The Orange Leader (Orange, Tex.), Vol. 52, No. 8, Ed. 1 Sunday, January 10, 1954 Page: 2 of 26
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Land of the Big Rich H. R. Cullen Stands Out
Houston (Ml Mon Is Generous With Both
His Millions ond His Pointed Opinions
(EDITOR’S NOTE: Even In Houston where millionaires abound,
» Hugh Roy Cullen is a big man. He’s given away about 175 mil-
lions. and what he does he does in the gnand manner—2V« million,
♦or example, after his iavorite college won a football game).
By SAUL PE'IT'
HOUSTON. Jan: 9 (AP)—In this land of the big rich and the
Tugged individualist, Hugh Roy Cullen ranks among the biggest,
the richest, the most rugged and the most individual.
Giving away money or opinions, this 72-year-old oil mlllonaire is
often unpredictable. He is by turn impulsive, deeply sentimen-
tal, opinionated, gentle, sharp
ton sued, folksy and as tactful as
a Texas steer stampeding a glass
works.
But all the adjectives pale in
favor of one word: generous. Over
the years he has given away about
J75 million dollars in cash and in
present and future income from
oil leases. —
Not For Football
A few weeks ago, at a student
football rally celebrating a victory
over Baylor University. Cullen
arose and. with misty eyes, an-
nounced he was giving the Uni-
versity of Houston 2 1/4 million
dollars. Two weeks later he gave
Baylor a million. Both gifts, he
explained, were for education, not
football.
The big figures took breaths
away around the country, but few
Texans were left breathless. First,
because they are Texans. Second,
because they have learned to ex-
pect the unexpected from Cullen,
in spectacular amounts.
In 1947, Cullen was quietly
making a routine speech when he
popped a “little secret.” He said
he was setting up the Cullen
Foundation with the income from
oil leases which had a produc-
tion potential of 40 million bar-
rels- Reporters got busy, figur-
ing oil at the market price of $2ji
barrel. They .came up with 80
million dollars
Doubled Thai One
The next day Chamber of Com-
merce officials dropped In to
thank the philanthropist. He
thereupon doubled the gift, giv-
ing the foundation etio^gh oil
if
our money spent during our life-
time so we may derive great
pleasure from it.”
Virtually all of Cullen's charity
is confined to institutions within
the borders of Texas. But within
those limits, he has said frequent-
ly, his gifts have no regard for
race, creed or color. He has con-
tributed to Negro as well as white
Institutions,
In one 10-day period In 1945,
Cullen rattled off gifts of more
than a million dollars each to hos-
pitals around town—Methodist,
Baptist, Catholic. Someone re-
minded him that he had forgotten
the Episcopalians—of which Mrs.
Cullen is one. He thereupon gave
$1,156,000 to St. Luke’s Episcopal
Hospital.
Likes Everybody
“I feel friendly to all people,”
says Cullen, who is tall and pow-
erfully built, with an imposing,
leathery face and a thick shock of
gray hair flowing over one side of
his head. “I don’t think in terms
of creed or denominations. I think
we all have one common ancestor
and one God. We ought to have
one church.”
But while he often utters hom-
ilies about the brotherhood of
man, Cullen can, on occasion,
clobber his fellow man.
In 1950. at the University of
Houston, he was making the prin-
cipal speech at the dedication of
the five million dollar Esekiel
Cullen Building, which his money
had provided and which was nam-
ed after his grandfather.
_____ _______ Cullen was the picture of a self-
leases to bring in about 100 mil- made man—a man who had start
POLITICAL CAMPAIGN?—These signs Appeared on the barricade at the foot of Fourth street
today. City Commissioner E. M. (Preacher) Childers’ efforts brought about its erection. (Staff photo
by Ralph Ramos).
Prudential Official
To Address NOMA
Charles Fleetwood of Houston,
vice president of the Prudential
Insurance Company of America,
will be prinicipal speaker at the
National Office Management As-
sociation’s “Top Management
Night” dinner in Hotel Beau-
mont’s Rose Room Jan. 28. The
Beaumont chapter of NOMA has
members throughout the Sabine
Area. -|-
Fleetwood is in charge of Pru-
dential's Southwestern home of-
fice in Houston. In that city he is
active in civic affairs as a direc-
tor of the Houston Chamber of
Commerce and a trustee of the
■ United Fund and Boy Scouts of
America.
He is a 1923 graduate of Geor-
gia Tech with a degree in civil
engineering and later did grad-
uate work at Harvard University’s
school of business administration
He joined Prudential in 1933
and was elected vice president in
1947. As vice president in charge
of the company’s mortgage loan
operations Fleetwood was respon-
sible for Prudential investments
in excess of 94-billion.
Tanoos of
20 years of service
Oil Co. He is a gang pusher in
Shell’s Black Bayou field in the
Calcasieu Parish marshes south
of Orange.
Color Television Already Giving Prop
Men Big Headache as They Get Ready
By WAYNE OLIVES
NEW YORK. Jan. 9 (AP) —
Color television will bring new
problems to television’s prop men.
And the biggest will De the
viewer’s “color memory.” says
Norman Grant, an art director
and color consultant for NBC.
On black and white television
a neutral background, such
hanging drapes for instance does other people in the room for a
lion over the years. Most of the
money was earmarked for the
University of Houston and the
beautiful Texas Medical Center
.now building here. „
“My wifa Und I art telftsh,
Cullen explained. **Wt want to gee
Program for Bosses'
Banquet Announced
An original skit by *ranc«
Jones,: librarian at Lutcher Stark
High School, will be a leaturp of
the pfogram with which numbers
Of the Orange Business A Pro-
fessional Women’s Club wil en-
tertain their bosses at the First
Methodist Church Monday. Jan.
,18. at 7:30 p.m.
Making up the cast wil be Mrs.
H. T. Pitts. Mrs. Margaret Pipes,
Mrs Stanley Clements. Mrs. LW.
Gunstream. Mrs. Estelle Dew,
Evangeline Brunson and Mrs. A.
A. Kemble. Mias Jones will serve
as directof.
Other, entertainment wiU be
’conducted by Mrs. J. Cullen
Browning and Mrs. K. •. Drake.
Mrs M. M. Brock and Mrs. M
Stephens will serve a* hostesses,
and Mrs. H. W. Thompson Is
chairman of decorations.
Reservations for the dinner,
which will be prepared and serv-
ed by the Woman’s Socletyof
Christian Service of the Fim
Methodist Church, should be made
with Mrs. Oswald Auccin. tele-
phone 8-2920 or 8-2933, or Mrs.
M. E Wright, telephone 8-ttll.
Mrs. Margaret Carter and Mrs.
T. M. Dodd are In charge of pro-
■ grams. Mrs. Alton Turner, who is
general chairman for the annual
affair, said reservations should be
made by Friday._
Eager Beavers Cause
Community Concern
ALBUQUERQUE
sy beavers er
(AP)—lager
and busy beavers art causing con-
cern in southwest Albuquerque.
• it’s not so much that theyve
built three-dams across an irri-
gat ion ditch, Biro have chewed «
aged shade trees until they are In
danger of falling. Whet people ta
the area are really unhappy about
is that the beavers can be heard
at night chomping on the tress.
This suits the neighborhood
dogs barking and caused consid
erable lack of sleep.
ed foot, had had only three years
of schooling but had gone on to
great wealth and benefactions. He
was speaking to a distinguished
university audience and to many
thousands of others over the radio.
Attack Oa Truman
His prepared text led him into
sn attack on President Truman
and his policies. Political offen-
sives are not unusual for Cullen
at University functions, whether
It’s' a dedication or a football
Then he began to focus his
on one member of the Tru-
Cabinet.
denly, he pulled away from
repared text and blasted the
____ et member in terms not usu-
ally/heard in polite discourse,
AS is usual after he gets off an
iU-tempered blast, Cullen was
contrite and apologised to the au-
dience later. ,
•T had no call to say that, he
told me recently. “But you roe,
there they were dedicating this
beautiful building to my grandpa.
And there was this symphony
dlaying beautiful music my moth-
er used to play. I guess 1 was kind
of sUned up. and .hat thing Just
bounced out”_
Former Secretary
Of Chamber Dies
L. M. Shepardson. 78, of 22604
Live Oak Ave!. W.co, died today
at 8:30 a. m. in the Veterans Hos-
pital at Marlin.
Shepardson served as secretary
of the Orange Chamber of Com-
merce about 25 yesrs ago.
Funeral services will be hsld at
the Parker Funeral Home in Web-
ster Groves, Mo., sometime* Tues-
Survivors include his wife and
one son, Frank Shepardson of
Dellas. _
Pittsburgh Brothers
Have Tough Sledding
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Six
year-old John Deller went sled-
ding near his horns yesterday and
crashed Into a parked auto.
While he was being taken to a
hospital, his 5-year-old brother,
Sam—unaware John had been
hurt—also went sledding and
rammed Into a tree.
The brothers are In senous
condition at the same hospital to-
day, John with a brain concussion
and Sam With a possible ahull
I fracture
not assert itself and can be re-
used without attracting attention.
Becomes Monotonous
“But even such shades as tan
or gray or beige, when used on
color television, get caught in the
viewer’s memory and become ob-
jectionable if they are not changed
frequently,” he explains.
NBC has spent $50,000 !h the
last year and a half on experi-
mental large props made of fiber-
glass-reinforced plastics which are
expected to be a big help in color
TV for such items as boulders,
tree stumps and large terrain fea-
lt (Mats
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to Wateh
TV
for years of
ENJOYMENT S ENTERTAINMENT
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telerisiea
tuies. Light to carry, they will
make it easier to change props
between scenes and give more
color variety.
The most exacting test to which
the viewer's color memory will
put the teiecasters. Grant points
out, will be flesh tone and labels
of popular products. There the
viewer can look at the faces of
comparison, or at an identical
pack of cigarettes in his hand.
Stocking on Props
Donald Mayo. ABC prop man-
ager, says that network is just
now stocking up fully on props
and will do so with an eye to
color. He says .color will empha-
size such details as the designs on
dinner-ware and vases, both of
which normally are subject to
considerable breakage. He fore-
sees colored plastic dishes and
vases as the solution.
Anthony Bishetti. procurement
vision will put new emphasis on
authenticity.
“The color camera can spot
phonincss every time.” he says.
“Brand new furniture, which
may be fine in a magazine photo-
graph. has to be replaced for col-
or TV with something that looks
sat-on.”
Lynn Scott, homemaking au-
thority, says color TV will have
a big impact on the field of home
decorations.
“Color television will hold up
for constant, side-by-side com-
parison the color judgment of
leading TV designers and the col-
or mistakes of the average home.”
she says. “The sharpened color
perception will be reflected not
only in the demands of house-
wives on interior decorators, but
also in the carpets, furniture,
draperies and accessories offered
to the public.”
As for the viewer, color TV may
be even more expensive than he
anticipated—at least tor quite a
while yet. RCS Service Co. esti-
mates that a service contract for
four times that for black and
white.” That would figure out to
$180 to. $240 a year. Meanwhile,
first models being offered by set
makers are carrying $1,175 and
$1,200 price tags compared with
the $700 to $1,000 prices forecast
earlier.
On the other hand, the slump
in sales of black and white sets
has brought a wave of reductions
on prices of existing models or
new models at lower prices.
manager for CBS, says color tele- a color TV set ‘‘will be three to
Jack Webb of Dragnet was
chosen Man of The Year in TV
and Lucille Ball Woman of The
Year in Radio-Television Daily’s
annual poll of radlo-TV editors.
In radio. Jack Benny repeated as
Man of The Year and Eve Arden
was chosen Woman of The Year.
In a poll by Motion Picture Daily.
CBS-TV’s Omnibus was Voted
best TV show of 19S3.
Humorist To Speak
To K and F Group
Ed Harding, fun-maker, will be
the guest of honor at the next
meeting of the Orange Knife and
Fork Club when it meets tomor-
row at 7 p. m. in Jones Elemen-
tary School, according to Presi-
dent J. H. David, in charge ot the
arrangements committee.
This humorist from Washing-
ton. N. C is claimed by many to
be the funniest man on the Amer-
ican platform.
Harding quite often discards
his prepared speech and ad libs.
He seldom announces in advance
the topic of his speech. He is Said
to have a well developed sense of
terminal facilities, and usually
halts his addresses while “ahead”
'of the audience which clamors
for “mrtre.”
Part Arthuran
Head Area Oilmen
D. P. Bailey. Port Arthur re-
finer, today was re-appointed
Beaumont area chairman for the
Texas Oil Industry Information
Committee.
State Chairman George R.
Bryant announced Bailey's selec-
tion during the Texas OIIC mast-
ing held in Dallas today to chart
oil’s 1954 public Information pro-
gram, r
Bailey, affiliated with the Tex-
as Company, will guide the
American Petroleum Institute's
public relations program through-
out a 15 county area along South,
east Texas.
He said the OIIC objective is
to make clear how well the people
of this area are served by all
segments of the oil business and
to gain support for conditions
under which they can continue to
be privately managed, fully cam-
petitive and financially sound,
Kiwanians Choose
NewBoard Leader
The election of Homer Haworth
to the Kiwanis executive board
was one of several items of busi-
ness transacted last Tuesday at a
board meeting. Haworth replace
E. M. Sandberg who resigned the
post recently.
Jan. 30 has been designated as
the day Kiwanians will operate
the March of Dimes Board.
The club will participate in the
poll tax contest which is being
soonsored this month by the
Chamber of Commerce.
The Kiwanis club win surren-
der the sponsorship of the Teen-
age League. Members agreed that
the organization has become so
well established that it no longer
needs the sponsorship of the club.
Three new club road signs have
been ordered by the club and will
be set up in the near future.
How’s the picture tube In your
TV set? General Manager J. Mil-
ton Lang of General Electric’s
tube department forecasts that
nearly one in seven sets in use
now will need a new picture tube
In 1954.
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But it turns out we have a far bigger hit
on our hands in the new 1954 Buicks
than we ever figured.
folks in a steady stream come into our
showroom, look over these glamorous
new beauties, and tell us — with signed
orders—that Buick’s the beautiful buy,
hands down.
It’s the biggest new-car excitement in a
long, long time—and you ought to take
a look at it, firsthand.
Because one look at the sensational new
styling of these breath-taking Buicks
shows them to be the freshest new auto-
mobiles in years.
One look into the modem interiors—and
through that spectacular new back*
swept windshield—firms the conviction.
One look at the new V8 power story, the
new ride story, the new handling-case
story—practically wraps up the sale.
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eye-opening experience with the hottest
values to be brought on the American
automotive market in 1954 — clinches
Buick as the buy of the
year.
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Browning, J. Cullen. The Orange Leader (Orange, Tex.), Vol. 52, No. 8, Ed. 1 Sunday, January 10, 1954, newspaper, January 10, 1954; Orange, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth557033/m1/2/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Lamar State College – Orange.