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Voulme 53 TEXAS, JULY 27, 1962 15c Per Copy Number 17

SHOOTING AFTERMATH ATTORNEY GENERAL DISCUSSES: Ft. Worth Police The Oil Survey Fund AUSTIN financed by the majors, and that's surveys of suspected wells have Chief On Spot MAJOR OIL COMPANIES true—largely." On request, he been completed before deciding readily provided the Observer how to proceed against defend- FORT WORTH Scott case. When asked by Kent have financed almost all of with a list of contributions to the ants for violations of commission "The sister of a 195-pound Biffle, Dallas News reporter, why the state's expensive well sur- survey-financing fund, dated be- orders against deviating wells, and berserk man, who held eight his men did not use a net to sub- veys that have confirmed what tween June 5, 1962, and July 19. against government personnel policemen at bay with a 14- due Scott, Captain Johnson said, Atty. Gen. Will Wilson, in an They total $178,775; almot all the who are culpably implicated. inch double-pronged fork for "That's a good idea but we didn't Observer interview this week, money came from majors. (The only exception to these poli- almost two hours last night, have a net. Somebody suggested called "probably the biggest cies so far is a state lawsuit that today thanked the officers that we should have used a hypo trespass and possible theft in has already been filed against the for the humane manner In gun too, like they use to drug wild Texas history in the amount one discovered deviated well in which they captured him." animals, but we didn't have one of money involved." Harris County.) of those either. If we had used a Wilson said at least 100 The above paragraph led off Wilson said that the defense hose on him, it might have set slant-hole wells have been a news story in the Fort Worth he had heard is being advanced by him to running. He could have drilled to bottom out under Press last Friday. The story the accused drillers is that "it was reached a bystander and hurt other owners' leases. (This went on to describe how the a common practice, and every- somebody." week, 64 had been definitely eight policemen captured the body was doing it." So they shot him. Nine pistol proved.) "berserk man" by using a sheet Aggrieved private parties, of shots were fired. Six hit the tar- "It's been estimated," Wilson and a rope "to bind him with course, may seek to recover dam- get. said, "that there could be al- The run-down: to keep him from getting ages in private suits. lowables for between 300 and Humble, $30,000; Continental, hurt." These could take at least three 'Don't Shoot' 700 wells involved in it." This $13,500; Gulf, $15,000; Hunt Oil forms. One would be suits by own- Scott's mother, Mrs. Susie Stol- is possible because often the Co., $6,000; Sun Oil, $6,000; Mobil, ers of leases under which the den, 51, said, "I cried and begged crude pumped up from the $9,000; Texaco, $10,500; McAlister deviated wells bottomed. In the them not to shoot my baby. When Fuel Co., $6,000; Ohio Oil Co., slant-hole wells was funneled water-drive East Texas field, a bull gets loose in the city the $6,000; Atlantic Refining Co., $7,- through underground pipes to these leaseholders may have trou- police go out and catch it. They 500; Pan American Petroleum nearby wells that were not ble proving actual damages. An- don't shoot it. They could have actually producing, but on Corp., 24,000; Shell, $15,000; Cities other would be suits by leasehold- done as much for my baby." Service, $8,000; Socony Mobil, $10,- which the slant-hole producers ers on the west side of the East Captain Johnson said the moth- claimed allowable production. 000; L. F. Bueke, $60; Tidewater, Texas field alleging that their er had changed her story since $7,500; Luling Oil & Gas, $1,000; wells went to water earlier than the day of the shooting. "She Parallel Interests General Crude Oil Co., $2,500; they would have because of the Following the description of said then she didn't hold any Not a single major oil com- Goldston Oil, $1,000; Vaughn Pe- deviated wells at the east side of the humane capture, came this grudge." pany has yet been implicated; troleum Co., $200; and C. M. Lang- paragraph : "The police recent- John Ohendalski, Fort Worth Wilson says that none has been ford, $25. the field. And a third might be a claim by a driller on a lease ly were criticized for shooting Press staff writer, wrote last charged with slanting a well, to Wilson said that it has been a adjacent to one on which a de- a berserk Negro to death. They week: "Several city council mem- his knowledge. Wilson explained customary policy of his office to said that incident had nothing bers recall that Captain Johnson to major that money is not ap- accept such contributions from viated well had turned out to be a producer. The adjacent driller to do with the way they han- is a controversial man who has propriated by the state for oil people who have an interest par- might content he was misled by dled the man yesterday. 'We been criticized for spending too well surveys of this kind and ac- allel to the state's, for example, the fruits of his neighbor s fradu- go and do the best we can,' much time putting out and ad- cepted contributions to "the At- for surveying costs in land law lent procedures. Captain Derden said." packed magazine which has been torney General's Trust Fund" to suits. "I see nothing wrong with So far the only names that Captain Derden's statement disapproved by at least one Bet- finance them. it,' he said. have worked their ways into notwithstanding, the Fort Worth ter Business Bureau in Texas. "We have accepted donations Wilson says he will survey wells police obviously have learned Chief Hightower was criticized from anyone having an interest of "anybody we have information court records have been those of oilmen enjoined by Austin dis- something about handling "ber- for allowing one of his officers parallel with the state, ' he said. has deviated," but that so far no from serk men" (if not "berserk Ne- to do this. When the controversy "That turns out to be people in majors "that I know about" had trict judge Herman Jones groes") since John L. Scott was died down, the officer (Johnson) the middle of the East Texas been accused. "If there is we'll preventing the surveying of wells to see if they have been deviated shot to death on June 29. (Obs., was promoted to captain after field. That's nearly all majors jury survey their own wells" with July 7) Scott's death brought passing a Civil Service exam." . . . We just tell 'em there's no their own money, he said. from the vertical. forth a flood of protests after a "Where there's smoke there's appropriated money for this sort In the standard, formal plead- film of the shooting was shown fire," said one city council mem- of thing. They don't select the 'Everybody's Doing It' ing of these cases, it is alleged on a local television newscast. ber recently, "and smoke has wells to be surveyed." So far the Attorney General's that in one unspecified instance, Chief in Trouble? come up often from the police Referring to criticisms of the office has filed penalty suits only a district court in Gregg County department in the past year." fund, Wilson leaned back in the on the basis of alleged violations enjoined the Railroad Commis- Even before the Scott shoot- Publicized incidents of the past swivel chair of the airy office he of a Railroad Commission order sion's district supervisor from ing, however, Fort Worth Police year include: will vacate in January and said, prohibiting plugging suspected conducting a deviation survey, Chief Cato Hightower was in (Continued on Page 4) "They say that this is being wells. Wilson will wait until all (Continued on Page 4) trouble with his immediate supe- rior, City Manager L. P. Cook- Ingham, and some members of the city council. Hightower has A Daring GOP Expedition been Fort Worth police chief longer than anyone else, but AUSTIN The tone of the text of Find- such a challenge been offered to there is talk that he will be fired TEXAS' NEW REPUBLI- lay s invitation may have been Texans who are willing to stand soon, or demoted, unless he makes CANS, and their interim sym- an answer, in kind, to a statement up for freedom. . . . The Duke of sweeping reforms in his depart- pathizers, are intensely serious issued a few weeks ago by Duval Duval and his Crown Prince have ment before Cookingham's con- in trying to link John Connally County Judge Archer Parr, guaranteed 'safe conduct' to all tract comes up for renewal in with George Parr in the pub- nephew of George Parr, after it Republicans entering Duval Coun- October. The city manager knows lic's mind. The Duval county was known that GOP Candidate ty on July 28 (naturally the am- that more "embarrassing" inci- political boss' unique role in Cox planned to speak in San nesty expires at midnight). Not dents involving city police be- Texas politics—from the 1948 Diego on July 28. In this state- since Fannin tried to reach the tween now and October could delayed unveiling of illusive ment, Judge Pharr (who is op- Alamo has a more hazardous ex- result in his own premature re- Box 13 to the recent jailing posed in the November election by pedition been planned. • . . To tirement, therefore he can be ex- of the Duval county GOP "Who Will Go To Duval County Dr. E. E. Dunlap) said he would immortalize you—if worse comes pected to transfer the pressure chairman—has been a big issue With Jack Sox?" Findlay's face- guarantee Cox and his supporters to worst—Dawson Duncan of the he feels onto the shoulders of the in the governors race thus far, tious invitation, or challenge, be- "safe conduct behind the Mes- Dallas Morning News will accom- man directly responsible for the from the Republican view- gan. It was mailed to 1,300 poten- quite Curtain." George Parr, pany our convoy as War Corre- conduct of the police department. point. tial Cox supporters in and around himself, would meet Cox at the spondent. He guarantees your City Manager Cookingham has This week, however, Repub- Austin. Those who "dared" to ac- county line, the county judge said, name will be spelled right in the called the Scott shooting the re- licans from around Austin cept were asked to send $7, for and escort him to the Windmill casualty lists." sult of "insufficient training, seemed prepared to penetrate the round-trip bus ticket, to Jane Cafe, (the cafe sits exactly on Special attractions of the trip planning and supervision" and the Mesquite Curtain around (of Arc) Leonard, wife of state the county line, which runs along were listed as follows: ordered Chief Hightower to "cor- George Parr country with some GOP executive director James the eastern edge of San Diego). "SEE the home of Landslide rect the deficiencies." laughter as well as serious poli- Leonard. The chartered bus will If the weather turns bad, Parr Lyndon's eighty-seven votes. Chief Hightower backed his tical talk. Marion Findlay, leave the Austin Greyhound sta- said, local Democrats will furnish "SEE what life is like behind men and said no disciplinary ac- Travis County GOP chairman, tion at 2 p.m. Saturday if a suf- a telephone booth to house the the Mesquite Curtain. tion would be taken. He added, invited Republicans in the area ficient number accept Findley's crowd. "SEE Texas' first concentration however, that his men would get to join him, in a chartered daring invitation. The rally in The GOP invitation to ride the camp—the San Diego calaboose. special training "in three or four bus, on a "safari" into Duval San Diego begins at 7 p.m. The chartered bus from Austin to the "SEE the only county where weeks" on how to handle mental county Saturday to hear Jack bus will return to Austin Satur- Duval rally declared: "Not since 93.25 percent of the votes went cases. Cox speak at a Republican day night. The trip will be made Old Ben Milam issued his stirring to Lyndon's boy John. Captain Dwight Johnson was rally in San Diego, the Duval in cars if too few accept to af- call in 1835 to take San Antonio "SEE the bravest Republican of in charge of the patrolmen on the county seat. ford the bus, Mrs. Leonard said. de Bexar from General Cos has (Continued on Page 4) Votin9 Po.tho On Party Loyalty One of the keystone principles on discuss candidates one or both isn't AUSTIN plain citizens. If it was, they which the structure of our freedom familiar with in the minor races. I THERE IS TELLING THRUST would be denied the right to vote against a man they think utterly is balanced is being violated in hun- thought very little of doing this in the charge that Texas liberals dreds of Texas communities on every until one election day not long pernicious in a Democratic pri- are "liberal Dixiecrats." Many of election day and has been for years. ago a woman sitting near us watched mary, and then vote against him the liberals were among the loyal- again in November; but more to This basic principle is the secret me carefully as I marked my ballot. ists who berated those who said the point, the conscience cannot ballot—the voter's right to mark his There was a local bond issue on the be bound by statute as to future ballot as he sees fit, without fear of ballot and when I marked my vote they were Democrats for Eisen- circumstances which obviously retribution of any kind and in any against it, she scowled at me like hower or for Nixon. Now many cannot be known until they de- form, no matter how subtle. It is a she could kill me. It struck me then of the Democrats have been Dem- velop. principle so basic to the success of our that if I had been in certain kinds of business in that area she could have ocrats for Tower and many con- form of government that apparently, Party loyalty's justified pur- done me a lot of damage by telling sider becoming Democrats for we in Texas have taken it too much view is limited to elected officials for granted. But in our recent travels folks how I voted on that bond issue." Cox. The situation calls for re- This illustrates one way a voter of a party. Yet the Observer has about the state we suddenly became flection. can be hurt by the lack of provisions not maintained that even party aware that there are, instead of the There are folks who have made officials are bound in principle reverse, relatively few Texas com- for voting in complete privacy. And, of course, the dangers of this wide- lifelong commitments to their to support all of their primary's munities where a voter can mark his spread togetherness on Texas elec- political parties, just as commit- nominees. Party loyalty binds the ballot in complete privacy. party official, In the sense of a tion days range all the way up to ments are made to churches and contract with his flock, to this The Texas Election Code, in Arti- political dictatorships in communi- to lodges. These people cannot approximate extent: if he cannot cles 701-704, states with undeniable ties, counties and statewide. stand political traitors among refrain from opposing some one clarity that booths shall be provided But the dangers are so obvious— them, just as Baptists would not for voters in all towns and cities of we make such issue of monitored take well to one of their number or more of his party's nominees, 10,000 or more population and that, elections in the Soviet Union and defending the infallibility of the then he should resign; if he can- not support his party's principal in those communities where polling other totalitarian countries—that the Pope on faith and morals. The nominees, then he should resign. booths are not mandatory, guard rails most astounding aspect of our "sud- position of party loyalists is con- Certainly it is reasonable for a shall be provided so that no one can den discovery" is that so many Tex- sistent because it is based on a group to insist that its leaders up- get within 10 feet of a person mark- ans, throughout the state, have meek- system of reasoning closed by its hold its concensus or give up the ing his ballot. The code goes on to ly allowed themselves to be cheated premises: We are loyal Demo- leadership. Yet no free man can list specifications for the construction out of the secret ballot for so long. crats, we never vote for anybody be required to bind his conscience of these mandatory voting booths. A One state-level politician told us that but Democrats, therefore any of under all future circumstances, booth must be provided for every 70 to his knowledge a majority of the us who votes for a Republican no matter what they are. qualified voters in each precinct, the counties which use paper ballots have is a traitor to the group he is law declares. Specifications for the not complied with the law requiring pledged to uphold. Without reference to the pres- construction of the boxes where the either voting booths or guard rails. ent gubernatorial election, it ballots are kept are spelled out also It is generally known that voters would seem wise to consider a (in Article 706), yet cardboard boxes, in such fuedal domains as Duval and Ronnie Dugger revision of the party loyalty stat- tin buckets and other flimsy contain- Starr counties must mark their bal- utes of the state election code. ers are used in direct violation of the lots while deputies or political hacks The Tower contest made it ap- This revision should strike the election laws. loom over them. And most Texans, parent that there is, however, an offensive loyalty oaths on the Ask election officials in most coun- when they speak of this shake their out, even for loyalists. They can primary ballots; or, these should ties why voting booths are not pro- heads and cluck at the shame of it, stay home. And we sensed, if we be modified in language to exact vided and the answer is either, "they but on election day they go to their did not definitely learn, from the of the voter no more than a pro- are too expensive," or "they are too precinct polling place and mark their Tower election that many prac- fession of a present disposition much trouble." Most, of course, do not own ballots at a table shared by sev- ticing Democrats are actually, in- to support the party in whose believe anyone in their county would eral of their neighbors. tellectually, independents. Given primary he is participating over bother to peek and find out how his It is time for some state official, a choice between party fidelity any other party. At the same neighbor votes. And if some do peek or candidate, or political organization and a course of action they think time, elected party officials, from now and then, they say, what is the to demand that this flagrant violation will have better results for soci- precinct chairmen on up, should harm? of one of our most precious civil ety, they choose the better course, be required to resign their offices Here is what a voter in a Fort rights is stopped, not only in those and party go hang. What is evolv- before they campaign for the na- Worth suburb told us recently: "My counties where the violation is de- ing in Texas is not a two-p4ty tional or state level nominees of wife and I usually sit side-by-side at liberate but in those where it is the system, but a three-force system. an opposing party, as the honor- a table when we vote. Sometimes we result of apathy. Independents are the third force. able Wright Morrow once notably did. As long as the Democratic pri- maries were, in effect, the actual It will be urged that people elections in Texas, (and to a should be free to bind their con- YD President Ousted large extent they still are,) tena- sciences to a given party's pro- goof Bexar County's Young Dem- said Texas Negroes are losing a frog The Geneal Telephone Com- ciously independent sorts were cedures if they want to. By all ocrats have impeached their million and a half dollars a year pany of the Southwest and given two choices: come into the means, this is so. But such a president and vice president. The in potential income because of the Communications Workers of Democratic primary and then binding cannot justly be made president was Clarence Thomp- job dias. Laws, in his letter of America reached a new contract vote as you like in November; or prerequisite to participation in a son, the first Negro to hold the complaint to state AFL-CIO presi- agreement over the weekend else abstain from signficant citi- party's affairs—participation on top YD office in Bexar. Reason dent Hank Brown said he hoped granting wage increases ranging zenship on state and local poli- which a citizen may decide for given for his impeachment was "continuing efforts will be made from two to nine cents an hour. tics. his own good reasons. A political that he had failed to call monthly through you and other labor lead- The pact covers 2,700 workers in party in a free society is an open As evolved, the conservative in- in April and May. Vice ers to guarantee workers, regard- a five-state area which includes meeting, there are conducted es- meetings dependents first became conspic- President Stanley Bernstein was less of race, creed or colo, the Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, sential affairs of democratic life. uously visible. They defected ousted, according to the ousters, economic freedom which our con- Arkansas and Louisiana. from the Democrats in large Men and women should be free for "inactivity." Thompson was stitution promises to all." poir Baylor Chancellor Dr. W. R. numbers every presidential No- to walk in the doors, and free to not present to contest the im- goof As the Harte-Hanks enter- White, a leader in the cam- vember. The loyal Democrats re- walk out, as their consciences in- peachment and will be given a prises took over the San An- paign against legalized betting on sponded with outrage; particular- struct. Nov we in Texas have chance to contest the move at tonio Express and Evening News, horse racing, declared from the ly against the Democratic offi- learned this from both sides: the group's Sept. 1 meeting. the new proprietors pledged in a pulpit of the Dallas First Baptist cials, especially Shivers, who led coming and going. The independ- front-page editorial to "report the Church that he did not believe the conservative independents ents are here (or there) to stay, news" and to "be good citizens." the claim made recently by Fred- Political Intelligence into the Republican camp. With and the law should not even ap- Conway Craig, publisher of the erick Waggoner of the Texas the Tower case, a cocophony of pear to require them to become golf The next head-on debates moderately liberal Corpus Christi Thoroughbred Horse Breeders' protest rose from the pro-Blak- among the political candi- Caller Times for 23 years, moved Association that 103 state legis- ley people, but they were hardly party loyalists in order to par- dates will occur at the PASO over to publisher of the Express lators had pledged to support a in a position to protest, with their ticipate significantly in political (Political Assn. of Spanish-Speak- and News. bill to legalize gambling on a man pro-Eisenhower. In the cur- affairs. ing Organizations) convention in por Roy Evans, secretary-treas- county option basis. rent election, however, the charge August. All eight statewide can- urer, Texas AFL-CIO, asks vor Mike Quinn of the Dallas of hypocrisy has begun to chap didates in contested elections have in an article in the labor news- News wrote in his analysis the liberals. That is because there NOTE TO SUBSCRIBERS: been invited. letter, on the. basis of his reading of activities at the labor union is something to it. This week's Observer is Hank Brown, state AFL- of election returns by areas: convention in San Antonio that: THIS NEWSPAPER began only four pages, instead of ✓ CIO president made the ". . . the Liberal vs. Conservative "Texas labor after a week-long pointing out some years back eight, because most of our tentativeness of labor's Connally issue is secondary in comparison session . . . appears not only to that the primary ballot's party staff (namely Editor W.M.) endorsement explicit in a state- with other statewide factors. The be a solidly welded organization loyalty oath, obviously intended is missing or out of town and ment to Dallas News reporter value of a two-party state; gov- but a political force that will have by the Democratic legislature to it is very hot. Mike Quinn: "We better not get ernmental control by economic, to be reckoned with more in the bind participants in a primary to —Associate Ed., J.M. another labor-baiting platform out social, and political pressure; months ahead." vote for all the nominees of the willingness of candidates to face of the El Paso Democratic con- goor A group from the Dallas party, is not morally binding on opponents and take open vention." their Citizens' Council, accompan- stands . . .—these are the issues goOr The National Association for ied by Vice-President Lyndon pre-eminent in Texas." the Advancement of Colored Johnson, asked President Ken- THE TEXAS OBSERVER People this week criticized the vg Passage of an 81-mile Padre nedy to hurry along construction 74s44.71t Texas AFL-CIO for not adopting Island National Seashore of the new federal center in Published by Texas Observer Co., Ltd. Published once a week from Austin •a resolution at the recent San An- Area bill is reportedly more likely Dallaa A spokesman for the Entered as second-class matter, April Texas. Delivered postage prepaid $5.10 pei and Sen. group said Kennedy told them 26, 1937, at the Post Office at Austin, annum. Advertising rates available on tonio convention to set up a board now. Rep. John Young Texas, under the Act of March 3, 1879. request. ,Extra copies 15c each. Quantity to study racial discrimination. Ralph Yarborough both express the Dallas project is in a category July 27, 1962 prices available on order. Clarence A. Laws of Dallas, re- optimism. The 81-mile compro- with many others and that if Willie Morris EDITORIAL and BUSINESS OFFICE: mise excludes from the park area there was special treatment for Editor and General Manager 504 West 24th St., Austin, Texas. Phone gional NAACP secretary, said it Jay Milner, Associate Editor GReenwood 7-0746. was "most lamentable" that such a 12-mile strip on the side of the it, there might be a chain reac- Sarah Payne, Office Manager HOUSTON OFFICE: Mrs. R. D. Ran- a resolution was not adopted. He island away from the Gulf. tion. Ronnie Dugger, Contributing Editor dolph, 2131 Welch, Houston 19, Texas. J. Wayne Rides Again LETTER FROM KENEDY: DALLAS `pool players i have known' UD SHRAKE is a lefthanded KENEDY clientele fill the front. The place that he could run three or four B sports columnist for a right- POOL, OR POCKET BIL- is owned by a Latin called by all scratch tables straight, that he winged Dallas newspaper which LIARDS as it is referred to in and sundry, "Big Ears," because toured the surrounding country is distributed daily in the a.m. polite circles, is no longer the fa- of certain aspects of his physi- playing the sharks of other and bears the pointedly provoca- vorite pastime in Kenedy. It has ogomy. He can speak no English, towns. Now his eyes are weak tive name, "The Dallas Morning long since been replaced by bowl- but apparently he hasn't needed and wattery, but he still plays a News." Morning newsman Shrake ing, dominoes, and television. to do so to get ahead. It faces very good game for the house. is more than somewhat offbeat as There was a time when it reigned Front Street which has numerous A local Latino politico was dis- far as sporting writers go—which supreme from Front Street beer joints and parallels the cussing the game. "You watch is far enough for most. He is through Main. Then there were Southern Pacific Railroad tracks. the ones that take their time. somewhat offbeat in that he does chief's son dropping by to rape a pool tables over cafes, in beer Across the track is Mexican and They play the best pool around not even attempt to suppress his white child or stir up a local con- joints, and barber shops. Pool was Negro town. here," he said. "Corrinne, and un-American urge to communi- troversy until Col. Warren's son, considered a more or less fash- Albert play slow and don't miss. cate with sports page readers Corrine and Jimmy by a previously living but now ionable way for the village male Jimmy is a slow player, too. He through the use of complete sen- There are definite differences dead wife, graduates from A&M to while away his time. can't shoot as good as he used to tences. (or West Point or one of those in skill among the pool hall ha- Now the pool halls have dwin- though. I remember one time And, as if this were not un- military schools) and gets as- bitues. The inhabitants, who usu- dled to two. The tables are old. when an out-of-town shark came American enough, Mr. Shrake has signed to this very damn same ally protect their dimes like Fort The cushions are dead. Of late, in the pool hall. Nobody would had the gall to actually complete fort. Knox guards, play only those they however, there has been a resurg- play him. He wanted to shoot for feel certain they can beat or at a full-length (by pre-WW II Now, handsome, prudish, young, five dollars a game. Jimmy said ence of juveniles into the pool least break even with. A good standards) novel. (Obviously he flat-bellied, Lt. Warren causes his he didn't have but ten dollars, halls. player can't get a game unless hoarded the time to do it like a battle-scared, fat old, formerly in- but he would play that up. They Perhaps, the movie, "The Hus- an equally skilled player is pres- miser.) It is titled, Blood Reckon- vincible pappy to feel inferior got to playin' and Jimmy slowly tler," motivated them. Now par- ing, but has nothing at all to do when the two of them are bend- ent. The others look away, ex- got ahead of him and before the ents here worry again about their plain that they aren't feeling with Texas politics, Bantam ing over in the presence of pappy's day was over he had won about offspring in pool halls. They fret Press, of paperback original fame, nymphet wife. And all this well, or that they have business sixty dollars." is the publisher. uncomfortableness — plus some about the bad environment and elsewhere. Results of Shrake's unprofes- sneaky doings by the most ob- moan that junior would make a The top player here is Corrine, Hymns and Pool sional time-hoarding may be noxious officer since Capt. Queeg great athlete if only he would who speaks of himself- in the One day I was playing Corrinne found, attractively jacketed (the —soon transforms the pastoral give up pool. Meantime, junior third person. and faring badly, when two Ne- cover shows a man carrying an tranquillity of life at the fort hopes to someday become a me- "Come, you want to play Cor- groes came in. It was Saturday obviously ravished young woman) (not a thing to worry about in diocre pool player. rinne? Let's see how good you and they were dressed immacu- and revolving amid other color- the old days, but a few hundred The main pool hall here is in a are." He will say. Once in a while lately for East Kenedy. Both ful samples of our cut-rate cul- bloodthirsty, sex-crazy Coman- long building. Formerly a news- a "hot" player will beat him, but wore suits and the effect of eight tural progress, at your nearest ches) to pure-dee hell. But we paper occupied the space, There the law of averages always fa- or ten beers. One walked up to friendly apothecary, supermarket won't go into those climactic de- are about seven tables. Toward vors Corrinne. Corrinne, "Hello, Meskin," he or bus station. tails. It might spoil the movie— the back of the hall they descend Jimmy is the keeper of the said. We are uncomplimentary to- which, speaking seriously, we have in order of disrepair. The front pool hall while Corrinne is away. Corrinne replied, "Hello, white ward this sports writers' novel been told Blood Reckoning may tables have flourescent lighting. He has been around longer than boy." finishing because everyone knows soon become—for you. The back tables are beneath two- most can remember. He speaks After getting this established, that a newspaperman must al- We will simply add a word of hundred watt light bulbs which three words of English: "shoot," they settled down to a game of ways talk about writing a book, advice. Be sure and read it from half blind the players. The back and "you lose." The Mexicans pool. but never really write it. It is not the beginning to get the full bene- tables are usually reserved for say that fifteen or twenty years A Negro from the West Coast even required that he begin it. fit. J. MILNER the juveniles when the regular ago nobody could beat Jimmy, (Continued on Page 4) Completing it is not only un- at the courthouse of said county about the 1st day of July, 1961, merous occasions showed an utter of April, 1962, and has not re- American, as we point out above, LEGALS in the City of Austin, Travis and on many occasions prior disregard for financial responsi- turned. Plaintiff further alleges CITATION BY PUBLICATION County, Texas, at or before 10 thereto, the defendant was guilty bility and by his actions has that defendant commenced a but downright un-Texan. o'clock A.M. of the first Monday of such excesses, cruel treatment, caused the loss of all household course of unkind, harsh and ty- THE STATE OF TEXAS Shrake claims he accumulated after the expiration of 42 days ill treatment and outrages toward goods, one (1) automobile, two rannical conduct toward plaintiff. TO S. C. Barczewski, Defend- from the date of issuance hereof; the plaintiff as to render their (2) houses, and created numerous which continued with slight in- the time to write Blood Reckon. ant, in the hereinafter styled and that is to say, at or before 10 further living together insup- financial obligations and has termissions until the time plain- numbered cause: o'clock A.M. of Monday the 20th portable. failed to live up to the responsi- tiff and defendant separated, and ing by saving up such unused in- You (and each of you) are the first amended petition of There were no children born to bility of these obligations placing that plaintiff has been guilty of hereby commanded to appear day of August, 1962, and answer this union and there was no prop- such a burden and strain upon no act bringing about the acts. tervals as the waits for major- before the 98th District Court of plaintiff in Cause Number 120,339, erty of any nature accumulated. the plaintiff which has caused omissions and conditions on the ettes to wiggle onto football fields Travis County, Texas, to be held in which Olen W. Clements is All of which more fully appears plaintiff much worry, humilia- defendant's part, which are here- at the courthouse of said county plaintiff, and Patricia Mitchell from Plaintiff's Original Petition tion, and embarrassment. At the in complained about. at halftime, awkward silences in in the City of Austin, Travis Coun- Clements is defendant, filed in on file in this office, and which time of the separation of the That on divers occasions while ty. Texas, at or before 10 o'clock said Court on the 30th day of Jan- reference is here made for all in- plaintiff and defendant on the plaintiff and defendant lived to- conversations, etc. This does not, A.M. of the first Monday after the uary, 1962, and the nature of tents and purposes. 6th day of July, 1962, defendant gether defendant was guilty of expiration of 42 days from the which said suit is as follows: If this citation is not served left their residence to avoid being excesses, cruel treatment and out- however, reduce his felony; it in- date of issuance hereof; that is to Being an action and prayer for within 90 days after date of its served with legal proceedings on rages toward plaintiff of such a creases it. say, at or before, 10 o'clock A.M. judgment in favor of plaintiff and issuance, it shall be returned un- a hot check charge and has since nature as to render their further of Monday the 27th day of Au- against defendant for decree of served. that time refused and failed to living together insupportable. gust, 1962, and answer the FIRST divorce dissolving the bonds of WITNESS, 0. T. MARTIN, JR,. inform the plaintiff of his where- HE PLOT briefly, and using AMENDED petition of plaintiff That during the marriage of matrimony heretofore and now Clerk of the District Courts of abouts. The plaintiff, on numer- plaintiff and defendant they did in Cause Number 123,624, in which existing betwen said parties: Travis County Texas. ous occasions, has been visited or T Mr. Shrake's own words, is S. W. Barczewski is Plaintiff and Issued and given under my hand contacted by creditors in their not acquire any community prop- Plaintiff alleges that Defendant, erty. "about John Wayne and meeny, S. C. Barczewski is defendant, disregarding the solemnity of her and the seal of said Court at of- attempts to locate defendant thus filed in said Court on the 12th day mariarre vow and her obligation fice in the City of Austin, this causing great worry, humiliation, That during the marriage of meeny savage Indians." It is set of March, 1962, and the nature of to treat Plaintiff with kindness the 6th day of July, 1962. and embarrassment. plaintiff and defendant there was which said suit is as follows: and attention, has commenced a 0. T. MARTIN. JR., During the marriage of plain- no child or children born to them in those glorious days when folks Being an action and prayer for course of unkind and cruel treat- Clerk of the District Courts, tiff and defendant no children as issue of said marriage, and judgement in favor of plaintiff ment towards Plaintiff, which Travis County, Texas. have been born to them as issue they did not adopt any child or were either good or bad, through and against defendant for decree continued with very slight inter- By: JOHN DICKSON, Deputy. of such marriage. children. and through, and any man who of divorce dissolving the bonds of mission, until the filing of this During the marriage of plain- All of which more fully appears matrimony heretofore and now petition. On divers occasions, TO WHOM IT MAY CON- tiff and defendant, they have ac- from Plaintiff's Original Petition was a man kept busy chasing existing between said parties: while Plaintiff lived with Defend- CERN: Notice is hereby given quired community property but on file in this office, and which Plaintiff alleges that plaintiff and ant as aforesaid, Defendant has that Harry E. Ormond and Mur- as of the date of filing this peti- reference is here made for all Injuns and things, and toting defendant lived together as hus- been guilty of excesses, cruel rice L. Noel, composing the firm tion no community property re- intents and purposes. pistols affectionately known as band ar d wife in comparative treatment and outrages toward and doing business under the firm mains. If this citation is not served peace and domestic tranquility Plaintiff, of such a nature as to name of Tradewinds Aircraft Sup- All of which more fully appears within 90 days after date of its "hawglaigs," having purely (hon- for a relatively short period of render their further living togeth- ply Company, have incorporated from plaintiff's Original Petition issuance, it shall be returned un- time, but the defendant then er as husband and wife insup- said firm under the laws of the on file in this office, and which served. est-to-god) platonic relationships commenced a studied and de- portable. State of Texas, effective May 1, reference is here made for all WITNESS, 0. T. MARTIN, JR.. liberate course of conduct toward There were no children born to intents and purposes. with pretty retired whores who 1962, the name of said corporation Clerk of the District Courts of plaintiff, without, any just cause or adopted by Plaintiff and De- being Tradewinds Aircraft Sup- If this citation is not served Travis County, Texas. or provocation on the part of fendant during this marriage. within 90 days after date of its operated saloons, and stuff like ply, Inc., which corporation has Issued and given under my hand plaintiff, which constituted both All of which more fully appears acquired all of the assets of the issuance, it shall be returned un- that. mental and physical cruelty to- from Plaintiff's First Amended former partnership. This notice is served. and the seal of said Court at of- wai d plaintiff. On or about Original Petition on file in this WITNESS, 0. T. MARTIN, JR., fice in the City of Austin, this given and published as provided the 18th day of July, 1962. The particular blood reckoning August 10, 1961, defendant left the office, and which reference is here in Article 1302-2.02 R.C.S. of Clerk of the District Courts of home of plaintiff and defendant, made for all intents and purposes. Texas. Travis County, Texas. 0. T. MARTIN, JR. Mr. Shrake has chosen to record without any just cause or excuse, If this citation is not served HARRY E. ORMOND Issued and given under my hand Clerk of the District Courts, and since such time plaintiff and within 90 days after date of its MURRICE L. NOEL and the seal of said Court at of- Travis County, Texas. (and it is exciting recording, how- defendant have not lived together issuance, it shall be returned un- fice in the City of Austin, this the By: JOHN DICKSON, Deputy 20th day of July, 1962. ever blase one claims to be toward NO\ Tit e .cohabited as husband and served. CITATION BY PUBLICATION WITNESS, 0. T. MARTIN, JR., 0. T. MARTIN, JR. TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: the John Waynes of this world) Because of such cruel treat- Clerk of the District Courts of THE STATE OF TEXAS Clerk of the District Courts, Notice is hereby given that Otto ment, outrages, and excesses on Travis County, Texas. TO James M. Backley Defend- Travis County, Texas. Dukes, a sole proprietor trading takes place in northwest Texas, the part of defendant toward Issued and given under my hand ant, in the hereinafter styled and By: JOHN DICKSON, Deputy as Otto Dukes Machinery Com- beginning somewhere around No- plaintiff, their further living to- and the seal of said Court at of- numbered cause: pany at 600 San Pedro Avenue gether as husband and wife is in- fice in the City of Austin, this the You (and each of you) are here- CITATION BY PUBLICATION in the City of San Antonio, Bexar cona, I would guess, and ending supportable. 3rd day of July, 1962. by commanded to appear before County, Texas, has incorporated Three children have been born 0. T. MARTIN, JR. the 98th District Court of Travis THE STATE OF TEXAS said firm under the laws of the in a blood-splattered boxed section of and during the marriage of Clerk of the District Courts, County, Texas, to be held at the TO Paul E. Rule Defendant, State of Texas effective with the plaintiff and defendant and plain- Travis County, Texas. courthouse of said county in the in the hereinafter styled and close of business June 30, 1962. of Palo Dura Canyon. Thro ,,gh tiff asks that the custody and By: JOHN DICKSON, Deputy. City of Austin, Travis County, numbered cause: The name of said corporation either research or imagination control of said children be award- Texas, at or before 10 o'clock You (and each of you) are being OTTO DUKES MACHIN- ed exclusively to plaintiff. Plain- NOTICE OF INTENTION TO A. M. of the first Monday after hereby commanded to appear be- ERY COMPANY OF SAN AN- (there is an authentic tone to tiff further requests that defend- INCORPORATE WITHOUT the expiration of 42 days from fore the 53rd District Court of TONIO, INC., which corporation ant pay suitable monies toward CHANGE OF NAME the date of issuance hereof; that Travis County, Texas, to be held has acquired all of the assets of some of the pivotal episodes, at the support and maintenance of Notice is hereby given that is to say, at or before, 10 o'clock at the courthouse of said county the former proprietorship. This the minor children. Jacklyn Jewelry Co., 300 S. Flores A. M. of Monday the 3rd day of in the City of Austin, Travis notice is given and published as least to a lay buff of Comanche During this union there was a St., San Antonio, Texas, will September, 1962, and answer the County, Texas, at or before 10 provided in Article 1307, Revised lore), Shrake reveals a group of relatively small amount of com- qualify as a corporation and con- petition of plaintiff in Cause o'clock A. M. of the first Monday Civil Statutes of Texas. munity property acquired which tinue tp do business under the Number 127,407, in which Ger- after the expiration of 42 days Otto Dukes pioneer and Injun Texans who plaintiff asks be awarded by the name of Jacklyn Jewelry Co. trude G. Beckley is Plaintiff and from the date of issuance hereof; court to the plaintiff for the use (Signed) LOUIS GREENBURG James M. Backley is defendant, that is to say, at or before, 10 live lives of loud desperation and and benefit of plaintiff and the filed in said Court on the 20th o'clock A. M. of Monday the 3rd NOTICE OF INTENT TO three minor children of plaintiff INCORPORATE WITHOUT CITATION BY PUBLICATION day of July, 1962, and the nature day of September, 1962, and an- CHANGE OF NAME are quite liberal (Note to the and defendant. THE STATE OF TEXAS of which said suit is as follows: swer the petition of plaintiff in All of which more fully appears Notice is hereby given that Ar- author's boss: Liberal in the lit- TO Walker Lorence Merchin- Being an action and prayer for Cause Number 127,389, in which from Plaintiff's First Amended judgment in favor of plaintiff and Irene H. Rule is Plaintiff and mand D. Smart, Felix Anzaldua, Original Petition on file in this son, defendant, in the hereinafter and Connie Martinez, all of Travis eral, not political sense) about styled and numbered cause: against defendant for decree of Paul E. Rule is defendant. filed office, and which reference is divorce dissolving the bonds of in said Court on the 18th day of County, Texas, heretofore doing here made for all intents and You (and each of you) are business in such county under blood-letting. hereby commanded to appear be- matrimony heretofore and now July, 1962, and the nature of purposes. existing between said parties: which said suit is as follows: the name "Austin Welding and Crinkly-faced John Wayne con- If this citation is not served fore the 53rd District Court of Travis County, Texas, to be held Plaintiff alleges that on many Being an action and prayer for Radiator Works", intend to in- within 90 days after date of its and divers occasions, while plain- judgment in favor of plaintiff corporate under the name "Aus- vincingly portrays Colonel John issuance, it shall be returned un- at the courthouse of said county tin Welding and Radiator Works, in the City of Austin, Travis tiff resided with defendant, that and against defendant for decree Warren, aging (50) outpost trou- served. defendant was guilty of excesses, of divorce dissolving the bonds Inc.", and such corporation will WITNESS, 0. T. MARTIN, JR., County, Texas, at or before 10 o'clock A.M. of the first Monday cruel treatment and outrages to- of matrimony heretofore and now do business at 1612 South Con- bleshooter who shows up for this Clerk of the District Courts of wards plaintiff of such a nature existing between said parties: gress Avenue, Austin, Texas. Travis County, Texas. after the expiration of 42 days from the date of issuance hereof; as to render their living together Plaintiff alleges that defendant Dated July 20, 1962. assignment with a 20-year-old Issued and given under my hand insupportable. Defendant on nu- left the plaintiff on the 20th day s/ ARMAND D. SMART and the seal of said Court at office that is to say, at or before, 10 bride who has never shared his in the City of Austin, this the 10th o'clock A.M. of Monday the 20th day of August, 1962, and answer Company No. 01-90450 bed, and a midsection that flows day of July, 1962. Certificate No. 415 0. T. MARTIN, JR. the petition of plaintiff in Cause gently o'er his regulation belt Clerk of the District Courts, Number 127,189, in which Ruby STATE BOARD OF INSURANCE Travis County, Texas Juanita Merchinson is plaintiff buckle when he bends forward. By: JOHN DICKSON, Deputy and Walker Lorence Merchinson State of Texas is defendant, filed in said Court July 5, 1962 on the 6th day of July, 1962, and COL. WARREN and his pretty CITATION BY PUBLICATION the nature of which said suit is as Pursuant to Article 21.29 of the Texas Insurance Code, I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT WESTERN THE STATE OF TEXAS young rejected Pi Phi wife follows: FIDELITY LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, FORT WORTH, TEXAS, has in all respects complied TO Patricia Mitchell Clements, Being an action and prayer for maintain a tensely sterile, but not defendant, in the hereinafter judgment in favor of plaintiff with the laws of Texas in relation to insurance. styled and numbered cause: and against defendant for decree unhappy life together there at You (and each of you) are of divorce dissolving the bonds Given under my hand and seal of office at Austin, Texas, the date first above written. hereby commanded to appear be- of matrimony heretofore and now WM. A. HARRISON the fort with only an occasional existing between said parties: fore the 98th District Court of Commissioner of Insurance Travis County, Texas, to be held Plaintiff alleges that on or `Too Much Oil Companies Finance Survey (Continued From Page 1) view; Tom Cook Jr., Longview; C. Moore, Longview, a district L. W. Powell, Dallas (cause 127,- Smoke' and in another, "the District Su- Owen Thomas, Kilgore; J. D. judge; Daryl R. Ganmer, Kilgore; 053). (Continued From Page 1) pervisor of the Railroad Commis- Laird, Kilgore; T. C. Morrow, H. F. . Richardson, Kilgore; Am- Stroud Brothers Oil Co.; A. E. O Detective Lt. George Haw- sion was threatened with physical Corsicana; J. K. Maxwell, Kilgore; tex Oil Co.; E. W. Scates; Mc- McCubbin; Nash Oil Co., Kil- kins admitted that he traded violence if he attempted to carry Elba Oil Co. (Mrs. Virginia Gib- Cubbin & Stegall, Kilgore (cause gore; M&M Oil Co., Kilgore (cause an outboard motor for a home out the orders of the Commission son, Longview; W. 0. Ravis Jr., 126,770, subsequently dismissed.) 127,121). freezer with an ex-convict whose in conducting its surveys." Longview; T. C. Morrow, Corsi- George Jordan, Kilgore (cause C&M Pipe Pulling Co., Glade- wife was arrested as a "fence" cana; J. K. Maxwell, Kilgore); 126,862). water; C. S. Starr (cause 127,154). Austin Defendants and Amtex Oil Co. (J. L. Gulley, Earl Sharp, Longview, a county R. S. Medley, Longview; H. L. for a theft ring. Hawkins, a for- Defendants in these actions in Tyler; Raymond H. Hedge, Tyler; judge; Carter-Jones Drilling Co., Long; Douglas Godfrey, Kilgore; mer police chief here, said he the Austin courts—actions seek- A. E. McCubbin, Kilgore; J. S. Kilgore; McCubbin & Stegall; J. Pleas E. Dawson, Overton; H. J. needed the freezer for a cafe he ing only to prevent the defend- McCubbin, Kilgore; Rex Stegall, W. Baton, Kilgore (cause 126,- Bissell (cause 127,200). owns. Chief Hightower took no ants from preventing the surveys Kilgore; J. L. Patton, Tyler; G. V. 900, subsequently dismissed). Godfrey, Amtex Oil Co., and disciplinary action against Haw- —have been: Yoachum, Kilgore) ; Carter Jones G. U. Yoachum, Kilmore; H. W. Cargill (cause 127,211). kins for dealing with a known Key Production Co., Longview Drilling Co., Inc. (cause 126,747). Donnell, Kilgore; Pete Davis, Billy Bridewell and R. H. fence. (a partnership of W. A. Hewell, Owen H. Thomas, Kilgore Gladewater; Garvin Oil Co., Dal- Hedge, Tyler (cause 127,327). O Lonnie Cooper, a Negro po- F. C. Deutsch, and H. J. Bissell, (cause 126,800). las; Arthur Vaughn, Longview; R. E. (Bob) Smith, the million- liceman, was shot and seri- as well as Charles W. Lutes, but 0. R. Cooper, Tyler; B. F. Phil- C. S. Starr, Kilgore; Major & aire Houston oilman, was origin- ously wounded in front of an all- Lutes is not a defendant) ; E. M. lips Jr., Dallas; J. N. Sheppard, Garvin Producing Co., Selman ally joined as a defendant in one night restaurant. Negro leaders Fisk, Kilgore; Mark Oil Co. (cause Gilmer; T. C. Morrow, Houston; City; Max Clark, Longview (cause of these suits, but by error: it is in Fort Worth complained that 126,712). J. A. Elrod. New London; Stroud 126,928). agreed by Wilson that Smith was the "restaurant" should have H. L. Hunt, Tyler; E. W. Scates, Brothers Oil Co., Joinerville G. U. Yoachum (cause 126, 969). willing to cooperate in any sur- been closed months before the Longview; Robert Cargill, the (cause 126,852). J. K. Maxell, Kilgore; H. M. veys, and that although there is shooting for violating liquor laws. Citizens' Council leader, Long- T. F. Patton, Kilgore; David Harrington Jr., Longview; L. E. a slant-hole well on a Smith- Chief Hightower did not see fit Willson, Gladewater; Crusader owned lease, it bottoms out on to close it. Oil Co., Kilgore; W. 0. Davis Jr., the same Smith-owned lease. Longview (cause 127,029). Asst. Atty. Gen. Linward Shiv- Jim Crow Wins John George, Longview; John ers says many drillers are now AUSTIN In the upshot, Brown told the Wrather, Tyler; M. M. Harding, cooperating with surveys, obviat- A GRIM ATTEMPT to create Gunter that if there was a single Kilgore; N. E. Powell, Longview ; ing the injunction suits. R.D. "permanent machinery" to inves- incident of discrimination against tigate and rebuke Texas unions any Negro delegate, he would hire that discriminate against Negroes buses and move the entire con- was rejected by the state labor vention to Dallas, where the state 'On to Duval!' O The furor over the Cooper convention in its final phases in fofice staff had made duplicate (Continued From Page 1) dicted Jack Cox will get about shooting had hardly dimin- San Antonio last week. This was arrangements for the convention them all, Duval GOP County 40 percent of the vote there in ished when a policeman named a victory for moderate integra- with the Adolphus Hotel on an Chairman Clarence Schroeder.' November. tionists in league with segrega- unsegregated basis. There were Jimmy Dean was arrested by The Duval rally is the latest "We will get a lot of Don Yar- tr,onists from locals that still no known incidents at the Gunter. some of his fellow policemen. move of an extended effort by borough's June 2 votes in Webb follow Jim Crow practices. (See They said he was drunk and due However, the majority report's Republicans to proselyte among County," Martinez said. "A lot Political Intelligence) to report for duty. Dean protest- key six paragraphs, shafting con- disgruntled voters in those South of Webb County Democrats voted ed that he was arrested because The adopted resolution, a mi- tinued anti-Negro practices in Texas counties often referred to for Don because he was not af- he had been gathering evidence nority report from the civil rights plants and craft unions, were as being "in the George Parr area filiated with the local Democratic of "irregularities" within the committee, accepted language dropped from the resolution the of influence." organization. Most of these will force. He and four others, who from the majority report advocat- convention approved. The six This effort first received state- vote with us in November." were charged with helping Dean ing "better" social and economic paragraphs which the convention wide attention in May when Clar- Just as the Reform Party's work against the department, equality for everyone, no matter refused to approve would have ence Schroeder (Duval GOP brief history was hectic, Martinez were fired. During the Dean up- what his color," reaffirmed pre- declared: chairman referred to in the bus said, Webb County's new Repub- roar the grand jury recommended vious integrationist procalama- 1. Unions be urged to provide ride invitation as "the bravest licans do not expect a lot of that an outside team of investi- tions by labor, asked for "more any worker training program Republican of them all") was smooth sailing in the immediate gators be hired to examine the detailed information" next year necessary to employment "regard- jailed on a contempt of court future. But they feel more secure administrative set up of the po- on civil rights progress in the less of race, creed, or national charge. He did not cooperate with with the GOP state organiza- lice department. unions, pointed out that in 1962 origin." a county grand jury as well as tion's support. "there was no race-baiting by the 2. " . . . there continue to be District Judge C. Woodrow O A police department narcot- Also, experience has taught statewide candidates" in Texas, practices within the (labor) Fed- Laughlin, a friend of George ics agent allegedly got them many things. For instance, and asserted that "for the first eration's affiliates which violate Parr's, thought he should. (Obs. hooked on drugs. there is a barn-like building in time" the Texas labor convention our charter and the firm declara- June 15) Grand Jury 'Foreman O A patrolman was accused of Laredo which now houses a print- was occurring without any segre- tions of our conventions . . . We G. R. Chapa, also a Parr advo- exposing himself to school ing press. During a campaign a believe the time has come to put cate, had issued a subpoena for children. gation. few years ago the Reform Party The Gunter Hotel, in advance teeth into the fine declara- Schroeder to bring his copies of O Negro leaders have com- tried to start an opposition news- convention negotiations with the tions. . . ." plained repeatedly that Fort records of the county GOP May paper but no local printer would 3. The proposed "permanent Worth police are consistently leadership of eTxas AFL-CIO, 5 primary election to the grand print it for them. Finally, they machinery" would take "firm ac- jury. Schroeder delayed bringing guilty of brutality to Negro pris- agreed that Negro delegates contracted to have it printed in tion against any international or oners. Several specific cases of wulod be accepted as hotel guests in the records until he sent them nearby Carrizo Springs. When local union which engages in dis- brutality have been made during the convention, with hotel off to be photostated. each edition was trucked from crimination or segregation wheth- Schroeder, who fought with the (Obs., July 7) rooms and the right to use the the printed to Laredo, several er in apprenticeship, in member- Second Division in World War II Despite his public insistance hotel coffee shop-restaurant. armed members of the Reform ship, in employment benefits, or from Omaha Beach to Czecho- that nothing is significantly Difficulties arose when the Party rode with it. wrong with his department or the htoel management asked for a in any other area of its concern." slovakia, had lived a quiet bache- "Now we have a newspaper way he runs it, Chief Hightower list of the Negro delegates in ad- 4. The machinery would, have lor life in San Diego since the plant of our own here," Martinez has promised to do better. But, vance. Labor president Hank been a Fair Union Practices war until he agreed to head the said. "We will publish when we according to reports, he doesn't Brown told the hotel the organi- Board "armed with authority and county's new GOP organization feel it is necessary again. We call have much time left to show re- zation did not know the colors or jurisdiction over all matters of less than a year ago. He was re- our paper The Laredo Free sults. J.M. natinoalities of the delegates. racial discrimination. leased from jail on a writ from Press." Federal Judge Reynaldo Garza 24 The Observer will have a man hours after he was jailed. at the Duval County GOP rally Last week, the Observer re- Kenedy Pool Report viewed the progress of new Re- Saturday. If all goes well, his re- publican organizations in Webb port of the event will appear in About a week later I was talk- (Continued from Page 3) rine if he were any good. Cor- and Zapata counties but, due to next week's Observer. J.M. ing to Corrinne. "Don't ever play came in one day. He said he made rinne volunteered that he was the extreme July heat, the last that Chino for money at nine his living by singing religious fair, but that he didn't think that five paragraphs of the story—that ball," he said. "He beat me out hymns and shooting pool. After he was anything exceptional. part which was to have picked up ADVERTISING challenging some of the better of thirty-five dollars." where page one left off—was not 'But It's Coming' There is a table up front, the pool players around Kenedy he printed. In that installment of BOOK Chino wanted to play for fifty best one, that is reserved for narrowed his vocation to singing. the perils of Republicans in South cents a game. But I didn't think gambling. Corrinne is finicky "I quit shootin' pool," he told me. Texas, Homero Martinez of Lo- MATCHES "They don't play my kind of pool that I was anything exceptional about nine ball. He won't rack reda was telling of the Webb Buy 2 cases (5,000) 20 around here." I've heard that he either so we played for two-bits. the table for it unless you are county Reform Party's recent can sing good, though. I assumed with nominal skill and going to gamble. One night three stem total $34.95, no ex- switch to the GOP. tras at all. Glamor Girl, Nine ball is the gambling game luck that I wouldn't be beaten white construction workers were Although slightly more than 500 too badly. He began winning playing Albert some nine ball. It Hillbilly covers and plain around the hall. It is short and Webb countians voted in the Re- games with remarkable regular- white or tint. sweet. Whoever gets the nine ball became too hot for two of them publican primary, Martinez pre- wins the money. There is a cer- ity. I fact I didn't win any. I as- so they dropped out. The game Rush ! This offer shipped tain amount of luck in it. sumed that it was luck because was going about even for Albert transportation free thru I had a misadventure, however, of the unorthodox manner in and the other fellow. I struck up July 31 to your office. which he played. He wouldn't a conversation with one of the of getting into a game with a MARTIN ELFANT Save $6.00 by sending fellow who could take most of the shoot rotation like everyone else two, a blond fellow from Missis- $9.50 deposit; balance 111 ,-. K out of it. that I had played: one ball, two sippi. $26.45 C.O.D., or order on A Latino with a mustache was ball, etc., until the nine ball was "That's one thing I can't get Sun Life of Canada open account. lounging outside the pool hall set up. But after about the first used to," he said. ' talking to Corrinne and some Or second shot he made, he "What?" I asked. Advertising calendars & others. They called him "Chino." would try to combination the nine He nodded toward the next ta- Give-Aways. ball in with another ball, either ble where two Negroes played. Houston, Texas He wanted to play some nine ball. F. HORSFALL I surreptitiously inquired of Cor- banking it, or cutting it. On about "Back home they wouldn't let the second try he would succeed. them inside a pool hall," he said. CA 4-0686 705 Christopher THE TEXAS OBSERVER I terminated the sporting event "But it's comin'. It's comin'." Austin 4, Texas Page 4 July 27, 1962 soon, and headed for the bar. DAN STRAWN