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VOL. Ill, NO. 152
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GLADEWATER, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 16, 1952
Station KSU—1430 On Your Dial
Be FBI COF1
Congress Is
Braced For
Tax Order
WASHINGTON, Jan. 16 (U.R)—
An election • conscious Congress
braced itself Wednesday for new
tax demands from President Tru-
man in his annual economic mes-
sage.
While the President's precise fi-
nancial plans for fiscal 1053 will
not be disclosed until the next
budget is submitted next Monday,
the economic report at 11:13 p.m.
<CST> was expected to give a sub-
stantial clue to what Mr. Truman
will demand.
Sen. A. Willis Robertson (D-Va.)
forecast a request from the Presi-
dent for at least $10,000,000,000 in
new taxes. Other members of the
House and Senate expected the
demand to be less.
Administration sources disclosed
several days ago that the Presi-
dent had decided definitely to ask
for higher taxes, despite warnings
from his congressional lieutenants {
that Congress will turn a deaf
ear to his plea.
Mr. Trumans recent “state of
the Union" message said merely
that continued high taxes would
be necessary lor some time to
come.
But Sen. Walter F. George <D-
Gad, chairman of the Senate Fi-
nance committee, and Rep. Rob-
ert L. Diuighton <D-NC.». chair-
man Of the House Ways and
Means committee, both arc on rec-
ord as opposing any further tax
Victim Of Mine Blast
Reds Increase Number Of
Allied Prisoners Killed
UN Again Demands Ban
On Airfields During Truce
Stretcher bearers carry the body of a victim through the snow
after it was recovered from the McGregor coal mine in Stellar-
ton. Nova Scotia, which was rocked by a violent underground
explosion. Three of the 22 miners at work in the pit escaped,
the other 19 were killed.
PANMUNJOM, Jan. 16 (U.R) —
Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway’s head-
quarters conceded Wednesday that
an Allied plane might have bomb-
ed a Communist war prisoner
camp as charged by the Reds.
At the same time, the Com-
munists increased from 10 to 20
the number of United Nations war
prisoners they said had been killed
in the raid Monday night. Forty-
Public Square In
Who Can-Cannot Iy.jrBc“nn°t Be
Sold Rules Court
hikes barring all-out war.
UMT Planners Say
Trainees To Have
Better Morals
WASHINGTON, Jan. 16 (U.R) —
UMT planners promised Wednes-
day to tciurn 18-year-old trainees
to civilian life with better morals
than when they were inducted.
Dr. Karl T. Compton, atomic
physicist and member of the Na-
tional Security Training commis-
sion, also assured Congress that
graduates of the proposed new
universal military training camps
wffi make better students In cof-
tegr aa a result of their six months
ih the barracks.
Compton said every possible
step, including assignment of more
than twice the normal number of
chaplains to UMT camps, will be
taken to protect the “Undoes"
from such moral pitfalls as liquor
and prostitution
Submitted by Samuel C. Harris
Chapter 482. House Bill No. 8.
styled Election Cods was adopt-
ed by the regular session of the
S2nd Legislature of Texas, of-
1 fectire January 1. 1882, among
other things provides:
Chapter five beginning with Ar-
I tide 33 defines who is not quali-
fied to vote. Article 34 the qualifi-
cations and requirements for vot-
ing. etc., and Article 41 says, a
poll tax 'hall be collected from
collector of his county and re-1
ceive an exemption from payment:
of a poll tax for the year 1951. AUSTIN, Jan. 16 (U.R)—The state
i All elections for the year 1952, the supreme court ruled Wednesday
voter uses a 1951 poll tax or ex- that Smith county may move its
emption certificate.! All persons courthouse, but it can’t sell Tyler’s
otherwise subject to u poll tax or public square.
exemption moving into the state _. . , . , .. ^
of Texas since January 1, 1951, That £?.u,t “uc1, bc*
may make application to the tax l°n8s to all the public,
assessor and collector for an ex-' In handing down the decision,
emption certificate for the year: the high court reversed both a
___ ____ 1951 at any time prior to the hold- trial court and civil appeals deci-
every person between the ages of j ing of any election during the year sion holding in favor of Smith
Twenty-One <21» and Sixty ifl0»|1952. But thereafter will have to county.
years who resided in this state on pay his annual poll tax. If you gujt involved three groups
the 1st day of January prececding arc to pay a poll tax for the year ;_gmith county the city fo Tyler
its levy. (A poll tax is levied ; 1951. you may pay same prior to I and Dr Albcrt Woldert, reprcsent-
against each person subject to i February 1. A.. D. MW- hng landowners and the public.
h.ime on January 1 of each and It is now held by Munn Fullers • .
every year). Indians are not taxed, office that Article 48 of Chapter. Smith county contended it
Persons insane, blind, deaf or I five of the New Election Code of i owned the square on which the
dumb; those who have lost a hand the state of Texas does not re-1 courthouse was located, and if
foot, those permanently dls- quire an exemption certificate for the courthouse was removed the
....... ■ ■ — ----- square could be sold to anybody
the county chooses. Tyler, since
the square was included in the
original 100-acre city plot, said
California Bay Area Rocked By Storms
ablcd and all disabled veterans of
foreign wars where such dis-
ability is forty percent <40'i > or
more are excepted. It shall be city *
paid at any time between the4 and «
first day of October and the first
day of February following;* and
the person when he pays it, shall
be entitled to his poll tax receipt
even if his other taxes urc un-
paid.
those who are over Sixty .60)
years of age, unless they live in a
precinct in the county that has a
city within it . of over Ten Thous-
10.090* inhabit lints But (h‘*r It owned thu
will issue an exemption certifi-
cate this year to any persons mak-
ing application for same provided
they meet all other provisions of
the article.
Streamliner Is Center Of Attention
In Unrelenting California Storms
The Individual landowners
claimed that the square had long
been dedicated as a public square
for the use of the public and it
_.UHI« or. tr,,,r»rrw,r couldn’t be diverted to private use
& I « < I -i,p i nftv m^Cfownhthatalinouiro«°a b^’ either the county or the city.
Any person becoming twenty-! ated city or town that requires a • , ,lCrcGfi
one <21. years of age after Janii- j poll tax. then you may present to! ™e supreme court agrccci.
ary 1, A. D. 1951, may make ap- the city tax assessor and collector! The court pointed out that in
plication to the tax assessor and your county tax receipt and make records dating back more than
---------------- ---------------, application for and pay a city poll 1100 years the square was always
tax. All elections for city officials, j referred to as a "public square."
the voter must have a county ex-| It was not called a "courthouse
emption certificate or both coun-' square.” The court indicated this
five other prisoners were said to
have been wounded, five seriously.
The casualties were believed all
South Koreans.
Other developments in the dead-
locked armistice negotiations in-
cluded;
Report No Progress
1. Both truce subcommittees re-
ported ‘‘no progress” during the
day, but agreed to meet again at
11 a.m. Thursday 8 p.m. Wednes-
day CST.
2. The Communists agreed to
consider a UN request that they
accept parcels as well as mail for
Allied prisoners.
3. The Reds again rejected a
UN proposal that sick and wound-
ed war prisoners be exchanged
at once.
4. The Communists turned back
at Panmunjom two International
Red Cross representatives who
sought to enter North Korea to
deliver in person to Kim II Sung,
North Korean premier and com-
mander-in-chief, a personal mes-
sage from IRC President Paul
Rcuggcr. Contents of the message
were not disclosed.
Not Positive on Bombing
5. Chinese delegate Maj. Gen.
Hsieh Fang argued that the UN
demanded ban on military air-
field construction during a truce
is unnecessary because the Reds
already have agreed not to bring
additional planes into Korea. The
UN disagreed and again demand-
ed the ban.
Ridgway’s supreme command
headquarters in Tokyo issued a
statement conceding that “there
is no question UN aircraft were in
the general area" of the Commu-
Winds of hurricane force and the heaviest rainfall in 62 years have hit the San Francisco bay area
causing heavy damage and flooding many communities. Residents of Kentfield, Calif., one of the
areas hardest hit, take to boats as the flood waters back up in over-loaded storm sewers.____
Russians Make New Attempt
To Retake Peace Offensive
night the Reds said it was bombed.
But, the statement added, it is
impossible ot confirm whether
Allied planes actually bombed the
camp because the UN does not
know exactly where the camp is
situated.
DUTCH FLAT. Cal., Jan. HKU.P)
Rescue units Wednesday churned
1
I am still hoping that everyone
will purchase poll tax for it looks
as it the proper time will soon
present Itself for us to use our
poll tax as our main weapon in
defeating or removing tax hounds.
It la my opinion that until we
do this we will never be able to
enjoy the thing we used to call
our good old Democratic freedom.
Everyone is worrying about the
new strict automobile Insucction
law. If this law is enforced, there
will be numerous automobiles
taken off the highways.
It Is my opinion that It Isn't the
“nut" on the car that needs in-
specting but the "nut" behind the
wheel. I feel that the state should
employ more highwaymen who
would patrol the highways ana
take these drivers who are not
capable of driving • car safely
from behind the wheel.
We are all out for all the com-
fort we can get out of life and
some of us ure also oul tlft the
money we can make. I believe
that somewhere along the line
someone will make quite a bit
of money off of this new law. I am
very much In favor of having a
program which would eliminate
the unnessary automobile acci-
dents on the highways, but ns I
said before, I think that our of-
ficials haw introduced a program
which Is much too rigid.
I do not beliew that the insur-
ance companies ure the ones who
manufactured the high priced test-
ing equipment, but still on the
other hand It will cost the aver-
age car owner a large amount of
money to be able to meet all the
requirements which he must meet
before he will be allowed to take
his car on the highway.
I bad fust as soon be told to
saint my car a certain color us
to be told It must meet these very
strict requirement* or be put in
a garage. .
through 30-foot drifts to within
two miles of the streamliner City
of San Francisco and its 222 snow-
bound passengers, marooned for
nearly 72 hours in the High
Sierras.
Some of the passengers, huddled
in blankets to keep warm in the
below freezing temperatures, were
reported ill, presumably from lack
of oxygen. The train was closed
tight to retain what heat it had.
It was assumed the air had
become foul.
Four Takan Off
Four men were removed from
the train to Nyack lodge Wednes-
day, five miles from the struiuled
train. They told Mrs. Dorothy Du-
four, owner of the lodge, that
“some kind of gas" was making
the passengers sick.
Mrs. Dufour said a California
state highway rescue team, made
up of a "Snogu" rotary highway
snow plow and two trucks, passed
the lodge at 4 p.m. Wednesday on
ty and city poll tax receipts.
Costello Verdict
Still Uncertain
NEW YORK, Jan. 16 (U.R)—The
Jury in the contempt trial of gam-
bler Frank Costello failed to reach
a verdict Tuesday because one of
its members held out for an ac-
quittal.
Feocrul Judge Sylvester J. Ryan
ended the trial by discharging the
Jury after its foreman reported it
was "hopelessly" deadlocked.
One of the Jurors who refused to
be Identified said the lone dissent-
er held out against conviction dur-
ing 10 hours and 55 minutes of
deliberation.
U. S. Attorney Myles J. Lane
immediately- requested a retrial.
Ryan set Friday for discussion of
the new trial date and continued
the 60-year-old gambler in $5,000
bail.
Costello was indicted on It con-
tempt chnrges for refusing to tes-
tify for the Senate Crime Investi-
gating committee at its televised
L U.. . l_..l kf
U. S. highway 40. , L- . , . ,
She said they traveled during | hearings here last March
the night to within about two
miles of the train, which lay in a
snow-covered gully 500 feet from
the highwuy.
Snow fell at ubout u half an
inch an hour.
Mrs. Dufour said the 100-milc-
an-hour winds which snared
San Antonio Selected
As Convention Site
might have made a difference.
The county, the opinion said,
may abandon the courthouse, but
the entire square “must remain
impressed with the right of the
public to use it for general public
purposes; it cannot be diverted to
private uses."
Democrats To Block
Truman Nomination
HOUSTON, Jan. 16 (U.R) — A
movement among Harris county
Democrats to block the renomlna-
tion of President Truman wasi
scheduled to get underway here
Friday
Ralph B. Lee, state Democratic
executive committeeman from the
16th senatorial district and a Hous-
ton attorney, said a meeting will
be held Friday mght.
He said he is calling the meet-
ing "at the request of many Har-
ris county conservative Democrats
desirous or lormulating plans to
prevent the renomination of Pres-
ident Truman.”
Lee issued n request for “all
like-minded Democrats” to be
present at the meeting.
OPS Price Clinic
Will Be Resumed
The Office of Price Stabiliza-
tion is resuming its price clinic
program in Gladcwatcr effective
Friday (Jan. 18), the Chairman
Glenn Kincaid of the Gladewatcr
Chamber of Commerce committee
on Trade Extension announced.
The constable’s office in the Com-
munity Center will be used, and
business men can get questions on
price regulations answered without
prior appointments.
Personnel and budgetary limita-
tions forced OPS to abandon tem-
porarily its Gladcwatcr price
clinics early In November, ac-
cording ot their letter to Kincaid.
Purpose of the clinic is to give
individual aid to business men in
the Glade Area on technical price
control matters.
"The Dallas district OPS office
set up the price clinic to minimize
the burden of price controls on
business men In the area,” Kin-
caid explained. "Under the pro-
gram it sends trained specialists
into the field to counsel with bus-
inessmen in their own city.”
Hours for the clinic at the
Gladcwatcr Community Center
Friday will be 9 a.m. until 5 p.m.,
and F. C. Dublin of the Dallas
district OPS office will conduct it.
By PHIL NEWSOM [eludes, for the first time, a sug-
United Press Foreign Analyst ! gestion that world atomic control
The Russians are making a new 1 should include a continuous in-
attempt to recapture the world
peace offensive—this time with
a proposition designated particu-
larly to appeal to Americans.
Russian Foreign Minister Andrei
if1?®1 £
spection program. It is the closest
approach yet to the plan proposed
by the United States’ own Bernard
Baruch—a plan which had as its
kernel the proposal for continuous
AUSTIN. Jan. td (U.R) — San
Antonio was selected Wednesday
. . „ „ as the site of the state Democratic
through Donner Summit just over convention May 27. when dele-
the hump of the Sierras Wodnes- j Batcs w(U ^ .elected for the no-
day had slacked off some.
Rescue Train Waits
A large rescue train with Pull-
mans and other accommodations
waited at Colfax, Cul., until the
rotary rescue units cleared the
tracks.
E. D. Moody, assistant general
manager of Southern Pacific who
was directing rescue operations,
snid it appeared that rescuers
churning up the rails from Colfax,
on the west side of the mountains,
would be the first to reach the
streamliner.
Moody said present plans call
for the Colfax rescue train to fight
its way to Emigrant Gap, about
six miles' from the sleek, yellow-
painted train, and then run a shut-
tle service wilh snow weasels to
transfer passengers from the
streamliner to the rescue train.
Funeral Services For
H. C. Harris Incomplete
R. C. Harris, brother-in-law of
Mrs. E. E. Steele of Gladcwater,
died at his home In Gilmer Tues-
day night after a lengthy illness.
Funeral arrangements are In-
complete.
tional Democratic convention
The announcement was made by
J. R. Stuart of Strewn, secretary
of the state Democratic executive
committee, following receipt of
ballots from committee members.
State Democratic committee
headquarters said the site was
recommended by a subcommittee
headed by Stanley Monroe of Den-
ton.
The convention will mark Ihe
scene of a fight between Gov.
Allan Shivers, who has plugged
for an uninstructed delegation to
the national Democratic conven-
tion, and a Truman-loyal faction
which has tabled itself as "Loyal
Democrats."
post orricE notice
Examinations can be taken
for the position of substitute
clerk carrier for the Glade-
water Post Office.
Entrance salary is 81.6H4
per hour. Applications will not
be accepted after the close of
business on January 21.
This announcement comes
from W. L. Brock, local Civil
Service Secretary.
PROCLAMATION
The State of Texas
County of Gregg
WHEREAS, the month of January has been dedicated
Nationwide to raise funds to combat poliomyelitis through
the annual March of Dimes; and
WHEREAS, Gladcwatcr through the local Chapter of
the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis is partici-
pating in this drive for funds; and
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors of the Gregg
County Chapter of the National Foundation for Infantile
Paralysis has approved the "THANKFULNESS CLUB,”
an organization originated here in Gladewater, Texas, as
the best plan yet conceived by which the youth of our
city can actively cooperate and participate in this fund
raising drive; and
WHEREAS, the week beginning January 21, 1952, has
been designated as "THANKFULNESS CLUB" week
throughout Gregg County by proclamation of the Hon-
orable Earl Sharp, County Judge of Gregg County.
NOW. THEREFORE, BE IT PROCLAIMED that the
week beginning January 21, 1952. be designated and ob-
served throughout the City of Gladewater as "THANK-
FULNESS CLUB” Week and every boy and girl of this
City who are thankful they can walk without the aid of
crutches or bracea are urged to participate.
CARL BRUCE.
Mayor, Gladewater, Texas
Proposal Made To
Give GIs Higher
Percentage Raise
WASHINGTON, Jan. 16 (U.R)—
Son. Lester C. Hunt proposed
Wednesday that the Senate re-
write the House-passed military
pay raise bill so that GIs will get
a bigger percentage increase than
generals.
The Wyoming Democrat is a
ranking member of the Senate
Armed Services committee which
will soon begin hearings on the
pay boost for 3.500,000 men and
women of the armed forces.
Hunt said he will fight for “slid-
ing-scale" increases instead of the
10 per cent across-the-board boost
voted by the House Tuesday.
“I think we should give all of
the 10 per cent to the lower pay
grades, whose families really need
the money, and drop off to—say
6 or 7 per cent—for high ranking
officers," Hunt said.
The House suspended its own
rules Tuesday and approved the
straight 10 per cent increase by
a 269 to 89 vote. There were in-
dications—in u short but noisy de-
bate which preceded the final roll
call—that some House members
would have liked to cut down
somewhat on the pay increase for
generals and admirals.
Estes Kefauver Backers
Go Ahead With Plans
WASHINGTON, Jan. 16 (U.R)
— Democrats backed Sen. Estes
Kefauver for the presidential
nomination are going ahead with
plans to set up a campaign organi-1
ber of questions unanswered and,
as usual with Red proposals, sever-
al suspicions.
U. 8. Far Ahead
First, why should the Russians
suggest it at all after so bitterly
opposing the U. S. Baruch plan?
An answer might be that the
United States is so far ahead of
the Russians in atomic develop-
ment that the Russians have de-
cided that caution is the better
part of valor. The United States
knows of three atomic explosions
in Russian territory, indicating
that Russian development may be
at about the same stage as was
the Unitec States shortly after
the blast which leveled Hiroshima
in Japan in 1945.
Meanwhile, the United States al-
ready has announced the develop-
ment of atomic artillery, has an
atom-powerer submarine under
construction and is past the draw-
ing board stage in the devleop-
meht of an atomic-powered air-
the Russian proposal still leaves
a huge question mark.
Do the Russians really want a
world-wide peace on terms equal
for all, or are they merely hoping
to slow down the U. S. rearma-
ment program and thus gain time
to draw even with and surpass
our own efforts?
An then, of course, there also
is the gimick in the Russian pro-
posal that continuous inspection
should not interfere with any na-
tion’s internal domqstic affairs.
At what point in a force so
powerful as the atom does inter-
ference with internal affairs be-
gin and end? Only the Russians
know.
Three Directors Elected In Annual
Meeting Of Round-Up Association
zatior., it was learned Wednesday.
Kefauver iuikcci politics with
President Truman at a half-hour
meeting Tuesday. Sen. Clinton P.
Anderson tD-N.M.) had a date at
the White House for the same pur-
pose Wednesday.
While Kefauver refused to say
whether he learned anything about
vMr. Truman's intentions, other
sources revealed that the Tennes-
see Democrat's friends arc moving
ahead with plans to build an or-
ganization to recruit support and
enter his nume in selected state
primaries.
Rohearsals For E*Tox
Rovue Bogin Tonight
Stockholders of the non-profit
Gladewater Round-Up Associa-
tion at their annual meeting Tues-
day afternoon elected three new
directors and re-elected one, pro-
moted two former directors to the
advisory council, heard financial
reports showing operations at a
$1,970 loss for the fiscal year end-
ing last June 30, and handed
other matters or business with
President W. O. (Bud> Chambers
presiding. The meeting was held
In the Gladcwater Community
Center auditorium.
Vice Chairman Jack Yates of
the Board scheduled the directors
first meeting for 7 o’clock Thurs-
day evening at the Community
Center because there was not a
quorum of directors present for
the session previously announced
to immediately follow the stock-
holders meeting.
Jack Hearrell, Jack Phillips and
C. E. Walker are the new elected
Round-Up directors for three-year
terms, and Dell J. Everett was re-
elected. The four expiring terms
had been held by W. W. Bradley
and Mark Day. both promoted to
the Advisory’ Council, and by Dell
J. Everett, re-elected, and by Wm.
T, Randolph, who was last June
elected Secretary to RM on un-
expired term in that office. Of-
ficers for the coming year will
be elected at the Directors meet-
ing called Thursday.
Fiscal year for the association
has been changed to make it end
November 30 instead of June 30.
the stockholders were notified.
Financial statement up to last
I June 80 allowed total receipts tor
I the year of $19,831.31 and total
„ . , .__. . expenses of 811,831.80, making a
Rehearsals for the fourth an- . ret loM of $1,970.49 for the year,
nuat East Texas Revue will begto th .upholders were informed,
tonight at seven oclock in the'
rector at any directors meeting.”
Represented at the meeting were
1156 shares in person and 1881
by proxy, a total of 3,037 shares
of the non-profit stock voting.
Camp Fire Board
Of Directors Meet
A round-table discussion high-
lighted the Camp Fire Board of
Directors meeting held Tuesday
night at the Chamber of Com-
merce office.
The Camp Fire drive was dis-
cussed along with the interested
people who will help with the
Camp Fire program. Plans for
summer camp were also discussed.
A good report was heard on the
extension work of nine active
Camp Fire groups. Old groups
were reactivated and new groups
organized. More groups will bo
organized when the present “flu
wave” is over.
All lenders are invited to a cof-
fee at the home of Mrs. Edith
Graeter, Hillerest Drive, in Long-
view on Wednesday, Jan. 23, from
10 until 11:30 a.m. Leaders will
get a chance to meet the regional
field director, Miss Lois Jarrell.
Miss Jarrell is a cousin of former
Gladcwatcr Elementary school
principal, Chester Jarrell.
choral room at Gladewater High
school.
Ken Bennett, director, urges all
interested persons to be present.
The Revue, which has proven to
be tops in entertainment in Glade-
watcr for the past three years, wilt
be presented on Jan. 31. sponsored
by the American Legion.
Stockholders of the organiza-
tion after some discussion voted
that they wanted the directors
they elected to personally be fa-
miliar with the association's bus-
iness and personally handle it
They passed a motion that .
no director be permitted to name
anyone to represent him as a di-
loudy, little
change in temperatures Wednes-
day night and Thursday. Lowest
Wednesday night near 83.
Seat Texet
Cloudy to portly cloudy and
warm Wednesday night
Thursday. Moderate
winds on tbs coast
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