The one great rule We will serve no group or party but of composition is to ill hew hard to the speak the truth. truth as we firsti it and the right as t' —Thoreau Trxtto bstrurr see it. An Incier .000 co,0 c:kly News pa per

vol. 49 10c per copy No. 5 9St,e(te:es-c)16" ____:`47- V‘S- 7 Three Men Cracked an Empire to them individually, not even Place a Bet-- telling them who his partner would be, and after careful con- sideration, both accepted the Take a Note task." TEXAS CITY After a careful briefing from "You feel like you are a former FBI agent Simpson, the hell of a long way from two citizen investigators, both of home." whom are regular employees of That is the tense, nervous cil companies on the mainland reaction Carroll S. Yaws, 37, and members and former officers Alta Loma, and Jimmy Giv- of the Oil, Chemical, and Atomic ens, 33, LaMarque, felt as Workers International Union Lo- they repeatedly went un- cal 499, started infiltrating gam- armed into the Maceo gam- bling joints, saloons, and bawdy bling syndicate's plush Bal- houses. They worked two weeks inese Room casino gathering in the smaller places before mov- evidence for Atty. Gen. Will ing in on the more cautiously op- Wilson. erated Maceo syndicate est .b'ish- Yaws recalls: "You go through ments. "We wanted to get a bit of ex- perience, learn how to act and Bob Bray how to get information, before we started after the B-Room," ex- six doors from one street to the plained Givens. gambling room as you walk 75 In the course of the investiga- yards out over the water. It tion they spent more than $3,000 would be a long way to- have to furnished by Atty. Gen. Wilson, come back in a hurry." secured hundreds of pages of in- Givens, Galveston County Dem- formation on illegal operations, ocratic chairman and president of Carroll Yaws, Jim Simpson, and Jim (Buddy) Givens and poured out dozens of glasses. the Galveston County Young Two Oilworkers and an ex-FBI Agent Who Worked Together to Break Up the Games of whisky. They would map each Democrats, said that his closest night's program of visits, hitting call of the eleven-weeks investi- Givens and Yaws, both married Simpson, who lacked only eight crime, and I felt they had the in- all the places in a given geo- gation was not at the Balinese men, were selected by Special votes winning the county attor- telligence and judgement to do graphical area. On their busiest Room but at an establishment Asst. Atty. Gen. Jim Simpson of ney's office while campaigning the job," he said. "But I was not night they visited 17 establish- known as the Ranch House near Texas City to take the 'lead in for cleaning up gambling, knew sure they would do it. Not many ments. Sometimes they would be Kemah. An employee of the the exceedingly touchy task of that both men were opposed to men will agree to accept such a in a place only a couple of min- place was within two feet of a gathering evidence against Gal- "open county" operations. "I responsibility and take the physi- ' utes, other times for a couple of notebook which would have giv- veston County's illegal opera- knew they were deeply dedicated cal risk and abuse that goes with hours. en them away. tions. to ridding the county of organized such an investigation. I talked (Continued on page 5) DEATH-THROES OF A WIDE-OP ERA illegal operations in Galves- in his sermon for an announce- sioner Jimmy Vacek, and others) veston County's ancient court- Wilson Slams ton County. ment which made him "very hap- and club owners wanting to house, District Clerk H. H. Treac- He and members of his Paul's PY." know "which places" were named car surveyed the scene with awe. Union C h u r ch in LaMarque "Never," he said, "during the in the suit s. Islanders were 1 "I've been in this office nearly 20 Dice, Bawds forced gambling czar Sam Maceo long fight to rid the county of plainly shocked and a little years and I've never seen this GALVESTON COUNTY to pull his slot machines out of organized crime, have I told you frightened by a series of lawsuits much activity before." As he For more than 20 years, their community. They have been the victory was in sight. I now which one man 'complained will talked his four clerks had formed Rev. Harry Burch, a slender, participants in every crusade that have reason to believe that we "knock out businesses worth sev- a sort of assembly-line operation scholarly, soft-spoken man, has sprung up since; and there are 'round the corner." Next day eral million dollars." for fast processing of the petitions has been a leader in the fight have been several. even the skeptics had to agree Up on the second floor of Gal-1 (Continued on Page 4) against gambling and other Last Sunday Rev. Burch paused that he might well be right. Atty. Gen. Will Wilson, in a de- cisive blow which Galveston County will never forget, proved once and for all that when he said he would close down Galves- ton it was not "campaign bally- hoo." When his ten assistant at- torneys general, headed by Cecil Rotsch, head of the law enforce- ment division, and James P. Simpson, appointed specially to help out with the Galvestori cleanup, filed nearly 50 injunc- tion suits, it was too late for the gamblers even to sneak a look at their hole cards. The game was ever. • Word spread like wildfire from the courthouse and along Market Street that the suits were being filed, and even as Rotsch and his men were still working with the petitions, dozens of groups of men congregated to talk of the crack- down in hushed, funereal tones. The largest group of gamblers and others involved in similar ac- tivities gathered in front of the Turf Grill, the famed Maceo syn- dicate headquarters. Inside Joe Maceo and other officials of the organization scurried about. As reporters walked along the The Rev. Harry Burch in his Study street they were beset by politi- Sam Maceo Came With Gifts, and He Left With Them cians (P olice Commissioner Attorney General Will Wilson Photos by Bob Bray Walker Rourke, County Commis- He Did Exactly What He Said He'd Da Let those flatter who fear, it is not an American art. —JEFFERSON

01/ rice-3ixing A House small business subpanel "pipeline proration"—that is, the recommends that oil producing pipelines simply refuse to accept the • states like Texas "regulate produc- unwanted oil from the wells. Thus tion of crude (oil) to enforce con- the commission simply serves as a servation, rather than proration to production control agency for the market demand." As the oil sensi- oil industry. tive Dallas News correctly observed, One of the primary methods of this "strikes at the heart of the pro- monopoly, as any student of anti- ration plan." But in so observing, trust litigation knows too well, is the News concedes editorially what limiting production to keep prices is rarely breathed in the unofficial up. Now comes the usually cautious- journals of Texas commerce— that Dallas News to admit that "prora- "proration fundamentally results in ton fundamentally results in price price fixing." fixing." The proposition of the House committee is simply that pro- No one quibbles with the oil in- duction should be based on the real dustry's right to state-administered economic demand for oil : this would conservation regulations which pre- result in lower prices for consumers. vent the uneconomic taking of oil Replies the industry and the Dallas from beneath the ground. This is News : proration by "market de- the proper meaning of conservation. mand" prevents "evaporation over- But a massive deception has been ground." Even the simpleton can fostered, and has become a part of see that such evaporation does not the myth-complex disseminated by occur abnormally under production much of the daily Texas press, that in response to demand : that it can it is also conservation to let the oil only occur under such circum- c.i..mpanies limit how much oil is stances when the companies resort produced on the basis of how much to artificial restraints on distribu- they want produced. tion to maintain artificially high This the Texas Railroad Com- prices. mission does. It apologizes that if But in Texas, 1957, Oil is still its monthly "proration" figures King, don't forget it; reason and vary from what the oil companies the general welfare have nothing to recommend, the companies institute do with it. Bartlett Appears Exclusively in the Texas Observer

.74,reateninl Silence Helping Pore Sidney WASHINGTON that Richardson, never one to deal The Galveston school board has erners fight their battles against the Eisenhower civil rights program. Anything for a Pal—Robert B. with underlings, took the case all tentatively called off its plans to in- the way up to the White House and Speaker Rayburn's integrity as the Anderson, the new Secretary of the tegrate the first grade until it gets Treasury-to-be, is in hot water even made a "personal complaint" to the an opinion on the effect of the legis- House's presiding officer was reaf- before takinc, office. It's all because President. lature's law requiring a local elec- firmed when he overruled a dilatory he tried to help out a fellow-Texan. tion before integration can be ac- point of order by the Southerners The President personally inter- vened, ordered an investigation ; complished. The Houston school and permitted the bill to be debated The man-in-need turned out to be by the committee as a whole. Sid Richardson, the multi-million- eventually the Corps of Engineers board has petulantly refused to sub- freely • had to reverse its land acquisition But House passage of legislation to aire Texas oilman, one of the rich- mit a plan to federal court for com- est men in America with a net policy. It agreed to take land ex- pliance with the law of the land. secure the liberties of minorities, worth estimated at . $500,000,000. tending only 300 feet from the "pri- Thus the two cities in East Texas in followed by decisive Senate obstruc- Richardson was hopping mad be- vate lake" shoreline. But this didn't which the prospect for a breach in tion, is a story frayed from the re- cause the U.S. Army Corps of En- satisfy Richardson entirely, and the the racist South seemed good for a telling. gineers wanted to acquire full title matter is now lingering in a federal time have retrogressed. The rest of The Negroes of the South stir and rights to some 1,207 acres of court. East. Texas, like the rest of the gently, the white men of the South land Richardson owned at a flood Anderson's role is a bit mysteri- Worth. South, is blanketed by threatening watch them, wondering. How long control project near Fort ous. silence. will they follow such men as Rev- IN-honey wasn't the issue. He was The Army Corps of Engineers erend King and the doctrines Gan- willing to let the government have In Washington Texas Reps. Dies dhi preached ? How long before the was not under his jurisdiction while the land under an "easement rights" he was Deputy Secretary of De- and Dowdy are helping the South- change, and then, at what cost? arrangement for $1. The Engineers fense. By statute it was under the offered to buy it outright for $162,- Secretary of the Army, who was 000. then Robert T. Stevens. He was go- What Richardson objected to was ing along with Richardson, too, in ,9he RachJ 2)own Again letting commonfolk cross his land his own leisurely manner. to fish at Benbrook reservoir or A fortuitous revelation of a Federal Power Commission. This apparently was not quick hunt in the vicinity of his property enough for Anderson, who stepped $2,500 offer to a senator that looked Sunday, however, as has also hap- or simply picnic around the place. in and, in effect, superseded Stev- suspiciously like a bribe is all that pened before, Eisenhower simply He wanted and got the reservoir as ens. saved the nation's consumers from backed down ; crawfished; reneged; a "private lake." higher natural gas prices through scurried off to the golf course with All this information was brought Put It Up to Ike—Anderson, ac- the natural gas price-raising bill last -the utility companies. The amend- out at hearings of a I-louse Govern- cording to the former Deputy Chief year. ments had been offered by the ad- ment Operations s u b committee, of Engineers, May. Gen. Bernard L. As the current session of Con- ministration "as of possible desira- headed by Rep. Earl Chudoff of Robinson, went with him to The gress moved along it appeared, as it bility, but do not represent my fixed Philadelphia. Chudoff apparently White House to talk over the Rich- has appeared occasionally before, conclusions," he said. . didn't realize what a powerful man ardson case. that President Eisenhower was go- Thus the bill to lay as much as a Richardson is supposed to be—or "We had a meeting with him ing to fig-ht for safeguards for the billion a year in higher costs on the he wasn't impressed. Anyhow he is (Anderson)," Robinson told the consumers of the country goes to one of the few men in Congress Chudoff committee, "in which he public. The administration insisted informed me he was personally op- on two amendments to preserve a the House for approval again, sans who dared to tackle the oil tycoon. What Chudoff discovered was posed to two features of the new measure of price authority for the .(Continued foot of next column) land acquisition policy." Chudoff then produced a docu- the Eisenhower - fostered, Eisen- ment drawn up by Richardson's hower-abandoned amendments for lawyers vcrhich happened to coincide arxas Obstrurr the common weal. But for a stiff almost word - for - word with the Senate opposition and the improba- views expressed by Anderson. Af- bility of Senate committee hearings ter pointing this out he also asked JUNE 14, 1957 will hew hard to the truth as we find it on the legislation this year, it would the witness if he had ever raised the and the right as we see it. We are dedi- point about Anderson's interven- Published by Texas Observer Co., Ltd. cated to the whole truth, to human val- become law. Ronnie Dugger ues above all interests, to the rights of tion in the case. Editor and General Manager man as the foundation of democracy; If the Democrats can stall long Robinson said he was "in no posi- Bob Bray, Associate Editor we will take orders from none but our enough to get a Democrat into the tion" to raise questions about An- Sarah Payne, Office Manager own conscience, and never will we over- derson's role. Robinson carried the Published once a week from Austin, look or misrepresent the truth to serve White House again, we might be Texas. Delivered postage prepaid $4 per the interests of the powerful or cater to spared this profits-ballooning mon- fight for the corps on his own. annum. Advertising rates available on the ignoble in the human spirit. strosity. Otherwise the only hope is Later when a new Chief of Engin- request. Extra copies 10c each. Quantity Editorial and business office: 504 West eers was appointed, Robinson was orders available. 24th St., Austin, Texas. Phone GReen- that the President will decide he is Entered as second-class matter April for impossible undesirability, or un- in line for the job, but he was wood 7-0746. passed over. 26, 1937, at the Post Office at Austin, Houston Office: 2501 Crawford, Mrs. Texas, under the act of March 3, 1879. desirable possibility, or desirable un- We will serve no group or party but R. D. Randolph. desirability—or something. ROBERT G. SPIVACK ' 71r "fic,,,..W.1gvar• AgirMoripoplft • 4101.10404,4wf4r.

broth and books for the family would be reduced. The extra 60-day. A VERY RISKY STRATAGEM session in even-numbered years would give the legislators the time they need to conduct their own AUSTIN Daniel's hesitancy is not the whis- forgotten the value of a dollar, to studies of state taxation—a pros- By now perhaps it has tacked its tling before the hurricane. say nothing of a cent ? pect which paralyzes the TMA with way into the labyrinthine intelli- You see ? It's dawning on them. dread and sets Ed Clark off to talk- Ei- gences of the state's "secret bosses" Now CO MES Sam Good Old Sam nevertheless con- ing engagingly of what a mess cludes, "In all probability, the final making of it and would- (to use the phrase of the liberal- Kinch of the Fort Worth Star-Tele- senhower's gram. The amendment might save answer is worth $7,500 a year in n't it be nice if the labor boys would laborite Reader's Digest) how risky salary, plus expenses for a 120-day begin behaving like gentlemen ... was their stratagem to have the money on annual budgeting, but it would cost $1.7 million a year, he session in odd years, a 60-day 'ses- We have lately been treated to Texas Senate increase the proposed muses. It might tempt legislators to sion in even years, and 30 days for the best performances of the state's pay hike for legislators to $7,500. stay in town peddling influence ; it any special session." If you read "modern conservatives," Texans all, Underfed members of the House might even cause some ne'er-do- carefully, you will detect an approv- men who want "No Help from of Representatives set the sum at wells to run for office! ing sniff of the idea at the nose of Washington" (except for drouth $4,800. Liberals who have never the shaggy dog. But Sam's rather and floods and things like that been known to order a $2 steak "Many," says Kinch, "fear the cool walking-around of the idea is there, you know). But they are now when paying their own bills voted $7,500-a-year salary may encourage another lift in the gathering storm. wondering whether their conserva- against $7,500 a year ; and they ex- those not worth that much in any tism isn't getting a little bit too pected the Senate to come back other endeavor to spend full time ADOPTION of the an- modern. We mustn't start treating with something like $3,000, so may- campaigning for the . jobs; That nual salary amendment would be a the legislators like ordinary citizens be a compromise of $4,000 could be might mean defeat of some of those much more fundamental reform —they are, after all, or ought to be, worked out. present members who consider ser- than the defeat of Ben Ramsey, the well-bred sorts, like Lord Shafts- The Senate, by a vote of 18 to 12, vice in the legislature an honor not passage of the lobbyist control law, bury, devoted to the people in a decided on the higher figure. Proba- measurable in dollars and cents." or the incarceration of Bascom genteel sort of way. bly- the House should have insisted In other words, dear friends, Giles. We fear that George Brown, and on $4,800, the voters being as leery plain people might run for office Able men could run for the law- Herman Brown, and Judge Elkins, as they apparently are ; but the and, worse luck, win. What .then making offices without fear that and their agents in the legislature, prospect of a living wage so over- would become of the Austin Club their 'financial losses would disable will have to be "dragged shrieking whelmed them, they accepted the set who "consider service in the leg- them and their families. The low- into the Twentieth Century" like Senate amendment. islature an honor not measurable in pay bias in favor of wealthy men the "modern Republicans" them- Considering the complexion of dollars and cents" because they've who don't need to worry about selves. R.D. the august upper chamber (Carlos Ashley of Llano, president pro tem- pore), the only plausible explana- tion of its uncommon generosity is Machiavellian. We have therefore ames Pop Up in Political Pot since adjournment posted in the politicians") wa a straightforward Forest Rangers' tower and scanned .... Atty. Gen. Will Wilson may job as assistant to the president of now be considered the No. 1 pros- Texas Women's University (for- review of their business interests ; the horizon forclues. but politics was handled gingerly. 'The first one came from Hous- pect for opposition to Gov. Price merly TSCW). Turman, a doctor Daniel next summer. He has been of philosophy in educational admin- They have "actively backed and fi- tcn, where Gov. Price Daniel, al- nancially supported" Allan Shivers, though committed in advance to an- cagy about this, but he has also (in istration, will be back for the spe- his decision against the bill to reg- cial session but won't seek re-elec- Democrats for Eisenhower, some nual sessions and annual salaries, conservative Southern s en at or s; ister integration advocates and his tion. Rep . . W. S. Heatley, Paducah, implied he might not "campaign" "they have also backed Lyndon for the amendment in 1958 unless Galveston crackdown) a t t r a c ted a floor leader for Speaker Wag- considerable attention. Reliable re- goner Carr, is also reported quitting J ohnson." "Every Texas governor the October special session passes for at least the past 20 years has certain other reforms. ports drift into the Observer office the legislature. that Congressman J i m Wright, sought their counsel and support," This is a tenable position for him .... Rep. Joe Pool, Dallas, will said Business Week. to take, all right. If the legislators Weatherford, may also be consider- ing the race ; he would have Lyn- run against GOP Congressman won't require themselves to regis- Bruce Alger if he gets any encour- ....H. M. Baggarly, tough Demo- ter when appearing, appropriations don Johnson's blessing. The Dallas News said Daniel told a closed agement. Rep. Leroy Saul, Kress, cratic editor of the Tulia Herald, knife tucked unobtrusively under says that the new Secretary of the the belt, before state boards and ag- meeting there last week he has no encies, why should they be given a ambitions beyond his present job. The Listening Post Treasury, Bob Anderson of Vernon, pay raise? If they won't require the .... The News, incidentally, said called himself a "conservative Dem- lobbyists to reo-ister and tell what Wilson's Galveston crackdown was plans to run against Sen. Andy ocrat" and was highly critical of they spend, why should they be re- "overdue,'„! continuing : "As long as Rogers, Childress. Roosevelt and Truman, changed to warded by the people? Or so, appar- the laws are on the books they a "Democrat for Eisenhower" in ently, went the Governor's thinking. .... Sen. Henry Gonzalez, San ought to be enforced. Texas can't 1952. When Eisenhower appointed There is, however, a discrepancy. haYe one set of vice statutes for 253 Antonio, says he commuted a total The point of annual salaries is not counties and another set for one." of 23,000 miles between his home him Secretary of the Navy it was • to reward the legislators ; it is to town and Austin during the last called "bipartisanship," just as when protect the legislators from the lob- .... Who will run against old legislative session without missing Oveta Culp Hobby was named wel- byists who are so willing to supple- Ben Ramsey ? The assumption now a day. He is considering opening an is that the Lieutenant Governor fare secretary. Then, moving to ment their salaries. The point of an- import business, possibly boning up nual sessions is not to bring the leg- will seek his fifth term. (The News Connecticut, "he registered as a islators into Austin to peddle influ- hints now that interim Sen. Wil- on his law books and taking the Republican !" Baggarly explodes. liam Blakley may be urged to op- bar exam he skipped after graduat- ence ; it's to give them time to think "Why .didn't he pose as a 'con- their way out of the miasma the pose Sen. Yarborough.) Names pop ing from law school. influence-peddlers diffuse. up as possible contenders for Ram- servative Democrat' in Connecticut .... Lyndon Johnson's June 5 One wonders, therefore, on sec- sey's job have included Sens. Bill as he did in Texas ? .... It isn't that ond, or third, thought, whether Fly, Jarrard Secrest, and Ottis newsletter to constituents begins : he changed his political philosophy, Lock, but their consideration was "If you want to have a friend, be (He) knew that there is no need for predicated primarily on the idea one." that Ramsey wouldn't seek re-elec- two political parties in Texas as DREW PEARSON long as the Republicans can partici- on tion. More realistic speculation in- .... Business Week's startling volves Sen. Charles Herring, Aus- cover feature on George and Her- pate in Democratic primaries, con- The WASHINGTON tin, and Rep. Barefoot Sanders, man Brown of Brown and Root ventions, and otherwise • sabotage Dallas. Herring, visiting Yarbor- ("In front as builders, backstage as the traditional party of the state." ough (at lunch) and Lyndon John- MERRY-GO-ROUND son (in a conference) in Washing- ton, was asked about his plans and WASHINGTON said : "I am only running to be a On Teachers' Pay To most city people, farm parity private citizen although I have en- is about as important as last year's joyed my work in the State Senate." AUSTIN power that their salaries had in baseball scores. However, Sen. Sanders hasn't fed any fuel into the There has fallen into our hands 1904," says the study. Big-tity rates Lyndon Johnson of Texas recently flames, but he is "coming due." He (curiously, immediately after the in Texas (before the $399-a-year issued some figures on parity—the is a conspicuously successful legis- appearance of the June 7 issue con- hike approved this spring) : HoUs- relation between a farmer's income lator on. his own terms, and the taining Mr. Sherrill's article on ton, $3,400 to $5,700; Dallas, $3,500 and his outgo costs—that may help question is, where does he go from teacher's pay) a copy of an estima- to $5,900; San Antonio, $3,450 to to explain tooth-gnashing in the here? ble research document, "Survey of $5,525. farm belt. Teachers Salaries, 1956-1957," pub- National income per capita has The Texas senator noted the fol- .... With the legislators gone, increased 55 percent between 1939- parking spaces. on the Capitol lished by the American Federation cowing price increases to farmers of Teachers, AFL-CIO, in Chicago. 40 and 1953-54, but the average since 1947, the first back-to-normal ground have been reassigned. Price teachers' salary is up only 12 per- peacetime year after World War Daniel got one space ; Ben Ramsey This document, most of which is cent for the same period, a graph got three. For actual power over II : made up of tables and graphs, is a records. The number of teachers Gasoline is up about 19 per cent ; the legislature, that's about the state-by-state, city-by-city survey teaching with substandard certif i- autos, 56 per cent ; tractors, 40 per right ratio between the jobs the two of teachers' pay patterns. cates last fall in the U.S.: 89,400. cent ; ten-gallon milk cans, 70 per men hold. It notes that while only nine- Texas teachers might not be able cent ; steel fence posts, 48 per cent ; .... Elton Miller, writing in his tenths of one percent of U.S. teach- to join the American Federation of 4-point barbed wire, 51 per cent ; weekly White Rocker in Dallas, ers make $10,000 a year or more, the Teachers, if they would, because of figure for physicians and surgeons poultry netting, 54 per cent. says Sen. George Parkhouse "has the absence of a law securing teach- Senator Johnson then pointed out is 41 percent ; for lawyers, 28 per- ers' tenure rights in Texas. Many of voted against the people on just the following price declines (since cent ; for dentists, 25 percent ; for them also apparently feel that 1947) in what farmers sell : about everything that came up in architects, 18 percent ; and for a teachers as professional people Wheat is down 25 per cent ; corn, the Senate." category called "authors, editors, ought not to join unions like ordin- and reporters," 10 percent. ary working people. 45 per cent ; potatoes, 41 per cent ; .... Rep. James Turman, Gober, hogs, 42 per cent ; beef cattle, 20 per Teachers in big city high schools who pushed the teachers' pay raise "should be paid $9,400 a year in or- THE TEXAS OBSERVER cent ; eggs, 30 per cent ; milk, 8/ June 14, 1957 per cent. DREW PEARSON through the House, has accepted a der merely to have the same buying Page 3

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(Continued from Page 1) 1 firmly grounded in law. They be- Wilson and Ranger Chief Homer discussed the crackdown even watching the floor show. His which Wilson's men had brought gan reading the individual peti- Garrison announced that gam- before Wilson was elected Attor- presence was fatal, because they in for filing. tions and issuing restraining or- bling had been shut down along couldn't gamble and customers ney General. One of the first processed was ders Tuesday evening. Both are the entire Gulf Coast. wouldn't even stay around for "Back when Judge Wilson was for the Maceo Syndicate's Balin- involved in trial of other cases, The way in which it was done dinner with the Ranger present. on the Supreme Court we became ese Room, and there were nearly and it may be several days before was interesting in itself. A force True to form, the syndicate ap- acquainted and I told him of my a dozen others aimed. at padlock- they can work their way through of nearly 100 men, including plied a lot of pressure and got interest in cleaning up the ing Maceo establishments. The the hundreds of pages of material. Rangers, Department of Public the Ranger reassigned, but All- suits, Rotsch said, were aimed at Service investigators, and assist- county," Simpson recalled. "Judge red was not to be. denied. He Rotsch and Simpson said the Wilson expressed interest and knocking out all kinds of organ- ant attorney generals, had rented called the Ranger to his office and brunt of the investigation and in- told me of his experiences in ized crime in the county—gam- a Youth League hall in Houston gave him absolute orders to stay junctive effort was aimed at the fighting t h e Dallas gamblers bling, prostitution, and liquor by to prepare for a big surprise raid at the Hollywood Club no matter Maceo syndicate, which is now when he was district attorney the drink joints. His staff still has on Galveston. who tried to send him elsewhere. headed by Anthony and Vic Fer- there." information on which to file cases With that the Maceos tossed in titta. There are no recent figures While the meeting was in prog- against other establishments. The the towel, agreed never to open on the firm's operations, but a ress and the would-be raiders Simpson said that after Wil- petitions just had not been drawn the club again, and didn't. But crime committee hearing in 1952 were getting last minute briefings, son was elected, he wrote him yet, he explained. other operations continued un- brought out that the syndicate a scouting party of investigators congratulating him and "offering molested. Wilson's men rounded out their grossed $4 million a year, had 600 moved in on Galveston County him my assistance." Within a few About ten years later the Rang- evidence with a quick raid on the employes on a $1 million payroll, clubs. They phoned Houston in days, the Attorney General wrote ers made another pass at the syn- Maceo syndicate's headquarters owned over a thousand slot ma- time to call the whole thing off back saying he wanted Simpson's dicate, this time temporarily over the Turf Grill to get infor- chines, and operated at least a because the gamblers obviously help and asking him to come to knocking out the Balinese Room, mation from the firm's books re- dozen gambling halls. had gotten the word of the big Austin. They first met to talk which by then had replaced the garding ownership of various Among the places filed against raid and had quickly ceased op- over plans for the cleanup in Hollywood as the plush gambling clubs and their operating revenue. in the civil action aimed at pad- erations. Observed Garrison, February. It was decided that joint. As the Rangers stormed the The books were turned over after locking them permanently were "They (the gamblers) just folded Simpson should select some un- investigators presented a "letter the Balinese Room, Cedar Oaks, up.,, dercover men and make definite casino with axes, according to of visitation," a legal document Western Room, Club C, Beck- plans for an extended investiga- legend, the band struck up "The which empowers the Attorney man's, Moulin Rouge, Mint Club, Both Wilson and Garrison made tion. Eyes of Texas Are Upon You." it plain at their press conference This made Sam Maceo so mad he General to examine the records of 419 Club, Sportsmen's Club, Cozy There had been growing unrest that t h e gambling crackdown fired the band leader on the spot any corporation licensed to do Rooms, Ace Rooms, Esquire Club, and apprehension that something would not be confined to Galves- for "humiliating these officers business in the state. Bamboo Club, Pirate Club, Mary was in the wind for several ton. It was applicable to all count- who are only doing their duty." Russell's place, The Ranchouse, weeks. For one thing, the July 1 Details of what information was ies in Texas. "Since the gambling Of course, with Rangers chop- The HOwl Club, Stork Club, the date for trial of the first of four gained in the "visit" to the Maceo operations are closed down," said ping up and carting off the fur- Bandbox Club, Ciro's, Rainbow Maceo syndicate bosses on records were not released, since Wilson, "we are going to -do our niture, Sam wasn't likely to be in Club, Imperial Club, Metropole, charges of income tax evasion the private books of a corpora- Omar Khayam, Reno Club, Clock utmost to keep them that way." need of a bandleader for some was drawing near. A. J. Adams, time, anyhow. tion are not privileged news ma- Club, Gulf Towers, Melody Club, He also stated he was adopting the man who held the key job of Ironically, many of the club's terial. Under the law, the AG can Club 88 Keys, Rod & Gun Club, a policy of giving help to any figuring the odds, is slated to go plush carpets, drapes, and some examine but not disclose to the Anchor Club, Idle Hour Club, local law enforcement officers to trial in Austin under a three- furniture were confiscated and press the result of his findings Tradewinds Club, Jean Davis who needed assistance in stamp- count indictment of evading $87,- carried up to the courthouse. Part unless a legal action is filed. House, Ricksha Room, Hurricane ing out "organized crime." He 027 income taxes for 1948-50. of it was used in. the office of Club, Alamo Club, Circle Club, Simpson appeared before the said that the moves against Gal- Others under indictment on simi- District Judge C. G. Dibrell. In a Beach Club, Embassy Club, Pal- Galveston County grand jury. He veston were with the knowledge lar charges include Sam (Books) few months the B-Room was re- ace Club, Streamline Club, Lucky was closeted with the body for and approval of Governor Daniel. Serio, Frank Maceo, and Vic C. furnished and the syndicate was Club, Acme Rooms. more than half an hour but re- Maceo. operating as usual, its main take The officials were aware clos- fused to comment. Among owners named in the While the federal income tax coming from more than 1,000 slot petitions were the Fertitta broth- ing down Galveston would be a cases had no direct bearing on the machines. District Attorney Louis Benson ers, Mike, Pete, and Joe Salvato, big job. Garrison said he was 47 state crackdown, the Attorney promised complete cooperation if Jr., Edwin Earl Llewellyn, John- and "they had gambling in Gal- General's assault on Galveston the state moved for criminal com- ny JOhnson, Horace Beckman, veston before I was born." Wilson gambling was timed to give the 'Every One' plaints. He said, "I am prepared to Vic A. Maceo, Kevin Foley, Dor- had just finished reading a book syndicate a haymaker when it It was 1949 before the Maceos take Wilson's anti-gambling evi- othy Tyler, Harry Alexander, about the 1900 storm in Galves- was already reeling. The syndi- suffered another real setback. dence before the grand jury for Jessie Elliott, Dotty Malone, Doris ton which described gambling cate has closed down the Balinese They _ ran headlong into Rev. its deliberation on such evidence Summerline, Mrs. Pat Cotton, conditions in those days. room and cancelled out contracts Burch and a thoroughly aroused which can or might be the basis Louise Vird, Mary Russell, Mrs. with entertainers for months to citizenry at LaMarque. The syn- for the returning of indictments Asked by the Observer if the D. A. Jones, Betty Richardson, Alf come, and gives every indication dicate, with mainland lieutenant for any violations of our criminal crackdown meant the end of that F. Delpapa, William T. Dennis, Joe Salvato in charge, had satur- laws." long era of gambling in Galves- of squaring off for a summer of Jack O'Toole, Joe Slemensky, legal defense rather than summer ated the unincorporated town Sheriff Paul Hopkins and Police ton, Wilson answered unequivo- Joe T. Hansen, Dorothy R. Gra- tourist dollars. Whether they will with slot machines. Rev. Burch Commissioner Walter B. Rourke, cally, "I certainly intend it to be, ham, Rudolph Cervera, Patsy De- and his fellow citizens decided Jr., both promised complete coop- and I believe it will." be able to weather the storm is Carlo, Vivian Licata, C. K. Swear- open to debate on most any street they would have to go. It was an eration with Wilson. Hopkins ingen, D a n Torres, Mrs. Pat Although county gambling had corner. eight-month fight which was fin- said, "I will clean up what few Stokes, William Gooding, Lee been closed down several days, ally won when Rev. Burch began scattered vice operations Will Woodson, John F. Moriarty, Wil- virtually everyone in Galveston personally visiting establishments Wilson may have missed and I'll liam J. Hoover, Buster Davis, County was amazed at the scope Sicilian Barbers collecting information on slot try to keep an eye. out for any Diamond S. Athanasiou, Abe Ros- of the crackdown when it came. No one knows better than those machine operations and going to operators who try to reopen at enthal, Elwood Talbott, Van 0. Simpson and his two citizen in- pressing for permanent cleanup justice court and filing charges. new locations." Martin, Gus L. Sabanovich, and vestigators had caught the gam- just how hard it will be to ac- "These things are against the kids District Judges Donald Markle Phil Barbaria. bling interests completely o f f complish in Galveston County. and we won't have them in La- and William Stone went over the Men who have grown old fighting Marque," he said. laws pertaining to injunctive pro- guard. gambling here have seen such op- Several syndicate men called ceedings with state attorneys and Daniel Approves The Texas City attorney and erations continue on as big a on Rev. Burch, offered to make agreed that the petitions were In apress conference at Austin, I former FBI agent and Wilson had scale as ever. cash contributions to him and/or The Maceo syndicate, started his church: But he only wanted more than 30 years ago by two the machines moved, "every one LOAN SHARK FIGHT CONTINUES Sicilian barbers, Rose and Sam, of them." Finally Sam MaCeo prospered during the days of pro- called up and then dropped by; AUSTIN credit life division of the board, also requesting that he mention hibition when they were running and after their talk he drove New Insurance board chairman told the present commissioners, the matter so the special session rum from Mexico. away to tell his colleagues to Penn Jackson, the Cleburne judge outgoing John Osorio and Mark can consider it. After only a short term of boot- move the slots out of LaMarque. legging rum and whiskey into who takes over July 1, Joe Gibbs W en t z and Daniel - appointed Meantime, Osorio said 80 firms He did, and they have never been northern and eastern states, the of Seguin, who will be reappoint- Gibbs, that under the terms of had to put up more than a million back. Maceo brothers discovered it was ed to the board, and the third credit insurance regulations of dollars in proven assets to replace After that there were state lucrative to operate "speakeas- member yet to be announced by the board, "usurious (small loan) or shore up bogus assets before House crime investigating com- ies" of their own on Galveston Gov. Price Daniel will have the rates are still being used, although they were relicensed. mittee hearing s, indictments loan shark problem to cope with they seem to have technical ways Island. Prohibition and gambling against 22 gamblers of whom District Judge Charles Betts in as soon as they get started under of getting by." went together`, and soon the broth- many were members of the syn- Austin ruled the board could not the reorganized setup. ers Maceo were expanding their dicate, and finally organization of Osorio asked Roberts and Atty. interfere with the operations of Joe Roberts, director of the interests at a fast clip. the Galveston County Citizens Gen. Will Wilson to try to draft Time Life Insurance Co. of San They were a great combination, Committee for Law Enforcement. new restrictions and regulations Antonio (which it has not reli- according to the old timers. Sam All were efforts to clean up Gal- for the board's later considera- censed) until a formal hearing is was the suave, smart, expansive veston, but none was successful. tion. held at court on the subject. The front man. Rose was the enforcer. , Rev. Burch, Simpson, and others The Observer has received indi- board is likely to appeal Betts's RENEW They soon ruled Galveston say the various crusades weren't To the Texas Observer cations that anti-loan shark forces decision. with an iron fist in a velvet glove. lost, either. They say the con- 504 W. 24th St., Austin are rallying for an effort to force Tarrant County D.A.• Howard The island had its gang warfare, stant publicity has helped swing action at the special session of Fender said the legislature was and the Maceos emerged with the public opinion away from the Name: Gov. Daniel can be induced to so busy "reshuffling the Insur- spoils. "open county" philosophy and mention the matter in his special ance Commission to make it a finally has resulted in drawing call. board composed of Price Daniel Down through the years the the attention of Wilson and Dan- Address: Rep. Tony Korioth of Sherman appointees they didn't do an ade- syndicate had many tiffs with the iel. is making one such request of quate job of revising our basic in- law and crusaders. There was the Even the crusaders are willing Daniel. Daniel said in an inter- surance laws." He cited a corn- time Governor James V. Allred to bet that the current crackdown City: view in Houston he doubts small pany there doing business with shut down the swank Hollywood will be effective, and that is one loan regulation could be accomp- Negroes and Latin - Americans Club with a lone Ranger. He sim- bet the gamblers aren't taking. lished in a 30-day session. Wales which h a s been reneging on ply assigned the lawman, guns, BOB BRAY One year, $4; 2, $7.50; 3, $11 Madden, Jr., of Amarillo, presi- claims on the basis of "the small boots, hat, and all, to sit at the

dent of the Texas Junior Bar, is print." front table drinking coffee and Page 4 June 14, 1957 RAYBURN RULES IN D.C. Shelling Out for the Girls Cities Pause on Integration AUSTIN ions coerced and subjected the argued the judiciary committee Galveston, Houston, and German people." This would be had sent the measure to the Austin school boards are "vicious and evil," he said. House with a 'report that did not slowing down on, integration. Dowdy said the Declaration of cover all the contemplated In Galveston, the school board Independence contained an indict- changes in present law. He said president said the state law re- ment against the English King the report did not specifically ex- quiring local option elections on for "depriving us, in many cases, plain how the bill modified pres- integration has to be ruled on be- of the benefits of trial by jury." ent statutes. fore the board goes ahead with "The civil rights issue is merely The question, or parallel ques- its plans for integration of first- a conflict between those who be- tions, has been raised many grade students in September. In lieve in forcing all citizens to con- times. The rulings of the Chair federal court in Houston, lawyers form to the dictates of a minority have been uniform," Rayburn charged the Houston school board group in such matters as personal said. with deliberately failing to out- associates and employees, and Hayburn then read the rule in At the End of the Road, a Brothel ine a program for integration. those who believe in free choice question. He reviewed earlier pIn Austin, school authorities de- by the individual in those mat- LaMARQUE Pasqujale estimates that at the precedents which had held that cided not to integrate junior high ters," Dowdy said. Galveston County Commis- current $1.30 per yard price on the rule does not apply unless a schools on schedule because of the Alger, the only Republican bill repeals or amends the statute sioner R. W. (Bob) Palmer mudshell, the materials alone I fire which destroyed Allan Jun- from Texas, said the bill wasn't confirmed to the Observer cost $1,000. That doesn't figure "in terms." "General reference to ; ior High, creating serious over- racial but political; noted he had that he had county workers in the county labor and ma- the subject treated in a statute ' crowding. (Austin high schools not signed the Southern Mani- build a shell road to a bawdy chinery costs on the job. without proposing specific are integrated.) festo; and speculated, "So I prob- house a mile south of here and After Sheriff Paul Hopkins amendment is not sufficient," held The Texas Conference of the ably am a misfit on both sides of explained, "It was just another closed down the establishment one precedent. Methodist Church in annual con- the aisle to some degree." He dedicated road as far as I was and filed charges against Mrs. "The chair ... must hold that ference in Houston approved a said the bill "looks more like a concerned." Grace Cooper for operating a the committee did comply in sub- provision to allow conferences violation of civil rights than it The shell road stretches a bawdy house, Palmer said he stance and in fact with the rule," within white jurisdictions to ac- does a soluton to the civil-rghts quarter mile across a lonely "didn't know what the house Rayburn ruled. cept Negro congregations as mem- problem." prairie to a neat, ranch-style was going to be used for when Had the Smith motion prevailed, ber units. The board of directors Obviously, he said, the federal house that was recently closed I built the road." He explained the bill would have been sent of the Lakeview Assembly Meth- civil rights commission the bill down because of prostitution that the roadway had been back to the committee and would odist encampment near Palestine would establish would have activities there. It cost the tax- dedicated in a plat for Cause- there have perished for the ses- recommended to the annual con- "God-like wisdom." He warned it payers more than $1,000. way Park addition more than sion. ference that a committee be ap- could accept and use services of County Engineer D. V. de 40 years ago. As it was, the House then re- pointed to study racial integra- voluntary a n d uncompensated solved itself into a committee of tion of the camp. personnel. "When a man is in the whole to consider the bill IN WASHINGTON, Texas Con- jail and has not had a jury trial, gressmen Bruce Alger, John what about his civil liberties?" Dowdy, and Martin Dies joined Alger asked. The Investigators Southern Democrats and a scat- Defenders of the bill said that tering of Republicans in opposing Southern juries will not convict MOODY HEIR (Continued from Page 1) would sometimes pay for drinks the Eisenhower civil rights bill in whites guilty of offenses against with large bills. This frequently the House. Negroes. SELLS SHARE 5 Dice Tables prompted the bartender to in- Dies challenged supporters to SPEAKER S A M RAYBURN GALVESTON quire if they "didn't want to try name any place where a citizen was the focus of a heated argu- In the largest court-approved Their work day started around a hot crap game tonight?" had been denied the right to vote. ment over a Southern point of settlement lawyers here could re- 8 p.m. and would usually run un- The system got them into He said the bill was a pitch to order against the bill. call. Mrs. Libbie Moody Thomp- til 2 a.m., sometimes much later. plenty of gambling halls, but it Negro voters. He accused Rep. Rep. Howard Smith of Virginia son, wife of U. S. Rep. Clark W. "They put in more than 30 such I almost led to their identity being Emanuel C el 1 e r, D., N.Y., a Thompson, and her two children nights and yet carried their regu- discovered. They had flashed a House floor leader for the bill, of received $8.5 million from the lar work loads at their company big bill in a club at Kemah, and favoring trial by jury in labor estate of her father. jobs. It was a tremendous physi- the bartender invited them to a cases 30 years ago but now op- Daniel Sig. ns The money was paid her in set- cal effort aside from the nervous "big game." They quickly ac- posing it in civil rights cases. tlement of her $30 million claim strain," Simpson declared. • • cepted. The bartender climbed in Dowdy held the floor for about ation. hbays bearing o n ltlhi ae ms t. The primary target, Simpson New Legisl his car, told them to follow, and half an hour castigating the bill. filed her said, was the Maceo operations, roared off with tires screeching. He said it would "deprive the Moody III. His suit to boost the which are the "principal syndi- Givens recalled: "We had to American people of the trial by AUSTIN $1 his daddy left him to several cate" both on the island and the jury," prostituting them "to the Statehouse news, tapering off million is still pending. mainland. keep up so we started up and fol- lowed. The only hitch was we had whims of a politically appointed drastically, came to little more Under terms of the agreement, Givens and Yaws visited the our leather notebooks with all attorney general," "a despot .... this week than the routine signa- Mrs. Thompson sold her interest Turf Grill and Western Room information on our investigations with a large corps of enforcers ture of interesting bills by Gov. and the interests of her children, headquarters of the syndicate in the glove compartment of the under him ... just as Hitler's min- Daniel. Mrs. Libbie Thompson Walker within two weeks after they car. It was unlocked and we He added his signature to Nov. and Clark W. Thompson Jr., to started their work. "The Western couldn't lock it because the key Givens recalled another night 5, 1957 constitutional amendments the W. L. Moody, Jr., estate for Room was the key to the Balinese was in the ignition switch. When he and his family went to a for the $100 million state bond $5.1 million. She received $2.3 mil- Room," said Yaws. "We became we arrived at the gambling house neighbor's for dinner. He had to program for local dams and in- lion, her daughter $1.4 million acquainted with the receptionist a Negro attendant and guard ap- duck out early with the explana- crease of old age pension maxi- and her son $1.3 million. there and one night after gam- proached the car, told us to walk tion he was' going home to get mum to $60 a month and the state In addition the Thompson fam- bling at the Western Room we on in and they would park our some sleep "for a hard day tomor- welfare ceiling from $42 to $47 ily received 300,000 shares of told her that we and our wives car. We had to leave the notes row." Actually he went home, million. American National Insurance Co. would like to go out to the Balin- unlocked in the car glove com- crept out the side gate, and met He also signed the Nov., 1958, stock which has a current value ese Room for dinner. It was," partment," recalled Givens. Yaws for an evening of investiga- public ballot issues for annual of around $10 per share. Givens grinned, "Yaws's birthday Yaws said, "You can be sure we tion. His eight-year-old young- sessions and salaries for legisla- and me and my wife's wedding made our bets there in a hurry ster and the neighbors' child went tors and medical payments for anniversary. That was the truth. and left as quick as we could. I to the house for something, dis- state welfare recipients. It really was." just knew that attendant was go- covered he was gone, and went By the Wednesday night dead- JOHNSTON BOOSTS The receptionist phoned the ing to take a peek in that glove back and told the folks at the line he had also signed bills ex- Balinese Room and made reserva- compartment just to see what he party that he "rushed off some- panding bribery statutes to in- OBSERVER SCOPE tions for them, and they were in could find. My old heart boomed place." Givens' wife was still at clude government employees and HOUSTON the heart of the Maceo gambling every time the telephone rang or the party and tried to explain agents, creating a state tax study Dean Johnston, former Uni- empire. "The service was excel- someone came in the door. But that he probably had been called commission, doubling the tuition versity o f Houston faculty lent and the food was fine," Yaws nothing happended and we got out out to some political meeting. He for Texas college students, creat- member and a leader of the said. He also noted that the gam- without question." still hasn't had the chance to ing a Texas council on migratory Harris County Democrats, has bling room had five dice tables, apologize. labor, increasing workmen's com- been named circulation and four of which were operating, They inadvertently flashed big pensation maximum payments advertising manager of the three roulette tables, two black- Ah-Ha! rolls of money where they from $25 to $35 a week, and re- Texas Observer, Mrs. R. D. jack tables, half a dozen slot ma- Aside from the gruelling hours worked or around people who lieving the Texas Electric Co. of Randolph announced in Hous- chines and room for 150 players. of night life and day work, both didn't expect them to have $100 $250,000 in state taxes next year. ton. They tried them all, conserva- investigators said the worst part bills. Several times they were He vetoed $4 million for repay- Johnston's first step in an tively; and on that score Yaws was embarassing incidents grow- seen going over their evening's ment of old state bonds; seconds intensive circulation campaign had a complaint. ing out of their frequenting the notes over a cup of coffee in the later Comptroller Robert Calvert is the designation of agents to places. Both had been known by wee hours of the morning. Once a "I put $5 in a quarter slot ma- certified the $399-a-year teacher represent the Observer in each close friends as staunch oppon- fellow plant employee of Yaws chine before I finally won two pay raise bill, and he signed it of the major Texas cities on a ents of gambling and vice opera- quarters," he said. "That's a was headed fishing about 4 a.m. into law. (In Austin the figure commission b a s i s. He also tions. For them to start frequent- and spread word around the plant pretty rough return on your will be about $375 unless local plans to make Houston a test ing such places overnight was Yaws was out running around all money, or I should say the state's funds are added because of the area for several new subscrip- bound to cause talk. night long. money." He had put $5 in the ma- higher proportion of special tion-getting procedures. chine because he had instructions One time Givens attending a Both of the state's citizen inves- teachers.) Johnston will be touring the to play it until it paid off so he political meeting, was seated next tigators breathed deep with relief Calvert also certified, as cov- state during the summer could complete slot machine evi- to a minister who was a very when the job was over. "I'm sure ered by available state funds, working on Observer business. dence. The meals and gambling close friend. "A bout halfway glad it's finished but I'd do it $148,600 for the Texas Water De- Persons interested in helping for the two couple ran $62. through the session I discovered again if I thought it would help velopment Board, $185,500 for the with the drive can contact him The investigators soon learned that I had been lighting one cig- knock out organized crime in the State Building Commission's at 2501 Crawford St., Houston. that a good way to get into the arette after another with a book county," Givens declared. Yaws building, $20,000 for the migratory joints was to flash money. They of matches I'd picked up at the said he would "do it all over labor council, and $400,000 for carried clips with $100 or $50 bills Balinese Room," he said. "I'm again if necessary. But I'd wanta teachers for mentally retarded THE TEXAS OBSERVER on the outside of the roll and sure he thought it quite strange." get a little rest before we started." children in public schools. Page 5 June 14, 1957 A TEACHER'S ANSWER TO M RRILL COLLEGE STATION high opinion of himself which is told by his chairman "if you had- Mr. Sherrill's examples. We do sometimes does. Blit --cto-y_ou really This is in answer to "A one of the roots of such suffering, n't bought a home here, I'd fire have a man who returned to us think that the percentage of Teacher on His Racket," by I have had sympathy. you." Well, we once had a de- after he quit us, and he did come teachers who do is higher than Bob Sherrill, published in the Nov, Mr. Sherrill was with us partment head who communi- back with just such a raise. The the percentage of clerks who em- Observer for June 7. I am a year and a half and suffered. cated his small displeasures to us only difference is that he was not bezzle? writing because this piece His little piece in the Observer is by notes. For example, he once fired from either place. I have 5. Mr. Sherrill says that two does a disservice to teaching something fired over his shoulder wrote me, "I can't praise your two reasons for thinking that this fifteen-minute conferences per in general and to the Eng- at a place he has quit and does mathematics without reservation" is the man to whom Mr. Sherrill student is an unheard-of amount lish department of Texas A. not expect to see again. But my after I turned in. my totals of A's, refers: first, for Mr. Sherrill, the of tutoring—but, shucks, why go and M. in particular. I shall point isn't that what Mr. Sherrill B's, C's, etc., for a term, along similarities are striking; second, a on? calling Mr. Sher- say at the outset that I hold has done is slightly less than he- with some bad addition. Almost colleague tells me that during the I AVOIDED professor's rank in that de- roic; my point is that what he is all of us got such notes. The story school-year Mr. Sherrill persisted rill's piece names at the begin- partment, because I wish to con- doing is, in part at least, ration- began going around that one of us in believing that the man had ning. I'll end by calling it emo- fess that I am intimately involved alizing the reasons for a sad year who had had some trouble with been fired from these jobs. tional, malicious, irresponsible, and because I want the reader to at College Station. students had received a note tell- 3. Mr. Sherrill gives the "sam- and callow. There is also a disre- understand why I have access to ing him not to be in a hurry to ple case" of a man who except for gard for exactness and even plain MR. SHERRILL'S subjectivity the facts about stories which Mr. build. But no one of us has ever three hours taught only speech truth which doesn't often go with ought to be obvious on the sur- Sherrill reports inaccurately. said he saw the communication and thus had few papers to grade. the humility one learns in facing or can imagine the man who sup- I give three pertinent pieces of up before fact. I don't wish to quarrel with the posedly received it showing it. information here: One, the de- I am sorry; I wasn't going to assertion of Mr. Sherrill's friend Fred E. Ekfelt partmental files, which I exam- get mad. The same department head that college teachers are "by and ined yesterday, show no such face. He tells us that he remem- made us initial interdepartmental large a bunch of peanuts." "Pea- schedule for either term of '56-'57.1 bers "with relish" his friend's ap- communiques as sign that we had nut" I take to mean here some- One man did in the second term one not endowed with first-rate praisal of most teachers as "pea- read them. He was strict, and teach only five hours which were ' nuts." His generalized picture of what communiques included was CITATION BY PUBLICATION intellect or aesthetic sensibility. I not speech. In the first semester t THE STATE OF TEXAS first-grade teachers is one of a a little difficult to assess. The admit that in our department it is eight of his hours had been corn- I TO Jesse Gonzales, Defendant, "self - righteous b i d d y" w h o story goes that an enthusiastic in the hereinafter styled and more important that one have position. Two, the speech class teaches kids not to step on cray- novice among us was found with numbered cause: patience and tolerance for non- here meets more class hours than , You are hereby commanded to one. The story of the man who a jackknife initialing a toilet seat verbalism, that one be immune are indicated 'by credit-hours—a appear before the 126th District was kept in a department because in our restroom. If Mr. Sherrill Court of Travis County, Texas, to from the hopelessness and de- man who, to take Mr. Sherrill's pression that ought to set in from he had built a house Mr. Sherrill heard this one, he probably be- be held at the courthouse of said hypothetical case, taught nine county in the City of Austin, Tra- uses to illustrate the illogical lieved it. While he was with us reading hundreds of pages of hours of speech would hold class vis County, Texas, at or before ways that heads operate to keep here in the country, we should 10 o'clock A.M. of the first Mon- writing certain to be undisting- for at least twelve hours. Three, "mugs" on the payroll. Just what have taken him snipe hunting. day after the expiration of 42 uished and fairly certain to be il- it is not necessarily true that 2. Mr. Sherrill writes, "I know days from the date of issuance literate. In the seventeen years is a mug? there are no papers in speech, hereof; that is to say, at or before, that I've taught at A. and M. Col- But if the subjectivity isn't another professor who was fired 10 o'clock A. M. of Monday the classes. lege, I have had as colleagues readily apparent, let me give the from State College No. 1, passing 22nd day of July, 1957, and an- Mr. Sherrill says that pro- swer the petition of plaintiff in several men first of all involved straight of some of Mr. Sherrill's on to State College No. 2, from 4. fessors in small schools throw Cause Number 107,230, in which in themselves as "creative" writ- stories. For all of the examples which he was canned a year later, Sarah Gonzales is Plaintiff and away half the papers ungraded. ers or as sensitive readers and are local to College Station; this only to bounce back to the pay- Jesse Gonzales is defendant, filed in said Court on the 5th day of scholars. Invariably they have I cannot believe Mr. Sherrill will roll at State College No. 1 again Come now. There are bank clerks who embezzle. I suppose, though June, 1957, and the nature of found our atmosphere unpleasant. deny. —at an upgrade in rank and a I which said suit is as follows: in 20 years of teaching I have Some of them have suffered in- 1. I begin with the story of salary boost to better than $5,- Being an action and prayer for never heard of one set anybody judgment in favor of Plaintiff and tensely. And even when one of the mug. Mr. Sherrill says he 000!" This corresponds to a local I ever tossed out, that somebody against Defendant for decree of these men did not come up to the knows of a professor who was case as much as the average of divorce dissolving the bonds of matrimony heretofore and now existing between said parties; Plaintiff alleges cruel treatment on the part of Defendant towards her of such a nature as to render ....AND A TEACHER'S SON'S ANSWER their further living together as husband and wife altogether in- sirable types are the effect, rather AUSTIN vious that the only persons who the ... child how to color pictures supportable; Plaintiff further al- would work 12 hours per week without stepping on the crayons," than the cause, of universally low leges that no children were born As a normally intelligent salaries? Or, once the salaries are of said union and no community on an hourly basis at, say, $4.00 the "bunch of peanuts," and other property was acquired; Plaintiff product of a pair of peda- raised to the comparable levels of gogues, I feel particularly per hour, are those who patently undesirable types in the profes- further prays for the restoration wouldnot be in the least bit qual- sion, and his whole argument the other professions, that better of her maiden name of Sarah qualified to attempt an an- qualified personnel might step Amezquita, and for relief, general ified to hold such a position. seems to be that the presence of and special; swer to the article on the forward to compete with the pea- teaching "racket" in last Although I am not acquainted these types is sufficient reason to All of which more fully ap- with the eminent author of "The deny to the entire profession the nuts for the positions? pears from Plaintiff's Original week's Observer. I was some- (Mr. Bennett is an Austin at- Petition on file in this office and Effect of Blue Stage Lighting on right to a good living. However, to which reference is here made; what at a loss to understand torney.—Ed.) the viewpoint of Mr. Sherrill, a Small Audience," I would like is it not the fact that such unde- If this citation is not served to cite the experience of my male within 90 days after date of its the author. I tried at first to dis- issuance, it shall be returned un- cover his tongue in his cheek, but parent. At 47 years of age, after served. T. MARTIN, JR., his cheek is empty so far as I can 30 years in the teaching "racket," WITNESS, 0. while feeding, clothing and hous- Clerk of the District Courts of ascertain from perusing his arti- DIFFUSION Travis County, Texas. cle. The ing a wife and four brats on sal- Issued and given under my only conclusion I can "To the dozen or so good rea- in his practice of writing, the draw is that he is a very candid aries from $95 to $300 per month, hand and the seal of said Court at my aforesaid parent became the sons that have been suggested for presence of an obstacle, in any office in the City of Austin, this peanut. kind of writing job whatever, was the 6th day of June, 1957. author of a simpleton's bedtime our having no new major novel- enough to give the job the status 0. T. MARTIN, JR., The implied argument of Mr. story called "The Principal Rhe- ists in America I should like to Clerk of the District Courts, of a literary art .... torical Conventions in the Renais- suggest the addition of one more. Travis County, Texas Sherrill is that college professors By GEO. W. BICKLER, Deputy should be paid on an hourly basis. sance Personal Elegy," for which America now maintains so many "Admittedly, Agee was an ex- This is sheer nonsense. A profes- areas in which a creative talent treme case—but just how much THE STATE OF TEXAS sor must be paid enough to live can find room for exercise that a American talent is diverted in To any Sheriff or any Constable writer whose gifts at one time within the State of Texas— and support his family, regard- Dave Bennett this way from the traditional lit- GREETING: less of the number of hours he would have assured us a long se- erary forms? And how many You are hereby commanded to works. Wiser persons than Mr. he was handsomely rewarded ries of good fictions is now in- novels have gone unwritten in cause to be published. ONCE, not vited to divert his energies in a less than ten days before the re- Sherrill or myself have set a with a PhD degree and several our time 'because writers have turn day thereof. exclusive of the standard of 12 hours per week as holes in the wall of his stomach. dozen different directions. And satisfied the urge-to-write by date of publication. in a newspa- the maximum effective lecturing I will admit that I don't under- for an example of what happens writing which we do not label per printed in Travis County, to solicit some talents I would of- Texas, the accompanying citation, rate on. the college level. And, al- stand even the title (as probably literary? of which the herein below follow- though I have known some to Mr. Sherrill won't), but I defy fer the case of James Agee, who ing is a true copy—(but if there "If he had wanted to pour his hold part-time outside jobs, most anyone to deny the scholarliness had a great gift and could, one be no newspaper so printed in prose—and his almost embarass- said county, then that you cause faculties frown on such. It is ob- of the dissertation. The above suspects, have written some fine ing, indiscreet honesty — into, the said citation to be posted for mentioned subject, now 52 years novels. at least TEN days before the re- old and with 35 years experience first, a novel about Harvard, then turn term thereof as required by "Agee died in 1955 of coronary in the field (and usually regarded a novel about working for the law). The Stump occlusion at the age of forty-five CITATION BY PUBLICATION as a good teacher), earned last Luce magazines, perhaps after leaving one book of poems, Per- THE STATE OF TEXAS year a salary approximating that that a novel about sharecroppers, TO all persons interested in the mit Me Voyage; one book about Friendly Letters of his eldest son, only three years and finally a novel about his estate of Guy Ellsworth Fuller, sharecropping, Let Us Now Praise family, he might have died at Deceased. N o. 17,448, County "You are doing a marvelous job out of school. And, after all, is Court, Travis County, Texas. D. Famous Men; and one short .... You amaze me with the not everything relative? forty-five a well-known man and M. Fuller, Administrator with the novel, The Morning Watch .... breadth and depth of your cover- Instead of saying that teachers a 'loss to American letters.' But Will Annexed in the above num- The craftsman wrote articles for bered and entitled estate, filed on age. How do you pay for the enjoy a three month vacation the truth is that with all the dif- Fortune, Time, and Life, movie the 3rd day of June, 1957, his ver- newsprint and postage? And each year, it is much more accur- ferent possibilities open, he did ified account for final settlement reviews for the Nation, and movie where do you find reporters who ate to state that they face the not want to choose one and put of said estate and requests that scripts he published as well as said estate be settled and closed. will write the sort of honest ma- probability of a three-month per- the rest aside. So long as Amer. those which were filmed in Holly- and said applicant be discharged terial on the side of the angels iod of unemployment each year. ica invites talents to disperse as from his trust. wood. you are printing? God bless you, By the very nature of their pro- his did, fewer and fewer writers Said application will be heard will be likely to face up to such and acted on by said Court at 10 friends."—Aubrey Williams, The fession, most are denied the "Conventionally, if one writes a o'clock A. M. on the first Monday a choice. Southern Farmer, Montgomery, chance to earn a living one- book of poems which 'show prom- next after the expiration of ten Ala. fourth of their time. As a child days from date of iyiblication of ise' then one must go on and "In other words, the men who this citation, the same being the `The longer we read the Ob- during the depression I came to write another book of poems or could be our major novelists may 1st day of July, 1957, at the server the more we need it!"— dread summer as meaning a diet the promise is not 'kerit.' But be going ... elsewhere." County Courthouse in Austin, Mrs. D. E. Smith, Bellaire, Tex. of armadillos and sweet potatoes Texas. Agee lacked, even more than All persons interested in said "Keep up the fine work on The rather than anticipating it as the —Compressed from "James Agee: other writers of our time, the (Continued on Page 7) Texas Observer."—Sheaffers and time of vacation from school. The Question of Unkept Prom- Lorna Bath, 20 Calcutta Djalan, Mr. Sherrill complains of the traditional respect for genres .... ise," W. M. Frohock in the cur- THE TEXAS OBSERVER Medan, Sumatra, Indonesia. "self-righteous biddy who teaches For Agee, if not in theory at least rent issue of Southwest Review. Page 6 June 14, 1957 All parties to this suit, includ- suit is now pending in the Dis- Said sale to be made by me to to which reference is here made. ing Plaintiffs, Defendants, and in- trict Court of Travis County 53rd satisfy the judgment rendered in If this citation is not served LEGALS tervenors, shall take notice that Judicial District, and the file above styled and numbered cause, within 90 days after date of issu- claims - not only for any taxes number of said suit is 106, 984, together with interest, penalties ance, it shall be returned unserv- which were delinquent on said that the names of all taxing units and costs of suit, and the pro- ed. Witness, 0. T. Martin, Jr., (Continued from Page 6) property at the time of this suit which assess and collect taxes on ceeds of said sale to be applied Clerk of the District Courts of was filed but all taxes becoming the property hereina'bove de- to the satisfaction thereof, and the Travis County, Texas. Issued and estate are hereby cited to appear remainder, if any, to be applied before said Honorable Court at delinquent thereon at any time scribed not made parties to this given under my hand and seal of thereafter up to the day of judg- suit are, NONE. as the law directs. said above mentioned time and Dated at Austin, Texas, this the said Court at office in the City of place by filing a written answer ment, including all interest, pen- Plaintiff and all other taxing Austin, this the 31st day of May, alties, and costs allowed by law units who may set up their tax 29th day of May, 1957. contesting such application should T. 0. Lang, Sheriff, 1957. they desire to do so. thereon, may, upon request there- claims seek recovery of delin- T. MARTIN, JR. for, be recovered without further quent ad valorem taxes on the Travis County, Texas 0. The officer executing this writ By Henry Kluge, Deputy Clerk of the District Courts, shall promptly serve the same ac- citation or notice to any parties property hereinabove described, herein, and all said parties shall and in addition to the taxes all Travis County, Texas. cording to requirements of law, By Eli Greer, Deputy. and the mandates hereof, and take notice of and plead and an- interest, penalties, and costs al- NOTICE OF SALE make due return as the law di- swer to all claims and pleadings lowed by law thereon up to and THE STATE OF TEXAS rects. now on file and which may here- including the day of judgment COUNTY OF TRAVIS CITATION BY PUBLICATION Given under my hand and the after be filed in said cause by all herein, and the establishment and THE STATE OF TEXAS other parties herein, and all of foreclosure of liens, if any, secur- By virtue of an order of sale seal of said court at office in dated and issued pursuant to a TO Earnest Hewitt, Defendant, Austin, Texas, this the 5th day of those taxing units above named ing the payment of same, as pro- in the hereinafter styled and who may intervene herein and vided by law. judgment decree of the 53rd Dis- June, A. D. 1957. trict Court of Travis County, Tex- numbered cause: EMILIE LIMBERG set up their respective tax claims All parties to this suit, includ- You are hereby commanded to against said property. ing Plaintiffs, Defendants, and as, by the Clerk of said Court on Clerk of the County Court, said date in a certain suit, No. appear before the 126th District Travis County, Texas You are hereby commanded to Intervenors, shall take notice that Court of Travis County, Texas, to By M. EPHRAIM, Deputy appear and defend such „uit on claims not only for any taxes 105,874, styled Lizzie Rabb, et al be held at the courthouse of said the first Monday after the expira- which were delinquent on said and to me directed and delivered county in the City of Austin Tra- NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION OF tion of Forty two days from and property at the time of this suit as sheriff of said County, I have vis County, Texas, at or before FIRM AND INTENTION TO after the date of issuance hereof, was filed but all taxes becoming on May 28, 1957, at 1:24 P. M., 10 o'clock A.M. of the first Mon- INCORPORATE the same being the 22nd day of delinquent thereon at any time seized, levied upon, and will, on day after the expiration of 42 Notice is hereby given that the July, A. D., 1957 (which is the re- thereafter up to the day of judg- the First Tuesday in July, 1957, days from the date of issuance undersigned, Robert H. Smith, turn day of such citation), before ment, including all interest, pen- same being the 2nd day of said hereof; that is to say, at or before sole owner of the business firm of the Honorable District Court, alties, and costs allowed by law month, at the courthouse door of 10 o'clock A.M. of Monday the 8th Robert H. Smith & Co., located at 53rd Judicial District of Travis thereon, may, upon request there- said County, in the City of Austin day of July, A. D. 1957, and an- 1915 Kolfahl Street, Houston, Har- County, Texas, to be held at the for, be recovered herein without between the hours of 10 o'clock swer the petition of plaintiff in ris County, Texas, intends to dis- Courthouse thereof, then and further citation or notice to any A. M. and 4 o'clock P. M. of said Cause Number 107,150, in which solve the same without a change there to show cause why judg- parties herein, and all said parties day proceed to sell for cash to Grace Hewitt is Plaintiff and Ear- in the firm name thereof, the cor- ment shall not be rendered for shall take notice of and plead and the highest bidder all the right, nest Hewitt is defendant, filed in porate name to read Robert H. such taxes, penalties, interests answer to all claims and plead- title and interest of the defend- said Court on the 24th day of Smith & Co., Inc., said business and costs, and condemning said ings now on. file and which may ants in such suit in and to the May, 1957, and the nature of dissolution and incorporation to property and ordering foreclosure hereafter be filed in said cause following described real estate which said suit is as follows: take place after the expiration of of the constitutional and statutory by all other parties herein, and levied upon as the property of Being an action and prayer for thirty (30) days from this the 1st tax liens thereon for taxes due all of those taxing units above said defendants, the same lying judgment in favor of Plaintiff and day of June, 1957. the Plaintiff and the taxing units named who may intervene herein and being situated in the County against Defendant for decree of ROBERT H. SMITH parties hereto, and those who may and set up their respective tax of Travis and the State of Texas, divorce dissolving the marriage Sole owner of Robert H. intervene herein, together with claims against said property. to wit: All that certain lot, tract, contract existing between said Smith & Co. all interest, penalties and costs al- You are hereby commanded to or parcel of land lying and being parties; Plaintiff alleges cruel lowed by law up to and including appear and defend such suit on situated in the County of Travis, treatment on the part of Defend- the day of judgment herein, and the first Monday after the expira- State of Texas, described as fol- ant towards her of such a nature THE STATE OF TEXAS all costs of this suit. tion of Forty two (42) days from lows: as to' render their further living COUNTY OF TRAVIS Issued and given under my hand and after the date of issuance West Thirty-four (34) feet of together insupportable; Plaintiff In the name and by the author- and seal of said court in the City hereof, the same being the 22nd Lot number. Fourteen (14) of the further alleges that one child was ity of the State of Texas: of Austin,. Travis County, Texas, day of July, A. D., 1957 (which is Burchard Subdivision of Outlot born during said marriage and Notice is hereby given as follows: this 4th day of June, A. D., 1957. the return day of such citation), One (1) in Division "B", of the that plaintiff should be awarded TO: Kittie L. Walker, Mattie 0. T. MARTIN, JR. before the Honorable District government tracts adjoining the its care, custody and control and Lawson, Houston Lawson, Irene Clerk of the District Court, Court, 53rd Judicial District of City of Austin, Travis County, that defendant be required to Lawson whose residences are un- Travis County Texas Travis County, Texas, to be held Texas, according to the plat of contribute a reasonable amount known, Matrua Lawson, Matrua By Geo. W. Bickler, Deputy at the courthouse thereof, then said Subdivision recorded in Vol- of money for support of said child Lawson Harrison and husband, and there to show cause why ume 2, page 134 of the Plat Rec- until it reaches 18 years of age; Mr. Harrison, whose first name judgment shall not be rendered ords of Travis County, Texas, Plaintiff further prays for general is unknown, who reside in Cald- THE STATE OF TEXAS for such taxes, penalties, inter- and being the same property con- COUNTY OF TRAVIS relief; well County, Texas, and E. A. ests and costs, and condemning veyed to Bertha Rabb, Willie All of which more fully appears Wendlandt, Edward Wendlandt, In the name and by the author- said property and ordering fore- Rabb and Bessie Rabb by L. L. from Plaintiff's Original Petition Emma Wendlandt Savage, Walter ity of the State of Texas: closure of the constitutional and Campbell by deed dated October on file in this office and to which G. Wendlandt, Charles W. Wend- Notice is hereby given as follows: statutory tax liens thereon for 12, 1901, and recorded in Volume reference is here made; landt, Henry Wendlandt, Jr., Mar- TO: G. M. Brass and wife A- taxes due the Plaintiff and the 183, page 195 of the deed Records If this citation is not served garet Wendlandt Howard, Jimmie melia Brass, Martin C. Guarino taxing units parties hereto. and of Travis County, Texas. within 90 days after date of its Evans Wendlandt and Ted Wend- and Earnest Warden, who reside those who may intervene herein, or upon the written request of issuance, it shall be returned un- landt, who reside in Travis Coun- in Travis County, Texas, and together with all interest, penal- said defendants or their attorney, ty, Texas, and the unknown own- a sufficient portion thereof to served. Pauline Albert, who resides in ties, and costs allowed by law up Witness, 0. T. Martin, Jr., Clerk er or owners of the property here- Bexar County, Texas, and Ade- to and including the day of judg- satisfy said judgment, interest, of the District Courts of Travis penalties and costs, subject, how- inafter described or any interest line Bezanilla, G. M. Brass, 'Jr., ment herein, and all costs of this County, Texas. therein; the heirs and legal rep- Pauline Zigenhals, Pauline Zig- suit. ever, to the right of redemp- Issued and given under my resentatives and the unknown enhals Cobbs and husband C. N. Issued and given under my tion, of the defendants or any hand and the seal of said Court heirs and legal representatives of Cobbs, Adeline Zigenhals, Ade- hand and seal of said court in the person having an interest there- at office in the City of Austin, each of the above named and line Zigenhals Cone and hus- City of Austin, Travis County, in, to redeem the said property, this the 24th day of May, 1957. mentioned persons who may be band, Mr. Cone, whose first Texas, this 4th- day of June, A. D., or their interest therein, at any 0. T. MARTIN, JR. deceased; and the corporate offi- name is unknown, 1957. time within two years from date Clerk of the District Courts, cers, trustees, receivers and Edward E. Brass, Vivian Frank- 0. T. MARTIN, JR. of sale in the manner provided Travis County, Texas. stockholders of any of the above by law, and subject to any other lin and Marguerite Franklin, Clerk of the District Court, By GEO. W. BICKLER, Deputy named or mentioned parties whose residences are unknown, Travis County Texas and further rights to which the which may be corporations, de- and the unknown owner or own- By Geo. W. Bickler, Deputy defendants or anyone interested funct or otherwise, together with ers of the propety hereinafter de- therein may be entitled under the CITATION BY PUBLICATION the successors, heirs and assigns scribed or any interest therein; provisions of law. THE STATE OF TEXAS NOTICE OF SALE TO Mary Norton Stockwell, De- of such corporate officers, trustees, the heirs and legal representa- THE STATE OF TEXAS Said sale to be made by me to receivers, and stockholders, and tives and the unknown heirs and satisfy the judgment rendered in fendant, in the hereinafter styled any and all persons, including ad- legal representatives of each of COUNTY OF TRAVIS above styled and numbered cause, and numbered cause: verse claimants, owning or hav- the above named and mentioned By virtue of an order of sale together with interest, penalties You are hereby commanded to ing or claiming any legal or equit- persons who may be deceased; dated and issued pursuant to a and costs of suit, and the pro- appear before the 126th District able interest in or lien upon the and the corporate officers, trus- ceeds of said sale to be applied Court of Travis County, Texas, to judgment decree of the 53rd Dis- be held at the courthouse of said following described property de- tees, receivers and stockholders trict Court of Travis County, Tex- to the satisfaction thereof, and the linquent to plaintiff herein, for of any of the above named or as, by the Clerk of said Court on remainder, if any, to be applied county in the City of Austin, Tra- taxes, to-wit: All that certain lot, mentioned parties which may be as the law directs. vis County, Texas, at or before said date in a certain suit, No. 10 o'clock A.M. of the first Mon- tract or parcel of land lying and corporations, defunct or other- 105,788, styled Mollie Gregg. et al Dated at Austin, Texas, this the being situated in the County of wise, together with the success- 29th day of May, 1957. day after the expiration of 42 days and to me directed and delivered from the date of issuance hereof; Travis, State of Texas, known ors, heirs and assigns of such cor- as sheriff of said County, I have T. 0. Lang, Sheriff, and described as follows: Lot No. porate officers, trustees, receivers Travis County, Texas that is to say_ at or before, 10 on May 28, 1957, at 1:24 P. M., o'clock A.M. of Monday the 8th Seven (7) in John Clough sub- and stockholders, and any and all seized, levied upon, and will, on By Henry Kluge, Deputy division of a part of Outlot Sixty- persons, including adverse claim- day of July, 1957, and answer the the First Tuesday in July. 1957, petition of plaintiff in Cause one (61) in Division "B" of the ants, owning or having or claim- same being the 2nd day of said i CITATION BY PUBLICATION government tracts adjoining the ing any legal or equitable interest THE STATE OF TEXAS Number 106,829, in which Harold month, at the courthouse door of W. Stockwell is Plaintiff and original city of Austin, according in or lein upon the following de- said County, in the City of Austin TO PATSY KELTON, defend- to the map or plat of said subdi- scribed property delinquent to Mary Norton Stockwell is defend- between the hours of 10 o'clock ant in the hereinafter styled and ant, filed in said Court on the 9th vision recorded in Volume 1, page Plaintiff herein, for taxes, to-wit: A. M. and 4 o'clock P. M. of said numbered cause: 32 of the Plat ,Records of Travis Tract No. 1. All that certain lot, day of April, 1957, and the nature day proceed to sell for cash to You (and each of you) are here- of which said suit is as follows: County, Texas:- tract or parcel of land lying and the highest bidder all the right, by commanded to appear before Which said property is delin- being situated in. the City of Aus- Being an action and prayer for title and interest of the defend- the 126th District Court of Trav- judgment in favor of Plaintiff and quent to Plaintiff for taxes in the tin, Travis County, Texas known ants in such suit in. and to the following amounts:' $447.25, ex- and described as Lot number is County, Texas, to be held at against Defendant for decree of following described real estate the courthouse of said county in divorce dissolving the bonds of clusive of interest, penalties and Thirteen (13), in Block Five (5) of levied upon as the property of costs, and there is included in Boulevard Heights an addition to I the city of Austin, Travis County, matrimony heretofore and now said defendants, the same lying !Texas, at or before 10 o'clock A. existing between said parties; this suit in addition to the taxes the City of Austin, according to and being situated in the County all said interest, penalties and the plat of said Boulevard Heights M. of the first Monday after the Plaintiff alleges abandonment by of Travis and the State of Texas, defendant of plaintiff for a period costs thereon, allowed by law up addition recorded in Volume 2, to wit: All that certain lot, tract, expiration of 42 days from the to and including he day of judg- page 144 of the Plat Records of date of issuance hereof; that is to of more than three years, with or parcel of land lying and being 10 o'clock A. the intention on the part of de- ment herein. Travis County, Texas. situated in the County of Travis, say, at or before, You are hereby notified that Tract No. 2. All that certain lot, M. of Monday the 15th day of fendant of making such abandon- State of Texas, described as fol- July 1957, and answer the petition ment permanent; Plaintiff further suit has been brought by the City tract or parcel of land lying and lows: of Austin as Plaintiff, against the being situated in the City of Aus- of plaintiff in Cause No. 107,197, alleges that one child was born above named persons and the State tin, Travis County, Texas known Lot number One (1) in Block I in which Robert G. Kelton is of said union; that defendant I plaintiff and Patsy Kelton is de- should be awarded its custody and of Texas and County of Travis and described as Lot number number One-hundred- sixty-four is a proper and the Austin Independent Twenty-five (25), in Block num- (164) in the Original City of the fendant, filed in Said Court on that the sum of $77.10 School District, as Defendants, by ber Four (4) of Boulevard Heights City of Austin, Travis County, , the 31st day of May, 1957, and the allowance for the maintenance petition filed on the 3rd day of an addition to the City of Austin, Texas, according to the map of the and support of said child; plaintiff nature of which said suit is as further alleges that no commun- May, 1957, in a certain suit styled according to the plat of said Bou- City of Austin on file in the Gen- follows: Being an action and City of Austin vs. Mattie Lawson, levard Heights addition recorded ity property exists; Plaintiff fur- eral Land Office in the State of prayer for judgment in favor of ther prays for relief, general and at al, for collection of the taxes in Volume 2, page 144 of the Plat Texas; the same property that plaintiff and against defendant on said property and that suit is Records of Travis County, Texas. special; All of which more fully was conveyed by C. R. Puckett to for decree of divorce dissolving appears from 1Paintiffs Original now pending in the District Which said property is delin- Nellie Gregg by Deed dated June the bonds of matrimony hereto- Court of Travis County 53rd Ju- quent to Plaintiff for taxes in the 1, 1878, and recorded in Vol. 40 Petition on file in this office; dicial District, and the file num- following amounts: $133.19, ex- page 518, in the Deed Records of fore and now existing between If this citation is not served ber of said suit is 107,007, that clusive of interest, penalties and Travis County, Texas. I said parties; plaintiff alleges cruel within 90 days after date of its is- the names of all taxing units costs, and there is included in this or upon the written request of treament on the part of defend- suance, it shall be returned un- • ant toward plaintiff of such a na- served. which assess and collect taxes suit in addition to the taxes all said defendants or their attorney, Jr., Clerk on the property hereinabove de- said interest, penalties and costs I Lure as to render their further Witness, 0. T. Martin scribed not made parties to the thereon, allowed by law up to and a sufficient portion thereof to living together as husband and of the District Courts of Travis suit are NONE. including the day of judgment satisfy said judgment, interest, wife altogether insupportable. County, Texas. Issued and given under my Plaintiff and all other taxing herein. penalties and costs, subject, how- I Plaintiff further alleges that one units who may set up their tax You are hereby notified that ever, to the right of redemp- child, Diana Lee Kelton, a girl, 2 hand and the seal of said Court at claims seek recovery of delinquent suit has been brought by the City tion, of the defendants or any office in the City of Austin, this years of age was born as issue of the 21st day of May, 1957. ad valorem taxes on the property of Austin as Plaintiff, against the person having an interest there- this marriage and plaintiff re- hereinabove described, and in ad- above named persons, and the in, to redeem the said property 0. T. MARTIN, JR., quests the court to award the Clerk of the District Courts, dition to the taxes all interest, State of Texas and the County of or their interest therein, at any custody to defendant. No commun- penalties, and costs allowed by Travis and the Austin Independ- time within two years from date Travis County, Texas. of sale in the manner provided ity property was accumulated. By Geo. W. Bickler, Deputy. law thereon up to and including ent School District, as Defend- Deputy the day of judgment herein, and ant , by petition filed on the 1st by law, and subject to any other Plaintiff further prays for costs By GEO. W. DICKLER, the establishment and foreclos- day of May, 1957, in a certain suit and further rights to which the of suit and relief, general and ure of liens, if any, securing the styled City of Austin vs. Amelia defendants or anyone interested special; all of which more fully THE TEXAS OBSERVER appears from plaintiff's original payment of same, as provided by Brass, et al for collection of the therein may be entitled under the Page 7 June 14, 1957 law. taxes on said property and that provisions of law. petition on file in this office, and WASHINGTON elections, he said he hadn't de- The two senators from cided what to do yet. He told the Texas had a lot to say this SE A TORS SPEAKING Democratic women he is adjust- week. ing to a "changed way of life" in 4. 4* 4. The senior senator, Lyn- Washington where there was a don Johnson, said Congress Lyndon Tells of Budget Cuts; Ralph Asks for Ret urn to a Fighting Party kind and generous attitude after has cut nearly half a billion hower foreign aid program would mobilized them, to a degree, in ship in foreign policy and com- five years of political strife in dollars from the President's clear Congress with only minor what would otherwise certainly mended the conscience Democrats Texas "where every force of budget, "and we have just cuts. I be an all-out war of righteous in- are displaying in inquiring into greed and avarice were aligned barely started." He a 1 s o Johnson also backed up the , dignation against the studied fi- radioactive fallout. against us to destroy us." called for "an open curtain nancial injustices and inequities Sen. Tom Connally introduced President's program, which he "The human race is willing for for full discussion" between at home and the dull fumblng of Yarborough at the speech as a advocated before the President leadership to be intelligent the U.S. and Russia via the foreign policy abroad of the ad- truly loyal Democrat. did. to convert foreign aid gifts enough to put a stop to the nu- television airways of both ministration." to foreign loans. Johnson said clear explosions before our chil- countries. It is, he said, going to take "res- loans to needy allies had been re- dren and our children's children Thad After Three Ralph Yarborough, the junior olute men and women to turn the paid regularly and the Treasury are doomed by a polluted earth Thad Hutcheson, GOP leader in senator, delivered an outspoken. nation back to the idealism of had reaped $127 million in inter- and air," he said. Texas, attending the Republican attack on the GOP and went fur- Woodrow Wilson and Franklin D. est payments on them. national conference here, said he ther to call on the Democratic Roosevelt. We need a modern Speaking to the brotherhoods' The senior senator also sug- would like to see Texas Congress- Party to quit "tiptoeing down Jeremiah in every state and every publication, Yarborough said: gested the communists be asked men Sam Rayburn, W. R. Poage, Timidity Street" and return to city. We need at least 200 worn- "I've put human being above to let the U.S. present its side of and Wright Patman defeated. the bold traditions of Franklin en's Democratic clubs ..." big profits in all my campaigns the disarmament dispute, on So- 'We feel their views are farthest Roosevelt in a speech to the na- The administration, he said, un- for office. That's my basic philo- viet television, as Nikita Krus- from that of Texas conservatives tional Democratic women's club. der a "cult of dollar worship," sophy and I'm too old to change •hev used American TV recently. and what our party believes in," "When the Democratic Party has "reached down into the pock- it now." He called it an "open curtain" he said. But he conceded the GOP auits tiptoeing down Timidity ets of the taxpayer and taken "Each state has its own defini- policy. "Let the Russians say what had no candidates to oppose them Street and boldly as Roosevelt $778 millions in tax write-offs and tion of a 'liberal' or a 'conserva- they wish .... I do not believe and they would probably be re- proclaims its faith and beliefs in given these to the big power tive'," Yarborough said. "What a that there will be any commun- elected. men over money and machines, companies." man votes for is a better criterion ist converts," he said. But the He said the GOP is hopeful of then will America again place her "The discount rate is the great- than any such tag. As for me, I program ought to be reciprocal, taking another seat in Congress faith in the party of Jefferson est filching of the public purse call myself a Democrat. I pretty he emphasized. by virtue of the second congress- and Jackson, and of Wilson, of done by this administration," he well support the Democratic na- man Houston has been accorded Roosevelt, and of Truman," Yar- said; on a $10,000 housing loan, tional platform of 1956." by the legislature. borough said. `A Grain of Truth' total interest over a 25-year per- Yarborough told the publica- Yarborough also told a reporter Yarborough told the Democratic iod is about 20 percent, he main- tion the railway brotherhoods He said widespread criticism of for Labor, the national newspaper club there was a "grain of truth" tained. "have been my most consistent the Eisenhower budget has hurt of the railway brotherhoods, "I supporters of all. They've been a the GOP cause in Texas but this in the criticism. of recent years Agriculture Secretary Ezra Ben- intend to put human rights above bulwark in every campaign, ever can be turned to advantage "if that the Democratic Party is not son wants a system like Russia's the big money. It's the working since I became a district judge we can get across the idea that bold and aggressive enough be- collectivized farms, he said, with people—the farmers and union back in 1936." we are for cuts in the budget and tween elections to win the big small farmers pushed off the labor in the cities—who have Asked his plans in the 1958 for less federal government." ones. This, he said, is attributable farms. "Benson thinks small farm- been my strongest supporters more to the status of the party, ers can be cared for easier in right along," he said. a "whole atmosphere or climate," bread lines than on the farms, Johnson noted the President than to the personality of person- We cannot let a million of our asked for $5.5 billion for four ag- nel "viewed either individually or small farmers leave the farms," DOT Expands Plans: encies and that the House and collectively." Senate cut this $446 million. This he said. was not an "anti-Eisenhower" Democrats lack a more vigor- Yarborough also attacked Re- Price Spurs His Troops move but "purely a dollar-and- ous opposition to Republicanism publicans for failure to lower cents proposition," he said. because the people are well off, taxes for the lower income AUSTIN zers may be sent in—and she Johnson said Tuesday he will he said; the leaders hesitate to groups. Democrats of Texas, as- discussed plans for organization support the $3.7 billion foreign press legislation if its defeat Democrats, he said, "must quit sessing its work after its suc- "workshops" to be conducted a- aid bill reported out by the Sen- seems likely. worrying over whether some po- cessful May 18 state meeting, round the state in August. • ate foreign relations committee "It's difficult for those in power tential large contributor will be has decided to work to help Chris Dixie, Houston labor law- "right down the line." Sen. Wil- to lead a revolution against them- offended." The party "will show raise funds for the national yer, was elected state finance liam Knowland, D., Cal., the Re- selves," he said. "The fact • the us out of the night that now Democrats next October as it chairman. A draft of a 24-page publican leader, seconded the sen- Democrats hold part of the gov- shrouds us" as it has /in the past. goes about its work of beef- booklet on the May 18 conven- timent, so it appeared the Eisen- ernment power seems to have im- He mentioned Johifson's leader- ing out its county-by-county tion was reviewed; Fath says organization for the party from five to ten thousand will be control fight next year. mailed out initially. Albert Pena, newly elected di- Meanwhile Gov. Price Daniel rector of the Bexar County Dem- The Week in Texas has been traveling the state—he ocrats of Texas at a stormy meet- O "El General," Rudy Gomez, O The state has asked the 0 A 20-year-old Latin-Ameri- has visited Dallas, Houston, San ing attended by 200 Democrats, 17-year-old chief of a West Court of Criminal Appeals Antonio, Mineral Wells, and Nac- can Goliad County farmhand moved at the Austin meeting that Side gang in San Antonio, got for a rehearing in the vet land ' was found hanging from a wind- odoches recently — holding pri- the executive board instruct. ten years in the state pen after case of B. R. Sheffield which the mill on the farm of his father. vate meetings with conservative DOT's county-based steering com- admitting shooting a 23-year-old court reversed on certain techni- leaders urging them to organize • The State B a r Assn. has mittee to prepare a strong state- man in the back and then shoot- calities. to combat DOT. ment of policy at its September ing an 18-year-old boy while out asked judges over the state Daniel has been warning of la- • Rep. Joe Kilgore has told the meeting. He accepted an amend- on bond in connection with the to bar from their courtrooms 1800 bor's rising influence in Texas Valley Chamber of Com- attorneys who haven't paid their ment that the committee study a first shooting. and has been calling to the atten- merce the U.S. Department of La- bar association dues ($12 a year). statement, and the motion passed. O One of the three Negro boys tion of leading conservatives the bor has temporarily rescinded and Some attorneys objected to the The issues were whether the from Sherman charged in success of the DOT effort. It has is reconsidering its recent order May 18 meeting's resolution set- the rape of a white girl has been requirement they pay these dues been under steady criticism from I raising the bracero pay scale for —before they knew judges would tled the matter for a year or committed to Gatesville; he is 15. Daniel and state Democratic ex- harvesting black-eyed peas for whether the broad-based steer- The other two, both 17, will be be asked to enforce them—as pro- ecutive committee. canners from three- fourths of a viding "a closed shop union rule." ing committee would have the tried by Judge W. C. Dowdy of Daniel is urging an urgent or- cent to a penny a pound. The authority to adopt other resolu- the 59th District Court, it was an- • ganizational effort and the ful- Texas Canners Assn. had pro- Texas NAACP has appealed tions. The committee probably nounced from Sherman. fillment of the executive commit- tested. the Tyler district court's per- vvill have recommendations ready tee's $80,000 budget. 'Daniel aide O A Houston FBI agent urged manent injunction limiting its ac- in time for the next full meeting Harold Winters is anxious to get sheriffs in convention in Gal-• fp Oil, Chemical, Atomic Work- tivities. of the DOT. ers at Port Arthur with the organization going in South Tex- veston to make public the names • The Stockdale watermelon Mrs. Minnie Fisher Cunning- Texas Company, Shell Oil's Pasa- as. SDEC chairman Jim Lindsey of juvenile delinquents. ham, New Waverly, moved the dena refinery, and Consolidated festival is June 22 and the says work will have to be done in DOT ask Daniel to inclUde party Chemical Co. have all obtained a Luling watermelon thump will be each of the 31 senatorial districts registration in his special session six percent wage increase. OCAW June 28-29, although the crop is a before the summer doldrums be- bit later than expected. call, and this was agreed to. HESSTON workers at Humble Oil and Re- gin. After extensive discussion, the fining Co.'s Baytown refinery and Wets beat drys in a county- DOT has accomplished the shift ROW CROP SAVER • group resolved to advise the Crown Central Petroleum Corp. wide Orange County election, of its headquarters from the San Democratic national committee union workers (on strike for four 6097-4443. Antonio office formerly main- weeks) have not yet reached tained by Mrs. Kathleen. Voigt to and the state Democratic execu- agreement on new contracts. O J. Elvetts Haley has opened an Austin office in the Little- tive committee they want to aid state headquarters of "Tex- field building office of Creek- and support the October "Dollars. O The State Board of Educa- ans for America" (Texas branch more Fath. for Democrats" campaign. ("We tion increased the number of of "For America") in Fort Worth. will be willing to do anything Fath told an executive board teachers for a 12-grade school Other chapters are located in we can to help out," Fath says. meeting in A u s t in Saturday, from seven to eight at the mini- Austin, San Antonio, and Cle- "The group's feeling is that the (which was declared open to the mum a n d tightened up high burne. important thing is to see that the SAVE UP TO 80% public) that Mrs. Voigt and Mrs. school graduation requirements. national quota for T e x a s is O Glenn McCarthy has a deal Mimi Steinert "did a fine job of BRAND NEW PRINCIPLE picks A high school graduate hereafter raised.") up to 80% down maize — by going with Tennessee Gas getting records in shape for mov- has to have three years of Eng- An organization insignia—a star actual field tests! For harvesting Transmission, Union Oil and Gas ing to Austin." lish, one unit of world history, with a large dot in the center— maize and other row crops. No (La.), Murphy Corp. (Ark.), and Some of the records were first reel "slobber" or shattered one of American history, a half was adopted. It was decided prox- Lion Oil of Monsanto Chemical removed from the San Antonio heads. Fits most combines. in government, two in math, and ies would be limited to persons (Ark.) to buy out his 970,000-acre office by Mrs. Laverne Redwine, two in laboratory science. Stu- from a board member's district oil venture in Bolivia for $1.5 mil- a San Antonio loyalist. Fath says dents can substitute two years of or, for members at large and offi- lion flat and. $1.5 million if the they include data on from 20,000 a foreign language or two of vo- cers, to any person designated, SEE YOUR buying syndicate hits oil. to 25,000 Texans. cational courses for one year of except that no person can have Mrs. R. D. Randolph, chairman science, but then the other year • Governor Daniel told Boys more than one vote at a board of DOT, reviewed plans for or- PRODUCT OF of science would have to be biol- Staters the U.S. Government meeting. HESSTON MANUFACTURING Co., Inc. ganizing in counties not now rep- ogy, chemistry, physics, or ap- is based on faith in God, the indi- resented in DOT — she said if THE TEXAS OBSERVER HESSTON • KANSAS plied science. vidual, and local self-government. volunteers are not found, organi- Page 8 June 14, 1957