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Vol. 48 , OCTOBER 31, 1956 l Oc per copy No. 28 The Battle of the Files Adlai Tide Hits SAN ANTONIO Turbulence "I talked to Truett and he said and TEMPLE Payment of Bills Snagged; there was some money," Skelton Demo Trend in Texas Mrs. Kathleen Voigt is ig- said. But Skelton would not say noring a request from the when the 'bills might be paid. Seems To Stall, Eddy Johnson-Daniel coalition that Mrs. Voigt Ignores Demand Since Smith is waiting for Skel- AUSTIN she turn over to them the ton and Mrs. Voigt to reach an Who will win Texas No- valuable Democratic files in rector at the May convention af- I wouldn't do anything more for agreement, there is an impasse vember sixth, Eisenhower or her possession, and probably ter she had sided with the John- Stevenson and Kefauver if they'd during which Mrs. Voigt is under Stevenson? Last week - the because of this, payment of son leadership on a major con- just pay the bills." pressure from the bill collectors. some bills she incurred on vention issue. Mrs. Voigt said the account in earlier tide to Stevenson sud- behalf of t h e Democrats question contains "a couple thou- Skelton expressed disapproval denly became turbulent, and Mrs. Voigt had incurred bills of a form letter he had just re- a serious concern that was in while she was still in the through Oct. 1 which she felt she sand dollars." good graces of Senator Lyn- "Here it is almost November ceived from Mrs. Voigt which he some cases discouraged in- had to pay before turning over said seemed to be "devoted prin- vaded the Democratic forces don Johnson is snagged. the funds requested. She ignored first and they aren't paid yet," The Observer has learned that she said. "Bills ought to be paid." cipally to knocking the campaign of the state. Eisenhower peo- the request for the files. But we're trying to run out of Aus- ple seemed to take heart. Byron Skelton, the Democratic when she sent the invoices to Mrs. Voigt has practically inac- national committeeman, wrote tivated her state office and is tin." "I think a lot of Kathleen Warren Woodward, executive Smith, he replied that he would ... and I hate to see her doing Mrs. Voigt Oct. 1 asking her to not co-sign them until she and working in the local San Antonio director of the Stevenson-Kefau- some of these things," he said. " Senator turn over her equipment and files Skelton worked out the entire campaign. She said she wrote ver campaign under . and the political funds she had matter. Skelton she was "shocked" she In the foreground of the dis- Johnson and Governor-nominate in the bank account set up for wasn't to be allowed to work in Daniel, issued a cautious forecast. The result is that the bills are agreement are "the files." Col- the Texas Democratic campaign, the state campaign. He said the side which gets its not paid.' Mrs. Voigt felt she had lected over a , number of years, of which she had been the state Skelton said from Temple: voters out to the polls will win, to settle somehow with two sec- they include records from cam- organization director until John- "I don't want anygOdy not to and that the trend now seems to retaries she had employed in the paigns for and son, Speaker Sam Rayburn, and work for the ticket, I want every- favor the Democrats. state office, so she borrowed $500 the Stevenson - Sparkman ticket, Senator Daniel purged her at the body to work. But at the same from her family's funds and- paid from Democratic Digest activities, Woodward thinks. that heavier September convention. time I am aware it has created them, releasing them as of Oct. from county leaders and the support for the Stevenson-Kefau- Skelton also sent a copy of this some confusion." Democratic Advisory Council, ver ticket in Central and East letter to Truett Smith of Wylie. 15. The other bills—rent and tele- He said he wrote Mrs. Voigt phones principally, as well as and from. ten or fifteen other lib- Texas rural counties, a "big When Smith was treasurer and that "we needed the money and some hotel costs—are still out- eral organizations like the Social switch" on the South Plains and Mrs. Voigt executive director of files, the names and nameplates, standing. arid Legislative Conference. in Southwest Texas, and "Repub- the Democratic Advisory Council, it was time to get the campaign lican losses and apathy in the In San Antonio, 'Mrs. Voigt the active loyalist organization under way. I asked them to de- Mrs. Voigt isn't talking about large cities" will contribute to a said: until the May convention, they liver whatever money they had these index cards, address plates, heavy rural and nonmetropolitan. co-signed checks for the loyal- "Byron is taking the responsi- and deliver or make available the and assorted . intelligences; but Democratic majority, "possibly ists' operation. This practice was bility for this, but I don't think files. She has made no move she isn't moving them out of her amounting to a runaway." carried over when Mrs. Voigt he is responsible .... I even whatever to do either, and that's offices in San Antonio, either. .In the major cities he foresees was named state organization di- wrote to Truett and told him that . where it stands. Therein lies the zto1.7. Democratic majorities in "two, possibly 'three" cases. His city forecasts: Dallas, the GOP major- ity will be lighter; Fort Worth, NAACP Is Closed Down in Texas the Democrats will do better TYLER "I u e s s you'd say we're than in 1952; San Antonio, a "siz- Negroes rising in a court- The Judge and John Ben friends," he said. "John Ben was able Democratic edge is possible"; room to talk back to white born and reared in Gladewater. Houston, "if it's even close, the men ... this is an unfamiliar I was born and reared between state will go Democratic." thing here. And the white Were Friends in Boyhood Gladewater and Big Sandy, five Governor Shivers firmly pre- people didn't take it very miles west of Gladewater. I've dicts an Eisenhower majority well. The juices of prejudice order w h i c h immediately I took some study at "DePriest Law known John Ben "since he was a again. He says that three weeks came to the surface, as when closes down the NAACP, its School," run by a Mr. DePriest in boy. Our family never visited his ago a lot of people wouldn't give the judge's secretary, rushing legal arm, and all hundred Dallas, and worked in a law office family, and his family never vis- a dime for Eisenhower's chances through an anteroom to the and twelve local chapters in in Fort Worth. He never went to ited ours; only on one occasion in the state but that now the tide court trying to get things Texas, prohibiting the col- college, but he became a lawyer I've ever been in his house. His is running the other way. done before the judge read lection of dues, the filing of by his own work, and in 1938 he daddy had a hardware store in Senator Johnson says the Dem- his verdict, exclaimed, "My lawsuits, and even applica- was appointed city attorney in Gladewater, and we'd go into ocrats will carry the state, but it timing's like a nigger's tion at any time in the future Gilmer. Coke Stevenson made town and trade, and I got to know will be a "tough battle." watch." In this same room a for permission to re-enter the him a district judge in 1942, and MRS. R. D. RANDOLPH, chair- middle-aged but whitehaired state, he has never had an opponent for man. of the Stevenson-Kefauver, man in fine khaki clothes told The judge, Otis Dunagan, was re-election. Ronnie Dugger campaign in Harris County and a white woman, "I want to willing to chat in his office after A reporter said to him that it the state's Democratic national get in there and tell him if giving his decision. He quit high had surprised some people that John Ben. And when. our schools committeewoman, said fro in his decision doesn't suit us school at 14 and took a job, but Ram Ben Shepperd, the Texas at- were playing ball, I'd see him, Houston that Harris County is he better not ever come back he went back five years later and torney general, had taken this that's all. ... We're not any kin, "tough." to Wood County." "He better got his diploma. He was a state NAACP suit all the way to Tyler. though! Some people have said "They're doing a tremendous leave Texas," the lady said representative from Upshur and There had been talk that the we're related, and that's not amount of work among our Ne- back. Camp counties for two terms judge and the prosecutor were true." groes. We know the Republicans The man didn't get in to ; starting in 1932, and while he was good friends. Judge Dunagan " Talk ranged to other subjects— have paid workers out there," she see the judge, but the deci- in Austin he studied law at the seemed to breathe deep for a the paneling of mahogany ,in the said. sion suited him : a temporary ; university law library. He also moment as he faced the question. airy, high-ceiling courtroom, the "The money is being poured out walnut used in his office book by the other side," Mrs. Ran- cases and his desk. And what dolph said. "We feel pretty good about politics? "I supported Ei- about the outlook. The closed cir- G. PARR, INTERESTED SPECTATOR senhower in 1952," he allowed; he cuit rally did a good deal for our hasn't said this year. morale. And I think the rural dis- NEW BRAUNFELS thousands of dollars of school for' fictitious expenses. Some Then he had something he tricts are in pretty good shape. If George B. Parr squirmed. funds. were payroll checks made out to wanted everybody to understand. work can do it, we'll win, but From his seat near the Heras said that at Parr's in- non-existent persons; others went "This decision don't mean I've that's all we've got is work, it's front of the courtroom he struction he had written between to business firms for non-exist- got it against the Negro," he said. hard here against the newspapers 300 and 1,200 fictitious checks on listened intently, pinning the ent supplies or services, Heras "This case isn't a case against the and the money." man in the witness chair with the school district, had cashed said. nigger race. It don't keep 'em Mrs. Kathleen Voigt, who was an owl-eyed stare. Then the them at Parr's Texas State Bank Parr, at first leaning back in his from filing a law suit as individ- purged from the state executive ruddy - complexioned, soft- at Alice, and then had given Parr seat at the front of the courtroom, uals .... committee by the Johnson-Ray- spoken political boss shifted sat forward as Percy Foreman, "I don't want anybody to think burn-Daniel coalition at the Fort uncomfortably and whispered noted criminal attorney, chopped I've got anything against the nig- Worth convention, has been con- low in the ear of the swarthy Bob Bray, at the witness on cross examina- gers. I've got a. lot of nigger centrating on San Antonio. How- man at his side, his constant tion. Foreman quickly developed friends .... I'm not one to mis- ever, she sent out 2,200 letters to companion. The swarthy one the money. He admitted being an Heras's admission that he had treat the niggers. I've been as county leaders asking that Adlai nodded in reply. accomplice to the offense but de- been a party to the conspiracy. fair to nigger defendants as the Stevenson be brought into the In the witness chair, Diego nied he got any of the money. He brought out that some 15 of next man .... It's true it (the state and Ralph Yarborough be Heras, a former acting secretary Under examination by District the state's exhibits, purportedly NAACP) is an organization for allowed to speak at the rallies. of the Benavides School district Attorney Sam Burris of Alice, fictitious checks, had been stolen the nigger people, but after all, As for San Antonio, Mrs. Voigt and one-time employee of Parr's, Heras testified that he had writ- from the Benavides school district three-fourths of its directors are said: told the jury he had helped the ten many checks (which the state office by Heras. white people." "We're not going to carry Bexar notorious Duke of Duval steal estimated to total over $103,000) (Continued on Page 4) (Continued on Page 5) (Continued on Page 4) Let those flatter who fear, it is not an American art. 'Oh, It Has a Certain Charm — 300,000 Votes' —JEFFERSON

noveinter Sixth, • For the good of the country and trol of the Shivercrat group. John- the world, we hope you will go to son, Rayburn, and Daniel did it, and the booth next Tuesday and vote for to some extent diffusion of the Dem- Adlai Stevenson and Estes Kefau- ocratic cause was inevitable there- ver. after. The liberals then knew they The Texas campaign for the could not trust the Johnson-Daniel Democrats has not been a good cam- headquarters with their organiza- paign. Working Democrats are tired tional files. out after an apparently interminable Many liberals tried to make the political season. The Johnson-Dan- best of it and work through the iel effort out of Austin has been Johnson - Daniel headquarters, and clamorously indecisive. Johnson and there has been some fruitful co-op- Rayburn advised Stevenson aides eration. But the damage was done. (so reports Jack Bell of the AP out For lack of finances the loyalist files of Chicago) that Stevenson need of many years have not been used not come to Texas because it's in the fully by the liberals ; for lack .of bag for the Democrats. It is not in trust they have not been turned over the bag ; or, if it was, the bag has to the Johnson-Daniel coalition. sprung a leak in the last two weeks, Johnson served his party well in and it will take all hands to keep it bringing so many Democratic sena- from splitting disastrously. tors into the state to plug for the In our opinion, the first thing that Stevenson-Kefauver ticket. On went wrong was the Fort Worth the other hand, the failure of Johnson convention. The irreducible stric- and Rayburn to insist on a visit by ture that Lyndon Johnson must Stevenson, coupled with the last- bear because of his behavior there is minute Eisenhower visit, is unnerv- that he was not sufficiently con- ing. Apparently Johnson's theory is cerned about a Stevenson victory in that Adlai isn't popular in Texas. Texas to forego the satisfactions of This theory springs in major part his vengeance. Hundreds of legally Bartlett Appears Exclusively in the Texas Observer from the equivocal nature of John- elected delegates and, behind them, son's own liberalism. It was a mis- the hundreds of thousands of people take, and a serious one. they represented were disfranchised Against all these local blunders The Listening Post to keep the Texas party in the con- there is the miserable record of the .... The Texas Federationist, offi- the moron vote. In it he listed the bat- Republicans since 1952—their neg- cial publication of the Texas State tle casualties from a group of wars of lect of the. farmers, the small busi- Federation of Labor, AFL - CIO, his own selection. He charged 1,464,- AniA nessmen, the school children, and headlined its lead story this month: 888 of these casualties to the Demo- the urban slum dwellers, and their "Key to 'Victory: Vote Straight crats and 0 to the Republicans. Appar- This, sophistry from solicitude for bankers, moneylend- Demo" and announced a get-out-the- ently this included every military man vote drive. about 'his Senate resignation is ers, stockholders, and billion dollar. who so much as stumped his toe .... drawing our patience thin ; and the corporations. There is the fact that .... Carter Wesley, publisher of What alternative did the American people's. We do not accuse him of a Texans trust the Democratic Party Houston Informer, a newspaper for government have in 1917 and 1941 but deal with , because he far more than the Republican to Negroes, has endorsed Eisenhower on to go to war? Any sixth grader knows says he really meant to prevent safeguard their interests. And there grounds Southerners dominate the the answer. We didn't fire the first Shivers from naming his successor, is the fact that many Texans have Democrats. Copies of the paper are shot. switched from Eisenhower to Stev- being distributed in the major Negro but he has beyond doubt played into voting areas of the state. Strangely enough, Grady didn't in- the Governor's hands with ghastly enson, while we have yet to hear of clude the Civil War or the Spanish precision. Shivers, of course, has no one who has switched from Steven- .... Archer Fullingim, editor and American War in his carefully se- intention of regarding the iffy Dan- son to Eisenhower. publisher of the Kountze News, ex- lected list. Both were fought during iel letter as a resignation and will With good hope in a good cause plains why he is going to vote for Republican administrations. call an election when he pleases. We Texas Democrats will work down Price Daniel for governor November 6th. To wit: What would you have done, Grady, believe and assert that Daniel is now to the last hour of election day for had you been President on Dec. 7, morally obligated to submit a new what they believe in. LC 1941? resignation effective at once. He When you voted in the first and 99 primised the voters solemnly that no second primaries during the summer., one would appoint his successor. rphan, .garm the first thing you saw on the ballot .... The Observer erred n this de- But for that promise he would have O was this pledge: 'I'm a Democrat and partment last week in a report that The GOP Assistant Secretary of I promise to support the nominees of Barefoot Sanders might contest the been defeated for governor. If lie this primary.' T hen before you does not resign at once lie will be Agriculture came down to Texas to speakership next session with Rep. slipped your ballot in the box you . Sanders is support- open to the charge that he did not tell the farmers to get back to good signed your name on the reverse side old individualism and stop looking ing; Carr, is a candidate for speaker in take the most obvious course of ac- of the stub. That means you took the the 1959 session. tion to prevent Shivers from nam- for complete security. What he pledge. If you scratched the pledge, ing his successor—did, in fact, prac- really means is, go back to your hoe, your vote was not legal and should Thad Hutcheson, the GOP tically invite Shivers to hold off the plant what we tell you, and don't have 'not been counted, according to candidate for the Senate, • told Express acceptance of the resignation and produce too much while we let the caw. That pledge you took and signed columnist Paul Thompson in San An- put in some crony. Daniel is not giv- factory farms flood the market. with your own name was your word tonio: starvation of honor that you must support the ing Texans "the freest possible When you get stuck with "`Latest rumor around Houston is choice" in naming his successor by prices, then it's time for you to be an Democratic nominees in the general election, Nov. 6. that Shivers wants to appoint Wright any means, and he already has too individual. Meanwhile, with the Morrow to the Senate. It sounds many handicaps as he prepares to election so near and all, we'll send So although it will kill my soul to goofy, I know, but the report conies take over the governorship to over- you a little drouth aid, just to be have to vote for Daniel Nov. 6, I've from sources so reliable that I'm look any step by which he might friendly. After the election, then got to do it. I'd like to black his name scared to death." avoid further accusations and bit- you can be an individual again, the out and write in the name of Pappy O'Daniel, and I have toyed with the terness. better to be crushed, my dear. .... GOP Senate candidate Jesse idea of doing just that but when it Oppenheimer called Henry Gonzalez, comes down to it I know that I could- the Democratic nominee for the job n't. I've got to live up with the pledge. from Bexar County, a "leftist." Op- Zir Touts Ottorrurr Another reason why all loyal Dem- penheimer said at a debate at Trinity ocrats can't write in Pappy, why they University that a leftist is a "creeping 6 must hold their nose and vote for socialist." Gonzalez turned on Oppen- Daniel, and it is this : The number of Incorporating The State Observer, combined Staff contributors: Franklin Jones, Marshall ; heimer and demanded if he thought with The Democrat , New Waverly ; Rob- delegates each Texas county is entitled ert G. Spivak, Washington, D.C. ; John Igo, San Gonzalez a communist. Oppenheimer Ronnie Dugger. Editor and General Manager Antonio ; Edwin Sue Goree. Burnet ; Drew Pear- to is decided on the votes for the said, quickly and loudly, "No." It was Bob Bray, Associate Editor son, Washington, D.C. ; and others. Democratic nominee for governor ; Sarah Payne, Office Manager Staff cartoonist : Don Bartlett, Austin. Car- a good thing, Gonzales indicated. toonists : Bob Eckhardt, Houston ; Etta Hulme, for every 400 votes cast for Daniel OBSERVER MAILING ADDRESS Houston. 604 West 24th St., Austin, Texas we will get a delegate to the Demo- 'Oppenheimer has admitted the Re- We will serve no group or party but will hew cratic state convention. publicans wouldn't have put up a can- ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVE hard to the truth as we find it and the right as SJA Associates we see it. We are dedicated to the whole truth, 9, didate if conservative incumbent 0. P.O. Box 2246, Capitol Station, Austin, Texas to human values above all interests, to the rights Published once e week from Austin, Texas. of man as the foundation of democracy ; we will E. Latimer had been renominated. Delivered postage prepaid $4 per annum. Adver- take orders from none but onr own conscience, .... H. M. Baggarly, editor of the Gonzalez is a solid favorite to win. tising rates available on request. Extra copies 10c and never will we overlook or misrepresent the Tulia Herald up on the Plains, dem- each. Quantity orders available.. truth to serve the interests of the powerful or cater to the ignoble in the human spirit. onstrated rather conclusively that he Entered as second-class matter April 26, 1937, .... Dallas Democrats who were at the Post Office at Austin, Texas, under the MAILING ADDRESS : 504 West 24th St., Aus- is not "beholden to his advertisers." act of March 8, 1879. tin, Texas. Ouoth he, in his weekly column : expected to promote the Dallas closed Staff correspondents: Ramon Garces, Laredo; EDITORIAL AND BUSINESS OFFICE: 504 circuit broad-cast rally received the Clyde Johnson, Corsicana ; Mike Mistovich, West 24th St, Austin, Texas. tickets for the program only four Bryan ; Jules Loh, Central Texas ; Jack Morgan, TELEPHONE in Austin : GReenwood 7-0746. Port Arthur ; Dan Strawn, Kenedy ; Al Heiken, Grady Briggs ran an ad in this pa- days in advance, a Dallas source who Houston ; and reporters in San Antonio, Dallas, HOUSTON OFFICE : 2501 Crawford St., Hous- El Paso, and Big Spring. ton, Mrs. R. D. Randolph, treasurer. per last week apparently directed at was involved reports. 'And Maybe Something Could Be Done About His TEXAS Mc CA RTHYISM Bombshells, Too' • AUSTIN • Adlai's H-Bomb Proposal Journal that W. P. Hurst, chairman N In battle Allan Shivers always of the Gregg County "Democrats for \.`4C.' flashes his knife blade. He is a swift Flushes the Night-Fighters Eisenhower," as Texas Republicans f q,f - "!(‘ siEvrNsok, and stealthy fighter, and the support style themselves, said the Bulganin ----guilt by similar ideas. "Premier endorsement of Stevenson's idea. tk.B°418 Nicolai Bulganin gave Adlai Stev- Bulganin ... and Stevenson share the shows how Stevenson has been work- VZOPOS,44 -enson's proposal for a mutual cessa- same views, apparently, and their only ing hard for "the Communist vote." tion of the hydrogen bomb tests . dispute is over which one of them Surely, some reporter had made a gave him the chance lie needed—a . 1 11.7 'if thought of it first," he said. If this mistake; surely even in Gregg County ),. darkened stage of quick flitting kind of smear became commonplace, such a calumny could not be seriously shadows. agreement between the U. S. and Rus- advanced. But how much more startling to sia would be forever forestalled and Comes to our desk an editorial in find a daily newspaper, a former con- the unthinkable war would be una- that newspaper, on the front page, gressman, and Mrs. Oveta Culp Hob- voidable. "Who's [_sic] Line is Showing?" ; and by, a former member of the Presi- Mrs. Hobby was milder, but no less all doubt is dispelled. It said : dent's official family, using the same direct in her intent. "This plan has "Ever since Adlai Stevenson first tactics. Not in recent years has Texas met with warm endorsement in Mos- threw out the line advocating the suffered a more frightening outbreak cow—and well it might," she said. renounce testing of the of McCarthyism. Just as the GOP When President Eisenhower' was be- H-bomb, there has been cause for sus- Senate candidate, Thad Hutcheson, ing embraced by the Russians at Gen- picion and wonder - about the origin of could not resist falling in with the Re- eva, Mrs. Hobby did not take offense. this idea. Just who's 'line'. is this, any- Daily for Adlai! publican demagoguery that the Demo- It is, however, a different matter way? .... The answer to this import- crats are a "war party," so these lead- when a Democrat's idea gets a friend- ant question. now appears to have ers of the Eisenhower campaign in ly, reception in Moscow. come out—out of Russia, that is Hurry, Hurry, Hurry! Texas could not resist such an oppor- Ben Guill, the ex-congressman, said With Stevenson and Bulganin appar- tune chance to land a blow below the at Fort Worth that "The Daily ently walking the same 'line' arm-in- (Contrary to most of the Texas belt. Worker has come out for Mr. Steven- arm .... Shades of Alger Hiss !" dailies, which are bowing and Shivers called the idea for halting son's point of view. I'm glad they're To clinch its noble point, the Long- scraping their way into the mon- the H-bomb tests "the Bulganin-Stev- on his side." The ever-helpful Dallas view Morning Journal (mark the eyed Eisenhower camp as usual, enson plan." "Good old Adlai and News inserted the explanation, after name; it is worth marking) says that the Abilene Reporter-News is for Nicolai," he said. the name of the Worker : "(New Estes Kefauver "worked and voted in the Democrats, as it announced in Not content with a simple slander, York Communist newspaper)", Congress in ways that interfere(1 .,yith the editorial here excerpted.-- Shivers advanced a doctrine much At first we were incredulous when or prevented the unmasking of Com- Ed.) more vicious than guilt by association we read in the Longview Morning munists." This is without doubt the most low- The Abilene Reporter-News wishes down and dirty-minded political edi- to announce that it favors the election The Stump torial we have ever read in any news- of a Dethocratic administration in the paper other than many we have seen election on Nov. 6. ... Ike and Village Drunks call the earth. And I don't think that in the Dallas News and the Chicago the Creator is particularly proud' of Tribune. It is a slander on two splen- In common with millions of Ameri- To the Editor : this Little Shepperd who cries "de- I want to tell you your editorial, "A did Americans and on the Democratic cans of all shades of political opinion, mocracy" out of one side of his mouth Party, a slander shared by Governor we admire and respect Dwight D. Broken Record," (Observer, Oct. 24) and "bigotry" out of the other. was a classic. It has needed to be Shivers, Mrs. Hobby, ex-Rep. `Guill, Eisenhower, as a man and general. BILL STALN AKER and every other person who takes part brought into the open for four years, 4727 Arvilla Lane, Houston But we can't have Ike without get- but of course few Texas papers would in it even by failure to protest it. ting a Republican administration with ever do it. Rah for Ralph! If this is what the "Democrats for him, and Mr. Eisenhower, as befits Of all the "hogwash" that, has ever To the Editor : Eisenhower" are driven to in Texas—

the beneficiary of that party's support, . been handed out to _ us since Mr. Ei- ... Judge Ralph Yarborough has this trucking in the noxious excres- has made it abundantly clear that he senhower went into politics, this cences of muck-.smearing imaginations is a sincere and convinced Republican, clone more for the Democrats of theme that Eisenhower is a better Texas than any other person since our —they must be desperate indeed. that he owes his fealty to that party, Democrat than Stevenson is the most that his administration if re-elected constitution was founded .... Wake For advancing an idea at once hope- ridiculous. Ike is the most partisan ful, practical, and high-minded, Adlai will pursue the same policies as in the up loyalists and support Judge 'Yar- President we have ever had. I am re- borough for U. S. Senator. (He is) Stevenson is subjected to such treat- past. • minded of a remark he made right the only one who has proven himself ment as this. It is a thing to forget as We believe this administration has after he was nominated in 1952 ... over and over to be the loyal one. soon as possible, even as it is also a bungled our foreign policy under John and I quote : "Back in Abilene where ALLIE M. TUNE thing to remember. Foster Dulles, and on several occa- I was raised, we all looked on Demo- San Antonio RONNIE DUGGER sions it has seemed that even Mr. Ei- crats as we did the village drunk !" I thought sure there would be much senhower did not know what Dulles was up to, and the latter did not know said about it, but no one apparently what was expected of him. saw it. I sent the clipping to Adlai One Crusader Less Stevenson, and he used it in one of his We believe this administration,. in last speeches of the 1952 campaign ... an effort to "economize," has seriously, Check over the past four years and impaired our military preparedness you will see the utter contempt he and thereby •endangered the peace by (Eisenhower) holds Democrats. It has emboldening our enemies and dis- come out in every phase of his Ad- couraging our friends and allies. ministration. It is only at election time that he even admits to being born in In the case of Texas and particu- Texas .... After the poor support larly West Texas, this administration Sen. Knowland gave him as majority has done little or nothing to protect leader, he still prefers him to Lyndon our independent oil operators from Johnson, who frantically cooperated the ruinous effect of excessive im- with him. Ike wants McCarthy back ports of foreign oil by the big U.S. to fight him at every turn, because he companies. While our own production is what Mr. Eisenhower is—a Repub- was pinched in, while the price was lican in every thought, word, and going down recently by seven cents a decd. barrel, the flood of foreign oil con- You can judge a man by the type tinued to pour in. of people who support him. Allan We believe the administration's Shivers is as much a Republican as "tight money" policy, ostensibly a Eisenhower. Surely Texas will not be step against inflation, has not affected lead "down the garden path" again by the excessive and steadily rising cost such a discredited man as Allan Shiv- of living. The tight money pinch is ers. being felt in many hitherto booming MRS. LILA A. HILL lines of endeavor that have meant so 1704 Vine St., Georgetown much to the. growth and development 'The Little Shepperd' of Texas, particularly oil operations and construction. The rise in interest To the Editor: rates will affect municipal bond issues Well, the Little Shepperd ... has voted in the future, and that hits the succeeded in putting the NAACP out taxpayer where it hurts in the pocket- of business .... Oh, it makes no dif- book. ference how many millions of dollars the loan sharks steal from the Texas Texas went against Adlai Stevenson public .... But it makes all the differ- in 1952 largely because of his stand ence in the world if a black little boy against state . ownership of the tide- were to sit by a white little boy to lands—an honest but a wholly mis- learn how to parse a sentence or con- taken position on his part. He says struct a chemistry equation. At least now that the tidelands issue has been it does to the Little Shepperd. settled, and insofar as he is concerned I don't believe that God Almighty it will stay settled .... created any special race of people. He This newspaper would like to see a didn't spawn any particular religion, Democrat in the White House next if any. He didn't create justice for January and a Democratic majority in some and withhold it from others. both-Houses of Congress ..." Perhaps, we are some kind of experi- ,, ment taking place on this mudball we THE TEXAS OBSERVER Page 3 Oct. 31, 1956 H-bomb, Nixon, Farm Prices Argued our country taking initiative to Stassen. No, they are all gone government's interest rate poli- Peterson said rigid farm price The H-Bomb secure an agreement with other save the vice president. When Mr. cies have cut small business prof- supports are not the answer to Adlai Stevenson's proposal nations to stop tests of hydrogen Eisenhower talks about the party its by 41 percent. "The rate at farm income. that hydrogen bomb tests be bombs." Rep. Homer Thornberry of the future, he talks about the which small businesses go bank- Byron Skelton, Democratic na- suspended provided the Rus- said Stevenson has made "a sin- party of Richard Nixon." rupt has doubled," he sala. tional committeeman from Texas, sians follow suit and the en- cere proposal." Rep. 0: Clark Kennedy said that despite "Re- Long also said he understands said Allan Shivers is "the num- suing pandemonium has in- Fisher backed Eisenhower, favor- publican resistance" the Congress Atty. Gen. Herbert Brownell ber one turncoat in the Demo- volved Texas politicians just ing continued nuclear tests. Rep. extended social security benefits would like to file a tidelands suit cratic Party." He expressed sur- as it involved spokesmen for W. R. Poage deplored Eisen- passed a highway bill unequaled against Texas as he has against prise Shivers expects Democrats both parties all around the hower's "refusal to even try to by. any previous public works Louisiana, seeking to restrict its to follow him. country. work out some kind of control of program, increased the minimum Gulf of Mexico boundary to. three U. S. Rep. Albert Thomas of Speaker Sam Rayburn, Senator atomic weapons." Rep. 0 1 i n wage of $1, and tightened up anti- miles offshore instead of the ten Houston said Secretary of the Lyndon Johnson, and various Teague said if it's true, as some trust laws. He said corporation miles claimed by the state. Treasury George Humphrey alone Texas Congressmen backed up scientists say, that we will know profits have increased 61 percent On the tidelands issue, inci- killed an attempt of the Jones & Stevenson. Governor Allan Shiv- within minutes when another na- while small business profits have dentally, Shivers asked Johnson Laughlin Steel Corp. application ers, Mrs. Oveta Culp Hobby, and tion tests an H-bomb, he agrees dropped 52 percent. whether the Democrats might be for tax amortization. on a steel others hopped the Democratic with Stevenson. In foreign policy Kennedy planning to reopen the tidelands plant in the Houston area. "He candidate. charged the GOP has permitted case. Johnson. asked Shivers killed this plan for purely selfish Rayburn said President Eisen- Kennedy's. Tour the Soviet Union to pretend whether Brownell might be con- reasons, in my humble judgment," hower should be concerned with falsely to be the leader of the sidering the suit against Texas Thomas said. "No one ever heard "how to save the world from John Kennedy, the senator struggle against colonialism by Long mentioned. of Humphrey criticizing tax am- atomic death" more than with from Massachusetts, was in- exploiting "this powerful, surg- Kennedy and Adlai Stevenson ortization for the steel industry diplomatic niceties of rebuke to troduced to a San Antonio ing spirit of freedom and inde- as well have taken the position when his companies were receiv- Premier Nicolai Bulganin of Rus- crowd at Club Sevenoaks as pendence." Congress has acted and the tide- ing that $472 million (in tax) sia for his support of the idea. "one of the rising stars of the Johnson said at San Antonio lands matter is closed. amortization." "If their (the Russians') pro- Democratic Party" by John- that Texans "aren't about to fol- W. Bedford Sharp, board chair- posals should be phony or insin- son. low a semi-part-time governor man of Mission Manufacturing Kennedy demanded to know Farm 'Individualism' cere," Rayburn said, "let us who stops over in Texas now and Co., said Thomas's remarks were who would lead the Republican smoke them out and prove con- then coming from a bear hunt in GOP Asst. Secretary of "blasphemous" and that Humph- Party in Eisenhower's absence. clusively to the rest of the world Alaska en route to a trip from Agriculture Ervin L. Peter- rey's holdings in the companies "Where are the 'Young Turks' that they never meant business. Florida." He was cheered soundly. son said in Houston that Thomas referred to "had long who were to sweep to power ...... If, on occasion, the Russians farmers must recapture their since been sold." and reform the party?" he asked. individualism and put more should be sincere, let us by all "Who is to lead? Certainly not Long's Salvoes Eisenhower canceled a sched- means make the most of it." emphasis on realistic market- poor old brainwashed Harold Sen. Russell B. Long (D.- uled speech at Love Field at mid- Shivers said the only dispute ing practices instead of hunt- La.) castigated the GOP in week; but was between Stevenson and Bulganin ing for some system of com- Corpus Christi for its han- plete security. and Harold Stassen was also is "over which one of them Reform Party dling of the Suez Canal situ- "The concept that places a price scheduled to tour North and Cen- thought of it first." He added: "I ation, "broken 1952 campaign tag on security. rather than on tral Texas. For the Democrats, think the Bulganin - Stevenson promises," and continued im- opportunity does not enhance the Senators Gore and Anderson, as plan. is idiotic. What do Johnson Claims 'Snub' portation of Near East oil enduring values so clearly under- well as many Texas Congress- and Rayburn think? ... do they LAREDO He said the South should be al- stood by the dedicated men who men, were to close out the cam- agree with good old Adlai and South Texans from 2 0 lowed to handle its own segrega- gave us the Declaration of Inde- paign, and another visit from Es- Nicolai?" counties, minus the Reform tion problems. pendence and the Constitution," tes Kefauver was reported possi- Senator Johnson accused the Party Democrats , from La- At San Angelo Long said the Peterson said. ble. GOP of playing politics with the redo, who said they were issue. He said Eisenhower and snubbed, gathered in Laredo Stevenson agree in principle. last week to hear Sen. Lyn- Johnson recalled that he had sup- don Johnson jibe Allan Shiv- ported Eisenhower when Eisen- ers on the tidelands, listen to Parr, Interested Spectator hower told him of his hopes for Price Daniel say he won't (Continued from Page 1) in connection with fictitious peace after the Geneva confer- forget South Texans because blow to the state's case. But the "... You really took these checks. He testified that he paid ence and that he had backed Ei- they didn't forget him, and checks and other data admittedly checks and other information the electricians, plumbers, paint- senhower's proposal to exchange applaud the Boston accent of stolen from the school district of- from the office because you knew ers, and other subcontractors for defense blueprints of aerial pho- Massachusetts Sen. John F. fice by Heras pinned down the they might have established the the cafeteria work. But the state tographs with the Russians. Kennedy. prosecution presentation. Mrs. Hobby, former member of Judge Ezequiel D. Salinas, who criminality' of your own acts in introduced checks on the school Parr, sitting tensely as a spec- district purporting to be payment the Eisenhower cabinet and pub- was a delegate to the national writing these fraudulent checks, tator in the pea-green courtroom lisher of the Houston Post, called convention, and who Daniel said didn't you?" Foreman demanded. for the subcontracting work on of the aging, brownstone Comal the Stevenson plan "naive and ir- was the one who asked the party Heras at first gave evasive an- the cafeteria. County courthouse 150 miles re- swers. Foreman persisted: "You responsible nonsense" and added: to Visit Laredo, presented a check Vaello also testified concerning moved from his own turbulent "This plan has 'met with warm for $5,000 to Sen. Kennedy for the know you did it because those bills for which school district political empire, must have bit- endorsement in Moscow — and Democratic National Committee. books and checks would have checks were issued. One was for terly reflected upon the possibil- well it might." Reform Party Democrats were helped to prosecute you, wouldn't steel window sashes in the high ity that a man who had obviously Rep. Wright Patman said Stev- absent f r o m the Democratic they?" school science room, but Vaello been a 'lesser cog in his machine enson is right "about insisting on luncheon. "Yes," Heras admitted, in a low said the room has wooden sashes. might be the key to stopping the voice ... "I took those records Another was for a sound absorb- operation permanently. out probably for that purpose." ing ceiling for the kindergarten, Parr, now his county's Demo- Parr, who had tensed forward but the school district doesn't cratic Party nominee for sheriff, Adlai Tide Hits Turbulence to hear the answer, leaned back have any kindergarten. was not on trial here. Although to relax. But not for long. Soon. he and his cousin, Givens Parr, (Continued from Page 1) safe margin." The Democratic na- The checking game, according Heras was restating that he had were indicted with B. F. Donald County. Anything less than a loss tional committeeman said there to high school principal Reed, written at least "100 fictitious as co-conspirators in the school by ten thousand would be a vic- was "some trouble in Dallas" and also extended to the payroll. He checks a year" for a period of fund thefts, a legal severance tory. Things are a little better several other spots but that in told the jury he had a teacher four years at Parr's order. He pushed Donald up as first batter. northside, but not very much; on Contral Texas "Republicans are named Reyes P. Jarratt whose said he would write the checks, He went down hardly swinging, the south side there is a little few and far between" and that paycheck was $247.40 monthly. In some of which were counter- and on the same indictment in more shift. It's too quiet on the the state will go Democratic. addition to the legitimate Jarratt signed by Parr, and then usually the same case in which the South East Side (where Negroes live), JOHN V. WHEAT, an Eisen- check, another one for another take them to Texas State Bank Texas political czar must ulti- and that worries me. We don't hower leader in Houston, says the $247.40 was made out to a G. P. teller B. F. 'Donald, Jr., who mately face a jury. have a surge of enthusiasm for H-Bomb issue is changing votes Jarratt, a man who had never would cash them without proper In Donald's case, the panel de- our candidates like we did be- to Eisenhower. "The issue his been known at Freer. In a similar endorsement. liberated only two hours before fore ...." She said Negro leaders made them see that ... Ike's a manner, teacher Ida B. Kennard Inquired Foreman: "You didn't finding the former Parr bank there are staying with the ticket. much bigger man," he said. "The had received a $219.60 check, but get any of this money yourself ... teller guilty and recommending Mrs. Voigt was asked why she campaign here is really on the Reed had never met the I. B. You never got a dirty dime, did his sentence at the five-year max- thinks the Stevenson campaign move now with lots of newcomers Kennard who got another check you?" Heras answered, "No, sir," imum. District Judge John R. seems to have slowed. helping out." for the same amount. and added that he took it to "Mr. Fuchs freed Donald under $2,500 Earl Hollandsworth, head of the As principal, it was Reed's job "I think we had it a month Parr." bond after the bank teller's at- Longview campaign for Eisen- to receive the bills for operation ago," she said. "But the people It was brought out that Heras torneys gave notice of appeal. hower, said it looks "awful good." of the high school and submit who know how to do the job had been granted immunity by Parr was not present for the Charles Gibson, Democratic lead- them to the school board for pay- haven't been asked to do it. The the.-:- state in return for agreeing final day of testimony. But among er at Amarillo, said that it will be ment approval. He told the jury liberals haven't got any place in to testify against Parr, Donald, those who were on hand was U. a toss-up in Amarillo, but the he had checked school district this setup, and the Negroes and and others allegedly involved in S. District Attorney Malcolm Wil- plains counties will go for Stev- records and found checks had Latins aren't going to work with the theft and embezzlement of key of Houston, who is scheduled enson. Frank O'Brien, GOP leader been issued for many bills that Price Daniel and Lyndon John- Benavides school funds. to prosecute Parr and eight others in Amarillo, foresees a GOP win he had never received or recom- son. The other crowd looks at under a mail" fraud indictment in there. TWO OTHER major witnesses mended for payment. Some of them and thinks, well, we'll carry federal court at Houston Nov. 9. Craven Beard, Smith County for the state were W. F. Reed, the bills for construction work those people .... We're loyal Parr also faces trial under 14 Democratic chairman, says Stev- principal of Freer High School, never done ran as high as $1,889. Democrats and we're working our other, state indictments alleging enson is losing ground steadily. and Joe Vaello, ' current presi- THE 15 OTHER witnesses for hearts out, but I'm terribly dis- perjufy, misappropriating public Dick Danner, chairman of the dent of the Benavides school the state helped weave a stout couraged. funds, receiving misappropriated Stevenson campaign in Fort board. •case around the alleged conspira- funds, making a false affidavit, "If we bring Stevenson in here Worth, sees a standoff there; G. Vaello, who explained that his tors, but it was clearly the state- making false entries in bank rec- I think we will win," Mrs. Voigt W. Parker, chairman of the Eisen- contracting firm was low bidder ments and exhibits of Heras that ords, and destroying bank rec- said. "As it is Lyndon is running h o w e r campaign in Tarrant and received a contract for con- had the most impact. It was ords. the thing for Lyndon." County, says: "Suddenly every- struction of a new high school brought out that virtually all of Byron Skelton, contacted a t thing got off the ground .... The cafeteria prior to his appointment the school district records and Temple, said he thinks "we're go- enthusiasm is hitting at just to the school board, brought to bank records had disappeared, THE TEXAS OBSERVER ing to carry the state by a good about the right time." light after alleged embezzlements which might have proved a fatal Page 4 October 31, 1956 Shivers Says No Senate Vacancy Until 1957 ' • AUSTIN Congress meets Jan. 3, since I He said he is still waiting for of your supporters as successor gence places him with the schol- "There will be no (Senate) could obtain no assurance that he Sam Rayburn and Lyndon John- to Daniel on Jan. 15 before the arly Democratic type of Presi- vacancy until January 15," would call an election before that son to hold a Democratic primary new governor is inaugurated, dent. Adlai Stevenson belongs in date." before he calls the election. He even possibly one who will com- Governor Allan Shivers said the company of Thomas Jefferson Earlier this month, at the state said—in Orlando, Fla., where he pete for the seat in the ' special and Woodrow Wilson." In Steven- last week in Fort Worth. Democratic executive committee was campaigning for Eisenhower election; or is it your own inten- son and Kefauver, Yarborough Thus, the issue of the timing meeting, Daniel reviewed his own —that Daniel, not he, created tion to resign as governor on Jan. said, the Democrats offer the na- of the election to replace Sen- campaign promises, which he de- whatever confusion there is "by 15 and let (Lt. Gov.) Ramsey ap- tion "great public servants." ator Price Daniel is all but scribed as pledges he would re- the way he worded his resigna- point you?" Yarborough's release from his sign "at a time when the people tion." He said Jan. 15 is the ef- decided unless Daniel sub- Hutcheson said if there is no Austin office said he also cam- would have the freest possible fective date of Daniel's resigna- election before Jan. 3, "Texas paigned "for the Democratic mits a new resignation effect- choice of my successor" and "that tion and that there is a legal :will have the most junior sena- ive on some date uncondi- Party" in the Panhandle Friday I would time my resignation so question whether a successor can tor in the United States." and Saturday. tionally. that there would be no appoint- be named before then. Ralph Yarborough, a possible James Hart has been campaign- Daniel wrote h i s campaign ment of my succe,ssor, by myself The question, will Shivers ac- Senate candidate, spoke at Demo- ing steadily, mostly at meetings managers blaming Shivers for the or anyone else." (Observer, Oct. cept the resignation the morning cratic rally at Clovis, New Mex- with friends. Last week he visited confusion and for , "c reating 10.) of Jan. 15 and call :the election ico, declaring the Democrats have Tyler, Longview, Carthage, Nac- doubt as to the validity of my Now Daniel seems to be saying and appoint the successor for the not only the party but also the ogdoches, Lufkin, Texas City,, resignation," which Daniel dated that he could not possibly have interim before Daniel is sworn candidate in this campaign." Galveston, Beaumont, Port Ar- Jan. 15 or such time as his suc- timed his resignation in a way in? remains to be answered by "Adlai Stevenson is intellec- thur, and Orange, and took part cessor should be chosen. Even un- that would make it impossible for Shivers himself. tually qualified to be president in a round table discussion with der a resignation effective imme- Shivers to appoint his successor. Thad Hutcheson, the GOP can- of the United States," Yarbor- Hutcheson in Houston. This week diately, Daniel said, "I would Shivers is laughing off demands didate for the Senate, put the ough said. "He has a sense of hu- he is in Wichita Falls, Abilene, have been, leaving the way open he call the election in time to question this way in a letter to mor and a keen and incisive in- and San Angelo. How does it look for appointment of a temporary elect the new senator for the Shivers: tellect, with great powers of ana- to him? "Better every day," he successor by Gov. Shivers when opening of \Congress Jan. 3. "Is it your desire to appoint one lysis. His high order of intelli- says. "As usual hard work pays off." East Texas might be .expected to be especially sensitive to Hart's and the NAACP at Tyler position in favor of enforcing the Supreme Court school desegrega- (Continued from Page 1) and its affiliates have duped and with them, but they might be of the New York NAACP because tion decree. "I of course took the deceived not only their own mem- used on the witness stand and the local branches have "final de- SO SAID THE JUDGE. What same position there as I have bers, but the Negro race as well. then, someone else might do some- termination" of what they will do. said the prosecutor? everywhere," Hart said, "and I They are false prophets. They thing with them. Not the Attor- The requirement for a state per- found the sentiment is about the Up until the last of the seven- have peddled false hopes at bar- ney General, not the Attorney mit to do business in Texas ap- same as elsewhere. Of course, the teen days of hearing, John Ben gain prices. Into many of our General," he said with a gesture plies to "a foreign corporation," problem is more serious there." Shepperd and his battery of law- humble, self-respecting colored toward Shepperd. he said, and a foreign corporation yers kept the arguments strictly Incidentally, last week Hutche- citizens they have infused hostil- "Despite what is said that 'it's means a corporation from another specific. Elbert Morrow, a slight son was quoted as saying the Su- ity and arrogance, and brought not against the Negro people,' " state doing business in Texas and young man behind preme Court integration decision glasses that upon them the resentment of the "making a profit." A group makes Marshall said, "that paragraph in was wise. He corrected the quote, seemed large on his face, closed community. The highest aspira- no profit, he said, unless some the petition is so interesting .... insisting that he hadn't said that, the state's formal argument that tions of the Negro people ... have private individual gets a profit or It says there has been no conflict and, in fact, does not believe it. morning. He argued that the NA- been played upon for material a dividend other than payment or disharmony among the races "I have been greatly troubled by ACP in New York and the Texas gain ... for services. "Not one scintilla of in Texas for a hundred years. A the court's abrupt reversal of the operation are alter egos; that the "They have said, 'Pay us, and evidence" supports the state's hundred years from 1956 is 1856. contrary decision which had stood NAACP has shown a profit, its we will strike down any type of claim that this has been the case Everything has been harmonious for over 50 years." He had said, admitted surplus being actually a segregation in parks, schools, hos- with NAACP, he said. On politics, from 1856 to date .... he explained, that the court's sub- profit; that, as a profit-making pitals, churches, hotels, swimming he said no evidence had been in- "The intent (of this suit) is to sequent decision permitting local corporation, it should have• paid pools, golf courses, buses, trains, troduced that the NAACP had keep status quo. This is not a sta- handling was wise. certain state taxes, but didn't; housing areas, dance halls, res- given money or a thing of value tus quo situation, it's the opposite Searcy Bracewell of Houston, that it solicited law suits, con- taurants, fraternities and sorori- to any candidate, which is what is of the status quo .... another Senate candidate, said in trary to the state barratry law; ties.' The master plan for aboli- prohibited by law. (Davis Grant, "The people in these organiza- Cuero that President Eisenhower and that it sought to influence tion of all segregation ... waS for the state, replied that letters tions in Texas are not people who is "the symbol of peace," "towers legislation a n d political cam- conceived in New York, chan- of endorsement, which the state willingly violate the laws. The over his opponent," and has done paigns contrary to the laws. Fin- neled through Dallas, and erupted introduced, are, indeed, "some- worst that could be drawn, by his "dead level best" to be a good ally, Morrow argued, NAACP of- in the local communities through- thing of value" and cost money to taking one piece of a letter and president. Bracewell is running ficials in New York and Dallas out Texas. It was a plot of New produce and mail.) Bunkley said putting it with a piece taken for the Senate as a Democrat. did "a little bit of selective edit- York and Dallas officials." the state had no evidence that the from another letter — we have Rep. Martin Dies, contacted by ing" of some records (mainly the The reporters in the jury box NAACP "caused a single individ- done nothing worse than getting the Observer at his home in Luf- clipping out of names signed to scribbled furiously. He was going aul to do anything he didn't want Texas people to obey the law of kin, said he has been campaign- documents), and membership too fast for them to get it down. to do" in lawsuits. the land." ing hard for the Senate seat with rolls were denied the state. This "We now see that the `P' means He turned to t h e barratry AT FOUR O'CLOCK, after a two speeches almost every day. was grounds "in and of itself" for in NAACP, Pick the Place, Pre- charge and cited cases in. which recess from noon, Judge Dunagan He said he is supporting the closing the outfit down, he con- pare the setting, Procure the cluded. Alexander Hamilton was drawn read out his order closing down Democratic nominees for presi- Plaintiffs, and Push them for- into the John Peter Zenger case John Ben Shepperd reserved to the NAACP in Texas. dent and vice-president. ward like Pawns .... by the Sons of Liberty and in himself the job of closing for the . Men and women of both which lawyers had solicited cli- state. The Attorney General con- viewpoints (on integration) may ents in suits growing out of other siders this lawsuit his outstand- in good conscience stand together historic incidents. He cited one ing accomplishment (outranking in condemning and ejecting from case in which it was held not im- even his Duval County crusade). our midst this cunning, deceitful proper for an attorney to go to "It is the greatest contribution I agency of social strife, which jail and offer to help five money- W►LCO'S could make to both the white and cold-bloodedly reduces the noble less Russians. Negro citizens of Texas," he says. yearnings of human beings to ma- But Marshall, who had sat Most of East Teyas was listening terial profit and political poiver, through all but three of the sev- by radio. This, then, was his cli- without regard or concern for SICK LEAVE PLAN mactic moment. enteen - days of the hearing, was ethics ..." most aroused over something El- He began with a joke. Next to this passionate outburst, bert Morrow said, after all. In Protects You On AND Off the Job! "On behalf of the state," he the state's case of detail seemed seeking to establish that the NA- said, and paused, "I want to ex- pallid. John Davenport, Shep- ACP is a profit-making corpora- press my appreciation for the pa- Available to small groups of employees perd's press aide, was ready at the tion, Morrow had declared the tience of the court through all from five to fifty— entrance to the jury box with NAACP "sold for profit Christ- these days of argument and colds. copies of the speech for the re- mas seals, NAACP supplies, and To large groups—up to thousands I have a cold this morning, and porters. magazines." Said Marshall, stand- I find myself almost out of busi- And to individuals! ing tall and dignified in the Tyler ness myself." SO SAID THE PROSECUTION. courtroom: He advanced a few perfunctory What said the defense? "Once the Supreme . Court de- refutations ad lib, and then his Thurgood Marshall is a nervous, cides the law in a • particular pace changed to a steady, declam- volatile man of vitality and pas- case, regardless of. what it is, the atory style. He was reading from sion. He had his say immediately Supreme Court can't go from a text lying on the table before after Elbert Morrow. As he rose, county to county to enforce it. him. Against the dry wrangling Morrow rose too and left the v. Negroes' faith in American life is of the first sixteen days, his courtroom. Later the assistant at- supported by the belief they can speech was meant as a climax, torney general said he had to go WESTERN INDEMNITY LIFE INSURANCE CO. get justice in the courts. Because legal and political. He said: get a cup of coffee to steady his of records and printing and brief- "This is not a race action. The nerves, he was so surprised by ing, that takes money. Whether Affiliated with fact that the NAACP purports to Marshall following him. "I like they have Christmas seals or pins represent the Negro race has no to flipped," he said. or rallies or fish fries, it's not bearing whatever on this case ... Marshall seemed to be address- only aiding the Negro, it's aiding The NAACP and the NAACP Le- ing Negroes in East Texas, and American democracy." gal Defense a n d Educational perhaps other courts and other Then C. B. Bunkley of Dallas Fund, Inc., both corporations for- places. He touched the jurisdic: argued improper service of NA- eign to Texas, and both operating tional issue and then explained ACP agents meant they were not under a nekkid privilege in this why he had clipped some names legally in the courtroom. He said state, have so abused that privi- out of records and withheld mem- Home Office : 5011 Fannin, Houston, Texas local chapters are not alter egos lege as to justify their immediate bership lists. "I did not want to AGENCIES THROUGHOUT TEXAS and permanent ouster from Texas. be responsible—not for the At- THE TEXAS OBSERVER "... the leaders of the NAACP torncy General doing something Page 5 October 31, 1956 (Notes from the land as seen "A Sample Room and Its Sam- from the highway on a West ples," a bartender inviting you Texas tour.—Ed.) Notes from the Dry Land in, my jolly friend, to see his Exhibit Room: "Genuine Special- Chickens asleep aroost in ties, Made on the Premises," a windshield wipers as the drops, West Texas from a Car' their lighted pens before sun- larger, splash and vanish, splash around out there an pick three tramp; a convict in his stripes, rise. and vanish, spash and vanish. It Series of Impressions hundred. I picked a thousand sitting dejected; a madman, his A vaguely restive fog nest- is day; there is activity. But the pounds in a day, when I uz four- pupils contracted; an "IDIOT teen ... Those Mexicans, they ing in the hollows and the rain stops almost at once. The sky Salt Fork of the Brazos River. CHILD"; a frowsy woman. in 1890 want the price to go up every valleys, thickening and cling- is greenish blue at the horizon. clothes, alone unlabeled. "Roby, the Crossroads of Op- Monday mornin' I don't fool with ing to the dark outlines of the "Bosque County Angus Farm," portunity." U. S. 180 and Texas 'em, They want you to move outa FAITH CITY MISSION trees in the passing fields. coalbiack cattle feeding on the 70 cross here. There are cafes. your house and let them in an' GOD IS LOVE First it is pallid, wispy ; in freshened haylike grass. At twilight a spine of white On the outside wall in huge the dawn it reflects the bluish A clutch of, loud orange dying you go out in the little ol' house lights on the open hilly plain script: waking sky; in the chill gray leaves in the green young leaves you got out there for 'em. I don't coiled at the base and rising like For the wages of sin is death; incisive light of farmer's of a Spanish oak, like Mae West fool with 'em. a snake charmed, bright, naked, BUT the gift of God is eternal morning it whitens again like in a gay plume costume sur- "I can save four thousand dol- violative of the coming night ... life through Jesus Christ our tiding smoke. rounded by well-turned, eager, lars a hundred bales with the Lord. Romans 6:23. White hens frozen, motion- but innocent young girls. LONG CHAINS of oil tanks picker. I've already run seventy- A sign: less, beaks to the russet The midmorning sun on the red waiting on the rails on the plain, two bales with it. You figger thirty five to forty dollars a bale ground around the tin barn. glazed Brazos. Warren Sunray Warrengas Skel- "BEHOLD! THIS IS THE to pull it. My machine cost me The pebble riverbed dry ex- Civilization: at Mineral Wells, gas; still, patient. DAY OF SALVATION!" it six hundred, and the butane, it cept for a muddy still little pool. Hexagon House, eight spires, and . . . neeeh-ver thought, I'd The road at night again. A cafe. comes to about two an' a half a A prostrate hill in a scotch plaid eight littler spires; located be- l0000-se your love ....' ... as we "Green Door, Green Door, What's day. It can pick twenty thirty of greens and russets softly tween Crazy Hotel and North Oak say out here on the South Plains" that secret you're keeping? ..." woven. A field of bright yellow Baptist Church (the one with the the announcer says. bales a day. Lights on a strip pole flash up "I can pay for it in two days." machine - harvested grainstalks evaporative coolers on the out- The long open plain joining the and down, frantically, flashing on vaguely like a field of crosses side of the stained glass win- distant plateaus. THE PLAINS in low growing the black top of the hardtop con- for the dead. dows). Stripped red foothills against a cotton around Lubbock, cotton vertible next you, flashing to the The sun's first gentle fingering The plains tilt and pitch like long range, the brush on its side watered by wells sucking up the music .... of the rioted colors of the hillside, the deck of a great ocean carrier. like algae, under a purple storm water from the sinking table un- THE COOL ORANGE SUN as- the reds, the yellow tans, the Everywhere, mesquite; mesquite sky, across the scooped out plain. derground. Cotton on nature's cending over the lip of the hori- dark oak greens, the dark browns, trees, mesquite bushes, mesquite Double Mountain Fork of Bra- credit. zon and stepping up on a dark and the ,edgefading yellow greens dead to its roots; but everywhere zos River. The great white banded-cone ledge in the swept morning sky of the sapling sycamores. A shiny mesquite. "Justiceburg. Flats Fixed." elevators in majestic domination over the green cotton plain. black turkey buzzard rising Red water in the irrigation Rain, like an. afterthought, of Plainview's plain view. Khaki wrapped cotton bales slowly to a branch from a dry ditches. Mesquite, black and dead, blotting into the dry land. Then again spotty crops, sor- standing on end in rows in a boulder creekbed. A family of green and live, on the dry red The road winding through some ghum grains and wheat; waste field like hard jawed soldiers on rich red brush along the base of earth. Acres of dead trees, like rustcolored mounds of eroding fields, and thirsty land. review. a ledge that divides across a field. black stumps in an empty lake gray rock that falls free in large A brown field overgrown in Mesquite flats, miles and miles The slate sky breaks up into bed. A died-out cotton patch. shellshaped boulders. bush. An implanted field. An- puffy grey smoke clouds mixing Oval patches of Weed grass that The rain falls in waveblown other. A bright yellow brown of it. A cow here and there, occa- softly, the sun brightens a weak- grab and crescent on the open breath on the roof, the mesquite grass cover, burned to its base. ness in the horizon, and rain ap- furrows. flags softly against the wet gray Miles and miles of dried out sionally a herd. Across the plain southeast of pears magically on. the wind- A red oilwell pump motionless sky. It is almost like night. A land. Midland, a spreading cluster of shield, tiny globes half shadow, against a golden slit of sunset great hulking carrier zooms Amarillo, where the college oil tanks, like a stand of silver half light. There is the homelike under a nightcoming sky. around the curve in a cloud of boys drive for their liquor. On a inside clump and switch of the Clear Fork of the Brazos River. angry spray. The rain is louder, corner, across from two liquor compacts. and for the first time lightning, stores, a red brick building, next Withered plants on the grass- less gravel earth. and now thunder. A yellow fire door to a garage: Beyond gardenless Garden City, burns across the road through the the mesquite takes color again, rain near three tin tanks on the " IF YOU ARE HUNGRY DO Push Button NOT BEG OR STEAL but only the mesquite, except for red and green plain. (A Short Story) "Love me tender, love me true COME EAT WITH US a little grass. Free meals 8 to 9, 1 to 2, after Then climb again into the hazed The young Texan sits low be- ... And I always will ..." And the radio is clicked off. services; free clothes 1 to 2 only. wastes. hind the wheel of his softblue Through the rain the flare fires The young Texan snaps shut And 8 p.m. services. Sterling City, warm and bright Ford convertible with the top burn bright and dancing orange. his cigarette lighter with his Through the window benches, under the sun, with a courthouse down and you see only his head The rain-out russet hills. The lips tight on. his cigarette. Then and an old man seated on one of and wide sunbleached streets. and a part of his big fleshy white- thick green brush down both with his lower jaw stuck out he them. A door in the back wall Water Valley, with no water in shirted shoulder. steep sides of the deep slit in the draws in deep and slips lower signed, "Prayer Room." In the its valley. He sits deep in the warm red soft bare earth. into the red leather, blowing out window an old drawing: RONNIE DUGGER leather, and he's surrounded by The undulating oil pump arm smoke with his eyes half shut. He glass. The pushbutton radio in against the clearing blue and holds the cigarette in a wide soft the dashboard plays dance rec- white horizon. freckled hand where he wears a ords. The music drifts away in Short, stubby cotton plants in THE SETTING SUN spreadeagle ring from Mexico. the fields. In Slaton, parked, a the sunbright still afternoon. THE SETTING SUN, by Osamu doublelong flatbed truck loaded treme which could completely The sun is bright on the radio WERE YOU WITH US Dazai, translated by Donald aerial and on the top leaves of with two and a half rows of baled dissolve a person's morals or de- the time we were down in Keene (New Directions). the big oak trees on past the Juarez? ... Christmas eve ... cotton. A thousand bales upended stroy his natural instincts. Al- car. And now suddenly, heartily: on the plain, bordered by an occa- In this, his only novel, Osamu though he begs you,to accept and The trees shade a smoothcut "Hey, Billboy! Whatchaknow!" sional red barrel .... Dazai is preoccupied with the praise his self-destruction as a lawn, and through the lawn a to the boy walking along the side- changing values of civilization purposeful conclusion, he never THE SIGN LITTER on the brought on by the second world wide, white-flowered walk runs walk with the girl. roads entering every major town, quite stops looking back longingly He looks at their backs as they war. The family of which he as he steps toward the edge of tires, furniture, hotels, motels, writes, a mother and her adult pass. He thinks of something to chinese food, chicken, lumber, up- the Reservoir until there is no Winston Bode tell Joe Farney. Then the face son and daughter, are aristocrats earth under his foot. hostering, insurance—so is Lub- by birth, and are suffering now turns blank. bock announced. Dazai draws his lonely narra- up to the redbrick sorority not only because the aristocracy tive with a clean, black, single house with the white columns. A square, steakfed face, hand- S is impoverished and declining, line. Therefore, the book is dis- "Ssss ... What's she hung on!" somely regular, with two long JESUS but also because there is no safety tinctly Oriental in style, while the Switching stations- pale patches of red running diag- A and meaning in their long estab- situations a n d problems a r e oneaf teranother- onally down either cheek. His V lished morality. Each figure wholly western. (The numerous in a hurry trying to find some hair is wellcut, welloiled, but not E searches for a new meaning to his references to a higher being never more dance music or something quite combed. A few locks fall S own life in his own way. admit to any religion other than ONEafter down in front. His white shirt is However, Dazai's anguish is by Christianity). The result is pow- aNOTHer welllaundered and stiff and has is written on the cross on the top no means a local problem. Char- erful dramatically, and the prose a way of looking as though it of the building. "Faith Teinple." acters such as Kazuku, the daugh- "Sssss 1 1 is really beautiful. were just pulled on, sleepyhead- On the movie style marquee in ter, have been appearing often in Here is a bit of Kazuku's think- the mobile red letters of that edly. The starched cuffs flare out the works of many western writ- ing. trade it says: "Visit the Temple." from bigboned wrists and the ers, 'particularly Mauriac. The "I must go on living. And. Three teenagers abreast over front is open carelessly two but- fairly inconspicuous p e r s o n, though it may be childish of me, two lanes on motorcycles, each in tons down. There's a small pearly whose life is not destined to any I can't go on in simple compli- fraternity pin gleaming richly on blue jeans and black leather historical greatness, is doomed to ance. From now on I must strug- jackets and goggles, moving still- one side of his expansive chest. loneliness due to his sensitivity to gle with the world. I thought that The circles under his steady blu- bodied down the two lanes. . himself and his inability to see Mother might well be the last of ish eyes are becoming dark himself in the big picture. His REVIVAL! those who can end their lives grooves. life becomes extremely narrow beautifully and sadly, struggling A clock, it is 6 'oclock; beneath and introverted, and the result "Well, hell, why don't she come with no one, neither hating nor it, in red neon letters: appehrs to be that hiS only satis- on!" betraying anyone. In the world to faction is derived from gloom or TAKE TIME TO PRAY come there will be no room for He switches the cigarette to the tragedy as a relief to boredom. such people. The dying are beau- other hand and pushes a button At a Texaco station a thin Naoji, the brother, could well tiful, but to live, to survive— and the canvas top at the back farmer, scholarly, with glasses, represent the author's tact. Osamu those things somehow seem hid- rises quickly, obediently, then pulling on a pipe, said, "... those Dazai attempted suicide years be- eous and contaminated with swings surely and steadily over Mexicans ... fore he threw himself once and blood. I curled myself on the the back seat with the two glis- "They turn in a sack a thousand for all into the Tamagawa Reser- floor and tried to twist my body tening body dents, and then over pounds, it's got 700 pounds a cot- voir, and one feels he never quite into the posture, as I remembered the front seat where the young ton in it. Rocks, they'll do any- decided whether suicide was a it, of a pregnant snake digging a Texan, looking ahead, waits for it thing." proper ending for a dissolute per- hole." to come to rest at his fingertips. "Man I tried to pick cotton. I son or not. Perhaps he simply NANCY FAGG the top stops with a quiet snap got 300 pounds and almost killed had to try it, just as he must have THE TEXAS OBSERVER and he is sheltered from the hot myself doing it." tried every other indulgence in Texas sun. "Why man you can jus' fool order to see if there was any ex- Page 6 October 31, 1956 HOW A COUNTRY BOY PASSES THE TIME KENEDY An individual interested in acquiring a domestic domicile in a rural community should armadillos, poison ivy, red bugs, strumental in not winning. We be acquainted with the various types of rural entertainment he might be forced to enjoy and sometimes bed bugs. Their have high school band concerts, aside from his continuing amusement of cursing the government—local, state, and federal. hunts are nocturnal and involve pretty majorettes, and popcorn. For the adamant Baptists and other teetotalers there is ice cream. They may sneak considerable loss of sleep and There are about two high school a fattening portion of tutti-frutti garnished with a cherry, wrap their taste buds around a sometimes trousers as they crawl plays annually. One was a detec- popsicle, wiggle their epiglot- through barbed wire fences chas- tive story in which the phrase, tis joyfully in the downpour not quite as melodious. This chore going off, but the deputy decided ing the hounds. This, they will "Elementary, Dr. Watson," was of a chocolate malt, or (if is usually performed by an ex- against it and clobbered the mis- tell you, is great sport. The music used 27 times by the detective. they are among the more in- garage mechanic or hardware ereant over the head with the gun of a dog baying at a treed coon is The service organizations are trepid) audaciously order a salesman in cowboy regalia. instead. greater than Mozart; the sym- another form of entertainment. root beer and gaze defiantly (N on-bovine habiliment is Sewing room and family con- phony of a wolf hound picking up The Rotary Club, which has a around the room. frowned upon.) The instruments versations usually involve cows, the fresh scent of a coyote is more guest speaker on nearly every As for movie fare, Roy Rogers are usually string and drum, horses, the price of beans, or the pleasing than a Beethoven string occasion, is noted for its sleep- still draws them in pretty good sawed on, plucked, or beaten with premature nine-pound baby quartet, they say. ers. Any guest speaker without on Saturday. Musical comedies varying degrees of ineptitude. proudly displayed by the newly- The problem of feeding the powerful vocal animation may still appeal to the banker here. The Mexicans also like their weds, or how lucky she was to dogs is not so entertaining, except have one of his most poignant Arty pictures don't go over so balks. They are much more gre- marry him, or why didn't he join maybe for the feed store. A true points punctuated with a snore. good—unless Maw and Paw Ket- garious than the whites. At their the Foreign Legion? wolf hunter seems to prefer I was invited to speak on one oc- tle or Jerry Lewis and Dean. dances there is always a smashing Rural romance, as far as one is canned dog food. During the pres- casion. The subject was not speci- Martin are in the Shakespearean crowd. They're usually mostly able to determine, is very similar ent drouth some of them take fied, so I lectured on fifth cen- broke, but they all show up. The roles. A sure fire success is a better care of their dogs than they tury Greece and have been highly picture in which the villain beats girls sit down and the boys stand. do of themselves. insulted ever since by their fail- up the cowboy hero and runs off They are more jealous than their Dan Strawn Sports like pitching horseshoes, ure to ask me back. The Jaycees with the deed to his gold mine Anglo neighbors, sometimes pre- marbles for the kids, and dom- have been having membership to urban romance. There are in- early in the picture; then the ferring knives to knuckles for the inos, are nice, but they'll never trouble. At the last meeting novations like country hero chases him through flood settlement of their disputes. In - lanes, hay replace poker and craps. Chucka- eleven showed up, and on one rides, country dances, beer, and and famine, beer taverns, dance one dance hall dispute the Mex- luck seems to have gone out of occasion when they had a guest ice cream parties, but the prime halls, volcano craters, and across ican deputy was having an argu- style, but poker is here to stay. In speaker, three turned up—the third base in a House of David ment with an inebriated reveler. essentials are still a boy and a most cases the skill involved in guest speaker, the one who baseball game, and eventually The reveler decided on fistic girl; and bio-chemistry. the local games dependS on who brought him to the meeting, and THE INTREPID MEMBERS of shoves him off some cliff in the combat, and the deputy decided can stay sober the longest. Bingo the president. Adirondacks. The heroine must to shoot him. He cocked his pis- the Karnes County Wolf Hunters is also a hot game in Karnes RURAL LIFE, therefore, is ob- like the villain and hate the hero, tol, and his little' son watching Association hunt coyotes (there County. viously very entertaining, al- are no wolves in Karnes County), then like the hero, then dislike nearby put his fingers in his ears We have high school football though not intentionally. It is him again, then like him. This to shut out the sound of the gun raccoons, rabbits, birds, skunks, games, which the players are in- something to consider. gives the audience the impression the sum of $569.85, with interest from Plaintiff's Original Petition on file in in the hereinafter styled and numbered that they're going to have one July 3, 1956, at the rate of 10 percent. this office and to which reference is cause: CLASSIFIED WITNESS: here made; You (and each of you) are hereby hell of a married life. At the last If this citation is not served within commanded to appear before the 53rd they ride off into the setting sun WANTED TO BUY : Old Books, EMILIE LIMBERG, 90' days after date of its issuance, it shall District Court of Travis County, Texas, pamphlets, letters, etc., on Texas and Clerk of the County Court be returned unserved. to be held at the courthouse of said together, squirming at the unfa- the West. Catalog, $1.00 ; refunded first Of Travis County, 'Texas. .. WITNESS, 0. T. MARTIN, JR., Clerk county in the City of Austin, Travis Issued and given under my hand and miliar task of being on horseback. purchase. W. M. Morrison, Eagle Nest, of the District Courts of Travis County, County, Texas, at or before 10 o'clock New Mexico. seal of said Court at office in City of Texas. A. M. of the first Monday after the ex- Austin, Travis County, Texas, this the piration of 42 days from the date of The television fare is similar to 22nd day of October, A. D., 1956. Issued and given under my hand and the seal of said Court at office in the issuance hereof ; that is to say, at or the movies but somewhat more EMILIE LIMBERG City of Austin, this the 5th day of Octo- before, 10 o'clock A. M. of Monday the Clerk of the County Court at Law, ber, 1956. 3rd day of December, 1956, and answer antiquated. In place of Roy Rog- LEGALS Travis County, Texas the petition of plaintiff in Cause Num- By L. BARNES, Deputy. 0. T. MARTIN, ers, we have Hoot Gibson. There 1 Clerk of the District Courts, ber 105,362, in which Darrell Frick and Travis County, Texas wife, Jessie M. Frick, are Plaintiffs is some gripping drama by Ramar THE STATE OF TEXAS THE STATE OF TEXAS and Myrtle E. Manlove, Samuel A. To any Sheriff or any Constable within By GEO. W. BICKLER, Deputy of the Jungle and customarily in- To any Sheriff or any Constable within Glass and wife, Annie Glass, John A. the State of Texas—GREETING: The State of Texas—GREETING: Glass, if living, and if dead, his un- credible feats by Superman. You are hereby commanded to cause You are hereby commanded to cause CITATION BY PUBLICATION known heirs and legal representatives, to be published, ONCE, not less than to be published, once, not less than ten THE STATE OF TEXAS the unknown heirs and legal representa- Wrestling is the favorite program ten days before the return day thereof, days before the return day thereof, ex- TO Robert B. Savage and wife, Betty tives of W. A. Glass, Deceased ; the un- among adults. in a newspaper printed in Travis clusive of the date of publication, in a D. Savage, Defendants, in the hereinaf- known heirs and legal representatives of County, Texas, the accompanying cita- newspaper printed in Travis County, ter styled and numbered cause: Sallie E. Glass, Deceased, and the un- The radio offering consists tion, of which the herein below follow- Texas, the accompanying citation, of You (and each of you) are hereby known heirs and legal representatives of commanded to appear before the 98th mostly of preachers and Elvis ing is a true copy—(but if there be which the herein below following is a the unknown heirs of the said John A. no newspaper so printed in said county, true copy. District Court of Travis County, Texas, Glass, W. A. Glass and Sallie E. Glass, Presley, with a dash of Ernest then that you cause the said citation CITATION BY PUBLICATION to be held at the courthouse of said and each of them, if their respective to be posted for at least TEN days be- THE STATE OF TEXAS county in the City of Austin, Travis unknown heirs are deceased, are defend- Tubbs. If one desires a little or- fore the return term thereof as re- TO THE UNKNOWN HEIRS OF County, Texas, at or before 10 o'clock ants, filed in said Court on the 9th day gan music, he can tune in on a quired by law). CORA L. WOODARD, Deceased, De- A. M. of the first Monday after the of October, 1956, and the nature of CITATION BY PUBLICATION fendants, in the hereinafter styled and expiration of 42 days from the date of which said suit is as follows: soap opera, where they dutifully THE STATE OF TEXAS numbered cause: issuance hereof ; that is to say, at or Being an action and prayer for judg- give the name of the organist TO all persons interested in the es- You (and each of you) are hereby before, 10 o'clock A. M. of Monday the ment in favor of Plaintiffs and against tate of Mrs. Bessie Carr, a person of commanded to appear before the County 26th day of November, 1956, and an- Defendants, and each of them, for title along with the cast. The organist unsound mind. Court of Travis County, Texas, to be swer the petition of plaintiff in Cause to and possession of the following de- No. 16,459, County Court, Travis held at the courthouse of said county in Number 105,224, in which Farm and scribed tract of land, to-wit : All of Lot usually plays the most important County, Texas. Thomas W. Foster, the City of Austin, Travis County, Home Savings and Loan Association, a No. Six (6) and the East one-half of role. guardian thereof, filed in the Texas, at or before 10 o'clock A. M. of corporation is Plaintiff and Vesper Lee Lot No. Five (5) in Block No. Four County Court of Travis County the first Monday after the expiration of Warwick and wife, Mildred Warwick, (4) of the Subdivision of Outlot No. The soap operas are quite fas- Texas, on the 24th day of October, A. D. ten days from date of publication of this Robert B. Savage and wife, Betty D. Eighteen (18) in Division "0" in the cinating; sometimes I listen to 1956, his Final Account of the condi- citation, the same being the 12th day Savage, L. L. McCandless and the City City of Austin, Travis County, Texas ; tion of the Estate of said Mrs. Bessie of November,• 1956, and answer the pe- of Austin, a municipal corporation, are Plaintiffs allege that on April 9, 1946, them while waiting for the Lone Carr, a person of unsound mind to- tiontition to Declare Heirship, in Cause Defendants, filed in said Court on the said lands and improvements thereon gether with an Application to be dis- Number 14,579, in which Nellie V. 24th day of September, 1956, and the na- were sold and conveyed by defendants Ranger. Occasionally, there is a charged from said Estate. Shurn has filed her petition for a de- ture of which said suit is as follows: Myrtle Manlove and Samuel A. Glass doctor in love with five or six Said Final Account and Application termination and declaration of heir- An action by plaintiff, as holder, on and wife, Annie Glass to plaintiffs as will be heard and acted on by said ship, filed in said Court on the 24th day two promissory notes and for foreclosure reflected by Deed recorded in Book 791, patients at a time (or at least Court on the first Monday next after of October, 1956, and the nature of of the vendor's liens and deed of trust Page 602, since which date Plaintiffs during the same week) and some the expiration of ten days from date which said suit is as follows : liens by which said notes are secured. have used and occupied said lands and of Posting or Publishing this citation, A suit to determine the lawful heirs The property involved is Lot No. 10, improvements, claiming the same as woman whose heart is broken the same being the 12th day of Novem- of Cora L. Woodard, Deceased and Block "A", in Burnet Heights, a sub- their own ; Plaintiffs are claiming title ber, 1956, at the Courthouse thereof in their respective interests or shares are division of a part of the George W. to said lands and improvements by vir- continuously from day to day by Austin, Texas, at which time and place under the laws of this State in the es- Spear League in Austin, Travis County, tue of the three, five and ten year stat- some rapscallion trifling with her all persons interested in the Account tate of such decedent. Texas, according to the map or plat ute of limitation ; Plaintiffs further al- for Final Settlement of said Estate All persons interested in said estate of said Burnet Heights recorded at page lege that as part consideration for sale affections. The cad once jilted are required to appear by filing a writ- are hereby cited to appear before said 39, Volume 5, Travis County Plat Rec- and purchase of said property they exe- her twice on Monday, made a ten answer and contest said account Honorable Court at said above men- ords, together with all improvements cuted and delivered to defendants, Myr- and application should they choose to tioned time and place by filing a writ- thereon, being the same property con- tle E. Manlove and Samuel A. Glass snide remark on Tuesday, com- do so. ten answer contesting such petition veyed by McCandless Homes, Inc. to their one promissory note in the sum of The officer executing this writ shall should they choose to do so. Robert B. and Betty D. Savage by deed' $1633.34, bearing even date of said deed mitted bigamy with her on Wed- promptly serve the same according to The officer executing this writ shall dated May 14, 1949 and recorded at page of conveyance, payable to order of Myr- nesday, ran off with the upstairs requirements of law, and the mandates promptly serve the same according to 125, Volume 977, Deed Records of Tra- tle E. Manlove and Samuel A. Glass, hereof, and make due return as the law requirements of law, and the mandates vis County. Said notes were given by bearing interest from maturity at the maid, the ironing board, and the directs. hereof, and make due return as the law the Savages as part of the consideration rate of 5% per annum, said note being wash pot on •Friday, and came Given under my hand and the seal directs. for said property. Said property was due on or before Oct. 9, 1956; payment of said Court at office in Austin, Texas, GIVEN under my hand and the Seal subsequently transferred by the Savages of same being secured by a vendor's back next Monday for the silver. this the 24th day of October, A. D. of said Court at office in Austin, Texas, to L. L. McCandless, who then trans- lien on said property ; that contempor- 1956. this the 26th day of October, A. D. ferred it to Vesper Lee and Mildred aneously with execution and delivery of (I missed the Thursday episode.) EMILIE LIMBERG 1956. Warwick, who assumed payment of said said deed of conveyance of said prop- BEER DRINKING exceeds even Clerk of the County Court, EMILIE LIMBERG, notes and are now the owners of record erty and said vendor's Hen note on April Travis County, Texas. Clerk of the County Court, of said property. Plaintiff seeks judg- 9, 1946, they entered into a written the drive-in theatres in popular- By M. EPHRAIM, Deputy. Travis County, Texas. ment against Robert B. Savage, Betty contract with said Myrtle E. Manlove, ity. The hops are usually quaffed By M. EPHRAIM, Deputy. D. t avage, L. L. McCandless, Vesper and Samuel A. Glass and wife Annie NO. 14,278 Lee Warwick, and Mildred Warwick, Glass, but that due to the wording and in a sitting position. The sport is IN THE COUNTY COURT AT LAW and each of them severally, in the effect thereof, plaintiffs are not certain OF TRAVIS COUNTY, TEXAS. CITATION BY PUBLICATION amount of $5,975.96, together with in- as to whom payment thereof should be accompanied by chortles, whis- Cabaniss-Brown, Inc. vs. Bobbie Joyce rHE STATE OF TEXAS terest thereon from August 1, 1956, at- made and Plaintiffs tender into Court tles, growls, reflections on the Jackson et vir. TO Derrell J. T. Braswell, Defendant, torney's fees and costs of suit ; fore- and the Registry thereof the sum. of THE STATE OF TEXAS in the hereinafter styled and numbered closure of the liens on the above de- $1633.34 in cash to be disbursed by Or- legitimacy of the marriage vows TO Thomas Jackson, Defendant in the cause: scribed property • judgment that the der of Court to the defendant or defend- taken by one's drinking compan- hereinafter styled and numbered cause: You are hereby commanded to appear title to be obtained at such foreclosure ants adjudged to be the owner or owners You are hereby commanded to appear before the 126th District Court of Travis sale is free and clear of any and all thereof ; Plaintiffs further allege that ions' immediate antecedents, and before the County Court at Law of County, Texas, to be held at the court- liens in favor of the City of Austin they were on April 9, 1946, and still Travis County, Texas, to be held at the house of said county in the City of or the United States of America ; and are the owners in fee simple of said discussions of football, baseball, Courthouse of said County in the City of Austin, Travis County, Texas, at or be- general and special relief. All of which land, premises and improvements but and even women. Austin, Travis County, Texas, at or be- fore 10 o'clock A.M. of the first Monday appears more fully in plaintiff's orig- that on April 9, 1946, defendants un- fore ten o'clock a.m. the first Monday after the expiration of 42 days from inal petition, on file in this office, to lawfully entered upon and dispossessed Beer is the main staple at the after the expiration of 42 days from the the date of issuance hereof ; that is to which reference is here made. • Paintiffs of said premises and withhold country dances, where it some- date of issuance hereof : that is to say, say, at or before, 10 o'clock A.M. of If this citation is not served within from them the possessiomthereof ; Plain- at or before ten o'clock a.m. on Mon- Monday the 19th day of November, 1956, 90 days after date of its issuance, it tiffs further pray for costs of suit and times incites fistic entertainment. day, the 3rd day of December, A. D. and answer the petition of plaintiff in shall be returned unserved. relief, general and special ; 1956, and answer the petition of plain- Witness, 0. T. Martin, Jr., Clerk of The dancers go through a variety Cause Number 105,329, in which Nellie All of which more fully appears from tiff, Cabaniss-Brown, Inc., in Cause No. Marie Braswell is Plaintiff and Derrell the District Courts of Travis County, Plaintiffs' Original Petition on file in of gymnastics. The elder couples 14,278, in which Cabaniss-Brown, Inc., J. T. Braswell is defendant, filed in Texas. this office and to which reference is is the plaintiff, and Bobbie Joyce Jack- said Court on the 5th day of October, Issued and given under my hand and here made; usually dance with an up and son and husband, Thomas Jackson, are 1956, and the nature of which said suit the seal of said Court at office in the If this citation is not served within defendants, filed in said Court on the follows: City of Austin, this the 26th day of 90 days after date of its issuance, it down motion; most of the others 3rd day of October, A. D. 1956, and the is as September, 1956. action and prayer for judg- shall be returned unserved. are content to sail around the nature of which said suit is as follows: Being an 0. T. MARTIN, JR., Witness, 0. T. Martin, Jr., Clerk of For foreclosure of four chattel mort- ment in favor of Plaintiff and against Clerk of the District Courts, the District Courts of Travis County, dance floor dragging their feet in gage liens executed by and for the de- Defendant for decree of divorce dissolv- Travis County, Texas ing the bonds of matrimony heretofore Texas. a counter clockwise direction, fendants as follows: By GEO. W. BICKLER, Deputy • Issued and given under my hand and 1. Dated 24 June, 1955, in the prin- and now existing between said parties ; the seal of said Court at office in the sometimes in step with the music, cipal amount of $174.26. Plaintiff alleges cruel treatment on the CITATION BY PUBLICATION City of Austin, this the 15th day of Oc- 2. Dated 25 June, 1955, in the princi- part of defendant towards her of such a THE STATE OF TEXAS tober, 1956. which is, however, occasionally pal sum of $320.17. nature as to render their further living TO John A. Glass, W. A. Glass and 0. T. MARTIN, JR., obscured by the sound of bare- 3. Dated 9 July, 1955, in the princi- together as husband and wife altogether Sallie E. Glass, and each of them, if Clerk of the District Courts, pal sum of $61.54. insupportable ; Plaintiff further alleges living, and if dead, their unknown heirs Travis County, Texas knuckles against jawbone over in 4. Dated 24 June, 1955. in the princi- that no children were born of said union and legal representatives and the un- By GEO. W. BICKLBR, Deputy. the corner. The usual style of pal sum of $97.91. and no community property accumu- known heirs and legal representatives and secured by chattel mortgage lien on lated ; Plaintiff further prays for the of the unknown heirs of the said John singing is a nasal hum somewhat various items of furniture and house- restoration of her maiden name and for Glass, W. A. Glass and Sallie E. Glass TEXAS, GeTe€63 ; hold equipment, and that the amount is relief, general and special ; and each of them, if their respective un- October 31, 1956 like that of Arabian singers, only now unpaid on said chattel mortgages in All of which more fully appears from known heirs are deceased, Defendants, Page 7 DALLAS SCHOOLS ORDERED Readers Discuss TO PLAN DESEGREGATION DALLAS students, and that a greater per- churches will join us in following Amendment 7 Pro - segregation f or c es centage of white students were the noble example of Dr. Cris- (Two weeks ago the Observer published comment on the nine pro- girded for legal warfare here capable of doing work in their well ..." said Daniel. posed constitutional amendments. In a letter, Charles Alan Wright, after the U. S. Supreme grade than are Negro students. In Texarkana, Rep. John Bell associate professor of law at the School of Law at the University of Court u p h e l d an appeals He reported that achievement Williams of Mississippi, address- Texas took sharp exception to the Observer's position on Amend- court ruling that Federal tests of white and Negro students ing a White Citizens Council ment 7. In consequence of a social discussion, partisans of the amend- Judge William H. Atwell in the fourth, eighth, and twelfth meeting, said there was an "ex- ment got wind of this, and a defense of the amendment was written. must hear the plea of 27 Ne- grades showed that more than 50 cellent chance" of a congressional Its authors: Jack F. Cook and Emilie Heinatz, both Austin attorneys gro children for admission to percent of white students were investigation into alleged com- and chief draftsman and associate draftsman, respectively, of the Dallas 'white schools. achieving at or above their nor- munism in the NAACP. Texas Mental Health Code Drafting Project, among sponsors of which Judge Atwell, on Sept. 5, dis- mal grade placement while a missed as "premature" a com- much lower percent of Negro stu- Williams, a member of the is the Hogg Foundation. The Observer agrees with Mr. Wright, on plaint from the 27 Negro students dents were at or above normal House Subcommittee which re- reconsideration, that the affected person's right to trial by jury must be preserved. The statements below bear on whether the amendment that the Dallas Board of Educa- grade placement. cently conducted hearings in tion had denied the admission to Washington on the integration of does, in fact, preserve this right. —Ed.) white schools. The appeals court Rev. Carey Daniel, pastor of public schools, said the testimony in New Orleans held there was the First Baptist Church of West was "even more shocking than we `Great Privilege' I 'For Human Dignity' "no basis in the evidence for the Dallas and vice president of the anticipated." He warned that in- action taken by the district judge, Texas Citizens Council of Dallas tegration in Southern schools To the Editor: To the Editor: nor none in law for the reasons (and a cousin of Senator Price must be "prevented if the present I applaud your denunciation of Proposed constitutional amend- given by him in support of his Daniel), proposed that his church level of achievement is to be proposed constitutional amend- action." and its three buildings be used maintained." He said testimony ment No. 7 will make four basic ment No. 8. It is remarkable that for an all-white school if the Pub- during the hearing showed that changes in our procedures for the people of Texas should be The Supreme Court refused to lic schools were forced to inte- student achievement in desegre- commitment of persons to a men- review the appeals court decision, grate. gated schools "declined in direct asked to approve a constitutional tal hospital: thus referring the case back to Daniel said the school would ratio to the number of Negroes in amendment which would permit Judge Atwell to hold the full teach evolution "as a damnable the student body." denial of the ancient and honor- 1) It requires that commitment hearing on the demand for inte- heresy and not as scientific In Houston, the segregation able right of bail in certain cases. be based upon competent medical gration of Dallas public schools. fact" and that the "one world question became a principal issue But it is puzzling to me that you or psychiatric testimony; 2) it au- do not evidence the same con- thorizes an appeal from the judg- ideology" of the United Na- in the school board election The Dallas school board, cern for historic liberties in your ment of the county court in com- through Supt. W. T. White, issued tions would be condemned. where one Negro candidate, Rev. "The children would be taught Robert E. Hayes, entered the race. discussion of amendment No. 7. mitment case s; 3) it allows two reports in a desegregation The right of bail is important, but waiver of a jury trial, and 4) it study showing that the majority such love and respect for Old Hayes said he wanted the job be- Glory that they could never cause he believes "we could work the right to trial by jury is fun- requires that the proposed patient of Negro students were "under- damental to freedom. be given personal notice of the achievers" and that integration stand to think of any other flag, out a long-range program, and I national or international, flying think long-range planning would hearing and of his right to, de- would lower educational stand- It is true that the amendment is mand a trial by jury. ards. above them," he said. have better effect." He warned couched in terms of permitting The move of the West Dallas that conservative candidates who waiver of jury trial, rather than The passage of Amendment No. White said that integrated church followed that of the First have firmly declared against in- making a jury mandatory, as it is 7 will not deprive a person of any schools would result in much Baptist Church of Dallas where tegration. "are courting suits, and today, in lunacy proceedings. But rights he now has under our ex- frustration among pupils and stu- pastor Dr. W. A. Criswell an- if they continue to court suits, I apprehend that in practice the isting constitutional or statutory dents, that there would be a large nounced a similar action several they will have them." Election of effect of the amendment will be law. On the contrary • it will pro- number of schools in Dallas at- weeks ago. "We are doing this bitter pro-segregation candidates virtually to abolish jury trial of vide two very important safe- tended by a "relatively" large with the hope and prayer that would constitute a "dare to the this kind of case. The person in guards of a person's-civil liber- number of both white and colored thousands of other Southern Negro people," he said. question cannot meaningfully ties. Even though diagnosis of waive a jury; by hypothesis he is mental illness is strictly a medi- sick. And his next-of-kin, who cal or psychiatric problem, under could waive jury trial for him our present laws a person may be under the amendment, are just indefinitely committed to a men- The Week in Texas the people against whom the sick tal institution without the bene- • A Bryan man, C. T. Vaugh- • South Park High School of- O A Valley delegation of farm- person must be protected. History fit of any medical or psychiatric an, was given a year and a ficials disapproved of imi- ers and others asked the is filled with cases of sane per- testimony. And once judgment is day after he was found guilty of tations of the Elvis Presley hairdo government in Washington to sons who have been erroneously entered by the county court, drenching'a shoe shine boy, John and garb by boy students. The make its cotton loan program committed to mental hospitals at there is no right of appeal. Holt, with lighter fluid and set- principal, J. Ross Jones, asked conform to Valley's early grow- the instance of their family. Amendment No. 7 will eliminate these obvious defects and dan- ting him afire "as a joke." the boys to "leave the fancy hair- ing season and to let farmers ex- I am 'disappointed to find a lib- gers in our present law by requir- dos to the girls" and please not change braceros in certain situa- ertarian journal. referring to trial • The Pharr city council has ing medical or psychiatric testi- "wear their shirts open to the belt tions. by jury as a "humiliating proce- put an 11 o'clock curfew on mony and providing for the right buckle." Especially upsetting to dure." For a good many centur- persons under 18 through May 31 O Right-of-way for 2905 miles of appeal. him: hairdos he called "busy dog" ies Anglo-Saxon people have of next year. Parents of offend- of federal-state highway will or "foldover." agreed with Blackstone that "it Amendment No. 7 will not abol- ers can be fined $1 to $100. cost $272 million. It will be paid is the most transcendent privilege ish jury trials nor eliminate the O Houston police nabbed 31 by state and federal funds in- which any subject can enjoy, or right to trial by jury. It does al- • Joseph Mashman, a Dallas addicts and charged them stead of local communities. wish for, that he cannot be ,af- low a person to avoid the embar- pilot, says he is the first under the state's 1955 addiction fected either in his property, his rassment and humiliation of a man to fly across the highest law, which makes addiction a O The Texas Farm Bureau liberty, or his person, but by the public jury trial in order to ob- Andes range between Chile and felony punishable by a three-year asked Secretary of Agricul- unanimous consent of twelve of tain needed medical and psychi- Argentina in a helicopter. penitentiary sentence. A federal ture Ezra Taft Benson to let R. his neighbors and equals." atric' treatment. judge in Houston convicted ten farmers and ranchers buy surplus State commanders of the • persons of operating a dope ring feed grains at the same rates that The implications of your state- In order to waive trial by jury, American Legion, V F W, by telephone, telegraph, and tele- dealers now enjoy exclusively. ment that juries are not schooled DAV, Amvets, and Jewish War the amendment requires that an graph money order in Houston, in what 'constitutes insanity are express agreement be signed by Veterans endorsed the proposed O State Highway Commissioner Chicago, Dallas, and New York deeply disturbing. Carried to its the proposed patient, or his next constitutional am en dm e n t to E. H. Thornton Jr. says that after heroin and cocaine valued at logical conclusion, it would. mean of kin, and an attorney appointed boost the veterans' land program an express highway from Orange more than $100,000 retail was in- the abolition of the jury system. to represent him. That means to a $200 million program. to Brownsville, running through troduced in evidence. Houston and down the Gulf Coast For almost every lawsuit today there must be a concurrence be- • W. Lee O'Daniel's six insur- to Mexico, will cost hundreds of involves technical and complex tween at least two persons to ance companies—which • An attorney for the Moody issues in which jurors are not waive jury trial. The question has Estate says the government's millions but is necessary to the showed combined insurance pre- rapidly expanding Gulf economy schooled. We have preserved the been raised - "Does the amend- miums in force of less than $200,- tax claim of $1.6 million will be jury system — though at present ment, by allowing the next-of-kin contested. He claims that Only and may be a reality "in parts" 000 before the 1955 Texas insur- within the next four years. it is under serious, and possibly and an attorney to sign the jury ance law requiring at least that about $200,000 is at issue. successful, attack by eastern in- waiver, in effect deprive the pro- much went into effect—are now O More than 300 cases of sleep- tellectuals—because we believe posed patient of the right of trial O A propane gas explosion up to snuff. All companies which ing sickness have been re- that if the experts have a good by jury?" The answer to this killed a school janitor and had been in business before the ported in Texas this year, com- case they will be able to spell it question is "No." Amendment No. the star football halfback at law went into effect attested to pared to 400 in 1955. out in terms which the jury can 7 explicitly preserves the right Southmayd, Texas, school, and the Insurance Commission that comprehend, and because it is of trial by jury in such cases by but for the quick thinking of two O Rep. Joe Pool of Dallas says they had not less than 100 poli- our faith that law speaks without saying: teachers and a principal, who led he will introduce a bill next cies and $200,000 insurance in authority save when it reflects 50 children. out of the building session of the Legislature to in- force. the common conscience of the "(The Legislature) .... shall when they smelled escaping gas clude solicitation of any legisla- community, as voiced by the jtuy. provide for a method of service minutes before the explosion, a tion, whether for profit or not, of notice of such trial-upon the major catastrophe would have oc- under the barratry statute that is Doubtless we need reform of person under inquiry and of his IF YOU BUY A CAR, A HOUSE; curred. figuring in the NAACP case our mental health laws. And the right to demand trial by jury." If any of your policies expire—CALL brought by Atty. Gen. J. B. Shep- motives of those who have pro- O The Houston zoo received perd. posed this amendment are surely The effect of this requirement `Bow' gifts of a 20-pound capybara of the best. But the way to is that a trial by jury shall not be O Apparently Washington con- (the largest rodent species in the achieve this reform is not to denied if it is demanded. fusion isn't limited to Demo- Williams world), a 14-foot anaconda, and a start by depriving these unfor- crats. Postmaster Raymond .Hrus- A vote "Yes" on amendment Automobile and 550-pound Galapagos tortoise. tunate sick people of their best General Insurance ka of West, Texas, has been trying No. 7 is a vote for human dignity. protection. A "No" vote on 624 Lamar without success to get the Post GR 2-0545 O Oklahoma and Texas high- Amendment Number Seven will JACK F. COOK Office Department to build a new AUSTIN, TEXAS way commissions approved be, in your own phrase, "a vote MISS EMILIE HEINATZ post office building. Last week Represents ICT Insurance Co. and construction of new bridges over for the Anglo-Saxon legacy of in- he got an official request to send other standard stock companies dividual rights." THE TEXAS OBSERVER LET'S ABOLISH THE POLL TAX' the Red River near Denison and a picture of his new post office to

Burkburnett, Texas. Washington. CHARLES ALAN WRIGHT Page 8 October 31, 1956