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American Eludes
• Capture By Reds
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MUNICH, Germany, Feb. 5 —
UP—Hvasta, 26-year-old American
who fled a Czechoslovakian prison
and eluded capture by the Commu-
nists for 21 months, left by plane
Friday for London.
In London he will transfer to a
plane bound for the United States,
where he will rejoin his family in
Hillside, N. J.
Hvasta came to Munich from
Nuernberg Friday morning in a
car with two State Department of-
ficials.
He was kept hidden here until
plane time.
The two U.S. officials who ac-
companied Hvasta were identified
as Nat King, counselor of the
Prague embassy, and John D.
lams, first secretary.
Doesn't Want to Talk
King and lams told United Press
staff correspondent Harold Melahn
in Nuernberg that Hvasta did not
want to discuss his adventures yet.
They quoted him as saying he
wanted to "wait until I get my
breath and am back in the United
States."
Both men said Hvasta "was cer-
tainly anxious to bet out of Czech-
oslovakia."
Hvasta, born in Czechoslovakia
and a naturalized American, re-
turned to Czechoslovakia in 1948 as
a student. He worked for the U.S.
consulate general in Bratislava for
a brief period.
He was arrested by the Cechs a
short time afterwards, charged
with espionage, and sentenced to
three years imprisonment. Later
this was extended lo 10 years.
The youth escaped from Leopol-
dov prison near Bratislava Jan. 2,
1952, and evaded Czech security po-
lice for 21 months. He reached the
U.S. embassy in Prague on Oct 2,
1953.
"There are always secret police
around the place," King said. "He
waited until guards went up the
street, then slipped in. We never
asked him where he spent the pre-
vious 21 months. I personally
thought he was dead, and no one
in the embassy had ever expected
to see him again.
"We never wanted to know where
he was during those 21 months be-
cause there are a lot of people back
there who hid him and whose lives
would be in danger if he talked."
GOP Unemployment
Figures Challenged
* As Being Too Low
WASHINGTON, Feb. 5 —UP—
Three Democrats challenged the
administration's unemployment fig-
ures Friday, hinting they think the
total may be too low.
Top officials of three agencies
which keep tab on the employme it
situation were called before the
House - Senate economic commit-
tee to explain their methods in
computing labor statistics. The
Census Bureau put the number of
jobless persons at 2.359, in its latest
estimate.
Sen Johi .1 cr.nrkman ID-Ala.)
said in an interview he questioned
whether the administration is cor-
rect in counting as unemployed on-
ly 1,110,000 of the 3,630,000 persons
who stopped working during the
past five months. Sen. Paul H.
Douglas. (D-Ill.) raised the same
point.
"I'm not questioning the good
faith of the Census Bureau," he
said. "But I wonder if as many
people have left the labor force as
they assume."
Rep. Richard M. Boiling (D-Mo.)
called for details on cutbacks in
work hours and take-home pay. He
said "the layoffs appear more se-
erious than the statistics indicate."
President Eisenhower's economic
report to congress delved frankly
into the question of whether actual
unemployment at the end of 1953
was "much greater" than the fig-
ures indicated. After a detailed
study, the report decided they were
not.
West Texas
Press Group
To Meet Here
A mechanical conference of the
West Texas Press Association will
be held in Sweetwater Saturday
night and Sunday with Roy Fox,
publisher of the Colorado City Rec-
ord, in charge of the program, ac-
cording to Bill Collyns of the Mid-
land Reporter-Telegram, presi-
dent of the Association.
Saturday night in the Peacock
room of the Blue Bonnet hotel, the
Sweetwater Reporter will be host
to the group in an informal get to-
gether.
Sunday morning members of the
association will visit the Sweetwat-
er Reporter mechanical depart-
ment where they will witness a
linotype machine equipped with
teletypesetter in operation. They
will also visit Watson-Focht Print-
ing Company and Kirby Kinsey to
see job printing equipment in oper
ation. *"
Palmer Black, mechanical super-
intendent of the Amarillo Globe-
News, will be principal speaker at
a luncheon Sunday at noon.
In the afternoon a round-table
discussion of mechanical equip-
ment will be held with Roy Fox as j
master of ceremonies.
At the noon luncheon pupils of
Dorothy Brandt will give a musi-
cal program.
Approximately 100 newspaper
men, along with their wives are
expected to attend.
Sunday morning wives of the
members will be given a coffee in
the Rose Room of the Blue Bonnet
hotel.
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COFFEE FEUD — Washington grocer Carlos Garcia displays signs
which are causing feud between him and law enforcement agen-
cies. Law says signs are derogatory and illegal under local regula-
tion, but Garcia demands to see regulation in "black and white."
(NEA Telephoto)
No Pay Reported
In Lewis Wildcat
No. 1 T. E. Lewis wildcat west | Humble Oil and Refining Co. has
of Nolan is continuing to puzzle ; two wells in the same vicinity due
those studying oil structures around
Nolan but may be abandoned soon,
reports Friday indicated.
It is running low in the Ellenbur-
ger, reported down to 6,869 feet.
Seaboard Oil Co. is moving in on
its No. 1 R. H. Jordan to be drilled
by R. H. K. Drilling Co. as an off-
set to the No. 1 C. J. Roberts Cam-
brian Strike.
Location is 660 feet south of the
No. 1 Roberts of Kllroy, discovery
well. The location is 330 from the
north and 330 from the west of sec-
tion 14, block Z, T&P survey.
Two Persons Fined
In Justice Court
Officers of the Texas State High-
way Patrol have filed two cases
in the office of the Justice of the
Peace.
One person was filed on for oper-
ating a truck without a railroad
permit. The trucker paid his fine
and cost of court and was releas-
ed.
Also filed with the Justice Court
was one charge of speeding. This
carried a fine of $15.50.
Statehood Bills
May Be Combined
WASHINGTON, Feb. 5 —UP—
Sen. Clinton P. Anderson predicted
Friday the Senate will combine
the separate Hawaii and Alaska
statehood bills into a single mea-
sure and pass both at the same
time.
The New Mexico Democrat, a
leader in the fight for simultane-
ous action on the statehood hopes
of both territories, said he plans
to ask the Senate to "tie them
together."
"I think the only chance to pass
either one of them is to tie them
together and pass them both," An-
derson said. He expressed confi-
dence that a combined bill would be
approved by the Senate.
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JUST BARELY — Brucke Coker, Southerland, Neb., makes two-
point landing after barely completing ride on Brahma bull in
rodeo competition at Southwestern Exposition and Fat Stock Show
in Fort Worth. Buck Rutherford, Nowata, Okla., hurriedly climbs
fence directly above bucking animal. (NEA Telephoto)
Pope's Condition
Reported Weakened
VATICAN CITY, Feb. 5 —UP—
The general condition of Pope Pius
XII has weakened, the first offi-
cial medical bulletin by his physi-
cian said Friday.
Dr. Riccardo Galeazzi - Lisi said
the 77-year old pontiff was suffer-
ing from the "symptoms of gastri-
tis" and had a slight fever. He
said the pope's condition was weak-
ened because he has difficulty in
taking nourishment.
However, the doctor added that
the pope's heart was in good con-
dition and the hiccups which ac-
companied the stomach trouble
vanished three days ago.
The medical analysis was pub-
lished in the Vatican City news-
paper Osservatore Romano be-
cause of world-wide concern over
the state of the pope's health, Vat-
ican sources said.
The sources said the Pope, weak-
ened by a 12-day attack of gastritis
that necessitated a liquid diet, was
suffering little pain. His nervous
tension also was reported to have
eased.
Vatican doctors said the Pope's
recovery had progressed at a rate
beyond their expectations but they
ordered the liquid diet continued
for the sixth straight day.
Reds Accused Of Trying
To Spread Soviet Sphere
At Least Things
Can't Get Worse
For This Couple
CORPUS CHRISTI, Tex., Feb. 5
—UP—When their car broke down
as Herman and Virginia Woodle
drove from the church at Winns-
boro, Tex., where they were mar-
ried last Nov. 4, they attached no
particular significance to the inci-
dent.
But here's what has happened to
the newlyweds since that time:
When they finally got the auto-
mobile repaired and started their
honeymoon trip to Corpus Christi,
where Herman, a Navy chief petty
officer, is stationed, they were in-
volved in a highway accident.
Mrs. Woodle, 19, went to a hos-
pital critically injured and stayed
there six weeks.
While visiting at Dallas with her
relatives last week end, thieves
broke into the Woodle automobile.
Among the couple's clothing that
was stolen was Virginia's wedding
dress.
The final blow came this week
when the couple returned home.
Woodle was ordered overseas.
the get started within a matter of
a few weeks.
J. D. Wrather's No. 1 Gooch well
is reported at 4,500 feet with no
shows thus far.
Penrose No. 1 Kirk well near
Blackwell is down to 2,730 feet.
Seaboard's No. 1 Earwood Cam-
brian test east of the Billy Hat^ks
field is down to 2,849. Seaboara b
A-13 Hanks in the old Hanks pool
is down to 3,490 in a Canyon Reef
test.
No. 1 Brock well on the eastern
edge of the Claytonville pool still
has rig up and reports are that it
may be abandoned. It was origin-
ally considered an unusually prom-1
ising well but reports are that the j One person has been released on
oil found in the top lacked depth | a $200 bond for driving while his
and the drill soon went back into license was suspended. This car-
Last Repatriated
US POW Returns
TOKYO, Feb. 5 —UP—The last
repatriated American war prisoner
left for home Friday with Marilyn
Monroe's autograph on a plaster
cast covering half of his body.
Cpl. Donald Wakehouse of Wood-
bine, Iowa, who was repatriated
last summer in "Operation Big
Switch." took off for Travis Air
Force Base, Calif., aboard an Air
Force C-97 air evacuation plane.
Wakehouse feared he would miss
his plane as he lay on a stretcher
in Tokyo Army hospital waiting for
Miss Monroe to show up for the
send off.
"I'd like to see her," the 22-year-
old soldier said. "But I don't want
to "niss that plane."
Miss Monroe arrived 30 minutes
late because she had been pretty-
ing up at the Army beauty parlor
for her special trip to the hospital.
'REPLACE HOLDOVERS'
Loyal GOP Members
To Get More Jobs
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 —UP—
Republican National Chairman
Leonard W. Hall expressed keen
disappointment Friday at being un-
able to find more .government jobs
for the party faithful.
But he assured members of the
Republican national committee,
who are meeting here to lay the
groundwork for the 1954 congres-
sional campaign, that he would go
on doing his best to "replace
Democrat holdovers with good Re-
publicans."
He said President Eisenhower is
Illegal Driver
Released On Bond
shale.
The R. H. K. rig may be moved
to No. 2 Leeper, offset to the recent
Leeper strike.
T.P. Coal and Oil Co. No. 3-A
Mae Sears was running a second
test in the Caddo Friday. The first
test Thursday was reported show-
ing gas and no water.
ries a fine up to $500 and cost of
court.
The arrest was made by officers
of the city police and was trans-
ferred to the county.
Officers of the sheriff's depart-
ment reported one person arrested
for passing worthless checks.
The person is released on bond.
I "■" Freighter
Aground On Reef
MANILA, P. I., Feb. 5 —UP—
A 5.000-ton British freighter ran
aground on a reef in the treacher-
ous South China sea Friday and the
40-man crew abandoned ship in
lifeboats.
The S. S. Fernmoor reported to
Globe Wireless by ship radio that
it hit the jagged reef in uncharted
waters about 50 miles west of Pala-
wan island and north of Borneo.
"We are abandoning ship'almost
immediately," the Fernmoor's
master said. "Send planes. We are
going off. We are taking to our
lifeboats. Please keep a sharp look-
out."
Clark Field, north of Manila,
picked up the ship's SOS and dis-
patched an Air Force rescue plane
and a Coast Guard amphibious
plane immediately toward the area.
One plane reported back that it
spotted some of the crewmen stand-
ing on the reef and dropped them
a lifeboat.
Two ships, one the Japanese Eiho
Maru, raced against high tides to
the rescue.
Treasury Department Opens
Investigation Of Parr Empire
AUSTIN, Feb. 5 —UP—Gov. Al-
lan Shivers Friday had federal,
state and local law enforcement
and political assistance in his con-
tinued feud with South Texas po-
litical power George Parr.
Shivers called Duval county,
where Parr's political machine is
headquartered in the county seat
of San Diego, Tex., a "cancerous
growth on the state," and Thursday
told a luncheon group in Corpus
Christi:
"A county west of us known as
Duval is one place in Texas where
freedom is about to be stamped
out. . . God giving us time, we
aren't going to allow it."
Follows Earlier Blast
Shivers' latest blast followed his
remark in San Antonio Wednesday
that he would declare martial law
in Duval county and send in 50
Rangers if it was necessary "to
bring freedom to those people." lie
referred to "ballot thieves and po-
litical gangsters" 'n Duval county.
He said a joint state - federal
investigation into use of public
funds in the political hot-spot was
about ended and he believed it
would "bear fruit."
Meanwhile, Attorney General
Herbert Brownell Jr. announced in
Washington that the Treasury De-
partment is conducting an income
tax investigation of George Parr,
who likes to be called "the Duke of
Duval."
"The Information I received was
within the jurisdiction of the treas-
ury, and 1 referred it to them,"
Brownell said.
Texas Attorney General John
Ben Shepperd. in Washington de-
fending the tidelands law against
suits by two states, said he had
asked the federal authorities for
six more special agents to probe
income tax and other matters in
South Texas.
Shepperd said he was afraid the
current federal investigation would
take so long to complete necessary
And on the local level, Shivers
said a group from Duval county
came to him two years ago and
said they would "stand up to battle
the situation" if they were guaran-
teed protection.
He said the protection was grant-
ed, and "they gave a 28 per cent
show of opposition."
The Freedom party, an opposi-
tion group started against the Parr
faction, polled about that percen-
tage of the vote in the latest coun-
ty election. And Donato Serna, the
party's executive secretary, went
so far as to predict that this year's
election may be the turning point.
"Last year we got aboug 27 per
cent of the votes," Serna said "all
we have to do this year is double
our efforts."
aware of the problem and "keenly
wants more and more loyal Re-
publicans in the policy-making
posts of the federal service."
' I am at liberty to give you
every assurance of his whole-
hearted co-operation in this," Hall
said in a speech prepared for de-
livery at a morning session of the
committee.
He urged committee members to
shed "as little heat and as much
light" as possible in explaining to
Republican job-seekers that every
effort is being exerted to rid the
federal service of "New Deal poli-
ticians and zealots."
Except for speeches and pep
talks, the committee had only
routine business to transact Fri-
day. The climax will come Friday
when the Republicans will stage
their $1.50 Lincoln Day box sup-
per at Uline arena with the Presi-
dent and Mrs. Eisenhower as
guests of honor.
Mr. Eisenhower will make a
brief informal speech, as will sev-
eral other Republican dignitaries.
Vice President Richard M. Nixon
was listed as the principal speaker
at a luncheon meeting of the na-
tional committee.
Thursday, the finance committee
approved a record-breaking budget
of $3.8 million for the 1954 con-
gressional campaign. This com-
pares with $1,950,000 budgeted in
1950, the last off-year election, and
$6.6 million in the presidential
election year of 1952.
Employe Of Packing
Plan! Is Injured
By Exploding Gas
Herman Overturf, an employe
at the Texas Packing Co., on West
Broadway, was painfully injured
Thursday afternoon when accum-
ulated gas in a smokehouse at the
packing company exploded, inflict-
ing second degree burns on Over-
turf's arms and face.
The explosion occurred about
5 p. m. Overturf was taken to
Sweetwater Hospital in a Cate-
Spencer ambulance. The attending
physician said that Overturf re-
ceived second and third degree
burns on the face, head and both
arms.
Joe Hays, manager of the Texas
Packing Co., said that the fire in
the sausage smokehouse had evi-
dently gone out, and that the ex-
plosion occurred when Overturf,
a sausage maker, entered the room
and discovered that the fire was
out.
Overturf was blown back through
the door he was entering, Hays
said, and that he rolled on the
floor to extinguish flames in his
clothing. Overturf had made a
"sniff" test when he entered the
room. Hays said, but that evi- 10f Luang Prabang Friday as a
dently a grea deal of gas had ac- I thin line of French Union troops
cumulated that was not notice- | SOught to halt a Communist drive
able until Overturf started to re- j to take the city.
I Red vanguards sweeping south in
j three columns were an estimated
ij three days march from the old Lao-
I tian capital.
The French defense line was
l lightly manned and strung over
j steep, jungle - clad mountains.
It ran from Muong Sai in the
! west across to Bannambac in the
! Namhou Valley, and east to Ban
j! Mombang in the Nam Seng Valley,
>! in an arc 45 to 50 miles north of
|| Luang Prabang.
military sources were hopeful the
i| 12,000 troops of the crack Red 308th
.... , .. .... , , -1; Division would have to halt for sup-
Although the official canvass of I u before con,illujng their south-
the 1954 school census has tx>en ^,ard dHve The division's supply
Heavy Fighting
Reported Near
indo-China City
HANOI, Indo - China, Feb. 2 —
UP—Bitter fighting was reported
along a 40-mile defense arc north
light the gas fire, which is used
in meat smoking operation.
No damage was done to the
smokehouse, which is in the plant
proper, or to the adjoining room,
Hays said, since both areas were
large enough to absorb the explos-
ion. There was no fire, he said.
Overturf, who has been employ-
ed by the company for less than
a month, lives at 902 Cedar Street.
Complete Report
Urged In Census
Western Big 3
Rejects Russian
Election Plan
BERLIN, Feb. 5 —UP— The
United States Friday accused Rus-
sia of attempting, in the Big Four
foreign ministers' conference, to
push the Soviet-sphere frontier
westward from the Elbe to the
Rhine River.
That. Soviet Foreign Minister V.
M. Molotov was told, was the
West's reaction to the Kremlin blue
print he presented Thursday for re-
uniting Germany.
Molotov, in T h u r s d a y's dis-
couraging conference session, re-
jected the West's proposals for free
all-German elections as a first step
toward reuniting the divided coun-
try.
Instead, Molotov proposed forma-
tion of a provisional all - German
government, before elections are
held and withdrawal of all occupa-
tion troops prior to the elections.
This, the West said, would be the
equivalent of an invitation to the
Communists to gobble up all Ger-
many.
The Western Big Three foreign
ministers agreed, prior to the open-
ing of Friday's formal conference
session, to reject the Soviet
"peace" and elections plan.
The three western foreign min-
isters held a noon meeting at the
British high commissioner's resi-
dence to prepare their reply to
Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav
M. Molotov's German proposals.
They agreed that:
1. The five - point plan put for-
ward by Molotov Thursday is un-
acceptable in every way and must
be rejected outright.
2. The East-West deadlock on
Germany is so complete that there
no longer is any hope of reaching
agreement in the present confer-
ence on German unity or a peace
treaty.
3. The West will refuse any face-
saving device such as turning over
the Molotov plan to experts for
further discussion, if the Russians
should make such a proposal.
Molotov's impossible demands
and the West's refusal to consider
them meant that the Big Four For-
eign ministers' conference was all
but dead.
A high conference source said
the time had come for finding a
graceful way to tell Molotov that
further debate on German unifica-
tion was useless at this time.
Calling off the conference, the
source said, could not be done
easily.
completed, Thomas Whittenburg,
census director, urged any parent
who thinks his children were ni ot
included in the census to report t to
the principal of the school in h is
district.
"If there is any question abot't
a child being on the role, pleaa e
get in touch with the neares. t
school principal," Whittenburg
said, "especially those children':
who will be six years of age by
Sept. 1."
School principals, an'l the tele-
phone numbers are: Hugh Clift.
John R. Lewis, 3481; Roger Eaton,
J. P. Cowan, 3482; Joe Douglas,
Philip Nolan, 3491; Ken Newton,
East Ridge, 5282, Ken Newton:
John Reagan Junior High, Whitten-
burg, 3251 and Newman High
School, E. M. Lawrence, 2202.
lines already were strung out dan
gerously and were open to attack
by loyalist guerrillas.
Muong Sai, an important road
junction, was still held by French
Union forces, despite confused ear-
lier reports that its garrison had
fallen.
THE WEATHER
SWEETWATER — Temperature,
high Thursday, 67 degrees; low,
Friday morning, 40 degrees. Bar-
nMnetric pressure. 30.30 steady. Rel-
ative humidity, .30 per cent. In-
Btrument reading, continued fair,
^lightly warmer.
WEST TEXAS — Fair and mild
Friday night and Saturday.
ANTI-RABIES SHOTS CRUEL
Dog-Loving Former
Offers To Let Mad
Stage Star
Dog Bite Her
CHICAGO, Feb. 5 —UP—Animal
lover Irene Castle, onetime darling
of the Broadway stage, Friday of-
fered to let a mad dog bite her to
save her four-footed friends from
the pain and danger of a hypo-
dermic needle.
The State of Illinois ordered
every dog and cat in Chicago in-
oculated against rabies in an un-
precedented step to halt an epi-
demic of the disease that has killed
one child and seen several mass
attacks by slavering dogs.
Meanwhile, dog pounds were fill-
ing up like Yale Bowl on an aut-
umn Saturday and officials said
they may have to start destroying
strays in wholesale lots to make
room for newcomers.
As humane society officials
information that the statute of lim-1 called for "calmness rather than
itations would prevent prosecution, hysteria," a farmer near Chicago
telephoned the sheriff's office to
report that he had sb ot both his-
dog and cat because of fear of
rabies.
Miss Castle, who is now Mrs.
George Enzinger and operates the
famous "Orphans of the Storm"
animal shelter at nearly Deerfield,
111., said "inoculations would para-
lyze the hind legs of dogs."
She offered to put mp $5,000 and
challenged, "no one c; in prove that
a person bitten by r rabid dog
ever died as a resu It."
"She would most ci irtainly die,"
said Chicago Health Board Presi-
dent Dr. Herman Bundesen.
"Well, why don't tl'iey let me do
it, then." she answ< (red.
Statements Uns upported
Her statements about rabies
were not supported by medical
opinion. It is consld >red one of the
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most virulent of diseases, is always
fatal after incubation and is ac-
companied by incredible suffering.
The international dancing favoij
ite of p-ast decades said she had
been bitten about "three times a
week" at her animal shelter, which
she said took in average of 14,000
homeless (.'ogs a year.
"I've been bitten by dogs foam-
ing at the irouth and I'm not dead
yet," she sflid. Miss Ciistle stipu-
lated that tine dog that bites her
must not have received antt-ra-
bies vaccine, which she .considers
I dangerous. . .
She said she wanted to empha-
size that, in her opinion, a dog
bite could kill human «el"gs
through blood poisoning and otner
causes.
"1 don't want to look like a damn
fool," she said.
Champion Steer
Is Sold For $6,000
At Fort Worth Show
FORT WORTH, Feb. 5—UP—
Grand champion steer of the South-
western Exposition and Fat Stock
show—a 1.050-pound Aberdeen An-
gus from Olathe, Kan.—was sold
Friday for $6,000.
The animal—BPR Billy B8 was
sold by Black Post Ranch of
Olathe, and went to the Texas hotel
here.
The Angus was only the fourth
of its breed to win the grand
championship since the show began
in 1898. Last year, the show's
grand champion steer—a Hereford
owned by Sue White of Big Spring,
Tex.—sold for the same price of
$6,000.
Reserve grand champion of the
show — a 1.050 - pound Hereford
owned by Billy Bruce Bridgford,
16. of Colorado City, Tex.—was
sold for $3,500 to Amon G. Carter
| Jr.. for the Amon G. Carter Foun-
dation. Fort Worth. The animal will
be given to the Lena Pope home.
Sale of the two animals marked
opening of the "sale of cham-
pions," which highlighted the day's
activities of the 10-day exposition
ending Sunday.
Meanwhile, officials of the expo-
sition said good weather had
caused a drop in attendance from
last year's record 435.000 persons.
Farmers Stayed Home
W. R. Watt, president-manager,
said the show was "plagued" with
bad weather last year and the farm
and ranch folks "would pack up
and come to town." This year the
weather was good and they stayed
home and worked.
Haddon's M Kate, shown by J.
F. Lively and son who operate a
farm near Dallas, was chosen
grand champion female Guernsey
Thursday, while the grand champ-
ion Guernsey bull was Bluffview
D Emerald, shown by Nelson broth-
ers of Waxahachle
Oak Hill Romance, a mare
owned bv Oak Hill Farm of Ard-
more, Okla., was named grand
champion of the American saddle-
bred halter classes, and Chief ol
Knox Wood, owned by Mr. and
Mrs. Knox Browning of Dallas wm
reserve champion.
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Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 57, No. 30, Ed. 1 Friday, February 5, 1954, newspaper, February 5, 1954; Sweetwater, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth284047/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.