Coleman Daily Democrat-Voice (Coleman, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 132, Ed. 1 Tuesday, April 19, 1949 Page: 1 of 12
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WEATHER
Cloudy to partly cloudy, little
change in temperatures this aft-
, ernoori, tonight and Wednesday.
Scattered showers or thunder-
showers this afternoon and to-
night, lowest near 54. Yester-
day’s high 80; low 44. Rainfall
V 2:10.
Coleman Daily Democrat-Voice
United Press Leased Wire
NEA Feature Service
COLEMAN,.COLEMAN COUNTY TEXAS, TUESDAY, APRIL 19, 1949
Way Is Left Open
For Negotiations
Between Nations
BY WALTERKOLRAZ
LONDON, April 19—<U.R) Diplo;
matic sources reported today
that the Western Big Three had
rebuffed Russian feelers toward
ending the Berlin blockade, but
had left the way open for further
negotiations.
Informed quarters said a Sov-
iet representative had been told
informally that the west would
agree to:
1. The' simultaneous ending of
the Berlin blockade and the
WestPrff <'•<(&£*>-blockade of Sov-
iet occupation areas in Germany.
2. A meeting of the Big Four
Council of Foreign Ministers on
the cntjre ftetman situation after
the-blockade is lifted, - ..
The West was said to have
made it clear to the Soviets that
plans to set up a Western Germ-
an government would go ahead |
despite Russian objections..
Knows of no Offer
Gen. Lucius D. Clay said in
Berlin that he did not know of
any Russian offer toward lifting
the blockade. Any preliminary
negotiations, he said, would be I.
at governmental level.
The East-West negotiations
over Berlin were reported car-
ried bn through Jacob Malik,
Soviet delegate to the United
Nations Security Council.
Malik was understood to have
suggested originally that the
West drop its plans for a West
German government in return
for the lifting of the blockade.
He hinted that would clear the
Way for a meeting of Foreign
ministers on Germany, which
Russia long has sought,
.....T.h.e„Soviet .uggestion .inform-
ants said, was relayed to the
Western Big Three Foreign Mirt-
(WEEKLY VOL. 67, NUMBER 48)
County’s ‘Million Rainfall
Passes 2 Inches; Boosts Grain Crop
.
Oldest Ex-Texas Ranger
May Be Coleman Resident
PIG GROWS—Pio No. 31L a 4-month-old shoat weighing 50
pounds when it was found swimming in radioactive waters of
Bikini Lagoon after the first atomic bomb blast in 1946. is now
a 600-pounder bound for the National Zoological Park in Wash-
ington. The zoo requested the porker when it learned that the
Naval Medical Research Institute at Bethesda, Md„ had conclud-
ed its scientific observation of her. Her only claim in abnor-
mality has been her failure to bear offspring, but radio-biologists
say that it is net necessarily caused by irradiation. The little pig
with her is a grandchild of another surviving pig, but no rela-
tion to No. 311, the last surviving Bikini pig.
Noah Armstrong,
97 Years Young,
May Win Title
Coleman Band Students
They're Needed
To Go To Regional Meet
Thirty members of the Cole-I part in concert.
Coleman may have the answer man school band will go to San
Discussed By Ministers
The Russian overture wss dies
cussed by Dean Achesnn of the
United States, Ernest Bevin of
Great Britain and Robert Schu-
mannf Fi ance, the Foreign Min-
isters who' assembled in Wash-
ington, for the signing of the At-
lantic Pact.
The ministers apparently de-
cided they could not accept any
proposal to abandon their plans
for a West German state. But, in-
formants here said, they were
willing to negotiate.
Their.reply was reported back
to Malik as informally as he
The case of the State of Texas
vesus Mildred Blackstone, San
*• threw out the original suggestion, i Angelo, indicted on a charge of
Two Attempts To Delay Action
On Gilmer-Aikin Bill Rebuffed
to Laredo’s query for the oldest
ex-Texas ranger. Laredo, down
on the border wains to find him
to take part in its Streets of La-
redo Founding Fiesta, May 15-16.
The winner will get an all ex-
pense trip to the festivity when
his identity is learned, and his
whereabouts are established.
There are two ex-Texas Rang-
ers in this vicinity who might
.f Pm
Angelo April 30 to take part in
the Interscholastic League Reg-
ion Two music competition festi-
val there. The Coleman students
make lip one of 32 bands to par-
ticipate. Also entered in the j Whitehead, baritone,
competition are two orchestras pete for a rating F.a
and 14 choruses. - girls also will compete
Soloists
sight reading
members will pla
A high school j
semble. made up
alto; Gloria Hale
Jameson, tenor;
Citizens Asked
To Return Ties
Taken From Track
Coleman,county gei an act-
ual "million dollar rain" Today,
when steadily failing showers
this morning drenched the
county with an overall two
inches of moisture, and gave
the county’s 100,000 acres of
small grain the last booster,
county agricultural men believ-
ed, to a heavy crop in early
summer.
In Coleman, Santa Anna,
Rockwocd, Valera, and Gouid-
busk rain fall reports at 1:30
had passed lb* two-inch mark,
and rain was still falling slow-
ly, At 12:30, Burkett reported
1.27 inches, and Novice 1.55,
indicating a slightly larger fall
in the northern poitions of the
county.
will
Byron Gray,’Coleman band di-
rector, said the band will take
AUSTIN, April 19—IU.R) Oppon-
ents of Gilmer-Aikin legislation,
in two attempts to delay action!
on the bills for school reorgani- i
zation. were rejected today by
the House.
Rep. Jimmy Horany. of Archer ;
loader, intro-;
delaying consideration of ‘‘other
important bills.”
However, the resolution was
sent to the Rules committee for
study.
Horany also failed earlier in
an effort to have the first of three
school, bills, which would abolish
the post of state superintendent
Coleman Youths
To Try For Honors
At Regional Meet
qualify. One is C; M. Grady, 9.5,
of Brownwood, w.io server; under j
Capt. Jeff Maltby in Maj. John
B. Jones’ command in 1874. He
served in Coleman county. His
daughter, Mrs. Beatrice . Grady
Gay of Santa Anna, is the secre-
tary of the Ex-Rangers Associat-
ion. ’
But even older than he', is ,.
Noah Armstrong, 97 years young Ilonal , h'terscholastio L e a g u e . r d Smjth and Georg" Met.
meet in Abilene April 22-23. They i cornet, Gnffln .
Deleg a tos" from Cole than High
! School will take part in the reg-
Other high school stu:i<
will ploy solus will
Davis, clarinet; James
tuba : and Guvrcne Le a ,.
Bill Tom Hutchinson,
horn. The French horn
sidered among the me-t
wind instruments to pin:
Grade school students,
participate in solo instr
competition will . i-<-
Clary, flute; Bobby.
Tin
Bull
last Feb. 8; who makes his home
sideration by a special session.
"We believe,” he told the
Housi£ “that this legislation
should be given more considera-
tion and thought.” He noted that i
the controversial measures were
L. A. Woods, sent back to com-Lin Qoleman with his daughter, I wili he.students who qualified
Perjury Case
Set For May 4
In Court Here
mince. He sought to send the
plan to the school districts com.
mittee.
Setbacks Suffered
Setbacks also were suffered by
sponsors of legislation for a nat-
ural gas tax.
Mrs. Ima James.
Armstrong served with the
Texas Rangers for two years,
from 1876 through 1878. and he’s
lived in Coleman county ever .
sjnce j In the spores events, Hugh Lan-
: • , . : caster will take part in the 120-
w n Armstrong still talks enthusi-. 1 high hurdles: Raymond
Rep. Ofi.no Tufares of Wichita astically about his days as a : Malphurs will contest in both the
F alls failed twice in attempts to Ranger and, in fact about the I 440_yard and. the 2nO-vard low
get a bill sponsored by him out days of his youth. His father i hurdle met,ts and j. G Goodwin,
brought him from .Jus native Mis- ' Mack Hambright. Harry Wright,
the district meeting in Brady re-
ccntl.v.
Entered in the typing contest , .....- - .......... ............
will be Patsy Marshall, Thalia 'ec* are Uuyrene Lewallen, Peggy
Beall; and Claudia Inman.
tr
bone: Marie Lemmertz. clarii
and Cecelia Andes, baritone.
Three Coleman twirler
ia vicinity
1 for thc past 10 mo;
led if more
county gram croj
missing in
thc point of,needin
; said count; AC A
tely 1,090
or J oe
K. Taylor' today.
only about
; this Tci)
recovered
: * rj . <
Taylor estimated
that have
1 S00,000
acres of small grail
e heavier
planted
for the 1949 crop.
e company
Crop
prospects for Co
in branch
county
to date are the bri
been dis-
! in sevoi
rat years, with 8.40
, • ••
•; *». .siuce^januar;>,
etc
■•today’s
rain pushed it pa
>f the Rail-
1 o-inch
mark. County graii
rf out tfial ’
the be's
t shape 'foV many v
they were ,
Taylor
■
At H(
jrd’s Creek reserve
befor
! treate
of wood
Most uL
enter-
the
and now it is up to Russia to
make the next-move, diplomatic
sources said.
For several days dispatches
from Berlin have dealt with the
possibility of the blockade being
removed. The speculation was
especially strong after the air-
lift carried in a record -tonnage
But Rep.
Joe B. .Fleming of
chairman of the
last Saturday. The feat was in-
terpreted in Western quarters as
notice to the Russians that
blockade had failed.
Two Coleman Girls
Participate In TSCW
High School Play Day
perjury in connection with a
grand jury hearing concerning
the death of Mrs. Odella Clary
in Ballinger in January of 1948,! Henderson,
has been transferred from 119th
district court in Runnels Coun-
ty to 119th district court.in Cojc-
man County..
She was indicted on a charge
of giving false testimony , in the
trial of Clifton Clary, charged
with the death of his wife.
The San Angelo woman Was I
found guilty m a previous trial, Hiqh School Teams
rl nHtriinnrl
Slight Damage
Caused By Fire
but appealed, and obtained a
new hearing. Her case is set for
hearing in Coleman county May
4.
Miss Nancy Holt and Miss Vir-
ginia Lewellen, both Coleman
students of Texas State College
for Women, are participating in
plans for the .eleventh annual
High School Play Day to be hpl4
at the College Saturday.
About 500 girls frpm North
Texas high schools, within 50
miles of Denton are expected to
, take part in the all-day program
■ of sports contests, swimming
and dance activities being spon-
' y tin- TSCW physical edu-
cation department.
'Miss Holt is the daughter of
Mr. -and’Mrs. R. D. Holt. Miss
Lewellen is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Jesse Lewellen.
La Mar To Meet
With Business
Men Of Coleman
of committee.
The measure would place a ! souri to Texas in 1852, when the I g^LeRov Elkins will enter as a
tax of 1 1-2 cents per 1,000. cubic | Px-Ranger was a baby. The fam- j team in lhe. one mile relav con.
feet on the gathering of natural i dy located in Bell county near | test
gus. j Salado. _ I Goodwin also will enter
He said the committee on rev-! Salado Mas Frontier 880-yard dash event,
enue and taxation, now consider- i “That was frontier then, ’ Arm- '
ing his bill .“won’t even give me' strong said. “I've been in the
a decision.” i West ever since. Salado had tho
largest school during the Con-
federate war. I went to school
committee claimed that the com-1in Si‘lado d“ring the _ .
mittee can’t reach an agreeemntl D™' the war al‘th* South'
jt ern men were away. Father was
appointed in that district to kill
He was successful in tabling bee| for the war widows. That
two attempts by * Ufa res to gain was done all over Texas! After
the war he left Salado and moved
to Hill county, then came back to
Williamson county.”;.,___
By that time Armstrong was
about (4 or :1a years old and he
ran away from home. “I was
gone 10 years,” he said “and
they didn’t know where I was.”
It was during that If) year period
that he joined the rangers in.
.Navarro county.
He was sent to Coleman Coun-
Ray, and Juanell Davis.
Appriximately 25 students, win-
are not yet members of .the
"first” band will not take .part
in the music festival.
; arp valued at $i.6u each
them are pine.
Persons who have taken them,
not knowing of their value, are
asked to return them to the San-
ta Anna depot.
inene
1:30,
rise <
1.8
s of ram had fallen up to
ana -the lake had shoy,n a
if .75 feet and was reported
Poisonous Plants
Are Discovered
In Coleman Area
Sentence
Imposed In
r
onrerv Case
w i.
Omer Sperry of A. and M
lege, who was in Coleman c<-
last week on a field trip m
nection with poisonous gr;
Dm
He
triot Clet
action on the measure,
gton elle d rmitDititax
Wiil Try Out For
Pep Squad Leaders
j Pep squad try-outs will be held
j at Coleman High School Thurs-
[ day. Students trying for a pep >v,
; team perforin with yells before' tv and stationed at Double-Moun-
The Coleman fire department i ^nunt* several in this are,
was summoned about 1 n.m. : In a study of plants in the Ta!-
Saturday to extinguish a blaze pa area, he found the sac,,: uista
in a car owned by Hoyt Craig. | bush, broadleaf milk weed, and
Fire Chief E. W. Parker said the ! a small amount of bitter weed,
fire evidently started from elect- i It is believed some sheep in the
rical wiring under the dash ■; area have been victims of the
board. Damage was slight. The
auto was in the 300 block on San
Saba street.
Coleman has not had :tgeneral
fire alarm this year, according
to Chief Parker.
broadleaf milk weed.
tArs. Helen Leach
Re-Elected To Teach
In Coleman School
Maurice LaMar, Del Rio, field
representative for Appreciation
Day Sales Promotion, will meet
with Coleman merchants at 2
p.m. Wednesday at the county
cqurt house here.
Notice of the meeting, from
which it is hoped plans for fh-
creased sales in Coleman will re-
sult, have been sent to business
the entire student body and are la{n Forks. Rangers, he explain-
Thirteen Nsw Cases
Of Measles Reported
Coleman Man
Sells Bull, $4,000
. returned to Cole-
state prison a:
he Coleman-Coun-
's department and Dis-
k T. H. Corder. enter-
plea of guilty in 35th dis-
court here Monday on
es of forgeryi.iH# was sen t-
by Judge O. A. Newman to
o five years in the state
fntiary on tour counts, sent-
to run. concurrently;-and
to five years on the fifth count,
sentence, to run consecutively
with the first sentences .
Burton was charged here in
connection with checks passed at
two drugstores for wrist-
watches; two service
to pass a foot rise by tonight.
Water was still flowing in. the
engineers reported.
Lake Scarborough was report-
ing a good runoff flow into the
ff}.T t;n but Il-i
measureopmt had been made.
Meanwhile. United Press re-
ported that thunderstorms, dous-
od much of West Tt xns UiSX'nighl '
and early today, accompanied by-
hail in scattered localities that,
image.
>avid Johnson,
i a farm when
g. He was lead-
barn when the
did he
At 1
23. w;
struck
mg a
bolt st.
Hea
kil
ilf ini
cha
er.ci
tw< l.
cnci -s
A Hereford bull, raised by Jack
Horne who lives between Colo-
- milk
for $
Fo iu-
then voted on. ‘ led, were stationed in battallions
Mrs. Clara Blackwell is faculty about 100 miies apart as far
sponsor for the activity'.
Houston Man
Ts Not 1 lappv
Over Oil Well
men here by N. T. Underwood, .
manager of the Board of Com- 1 HOUSTON April 19—(U.R> Harry
munity Development, following Drvden claimed today an oil well
a conference of a special BCD
committee on the program to be
presented.
The name of Mrs. Helen Leach,
teacher of Class 1-A at West
Ward school here, was accident-
ally omitted from the list of
teachers whose names were pub-
lished in Sunday’s issue of the
Democrat-Voice.
Mrs. Leach also has been un-
animously re-elected to serve as
a factulty member in the Cole-
man schools during the coming
year. Members of the school
board re-elected all teachers in
a hieeting Thrsduy night.
Taken To Prison
It Won't Be Long
An indication that the close of
the 1948-49 term of school is near
at hand is the arrival of diplo-
mas at the high school. Seventy-
five seniors are candidates for
graduation this year.
LeRoy Mayer, sentenced to
serve six years, and James M.
Hope, sentenced to eight years,
were taken to prison at Hunts-
ville Friday by a Coleman coun-
ty deputy sheriff and District
Clerk T. H. Corder.
south as,the Rio Grande.
' Their business was to be on
the lookout for Indians, The
Rangers went in groups of twos |
and threes, and when they found
an Indian trail, reported back to ■
camp, where other Rangers join- -
ed them for the hunt.
Eights With Indians
During his service with the
famed Rangers, Armstrong was |
in several skirmishes with the
Redskins. He laughted a little
as he told of one experience with
the Indians.
.Thirteen new cases’of measles j ^ alcia, has tuough.
1 goo.d price to its owner. Sold U
Charles Ncblett Jr. of Stephen
ville for breeder purposes, the
were reported for last week to
Dr. John M. Nichols, Coleman
city* health officer. Seven were
reported as red measles, and six
as German*measles.
In addition one case of dip-
fheria. and oncVo fchickeripox
were reported. ,
Burton will
1 Huntsv ille.prisi
be returned
two-vear-old bull changed hands
at a cost, of $4,000. '
The bull is J. H. Jupiter Star. ,
Its*sire is O.J.R. Jupiter Star V
Coleman County 4-H
Boys To Judge Wool
Pacific Chief
Armstrong and three or
of the “other boys” had
(SEE ARMSTRONG, PAGE 4i | wool show in June.
within 500 feet of his land made
him anything but ha£>py.
In fact, the farmer said, he
was unhappy about $7339 worth.
It was March 17, 1948, when
the showers of “black gold” fell
for 49 hours on Drvden’s five-
acre farm. ,
Casualties, Dryden said, in-
eluded: _
, „ , The 1949 school census just
, Seventy of his chickens and i ,pted shows. , 34! white
; rabbits, beaten to death by the | Ghildren and 95 Negro chiIdren in
steady oilfall. | thc Coleman school district. That
| 2. Fifty-six trees, marred into js 35 less white children and one
j “dead, black, naked and unsight-1 iess Negro, according to Terrell
ly” appearance. Graves, superintendent, and.indi-
Several Coleman' County 4-H
boys are expected to attend the
preliminary wool judging con-
test in El Dorado April 23, ac-
I cording to Assistant County
four I Agent Paul Newton. The practice
been j judging will precede , the Sonora
P; 4 I 1 cRmi1 ivi Tnr\o •
School Census For '49 Indicates
Very Lillie Change In Population
President Dies
SAN ANTONIO, April 19~(U.f>)-
Members of the Texas Old Trail ; 3. His cow, which ■ became un-
Drivers Association wore sad nerved and suffered a miscar-
wore
counteances as they gathered
nere today for their annual meet-
ing. The convention, will be held
this year without the organiza-
tion’s president, Dick Debaudel-
yden. He died Saturday night in
\ustin at the age of 81. Funeral
services were planned in Austin
yesterday.
riage,
4. Some of his clothing ruined.
| 5. Dryden's pasture lands,
home and farm buildings, which
i he said were “drenched with
oil.” v-
6. Sturdy fencing, some 600 feet
of which was torn down by
| trucks rushing to the well.
cation that the population of the
city is about the same.
1 He pointed out however, that
any child, between the ages of
six and 17 years, not already in-
cluded in the densus, and who
was living within the Coleman
Children in Coleman attend
one of five schools- -the high'
school, Negro school, one of two
ward schools, or the Latin-
Ametican school, the latter only
if they are in lower grades.
Before the opening of school in
SepterTVbeTTEowever, the Latin-
Ameriean school will be moved
to the campus of South Ward
school, where a surplus building
from the San Angelo Air Field
will be put in good condition for
Revival Services
Slarl Wednesday
A! Church Here
■ Revival semrices will begin at
the • First Methodist ■ Church in
Coleman Wednesday rtight, with
the pastor, the Rev. J. W. White-
I field preaching each night
! through Sunday.
Beginning Monday
[the Rev. Stanley Williams, past-
i or of the Main St, Methodist
(Church of Cleburne will be in
; Charge.
j Earl4Ward of Waco will be
] song leader and youth worker,
j beginning Wednesday,
! The church has extended a cor-
i dial invitation-to all to attend the
downpour of rain was
in Swisher County, in the region
between Happy and Kaffir. The
rain was • estimated to have
measured four inches.
There was liberal accomani-
ment of hailstones, and several
farmers at Happy, surveying
their wheat fields this mornim:.
reported that nothing Wats' left
but the stems. It was not known
immediately how widespread
such field damage was.
Amarillo underwent a hail de-
luge in the. midst of a violent
st night. The hail
was- so heavy and thick ihat it
•irov<- \ irtu > all traffig^off the
streets for awhile. •
, Hail disrupted communications
(lines' to Eagle Pass and Del Rio
this morning. At Edinburg late
yesterday. ,a heavy rain ,qnd hail
storm beat to pieces a radio ^e'-
pair shop roof, caused streets to
flood and hajted' district court
proceedings.
Cotton Damaged
Within a .30 nyinute period, the
downpour was gauged at 1 45
inches. The hail damaged _y,oung
stations; J thunderstorm 1
' 5tore fnr canned , was. so h
the checks were
> fur $25,. Corder
cotton plants.
Hail damage was reported also
in the San Angelo vicinity,! and-
fKfi n'S>*a tRnr VyiiAn-iVi e'ntrZ ' I
Superintendent
Visits Schools
the weather bureau said” that
conditions in the “squall line”
morning -that extended southward from
Wichita Falls to ' Del Rio were
suitable for such elemental dis-
orders.
Victoria, in South Central Tex-
as, had the heaviest officially-
recorded rainfall in the 24 hours
ending at• 6:30 a.m.—1.39 inches.
Amarillo reported 1.27 inches;
Del Rio, 1.10; Sail Angelo, 1.06;
Lubbock. 1.04: Abilene. .97; Dal-
hart, ,39.; Childress, .25; and
Clarendon. .19.
Skies were ’ cloudy over the
whole state and the intermittent
rainfall continued over the west-
ern half.*
Vice Adm. Arthur W. Radford,
above, was named the new
commander-in-chiel of the U. S.
Pacific Fleet and high commis-
wrfs living wiunii mi vuiciiiou j class rooiTis, Graves, explained. , raum; nm mu uiku vuuiuiio-
school district April 1. be report- The moving of the sobeq^ta the : aioner of the'Pacific islands,.Slic-
ed to any one of the schools here. : Squth Ward qampus is in com-: ceeding Adm,<r4gg^;i|j; -Clinton
or to Mrs. J. A. Netherton, pliance With a ro, ent federal Ramsa.V, who retired. Radford
census enumerator. I court ruling. ' Will have full rank of admiral
P. V Patrick of Lometa. dep-
uty superintendent of schools for
tin- State, arrived in Coleman
yesterday and, witn County Sup-
erintendent D. E. Loveless is
visiting rural schools in the
county. -‘.vi.
Patrick wi'l visit only a part of
liiillatifelioois today, and will con-,
j tiniie his annual spiring visit at
. a later .date.
Whiskey Charge Filed
Against Coleman Negro
A charge of possession of
whiskey for sale in a dry areu
was filed in county
Monday against C.(&
Negro, of Coleman,
department
Monday-
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