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Absentee Ballot HandlingELVIS# JOB 01In Webb Vote QuestionedTetta Boli visa since Elvis Presls gan emcee show.FollowingLAREDO. CAP) - A key wit-ness testified today that even if signatures on applications tor and on absentee ballot. affidavits did not correspond he would see no reason for throwing the ballot but.He was Tom Goodwin, presiding Judge at a special canvassing board which checked absentee ballots in Webb County now under investigation for alleged irregularities.Goodwin said he was not a j member of any local party. Later he said, I am Old Party and my sympathies' lie with the Independent Club.1'The Independent Club is known as the Old Party in Laredo and is opposed strongly by the Reform Party whose members filed affi davits alleging irregularities in absentee voting that caused setting of this hearing.Rancher Questioned Goodwin had cross-examined yesterday’s only. witness, K W. Gates, a Laredo rancher. In cross-examination, Goodwin asked if Gates-had. mailed'out applications to persons who might vote absentee.Gates said he did but they were only applications to persons who would have been out oi the cityat the time of the July 28th Demo- j were more where signatures didj eratjc primary. not correspond and he did not jThe Reform Party’s main ob*. throw them out. jection is that so many of the ab-| “I'm not a handwriting expert,” sen tee ballots were mailed from i Goodwill said over and over, within Laredo.And on the stand today, Goodwin, who is a son-in-law to 49thDist. Judge Fl. D. Wright, conducting another court of inquiry on the same subject, agreed with Gates that most of the notaries who handled absentee ballots wereMy interpretation was the siR-natures did not have to compare.”Davis Grant, assistant attorney general, read the election code with Goodwin who said .he had read it for the first time last Sat-prior to canvassing thefeature stor Times, Ralt; invited her ceremonies Presley dis from1 7:45 I days througVogler Suit Hit Quiz F#Raul A. \., . , uraayeither city or county employes. vo*eHe also agreed with Gales that; g #City and county offices and em.; Hm0ployes are members oi the Inde-| d ^ alone tide DisWctpendent Club. Bat sa.d he d,d not I ^ ^ ^ ^ fflS T.ow y w e r n . v.sih the board appointed to do the Democratic pcanvassing. ; morning, butMuch of Gates’ testimony yesterday was recorded on tape by the Independent Club.The hearing was ordered by Travis County (Austin) Dist.Judge Charles Betts.their jobs or kickback” 3 percent of their pay through the Independent Club.Examined at LengthGoodwin was examined at ’length as to how he operated the canvassing of absentee ballots.If you believe the signatures onwould 'ask tt to investigate.Vogler lost; M. V. Jones will be in the i Forsyth,Gates said that applications for] Vogler’s aft the applications and on thej5°cal government jobs had to sup-;er, said he v ballot affidavit did not correspond,!?1-^ 10 ? f “su* votes for the ;te rest the attc would you reject the ballot?” Dan!InvePen[3ent. aub before they (outcome of tl Moody Jr., court-appointed fa,e . jif tbis fahed 1ter-in-chancery, asked Goodwin. Kickbacks Chared district court.Goodwin said no, he didn’t, but, ----------. „.QV.a \,a* h* i-hm-v had t0 klck back 3 Percent of their1 I there were some thai he Ihre* tb.^ir immediate supervisor^;out for that reason, but that thereContinued from Page 1a year, doing occupation duty in the South.Last of the GAR Woolson was senior vice commander in chief of the National Grand Army of the Republic,which at its peak in 1890 had 408,489 members. It was decided at the last encampment of the j Union veterans in 1949 that the*8® 1 [GAR would continue to exist lech-11 in.'nically until the death of the last I member.The pld vet was born in Water-.town, N.Y., Feb. 11, 1847. His lam-had jjfy moved to Minnesota when he 'by- .was 15.?s B.; After his discharge from the Army. Woolson worked in a furniture factory, in a traveling minstrel band, in mills and logging camps, lie retired from regular work when he was about 83 to youitake life easy.”Except for deafness and in lat-a lot of hullabaloo.” His only public appearance was at a city hall ceremony'. He said shortly before that birthday his big problem was I’m taking it too easy for my own good and that’s not agreeable to my health.”He observed his last birthday I shortly after being hospitalized for | several days with the lung eondi-ition. There was no public obser-and guarantee votes in all the electiors in order to hold their jobs.Horace C. Hall, a Laredo attorney vho said he had been a member of the Independent Club for years, and the man recording the testimony were among Independent Club members present.Meanwhile, four blocks away, another packed court of inquiry investigated the same allegations. Judge R. D, Wright of'the 49th district also had an overflowing crowd.Gates had refused to testify be-vance of the birthday, but he was ]fore Wright and was fined S50. host tn members of his familv n! „AU emplDyes o£ foe city and(host to members of his family at j a dinner in his home.Not at Loss for Wordscounty government are members of the Independent Club. The elect-:i Dili. allWoolson, who smoked about |«1 oil id als and employes, at least eight cigars a day, was never at a 99 Percent, are members.” Gates loss for words. Because of his deaf- said. He said that every Indepen-ked:blun-dousanceness, newsmen wrote queries in large letters on cards. Some of his comments in recent years included:dent Club candidate has won since imGates said every Independent Club candidate for statewide of-War—“More true religion is p»b-ifi“s either von Dr 3ed in the run(ably the only solution to war.off.Force is wicked. If wc want to keep peace, the best way is to be strong. War. as I see it, is Unnecessary for the last two gen-Hc asserted that city employes during poll lax buying season may go to their immediate supervisor or leader and received us-good!er years recurring attacks of lungcongestion Woolson continued to j enjoy remarkably good health aft-gaspier turning 100. He recovered from vhen'an attack of pneumonia when he jwas 108.His son-in-law and da lighter.orations and beyond that no proph-j^ ™ * Purchase poU ta:lt;es onet can sav. ^ I|SJ- . f ,•' . . . He said that every city employeWtary t™»- A8 »f mr!|,ada,ist(,fJr„mM'toSommrert young men should learn strict mil-..... , , , 'i voters that could he guaranteed joitary discipline and to ooey or.!lh Inf] ndpnfC]ub; dors. A brief period n{ militaryCnot.Mr. and Mrs. John Kohus, madetraining is good for the boy.”His personal hero — Genera]Gates said.that all absentee hal-!Iofs were notarized. Ninety-nine nercenl. of the notaries were mem-lme,bed. | their home with him during re-andicmt years.wild I Thousands of cards and congratulatory' messagrs. including ones from the While House, poured in tor the kindly old man Ino.v wjth a booming voice on his s of;birthdays after he reached 100. j Ai 108, he shoveled snow from j his front sidewalk so the postman won't have any trouble get-Grant was my man. I loved and!bars of th(? jnrlcponrionl Club and respected him. He had plenty of - iSI|apv worked in acourthouse.”irinetine' in. At 10? he rannw! on)horse sense. ’ I He said it was ridiculous thatLongevity *‘\ou mu si have.swn(f absentee ballots were moderation in rU things.” \c^t 011t 0| fihnuf lficoo eligibleHis legacy—' I have a good leg-!voters. He said it doesn't corn-acy to leave my children. They ip^rP with other counties’ absentee come from good stock. 1 have lerl' ballots.a good moral life—the only habit j Gales said that some people at. I've had that some might have'ihe polls were using aids, which considered bad is smoking e:g-| were marked so they could see how nr s.” they vole.
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Corpus Christi, Texas, US
Thu, Aug 02, 1956
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