The Panhandle Herald (Panhandle, Tex.), Vol. 62, No. 10, Ed. 1 Friday, September 24, 1948 Page: 2 of 8
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The Panhandle Herald, Panhandle, Carson County, Texas
Friday, September 24, 1948
The Panhandle Herald
Established July 22, 1887
(•Tinted Every Friday at Panhandle, Carson County, Texa4
MEMBER: Texas Press Ar yciation, Panhandle
Press Association and National Editorial Ass n.
DAVID M. WARREN, Editor and Publisher
Entered as second class matter, July 22, 1887, at the post
««Xce at Panhandle, Texas, under the act of March 3, 1879.
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THAT FORT WORTH CONVENTION
’Many Herald readers expected some ed-
itorial comment last week on the State
.Democtratic Convention held at Fort
Worth Sept. 14. But there just wasn’t
eauongh time to supply editorial copy for
last week’s Herald.
Two issues kept the Democratic Con-
tention in a turmoil; namely, whether the
Truman Democrats or the Dixiecrats would
Use in control and what action would be
taken on certifying Lyndon Johnson or
Coke Stevenson for United States senator.
The Johnson - Stevenson issue partly
came to a head with a meeting of the State
^executive Committee Monday night. - Its
work was to vote on a subcommittee report
as to certifcation of the vote for U. sS.
senator. The subcommittee reported John-
son led 87 votes and the whole committee
aapheld the certfication by 29 to 28 votes.
The convention refused to let delegates
from contested counties vote on their own
seating issues. Two roll calls showed that
the Truman Democrats were in control
and Byron Skelton, Truman floor leader,
moved that Dixiecrats from Harris, Dallas,
Tarrant and other counties be denied seats.
The convention threw out these delegat-
ions, although Harris county leaders at the
Hast minute offered to take oath of al-
ilegia.ce to President Truman.
Under ordinary conditions there would
ibe little complaint about a lead of only 87
votes for a high office, but Stevenson’s
ifriends protested that 202 votes had been
added in a box at Alice, Jim Wells county,
(days after the orginal returns had been
announced. These extra votes gave Steven-
son one and Johnson 201.
Also bloc voting in four or five counties
gave Johnson a lead of about 10 to 1. It
was such voting condtioms as these that
many were trying to get considered by
the convention and also the state executive
^committee. Not one word ever came out
of the state commttee or the convention
upholding purity and integrity of the
^ballot.
Members of the executive committee
mpheld the theory that the group had auth-
ority to add the county returns only. That
theory also was advocated by Charles C.
Caibson, committeeman, and Mrs. Willie
OTSfeal, committee woman, from the 31st
senatorial district. This writer believes
they were sincere in their views, but also
ibeiieves that they were dead wrong.
They were the officials from the 31st
senatoral district to represent us in stand-
ing for integrity of the ballot. This writer
believes that their vote did nothing to up-
hold these high principles, merely side-
stepping the issues for the courts.
Remember, the majority of the commit-
tee voted as the two 31st senatorial dist-
rict members did, Gibson and Mrs. O’Neal
so they were not alone in not wanting to
go beyond county returns reported.
Had the state convention itself done
something to demand a clean ballot—not
merely from the counties with Mexican
’voters, but from every section of Texas—
there would have been something to com-
mend. But, you must remember that Texas
politics has been taking some queer turns
the past ten years. The lines have been
drawn stringently since the third term
campaign of Roosevelt in 1940. Gov. W.
Lee O’Daniel was in the saddle in the 1938
and 1940 conventions.
Stevenson leaders were in control in
1942 and the issue in 1944 centered around
the fourth term for Roosevelt. Roosevelt
leaders took charge of the 1944 September
convention under Jimmy Allred and Harry
Seay. Also, sonub anti-Roosevelt electors
were replaced. Gov.-elect Beauford Jester
had everything his way in the 1946 con-
vention.
But 1948 was a contrast for Gov. Jester.
He worked at the Brownwood convention
for an uninstructed delegation to Phila-
delphia and won out. But, he learned at
Philadelphia that many of those unin-
structer delegates did not attend to support
the nominee, if he were Truman. That
caused Jester to take a different attitude,
for as the head of the Democratic party
in Texas he felt it was his duty to support
the nominees.
At the Fort Worth convention, he was
given courteous hearing. Numerous person-
al friends were taken off the state com
mittee. You could say that the state chair
man and the state secretary, John C. Cal-
houn of Corsicana and Vann M. Kennedy
cf Austin, were all that he salvaged from
the Fort Worth convention.
The worst tendency in the State Demo-
cratic Conventions the past ten years in the i
lack of moral honesty. The group that gets
in charge puts the steam roller on the other
side. It has reached the place that no con-
sideration is given as to justice in dealing
. with contested delegations. The issues are
decided solely, It seems, as to which group
has control of the convention. It seems that
some fair way should be worked out to
elect delegations so that they can be seated
Counties should be able to elect delega-
tions and know with assurance that they
will be seated. This tendency to shift con-
I trol of the convention by throwing out
delegates is getting to be a disgrace.
After a few months, it may be possible
for the State Committee to get to work on
some plans to submit to the legislature to
enable prevention of such voting scandals
as Texas had in the 1948 runoff. One sug-
gestion is that the state take over the entire
primary convention. Now, that negroes can
vote, there is no need to have the primary
solely in charge of the party. Also, it is
unfair to assess local candidates so much
to run for office. Cost of holding elections
should be paid by the public, not by indi-
viduals. This writer served on the com-
mittee to canvas returns. This committee
was composed of a member from each sen-
atorial district plus a special spotter ap-
pointed by the state temporary chairman.
This committee wanted to report the re-
turns without even receiving them, but the
chairman would not permit such high-
handed action. There was some delay in
getting the returns from the state secretary
to the committee. It was pointed out that
this committee certified nominees from the
first primary as well as from the second.
The room in which this canvassing com-
mittee met was a little Black Hole of Cal-
cutta. Around 100 persons crowded into
a small room barely larger than a typical
hotel room. Around 20 to 25 young lawers
wanted to talk at the same time, it was
bedlam and never was a chairman to be
more pitied.
The State Convention was another grand
show. There is always something different.
After attending many state conventions,
one is able to make comparisons of the
way that business was handled. Outside
of taking colds at the last two conventions
attended, due partly to the long closing
sessions, the trips have been interesting
and worth while.
Football Scores
26,
Class AA
Parapa 19, Graham 0
Amarillo 39, Childress 6
Capitol Hill (Okla. City)
Borger 0
Classes A and B
Phillips 32,. Wellington 0
Lefors 2 0, Canadian 0
Clarendon 13, Chillicothe 12
Shamrock 7, Perry ton 0
Canyon 0, Price, College, Ama-
rillo 0
Silverton 14, Claude 6
White Deer 6, Happy 12
Friona 0, Hereford 1-2
Lamesa 0, Plainview 14
Spearman 0, Dalhart 25
College
Texas Tech 19, West
State 0
Texas:
Milk for His Grave
A 17th century Spanish bishop
willed that “A 10-gaIJon jug of milk
be annually upset upon his grave so
that his body might still enjoy that
delicious fluid.” He bequeathed a
large sum for this purpose.
Students Pledged
To Fraternities
Twenty-one Amarilloans and
one each from Panhandle, Well-
ington and Dalhart were among
466 students of the University of
Texas who were announced last
week as pledges to social frat-
ernities.
Among those pledged were
David M. Warren, Jr., of Pan-
handle, Kappa Sigma; Halmond
K. Stanfield of Amarillo, son of
the late H. K. Stanfield, former
state representative, Sigma Alpha
Mu; Basil E. Walker of Amarillo,
grandson of the late J. A. Whitt-
enburg, Phi Gamma Delta,; Bouv-
den Rea Barfield of Amarillo,
grandson of the late Mrs. M. D.
Oliver Eakle.
Soybean Flour Value
One pound of low fat flour made
from soybeans contains as much
protein as two and one-half pounds
of beefsteak or chickens.
Synthetic Yarn
Fortisan is a cellulosic yam used
tor dress goods, underwear, cur-
tains and fine sheers. It is a new de-
velopment in acetate rayon.
Herald Want Ads Get Results.
Teeth Pulled With Pleasure
Topocaine is being used as an
anesthetic for relieving pain of den-
tal drilling. Instead of applying a
hypodermic, the new anesthetic is
rubbed on the tooth to be removed.
Farm Use of Grains
Slightly over two-thirds of the
total U. S. grain supply remains on
the farm for seed and animal feed.
UNKLE HANK SEZ
I'VE, always wondered
WHY MRS JONES WAS SO
PROUD OF HER HUSBAND.
UNTIL 1 FOUND OUT THAT
HE HAS A TWENTY
^THOUSAND DOLLAi
INSURANCE'-
POUCY.sf,
Drop by O. D. SMITH
IMPLEMENTS . . . we’ll
explain v/hy you’ll be
proud to own Minnea-
polis-Moline farm ma-
chinery. Its all you
hoped for in new and
greater implements. See
them . . . try them . . .
buy them. We’re sure to
please.
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It’s as simple as ABC
or as "one and one make two.”
School days are eyestrain days
... and better light means bet-
ter sight.
Be sure, wherever your chil-
dren play or study that they
have the best possible depend-
able electric lighting—always.
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PUBLIC SERVICE
COMPANY
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Motarians Hear
Demo Delegates
Mrs. Willie O’Neal, member of
the State Democratic Executive
Committee, and Mrs. Eva E.
Craig, county treasurer, spoke at,
the Rotary Club luncheon last.
Vriday noon on the State Dem-
ocratic Convention at Fort Worth
■ last -week.
They answered questions in ad-
dition to making short talks. Mrs.
O’Neal was an alternate and Mrs.
Craig was a delegate.
Douis Lemons spoke about the
Carson County Fall Festival
Wendell Mixson introduced the
program.
A light year is the distance a
ray of light can travel in one year
or nearly six trillion miles.
Advertitement
From where I oe^Marsh,
Your Most
Important Right
jNow that the bandstand has been
T»jiuinted, and the park re-land-
aacaped, we have about the nicest
callage green in the county.
And it’s all because, at the last
itown election, folks got out and,
stated—85 per cent of them! That
sway, they passed the amendment
(sailing for park improvements—
caver those opposing it.
^Reminds you again how impor-
tant .the right to vote is in this
country. And it’s a right we can
^retain only by exercising it! ...
like all the other individual liber-
ties—from freedom to enjoy a
glass of beer or ale, to a woman’s
right to vote along with men.
Folks can thank themselves that
on summer evenings they’ll be able
to listen to band concerts in a well-
' park . . . enjoying a bottle of
hccr or soda pop (whichever they
prefer). Because from where I sit,
that’s a freedom they've earned by
exercising a still more important
freedom: Voting!
Copyright, 1948, United States Brewers Foundation
Desloge Scientists Study
Plants Grown by Peruvians
Desloge Peruvian botanical ex-
pedition, 1948, has* returned after
studying cultivated plants in the
highlands and valleys of Peru.
The three members of the expe-
dition, Dr. Hugh' C. Cutler, curator
of economic botany at the museum,
Joseph Desloge and Arthur Hoskins
of the St. Louis Academy of Sci-
ence, investigated the plants
grown by the Indians of the high-
lands and those plants of the lower
altitudes that were brought to the
market places for sale and ex-
change,
One of the interesting plants
studied yields the cocaine used in
medicine (and as a narcotic by
some drug addicts). The cocaine
plant, or coca as it is called in
Peru and Bolivia, is grown in ter-
raced valleys about 5,000 feet
above sea level. The leaves are
picked by hand, dried, and pressed
into bales for shipment.
The Indians of the central Andes
are rarely ever without a quid of
coca leaves in their cheek. The
custom of chewing coca leaves is
so common that most large haci-
endas pay part of their wages in
leaves. An alkali, usually ashes or
lime mixed with clay, is added to
the quid, for without it there is
little effect. This practice is strik-
ingly similar to the use of ashes or
lime with betel nut in the western
Pacific Islands.
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Herald Want Ads Get Results.
Let’s Attend the Third Annual
FALL FESTIVAL Sept. 24 & 25
Make the Fall Festival a homecoming occasion. It brings a reunion of for-
mer residents along with the local people. Continued support will make the Fall
Festival larger each year.
SPECIAL SATURDAY HOURS
Tentative hours for Saturday, Sept. 25, will be 9 to 11 a. m. Please do your
banking accordingly tomorrow.
The First National Bank
MEMBER
F. A. PAUL, Chairman
VERN WISDOM, Vice-President and Cashier
F D I C
DAVID M. WARREN, President
H. N. MUNRO, Assistant Cashier
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Warren, David M. The Panhandle Herald (Panhandle, Tex.), Vol. 62, No. 10, Ed. 1 Friday, September 24, 1948, newspaper, September 24, 1948; Panhandle, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth875028/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 Carson County Library.