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Gonzalez ‘Disaster’ On government thrift: “Here we have had a tremendous spending bill passed, but so far as I have seen, nobody has tried to put in effect any intelligent economies. Great economies could be made in the farm-to-market program. Before you know it, we’ll be paving the farmers’ driveways. Right now we’re paving roads that have an average travel load of one car a day. These things aren’t dramatic, but somebody ought to put the spotlight on them.” He has strong opinions on political personalities. Of Sen. Henry Gonzalez, now a candidate for Congress: “His election would be a disaster for Bexar County. He is a clever politician, but he would be unable to cope with Washington’s machinery. I don’t think he could last. Another Democrat or one of our men would knock him off soon.” Referring to a talk he heard Gonzalez make on the loan shark problem, Catto said, “He makes Eisenhower look like a master of syntax.” Of Gov. Price Daniel: “He has been an enormous disappointment, vacillating constantly. I don’t think he knows his own mind. This is true in all areas. One day last week he said he wanted all Bexar elections to be held at the same time. A couple of days later he said he wanted a Pool-type bill to be introduced, which means there would be five elections.” Strongest Democratic opposition to Catto in the race will likely come from Glenn Kothmann, cattleman and former state legislator, and Fred Semaan, widely-known criminal defense lawyer. BRAINPOWER IS OUR MOST VITAL RESOURCE! You can’t .dig education out of the earth. There’s only one place where business and industry tan get the educated men and woman so vitally needed for future progress. That’s from our colleges and universities. Today these institutions are doing their best to meet the need. But they face a crisis. The demand for brains is increasing fast, and so is the pressure et college applications. More money must be raised each year to expand ficilities bring faculty salaries up to an adequate standard provide a sound education for the young people who need and deserve it. As a practical business measure, help the colleges or tmiver*Kies of your choicenow! The returns will 6. greater than you think. N you want to know what the college crisis means to you, wills for him booklet to HIGHER EDUCATION, Sox 36, Times Square Station, Now York 36, Now Yoek. Shaw Transportation Company, Inc. Houston.. Texas Challenger in Bexar Republican in the House? Catto Goes for Broke and never thought of thinking for myself at all,” Catto’s rise in politics resulted directly from rebelling at the duty of voting at his party’s call and alsoso his account of itfrom “beginning to think for myself, in fact, thinking myself right out of the Democratic Party. “Maybe it was naive,” said Catto, “but distasteful as Adlai was, I felt I was obliged to support him because I had won the Democratic precinct chairmanship. “In fact, I was still chairman. But as soon as my term was over in 1956, I realized I didn’t have to go against my better judgment and conscienceI could go into the Republican Party. “Oh, as a matter of fact, I don’t remember exactly when I switched over. Maybe I got my first nudge in 1954, during the precinct race. I sent out cards saying, ‘Vote for me, don’t vote for Kathleen Voigt’s candidate.’ And after the race I ran into her and she said, ‘If I ever see you again, I’ll scratch your eyes out.’ She meant it too. “Then, after the 1956 race I was kind of at loose ends, and one day I picked up John Goode \(then gave him a lift downtown, and we chitchatted about my returning to politics. Maybe that talk with him did it.” ‘Liberally Inclined’ Catto’s detractors including Berry, who calls him “Fat Cat” Catto, although Catto’s whole house would fit into the front room of Berry’s mansionpoint out that Catto gave no visible signs of being a Republican until he married Jessica Hobby, smashing blonde daughter of ex-Eisenhower advisor Mrs. Oveta Culp Hobby. Catto resents this implication of persuasion by marriage; but he talks about it in an explosively boyish anger, without bitterness. This easy-going trait is perhaps one of his most valuable political assets. Even opposition politicians generally like him. Said Rep. Franklin Spears: “Catto has been rather liberally inclined. He supported Stevenson in 1956, and I would rather think he retains this characteristic, but sometimes the pressure of business associates will undo you. I Of course, I cannot place a great deal of confidence in a candidate who espouses the politics and philosophies of such a party as the Republican Party.” \(Catto, darkly handsome, is frequently mistaken on the street for Spears. “When I’m addressed as Spears,” said Catto, grinning, “I have an almost irresistible Impulse to say, ‘Oh shut up, you s.o:b.’ Not that I mind the mistake, but it would maybe make Jake Johnson, who among San Antonio’s legislative delegation usually has the sharpest tongue, said: “He was outstanding among Republican candidates in the last Bexar race. Look up some of the quotes from other Republicans at that time and see how vicious they were. Henry and Jessica were as sweet as they could be. “Ahd I think Henry would be a good liberal. Look at the welfare programs he supports. He was up before the city council the other day about these starving people.” Asked if he really thought Catto was a liberal or if he was just saying that to puncture his reputation among Republicans, Johnson smiled and looked away. Upper Crust Johnson wasn’t all praise. “Henry’s an insurance man, and I think we have had enough influence in the House from insurance people,” he said. Earlier in the week, when Catto protested the San Antonio delegation’s appeal to the governor for a Pool-type run-off bill, Johnson had again made reference to Catto’s profession: “He’s just an insurance man who has become intoxicated by the new rates and has started babbling.” The Catto family is well-to-do, although as Texas fortunes go, theirs is small pumpkins indeed. Young Catto travels well up in society. He is a member of the German Club and of the Order of the Alamo, that sort of thing. He was educated in private schools, first at Texas Military Institute, then at Williams College. One of his schoolmates at Williams College is now in the legislature, and in fact their lots are strikingly similar in other ways. This is Senator Hubert Hudson, wealthy and, like Catto, married to a former governor’s daughter, Hudson choosing his bride from chez Moody. Speaking of his fellow soldier of good fortune, Hudson comes up with an almost suspiciously ideal portrait. “henry,” he said, “is completely honest. He thinks for himself. He has always been quiet, kind, considerate, thoughtful, and I should say careful. He is smart and well-mannered. “People like Herring \(senator closer than people who are under the tutelage of either the right or the left, because they are free peopleyou know what I mean?” Catto has been called a quasiliberal. Is he then running with the right party? “Yes, I think so,” said Hudson. “He has become alarmed by the fact that we are drifting rapidly toward a dangerous concentration of power in the central government; and while I don’t think the Republican Party has always opposed that centralization, I believe it has come to stand in opposition to it in the last 10 years.” Set for Schooling Ed Harte, editor of the Corpus Christi Caller-Times and a close friend of Catto’s, told the Observer, “In matters like race and foreign aid, it pretty much depends on what generation you’re in. Henry takes the position an enlightened young man of his generation would take in such matters, no matter which party he belongs to. His father’s generation, in either party, would probably call him a liberal. I would classify him instead, politically, simply as an exceptionally bright man with the proper instincts.” Harte added: “Obviously he hasn’t much political experience.” And it is obvious. Catto is ignorant of topics that are tiresomely commonplace in the capitol. “But I can bloody well assure you that I will educate myself,” he said. He says he knows little about the Padre Island debate, but that he is “inclined” \(apparently to think it should quickly be released from state jurisdiction to become a national park. He doesn’t know the specifics of the loan shark quarrel, but he is for “writing as tough a law as we can get. It’s a sin to let them charge what they do.” As for a tax on the gas pipelines, “I see no reason to make them immune to taxation, but I don’t know how to write the tax in such a way as to make it constitutional.” On capital punishment: “It seems to me that until they can show that states with capital punishment have lower rape and murder rates, the argument for capital punishment goes straight to hell. Anyway, the idea of an eye for an eye is a Judaic notion, and I’m a Christian.” The late Bell, whose seat he hopes to take, was an extremely conservative Democrat. How would he, a Republican, vote differently? “Well, for one thing, I always disagreed with Bell on his votes for segregation bills, which I think are wrong. All Bexar Republicans are economic conservatives, like their Democratic conservative friends, but I think the Republicans stand more solidly for equal opportunity for all races. “I might vote with an East Texas Democrat on the sales tax, but never, never on some such bills as came up after the 1954 Supreme Court decisionsuch as the bills that would have cut off aid to integrated schools.” LEGALS CITATION BY PUBLICATION THE STATE OF TEXAS TO Mildred Barr, if living and if dead, the legal representatives of said named defendant, and the unknown heirs of said named defendant; the legal representatives of the unknown heirs of said named defendant, if the unknown heirs of said named defendant are dead; the unknown heirs of the unknown heirs of said named defendant, if the unknown heirs of the unknown heirs of said named defendant are dead; and the unknown owners or owners of the property hereinafter described or any interest therein; and any and all other persons, including adverse claimants, owing or having or claiming any legal or equitable interest in or lien upon the property hereinafter described; Defendants, in the hereinafter styled and numbered cause: by 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 14th day of August, 1961, and answer the petition of plaintiff in Cause Number 122,615, in which J. J. Goode. Lloyd Carter, Floyd Carter, Thomas Ellison, Sr., Wesley Ellison, Willie James Reed, William J. Pearson, Alonzo Black and William Carter, Trustees of Zion Hill Baptist Church are Plaintiffs and the hereinabove named defendants are Defendants, filed in said Court on the 23rd day of June, 1961, and the nature of which said suit is as follows: Being an action and prayer by Plaintiffs and against Defendants for title to and possession of the following described land, to-wit: City of Austin, Travis County, Texas, according to the map or plat of said subdivision or addition of record in Book 2, Page 154 of the map or plat records of Travis County, Texas, reference to which said map or plat and the record thereof is hereby made for all necessary and pertinent purposes. Plaintiffs alleged that they are the fee simple owners and entitled to possession of said land. That on May 12, 1961, defendants unlawfully entered and dispos sessed p aintiffs and withhold from them possession thereof. Plaintiff prays for other and further relief, legal or equitable, general or special, to which they might be entitled. 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 27th day of June, 1961. 0. T. MARTIN, JR., Clerk of the District Courts, Travis County, Texas. By: 0. T. MARTIN, JR. NOTICE OF INTENTION TO INCORPORATE Notice is hereby given that J. J. Lampis and G. C. Sarris doing business as Christi’s, 3130 Broadway, San Antonio, Texas, intends to incorporate under the name of Christie’s, Inc., on July 1, 1961. Dated at Austin, Texas, June .., 1961. Owners J. J. LAMPIS G. C. SARRIS Notice is hereby given that W. Roland Lund, J. A. Ramirez, Jr., and Edmund X. Ramirez, doing business as Dallas Trophy & Award Center, 4028 Swiss Avenue, Dallas, Texas, intend to incorporate without change of name. Dated at Dallas, Texas, July 24, 1961. Owners: W. Roland Lund J. A. Ramirez, Jr. Edmund X. Ramirez CITATION BY PUBLICATION THE STATE OF TEXAS TO Charles D. Meilleur, 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,