Seminole Sentinel (Seminole, Tex.), Vol. 61, No. 51, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 31, 1968 Page: 10 of 18
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Page 2 Seminole (Texas) Sentinel Thursday October, 31, 1968
THE Oil PATCH
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POOR
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OILCO
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Capital...
By Gordon Bankston At The
Form Free Press Guideline Study
I'm not bragging, and you might not believe this, but I never
did take a book home all through high school.
The "Dixie" controversy- -
The controversy over the btars-and-
Bars of the Confederate Flag and the
song "Dixie" has reached the ludicrous
stage. The first press Item we noticed
was a complaint by a US Marine from
Georgia on duty in Vietnam. According
to Rep. W. S. Stuckey, the Marine was
ordered to remove the Georgia State
Flag from above his bunk, following
the assassination of Martin Luther King.
The reason given was that Georgia s
Flag Incorporates the symbol of the
Confederacy In Its design and some
people view it as a "symbol of racism."
The State Flag of Mississippi, also uses
the Stars-and-Bars in Its pattern.
The Pentagon, wisely, issued an order
rescinding the removal order, but less
than a month later the issue of the
flag came Into the headlines again, this
time in Alexandria, Virginia. The issue
this time was the flying of the Confeder-
ate Flag, along with the Stars and Stripes,
and the flag of the City of Alexandria,
on Confederate Memorial Day. Once
again the flag's right to exist prevailed,
despite the attempts of a handful of
people to eliminate it.
Then, in Arlington, Texas, the flag
suffered, a defeat when protestors, led
by a SNCC activist, influenced the student
government to vote to eliminate the
"Rebel" theme entirely from the Uni-
versity of Texas, at Arlington. On June
30, while the Rebel Flag was being
lowered for the last time, the radical
student was under a peace bond. He
had threatened two fellow students for
refusing to join a "black power" group.
Now the final blow comes from the
University of Miami, Florida. The Uni-
versity's President has banned the
playing of "Dixie" by the school band,
and all Confederate symbols are to be
discarded.
"Dixie" was written by an Ohioan,
Daniel Decatur Emmett, two years be-
fore the Civil War.
Those who behold racism in the song
suffer a popular malady these days;
the racism is in the eyes of the beholders.
Lawyers and newsmen of
Texas have jointly formed
a special committee to
establish guidelines to
protect the right of the free
press in covering arrests
and trials while at the same
time guaranteeing fair
treatment of accused per-
sons.
This combination state-
bar and news-media panel
includes representatives
of the State Bar of Texas,
Texas Press Association,
Texas Daily Newspaper
Association, Texas Asso-
ciation of Broadcasters,
AP and UPi Managing Edi-
tors Association and
Sigma Delta Chi profes-
sional journalism fra-
ternity.
Committee is the out-
growth of controversial
recommendations made by
the Reardon Advisory
Committee on Fair Trial
and Free Press (American
Bar Association). Reardon
Committee suggested tight
restrictions by courts and
law enforcement agencies
on information to news
media concerning arrests
and pending criminal
cases. American Bar
adopted the restrictions,
then urged state and vlocal
groups to make them ef-
fective.
Purpose of state com-
mittee, said Texas Bar
President Ralph W. Brite
of San Antonio, is "to pro-
mote a better under-
standing between the Bar
and news media, particu-
larly in their efforts to
support the cons' i.tutiona!
guarantees of freedom of
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Past Days In Seminole
25 YEARS AGO
Bishop Ivan Lee Holt of the Dallas
area will preach the dedicatory sermon
for the Methodist Church here.
Pvt. Lee Thrash, who recently re-
turned from a three-month military
police mission to North Africa, arrived
Wednesday for a visit with Mr. and
Mrs. C. E. Rollins.
Dr. E. O. Nelson, who has practiced
in Seminole for the last six years,
moved his office to Denver City Mon-
day, stating that there is no doct^. in
Yoakum County and since it is an oil
Center there Is a vital need for a doctor
there.
15 YEARS AGO
Meeting in emergency session, the
City Council of Seminole voted unani-
trict of the El Paso Consistory.
10 YEARS AGO
The untimely death of Gaines County
Sheriff V. A. Harris has thrown the
Tuesday general election into a free-
for-all write-in election of a sheriff.
What otherwise likely would have been
a quiet election now may stir voters
into a possible record for off-year
election balloting.
Seminole's $7,350 United Fund charity
drive will open Nov. 11 with the advance
fifth division kicking off the fund-raising
campaign.
Gaines County Thursday had reported
its first snow of the season as a light
flurry was reported at Higginbotham.
1 YEAR AGO
Dear Editor:
Many people today are
promoting the candidacy of
Mr. GeOrge Wallace on the
basis that he is stronger
for States Rights, and that
he is more opposed to
Communism,, What are the
facts? The facts are that
we ..can welcome Mr. Wal-
lace to the never ending
battle , against Communist
and Liberal influence,
keeping in mind the fact
that he has only recently
joined in a fight that has
been going on for years.
Richard Nixon publicly
took his stand. against
Socialists, Liberals and
Communists in 1947 when
he first ran for Congress,
in his 1951 campaign for
the Senate he defeated a
notoriously liberal op-
ponent in a race which be-
came so bitter that he was
marked forever as an
enemy of the leftists. They
hate and fear him, and with
good reason.
While in Congress he
conducted the investigation
that led to the conviction
the press and the right of
a fair, impartial and public
trial/'
Brite said guidelines
will be established for both
lawyers and newsmen in
release of information
related to criminal proce-
edings.
Bar representatives will
include a prosecutor, a de-
fense attorney, a general
practitioner and one of the
bar's judicial section
which is made up of trial
and appellate judges.
ABA already has formed
a national committee on
"guidelines for arrest and
trial coverage."
Bar directors also
okayed a 13-point legisla-
tive program for 1969. One
important item is an act
to reform the bail bond
system. Others high on
the list call for revision
in statutes governing mar-
riage, annulement and di-
vorce, the Marital Pro-
perty Act of 1967, and an
amendment to the State Bar
Act to suspend an attorney
convicted of a felony. Con-
viction would disbar the
attorney. The bail reform
act is to do away with the
present system which gen-
erally forces a person
charged with a crime to
pay a bondsman a fee.
ATTORNEY GENERAL
SPEAKS
Contractors and repair-
men learned with relief
that they will not have to
absorb the sales tax oft
materials they use in their
work.
Comptroller Robert S.
Calvert had held that
changes in the sales tax
law required them to
absorb the tax. But Atty.
Gen. Crawford Martin held
that the Legislature did
not mean to do that, so
the repairmen will con-
tinue to collect sales taxes
from their customers on
parts they use for repairs,
or the materials they use.
In a variety of other re-
cent opinions, Martin ruled
that:
* Comptroller may issue
warrants from appro-
priated funds without
regard to invalid restric-
tions' in an appropriations
bill.
♦Initial terms of mem-
bers of the Judicial Quali-
fications Commission ter-
minate November 19, 1967,
1969 and 1971, respectively.
♦Special temporary
agricultural permit for
truck movement of farm
commodities does not
permit transportation of
equipment such as com-
bines.
•Drive-a-way in-transit
license plates are
authorized only for trans-
portation of new vehicles
moving under own power —
not truck trailers and
mobile homes. Holder
does not have to be a
state resident.
♦State Securities Com-
missioner is authorized to
see copies of franchise tax
reports made to the comp-
troller by corporations.
•Parks and Wildlife
Commission can amend a
bond resolution to substi-
tute another co-paying
agent for park development
bonds without re-adver-
tising or new bids.
♦Whether pipeline rental
is subject to the sales tax
is a fact Issue for the
comptroller to determine.
♦A county attorney could
serve as a professor for
a college class, but could
not accept pay for both
jobs.
ANTI-TEEN DRINKING
PROGRAM PUSHED
Liquor Control Board
has launched an edu-
cational progranj to curb
drinking by teenagers.
Acting Administrator O.
N. Humphreys Jr. said the
main objective is to show
youngsters problems a
single violation of liquor
laws can cause them. LCB
statistics show 10,672
violations involving
minors and 10,184 con-
victions in the first
eight months of the year.
LCB proposes distribu-
tion of literature ex-
plaining liquor laws to par-
ents and teenagers; lec-
tures in churches, schools
and clubs; distribution of
informational films and a
new reporting system to
keep tabs on liquor law
violations involving
minors (as a guide to areas
where education needs to
be concentrated).
A single violation,
Humphreys warned, can
mar the record of a youth
for life.
PARKS & WILDLIFE
Expenditure this year of
$1.9 million under the $75
million park bond develop-
ment program has the ap-
proval of the Parks and
Wildlife Commission.
Bulk of initial expendi-
ture will go to purchasing
and developing Dinosaur
Tracks State Park near
Glen Rose in Somervell
County and other parks
within two hours driving
time of Houston.
Commission adopted a
policy requiring its own
formal approval of any land
purchased by P-W depart-
ment for state use.
Commission " also
amended the Tropical Fish
or Fish Eggs Importation
Proclamation to include
the Asian "walking cat-
fish". Fish has been
noticed in some pet stores,
but isn't popular because
it leaves the tank and kills
other fish. Amendment
calls for a permit to sell
or import the aggressive
fish to prevent its spread
to Texas waterways be-
cause of its' menace to
other fish.
COURTS SPEAK
Supreme Court has
scheduled arguments for
December 4 in a suit chal-
lenging the Fort Worth
school district's authority
to curb high school fra-
ternity and sorority mem-
■bership. Lower court|
have upheld the school di
tracts.
High court refused
motion for rehearing by tl
Houston Legal Foundati
in a suit brought by fo
lawyers who claim it
economically harmful
attorneys. Foundation w,
set up under Economic O
portunity Act. High cou
has held lawyers shou
be permitted to. mainta
suit.
Motion to reconsid
holding that cities are im|
mune from most dama
suits was rejected
court.
Court of Crimin
Appeals ordered Cliffo
Darrell Carroll release]
from death row for re-tri
(in view of a U. S. Suprem
Court finding) in th|
scalding death of a tw>
year-old girl.
Fort Worth News
paperman Wallace Shep
pard, publisher of the New
Tribune, a suburban news
paper in Haltom City, ha
announced as a write-i
candidate for state repre
sentative on the America
Independent Party ticke
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water and sewage system. ^ -
Gaines County suffered a loss esti-
mated at $500,000 Tuesday When hail
accompanied tne drenching rains that
fell over the area. A 3,000 acre strip
through a 20 section block starting in
New Mexico and extending into Gaines
County was damaged by the hail.
Floyd D. Stark, past Worshipful Mas-
ter of the 82nd District is one of five
West Texans Mected to receive the
33rd degree, h. ^est Masonic degree.
He is chairman of the Seminole dis-
The Windy Indian
-overruled an application for rehearing-
on their recent decision cencerning
the South Plains Underground Water
District No. 4.
Tjie Seminole Indian Booster Club
named Curly Williams as new presi-
dent for the next school year at their
regular meeting Tuesday night.
Halloween notwithstanding, Seminole
police reported a relatively quiet week,
with two persons jailed and six traffic
citations issued.
r Zh \ MISTER EDITOR;
Bug Hookum told the fellers at the
country store Saturdiay night that his
pickup truck was looking and running
better than ever. He said along about
August ever year that old truck just
plain falls apart, but by the time them
new models comes out and he gits
a look at the prices, the pickup perks
up and looks good fer another year.
jjjug ain't been what you'd call a
wild spender, but he tries to pay ever-
thing down and nothing the rest of his
life. He said he paid cold cash fer
his truck 15 year ago, but since then
he says he's had to break his own
rule onct in a while. »
Ed Doolittle allowed as how credit
was what keeps this country going,
but it's where it's going that worries
him. He had saw where Americans
have $100 billion worth of goods, not
including houses, that ain't paid for,
and that without credit the whole economy
would break down.
butted in Clem Webster, they was gitting
bigger and better -again this year, and
it was interesting that them car ads
don't say much about tramsportation no
more. They just show bow pritty and
how powerful the cars af e and how many
new gadgets they got on 'em. To
read the ads, claimed Clem, just making
the payments on one of them new models
was all a man needed to be happy.
I recollect a few year back, Mister
Editor, Detroit brung out them little
cars to compete with foreign cars, but
in three year all them little American
cars has growed to full size, and now
Detroit is planning to make another
family of runts to compete with the
foreign cars that has stayed the same
size and was still selling good. One
thing about this new car business ever
fall is how they can git more room in-
side and less room outside. They must
be gitting awful thin somewhere.
Anyhow, Bug said he figgered after
checking the prices on the 1969 models
that his pickup was good fer another
year. He said his truck wasn't much on
them fancy gadgets, but it didn't matter
how many safety improvements Detroit
makes until they can come out with a
gadget that'll tighten the nuts behind
the steering wheel.
The fellers adjourned. Mister Editor,
after Ed agreed to join in a vote' of
It was
Clem Webster that said he had saw
where the United States was expecting
a bigger and stronger import of the
Asian Flu this winter, and that he had
just as soon settle fer last year's model.
Yours truly.
Uncle Flud
authored a bill-lo-lik|Ul
registration of all Com-
munist-front organiza-
tions and Communist party
members. While Vice-
President he called Mr.
Krushchev's bluff and pub-
licly debated him at the
American Exibition in
Moscow in 1959.
He was part of the
Eisenhower team which
returned the tidelands to
the states, which so far,
has benefited Texas school
children by more than
$150,000,000.
In championing states
rights and in opposing
liberalism, no man's posi-
tion has been more
consistent than Richard
Nixon's. In bitter defeat
and in the face of mali-
cious smears by the
opposition he has never
wavered, never given up.
For 21 years now, he has
held to these principals.
When they were not as
popular as they arfe today,
where was George?
Most of us likfe what
George Wallace says, and
the straight-forward way
in which he says it; but
let us make no mistake
about which man the
Kremlin fears most, or'
which man can better unite
all Americans behind the
Anti-Communist banner.
For America's rights, for
States Rights, and for
Individual Rights, Richard
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Nixon stands like a giant
in this critical race of
1968.
Yours very truly,
James S. Knisley
Seagraves
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