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MONDAY. SEPTEMBER 3. 19%THE AMARILLO GLOBE-TIMES. ANSOUTH TEXAS POLITICS? PART TWOTyrant or Benefactor? Role Of Independent Club DebatedHowever, nothing was ever de-l ducted from anyone's check while j I was in office as mayor.”Cluck was referring to testi- j mony by Tomas Arispe, 63. a special policeman for 11 years, and Jose Barrientos Jr., a formerSicStiBv EWAS!special policeman.By FRANK MANITZAS iplan to stop fighting. j—a struggle over who will control Arispe said he always had beenLAREDO ifv—The Independent! Dist. Attv James Kazen asserts the maclxine: The Kazens or the a niember of the Independent ca ’1 0Club has its own way dealing he is not a member of the Inde- Martins. Club a» was his father, who ^cjnwith opposition and with non- pendent Club, although he admits, “How could I be?” he says, fought with the Botas. nLc Qnmembers. lit endorses him. “I’m only the second vice presi- He said he gave 3 per cent of j ^But members of the Reform! Phillip Kazen, his brother and dent. All the Martins are ahead his pay in cash to A. Navarro, ^Party—the 10-month old organize- former district attorney, is the one °f me. Have you ever heard of a police Clerk, to keep hi? job. He 'tion battling the dominant Inde-j naan on record to have ever de- a second vice president mining a!so sma detective chief ^ A, II.; pendent Club—say they do not feated the chib.Floyd V, StuderDistrict SuperintendentAmerican United Life Insurance Company612-616 Amarillo Bldfi.“Yes, I beat them,” he says, “but I later joined them.”E N S ATI ONA L-. ION FAMOUS NAME SHOESan organzation?” Jiminez gave him a list of voters rncePThe Martins are the descendants for wh°m he was to buy POll jJ* ,nuJJ of Raymond Martin, first leader taxGS- 111Phi 11 in he is the second of the dominant Political party. Arispe said it was understood ® as. ■ 1 . ‘ , Phiii’p points with pride to be-, the people were to vote the inde-: ,vtce president o£ the group but a ^ ^ ^ m brolh. aub Hctet. Mon (or the Ut*. indenies stories that he is actually j and ^ „ , was ivfn b ^ The hthe mm-with-the-whip ,n the club.;„am Ka arp not mpmbprs. street Commisnioner Jose Rodri-Many here believe a struggle, „e ^ abou, Ms ^ he said. rent ofha-s been on since Judge Manud broth char,ps who ,s Webh| Barrientos' testimony combo- [Wm mRaymond, longtime leader, died Coyn|y dcrk ^ o(fice respon,j. | rated that ot Arispe.ble for absentee ballots, a point, Tall Charlie Dick, 40, is one °*| pvof much discussion throughout the top leaders in the ReformYj , South Texas. Party. He has a look more deter- pllbiic jChick Kazen married a daugh- mined than Gary Cooper. In Eng- cabje ter of Raymond. She is the execu-,lish and Spanish he greets one and saj(jtive secretary of the county Dem- all. His temper usually ignites j ^ .ocratic Executive Committee. Vic- when he starts to discuss politics, thine evlt; tor Woods married one of her sis- He lost to Chick Kazen in a race ^ters and was a member of Ray- for the state Senate. ^associatemond’s law firm. | Although bom in Philadelphia resuits o|One of Raymond’s best friends and married to a New Yorker, j vpy and fee sources was political ally the former Miss Anne Child, he s]eeDjneGeorge Parr, elected sheriff of dresses and talks as any Texan malsDuval County and long regarded might. He has lived at his 14.000- 20 states its political king.DOLLAR m SAVINGS!Amarillo's First Self Service Shoe Store!SPECIAL SALE OF NEWFALL SHOESWoods said Raymond believed, as does the Independent Gub, that a “block vote of 10 South Texas j counties is important.”He said a guarantee of the block vote meant city leadersacre ranch at Delores, 25 miles jities w 'from Laredo, since 1938.Khakis and short-sleeved shirtsthe diagiare his uniforms. His fight is asThe AJUST 400 PAIRSWOMEN'S FALL SHOES DRESS and CASUAL STYLESbroughthe has repeated in many of his speeches:“I think this is the year of de-cculd go to Austin or to Washing- cision for this district. Maverick, ton and be heard when they re- Dimmit, La Salle, Webb, Zapata, quested roads, schools, bridges Jim Hogg, Duval, Starr, Brooks and other improvements. and Jim Wells counties have, I movingThe Reform Party scoffs at the j know, had all the dictation from; ^improvements which the Inde- this small group of men in Duval cases 0f pendent Gub claims, but a former and Webb counties that they can mans jp mayor said the group has done stand. j from ' Cajmuch for the citv. “Such tight control of the dis-encephali mules si health sp or more an epide the moslt;
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Amarillo Globe Times
Amarillo, Texas, US
Mon, Sep 03, 1956
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