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Stephenyille Daidt Empire
FRIDAY, JANUARY 13, 1950
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New Policy Looms In Far East
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The Western powers are now concerned over the date for
“general” recognition of the Commuhiat government in China.
It is no longer a question 0/ recognition but one of timing.
The French are anxious to take action in the hope that this
will lessen the pressure in French Indo-China. Canada is in-
clined to wait for the United States to make its decision. In be-
tween are various differences as to the procedure to be adopted.
Those familiar with the situation in the Far East express
the idea that a decision on policies and attitudes to be follow-
ed after recognition is more important at the present time. This
is a matter of concern because'of the belief that a possibility
exists that the West, through a Shrewd and flexible policy, may
be able to encourage the Chinese to exhibit some of the inde-
pendence recently manifested in Yugoslavia.
The Russians,,of course', will work for as close a tie with the
Chinese Communists as possible. They do not like the situation
developed by Marshal Tito who has asserted the equality of
Communist parties and the independence of Communist states.
If this attitude spreads, the influence of Moscow will be weak-
ened and the danger of Communism, as a world menace, would
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be lesheried.
The Chinese, it is noted, have been nationalistic for centuries.
This leads to the hope that, regardless of the Communist Gov-
ernment, the Chinese people will assert their nationalism. More-
over, the economic difficulties confronting the new regime in
China are of such a nature as to warrant the belief that the
Communists in China will have their hands full at home, trying
to improve conditions and maintain their control of the masses
of Chinese. ___,,
What Is Your Mental Status?
The average citizen of Erath county' would not be hurt by a
careful analysis of his or her mental state.
While mdst of us usually like to boast of our intelligence, the
fact is that few of us ever try to do more than assert our opin-
ions. many of them picked op yearn ago and never tested since
that day.
Seekers after truth, if such there .be. should resolutely at-
tempt to master the new facts that detailed research has re-
vealed in all important lines of human, thought. Philosophical* in-
habitants, if still conscious, should, it seems, reset their theories
in order to conform to recently discovered facts.
To the many, youngsters who are attending’schools and col-
leges, we call attention to the necessity of regarding their
training as a starting [joint in the search for truth. When every
graduate shall leave college with the- clear understanding that
what he has learned is nothing but the base of education, we
may put it down that our teaching is amounting to something.
Stephenyille Public Schools News
WARD SCHOOL
Job-hunting is not altogether unknown among those who hold
high-offices.
Suggested motto for Stephenville spenders: Buy it in Stephen-
ville. » " - -
Waco Lumberman
Fatally Shot By
Cleburne Woman
HILLSBORO, Jan.x 13. (UP) —
prominent Waco wholesale lumber
dealer was wounded fatally Wed-
nesday near here add a Cleburne
woman was under arrest in con-
nection with the shooting.
P. J. Ward, 5(L was shot twice
In ms I&4H Ford pickup
as he sat
truck on Highway 171 two miles
east of Hillsboro. The shooting oc-
curred at 9:15 V-m. He died in
-Boyd Hospital here at 10:30 p.m.
His woman companion told the
sheriff’s office she was "pretty
high" at the time ami that there
had been an argument and scuffle.
She drove the wounded man to the
hospital and surrendered to offi-
cer*.
She told the sheriff’s office that
she and Royd had- had lunch to-
gether in Corsicana Wednesday,
then drove to West, south of here,
where they had dinner and drank
some bedr.
The argument followed as they
drove toward Hillsboro, she said,
and Ward pulled a .33 automatic
CARD OF THANKS
To our many friends and neigh-
bors who came to our assistance
at the time of the loss of our
sister, Miss Willie Huffman, we
extend our heartfelt thanks. For
your comforting words of sym-
pathy, the lovely food and the
beautiful flowers we shall ever be
grateful. May God bless you all.
—Her brothers and sisters.
from the glove compartment of the
truck.
In the scuffle, she related, three
shots were fired. One struck Ward
in the left chest and the second in
the left leg, above the knee.
"He got out of the truck to see
where he was shot,” she said, "then
1 drove him to the hospital.’’
At the hospital, Ward made a
brief statement to the attending
physician in which he said "The
woman is not to blame for what
happened.”
The woman further related that
after the shooting, she got out
of the truck, fired the weapon
three or four times into the ground,
then threw it away. The auto-
matic hadn't been found Thursday
morning. She did not explain why
she fired the gun into the gonnd,
nor why she disposed of it.
Ward has a wife and daughter
rhy
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in Waco.
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First Grade
Section 1-D. Bennie Spence is
back in school after visiting sev-
eral days in Florida; Raymonds
Armstrong was absent last week
due to illness. .
Second Grade
Section 2-A hopes that Pollye
Simmons will be able to return to
school soon. She is ill with the
chickenpox.
We regret to lose Douglas War-
ren in room 2-B, but we hope he
enjoys his school life In Wichita
Falls.
Ronald Fisher is ill with chicken-
pox- .... h
The children of 2-C have made
free-hand drawings of winter
scenes. Several have writtan short
poems to go with their drawings.
Philip and Gerald Madeley spent
two days in Conroe last week visit-
ing their grandmother who is seri-
ously ill.
Curtis and Ann Gleaton of Sec-
tion 2-D visited last week-end in
Fort Worth with their grand-
parents.
Third -Grade '
, The pupils in. Section 3-B are
studying letter writing. They are
putting into practice what they
learn by writing two classmates
who moved away before the holi-
days. These are Paula Andress,
who moved to Hamlin and June
Sharp, who moved to Ranger. Mrs.
Hulse and the children are very
happy to have in their room a new
student, Margaret Tarpley, who
moved here last week from Salem,
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Fourth Grade
The students and teacher of Sec-
tion 4-B wish to extend a note of
sympathy to Mrs. Wilson, one of
our fourth grade teachers, in the
loss of her father. We were so
sorry to hear of it. ,
We are happy to have a new stu-
dent with us, Bert Hamilton from
Dublin.
We are glad to have Howard
Frazier and Wayne Morton back
in school after several days’ ab-
sence. Howard has been sick, and
Wayne couldn’t come in because
of bad weather.
Section 4-D. Our class is de-
lighted with the chairs we have
borrowed for our reading table.
Several children have brought
children’s magazines and book ends
and our reading table is a very
popular corner. ----------------------
| We are so very sorry to lose
I Carolyn Lowery, who is moving to
j Sweetwater. We shall miss her.
Neil Rice and Tommy Louther-
back have been absent because of
illness. Wfe welcome ~them back.
Several children were out-of-
town visitors. Bobbie Laney wae in
Covington, Martha Denman in
Brownwood and Kenneth Miller in
Hamilton.
We are proud of a new ball. We
plan to make good use of it.
Fifth Grade
Everyone in 5-D was happy to
report pleasant holidays. Some
spent ell or a part of their holidays
out of town. The one who went
farthest was Kent Christensen. He
and hid parents made an bntomo-
tiiTe trip to Nebraska to spend
Christmas with his grandparents.
Others who were out of town: Al-
vis Roberts to Corpus, Barbas
Lee to Mineral Wells, Donald Pea-
cock in Ranger, Denis Grady' to
Fort Worth, Anita Ross to Marble
Falls, Anna Tarpley to De Leon,
Beverly Mclnroe to Comanche, Lou
Jane Mitchell in Brownwood, Pat
Latta in Tioga, Rose Ann Croft to
Dublin, Jerry Ann Byrd' in Gates-
ville, Bobby Hicks in Dublin and
Foggy Lewis to Comanche.
The class is thoroughly enjoying
the public address system that was
installed during the holidays. They
especially like the musical pro-
grams. It waa a very good source
of entertainment during the bad
weather, when the pupils could
not play outside.
The class would like to take this
opportunity to thank the room
mothers who gave their time so
generously that the pupils could
huve such delightful refreshments
to climax their Christmas program.
One was Thunderstorms, the other
was Care of the Teeth.
The Junior High choral club
sang for the REA at 11 o’clock
Tuesday morning.
S-B is missing Bobby Miller this
week, since he -has been absent.
JUNIOR HIGH
The Junior High School Library
Club met in the library Wednes-
day morning at 9 o'clock. A new
secretary-treasurer, Carolina Rod-
gers, was elected to take the place
of Kenneth Pate, who is moving
to Fort Worth. Patricia Guyton
is also moving away. We will miss
them both.
8-B broadcast their science elass
over KSTV last week. The pro-
gram was about Safety at Home,
at School, in Factories, and on
Highways.
T he 6th, 7th and 8th grade
classes sew two shows Tuesday.
Good citizens from 6-B are Dor-
othy Jones and Clay Jackson.
6-B has a new pupil, R. G. Proc-
tor. —J'
The following pupils in 6-B spent
the .week end out of town: Nora
Guyton, James Folly and Ronnie
Bolar.
8-A United States History class
under the direction of Mrs. Lee
was on the air at 1:30 p.m., Mon-
day. The class discussed the part
of the United States in weeld Af-
fairs prior to World ■«< War 1.
Twenty-two students entered into
the discussion. Leonda Bell gave
a poem, “Our Country.”
6-A's best citizens are Joan Bar-
ron 'and Donald Cleveland.
6-A’s monitors are James Day
and Sandra Brooks.
6-A will broadcast their history
class over KSTV at 1:30 p.m. Fri-
day. We would like to have all the
parents listen to our program.
Good citizens in 6-D for last
week were Van Tate and Georgia
Dell Stephenson.
6rD had as their visitor on Jan-
uary 4th, Louan Chaney from
Alexander.
The pupils of 6:D were happy
to have Vs
an Tate back with them
after an absence due to Illness.
The pupils of Junior High School
are busy reviewing for their mid-
term examinations.
Ruth Ann Neblett attended the
stock show held at the city park.
Five teachers judged* the
“Houses That Arithmetic Built.”
These houses built by the seventh
grade math classes were judged
according to initiative, purposeful-
ness, and ability of the pupil. Pu-
pils were instructed to not receive
too much help in the building of
their houses. Winners were as fol-
lows: Gene Denio, first place;
Carter Starnes, second place; Tra-
vis Hicks, third place; Jackie
Moore, fourth place; Covelle Jones,
fifth place. Jackie Bills’ house re-
ceived honorable mention. All of
the houses were clever, and show-
ed considerable time and work
had been spent in the building
them.
DIABOLIC DIADEM ... is the
strongest phrase this column dare
use in print for the latest assault
Christendom ... in the Al-
banian elections which declared Joe
Stalin as a diety . .. . and we sug-
gest that the Scriptural admonition
of Exodus 20:3 be studied by the
Soviet senior . . . pot to mention
the Latin legend . . . "salus populi
suprema lex eato” . . . or . . .
translated . . . “let the welfare of
the people be the supreme Jew”
. . . which, incidentally, is ondy'of
the two state mottoes for Missouri.
“HELP THE HELPLESS!
Join the March of Dimes!”
CORNY COMMENT ... but I
couldn’t feaist this one . . . one
of the pictures in the Farmera-
First National Bank is certainly
not all corn.
WE LIKED the pale blue sweat-
er adorning Attorney Oxford as of
yesterday. Robin’s egg blue . .
I believe.
NUN CELEBRATES GOLDEN JUBILEE—Slater Mary Fidelia,,
who la celebrating her golden Jubilee this year, la being
congratulated by two of her young chargee, Francla and
Johnny. She haa been at St. Vlncent’a Hospital In Chicago,
for 50 year*.'
Senate Payrolls to Be Made Public
CONTENTION . . . that some
garage in this city is missing a
good bet by not offering American
Automobile Association service . . .
with.the city automobile population
, . . the cross-state highways ... a
small gold, mine awaits some
garage.
WHAT'S THIS? . . . caught
Harry Neblett walking scroti the
street towards his office with two
squawking chickens . . . and it
looked from where I stood as if
something was going to be “put
in the pot” boys!
ROAD ROAMERS . . . headed
by Homer Q. Saphead . . . are the
drivers who seem to think ... by
their driving . . . that both sides
of the road, and the middle, were
meant exclusively for them.
APPRECIATED ... the stirring
and provocative message of Dr.
Havens at last night’s Brotherhood
Rally in the First Baptist Church
. . . and a goodly crowd was there.
WORTH REPEATING . . . from
the Stephenville Ministers Council
. . . only 12 per cent of the local
citizens are in church on any given
Sunday . . . ’tis estimated . . .
and but approximately 8,900 citi-
zens are members of the combined
churches of the city . . . which
leaves for. a tremendous amount of
missionary work among saints and
sinners alike.
RADIO REPORT ... 10 p.m.
Thursday night ... re: stock mar-
ket drop on Wall Street, and the
commentate) spoke of 1929’s Black
Friday . . .'God forbid ... it was
bad enough to see, and that’s one
mess this reporter don’t care to
witness the second time ... as one
sage of old once said, “Too much
is enough,” and the first time was
enuf for this scribe.
SEE YOU SUNDAY!
Six Dead After
Family Split-Up
Miss Geneva Hood of San An- fk.t . oo ».u
HAMMOND, Ind., Jan. 13. (UP)
-Four adults and
two children
were found shot or stabbed to
death in a blood-spattered, burn-
ing home Thursday and the cor-
oner described it as an apparent
case of wholesale murder and
suicide.
One of the dead, Felix Samas.
The decision of officials of the U. S. Senate to release infor-
mation as to those employed by Senators and the amount of
their compensation is'wise. Such information has been avail-
able about House members but for some reason the Senators
kept secret the facts about those on their office Staffs.
The lack of information about the Senators is not new. Jt has
baen reported before but without producing action. Since the
public, after all, pays the salaries of .those who. work for Cong-
ressmen, it is proper' for the information to be public. More-
over, in view of the recent conviction of Hep. Thomas, for re-
ceiving kickbacks from his employees, it makes the public a bit
suspicious and adds weight to the reasons that urged full pub-
licity.
Nepotism Not Illegal, But Undesirable
At least ninety of the 435 members'of the House of Represen-
tatives have ’ relatives on .the congressional payroll, according
to a United Preds news dispatch, 'which points out that nine
congressmen had two relatives on the payroll and one cong-
ressman had three daughters on his list of employes.
There is nothing illegal in the employment of relatives by
members of Congress but it is a custom that should be frowned
upon. There are many instances, no doubt, where the relative
performs full service for the salary received but the suspicion
exists, in hnany other cases, that the wife or other relative, is a
worker in name only.
- If congressmen find themselves unable to get along on the
salary allowed by the nation, without putting members of their
family on the Government payroll, they should vote an increase
in the salary of congressmen. It would be much better than to
have their relatives working for them at the Government’s ex-
pense. ~T----*--
We call attention to this without overlooking the fact that the
relatives of some congressmen manage to find employment out-
side the offices of their kin. This can usually be accomplished
and there are, we suspect, many relatives of congressmen work-
ing in other governmental officei- While this may be bad, the
presumption is that the worker, under the control of a superior,
who is unrelated, is more apt to give real service for the salary
received. i
“Take care of yourself,” says a.writer; if you don’t, who will?
Every author thinks, in his heart, that he has written a great
volupie.
27, a machinist, hod been estranged
n living
from his wife and had been living
elsewhere.
LOG RESCUER—Bob Forrest is lowered by his helpers Into the Crown Zellerbaeh log
pond at Port Angeles, Wash. With his diving suit and a salvage hoist rigged up on a steej
barge, Forrest recovers sunken logs. About flve per cent of the logs sink, which makes
quite a loss unless they are salvaged. Sixty feet Is about as deep as Forrest goes In his
log-rescuing, and so far he has surfaced more than 2.000 .water-logged logs.
by Samas’ side.
The scorched bodies were found
by firemen and police who answer-
ed an alarm at 6:67 a.m. for a
fire in the home, a modest bunga-
low located on the city’s southeast
side. A bloody knife and discharged
.22 caliber shells were found after
the fire was brought under control.
The dead, in addition to Samas,
included his wife, Katherine, 26:
their children, Felix Jr., 4, and
PhylHs, 18 months; and Richard
Norman, 26, and his wife, Shirley,
18.
A relative of Samas, Mrs. Frank
Samas, said he and his wife had
been separated since before Christ-
mas and that the wife had a di-
vorce suit pending.
SENIOR CITIZENS
HUNTSVILLE, Jan. 18 (UP)—
Senior high school students from
17 Southeast Texas counties will
meet here Feb. 10 to observe “Edu-
cation fof Citizenship Day.” Events
of the program, sponsored by the
East Texas Chamber of Commerce,
will be on the campus of Sam
Houston State College. The gath-
ering Is designed to give vocational
advice to students completing high
school this year. Guest speaker will
be John Ben Shepperd of Glade-
water, chairman of the chamber’s
committee on education for citisen-
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