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Volume 53 TEXAS, FEBRUARY 23, 1962 15c per copy Number 47 ODESSA, BORGER, AMARILLO BOBBY SEMANTIC JUGGLING Panhandle Center VERSUS Labor Supports Of Ultra Writers TEXAS Don Yarborough WEST TEXAS Izzard writes an occasional AUSTIN, DALLAS firm stand behind him. AUSTIN When Lynn Landrum, "the page-one column called "From A 2. The decision to "recommend" It happened so suddenly and Houston liberal Don Yarbor- old columntator" on the Dallas to Izzard." a catch-all for editorial rather than endorse was the fruit the impact was so violent that ough drew the state AFL-CIO's News, died a few months ago asides, homespun saws, snappy of compromise between those there is still considerable confu- "recommendation" for gover- the dominant force of far wisecracks, and quotes from con- nor Saturday night in a jug- forces within labor who wanted sion about it . all. right-wing editorial writings servative leaders both local and an outright and unequivocating Jakarta is the place U.S. Atty. gling. of its normal procedure shifted to the newspapers in national. endorsement of Yarborough and Gen. Bobby Kennedy said it. That of "endorsement" which a top the high plains "box"---from About the "Turn Toward Peace" those who, for varying reasons, much is certain. It was during a labor spokesman told the Ob- Odessa and Midland northward demonstrations in Washington, Iz- preferred not to endorse anyone question and answer period with server was "a semantic propo- throughout the Panhandle. zard suggested darkly in his Feb. at all. students at the University' of In- sition more than anything It was a logical shift, for in the 17 column: "Such peace demon- 3. This compromise must be donesia. else." mass, Panhandlers are to the rest strations, while based on a natural viewed in the context of the Mav- But first: What was that thing The Committee on Political Edu- of Texas what the Catalans are human aversion to war, involve a erick-Gonzalez duel that split that flew out of the audience and cation, meeting in the Adolphus to Spain: violently surly toward good deal of confused thinking. Texas labor into warring halves just missed Bobby? Time Maga- in Dallas, decided with one regulation, even the fraternal reg- It would be interesting to dig into last year. The state leadership zine reported it to be "a cold fried dissenting vote to go with Yar- the background of the movement egg." United Press International borough because his "general poli- and see if it is not inspired by said it was "a duck egg." Why did tical philosophy and attitudes some hard-headed organization it miss? Time said Bobby "nim- more nearly coincide with our pro- that has been in the business of bly dodged." UPI said the thing grams than do those of the other agitation a long time and is ex- "went wide of the mark." gubernatorial candidates." pert in spreading confusion . . ." Anyway, unsplattered, he began Drawing the same "recommen- Two days earlier Izzard had answering questions, one of which dation" in precisely the same praised Alvin R. Allison, Level- was, How does the United States language were House Speaker land attorney and member of justify its part in the Mexican James Turman of Gober for lieu- tenant governor, Tom Reavley of the Texas Tech board of regents War? as "among the stoutest defenders Austin for attorney general, and ulations winding out of Austin. Just what Bobby answered is wanted to avoid even a smaller of Americanism in these parts" Judge Woodrow Wilson Bean of This is the land of Bronco, Mule- not clear. The Associated Press split this time. for having said in a speech, "There El Paso for congressman-at-large. shoe, Lariat, Earth, Shallowater, version differed slightly from the 4. About one-third of the dele- are a great many people who op- The administrative committee, Sundown, Wildorado, Turkey, Sun- UPI. Both differed slightly from gates, perhaps slightly more, fa- pose communists, but really favor headed by state AFL-CIO presi- ray, and Happy. the version filed out of Washing- vored a policy of no-endorsement. communism, if it is given a re- dent Hank Brown, pointed out it It is also the land of Odessa, ton by the Houston Post's Felton One state leader told the Observ- pectable name like the 'welfare was not employing the word "en- Borger, and Amarillo—whose daily West. And the version used by er: "Probably 90 percent of the newspapers rival for the title of state'." dorse" for any of the approved people who wanted the 'recom- the Houston Chronicle in its Hous- candidates. ost reaet Jona - in- the state Izzard faithfully takes the side ton story differed slightly from mendation rather than an en- —and of Tulia, whose weekly is of capitalism, which usually seems the version the Chronicle filed out The other gubernatorial candi- . dorsement are for Yarborough." one of the most liberal in the to be the side of the producer, of Austin. And they all differed dates who appeared were John Among this one-third there was state. With a circulation of 3,300, a bias fostering such witticisms from the version released from Connally, Gov. Price Daniel, Atty. a reluctance not to offend Daniel, the Tulia Herald is one of the as: "People don't want a cheaper the State Department tape taken Gen. Will Wilson, and Marshall Connally, or Vice-President John- largest weeklies in the Panhandle. car. They want a more expensive on the spot. Formby. Wilson and Formby son. If circulation amounts to influ- car for less money," But in every version the mes- asked COPE not to endorse any- 5. How cohesive will the 200,000- ence, the most influential paper sage came through: Bobby Ken- one in the first primary. plus labor votes be in the May among these is the Amarillo News Sarcasm is one of Izzard's fav- nedy considers this nation's part A number of factors are impor- primary? "As cohesive as we were (41,907 circulation), whose editor- orite tools. On Jan. 23 he wrote: in the Mexican War to be unjusti- tant in appraising the action of in 1956 with Ralph Yarborough," ial high mogul is editor and co- "A tip to Bobby Kennedy: We fied and certainly nothing to be the some 300 delegates from across one ranking labor official said. publisher Wesley Izzard, whom know of a private housing de- proud of. Texas: It should be recalled that Texas syndicated columnist George Dix- velopment that is practicing fla- Texans heard and responded. 1. Yarborough got COPE's back- labor has never voted in a solid on has described as "a veritable grant discrimination. It's near "One of those pussy-footers who ing for two reasons, both indis- bloc, even when the choice was Sir Galahad among vigilantes. Phoenix, and people under 50 cater to socialists," the Very Rev. pensible: first, he had the warm- between Allan Shivers and Ralph who has never been besmirched years of age are barred." Two Anton Frank, chaplain of the Sons est and 'widest support among Yarborough. The Building and by even the breath of liberali- days later he wrote: "A disillu- of the Republic of Texas, said of. the labor representatives,, and sec- Construction Trades Council, the ism." (Continued on Page 2) (Continued on Page 3) ond, the state leadership took a (Continued on Page 2) Tapping the University Liberals' Ferment AUSTIN Each side handed out literature Perhaps least impressed by talk civil rights fight for the Negro," wing activities on tht campus. Several dozen University of explaining its position, and a soap- of "political ferment" is Dr: John and an "increasing fear of the Even if the "superficial" prob- Texas students marched on the box debate ended the demonstra- Silber, head of the state commit- press, that the basic systems of lems easily seen—segregation, cen- capitol and paraded up and tion. tee for the abolition of capital communication are just voices of sorship, capital punishment, at- down Congress Avenue last This was only the most recent punishment and sponsor of the concentrated business interests. tnospheric testing — are licked, Saturday carrying placards evidence of political—or social- campus chapter of that organiza- The theses of Vance Packard and says Wade, there is.still the over- supporting the national "Turn moral—ferment on the University tion. He said that the growing C. Wright Mills and, among the riding problem of "where do we Toward Peace" movement of of Texas campus, in sequence with radicalism—to the extent there older writers, Norman Thomas go as a consumer society? When liberal collegians, some of the theater stand-ins and integra- is any—is from the extreme right. are really beginning to sink in." we get all our leisure time, it whom picketed the White tion petitionings. Sometimes the "On the left, the activity is the Not that this means Silber seems to come to nothing if there House in Washington last ferment. is traceable to reaction thinks the politically conscious is nothing to do. I. think we have week. to slowly-developed, contrary ide- students are well-read. He doesn't., largely mistaken consumption for The signs carried by the group ologies. Sometimes it is the spon- Bob Sherrill He feels most of them are "politi- freedom." in Austin bore slogans such as taneous response to an ad hoc most orderly and mature I've seen cally illiterate. I don't think they He feels segregation is "easy to "The Deeper the Shelter the Big= situation. But in practically every among college students. It almost know a lot. I don't think they read deal with. The most naive fresh- ger the Bomb," and "Free the Hu- instance, the part played by the makes you wonder. During the a lot. What they do, they do quite man 'recognizes the injustice of it man Race from the Arms Race." liberal groups has been the most theater stand-ins, there wasn't a largely from emotional response. —recognizes that it contradicts One woman pushed a baby buggy dramatic and the most inventive. single incident where a picketer That's why so many of them read the constitutional freedom we whose occupant was swaddled in The Conscience of a Conservative. beat our chest and boast about." What has motivated the leading beat hell out of somebody." the sign: "I'd Rather BE." He said there is some concern There is no liberal manifesto. Among campus liberals of campus liberals? What do they But the liberal picketers did in liberal circles because Kennedy Just the other day a boy told me Wade's temper, favorite reading go to for guidance? Are they dis- not walk alone. Accompanying has not been more vigorous, but I was lying when I said Roose- material is not so much in books appointed in President Kennedy? them were opposition pickets from among this group it is commonly velt refused to nationalize the as in periodicals, and the periodi- Do they do what they do out of the campus chapter of the Young felt that Lyndon Johnson is the banks. This boy just didn't know cals most often referred to are irritation with the far right-wing, Americans for Freedom, who car- bete noire, holding Kennedy back. anything about it, and he'll prob- the Nation, Progressive, New Pol- or are they moved by impatience ried placards advising, "Pacifism Nevertheless, Silber thinks Ken- ably be the next president of the itics, and Dissent. with their own laggard social re- Means Surrender: What Price nedy's reputation is "gaining mo- Young Republicans." There is some reading of the formers? Life?" and "Freedom Through mentum." Houston Wade, graduate stu- New Republic and Reporter mag- Nuclear Strength" and "Neither The Observer took these ques- If campus liberals are impelled dent in genetics and leader of the azines, but in general among the Red Nor Dead Nor Under the tions to key campus leaders, both by any fear, it is more a fear for Students for Direct Action, is one stauncher liberals these magazines Bed" and "Repudiate the Pacif- student and faculty. Some of their the civil tights of the whites, since of five or six students who epi- have lost caste, the Reporter be- ists, Dime-Store Nehrus." answers are given here. "they feel they are winning the tomize the most idealistic of left- (Continued on Page 3) SINCE LANDRUM'S DEATH RALPH COMMUNICATES Baggarly in Storm Center Turman, Reavley (Continued from Page 1) powerful idea and the know-how wire services. We won't say wheth- sioned reader wants to know if to make it work, and that idea er it was AP or UPI since we the State Department has apolo- threatens for the first time to will take no chances of betraying Bean Supported him. gized yet for having our military gather together the great mass of (Continued from Page 1) win, a man who can unify the "He said he just stopped by to base so close to where the Bul- American people into one effec- largest single member of the state Democratic Party and the people tive force to defend our Republic shake our hand for saying some garian spy plane came down." AFL-CIO, cast the one dissenting of Texas." and our Constitution against com- of the things he had often wanted • And he used the same occasion vote against Yarborough. It has Daniel, after his appearance be- munism and the mealy-mouthed to say but couldn't about the to take a dig at growing govern- traditionally been the conserva- fore the closed-door session, sum- political anti-anti-communists that Amarillo paper. He asked our ment: "There are five million acts tive segment of Texas labor. Sen- moned a press conference soon have been and are running our opinion as to why the image of on federal and state statute books. timent within that group tends after he emerged. He said he country." the* Amarillo paper is so repul- Yet they keep saying that ignor- to support Connally. It is viewed thought the meeting should have Talking with the Observer, Phil- sive to so many people. He pointed ance of the law is no excuse." as a certainty, however, that a been open to the press and that lips conceded that R. C. Hoiles, out that the Democrats dislike Yet despite his unmistakable very substantial majority of union as governor he had fought for publisher of the "Freedom News- the Kansas City Star, the Chicago position to the right of starboard, members will go with Yarborough open session of legislative com- papers" chain, is possibly more Tribune, the Dallas News, and Izzard is subtle and sophisticated in May. mittees and boards. conservative than he is. Phillips even the Lubbock Avalanche, as compared to forthright James 6. In the past COPE has been The questions most frequently laughed, "I'm glad somebody is might be expected, but that their Clayton Phillips, editor and gen- a tight 50-member panel adhering asked the candidates concerned farther to the right than I am." feeling towards the Amarillo paper eral manager of the Borger Herald unanimously to labor-approved the sales tax, right-to-work laws. is not that of mere dislike but (circulation 10,271). Borger, the Hoiles Imports candidates. The Maverick-Gon- the fourth-term issue, a state last and the worst of the oil boom utter contempt." One of the larger Hoiles papers zalez split was an exception. This labor relations act, and applica- towns of Texas, in many ide- Baggarly's explanation: "The is the Odessa American (circula- time it was a rather loose 300- '" ological respects is still far from Amarillo News radiates three of tion 33,665). Its columnists of the member group with more diverse tamed, and Phillips' wordy (it the more repulsive and obnoxious really far right are imported, some sentiments in some quarters. sometimes runs 60 to 70 inches characteristics that can be pos- of them for free, such as Thur- 7. A key point is that the same long) page-one column, "News sessed by an individual or publi- man Sensing's "Sensing the News," "recommendation" used to sup- into Focus," is almost decorous cation." He listed them as (1) a which is distributed by the South- port Yarborough was used by the in its extravagance. conceit so large "it can tell us how ern States Industrial Council, and committee to support the favored Phillips has given more public- to solve the problems of commun- Howard E. Kershner's "It's Up to candidates for other statewide ity to the textbook hearings than ism, Castro, agriculture and Afri- You," distributed by the Christian offices: even Speaker Turman, in any other daily editor in Texas, ca" in one sentence; (2) intellec- Freedom Foundation of New whom labor has shown almost a and he has been more outspoken ual dishonesty which "sees only York. proprietary interest for the last tion of anti-trust laws to unions. in his, support of them. On Feb. 15 evil in its enemies and perfection Of the same, slant are the writ- several months. This supports the Jack Cox, GOP candidate for he warned: "If our young people in its friends," and (3) an insult- ers (Robert Morris, Willis Stone, view that the mode of endorsing governor, conferred with labor are turned against our form of ing "underestimation of the in- Rosalie Gordon, and Harry T. was largely a semantic one. leaders Friday but was unable to government through slanted text- telligence of the Panhandle, citi- Everingham) who appear under 8. State president Hank Brown, appear Saturday. Roy Whitten- books, THEN what have we got zenry." the communal heading, "Ameri- in a speech before the entire dele- burg, the other Republican guber- to fight for? We older people will Baggarly calls Louise Evans, can Way." Another popular col- gation, urged them to get com- natorial candidate, was grounded soon be dying off and the next editorial page writer for the Ama- umn with Hoiles is Ed Delaney's pletely behind their gubernatorial in Wichita Falls. General Edwin generation will reap the whirlwind rillo News, "the worst of the lot "Truth-Forum." candidate, and if they did not, to Walker, the only Democratic can- that we will have allowed to de- . . . a hatchet-woman." He told the Typical of the concepts regis- get themselves a new president. didate who did not show up, said velop within the schools of to- Observer "Izzard tries , to stay tered in these columns is that of The state leadership, under diplo- in a statement: day." aloof, hiring writers like her Willis Stone last week, who com- matic tension, has made it plain "I am unable to solicit the for- The same day, Phillips showed to do his dirty work." plained that the U. S. Corps of who has its sympathies. mal endorsement of COPE since how he thought it was entirely The News ignores Baggarly's Engineers should be disbanded I am unable to endorse COPE or possible to reconcile the beliefs slings and arrows. Not so, the Ralph's Advice because it competes with private any other special interest organi- that this government is socialistic weekly press that surrounds him: Sen. Ralph Yarborough sent a enterprise. zation." He said he would seek the but antagonistic toward Russian the Canyon News (whose editor, telegram which, despite a later On Feb. 5 Everingham wrote, support of individual union mem- socialism. Troy Martin, trained under Phil- denial on his part that he was "During the last 30 years Uncle bers, however. If both governments believe in lips), the Lockney Beacon, the endorsing anyone, was widely in- Sam has been so weakened by The resolution passed by the socialism, why the military build- Ochilt•ee County Herald, among terpreted as support for his socialism that he does not seem committee "commended" all the up? "The answer is simple," wrote others. younger namesake. When it was to have the virile resistance to candidates who appeared, includ- Phillips. i'When Soviet Russia read before the closed-door ses- combat our enemies within." Back at Him ing Cox. with the help of the United States sion, it was greeted.' with applause Delaney, on Feb. 8, was no hap- Possibly Martin maintains the Yarborough told the delegates has 'socialized' the entire world, from Don Yarborough supporters. pier. "Among our people," he steadier anger toward Baggarly. he would have vetoed the sales then arises the question, 'who will "I would be less than candid wrote, "are so-called liberals, Recently Martin pointed out, in tax as governor and that he fa- rule the show?' " The fight will with you," Sen. Yarborough said, neo-socialists, crypto -communists, his column "From the Canyon vored either repeal or "drastic re- be over whether there will be an "if I did not express my concern over-educated dilettantes, intellec- Rim," that the Communist Party's visions." He said he wanted legis- American or Russian-style world that divisive forces are at work tual charlatans and pseudo-politi- Daily Worker opposes Gen. Edwin lation prohibiting employers from soda list dictator. "Our military tonight in Texas, among you and cal scientists, posing as public Walker; he said this was a recom- bringing in strikebreakers from forces will be employed, not to among all those Democrats of the opinion makers who contend that mendation for Walker, and added, outside Texas. He did not endorse preserve our Republic and our old fighting breed who have stood a democracy anti a republic are "Those who have been castigat- repeal of right-to-work laws, but Constitution, but to help put together • all these years in our the same." ing the conservative movement in advocated modernizing all labor- American Socialists at the head of common concern for good govern- On an ideological terrain dom- print should feel good, knowing management laws. He said he the noble experiment, in the new ment in Texas. inated by newspapers of this type, that they are hewing to the line supported more funds for the aged Socialist World Government. "These forces seek to divide us H. M. Baggarly, editor and pub- set by the Worker." and the disabled and would at- THINK IT OVER." because they themselves are di- lisher of the Tulia Herald, is a The next week Baggarly twitted tempt to improve Texas' present Although John Birch Society vided," the telegram said, an obvi- journalistic bird of rare plumage. Martin editorially for using the low ranking in education. chapters in many cities are very ous reference to Texas conserva- But meekness does not accompany "McCarthyism" tactic of guilt by Only Turman and Jarrard Se- shy of publicity, this is not the tives, "and must divide us if they his rareness. association, and handed Martin crest of Temple, who got the case in Borger, where on Feb. 7 are to maintain the tired old In his latest editorial page col- some of his own by saying that PASO endorsement along with Phillips opened his column by status quo, a situation in which umn, "Thoughts for Thursday," since both Martin and the editors Daniel, Reavley, and Bean last urging especially "ministers, law they profit and the people of Baggarly worked on the theme of the Daily Worker dislike Week, were on hand to seek sup- enforcement officers, and doubt- Texas lose .. . Stand together for that "The dominating influence the Kennedy Administration they port in the lieutenant governor's ing Thomases" to attend a J.B.S. good government in Texas and we which controls today's world is "find themselves sleeping in the race. meeting the following night at will win. Be divided, allow out- hate." Then he got down to cases: same bed." Besides Reavley in the attorney which a tape would be played of siders to divide you and we will "The most dedicated communists The next sound "From the Can- general's race, Waggoner Carr of a missionary's account of seeing lose. And such a loss will not car- of our time are no worse than yon Rim" was that of Martin call- Lubbock, Judge W. T. McDonald "the forcing of the children ' (in ry with it even the consolation of those men who crucified Christ. ing Baggarly "a protagonist of the of Bryan, Tom James of Dallas, Red China) "to murder their own having fought the good fight to- .. Yet even these conscienceless welfare state" who employed a and Les Procter of Austin made parents." Phillips gave the phone gether. Roman soldiers were not excluded "double-think system . . . used appearances. Four other Demo- number to call for reservations. "You are to be respected for the from those the Christians were adroitly by socialists and com- crats besides Bean and one Re- enemies you have made. Do not Dramatic Dialogue commanded to love. munists the world over." publican for the congressman-at- now dilute that respect turning Sometimes he employs a kind of "Furthermore, we do not find in large position were on hand. Baggarly, 47, owner of the Tulia away from your militant ideals dramatic dialogue to get across the New Testament a commission The Building and Construction Herald since 1950, has grown ac- for all the people and turn down his points, characteristically illus- to go into all the world preaching Trades Council has urged its customed to being in the storm some old dead-end street." trated in his column of Feb. 12, the gospel and fighting Roman- members not to recommend or en- center of ultra-conservatism. He which opened: ism. We do not find Jesus Christ Connally Rebuts dorse any candidate until after has never been physically as- "Subtle, Isn't It? or even the Apostles taking 55 Connally, whose support has the May first primary. Until then, saulted for his beliefs, but in 1952, " 'Senator Joseph McCarthy is minutes of the Sunday morning been urged by as high-ranking a the council suggested, members a brick was thrown through his all right but we don't like his service damning Rome, warning labor official as assistant labor should "work effectively for can- front window. The tosser had methods.' of 'comsymps,' accusing other secretary Jerry Holleman, issued didates favorable to labor's pro- aimed at the poster picture of "This has a familiar ring to it, Christian groups of being 'soft on a statement just after the decision grams." Adlai Stevenson on display. It doesn't it? the Romans,' then spending the for Yarborough. He said he is The Texas Joint Railway Leg- helped the Herald. "We got a lot - " 'The John Birch Society would last five minutes giving a hurried convinced "great numbers of the islative Board, representing all of publicity out of it," said Bag- be all right if they would get rid gospel invitation, a la Hargis." laboring people of Texas are my state railroad brotherhoods, rec- garly. of Robert Welch.' In his front-page column "The friends and will continue to sup- ommended Yarborough Saturday "Very subtle isn't it? Country Editor" last week, Bag- Amidst it all, some perspective port me and work actively for my just prior to the COPE meeting. "To be sure THEY didn't like garly deplored "the pitiful situa- remains. Baggarly's best friend is election." They believe that his The one exception was the Broth- 'his methods' because they got tion which exists in Amarillo Ben Ezell, editor of the weekly program of strengthening aca- erhood of Locomotive Engineers, results. where powerful forces are quite Canadian Record. "I probably demic and vocational education which decided to endorse Daniel. "To be sure 'Robert Welch must successful in controlling what a have more in common with Ben will accelerate economic growth The board also backed Turman, go,' because he is a man with a quarter million persons, more or than with anybody else around and provide more jobs, better Reavley, and agriculture commis- less, read, hear, and see . . . A here," said Baggarly. "He's a wages, higher living standards. sioner John White. The locomo- THE TEXAS OBSERVER recent office visitor was a repre- staunch conservative. But he's in- "These same people want as their tive engineers did not endorse in Page 2 Feb. 23, 1962 sentative of one of the two major tellectually honest." B.S. governor a man they think can these races. POLITICAL ILLITERATES? MARCH 1 Behind Issues, An Urge Awaiting The Chair HUNTSVILLE Johnson was arrested and about ing bogged down by Congress. dangers of nuclear war; Kahn (Continued from Page 1) 19-year-old Joe Edward Smith five or six hours later confessed. All his propaganda has him imag- "to get the other side." cause it is looked upon as not is scheduled to be killed in the He has since charged—as he re- inative, pragmatic; I don't think Timmons admits a "certain dis- much more than an administra- electric chair here in the first peated again from Death Row— he is. I think he's just an ordi- illusionment" about Kennedy, but tion mouthpiece. "As one of my few minutes of next Thursday that he was viciously beaten by nary moderate." tolerantly lays it to the liberals' friends said, somebody on the morning, March the first. He will two policemen so that he feared He added, "I don't think there's "expecting more than they had a New Republic staff heard that be the first Negro executed for for his life if he did not sign what too much enthusiasm among stu- right to. Some of us anticipated Kennedy read it, so they have the sodomy-associated murder of they told him to. However, Jim dents for Kennedy. The Kennedy a mild revolution, especially on been writing for him ever since," a 12-year-old white boy in Hous- Maloney, reporter for the Hous- popularity is like Ike's, developed civil liberties." He said the chief said Wade. ton in 1959. ton Post, said at Johnson's trial by a concentration upon him in disillusionment was directed at Book authors mentioned first In the cell beside him on Death he saw Johnson that night close the press to the exclusion of oth- Kennedy's foreign policy. by Wade were Thorsten Veblen Row waits Adrian Johnson, an- up for a while, after the beatings ers." He catalogs the liberals' heroes: and Clarence Ayres. He said he other 19-year-old Negro. In a sep- would have had to occur, and saw Nor does this student feel much Martin Luther King, integration; and "half a dozen of my friends" arate trial, he has been con- no bruises or signs of beating. impelled by alarm at right-wing Linus Pauling "in a qualified also refer frequently to Marx's demned to death for the same This badly damaged Johnson's de- activities. "There's no need for sense", peace and disarmament; 1844 humanist essays. "These are murder. His date is April 19. fense. the liberals to organize to oppose Bertrand Russell, "in his geogra- over the head of most sit-inners," Seven young Negroes were ac- the John Birchers; the moderates phy." In the confession, Johnson, then said Wade, "a lot of whom are cused of taking part in sexual vio- already do that. Most of the or- Timmons joins Wade in fear- 17, said he and nine other Negro coffee-drinking liberals who ac- lence at the young boy's expense. ganized liberal groups are direct- ing the Juggernaut-type military- boys saw Bodenheimer riding cept other people's beliefs if they Post-mortem examinations estab- ed at specific problems that peo- industrial complex. And although toward them about 6:30 on a bi- have a liberal cast to them." Of lished the boy had been forcibly ple would be concerned with, no he joins Wade in laughing at na- cycle. Roy Miller said, "Let's get these people, Wade said a lot of violated anally. His body was matter what. People who take tional rightists such as Robert him," and Ira Lee Sadler grabbed them "just want to be there, it found stuffed into a refrigerator freedom rides aren't concerned Welch, "locally, I do not laugh at him and threw him off the bike, makes them feel right; they don't in a shack on a vacant lot in with a massive opposite political people like Haley and Riddle and the statement said. Then the boy want to talk about it, debate about Houston. ideology as they are with one the power they hold over the was pulled into the shack and his it, or even think about it." The two Negro youths, in Death specific issue: segregation. The Texas Education Agency." These head held fast by . Sadler; accord- The group Wade represents House interviews, maintained that same is true of other specific- latter are leaders of the Texans ing to the confession, he was then does not talk much in terms of they are innocent; that they could issue liberals. for America, currently attempt- assaulted by each of the accused. heroes, for the reason that few not have committed the crime, ing to censor textbooks. As they all prepared to leave, men active in politics measure because they were elsewhere when With Dick Simpson, chairman Johnson's confession said, Ira Lee up to the strict loyalty to ideals it occurred; and that many wit- of the new Student Party and Sadler and Dave Climmets forced that Wade's group demands. But nesses who can testify they were he says, "I'll tell you one who is more of a practical politician than the boy, screaming, into the re- elsewhere were not called at their a hero in my group—Chester some of the students interviewed, frigerator; apparently, from the respective trials. Kennedy "would come close" to confession, none of the others pro- Bowles. I haven't met a thinking They admitted that a couple of measuring up, with such programs tested. liberal who has had anything bad evenings before the crime, they to say about Bowles. I think h.e is as medical aid for the aged, and participated in "tricking" younger Defense counsel for Johnson the only one in the administration increased aid to universities—"I newsboys out of money. tried to show that so many peo- whose original glow hasn't dulled. never expected any more than In great detail, the two youths ple could not fit into the tiny That may be because he has been this"—but with Simpson there is recounted where they were all shack in which Bill Bodenhei- persecuted." still disillusionment over Ken- "More worrisome than the radi- during the Sunday on which Bill mer's body was found. No finger- nedy's failure to firmly put aside Kennedy certainly is no hero cal right-wing are the respectable Bcdenheimer was abused and prints of any of the accused were the temptation to resume atmos- in the eyes of this group of lib- people who can use them, as when then thrust, alive, into the refrig- found in or around the shack. A pheric testing, and then use that erals, says Wade, "because of the Dirksen comes out for Katanga erato:, there to suffocate. woman testified she heard position as a key propaganda Cuban fiasco, and his soft-pedal- and secession; then he has a big They gave names and addresses. screams from the shack along in right-wing machine he can use, weapon. ing the education bill, and hold- They wondered how separate jur- the early afternoon, at 3:30. (She The possibility of an Orwellian ing on to the same attitude to- and which can use him. ies could find one of them guilty did nothing.) Johnson's confession or Juggernaut state does not ward the Russians—he hasn't "But I like to see these right- of killing the boy at 3:30 p.m. and had said 6:30. seem too real to Simpson. "I have given them a chance." But wing groups because they create the other at 6:30 p.m. on the same more confidence in us than that," He also pointed out that John- though Kennedy's style "seems ideas. They are too far out to day. he said. He dces admit a "con- pretty corny," says Wade, "there's carry society with them." son, according to the confession cern" about social forces at work still some hope." He doesn't agree with Wade Claims Beating on which he was convicted, did that the right-wing is "laughable." that could make man "a response They lived, messed around, and not participate in putting Bill He said, "A freedom rally at the mechanism," but he worries a found their friends in a Negro Bodenheimer in the icebox and What Price Gandhi? great deal more "about status- section of Houston called Green On some campuses in the coun- civic auditorium is laughable in that the cause of the boy's death quoing ourselves out of position, Pond, between West Dallas and try, Gandhi is held as a hero, but the ideas expressed, but not in was not the sodomy, but suffoca- or stagnating into some form of West Gray. The day of the crime, Wade doesn't see how passive re- the idea of expression. Some of tion in the icebox. The same point past history that is of no concern they said, they bought a water- sistance fits into political efforts my friends went down and picket- would apply to Joe Edward to anyone." melon and ate it, went to a house Smith. in this country. "I think the prob- ed the auditorium, but I would and played dominoes, sat around lems Gandhi faced and our prob- never have done that and I tried Off-Campus Backbone on a bridge and "bullcorned," and This is the depressing back- lems are entirely different. Ours to prevent some of those who did. Not only denying that left-wing borrowed a man's boxing gloves ground for the short little para- are much greater. He had the I'm not against their ideas as long activities are reactions to right- and boxed all evening in front of graph or two one may or may not problem of getting the British out as they don't try to, say, take over wing resurgence, Simpson insists a store, because there was a light find in next Thursday morning's of India. We don't have anything the public schools. Free speech is that it be put the other way there. papers: Negro Executed. so nice as the British. How would important. They can be defeated around. "Isn't the right-wing the we use passive resistance? There by the right kind of publicity." reaction to achievements on the are three ways to accomplish Prompted by Despair left? The Ku Klux Klan has had what we want: political challenge, He agreed that Bowles is a its greatest power intermittently TEXANS AND BOBBY revolt, or get out. Nothing else hero of the group, but he added since the 1920's, over the years of seems to fit." Wade does not ad- Nobel chemist Linus Pauling, greatest liberal achievements. The (Continued from Page 1) The Houston Chronicle got it vocate revolt, and, so far as the pointing out that "the only time Birchers only got excited when Bobby. Gubernatorial candidate a different way: "On paper, they Communist Party goes, he em- in Buckley's speech at U.T. when they saw that by joining an in- Edwin A. Walker: "Devastating had an army four times as big as phasized that he considers it as he was booed was when he called ternational group we could make and unpardonable." The Harris ours." The Observer was unable backward as the John Birch So- Linus Pauling a pro-commie. I'd co-existence a meaningful rather County Mayors and Councilmen's to discover what had happened ciety. say 20 people booed. Buckley treat- than a flippant term." Association: "We are fed up and to the other one-fifth of the Mex- The campus left is not motiv- ed Eleanor like a soft-minded Simpson says much of the lib- fighting mad. . ." ican army between the two writ- ated by reaction to the right, says idiot, but nobody booed that." eral ferment on the campus must Among the angriest were Texas ings. Wade, because, for one thing, To Wade's list of favorite peri- be credited to off-campus organi- Republican leaders. (As a result Amazed but Friendly "none of the liberals on the cam- odicals, he added Commentary zations: the Christian Faith and of the Mexican war, the United Mexican historians, meanwhile, pus take the conservatives seri- and the New Statesman. Life Community, the Wesley States gained not only the dis- were speaking their hearty agree- ously — they • are literally the Terry Timmons, a Young Dem- Foundation, the YMCA. He says puted land between the Nueces ment with Bobby. Historian Jose laughing stock, everything from ocrat and former chairman of the in any stand-in or similar protest, and Rio Grande rivers, but also Valdes ranked the younger' Ken- the Young Republicans to the S.D.A., said he and his political the Community will supply 3• or what is today Arizona, New Mex- nedy with Abraham Lincoln and Young Americans for Freedom. colleagues are motivated "in part 40 participants who will form the ico, California, Nevada, Utah, and Gen. U. S. Grant (both of whom "The real threat comes from by despair—no, maybe not quite backbone of the movement. part of Colorado. These states now opposed the war). as "the only anyone to the right of Fulbright, that deep—let's say a, feeling of "There is a curious cross-pollina- have seven Republican Senators friends that Mexico has ever had Stevenson and Bowles—anyone being fed up with the way things tion of the theological and the po- in Washington.) Said Sen. John in this shameful affair." who resists the overthrow of tra- are done in the South. Montgom- litical" in activist liberal efforts Tower: "Glaring ignorance . . . The influential Mexican news- dition by knowledge." ery showed us all that something on the campus that can only be slurs . . . shocking surprise . . . paper Excelsior, noting the many Wade and his followers do not can be done that isn't done on the traced to the influence of these most unbecoming . . . call on him attacks on Kennedy, asked edito- lay much weight by the welfare government level." As for motiva- organizations, he said. The Wes- to apologize." Rep. Bruce Alger: rially if his enemies expected him state as a cure-all, at least the tion of political activities from ley Foundation is putting out a The remark "would be challenged to wear a zipper in his mouth. •welfare state as commonly con- new think sheet, entitled "Signs by all Texas." the right, he put that down to Gov. Price Daniel, who recently "oversimplification, the Birchers' of the Times," edited by David Naturally, historians were ceived. "It seems pretty useless, received political endorsement of giving welfare checks to the par- Doan, a graduate student in phys- called in to support the point of desire to find one simple solution PASO, expressed only amazement ents without providing adequate ics. The mimeographed sheet, pub- view. Historian Allan Nevins of to all our ills." and said he was happy Mexico is schooling fo, the kids—giving aid As for popular reading matter, lished for more than a month now, the Huntington Library said the friendly. Timmons insists that the New considers controversial subjects war was too justified. But here to the farmers, without over-all One phrase of Kennedy's could pub- again confusion crept in. The As- _- national economic planning." Republic and Reporter are still in such as censorship of student be agreed upon by all. He had lications and the Stickney sen- sociated Press quoted Nevins as A close friend of Wade's and there. Among books, William opened the disputed portion of tence. Editor Doan says he thinks saying Mexico refused to negoti- an active participant in SDA, who Styron's Lie Down in Darkness, his address by conceding, "Al- ate the disputed territory because asked that he not be named, with its old, unanswered, but in- one of the main drives behind any though some Texans might dis- "they thought they were going to agreed on a feeling of disenchant- sistent questions about existence, political activity is "in a world as agree. . . ." ment toward Kennedy. "I feel I "is probably the most popular on confused as ours, the need to be defeat the United States. They don't know him very well. What- the campus now." Fromm is read; doing something, the need to be had an army that on paper was THE TEXAS OBSERVER ever sort of person he is, he's be- so is Harrison Brown about the identified with a group." five times larger than ours." Page 3 Feb. 23, 1962 Sane, Reasonable SOLIDIFYING PROSPECT A Man to Elect ,Woover and ,Wunt AUSTIN principles, institutions, traditions, and Don Yarborough's solidifying pros- people of the Democratic Party. Oh, While J. Edgar Hoover, in an arti- invent a new card game on the idea of pect for a place in the runoff for gov- we have some latter-day Democrats in cle in the American Bar Assn. Jour- "freedom vs. slavery." The originator ernor rests upon the fact that he is this race, some that got up enough nal, said there are "far too many self- of such a game "might make a fortune the only liberal in a field of six candi- courage to climb publicly on the band- styled experts on communism" whose off of it and it would speed over the dates. Senator Ralph Yarborough's wagon in 1960; but the record shows "emotional outbursts, extravagant country as a national craze," obvi- wire to Texas COPE last weekend, that they have spent much of their name-calling, gross exaggerations hin- ously fulfilling in both cases key urging that the Democrats stick to- public lives as lackeys for special in- der our effort," where "sane, rational points in the American way. Four, gether, was written from his aware- terests alien to the true spirit of the understanding" is needed, H. L. Hunt, devise freedom fads in clothing so ness that for once, the business corn- Democratic Party." small businessman from Dallas, went the "style and color of the clothing munity has been caught in confusion, In a section on rural electrification, several steps further. would promote patriotic ideas." Five, splitting their votes five ways while Yarborough took his stand against write patriotic parodies to replace the leaving the loyal Democratic vote to "big private power monopolies" mov- Hunt said freedom is in its greatest words of popular songs. (How about: Don Yarborough. ing in on REA territory now annexed hour of danger. None of Mr. Lipp- "It had to be blue/Teddy Walker said Governor Daniel will receive some to expanding cities. He dismissed mann's nonsense (see page five) about blue" or "You made me join/I didn't loyalist and Latin votes which would with contempt Texas' present labor all those values of Western civiliza- want to do it ; I didn't want to do it"). ordinarily fall to the liberal, but the laws and called for an agency to help tion for Mr. Hunt. If the individual Six, give freedom parties in homes. young Yarborough from Houston is labor and management resolve dis- wishes to protect freedom, "new and Seven, learn to infiltrate subversive a cinch for the bulk of the old Yar- putes harmoniously. With only 31 ingenious methods" must be found. He organizations. "You are lucky," he borough turn-out. Already the reac- percent of our high school graduates specifically mentioned "freedom fires" said,„"if you aren't a member of one. tion against PASO has set in among going to college—half the percentage and suggested the following: If you are, take over the one you're Latin-Americans. (What are a bunch in California—he called for an urgent One, make jokes inspiring patriotic in." of Latin-American politicians doing, program in Texas education. And of themes "which would sweep the coun- Mr. Hunt's eighth point is the most endorsing a segregationist governor?) course he would raise old age pensions try." Two, encourage "hobbies for realistic, and in a very real sense the —one dares say a lot more than Price freedom" in which persons would most tremulous and the most chal- DON YARBOROUGH'S first Daniel's $2 a month. clip patriotic printed mattter and lenging: originate a new freedom state telecast was a little nervous and "Every other man in this race is a write down patriotic slogans, then dance "to supercede the twist." We a little stagy, but a careful reading voice out of the past, uttering the to be exchanged with other persons want to be among the first to see the confirms the impression that the man same old political platitudes, rooted who have freedom hobbies. Three, freer version. was saying a number of things which in the habits and conformities of an- place him on the crest of a wave of other era," said Yarborough. "It is my transition all Texas Democratic poli- position that these men are, in one ticians but General Walker are trying way or another, connected with the Our Spring RateJ to ride. same psychology of drift and indeci- To a Daily Texan reporter, Yarbor- sion that racked the Republican Party ough said that if the students vote for the eight years it held the Presi- With several hundred men and extremes of far left and far right": for dormitory integration, that is ex- dency of the United States." women running for every conceivable $100, free for extreme rightists and actly what they should get. To the When a network broadcaster asked office of public trust in Texas this leftists statewide audience, he said Texas spring, the Observer wishes to cir- Yarborough in Dallas last weekend if 2. "thunder down the middle" should be a "showcase" for Latin- he is the most liberal candidate in the cularize its standard list of rates for America, a weapon in the cold war, editorial mention. Checks or money headline and cartoon : $250 race, he replied: "Well, let's put it 3. "segregationist" (for East Texas instead of a place in which Latin- this way : I'm the most modern candi- orders should be made payable to the Americans live, too often, in "shacks editor and sent to his home. All edition) : $75 ("ultra" or "arch," $5 date." extra) instead of homes," rttend "schools That is the truth. It is a pleasing if charges are marked up ten percent for that are not equal," and struggle Republicans, left-wing. socialists, and 4. "believes in law of the land" surprising fact that times have so (for South Texas and Bexar edition) : "against insurmountable odds for changed, he is a very good prospect anarchists. Undesirables are not eligi- equal job opportunities." He spoke of ble for mention, but Win With Walker $125 for the runoff for governor, after 5. "will not resort to racial dema- a need to raise "the minimum wages which, win or lose this year, there candidates will be thoroughly investi- of our people." gated before muzzled: goguery in standard forms, though he will be no retiring him from the believes federal government has gone Yarborough threw all five of his scene. Editorial approval, no superlatives: too far" (for statewide edition) : $300 opponents into a cold stew of apathy, $100 6. "pledges 100 highway patrolmen indifference, neglect, and "creeping Editorial disapproval, no superla- to Latin-Americans" (South Texas dry-rot." E DITOR ARCHER FUL- tives: $200 edition) : $450 (add "with motorcy- "The legislature caved in to the LIGHIM, that old master of invective loan sharks . . . and a reform 25 years Editorial approval, pick your own cles", $50 extra) from the Big Thicket, was in one of 7. "pledges 100 highway patrolmen overdue is postponed again. The leg- his biting moods this week. He wrote superlatives from our wide range: islature even turned its back on the $350 to Latin-Americans and all other in- in the Kountze News: terested citizens" (statewide edition much-needed juvenile parole system Editorial disapproval, pick your "Now comes that old master of the minus South Texas) : $600 . . . which is 15 years overdue. . . . own superlatives from our same wide turncoat, P. Daniel, saying that after 8. "vigorous, energetic" ( statewide "The (Austin) inability to do some- range: $600 thing, to function, was, to me, sym- three terms as attorney general, three edition) : $50 terms as governor, and eleven sessions No editorial mention in any form 9. "vigorous, energetic, opposes bolized recently by the legislature's except passing : $25.50 failures even to reach agreement on of the legislature, including eight spe- beer tax (German edition) : $150 cial sessions, he wants another term Special descriptive phrases ( order 10. "endorses sidewalk cafes, free the repairing of the San Jacinto Mon- ument . . . a pitiful tribute by politi- as governor to finish his program. our spring catalogue) : love, cheap wine, treaty with United At the rate he has moved in the last 1. "honest moderate who deplores States: we pay you. cians in 1962 to the brave men who fought at San Jacinto in 1836 .. . five years, it would take him three "The passage of the general sales more terms and eight more special tax . . . after a majority of the legis- sessions to get his so-called program lature AND the Governor were elected enacted. While not admitting that his Afterthoug 4I influence with the legislature has been on their promise not to pass such a law . . . is clear evidence of the politi- lower than any governor's within In the February number of a news- head: "State Has No Personal or Cor- cal morality that has settled over memory, he gives you a hint how low paper called "Industrial Property," porate Income Tax." Austin . . . it was in the last special session when he complains that he could not even journal of the Society of Industrial "We have politicians who campaign get the legislature to appropriate Realtors published "in the interest of against the sales tax, and give us a sales tax. We have politicians who $100,000 to repair the Carla-damaged United States and Canadian indus- &oho campaign for a lobby control bill, and San Jacinto monument. Now every- try," there is a page one story by Bill In Houston, home of River Oaks, we have a piece of paper that controls body wants the monument repaired, Cobb of the Texas Industrial Corn- the Petroleum Club, Memorial Park, no lobby. even the legislature wanted to vote the and the homegrown John Birch So- "Interstate Eastern gas pipelines money, but what did Price do? He mission extolling the fairness and slipped in a garage for employees that equity of everything Texas. from edu- ciety, we note that city financing of have more power in our government public libraries is so poor that books than people have. Small loan lobbyists the legislature wouldn't swallow. The cation to social welfare to sales taxes henceforth will have to be "rationed" have more power than people have. monument is one of the excuses Price gave for asking for his sixth term. to medical care for the aged to fed- to schoolchildren. Perhaps the state Yet we have a governor who ran for eral aid for highway construction. of Texas should appropriate special office on the platform that he had "But let's go back to 1960 when he Says the banner headline across page funds to the city to properly educate passed a lobby control bill to end the ran for his sixth term. His alibi then one: "Texas Tax Climate Made for its children, were this not state social- power of the Austin clique. He did was, 'if you will elect me governor Industry." And as a kind of after- ism of the most biting sort. Inherent this in 1957. But two years later, in again I'll huff and I'll puff and I'll thought, as if to remind good Yankees in cities' rights, one must remember, 1959, his lobby control bill was re- blow the sales tax down,' and the peo- amazing things do exist, even in the is the right to turn out youngsters vealed for the sham it was. Lobbyists ple taking him at his word believed industrialized Confederacy, this sub- who don't read books. continued to dominate the halls of him—even I tried to believe him. But the Senate and the House." P. Daniel, true to his turncoat nature, Thus did Don Yarborough remind at the end sided in with the sales tax THE TEXAS OBSERVER the people of failures the pretty titles lobbyists and saddled the sales tax of laws cannot conceal. on the people of Texas, He also made a bald pitch for the Don Yarborough, the loyal Dem- 7 °ON' Zilst loyalist Democrats. He attached his ocrats' candidate: for governor, is the Published by Texas Observer Co., Ltd. Published once a week from Austin, campaign firmly to support of John only candidate in the race who can Entered as second-class matter, April Texas. Delivered postage prepaid $5.10 per Kennedy. "No other candidate who and will and would veto the sales tax 26, 1937, at the Post Office at Austin, annum. Advertising rates available on has filed for the office of governor on groceries that the big corporations' Texas, under the Act of March 3, 1879. request. Extra copies 15c each. Quantity has any true or sincere intention of lobbyists are cooking up for the next prices available on order. FERBUARY 23, 1962 carrying the banner of these real session of the legislature. Don is the Willie Morris EDITORIAL and BUSINESS OFFICE: Democrats," he charged truly. "There only man in the race we can trust to Editor and General Manager 504 West 24th St., Austin, Texas. Phone try to prevent passage of a sales tax GReenwood 7-0746. is not one single other candidate in Bob Sherrill, Associate Editor this race whose public life has been on grocieries and to veto one if it is Sarah Payne, Office Manager HOUSTON OFFICE: Mrs. R. D. Ran- Ronnie Dugger, Contributing Editor dolph, 2131 Welch, Houston 19, Texas. marked by consistent support for the Passed." R.D. MINDS, NERVES, AND SOULS

Our Age: Radically . New in Man's Experience Walter Lippmann, America's not merely much bigger and more war. and humiliation, and beyond the Communist •society. greatest living journalist, was in dangerous than any which existed It is enormously difficult to tolerable limits, it will plunge I dare to believe that this Texas last weekend vacationing before. They have introduced into make peace. It is intolerably dan- into lunacy. This is as much a powerful Western economic com- and "looking around." His speech the art of warfare a wholly new gerous and useless to make war real fact as is the megaton bomb, munity will be able to live safely last Month before the Women's kind of violence. about the fundamental issues. and it is a fact which must be and without fear in the same National Press. Club, friends in ALWAYS IN THE PAST, war That is where our contempo- given great weight in the calcula- world as the Soviet Union, and Washington tell us, has had as rl and the threat of war, whether rary frustration and confusion tion of national policy. It is the that the rising power and influ- deep an impact there as any ad- it was aggressive or defensive, originate. central fact in the whole diplo- ence of the Western society will dress in recent times. There was were usable instruments. They matic problem of dealing with the exert a beneficial magnetic at- Impossible Instrument cold war. There is a line of in- traction upon Eastern Europe. no mention of it, of course, in the were usable instruments in the We are confronted with an tolerable provocation beyond This will happen if we approach Texas press. sense that nations could go to war extraordinary tantalizing and which reactions become uncon- it in the right way. Jean Monnet, Our space in each week's Ob- for their national purposes. They nerve-wracking dilemma. trollable. It is the business of the who is the original founder of server is severely limited, and for could threaten war for diplomatic For as long a time as we can government to find out where this movement, has put it the that reason if no other our focus reasons. Nations could transform see into the future, we shall be that line is, and to stay well back right way. "We cannot build our is largely provincial. In this case themselves from petty states to living between war and peace, be- of it. future," he has said, "if we are we are pleased to make an ,excep- great powers by means of war. tween a war that cannot be Those who do not understand obsessed with fear of Russia. Let tion and to reprint Mr. Lipp- They could enlarge their terri- fought, and a peace that cannot the nature of war in the nuclear us build our own strength and mann's address in its entirety. For tory, acquire profitable colonies, be achieved. The great issues age, those who think that war health not against anyone, but what, after all, is the significance change the religion of a van- which divide the world cannot be today is what it was against Mex- for ourselves so that we will be- of provincialism in this day and quished population, all by means decided by a war that could be ico or Spain or in the two World come so strong that no one will age?—Ed. of war. War was the instrument won, and they cannot be settled Wars, regard the careful attempts dare attack us, and so progressive WASHINGTON with which the social, political, by a treaty that can be negotiated. of statesmen not to carry the and prosperous that we set a When *I sat down to prepare and legal systems of large areas There, I repeat, is the root of provocation past the tolerable this talk, I considered. and reject- were changed. Thus, in the old the frustration which our people model for all other peoples, in- limit as weakness and softness deed for the Russians them- ed the idea of delivering a kind days before the nuclear age be- feel. Our world is divided as it and appeasement. It is not any of selves." of preliminary message on the gan, war was a usable—however has not been since the religious these things. It is not softness. It At the same time the wealth and state of the Union. I remembered horrible and expensive—instru- wars of the 17th century and a that this will soon be done with is sanity. confidence of the new community ment of national purpose. \ The large part of the globe is in a But it leaves us with a task; be- much more authority by the hus- reason for that was that the old great upheaval, the like of which will enable the Western society to cause we cannot make war, be- band of a former newspaper- wars could be won. has not been known since the end assist and draw to it the societies woman. So I decided to talk to cause we cannot achieve peace, In the prenuclear age, right of the Middle Ages. But the power of the southern hemisphere, where we must find some other way of you tonight about the state of our down through the Second World which used to deal with the di- social and economic change is meeting the great issues which minds, the state of our nerves, War, the victorious power was an visions and conflicts of the past, proceeding rapidly. confront us. For life will go on, and perhaps even about the sta'.2 organized state which could im- namely organized war, has be- You will have seen that I do not of our souls. and if the answers of the past do pose its will on the vanquished. come an impossible instrument to agree with those who think that We did that with Germany and not work, other answers must in order to defend ourselves and I am moved to do this by a let- use. with Japan. The damage they had exist and must be found. to survive we must put a stop to ter I received just before Christ- RESIDENT EISENHOWER suffered, although it was great, The answer lies, I believe, in the progressive movement, which has mas. It was from a friend of mine P and President Kennedy are was not irreparable, as we know nature of the struggle between gone on throughout this century. who was a great hero in the First the only two American Presidents from the recovery after World our Western society and the Com- This movement began in the ad- World War. He has been an ex- who ever lived in a world like this War II of West Germany and munist society. ministration of Theodore Roose- traordinarily successful man since one. It is a great puzzle to know Japan and the Soviet Union. velt. Its purpose was to reform then, and his letter began in this how to defend the Nation's rights, It is often said that the struggle But from a full nuclear war. and advance our own social order, cheerful fashion. "My dear Wal- and how to promote its interests which divides the world is for the which might well mean 100 mil- and at the same time to recognize ter: Another year of frustration, in the nuclear age. There are no minds and the souls of men. That lion dead, after the devastation that we must live in the world confusion, and compromise is clear guidelines of action be-, is true. As long as there exists a of the great urban centers of the beyond our frontiers. about over." cause there are no precedents for balance of power and of terror, Northern Hemisphere and the We shall lose all our power to I know that my friend is not the situation in which we find neither side can impose its doc- contamination of the earth, the cope with our problems if we al- alone in feeling this way and that ourselves. And as statesmen grope trine and its ideology upon the water, and the air, there would be low ourselves to become a stag- during the coming session of Con- their Way from one improvisation other. The struggle for the minds no such recovery as we have seen nant, neurotic, frightened, and sus- gress there will be many who will and accommodation to another, of men, moreover, is not, I be- after the two World Wars of this picious people. Let us not punish say what he says and feel as he there are masses of people who lieve, going to be decided by pro- century. ourselves by denying ourselves does. At different times I suppose are frightened, irritated, impa- paganda. We are not going to con- The damage done would be mu- the hope, by depriving ourselves of all of us share his feelings. There tient, frustrated and in search of vert our adversaries, and they are tual. There would be no victor. As the oldest American dream, which is indeed much frustration, much quick and easy solutions. not going to convert us. far in the future as we can see, is that we are making a better 'confusion, and—because we live The nuclear age is only a few HE STRUGGLE, furthermore, the ruin would be irreparable. society on this earth than has ever on earth and not in Heaven—there years old. But We have already T is not going to be ended in any The United States has the nuclear been made before. is, of course, much compromise. learned one or two things about foreseeable time. At bottom it is a power to reduce Soviet society to how to conduct policy in this age. competition between two societies 'All These' Frustrations Not New a smouldering ruin, leaving the of It was once said of a British ad- and it resembles more than any Is all this conservative? Is all I could have written back to my wretched survivors shocked and miral in the First World War that other thing in our historical ex- this liberal? Is it all progressive? friend, reminding him that in starving and diseased. In an in- if he made a mistake, he could perience the long centuries of con- It is, I say, all of these. There is every year of which there is any terchange of nuclear weapons, it lose the British fleet and with it flict between Christendom and Is- no irreconcilable contradiction historical record, there has been is estimated coolly by experts who the whole war in an afternoon. lani. The modern competition be- among these noble words. Do not much frustration and confusion have studied it, the Soviet Union Mr. Khrushchev and Mr. Kennedy tween the two societies turns on Republicans believe in democracy, and compromise. Anyone who would kill between 30 and 70 mil- are in a similar position today. In and do not Democrats believe in thinks he can get away from frus- their respective capacfty to be- lion Americans. a few days or so Mr. Khrushchev tration, confusion, and compro- come powerful and rich, to be- a republic? Such labels may de- A war of that kind would not can lose the Soviet state and the scribe political parties in Eng- mise in politics and diplomacy come the leaders in science and be followed by reconstruction, it promise of a Communist econ- should make arrangements to get technology, to see that their peo- land; they do nbt describe politi- would not be followed by a Mar- omy. He can lose all the work of himself reborn into a different ple are properly educated and cal attitudes in the United States. shall plan, and by all the con- all his 5-year plans, his 7-year civilized and world than this one. Or if that is able to operate such a society, to EVERY TRULY structive things that were done plans, and his 20-year plans. In beyond his powers, he should keep their people healthy, and to lightened American is con- after World War II. A nuclear that same time, Mr. Kennedy can move to some country where give them the happiness of know- servative and liberal and progres- war would be followed by a sa- lose the Constitution of the there are no newspapers to read. ing that they are able and free to sive. A civilized American is con- vage struggle for existence, as the United States, the free enterprise However, it is certainly true work for their best hopes. servative in that his deepest loy- survivors crawled out of their system, and the American way of that in our own time we. are ex- The historic rivalry of the two alty is to the Western heritage of shelters, and the American Re- life and, along with them, all the periencing a very special frustra- societies and of the two civiliza- ideas which originated on the public would have to be replaced frontiers, old and new. tion and confusion. There is, I be- tions which they contain is not shores of the Mediterranean Sea. by a stringent military dictator- HE POOR DEARS among us lieve, a reason for this. Certainly, going to be decided by what hap- Because of that loyalty he is the ship, trying to keep some kind who say that they have had if we knew the cause, we might T pens on the periphery and in the indefatigable defender of our own of order among the desperate sur- enough of all this talking and ne- feel better, even if we cannot do outposts. It is going to be decided constitutional doctrine, which is vivors. gotiating and now let us drop the govern- quickly something drastic to end by what goes on in the heart of that all power, that all ment, that all officials, that all the difficulty. To his great credit, President bomb, have no idea of what they each of the two societies. The are talking abOut. They do not parties, and all majorities are un- The age we are living in is radi- Eisenhower was quick to realize heart of Western civilization lies der the law—and that none of cally new in human experience. what nuclear war would be. After know what has happened, in the on the shores of the Atlantic them is sovereign and omnipotent. During the past 15 years or so he and Prime Minister Churchill past 20 years. They belong to the Ocean, and our future depends on The civilized American is a lib- there has occurred a profound had studied some of the results past, and they have not been able what goes on in the Atlantic Corn- eral because the writing and the revolution in human affairs, and of the nuclear tests, President to realize what the present is. inunity. Will this Community ad- administration of the laws should we are the first generation that Eisenhower made the historic In this present, only a moral vance? Can the nations which be done with enlightenment and has lived under these revolution- declaration that there is no longer idiot with a suicidal mania would compose it work together? Can it compassion, with tolerance and ary new conditions. There has any alternative to peace. press the button for a nuclear become a great and secure center charity, and with affection. taken place a radical development When President Eisenhower war. Yet we have learned that of power and of wealth, of light in the art of war, and this is made that statement, no one of while a nuclear war would be and of leading? To work for these And the civilized man is pro- change causing a revolutionary change in us, I think, understood its full lunacy, it is nevertheless an ever- ends is to be engaged truly in the gressive because the times and the social Qrder evolves and the foreign relations of all the significance and consequences. present possibility. Why? Be- great conflict of our age, and to nations of the world. The radical We are now beginning to under- cause, however lunatic it might be doing the real work that we new things are invented and development is, of course, the pro- stand them, and here I venture to be to commit suicide, a nation are challenged to do. I speak with changes occur. This conservative duction of nuclear weapons. say is the root of the frustration can be provoked and exasperated some hope and confidence to- who is a liberal is a progressive The essential fact about the ap- and the confusion which torment to the point of lunacy where its night. For I believe that in the because he must work and live, pearance of two opposed great us. For while nuclear weapons nervous system cannot endure in- months to come we shall engage he must govern and debate in his own time powers armed with nuclear wea- have made war, the old arbiter of action, where only violence can ourselves in the long and compli- the world as it is in pons is that war, which is an an- human affairs, an impossible ac- relieve its feelings. This is one of cated, but splendidly constructive, and as it is going to become. cient habit of mankind, has be- tion for a rational statesman to the facts of life in the middle of task of bringing together in one WALTER LIPPMANN come mutually destructive. Nu- contemplate, we do not have any the twentieth century. liberal and progressive economic clear war is a way of mutual sui- other reliable way of dealing with The nerves of a nation can community all the ti ceding na- THE TEXAS OBSERVER Feb. 23, 1962 cide. The modern weapons are issues that used to be resolved by stand only so much provocation tions which do not belong to the Page 5 TURN OF THE TIDE Texas and the Delicate Vote Balance of '60 Texas in the 1960 Presidential once of Kennedy and his neglect August. Johnson said he didn't Texas. In late October Kennedy eleven counties was 49,700 better Election, by 0. Douglas Weeks, of senatorial duties," Weeks like second place, but he did it wrote state Democratic manager than Eisenhower's in '60. The Institute of Public Affairs, Uni- writes. They were not above sug- for the good of the ticket. Daniel Gerald Mann to ease the fears of Kennedy vote here, however, ex- versity of Texas, 80 pp., $2. gesting that a Catholic could not grumbled that he didn't like the the oil interests. He said he would ceeded Stevenson's in '56 by 169,- AUSTIN win. They even, in the last days, thing at all, but he'd support the give the matter "new and compre- 500. The Democratic increase was Everyone, in that exciting sum- alluded to Kennedy's wealth, his ticket because Johnson was on it. hensive study." Nixon challenged relatively greater. Weeks gives mer and fall of 1960, sensed it r e c or d on McCarthyism, his On that aggressive note the Texas Kennedy "to come out flatly for several reasons for this relative was going to be close in Texas. health, and his father's pre-war campaign was launched. preservation of the special oil tax increase: Catholic support "in the Texas could very well have been attitude toward Hitler. N AUGUST Belden Poll indi- concession." In the end even H. L. cities everywhere"; solidification the swing state, and it almost was. The disappointment of the Tex- A cated the Democrats were Hunt; citing the Johnson and Ray- of the Negro vote, which was Kennedy carried the nation by as delegation after Johnson's de-. narrowly ahead, with 40 percent burn influence, came out for the more divided in '56; and the in- 118,263 votes, two-tenths of one feat was extremely bitter. "Texas for Kennedy-Johnson, 36 for Nix- ticket, a decision that must have creased activity of organized la- percent. In Texas he and Johnson factionalism had been to a large on-Lodge, and 24 undecided. It befuddled even Dan Smoot. bor "in getting out the working outscored Nixon and Lodge by a extent temporarily suspended to also showed Catholics 78 percent Many good Texans will argue to class vote and largely holding it mere 46,233, and led the Republi- support his candidacy, but would for Kennedy-Johnson, 9 percent this day that "l'affaire Adolphus", for Kennedy." A classic example can, Constitution, and PrOhibition this hold for a ticket headed by for Nixon-Lodge, and 13 unde- when Lyndon and Ladybird s were of the more solid Negro vote can tickets combined by only 24,019. Kennedy and with a platform cided; Protestants stood 33 per- mobbed by the Republicans in be seen in Houston. Of 23 Negro Yet Nixon polled 41,080 more votes plainly distasteful to the conserv- cent for Kennedy-Johnson, 42 for Dallas, carried the Democrats precincts there, Kennedy led Nix- in Texas than Eisenhower in 1956. ative and moderates who were Nixon-Lodge, and 25 undecided. over. Weeks believes "the indig- on by 22,156 to 3,393; in '56 Steven- How did it happen? predominantly represented in the f-k, nity, insults, and physical jostling son got only 11,592 to Eisenhower's Professor Weeks' study is the Texas delegation?" Gov. Daniel, . . . shifted a good many votes." 6,006. (Weeks should also give third in a series on national elec- vice-chairman of the delegation (Lone Star Republicans, some- credit to the extremely effective tions in Texas in the last decade. (Dugger's file from Los Angeles what ,embarrassed about the riot, campaign for Latin votes emanat- described Daniel as the quarter- now say Lyndon detoured 200 ing from the "Viva Kennedy" There is a brief summary of the back of the LBJ campaign, John- At the Democratic state conven- yards to walk through the geo- clubs.) political events leading up to the son as the coach, Speaker Ray- tion in September, Daniel "pushed graphic middle of it. If so, he was Weeks' calculations on the reli- Los Angeles convention: Yarbor- burn as the school president through a conservative platform wise. He conducted himself with gious issue in the voting largely ough's election to the Senate in watching from the stands, Will but beat down all attempts to re- dignity and good sense.) follow the Observer analysis in the special race of '57, his victory our issue of Nov. 11, 1960. In 39 Wilson as the cheerleader; if pudiate the national platform WEEKS' ANALYSIS of the Tex- over Blakley in '58, the organiza- John Connally had been added as openly." The state platform dif- as vote is sound and com- counties Catholics have a clear tion of the DOT and its effort to the fund-raiser with the alumni, fered with the national one on prehensive. Of the 254 counties, majority of the population. Eisen- take the '58 conventions, the the 1962 irony would be complete) such quibbling points as the oil 166 voted as they did in '56, with hower carried 27 of these counties Johnson boom, his dual candidacy, who supported Eisenhower in '52 depletion allowance, sit-ins, right- Kennedy holding 105 Stevenson in '52 and 28 in '56; in 1960 Ken- the DOT pledge, the final rout at nedy carried 35. and tepidly backed Stevenson in to-work laws, and states' rights counties and Nixon 61 Eisenhower the San Antonio convention. Despite bitter agitation among '56, "no doubt reflected the posi- in general. It also managed to counties. Kennedy's counties are OHNSON'S efforts to build a certain Protestant sects, the reli- tion of many Texas delegates make no mention of the national located in three predominantly viable Southern-Western coali- gious issue united Protestants to J when he indicated that the plat- platform or the presidential ticket. rural areas: one, East and East tion in Los Angeles were, of a much less extent than it did form and the presidential candi- Despite this mild discourtesy, Central Texas, "where traditional course, a failure. His strategy all Catholics in Texas. Of the 254 date and his religion could well Texas had never before been Democratic loyalty persists among along had been to play for a dead- counties, 111 have Baptist majori- lead to a third consecutive GOP courted so royally in a national the white voters and where most locked convention, to halt the ties. In '52 Eisenphower carried presidential victory in Texas." election by Democrats—or Repub- of the pro-Democratic Negroes of Kennedy machine on the first bal- 48 of these counties and Steven- Daniel said he would probably licans. The candidates and lead- the state still reside"; two, South lot. "More and more as Kennedy son 63. In '56 Eisenhower won 45 vote for the ticket without ac- ing figures in both parties made Texas where the Latin population built up his delegate support in and Stevenson 66. In 1960, how- tively supporting it. forays. GOP chairman Morton in tends to stay Democratic; and the pre-convention ca m p a i g n, ever, Kennedy held all the '56 Next day came Kennedy's sur- early October gave the Democrats three, in Northwest Texas south Johnson and his lieutenants Stevenson counties and increased prise move to put Johnson on the a slight edge, but was optimistic and southeast of the Panhandle stressed the youth and inexperi- them by ten. ticket, for reasons that have since about the undecided voters. Sam- where Democratic farm policies been discussed up, down, and uel Lubbell saw in Texas "a sub- are usually favored. CLOSE comparison of the '60 across the land. Johnson's deci- tle interplay of religious and eco- The . 60 counties voting GOP in A vote with the Truman vote in sion to accept, as Weeks points nomic feeling, with pocketbooks both '56 and '60, Weeks shows, are '48 would be illuminating on this out, carne as a shock to the Texas probably more important than scattered over the state and can point. It has yet to be done. Weeks delegates, particularly the con- Bibles." His conclusion, Weeks be divided into five catagories: is on firm ground, however, when servative ones, and especially "aft- summarizes, "was that Protestant one, ranching and cattle-raising- he writes that Protestant minis- er he seemingly wholeheartedly ministers were the chief agents 17 counties; two, industrial and di- ters "overreached themselves" on embraced the platform which was in keeping alive the religious is- versified economics, mostly oil- the religious , issue in Texas, heavily weighed against Southern sue. Much depended . . . on the wearing out the issue before the views on civil rights and labor producing-12; three, metropolitan support of the state and local offi- or urbanized-11; four, German campaign was over," and that legislation." One Texas delegate cials. He saw the middle-classes origin populations-11; and five, Kennedy's dramatic statement be- said: "They crammed a civil in the urban areas as the Repub- Panhandle counties with large- fore the Houston ministers in rights plank down our throats, licans' strongest hope, but he scale farming and ranching-10. September "overcame considerable a liberal for president, then asked found the farmers interviewed to The remaining 88 of the 254 potential religious opposition." us to help sell the deal to the be four-to-one for the Democrats." counties shifted their support On the factor of Kennedy's more South with Johnson's aid." In October Johnson began his BRAINPOWER from '56 to '60. Kennedy-Johnson vigorous "personality" in Texas, Many of the moderates "indi- 3,800-mile tour of the South. Allan won 69 counties that went for Ei- Weeks contends the TV debates cated that their efforts would be Shivers began barnstorming for IS OUR MOST senhower in '56, Nixon got only and other presentations had a for Johnson—not necessarily the Nixon "with all the satire and VITAL RESOURCE! 19 of the '56 Stevenson counties. greater impact on one-party- Democratic Party." Texas liberals venom he could muster." Daniel, Most of the 69 Kennedy regained oriented states like Texas than You can't .dig education out el were also in something of a bind. "who had been chided for not tak- are in East Texas, the coastal on more politically sophisticated the earth. There's only one place They were "happy with the party ing too active a part in the cam- plain, and West Texas. Eight have areas "if for no other reason than where business and industry can platform, content with Kennedy," get the educated men and women paign for the Democratic ticket, predominantly Latin, Catholic because of the state's peculiar so vitally needed for future and they "entertained an abiding (said) he did not believe Shivers populations, including urban coun- susceptibility to the personalities progress. That's from our col- hatred of Nixon." But Johnson, leges and universities. would change things much in ties like Bexar (San Antonio), El of candidates." the arch-foe, was there on the Texas, since the voters he would Today these institutions are Paso, Nueces (Corpus Christi) and The "unusual harmony" among ticket. "The election would cer- appeal to already were opposing doing their best to meet the Cameron (Brownsville). With Democratic leaders, in Texas and tainly be close in Texas,", Weeks the Democratic ticket." need. But they face a crisis. The three exceptions the 19 counties throughout the South, was, of demand for brains is increasing writes. "The most that all con- One news commentator believed Nixon won from the Stevenson course, a central factor, and here fast, and so is the pressure ed cerned could hope for was that oil and religion were to be the college applications. column are located either in the the influence of Johnson and Ray- the state could be split either a big factors in Texas. Apparently More money must be raised Panhandle or in that part of West burn was crucial. Every important little to the right or left of cen- H. L. Hunt thought so back in each year to expand ficilities- Texas just south of it. All are Democratic officeholder in the bring faculty salaries up to an ter." July, Weeks writes, when he mainly Protestant. state supported the ticket, no adequate standard — provide a There was some tall explaining helped finance anti-Catholic liter- sound education for the young Of the 28 counties classed as mean accomplishment considering to he done back home. I vividly ature in Los Angeles. The deple- people who need and deserve it. metropolitan, Kennedy carried 15, '52 and '56. remember the "homecoming" bar- tion allowance plank in the plat- Ass practical business meas- Nixon 13. Of the most populous There is, of course, a reverse becue for Johnson at Blanco in form was a "persistent issue" in ure, help the collefres or univer- 11, with populations over 100,000, side of the coin in this docile equa- sities of your choice—now! The returns will be greater than you Kennedy carried six, Nixon five. tion. Arthur Krock of the New think But their Democratic vote was York Times, quoted by Weeks, "OPERATION CORRECTION" smaller, Kennedy getting 534,000 wrote just after the election that If you want to know what the college votes and Nixon 593,000. The rea- crisis means to you, wriee for • free Johnson "used his great influence booklet to HIGHER EDUCATION, son for this, Weeks writes, "was to convince every important NOW AVAILABLE that three of the four largest Southern party leader except Sen- Box 36, Times Square Srosion, Now The American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California York 36, New York. counties, Harris, Dallas, and Tar- ator Byrd of Virginia that by has taken the original film "Operation Abolition" with the same rant, gave Nixon majorities, How- party regularity they could re- sequences in it, in the same position, with an entirely new ever, in Harris County the Repub- strain the 'liberal' Democratic ma- Shaw narrative showing how scenes were arranged to falsify the facts. lican margin was reduced from jority . . . Also they 'got the Commended highly by Dallas viewers and in other cities, it 61,694 in 1956 to 19,895 in 1960, and strong impression' (quoting one of should have a wide showing to correct the false impression in Tarrant County from 22,407 to them) and managed to persuade Transportation "Operation Abolition" has made. Running time 48 minutes, 13,428. The Republican gain over their resentful constituents, that 16mm. 1956 in Dallas County amounted Johnson would somehow see to it Company, Inc. For information on rental rates (reasonable) and open dates to only 604 votes. The fourth, that the extreme proposals they Write to Bexar County, went to Kennedy." bitterly resented in the Los An- EPUBLICAN support nationally geles platform would never be- DALLAS EDUCATIONAL FILM COMMITTEE Houstoilo• Texas declined in large cities this come acts of Congress during a (Non-profit organization) R time, so in the case of Kennedy-Johnson administration." 5614 Ridgedale St. Dallas 6, Texas but not THE TEXAS OBSERVER Texas" eleven largest counties. UT THAT should make another Card. Brannin, Secretary (Paid adv.) Page 6 Feb. 23, 1962 Nixon's combined total in these R book—and someday will. WM. r.

a wreath beneath the words "En- Now, at 1 p.m., the radio esti- LETTER FROM FRANCE fants de la Vienne, Morts pour la mated the funeral cortege in Paris France." as composed of between 150,000 A minute of silence was ob- and 500,000 people. The rest of the day the primary and second- Le Turmoil on the Right served. Then a leader read the ary schools will be empty, the names of each of the eight dem- POITIERS, FRANCE began arriving a few minutes be- IN THIS SLEEPY little city so teachers on strike. No newspaper This morning, Feb, 1.3, under a fore ten in front of the monu- unaccustomed either to vio- onstrators killed Feb. 8, whose will be printed in Paris today. leaden sky, I attended an anti- ment to the war dead. The crowd lence or noisy political agitation, obsequies were being observed at Thousands of workers have laid fascist demonstration in Poitiers, was solemn, composed of students, only one agent de police was on that moment in Paris; after each down their tools throughout the name another of the leaders in- the significance of which—along workers, professors, the middle hand. A cold drizzle fell upon the country. The anti-fascists are tell- with that of sister demonstrations class: youths with stylishly trim- crowd of two or three hundred, toned rather melodramatically, ing General de Gaulle this Tues- Finally, throughout France—should give med beards, old men wearing but only a few umbrellas were "Mort pour la liberte." day, Feb. 13, that they disapprove the crowd dispersed, after having pause to General de Gaulle, whose berets, women of respectable mid- opened. At ten o'clock a group of a police state in France. One dle class mien. The communists contributed money to a fund for unresponsiveness to public senti- wonders if the President of the of men and women walked to the the families of the victims. The ment is legend. wore red bands on the left arm, foot of the ugly bronze statue of Republic will heed them. In effect, this country faces the and seemed to be in a definite mi- entire demonstration lasted ap- CHANDLER DAVIDSON gravest danger from internal nority. World War I vintage and placed proximately 15 minutes. fascism since the frenetic days in WITNESS 0. T. MARTIN, JR., Chapter of Texas, Order of the will had been partitioned by deed, 1962, and answer the petition of 1935-36 when the doctrines of LEGALS Clerk of the Dirstrict •Courts of Eastern Star, a charitable cor- the North half to him, and the plaintiff in Cause Number 124,842, CITATION BY PUBLICATION Travis-County, Texas. poration duly incorporated and South half to her, a part of the in which The American National Hitler and Mussolini made such THE STATE OF TEXAS existing under and by virtue of Bias Reyes eleven leaceue grant of Bank of Austin, Trustees is Plain- Issued and given under by hand tiff and Lousue Shepard, Bertha inroads into France that the TO Isaac Decker; David Brown- and the seal of said Court at office the laws of the State of Texas, land in said County; for a total ing; Daniel Browning; Nancy with its principal office in Ta•- consideration of $8,000.00 to be Luckett, Jane Luckett, Marcia in the City of Austin, this the 25th Luckett Schreiner and husband, parties of the left formed a coali- Browning; Christopher C. Brown- day of January, 1962. ant County; The Capitol Area paid within the period of one year. ing; John Browning; Mary Potter Council, Boy Scouts of America, The will further provided "in the Walter D. Schreiner, Susan Luck- tion government under Leon Blum and husband, L. J. Potter; Martha 0. T. MARTIN, JR., a charitable corporation duly in- event that Helen Mar Hunnicutt ett Sanders and husband Burdett Clerk of the District Courts, to stem the tide of the radical Patterson and husband, J. B. Pat- corporated and existing under and Shall fail to exercise the option R. Sanders, Robin Luckett, Linda terson; Pamelia Bostwick and hus- Travis County, Texas. by virtue of the laws of the State cffered her by reason of her Luckett, Alfred E. Luckett, Lu- right. band, John Bostwick; Francis Cox By 0 T. MARTIN, JR. of Texas, with its principal office death or some Providential hind- cille. Luckett Hubbard and hus- and husband, William Cox; Henry hi Travis County, Texas; The rance, then my executor shall sell band John R. Hubbard, Alfred P. Last Thursday, Feb. 8, a dem- Adams; James H. Raymond; John CITATION BY PUBLICATION Texas Colorado Lakes Council of all my interest in the 2000 acre Luckett, Nell May Dailey, Lawson 0. Dailey, Lunette Dailey Cole and onstration in the streets by sev- M. Swisher; Sterling W. Goodrich; THE STATE OF TEXAS the Girl Scouts of America, a tract in Dimmitt County by ad- Mary Ann Goodrich; W. E. Good- charitable corporation duly incor- vertising. Provisions were made husband Virgil Cole, Helen B. eral parties and labor unions of rich; B. G. Goodrich; S. E. Good- To the unknown heirs of H. P. porated and existing under and for disposition of the sums re- Odom, Bill H. Odom, Garland HUNNICUTT, Deceased, and the the left protesting the govern- rich; Alberta G. Adams and hus- by virtue of the laws of the State ceiver either by sale to Helen Mar Odom, Mattie Sue Hodge, Enid band, Frank E. Adams; Betty A. unknown heirs of THOS. B. of Texas, with its principal office Hunnicutt and upon sale under Odom Turner and husband C. N. ment's leniency toward the OAS Bradley and husband, Leonard M. CLARK, Deceased; Defendant, in in Travis County, Texas; The the power to some of the institu- Turner, Johnnie Odom Flagg and Bradley; Fanny G. Boardman and the hereinafter styled and num- American National Red Cross, a tions, churches, and organizations husband S. L. Flagg, Clifford K. (Secret Army Organization) met huSband, G. T. Boardman; Lucy L. bered cause: charitable corporation incorporat- named aforesaid. Odom, John Currie Odom, Mrs. with disaster. The demonstration Davis and husband, I. V. Davis; You (and each of you) are here- ed and existing under and by vir- A declaration and construction Alice Odom, Linelle Clyd Odom, Mrs. 'M. C. Thornton; Henry Hirsh- by commanded to appear before tue of the laws of Congress, with is sought by the court as to Joe Cyrus Odom, William Gard- was held despite government in- feld; A. W. Bunsen; James H. the 98th District Court of Travis an affiliated office (Travis Coun- whether Helen Mar Hunnicutt ner Odom, Robert Lee Odom,. Spence and wife, Mary M. Spence; County, Texas, to be held at the ty Chapter of the American Na- complied with the option extended Morris S. Odom, Mrs. Cyrus W. terdiction, as have been previous Alice S. Stovall; I. V. Davis, Jr.; courthouse of said county in the tional Red Cross) in Travis Coun- in said will and is entitled to a Odom, Donie Odom Howe, Will ones recently, and the police acted May W. Davis; Robert I. Davis; City of Austin, Travis County, ty. Texas; The Childrens Home of conveyance of said property. Odom, 'Jamie Odom, William B. Moselle Montgomery and husband, Texas, at or before 10 o'clock A.M. Austin, a charitable corporation, Defendant and cross plaintiff, Thompson, Edna Odom Wylie and with unprecedented brutality. At Frank L. Montgomery; Katie May of the first Monday after the ex- incorporated and existing under Thomas D. Moorman, administra- husband Conda Wylie, Albert Davis; Howard T. Davis; James piration of 42 days from the date and by virtue of the laws of the tor of the estate of Helen Mar Tuerpe, Elmer Tuerpe, Ellis Tuer- the Charonne subway station, Walton Davis; I. V. Davis; Bess M. co. issuance hereof; that is to say, State of Texas, with its principal Hunnicutt, deceased, answers and pe, Cedalia Wurzbach Steinle and demonstrators disgorging 'from Davis; Elbert H. Davis; Bradley at or before, 10 o'clock A.M. of office in Travis County, Texas; files a cross action for the estate husband Alfred Steinle, Cornelia Davis; Charles G. Davis; Lanier Monday the 19th day of March, George Moorman, of Edwards- and other defendants and cross Wurzbach Mangold and husband the entrance were blocked off by Davis Dement and husband, J. L. 1962, and answer the Cross Action ville, Madison County, Illinois; plaintiffs claiming under Helen Alfred Mangold, Elvira Wurzbach police and barraged with tear gas Dement; May Davis Arnold and of Cross-Plaintiffs in Cause Num- Edwin A. Moorman, of Irvington, Mar Hunnicutt, deceased, and Mansfield and husband N. E. husband, E. L. Arnold; Lucille ber 99,740, in which, Mobile County, Alabama; Frank seeks a declaration and construc- Mansfield, Alvin J. Wurzbach, bombs. In the ensuing panic eight Davis Lucas and husband, Harvey The AUSTIN NATIONAL W. Moorman, Major General, U.S. tion that Helen Mar Hunnicutt Milton H. Wurzbach, Ellis 0. 0. Lucas; Margaret Lucas; H. 0. BANK, Independent Executor of Army, now stationed at United and her personal representatives Wurzbach, and Tom Odom, if liv- demonstrators were either suffo- Lucas, Jr.; Callie Martin; Sarah the Will of HICKLIN P. HUNNI- States Army Element, SHAPE, have in all things so elected to ing, and if not living, his unknown cated or trampled to death. Over Kennedy; and the heirs and u•- CUTT, Deceased, is Plaintiff; A.P.O. 55, New York, New York; and have accepted and complied heirs and legal representatives known heirs of the each above Harold N. Moorman, Colonel, with the terms of said option and and the heirs and legal represen- 200 demonstrators and policemen named Defendants and their legal Thomas D. Moorman, of Travis United States Army, now sta- have paid said $8,000.00 to the tatives of such unknown heirs, representatives; and G. T. Board- County, Texas, individually and as tioned at United States Army Austin National Bank, plaintiff, and the unknown heirs and legal were injured. man, trustee and agent for S. E. administrator of the estate of ROTC Instructor Group, Dart- in accordance with said option, representatives of Nellie Odom Goodrich, and his successors in Helen Mar Hunnicutt, deceased; mouth College, Hanover, New and are entitled to specific per. Armstrong and the heirs and legal HE DEATHS sparked off a said trust and their legal repre- R. C. Wilson, of Travis County, Hampshire; Vernon Moorman, of formance of said option contract. representatives of such unknown T violent reaction throughout sentatives; Defendants, in the Texas, individually and as mem- Clifton, Passaic County, New Jer- They have named the Plaintiff heirs are defendants, filed in said hereinafter styled and numbered bers of the law firm of Cofer and sey; Wynaut Moorman, of Hopkin- and all the other defendants as Court on the 10th day of Janu- France. The minister of the in- cause: Cofer; J. R. Hunnicutt, of Austin, ton, Middlesex County, Massachu- cross defendants, and have also ary, 1962, and the nature of which You (and each of you) are here- Travis County, Texas; The Austin setts; Alma Mae Moorman Davis named J. R. Hunnicutt, Mrs. J. R. said suit is as follows: terior, M. Roger Frey, who is in by commanded to appear before Presbyterian Theological Semi- and husband, R. X. Davis, of Ho- Hunnicutt, and J. R. Hunnicutt, Being an interpleader and suit charge of public order, went ' on the 53rd District Court of Travis nary, a religious and educational nolulu, Honolulu County, Hawaii; Jr., the legatees and devisees un- for declaratory judgment for ju- County, Texas, to be held at the corporation duly incorporated and Fred Moorman, of Buena Park, der the will of Thomas B. Clark, dicial construction of will of Nellie television the following day to courthouse of said county in the existing under and by virtue of Orange County, California; Cath- deceased; and the unknown heirs Odom Armstrong, Deceased. Plain- the laws of the State of Texas, pooh-pooh the demonstrators as City of Austin, Travis County, c rine Moorman Wineland and hus- of H. P. Hunnicutt, deceased, and tiff is testamentary trustee of es• Texas, at or before 10 o'clock A.M. with its principal offices in Travis band, D. Wineland, of Hamburg, the unknown heirs of Thomas C. tate of Nellie Odom Armstrong. "communist agitators" whose pur- of the first Monday after the ex- County, Texas; The Board of An- Calhoun County, Illinois, are de- Clark, deceased, as cross defend- Trust has terminated and Plain- piration of 42 days from the date nuities and Relief of the Presby- fendants; Thomas D. Moorman, ants. tiff has tendered corpus of trust pose was that of the OAS—over- of issuance hereof; that is to say. terian Church in the United individually, and as administra- As more fully appears from (being money and securities) into States, a religious corporation throw of the government. , „ at or before, 10 o'clock A.M. of tor of the Estate of Helen Mar Cross-Plaintiff's Answer and registry of Court • and prays that Monday the 12th day of March. duly incorporated and existing Hunnicutt, decease d; George Cross-Action on file in this office. the Court construe such will and This obviously false and con- 1962, and answer the petition of under and by virtue of the laws Moorman; Edwin M o o r m a n; Ii this citation is not served adjudicate the respective rights of plaintiff in Cause Number 124.523, of the State of Georgia, with its Frank W. Moorman; Harold N. within 90 days after date of its Defendants in and to such corpus, tinually-repeated interpretation of in which GUIDA R. MOSS is principal office at Atlanta, Geor- Moorman; Catherine Moorman issuance, it shall be returned un- that disposition be made of the the ever-growing protest against Plaintiff and the hereinabove gia; The Scottish Rite Educa- Wineland, joined by her husband, served. share of such corpus to Defend- named defendants are defendants. tional Association of Texas, a C. Wineland; Vernon Moorman; ants cited by publication, that charitable corporation duly incor- WITNESS, 0. T. MARTIN, JR., the authoritarian Gaullist regime filed in said Court on the llth Wynant Moorman; Alma Mae Clerk of the District Court of Plaintiff's final accounting be ap- day of December, 1961. and the porated and existing under and may have been the straw that Moorman Davis, joined by her Travis County, Texas. Issued and proved and that Plaintiff be dis- nature of which said suit is as fol- by virtue of the laws of the State husband, R. K. Davis; Fred Moor- of Texas, with its principal office given under my hand and the charged as Trustee. broke the camel's back. lows: • man; John D. Cofer and G. Hume seal of said Court at office in the If this citation is not served Being an action and prayer for in Travis County, Texas; Ersell C. Cofer, composing the law firm of within 90 days after date of its Duke, Francis J. Amsler, and City of Austin, this the 2nd day A month ago, the most astute judgment in favor of the Plain- Cofer & Cofer; and R. C. Wilson of February, 1962. issuance, it shall be returned un- tiff and against Defendants for Claude D. Wilson, the Board of political observers in France are the cross-plaintiffs; Austin O. T. MARTIN, JR. served. title to and possession of the fol- Trustees of the First Southern National Bank, individually and lowing described land, to-wit: Presbyterian Church, an unincor- District Clerk of the District WITNESS, 0. T. MARTIN, JR., laughed at the idea of left-wing in its representative capacity, and Clerk of the District Courts of Lot No. 12, in Block No. 1, of porated religious association, lo- Courts, Travis County, Texas. all the other defendants in this By 0, T. MARTIN, JR. Travis County, Texas. parties joining with the com- Barton Springs Park, a subdivi- cated in Travis County, Texas; cause other than the Moorman The Shriners Hospital for Crip- Issued and given under my hand munists in another popular front sion in the City of Austin, Trav- defendant and their attorneys, J. CITATION BY PUBLICATION and the seal of said Court at of- is County, Texas, according to pled Children, a charitable cor- R. Hunnicutt, Mrs. J. R. Hunni- poration, duly incorporated and THE STATE OF TEXAS fice in the City of Austin, this the against de Gaulle. The socialists, the map or plot of said subdivi- cutt, and J. R. Hunnicutt, Jr., the 5th day of February, 1962. sion recorded in Volume 1. at existing under and by virtue of legatees and devisees under the TO Tom Odom, if living, and if it was explained, would never let the laws of the ,State of Colorado, 0. T. MARTIN, JR. Page 120. of the Plat Records of will of Thomas B. Clark, de- not living, his unknown heirs and Clerk of the District Courts. Travis County, Texas. with its principal office at Chi- ceased; and the unknown heirs of legal representatives and the heirs their name be associated with cago, Illinois; The Texas Scottish Travis County. Texas. Plaintiff alleges that on Janu- H. P. Hunnicutt, deceased, and and legal representatives of such By 0. T. MARTIN, JR.,, the communists! ary 1, 1950, he was and still is the Rite Hospital for Crippled Chil- the Unknown Heirs of Thos. B. unknown heirs. The unknown heirs dren, a charitable corporation owner in fee simple and in pos- Clark, deceased are cross-defend- and legal representatives of Nellie TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: Today it appears that these session of sold premises and that duly incorporated and existing ants; filed in said Court on the Odom Armstrong and the heirs under and by virtue of the laws Notice is hereby given that Ray- prognosticators misjudged the on June 1. 1961, defendants unlaw- • 2nd day of January, 1962, and and legal representatives of such mond Mercola, Frank Calvin Gray, fully entered and dispossed plain- of the State of Texas, with its the nature of which said suit is as unknown heirs. principal offices in Dallas County, Jr., and Richard Ralph Carle, a maladroitness and narrow-mind- tiff of such premises and withhold follows: Defendants, in the hereinafter partnership, doing business under from plaintiff the possession there- Texas; The Grand Lodge of Texas edness of de Gaulle. The events (Ancient Free and Accepted Ma- Under the allegations of Plain- styled and numbered cause: the trade name and style of of. sons), a fraternal corporation tiff's pleading the executor in the You (and each of you) are here- "Triad Enterprises" at 730 Lovera commencing Feb. 8 and culminat- Plaintiff further prays for costs duly incorporated and existing un- will was directed by said will to by commanded to appear before in San Antonio, Bexar County. ing today in mass demonstrations of suit and relief in law or in der and by virtue of the laws of extend an option to Helen Mar the 53rd District Court of Travis Texas, has incorporated said busi- equity to which he may be en- the State of Texas, with its prin- . Hunnicutt, deceased, at the time County, Texas, to be held at the ness under the laws of Texas, and a half day's strike (and in titled. cipal office in McLennan County, cf his death. to exercise an option courthouse of said county in the effective January 29, 1962, the City of Austin, Travis County, name of said corporation being some cases a whole day's strike) • All of which more fully appears Texas; The Grand Royal Arch to elect to buy H. P. Hunnicutt's from Plaintiff's Original Petition Chapter of Texas, a fraternal cor- undivided or partitioned interest Texas, at or before 10 o'clock A. M. "Triad Enterprises. Inc.", which throughout France portend a re- on file in this office. poration duly incorporated and in 2000 acres of land in Dimmitt of the first Monday after the ex- has acquired all of the assets of If this citation is not served existing under and by virtue of County, Texas, which H. P. Hun- piration of 42 days from the date the former partnership. This no- birth of a rassemblement popu- within 90 days after date of its the laws of the State of Texas. nicutt and Helen Mar Hunnicutt, of issuance hereof; that is to say, tice is given and published as pro- i o'clock A. M. of vided in Article 1302(2.02) R.C.S. laire of the left. Issuance, it shall be returned un- with its principal office in McLen- curing their life time had owned at or before, 10 served. nan County, Texas: The Grand jointly. and which he stated in his ' Monday the 26th day of March, of Texas. In short, de Gaulle has suc- CITATION BY PUBLICATION equitable, as to the Court may CITATION BY PUBLICATION courthouse of said county in the 214-6/10 varas tot the PLACE OF ceeded in making martyrs of the , THE STATE OF TEXAS seem just and proper; THE STATE OF TEXAS City of Austin, Travis County, BEGINNING, arid being the same property conveyed George May- Communist Party, and other TO Zora Belle Smith Chandler All of which more fully appears TO: James Rogers (also spelled Texas, at or before 10 o'clock Defendant, in the hereinafter from Plaintiff's First Amended Rodgers); Samuel G. Powell; A. M. of the first Monday after nard by Joseph G. Draper by deed parties of the left have been styled and numbered cause: Original Petition on file in this Rachael Rogers (also spelled the expiration of 42 days from the dated April 26th, 1949, which deed You (and each of you) are here- office, and which reference is Rodgers) wife of James Rogers date of issuance hereof; that is to Is recorded in Vol. 975, page 335 of forced to align themselves with it by commanded to appear before here made for all intents and pur- (also spelled Rodgers) ; Edward say, at or before, 10 o'clock A.M. the Travis County Deed Records, and follow its lead. The nation- the 126th District Court of Travis poses; H. Rogers, and his wives L. A. of Monday the 26th day of March, and being the same property con- County, Texas, to be held at the If this citation is not served Rogers and Sally Rogers; Joseph 1962 and answer the petition of veyed Truman H. Montandon, wide protests since Feb. 8 were courthouse of said county in the ,within 90 days after date of its B. Rogers; Thomas H. Jones; plaintiff in Cause Number 124,730 plaintiff herein by George May- City of Austin, Travis County, issuance, It shall be returned un- Mary E. Hardeman, also known in which TRUMAN H. MONTAN- nard and wife, Pearlie Belle May- instituted variously by the com- Texas, at or before 10 o'clock served. as Elizabeth Hardeman, and hus- DON is plaintiff and the here- nard, by deed which is recorded A.M. of the first Monday after the WITNESS, 0. T. MARTIN, JR., band, William N. Hardeman; inabove named defendants are de- in Vol. 2313, page 97 of the Travis munists, Mendes-France's Parti County Records. expiration of 42 days from the Clerk of the District Courts of Sarah B. Burditt, also known as fendants, filed in said Court on Socialist Unifie, Guy Mollet's date of issuance hereof; that is to Travis County, Texas. S. J. Burditt and Sarah T. Bur- the 2nd day of January, 1962, and Plaintiff alleges that on June the nature of which said suit is SFIO (socialist), and several non- say, at or before, 10 o'clock A.M. Issued and given under my ditt and husband, Minas C. Bur- 10, 1961, he was the fee simple of Monday the 2nd day of April hand and the seal of said Court ditt; Benjamin T. Gault, and wife, as follows: owner and in possession of said communist labor unions, as well 1962, and answer the First at office in the City of Austin, this Nancy L. Gault; James C. Max- Being an action and prayer for premises and that on June 11, Amended Original Petition of the 12th day of February, 1962. well; Thomas Bird, and wife, judgment in favor of Plaintiff 1961, the hereinabove named de- as the influential teachers unions, plaintiff in Cause Number 119,583, 0. T. MARTIN, JR. Polly Ann Bird; Trumble Bird; and against Defendants for title fendants unlawfully entered upon and the national students union. in which Harold Lane Chandler is Clerk of the District Courts, Joe Bird; Oliver Bird; Tom Bird; to and possession of the following and dispossessed plaintiff of such Plaintiff and Zora. Belle Smith Travis County, Texas. Willie Bird; I. B. Bird; J. W. described real property, to-wit: premises and withhold from The parties of the leftstrong- Chandler is defendant, filed in By A. E. Jones, Deputy. Bird; J. B. Bird; John W. Bird; Eleven (11) acres of land, being plaintiff the possession thereof, a portion of the James Rogers ly anti-communist—have judged said Court on the 9th day of Oc- S. E. Bird, wife of John W. Bird, Plaintiff further prays for costs tober, .1961, and the nature of February 13, 1962 Wiley Ayers; Sally Ayers; Wil- Headright, in Travis County, of suit and for such other and the danger of fascism to exceed which said suit is as follows: WHEREAS, Clyde G. Richard- liam R. Bird; Aaron Burleson; J. Texas, and being the east one-half further relief as he may be en- Being an action and prayer for son and James K. Richardson W. Burleson; Giles H. Burditt; of a twenty-two (22) acre tract of titled to either at law or in equity, that of communism today in judgment in favor of plaintiff and have operated a tile and floor Jessie H. Burditt; Newell W. Bur- land sold and deeded to Oswald as the same more fully appears Palmer by I. B. Bird on January France, and have aligned them- against defendant for decree of covering business in the City of ditt; A. M. Davidson; J. T. Mc- from Plaintiff's Original Petition divorce dissolving the bonds of Wichita Falls, Texas, under the Laurin; George Sanders; Oswald 22nd, 1902, which deed is re- on file in this office. selves accordingly. matrimony heretofore and now firm name of Richardson Tile Palmer; Alexande\r Hall; John A. corded in Vol. 172, page 527 of the Travis County Deed Records, and If this citation is not served existing between said parties; Company, and Hall and wife, Nelia Hall; Sallie within 90 days after date of its Most of the demonstrations—in- plaintiff alleges that he has not Holman; Mrs. 0. H. Holman: the tract of 11 acres being de- WHEREAS, they have formed scribed by metes and bounds as issuance, it shall be returned un- lived with defendant since about Mary E. Bird; Mary Lee; Rhoda served. cluding the huge funeral cortege September, 1960 and that defend- a corporation bearing the name follows, to-wit: Richardson Tile Company and Lee, nee Rhoda Bird; Lizzie El- WITNESS MY HAND, 0. T. in Paris—seems to have been sim- ant was guilty of excesses, cruel liott; Mrs. D. E. Griffin nee Mag- BEGINNING at a stone mound treatment and outrages against have terminated their partnership MARTIN, JR. Clerk of the Dis- and have transferred the assets gie Bird, and husband D. E. Grif- for the northeast corner of the trict Courts of Travis County, ilar in nature to the one in Poi- the plaintiff of such a nature as 22 acre tract above mentioned; of the partnership to the corpora- fin; G. D. Draper, also known as Texas. tiers. As agreed upon last night to render their future living to- Joseph G. Draper and wife, Dessie THENCE N. 60 deg. West 280% gether insupportable; plaintiff al- tion, which has assumed all the Issued and given under my liabilities of the partnership, Draper and their unknown heirs varas to a stone mound on the at a mass meeting at the Maison leges that no community property hand and the seal of said Court NOTICE is hereby given, pur- and their heirs and legal repre- west line for the northwest corn- du Peuple, the demonstrators here was acquired and that no chil- sentatives, Defendants, in the er; at office in the City of Austin, dren were born of their marriage; suant to Article 1302-2.02, Texas hereinafter styled and numbered THENCE S. 30 deg. West this the 8th day of February, Plaintiff prays for judgment of Revised Civil Statutes, that such 1962. business is incorporated without cause: 214-6/10 varas to the southeast THE TEXAS OBSERVER divorce dissolving the bonds of corner; 0. T. MARTIN, JR. matrimony between plaintiff and a change of name, and will, hence- You (and each of you) are here- by commanded to appear before THENCE S. 60 deg. East 280% Clerk of the District Courts, Page 7 Feb. 23, 1962 defendant, all costs of suit and forth be operated as a corporation. Travis County, Texas. Clyde G. Richardson the 53rd District Court of Travis varas to corner; for such other and further relief, THENCE N. 30 deg. East By 0. T. MARTIN, JR. general and special, legal and James K. Richardson County, Texas, to be held at the BEXAR COALITION BACKS YARBOROUGH Daniel Takes Most Criticism in First Weeks

The big question of the gu- sales tax as "a result of a lack of I would attempt to see to it that Connally, Yarborough, Cox, and tration is working for greater fed- bernatorial campaign at this vision, lack of foresight, and lack that nation's most influential la- Wilson. But in the run-off "Dan- eral concentration, predicted this of leadership," and pledged "to I bor leaders "practice what they stage: how severely are Gov. Price iel will have to face up to the post- could lead to a "benevolent dic- cure the inequities in the admin- preach on racial equality." LBJ war generation and see if he can tatorship," and warned benevo- Daniel and John Connally cutting istrative weaknesses." GOP can- reportedly told Roy Wilkins, muster enough youth, vigor, expe- lent dictatorships "have a way of into one another's voting strength, didate Jack Cox, arguing that "the NAACP executive secretary, and rience, and age to put together a and who will be the worst for it? becoming very unbenevolent." conservative philosophy is the Herbert Hill, its labor secretary, majority. This is Daniel's tough froli Daniel (see below) is given a two- Judge Woodrow Bean of El only truly progressive policy," that "he wanted action." Johnson campaign." to-one bet by some political ob- Paso, congressman-at-large said the Democratic and Republi- has had private talks on the mat- servers to make the Democratic V Sam Kinch of the Fort candidate, predicted after his can parties have switched roles ter, Riesel said, with Walter Reu- run-off. It is widely agreed that Worth Star-Telegram ob- COPE endorsement that he would in recent years . . Harry Diehl, ther, George Meany, and others. Connally's campaign has yet to serves that if the amount of rock- win the Democratic nomination the liberal GOP candidate, get off the ground. ("But wait for goof Dick Meskill, front-page col- throwing at specific candidates by without a run-off. Joe Pool of Dal- dropped out of the race "due to those state TV appearances to umnist for the Alamo Mes- others in the political lists is a las, another candidate, declared other demands on my time and sink in," says one veteran polit- senger, newspaper of the San An- true indication of who now leads the run-off would be between him- resources." . . . In Houston, Gen- ico.) Daniel and liberal Don .Yar- tonio Catholic diocese, took an- in the governor's race, Daniel is self and Bean and said he would eral Edwin Walker charged that borough have had the momentum other swing at the PASO decision. now the front-runner, with Con- win "because the people of Texas ex-president Lazaro Cardenas of so far. Will Wilson is running a It demonstrated, he wrote, that nally a close second. will not elect a man who favors Mexico "is getting ready to be considerably more hard-punching "its high-flown purposes have been frof Analysts at Yarborough socialized medicine and other left- the Castro of Mexico" and is get- campaign than he did last year worm-eaten by selfish interests." headquarters in Austin have wing ideologies." Bean, hitting ting arms from the same source Endorsement of Daniel, "who ad- produced an interesting docu- back, called Pool a political "has- Castro got his. He spoke at an mitted in his speech that he was ment. The full impact of the split been," adding: "Joe Pool, my old organizational meeting of the Win Political Intelligence completely unaware of the prob- of the conservative vote" in the friend and schoolmate, is no doubt With Walker organization. Some for the Senate. Liberals and labor lems of the Spanish-speaking, governor's race "is so great that a member of the John Birch So- 200 were in attendance. A pam- are expected to be reasonably demonstrates how completely ir- its true meaning becomes clear city. I have one opponent in this phlet containing his platform was solid for Yarborough. Daniel is responSible the organization can only upon detailed analysis," it race, and that is Giles Miller, Re- distributed, saying: "My platform bearing most of the criticism, as be. Currently well-founded rumor says. Breaking down the possible publican from Dallas." Pool said is the Constitution of the State of becomes an incumbent. Wilson first primary vote in key cities he does not recall knowing Bean Texas." Commented one lady calls him the "polka-dot candidate and areas, with statistics based at SMU, pointed out he is not backer: "He's our next governor. 1 who wears everybody's colors," on a 15 percent increase among the Birchers and does not With only liberals running against over the charges that Daniel "dropped his total vote cast in the 1956 race approve of them, and called Bean him in the primary, he calla lose." a "left-winger," overalls in the liberal Democrats' " between Daniel and Sen. Ralph 1.# The influential Bexar Coun- V Gene Smith chowder" in getting the formal 4 .c\V--1P Yarborough (Daniel 698,000, Yar- of Fort Worth, ty Democratic Coalition en- :410 PASO endorsement, and says D'n- borough 695,000), the analysis "'in candidate for lieutenant gov- dorsed Yarborough for governor. ernor, iel promised appointment of no case gives Don Yarborough said in Dallas he is against 1 00 The only dissenting vote was cast highway patrolmen to Latins. Yar- more than three-fourths the vote executive sessions of the Senate by the PASO representatives, who borough continued his attack on indicates that the governor Ralph Yarborough received in closed to the press and favors an went for Daniel. Reavley was "worn out" state politicians, Con- 'bought' the endorsement via '56." Nor are any additional votes "open-door" policy . . . Tom James backed for attorney general, Bean nally on state television and else- promises of a district judgship given the younger Yarborough out of Dallas, candidate for attorney for congressman-at-large. There general, where said if he had been gov- and 100 other patronage jobs. If of the 200,000 added votes expect- said enforcement of Tex- was no endorsement for lieuten- ernor six years "I think I could this be true,!. and if PASO based ed in '62. The partisan breakdown as laws "has too often been the ant governor, the decision to be victim have solved some of the problems its endorsement on this promise, for the first primary gives Yar- of political machines and made for that office Monday Texas now faces" and argued it we can only come to the conclu- borol'a-h 485,000, Daniel 445,000, self-styled political bosses who night. An agreement was reached is wrong for a man to head the sion that PASO's leaders are Con n - lly 305,000, Wilson, 100,000, place themselves above the law." with Cmsr. Albert Pena before . . . state long enough to appoint all naive, and concerned only with Walker 50,000, Formby 25.000, with Tom Reavley of Austin, an- the Coalition meeting that Yar- the boards and agencies in Texas their private gain, not -with the 190,000 in the GOP primary. other attorney general candidate, borough campaigners "will be able and achieve one-man control . . plight of the Spanish-speaking." pledged in a Houston speech that to operate freely in his areas." V Sen. Ralph Yarborough said Wilson said "Connally's -faltering he would exercise leadership in Negroes, Teamsters, independent V Don Politico of the San An- he was not endorsing any- helping pass bandwagon has come apart at the loan shark legisla- liberals all supported Yarborough. tonio Light, writing on the one for governor. He said h- dif- tion. seams and he must face the hard The situation now, with no PASO endorsements, said they fered with a Dallas News inter- regulation and a ten percent limit fact that even many LBJ support- fro Allen Duckworth, political constitute "just a skirmish and pretation of the telegram he sent on interest, is an imposible one. ers do not want one man to have editor of the Dallas News, not the decisive battle for Latin- the COPE convention in Dallas. he said. so much power as governor. Texas took a three-day swing through American votes so far as most The News said the communication people will not elect a Lyndon ten East Texas counties. "Those I- The Tarrant County Labor politicos are concerned." Connally put him behind Don Yarborough. Council decided not to take Johnson agent as governor," Con- who talk of the governor's race," made it clear after the convention sides in the state Senate race be- nally and Johnson would merge he reported, "usually mention V Mrs. R. D. Randolph, found- "he would fight for the South tween two liberals, Rep. Don Ken- state and federal patronage under Gov. Daniel and Don Yarborough er of the now inactive DOT, Texas vote which has proved de- nard and Sen. Doyle Willis. The one head, he charged. Wilson also . . . We found many predictions of will call a session of the old exec- cisive in recent elections. It's no vote for a hands-off position was warned against "absolute control Daniel and Yarborough being in utive committee, still formally in- secret that Vice President John- 75-67. of state government" through ap- a run-off. A San Augustine old tact, in Austin soon to organize son is backing Connally and polit- I *Sen. Charles Herring of Aus- pointments over a four-term pe- timer said: 'We're gonna carry work on the present campaigns. ical realists figure that this will tin was named chairman of riod. He promised to try to in- this county for Yarborough.' He . . . The Texas GOP has formed mean some potent help when it the powerful Senate finance com- crease the quality and content of said the county was losing popu- a research council to work with comes to dealing with border po- mittee by acting lieutenant gov- Texas education, to upgrade lation and Yarborough was a man GOP legislative and statewide litical jefes who can deliver votes ernor Culp Krueger of El Campo. teachers' salaries, to devise a new who could help recovery." Over candidates. Fritz Lyne of Dallas when the chips are down." Wilson, The vacancy Was created when method of removing corrupt local in more prosperous Nacogdoches is chairman. who carried Starr and Duval coun- Sen. Ray Roberts of McKinney cfficials, and to take an imagina- County, Duckworth found party ties and ran well in South Texas gottiTad Smith was elected to Congress. tive approach to tourism. On pub- workers indicating they would of El Paso, state in his Senate bid, "isn't -exactly GOP chairman, took issue g, The non-partisan Fair Cam- lic education, he said there is "too stick with Daniel, "although one helpless when it comes to the with claims in the New paign Practices Committee much window dressing and not Democratic leader said 'I sure York Post brush country vote." Yarborough that in a detailed study of the religious enough substance." . . Daniel get mad at him at times.' " General Edwin Walker's is inheriting much of the senior Democratic primary vote would issue in the '60 campaign found announced he had been endorsed goof The Greater Houston Latin- senator's liberal Democratic or- be a reliable measure of conserv- that Texas ranked fourth (behind by another Latin group, the Latin American Progressive AsSo- ganization, which means "he will ative strength in Texas. Smith California, Pennsylvania, and Min- American Press Association. elation took a rival stand this make a good battle for Latin- says Walker will not get a very nesota) in the total volume of which met in Corpus Christi last week against the PASO endorse- American votes in urban areas, big vote. He adds that he does "scurrilous anti-Catholic political weekend . . . Marshall Formby of ment (Obs., Feb. 16) of Daniel. particularly San Antonio." County not believe the GOP primary vote tracts." Plainview said Texans are fearful The Houston organization re- Cmsr. Albert Pena, as a result of will be a true test of conservative goof Certain state legislators who "certain Washington politicians solved to oppose "the premature the PASO endorsement, "is sup- strength. "There will be a sub- attended an after-hours pri- are getting a stranglehold on poli- endorsement of any candidate or posed to lead the way on the San stantial number of people," he vate party celebrating the end of tics and offices in the state capi- candidates by any organization or Antonio West Side," but at least said, "who will vote in the Demo- the special session which was tol," and complained that LBJ organizations purporting to con- one prominent West Side leader cratic primary to try to save a raided by Austin police are con- has one hand on Connally's shoul- trol the Latin-American vote." is backing Yarborough. conservative friend but who will cerned that certain other politi- der and the other on Daniel's. Leaders said endorsements will be vote Republican in the November cians have obtained the police re- Formby called for an end to the Stuart Long, writing for his made later in the campaign and V general election." He also criti- port for use in campaigning. No deficit spending, a third state chain of dailies before the will affect between 8,000 and 10,- cized Democrats as having "neith- arrests were made but a number medical school, encouragement for COPE recommendation of Yar- 000 votes in Harris County. In a er the legal, nor certainly the of license numbers were taken. industry to come to the state, and borough, says Daniel is a two-to- broadside against PASO, Alfred moral right" to claim that GOP Certain journalists and television merit rating auto insurance. . . . one choice to make the Demo Hernandez, president of the group, primaries will not be valid because personalities were present when Johnson had a long private con- cratic run-off. "If COPE backs said: "The Latin-Americans of they will not be held in each of the raid took place, but the Ob- ference with Daniel at the LBJ Yarborough openly, he'll make Texas do not seek a promise of the 254 counties. server unfortunately was not rep- Ranch last weekend, but the Ob- the run-off with Daniel if he can a certain number of political jobs, resented. server was not invited although get the cash. If it turns out a no- —Sen. John Tower this week but the betterment of all our citi- ire would like to know what was endorsement, it will put Connally ✓ was named to the 12-mem- zens, their communities, and our said . . . Connally on TV said the in the run-off." He continues: her Republican committee to draw state." main reason he is running is "to "The question as to whether Dan- up principles that will give the V The Hidalgo County PASO be a part of putting Texas back iel achieves his goal of being Tex- party an affirmative image, de- MARTIN ELFANT organization voted 44-16 to on top in many aspects." He urged as' only fourth-term executive lies manded that the Associated Press repudiate the Daniel endorsement Texas to be "number one in edu- almost solely on whether the post- print a series of articles examin- by the state group. No candidates Sun Life of Canada cational opportunities for all our war generation is sold on the idea ing the "extreme left and liberal were endorsed. Dr. George I. people" and number one in indus- that it's time for them to take movement" after its series on the Sanchez, Yarborough supporter, trial growth and he suggested over and whether they can get extreme right, and introduced a spoke. foreign language instruction to enough of the pre-war voting gen- bill to create a special congres- Houston, Texas first-graders. He attacked the V Columnist Victor Riesel re- eration to agree with them." In sional committee to watch over CA 4-0686 ported that LBJ, in a the first primary Daniel has the U.S. trade with other countries. THE TEXAS OBSERVER private meeting with two ranking advantage because the post-war In his weekly report to Texans, Page 8 Feb. 23, 1962 NAACP officials, pledged he point of view will be split between he charged the Kennedy adminis-