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Over $ 20 Million Insurance In Force INSURANCE COMPANY P. 0. Box 8098 Houston, Texas t i d; fx ie PROFESSOR’S CAUSE BECOMES CRUSADE \(Continued from Page millions are dying while we, a supposedly Christian nation, play by the wayside. The hope of survival of the free world depends on what we do. And what we’d hurry,” Dr. Morgan said. Presenting a business viewpoint, Raymond Dillard, president of the Hughes Oil Company of Mexia, said that 94 percent of the people having less than a sixth grade education are performing domestic or manual labor. “The poorly educated employee is the most accident prone and is the biggest single factor in increasing rates in workmen’s compensation insurance,” he said. “In our economic society, illiterates are to us a harsh term, dregs. They go to agriculture, government, or business and the answer is the same, they’re not wanted. When displaced agricultural workers come to the cities,” Dillard said, “they fall victim to many ideologies contrary to our free enterprise system.” Dr. W. R. White, Baylor president, said the literacy problem was a challenge to which higher education must respond by providing the leadership. “When Dr. Laubach told us of our needs last night, I thought it was one of the most stimulating things I’ve ever heard and made me ashamed of my colleagues, my country, and my life … The students are our most idealistic. We need to get this before all the students. If there is anything that appeals to unselfishness, it is this literacy program. We need to send materials out from the center and organize more workshops. The possibilities are staggering.” State Senator Jarrard Secrest of Temple said, “Now we have been made aware of the problem when we had not been before. The problem is two-fold, in the world and in Texas. The latter can be attacked by us personally.” `Couldn’t Believe’ The reports from community projects around the state described a variety of successes and enumerated some of the problems the infant state-wide program faces. Dr. C. B. Hastings of the Baylor Extension Service in Dallas termed the Dallas program “the first outreach of the literacy program from Waco. I didn’t volun tees, I was pushed. I couldn’t believe it when Dr. Cortright told me there were 35,000 illiterates in Dallas County,” Hastings said. “I almost had to go to the library to get a photostatic copy of the census to convince other people.” Hastings said the Dallas program is now well established with over 350 tutors trained last year. He listed two requirements for an effective local literacy program: whole-hearted cooperation of all mass news media and a well-trained cadre of teachers who can respond immediately. “Many people who can’t read have to work their courage up to apply for help, because they are so embarrassed. If you don’t have a teacher ready to get them while they’re hot, they’ll get second thoughts and cool off and you’ll lose them,” Hastings said. The impact of Cortright’s efforts on the business community was described by H. C. Buchanan, owner of a Waco cleaning plant. “I was astonished, as everyone is, when they hear Dr. Cortright speak on illiteracy,” Buchanan said. “After I heard him at the Rotary Club in December, I went back to my plant, made a survey, and discovered of the 126 people on my payroll, 19 couldn’t read or Nrrite. We started , our program, right then and there,” said Buchanan. Subscribe to The Observer 504 West 24th, Austin $4 per year “I have never seen such a change in people. Why the very expression on their face, their whole attitude changed. One of them proudly told me he had just gotten his first driver’s license. He was 39 years old. Right now, we’re teaching nine in the plant in 40-minute classes, three times a week. We have found that 46 relatives of our workers are also illiterate. We’re going after them. I’ve talked to other businessmen.” Summed up the Waco businessman: “I just know from our experience that it means more than I dreamed to these people.” A public school principal in Waco, Miss Edie Forsgard, said she had a Cortright literacy folder distributed in the school for students to take home. Fourteen parents returned the form asking for help in learning to lett’. “Eleven were Latin-American, two were from Jordan, and one was Negro,” said the principal. All are now in classes. C. B. Peterson, of the First Baptist Church in Dallas said “once you have experienced the joy of seeing a person become a new creature, you are a convert for life.” Walk Two Miles “We have people who walk two miles to our center at night after working all day,” said Mrs. Eleanora Simmons, director of liter acy at the San Marcos Community Center. “They come from the highways and the byways, man, wife, aunt, uncle, and nephew. They bring nickles, dimes, and quarters to buy the materials. “Part of the problem is contacting the illiterates. We have many Negroes who … will not admit they can’t read. They want acceptance but the past hurts, the humiliations … some of them no longer trust a person with a white face,” Mrs. Simmons said. Mrs. H. B. Hildebrand, chairman of the Community Service Department of the Abilene Women’s Club, said a broad program kindled by Cortright is now under w a y i n Taylor County. Twenty-one active teachers are engaged in teaching 15 separate classes in homes and churches through the cooperation of the YWCA, the federated women’s clubs, and the three Abilene colleges, Hardin-Simmons, McMurry, and Abilene Christian. Mrs. Hildebrand said the Taylor County program had triggered a literacy program in Big Springs, where a community literacy center has been established. Felix Tijerina, national president of the League of United Latin American Citizens, said of the two million persons of Mexican descent in Texas, 75 percent cannot read English. Tijerina, who has financed pre-school English classes for Spanish-speaking children out of his own. pocket in an effort to sell the state on the practicality of the program, said he has been working on the literacy problem for 45 years, “ever since I first learned to read myself at the age of 14. These people can help themselves, make good citizens in our society, but they need one tool, they must learn to read.” Dr. W. R. Goodson, director of school accreditation of the state education agency, summed up: “This entire problem has been much ignored in Texas. We need more Professor Cortrights to go around and spread the truth.” L. G. LEGALS CITATION BY PUBLICATION THE STATE OF TEXAS TO John N. Leggitt, Defendant, in the hereinafter styled and numbered cause: You are hereby commanded to appear before the 98th 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 11th day of May, 1959, and answer the First Amended petition of plaintiff in Cause Number 102,323, in which Frances M. Leggitt is Plaintiff and John N. Leggitt is defendant, filed in said Court on the 24th day of March, 1959, 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 her of such a nature as to render their further living together as husband and wife altogether insupportable; Plaintiff further alleges that no children born of said union and no community property was accumulated; Plaintiff further prays for relief, general and special; All of which more fully appears from Plaintiff’s First Amended 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 24th day of March, 1959. 0. T. MARTIN, JR. Clerk of the District Courts, Travis County, Texas. By GEO. W. BICKLER, Deputy NOTICE OF INTENTION TO INCORPORATE WITHOUT CHANGE OF NAME TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: Notice is hereby given that Bernard A. Delano, W. B. Garner and J. P. Gossett, partners, composing the firm of Delano and Garner Manufacturing Company and doing business under such name, will incorporate and will continue to do business as a corporation under the same name, Delano and Garner Manufacturing Company, Inc., and in compliance with Article 1307, Vernon’s Civil Statutes of the State of Texas, will post this notice one day each week for newspaper in Austin, Texas, and in a newspaper in Harris County, Texas. DELANO AND GARNER MANUFACTURING CO. By: B. A. DELANO NOTICE TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: Notice is hereby given that the partnership firm of Aero-Charter of Houston will be dissolved, and notice is also hereby given of the intention of said firm to become incorporated under the name of Aero-Charter of Houston, Inc. Witness my hand this 16 day of March, 1959. AERO-CHARTER OF HOUSTON By JAMES R. FISK, One of the Partners CITATION BY PUBLICATION THE STATE OF TEXAS TO Robert Leroy Charles, 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 atter 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 27th day of April, 1959, and answer the petition of plaintiff in Cause Number 113.196, in which Elta Wray Charles is Plaintiff and Robert Leroy Charles is defendant, filed in said Court on the 20th day of February, 1959, 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 a 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 her of such nature as to render their further living together as husband and wife altogether insupportable; Plaintiff further alleges that two children were born of said union; that plaintiff should be awarded their care, custody and control and that Defendant should be required to contribute a suitable amount for the support of said children as well as alimony pendente lite; Plaintiff further alleges 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 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 10th day of March, 1959. 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 Molly 0. Duke, Defendant, in the hereinafter styled and numbered cause: You are hereby commanded to appear before the 98th 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 le 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 27th day of April, 1959, and answer the petition of plaintiff in Cause Number 113,033, in which John B. Duke is Plaintiff and Molly 0. Duke is defendant, filed in said Court on the 4th day of February, 1959, 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 a 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 him of such a nature as to render their further living together as husband and wife altogether insupportable; Plaintiff further alleges that no children born of said union and 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 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 un served. 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, 1959. 0. T. MARTIN, JR., Clerk of the District Courts, Travis County, Texas CITATION BY PUBLICATION THE STATE OF TEXAS TO Roosevelt White 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 4th day of May, 1959, and answer the petition of plaintiff in Cause Number 113,383, in which Ella Faye White is Plaintiff and Roosevelt White is defendant, filed in said Court on the 16th day of March, 1959, and the nature of