The Aspermont Star (Aspermont, Tex.), Vol. 60, No. 20, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 24, 1957 Page: 3 of 6
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Thursday, January 24, 1956
The Aspermont Star, Aspermont, Texas
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By VEEN SANFORD
Texas Press Association
AUSTIN, Tex. — Gov. Price
Daniel has lined up an impress-
ive array of goals for himself
and fellow officials during the
next two years.
His message to the Legislature
detailed 25 points. He labeled
four as "emergencies".
Getting top priority were (1)
water conservation (he suggest-
ed doubling the proposed $100,-
000,000 bond program); (2) ad-
ditional highway patrolmen and
other safety measures; (3) laws
to facilitate right of way buy-
ing for highways; and (4) a
crime commission to guard
against official misconduct, curb
lobbying, etc.
Governor Daniel also recom-
mended pay raises for teachers
and state employees, local de-
cisions on school segregation, in-
creased old age pensions, aboli-
tion of dual banking-insurance
operations, more money for in-
surance law enforcement, im-
proved penal statutes for insur-
ance and security controls, use
of state funds for advertising,
and upping workmen's compen-
sation benefits.
He said he favors a $5,000,000
prison building program, a paid
adult parole system, laws to
curb juvenile crime, revision of
the state constitution, a con-
tinued state office building pro-
gram (including an archives
building), improved narcotics
laws, a study of the needs of
the handicapped, election law
changes, and a long-range study
of the state tax structure.
Legislative comment following
the talk was favorable.
Enactment of the total pro-
gram would almost certainly re-
quire more revenue than the
state has in sight. Daniel made
no flat promise against new
levies, except for sales and per-
sonal income takes.
His budget message, to come
later, will detail costs with sug-
gestions for new revenue, if ne-
cessary.
xxx
Weil-Heeled Cowhand
Texas' new temporary U.S.
Senator, William Blakely, per-
sonifies the Southwestern suc-
cess story.
He began his career as an
Oklahoma wrangler, went on to
become a Dallas lawyer, CPA
and a top-bracket financier.
His millions are spread among
tremendous real estate and oil
holdings, three insurance com-
panies and a controlling interest
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NOTICE TO BIDDERS
The Commissioners' Court of
Stonewall County, Texas, at the j
February Regular Term on the t
11th day of February, 1957, will
receive bids from Banks, and
other qualified associations, to
act as depository for the next
two years for all county and
school funds of Stonewall
County, Texas, until 10 o'clock
A.M. at the office of County
Judge, at the Court House, As-
permont, Texas.
B. A. CUMBIE.
County Judge, Stonewall
County, Texas. 1-17 3c
GEO. C. KENADY
Legally Registered Pharmacist
Phone 321 1 Aspermont
Legal Notice •
NOTICE TO BIDDERS
Sealed proposals will be re-
ceived by the Commissioners'
Court of Stonewall County,
Texas, at the office of the
County Judge in the Court
House, Aspermont, Texas, until
2:00 p.m. on the 28th day of
February, 1957, for the erection
of a 90 foot span bridge across
Stinking Creek, about six and
one-half miles north or Asper-
mont, Texas, in Commissioners'
Precinct No. 2, of Stonewall
County, Texas.
Specifications are on file in
the office of B. A! Cumbie,
County Judge.
Bidders must submit certified
check or bidder's bond in the
sum of five per cent (5%) of
j the maximum amount of bid,
payable to Roy G. Anderson,
County Auditor, Stonewall
County. Texas, as a guaranty
that bidder will enter into con-
tract and commence work with-
in 10 days after notice of award
of contract to him. Bids with-
out required check or bid bond
will not be considered.
The Commissioners' Court re-
serves the usual right to reject
any or all bids.
B. A. CUMBIE,
County Judge, Stonewall
County, Texas. l-l7 2c
in Braniff Airways.
His first whirl at politics
seems destined for success, too.
He is a friend, not only of out-
going Gov. Allan Shivers, who
made the eleventh hour ap-
pointment, but also of new Gov.
Price Daniel, Senate Majority
Leader Lyndon Johnson and
President Eisenhower.
Blakely said he will vote with
Democrats in the Senate, not
upsetting the party's perilous
48-47 majority. Nor will he
seek election.
xxx
Senate Leaders
Key chairmanships in the
Texas • Senate are in the hands
of Sens. William S. Fly of Vic-
toria and Wardlow Lane of
Center.
Lt. Gov. Ben Ramsey assign-
ed Fly to the finance commit-
tee, Lane to state affairs. Sen.
George Parkhouse of Dallas,
who headed the interim Water
Resources Committee, will be
water and conservation chair-
man.
Senate committee system was
overhauled this year and the
number trimmed from 39 to 24.
All chairmen, except Charles
Herring of Austin (state depart-
ments and institutions) are re-
turning members.
Others are: Agriculture and
livestock, George Moffett of
Chillicothe; banking, Jarrad Se-
crcst of Temple; claims, DAVID
FtATLIFF of Stamford; consti-
tutional amendments, Jimmy
Phillips of Angleton; contingent
expenses, Crawford Martin of
Hillsboro; counties, cities and
towns, Frank Owen, III, of El
Paso; education, Doyle Willis of
Fort Worth; game and fish,
Abraham Kazen, Jr., of Laredo:
insurance, Searcy Bracewell of
Houston.
Also, interstate cooperation,
Ottis E. Lock of Lufkin; juris-
prudence, R. A. Weinert of Se-
guin; labor and management,
Carlos Ashley of Llano; legisla-
tive, congressional, and judi-
cial districts, Martin; military
and veterans affaris, Ray Rob-
erts of McKinney; governor's
nominations. Lock; oil and gas,
Dorsey B. Hardeman of San
Angelo; privileges and election,
W. T. Moore of Bryan; public
health, Mrs. Neveille Colson of
Navasota; rules, Weinert; trans-
portation, Jep Fuller of Port
Arthur. z
xxx
Steakley Sworn In
First executive appointment
approved by the Senate was
Austin Attorney Zollie Steak-
ley, Governor Daniel's choice
for Secretary of State.
Steakley's swearing-in b y
Chief Justice John E. Hickman
followed within 24 hours. It was
the new streamlined oath, auth-
orized by one of last Novem-
ber's constitutional amendments.
Quipped Governor Daniel, a
spectator: "I'm glad they left
out that part about never fight-
ing a duel, because I've almost
had to do some of that recently."
Steakley's immediate prede-
cessor, Tom Reavley, has joined
an Austin law firm, to be
known now as Powell, Rauhut,
McGinnis and Reavley.
xxx
"BILL"-BOARD
With the legislative session
well underway, hundreds of
bills have flooded the hopper.
Some of the more significant
would:
1. Transfer one per cent of
the permanent school fund (now
$340,000,000) to the available
school fund. By Rep. Louis
Dugas of Orange.
2. Create a separate Securi-
ties Commission which would
combine operations now per-
formed by the securities divi-
sions in the Secretary of State's
office and Insurance Commis-
sion. By Rep. Barefoot San-
ders of Dallas.
3. Empower cities to tax ag-
ricultural land they annex at a
lower rate than other property
By Rep. Richard C. White of
El Paso.
4. Give the Railroad Com-
mission power to regulate rural
telephone rates. By Rep. Jack
Welch of Marlin.
5. Control interest rates Ofe
small loans. One bill, by Rep.
Ed Sheridan of San Antonio,
would prohibit interest of mora
j than 10 per cent a year. An-
other by Rep. Tony Korioth of
Sherman would limit interest to
three per cent a month.
6. Prohibit sale or use ot
fireworks except in displays
authorized by the fire marshal.
| By Rep. Gordon Forsvth of
Corpus Chris ti. "
I 7. Abolish absentee voting.
By Rep. B. H. Dewey, Jr., «f
Bryan.
8. Provide for automatic con-
gressional re-districting every 10
years if the Legislature fails to
do so. By Dewey.
9. Provide a four-year tens
for governor with a two-term
limit. By Rep. Dixon W.
Holman of Fort Worth.
10. Rquire school board can-
didates to run for places to pre-
vent election of a member by a
minority vote. By Rep. Be*
Ferrell of Tyler.
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Buy, Stare or Kill Him - - That's The
Duval Rule For Successful Bossism
By—FRANZ ROSENWALD
SAN DIEGO, TEX.—The first
thing any smart dictator does is
destroy the freedom of the press.
Dictatorship, whether it be called
Nazism or Bossism, and a free
press cannot exist together.
In a later article I want to tell
you how the press played an in-
dispensable role in the collapse of
the Duval Duchy.
But right now I want to talk
about Manuel Marroquin, who
was beaten because his little
newspaper published things the
boys didn't like. It's a lot like
other beatings I've seen in other
places, halfway around the world.
The first Nazi storm trooper I
ever saw was at a Hitler birthday
rally in the Berlin Sports Palast.
He was a smiling, affable fel-
low, booted, wearing a Sam
Brown belt over his neat khaki
shirt. On his left arm was a
swastika, emblem of good luck.
At his side hung a dagger ir. its
sheath.
Hundreds of his fellows were
Nazi Germany as described by
Marroquin, occurred just a few
weeks before I talked to him.
the peace and resisting; arrest. He
was acquitted in court. A Jim
Wells County court.
Let's take one more parallel
case—and there are literally hun-
dreds that might be cited. We'll
consiti r Manuel Sanchez, a gro-
cer. He's a Latin-American and
his name is Spanish. The name is
curiously close to that of Don
Cafe drinking coffee with the
school superintendent, He mar.do
de Pena, and two Daily Echo (the
newspaper in Alice, Texas) re-
porters, Jake Lewis and a sports
writer, a new fellow from Laredo
named Dubose, when Mr. Amaya
(Manuel Amaya, San Diego Chief
of Police) came to the door. I
could see Mr. Garza (Amado Gar-
za, a San Diego policeman), his
deputy, standing behind him.
"Mr. Amaya said 'Come out, I
want to talk to you.'
(The line between Jim Wells
County and Duval County nans
through the middle of the Sar.
Diego Cafe. Marroquin followed
Amaya outside, being careful to
move to the Jim Wells side of
the line and about six feet from
the Last wall of the cafe. It was
about 9-30 at night.)
"I asked him (Amaya) 'Why
scattered about the huge hall, all j do you want to talk to me,' I
smiling, all good natured, selling ] was watching Mr. Garza because
Here is his story, taken directly Quixote's roly-poly squire in the
from the recording! ; I'lmous * s&tirG. I^ut th.is
"I was sitting in the San Diego ' Sanchez, also a roly-poly man
photographs of Der Fuehrer and
copies ot "Mein Kampf."
My storm trooper worked in a
bakery net. tro far from my home.
I knew him well. He was a bit on
the rotund side, jolly, and lie
wouldn't hurt a fly.
This was long before Hitler
came to supreme power in Ger-
many.
Hitler made his grand entrar.ee
—and a man near r. e laughed at
the strutting little bantam rooster
with the fu :ny moustache.
My mild-mannered baker was
on him in a second, beating him
in the face with his fists, tearing
h glasses off and flinging them
in lie aisle. Another storm troop-
er loved in, deliberately crunch-
ir. lie glasses under his heel, his ^ ^
dawr drawn and pointed at the j V
m:i.i who was being beaten. I fro ope
Nwbody in the vicinity moved, | r as^C(| Marroquin why he had
ar. I the ovation for Der Fuehrer i tai<en the beating so meekly, why
„j . .. ...... .. ^ hadn't fought hack. This is his
he had his gun out in his hand.
"Then all of a sudden, Wham!
He (Amaya) hit me across here
(indicating a livid partlv-healed
scar on his cheek) and I was
bleeding bad. My glasses were
gone.
"He (Amaya) said 'You talk too
damn much in your paper.'
"I said 'That's no way to settle
things. What don't you like about
my paper? You can sue me for
libel if you want to.'
"He said 'I'm going to kill you'
and I said, 'Oh no you're not.'
Then I turned and walked away
and Mr. Garza said 'Come back,
you coward.' I kjpt ot walfcinp;. I
was so hurt inside that I couldn't
talk any more."
I've often wondered what hap-
pened to the man in the Sports
who weighs over -100 pounds, isn't
tilting at windmills.
Manuel Sanchez' name might
have been Schi l>7. and he might
have lived in Berlin. His exper-
ience would have been the rame.
Sanchez' sin in San Diego wa3
to vote—and talk—agains the ma-
chine of George Berham Parr.
Sanchez' business was_ placed
under a strict boycott. He was
threatened. People on relief (and
these are many in Duval, partic-
ularly at election time) v.ere or-
dered not to trade with him. His
business was ruined. He might
just as well have had "Juden"
soaped on his wi.r jw and storm
troopers posted at his door.
In Hitler's Germany the terror
hours were at night. It was a
favorite sport of the storm troop-
ers to route suspected enemies of
the Reich out of bed, lino up the
family ar.^ glare powerful flash-
lights into their eyes. The troop-
ers would say nothing, just stand
back of the lights. Sometimes this
would be repeated night after
night for weslts. Eventually som;
member of the family would crack
and blurt out a confession. The
next stop would be a concentra-
tion camp.
Manue! Sanchez and his family
were subjected to the same treat-
ment in a modified form. Parr's
bully boys would drive up to the
Sanchez home at night and throw
the blinding beams from strong
flashlights into the faces of San-
chez and his family, into the
frightened eyes of Sanchez' moth-
er, who was ill. Sometimes George
Parr took a personal part in these
expeditions.
Hitler'3 storm troopers didn't
bother to get search warrants
when they pulled a raid. Parr"*
IVast in Berlin when,the storm mpn at ,east went through the
troopers got mm outsiae. i
roared on. The storm troopers
hustled the man -6ttt. My mild-
nij inered baker returned in a
fe>v minutes, jovial, smiling, sell-
ing his pictures of Der Fuehrer, j there.
answer, again taken dircctly from
the tape:
would have got killed right
"he first pistoiero I ever saw
just the other day in the
'it-.ill Cafe in San Diego, Tex-
w
V,
as.
i' - was a smiling, affable fel-
low, booted and wearing a neat
khaki shirt. Belted to his side
was a .45 in a holster.
" hat same dr.v I tape recorder!
th.
As John Ben Shepperd puts it,
the Duval pattern is that of any
other political dictatorship, Nazi,
Communist or just plain old
Amcricar.-style "Bossism" run
wild: If you can't buy him, or
kill him!
That night Marroquin went to
his home on the Ji.ti vVells County
r.tory of Manuel Marroquin, I side of the line. He didrt't sleep,
her of a little political pa- j Instead ho sat up all night with
ilied "New Duval," a paper I his Winchester across his knees.
motions. Parr's sheriff obtained
an illegal warrant and ripped
Sanchez' store apart in a search
for alleged narcotics. Sanchez
was smart enough to get witness-
es. No narcotics were found.
The story of a dictatorship can-
not be fully told except in terms
of living people—and we could go
on ar.d on with stories of Duval,
each story with a counterpart in
the Germany that I knew, the
Germany from which I escaped.
There's the story of Cristobal
Ybanez who was personally beat-
en by Parr who swung a rifle at
his head. But why go on?
Manuel Marroquin's story illus-
trates the pattern. A smart dic-
tator and a spunky newspaper
th
ha:e Parr. j The next day Marroquin was | brcke down, as I'll tell you about
The incident, the parallel with 1 formally chargcd with disturbing I in ai.other article.
:ted to the destruction of j In Berlin during the Hitler ter- , don't mix. That's one of the big
■iictator^hip of George Ber- i ror people didn't sleep cither. j reasons why the Duva! machine
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Welch, Lowell C. The Aspermont Star (Aspermont, Tex.), Vol. 60, No. 20, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 24, 1957, newspaper, January 24, 1957; Aspermont, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth200348/m1/3/: accessed May 5, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Stonewall County Library.