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WEATHER
Mu United Prtet
Cloudy tonight and Wednesday
with widely acattered thunder-
showers late' tonight, turning
cooler tonight. Lowest near 57.
Stephenyille Daily Empire
Vol. 1. No. 177. FULL UNITED PRESS LEASED WIRE SERVICE.
STEPHENYILLE, ERATH COUNTY, TEXAS TUESDAY, MAY 9, I960
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San Angelo Man Confesses Robbing
Mineral Wells Bank with Toy Gun
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VICTOR REUTER VISITS BERLIN—Victor Reuther, educa-
tion chairman of the United Auto'mobile Workers (CIO),
buys a West Berlin newspaper from a crippled German war
veteran in the American sector of Berlin. Reuther arrived
by air for an overnight visit, which included a trip to the
UUO (anti-Communist trade union in Berlin) and an address
to a class of unemployed Berliners, studying under the UGO
educational program.
Economic Union with
Germany Proposed
COUNTY QUOTA
IN BOND DRIVE
TO BE $62,800
Erath county -has accepted a ■
quota of $62,800 for the sale of
United States Savings Bonds dur-
ing the Independence Drive, Jack
Teddlie, county Savings Bonds
chairman, announced today. The
drive will begin May 15 and con-
tinue through July 4.
The county’s quota, and also
the state quota: of $24,088,000, ap-
ply only to. the sale of Series E
bonds, the County chairman ex-
plained. t
Liberty Bell Is Symbol
Symbol for the Independence
Drive is the Liberty Bell, and the
slogan is “Save for Your Inde-
pendence — Buy U. S. Savings
Bonds.”
President Truman and Secretary
of the Treasury John W. Snyder
will participate in ceremonies to
be held May 15 in Independence
Hall, Philadelphia, to initiate the
national drive. The Texas “kick-
off” will be held the following day
in Fort Worth with the unveiling
of an exact duplicate of the orig-
inal Liberty Bell. During the seven
■'weeks 67 the drive this bell will
visit 120 towns in 87 Texas coun-
ties, on a 5000-mile tour of the
state.
PARIS, May 9
proposed tonigl
E
,y 9 (UP)—France
fht a broad Western
Dpean economic partnership
with Germany to preserve peace by
tountering Soviet cold war strat-
»gy-
Foreign Minister Robert Schu-
man announced the plan. He said
France would present it to the
foreign ministers of the United
States and Great Britain at the
Big Three Conference in London.
French officials suggested that
the plan had the tacit approval of
Secretary Of State Dean Acheson.
A statement issued after a cab-
inet meeting, at which Schuman
reported on his talk yesterday with
111 Ten the
WORLD...
By Rafoa F. Higgs
1>Q0S Goforth, who spent some
xvfime in the Stephenville area
last week, took time to reflect on
the reason wny the South Plains
Was such a great country. He gives
credit for this condition to the fact
that.a large part of the popula-
te in that section of Texas came
from Erath and other counties in
the Hearth of Texas. In that con-
clusion Mr. Gofoth will have a lot
of support from those who choose
to remain in this land of the bless-
ed. Ross has lived in Lubbock for
many years and, like all others in
that urban metropolis, he believes
it to be the hub of the universe.
The town must have had its be-
binning about 50 years ago when
the plains country was almost
Wholly uninhabited. They were al-.
most completely isolated from the
outside world. But that did not
stop Lubbock and the record will
show that the mushroom growth
that started with the town has
never stopped. Today the popula-
tion will probably reach 70,000.
Lubbock partisans believe) and will
tell you right quick, that the cen-
sus rolls in 1960 will be well above
100,000.
rTHE South Plains already has
x established itself as an agricul-
tural area of almost unlimited pos-
sibilities. Year in and year out,
production of cotton, grain crops
and livestock reach new levels with
unbelievable regularity. But that is
not all. Oil is now coming into the
picture. A big, new gusher was re-
ported in Hockley county Tuesday
morning. All know, of course, what
oil will do to business conditions.
Briefly, these are some of the
topics of thought that our old
friend ‘Goforth was emphasizing as
well as the quality of the citizen-
ship this country had given them.
Mow—and here’s a question of
mighty importance to Lubbock—
if a water supply can be found
that will take care of the industrial
and domestic growth of that flour-
ishing city ther? is no good reason
why it should not In time become
one->of the very large cities of the
(Continued on page 6)
Acheson, said the two were in full
accord on all major points of West-
ern strategy in the cold war.
The first step would be to syn-
chronize the German steel and coal
industries with other interlocking
European industries.
Prelude to Peace
Calling the partnership a prelude
and a prerequisite to peace, Schu-
man said at a press conference:
‘It 1s the ffrst step toward a
European federation which is in-
dispensable to the preservation of
peace.
“The integration of the produc-
tion of coal and steeel throughout
Western Europe will assue the im-
mediate establishment of common
bases of economic development.
“Vhe solidarity of production
which this scheme would assure
would not only make all war be-
tween France and Germany' un-
thinkable but - materially impos-
sible.”
Big 3 to Reject
Red Request to
Withdraw Troops
BERLIN, May 9 (UP)—West-
ern diplomats said today that the
United States, Great Britain and
France will reject a Russian pro-
posal for withdrawal of occupa-
tion trops from Berlin as a condi-
tion of free elections in the divid-
ed city.
They said Western troops would
have to withdraw nearly 100 miles
through the Soviet zone to the
British zone but Soviet troops
merely could withdraw to the out-
skirts since the Soviet zone sur-
rounds the city.
Hereford Group
In City Tonight
PEPPER SHAKER —Rep.
George Smathers, 36-year-
old .former Marine, whose
rigorous campaigning won
him the Democratic nomi-
nation to the United States
Senate from Florida.
Smathers nosed out veteran
Fair Deal Senator Claude
Pepper, who has 14 years
service. tbe. Senate.
President Being
Tailed’ By GOP
Senate Official
BALLOT SET
FOR DUBLIN’S
CITY ELECTION
Filing deadline for * Dublin’s
special election for city officials
was Saturday, May 6, and ballot-
Wig will take place Tuesday, June
6- r, -v
The ballot as it now stands' •
For city secretary: S. L. ~Wolfe,
Helen M. Spruill, Mrs. Grace Alex-
ander and J. M. Roberts.
For city tax assessor-collector:
Stella Cdllins ■ and Mrs. Maple
Bradberry.
For city marshall: Robert Bish-
op, Tony Gable and Harney Jones.
For alderman, Ward 2: B. W.
Over and Frank R. Edmonds.
Erath Commissioners
Inspect Courthouse
Erath County Commissioners’
Court met Monday at 10 a.m. in
regular session in the offices of
Dale Harbin, county judge.
Routine business was conducted,
including the approving of pay-
ment of bills. _____ _•__
Following Tfiemeeting, the com-
missioners inspected the court-
house.
CASPER, Wyo., May 9 (UP) —
Republican Victor Johnston, hedge-
hopping along behind the presi-
dent’s special train in an airplane,
vowed today to keep closer tab on
Truman’s schedule. ,
Johnston, executive secretary of
the Republican Senate campaign
committee, is "tailing” the presi-
will be at Brownwood, ami s bar- dent in a chartered .plane to see
beeu« will be given *the group at "how this thing Is done.”
But last night at Lincoln, Neb.,
where Truman made a speech de-
fending the Brannan farm plan,
Johnston got his signals crossed.
Just as the train was pulling
out of the station in a driving
rain, Johnston dashed onto the
platform, clutching his 10-gallon
hat in one hand and a manila en-
velope in the other.
He shouted td reporters who
reached down and grabbed the en-
velope.
In it was a statement by Sen.
Kenneth S. Wherry, R., Neb.,
which branded the plan an “eco-
nomic monstrosity carrying fines
and jail sentences for farmers who
refuse to goosestep upon command
of Washington bureaucrats.”
The president first heard that
Johnston was “tailing” him at Ot-
tumwa, la., earlier in the day. He
invited Johnston aboard, provided
he bought a ticket. Johnston de-
clined, saying he preferred his
party-financed plane to Truman’s
tax-paid trgin.
But at the close of his Lincoln
speech, the president looked around
and when he failed lo see Johns-
ton, he said: ' f
“I would have mentioned that
fellow again, but I didn’t figure
he’d make it harc.’’^_
The Central Texas Polled Here-
ford Association tour group will
spend the night in Stephenville to-
night.
The tour group will breakfast
here at 6:30 a.m. Wednesday and
depart for the M. E. Fry and Sons
Ranch, Cisco, at 8 a.m. Luncheon
5 p.m. at Whon.
The group visited ranches and
farms at Morgan, Whitney, Wal-
nut Springs and Hico Monday.
Town’s Citizens
Pray for Safety
Of Missing Boy
PORT HURON, Mich., May 9—
(UP)—Port Huron observed an
hour of praver today for 2Vi -year-
old Brian Marshall, feared the vic-
tim of a kidnaper.
Frustrated at every turn in the
search for the foster-son of one
of the city’s most prominent fam-
ilies, officials proclaimed the noon
hour period of reverence for 40,000
citizens in another effort to solve
Port Huron's biggest mystery in
years.
Blonde, blue-eyed Brian vanished
from the yard of his river bank
home a week ago yesterday.
- FINANCIER DIES
MONTECITO, Calif., May 9—
(UP)—William Pierson Hamilton,
onetime partner of financier J. P.
Morgan, died here today. He was
81.
Scouts Attend
Council Circus
Stephenville Boy Scouts att«yui-
ed the eight-county Boy Scouts
Circus in Brownwood, May 6. It
was the second circus that the
Scouts of the Comanchf Trail
Council had given, and more than
1,000 boys participated.
The circus began with a grand
entry, and 21 Cub packs gave a
“Cubbing We Go” scene. Other
SeoaUr built a cardboard town and
demonstrated Scout aid during and
after a tornado.
HE LEARNED — Curious
Tommy Simmerer, 2. who
sampled some poison disin-
fectant tablets In his home,
looks sadder but definitely
wiser after having had his
stomach pumped out In
Lakewood Hospital, Cleve-
land. Tommy's parents. Mr
and Mrs. Herbert Simmerer.
put two and two together
after seeing Tommy crying
and the empty disinfectant
bottle, and rushed him to
the hospital.
SAN ANGELO, May 9 (UP)—Federal and state officers to-
day nabbed 2l-vear-old John Irvin Barfield as a bank bandit,
and he quickly admitted staging a $1,540 robbery wth the aid
of a nienancing ijote, an .oversize glove and a toy pistol.
Barfield was charged with robbing the City National Bank
of Mineral Wells last Thursday noon.
LATE
WIRE *
FLASHES
By UNITED PRESS
All Residents
Moved Out of
Burning Town
CABANO, Quebec, May 9—(UP
All residents of this town of 4,-
000 population were ordered to
abandon their homes today when
a wind-whipped fire swept out of
control and threatened to destroy
every building here.
The flames, already had des-
troyed 30 houses, three hotels and
two luihbcr years and were licking
at other buildings directly in their
path.
There were no reports of casual-
ties.
Fire Chief Elie Grandmaison
said the mayor had appealed for
military help
He said residents were being
sent to nearby villages.
Cabano is G5 miles from Rimou-
ski, Que., where a similar blaze
over ^ the weekend left more than
2,000 persons homeless.
Every means of transportation
was being used to move everyone
not engaged in fire-fighting out
of town.
State to Award
Record Number
F-M Road Jobs
AUSTIN May 9—(UP) £n
time record high of 535 miles of
farm-to-market road construction
work will be offered for bids at
a two-day road letting May 16-
17, the Texas Highway Depart-
ment announced today.
Bids on farm roads were expect-
ed to top $5,000,000, while the
overall letting, on 701 miles of
highways, was estimated to bring
bids totaling $8,775,000.
State Highway Engineer De-
Witt C. Greer said the farm road
projects were financed mainly
from a $15,000,000-a year rural
road act passed by the 51st Legis-
lature in 1949.
The May letting, in which the
rural road program will reach its
peak, will almost double the pre-
vious high for farm road bids in
any single month. The previous
record was 317 miles set in May,
1948.
WAREHOUSE BLAZE
AMARILLO, May 9 (UP)—A
blaze which swept the Broome
Electric Company warehouse
caused $45,000 damages, owner
George Broome estimated today.
The fire was discovered by a pass-
ing motorist. Broome said burned
electrical equipment and supplies
were valued at $35,000. He esti-
mated damage to the building at
$10,000.
Five Drown in
Nebraska Flood
LINCOLN, Neb., May 9 (UP)—
Five persons, including two chil-
dren swept from the arms of their
parents, were reported drowned to-
day and 12 or 13 were missing in
flash floods which struck south-
eastern Nebraska.
The floods flollowed torrential
rains last night which totaled up
tb 7 Vi inches. -
FREIGHTER ON KIKE
HOUSTON, May 9 (UP)—The
freighter Joseph Lykes, with a
crew of 40, was reported burning
today off the Virginia coast. The
operations office of the Lykes
Bros. Steamship Co. here believed
the 6829-ton vessel would reach
Norfolk tonight. The ship left Gal-
veston a week ago with a general
cargo for Europe. The fire broke
out yesterday in her No. 3 hold,
and the ship turned from her
course some 420 miles east of Cape
Henry, Va., the company reported.
Typhoon Heads
Toward Okinawa
'OKYO, May 9 (UP)—A ty-
phoon V'ith winds of 125 miles an
hour'vȣar its center headed into
the opew**,seas toward Okinawa
after skirting Guam today, the Air
Force reported.
The winds were expected to in-
crease to 135 miles an hour by to-
night.
No land lay in the immediate
path of the storm, but if it keeps
its present course, it; would cross
Okinawa Thursday or Friday. Air
Force weathermen said, however,
there was a good chance it will lose
its intensity or change its course
before then.
Fed Yearlings
Shown Monday
West End Chimes
To Be Dedicated
Dedication of chime* at the West
End Cemetery will take place at
5 p.m. S
Those
netery
p.m. Sunday.
ng
park their automobiles outside the
cemetery.
attending are asked to
Erath Concludes
Census Count
Census enumeration in Erath
county was scheduled for comple-
tion today, and the final report
will be picked up by the Abilene
regional office today or Wednes-
day.
Tuesday's work consisted mostly
of rechecking for citizens who
might have been missed in the
count, it was announced.
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House Republicans Form
Bloc Against U. S. Spending
WASHINGTON, May 9 (UP)*— fered tomorrow to trim $996,000,-
House Republicans organized to-
day for another attempt to cut
federal spending about $1,000,000,-
000.
Rep. John Taber, R., N. Y., lead-
er of the GOP economy advocates,
said two amendments will be of-
Courthouse Dedication
Set for Next Tuesday
Unveiling of a memorial monu-
ment to Erath county sons who lost
their lives in World Wars I and
IT will take place May 16, and
the Hon. Price Daniel, attorney
general of Texas, will deliver the
unveiling address.
. Joe Spurlock, state commander
of the American Legion, will make
the monument acceptance speech.
Memorial Program
The memorial program will be-
gin at 10 a.m. Tuesday, May 16,
on the courthouse square. The
monument, sponsored by the Turn-
bow-Higgs and. Powell-Davidson
Posts, will be unveiled by an honor
guard, following the placing of
a wreath on the memorial by
Mmes. Jas. Turnbow, Rufus F.
Higgs, Chas. Davidson and Tom
Easley.
Visitors will assemble on the
courthouse square at 10:15, and
Dublin and Stephenville high
school
time.
bands will play at that
j
The state chaplain of the Ameri-
can Legion will deliver the invo-
cation.
Courthouse Open House
Judge Dale Harbin announced
Tuesday that final plans for the
memorial program were completed
Monday, and announced that the
courthouse will be open for in-
spection after the program ends.
The courthouse, which has been
renovated, will be readied for
crowd inspection throughout the
day.
The program will include group
singing, led by Rev. Earnest Rip-
petoe, as well as formations by the
Tarleton State College Cadet
Corps, and the Tarleton band.
Further plans will be announced
Judge Harbin said, and an im-
mense crowd is expected to attend
the program.
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000 from the $29,000,000,000 ap-
propriations bill.
Ir these amendments fail, Repub-
licans will move to send the whole
bill back to committee with in-
structions to pare it by about $1,-
000,000,000.
Other congressional develop-
ments:
Post Office—The Senate post of-
fice committee voted unanimously
to cancel the cut backs ordered re-
cently in postal services. But it
looked as though the cuts, to go
in effect not later than July 1, will
be carried out. The cancellation
would have to be approved by the
Senate, House, and President Tru-
man. Even if it cleared the Senate
and House, Truman presumably
would veto it.
Reorganization—The Senate ex-
penditure! committee approved
nine of President Truman’s govern-
ment reorganization plans, voted
rejection of two others, and re-
fused to make any recommenda-
tions on another. The committee’s
action is subject to Senate vote.
If neither house vetoes a plan, it
automatically goes into effect May
24.
Cigars—The' House ways and
means committee voted to cut ex-
cise taxes on cigars by one-third,
or about $16,000,000 a year.
Would Quiz Lewis
Lewis—A move to quiz John L.
Lewis about an alleged ‘‘secret
signal” in the last coal strike pro-
duced s show of strength in the
House labor committee. Chairman
Andrew Jacobs, D., Ind., of a sub-
committee issued subpenas for the
United Mine Workers president
and other witnesses. Jacobs wants
to ask Lewis about reports that he
kept miners from obeying a back-
to-work court order by issuing a
“secret signal.” Chairman John
Lesinski, D., Mich., of the full com-
mittee said Jacobs had exceeded
his authority, and he ordered the
(Continued on page 6)
SEEKS STATE OFFICE
AUSTIN, May 9 (UP)—Ben
Ramsey of San Augustine, former
secretary of state and a veteran of
12 years’ legislative service, for-
mally announced his candidacy to-
day for lieutenant governor. He
was named secretary of state in
January, 1949, by the late Gov.
Beauford Jester. He resigned this
year to make preparations for the
race. Ramsey served as a member
of the Hpuse of Representatives
for four years, and in 1940 was
elected to the state Senate, where
he served eight years.
Farmers and cattlemen gathered
at the local experiment station
from 2 to 4 p.m. Monday to in-
spect 42 head of short yearlings
which had been fed for 167 days.
The yearlings Vere to be ship-
ped out today.
B. C. I.angley and his assistants
gave the results of the feeding
tests, County Agent G. D. Everett j
announced. The feeding tests were
part of the 7-step peanut program.
Calves were fed at the old county
farm. Four pens were fed. One
’pen was fed Johnson grass rough-
age; another pen was fed coarse
ground peanut hulls. A third pen
was fed fine ground peanut hulls,
and a fourth pen was fed vetch
screenings.
A “hunch” that the bandit might
he the stranger s4en in Mineral
Wells last Thursday in a damaged
1949 green Chevrolet sedan set
off a statewide search of automo-
bile garages.
FBI agents found the damaged
car yesterday, under repair at an
Abilene garage, and it led them
to San Angelo and Barfield.
Nabbed by FBI
Before they moved In on Bar-
field at San Angelo, the FBI men
filed a formal complaint against
the youth at Fort Worth at 1:30
a.m. In on the arrest—at 6:30 a.m.
—were FBI agents from San An-
gelo, Texas Ranger Ralph Ro-
hatsch and a district attorney's in-
vestigator.
FBI spokesmen said Barfield
was seized as he slept on a divan
in the living room at his mother’s
San Angeio home. He was arraign-
ed in U.. S. Commissioner’s Court
at San Angelo, but entered no plea.
In lieu of $10,000 bond, he was com-
mitted to the Tarrant county jail at
Fort Worth.
™ Officers left San Angelo for
Fort Worth with Barfield, planning
to stop off at Mineral Wells, where
the youth was to face the veteran
woman bank cashier oh duty at
the time of the robbery.
Worked at Snyder
There was no prior police record
on Barfield, FBI agents said. He
had been living at Snyder, where
he was a construction worker, but
San Angelo was considered his
home.
H1. O. Hawkins, special agent in
charge of the FBI’s Dallas district,
said Barfield admitted he was the
Mineral Wells bandit.
Bai-field said he counted his haul
and it totaled $1,540. The best esti-
mate by the Mineral Wells bank
after last Thursday’s robbery was
$1,522—or $18 short.
Hawkins said officers recovered
$1,189, which Barfield identified
as part of the bank loot.
Hawkins said th'e FBI got onto
Barfield’s trail on a hunch.
-v “A lot of people in Mineral Wells
remembered seeing a stranger
around town in a new Chevrolet,”
Hawkins said. “They noticed that
one si8e of the new car was dam-
aged—and that’s why they re-
membered it.
Car Found in Abilene
“Just out of desperation, we
started checking every garage in
the state of Texas. Yesterday, we
found the car in a garage at Abi-
lene. It was no trouble finding our
man after that.”
Barfield barged into the Mineral
Wells bank at 12:26 p.m., shoved
a note through the cashier’s win-
dow where Miss Lora Corrigan was
At work and displayed an oversized
glove.
“Give me money,” the note de-
manded. “Pistol in glove.”
Miss Corrigan said she didn’t see
any pistol, hut “the glove was cer-
tainly big enough to conceal a gun
—so I started shoving money into
a hag for him.”
nag tor mm.
Barfield was quoted by arresting
officers as saying that there was
a pistol in the glove—hut it was a
toy pistol.
He also donned a yellow silk
cap for the robbery. This, he said,
was burned later.
Railroad Service
Cut As Strike
Deadline Nears
CHICAGO, May 9—(UP) Rail-
roads cut service today as the
deadline approached for a coast-
to-coast strike toidorrow against
four big rail systems in 26 states.
The Pennsylvania and the Sou-
thern announced embargos on both
passenger and freight traffic, and
the Santa Fc said it is curtailing
some of its passenger traffic.
The New York Central, fourth
system involved In the threatened
walkout, was expected to announce
curtailments later today.
The Brotherhood of Locomotive
Firemen and Enginemen act the
strike for 6 a.m. standard time
in each zone. '■
Hope dimmed for a settlement,
but federal mediators were expect-
ed to ask the union to postpone the
strike for a second time. It origin-
ally was scheduled for April 26.
Stephenville Plans
Operation Disaster
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Stephenville’s disaster relief
committee, headed by Oren H.
Ellis, met Monday and formulated
plans for “Operation Disaster” for
Erath county.
Meeting at the chamber of com-
merce at 2 p.m., the committee set
up plans for emergencies, hurri-
cane, fire, flood. Committees, coun-
ty-wide, were named, and duties
outlined should disaster strike.
Ellis, rharman, pointed out that
a disaster is a situation, usually
catastrophic in nature, in which
five or more families (are plunged
into helplessness and suffering
and as a result are in need of the
basic necessities of life.
Epidemic would be called a dis-
aster.
Headquarters selected were
chamber of commerce, city recrea-
tion building, and American Legion
building. » f .
Directors Named
Directing group is composed of
W. N. Brown, survey; B. M. Stone,
rescue; Dr. Vance TcVj-ell, medical
aid; Doyle Perkins, food; Hugh
Wolfe, shelter; George Shielsi
h *• f
.
clothing; A. C. Robbins, transpor-
tation; registration and informa-
tion, Reuben Friou; fund-raising
and public information, Jada
Davis; central purchase and sup-
ply, L. B. Howard.
Outlying committees arc Joe
Henderson and Elmo Hallmark,
Dublin; Ernest Hiqkey and Ancil
Moss, Lingleville; Lamar Partin,
Huckabay; Elton Sewell and C.
M. Massey, Morgan Mill; R. J.
Fallin and Upton Holt, Bluff Dale;
Mrs. Jesse Mefford, Alexander;
Condie Salmon and Bob Sherrod,
Clairette; Alfred Schrimshire and
Lee Simpson, Selden.
Atomic Attack Included
Operation Disaster is a master
plan worked out by the local com-
mittee to become effective in any
crisis, including an atomic attack.
It concerns supply, control and
evacuation.
Equipment on call includes fire
equipment, a pullmotor, polite cars
and trucks.
Physicians on call ate Drs.
Vance Terrell, J. C. Terrell, Bruce
(ConUaaad on page 8)
8 Lions Attend
District Meet
Eight Stephenville Lions attend-
ed the district Lions convention in
Mineral Wells Sunday and Mon-
day.
Attending were John Bryant, U.
K. Grimes, Zcddie Edgar, Reuben
Friou, Joe Frey, Dick Moyer, Cecil
Ballow and W. W. Reed.
The convcnton highlighted a golf
tournament, banquet and general
session.
MINERAL WELLS, May 9.—
(UP)—The District 2-E conven-
tion of Lions International ended
here today with Arlington Appli-
ance dealer taking over as district
governor.
Elmer Atkins, 48, will preside
over the 1951 convention, which
will be held in Fort Worth.
Postmasters Told
Some Clerks Paid
More Than They
FORT WORTH, May 9 (UP)—
Thq president of the National
Association of Postmasters said
today that clerks in some post-
offices are being paid more than
ypostmasters and supervisors.
Burris C. Jackson of Hillsboro
spoke on the second day’s pro-
gram of the Texas Postmasters
Convention, and told the group
that postmasters were underpaid.
Convention delegates named'J.
Ralph Kilgore of Rosebud (Falls
county) as president of the Texas
chapter of the association. He suc-
ceeds Russell M. Chancy of Sul-
phur Springs.
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