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Laredo Probe Governor’s Race Has Publisher William Prescott Allen been ignoring political corruption in his own county while spraying his charges at other communities all over Texas ? An opponent of the Webb County political machine says so, and three agents of the Attorney General’s office are here investigating. C. B. W. Dick, leader of a reform party and candidate for the State Senate seat. held by Abraham Kazen, Jr., of Laredo, charged in a six-page wire to John Ben Shepperd that : Poll taxes have been bought without permission of the voter named on the receipt; Some of these receipts are held by city and county employes despite efforts of the rightful holders to obtain them; Policemen and office holders have pressured some people to vote absentee; Nepotism, vote-buying, and violation of civil liberties is being practiced: Only loCal news “that fits the machine” is printed in the Laredo Times, Allen’s paper ; a recent statement opposing the “machine candidate” was not printed although requested ; and “the district attorney has veto power of statements of opposing political party given to Laredo Times.” 0 Allen said the Times has run all the stories on page one, giving equal play to both parties, and he bannered Dick’s charges. He said the Times has run everything Dick gave him on page one. Shepperd said last week Allen ‘has never raised a voice about the corrupt machine in Duval County and Webb County.” Allen says he is on a statewide campaign against loyybists “who are the real rulers of Texas.” LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS ‘ CITATION BY PUBLICATION THE STATE OF TEXAS: To Robert L. Engelke, Defendant, in the hereinafter styled and numbered cause: You are hereby commanded to appear before the 126th Judicial 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 date of issuance hereof ; that is to say, at or before, 10 o’clock A.M. of Monday the 30th day of April, 1956, and answer the petition of plaintiff in Cause Number 100,092, in which Dorothy Engelke is Plaintiff and Robert L. Engelke is defendant, filed in said Court on the 15th day of December, 1954, and the nature of which said suit is as follows: Being an action and prayer for judgement 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 the part of Defendant toward her of such a nature as to render their further living together as husband and wife altogether insupportable; Plaintiff further alleges that three minor chidren, now living with plaintiff, were born of said union and that Plaintiff should be awarded their custody, and that defendant should be required to contribute a sum to be determined by the Court, for the care and custody of said children ; Plaintiff further prays for costs of suit and for 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 for all intents and purposes ; If this citation is not served within 90 days after date of its issuance, it shall be returned unnerved. 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 12th day of March, 1956. 0. T. MARTIN, JR., Clerk of the District Courts, Travis County, Texas. By GEO. W. BICKLER, Deputy, CITATION BY PUBLICATION THE STATE OF TEXAS To Victoriano Euriste, 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 30th day of April, 1956, and answer the petition of plaintiff in Cause Number 103,765, in which Luisa Cruz Euriste is Plaintiff and Victoriano Euriste is defendant, filed in said Court on the 16 day of March, 1956, 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 degree 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 of defendant of making such abandonment permanent ; Plaintiff further alleges that six children were born of said union, all of whom are over the age of sixteen years ; Plaintiff further prays for eosts of suit and for general relief All of which more fully appears from Plaintiffs Original Petition on file in this office and Se which reference is here made; -While loyalists were addressing a group of labor leaders in Austin \(see candidates Reuben Senterfitt and J. Evetts Haley were taking digs at them and Senator Price Daniel. Haley plunked down a $1,250 filing fee he said he raised by liquidating fifteen yearlings. “A small fee to pay W h en our liberties are being liquidated,” he said. States’ rights is the only campaign issue, he said. He joked about the letter-writing contests, saying: “I didn’t have to ask a soul, much less 25,000 of the electors. I had four letters; two of them for me, one against me, and one undecidedand I gave myself the benefit of the doubt and figure I have 75 percent, which is a prgty good poll.” Haley said he was for the Ten Commandments, like W. Lee O’Daniel, but “considered them a sort of guide to Christian living and moral conduct rather than a way to get into political office.” He scheduled several speeches unsponsorship of Citizens’ Councils: Senterfitt took up the “pen pal” issue, too. “These three ‘pen pals’ Lamenting Leo, Reluctant Ralph, and Pussyfooting Priceare all sitting by their mail boxes to hear from you,” he said. He said interposition and-opposition to integration are the issues of the campaign. Senterfitt challenged Daniel to debate on issues and said Daniel “will not to explain the necessity of the plan for his ‘great switch’ ” or the “powers behind the throne” arranging it. O’Daniel’s “amateur standing” as a politician may be in doubt, he said, since he is the only living Texan who 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 16th day of March, 1956. 0. T. MARTIN, JR. Clerk of the District Courts, Travis County, Texas By GEO. W. BICKLER, Deputy CITATION BY PUBLICATION THE STATE OF TEXAS TO B. F. Cox, Benoni Cox, Benjamin Cox, B. Cox, J. H. Pearson, A. R. Morris, Leonhardt Henckels, Melinda Pearson, J. W. Pearson, Ray E. Summerrow, C. M. Pearson, Mary F. Pearson, T. E. Thurman, M. H. Thurman, A. J. Pearson, M. C. Pearson, Margaret Pearson, P. M. Willman, C. L. E. Willman, Marget Pearson, Mrs. M. H. Thurman, C. P. Simpson, M. M. Simpson, M. M. Pearson, J. J. Hawkins, Birdie Killebrew, Geo. Killebrew, Pearl Hayden, Alva Hayden, Ida Sylvester, T. D. Sylvester, Lennie Hawkins, Jim Sanders, Pearl Haydon, Cora Sanders, G. W. Killebrew, Jr., G. W. Killebrew, Berdie Killebrew, R. E. Killebrew, C. E. McCurdy, J. E. McIntyre, Geo. W. Killebrew, Jr., Birdie Hawkins, Floyd S. Killebrew, Prudie K. Crumley, Clara Killebrew, Ewell Crumley, Ella Killebrew Burt, Jesse Burt, Ferdinan Killebrew, Velma Killebrew, Nettie Killebrew Simpson, H. W. Simpson, Thelma Killebrew Turner, Worthey Turner, Nora Killebrew Crumley, Don Crumley, Ethel Killebrew, Ea Killebrew, Mrs. Birdie Killebrew, Prudie Crumley, Euell Crumley, Ella K. Burt, Ferdinand Killebrew, Nettie K. Simpson, Thelma K. Turner, Jessie Burt, Effie Moore, if living, whose places of residence are unknown to Plaintiff, and if dead the legal representatives of each of said named Defendants, and the unknown heirs of each of the said named defendants ; the legal representatives of the unknown heirs of each of the said named defendants ; if the unknown heirs of said named defendants are dead, the unknown heirs of the unknown heirs of the said defendants, if the unknown heirs of the unknown heirs of the said defendants are dead ; whose places of residence are unknown to Plaintiff, Defendants, in the hereinafter styled and numbered cause: to appear before the 53rd Judicial 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 23rd day of April, 1956, and answer the petition of plaintiff ,in Cause Number 103,518, in which Stephanie Wurzburger, an adult feme sole, is Plaintiff and each of the above named Defendants are defendants, filed in said Court on the 13th day of February, 1956, and the nature of which said suit is as follows: Being an action and prayer for judgment in favor of Plaintiff and against Defendants for title to and possession of the following described land and premises situated in Travis County, Texas, to-wit: Three tracts of land described as follows, to-wit : FIRST TRACT: 59.39 acres of land out of and part of Survey No. 740, B. F. Cox, patented to J. H. Pearson, assignee of B. F. Cox by Patent No. 365, dated Feb. 26, 1875; SECOND TRACT: 5.84 acres of land, out of and part of Survey No. 740 B. F. Cox, patented to J. H. Pearson, assignee of B. F. Cox, by Patent No. 365, dated Feb. 26, 1875; THIRD TRACT: 9.91 acres of land out of and part of Survey No. 98, J.. L. Marshall, S.F. 5674, patented to G. W. Killebrew, Jr. by patent No. 521, Volume 30, dated November 14th, 1905; Plaintiff alleges that on Nov. 2, 1954, she was and still is the owner in fee simple of the above described three tracts of land and that upon said -‘date Defendants unlawfully entered upon and dis served as both governor and U. S. Senator. Ralph Yarborough said the major issue in 1956 will be the same as in 1952 and 1954: “corruption in government.” “I believe I did the spadework my last two times out.” he said. Yarborough said late in the week he had received 22 pages of petitions urging him to ..run and that his total was 25,000 unsolicited signatures, with “thousands of individual expressions of working backing.” T.P.A. Accuses Russell Bryant, president of the Texas Press Assn.’ charges that C. T. Johnson, lieutenant governor candidate, violated the election code and is ineligible to run again. T.P.A. and its executive secretary, Vern Sanford, are under indictment on chargeS of violating the election in Wacc: Bryant said Johnson testified he spent only $125 for travel expenses in a campaign covering 12,000 to 15,000 miles and said it would be impossible to travel for less than a cent a mile for car expenses alone.. “If he thinks I violated the law,” Johnson snapped back, “tell him to take the evidence he has before a grand jury.” “If Mr. Byrant would familiarize himself with the state election code, then he would become aware you only file ind list your payments of $10 or more,” Johnson said. He said he spent about $100 a week in this fashion, $1,200 in all in addition to the $5,320.25 he reported as campaign expenses. possessed her and withhold from her the possession thereof ; Plaintiff further alleges that defendants are justly indebted to Plaintiff in the sum of $100.00 for rental for a period of 30 days and that though often requested, defendants have fail-1 and refused to pay said rent to plaintiff’s damage in said amount, and for which she prays judgment; Plaintiff further prays for 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 for all intents and purposes; 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 March, 1956. 0. T. MARTIN, JR. Clerk of the District Courts, Travis County, Texas CITATION BY PUBLICATION THE STATE OF TEXAS TO Walter White, John Milton Johnson and Emzie Oliver, Defendants, in the hereinafter styled and numbered cause: 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 Monday the 7th-day of May, 1956, and answer the petition of plaintiff in Cause Number 103,800, in which Arthur Bell, Dempsey Bell, Joseph Bell, Algie Bell and John Bell are Plaintiffs and Betty Bell, Leon Bell, and Beatrice Bell, the heirs at law of Miles Bell, deceased ; Walter White, John Milton Johnson and Emzie Oliver, whose residences are unknown, and Lee Johnson, who are the surviving heirs at law of Fannie Bell, deceased, are defendants, filed in said Court on the 22nd day of March, 1956, and the nature of which said suit is as follows: Being an action and prayer for judgment of the Court approving and confirming the partition between the parties hereto of the following described 11.54 acres of land, a portion of Tract 5Tract 10, William Bell-Pleas Davidson, et a], :Jesse Tannehill League 29, in Travis County, Texas: and further praying for the appointment of a Receiver to partition the following described 10 acre tract of land in Travis County, Texas, same being a part of the J. C. Tannehill League, known as Lot No. 13, of the Subdivision of the Townsend 2.000 acre tract off of the East side of said Tannehill League, as shown by plat of record in Book 91, page 234, Deed Records of Travis County, Texas ; Plaintiffs allege that they and Defendants are the sole surviving heirs at law of William Bell and wife, Martha Bell, who, at the time of their death, were seized and possessed of the above described real property, that no administration was had upon the estates of said William Bell or Martha Bell and none was necessary ; Plaintiffs further pray for attorney’s fee, Receiver’s fee, 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 for all intents and purposes ; 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 22nd day of March, 1956. _O. T. MARTIN, Jr. Clerk of the District Courts, Travis’ County, Texas By \(s4 GEO. W. BICKLER, Deputy Postal Argument A House armed services subthinmittee in Washington developed infors nation that Congressman Wright Patman of Texarkana once asked the Post Office Department to “overlook” charges that former Avinger postmaster M. L. Felker, Sr., used $80 in postage stamps to buy himself a suit, The Post Office viewed the act as a “major offense” but dropped if when . Patman said he didn’t think the thenpostmaster “meant to steal anything.” Felker said he had bought the stamps first in order to build up his stamp sales creditS. The subcommittee first sought cto find out how Felker’s son and Kenneth Simmons, both of Avinger, had obtained a list of addresses of potential draftees. They were in the insurance business, selling policies to men about to go into military service. Patman had agreed to get them a list of ROTC graduates about to go into the service, but there was some delay. The elder Felker advised Patman Simmons planned to oppose him for Congress. Simmons said Patman is “deliberately trying to investigate me where he can” and that’ he got potential inductee lists from local draft boards with Selective Service authorization which was later reversed. Shepperd Active The Attorney General, John Ben Shepperd, took to radio and Western Union last week in his stepped-up. campaign of public statements for states’ rights. It is now felt he is a candidate at least for re-election, and possibly for U.S. Senator if a vacancy occurs. Shepperd urged the Legislature to “instruct” the Texas Railroad Commission to –“continue exercising all possible control” over production and conservation of natural gas, “in spite of the fact that the . Federal Power Commission has been given some regulatory powers in that field by a decision of the U.S. Supreme Court.” This is not “defiance” of the court, he said: He defined interposition as “a means to challenge federal encroachment on the powers of the states by starting a legal process to amend the U.S. Constitution,” This was a new definition. Shepperd .also wired Sens. Lyndon Johnson and Price Daniel urging them to sponsor in the Senate Rep. Walter Rogers’s House bill to establish “the power of the states to conserve and regulate the exploration, production, and distribution of their petroleum products, water,,sulphur; and all other minerals and natural resources.” THE TEXAS OBSERVER MARCH 28, 1956 PAGE 7 CITATION BY PUBLICATION THE STATE OF TEXAS TO Manuel Reyes, Defendant, in the hereinafter styled and number 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 expiratioe of 42 days from the date of issuance hereof ; that is to say, at or before, 10 o’clock A. M. of Monday the 7th day of May, 1956, and