The Daily News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 58, No. 191, Ed. 1 Sunday, August 12, 1956 Page: 9 of 12
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Sulphur Springs
Native Doubles
In Several Jobs
Mrs. C. R. Cox*’ of Sulphur
Spring’s recently received a clip-
ping about her son, Gene Martin,
Which was carried as a feature
story by John Moore in the Hous-
ton Post. The story was caption-
ed: “Pistol Packin’ Pastor Also Is
C of C Manager.” The item is re-
printed for its general interest to
Martin's friends and relatives in
{Sulphur Springs.
On the desk in front of Gene
Martin were the following:
A Hoiy Bible, a copy of “The
American Marksman,” a report
on the current status of the Bren-
ham Industrial Foundation, a re-
port on the current membership
status of the Washington County
Chamber of Commerce, an invi-
tation to attend a Jersey milk cow
exhibition, and a copy of a ser-
mon scheduled for delivery the
following Sunday.
Levi Eugene Martin, to use his
full name, is a busy man. He is
one of the newer citizens of Bren-
ham, but also one of the more ac-
tive residents.
Gene Martin, as everyone calls
him, is the minister of the Bren-
ham Church of Christ, which is
one of the smaller churches in
the community, having a congre-
gation which numbers less than
100. This church has grown
steadily, having started out a few
years ago with seven members.
You may refer to him as the
Rev. Mr. Martin, or Preacher
Martin, if you wish, but the mem-
bers of the Church of Christ pre-
fer to call their ministers “Mist-
er,” and Gene prefers to be called
“Gene.” He is called by his first
name across the length and
breadth of Washington County,
and is greeted informally by both
adults and small children.
“You can’t get close to people
and their problems unless they
feel they know you well enough to
call you by your first name,” said
Gene.
Mr. Martin currently is serving
as manager of the Washington
County Chamber of Commerce
during week days, the second time
that he has accepted this job dur- EVENT IN HISTORY
ing an emergency. The first time,
he served for five months without
pay. This time, however, the dir
rectors of the Chamber of Com-
merce have insisted on paying him
a small salary. The Chamber of
Commerce recently lost its man-
ager, and^a^o.faged the problem
of an unbalanced budget. Gene is
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anced.
He also is serving as manager
of the Brenham Industrial Foun-
dation, without pay. This organ-
ization has been successful in
bringing new industry to Bren-
ham.
By now, you have realized that
Gene is a man of boundless en-
ergy. He dresses informally most
of the time, wears cowboy boots
and often wears blue jeans down-
town. He rides horseback, on oc-
casion, and loves to hunt.
I reckon Gene does not fit the
mental picture which most people
have formed about a preacher.
He is of stocky build, he is plain
spoken, he does not deal in plati-
tudes, and he is quite likely to be
found engaged in some form of
physical activity.
The printed motto hanging
above the old roll top desk at
which Gene sits in the Chamber
of Commerce, expresses how he
feels about trying to get things
organized. It reads:
“Don’t let your pride get in-
flated; you may have to swallow
it some day.”
Gene’s hobby is marksmanship
and gun collecting, again, an un-
usual pursuit for a minister. Once
he had a sizeable pistol collection,
but today he has only one pistol,
which he keeps in a desk at home
alongside his New Testament.
He goes deer hunting every fall
and has a large private collection
of modern rifles, well equipped
with telescopic sights. Gene
shoots well enough to be able to
put on a marksmanship exhibi-
tion, which he does on occasion.
Gene became interested in the
ministry while he was serving in
the U. S. Navy during World War
II. The folks at Norfolk. Va.,
were without a pastor, so he start-
ed preaching on Sundays. He fil-
ed his declaration of intention as
a minister in November, 1945,
and came to Brenham as spiritual
leader of the local Church of
Christ in 1962.
Before that, he was coach of
the Smithville High School, where
he devoted most of his time to the
football team. Gene doesn’t see
any reason why a minister
shouldn't be active in as many
ft, ......
By LEO ANAVI
Washington, Aug. 11 Iff) — The
speech made by Prime Minister
Eden on Wednesday evening may
turn out to be the keystone of
the political arch of the West.
The British leader was painfully
frank in his outline of the British
position on the Suez Canal grab.
He said that Middle East oil that
passes through the canal is a mat-
ter of life and death for his coun-
try and most of Europe. He men-
tioned that the world’s commerce
depends on the waterway.
Then he went on to explain
that an alternate route — the
long route through the Cape of
Good Hope at the tip of South
Africa — would make the cost of
raw materials and goods prohibi-
tive.
Finally he stated why Britain
cannot leave the fate of the can-
al in the hands of Egypt. He
spoke of President Nasser’s bro-
ken pledges, of his campaign
against Britain and the West, of
his capricious and, at times,
•aggressive behavior.
Finally he said that if Nas-
ser’s action were to succeed, the
British and others would be at
the merely of one man for the
supplies on which they live. Brit-
ain, he warned, could never ac-
cept.
Eden did state that his gov-
ernment would be satisfied if an
international authority were to
be created. He gave assurances
of Britain’s intention to seek a
peaceful solution to the Suez
Canal dispute.
He also gave an explanation
for the deployment of British and
French forces in the Mediterran-
ean, describing it as a precaution-
ary measure.
But impressive as they are, the
arguments made by Eden are by
no means conclusive. Easy access
to raw materials and goods has
different phases of community
life as possible.
Gene also is a director of the
local Lions Club, the county tu-
berculosis association, and of the
Texas Independence Day Organ-
ization, which is seeking funds to
erect a monument at Old Wash-
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been on the world political agen-
da for decades. Eminent states-
men, have spoken of the need to
create pools and allow all na-
tions equal treatment. But that
principle has not been followed
in the past.
But two wrongs don’t make a
right. Also, Britain would not be
the only country to suffer if the
Suez Canal were to be misman-
aged. Nasser would have the
power to retaliate against any
ebuntry not to his liking. He has
shown himself to be spiteful. His
seizure of the canal was in retal-
iation against Britain and the
United States for withdrawing
their offer to help build a power
project on the Upper Nile.
The coming Suez conference in
London is for the purpose of
evolving a setup that will guar-
antee safe passage through the
canal — passage at a reasonable
price.
One sentence In Eden’s speech
is worth remembering. It’s where
he says the whole trend of the
world today is against taking self-
ish action for purely national
ends.
That is a pronouncement of
importance. It is the statement
of a high principle. But can it
be imposed on the'weak as well
as the strong? Will the free na-
tions accept it as a yardstick in
their relations?
Taken in that light, the Eden
speech on Wednesday may be de-
scribed as the week’s event in
history.
Election Case
To Reach Court
At San Anlonio
Brownsville, Aug. 11 (ff)—Ar-
guments on an appeal of the con-
tested Brownsville may oralty
election have been set for Octo-
ber 17th in the 4th Court of Civil
Appeals in San Antonio.
The count showed former May-
or Stokely defeated by. M. M.
Vickers by a small margin.
Stokely contested the election,
and the district court ruled in his
favor. Vickers has filed notice
of appeal, and the case record is
to be delivered to the 4th Court
next week.
Lighter Side
At Convention
Is Spotlighted
Chicago, Aug. 11 (ff—The seri-
ous business of a political conven-
tion tends to be over-powering.
But there is a lighter side.
Take the chairs the delegates
will sit in—possibly for hours at
a stretch. They’re opera type easy
chairs picked up by the arrange-
ments committee from an old
theater.
And telephones, there are
enough telephones in convention
hall—the International Amphi-
theater—to supply a small town,
4,000 in all.
There’s also the trick podium
on the speaker’s stand. It has a
built-in elevator that can be op-
erated so ns to make every speak-
er appear the same height.
And how about Butler’s
“baby.” That’s Democratic na-
tional chairman Paul Butler. His
“baby” is a built-in air-condition-
ing unit that will peur a stream of
cold air on the speaker as he
stands under the wilting heat of
the arc lights.
Nine hundred policemen will be
at the convention to take care of
law and order and traffic.
There will be 865 women
among the expected 4,640 dele*
gates and alternates.
And finally, how about the
sparkling newly-decorated suite
Former President Harry Truman
has at the Sheraton-Blackstone
Hotel.
There’s a telephone in the mas-
ter bathroom.
Senator Estes Kefauver has an
elegant suite just above the form-
er president, and Governor Aver-
ell Harriman has the one on the
floor below. The Harriman suite
has $35,000 worth of antiques
among the furnishings. And be-
sides, the sitting room is the “or-
iginal smoke-filled” room pt po-
litical tradition — where Warren
G. Harding, then a comparatively
little known senator, was picked
as the Republican candidate for
president in 1924.
Tressa and Linda Watson of Mc-
Kinney.
Visiting in the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Jack Melton is Mr. and Mrs.
Houston Powell and son, Jerry of
Elroy, Ari*.
Mr. and Mrs. Bobby Price and
son of Branom and Mrs. Marie
Heddick of Grand Prarie visited
their parents, Mr. and Mra. Frank
Price and were welcome visitors
at church, Sunday.
Norris Black of Houston was a
week-end visitor in the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Black.
Mrs. Black has returned from a
visit In Dallas with her children, spent the weetr-etid in Pt Worth,
while she was on vacation from Mrs. Hoover and Linda Beth r*»
the county clerk's office.
Mrs. Sue Fielden and Mpg S.
W. Phillips have returned from a
two weeks visit in Lubbock.
Mr. and Mrs. Alvie Phillips and
son, Don are on their vacation
this week. They will visit in Win-
gate and then go on to Sandia to
visit the Knolle Jersey Farm, be-
fore continuing on to Corpus
Christi.
Mr. and Mrs. Delbert Jones are
new residents in the community.
' Mrs, Agnes Hoover and children
turned home but David stayed tor
a longer visit with his uncle and
aunt, Mr. and Mra. L. O. Brown*
ing.
QUICK THINKING
Muncie, Ind. (ff—Officials of
nearby Yorktown did some quick
thinking when the dump mechan-
ism on a truck carrying hot an-
phalt through the town tripped ac-
cidentally. They did a fast job of
spreading the spilled asphalt over
the street. It was intended for a
job out of town.
Pakistan Opposes
Shift of Troops
To Suez Area
Karachi, Pakistan, Aug. 11 (ff
— A spokesman at the Pakistan
foreign office said today Pakis-
tan is “unhappy” about the move-
ment of British and French troops
toward Suez.
“This could further aggravate
the situation in the Middle East,”
he added.
The spokesman said Pakistan
would prefer the nations of Brit-
ish - sponsored Baghdad Pact to
remain aloof from the Suez Can-
al dispute. Pact members are
Pakistan, Turkey, Iran, Iraq and
Britain.
An official announcement said
the foreign minister (Hamidul
Haq Chowdry) will present Pak-
istan at the London cogjfprence
on the canal.
Searchers Find
Bones on Island
Port Isabel, Aug. 11 (ff—Men
searching neat' the scene of a six-
month-old plane crash on the
South Texas coast have found
three separate sets of bones which
they beileve to be the remains
of the men killed in the crash.
The bones were found on
Needle Island by .two deputy sher-
iffs who have carried on the
search since Monday when vol-
unteers quit after no sign of hu-
man remains were found. The
plane was discovered Sunday in
the’ Laguna Atascosa, near Port
Isabel.
The two deputies, Marshall
Rosscau and Marcus Dodson,
were joined in the search today
by newsman Brad Smith of Wes-
laco and two men from the U. S.
Fish end Wildlife Service.
The plane had been mlasing
since February 7th when it left
Houston on a flight for either
Brownsville or San Antonio.
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community during the last lew
days. Mr. and Mrs. Bert Ander-
son had as guests, their daughter
and family, Mrs. R. M. Hill of
Shreveport.
Mr. and Mrs. Eldon Ring en-
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Frailey, F. W. & Woosley, Joe. The Daily News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 58, No. 191, Ed. 1 Sunday, August 12, 1956, newspaper, August 12, 1956; Sulphur Springs, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth830230/m1/9/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hopkins County Genealogical Society.