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Associated Press (AP) ABILENE, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY MORNING, APRIL 18, 1956 —THIRTY PAGES IN TWO SECTIONS
Schulz Challenges
Thomas for Bench
Malcolm Schulz filed Tuesday
afternoon as a candidate for judge
of the 104th District Court which
serves Taylor, Jones and Fisher
counties.
Schulz is challenging incumbent
Owen Thomas, who has held the
office for nearly 16 years.
Schulz, 31, is one of four mem-
bers of one of Abilene’s youngest
but most active legal firms.
His law partners are Tom Webb,
a city commissioner, Dan Sorrells
and Robert Ford.
He came here in 1937 from Dal-
las, attended Abilene High School,
John Tarleton State College at
Stephenville, and received his law
degree from Baylor University in
1949.
Schulz began practicing law Dec.
1, 1949.
Difference in the case loads
handled in 104th District Court and
in 42nd District of which J. R.
Black is judge, both of which
serve Taylor County, was cited by
Schulz as being one of the reasons
he will oppose Judge Thomas.
“There is a need for an equali-
zation of the work load between
the 104th and 42nd Courts.
“The attorney filing the suit se-
lects which court it will be filed
in,” Schulz said.
"During the period from Jan. 1,
1954 through Dec. 31, 1954, there
Two Winters
Women Hurl
In Car Crash:
WINTERS, April 17 (RNSl-Two
Winters women were seriously in-
jured about 3:45 p.m. Tuesday
when their car collided headon
with a pickup truck 3% miles south
of Wilmeth on F-M Road 1170.
Doctors at Winters Municipal
Hospital said Mrs. Mary Stanfield,
S3, driver of the car, and Mrs.
Cecil Hambright, 25, were both in
serious condition.
Mrs. Stanfield suffered chest In-
juries and possible internal injus
ries.
Mrs. Hambright received a brok-
en left arm just above the wrist
and a cut on her head.
Alfred Caviness, 1209 Bowie St.,
Abilene, driver of the pickup truck,
received a small bump on the
head. He is an employe of Welex
Services Inc.
Highway Patrolman Marion
Goutcher, who investigated the ac-
cident, said the two women were
traveling east just west of Willis
Poe’s farm, and that Caviness,
headed west, was attempting to
make a left hand turn off the road
when the collision occurred.
Goutcher and Highway Patrol-
man Dan Stephens, who also in-
vestigated, said Mrs. Stanfield’s
1953 Pontiac was a total loss and
that the pickup received about
$300 worth of damage.
The women were taken to the
hospital by Louis Wood, 1217 Shel-
ton St., Abilene. Wilmeth is about
eight miles west of here.
MALCOLM SCHULZ
...seeks 104th judgeship
were 755 suits filed in the 42nd and
only 191 suits filed in the 104th.
During the period from Jan. 1,
1955 through Dec. 31, 1955, there
were 787 suits filed in the 42nd and
225 suits filed in the 104th.
“As the attorneys select the
courts in which the suits are fil-
ed, I think this definitely shows a
preference, and it is this prefer-
ence that has placed too great a
burden on the judge of the 42nd
District Court.
"There is also a danger that the
inactivity of the 104th might cause
us to lose this court through redis-
tricting.
"This problem has been discuss-
ed many times by the Abilene Bar
Assn, and it is my belief that only
a change of judges will alleviate
this condition.
“It is my belief that if elected, I
can help to equalize the work load,
speed up the handling of both civil
and criminal cases in an efficient
and judicial manner,” Schulz said.
Schulz is the son of Mrs. Henry
R. Schulz of 1866 McCracken St.
and the late Henry R. Schulz.
While in the Air Force from Oc-
tober 1942 through November 1945.
Schulz spent three years in South
America.
He is married, and be and his
wife, Marilyn, have two daughters,
Anchen, 4, and Gretchen, 7
months. The family home here is
at 701 LaSalle Dr.
Judge Thomas was elected to the
104th judgeship in 1940. A native
of Jones County, he is a member
of a prominent West Texas family
in law circles. His father, the late
J. B. Thomas, was judge of the
39th District Court.
Before his election as district
judge, Thomas was in the private
practice of law at Anson and serv-
ed as Jones County district and
county clerk.
Judge and Mrs. Thomas live at
541 Riverside Dr.
C-City School
Contracts Let
For $439,857
COLORADO CITY, April 17
(RNS)—The Colorado City School
Board let construction contracts
totaling $439,857 at a special meet-
ing Tuesday afternoon
The J. W. Cooper Const. Co. of
Odessa was awarded a contract to
add to and recondition the high
school building and add to the
Hutchinson School building for the
fourth, fifth and sixth graders and
build a completely new gymnasium
for the high school.
Its low bid was $339,400. Low
bidder on air conditioning of new
administrative offices for the high
school building and for plumbing
and heating of the three buildings
was Lucian Webb of Abilene, with
$6,490.
Electrical work was split with
the Phillips Electric Co. of Mid-
land awarded the contract for
wiring the new addition on the
Hutchinson building and rewiring
the high school building at a figure
of $26,068. The Howell Electric Co.
of Snyder was low bidder on wir-
ing of the addition to high school
and the new gym.
Cooper made his bid in a lump
sum for the jobs on all three build-
ings and an exact figure is not
available for each job. but a study
of other bids indicated that the
new addition and remodeling of
the high school is the major item,
with about 46 per cent of the ex-
penditure slated to be used there.
Roughly 42 per cent will go to
building the gym and about 12 per
cent toward new classrooms at
Hutchinson.
Cooper says that he has the crew
working at Snyder and will bring
it to Colorado City before May 1
to begin work on the Hutchinson
project.
PRICE DAILY 5c, SUNDAY 10c
Ike Launches Crusade
For People, Principles'
8 Points Listed
In New Platform
WASHINGTON, April 17 tft — America and the allies. Eisenhow.
President Eisenhower called on
the Republican party tonight to
crusade for “people and princi-
ples”-the things he said that
count most—in this election year.
The President, in an address
prepared for a GOP strategy con-
ference. raised the curtain on his
er said, “must be spiritual, intel-
lectual, scientific, material."
3. “Under God, we espouse the
cause of freedom and justice and
peace for all peoples " This, he
said is a point requiring special
emphasis.
$66,181 Low Bid
On Coleman Read
AUSTIN, April 17 « - G. C.
McBride Co. of Brownwood was
low bidder Tuesday on 8 3 miles
of paving on U.S. Highway 84
from Farm Road 53 in Coleman
to U.S. Highway 67 in Santa Anna.
The Brownwood firm submitted
a bid of $66,181.
Lee Moor of El Paso submitted
the low bid of $55,107 for 4.5 miles
of grading, structures and paving
in Garza ’County running from Ver-
bena’ south to U.S. Highway 380.
The bids were among several ac-
Cancer Collection
Brings in $5,793
The house-to-house phase of the
American Cancer Society netted
$5,793.37 during its hour-long acti-
vation Tuesday night. The returns
were said incomplete Tuesday
night. The drive was held from 6
to 7 p.m.
The house-to-house drive was the
first event in the current drive for
funds by the American Cancer
Society.
About 1,000 women solicited con-
tributions for the drive. Chairman
for the south side of town was Mrs.
C. A. Jowell, with Mrs. Harvey
Baker serving as north side chair-
man.
Mrs. Jack Sparks, overall chair-
man, said, “I would like to thank
all participants and contributors in
the house-to-house phase of the
Troy Simpson,
Bollinger Editor,
To Undergo Surgery
BALLINGER, April 17 — Troy
Simpson, longtime editor of the
Ballinger Ledger, will go to
Shreveport, La., Wednesday to
undergo surgery.
Simpson became ill last Friday.
Mrs. Simpson will drive him to
Shreveport, where their daughter,
Mrs. Fred McClanahan, lives. He
will enter a hospital there.
It is expected that he will return
to his newspaper duties in about a
month.
During his absence, Aubrey
Shouse of Abilene will be acting
editor. Shouse is West Texas rep-
resentative for Wheat Photo, a
school photographic firm. He for-
merly was with the Texas Tech
public relations department, and
before that was a staff writer for
the Abilene Reporter-News.
THE WEATHER
U.S. DEPARTMENT or COMMERCE
WEATHER BUREAU
ABILENE AND VICINITY — Consider-
able cloudiness with chance for showers
Wednesday and Wednesday night. Partly
cloudy and warmer Thursday, High Wed-
nesday 85 to 70. Low Wednesday night 50,
High Thursday 75 to 80.
NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS — Mostly
cloudy and cool Wednesday and Thursday,
occasional rain and a few thundershowers
Wednesday.
WEST TEXAS — Mostly cloudy and
cool Wednesday and Thursday; occasional
rain and a few thundershowers Wednes-
d’EASr TEXAS — Mostly cloudy, occa-
sional rain and a few thundershowers
Wednesday night and Thursday; moderate
easterly winds on coast.
SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS — Consider-
able cloudiness with occasional rain Wed-
nesday and Thursday; moderate southeast-
erly winds on coast.
TEMPERATURES
Tuesday A.M. Tuesday P.M.
56 ............1:30 ...........63
drive,” stating that the house-to-
house drive was the "best we’ve
ever had so far."
cepted by the Texas Highway
Department here for construction
projects totalling $6,620,183.
The department will take bids
on additional highway projects
Wednesday. Its estimated cost for
the projects was more than 11 mil- said today he will not seek re-
lion dollars, election.
Won't Run Again
AUSTIN, April 17 —State Rep.
Pearce Johnson of Travis County
High and ko
9:30 p.m.:
High and k
st year: 91
Sunset last
election.
res for 24 hours
urea same date
, sunrise today
30 p.m.: 28.24.
30 p.m: 23%.
County Pays Out $424,850
For Route of West Bypass
By DON NORRIS
Reporter-News Staff Writer
Taylor County has $424,850 in-
vested in 503,45 acres of land from
the Jones County line south to near
Lake Kirby on which the west
bypass will be built soon.
Purchase price of the land rang-
ed from $250 an acre in a few rare
cases to the $81,766 paid Jack
Hughes’ Abilene Aviation Co. for
19 885 acres.
Commr. J. H. Rucker of Abilene
handled negotiations for the right-
of-way. He began buying land
from a bond issue veted in 1963
shortly after he took office Jan. 1,
1955.
John T. Leslie of Bailey, Tex.,
and W. L. Bernes of Austin were
low bidders March 21 on construc-
tion of the first seven miles of the
bypass from U.S. 277 north to a
connection with U.S. 83 at the Tay-
lor-Jones County line. The bid on
the first two of an ultimate four
lanes was $776,755.
Work to Start
Work on the project should start
sometime this month after the
right-of-way is finally cleared by
county workmen.
The county will get the final
16 364 acres June I for $8,162 from
Henry Sayles Jr. Sayles is being
allowed to remove gravel from a
pit on the land until then, Commr.
Rucker said.
Actual cost of the land was
$417,899. Attorneys fees totalled
$6,921. Theo Ash was paid all but
TO SWEETWATER — Gov. Allan Shivers bids farewell to Tom Eplen of Abilene
Tuesday before departing for Sweetwater to continue his fight for control of the
Texas Democratic Party. Gov. Shivers was driven to Sweetwater by Hal Etz, right,
chairman of the Nolan County Democratic Executive Committee. (Staff Photo by
Don Hutcheson)
SUPPORTERS MEET
‘Get Delegates/
Shivers Directs
Gov. Allan Shivers asked about
200 of his supporters here Tuesday
to “roll up their sleeves” between
now and May 5 and “roll out dele-
gates” from the precinct conven-
tions who will select him and not
Sen. Lyndon Johnson to head the .
Texas delegation to the national
Democratic convention.
Shivers made practically identi-
cal television broadcasts over
KRBC at Abilene and KPAR at
Sweetwater Tuesday afternoon in
carrying the battle for the State
Democratic party control to the
grass roots.
The strategy meeting was held
in the Coca-Cola auditorium here
from the 12 counties comprising
the 17th Congressional District.
“We don’t want our precinct con-
ventions controlled from Washing-
ton.” Shivers said in, his two
speeches here Tuesday.
Johnson Criticised
He took Sen. Johnson to task for
not stating his stand on such con-
troversial matters as interposition
and states rights. ’
It is “understandable that Sen.
Johnson is reluctant to make his
views known on controversial sub-
jects, when the revelation would
be bound to affect his chances” for
the presidential nomination, Shiv-
ers said.
Shivers and Johnson are both
bidding for the chairmanship of
the state party. Shivers has said
he will support Johnson as a “fa-
vorite son" candidate and chair-
man if he will align with the con-
servative element headed by Shiv-
ers.
“Why go to a national conven-
tion at all unless we are prepared
to speak the views of Texas?” the
governor asked.
The governor said the delega-
tion leader "ought to be free to pre-
sent our position on all the contro-
versial issues of the day—not in a
destructive sense, merely attempt-
ing to cause disruption and dis-
sension, but because we have a
right to be heard.
"That right," be said, “should
not be abandoned merely to foster
the political ambition of any
man.”
Issues Cited
Shivers said after the meeting
here Tuesday that in his opinion
primary issues at the precinct con-
ventions May 5 would be interposi-
tion. control of the schools and re-
sources and other states rights
measures.
He said the views of anyone
wanting to head the Texas alate
“should be known."
Chairmanship of the state dele-
gation, be said, was a “matter of
responsibility rather than honor.”
He said “I can’t answer" wheth-
er or not the conservatives would
hold “rump" conventions if they
were unsuccessful in gaining con-
trol of the precinct conventions
JohnsonGroup
Nearly Ready
AUSTIN, April 17 —Managers
of the Lyndon Johnson for Presi-
dent campaign neared completion
of a statewide committee .today.
Sam Houston Johnson, the sena-
tor’s young brother, said member-
ship of the committee should be
ready to announce tomorrow.
Mayor Tom Miller and Austin
financier E.H. Perry Sr. accepted
Shivers said be would base his
campaign for the chairmanship on
"issues, not personalities."
The winner of the fight will be-
gin to take shape May 5 when
Texans go to the precinct conven-
tions. Delegates elected there will
go to the county conventions which
will elect delegations to the state
convention
Wagstaff Presides
R. M. (Bohl Wagstaff of Abi-
lene, member of the pro-Shivers
State Democratic Executive Com-
mittee, presided over the meeting
here Tuesday.
He told the Shivers followers at
the meeting that "We have a list
of who voted for and who voted
against Eisenhower in 1952."
The conservative leaders were
urged to take the campaign to the
living rooms of their neighbors in
order to insure a Shivers victory
May 5.
Abilenians at the meeting includ-
ed Wagstaff, John Momble, Ed
Stewart, Jack Hughes, George Ov-
ershiner, Binx Walker, C. G.
Whitten, county Democratic Exe-
cutive Committee chairman, Mor-
gan Jones Jr., Joe James, T. N.
Carswell, Don Wooten, and Tom
Eplen.
own re-election campaign. He said
the Republican party best serves
the nation "in the search for peace
with justice and freedom” and
best answers "the concerns of peo-
ple for the meeting of their human
needs."
The campaign, be said, “is con-
cerned with those things which
count for most—people and prin-
ciples.”
And, in an address for which the
White House released many ex-
cerpts in advance, Eisenhower
laid down eight principles for the
GOP which he predicted will serve
as something of a pattern for the
party platform of 1956.
Partly Platform Principles
These, in brief, are the princi-
ples:
1. "The individual is of supreme
importance." In a reference, ap-
parently, to the civil rights prob-
lem, Eisenhower said every Amer-
ican of every race and creed
should enjoy equally the rights
and privileges of free citizens in a
free nation.
2. "The spirit of our people is
the strength of our nation." The
President said the ultimate values
of mankind, including liberty, hu-
man dignity, opportunity, and
equal rights and justice, are spirit-
ual and are “our heritage and
birthright ”
3. “America does not prosper un-
less all Americans prosper." Here
Eisenhower spoke up again for a
"strong, growing, private enter-
prise economy."
4. “Government must have a
heart as well as a head.” The
President said that "we must con-
cern ourselves with basic human
problems," with increasing and
strengthening personal and family
security without impairing the
self-respect, initiative and incen-
tive of the individual.
I. “Courage and principle, coop-
eration and practice make free-
dom positive.”
All parts of the American com-
munity, Eisenhower said, deserve
the concern and support of gov-
ernment in making their contribu-
tion to national Well-being.
6 "The purpose of government
is to serve, never to dominate."
Eisenhower quoted Abraham Lin-
coln as saying that the legitimate
object of government is to do for
people what they cannot do, or do
so well, for themselves, but with
the government not interfering
Peace Is Objective
Voicing his belief that his eight
principles will find expression in
the plank the Republicans adopt at
thier national convention in Au-
gust. Eisenhower said it will be a
program for the good of all Ameri-
cans.
- “Faith in America and in God."
he said, "will be its inspiration.
Courage and optimism will heart-
en it. Integrity will charactize
it. The welfare of all the people
the security of the republic, ths
peace of the world will be its ob-
jective."
Eisenhower told the conference
of Republican leaders from over
the nation that “victory will be the
product” if those present work “U
build a crusading organization of
inspired morale, determined to in-
terpret Republican principles and
the Republican program to all the
people.”
For a kick-off address for his
own re-election campaign, this was
far from a fighting speech. The
whole emphasis was on the people
and principles Eisenhower men-
tioned, with no hard swinging
punches at the Democrats.
In fact, the President said that
“no party has a monoply on
brains or ideas or statesman-
ship.”
with what the people can do in-
dividually for themselves.
7. “To stay free we must stay
strong." The President spoke out
for enough military strength to
discourage war and to protect
America’s vital interests, along
with assistance to free nations for
collective defense. The strength of
Republicans and Democrats
alike, he said, are motivitated by
the same loyalty to the flag, the
same devotion to freedom and
human dignity, and the same high
purposes for the nation’s security
and the welfare of the people.
"Within our hearts and minds,"
the President said, "in all things
that are vital to the republic, we
cannot be partisans. We are all
Americans. But in the practical
pursuit of national objectives, we
differ in our methods, in our tra-
ditions, in our philosophy of gov-
ernment’s responsibilities."
As a Republican, Eisenhower
said, he shares his party’s "funda-
mental trust in the nature and
capability of individual human be-
ings.”
He said he believes the GOP:
"Offers the best hope of pre-
serving the self-reliance and vig-
orous independence of individual
Americans;
"Best serves the nation in the
search for peace with justice and
freedom;
"Best fosters a competitive en-
terprise economy, whose purpose
is a wider prosperity fairly
shared;
“Best keeps economic decision-
making in the hands of the people
and out of the hands of govern-
ment;
“Best answers the concerns of
people for the meeting of their
human needs:
$500 of the attorneys fees. The
$500 was paid to Joe Childers be-
fore he was relieved of his duties
by the Commissioners Court.
$6,000 Left
The county has left about $6,000
of a $700,000 bond issue voted in
Prec. 1 in 1963 to buy right-of-way
for the west bypass, from U.S. 80
from Pioneer Dr. to Tye, and for
State 36
All but the State 36 projects have
been or will be completed
Still unpaid is the $8,162 due Hen-
ry Sayles Jr.
"That’s the $64 question" from
whence that extra money will
come, according to Rucker.
A number of the awards made
See BYPASS, Fg. 1-A. Cat 4
Curtis Curry Head
Of IB Association
Curtis Curry, Abilene insurance-
man. was elected president of the
Taylor County Tuberculosis Assn.
Tuesday night in its annual meet-
ing held in the Coca-Cola Bottling
Co Auditorium.
Curry succeeds Theron Fergus
as president
Other officeri elected are: first
vice president Mrs. John Bishop:
second vice president. Dr. Truett
Walton: third vice president, Mrs.
Edgar Holley; secretary, Mrs. A.
C. Mierow; treasurer, W H. Free;
seal sale chairman. Oliver How-
ard, and state representative to
the Texas Tuberculosis Assn , Mrs.
C. A. Jowell.
New directors elected for three-
year terms are Pinto Allen, Mrs.
Nathan Morris and Oliver Howard.
the co-chairmanships last week.
The senator’s brother said the
big problem has been to hold down
the size of the committee so it
won’t be unwieldy.
"In one area we only needed
about 10 committee members and
they sent in a list of about 200
volunteers," said Sam.
While the campaign is develop-
ing as a movement to boost Sen.
Johnson for the presidency, the
immediate objective is to wrest
control of state Democratic Party
machinery from Gov. Allan Shiv-
ers. This fight-will actually be
decided at the precinct - county
conventions May 5 and 8, but the
outcome may not be clear until
the state convention at Dallas
May 22.
tool Front May
Trigger Showers,
Cool air from the west overrid-
GOP Trying to Save Soil
Bank Part of Farm Bill
WASHINGTON, April 17 i—Re- leader, told reporters the House has become a major political
publican leaders in Congress set could pass the soil bank in a sin- issue
out today to salvage the soil bank
section of the vetoed farm bill.
President Eisenhower rejected
the bill yesterday as "bad" legis-
lation but said Congress could still
give the farmers some extra mon-
ey this year by enacting a sepa-
rate soil bank measure
As the GOP leaders went to
work on his idea, the Agriculture
Department announced this year’s
cotton crop will be supported at
levels reflecting about 87 per cent
of parity.
This is in line with the rate vir-
tually promised by Secretary of
Agriculture Benson to cotton state
legislators who supported the ad-
ministration’s cotton policies dur-
ing the struggle over the farm
bill
Eisenhower has estimated the
farmers could collect up to 500
million dollars this summer and
fall if Congress would go along
with the soil bank and authorize
ing moist air off the Gulf of Mex-
ico may produce showers in West
Central Texas Wednesday or
Wednesday night, the Weather Bu advance payments to growers who
reau at Abilene said
High temperatures Wednesday
night are expected to range from
65 to 70 followed by an overnight
low of 50. Maximums Thursday of
75 to 80 were forecast
agree to withdraw acreage from
the production of crops already in
gle day if the Democrats would
cooperate
Sen. Knowland of California, the
Senate’s Republican leader, added
he could see no reason why the
Democrats would refuse to help
the farmers in this way. "I can’t
believe that purely for political
purposes they would now turn
around and oppose something they
have already approved," he said.
But key Democrats in Congress
were reported to be cool to the
President’s suggestion. They were
represented as loath to give the
administration something it wants
in the way of agricultural legisla-
tion without getting the price sup-
ports they want.
Sen. Kefauver of Tennessee, a
candidate for the Democratic pres-
idential nomination, said in Santa
Road, Calif., Congress might pass
a separate soil bank bill but such
bill "isn’t going to give relief
now.”
The soil bank would accomplish
surplus.
several things It would get some
land out of cultivation immediate-
ly, more in future seasons; it
would boost some farm incomes
After a White House strategy
meeting this morning, Rep. Mar- quickly and take some of the sting
tin (R-Mass), the House minority I out of Eisenhower’s veto, which
There was evidence of some
GOP dissatisfaction with Eisen-
hower’s refusal to sign the farm
bill which supporters estimated
would have given farmers an ad-
ditional two billion dollars in bene-
fits this year.
An attempt to override the veto
will be made in the House tomor-
row, but the chances of mustering
the necessary two-thirds vote
against the President were consid-
ered poor.
Both Martin and Knowland pre-
dicted the veto will be upheld by
substantial margins House Speak-
er Rayburn (D-Tex) conceded
there was no hope of an upset.
Rayburn said, however, the
Democrats would not let up on the
veto as a major campaign issue in
the presidential and congressional
elections. He declared he didn’t
think Eisenhower “gave even a
good excuse for refusing to sign
the farm bill.
“I think it’s pretty bad when the
legislative branch— coordinate
branch of the government—has
got to take exactly what the Presi-
dent says or nothing." Rayburn
told a news conference.
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