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school year at Texas A and M
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turn of the Democratic Primary
| July 28. 1956:
ST \ TK REPRESENT \TIYE:
Virginia Duff. (Re Flection*.
SHERIFF:
Bull White. (Ro Flection*.
\\ ayne McCollum.
T\\ \SSESSOR ( OI LECTOR:
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ridiculous and that if the case
came to court, the State would
certainly lose it. In these inter-
views the official of the depart-
ment at Austin could not show
anywhere in the Orchard and
Nursery Inspection Laws where
a dual certificate is required,
nor could he define certain
plants normally sold .by both
florists and nurserymen as floral
stock or as nursery stock. The
What I regard as an attack ^ ^ ^ w ________ ___________
upon my reputation appeared in jntcrvjews jn my behalf were in
The Ennis Daily News Friday vajn and (he Department of Ag-
afternoon reporting the charges ricujture insists upon bringing
against me for alleged violation . charges to court
of The Orchard and Nursery) "
Inspection Laws of Texas. At in other instances where alleg-
any rate, one must agree that ed violations have occured, the
the story and the insipient■ courts and county attorneys
charges made against me are have not been consistent, in that
not calculated to enhance my
reputation and the satisfaction
one enjoys in possession of that
rather intangible quality.
Last January, upon comple-
some complaints have been re-
fused by the courts and county
attorneys, while others have
been pressed and brought to
trial. In inv particular case. 1
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WASHINGTON. D. C.—Con-
gressman Victor Wickersham,
the Oklahoma Democrat who
complains tliat a Congressman s
salary is too low to live on. con-
tinues to amaze both his col-
leagues and Washington real-
tors by the way he's able to roll
up profits. Not only does he
seem to have an uncanny in-
stinct for knowing in advance
where the government is going
to place new buildings, but he
has a knack of acquiring real es-
tate for next to nothing.
Take, for instance, his acquis
it ion of 832.5 acres of land ad-
jacent to the Everglades Nation-
al Park in Southern Florida It
didn't cost him a single, solitary
cent.
Here, according to the Con-
gressman's own explanation, is
how he managed this real-estate
legerdemain.
Wickersham heard that the
late I). A McDougal. oner of
Sapulpa, Okla.. Thome of M r s
Tom Dewey) had left 17 650
acres near the F.verglades Na-
tional Park when he died So
Wickersham made a deal with
the widow and two McDougal
daughters to take an option to
purchase for $10 an acre, or a
total of $176,500 This was a bat-
gain. inasmuch as oil has been
found in and around that area
The astute Congressman, who
humbly says he was "reared on
a cotton, wheat, and dairy
farm" near Mangum, Okla..!
then seared up some other real-
tors to whom he sold 90 p e r
rent of the land for 100 per cent
of wfiat it cost him In return, he
kept 5 per cent or 882.5 acres
as his fee.
Those who came in on t h e
deal were Gene Olmi. Dr. W. T
Bioch, and Tim MeCtie. all of
Alexandria. Virginia; Edgar F.
farms. Meanwhile, foreign coun-
tries are expanding their acre-
age at our expense."
Congresman Whitten had in
mind the following chapter of
reversals in the variegated, un-
predictable cotton policy of the
Eisenhower Administration:
1. Last August. Secretary of
Agriculture Benson wanted
to sell United States cotton
surplus abroad at competi-
tive world prices, but Sec-
retary of State Dulles said
no. He argued, among oth-
er things, that it. would
alienate Egypt.
2. Egypt bartered her cotton
for Communist arms, and,
regardless of Dulles’ but-
ter-up-Egypt policy, pro-
ceeded to blast the United
States daily over the Cairo
radio.
3. On February 28, Benson
announced that United
States surplus cotton
would bo sold aboard. Cri-
tics claimed this was done
m order to win over two
Mississippi votes. Eastland
and Stennis. against the
Democratic farm bill.
4 Benson's Commodity Cred-
it Corporation threw h i s
entire surplus of 6 700.000
bales on the world market.
But. after getting bids for
628 000 hales In- withdrew
most of it and sold only
10.000 bales.
This was what made the
Mississippi Congressman really
sore Earlier, in January, Ben-
son sold 1.000.000 bales in small
l lots, and sold it successfully.
DUMBING COTTON
"We sell 1.000.000 bales and
it moves in a short time,” ex-
claimed Whitten. "Bui what do
you do? You change your rog-
kets forever, you have not
really protected it or the Ameri-
; can taxpayer either.”
”1 agree with you,” nodded
McLain
He promised Whitten there
would be no let-up to dispose of)
j the surplus as previously prom-j
iscd by Benson.
BIG BUSINESS POLITICIAN
It isn’t often that a big busi-
nessman gets worried about big
business. But Charles VV. Engel-
hard. sole owned of the far-
flung Engelhard industries and
anion gthe ten wealthiest men
; in America, claims that t h c
tremendous trend toward mer-
gers in the U S A. is an in-
fluence toward socialism. As a
result he is worried about the
free-enterprise system.
“A big business administra-
i tion tends to restrict free enter-
prise to the point where the wel-
fare state will take over unless
we are very careful.” says Engel-
hard. “Opportunity.’ he contin-
ues. "can he killed by bigness,
and I am afraid that bigness to-
day under the Republicans is
taking away opportunity.”
Not satisfied with mcrlv ex-
pressing opinions. Engelhard
has jumped into the political
arena to run at the lowest level.
Last year he ran for the New
Jersey Senate as a Democrat,
and despite an 8-1 Republican
registration lost by only 370
votes out of 40.000 cast. How-
ever, he managed to roll up the
greatest record any Democrat
has, ever made in Somerest
County. He may be a figure to
watch, not only in the business
world, but in politics,
(Copyright. 1956—By The Bell
Syndicate, Inc.)
tion of the new Hospital Wing,!could see no reason why I should
Mayor Jack McKay consulted pay an additional fee for the.
several florists and nurserymen privilege of helping our hospital
here and in Dallas, regarding secure some inexpensive plants,
soiTie decorative shrubs and therefore 1 icfused to pay for
plants for the new wing. H c an additional certificate, con-
finally found what he wanted in tending that the plants involved
Dallas and was told by the had been inspected at the Dallas
wholesale nursery he consulted Nursery and could not have pos-
that they (the nursery) could not sibly been contaminated to such
sell the plants wanted directly an appreciable extent while in
to the City of Ennis but that he transit from Dallas to Ennis as
would sell him the plants only to require another inspection
through a retail florist or nur- fee. as 1 did not intend to enter
sery. After this, Jack McKay the nursery business in Ennis,
consulted me in arranging for nor anywhere else,
the plants desired. j jiavc noj cvcn discussed
I checked the prices he had t|u,sc alleged charges with mv
been given by the Dallas nur-|own attorncv. a.s 1 intend to ap-
sery and decided 1 could s a v e as my own counsel in Jus-
the City a little more money b> jjcc (/ourt Monday Morning
purchasing the plants through Perhaps mv aUorncV will not
another Dallas wholesale nur- agrce with mv decision, but 1 in
scry, which saving, as I recall. tend t0 defcnd mVself against
amounted to something live five thcsc eharges. I know that my
cents per plant under the price many friends arc wondering how
the City had been quoted. I hen j |iavc violated any laws, and
the Mayor gave me a purchase haps this statement will clar-
order for the plants and they ,fy ,he nature of mv transgres-
wcrc delivered to the hospital.
Shortly after this, some local
nursery reported to The State
Department of Agriculture that
1 had viloated the Nursery Laws
in selling the plants to the city,
and apparently a great deal of
pressure has been brought to
bear on forcing a hearing on my
sions against my society.
Paul A. Grafton.
Bobby Parker
Apprentice CPO
SAN DIEGO. Calif. (Spl).
alleged violation of the Nursery Selected at the Naval Training
Laws. After about ten years in Center. San Diego, Calif. as ap-
business. it is appaienl to me pr<,n(ice chief pet tv officer wav
that the so-called Orchard and Bol)hv j. parkcr. of Ennis.
Nursery Inspection Laws of Tex-
as arc very vague—and I find The Apprentice Petty Offi-
that there is not one reference eers, scheduled to graduate May
in these laws to a florist being 12. arc chosen from the ranks
required to have a separate ccr- of the seaman recruits to assist
tificate to sell nursery stock, nor the Company Commanders. The
for a nurseryman to have a selection is made on the basis
florist’s certificate. of aptitude and leadership quali-
A representative of die Texas ties of each individual.
State Florists Association has
had several interviews with an ' ‘
official of the Department of
Agriculture at Austin, endeav-
oring to have the charges
against me dropped on t h e
grounds these charges were
Burch of Fort Lauderdale; and ulation and wait only t w o
\llan Gruzee of Washington In
ether words, they put up the*
money, Wickersham got a nice j
chunk of land free.
NOTE—Wickersham also ac
quirerl 376 acres on the Potomac
River which the Geological
Survey now covet; also bought
eight acres near Colorado
Springs, where the Air Force
Mademy is being located; ne-
gotiated for 1 a n ri in Virginia
near the future Central Jntelli
genre Agency Building; a n d
owns two tracts of land in West-
ern Maryland between the pro-j
posed GS site and the n e w
Atomic Energy Commission
Building
( OTTON GYRATIONS
The rhangeableness of Ezra
Benson in wanting to sell his
roiion surplus, then not selling
it. tlien pre/iising to sell it. then
withdrawing it has Congress-
man Jamie Whitten of Missis-
sippi really sore
"I seem wrought up and I
am. he said frankly to Benson's
a'-'-istan* secretary. M L Mr-
l.ain at a special appropriations
ub< ommittee meeting railed
after Congress learned that
Benson had refused to sell 628.-
Out) bales of cotton after receiv-
ing foreign offers for it which
Benson considered too low-.
"Your failure to sell,” t h e
Congressman pointed out. "has
forced drastic slashes in cotton
acreage As a rssult 55.000 fanv
• dies have been forced off their
months before you offer a n v
more and then you offer t h e
whole lot. placing a floor o n
what bids you will accept!”
At this point McLain jumped
t.o the defense of ttic* CCC.
"I think you would have been
the first to criticize us if we
had accepted all the bids under
any type of purchase like this.”
protested Hie Agriculture offi-
cial "We have people who
would like to even steal if they j
could That is only natural and
good business.”
Whitten agreed that extrem-1
oly low bids have to be rejected
in order to avoid injury to for-
eign cotton growers. But. he in-
sisted, the CCC had definitely
encouraged low bids by throw-
ing its entire stock ol 6,700,000
bales on the market. Instead,
the Mississippi Democrat de-
clared. the CCC should offer its
cotton a I it t tic bit at a lirtie,
"You arc concerned about tho
CCC.” said Whitten So am I
But you are missing a broader
point If you channel all t h r
United States cotton into t h e
CCC and have to keep on sitting
on d. and hold it paying storage,
while we lose our foreign mar-
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Lions Complete
Spring Training
The Ennis Lions completed
spring football training Friday
with light drills.
Eighteen players participated
in the final session. They were;
Randall Wylie. Jackie Walker,
David Kirkpatrick. Carl Martin,
.lorry Peebles, Harris Connell.
Seb Allen, Billy Glaspy, Jack
McAdams, Lee Contrares. Bobby
Wilhoite, Terry Smith, Stephen
Parks, Robert Erisman. Jerry
Norman, Ray Clark Roberts,
lack Blackwood and Marvin
Adams.
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Bus, Daniel W. The Ennis Daily News (Ennis, Tex.), Vol. 65, No. 119, Ed. 1 Saturday, May 19, 1956, newspaper, May 19, 1956; Ennis, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth801519/m1/2/: accessed April 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Ennis Public Library.