Texas Week, Volume 1, Number 3, August 24, 1946 Page: 34
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GOVERNOR'S PROBLEM At Ex4
Gift from Mexico
Dr. Jose Ibarrra Gonzales of neigh-
boring Rosita, Mexico, presented Gov.
Coke R. Stevenson with this playful
Mexican bear.
What to do with fifty-pound pet is
puzzling some of the Governor's associ-
ates. Texas' Game, Fish and Oyster
Commission may be asked for help.
Meanwhile the bear bathes in a wash-
tub on the lawn of the executive man-
sion.
Short of Washington
When Land Commissioner Bascom
Giles took off for Louisiana, he probably
felt the trip well might prove futile.
That state's Mineral Board hadn't
shown much inclination to heed his re-
quests that bids not be accepted for oil
leases on some 75,000 acres of offshore
land which Giles felt belonged to Texas.
(TW 17 Aug.)
Giles' contention was that the land on
which Louisiana was accepting lease
bids rightfully belongs to Texas. From
his viewpoint, the Texas-Louisiana
border offshore is merely an extension
of the Southeastward course of the Sa-ec'Sive Mansion
bine River. Louisianans believe that the
boundary is a line due south from the
river's mouth. At stake are the 75,000
acres.
But, duty-bound to fight for the lands
he administers, Giles made the trip and
was on hand when the Louisiana State
Mineral Board met to look over the
bids.
He didn't come away empty-handed.
Louisiana rejected bids on three tracts
amounting to 7,000 acres. Furthermore,
Texas' neighbor agreed to Giles' pro-
posal for a conference to be held this
fall with the Louisiana board, the Texas
General Land Office, the Texas School
Land Board, and representatives of
both states' attorneys general offices
attending.
Object: Amicable settlement of the
dispute short of the United States Su-
preme Court.
Pro-Nazis Are Ousted
In a final back-yard clean up Mexico
loaded 75 pro-Nazis and undesirable
Germans on the steamer Marine Marlin.
The ship, already carrying 881 depor-
tees swept out of Latin American coun-
tries, paused at Vera Cruz, Mexico, to
pick up the Germans before sailing for
Europe.A .a
34 TEXAS WEEK
Don't Worry-
They'll Be Back!
How best to fleece a Texan is provid-
ing New Mexico newspapers with verbal
cudgels to lambast state law enforce-
ment officers for permitting wideopen
gambling in the New Mexico mountain
resorts.
It's not that the papers mind seeing
Texas tourists parted from their hard-
earned money. On the contrary, -some
of the papers have advanced the charm-
ing idea that more Texans can be lured
into the state and fleeced if the gambling
halls are closed.
Led by Wealthy Frank Rand's Santa
Fe New Mexican, a number of Sunshine
state newspapers launched a lively cru-
sade against gambling at Eagle Nest,
Red River, Taos, Ruidoso and other tour-
ist resorts, publishing lengthly and lurid
accounts of illegal gambling and exces-
sive drinking.
Let "em Buy Gew-Gaws
The New Mexican quoted service sta-
tion attendants, stable operators and
others as saying the fleeced tourists go
home disgusted and don't come back.
Close up the gambling halls, they say,
and the Texans will buy more fishing
tackle and gew-gaws at jacked-up prices,
have a gobd time and come back year
after year for more.
The effectiveness of the anti-gambling
campaign is mitigated somewhat by the
fact that the New Mexican is violently
opposedl to the Democratic state admin-
istration in New Mexico and its gam-
bling crusade is intended primarily to
embarrass Governor J. J. Dempsey.
Texans Like Big Steer Roping
Unimpressed, Texans continue to
flock in great numbers to the paradise
of varied g a m b 1 i n g, horse-racing,
whiskey (which is illegal in a large part
of West Texas) and big steer roping.
Calf roping is allowed in Texas, but
big steer roping isn't. The more ardent
Texas fans of this thrilling sport-a
natural for lively betting-spend their
Sundays across the state line where big-
ger animals can be roped legally at
greater dangerato bothpthe rider and
the steer. Such a contest is planned for
Sunday, September 1, at Clovis. Many
spectatorsdand peformers, who will
drive all day across Texas on Saturday,
will sleep in their cars or on bedrolls be-
hind the stables if tourist camps and
hotels are as crowded as usual.
Two new horse racing tracks are be-
ing opened in New Mexico near the
Texas line to draw off surplus money
from Texans who, by law, are deprived
of legally losing their money on the
bangtails at home. A $150,000 racing
plant opened this month at Raton, and
a much larger parimutuel establishment
is scheduled to open this fall a few
miles north of El Paso in New Mexico.L
24 AUGUST 46
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