Gladewater Daily Mirror (Gladewater, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 158, Ed. 1 Tuesday, January 26, 1954 Page: 1 of 6
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Beat The Deadline! Buy Your Poll Tax N
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East Texas
Cloudy with showers
and local thunder-
slq*ins late Tuesday and in south
portion Tuesday night. Colder.
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GLADEWATER, TEXAS. TUESDAY, JANUARY 28, 1954
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Quasi Dayi An interesting con-
tact is being sponsored by the
Gladewater Garden Club at the
meeting in the home of Mrs L. W.
Felphroy at 10 a. m. Wednesday.
Awards will be given to the win-
ning “Pretty to look at good to
eat’T design-- composed of vege-
tables and fruits.
Officer Election: The Glade-
water Music Club will meed in the
home of Mrs. J. J. Traughbcr at
noon Wednesday for the annual
business meeting and election of
officers Mrs. J. O Brown is leader
of the program which will be pre-
sented after the luncheon.
Visiters: Mrs. A R Primmer of
Monlicello. 111., and Mrs. James G.
Bishop of Decatur, III., have spent
the past week visiting the home of
their sister, Mrs. L. G Hurley and
Mr. Burley. ,
Special Edition! The Mirror will
publish sn edition dedicated to the
Gladewater school system Sunday.
The paper will contain histories of
the various departments in the
school and histories of the school
in general. We believe that this
•MUon will be of Interest to many
O fyou and if you need an extra
paper to send some one you know
wouki appreciate it, then be sure
and notify the office before Friday
of this week.
Hawse Hunter* According to
Manager Gene Merrifield of the
vater Chamber of Corn-
many calls are received
_people wishing to move into
town regarding furnished and un>
furbished house*. You will find
the Chamber of Commerce office
* very valuable asset if you will
call them (2026) and Inform them
of any furnished or unfurnished
houses or apartment* for rent.
They can probably help you rent
your places pretty often
Date Change: The farewell serv-
ice for Captain and Mrs. J. R.
Tritton of the local Salvation
Army outpost will be held in the
chapel at the Old Shell Camp on
January 31. They have been sta-
tioned In Longview for the past
three and one-half years.
Owaato: Col. and Mrs. Sidney
Loomis of Arkadelphia. Ark , visit-
ed ip the home of Mr. and Mrs
Woodrow McGough and Mr. and
Mrs. Munn McGough this week.
Dalles Rejects Soviet Demands
For Big - Five Peace (onferenc
Accepts Proposed Agenda
For Big Four Meeting
I Hollis A. Moore, superintendent
of Tyler schools will be the guest
speaker at the Lions Club meeting
Wednesday noon at the First
Christian Church.
The program will be in keep-
ing with the “Preparation Week
HOLLIS A. MOORE
for the 100th Anniversary of the
Texas Public School System."
The superintendent's teaching
experiences include his first job
us principal of an elementary
school In Mt. Vernon, Mo. for two
years Next he served as superin-
tendent of the schools at Jasper,
Mo. for six years then came to
Texas in 1929 as superintendent
of schools at La Feeria in the Rio
arm ‘ '--- ------ —*
C Of C Directors
Hold Regular
Business Meeting
GJadewater Cnambcr of Com-
merce Directors met Monday noun
to hear reports on various activi-
ties of the Chamber by Manager
Gene Merrifield.
£rvin Brown presided at the
meeting and minutes of last ses-
sion were ready by Mrs. Jewel
Lindsay prior to the reports made
by Merrifield.
New members were admitted to
the organization by a vote of the
directors and additions not pre-
viously announced are Gllcrease
Oil Compuny, Williams Plumbing
Company and Robert Schulte, who
is associated with the refining
company In Greggton.
Merrifield read letters from
Mark Dav and O. O. Weaver, who
are on the World Trade Tour of
the Caribbean and a letter from
Robert • Hayes, with the Dallas
Morning News. The letter from
Day and Weavei contained a des-
cription of their tour thus far not
| including the City of Gladewater
in his article concerning the East
Texas Area. Hayys explained that
he had Just recently carried an
article on Gladewater and was
planning another in the near fu-
ture.
Manager Merrifield announced
that the Trade Extension Commit-
tee would have a special meeting
on Tuesday afternoon at 3 p. m.
and that meetings had been sche-
duled at the same time for the
Traffic and Transportation group
on Wednesday and thg Tourist Ex-
tension Committee on Friday. All
meetings being held in the Com-
ma-JMS saK
ed to Kerrvtlle and served __
erintendent there until 194#
By that time Moore had com-
pleted hi* dissertation on “Equali-
zation of Educational Opportunities
and Distribution of State School
Funds'* which some believe actual-
ly led to the action of the 31st
Legislature in setting up the Gil-
mer-Aiken Committee and the re-
sulatan* educational Foundation
program He resigned the superin-
tcndency at Kcrrvile in January
of 1348 to become the full-time di-
rector of the Gllmcr-Alken Pro-
gram which he served as vice
chairman. In 1948 he accepted the
superintendency at the schools in
Greely Colo. In July of 1941, he
returned to Texas as superinten-
dent of schools at Tyler where he
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np i.nmmnrrn * luncheon which
is to be held on February 24 in
connection with the observance of
Brotherhood Week at which time
all civic clubs will cooperate with
the Chamber of Commerce, the
Public Schools of Gladewater and
the National Conference of Christ-
ians and Jews, Inc. in furthering
this organization’s purpose.
Present at the meeting were:
H. B. Bingham, Ervin Brown. Owen
Craig, H. C. DupHxsey, B. C. Fall.
L. K. Hall, Elvis Hammond, Sam-
uel C. Harris Sid Hurwitz, Jack
Long, Mary Loyd, Dr. Harold Mc-
Dowell. A1 Meadows, Pete Mooss.v,
Paul Rounsaville, W. L. Simmons,
Jess Turner, Harold Victory,
Charles Walker, Dana Williams,
Herman Williams, Everett Wyche
and Visitor Richard Herbst
BERLIN, Jan. 28. OI.R)— Secre-
tary of State John Foster Dulles
Tuesday rejected Sovtat Russian
demands for a Big Five world
peace conference including Com-
munist China.
But he accepted Soviet Foreign
Minister Vyacheslav M. Molotov’s
proposed agenda for the Big Four
foreign ministers’ conference
which would make a meeting with
China its No. 1 item for discussion.
“The United States is willing to
deal with and to dispose of” the
Item dealing with Red China,
Dulles said, apparently meaning
he would discuss it but warning
in advance he would also reject it.
Replies to Molotov
Point by point, in a 27-mimite
speech, Dulles replied to the blast
Monday in which Molotov de-
manded virtual western capitula-
tion to the Kremlin as the price
for world peace.
He warned that by trying to
keep Germany helpless, Russia
was going back to the days of the
Versailles peace conference and
risking another world war.
The important thing for the for-
eign ministers meeting here to do,
Dulles said, is to “quickly show a
capacity to discharge ouv respon-
sibility toward others and not to
waste cur time in recriminations
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Itrmu nfa uuna
Dulles termed Red
victed aggressor.”.
“This offspring of Soviet com-
munism committed flagrant ag-
gression in Korea for which it
was formally condecnned by the
UN," Dulles said.
Addressing the second session
of the Big Four foreign ministers
conference, Dulles told Molotov:
1. The present conference was
called primarily to discuss the
German and Austrian treaties and
should stick to them.
2. Red China has no possible
connection with either Germany
or Austria. Therefore it could not
conceivably be brought in to take
part in any talks about such strict-
ly European problems. If Red
China wants to show good will,
Aggressor
China “co
it has every opportunity to do so
in a setlement of the Korean war.
3. The West will not in any cir-
cumstances abandon the corner-
stones of its defensive alliance in-
cluding the European defense
treaty and plans to rearm West
Germany.
4. United States bases in Europe
and the Middle East are strictly
defensive and can not be consid-
ered in any way a threat to the
Soviet Union.
The foreign ministers met in se-
cret shortly after 3 p. m. (8 a. m.
CST).
Though the text of Dulles'
speech was not immediately made
available, its main' points were
learned in advance.
Dulles had spent Monday night
and Tuesday morning rewriting
his speech in order to reply to the
blast which Molotov loosfo Mon-
day at the opening session.
Molotov had called for a virtual
surrender by the West to Russia’s
terms for a global cold war settle-
ment.
Dulles consulted both British
Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden
and French Foreign Minister
Georges Bidault on each point of j
his speech. It constituted, there- J
fare, a studied western reply to)
Molotov.
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HURTS WIFE, KILLS OFFICER
Sharp-Shooting
Climax One Of
Farmer Killed To
Biggest Manhunts
TEXARKANA, Jan. 26. <U.fi>—
A sharp-shooting farmer was kill-
ed Monday to climax one of
northeast Texas’ biggest manhunts
which began when he shot his wife
and murdered a' state patrolman.
The farmer was Jack St radian
(pronounced Strawn>, 55, of Bas-
sett, Tex. He was known as an
expert squirrel hunter and one of
the best rifle shots in this section.
Stvachan started Monday morn-
ing by shooting his estranged wife,
Josephine. Police could find no
reason for the shooting, other than
vague threats made by Strachan
to “kill my whole family” in the
past. They said Strachan was dis-
charged from a state tuberculosis
sanatorium two years ago. He had
seven children.
Several hours after Mrs. Strach-
an was wounded, state highway
patrolman W. O. Hanna, 37, re-
ceived a tip Strachan had been
seen between Bassett and Simms,
32 miles west of Texarkana, and
Hanna and Sheriff Bill Watlington
investigated.
They found Strachan, cornered
him in a fence row, and Hanna
stepped into the open to order
Strachan to surrender. Hanna shot
over the hunted man’s head.
Strachan waited until Hanna
stopped shooting to reload and
then raised up and shot the peace
officer in the heart. He was using
a .22 caliber rifle with hollow
point bullets, popular in ‘Varmint”
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It was understood that the West-
ern Allies would present to Molo-
tov this week a four-point “Eden-
plan" for unification of Germany
It calls for free all-German elec-
tions, creation at an all-German
constitutional assembly, formation
of an all-German government and
conclusion of a peace treaty.
A LONG WAIT
STAMFORD. Texas. Jan. 26. (U.R)
—Baily Post, business manager of
Stamford Sanitarium, had his sus-
picions Tuesday that an unidenti-
fied man who watied all morning
in the hospital for a “friend" Mon-
day may also have been the per-
son who took $325 in currency
from a safe in the clinic during
the noon hour.
Pro-Communist Prisoners
Stage “Press Conference'
iTO*CommtmKt prisoners a Ttmimiv
“press conference’’ Tuesday for a
group of United Nations newsmen
selected by the Communists.
The 347 prisoners, including 21
Americans and a Briton, marched
from their compound on the north-
ern sld eof the demilitarized zone
to the “peace pagoda” in Panmun-
,iom where the Korean arinistice
was signed.
The conference was arranged by
Communist correspondents Alan
Winnington of the London Daily
Worker, and Wilfred Burchett of
the Paris newspaper L Humanite,
who specifically banned the United
Press reporters and photographers.
The United Press has been the
object of frequent abuse by the
Communist Peiping radio. United
when UN and Red --------...---------
were in contact during Korean
truce negotiations.
Also uninvited to the “confer-
ence” were the British news
agency Reuter and the French
agency France Presse.
Represented at the conference
were the American news agencies
Associated Press and International
News Service and the National
Broadcasting Co. Also present was
a correspondent for the London
Daily Express and Indian and
Communist newsmen.
The “conference” which lasted
about three hours, came just after
the United States Defense Depart-
ment announced the dishonorable
Press corresponded also frequent- discharge of the 21 Americans.
guns because the bullets expand
when they hit and usually cause
instant death.
■Highway patrolmen from the
Texarkana, Dallas and Beaumont
districts entered the search with
local officers.
More than 100 peace officers
sealed off a five square mile area
of pasture and wooded land, and
began to comb it methodically.
Just before sunset a u-vcar-old
girl, Virginia Cabtree, saw Strach-
an enter a clump of bushes and
four officers advanced toward the
thicket.
"About that time he raised up
and shot right at us,” said trooper
Jim Ray of Athens, Tex.
The first show was aimed at
Ray’s brother. Eaten, also a patrol-
man, who answered with his heavy
caliber automatic rifle. Katoa Ray
said his third shot hit Strachan.
Strachan sat up against a tree
and began shor ting at the troopers
but lus rifle jammed and trooper
Lacy Thomareon hit
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M/ittt their' si
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found Strachan
with bullets.
Both of his legs were broken
and his right hand was mangled.
The right side of his chest had
been blown away. There was a
half-full pint of whisky by the
body.
Strachan was killed only a short
distance from the home of his
brother-in-law, Douglas Smith,
where he had shot and wounded
his wife.
“I believe Strachan was headed
for my house to kill the children
when they got him,” Smith said.
Mrs. Strachan, who separated
from her husband about a year
ago, remained in critical condition.
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East Texas Revue Draws Large Crowd For First Performance
Up
MENDELOS8HN and MR. BACH (in reality, Ken Bennett and Danny Steuben drew loud ap-
se during the Show They Were accompanied by Billy Vernon, a vocalist with plenty of appeal
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A capacity filled auditorium of
music lovers attended the sixth
annual East Texas Revue last
night at the high school auditor-
ium.
The show which is sponsored by
the Gludewater Post of the Ameri-
can Legion is scheduled to be pre-
sented again tonight with curtain
time set at 7:35 o'clock.
Billy Vernon, outstanding GHS
vocolist, started the show off with
"It's Time for the Show” in the
first scene, entitled “Musical
Moods.”
Following Billy to the spotlight
was the Swing Choir, the Swing-
ing Belles and Marylue Watson
in “Let’s Have Music.”
Marlyn Godfrey sang the solo
part to “Soft Lights and Music”
and Dancers Pete and Ladcra Pe-
ters furnished the beautiful “foot
nv’slc" to this number.
The Boys Quartet, which proved
one of the most popular parts of
me show, sang “We Love the Old
Time Songs.” The quartet is com-
posed of Billy Vernon, Jerry Con-
nally, James Bozman and Venoy
Wright.
Pretty Linda Whatley, backed
by the Swing Choir, sang "That's
Why I Love the Blues."
Barbara Smith and Howard
Dunagan stole tile first act with
their rendition of the song Ken
Bennett wrote for them, "Worth-
less Mose.”
Danny Stoubcr of Tyler, Ben-
nett and Billy Vernon were out
front next with “Mr. Mcndelos-
shn and Mr. Bach." Maryan Holi-
tik sang “This Has Been A Perfect
Day*’ jUst prior to the Swing
Choir, which rang down the cur-
tain of the first act with “Lot’s
Have Music.”
’ Kiddie Kabcret," scene two,
featured six good numbers The
Junior Swingstcrs presented “Ai
the Ktddie Kabaret;” Buddy Stowe
danced to "Football Kapers;” Bitty
Rogers sang "1’m Coin To Be Your
Shadow" to the acoo:---1---* -*
Dancers Donna and
son. “Piano Boogie
ber couti.lnlng three
one of the most outs
scene two. Sonny PiUxiar sang
the solo; Carol Ann M«asx>a dis-
played her dancing ability and
Bob Crouch took the spotlight ut
the piano.
“Models 'N Music,” scene three,
featured pretty models showing
the latest in fashions from Glade-
water stores. Models and the
stores they represented were:,
Quincy Caraway. Peggy Ann'
Shop; Martha Williams and Betty
Allen, Stuckey-Kincaid; Virginia
Coats and Marylue Watson, Up-
town Shop; Shirley Winn, The
Vogue: Mary Ann Williams and
Joan Green, Winnie Lee and Joyce
Dunlavy, K. Wolens. Billy Vernon
sang “She Walks in Loveliness”
and narrator for the style show
was Patsy Nash. To climax the
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TALENTED BARBARA SMITH turned in a wonderful perform-
ance last night in the East Texas Revue when she sang "Worth-
less More" with Howard Dunagan, one of Gladewater’* favorite
comedy artists Barbara lias captured many hearts this year with
her beautiful voice And always proves outstanding on stage.
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model show Danny 'Stcuber and
the “Swinging Belles” performed
to “Lovely Lady.”
“Boogie Woogie Cowboy” was
the favorite entertainment in
“Western Motifs,” the last scene
of the Revue. Danny Steuber, Ken
Bennett, the Swing Choir and the
prancing Gladewater High School
Majorettes were featured in this
number.
Other numbers in this scene
were: “Prairie” with the Swing
Choir and Calvin McKaig doing a
French horn solo. "That Round Up
In The Sky” by the Swing Choir,”
the Boys quartet singing “There’s
A Light Shining Bright," the
Swing Choir in “The Wide Open
Spaces"; Marylyn Godfrey sing-
ing “Prairie Land Rhapsody" and
the finale, “Give Me America,”
featuring the entire cast.
An “Indian Dance" by Patsy
Page. Cynthia Traughber and
Mary Lou Green to the music of
the Swing Choir was a special
number along with “Boogie Woo-
gie Cowboy.”
The orchestra for the show was
composed of Lex Grantham, Paul
Stripling. Virgil Anderson, Jack
Younsc, George Mitchell, Grady
Oder, Jerry Blackwell, Betty Al-
len, Calvin McKaig. Janice Pace,
Joe Gregg, Sidney Caldwell and
Jackie Gilliam.
The Swinging Belles were Dor-
othy Van Wormer, Joyce Arinder
and Martha Meade. .
Majorettes are Shirley Town-
send, Olcta Smith, Shirley Winn,
Patsy Page, Betty Allen and Syn-
thia Traughbcr.
Flighty Art Players were Harry
Heard. Jimmy Joe McMlnn arifl
Carolyn Moreland.
Junior Swingstcrs were: Mar-
garet Chamberlain, Martha Avant.
Diane Straight. Keechie Gary,
Louian Gray. Trecia Stevens, Mary
Ann Williams, Patsy Porterfield,
Geneva Havens, Faith Roush, Sue
Ann Barnett, Robert Long. Tommy
Cruley, Sonny Pittman, Jamas
Crouch, W. L. Martin. Billy Rog-
ers. Jackie Erwin, and Joe At-
kinson.
The Swing Choir Is composed of
Charles Avant, Agatha Baggett,
Rovce Blackburn, James Bozman
Don Branum. Delores Brock, Lloyd
Ann Browning. Jerry
Anita Cowan, Mary
Ann McMillen, Alice Mainer,
Sallye Mitchell, John Moore, Patty
Overman, Lorene Price, Helen
Pursel, Kay Roberts, Phyllis Shipp,
Barbara Smith, Gearron Sublctt,
Billy Vernon, Ann Warwick, Linda
Whatley, Martha Williams, Pat
Williams, Venoy Wright, Melvin
Pate and Pat Patterson.
Make-Up was by Patsy Nash;
curtain by Wayne Loven; tights
by Ranee Carr; spotlight by Wilson
Godfrey; choregraphy by Dennard
Hayden; dance supervision by
Marylue Watson and stage settings
by the Art I class of the high
school.
Jaycees To Open
Tax Booth Here
The Longview Junior Chamber
of Commerce will open a booth at
the Gladewater Community Cen-
ter Building on Wednesday and
Thursday from 9’a. m. until 3
p. m. where local citizen* maj
their poll tax.
The setting up of booths for this
purpose is a state-wide Jaycee pro-
ject and the booth in Gladewater
will be manned by the "Jaycc-
ettes.”
Joe Fugit manager of the Jaycee
organization in Longview, stated
Monday that this is a service which
this group renders to encourage
the paying of poll taxes, in co-
operation with the citizens of
Gladewater.
Market Reports
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took, Lloyd 10-14;
FORT WORTH. Jan. 2f.
Livestock:
Cuttle 2,700. S taught
and yearling* steady
cows active and st»
er; bull* and Stockers”
and choice beef steers
lings, 22-14; utility
tew heed
canners and
10-14; mediu
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commeretal
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