The Denison Press (Denison, Tex.), Vol. 27, No. 8, Ed. 1 Friday, August 12, 1955 Page: 2 of 6
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Green Stamp Graft
Whan it comes to ♦he point that an agent, who in fact, is
q lobbyist going about over the country bragging how many air-
conditioned Cadillacs he gave away to influence the Texas
members of the Legislature, it is time to check into the matter.
That is, if we are not sold down the river to graft and corruption
in this state.
It is declared such a person, an agent for the green stamp
business which merchants over the country give out as coupons
for drawings, made the statement to a publisher in this county
that he had given away eight such autos in his campaign to
make himself a successful lobbyist for the green stamp game.
Who Protects the Loan Shark?
It might be in place to give due credit to those immortal
members of the Legislature, who held out to the last against
the proposed bill promoters were trying to get through for the
loan sharks.
It is declared had the bill gone through it would have per-
mitted the sharks to gather about 92 per cent interest on the
money loaned out. By a series of demands made by the sharks
on the customer, had the law gone through, the borrower would
be even worse off than a peon of the lowest cast. These demands
that could be made, had the bill, known as HJR 17, gone through,
included a fee for insurance policy, and other loads that would
cost the borrower additional money, the whole thing mounting
to something like 92 per cent interest.
The fact that the Senators stood firm is the chief reason
why the Legislature remained an additional 17 days in Austin.
They may have had to spend themselves into debt, but
they at least did not spend their honor and integrity which they
should have, had they accepted the bribe money which many
of the members did, it is stated.
It would be a real contribution to the voters of Grayson
and other counties in the state, could we drag the whole lobby
mess into the open, have a fair exposing of same and send a
few of them to The penitentiary.
It is, facts would show, nothing uncommon for interests
with money and a hireling of same, to pass out the money in
large denominations when a certain measure is wanted to be
carried out to the satisfaction of the lobbyist.
When autos, various prizes and gifts are showered on your
legislator, it ought to be prima facia evidence that he has been
accepting graft money and instead of being a faithful servant
he has become a felonious disservant.
Denison’s Time to Unite
With the approaching five items of vital interest and con-
cern to all citizens, and on which we are to vote come October
5, it is a time to challenge us to unity and concerted action.
Denison s welfare is tied up in the five issues, all of which
have been given by newspapers and otherwise more times than
thrice. The whole schedule will be given in detail, one time each
week for four consecutive weeks before the voting day.
If all of the people who can vote will study the matter
carefully, there is no aoubt but Denison will present an almost
solid front for the advancement of the city's interest.
One thing to be remembered, that might weigh favorably
on our voting is that any slight increase in taxes will not be
applicable until the year 1957. Meantime Denison can be enjoy-
ing those needed benefits which our votes can secure for us.
THE DENISON PRESS
‘‘Entered as second class matter May 15, 1947, at the Post Office
at Denison, Texas, under the act of March 3, 1879.”
Editor and Publisher
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LeRoy M. Anderson, Sr.
LeRoy M. Anderson, Jr.
Carey L. Anderson
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DENISON and GRAYSON COUNTY
Grayson county, accredited by Texas Almanac 1955
of having the "most diversified economy of any Texas
county, with income from crops, livestock, manufacturing
and trade, oil, tourists and recreation seekers."
Blackland soils and terrain in the southeast, grand
prairies characteristics in the southwest, gray lands on
divide in central section; sandy lands and hilly topo-
graphy in north part along Red River. Drains to Red
River on north, Trinity on south. Post oak, walnut, hickory,
pecan, elm, bois d' arc. Oil, brick clay, cemenf material,
silica.
Lake Texoma has six million acre feet capacity, many
bays for fishing, boating on large scale, lake 1300 miles
around perimeter, and declared the ninth ranking in
capacity among the woild's reservoirs. Lake four miles
north of Denison.
County has population of 70,000; 53.4 per cent urban;
90.9 per cent Anglo-Americans; 8.7 per cent negro; .04
per cent Latin American. Annual rainfall 37.55 inches;
temperature averages Jan. 43 deg., July 84 deg., mean
annually 65 deg.
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State t AP1T O L
AUSTIN — Whether Texas
school laws have been nullified
is under a statewide advisory
committee’s study.
Gov. Allan Shivers outline.l
major desegregation problems at
the committee’s initial meeting
last week. Although he denounced
the US Supreme Court decree, he
said the answer was not in de-
fiance. He recommended adjust-
ment in the best interest of Tex-
as school children.
Shivers said an El Paso dis-
u-ict court decision ordering de-
segregation at Texas Western Col-
;ege may necessitate rewriting the
Gilmer-Aiken laws. School money
now is allocated on the basis of
separate, but equal, facilities for
white and colored.
Bi-racial, the group includes 34
community leaders appointed by
the governor and eight legislators
named by the house speaker and
lieutenant governor.
Will Morris Crews, San Anton-
io lawyer and contractor, was
named to head a 12-member exec-
utive committee. A legal sub-
committee will study legislative
needs.
Areas of study suggested by the
governor:
1. What to do about present
compulsory attendance and com-
pulsory segregation laws.
2. Whether either white or col-
ored children can be forced to at-
tend a certain school, or integrate,
against their will.
3. Ways and means of giving
maximum authority to local school
districts.
Polio Vaccine Allocated
Children under 10 and expect-
ant mothers have won priority re-
cognition for Texas’ supply of
commercial Salk vaccine.
Such preference was recom-
mended by the State Polio Vac-
cine Committee. Dr. Henry Holle,
state health commissioner, called
the group to decide how the 36,-
540 vaccine doses released to Tex-
as should be used.
Recommended use was split, 83
per cent commercially, 17 per cent
by public agencies.
Agencies were asked to order
through retail outlets, not from
manufacturers. Doctors were urg-
ed to keep accurate records.
Nationally, it had been suggest-
ed preference be given children 5
to 9. Basis for the change in Tex-
as was records showing 44 per
cent of paralytic polio last year
hit children under 5.
Though the state vaccine com-
mittee has no official authority,
it anticipated no difficulty in get-
ting cooperation. Its nine mem-
bers represent top officials and
leaders in the medical, pharma-
ceutical and osteopathic profes-
sion.
Senterfitt Chooses Chairman
Reuben Senterfitt last week an-
nounced that a fellow San Saban,
Kelly Owen, will direct his cam-
paign for governor.
Owen will have his first polit-
ical experience when Senterfitt’s
22-member steering committee
meets in Austin Aug. 17.
Leasing Program Clean
Multi-million dollar public
school land leasing operations ap-
parently are not involved in Tex-
as land scandal.
State La”d Commissioner J.
Earl Rudder testified last week
he had found no evidence of school
land irregularities.
Rudder’s testimony was in the
wind-up of a court of inquiry.
Begun in April, it was conducted
by the Attorney General’s De-
partment.
Emphasis has been on land of-
fice activities other than the vet-
erans program. Multiple investiga-
tions in the latter area resulted
in 319 indictments and conviction
of Former Land Commissioner
Bascom Giles.
Rudder said he still is sending
files of questionable veterans
land transactions to district attor-
neys.
Other witnesses told of land in
Mexico traded under the veterans
progiam, and of questionable
block deals in Maverick County.
Investigation of these stories
was begun immediately by the At-
torney General’s Department.
Giles Jury Cost Extra
As a postscript to the Bascom
Giles theft trial, Travis County
has u bill for $512.2(1.
This was the cost of putting
jurymen in air-conditioned hotel
rooms. One juror had become ill
from stifling courthouse dorm-
itory heat, threatening a mis trial.
Plans for courthouse air condi-
tioning have since been initiated.
Water Mobilization Urged
Mobilization in a "battle for
survival" against water shortage
is urged by State Senator Dorsey
B. Hardeman of San Angelo.
Hardeman heads the Texas
Water Resources Committee which
met last week to review water
conservation action by the recent
legislature.
He recommended farm and bus-
iness interests and local leaders
organize to make Texans water
conscious.
Recommendations for future
government action will he in the
committee’s biannual report Sept.
1.
Construction Record Set
Estimated value of construction
in Texas hit an all-time peak the
first half of 1955. It prompted
prediction for a new overall bus-
iness record this year from the
University of Texas Bureau of
Business Research. Only a severe
decline, said bureau experts, could
bring down the average—11 per
cent higher than 1954.
The Low Down
From Hickory Grove
When I see in the papers where
Congress is being asked for more
do-re-mi for "props” I take my
typewriter in hand and vent my
feelings. Here we are oozing cot-
ton, corn, wheat, and etc. from all
our pores and the Govt.’s Com-
modity Credit Outfit asks Con-
gress for another 2,000 million in
cold cash to buy more stuff to
store. The CCC already has 10,000
million dollars but figures it will
be used up by November, so asks
for another 2,000,000,000. Oh!
me!
The odd thing about the whole
“prop” idea is that nobody seems
to get het up about it. Congress
just hears from the ones “for”
the adventure into theory—it
hears from too few of us who
know that this prop cash is our
money. Twenty years ago we gave
the old guffaw to the idea of
Mr. Wallace and his cuckoo plans.
Today we give ’em the nod—say
nary a word.
But we have one pal in Govt,
who knows beans—also corn,
wheat, etc.—he is doing his best
to get us off the hook. Mr. Ezra
Benson from the land of the
Saints—Utah—he is the rugged
person deserving of 3 cheers and
an encouraging word. I doff my
chapeau to the gentleman.
Yours with the lowdown,
JO SERRA
ST. LUKE’S CHURCH
Sunday August 14, 1955
Tenth Sunday After Trinity
7:30 A.M., morning prayer;
7:45 A.M., holy eucharist. 8:15
A.M., koffee klatch; 9:30 A.M.,
family eucharist and sermon.
Week-Day Activities
Monday: 12:00 noon, KRLD
TV, channel 4, “Adventures in
Faith” sponsored by our Diocese.
Wednesday: 11:00 A.M., Per-
rin Chapel, holy eucharist.
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Strict tests Through Every Process
Assure Safety of Salk Polio Vaccine
For the first time in history, a
vaccine is protecting millions of
human beings from paralytic
polio. While the Salk vpccine
will not work in every case,
American children are being
safeguarded against the dread
disease, with no more risk than
they would take in a vaccination
against smallpox or a typhoid
shot. The Salk vareine must pass
elaborate tests under the watch,
ful eye of a government inspec-
tor at every stage of production.
Then the final packaged vareine
is approved by the U.S. Public
Health Service for distribution.
Here are shown a few of the steps
that assure American parents
their children are being given a
safe vaccine.
This technician Is filtering dead cells and all
other foreign matter from polio virus after it
has grown on animal tissue in glass containers.
sirstem
Virus is “cooked” in tank with formaldehyde
(from bottle) until it is rendered harmless,
after which it must pass exacting safety tests.
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Animal tissue in tubes is inoculated with vac-
cine and let stand. If any live virus remains,
it will multiply here, hence can be detected.
This expert Is examining tissue
after contact with vaccine, to
determine absence of live virus.
It's all over and it didn't hurt a bit! Salk vac-
cine makes this little girl safer now from par-
alytic polio. And her parents feel better too!
Letters from People
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Denison, Texas
Aug. 5, 1955
LeRoy M. Anderson, Sr.
Editor, Denison Press
Denison, Texas
Kind Sir:
1 would like a few words in
your paper on a subject that
should be of interest to all who
believe in the fourteenth amend-
ment to our Constitution.
Now 1 notice where our City
Dads are going to hold an election
with the hope they can amend the
city charter, making it possible
for them to take in any adjoining
territory they see fit regardless
of the wishes of those people. Now
Hitler, Tojo and Russia, as well
as Red China, did the same thing,
only they used guns, tanks and
planes. We lost thousands of our
boys trying to stop the taking in
of property and putting it under
their rule. The difference is that
one used force; the other uses
votes that are not legal. The only
way this could be legal would be
to take a vote of the real estate
owners of the area affected and
see if they want to come into the
city, and incur the extra expense.
i live in the city and I have
no right to vote Tor a law that
would compel these people to bow
to the will of those who are want-
ing to feather their own nests.
My city taxes are greater than
my county and state taxes. While
I am getting the benefits of some
of these higher taxes, those peo-
ple annexed against their will
would pay the increased taxes for
years before they would get these
benefits. Then they would have to
pay for the sewer, water, side-
walks and curbs and all street
improvements, if and when they
got them, and believing in a free
country I cannot help to take any-
thing away from anyone against
their will. Therefore, 1 cannot
vote to annex a man’s property
against his will.
1 lost a boy in World War 11
defending our country’s rights
against those who would take
things by force either with guns
or with votes. I believe a man has
a right to say whether he wants
to come into the city and incur
that extra expense, don’t you? I
would like to hear from others on
this subject.
A reader who believes in fair
play, as laid down by our fore-
fathers.
Signed/W. C. Lane
124 E. Sears
Denison, Texas
NEW SUBSCRIBERS
Joe Anderson
R. L. Hall, Sherman
Harry Sarrett
Mrs. Joe Schnitker
W. C. Lane
Earl C. Burch
Ben Hillerman
A. M. Fisher
Mrs. C. C. Cooper
RENEWALS
Carl Devault
W. E. Matthews
Brownsville, Texas, is the only
city in the United States that ever
had an ordinance prohititing cam-
els on main street,
Other Eds Thoughts
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Man With a Horn
(Ft. Worth Press)
Hot weather tends to make peo-
ple nervous and irritable, as a
result of which there are more
arguments, fights and crimes com-
mited in anger in the summertime.
There also is more blowing of
automobile horns.
Since the people at whom horns
are blown probably are quite as
nervous and irritable as the people
who blow them, it is a wonder
horn-blowing does not cause more
arguments, fights and crimes com-
mitted in anger.
Last summer, as a matter of
fact, a citizen committed on a
Western street what the law calls
a crime, but many people regard
as a public service. He strode over
to the car of the hour-blower,
lifted its hood and pulled the
horn’s wire loose.
Such direct action is not pos-
sible in all cases, but there are
other ways of dealing with the
horn-blower. Those who blow their
horns the second a traffic light
changes can be encouraged to be
patient, or to have an apopletic
stroke, if the driver in front of
them will shut off his engine and
pretend to have run out of gas.
If tne law is on their side and
they feel adventurous, pedestrians
may punish the horn-blower by
stopping just in front of him to
scratch themselves or examine
their shoe-laces.
These measures are not for the
thinskinned, for they may bring
forth language unfit for children
and clergymen to hear. Still, doc-
tors say it is healthy to give way
to our strong emotions, lest re-
pressing them lead to a heart at-
tack.
It would be wonderful, though,
to live in a world where automo-
biles had no horns, or where peo-
ple didn’t blow them.
New Inflation Check
(Dallas News)
Unde Sam is stepping in again
lo temper the old cycle of boom-
bust.
No surprise to bankers is the
administration’s latest step to-
ward checking inflation. The
fractional hike in the interest rate
on
icuonai lime 111 UIC -----------
„„ bank borrowings from the Fed
eral Reserve banks is in line with
other anti-inflation actions taken
recently. Twice this year the down
payment for buying listed corpor-
ation stocks has been raised. And
lately a slight tightening was made
on the terms for home loans guar-
anteed by the government.
Government policy has become
one of the main factors in main-
taining our economic balance.
Gradually federal agencies have
acquired powers th'at give them
dominant control over credit.
Wisely used, these powers can ap-
ply brakes on dangerous trends
toward either inflation or defla-
tion. While they can’t achieve full
economic stability, they are an in-
fluence toward that end.
Soon after the Eisenhower ad-
ministration came in, it tightened
the easy-money policies that had
prevailed earlier. Months later,
too drastic, a slight relaxation
was made. One result was a great
boom in home building, and an-
other was a rise in the prices of
corporation stocks that has con-
tinued for nearly two years. Now
ti e time again has come for ap-
plying brakes to keep prices from
going dangerously high and to
keep credit from being spread
perilously thin. Rut the steps tak-
en thus far will not stand in the
way of any sound business loan.
“Fair Trade” Laws
(Wayne Gard in Dallas .News)
In recent years certain business
interests have been trying to im-
press Texas legislators with the
argument that this was almost the
only state without a so-called fair-
trade law. By this is meant a law |
that allows manufacturers to fix
the retail prices of their products
and that bars any retailer from
selling those products at any
prices below those fixed by the
manufacturer.
Rut that argument won't work
any longer. One by one, some of
the states that had such laws are
getting rid of them by court ac-
tion. This year courts in at least
four states have thrown out such
laws, or at least those provisions
which tried to bind Yetailers who
had not agreed with manufactur
us to maintain fixed prices.
First the Arkansas Supreme
Court invalidated the nonsigner
clause of that state’s fair-trade
law. Next the Supreme Courts of
Nebraska and Colorado took like
action. Then in Virginia a law and
equity court made a sweeping de-
cision to the same end. It held
that a Richmond jewelry store had
a right to sell watches at cut
prices.
Four years ago the United
triple is that it tends to stifle com-
petition and to place a premium
on inefficiency, ft also loads an
extra burden on the thrifty cus-
tomer by forcing him to pay a
higher price for what he buys. It
prevents the merchant from pass-
ing on to his patrons some of his
saving from volume turnover.
Some manufacturers are coming
around to this point of view. Last
November, General Electric freed
its list prices on stoves, refriger-
ators and other heavy appliances.
Now they may set their own
prices and, if they wish, may fight
the discounters with their own
weapons.
SENATOR RAY ROBERTS
State Senator Ray
Roberts back home,
speaks at Bonham
BONHAM—State Sen. Ray
States Supreme Court held""'that Roberts of McKinney was speaker
the nonsigner clause bf Louisiana
was in violation of the Sherman
Antitrust Act. But the next year
Congress tried to get around this
decision with the McGuire Act
that allowed the enforcement of
fair-trade agreements against non-
signers under valid state laws.
Now the state laws are begin-
ning to fall by the wayside. They
will mean little us long as they
Wednesday noon before members
of the Bonham Rotary Club, re-
viewing' briefly activities of the
1955 legislative session.
Senator Roberts told the Rotar-
ian.s of the three constitutional
amendments that will be voted
upon at the next general election,
voicing his objection to two of
them.
He said he opposed an amend-
do not apply to nonsigners of con- j ment which wguhl permit the Tex-
Iracts. A retailer won’t be much I A&M college and'Texas Univer-
interested in pushing, or even J s‘ty to invest one-half of their
handling, a product if his com-j permanent funds in stocks, other
petitor across the street is allow-
ed to cut its price while he is
bound by contract not to cut.
In the Nebraska case, an Omaha
druggist was haled into court for
selling at $19.95 an electric toast-
er on which the manufacturer had
fixed a price of $23.95. Since the
druggist had signed no contract to
maintain the fixed price the Neb-
raska Supreme Court held that he
had done no wrong. It invalidated
the fair-trade law as not in the
public interest and therefore un-
constitutional.
The Virginia law was invalidat-
ed on the ground that it amount-
ed to “price fixing by remote con-
trol” and that the nonsigner
clause was an unlawful delegation
of legislative power to private per-
sons. The court noted that the
case did not involve any decep-
tion or false labeling but was a
norma! retail sale.
The flaw in the fair-trade prin-
than bonds and municipal bonds
to which investment of the funds
have been restricted, and the
amendment which would permit a
doctor or psychiatrist and a judge
to commit a person to a mental
institution without a jury hearing.
He indicated he favors the
third amendment which would per-
mit the refusal of bail to a person
with two or more convictions and
out on bond at the time of his
arrest for another crime.
Senator Roberts said a total of
1,487 hills were introduced in
both house- of the slate legis-
lature for consideration during
the session. He said he would
favor a constitutional amendment
that would make the office of
lieutenant-governor of the state a
fell time job rather than putting
it on the same basis of a state
senator in which the lieutenant-
governor is paid for only 120 days
each two years.
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