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AUSTIN ited • g other Marys creek, which rises in George B. Erath and his sur- Nigger People'

When it came to naming strew ras named eastern Parker County, was veyors camped there. They TYLER streams in Texas, early settlers by ' .nission San named for Mary Le Bone, an promised to sound an alarm District Judge Otis Dunagan in most cases showed little Fr• Tejas. Hon- Indian woman who was for settlers in case of an In- sat in his office and talked. "Don't originality. In the state are 26 oree e Indian girl drowned when the creek went dian raid. Pipe creek, begin- think this a suit against the nig- Bear creeks, 37 Elm creeks, 23 who he fathers to on a sudden rise. ning in Bandera, was named ger people," he. said. "Actually it Indian creeks, 30 Caney creeks, teach her their language and Memory of a one-eyed In- when a pioneer returned to its isn't. It's true it (the NAACP) is 36 Cedar creeks, 32 Spring their religion. When she chose dian. who was driven from the banks to get his pipe although an organization for the nigger creeks, 25 Walnut creeks, 23 to abandon her home and her area by white settlers was per- the Comanche Indians were people, b u t after all, three Turkey creeks, and 39 Cotton- people rather than leave the petuated in One Eye Creek, hot in pursuit of his party. He fourths of its directors are white wood creeks. mission and her work there, which rises . in Cherokee got the pipe and the stream she was called "Little Angel," County. Deadman creek is the got its name. people." But there are exceptions. and Angelina was named in name of two streams in the Mesmerizer creek honors a Judge Dunagan had just handed San Jacinto river received her honor. state, but the one which rises pioneer who had great faith in down a temporary order prohib- its name from friars of the San Saba probably was San in Callahan County was first the power of mesmerism. iting the NAACP from doing bus- Presidio San Augustione de Sabada (Holy Saturday), so called Willow Creek. When an Planning to tame buffalo, he iness in Texas (maintaining local Ahumada, who, while explor- named by fathers who discov- unidentified dead man was constructed a stockade and chapters, collecting dues, or filing ing the coast, ran upon the ered it on that day, but the found at one of the crossings, rounded up a number of the suits) and from applying for a stream. When they tried to name has been shortened to its the name of the river was animals, but it was they who permit to do business here in the pull their boat through it, it present form. changed. Deadhorse Creek, ris- did the mesmerising. They left future. was so choked with water hya- Kate creek, with headwaters ing in Hill County, was so nothing of the log pen but fire- Attorney General John Ben cinths they failed. They did, in Howard County, honors named because horses going wood. The creek near the Shepperd, who has known Duna- however, succeed in naming it Kate Lowe, an early business there for water often bogged scene was called Mesmeriser's gan since they were boys, stunned San Jacinto, the anglicized woman who lost her life when down and died in its marshes. creek, and later the name was a crowded courtroom at the end version of Saint Hyacinth. she tried to rescue a pet coon Alarm creek in Erath County shortened. of the state's closing argument Spanish padres were cred- from a burning saloon. And was named when Major ALICE NEILL with an emotional attack on the NAACP. "False prophets," he (Continued on Page 8) • Texas Youth, Some of It, oes on a Tear SAN ANTONIO `Frightening, Isn't It?' pink sweater with a gold sacred 'Waaaaatch Him,' on the back row of the balcony "Hurry up, Daddyo," the heart suspended from a chain seat, clapping. Asks Elvis in SA around her neck accenting her Screams a Teenager girl said. She had on a red BACK at the women's dressing even more and a black skirt is knit sweater. "Lock 'er up, room, the sense of his coming is through the huge barn, up into arguing with a policeman. "After how. But be patient, be patient. George," said one of the boys. upon them. Somehow the red- the ribs of the dome. "Only a I get to see him go back .... They start the filler half of the They set out through the head has worked around to the dollar, hold up your hands you I never fainted in my life over a show, a singer, two aging acro- rows of parked cars for the policeman guarding the path to that want 'em ..." Hands shot up man .... I paid my whole two bats, a tight rope clown. "Pres- far-off coliseum. the car runway. "I'm not gonna all over the floor, in the balcon- dollars, my last money! I'm not ley's got lots of hair. It runs in his Girls filed through the do nothin'!" she cries out. "After gates, girls with their dates, ies. gonna go clown there, I'll get all family, a lotta hair," a girl says. They sit quietly, waiting. all you can chain me to that fence. in pairs, alone, in cocktail An old man in natty sports shook up .... I don't want a car, I'm not a monkey." dresses, in blue jeans and clothes, with silk white hair, but I just want to see him, I want to The girl in the pink sweater is white shirts, in black slacks, trim, strode through the crowd, talk to him, is that all right? Well, lurking around the men's dress- Two dozen girls press against. a in pink sweaters and black his watch chain swaying. A if he's not coming through here ing room now. She hasn't seen cop's arm on the stairway leading skirts. Pink and black are El- blonde about 17 brushed against how come I have to get out?" Elvis yet, but she's still looking down to the dressing room, half - for him. She says she's a senior of them clutching big brown en- vis's colors. him; she was outlined in a black About half a dozen little girls at Blessed Sacrament High School "An autographed picture of El- knit dress. A group of young up the ramp are trying to get velopes with "Presley" on them. in San Antonio. She comes up to vis!" the man at the microphone would-be hoods in white sports past another cop. "What's that At 9:10 a white and brown Pon- the edge of the coliseum floor tiac drives up to the dressing exclaimed through his foghorn coats were glued together in an guy got that appeals to us?" one occasionally to see the acts, then voice. "And in one out of every aisle against the female hysteria of them asks nobody. "I doan room door. It is he, Mr. Presley. fades back to the rear, watching twenty five of these packages they hated. know I jus' like the way he sings Screams: "Elvis!" He has on a the dressing room. She slips over green tie and a nubby green coat there's a bracelet, an Elvis Pres- In a runway off the main floor, an' puts it over. that's all." "Ohh!" to a dark corner of the runway, the shade of carpet grass. He ley bracelet!" Shrill cries echoed a lovely yoling redhead in a tight says a crane-like pimplefaced gets her purse off a chair and girl. "If I could just be somebody waves to the girls and goes in. primps. His face is heavily powdered. this evening!" "If I could jus' get Now come Elvis's boys, the Jor- up close to him and see him and "Act like you're singing," says a dannaires ... hi, hi, hi, hi, with photographer. "Oh I don't want if he'd jUst say hello to me!" Case of a Raped Harlot their heads juggling and their el- to do that," he says easily. "You "Gosh he said hello to one girl bows in. a fizz, warming up the have to fake it; ,it looks faked, LAREDO in Nuevo Laredo's famous "Boys and she threw her arms up and ozone for the boy who's on the you know." He hoists himself on "M or did a" in Mexico Town," which houses an esti- fainted." "Oh if I could just get runway. a dressing ledge and kicks his means "bite," and for many mated 500 prostitutes. (Prostitu- backstage!" Three old ladies, whitehaired, (Continued on Page 8) underpaid Mexican officials it tion is legal in Mexico.) From a balcony a girl maybe means extra cash in their The incident came to light near- 14, her hair blonded, shouts to a pockets when they employ ly three weeks after it happened, boy standing in the ramp: "Hey the term in the meaning of a and it mushroomed into an inter- Jack, Jack, is Elvis there?" The tip for services rendered. national affair that threatened to boy, his fists doubled in his West Texas 'Auction' One of President Adolfo close Nuevo Laredo to U. S. mili- pockets, rocks back and shakes Ruiz Cortines' goals is to tary personnel. hiS head and says "Naahgh." Foui- SNYDER 1—Benson drouth aid, used abolish the "mordida" by nice little girls in high-waisted very little Young-looking Colonel Milton West Texas has been inun- hiking salaries of govern- [—Pair tax cutters, large size, B. Adams of Laredo Air Force overall black skirts and pink dated by an auction announce- ment employes whenever good as new. Base first brought up the whole blouses run around the balcony ment of properties owned by trying to get down to the dress- "Ike & Mamie" to be auc- About 400 lbs. campaign prom- possible. affair of "mordidas" in the base ing room. ises, never used. It's a pretty handy system even paper when he mentioned a con- tioned off by "Col. Wallstreet." for the bitten, sometimes, espe- FOUR CARS parked end to end The four by eight inch sheets 2 of Mr. Wilson's kennel dogs. ference he had held with Nuevo block them off from the stage. A turned up at the Abilene 1—Dulles mowing machine. Laredo's mayor and police chief Dullas hell. concerning "the increasing trend no woman's land of thirty yards Democratic dinner here last Several sets price supports, Ramon Garces of arrests and fines of our people" is roped off in front of the cars. week and are in general cur- From the right flank a football slightly used. across the border. rency throughout the plains. cially if a fellow wants to get cheer starts: "Go, go, go, go, go, They read: Lot of (Golf clubs) fishing through customs quickly, or talk Bill Hall, publisher of the South go, go!" tackle and many articles too the traffic cop out of taking you Texas Citizen, looked into the A girl in black from neck to it numerous to mention. PUBLIC SALE in for crossing a red light, or matter and found that the inci- ankle sits apart from the crowd Mr. Nixon will sell one used make the corner cop forget about dent that led to the conference where he FOght see her. As we are leaving the White phonograph and used records you having only one license plate. was a rape charge brought by a Oscar Davis, the fog voiced one, House in the near future, will such aS: "It's All Over Now,' Sometimes a "mordida" is valua- prostitute against the airmen, all is back at the mike. His hair is sell the following at auction: `I Can't Believe W e Are ble in other more serious busi- of them 17 years old, and frequent caked to the side of his oversize 1—Isenhower manure spreader Through,' and 'California Here ness. visitors to Nuevo Laredo's red- head. Because you're good peo- (used 4 years) I Come.' Last week, a $129 "mordida" light district. ple Elvis is going to do twelve, 1—Nixon fertilizer attachment IKE & MAMIE, OWNERS got four thrill-seeking teenaged The woman, Maria Dolores yes, twelve songs for you. "And (good) Col. Wallstreet, Auctioneer airmen from Laredo Air Force Badillo, a shapely 16-year-old how would you like him to do 'I (used 4 years) 91 Base out of a jam that originated (Continued on Page 7) want a Woman'?" Screams, that's Let those flatter who fear, it is not an Ameridan art.' —JEFFERSON

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We respect Republicans who ing political leaders of the state stand by their views and vote by never find the courage to avow their them. We do not demur when Dem- affinities in public? ocrats or Republicans choose to vote Imagine, maintaining that the Re- for a man instead of a party. But publican president, the head of the when the entire state campaign of a Republican Party, a man who has political party is geared to the thor- urged the election of every Republi- oughly hypocritical theme that can candidate in the United States, Dwight Eisenhower (as - Governor who deliberately junked the Denio- Shivers puts it) is "a better Demo- crats' bipartisan foreign policy—a crat than Adlai Stevenson," we can- Republican in name, in word, in not let it pass. deed—imagine calling him a better Democrat than the Democrats' Where are the Republicans in chosen nominee for President ! The Texas ? There is, as anyone can see, next time Shivers takes it into his • a fairly active campaign for Eisen- head to accuse Adlai Stevenson of hower, but almost all of it goes tin- "political irresponsibility," as he did der the title, "Democrats for Eisen- last week, let him wear a different hower." Will the Republican-think- suit of clothes himself.

. Return Return, There is an especially curious as- It's enough to make you cry out pect about W. Lee O'Daniel's re- in pity for Eisenhower, borne down turn-return. It would be all right if with the support of O'Daniel and he simply returned; Jesse James, the Shivers in the same election. Bye, 0 Baby Bunting, Saint, Zorro, and Douglas MacAr- Daddy's gone a-hunting. thur all returned, and Sherlock He's gone to get a lot more wool Holmes had a wonderful career af- ter Conan Doyle resuscitated him. Joda othe Over your bright eyes to pull. But at least all these characters re- —Price ('No Speeches for Adlai') Daniel turned in their original natures : A little item appeared recently in thief, dashing clever fellow, won- The Daily Texan, student news bul- drous adventurer, Napoleonic pos- letin at the University of Texas. eur, sleuth extraordinaire. When Lee Ricks, editor of The Texas Pappy returns, he uses a new script Ranger, the college humor maga- entirely. zine, resigned "to allow more time The Listening Post for his duties as president of Sigma As per the Dallas News, during. .... Arch Underwood, the wealthy Texans generally will revert to the the primary campaign for governor Chi fraternity." Lubbock Democrat, has two private Democratic camp now that the Eisen- howff gloss has worn off, but that if O'Daniel was asked from the crowd Was a time, was a time, when railway cars. He calls one of them "New Deal," the other one "Fair the general public must choose be- at Hurst: "Why don't you run on Ranger editors exposed loan Sharks, the Republican ticket, Pappy ?" "I'd Deal." tween Stevenson and Eisenhower, the stuck pins in well-rounded official. hero image will prevail. die first," Pappy said. "I was raised physiognomies, and ran surveys .... Marietta Brooks, vice-chair- a Democrat." showing 65 percent of the Universi- man of the state Democratic execu- .... This approach infuriates the But he is reincarnated a Republi- ty's fresh-faced seekers after culture tive committee, has been plugging for Stevenson and Kefauver fans, natur- can. He urges everybody to vote for and degrees cheated on thir examin- James Hart for senator, according to ally, and the "Do It Yourself" Demo- Eisenhower out o f "gratitude." ations. Now the editor prefers to \Vest Texans who talked to her on crats are .playing up Stevenson and Kefauver personally as well as Demo- He is not, technically, running on lead the brothers in the mystic rites. her visit there recently. the Republican ticket, but he tried to crats in general. It is, we fear, a sign of the times. ... Hart said in political conversa- get on the Constitution Party ticket, tions in \Vest Texas that Lyndon .... One important straw in the which is worse, since they're neofas- Johnson has told him that he, John- wind : in \Vest Texas, at least, it is cists. All in all it's mighty curious son, wouldn't actively oppose Hart in now very, very respectable to be a behavior for a man "raised a Demo- new Slogan the Senate race. Johnson still remem- Democrat for Stevenson, whereas crat." bers that Hart sided with Hardy Hol- four years ago it was regarded as a . But perhaps we define Pappy's Why doesn't somebody ask Elvis lers in his 1946 race against Johnson. sort of offense against social decency. political nature too narrowly; per- Presley if he's a Democrat ? It could At Texas Tech the professors are haps we should be more charitable. .... Rep. Waggoner Carr of Lub- much more outspoken ; car labels are have a profound effect on the his- believes he has been elected We recall that on a television pro- bock prominent. tory of the Republic and the course speaker of the House of Representa- gram in Houston, he averred, with of human affairs. Instead of Dollars tives next session. It was reported im- .... Rep. Robert Patterson of Sny- solemn , pride, that he had always for Democrats Paul Butler could es- mediately after the summer elections der expresses the hope that if the seg- supported the Democratic nominees. pouse Eeks for Elvis and frighten that the new complexion of the House regation question is going to come up A reporter asked him how come, the Republicans into seclusion No- had caused Rep. Barefoot Sanders of next session, it will be held off until that is, how come he had urged ev- vetnber sixth. Get with it, man, live Dallas to decide to go ahead and con- the vital business has been transacted. erybody to vote against FDR in it up, live it up. test with Carr for the speakership. "Otherwise we'll be tangled tip early 1944. He said, - why, er, yes, ah, and never get through," he says ap- hum, that is, what I mean is, I have (Rocks. Somebody did ask Elvis. .... Carr is reported more friendly prehensively. toward the loyalist - liberal group in never myself voted against a Demo- He • replied : "I'm strictly for Stev- Lubbock since he Fort Worth conven- .... Washington columnist Holmes' cratic nominee. enson. I don't dig the intellectual bit, tion than before. He is also said to be Alexander reports : In Texas, where So his nature has transmigrated but I'm telling you, man, he knows determined to go "down the line" as conservative Democrats are "Repub- intact, after all. He is yet, as then, a the most." They asked Stevenson an impartial and objective speaker. lican" and radical Democrats are "La- hypocrite, a sophist, and a slug, un- for comment on the endorsement borite," Senator Lyndon Johnson has fit for honorable dispute, a purveyor and he said : "Who's Elvis Pres- .... The road billboards which the discovered the middle of the road .... of sham and doubletalk. ley?") Democrats have been complaining "The tall traveler came to Congress about read : "Keep Peace Keep Pros- as a follower of Franklin Roosevelt perity Keep Ike ! Eisenhower for but a number of years later he was riding in the first-class coach of arch- President." They do not mention the Republicanism, the Taft-Hartley act," arxas. Mbstrurr word, "Republican." observed Alexander.

6 .... On the other hand, the John- .... Jim Lindsey, new chairman of Staff contributors: Franklin Jones, Marshall; son-Daniel policy has jelled against OCTOBER 24, 1956 Minnie Fisher Cunningham, New Waverly ; Rob- the state Democratic executive com- Incorporating The State Observer, combined ert G. Spivak, Washington, D.C. ; John Igo, San mentioning the n.aines Stevenson and with The East Texas Democrat Antonio ; Edwin Sue Goree, Burnet ; Drew Pear- mittee, has resigned as executive VP son, Washington, D.C. ; and others. Kefauver. The theory is that the Ronnie Dugger, Editor and General Manager of the Texas Good Roads Assn., a Bob Bray, Associate Editor Staff cartoonist: Don Bartlett, Austin. Car- Democrats have a better chance as Sarah Payne, Office Manager toonists : Bob Eckhardt, Houston ; Etta Hulme, lobbying organization. Some sotto OBSERVER MAILING ADDRESS Houston. Democrats than they do as Stevenson 504 West 24th St., Austin, Texas We will serve no group or party but will hew voce criticism had been voiced about ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVE hard to the truth as we find it and the right as fans in Texas. Note that the names, SJA Associates we see it. We are dedicated to the whole truth, his forthcoming work with the Leg- P.O. Box 2246, Capitol Station, Austin, Texas to human values above all interests, to the rights Stevenson and Kefauver, were not Published once a week from Austin, Texas. of man as the foundation of democracy ; we will islature. Delivered postage prepaid $4 per annum. Adver- take orders from none but our own conscience, ineraioned all day long at the recent tising rates available on request. Extra copies 10c and never will we overlook or misrepresent the each. Quantity orders available.. truth to serve the interests of the powerful or meeting of.. the state Democratic exec- .... The Cuero Record reprinted a Entered as second-class matter April 26, 1937, cater to the ignoble in the human spirit. utive committee in Austin. It was al- full page tract from the National As- at the Post Office at Austin, Texas. under the MAILING ADDRESS : 604 West 24th St., Aus- act of March 3, 1879. tin, Texas. ways, "elect the Democratic ticket sociation of Manufacturers accusing Staff correspondents : Ramon Garces, Laredo; EDITORIAL AND BUSINESS OFFICE: 504 Clyde Johnson, Corsicana ; Mike Mistovich, West 24th St., Austin, Texas. from top to bottpin," or "support the unions of "massing money and man- Bryan ; Jules Lob, Central Texas ; Jack Morgan, TELEPHONE in Austin : GReenwood 7-0746. Port Arthur ; Dan Strewn, Kenedy ; Al Heiken, Democratic nominees." Behind this is power in a bold bid for political dom- Houston ; and reporters in San Antonio, Dallas, HOUSTON OFFICE : 2501 Crawford St., Hous- El Paso, and Big Spring. ton, Mrs. R. D. Randolph, treasurer. the belief that farmers especially and inance." Johnson's Internecine Warfare Force Fed Pap AUSTIN crats, Mrs. Marietta Brooks, John- rangement could be made by which all In the State Despite some clever Lyndon- son's vice chairman of the state com- who wanted to work on Dollars for Johnson - inspired press - agentry to mittee, Miss Grace Tully, Johnson's Democrats Day would be allowed to the contrary, such as the Holmes' secretary and the former secretary work. Johnson put the ax to any such Of Double Think to FDR, Mrs. Silas Grant, executive meeting, and MdCloskey went back to Alexander column carried in many committeewoman from Whitney, and Washington. MARSHALL Texas daily newspapers the week Mrs. Lyndon Johnson, the senator's But Johnson was being driven into The Democrats are increasingly of October 15, the' Democratic wife, were dispatched by plane to a a corner. His lip-seririce campaign for Party of Texas today is a series of series of women's meetings. It hap- the party was in danger of being ex- feeling the results of their Senate armed camps acknowledging no one pens that they were sent to places posed. Matt McCloskey was not going leadership in the last congress. It leader or group of leaders in Texas. where the liberal Democrats had to buck the Democratic leader in the carefully avoided coming to grips scheduled meetings and where Mrs. Senate, but he was going to talk when Senator Johnson's "moderates" are with the Eisenhower myth, and re- one of the smaller and more ineffec- Voight had set up meetings at which he got back to Washington. So, fin- tive of the camps. she would be present. ally on October ,11, five days before fused to put a staying hand in the The performance of the Johnson the Dollars for Democrats drive, When Johnson, Sam Rayburn, and way of the creation of the great Truth Team was on a, par with the op- State Senator Ray Roberts of Mc- white father image. Some are un- Price Daniel stole control of the Sep- eration of the state campaign. Only Kinney ( Speaker Rayburn's former tember state convention from the the "right" women could be invited to secretary) was drafted to fill in as kind enough to say that it desired a Democrats who had won it in the pre- their organization meetings. Where Director for Dollars for Democrats Republican president and a Demo- cinct and county conventions, they possible they lunched or teaed or Day. Five whole days were allocated cratic Congress. gambled on being able to destroy their dined at the most exclusive clubs and to get 254 counties and some 5,000 liberal Democratic opposition com- country clubs. It is not surprising that precincts organized and coordinated pletely in the next two years. To say -Mrs. Voigt outdrew them in every for a massive political fund raising Frani-4 Speaking that they are failing is an understate- place they landed. effort. That the drive fell flat on its ment. The internecine warfare which But under the guise of organizing face in Texas statewide is tragic for Whatever the motives, the result is they are presently waging has under- women for work in the state cam- the Democratic Party. mined the campaign for Stevenson- that the party's candidates are desper- paign the ladies had other chores to But the real fruits of Johnson's ately racing against time in an of fort Kefauver and, may cost the Demo- perform. Mrs. Johnson told each au- great victory at the Fort Worth state cratic Party Texas in the November to bring the image into proper focus. dience of how her husband, the good convention, the conversion of Senator If they fail, the election is lost. But ir- election. But Johnson has already be- senator, was risking his very life and Price Daniel to support of the Demo- gun preparing Ms alibi for that even- teetering on the brink of an early cratic nominees, now turns out to be respective of the election outcome, tuality. In an article in the New York grave because of all his efforts since a rare variety of political persimmon, there are some terrifying portents of Times, William S. White, one of the last spring for the Democratic Party. and a little green. The October 13 our app,roach to the state of double top Times political reporters, writes Mrs. Grant took care of sweet female Houston Chronicle said: "Senator think as a nation. Examples are too as follows: comments about Mrs. Voigt. Marietta Price Daniel, the Democratic nominee numerous for complete treatment but "Finally, the most responsible of Brooks continued her nonsense along for governor, will take no part in the a few should be noticed. the Stevenson backers concede that if the line she advanced to the state ex- Nov. 6 general election except to vote All our wars, say the Republicans, the President enters Texas, his native ecutive committee (cake baking con- for Adlai Stevenson and Estes Kefau- have been under Democratic adminis- state, for a speech or two, he might tests, beauty contests, and so on). ver." The Chronicle also said Daniel win here after all." White has pre- trations ; yet the two senseless and Grace Tully Was Grace Tully, which plans no speeches for the party's na- needless ones, the Civil and Spanish ceded this sentence with one stating is all she has to be. tional ticket. "Nor have I been asked that he is on a ranch "west of Austin." to make any," Daniel was quoted as Americans, were under Republican presidents. The Republican forebears White was on Johnson's ranch. In the BUT DON'T THINK that saying. "I guess everyone knows I Holmes Alexander column and the this was all the Johnson sycophants at didn't plan to take on a speech-mak- of thoSe termites now constantly at- White article, Johnson has begun his State headquarters were doing ; they ing role." He has since then repeated tacking the U.N. made the Demo- drive for 1960, as well as his alibi for also weren't doing anything about that he will vote for the nominees and cratic conception of the League of 1956. Dollars for Democrats Day, October thinks the Democratic Party is "the Nations fruitless and led to World The casual observer would probably 16. Of course everyone in the United party for the people." War II. conclude that the Texas Stevenson States who follows politics knew two Ne3it, boastful campaign speakers campaign is in high gear from the oc- months ago that the Democratic Na- casional newspaper releases. To the WITH THE HOUSE of declare that the Republicans promised tional Committee had selected Octo- cards tumbling at state headquarters, they would stop the fighting in Korea, "Old Pros" in politics • the campaign ber 16 for a nation-wide fund raising to date is a farce ; tragic-comedy to Johnson Moved into high gear, and and did., The fact that the fighting hid drive. It had been advertised on every into the front line to cover up the been stopped before the election, and those who love the Democratic Party, Stevenson TV show in the campaign. slap-stick to cynics who believe that debacle he moved Jake Pickle of that solution of the conflict would .So weeks went by, and while Johnson Syers, Pickle and Winn, Austin pub- the boys who hold the purse strings seems to have spent most of his time have resulted regardless of its out- ought to call the turns, lic relations experts who handled the after the September Convention spe- Port Arthur Story for Shivers in come, was concealed by the greatest cifying Democrats Woodward was not 1954. Pickle had been Price Daniel's piece of demagoguery in American THE STATE campaign or- to use in the campaign, more and hatchet man at the Fort Worth Sep- history. "I will go to Korea." ganization is the finest example of the more folks began pressing state head.- tember convention. To explain away a Now from this force fed pap, at "trickle-down theory" of political or- quarters for action. In desperation failure to raise enough money for the least one voter has seriously com- ganization which Texas has been priv- some Democrats appealed to the na- national campaign as well as the pos- mented that the Democrats got us into ileged to see. Tom Miller was per- tional committee in Washington, and sible_ loss of the state in the Novem- suaded to take the chairmanship, but World War II and Korea, and Ike got as a result of a number of complaints, ber election in such a way that no us out, so her vote would go Republi- only after getting a firm agreement the national committee sent National blame attaches to Lyndon Johnson is can. Double think ; sheer double out of Johnson that Johnson would Treasurer Matthew McCloskey to a major project, even for a man who provide the staff to do the work. John- Texas .on Oct. 5. McCloskey met with put over the Port Arthur story. But think! son provided Warren Woodward as Miller, Woodward, McLaughlin, and Johnson will have his alibi. The ultimate in the art, however, is -director of organization. Woodward Byron Skelton in Austin. The morn- The road of moderation is leading found in journalistic comment on is a former employee of Johnson's. Herb Brownell's insistence that the ing of October 6, McCloskey told at the Democrats of Texas into the ditch. A young lawyer in his early thirties, It will be up to the rank and file Do-it- hallowed Texas tidelands extend no least one liberal Democratic leader Woodward has shown little knowl- Yourself-Democrats to decide who further than three miles from shore. edge or imagination about organizing that a general meeting of all camps comes out of the ditch and who stays To this at least two important dailies a state-wide political campaign. John- . of Democrats would be called for in. have editorially replied that this atti- son next provided his 1948 state cam- Tuesday, October 9 so that some ar- TEXANICUS paign headquarters manager, Charlie tude makes the re-election of Ike im- Herring as treasurer. Then from the perative, else our little school kiddies Democrats for Ike in 1952 Johnson will lose their oil. Stevenson, they drafted` C. T. McLaughlin of Wichita The Stump have said, is against Texas ownership, Falls as finance director. To put the and Ike is for it. Hence Ike alone can icing on the cake he borrowed Tom- Ole Alibi Ike over again ... Are they going to be protect. mie James, Everett Looney's son-in- taken in again ... I don't think so. Aside from the anguished cry from To the Editor : law, from Looney, Clark & Moorhead M. W. KELLEY the Democratic committeeman of Dal- Bastrop the Brown & Root anti-labor lawyers Mr. Eisenhower is the villain in las, I have seen no public denounce- of Austin, to be in' charge of cam- this GOP tragedy. In 1952 he made paign material distribution. With pre- ardent love to the farmer; the laboring Demos for Ike ment of this preposterous position. cious days flitting by, this crew seems man, and the plain citizen. In order to To the Editor : As he pointed 'out, Ike is the Justice to have spent most of their time prior win their votes he smiled, kissed ba- To say : "A Democrat for • Eisen- Department, and Herb's act is Ike's. to the October 4 meeting of the State bies, and made glowing promises that hower" is comparable to "A Method- We all know that a cabinet member Democratic Executive Committee try- were later given .a different interpre- ist for the Pope of Rome." In submits an undated letter of resigna- ing to figure out ways and means of tation. He promised the farmer 100 church parlance, that man is a heretic. tion when he accepts the position, and keeping Kathleen Voigt and the liberal percent of parity; he promised the la- The Army would call him a deserter. that the great benefactor of the school Democrats from working in the cam- boring man he would correct the in- The Government would pronounce kiddies had only to lift a telephone paign. Their triumph came with the justices in the Taft-Hartley law ; he him a traitor. Society would call him and speak to call Herb's dogs off. passage of the resolution by the state promised the plain citizen that he unstable glamor bug. The, sailor would Despite this, our conditioning to offer him a compass. The cow-boy executive committee which ordered would give him tax relief. Then, after double think, had allowed great pa- everyone to work under Warren the knot was tied, he went on a three- would call him a maverick. The politi- Woodward. Unfortunately, most of year honeymoon with big business, the cian thinks of him as a fence-strad- pers to dare to indulge in such non- the Do-it-Yourself-Democrats who vested interests and the superior man. dler. sense as to call for the retention of were already at work in the county He spent most of his time playing Many good people embrace Ike to stop a move that he initiated. organizations didn't take time to read golf, playing bridge and just plain the philosophy o f the Republi- It may be later than we think ; do we the resolution and simply went ahead playing, and had a regency running brace the philosophy Of the Republi- smell the smoke of Orwell's memory with their homework. the affairs of government .... can party. I have no quarrel with them hole, as troublesome recorded facts The next attack by the Johnson After neglecting the farmer, the la- about their party affiliaton. But it is a are next reduced to ashes? camp. was brilliant in conception, but boring man and the plain citizen for stigma on both parties for a man to FRANKLIN JONES unfortunately we don't know who three long years, it is getting along call himself a Republican-Democrat thought it up. This was the idea of toward election time again so Alibi or vice-versa. the "Lyndon Johnson Truth Team." Ike leaves the country club for the J. J. BATES THE TEXAS OBSERVER Ostensibly to organize women Demo- moment and starts to make love all 117 North 8th, Waco Page 3 Oct. 24, 1956 Dallas YD's Back Governor Calls WEEK IN TEXAS O Former Aransas Pass police questioned, among them B. R. chief Felix Turnbaugh filed Sheffield, Brady land promoter Adlai Names a $50,140 damage suit against who is under a 10-year conviction NAACP in Crisis AUSTIN Nueces County Sheriff Odern Do- in connection with the land fraud Gov. Allan Shivers charges that lan charging the sheriff arrested cases. DALLAS Adlai Stevenson's proposed ef- him "maliciously and without • Barrett, an ill-timpered par- The Young Democratic Club of Dallas County adopted a forts to halt H-bomb testing probable cause and with the in- rot in the Houston zoo, is resolution pledging support to the National Association for "smites about as much political tent, design and purpose" of in- causing zoo officials embarass- the Advancement of Colored People in the latter group's irresponsibility as I can imagine." juring his reputation. Turnbaugh, ment because of his bad language. fight for survival in Texas. The governor, in a press con- arrested on a drunk charge after A woman complained that when In the same resolution the official youth branch of the ference before starting a stump he supported Odem's political op- she inquired "Polly want a Democratic Party in Texas charged Attorney General John tour for President Eisenhower, ponent, was fired by the Aransas cracker?" the bird answered, "Go Ben Shepperd with misuse of his office and tax funds in "the termed Stevenson's H-bomb pro- Pass city council. He later was to hell." perpetration of witchhunts designed to curtail the rights of posal as "playing at the heart- found not guilty of the charge by any citizen or group of citizens." strings" to trY to win applause. a justice court jury. An election Doyle King, president of to recall the Aransas Pass city O Former governor W. Lee 0'- "He lacks common sense, politi- Daniel and his son, Pat, filed the young democrats, said citizens of this nation, and be it council has been set for Nov. 20. cal morality, or both. I don't think affidavits that their six life in- the club would do everything further The petition for the election, either the United States or the surance companies are now doing in its power to assist in ob- "Resolved that the Young Dem- free world can afford to risk its signed by 300 citizens, was filed taining implementation o f after the council failed to hold a sufficient business to meet mini- ocratic Club of Dallas County future with men of that little mum state requirements. the Supreme Court's decision publicly avow its support and judgment or experience," said public hearing before voting to ending segregation in the schools. confidence in the NAACP and Shivers. fire Turnbaugh. O Dr. Jack 0. Knowles, a Flor- He said the club had voted to as- The governor predicted Eisen- ida veterinarian, told dele- any organization which under- Parent-Teacher Associations sist "in the preparation, financing hower would carry Texas again O gates to the American Medical takes legitimate actions to seek of three El Paso schools and presentment of legal actions" this year "if the people become Veterinary Association conven- legal reversal of laws denying passed resolutions asking passage on behalf of Negroes in Dallas sufficiently interested in getting tion that tranquilizing pills are equality to all, and in its actions of laws controlling the overload- County. out the vote.. • proving an answer to the post- seeking the enforcement of laws ing of school buses. The resolution says in part: and judicial decrees guaranteeing He said he won't call a special man's prayer—transforming mean "Whereas the Democratic Party that equality, and be it finally Senate election until after the O Fire of undetermined origin mutts into docile dogs. and the Young Democratic Clubs "Resolved that the Young Dem- November 6 general election. did an estimated $500,000 O Mrs. N. S. Campise, of Hous- of America. of Texas and of Dal- ocratic Club of Dallas County damage at the Westinghouse Elec- ton, filed a $15,000 damage las County have an historic record does voice its. unanimous objec- tric Supply Co., in Lubbock. suit against the Greater Galves- of the defense of individual free- tion to the use of public tax Daniel Studies ton Beach Association alleging the dom and liberty, and funds in the perpetration of O A Gregg County Fair mid- organization used a picture of her "Whereas any attack on the witchhunts designed to curtail the way game which offered in a white bathing suit on its ad- freedom or liberty of any individ- rights of any citizen or group of Water Shortage dolls to players who could pitch vertising posters without her per- ual or group of individuals con- citizens, or to prevent attainment ABILENE basketballs through a hoop closed mission. She said it has caused stitutes an attack on the basic of equal rights by any or all citi- Price Daniel, the next governor, after only two days operation. her "much embarassment and rights of all free peoples, and zens of this State or Nation." has been reading more about the Sharpshooting members of the Kilgore College national cham- mental anguish." "Whereas it is not only the In explaining the Dallas Young water problem than on any other pion junior college team marched right, but the duty, of all Ameri- Demos' position in the NAACP single subject, he says; he is de- O Dr. C. Y. Dorsey of Dallas off with 14 dolls the first night cans to aid their fellowman in his controversy, King said: termined to get a solution for it is heading a group of 30 Bap- attempts to attain his equal rights from the Legislature if he has to and returned the next evening "We think Negro Citizens and tist ministers who are on a two- within the law, and keep them in session all next to clean out the other 16. their organizations are entitled to week evangelistic tour of South- "Whereas the Attorney General. year. bring these suits—just as we O A test suit to determine ern Baptist Home Missions in of the State of Texas, has insti- He is also considering a consti- thought o t her individuals or whether the state will be or- Alaska. tuted action aimed at outlawing tutional amendment to permit groups were and are entitled to dered to refund about $4 -million the National Association for the Texas to participate in the federal Former Galveston Police seek judicial determination of the of taxes collected under the in- O Advancement of Colored People, old-age pension program up to the Chief Fred M. Ford, who validity of a school board's deci- validated natural gas gathering because that Association has legal limit. He is in favor of state was found guilty of income tax sion to desegregate. • However, tax law will be heard by the sought judicial action to secure participation in the buying of evasion and sentenced to four once that question has been re- Third Court of Civil Appeals on equal rights for citizens denied rights of way and full participa- years in prison, lost his final solved by the highest court, all Feb. 6. their constitutional rights, and tion. in the federal highway pro- round of appeal when the U. S. men of good faith, who believe in "Whereas said Attorney Gen- gram. O A cotton planting allotment Supreme Court refused to hear due process of law, are bound to eral has announced in his legal Water, he believes, is the state's of 7,547,503 acres for 1957 in his case. The 55-year-old Ford, accept and abide by that decision. pleadings that such activities are principal economic problem. "I Texas, an increase of 136,610 isle police chief from 1940-47 af- "against the policy of the State"; ".... It is the policy of the will keep calling them (the leg- acres over the current allotment, ter joining the force as a rookie therefore, be it YOung Democratic Club of Dallas islators) back into special session" was announced by the U. S. De- in 1925, is now employed as a "Resolved that the Young Dem- County to do whatever we can do until it is solved, he says. partment of Agriculture. jailer at the Galveston County ocratic Club of Dallas County as individuals and as an organi- He has not studied Governor j ail. zation to help any and all persons O A closed-door court of in- publicly decry any attempt by Shivers's twenty-point integra- Mayor Oscar Holcombe an- 'to achieve their full constitutional quiry into the bombing of O any State official to establish any tion program and has not studied nounced 17 promotions in policies in the name of the State rights which have heretofore been the subject enough to make up his veterans land scandal witness completely reorganizing the Hous- of Texas that infer, imply or have denied them, including active as- mind about his policy on it, he Sam McCollum III was conducted ton Police Department. the effect of curtailing the activ- sistance in the preparation, fin- said. He says the NAACP hear- at Brady. Twelve witnesses were ities of any organization devoted ancing, and presentment of legal ings in Tyler prove the group to the furthering of liberty among actions." supported Ralph Yarborough for governor. School Board Group Favors Race Tolerance WILCO rS AUSTIN Some 150 members of the Texas Association of School Boards SICK LEAVE PLAN passed a resolution favoring "tol- erance in racial and religious matters." There was only one dis- Protects You On AND Off the Job! senting vote. Frank Poole, president of the Available to small groups of employees— San Angelo school board, intro- The Texas Observer now has subscribers in from five to fifty— duced the resolution urging "each district and its educators and ad- all of the 254 counties of Texas. To large groups—up to thousands— ministrators to practice and teach And to individuals! by example the fundamental Do you subscribe? If not—fill out the blank below. 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'LET'S ABOLISH THE POLL TAX' I 2000 Attend Senators, Rayburn Hit Ike, Nixon; Houston Rally Morrow and Cullen Endorse GOP Abilene HOUSTON "There is no question," Mrs. lower under Herbert Hoover but In the face of a thunder- ple how the Soviet Union has In Abilene, Speaker Sam Randolph said, "that Lyndon qualified the concession some- ous downpour, more than been making • end runs around the Rayburn predicted the Dem- Johnson sold the loyalists in May" what by adding: "There wasn't 2000 rainy - day Democrats wall of containment in Afghani- ocrats will carry all the Solid and that Price Daniel "repeated any income." streamed downtown to the stan, in Burma and elsewhere? South, every border state, the action" at the September Houston Coliseum to whoop NATO is in a state of decomposi- and some other states. He convention. Houston GOP it up for their party and its tion . . . Iceland has asked us to said he didn't see how any Mrs. Minnie Fisher Cunning- farmer or rancher could vote Two prominent Houston- candidates, local a n d na- get out, at the other end Greece, ham also addressed a luncheon ians, Wright Morrow, ex- tional. They ate fried chicken Turkey and Great Britain are at for the Republican ticket in group rally of the Democratic 1956. Democratic national commit- and potato salad and pie out odds . . . France, the heart and Women's Alliance. "There has teeman, and Hugh Roy Cul- of boxes. They drank coffee core of NATO has pulled her Senator Lyndon Johnson never been a bread line in a len, oil millionaire, endorsed from paper cups. At $10 per troops out to fight revolt across said Stevenson and Kefauver Democratic election," she said. Eisenhower. plate or $15 for two—and no the Mediterranean . . . Germany, will carry Texas, but it's "go- She added Republican voting Morrow said he could see plates—they paid in an esti- making only 60,000 men avail- ing to be a tough fight." record on the federal aid to edu- no reason why anyone who mated $15,000 to $20,000 to able . . ." "Governor Shivers is very ex- cation bill "a choice piece of perienced," Johnson said thought- voted for Eisenhower in 1952 Democratic campaign funds And, said Senator Mansfield, hypocrisy." fully. "He has a strong machine would not do so again. He from here to Washington. what about the Eisenhower pro- and apparently all the money he said Eisenhower has given They heard Senator Mike Mans- mise of 90 per cent parity for Lockhart the office "integrity ... and added needs. If money can buy an elec- field of Montana blister Ike. They farmers? "He will get his answer personal dignity." He has "main- tion, they can buy it. But I be- Johnson flared up at a cheered Ralph Yarborough, deaf- from the farmers on November 6 tained integrity of contract in up- lieve in the good judgment of Lockhart rally of 3,000, de- eningly. They applauded loudly .. . the farmers of the Midwest holding the treaty of annexation the average Texan." claring the tidelands issue is for Congressmen Albert Thomas have long memories. They have "as dead as Allan Shivers" of Texas" by signing the tide- of Houston, Clark Thompson of not forgotten." Senator Stuart Symington (D.- and calling Bob Smith's open lands bill, Morrow said. Mo.) was the principal speaker. Galveston, and Jack Brooks of Mansfield, rushed a little to letter to Symington at Abi- In addition, Morrow contended, Beaumont. The tranquility of his visit was complete his speech by the immi- lene "insulting." Eisenhower "has restored the in- disturbed somewhat by a full- They roared and whistled and nent starting of the hour-long "An Eisenhower Democrat is tegrity of our currency—put a page ad in the Abilene daily call- stomped and clapped when Adlai tele-rally wound up with a pre- a Republican who is ashamed to brake on the inflation that would ing attention to his vote against Stevenson and Estes Kefauver diction of Democratic victory "all admit it," Johnson said. "Only the have ultimately destroyed our restoring sub-marginal lands to down the line." has-beens are out fighting the whole economy . . . "President the states. He was placed by Bob Eisenhower put a stop to the Congressman Thomas spoke party that made them." Smith, chairman of Democrats for killing in Korea and under his gently about Eisenhower, ex- In a slam at Shivers, Johnson Al Heiken Eisenhower. • administration we have had pros- pressing sorrow because Republi- said there has grown up in Senator Price Daniel took oc- Texas "a fear and smear hate perous times while we were not made speeches on a nationwide cans had compelled him again to casion the night of the Abilene and divide group" to service its at war." closed-circuit television "tele- seek a "man-killing office" when rally (attended by 200 Democrats own special interests and "to fol- Cullen said conservatives rally." Across the theater-sized "in his late sixties" he "would at $100 each) to say of this: low the fascist pattern of drive should not vote for the Constitu- screen flashed Mrs. Eleanor, rather retire to his Gettysburg "Symington voted for what he the opposition underground." tion Party (running T. Coleman Roosevelt, Paul Butler, Harry farm." considered to be the desires of his "Texans resented that 81 percent Andrews for President) but Truman, and Actors Henry Fonda, Congressman Brooks related state just as Sen. Johnson and I to 19 percent in May, and they should vote for Eisenhower. A Orson Wells, Bette Davis, and how, in hearings, life-long Re- voted what we believed to be the will resent it the same way in vote for Andrews "can only cap- many others. publicans, under oath, testified best interests of Texas." November," Johnson exclaimed. ture conservative votes from the Montana's senator saluted Yar- a-bout having "to qualify politi- Daniel also said: "I'm support- (Shivers shot back from San Republicans and permit election borough as "one of Texas' truly cally" to get contracts with the ing all the nominees from top to Antonio: "I don't feel dead. In of Adlai Stevenson," he said. great citizens" and recognized the government and feeling "morally bottom. I think the Democratic fact, I am looking forward to the Eisenhower, Cullen said, has leadership of national committee- obligated" to increase their dona- Party is the party for the people remainder of this campaign with proved he's for states' rights. The woman Frankie Randolph "who tions to the Republican party in . . . the best party for the South lively interest . . . The presence Supreme Court's actions should has done so much for the party return for contracts from the gov- and for Texas, as well as for all in our public school fund of some be corrected by Congress, he said. in Texas and its rejuvenation so ernment. the people of the United States." 60 million very life-like dollars, Cullen designated Stevenson!s_ evident this evening." "I don't believe American busi- Rayburn said the GOP "dy- received from tidelands leases proposal to stop hydrogen bomb Mansfield talked back to "hy- nessnien should have to pay trib- namic conservatism" evidently since President Eisenhower sign- tests if others will do so as a phenated Democrats" whos•.had at- ute to do business with the gov- means "standing still dynamical- ed the bill three years ago, pro- proposal to "ban the atomic . tacked him and other campaign- ernment," Brooks said. "That is ly." He backed up Stevenson on tects the issue from the premature bomb." He called this "villain- ers in a newspaper advertise- wrong. When we elect a Demo- ending hydrogen tests if other demise suggested by Sen. John- ous." ment for their votes on tidelands. cratic president we can get rid nations will do so. He said farm son.") "The tidelands have always be- of the shakedown." income has dropped $4.5 billion Speaker Rayburn, following , And Elsewhere longed to the states," he said. Ralph Yarborough got a big under the Republicans. Johnson, observed: In Fort Worth, ex-Congressman "Three times the Supreme Court ovation when he was introduced Symington accused Eisenhower "They talk about President Ben Guill said Stevenson talks ruled that the off-shore lands— by Master of Ceremonies Walter of "listening to the people who Eisenhower signing the tidelands out of both sides "of his so-called beyond the ebb and flow of the G. Hall, banker of Dickinson. He have money and failing to sup- bill. He did; but do you think intellectual mouth" on tidelands. tides—were property of the fed- urged Harris County Democrats port the farmer and small busi- there would have been a tide- Of Stevenson's hydrogen bomb eral government. I and others in to concentrate on getting out the nessman." He said "this campaign lands bill if it hadn't been for the and draft positions, Gail said: Congress accepted this then while vote on November 6. is a question of promises made efforts of Texans like Price Dan- "The Daily Worker has come it was the law of the land as we "We have advanced from a mi.- . and not kept." And he said that iel, Senator Johnson, and my- out for Mr. Stevenson's point of now accept the later decision of nority to a majority in Texas," military service duplication and self?" view. I'm glad they're on his the majority in Congress with re- he said. "Harris County has 340,- waste is worse than "ever be- Rayburn said the Democrats of side." spect to off-shore lands. This is- 000 qualified voters. Only 140,000 fore." Texas "will not vote to deprive At Rosebud, Rep. W. R. Poage sue is settled. It no longer is an voted in the second primary, in- Texas of the leadership in the of Waco said Eisenhower's failure issue. It will not be revived. It cluding all the Republicans. It is Corpus Christi councils of the nation of a man to carry out his "golden promise" will not be an issue in the future." those 200,000 non-voters you must like Lyndon Johnson." to farmers could be avenged elec- Continued the senator: work with to get to the polls— John C. White, Texas Rayburn said of "this Republi- tion day. Only about 1,000 turned "You can't disassociate Eisen- most of them Democrats." Commissioner o f Agricul- can prosperity": "I'm in a de- out for the touted rally. hower from the Republican Congressman Thompson teed ture, declared at a Corpus pression, as is practically every The New York Times, after a Party; their records are one and off on Nixon, "tricky Dick, the rally that it has cost the other farmer and small business- survey of Texas, concluded Stev- the same." That record, he said, man the Republicans are trying American farmer $1 billion a man." He has been "in the red" enson is running ahead of Eisen- includes a dollar cheapened un- to ram down the throats of the year "for the luxury of hav- in his farming and cattle opera- hower in Texas but that the GOP der Republican rule to a 50-cent American people." The Republi- ing Ezra Taft Benson as Sec- tion since the GOP took office, he campaign is rising in power and dollar by the rising cost of liv- cans, said Thompson, have no- retary of Agriculture." said. a trip to Texas by Eisenhower ing, now at the highest level "the thing to offer the people, not even White said the farmers got 100 He conceded income taxes were might give him the decision. country has ever 'enjoyed' "; and any new political targets, "This percent of parity when the Demo- "broken promises" to cut the na- party of the past is still fighting crats left office in 1952 and now tional debt, now up to 281 bil- the tidelands fight and still run- get 82 percent. Farmers will vote esse,--alosso."11111.1-44 lion dollars from 275 billions, and ning against Harry Truman." Democratic, "but if we don't get to cut taxes for all. out the vote by every means of Ugh+ Touch Mrs. Randolph, who is chair- "The Republicans made a one man of the Stevenson-Kefauver communication, we're going to IN CUTTING and a half billion tax cut .. .only campaign in Harris County, was get clobbered," he said. 10 per cent went to the people introduced to hearty applause. In Mrs. R. D. Randolph, Demo- and 90 per cent went to the cou- his talk, Yarborough described cratic national committeewoman, pon clippers, the large corpora- her as the greatest national com- said that it will not be easy to NEW McCULLOCH tions . .. mitteewoman. Texas has ever had. carry the state for Stevenson. DIRECT-DRIVE "When Eisenhower took office Mrs. Randolph said that it was "They have the money and the he promised to liberate the states the precinct leaders and workers, newspapers. All we have are D-44 of Eastern Europe—they have not comprising a substantial part of workers," she said. She said loyalists will control For the easiest woodcutting ever, is called for, the direct-drive D - 44 been liberated, nor are they like- the crowd of diners in the Coli- try the McCulloch direct-drive is tops ... it easily outperforms ly to be soon," he said. "The Re- seum, that were responsible for the Democratic Party in Texas by 1960 "if they make as much D-44 —the only chain saw that all other direct-drive saws! publicans said they would get whatever success had been cuts with a progress in the next four years as light touch! rid of the Democratic Policy of achieved. She urged her listeners The D-44 is self-feeding ... its ONLY . they have since 1952", and force containment of communism .. . to redouble their efforts. great power and fast chain do the they continue it and hold to it Mayor Tom Miller of Austin, Dixiecrats to "join the Republi- work. You merely guide it. 5 H.P., 18 Lbs., . .. they haven't given us one chairman of the Texas Stevenson- cans or cooperate with the Demo- For all types of woodcutting new idea . and Mr. Eisen- Kefauver campaign, presented crats." where a speedy, lightweight saw and $238.00 hower hasn't told the people a Mrs. Randolph with two books, third of the truth about Our loss congratulated the Harris County first mayor, invited everyone to "We Guarantee and Service What We Sell" of influence and friends campaign leaders on their suc- visit Austin and call on him abroad .. . cessful dinner, recalled that his there, and promised to fix their CENTRAL TEXAS EQUIPMENT COMPANY "Stop Woods Fires" Austin, Texas "Why doesn't he tell the peo- great-grandfather was Houston's traffic tickets if they got any. UT's Department of Drama The Silent Feeders I (A Short Story) AUSTIN For sometime now, residents of Austin have been of the opinion that the Department of It is usually after the wind Drama at the University of Texas must surely be one of the finest in the nation. Almost dies down and the sun sets I lack conviction. And unless you flawless realizations of such substantial modern classics as "The Lady's Not for Burning" on a winter afternoon that are in some murderous blind. and "Morning's at Seven ;" fluid and vital Shakespearean productions ; some sprightly the deer begin moving. where corn has been distributed ballets ; and even a nicely done job on that Shavian rarity "Misalliance" during the sum- It is a quiet time of the as bait before the season begins, mer months when theatre ev- ; day then, and I sometimes there is a great element of erywhere goes slack have all and text in schools throughout tively teaching and "carrying the used to climb up on a wind- chance. You can sit in the woods worn away whatever objec- the nation; E. P. Conkle, whose word" to schools and colleges mill on my way home from every afternoon for a week with- tions these patrons might presence on the staff gives the throughout the country; a recent hunting squirrels and look at out ever seeing a deer. If you are- have had to amateur theat- department the distinction of hav- graduate, Ted van Griethnysen, the ranch land at that hour. n't strong about hunting, you can rics. And many, including ing a resident playwright whose who is now studying in England begin to feel you're wasting your The pastures of my grand- this reporter, have left Hogg work has seen New York produc- on a Fulbright; and young Pat time. In the dumb solitude, you father's place and those of his auditorium after seeing these pro- tion; and B. Iden Payne, whose Hingle who leaped feet first into can get bored. neighbors would lie before me ductions to wonder at the al- 50 years of experience is belied Broadway, landed upright, and is The sun had gone down, and it like a lonely sea, grown over chemy that has transformed such by his vigor and verve. Of the working with Elia Kazan. These had left a whitish glare at the with trees and thickets that were young scholars into near profes- twelve remaining faculty mem- are things in which the depart- tops of the barren, spiky shin- pale green on the knolls and dark sional performers. The explana- bers. at least five devote fulltime ment takes an understandable oaks. You could hear a bird rus- in the hollows. There would be no tion is quite simple. For accord- to instructing the students in the pride. tle deep in the shadows of the movement that I could detedt, not bushes. Down at the house, there ing to Dr. Lorin Winship, its wiles of those step-sisters of the But then Winship was off into even around the distant homes was the faint slam of a screen chairman, the department is one drama, radio and television. It is, the future again, discussing the and barns. door. My grandmother had prob- of the top three in the land. And all in all, an impressive assem- Ninth Annual Convention of the ably stepped outside to empty probably the largest, too. blage of individual talent rather Southwest Theatre conference to But unseen in the brush, the the dishpan. I heard her distant. than one of second fiddle players which the department will play deer are beginning to stir at this treble "Shoo," and I could visual- to a virtuoso's direction. host and which, in its devotion to time. They are starting the old ize her waving the pan to scare All will certainly have their the idea of theatre, will draw to nerve-taut game of getting to food Harris Green the chickens from the yard. , work cut out for them this sea- Austin such personages as Paul and water without being pounced The cold was getting me. My son as it promises to be the most Baker and John Rosenfield. This upon or shot. Such grandiloquent c. 1 a i m s, mind was freezing up. My hands echoing from the very university varied ever offered by the de- led to the gradual growth of stu- I was walking through this of the state where full-blown partment. Spanning the Greek, dent interest in theatre that has calm one afternoon when I heard chauvinism appears to be innate, Elizabethan, Restoration, a n d been noted on the university cam- Anselmo whistle lightly. Winston Bode may well impress those north of modern periods, it opens with pus. "They come into college with He was squatting behind a shin- the Red as merely another gust Congreve's "Love for Love" (Oct. only a minimum of experience," oak bush in a whole thicket of were dry and felt swollen. I shiv- of vacuous rhetoric. However, Dr. 24-27), as re-created by Payne, Winship said. "Here at the Uni- shinoaks. Through the tangle you ered quietly and waited for An- Winship, who admits quite readily and then skips forward 300 years versity we try to cover all styles could see a mill, a cistern, and an selmo to call it quits. But he was to William Archibald's "The In- every five years and to introduce oblong water trough. They were and with no show of apparent re- watching the clearing steadily. In nocents" (Nov. 9-10 and 13-17), students to the best." bunched in the middle of a rock- gret to being a native of Colorado, the dim light, the mill and tank an adaptation of "The Turn of the Nor does the department work littered clearing. Anselmo was can back up his statements with were shadows, and the lighter- Screw;" then back slightly for the its conversions only upon the raw watching the clearing for deer. some clarifying specifics as clear, colored trough, the adobe rocks Epic Theatre of Berthold Brecht's young. A touring troupe took Mo- He had my grandfather's old cold, and bracing as Denver, it- scattered meaninglessly across the "Mother Courage" (Dec. 12-15), to liere to communities where no rust-flecked shotgun. self. flat ground, were growing vague. be directed by Francis Hodge; play had ever been performed be- I could hear a bell on a grazing That the student enrollment has Anselmo showed no sign of be- way back for Aristophanes's "The fore and met with huge success! horse clanking in the pasture vaulted from 968 in 1946 to 1,674 ing cold. Birds" (Feb. 6-9); and then for- "They loved it. They recognized in 1955 is of secondary import- somewhere. You could see the horns that ward to the 16th century for people in it just like those they I eased into the brush beside ance, Dr. Winship stressed, though sat high on its turning head when Payne's annual Shakespearean. knew," said Winship, speaking of Anselmo. It was hard not to such a leap has given the depart- the buck stepped into the clear- production (April 9-13) which is the experience as an evangelist ment a true Texas-size lead in make a racket, the leaves were ing. His neck bulged forward • as yet undecided upon. would a successful revival, which, so dry. Anselmo worked for my size. Far more important is the he held his head up and listened. This is, indeed, a promising pro- in fact, it might well have been. quality of instruction and here, grandfather. I saw his axe and He had a proud chest and his gram, and it was with difficulty The theatre, which was born of tee, there is a considerable edge burlap-covered water jar on the legs moved lightly. religion, is being carried forward in excellence. that Winship, who is already ground. He had been chopping "Sssssssss!" Anselmo was hiss- planning the department's 20th at the university with true relig- Among the faculty are such ac- brush for the goats. It was late ing through his teeth with ex- ious zeal. A devoted and talented complished professors as Shirlee anniversary s ea so n, was per- December, the grass was nearly treme, controlled delight as he faculty is directing the efforts of Dodge, one of the leading instruc- suaded to recall some of the ac- all gone, and the goats were get- tried to close the breech on the complishments of the past. He a large group of eager, hard- tors of dance-drama in the coun- ting hungry. shotgun noiselessly. working students, and the result try; Lucy Barton, whose book on pointed out the work of some 200 "I see some tracks over by the The buck was turned in a direc- has been consistent excellence. costume design is still the stand- former students who are now ac- trough yesterday," Anselmo whis- tion away from us. But he smelled pered. or heard us, and turned to stare We waited. The windmill stood at us from over his shoulder. very distinct in the middle of the Then he switched his flag. He flat. Its blades were still. The air stamped a front foot, wheeled and The Jesse Jones Story was clear. It had been a bright leapt. His hind-quarters rose in winter's day. There' now was a the air, and he was back in the AUSTIN ' sharp, solid, intensifying chill in brush and running. JESSE H. JONES, the Man and in a seasoned newspaperman. any other New Deal agency, re- the air. It cut you when you Anselmo, who had half-risen to the Statesman. By Bascom N. In light of Jones's basic philo- sponsible for the nation's partial moved against it. shoot, froze where he stood. He Timmons. (Holt, $6). sophic differences with the New recovery during the early years Moving in his squatting posi- could not believe it. The shade of Jesse Jones Deal, one cannot help but marvel of the Roosevelt administration. tion, Anselmo kicked a rock "AWWWWWWW!" he said in would be comforted by this at his presence, in a myriad of Perhaps because of his long against another one. His stiff an anguished, muted cry, and he biography. The produce of an capacities, in the administration service with the federal govern- ducking trousers and jacket Watched where the deer had gone. old friend and employee, it for twelve years. Timmons is im- ment, the financier seldom in- crackled. He kneeled down again gingerly, chronicles meticulously and pressed by the tenacity of this curred the wrath of his fellow He snuffed from the cold and looking for adeer that might have in journeyman prose the do- tenure. Speaking of the final, citizens to the degree endured by continued to watch the clearing. been with the buck. ings of one of the state's most "grotesque" rupture with Roose- the builders of other Texas cities. His big brown face, the buck "Son-of-a-GUN!" he said, think- remarkable children. But it is velt, Timmons comments: But some Houstonians w i 11 teeth bulging out the upper lip, ing of his loss, and there. was a house-organ biography. "It is a wonder that it did not chuckle as Timmons describes the was blank. Black hair was scat- sickness in his voice. "Uncle Jesse" was the cat's pa- happen earlier, a marvel partially long "love affair" between Jones tered over his jaws. We waited there as darkness jamas, Timmons tells us.. Alone explained by the real and urgent and his adopted community. He glanced at the squirrels I came on. A plane droned slowly among the misguided grandees of need of Roosevelt for at least one In fact, Jones's relations with had laid on the ground and said over the pasture, headed south. the Roosevelt advisers, unique first-rate administrator in his of- Houston were peppered periodi- gently, "They're fat." "I ain' gon' get me no deer this among t h e bubbleheads who ficial family; in part by the skill cally by those snarling, vindic- "They were both in the same night," said Anselmo, and he got manned and peopled the New with which Jones managed his tive controversies which have tree," I said. up. Deal's numberless agencies, Jones relations with the White House; dogged the progress of the city's I had shot them with the .22. basked in the confidence of Con- but in greater part by Jones's growth into a major metropolitan Their eyes were tranquil black gress and must take all credit for strength with Congress." area. Jones often took the field slits and their forepaws were any reputation for sound adminis- Thus are the Timmons reportor- against old-time associates in thrust before them. ial abilities enfeebled by his ad- these municipal vendettas. The "Listen!" said Anselmo. miration for Jones. Note the last and probably the most bitter He cocked his head and tried to Lynwood Abram phrase: "... at least one first-rate of these came near the end of his pick up the sounds, his face dis- administrator ..." Routed from life. It involved the Houston Port torted. You could hear hooves tration FDR's regime might en- the Pantheon of "first-rate admin- Authority. His work in the crea- stirring lightly over rocks. ' joy. The implication: Without istrators" are Henry Stimson, tion and expansion of the port Then there was a snort. Uncle Jesse the whole caboodle Cordell Hull and Frank Knox. facilities justify the intense inter- "Damn goats!" said Anselmo, would have gone down the sewer, It detracts from Jones's real ac- est he took in the Battle of the let down. where it probably belonged in the complishments in the Reconstruc- Wharves. A n g r y, huTrt letters Anselmo didn't hunt for pleas- first place. tion Finance Corporation to puff against him written by some of ure. There was a wife and three These opinions are not veiled. him up in this way. Timmons the city's most illustrious big little girls . and a smaller boy Jones was, the happy biographer does a splendid job in recalling shots filled the newspaper col- waiting in a shack for a good informs us, "the ablest man I the wondrous job Jones accomp- unins. Timmons tells about it: piece of meat. And he didn't hunt have ever known." This sort of lished in saving brigades of "... a proposal was made ... with leisure. Three milk cows devotion rarely helps achieve de- banks, clusters of railroads. The to purchase some old wharves were waiting for him at the lot. finitive biography. So intemperate Houstonian's achievements in the owned by private interests. Jones Anselmo had .patience and was is Timmons's esteem for his sub- RFC are made more vivid when thought the price proposed to be a woodsman. He didn't expect ject that much of the book exudes contrasted with the venality paid for the outmoded facilities deer to come because he was an almost boyish hero-worship. which overtook the agency after was exorbitant ... He held that if there. But he was anxious. This would be merely embarrass- his departure. Timmons truthfully Houston needed more wharfage. I have never liked waiting to THE TEXAS OBSERVER ing in a cub reporter; it is tragic tells us the RFC was, more than (Continued on Page 7) kill a deer. I suppose it is because Page 6 October 24, 1956 Marshall Explains The Case of the Raped Harlot (Continued from Page 1) from Tampico, one of the hun- in Mexico is punishable by four The owner of the place, Arturo Aims of NAACP dreds from the interior of Mexico to eight years imprisonment. Llano Chapa, 39, called "El Tur- working in the border red-light Three of the airmen were re- pin," said he was the one that TYLER district, made the charges, saying leased after four days in jail ("it knocked but that he had heard no yelling or unusual noises. He "Our whole aim is to avoid other organization to enforce the she was attacked by three Amer- was a weekend and we didn't added that when he saw three strife and make democracy order ..." icans in her room in Kika's Blue work until Monday," said the Dis- men leave the room, he asked the work," said Thurgood Mar- Among other witnesses called Room, a neat-looking outfit, trict Attorney). The other, who woman for the room charge, but shall, special counsel for the by the defense were Willie Mel- painted blue, with red curtains confessed, stayed in jail, a filthy, she answered they had not paid National Association for the ton, president of the Fort Bend- and a couch by the window, plus medieval place infested with rats and called the night watchman. Advancement of Colored Wharton County NAACP branch, a loud-playing juice box by the and mice and stinking with the The next day she recognized the People. and Mrs. C. B. Adair, executive entrance. spit of drunkards, for ten days airmen when they dropped by the secretary of the Houston chapter. The airmen were arrested by until the woman told the judge Testifying before District place again. They were arrested. Both testified that their chapters the night-watchman Sept. 20, but she had decided he was not the Judge Otis A. Dunagan in a "A crime such as thit is pun- of the NAACP operated on a co- the incident, according to the man that had attacked her. case aimed at outlawing the ishable in the United States by operative basis with the national Nuevo Laredo district attorney, The man was released by Judge NAACP from Texas, Mar-. death sometimes," said Lic. Perez organization but that they did not occurred on Sept. 19. The boys Jesus Quevedo • Gracia, a small, shall said the organization he Manzillas, the city secretary. take orders from the national offi- were arrested when they re- grayhaired man who at first told represents takes its griev- The incident was closed ami- cers. They cited instances where turned to the Blue Room after the the Observer he did not remem- ances to court only as a last cably by Col. Adams's conference the chapters had acted in direct night of the alleged crime, which ber the case. resort. with Ma y or Hector Gonzalez opposition to national preference. The airmen said they paid a Lugo, who promised to have Nue- Marshall answered that portion Mrs. Adair said she held her Mexican. lawyer, first $44 to rep- vo Laredo police notify Air Police of Attorney General John Ben position in Houston despite efforts resent them when three of them Jesse Jones each time an airman is arrested, Shepperd's petition charging the of national officials of the NAACP were released, and then the last regardless of where the man is NAACP's policy is to "foment or to oust her. She said the Houston (Continued from Page 6) one paid $88 to the same lawyer; stationed or his branch of service. encourage litigation." He said it chapter did not get approval from he was released "for lack of evi- it ought to be the most modern ... dence." This week military personnel is "not only contrary to our policy the national organization before Jones f o u n d himself arrayed Nuevo Laredo authorities de- were continuing their visits to but we have actually paid outside filing segregation suits and cited against most of the civic leaders nied having seen any of the Nuevo Laredo. lawyers to help reach a settle- the "courthouse cafeteria case" of Houston, and many of his per- money. Chief of Police Pedro ment" between Negro parents and pending in. federal court as an sonal friends. But again the' vot- school boards. example. Lugo said that h i s investiga- ers of Houston stood by Jones. tion showed it was a Laredo, CLASSIFIED Shepperd, called to the stand by Under cross-examination she He won the hard fight with 74 Texas, man who had represented the NAACP, denied that he was admitted that she took the initia- per cent of the voters on his side." the airmen. "I guess he talked to TEXAS STEER fox hunting horns, "investigating because Negroes tive in sending out a branch high tone 12" $2.50 ; 14", $3.00 ; 16", Timmons offers no clue why the the woman to have her drop her were advising each other how to newsletter last August urging $3.50 ; 18", $5.00. Ram fox horns, other financial pistols in Houston charges," he said. $3.00. Goat fox horns, $3.00. Steer get their children in school." members to go to the polls and opposed Jones's position. The pic- fox horns with reed, $4.00. Raw long According to statements in the horns. Stamps for circular. General Mer- Shepperd told NAACP attorney advising them that if Price Dan- ture fades with Jones standing Nuevo Laredo district attorney's cantile Co., Laredo, Texas. W. J. Durham: "If you want my iel were elected governor his ad- alOne in the field, his fanatical op- office, the woman said three LEATHER GOODS. Cartridge belt candid opinion, I think there has ministration would be dominated ponents in . their death throes at and holster, hard-carved with one hols- Americans entered her room, been very little help on the part by white citizen councils. She ter, $12.00, with two, $16.00. Holster, his feet. Surely "Uncle Jesse's" where she was lying down, took $4.00. Cowboy Western style boots, of this organization (NAACP) to charged that Daniel had not told personal friends deserve better $20.00. We make to your order. Stamps her to the bathroom, removed her for circular. General Mercantile Co., help get Negro students into the truth in radio speeches in treatment than this. clothes, and each one took turns Laredo, Texas. schools in Texas ... My interpre- which he said the NAACP had Timmons pictures a big and, in assaulting her. DEALER WANTED. 200 home neces- tation of the U.S. Supreme Court contributed t o Ralph Yarbor- sities — Medicines, Vitamins, Spices, a sense, a great man. Such a sub- The airman held for ten days order is that there is no time ough's campaign. ject merits cooler analysis. Foods, Toiletries, etc., well known in said it was true that her clothes Part Austin or Bastrop County. For par- limit. I think either side has the "I wanted them to know that ticulars see 0. V. Loney, R 7, Box 153M, were removed but none of the Austin, or write Rawleigh's, Dept. TXJ- right to do what it thinks best," Price Daniel had lied, and to vote airmen attacked her. He added 1771-142, Memphis, Tenn. and he added that he didn't their o w n convictions," Mrs. County Democrats, and retorted: they left after hearing a knock WANTED TO BUY : Old Books, "think the U. S. Supreme Court Adair told the court. She granted pamphlets, letters, etc., on Texas and "I didn't think the Harris County on the door. No one stopped them endowed the NAACP or any being a member of the Harris the West. Catalog, $1.00 ; refunded first Democrats were on trial here." from leaving. purchase. W. M. Morrison, Eagle Nest, New Mexico.

the petition of plaintiff in Cause Num- City of Austin, this the 5th day of Octo- LEGALS ber 105,270, in which Martina Ruiz is THE STATE OF TEXAS known heirs and legal representatives of ber, 1956. To any Sheriff or any Constable within Plaintiff and Francisco. Ruiz is defend- the unknown heirs of the said John A. 0. T. MARTIN, JR., the State of Texas—GREETING: ant, filed in said Court on the 28th day Clerk of the District Courts, Glass, W. A. Glass and Sallie E. Glass, of September, 1956, and the nature of You are hereby commanded to cause and each of them, if their respective TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: Travis County, Texas to be published, ONCE, not less than which said suit is as follows: By GEO. W. BICKLER, Deputy unknown heirs are deceased, are defend- Notice is hereby given that E. G. Feild, Being an action and prayer for judg- ten days before the return day thereof, ants, filed in said Court on the 9th day doing business under the firm name of ment in favor of Plaintiff and against in a newspaper printed in Travis of October, 1956, and the nature of E. G. Feild Physicians and Surgeons defendant for decree of divorce dissolv- CITATION BY PUBLICATION County, Texas, the accompanying cita- which said suit is as follows: Supply Company intends to incorporate ing the bonds of matrimony heretofore THE STATE OF TEXAS tion, of which the herein below follow- Being an action and prayer for judg- such firm, without a change of name, and now existing between said parties. TO Robert B. Savage and wife, Betty ing is a true copy—(but if there be no ment in favor of Plaintiffs and against after the expiration of thirty (30) days Plaintiff alleges cruel treatment on the D. Savage, Defendants, in the hereinaf- newspaper so printed in said county, Defendants, and each of them, for title from this date, the 28th day of Septem- part of defendant toward plaintiff of ter styled and numbered cause: then that you cause the said citation to to and possession of the following de- ber, A.D. 1956. such a nature as to render their further You (and each of you) are hereby be posted for at ,least TEN days before scribed tract of land, to-wit: All of Lot E. G. FEILD commanded to appear before the 98th the return term thereof as required by No. Six (6) and the East one-half of living together as husband and wife al- law). together insupportable. Plaintiff further District Court of Travis County, Texas, Lot No. • Five (5) in Block No. Four d.b.a. E. G. FEILD PHYSICIANS AND alleges that no children were born of to be held at the courthouse of said CITATION BY PUBLICATION (4) of the Subdivision of Outlot No. SURGEONS SUPPLY COMPANY said union and no community property county in the City of Austin, Travis THE STATE OF TEXAS Eighteen (18) in Division "0" in the was accumulated. Plaintiff prays for County, Texas, at or before 10 o'clock TO all persons interested in the es- City of Austin, Travis County, Texas ; A. M. of the first Monday after the CITATION BY PUBLICATION costs of suit and relief, general and spe- tate of Mrs. Alma Ledger Veazey, Non Plaintiffs allege that on April 9, 1946, expiration of 42 days from the date of Compos Mentis. said lands and improvements thereon DHE STATE OF TEXAS cial. All of which more fully appears from issuance hereof ; that is to say, at or No. 14994, County Court Travis were sold and conveyed by defendants TO Francisco Ruiz, Defendant, in the before, 10 o'clock A. M. of Monday the County, Texas. Freda Alma Veazey, Myrtle Manlove and Samuel A., Glass hereinafter styled and numbered cause: plaintiff's original petition on file in this office, and to which reference is 26th day of November, 1956, and an- guardian thereof, filed in the County and wife, Annie Glass to plaintiffs as You (and each of you) are hereby swer the petition of plaintiff in Cause Court of Travis County, Texas, on the reflected by Deed recorded in Book 791, commanded to appear before the 126th here made. If this citation is not served within 90 Number 105,224, in which Farm and 17th day of October, A.D. 1956, her Page 602, since which date Plaintiffs Judicial District Court of Travis County, Home Savings and Loan Association, a Final Account of the condition of the have used and occupied said 'lands and Texas, to be held at the courthouse of days after date of its issuance, it shall be returned unserved. corporation is Plaintiff and Vesper Lee Estate of said Mrs. Alma Ledger Vea- improvements, claiming the same as said county in the City of Austin, Travis Warwick and wife, Mildred Warwick, zey, Non Compos Mentis, together with their own ; Plaintiffs are claiming title County, Texas, at or before 10 o'clock WITNESS, 0. T. MARTIN, JR., Clerk of the District Courts of Travis County, Robert B. Savage and wife, Betty D. an Application to be discharged from to said lands and improvements by vir- A.M. of the first Monday after the ex- Texas. Savage, L. L. McCandless and - the City said Estate. tue of the three, five and ten year stat- piration of 42 days from the date of of Austin, a municipal corporation, are Said Final Account and Application ute of limitation ; Plaintiffs further al- issuance hereof ; that is to say, at or Issued and given under my hand and Defendants, filed in said Court on the the seal of said Court at office in the will be heard and acted on by said lege that as part consideration for sale before, 10 o'clock A.M. of Monday the 24th day of September, 1956, and the na- Court on the first Monday next after and purchase of said property they exe- 12th day of November, 1956, and answer City of Austin, this the 28th day of ture of which said suit is as follows: September, 1966. the expiration of ten days from date of cuted and delivered to defendants, Myr- An action by plaintiff, as holder, on Posting or Publishing this citation, the tle E. Manlove and Samuel A. Glass 0. T. MARTIN, JR., two promissory notes and for foreclosure Clerk of the District Courts, same being the 5th day of November, their one promissory note in the sum of of the vendor's liens and deed of trust 1956, at the Courthouse thereof in Aus- $1633.34, bearing even date of said deed Travis County, Texst liens by which said notes are secured. By ELI GREER, Deputy. tin, Texas, at which time and place all of conveyance, payable to order of Myr- The property involved is Lot No. 10, persons interested in the Account for tle E. Manlove and Samuel A. Glass, Block "A", in Burnet Heights, a sub- Final Settlement or said Estate are re- bearing interest from maturity at the CITATION BY PUBLICATION division of a part of the George W. quired to appear by filing a written rate of 5% per annum, said note being Spear League in Austin, Travis County, answer and contest said account and ap- due on or before Oct. 9, 1956 ; payment Hey Democrat! Texas, according to the map or plat I'HE STATE OF TEXAS plication should they choose to do so. of same being secured by a vendor's TO Derrell J. T. Braswell, Defendant, of said Burnet Heights recorded at page The officer executing this writ shall lien on said property ; that contempor- GOT A SECOND? in the hereinafter styled and numbered 39, Volume 5, Travis County Plat Rec- promptly serve the same according to aneously with execution and delivery= of cause: ords, together with all improvements requirements of law, and the mandates said deed of conveyance of said prop- You are hereby commanded to appear thereon, being the same property con- hereof, and make due return as the law erty and said vendor's lien note on April There's a way you can help before the 126th District Court of Travis veyed by McCandless Homes, Inc., to directs. 9, 1946, they entered into a written elect Adlai Stevenson and County, Texas, to be held at the court- Robert B. and Betty D. Savage by deed Given under my hand and the seal of contract with said Myrtle E. Manlove, house of said county in the City of dated May 14, 1949 and recorded at page said Court at office in Austin, Texas, and Samuel A. Glass and wife Annie Estes Kefauver president Austin, Travis County, Texas, at or be- 125, Volume 977, Deed Records of Tra- this the 18th day of October, A.D. 1956. Glass; but that due to the wording and and vice president of the fore 10 o'clock A.M. of the first Monday vis County. Said notes were given by EMILIE LIMBERG, effect thereof, plaintiffs are not certain after the expiration of 42 days from the Savages as part of the consideration Clerk of the County Court, as to whom payment thereof should be United States. the date of issuance hereof ; that is to for said property. Said property was Travis County, Texas made and Plaintiffs tender into Court say, at or before, 10 o'clock A.M. of subsequently transferred by the Savages By M. EPHRAIM, Deputy and the Registry thereof the sum of Monday the 19th day of November, 1956,, to L. L. McCandless, who then trans- 81633.34 in cash to be disbursed by Or- How? By organizing a and answer the petition of plaintiff in ferred it to Vesper Lee and Mildred CITATION BY PUBLICATION der of Court to the defendant or defend- Young Democratic Club in Cause Number 105,329, in which Nellie Warwick, who assumed payment of said THE STATE OF TEXAS ants adjudged to be the owner or owners Marie Braswell is Plaintiff and Derrell notes and are now the owners of record TO John A. Glass, W. A. Glass and thereof ; Plaintiffs further allege that, your school of your county, J. T. Braswell is defendant, filed in of said property. Plaintiff seeks judg- Sallie E. Glass, and each of them, if they were on April 9, 1946, and still composed of young people said Court on the 5th day of October, ment against Robert B. Savage, Betty living, and if dead, their unknown heirs are the owners in fee simple of said 1956, and the nature of which said suit D. Savage, L. L. McCandless, Vesper and legal representatives and the un- land, premises and improvements but from 18 to 40. is as follows: Lee Warwick, and Mildred Warwick, known heirs and legal representatives that on April 9, 1946, defendants un- and each of them severally, in the of the unknown heirs of the said John lawfully entered upon and dispossessed Being an action and prayer for judg- amount of $5,975.96, together with in- Glass, W. A. Glass and Sallie E. Glass Paintiffs of said premises and withhold Interested? Want to have a ment in favor of Plaintif f and against terest thereon from August 1, 1956, at- and each of them, if their respective un- from them the possession thereof ; Plain- hand — a real part — in Defendant for decree of divorce dissolv- torney's fees and costs of suit; fore- known heirs are deceased, Defendants, tiffs further pray for costs of suit and ing the bonds of matrimony heretofore closure of the liens on the above de- in the hereinafter styled and numbered relief, general and special ; winning the Democratic and now existing between said parties; scribed property ; judgment that the cause: All of which more fully appears from victory in November? Plaintiff alleges cruel treatment on the title to be obtained at such foreclosure You (and each of you) are hereby Plaintiffs' Original Petition on file in part of defendant towards her of such a sale is free and clear of any and all commanded to appear before the 53rd this office and to which reference is Then write any of the fol- nature as to render their further living liens in favor of the City of Austin District Court of Travis County, Texas, here made ; together as husband and wife altogether or the United States of America : and to be held at the courthouse of said If this citation is not served within lowing officers of the insupportable ; Plaintiff further alleges general and special relief. All of which county in the City of Austin, Travis 90 days after date of its issuance, it that no children were born of said union appears more fully in plaintiff's orig- County, Texas, at or before 10 o'clock shall be returned unserved. Young Democratic Clubs and no community property accumu- inal petition, on file in this office, to A. M. of the first Monday after the ex- Witness, 0. T. Martin, Jr., Clerk of of Texas: lated ; Plaintiff further prays for the which reference is here made. piration of 42 days from the date of the District Courts of Travis County, restoration of her maiden name and for If this citation is not served within issuance hereof ; that is to say, at or Texas. relief, general and special ; 90 days after date of its issuance, it before, 10 o'clock A. M. of Monday the Issued and given under my hand and All of which more fully appears from shall be returned unserved. 3rd day of December, 1956, and answer the seal of said Court at office in the EDGAR L. BERLIN Plaintiff's Original Petition on file in Witness, O. T. Martin, Jr., 'Clerk of the petition of plaintiff in Cause Num- City of Austin, this the 15th day of Oc- President this office and to which reference is the District Courts of Travis County, ber 105,362, in which Darrell Frick and tober, 1956. here made; Texas. wife, Jessie M. Frick, are Plaintiffs. 0. T. MARTIN, JR., Goodhue Bldg., Beaumont If this citation is not served within Issued and given under my hand and and Myrtle E. Manlove, Samuel A. Clerk of the District Courts, 90 days after date of its issuance, it shall the seal of said Court at office in the Glass and wife, Annie Glass, John A. Travis County, Texas be returned unserved. City of Austin, this the 26th day of Glass, if living, and if dead, his un- By GEO. W. BICKLER, Deputy. ROGER DAILY WITNESS, 0. T. MARTIN, JR., Clerk September, 1956. known heirs and legal representatives, of the District Courts of Travis County, -Natl. Committeeman 0. T. MARTIN, JR., the unknown heirs andi legal representa- Texas. Clerk of the District Courts, tives of •mr. A. Glass, Deceased ; the un- TEXAS, OCTOBER 24, 1956 2501 Crawford, Houston Issued and given under my hand and Travis County, Texas known heirs and legal representatives of October 24, 1956 the seal of said Court at office in the By GEO. W. BICKLER, Deputy Sallie E. Glass, Deceased, and the un- Page 7 bard and Ellis purchased bank stock early this year and added: "Mr. Ellis told me that the checks Three Insurance Firms Out he wrote to buy this stock are in- cluded in the pile of worthless checks." FORT WORTH quickly charged three insurance as the hearing date on the state's were made in the case and indi- The pile of worthless checks re- A multi-million-dollar oil companies with "comingling" of plea for an order to freeze all the cated that several were involved, ferred to by Faulkner came in all speculation deal, which ironi- funds at the expense of stock- firm's funds. at least one of whom was a bank last week. They exceeded the cally appears to have been a holders, policyholders and credit- Officers of the insurance com- official. They said the three- bank's $350,000 capitalization by successful venture, has re- ors. It alleged that Provident panies issued a statement that quarter-million-dollar loss could midweek and at the close of sulted in closure of the River American Life is "insolvent;" that none of the policyholders would not have developed "without business Friday had topped $700,- Oaks State Bank of Fort Legal Guaranty and Trust Co., lose their money. somebody in the bank knowing 000, examiners reported. alias Provident American Trust The River Oaks Bank failure, it." Worth. Among the depositors at the Co., solicited funds and property which was discovered after State Banking Commissioner Faulk- Shutting down of the bank by bank was the State of Texas. state a n d federal examiners "through false, fraudulent and Banking Commissioner J. M. ner named a 33-year-old building $211,756; the City of Fort Worth, touched off a chain reaction that misleading representations ..." Faulkner received a tip, left some contractor, Burton E. Ellis, as one resulted in three interlocking and that Legal Guaranty Life is 5,000 depositors waiting word on of those whose companies' checks $50,000, and the John Knox Pres- Fort Worth insurance firms be- not licensed to operate in the when and how much of their were under investigation in the byterian Church, $14,000. The ing thrown into receivership. state. money would be repaid by the failure of the bank. Ellis, who re- state and the city were protected They are Provident American District Judge Charles 0. Betts Federal Deposit Insurance Cor- fusued to answer reporters' ques- by the issuance of government Trust, formerly known as Legal of Austin appointed J. D. Wheeler, poration.. It appears that virtually tions on the matter, was identi- bonds and will not lose any all of the money will be repaid, fied by Faulkner as a business money. The church, like virtually Guaranty Trust, Provident Amer- the insurance commission's liqui- officials said. associate of Hubbard, president of all other depositors, was pro- ican Life Insurance and Legal dator, as temporary receiver of Guaranty Life Insurance Com- FBI agents said it might be the bank who resigned on the eve tected in the amount up to $10,- panies. the three firms and set Oct. 29 several weeks before any arrests of its closure. Faulkner said Hub- 000 by the FDIC. The bank, which was headed by Jack D. Hubbard—the local Jay- cee's Young Man of the Year in 1955—was shutdown after exam- Aged Can't Make It on State Grants iners found it had a $750,000 shortage stemming from a com- (Last of a series) Much time is spent in resting monthly "would be a big help." are the best answer. One thing is plex check kiting manipulation. CLIFTON and visiting; many pursue their "Of course, we aren't in this obvious: either route . means ex- Bank examiners said the kited Odie C. Pederson, superin- hobbies. Programs are brought to work for the money," he added. penditure of considerable more checks, which may have totaled tendent of the Clifton Luth- the home by outside talent occa- "With us it is the spirit of the money than is being spent at this as much as $5 million in recent eran Sunset Home, knows sionally., Films are shown. Many thing. Our first responsibility to time. weeks, were used to finance oil that Texas's elderly, needy listen to musical records, play old people is to take care of Mrs. Ida Mae Dentler of Hous- speculation. Those involved in the citizens can't live decently on dominoes or checkers, watch tele- them." ton, a leader in the State Nursing deal, investigators said, drilled an old age assistance grant vision, or read. Gardening is also Pederson said he hoped the Home Association and a woman 28 wells and struck oil in 24 of of $58. He knows because he available for those who enjoy it. time would come when charitable who has been in the business for them. has tried to help them. do it. The superintendent said he had institutions could take care of the more than 20 years, declared: a list of some 25 persons request- needy old folks who had 'no in- "I've been in 90 percent of the Investigators said the "master- Fifty folks whose average age ing admission to the home, but come but old age assistance and nursing homes in Texas and I've mind" of the plan opened dozens is about eighty reside at the Sun- "there is no room for them." that private homes would take visited homes in 32 other states. of bank accounts and then would set Home, a rambling, attractive PEDERSON said he didn't see care of those fortunate enough to Until higher pensions can be paid, make one check good by covering brick building situated on a hill how private nursing and custodial have other money. various agencies interested in the it with a hot check on another ac- near the outskirts of Clifton. Most care homes, where many needy care of the aged and chronically count, repeating the process con- of them are pensioners and pay THE LUTHERAN Sunset Home Texans live on pensions, "even ill in Texas are wasting their tinually and thus simply using over their checks toward their is one of the' several church-spon- time trying to set up higher stand- the bank's money for speculation. upkeep. The Lutheran Church sored homes that have been es- ards and maintain them." After the bank failure became pays the difference. tablished in Texas in recent public, Rev. L. T. Aultman of Bob Bray years. In addition, several cities Mrs. Dentler believes "there is Pederson has found it costs an Englewood Heights Baptist and counties are moving to help nothing wrong with the care old average of $2.50 per day to feed, manage to stay in business. They Church and 18 other Fort Worth solve the problems arising from folks receive that additional clothe, and care for elderly peo- have to invest money on, pur- residents filed a suit to prevent care for their needy citizens. Nu- money wouldn't cure." She ,point- ple even in his subsidized home. chase and upkeep of a building use of their money to pay off any eces County, for example, is in ed out that Louisiana gave its This is about $775 a year. The av- and have to pay taxes which we debts owed the bank. Their suit the process of building an ex- needy old folks a $55 monthly erage old age grant under the don't." He estimated that the Sun- names as defendants Roman H. pansive new home offering both grant for many years but recently present Texas program is $500 a set Home facilities, furnished by McPherson, Clyde Foster, R. H. nursing and custodial care to its has raised the amount to $85 and year. Most of the people in old the church, are worth approxi- Smith, Harlan W. Sloan and J. C. needy old folks. But officials say has secured comparatively much age homes are getting the maxi- mately $200,000. Mount, all of whom are officials the remedial measures are far be- better care. mum grant of $58 a month, and of Provident American Life. The superintendent said he did- hind the demand. There aren't AS THINGS now stand, Mrs. even then they fall $80 short of Mount, according to investiga- n't believe any private home op- nearly enough beds in charitable Dentler says the needy old folks Pederson's $775 minimum for the tors, borrowed $75,000 from the erator could "hope to make institutions to meet the growing of Texas get "more for their year. River Oaks bank which he used money or give decent care" if he need, and there is little prospect money" in nursing and custodial to buy controlling interest in the Pederson said that in a typical had patients who only had $58 that there will be for a long time care homes than any place else. Home Guaranty and Abstract day at the, home, breakfast is monthly old age assistance. Ped- to come. "The worst places I've ever seen Company. Mount and Hubbard, served at 7:30, followed by a erson pointed out that "most Welfare workers and others humans living are the flop house former president of the bank, are short devotional period, and the other states help their old folks hunting the solution to the prob- hotels (in Houston), and I've gone reportedly "out of town." rest of the morning is spent` as much more" and said he believed lem disagree on whether charita- to many of them and taken out The state insurance commission each resident wishes. raising the grants to at least $75 ble institutions or private homes old men who were sick, filthy, and near starved. el "We are called by the welfare workers to go get the old men Texas Youth, Part of It, Goes on a Tear when they are sick and nurse (Continued from Page 1) girl's waist and another's neck; double, cries: "That's cry music!" whimpering. Elvis the Pelvis them back to health. They've feet, his white shoes, easily, with the blonde beside him, says a girl She doubles again ... closes his show in a spotlight of been paying the hotel $15 a month a nervous vitality he's hardly with acne under her powder, "is "Hi got a woman!" and then his shimmering jerky and utterly for a cot in a dark, dirty room in- aware of. They go to get his auto- his girl friend, so they say." body only, no words, only the open lovem ak in g. The girl fested with lice or bedbugs ... graphs. A little girl comes up to HE GOES OUT into the mob. A body in a passion on demand. screams out as she buckles up her Two days after they cash their pension checks the dopeheads and him. maybe she's five;; he chucks roar rises from them; a scream so He jellies away from the mike, body: "Waaatch him!" Up in the NArineheads have got their money, her under the chin. "Hi honey. concerted, so terrifying, you stand his hand in his belt, grabs his balcony two girls sit and scream and they spend the rest of the Isn't she a cutie though?" agape, as though anesthetized, guitar, strums it with his hips, and one squeezes her body to it- month begging in the streets," Suddenly the window of the overpowered by sound alone. drops to his knees, his wrists self and ducks her head to her she declared. "We are called when dressing room swings open, six Flash bulbs flash. He reaches for snapping like an epileptic's .... knees again and again and they become sick and a welfare girls pack their bodies through it, the mike and starts to sing. He screams to herself and to herself "One of my biggest records is worker finds out about it." scream, shout, stare at him; then stretches out his arms and hangs again .... one of my songs called, 'Don't Be "Texans like to brag about there is a kind of awkward sil- his body from his shoulders, He ends his song and bolts off- Cruel ...' " what a wonderful state we have," ence when they don't know what grinds, and bumps and shivers, stage into a waiting car that A wild cry goes up, he shrugs she continued, "but the living else to do. A cop tells them to and all you can hear is the whips out of the coliseum. The and quivers to the music. Girls conditions of our indigent old 'scram. The window closes. Scuf- screams and the occasional whip girls break across the rope bar- legs hanging over the balcony people is worse in Texas than fling outside; a f o o t comes A girl who has got backstage rier and jam the cops up against any other state in the union." through the glass; screams. "Now stands tense in the stagelights at the lipstick marked cars. "Can't you've done it!" the cop says, the side, her eyes fastened on his we go to him?" asks one. "He's shoving open the window. "Beat hips. Ronnie Dugger already on the New York plane, it or I'll run you in, I'll put you "To be so lonely til I die ..." honey," a cop says. "Ohhh. God!" (Continued from Page 1) On a convertible in lipstick, "Jo in. jail." A girl in Presley pink "Ladies and gentlemen, here's a cross and stiffen, the toes twist. called its leaders, playing upon Ann, I Love Elvis," "Phil, with and black screams "We didn't do song that's real hot ..." He raises his arms and shimmies. Negroes' aspirations "for material Love." "Cynthia, with Love." it, we didn't do it!" He closes the And he is drowned again, no They cry out loud. gain." window; they scream and scuffle, words come through, he leans the "You know," he grabs the mike "Jean Wills, PE-55946, San An- Thurgood marshall of the NA- the girl who shouted falls in a mike to the platform, courts it, with his fist, "you can do any- tonio." ACP earlier pleaded: faint. The cop looks through the grips it like a girl's neck, he parts thing you want to ...." "I'll do it THE REDHEAD is hanging "Negroes faith in the American window and sees her prostrate with it and sails out across the any way you want to, Elvis!" a around a long time, wondering if way of life is supported by the outline, doesn't move. She gets stage, jittering forward on the girl shouts back. A cop runs up she's missed her last bus. Did she belief they can get justice in the up and leaves, and it is quiet balls of his feet, walking not at onto the corner of the stage, cuts get to see Elvis? "Oh, yes, I saw courts .... whether they sell again. all, all his body in an orgiastic under the spotlight for a second, him, I was up by the stage. I Christmas seals or pins or have Elvis shakes everybody's hand jittering frenzy ... girls scampering in front of the smiled at him, and he smiled -rallys or fishfries, it's not only like a gentleman. He is vaguely "I was the one ...." cars, girls in a frenzy, screaming back. But he smiled at a lot of us, for the advancement of the Negro, amused, almost a detached ob- "Love me, I'll be yours till the for him, struggling in the cops' he smiled at everybody, I guess." it's aiding American Democracy." server. He looks at a reporter end of time ... " arms, fighting and crying. She wanders around the vast The Observer will report the and says, "Frightening, isn't it?" "Oh God!" "Aaah!" A girl on a Back in the crowd two girls empty floor. She can't bring her- situation fully in next week's He poses with his arm around one chair wrings her neck, bends over stand on chairs screaming and self to leave. issue. R.D.