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Dedicated To The Welfare Of Sweetwater And Surrounding Area
55th Year Number 298
Fwll Leased United Press Wire Service
SWEETWATER, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1952
NEA Telephoto Service
Price Daily 5c, Sunday 10c
NEW WITNESSES IN
LATTIMORE'S TRIAL
U. S. Official
Indited Upon
Perjury Charge
WASHINGTON. Dec. 17-UP-
Justiee Department sources said
Wednesday the FBI has lined up
several "surprise" witnesses to tes-
tify In the perjury trial of (V.- east-
ern specialist Cwcn Lattimcrc.
While informants refused to iden-
tify any of the potent'j! witnesses,
they said some are from foreign
countries, mainly in the Orient.
Lattimore, 52-year-old Johns Hop-
kins University professor and one-
time State Department consultant,
was indicted by a federal grand
jury Tuesday on charges he lied
|\ seven times during his testimony
last winter before the Senate Inter-
nal Security subcommittee. He
promptly protested his nnocence.
70-Year Term Possible
One count of the indictment
charged Lattimore lied when he de-
nied under oath he has ever been
a promoter of communism or its
interests. If convicted of all seven
counts, he would be liable to a max-
imum pnalty of 70 years in prison.
Dr. Detlev W. Bronk, president
_ of Johns Hopkins University, an-
nounced that Lattimore would be
given "leave of absence, with sal-
ary" from the university faculty
"until a federal court passes on the
charges."
Bronk said he acted on the ad-
vice of Johns Hopkins' faculty
members, and with the approval of
the Board of Trustees. Lattimore
heads the university's Walter Hines
Page School of International Rela-
tions.
. Lattimore's arraignment was ten-
tatively set for Friday. But govern-
ment attorneys said the date for his
first appearance in court may be
postpopned to permit his attorneys
Home Lightning
Contest Entries
Will End Friday
Deadline for entering the Christ-
mas Home Lighting contest here
has been extended to Friday night
at midnight, it was announced
Wednesday Officials of the Jay-
cees, sponsors of the contest, an-
nounced the extension.
Tile closing date for entering the
contest was originally set for Mon-
day, Dec. 15. at midnight and a
large number of entries were re-
ceived, but a flood of requests to i
be allowed to enter after the clos-1
ing date led officials to grant the !
extension.
Mollis Ellis, president of the Jay-1
fees, said that the move was made |
because it was felt that many who ]
were interested in competing for
See LIGHTING Page 8
the famous firm of Arnold, Fortas
& Porter—to file motions in his be-
half.
Prosecutors concedcd there was
could bring the case to trial before
not a "ghost of a chance" that they
attorney general - designate Her-
bert Brownell Jr. lakes over the
department for the Republicans on
Jan. 20.
Lattimore, who conferred at
length with his attorneys Tuesday
night, indicated he will fight the
charges all the way up to the Su-
preme Court if necessary.
"If I should not, it would be an
evil day in our country for free-
dom of conscience, of research,
and of comment," he said. "These
are freedoms that should be guard-
ed by all, but by university profes-
sors with a special devotion."
U. S. Hoping
To Push Air
Base Plans
PARIS, Dec. 17—UP—Supreme
Allied Commander Gen. Matthew
B. Ridgway and his American
chief of staff appealed Wednesday
to the North Atlantic Treaty Or-
ganizations not to halve a proposed
$430 million Allied hase-building
program in Europe.
Ridgway and Gen. Alfred M.
Gruenther made last ditch appeals
to the NATO council to support the
program asked by the American
commander-in-chief.
A committee of the defense and
finance minivers of the 14-nation
organization had suggested a base-
building program of $235.2 mil-
lion under the Ridgway plan the
United States would put up 42.8 per
cent of the total.
Ridgway and Gruenther's appepal
was aimed at saving a program
which planned 30 air fields and a
number of supply depots to beef up
the defense of Western Europe.
The base-building program and a
compromise Anglo-American deci-
sion Tuesday to name British Ad-
miral Earl Mountbatten NATO
commander in the Mediterranean
were the top decisions facing the
current meeting of the NATO coun-
cil.
The council also opened prelimi-
nary debate on NATO's toughest
problem—how much each of its
14-nations would spend on defense
in 1953.
The council, in its third day of
debate, was to discuss Wednesday
the "NATO" annual review—what
each country thinks it can spend or
do in the defense of Europe in the
next year.
IKE-M'ARTHUR
TWO PLANETS—These striking photographs were made recently
of the planet Saturn and its ring system, top, and a section of the
Moon's surface, bottom, with the 200-inch Hale telescope atop Mt.
Palomar. Saturn's rings are 171,000 miles in diameter but only abou*
10 miles thick. They are in three distinct layers and are composed
of minute dust-sized particles, each circling about in its own orbit.
The large crater in the lower right corner is Copernicus, one of the
best known features of the Moon. This section of the planet is a
flat region, pock-marked with many small craters. (Mt. Wilson and
Palomar Photos from NEA Telephoto.)
Talk On
Korea At
Lunch
NEW YORK. Dec. 17—UP—Pres-
ident-elect Eisenhower's headquar-
ters announced Wednesday that Ei-
senhower and Gen. Douglas Mac-
Arthur are meeting at lunch in the
home of Secretary of State-desig-
nate John Foster Dulles.
Thus throe days after Eisenhow-
er's return from his 22.000-mile trip
to Korea he met with his former
commander to get MacArthur's an-
nounced new "clear and definite"
solution to the Korean conflict.
The dramatic get-together was the
first between the "old soldier" who
was fired from his Far Eastern
commands by President Truman
and Eisenhower since 1946 when Ei-
senhower, as chairman of the joint
chiefs of staff, visited MacArthur
in Tokyo.
The announcement of the meet-
ing was made at Eisenhower's
Commodore hotel headquarters by
Press Secretary James C. Hager-
ty.
Eisenhower's headquarters and
MacArthur's aids had declined to
give information in advance about
the meeting. Dulles' home is in the
fashionable upper East Side sect-
tion of Manhattan.
II
Oak wood Bank Is
Held Up, Robbed
New Lamar St. Area
Open For Christmas
By Al Echols
Christmas has come early this
year to one group of Sweetwater
people.
They are the merchants, busi-
- ness men and residents of the I a-
mar Street area who have under-
gone untold hardship? for the last
few weeks but are out of the woods
now.
That important thoroughfare has
been reopened to traffic after un-
dergoing a widening and resurfac-
ing program that has had it block-
ed off since early fall.
Merchants and businessmen
along the street—and Sweetwater
has one of the finest suburban
business districts in that section to
be found anywhere, even in cities
of much larger size—took a ter-
rific beating during .he construc-
tion period.
Cars were kept off the street for
the most part for 24 hours a day,
lateral streets were all but inac-
cessabie and cross streets leading
into Lamar were unable to bring
In enough customers to keep busi-
ness active. This added to the
drouth which has hurt business ev-
erywhere in the city, made it in-
most not worth while to stay open.
Vision of Future
But the men and women—with
visions of the future when the
SHOPPING
DAYS LEFT
WHAT
BUY CHMTMM SEALS
street would be wide enough to
answer the demands put upon it
and steady streams of traffic
would flow along its length—perse-
vered. Today they arc proud of
their street and what it means to
them and to the entire city of
Sweetwater.
They are happy it is open for
traffic and they are anxious for
every citizen of the city to travel
along its wide length and see what
they have sacrificed to obtain.
The street has been widened—
the property lines being moved
back on both sides—new curbs and
gutters have been laid and a fine
black top all-weather coat applied
to make it one of the best streets
in the city. The topping is only
temporary and will be replaced by
a permanent base next summer
but it is as good for travel today
as it will be when completed.
The rapidly growing business
section and the increased traffic
along Highway 70 to San Angclo
had overtaxed the old street but
the new one is ample to meet the
present demands and to provide a
margin for future growth.
This improvement program,
which is yet to be completed since
a beautiful underpass at the north
end of the thoroughfare is still to
be built, will do away with the di-
vided Sweetwater that has existed
for years, serving to bring the
South Side into closer relationship
to the rest of the city.
It also will increase the proper-
ty valuation of the poperty in that
section and lead to a greater
growth and expansion of the area
both as a business and residential
section, those in the area predict.
Welcome From Merchants
The merchants, anxious to have
Ihe citizens of the city visit their
street and anxious to remind them
that their places of business are
stil Iopen despite the hardships of
the construction period, are using
the column's of today's Sweetwa-
ter Reporter to extend invitations
See LAMAR Page 8
OAKWOOD, Tex., dec. 17—UP—
Two bandits herded three officials
of the Oakwood State Bank into the-^
0. H. Ludwick Riles
Wednesday—Burial
In Temple Thursday
Funeral services for O. H. Lud-
wick. 50, well-known Sweetwater
barber and Santa Fe car inspector
for the past 29 years, were set for 5
p. m. Wednesday at the First Bap-
tist Church with the pastor, the
Rev. George R. Wilson, officiating.
The body will be sent by Cate-
Spencer Funeral home to Temple
for funeral services there Thursday
at 3 p. m., with burial in Hillerest
Cemetery there.
Pallbearers were to be Henry I
Barfield, C. H. Dammann, Homer
Boyette, J. A. Cupp, Lloyd Mc- J
Beth. D. D. Dixon.
vault at gunpoint Wednesday and
escanert. according to or.' officii*'
report, with St least S20.000.
"I heard the figure $20,000 men-
tioned, but 1 believe that was a
surmise," Deputy Sheriff Floyd
Hassell said at Palestine. "I don't
think they will know how much
really was taken until they finish
checking up.
R. R. Wiley, president of the
bank, refused to say how much
was taken, though he admitted that
they "grabbed everything in sight."
The FBI office in San Antonio also
refused to disclose the amount,
though one agent said it was sub-
stantial.
The bandits fled in a stolen au-
tomobile, which they abandoned on
U. S. Highway 84, five miles north
of Oakwood.
Roscoe Oil Test
Reported "Poor
A drillstem test on No. 1 R. L.
Haney oil wildcat three miles north
of Roscoe was reported a probable
Ellenburger failure Wednesday.
Some oil and water were unofficial-
ly reported.
Test was in Ellenburger topped
at 7,135, drilled to 7.178 (minus
datum point of 4,731 feeti. Shows
of oil and gas were reported un-
covered at the interval of the test.
Alex J. Hickey of Dallas is opera-
tor.
At White Flat, No. 1 Keaan is
.eported drilling below 1,000 and
W 1 L. W. Ross is reported bolr.y."
1800 feet. An early start on W. W.
McElmurray place is reported in
he making.
Slush pit has been dug for the
No. 1 R. E. Gracey well southwest
of the airport. The Staton, Collins
and Sloan wells north and west of
the airport are getting started.
At the airport, No. 2-A city well
of Rowan and Hope is now started,
No. 1-B is completed as a good
I well but still unreported. Ohio No.
2 and Turner May 3 are still now
at a critical depth.
Oil men continue to report plans
| for a very widescale drilling opera-
j tion in this area early in 1952.
There are now 16 rigs operating
in this immediate area despite the
'Christmas holiday easing off.
Superforts Pound
Red Supply Areas
Outnumbered Jets
Of Americans Get
One MIG, Damage
Four Other Ships
SEOUL, Dec. 17—UP—American
Superforts hurled tons of bombs
Wednesday on two big Communist
supply areas in North Korea while
outnumbered American Sabrejet
pilots shot .down one Communist
MIG-15 jet fighter and damaged
four others over M'g Alley.
The intrepid F-68 pilots racked
up Wednesday's score in lour sep-
arate aerial duels involving a to-
tal of 10 Sabres and 44 MIGs. In
one fight, two Sabres took on 24
MIGs 35 miles south of the Yalu
River, damaging one of the Rus-
sian-built planes.
As a result of Wednesday's bat-
tles, the Sabrejet pilots brought
their claims for the last three days
to five MIGs destroyed, one prob-
ably destroyed and seven damag-
ed. The total may go even higher
when gun camera film is evaluat-
ed.
Credited With Kills
Credited with destroying a MIG
was Col. James K. Johnson, Fourth
Fighter-Interceptor wing com-
mander from Phoenix, Ariz., who
claimed a probable kill Tuesday.
Damage credits went to lnd Lt.
Paul J. Jaeobson of Elmore, Minn.
Capt. Vincent E. Stacy, Crystal
Falls, Mich.: Maj. Vermont Gar-
rison, Mt. Victorry, Ky.; and Ma-
rine pilot Maj. Edwin H. Finlay-
son of Monticello, Fla.
Fighter-bombers from five Fifth
Air Force Wings and a Marine air
group bombed Red transport lines
and battlefront positions in North
Korea.
Pound Supply Bases
American Superforts pounded
two Red supply dumps deep in
North Korea early Wednesday,
dropping 220,000 pounds of explo-
sfcfis (Kspite 1 heavy overcast and
hurricane-force winds.
Only minor raids and probing at-
tacks were reported in the "twi-
light war" along the frozen bat-
tlefront.
UN raiders infiltrated Commu-
nist trenches on the western front
with dynamite charges and flame-
throwers, burning Red bunkers be-
fore returning to their lines.
LOYALTY RISK — Career dip-
lomat John Carter Vincent was
branded a loyalty risk by Presi-
dent Truman's top loyalty board,
and the State Department imme-
diately suspended Vincent and
ordered him home from his post
as US Minister to Tangier.
(NEA Telephoto.)
investigations Made In
Rail Switch Shootings
Mr. Ludwick died Tuesday after-
noon at Sweetwater hospital from
a gunshot wound in the head, suf-
fered several hours earlier at his
home, 1010 Oak St. Mr. Ludwick
was alone in his room at the time
of the tragic incident.
Mr. Ludwick was born July 19.
1902, at Bland in Bell County and
was married to Ruth Whit-
mire at Belton on May 17, 1929. He
went to work for the Santa Fe in
Temple and he and his wife moved
to Sweetwater In 1930.
Survivors are his wife; his moth-
er, Mrs. Lucy Ludwick of Sweetwa-
ter; one brother, V. C. Ludwick of
Lampasas, and several nieces and
nephews.
Hunters who, failing to find
game to shoot at. take a shot at
somelhing along the railroad may
cause a derailment or other very
l serious consequences, railroad of-
j fleers pointed out here Wednesday
j in investigating recent damage.
E. A. Nelson, special agent for
! the Santa Fe, who is here cooper-
ating with local officers in investi-
Cook's Relatives
Angry Over Hoax
OKLAHOMA CITY, Dec. 17
—UP—Shocked and angry relatives
of badman William E. Cook con-
ferred with an attorney here
Wednesday on halting what they
termed a "double cross" and
"hoax" in the public exhibition of
the executed murder's body.
The party of six came here from
Joplin, Mo., vowing they would
carry the body of the "mad dog"
killer back to Ihe family home and
commit him to a grave in private
ceremonies.
They arranged a meeting with
attorney John Connolly who de-
fended Cook in his trials for six
murders.
"I don't know what we can do
now," Connolly said, "but we're
going to see if we can slop this
Roman holiday affair."
The nettled relatives came here
enroute to Comanche alter they
learned 15,000 persons had paraded
through the Glen Boydstun funeral
home there lo view Cook's smiling
corpse.
"We want people to know we
never agreed to anything like
that," Cook's sister. Mrs. Juanita
Stevenson of Joplin. said. "We
think we have been double-crossed
and made the victims of a hoax.
We resent the whole thing and dr-
mand that lt be stopped immedi-
ately."
JETS SHOW Off
AS GOLDEN YEAR
IN FLYING OPENS
KIT.TY HAWK. N.C.. Dec. 17
—UP—Young airmen flying super-
sonic jets will launch a year-long
celebration of aviation's golden an-
niversary Wednesday.
Three Air Force Sabrejets will
zoom across Sandy Kill Devil Hills
at speeds faster than sound while
a small group below lays a wreath
at a monument to man's conquest
of the air.
On that windswept stretch of
barren dunes 49 years ago Orville
and Wilbur Wright made their suc-
cessful powered flight in a heavi-
er-than-air machine.
No one who saw that first flight
is alive now but several persons
| who followed the progress of the
two pioneer airmen in their experi-
ments were on hand for the ob-
servances at the Wright brothers
national monument.
Special guests included relatives
of the Wright brothers, newsman
Harry Moore who reported the
flight, telegrapher A. W. Drinkwa-
ter who relayed the news, and
Elijah Baum. who greeted Wilbur
Wright at a dock here in 1900.
HOLIDAY' ENDED
OKLAHOMA CITY. Dec. 17-UP
—The "Roman Holiday" exhibition
of William E. iBilly' Cook's body
ended abruptly Wednesday when
relatives of the executed murder-
er ordered it sent to Galena. Kan.,
and said a private funeral will be
held.
gating the damage to switching
equipment .said "this constitutes a
very serious danger and we hope
parents and others will cooper-
ate.
"We are hoping that the public
will realize that this could amount
to a federal offense should a train
be derailed."
The most recent offense was
shooting a switch on the Santa Fe
near the Hillsdale gravel pits on
about Dec. 10 or 11. The switch
lock was broken so that the crew
had to dry open the switch. If it
had happened to have been a main
line switch very grave conse-
quences might have resulted. Nel-
son said.
Investigation of these depreda-
tions are continuing.
Arabs Training For
Attack In Tunisia
TUNIS, Tunisia, Dec. 17—UP—
Tunisian Arab Nationalists are be-
ing trained at a camp across the
frontier in Libya for big scale at-
tacks on southern Tunis, French
reports said Wednesday.
as a result, troops are combing
the mountainous southern area and
planes have been sent out to look
lor any invaders.
French police and troops killed
11 oi a group of 14 camel-riding
Nationalist guerrillas who crossed
Ihe border last week. One was
made prisoner, two escaped.
The man taken prisoner was
quoted as saying his group lorined
the rear guard for a force of 300
rebels who were detailed to torm a
headquarters in the mountains for
bigger attacks.
CHRISTMAS PRESENT
DOYLESTOWN. Pa., Dec. 17-
UP — Judge Hariam H. Keller
"gave" Thomas Sweeney, 31, of
Bristol, Pa., $50 Tuesday then took
$150 away from him. Keller fined
Sweeney $200 on a charge of drunk-
en driving but deducted $50 as a
combined Christmas and wedding
present.
U. S. Demands
Report About
Lost Fliers
WASHINGTON, Dec. 17 —UP—
The United States demand-
| ed Wednesday that Russia take
j "proper notice" of an American
| note calling for an accounting of
the imprisonment and ransom of
four U. S fliers forced down in
j Hungary a year ago.
In a crisp new note to Moscow,
! the State Department brushed aside
i the Kremlin's claims that a Dec.
10 U. S. protest was "incorrectly
j addressed."
The new note, together with last
| week's protest, was delivered to
| acting Soviet Foreign Minister Ja-
cob Malik Wednesday by the U. S.
Charge D'Affaires at Moscow Elim
I O'Shaughnessy.
LONDON, Dec. 17 —UP—Prime
Minister Winston Churchill will go
to the United States in February
or March for talks with Dwight
Eisenhower, a highly placed
source said Wednesday night.
It was assumed here that
Churchill will take with him some
of his top leaders, probably For-
eign Secretary Anthony Eden and
Chancellor of the Exchequer
'treasury secretary! R. A. Butler.
Informants said specific ar-
rangements for the visit can not
be made until after Eisenhower
has been inaugurated president
Jan. 20.
Churchill has hinted several
times in the House of Commons
recently that he would like to go
to Washington for talks with the
new President.
It was believed the visit is like-
ly to be made in March, rather
than in February, after Eisen-
hower has had a chance to organ-
ize things in the White House.
Wayne Patten
Wayne Patten is
Installed As flew
Kiwanis President
Wayne Patten was installed as
new president of the Sweetwater Ki-
wanis Club at a "ladies' night" din-
ner Tuesday evening at the Blue
Bonnet Hotel.
The new president and other in-
coming officers were installed by
Lt. Gov. of Kiwanis. J. P. White of
Lamesa. He charged officers with
responsibilities for the club's work
under the motto "Freedom Is Our
Sacred Trust."
Other new officers are: Hugh
Clift and B. F. Keily. vice-presi-
dents; Forest Koen, secretary; Ro-
ger Eaton, treasurer; .1. L. Haney,
L. E. Arnold. Horace Curlee R L.
Kerr, Ellis McJunkin, J. D. Mc-
Keown, Wayne McNeill, directors.
Texas-Oklahoma District Gov.
Bailey Choate. who has been ill
left his sickbed to thank the local
club for its work. He anno"need
that International Kiwanis Presi-
dent, Walter Ray of Detroit, will be
in the district in April.
James G. Tucker was master ol
ceremonies, presenting retiring
president J. L. Haney with a gift
in appreciation of his work in 1952.
Haney said "Service is Ihe price
we pay for the place we occupy; I
enjoyed every minute of it and ap-
preciated the opportunity to be of
service."
President Patten said he had al-
ways "liked Kiwanis for its pro-
gram of boys and girls' work, sup-
port of churches and work with un-
See PATTEN Page 8
Mrs. 6unn Indicted
On Poison Charges
At Colorado City
COLORADO CITY—Three indict-
! ments, including one charging
I murder of her son, were returned
J against Mrs. Olevia E. Gunn, 24.
[ of Colorado City by the 32nd dis-
| trict grand jury here Tuesday.
The murder indictment charged
| poisoning of her son, Thomas Ma-
j rion. 11 months old. Indictment
charges that arsenic was mixed
i with the tea given to the boy on
1 Oct. 5, with a soft drink syrup on
I Oct. 6 and with milk of magnesia
on Oct. 7.
The other indictments are on
I charges of attempted murder of
| her husband, Earl, and daughter.
| Earline. 3.
Mr. and Mr t.'unn and their
! two children were hospitalized here
i Oct. 8 and the baby died in the
hospital the same day. Later the
family was taken to Abilene for fur-
ther treatment.
! Gunn and his daughter were more
seriously ill but the girl now has
| recovered. Mr. Gunn is being
: treated at the Veterans' Adminis-
j tration hospital in Big Spring. He
; has partial use of his hands but
I almost no use of his legs, and is
confined to a wheelchair. He was
among the witnesses appearing be-
fore the grand jury Monday and
Tuesday morning.
Mrs. Gunn, who is being held in
i the Nolan County jail in Sweetwat-
| er, was not brought here for ques-
I tioning. according to District At-
torney Eldon Mahon. She recently
was returned from Galveston
where she was under observation
i by doctors at the John Sealy Hos-
i e'tal. A report on their observa-
'ons was read to the grand jury
by Mahon did not give details of the
i report's contents.
Amariilo Man Killed
In Police Car Crash
AMAR1LLO. Dec. 17 —UP—
Herman L. Halford, a 36-year-old
baker, was killed Tuesday night in
a collision between a police squad
car and the taxi in which he was
riding. Two policemen were
slightly injured.
The policemen were speeding,
with red lights flashing and sirens
going, to another accident. Burton
Garland Jr.. 28. the taxi driver,
said he did not see or hear the
squad car.
It was the 13th traffic fatality in
Amarilio this year.
Texas Goof Ball
Law Is Sustained
AUSTIN, Dec. 17—UP— Texas'
goof ball law was upheld Wednes-
day by the Court of Criminal Ap-
peals in an action sustaining legal-
ity of the anti-barbiturate bill.
The suit challenged validity of
the law under which Bonnie Engle
of Houston was convicted of ille-
gally possessing nembutal, senten-
ced to two years in jail and fined
$1,000.
After judgment was entered in a
county court-at-law tha defense ap-
pealed to a Harris crmnty district,
court which denied freedom to the
defendant under a writ of habeas
corpus. •
The Court of Criminal Appeals
affirmed the judgment of the dis-
I trict court.
The law. enacted by the 52nd Leg-
liverv of a barbutrate unless de-
| livery of an barbiturate unless de-
livered by a pharmacist or medi-
; cal practitioner.
The purpose was to regulate and
control the handling, sale and dis-
tribution of the drugs, commonly
j known as "goof balis."
The act exempted from the law
\ pharmacists, practitioners, persons
J using the drug for research, teach-
: ing or testing, hospitals, officers or
employes of federal, state or local
1 governments, manufacturers and
wholesalers, and carriers and
i warehousemen.
Mrs. R. H. Watson
Dies At- Roscoe
At- Sister's Home
ROSCOE—Mrs. Bessie C. Wat-
son. 58, of Redding. Calif., died
here Tuesday at 5:15 p.m. follow-
ing a heart attack at the home of
her sister, Mrs. Check Farmer,
with whom she had been visiting
since August.
Her husband. R. H. Watson, died
of a heart attack on July 31, in
California.
Mrs. Watson was born Oct. 27,
1894. at Arlington. Tex.
Survivors are a son. Lt. R. H
Watson Jr.. of the Navy, who is
flying here from Arlington, Mass.,
his station; one daughter, Mrs.
Margaret Birtcil of T?<jdding;
Calif.; two sisters—Mrs. Farmer of
Roscoe and Mrs. D. H. Bradley of
\rIington. Texas; four brothers—
Shad Collard of McAUen. Gtjne and
Biwk Collard of Fort Worth, Glenn
Collard of Artesia, N. M.: four
grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held
here Thursday at 2 p.m. at the
Wells Funeral Home chapel, con-
ducted by Lee McCleskey who is
minister of the Church of Christ
and the Rev. John Price of the
First Methodist Church.
The body will be sent to Califor-
nia for burial at Redding beside
the grave of Mrs. Watson's hus-
band.
THE WEATHER
WEST TEXAS — Partly cloudy
and mild Wednesday. Cooler In the
Panhandle Wednesday night and In
the south plains Thursday. Low 28
to 38 in the Panhandle.
65.901 DRAFT CASES
WASHINGTON — HP — The FBI
'has investigated 65.901 reports of
I violations of the draft act since
I the start of the Korean war.
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Baker, Allen. Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 55, No. 298, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 17, 1952, newspaper, December 17, 1952; Sweetwater, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth284006/m1/1/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 4, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sweetwater/Nolan County City-County Library.