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claims seek recovery of delinquent ad valorem taxes on the property hereinabove described, and in addition to the taxes all interest, penalties, and costs allowed by law thereon up to and including the day of judgment herein, and the establishment and foreclosure of liens, if any, securing the payment of same, as provided by law. All parties to this suit, including Plaintiffs, Defendants, and Intervenors, shall take notice that claims not only for any taxes which were delinquent on said property at the time of this suit was filed but all taxes becoming delinquent thereon at any time thereafter up to the day of judgment, including all interest, penalties, and costs allowed by law thereon, may, upon request therefor, be recovered herein without further citation or notice to any parties herein, and all said parties shall take notice of and plead and answer to all claims and pleadings now on file and which may hereafter he filed on said cause by all other parties herein, and all of those taxing units above named who may intervene herein and set up their respective tax claims against said property. You are hereby commanded to appear and defend such suit on the first Monday after the expiraand after the date of issuance hereof, the same being the 15th day of August A.D., 1960 \(which is before the Honorable District Court, 53rd Judicial District of Travis County, Texas, to be held at the courthouse thereof, then and there to show cause why judgment shall not be rendered for such taxes, penalties, interests and costs, and condemning said property and ordering foreclosure of the constitutional and statutory tax liens thereon for taxes due the Plaintiff and the taxing units parties hereto, and those who may intervene herein, together with all interest, penalties and costs allowed by law up to and including the day of judgment herein, and all costs of this suit. Issued and given under my hand and seal of said court in the City of Austin, “Pravis County, Texas, this 28th day of June A.D., 1960. 0. T. MARTIN, JR. Clerk of the District Court Travis County, Texas By: Mrs. Chas. Kohrs, Deputy. THE STATE OF TEXAS COUNTY OF TRAVIS In the name and by the authority of the State of Texas Notice is hereby given as follows: To: Al C. Barron, and the unknown owner or owners of the property hereinafter described or any interest therein; the heirs and legal representatives and the unknown heirs and legal representatives of each of the above named and mentioned persons who may be deceased; and the corporate officers trustees, receivers and stockholders of any of the above named or mentioned parties which may be corporations, defunct or otherwise, together with the successors, heirs and assigns of such corporate officers, trustees, receivers, and stockholders, and any and all persons, including adverse claimants, owning or having or claiming any legal or equitable interest in or lien upon the following described property delinquent to Plaintiff herein, for taxes, to-wit: All that certain lot, tract, or parcel of land lying and being situated in the County of Travis, State of Texas, known and described as follows: dition. City of Austin, Travis County, Texas, according to the map or plat of said Addition recorded in Volume 3, page 15 of ‘the Plat Records of Travis County, Texas, save and except, however, that portion of the above described lots which was conveyed to Velma L. Boone by Al C. Barron by deed dated March 11, 1942 and recorded in Volume 692 . page 576 of the Deed Records of Travis County, Texas. Which said property is delinquent to Plaintiff for taxes in the following amounts: $189.14, exclusive of interest, penalties and costs. and there is included in this suit in addition to the taxes all said interest, penalties and costs thereon, allowed by law uo to and including the day of judgment herein. You are hereby notified that suit has been brought by the City of Austin as Plaintiff, against the above named persons, and the Rate of Texas and the County of Travis as Defendants, by petition filed on the 25th day of May: 1960. in a certain suit styled City of Austin vs. Al C. Barron for collection of the taxes on said property and that suit is now pending in the District Court of Travis County 53rd Judicial District, and the file number of said suit is 118,007. that the names of all taxing units which assess and collect taxes on the property hereinabove described not made parties to this suit are, NONE. Plaintiff and all other taxing units who may set up their tax claims seek recovery of delinquent ad valorem taxes on the property hereinabove described. and in addition to the taxes all interest, penalties, and costs allowed by law thereon un to and including the day of judgment herein, and the establishment and foreclosure of liens, if any, secur ing the payment of same, as provided by law. All parties to this suit, including Plaintiffs, Defendants, and Intervenors, shall take notice that claims not only for any taxes which were delinquent on said property at the time of this suit was filed but all taxes becoming delinquent thereon at any time thereafter LID to the day of judgment, including all interest, penalties, and costs allowed by law thereon, may, upon request therefor, be recovered herein without further citation or notice to’ any parties herein, and all said parties shall take notice of and plead and answer to all claims and pleadings now on file and which may hereafter be filed in said cause by all other parties herein, and all of those taxing units above named who may intervene herein and set up their respective tax claims against said property. You are hereby commanded to appear and defend such suit on the first Monday after the expiraand after the date of issuance hereof. the same being the 15th day of August A.D., 1960 \(which before the Honorable District Court, 53rd Judicial District of Travis County, Texas. to be held at the courthouse thereof, then and there to show cause why judgment shall not be rendered for such taxes, penalties. interests and costs, and condemning said property and ordering foreclosure of the constitutional and statutory tax liens thereon for taxes due the Plaintiff and the taxing units parties hereto, and those who may intervene herein, together with all interest, penalties and costs allowed by law up to and including the day of judgment herein, and all costs of this suit. Issued and given under my hand and seal of said court in the City of Austin. Travis County, Texas, this 28th day of June A.D., 1960. 0. T. MARTIN, JR. Clerk of the District Court Travis County. Texas By: Mrs. Chas. Kohrs, Deputy. CITATION BY PUBLICATION THE STATE OF TEXAS TO Joseph Gerald, Defendant, in the hereinafter styled and numbered cause: You are hereby commanded to appear before the 53rd 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 LBJ Record Sir: Recently you published a squib about Senator Lyndon Johnron’s role in the 1944 rump convention. As I recall, Lyndon never did bolt but did finally become associated with the rump convention and committed to its program. Since the affairs of the Texas Democratic Party are beginning to resemble a continuous run of the same moviepermitting one to sit through any number of performancesit may be of interest for each of us who has some recollection of past events to jot them down for future reference. With the full knowledge that the following is an account recollected from events which took place 14 years ago and from my own rather limited viewpoint of those events, I am setting them down with the thought that they may be useful pieced together with other persons’ recollections. In 1944 party politics revolved around the same major issue as presently, party loyalty, but conservatives, frustrated by twelve years of Roosevelt, were as radically right-wing over the entire state as they are in the Harris County delegation today. The difference between the situation then and now was that money power controlled a substantial majority of all representatives from the big cities both in the legislature and in the political party delegations, and there was no articulate opposition to extreme conservatism in any of the big cities. The close personally knit big interest manipulators in the cities undertook to organize and control the county and state conventions. “Manipulate” is better than “organize,” because at that time it was not necessary to fool around with precinct conventions. A few articulate lawyers on the extreme conservative side at the county convention could maneuver many conventions in a parliamentary manner to obtain their ends. The Democrats in Texas, overwhelmingly pro-Roosevelt, were caught off guard, and party machinery fell into the hands of the Texas Regulars, whose objective it was to cast the electoral votes for the Republican candidates. There was no serious doubt in any informed observer’s mind that the forces that controlled the May convention in Austin in 1944 were badly in the minority amongst the Democrats in Texas, in fact amongst all Texas voters. The bolt in 1944 was not the result of any state-wide planning hardly of any planning at all, unless it was in the mind of Mrs. Alice Taylor, who probably had had a few conversations with loyal Democrats in Austin, and maybe with Minnie Fisher Cunningham of New Waverly. Actually, the bolt was not a very spectacular thing when it occurred around noon-time in the Texas Senate chamber. The room was packed with delegates and non-delegates. There was no very careful screening of those in attendance, and folding chairs were placed so close together that there were practically no aisles. It would have been hard to walk out of the hall without first persuading some 25 people in adjacent seats to walk out first. The call for a vote was inept, unplanned, and came as a surprise to both conservatives and loyalists. Mrs. Taylor got the mike solely by the prerogative of a woman who does not know what she is doing and is therefore entitled to some consideration on the part 0,f Southern gentlemen. She made a short, somewhat incoherent speech which ended with a fervent appeal for all good Democrats to follow her out of the hall, whereupon she stalked out with only a few persons following. The only person I saw who seemed to have planned some ac tion previously was Joe Steadham, then head of the Railway Trainmen’s Austin lobby. Steadham, a tall, lean man, something of a showman, and the Railroad Brotherhood’s lobbyist at that time, had a large campaign picture of Roosevelt which he waved back and forth. It is hard to tell whether he planned to do what he did or did it on the spur of the moment. Tom Miller, mayor of Austin, was standing near the door. When it appeared that the fat was in the fire, he began to bellow in stentorian tones, “This way, this way, Roosevelt Democrats, let’s leave,” or words to that effect. You could hear him over the tumult of the crowd, and a number more people left the hall. Since it was about lunch time and the procedures of the convention had bogged down for some necessary work behind the scenes, people were restless and many drifted out to lunch. Some had already gone. I went on out about this time. On my way down Congress Avenue, I met some delegates coming back, amongst whom was the late Joe B. Dibrell from Coleman, Texas, who had always been active in Democratic Party politics and was later on the Executive Committee. He was pretty typical of ‘a loyal Democratic delegate. He had not been there when the walk-out had occurred and wanted to know what had happened. When I told him, he was pleased and glad to know that there was something to do rather than sit in the Texas regular convention and listen to Pat Neff. The plan was then conceived \(I go to the House chamber and hold a rump convention. As I recall, Herman Jones held forth in the House for some period of time. Some of the group went to look for Lyndon Johnson, who I be LEGALS THE STATE OF TEXAS COUNTY OF TRAVIS In the name and by the authority of the State of Texas Notice is hereby given as follows: To: Jewell Ahrens and husband, George Ahrens, Joe P. Jekel, Margo Nesbitt, Annie F. Carney, Frances Culbertson and husband, John Culbertson, and the unknown owner or owners of the property hereinafter described or any interest therein; the heirs and legal representatives and the unknown heirs and legal representatives of each of the above named and mentioned persons who may be deceased; and the corporate officers, trustees, receivers and stockholders of any of the above named or mentioned parties which may be corporations, defunct or otherwise, together with the successors, heirs and assigns of such corporate officers, trustees, receivers, and stockholders, and any and all persons, including adverse claimants, owning or having or claiming any legal or equitable interest in or lien upon the following described property delinquent to Plaintiff herein, for taxes, to-wit: All that certain lot, tract, or parcel of land lying and being situated in the County of Travis, State of Texas, known and described as addition to the City of Austin, Travis County, Texas, according to the map or plat of said addition of record in Plat Book Two of Travis County, Texas. Which said property is delinquent to Plaintiff for taxes in the following amounts: $888.18, exclusive of interest, penalties and costs, and there is included in this suit in addition to the taxes all said interest, penalties and costs thereon, allowed by law up to and including the day of judgment ,herein. You are hereby notified that suit has been brought by the City of Austin as Plaintiff, against the above named persons, and the State of Texas and the County of Travis as Defendants, by petition filed on the 17th day of May, 1960, ir. a certain suit styled City of Austin vs. Jewell Ahrens, et al for collection of the taxes on said property and that suit is now