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THE DENTON RECORDClTRONiCLE : ; : EDITORIALS AND FEATURES : : TSUNDAY. FEBRUARY 17.7063
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ACADEMIC Behind The
Editorials
FREEDOM
Debate
The Reuther Revival
Between U.S.9 Canada
Commission, was in Austin last
sociology department
those funds to contribute toward
are nearly so.
BOTH ARE DESIGNED to shoot the cost of a new state office ble than Bella Starr, the Bandit Queen ”
No Poker Game
administrative level, . to hire.
fire, or affect the tenure of facul-
Koeninger’s here as a witness to- ty members.
ing last spring reportedly was
in behalf of the bill besides
A
position to the other two, except
L
m
L Russian bomber
threat remains
Rep. Cherry told the com-
mittee that “it is time to lift
this veil of doubt as to what
are the rights of public em-
PINETREE
SADAS
of SCOT have votes in the Legis-
lature. and while it is an effect
and ordinary tool of legislative pol-
itics to try to neutralize the lobby
groups which are likely to oppose
you, the bill to carry out a gov-
ernor’s proposal can't come back
to his desk to be signed into law
was suddenly told one Satur-
day morning that it was all
over. . . It was just inconceiv-
able to me. . .I didn't want
to leave. The college admin-
istration didn't desire it. The
faculty didn't desire it. The
students didn't desire it. . .1
wasn't told why I had been
fired—and I still haven't been
told to this day.”
ed No such instances were noted
until Rep. Roger Thurmond of
Del Rio alluded to “a recent case
we have, all heard about. . .1
won't name any names . .”
At which point Eckhardt broke
in to say; “That's all right. . .Dr.
• Warheads would not
increase nuclear club
tive
facts;
Of
REWARD
1*2,000
nearly a third of the total mem-
bership, none had been talked to
by Connally or by his staff about
the proposal.
Of those who have made up
their minds, the division is al-
• Conode could quickly
get U.S. warhoods
in emergency
Then, at a furious gallop. with a pause now and then to ex-
hibit a crude wood cut, the anonymous writer of the Fox publi-
cation had Bella shooting the Dallas sheriff, robbing the Austin-
San Antonio stage. tricking Cattlemen out of huge sums of money,
robbing an old Indian named Oklahousta, forging documents and
always being pursued by men who could not resist her charms.
Authorities on desperadoes say the “Bella Starr” book published
by Fox is unique in that it does not hate a single essential fact
correct
Yet, as a collector's item, it has been sought by thousands
0 Conodion position
undermines continental
defense
tenting the Fire Fighters As-
sociation; Dr. Forest G. Hill
of the University of Texas;
Dr. Sam Barton of NTSU and
Dr. Elton Abernathy of South-
west Texas State.
Austin Report
How Much Reorganization?
None is to be found at any price.
A Dallas collector owns the cnly perfect copy known to be in
private hands. An incomplete copy is in the Archives of the
Texas State Library ■
Perhaps in some attic, or old trunk, there reposes a mint copy
(in the original condition' ol "Bella Starr. The Bandit Queen.”
It's a small paperback book, with only 64 pages printed on pink
paper.
What would it be worth? Ask any book seller.
The Pride of East Texas
@rumaaag
The Woods . /I
night. ”
A few minutes later Koen-
lager did indeed address the
committee, noting his back-
ground (degrees from' Way.
• U.S. would control
warhoods
[ Atomic arms would
quicken nuclear race
makers who lost out in the heavy competition, whose system, college or university."
savings were wiped out and who had to start again.
. THE AMERICAN SIDE
• Bomarc useless, 1
Voodoo partially so, ■
without nucleor arms B
By STUART LONG
Record-Chronicle Austin Bureau
, AUSTIN — The major reorgan-
ization proposal Gov. John Con-
nally made to the Legislature
hangs in doubt, for a lack of lob-
bying.
This is Connally's proposal that
the State Game 4 Fish Commis-
sion and the State Parks Board
be consolidated into a single agen-
cy with a three-member board
■ to make its policy
An extensive survey of legisla-
/ /
//
• U.S. frying to dictate
to Canada
. ______refusal to adopt nu-'
prise witness as weary legisla-clear warheads to the Bomar
tors stirred in their chairs and missiles and F101 Voodoo fight-
HMP3--* * 74*19 P* -MT* —
for the endorsement by the Sports- to the Indian Territory and married a Cherokee named Sam
Starr On Feb. 3; 1889. she was killed by an unknown assailant.
put over.
Connally's trip to the hospital
for an operation for hernia might
give him a chance to get away
from the stock show circuit, and
onto the telephone to do some
MILTON B. NUCKOLS, a doctor from Kentucky, came to Texas
before Aug. 3, 1824. when he received title to a league and lab-
or of land ( 4,605 acres in present Matagorda and Brazoria
counties. The 1826 census listed Nuckols as a physician, between
25 and 40. with a wife. Angelina and two servants.
WILLIAM PRATER was in Texas before July 19. 1824 when
he received title to a league and labor of land in present Brazoria
and Austin counties He was listed in the 1826 census as a
farmer and stock raiser, aged over 50. with a wife, Maria. three
sons and a daughter.
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SCRAPBOOK “
Assembled by David A. Keasler
WAN’TED
an, BELLA STARR,
eddF, , ATHE BANDIT QUEEN
record of an original “Bella Starr" published by Fox having
been offered for sale by a dealer in the last quarter century.
• voodoo N
SOUADNONS N
■ ROMAIC BASH
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NOKADME„OuAfras IIIUB STATES E54
.. . ' AN
LOCOMOTIV ES HAD NAMES—A small road in East Texas nam-
ed its engine “The Bull of the Woods” because of the frequency
with which it jumped the track and went lumbering through
the pine woods. Other engines were named “The Texas.” "Sam
Houston,” "Ebenezer Allen” and "The Austin.” This old wood
cut shows a small engine used by toads in the 1850 to 1865
period. It likely resembles "The Bull of the Woods.”
for . the normal opposition to
change which makes it hard to
most even—16 for the Connally until he ha convinced a majority
proposal-ang 15: against it The -
idea.
OPPOSITION TO the reorgani-
zation plan seems to center in
two areas—the Gulf Coast, includ-
ing Corpus Christ. Houston and
Beaumont, and the Panhandle.
Legislators from those areas have
heard from the SCOT affiliates
which are on record opposing the
merger.
Ben Vaughan Jr. of Corpus Chris-
ti, chairman of the Game 4 Fish
“The new city of Houston is thriving Population is about 500.
Eggs sell at 81 a dozen, chickens 81 apiece, but good beef for two
to four cents a pound "-Portion of a letter to an unknown per
son written by William G. Cooke from Houston, March 4, 1837
j t oke I might at San Jacinte
i administrative head of a school ams of Lubbock, Horace Hous- it says or N0RAD will launch I Telephone 383-2551
ton of Dallas and Cory was nam- fighters to go up and take a look. , Published every evening except
Eckhardt argued that “civil ed to study the bill. Eckhardt and Should it appear an attack on ^turd*v and on un *v morning
rights don't enforce themselves— Cherry said the full committee the way, NORAD by prearrang- DINTON PUBLISHING COMPANY
lobbying for his reform programs.'
hibited from affecting, directly or A subcommittee composed of phere. A commercial plane cross- _—---------------- I
indirectly, tenure of employment Reps. Ben Jarvis of Tyler, Don- ing this line has to be where its _
of any public employe except the aid Shiply of Houston. Buddy Ad- flight plan says it will be when RECORD-CHRONICLE
- professor of sociology at Texas
, Southern University at Houston
who last year became the subject around
The adorned facts about Bella, as found in “Bella Starr." The
Bandit Queen". published in New York by Richard K Fox in 1889.
begins with the very first line reading.
"Of all women of the Cleopatra type, since the days of the Egyp-
tian queen herself, the universe has preduced none more remarka-
advertising material used by the publisher.
She was “The Female Jesse
James.. ..The Cleopatra
of the Plains”
The unadorned facts about Bella Starr seem to be as, follows;
she was born as Myra or Myra Maebelie or Myra Belle Shirley
in Missouri in 1848. She moved with her family to Texas and
settled at Scyene, near Dallas. Scyene is not on the map, but
old-timers say Scyene was near Monkey Run. Monkey Run, they
say, was near present Garland.
In time, Bella s home became a hideout for the Jameses,
Youngers. Daltons and other desperadoes. She eloped, with Jim
Reed, notorious as a stage coach bandit and horse thief in 1872.
, Two years later Reed was killed while resisting arrest near Paris,
Tex.
Then began a time of roving and wandering for Bella. She went
enjoyment of basic rights and pri- recall a time or two when the report to headquarters within sec-
vileges " regents have played very vital onds. The next problem is iden-
One provision in the measure roles in removing coaches,” he tification; to make sure the object
—which Eckhardt described as said, and then added: “You might is actually an enemy. To avoid
of $20 apiece.
“Unlike the poker game.” Stigler points out, “the
wealth of our society has been doubling even on a
per capita basis every 25 years and the doubling has
been due to the labors and ingenuity of the men in
u
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If risk retains its penalties (which it must if a mar-
ket is to be vigorous) it-must also offer commen-
surate rewards In the security of the academic life,
there are no big winners But there are no big
losers, either At least under - this measurement.
sentiment revealed these
Dr. George J. Stigler of the Graduate School of
Business at the University of Chicago is fed up with
his fellow professors who regard private business as
a dirty and, perhaps, unnecessary human activity.
The conceit of the intellectual that the market
place is full of vulger men and base motives, says
Stigler, stems from a misconception. The miscon-
ception confuses a free market with a poker game.
In a poker game six men with $20 each may sit down
and after an hour’s play some of them may have
$40 or more and the rest may be broke or close to
it But, collectively, they still have only an average
For a time, little was heard of Walter Reuther.
Now he's back in the news with a bang, or rather
three of them.
His United Auto Workers have captured the mach-
inery of the Democratic party in Michigan, for one
bang. Savvy politicians are wondering why he
came out in the open this way, when the UAW man-
aged to have the deciding vote in the party for so
many years without stamping the Labor party seal
on the Democrats. Independent voters already are
reported to be alarmed, and some Democratic legis-
lators have quietly decided to cooperate with Re-
publican Gov. Romney rather than knuckle under to
this minority party control.
Bang No. 2 was Reuther's announcement that his
union and the Industrial Union Department of the
AFL-CIO are launching a major campaign to union-
ize more unorganized workers in specified parts
of the country. If this drive is successful, the inten-
tion is to apply the tactics throughout the nation.
Unions in recent years have been unable to maintain
the unionized share of the growing work force, and
are worried about it.
The third bang was his announced new two-part
attack on profits. He told the automobile makers
that his union's goal this year will be profit-sharing
plans for union members, plus a shorter work week
which should make sure that there will be less
profit to share He also suggested that the presi-
dent be given the power to seize the profits of com-
panies that have the misfortune to become involved
in labor disputes, and to operate their properties as
well
The country would be a sorrier place if Reuther
had his way, but will he get it?
Michigan voters outside the UAW are unlikely
to accept candidates whose chief allegiance is to a
single union, and even most union members tell the
opinion samplers that they want no part of a labor
party in America.
The NLRB reports that unions are winning fewer
and fewer representation elections, which reflects
disillusionment with the union movement as it oper-
ates today
And the auto companies have, in the main, fought
off Reuther’s profit-sharing notions in the past. The
Supreme Court has taken a dim view of confiscating
industries. Nevertheless, we can expect trouble,
new that Reuther’s gotten itchy again
at Sam
8"EEREENLAED
IWS;
rest were undecided.
Connally started his campaign
to reorganize the two agencies
with a bold and dramatic stunt.
He appeared at the meeting of
the Sportsmen's Clubs of Texas
and persuaded that very vocal
group of hunters and fishermen
that they should not adopt a reso-
lution from the Bay shore Rod,
Reel 4 Gun Club opposing the
merger.
This stunt paid off Friday, when
the directors of SCOT endorsed
the merger.
But very few of the members
A9-o o
land Baptist College and
Texas Tech) and noted his
15 years of teaching at Sam
Houston State. “The college
encompassed all my hopes
and dreams and ambitions,”
of a heated "academic free-
dom” controversy when he was
fired from his post as head of the
This consists of the BMEWS of former Gov. Price Daniel would
radar network, operated by the be swept out, and Connally would
U. S. Air Force, the Distant Ear- name all three of the new board
ly Warning (DEW) line of radar members. Thus, his policies on
I stations which stretches across parks development and wildlife
northern Canada and is extended conservation could be put into
, by radar patrol aircraft and ships effect immediate l• . .t . ,
' from the Aleutians to Great Bri- CONNALLY HAS ■ hatful of
-tain, the Mid-Canada Line, a other reorganization plans. They
doppler detection svstembu.lt and involve advertising for.tourists,
maintained by Canada and south industry- seeking andtheg rarnt-
c . of this another network of radar ings and loan allocations. If car-
Some committee members ex- stations covering southern Cana- ried out they would place tour-
pressed concern about the broad da and the United States, ist advertising and industry-seek-
application of the bill—which car- REPORTS FROM all of these ing directly in the governor's of-
ries provisions for civil and cri- systems funnel into NORAD head- fice under a man named by Con-
minal prosecution against viola- quarters in Colorado. There the nally The reorganization of the
tors of public employes rights— information is combined with State Banking Board would re-
The Eckhardt bill is aimed at and Rep. Dick Cory of Victoria SAGE (semi-automatic ground en- move State Treasurer Jesse
protecting rights and privileges of was particularly interested in vironment), an electronic data ' James Atty Gen. Waggoner Carr
public employes “abridged by whether the bill would apply to processing system which can sort. and Banking Commissioner J. M.
certain politically appointed or school boards of smaller districts the intelligence and sent it out Falkner and replace them with
elected officials. . These abuses where no “administrative" offic- to the various weapons systems, three Connally appointees
aren't widespread,” he observed, er existed. “Some of my school telling where the enemy is and Strong sentiment is developing
"but they are presistent. And the boards do all their own hiring (where he is going. Completely in-against the Banking Board reor-
Iexistence of occasional blatant and firing,” Cory said. tegrated with SAGE is the Mis - ganization, but there is less op-
abuses tends to discourage a Rep. David Crews of Conroe sile Master which controls firing
large body of persons from parti- wondered if the bill would also of the Nike anti-aircraft rockets
cipating with other citizens in the protect football coaches. "I can NORAD's radar can spot and
............... ...., ...________ had been killed by an assassin before the book was published.
North American air defense has; out into the Pacific to Green-' week for budget hearings, and op- Minor outlaws were going for as little as $100 at the time. The
ackfired with a renort that has land. It can launch missiles with- position picked up after, he, was poster above is made up from a wood cut likeness of Bella, and
ployes." Witneses speaking
and positive action often has to had heard them out respectful ed plans could order all commer- 314 East Hickory
be taken to protect them for ci- ly enough, but they weren’t too dal aircraft to land as soon as Entered as second.class mail at
tizens." Hewent on to say that hopeful for an early or favorable possible to clear the air of anyths Potsfice.cordmn °n XexS
i "Boards d Regento us aatobliah- .report from the whcommiltee—-eenlesingrader blips.----------ICongress,Mre3,18r--j-
€ Stephen P. Austin’s *,
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the market place.” The modern, market-orinted
society has produced riches that have allowed the
intellectual in the West to flourish as never before.
Yet it is a theory among a large part of the profes-
sional world that commerce is essentially evil and
can be maintained as a useful force only if it is strait-
jacketed in government regulation It is like a lion
employed to pull a wagon—the idea might work but
only if the lion is heavily muzzled, hobbled and
watched over with a gun.
It is human, of course, to exaggerate the virtues
of your own vocation and to minimize those of other
vocations We are all guilty But one thing that
bugs some professors is that apparent ignoramuses
sometimes rake in heavy loot in the business world
while highly literate teachers generally make modest
salaries.
In this respect the academic world is a little like
the military world. It suffers from the temptation
to equate rank in its own terms with worth Thus
while generals subconsciously, at least, look down
on colonels who look down on majors, etc., so do
Ph.D.’s sneer gently at Masters who have little re-
gard for Bachelors, and so on. By these academic
standards the illiterate tinkerer who made a multi-
million-dollar corporation out of Consolidated Wid-
gets is an affront to decent men He must have
come by his unprofessional wealth bv devious, if not
evil, means
It is easy to forget all the hard-working widget
"actually the substance of the possibly be able to count on some mistaken identity. NORAD has es-
hill"—notes that "boards of re- support here that you never an- tablished a rigid invisible cordon,
gents and school boards are pro- ticipated." the AZID line, about the hemis-
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watched the clock move toward ers the United States has given
midnight. । Ottawa.
Rep Bob Eckhardt is author of THE CANADIANS and Ameri-
the public employe rights mea- cans joined forces for their com- _________________________
sure,backed Up by Waco Rep. mon defense against air attack down enemy bombers, not mis- building which will house Game
Dick Cherry, himself a teacher in Sept. 12 1957. The following May siles 4 Fish and other agencies,
political science at Baylor. The the North American Air Defense cng, Lle rtesteg gainst MOST LEGISLATORS are not
two legislators sent a Fort Worth Command (NORADI became an --na the Bomarc a eround-to- hearing anything from the folks
fireman and three college profes- official integrated command. a rocket and the Voodoos be- back home - pro or con - on
sort before the committee to em- NORAD, with headquarters in cause. 1 . the nuclear club would the reorganization issue. But for-,
phasize the importance of taking Colorado Springs, is under com- be expanded, j . more emphasis mer Sen. Howard Carney of At-
some action to "remove the im- mand of an American. Gen. John should be placed on convention- lanta still has many friends in
plied threats' to the rights of K. Gerhart of the Air Force. His al arms: 3 . Canada could get the Senate. and as a member of
public employes. Committee mem-1 deputy is Air Marshal C Roy U s atomic warheads in a hue the Game & Fish Commission he
bers repeatedly asked witnesses Slemon, the only officer who has ry in case of emergency; 4 - the can command some friendship without success in the past half century There is said to be no
to cite any specific instances in been on active duty with the Roy- warheads would be under U S ' votes against the merger,
which a faculty member's basic al Canadian Air Force since "ntIi hv Amorie- law because Former House Speaker W O.
civil rights had fen endanger- its founding in 1924. orntteabzicnmmandsystemsman Reed of Dallas is also>. member
NORAD oversees a vast radar 5 _ the Bomarc is really de- of the Game * Fish Commis-
network that stretches from far signed to strengthen the United sion, and while he , has been
, “ 7 states Strategic Air Command. Kone from the House longer than
ed as policymakers—and they re _ ,c ...0, Carney from the Senate, he can
not supposed to dip down on the .The U.S counters that the Rus- still muster some friendship votes
' sian bomber threat 18 still strong against the merger.
_______________ and will continue to be so for Reorganization of state agencies
The Koeninger fir- years to come. has more than one purpose.
.-guum, is While the painful dispute has It could save some money, at
the result of pressure brought to somewhat clipped the wings of the very least by having just a
bear by the'regents of the school J NORAD’s kill effectiveness, its single top executive instead of two.
detection apparatus continues un- But a major result would be
I affected. that the whole slate of appointees
Koeninger were Horace E.
Shaw of Fort Worth, repre-
And Koeninger
Record-Chronicle Austin Bureau
AUSTIN - “I still find it dif-
ficult to believe it actually hap-
pened. It is like a nightmare."
The statement comes from Dr.
Rupert Koeninger, currently a
elterature Out Eserybody ShwM Reala-
BELLA STARR, THE BANDIT QUEEN
HANDSOMELI All PROPUSELI nuusnImn..
PRICE, BY MAIL, - 26 CENTS
WHAT PRICE OUTLAWS?-Bella Starr, so far as is known, never
achieved the outlaw status symbol of having a price on her head
The publisher of a hair-raising book about Bella took care of
that, it is said, by printing “sales promotional" wanted posters
on which he gave Bella a rating of $2,000—even though Bella
backfired with a report that has land. It can launch missiles with- • - •
shot down a prime minister and in seconds of detection of a bomb- gone. He and Eeese Martin eau
smoked up the air for miles er attack or jet fighters within mont member of the Parks Board,
minutes. It monitors the Ballistic and J. Carter King, Albany mem
The irony is that the agreement Missile Early Warning system ber of the Parks Boar • appear-
designated to unite the United (BMEWS) bases in Alaska and ed. against the bi by EeP James
States and Canada as never be- Greenland (see map' that guard Cotten of Weatherford at the House
fore has actually divided them against missile attack from the So- committee mee in"
. a__. n. in. , Observers were amazed that no
Houston State College for alleged a deeply as viet nion. , more opposition was drummed up
"political” activities. cen yas. I IT FLIES PLANES, sails radar for the House committee hearing
Koeninger made a rare public Whether the U.S * Canadian picket .ships, mans an immense than appeared. No more than 40
aonearance outside his own col- dispute over nuclear arms actual- computerized communications sys- were there to oppose, including
. PPe . . s ' , ' . ly topped Prime Minister John tern. It has been listening alert- Etf members of the agen.
ft n Zl ta b“l h testi Diefenbaker or whether it was ly for years for an attack. Prob- cime sh nennegestate "Workers,
, in beh 1 , b ..1 Pro only the pretext conveniently ably no one ever expected it sat and listened
tsctyamteirightspindeprmieogsof grasped by his opponents, the fact would come from Washington. At the hearing. Cotten propos.
The K^LeercontrovX tost remains, that much fence mend- But on Jan. 30 the State De- ed modifications of the original
Ihe. k inge. ntrover for ing needs to be done along the partment said Canada had fail- bill to assure sportsmen that the
springsisralarselyresponsibldoforlong. once calm boundary. ed to come up with a practical money they pay for licenses, and
6.56,5 L.a, 46 pLine 100 More than peaceful coexistence nuclear defense plan for its other revenues of the Game 4
Ptre P * beteen the two neighbors is at NORAD forces. This brought out fish Commission, will be tied
“ ure stake. The Americans feel the into the open an impasse that had down tightly to game and fish
The hearing last week was be- very security of the North Ameri- been kept secret during progract- purposes This probably accounts
fore the House State Affairs Com- can continent may be outflanked ed negotiations. j _______
mittee. and Koeninger was a sur- by Canada’s refusal to adopt nu- The argument centers around men s Clubs of Texas, because
the 56 Bomarcs and 66 Voodoos now the money is not so tightly
Canda has. The United States tied down, and the legislature, by
contends the Bomarcs are useless a rider on the general appropria-
without nuclear tips. The Voodoos tion bill, can fish 82 milion from
he said. . .And then I
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