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OVER Orik MOUNTAIN By BRUCE CUTLER Written for The Texas Observer \(First of a The day I walked over the mountain to the village of Acatitlan, the sun had already begun to drive deep cracks in the red, mud arroyos on the mountainsides. The turpentine-bleeders, men who notch pine frees on the slopes of the mountains, have been around in the morning, picking up their little clay pots full of pine pitch. The ;ounds of an axe indicated that r someone was taking contraband lumber out of the timber stands. This was the State of Mexico, Mexico. I was going to help teach in a school in a “lost” valleya valley without roads or electricity, a valley which belonged to an ejido or indigenous cooperative society. The land was held in common by the members of the cjido and was parcelled out to be tended on the basis of how many acres a man and his family were capable of caring for. The proceeds were divided on the same basis. Descending that mountain road toward the village called Acatitlan, you might very well have been leaving the Western world and entering the Eastern. It was a valley inhabited by people who had little contact with tractors and hybrid corn. Plows were drawn by oxen, and corn to be sold went out on burros. Only the priest came in’ in a jeep. But it was a village which, in microcosm, reflected the whole strength and weakness of the peasant revolution which started in Mexico, before the nationalist revolutions in Asia and before the Russian revolution. Despite the rich green of the mountainsides, and the color of the new corn on the lower slopes, the walls and roofs of Acatitlan were difficult to make out in the distance because they were the same color as the earth around them. The color of mud gets to be one of the most familiar colors after a while, but at first it is hard to accustom yourself to the subtle differences in the color of mud which distinguish a house from a wall, or a wall from a field. The school at Acatitlan was cjido-supported, much the way country schools have always been supported, with the ejido giving the building and maintenance, and providing the equipment and teacher’s salary. Don Francisco Pena, teacher or maestro, was paid approximately $40 for his services, on which he had to support himself and his daughter and eke out a weekly trip back to Toluca, 110 kilometers distant, to see his family every two weeks. I was to be paid nothing, only the value of the experience. Don Francisco had been teaching for some time, and, as he told me at the beginning, this meant that rheumatism had finally gotten him. I first saw him sitting at his table in front of the class, his feet bare Page 7 August 3, 1955 THE TEXAS OBSERVER but wrapped in his wool jacket. “Rheumatism is an occupational disease,” he said. In the damp schoolroom or sleeping on the mat in a room in the rear, it was easy to see why. In the classroom there were 80 children. They ranged from 16 years down to about four; attendance was heavy because planting was over. They stood up and greeted their visitor in the standard classroom manner, the singsong good-morning enforced in all classrooms in all parts of the world. But looking around the classroom, similarities ended. Four mud walls, three visible books. Some children had slender, small notebooks, a pencil, and a razor blade to sharpen the pencil. Some had none of these. In the Valley of the Ejido LEGAL ADS NOTICE OF INTENTION TO INCORPO.IATE A FIRM WITHOUT .’ilANGE OF NAME To Whom it May Concern : Notice is hereby given that Rex F. Montgomery, George R. Montgomery, Howard II. Hager, and W. M. Covin, partners, doing business under the firm name of A. C. Montgomery, General Contractors, a Partnership, intends to incorporate such firm without a change of the firm naive. Signed this the 25th day of July, 1955. A. C. MONTGOMERY, General Contractors, A Partnership REX F. MONTGOMERY GEORGE R. MONTGOMERY HOWARD R. HAGER W. M. COVIN CITATION BY PUBLICATION THE STATE OF TEXAS TO Alfred Leonard Stanley, Defendant, in the hereinafter styled and numbered cause: You are hereby commanded to appear before the 126th District Court of Travis County, Texas, to be held at the courthouse of said county in the City of Austin, Travis County, Texas, at or before 10 o’clock A.M. of the first Monday after the expiration of 42 days from the date of issuance hereof ; that is to say, at or before, 10 o’clock A.M. of Monday the 12th day of September, 1955, and answer the petition of plaintiff in Cause Number 101.836, in which Dorothy Stanley is Plaintiff and Alfred Leonard Stanley is defendant, filed in said Court on the 7th day of July, 1955, and the nature of which said suit is as follows : Being an action and prayer for judgment in favor of plaintiff and against defendant for decree of divorce dissolving the bonds of matrimony heretofore and now existing between said parties ; plaintiff alleges abandonment by defendant of plaintiff for a period of more than three years, with the intention on the part of defendant of making such abandonment permanent : plaintiff further alleges ‘ that three children were born of said union ; that said children are now living with plaintiff, who should be awarded their care and custody ; Plaintiff further alleges that no community property has been accumulated ; plaintiff further prays for costs of suit and relief, general and special ; All of which more fully appears from Plaintiff’s Original Petition on file in this office and to which reference is here made; If this citation is not served within 90 days after date of its issuance, it shall be returned unserved. WITNESS, 0. T. MARTIN, JR., Clerk of the District Courts of Travis County, Texas. Issued and given under my hand and the seal of said Court at office in the City of Austin, this the 29th day of July, 19’ -‘5. 0. T. MARTIN, JR. Clerk of the District Courts, Travis County, Texas By GEO. W. BICKLER, Deputy THE STATE OF TEXAS TO F. M. Wickline, Anna Wickline Rock, Inez Wickline Easley, J. D. Wickline, Ruth Ennis Wickline Johnson, Wanda Belle Patterson, Myrtle Eva Wickline Johnson, G. A. Wickline, and the Unknown heirs and legal representatives of such persons as well as the respective spouses or guardians, if any, of such defendants, who are unknown to Plaintiff Wickline, deceased and their unknown heirs and legal representatives who claim any interest in the land hereafter mentioned. You and each of you are hereby commanded to appear before the 126th Judicial District Court of Travis County, Texas, at the Courthouse thereof at or before 10 o’clock A.M. of the first Mondays from the date of issuance hereof, the same being the 22 day of August, 1955, in a suit numbered on the docket of said Court No. 101,814, and styled Stuart Watt vs. F. M. Wickline, et al, wherein line, Anna Wickline Rock, Inez Wickline Easley, J. D. Wickline, Ruth Ennis Wickline Johnson, Wanda Belle Patterson, Myrtle Eva Wickline Johnson, G. A. Wickline and the unknown heirs and legal representatives of such persons as well as the respective spouses or guardians, if any of such defendants, who are unknown to Plaintiff and the unknown heirs and legal representatives who claim any interest in the land hereafter mentioned, the nature of the said suit being one for partition of Lot 27, Block “D” of the Ridgetop Addition to the City of Austin, Texas, according to the map or Plat of record in Volume 2, Page 200 of the Plat Records of Travis County, Texas, brought by the Plaintiff against the defendants, wherein the Plaintiff is alleged to own approximately 13-16 undivided interest in said property and the defendants an undivided 3-16 undivided interest therein, and in which action Plaintiff alleges that the land is incapable of partition in kind, and seeks the appointment of a receiver to sell such property. If this citation is not served within 90 ays after the date of its issuance, it shall unserved. “”’IN, Jr., Clerk of .avis County, the seal of said Court in Austin, Travis County, Texas, this 5th day of July, 1955. 0. T. MARTIN, JR., Clerk of the 126th District Court of Travis County, Texas ISSUED this 5th day of July, 1956. 0. T. MARTIN, JR., Clerk of the 126th District Court of Travis County, Texas 13-4 CITATION BY PUBLICATION THE STATE OF TEXAS TO Adam Castro Defendant, in the hereinafter styled and numbered cause: You are hereby commanded to appear before the 126th District Court of Travis County, Texas, to be held at the courthouse of said county in the City of Austin, Travis County, Texas, at or before 10 o’clock A. M. of the first Monday after the expiration of 42 days from the date of issuance hereof ; that is to say, at or before, 10 o’clock A. M. of Monday the 22nd day of August, 1955, and answer the petition of plaintiff in Cause Number 101,813, in which Consuelo Hernandez Castro is Plaintiff and Adam Castro is defendant, filed in said COurt on the :th day of July, 1955, and the nature of which said suit is as follows : Being an action and prayer for judgment in favor of Plaintiff and against Defendant for decree of divorce dissolving the bonds of matrimony heretofore and now existing between said parties ; Plaintiff alleges cruel treatment on the part of defendant towards plaintiff of such a nature as to render their further living together as husband and wife altogether insupportable ; Plaintiff further alleges permanent abandonment by defendant of plaintiff ; Plaintiff further alleges that one child was born of said union, which child is now three years old ; that plaintiff should be awarded its care, custody and control, and for which plaintiff prays ; Plaintiff further alleges that no community property was accumulated ; Plaintiff further prays for relief, general and special ; All of which more fully appears from Plaintiff’s Original Petition on file in this office, to which reference is here made; If this citation is not served within 90 days after date of its issuance, it shall be returned unserved. WITNESS, 0. T. MARTIN, JR., Clerk of the District Courts of Travis County, Texas. Issued and given under my hand and the seal of said Court at office in the City of Austin, this the 5th day of July, 1955. 0. T. MARTIN, JR. Clerk of the District Courts, Travis County, Texas CITATION BY PUBLICATION THE STATE OF TEXAS TO W. A. Holladay Defendant, in the hereinafter styled and numbered cause: You are hereby commanded to appear before the 126th District Court of Travis County, Texas, to be held at the court house of said County in the City of Austin, Travis County, Texas, at or before 10 o’clock A.M. of the first Monday after the expiration of 42 days from the date of issuance hereof ; that is to say, at or before, 10 o’clock A. M. of Monday the 29th day of August, 1955, and answer the petition of plaintiff in cause Number 101,830, in which Tena Holladay is Plaintiff and W. A. Holladay is defendant, filed in said Court on the 7th day of July, 1955, and the nature of which said suit is as follows : Being an action and prayer for judgment in favor of Plaintiff and against Defendant for decree of divorce dissolving the bonds of matrimony heretofore and now existing between said parties ; Plaintiff alleges abandonment by defendant of plaintiff for a period of more than three years, with the intention on the part of defendant of making such abandonment permanent ; Plaintiff further alleges that no minor children are now living as a result of said union ; Plaintiff further alleges that no community property was accumulated ; Plaintiff further prays for costs of suit, attorney’s fees and relief, general and special ; All of which more fully appears from Plaintiff’s Original Petition on file in this office and to which reference is here made; If this citation is not served within 90 days after date of its issuance, it shall be returned unserved. WITNESS, 0. T. MARTIN, JR., Clerk of the District Courts of Travis County, Texas. Issued and given under my hand and the seal of said Court at office in the City of Austin, this the 13th day of July, 1955. 0. T. MARTIN, JR., Clerk of the District Courts, Travis County, Texas THE STATE OF TEXAS To any Sheriff or any Constable within the State of TexasGREETING: You are hereby commanded to cause to be published, ONCE, not less than ten days before the return day thereof, in a newspaper printed in Travis County, Texas, the accompanying citation. of which the herein below following is a true copy\(but if there be no newspaper so printed in said county, then that you cause the said citation to be posted for at least TEN days before the return term thereof as r OBSERVER REPORTER AT WORK 01′ Hound Dawg has been doing a lot of sniffin’ and pawin’ around the last seven monthsthe first seven months of the operation of The Texas Observer. The Observer has a policy against using the word “exclusive” in its stories, but 01′ Hound Dawg wants his readers to know about the bones he’s sniffed up for the first time. Reason he does is, if every present subscriber will get one new reader, the Observer will be in wonderful shape. You can use this list of exclusives in showing people what they’re missing not readin’ Hound Dawg’s favorite rag .. . Among the more notable stories in the Observer during its first seven months of publication: ORunning storiesincluding an exchange of wires in which the Congressman seemed to deny his involvementwhich ‘finally established that US Rep. John J. Bell received large fees from promoters in the veterans’ land scandal. OA special issue on January 31, “Veterans’ Land Scandal,” in which the financial connections between Bascom Giles and B. R. Sheffield, and between Sheffield and L. V. Ruffin, were first in which the absencq of Governor Shivers and Attcrney General Shetiperd from most meetings of the Veterans’ Land Board was called to the public attention. OA special issue on May 23, “Austin Lobbyists at Work,” on the methods and identity of the special interest lobbyists in Austin, on bribery, free-loading, coercion, and *what the legislators themselves think of the lobbyists. OAn exclusive series on the second wave of censorship of books by the San Antonio Public Library Board. OA series on the Port Arthur strike which played a part in its abatement. OA series on the abominable conditions at OAnother special report on the land scandal, in which Bell’s involvement was proved by photostat and Governor Shivers’s willingness to expedite group land deals was also established \(and for which, a month later, he had to answer OAn exclusive interview with Dr. Homer P. Rainey, including his analysis of the forces controlling Texas politics. OA series of articles on Galveston Islandthe vice, the venality among local officials, and the refusal of state officials to enforce the law. Last week, as the Observer’s drive spread across the state, new county subscription drive chairmen went to work. They are H. G. Orson in Midland County, Mrs. Fred Hale in Leon, Joe Webb in Madison, Mrs. Jud Collier in Robertson, Mrs. J. G. Gates in Walker, Mrs. Lucille Anderson in Trinity, Joe Fultz in Grimes, M. L. Mitchell in Anderson, and Mrs. Jim Bybee in Fannin. OA special report from Irving, Texas, reporting in full the complicated student, teacher, political factors which led to that Dallas suburb’s school blow-up. OAn exclusive report on the lobby-paid flight of twelve Texas legislators to some horse laces in Kentucky as a part of the fight over a minimum price for natural gas. An exclusive series on the Constitution Party, especially in San Antonio. OAn exclusive series on “The Political Hucksters,” the role of public relations men in