The one great rule We will serve so 4 group or party but ot composition is to 0A, will hew hard to the ‘es,„4 truth as we find it speak the truth. and the right as we —Thoreau Mir bstrurr see it. - nt-Liberal Weekly Newspaper .‘3 Vol. 50 TEXAS, JULY 11, 1958 10c per copy Number 15 A Symbol of Past on Texas Stump WEST TEXAS Travelling through this lonely highway outside. "Well, pass him around in his air-conditioned I mean to serve all the people." The tall, greying man with brooding country, often over the them biscuits, Pappy!" someone Cadillac, has a difficult time Next day, campaigning through the oval red face walked over same routes Pappy once followed would finally shout. "Well, I'll drawing him away. a small town outside Midland, he to a group of cowboys drink- when he was selling flour, you see swan," an old woman would say. went to see a Baptist preacher ing coffee in a cafe in Fort the legend alive again for a mo- "What you doin' way out here, No Mixin' who had asked him to do some- Stockton. He chose one and ment. It is the country where the Pappy?" or "Where's your boys, thing about clamping down on offered a hand. wind whistles and whispers when Pappy?" or "Still sellin' flour, In Wickett he stopped off at a liquor. "Well, what do you think "Hello there," he said. "I'm you drive through it and the old- Pappy?" and he would look at the small garage where there were about this segregation business?" W. Lee O'Daniel, and I'm timers sit around gnarled tables several men working on cars, and Pappy asked. The preacher, a runnin' for governor." in the tiny ugly railroad towns they were covered with grime and bulky man with large square "Pappy O'Daniel?" the playing dominoes into the after- Willie Morris grease. O'Daniel came up to shake glasses, said, "You know how I cowboy said. "I thought he noons. You follow him through (hands. One of them protested, feel. It's in the Book, ain't it? It's saying "We're awful dirty." "I was dead." Mertzon and Barnhart and Ozone, floor a moment, his broad neck right there in the Book." "Not yet," Pappy repied. Sheffield and Fort Stockton and thrust out of his loosened collar, don't care," Pappy said. "Why, "Yeah, it's in the Constitution Pecos, and you know it is a coun- and slowly the voice that once I'm out to see the people." Half- too," Pappy said. "The Lord didn't "I've got plenty of service in way between Ozona and Pecos a me yet." try Pappy O'Daniel understands. belonged to all of them would want us mixin' when he made us." Doing West Texas, he is like a He would walk into a grocery say, "Yeah, I'm runnin' again, I'm man was stranded with a flat tire. And to the man in the laundry ghost riding the range. He looks store in a crossroads town. There out to clean up that mess in Aus- O'Daniel stopped, and he •and in Ozona, he said, "It may not be old, he is old, he walks with an would be the wrinkled faces, the tin, just like '38." Always the past, Scott helped fix it. The man much of a problem over here in old man's shuffle, but there can 'stained teeth, the soiled khakis. always the 'thirties—"when I was turned out to be a German from this section, but it sure is in East be no denying that he yet weaves He would introduce himself sim- through here first time I ran." Schulenberg, and they left him Texas. Things are gonna grow and a magic spell. Ringing down ply, with a faint touch of shy hu- with a handful of campaign cards. grow, and pretty soon they'll be through the dead decades are the mility, "I'm W. Lee O'Daniel and `Leon's In Heaven' Pappy is even developing a new an issue way out here too. I tell strains of his hillbilly music, and I'm runnin' for governor," and he technique in campaigning. Every you, I don't like what Ike's been with him still goes the grand call would smile his warm human There was the old woman work- time their car passes another on doin'." ing behind a counter in Mertzon, for biscuits that enclosed a politi- smile. The faces would lighten the highway, he sticks his head He has this same easy adapti- a faded grey wisp of a woman, far out the window, grins, and cal generation. The hillbilly band up, and the old folks would rise bility with his opponent Henry and O'Daniel saw her and went is gone ("They've all got good slowly and shake his hand. Some- waves. Gonzalez. He reserves all his back behind the counter. "I just jobs, and now I'm lookin' for times they would be speechless, "I met an old colored man on heavy fire for Price Daniel. "My want to shake your hand," he one," O'Daniel says) and there are looking at him long and hard. For the street somewhere over in East opponent would never stop out said. "It's sure great to be among no biscuits, but after twenty years a time there would be silence, Texas," O'Daniel told me. "I of- here," he tells the small-town my old friends again." She looked they aren't forgotten among the disturbed only by the drowsy fered him my hand and he said, people. "Why, he'd just keep on down at her hand, and up at the folks who rallied to them and whine of a fly or the swift thun- you mean you're goin' shake goin'." He never mentions Gon- ceiling, and with a touch of emo- made a legend. der of a car whipping along the hands with me? Sure, I said, I'm zalez unless the name comes up. tion she said, "We used to listen runnin' for governor, ain't I, and (Continued on Page 5) to you all the time. My husband and I used to listen to you every Price Denies Charge day. Every time you run for some- thin' I voted for you, and I'm Laredo Report AUSTIN pressed by myself or the two gain' to now." Gov. Price Daniel more other Governors against a fifty- There was the toothless, un- LAREDO Martins. The Martin machine, fully explained his position cent minimum wage for farm shaven old man in the furniture Ever since 1940 when the which dishes out patronage ga- on the 50-cents-an-hour wage workers. We did object to this or store in Monahans. "Pappy, I Independent Club of Webb lore, has a full slate of county and issue for bracero labor in a any other per hour minimum be- never will forget back then. I saw County, ruled jealously by district candidates, but it is battl- letter to the Observer dated ing applied to 'piece work.' This or Jim over at the drug store the Martin family for 75 ing for its life in only one office— July 7. type of work has been performed an' I said Jim, I said, I bet you years, was beaten by a red- the 49th judicial district judge's Wrote the Governor: by domestic labor ^id braceros twenty-five dollars to a hundred headed political dynamo post. Local politicos say that who- for many years on the basis of the named Philip Kazen, the old ever controls the district judge "In view of your staunch op- Pappy wins and Jim says that's number of pounds of cotton political machine has feared post controls politics. position to me in the race for a bet, and I went around day 'fore picked or other crops harvested. only one thing—being taken Kazen, brother of Phillip and Governor, I could not help but the 'lection and I says Jim I bet Good workers make more than over by the Kazen family. older brother of State Sen. Abra- appreciate the fair and almost ob- another twenty-five ol' Pappy fifty cents per hour. The farmers This summer the fight erupted ham Kazen, Jr., is out to get the jective manner in which The Ob- don't even need no run-off, and appearing before us asked merely into one of the bitterest political four-county judgeship, which he server reported my opening cam- surenuf, long about 'lection day that the Department of Labor not battles for control ever seen in says the Club leaders promised paign speech in your issue of Jim calls me up and he says, come abolish the piece work method of on over you sonufabitch and get South Texas, a three-way affair him sometime back, but then re- July 4. Also, I was impressed by payment which has been in effect with the three-year-old Reform neged on. your accurate reporting of the your money." for all these many years based Party as the third group. With Kazen announcing, the In- last State Democratic Executive There was the group of oldtim- upon the work of each laborer and dependent Club also dropped its Committee meeting which was ers in the dry goods store in measured by the amount of crop support for County Clerk Charles held in Austin. When you know Ozona. "W. Lee, where's Leon? harvested. Ramon Garces Kazen, and Charles announced as that people disagree with you po- You bring Leon this time like you "I herewith attach a copy of our usta?" A wave of tenderness The Independent Club now en independent. litically, it is refreshing to see that telegram to the Secretary of Labor news stories of this nature are swept over the big, red face. "Leon fears that the Kazens will team The Reform Party is still mad and hope that you will print it. handled so fairly. didn't come this time," he said. up with the Reform Party in an at both Kazen and Martin but is It shows clearly that the farmers not running a candidate of its own "Of course, I cannot say the "Leon's in heaven." all-out fight to break the Martin and the Governors simply ask Many of them had met him, hold on politics. for district judge, instead concen- same thing for all of your edi- that braceros be permitted to do shaken his hands, years before. Kazen, in order to woo Reform trating on five county offices, in- torials, especially the 'Fifty-Cent piece work on the same basis as The man who sells groceries in Party votes, says the issue in the cluding the important county Disaster' editorial of July 4 in domestic workers. Barnhart had met him at Taylor campaign is breaking up the po- judge post, where there is a three- which you completely misstate my "Yours very truly, way split. attitude concerning bracero labor. in 1938. The woman who waits litical machine. Some say Kazen, Price Daniel" tables in Ozona had met him in saying this, can get 60 per cent KAZEN, who two years ago op- No objection whatever was ex- The wire, signed by Daniel, Midland. The son of the used of the Reform Party vote. The posed the Reform Party, has Gov. E. L. Mecham of New Mex- parts man in Mertzon once went other 40 per cent believe the Ka- adopted the Reform Party script Gin for the Little Man ico, and Gov. E. W. McFarland of to one of his rallies, four years zens are just trying to take over in fighting the Martin machine. the political machine. Joining Kazen in the about-face AUSTIN Arizona, was dated June 25 and old and bawling all the way through the speech, so his father Last week U. S. Senator Lyn- is Laredo Times Publisher Wil- Senate candidate William addressed to James Mitchell, Sec- don Johnson, in Laredo to speak liam Prescott Allen, who two Blakley was victim of one retary of Labor, Washington. It said. O'Daniel speaks gently, with the before the national LULAC con- years ago banned the Reform typographical error this sum- said: accents of the people. Even when vention, declined to ride with Party from his newspaper, of- mer when the Cuero Record "At El Paso meeting today with Mayor J. C. Martin, Jr., son of fered a $10,000 reward to anyone said he had promised to vote farm groups from New Mexico, he is tired, and he must be tired often these days, he seems to en- aging political boss Albert Martin, who could prove Webb County always "in defense of greedom Arizona, and Texas, it was appar- joy what he is doing. He enjoys in a parade downtown, and he de- public officials were corrupt, and of individual initiative" (Obs. ent that new interpretations of mostly talking with them about clined an invitation to a private said the county was the cleanest June 6). Sen. Ralph Yarbor- P. L. 78 by Department of Labor the past. He will talk on and on dinner to which only Independ- in the state. ough has now had his spin are contrary to intent of Congress about his first campaign. He must ent Club people had been invited. Allen, who is a Christian Scien- from a light-fingered linotyp- and will bring economic disaster be sincerely touched by those He also declined to have his pic- tist and has been reported at ist. One of his campaign pitches to farmers in the State of Texas. older ones; with them he seems ture taken with E. James Kazen. home resting for the past several has been that he wants to put It was definitely established that to share a feeling of togetherness, The Martins dropped the Ka- weeks, has bombarded the com- the jam on the bottom shelf so the farmers are willing to give all for were they not the ones who zens from the Independent Club munity with editorials charging the little man can reach it. available domestic farm labor heard him on the radio, bought rolls in July when E. James Ka- the political machine with keep- But the Corpus Christi Caller first preference and they will be his flour, sent him to Austin and zen, the district attorney who had ing in office through a poll tax quoted him: "Someone said I employed before use is made of then to Washington, brought up been re-elected time after conspiracy, exactly what the Re- was like the guy who would bracero labor and that farmers their children on the lore of it? time with Independent Club sup- form Party has been harping on put the bottle of gin on the are willing to pay braceros pre- He will talk for a long time with port, announced for district judge for three years. The Times has bottom shelf so the little fel- vailing wages in each locality for just one of them, or with a small of the 49th judicial district covered the Reform Party cam- low could reach it. That's true. similar work by domestic farm group. His campaign assistant, against incumbent Judge R. D. paign fully but has completely ig- I'm for the little man." laborers and to comply with all (Continued on Page 5) John Scott of Austin, who drives Wright, who is supported by the (Continued on Page 8) Let those flatter who few, it is not an Americas art. — 1111,211R1PON `Now That's What I Call A DEMOCRATIC Executive Committee' Man Conoiclered Let us now, two weeks before the law ; the ideal of a minimum stand- election, try temperately to perceive ard of living for every American the nature of Bill Blakley, as he has family, the better distribution of appeared to us from evidence and the abundant marvels of mechan- his testimony. ized production ; progressive Amer- At Abilene he told us that the ican leadership of the poverty- greatest thing about the American plagued and freedom-desperate hu- heritage is the opportunity which man race. First, then, we will con- had allowed him to develop into the clude that Blakley's acquisition of wealthy person he is ; this, he said, his huge fortune has distorted his is the element he most wants to understanding of American ideals. pass on to others. Apart from his manifest success We for our part are upset that as an acquisitive person, which the American society has permitted means nothing necessarily about his to flower giant stalks of fantastic character, what other concrete clues personal wealth, to whom $1,000 is have we to Blakley's nature? One like a plain man's dime. Rising, the test of a man's devotion to the Blakley plant is curling back down broad, difficult to state, but first- and trying to choke with money the before-all-else ideal of the general independent decision-making pow- welfare is the regard in which he ers of the very society which fed it. holds the public life, the sensitive- A statewide simulcast costs $10,000, ness with which he separates public a full-page ad in a big city daily duty from private pelf. What is the from $3,000 to $5,000: this is noth- firm evidence concerning Blakley ing to Blakley, but it is much too here? First, he admits, the insur- much for a man like Yarborough ance company of which he owned who, by siding with the general wel- 72 percent, and over whose board fare on public issues, loses the meetings he personally presided, backing of millionaires more inter- paid thousands of dollars to three ested in their special welfare. We state senators, all of them members are inclined to believe that the anti- of the Senate insurance committee, social consequences of fantastic two of them chairmen of that com- wealth embodied in one man (like mittee. Not only were they most Bartlett Appears Exclusively in the Texas Observer H. R. Cullen's "out-of-state" med- appropriately selected senators to the people acting together through tion the government asks him to dling in federal elections all over give large payments if the motive their federal government to solve undertake? What is a payment to a the , U.S., against which none of our was influence ; the fees stopped problems too large for local govern- school district for a new school rightist radicals were heard pro- when they left public life. Blakley's ments to handle). building but a payment for a finan- testing) must be curbed before we company was, at the time, retaining cially profitless but socially desir- can have a healthy democracy. Far Blakley, at handsome fees, for legal . The appellations which have able object the government asks the from believing the development of work. Blakley has no record of any sprung up, not without political in- school board to undertake? Air- rare cases of gross personal wealth duties the senators performed to spiration, reflect one area of skep- planes are the only swift means for is the best aspect of the American earn the legal fees he says the pay- ticism about this portrait : "Braniff the delivery of envelope mail ; the heritage, we believe it is one of the ments were. This case seems to us Bill," "Billionaire Bill," the double- government would be more than worst. Much we would prefer to just as unethical as Sherman take variation "Dollar Bill," "Cuff- justified in requiring the public car- have encouraged the broader dis- Adams's gifts from Goldfine. links Cowboy," not to mention the riers, which airlines most certainly semination of knowledge through When he was appointed to the more obvious "Cadillac Cowboy." are, to perform the service as a mat- better public education ; the native U. S. Senate, Blakley; receiving These frankly partisan slugs are in- ter of course. It is fair to conclude American arts and literature ; the legal fees of $25,000 and more a year tended to appeal to the folk humor : that Blakley is opposed to aid for principle of equal rights before the from his own insurance companies, to the suspicion perceived among farmers, but favors aid to Blakley ; had the really gross effrontery and the people that Blakley's cowboy that his policy is millions for air- insensitivity to public ethics to trappings are more a rich man's lines but not one cent for school persecute FTC officials with 56 hobby than an authentic epression construction. But what then of his 50-cent questions at an open hearing—ques- of the cowboy's historic life. Apart candor, consistency, selfless devo- tions about FTC's insurance adveri from the question of the sincerity tion to the public welfare? tising regulation at the very time of the cowboy image, one really FTC was prosecuting a false adver- wonders that a man over 50 would Monday evening, in the best po- 2)i3aJter: 2 tising charge against a Blakley com- lend himself to the Wild West hoop- litical speech of his life, Senator pany ! Blakley then endorsed state la, usually reserved for Saturday Ralph Yarborough remarked that We very much appreciate Gov. regulation of insurance advertising. morning kiddie shows ; one can only Blakley has always supported Ei- Daniel's encomiums to the Observer These undisputed, entirely public hope adults will not let their mem- senhower and doeS so "to this day." for fair and accurate reporting of facts not merely permit, but very ories of happy days at the State The silence from Blakley has been his campaigning opener and the re- nearly require the conclusion that Theater on Main Street in San An- expressive, yet he is running for the cent SDEC meeting. We cannot, Blakley has used the public life for tonio affect their judgments about Democratic nomination. We hear the claim he is a good Democrat be- however, accept his explanation of his private gain. public policy. his attitude on a 50-cent minimum cause he voted with Lyndon John- But what about Blakley himself : More serious, much more, are the son to organize the Senate, which wage for braceros. He says that he his personal candor, his ideals ? He Braniff subsidies. Under the head- expressed "no objection whatso- is a count to his credit ; but it does is presented to us as a plain-spoken line, "Blakley Opposes Federal Aid not merely dis-count his votes for ever" to a 50.cent minimum wage cowboy who says what he thinks. —But He Takes It," the El Paso for farm workers ; rather, he is Eisenhower in 1952 and 1956, his He believes in "constitutional gov- Herald-Post reports from Washing- silence now. Plainly Blakley, garbed against a 50-cents-an-hour floor on ernment," but so does every citizen ton that in the six years Blakley payment to farm workers for "piece now as a Democrat, never will be committed to the United States flag has been a member of the board of able to support the U. S. Demo- work." But the very wire in which and the Republic for which it stands. directors of Braniff International Daniel takes his position asserts, crats, a party of social idealists and More specifically, he believes in Airways, the line has received at hopeful Americans leaning forward "Crop harvesting has been tradi- local government and is against least $10,146,000 in federal subsidies tionally paid for by the piece work into the future instead of backward federal aid ; he is even against fed- and is in line for $789,000 more this toward the past. method ..." What meaning would eral aid to farmers, to schools. He year and $781,000 next. Blakley a minimum wage in agriculture is against "Eastern Labor Bosses." owns $5 million in Braniff stock, the William Blakley is a rich man, have if it did not apply to the most He is against, one may judge from newspaper says ; in the six years, but his money has inundated his commonplace basis of paying farm his statements on McGee Bend Braniff has received $5.8 million social conscience. He is a righteous- workers ? Gov. Daniel's opposition Dam, public power. Here is the more in subsidies than it has paid talking man, but his deeds have be- to a 50-cent minimum for braceros' portrait, then, of a classic reaction- out in dividends, and Blakley re- trayed his willingness to use public piece work is opposition to a 50- ary, anti-Washington, anti-union, ceived an estimated $667,000 of the power for personal gain. He says cent minimum for farm workers. and anti-public (that is, opposed to dividends. "I'm Bill Blakley" in a straightfor- ward way, but his principles have A Braniff spokesman denies yielded to his pocketbook and his Braniff has received subsidies this politics to the expediency of can- Mir Urns Mummer year, a patently deceptive response, didacy as a Democrat. He may be a 10 since they haven't been passed out nice guy to go out on the town with, you obviously don't want him op- Published by Texas Observer Co., Ltd. HOUSTON OFFICE: 1012 Dennis, Mrs. yet this year. The more consider- JULY 11, 1958 R. D. Randolph, Dean Johnston. able defense is that the U. S. merely posing you in a business tight ; but he has demonstrated none of the Ronnie Dugger Entered as second-class matter, April pays Braniff for a losing operation, Editor and General Manager 26, 1937, at the Post Office at Austin, social idealism, respect for the in- Willie Morris, Associate Editor Texas, under the Act of March 3, 1879. mail delivery. But this explanation tegrity of public service, and honest Sarah Payne, Office Manager Published once a week from Austin, Dean Johnston, Circulation-Advertising Texas. Delivered postage prepaid $4 per too dissolves. What is a subsidy to selflessness which, we believe, qual- EDITORIAL and BUSINESS OFFICE,: annum. Advertising rates available on re- a farmer for his soil bank acreage ify men, and specifically qualify quest. Extra copies 10c each. Quantity 504 West 24th St., Austin, Texas. Phone but a payment for a losing opera- Ralph Yarborough, for public office. GReenwood 7-0746. prices available on orders. HENRY'S UNORGANIZED ORGANIZATION

AUSTIN People ate their Mexican food and "We have no press corps, no paid Summarizing the campaign, Gon- "It's a long way frOm Texas," a drank their beer, and occasionally organization, but I'll tell you this, we zalez said "it has been to me better friend sitting nearby said. someone waved or moved over to an- have something multimillionaires can- than the wildest flights of my imagin- And yet here we were, right in the other table to say hello. There was no not buy, and that is the good will of ation. All I know is that it looks good. middle of Austin, on the open-to-the- secrecy, just 200 people, gregarious hundreds and hundreds of people ...... It does your heart good to know sky terrace of the Spanish Village for an evening, Avho had come to hear "We've been 31,000 miles so far in that some people are willing to offer cafe. It was a $10-a-plate fund-raising Henry Gonzalez. this campaign—to the •Oklahoma bor- $10,000 to a person one opponent calls dinner for Henry Gonzalez,. and in A dark good-looking young priest der, to El Paso, to Brownsville, to an inconsequential candidate. the bright lights under the tall trees gave the invocation. Eloy Castillo, a Palestine. Everywhere we've been "We've even been offered the use were 200 people of separate hues, Ne- youngster who works and goes to the greeted with warmth and courtesy of an airplane, which we turned down groes, Latins, Anglos. Intellectuals University part-time, stood up and and affection. gracefully. Even if the man who Of- and liberals were out in 'strength. explained that the regular master of "I honestly think the presS has been fered it didn't seek to obligate me, Over in a corner Chris Carmona and ceremonies had been expected from morally we couldn't accept that gift. his boys were playing Spanish music San Antonio and didn't show up. wonderful. Let's be objective about this—in the news columns almost ev- So we're traveling up and down Texas so loudly you could hardly hear any- "That's the way we work though," he in this Chevy that belongs mostly to said. "We always pick up the flag be- ery day in the cities we've visited thing else, and when they began "El we've been given full publicity. Edi- the finance company. Rancho Grande" a few people shouted fore it hits the ground." Everyone "eeeyow" and began clapping hands laughed, sensing the truth in it. Then torial-wise, of course, this isn't true." He cited "racial bigotry" in an editor- I N SOME PLACES our with the rhythm. Castillo read off a list of the well- ial in the Cuero Record. surname has been used as a disadvant- It was the first time I had seen knowns present. There was applause age. There was a woman in Dallas Gonzalez. He was sitting behind the after each name. "We simply can't mobilize the type who even thought manual labor was a speaker's table, talking with Emilie Senator Gonzalez was introduced of campaign our opponents are run- Mexican. Then there was a man in Heinatz, his Travis County chairman. and came to the microphone amid ning," he said. "The campaign contri- South Texas who said your name's A tall, solid man with big features and standing cheers, motioning shyly for butions for district attorney in my Gonzalez and I'm voting for you. I a big knot in his tie to match, he them to stop. He spoke in a sharp, home county are going to exceed the said men have died for the right to greeted wellwishers with a great deal crisp voice. Some of his words were expenses of my whole race. vote, and I don't want a vote cast out of friendly exuberance. If he was accented. He didn't use notes, and he of such class interest. Many fall into didn't seem to bother about mixing "We've had offers of heavy contri- tired, he didn't show it. butions already. Just the other day a that particular error. The Latin-American waiters were "I's" and "we's." man came to me with a check for "But what disturbs me. deeply is having a good time. They darted $3,000. I was looking at it very closely that there are men who take a consti- through the crowd quickly, with great SPENT quite some HE and the man asked what I was looking tutional oath, on their honor, to de- zest, and ever so often as they went by time explaining the trouble he'd had fend the people, then defend only. a Gonzalez they glanced at him with with certain of his campaign workers. at. I told him I was just trying to see how many strings were attached. certain percentage of the people. In Open admiration. A lot of Spanish was "Ours is, and will continue to be, an my opinion these men are worse crim- being spoken. Fred Schmidt and Don unorganized organization," he said. "I've never been offered that much money before," he said. "But by my inals than men imprisoned for the Ellinger, Texas union leaders, were "Why, we never did have a- state cam- veterans' land scandal .... " among the people there, and I ran paign headquarters, only one big com- own standards I just couldn't take it. into an old English professor of mine. edy of errors." This was greeted with Because the man said I'd get $3,000 "We see men who were born .here, It was a spirited, good-humored gath- laughter. "I'm proud to say that since now, $7,000 later, and if I made the not sent from Mars, or Africa, or ering. the crack-up we received more contri- second primary, $50-75,000 — if I South America. They were born here, The neon "Spanish Village" sign butions in four days than we had in showed the right spirit. in the case of the Negroes at least six glowed into the leaves beyond the ter- the entire campaign up till then." "I simply couldn't do it. This would„ generations back, and yet our leaders race wall. A cockroach scurried along "I know," he said, "that if I do put me in the Shivers class: Right still look down on them as as the straw handle of a plant pot. Old- anything in the least bit wrong, they now, before the election, not after it, traitors. fashioned metal-frame lamps hung (the opponents) will get it. The only is the dangerous time. Now is the "Differences in skin, differences in from the branches overhead. Looking point to be made there is that my pre- time corruption can intrude.. I think religion are emphasized and exagger- over us all was a Mexican senorita in vious opponents have done such a every candidate is morally responsible ated. But we've reached the point in a bustling-out skirt, painted up there thorough job up till now that the field to be more careful than he has ever Texas now that we must realize that on the pastel-colored wall. has been pre-empted. been, right now." we're all in the same boat, that some of us are not sent from afar to wreck things, that we have the same drives, the same hopes, not only in the f ox- Prospects for July 26 holes in a war but in the public schools 'and swimming pools and parks and AUSTIN Youngblood said Ramsey has "stood playgrounds in peacetime ... THE SHAPE-UP is not firm against the two worst enemies "Today the world looks. to us for The guessing in Austin has swung clear for senator either. Blakley might moral leadership. I have hope, and toward Henry Gonzalez making a of business : High taxes and labor- win. The last Belden Poll was bought leader domination." faith, in the average American's in- runoff with Price Daniel. He is corn- by Blakley, but the whispered result tense passion for fair play. But is this ing up very fast and his "press" has was 49 percent for YarborOugh, 35 America? There's a lot of room for improved. Nobody really knows how FREEDOM in Action, the percent for Blakley—Blakley closing far-right group, is holding statewide improvement in representing our it will go in the voting, of course: in the gap. There has been a little panic words ,with our deeds. such a latent and inscrutable situation caucuses under the leadership of Shiv- .„ among Yarborough backers, but Yar- ers backers. The FIA radicals mean "The time to scotch the snake is Daniel might steamroller both Gon- borough has just started campaigning; when it first begins to wiggle. In cer- zalez and O'Daniel. But a lobbyist says to take over the conservative Demo- supporters were unanimous that his crats. They tell initiates they want , tain cities in the South they're turn- Capitol betting is that Daniel will get statewide TV show this week was as ing on the Jews now too. How • far 550,000 votes, Gonzalez 350,000, people who will stick for six or eight good a political speech as he has ever years. An FIA film warning of labor will it go, and where will it stop? O'Daniel 250,000, more or less. A man made. A Houston Press poll of silk- "After this summer it may be too who has attended the super-secret control is to be shown around the stocking precinct 143 in Houston gave state starting July 14 ; Blakley, the late. And our state needs leadership, Daniel strategy meetings ( including Blakley 31 votes, Yarborough 9—Yar- not just a pussyfooting about. If our one at a local tourist court) estimates keynoter at FIA's opening banquet, borough getting a surprising fourth of will be the principal beneficiary. present governor would merely inform Gonzalez will get 325,000 to 350,000 the most right-wing area, undoubtedly the people, that would be an improve- votes. because he is an incumbent and has Despite some misapprehension, if ment. Instead he goes around pinning O'Daniel's crowds have been small. defended oil independents. He has lost Sen. Johnson has taken any steps on admiral caps on the non-existent There is some reaction against him none of his support and has picked behalf of Daniel forces in the con- Texas navy. " because he did not accept the decision up an automatic pro-incumbent vote. test for party control July 26, word of the 1956 Democratic primary and of it has not reached the Observer. POINTING to the crowd Blakley's money is telling. His full- Johnson has studiously kept out of ran as a write-in. Reports from rural page ads in the metropolitan papers, he said, "The things that draw us to- areas indicate brass-collar Democrats the summer elections. Speaker Ray- gether are idealistic things, things of his unlimited TV budget, his mass burn, who endorsed Yarborough on are being influenced by the Gonzalez mailings are bound to have an effect. the spirit. America has always been a theme he's the only Democrat running election afternoon' in 1956, may be Throw-sheets for Blakley appeared country of ideals. ... To be with the for governor. persuaded to endorse him this year, people and know the people you have Still, there is the fact- of prejudice in East Texas this week with a warn- but he has said nothing about it so ing that "Eastern Negro Bosses" are to be of the people. ... against the name Gonzalez. There is far. Daniel and his top re-election "If you feel discouraged about the the fact that 122,000 write-in votes trying to take over Texas. In the managers are staying out of the Sen- papers the Blakley ads warn of "East- outcome of this campaign, about our were counted for O'Daniel in 1956— ate race, but his precinct campaign disorganized organization, have heart an enormous number for a write-in. ern Labor Bosses." Yarborough's sup- leader, J. Ed Connally of Abilene, is porters are diStributing reprints of and good cheer. If you're happy it's One union pro who hasn't miscalled a Blakley man. no task at all. Why, we haven't felt an election in ten years believes that the El Paso Herald-Post series on One reason for Daniel's fear the Blakley's record of absenteeism, spec- sleepy and we haven't slept. if there is a runoff, O'Daniel will be liberals will win the precincts is the "God willing I hope I'll be able in it, not Gonzalez. ial pleading, and senatorial fees. fact that many Eisenhower-style through my actions to show the great Daniel continues to run against George Nokes is behind Ben Ram- Democrats voted the straight Repub- gratitude I feel." DOT, which he believes he must do sey as of now, but he is running a lican ticket in the 1956 general elec- He had spoken an hour and twenty to win the precinct conventions, but virile campaign, touring state-wide tion while loyal Democrats were vot- minutes, and he left the impression one consequence is that he appears to and leaving organizations for him be- ing for Daniel. The result is a- reduc- that he could have spoken on till be trying to defeat rank and file hind in every county. Again and again tion of conservatives' strength in pre- breakfast. After ten minutes of his Democrats instead of his opponents. he is accusing Ramsey of complicity cinct power at the county Democratic speech one sensed his genius with the It stands to reason that if DOT is by silence in the senatorial scandals. conventions this year. Loyalist leaders spoken word, a facile genius given strong enough to alarm Daniel this Nokes is encouraged mainly by the complain that DOT workers have only a few politicians : Theodore much, his vigorous fight against DOT fact that Ramsey has few real sup- "gone to sleep" and "could take a Bilbo, Adlai Stevenson, perhaps Nye will lose him votes. porters or defenders and that few peo- sad pasting here," but everything will Bevan. He had spoken too long, he Ernest Bailey reports in a bus-ride ple have ever heard of him. Of course turn on the last-week effort, as '-'DOT had repeated himself too much, but poll from Houston to Austin that both they haven't heard of Nokes either, and SDEC leaders know. With the what mattered most to .me was that he Daniel and Yarborough are way out but Nokes is Ramsey's first vigorous "seasoned troops" DOT has an ex- had spoken—and that he had spoken ahead. No one he talked to declared and serious opposition. cellent chance to win the precincts. in Texas. How many long, dead sum- for Gonzalez. A state senator in Aus- A sign business is worried about Should they then be denied control mers till this, how many till again? tin over the weekend predicted a run- Ben is a letter sent TMA members at the San Antonio state convention WILLIE MORRIS off, said many people. are saying they'll by Hull Youngblood on "Southern by maneuvers similar to those in vote for Gonzalez "behind their Steel Company, Jail and Prison 1956, they will be prepared to go to THE TEXAS OBSERVER hands." 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PARTY OFFICERS CLASH Ralph Reads Record; HOUSTON "Some of the members of the their own expense of money and Mrs. R. D. Randolph, Dem- DOT are trying to create the im- time to assert their loyalty as Bible, Globe as Props ocratic national committee- pression that the DOT is a suc- Democrats and organize a work- woman for Texas, in a letter cessor to the old Democratic Ad- ing force, determined to see to it AUSTIN be fooled by "the middle-of-the addressed to those who were visory Council, of which I was that the treason of 1952 and the The week's major political gutter approach." members of the old Demo- Chairman and you were a mem- tranquility of 1956 should not oc- event was Sen. Ralph Yar- On the labor issue Yarborough cratic Advisory Council, has ber. Of course, all of us' know cur again in 1960.... borough's 22-station cam- said: urged loyal Democratic lead- this is not true and there is posi- "They call for harmony—their paign opener from Washing- "Newspapers supporting my op- ers not to be lulled into in- tively no connection between the kind of harmony—when you and ton. The canned film, which ponent claim that out of state activity but rather to "re- two organizations. I feel that this I know that harmony in politics is cost the Yarborough cam- labor sent campaign contributions double your efforts" to win claim is being made to create a vacuum and we have resided paign about $5,000 to show to Texas in my behalf. These the precinct conventions July confusion among loyal members of too long in a vacuum. Redouble on the state-blanketing sta- newspapers note that the sworn 26. the Democratic Party. your efforts in these few remain- tions, was one of Yar- record shows this money did not go to me personally. Her letter was a retort to a "I believe that the great ma- ing weeks. Win this battle • for a borough's most effective "Texas working men, like farm- communication sent out by Na- jority of loyal Democrats in principle in the precinct conven- speeches. He emphasized his ers and businessmen and school tional Committeeman Byron Skel- Texas, including the former mem- tions on July 26—and in 1960 we record in Washington, gave teachers, and thousands of others, ton on June 16, attacking the bers of the Advisory Council, are can be sure of a solid front and his answer to the labor money have contributed to the fight to Democrats of Texas organization going to work with the State no sniping at us from fair-weather charge, slammed his opponent clean up corrupt government in and soliciting former DAC mem- Democratic Executive Committee Democrats in high office. for Braniff Airways subsidies Texas, and I appreciate it from bers to work with the state demo- in the precinct conventions on "We have been called by the and paying state senators re- the bottom of my heart. ... (I cratic executive committee in the July 26th in order to help build governor 'unconscionable usurpers tainer fees, and in the process have) needed all the help avail- precinct conventions. a stronger and more united Demo- of the party name.' We have been invoked the Holy Bible and know that we can the globe of the world. This able in facing multimillion dollar The text of the Skelton letter: cratic Party. I called a 'splinter group' and a count on you to do your part. `wailing minority,' and Governor week Yarborough settled campaigns. ... Does my opponent think that the only people who "I know you are a loyal Demo- "In view of your leadership Daniel implored the legislature down to three weeks of steady crat, because of your service with and loyalty to the Party and our without avail to make our exist- campaigning. have a right to contribute ... are me several years ago on the friendship, I would appreciate ence unlawful. He said the issue was well put the big rich and the big corpora- Democratic Advisory Council, tions?" very much knowing your position "Democrats of Texas is no by a letter-writer who said he which was created by the Demo- "No one controls me, nor will on these matters. I hope that we splinter (save in the sense that it "will put the jam on the lower cratic National Committee to they, and I resent the attack on may continue to work together in is painful under the finger nails shelf so the little man can reach carry on the work of the Party my character, my reputation and the interest of Party harmony of pocket-picking politicians). it." In Washington, he said, he at a time when our State Demo- integrity," he said. His opposition and the good of the Democratic Democrats of Texas holds no has fought for income tax cuts cratic Executive Committee was is angry he can't be bought, he Party." briefs for or against individuals. for low and middle income peo- supporting the Republican nomi- said. His charge shows he thinks It is dedicated simply and de- ple, a decent standard of living for nees. You will recall that it was The committeeman did not mail "that all men can be bought. ... copy of this letter to the Demo- terminedly to two propositions: the aged and the unfortunate, a always understood and agreed a I wonder how many state [sena- cratic national committeewoman. "1. Only Democrats shall par- larger share of the food dollar that the Advisory Council would tors and governors he has con- She received a copy from one of ticipate in the affairs of the Demo- for farmers and ranchers, a stop be discontinued as soon as we trolled by contributions." Yarbor- the members of the old DAC. cratic Party. to the flood of foreign oil im- elected a loyal State Democratic ough then pledged on "this Holy "2. Rights of locally, lawfully se- ports, anti-recession measures to Executive Committee, to whom Mrs. Randolph's letter to the Bible that I've carried through so lected delegates to Democratic help business and the unemployed, we could turn over the affairs of DAC members said: many campaigns in Texas that I conventions shall not be violated. military preparedness, extension the Party. This was done after "For some time now, our or- represent only you." He patted the "Democrats of Texas, as an or- of the GI bill so that every vet- the present State Committee was ganization has been under the lash Bible firmly. ganization, is as lawful as the eran can go to college, federal ecutive Committee, which I am of sharp and, on occasion, vitup-, Y.M.C.A. Efforts to legislate tax relief for small business, Yarborough asked Blakley: tion, and the old Advisory Coun- erative criticism. It seems odd against its existence would be as lower down payments and inter- "He has stated he is opposed to cil was dissolved because there that a political congregation so void as a law to abolish marriage, est on GI and FHA homes, and federal subsidies for farmers. Is was no need for us to function large as ours should be singled or try to limit the term 'Christian' more medical research money. he opposed to a subsidy for Bran- any further. Our successor was out for such vehement opposition to a single congregation in the "I co-authored an anti-improper iff Airways? the present State Democratic Ex- by men who have been favored silk-stocking area of a town. influence bill designed to stop "(He) confirmed that his insur- ecutive Committee, which I am by, and still court, the votes of Every loyal Democrat who lives such deals as the vicuna coat- ance firm has paid what he happy to report has been loyal at those whose political faith we in Texas is entitled to call him- oriental rug fiasco and the FCC termed retainer fees to state sena- all times to the Democratic Party both proclaim and live by. The self a Democrat of Texas and no scandals over TV and radio li- tors, who just happened to be since it was elected, and has governor of Texas, by his actions gag law is going to prevent it ... censes. ... The Republicans have chairmen of the Senate Insurance worked faithfully with the Na- and words, is obsessed with the "Let this much be understood jerked the oriental rug out from Committee over a period of years. tional Committee and our Demo- idea of destroying Democrats of clearly: it is not for Price Daniel under all the Ike buttons in ... (Would he) consider it all cratic leaders in Congress, in- Texas. It would seem that DOT is to say if we are a minority or a Texas and all those, like my op- right to take fees from insurance cluding Speaker Rayburn and for him a perennial nightmare. majority. It is not for Byron Skel- ponent, who still support him to companies if he were elected a Majority Leader Senator John- Maybe that is the way it should ton to say. Democrats will deter- this day," Yarborough said. United States Senator. What's son. be. mine that issue face to face, in The senator said his opponent more, maybe he should be asked "However, a group of persons "Another recipient of favors conventions assembled. is like "a man riding backward whether he did accept fees from in Texas has recently created an from the Democratic voters of "There has been a recent ges- in the saddle, who sees only the insurance companies while he was organization which they call Texas, the Democratic National ture remindful of a wolf weaving past, and never the future." His in the Senate." `Democrats of Texas' (DOT). It Committeeman for Texas, has sent a chemise of lamb's wool. The opponent—Bill Blakley—offers no Yarborough closed with his be- has been set up in opposition to out a letter to many of you de- state Democratic Executive Com- solution to such problems as un- lief in the free enterprise system, the State Democratic Executive crying the existence of our or- mittee, with grudging consent of employment, needs of the aged, better housing, better schools, ganized effort to preserve party Committee and without the sanc- the governor, agreed 'to ask the the plight of the farmer, the ris- better health, better security, and fealty. tion of the Democratic National legislature to pass a law to keep ing cost of living, the need for better income. Committee or our Democratic "They who exhort us to dis- members of one party from par- higher teachers' pay, and world leaders in Congress. It is publicly band—that we serve no purpose— ticipating in the primaries of an- peace, he said—putting' his hand THE WOOD REPRINT working against, many of the forget the impelling reasons that other.' The governor even said on a globe of the earth. It is not AUSTIN former members of the Advisory brought Democrats of Texas into a time to set "class against class, he would be willing for senator- Mrs. R. D. Randolph, chairman Council who are now serving on existence no longer ago than May, race against race, capital against ial delegations to select their own of DOT and national committee- the State Committee. 1957. There had been four years labor, and religion against relig- representatives on the executive woman, 'has written religious lead- of shameful betrayal of the Demo- committee provided that a nomi- ion ... to substitute scare for ers warning of the distribution of . cratic Party followed by a full care," he said; nor for "a cam- nee for governor might reject "racist propaganda and scurrilous TELEVISION and season of 'leaning on shovels' paign of dinero and deceit." those repugnant to him. What pamphleteering" by Gov. Daniel. while Republicans continued their "Seats are bought on the New RADIO REPAIR brand of democracy is that to "In two series of meetings in control of this country. There was York Stock Exchange. Now we come out of the mouth of a man Austin at the Governor's Man- spontaneous demand for action in whose very watchwords are 'local see an effort to buy one of Texas's sion, in which the governor sum- ARV Electronics Texas by Democrats. It was liter- seats in the United States Senate," self-government' a n d 'states moned the 'lobby' for aid in his ally and in all truth a demand Yarborough charged. If this is Houston, Texas rights,' though he may falter on campaign, copies of the reprint of from the grass roots. done, then the U. S. is like dying 'My country 'tis of thee.' the Sam Wood story ... in the Rome, "when an emperor ap- Mission 5-1539 "No holders of public office "That was the very core, of the Austin American May 29th were nurtured the assembling in Aus- pointed his favorite horse a sena- Dick Seinfeld political infamy at the Fort Worth distributed with requests for tor and stabled him in the Roman tin on that May 18, 1957, of a thou- convention when lawfully selected members of the organizations HIGH FIDELITY SALES Senate," Yarborough said. But, sand Texans from more than one delegates were denied their places which they represent in Austin," and INSTALLATION hundred counties. They came at by brutal usurpation...." A.H. said the senator, Texans will not Mrs. Randolph said. In a Daniel campaign meeting June 30, she said, copies of the re- print and copies of a reprint of a similar story in, the Huntsville When You Think of Us, Please Think of Insurance ... Item were circulated. The stories are "viciously slanted journalism," "mud-slinging polities," and "un- fair, slanted, and inflammatory," Mrs. Randolph said. HALL'S WIGINTON - HALL LEAGUE CITY In his July 8 column, Wood re- plied he accepted presentation of Insurance Agency Insurance Agency Insurance Agency the DOT story to the religious

DICKINSON, TEXAS ALVIN, TEXAS LEAGUE CITY, TEXAS leaders along with the questions, is DOT a "splinter party" trying to capture the precinct conven- tions, was the DOT story "racist propaganda," and was Mrs. Ran- ... And When You Think of Insurance, Please Think of Us dolph's protest an effort to use "as a political tool in behalf of Sen. Gonzalez the good men of the clergy." Week in Texas Symbol of Past on Stump O Speaker Sam Rayburn and O John Shivers, 21, son of for- (Continued from Page 1) Ranger and an old time county the differences in Texas politics Senators Yarborough a n d mer Gov. Allan Shivers, and Sometimes, calculating his elec- judge, introduced O'Daniel, quot-. now. Johnson were rebuked by a State Judith Anne Miller, 18, were tion chances when a supporter ing a long poem about the courage "So many people have moved Bar Committee for helping to de- quietly married in Austin last asks, he cites the 450,000 votes and dignity of man. into the city," he said. "There lay passage of legislation which week. Miss Miller is the daughter Ralph Yarborough got in the '56 Pappy stood up, wearing a aren't nearly so many people in would create new federal courts. of Elton Miller, an Internal Rev- primary, compares that with the dark-brown suit with a matching the country now. But I'll tell you The bill, which would allow ap- enue Bureau official. 350,000 he polled. "Now I figger tie. Speaking in his deep, drawl- this, the spirit is still there, the pointment of 45 new federal Ralph's supporters are fed up ing voice, he said "it has been old Texas spirit. And they be- judges, is now up for hearing in O The Lone Star Steel Co. gave with Daniel and will vote for me good to go into the homes, to see lieve in the same philosophy of Washington. Virgil T. Seaberry, most of its employees in- this time. 450 and 350, that's 800,- those old friends who supported government. president of the state bar, said he creases in wages and salary. About 000 votes, and that's a lot of votes." me that first time. Some are in- "People -don't use the radio heard on a recent trip to Wash- 2,600 employees covered by con- But sometimes he runs into a valids now. Some have children much. anymore. Back when we ington that Democrats controlling tract received increases by agree- Gonzalez man. "That's okay," he'll who were little back when I were broadcasting, everyone lis- Congress do not want to pass a ment. For the remaining 1,000 em- say. "Henry and I are out after started, and now they've taken tened. Everyone always listened law which would give a Republi- ployees, pay boosts included basic the same crowd anyway." their place. Others have passed to the Texas Quality network. can president so many appoint- rate increases of seven cents an O'Daniel is shying away from on. I go see my old friends now Now you've got all the little sta- ments. hour, plus cost of living increases. rallies now. Perhaps earlier poor and they pull out old pictures and tions and nobody listenS to the I enjoy lookin' at them." I showings have caused him to same thing. And now there's TV stick to the handshake and to He told about the little barber- of course." He has made six TV O National Bankers Life In- O A long dispute between surance of Dallas was or- Braniff Airways and 2,300 radio and television. shop he just visited, where they appearances since the campaign dered by the State Insurance clerical and passenger service In Pecos he went to an early had an old picture of "the boys" opened. breakfast where about 35 people (the hillbilly band) on the wall. Commissioner to remove its man- employees was settled with pay "The handshake is still import- turned up. Later, at 8 a.m., he It is faded now, he said, but it's agement and prove solvency in raises ranging from $35 to $50 a ant, though," he said. "It always made a radio talk. In the studio still there. order to remain in business. month. will be." he loosened his tie and stood be- "Did you see that courthouse fore the microphone, refusing to back at San Angelo?" he said to O The internal revenue office O The state board of education Once, outside a cafe in one little me later in the day. "Back one reported that a record $2,- reduced its distribution of sit down. The flare was there, and town where he had circulated, the fire in his voice. It was a typ- night in 1938 there were 13,000 at 688,006,307 in federal taxes was available school funds $6 per stu- O'Daniel walked out -behind his a rally for me. I was a little late paid by Texans this fiscal year. dent for next year, after hearing ical O'Daniel volley. He said the parked car to the edge of the gettin' there, and I walked up to The taxes on income, gasoline, it is now $6,091,905 in the red. conditions now are the same as highway. He stood still, his hands some people in the back and said estates, gifts, inheritance, and Distribution for 1958-59 was set in 1938. The millionaires are limply at his sides, and he looked "leaving skimmed milk for the what's goin' on, and some fella other items showed $128,000,000 in- at $75, for an estimated 2,075,000 out beyond the railroad cars, out said, we're 'here to see W. Lee crease over last year. scholastics, an increase of 75,000 masses." He attacked the big-city to where the empty plains meet press. Quoting an Observer story O'Daniel over the present year. the sky. It was that hour before on Governor Daniel's call to lob- "Back in '38, you may not re- the dark, and in the lengthening O San Antonio's latest gasoline byists to come to the mansion, he member him, you were just a boy, shadows he showed his years. In price war drove prices to as O Dr. Abel Leader, a Houston 'said Daniel had promised a strong I was runnin' against Bill Mc- that moment of aloneness and low as 18.9 cents a gallon. "We've physician in private practice lobby-control bill in 1956. "I won- Graw, and Bill stopped to help a quiet, what must have been his got nobody to blame except a few who is also the unpaid volunteer der if he intended to control the woman fix a tire, just like we did thoughts? Time vanished, gone juvenile independent dealers," professor of urology at Baylor lobbyists or their contributions?" back there, and he fixed that flat somewhere into the western Don Traugott, president of Inde- University School of Medicine, he asked. for her without tellin' her who he emptiness? Leon singing for the pendent Gasoline Dealers Associa- denounced the efforts of the Med- "The state's tax account," he was, and he got ready to go and thousands? tion, said. ical Society to prevent construc- said, "has dropped from $100 mil- she said, will you do just one tion of a new charity hospital for He came back and got into the lion when the incumbent took of- more thing for me, and he said car. He had an appointment in O A Federal strike mediator acute cases in the Medical Center. fice to a deficit of $100 million. sure. Then she said, vote for W. Pecos. met with representatives of "The governor is thinkin' up new Lee O'Daniel... the Continental Bus System and • Resolutions against bracero taxes right now," he said. "An in- "About 7,000 people showed up union members in Dallas in. an labor, segregation, and dis- come tax will just make bad for one of our rallies at the Mid- effort to end a five-day strike. crimination in public housing things worse." land courthouse, and we were 12 LEGALS Continental's bus service has been were passed by the board of di- He criticized Daniel for his tide- hours late, and they were still rectors of the National GI Forum halted on 400 runs out of Dallas. lands blunder, and quoted a there waitin' when we finally at its annual convention in. Corpus speech made by Dorsey Harde- showed up ..." THE STATE OF TEXAS Christi. man on the floor of the State "Back when we were broad- COUNTY OF ZAVALA O Subcommittees were meet- Senate which had attacked the castin' we'd cross the river and TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: ing in Austin to study the O Humble Oil stock skyrock- "uncertain equivocating language go down to Piedras Negras to use Notice is hereby given that Clif- county reports filed before the eted to a record high of $68 of Daniel's bill." that powerful station. Mexicans ton C. Wagner and Robert L. Wagner, partners, composing the a share as a result of a move by Then he talked about segrega- Hale-Aikin Committee on educa- came in droves to hear us and to firm of WAGNER BROS., intend tion. The full Committee of Standard Oil of New Jersey to tion, about the veterans' land listen to'the music. Once we got a to incorporate such firm without scandal and his proposed veter- Twenty-Four will begin work on gain complete control of Humble. request from some prisoners in a a change of the firm name after ans' bonus, and about the way penitentiary, way over in Ala- the expiration of thirty (30) days its report to the Legislature and At the end of 1957 Standard Oil Price was able to hold up his bama, and pretty soon convicts from this date the 16th day of June, A. D. 1958. the Governor later in the sum- owned 88.2 per cent of the 71,827,- campaign "for 41 days and nights." from everywhere were writin' to mer. 824 Humble stock outstanding. It was easy to see how radio, back get us to play songs for their WAGNER BROS. when people listened to it faith- By Clifton C .Wagner girl friends." Robert Wagner fully, had spelled success for him. I asked him for his thoughts on Partners His radio personality is spirited Price Denies Charge and persuasive. THE CHEAPEST CROP INSURANCE YOU CAN BUY! `Back in '38' (Continued from Page 1) The American GI Forum of Next day, campaigning through Texas meeting in Corpus Christi Cecil Meador, an Eldorado other provisions of P. L. 78. How- called for "severe censure" of rancher and an old friend, gave HESSTON ever, the Department of Labor's Daniel for his wire urging revoca- him a luncheon at the Townhouse new proposal to set minimum tion of the minimum wage rule in San Angelo Monday. It had P SAVER wage on piecework is grossly un- for alien farm workers. The reso- been advanced in the papers. ROW CRO fair and unworkable. Crop har- lution said Daniel "deliberately About 25 people were there, and half the places, already set, were vesting has been traditionally paid disregarded the field worker's ISAV11$ UP TO 9 0 C170 empty. Pat Murphy, chairman of for by the piecework method right to a decent wage and grossly OP DOWN MILO MAIZE! such as cotton picking per one abused thousands of Texans in the Tom Green County Demo- hundred pounds picked, etc. Our order to satisfy the greed of a cratic Party, said a few words. domestic workers perform piece- chosen few." The request would Willis Burke, a former Texas plunge farm workers into eco- work harvesting on this basis and ■•••••1111, we strongly urge that this method nomic slavery, the Forum said. of payment be permitted for bra- Member of the Calling the regulation inade- ceros doing similar work. Pay- Piano Technicians quate, the Forum said it "to some Guild, Inc. ment to braceros on any other extent improves the economic basis would be grossly unfair to condition of the American agri- domestic workers. Action is urg- cultural worker, since wages paid Douglas R. Strong ent now. 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Capital and Surplus paid in cash prior :writing business 624 LAMAR, AUSTIN GReenwood 2-0645 Hesston, Kansas Let's Abolish the Poll Tax! THE TEXAS OBSERVER Page 5 _.July 11, 1958 Think of Scrambled Eggs 'WHAT IS IT?' (Second in a series) away trees on the first Forty disciplines, literature or history, On an Arrival Acres in 1880. philosophy or law, mathematics AUSTIN AUSTIN ing against the wall looking out of Oxford is indolent, relaxing. or the sciences. Home economics, - The University of Texas, like I am going to record this epi- the bottom of his eyes down, the "Student government" does not journalism, education with a cap- just about any state university, ital E, business, all the splintered other end of the corridor. The exist. There is little zeal in stu- sode simply and briefly, without wife of the editor had been in the is America in the raw. Walk dent activities, no professionalism hankerings and crafts graced in embellishment. Many years from through its campus any time and America with degrees, will never delivery room about fifteen min- in sports; the idea of an athletic now, when things may be going you have the feel of a metropolis. utes. I offered him a Viceroy, scholarship is incomprehensible. come to Oxford. It has all the good and all the Like all rather isolated intellec- poorly for Celia Williams Dugger, which he accepted. He took two Social life is generally stale and bad: happy and rich, energetic tual communities, Oxford can and when her men friends are drab long puffs and ground it out. awkward. Women students are and young, with a fund of ambi- often does suffer from an ad- Down at the other end of the outnumbered about 10-1 and reg- and Republican, when the Suda- tion and promise, it can also be vanced preciosity of taste. In con- hall from the delivery room, ular dating is rare. There is so nese are dropping H-Bombs on cruel and compromising and con- versation there is a premium on where they bring the brand-new much leisure that foreign students lower Manhattan, may she read forming. It is the place of the the quick turn of the conversa- babies right after they are born, accustomed to alien systems do hearty perfunctory smile, the tional phrase, on the cleverisms this and note her strange begin- the nurses were washing two new not easily adjust. Oxford mellows, boisterous artificial hello, inter- cleverly said. English intellectual nings, and take heart that she arrivals who had joined us in the sometimes it ruins (it has ruined, . woven far too deeply into its life may be many things, but it last twenty minutes. The editor utterly and forever, more than a came to us as a woman of mys- social fabric are the values of the is not expansive or torrential or and I were standing equidistant few Americans), sometimes in dis- tery ... organized Greek. Of a spring eve- broadly imaginative. It may be from the room where they de- couraging, as Eugene Gant's ning you can see the fraternity sensitive, feeling, but it is a life The wife of the editor of the livered the babies and the room Mertonian professor said in "Look boys lounging about on well-kept with little intensity about it; in Texas Observer was having her where they brought them, washed Homeward Angel," the "useless lawns, or over in the tri-dorm each respect it is a world away second baby. This was Thursday them, exhibited them. enthusiasms," it does away also area, less well-kept, the blue- from that vigorous unsharpened last week. I had just finished a The editor kept leaning against with the useful ones; but there jeaned denizens of Brack and intellectual climate of the Univer- Someburger with onions and it the wall, looking out of the bot- can be few places in the world Prather, more rowdy and less sity of Texas. must have been about 7 p.m. when tom of his eyes down the hall. I that give such an honest and gracious: their considerations not Too much Oxford is too much I drove over to Seton Hospital lit a Viceroy. I became vaguely clear-sighted perspective on non- constructed on the specter of so- Oxford, and there were moments and took the elevator up to the aware, for the third or fourth sense, on trivia, on the pint-sized when the rain would never stop, maternity wing. time in my life, of the 'separate rority reprisal, nor on the en- sound and furies. For its finest trenched challenge of keeping timid irascible little rains that world of the hospital: the smell of attribute, which in exaggeration There was the editor waiting in apace with, or staying in, the "top slipped down unnoticed through drugs, the subdued sounds, the is its greatest fault, is a gentle and the long hall some distance from five." The nights pulse with youth the fog. There were moments 'secrecies, the knowing that here abiding cynicism: mostly turned the delivery room. He was lean- and sex and exuberance, the pep when my spirit was soggy and around you flesh is being treated 2 , inward, in the direction of self. It rallies and the serenades, the unmoved, when the conversations on its own terms. is cynicism with an integrity, and –dances and the basketball games, exasperated, when I had seen one There was a squeak, and I with ideals. and the blocks and blocks of too many co-eds with unshaven turned to see a nurse from the - parked cars lined in front of The intellectual standards of its legs. In those moments a simple, new-baby room wheeling a little women's dorms and sorority students must be among the high- clipped "Did you find the theater white box on wheels right toward houses just before all fair maidens est anywhere. For a young Eng- interesting this week?" would A Blind Ravine us. The editor asked her if every- must make the statutory retreat lishman, enrollment itself is a feat lower me into despair. Over con- thing was okay. She giggled and To the Editor: Indoors, in appointed defiance of to be recognized. Consequently versational tea, the curtains drawn kept on going toward the deliv- 12,000 males and the Kinsey re- there is little dead weight, little to counter the midafternoon dark, I am a reader of The Texas ery room. She 'stopped the white port on college women. This is of the intellectual driftwood so I would remember, of all things, Observer, and I can truly say that box just outside the doubledoors the University of Texas; it is like characteristic of a University of the scrambled eggs I used to get it is the best example of a peri- and went in. strong gin-and-tonic. over on the University Drag be- a Texas. Students read, and most of odical of the liberal tradition. In There was a deathly unbroken tween classes in the mornings. But Oxford is mellow, like old them think. No emphasis whatso- this age of ours when everyone silence. Not a soul stirred in the Life around those scrambled eggs port. It is quiet. It is lonely and ever is placed on memorization. accepts ideas and mores blindly corridor. I went over to the water- had its failings, but it was never old. Its buildings are falling There you are, with your books in order to conform and avoid be- cooler and took a drink. The clock stale. It was a torrent, it was ex- apart. There can be little spon- and your essays and your tutor, ing tagged as different, we need on the wall said 7:17. taneous exuberance in a climate and the product, after three years, citement and color. It was talking liberal journalism to attack this that gives you a British winter, is not very often the shoddy politics with a favored professor apathy of society. We need liberal A few minutes later the nurse where the cold goes straight to thinker. An outsider has the im- at Scholtz's. It was girls in tight writings such as those of the who had giggled walked out into the marrow, the wet soaks through pression almost from the start sweaters sitting next to you in Muckrakers and Mencken in the the corridor. \She held a white to the heart. On late darkened that these aren't people who will class. It was the one magnificent American Mercury, attacking the bundle in her arms. She casually Sunday afternoons the bells ring, someday leave with their di- lecture in twenty. It was reading conservative reaction of the 1920's. placed it in the little white box wild and terrible hymns to lone- plomas to be taken in by the .slo- Faulkner in a dirty dorm room. on wheels and rolled it back Today America is turning out liness and the years. In college gans or formulae of their adver- It was hot springtime and sun toward us again. The white box "standardized" college graduates :•quads are the sounds of echoed tisers or politicians, to read the at Barton's. And always it was came nearer and nearer. I felt I who accept almost everything footsteps, in the steps leading to best sellers, to raise their children those greasy scrambled eggs be- should stand at attention, salute, thrown at them in classroom lec- the dining halls are the deepened on television, to take salve from tween classes on the Drag. Every- something. Rolling down the hall tures. ... Many teachers, keep grooves made by two-score gene- the more medicinal philosophies time Oxford became too much Ox- slowly with its slight squeak that their ideas and attitudes on is- rations. The college I know in of living. They take away with Oxford, I thought of scrambled box was about the most porten- sues to themseves. ... In short Oxford was founded in 1379. They them a genuine intellectual eggs. WILLIE MORRIS tous thing I had ever known. we are being st peded through must have been still clearing grounding in one of the bedrock (To be continued) a blind ravine. The nurse stopped and the edi- tor walked up to the box and On economic, social, political, looked inside. "What is it?" he foreign, and other issues we just asked. She looked at her chart. TMA MAILS WOOD'S STORY seem to accept gracefully the "Why, it's a girl," she said. The, opinions advanced by our leaders. by Dallas bankers as punishment / Dallas News defends Braniff's editor asked about his wife and / The House of Representa- We are not exercising our mental for backing him "ridiculous and federal subsidies as meeting the nurse said she was fine, fine, ✓ tives is expected to be more ✓ faculties to reason out problems. offensive," said the "Big Three" "losses incurred ... but not to she thought. Then she wheeled liberal as a result of the summer We need a media of communica- bankers Yarborough referred to the profit of stockholders." the baby into the new-baby room. elections. Conservative Rep. Joe tion to stop this mania of con- were probably Mayor R. L. We watched while she took it out Burkett, candidate for speaker, is / El Paso Herald-Post calls formity. ... Even our television reported in serious trouble for Thornton, Fred F. Florence, and of the white box and 'held it by ✓ Blakley "the cowboy with the shows are running in patterns, the feet, a purplish-red little fig- re-election. Senators having seri- Ben H. Wooten. bow tie and French cuffs," says such as cartoons and westerns, ous re-election fights are Jimmy ure not two feet long crying Blakley has a perfect 2-0 labor horror and murder, soap operas heartily. Phillips, Galveston, challenged by record to Yarborough's 25-2, and and musicals. We are being Rep. Babe Schwartz, Galveston, Political Intelligence says Yarborough has an attend- molded into a standard audience. The doctor came out of the de- and George Parkhouse, Dallas, ance record of 93 percent, Blak- livery room in his white uniform who has several opponents. / Jon Ford in San Antonio Ex- ley 55 percent. ... We are in need of individ- and he and the editor talked for press says "the virtual col- ualism. We need people who can a while. But I couldn't take my I Fort Worth Star-Telegram ✓ / Oil Workers Union News in- lapse of Gonzalez's campaign" philosophically look into the fu- eyes off that baby. The nurse put columnist Sam Kinch, saying eludes a picture of Yarbor- ✓ brightens prospects for a no-run- ✓ ture of this country and the world it back in the box and wheeled it William Blakley is "No 'Republi- ough among those of 25 senators off victory for Daniel. Ford says and write a prophecy regardless over near the plate-glass window can Candidate,' " cites his vote to who voted "For the People"—to Yarborough is acceptable as sena- of what criticism it might bring. so I could see. The baby was not organize the U. S. Senate for the cut personal income taxes $50 per tor where the candidate Yarbor- crying now. She had her eyes Democrats, but acknowledges taxpayer. Sen. Johnson is not ABELARDO S. LOZANO ough would be rejected, quotes open and she was smiling. I saw that Blakley was "an Eisenhower among the 25. 1703 Monroe St., Commerce Democrat" in 1952 and 1956. Yarborough, "If I had thought the perfect little fingers, the feet there was anything to worry / Al Hieken reports from Hous- 7 The June News Bulletin of all curled and in motion, and about, I would have been home watched as she slowly lifted an ton that the Texas Manufac- ✓ the American GI Forum re- Notes ✓ long before July," but says Blak- arm upwards, as if in some deeply turers' Assn. is mailing to its prints the Observer's May 16 edi- "I find the Texas Observer a ley is gaining. conceived, calculated attempt to members reprints of the Sam torial, "The Gonzalez Candidacy." must in my life. Especially do I / H. M. Baggarly in the Tulia explore the top of the box which Wood story on DOT in the May 29 Max McClaren, Democratic appreciate it since the San An- / contained her. In the wisdom of Austin American. The TMA mail- ✓ Herald declares the labor tonio Evening News has come out ✓ chairman of Cameron County, her five minutes she seemed to be out also included COPE's ratings money spent on Yarborough's be- so blatantly for Blakley in its told the Observer by telephone on the verge of asking, well what of the main summer candidates half in 1957 "was NOT out-of- coverage and photographs ..." — this week that a majority of re- next? She put the arm on her and a newsletter calling South state money but was contributed M. Snuggs, 128 Main Plaza, San turns from his poll of county chest and smiled again. "Well I'll Carolina's three percent retail almost altogether by Texans." Antonio 5. Democratic leaders are "still be damned," I heard myself say. sales tax a "law reducing taxes / Texas Co-Op Power in the against any changes" in party "This is the year of success for The oath fogged the plate-glass on industry." V July issue rates state legis- procedures as proposed by Gov. the liberals. California here we and I rubbed it clean. I looked at / San Antonio Light, a Hearst lators on favorable or unfavor- Daniel. Daniel has proposed the able votes on "equal rights" for come."—H. C. McClellan, Joiner- her again just before I turned to paper, endorsed Blakley for election of delegates to county leave, and again she had the arm ✓ REA co-ops. ville. Senate and Ramsey for Lieuten- conventions instead of their elec- in the air, trying to find the top ant Governor. Abilene Reporter- / E. L. Wall in Houston Chroni- tion at precinct conventions. "How fitting it is that the Gov- of the box. I went to find the edi- NeWs endorsed Blakley. Beau- ✓ cle says the labor-money issue "Once we lose a privilege, we ernor should lead 'those who tor. I needed a drink very badly. strayed' back in the fold, as it mont Enterprise endorsed Ramsey. is, "Do a majority of Texas Demo- never get the privilege back, if W.M. Pro-Blakley Dallas Times-Herald crats want their party to become you watch history," McClaren was he who was the bellweather called Yarborough's accusations an adjunct of national labor or- said. "We just feel that the grass in leading them astray in 1952." THE TEXAS OBSERVER some loans were being cancelled ganizations?" roots belong with the masses." —Mrs. A. B. Creats, Austin. Page 6 July 11, 1958 Country Folks at a Watermelon Thump LULING An old woman in her church the end-an that little curl about (at the end of the long street sayin', 'Unless you catch a United Southern Pacific 417 hat carried her slice off to a pe- this long" (from thumb-joint to someone shouted, "STAY WITH States Senator with a dead woman hooted and squealed down can tree and toothed at it gin- thumb-tip, he shows) "is dead to 'EM, RALPH!") ; Miss Buda, and or a live man, you can't beat him.' the strip of rails the town of gerly, trying not to get her cheeks the vine, that melon's ready to Miss Seguin, Miss Prairie Lea, When we were meetin' on this pa- Luling grew beside ; nobody wet, facing the tree trunk gen- cut an eat." Well, I sure thank the Duchess of the Floresville rade, I asked 'em, 'Is Ike gonna noticing. teelly; two little Negro boys yuh. "Sure." Peanut Festival, and Miss Yoa- be here?' They kinda raised their stood near the table leaning for- Five boys sat on the Tower kum Tom Tom. And then, one eyebrows, and waited, and I said, On a corner across from ward over theirs, ducking their Theater marquee high above the driving a mule and plow, the 'Well, a United States Senator the bank, at a long unpainted heads into the firm fruit-flesh street, dangling their legs, talk- other driving a tractor, thus comes immediately after Ike.' table, Lions International, in dissolving into juice, coming up ing, looking down on the people. dramatizing the past and the They kinds blinked, you know ..." yellow and purple caps and earnestly with shiny jaws, squirt- Southern Pacific 417 hooted and present, "The Future Farmers of and he laughed wisely. The man shop-door smiles, were slic- ing black seeds on the tromped- squealed the other way through America, the people who'll be beside him looked down and , watermelons with ing the free over grass; four Latin children, the town; nobody noticing. carrying on this watermelon scraped his foot on the grass butchers' whacker knives. their buxom mama, their bent- thump for years to come." On the corner again Lions In- under the crepe myrtle tree, and The slices balanced there on over papa stood beside the Rainbo Senator Yarborough came back ternational in the yellow and pur- he said, "I sure hope Adlai Stev- their rinds aside each other, red, to the free melon stand and talked Bread sound truck, rinds in hand, ple cap said to a business friend enson don't run again." Patten re- wet, meaty, seed-stippled, drip- jaws busy, talking a little in to a few people there. He said he'd membered introducing a farmer ping, and the people came up, us- freeloading, "Jus eat the heart an Spanish between bites; in a car throw the rest away today," but wait for his watermelon because to Stevenson, and a week later ually. with. one. side. forward, parallel-parked a plain young he, didn't, they didn't, nobody did they wanted some pictures. "I the farmer coming up to him and sometimes in a sidewise run, to mother, melon-red lipstick and work at the polls here," a white- saying, "You know, he's a good reach their hands out across the that today: there would be some- blonde pigtails, sat with her three thing wrong about it, ungrateful. haired lady said, "and I've tallied Democrat, and I'm gonna vote for space to the table: young ones, wet seed-spattered him, but Pat, I didn't understand (But a block away you give up, your name so many hundreds of places on the pavement under the What he was talkin' about." the seeds are trouble, and drop times, I just had to shake your open car doors; an old Negro, in the bite-scalloped left into the hand." Yarborough was willing. The photographer arrived, with hard cuffs and stiff collar, sus- gutter, easily, off the retreating Commotion across the street: the local editor, to photograph Texas Events penders, and a loud blurry-colored hip.) five high school boys, four play- Yarborough eating the water- tie, walked off slowly cutting a ing string instruments, the fifth, melon, but there weren't any fresh During July dainty triangle from his slice, On the grand stand a few blocks a slight, open-faced, relaxed slices left, and the yellow and spearing it, and lifting it to his up the street the state representa- youngster, 'singing with a sagging purple caps of Lions International Calendar for the rest of July mouth daintily with a tiny pocket tive said into the harsh-blasting of his thighs, and people gathered were nowhere to be seen. Yar- around Texas: knife; microphone, "The colors of our around, packed semicircularly on borough picked up a partially July 15, 22, 29, San Antonio, Gnawed-out rinds looping high coun-try, ladies and gentlemen. the sidewalk, listening and smil- eaten slice there and (a local "Fiesta Noche Del Rio"; July 1st- overhead into the truckbed, (Pause.) Carried by members of ing to each other and patting dignitary smiling at him broadly) Aug 3, Fort Worth, exhibition, squishing as they splashed and the United States Air Force. their feet, and three young girls acted like he was taking a bite. contemporary Mexican paintings; skidded into the other wet rinds (Pause.) After that the Firechief in the store window behind them, The photographer wanted another 18, 25, Rising Star, rodeo; 7-19, there, juice dripping out of the of the Luling Fire Department. tapping their feet and flexing picture, so Yarborough ducked his Fort Worth, stage, "Can Can"; joints of the truckbed, people (Pause.) And Now the Grand their hips ,to the tune: "Well the head down into the red juicy 7-20, Dallas, stage, "Gentlemen passing: Champion of the 1958 Watermelon Mother SheDoneToleMe, The seedy meat and took a wet bite Prefer Blondes"; 12, Blanco, the Country people, fat in overalls, Thump, Marvin Moore, and E. B. Father HeToleMeToo, That Gal and the picture was snapped and American quarterhorse show and young in sports shirts, Sunday- Watts, the reserve champion, with That You Been Foolin' With She he walked off from the table calf rope; 12, Fort Worth, "Battle dressed, field-work dressed, their prize-winning blackstones. Ain't No Good for You ..." laughing. of Songs"; laughing easily, moving up and (Pause.)" The two farming men Back at the stand, standing back down the sidewalks either side of rode the cab of the long tciack Southern Pacific 417 hooted and July 15, San Angelo, Miss Wool from the talkers with Yarborough, the street. On the railroad side, bearing along on two levels oval squealed back through town, no- of Texas contest; 16-19, Snyder, talking politics with Pat Patten, in the broad grassy shaded strip green melons the size of baby body noticing; and the switchman rodeo; 17-19, Center, rodeo; 17-19, peeling the bark off the crepe between the tracks and the street, calves. There was light applause stood by his switch, switching it Comanche, rodeo; 18, Mineola, myrtle tree: toy cars with toy-like children in as they passed. Then the plump with one hand, and kicking it watermelon festival; 18-19, Glade- them, speared on long steel thump queen on the Lions Inter- "There's not one Lyndon John- down into place standing on one water, East Texas quarterhorse spokes, circling on a wooden cir- national float; Ralph W. Yarbor- son man-I mean one who can sit foot, for he needed a hand free show; 18-20, Childress, Childreso cle. "Planting long staple cotton, ough, U. S. Senator, riding the down in his kitchen an talk with from his melon, dripping from the County 70th anniversary celebra- yeah; that's our cotton." Walking back of a white Thunderbird con- him-who's not for Ralph," he is red to the gravel by the tracks. • tion; 19-20, Amarillo, water ski canes to the man who could knock vertible, applauded a little, too saying. "He's in. There's an old R.D. tourney; over the beer cans on the boards: July 21-Aug. 2, Fort Worth, Jax, Schlitz, Lone Star. "How- stage, "Carousel"; July 21-Aug. 3, dado, Geraldine!" "J i m m y, I Dallas, stage, "Guys and Dolls"; swear!" Colored ice in a pointed The Thursday Night Supper Club 23-26, Graham, Possum Kingdom paper cup; pink gauzy cotton- rodeo; 23-26, Weatherford, Parker candy, soda pop-step right up, BURNET be glad to have the aloners on At two of the cafes, TV is avail- County rodeo and livestock show; to the stand, to the faded bunting A widow in Our Town, busy their own terms, so the club ro- able to guests, but they decided 25-26, Seymour, centennial reun- red white and blue. "You ready carrying on her husband's bnsi- tates month by month. to skip it-they can see TV alone. ion and rodeo; 27, soap box derby, for your two strawberry?" "No- ness, missed most his companion- The live-aloners include a va- A business meeting was held to San Antonio; 27-Aug. 2, Monta- two grapes." "Three grapes!" ship at mealtimes. Living alone is riety of women and pasts. Some decide policies. Unanimously, they gue County, centennial celebra- "Three grapes." Under an ever- not too bad; breakfast alone is look back on pioneer honeymoons, voted down officers, by-laws, pro- tion; green tree a big farm-worn water rather nice, but there come times two are still business executives, grams, committee meetings, and tank and the sign, "Ice Water when the propped-up book or several are salaried, most of them dues. Volunteers with cars pick July 30-Aug. 2, Decatur, Wise newspaper, the carefully tuned-in are retired on small incomes. up those without, and other mem- County Old Settlers' reunion; 31, Courtesy Caldwell County Farm radio or TV, the cat. dog or bird What do they do besides eat bers serve as a telephone commit- Amarillo, Jaycees Miss America Bureau," and people-young Ne- all fail as substitutes for a family together? Talk, just talk: about tee when necessary. pageant; 31-Aug. 1, Jefferson, soil groes, young whites, free water unsegregated, too - s t an din g around the table. We have all grandchildren and pets, TV pro- Suggestions for a club name conservation jubilee; 31-Aug. 2, around it, as though to cool just been a part of a family at some grams and sports, canned biscuits were called for and fifteen were Bastrop, homecoming and rodeo; by being near it. time! and the "right" kind, movies, received, ranging from the Lone 31-Aug. 3, Bay City, fishing tour- fishing and the h.c. of 1. Cards and She-R an g e r s, the Blanktown The people in the town this nament. So our widow sat down and or- dominoes were brought to the Braves, LALI (Live alone and muggy breezy afternoon for the (Excerpted from "Texas Calen- dered a copy of How To Do Noth- meetings at first but almost no Like it), to a variety of simple melons and the parade and the dar of Events," Texas Highway ing with Nobody All Alone by one wanted to play. One mem- names. The Thursday Supper Club people. Dept.) Yourself? No, she picked up a ber showed pictures of her Ha- polled the most votes. Down the street a piece a mid- note pad and began setting down Aficionados may also note that waiian holiday the summer be- Much is being written about dle-aged farmer watched while the names of all the live-aloners there will be a primary election fore; the daughter of another in- what to do for "the senior citi- three younger men unloaded his she knew. In no time she had a on the concluding day of the Pos- vited them to bring a picnic sup- zens." It is true they have hous- melons from his tractor-pulled list of 45 names. per to her lakeside camp, twice ing problems and inflation. has hit sum Kingdom rodeo. open-slats truck into their pickup Her dining table seated eight, they adjourned to the Library to them very hard, but they are able (they tossed the melons to each IVVVVVVVVVVVVU so she selected seven from her see an art exhibit and to express to do many things for themselves. other, a ten-foot melon relay interest in National Library Week. E. S. G. team, looping them up gently, list and invited them to supper Thursday evening. When the cas- YOUR SAVINGS catching them with a give of the ious policies of insurance for serole, salad and dessert, along arms). How, dear farmer, do you LEGALS which Defendant became obli- EARN MORE with much conversation, reached gated to pay to plaintiffs the cus- tell a good melon from a poor tomary premiums thereon; that a natural stopping place, she in- Accounts melon when you thump it? He CITATION BY PUBLICATION there is a balance due on said ac- troduced her plan. "Why don't we looked away from the loading, THE STATE OF TEXAS count in the sum of $1,071.77, Insured live-aloners get together once a TO I. H. Crawford Defendant, which amount, the defendant has friendly, as this is the Luling in the hereinafter styled and failed and refused to pay to To Current week for a meal?" Watermelon Thump, and you ex- numbered cause: Plaintiffs' damage in such amount; $10,000 Rate The response was surprising. Plaintiffs further pray for at- pect strange questions from You are hereby commanded to Nominations for joiners came rap- appear before the 98th District torneys fee in the sum of $500.00, strangers today: Court of Travis County, Texas, to costs of suit and relief, general idly. One of the guests with a be held at the courthouse of said and special; "Well, depends on if it's yella- well-stocked deep freeze invited county in the City of Austin, All of which more fully appears Travis County, Texas, at or before from Plaintiffs' Original Petition meat or orangemeat. That there's the eight to come to her home 10 o'clock A. M. of the first Mol.- on file in this office and to which 4 the next Thursday, each accom- orangemeat-sweet as sugar. It's day after the expiration of 42 reference is here made; jus hard to tell. Yuh can tell panied by a new prospective days from the date of issuance If this citation is not served Per Annum hereof; that is to say, at or be- within 90 days after date of issu- somethin about it buh the thump, member. fore, 10 o'clock A. M. of Monday ance, it shall be returned un- yuh can tell somethin. If the sea- This larger group agreed that the 11th day of August, 1958, and served. son's been even an reggular. But for further expansion, they would answer the petition of plaintiff in WITNESS, 0. T. MARTIN, JR., ALICE Cause Number 110,114, in which Clerk of the District Courts of yuh take a little shower come have to meet at cafes and cof- J. C. Cochran, S. P. Kinser and Travis County, Texas. along an it'll change the melon! fee shops. They doubted they W. J. Shackelford, doing business Issued and given under my I don't know. Moist gets in there would be very welcome. Most of as Cochran-Kinser-Shackelford, a hand and the seal of said Court at SAVINGS partnership, are Plaintiffs and I. office in the City of Austin, this & Loan Association I guess." Well I guess so. "Then them had graduated from P-TA H. Crawford is defendant, filed in the 27th day of June, 1958. we get what we call tightrind: and other groups and opposed be- said Court on the 7th day of April, 0. T. MARTIN, JR. yuh thump it an it sounds green ing tied down. "We want to come 1958, and the nature of which Clerk of the District Courts, BOB MULLEN said suit is as follows: Travis County, Texas. Vice-President as a gourd, take an cut it open when we feel like it and order Being an action and prayer for By GEO. W. BICKLER, Deputy. ■ Mullen Building an it's ripe! It's hard to tell. Yuh what we please," they announced. judgment in favor of Plaintiffs and against Defendant on sworn THE TEXAS OBSERVER Alice MO 4-5446 take an when that little spoon is Three proprietors were con- account; Plaintiffs allege that dead-that little spoon comes outa sulted and indicated they would they delivered to Defendant\var- Page 7 July 11, 1958 Price Hits Labor; Henry Wants a State AEC Webb Will Go Daniel Daniel Calls DOT 'Outlaw,' Condemns 'Out-of-State Labor Rule'; Gon- In San Antonio Gov. Daniel zalez Says Party Is Democrats', Not Daniel's, Slams Lobbyists Be- condemned DOT as an "outlaw hind Governor; Blakley Says Senators 'Were Hired Only As Lawyers,' For Gonzalez minority group," "an outlaw ag- LAREDO gregation" which desires "nothing Braniff Not Subsidized; Yarborough Says He Has Been 'A Full-Time Webb County, which is 85 per but naked power to take over the Senator,' Gets Apparent Allred Backing cent Latin American, is expected Democratic Party in Texas and to go overwhelmingly for Senator deliver it to northern and eastern vites lobbyists to his home cannot speech. He was made a life mem- at San Antonio that Blakley re- Henry B. Gonzalez for governor, boses." He attacked "out-of-state avoid the stigma of being called a ber of the Texas Cowboy Reunion ported only $160 for his Longview but a row has developed on who labor rule." He asserted Mrs. R. hypocrite," Gonzalez said. "We Assn., which is open to men who rally (Obs. June 27) but that the is going to handle his campaign in D. Randolph, Texas national corn- are out to knock the L out of the have been cowboying 20 years caterer was paid $6,260 and the Laredo. mitteewoman and DOT chairman, LOT." (Blakley was a cowpuncher for total cost, including TV, was $25,- The Independent Club, which cannot "get along" with any of In another statement Gonzalez $25 a month in 1912). 000. Yarborough said "the $89,000 delivered 4,063 votes for Daniel in the duly elected Texas officials. urged establishment of a state In El Paso on TV, he said he Blakley said he spent in the cam- 1956 when he beat Ralph Yarbor- He said "hoodlums and strong arm atomic energy commission to "cor- had hired two state senators 12 or paign is in about the same ratio ough statewide by 3,000 votes, is men" marred the last state con- relate and stimulate research in 14 years ago, but only as attor- of that $160 to $25,000." not going to support Gonzalez, vention at Fort Worth. universities and industrial labora- neys. He said their association In a recorded radio broadcast but will instead remain neutral in On this same theme in Dallas, tories of Texas" on peaceful uses with him and an insurance com- Wednesday, Yarborough said he the race. The machine is also ex- Daniel said he favored retaining of atomic energy. Eventually, he pany in which he owns stock had has stayed on the job in Washing- pected to stay neutral in the sen- the state right-to-work law be- said, "the legislature will want to nothing to do with their jobs as ton "despite the campaign and all atorial race. Officially the Reform cause "it has protected rather vest in the agency authority to state senators. "They were hired the wealth against me. ... I have Party is not supporting anyone than harmed the working man." proceed with power projects for only as lawyers," he said. been a full-time senator instead either. He said he did not believe anyone the broad general welfare." He His insurance company operated of the half-time worker I replaced should have to pay tribute to hold said the plan is an instance of "the in 36 states and had never had a up here.", This was a slam at Efforts were made to set up a his job. kind of vision we have not had complaint filed against it any- Blakley's absences on roll call bi-partisan Gonzalez for Governor He said there also he "will not in state government since Jimmy where, he said. votes when he was an interim committee made up of members advocate any new taxes until and Allred." Blakley said Braniff Airways is senator. from each party, but the Inde- unless I am convinced they are Gonzalez accused Daniel of "the not subsidized by the federal gov- At the GI Forum convention in pendent Club members would not needed, and until we have ap- vilest kind of hypocrisy" opposing ernment but is paid only for serv- Corpus, federal judge James All- agree to this. Instead two commit- plied every possible economy and federal aid to education, said "I ices rendered. The El Paso red, former governor, was photo- tees were formed. One is obvi- received reports from the tax am for federal aid to education," Herald-Post had reported Braniff graphed shaking hands with Yar- ously made up of members of the study commission." and added, "the incumbent gov- has received more than $10 mil- borough, his other arm around Reform Party and the Kazen At the bar convention in San ernor may want to produce a lot lion in federal payments the six the senator. His son Sam Houston group and the other is Independ- Antonio Daniel criticized reversals of intellectual paupers—I do not." years since Blakley has been on Allred joined Yarborough's cam- ent Club managed. The Reform- of criminal convictions on techni- In Fort Worth, Gonzalez said the board of directors. paign. Yarborough said Gov. Dan- Kazen committee jumped the gun calities (blaming "antiquated Daniel is a "smugwump, a smug Blakley said in the last Senate iel is a Republican and Allred was and released the committee names laws," not judges) and said "there smugwump," publicly smug about campaign some $28,000 was sent the "last Democratic governor this and plans for a Gonzalez rally exists a very dangerous and grow- his chances but actually not sure into the Yarborough campaign by state has had." He commended the July 12 a day ahead of the date ing disrespect for the law." enough of himself to discuss is- out-of-state organizations and Forum as having come of age. He agreed on by both groups. He said he had opposed Alas- sues. In Houston, promised by a added he has "no doubt that the slammed Blakley for Braniff's Rep. Oscar Laurel, Dist. Judge kan statehood as a U. S. senator same thing was going on now." subsidies, saying his attitude is E. D. Salinas, Honore Ligarde, A. because it is non-contiguous ter- He said he decided to run for to "give to the big companies but R. Sanchez, L. P. Botello, and ritory with few people—"also be- the Senate because he felt he see that the people don't get any." Conrado G. Centeno announced, cause the land area is entirely too owed Texas a debt of gratitude The Campaigns In Dallas Yarborough told 100 in a message to the Observer, the large." Texas 'has been the big- and could best pay it by service campaigners they face "a coali- formation of their committee for gest state for 113 years, Daniel in the Senate. tion of bankers, press, and preju- Gonzalez. Salinas is a member of said; he challenged Alaska to beat Early last week in San Antonio dice." "Hitlerism in the money- the state Democratic executive the record. Negro leader a bloc vote, he re- Blakley had said he favors a na- markets is not going to buy this committee. Laurel said Gonzalez Daniel said he will urge the sponded, "I do not want votes for tional right-to-work law. "I don't election," he told "the Big Three has "the great leadership, moral next legislature to raise the mini- a bloc except on one basis an think union dues should be bankers of Dallas." He said a coa- and intellectual qualities to make mum penalty for dope peddlers affirmation of my positive and checked off a man's pay check," lition of many many splinter Texas the best governor in his- to five years. He recommended constructive program for all citi- he said, adding that dues pay- groups will "show Bill Blakley tory, if elected." and had enacted a maximum pen- zens of Texas." A Negro associa- ments should be voluntary. who the majority of voters really Sen. Abraham Kazen, Laredo, alty of death last session. tion of beauty culturists and ton- Maco Stewart, president of the are." The Adams-Goldfine scan- He said in Austin he is con- has not stated his position on the sorial artists endorsed Gonzalez, Young Democrats of Texas, dal will not be the only one un- vinced "of the patent weaknesses governor's race as yet. George Nokes, John White, Edwin charged that a political ad ad- covered "where White House of the federal case" against the Smith, and Sarah Hughes in their dressed to Jerry Holleman of the visits were arranged for persons Texas tidelands claim, predicted races, and decided on only "token AFL-CIO and signed "Political against whom FTC complaints for Texas will win "its full three- support" for Yarborough. advt. paid for by James H. Blun- false advertising were pending," league ownership," and said David Halpenny denied to the dell and Young Democrats of he said. (Blakley and then-Gov. Laredo Report Texas claims seem good enough Observer Gonzalez's statement the Texas" had "clearly pirated the Allan Shivers visited Eisenhower for everybody except ex-Atty. (Continued from Page 1) Halpennys quit the Gonzalez cam- name of our organization." Blun- in 1956 when an FTC complaint Gen. Brownell, his successor, "and nored the Independent Club's paign because Halpenny was dell responded "ridiculous," said was pending against a Blakley some of my opponents in the gov- campaign. miffed he had not been made the reference had meant only that firm.) Kazen asked for a Court of In- ernor's race." campaign manager. Mrs. Hal- the Democrats in question were John McKee, Dallas Blakley He mailed a 16-page statement quiry and reviewed poll tax vio- penny in a letter to the Observer young, and said that a lot of manager, said the Yarborough to a Senate committee urging lation evidence that Reform Party further denying the "scurvy" young Democrats are not mem- charge bank loans were cancelled mandatory oil import restrictions. workers had gathered during the charge, asked why Gonzalez did bers of the YD's of Texas, "just against his opponents was "just April 1 city election. not list the $185 the Halpennys as a lot of Democrats are not iden- one of many unfounded and un- Gonzalez contributed to his filing fee. tified with DOT." reliable remarks make by a man THE SECOND most important battle the Independent Club is in- Sen. Henry Gonzalez charged who is desperate," "a malicious, volved in is for the post of county the governor is lining up lobbyist Blakley Yarborough misleading untruth." He chal- judge, in which the late M. J. support to become "dictator of the lenged Yarborough to name In a statewide broadcast from In Eastland at a peanut grow- Raymond developed into one of Democratic Party in Texas" and names. Houston, William Blakley asked ers' convention Senator Ralph the most powerful South Texas in general took after Daniel on In Houston, Yarborough re- union members if they approved Yarborough said Blakley is political bosses ten years ago. the issue of party control. He said iterated his support of the 27.5 the $75,000 contribution of union "against subsidies for farmers" Daniel called a number of known percent oil depletion allowance at funds to the NAACP "made by and that in the last six years, the The Martin faction is support- lobbyists to the governor's man- an oilmen's coffee. He also said Walter Reuther in 1954" and said total subsidy to peanut growers ing incumbent Carlos I. Palacios, sion and that they were asked to any mandatory oil imports con- this source of NAACP funds also in six southwestern states has who was given the job by Judge supply money for the party con- trol plan must include limitations Raymond. Bitterly opposing Pa- contributed to his opponent. Part been $6 million, while Braniff, in on the inflow of products as well trol fight. of the $75,000 was used to finance which Blakley is a major stock- lacios is tall, Hollywood-handsome In Corpus Christi, first at a as crude—an expansion of his pro- Robert M. Benavides, who says he "law suits by NAACP against the holder, had received $10 million. tectionist position on oil imports. rally of 250, then at the GI Forum free operation of your local pub- "The subsidies to Braniff Air- was promised Palacios's job by convention, Gonzalez said when the machine but was kicked out lic school districts," he said. He ways have been a $667,000 profit Other Races Daniel had a chance to win the asked where Yarborough was to my opponent. I don't think the of the Independent Club when he tidelands as a senator `she was so "when the Southern senators met people will want a senator in Dallas County GOP chairman jumped the gun and announced inefficient and so mediocre that to formulate plans to protect the Washington who would be voting Maurice Carlson urged conserva- for the post before the club indi- he couldn't even prepare a bill to sovereignty of the state and tra- big subsidies for himself," Yar- tives in Dallas to forget Blakley cated whom it was supporting. keep the federal government from ditions of the South." borough said in Eastland and in and vote for Rep. Bruce Alger The Reform Party is running Paul coming back to take over," then Beaming his remarks at Texas broadcasts. against Grover Cantrell in GOP H. Young, a mild-mannered, slow- "rat-tailed it out of the Senate" union men, Blakley asked Yar- Asked at a press conference primaries. "Conservatives in No- talking automobile dealer who before the tidelands matter "came borough to "affirm or deny that about his votes on civil rights vember will have a real conserva- helped finance the Free Press, a back to slap him in the face." he is the candidate of the labor and other matters, Yarborough tive to support against Ralph Yar- Laredo anti-Independent Club "We must preserve our Ameri- bosses headquartered in Detroit, replied: borough," Republican nominee weekly. Roy Whittenburg, Carlson said. can ideals in the face of the on- Pittsburgh, Cleveland, New York, "Only five Texas congressmen All the political activities in slaught of bigots and hate-mong- and Washington and elsewhere." voted opposite the way I did on Cantrell said Alger is the U. S.'s Webb County point to one certain "worst" congressman and cast the ers—those who are trying to per- "I think you are being sold down civil rights. On the labor laws, the fact: the Independent Club doesn't only vote in Congress against the petuate the myths of superiority," the river by those who would try 23 votes I cast were identical with have a monopoly in the campaign- he said. to use you, if they can, as politi- those of Sen. Lyndon Johnson. school milk program. Cantrell ing any more. In Houston Gonzalez said DOT cal pawns," he said. Citing the ... I voted with the Democratic threatened to go to court to re- had not endorsed him and the McClellan committee, he said "the Party stand. My opponent is just quire the GOP to hold primary elections in every Dallas precinct. Incumbent agriculture commis- only group controlling his candi- unions have, through mismanage- trying to cover up the fact that sioner John White said he had re- dacy is "POT—People of Texas." ment, borrowing, and theft, lost he is still wearing his Ike button. Rep. A. R. Schwartz charged fused to be cross-filed in 1952 and his senator-opponent Jimmy Phil- Daniel is making strong overtures approximately $10 million in ... Would he have voted with the has consistently worked for Dem- to "the LOT—the Lobbyists of union dues money." Republicans on such matters as lips of Angleton was "influenced" ocratic policies. Texas," he said. "Any man who Blakley campaigned two days labor and civil rights?" by his connections with various claims to have supported a strong at the 28th annual Texas Cowboy Yarborough took the offensive insurance companies. Phillips said THE TEXAS OBSERVER lobby control bill and then in- Reunion but did not make a on campaign spending, charging Schwartz is "grasping at straws." Page 8 July 11, 1958