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me out of context," he snorted. "Governor", I replied, "you asked my opinion and you got it."
When Speaker of the House Walter Sillers passed away in 1967, Representative John Junkin was elected by the House to serve as interim speaker. Junkin stated that he would not be a candidate for speaker in 1968. However, after the 1967 elections he announced his intention to run again. When the 1968 legislature convened he was opposed by Representative George Cossar, Buddy Newman and Stone Barefield. I supported Barefield, but when he withdrew I gave my support to Junkin who beat Cossar hands down after Newman was eliminated. I was the only member of the Harrison County delegation to support Junkin. So when Junkin became speaker for a full term, I enjoyed a favorable position. Under Speaker Sillers I served on seven committees, but under John Junkin I asked to be placed on the Constitution, and Local and Private Committees and to be dropped from the Insurance and Federal Relations. I also asked for Appropriations, and dropped Water and Water Resources, which still allowed me the honor of serving on seven committees.
When I look back upon the eight years I spent in the House I marvel at what it was possible to accomplish against the rising tide of liberalism. I often dream of what might have been accomplished for the people of Mississippi and my county if the pendulum had been swinging toward conservatism. The former leads to socialism, and the latter to a representative republic! What a horrible experience it is to witness political swine feeding at the public trough at the expense of the overburdened taxpayers! "Elect, tax, and spend." Create more state agencies and commissions, hire more people and sell more bonds in order to build more office buildings to put them in. The state's 140 or more agencies and commissions could be reduced to less than half, making it unnecessary to increase the size of government. In the sixties we were paying $35 million annually in interest alone on Mississippi's bonded indebtedness, which increases with each new bond issue, but the political prostitutes never reform. Under the biennial system legislators earned $5 thousand per session but the swine wanted a raise in pay, so they promoted annual sessions which resulted in a salary of $5 thousand per year
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instead of $5 thousand each two years. The fact that Mississippi was one of the least populated and the poorest state in the nation did not reduce the greed of the majority of the legislature. In .fact the move to annual sessons more than doubled legislative expense.
When the Supreme Court edict forced integration upon our public schools I concluded that the only way to protect our white1 girls from the insults, indecencies, and attacks they would be subjected to by Negro boys was to separate the sexes. I was the author of a bill that gave school authorities the right under the law to separate the sexes either in schools or (in smaller communities) by school rooms. My bill passed the House and the Senate, and was signed into law by the governor, but after several counties adopted it, a few bleeding-heart liberals succeeded in having it declared unconstitutional by a federal judge. However, the sexes are still being separated in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana.
When Negroes dubbed the Confederate flag a symbol of suppression, Yankee bureaucrats and Southern scalawags went along with them and banned its use in integrated schools. ' Mississippi's flag has the Stars and Bars in the upper left corner.
So I authored a bill which made it mandatory that our state flag be fiown beneath the United State's flag at all schools in the state.
It is a well-known fact in the south that the Negro "Hides his ignorance with his arrogance." At Southern University, N.O. (predominately Negro) a group hauled down the Stars and Stripes and raised the black liberation flag and were not even reprimanded for their action. Today, the white man is forced by law to provide services for the Negro that were used as an excuse to free the Negro when the Negro provided the same services for the white man.
On November 25, 1970 we sold the assets of Jim True & Company, Inc. to Mr. Fred Huntoon for a very fair price, and during the last year (1971) on my second term I decided to retire from politics also and spend the balance of my life enjoying our children and grandchildren, and showing more love and appreciation to Fran for having given me so much more than she had received.
In January, 1971, I formed Freeholders, Inc. and began
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