The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 109, Ed. 1 Wednesday, October 13, 1954 Page: 3 of 12
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Amend Basic Law--
ONE CONSTITUTION CHANGE
WOULD AFFECT TAXATION
THE BAYTOWN SUN. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 13. 19S4
ROOM AND BOARD
By Gene Ahern
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EDITOR’S NOTE: Following Is
the second In a series of six dis-
patches on the U proposed amend,
ments to the Texas Constitution,
upon which voters will ballot Nov.
By 0. B. LLOYD Jr.
AUSTIN, Oct. 13—UP—Of 11
Constitutional Amendments that
will be submitted for approval of
the voters Nov. 2. two bear direct-
ly on county government and
taxes.
However, both proposals are
based on local option—meaning
that even if the amendments are
adopted, voters directly concern-
ed will later have to approve any
change that is made.
One amendment would allow the
Legislature to authorize creation of
county-wide hospital districts. It
Galveston
would concern only uaivestoi
county and counties, having a popu-
lation of 190,000 or more.
The other amendment provides
for creation of the office of county
tax assessor-collector in counties
having less than 10,000 population.
The hospital district amendment,
sponsored by Sens. George Park-
house of Dallas and Doyle Willis
of Fort Worth, would authorize
levying of a tax not to exceed 75
cents on $100 valuation.
But before the district could be
formed, the first step to levying
of the hospital tax, property tax-
paying voters of the county would
have to vote acceptance of the
plan.
A similar, but vastly broader
plan, state-wide in scope, was sub-
mitted in 1949 and defeated at the
polls, lYiat proposal set no limita-
tion on the tax rate and made
creation of the district subject to
vote of all the people—not just the
taxpayers.
If the amendment should be
adopted—and local taxpayers ap-
prove, the hospital district created
under the act would then assume
responsibility for medical and hos-
pital care of needy residents of
that county.
In addition to Galveston county,
the proposal would specifically ap-
ply to Bexar. Oallas, El Paso,
Harris, Jefferson and Tarrant
counties.
Proponents argue that enactment
of the proposal would result in
economies by consolidating city
aiy county hospital facilities, abol-
ish duplication and permit' more
effective aid to needy indigents.
Those opposing the amendment
charge the proposal opens the way
to another form of taxation, that
establishment of the hospitals
would cause a rush of indigents to
the county, and that the hospital
district would become a political
plaything.
The amendment allowing crea-
collector In coun
of less than
tion of the office of tax assessor-
collector In counties of 1<
10,000 is also permissive.
The proposal requires that be-
fore the office could be created,
the commissioners court of a coun-
ty would have to submit the ques-
tion to the “qualified property
taxpaying voters."
Under present provisions of the
state constitution, the sheriff func-
tion* as an ex-officio assessor-col-
lector in counties of less than 10.-
000 population.
On the basis of present popula-
tion. about 94 counties could cre-
ate the separate office of tax as-
sessor-collector if the amendment
is adopted—providing the people
want it.
Proponents point out that while
consolidation sometimes results in
economies, the duties of a sheriff
and that of a tax assessor-collector
are so far apart that in this in-
stance efficiency of at least one
office is usually destroyed. They
also question use of deputies, the
persons usually employed, to as-
sess and coljeet taxes, and charge
that since the salary of a Sheriff’s
deputy is fixed by population of
his county it is sometimes difficult
to hire competent persons.
However, opponents counter teat
adoption of the amendment would
simply open the way to an increase
in county expense, and create an
unnecessary and additional office.
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In Death Of Son
Kindly Enemy Bears Watching
Skepticism Greets Kremlin Overtures
B.v CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Foreign Analyst
Tile Kremlin is getting alarm-
ingly cooperative.
Soviet delegate Andrei Vishin-
sky has introduced a new Russian
disarmament plan in the United
Nations, including a ban on nu-
clear weapons.
Soviet" Deputy Foreign Minister
Andrei A. Gromyko has backed
up the plan by saying that the
Kremlin now favors “effective in-
spection’’ of nuclear energy facil-
ities to prevent any evasion of
an A-bomb and H-bomb ban.
Vishinsky also has asked prior-
ity be given in the UN to dis-
cussion of President Eisenhower's
plan for an international pool of
nuclear . energy resources for
peaceful purposes.
Soviet Foreign Minister Vyach-
eslav M. Molotov has said that
Russia is now willing to discuss
the holding of “free”. all-German
elections as part of a plan to uni-
fy West and East Germany.
It all looks as if the Kremlin
is launching a new “peace offen-
sive.’ ’
The Russian moves have come
immediately after the London
agreemnt under which West Ger-
many is to be rearmed and given
the status of a sovereign nation.
There seems no room for doubt
that the Kremlin seeks merely to
wreck Allied unity.
When the Allies are split, as
they were after France killed the
European defense Community
plan, the Kremlin talks tough.
But when they are united, as at
present, the Gremlin boils up a
tub of soft soap and attempts to
peddle it to the West in an at-
tempt to split them again.
That, apparently, is what is go-
ing on now. Vishinsky, Gromyko
and Molotov are being too pleas-
ant.
It may be taken for granted that
the governments of the United
States, Great Britain and France
will remain suspicious of any Sov-
iet “peace” gestures.
They know too well that the
Kremlin is not likely to reverse its
entire national policy and permit
foreigners to inspect Russian nu-
clear energy facilities. They,know
that the Kremlin is not' likely to
agree to any really free election
in Germany, Every Russian and
German Communist knows that
any such election would result in
an anti-Red landslide.
Hence the prospect is that all
the Russian gestures will come to
nothing, as such gestures have in
the past.
But a Soviet “peace offensive"
always appeals to “neutralist”
opinion in countries all over the
world. It strengthens the propa-
ganda of Communist parties in
parties in countries like France
and Italy. It helps put over, among
leftist elements in Western coun-
tries. including the strong left
wing of the British labor party,
the Kremlin’s charge that United
States “ruling classes” are war
mongers.
The present Russian moves al-
most certainly will prove to be
nothing more than a new attempt
to split the Western allies. Un-
doubtedly they will fail, but they
may cause trouble.
Report In Mill Hazing Fading From College Campuses
Oil Subversives Paddles Of Welcome To 'Frosh* Now Outdated
Editor’* Note: To find out how
WASHINGTON, Oct. 13 —UP— college freshmen are faring In 1954
Chairmafi Edward H. Rees of the the United Press surveyed the
House Civil Service committee said la*est trends in hazing — or what
passes for It — at 10 leading uni-
Wednesday the administration is
preparing a report on the 1,743 fed-
eral employes dropped for subver-
sive activities or associations.
Rees said the report will set
set forth specifically what consti-
tutes subversive actions.
The Kansas Republican said the
report, being prepared by the Civil
Service Commission, “is presently
versities. The survey showed that
times have changed.
By ROBERT ZIMMERMAN
NEW YORK, Oct. 12- UP-Haz-
ing, as father and grandfather
knew it, is disappearing from the
campuses of American colleges,
ooden paddle, long a sym-
er and paint and told to get busy.
A survey of 10 leading univer-
sities around the country shows
that hazing, in its barbaric, abus- j}aiy Faunce, dean of students,
ive and sometimes even fatal ported: "Hazing definitely is d.v
forms, is on the wane for two ing out here. Compared to 1940,
along by taking an official stand
against hazing in the old sense.
At the University of Iowa, haz-
ing is practically non - existent.
, is
being given a security
by the Department of Justice,
Rees said in a statement issued
by his office that he ri
report and fixed an Oct. 20 dead-
line for its submission to his com-
mittee.
The wi
bol of the warm and pamrul wei-
, eorqe extended to freshmen, is be-
coming as dated as the raccon
coat.
mam .reasons:
1. Student bodies are now made
up of large numbers of war vet-
erans who are too mature to go
in for the old kind of pranks.
2. Upper classmen have discov-
ered that a freshman can be haz- channeled
effectively by making Jack Holland, dean of men at
class
labor.
:ment issued Few fraternity pledges now are On most of the c
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______,________ couldn’t really be called hazing. 1
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At the University of Indiana,
where hazing is "decidely dying
out,” fraternity pledges are made
available to work on community
projects, such as cleaning up
parks.
At Columbia University in New
York, the most frequent hazing
practice now consists of taking a
pledge 30 or 40 miles outside the
city and leaving him without mon-
ey to get back the best way he
can. Otherwise, freshmen are used
to save labor costs in giving the
fraternity q u a r t e r s an annual
cleaning.
A strict rule has limited hazing
at the University of Miami. Fla.,
'since 1951, when two young
pledges were killed by a truck as
they slept beside a fog-blanketed
road. The traditional “midnight
hike in the everglades” is now for-
bidden.
A fatal "hike” also led to a ton-
ing down of initiation rites at the
University of California. A pledge
was struck down and killed by an
. automobile.
Knox College at Galesburg, III.,
last week began an investigation of
its fraternities after two students
were killed at the .climax of
inter-fraternity beer drinking con-
test. After a. six-hour session in
which students drank average of
7'6 quarts of beer each, a car
, carrying four of them plunged
over an embankment and burned.
“Hell week” was outlawed at
Hofstra College on Long Island two
year* ago after seven students
were severely burned during
initiation.
Probe Asked Of Tax
Hike On Long 'Fags'
OKLAHOMA CITY, Oct. 13-UP
—Jack Rhodes, director of Okla-
homa’s Legislative Council, said
Wednesday he thought the Okla-
homa Legislature should look into
a proposal to increase the tax on
king-size cigarets.
The proposal came from L. D.
Melton, an Oklahoma City tax at-
torney. He said the tax on longer
cigarets should be boosted to make
up for the - loss of revenue result-
ing from the purchase of fewer
cigarets of regular !eng|h.
The Legislative Council’s reve-
nue and taxation committee, to
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21-year-old Pennsylvania soldier
faced a murder charge Wednes-
day after an autopsy showed his
seven-week-old son was crushed to
death.
Police said the soldier admitted
squeezing the baby Monday night
because he was crying and
wouldn’t drink all of his milk.
An autopsy, ordered by suspic-
ious doctors, showed the child’s
ribs were broken on both sid
one lung was punctured.
Deputy sheriffs said the soldier,
from Aliquippa, Penn,, told them
Tuesday night he had had a con-
tinual and growing animosity
against his son, who was born
Aug. 22.
He told officers the child’s cry-
ing irritated him Monday night
and he squeezed the baby until it
went limp. He said he went out on
his porch *nd talked with his wife
for an hour, then came back in the
house to find the child “limp and
blue.”
He tried to give the baby artific-
ial respiration and when that
didn't revive him, the soldier went
to a neighbor’s house and the
baby was taken to the hospital at
Carswell Air Force Base. The sol-
dier was stationed with an Army
ordnance unit at Carswell.
He said he had squeezed the
baby, until he went limp, on at
least 10 occasions during the last
month.
His wife, also from Aliquippa,
was questioned and released last
night. Officers said they were mar-
ried last May 1.
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Hartman, Fred. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 109, Ed. 1 Wednesday, October 13, 1954, newspaper, October 13, 1954; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1042622/m1/3/: accessed June 23, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.