The Harper Herald (Harper, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 34, Ed. 1 Friday, August 26, 1955 Page: 3 of 4
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S/a/e CAPITOL
Austin, Texas—Whether a spe-
cial session of the legislature is
called on school integration ap-
parently binges on a Texas Su-
preme Court decision still to
come.
Filed by the anti-integration
Texas Citizens Council in a dis-
trict court at Big Spring, the
suit seeks to bar payment of
state funds to bi-racial schools.
Atty. Gen John Ben Shepperd
says the court decision holds the
key to whether Texas laws must
be changed immediately or al-
ready-integrated schools must
backtrack. Decisions by the dis-
trict court can be carried direct-
ly to the Supreme Court and pos-
sibly be settled by the time school
starts.
Should the court hold pay-
ment to integrated schools can
be made under exlisting laws,
thei;e apparently would be no
urgent need to change them, at
least in that regard.
Shepperd said he welcomed
the Big Spring suit since it
promises to . clear up the difficult
legal situation.
Gov. Allan Shivers says he will
call a special session “if neces-
sary.” He apparently was await-
ing three developments:
He asked his newly formed cit-
izen’s advisory counsil on school
integration to investigate and re-
port to him on several questions,
including the need of a special
session.
He asked Shepperd to prepare
an official ruling on legal ques-
tions.
And the decision in the Big
Spring court case may set up
conditions to determine need of
the session.
In July the Board of Education
voted to continue regular pay-
ments to local districts, whether
segregated or not. It left racial
policy up to local officials.
Since then, some 30 districts
have announced whole or partial
desegregation plans.
A University of Texas student
committee also has taken on the
segregation problem with a poll
of student opinion on acceptance
of Negro students outside the
classroom. Graduate courses
have been open to Negroes since
1950. Regents have ordered full
desegregation in Sept. 1956.
KKK Talk Challenged
Attorney General Shepperd’s
claim that efforts are underway
in Texas to revive the Ku Kiux
Klan brought a challenge ifcst
week.
Sen. Jimmy Phillips called on
Shepperd to name names, but
Shepperd declined. Names will
be given prosecutors and grand
juries when sufficient evidence
is gathered for convictions, Shep-
perd said.
State Senator Killed
Death of State Sen. Wayne W.
Wagonseller of Bowie cost Texas
liberals one of their leaders.
.Wagonseller, killed in a three-
car collision in Fort Worth, was
buried last week in the State
Cemetery at Austin with full
military honors. Services were
held earlier in the Senate Cham-
ber.
A World War II veteran, he
served two terms in the House
before beginning his Senate ca-
reer in 1951. Friends in Tyler re-
cently had boomed him as a can-
didate for attorney general. He
had been associated with Loyalist
Democrats and had supported
Ralph Yarbrough in the latter’s
two unsuccessful races for gov-
ernor.
Giles Pleads Guilty.
One of the biggest news breaks
of last week was Bascom Giles’
plea of guilty in criminal dis-
trict court at San Antonio to two
charges in connection with a Bex-
ar County block land deal.
Giles’ guilty plea concerned
charges of consenting to accept a
$30,000 bribe. He pleaded not
not guilty to a third count, of ac-
cepting fhe bribe. The state
waived this charge and Judge
Buck Jones imposed a six-year
prison sentence. It is to run con-
currently with a three-year sen-
tence given Giles earlier at Aus-
tin on a charge of theft of $6,800
from the veteran’s land fund.
Giles has appealed the case,
which affords at least 90 day’s de-
lay in final disposition of the sen-
tence.
Awaiting trial in San Antonio
were Arthur McKenzie and C. V.
Wynn, San Antonio land opera-
tors, indicted for offering the
$30,000 bribe to Giles.
Other suits now pending a-
gainst the former land commis-
sioner are a civil suit at San An-
tonio, seeking recovery of $35,-
000, and nine additional charges
in Austin, on other transactions.
He also faces trial in Zavala
County on another land case.
Stevenson Reply Awaited
Adlai Stevenson is slated to
speak in Austin on Sept. 28. At
that time he may reply to Gov.
Allan Shivers’ repeated refusal
to support him for president.
During the national governor’s
conference in Chicago, Shivers
said he would again, as in 1952,
refuse to support Stevenson if
he were Democratic candidate
for president.
Stevenson withheld comment
“until I am in Texas.” Shivers,
he pointed out, was a “guest in
Illinois.”
Stevenson’s Austin appearance
was arranged by the University
of Texas great issues committee.
It is billed as “non-political.”
Subject of his talk will be “Amer-
ica, the Economic Colossus.”
Too Much Money
Overpayment of drivers license
fees has created a problem for
the Department, of Public Safety.
DPS staffers reminded the
public that increased charges
voted by the 1955 Legislature do
not go into effect until Sept. 6.
At the time charges will jump
from $1 to $2 for an operator’s
license, $2 to $3 for commercial
licenses, $3 to $4 for chauffeurs.
Meantime, the lower rates ap-
ply, and the. department has
quite a task returning excess
money.
COTTON PANTIES, size 2-12, 8 for ~ $1.00
TERRIFIC BARGAINS
throughout our Mom!
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]! FREDERICKSBUIKj, TEXAS
CENTENNIAL DIVISION—Win-
der of the blue ribbon in the
Centennial Division of the parade
which opened the Gillespie Coun-
ty Fair last Friday was the Uval-
d@ float, which was constructed
• in the shape of a birthday cake
—Staff photo
with giant numerals, 1856 and
1956, on the front and back.
Uvalde celebrates its centennial
next May. Miss Clarice Gulley is
the duchess on the float.
Friends and relatives here will
regret to learn that Mrs. J. C.
Cosper’s sister, Mrs. Ben Bibles,
of Burnet passed away at her
home Tuesday afternoon. Several
relatives from here attended the
funeral, among them were Mr.
and Mrs. Pete Cosper, Mrs. Ar-
chie Lennon and daughter, Miss
Barbara, Mrs. Vene Cottle, Rev.
and Mrs. D. W. Brown and child-
ren,
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Miss Barbara Lennon spent
several days recently with her
sister, Mrs. Charles Frederick,
at Port Arthur,
The following attended the
Smith reunion Sunday at Sunset,
Rev. and Mrs. D. Brown and
children, Mr. and Mrs. B. J. May-
hugh and son and daughter, Mr.
and Mrs. Earl Benner and child-
ren Mr. and Mrs. Herman Oeh-
ler and children, Mr. and Mrs.
Delbert Mayhugh and children
of Houston, Mr. and Mrs. Pat-
ton also of Houston.
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Sgt. and Mrs. Harold B. Birt
and children of San Antonio
spent several days here visiting
relatives.
Trade Pdiey Seen
Disrupting Cotton
Economy
Memphis, Tenn.—A number of
top people in the raw cotton
producing business are begin-
ning to express concern about
what will happen to American
farmers when two different gov-
ernment policies collide.
For many years, as a result of
established law, United States
cotton farmers have been helped
by government price supports.
Along with the price supports,
the law also bars foreign-grown
cotton from being brought into
the country, except for a very
small amount of specialty
growths. This means the farm-
ers have a protected market and
and a protected price in the
United States for their cotton.
Under this program, more than
98 per cent of all cotton goods
manufactured and used in the
United States is made from Am-
erican cotton.
What bothers the farm leaders
is that another big government
program is moving in an opposite
direction and threatens to wreck
the price support system.
They refer to the State Depart-
ment’s trade program, particular-
ly the severe tariff cuts made
recently at Geneva on cotton tex-
tile goods, for the special benefit
of Japan.
The slashes, due to go into ef-
fect in September, are so drastic
that in cents per yard of goods
they run considerably more, on
the average, than mill profits
now being earned in the man-
ufacture of the goods.
In effect, these tariff cuts a-
mount to an import subsidy on
foreiggn cotton. In the case of
common, unbleached print cloth,
for example, the tariff cut is said
to be comparable to an import
subsidy of three and three-tenths
cents a pound of cotton.
Farm leaders argue that it.
doesn’t matter whether foreign
cotton is allowed to enter this
country in a raw state or manu-
factured form—the result will be
the same: to nullify or offset
much of what they have gained
through the cotton agricultural
act.
Increasing fears are being ex-
pressed that when these two po-
licies run head on after Sept.
10, many textile mills and count-
less farmers will be hurt. Al-
ready there are ominous head-
lines in the press, such as:
“Field’s (Marshall Field &
Company) Sees Japan Becoming
Major Supplier In 3 Years”, “Jap
Fabrics May Be Sold By Bur-
Mil (Burlington Industries,
Inc.)”, “Hear Macy’s To Use
Whole Floor To Promote Jap
Goods”, and many others.
It is obvious to the farmers
that just as foreign manufactur-
ed goods are the product of
foreign labor, so likewise are
foreign fabrics mostly the pro-
ducts of foreign cotton. Tak-
ing foreign textile manufacture
as a whole, 75 per cent of its raw
fiber material is foreign cotton
and only 25 epr cent is American-
grown cotton.
Farmers therefore fear the
eventual loss of their biggest
market—the consumption of Am-
erican cotton by American mills
—either because, it will be taken
over by Japan or because US
mills, may be forced to shift to
rayon and other synthetics, which
were not touched by the Geneva
tariff cuts.
Fight now, it has been learn-
ed, there is a lot of high-level
discussion going on in cotton
trade circles and state farm or-
ganizations of the Cotton Belt as
to how to remedy the situation
before the policy conflict causes
heavy damage.
One idea which is gathering
momentum, and is reported be-
ing favorably considered in Con-
gress, is a plan for establishing
a system of cotton goods import
quotas. Such a system, as one
official described it, would set
“sensible, reasonable and specific
limitations on the amounts of
foreign-made cotton textiles per-
mitted to enter the United
States”.
World trade thinking in cot-
ton farm regions up to now has.
centered mostly on the problem
of extorting and selling more raw
cotton overseas. But farmers see
there’s danger in pushing all
their efforts in that direction of
some State Department monkey-
wrench ruins the 9 million bales
a year home market for Amer-
ican cotton.
Considerations of this sort are
understood to have prompted
Senator Olin Johnston, D-S.C., to
urge President Eisenhower to
impose textile import quotas im-
mediately. In a wire to the White
House, the Senator pointed out
that under present law the Chief
Executive already has power to
do so.
Page Three Friday,* August 26, 1955.
The Harper Herald - - Harper, Texas
BIG RATTLESNAKE—was kill-
ed by the two youths shown
above on the Wm. Roeder ranch
in the western part of the county
last Friday. James Harlos, left,
son of Fire Chief and Mrs. Wal-
ter Harlos of San Antonio, and
Billy Roeder, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Norbert Roeder, killed the five
Farmer Boys League
Nears Playoffs
In the Farmer Boys League
Sunday, only a double header
between Doss and Sisterdale was
played, with each winning one
by a one-run margin.
Sisterdale won the first game,
8-7, and Doss took the second,
2-1. Kermit Friedrich of Doss
pulled the “iron man” stunt,
pitching both ends of the double
header, striking out a total of 21
Sisterdale batsmen in the two
seven-inning tilts.
In the other games, Comfort
forfeited a double header to Har-
per and the Texans forfeited a
single game to Stonewall.
Only games left to play, which
will be taken care of this Sunday,
are games which were postpon-
ed earlier in the season.
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foot fifteen pound reptile with a
.22 rifle and a pellet gun. The
snake had 13 rattles. The older
Harlos has a hunting lease on
the Roeder place and the young
boy had been out visiting with
the Roeder youth last week when
they came across the big rattler*
FARMER BOYS LEAGUE
TEAM STANDING
W L Pet
Sisterdale ................... 15 5 ,7|0
Stonewall .................. 13 6 .6^4
Fredericksburg ....... 11 8 .579
Harper .................. 10 10 .500
Doss................................ 6 13 .346
Comfort ...................... 3 16 .158
GAMES LAST SUNDAY:
Harper 1-1, Comfort 0-0 (forfeit).
Stonewall 1, Fredericksburg 0
(forfeit).
Sisterdale 8-1, Doss 7-2.
(Last games scheduled. Games
this Sunday are make-up games
for postponed games).
Mr. and Mrs. Glen Lumpkins of
Rocksprings visited Mr. and Mrs.
Elmo Lumpkins Sunday after*
noon.
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Cottle
made a trip to Bufnet Monday
night to take her mother, Mrs.
J. C. Cosper, to be with her sis-
ter, Mrs.. Ben Bibles, who was
very ill.
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From where I sit... ity Joe Marsh
After-Dinner Speaker
Gets His “Deserts",
“Red” Thomas tells about a din-
ner party he and his Missus went
to in Center City last week. He
said it was a wonderful party—ex-
cept for one guest who was a real
“know-it-all,” right from the start.
Whatever the subject, this
fellow considered himself an
“expert.” Wasn’t quiet about it,
either. He told different people
what automobile to buy, what
books to read —even told some
who they “just had” to vote for.
When it came time to leave,
this fellow must’ve felt a pang of
conscience. He turned to the host-
ess and said: “I suppose I was a
bit outspoken tonight.” Quickly
she replied, “Of course not. No
one could have outspoken you.’®
From where I sit, it’s all right
to have opinions as long as you
don’t try to force them on neigh-
bors. Take those who would deny
me an occasional glass of beer
simply because they prefer some-
thing else. They’re welcome to
their choice but shouldn’t try to
force me to be a “party” to it!
Copyright, 1955, United States Brewers Foundation
DR. MARK A. THOMPSON
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to 5 p. m. Harper Phone No. 3.
614 W. San Antonio St.
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Dietel, Norman J. The Harper Herald (Harper, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 34, Ed. 1 Friday, August 26, 1955, newspaper, August 26, 1955; Harper, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1057795/m1/3/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Harper Library.