The Albany News (Albany, Tex.), Vol. 73, No. 17, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 3, 1957 Page: 2 of 8
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(Eh? Albany Nrutfl
Pub!ish<■< i I'vfry Thursday
JOHN H. McOAUUHKY, Owner ar.il Publisher
E/itored in the f'o t Office at Albany, Texas,
as Second (las* Mail Ma'tcr
5"^C.' P*
•W"*
Thursday, January
'Albany, Texas,
THE ALB AM# NEWS
Sum Jr., of Dall:i *>ro puMt."
I- week ill tin- homo of f)r
We'd utili lik
side* walk a put down in All
for our fchool boys
to walk to A( hool 'in
walk in tlx* street
IN If • we would lil
i ,,'iris to hav * »idcwalks
i r i s t #• .t '| <»f liavini; to
Chamber of ( >
ident, ami f£oy
hard at their i
upport of 111.
our support, tin
Hatha «■;
y
oWn Ollemo/uj ^
one.
'/'MEMBER1
1956>J
SUBSCRIPTION KA
Ono Year $ ' 00
Foreign Kate on Application
I/Ocal and Heading Notices, 10c per -1.^rl#• column
line per insertion
>f tl
. f tli. *it y, W i
how much they «■;
Albany and Sha<
Frora Our Old Kile#
AND Willi 1 WP f< I talking about commun-
ity luiiMiriij, Ift > not for:;«-t that wr will prob-
ably !»<• called on to b-uild .i new, safe liiifh
si In. 11 plant. ! <•( ., ■ i v »• our ba< k i n g to t h ■
Bi hi>111 |m ird in tli t.isi' R«Mii<Miib»M , tlir pro .
f»nt hii;h *< hool plant n in limited use and
should be reuiod'-led 01 torn 'lown ind a new
plant erected
USt ♦ ♦
♦ Between Friends
\S IF YOl f)11 >N" I KNOW,
beginnih# to think about that in
report. A1 lot of u will cornpb't
while other will wait until the l<\ad lin
he final
lot of people are
liable income tax
t h- i by Jan I •>,
THF. NFWS FOR (| extends a Hapi»y New
Year greeting to everyone
I lie past twelve months have been good to
Ul, and we are looking for a very good I'1 •/
for Albany people
Tlv re have been a number of homes built
in Albany during lfT'>(> and a no uber
contemplated in lff>7. Had you n>tite«| the
large number fif brand new residi'nres lh.it
have been erected in Albnay during the last
• ix or «e\ n years? I his is a ver y healthy con
dition for any community
A I.I 1A NY MI. tt( IIA NTS clo fid the if iloofs 'I u<
day to observe New Year' hi. How» t, ii .r ,
really worked, taking inventory and i'n/ »•.
work to greet the be.'inmn;: of I'' • ! '•1 n the
people at the First National Pan!. a • i •' bu v r< '
ting out the nine 'J,000 bank ' item, fit , to d• • |• >i•
Ofs, and getting the banks tatement t • ; i < I >• 'or
l)Cc. HI report of condition fer the ( ''• •.•■,,ol--r
of the Currenc) I',ill Head, ca hi- r of tin Moran
National I'.ank, called up to >-,■ if we •-<*uId y ' In
condensed statement ; out on New Year'. I'av, •
they were busy there, to ».
WF HAVE SI.VFRAI (bines we w„,,ld like
to have come our way in 1057 l irsf on the
list is about t!i in« lies ol rainfall I hose II
inches in I05fi really hurt the country
Alio we would lik#- to have more str ets pav-
•hi in 1957 including North Ja< obs, to take
tome of the traffic off the highway
And we are still anxious to havp s-'»iiie cement
\i o Januaty i
and ( ounty, Too
My the Way, a !
pen enla e of tax
aln
a I month f<>r paying state
' ting offic report a big
ly paid for If.'.fi.
A WIHK H'l N(i ( RANI , of »b. twenty
odd birds of this species left m e 1st me, paid
lake Mc( ar t v a «. i % 11 dot in the week end
Olon (.. If c.« ne in .nid told us about it and
• invested "I'm - • i • h « bar about fishir.
maybe you'd l»*tter verify thm report
Olon was kidding, of course, but we under
stand that Hill Jones and Mule Stover also saw
the big bird I heir reputation isn't much bet
ter than Olon s, when it c o nes to fishing
Stories, but cithers saw the bird, too
Olon re< oghi/.ed the "whoop'' of the big
crane before he s.iw him floating in the water
T be
Albany
New*, Jan
S, 1917
for
their (
1,ri 'ma di
nner Mr
nnd
Mi 1
tartholomow
had a
Clioiee
rou t i
)f buffalo in
eat from
the fa
in oil hi
rd of thi« (
Joodm ,-ht
■ inch
Ii< ..
('. II. Craw
ford and
Mi . <
'raw for
d were the .
X U e ;•■' t. Oil
tin t
m i ;i i"ii
To the e
• at or ll
bred
people
the experio
nee was
an tin
i<liii on
1
r i:.-ii
er of gfam
ford wa
down
Saturil;
iv t'i atten<l
the ban
(|uet ;
at the
Irt hoti o
Mr
M. <
\ hwortIi i
if Tibon,
N Mi
'X., visi
fed with her
brother,
W K
II am it
ter, on her
way to
Will
Point.
Mi
-■ 1'n
i' a Andrew
, Vno
W V ,M
and V
• • aY1 Wr .'IM
of (lor
m.'iii i
,vrr>' tlx
• ruo ts la t
W»ek of
M-
H F \\
' yritt
I- -
th: ( loud and Rock
well and
Huck
('loud
made a bu
ino . trip
tn t|n
■ plain-:
l.i t week.
Mi 1 il
1 i.in
rioud
i.turnefl V
it h Mr
'loud
and
iv that all
of W. t
1 , N: i
i filling Up rapidl
y and es
per ,a 1
Iv thf i
rdain .
1 Ii
• Hrowr
• home on
P.iy'e flat
burin
,1 do «. n
Thur day f
'• < > r n i n
1!.
W ii
imon of
I >e rrn on t
hn . ai
(Opted
a ftfi it ion w
ifh .1 M
Ton, n
ie and n
lovffj down t
hi- we ok.
('ol
. C. K
Waters o
f Moran
made
it to
Mbany la t
Saturday
e\ en II
ritr 1" tl
me for the
tair han
iiuet
at the h
oo o of Mr
and Mr
the box " Tin
H Robert.
Si nre Mr. I 'at e rave tip the i
Motel, it has been rente.i by w M
S i'ir|er:i, who will conduct it in the
future,
(i m v I • . . W v a" \ n onib an<
Tlf I: N I \S S editor ren i\od aupointmmr Mo
day a., "Honorary member of the Attorney (ie
eral's Staff, under the law of 'lie St it<i of l ex
with all r .• ht and prr^i ei.'.e , appertaining to aid II ll Wood returned la t w
appointment " The c- rti f'i.-ate was signed by John from 1 trip into Oklahoma.
lien Shepperd, attorney general.
We apprr-eiatf the honor. IIowe\er, w< are
wondering how long we were in office, Texa , you
\ now, ha. a n« a attorney gei,.'i n, \S,11 Wilson of
I)alla , who i in ,crdinMr. Sliepperd.
Since we have already been appointed, there won't
be any political implications in t.ating that, in our
opinion, John I'en Sliepperd ha made I'ex.a. it be
•moi\ He's worked
attorney general in our mi
hard, broken up political rin^j
the full appro , al of the p. op
ha be' n urn ompromi ing in In ; pr
oers. I
xa will
\ fellow i a chump to write.
When I traveled with my father
o\ er lev a i a lad, w«' would '
at hotel in mall town and, .aft* r
upper, in the lobby there \ mild
be lot of good tall
BOYCE HOUSE
GIVES YOU
TEXAS
Hack in the earl) 1020\ inrir u,, ij |)(. di m
was a writer who had i hort s' "i a e\ ent . •• • '••• ,• •
in al-iio t every I tue of tied book h timorous totlfes would be told.
Magazine, win. h i of coufe one (),a-a donall) , a om!>f m ', erept
of the be t. Hi;, nann a a ' ierald je
llnaumont II . u. > , 0f ,
to'"l"K- «'<•' ;»»l f ■ „ ■ .( a I -
humor InterinliiKlt-il, nhcl wore hetiH A tiol te anil in the ikrknes*
about i hi i-liiill, p.." 1 ■ i ni an,I , .
imk. Tlnvc „r foul- had their set thtough the window. The man ,.r
tinir as till- I 1a .In u a r:i .• ti .. . ,,,, . , ,, ,,,| .1 . ,, i
which is j n I ami I In- I'ali: rnia | , , ,| ,. |
line in old Mi-xi
When He;
dailies puhli he,|
h
(' M. Snyder of Moran was im
to attend ! I • ar r ;il bamjue' of
the Albany National I 'ink direc-
tor and stockholders
'/im I Fnglish who recently
moved onto the Kellum ranch ^
which he bought, was in
Thur day
Judge F'.mton and Mr 111
ton spent the Chfi tma
wi^! l amb Mead, retarmn- 'o Abilene
an<' , Sat urdav.
1 I Jim ("ottle of Moran attended
i the tag banquet Saturday night
it the Robert home
Me • ; .lee M
fonrad ttntoed to
\ pretl \
I'tilvert in front of I »od.re and
breaking the coupling pole, i av
ing the back wheels, while the:
hor e with the n t of the wagon
went on rejoicing until they were
overtaken on Jacob treet.
Iw ii g I»i//,e11 made a trip to
Haskell with a drummer Saturday.
("hri.dma day was rather a
cull' t one for \lbany During the
forenoon no lei ine hou. e; ex
eept tie bank and postofTice clo- i
ed their doors, and while the
st root ; Were pretty well filled, lit
tie bmine w is done. In the af-
ternoon for most of the time, all,
bu l lie,.,-; . uspended.
Scarcely anybody could be
found at home, everybody vi it ing.
The beautiful form of many tur !
key s a ore en for ' lie !.a t t i re, '
I | p ,,i f Mr J \ Ma*
thew oo 1 t Ft"id e- ■ n r. ' w- re
filled wit' f') or V" banny '»u'
For e er I Im r the crow d wa
Son-e j11 m\ i <| er 1 mole, n ■ e an
thor . o-t e, ■ blVed d >m; o-
pl,,v d ".f I
-11re■ i 'in-' of the e! int rep,a t
con. i led of eoffe . t-o -o!a* , c ske
of all I d a nd eleet candy. .A f |
ter which tbe crowd indulgetf in I
-me of the games of youth which j
-• rried w back to our childhood
day The entire program was in
ter-per ed with music from the
; piano, mandolin and guitar.
The Mi -i■«? Fee entertained
}(|liite a con pany of your,?-- peop'e
ori r a • d i> evcnir11r at their home
on Ja o11 -freet. The home was
bean? ifully li/hted and the parlor
wa a ■ cen•• of merriment. (lame
of 'o'.eJty Acre en toyed fc• r m-v
| era] hour . Refre hments, in the
1 way of orange , apple ;, bananas,
candy and cake, were served in
tyle. All evening long the
•a ,a filled with mu. ic.
' Sc. era I old wood awninr. have
(been remo\ed recently from over
th iflewalk in A'bany. Several
,l "" A' more could /u the ame way and
the danger of people being - rip
pled lessened.
the Alliany Newg, I)er 20, 1016
Mrs (!u 1 I' r 'hoi a t M-!
dent n the < I A at Iienton. i
I nrnc t pi- rh of Markham i
vi.ilinir hi unrip, J■ F- I'fsch.
Mr ami Mr J°fk w"r(1 ll"'1 1,1
tic son of Wnc. arc the micsts of
Mi Ward's parents, Mr. ami
Mr . Sam Wclih.
l il anfl Sam Ken-lialo came
home la I week fporn f'hillieothe to
; cml the Christmas holidays.
Miss Ilealriee Ailani.-on, who is
a11 endinir the [lenlon Slate N'or
mat, vi.-itcd at home liiis weel;.
Ml- M I: Gentry, Mi Mattic
;,„d M flick Gentry of Colorado,
who i visitinir at home, were in
,11 tin week.
Mi Anilic Gentry of Dallas i
visiting her parent , Mr. and Mr..
M I!. Gentry, at the ranch.
Hr. arid Mr . Sam Webb and
Webb's parents, Mr and Mr
Webb.
Mr. and Mr .1: Carter Kin/, J.
I Carter, Jr., Mi f.om •• Kwirtff and
\|,.x Velsori anto.-l to Mmford
'Tuesday to see the "Kail of a Na-
tion." They were di appointed,
however, as the .how bavin* been
put on Monday »a not repeated
! Tue day.
We ceitainly did <Mfve a f'reat
' ("hri. tma ; tree al Malthr sv Me
inorial fhiirrh. Hilt we had one
big disappoint merit. I he new or-
gan did riot arrive. We uppose
it i tangled in •"■orne frieght jam
,,n the road from Dallas here. Fiv-
erv effort will be made to nntari
ifle it and Ret it here by ne« j_l !•**
day. The subject of tiie
next Sunday morning; will «
Year That In Paaaing" At u;^_
V o'clock, the subject will ^
Year That Is Cominjr." Com', „
your res-pects to the
year, and learn to hail th. v.
Year with joy. 1
ft
^ Improvin,, LivMtod,
A railroad president was look-
ad y at exorbitant claimOarij,
had made for cattle killed b. i
trains. '»
"ft strikes me," ,si(| ,,,,
nothing improves the blood ,
American livestock like crosaiw
with a diesel locomotive.
.TRY IT FOR FEATURES
COMPARE IT FOR VALUE
NEW
REMINGTON
It'i beautiful I It'f compoctl It
hai mor# naw f»atur»i th«n
ever lj«for». The printw«rk ii
luperb. It oparatti with Mlt
and jps»d. Com* in, let ui
ihow you thes* Quist-riltri.
Carrying can IndudMi •
ixumivis
• Mirodt
• Simplified t bb»n Chcigtr
• Super Strtufth
• New beaufy in pri«twerk
• Larger iii«d Cylinder
• Fre»l TewcK Mefhed InifrucMo#
Book
Budget T*rmi arranged.
m of
hody fall through th(
the ni'
In 11:
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Mad1.
the r
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para- ra|di -hide I.
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THE ALBANY NEWS
DUVAL COUNTY, USA'
This is the first in a series of ten articles by New Yorlc newspaper r#*
porters Frederick Hodgson and Franz Rosenwald, who recently spent
several weeks in Duval Co. and South Texas, gathering facts for this series.
SIORY NO.
Ballots, Bullets, Beatings, Booty:
That s The Story of Duval County
liy FREDERICK HODGSON
H y T«»-«Ji-fcnau'-»outMuiajuuuuuuauuuuLa\-«-ivj-iLiLji-ii^-t(
* "KVO LAREDO, MEX.-Wc
Fr. l!o:inw;ild ami I, havp just'
boi'n lonkinp (iv.t thi' parkinK lot
wh(!ro u (l.-irk, baby-faced pis-j
tolero, Alfmlo Ccrxantes, nlian-
doned his Mr green automobile,!
Texas license EL23-W, a few
h"iirs after he'd killed youriR
Ja o!i Floyd in Alice, Texas, 8G
miles away.
1 rvantes must have had a wild
ride that night almost four years
and his knuckles must have
been white on the wheel as he
drove onto the ttio Grande bridge
from Laredo.
What if the Rangers were
ahead of him ?
What if they'd caught his fel-
low killer, Mario "The Turk":
fiapei, and El Tureo had talked t
l ervanteB breathed easier per-
ha|is as h" recalled that El Turco
wouldn't dare talk The life of El
Turi-o, the braggart, the hired
a ' n, wouldn't be worth a
plugged centlvo if be uttered a
word that would lead to tlie men
"11 fhef up," or to Orvantej. It
w.m a comforting thought.
lb', center of the npan w-as
nearer no* The two ..iTiceri
t: ' re, one Americnn and ont
M- xican, wi're talkin j, [laying lit-
' " alteiil a (,, t)ie approacliing
"III""' bile In .1 Be,Mild he was
pa .t thin He Was in Mexico lie
was safe
Mere ,n Nuev.i Laredo f'ervan
te.' h i I a couple of <|u:ck tequilas
at the International Garden*,
Itn-ky ( alllone I pla,-e, to steady
ai. nerves Then be paid his tiiree
pes, i twenty five cents — and
vanished.
And to this day El Turco, now
serving 99 years in HunUville
"-on hain't talked lie wouldn't
ive long, even in lluntsville. if
"•' d'd And The 1 urk knows it
»hat a all this got to do with
Boa* George Berham Parr, the
tottering Duke of I>u\al ?
1 he answer, mister, is plenty
but plenty!
Hictato, snips, whether they're
rel as in Russia, black as in
Muatollni't Italy, brown «.
Hitlers t.erniany, or red, white
and blue as in l'arr's Duval f,,|.
low the pattern ballots,
beatings, IhiIIiHs and booty. The
ballot* are phony but the otheri
are real. All four figure in the
ftory of Duval County, Texai.
To nonTexans looking in, to
ob ervers such as Franz Rosen-
wald and myself, the political
tuation in Duval County is ut-
terly fantastic—and frightening.
I hat il can happen here, in
America, the home of the free,
brings one's thinking up with a
jolt.
Dictatorship developed in Duval
because the right set of political
cm um tani- s existed. And, with
Attorney General John Hen Rhep-
jjerd operating the battering ram,
it's now being broken up -because
the right set of circumstances
exists.
He ing outsiders, we are not
pr. .liming to point out that cir-
favorable to n clean-
up of Duval County could have
iwTT brought about any time dur-
ing tile last TO years, but weren't
Let's just say that the fact that
Attorney General Shepperd dared
to take on George I'arr after
years made this series of articles
possible.
What if the right set of p.ditl
cal circumstances for dictatorship
were to come about in other coun
ties, in Texas or anywhere else*
Or in whole states' Or even j„
the • ntire t'niI,d States'"
That idea isn't intended to be
funny Hitler rose to p, wsr be
"'he right set of political
circumstances," So did old Vrr^e
arr founder of the dynasty in
th»» Durhv of Duval
I'ram Rosenwald wa» born and
raised in llerlin. and he wateb»d
the iidicilloui little man with the
harlie Chaplin mouatache
•troy the Weimar Republic and
I 'Jl' th* Thinl Reich His per
soiial tragedy under the Hitler
I terror wai gr^at
! I ke myself, H, lenwnld didn't
"I'eve that such a place a^ Duva
ounty could possibly e(i,t ,n the
W"stern world, until he came to
'«*as and saw for himself 1'ntil
■ talked to little people who had
, ' > >'"t"i and mined, the little
I p"tple Whose names do not ap
talked "t" (I f '"'ntil h'
talked to the families of men who
had been killed
th'"'' he talked face to facs
7"h nn,e of the killers, a pro-
lelero.na "Uln,'r'r' • hired pi..
thI!0"/.aW"u' who hl" ,iT"' ««»d«r
♦'•I ihirta ami under the
iTthTr #nlwh" do««n't like
of Km. written i«f.
rrn! piores in this seriei. And he
shows the startling similarity be-
tween tho methods of Bosi Pirr
and tlie methods of Hitler*! bullf
boys.
Hark in April of this year Ro»»
enwald nnd I railed John Ben
Sheuperd lonf: distance from New
Y<»rk nnd talked about a book,
and possibly a motion picture,
about the Duval story. Then he
sent ua a long telegram, readinf
in part "The Duval story J
sordid one that America should
know, not herause of what'i hap-
pened thrr#» hut to prevent a re-
<>rrurrence anywhere in the coun-
try, Our olTice will cooperate in
every way."
f^tor wo met Mr. Shepperd i»
Atlantic City, New Jersey, and
( heard him address a session of
- the National Association of At-
! turneys (Jeneral, of which he ii
f»rc dent. We were talking in hil
h t' ! r<•«.rn when he received word
, that Hos.-i Parr had "given back'
: ttrp r^i.rfon- acre DobTe Ranch, a
I -'re . f real estate that Parr hid
for himittll with
, O'Unty funds.
Th » lHival story looked pretty
prim even from that dilUnce.jUlj
f w grim we didn't retliae ontll
hopped an airplane to Austin.
The»e we hired an automobile
f; m Avis and covered more than
4,('(hi miles of South Texas and
Mexto and had a good look at
<• Duval story for ourselves. We
j weren't prep ared for what we saw
1 and heard
Te-.ana have lived so d°M tj
the Duval f'ory for the past halt
rentury that it's old hat by now.
metime^ in the papers there H
a *tnry ahout a killing, the story
! tcM out of focus, without relation
to the Karkground. Or • ipot newt
•' -ry al>out an indictment, a trial,
• e sentrnce again, told out of
f'Tua, herause that's the way
newapapfra have to work. Some-
jtime* Bobi Tarr hits the front
i page* with a political pronounce-
ment when he endorses a candi-
date, or damns a candidate, for
reasons of hie own.
Put, by and large, the fu»
at^ry of Duval hasn't been really
and fully told, has never been
pulled together all in one place
and in complete focue so that tne
whole picture, clear and iharp,
can be seen at one time.
That's what Fran* Rosenwald
and this writer propoae to do.
And we'll tell the sfc>7 in
of real, live people, the
who, like the men *t the AlW^
of San Jacinto, of GoliMi V*
flghtinj—and dying — tot »"*
right to be free. -
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