The Abilene Reporter-News (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 75, No. 150, Ed. 1 Sunday, November 20, 1955 Page: 2 of 78
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9A THE ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS
4 A 1 Abilene, Texas, Sunday Morning, November 2, 1955 0 .
Group Asks Seniority System
End, Curbs on Filibusters
DEATH DELAYED—Hurbie
Franklin Fairris received a 60-
day stay of execution after ac-
complice, lifer Raymond Price,
confessed it was be, not Fairris,
who killed Oklahoma City police-
man Bennie Cravatt during a
grocery store holdup in Nov.
UM. Gov. Raymond Gary order-
ed postponement eight hours be-
tore Fairris was to die in the
electric chair at the McAlester
state prison. (NEA)
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WASHINGTON. Nov. 19 —
Abolition of the congressional
seniority system and effective
curbs on Senate filibusters were
among legislative reforms recom-
mended today in a report pub-
lished by the National Planning
Assn.
The association defines itself as
an independent, nonpolitical organ-
ization of leaders in business, agri-
culture, labor and the professions.
Ten years ago it published a re-
port by Robert Heller which was
the basis of many reforms em-
bodied in the 1946 Congressional
Reorganization Act.
Comparison
The current report, titled "Con-
gress and Parliament," was writ-
ten by George B. Galloway. Amer-
ican government specialist in the
Library of Congress. It is a com-
parative analysis of the operation
of Congress and the British Par-
liament.
Galloway said he made the study
with ths aid of a 110.000 grant
from the Ford Foundation while
on leave of absence from the Li-
brary of Congress
NPA said the changes suggested
in the report are designed to bring
about:
"Better planning and timing of
legislation, greater control over
policy and investigations by Con-
gress as a whole and over admin-
istration and expenditures of the
executive branch, more unity and
discipline in both majority and mi-
nority parties, less irrelevant de-
bate, and leas time wasted on mat-
ters which could be handled as
well or better elsewhere."
Plan Program
To "increase the efficiency of
our national legislature," Galloway
made these suggestions, among
others:
1. Both the Senate and the House
should have majority policy com-
mittees composed of major com-
mittee chairmen and headed by
the majority leaders. These com-
mittees would plan the legislative
program and prepare timetables
designed to expedite legislation,
carry out campaign pledges and
avoid end-of-session jams.
2. Congress should determine the
main principles of legislation to
open debate, leaving the details to
standing committees; it should en-
force a code of fair procedures
for investigative committees, and
should give its chief elective of-
ficers. the speaker of the House
and the majority leader of the
Senate, power to appoint and re-
move committee chairmen. Gallo-
way said thia would have the ef-
fect of abolishing the seniority sys-
tem by which committee chair-
manships go, generally speaking,
to men who have been in Congress
longest.
Correct Hanudicaps
3. Both parties should have
“genuine party policy committees"
to correct "existing handicaps to
effective leadership ”
4. “More responsible and effec-
tive party organisation” should be
developed by merging various
leadership groups, holding fre-
quent meetings of the entire mem-
bership of each party and adopt-
ing party rules providing tor bind-
ing caucus decisions. Party dis-
cipline could be strengthened, Gal-
loway said, by binding caucuses,
"the skillful use of patronage and
promotions for the faithful and
committee demotions for the dis-
loyal. and the expulsion of serious
offenders from the congressional
parties."
I. “Unlimited and irrelevant de-
bate, which is a long-standing
problem in the U. S. Senate but
not in the House of Represents-
Marquis James, Top
American Writer,
Succumbs at 64
RYE, N. Y. Nov 19 (n—Mar-
quis James, 64, one of the nation’s
topmost biographers and histo-
rians, died today.
James' death was attributed to
a cerebral hemorrhage He died at
his home where he had been con-
valescing since an earlier attack
in August.
lives,” could be remedied by per-
mitting a simple majority to close
debate and giving the presiding
officers power to order a vote
when they feel that a question has biography of Sam Houston; and
He had won two Pulitzer prizes,
one in 1930 for “The Raven," a
been “sufficiently discussed.” the other in 1938 for a two-volume
biography of Andrew Jackson.
He also published a number of
other highly successful works, and
produced much material for maga-
zines and radio. He had just com-
pleted research for a biography of
the famous Negro educator, Book-
er T. Washington.
James was the third Pulitzer
prize author taken by death this
week.
Heart attacks claimed Bernard
de Voto, 58-year-old historian, last
Sunday night; and Robert Sher-
wood, 59-year-old playwright and
biographer, on Monday morning.
Aside from his Pulitzer prize
volumes, James’ better known
works included "Andrew Jackson,
the Border Captain" in 1933, "They
Had Their Hour" in 1934, "Mr.
Garner of Texas" in 1939, “Alfred
I. duPont: the Family Rebel" in
1941 and "The Cherokee Strip" in
1945.
Red Atomic Plant
LONDON, Nov. to m—The So-
viet atomic power station has pro-
duced nearly 20 million kilowatt
hours of electricity using only five
kilograms of uranium, Moscow ra-
dio reports. The director of the
station—the Russians claim it is
the first in the world—said the
daily expenditure of uranium is
only 30 grams, whereas a conven-
tional power station must burn
more than Ito. tons of coal to pro-
duce as much electricity in a day.
Missing Hunter
Found at Avery
AVERY, Tex, Nov. to (A
missing Dallas policeman, object
of a 12-hour search last night after
failing to return from a deer hunt,
was found early today huddling by
a fire in a drizzling rain near thia
northeast Texas town.
The search for Guy Hall, 36,
started about dark with 75 volun-
teers taking part.
Hall appeared to be tired but
otherwise in good shape from 12
hours of wandering through heavy
woods about 2H miles of this Red
River County town. He said he
apparently walked in circles %i
night.
Combining—
the Experience of
YESTERDAY
with the Facilities of ’
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Lynda Lynch
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Mrs. Tobin Left
$5,000 a Month
INDIANAPOLIS, Nov. U un—The
late Daniel J. Tobin, president
emeritus of the AFL Teamsters,
left his wife, Irene, a $5,000 month-
ly minimum income in a will filed
for probate yesterday.
The 83-year-old labor leader’s
personal estate was left to Mrs.
Tobin after deduction of bequests
to relatives and church groups. -
Tobin drew $50,000 annual salary
as retired head of the union he
headed for 45 years.
The probate petition indicated
the monthly income would come
out of a trust fund of undisclosed
size and not inchided in the per-
sonal estate.
For Sale
21 Electric Adding
Machines
Excellent Condition
See Oliver Howard
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day night at
Church.
The service
p.m., will be s
isterial Allianc
E. Barnard is
Dr. Hugo B
the Bethel
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giving sermon
Special mus
the choir of I
Rod Latta, mi
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