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62ND YEAR
NUMBER 16
GAINESVILLE, COOKE COUNTY, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1952
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By A. MORTON SMITH
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asked, “Aren’t you Mr, Pender?
Weeks, former U. S. Senator
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Traffic injuries to date in 1952. . 12
Dr. Powell Named to Local
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date in 195 !
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F state as its candidate.
sure on the school systems with
Truman Says it
Is a Big Lie He
Tolerates Reds
Court Decides Against
Any Democratic Label on
Ballot for Eisenhower
from 1940 to 1950 and had
her vision had been restored.
Traffic injuries to date in 1952..33
Traffic injuries to same
Plenty Licensed Liquor
Dealers To Be Found in
Dry Counties of Texas
Vote Saturday, Sept. 27
in City School
Separation Election
Heavy Shower
At Walnut Bend
A heavy shower of rain fell in
the Walnut Bend area of north-
eastern Cooke county in mid-aft-
ernoon Tuesday, it was learned
from the Sinclair production of-
fice.
The rain clouds moved east-
ward along Red river during the
afternoon, and did not spread
southward in this area.
COOKE COUNTY FREE LIBRARY
GAINESVILLE, TEXAS
30 Deathless Days
IN COOKE COUNTY
(Outside Gainesville)
Traffic deaths to date in 1952.. 7
WEATHER FORECAST
Tonight and Thursday, part-
ly cloudy; no important tem-
perature change.
Full weather report on clas-
sified ad page.
You have probably guessed the
rest of it. It was Joe W. Pender,
Jr., Denton insurance-man, and
his new wife on. their honey-
moon.
Margaret Parx Hays is a career
woman with the State Depart-
ment. She has been vice consul,
at Rio de Janerio, Brazil, and at
Bogota, Columbia. We hear from
her at intervals.
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By ERNEST B. VACCARO
WASHINGTON, Sept. 17 (/P)—President Truman asserted today
that it is “a big lie” to say he tolerates Communists in this nation’s
before she lost her sight and plans
She and her husband are in New York
so that she may make several
never seen her husband until
directly responsible to the people.
Other superintendents who ex-
pressed themselves as feeling
that there is more plitical pres-
E. J. HEADLEE, columnist for
the Denton Record-Chronicle de-
votes some space to MISS MAR-
GARET PARX HAYS, daughter
of MRS. P. O. HAYS of Gaines-
ville, who was here for a recent
visit. Says Mr. Headlee’s column:
Margaret Parx Hays, for years
secretary to Dr.. B. B. Harris,
visited friends on the NTSC
campus last week., She visited
her mother in Gainesville, and
took her home with her to Wash -
ington, where Margaret is in the
personnel division of the State
Department.
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She hagbeen an art student
> resume her studies.
were planted to cotton in the
county this year, a slight decrease
in acreage over 1951.
Traffic deaths to same
date in 1951 .....
agents in positions of trust and
power.
“In this country, we have been
waging a relentless fight against
this internal attack of commu-
nism.”
But he said that “the big lie”
is another danger threatening
democracy from within.
“The big lie is a weapon of
political warfare which was de-
veloped by the Communists, per-
fected by Hitler, and is now be-
ing used on a world-wide scale
by the Soviet Union,” he said.
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date in 1951 .....
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date in 1951 .....
Amarillo, Wichita Falls, Midland,
San Antonio and Longview—all
places where the state says it’s
al] right to sell liquor or beer.
Dry Counties Pay
But a lot of federal licenses, or
tax stamps, are paid for by peo-
ple in the state’s 141 counties that
are supposed to be dry regard-
less of the weather.
The Internal Revenue bureau
can’t stop people from buying li-
censes. The state government is
responsible for liquor control
within dry counties.
In the Northern district of
Texas, which has only about a
third of the dealers, the revenue
files show at least 38 federally
licensed dealers in dry counties.
pAINESVILLE DRUG stores
• have been following the same
policy as those at Greenville,
having certain hours on Sunday
they remain open, and being
closed several hours each Sab-
bath day.
But the five principal drug
stores of Greenville have entered
into an association and have
agreed that one store shall re-
main open each Sunday from
7:30 a. m. until 10:30 or 11 p. m.,
according to the, usual closing
hour of the store.
Thus, the operators and em-
ployes of each drug store will
have to' work one Sunday in five,
instead of a few hours each Sun-
day. Through newspaper adver-
tising, the name of the store to
remain open will be kept before
the public.
Thus any Sunday needs for pre-
scriptions, soda fountain products,
and other items sold by drug
stores will be available to the
public at all hours of the day.
pressure, not working to the stu-
dents’ best interest, to occur in a
municipally controlled school
system than that of one made
directly responsible to the
people.”
Mr. Landolt, elaborating on the
subject said that “the public
school system belongs to the
people. It should be held respon-
sible only to the people’s will.
Thomas Jefferson, who did so
much for education in America,
said ‘I have sworn upon the altar
of God eternal hostility against
every form of tyranny over the
mind of man.’ The public school
is the people’s school. It responds
to the people’s will. More than
any other American institution,
it has been shaped directly by
the tireless efforts of the people.
The public school represents the
aspiration of parents for the fu-
ture of their children and of all
citizens for the welfare of our
country.
“In a complete separation of
the school from the municipality,
with an elected board, there can
be little possibility of tyranny.
The school board members who
make policies for the school can
be replaced if the policies do not
work toward the best interests of
the children of the people.”
Superintendent J. B. Golden
of Vernon said he thought the
NO ONE COULD believe it
when the rain gauge at the post-
office showed this afternoon’s
shower to have amounted to .48
of an inch. To be sure, the rain
fell fast and furiously, but it
takes quite a bit of water to
make half an inch.
Postal employes jokingly ac-
cused one of the custodians of
having sprayed water into the
rain gauge while watering the
lawn. But no one knows for sure
whether all the water fell in 15
minutes, that the gauge shows.
Half Inch Rain
Recorded Here
Rainfall to the amount of .48
of an inch was recorded on the
post office gauge when a heavy
shower fell in Gainesville in a
15-minute period beginning at
12:50 p. m. Wednesday.
The rain cloud came from the
west and moved to the east and
south. There was no wind or
electrical display in connection
with the shower.
fork from their Miami
public appearances in
behalf of the fund drive of the Lighthouse of the New York
association for the blind. (AP Wirephoto)
SEES AND DRAWS AFTER TEN YEARS OF DARKNESS—
Mrs. Alett Radzai sketches her husband, Roland, seeing him
through eyes whose sight has been restored by two cornea
operations. Mrs. Radzai, mother of four children, was blind
term of Jack Simpson, who re-
Leading Ace
Shoots Down
His 8th MIG
By ROBERT B. TUCKMAN
SEOUL, Korea, Sept. 17 (P)—
America’s leading jet ace in Ko-
rea today shot down his eighth
Russian-made MIG-15 as Allied
fighter-bombers hammered Red
targets from the battle front to
near the Manchurian border.
The U. S. Fifth Air Force said
Maj. Frederick C. Blesse, who
has flown more than 250 combat
missions in Korea, scored his
eighth kill in a fight between
four Sabre jets and nine MIGs
near Sakchu in northwest Korea.
The victory raised the Allied
bag of MIGs in September to 47
—three more than the previous
monthly high of 44 in April.
U. S. Shooting Star jets
swarmed over a Communist stor-
age area and placer gold mine
south of Kowon near the east
coast.
Fighter-bombers attacked a
rail line southeast of Anju in
northwest Korea and pilots re-
ported the rail bed was cratered
in six places.
B-26 light bomber pilots re-
ported hits on three rail bridges
west of Kowon.
The Air Force said Thunder-
jets, U. S. Marine Panther jets
and propeller driven Mustangs
attacked three troop concentra-
tions in the Sariwon area of
western Korea. Pilots said 29
buildings were destroyed and 14
damaged. Exploding bombs
started 14 fires and caused three
secondary explosions, the pilots
reported.
Other fighter planes attacked
Communist front line positions in
the vicinity of Capitol Hill and
Finger Ridge on the central front.
Family of Dead
Man Being Sought
Whereabouts of relatives of
Neal K. Long, 51, who was found
dead near Walters, Okla., Tues-
day morning, is being sought by
County Attorney Claude H.
Smith of that city.
Long was found dead beside a
highway near the outskirts of
Walters. A coroner’s inquest and
autopsy revealed no sign of foul
play.
The dead man had worked on
the farm of Henry Phillips near
Walters for the past year, but
left Monday saying he was going
to Junction City, Kans., to open
a radio repair shop. Inquiries
at Junction City revealed no in-
formation about him. Phillips
said he had never heard Long
mention his family.
Any person having knowledge
of Long’s family is asked to con
tact the county attorney’s office
in Walters.
This figure doesn’t
----- signed after moving outside the
include local school district.
By The Associated Press
A Texan can quench a big
thirst almost as easily as he
raises one when the drought dust
is blowing. If he can’t find water,
he can buy beer or whisky from
a dealer licensed by the U. S.
Bureau of Internal Revenue —
even in “dry” counties.
There are about 25,000 federal-
ly licensed dealers in whisky,
beer, wine or all three in Texas.
South Texans appear to be thirs-
tier than North Texans. The Col-
lector of Internal Revenue for
the southern district of the state,
in Austin, lists about 19,000 deal-
ers—both wholesale and retail—
in his files. In Dallas, the collec-
tor for the northern district has
a card file of more than 6,000
dealers.
Most of these are in cities like
Dallas, Houston, Fort Worth,
The prohibition to use the T..lu, I... U. J. S.di.
Democratic label for the Repub- from Massachusetts, told a Fort
Sperry appeared before the
council and asked that he be re-
imbursed by the city approxi-
mately $180 for treatment, medi-
cine and hospitalization of his
wife, who was injured when
Sperry’s car and a city truck col-
lided last Feb. 29.
The city agreed to pay for
medicine and treatment, but de-
clined to accept responsibility for
the hospital bill as Mrs. Sperry
was not admitted to the hospital
for some six weeks following the
incident.
Otis J. Cook, 1313 Hillcrest
boulevard, apveared at the meet-
ing and asked if anything could
be done to have his property
evaluated on the same basis as
others in his neighborhood for
taxation purposes. He said he
was unable to appear before the
board of enualization to make
the request when the board con-
ducted public hearings.
He was informed that the coun-
cil has no legal recourse in the
matter as it must be decided by
the board of equalization.
City Manager Homer Bly re-
ported that preliminary surveys
have been completed on the west
side of Market square and that
blacktopring of the area, will
begin next week.
In a day that saw Texas take
on the appearance of a major
battlefield of the presidential
election, there were these other
developments:
1. Ben Guill, state Republican
campaign manager for the Eisen-
hower forces, said Democratic
vice presidential candidate John
Sparkman’s statement Monday
could fashion legislation giving
Texas a fair share of the tide-
lands was “the inevitable bait.”
“This is the same type of spar-
ring with the future which typi-
fies Harry Truman and asso-
ciates,” Guill said in an inter-
view at Fort Worth. “It is the
same type of promise Truman
made to Texas in 1948 and the
same that died the day after the
election.
2. Sinclair Weeks, chairman of
the National Republican Finance
committee, was in Fort Worth
and Dallas on a whirlwind tour
to collect funds for the Eisen-
hower campaign.
lican nominee came in the form
of a temporary injunction for-
bidding Secretary of State Jack
Ross of Texas to certify Eisen-
hower’s name as the presidential
candidate for the recently-or-
ganized “Texas Democratic
party.”
The party was organized in an
effort to give Texas Democrats
who opposed Democratic Nomi-
nee Adlai Stevenson a chance to
vote for the Republican nominee
in some kind of Democratic col-
umn.
The State Democratic conven-,
tion at Amarillo, Sept. 9, certified
Stevenson as its nominee, but
urged all Democrats to work and
vote for Eisenhower.
The same convention also re-
jected a proposal to certify Eis-
enhower as the candidate of the
“Texas Democratic Party” and
to certify Stevenson as nominee
of the “National Democratic
party.”
A day later, the “Texas Demo-
cratic party” was organized in
Dallas and the Republican nomi-
nee certified to the secretary of
—
a
puus. °,
""m.“
Worth luncheon audience: “This
is it—we can’t change the course
our government is following until
we recapture decency, honesty
and efficiency in the executive
branch.” Weeks has made his
funds appeal in personal contacts
in Fort Worth, Dallas, Amarillo,
Houston, and San Antonio.
Doctor Hits Truman
3. Dr. R. B. Robins, Democratic
National Committeeman from
Camden, Ark., told a meeting of
400 doctors that Gov. Stevenson
had evaded the “socialized medi-
cine” issue.
Robins, addressing the annual
scientific assembly of the Texas
Academy of Private Practice,
said Stevenson’s campaign man-
ager had replied to a letter ask-
ing a clarification of the nomi-
nee’s views with the assertion
that “pressure of the campaign”
made it impossible for the gover-
nor to reply.
“President Truman and his
man Friday, Oscar Ewing, don’t
call compulsory hospital insur-
ance socialized medicine,” Robins
said, “but we do.”
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School Board by City Council
Dr. William F. Powell Tues- Sperry, local skating operator,
day night was appointed to the for release of any claim he may
Gainesville School board by the ’ ’’ ' "
city council to fill the unexpired
weakened the rights of working
men and women,”
He added:
“In seeking amendments, I will
ask the advice and suggestions of
all groups—public, management
and labor.”
Gen. Eisenhower said his in-
vitation to the various groups to
submit suggestions was “gen-
uine” and “made in good faith.”
“It will not be one of those
empty theatrical gestures s o
often made in recent years,” the
GOP candidate said.
“In my own mind I have com-
plete confidence that this job of
amending the law can be worked
out so that no fair minded mem-
ber of your group will consider
the results unreasonable. No such
legislation must ever be regarded
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ambassador to Yugoslavia. A responsible source said that
Admiral Cassady had asked Tito for permission to base
U. S. war planes in Yugoslavia and for greater cooperation
in the joint defense of southeastern Europe. The informant
added the request was made informally during a meeting
aboard the Coral Sea. (U. S. Navy photo from Rome via
AP Wirephoto).
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(left) of Yugoslavia enjoys a hot dog in the galley of the
U. S. Aircraft Carrier Coral Sea during exercises in the Adri-
atic. Next to Tito is Yugoslavia Chief of Protocol Petnicki.
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at Weatherford, expressed the
belief that there is more political
pressure on school systems with
elective trustees.
Jack F. Gibson, superintendent
of schools at Sulphur Springs
said that in his opinion there is
far more political pressure on
the school system when school
trustees are appointed instead of
elected and he said his teachers
were well treated by elected
trustees.
“We have found that elective
trustees have less political pres-
sure,” writes J. D. Wilson, super-
intendent at Hillsboro, who also
added that administrators and
teachers are treated as fairly
under elective trustees as they
were under municipal control.
Superintendent C. D. Landolt
Less Political Pressure on School Systems
With Elective Trustees, Superindendents Say
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government.
And he accused those who say
so of employing a tactic, used by
the Communists themselves, a
tactic he described as “the big
lie technique.” That technique,
Truman said, “was developed by
the Communists, perfected by
Hitler.”
There were no names in the
angry worded speech Truman
prepared for the national con-
ference on citizenship, but he
asked the voters to defeat the
users of “the big lie” regardless
of party affiliation.
The president said that anyone
who resorts to “the big lie tech-
nique” “is not a good man.” And
he singled out for special atten-
tion those who call Gen. George
C. Marshall traitor.
He told the conference:
“It is a big lie, for example, to
say that we tolerate Communists
and other disloyal persons in our
government. It is a big lie to at-
tack one of the greatest generals
and patriots whom this country
ever had and call him a traitor.”
Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy, Wis-
consin Republican seeking re-
election, has denounced Gen.
Marshall and Secretary of State
Acheson as "mounmental liars”
and has said that Marshall is
“steeped in falsehood.” He also
has described Marshall as a
“mysterious, powerful figure”
who sided with Russia in historic
decision which “lost the peace
for America.”
Sen. William E. Jenner, In-
diana Republican also up for re-
election, has called Gen. Marshall
a “living lie” and “front man for
traitors.”
Truman, addressing a confer-
ence attended by a group of men
and women about to be admitted
to United States citizenship, de-
clared that “communism inside
this country has been ■ badly
beaten.” > -
“But communism never gives
up its efforts to weaken other
nations from within,” he de-
clared. It seeks to use all the
druggists, who have to pay the
federal tax to sell medicinal
spirits and some “tonics” that
are mostlv alcohol and vitamins.
Includes Private Clubs
It does include private and .ex-
servicemen’s clubs. State law
prohibits clubs from selling liq-
uor in dry counties. Members
may keen bottles in their lock-
ers—but the club can’t buy liq-
uor for them or sell it to them.
A number of clubs have bought
federal tax stamps, for beer sales
if not whisky.
For a sample of the way both
individuals and clubs buy the
stamps, there are six dealers in
Lubbock, five in Denison, three
each in Sherman, Snyder, Muen-
ster and Ennis; two in Marshall,
Brownfield and Bowie; and one
each in Palestine, Colorado City,
Plainview, Mineola, Brownwood,
Levelland, Tyler, Eastland and
Gainesville.
All those places have been
voted dry by their citizens.
The Revenuers say it’s none of
their business what county a
man does business in as long as
he pays the federal tax. He has
to give a business address. They
say if he has $50 he gets a li-
cense good for a year to sell any
kind of liquor as a retailer. For
$100 he can buy a wholesale liq-
uor dealer’s tax stamp. A retail
beer seller’s stamp costs $20, a
wholesale beer license $100.
“We Don’t Ask”
“If you come in and say you're
going to start selling liquor at
such and such a place, we don’t
ask whether it’s right or wrong
to sell liquor there,” an official
of the Revenue office in Dallas
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He also recommended to the
council that preliminary audits
of the city b o o k s be made at
three month intervals during the
next fiscal year, in order that a
closer check can be maintained
upon city finances. The last fiscal
year ended Aug. 31 and a motion
was approved to advertise for
the annual audit of the books.
Final action of the session was
to approve the police report for
August. A total of $758 in fines
were assessed during the month,
and $723 collected.
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By CLAYTON HICKERSON
Associated Press Staff
Rebellious Texas Democrats
had a statewide organization to
back GOP Presidential Nominee
Dwight D. Eisenhower today but
no way to put his name on the
ballot under a Democratic label.
Judge Jack Roberts in Austin’s
126 th District court yesterday
prohibited the use of the Demo-
cratic label or any variation of
it for Eisenhower on the state’s
general election ballot, Nov. 4.
Judge Roberts’ decision came
just a few hours after right-wing
Democrats, meeting in Austin, set
up a state organization and plan-
ned a “grass roots” campaign for
a Republican victory in Texas.
Claud Gilmer, former speaker
of the Texas House of Represen-
tatives and a Rock Springs at-
torney, was named to lead the
movement under the name of
“Texas Democrats for Eisen-
hower.”
Temporary Injunction
lin, Bonham. Waxahachie, Ter-
rell. Grand Prairie, Greenville
and Ennis.
Superintendents who have
never worked with appointive
I boards and therefore could not
answer the question regarding
treatment of teachers under ap-
pointive boards were those at
Garland, Sweetwater and Hen-
derson. But the superintendents
at Sweetwater and Henderson
expressed the belief there would
be less political pressure if there
are elected trustees.
child’s welfare is best served
with an elective school board.
said. “All we can do is sell you
the stamp.”
Here’s a sampling of federally
licensed dealers as listed in the
Revenue bureau files:
Eagles, Elks and VFW
Denison—C. B. Duckworth, 601
E. Maples Row; Eagles club,
21912 W. Main; B.P.O. Elks lodge,
301 Gandy; James David Harlow,
329 W. Main; Veterans of For-
eign Wars.
Sherman — Richard Pressby,
602 W. Cherry; Marvin Thomp-
son, Rt. 4, 21 blocks from square
on Airport road; Veterans of
Foreign Wars.
Muenster — Veterans of For-
eign Wars; J. C. Trachta; A. C.
(Gus) Stelzer, Main st.
Bowie—Benton Walker, Deca-
tur st.; C. E. Williams, '508 Wil-
barger st.
Palestine—M. F. Morris, 321 S.
Jackson; Colorado City, John Mc-
Cown, 504 Cherry; Tyler, Willow
Brook Country club," Inc., West
Dixie highway, Box 324; Brown-
wood, Ralph E. Williams, 607
Penn st.; Gainesville, Jake
Wheeler, 216 Fair ave.
638 Deathless Days
IN GAINESVILLE
Keep the green light burning...
don’t cause the red light to burn
for you.
Traffic deaths to date in 1952.. 0
The term on the board runs
until Oct. 22, 1953. Simpson was
serving the unexpired term of
L. C. Dennis, who resigned about
a year ago.
With three aidermen, W. B.
Ballew, I. Mason Winters and
Virgil Taylor balloting, Powell
received a two to one vete over
Jack K. Bell for the school board
post. The name of Leo Kuehn,
Jr., was also mentioned as a pos-
sible candidate for the vacancy,
but he was not placed in nomi-
nation.
Proponents of the action to
separate the school system from
the city government, thus mak-
ing school board members sub-
ject to election by residents of
the school district, would have
found a strong argument to sup-
port their cause at the Tuesday
council session.
While discussing the filling of
the vacancy, it became apparent
that all council members did not
even know who is serving on the
present school board, and none
on the council knew how long
any member of the board has to
serve on his present term.
The Daily Register checked
with Leroy Robinson, school
board secretary, Wednesday
morning to find the length of the
interim appointment of Dr. Pow-
ell.
It was also glaringly apparent
that there is little cohesion be-
tween the council and school
board. The tendency seems to
have been to appoint a membey
to the bcard and then forget
about him, unless he resigned.
In other action, the council au-
thorized payment of $60 to J. F.
g0s.o.
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Four County Gins
Report 1011 Bales
Of Cotton to Date
With cotton harvest approach-
ing the halfway mark in Cooke
county, a total of 1011 baleshad
been ginned up to noon Wednes-
day.
Of the four gins operating in
the county this year, the Era gin
leads in number of bales with
310.
The Lois gin reports 292 bales,
McWilliams gin of Gainesville,
236 and Valley View gin, 173.
Without exception, ginners re-
port that cotton being produced
in the county this fall is of ex-
cellent grade because of the dry
weather, but the staple is short-
er than usual because of the
drought.
Ginners estimate that a total
of 2,500 to 3,000 bales will be pro-
duced in the county this year,
about half of the 1951 yield.
County Agent B.T. Haws said
today that the yield has been cut
in half during the extremely dry
weather of the past month. The
Opposes Any
Move to Hurt
Labor Rights
By JAMES DEVLIN
NEW YORK, Sept. 17 (A) —
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, in a
speech before the American Fed-
eration of Labor convention, said
today that he favored amending
the Taft-Hartley act and was not
in favor of its repeal.
The Republican presidential
candidate said he “will not sup-
port any amendments which
damage has been particularly
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appointive trustees and that ad- county.
ministrators and teachers get as Approximately 14,000 acres
fair treatment from elective trus- ....
tees as from appointive trustees,
include those of Vernon, Kilgore,
Cleburne, Irving, Denison, Mar-
as final and, in considering
amendments to labor legislation,
labor will have an equal voice.
It is the American way to take
what we have and constantly
’ seek to make it better.”
In outlining principles he said
he considered important in legis-
Nation, the general listed:
“The encouragement of collec-
tive bargaining; the right to
strike; an advance notice before
a strike is called; a requirement
that both unions and employers
i live up te their contracts;,-
surance that members of unions
get a regular report on the or-
ganizations’ finances.”
Gen. Eisenhower said that, he
was aware that the Taft-Hartley
act “might be used to break un-
ions” and he asserted that a
change should be made in that
respect.
“I have talked about the Taft-
Hartley act with both labor and
industry people,” he said. “I
know the law might be used to
break unions. That must be
changed. America wants no law
licensing union-busting. Neither
do I.”
The general added:
“I also think that since patriotic
American union leaders must
swear that they are not Commu-
nists, then the employers with
whom they deal should be sub-
ject to the same requirement. I
would not mind, every morning
swearing an oath of loyalty to
the United States of America. I
would be proud every night to
give my sworn oath that I am
not a Communist. But I would
resent doing this, and I would
resent it bitterly, if I were sin-
gled out to do it because I hap-
pened to be a veteran, or some-
one who lived in Kansas—or if
I were a labor union official.”
of Sherman said “there is a u-
nanimous feeling among admin-
istrators and teachers here, that
the completely independent
school district made directly re-
sponsible to the people through
elected trustees, is better than
the municipally controlled sys-
tem.” And he said further: “I
am thoroughly convinced that it
is much more likely for political
second of a series of articles
having to do with various
phases of the separation of
school districts from municipal
government. Questionnaires
were sent to 23 superintendents
in North Texas cities and towns
and answers were received
from 19. Weatherford is the
only school system not sepa-
rated from the municipal gov-
ernment, participating in the
series of articles.)
There is less political pressure
on school systems with elective
trustees than with appointive
trustees and administrators and
teachers are treated as fairly
under the elective trustees as
they are under municipal con-
trol.
This is the opinion expressed
by 15 of 16 superintendents of
Texas school systems queried by
The Daily Register on the sub-
jects recently.
Three other superintendents
said they were not qualified to
answer these questions because
their school districts had never
been under municipal supervi-
sion, while one superintendent.
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