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Vol. 51 0\ \. 20, 1959 10c per copy No. 11 ,;) q `%('-k What Re Happened Price Insists AUSTIN statement in support of t . forth- a token severance - beneficiary conferees themselves would take On New Gas Tax The only real hope for a coming report, which was to be gas tax and some change in the it. By a vote of three to two the compromise tax bill in the substantially the Senate bill, not franchise tax formula. House rejected the package, AUSTIN first called session disinte- including either a token sever- Carr noted down these two Carr's three men. voting no, Jam- Governor Price Daniel told grated this week when a ance beneficiary tax on out-of- items during his conversation ison and Kennard aye. a joint session of senators three - man majority of state users of Texas natural gas with Daniel. Kennard then said he wanted a a n d representatves, "You Speaker Waggoner Carr's or the Governor's change in the At this very time, the tax con- vote of the House conferees on a and I know that the major House c o of er e e s voted franchise tax so that it would fall ferees were mulling over a pack- one percent severance beneficiary issue which has deadlocked against principles a majority more heavily on interstate cor- age presented them by Reps. Don gas tax. (The House majority had this legislature has been the of the House • members had porations. Kennard and Alonzo Jamison, the voted for five percent.) By the question of whether natural voted for. Daniel had earlier asked the two House conferees who repre- same vote of three to two, the gas pipeline companies would Witnesses to this evidence two House conferees who repre- sented the House majority. This House conferees opposed the one bear a fairer, larger share of that the people they were ne- sented the House majority on package, 60 percent sales taxes percent severance - beneficiary the tax burden of this state. gotiating with did not be- taxes to accept a Senate-like com- and 40 percent business taxes, in- tax. I think they should. I am promise on the strength of pri- lieve in what they had eluded one percent severance- Ramsey then took votes on the positive that a majority of vate assurances Daniel made to seemed to advocate, the sen- beneficiary on natural gas and a Senate's tax provisions, and the the people of this state, if ators in the closed sessions them. They told him they could change in the franchise formula. Senate's tax bill, with minor re- permitted .to vote on the is- not sell such a compromise to the of the House-Senate tax con- It left the Senate's three-cent cig- visions, was presented to the Sen- sue, would favor additional House. ference continued to hold arette tax intact. Kennard and ate, which approved it, 19-12, and taxes on those who have tied Therefore, when Carr ap- fast for their 75 percent sales Jamison told the senators they the House, which thunderously up the natural gas reserves tax bill. From that point on proached Daniel, the Governor would advocate this package to defeated it, 121 to 27 (see "The of this state and who are told him he would not issue a it was certain that the Senate the House. The Senators were in- Votes on Taxes"). Reps. Kennard transporting to other states bill would emerge from the statement for the give-in to the terested and wanted to causus. and Jamison refused to sign the and foreign countries 53 per conference committee, if any- Senate. He told Carr that in or- report and voted no with the 121. cent of all marketed gas pro- der for there to be compromise, Conference With Carr thing did. Of the 27 who voted aye, eleven duced in Texas." Speaker Carr Tuesday after- the Senate and Carr's three-man Carr's three men on the confer- are members of Carr's 21-mem- Receiving a standing ovation noon went to Governor Price majority on the House committee ence committee, Reps. Bo Ram- ber tax committee in the House. from the floor and the gallery Daniel and asked him to issue a must give in on behalf of at least sey, W. T. Oliver, and George All three of Carr's men on the when he entered the lower cham- Cook, all of whom opposed a sev- conference committee signed the ber for his address opening the erance-beneficiary tax and voted report and voted for it. second called 'session, Daniel re- against the House's half-business, There was not much evidence peated in strengthened terms his Senate Plan Sags half-sales tax version of the tax that the senators would have program for solving the state's bill, were taken aback by the taken the package in any case. financial troubles. Kennard-Jamison proposal. Three separate occasions before "My only regret is that I did Under 121-27 Vote Ramsey and Oliver went to in the closed conference commit- not recommend a higher tax on find Carr, as they had done on tee meetings they had refused to these pipeline companies," Daniel AUSTIN We can get some people beat frequent occasions during the 16 consider the severance-benefi- said. "I see no reason to put all Comments from key fig- with that." or 18 meetings of the conference ciary tax in any form. of the natural gas increase on Sen. Charles Herring, Austin, ures in the legislative tax committee. Carr at the moment In fact, until Kennard pre- Texas producers and royalty one of the Senate conferees: "I fight on the House-Senate was in the Governor's office, but sented the package, the senators, owners when there is a constitu- have some reservations. But I tax report in favor of a 75 on his return they conferred. except for Charles Herring of tional method available for plac- have 20,000 state employees in my percent sales tax, 25 percent Carr was cross because Kennard Austin, who favors the House ap- ing it on the gas pipeline com- district who won't get paid if we business program, which the and Jamison had proposed a proach to taxes, adamantly re- panies ... Governor Shivers, one don't pass a tax." (He signed the Senate accepted 19-12 and package which fell between the fused to compromise on any sub- of the most conservative govern- report and voted for the bill.) the House rejected 121-27: House and Senate versions with- stantial point excep the fran- ors in the history of our state, Rep. Don Kennard, Fort Worth, Rep. George Hinson, Min- out consulting him in. advance. chise tax. The other four Senate recommended to the legislature one of the two House conferees eola, sponsor of Gov. Daniel's When the conference commit- conferees were Rudolph Weinert, in 1954 a similar tax of one half who refused to sign the report tax bill : "It's a wonderful is- tee reconvened, the senators said Seguin, who was elected chair- cent per thousand cubic feet." sue—the three-cent cigarette and voted against it: "There was that before they would state man of the conference; Dorsey such an odor of natural gas in After saying he suggested a tax the Senate passed in pref- their position on the package, Hardeman, San Angelo; Jimmy lower figure than Shivers in the erence to a natural gas tax. (Continued on Page 5) they wanted to know if the House Phillips, Angleton; and Bruce hope that gas pipeline companies Reagan, Corpus Christi. These would practice "business states- four stuck fast together for the ma•ship" and accept the boost. Senate's bill. Daniel departed from his pre- Texans on Adlai, Jack, LBJ1 Concessions Expected pared address to reflect that one Thursday a week ago, the af- gas representative told him ear- AUSTIN might be our more practical stomp the daylights out of him, ternoon the conferees were lier in the year that the tax was The Observer had occasion this choice for the simple reason that couldn't he?" named, the five men for the acceptable and that he felt the week to question a few of the Stevenson has been defeated JERRY HOLLEMAN, president House side met with Carr in his biggest job Daniel and Rep. state's political leaders on the of Texas State AFL-CIO: "If the George Hinson had was "to keep twice before in Texas, and that's apartment. He said he had desig- latest Gallup Poll on the Demo- choice were betWeen Kennedy nated them because they would it from going any higher." Hin- a pretty hard hump to overcome." and Stevenson, I'm inclined to cratic nomination for the presi- (Continued on Page 2) (Contiued on Page 3) dency, which showed Adlai Stev- (Pickle also said, "The Demo- think they (state political lead- enson ahead, John Kennedy sec- crats are going to win. All these ers) would probably favor Ken- ond, and Lyndon Johnson third. people who are candidates will nedy. They feel, and I'm inclined (See page 6.) The responses: get behind the nominee. And I to feel a little this way myself, THE VOTES ON TAXES don't think we'll • have as much the unfortunate losses that Stev- JAKE JACOBSEN, executive presumed revenue to $177 mil- difficulty in the election as be- AUSTIN secretary of the State Democratic enson has suffered give him a lion. Excluding the miscellaneous fore.") The Senate-written tax bill re- Executive Committee, "My three tremendous disadvantage." taxes, the bill was about $44 mil- choices, in order, are Johnson, BOB ECKHARDT, 'Chairman, jected by the House would have MRS. R. D. RANDOLPH of lion business taxes and $130 mil- Kennedy, and Stevenson. I be- Harris County Democrats, and a provided for a one percent in- H o u s t o n, national committee- lion sales taxes, a ratio of 25 per- lieve this is also the feeling of a state representative from Hous- crease in the tax rate on. natural woman from Texas and chairman cent to 75 percent. majority of the executive com- ton: He is for Stevenson because gas production ($13.5 million) of the Democrats of Texas Clubs: he believes Stevenson is equipped and temporary increases (through Voting for its enactment into mittee, and, as best I can state it, "I'm a Stevenson woman." She law on the Senate side: Baker, the feeling of the people." Why to handle the main issue con- 1962 only) in the corporate fran- thinks most liberal Democrats in Colson, Dies, Fly, Hardeman, Ha- Stevenson third? "Because Stev- fronting the nation, the foreign chise rate ($32.5 million). Selec- zlewood, Herring, Hudson, Lane, the state prefer Stevenson to situation. He believes most liber- tive sales taxes in the bill: car Martin, Moffett, Owen, Phillips, enson's lost twice. There've been Kennedy, except that she has Ratliff, Reagan, Roberts, Secrest, so many bad things said about al Democrats in Texas rank-and- sales ($16.5 million), cigarettes heard of Kennedy support in 'San Smith, Weinert. Senators voting him: Everything bad that can be file prefer Stevenson to Kennedy. (from five to eight cents a pack, no: Aikin, Bradshaw, Crump, Antonio. $63 million), distilled spirits ($4.- Fuller, Gonzalez, Kazen, Krueger, said about a man has been said He says "mere political compe- Moore, Parkhouse, Rogers, Willis, about him, and it's been said so MRS. KATHLEEN VOIGT, lib- tency" is "not enough" and classes 796 million), wines ($.54 million), Wood. Thus it passed the Senate many times." eral figure in San Antonio poli- Johnson and Kennedy as merely cigars and smoking and chewing 19-12. tobacco and snuff' ($23.6 million), The House then rejected the re- JAKE PICKLE, high-level aide tics: She is for Stevenson, Ken- competent. port, 121 to 27 (counting four sets to Governor Price Daniel, and nedy, Hubert Humphrey, that or- ELWOOD FOUTS of Houston, boats and boat motors ($2.6 mil- of "pairs") It was a rare vote in principal organizer for Daniel's der. Johnson "doesn't figure." founder and guiding spirit in lion), radios, TVs, phonographs, that every member was recorded and parts ($7 million); and oper- one way or the other except forces in campaign's: "I would She says the "Catholic liberals" "Freedom in Action": "I am Speaker Waggoner Carr and Men- imagine that if Johnson announ- will go for Kennedy, but "every amazed—was the other day— ators' - chauffeurs' licenses (not ton Murray, Harlingen. The 21 representatives for the bill were ces- he is a candidate or is pre- non-Catholic liberal who is a when I saw a record of popular- commercial licenses) would have Allen, Bartram, Bass, Blanchard . vailed upon to be a candidate, the leader in San Antonio politics is ity by poll showing Stevenson been doubled ($9 million). An in- Bowers, Bristow, Buchanan; Bur- delegation would be a Johnson for Stevenson. I'll take Kennedy and Kennedy so popular. It was direct sales tax on utilities gross kett, Cook, Cory, Ehrle, Gluging. receipts was booked for $3.1 mil- Green, Heatly, Jarvis, Jerome delegation and there would be no second because I think he's a lib- inclined that Lyndon Johnson Jones, Matthew, Oliver, Osborn, percentage for Stevenson or Ken- eral and I have satisfied myself wasn't even in the picture." lion. Miscellaneous taxes—cuts in R a m s e y, Richardson, Roberts, nedy. (As between Stevenson and about this Catholic thing," John- Whom does he favor among the theater taxes of $180,000, and bet- Shannon, Slack, M a x Smith, Thurman, and Woolsey. All other Kennedy) from an individual ba- son can't be nominated or elected three? "I think they're all about ter special fuels enforcement for members who voted said no to sis, I would think that Kennedy and "Nelson Rockefeller would alike, don't you?" $1.2 million—brought the bill's the Senate. 1 Three House Conferees Balked Compromise (Continued from Page 1) severance beneficiary, and they Package Surprises Kennard then laid out his sub- he had told the conferees to go give and take, and were not in- turned that down. "Gas has had stitute. Bo Ramsey, particularly, back to conference and get the By Monday—although the dai- flexible; he told them to fight for it" was their attitude. Ramsey froze: this was entirely unex- best they could from the Senate lies were reporting "new hope" the House bill. They acted to- asked if the production tax might pected. The senators began, to and report it out; that the House because of Daniel's statement gether for the House bill in the be raised higher than one per- read the package and ask ques- had a right to vote. He knew at Saturday that a partial redress of ensuing meetings, except that cent? No. Pointing to the Senate tions about it. There was either a the 50-50 balance between busi- this time that Kennard and Jami- they refused to take votes on any votes against severance benefi- one percent severance-beneficiary son would not sign the Senate ness and sales taxes could lead of the principles involved. The ciary, Hardeman and Phillips ac- tax or the Hardeman tax on dedi- to agreement—and because of version of the tax bill, so this senators often taunted them with tively opposed the principle. cated reserves, plus the one per- was a decision for a three-man "best sources" which predicted a this fact and with charges that Jamison asked if they would cent on gas production; there was report back to the House. tax bill report Monday—in fact were they to test-vote among take one percent severance bene- an allocation change in the fran- the question had become whether House Conferees Split themselves, they would oppose ficiary instead of one percent chise formula. Apart from this to let the tax bill die in confer- the House bill and particularly production? No. Kennard pro- the Senate's sales taxes were in- At 4:55 the conferees met for ence or bring out a bill the House the severance-beneficiary tax. posed Hardeman's 1955 proposal tact, as were those from the the last time. Bo Ramsey took up would almost certainly slaughter. the Senate .bill and asked for a The House conferees first asked for a dedicated reserve tax: Har- House side. deman said he would not push it Noon Tuesday Carr had his five vote on the first of its provisions. the senators if the report should The senators asked for a recess with his conferees, and three of conferees in to lunch. It was in- Kennard demanded a vote first not raise enough money to retire to caucus. Ramsey and Oliver them (all but Herring) would not dicated then that Carr favored a among the House conferees on the deficit as well as pay appro- went to the Speaker's office. accept the idea that recipients of report along the lines of the Sen- the Kennard-Jamison package. priations. Thursday the senators (Their frequent conferences with Texas gas under reservation con- ate bill, so, he explained, the Ramsey, Oliver, and Cook voted said no; Friday, having reconsid- Carr were a subject of amuse- tracts be taxed. House would have a chance to no, killing it for consideration. ered, they agreed. vote on a tax bill. ment for the senators. Weinert The senators did concede to Then Kennard asked for a vote The senators had copies of the asked why they didn't just bring the House by increasing the Jamison had tested the sena- on severance beneficiary: the Senate's bill available, while the Carr to the conference commit- franchise tax one year 75 cents tors out on a package Tuesday representatives killed it, too, by House members did not have cop- morning, but he did not even tee. Herring said they were wear- two years 50 cents (after that, all the same vote. Then Ramsey ies of theirs handy. And for this ing the carpet out going back to the increases to be discontinued), present it after they refused called for votes on the provisions reason, the conferees worked on again to consider the severance- the Speaker's apartment). of the Senate bill. the Senate bill. The senators but they would not hear of a change in the formula to make beneficiary tax. About 3:30 the •conferees met Within ten minutes Oliver was wanted item-by-item considera- Tuesday afternoon at 2:30 Bo again. Ramsey announced he had back on the House floor, telling tion of their bill, but the repre- the tax fall more heavily on in- terstate corporations. Ramsey asked the senators, were not seen the package until it was eagerly curious legislators and sentatives held out for agree- they ready to give in on anything? laid out. The meeting broke up. reporters that the conferees had ment on a package. Sunday at 8:30 a.m. the confer- They said no. The ten men sat At 4:30 Kennard was at Carr's agreed on a report which was Rep. Ramsey advised the sena- ees—who held all their meetings around trying to think of things side at the Speaker's rostrum. At substantially the Senate's tax tors the House would expect con- in a committee room just off the to discuss. 4:50 Carr announced to the press bill. The House said no. R. D. cessions on natural gas, franchise Senate floor—were presented a tax, the three-cent cigarette sales serious offer by Sen. Phillips on tax the Senate had added, and the franchise tax formula. Phil- the House desire for a cut in the lips, • who had fought the alloca- College Fees Bill Held Off sulphur tax. Ramsey also men- tion change on the Senate floor, tioned the House-favored refund asked if the representatives AUSTIN budget requests ... the colleges Fly: "I'm sure the governing to city buses, which the Senate would accept a one-factor for- A loosely knit coalition have enough trouble every ses- boards will charge fees only to had struck out. Early in the nego- mula. change (instead of three- that included some of the sion with legislation stupidly people with cars." tiations the senators voted unan- factor as Daniel asked) which most conservative and some foisted on them by the legislature Fuller: "But under section B of imously against giving in to the would raise $15 million, some of of the most liberal members such as nebulous religious oaths. this bill, couldn't they levy a fee House on the issue of the sul- it from interstate corporations. in the House finally killed They have to run this gamut ev- on every student to raise money phur tax reduction, against which They then recessed until 11:30, at the college student fee bill ery session. Thus do we grind to park cars belonging to half the the open Senate had voted. The which time the House conferees after militant efforts on the them between the upper and the students?" Senate prevailed on this point. declared they would like that part of Speaker Waggoner nether stone .... Fly: "I think they probably Talk drifted then to how to concession, but it would not be Carr's team to revive it "But outside of the pressure of could. I can't see a board of di- raise new money to retire the enough in itself to make the Sen- failed t h r e e times. The this Senate, in the free expres- rectors, though, going quite that deficit. Most of the suggestions ate bill acceptable. House action came after a sion of ideas, what do the college far." concerned additional selective The senators said they were pyrotechnic Senate debate in presidents really think? Logan Kazen: "This bill provides fees sales tax items. Among prospects willing to talk about cutting the which Sen. Henry Gonzalez Wilson said only last week here for 'any other student activity.' "chewed over": hotel. and motel three-cent cigarette tax if the of San Antonio accused the in Austin that he 'deplored this This could mean anything. Sen- rooms and soft drinks. The idea representatives could find some bill's sponsor, Sen. Bill Fly dangerous tendency in raising ator, didn't you in the regular of taking $30 million by re-allo- other place to get the money. of Victoria, of "mealy- fees to students to attend what session sponsOr a resolution cation from the highway fund With gas and corporation fran- mouthed hypocrisy." are supposed to be and are in- against the 'anemic' curricula in drew a 4-1 negative vote from the chise tars out of the picture, The bill, sponsored in the House tended to be state-supported col- public schools? Now you are senators. Eventually the idea this was a puzzler. Kennard and by appropriations c ommitte e leges and universities'." sponsoring a compulsory fee for emerged—from the Senate side Jamison presented the Jamison- chairman Bill Heatly, would have "We are taking the tax off nat- all students that includes lecture originally—of doubling drivers' McGregor "equalization tax" on permitted col 1 e g e governing ural gases and putting it on the series and entertainment or any- license fees, except for commer- corporations, and there was in- boards to levy compulsory fees students," said Sen. W. T. Moore thing else the governing boards cial licenses. terested, but hardly 'serious, dis- up to $76 per year—on either a of Bryan. desire to call a student service." cussion. voluntary or compulsory basis at Fly did not reply to Gonzalez's Fly: "That's right, but where Gas Tax Change Nayed There were "areas of agree- the discretion of the colleges— remarks, rising instead to ask the you and I differ is I think these The senators refused to discuss ment" on secondary matters: the for recrettion, athletics, entertain- Senate to "please, just for me, matters are the student's respon- any change in the one percent tobacco tax, the utility tax, the ment, health, hospitalization, stu- vote , against this amendment and sibility, not the state's. production tax on natural gas`. liquor and wine taxes, the cig- dent parking, textbooks, lab fees, let's give at least some authority Kazen: "But under your bill, Even when it was offered in- arette tax (a bargaining point, or "any other student activity or to the college boards in this mat- the students don't have an option. formally, they would not seri- however), the car sales tax, and service authorized." ter." It's compulsory." ously discuss the severance-bene- the radio TV sales tax. But on In the Senate, Fly was unable The exchange had developed Fly: "That's right. I don't know ficiary tax. Jamison offered one natural gas, the franchise tax, to obtain a two-thirds majority during debate on an amendment about you, but when I was out percent production, one percent sulphur, there was no agreement. needed for passage in the final by Senator Moore which limited there, we took some pride in vis- 48 hours of the session. The vote the services for which colleges iting lecturers and other things of was 20-11. Efforts to pass the bill would charge student fees. The that nature." Webb Says 'Ignore the Log' with a majority vote by obtaining amendment failed by a 14-14 tie After this colloquy, Dies of- a rules suspension from both vote. fered a n amendment making O Dr. Walter Prescott Webb, O State investigators have ob- houses failed on the final day of parking fees voluntary. Though in an address at Stephen F. tained the indictment of a the session when the House re- Student Parking Fees Fly opposed on the grounds that Austin State College in Nacogdo- Denver man, John Milton Addi- fused by a tied 66-66 vote. An o t h e r amendment was any amendment would send the ches, said the South, including son, for obtaining loans of nearly The measure was castigated by adopted, however, sharply limit- bill back to the House where it East Texas, should "plow around $1 million from Texans to de- Sen. Culp Kreuger as "a raid on ing one of the principal aims of faced rocky going, the Senate one great obstacle in order to get velop a "uranium ore purifier." student pocketbooks in the guise the bill—to acquire funds from adopted the Dies proposal, 22 to 8. on with its crop." In context it Addison's $40,000 bond was put of being a health and hospitaliza- students to help build campus was clear he meant segregation. up by some of his investors, tion measure." Fly defended the parking facilities. Hubert Hudson 'Broad Based' Fees He also suggested "ignoring for O Hank Brown, director of ed- bill on the grounds that "college of Brownsville, Martin Dies of the present the log that is too Kreuger offered a .sweeping ucation and research for the governing board members should Lufkin, Jep Fuller of Port Ar- heavy to move and too green to amendment providing that "no Texas AFL-CIO resigned to re- be given some latitude as to how thur, and Chick Kazen of Laredo burn." fee may be charged on any stu- turn to his old job as agent for they run their institutions. Stand led the attack on compulsory O A repair shop owner who dent who is not participating in Plumbers and Pipe Fitters Local behind these college administra- parking fees. Their sallies and the activity for which the fee is said he repaired a city truck 142 in San Antonio. Jerry Holle- tors—they're for this bill." Fly's rejoinders: levied." Pounding his desk, Krue- as a favor, received one in return, man, president, had high praise Fly's remarks brought Gonzalez Hudson: "Many colleges, Prince- ger asked, "How abotit the stu- for Brown and said his resigna- to his feet. "I term the remarks ton for instance, which are far dent who doesn't want to kick a tion was accepted regretfully. of the chairman of the Senate better than the University of football, doesn't want to hear de- The Week in Texas finance committee the , most hypo- Texas as far as educational stand- bating, doesn't want to hear a vis- O Control of the Laredo inde- critical remarks I have ever ards are concerned, do not pro- pendent school district passed out iting lecturer, he just wants to heard," said Gonzalez. "He asks vide parking for autos." study chemical engineering? I Houston investigators discovered: of the hands of the Old Party the Senate to 'have confidence' in Fly: "I don't see why these don't want a student who is in 20 loads of city shell "given" him with the appointment of a new the college presidents when the students feel like they have to member. school by the skin of his teeth without charge. truth of the matter why these have cars, but they seem to think knocked out because he can't pay O Judge Thomas Stovall found O Rep. Criss Cole of Houston, colleges are here for this money they do. If they have to have cars, this 'broad-based' fee." three Aldine (Harris County) through his attorney, Rep. is because their appropriations we have to provide facilities to Dies, moving to table, said little school trustees guilty of incom- Charles Whitfield of Houston, has have been cut to the bone by the park them." colleges cannot finance athletics filed suit for $25,000 damages petence and official misconduct same chairman of the same Sen- Dies: "Under this bill, every- or lectures unless all students against a New Braunfels cafe for voting for a $1.35 tax rate and ate finance committee. He asks body in school will have to pay pay a small fee. His motion to ta- a budget which required a $1.59 where he and his wife and son for respect for college governing the fee whether they have a car ble prevailed. L.G. rate, and for making funds un- were refused service because boards when he himself has or not. Won't that work a hard - available for payment of school they were accompanied by Cole's shown contempt for their activi- ship on the poorer students who THE TEXAS OBSERVER district obligations. seeing-eye dog, Toni. ties by ruthlessly slashing their_ don't have oars?" Page 2 June 20, 1959 CARR, DANIEL GIG EACH OTHER PRICE DANIEL AUSTIN rectly and indirectly, to pass the taxpayers the cost of another mittee against the House version ON JIM HOGG The five-month trench war specific pr o g r am he recom- session. The experience of this of the tax bill. Three (the major- AUSTIN involving Price Daniel and mended. The House passed sub- type of leadership, or lack of ity) of his conferees voted against Price Daniel, recalling his the severance gas tax on the stantially the measure he so vig- leadership, of t h e past five the bill and against the expressed own fights with Austin lobby- one hand and Waggoner 14 orously insisted upon. The Gov- months should now equip the leg- will of a majority of the House: ists dating from the W. Lee Carr and the gas lobby on ernor then appeared before the islature with the proper strength, That could hardly have been ex- O'Daniel sales tax era, reached the other spilled onto the Senate committee considering the knowledge, and determination to pected to reconcile the differen- further into the state's history front pages of the state press measure and agreed to accept see that the job is done correctly ces between the House and Sen- to remind the legislature of this week after the House anything that body would send and equitably ..." ate versions when they agreed the turn-of-the-century lobby Speaker attacked Daniel in him. This left members of the On the House floor that night— with the Senate instead of the battles of Gov. James Hogg. a formal press statement and House who had worked for his about 12:30 a.m., it was—Rep. House viewpoint. Only Speaker In his address to the legisla- the Governor replied "at the program high and dry. Jamie Clements, Crockett, ap- Carr could have influenced them ture, Daniel said, "My strong request of the Capitol press." prised of Carr's charge Daniel ran to ask the Senate to yield on the advocacy of increased taxes on The next day, following a 'Disgusting' out on his supporters, asked, natural gas and interstate corpor- natural gas pipeline compan- rousing reception afforded "The manner in which the Gov- "When did that happen?" Rep. W. ation provisions voted by the ies and interstate corporations Daniel by lawmakers gath- ernor deserted his own program W. Glass, Jacksonville, another House, and this he did not do." has incurred the ill will and ered to hear his address open- and his supporters is both dis- Daniel supporter, told -Carr said Daniel's statement concluded powerful opposition of one of ing the new session, the Gov- gusting and reprehensible. Daniel deserted his supporters, with the release of a statement, the strongest and most persis- ernor's stock appeared higher "While I personally did not fa- exclaimed, "What's he • talking written. on June 12th after Carr tept lobbies that this capital than at any time since the vor the Governor's recommenda- about?" appointed his conferees. Daniel has even known. It is nothing battle began in January. tion because it would have been said he had decided not to release new to me. I landed here as a The public duel between the detrimental to the industrial and 'Look in the. Mirror' it at that time "after conferences member of this House 20 years Speaker and the Governor was commercial expansion in the de- Daniel sighted in on the gas with , House members and my ago in the midst of a similar triggered by Carr within minutes velopment of Texas, and would lobbyists in his reply. "I am sur- staff." The June 12th release re- tax fight. I withstood the of the overwhelming 121 to 27 have ultimately affected the pay- pr•sed," said the governor, "at buked Carr for not appointing a pressures f r o m the same House rejection Tuesday night of check of every citizen through a the angry, irresponsible, and un- majority of conferees who sup- vested interests which are ex- the tax conference report signed disguised means, and possibly true statements made last night ported the House bill. Daniel erted upon you today. I un- by the three conferees regarded would have resulted in unem- by Speaker Carr. They do not added, "The omission of the derstand some of the gas as "Carr's men." In a statement ployment, I did endeavor to see deserve the dignity of a reply. House sponsor, Rep. George Hin- lobby has decided to make this released to the press shortly af- that the House had the oppor- However, since the Capitol press son, is not understandable to me. session an all out fight against ter the first called session ended tunity to vote on his program. has asked for comment, I -will say In my opinion, this decision by the Governor. I am not the in deadlock, Carr charged Dan- These members were completely that it must have made the lobby- the Speaker might well be the first Governor who has been iel with conduct "both disgusting and absolutely deserted by the ists for the gas pipeline compan- difference between enactment of cursed and criticized across and reprehensible." Governor after t h e measure ies and interstate corporations a tax bill at this special session the dining tables of the Ste- very happy. For some months, I or the necessity of another ses- phen F. Austin and Driskill Accusing the Governor of de- reached the Senate. have realized that Speaker Carr sion ..." Hotels, and I hope I will not serting his supporters and being "His record, therefore, is not has cooperated- far more with be the last. dictatorial and uncompromising, only one of indecision but is also First tangible evidence of pith- them than with the Governor "Governor Jim Hogg, who Carr defended the House con- one of inconsistence. When the lic reaction to the exchange came elected by the people of Texas. was a constant target of the ferees who accepted the tax bill conferees agreed upon a compro- within 14 hours of Carr's sally If he is seeking someone on special interests, called these substantially as passed by the mise, the Governor was requested when Daniel appeared before a whom to blame the failure of the gentlemen the 'Knights of Senate: "The conferees of the to give his public and private joint session of the legislature to session, he has only to look in the Congress Avenue.' In a speech louse," Carr said, "worked dili- support to the bill. In spite of his open the second called . session. mirror on his own wall and in at the old Opera House in gently and conscientiously to- public promises that he would As he walked doWn the side aisle the faces of a few lobbyists who Austin, Gov. Hogg said: 'Let's ward a solution to the tax prob- support any tax bill short of a of the House enroute to the pod- have wanted to keep the legisla- have Texas, the Empire State, lem in accordance with their re- general sales tax or income tax, ium, Daniel received a standing ture here all summer. governed by the people in sponsibility to represent a major- he refused. His earlier promises ovation from legislators and the "A complete answer to the Texas; not Texas, the truck- ity of the House members. Their were quickly forgotten. packed galleries. It was the third Speaker's charges was given by patch, ruled by corporate lob- failure in no way reflects against "By such tactics the Governor time this spring he has opened his own House last night when it byists." there ability, nor does it indicate has forced us into another special a new session but the first voted 117-23 against the compro- "We have drifted a long any lack of dedicated effort. session. His fancy footwork has time he has received what one mise bill Speaker Carr supported. way from the philosophy of • "(They) were confronted pri- prevented the passage of a tax newspaper described as "an ova- He and a majority of the tax con- Gov. Jim Hogg, who advocated marily with the fact that the Gov- bill this session. If he had stuck tion amounting almost to a dem- ferees selected by him simply did a higher franchise tax on for- ernor and his staff applied every by his promises, our work would onstration." He and Carr shook not speak or work for the views eign corporations than on do- type of 'pressure tactics' to the now have been completed and we hands briefly before Carr intro- of a majority of the members of mestic corporations." members of the House, both di- would have been able to save the duced him for the address. After the House. the speech, Daniel gave Carr a "The die was cast when the couple of pats on the shoulder drained the glass and walked off Speaker made the decision to with one hand while reaching for the rostrum to another standing 'OLD FOLKS' LOSE A RAISE stack the House conference corn- a glass of water with the other, ovation. AUSTIN Hollowell said, since the House A side consequence of the passed several measures allocat- legislature's e n a c t ment of ing the full amount, only to have the Governor's books-jug- them die in the Senate. But, he Gas Tax Demanded gling bill (expected to reduce believed, "If we pass this (book- the paper deficit $28 million) keeping bill), we share the re- (Continued from Page 1) franchise formula for taxing in- the money, find heirs or owners is politically much more im- sponsibility with the Senate." son, representative from Mineola, terstate corporations. if they exist, and if not, bring portant than the bill itself. Rep. Dick Slack of Pecos agreed is House sponsor of the Daniel Of his franchise tax, he said, court actions which will transfer As Rep. Bill Hollowell, Grand with Hollowell's -analysis but tax package that includes a three "Today we have a corporate fran- the money to the state." Saline, and Sen. Doyle Willis, urged support for the bill any- per cent severance tax on. long chise tax which discriminates 'Pates Fort Worth, advised their respec- way. He granted that only $45.2 against domestic corporations- in line gas transmission companies. In a final defense of his busi- tive colleagues with the tradi- million was allocated for welfare, favor of the multi-billion dollar Daniel told the legislators if ness taxes, Daniel invoked the tional oratory for the old folks, although in 1957 "the citizens corporations of New York, Dela- they did not accept the three per issues of states' rights, states' re- the bill, by allocating less money passed a self-enacting amendment ware, Pennsylvania and other cent severance levy he originally sponsibilities, and the federal cor- for welfare than was provided by for $47 million." The authoriza- sought (and later boosted to five states. This discrimination ... poration tax. "0 u r struggle a constitutional amendment in tion of the 1957 amendment ex- should be removed by requiring per c_ ent in the first called -ses- through the years to preserve 1957, appears to ratify the refusal pires Aug. 31, 1959. "If you do not them to pay on the same tax for- sion), he recommended instead a state rights is at stake. We merely of the Senate to appropriate all pass this bill," Slack argued, mula that is applied in their own "gross receipts tax levied di- surrender these rights when we the funds the voters approved. "you will cut the old folks $3.7 states and that their own states rectly on gas pipeline companies, fail to exercise them. We cannot Willis lost in the Senate (by million as of Aug. 31, 1959." apply t o Texas corporations based on all receipts in Texas and compete with the federal govern- voice vote) in his effort to amend Rep. Joe Chapman, Sulphur which operate (there)." half of all receipts from inter- ment unless we raise the money the bill to raise the amount of Springs, retorted that were the Daniel's franchise formula, as state transmission and sales." here at home to take care of our state money allocated for welfare House to insist on a conference written into his general tax pack- Daniel said 'such a tax could be state responsibilities. I remind by $1.8 million. He said this committee, there would be "at age, passed the House but was set at a rate to bring "even more" you that ... corporate interests would mean about $1.60 per least a chance" to get the full $47 deleted, along with the gas pipe- revenue than the severance tax. ... will pay to the federal gov- month per old person on the as- million. Slack said "The place to line tax, by the Senate. He 'added that such a gross re- ernment 52 per cenCof every dol- sistance rolls. do that is not the conference As for his bank bill—the aban- ceipts tax is now on the books, lar they save by defeating or re- He explained that in 1957 the committee." By a vote of 101-40 doned property - escheat bill— but at one fourth of one percent ducing their tax bills here in people voted 4-1 for a $5 million (House liberals and East Texans Daniel drew a personal parallel it is "a joke which brings in less Texas ... It will be used to com- increase in the welfare ceiling (to constituting the bulk of the oppo- in an effort to underscore the ef- than $750,000 a year from all the pete with Texas in rendering ser- $47 million) but that the book- sition) Slack's motion to accept ficacy of his proposal. "If any one gas pipelines in Texas." vices and taking over operations keeping bill allocates only $3.2 and finally pass the Senate ver- of us had $25 million which he The Governor had quite a bit that should remain at the state million of this increase (that is, sion prevailed. had inherited but which was held to say about the gas lobby. Af- and local level." a total of $45.2 million). The pre- This means the welfare recipi- ter recalling some historic paral- by various unknown banks and 1957 ceiling on welfare spending ents in the state will get some lels between his own lobby trou- oil companies, and they refused Daniel made only one refer- ence to Speaker Carr: He asked was $42 million. but not all of the raises the voters bles and those of Gov. Jim Hogg to reveal their records or turn the members to work together "I wanted the legislature to approved in 1957 unless the sec- (see separate story), Daniel said over the money, I am sure that without recrimination. "We've raise the old folks' checks the ond special session passes further lobbyists- "have even been so we would equip our lawyers to had some of that overnight, but full amount already voted by the legislation. brazen as to say in a private take them to the courthouse people," Willis said. The voters also approved state meeting reported to me that promptly. If necessary I am sure today is a new day. I am willing to work with any of you who are On the House side, Rep. Hollo- aid to the aged for medical ex- they've got to make attacks on we would ask the legislature to willing to forego personal differ- well charged that the book-keep- penses; but the legislature has not the Governor every day to take pass a law requiring such insti- ing bill, as amended in the Sen- passed a law to provide the the spotlight off the gas tax." tutions to make their books avail- ence and work to the solution of ate, "will absolutely prohibit" money. It is inform-ally under- able to interested parties. That is the -state's problems. The people giving the old folks the $47 mil- stood among some watchdogs of Stands by Bank Bill exactly the position in which the are not interested in our personal lion voted them. (Other welfare the old folks' welfare in the legis- In his prepared remarks, refur- state stands today ... As repre- and political differences, they recipients would be analogously lature that Gov. Daniel may sub- bished with long extemporane- sentatives of the state, it is our want the job done." L. G. affected.) mit special legislation for this ous additions, Daniel again de- duty to provide the state's at- The Senate deserves the blame, program. fended his bank bill and his torney with the means to identify Page 3 June 20, 1959 Let those flatter who fear, it is not an American art.—JEFFERSON NOW WHAT? Carr o getrayal AUSTIN state major oil • and gas companies. The impersonal, efficient *economic Perhaps he plans to tell the people he Had Goliath, as he thudded to the uphold against the Senate conferees! forces of our state and the fallible got the Governor's tax program turf, shouted at David, "You bully !", Carr put up a phoney front : he told human personalities occupying her through the House, but this shouldn't the muses could not have been more the five conferees to "fight for the executive and legislative offices all take long to clear that up, not after amused than when Waggoner Carr House bill." How could they fight in became entwined in the viney jungle Carr has stretched himself on the shouted at Price Daniel, "Disgusting good faith for a bill a majority of of eleventh hour tax maneuvering rack for five months in futile opposi- and Reprehensible," as Carr's chosen them had voted against ? As the that climaxed the first special session. tion to his own House's desire-to tax tax bill thudded to the floor of his shrewd senators pointed out again and In the angry, aftermath the onlooking natural gas. own House by a vote of 121 to 27. again to them in the secret confer- populace had these conclusions to Retrospection now turns to the Carr has proved that he is opposed ences, they were refusing to vote on ponder : Governor. He was in fine fettle the to any state tax on the dedicated re- the key issues, because such votes (1) Far removed from the head- day following the showdown when serves of the natural gas companies— would go 3-2 against their own bill. lines, the Austin lobby is quietly win- he opened the second called session. that is, to a severance-beneficiary tax. ning its battle to cut the appropria- He gave Waggoner Carr a couple of Finally, it came to a head. The two conservative appropri- consoling pats on the shoulder as if As one astute representative has said, conferees who represented the House tions bill—the ations bill—back to a level that means to say, "That's all right, boy, I know Carr is himself a "dedicated reserve" majority proposed a middle-ground of the long-line gas companies. His stagnation for the state's system of you had to do it." He restated and package between the House and Sen- defended with gusto the efficacy of trying to blame Daniel for the first ate bills, 60 percent sales taxes, 40 higher education, custody and not - called session's deadlock was at Once treatment in the state's mental hos- his business taxes, recalled the lobby- percent business taxes, including one rattling remarks of Governor: Jim fantastic, foolish, and false. percent on §sverance beneficiaries_ of pitals, frightful overcrowding in_cor- rectional institutions, and anemic in- Hogg, added a few of his own, and Carr betrayed his own House, natural gas contracts. Carr's boys sided with the Texas Senate and the direction for the water program retired to the biggest ovation he has voted No! and the House's own com- ever gotten in the Capitol. gas lobby, and then had the bold con- promise was defeated by Carr's con- which, properly supported, could ward fidence in the people's ignorance to off the crisis certain to strangle this ferees 3-2 in full view of the gleeful Now WHAT? One sus- accuse Daniel of running out on his senators. Then Reps. Kennard and province in the next decade or so. , conference com- pects Daniel can get a token sever- own supporters! Jamison for the House majority de- The appropriations Four separate instances of the mittee is tentatively agreed on a $315 ance tax—something like Seeligson's manded a vote among the House con- one per cent gratuity—without a Speaker's role prove he was fighting ferees on one percent on severance- million general revenue budget, $20 for the Senate's 75-percent-sales-tax million below Gov. Daniel's super- messy fight. It would be no victory; beneficiaries ( remember the House. the gas lobby probably would not even bill and against his own House's half- majority favored five percent). The cautious program. and-half tax bill which would have (2) In its greed, and in its under- test it in the courts, preferring, as House conferees again, with the sena- they did in Louisiana, to pay it with- fallen to some extent on out-of-state tors watching, voted 3-2 against the estimation of the Governor and the corporations. popular majority in the House of out protest pending the day a future severance-beneficiary tax, even for legislature tried to raise it to more one percent! The three nay-sayers Representatives, the lobby has over- First, his hand-picked revenue and reached itself on the question of se- than the nuisance level. Such a devel- had conferred with Carr in advance tax committee voted down the sever- lective sales taxation to support the opment does the state's archaic tax of this vote. He knew when he ap- ance-beneficiary gas tax and reported ruinously shortsighted budget. structure no service at all, merely be- out H. B. 727, which was 85 percent pointed them that all three—Ramsey, There almost certainly will be clouding the issue further. The con- Oliver, and Cook—were publicly op- (3) sales taxes and 15 percent business a tax on dedicated gas reserves, mak- stitutionality of a gas tax on the ab- taxes. The House of Representatives posed to the severance-beneficiary ing 1959 the year Texas finally stirs sentee owners must be tested at once, principle. Therefore: simply gutted his bill, and in the en- itself to exact from the absentee own- if Texas is to make a start toward suing negativism and confusion Dan- Third, Carr is responsible for the ers of its vast natural resources a con- obtaining governmental sustenance iel's forces could not be confident they betrayal of the House majority by the tribution to Texas public services. from its vast intangible wealth. Other- could carry the day; hence, the first House conferees whom he appointed. (4) Last lingering hopes of the wise, all the triurriphs over the lobby called session. lobby die-hards for a general sales tax thus far are meaningless, leaving the Second, after the House majority Fourth, Carr instructed his confer- perished under the avalanche of Governor's words and the House's made explicit and formal its approval ees to bring back whatever the Senate House votes scuttling the Senate tax votes to echo aimlessly in the blind of a five percent severance benefi- would give them. Carr mealy-mouths bill. leys of history. ciary tax, coupled with a reduction in around privately that he was not com- (5) The Governor's prestige is at As is custom, Daniel succeeded the tax on Texas producers and roy- mitted to accepting the committee re- a new high, giving him a power over in publicly absolving himself from alty owners; and after the House port. The truth is he went to Gov. the lobby he has thus far chosen not any blame whether or not the first adopted Daniel's change in the f ran- Daniel and asked him to endorse the to exercise fully. session ended in failure. He told the chise tax to make it fall more heavily report (Daniel refused) ; all three of (6) There is serious doubt about Senate he would accept any bill not a on interstate companies; and after his men on the Conference committee the political a c u men of House sales or income tax, but he did not the House majority formally enacted voted for its final passage (as only 20 Speaker Waggoner Carr. say the House would. With material H. B. 7, Carr proved his contempt for other representatives had the guts to (7) The Senate, half of which is help from the lobby and the Senate-7 the wishes of his own colleagues by do) ; and when he was thus humili- up for reelection, is becoming increas- neither of which have shown the appointing, to the tax conference com- ated, he accused Daniel of running ingly involved in the political reali- slightest indication they understand mittee a majority of three representa- out on higi supporters ! This was like ties with which the House has been the temper of the House—the lower tives who had opposed the will of the Rommel accusing Patton of selling living since January. chamber rejected the ineptly drawn House on gas and franchise taxes and out his troops because he didn't turn package concocted in the Senate and who had voted against the very H. B. tail and run when they were winning. AN HOUR before the approved by the three Carr men on 7 which they were supposed to Carr is deeply beholden to the gas startling 121-27 House vote to reject the conference committee. lobby. Either he makes a break with the sales tax-loaded conference com- If the Senate and the lobby have them, or the House must repudiate his mittee report, Rep. Frates Seeligson, underestimated the representatives prerogatives over their tax legisla- who is as broadly intelligent as he is across the hall, one can but conclude tion. stiffly conservative, handed this re- that the Governor, while correctly qoat Shin porter a copy of his new tax propos- evaluating the House, continues to als for the second special session. See- overestimate the Senate. He needs Got. Daniel continues his .fight to ligson's general sales tax hills, which about five votes in that green car- tax out-of-state users of Texas gas hovered on the fringes of • the batty peted joint stock company that passes and out-of-Texas corporations profit- _A Rut for five months, are now gone ; in for a parliamentary chamber—five ing from operations in Texas ; to re- their place is a tax package broadly votes to end the Austin tax fight with claim the state's money from the Plain citizens watching the Texas slanted at consumers with interesting a measure of victory for Texans and banks which won't give it up. We do legislature at work would find out- theoretical concessions to the theory a measure of defeat for Standard of not like his sales taxes. We know he rageous the rule of the House which of ability to pay. More important, New Jersey, Tennessee Gas, and will sign less than he demands. But denies the House majority the right Seeligson includes, a small severance airborne appendages of Texas East- the House will not pass a tax bill to send legislation to the committee tax on natural gas. His bill will not ern. without a severance-beneficiary tax, it believes should handle it, without pass the House—that chamber has Blunted and blunted again, the cor- a franchise tax adjusted to bear more delay. As long as the Speaker is per- long since passed the point to which porate shafts of the Senate no longer heavily on the out-of-state corpora- mitted unreasonable control over leg- the perceptive San Antonio million- have the sharpness of January. They tions, and a ratio of sales-to-business islation, what House member can say aire conservative has now reluctantly are reduced now to bargaining on a taxes within a few percentage points he represents his people as he should? moved—but something like it may bluff basis. One can almost hear their of 50-50. As our favorite Austin The pre-1953 rule in effect since the emerge from a reoriented Senate. trial arguments being hammered out newspaperman, Sam Wood, said in 1800's should be restored to let a ma- An hour after Seeligson's tax sum- for the second session : "Better take his column Friday morning, "the jority re-refer any bill—say, a tax mary illustrated his reactions to leg- a one per cent severance tax as a choice now may very well .be up to bill—when a stacked committee—say, islative developments, the press re- compromise or you may end up get- the Senate to compromise or pick up revenue and tax—is obstructing the ceived another sheet of paper, this ting a general sales tax." A pathetic- the goat skin." will of the House. one from Waggoner Carr, illuminat- ally meagre argument for the once ing his reactions. The Speaker's sur- truculent Senate but all the senators prising personal blast at Daniel—ac- have left now that Carr has been shot cusing him in the same breath of be- out of the saddle across the hall and THE TEXAS OBSERVER ing dictatorial and indecisive—is an the rhetoric of the gas taxers is being Sian 10 odd document; to this reporter, it is trained directly on them for the first Published by Texas Observer Co., Ltd. EDITORIAL and BUSINESS OFFICE: a quivering platform from which to time. Entered as second-class matter, April 504 West 24th St., Austin, Texas. Phone launch trial balloons for a state-wide With a five-vote margin, the Sen- 26, 1937, at the Post Office at Austin, GReenwood 7-0746. race. As one newsman concluded in- ate draws up its unwilling tank corps Texas. under the Act of March 3, 1879. HOUSTON OFFICE: 1010 Dennis, Mrs. credulously, Carr is the first man as Ben Ramsey, Ed Clark, Bailey R. D. Randolph. ever to run ,for office on the issue of Jones, Red Wells, and others of the JUNE 20, 1959 We will serve no group or party bud taxing the very people he wants to gas crowd try to pump some fuel into Ronnie Dagger will hew hard to the truth as we find it and vote for him. the stuttering corporate engines. On Editor and General Manager the right as we see it. We are dedicated One can only -conclude Waggoner the quettion of cigarette taxes ton Larry Goodwyn, Associate Editor to the whole truth, to human values believes that any publicity is better $3500 a year Texans or severance Sarah Payne, Office Manager above all interests, to the rights of man as the foundation of democracy; we will than none. Yet the fact remains that taxes on multi-million dollar pipeline Published once a week from Austin, take orders from none but our own while Texas conservative candidates companies—in this realm of politicil Texas. Delivered postage prepaid $4 per conscience, and never will we overlook don't make a habit of running on a ideas and ideals—they know they are annum. Advertising rates available on re- or misrepresent the truth to serve the platform of natural resources taxa- wrong but shrug it off on the grounds quest. -Extra copies 10c each. Quantity interests of the powerful or cater to the tion, , they manifestly don't plump for they're not interested in such matters. prices available on orders . Ignoble in the human spirit taxes on Texans so as to spare out-of- (Continued on Page 5, facing) 121-27 VOTE KILLS TAX BILL A 'Bounty' On Bastards?

(Continued from Page 1) should have been reported out: AUSTIN support the children." decreaset illegitimacy. When Me- that committee room, if you'da "Well, we get crucified either An Observer editorial last is- He noted he had had many let- gitimacy originally occurs, people lit a match it woulda blown the way, but we'll get crucified less sue and other criticism of the ters of criticism, especially from don't think about what the appro- whole damn dome off the Capitol this way." House of Representatives for vot- San Antonio, where the News priations bill has said. Do you .... It's a monstrosity of sales ing to reduce aid to dependent ran an editorial criticizing his po- really think your bill is going to taxes .... it was evident that the House Reacts children from $4 million to $1 sition. "I have noticed an article decrease illegitimacy or is it go- House (the three-man majority) million , (which the Senate re- in The Texas Observer concur- ing to take food. out of the mouths was not sincere. I cannot account When Rep' Kennard returned stored to $4 million without com- ring, saying the position I took of innocent children?" for that except those three mem- to report to House members on ment, and is expected to restore was wrong," he went on. "I am Blanchard replied that it is as bers are constitutionally opposed the bill he and Jamison were re- again during the second called not picking on the needy, help- wrong to place a bounty on ille- to an increase in the natural gas fusing to recommend, he was sur- session) caused Rep. H. J. (Doc) less children of Texas. I am not gitimate children as to place "a,, tax or the change in the factors rounded by House members and Blanchard of Lubbock to take taking food out of their mouths. bounty on wolves." - reporters. When he described the We are in effect giving a bounty for the franchise tax." the House microphone to defend "Well," Eckhardt replied in package he and Jamison offered, to illegitimate children. Whether himself Tuesday night. some anger, "I don't consider Rep. W. T. Oliver, Port Neches, only to have Speaker Carr's three the Observer, whether the San Blanchard said he was taking children a bunch of pup wolves one of the three House conferees other conferees vote against it, the floor on "personal privilege" Antonio News t h e Observer and I don't think you should use who signed the report and voted Rep. Kika de la Garza, Mission, for the first time in his six terms quotes from, or the other people that term any more from that for it: "I'd say it's about 85-15 said incredulously, "The House say so—if we want a welfare state because he needed to have his mike for little children who were (sales taxes) now ... We decided voted three-to-two against that?" let's go all the way. I did not in- say and "might' not be back" to not responsible for how they to bring a bill back and just kill The emphasis was de la Garza's. say it if he didn't say it then. tend to take food from the needy were born." it over here overwhelmingly to The state welfare department children in the state." show the Senate the situation." Kennard responded that they makes aid payments for up to Rep. Byron Tunnell, Tyler, said Rep. Jerome Jones, Galveston, had, indeed, although it was Rep. Alonzo Jamison, Denton, four dependent children, Blanch- he spoke for "a pretty good ma, agreeing with Eckhardt, noted somewhere in between the House ard said. "It has been the custom jority" of the East Texas delega- that only a small portion of aid the other conferee who did not and Senate bills. Rep. Bob Eck- sign and voted against the bill/ throughout this state for the peo- tion in supporting Blanchard. "We to dependent children goes to il- hardt, Houston, contributed: "But added, "On the severance-beneficiary ple—particularly the women, who think it oughta be stopped," he legitimate children and you were representing the major- I understand are the only ones said. Rep. Franklin Spears, San "This bill is designed for children the senators kept contending that ity of the House, you see—you who can have illegitimate chil- Antonio, said he had voted with who don't have anyone to think if ever we got down to a vote, in weren't entitled to more than two dren—to have the four children Blanchard and agrees with him. for them:This is just a little way their opinion the House would not votes on the conference commit- be for it either None of the on the free list. These are women Rep. Bob Eckhardt, Houston, the state can take up for children tee." whose parents didn't give a damn three (Ramsey, Oliver, Cook) who would not marry, would not said, "I have never been able to had ever voted for it in the House work, would not do anything to understand why your bill would for 'em." and it was difficult to deny ... Who's on First (Carr) tried to appoint members There ensued a holdup of sev- of the committee who are close eral ihours while the bill was re- A Long Holiday, A New Start to him. Naturally it did weaken produced so that all the legisla- the position of the House bill to tors could have a copy. AUSTIN the tax bill, and also at subse- Eckhardt of Houston; (2) a hea- have a majority on it who were The decision of the House rev- quent legislative battles. The vily sales tax-weighted bill, con- against the severance-beneficiary The senators received theirs House refused, 47-91, to permit a taining no severance tax and in tax and• voted against the bill." enue and tax committee to post- first and promptly passed the pone hearings on new tax bills meeting of the rules committee general following the pattern of bill with little debate, 19-12, thus, Rep. H. J. (Doc) Blanchard, for four days received stiff com- on the change. At present re-re- the Senate bill, by Wesley Rob- presumably, putting pressure 'on Lubbock, who voted for the bill, ment in wire stories ("an $800,000 ferral is parliamentarily difficult. erts of Lamesa; (3) a combination the House to take the blame for telling Oliver he agreed the bill holiday," said UPI) and in edi- Meanwhile, into the House hop- general sales tax-selective sales killing it. torials in the state press. per poured the new tax bills. In tax-one per cent severance gas While the representatives were The appropriation bill, carbon addition to Hinson's $184 million tax by Frates Seeligson of San still waiting for their copies, Rep. copy of the measure passed in the package, they included: (1) a Antonio; (4) a five per cent cor- NOW WHAT? Homer Koliba, Columbus, excit- first called session, was whisked graduated oil tax and severance poration net profits tax, by Dean edly called to Rep. Jamie Clem- to the Senate by a decisive vote beneficiary gas tax to raise $130 Johnston of Houston; (5) a meas- (Editorial Column Continued ents, Crockett, to look up at the before adjournment. million for the biennium, by Bob ure replacing the five-cent gaso- from Page 4) oil and gas lobby clustered at the The tax committee met on ad- line sales tax with a one cent re- In the face of this, there are right side of the gallery. Bailey journment and quickly voice finery tax, by Rep. Clyde Miller those among the Governor's ad- Jones, Lone Star Gas lobbyist, voted to begin. taking up tax bills of Houston. visors who would be happy with and Claude Gilmer, the telephone on Monday. A substitute motion TMA lobbyist The House passed Rep. Whit- a face-saving victory. They are lobbyist, were turning through by Rep. John Allen to start hear- field's bill letting counties pay new to fighting corporate lobby- what looked like copies of the ings Thursday was resoundingly court-appointed attorneys $25 a ists and have no stomach for the tax bill, which had not yet tabled by the committee before Asks Sales Tax day. kind of fight that has been rou- reached the House floor. adjourning for the weekend. The tine for American liberals since !Speaker Carr led off the debate 21-man committee is composed of AUSTIN Thomas Jefferson first took on on the bill, saying it was "the 19 conservatives, one moderate The Texas Manufacturers As- Alexander Hamilton. best compromise we have been and one liberal. sociation on June 17—in a letter Smith Declines But happily one is also able to able to secure from the Senate. Rep. Charles Hughes, Sherman, to its members marked "A Per- detect among the Governor's It is presented to you strictly in objected to a "runaround" on his sonal Message," sent in an envel- troops some conservatives, un- that spirit." The "final correct- rules change to permit switching ope marked "Personal and Confi- Carpetbag Tag owned and free, who ha v e ness" of their decision was more bills from one committee to an- dential," and received by the Ob- AUSTIN reached the simple conclusion important than whether the bill other by majority vote. This server June 19—declares all out that in. the process of soaking passed that night, he said. change is aimed at the revenue for a sales tax. , Senator Preston Smith of Lub- and tax committee's handling of bock took exception this week to Texas companies and people, it Rep. Ramsey said, "I'm not up The letter, isigned by Ed Bur- his classification, in an Observer would be proper to tax Eastern here in the spirit of trying to sell riS, TMA vice president and lob- editorial last issue, with "the oil and gas goliaths. you this conference report." He transmission companies and dedi- byist, refers to promises against Senate carpetbagger" because called the cigarette tax "a very cated gas reserves." "a general sales tax" and then Such people serve the historic he voted against a severance- inflammatory section." Koliba says the people fighting "the role of successful political con- beneficiary tax and Gov. Daniel's charged Ramsey was "taxing me broad-based tax bill" have been servatism. They face unpleasant 'A Scrawny Cow' proposed change in the interstate to death." "I'm not doing any- "advocates of spending." facts and ward off sweeping re- Rep. Jerome Jones, Galveston: franchise tax allocation designed thing," Ramsey replied. "You was form by removing the more ob- Interstate companies p rovide "The issue here ... is simply to cause interstate companies to on. the conference committee. vious injustices. The intransigent, Texas payrolls. He is tired of this: If a broad-based tax is to be pay more of the tax load. Your name is on it. You signed "these people who haven't got passed, it must have 'broad-based' F.I.A., Dallas News, damn-the- "I've always voted for the lit- it." Ramsey laughed a little, and anything but a scrawny cow and support ... In addition, efforts rabble type of conservative ends tle people," Smith told the Ob- the House laughed back; Ram- a piece of corn in their area ... should also be made to get the up like Louis XVI—with a revo- server. On the allocation formula lution sey then immediately yielded the standing up to Wall Street and legislature to review, and reduce, , in his hands and shortly change, he said, "there are a lot floor. making a scape-goat of out-of- all appropriations ... A tax on after, his head there, too. As an of little companies in my district state industries." business at the state level can intransigent Catholic Church which operate across the border destroy jobs while promoting in- nurtured the reformation, as the Chapman Eyes Lobby Rep. Jamison: "This is not the into New Mexico. If I'm going to rampant Robber Barons nurtured best deal we can get from the flation." Rep. Joe Chapman, Sulphur represent my district, I had to the labor movement, as an unre- Senate. The House so far has not In an accompanying article Springs, made the main address vote against that. Now maybe if lenting American Medical Asso- put their feet to the fire." He Burris says "any state tax levied against the bill. Chapman, a seg- your district was in the middle of ciation is today nurturing social- complimented the Senate confer- at the manufacturing level" can regationist and an economic • lib- the •state it would be different." ized medicine, so all hold-the- ees for standing by their bill. discourage industry from locat- eral, blasted the bill's $86 million As for the gas tax, of which line - at - all - costs conservatives "The senators knew that on our ing in Texas, reduce jobs, and in cigarette and tobacco taxes. Daniel says a good portion would wreck the proper standing their conference committee we had a cause inflation. Money for manu- "It's rumored that the tobacco in- be paid by out-of-state users of movement deserves in a demo- majority who were against the facturing payrolls, Burris says— dustry doesn't maintain a lobby Texas gas, Smith said one proces- cratic society. It is the "moder- House version." aiming at the arguments for tax- , down here and there's a rumor sor of natural, gas in his district Carr himself put a motion to ing out-of-state corporations— ates" who save the day for the the gas industry does. It looks who has nine processing units the House to shut off debate and "comes very largely from other conservatives, not the McKinleys. like the tobacco industry better would have been run into bank- was defeated on this 58-87. After areas ' of the nation and the buy a few airplanes," he ruptcy by the tax. (Buying his Jim Hogg was in reality such a Rep. Jerry Sadler made a few re- world." said. gas from El Paso, he would have moderate, defeating the corporate marks, the Daniel team worked Concluding in favor of taxes on had to pay it because he was the The bill, he said, was "a dose out an agreement with Carr to crowd on. the right and the popu- consumers, Burris says: first receiver of the gas severed that we cannot take." He believed dispense with further argument. list farmers on. the left who from the ground.) If that conse- the House would accept one per- The bill was then sent to legisla- "A tax, however, levied at the quence of the tax were repaired, wanted such "revolutionary" re- cent on severance beneficiaries tive limbo by the, vote of 117 to 'end use' or consumer level tends he would vote for it, Smith said. forms as direct election of sena- with seven percent production 23, with four additional "paired" to be more deflationary in its ef- tors and a sub-treasury plan. tax on gas. But "They are saying votes on each.side. A start of sur- fect, and will, if kept within rea- "I'm no Madison Avenue guy," yes, you Texas people, you roy- concluded the senator from Lub- Teddy Roosevelt played the same prise, and a general jubilation sonable bounds, have no appre- alty owners and producers pay among the winners, ended the ciable impact upon the economic bock, shaking his head. role, and Daniel, if he tackles the eight percent, but they're not first called session shortly after growth of the state . The cow Senate in a language they under- Wining for one percent on long midnight Wednesday morning. that gives the milk will not be de- THE TEXAS OBSERVER stand, will play it too. L.G. linig transmission lines and gas It D. stroyed." Page 5 June 20, 1959

Faulk's Rep. Guffaw The Lewd, the Lavish, Regales Rotarians Culture and a Book AUSTIN Guffaw told t h e assembled * Four Denison P - TA women some cigarettes, and some small supper, and, at 4 a.m., hamburg- John Henry Faulk, CBS net- Texas Democrats the Democratic Party stands for goodness, right- pressed a campaign against change, eluded police, stopped at ers. work entertainer for many years "lewdness" in their town on mag- a vacant lot four blocks away, got who has returned to Austin, re- eousness, and "might' near every- azine counters and in movie ads. drunk, fell asleep, and were * A. H. Meadows, Dallas oil galed Rotarians meeting at the thin'." Some charged it's ruled by and gas executive and art northern liberals or the labor They presented a city-county found and arrested there two Westwood Country Club with meeting with girlie magazines hours later. patron, announced he would give folk observations political on Ei- crowd, but, said Guffaw, "Them's $100,000 to help acquire a $2 mil- all jes lies. The Democratic Party they bought "off a stand in full senhower, Johnson, Democrats, * Dr. Bailey Carroll is pressing lion tract in Dallas ,for a culture ain't controlled by nobody, but view of soft drink swigging and Republicans. a dispute with World Book center devoted to music, art, the- Lyndon. I love Lyndon. They ly- youngsters" and won from the His Uncle Lee, he said, had told Encyclopedia. World Book insists ater, and libraries; two other Dal- in' on him too. They claim Lyn- local distributor an agreement he him "a lot of folks say Ike's re- he say "shrimps" when he means las people said they would don Johnson owns Texas. That's would distribute only magazines signed, he ain't, he's jes semi- more than one shrimp in his pa- change their wills if. the project a lie. It's Claudy-Bird owns mailed, and not those trucked in retired." Uncle Lee was also up- per on Texas. He insists "shrimp" could be brought off, and a total Texas. to him. But the efforts of a Den- set by a calumny that Eisenhower ison minister to close down Lions is the plural, too, in common us- of 70 prominent Dallas citizens left Texas because he preferred "They say," Faulk said Guffaw Club "games of chance" were re- age and he is gathering evidence endorsed the idea. But attorneys Kansas. "Ike went to Kansas continued, "Lyndon goes on this j ected. to prove it to them. for a Miami man who has already cause he wanted to jine the Re- side, or that side. Lyndon ain't on made a down payment on the publicans, and they uz the near- no side—long!" Mrs. Jeanne Durham, former The Christian Science Moni- land could hardly conceal their wife of the business college tor, in a Dallas profile by est Republicans he could find," Texans should be grateful, Guf- contempt for all this talk by operator, Carl Durham, left San Bicknell Eubanks: "Dallas is a Uncle Lee was quoted. faw also observed, that "It ain't "civic leaders" about their cli- Antonio for Los Angeles with her 'managerial' city. Its whole char- ent's property. Faulk brought the house down commonly known that Sam Ray- children, and the San Antonio pa- acter—economic, sociological, and with a speech he said he heard burn and Lyndon Johnson passed pers speculated that she and the political—is that of the rising * Meanwhile, the Dallas News, by "Congressman John Guffaw" that fundamental law that bene- young executive." responding to U.S. Postmas- at an old-fashioned Texas politi- fits all of us, the old Democratic ter Arthur Summerfield's ruling cal barbeque: law of gravity." * Quite a little garden party that the unexpurgated Lady The Way of Life the Robert Windfahrs gave Chatterley's Lover is "obscene for their debutante daughter at and filthy," editorialized that (1) Ridglea Country Club in Fort more brazen books have been LBJ No. 3 In Poll minister who admitted he had Worth last Saturday night. Using published in the U.S. than Law- been improperly involved with a 80,000 lights, the swimming pool rence's; (2) "some court will be- WASHINGTON the A.D.A. chapter at Sarah Law- woman were there to be married. was decorated overhead with lieve" the book is "not filth"; and rence College. He said the Demo- three canopies of light, each with Sen. Lyndon Johnson, .,r Forest Ranger Leonard (3) "It would be refreshing to cratic leaders in Congress are a massive crystal chandelier (the Texas, runs third in the lat- Moore announced that the find some penetrative judge who more afraid of bad publicity in a center one twelve feet wide). The est Gallup Poll on the Demo- more than. 58,000 acres of woods, might paraphrase a n ancient reactionary press than of going pool was covered with parquet cratic nomination for presi- roads, lanes, camp sites, and for- wheeze to say, 'The question is back on campaign promises; that flooring, a 15-foot section at each dent. Adlai Stevenson has 29 est in Sam Houston National For- not who called that literature "the lifeblood has been drained end set in water sprays and foun- percent, John Kennedy 26, est are ready for the campers' pornography but who called that out" of the 1958 election returns; tains. Each of 24 archways around Johnson 12, Estes Kefauver summertime invasions. pornography literature'." 9, Hubert Humphrey 6, Stu- that liberals have let themselves the dance 'floor was hung with art Symington 4. be "rendered toothless" because * A six-foot, three-inch alliga- crystal chandeliers. Cushions and An art-owner complained to Adlai Stevenson denied, liberals did not "stand by their tor taking a dip in Bracken- pillows were arranged nearby for Dallas police from California through a spokesman, a story guns." ridge swimming pool in the San viewing (The Dallas Times-Her- that when he had his art exhibi- in the N. Y. Herald Tribune Johnson, as Majority Leader, Antonio river—noticed by a man ald reported that one guest said, tion on display at the Sheraton- that he regarded Johnson as announced the Senate will proba- and his boy while they were fish- "While I sat there I felt much as Dallas Hotel, somebody lifted the ablest of the presidential bly soon consider "a reasonable" ing there—was lassoed and tied an oriental potentate viewing a Murillo's "The return of the Prod- candidates. "I have never civil rights bill "which will ap- up by park officials. ceremonial"). The program: Les- igal Son," which he said is worth discussed the relative merits peal to free men, who wish to * Four 14- and 15-year-old ter Lanin orchestra from New $10,000 and had insured for $2,500. of the presidential candidates make progress rather than make boys broke into an Austin York, Louie Armstrong and his Others in the collection whose with anybody at any time," a an issue"; home rule for the Dis- cafe, stole four cases of beer, jazz group, Americano's Dixie- work did not appeal to the Mur- spokesman quoted Steven- trict of Columbia, which is ma- land band from New Orleans, illo fan: Van Dyck, Toulouse- son. jority Negro; mutual security au- midnight fireworks, lavish buffet Lautrec, and Vermeer. In Washington Thad Hutcheson, thorization; revising the debt Ralph Fights state GOP chairman for Texas, limit; and continuation of present LEGALS said many conservative Texas corporate and excise tax rates, Democrats, and the Texas Repub- among other things. GOP leader NOTICE OF SALE Second Tract: All that certain licans, would vote for the Repub- Sen. Dirksen informally approved Gulf Dumping THE STATE OF TEXAS lot, tract or parcel of land lying COUNTY OF TRAVIS and being situated in the County lican if Sen. Johnson were nomin- this worksheet. WASHINGTON BY VIRTUE OF AN ORDER of Travis, State of Texas, known ated. Johnson "does not stand for and described as follows: Being In committee hearing Johnson With the permit validated for OF SALE dated and issued pur- the West Sixty (60) feet of Lot the things Texas Republicans be- suant to a judgment decree of the said "an anti-Texas" move is now Saturday, June 20, thunder from 53rd Judicial District Court of Eight (8), Block Twelve (12) in lieve in" and has sided in with afoot in the Administration. He Texas Sen. Ralph Yarborough Travis County, Texas, by the the subdivision of Outlot Fifty- labor and more welfare programs, seven (57) in Division "B" of the charged, in effect, the Republi- continued against the Atomic En- Clerk of said Court on said date government outlots adjoining the Hutcheson said. B u t Johnson in a certain suit, No. 109,387, cans are trying to wreck the rec- ergy Commission's approval of styled Gibb Jett, et al and to me original City of Austin, according could be a strong possibility in to the map or plat of said subdi- ord of the Congress. As chair- the dumping of atomic wastes 150 directed and delivered as Sheriff vision recorded in Plat Book 1, Texas "because of the power he man of an appropriations 'sub- miles from the Texas coast in the of said County, I have on May 25, page 3 of the Plat Records of admittedly wield s," Hutcheson 1959, seized, levied upon, and will, committee he asked for figures Gulf of Mexico by Industrial on the First Tuesday in July, Travis County, Texas, together said. with all improvements thereon on how much foreign diplomats Waste Disposal Corp. 1959, the same being the 7th day situated. Paul Butler, national chairman of said month, at the Courthouse spend entertaining Americans. Sen. Clinton Anderson, New door of said County, in the City Third Tract: All that certain of the Democrats, said in Hart- lot, tract or parcel of land lying Sen. Ralph Yarborough had Mexico, j o i n e d Yarborough, of Austin between the hours of ford, Conn., the Democrats are 10 o'clock A.M. and 4 o'clock P.M. and being situated in Austin, Morse as guest on his state TV- promising an inquiry by the joint Travis County, Texas known and not likely to nominate a South- on said day, proceed to sell for radio show; they discussed Sen- committee on atomic energy and cash to the highest bidder all described as follows: Being the erner or Southwesterner because West Thirty-five (35) feet of Lot ate "rubber stamping" of presi- opposing "making a dumping the right, title and interest of the Seven (7) and the East Five (5) of the civil rights issue. Did he dential appointments. Yarbor- ground out of the backyard of defendants in such suit in and to feet of Lot Eight (8), Block mean Johnson? "I'm not ruling the following described real es- Twelve (12) in the subdivision of ough and Sen. Albert Gore dis- Texas." tate levied upon as the property out anybody. I'm merely saying Outlot Fifty-seven (57) in Divi- cussed high interest rates on an- The Mexican Government an- of said defendants, the same ly- sion "B" of the government out- that the Democratic Party was ing and being situated in the other Yarborough broadcast. Gore lots adjoining the original City not likely to nominate a Southern nounced it is opposed, also. County of Travis and the State of of Austin, according to the map and Morse have been associated Texas, to wit: or Southwestern Democrat be- In a statement to the Senate, or plat of said subdivision re- with criticism of Johnson. Yarborough said two A.E.C. staff Tract No. 1 All that certain corded in Plat Book 1, page 3 cause of this issue." lot, tract or parcel of land lying of the Plat Records of Travis Sen. Mike Mansfield, Montana, Yarborough urged passage of a men "breached faith" with him and being situated in the County County, Texas, together with all Johnson's assistant Democratic bill revising the surplus food pro- by failing to send him new stud- of Travis, State of Texas, known improvements thereon situated. gram to provide a balanced diet and described as follows: Being a or upon the written request of leader, disagreed, saying "While ies before A.E.C. validated the said defendants or their attorney, for the seven million Americans tract of land Seventy-five (75) it might be difficult to nominate permit. The permit was validated feet by One hundred Forty-five .penalties and costs, subject, how- suffering from malnutrition ac- a candidate from the South, I an- May 29; • Yarborough received the (145) feet off of the West end ever, to the right of redemption, cording to the U. S. Dept. of studies June 4. of the South one-half of Block of the defendants or any person ticipate no difficulty in nominat- Thirteen (13), in the subdivision .having an interest therein, to re- ing and electing a candidate from Health, Education, and Welfare. He cited communications from of Outlot Fifty-seven (57), Divi- deem the said property, or their the Southwest." He said as of December, 1958, the Sportsmen's Clubs of Texas, sion "B" of the government out- 'interest, therein, at any time 127,689 Texans were receiving lots of the City of Austin accord- a sufficient portion thereof to A TEST of Johnson's popular the Texas Shrimp Assn., and the ing to the map or plat of said satisfy said judgment, interest, strength seems scheduled to oc- federal surplus foods. Texas Ornithological Society op- subdivision recorded in Volume within two years from the date 1, page 3 of the Plat Records of cur in Oregon in May whether he IN TEXAS, Jerry Holleman, posing the dumping. The bird- of sale in the manner provided Travis County, Texas, such tract •by law and subject to any other wants it or not. Gov. Mark Hat- state AFL-CIO president, said watchers' resolution alleged that being enclosed within the follow- , and further rights to which the field of Oregon told The New passage of the $1.25 minimum the dumping "will adversely af- ing metes and bounds: Beginning :defendants or anyone having an wage law, which would also ex- at the Southwest corner of said •interest therein may be entitled, York Times his state has a new fect the marine life of the Gulf Block Thirteen (13). Thence in a under the provisions of law. Said law requiring listing on the pri- tend coverage to other interstate of Mexico and all bays and tidal Northerly direction with the sale to be made by me to satisfy mary ballots of the names of all businesses, would mean better waters ... and ... will ... seri- West line of said Block Thirteen the judgment rendered in the wages for 500,000 low-paid work- (13) One hundred Forty-five above styled and numbered "announced or generally advo- ously affect if not destroy the (145) feet to a Twenty (20) foot cause, together with interest, pen- cated" candidates without their ers and $215 million more pur- economic and recreational value alley; Thence easterly with lties and costs of suit, and the request and without any way for chasing power in Texas. Texas of said waters." the South line of said alley Sev- proceeds of said sale to be ap- enty-five (75) feet; Thence South- plied to the satisfaction thereof, them to keep off the ballot ex- representatives have been still on Yarborough said scientists are erly One hundred Forty-Five and the remainder, if any, to be cept to file affidavits they are this. agreed that radioactive wastes in (145) feet to the North line of planed as the law directs. New York Avenue. Thence West- Dated at Austin, Texas, this the not candidates. Hatfield listed Rep. Jim Wright, Fort Worth, water tend to concentrate in very erly Seventy-five (75) feet along 28th day of May, 1959. Johnson among those probably to said foreign aid "helped keep us high degree in. fish and marine the North line of New York Ave- T. 0. LANG, Sheriff, be on the ballot. out of World War III" in a speech plant life. He said the 'dumping nue to the place of beginning, to- , Texas , gether with all improvements Travis Co Sen. Wayne Morse, Oregon, let to a firemen's convention in Fort should be farther out and deeper thereon situated. by HENRY KLU E, Deputy go again against Johnson before Worth. if it is to proceed. The Tee in Austin; Political Tangents 7 Politics is mostly "the feel" / One of the more threatening bill meant no sales tax 'this ad- 7 Sen. Crawford Martin, Hills / Five months ago the Texas V Senate passed a resolution to V of a situation. In. Austin now, ✓ rumbles among the House ministration" and then told a boro, is now one of Gov. majority which voted for H. B. 7, Daniel's down-the-line support- adjourn the regular session in these are some of the feelings: convention in Austin this would That Waggoner Carr has lost con- the governor's tax program, is ers on revenue-raising policies. May; the House, confused about be his last chance to greet them trol of his House, that he blun- discussion of taking away from Martin is a senior member of the its implications, nevertheless ac- dered in attacking Governor Speaker Carr the right to appoint "as governor," indicating he will Senate team as a rule. cepted it. Legislators, instead of Daniel the night he could get the House tax conferees. Under not run again. working without pay as they only 23 votes for the tax bill he, House rules, conferees may be ap- / Gov. Daniel lost a $1 "bet" would have if the regular session Carr, favored, and that the at- pointed by the Speaker or by the / Last week's Observer was V when Rep. Sam Bass of Free- had lasted beyond the 120-day tack itself had little relationship House. V assiduously read in the legis- port (town-name of Freeport period ending in May, have been to reality and therefore might / Tangents political off the tax lature. One moderate legislator Gulf Sulphur) voted against getting $175 a week ($25 a day have been an announcement for debates: Sen. William Fly, wanted copies sent to all the edi- final passage of H. B. 7, even for seven days a week). Early ✓ Wednesday morning, after the higher office. That Governor Victoria, is again regarded as the tors in his district; a moderate- though it included the sulphur House had dramatically refused Daniel has placed liberal legisla- conservative team's choice to run liberal wanted six for distribu- tax reduction for which Bass so the Senate's tax bill, thus voting tors in a very strong position by for lieutenant governor if Ben tion to strategic people who have fervently worked. Daniel thought for the second called session, one continuing to speak in "the lib- Ramsey vacates the office. Fly been supporters of a senator an surely Bass would favor the bill, of Gov. Daniel's liberal floor eral idiom," even though he has has handled many publicity-at- editorial criticized. Rep. J o e but he did not. Bass has become leaders chorted: "Air Condition- been ready to accept a tax bill tracting tasks in the Senate this Chapman, Sulphur Springs, read closely identified with the sul- ing and $25 a day do make a dif- unacceptable to the House. That session; he has opposed practi- to the House from the Observer's phur tax reduction; in fact, when ference." it is very possible that after the cally all appropriations and tax reprint of an El Paso daily's edi- Rep. Jerry Sadler questioned Bo legislators finance the deficit and increases. Sen. Doyle Willis, Fort torial at the height of the speak- Ramsey on what the tax confer- * appropriations, Daniel will sooner Worth, states to the Observer he ing against the conference tax ees had done about sulphur, and * or later this year recall them to is very seriously considering a was told they omitted the tax re- pro finance Hale-Aikin school im- statewide campaign next sum- duction, Sadler asked Ramsey, Truman Coming; provements. That it is now most mer; for which office he will not "Does Sam Bass know that?" probable that natural gas will say. Not so reticent was Sen. Bill Political Intelligence (Ramsey thought so.) have to pay more taxes, and that Moore, Bryan, the night the ROTC in Abilene 7 The Speaker's race in the the 'Senate will give in on the House rejected the tax conference bill. Rep Doc Blanchard, Lub- House shapes up this way: 7 Leaders of Democrats of point because the House will not report: said Moore, who fought ✓ bock, took the microphone to de- Wade Spilman of McAllen is well Texas conferred in Abilene accept any tax bill unless there the Senate's tax bill, "I'm an- fend himself against a short Ob- ahead; many observers concede June 13 at a luncheon, and they is at least a token tax on gas on nouncing right now for lieuten- server editorial, and the San An- him 35 pledges, and he may have did not invite the press, as the the severance-beneficiary princi- ant governor." tonio News criticism it incorpor- more than this. James Turman of Abilene Reporter-News reported. ple (which hits out-of-state gas / Texas Businessman noted ated, for his fight against appro- Gober has been thrown into the Mrs. R. D. Randolph was speak- users). ✓ Daniel said the Senate's tax priations to dependent children breach by the East Texas dele- ing when an .R-N reporter ar- (separate story). Rep. Jack Rich- gation, perhaps with some sup- rived; she stopped until he was * * * * ardson, Uvalde, marked out the port from oil and gas interests; asked to leave, which he did. "Texas" in the issue's title, mak- he has perhaps 25 pledges. De- About 25 attended, including THE PRESS ON TAX ISSUES ing it "The Daniel Observer," Witt Hale of Corpus Christi has Creekmore Fath, Tom Moore, and carried it around the House not got off the ground yet; he Mrs. Lillian Collier, Wayne Jus- / Tuesday an ironic mood set- distortion of the principle of fair floor marveling that the liberals has only a few pledges. The lib- tice, Jim Sewell, Dallas Perkins, • tied upon the Capitol press and equitable taxation," "almost a from whom he said Daniel had eral group of 40 or 45 members and Tom Webb. Mrs. Randolph corps. A few of them could not caricature of what a tax bill stolen a convention or two were are, as a whole, unpledged; once told the Observer by- phone from restrain remarks about the Aus- ought to be," "unfair, unequal, now aligned with him on taxes. again they are expected to hold Houston that "it was just a work- tin daily whose headlines the and grossly discriminatory," "lit- Rep. Tony Fenoglio, Nocona, in out until they can be decisive for shop; we were discussing pre- preceding week and weekend had tle or no regard for the constitu- a byplay on the House mike, one candidate or the other and cinct work." She said the reporter referred to senators who showed tional principle of "equal or uni- asked, "Is it true that Ronnie obtain concessions from their was told she would be glad to they were willing to "give in" form' taxation or even ability to Dugger's gonna get Jake Pickle's choice. (The liberals do not put talk to him after the meeting, but and to a "wave of optimism" re- pay." The S-T advocates a more job?" forward a candidate themselves he was not there. portedly drowning the Capitol general sales tax; the Senate bill because a majority of the House Harry Truman will speak to dome with the news that the tax "makes a general sales tax look / Sen. Bob Baker, Houston has would quickly unite against them a Democratic rally in Dallas bill would be passed. good. If such a tax is the only enraged some Houston Dem- under such circumstances.) Both in October, in spite, charges pre- way let's have it." ocrats by his opposition to Dan- Spilman and Turman are consid- . / Dallas News admonished: cinct 441 chairman Dan Patton, iel's natural gas and interstate al- ered conservatives, Spilman more "legislators cannot be ex- 7 Jimmy Banks, Dallas News, Jr., of the indifference and po- ✓ location taxes and by joining Ben conservative, but also more will- litical dereliction of county chair- pected to 'sacrifice honest convic- ✓ reported that bank directors Ramsey's "team" on the tax ing to negotiate with the liber- man Ed Drake (an Eisenhower tions," "quite clear is the neces- in the Senate include Sens. Aikin, problem. So angered was Rep. als. backer). Truman's appearance sity of compromise," but "let's Fuller, Hudson, Krueger, Moffett, Jo Ed Winfree, chairman of the will cast "a pall of despair" over get the job done, gentlemen!" and Phillips; bank stockholders Harris County delegation in the 7 Ed C. Burris, Texas Manu- " 'Dallas News' Democrats," Pat- Houston Post warned of "chaos" include Sens. Parkhouse and House, he went up to Baker on facturers' Assn. lobbyist, said ✓ ton said, condemning Drake for if the taxes are not raised in the Owen; and that Phillips, Park- the Senate floor while the Senate in a letter to members June 3, refusing to take part in the re- second called session. Corpus house, and Hardeman led the was debating the tax bill and "Economy in state government is cent telecast tribute to Truman. Christi Caller scoffed at the News fight against the bank accounts told him he was voting against what is truly needed," with state Dick West of the Dallas News re- for saying "ability to pay" is a the people who put him. in office. government costing more now reclaim bill, though there is a con- sponded: "Mr. Drake is a good Marxian tax principle, citing Baker's connections with oil and than the cost of the federal gov- stitutional rule to keep senators Democrat — a Southern, States'- Adam Smith and the Encyclope- gas interests in Houston have al- ernment in 1916. Taxation for from voting on matters in which right 5, Jeffersonian, constitu- dia Britannica as authorities that ways been strong, but he was "satiating the desires of another they have a personal interest. tional-government Democrat. Mr. it has a respectable history. Dal- helped in his Senate race by the ... not essential to the sustenance Drake is not a liberal, CIO, ADA, las Times-Herald advocated an- Sen. Martin, also a bank director, Harris County Democrats in of life borders on the legalizing NAACP, Red-Herring Democrat." nual sessions, longer than the sponsored the bank bill. 1958. of plunder," he said. present constitutional four-month period. LEGALS pears from Plaintiff's Original of matrimony heretofore and 1959, and answer the petition of / Raymond Brooks and Sam Petition on file in this office, and now existing between said par- Plaintiff in Cause Number 114,- CITATION BY PUBLICATION to which reference is here made ties; Plaintiff alleges that de- 216, in which Cornelius McCloud • Wood, in their column in the THE STATE OF TEXAS for lal intents and purposes; fendant left the bed and board is Plaintiff and Jerlean Hattie Austin American, noted that Lt. TO John Henry Van Ameron- If this citation is not served of Plaintiff voluntarily, with no Lee Banks McCloud is defendant, intentions of returning, on or Gov. Ben Ramsey disregarded one gen Defendant, in the 'hereinafter within 90 days after date of its filed in said Court on the 1st day styled and numbered cause: issuance, it shall be returned un- about January 15, 1955. There of June, 1959, and the nature of of his own platform planks—that You are hereby commanded to served. were no children born of this which said suit is as follows: tax bills be passed only with two- appear before the 126th District WITNESS, 0. T. MARTIN, JR., marriage, and there is no com- Being an action and prayer for munity property: Plaintiff fur- judgment in favor of Plaintiff thirds of both legislative cham- Court of Travis County, Texas, Clerk of the District Courts of to be held at the courthouse of Travis County, Texas. ther prays for relief, general and and against Defendant for decree bers—when he broke a 15-15 tie said county in the City of Austin, special; of divorce dissolving the bonds Issued and given under my of matrimony heretofore and and passed the Senate's tax bill Travis County, Texas, at or be- hand and the seal of said Court All of which more fully ap- fore 10 o'clock A.M. of the first pears from Plaintiff's Original now existing 'between said par- 16-15. at office in the City of Austin, ties. Plaintiff alleges abandon- Monday after the expiration of 42 this the 21st day of May, 1959. Petition on file in this office, days from the date of issuance and which reference is here made ment by defendant of him for a ./ Editor G e o r g e Carmack, hereof; that is to say, at or be- 0. T. MARTIN, JR. for all intents and purposes; period of more than three years, V Houston Press, said Daniel is fore, 10 o'clock A.M. of Monday Clerk of the District Courts, If this citation is not served with the intention on the part of Travis County, Texas. Defendant of making such aban- a "true conservative" who does the 6th day foJuly, 1959, and an- within 90 days after date of its swer the petition of plaintiff in By GEO. W. BICKLER, Deputy issuance, it shall be returned un- donment p e r m a n ent. Plaintiff not belong to the lobbyists. Car- Cause Number 114,125, in which served. further alleges mack likes Daniel's bank bill and Joan Van Amerongen is Plaintiff at office in the City of Austin, that two children were born as CITATION BY PUBLICATION this the 1st day of June, 1959. issue of said marriage, to-wit: his natural gas tax. "The lobby- and John Henry Van Amerongen THE STATE OF TEXAS is defendant, filed in said Court 0. T. MARTIN, JR. Cornelius McCloud, Jr., age 18, ists apparently have more influ- on the 21st day of May, 1959, and TO Betty Valm'ai Pettit, De- Clerk of the District Courts, and Virginia Ruth McCloud, age ence over this legislature—par- the nature of which said suit is fendant, in the hereinafter styled Travis County, Texas. 16 and that plaintiff has had cus- as follows: and numbered cause: By A. E. Jones, Deputy. tody of the said Cornelius Mc- ticularly the Senate—than over You (and each of you) are WITNESS, 0. T. MARTIN, JR.. Cloud, Jr., and the defendant has Being an action and prayer for hereby commanded to appear be- had custody any other," Carmack wrote. judgment in favor of Plaintiff Clerk of the District Courts of of Virginia Ruth Mc- fore the 126th District Court of Travis County, Texas. Cloud since the date of separa- and against Defendant for decree Travis County, Texas, to be held tion. Plaintiff asks that custody / Jacksonville Daily Progress of divorce dissolving the bonds of Issued and given under my at the courthouse of said county hand and the seal of said Court of Cornelius McCloud, Jr., be V said the lobbyists "are doing matrimony heretofore and now in the City of Austtin, Travis awarded, to him and that custody existing between said parties; County, Texas, at or before 10 of Ruth McCloud be their best to continue their con- Plaintiff alleges cruel treatment CITATION BY PUBLICATION o'clock A. M. of the first Monday THE STATE OF TEXAS awarded-. to defendant. No com- trol of state government" but on the part of Defendant towards munity property was accumu- her of such nature as to render after expiration of 42 days from TO Jerlean Hattie Lee Banks Gov. Daniel is "now putting up the date of issuance hereof; that McCloud Defendant, in the here- lated during said marriage. their further living together as Plaintiff prays for costs of suit a terrific fight ... Only the peo- husband and wife altogether in- is to say, at or before 10 o'clock inafter styled and numbered A. M. of Monday the 20th day of cause: and relief, general and special; ple are on the side of the gov- supportable; Plaintiff further al- all of which more fully appears leges that one child, born of said July, 1959, and answer the peti- You are hereby commanded to ernor." tion of plaintiff in Cause Num- appear before the 126th Judicial from Plaintiff's original petition union, is now with plaintiff, who on file in this office, and to is the proper person to be award- ber 113,065, in which Rowland District Court of Travis County, ./ Fort , Worth Star-Telegram Pettit is Plaintiff and Betty Val- Texas, to be held at the court- which reference is here made. ed its care, custody and control mai" Pettit is defendant, filed in If this citation is not served V stabbed the Senate tax bill, and for which Plaintiff prays house of said county in the City judgment; Plaintiff further al- said Court on the 6th day of of Austin, Travis County, Texas, within 90 days after date of its especially the cigarette tax: "a February, 1959, and the nature at or before 10 o'clock A. T.T. of issuance, it shall be returned un- leges that no community prop- served. erty . was acquired by the parties; of which said suit is as follows: the first Monday after the ex- Being an action and prayer for piration of 42 days from the date Witness, 0. T. Martin, Jr., THE TEXAS OBSERVER Plaintiff further prays for relief, Clerk of the District Courts, general and special; judgment in favor of Plaintiff of issuance hereof; that is to say. and against Defendant for decree at or before, 10 o'clock A.M. of Travis County, Texas Page 7 June 20, 1959 All of which more fully ap- of divorce dissolving the bonds Monday the 20th day of July, By ELI GREER, Deputy. iFeeeeiereteRetmter."6":7 qreereleer‘rtee

COAST MEN FIGHT OPEN PADRE BEACH AUSTIN law. (See related story on the open-Gulf beach. Adjacent land- sion," and to provide for venue in vor of any provision that would Coast legislators tried to Senate debate.) owners can rebut this by proving counties where offenses occur. knock out all of Padre Island. To exempt Padre Island from The legislation was called forth that (1) they own the beach; (2) He and the House opposed Rep. strike out all of Padre Island the free public beaches bill, by the Luttes decision of the their ownership includes the right Sam Bass, of Freeport, when Bass would strike out a good part of but the House, following Texas Supreme Court, which in- to bar the public; and (3) there is proposed the bill not apply after our public beaches." dicated that property owners can no prior right of the public. If three years. Rep. Bob Eckhardt's lead on Rep. Ben Glusing, Kingsville, fence beaches to keep out the they fence off the beach without The main fight concerned Rep. every amendment offered, asked Eckhardt, "You do not lay public. "going forward with the evi- Bill Woolsey's amendment to ex- said Padre, , too, should be claim to all the land between the dence" in court, they can be clude Padre Island, which is declared open to the public Rep. W. T. Oliver, Port Neches vegetation elevation?" Eckhardt about 120 miles of the Texas and finally passed the bill conservative, joined Eckhardt in fined $100 a day. reviewed the bill's terms, saying coastline. preserving the public's right the long floor fight for the bill, the vegetation lines would "fol- No Texas 'Coney Island' Woolsey, a Corpus Christi rep- to 600 miles of Texas Gulf and for including Padre Island. low inward" where there was no resentative whose other amend- shore by a resounding 113-23 "Texas is being more and more * Eckhardt said the bill pro- vegetation. "This is exactly what ments indicated his concern for industrialized," Oliver said, open- tects "600 miles of open we always thought the Siete Par- vote. Padre property owners, and who ing the House debate. "The nat- beach on the Texas coast" which titas meant belongs to the state," The House conservation and had been cool to the entire bill ural resources for the people to has been reserved from time im- he said. (The Siete Partitas is the reclamation committee hears the for a while, proposed that the go out and enjoy—swimming, memorial "for fishing, camping, basis of the common law recogni- Eckhardt bill anew Monday af- public's easement to the beaches fishing, and other sports—are be- bathing, and so forth." tion of the public's right to the ternoon; the Padre Island issue be "inapplicable south of the nor- ing reduced. A lot of property Up to this time, he said, Texas beaches.) will be fought out again in the thernmost boundary of Padre Is- owners have decided they can has avoided the congestion of the House, and then in the Senate, land," that is, from the head of Woolsey responded that all any- fence off the entire beach, all the East Coast beaches. "In Texas we during the second special session. the island near Corpus Christi to body wanted was "merely a rea- way ... it should be open to all have no Coney Island, no Atlan- its tail at Brownsville. sonable easement to the beach Gov. Price Daniel had delayed citizens, whether they be from tic City, no turnstiles where you His plan was to set up an in- ... We don't want to step in and opening the first special session the Gulf or the Panhandle." have to drop in a quarter, where terim committee—four legislators, foul up a situation," he said. But to the legislation until late last you have to pay to go in and see Eckhardt said the bill, co- Col. Homer Garrison, and Engr. 75-56 the House sided with Eck- week, and the House did not pro- the sea and enjoy the sea." cess the bill through its commit- signed by 80 members, recognizes DeWitt Greer of the Highway hardt's amendment and therefore tee and the House debate until the "time-honored right Of the Conscious that he needed a Department—who would advise killed the Padre Island exemp- Monday afternoon at 3:15. This people of Texas to use the four-fifths majority of the House the next legislature about includ- tion. left the Senate only the last day beaches," which means "only that to win the rules suspensions re- ing Padre, about parallel high- of the session, and the senior leg- area that is sandy shore on the quired so late in the session, Eck- ways on the island, and about Interests in Background • islators decided by 16-14 vote open Gulf." Bay beaches, as well hardt accepted various amend- procuring easements for access Behind this issue, it was un- against suspending the require- as the ownership or the mineral ments to let the highway depart- to the beaches. derstood by observers, were ment that there be public hear7 rights of any Gulf beaches, were ment prohibit vehicular traffic in not only Padre landowners, de- ings with two days' notice. This not affected, he said. designated areas "because of resi- Beach Across the Island velopers and 'speculators, but also means the beach bill must be His bill establishes a presump- dential or commercial develop- In defense Woolsey made resort 'hotel interests who main- considered again in the second tion in law that the public has an ments," to let landowners erect two main points: tained, starting in earnest the day special session before it becomes easement (a right to use) the "groins for prevention of ero- 1. The Eckhardt bill pro- before the debate, that they vides that the Gulf beach is the would be more inclined to build sandy shore washed by the high- hotels on Padre if Padre were est waves of the Gulf, as meas- exempted from the public beaches Time Lack Stalls Beach Bill ured by the line of vegetation, bill. but that where there is no vege- Eckhardt's m e a s u r e permits before the end AUSTIN Parkhouse began to reply with until three days tation, a line extending along the the highway department to pro- it, deny- With Sen. George Park- some heat, but his words were of the session to submit same elevation as the last edge of hibit driving along the beach for house of Dallas demanding a unintelligible as Sen. Dorsey ing the public the relief they the vegetation would define the 300 yards. Hardeman of San Angelo, presid- ought to have." beach. There are 20 or 30 "exten- public hearing for "the peo- There was concern after the ing, gaveled for order. Baker re- sive ple of Texas who own land Sen. Bill Moore, Bryan, said, areas" on Padre, Woolsey bill had passed that a committee stated his motion, and when the down there" and calling Sen. "I'm for this bill but I think we said, where this would mean the clause that the bill applied only Dallas senator rose, Hardeman beach would stretch "across the Jimmy Phillips "Mr. Moody's ought not to suspend the tag rule to islands "accessible by free road again gaveled him down, adding, entire 'island." This Eckhardt did. loud mouthpiece," the Senate and the right to be heard—a lot facility" might exclude Padre. "the motion is not debatable." threw the beach bill issue of bad legislation passes at the not intend, Woolsey contended. anyway. The causeway at "You mean it's not debatable," 2. into the second special ses- ends of sessions that way." A public easement in a na- Brownsville is a toll road. Eck- said Parkhouse, "a motion to tional shoreline area such as the sion by voting not to suspend hardt pointed out that as of Sep- deny the people of Texas who Investors' Right its rule requiring two days' one being considered for Padre tember, the entrance from Port own land down there?" "The Parkhouse was next up. "A Island would conflict with federal notice for public hearings. lot of people in my district Aransas will be a free road, and The vote came on a motion by secretary will call the roll," said policy for its parks. have investments down there, ... "at the very worst it would Senator Bob Baker of Houston to Hardeman. Eckhardt offered a substitute spent lots of money, and they amount to a little delay ... Any suspend a "tag" placed on the After the vote senators rose to amendment which provided that have a right to be heard." When time you build a free public road. bill by Parkhouse to invoke the explain their positions. on islands upon which national Phillips interrupted, Parkhouse you open an area." R.D. public hearing rule. The vote to Hudson opened: "I want to park areas are "being developed," said he would not yield to "Mr. suspend was 14 ayes and 16 noes. thank the people who voted 'no.' the bill would apply only in con- Moody's loud mouthpiece over Sen. Bruce Reagan of Corpus I resent the attitude that our formity with the terms under there." Hardeman outgaveled this Christi opened for the opponents. county and our people don't have which the park areas were estab- exchange also. BOW WILLIAMS He said he was not going on rec- the right to be heard on this mat- lished. Automobile am ord as opposed to open beaches, ter after all the money our "Certainly we all want to keep "The difficulty," Eckhardt said, General Insurance "but I think we ought to have a county has spent on this." the beaches open," Reagan said, "is that (the Woolsey amend- Budget Payment •hearing in view of the request of Phillips replied to Hudson: "As "but we are dealing With 400 to ment) exempts not just the park Plan numerous property owners to be far as Galveston and Brazoria 500 miles of beaches, and I think area on Padre Island, but the Strong Stock heard." Counties are concerned, we would the people involved are entitled whole island, all the way from Companies to an open hearing." Phillips said Reagan's request have been agreeable to your ex- Corpus Christi to Brownsville. GReenwood 2-1545 for a hearing "at this point in the empting your whole area down Senator William Fly, Victoria, This is a very large part of this 824 LAMAR, AUSTIN was the final member to explain session" would have the effect of there (Padre Island) if that free public coast that we are so Let's Abolish the Poll Tax! killing the bill. Sen. Hubert Hud- would have helped us lift this tag his vote. "I concur in the re- interested in ... I am not in fa- son of BrOwnsville, supporting and pass this bill. Then you could marks of the senator from Nue- Reagan, said 'he had been con- work out in a later hearing what- ces (Reagan). This is a most •seri 7 tacted by property owners in his ever you want for your area. I am ous problem and one I think that county, by the County Parks sorry that the Governor, in his requires the utmost considera- Board, and by others who wanted anxiety for this bill ... waited tion." L.G. NOW! life insurance protection for a hearing. "They haven't seen this bill and they want to look at it." Their Last Frontier Insurance your family during vital years... In Force • "Down in my country," Over $ 1 20 Million boomed Phillips, "these people 'New all premiums have bought up the whole surf- side beach, 11 miles of it, and are returned /dud dividends in the process of fencing it off. aiiiiff4ttieA *ed .... this is now possible through modern life insurance They're depriving thousand s, INSURANCE COMPANY hundreds of thousands of people planning with the SUN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF CANADA, from the beaches, the last fron- P. 0. Box 8098 Houston, Texas one of North America's leading life companies. The new Sun Life tier they've got. How can there Security Fund "insurance or money-back" plan enables you to provide be objection to the right of the life insurance protection for your family until you are 65 with a guar- people to use the public beach, antee that, if you live to 65, all the money you paid will be refunded something they've had in this to you in full ... plus accumulated dividends. state for over 100 years? Arc we "A"u‘'N'IWake the next fishing trip YOUR most successful. ag, „the proceeds at age 65 can be (a) used to provide an annuity; (b) left going to do this to them, just be- YoD Eu Ecpan by using on deposit with a guaranteed rate of interest; (c) used to purchase a paid-up cause some senator, some inland FITZ SEA SPREADER LEADER policy for the original sum assured, with a balance which con be taken in senator puts his tag on this 'bill?" cash or as a guaranteed income. Waving his hand at Parkhouse, IT'S NEW, designed to prevent tangling; lose Call the Sun Life representative in your district for more information about the less bait, and improve your catch. Sun Life "money-bock" plan, or mail this coupon today. Phillips said, "I don't believe NONE BETTER for surf or snapper bank fish- he's even seen the Gulf of Mexico ing. Made of the highest quality materials. and yet he's tagged this bill so 250 lb. test leader cable for maximum dura- SUN LIFE OF CANADA

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