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against defendants for title to and possession of the following described tract of land: All that certain lot, tract or parcel of land consisting of one and two-thirds acres fronting on West 12th Street and being the George Johns Tract shown on plat of Marlton Place, Section 2, in the City of Austin, Travis County, Texas, and being described by metes and bounds as follows: Beginning at an iron stake at the Northeast corner of said Johns tract; Thence with the South line of West 12th Street, N. 60 W. 269.44 feet to an iron stake for Northwest corner of said Johns tract; Thence S 30 W. 269.2 feet to an iron stake for Southeast corner of said Johns tract; Thence S 60 E. 269.44 feet to an iron stake for Southeast corner of said Johns tract; Thence N. 30 E. 269.2 feet to the point of beginning; containing 1.67 acres, more or less. Plaintiff alleges that on September 13. 1960, plaintiff was, and still is, the owner in fee simple of the afore described property, and that on September 14, 1960. the defendants unlawfully entered upon and dispossessed plaintiff of such property and now withhold from plaintiff the possession thereof; Plaintiff alleges further that he has held peaceable, continuous and adverse possession of the land and premises described above, cultivating, using and enjoying the same for more than ten years prior to September 13, 1960; plaintiff alleges that he acquired the aforedescribed property under a warranty deed from Collin Frank Harris to Richard G. Avent. dated Sept. 12, 1950, and recorded in Vol. 1064, p. 290. Deed Records of Travis County, Texas, said deed describing the same land described above; Plaintiff further alleges that he has openly exercised dominion over and asserted claim to the above described property, and that he has annually paid taxes thereon before the same became delinquent for a period of Twenty-five years next preceding September 13, 1960; Plaintiff prays for judgment for the title and possession of the above described property, for costs of suit and for such other and further relief to which he may show himself entitled; 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 9th day of November, 1960. 0. T. MARTIN, JR., Clerk of the District Courts, Travis County, Texas. By: A. E. JONES, Deputy. CITATION BY PUBLICATION THE STATE OF TEXAS TO Chase Sherwin Winfrey 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 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 5th day of December, 1960, and answer the petition of plaintiff in Cause Number 118,698, in which Mary Louise Manigault Winfrey is Plaintiff and Chase Sherwin Winfrey is defendant, filed in said court on the 21st day of July, 1960, 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 toward plaintiff of such a nature as to render their further living together as husband and wife altogether insupportable. Plaintiff further alleges that no children were born of said union. Plaintiff alleges that during said marriage she acquired certain shares of stock in certain corporations which stocks were recorded in the name of both plaintiff and defendant but in truth and fact the said shares were purchased with her separate property and estate and plaintiff prays the’ court to enter an order setting aside the said shares as her separate estate. Plaintiff furthur 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 return 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 18th day of October, 1960. 0. T. MARTIN, JR. Clerk of the District Courts, Travis County, Texas. By ELI GREEN, Deputy. CITATION BY PUBLICATION THE STATE OF TEXAS TO Gifton E. Smith Defendant, in the hereinafter styled and numbered cause: by 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 19th day of December, 1960, and answer the petition of plaintiff in Cause Number 119,609. in which Juanita J. Smith is Plaintiff and Gifton E. Smith is defendant, filed in said Court on the 5th day of October, 1960, 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 that defendant commenced a course of unkind iconduct toward plaintiff, which continued with slight intermissions until plaintiff and defendant separated, and plaintiff alleges that she did nothing to bring about this treatment; plaintiff alleges that defendant was guilty of excesses, cruel treatment and outrages toward plaintiff as of such a nature as to render their further living together as insupportable; plaintiff alleges that no children were born to this marriage and they did not acquire any community property; plaintiff alleges that she owned the following personal property as her separate property and estate prior to her marriage to the defendant, to-wit: Certain household furniture, fixPlymouth , automobile; plaintiff further alleges that her name was Juanita June Butler prior to her marriage to defendant, and plaintiff prays for restoration of her former name, Juanita June Butler, judgment of divorce dissolving the marriage between plaintiff and defendant, 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 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 3rd day of November, 1960. 0. T. MARTIN, JR. Clerk of the District Courts, Travis County, Texas. By A. E. JONES, Deputy. A Texas Book, Tch Tch House, Not Home THE ORDERLY DISORDERLY HOUSE, by Carol Erwin with Floyd Miller. N.Y., Doubleday and Co., Inc., 1960. $3.95. “It takes a heap of women, to make a home a house” wrote Eddie Guest, or one of the great American writers. Since that time the public has been interested in houses, of one kind of another, hence the subtle title of this volume. Carol’s first “house” was in Abilene, and to tell you the truth, the book doesn’t have much interest until she gets there, on page 171. Then we get to the heart of the matter, the memoirs of a madam. Not that life had been dull for Carol until then; the Perils of Pauline won’t hold a candle to hers. Her gambling, poor-Okie father sends her through the fifth grade, when she runs off from home at age 14, after witnessing cattle poisonings, miscegenation, and holy roller activities. She hoboes as a boy, later as a girl, up to the age of 18, maintaining a perilous virginal existence reminiscent of the medieval Lives of the Saints. One night she fights off a lecherous conductor, consequently spending the rest of the night in jail fighting off bugs and a drunken lesbian. She learns what hangovers are, inherits a gambling joint for an aged Indian, beats up “sporting girls” three at a time, and falls in love with an ex-con, which means the downfall of her virtue. NAMES OF MANY Texas towns ” slip from her pen: Breckenridge, Ivan, Swastika, Murray, Best, Barger, Signal Hill, San Angelo, McCamey, Taylor. Each forms a small chapter in her career as a “landlady.” It was at Foster that with a brand-new Buick she bribed the sheriff, who promised not to raid her until election-eve. In another town, the payoff was through the “juke box” industry. Handling politicians and the law was part of the excitement of her job, but she could never manage the Texas Rangers. And who do you suppose talked her into writing her memoirs? Clarence Darrow, that’s who. He dropped by her place several nights, to relax with a drink and conversation, only. \(“He had just finished the Scopes trial where he tried to prove were all descendset of Emerson, and told her to keep a diary. She did. Apparently she also read Self Reliance. Her friends at times included Mat Kime, bankrobber; Jim Garver, “wanted in seven states”; MARTIN ELFANT Sun Life of Canada Houston, Texas CA 4-0686 “BOW” WILLIAMS When Your Home Policy Expires, Check With Us About Special Savings On Our Homeowners’ Policy GReenwood 2-0545 624 NORTH LAMAR, AUSTIN Let’s Abolish the Poll Tax! and Dick Lime, “one cf the most notorious bankrobbers in the Southwest.” The first two she found too effete for her tastes: Garvey “never turned a trick” in her house and there was “something girlish” about Kime. Not so with Lime: “Soon Dick and I were partners, both in bed and in business, and we made a good team.” The Dallas News might call Carol a “liberal”. She is proud that her road house in Foster was the first in the South to have ,a Negro entertainer, “a smash hit Negro piano player by the name of Joe Johnson.” \(No relation to the Dallas Vegas Club’s smash puts pit, “Here we were in the Deep South with a room full of peopleNegro and white, outlaws and workers, hustlers and legitimate womenand we all had a great time together.” As you can see by the above, she lapses into philosophy. sometimes. Madams, she says in a mixed metaphor, “have seen the human race with its pants down and . . . know its needs and fears.” To extend the metaphor, a chapter later she adds: “I just didn’t find people in their natural state to be bad, as some reformers seem to claim.” CHE LIVES AND LEARNS. A 4poker game set up in the afternoons for the prostitutes was very successful. As one explained to her: “When some housewife gets bored, what’s her idea of excitement? Sneaking off some aft. ernoon and doing boom-booms with her husband’s best friend. But what the hell are we supposed to do when we get bored?” But all is not benevolence when Carol comments on the world of 1960: “The prudes have won the day and sex has’ been driven underground, easily available to only the very rich. And what are the results? . . . more homosexuals . . . more juvenile violence . . . more sex ‘crimes than ever be fore. Let the prudes answer for this!” She adds as an afterthought: “I was certainly lucky to live in the days when men were men and not a bunch of nances who danced on strings manipulated by their wives and mothers and sisters.” JAMES W. BYRD THE TEXAS OBSERVER Page 7 Nov. 18, 1960 LEGALS CITATION BY PUBLICATION THE STATE OF TEXAS TO George W. Spear and the unknown heirs of George W. Spear; Rebecca J. Spear and the unknown heirs of Rebecca J. Spear; David Adams and the unknown heirs of David Adams; Michael DeChaumes and wife, Reine Desire DeChaumes, and the unknown heirs of said Michael DeChaumes and wife, Renie Desire DeChaumes; Swante M. Swenson and the unknown heirs of said Swante M. Swenson; Alick Swenson and/or Alexander Swenson, Jennie Swenson. Sallie Swenson, Blanch Swenson, Rose Swenson and George Johns, and the unknown heirs of the said Alick or Alexander Swenson, Jennie Swenson, Sallie Swenson, Blanch Swenson, Rose Swenson and George Johns; and Alice Langham and the unknown heirs of Alice Langham, and Mary Langham, and the unknown heirs of Mary Langham, and Jacob Johns and wife, Hannah Johns, and the unknown heirs of said Jacob Johns and wife, Hannah Johns; and Collin Frank Harris and the unknown heirs of Collin Frank Harris, Defendants, in the hereinafter styled and numbered cause: by 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 26th day of December, 1960, and answer the petition of plaintiff in Cause Number 119,957, in which Richard G. Avent is Plaintiff and the above named defendants are defendants, filed in said Court on the 9th day of November, 1960, and the nature of which said suit is as follows: Being an action and prayer for judgment in favor of Plaintiff and