did a national basis it has been prov- and said he does not work for the Pressler, Puckett, Richardson, are going to get a carte not mention. loan companies, and en that people can make money firm. He said the idea probably Sandahl, Saul, Schram, Schwartz blanche to carry on as usual he has not commented on the loan with a 28 percent over-all charge got started because he confers of Galveston, Schwartz of Wash- from this session of the leg- shark problem or made loan on loans under $500. often with Arthur Klein, lobby- ington; islature. shark regulation a part of his rec- "In Dallas, people charge 400 ist in Austin for the firm, but the Shackelford, Shannon of Erath, ommended program. or 500 percent for the use of conferences, he said, have always The House state affairs Shannon of Tarrant, Shaw, Sher- Opposition to the bill came, of money. This bill is designed to been on Valley water problems, committee now has in its idan, Smith of Hays, Smith of course, from small loan compan- put a stop to that kind of stuff about which Klein is also con- hands the bill by Rep. Tony Jefferson, Stewart, Storey, Stro- ies, but also from banks and fi- ... They don't deserve to collect cerned in Austin. Korioth to set a limit on total man, Sudderth, Sutton, Talasek, small-loan charges of 36 per- nance companies which were more than 36 percent on loans." Korioth's contention the recom- worried about the 36 percent lim- Korioth said he knew many mittal killed the bill was disputed Terrell, Tunnell, Walling, Watson, cent on the declining loan Wilson of Potter, Winfree, Wohl- its. Auto insurance rates were a legislators were "afraid of the by de la Garza, who said he's not balance. The sharks charge ford, Woolsey, Yezak. from 140 to 500 percent now. point of special concern to these banks and loan sharks" but that against the bill "in principle." The House vote to recommit latter groups, and although Rep. they should give one vote to "the The Observer has exposed the Nay (to vote on it instead of the bill after it was favorably re- Barefoot Sanders assured them little people who get hurt by activities of Texas loan sharks in recommitting it): ported out by another committee auto insurance would be ex- these loan sharks." two special reports and a number amounted to a crippling blow to empted by an amendment, the The motion to recommit pre- of stories on grand jury action. Armor, Bell, Bishop, Bowers, plans for limiting the sharks' argument turned some votes. vailed 86.54. Afterward Korioth THE VOTING RECORD Burkett, Byrd, Cline, Cole, Cot- charges for their loans. Korioth REP. KIKA de la Garza of Mis- and de la Garza argued over why The complete vote on de la ten, Dewey, Duff, Ehrle, Glass, said it killed the bill. sion, speaking, he said, for the de la Garza had talked to Sam Garza's motion to recommit the Glusin g, Harrington, Hensley, Nine of the 21 members of state "pobrecitos," the poor little ones, Hanna, lobbyist for Pacific Fi- loan shark control bill: Hollowell, Huffor, Hughes of affairs voted not to recommit, explained to the Observer that he nance and Beneficial Finance, at Yes (to recommit to state af- Grayson, Hughes of Dallas, so a minority report—or even a made his motion to recommit be- the door of the House the morn- fairs instead of voting on it). Isaacks, Jamison, Kelly, Kennard, majority report—could be forth- cause 36 percent would put small ing he made his motion to re- Atwell, Baker, Ballman, Bar- Kilpatrick, Korioth, Lee, Mc- coming, but time will be the loan firms in the Valley out of commit. tram, Bass, Blaine, Blanchard, Gregor of El Paso; great legislation-killer in this business and make small loans De la Garza told the Observer Boysen, Brashear, Bryan, Bul- McIlhany, Matthew, M a y s, bribe-jittery session, and it is unavailable to poor Latin-Amer- he had talked to Hanna the pre- lock, Chapman, Cloud, Conley, Moore of Tarrant, Mullen, Myatt, very difficult to see how the leg- icans. He also complained the bill vious week about a motion to re- Cory, Cowen, Cox, Crosthwait, Parish, Roberts, Russell, Sadler, islation can clear the House and had not had a full hearing, al- commit and that Hanna had told Day, de la Garza, Dugas, Dungan, Sanders, Seeligson, Sherrill, Spil- Senate in the next month or less, though he said he had not ob- him at the door of the House the Elliott, Fenoglio, Ferrell, Ford, man, Slack, Springer, Strickland, after which the legislators will jected to its being passed out of day of the motion to recommit Foreman, Forsyth, Green, Hale, Thurmon, Turman, Welch, Wheel- probably bolt for home. the committee of which he was a that he, Hanna, thought he'd have Heatly, Heflin, Holman, Holstein, er, White, Wilson of Young, Governor Daniel, when cam- member. "a lot of support" for the motion. Hooks, Hosey, Huebner, Huffman; Zbranek. paigning for governor in March, Sanders had told the House: De la Garza said Korioth had Hutchins, Jackson, Johnson, Present—Not voting, Osborn. 1956, endorsed the stricter regu- "This is aimed at remedying a suggested a reporter ask him if Jones, Joseph, Koliba, Kothmann, Absent—Anderson, Bristow, El- lation of corporations endowed situation that has been criticized he worked for Great Western Latimer, Laurel, McCoppin, Mc- lis, McDonald, Murray. with public interest, especially by grand juries in Dallas and Loan and Trust, a Chapter Seven Gregor of McLennan, Mann, Mar:. Absent, \ excused -- Kennedy, including loan companies (013- Harris Counties. The newspapers loan firm in San Antonio. He tin, Moore of Harris, Oliver, Par- Ramsey. TIME RUNNING OUT ON PILED UP PLANS AUSTIN members spend $90,000 which had whether funds appropriated ees' pay raises much differently, Christi, and Rep. Menton Mur- As the legislative session already been appropriated to air should be matched by "private with the Senate voting a ten ray, Harlingen, both argued to days tick away, it becomes condition the House chamber. sources. percent pay hike on the first wipe out the Ferrell amend- more apparent that the big Stung by criticism resulting $2,400 of 'each worker's salary ment. "Corpus Christi schools TEACHER PAY RAISE—If the news of this term may be the from exposures in the ICT and while the House provides for have been integrated a long S399-a-year base increase and , in- bills that didn't pass rather Cox bribery case investigations raises to state workers on a job time, from the first grade crements are approved, the cost than those which did. in both the Hous and the Senate, classification basis. through college," said Woolsey. will be $60 million. As the ap- there is more and more talk "We've had no difficulty." Mur- Although Governor Price Dan- propriations bill n o w stands, While the House passed 14 among legislators about going ray asked, "Why don't you just iel has booted through a main there is about $25 million left in amendments to its appropria- home. Most observers believe ev- leave us out of the bill. We're portion of his huge water pro- anticipated revenue, so the full tion bill, adding about $4 mil- ery effort will be made to close getting along right." But the gram, many other of his propos- teachers' raise would require a lion to the committee bill, fi- up shop with the expiration of counter-proposal to table the als appear doomed to fall by the tax bill. The Governor favors a nance committee chairman Bill the 120-day regular term on May Ferrell provision failed 77-41') wayside. gas dedication tax, but chances Fly, Victoria, was able to beat 7. So did a motion by Bob Wheeler, The big stumbling block thus for its passage appear remote. down all proposed added spend- Tilden, to recommit the bill and far is the Senate. While House Unless the Senate goes into ing amendments offered in the send it to the Attorney General Speaker Waggoner Carr and his much longer sessions and takes a PROFESSORS' PAY RAISES— Senate. In each such case he re- for a ruling on its constitution- floor leaders have successfully direct approach on the many con- The House passed a bill doubling minded senators that if they ality. pushed passage of a major water troversial issues before it, the state college tuitions but it is passed the appropriations bill as bill, a code of ethics, a lobbyist steadily -growing number of bills still in the Senate. it stood "there is a good chance Sadler declared that his plan on the calendar can only mean of going home without a tax in- W a s ruled constitutional last registration act, more money for SEGREGATION — T w o bills death for several major measures. crease." He pointed out that if week in North Carolina and pre- needy old folks, and other re- have passed the House by wide Here is a rundown on some of the Senate gave all those mak- dicted "it will become the law of forms, the Senate has been mov- margins, but they have been the key issues, most of which ling appropriations r e q trests the land." ing very slowly. greeted by complete silence from were recommended for adoption what they had asked for the As the legislative jamup grew, the Senate. All such bills coming Rep. Alonzo Jamison's pupil as- by the Governor: state would have to come up the Senate spent several hours of from the House will meet fili- signment bill has been sent to a with $116 million more annu- subcommittee of the House edu- one of its four sessions last week WATER — House and Senate busters in the Senate. ally. cation committee after drawing in debate over a resolution com- conference committee are work- STATE CRIME COMMISSION opposition from representatives mending U.S. Senator Harry ing out final details of proposed OPTIONAL INTEGRATION —This has come in for sharp crit- of the American GI Forum and Byrd for proposing that the na- constitutional amendments on a icism from some members of both The House has decided that the Texas Council of Churches. tional budget should be cut six $200 million general water pro- the House and Senate, although the question of whether Texas The objections raised were that billion dollars. It took more than gram to help finance projects for it had not come up for considera- schools should integrate white the bill would be used by local an hour to criticize the State cities and water districts. Chan- tion in either. It appears to have and Negro students in the fu- school boards to discriminate Building Commission before pass- ces for final passage of this and a a good chance of House passage ture must be decided by popular against minority races in assign- ing a resolution to let the House series of other key water bills but might be crushed in the vote of the taxpayers of each ment of pupils even though the look good. mounting Senate legislation log- school district. law prescribed standards other D.O.T. Convention INSURANCE — T r e mendous j am. This was the effect of a bill than race. pressure is being brought to bear approved by the House, 94-26. MONEY BILLS LOBBYISTS AND ETHICS to maintain a status-quo in the Rep. Jerry Sadler, Percilla, au- The House passed out a lobby- Planned for May 18 insurance deparhuent. Adminis- With the first two rounds of the thor of the measure, said it will ist registration bill and a code of HOUSTON tration requests for complete re- big money fight behind them, give the people the chance to ethics but voted down an amend- Mrs. R. D. Randolph, Demo- organization of the insurance House and Senate conference decide whether they want inte- ment by Rep. Jean Hosey of Gal- cratic national committeewoman commission are meeting stiff op- committees are working to coor- gration and not leave it up to veston which would have made who is also chairman of the position. Chances for final adop- dinate appropriations totaling the U. S. Supreme Court, the it a crime to violate the ethics newly organized "Democrats of tion are still possible but hardly over $2 billion for the biggest school board, or any "other mi- proposal. Texas," said she was still "catch- appear good. spending bill in state history. nority." He charged: "The court ing her breath" from the Senate does not have the right to take Hosey called' the ethics code, . CODE OF ETHICS and Lobby- The Senate took about three election but that plans are pro- away any man's freedom." which informs legislators and ist Registration—Both passed the hours to pass an appropriations ceeding for the D.O.T.'s state Sadler's bill provides that an state workers how they should House and are now in the Senate proposal totaling $2,084,349,515, convention May 18. compared to a 14-hour battle in election may be called on peti- conduct themselves but has no state affairs committee. Neither tion of 20 percent of the , voters corrective provision except ex- The state Democratic execu- has had an open test among the the House for passage of the $2,- to determine whether schools pulsion, "just an attempt to hood- tive committee has been seeking senators, but there seems sure to 086,228,818 bill there. Dollarwise the House approved expendi- should be integrated. wink the public." to have the legislature pass a bill be tough opposition. Their con- which would make the D.O.T. ture of around $2 million more Rep. Ben Ferrell, Tyl e r, The Galveston representative sideration by the Senate seems amended it to "allow districts sought to amend the ethics bill to name illegal. Jim Lindsey, state doubtful, but they will probably for the biennitun. already integrated to remain make its violation a criminal of- chairman of the committee, has pass if they come to a final vote. There are many major differ- condemned splinter groups and ences in what the two bills say that uwr unless local people pe- fense punishable by from two to asked everyone to work through ADVERTISING TEXAS — The should be spent for what. For tition for segregation." Speaker ten . years in prison. He failed by the official committee. proposed constitutional amend- example, the House allocated a Waggoner Carr reportedly in- a vote of 76-61. Mrs. Randolph said a steering ment has pased the House and half million dollars more for ag- sisted on this concession from BOB BRAY committee meeting of D.O.T. will Senate but is hung up in confer- ricultural research and exten- the East Texans. About 103 he held shortly after which con- ence committee on the issue rais- sion work than did the Senate. Texas districts have integrated. THE TEXAS OBSERVER vention plans will be announced. ed by a House amendment of The two groups figure employ- Rep. W. N. Woolsey, Corpus Page/ April y, 1957