Stephenville Daily Empire (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 95, Ed. 1 Friday, January 13, 1950 Page: 1 of 6
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PREHISTORIC CAMPSITE IN NEBRASKA — This human
dwelling site, discovered in southwestern Nebraska by E. Mott
Davis, University of Nebraska anthropologist, revealed a con-
nection between prehistoric people who lived here and those
of the plains near Plalnvlew, Texas. Stone blades, scrapers,
and unusual leaf-shaped points of flint established the link
between the settlements, which existed in the Great Plains
about 5,000 years ago. -!
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WORLD...
By Rufus F. Higgs
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j^OOKING AT building figures
for the coming months in Ste-
phenville presents sn interesting
situation, one that involves a fair-
ly large sum of money for a small
city such as this. Earmarked for
spending by the city for water
and sewer extensions during 1960
is $360,000 that is now available.
Mayor Pittman said the past week
that this money was being spent
with care with a -view of taking ad-
vantage of every possible saving.
Just what this monthly pay roll
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biggest part of the year.
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THE $860,000 the city has avail-
able for improvements is a
' part of a $686,000 bond issue auth-
orized by tax payers in 1947. Most
of the materia] and equipment
needed for the contemplated im-
provements has been bought—and
a good deal of it paid for. The dis-
posal plant which must be brought. wag ^ juage us
up to proportions that will meet | realtor for the Cumbys.
the demand will use up consider- |
sble cash in the way of material, i
Wlb» *f Bascom Giles, emnmi.-
ThTeonditi^i. i 8ioner # Texas Gen’eraT Lind
toTStT' and ch»irm*n °f th* vet
TWO Gl LAND
DEALS CLOSED
HERE TO DATE
Two land transactions under the
Veterans Land Board Act have
been consummated in the offices
•f Attorney Charles Nordyke, legal
representative for the board in
Erath county.
Friday morning two pieces of
property in the amount of 202
acres, four miles east of Stephen-
ville and in the vicinity of Smith
Springs, owned by Mr. and Mrs.
Cecil C. Smitty of this city,
All Hope Lost For 52 Men Believed
On Board Sunken British Submarine
Shannon Supply Company, live# in
the Belmont Addition in Stephen-
ville. The land was sold for $7,000.
In a transaction, earlier in the
week, Nordyke reported the sale
of property belonging to Mr. and
Mrs. C. C. Cumby to John Cecil
Cox of Stamford. A total of 163
acres of land located one mile east
of the Oak Dale community was
involved and the purchase price
was $6,620. Judge Garrett was
HEAD WINTERS 2
SCHOOL SPEAKS
FFA BANQUET
Prof. I. L. Lasater, superinten-
dent of schools at Winters, was the
principal speaker at Thursday
night’s Future Farmers of Amer-
ica banquet.
The dinner honored the fathers
of the boys who are members of
the Stephenville High School chap-
ter of the FFA. ,,
After the dinner, served by the
Home Ec girls and under the
supervision of Mrs. Louise Murphy
and Mrs. Hensarling, the invoca-
tion was said by Kenneth Carey.
Participating in the annual event
was Ben McCollum, president of
Stephenville State Bank who, as
an honorary member of the local
high school chapter, remarked that
“in the 16 years of my membership
with this group it has been my
pleasure to attend 13 of these.an-
nua) banquets.’’ On behalf of both
the Farmers-First National Bank
and the Stephenville State Bank,
McCollum presented a gift of $10
from each of the banks to the
local organization'.
Eight Take Part
Members of the high school FFA
chapter taking an actiye part on
the program were: Kirby Keahey,
Charles Holbrook, Jim Mobley,
Tommy Snow, Jimmy Taylor, Gene
Williams, Benny Tidwell, Jack Han-
cock.
Prof. J. B. Merrell, superinten-
dent of Stephenville schools, in-'
troduced Lasater to the audience.
Officers of the SHS chapter are:
Lawrence Hancock, president; Jack
Hancock, vice-president; Gene Wil-
liams, second vice-president; Ken-
neth Carey, secretary; Kirby Kea-
hey, tasasurer; Sid Stephens, re-
porter; Charles Holbrook, parlia-
mentarian; Virgil Fincher, sen-
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wiici| ana run oTvMwm^ f mptcr
sweetheart. ,
Prof. Ralph Moser is faculty ad-
viser to the boys.
Others Approved
Word has been received from the
the working men who live here be Land program, that addition-
Stephenville war veteran.
steady employment thru
source fo* several months:
this
'J’HE $50,000 improvement and
rebuilding program of the
Perry Bros, mercantile establish-
ment begins soon. All that is
new money and like other proj-
ects of similar sise will be of
much aid and benefit to carpen-
ters, plumbers, painters and the
working man. When these people
work they have money to spend
—and moat of it goes thru the
regular trade channels of all
classes of merchandising.
J^JUCH has already been said
about the building program at
Tarleton College. Regardless of
that it is still under way and there
will be more of it before spring
breaks. A fairly large number or
men will have jobs by reason of
this expansion all thru the year.
There are two or three other proj-
Two Comanche ex-GIs also are
on the list.
Inasmuch as the transactions
are subject to certification of title
to the tracts, the names of the
veterans are not made public at
this time. Further details concern-
ing transfer of lands through the
Veterans Land program will be
published in the Daily Empire and
Empire-Tribune at the time of
their consummation.
Woman Suffers
Fractured Ribs
In Accident
A highway accident nine miles
Oast of Stephenville on Highway
377 brought Mrs. William T. Mat-
tingly of Fort Worth to the Ste-
phenville Hospital for the treat-
ment of three fractured ribs.
The accident occurred Thursday
night about 6:30 o’clock when the
dump truck driven by her husband
hit a slick shoulder on a curve in
the road and Mattingly lost control
of the truck. The truck, pulling a
couple behind it, plunged into a
deep ditch on the side of the road.
At the time of the mishap the
Mattinglys, with their grandson,
were returning to Fort Worth. Of-
ficers report very little damage to
the cars.
Atteiript Made To
Wreck Two Fast
Passenger Trains
CHICAGO, Jan. 13 (UP*—North
Western Railroad officials report-
ed today that a deliberate attempt
was made to wreck two fast pas-
senger trains at they entered
Chicago.
The Twin Cities 400, en route
from Minneapolis, and the Valley
400, bound here from Green Bay,
Wis., plowed into piles of heavy
switch ..bars, pieces of rail,
irons and other maintenance equip-
ment on Chicago’s North Side.
Both trains remained on the
tracks and'none of the passengers
was injured.
The Twin Cities train had 300
passengers aboard. The Valley 400
was carrying 170 passengers.
The trains ground to such quick
stops that they skidded, flattening
more than a score of wheels. Air
reservoirs under one diesel loco-
motive were punctured.
The Green Bay-Chicago train,
running about 30 minutes late, was
first to strike the obstructions.
About a half hour later, before
trainmen had time to check the
other tracks, the Twin Cities train
hit a similar pile of metal.
Railroad agents and police in-
vestigating the derailment attempt
said the track material was taken
from a padlocked maintenance
shanty alongside the tracks and
placed deliberately on the rails.
They said it was a "miracle”
that neither train was derailed.
Trains often are derailed by a
single heavy bar, they said.
Investigators sought to deter-
mine whether the pldfc was the
work of irresponsible hoodlums or
serious saboteurs.
Trainmen said the culprits ap-
parently had some knowledge of
railroading. They placed each piece
of steel so that it did not touch
both rails.
If the bars had touched both
rails simultaneously, the railroad
en oaplatoed, the contact auto-
matically would have set block
signals warning the trains to stop.
R. F. Koepp, night chief dis-
patcher, said that when the first
mishap occurred, trains due to de-
part from the downtown North
Western station were ordered held.
He said the Twin Cities 400 was
running so closely behind the other
train, on a parallel track, that it
would not be signalled down before
it plowed into the pile of iron.
Each train proceeded to the ter-
minal, four miles distant, after
brief delays.
Plane Crashes Into
Street, Two Killed.
LONG BEACH, Calif., Jan. 18.
(UP)—Two, air force reservists
were killed when they tried to
pilot their crippled training plane
to a landing without crashing into
North Long Beach homes.
Three crewmen, however, strug-
gled from the twin-engine AT-11
Beechcraft last night after it
grazed a house top, rammed into
a street nose-first and exploded in
flame.
Member Prison Board
Heard Here Thursday
Dr. T. R. Havens, member of the
Texas State Prison Board and pro-
fessor of American History at
Howard Payne College, spoke be-
fore a group of Baptist men here
Thursday night.
The meeting was the quarterly
meeting of the county-wide Bap-
SHIVERS CALLS
EXTRA SESSION
JANUARY 31 ST
AUSTIN, Jan. 13 (UP)—The
Texas Legislature will convene in
special session Jan. -31 to act on a
multi-million dollar plan to finance
state hospitals.
Gdv. Allan Shivers announced
yesterday that he would summon
lawmakers to Austin at the end
of the month and expressed con-
fidence they would enact the need-
ed legislation within 30 days.
He said the session would be
limited to financing the $17,500,000
operating cost of the institutions
for the second year of the present
biennium, as well as “some por-
tion” of the building program.
“The special session will be call-
ed to solve the special problem of
state hospitals.”
He thus indicated that no action
would be taken, during the extra-
ordinary session, on the state’s
potential deficit of $26,000,000 in
the present biennium.
State Comptroller Robert S. Cal-
vert told the governor Wednesday
that the state could expect a defi-
cit in Uqpt amount by Aug. 31,
1951. He said money was being
spent from the general revenue
fund faster than it was being col-
lected. Shivers blamed reduced oil
revenues for the shortage.
v More Taxes Needed
It was apparent that additional
taxes would be needed to finance
the state hospital program. Shiv-
ers already has expressed himself
against deficit financing.
Four-fifths of the Legislature
would have to concur before the
lawmakers could vote deficit finan-
cing—in effect, fail to gain new
revenue to finance new cpsts and
tack- the added expenditures onto
the anticipated deficit. ----- •------ — —
The plan, backed by House members and guests.
Speaker Durwood Manford, would
caH for increased taxes, probably
on the state’s present omnibus tax
bill.
In a letter to legislators, Shiv-
ers invited them “to come by and
give me the benefit of their advice
Shivers said he considered Cal-
vert’s deficit estimate as “poten-
tial,” and that “business conditions
couid improve to where we would
not have any deficit at all.”
tist Brotherhood and was held in
the First Baptist Church.
Earl Cole of Stephenville, and
a deacon of the local church, is
president of the group and presided
at the rally.
Representatives from Baptist
churches jn the county, besides the
Stephenville group, were: Bluff
Dale^ Dublin, Green Creek, Huck-
abay, Morgan Mill, Sap Oak, Sel-
den and Valley Grove.
The program before Dr. Havens’
message was enthusiastically re-
ceived by the men. Rev. M. Shan-
non, pastor of Sap Oak Baptist
Church, gave the invocation.
Special music was provided by
Rev. C. O. Keeler, pastor of Selden
Baptist Church, and a trio com-
posed of Agnes Garner, Lois Rob-
erts and Mary Smith. Carvel Mills
played a saxophone solo, “At Even
Tide.” Ted Boyer, of Howard
Payne College, accompanied on the
piano for each number. Miss Gar-
ner is a senior at the Brownwood
Baptist institution and Miss Rob-
erts is the girls’ physical education
teacher there.
Rev. B. N. Shepherd, association-
al missionary for Erath. Baptist
Association, had a brief message
for the brotherhood group.
Dr. Havens bi-ought a magnifi-
cent and challenging message to
the Baptist men using his text
from Genesis 5:24, “And Enoch
walked with God.” The message
was interspersed with illustrations
from his own work in Texas State
prisons, and in climaxing his ad-
dress Dr. Havens warned the men
against professionalizing their pas-
tors. The Brownwood .professor
admonished the passive attitude of
church members who say, to quote
hiA, “Oh! he’s a preacher and he
ought to preach that way.” Dr.
Havens was speaking of the mem-
ber who gets his feelings hurt
when the pastor preaches a
straightforward sermon and the
folks use the excuse of his being
a preacher for speaking that way.
This was his way of warning the
church members against “profes-
sionalizing the pastor.”
Rev. James Robbins, pastor of
Hurkabay Baptist Church, said the
benediction.
Following the service in the
auditorium the men were served
refreshments in the dining rooms
I of the church.
Rev. H. Marshall Smith, pastor
of the First Baptist Church, was
host pastor to the brotherhood
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Marine Sergeant
Enrolled In
Service 'School
QUANTICO, Va. (Spl.)—Marine
Staff Sergeant Horace H. Lee Jr.
of Stephenville is currently attend-
ing the 24-week ordnance school
here.
The school includes courses for
artillery mechanics, infantry weap-
onfe' armorers, time piece repair-
men, ordnance weapon* stockmen,
turrett armorers and optical in-
strument repairmen.
Lee will be reassigned to one of
the marine corps stations at home
or abroad upon graduation. He is
the son of Mr. and Mrs. Horace
H. Lee Sr., 791 Frey Street, Ste-
phenville. Prior to his enlistment
he attended Weatherford High
School, and during the last war
he served with the famed Third
Marine Division on Guam, M. I.,
where he was awarded the Purple
Heart medal for wounds received
in action against the Japanese.
(Continued on page 6)
MORE RAINFALL
Another .70 inch of rainfall was
added to the Stephenville area
Thursday night, according to the
rain gauge at the Farmers-First
National Bank. With Thursday
morning’s downpour of .70 inch,
tills give# a total of 1.40 inches for
the period from 6:30 a.m. Thurs-
day through early Friday morn-
ing.
House Committee Puts Off
Action On Employment Bill
WASHINGTON, Jan. 13. (UP)
—The House rules committee to-
day generated a lot of heat but
produced no action on President
Truman’s fair employment prac-
tices bill.
After two hours of wrangling,
which got nowhere, the committee
put off at least until Monday a
decision as to whether to send
the measure to the House floor
for debate.
If the rules group, cannot agree
on a procedure for House action
pn (he bill, the labor committee
’plans to use special parliamentary
machinery for calling it up Jan.
23 anyway.
Spokesmen for the labor commit-
tee, which approved the bill last
year hy a 14-11 vote, asked for a
rule allowing unlimited amendment
on the House floor but only two
hours of general debate.
Rep. John E. Lyle Jr., R., Tex.,
member of the rules committee,
snorted that six weeks of debate
would be more like it. Other South-
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PRESIDENTIAL AIDE TACKLES PROBLEM — Charles 8.
Murphy, who succeeds Clark Clifford as Presidential aide,
looks over a battered giant doll with his one-year-old daugh-
ter, Elizabeth. From Elizabeth’s expression, she’s lost all hope
of having the doll fixed, but Daddy" looks more confident.
Infant Smothers
To Death In Crib
WICHITA FALLS, Jan. 18 (U?)
—Four-months-old Jeanie Lorraine
smothered to death in her trailer
house crib early today, apparently
when she rolled on her stomach
and was unable to get out of that
position. '
Mrs. B. G. Bethea, 19, whose un-
employed husband was In South
Texas looking for a job, found the
infant’s body when she arose at
7 a.m.
Justice of the Peace H. M. (Doc)
Newman returned a verdict of
death from suffocation.
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ern Democrats on the committee
shared his dislike for the measure.
The bill would prohibit discrim-
ination against anyone in private
employment because of race, color
or religion. It is the keystone of
President Truman’s civil rights
program. Both major parties are
committed by their platforms to
support civil rights legislation.
But whatever the House does,
Southern Democrats in ' the Sen-
ate—where it is harder to limit
debate—are expected to do their
best to talk the program to death.
Wets Blame Drys.
Other congressional develop-
ments:
Liquor—Wets accuse drys of
starting a fight against liquor ads
reviving prohibition
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in hope of
The Senate interstate commerce
committee is studying a bill to
ban interstate wine, beer and liq-
uor advertising. The drys testified
for the measure yesterday. The
wets today. Emile J. Soucy of
the New Hampshire Wholesale
Beverage Association, said the ad
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Countless, of course, are the
stories about Broadway—such as
the one about the vaudeville per-
former with the trained pigeon
act. After a long period without
engagements, he received a tele-
gram from an agent: “Have
month's bookings in midde west.”
An hour later, the agent received
this reply: “Sorry, but have eat-
en the act.” *
Similar it the story of Joe
Frisco, the stuttering comedian,
who, after a period of inactivity,
received a phone call in his hotel
room from an agent who said,
“I can got you $$06 a * week.”
The comedian replied, “t won’t
work for a cent leas than $566."
“Well,” replied the egent,
“come on down to my office and
let'a talk about it.”
“What!” yelled Frisco, “and
got locked out of my room?”
Two New Members
Initiated Into
Local Lions Club
The Stephenville Lions Club, in
weekly luncheon session at Tarle-
ton dining hall, elected two new
members mto the service club and
initiated a class of six.
President Cecil Baliow presided
at the meeting and John R. Bryant
was master of ceremonies for the
initiation program.
The new members are Ferel
Little and Grady Stone.
The initiates were Lt. Col. Bur-
ton O. Morrison and Major George
J. Ganer of TSC’s ROTC staff, and
L. T. Bishop, C. H. Dawson. Frank
E. Elkins and Sterling Smith.
Announcement was mad! that at
next week’s luncheon meeting a
“boozier. bend” of about 75 -Lions
from three Fort Worth club will
be here for the meeting as they
tour Weat Texas in behalf of the
Southweat Fat Stock Show. The
boosters will be from the member-
ships of the North Side, South Side
and River Oaks club* in Fort
Worth.
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NEW. AIR ROUTE
HOUSTON, Jan. 13 (UP)—Bran-
iff International Airways today
announced the inauguration of a
new route to Asuncion, Paraguay,
“sometime within the next six to
eight weeks.” Approval for the
course into the capital of Paraguay
was givep here yesterday at a
meeting of the board of directors
of the Dallas-based airline.
ACCEPTS CITY POST
TYLER, Jan. 13 (UP)—Smith
A. Shelton, past mayor of Tyler,
today accepted a post specially
created for him by the city com-
mission. Before his 9-month ten-
ure as mayor, Shelton had served
37 years as city tax assessor-col-
lector. He resigned the mayor’s
post last Friday but yesterday was
offered the new position of spe-
cial assessor in the city tax de-
partment for $300 a month.
NEW CITY MANAGER
DALLAS, Jan. 13 (UP)—Morris
M. Howard, 3?, dean of men at
Abilene Christian College, will be-
come assistant city manager here
Feb. L Crtys-Wanager Charles C.
Ford ’Shhounced Howard's appoint-
ment yesterday and said he would
recommend a yearly salary of $5,-
000 to the City Council.
March Of Dimes
Headquarters Is
Not Superstitious
NEW YORK, Jan. 13. (UP) —
The 13th national March of
Dimes campaign of the National
Foundation for Infantile Paraly-
sis joined forces this Friday the
13th with the national committee
of 13 against superstition and
fear.
Their avowed purpose—an ed-
ucational campaign to “debunk
the 13 most prevalent supersti-
tions, myth and misconceptions
about infantile paralysis.”
The March of Dimes campaign
begins Jan. 16 and ends Jan. 31.
Dr. Harry M. Weaver, re-
search director of the national
foundation, has prepared a pam-
phlet known as Education Bul-
letin No. 13 in which he debunks
13 popular myths about polio.
The national committee of 13
is headed by Nick Maisoukas
who is a 13th child, has 13 let-
ters in his name and was born
on June 13, 1903. His committee
urged every citizen to ,send 13
dimes to the local chapter of the
national foundation.
NAVAL FROGMEN
PROBE DEPTHS
THAMES RIVER
LONDON, Jan. 13. (UP) —A
naval “frogman” swam into the
smashed British submarine Truc-
ulent on the bottom of the
Thames Estuary late today and
found the entire craft flooded.
His discovery dashed tne last
flickering hopes for the 52 miss-
ing men believed trapped in the
submarine when it sank nearly 24
hours earlier.
This brought the death toll to
61 of the 76 men who were
aboard 'the 1,090-ton patrol sub-
marine when the Swedish tanker
Divina rammed and sank it last
night about 17 miles northwest of
Margate.
Fifteen men either on the
deck or the bridge of thg sub-
marine at the time of” the crash
were washed away and rescued.
Three bodies were recovered soon
afterward, and six more today.
The Royal Navy called out its
“frogmen” after deep sea divers
who found the wrecked subma-
rine 55 to 60 feet below the sur-
j face failed to get any response to
[ their taps against the hull with
signal hammers.
The submarine apparently flood-
ed within minutes of the collision.
The Divina had torh^n holt in the
hull forward of the gun turret,
and the vessel evidently sank be-
fore the conning tower could be
closed.
More Bodies Recovered
The British frigate Zest recov-
ered the six bodies found today at
Barrow Deep, more than six miles
from the crash scene.
It was, not determined at once
whether the men had been swept
from the deck" last night or had
attempted to escape from the
sunken craft with the aid of Davis
breathing apparatus.
Sixteen-foot tides and swift cur-
rents hampered rescue efforts, but
these were offset partly by the
calm sea.
Officers directing the rescue
fleet of 50 vessels and 1,000 men
had refused to abandon hope even
after delays of divers reported no
response to their taps with signal
hammers along most of the 273-
foot length of the hull.
But hardly minutes before dark-
ness and adverse tides would-have
ffirced the searchers to suspend
operations until tomorrow, “Frog-
man” Hodges swam to the surface
with his report. Only then did au-
thorities concede there was no
hope of finding further survivors.
Fifteen Rescued *
Lt. C. P. Bowers, commander of
the Truculent, was among the 15
survivors rescued last night. He
was taken ashore for first aid
treatment, but insisted on return-
ing to the scene to aid the search-
today.
There was no immediate break-
down as to how many of the 58
crewmen and 18 dockyard workers
were dead or missing and how
many had survived. The dock
workers had gone along for a
trial cruise after refitting the sub-
marine.
Vice-Admiral G. B. Middleton,
superintendent of the Chatham
Naval Base, issued this statement
at 3 p. m.:
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RETURN FROM FRANCE
Mrs. John Deane Jr. and little
daughter, Marie France, returned
to their home in Stephenville
Thursday after an absence of
about five months. They have visit-
ed with Mrs. Deane’s parents, who
live in Versailles, near Paris,
France.
Survey Begun For
Leon River Dam
RANGER, Jan. 13. (UP)—A
reclamation division crew was in
Ranger today to begin preliminary
surveys on the proposed site for
a dam on the Leon River)
Information gathered in the sur-
vey will be sent to reclamation div-
ision engineers in Austin.
The dam has been proposed as a
means of providing an adequate
water supply for this area.
WOMAN BUILDS MEMORIAL—At Bournemouth, England,
Mrs. “Muff” George works on the roof of the 12-foot long,
S-foot high chapel, which she Is constructing single-handedly
as a permanent shrine to the memory of the pilots stationed
In the area during the Battle of Britain, lira. George started
in 1948 and hopes to have the memorial completed in 1952.
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