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rg-mothers dishes . . . just your own!”ias;seWEBB COUNTYaid;:edjofWitness in VoteProbe 'Clams Up'rnonin to i lean tax lt;til next sp Secretar phrey said pation cer will bear The boc subscript ic Monday, PThe ta: I dated Au{ next MarcBuLAREDO f*—Rodolfo Villarreal.deputy clerk in the city secretary's office, slopped answering questions yesterday m a hearing eriinto alleged Webb County absentee at- voting abuses.The state recommended that Vil-larreal be held in contempt andCity, speaking in Spanish, saidthe following witness promptly contradicted what testimony Villarreal had given at the master of chancery hearingThey wiJ at par pipayment taxes due Corpora such tax with fund* to pay tax This isDeputy Sheriff Aurelio Vasqueztried to get her to vote absentee.“I wanted to go to Olton andvote on Saturday.” she said. Latershe said she did vote, but on ayellow paper.”It was noi made clear whethershe was given a sample ballotwhich she voted. Yellow is the rowing byusual color of sample ballots. (october wMrs. Alicia Morales of Laredo 0f tVillarreal swor* he had never|Sa*d Estanislabo Vasquez. a city Were issuiheard of or seen Augustina Jasso employe, bought her poll tax and bred jas^and Manuel Jasso. Then, on ad- her how to vote. She saidvice of counsel, quit answeringj Vasquez and ‘ someone from thequestions. police department” came to herU . „ ^ .ion,! house and took her ballot. She saidHe was followed to the stand, . ... ., . ... t f she did not mark it.by Mrs. Augustina Jasso of Lare- _______do, who testified that she hadknown Villarreal for several yearsand that he had taken her absentee ballot m last Saturday’s Demo cratic primary and mailed it. A statement earlier this year by Mrs. Jasso led to the calling of the hearing.Legality Challenged Earlier, two Laredo attorneys who say they are sympathetic to the Independent Club challenged the legality of the hearmg. Horace Hall, a member of the long-dominant Independent Club, and Gerald Weatherly, who said heJudge Thomas Lists $686 In Donationsceived in The intei on the c with 2U P' fall. A 1 that interc the last fe' per cent nof more tl : notes putHumphrf nection wit Treasury ( 982 million Treasury I called forFour more candidates from last • bonds werwas not a member but was sympathetic to .its cause, said the hearing should be stopped and its legality heard before a court.Nobody can investigate this but a grand jury or a district judge, Weatherly told Dan Moody Jr., acting as chancery master.Moody replied he was only gathering evidence.Villarreal then declined to answer further questions on advice of counsel and 1st. Asst. Atty. Gen. Davis Grant moved that he be cited for contempt.The master in chancery has no power to cite a witness for contempt and the motion will be made a part of the record to be given Dist. Judge Charles Betts of Austin, who called the hearing.Mrs. Jasso said of her ballot: “I didn’t know it was absentee.” She said her brother-in-law, Manuel Jasso, told her to sign the ballot stub. She said the ballot was marked, but that she didn't mark it.Her brother-in-law is a city em ploye.I gave my vote to him in April (Laredo city election time) and he told me he had to have my vote to keep his job, Mrs. Jasso said.Mrs. Petra Gonzales of MirandoSaturday’s Democratic primary have filed sworn statements of their campaign expenses with thecounty clerk's office here.The four brings to 11 the number of candidates who have tiled their final reports so far. Deadline i« Monday.would hav 1959. Howr the neces: last May bonds.The govlt; year has ti its expensThe new filings, the offices the borrowingtax collect; on Sept. 15 10 per centcandidates were running for and total expenses listed by each are:W. T. St. John, justice of the peace for precinct 1, $148 63; Tru- due‘ in the ett Latimer, state representative. Under a from the 84th District, $130; J. R. erai years Reddeli, county commissioner progressive from precinct 3, $367.77; Owen taxes on lt;Thomas, judge of the 104th District, !0f paying I $1,291.53. Jthe past.The itemized expenses listed by in New 1each*are:Thomas: filing lee. $630; telephone, telegraph and postage,$110.17; printing and stationry,$187; advertising, $317.96; travel expenses, $46.40. Thomas also listed donations totaling $686.78. They were: Donations of $25 each from Malcolm Meek, Walter Ely, Joe James, Charles Langford, John P.Bryan, J. Henry McGowen, Marvin Sprain, E. P. Mead, E. R. Davis,John B. Pope, Herman Bettis, A. 2% certific S. Hawes, Fred Boyd, H. L. Skin- March 15. ner, Gilbert Pechacek, E. H. Mur-1, Another j phy, E. B. Yeatts, Mrs. Einar makes it lt;terms of tl al and ] oversubscri that the g would havi certificates because ol demand.The new ticipation 2.75 per c tractive thiUngren and Mrs. A. J. Frazier; $20 each from Clyde Brooks, Ray Grisham, Maurice Brooks andcorporation to pay off while the
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Fri, Aug 03, 1956
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