The Texas Observer An Independent-Liberal Weekly Newspaper A Window to the South

Vol. 53 TEXAS, APRIL 25, 1961 15c per copy No. 3

An Editorial Speculation on Senate, Governor 5he mortal 45 SALES TAX MAKES IT There comes a time, in the dormant (36 other states hav- AUSTIN Speculation in Austin now cen- the governor has never firmly reporting of state affairs, when ing passed such a law), they It was a patchwork coali- ters on Gov. Price Daniel. As a said he would wield the veto on persistent foe of a general sales a sales tax. a newspaper of whatever poli- voted for the banks. In the tion of hard-core conserva- fight over the revised franchise tives, a few moderates, and a tax, will he veto the bill if it If the bill clears the Senate, tical persuasion concerned with tax, which would have made handful of dissident liberals passes the Senate? His statement Daniel has the choice of either the greater welfare of the aver- the burden fall less heavily on who this week put the 1961 just after House passage, though vetoing, signing it, or merely let- age citizen of the domain must the small Texas businessman Texas House of Representa- critical, was cautiously non-corn- ting it become law without his tell the people who their real (only one other state having tives in the history books as mital. "I am not going to stand signature. While the legislature idly by and let 90 percent of the is in session he has ten days to enemies are. failed to pass such a formula), the House that passed the they voted with the large inter- sales tax. tax load be put on the already sign or veto, twenty days out of overloaded family budgets," he session. Four weeks now remain It is no pleasant task. We state corporations. In the fight over the "loophole" bill, when said—but there was no mention in the regular session; the gov- cannot pretend to fathom the the revised franchise tax Willie Morris of a veto. Questioned in the past, (Continued on Page 3) complex motivations of indi- again emerged and when the The success of the measure, vidual representatives in an issue of retiring the state's which survived its first and most elective democracy. We are all deficit could not have been crucial test by one vote and then too well aware than one can more clear, they again voted cruised home on final passage by Houston Crowd against the home-based Texas interpret the decisions of elec- 14, caught House anti-sales tax industry and against a partial forces totally by surprise. When tive officials in the broader solution to the state's financial the two-day debate started Thurs- idiom of the inherent failures needs that would not hit the day morning, opponents did not Cheers Birch Head and shortcomings of the dem- consumer. give it a chance. HOUSTON Hume Everett, attorney for the ocracy itself, of its sad mis- This list is straightforward. Three thousand American- Ohio Oil Co., keynoter of a Free- dom in Action convention, one- informations, its awkward hesi- It is undiluted. It does not in- ists heard what they wanted time speaker on a Christian Anti- tations, its tragic weaknesses clude conscientious and con- to hear Robert Welch say this week, and then some. Communism Crusade program, in the face of greater strengths cerned conservatives — Reed Quilliam and Menton Murray, They pledged allegiance and but functioning Tuesday evening and greater powers. We feel, as president of the Houston chap- for example—who have under- sang the anthem and cascaded ter of the Sons of the American nonetheless, that the average stood the problem and voted down upon the tomb of Joe Revolution, opened the evening's citizen of Texas has a right to with the people in one or two McCarthy a thunderous ova- ceremonies by telling the photog- know. or three instances. tion. It was a whing-ding for the right wing. raphers they could photograph A vote against the escheats Only ten days before, the sales- The leader of the John Birch Welch while he posed at the mic- bill, by itself, might be ex- taxers had withdrawn the Allen- Society told the packed Music rophones, but could not take any plained in terms of overween- Harding sales tax from the House Hall that the federal and some pictures during his speech. "So ing pressures from local bank- calendar because it did not have state governments are controlled have at it—Shoot us any way you ers; or against the mild and the votes. A conservative caucus by the communists and their cap- want it, except dead," Everett simple franchise tax revision the night before Thursday's de- tives. said. in terms of overweening pres- bate, skeptical of Trinity liberal The defenders of Welch teet sures from corporations offi- Charles Wilson's sponsorship of Ronnie Dugger they have been embattled by the cials in a district ; or against the sales tax, was seriously split U.S. press, particularly Time Mag- the "loophole" bill in terms of azine. Welch had refused to have on tactics. It was only after the The New Deal was "foreign, overweening pressures from a press conference on arriving in fight had started that conserva- phony, and a failure." The com- There were 76 members of the Austin lobby to avoid fore- Houston, and the day before he tives quietly went to work in munists engineered the defeat of the Texas House of Representa- stalling a sales tax and hence had told a Dallas reporter he does earnest. Moving from one victory Robert Taft in the contest for the tives who voted this week for making a tax on the man mak- not talk to newspapers that are to another, they gradually 1952 Republican nomination for a general retail sales tax. These ing $2500 a year with four against his Society. brought the situation under firm president. The communists want- 76 well knew that the tax they children and a house mortgage control. ed to destroy McCarthy because Rev. T. Robert Ingram, rector were voting would fall heavily more easy. But a vote against The House-passed bill would his method was "to expose com- of St. Thomas Episcopal Church on the low to middling income all of these, coupled with a levy a two percent tax on all re- munists," Welch said. and an opponent, of the United groups in Texas. Some 21 of vote for a sales tax, is most Nations and the welfare state, de- tail sales, with exemptions on When he declared, "Basically, them, in their own judgment, indicative. For these, let there livered the invocation. He asked food, medicine, farm machinery, and with very minor exceptions, had voted for previous taxes— be no doubt, are the elected that the President "use the force and several other diverse items. indeed, there was nothing wrong taxes which in very small meas- representatives who can stake of this people only to the punish- Wilson, who masterfully guided with McCarthy's methods from ure would draw upon sources no claim to Jefferson's dictum, ment of wickedness in other gov- the bill through a host of amend- the point of view of the patriotic other than the modest and lim- "The average man of the com- ernments" and then led the assem- ments, estimated its yield at $127 American," the arched ceiling al- ited spending potential of those monwealth, without the power million annually. bly in the Lord's Prayer. families which, in the suppos- to expect the aid and sympa- most billowed off into the night It goes now to the Senate, from the applause. After the pledge of allegiance, edly lucrative and sometimes thy of the gentleman he elects, Donald Peters, American Legion bawdy economy of the state should nonetheless expect his where sentiment for such a meas- ure is know to be stronger even Giggles and F.I.A. leader who a week be- of Texas, have not found the aid and sympathy, because "I can find you a lot more Har- fore assisted in thwarting a Texas going easy. without his proper representa- than in the House. How, specifi- cally, the conservative upper vard accents in communist circles Legion endorsement of the Birch- tion in the American system today than you can find me over- ers, led in the singing of the na- There is another group out he is but a cloud in the wind, chamber will deal with it remains of this 76, numbering 45, who problematical, however. With all all," he quipped to the crowd's tional anthem and the fourth or a simple atom in the uni- vast delight. verse of the Battle Hymn of the have not found the decision so verse." 31 senators up for re-election next difficult. They have voted at year, a sales tax is considered po- Furthermore, 7,000 Protestant Republic. every turn against the people. The following representa- litical dynamite, and a voice vote clergymen in the United States Everett explained that the group In the fight over the escheats tives are those who have voted on final passage would be greatly are "comsymps." And what is a of elderly men on the stage were bill, which merely would have AGAINST the escheats bill, preferred. But it would be a ma- comsymp? "Either a communist all officials of the Sons of the given to the people those funds the revised franchise tax, and jor surprise if the Senate did not or a sympathizer with communist American Revolution. Everett which rightfully belong to the "loophole" bill, and FOR approve the bill in its essentials. purposes—and," Welch said with said he believed the U.S. govern- them and for years have lain a general retail sales tax : the suggestion of a chuckle, "you ment is based on belief in God; ■ * don't have to define just what the that all men are created equal Adams, J. Collier (Lubbock) Harding, Forrest (San Angelo) relationship is in there." A wom- but "are not made so by govern- Allen, John (Longview) Heatly, Bill (Paducah) an in the crowd giggled and Andrews, Tom (Aransas Pass) Hughes, Bob (Dallas) ment"; that the words of the Atwell, Ben (Dallas) James, Tom (Dallas) clapped; a general applause arose. President's oath of office to up- Banfield, Mrs. Myra (Rosenberg) Jarvis, Ben (Tyler) He closed his 95-minute talk Barnes, Ben (DeLeon) Johnson, Bob (Dallas) hold the 'Constitution "need no Bartram, Ray (New Braunfels) Johnson, J. E. (Temple) with angry denunciations of the interpretation . . . they mean ex- Bell, Marshall (San Antonio) Jones, Bill (Dallas) communists' "God of hate" and actly what they say"; and that Blaine, John (El Paso) Martin, Lloyd (Normangee) calls to the fighting banner of Butler, Jerry (Kenedy) Miller, W. H. (Houston) treason as set forth in the Con- Connell, Jack (Wichita Falls) Parsons, Sam (Henderson) the free world's "God of love." stitution includes giving the na- Cory, Dick (Victoria) Petty, Olen (Levelland) Tickets to the event were hard tion's enemies "aid and comfort." Cowles, Nelson (Hallsville) Ratcliff, Joe (Dallas) to come by. Evidently the Birch- Crain, Jack (Ringgold) Read, David (Big Spring) The S.A.R.'s, he said, "do not nec- Crews, David (Conroe) Roberts, Wesley (Lamesa) ers passed them out judiciously essarily endorse" Welch but want- Currington, Paul (Corsicana) Rosson, Renal (Snyder) to members and friends of tested De la Garza, Eligio (Mission) Shipley, Donald (Houston) ed him to have free speech. Ehrle, Will (Childress) Slider, James (Naples) political vintage. All seats were Fairchild, Robert (Center) Snelson, Pete (Midland) reserved. When one tried to buy a Punch Line Garrison, Don (Houston) Spilman, Wade (McAllen) ticket from a lady selling Birch Welch is a relaxed, sometimes Gibbens, Wayne (Breckenridge) Tunnell, Byron (Tyler) Grover, Henry (Houston) Walker, Bill (Cleveland) blue books and lives of Birch in homey man. He reads the same Wilson, J. Edgar (Amarillo) the lobby, she said she had none, long, somewhat didactic speech Two others, Ben Lewis of Dallas and Roger Thurmond of Del but "Some of the chapter leaders everywhere he goes on his cur- Rio, voted against escheats and franchise and for the sales tax may come in from other places rent tour. He strings out his sen- and recorded themselves "present and not voting" on the "loop- with some." (Continued on Page 8) hole" bill.) Daniel: The Big Question Lyndon Endorses Cole's Plea Spears' Rate Bill Postpones Blakley in Run-off Martin Bill Doesn't Carry AUSTIN to such Kennedy ideas as social AUSTIN AUSTIN tinuing to get its rightful share While conservative Republi- security medical care, farm sub- After Rep. Criss Cole of With fights already under- of the budget. They also fear can John Tower and equally sidies, and the Peace Corps—is Houston warned that "you are way, or promised, over legis- that admission of UH to the sys- conservative Interim Senator not likely to give much atten- dealing a blow to the blind of lation relating to such diverse tem will open the floodgates to Bill Blakley continued to sing tion. Texas," the House state affairs topics as an income tax, a appeals from numerous junior their bizarre chorus of "Any- It was this type of dickering committee postponed until state-supported University of colleges in the state yearning for thing You Can Conserve, I Can that led former state Republican this week any action on Rep. Houston, and a national park four-year standing. Conserve Better," that faction chairman Thad Hutcheson, Hous- Lloyd Martin's legislation stif- for Padre Island, liberals in the After the expected spot of op- of the Democratic party which ton, to remark this week that fening penalties for sit-in dem- capitol might be able to put position from Sen. Doyle Willis, the Associated Press has call- Blakley "has no chance to win onstrators. out of their mind the bad week Fort Worth, the Carling Brewery ed "the liberal liberals" seemed unless his teammates can get him Cole, a blind war veteran, com- that lay behind. bill passed the Senate by a vote still to be looking for the near- brass collar party support from plained that if the bill were of 13-11. The bill—tailored to suit est exit. many who secretly despise him." passed, a blind person ordered Sometimes it was a liberal Carling's ambitions—would allow One such group in San Antonio Blakley named Maurice Bullock, from a business by an owner who cause that was out-ployed, as when a brewery manufacturing ale to apparently has found the exit Fort Stockton lawyer, his cam- refused to have a seeing-eye dog the sales tax was approved in stay in business even though the they want. This is the Demo- paign manager and said he would on the premises would be de- the House, and sometimes the area in which it is established cratic Forum, which announced formally open his run-off cam- prived of any legal recourse. loser was a liberal but the cause votes dry, and also allows a brew- acidly that "having to choose be- paign with a barbecue affair in A subcommittee had just given he espoused carried no clear cut ery to make ale and beer with a tween two Republicans is no func- Waco May 5. the bill, which would levy a fine stamp of faction. higher alcoholic content than can tion for Democrats" and urged Repeating "I am a conservative" of $100-$500 on any person who Such was the case with the be sold in Texas, for shipment Democrats of their sentiments to with all the bold monotony of a refuses to leave a business when shipper rate bill that San Antonio out of state. Carling plans to stay home on election day. drill sergeant calling cadence, he is ordered to by a proprietor liberal Franklin Spears saw scut- build a $20 million plant near This is the attitude which Tower nevertheless is leaving the and when it becomes "unequivo- tled in the House on third read- Fort Worth. Blakley dreads most, wrote Dal- definition of conservatism pretty cally" clear the business is being ing by a vote of 65 to 71. The bill, las News political expert Allen much un-jelled. hurt, a favorable report. HB 156, had been accepted by Rep. Bob Mullen, liberal from Duckworth, who said that Blak- He told SMU students he is a the House by a 72-71 vote, with Old Feud Alice, offered two amendments ley's crowd predicts victory if the "moderate" on civil rights, but Speaker James Turman breaking A proposed constitutional turnout reaches as much as did not elaborate; he said he is lessening the severity of the pen- a tie, and approved for engross- amendment cleared the House 900,000, but fears any widespread "apprehensive" about the Peace alty. ment by a vote of 71-70. 106-39 and is now in the Senate, stay-at-home movement — which Corps plan, but did not spell out "I think a more moderate pen- which would require automatic Four representatives reversed is being talked only by Demo- his fears; he said he thought the alty is in order," Mullen told the congressional redistricting after their vote between engrossment crats—would seriously imperil his John Birch Society's idea to im- committee. "This could be used each federal census by a "watch- and final reading, and thus re- chances, since Tower is expected peach Chief Justice Eral Warren against the Latins, too. They've dog" board of five elective offi- versed the bill's victory trend. to have even more strength in is "legally impractical" but re- had troubles like this in the past. cials, who would act if it consid- We're showing a lot of respect for the runoff than he did in the fused to pass judgment on the The bill was opposed by truck- ered that the legislature had fail- property—we should show some recent 71-man steeplechase. society itself. ers, favored by the railroads. It ed to do the job correctly. And in Washington, newsman respect for persons too." The $100- Nor is Tower coming forward would have permitted , shippers The old feud between Reps. W. Leslie Carpenter reported that $500 fine, he said, "is not in line with many fresh political quips. He to change rates if, after publica- E. Berry, San Antonio, and Bill Blakley is seeking advice from with a non-violent activity of this told University of Texas students, tion of the rate change, it was Heatly, Paducah, over Berry's ef- the political alchemists on "how type, especially when compared "I have no influence with LBJ not contested via the Railroad forts in behalf of horse racing he can pull liberal and moderate with the fines for physical as- and Mr. Sam, but more import- Commission. If the rate change flared briefly into the open this votes without forfeiting his con- sault." His first amendment pro- ant, they have no influence with were opposed, the commission week as Heatly moved that Berry's servative strength." posed to decrease the penalty to me"—but he has been saying that would hold a hearing to deter- bill calling for a state-wide refer- Carpenter adds with dry humor: a $25-$100 range. since long before the first ballot- mine the matter. Under the pres- endum on,track betting be re-com- "He is a little disturbed over the Rep. W. 'T. Dungan of McKin- ing. ent routine, rate charges come mitted to the state affairs com- widespread opinion in Texas that ney, chairman of the subcommit- Admitting that he will ask arch- only after a hearing. Opponents mittee. But Heatly's move lost by he and Tower see virtually all tee and a leading supporter of conservative Sen. Barry Gold- of the measure claimed it would a vote of 68-53. national issues the same way." the Martin bill, made the motion water, Arizona, to tour the state have invited an unjustified wave Blakley got help this week, but to table Mullen's amendment. It The old question of what's-in- again for him and adding that of cut-throat competition between nog the kind to impress Texas was tabled by a surprisingly close a-name still fluttered absurdly he would "prefer" that ex-Vice shippers. liberals, from Vice President Lyn- 9-7 vote. Voting with Mullen were around the Senate chambers this President Richard Nixon stay out don Johnson who, while stressing Caldwell, Joe Cannon of Mexia, The bill to make the University week as North Texas State Col- of it, Tower urged the Republican that he wasn't trying "to dictate Cole, Alonzo Jamison of Denton, of Houston a part of the state- lege, the former North Texas State state executive committee, meet- the views of • votes of others," Charles Sandahl of AuStin, and supported system of higher edu- Teachers College, moved a step ing in Austin, "Let's show them announced that he would vote H. G. Wells of Tulia. cation sailed through the House, nearer ben; re-dubbed University (all U.S. conservatives) the Texas for Blakley because he is "a A second amendment by Mul- and now heads for treatment by of North Texas. The bill that votes are no longer in the hip good Democrat" and had four len, reducing the fine range to the Senate state affairs commit- would do it, sponsored by Sen. pocket of Sam Rayburn or Lyn- months' worth of seniority on $50-250, might have carried. Rep. tee, headed by Sen. Wardlow Tom Creighton of Mineral Wells, don Johnson or Paul Butler or committee assignments. Bill Pieratt joined the other seven Lane, 'who is not expected to treat was recommended favorably by Wayne Morse." The seniority gambit is a favor- and a motion to table was de- it gently since he is presently the Senate education committee. ite one among Blakley supporters, It was the remark about Nixon feated, 8-7. Just before the vote filibustering against a similar bill and the Tower camp in an effort that prompted Blakley manager on the amendment iself, Cole took on the Senate floor. Rep. Jack Woods of Waco, for- to counteract it came forward Bullock to thrust with the ques- the microphone. mer school teacher whose actions Admission of UH to the system with a telegram from Everett tion, "Does this mean Tower has "It's with reluctance that I in the legislature have not always will double the budget for higher met the approval of the powerful Dirkson, Republican minority repudiated Nixon and the Repub- stand before this committee," Cole education and opponents of the lobby, the Texas State Teachers leader of the Senate, saying, "I lican party?" Tower called the said. "But we're getting ready to measure—including Sens. Hubert Assn., this week saw into sub- want you to know that if you question a "slur." do something that's not intended Hudson, Brownsville, and Bill committee his bill that would en- are elected senator, and we sin- Tower also charged Blakley's by the sponsors and the support- Moore, Bryan—contend that the courage men to enter the teach- cerely hope you will be, I per- workers with waging a whisper- ers of this bill." He charged that school would pose a serious threat ing profession by establishing a sonally give you every assurance ing campaign against him, but the bill would discriminate against to the University of Texas' con- pay raise system that would re- that I shall endeavor to give refused to elaborate except for persons with seeing-eye dogs. "I ward both experience and head-of- you committee assignments which one example: "They are whisper- think I'm deserving of the right house responsibility. will be both fruitful and beneficial ing that I attended that socialist to go into any business so long as blind or anyone else. We felt if a to Texas." London School of Economics and my dog is clean and takes care of blind person were not allowed to The TSTA is sponsoring a bill While Johnson's prontise of one Political Science. herself," he said. Last Sunday, come into a business, that person that would give $810 across the vote from Blakley was hardly "The fact that I attended the Cole said, he was walking into a wouldn't want to go there in the board increase. Woods' bill would a surprising announcement, neith- school is listed in all my cam- restaurant with friends "and the first place." give only $234 across the board, er was the announcement this paign literature. On of the reasons lady said, 'no, no dogs are al- The committee granted Cole un- but would supplement pay by the week by the State Democratic I attended was that I wanted to lowed.' I •eft." til this week to prepare an above criteria in such a way as to executive committee of its sup- learn how those Socialists Dungan told there was no in- amendment prohibiting discrimi- make possible even a higher raise port for Texas' interim senator. thought." tent to discriminate "against the nation against the blind. than proposed by TSTA. Others announcing this week their willingness to labor in the Blakley vineyard: Mrs. H. H. Weinert of Seguin, Democratic PICKETING AN EPISCOPAL SCHOOL national committeewoman, and AUSTIN copalians." would be picketed until he re- him," and Byram said, tilting his Nevil Penrose of Fort Worth, ex- School " integration in Austin The school board for the private ceived a phone call from a teacher head toward the Negro students, chairman of the Texas Good took a novel turn Thursday, fea- elementary school, which is lo- at the school Monday morning see you brought some of yours Neighbor Commission. Penrose turing an inter - Episcopalian cated in Austin's prosperous north while the picketing was in prog- with you." said of Blakley: "He is faithful squabble over segregated St. An- side, had voted to maintain a seg- ress. When Buck said every Christian to his beliefs and is a fearless drew's School. Rev. Louis Buck, regation policy during the school The Rev. Buck stated, "At this must answer to God, Byram re- fighter." vicar of predominantly Negro St. year 1960-61 when parents of two time, my position is entirely torted, "You're going • to have to Faithfulness notwithstanding, James church, -and Jack Wood- Negro, children asked for permis- summed up in what you can read answer to some people around the Young Democrats of Texas ward, an Episcopal layman, staged sion to register their children in on the signs," and declined any here, too." still don't like many of Blakley's a picketing demonstration at the September. further comment. Byram stood by while the pick- beliefs and, in Galveston conven- school. The 24-member board voted When Byram, alerted by the eting continued and made placa- tion, said they would endorse him Buck and Woodward, accompa- April 17 to continue segregation teacher, showed up at the picket tory remarks to parents who drove for senator only if he promises ned by several young Negro wom- during 1961-62, stipulating that line, he was obviously disturbed. up with their children for school. to embrace Kennedy's New Fron- en, manned pickets reading, "This the issue would be reviewed, if Whipping his car into the curb Friday, Buck was back with his tier program, which is a demand is a protest of the segregation ac- necessary, at future board meet- so fast and close that Buck felt picket signs, strengthened in that Blakley—judging from his tion of the St. Andrew's Episcopal ings, according to R. W. Byram, compelled to dodge onto the curb, force by three Episcopal seminary previous clearly-stated opposition School board—Do not support seg- Austin businessman and school Byram jumped out and demanded students who marched with him. regation." and "The segregation board chairman. an explanation. Buck said his picketing would THE TEXAS OBSERVER policy of St. Andrew's Episcopal Byram stated that he had not Buck responded that "all God's continue indefinitely. Page 2 April 25, 1961 School is unfair to Negro Epis- been informed that the school children have equal rights before KEITH STANFORD Two-Day House Fight Ends in Sales Tax (Continued From Page 1) to "take my tax along with this was really on for a sales tax. of school legislation and co-author Wilson, concluding the two-day ernor's decision will likely be regressive tax." "I'm for this bill—and I want of the Hale-Aikin program. His battle, said "this Is one of the the big news. Don Kennard of Fort Worth, the lobby to get theirs, too. I want amendment would have ear- largest tax bills ever passed by Even at $127 million a year, the supporting the Korioth proposal, an escheats bill as much as any marked $54.5 million annually, the Texas House." sales tax will fall considerably said "a lot of people won't vote man in this House. I want a cor- about half, from the sales tax for short of state revenue needs. for this sales tax if you don't in- porate income tax and taxes on an $800 teachers' pay raise. David Crews, conservative from Conroe, took the back mike just Daniel estimated it would be $50 clude some of these amendments. oil and gas as much as any man Accusations and counter-accu- before the final vote. "The Bible million shy, counting the House- How can you go back to your vot- in this House." But he urged that sations of "hypocrisy" and "petty and the Lord's name have been passed "loophole" bill now in ers after having voted for a sales a sales tax be passed first. politics" enlivened the debate on brought into this debate several Senate subcommittee, and includ- tax and against a corporation in- Hale's proposal. "This will be the times," he said. "Isn't there some- ing a teachers' pay raise. House come tax ?" The Key Vote only tax bill passed at this legis- thing in the Old Testament about liberals can be expected now to "Taken with a sales tax," Ko- The time had come for the ma- lature for the Hale-Aikin program tithes?" go all out for additional business rioth argued, "this would give us jor vote of the session, on per- or any other program," Hale taxes. $356 million in taxes for the bi- haps the largest single tax meas- warned. Turman called for the vote. ure ever passed by either Texas. ennium. It would start us down Reed Quilliam, citing that a two- After the first close tally and the house. The first vote was on adop- Amendments Whipped the road to first-class progressive thirds vote would be required to wider ten-vote margin of the day Only three minor amendments tion of Wilson's substitute to the taxation." But Korioth, in his attach the amendment on third- before, it was all anti-climax. The bill which came out of committee to the bill were accepted, while turn, took defeat, and the debate reading, accused Hale of wanting board flashed the decisive figure: 16 w e slapped down. They in- —in effect a preliminary vote to on amendments went late into the his amendment killed. "I am 76-62, followed by a mild round cludel an income tax by Bob engrossment. afternoon. shocked at Mr. Hale's tactics," of applause . Eckhardt of Houston, tabled 125- Quilliam said. "I resent this jeop- The 76 who voted yes on final 17; a corporation profits tax by `Next Election' ardizing of the teachers' pay Tony Korioth of Sherman (80- passage: Joe Cannon, liberal from Mexia, raise." He said Hale "wants the 60); a one-factor corporation in- and Kennard, liberal from amendment to be killed to make Adams, Lubbock; Adams, Mt. come tax by Maco Stewart of Gal- Fort Worth, were matched against the people think those who vote Pleasant; Allen, Longview; An- veston (80-63) ; a revised tax on Wilson and Byron Tunnell, con- against it are not for the Hale- drews, Aransas Pass; Atwell, Dal- crude oil by Eckhardt, lessening servative from Tyler, in the first Aikin program." las; Ballman, Borger; Banfield, the levy on independents and in- day's summary debate. Kika de la Garza, Lloyd Martin, Rosenberg; Barnes, DeLeon; Bart- creasing it on major importers "Look at the people who're Jack Woods, Wesley Roberts, and ram, New Braunfels; Bell, San (87-53) ; a one percent across-the- backing this bill," Cannon said, Terry Townsend, pro-sales tax Antonio; Blaine, El Paso; Buchan- board sales tax without exemp- "and find out whether it's coming conservatives, accused Hale of us- an, Dumas;, Burgess, Nacogdo- tions by Maurice Pipkin of Tension was heavy in the vast from the people or from some- ing the amendment as a "political ches; Butler, Kenedy; Chapman, Brownsville (91-50) ; and separate chamber as the vdting machine one else." Rep. Korioth wrote football." When de la Garza spoke Sulphur Springs; Cole, Houston; amendments by Max Carriker of ground and clicked. There was letters to Tom Sealy, chairman of of "political hypocrisy," Hale ans- Ccle, Greenville; Connell, Wichita Roby for $100, then $50, then $25 one great gasp from floor and wered, "I don't appreciate that Falls; Cory, Victoria; Cowles, deductible sales taxes (103-38, 99- the Citizens for a Sales Tax, ask- gallery when the score flashed remark. Who are you accusing of Hallsville; Crain, Ringgold; Crews, 45, 91-53). ing where the funds for the sales 70-70. tax campaign were coming from, political hypocrisy?" Conroe; Curington, Corsicana. Other amendments exempting Seconds later Ben Lewis of Dal- Cannon said, without getting an "Those who vote to spend mon- clothing, household furniture, las, cigar in mouth, ambled in De la Garza, Mission; Dungan, answer. He charged that "the ey and then won't vote for taxes," books, soap and detergents, and from the back corridor. He cast McKinney; Ehrle, Childress; Fair- large out-of-state interests are de la Garza replied. baby diapers and coffins were the decisive "aye", making the child, 'Center; Foreman, Austin; the ones contributing to this cam- count 71-70. The narrow margin, Garrison, Houston; G i b b e n s, also defeated by topheavy votes. paign." "I've voted for five taxes this which was the key to ultimate Breckenridge; Glusing, Kings- John Alaniz, San Antonio lib- "Who really wants this bill?" session and against one—this passage, held up under verifica- ville; Grover, Houston; Harding, eral, offered his diapers and cof- he asked. "I ask you not only to one," Hale answered. "How many tion.. San Angelo; Heatly, Paducah; fins amendment "to exempt 'em remember the next election, but taxes have you voted for, Kika, The sales taxers picked up Huebner, Bay City; Hughes, Dal- when they come in and when they the next generation. This tax is besides this one?" The debate strength on the vote on engross- las; James, Dallas, Jamison, Den- go out." Neil Caldwell, liberal being fought by everyone in the raged for another fifteen minutes, ment. The vote was 75-65. ton; Jarvis, Tyler; Johnson, Dal- from Alvin, seeking to exempt state who doesn't have money. It the vote on adoption of the A lengthy and heated parlia- las; Johnson, Temple; Jones, Dal- books, said "the Bible has the taxes those least able to pay. amendment failing of the neces- mentary squabble followed, cen- las; Jones, Austin; LaValle, Texas largest sales of any book in Texas "Next election," Cannon con- sary two-thirds by 80-60. tering on the constitutional rule City. —and I just want to know how cluded to applause, "when you go on "physical engrossment." Tom After the lengthy closing de- many want to tax Bibles." He home, Tom Sealy and Searcy Lewis, Dallas; McGregor, Waco; James, Dallas conservative, moved bates of the previous day, only later described the Wilson bill Bracewell won't be walkin' those Martin, Normangee; Miller, Hous- to adjourn for five minutes, which Ronald Roberts, freshman from as a "Bible tax." furrows with you." ton; Murray, , Harlingen; Niemey- would officially make the next Hillsboro, took the microphone The most detailed condemna- Tunnell said, "We're fixing to er, Knippa; Osborn, Muleshoe; "session" a new legislative day against final passage. "Yesterday tion of the measure came from pass us a tax bill—and we'll have Parsons, Henderson; Petty, Level- and make it possible to approve the lower and middle income Eckhardt, who said a sales tax done a great service to the peo- land; Pipkin, Brownsville; Pres- the bill on final passage without groups were not well represent- "is regressive and falls on the ple of Texas. ton, Paris; Price, Frankston; a two-thirds vote. He got the five- ed," he said. "This bill has been lowest groups." His amendment, "Wouldn't it be a wonderful minute adjournment, 76-64. called a 'compromise'. It's quite Quilliam, Lubbock; Ratcliff, Dal- entailing a complex graduated . thing that when the smoke all Legislators huddled about the a compromise when you put 90 las; Read, Big Spring; Richards, scale which he called "a regres- clears and the gavel comes clown, speaker's rostrum, and gathered percent of the tax burden on the sivity- compensation factor," actu- Huntsville; Roberts, Lamesa; Ros- we'll have s4,, ,ved this problem?" in small groups all over the floor. $2,000 to $3,000 income brackets. ally was a modified type of in- son, Snyder; Sandahl, Austin; Paul Haring, taking the back The strategy of the anti-sales It's the same kind of compromise come tax. microphone, suggested that any- taxers, it was apparent, was to the apostle Judas made. It seems Schram, Taylor. Citing statistics from a federal one who voted for a sales tax delay final passage as long as pos- we've enjoyed the hospitality of Shipley, Houston; Slack, Pecos; study of 30 states with sales taxes, would have trouble next time in sible, perhaps over the weekend, the lobby so much we've forgotten Slider, Naples; Snelson, Midland; Eckhardt said a sales levy on per- his home district. in the hope five votes could be the people. sons with incomes under $2,000 Spilman, McAllen; Thurmond, Del "I'm one who's known the changed. annually is .89 percent per $1,000 "I dare the members of this heat," Tunnell answered. "I voted Speaker Turman, with the Rio; Townsend, Brady; Tunnell, of income, while the same tax on House •to postpone this bill until for it two years ago and I'm point of order raised by Ko- Tyler; Walker, Cleveland; Wells, incomes over $10,000 is .26 per- Monday and go home over the here." rioth, then ruled that a two- Tulia; Wilson, Trinity; Wilson, cent. "This holds true in every weekend and face your constitu- "Well," Haring rejoined, "my thirds vote was needed to ap- state that has a sales tax," he ents,". Roberts said. Amarillo. opponent did too and he's not prove the bill on final passage, said. "The little man in the low- here." on the grounds that it had est income group pays 3.3 times not been physically written after as much on his income as the man Kennard charged that the sales engrossment. Wade Spilman, Mc- at the very top.' tax would meet only half of the Allen conservative, complained "Why is this true? Because the state's revenue needs. "Don't be that "only on rare occasions" has natural impact of this tax is deceived," he warned, "into think- $381 Million Asked the physical engrossment ruling sharply regressive," he said. ing this bill will be the solution been used, but "in the light of AUSTIN larger appropriation to the de- Stewart, offering his one-factor to our problems." The Korioth and recent precedents" (he was refer- The House appropriations com- partment of corrections, with corporation income tax, one of the Stewart amendments were "rea- ring to similar rulings by Speaker mittee has approved and will re- funds for 200 new employees and features in his detailed tax revi- sonable proposals" to raise addi- Waggoner Carr in 1959) "I can lease this week an appropriations $300,000 more for new construc- sion proposal for the state, said tional money from other sources. agree with what the speaker did." bill calling for $381 million from tion. his tax "is designed for one pur- "If you can't tack 'em on here, He asked, however, for the two- the general revenue fund. This pose—to meet and solve the prob- you'll never pass 'em, my friends," Funds for the highway depart- thirds vote to suspend the rule is $27 million more than the leg- lem as a 50-50 deal. Right here, he said. If this bill is passed with- ment and the game and fish com- and bring on final passage. islative budget board's proposals, right now, we can avoid a special out other taxes on it, "we'll go mission were lower in the House The motion to suspend got 80 $17 million more than the Senate- session," he said. With his amend- home with a niggardly appropri- measure than in the Senate's. Only ayes to 61 nays, but fell short of passed version, and $5 million ment added to the Wilson sales ations." He said "some of these 15 new patrolmen were granted the two-thirds needed. Truett Lat- more than Gov. Price Daniel's tax, the yield would be $175 mil- other basic taxes must be passed" by the House committee, while 52 timer's motion to adjourn until recommendations. lion a year. But Stewart's amend- along with a sales tax. were provided for by the Senate. 10 a.m. the next day then carried The House may act on the ment, like the others, was sound- After the general sales tax was Wilson, just before the first big by a close 73-71. The final battle measure this week, and a confer- ly trounced. passed by the House, several vote on the bill Itself, said "the had been delayed another 16 ence committee with representa- Korioth, veteran liberal and measures were added to the ap- people of Texas are losing confi- hours. tives from both houses will iron sales tax opponent, offered his propriations proposal: $6.5 million dence in the -legislature to find out the differences. three-factor corporate income tax To No Avail for a 14 percent salary increase a solution." The state is $100 mil- With total funds considered, in- with the promise that "if you There were overnight efforts by for college and university profes- lion in debt, and has inadequate cluding federal money, the House support me on this, and tack it the opponents to change five sors, $1.8 in additional funds for state services, teachers' salaries, bill provides for $2.5 billion In on the bill, I'll vote for this sales votes, but to no avail. When the welfare assistance, and $5.8 mil- and welfare pensions. spending. tax. He asked for a "compromise" House convened Friday morning lion to provide a 40-hour week for "The Citizens for a Sales Tax Unlike the Senate bill, which the patchwork coalition was firm- state hospitals and special schools organization doesn't like me" any established a joint state - county er than ever. employees. more than Kennard or Cannon, program, the House measure pro- Warm words were exchanged CLASSIFIED Neither the House committee Wilson said. "I've refused to post- over a crucial amendment by De- vides for a juvenile parole sys- Visit THE MUSIC BOX in Hous- pone this bill against the lobby's tem to be financed entirely by nor the Senate's bill include the ton. 2305 S. Shepherd. Classical Witt Hale, Corpus Christi, dean and show music, folk songs. request. I've refused to have any state money, with 30 additional proposed general pay increase for Owned by Grady Price and John part in waiting and putting up THE TEXAS OBSERVER parole supervisors. The House public school teachers. There are Burke. this measure when the pressure Page 3 April 25, 1961 version also grants a considerably separate bills in both houses. With Apologies to Lewis Carroll and Alice ConJequencei In its wisdom, the House has now lines, with the hard-core conserva- given us a tax that hits baby diapers, tives doing their own work. After it soap, shoes, shirts, underwear, all was over, Wilson reminded us of schoolbooks, hot-water bottles, and the Aritish major, Alex Guinness, in just about everything else the aver- "Bridge over the River Kwai." He age human being needs except food built the bridge for the Japs, his and medicine. It is a great day for own commandoes attacked from the the Austin lobby. After all, the lobby jungle, and in a moment of truth he is the only permanent arm of our asked, "My God, what have I done?" state government, and it has been The voters of the state must be working overtime for this great acquainted, beginning now, with the moment. issues which were at stake. In each The lobbyists, we all know, come district, they should know the repre- here for one purpose, and there is sentatives who have spurned business precious little nobility in it : to fight taxation of any kind to saddle them every conceivable tax on the wealthy with an inequitable tax burden. It corporations and businesses . which should not be difficult. A sales tax hire them. They have earned their carries with it a tangible, day-to- money well. They have gotten the day reminder. The housewife who will tax they wanted from the House pay eleven cents when she buys $5.35 without one solitary concession. They of groceries, the day laborer who were ably helped by Messrs. Sealy and pays twenty cents when he buys his Bracewell. child a $10 pair of shoes, will already The losers, the vast majority of be amply alerted. Texans with incomes under $5,000 An intelligent, well-directed, and a year, where the sales tax falls modestly financed central organiza- mightiest and most effectively, did tion—why not the "Citizens League not have a lobby this year. But let on the Next Election" ?—might be there be no doubt on this point : there able to effect the largest political will be political consequencies. turnover in the history of Texas The Senate will undoubtedly pass legislatures. this tax ; it is necessary that they do House moderates and liberals so on a record vote, for 1962 is a should now push vigorously for pro- clean-sweep election year. Three gressive taxes—Eckhardt's natural senators can call for a record vote. gas tax, Korioth's corporation in- The decision will ultimately rest come tax. Naturally there will be with Gov. Daniel. We hope for him righteous outcries in the House from the courage of his convictions. those very gentlemen most eager to The mistakes which were made by pass this sales tax—most eager also the governor and by the House anti- to retire home quietly and without sales-taxers are, in retrospect, dis- fanfare, having saddled the average tressingly clear. Daniel made the consumer with 100 percent of the first blunder in appointing an advi- tax burden for the next two years. sory finance committee composed of "Now, what am I to do with this creature, staunch sales-taxers. They recom- when I get it home?" mended the abortive payrolls tax be- NEWS ITEM cause they wanted a sales tax. Then The Committee of Hospital Offi- the dailies and the "opinion polls" cials disclosed this week there are and the Sealy Citizens stepped in. 1,007 children on waiting lists to The strategy of allowing a liberal state schools for the mentally re- —Charles Wilson—to carry the sales tarded. The average length of time tax was fundamentally misguided. on the lists was 7 1/2 months and some Observer Notebook it clouded the issue psychologically. have been waiting since 1958, it was AUSTIN ous anti-social charges against them. It made it easier for economic lib- disclosed. erals like Wells, Jamison, Leaverton, When Wisconsin Senator William Probably 75 of the 300 are federal Dungan, and Chapman to vote for The average income for a family Proxmire vigorously opposed con- prisoners awaiting transfer. Another the bill. The issue should have been with a mentally retarded child is firmation of. Texan John B. Connal- 75 to 100 are just lying there awaiting fought cleanly, along ideological $2,900 annually, the committee said. ly Jr. as secretary of the navy, he grand jury action, and they will lie argued that Connally's whole adult there anywhere from three to six life had been committed to the cause months—picking up ideas from the The Lobby Immensely Approved of the oil industry, and this might more hardened criminals, learning to persuade him to keep the fleet run- hate a society unwilling to listen to ning on oil rather than attempting a man who wants to plead guilty and to support the transition to an atom- start serving his term or probation. ic-powered navy. Much of the vocal opposition to the Vice President Lyndon. Johnson, an bill came from the rural legislators old crony of Connally's, bitterly de- who figured it deprived a prisoner nounced the suggestion. So did Inter- of his right to try to bluff a grand im Senator Bill Blakley, another jury. crony who has dabbled in oil now and Of course the measure, being pro- then. gressive and humane, was beaten This week Connally came forward down about 3 to 1. with the impudence of . a Murchison- patriot, presenting to the country a * * * navy budget that for the first time Rep. Ronald Bridges, Corpus in several years contains . . . no funds Christi, went back to Washington re- for construction of new nuclear sur- cently to testify for Yarborough's face ships. He said what the navy proposed 88-mile Padre Island park needs is more "cheap ships"—which and against the Kilgore-Young-priv- means, oil-burners. ate developers' 65-mile proposal. He * * * salted his testimony with some home- Jim Barlow, San Antonio, and Ben spun Texana, saying he would rather Lewis, Dallas, came forward with a have 65 miles than none at all, "But bill this week that would allow pris- I would feel as I think most South oners too poor to make bond to plead Texans would feel, like the poor Mex- guilty at once rather than wait for ican boy who for Christmas wanted grand jury action. As it is now, a a leather jacket, but had to settle for person must be indicted by a grand a tattered sweater." Again, "I view jury before he can enter a plea. the 65-mile proposal—as I think a What does this mean? Well, in the great majority in my area do—kind San Antonio jail, the average popula- of like going in to buy a new stetson tion is 300—some rapists, some mur- at an advertised price, and as I get derers, assorted thugs, and quite a my money out to pay the store-keeper, few first-timers without really seri- he suddenly raises the price." THE TEXAS OBSERVER

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Presidents A Slow Taking Over? Thoughts HOUSTON Why worry that the two North • `Disloyal' Some quite fundamental change Texas business organizations are con- • may be taking place gradually in our tinuing to give thousands of dollars About Two state and country, unproclaimed but to public schools in Texas for the pervasive, a necessary consequence teaching of principles of conserva- In Big D of the persistent propaganda of tism they call Americanism? Joe , Lloyd wealth. In an accompanying note, the au- Why worry that Freedom in Action AUSTIN thor of this article wrote: "The intel- Take any single trashy little ad or has held 350 meetings in 1960 and Does serving as a tail-gunner per- lectuals, the professionals, are going any given slogan of big-money poli- draws more and more of its strength manently damage a man's political to have to start taking more of the tics, the average man or woman from young people? philosophy? This question certainly offensive in this whole area of strug- shrugs it off like a spider's web or merits the attention of our best psy- gle." At the meeting she describes mosquito, but the question is, have Why worry, when one can take an chologists. The late Joe McCarthy there was "nobody from SMU—no these countless peltings from the easy walk in the summering evening, served, or claimed to have served, as ministers, no professors, no lawyers. rich, these saturation propagandas, that students in five Houston high a tail-gunner in World War II. Lloyd Either they are too busy, they don't begun finally to bind down the pub- schools are holding seminars in politi- Martin, the unusual young represen- recognize the threat, or they feel they lic's opinions, to suck from the gen- cal conservatism? That a teacher has tative from Normangee, served as will endanger their economic position eral body of us the blood of our own been ousted here because a Minute tail-gunner during the Korean War. by speaking out." ideas? Woman did not approve of what she Is there something permanently DALLAS Living in Texas we are misled heard him say in class when she was traumatic about sitting there in the A public hearing held April 14 by about the general temper of the coun- there observing him? That the direc- tail-end of the plane, vulnerable as the Dallas Independent School Dis- try. Ten days in Houston, one can be- tor of social studies in the Houston a ready boil, amidst a hostile sky? public secondary schools appeared be- trict to receive suggestions and criti- come so depressed about the raging He's a senior in the UT law fore Jesse Jones High School students cisms concerning its new high school rightists here, a fear for the future school and, we understand, a Thursday night on the same program course, "The Principles of American of the country sets in and worry takes good student. Certainly he can't Freedom in Contrast to the Tyranny the freshness from the grey evening with "Operation Abolition" and called it a fine thing? be called inept in the House: he of Communism," sounded very much air. Civilized political discourse shot through a resolution praising the like an open meeting of the John among amicably disagreeing Demo- Why worry, with the weeks in House Un-American Activities Com- Birch Society. Those rabid vocational crats and Republicans seems far away Mexico to plan, that the federally mittee with so little opposition that and avocational anti-communists and indeed when one sits two hours assisted Dallas civil defense program the liberals only grin foolishly when staunch segregationists made no pre- among 3,000 John Birchers who cheer is sponsoring showings of "Operation it is mentioned. And he is well on his tense whatsoever of favoring democ- dead Joe McCarthy and pray in the Abolition" and its "civil defense" di- way to getting his retaliatory racy. name of love for the damnation of rector endorses it? sit-in bill to the floor where its They insisted to an overflow audi- half the world. chances for passage are certainly not ence that America was established With the flowers painting the road- poor in the general atmosphere of WHY WORRY, with the not as a democracy, but as a republic ways and the country weekends be- blustering timidity that cloaks the weeks in Mexico to plan, that double (applause from about half the audi- ginning again why should one worry House. billionaire H. L. Hunt continues to ence) that the Constitution was writ- about the national flowering of the finance, with tax write-offs for ad- Martin seems to have absolutely no ten /by Caucasians ; that a different right wing? vertising, a majority of the local out- idea what the sit-ins are all about. race from the Caucasians who found- lets for Wayne Poucher's Death Line He told us, for example, that ed America would like to claim it ; WHY WORRY, why worry against the United Nations and for- he was under the impression that and that these aliens should ask for man, that the Christian Anti-Com- eign aid and federal aid to education? most of the sit-inners were trouble- quick conveyance to Africa. munism Crusade is turning tens or making white folks, not Negroes. Cer- Other suggestions: Christianity is hundreds of thousands of good citi- Man, like it was nothin', why wor- tainly, he said, he was aiming at the the only way to combat communism; zens against liberalism by allying it ry about the newspaper ads against trouble-making white folks, not at the course should have a religious with communism? one - worlders and the Connally the Negroes. It surely need not be emphasis ; we should get to our Amendment, medical care for the mentioned here—what apparently youth while they are young "like had heard and felt that we couldn't aged, rural electric cooperatives, pub- everyone but the son of Normangee Hitler and Tojo did and brainwash build up America by tearing down lic power dams, the federal income knows—that for every 50 Negro sit- them our way." our basic institutions and by looking tax, and liberals in the loopholes? inners, there is no more than one or two white sympathizers along. A loyalty check by the FBI for suspiciously at those with differences And when elections come, why, teachers who will be conducting the of opinion. Usually representatives introduce worry longer than it takes to suffer legislation to correct situations af- course and FBI approval of the Mrs. L. N. D. Wells said that a the loss gracefully? There will be course itself were suggested. basic American right is the right to fecting their home areas. Has the another day and we can came to Normangee area been troubled by Ruth D. Smith objected to the unit's differ in beliefs. "Not all of us are terms with power. quoting any of our modern-day pres- Christians and Caucasians who make sit-ins? "I'm not sure," said Martin. idents because "for the last forty up our country." Can't we? "I forget. Some groups might have years none of them have been patri- started to sit-in. I know some people ots." Derisive laughter greeted the An SMU student closed the hearing We can teach our kids of love and over there got alarmed." mention of Earl Warren's name' by with the remark, "As one of Indian liberties and let the neighbors go. Or consider the supreme being one of the speakers. ancestry, I would be happy for all Until some time not much from bill, pushed by W. T. Oliver but fa- Addie Barlowe Frazier of the White you Caucasians to go back to Eu- this time, we may find the time has vored by Martin. It would have a rope." Citizens for America, a perpetual passed when most of us were think- teacher in Texas swear he believes speaker at school board meetings, RUTHE WINEGARTEN ing for ourselves. R.D. in a supreme being to get a job. wanted to know what organizations About this bill Martin says: had endorsed the program. She in- lc 1C lt "Did I co-sign it? If I co-signed it, sisted that the PTA, the League of which I think I did, it is not so much Women Voters, and almost all im- DON'T BE HALF SAFE! to get them (the teachers) to believe portant organizations in America in something as it is to oppose what have been infiltrated, and that there has gone on under the cloak of aca- are "more Reds in the ministry than demic freedom. They can believe any- any other group." She complained of In The Senate Run-off thing they want to as long as they the use of the word "democracy." don't teach it." "It is sickening the way the word In other words, Martin wouldn't democracy is used." The terms "radi- WRITE-IN: mind hiring a liar, but he would not cal nationalism" and "peaceful co- want to hire an atheist. But if he existence" she branded as commu- had to hire an atheist, he would in- nistic. sist that he be a lying atheist. At a school board meeting two LOUIS CAPET Martin pulled out a newspaper clip- nights before, Mrs. Frazier had said ping from the University of Texas that no teacher is qualified to teach Daily Texan, a column by Chandler this course if she thinks the UN is an Davidson, one sentence of which read: instrument of peace when in reality "We are enlisting the support of in- "it is the center of a communist con- fluential citizens ranging from Harry spiracy" and "founded by such trai- Belefonte to J. Frank Dobie to Rein- tors as Hiss and Eleanor Roosevelt." hold Niebuhr to Eleanor Roosevelt." Speakers in rebuttal included Clar- Martin got a kick out of that sen- ence Laws, field secretary of the tence. He noted that each of those NAACP, who said his organization mentioned is among those opposing "is sensitized to the communist the House Un-American Activities threat." He commended the school Committee, opposition which in itself board for the new course of study. makes them suspect with Martin, and Laws said that each race, creed, and he added : "I wish more people would color has contributed to American list J. Frank Dobie's name in con- culture, and cited Crispus Attucks, LOUIS `QUATORZE' CAPET nection with Harry Belafonte so we the first Negro to fall in the Revolu- could put him in proper perspective. tionary War. He said Negroes were • Stop the Quibbling; A 'True Conservative' He's the big hero around here." so preoccupied trying to make de- Obviously Martin thinks listing mocracy work, they were not always names in conjunction signifies some- busy fighting communism. (While he • Sixty Years' Experience; thing. One might be hard •put to find was speaking, Addie Frazier held up similarities between J. Frank Dobie a pamphlet entitled "Communism • Anti-Labor and Harry Belafonte, other than that and the NAACP".) they both like freedom and folk songs. Mrs. Donald Lewis said she had • Safe, Cautious, He'll Stay Put One might also be hard put to find faith and trust in the Dallas teachers similarities between Tail-gunner Joe and objected to suspicions cast upon • Dead Three Centuries and Tail-gunner Lloyd, other than them. that both put their names to legisla- Mrs. Leo Klarr said she was very (Adv. Paid by Louis XIV Memorial Society, Versailles) tion that advocates harassment, busy- bodying, and curtailed freedom. B.S. disturbed at some of the things she 3C 3t 3C X A Talk on Death Row Ralph, Bill on Wage Vote • AP `Gritaron Sin Clemenad Brown Blasts Tax Last of a Series around until about four. That's him out of it again. All this time goo/Sen. Ralph Yarborough voted gas pipeline companies may soon HUNTSVILLE when we see this girl. On Single- the girl was crying. She had the with the administration Demo- start receiving $15 million in taxes Ernesto Martinez Lopez is a ton. baby brother with her, about 18 crats and liberal-moderate Repub- they have paid under protest. slim and a slim-faced man. His "So I stopped and talked to her. months I think: He just kep' on licans on the Senate's $1.25 mini- Wilson said the appeal would be hair is dark and wavy, and his She was standing right there at laughing, you know. I could tell mum wage this week. He opposed "useless." Gov. Daniel, noting that dark eyes look out from under the cafe. It was still closed. I he was pretty drunk. every amendment trimming the the gas tax as found unconstitu- heavy eyebrows. He had not re- don't know what she was doing "So when I saw I couldn't talk bill and voted "yes" on final pas- tional was not in the language of cently shaved, and his whiskers there. She was about 12 years him out of it I just went ahead sage, while Interim Sen. William the one he recommended to the stood out singly and black along old. I asked her about this other to the hill. I got out of the car Blakley voted for each of six 1959 legislature, said a different his jaws and around his mouth. girl I used to 'go around with. and started walking off. amendments limiting coverage version was substituted "and A handsome young man of 23, She told me she guessed she was "I didn't walk about 100 .yards and opposed the measure on final that's what was struck down." dressed in the plain white clothes at home. when I heard the shot. The next passage. The governor said "it is high time of the prison, he seemed like a thing I knew I was running back that the people of Texas demand pretty young boy. to the car again. I opened the that gas pay a fairer share of the How did he come to be caged Political Intelligence backs door and I just—see the girl tax burden." up here on the short row of cells still had the baby in her arms for men who are waiting for R. 0. Zillinger of the Austin froif Other resolutions passed at and was crying—and she was ✓ death or reprieve? Ducking his American - Statesman, attacking the convention favored peaceful bleeding through her nose and head to talk through the low liberal Democrats who say they demonstrations in civil rights is- mouth. will vote for Tower in the run- sues, abolition of capital punish- opening across the bars, he told "So I asked her if she could go "He was just sitting beside her. off, wrote: "They should realize his story in hesitant, accented with me down to her house and men, and a nine-day oil allow- that whatever the merit of their able. Statements deploring what and simple English. Sometimes get her for me. Betty, she was "No sir, she still had on her clothes. past position, it will be completely was called a lack of academic his voice got lost in his swallow- about 16. So at first she didn't thrown away by such an action. freedom for Houston teachers and ings; sometimes he spoke so soft- want to. But then she told me "So I asked him what he did ly he couldn't be heard. if I promised to bring her back it for. I don't know what he They should realize that they are against the John Birch Society flirting with the idea of com- were passed. Paulia Weaver "It was New Year's Eve," he she'd go. I said all right. She gets meant by it, he said the cops were of pletely losing any Democratic Dallas was elected president for began. into the car—we start to drive to gonna pay for all they had done identity they may have. They the coming year. "My mother wake me up. She this girl's house. Then Simon to him. wanted me to go to the grocery asked me what we were gonna do. "So he tell me to get the girl should not be unaware that they wirDallas News' Dawson Dun- can blame only themselves for the store to get some groceries. I got "I said I had a date with this and 'get it off the car. So I was can wrote: "In the first cam- political phenomenon as well as- up and got in the car, and when girl and didn't want to drink no scared and just do what he tell paign a storm forced John Tower's paradox of becoming ultra-conser- I was driving out to the store I more, I'd take him home. So he me—I get the girl and put her plane to land on a farm road vative, as Tower is ultra-conserv- meet this boy Simon Rodriguez, didn't say nothin' after that. down on the ground. He got the near Ammansville in Fayette ative." at Manila and Singleton. He whis- "The girl was not home. She baby and set it beside her body, County, and Tower spent a hour tled to me to stop, he wanted me thought she was down at a and while the girl was on the goo/Texas Young Democrats, in and a half playing dominoes at to 'give him a ride. He got in. friend's house. So we go down to ground he took another shot at their state convention in Galves- the community store while wait- "On the way he started talking, her girlfriend's and she's just her, hit her somewhere right here ton, resolved that they had al- ing on other transportation." The he wanted to go out and drink. gone. We go back to her house (neck) and it came out right here ways supported the Democratic candidate carried the precinct, I didn't have any money . . . and this time we find her there. (back of neck). Party platform and that they 100-0. "I worked at a place where "hereby support Sen. William She told me she'd had a date al- "So then he tell me to get into go/Reynaldo G. Garza of Browns- they make belts. I'm 23 now . . . Blakley in the run-off election if ready. She couldn't hear me that the car and drive down to his ville was confirmed as Southern 19 then. There should be 15 of Sen. Blakley does endorse the night. This 12-year-old girl said house. We got in the car and start District judge by the Senate last us, but five of 'em are dead now. New Frontier program of Pres. we take her back where we prom- driving down the hill. He starts week. He fills the vacancy left Died when they were kids. Dad John Kennedy." ThP resolution ised. All right, 'get in. sin'gin' and hollerin' on the way by the late James Allred. is dead, heart trouble. I don't "When we got to the place on praised Kennedy, Vice President to his house. Well, the song . . . frorHank Brown, president of know what they died of. Singleton, and that's when Simon Johnson, Sen. Yarborough and the name of it is Twenty Years. the state AFL-CIO, denounced "He said it was all right, he jumped in the back seat. He had others, and the delegates declared "Las leyes de la tierra passage of the sales tax by the had money. So I told him ok, the gun with him. He had it with themselves "against John Tower "Centaron mi sentencia Texas House and "urged the we'd get the groceries and take him all the time. Yes sir, I knew and the Republican Party." "Gritaron sin clemencia workers of Texas to send some 'em ;tome. about it. googrJames McGrew, director of "Veinte anos de prision. mail by the bale - to 'their state "We go home. "I turned on Kingsbury St. and the Texas Research League's tax "We go inside the house and senators urging the defeat of this 'He got one of my brothers out stopped and asked him, you know, division, said the sales tax would we start cleaning the blood. I legislation. The chambers of com- and talk to hint While I was in what he was trying to do. He raise $137 million annually. Charles help him try to clean it. While merce of Texas, aided by the oil they went to the drug store and told me to drive out to up in the Wilson, the sponsor, had said it we were at it is when another and gas lobby, through a high came back. We left, just the two. hills, Goat Hill. Four blocks from would bring in $127 million. boy come by and stop there. They financed campaign, have per- "We go to a cafe, it was closed, there. I told him he was crazy. started talking. I don't know go/Atty. Gen. Will Wilson said suaded the House of Representa- so we go down to this woman's I tried to talk him into giving what they're talking about. He last week he will not carry an ap- tives into passage of this unreas- house. Rosie . . . I don't know the gun to me. I told him did he leaves. Ten or fifteen minutes he peal of the last legislature's "sev- onable taxation." He called upon her last name, just a woman. She know what kind of trouble he comes back again. So we got erence beneficiary" natural 'gas Daniel to veto the tax and said asked if we could take her out was getting into. He just started through cleaning all we could. tax, found unconstitutional by that Daniel's statement in op- and get groceries. She asked what laughing and told me to go ahead We go down, buy some more beer, the state Supreme Court, to the position to the measure is "not we want for taking groceries. We and drive to the hill and I'd see and then Simon wanted to go U.S. Supreme Court. That means enough the persuade the people." decided whiskey. She buy whis- what was gonna happen if I'd do back up to the hill again. I told key. We go down to her house, what he'd tell me. him I didn't want to go up. So drank a lot. Then we decided we "All this time I was talking to he told me just take him half go buy some beer. him he had the gun pointed at way. The railroad track. He want- "See, this was about one o'clock me. ed to take (the other boy). I take An Enclosure when we started drinking. So we "When we crossed the railroad him alone. So he got off the car In Stephenville, former hospital dependence, usually on the largess buy the beer and started riding to get up to the hill, I stopped and went up. patients have been receiving — of a centralized government, con- around drinking. We drank the car again and tried to talk "He didn't say. along with their bill—a printed stitutes the eighth step. "So anyway we go down to sheet containing this statement: Ninth, they take the fatal step this other boy's house. About from dependence again into the thirty minutes later he comes HISTORY REVEALS AVERAGE chains of bondage. back down to where we are and LIFE OF DEMOCRACIES History records that of the Saved From The Chair the first thing he says was that TWO HUNDRED YEARS really true democracy, that cycle AUSTIN the government had power to it was terrible and the girl was Can a democracy die? Is it pos- of nine steps from bondage to New Year's Eve, 1956, police give clemency. still alive. So that's when we sible for such a government as freedom to bondage has taken an found the body of a 12-year-old Dissenting, Judge Lloyd W. heard the ambulance going up the we have here in the United States average of only two hundred girl on top of isolated Goat Hill Davidson wrote: "Yes, the man hill. —a government of the people, for years. America is now only seven- in West Dallas. who actually commits the murder "So we drive down to his house. the people, and by the people—to teen years away from that two Ernesto Lopez, then 19, admit- goes to the penitentiary, while He was trying to get some money perish? The answer is written in hundred year average. Shall we ted he and Simon Rodriguez, then the man who helped him dies in so we could— the pages of history. The answer be a repeat of history. NO! 16, picked up little Jeanett Lorene the electric chair!" "While he was trying to get is affirmative. Yes, a democracy (1) Write your senators and Mangan and her 14-month-old Davidson also said the evidence the money, I was there with trim, can die. And history shows that congressmen to get us out of the brother and took them to the did not justify the conviction. He and that's when the detectives there are but nine steps from the United Nations; hill. said the case was tried on the come by. Two detectives, one beginning to the fall of a democ- (2) Write them to cut down on According to testimony, Simon theory that Rodriguez and Lopez front, one back. I was sitting in racy. History also records the av- foreign aid; Rodriguez shot the girl while had a common understanding to the car. I just got out of the car erage length of life for a democ- (3) Write them to reduce the Lopez was away from the car. rape the girl, and the killing oc- and started walking off. When racy has been only two hundred money allowed the State Depart- She was both raped and other- curred while Rodriguez was car- they got Simon out of the house years. ment because what it has done wise molested after her death. rying out the agreement. David- I was across the street just look- Here are 'the nine steps: has not been helpful. Rodriguez, a juvenile, got 99 son said that there was "an utter ing when I saw my brother in a First, the people go from bond- II years, the maximum under the lack of evidence" showing any squad car. So I just walk out age to spiritual faith. law. Lopez, an adult, got death. agreement or conspiracy-and that there to the car and knock on From spiritual faith they move Sentencing Lopez, Judge Joe B. undisputed evidence showed Rod- the window and ask if they were to courage. Brown of Dallas stated, "It will riguez was not raping or other- looking for me. They ask me if I From courage they move to be one of the worst miscarriages wise molesting the girl when the am Ernesto Lopez. I said yes. liberty. MARTIN ELFANT of justice in history if Lopez is killing occurred. They got out and handcuffed me. From liberty they move to executed." The Observer interviewed Lo- "Well, I saw they had my abundance—And this is the apex SIM Life of Canada Two of the three judges of the pez on Death Row in the state brother. I knew he had nothing of freedom. Court of Criminal Appeals up- prison at Huntsville while he was to do with it. I just couldn't let From abundance they move to held the verdict on June 25, 1960, under sentence of death. them take him in. selfishness. calling the murder "the brutal On April 14, Gov. Price Daniel, "Yeah, they took him with us." From selfishness they move to Houston, Texas R.D. killing of a helpless young girl," acting on the recommendation of complacency. CA 4-0686 but agreed that Lopez' execution the Board of Pardons and Paroles, In the seventh step, they move would be "unequal justice" and commuted Lopez' sentence to life THE TEXAS OBSERVER to apathy. suggested that another branch of imprisonment. Page 6 April 25, 1961 A regression from apathy to Varied Reactions on TowerAlakley Contest Equally Entitled one of the two candidates as you Tribute to McCullys dignified, decent, brave people. were doing to the cause of liber- did between Maverick and Gon- Austin won't be quite the same. alism. They should be made to Sirs: The question of whom to Sirs: In 1950 when I was first zalez. I hope your stand will be realize that liberals are nowhere vote for in the preient Senate elected to the Texas House, my Maury Maverick Jr., San An- for Tower and for a strengthen- a majority in this state and in race is a serious and disturbing father suggested that I go to tonio. ing of the principle of a two-party the interest of achieving some one. To me the candidates seem Austin to meet John McCully and system. Shameful Years form of success in politics liberals equally qualified as far as experi- Stuart Long. I did. David C. Harrison, Lackland have to be joined by moderates, ence and training are concerned. feel too strongly about this Sirs: Why the hurry to broad- AFB, San Antonio. and by the fringe of conservatives One has actual experience in the to express myself adequately, but jump onto Dollar Bill's bandwag- on, even if he claims to be a part- who do not subscribe to the ultra- field of government but has had Two Reactionaries the story of Texas liberalism can time Democrat? And voting for right philosophy of the Blakleys no academic training, while the Sirs: Concerning the special never be told unless there is a John (Babble of) Tower would be and Towers. Now we are faced other has had academic training Senate election, I have heard chapter about John and May Mc- as sensible as giving a mandate with having either Blakley or but no actual experience. On the many liberals remark that they Cully. Some mention of it ought to a man sworn to execute you. Tower in the U.S. Senate for six question of attitudes toward is- don't like either candidate but to be made now, since John has About the only difference I can years. sues, there seems to be no dif- that they guess they'll vote for resigned from his job with the see is that between an old fogie ference between them. To me Blakley. I disagree completely. It state AFL-CIO to go to Washing- Anyone who studies Texas poli- on the one hand, and a young they are equally entitled to my is true that we have a choice be- ton, D.C. tics knows that. every Republican fogie on the other. Labeling Blak- vote. tween two reactionaries, but if in the state paid his poll ley a Democrat is blatant mis- In normal campaigns, differ- the man must be a reactionary, tax to vote in the special election. use of brand names which should ences of opinions on the issues it is better that he be a Republi- They also know that the normal be halted as violation of the Pure develop; and, on the basis of these can than a Democrat. The defeat Republican vote was enough to Food and Drug Act. differences, voters make their de- of Blakley will help the national put the Republican in the runoff. Personally I , think Tower, who cisions for whom to vote. I am a Democratic Party. There was a good chance to put is a more unreasonable reaction- Democrat; not based on what the It will be most embarrassing to Their home was where we lib- Cong. Wright in the junior seat, ary since he doesn't have the $200 Democratic Party stood for 50 have a reactionary like Blakley erals met. There, D. B. Hardeman for neither Maverick nor Gon- million, will out-rustle the Cow- or 30 or ten years ago; not on in Washington calling himself a and I revitalized an old friend- zalez could have defeated Tower boy at roundup time, and it will what the Democratic Patry might Democrat and opposing the Ken- ship. There, Jim Sewell, Doug in a runoff election. We at least take a lot of convincing to make stand for at any time in the fu- nedy Administration. If Tower is Crouch, Charlie Hughes, Edgar 'would have had a moderate who me think it will make a lot of dif- ture. I am a Democrat today be- elected, thousands of Eisenhower- Berlin, and many others solidified would have gone along with most ference. So why get excited now ? cause I believe in the platform Nixon "Democrats" will see that new friendships. of the Kennedy program. Better brace yourself for the next of the Democratic Party and in a Republican does have a chance Those McCullys did a lot of kind five years. Texas has some shame- A. D. Covin Sr., 13609 Courrege, the legislative program of the of victory at the state-wide level, and good things. They helped ful years ahead. Houston 9. Kennedy-Johnson administration. and will cross over and vote in nurse the old Gas House Gang Jim Presley, P. O. Box 26, San I will vote for the man who the Republican primary, leaving into existence. They stood by the Antonio. THE TEXAS OBSERVER comes out for the Democratic the Democratic primary to Demo- liberals during the worst days Page 7 platform and for the legislative crats. of McCarthy. They helped the Anger April 25, 1961 program of the Kennedy-Johnson We loyal Democrats should not cause of working people, for it Sirs: As a rank-and-file worker administration. sit on our hands, but should turn was through them so many of for liberal candidates and liberal Jean Lee, 3110 West Ave., Aus- out and vote to see that no man us first met union officials. (They causes in Texas, I feel discour- PATRONIZE tin. as reactionary as Blakley is ever introduced me to a good man aged, frustrated, and some degree again elected to misrepresent the named Jeff Hickman, but that's of anger because of the fact both YOUR Rockefeller Republican Democratic label. another story). Maury Maverick and Henry Gon- Sirs: An editorial in the April John Shockley, Dept. of English, The McCullys are the real pa- zelez were so blockheaded that ADVERTISERS 7 Austin Statesman advises Demo- North Texas State, Denton. triots, not the loud-mouths—shy, they could not see the injury they crats who voted for either Mav- heretofore and now existing be- tiff prays for judgment of divorce- You are hereby commanded to asks the Court to award the care erick or Gonzalez in the recent LEGALS tween said parties; Plaintiff al- ment from defendant, care, cus- appear before the 126th District and custody of said minor chil- election to rally behind Bill Blak- CITATION BY PUBLICATION leges that defendant began a tody and control of the foremen- Court of Travis County, Texas, to dren awarded to plaintiff; plain- THE STATE OF TEXAS course of harsh, unkind and ty- tioned minor child, attorney's fee, be held at the courthouse of said tiff alleges that no community ley. I voted for Maverick. I do TO Thomas Henry Hoover De- rannical treatment toward the restoration of her maiden name, county in the City of Austin, property was acquired during said plaintiff and that plaintiff did Emma Guerrero, and any and all Travis County, Texas, at or before marriage; Plaintiff prays for judg- intend to support Blakley in the fendant, in the hereinafter styled nothing to bring about this kind and numbered cause: relief, general and special that 10 o'clock A. M. of the first Monday ment of divorce from defendant, of treatment; plaintiff alleges sne may be entitled; after the expiration of 42 days care, custody and control of the run-off, although I am ashamed You are hereby commanded to that defendant was guilty of ex- appear before the 126th District All of which more fully appears from the date of issuance hereof; aforementioned minor children, to say so. I am a Rockefeller Re- Court of Travis County, Texas, cesses, cruel treatment and out- from Plaintiff's Original Petition that is to say, at or before 10 A. M. and for such other and further rages toward plaintiff of such a on file in this office, and which of Monday the 8th day •of May, relief as the Court shall deem publican. Why should I blame to be held at the courthouse of nature as to - said county in the City of Austin, render their further reference is here made for all in- 1961, and answer the petition of proper to grant; living together insupportable; tents and purposes; plaintiff in Cause Number 121,413, All of which more fully appears my own party for six years of Travis County, Texas, at or before plaintiff alleges that no children 10 o'clock A. M. of the first Mon- If this citation is not served in which Billy R. Franklin is Plain- from Plaintiff's Original Peti- backsliding when I can just as were born of this marriage and within 90 days after date of its tiff and Jeanie Karon Franklin, tion on file in this office, and day after the expiration of 42 that they acquired no commun- Defendant, filed in said Court on days from the date of issuance issuance, it shall be returned un- which reference is here made for easily blame the Democrats for ity property; plaintiff prays for served. the 21st day of March, 1961, and all intents and purposes; hereof; that is to say, at or be- judgment of divorce and for re- the nature of which said suit is as If this citation is not served it? fore, 10 o'clock A. M. of Mon- lief, general and special; Witness, 0. T. MARTIN, JR., follows: day the 15th day of May, 1961, Clerk of the District Courts of within 90 days after date of its Dawes Chillman, 3818 Ridgelea All of which more fully appears Being an action and prayer for issuance, it shall be returned un- and answer the petition of plain- from Plaintiff's Original Petition Travis County, Texas. tiff in Cause Number 121,454, in Issued and given under my hand judgment in favor of plaintiff and served. Drive, Austin. on file in this office, and which against defendant for decree of WITNESS, 0. T. MARTIN, JR., which Beatrice Speer Hoover is reference is here made for all and the seal of said Court at office Plaintiff and Thomas Henry in the City of Austin, this the 20th divorce dissolving the bonds of Clerk of the District Courts of intents and purposes; matrimony heretofore and now ex- Travis County, Texas. Hoover is defendant, filed in said If this citation is not served day of March, 1961. Two Party System? Court on the 24th day of March, isting between said parties; plain- Issued and given under my within 90 days after date of its 0. T. Martin, Jr. tiff alleges that defednant left him hand and the seal of said Court Sirs: The only thing that will 1961, and the nature of which said issuance, it shall be returned un- Clerk of the District Courts, suit is as follows: one hour after his discharge from at office in the City of Austin, served. Travis County, Texas. a hospital in El Paso, Texas; Plain- this the 7th day of April, 1961. keep the liberal movement alive Being an action and prayer for By A. E. Jones, Deputy. judgment in favor of Plaintiff and WITNESS, 0. T. MARTIN, JR., tiff alleges that marriage was per- 0. T. MARTIN, JR. in Texas is a two-party system. against defendant for decree of Clerk of the District Courts of formed while plaintiff was in said Clerk of the District Courts, CITATION BY PUBLICATION Travis County, Texas. We can't expect to make progress divorce dissolving the bonds of Travis County, Texas. hospital but upon his release from matrimony heretofore and now Issued and given under my hand THE STATE OF TEXAS said hospital, defendant left for By A. E. JONES, Deputy. by running against people who existing between said parties; and the seal of said Court at of- TO Maria Van Heerbeek McKin- Oklahoma on July 12, 1960, and plaintiff alleges that defendant fice in the City of Austin, this ney, Defendant, in the hereinafter plaintiff has not seen defendant CITATION OF PUBLICATION pretend to be what they aren't; began a course of unkind and the 14th day of April, 1961. styled and numbered cause: since that date; plaintiff alleges THE STATE OF TEXAS cruel treatment and that defend- 0. T. MARTIN, JR., that this treatment is cruelty; and who, with the backing of the You are hereby commanded to plaintiff alleges that no children TO Theresa F. Theobald, De- ant was guilty of excesses, cruel Clerk of the District Courts, appear before the 53rd District fendant, in the hereinafter styled treatment and outrages toward Travis County, Texas. were born of this marriage and no press, falsely brand us as some- Court of Travis County, Texas, to community property was acquired; and numbered cause: plaintiff; plaintiff alleges that By A. E. JONES, Deputy. be held at the courthouse of said thing we aren't. defendant wrote checks that were plaintiff prays for judgment of You are hereby commanded to county in the City of Austin, divorcement from defendant and appear before the 98th District not cashable due to no funds in Travis County, Texas, at or be- If . Blakley is elected, this pro- bank, would not work, and that TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: for such other and further relief, Court of Travis County, Texas, to Notice is hereby given that H. H. fore 10 o'clock A. M. of the first in law and in equity, to which be held at the courthouse of said cess will continue, and continued defendant showed complete dis- Monday after the expiration of regard for his financial responsi- Weaver, Sr. and H. H. Weaver, plaintiff may be entitled; county in the City of Austin, Jr., doing business as a partnership 42 days from the date of issuance All of which more fully appears Travis County, Texas, at or before defeat will break the liberal move- bilities; plaintiff alleges that no hereof, that is to say, at or before, children were born of this mar- known as Weaver Construction from Plaintiff's Original Petition 10 o'clock A. M. of the first Mon- ment. But if Tower wins and other 10 o'clock A. M. of Monday the on file in this office, and which day after the expiration of 42 days riage, and no community property Company, have dissolved the same 15th day of May, 1961, and answer was acquired; plaintiff further and formed a corporation under reference is here made for all in- from the date of issuance hereof; Republicans gain ofice, we will be the petition of plaintiff in Cause tents and purposes; that is to say, at or before, 10 alleges that her name prior to the name of Weaver Construction Number 121,241, in which W. N. able to run against something marriage to defendant was Bea- Company, 1225 Union Bower Road, If this citation is not served o'clock A. M. of Monday the 15th Irving, Texas. McKinney, Jr. is Plaintiff and day of May, 1961, and answer the trice . Speer; Plaintiff prays for Maria Van Heerbeek McKinney is within 90 days after date of its more than just a shadow. Further- judgment of divorce from defend- EXECUTED this the 24th day issuance, it shall be returned un- petition of plaintiff in Cause Num- Defendant, filed in said Court on ber 117,935, in which William ant, for the restoration of her of March, 1961. the 6th day of March, 1961, and the served. more, we could win control of former name, Beatrice Speer, and Theobald is Plaintiff and Theresa (Signed) nature of which said suit is as Witness, 0. T. MARTIN, JR., F. Theobald is Defendant, filed the Democratic party machinery for such other and further relief H. H. WEAVER, Sr. follows: Clerk of the District Courts of in said Court on the 19th day of as the Court shall deem proper Being an action and prayer for Travis County, Texas. because the Republicans who now to grant, either at law or in H. H. WEAVER, Jr. May, 1960, and the nature of which judgment in favor of Plaintiff and Issued and given under my hand said suit is as follows: equity; and the seal of said Court at office run it would have to register and CITATION BY PUBLICATION against defendant for decree of Being an action and prayer for All of which more fully appears divorce dissolving the bonds of in the City of Austin, this the 20th judgment in favor of plaintiff and vote in their own party. from Plaintiffs Original Petition THE STATE OF TEXAS matrimony heretofore and now day of March, 1961. against defendant for decree of on file in this office, and which TO Robert Bouma, Defendant, in existing between said parties; 0. T. Martin, Jr. divorce dissolving the bonds of In short, a vote for Tower is reference is here made for all the hereinafter styled and num- Plaintiff alleges that defendant Clerk of the District Courts, matrimony heretofore and now a vote for survival. The two-party intents and purposes; bered cause: ' left plaintiff on Sept. 20, 1960, and Travis County, Texas. existing between said parties; If this citation is not served You are hereby commanded to returned to Holland, in the conti- By A. E. Jones, Deputy. plaintiff alleges that defendant system that would result from a within 90 days after date of its nent of Europe and that prior to began a course of unkind, harsh issuance, it shall be returned un- appear before the 126th District Court of Travis County, Texas, to this time defendant was guilty of CITATION OF PUBLICATION and cruel treatment, and that de- Tower victory would lead to more served. excesses, cruel treatment and out- be held at the courthouse of said THE STATE OF TEXAS fendant was guilty of excesses, balanced government for Texas. WITNESS, 0. T. MARTIN, JR., county in the City of Austin, rages toward plaintiff of such a cruel treatment and outrages to- Clerk of the District Courts of Travis County, Texas, at or before nature as to render their further TO Fred Green, Defendant, In ward plaintiff of such a nature If you can't support Tower for Travis County, Texas. 10 o'clock A. M. of the first Mon- living together insupportable; the hereinafter styled and num- as to render their further living Issued and given under my day after the expiration of 42 days Plaintiff alleges that no children bered cause: together insupportable; plaintiff these practical reasons, then it hand and the seal of said Court from the date of issuance hereof; were born of this marriage and no You are hereby commanded to alleges that one child was born would be well to remember how at office in the City of Austin, that is to say, at or before 10 community property was acquired appear before the 53rd District to them as issue of a prior mar- this the 30th day of March, 1961. o'clock A. M. of Monday the 8th with the exception of small Court of Travis County, Texas, to riage, to-wit: Billy David, age 5 Blakley got his appointment. 0. T. MARTIN, JR. day of May, 1961, and answer the amounts of assets that were left be held at the courthouse of said years, and asks the Court to award Clerk of the District Courts, petition of plaintiff in Cause Num- to plaintiff by defendant to clear county in the City of Austin, said minor child to the defendant Isn't it time we started voting Travis County, Texas. up bills and debts incurred by the Travis County, Texas, at or be- and that plaintiff be ordered to By A. E. Jones, Deputy. ber 121,404, in which Emma Guer- against people who think they rero Bouma is Plaintiff and Robert marriage; Plaintiff prays for judg- fore 10 o'clock A. M. of the first pay a proper and suitable amount Bouma is Defendant, filed in said ment of divorce from defendant, Monday after the expiration of 42 toward the support and mainte- can retire to public office when CITATION BY PUBLICATION Court on the 20th day of March, and such other relief, general and days from the date of issuance nance of said minor until minor THE STATE OF TEXAS 1961, and the nature of which said special, that the Court may deem hereof; that is to say, at or be- child reaches the age of 18 years; they've made enough money to TO James William Jones, De- suit is as follows: proper; fore, 10 o'clock A. M. of Monday plaintiff alleges that no commun- fendant, in the hereinafter styled Being an action and prayer for All of which more fully appears the 22nd day of May, 1961, and ity property was acquired during buy their way in? and numbered cause: judgment in favor of plaintiff and from Plaintiff's Original Petition answer the petition of plaintiff in this marriage; plaintiff prays for William Caldwell, 404 W. 12th, You are hereby commanded to against defendant for decree of on file in this office, and which Cause Number 121,649, in which judgment of divorce from defend- appear before the 126th District divorce dissolving the bonds of reference is here made for all in- Shirley Green is Plaintiff and ant, and for such other and fur- Austin. Court of Travis County, Texas, matrimony heretofore and now ex- tents and purposes; Fred Green is Defendant, filed ther relief in law and equity to to be held at the courthouse of isting between said parties; Plain- If this citation is not served in said Court on the 7th day of which plaintiff may show himself said county in the City of Austin, tiff alleges that defendant com- within 90 days after date of its April, 1961, and the nature of entitled; Strengthen Party System Travis County, Texas, at or be- menced a course of unkind, harsh issuance, it shall be returned un- which said suit is as follows: All of which more fully appears fore 10 o'clock A. M. of the first and tyrannical conduct toward served. Being an action and prayer for from Plaintiff's Original Peti- Sirs: I have read carefully what Monday after the expiration of plaintiff until Sept. 1952; Plaintiff Witness, 0. T. MARTIN, JR.. judgment in favor of plaintiff and tion on file in this office, and the Observer says about both 42 days from the date of issuance alleges that defendant was guilty Clerk of the District Courts of against defendant for decree of which reference is here made for hereof; that is to say, at or be- of excesses, cruel treatment and Travis County, Texas. divorce dissolving the bonds of all intents and purposes; Blakley and Tower. To me both fore, 10 o'clock A. M. of Monday outrages toward plaintiff of such Issued and given under my hand matrimony heretofore and now If this citation is not served the 29th day of May, 1961, and nature as to render their further and the seal of said Court at office existing between said parties; within 90 days after date of Its are impossible. However, one answer the petition of plaintiff living together insupportable; in the City of Austin, this the 27th plaintiff alleges that defendant issuance, it shall be returned un- must often choose the lesser of in Cause Number 121,756, in plaintiff alleges that one child was day of March, 1961. commenced a course of unkind, served. which Mildred Jones is Plaintiff born of this marriage, to-wit: 0. T. Martin, Jr. harsh and tyrannical treatment WITNESS, 0. T. MARTIN, JR., two evils. And I am firmly con- and James William Jones is de- Henry Bouma, and that defendant Clerk of the District Courts, toward plaintiff and that defend- Clerk of the District Courts of fendant, filed in said Court on has said minor child at this time Travis County, Texas. ant was guilty of excesses, cruel Travis County, Texas. vinced that Mr. Tower is more the 14th day of April, 1961, and and plaintiff asks that Court for By A. E. Jones, Deputy. treatment and outrages toward Issued and given under my the ,nature of which said suit is control and custody of said minor plaintiff of such a nature as to hand and the seal of said Court intelligent and possibly more as follows: child and a reasonable attorney's render their further living to- at office in the City of Austin, adaptable. Being an action and prayer for fees to prosecute this suit; plain- CITATION BY PUBLICATION gether insupportable; plaintiff al- this the 31st day of March, 1961. judgment of divorce in favor of tiff alleges that no community THE STATE OF TEXAS leges that two children were born 0. T. MARTIN, JR. I should like to suggest that the plaintiff and against the de- property was acquired during this TO Jeanie Karon Franklin, De- of this marriage, to-wit; Fred Clerk of the District Courts, fendant for decree of divorce dis- marriage and that her maiden fendant, in the hereinafter styled Leslie, age 3 years, and Stacey Travis County, Texas. the Observer take a stand for solving the bonds of matrimony name was Emma Guerrero; plain- and numbered cause: Dee, age 2 years, and plaintiff By A. E. JONES, Deputy. Welch's 'Dark Grey Instrumentalities' Ministers Respond `The Flight to Amorality' (Continued From Page 1) munists for that purpose." (This And what was their catch-phrase? tences with adjectives and ad- theme evoked strong applause.) "I like Taft, but he can't win." .. . and Zbranek Takes Issue verbs — "diabolical," "tyrannical," Russians do not want "an hon- The communists 'knew Taft would • Rice P. Lynn, a San An- get it back. According to Roberts- "mammoth"; "busily," "success- est war" with the U.S. because win "over any opponent by a huge gelo lawyer and prominent mem- Dobbs, that was a liberal ap- fully," "satanically"—and is there- they are overcoming us so well margin," but they used "lies which ber of the John Birch Society, told proach. fore hard to follow. Although no "by internal subversion." "Our were staggering as to viciousness the San Angelo Standard-Times: "I voted against a general sales spellbinder, he can lay forth a principal danger is communist in- and brazenness." "This is a patriotic society trying tax twice. Again, according to punchy line. fluences right in our midst and For his third elucidation of "the to save the U.S. from communism. them, this was a liberal view. He had a few preliminary treason right in our government," principle of reversal," Welch re- Every department of the govern- I voted to tax gas pipelines ra- points. One, his speech was copy- Welch continued to intense ap- called the McCarthy years. "I've ment is infiltrated. Dean Acheson ther than producers. According to righted, and all TV and commer- plause. The goal is so to change read more communist literature and George Marshall are the big- these people, that was liberal too." cial rights were sold to "a com- the U.S. government, "it can be than any other kind," he said, and gest s.o.b.'s that ever lived" . . . Zbranek said the Roberts peo- mercial sponsor" he did not name. comfortably merged with a one- therefore he knows that "the Eisenhower "let the communists ple "mis-define liberalism in the Two, the publication of the "pri- world communist government." most important thing in the world run over him, and unconsciously first place. The practical Texas vate letter" in which he called We should stay armed, but there to the communists was to destroy helped the communists on foreign political analysis boils down to: Eisenhower a communist was un- has been "incredible waste" on McCarthy." aid, the United Nations, and cen- if you favor big lobbyists and spe- ethical journalism and a violation the arms program, and "the so- tralized government . .. Artificial cial interest groups, then you are of his property rights in his let- cialization of government" has Same Nonsense flouridation to combat took decay a good conservative. If you sup- ter. Furthermore, he said, the proceeded with "this completely McCarthy was criticized, he in children is a "communist plot. port free competition and econom- Birch society disavowed the let- phony threat of outside war as said, for "supposedly helping com- A scientist has said the person ic independence for all people, ter in 1958, at a time when he the excuse." munists by his supposedly ex- who drinks flouridated water for regardless of the size of the oper- still had about half of "the offset treme tactics—just as the same one year will never be the same ation, then you are branded as a reproductions we had made of the nonsense is being peddled today physically or mentally." liberal." last typing." Three, he asked "all against the John Birch Society!" • A f ter Robert Welch's communists in the audience, (Applause.) • Houston Press writer Ma- speech in Dallas this week, Rev. please hold up your hands," and The communists were fright- rie Dauplaise, in a tape-recorded W. H. Dickinson, pastor of the was gratified there were none in ened because instead of fighting interview with Roberts, was told Highland Park Methodist Church, the house. communists with arguments and by the lecturer that he had once largest Methodist Church in the His charges and alarms tend to ideology as everybody had been been enrolled at Rice Institute, world, said Welch's "reckless cluster around a few main ideas. ' doing "since the pack had got rid but dropped out, and that he had charges" threatened the security graduated from the University of We are seeing, he said, "the of Martin Dies and Parnell Thom- of the nation and weakened the gradual but visible loss of the in- as," McCarthy "had decided that Arizona as a mechanical engineer The chief doctrine-giver of the church." Dr. William Elliott, min- dependence and sovereignty of the way to stop communism was and later taught there. On inves- Birchers enunciated the commu- ister of the Highland Park Pres- tigation, Miss Dauplaise was told the U.S. to an international social- to expose communists, and he was nists' "principle of reversal," byterian Church, accused Welch by Rice officials, who checked ist government," or "the socialist right and the communists knew which he said is their trick of con- of "putting people in a mental super-government." Prospects are it." For this he was pilloried with permanent record cards, that ceding a point in a prefatory strait-jacket" and said he was "they could find no card on Mr. good that we will be "living under breathtaking harshness and "un- clause to convince the people of "particularly distressed" at Roberts." University of Arizona a slave state with brutal commu- speakable charges" made "by the a brazen lie in a concluding Birch's reiteration in Dallas that officials "could not confirm either nist masters, and in just a very communists and their dupes and clause. "about three percent of the na- Mr. Roberts' graduation . . in few years," at which time we will allies." For instance, Welch said: tion's ministers are communist 1946 as he claimed, nor his al- be able to resist only by becom- After saying that basically there In 1940, Roosevelt had decided sympathizers." leged two-year teaching career ing our s el v es "conspirators was nothing wrong with McCar- to bring the U.S. into the Euro- there." against the government." To put thy's methods, Welch revealed • James Lehrer of the Dal- pean war, but "had to overcome" this another way, he gave his the communists' catch-phrase un- las News, in a five-part series on F. W. Mattox, president of Lub- the people's opposition. "Of guess that "the communists have der the reversal principle for the the Birch Society, found there bock Christian College, told the course," Welch said, "by 1940 been heavily influencing all ma- destruction of McCarthy. It was, are 35 chapters and 700 members Press Roberts was fired as a Roosevelt's whole New Deal had jor decisions in our government "I like what McCarthy is trying in Dallas and that the city has teacher on "Americanism" because been shown to be foreign, phony, since 1941." He referred to "their to do, but I can't stand his meth- "one of the most flourishing, en- he "felt obligated to get into the and a failure." The communists invisible influence" and declared:. ods." thusiastic Birch movements in the field of political action and, in an therefore adopted the catch- "Our government has been the Approaching his conclusion, country." "Right now we have evening adult class, criticized phrase, "I can't stand Roosevelt" most powerful single force sup- Welch said the idea communism is our film booked up for 23 nights," Waggoner Carr, speaker of the (the concession to the people's porting the communist advance a movement of the poor is "one an area co-ordinator said. "It's the Texas House." Mattox said Rob- views) "but we must re-evaluate while pretending to oppose the of the biggest lies in all history." publicity — adverse though most erts claimed Carr's support by him because of his foreign policy" communist advance." Communism comes from "the very of it has been—that is bringing labor unions "smacked of a trade- (the truth upside down), Welch "Communist riot tactics" are rich, the highly educated, the po- them to us." out with unions." The school gave explained. being used in the U.S., as in the litically skilled," and leading pi- Carr an appreciation dinner for In 1952, there was evidence that Former state representa- breaking up of the hearings of oneer communists have been al- • Carr to make up for the incident, Stalin thought that he, Stalin, tive Zeke Zbranek of Liberty took the House Un-American Activities most invariably "from the wealthy Mattox said. was "in virtual control of our issue this week with George Rob- Committee" as shown in the film, and well-educated circles." government," but a revolt set in erts and Associates (Obs., Apr. • Maj. Edgar Bundy, chair- 'Operation Abolition,' " and in the Welch has "not the slightest among U.S. citizens, and they had 15) who have been hired to con- man of the Church League of "brutal physical attack" on a ,doubt" that Herbert Philbrick a "tremendously patriotic leader, duct required lectures for Hous- America and a frequent Texas young newspaperman he said was and Dr. J. B. Matthews are cor- Robert A. Taft." (At Taft's name ton school teachers on socialism speaker, said in Dallas this week beaten up for "writing anti-com- rect saying there are more corn- the hall filled with applause.) and communism. that Dr. Willis Tate, president of munist things in his newspaper." munists per capita among Prot- Now Taft, Welch said, if nomi- SMU, is allowing his students to "Just what does it take," he de- estant clergymen than in any Jim Dobbs, one of Roberts' lec- nated, "would unquestionably win be "indoctrinated with commu- manded, "to make the American other U.S. group. What's the ex- turers, passed out literature in by one of the greatest landslides nist propaganda." people see the communist steam- planation for this strange phe- his fourth of six lectures on in all American history" and there Bundy conducted a series of roller at work?" nomenon? "Protestant ministers "American Freedom" being con- would be "a weeding of commu- do not become communists—but ducted at Liberty High School. "Counter-Subversive Seminars" at Down the Road nist agents out of our govern- communists do become Protestant Zbranek charged that the litera- the Adolphus Hotel which he Communists violate various ment." Therefore, to stop Taft, ministers," Welch said to ap- ture, entitled "Labor Boss Analy- promised would "deal specifically rules: they do not declare wars "the communists behind the plause. Some few preachers might sis of the Voting Records" of the with the type of speakers Dr. they are waging, break treaties, scenes pulled out all the stops." have "noble instincts" and look 1959 Legislature, 'brands him as Tate is permitting to come to and prostitute art to politics. on "socialistic practices" as "wel- a puppet of labor bosses. SMU and indoctrinate with com- * * munist propaganda." Welch read a poem he has written farism," but communists are will- Zbranek, an attorney and state in which he warns of the loss of Texas ROTC Unit ing to undergo "years of . . . blas- manager of the Maverick for Bundy said there are "three freedom in "the dull collective To Hear Lewis III phemous pretenses" to argue that Senate campaign, asked Dobbs at classifications of persons who monotone of universal serfdom." AUSTIN Red China should be admitted into his fifth lecture for an opportu- serve the communist cause. There "This whole imminent prospect All Army ROTC cadets at the UN or "that capitalism is just nity to explain his legislative vot- are the actual party members, is a cause for deep and ceaseless the University of Texas this as bad as socialism." ing record to the audience. He the fellow travelers, and the anxiety," Welch said. The "most week were ordered to attend He repeated that communists was denied the request. dupes." important worry" is "the flight to a closed-door showing of the want to "make crime and immor- "I think it only fair to tell the Malcolm McGregor of El amorality," which he called "sin- controversial film "Operation ality desirable in themselves." people that Mr. Roberts and Mr. Paso, chairman of the education ister . . . far-reaching . . . diaboli- Abolition" with a talk by There are many who "support Dobbs are seeking to get the peo- committee of the Texas House, cal in the most literal meaning of Fulton Lewis III, or pay the amorality in theory and complete ple to draw false conclusions by said this week the John Birch that word." Crime, sin, and false- penalty of a hour drill. pragmatism in practice," but showing the results of voting rec- Society and similar groups are hood are being elevated into "a A notice released by the "somewhere behind these moral ords without explaining what is- making an effort to prevent the world-wide cult," "and the evil in Army ROTC Headquarters to neutralists there seems to be some sues were involved," Zbranek state board of education from re- nature" is being revered in the all cadets stated: demonic group or power" who said. . quiring school districts to hire communists' "satanically - cruel "Thursday evening, 27 Ap- want to elevate as an ideal "hate "The people who are financing guidance counselors. downward reach." ril 1961, The Society of Amer- instead of love." him are the people I voted to tax We have been going down the ican Military Engineers will Marx, "one of the most foul in- McGregor told Carl Freund, in the legislature," Zbranek road to communism by means that present Fulton Lewis III with dividuals who ever lived," created Scripps-Howard reporter: "From charged, "and that's why they're are supposed to oppose it. "The 'Operation Abolition' in the "the God of hatred," while ene- the mail I have received, it ap- taking this approach. I challenge whole foreign aid program is an Main Ballroom of the Texas mies of communism have "the pears that passage of MB 993 has Mr. Roberts or Mr. Dobbs or any- excellent example." It has done Union—at 1930 hours. . . . God-given upward reach" toward become one of their top objec- body else to debate me on my "some good, of course. The com- "All Army ROTC Cadets "a God of love." tives." The bill would disallow the (voting) record on whether its munists . . . do not believe in WILL be required to attend In this fight against "vastly state board from requiring a for free enterprise or against free using solid black instrumentali- either this meeting or the entrenched evil," Welch said, school district to hire such coun- enterprise." ties, but only dark grey ones." drill to be held at noon. . . . "some grow tired, some grow old, selors. But "this whole big lie called for- "THIS MEETING IS A and some like myself grow bold," Zbranek said the lectures are J. Evetts Haley, editor of a eign aid" has been "a tremendous CLOSED ROTC CLASS AND but the issue is the nature of man designed to make people grade newsletter sent out by the right- help to the advance of commu- NO PERSON OTHER THAN in the future, "which they will the legislators on the same basis wing Texans for America, wrote nism. It was planned by the corn- ROTC CADETS WILL BE AL- have as an ideal or a taskmaster they are graded by lobbyists. in a recent issue that guidance LOWED TO ENTER WITH- —hatred or love, the God of hate "I voted for a bill to insure that programs would "let pseudo-psy- THE TEXAS OBSERVER OUT THE PERMISSION OF or the God of love through all rightful owners of property being chologists start guiding your child Page 8 April 25, 1961 THE PMS COL. BROWN." the days to be." held by pipeline companies would in the way they want him to go."