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THE WEATHER
COLEMAN - BROWNWOOD—
Partly cloudy to cloudy with
widely scattered thundershow-
ers .little change in tempera-
tures this afternoon, tonight and
Wednesday .lowest tonight near •
72. '
Yesterday's high 100; low 66
VOLUME 1, NUMBER 201
Coleman Daily Democrat-Voice
United Press Leased Wire
NEA Feature Service
COLEMAN, COLEMAN COUNTY TEXAS. TUESDAY. JULY 26, 1949 -
DOW JONES STOCK
AVERAGES
30 Inds 176.37 up 1.25
20 RR 45.58 up 0.36
15 Util^ 35.67 up 0.10
(WEEKLY VOL. 67), NUMBER 43
r4rms Program Will Rouse Fight
In Congress, Connally Declares
THEY MEAN BUSINESS—When the Tupelo Consolidated Schools annexed the Eubanks
school district, a little community about 20 miles Southwest of Ada, Okla., and ordered the
school-house moved, tfye residents said no. They want to keep the school-house as a community
building. Men of the ermmunity have armed themselves with guns and taken up a 'round-the-
clock watch to see that the building stays in pla:e. From left to right: Roy Mooney, Newt Hood,
Frank Scott. Arnold LaFevers, and stated, Pat Ellis.
Kids Swim Event Of Year
To lie Held Friday IViglit
Almost 200 youngsters. who have taking part, are urged to" attend
taken part in'the Coleman Sunt-(the show, King said,
mer Recreation swim program will
be eligible to participate in the!
swim event of she year at Straach
Pool Friday nig lit.
It will be a swim show" which
will start about !i 30 p.m. and will
include events for both boys and1
girls.
Practice for it will lie conducted
Wednesday and Thursday at 9 a.- j
m, regular class time, at Straach!
Pool. Coach Harold King has an-i
nounced that a bus will pick up ;
youngsters to take them to the
practice periods, and that each one j
who has taken part in Liir summer I
swim program is urged to be on i
hand:
Friday night's show will be brief ,
—about 30 minutes in length—but |
it will include _iich feats as making*
patterns, surface diving, demon-
strations ot different style swim- j
ming as the crawl, side stroke, and
breast stroke, and mass swimming.
Urged To Attend
All parents, and any one else in-
tcrested m liie wun program in
which these youngsters have been
Those who will be in it started to
learn to . swim June 12 under the
direction of Mrs. Jean Justice.
Charles Jetton. Nat Gleaton, and
Coach King. Most of them couldn't
swim at all when they started.
Ninety-five per cent of them now
can.
Tlie swim program is a part of
the Summer Recreation Program
end was designed as an introduc-
tion c f a wholesome sport for the
youngsters.
Mozelle Voters
To Decide On Two
School Issues
Eligible voters in the Mozelle
School District will go to the
polls Saturday to decide on two
issues—a local maintenance tax
rate, and bond assumption.
Eligible voters htClUdrthOS'c in
the former Folk and Red Bank
districts, which consolidatedywith
the Mozelle district early in July,
4-H Club Committees
Plan Tent City" Activities
Funeral Services
For Mrs, Latimer
Conducted Today
Through, a regrettable .error,
it was . announced in Monday’s
issue'of the Daily Democrat-
Voice that funeral services would
be conducted yesterday for Mrs.
Ollic Josephine Latimer, instead
of today. The Democrat-Voice is
happy to make this correction of
the error.
Mrs. Latimer, a resident of
Coleman County since 1933, had
been u member of the Church of
Christ for 40 years. She was the
wife of J. R. Latimer.
Services for her were conduct-
ed at 10 a.m. today at the
Church of Christ here, Mr. Ollle |Shields, Herman Jenkins of Coie-
! Committee members who are
making arrangements for the 1949
j annual 4-H Club encampment, to
be held at, Herd’s Creek reservoir
! Vugust 11-12. have been announced.
The. Committees are made up of
4-H adult leaders, Club members,
'ami extension agents Members are
as follows:
■Arrangements—Paul -Newton of
i Coleman. Welton Holt of Gould-
j busk. Jack Lauder of Buffalo, and
I Don Coursey of Bowen.
Registration- Mrs. M. T. Trayicr
! n.rl Jean Traylor, both of Cros
I roads. :
! Fcod—Richard Dillingham of
(ify Clean-Up
Drive To Gel
Started Monday
The Coleman Junior Chamber
: of Commerce will lend support
I to the city.’s annual “Clean-Up"
! scheduled to begin Mond a y
Whenever the boundary lines
of the school district are chang-
ed, the local maintenance tax is
automatically abolished, neces-
sitating a local maintenance tax
election—which wall be held Sat-
urday. Voters will decide wheth-
er or not they want a $1.25 per
$100 property valuation tax,
which the Mozelle school board
estimates will be necessary for
operation of the school under the
new Gilmer-Aikin law. The prev-
ious tux has been one dollar.
The bond assumption election
is necessary because the Mozelle
district has outstanding bonds,
and voters must decide on
in the collection of trash and I
{useless items, which Coleman
{ citizens will clean from attics
■and. premises, and deposit for
{ free city-wide pick-up.
j The clean-up campaign will
! continue through Saturday. A
| definite program is scheduled
■ for each day.
COLEMAN COUNTY—No. one! The city will be. divided into
wheat $1.82 per bushel; No. 2 oats f°ur sections, and one section
.59 per bushel; No. 2 barley .90 per will be worked each of the first
'PeeWee' Team
To Play Novice
The Coleman “PeeWee-" soft-
ball team will play the Novice
junior team tomorrow at 3:30
p.m. at Huffprd Field, Coach I
Harold King has announced. The!
“PeeWces” team is composed of j
boys 10, 11, and 12 years old
morning. The organization has1 ancl "0,er» ?n Thc Novice, team is also com
offered to'furnish a truck to help.I sPreadlnS thl; liability over the posed of youngsters in that age
Cantwell, of Brownwood officiat-
ing. Burial was in Coleman ]
cemetery.
Survivors include two sons, 1
Floyd and Virgil, both of Crow-
ell, Tex., two daughters, Mrs: !
Anne Harrell of Brownfield and '
Mbs. Edna Beal <T Coleman: j
three brothers,' John Cheatham
of Bakersfield, Calif.; Walter
Cheatham qf Grapevine, Tex.;
and Jim Cheatham of Childress,
Tex.; three sisters', Alpha Mor-
rison of Chillieothe, Tex.; Mary
Boaz of Vernon, Tex:; and j
Gracite 'Trr>m'""rrffTft.>live. ..
Tex.: and seven grandchildren.:
Wright's Funeral Home of j
Coleman directed funeral ar-i
rangemenls.
Mrs. Latimer died Sunday at .
Brownfield. She was. 64.
man. Mr. Oscar Beneke, of Trick-
am. and Mrs. Welton Holt.
Program and recreation—Mr, and
Mrs. R. 8. Adiari of Fisk, Mrs. Don
Coursey, Mr-! Edgar Nealy of Vale-
ra, Nancy Adiari of Fisk, Barbara
Agent- Mary Jo Garland and
j man Jenkins, since it will tie a
camp. 4-H boys, girl-, and
leaders will register at 10 am.
' ust 11 at "Tent City The
nation fee will be d. dulLi
person.
Activities to be n (ii an
, th 1 craft, iialter making i d r
' Jig and swimming cta:i •
|songs will be included as me
A campfire program
'tor the night a! \a ■ '
will break up" about 4 p.m
ust 12,
Everv active 4-H Cl .o n ■ mis
’eligible to attend.;Letter.-, i
equipment each person will
j a re being mailed
! The- countv agents a
■:ha; cards be mailed to tia-i
that an estimate on attendant
be made.
William H. Rush
Former Valera
Postmaster Dies
H. Ri
75,
former
lera for 34
ay afternoon,
siderit of Va-
Plan Is Open
To Revision
Texan Says
M
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be Methi
the Rev
Burial
itery, w
;1 be coi
la lUgl
irers wi
C. Bri
list Cl
McMi
OoLson of Burkett, and Charier
Barnes ot Crossroads.
Handicraft Mrs. Jerry Wilson of
Novice. Mrs Nolan Burkett ot Bur-
kett-, Vivian- Nealy of Valera, and
Barbara Watson of Silver Valley.,
Tent City
Camp tills year will be a little
|. different,... according- to- -.....County
41
Russian Speakinr
San Antonio Pair
Hijackers Injure
Offset
Oil Well
Drilled
s inclu:
am H.
son, Cl
daughtc
of Port
r, Mrs C. C.
Arthu: , three j
c Rush and I
of Coleman; I
entire new district.
Coleman County
And Fori Worth
Grain Markets
bushel; No. two milo $1.68 cwt.; No.
two hegari $1.67 cwt,
FORT WORTH, July 20—(U.PJ—
—(USDA) GRAIN:
Estimated receipts today in-
cluded 3f! cars wheat .7 cars
corn, 4 -cars oats, 20 cars sorg-
hums; total 69 cars.
According to U. S. Department
four days of thc drive. The two
remaining days will be used for
a general “pick-up” to collect
any; trash missed during the first
four. There will be no charge for
thc extra collection service to
Coleman citizens. All they have
to do is have the materials they
want taken away put out for col-
lection, and the city will take
Santa Fe RR
To Start New
Schedules
group.
The PeeWees have played two
games this year—botii against
Brownwood— and have suffered
defeat in both games. Scores
were 16 to five, and seven to
four.
Episcopal Church
I In Coleman To Have
New schedules, affecting Cole-
man, will be put into effect at I Rev. Richard Hayes of Brown-: One-hundred and nineteenth dis-
midnight, July 31, Santa Fe wood will conduct evening prayer jtriet court will be in session in
Railways has announced. The- and sermon at the Church of the Coleman Monday, Judge O. L. Par-
new schedules are as follows: iHoly Spirit, Episcopal, in Coleman ish presiding. Uncontesting .suits
Train No. 75, west bound j Wednesday, night. The service will will be heard. Nothing has been
(going from Galveston to San p^gjn at, 8 p.m. set on the docket
•of Agriculture's Production and [care of the rest of the work.
Marketing Administration, oats
lost about 1 cent a bushel and
other grains around 3 cents or
more.
No. 1 hard wheat sold at $2.16
3-4 per bushel, bulk, in carlots,
freight and tax paid to Texas
common points. No. 2 wheat
moved at I to 2 cents lower.
No. 2 white corn closed at
$1.77 3-4-8't 3-4, No. 2 yellow corn
$1,62 1-463, arid No. 2 Barley
$1.20-25.
Nd 2 yellow mile realized
$2.12-22 per hundred pounds.
No. 2 white oats brought .81
1-242 1-2 per bushel at Galvest-
on. and .73 3-4-79 3-4 at Fort
Worth.
Francisco)
3:12 a.m.
leaves Coleman at: —
; Location has been made on an
'Offset oil well, 660 jeet due west ot
the present producer, W. E Stepp
and L. J. Maxwell, et al, Mrs.
George Sparkman, et . al, located
860 feet north of the south line ana
330 feet east, of the West line of
BRUNSWICK. Germany, July I Sparkman's 200-acre lease in thy
26— (UP) Lt. Harvey Konitz and1 southeast part of the Samuel
his wife, of San- Antonio, Tex.. .Crooks survey 736, W. E. Stepp said
were recovering today fr.orn in- today. |
juries received in a mysterioius Thc offset is'W. E. SUtpp and L
attack by Russian-speaking hi- J. Maxwell, cl al, Paul Riddle N -
jaekers Sunday night. 1.
The couple was driving from | Spudded Saturday, it was being
Brunswick southward to Goslar j drilled at 550 feet today, and will
when the gangsters driving a g0 to production,. Stepp said.
U truck forced Konitz's car to halt it js hoped production will be
{He was immediately seized by reached at 2100 feet,
the hijackers who tried to force | Discovery of Sparkman No. 1
him into the truck. :has created a lot of excitement in
Kontz s wife ran to his assist-0g industry in. this section. It
ance. In the short battle that fol- js located almost at the city limits
Wweci Konitz received a ^slight ()f Coleman -two mles south of
head injury and his wife s nose colcman County courthouse,
was broken. As they fled, a'
burst of automatic rifle fire was ' , .
fired at their car. RCV. J8CK Howard
To Be Guest Preacher
At Methodist Church
Rev. Jack Howard of.Colemar
will be guest minister at St
John Methodist Church here Fri-
day night. His service will begin
at 8:15 p.m.
Plans are underway for a • re-
vival at the church, date to be
announced next week.
BV JOHN L. STEELE
United Press Staff
Correspondent
of Ah-| WASHINGTON July 26—hJ.Pj —
'.Chairman Tom Connally of the
im will Senate Foreign Relations Com-
t ednes-j mittec announced today he will
urch in introduce President Truman’s
ken of-1$ 1,450,000,000 Arms Aid Plan in
m Va- ; the Senate, but said it is “tvidd
■here graveside open" for revisions. ' (
ndacted by the! The Texas Democrat already
• as informed Secretary of State
II be A. J. Mor- Dean Acheson that he faces "a
. W. P j hell of a fight" trying to get the
Mite h e 1 I. i administration, program through
tnd Henry j Congress.
Connally's announcement that
Ins widow, i he will introduce thc President's
ish of Yal- :plan—probably late today—was
Rush of |taken to mean that' the admin-
jistration is determined.-to push
its plan despite strong opposit-
ion from Republican foreign
policy leaders and some power-
R . of Abingdon . .fui Democrats The opposition
:s:ei - Mrs. Charles Mead- prefers a stop-gap program.
.;! Grove City, Ohio .and j Connally revealed that he did
Virginia Nixon of Lynch- {not expect any Republicans to
\ . and three grandchild-| join him in presenting the bill
to.the Senate He said Demo-
~ - Funeral Home of -erotic Sens. Elbert Thomas.
Utah, Claudel Pepper, Fla., and
Theodore Francis Green, R. L,
' would join him in sponsoring the
Watch Oil Drilling blU'
Mrs. W. E, Stepp’s sister, Miss !; • Declined Comment
Lucille Norman of Dallas, -and Connally »tn! declined com-
eousin. Mrs E. C, - Stovall, of m*nt °n thc President's plan.
Traham. visited in Coleman dur- j r‘rings °n thc Truman Plan ^
nil tiie weekend to see the begin Thursday before the
(House Foreign Affairs Commit*
tee, with Acheson as first wit-
ness.
Mr. Truman sent his arms-
for-Europe program to Congress
yesterday with a plea for prompt
action to stop Russia's “massed
military might." The arms plan
j is designed to put muscle in the
■ newly-ratified ,Atlantic Defense
Pact. /V
However, Ben. Arthur H.
Home
meeting funeral ar-
my the
Sparkm
ed in.
weekend to see the
m-No. one oil well urill-
Curry Attends FHA
Supervisors' Meeting
John Curry. Coleman County
supervisor of the Farmer's
Home Administration is in Min-
eral Weils where he is attending
a two-day_ FHA pasture im-
provement meeting.
Dog Bites Fireman
j 119th District Court
Guest Rector Wednesday Session Starts Monday
Ben. Arthur H. Van-
don berg, Mich., and other Re-
publican leaders assailed the
plan as another lend-lease af-
fair. too costly and premature.,
CINCINNATI, O. July 26—(U.R .Their split with thc administ-
Sum Rue. 26. city fireman. 1 ration represented the first maj-
his chewed ankle today and or break in the bipartisan foreign
vowed to- keep an eye on any (policy front in recent 'ears,
and all nearby dogs when he , Even some influential Demo-
, testis another fire plug. jerats were skcpitcal about the
Rut' was testing a plug 3'©$*. ( President's proposal.
| terday. when a dog walked up j ____
| and bit him on the ankle. [ ,
“He acted like he owned that
! plug," .said Rue. "H.e braced his
OAX
WEDNISDAY-TIIURSDAY
July 27-28
"TARZAN'S MAGIC
FOUNTAIN"
Lex Barker, Brenda Joyce
Admission 35c and 9c
Show Starts at 8 p.m.
Extra trucks and men will he on
duty.
Schedule
Schedule for thc drive is as
follows:
Monday—gverything north of
College Avc. aluh west of Com-
mercial Ave.
Tuesday—Everything south of
College Avc. and west of Com-
mercial Avc.
Wednesday - Everything cast
of Commercial Avc. anil south of
Seventh St.
Thursday Everything north
of Seventh St. and east of Com-
mercial Ave.
Friday and Saturday—To Be
spent in picking up anything
missed during the first four days !
of the drive. . .
Dividend Applications
For Insurance Will Be
Mailed To Veterans
Applications for dividend pay-
ments <m GI insurance will be
sent direct to thc veteran and
payments will star! after Jan-
uary I, Ben Cnx, Coleman Coun-
ty service officer has announced.
Cox is available to all veter-
ans in the county for consult-
ation on any problems relating
to their service. His office is in
the Agriculture Building in Cole-
man.
Train No. 76, east bound |
(going from California .to Gal-
veston), arrives Coleman 11:55 :
p.m.
Train No. 77, w'est bound,
.(going from Fort Worth to San
Angelo) arrives Coleman 3:40
a.m.
Train No. 78, cast bound,
(going from San Angelo to Fort
Worth) leaves Colcman 11:25
p.m.
Train No. 75, from Galveston
to California will have 14 ears, *
one of the longest trains through j
here, and will be Dcisel engine
pulled and air-conditioned.
Service
Coleman will be served with
I through sleeping cars from New
Orleans to Oakland, Calif., sleep-
ing car from Dallas straight
through to Los Angeles, sleep-
ing car from Dallas to Clovis, N.
Mex., club and lounge car from
Houston to Clovis, dining car
from Houston to Clovis, chair
car from Houston to Los Angeles
and Jim Crow car from Houston
to Clovis as a result of the new
schedules. The sleeping car from
Fan Angelo to Houston will be
retained.
The present schedule of trains
arrival here is: No. 75, arriv-
ing 3:22 a.m.; No. 76, arriving
11:20 p.m.; No. 77, arriving 5:22
a.m.; No. 78; 10:55 p.m. v
. pegs and . growled. I said, ’go
away, I'm just testing it." Guess
he didn't believe me."
The dog's owner. John L.
Jones, jg.. said it was the first
time ' his dog had ever bitten
anybody,
■ But- it's the first time any-
body's fooled around that plug,"
he added.
Scattered Rains
Fall Over County
Scattered light showers fell
lover Coleman County early this
morning. Colcman had ,23 of an
inch. Santa Anna, Gouldbusk,
Glen Cove. Valera, and Novice
reported light showers. Burkett
reported a "sprinkle.”
. Heaviest rainfall was at Fisk
where ,25 of an inch was report-
Mrs. W. W. Willbanks of
Brady w.as to be. released from
Overall Memorial Hospital here led. Rockwood, on the other hand
t today where she has been for had none.
j observation for several days aft- The temperature in Coleman
er having suffered a fall at the ] yesterday soared to an even 100
home of her daughter, Mrs. 'degrees, but dropped to a com-
David Snodgrass, here. j fortable 66 degrees last night.
Youth Terrorizes Town With Plane
Then (rashes Into Wife's Grave
STOCKTON. Calif . July 26-
(U'P A 23-year-old youth last
night "power-dived" his small
burn. The torn and mangled
body of young Higby was thrown
nearly 85-fcct from the wreck-
private plane into the graveyard iage,
where" his wife was buried four ! Sheriff Carlos Souza said Hig-
■months ago after first terroriz- by took off from Orange Broth-
u-.g iesidents herewith refeUtcd ers’'airport, five miles north of*-
buzzing. " i iStockton, at about five p.m. al-
— The .i^tfftfti RussclLtBud) Yiig- most immediately, police and
bj. Jr., son of a prominent [sheriff switchboard were ftood-
Stockton and Bakersfield pro- ed with calls from terrorized
dure merchant, was described by i residents. Deputies were sent to
his parents ns "despondent" thc airport to arrest Higby when
TRUMAN AND CONNALLY EXAMINE PAC T—President Truman and Senatcr Tom Connal-
ly examine the President s signaiuie on the article of Ratification of the North Atlantic Pact.
The President signed the measure Monday in a White House ceremony witnessed by cabinet
and congressional leaders.
its
ns
over the' death of his wife,
Beverly, during the birth of their
second child.
Witnesses said thc light, plane
leveled off at'"about. 2.900 feet
over the Stocktoif Rural Ceme-
tery. and then “nosed-over into
u 60-degree power dive."
The craft “simply disintegrat-
ed" on impact, sheriff's depu-
ties said, with parts scattered
over a 1,500-foot area. It did not as 40-feet.’’
he landed.
Higby repeatedly power-dived
his Cessna monoplane over the
northeast section of the city, and
then swooped down over main
streets at “hair raising" low
levels.
"For awhile, we thought we
might even have to shoot him
down." sheriff Souza said.
‘Some of his dives came as low
i",
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