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..,""771• 7-1r: :00 The one great rule We will serve no woup or party brat, of composition is • to will hew hard to speak the truth. the truth a-s we find it and the right as —Thoreau Orxtai Ohnrr rr wr see it. independent Liberal Weekly Newspaper Vol. 4S TEXAS, OCTOBER 24, 1956 10c per copy • No. 27 •••■•••••••••••■••■••••■•••••••••••■■••••••••■••■•■•■•,,,, lot Against the In Hone a Coon Martyr 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.