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TH PRESS
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Senate Passes
Drivers’ Law;
50-Cent Fee Fixed
: House Takes A
• Holiday to Attend
; Bowie's Army Day
By United Press.
J AUSTIN, April 7.—The Texas
Senate voted today to reduce
the proposed drivers’ license fee
from 75 cents for two years to
,M cents for two years. The
75-cent fee was contained in the
House-passed bill, but the
‘Senate amended it to provide a
50-cent fee. Present drivers’ 11-
censes were issued for three
years for 25 cents. The Senate
vote for the 50-cent biennial fee
was 14 ayes to 11 noes.
- The 50-cent fee would be
Charged private operators.
Operators of commercial vehi-
des would pay ft and chauf-
feurs $3. Sponsors estimated
the 75-cent fee would have rais-
ed almost enough to double the
highway patrol.
By United Press.
Ernie Pyle
No, the Street Lights
Didn’t Seem So Strange
By EBNIE PYLE
Press Roving Reporter
NEW YORK—In London people were always saying, “Won’t you
I feel funny when you see street lights again?”
I heard it so many times that I put down a mental note to be
sure and remember my emotions the first night I should be in a
peacetime country. That night, of course, was in Lisbon, after flying
down from England, a *------------------------——
But I’m afraid I’m not a proper
guinea pig; maybe I’m a guinea
pig who is just too dumb to react.
At any rate, my first sight of
street lights didn't turn out to be
one of those great high moments
you remember for a lifetime.
Verse Speaking
Choir Due Here
Poly High School students will
be entertained in assembly at 2
p. m. Wednesday by the 20-voice
Verse Speaking Choir of Texas
State College of Women in Den-
ton.
The choir, which had made pre-
vious appearances here as well as
in other Texas cities, is directed by
Miss Mary K. Sands, associate
professor of speech.
Different methods of presenting
the verse are used. Sometimes
Masonic Home Feels Loss
In Dean McCaulay’s Death
Long Illness Ends 38 Years of Service At
Institution As Friend, Adviser to Students
The laughter and gay talk on Masonic Home’s campus was hushed
today.
Students spoke quietly as they passed each other in the school
rooms, and boys tip-toed in the dormitory.
"Dean” W. R. McCaulay, the institution's best known and most
the line, wet, and me due to leave
in a few minutes.
True, I was a little startled
when I stepped out of the hotel
in Lisbon that first night, and
saw light all about me. But the
sensation lasted only a second or
two. I hadn't gone 50 yards until
the lights seemed perfectly natur-
al, and I never thought of them
again.
Much more incongruous to me
than street lights was the fact
Maria was dismayed. But boy
it didn’t faze me. What are a
few clothes compared to getting
home in a hurry? We just left
most of them hanging there. Maria
put two shirts in the oven and
AUSTIN, April 7.—A drivers
license bill is scheduled today for
action in the Texas Senate, while „cene ..... .... ............
the House takes a holiday so its still feel guilty and hope nobody
Members can attend "Army Day”
exercises at Camp Bowie, Tex
’The drivers license bill, as pass-
ed by the House, carried an ex-
that you could publicly use all
the sugar you wanted. Even now,
weeks after leaving England, I
dried them out in a few minutes,
and I brought them unironed.
When we landed in New York
I had been wearing the same shirt
for six days. Those two shirts
finally got ironed by my Aunt
Mary out in Indiana. Washed in
Lisbon, ironed in Indiana—a life
like that doesn’t seem to make
much sense, does it? But I like
it.
is looking when I put two and a
half spoonsful of sugar in my cof-
fee.
amination fee of 75 cents for each
two years. Sponsors originally
asked for a $1 biennial fee, which
they said would enable the State
Highway Patrol to double its pres-
ent force of 280 men.
‘ The 46th Legislature failed to
pass a drivers’ bill, forcing con-
tinuation of former licenses which
THAT first night in London I
1 made a beeline for the Neg-
resco restaurant and ordered a big
juicy steak. Nobody goes hungry
in England, but there is a short-
age of certain things. In my last
six weeks there I had only one
steak.
were issued for three years at a
25-cent fee, without examination.
Governor Makes Tax Plea
Gov. W. Lee O’Daniel meanwhile
continued to plead for the people
to petition their state representa-
tives to vote for the $26,820,000 a
year social security appropriation
which the House killed last month.
A two-thirds majority vote would
be required to reinstate the meas-
ure, and the governor has cam-
paigned strongly— both by radio
and by conference with House
members—to revive the bill.
"The defeat of House Bill 322
(the Appropriation measure) is one
of the most colossal mistakes that
the Mouse has made this session,”
said Q’Daniel.
Raises Mere Pittance?
There was just one more item
in my restoration to peacetime
• living. That little item awakened
'me at dawn my first morning in
Lisbon, and almost scared me to
death. It was a church bell.
Prospects for final passage of
an adequate tax bill, he declared,
are “very discouraging." The
House has passed a $25,000,000 a
year omnibus tax measure, which
now is being re-written by a Sen-
ate subcommittee.
"They may raise a pittance,”
said O’Daniel, “but the way things
are happening, it looks very dis-
couraging.”
The governor said that members
who told constituents that the
appropriation bill was "deficit-fi-
nancing” are wrong. It diverts
from the general fund the first
$26,820,000 a year for social se-
curity, and puts the money in a
separate security account, he said.
Although the general fund has a
deficit now or nearly $25,000,000,
. O’Daniel declared that the social
security fund would have no
deficit.
Preferred Creditors
Federal social security officials
have informed legislators that the
federal government will not match
any state social security grants
except in cash. Warrants on the
general fund now are discounted
one per cent. From this fund
comes the salary of most state
employes, including those at
schools and institutions through-
out Texas.
"What H. B 322 really does,"’
O’Daniel said, "is to make prefer-
red creditors out of the old folks,
the helpless children, the Indigent
blind, and the teachers, and puts
them on a cash basis and put the
rest of us government officials
and employes of the deferred list,
to be paid with vouchers, out of
a deficit fund, which are subject
to discount.
"H. B. 322 just turns the gov-
ernment pie-counter around and
puts the old folks, helpless chil-
dren, indigent blind and retired
teachers at the head of the table
where the white chicken meat is
being served, and leaves the rest
of us hungry government officials
and employes down at the foot
of the table where the chicken
. necks and bony backs are, If any.”
And with those few trivial ex-
ceptions, I came back to peaceful
living as easily as though my emo-
tions had been soaked in oil for
the passage. Sorry to be such a
dope.
One of the American vice-con-
suls in Lisbon is named Bill Cor-
dell. He is a good old boy from
Arkansas, with a literary bent and
a good sense of indifference to
life’s petty annoyances.
We had become friends whan I
went through Lisbon last Novem-
ber. So this time he asked me to
move out and share the new apart-
ment he had just taken.
That apartment would almost
tempt a fellow to go into the For-
eign Service. It had two bed-
rooms, two dens, a huge living
room, a mald's room, and various
other nooks and corners.
TT also had Maria, the Portu-
A guese maid, who considered
the day lost when she couldn’t do
half a dozen extra nice little things
for you.
How Maria and I ever conversed
at all I don’t know, yet we car-
ried on long international conver-
sations in a mystic blend of Eng-
lish, Spanish and French, none of
which I can speak.
And thus, steeped in practically
every comfort known to man, I sat
and counted off the hours until I
could fling all this luxury from
me and get on my way to Amert-
ca. .
Going to England last fall, I
was stuck in Lisbon for 18 days.
Coming back, my Lisbon odyssey
resolved itself into only eight days
of torture.
Lisbon is actually a charming
place. But when your only pur-
pose in life is to get on to where
you’re going, and when every
hour’s delay is an hour of strain
and impatience, then even as nice
a place as Lisbon becomes a
straitjacket upon your desires, and
you finally come to think of your-
self as though you were in jail.
Truthfully, the hardest part of
this whole winter’s trip to the
wars was the total of 25 days that
I spent just fuming and waiting
to get out of one place and on to
the next.
HE authorization for me to go
1 on the Clipper came in a
trans-Atlantic phone call just four
hours before the plane was to
leave. Somewhat in the state of a
heedless chicken, I rushed back to
the apartment to pack up. And
there found Maria face to face
with a dilemma of her own.
For unbeknownst to me, she
had got into my bag that morn-
ing and washed all my dirty
clothes. And there they were on
It’s No Flivver-
This British Bomber
It’s no fifteen-minute job—this
business of repairing a punctured
bomber tire, a
To do so here yesterday required
two house-moving jacks, railroad
ties and the ingenuity of Airport
Manager Bill Fuller.
The giant four-motored bomber
was landed safely here Friday
night despite a deflated tire. The
pilot returned to San Diego for
another wheel and yesterday air-
port employee changed the tire.
The crippled bomber, the one in
which the second wheel was
brought here and two flying boats
which landed Saturday at the
Lake Worth dock were expected
to take off today for the East.
the group is divided according to
type of voice and will do two or
three-part work, and sometimes
solo voices read portions or se-
quences in the material.
Relatively new in this country,
the choral speaking movement
originated with the Greeks and
was revived in England in 1922,
with the London Verse Speaking
Choir attracting wide attention
under the direction of Majorie
Gullen. The T.S.C.W. choir, one
of the first in the Southwest, was
organized in 1935 and since then,
beginners and 1 advanced classes
have been formed, the choir being
selected from the advanced class.
A well-known authority in the
Southwest in the whole field of
speech, Miss Sands created inter-
est in the T.S.C.W. choir and in
the summer of 1939 studied with
Miss Gullen, taking two courses
in choral speaking at the Univer-
sity of London.
Miss Mary Elizabeth McCluer,
a Fort Worth student in the Den-
ton college, is a member of the
loved character, is dead.
Mr. McCaulay, who came to the
home in 1903 when he was a 27-
year-old man, died in his room
in the boys' dormitory last night
after a long illness. He was 65.
Ex - students of the home
throughout the nation are griev-
ing his death, for Dean McCaulay
was not merely a teacher, not just
the dean of boys. He was a pal
to the boys and girls alike, and
was never too busy nor too tired
to listen to their troubles.
Born in Coryell County, Mr. Mc-
Caulay was a graduate of old
Polytechnic College. He was made
dean of boys soon after he joined
the faculty at Masonic Home.
Mason, the school publication,
which was published in 1929, hon-
ored Mr. McCaulay.
Many years ago he coached the
baseball team, and produced many
winning nines. One of his best-
known players is Ex-Student Joe
Bratcher, who is now president and
business manager of the Lake
Charles Baseball Club in the Evan-
geline League.
Mr. McCaulay was the brother
of the late C. B. McCaulay, who
was widely known in Fort Worth.
His only survivor is a sister, Mrs.
Ben Bradford of Fort Worth.
Bricklayers Eliminate
Union Double-Pay Rule
The local Bricklayers’ Union has
voted to co-operate with the Gov-
ernment in its national defense
program to the extent of doing
away with its 25-year-old rule for
double-pay on Saturdays, Sundays
and holidays. President P. B. Mc-
Cord said today.
Instead, the brickmasons will
work for "time and a half,” the
union president said, and the by-
laws are being revamped accord-
ingly.
The resolution, just passed by
the local and signed by Mr. Mc-
Cord and Business Manager Wade
Lockett, also gives Uncle Sam a
guarantee against strikes on de-
fense projects. The union wage
scale will remain at $1.50 an hour.
Heretofore, the bricklayers got
time and a half for week-day over-
time and double-time for Satur-
days, Sundays and holidays.
MONDAY, APRIL 7, 1941
DELAY ARTS MEETING
Postponement of the Allied Arts
Club April meeting until Monday,
April 14, at 7:30 p. m., was an-
nounced today. The meeting will
be in the Public Library lecture
hall.
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Funeral services will be at Poly-
technic Methodist Church at 10
Since he was stricken with a heart a. m. tomorrow, with Rev. A. J.
Cox, pastor of Polytechnic Pres-
byterian Church, where Mr. Mc-
Caulay was a member, officiating,
assisted by Rev. W. W. Ward.
attack six years ago he has been
principal emeritus.
He taught history and other so-
cial science courses. In reCent
years he was wheeled to and from
class and about the campus by
the boys because his heart was
too weak for him to walk.
Mr. McCaulay never married,
but devoted his entire life to the
boys and girls of Masonic Home.
He was active in planning a loan
fund for students a number of
years ago, and worked for the
Burial will be in Rose Hill Ceme-
tery, with the Poly Masonic Lodge
in charge of services at the grave.
Mr. McCaulay was a charter mem-
ber of the lodge.
T Active pallbearers will be ex-
Stark, Rich Texan,
Weds His Secretary
ORANGE, Tex., April 7.—H. J.
Lutcher Stark, reputedly Texas'
wealthiest man, and his secretary-
business associate were honey-
mooning today on Stark’s luxuri-
ous houseboat in Calcasieu Parish,
La.
Stark and Miss Ruby Bell Chil-
ders, who had been associated
with the philanthropist's business
interests for more than 20 years,
were married yesterday in a quiet
church ceremony. He is a former
member of the University of Texas
Board of Regents and is 53. She is
the daughter of a pioneer Orange
family and is 38.
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pallbearers will be W. H. Rim-
mert, Herbert Wilson, H. N. Rus-
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Weaver, Don E. The Fort Worth Press (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 160, Ed. 1 Monday, April 7, 1941, newspaper, April 7, 1941; Fort Worth, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1664544/m1/2/?q=%22%22~1: accessed August 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Fort Worth Public Library.