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Show TIDELANDS ISSUE HITS ALL STATES y .Mil .V V I V Zl Governor Allan Shivers AUSTIN, TEX. The state of Texas is calling on all other states to join the fight against the current cur-rent trend of the federal government govern-ment toward encroachment on state political and property rights as embodied in the decision handed down in the Tidelands case. This decision by the United States Supreme court favored fed-ersil fed-ersil ownership of the Tidelands alter Texas' title to this property had been upheld for mors than 100 years. "I urgently urge all states to study this trend toward the centralization cen-tralization of government in this country and try to determine, be-fore be-fore it is too late, whether this is :he entering wedge of. socialization )f our basic political power and the nationalization of our resources," mid Governor Allan Shivers of Texas, Tex-as, one of the leaders of the fight. The dissenting opinion of the Supreme court written by Justice Reed suggested that ". . . The needs of defense and foreign affairs alono cannot transfer ownership of an ocean bed from a state to the federal government any more than they could transfer iron ore under uplands from state to federal ownership." "In other words," Governor Shivers continued, "in the opinion of two distinguished members of the Supreme court, what the ma jority has now held is no more incongruous in-congruous than would be some future holding nationalizing the potash of New Mexico; the mercury mer-cury of California, Oregon and Texas; the copper of Utah, Arizona, Ari-zona, Montana and Michigan; the iron of Minnesota; the aluminum of Arkansas; the phosphate of Idaho, Tennessee and Florida; the :oat of Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Vir-ginia, Virginia and Ohio; the lead and zinc of Oklahoma and Missouri; the tungsten of Colorado; the titanium ti-tanium of Virginia; the gold of SoutK Dakota, Colorado anT California, Cal-ifornia, and the ailver of Montana, Colorado and Idaho." |