The Clarksville Times (Clarksville, Tex.), Vol. 75, No. 36, Ed. 1 Friday, September 26, 1947 Page: 15 of 16
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* Thirteen States
Do Not Employ
Women on Juries
Washington, Sept. 19—A new |
battle over states' rights may be
In the making when Congress faces
the question of whether women
shall serve on federal Juries In
Texas, says Glenn D Everett In
the Ft. Worth Star-Telegram.
Texas Is one of the 13 states
which still bar Jury duty to women.
Congress has two bills on Its agen-
da which would make It mandatory
for federal courts to draw their
panels from among "all qualified
cl tl»e ns."
The U. 8. Judicial Code provides
that federal Juries may have worn-!
en members of the law of the state
§ where the federal court Is situated
permits women to serve as Jurors.
Utah, In 1898, was the first state
to make women eligible for Jury
duty. No other state followed suit
until Washington in 1911. Call- i
fcmia Joined In 1917, the first state
to make Jury service compulsory
for both sexes, and a score of states
hastened to admit women to juries
after passage of the 19th Amend- j
ment. Maryland, North Carolina
and 8outh Dakota have been the
latest states to fall In line. Their
Legislatures passed laws admitting
wfmen to Jury duty this spring.
Texas however, has never allow-
ed women to serve on either state
or federal Juries.
Bill Favored
The battle In Congress will cen-
ter around a Senate bill, S. 18,
sponsored by Senator McCarran of
Nevada, former chairman of the
Judiciary committee. The bill hss
been favorably reported by the
Republican - controlled committee
and will be on the legislative cal-
£endar when the Senate returns.
The measure is understood to have
the support cf the Republican
leadership, Including Senator Taft
FIRST STEP8—ON HATED GERMAN SOIL—Backgrounded by barbed
wire, a Jewish refugee father helps his child take its first steps in
Oppendorf Camp, near Luebeck. Oermany. The father was one ot
hundreds of Jewish refugees forcibly returned to Germany after their
unsuccessful attempt to land in Palestine from the SS Exodus 1947.
AMERICAN
LEGION
Meets at
Legion Hall
Monday Night
7:30
im
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lays ot
i homo
nfortju
of Ohio, who Is sponsor of a wo-
men's rights bill.
A companion bill, H, R. 943,
sponsored in the House by Repre-
sentative Celler of New York, Is
apparently stalled In a subcommit-
tee headed by Representative Rob-
ison of Kentucky. Although Ken-
tucky now admits women to It*
Juries, there were bitter fights over
the issue In the State Legislature,
and Robison Is believed to look
with disfavor upon the proposal.
The fact that 1948 is an election
year and both parties are wooing
the women's vote enhances the
prospect for passage of the legis-
lation. Democratic national lead-
ers are conducting a vigorous cam-
paign for the vote of housewives
by pointing to the high cost of
living.
The Republicans will not miss
a trick either In 1948 to persuade
women that the OOP Is a party
that sticks up for their rights.
Court Rejects
The Supreme Court has spoken
several times about women serving
on federal Juries. In Ballard v.
United States (1946) the court re-
jected an Indictment of a woman
In a mall iraud* case because wo-
men were systematically excluded
from jury panels even though they
were eligible under state law. It
Is only one step from this decision
to the rejection of Indictments
drawn In states such as Texas
which bar women from all Jury
duty.
One loophole exists in, pending
legislation. Federal Judges are
given broad powers to exempt cit-
izens from jury duty classes and
groups. This discretion might be
used by federal judge in Texas to
excuse women, as a group, from
jury duty. Leading women's or-
ganizations are urging amendment
of the McCarran bill to exclude
this possibility.
If the McCarran bill is passed,
one more of Texas' state’s rights
will have been abridged, although
Texas could still bar women from
service on state and local Juries.-
Other states banning Jury duty
by women which would be affected
by the bill, Hre Florida, Georgia,
Mississippi, New Mexico, Okla-
homa, South Carolina, Tennessee^
Virginia, West Virginia, Wyonilng
''and the lone New England holdout,
Massachusetts.
I
Lilacs weyq first found grow-
ing wild in the Balkan Mountains.
Announcement
\ / «
I have returned 1<* the
private practice of
GENERAL
ENGINEERING
Land Surveys
City Property
Special Missle
Ships to Carry
Giant Rockets
By Robert M. Farrington
Washington—Navy officers agree
that the firing of a German V-2
from the deck of the 45,000-ton
carrier Midway was a demonstra-
tion of a sea-going launching site,
rather than a new role for the flat-
tops.
They believed It extremely un-
likely that carriers of the future
will be expected to fire big rockets
and launch airplanes too. Special
guided missle ships will be the
thing in their opinion. In an-
noui cing the test the Navy said
It "will mark the beginning ol a
Over 1,600,000
Federal Workers
Lose Their Jobs
Washington---i/P)—President Tru-
man holds the world's record for
firing" having discharged more
than 1J»0,0C0 Government em-
ployees within the past two years.
"Never before In the history of
this or any other country," he told
the National Federation Of Federal
Employees in a letter, "has a single
employer within such a short
period cf time, been called upon
to discharge 1,680,000 persons."
Two • years ago, the President
pointed out, there were 1,770,000
persons on the Qcvernment pay
roll, where today 1 there are only
3,088,000.
Tills reduction In staff has left
about 1,9.0 cares* workers—those
with permanent Civil Service stat-
us—here In Washington who
haven't found other jobs.
The President took occasion
again in his letter to the Federa-
tion to call on Government agen-
cies to take on these people in
place of war service and temporary
employees wherever the career
workers are equally qualified for
the Job.
Efficiency Sought
It was noted, however, that he
emphasized repeatedly that the
Jobless career worker must be
proved fully qualified before he
Is given a new position.
Department heads have protest-
ed vigorously at some of the un-
qualll led Civil . Service employees
forced upon them in place of com-
petent war service personnel. They
have charged that this policy of
enforced employment of Civil Ser-
vice employees over war service
workers Is resulting In a deterior-
ation in Government service.
The President Is reported to be
alert to this danger and to have
told his Cabinet members chat he
did not want poor and Inefficient
employees, regardless of their Civil
Service employees over war-agency.
Priorities Defined
But he has appealed lor coopera-
tion In the placement of qualified
workers.
“I believe it to be the responsi-
bility cf the Federal Government,”
he said, “to see that those Vho
choose to make its service a ca-
reer are protectea In their right to
usefuul and eiflctent employment
as long as there are positions for
BEAU BUUs—Now retired. Fleet
Admiral William F. "Bun” Halsey
cuts Just as dashing a figure in
civvies” as he did in his uniform.
Above, he gives Chicago, a glimpse
of his snappy cheeked coat, polka
dot,tie and white hat.
new era In naval weapons."
which their qualifications are suit- from Texarkana to Odessa; along
ed occupied by temporary or war- highway 75 from Dallas,to Qalves-
servlce employees. I ton; highways 77 and 81 from the
To this end it Is the policy of Bed river to Brownsville! and hlgh-
the Government to return to duty way 90 from San Antonio to Beau-
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ue' from the jobs the career employees routes. The towers along highway
■■ "* ~J” '----teen
Birds and People
Behave Similarly
In a Hurricane
Gulfport, Miss. -GV- Pelicans
and people act pretty much alike
In » hurricane
They both take a beating. They
both get excited and do the wrong
thing. They both get killed But
Somehow the Pelicans manage to
be a little more dignified about It
With hurricane winds sailing tin
roots around the premise#, knock-
ing out power lines sad converting
main street ot Gulfport In an ex-
pensive Imitation of an artillery (
barrage, both the pelican* and the
people bad a tough time of H.
yesterday.
By mid-afternoon, thing* were so I
notoy and oonfuaad that the two
groups were walking the same
sidewalk and hiding behind the
same shelter.
The pelican* had given up the
idea of flying.
Shortly after what would have
been lunch, If the restaurant peo-
ple couln have got asounn to cook-
ing It, I spotted what appeased to
be the last two air minded pelican*
In town.
They weee flying Into the wind
doing U badly, but solemnly.
The neeclt was that the pelicans
flew backwards, sort of tipped up
on their tails.
They looked like two grave, big
nosed little men rowing a boat.
Only there wasn't a boat. One ol
them landed uncomfortably. One
landed fatally. The survivor care-
fully checked bis equipment and
soon found another friend.
, . , I The two of them fought their
construction of 15 steel sntenna* way froro the beach to a downtown
towers for a state-wiri# < highway position from which they studied
mobile radio telephone system lor [Thead-shaking sUenci tke drifts
Texas has been ewiuded by the of powdered plate glass and carom-
Southwestem BeU Telephone com-, tng scrap* ot sheet metal. !
pany to the J. F. Beasley Construe- | But most of the downtown pell-'
tloo company of Dallas, G. L. cang appeared fairly happy. They I
Stewart, division manager of the looked as though their feet hurt,1
telephone company, announced. ^ but you could see they were sold
Construction will start within the on the idea of walking.
r.ext several weeks, he said. | They wore their rain darkened
Mobile radio telephone service brown leather* with deep ease and
from the Red river to the Gulf and they thdn't yell “boy what a blow,”
from Texarkana almost to New cr 'never saw the like of It.”
Mexico Is scheduled to be placed And most admiral of all, they
In operation In Texas during the didn’t discuss the wind velocity,
i first six months of 1948, Stewart
I said.
1 The, towers will be erected along
highway 80, covering the territory
They go
need a
"They got
eieetrtcnr-
Hoteri lobbies were crammed with
them and tbsir vetoes.
‘(•Imply don't understand this
hotel." < A very fat cne.
no water. They got no
got no radio. Just when you
radio most they don't have
U. And as I was telling Emmy,
even If I dont have radio J got to
have shaving water."
A very thin representative of the
people, looked at the Hump repre-
sentative; "You don’t need shave:”
Crash outside, among wind velo-
The hotel, a many story- struc-
ture began shimmying like a ten-
cent fishing-pole.
So there you have It, the hurri-
cane, tht people and the pellcsaa.
And the moral, If them Is one
tire.
know*
Deee
bear wits
hurricane
The apricot Is a
Texas to Have
Mobilel Highway
Radio Service
Dallas, Texas—(AT—Contract for
IN MOTHER’S OATS PREMIUM PAO
Two New Missile Ships
Two ships under construction,
the 45,000-ton battleship Kentucky
and the 27,500-ton large cruiser
Hawaii, are being converted Into
guided missile ships. '
The catch Is that nobody knows
what a guided missile ship should
be, and work Is proceeding very |
slowly while Navy planners test
out theories and ideas.
Best bet at present is that they
will be fast, able to take the j
pounding of a battleship, have!
provisions. against atom bomb
blasts and, of course, fire big rock- |
ets and controlled missiles.
Meanwhile, the stock ol captured l
V-2s is dwindling and the Navy Isj
locking forward to experimenting
with Its brand-new rocket, the |
Neptune, slated for testing next
June.
Advance publicity on the Amer-
ican-made rocket predicts It will
soar 235 miles into the air, twice
as far as the V-2 has gone in New
Mexico altitude tests. Experts. be-
lieve the 235-mlle figure may be
exceeded considers b)| when the
Neptune is finally tried out. Pre-
sumably it might be capable of
600 miles In a horizontal direction.
The Neptune’s Load
About as long as the V-2 (46
feet), the Neptune Is much slim-
mer. over 7,000 of its fully loaded
weight of 11,410 pounds is taken
up by fuel. It Is scheduled to carry
one ton of Instruments (or explo-
sive) In Its nose. ,
The Navy regards It as the larg-
est practical rocket for shipboard
use and from It expects to learn
enough to design actual war rock-
ets for the Kentucky and Hawaii.
Years will pass, according tq the
best naval opinion, before perfec-
tion of the truly long-range rocket,
complete with an atomic bomb for
a warhead.
are qualified to H1L”
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vill be completed first. Including
but rather seemed to accept tt as
a routine element of hurricane.
eht beach pelicans were differe-
nt.
they refused to accept a new mode
Of travel after years of coasting
where they pleased. On the gentle,
tax-free glut breezes.
So they died, most of them vic-
tims of basty landings, thler bro-
wn bodies Uttered the beaches, the
wounded walk around tlredly am-
ong the dead, then sat down beside
them and waited for wind-borne
deaths.
As with the people, it was different
at any rate, It was different with
many of the peole. They had a gr-
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HOT BREATH OF LAW
SLIGHTLY MIXED UP
San Jose, Calif.—(/P)_The Police
Department's brand new “drunko-
meter consists of a balloon which
a suspected drunk Is required to
inflate. His breath from the bal-
loon Is then passed through chemi-
cals to determine the alcohol con-
tent.
The first drunk tested tried 15
minutes to blow up the balloon,
but was too drunk to do It.
Waldrep ins. Agency. Phone 503
tlons at Powell, Buffalo, Hunts- •** deal to aay about the hurricane.
(PREMIUM PACKABE)
and Houston.
era at Wgco, Temple, Pettus,
San Manuel and Leg FYasnos will
complete the north-south routes.
Campbell Ranger/ Big Spring
and Odessa will be, location* of
east-west towers. .
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GAS MASK TOYS
Sydney —(A*)— A Sydney depart-
ment store has put on sale hun-
dreds of U. 8. Army gag masks at
4 cents each. They were advertised
as providing "happy hours for
kiddies . . . Includes 1 1-2 yards
by 7-8 Inch elastic."
and moat of them neither walk nor i
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Pinson, Joe. The Clarksville Times (Clarksville, Tex.), Vol. 75, No. 36, Ed. 1 Friday, September 26, 1947, newspaper, September 26, 1947; Clarksville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth921589/m1/15/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Red River County Public Library.