The Winkler County News (Kermit, Tex.), Vol. 24, No. 32, Ed. 1 Monday, July 18, 1960 Page: 2 of 8
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THE WINKLER COUNTY NEWS, Kermit Texas
PAGE TWO Monday, July 18, 1960
Shall U. S. Dissemble
In Move Against Cuba
There is no single reason why the United States
has so lost the respect of the world that even little
Cuba can kick us in the teeth with impunity. There
are many.
One of the reasons is that if Congress rears half
way up on its hind legs and demands or requests a
stiff attitude toward any other nation, President Eis-
enhower may be expected to employ such moderation
—if that is the correct word—in word or deed that
the effect of Congress’ action is largely neutralized.
After imore than a year of repeated insults from
Cuba, seizures of American property under circum-
stances that amount to theft, and evidence that Cuba
is becoming a Soviet vassal, Congress at length gave
the President the authority to take economic reprisals
in an effort to brink the Castro government to its
senses.
The President promptly exercised that authority
and cut the Cuban sugar quota by 700,000 tons. But
he took that action on the ground that Cuba no longer
is a dependable source of supply, thus avoiding the
appearance of hitting back at Castro’s violent anti-
Americanism in word and deed.
Why such pusillanimity? Why cannot this govern-
ment display some guts for a change and call a spade
a spade?
For that matter, why should Latin-American
countries resent it if we take that minimum reprisal
for Castro’s repeated insults and thievery? And if
they should resent it, why should we care greatly?
Is not our national honor more to us than anyone’s
opinion?
Incidentally the Castro government’s instant re-
ply to the sugar bill was a move to seize all American
property not already seized. Worse, the new law,
hastily passed, amounts to open instead of disguised
theft. It provides the owners would be given 30-year
bonds to be paid only with money coming from ex-
cess sugar sold to this country, with the quota set so
high that no “excess” would accumulate and conse-
quently the bonds would never be paid off.
The President leaned over backward to be “mod-
erate” again when asked if he agreed with the state-
ment by Sen. Lyndon Johnson that “We can only anti-
cipate that the next President will be greeted by the
threat of a Russian submarine base in Cuba, less than
100 miles from our shores.” When he replied that
such things are possible but unlikely, he was asked
what we would do in such event. His answer was that
the machinery of the Organization of American
States no doubt would come into play but that in its
own interests this country might have to act as it
saw fit — apparently a carefully worded warning that
we might have to intervene militarily.
Why such cautious hedging? If there is near dan-
ger of a Soviet military base of any kind in Cuba, why
not give Castro a stern warning? To do so might stop
the building of a Soviet submarine base, jet airplane
landing strips and missile launching pads that could
double the Soviet threat to the United States.
The President, even so, is a whole year late in
taking note of this possibility.
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Through The Years
10 YEARS AGO
Mr. and Mrs. Kay Walker
and daughter, Martha Kay,
returned recently from visit-
ing relatives in Wolverton and
Stephenville.
Mr. and Mrs. Mac Spruill,
Mr. and Mrs. Hank Kaley,
and Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Ad-
ams returned last week end
from a visit to Cloudcroft and
Ruidoso, N. M.
Wink and Kermit again are
alternating their hail and rain.
The cloud which provided
Kermit with an electrical
storm early Sunday morning
by-passed Wink completely.
Sunday afternoon a heavy
cloud heaped hail the size of
golf balls upon Wink.
Winkler County residents
will march to the polls Satur-
day and choose among 53 lo-
cal candidates seeking elec-
tion to 23 offices. Another 47
candidates are trying for the
12 state offices.
Committees were appointed
to make plans for the fall
garden club when the club
met in the home of Mrs. W. H.
McClure Wednesday.
Miss Dorcas Scott and Miss
Barbara Spangler were ini-
tiated into the Order of Rain-
bow for Girls Tuesday night
at regular meeting.
Kermit would have an active
Chamber of Commerce func-
tioning at a near date.
In a meeting last Friday
evening of landowners and
the Winkler County School
Board, the question of annex-
ation or consolidation of all
the school districts into one
county-wide independent dis-
trict came up for consider-
able discussion.
Jack Williams, who under-
went major surgery in Dallas
last Thursday, and who for
several days was very ill,
was reported to be improving
this week.
15 YEARS AGO
When Freddie Morgette en-
tered the Army Air Corps re-
cently, he was the fifth son of
Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Morgette
to don his country’s uniform.
The new shoe ration stamp
to become valid Aug. 1, 1945,
will be Airplane Stamp No. 4
in War Ration Book No. 2.
With over two-thirds of the
necessary number of under-
writers already signed, it ap-
peared certain this week that
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State Capital News
20 YEARS AGO
A drastic reduction in the
key rate for fire insurance in
Kermit is expected to be
forthcoming soon as a result
of an inspection made this
week by the state fire insur-
ance commission inspector,
Lindsey Newsome, who spent
the early part of the week in-
specting fire fighting equip-
ment and the new water sys-
tem.
Mr. and Mrs. Jake Tarver
of Wink are the parents of a
daughter born in a local hos-
pital Tuesday, July 16. She
has been named Patricia Lou.
The Community Church of
Kermit will observe the sec-
ond anniversary of the new
brick structure on Sunday,
July 21, according to Rev.
J. P. Lancaster, pastor.
Mrs. H. B. Usry and Mrs.
Bryan Kiertson were in Wink
Monday to attend Missionary
Society. Mrs. Usry appeared
on the program.
Mrs. W. B. McCargo and
Mrs. Mable Nelson left Wed-
nesday for Alpine to attend
Sul Ross College the next six
weeks.
BY VERN SANFORD
Texas Press Association
AUSTIN — Things are rath-
er quiet around the State Cap-
itol these days.
For one thing, it’s the “off
season,” the hiatus that reg-
ularly occurs between state
elections and the convening of
a new Legislature.
For another, it’s vacation
time with a part of almost
every agency staff off to for-
get it all for a time.
But mostly, for this week,
the Austin lull stems from
most people’s suspenseful in-
terest in the activity of Tex-
ans in Los Angeles. Gov.
Price Daniel, vice chairman
of the Texas delegation to the
National Democratic Conven-
tion, and numerous others
have been away for several
weeks working in behalf of
Sen. Lyndon Johnson’s nom-
ination for the presidency.
Despite these distractions,
state government goes on.
Studies are under way on
many subjects, on budgets,
tax plans and other future leg-
islation. It’s important work,
but quiet, during this digging
and analyzing stage. It’ll break
into the news next fall as re-
ports are made and trial bal-
loons are run up on bills to be
introduced in January.
Surest indication that state
government is still on the job
is that even now it’s hard to
find a parking place near the
Capitol or the adjoining state
office buildings.
During the summer a dozen
or so parking slots by the Cap-
itol’s east entrance are set
aside for tourists. As a rule,
tourists don’t keep them filled,
and Capitol guards are reg-
ularly beset by the persua-
siveness of local people who
need a place “just for a min-
ute.”
Oil On The Highways? —
On the heels of a U. S. Su-
preme Court ruling that Tex-
as owns its tidelands 10
miles out comes a ruling that
the state also owns the right-
of-way along public roads.
Atty. Gen. Will Wilson ruled
that the state, not the county,
owns the road right-of-way
and that the counties cannot
lease the land for mineral de-
velopment.
Whether the state should ex-
ercise its right and lease right-
of-way lands for oil and gas
exploration probably will not
he decided until the Legisla-
ture sets a policy. Involved
is some 2,000,000 acres of land
on 228,000 miles of public
roads, some of it across
areas with oil-bearing strata.
Legal Test Probable — The
Board of Education decided to
consider again in September
the dilemma of school dis-
tricts which stand to lose their
state aid money under terms
of a 1957 law governing school
integration.
Under this law, districts
which integrate without ap-
proval in a local election au-
tomatically lose state aid.
Dallas and Houston schools
are under federal court order
to integrate this fall. Houston
voters turned down integra-
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THE WINKLER COUNTY NEWS. Kermit, Texas
Published Every Monday and Thursday in Kermit
The County Seat of Winkler County, Texas
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Dictator Needed to Fill
Provisions of Platform
tion. Dallas’ election is set
for Aug. 6.
State Education Commis-
sioner J. W. Edgar said he
had written Houston and Dal-
las school authorities telling
them their state aid would
have to be cut off if they
integrated without a voter
mandate.
Board discussed seeking an
attorney general’s opinion on
the problem, probably in Sep-
tember after the Dallas elec-
tion.
No Turning Back — Child
adoption* procedures, under
law, are about as final as a
thing can bp — more so than
marriage or divorce.
Texas Supreme Court under-
lined this in a recent decision
that denied the right to change
her mind to a mother who had
given written permission for
her children to be adopted.
In the case at issue, the
mother, a widow, gave writ-
ten permission for her two
children to be adopted. Two
months later, having remar-
ried she sought to regain the
children.
Lower courts held in favor
of the natural mother, but the
Supreme Court ruled that on-
ly fraud could be a basis for
revoking of adoption consent.
Said the court opinion of the
adoption laws: “The Legis-
lature had the safety, educa-
tion, care and protection of
the children uppermost in
mind and not primarily the
contentment or welfare of
either the natural or adoptive
parents.”
BY DAVID LAWRENCE
LOS ANGELES — It would
require a dictator in the White
House to fulfill some of the
provisions of the platform rec-
ommended to the Democratic
National Convention by a ma-
jority of its platform commit-
tee.
Not only does the platform
impose on the President-to-be
the task of reversing the na-
tional “mood,” whatever that
is, but it proposes, in effect,
that employment practices
and social customs be changed
irrespective of the legal rights
of private citizens.
“We have drifted,” says the
platform, “into a national
mood that accepts payola
and quiz scandals, tax evasion
and false expense accounts,
soarirfg crime rates, influence-
peddling in high government
circles, and the exploitation
of sadistic violence as popu-
lar entertainment. For eight
long critical years our pres- (
ent national leadership has
made no effective effort to re-
verse this mood.”
Just how any administra-
tion can set about to change
the national mood in every
field, from entertainment to
crime rates, is a little hard to
understand. But platforms
are noted for their promises of
utopia.
The most alarming section,
however, of the platform—and
one which could cost the Dem-
ocrats plentyof electoral votes
in the South and perhaps in
the North — is a provision
which practically tells employ-
ers they must adopt some
system of equality of race,
religion and color in choosing
their employes. It also tells
the private schools they, too,
must not discriminate in mat-
ters of race or religion or col-
or. Maybe there will he no
more excusively white social
clubs in the North if the Dem-
ocratic platform means what
it says and if laws are to be
passed to remove all forms of
discrimination. The platform
plank on this reads in part as
follows:
“The time has come to as-
sure equal access for all
Americans to all areas of
community life,including vot-
ing booths, school rooms, jobs,
housing and public facilities.”
The clause “equal access to
all areas of community life”
is the most sweeping ever
proposed in a political plat-
form. There are no excep-
tions, nor is the word
“schoolrooms” qualified by
the word “public.”
It is not clear yet how the
platform writers came to the
conclusion that the Constitu-
tion gives Congress the right
to pass a law telling a private
employer whom he may em-
ploy, especially when he isn’t
engaged in any government
contract work. Yet the plat-
form plank says:
“The new Democratic ad-
ministration will support Fed-
eral legislation establishing a
Fair Employment Practices
Commission effectively to se-
cure for everyone the right to
equal opportunity for employ-
ment.”.
Does this mean that, unless
an equal number of negroes
and whites are employed or if
someone thinks he should
have a job for which he isn’t
really qualified, the employer
can be hauled before a Com-
mission and made to prove
that no discriminatory motive
is behind his hiring prac-
tices? Does it mean that there
must be a proportionately
equal number of Protestants,
Catholics and Jews in every
plant or business establish-
ment in order to fulfill the
requirements of “equal ac-
cess”?
It is clear from the way
the platform is written that
the authors are not talking
only of Federal services or
work on government contracts.
This latter field is separately
provided for, and there is, in
addition, a broadly phrased
paragraph which says:
“A new Democratic admin-
istration will broaden the
scope and strengthen the pow-
ers of the present (Civil
Rights) Commission and make
it permanent. Its functions
will be to pirovide assistance
to communities, industries,
or individuals in the imple-
mentation of Constitutional
rights in education, housing,
employment, transportation,
and the administration of jus-
tice.”
There are neighborhoods in
many American cities where
racial discrimination prevails.
The United States Supreme
Court has said the Federal
and State authorities have no
power to force “integra-
tion” against the wishes of
private-property owners. This
could become a big issue in
the coming campaign.
Already the Southern lead-
ers have announced openly
that they repudiate the plat-
form. They say in a public
statement:
“We emphatically repudiate
those provisions, do not pro-
pose to be bound by them, and
respectfully request that the
statement of repudiation be
entered upon the minutes of
the convention and read to
the convention upon the presf
entation of the platform.”
The desire of the platform-
makers to win the votes of
negro and other minority
groups will create new con-
flicts with other groups which
have hitherto supported the
Democratic ticket. Senator
Kennedy, as the party nom-
inee, would be on the spot if
asked whether he supports
wholeheartedly the provisions
of the platform quoted above.
If he does, it could cost him
the South and some Northern
states as well. It may be
doubted whether the Repub-
lican platform will invade the
field of private rights as the
Democratic platform has
done.
Questions,
For Vets
Q — A year ago I asked VA
to hold my annual GI insur-
ance dividend as a credit,
from which to pay my pre-
mium in case I„should miss
a payment. Do I have to re-
new this arrangement each
year with the VA?
A — No. Once the credit
arrangement on dividends is
authorized by you, it remains
in effect until cancelled. It
is not necessary to renew vo|gf
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Williams, Nev H. The Winkler County News (Kermit, Tex.), Vol. 24, No. 32, Ed. 1 Monday, July 18, 1960, newspaper, July 18, 1960; Kermit, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1062885/m1/2/: accessed July 9, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Winkler County Library.