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‘By CLAYTON HICKERSON “Associated Press Staff All three candidates for the Dem ocratic nomination for governor of Texas had new fodder in the cam paign hopper Tuesday. Mid-June found the governor's race heating up with the weather. There were these other develop ments: 1. Big city control in a Septem ber convention overwhelmingly for Gov. Allan Shivers appeared as sured for the Democratic Party after a meeting of the State Demo cratic Executive Committee in Aus tin. 2. Republicans were finding de tails of setting up machinery for their part in the July 24 primaries bothersome and annoying. Their governor's candidate—Tod Adams of Crockett—said if he were elected there would be continued segrega tion in Texas schools, regardless of the Supreme Court's recent de cision. HIT ’PHONE RATES 3. C. T. Johnson, opposing Ben Ramsey's bid for a third term as lieutenant governor, said if he were elected on the Democratic ticket he would seek “adequate” state control over telephone and other utility rates. Gov. Shivers said in Pasadena Monday night that there is plenty of room in Texas for additional industrial growth but that the only vacancy for Communists is in jail. The governor spoke at the an nual banquet of the Pasadena Jun ior Chamber of Commerce in a speech in Houston at a meeting of the Texas Cotton-Seed Crushers Assn., shook hands with more than 1,000 persons in Baytown, and made television films for use in his campaign. He scheduled break fast Tuesday morning with 1,200 Houston supporters. Shivers’ most talked about op ponent, Ralph Yarborough of Aus tin, was also in Harris County Mn day night in a television bid sr the most populous county's ig note. Yarborough emphasized to party loyalty and no-third-term i sues repeatedly. TRADITION CITED “Texas tradition condemns a third term,” Yarborough said. ‘We approved the 22nd Amendmat which forbids a third term or President.” The candidate conti ued: “And even if we weren’t guide by the wisdom of tradition, com mon sense would warn us against perpetuity in office because it 30 surely invites laxity and indifer ence regardless of the man pr petuated in office. “Leave any administration in office long enough and the fixers, the backdoor boys, the influnce peddlers will find a way.” A third term, Yarborough said, gives a governor more power oer the state government than the framers of the Constitution infect ed. “We have set up most of ur state boards on a three-term rota tion,” he said, “so that there is always one man on each board not beholden to a chief of state.” “Three terms for any governor,”’ he continued, ‘“‘and this carefully devised safeguard is swept away. Then you have a political machine no man would dare challenge.” SHIVERS HITS SALES TAX Shivers took occasion while in heavily-industrialized Harris coun ty to speak out against a general sales tax and a state income tax. He said lack of those two items and the state’s balanced economy was attractive to Eastern and Mid western industrialists. “I intend to keep it that way,” the governor said. He was to speak Tuesday night in Bastrop before a combined Bastrop-Smithville Lions Club meeting Wednesday, the governor takes his campaign west to Amarillo, Lubbock and Abilene. Yarborough was to stay over Tuesday in Harris County for meet ings with campaign workers. He also heads west Wednesday—to Midland, Odessa, and Big Spring.
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Greenville Banner
Greenville, Texas, US
Tue, Jun 15, 1954
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