The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 173, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 29, 1954 Page: 4 of 24
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PAGE 4 - THE BAYTOWN SUN, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1954
Surprise Victor--
AURORA MAYOR IS FINDING
IT HARD TO HOLD OFFICE
AURORA, III., Dec. 29—UP—
Every now and then a truck pulls
up at the Paul Egan home and
the driver begins to unload. It may
be a couple of hundred folding
cnalrs. Or 2,000 paper cups. Or a
case of liquor.
•‘I didn’t order It,” Egan always
lays.
And then kids are always letting
the air out of the tires on his
car or pouring sugar in the gas
tank, They toss rocks through his
windows. They set off giant fire-
crackers on his doorstep.
No ordinary citizen gets this kind
of treatment, and Egan is no or-
dinary citizen. He is the mayor of
Aurora.
No ordinary mayor, either. A 54-
year-old heavyset man, Egan was
elected mayor in April, 1958. after
making one campaign speech tear-
ing apart the previous adminis-
tration. He was dead broke at the
time, drawing 527.50 a week in un-
employment compensation.
As mayor, his financial problems
are less trying, he gets 55,000 a
year salary (plus 51,000 for doub-
ling as liquor commissioner) but at
times he probably wishes he were
out of a job again. It's no secret
that a lot of people in Aurora wish
he were, too.
He attributes the pranks on his
doorstep to his "opposition.”
Among others, this includes the
city commissioners, the police
chief, the corporation counsel, the
Chamber oT Commcrce, the YMCA,
and some develish youngsters
whose motives are unknown.
"To cut down on juvenile delin-
quency I announced that our cur-
few law was going to be en-
forced. I ordered the police to ring
the curfew bell every night but
they wouldn’t do it," Egan com-
plained recently.
Why doesn't he fire the police
chief? He can't. A court order
prohibits him from interfering with
the police force.
Egan has been at war with the
Police Department ever since he
ordered police to form a block-
ade to keep trucks from entering
Aurora unless they have business
here. He wants the state to help
build a by-pass highway around
the city.
The police chief wouldn’t act
Egan created his own special po-
lice to stop trucks. The result was
a court order prohibiting him from
lnterferrlng with traffic and with
the duly constituted police.
Another hassle Involves the four-
man city commission. Egan has
refused to recognize the lawyer
designated by the commission to
serve as the city’s corporation
counsel.
The mayor's latest dispute con-
cerns the YMCA, which bought a
city-owned piece of property which
the city engineer had declared to
be unsuitable for municipal use.
Egan has filed a suit to nullify
the sale.
There are moments of peace in
the Aurora citv hall, however.
Early this month the city com-
missioners approved Kean's reso-
lution calling on the Illinois gov-
ernor to make funds available for
a by-pass highway.
But still, curfew does not ring.
Police say they couldn’t ring the
curfew bell if they wanted to. It
doesn’t have a rope. Besides, eomp
oldtimers say if the bell were set
in motion it might knock down
the tower on the city hall, i
Commercial Airlines
For Military Mail
WASHINGTON. Dec. 29-UP—
The Defense Department Wednes-
day announced that overseas mili-
tary mall will be shifted Immed-
iately to scheduled commercial air-
lines over both the Atlantic and
the Pacific.
A department spokesman esti-
mated that the airlines will be paid
518 million for carrying the mail
to overseas military postoffices
d irin«r the fiscal year starting next
July 1.
In anticipation of the move, the
Civil Aeronautics Board in mid-
December cut the mail rates
scheduled to be paid Pan-Ameri-
can World Airways, Trans World
Airlines and Northwest Airlines
Attorney's Parole Denial Not To Be Reconsidered
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 29 -UP
The Justice Department said
Wednesday that the federal parole
board has refused to reconsider
its denial of a parole to Vincent
Halllnan, San Francisco attorney
who was the 1952 presidential can-
didate of the Progressive part)
Halllnan is serving an 18-month
prison term at the federal prison
at McNeil Island, Wash,, follow-
ing conviction on Income tax
evasion charges. He also was fined
550,000.
Halllnan became eligible for pa-
role on July «. The board orig- The board look up Ihe attoniey’.i
inally turned him down Aug. 8. a J*Sf/»nniiideration of
Justice Department sources said decided against rt
that Halllnarls attorney recently >U August reaction of the applied
wnitp th#» hoard and advised it tion for parole* ■,
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November Is Profitable For Santa Fe Railroad
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TOPEKA, Kan., Dec. 29-UP-
The Santa Fe railway had a much
mow profitable November than In
either corresponding month of 1958
or 1952, President Fred G. Gurley
reported Wednesday.
At the same time the system's
net Income for this year climbed
above the 550 million mark, Cur-
ley disclosed.
He reported that Santa Fe net
for November was 55,918,859, com-
pared wtth only 58,508,821 a year
earlier. The railroad’s net earnings
for the first 11 months of 1954
reached 551,575,189. This was some
$14,500,000 less than In the same
period of 1958.
Gross volume for the January-
November period was $484,108,807,
the railroad president announced.
Carloadlngs for the week ended
535 Million-
Five PMs Participate In Colombo Meet
| By CHARLES M. McCANN
| United Press Foreign Analyst
Five prime ministers who rep-
resent about 535 million people are
the principals In the conference of
the so - called Colombo powers
which started Wednesday in Indo-
nesia.
It happens that all of the coun-
tries represented — India, Pakis-
tan, Ceylon, Burma and Indonesia
—recognize Communist China.
The relation of the Red Chinese
regime with the West, the Impris-
onment of 11 American airmen as
spies, the status of the Chinese Na-
tionalist government and the south-
east Asia pact against Communist
aggression are sure to be dis-
cussed.
It happens also, however, that
Dallas Man Gets
Bank Chairmanship
DALLAS, Dec. 29 -UP- Gen.
Robert J. Smith of Dallas was
Robert J. Smith of Dallas has been
named chairman Wednesday of the
board of directors of the Federal
Reserve Bank of Dallas and also
the federal reserve agent.
The appointments were an-
nounced by the board of governors
of the federal reserve system. As
federal reserve agent, Smith, prs-e
Ident of Pioneer Air Lines, suc-
ceeds J. R. Parten, Houston, who
has resigned effective Dec. 31, 1954.
Hal Bogle of Dexter, N. M.,
owner and operator of several
farm and ranch enterprises, who
has been serving as a Class C
director of the Federal Reserve
Bank of Dallas, has been dsig-
nated deputy chairman of the board
of directors, succeeding Smith in
that office.
Henry P. Drought, San Antonio
lawyer, a director and chairman
of the board of the San Antonio
branch of the Federal Reserve
Bank of Dallas since November,
1946, has been namd a Class C
director of the bank to fill the va-
cancy left by Parten’s resignation
as a director.
German Ship At Sea
With Mexican Goods
TAMPICO, Mex.. Dec. 29-UP-A
German freighter, Neptuno, sailed
Wednesday for New York and West
European ports with more than
$1,280,000 (U.S.) worth of Mexican
exports in its hold.
Cargo included fine silver, lead,
copper, zinc and coffee.
Meanwhile, the Norwegian Ua
was being loaded with 14,000 boxes
of oranges for Norway. The Eng-
lish freighter Dunnolly was sched-
uled to sail Tuesday with 2,000 bars
of lead for El Salvador.
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emerged from colonial statu* to
Independence since World War II.
The feeling that th great West-
ern powers are "colonialists” and
that they do not belong In Asia
is still strong, and the old issue
of colonialism probably will be the
really big topic in the conference.
Premier Ali Sastroamldjojo of
Indonesia is the chief sponsor of
a plan to hold a great conference
of Asiatic and African countries In
Indonesia next spring.
Any such meeting would be
pretty sure to turn into an attempt
to form a bloc of anti-colonial na-
tions, and it might mark another
step in the trend toward "neutral-
ism” in countries which want to
be aligned neither with East nor
West, as East and West are view-
ed in this country.
All the prime ministers deny
they are neutralists or that they
want to form any bloc. But the
actions of some of them point that
way.
Tuesday's conference is being
held at the health resort of Bogor,
30 miles south of the Indonesian
tries represented are called the
Colombo powers because they first
got together at Colombo, Ceylon,
last April.
Interest in this country in the
Bogor conference will center, nat-
urally, In anything that may be
said about Communist China.
Two of the five premiers, Jaw-
aharlal Nehru of India and U Nu
of Burma, have Just returned from
visits to Petping. Nehru enjoys es-
pecially good relations with the
Red Chinese regime, and some
hope Is held he may be helpful
In the attempt to free the 11 Amer-
icans the Reds are holding.
Two more of the premiers, how-
ever, have visited the United
States recently. They are Sir John
Kotelawala of Ceylon and Moham-
med All of Pakistan. Pakistan,
alone of the Colombo powers, join-
ed the Southeast Asia Treaty Or-
ganization. Neither is likely to
agree to any proposal—if a pro-
posal Is made—which would help
the Peiping regime at the expense
of the West. &
THE DRIVER of the *emi-truck w*a trapped in the cab for 80 min-
ute* after hi* coal dump trailer wedged itself under • 83-car
freight train 2% mile* southeast of East Canton, O. Three of the
freight car* and the engine were derailed and the trailer part of
the *eml-truck was demolished, fInternational)
400,000 Rail Workers
To Strike In Britain
LONDON, Dec. 29 - UP -
Britain’s biggest ralroad union re-
jected a government plea for de-
lay Tuesday night and decided to
go ahead with plans for a nation-
wide rail strike of 400,000 men on
Jan. 9.
SAY
Happy New Year
&
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Hartman, Fred. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 173, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 29, 1954, newspaper, December 29, 1954; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1042452/m1/4/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 12, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.