The Clifton Record (Clifton, Tex.), Vol. 74, No. 51, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 9, 1969 Page: 2 of 12
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Clifton, Texas
Thursday, January 9, 1969
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Mr. Speaker We Think There Is
A Scandal to be Investigated!
Hooray for Lt. Governor-elect Ben
Barnes and State Rep. Vernon Stewart of
Wichita Falls, who is chairman of the
Texas House Juvenile Delinquency Com-
mittee!
It is, to say the least, refreshing to
read that two of our state’s leaders at
long last have had the courage actually
to come out and publicly DEFEND some
guards accused of brutality at the Gates-
ville State Boys School. What is even
more surprising is that they even went
so far as to REPRIMAND the hoodlum
inmates who did the accusing, and to ex-
pose their lies and confiscate their “jig-
gers” (you know, the makeshift knives
that a few years ago were called
“shivs”).
If this sounds a bit cynical, this wri-
was quoted as telling Rep. Stewart that
more than 40 guards had been fired in
the past five years for hitting and curs-
ing inmates.
The Record doesn’t doubt that this
many guards have been fired. What we
wonder is whose testimony, as to who
cursed and hit who, was believed?
The Record has no quarrel with Dr.
Turman’s nor anyone else’s efforts to
rehabilitate inmates at the juvenile de-
tention centers in Texas. We believe that
at least 90, percent of the judges in Texas’^
court system bend over backwards to
give youthful offenders the benefit of
the doubt time after time before finally
being forced to sentence many-time of-
fenders to the reform schools. It seems
Letters
From
Reeders
Humble Chamber of Commerce
Humble, Texas 77338
December 31. 1968
Mr. Sam D. Logan. Jr., Editor
The Clifton Record
310 West 5th Street
Cttftoo. Texas 70634
Dear Mr. Logan.
I just finished reading with
great concern your editorial on
the formation of the Clifton In-
dustrial Foundation.
First of all. please allow me
to commend you on your support
and efforts toward this founda-
tion. Industrial development is
a must for many reasons. The
job must be done and there must
be a proper vehicle. The Clifton
Industrial Foundation has to be
the local answer in your town.
If we can be of any assistance
to you and your efforts, please
call upon us.
Sincerely,
Rick Dickson
Executive Vice-President
ter might very well admit that it^ is. be- t0 us that when a youth has turned so
ranee there are mute a feu- like mvself sour t),at a judge IS finally forced to sen-
cause there are quite a few like myself
who’ve lived in Central Texas for a
number of years- who remember a few
years ago when the “bad little boys”
(that’s not my deserpition of them) club-
bed to death Guard Billy Malone. I doubt
that his widow and fatherless children
will soon forget it either.
About that same time another inci-
dent occurred in which 100 or more in-
mates actually just walked away from
the School.
During that time this writer was
editor of the Hamilton Herald-News, and
at that time we severely critized Dr.
James Turman who is director of the
state juvenile program. We also criticized
the Texas Youth Council (the state com-
mission to which Dr. Turman is answer-
able) for allowing his policies to be ad-
ministered over the head of the then su-
perintendent of the Gatesville State
School.
This editor was not then, nor is
he now, an authority on either the gen-
eral rehabilitation techniques used by
sociologists or >the specific situation at
the Gatesville school.
But we contend that it does not take
a very high degree of intelligence, nor
i lot of research to know that there is
something wrong with the policy which
allows an inmate to keep a baseball bat
under his mattress, while the guard as-
signed to his barracks isn’t even allowed
to carry a night stick.
Neither does it take a mental giant
to figure out that there is something
wrong with the policy that lets a situa-
tion develop in which 100 of its inmates
just up and walk out the front gate or
climb the back fence, all within a few
hours time.
Several judges and several newspa-
pers criticized Dr. Turman when this
happened, but nothing happened on the
state level at that time to even investi-
gate his methods, much less censor him.
While The Record applauds Speaker
Barnes and Rep. Stewart for giving this
at least their attention, I think Barnes
was mistaken when, according to an As-
sociated Press story Tuesday, he said:
“ . . . the Texas Juvenile Program has
been tried publicly.” and there is “no
evidence to show that we’ve got a scan-
dal.”
The Record believes there is evi-
dence of scandal, and right at the top
echelon of the juvenile program.
In the AP story Tuesday Dr. Turman
tence him, that this is coming close to
a last resort effort, and that the hope is
slim for real rehabilitation of him.
But our point is that even if the
chances of rehabilitating him were very
good, this effort must by all logic take
a secondary role to that of keeping him
separated from law abiding citizens un-
til he has truly “reformed”.
While most of us do have compassion
in our hearts for the lad or lass who has
turned to crime, there are still a few
of us who have more compassion and
sympathy for the innocent victims of
these crimes.
And there are still a few of us who
believe that the "over permissiveness”
which seems to have dominated the
thinking of a majority of our country’s
sociologists during the past decade or
longer, has gone on long enough. This
thougHt may be currently showing up
as a reaction in the general hue and cry
for a return to “law and order’
If Dr. Turman was quoted correctly
that 40 guards have been fired, then The
Record would go so far as to recommend
that this also be investigated by Rev.
Stewart’s committee. While there is no
doubt that there will be a few brutes ac-
cidently hired as guards before they are
. found out, we are prone to take the
guards’ side.
While it is almost a sure bet that
the majority of inmates are incorrigible,
it’s an even better bet that the big major-
ity of guards are family men who are
trying to make a honest living. In fact,
we expect most of these guards have a
more than average amount of patience
and dedication first to be able to put up
with these punks. And the pay they re-
ceive is a long way from tops in the state.
To put it another way, which had
you rather be, a guard at the Gatesville
State School, or a guard at the State
Penitentiary in Huntsville, where guards
ARE allowed to carry a weapon for Self-
defense?
If 40 guards have been fired in five
years and even 10 of them have been
fired unjustly, then that is 10 families
that have suffered because of the loss of
the breadwinner’s job, and because of the
humiliation he suffered.
If this isn’t a scandal and isn’t worth-
y of serious investigation, then I’d like to
know what is?
_Sam Logan
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Members Exceed Goal
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The 114 members of First Bap-
tist Church at Laguna Park had
a challenging goal of $87663 for
their 1368 Christmas Lottie Moon:
Foreign Mission offering.
The goal has been exceeded by !
more than $130. for which the
members are thankful. They
contributed a total of $1,006.56.
SHOP IN CLIFTON AND SAVE!
-» Sonora, Texas
January 6, 1969
J. W. Smith, Publisher
Clifton Record
Clifton, Texas
Dear Mr. Smith:
If ever I have a chance to vis-
it in your city, I know it will
be a pleasure.
The generosity, kindness and
good sportsmanship your people
showed in sending letters and
telegrams wishing our football
team good luck in our State Play-
offs was overwhelming. I wish
to take this opportunity to ex-
press my personal appreciation.
I hope an occasion will arrive
when we can reply in kind.
Yours truly,
Mrs. A. E. Prugel
Calendar
of Events
In and Near Clifton
Monday ,Jan. 13
Drivers Licenses DPS patrol-
man at Courthouse. Meridian.
(Each Monday except FIRST.)
Friday, Jan. 17
Tuesday, Jan. 14, 1960—
Clifton Lions Club meeting-
luncheon at City Hall Dining
Room — noon.
Wednesday, Jan. 15, 1940-
CHfton Ministers’ Alliance
meeting at Trinity Lutheran
Church — 10:30 a m. All minis-
ters in Clifton area are invited.
Bosque County Church Women
United will meet at 2:30 p.m.
at Our Savior’s Lutheran Church,
Norse, (annual meeting).
Tuesday, Jan. 21
Social Security representative
will be at the Clifton City Hall
Dining Room—9:30 a m.
Tuesday, Jan. 26, 1949-
Bosque County Cancer Society
meets at Mosheim School — 7:30
p.m.
Sunday, Feb. 2
Regular first Sunday Singing
at Lanes Chapel. Everyone in-
vited.
January A February
Bosque County Memorial
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INDUSTRIAL OFFICIALS—The Texas Industrial Com-
mission has elected new officers to guide the state’s indus-
trial development. Chester C. Wine, left, of Corpus Christi
was named chairman, succeeding Ray H. Horton of Hous-
ton, who is retiring after six years. Claude W. Brown of
McCamey, center, was named vice-chairman and Warren
G. Woodward of Dallas, right, was elected secretary-
treasurer.
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