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JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERHouston APRIL 10TH 8 P.M. HEAR: George Willoughby Chairman of Committee on Non-Violent Action Also: FOLK SINGERS FOR PEACE Mike Gramlich and Sandi Roodin COMMITTEE FOR PEACEFUL ALTERNATIVES Contribution : 75 Cents =,=.==., SUBSCRIBE TO THE OBSERVER *Pernicious’Ivan the Terrible *’Incorrigible’Ghengis Khan *`Unrealistic’Ethelred the Unready *Threatening’Sen. Hudson PRICE SAYS DEMAGOGUERY Don Hits ‘Half Republicans’ -Cox Gleeful Wallisville on the Trinity River. Land values around Liberty were improved in both instances. Both the commission and the water board, Wilson said, were appointed by Daniel. Wilson proposed two laws that “can go far toward correcting this situation in Texas.” One would require a “full disclosure” of all personal assets and liabilities by elected officeholders. The second, applicable only to the governor, would prohibit him from engaging in private business while in office. He could not be an officer or director in a corporation, purchase additional land, trade in oil or gas, or purchase stocks. He would also be required to divest himself of ownership in any newspaper, radio, or television station. Daniel Gov. Daniel accused Wilson of resorting to character assassination and of spreading “false, distorted, and libelous charges.” “It is Indeed regrettable,” he said, “that the attorney general, by his own admission, used state employees and state money to check the record which he himself has misinterpreted and falsified, and that he gave me no opportunity whatever to show him the truth before embarking on a tirade of personal slander.” The governor said Wilson’s facts were slanted. His total acreage, he said, is slightly more than 5,500, about one-half of Wilson’s estimate. “Everything I’ve ever made in my life has been put into land.” He began with 2,200 acres, he said, which he purchased at $10 an acre. On the largest tract, he said, he has been paying $250 a month for 30 years. “For more than a year this desperate man has been making false and bitter personal attacks on me and others over whose bodies he would like to climb to the governor’s chair. “Do you remember his early charge that I had made a deal to support another for governor and run myself for lieutenant governor? Time has proved that false, but no more false than the bulk of his latest personal attack . . . “The truth is,” Daniel said, “that served ten years as my legal secretary is employed by me personally tolook after my personal property, and I have never neglected my public service to attend to private business or used it to cnhance my personal income from any source whatever.” \(Wilson tartly responded next day that Texas might be better off if the governor’s sister had been run”Nearly every time I have run for public office,” Daniel said, “land records of Liberty County have been checked by one or more of my opponents, but they have found nothing wrong and never stooped to false accusation or interpretation.” Elsewhere, the governor called John Connally’s proposal to cut state expenditures ten percent “sheer demagoguery or displaying a shocking ignorance of facts. “Ninety-five percent of every state tax dollar goes to our public schools, colleges, hospitals, pensions and medical care for the aged, highways and law enforcement,” Daniel said. “One percent goes to operational costs, and this is lower on a per capita basis than any state except Tennessee.” The entire state economy, Daniel said, would be set back “by cutting these essential obligations of state government, and when we fail to meet our own needs, advocates of more federal aid and controls are quick to step in.” Addressing representatives of 22 East Texas counties who convened to discuss a state park In the Big Thicket, Daniel warned that unless the state acts, the federal government may take the area over as a wilderness area and put a stop to all recreational and economic development. Daniel praised his administration’s water program, and said Texas now has a plan for development of water resources to 1980 and studies to the year 2000. Walker Former General Edwin Walker had the busiest week of all. Testifying before the Senate preparedness subcommittee, he called Secretary of State Rusk soft on communism, described himself as a scapegoat of America’s treacherous “no-win” policy, and punched a reporter. The taciturn Democratic candidate, who made most of the nation’s front pages and got plenty of free TV time, registered these points: 1.Named Rusk and W. W. Rostow, top State Department advisor, as links in a de-lous apparatus dedicated to sell out the United States. 2.Said he could not identify those in “complete control of the apparatus.” 3.Described the United Nations as “the nearest thing to the Tower of Babel that has ever been built.” 4.Charged that the State Department’s soft, no-win policy is a hidden policy and is being withheld from public view. 5.Said he was definitely muzzled. “I was framed in a den of inequity.” 6.Blamed his removal from his German command on President Kennedy, who was “both prose-11#1and judge.” 7.Explained he was not trying to indoctrinate his troops, but merely giving them information on which they could make up their own minds. 8.Complained that “traditional civilian control of the military has been perverted and extended into a commisar-like system of control at all major echelons of cornman d.” 9.Pointed out that “the Walker ease” is “basically a fight between the internationalist left and the nationalist right, with control of the military establishment at stake.” Lincoln Rockwell, leader of the American Nazi Party, was ejected from the committee room when he refused to remove his swastika lapel button. When a Washington Daily News reporter attempted to ask Walker if he wished to repudiate Rockwell, the general punched him in the eye. Washington newsmen reported that both Walker supporters and liberals rejoiced. Earlier in the week Walker spoke at the Fort Worth Press Club. Quizzed on a 1964 KennedyJohnson party ticket, he called the present administration “ultra, ultra, ultral liberal,” and said he “could never support Kennedy … unless Kennedy does a 100 percent reversal in the next two years.” Star-Telegram reporter Don McDowell wrote that some of the general’s statements “appeared to be contradictory.” At one point in his speech he remarked that he was “not proud of his military service” and was glad to be out. Minutes later he said: “I’m proud of the military.” Questioned afterwards, he said both statements were true. Yarborough Houston liberal Don Yarborough, stumping on his New Frontier theme, lashed out at Republican Jack Cox, who has predicted a general election showdown between the two. Yarborough said Cox has s just discovered “what my half-Republican opponents in the Democratic primary have known for a long timethat the people are joining behind the only real Democrat in the governor’s race.” Cox, he said, “is getting an early start for the November election by attacking me and the Democratic Party I represent.” Turning to his Democratic foes, Yarborough charged that “their false polls and wild claims of victory have been circus-type promotion attempts to mislead Texans. These so-called Democrats who are opposing me now are trying to buy this election with $20,000 barbecues and political baloney.” In supporting an 88-mile Padre Island national seashore area, Yarborough struck at John Connally, who he said “is using the governor’s race as a platform to declare to the world that he has caved in to land speculators who want to pre-empt the island’s best beaches for their own profit. Connally’s call for a hemmed-in 65 mile park is a cry of surrender.” The Padre Island issue, he declared, is “a clear-cut battle between the public interest and well-heeled pressure groups.” The 36-year-old attorney called also for “a solid foundation of teacher tenure” and said such a program would be “one of the first recommendations” of his administration. All five surrounding states have tenure laws, he said, adding that such a law in Texas “would represent a solid vote of confidence in our teaching staff of 80,000 which has one of the highest levels of professional qualification of any public school staff in America.” Yarborough advocated a governor’s council on the fine arts “to instill an awakened appreciation of our great Texas heritage an-I at the same time dramatically improve the image of Texas in the eyes of the rest of the nation.” Arguing that the state should dispel the myth of Texas as a land of uncultured millionaires, he said a “genuinely interested governor could focus public attention and public support on the arts and help provide the thriving cultural atmosphere to attract the brightest minds in the nation.” Attacking the sales tax again, Yarborough charged that the Belden Poll is wrong once more in saying that only 35 percent of Texans actively oppose the tax. In his talks with small merchants, housewives, and small businessmen across the state, “an overwhelming number are for repeal of this tax which they know is just the beginning.” The “huge interstate pipelines,” he said, do not pay their fair share of state taxes. He pledged again to work for repeal and promised to veto any expanded tax on food and medicine. Wilson, he said, advocates a sales tax on everything, and Connally privately wants the same thing. The number of mental patients in state hospitals could be cut in half, he said, “if Texas gets political leadership with the foresight to capitalize on scientific advances in medicine.” Connally John Connally repeated his promises that he would reduce state operating expenditures by ten percent. Texans, he complained, have paid more taxes in the past half decade than they did from 1903 to 1957$310 million in the 54 years preceding 1957 and $500 million in the past five years. He challenged opponents who have been “whispering about my friendship in Washington” to say whether they campaigned for “these same persons” in 1960. He said he would be “the most unencumbered governor” to occupy the chief executive’s post in the last six years, a period which roughly corresponds to Daniel’s tenure of office. The President of the United States, he said, has as much to do with my running “as any of you here didand you know how much that is.” Connally continued to stress the need for more and better educational opportunities in the state. Formby Formby’s week was full of pronouncements, and he continued to direct his campaign ire toward Connally and Daniel. Sniping at Daniel’s five-year tenure, he said the governor has had time to get across his program to the people “a sales tax for the people and an unjust merit rating on car insurance for the people.” Connally, Formby declared, is “the leap-frog candidate. He has leaped over from national politics to state politics at the suggestion of Washington, undoubtedly.” The former Navy secretary was handpicked by LBJ and “the LBJ machine is at work and will go to any extent to win this election.” Formby called himself an “oldfashioned” conservative, “not a radical conservative,” and charged that Connally is outpromising the liberal candidate, Yarborough. “Voters who support Connally as a conservative are being hoodwinked. Actually, Connally has promised the liberals down on the Gulf Coast so many things that Yarborough has yelled ‘calfrope.’ ” He advocated building in Texas an adequate hospital for the criminally insane. On another hot issue, Formby said if Billie Sol Estes’ financial operations were thoroughly investigated “it will be revealed that Estes was in cahoots with some high-ups in Washington, else he could not have handled the millions of bushels of grain that he has been storing and shipping the past few years.” Whittenburg Jack Cox reiterated that he and Yarborough would meet in the general election, a prediction based on “sound reasons and personal experience.” Yarborough Will get the bulk of the liberal vote and he the bulk of the conservative, Cox said. The legislature, he said, should be reapportioned to provide more equal representation on the basis of population. The Supreme Court, however, lacked jurisdiction in the Tennessee case, he said. Cox was gleeful about the Daniel-Wilson clash. “The blood-letting being done by Democratic nominees is a revelation to many Texans and will serve to strengthen our case that a new set of faces in public office is long overdue,” he said. Were the situation exposed by Wilson “not so serious and the revelations so shocking, the spectacle would be amusing and downright comical. Here we are, seeing one of the scouts of the New Frontier snitching on another, revealing facts that he must have known for a long time, but wouldn’t bring to light until it would serve his own ambitions for power to do so.” Roy Whittenburg, the decided underdog against Cox in the GOP primary, warned that the United States is threatened with dictatorship unless federal usurpation of states rights is halted. “We have no state issues which are not national issues,” he said. State Comptroller Robert S. Calvert announced that about 2.35 million Texans either have poll taxes or exemption certificates for the 1962 elections. Some 1.97 million have poll taxes and 382,000 exemptions. Four years ago, in the last non-presidential election year, there were 1.7 million poll taxes and 285,000 exemptions. CLASSIFIED HOUSE FOR SALE One Storywith character. 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