The Tulia Herald (Tulia, Tex.), Vol. 62, No. 16, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 16, 1970 Page: 1 of 22
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Farmers Union Ann I Dinner Draws
Regional Agricultural Spotlight
The Hon. Ralph Yarborough, U.
S. Senator from Texas, will be guest
of honor and speaker at the annual
dinner of Swisher County Farmers
Union Saturday night at 8 o’clock
in Ezra Jones Memorial Cafeteria.
Tickets are $3.75.
A number of out of town visitors
are expected to be present.
Farmers Union President David
Burgess will be master of cere -
monies. Dr R F. McCasland will
lead the pledge of allegiance and
the Rev. Roland Moore of Vigo
Park will give the invocation.
Susan Sims of Happy will provide
dinner music and Gloria Ruiz will
sing, accompanied by Sam Brown.
W. A. Jordan will introduce the
speaker.
Texas Farmers Union President
Jay Naman of Waco will be pre -
sent.
Banquet committee chairmen are
Bill Davis, invitation"; Pat George,
ticket sales'? A. Dean Herman, re-
ception line; Mrs. Wayne Bright,
registration; Mrs. John Culwell, de-
corations; Mr. Bill Cox, menu;
and Mrs. David Burgess, program
Henry Boston is vice president of
the local organization and Mrs.
Royal Crawford is secretary - trea-
surer.
The Tulia Herald
COVERING SWISHER COUNTY LIKE THE SUNSHINE ★ ★
U. S. SEN. RALPH YARBOROUGH VOL. 63. NO 16
TULIA, (Swisher County) TEXAS 79018
THURSDAY, APRIL 16. 1970
FOUR SECTIONS
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By H. M. BAGGARLY
P^ID GOVERNOR KIRK of Florida capitulate as
he a is confronted with the law of the land
or did the law of the land capitulate as part of
it- Southern strategy for 1972"’ After his initial
Ixildnc"-. Kirk "imply "nunded too smug a" he an-
nouni ed that he would step a-jde and yield to an
order of the federal courts.
V i- President Nixon also thinking of his "South-
ern Strategy for 1972" when he told the South, in ef-
fect. 1 trod to give you a Southern conservative on
th* Supienn Court since I have been losing sleep
every night because the Souih ha' not been represen-
tt d. but 1 im cons meed that your Democratic Sena-
tor' born the Souih (Gore, Yarborough, etc ) will
MW seat .i siii "tit! i:\ judge .so I am going
to hav- to look out'ide ihe South for a judge tht
Democrats will seat "?
pROBLEMS OF OUR CIVILIZATION are as com
■ ill \ they are baffling The projxisal ha'
tieen rrvdi that those who create waste be made re-
"•*••11 .bit t a ultimately dispii'ing of this waste
l hi" would in< lude manufacturer" of disjxisable
i ni i.ni i ' "Ucn as tin tan', non-returnable pop bot-
tle pa pc. carton.'. even junked automobiles
. . and newspapers!
I' is timaled ihjt it cost, the city of New York
*1! mm.iHNi a year lust to carry off copies of the
n. .. York l .in a and New Aoik Daily mwi after
n ad»-rs have discarded them
ELDOM IF EVER n \meru an history have we
w heard .so many voices shouting their conflict-
ing opinions.
We have the continuing debate between youth
who would lake over and re - make our colleges
and those dedicated to the maintenance of the
cduc ational Establishment.
We have the continuing debate between civil
right' advocat'" and the segregationists, between
those who would pntrrt the Kill of Right"
and those who would abolish the first ten Amend-
ment '
AND THERE ARE THOSE who would pull out of
Vietnam and those who would become even
more involved in Southeast \sia
When these endless debates are concluded, we
have yet to note a winner
We \mencans have yet to agree on a foreign
p- liey for the seventies’
If our policy is to “defend freedom” ary -
where it is challenged then we must be prepared
to in' involved in one or more Vietnam" without in-
terruption from now to eternity.
If our policy is to be one of total isolationism,
then we must deal with problems of a different
nature.
RMHIS WE KNOW. . .the issues are not black
I and white. Neither argument is completely
satisfactory . or perhaps we should say, both
art highly un-atisfactory!
Yet we cannot ignore, neither can we post-
pone forever the decision that must be* made
• JLAE ARE IN VIETNAM because the nghtwing-
W ei' of the 1950s demanded that our policy
f>c 'lop Communism wherever it raises its head.”
on< of our mistakes was in avsuming that every-
thing that didn't iiear the label “American type
democracy" was Communism
\ second mistake was in believing that Uncle
Sam and God are one and the same
What to do in Vietnam in 1970 is indeed a pro-
blem but a greater problem, one demanding
i wise foreign policy, is . what are we going
to do about the scores of other Vietnam." in our
future?
WHERE ARE MANY REASONS why Ralph Yar-
I borough is preferable to either of the Gold
Dust Twins, George Bush and Lloyd Bentsen, for
U S Senator from Texas
But one of the most obvious reasons was seen
last week when the Senate voted on whether or not
to accept Judge Carswell as a member of the U. S.
Supreme Court
|T IS SELDOM THAT the Senate has an oppor-
I tunity to vote on such a non-partisan is'Ue Sup-
porters of Carswell would like to have us believe
that it wa' a political issue, at least an ideological
issue Such is not the case
The Senate was not surprised when Nixon nom-
inated a conservative And it v.as prepared to ac-
cept a conservative When Nixon nominated conser-
vative Judge Burger, less than three hours were
'l>cnt in Senate committee debate. Had the Senate
been partisan, it would have divided along party
lines or at least lilierai - conservative lines in sup-
porting or opposing Burger Burger was over -
whelmingly approved as Chief Justice.
«HE SENATE WAS NOT surprised when Nix>n
I nominated a Southern conservative The entire
Senate was aware that Nixon had promised Sirom
Thurmond a Southern conservative justice on the
court as payment for Thurmonds support in the
1%- Presidential election
It isn i easy to attract good men to the Pre'i -
dent s Cabinet. Qualified men often are unwilling
to accept a cut in salary and accept the criticism
that goe' with the |*tsi It isirt easy to get good
men to run for Congress for the same reasons.
But few men would refuse- a seat on the l' S
Supreme Court It's a lifetime appointment The pay
is good. And above all. the prestige is tremendous!
|x|IXON WOULD HAVE had no trouble in finding
a Southern conservative judge who was pro-
fessionally qualified for tty" high post. Apparently
he was not familiar with the field since he left it to
his old law partner, Attorney General Mitchell, to
make the selection / ’
Attorney (ienoral Mitchell oh many occasions
has proved his ability not only to put his foot in
hi- mouth but to make other boo boos Twice he
failed the President by embarrassing him with un
wise selections for the Supieme Court.
He |ust dicJn t do his homework
ERE IS NO BASIS for charging the Senate
with partisanship in tht. Carswell case
In the first place, a third of the- Republican
Senators voted against Carswell.
In the second place, there were enough conser-
vative Republicans and conservative Southern Dem-
ocrats to seat Carswell had everything been in order.
The "Democratic majority" in the Senate i- a
myth for Republicans to use as an excuse for \d-
ministration failures It’s a convenient whipping lx>y
when one 'eeks to blame "the lilier.ils "
True, a majority bears the name "Democrat."
Gut don’t forget the Southern Democraft-Re|Hjhli. an
coalition Democrats in the Senate get more sup|x>rt
from Republicans than they get from 'bme South-
ern Democrats
In ’he third place, nothing is more damaging
to a tudge than to have an excessive numtwi of
cases over - turned when they are appealed to a
higher court. . and Carswell held some kind of a
record in having his case's reversed’
To criticize a judge* on this score is not partisan,
(Continued or page 2)
l j) and Fix
’Color Coordinated Tulia’
To Get Television Coverage
Absentee
Voting
Begins
FUZZY REAGOR
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Saturday is l’aint
Up Day in Tulia.
Many downtown merchants are
painting their store fronts in coordi-
nated colors according to a plan
suggested bv Benjamin Moore Cain’
Co.
There will be television coverage
for this kick - off of a plan to
create a "color-coordinated Tulia.
Absentee voting in the forthcom The project, sponsored by the Wo-
ing Democratic primary is now un- nu’n s Division of the < hamber of
derway at the county clerk s office <^m<?rce. is an effotl^o promo^e
in the court house in Tulia.
Ml qualified voters who will not
lie in their voting precinct on May 2
as well as those who are physically
unable to go to the polls may vote
absentee until April 29.
Thompson Rites
At Vigo Park
community spirit thiough commun-
ity appearance.
Kite Flying
Contest Set
DEANNE EVANS, daughter of Mr. and Mrs B. Raymond
Evans, 49 Travis Road, was crowned Lions Club Sweetheart
Mondav night at the conclusion of the annual Lions Club
Sweetheart Contest and Talent Show. She succeeds Rose
Marie Elkins, outgoing Sweetheart First runner-up was
Shelly Harris, daughter of Mr. and Mrs Fred Harris, and
Jaimye Crawford, daughter of Mr. and Mrs J. Fdd Crawlord,
was second runner-up.
(Herald photo by Joe Foster)
Funeral services for F.lmer
Thompson. 64. a Vigo Park farmer There will be prizes
who died Friday in Swi-her Me - large'! homemade kite.
Roman Gabriel Show Promises
Kaleidoscope Of Entertainment
The Roman Gabriel show will be Columbus Touchdown ("lull. He also
“ A-
DENNIS LOVE
Fuzzy Reagor
Heads JCs
Fuzzy Reagor was in-talled as
Jaycee President at the annual in-
stallation and awards banquet stag-
ed Fr.day night
David Burelsmith was installed
as first vice president Joed Noel,
>eiond vice president: Keith Wat-
'iin. treasurer; and Don Young,
secretary.
Ronnie Shannon. Tom Beck. Bob
Howard, and Doug () Daniel will
serve as directors.
Guc'ts were recognized from
Muleshoe, Borger, Plainview and
Happy
The dub’s highest award to a
member, the Outstanding Jaycee
award, went to Dennis Love.
Reagor received the Outstanding
f irst Year Man Award.
Key Man Award went to Pat
George Certificates of Merit A -
wards went to all committee chair-
(Continued on page .1)
Middleton Rites
Held Tuesday
Funeral services for Mrs \ R.
I
Date for the third annual Tulia
Chamber of Commerce Kite flying
contest has been set for 2 j) m Sat
urday, April 25, according to Lynn
Cowan. Joe Cowan and David Cabe.
co-chairmen tor this year's event.
for the
mortal Hospital were held Sunday homemade kite that flies 20 feet Panted in the \mariUo C ivic Cen-recimed the BvTt Bell MU’
afternoon in Vigo Park Baptist at>OVe the ground, or more, highest ( obseum. Saturday, April 25 at w.md tiom ini *
Church flving kite, most unique homemade - Pm . ' d s m , ■niv's
The Rev. Carl Hogue, pastor, and kite best trick flying kite, and \ppearmg with Gabriel will be Pj‘<>er poll^ and -Sport Magazines ^
the Rev. Gene Crabtree, pastor of parachute drop contest spen.il guest Bob Bullet' Hayes. 1 la)l‘r
the Dickens Baptist Church, officiat- The event will be held at Mac wtde-end receiver of the Dalla-
ed Burial was in Crosby ton feme- kenze Park in South Tulia He- Cowbovs
tt ry under direction of Wallace gist rat ion fee is 25c per kite. Boys The show will offer a kaleidoscope
Funeral Home of Tulia. and girls 0f all ages from Tulia of entertainment appealing to a
Mr Thompson, formerly of Dick ancj au ,urrounding towns are urg- variety of spar:* enthusiasts from
ens. had been a resident of V igo t.(j to participate in this fun filled the diehard to the new generation
Park for 15 years. afternoon. There will ire free re- The show will include comedy
He married Mildred Pearl Chis- freshments. Parents are welcome sketches, informal patter, pop tunes,
am, (Jet 2' 192s in Dickens He old favorites and yards of fun in- Middleton, 83, were held Tuead >/
"■I' a member of Vigo Park Baptist ii I voicing new approaches to theatre aftermvon in Crosby Street (’hutch
church uearn ^^IQIVTiS entertaining of Christ
_ - 1# - - - -- Two hundred autographed foot - Karl Cantwell of Silvertcm offn -
EflfllP WflllBTS balls w .11 lie given a wav bv Gabriel ialed
kwix. ww wii%i « ;,nd ^ A;Ih ,h fma] pi,rll,m Burial was in Idalou Cemetery
. . ., , Edwin O (Eddie) Walters, 65 oi the program devoted to a (pm- under directim of Wallace Tune.al
Buck of carpenter and farmer, died Wednes tain and answer session Mem - Home
day morning in Swidur Memorial ben of the audience will be g'ven Mrs Middleton died Sunday m
:'!' an4 Hospital following an illness of an o|iportunitv to direct as manv Swi'he: Memorial Hospital
Mrs Rachel Wilson of Girard; and .
Survivors include hi' wife; one
sen. Clovis ( of Hawthorne, Calif;
one daughter. Mrs. Mary Louise
Winkler of Dtekens; three brothers.
four grandchildren.
Church Plans
Homecoming
men.
nd Odelee of Midland two sisters.
Mrs. Pearl Patton of Spur and
several weeks question' to Gabriel and Hayes as She was horn in Fannin County
He was born Jan 21. 1905. in time permits. and came to tulia in 19;t9 from Sil-
Coleman County He had been a Gabriel, thi Paul Runyon of the verton. She lived at 120 S Highway
Tulia resident since 1927 He came back field, is just under 6 4" and 97.
here when the Presbyterian Church tilts the scales at 220 Born \ug- Survivors include two 'on" Ib>:i
was under construction and decided ust 5. 194(1. in Wilmington, North of Clov is. \ M. and Banks of
to make it his home Carolina, Gabriel’s mother was a Fayette. \rk two daughters. Mrs
He and Bertie Ward were mar-native of Illinois and his father Nick Barnes of Tulia and Mrs Gnf
Tulia \ssembly of God is plan - ried June 2 1929 at Plainview from the Philippine Bland' He is Mont, cue of Portal.\ M on
nmg Homecoming and pastor's an - He was a member of Tulia Lions stalling his ninth year in pro foot- b: other. Ben Mi Ton and one 'is: r,
mvrrsary Sunday. Club for 20 years, serving as sec- ball Mrs J It. Blackwell, both of OkB-
Speakers will tx- Rev. Dewey ret ary He had also been a mem- \t North Carolina State. Gabriel homa City seven grandchildren an l
Newborn, paster, nd farmer pa' - i>or af 1Y1U Fir* l k pa i t ment for was a consensus all - UKhcii tea great grandchihtrM.
tor. the Rev Bob Goodwin of I.ub- 20 years. for two ye.its in football, and let-
bock The pastor will speak at 11 lie is survived bv his wife of the tend a basketball, and baseball
am and RFv. Goodwin at 2:30. home. .”.01 N Crosby, one brother, as well as fn at ball He graduated
Evangelist Jerry Ogdon will speak Aston Walters of Bryan; one sister from \< Stab with a B s degree
at 7 pm. Mrs Carl Hulsey of Abilene: and in physical education
Dinner will be served at noon five mixes In 1969. Gabriel w.w named Most
Nil former members and friends Services will be announced by \aluahh Player in the National
of the Tulia church are invited. Wallace Funeral Home. Football League by l PI \P. and
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Ppics
Yarborough Speaks In Senate
On Nomination Of Carswell
MAYOR W. V SWINBURN. center, took the oath of office as chief executive of Tulia's
government Monday morning. The oath was administered by Burrell Evans, city attorney.
Also taking the oath of alderman for a new term were Gilbert Milligan, left, and Boyd
Vauijlm, lijjiit. (Hemid photu by Juc tustu)
Senator Ralph W Yarborough,
1) Texas, recently made the follow-
ing statement in the Senate on the
nomination of George Harold Cars-
well to the United States Supreme
Court
The debate over the nomination
of Judge Carswell for the Supreme
Court has developed an unfortunate
and unwarranted overtone over
whether a white Southern conser-
vative should be appointed
The real basis for Judge Cars-
well's o|>position is not whether he
is a white Southerner, but what
kind of a white Southerner he i'.
On the nomination of Justice Thur-
good Marshall. I received letters
opposing him because he was a
Negro. I rejected all such opposi-
tion as unworthy. When Justice Al>e
Fortas was under attack. I heard
cntici-m ot him bee luse he was a
Jew; 1 rejected it ns unworthy.
Op|M>s'Uon is heard to Judge Cars-
v%ell ttccau.sc he is a white Souther-
ner 1 likewise reject it as un -
worthy I reject all attacks based
on race, religion, or national origin.
Should Judge Carswell be retort-
ed. 1 hope hat President Nixon
nom.nates another white Southern
t* lu tlit U jui l, because ul Uit at-
tack' on the last twa nominees on
that score. I respect the right of the
Pres'id. nt to nominate- a person of
hi' own ixilitical ideology. Some
sit with us here every day Sena-
tors John Sherman Cooper of Ken-
tucky John Stenms of Mississippi,
and Sam Kn in of North Carolina,
to name only three, are men of un-
im|*eachablc honor and integrity
and of fine ability. All have lieen
judge' Senator Ervin is often call-
ed the greatest Constitutional law-
yer in the Senate, and was a for-
m e r Supreme Court Justice in
North Carolina
I voted for (unfit mat ion of Chief
Justice Burger, a conservative. I
do not vote against men liecause
of their political philosophy.
Piesidcnt Ni\.»n can find able
men of conservative bent and of his
own political party from my homo
'late of Texas ii Judge Carswell
is rejec ted. 1 respectfully inv ite the
President tn examine proven judges
of his own party in Texas Chief
Judge -John It Brown of the Fifth
Circuit is a judge of great erudition
and is recognized by lawyers of all
political parties in nn home state
of Tex:e .i' being of top Supreme
luUU equality. 1 ciidal Jitd0e Juc
Estes of Dallas vias a brilliant
scholar in law school, and i' an
able judge who i" of the Presi -
dent’s party and i' a staunch eon
servative And we have brilliant
law writers on the faculties of law
schools in the South, and in Texas,
who fit the ITesident’s search for
a conservative on the Court I in-
\ ite the President to look to hi"
own party in Texas, to its judges,
lawyers. 1 a vv teachers and law
writers.
It is unfortunate that the Presi
dent. In the Carswell appointment,
adds to the myth that all white
Southern conservatives arc medio-
cre men. or are highhanded and
intolerant toward lawyers of dif
fertng views when they are placed
on the Court \s a white Texas
lawyer who practiced in the courts
of my State. Stat« and Federal,
for 20 years and was judge there
for five l know it isn't so
I have received a number of let-
ters from Ihe faculty of the t m
versify of Texas School of Law con
corning the nomination of Judge
Carswell Of these letters one. from
Profcaaor Charlas Man Wright, ex*
pri -"ed support for ’he nomination
ul Jud0c Uuiiwt.il. ilk lullowiii^
members of the faculty expressed
*h ‘ir op|*tsition to the nomination
Prof William O Huie Prof Rob-
ert E Mathews. ITo Roy E Mer-
"ky. Prof l ino \ Graglia. Prof.
losi*ph P Withcts|SH»n. Prof Mich
ael P Rosenthal. Prof Mtiert W
Msi huler. Prof Robert W Hamd
ton. Prof Mien E smith. ITof
Gi orge Schatdb, M Parker c'
Fielder.
While many hundn ds of mes-ages
from my home state !x>th favor-
ing 'tid opposing Judge Carswell
are too numerous • > ieprint I ask
unanimous consent to print at thi-
point in the Congre'Sional Record
..n editorial from the san \ntonio
I \p;i of todav Tuesdav. April 7.
1970
NIXON'S WARFED
VIEW OF COURT
"Onex? again, a political battle
will decide who fills ihe vacant seat
on th-' Supreme Court \nd. once
again, onlv losers will lie left, no
matter what the outcome
"The senate will decide Uedn. -
day whether G Harold Carswell
-hail have the 'eat If Carswells
nomination t' confirmed he will
forevi have the mediocre scat on
(Cuikmucd un pa0c 2j
New meter conncition> r• )>ort 1
Tv CKj o: l alia since last week
Buford' Kelly, 219 S Dallas; Den
Rogers. :;0l'.\W 3th Jerry S M -
11uin 315 NW 2nd Larry Johtt'on,
2lis S El Paso: Jerrv Wood- I
NW Slh li M Si-rug - 711 s lu •
tin. \)>t 7. Charles Holland. 529 .V
Briscoe Konald Williing. 24 i : * k-
ett. Roy Flores. '24 N l-'Wi'1;
Betty Sue Mcd-aviHk. 8U7 N Floyd.
New subsetibers to The Tulia II '-
aid 'inie last week P M Bailey,
Jia Si.u:h \v * nie J l' >rtal< N
Mexii". (iary i) Compton. 1406
South 9th Apt 114 Waco lex
R B White. H4 NW 4»h, St . Tulia.
lix.i' ikivid Davnkhlk, 141.1 2!id
Si., Canyon, lexas.
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Weather during the past week h ■.
been warm and dry with the mer-
cury reaching the high 90s.
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