Word: houstons
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...most standards, among Houston's three daily papers, Scripps-Howard's evening Press rates last. With 102,590 in circulation, it is hopelessly behind the evening Chronicle (199,128) and the morning Post (215,063). Its 50-man editorial staff cannot compare with the Post's 90 or the Chronicle's no, and it suffers periodic, crippling talent raids not only by its wealthy rivals but by the other papers in the Scripps-Howard chain; the Press has lost three managing editors in the last ten years. All this might be expected to give the Press...
...more than the Post or the Chronicle, the Press fills the role of municipal watchdog-with a tendency to yip at everything from murder to pay raises for Houston city councilmen. Alarmed at Houston's high murder rate, the Press labeled the city "Murdertown, U.S.A.," campaigned so relentlessly for tighter gun registration laws that it drew scathing mail from nearly every quail-hunting and skeet-shooting type in Texas. Last January, impatient with the slow-moving police investigation into the slaying of Houston Housewife Wilma Selby, the Press rapped the police in an editorial and posted a reward...
Three years ago Federal District Judge Ben C. Connally ordered the biggest segregated school district in the U.S., Houston's 173 schools, to integrate "with all deliberate speed." Two months ago Houston's school board blandly submitted a plan to integrate only three schools-and pledged that no child in the district need attend them. Last week Judge Connally cracked down, ordered integration of all kindergartens next fall, and of a grade a year thereafter. He called the board's plan "a palpable sham and subterfuge...
...Free Lunch. When the Maughmers married 23 years ago, so did two Texas-tall egos, each with a passion for "leadership." After Maughmer became president of the Houston Police Officers Association in 1949, he lobbied luxuriantly in the state capitol. Meanwhile, Mrs. Maughmer was ringleading Houston's McCarthylike Minute Women. In 1956 she got herself on the school board in the most vicious campaign in Houston history. Her segregationist plank: "I'd rather go to jail than see my kids go to school with niggers." As parliamentarian, Bertie often controlled the board. Between sessions of getting books banned...
Last week, days after her arrest and her announcement that "naturally" she would resign from the school board, Mrs. Maughmer was still a board member. No one could find any law that compelled her to resign, but Houston parents were signing petitions to ask of her at least that one little favor...