The Texas Observer JULY 26, 1968

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V A few weeks ago Texas delegations president. He says he will not vote Re- revived. Their new strength centers to the national conventions seemed publican if Nixon is the nominee but will on a rather enthusiastic struggle sewed up for Hubert Humphrey and go fishing or vote for third party candi- against the unit rule in party conventions. Richard Nixon. However, some unravell- date George Wallace. "Reagan unquestion- The fight was sired not so much by Tex- ing is becoming evident. Gov . John Con- ably could carry Texas against Hum- ans as by the national campaign staff of nally, the Texas Democrats' favorite son, phrey," Hazlewood says. Sen. Eugene McCarthy, who evidently is being challenged by a coalition of Hum- V Reagan is more outspokenly con- have just about decided to make opera- phrey, McCarthy and former Kennedy cerned about the candidacy of Wal- tions of the Texas Democratic party a supporters who want an open conven- lace than any other Republican has been. major issue at the national convention tion. Meanwhile, a sizeable contingent of At Amarillo he said Wallace will hurt the next month in Chicago. Probably it is the state's Republican delegates, freed by GOP more than the Democrats this fall, figured that any aspersions cast on the Sen. John Tower from their favorite son particularly so if the former Alabama gov- Texas party will reflect badly on Presi- commitment to him, is embracing Ron- ernor throws the presidential election dent Johnson, Connally, and Hubert Hum- ald Reagan. Tower had been expected to into the house of representatives, which phrey, whom LBJ supports to succeed hold the Texas delegation until the na- the Democrats now control and probably him. Further, one national McCarthy tional convention. He changed his mind will still control next January. campaign worker recalls that Steve Mit- when it began to appear likely that Nixon V It is still disputed whether Wallace chell, McCarthy's convention arrange- would win enough delegate support be- will win more support from Demo- ments chairman, was involved deeply in fore convention time. Thinking to put crats or Republicans. Wallace's Amarillo national politics in 1952 (with Adali Ste- Nixon over the top and thus have some campaign manager says about 65% of venson), the year when the Texas delega- influence on the likely nominee, Tower Wallace's present backers voted for Presi- tion to the national convention was suc- released the Texas delegation and public- dent Johnson in 1964. The Potter county cessfully challenged by Eisenhower back- ly announced his support of Nixon, which Democratic chairman disagrees, saying ers, an occurance that was crucial, per- support had been generally known for that "Many people that are Wallace peo- haps decisive, to Ike's taking the conven- the past year. ple now were May Democrats and Nov- tion from Sen. Robert Taft, who went to IV Reagan visited Amarillo last week to ember Republicans." The Wallace candi- that convention evidently assured of nom- campaign for himself and Republi- dacy depends to a great extent on the two ination, as Humphrey appears today. can Bob Price of Pampa. It was orie of major parties' nominees; the more liber- Reagan's few out-of-California campaign al are the Democratic and Republican McCarthy Work appearances of late. Price is the only Tex- standard bearers, the better are Wallace's as congressman who has endorsed Rea- chances. g# Five workers have been dispatched gan. A Reagan nomination would be the to Texas by the McCarthy people; In Amarillo Reagan conferred privately most serious threat to Wallace hopes of their presence has infused new life into with some 70 GOP delegates from Texas, having some say in naming the nation's the ranks of the dispirited liberals of the New Mexico, Colorado and Oklahoma. He next president. Reagan, should he get the state and centered current liberal inter- promised them he would, if nominated, GOP nomination, may envision persuad- est around an issue that, as one McCarthy "run like hell." ing Wallace to get out of the campaign, staffer puts it, "is the lowest common J. R. (Butch) Butler, Houston, chair- just as the Alabamian did in 1964 because denominator so that even the fractious man of Texans for Reagan, says that a of the candidacy of conservative colleague Texas liberals can unite in opposing it." number of Texas delegates were swayed Barry Goldwater. Reagan said in Amaril- V The McCarthy strategy is essentially in Reagan's favor at Amarillo. He guesses lo, "if Wallace is as opposed to the pres- to show that undemocratic processes the state's 56 delegates are now split ent administration as he says, he should are used by the Texas Democratic party. about evenly between Nixon and Reagan. review his situation in the light of the It will be on that basis generally that the Peter O'Donnell, state party chairman, fact that he could keep the administra- delegation the Connallycrats send to Chi- argues that delegate strength has not tion in office." By "review his situation" cago will be challenged by supporters of changed since the Texas Republic conven- Reagan clearly seems to be saying to Wal- the Minnesota senator. McCarthy people tion last month. At that time O'Donnell, lace: step aside. go off the record in discussing the exact who favors Nixon, estimated that Reagan nature of their. Texas research on which had only about 14 Texas votes. Liberals' Activity their challenge will be based. They fear V Not only Republicans attended the that steps would be taken to impede their $100-a-plate barbecue dinner in Amarillo. go. Texas liberals, who went into a coma work if Texas party leaders learn what's Conservative State Senator Grady after failing once again this year to up too soon. Hazlewood, Canyon, introduced Reagan. win Democratic party control from the V Alan Reed, Austin, who ran as an Hazlewood, who says he voted for Demo- forces of Gov. John Connally in the May anti-Vietnam war candidate for presi- cratic candidates during the 27 years he primary and losing to Lt. Gov. Smith in dent of the national Young Democrats was a legislator, has endorsed Reagan for the gubernatorial runoff, have been last year, is heading the state McCarthy organization now. He replaces Don All- student group for McCarthy in Dallas, young people entering. Texas politics," ford, also of Austin. Allford says he needs didn't like Mitchell's remarks saying they she said. "In Houston they went into pre- to return to making a living. were a snub to supporters of the senator cincts we'd given up on. They shook Gene Pokorny, a recent graduate of the there. them up and sometimes they even won." University of Nebraska, is working out V Reed, said the reorganized McCarthy V Mrs. Carr said Houston liberals are of Oklahoma City as national McCarthy readying themselves for the national liaison man for Texas, Oklahoma and committee will try to keep opposition to the war and to 'Hubert Humphrey alive convention, pouring over the minutes of New Mexico, Nick and Joan Acocella head precinct meetings, trying to prepare a the campaign in Houston. Dave Mixner in Texas. A McCarthy Day rally will be held in Houston August 15 in conjunction case to prove that anti-Connally Demo- is working with latinos in San Antonio crats were treated unfairly in many pre- and the Rio Grande Valley. with other McCarthy rallies throughout the nation. The McCarthy people are part cincts. She said the rump delegation will V Pokorny and Mitchell visited Austin, of Texas Citizens for an Open Conven: be broad-based including a fair represen- Houston, San Antonio and Dallas tion, a coalition which is gathering troops tation of Latins, Negroes, Anglos, Mc- earlier this month to plan and publicize and ammunition for the fight against the Carthy, Humphrey and uncommitted de- the unit rule fight. Mitchell says McCar- unit rule. The group is headed by old legates. "Our delegation will be in keep- thy probably will visit Texas in August, guard Texas liberals such as Mrs. Billie ing with the feelings of the people in stopping in Austin and possibly Hous- Carr and Ed Cogburn of Houston. Texas," she said. "It won't be heavily pro- ton, San Antonio and El Paso. Austin is McCarthy. If our delegates ever get to the senator's prime target, Pokorny tells the point where they vote, we probably the Observer, because "it is in the presi- A Bit of Friction will split between McCarthy and Hum- dent's back yard." V Earlier in the year there seemed to be phrey." V While in Dallas Mitchell upset some some friction between the inexperi- Mrs. Carr personally favors McCarthy of the McCarthy supporters there by enced but zealous McCarthy supporters for the nomination, but she thinks that saying that the senator definitely would and the established Texas liberal leaders. Humphrey has more support among not visit Dallas. Asked why, he said, "You Mrs. Carr, however, credits the young Houston Negroes and Latins than does know all about Dallas. Why should I tell McCarthyites with breathing life into the McCarthy. Most of the black precinct you? There are some cities more prefer- state's liberal movement. "The most ex- workers in Houston preferred Humphrey red than others and Dallas is last as far citing things that have happened here to Kennedy, she said. Humphrey prob: as I'm concerned." Mitchell is a former this year have happened in McCarthy ably would lose Latin support, if he chairman- of the national Democratic headquarters," she told the Observer. chooses John Connally as a running mate. committee (during the Shivers era in "They're giving us a shot in the arm that Mrs. Carr considers Connally's nomina- Texas) and a campaign worker for Stev- we needed." She said she is confident tion a strong possibility but sees two con- enson, who was struck on the head by a that some of the young people drawn siderations that may keep him off the picket sign and spit upon in Dallas one into political life for the first time this ticket. First, she said, Connallyites can no month before the assassination of Presi- year will remain involved. "It's been a longer use Robert Kennedy as a "bugger- dent Kennedy. Steve Gutow, head of a long time since there have been any bear" to- keep Texas Democrats in their camp. They can no longer argue that Ken- nedy might sweep Texas if the governor does not have control of the delegation. THE TEXAS OBSERVER Second, Texas politicians are realizing @ The Texas Observer Publishing Co. A Window to the South that the Wallace vote is coming from old A Journal of Free Voices line Democrats. "Connally will not be 62nd YEAR—ESTABLISHED 1906 able to cut into the Wallace vote," she Vol. LX, No. 14 July 26, 1968 said. 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Writers are responsible for their own Change of Address: Please give old and new work, but not for anything they have not them- address and allow three weeks. ,V Republican gubernatorial candidate selves written, and in publishing them the editor Paul Eggers told Austin reporters re- does not necessarily imply that he agrees with Form 3579 regarding undelivered copies:, Send them, because this is a journal of free voices. to Texas Observer, 504 W. 24th, Austin, Texas cently that the Republican vice-presiden- Unsigned articles are the editor's. 78705. tial candidates who could help him the most in Texas are, first, John. Tower and, One week he campaigns on flats of the the president's life and political career. second, Ronald Reagan. He assumes that Panhandle, the next he's in the piney It is assumed that the information now Nixon will be leading the Republican woods of East Texas, the next in the Val- being put together will be given to Frantz ticket. Eggers said he doesn't seriously ley. He's hitting the smaller towns now, for placement in the Lyndon Baines John- consider Tower a candidate for vice figuring he won't be able to visit them son Library here in Austin. For about six president. "John wouldn't settle for sec- very much later in the year when the weeks Frantz has been working out of a ond," he said. campaign will pick up in tempo and suite of eleven offices in the Executive Office Building in Washington. The UT got Nelson Rockefeller has yet to get the he'll have to concentrate on the larger cities, where the most votes are. historian says he has not been anointed support of any Texas delegates to the as the "official" Johnson biographer. "I national Republican convention. A few g/ Eggers is subtly wooing liberal sup- port, knowing most liberals won't am a consultant in history to the White prominent Dallas businessmen endorsed House," he told the Dallas Morning News. him in an advertisement run in some vote for the conservative Smith. But Eg- gers must be careful not to alienate his "I am setting up procedures, plans and East Coast newspapers. Among the sign- techniques and compiling lists of those ers were Trammell Crow, Barron Ulmer conservative base of support. He is none- theless expected to run slightly to the to be interviewed for an oral history." Kidd, Stanley Marcus, Eugene Nearburg Eventually, Frantz said, he might get and Ralph B. Rogers. left of Smith, portraying the lieutenant governor as the mossbacked relic of a around to writing a book on Johnson. dying political age, one-party Texas, and The Eggers Race depicting himself as the conservative but Poage and Hunger w Wallace is predicted to get between progressive candidate who represents a Discussion of Waco Cong. Bob 10 and 15% of the vote nationally, young, vigorous and growing Texas Re- publican party. Poage's attitude towards the hungry and about that in Texas, again depend- (Obs., May 26, 1967) is becoming more ing on his competition. Democrats and go/ The primary instrument for winning widespread. The Atlanta (Ga.) Constitu- Republicans in Texas are worried that liberal support for Eggers is the Re- tion recently took note of Poage's views that bloc of conservative votes will be building Committee, which liberals have in two editorials. lost to them in statewide races this fall geared up once again. The committee was Noting that Poage and the house agri- since Wallace's American party will have successful in 1966 in persuading liberals culture committee which he chairs found no statewide candidates, just Wallace for either not to vote for conservative Demo- no "starvation" in America, the Consti- president. The fear is that many conserva- crat Waggoner Carr against the incum- tution asked, how the congressman and tives will vote for Wallace and ignore bent Republican Sen. John Tower, or to his colleagues determined this to be so. the Texas races. This would be critical vote for Tower. Rebuilding Committee "Why, county health officials told them were there liberal challengers in Texas people are adamant this year, as they so. And if there was any malnutrition— races, not the case in 1968. Nonetheless, were in 1966, that no Republican party well, as one Alabama health administra- Texas conservatives, be they Republicans money is given them. This may be true tor put it, that 'is due to problems of or Democrats, do want their respective but does not preclude contributions com- education and personal decisions, plus statewide candidates to prevail. ing from individual Republicans. The questionable ability to rationalize rather g/ If, as Reagan believes, the Republi- committee has its offices in the same than any inability to buy food or receive cans will lose more votes to Wallace downtown Austin office building that public assistance.' " This opinion echoed than will the Democrats, the faint hopes houses the state GOP headquarters. It that of Texas Welfare Cmsr. Burton the Texas GOP harbors of capturing the is likely that there is some coordination Hackney that ignorance plays a role in governorship or some of the other state- between the Republicans and the Re- any hunger that exists in Texas wide jobs are fainter still. Texas Republi- builders. Regardless of .the question of In a second editorial the Constitution cans failed to come up with a name candi- Republican money, the commitee doubt- said that Poage "has introduced the word date this year and are generally believed less is financed largely by liberals. Lib- 'starvation' into the dialogue about hun- thereby to have passed up a good chance erals for years sought power in Texas ger in America. . . . For that contribution to improve their standing. Paul Eggers, on the strategem of party loyalty but to national misunderstanding, Poage de- the man finally chosen to head the state- have recently generally changed to the serves about as much thanks as the gnats wide GOP ticket, is not well known in view that the only way to power lies in get in Willacoochee. He spent time and Texas. Moreover, he and his campaign a strong two-party state. So conserva- taxpayers' money on a pile of useless cor- advisers felt it best to lay low until the tive Democratic nominees will be op- respondence with county health officers Demo gubernatorial primary, which drew posed or not voted for in November. Thus who denied — in response to his question all the public attention, was settled. For the Rebuilding Committee. —that America has become a westerly one thing it would have been difficult Calcutta in which haggard souls are drop- to compete for attention with the Demo- LBJ and History ping dead in the strets. crats' more interesting ten-man race; "That revelation in hand, Poage had secondly, there would be no point in fry President Johnson, methodically com- his committee release a report, that ques- making public statements of much sub- piling a record of his years in the tions the extent of the hunger problem. stance until the Democratic winner was White House, has been charged with try- He said malnutrition — which means known, lest campaign ammunition be ing to write his own version of history starvation, according to our dictionary— given the Democratic foe in the fall. at taxpayers' expense. Sen. John J. Wil- exists but it is the result of 'local custom' liams, a Republican of Deleware, recent- ( that's what he said) and 'ignorance.' .g/ Eggers is attempting to overcome the ly revealed in a senate speech that John- "Poage obviously knows nothing about severe handicap of being a political son has directed each federal department malnutrition, but when he gets around unknown by an intensive tour of Texas and agency to assign two top employees to ignorance he's on safe ground," the cities and villages, much in the manner to write a history of the agency during Constitution concluded. of his Democratic opponent, Lt. Gov. his presidency. Williams said the history Smith. Smith travelled some 150,000 project "emphasizes his achievements miles during his primary campaign. De- and foi gets his mistakes." Joseph A. Cal- Military Heads spite the sneers about this old-fashioned ifano, Jr., a Johnson aide, replied that The Eastern Establishment Press has type of campaigning Smith obviously im- the president simply is trying to make been telling tales about Texas again, pressed a good number of voters, who information on his administration avail- this time besmirching the reputation of probably appreciated seeing a candidate able to scholars more quickly than other- Fort Hood and Sam Houston. The Wash- in person rather than as a shadow on wise would be possible. ington Post recently quoted a f o r m e r the TV tube. Eggers, then, is doing the Dr. Joe B. Frantz, a University of Texas WAC as saying that 75% of the men she same, pressing the flesh and trying to history professor, has been given the job get his name known around the state. of compiling a comprehensive history of July 26, 1968 3 knew in the army went AWOL on LSD. house in Austin plus a $14,000 supplement comptroller's department out of the A medic told the Post that a 4th Army contributed by coordinating board mem- Capitol building into a temporary build- chemist made LSD at Fort Sam Houston bers) came under legislative scrutiny. A ing so that legislators could move into in San Antonio. What's more, the Post rider was inserted in the appropriations the comptroller's quarters during the said so many officers and enlisted men bill withholding salaries until after a per- 1969 session. puff pot at Fort Hood (near Killeen) that son receiving salary supplementation For the second year in a row, the gov- it has been nicknamed Fort Head. A gives the secretary of state information ernor vetoed riders protecting cotton gins spokesman at Fort Sam Houston answer- on the amount and source of the supple- from air pollution controls. He also re- ed that the Army doesn't know of any ment. moved a rider prohibiting appropriations drugs being used on the post. Commissioner Williams apparently de- funds from being used to employ a per- vf Enlisted men are getting encourage- cided that Texas isn't ready for educa- son who took a leave of absence from ment to get out of the military groove. tional coordination. He may be right. state employment to work in a political The UT Veterans Committee, something With Governor Connally, the board's pri- campaign. McCarthy campaigners believe of a new left front, sponsored a July 4 mary supporter, leaving office, the com- the rider was aimed at Don Allford, for- love-in at Killeen for Fort Hood men. missioner and the coordinating board mer state chairman of the McCarthy Killeen city officials approved the picnic may find themselves as weak as their group, who took a leave of absence from thinking the UT Veterans to be the tra- predecessor, the commission on higher his job as a technical writer on the Uni- ditional flag-waving kind. The city fathers education. versity of Texas to work for McCarthy. were dismayed to learn that veterans Connally said the rider was unconstitu- who oppose the Vietnam war were try- tional. ing to get the Fugs, probably one of the Pollution Fine Connally also vetoed: most way-out singing groups in America, Texas has accepted $10,000 in pay- to perform. The Fugs couldn't make it, ment of what is believed to be the V $30,500 for salaries of a deputy ad- but a hefty number of Killeen police and first money ever collected in a lawsuit for ministrator and assistant director of DPS officers did. violation of the state's pollution laws. A auditing for the Texas Liquor Control V Fort Hood banned the August Esquire civil district court gave the Hooker Chem- Board. from the post exchange because an ical Company of Houston, a fertilizer V $91,000 for legal briefing clerks in article concerning a union for enlisted manufacturer, the $10,000 fine and a 13 district courts. men. The ban was , rescinded after a day. permanent injunction preventing the V $275,000 for installation of two auto- company's ship channel plant from emit- matic elevators in the Capitol. Higher Education ting sulphur compounds or other par- V $16,500 for the salary of an assistant ticulate matter in amounts exceeding executive director for the State Board wr The coordinating board has appoint- air control board regulations. County at- of Control. ed Bevington Reed, Jack Williams' torneys filed the suit against the plant hand-picked assistant, to carry on the in March, asking for more than $200,000 V $50,000 for investigation of insurance struggle to bring order to Texas' random in damages. claims by the Board of Insurance. assortment of colleges and universities. fro V $90,000 for purchase of land in Som- Reed will replace Higher Education Charles R. Barden, executive direc- ervell , county by the Parks and Wild- Cmsr. Williams, who resigned effective tor of the air control board, says the life Department. Sept. 1. state agency has filed only eleven com- plaints to date because generally indus- V $187,500 for acquisition of land for A Texan and a former administrator the Port Lavaca Causeway State Park. at the University of Minnesota, Reed will try wants to cooperate. Both he and confront the same obstacles that probab- Hugh Yantis, executive director of the V $22,000 for Blinn College for opera- ly made Williams decide to move on to water quality board, say they are mak- tion of a museum at Washington an academic vice presidency at the Uni- ing some progress in their campaigns State Park. against pollution. versity of Tennessee. Williams has main- V A rider limiting the use of helicop- tained silence about the reasons for his Atty Gen. Crawford Martin has writ- ters in traffic control to the Austin resignation, but he was bound to have ten an opinion saying that state air area. been discouraged by legislative rebuffs pollution standards cannot be relaxed or that made it impossible for him to be a V Mayor's assistants are neither to be be made more rigid by local ordinances. seen nor heard, Mark Hepler, a part strong coordinator. For two years Wil- The opinion was requested by Barden. liams has worked to create and imple- time editorial writer and broadcaster for It may have been directed at the Houston KHOU-TV discovered recently. Hepler ment a master plan for higher education. ship channel industrial district which He was charged with coordinating pro- was dividing his time between Houston last October approved contracts giving Mayor Louie Welch's civil rights staff and grams and administration at all 66 pub- ship channel industries a tax break pro- lic junior and senior colleges and univer- the television station. But when he de- vided they comply with stiffer pollution livered ,a television editorial criticizing sities in Texas. Although legislators cre- regulations than those set by the state. ated his position only three years ago, they the legislature for increasing the state often have challenged him when he at- gor Houston city councilman Johnny Go- sales tax, some unnamed legislators com- tempted to establish new schools and pro- yen has criticized the city's health de- plained to the Mayor. Welch in turn told grams on' the basis of academic necessity partment for not using helicopters to Hepler that he either refrain from "criti- rather than political expediency. think they are really aware of the pollu- cizing the actions of government agen- Williams received a great deal of criti- tion problem," Goyen said of health offi- cies" or stop picking up his $14,300 a year cism recently when he released a tenta- cials. city pay check. Hepler quit his televi- tive plan for six new universities in major sion job. "I spent 20 years in the news business and I am going to miss it," Hep- Texas cities. Legislators and some admin- Connally Vetoes ler said. istrators challenged his arguments for placing ceilings on college enrollments. Gov. John Connally vetoed some V At the request of Sen. Oscar Mauzy, The legislature demonstrated its disap- $1,362,500 in line items and seven riders Dist. Atty. Henry Wade of Dallas has proval last month by refusing to appro- from the $2.6 billion appropriations bill ordered a new investigation into county priate a requested $150,000 for education- for 1969. voting procedures. Mauzy says he found al planning. It provided the coordinating The largest sum vetoed was $600,000 the names of 100 persons who voted in board with $450,000 for '69, approximate- for constructing and equipping a prefabri- more than one primary election this year ly $92,000 less than it received this year. cated building to temporarily house the in the first 12 precincts he checked. There Williams' $40,000 salary ($26,000 and a state comptroller's department until the were instances when persons voted in state finance building is completed. The GOP and Democratic primaries on the 4 The Texas Observer legislature had planned on moving the same day, the Dallas senator said. fl The Richmond State School

Albany, N.Y., and Austin the 15-county area the hospital is sup- prepared about his work; he adds that posed to serve, McDowell says. An esti- Kinross-Wright and Scott discussed the Dr. Floyd E. McDowell, the recently- mated 3,000 youths of that area are eli- "political aspects" of his position. The f i r e d director of the Richmond state gible for admission at Richmond; the order to admit the Connally boy was re- school for the mentally retarded, is seek- school will have a capacity of 500 child- scinded, McDowell says Kinross-Wright ing a public hearing before the board that ren this October. told him that day. Kinross-Wright says runs the Texas Dept. of Mental Health "This is not just one isolated. case," Mc- he suggested that McDowell should re- and Mental Retardation (MHMR). Mc- Dowell says of the Connally matter. "The sign because he did not understand "the Dowell, who now lives in Albany, N.Y., state department is infiltrated with the Texas mind." where he works with that state's depart- idea superintendents are naturally expect- On June 19, five or six weeks after this ment of mental hygiene, tells the Obser- ed to meet these political requests. There meeting, McDowell was given a letter ver that he is anxious to make widely have been many of them. This applies also while in Austin informing him that he known in Texas his reasons for leaving to staff appointments. They let me know was through with the department. A news the state agency. He says he will bear the I had to do these things or get out. I did release prepared by the agency said, in expenses of returning to Texas for a hear- not want to leave the programs we start- part, "In taking this action Dr. Kinross- ing. ed. They are wonderful." McDowell says Wright acknowledged McDowell's scienti- Dr. Horace E. Cromer, Austin physician he was determined not to permit "jump- fic contributions and dedication to the who is the chairman of the Texas MHMR ing in front of the line" in considering field of mental retardation which make it board, says that "we have no policy on admissions. He says he considered ex- all the more regrettable that he was un- that," referring to the holding of open traordinary requests for admission "dis- able to respect the administration and its hearings for discharged personnel. Mc- honest manipulation and low-level deal- rules and requirements." Dowell will be asked to state in writing ing. I am not committed to that kind of his reasons for requesting a hearing, then life — personally or professionally." the board will decide what to do, Cromer K INROSS-WRIGHT and Bar- says. nett deny that McDowell was fired be- McDowell says that if he is not granted M cDOWELL HAD several rath- cause of the Connally case. Barnett says a hearing he plans to prepare a detailed er basic disagreements with his superiors McDowell was "grasping at straws" by so account of his reasons for leaving and in the MHMR department, as will be dis- alleging. "That's not correct. I've never distribute his report to the state press cussed later on. The incident he believes ordered McDowell to admit any child." and to those responsible for Texas' men- to have been climactic began developing Kinross-Wright says that in mid-June Mc- tal health program. He indicates that his in April when Senator Connally visited Dowell had "publicly insulted Dr. Barnett report will include more than just his the Richmond school, saying he wanted and disagreed with department policies." version of the incident or incidents that his son to be evaluated there. McDowell This is what caused the firing. "There is precipitated his being fired; that it will says he declined the senator's request nothing wrong with McDowell," Kinross- present his views of Texas' approach to because the Connally's home county, Wil- Wright says, "except he is unable to re- mental health care. That approach is, in son, is not one of those to be served at cognize he is working for a state depart- McDowell's opinion, "symptomatic of a Richmond. Connally was told that his son ment." cancerous disease in the Texas society." should be referred to a diagnostic Kinross-Wright has, since the firing, He says that there are many competent center in either Corpus Christi or Austin, said that McDowell was a "visionary" who people in mental health work in the state McDowell was uncertain which. Mc- failed to follow orders and wouldn't "join but believes that they are unable to func- Dowell says the senator did not seem to the team." He denies that political admis- tion to best effect because of the present take exception to any of this during his sions are a department practice, adding system. Noting that the Hubert Hum- visit in Richmond. The Connally child that officials do call "to provide help in phreys, whom McDowell is acquainted was later evaluated. The evaluation re- emergency cases." He says he fired Mc- with, have a retarded granddaughter, the port was sent by the department's central Dowell "to back up" Barnett, who recom- doctor says, "I can't believe that Hum- office to McDowell with instructions mended the firing. McDowell ignored phrey could want such a running mate as from Dr. Barnett that the child be sched- some departmental policies at times, Kin- Governor [John] Connally, a man who uled for admission at Richmond. ross-Wright charged, saying the Rich- runs such a mental retardation care pro- In accordance with procedures set up mond director had hired two persons gram in the year 1968." at Richmond by McDowell the application though having no funds to pay them and McDowell was in the Texas MHMR de- of the Connally child was handled rou- started some programs without having partment for two years. His firing occur- tinely, McDowell says. A study was made the necessary funds. He charges that Mc- red, he says, for refusing an order given by school staff members, who concluded Dowell ran the Richmond school as a by Dr. Charles Barnett, deputy MHMR that it was not in the child's best interests separate entity rather than as a unit of commissioner. The order involved admit- to be admitted, that the school has no the department. McDowell had "wide- ting the son of Sen. Wayne Connally, program for him. This was in late April, spread, visionary programs" for commun- Floresville. The senator is the brother of shortly after the school was opened. ities, instead of concentrating on the Gov. John Connally. "The deputy commis- Two weeks after that, McDowell con- Richmond school, Kinross-Wright said. sioner told me either to admit [Senator tinues, Barnett came to Richmond. Mc- "In other words, he wanted to run before Connally's son] or pack my bags," Mc- Dowell says Barnett was offered the staff he walked." Dowell asserts. He says he objected to the evaluation report on the Connally boy but Senator Connally has denied in no un- admission because he was determined to did not look at it. "He told me," Mc- certain terms that McDowell was fired prevent letting political considerations Dowell says, "'I'm ordering you to admit because of the handling of the Connally interfere with his operation of the Rich- this child; either you admit him or you boy's case. He told United Press Interna- mond school. He says he had many re- get out of here.' I told him, 'You put that tional that "While I do not know what quests from county judges and other such in writing and I will.' " [McDowell's] other problems are with the officials for admission of persons to the Barnett thereupon left Richmond. The agency, I do know that as a result of his school. Admissions are a problem in Tex- next day McDowell was summoned to accusation that he is a liar . . . Not one as as the state's rather young retardation Austin to the office of Dr. John Kinross- ounce of pressure was exerted by me or program has not been developed to an ex- Wright, MHMR commissioner. The de- John [the governor] or anyone else," tent sufficient to institionalize those who partment's legal counselor, Earl Scott, Senator Connally said. need such care. Some of the political re- was present. McDowell says he was pre- quests for admission came from outside sented a list of complaints that had been July 26, 1968 However, Miss Frances E. Moon, direc- $120,000 of funds allocated the school this think it's unbecoming of a professional tor of social services at the Richmond fiscal year were diverted to other use in man and a state employee to take a stand school, has, in statements to Houston and the department. He didn't object to the against the federal government." After Richmond papers, corroborated McDow- entire diversion but did particularly re- Rieber had requested that his institute ell's contention that the director was or- gret the failure to buy carpet for the grant him a hearing with a court reporter dered by Barnett to admit the Connally gymnasium floor, at a cost of about $12,- present, Cromer changed his mind and boy or be fired. 000, to reduce the danger of injury by said Rieber or any other department em- McDowell, interviewed by the Rich- falls to school residents. ployee could participate in future vigils mond paper shortly before leaving the "as long as they do it on their time." state, said that political considerations The Texas mental retardation care pro- are very much a part of his job. Shortly M cDOWELL HAS a national gram has developed in the 1960's, sired after moving to Richmond he says he en- reputation for his work in retardation. largely, as in many other states, by the countered his first difficulty with his de- In addition to chairing the national ac- intense interest in the problem as express- partmental superiors regarding the "poli- creditation committee, he is vice-presi- ed often by President Kennedy. Texas tical appointment of an employee, former dent of the American Assn. on Mental De- soon will operate nine special schools. state representative, who now lives in ficiency, is past president of the National Counting these schools, special education Rosenberg. "If you appoint one Education Assn., and is an editor of the classes in public schools, and a few pri- person politically, the whole program of NEA Journal. He holds a doctorate in edu- vate institutions, 41,000 retarded child- honesty goes down the drain," McDowell cation from George Peabody College in ren can be cared for. It is estimated that contends. Nashville, Tenn. He was recruited for the there are about 300,000 retarded children Another problem soon arose. McDowell Richmond job while serving as acting in the state. How to meet this human says he serves as the chairman of a na- chief of mental retardation programs for problem, which the state and nation have tional committee to improve the stan- the National Institute of Mental Health, lately become aware of, is the question. dards and develop an accreditation pro- Bethesda, Md. There are those who lean towards insti- gram for mental retardation institutions. tutionalization of retardates, those who He says he was ordered by a letter from Another case in which an MHMR em- caution that the bricks-and-mortar ap- Dr. Barnett to put 262 beds in one of the ployee got crossways with his • superiors proach is just one approach; 95% of re- residential buildings at the school. Only occurred in early 1966 when Dr. Morton tardates can be treated and educated at 180 beds could be placed in that building Rieber, a phychiatrist at the Houston community centers and in special edu- and comply with the national accredita- state psychiatric hospital, was called on cation classes in public schools, some per- tion standards he is helping develop, Mc- the carpet by Kinross-Wright for partici- sons contend. Dowell says. "They wanted the beds wall pating in a peace vigil at the LBJ Ranch As in other social service fields, Texas to wall," he charges. He refused to com- (Obs., Feb. 18, 1966). Kinross-Wright ranks low among the states in mental ply with Barnett's order. "We were not wrote Rieber that he would have to skip health care. Figures made available last asked to develop just a custodial pro- the vigil or be fired. Rieber did not par- month by the Texas Assn. for Mental gram. I refused to be part of a regression ticipate in the vigil. He said he had been Health show the state ranking 45th in program." told by Kinross-Wrght that a majority of the number of full-time employees per Other contended points that arose over the people in Texas did not agree with 100 patients in public mental hospitals, McDowell's operation of the Richmond Rieber, and therefore his activity would 46th in average daily mantenance expen- school involved the department's require- jeopardize the finances of the Houston diture per resident mental patient, 49th ment that all mail from staff personnel hospital at the 1967 session of the state in per capita maintenance expenditure be routed over McDowell's desk. He re- legislature. for public mental hospitals, 50th in per fused to do this and the mail went Cromer, the MHMR board chairman, capita expenditures for community men- through Barnett. McDowell says that backed Kinross-Wright's stand, saying, "I tal health programs, and so on. G.O. Testimony at Brownsville

Austin which entailed Dimas' conviction of "mur- shot him that many times. He had a gun der without malice" and Rodriguez' two- in his hand and he dropped it and said, "Captain of the Texas Rangers Com- year sentence on a burglary charge. Jim 'I'm not armed.' There's the Rangers and pany D," A. Y. Allee replied, when asked Rochester, foreman of La Casita Farms, you run — he run back in the house." his occupation during the hearing in which the union was striking, had told "Oh," said Dixie, "I see what you mean." Brownsville last month on farm union Allee that Dimas had once told Rochester "I just told you if I wanted to. If I organizers' charges that the Rangers and "I'll get you," Allee said. wanted to have killed him," Allee continu- Starr county lawmen conspired to de- The Rangers found Dimas in front of ed, "I could have killed him without even prive them of their legal rights. a house at night with a .22 rifle. Allee calling that judge and getting a search "I hit him up side of the head with a told the three-court judge in Brownsville warrant . . . " shotgun," Allee allowed, telling of the that when the Rangers flashed car lights "That's right. That's what I mean," force he used subduing one of the farm on Dimas, the man dropped his rifle and Dixie responded. "He had a gun in his workers' strikers, Magdaleno Dimas, who ran for the house. hand and that could have given you an had a long police record and at last re- "I could have killed him if I wanted excuse to kill him but you didn't want to port was jailed in Mexico on marijuana kill him?" charges. to but I didn't want to kill him," Allee Chris Dixie, Houston labor lawyer, was said. "Didn't want to hurt him. I could "He dropped the gun. I don't want to questioning Allee about the night of "the have shot him three or four times before kill nobody." Dimas incident" (Obs., June 9-13, 1967) he got in that door if I was that kind of "All right," Dixie said. "In any event, when Allee, Ranger T. H. Dawson, and feller. I didn't want to." you knew that if you catch a man with a two Starr county lawmen arrested Dimas Later Dixie asked Allee (while the three gun, if you want to kill him you can kill and his union sidekick, Benito Rodriguez, federal judge s, Reynaldo Garza of him? Because he's in shape where you who also had a police record. Brownsville and John Brown and Wood- are protecting yourself against him, is Allee said he regarded both of them as row Seals of Houston, listened,) what he that right?" dangerous because of their police records, meant by that. "I didn't say that. You said that," Cap- "If I wanted to kill him, if I wanted to tain Allee replied. 6 The Texas Observer hurt him," Allee answered, "I could have "Well, what did you mean by that?" Dixie asked. said he found no evidence of a concus- Ellert contended Arrendondo had shout- "I can't answer your questions," Allee sion. ed the slogan into his ear as loud as he said. Jim McKeithan of Mission, the farm could. "Did you pull your gun out?" Dixie "What did you mean by that?" Dixie Nv or kers' lawyer who drowned in South asked. "Not much, just little bit," Ellert asked again. America this year, took pictures of the replied. He never took it completely out two arrested men in jail. These were in of its holster, said the deputy sheriff. "I said I didn't want to kill him," Allee evidence in Brownsville last month, and said. "That man had threatened Mr. Jim There was testimony Allee told persons Judge Brown asked Allee, "Do you have in the strike to quit striking; he denied Rochester . . . and I went to looking for any explanation, Captain, as to how these [Dimas], knowing that Mr. Jim Roches- it. What he did say, the captain testified, things which appear so plainly on the pic- was, " 'I don't know anything about this ter thought that Magdaleno Dimas came tures and as to which all the doctors are up there to La Casita packing shed to situation, but if any of you people want in complete agreement, how they occur- to work, I can get you a job to work for kill him . . And so when I saw him with red?" that gun . . . 'Drop that gun.' If I had a dollar and a quarter an hour the next "I don't know how they occurred, Your ten minutes." . been scared of him I'd probably shot him. Honor," Allee replied. "They might have I'd probably shot him right there, I'll be Ellert and a constable (who worked got them before this happened. I don't nights for La Casita) testified they told frank with you. I could have killed him. know." I could have shot him after he dropped Allee that Eugene Nelson, a leader of the the gun three times before he got in that strike in its early phases, had stormed house if I wanted to kill the man . • . I M UCH OF THE hearing in into the courthouse and asked where didn't want to kill him." Brownsville, which occupies four tomes "that son of a bitch" Allee was and said "And you certainly were not afraid of of transcript, rehashes episodes reported to tell him that if he didn't leave the him, were you?" Dixie asked. from the scene in the Observer last sum- strikers alone, he would get some of his "No, I'm not afraid of him. If I wanted mer. However, some new light is shed Rangers killed. Nelson denied he said to kill him, probably take a little Bee on events in the strike against the Starr this Brand insect powder and kill him. Hell, it county melon growers — a strike that Allee said, about this, "I tell you frank- won't take' much to kill him." failed. ly if I believed it, he'd been a hell of a From the growers' side, mexicano farm shape. I'll tell you that." Allee also said hands who stayed in the field testified that as for someone calling him a son of A LLEE TESTIFIED that when about abusive language and threats a bitch to his face, "They wouldn't call Dimas and Rodriguez, inside the house, against them by picketers. me that, Your Honor. It might upset me did not come out when hollered at to do Juan Vela testified that picketers, while a little. I'll be frank with you . . . . He'd so, Allee kicked the door down and he, berating him for crossing their lines, used probably get knocked down. Now I'm not Dawson, and the two local lawmen went the word cabron, which, in common par- going to lie to you. Yes sir." inside. lance in Spanish, means a husband who consents to his 'wife cuckolding him. Nelson had counter-charged that Rang- "Did you have any fear when you kick- er Jack Van Cleve said to him, "You bet- ed the door of the house in?" Dixie asked. Lorenzo Aleman said picketers threat- ened to beat him up and burn up his ter not go too near the river or the Texas "I didn't have no fear," Allee, the Rang- Rangers will see to it that you end up er Captain in the South Texas district, truck; one, Aleman said, threatened him with a rock and called him a son of a floating down the Rio Grande." Van Cleve replied. "No use me to lie to you. No, I denied saying this. Nelson said that one wasn't scared of him. If I was I wouldn't bitch. W o m en strikers "used some bad night Van Cleve was drunk. Allee and his kicked that dern door down. . . . But I wife and others testified he, Allee, never had a whole lot — if anybody going to get words;" Vela said. The transcript records that Judge Garza anticipated Vela's tes- drinks—is a dry; Van Cleve also testified killed, it wasn't going to be me. I'll be that he does not drink. Dixie accepted perfectly frank with you." timony, to wit: Vela: "One of them said that the mel- the truth of the testimony that the men Inside the lawmen found the two Mexi- were not drinkers. can-Americans sitting at a table. "Had ons on that year should become— their hands under the table like this," Judge Garza: "—Shit." There was testimony that before "the Allee said. "I said, 'Put your hands on the Vela: "—shit." Dimas incident," Allee slapped Dimas and table and get up, you are under arrest.' Once about eleven of the strikers ga- slapped a hamburger out of his hand. They didn't move. . . . I didn't know thered around the courthouse; two were Allee said he hadn't slapped Dimas, but whether they had a gun under there or arrested for illegal assembly. Union testi- that when Dimas was "spitting" mustard what they had under there but I wasn't mony said they were just standing to- and food scraps out of his mouth onto going to take any chances. . . . I had the gether, praying. Offering his explanation Allee while talking excitedly, Allee had in- shotgun at that time. . . . And I just rap- of the incident, Chief Deputy Sheriff Raul deed slapped a hamburger out of his ped it up the side of the head, that shot- Pena testified: hand. gun barrel, lightly. I didn't hit too hard. "So I told what they are doing there? "I think you would do the same thing," I could have broke his neck if I wanted They say, 'We are praying, you son of a he told Dixie. "If you had any pride about to or I could have shot him. Might have bitch.' That's what they said . . . And they you at all. I think anybody else would." been better. I didn't know, just to be were calling the jailer names, too . . . all "Well, of course," said Dixie. "You can't truthful, but I told him he was under ar- the way from son of a bitch to mother- blame me for slapping a hamburger out rest, and I hit him with that shotgun." fuckers." Pena said he arrested two of —" Allee went on, but Dixie said he was Allee and Dawson both testified the them who refused to disperse. not arguing about it, he was "just trying two arrested men then got up and, hurry- to find out." ing to get out of the room, hit the door D IXIE established that copies Pancho Medrano, a national staff mem- ( or doorway) at the same time and fell of La Verdad, a paper which he said car- ber of the United Auto Workers, who was over each other. No one hit them further ried propaganda against the union, were taking movies of Rangers making arrests, or kicked them when they were down, picked up at the bus station by Sheriff testified that Ranger Dawson shoved his the Rangers testified. Pena and were given out by Pena and camera hard into his face, bruising him, As the Observer reported last summer, others in the sheriff's office. and then opened the camera and ruined Dimas said he was knocked down at least The president of the farm workers' the film. Dawson testified, "He had [the three times, hit with rifle butts, and kick- local of the AFL-CIO, Domingo Arrendon- camera] up in the air like he would—was ed; Rodriguez said he got hit with a shot- do, testified that after he had said "Viva going to hit me or could have. So I gun on the back of the neck, and the la huelga" (Long live the strike") in the grabbed the movie camera. I took it away Observer saw a lengthwise discoloration courthouse, Deputy Sheriff Federico El- from him." Dixie asked him why he open- thereon. Dr. Ramiro Casso said Dimas lert told him not to say that again in the ed it. "I wanted to see if it was a movie had a concussion and many bruises; a courthouse and put his cocked pistol up doctor who examined him five days later to Arrendondo's head. July 26, 1968 camera or if it was carrying a weaptin," application and seeks to have them invali- Dixie: "And you give the Rangers a few Dawson said. dated ( this is why three judges, rather courtesy boxes of fruit, don't you? You There was testimony that Rangers held than one, heard the case). have?" two union people several inches from the Jim Rochester, the foreman at La Casita Rochester: "The Rangers among. prob- side of a moving train; this the Rangers (and also a special deputy sheriff of Starr ably 150 other people." denied. Testimony that a staffer on a county who acknowledged he arrested Dixie: "You have?" union periodical had a Ranger car door one of the strikers in that latter capa- Rochester: "Yes. I do that every year slammed on his leg was admitted by a city), said he and the Rangers never dis- more or less as an advertisement pro- Ranger, who said, however, that it was ac- cussed the strike at all. They'd just shake gram." cidental. A 21-year-old University of Texas hands and chat about other matters. Dixie: "I see. What kind of fruits have student, Alex Moreno, testified that Allee, "For instance," the transcript shows you given them?" without warning, jabbed him in his ribs Rochester: "Melons." with a shotgun barrel; Allee denied it. that Rochester testified, "one of the Rang- ers came by and asked me one day if Gary Gurwitz, attorney for the grow- knew anyone who would be interested in ers: "Your Honor, if I may state for the THROUGHOUT, t h e Rangers record, I believe we gave them to about and the local lawmen said they had noth- buying a horse trailer. Things like that." Dixie: "Did he have one to sell?" ten or twelve Houston judges last year ing against the strikers and did not care when they came down to the judicial con- how long they struck or picketed as long Rochester: "Yes." ference." as they were peaceful and lawful. Dixie Judge Brown: "That's what got the Rochester: "That's correct." contended laws used against the strikers Liquor Control people in trouble, wasn't Judge Brown: "Everybody." are unconstitutional on their face or in it? Started selling trailers?" R.D. $$$$ in the Governor's Race

Austin 2,000; C. Sapp, Houston, 2,500; R. Mcdermott, Amarillo; S. Ferguson, Jr., Dallas; P. Ryan, Dal- Houston, 5,000; M. Winters, Johnson City, 1,000; las; H. Heldenfels, Corpus Christi; J. Sexton, Each candidate for the governor's race J. Fulton, Lubbock, 1,000; L. Prokep and J. Dallas; J. Neuhoff, Dallas; L. Burch, Jr., Dallas; was required by law to file with the secre- Philips, Houston, 1,500; M. Leggett and L. Prokep, F. Alford, Jr., Dallas; J. Dahlstrom, Dallas; J. tary of state a record of his contributions trustees, Houston, 5.625; F. Rooke, Woodsboro, Kadane, Dallas; J. Youngblood, Dallas; C. Ben- 1,750; T. Beasley, Dallas, 1,000; L. Pearce, Jr., nett, Dallas; M. Marr, Dallas; J. Hill, Dallas; received and money spent during the cam- Houston, 1,000; W. Wise, Tyler, 1,500; I. Arnold, J. Pew, Dallas; J. Gillen, Dallas; W. Pickens, paign. Due to the porous nature of the Houston, 2500; R. Cullen, Houston, 1,500; H. DallasT M. Wood, Dallas; D. Forbes, Dallas; R. statute requiring these financial records Newton, Graham, 1,500; S. Blackney and W. Bond, Dallas; E. Constantin, Jr., Dallas; W. Snellgrove, Fort Worth, 500; G. Edwards, trustee, Peavy, Dallas; C. Wheeler, Dallas; D. Byard, the reports are generally considered only Amarillo, 1,000; A. Verner, trustee, Lubbock, Dallas; J. Jackson, Dallas; R. Vial, Dallas; J. partial reflections of each candidate's 1,000; J. Aston, trustee, Dallas, 1,000; . L. Wilernon, Greenfield, Houston; M. Killian, San Antonio; spending and income. The Austin rule of trustee, Fort Worth, 1,000; S. Young, Jr., trustee, R. Rash, Monahans; J. Wortham, Houston; C. El Paso, 1,000; G. McCaskill, trustee, Andrews, Prothro, Wichita Falls; H. Dewar, San Antonio; thumb holds that about one-third or so 1,000; C. Smith, trustee, Wylie, 1,000; R. Smith, T. Steele, Houston; H. Coffield, Rockdale; J. of such financial activity is reflected in trustee, Killeen, 1,000; J. Bain, trustee, Stock- Abdnor, Dallas; V. Frost, Houston; M. Brach- such reports. With this in mind, then, the dale, 1,000; C. Parker, trustee, Taylor, 1,000; S. man, Dallas; K. Bentsen, Houston; Tom Sealy, Dorvandt, trustee, Conroe, 1,000; W. Mischer, Midland; W. Allan, San Antonio; C. Weldon, Cor- Observer here lists contributions of $500 trustee, Houston, 1,000; C. Long, Houston, 1,500; pus Christi; R. Sallee, Corpus Christi; B. Moore, and more that each of the 13 candidates J. Greer, Houston, 1,500; W. James, Austin, 1,000; Corpus Christi; P. White, Houston; L. O'Donnell reported. A. Ginsburg, Fort Worth, 1,000; E. Kenedy, Sa- and W. O'Donnell; K. Hubert, Bellaire; H. Cross- rita, 1,000; D. O'Connor, Victoria, 2,500; T. Kniff, well, Houston; R. Dixon, Austin; D. Bintliff, Sinton, 1,000; R. Fulton, Lubbock, 2,000; B. Gar- Houston; G. Nees, Houston; D. Henry, trustee, nett, Corpus Christi, 2,000; C. Marsh, II, Mid- Odessa; M. Cox, Gay Hill; F. West, Lubbock; E. Democrats land, 1,000; H. Robinson, Jr., Houston, 1,000; Shouse, Houston; C. Frost, Houston; L. Davis, F. Walsh, Fort Worth, 1,000; B. Norris and C. Dallas; R. Buck, Fort Worth. Preston Smith Christner, Austin, 1,625; R. Day, trustee, Gar- First Primary land, 1,000; R. Martin, Lubbock, 1,000; B. Britain, $1,000 In the second primary, Preston Smith received Amarillo, 3,500; H. Butt, Corpus Christi, 1,000; or more: W. Day, Jr., Austin, 1,000; E. $436,106.04 in contributions, while $385,538.45 in J. Crowe, Corpus Christi, 1,000. Gammage, Houston, 1,000; H. English, Dallas, the first primary. He received no loans in the 1,000; M. DeBusk; Dallas, 1,000; A. Alkek, Hous- second primary and one for $32,500 in the $5014999: San Antonio Bottler's Club, L. Neal, ton, 1,000; I. Arnold, Houston, 1,500; C. Brown, first. trustee. San Antonio, 750; H. Zachary, San An- Jr., Houston, 1,000; J. Butler, Houston, 1,000; Second Primary tonio, -800; H. Schulte, Mexia, 535.80; H. Smith, E. Coulson, Houston, 1,000; G. Cox, Houston, $1,000 or more: R. Briggs, San Antonio, 1,000; Marlin, 573; L. Olson, Waco, 600; H. Shulte, 1,000; M. Cochran, Houston, 1,000; D. Demopulos, H. Oppenheimer, San Antonio, 1,000; 5. Redmon, Mexia, 535.80; W. Whitehead, Kirbyville, 600; W. Houston, 1,125; H. Drews, Houston, 1,000; K. Dallas, 1,000; F. Connally, Waco, 1,000; R. John- Hill, Dallas, 775; J. Abrams, El Paso, 625• H. Fogg, Houston, 1,000; L. Johnson, Houston, 1,000; son, Austin, 1,000; G. Neilson, Austin, 1,000; R. Head, Corpus Christi, 850; G. Byrne, Marshall, B. Johnson, Houston, 1,000; V. Kickerillo, Hous- Cargill, Longview, 2,405.35; P. Cole, Houston, 535; G. Hawn, Corpus Christi, 750; R. Cauble, ton, 1,000; R. Lanier, Houston, 1,000; H. Lott, 1,500; C. Leisk, Richmond, 1,500; R. Shepherd, Denton, 750; R. Baker, Jr., Houston, 750. Houston, 1,000; S. Morris, Houston, 1,000; T. Jr., Houston, 1,500; A. Temple, Jr., Diboll, 1,000; Morrow, Houston, 1,000; R. Nesmith, Houston, $500: F. Shield, San Antonio; C. Morton, San 1,000; J. Phillips, Houston, 1,000; C. Parker, Hous- W. Garwood, Austin, 1,000; R. Lowe Estate, Mid- Antonio; H. and N. Club, L. Neal, trustee, San land, 1,000; H. Coleman, Waco, 1,250; T. O'Con- ton, 1,000; R. Reid, Houston, 5,000; P. Ruther- Antonio; A. Hope, San Antonio; C. Butt, San ford, Houston, 2,500; L. Rauch, Houston, 1,500; nor, Jr., Victoria, 1,000; J. Stemmons and L. Antonio; M. McCombs Enterpr., L. Neal, trustee, Storey, Dallas, 2,000; B. Vaughn, Jr., Corpus W. Sellers, Houston, 1,000; T. Watson, Houston, San Antonio; R. Fair, San Antonio; V. Taylor, 1,000; R. Wilkinson, Houston, 1,000; C. Alcorn, Christi, 1,000; P. Issac, Lake Jackson, 1,000; H. San Antonio; J. Gorman, San Antonio; G. Coates, Meley and T. Price, Austin, 2,000; J. Hansen, Houston, 1,105; Preston Smith for Gov. Comm., San Antonio; T. Lowrance, San Antonio; E. 5,640; Fund Raising Dinner for P. Smith, Whit- trustee, Midland, 5,000; T. Solomon, McComb, Burke, Jr., San Antonio; C. McGaha, Wichita Miss., 1,000; T. Post, Dallas, 2,500; J. Roach, ney, 1,099.27; T. Maes II, Beaumont, 3,000; Lub- Falls; L. French, Jr., Odessa; M. Harvey, Tyler; bock Co. Comm. for P. Smith, Lubbock, 5,000; Dallas, 3,000; W. Day, Jr., Austin, 1,000; R. Gil- M. Watson, Mart; F. Edmondson, Dallas; A. ster, Victoria, 1,000; W. Gunn, Amarillo, 1,000; Harris Co. Comm. for P. Smith, Houston, 15,000; Hill, Dallas; H. Neuhoff, Jr., Dallas; 5. Neuhoff, Tarrant Co. Comm. for P. Smith, Fort Worth, J. Irion, Beaumont, 1,000; F. Heldenfels, Corpus Dallas; J. Jonsson, Dallas; M. Moses, Dallas; C. Christi, 1,000; G. Warren, Corpus Christi, 1,000; 4,500; Ector Co. Comm. for P. Smith, Odessa, Moore, Jr., Dallas, 500; W. Clements, Jr., Dallas; 4,000; Dallas Co. Comm. for P. Smith, Dallas, A. Morgan, Corpus Christi, 1,000; E. Heyser, Jr., P. Overton, Austin; T. Miller, Jr., Austin; E. Dallas, 1,000; J. Humphrey, Dallas, 1,000; W. 5,500; Bexar Co. Comm. for P. Smith, San An- Morrison, Austin; H. Leonard, Austin; E. Jack- tonio, 5,000; R. Day, trustee, Garland, 2,000; R. Bankstron, Dallas, 1,000; R. Foree, Dallas, 1,000; son, Austin; K. McAdams, Austin; W. Yeager, M. Purnell, Dallas, 1,000; J. Hill, Dallas, 1,000; Martin, Lubbock, 1,000; J. Bertman, Liberty, Midland; A. Stokes, Houston; W. Tinsley, Dallas; 1,000; C. Wilkinson, trustee, Bellaire, 5,000; J. C. Green, Dallas, 1,000; R. Venable, Dallas, 1,000; C. Coates, Houston; N. Hunt, Dallas; E. Gardner, E. Wilson, Dallas, 1,000; A. Meadows, Dallas, Ray, Austin, 1,000; B. Wood, Wichita Falls, 2,500; Houston; W. Jones, Jr., Kermit; C. Melan, Vic- H. Chiles, Fort Worth, 1,500; W. Goldston, Hous- 3,000; M. Thomas, Dallas, 1,000; J. Redditt, Luf- toria; W. Welder, Victoria; L. Welder, Victoria; kin, 1,000; CITIGO, D. Lawson, trustee, Dallas, ton, 1,000; W. Prewitt, Jr., Temple, 1,000; M. T. O'Connor, Jr., Victoria; M. Jackson, Dallas; Peck, Houston, 1,000; V. Rucker, Killeen, 1,000; 15,000; R. Stewart, III, trustee, Dallas, 1,000; E. Hollandsworth, Longview; R. Cravens, Hous- R. Blumberg, Seguin, 1,000; A. Wayne, Jr., Ar- G. Price, trustee, Austin, 2,500; W. Wise, Tyler, ton; P. Simmons, Dallas; P. Kayser, Houston; 1,000; C. Sapp, Houston, 2,500; G. Lee and E. lington, 1,000; J. Abdnor, Dallas, 1,000; R. Wil- R. Holliday, Houston; R. Stewart, Houston; B. liams, Victoria, 1,000; J. Frost, San Antonio, Reeves, Dallas, 1,000; Mrs. E. Kenedy, Sarita, Pa tillo, Houston; Amer. Bk. of Com., R. Cates, 3,000; R. Smith, trustee, Odessa, 1,000; C. Smith, 8 The Texas Observer trustee, Victoria; S. Whittenburg, Amarillo; B. trustee, Odessa, 1,000; D. Henry, trustee, Odessa, Britain, Amarillo; A. Powell, Amarillo; I. Dement, 1,000; B. Dorboudt, trustee, Odessa, 1,000; B. Coller, trustee, Odessa, 1,000; A. Verner, trustee, 1,000; M. Zale, Dallas, 1,000; Mrs. A. Frew, Dallas, 4,000; C. Price, Uvalde, 1,000; M. Hale, Uvalde, Lubbock, 1,000; G. McCaskill, trustee, Odessa, 1,200; B. Siegal, Dallas, 1,000; P. Drusak, Hous- 1,000; T. M. Woodby, Jr., Sabinal, 1,000; L. B. 1,000; G. Nees, Houston, 1,000; Dallas County ton, 1,000; M. McCollum, Franklin, 1,000; H. Manry, Jr., Uvalde, 1,000; Mr. and Mrs. Ray Comm., Dallas, 12,000; Lubbock County Comm., Lane, Houston, 6,800.82; T.P.L.C.-U.S.A. Dist. 37, Manen Uvalde, 1,000; Jack Frost, San Antonio, Lubbock, 15,000; Travis County Comm., Austin, Houston, 1,000; I.L.G.W.U., New York, New York, 5,000; Mrs. Jack Frost, San Antonio, 5,000; Bris- 6,000; Tarrant County Comm., Fort Worth, 5,000; 1,000; J. Phelps, Houston, 3,000; Harris County coe testimonial dinner, Uvalde, 51,237.69; Mrs. Dallas County Comm., Dallas, 10,000; Midland Yarborough Dinner Comm., Edinburg, 16,547: Ross B. Lea, Dallas, 2,000; West Texas Commit- County Comm., Midland, 5,000; Bexar County Texas State AFL-CIO COPE, Austin, 10,000; Trairi- tee for Briscoe, c/o D. Henry, 2,000; Clyde Shan- Comm., San Antonio, 6,000; T. Beasley, Dallas, men's Political Educational League, Cleveland, non, San Antonio, 2,000; Clint Bracher, Uvalde, 1,000; D. Lawson, trustee, Dallas, 2,000; J. Vaughn, Ohio, 1,000; J. McNeil, San Antonio, 1,000. 1,000; R. Harris, Jr., Uvalde, 1,000; Leonard Tay- Dallas, 3,000; R. Cargill, Longview, 2,686.06; R. $5013999: Rally, Houston, 599.38; DRIVE, lor, San Antonio, 1,500; J. R. Rainc, Uvalde, Furr, Sr., Lubbock, 2,000; E. Williams, Lubbock, Houston, 800; Marvin Weaster (use of airplane), 1,000; R. L. Briscoe, Alvin, 1,000; Ross C. Watkins, 1,000; H. Head, Corpus Christi, 1,000; H. Hel- Houston, 780; Harlan Lane (use of air plane), Uvalde, 1,200; R. R. Woodward, Sabinal, 1,000; denfels, Jr., Corpus Christi, 1,000; J. Laird, Cor- Houston, 750; Don Yarborough dinner, Lubbock, B. J. Conroy, Austin, 1,000; R. J. Nunley, Sabinal, pus Christi, 1,000; J. Crowe, Corpus Christi, 995.30; L. Gresham, San Angelo, 555.60; J. Pruitt, 5,000; Dorthy E. Nunley, Sabinal, 5,000; R. Pars- 1,000; C. Wickersham, Orange, 1,000; N. Stark, Dallas, 800; B. Bader, Dallas, 600; Rally, Hous- ley, Houston, 5,000; S. Evans, Houston, 1,000; Orange, 1,000; T. Beasley, Dallas, 1,000; D. Law- ton, 547.13; Comm. for Better Government, D. A. E. Gates, Laredo, 1,000. son, trustee, Dallas, 2,000; J. Vaughn, Dallas, McCullar, Houston, 625; G. Armstrong, Fort $501-$999: John F. Canty, San Antonio, 600; 3,000. Worth, 644.50. H. G. Moore, Richmond, 700. $5014999: W. Lewie, Waco, 600; D. Clements, $500: B. Morrison, Dallas; Combs, Mitchel, $500: M. W. Maruitz, Ganado; Briscoe Cam- trustee, Mineral Wells, 800; L. Olson, Waco, 600; McDonald and Doran, Houston; W. Krunf, Hous- paign Fund, Taylor; R. K. Bhumberg, Seguin; L. Olson, Waco, 600; L. Ammons and J. Morrow, ton; A. Leubear, Houston; W. Rubey, Houston; J. M. Parker, San Antonio; Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Honey Grove, 506.85; M. Burkholder, Pecos, 750; R. Ripper, Houston; T. Moore, Houston; D. Ma- Ayers, Jr., San Antonio; George H. Coates, San J. Hill, Dallas, 750; Lamesa Comm. for Preston jor, Pasadena; COPE, Houston; J. Kegaus, Hous- Antonio; C. Bracher, Uvalde; H. J. Casal, Uvalde; Smith, M.McCall, Chairman, 840; T. Rutherford, ton; L. Lubel, Mumford; R. Houston, Hender- S. H. Fly, Jr., Uvalde; C. Griffin, Jr., Uvalde; Dallas, 750; D. Prappas, Houston, 510. son; J. De Anda, Corpus Christi; J. Simon, Dal- H. G. Haile, Jr., Uvalde; J. D. Ware, Corpus $500: C. Phillips, Levelland; L. Shaw, Austin; las; Mrs. P. Marsters, Houston; J. Helms, Spear- Christi; C. Reagan, Knippa; L. B. Manry, Jr., W. Wood, Lubbock; W. Boyd, Center; E. Pharr, man; J. Skaggs and R. Koppel, Harlington; J. Uvalde; W. R. Painter, Uvalde; E. Williams, Lubbock; R. Johnson, Jr., Lubbock; W. Doherty, Maloney, San Antonio; G. Smith, Andrews; R. Uvalde: J. R. Hunter, Uvalde; F. Kivran, Uvalde; Houston; D. Woodard, Fort Worth; H. Johnson, Bray, Houston; V. Branch, Houston; H. Pickett, C. A. McDaniel, Uvalde; W. Kessler and T. Friona; C. McLaughlin, Snyder; S. Killingsworth, San Antonio; J. Williamson, Montclair, New Nichols, Uvalde; R. H. Harris, III, San An- Longview; C. Crenshaw, Austin; C. Phillips, Lev- Jersey; H. Yarborough, Dallas; M. Lachman, tonio; Reagan Houston, III, San Antonio; elland; T. Solomon, McComb, Miss.; H. Robin- San Antonio; T. Sneed, Odessa; E. Brown, Cor- Charles Beasley, Uvalde; Mrs. M. G. Perry, San son, Houston; W. Doherty, Houston; R. Baxter, pus Christi; S. Socia, Houston; J. Denton, Antonio; Briscoe for Governor Committee, Dim- Dallas; D. Henry, trustee, Odessa; A. Vogel, Wichita Falls; J. Barnhart, Houston;` M. Aiken, mit County; J. M. Barkley, Pearsall; David C. Houston; A. Brashear, Jr., Temple; J. Schneider, Houston; C. Sturdivant, Houston; CWA-COPE, Bintliff, Houston; Roger Williams, Victoria; D. Lubbock,• B. Britain, Amarillo; C. McGaha, Houston; Texas drive, Dallas; J. Feldman, Dal- T. Dougherty, Beeville; Pearce Johnson, Aus- Wichita Falls; M. Wood, Dallas; B. Collins, Lub- las; G. Weber, Brooklyn, New York; J. Mouton, tin; C. K. McKan, Victoria; L. H. Laf fere, bock; R. Dudley, Lubbock; R. Fuller, Lubbock, Jr., Austin; E. Brown, Corpus Christi. Uvalde. 500; B. Rushing, Lubbock; A. Verner, Lubbock; First Primary W. Allen, Lubbock; G. Hight, San Antonio; J. $1,000 or more: Friends of Don Yarborough, Perry, San Antonio; L. Neal, San Antonio; T. B. Rapoport, chairman, Waco, $41,500; J. Parten, Eugene Locke McKnight, Odessa; F. Heldenfels, Jr., Corpus Houston, $3,000; B. Lifshutz, San Antonio, $1,000; Locke, a Dallas attorney, listed $400,457.95 in Christi; G. Warren, Corpus Christi; F. Helden- J. McNeil, San Antonio, $1,000; D. Gilliland ; gifts and $213,500 in loans. fels, III, Corpus Christi; W. Morgan, Jr., Dallas; chairman, RLPL, BLFE, Austin, $1;000; L. tow- $1,000 or more: W. Altquet, San A,ntonio, 3,500; W. B. Landress, Dallas; R. Thornton, Jr., Dallas; ensteit, Houston, 1,000; M. Weaster, Houston, W. Bauer, Port Lavaca, 5,000; C. Bender, Dallas, G. Hallam, Dallas; R. Day, Garland; H. Franz, $1,500. 2,000; T. Benson, San Antonio, 1,000; R. Bond, Houston; L. Butler, Houston; B. O'Connor, Dal- 500: S. Lewis, Corpus Christi; L. Lubel, San Dallas, 1,000; S. Brachman, Fort Worth, 2,000; las; R. Williams, Dallas; D. Parkhouse, Dallas; Antonio; J. Bennett, Bowie; W. Akin, director, Central Texas Committee for Eugene Locke, F. Brooks, Dallas; W. Nichols, Dallas; C. Run- OCAW-PEA, Houston; Texas D.R.I.V.E., Dallas, Temple, 9,100; W. Joe Clements, Dallas, 1,000; nells, Houston; J. Saccra, Houston; T. Steele, J. Catain, Encino, Calif.; R. Rubin, New York; Mrs. B. Collins, Dallas, 1,000; T. Crow, Dallas, Houston; H. Robinson, Houston; L. Shanks, H. Rich, Houston. 5,000; E. Texas Committee for Eugene Locke, Austin; E. Baum, Austin; M. Killian, San An- Odessa, 2,000; W. Ellis, San Francisco, 1,000; tonio; G. Warren, Corpus Christi; J. Frick, Cor- Waggoner Carr M. Crow, Dallas, 4,000; Dallas Committee for pus Christi; F. Weldenfels, Corpus Christi; R. Locke, 6,000; J. Johnson, Dallas, 1,000; C. Thom- Maes, Beaumont; 0. Crawford, Beaumont; W. Carr listed $193,757.92 in contributions. He as, Dallas, 2,000; K. McGee, Houston, 1,000; A. Prewitt, Jr., Temple; E. Heyser, Jr., Dallas; D. had no loans. Poague, Dallas, 2,500; S. Silloway, Minneapolis, Woodard, Fort Worth; T. Spencer, Pasadena; J. $1,000 or more: F. Holt, Dallas, 2,000; R. Frank- 1,500; J. Poague, Dallas, 5,500; R. Smith, Dallas., Frost, San Antonio; H. Hollers, Austin; P. Kay- lin, Dallas, 1,000;, R. Pearl, Jr., Seagoville, 1,000; 3,000; J. Stanley, Houston, 1,500; Young Men ser, Houston; G. Gerdes, Giddings; J. McMil- T. Wright, Austin, 1,000; T. Butler, Dallas, 2,500; for Locke, Dallas, 16,700; W. Albritton, Dallas, lian, Jr., Midland; S. Wiener, Dallas; C. Kirk- G. Robertson, Houston, 1,000; M. Lewis, Dallas, 1,000; W. H. Attebury, Amarillo, 1,000; J. Austin, ham, Jr., Dallas; R. Rowland, Houston; J. Fair, 2,000; D. Bergman, Dallas, 2,500; P. Moore, Dallas, Houston, 1,000; P. Bass, Fort Worth, 1,000; W. Tyler;. R. Mullen, Sandia; E. Stephens, Dallas; 1,000; C. Murchison, Jr., Dallas, 5,000; G. D. S. Bellows, Houston, 1,000; R. S. Bond, Dallas, R. Scurry, Dallas; H. Allen, Houston; I. Axelrod, Butler, Port Aransas, 3,000; J. H. Coogan, Hous- 3,000; H. Box, Dallas, 2,000; M. K. Brachman, Houston; D. Bintliff, Houston; J. Blanton, Hous- ton, 2,500; F. S. Warren, Houston, 1,000; W. M. Dallas, 1,000; H. L. Bromberg, Dallas, 1,500; H. ton; Butler. Houston; J. Connor, Houston; Noble, Victoria, 1,000; A. J. Powers, Waco, 2,500; L. Browning, Dallas, 1,000; D. Brutum, Dallas, W. Doherty, Houston; D. Harrison, Sr., Hous- D. Shepherd, Houston, 2,500; G. Palmer, Austin, 5,000; B. Burke, Dallas, 1,000; B. Campbell, Dal- ton; M. Halbouty, Houston; J. Lynch, Houston; 2,500; R. Franklin, Dallas, 1,000; R. E. Fogle, las, 2,000; E. Carp, Dallas, 5,000; J. and W. E. J. Laguarta, Houston; R. Noble, Houston; W. Houston, 1,000; W. Jefferson, Houston, 1,000; Carr, Corpus Christi, 1,000; D, J. Lawson, Dal Olson, Houston. R. Pendleton, Andrews, 1,000; P. Barnhart, Hous- las, 3,500; B. Collins, Dallas, 1,000; Mary Con- Loans: Continental Bank, Houston, 32,500. ton, 1,000; J. Underwood, Dallas, 1,000; Warlick nally, Floresville, 5,000; M. Connally, Floresville, Carr, Lubbock, 1,000; E. C. Shaw, Houston, 1,000; 5,000; E. Cox, Dallas, 5,000; H. M. Crosswell, J. Osorio, Austin, 2,500; L. Flournoy, Alice, 1,000; 1,000; F. Crossen, Dallas, 1,000; Mrs. T. Crow, Don Yarborough G. Quentan, Dallas, 1,200; B. Williams, Dallas, Dallas, 1,000; J. Dellinger, Corpus Christi, 1,000; Don Yarborough, a Houston lawyer, received 2,000; H. J. McGovern, Dallas, 2,500; D. Sear1s, W. D. De Sanders, Dallas, 1,000; S. F. Ewing, $261,212.38 in gifts in the second primary and Houston, 1,000; B. Harris, Dallas, 1,500; B. Trot- Dallas, 1,000; B. Fields, Dallas, 2,000; R. L. Foree, $73,041.20 in the first primary. He had one loan ti, Dallas, 2,500; J. Adams, Dallas, 1,000; R. T. Dallas, 1,000; B. C. Garnett, Corpus Christi, 2,500; in the second primary amounting to $44,614.76. Davis, Austin, 1,000; T. Ward, Athens, 1,200; H. E. W. Germany, Dallas, 5,000; B. Gillen, Dallas, McGovern, El Paso, 2,500. Second Primary 5,000; C. FT. Green, Dallas, 1,000; P. R. Hass, $5014999: M. Thomas, Austin, 750; H. J. Frens- Corpus Christi, 3,500; C. H. Green, Dallas, 1,000; 1,000 or more: B. Bader, Dallas, 1,900.60; Dinner ley, Houston, 750. Rally, Dallas, 2,012.71; G. Armstrong, Fort Worth, P. R. Hass, Corpus Christi, 3,500; P. Haggerty, *$500: R. Furr, Lubbock; A. Byram, Dallas; W. Dallas, 1,000; G. Hawn, Corpus Christi, 1,000; 1,128.87; B. McDavid, Fort Worth, 2,250; K. Mc- Oliver, Port Neches; E. T. Edmundson, Dallas; Don, Houston, 1,000; Seafarers (COPE), Hous- B. Hay, Dallas, 3,800; J. Hay, Dallas, 5,000; R. M. R. H. Stewart, Dallas; H. Burke, San Antonio; Holliday, Houston, 2,500; C. Hunter, Dallas, 1,000; ton, 4,000; MEBA (COPE), Houston, 2,000; M. B. D. O'Conner, Victoria; T. O'Connor, Jr., Vic- Rudman, Dallas, 1,000; Beanie Siegel, Dallas, E. J. Kahn, Dallas; 1,000; M. Knight, Jefferson, toria; S. R. Bloom, Dallas; T. Blanton, Beau- 1,100; J. La Due, Dallas, 1,000; M. Locke, Dallas. 1,500; G. Yarborough, El Paso, 1,000; M. Weaster, mont; A. Byram, Dallas; J. Finney, Greenville; Houston, $4,500; J. Teare, Houston, 1,000; Galves- 5,000; E. Luckey, Dallas, 1,000; H. Mallon, Dal. East Texas Committee for Waggoner Carr; South las, 1,000; E. McDermott. Dallas, 5,000; H. Mc- ton County Friends of Don Yarborough, 2,500; Plains-Panhandle Comm. for Waggoner Carr; El Paso Citizens for Don Yarborough, 2,000; W. Gee, Dallas, 3,550; A. Meadows, Dallas, 3,500; South Texas Committee for Waggoner Carr; C. Miller, Dallas, 5,000; H. Miller, Dallas, 1.000; Decker, Amarillo, 1,000; Friends of Don Yarbo- Wylie Caldwell, Houston; N. G. Atchley, Liv- rough, B. Rapoport chrmn, 34,000; J. Cannata, H. Miller, Dallas, 5,000; Millikin, Floresville, ingston; W. R. Copeland, Dallas; A. Byram, 1,000; R. Mize, Snyder, 2,500; A. Moody, Hous- Houston, 1,000; W. Edwards, Corpus Christi, Dallas. 1,700; J. Parten, Houston, 8,000; Mrs. A. Lasker,, ton, 1,000; M. Moore, Dallas, 1,000; C. Reeder, New York, New York, 1,000; J. Jamail, Hous- Tulsa, 1,000; M. Poague, 2,500; C. Purnell, Dal- ton, 1,000; H. Lane, Spring, 9,000; J. Buch, Hous- Dolph Briscoe las, 4,850; M. Purnell, Dallas, 2,750; J. Redman, ton, 1,000; Eltan Baker (use of helicopter), Hous- Briscoe, a Uvalde rancher, reported $173,197.69 Dallas, 2,500; H. Richards, director, Beaumont ton, 1,500; W. Moran, Houston, 2,000; I. Frucht- in gifts. Committee for Locke, 1,500; N. Rodgers, Beau- man, Toledo, 1,000; G. Jackson, Houston, 2,500; $1,000 or more: H. Halff, Jr., San Antonio, mont, 5000; R. Rogers, Dallas, 1,000; P. Rosen- B. Thompson, Houston, 1,000; W. Burnett, 5,000; J. W. Gorman, San Antonio, 1,000; F. W. field, Dallas, 1,000; P. Rutherford, Houston, Odessa, 3,000; J. Watts, Odessa, 2,000; L. Romano, Shield, San Antonio, 1,000; W. Dorn, San An- 2,500; P. Saunders, Victoria, 2,000; W. Schoell- Houston, 1,800; C. Swann, Houston, 5,000; 0. tonio, 5,000; H. J. Parker, San Antonio, 1,000; C. kopf, Dallas, 1,000; F. Schultz, Dallas, 1,000; J. Tauber, Houston, 2,500; G. McMillan, Houston, Cargil, Uvalde, 3,000; D. C. Carnes, Uvalde, 1,000; Sexton, Dallas, 4,850; N. Sexton, Dallas, 5,000; 5,000; P. Schlumberger, Houston, 1,000; S. Lewis, N. Foley, Uvalde, 3,000; D. Friend, Uvalde, 1,000; Corpus Christi, 3,000; A. Smith, Fort Worth, T. Garner, Uvalde, 1,000; R. Watkins, Uvalde. July 26, 1968 9

E. Singer, Corpus Christi, 2,500; J. Stalcup, Dal- R. Tollett, Big Spring; D. Tomlin, Fort Worth; mittee for Hill, Joe Colbert, chairman, 3,260. las, 1,000; J. Stemmons, Dallas, 4,000; L. Stem- H. and G. Watson, Dallas; A. Wilson, Dallas; $501-$999: L. Dorfman, Dallas, 700; R. Miller, mons, Dallas, 1,000; J. Stewart, Dallas, 1,000; J. Zeppa, Tyler. Houston, 750; C. Chesser, Amarillo, 600; Bexar E. Stroud, Dallas, 5,000; R. Sullivan, Dallas, Loans: 1,800; Tarrant County Committee for Locke, T. Crow, Dallas, 150,000; M. Purnell, County Committee for Hill, J. Knowlin, chair- Dallas, 4,500; Jess Hay, Dallas, 18,500. man, 895; G. Bauch, Fort Worth, 750; 0. Peder- Fort Worth, 5,500; R. Taylor, Dallas, 1,500; L. son, Kilgore, 710; Smith County Friends of Tumerlin, Dallas, 1,005; Tyler Committee for Pat O'Daniel John Hill, 965.25; Gregg County Committee for Locke, W. Key, chairman, 3,800; C. Wallace, Dal- John Hill, D. Pederson, chairman, 625; A. Waugh, las, 1,100; W. Wallace, Dallas, 4,500; J. Webb, O'Daniel and his family, including his father Liberty, 700; B. Love, Houston, 750. Houston, 1,000; W. Wilson, Denver, 1,000; Wil- W. Lee O'Daniel, a former Texas governor, $500: J. Davis, Houston; E. Marcits, Dallas; B. cox, Dallas, 1,000; C. Wilkinson, Austin, 1,000; financed his campaign. He received $26,044.75 in Meise.i, El Campo; Matthews and Willott Car- D. Williams, Dallas, 1,000; M. Wommack, Dallas, gifts and $31,000 in loans. roll, Houston; J. Carter, Houston; W. Hudson, 2,000; A. Wood, Corpus Christi, 5,000; C. Wyly, $1,000 or more: W. Lee O'Daniel, $10,000; Pat Houston; P. McConnell, Alief; G. Mitchell, Hous- Dallas, 1,000; S. Wyly, Dallas, 1,000; J. Young- O'Daniel, $6,450; Mrs. W. Lee O'Daniel, $2,000; ton; G. Hunter, Dallas; S. Mafrige, Houston; blood, Dallas, 1,000. Shamrock Realty, $7,500. No contributions under W. Clark, Dallas; J. Maloney, San Antonio; F. $5014999: S. Farr, Dallas, 600; R. E. Gregory, $1,000 were listed. 975; J. M. Maggar, 750; C. Norsworthy, Dal- Mabry, Houston; H. Wetegrove, Corpus Christi; Loans: W. Lee O'Daniel, $31,000. W. Thomas, Angleton; G. Heyer, Houston; R. las, 750; W. Overton, Dallas, 800; M. Purnell, Barker, Houston; D. Lack, Victoria; J. Suggs, Dallas, 940; W. Walker, Dallas, 550; A. Yocharn, Freeport; J. Blanton, Houston; B. Tarpley, Abi- Dallas, 512.95. John Hill lene; E. Massad, Dallas; J. Pence, Fulshear; T. $500: B. Beck, Dallas; M. Blakeney, Jr., Dallas; Hill, a Houston lawyer, reported $146,468.03 Carter, Camden; J. Kirksey, West Columbia; J. Cleaver, Dallas; J. Farina, Irving; E. Gabriel, in gifts and $65,000 in loans. Travis County Friends for John Hill. Houston; R. Holliday, Houston; L. Jones, Dal- $1,000 or more: Harris County Committee for Loans: T. Strauss, Dallas, 2,500; John Hill, las; J. Neill, Dallas, J. Felon, Brownswood; F. Hill, Paul Pressler, chairman, 17,515; Bell County 50,000; Robert L. Armstrong, 5,000; Edward Walters, Dallas; C. Wyche, Irving; A. Wynne, Committee for Hill, Keifer Marshall, chairman, Wendler, 5,000; Charles Porter, 2,500. Jr., Arlington; M. Zale, Dallas; G. L. Allen, Dal- 1,595; Rockwall County Committee for John las; W. D. Ankerman, Houston; J. K. S. Arthur; Hill, Ralph Hall, chairman, 4,461.46; Nueces Alfonso Veloz G. Bishop, Dallas; F. N. Burgher, Dallas; County Committee for Hill, C. Porter, chair- W. P. Clements, Dallas; A. Coats, Gladewater; man, 4,760.92; Ector County Committee for Hill, The secretary of state's office had no file on R. B. Cullum, Dallas; B. J. Cummock, Dallas; Veloz, a Houston bank employee who compaign- P. Crespi, Memphis; J. C. Crawford, Dallas; L. Bunton, chairman, 1,900; Victoria County ed on weekends. R. D. Douglas, Jefferson; H. Dunn, Amarillo; Committtee for John Hill, A. Lapham, chair- D. Farr, Dallas; W. D. Felder, Dallas, C. A. man, 1,700; West Texas Committee for Hill, R. Findley, Irving, D. W. Forbes; Dallas; H. Fuku- Armstrong, chairman, 1,000; L. French, Odessa, Johnnie Mae Hackworthe tami, Richardson; R. I. Galland, Dallas; B. 1,000; M. Jaffee, Dallas, 1,000; J. Pence, Hous- Mrs. Hackworthe, prophetess from Brenham, Gilliland, Dallas; J. A. Gillin, Dallas; J. L. Gog- ton, 1,000; E. Cockrell, Houston, 1,000; J. Apple, received no contributions. She received a $1,000 Houston, 1,000; J. Watts, Odessa, 1,000; G. Smith, loan from S. Enhardt of Houston. gans, Dallas; H. H. Green, Quitman; Good Gov- Andrews, 1,000; Wichita County Committee. for ernment Fund Employees of the First National . Hill, R. Knight, chairman, 4,244.41; B. Wilson, Bank, Dallas; D. 0. Harrington, Amarillo; N. Edward Whittenburg R. Harris, Dallas; E. F. Hayes, Dallas; E. M. Wichita Falls, 1,000; Jefferson County Commit- Hoffman, Dallas; S. G. Ingram, Dallas; D. Kelly, tee for Hill, E. Thorpe, chairman, 2,160; W. Whittenburg, a Houston businessman, report- Liedtke, Houston, 1,000; R. Stuly, Houston, 1,000; ed a total of $156,960 in gifts and $3,020 in loans. Fort Worth; B. Lipshy, Dallas; R. Lynch, Dallas; R. Harrison, III, Bryan, 1,000; W. Hooper and M. Marr, Dallas; C. McGaha, Wichita Falls; R. Mrs. J. Martin, Conroe, 1,024.14; E. Paso Com- $1,000 or more: John D. Triloch, Houston, McGinnis, Austin; J. Murrell, Dallas; J. O'Boyle, mittee for Hill, W. Windle, chairman, 3,570.75; 8,500; Robert L. Burns, Houston, 9,000; Will Dallas; W. •Odom, Austin; A. Rohnstedt, New Dallas County Committee for Hill, J .Lerner, Sears, Houston, 9,000; Richard S. Ruiz, Houston, Haven; T. Paulsel, Fort Worth; F. Peterson, chairman, 7,440; Tarrant County Committee for 8,500; Adrian Kachel, Houston, 13,500; Marvin Houston; Pickens, Dallas; D. Ray, Dallas; H. Hill, J. Bean, chairman, 4,935; Brazoria County Leggett, Houston, 11,900; Robert H. Mahone, Richardson, Dallas; B. Sandlin, Mt. Pleasant; Committee for Hill, W. Thomas, chairman, 1,050; Houston, 9,400; Braxton S. Thompson, 10,000; L. Sands, Dallas; J. Scanlan, Brownsville; A. T. Davis, Austin, 1,000; East Texas Committee Walter H_echt, Robert Hecht and Barry Bat- Schlosstein, Dallas; J. Schoellkopf, Dallas; C. for Hill, R. Armstrong, chairman, 1,000; W. tlestein, 5,250; L. E. Richey, Houston, 1,000; Seay, Dallas; C. Schimek, Dallas; J. Schook, Crosbie, Waco, 1,000; W. Watkins, Houston, R. L. Hudgins, Houston, 1,000; C. 0. Hogan, Dallas; A. Shumacker, Dallas; W. Silverman, 1,250; J. Wright, 1,000; C. Sullivan, Gainesville, San Antonio, 1,000; Jack Little, Houston, 4,500; Dallas; C. Skeen, Dallas; J. Thompson, Dallas; 1,000; Friends of John Hill, Baytown, R. Lam- Glen McMillan, Houston, 1,000; Maurice West, bert, chairman, 1,700; CITIGO, Dallas, 2,500; F. 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Archbishop Robert E. Lucey, laid the B. Clark, Sr., Wichita Falls, 2,500; G. T. Kimbell, groundwork for the local joint economic Wichita Falls, 1,000; John Moran, Wichita Falls, venture. Unitarian minister, the Rev. Wil- Republicans 1,000; Chas. P. McGaha, Wichita Falls, 1,000; Wm. B. Ferguson, Wichita Falls, 1,000; Margaret liam DeWolfe, said that his congregation Bridwell Bowdle, Wichita Falb, 3,500; Minnie with an annual expenditure of $30,000 John Trice Rhea Wood, Wichita Falls, 1,000; A. R. Dillard, Trice, a Republican from Dallas, received Wichita Falls, 1,250; D. H. Bolin, Wichita Falls, had endorsed the project "without any $3,100 in gifts and $1,000 in loans. 1,000. negative votes," although one family had $1,000 or more: H. Pattison, Dallas, 1,500. $501-$999: None. withdrawn its membership in protest. S501-$999: None. $500: Strong and Heyburn, Houston; Duncan E. Boeckman, Dallas; Al G. Hill, Dallas; Murray The Unitarians will share in the adminis- $500: M. Ball, Dallas; M. Ball, Dallas. S. Johnson, Dallas; L. S. Reed, Houston; Thomas trative cost of the project. Loads: H. Pattison, Dallas, 1,000. R. Armstrong, Armstrong; M. C. Puckett, Fort Other San Antonio and South Texas re- Stockton; John A. Matthews, Abilene; J. E. Paul Eggers Faubert, Wichita Falls; Jack C. Staley, Wichita ligious groups, including Jewish, Metho- Eggers, the Republican candidate from Wichita Falls; Bradley Streeter, Wichita Falls; Bobby dist, Episcopal and Lutheran, attended Falls, received $108,061.66 in gifts. M. Burns, Wichita Falls; Jim McDonald, Wichita Falls. the preliminary meetings. It is expected $1,000 or more: Elect Eggers Comm., Wichita that the Reformed Jewish Temple Beth Falls, 39,000; Harry W. Bass, Jr., Dallas, 1,000; Fred J. Agnich, Dallas, 2,000; Mrs. Percy Jones, Wallace Sisk El will join the project in September. Dallas, 5,000; E. Constantin, Jr., Dallas, 1,000; Walter Sisk received $190 in gifts and $2,600.57 Since Methodist Bishop 0. Eugene Slater Sam Wyly, Dallas, 1,200; Cary N. Maguire, Dal- in personal loans. --DANA WILSON has publicly endorsed Project Equality, his denomination may come in later in the year. Nationally, 150 religious bodies, repre- senting all major religious faiths partici- Project Equality pate in Project Equality, but with the ex- I ception of a state project in Tennessee, San Antonio ity director, Joseph Edelen, will make job the San Antonio program is the only one The Roman Catholic archdiocese and site inspection tours to insure compli- of its kind in the South. Project Equality the Unitarian-Universalist church of San ance, and publish a buyers' guide listing will be administered by a board of clergy Antonio have agreed to use their estimat- cooperating businesses. and lay representatives of both denomin- ed combined annual buying power of The significance of the project is two- ations, and a full-time staff director. It around $8,330,000 to promote equal em- fold: the emerging willingness of religi- has been endorsed by the San Antonio ployment practices for Negroes and Mex- ous groups to use economic power to im- NAACP and the LULAC Council No. 2. ican-Americans here. plement oft-preached ideals of brother- —MARY BETH ROGERS Their joint effort — Project Equality of hood, and the ecumenical cooperation —Mrs. Rogers is an Observer contribut- South Texas, Inc — will try to reinforce that results when diverse groups join in ing editor. moral persuasion with economic power. common social action without regard to The two groups will buy their goods and theological or structural questions. Since July 26, 1968 11 services only from firms which do not the financial impact upon San Antonio of discriminate against minority groups in $8 million a year in contracts is consid- ATHENA MONTESSORI SCHOOL erable, Project Equality members con- hiring and promotion, and which pledge SUMMER SESSION to take "affirmative steps to hire" Ne- sider the program to be a major step groes and Mexican-Americans at all job forward in promoting economic justice Ages 2-7 Red River at 41st levels. Firms which seek to supply the for Negroes and Mexican-Americans in GR 6-9700 or GL 4-4239 300,000-member Catholic diocese and the San Antonio. Leo Nitch, Director 200-member Unitarian congregation with By joining the three-year-old local Cath- food, clothing, textbooks, furniture, con- olic project, the Unitarians become the struction, pencils or paperclips will be first non-Catholic group in the Southwest required to sign a pledge of committment to take part in the program developed to non-discrimination, as well as provide by the National Catholic Conference for a workforce breakdown by ethnic group, Interracial Justice and patterned after race and job category to the Project federal government equal employment op- Since 1866 Equality staff. In addition, Project Equal- portunity programs. A series of meet- The Place in Austin A Steck-Vaughn Reprint GOOD FOOD Winston Bode GOOD BEER 1607 San Jadnto J. FRANK DOBIE: GR 7-4171 A PORTRAIT OF PANCHO MARTIN ELFANT

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I would have expected more accurate cial changes in order for peole to be selves communists for the same reason and perceptive coverage [Obs., July 12, genuinely free. - they belong to SDS: they have committed pp 22-23] of the SDS national conven- their lives to producing genuine demo- tion from a publication which co-spon- You also pointed out that Mr. Gordon cracy in this country, and understand the sored a liberal-radical conference just was elected with the support of the Pro- lesson taught, among other things, by the four months ago. For those of your read- gressive Labor party, a "Peking-oriented" front page article of the same Observer ers who would like a more complete ac- group. You failed to inform your readers carrying the report of the SDS conven- count of that convention, I would recom- of the fact that Gordon got PL support tion, that capitalists use their influence mend perusal of the June 22 issue of because the PL people present at the and power to hurt the masses of people The Guardian, a weekly published in New convention knew nothing about him, while his opponent in the election has a York City. I had always thought that good July 26, 1968 IA journalists do not rely on the reports of history of political differences with PL. other publications, especially when for The fact is that Mr. Gordon is one of three weeks, right next door to the office the foremost students of Herbert Mar- of the Observer, there were from three cuse, and that his political orientation is CLASSIFIED to seven people, including myself, work- diametrically opposed to almost every- thing that PL stands for. Indeed, the PL ANNE'S TYPING SERVICE: Duplicating (multi- ing on the Rag who had been to that con- lith, mimeo, ditto), Xeroxing, Mailing, Public vention, and who would have been happy people and sympathizers who attended Notary. Specialize in rush jobs, including Sun- the convention are wringing their hands days. Formerly known as Marjorie Delafield to discuss it with Mr. Dugger. Typing and Duplicating Service. Call HI 2-7008, over the support they gave to Mr. Gordon, Austin. I want to take the time here to take since his influence in the national SDS issue with two things said by your paper office will likely be quite antagonistic to BOOKPLATES. Free catalog. Many beautiful designs. Special designing too. Address: BOOK- (and by the New Republic). Let your PL. PLATES, Yellow Springs 8, Ohio. readers, after finding out the facts, judge I didn't expect to find "guilt-by-associa- Are you qualified to . own your own business? for themselves whether or not the New High earnings can be yours operating your own Republic, or the Observer for that matter, tion," especially when it is association business in your spare time. Collecting money & acted the way you would expect "the with certain words ('communise), to be restocking established accounts dispensing can- the central point of an Observer article. dy and snacks. An investment of $699.00 and bourgeois enemy" to act in reporting the the determination to be financially independent convention of the most important student Miss Dohrn and Mr. Klonsky call them- can grow into a permanent lifetime income. For radical group in this country. (The tradi- personal interview—write: National Food Dis- tributors, 305 Stemmons Tower North, Dallas, tional definition of "bourgeois enemy" is Texas 75207. those who side with the owners of the THE TEXAS OBSERVER means of production when they come in- to conflict with the masses.) BOOKSTORE DISTRIBUTOR You pointed out that Miss Dohrn and A partial list of titles ready for immediate shipment: PART TIME or FULL TIME INCOME Mr. Klonsky, both elected as national of- Reliable party needed to supply electron ficers of SDS, are self-proclaimed com- List Mem. tubes (Radio and Television tubes) to Price Price wholesale and retail accounts. Some ac- munists. You fail to inform your readers, counts furnished for you. Investment for THE DRUGSTORE LIBERAL: HUBERT H. inventory only. however, that they are not members of HUMPHREY IN POLITICS any party which owes allegiance in any Robert Sherrill & Harry W. 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They also discount price . is desired, to The Texas Observer, SNACK ROUTE make clear the belief they share: that 504 W. 24th, Austin 78705. (See prior issues or SPARE TIME INCOME Collecting eliminating capitalism is a necessary, but write for information regarding the discount plan). Money and Restocking established ac- Texas residents please include the 3% state and counts dispensing Candy and Snacks. not a sufficient condition for ending re- Must be bondable, have car, and able to pressive state government. Both are firm Austin sales tax with your remittance. Or, if you devote 5 to 8 hours per week. Starting believers in the proposition that in addi- prefer, we will bill you for a 25c service charge. inventory of $599.00 to $1499.00 required. For personal interview write: GENERAL tion to a socialist revolution, this coun- BUY ALL YOUR BOOKS FOOD DISTRIBUTORS, 1506 Linwood try (and many of the so-called "commun- FROM THE OBSERVER Blvd., Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. ist" countries) also need cultural and so- while increasing their own profits—that's to by Mr. Dugger? Maybe he felt the you have other axes to grind, grind them. what the sales tax is all about. validity of his "case" would have been As for the New Republic's being "a Finally, the time is long past for liberal seriously weakened if the readers had part of the bourgeois enemy," I really do publications to avoid dealing with im- been asked to believe that a pupil of Her- not know anything about that. .. . portant problems facing our society by bert Marcuse — which Fred Gordon is, BARTEE HAILE, JR., member, SDS na- red-baiting those who raise the issues. I as NR pointed out — is a pawn of a tional interim committee and regional don't much care for Progressive Labor, Maoist Marxist-Leninist party! coordinator, Texas-Oklahoma SDS, Box but I very much prefer their honest at- 1941, Dallas, Tex. 75221. tempt to make this country a place worth You asked, Mr. Dugger, what has be- living in for all the people to that most come of the SDS that used to be. If you Dugger replies to Mr. Haile: dangerous form of witch-hunting this are speaking of that former conglomera- Although Mr. Haile seems to have country has known. Surely, Mr. Dugger, tion of anti-war protesters nursing at the missed the statement in my short com- you have been called a "communist" of- breast of American liberalism, they have ment, I did, indeed, point out that "NR ten enough to knew better. weaned themselves and now stand as says, however, that Gordon is not affili- LAWRENCE CAROLINE, Dept. of Phil- independent, serious radicals. Based on ated with that [Progressive Labor] party." osophy, University of Texas, Austin, Tex. your interpretation of the convention This, however, is secondary to the main elections, you said the Students for a fact, reported in New Republic: Candi- In the July 12 issue of The Texas Ob- Democratic Society has made a farce of dates for two of the three top national server, Ronnie Dugger urged members its name. How ludicrous of you! Surely offices of SDS ran unopposed, and both of the Students for a Democratic So- you are more imaginative than that. If were communists. ciety to take an "acute personal interest" in the New Republic's report of the re- cent SDS national convention. The source of his concern was that "candidates for Observations two of the top three SDS offices ran un- opposed, and both were communists." Rarely has such flagrant Red-baiting been condensed into a mere three paragraphs. Such noisome tactics and allegations The Wittliffs demand a reply but not a defense. From the preamble to the national constitu- Austin Pemberton Press has published, at tion of SDS. "Students for a Democratic Society is an association of young peo- Bill and Sally Wittliff have conducted $14.50, a book of 48 Salinas paintings, ple of the left." Article II, section 1 of their Encino Press from their own home convincingly reproduced in color, with the constitution reads, "Membership is for two years until now they have a a preface by Salinas' canny promoter open to all who share the commitment small, but sound and serious publishing Dewey Bradford,. a pleasant and candid of the organization to democracy as .a house. The other night 5,000 of their introduction by Joe Frantz, and five means and as a social goal." Yes, SDS books burned up in an Austin ware- Western short stories thrown in for mood is non-exclusionary. house fire, and because of a quirky situ- and filler. I value this book for the re- If Mr. Dugger had perused his New ation, insurance did not cover the loss. productions themselves, and also for an Republic more thoroughly, perhaps he Shaken, but the game kind of people idiosyncratic reason: I know that when would have seen the following passage: who make a difference in the world, the I feel trapped in town, I can pick it up "A likely reason for the scarcity of na- Wittliffs are going right ahead. Bill is and sense again the quiet nearby Texas tional candidates is that they face a year one of the two or three finest book de- places where the spirit takes ease and of fighting holding actions against PL" signers in the Southwest, and he is just strength. "I paint," Salinas says, "what ( the Progressive Labor party). And also 28. EP soon will bring out a book of people will appreciate." because the national office staff must ex- essays by Larry McMurtry, in which, I ist on $15 a week in the slums of Chicago, gather, some sacred cows will be pro- Progress by Failure work incredibly long hours, etc. nounced available for human uses. Mr. Dugger asserted that the third na- For years, the Observer has been im- tional officer, Fred Gordon, "was elected Salinas in Hardback ploring the legislature to pass an indus- with the support of the Progressive La- trial safety law. For God's sakes, a thou- bor party, a Peking-oriented, disciplined Porfirio Salinas is a very good painter; sand workers are killed on the job every party." Yet the New Republic stated he his landsdapes portray South Texas and year in Texas and another 200,000 are received PL backing "because he opposed the hill country as we who love it know injured—why won't the politicians tran- the national office candidate (Gordon is it. There is, about his romantic-realistic scend their self-serving connections long not affiliated with PL)." Why wasn't that work, some a the magic of Monet: I enough to set up enforced standards of portion of the NR article also referred cannot say why, but it is there. If I were job safety? a medical doctor or an oilman, for any Texas has no excuse: here, states' 14 The Texas Observer of half a dozen Salinases I would gladly rights is an empty shell. Senator Yar- pay the $6,000 or $7,000 I'm told is the borough is now presiding over hearings going price. for a federal job safety bill, telling his senate colleagues that 14,500 industrial MEETINGS workers are killed every year in the THE THURSDAY CLUB of Dallas meets each Thursday noon for lunch (cafeteria style) at United States, while 2,300,000 are dis- the Downtown YMCA, 605 No. Ervay St., abled to some extent. Perversely, we can Dallas. Good discussion. You're welcome. In- I BELIEVE IN take heart that this backward state has formal, no dues. produced a US senator who knows what CENTRAL TEXAS ACLU luncheon meeting. the problems are. We're moving again. Spanish Village. 2nd Friday Fatherhood of God! every month. From noon. All welcome. AUSTIN WOMEN FOR PEACE/WOMEN Brotherhood of Man! On Being Reasonable STRIKE FOR PEACE meet twice monthly. Call GR 6 - 3755 or 477 - 1282 for more information. BUMPERSTR IPS 5 for $1 Larry Caroline, the let-out assistant ITEMS for this feature cost, for the first entry, philosophy professor at the University of 7c a word, and for each subsequent entry, 5c a 100 for $10 1,000 for $50 Texas, is now quoted predicting a "rea- word. We must receive them one week before the date of the issue in which they are to be Box 8293 Austin, Texas 78712 sonably non-violent socialist revolution," published. which he also describes as "reasonably bloodless." This certainly clarifies Caro- downriver, however, our party came up- trict attorney and the senator. line's position on violence: we may now on a cement dam and waterfall there- Last week in the Los Angeles Free feel sure that he is not looking forward below, and scorning the cautions of one Press, which week in, week out has the to anything that is unreasonably bloody. who knew, Gary and I plunged over. And best reporting today available about the Caroline is also quoted that he thinks over, and over. We lost a little of our JFK murder, Garrison is quoted as say- the same conspiracy killed both Ken- gear, but not, at least, ourselves, as bank- ing that Senator McCarthy may be assas- nedys and King. Evidently he did not dwellers informed us a more hapless ven- sinated in September or October if he is make clear, however, whether this turer had there, the month before. Our nominated by the Democrats. Garrison thought was a priori or a posteriori. canoe, of course, is made of wood, we believes the CIA will make an attempt being New English romantics, and while on McCarthy's life, or on the life of any- 900 Million Dollars I. shall not specify the damages it suf- one who wants the nation to stop the fered, the rocks were not as romantic Cold War. "Going to the dogs—and cats," says as I had expected. "What's happening is that we're in the Wright Patman in his newsletter. To feed Still, the river belongs to the canoeist midst of a counter-revolution, which be- 50 million of them, Americans spend as much as to anyone, so I have decided gan on Nov. 22, 1965. . . . [B]y an acci- nearly $900,000,000 a year for commer- to collaborate with Representative Jumbo dent we elected a man as president [JFK] cially prepared pet food. Yes. Atwell, the author of the Texas boat safe- who was concerned about the human ty law who capsized on the Colorado race. Not just the, human race in America, More Amendments recently, in proposing amendments to but the human race all over. And begin- his law. In addition to illegalizing trees ning in the fall of '62 he was in effect A sunny day last week my boy Gary and growing on river banks and river cur- leading a revolution against the Cold I got in our trusty canoe and ventured, rents exceeding specified rates of speed, War, which, to put it in basic terms, in company with a few others, to nego- dams should not be higher than twelve means a revolution in behalf of human- tiate the Guadalupe from below Canyon and a half inches, and waterfalls should ity against power," Garrison says. Dam to the end of the daylight. Not far be prohibited entirely. R.D. Garrison believes the CIA is acting on behalf of a military-industrial power bloc in this country, a group whose cur- rent foremost aim is to conquer China. lg . . . [T]hey took over the country in November, 1963. I think it's obvious, and you don't have to be a military stra- tegist to see that they intend to take over Asia. And if anybody gets in their way, he'll be killed. If there's a compro- Life in Texas mise of some sort in Vietnam, then they'll proceed from Laos. But whether it's the Austin New Orleans Dist. Atty. Jim Garrison tungsten they want in China, or the air- is a raving lunatic, is preposterously mis- fields in China, it's obvious that their The fact that the state's first family taken, or is the most courageous Ameri- attitude is that nobody is going to stop evidently had to try and pull strings to can alive today. Garrison says he knows them." get one of its own enrolled in one of our that the Central Intelligence Agency killed Garrison says that Congres is the last eleemosynary institutions should drama- JFK and is also responsible for the mur- hope for challenging the powers he be- tize to Texans the inadequacies of our ders of Senator Kennedy and Dr. King.. lieves controls our country today. But, state's approach to such important hu- That, of course, sounds incredible. Per- he laments, the ruling power controls man questions. What of the Texans who haps, were it not for the harrassment the press to a sufficient extent that •pub- have no political pull? Senator Connally the federal government has aimed at lic opinion cannot be marshalled to pres- denies he sought to pull strings. The fired Garrison most of us might have dis- sure congress to demand the investiga- superintendent of the Richmond State missed what the DA was saying as pub- tions he sees as necessary. School says the senator did; the superin- licity-seeking poppycock. I don't know whether Garrison is right tendent is backed up by a staff member. It seems clear that Dr. Floyd McDowell Federal officials have released infor- or wrong. My position is: if the man is was not fired solely because of this inci- mation alleging that Garrison is some- a lunatic, a blackguard, or a dupe, then dent; he has stepped out of line before, what mentally defective, an assertion let him fall on his face in a court of as far as his superiors are concerned. He based on his military personnel records, law. Why delay the Shaw trial? Let us didn't understand "the Texas mind." And records that are virtually impossible to face squarely the still-festering issues so yet another qualified professional has be seen by unauthorized people, much raised by the assassination of President Kennedy. G.O. been encouraged to leave our state, yet less quoted in a newspaper. The latest another in a long succession of people federal intervention into Garrison's in- July 26, 1968 15 who could help make Texas a decent vestigation was the issuance of a restrain- place by mid-twentieth century standards ing order preventing Garrison from bring- in which to live. ing accused Clay Shaw to trial. This is THE TEXAS OBSERVER almost-unheard of judicial procedure, I Assassination understand. SO4 West 24th Street Garrison's main access to the public Austin, Texas 78705 I have for some time believed that through the news media is in the nation's Enter a 1-year (new/renewal) sub- were it not for the war in Vietnam the radical underground press. A few weeks scription for: national attention would be riveted in- back he told the New York Free Press stead on the wave of assassinations we that Senator Kennedy had been by no Name have suffered in the 1960's. I believe, means satisfied with the Warren Report; Garrison believes that RFK would, as were Americans not demanding peace in Street Vietnam, they would be clamoring for president, have reopened the investiga- reopening the investigation into the tion into JFK's assassination. But Sen- murder of President Kennedy, and, late- ator Kennedy was keeping this fact to City ly, for determining whether that mur- himself, Garrison says, until he was in der is related to the removal of Robert a position to act. Garrison believes this, State Zip Kennedy, Martin Luther King, and oth- he says, because of information from ❑ $6 enclosed. ❑ Bill me. ers. people who were friends of both the dis- ••••■••• in the warmth of his home to learn that an economic report prepared for the city showed that the area where he had lived near downtown San Antonio for eighty years—a 190-acre area occupied by numerous modest but comfortable homeowners in clean, tidy homes inter- spersed with some apartments and small Defenders of the Dream to form a campaign arm for the party, businesses—an area and a home of which The Vietnam war has claimed 19 men much as the Spencer-Roberts & Associ- he was proud—was being declared a slum from Laredo, 18 of which were Mexican- ates firm has become in California. and blighted area. American youths. The youths come from This approach goes beyond the public He tried to fight them off in the courts, poor families whose incomes are low; relations-advertising field into campaign as did a number of them who were brave their homes are small wooden frame management, which requires full cooper- enough, only to hear the mayor (a mem- structures; hard, unskilled labor has been ation with the regular party organization. ber of the HemisFair executive board) the history of their livelihoods. It would We would not have undertaken this ven- and the city manager and the bureaucrats be an interesting thing to make a com- ture without support and cooperation and the chamber of commerce honchos, partive study of the background of these from Peter O'Donnell. He encouraged us many of whom also happened to be on families, An Anatomy of Vietnamese War to enter the field and, in fact, the Re- the HemisFair executive committee, all Heroes' Families. publican Party of Texas became our first testify that this 190-acre tract was not The unfortunates had no way of mak- client in the summer of 1967. In numer- being taken to accommodate HemisFair. ing it through college to avoid conscrip- ous campaigns and projects since then, Such a taking would have made it ille- tion. It is ironical that these skinny youth We have worked closely with the regular gal under condemnation. The fair is a from poor backgrounds, often with very state and local party organizations, and private venture. Of course, tax dollars have always enjoyed a good relationship were not used. This 190-acre tract is the limited education, are the defenders of with the party's leadership. our "freedom," of the American dream same area that the San Antonio 'Fair, Marvin Collins and John Knaggs, part- with its smart residences or luxury apart- Inc., ultimately occupied. ners, Collins-Knaggs and Associates, 1905 Frank Toudouze held out to the very ments, new cars, and houses full of gad- N. Lamar, suite 208, Austin, Tex. 78705. gets. Long live our Caligulan empire! end, and I remember when sheriff's depu- ties moved into his house on Wyoming Abe Lozano, 2410 Santa Maria, Laredo, More Democracy Tex. Street with a court order to evict him. Hubert Humphrey can render deeds to He walked out slowly playing on his match his words right now on behalf of No Trouble with O'Donnell harmonica the "Battle Hymn of the Re- "the business of American government ... public" as tears streamed down his wife's Your article in the July 12 Observer conducted openly" and an "open presi- eyes as she marched beside him. This about Paul Eggers' campaign states that dency" to stimulate "the frankest and was an oft-repeated scene in this proud we left the Republican state headquar- widest possible discussion and ventila- area of shady oaks. His home was de- ters "in reported disenchantment with tion of America's problems." He can do molished the next day amidst the damn- the way things were being run from so by prompt and appropriate action to able roar of bulldozers that worked fran- state chairman Peter O'Donnell's office implement his promise of Democratic tically till the last brick fell which caused in Dallas." We wanted to get away from platform hearings across the country. And the Texas Supreme Court to rule that his the necessary but time-consuming admin- he can contribute to responsibility in this appeal for injunctive relief was moot.... istrative duties of the state headquarters open discussion by providing the Ameri- I cannot forget Frank Toudouze and an people with a full account of the numerous others who were misplaced by 16 The Texas Observer Paris talks, an indication of how he would the misuse of the awesome power of emi- go about achieving the Vietnam cease- nent domain. Nor can I be oblivious of fire he stated his administration is pre- the city's last bond issue which was di- pared for, and at least the general out- rected toward HemisFair improvements line of what he himself has called at var- to the detriment of needs in less lucra- ious times a "political solution" and, tive endeavors (like drainage and sewer when over 25,000 Americans have already system increments), or of the fact that died, a settlement that "both sides can Walter McAllister, Jr. (the mayor's son), live with." and 0. J. (vice president in the James P. Sewell, 33 Northside Rd., mayor's savingssavings and loan association) North Haven Conn. 06473. and Arthur Troilo (the urban renewal Enjoyable but Wrong lawyer who instituted the condemnation Thank you for your observations [Obs., proceedings) and many other elite com- July 12] about HemisFair and for being munity-conscious individuals have all fair enough to predicate your comments been blessed generously with HemisFair with some of the antagonism and reac- contracts and concessions. Mr. Troilo, for tion against the fair among local liber- example, enjoys a boat concession that als. But there is far more substance to traverses the very land which he parti- our criticism than you would suggest. cipated in condemning. We have never taken the untenable I shan't judge: perhaps their motiva- position that the fair is not enjoyable. I tion is civic pride and public spirited- am certain that it is quite entertaining. ness. But a stanza from one courageous But I cannot reconcile my desire for par- soul's hymn of retreat reads thus: "He is ticipation with the conflicting conviction wisdom to the mighty, he is honor to that somehow there was a lack of dig- the brave; So the world shall be his foot- nity about the whole affair and that some- stool, and the soul of wrong his slave.".... how the innocent masses were victim- Peter Torres, Jr., 800 Tower Life Bldg., ized again and were wronged by a ven- San Antonio, Tex. 78205. turesome lot of entrepreneurs who hid Mr. Torres is a San Antonio city coun- behind the cloaks of community official- cilman, the first elected to the council dom. in the face of opposition from the es- Like Frank Toudouze, who read the tablishment's Good Government League evening papers one cool October evening since 1955.—Ed.