The Cuero Record (Cuero, Tex.), Vol. 66, No. 109, Ed. 1 Sunday, May 8, 1960 Page: 2 of 10
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Religious Issue Jumps
Nixon’s Texas Standing
DEWITT m«NTY VOTE BY PRECINCTS
VmtOM Returns tl*r ilhy 7 Demoeratic Primary Tabulated by The Cuero Record
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«ted Tex** a* Democratic proa-
Mentis! nominee Sr a comfort-
able margin over Nixon. Today.
r-'i»y b©'”’«*e »* th* *»uiW-«ip
•f aw raUgioua issue, be prob-
aH* ewM tee* defeat-
That the retigkxM laaoe h*»
* hurt Kennedv's chances in this
predominMtafty Protestant but
tr«S*Mon»Rv Democrat'c state «s
e«a«riv refected in surveys by
vote”* arha
fesl Identify Ken-
nedy M
Cafeatir I
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as m
M 88 IT
AH vofera
who don’t
Identify Ken-
near M
Cethotts M » SI
The wide publicity given to
„ _ . . . ... the religious issue obviously has
•»».« w*v*- * ***** ta e» ^jaliened Kennedy’s standing In
wiie survey of votera, oondwttfl Texas relative to Ninon,
i nidkAori'. shows him trailing i ovcr compounds,* the
Niaon. k comparable survey in weakness in Kennedy’s position
August 1958. when his Catholic jf. a generaJ art •
background had not received so Catholjc Cannot cany this state
much publicity, showed him to; in a presidential race. Of aQ
he a two to one favorite over the votm questioned in the lat-
Nixon .eat Texas Poll survey, to per
In both surveys, voters were <-«*,, expressed the view that a
asked to choose between Ken- Catholic would not have a good
chance. The rest either were
non-committal as many (21
nedy running as Democratic
candidate for President and
Nines) as the Republican candi-
date. the marked trend against
Kennedy is reflected in the com-
parative measuremnets below:
Aug. Apr.
ISM ISM
Kennedy M% 89%
Nixon a 4*
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Voters were questioned in the 005, and Jim D. Bowmer, 818.
latest survey, after making Robert 8. Calvert the
known their preferences, wheth-
centl felt a Catholic would have
a good chance. The rest either
were non-committal or said it
would depend on the man.
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.. . _ . nr. .titan. KO< * th«mP“V majority which
that one of the major presiden- amounted to 2,830 votes. His op-
•r they happened to be aware!
tlst nspirSHfS fe a CafhoJjc.; p^, v. L. Ramsey got 88T.
In the land commissioner's race
Kennedy was identified as the;
Catholic by three of every tour ^ y,e CUITent commissioner. BUI
voters—28 per cent—m the state- j AUcom, polled 1,732 votes as
wide cross section. Significantly, ^^red to i sa for jerr>. g,*.
the results disclose that these jar
voters who have become aware congressman John Young of the
of Kennedy’s religion are la*® 140, District beat his opponent
hkafy to favor him than the Douglas Dougherty. 2,108 to 1.437
uninformed voters. in DeWitt county.
The latest survey also shows BIU Patman caiMudata tor the
that Protestant voters, who com- lith Senatorial district, beat his
prise about 85 par cant of the opponent than 2-to-l. Pat-
Taxas electorate, are generally man got 2.432 votes to incumbent
opposed to Kennedy while Cath-| rjh p|y<a j J04
otic voters favor him over Nixon The stnte representative race
by an overwhelming majority. for the 34th Legislative District
The tabulations below “ _
race^patferro^between qEE «T|5|b* snl SfeB*j tonmrtZnth,
DeWitt Democrats Okay
Johnson For Nomination
Democrats of Praetoict I, meet-| The Johnson resolution read as
inf at the Junior High School follows:
Saturday afternoon, gave imeid-: "Be it resolved that the Dele-
mous endorsement to a Haeoio- gates from tills Precinct to the
Outdoors In Texas
of the debate said it felt obli-
gated only to grant equal time
to other candidates for the Dem-
ocratic * presidential nomination.
By BILL CLAYTON
United Press International
ro^iect t*etT eupportlng Senator Lyndon CountyCcnyention be placed,un- through*the PineyWoods area of! why, George Washington is said
£rter- PS^ , John**, to*- **>« Democratic nom- der the Unlt Rule and required ^,^^ and Carthage in East to have hunted several times a
week.
, "And interest in fox hunting
j seems to be increasing in Texas.
It i« one of the oldest sports—
and Protestants and
votera who currently identify
Kennedy as a Catholic and those
who do not.
Km-
Jftxea nedy
Ail
Preteetoets 48% M IS
Ail
t« 88 U
between Haring and 940 to Daniel W. Apt- ' jjj*
DeWitt countians supported Dis-
deUgates to vote as a
the County Convention.
The resolution was offered by
coming before the County Con-
vention; and further that they be
Instructed to support the Hon.
ed by Homer Blanton,
Other precinct conventions held
in the county passed similar re-
BUSINl S S
CARDS
trict Attorney Wiley Cheetham;
Uade- nearly 4 - to - 1. Cheatham pulled:
cidsd in 2,782 votes to Dave Whitlows;
1693
o^oMite^ race hi De- ^ ^*1 j Convention also
wm county ended w ith William a resolution offered by
SJK ■- w.«y,!!!j ■=**»*&
(Nordheim > BuUm- got 183 votes chalmiaa Mrs J. W. Doltjsi for
^^rJ^tycfndldato. etoct- « ***»"*
ed unoppoeed were Leonard Mi "***' _
Cox, county attorney; Ray L. -
Markowaky, sheriff; Frank A TT r|^M! n
Thieme. tax assessor-collector; J. ITIO
Dave Weber, commissioner. Pre-
cinct 1; Joe Grss. commissioner.
Precinct 3.
Other unopposed candidates
Pre-
Mayor J. T. Newman and second- Lyndon B. Johnson for the Ds-
Cuero Record
mocratic Nomination lor Presi-
dent of the United States and to
introduce and vote at the County
Convention for a Resolution re-
quiring the Delegates to the State
Convention to so support the can-
didacy of Senator Johnson.’’
Wank Sheppard was elected as
temporary chairman af the Pet
I convention and Mrs. Elsie Win-
del wm named as secretary.
Qualifies
start of the amusd Texas Open
ftox Hunt.
The sleek hounds will come
from various parts of the country
to strut their stuff before a team
of judges.
Many of the top entries of the
Heart of the Pinas Bench Show
and Field Trials arc expected to
be in the open, which is sched-
uled for the tint week of May.
H» winner hurt fall was Harry
T., a male owned by J. A. Talley
of Jewett. Bench show competi-
tion judgea dogs an heads, bodies,
costs and tails.
The red fox gives hunters the
best chase, DuPuy says. The,
gray fox is also hunted, but isj ~
net as good sport. Reds will not: Mew SUste Envisioned
protection of wildlife In its na-
tural habitat, watching use of
wildlife dolkars, end organizing
sportsmen’s clubs reactions to
current Issune.
Vast new (areas for public hunt-
ing have bet:n mentioned by Cecil
Reid, executive secretary of the
SCOT. Reid says the 858.000 acres
of national forests could be de-
veloped with the help of the For-
est Service into controlled public
hunting are as. He said some land- ____
S"’«"-Ti>n<' stickun
hunting aa-eas.
Gracious Welcome
BERLIN -lUPD- Marlena
Dietrich fearful of her recep.
ception on returning to her
homeland, had 15 curtain calls
after her stage performance
Thursday night.
Lias St ran, constable, rra-; county 4-H mem- “He win be met with dignified
srrLSs str*hwtu^h -*• -
constable. Precinct 5; H. A. My- ^ 10 •icminaUon con-
aNSSSsSliSsKtSsri
*r, Precinct 8. n p«rgar und Gloria Lassman.
—--- | la the district canto* Satur-
day, Jaaicd pi trad second \
the senior division in public
Barbers and Gloria
the senior
sklent Eisenhower’s planned Oar! L. DuPuy. a Game and
space and was shot down Sun- \ anything new, hut the dogs are
day: J improving all the time.
Produce Better Dogs ..........I Wood said SCOT can “lend
“The dogs are like thorough-1 hand” to the commission by:
Is a guest of Nikita Khrushchev, bnd horses," DuPuy said. “Win- Promoting respect tor the rights
But the President will have to ners are bred to winners and the lot landowners, encouraging wise
climb, and "will run a pack of
hounds to the ground,” he adds.
Hunters do not ordinarily kill
the fox after treeing it or running
it to its burrow. Sometimes they
release it and the chase is on
again.
Asks for Help .
Game and Fish Commission
Chairman Frank L. Wood ha*
outlined for Texas sportsmen six
points in which they can help the
commission in wildlife conserva-
tion.
Wood spoke in Austin at the
first get-together between Game
and Fish Commission officials
and members and executives of
| the Sportsmen's Chibs of Texas.
a
MILWAUKEE, Wis., UPI —A
judge ordered a mental examifia-
tion Thursday for Lindsay Har-
ris, 18, who is charged with
holding up a nine-year-old
girl with a cap pistol and at-
tempting to rob her of an ice
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became available in 1188.
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members af the District 18 Coo-
ell, participated in the program.
QUOTES FROM
THINEWS
Beg. U. 8. Pet OI».
By United Pram Intesnatieral
LONDON - Princes* Marga-
ret. asked at fee altar If she MU
"obey . . . serve . . . lova. hon-
or and kwp ... in rtekaese and
In health’* commoner Antony
mm"
SUNSHINE. Md
gar* Glover,
kopt a
doors hi a
tosh air
answer to the Soviet people.’’
CHARLESTON, W. Vs -
Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., cam-
paigning for Sen. John F. Ken-
nedy Mass, in the We* Virginia
Democratic presidential pri-
mary. an his mention of Minne-
sota Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey's
lack of military sendee:
“I do not fee) that this is of
importance in this campaign and
1 regret that it has been toreed
into the issue."
ANKARA - Turkish oppositi-
on feeder Ism* Inonu stating
he still w ants to ou* the govern-
ment by legal means:
"•uch means are becoming
toss and tees effective, hut we
are not going to give up.”
WASHINGTON - San Paul
H. Douglas D-m. on what he
thinks would happen to the Re-
publican - opposed bill to aid
distressed areas if President
Eteeidwwer should make a per-
tonal tour * such areas:
•1 am confident that with such
information and with his warm
heart he cannot fail to see the
importance af signing this mar
sury mto law."
LONDON -IUPII- British
Somaliland will become inde-
pendent July 1, the same day j.......
the neighboring Italian trust ter-, cream'cone,
ritory of Somalia Is granted in-
dependence, Colonial Secretary « . .. . D , am_,
Jain MbcLeod announced Thurs-1 Socialist Parley Opens
day. The two territories plan to NEW YORK -(UPI*- The So-
form h new state, the Somali 'cialist Labor Party of America
Republic. I its 25th -r<c 'denfh»**vwwii-
'____— nating convention here Saturday.
Tim- Offered To 001•JS’JS.C
NEW YORK -(UPI) -The Lja &
Mutual Broadcasting System, j __
which carried the Charleston, W., p .. j-.
Va., debate between Sens. Hu-.FOllO Decreases
bert H. Humphrey, Minn., and, WASHINGTON — <UHM<..... The
John F. Kennedy. Mass.. Thurs--! V. S. Public Service Friday re-
day offered the Republican Na- ported there -ere only eight
tiontil Committee equal time for 1 cases of polio in 'ght states i e-
a (SOP spokesman. ! ported for the week ended Ap^ l
Hbwever. the National Broad-5 30. compared with 29 cases in
result is
urging casting
which carried part • the same week last year.
ELY. Nev. — Interior
tray rrad Seaton hfeting that he
mteht be willing to run ter the
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