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The name of the organization was simply the Dallas Crime
Commission Inc. The first planned " annual " meeting was at the Baker Hotel
on February 14, 1952. The speaker was Guy E. Reed who was the Chairman
Emeritus of the Chicago Crime Commission. His speech was recorded and
broadcast over WFAA radio. There were 135 in attendance at this first public
Commission program(Crime Commission News, January-February, 1952).
In April, 1952 the DCC held another popular function in conjunction
with Southern Methodist University (S.M. U.). This meeting was for judges
and prosecutors to discuss organized crime. Senator Kefauver and Virgil
Peterson were speakers. Peterson later toured the Commission facilities and
met privately with Ragland and Reynolds.
Other activities and programs for that early period included a campaign
to encourage people to pay their poll taxes. The DCC placed fifteen billboards
around the city urging citizens to pay. The poll tax was a requirement to vote.
The billboards were paid for by The Packer Corporation of Texas, an outdoor
advertising company.
DCC also presented three television shows. One was with
Representative Horace B. Houston Jr and Jack Nelson of Constructive
Citizens, one with Mrs. George Ripley and William A. Ware of the Junior
Chamber of Commerce and one show on poll taxes.
They also mailed 600 copies of a DCC promotional brochures and
2500 copies of the previously mentioned narcotics brochure. During this first
year, Managing Director Dan Reynolds " inspected " three courts, two local
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Latham, H. Lee. A survey of the Greater Dallas Crime Commission and its effect on the, thesis, May 2001; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2792/m1/40/: accessed May 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .