National Reports
EUBANKS, BICKNELL & VOTAW, ALBERT N.
National Reports Atlanta: Joseph R. Fiszman. Boston: Courtney R. Sheldon. Chicago: Albert N. Votaw. Dallas: Bicknell Eubanks. Minneapolis: Sam Romer. New Orleans: Stephen Ryan. Richmond: Lawrence...
...For a while, Yarborough ignored the Governor's taunts...
...Girl Scont leaders, who learned of Clamage's original charge from the newspapers, waited two hours for an opportunity to argue their case...
...San Francisco: Frank Mankiewicz...
...Shivers, who had been taking a moderate stand officially on the Supreme Court's segregation decision, also began to talk like the Governors of Mississippi, Georgia and South Carolina...
...The City Council has already endorsed the plan...
...In any event, Southern Dixiecrats won't be able to count Texas "in the bag" at the 1956 Democratic National Convention...
...They then climaxed a two-year anti-UN campaign by getting the convention to vote for a "declaration of independence from the United Nations...
...Even as the votes were still being counted in the first primary, which Governor Shivers led by less than 25,000 out of about 1,300,000 votes, a Texas political writer who makes no bones about his sympathy for Shivers told me: "Allan will have to take a balanced delegation to the next national Democratic convention...
...Apparently, the action of these wild men from the Middle West has embarrassed their colleagues...
...At present, the two major sheets involved present an almost unbroken line of taverns, stores and garages...
...The cost of clearing the land is estimated at $6.5 million, with a possible resale realization of $1.2 million...
...Actually, the University, as the area's largest landlord, has always been active in neighborhood affairs...
...The SECC was one of many anti-crime, neighborhoodimprovement groups which sprang up after the murder of a West Side GOP ward committeeman...
...will be picking their next Governor, since the victor is certain to be elected in this one-party state...
...But, regardless of the outcome, Judge Yarborough has exploded the myth that Allan Shivers is impregnable...
...Federal officials have virtually promised their support, without which, of course, adequate finances would not be forthcoming...
...Many Negro leaders believe that, if he had kept quiet, it would have satisfied the white voters and would not have resulted in thousands of Negroes?who saw no choice between Tweedledum and Tweedledee—staying away from the polls...
...I niversity officials have expressed a desire to redevelop the neighborhood to such an extent that families making less than $3,000 annually would find it too expensive to maintain residence...
...In other action, state Legionnaires voted routine calls for extension of the non-Communist oath to public employes and a state anti-subversive bill, a state "textbook evaluation'' law, boycotting of theatrical and film performances in which pro-Communists are involved, censure of Secretary of State Dulles for permitting Iron Curtain churchmen to attend the World Council of Churches meeting in Evanston, reintroduction and passage of the Bricker Amendment, severance of diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union, and a pledge that no U.S...
...By Albert N. Votaw Chicago EDWARD F. CLAMAGE, the indefatigable florist who serves as chairman of the Illinois American Legion's anti-subversive commission, has turned his guns on the Girl Scouts...
...At his recommendation, the Legion's state convention voted to withdraw support from the Girl Scouts until they "eliminate un-American influences from [their] hand-book and publications...
...Liberals have hailed this University move as a descent from the ivory tower...
...He had obtained information, he said, when "another parly came along that seemed to know a lot about the Girl Scouts and told us some things.' The Legion blast at the Girl Scouts is one result of a campaign by a little group of hard-working, wilful men...
...The Heat Is on Shivers in Texas By Bicknell Eubanks Dallas On August 28, when this state's Democratic party holds its runoff primary between Governor Allan Shivers and former district judge Ralph Yarborough, Texas Democrats (as well as Republicans...
...But, a few days before the election, he took a stand which was hardly distinguishable from Shivers's views...
...The Supreme Court decision outlawing restrictive covenants cut the ground from underneath the business-office approach to property values...
...Formation of the South-East Chicago Commission four years later was particularly fortunate for the University...
...When the busy florist filially appeared, he admitted that he had not read their latest hand-book or attempted to verify his charges...
...Redevelopment is expected to cost an additional $20 million...
...And his own leaders say that, if the voting had come a week earlier, Judge Yarborough might have led or even won...
...The speech was repeatedly interrupted by applause...
...Texas has the largest electoral vote in the South and one of the largest in the country, and Senator Johnson may be tapped for one of the two top spots on the Democratic ticket...
...It was no secret among Lone Star political writers that Governor Shivers was "running scared" the last two weeks before the first primary...
...But under Chancellor Robert M. Hutchins this activity was quiet and subtle...
...The 1950 median income in the somewhat larger Hyde Park-Kenwood area was $4,171, which was slightly above the city average...
...Most of these groups have lapsed into inactivity, but the SECC, with the backing, guidance and money of the University, has turned from crime-busting to the more substantial problems of neighborhood disintegration...
...This was quite a shock to the liberal elements supporting him and to Negroes, who were anxious to vote for someone who at least would not use segregation as a political issue...
...While the Legion went about its well-publicized business, other forces were also at work...
...Slum buildings and many fine old gin mills are slated for destruction in an attempt to provide "a neighborhood in which the faculty can live and rear children in safety and happiness,' according to Chancellor Lawrence A. Kimpton...
...In fact, he credited the "conservatism" of Texas politics to this Republican interference in Democratic affairs...
...The potential of this "revelation" of the future of Texas politics may reach into the 1956 Democratic National Convention...
...It may even work out that this uncertainty will be advantageous to Texas's Senator Lyndon Johnson, the present Senate Minority Leader...
...As it is, an estimated 200,000 Negroes voted, and Shivers himself claims that 90 per cent of them supported his opponent...
...Two years ago, when the Eisenhower faction in Texas was fighting the Old Guard, a one-time Republican candidate for Governor detailed to this writer how Texas Republicans often voted in Democratic primaries...
...The plan does not exactly call for low rents...
...In fact...
...High point of the festivities was a "non-political" address by Senator McCarthy, in which he expressed his displeasure with "some wise little boys in the Senate . . [who spend] their lime debating whether they should condemn someone for doing the skunk-hunting job which they don't have the guts to do...
...His original resolution had charged that the Scouts, by supplying United Nations and World Government (his capitals) propaganda, had ceased to be "a real American organization loyal to God and the American way of life.' As finally passed, the resolution merely charged the little ladies with giving "precedence" to these dangerous internationalist ideas...
...Richmond: Lawrence King...
...The Chicago Siui-Timcs charged editorially that these men, showing more zeal than common sense, had infiltrated the Legion for their own purposes just as Communists infiltrated unions and other organizations...
...with two stories of Hats perched above them...
...Girl Scoutism: Menace to the Nation...
...As a result, the Hyde Park community has a fighting chance to restore itself as the good residential neighborhood it was in the past...
...Ironically, Yarborough may have defeated himself by announcing his position on this issue...
...Republicans now are planning to take a hand in Democratic-party affairs...
...Some new approach had to be found if the University, most of whose students room out in the neighborhood, was not to be engulfed by a black slum...
...and the Illinois Central Railroad tracks in the Hyde Park neighborhood adjacent to the University...
...Louis: William Wyant Jr...
...He accused his major opponent, who apparently wanted to keep this issue out of the campaign altogether, of refusing to state his position on the question of racial segregation in public schools...
...About a week before the July 24 voting, however, the Governor, who had been on the defensive, shifted to an offensive campaign...
...Legionnaires from Savannah, Georgia, birthplace of the Girl Scout movement, passed a resolution calling the Illinois action "silly and screwy.' They will ask the national convention to "erase the blot on the fair name of two million Girl Scouts...
...He began asserting that Yarborough had made secret commitments to organizations like the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the Congress of Industrial Organizations, and was being backed by such liberal groups as Americans for Democratic Action...
...The GOP rank-and-file in Texas is being urged "unofficially" by state Republican leaders to go into the runoff and give Governor Shivers enough votes to save him...
...This action followed a noisy, 90-minute debate and considerable backing and filling by Clamage...
...The University of Chicago is backing a plan for clearing and redeveloping 47.3 acres of land along 55th St...
...As redeveloped, the area would be devoted to two-story town-houses and elevator apartment buildings, built around a central shopping center...
...The Girl Scout resolution marked their first real victory...
...troops will be sent to Indo-China...
...In 1952, the entire Texas delegation reflected the Governor's ultra-conservative views...
Vol. 37 • August 1954 • No. 34
