Stephenville Daily Empire (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 199, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 8, 1950 Page: 1 of 6
This newspaper is part of the collection entitled: City of Stephenville Newspaper Collection and was provided to The Portal to Texas History by the Dublin Public Library.
Extracted Text
The following text was automatically extracted from the image on this page using optical character recognition software:
v ' .
>, who
nr the
•day,
>m the
tt was
iy. He
•d in-
two
ippery
sed by
ephen-
*s not
it ads.
rink
■ t
j-i. :: ■
■
weAtheb
By United Prtti
Fair thla afternoon, tonight
and Friday, except a few thun-
dershowers from the Pecos
Valley eastward this afte"no»n
Cooler tonight in the Sooth
Plans and west Pecos Valley.
.......
J
X
College Library
Uiieton State r-Hsg0
ME9 50
Stephenyille Daily Empire
• . . - —' , . • **. ■
Vol. 1. No, 199. FULL UNITED PRESS LEASED WIRE SERVICE.
STEPHENVILLE, ERATH COUNTY. TEXAS THURSDAY, JUNE 8, 1950
( Drive Carefully
. - - - Save a Life
’. SIX PAGES. PER COPY Zj
4 Crewmen
rB-29 Saved;
6 Missing
YARMOUTH, Eng., June 8 (UP)
hips
for
ITH, Eng.,.
—Ships rescued today four of the
11 American crewmen aboard a B-
29 Super Fortreea which crashed
in flames in the North Sea.
Planes, helicopters and shi;
presani a widespread search
six crewmen still missing.
The survivors and one body were
found some 18 miles off this Eaat
England seaport, where the big
bomber went down laat night with
its No. 4 engine in flames.
But hours after the crash no
wreckage had been sighted.
Six siater B-29s attached to the
U. S. Air Force Third Division
took part in the search along with
three B-17 Flying Fortresses from
Wiesbaden, Germany, and a C-47
Skymaster from an English base.
Statements Withheld
Two of the survivors, Capt. Henry
Walsh, pilot, of Alton, 111., and
Sgt. J. Ebert, Minneapolis, Minn.,
sailed into Lowestoft, Eng., aboard
a rescue craft this morning. Of-
ficials ordered them not to make
itltiHMlUtf-______________________ ________
A third survivor, Staff Sgt. Char-
les S. Allen, of Derry, N. H., was
rescued by the British Navy survey
ship Scott.
A fourth survivor was picked up,
by rescue craft shortly before
noon.
The master of the trawler War-
ren, which rescued Walsh and
Ebert, said they were in a rubber
life raft along with the dead man
when found.
“Misting” DC-3
Crew Located
DENVER, June 8 (UP)—Report
that a DC-8 private plane with 18
persons aboard belonging to an
Oklahoma City oil firm was lost
in a flight to Jackson, Wyo., from
Midland, Tex., created a stir of
excitement in Wyoming last night
until the group was located regis-
tered at a Denver hotel.
m
Russian Shake-up in Germany
Separate Peace Treaty Move
DISTRICT COURT
SESSION WILL
START MONDAY
Skeleton Organization Now
Ready For X-Ray Campaign
gfrigraflWg SSteLTSS ttnr&ns
Texas Prison Rodeo Is
Setting New Records
Eivfity per cent of net proceeds
of tnfe rodeo will go to the Prison-
— lpj —
f
£
fl
L
I Fox
B. B. Kerr, an official of the drill-
ing department of tl
Oil Company of
roughs
the Kerr-McGee
Oklahoma City,
said the party, comprised mostly
of Magnolia Petroleum Company
employe* from Midland, had stop-
ped over in Denver because of bad
weather at Jackson.
THREELOCAL
YOUTHS AT
BOYS’ STATE
Boys State, sponsored by I
American Legion as a study
citizenship, yesterday elected Jim-
L. Boswell of Fort Worth
feslaco, attorney gen-
my I,. Boswell of Fort Worth as
Governor. Other officials named
included Tom Raney, Lubbock,
lieutenant governor, and David
Robertson, Wesli
era!.
Three Stephenviile boys are at-
tending the Boys’ State. They art
sponsored by the American Legion
and co-sponsored by Rotary and
Lions Clubs.
Sent by Legion. Clube
The boys are Jimmy Taylor,
American Legion; Dan Shepherd,
Rotary Club; Billy Little, Lions
Club.
The boys left Stephenvilld Sun-
day, June 4, and will return Sun-
day, June 11. In a letter to Bfikd
Thompson of the Tumbow-Higgs
Post 240, the boys said that they
are having a wonderful time and
that Boys State is very education-
al.
The Texas Prison Rodeo it set-
ting new records at the State Fair
Grandstand in Dallas.
Opening performance of the
famous rodeo Saturday night, June
8, drew more than 11,000 specta-
tors, filling the expanded grand-
stand to its capacity. This was the
largest crowd ever to attend a
single event at State Fair Park,
except for football games.
Plenty af good seats are still
available for the remaining per-
formances of the rodeo, which will
be presented every night this
week, closing Saturday night, June
10.
However, James H. Stewart, ex-
ecutive vice-president and general
manager of the State Fair of
Texas, urged patrons to/ come
early.
Tickets are on sale at the grand-
stand box office at State Fair Park
from 10 a.m. until rodao time at
8:30 p.m. nightly. '
Governor Attends
Gov. Allan Shivers attended the
rodeo Wednesday night, June 7.
1 he rodeo is making ita first ap-
pearance outside the prison walls,
giving thousands of North Texans
their first opportunity to see the
wild and wooly show they hhve
heard about since its inception 19
years ago.
Nearly 200 inmates of the Texas
Prison System are quartered in the
State Fair Picnic Pavilion, which
has been transformed into a minia-
ture prison.
roughs
4’
!
Methodists Vote
Down Cut for
Superintendents
Central Texas Methodists, meet-
ing in their 86th annual confer-
ence in Fort Worth, Wednesday
voted down a proposal to reduce
salaries of their 10 district super-
intendents.
Rev. William L. Hankla is at-
tending the conference.
The commission on world service
and finance proposed that assess-
ment on each church remain at.
12<4 per cent, and that salaries be
fixed at definite graduated sums
which would be a slight decrease
in the amounts formerly paid.
Thursday, Bishop Martin
fthe devotional message. Rev.
Ellis, Ranger, presided, and a re-
port was -made on “The Advance
for Christ and His Church.”
A business session was sched-
uled at 2 p.m.
T. C. Poston Will
Be Honored On
Murray Cox Hour
T. C. Poston, whose Poston Feed
Store handles Sun-Glo poultry
feeds in Stepheriville, will nit the
air waves in a big way this week.
Poston is to be the object of a
“salute” by Murray Cox, noted
agricultural editor of WFAA, Dal-
las. The tribute will be given on
WFAA-820 at 12::16 Friday, June
9.
Object of the, salute is to adver-
tise the Sun-Gl'o poultry and stock
feeds. The Poston store handles a
complete line of feeds for hogs,
chickens, turkeys, calves, beeves,
horses, rabbits and milch goats.
ers ’.Education and. Recreation
Fundi which pays for books, eye-
glasseSy false teeth, artificial limbs,
athletic equipment And other items
for which the State of Texas makes
no appropriation.
LATE-
WIRE
FLASHES
Br united press
‘ Criminal District Court will open
Monday, June 12, Judge Ernest
Belcher, presiding, and six criminal
cases are set for trial.
Forty petit jurors are to report
at 9 a.m. Monday, agording to J.
W. McMahan, district clerk, and
these jurors will be the first called
since the remodeling of the district
court room.
Cases are three thefts, one child
desertion, one assault with intent
to rape, one forgery and passing
of check.
New Court Room Ready
The new court room, now ready
for use, has been completely reno-
vated. New seating will (commo-
date approximately 250 persons.
A new judge’s bench, witness box,
district clerk’s box, and two new
counsel tables have been installed.
Jurors to report Monday are:
Fred Carey, Stephenviile, Route
3; Marshall Kay, Stephenviile;
Melvin Tipton, Lipan, Route 1;
Ross Brown, Stephenviile, Route 4;
C. V. Evatt, Huckabay, Route 1;
E. R. Hammonds, Gordon, Route 1;
A. D. Ator, Lipan, Route 1; H. V.
Chairmen of the Erath Tuber-
culosis Association, meeting at 2
p.m. Wednesday, June 7, in the
chamber of commerce offices, Ste-
phenviile, completed organizational
work for the Mass X-ray Survey
to be held in Dublin and Stephen-
ville in July.
Paul Cunyus, chairman, announ-
ced that chairmen have been named
for every school district in the
county, and these districts were
represented at the meeting.
Present were Mrs. L. G. Rich,
Lucy Hennigan, Dr. A. O. Crag-
| wall, Rev. H. Marshall Smith,
'Mrs. J. V, Laird, W. Delate,
| Paul A. Cunyus, Jada Davis, Ste-
phenviile; Billie Verne Graves,
Bluff Dale; C. C. Graham, Johns-
ville; Francis E. Perry, Dublin;
Fred Carey, Selden; Mrs. Ray
Clendennin, Lone Oak and Alex-
ander; Jim Jordan, Morgan Mill;
Ernest Hickey, Lingleville; W. A.
Jackson, Dublin and Purves; Mrs.
H. H. Talley, Duffau.
o, Stephenvill
Bluff Dale, Route 1
Collins,
ie; Tim Long,
: Wayne York,
1; Henry Carter,
Hallmark, Dublin,
CROS8ING CRASH FATAL
TEXAS CITY, June 8 (UP)—A
49-year-old Seabrook man died in
a grade crossing accident west of
here late yesterday. He was iden-
tified as Farrell G: Buchanan. His
car collided with h Southern Pa-
cific passenger train. Bnchanan ap-
parently died instantly.
WILL BURN FOR SLAYING
HOUSTON, June 8 (UP)—Death
in the electric chair confronted Al-
bert Edwards today for the gang-
type slaying of Paul F. Walker
more than a year ago. Edwards
was convicted yesterday and given
the death penalty. His estranged
wife, Betty Lou, was killed in the
same burst of gunfire May 26, 1949,
but he was not tried for Mrs. Ed-
wards’ death. The couple wan shot
after Edwards forced Walker’s car
to the curb, walked over as if to
make conversation, and then open-
ed fire.
DEFENDS “ADELINE”
HASTINGS, Eng., June 8 (UP)
—The American president of the
World Christian Temperance Union
defended the song “Sweet Adeline”
as non-alcoholic today and said it
never made “anyone drunk." Mrs.
D. Leigh Colvin, of Evanston, 111.,
made tne statement in commenting
on the ban of the song by an
American association of barbershop
harmonlzers on grounds that jt had
“alcoholic associations.”
LOST NO TIME
PEMBINA N. D., June 8 CUP)
—A householder returning to his
home after Red River floodwaters
subaided, found that beavers had
built one of their dome-shaped
homes in his living room.
Ri
Lipan, Route
Mingus; Seth
Route 4.
Emmett Jones, Stephenviile; El-
vis Ott, Mingus, Route 1; Jim Buck,
Bluff Dale, Route 2; C. O. Fair,
Dublin, Route 3; Thurston House,
Dublin, Roue 3; John Stocks. Bluff
Dale, Route 2; Harry Anderson,
Iredell, Route 2; C. E. Bordner, Ire-
dell, Route 2; Charles A. Elston,
Huckabay, Route 1; L. F. Partain,
Huckabay, Route 1; Loe Elston,
Dublin, Route 4; C. D. Herrin, Duf-
fau; T. J. Wells, Dublin, Route 4.
J. C. Rammage, Iredell, Roptf
2; T. S. Evans, Bluff Dale, Route
I; T. E. Turney, Dublin, Route 8;
K. C. Rasbcrry, Bluff Dale, Route
1; L. I. Landes, Dublin, Route 8;.
E. H. Fanner, Stephenviile, Route j
1; H. L. Ammons, Stephenviile;
Robert E. Pack, Dublin, Route 5;
Wayne Barham, Stephenviile; Clell
Bays, Dublin, Route 4; Bras J.
Cole, Stephenviile;-R. E. WUcoxon,
Stephenviile, Route 1; O. H. Finch-
er, Stephenviile, Route 6; J. H.
Fleming, Stephenviile, Route 1;
Walter Smith, Stephenviile, Star
Route.
A location committee will find
the site for the unit in Stephen-
ville. A location has been selected
for Dublin, and the unit will be
set up at the Robbins Motor Com-
pany there. Telephone, transporta-
tion and house-to-house commit-
tees will be organized as soon as
possible.
The county has been divided into
two areas of responsibility. Mrs.
Sam Cowan and her local commit-
tee at Dublin will be responsible
for organizing the school districts
of Dublin, Purves, Edna Hill, Alex-
ander, Clairette, Lingleville. Mr.
Honey of a Story
Higginbotham Brothers and
Company have long been fam-
ous for “sweet bargains” offer-
ed customers, but it remained
for a swarm of bees to take ad-
vantage of the offer.
The bees, perhaps attracted
by the new styles in womens’
hats, swarmed ,to the sidewalk
roofing fronting the store, Wed-
nesday. A large crowd asembled.
The bees were enticed into a
hive and taken away.
Thursday, three lonely bees
haunted the spot they had
chosen. Either they had refused
to enter the hive* or they had
been off on a scouting foray
when ktheir companions were
token iwi/. I
The mystery of the “fantastic*'
snake story that cropped up in a
dozen towns of this area a week
ago has been solved.
Rumors were circulated in Ste-
phenvile, Glen Rose, Hico, Hamil-
ton, Meredian, Lampasas and other
towns that two small boys crawled,
under a ranch home, were bitten by
rattlesnakes, and that the boys’
father, rushing to summon aid,
ran over his small daughter and
killed her. Scene of the tragedy
was set at a half dozen places in
this vicinity, but confirmation was
not to be found.
The tragedy really occurred—in
Brinkly, Arkansas, on June 13,
1949.
How did the story start here one
year later?
Well, anybody’s guess is good.
But Mrs. Ross Wolfe of Stephen-
viile thinks she can supply the
answer. .
On June 12, 1949, Willa Mae
Glover, daughter of Mrs. Wolfe,
who teaches home economics at
SOVIETS TRUST
POWER OF EAST
GERMAN ARMY
BERLIN, June 8 (UP)—Russia
replaced four military executives
in Germany today with civilian
commissioners in a move believed
intended to speed a separate Soviet
peace treaty with East Germany.
. The shakeup replaced the Soviet
military commandant of Berlin,
Maj. Gen. Alexander Kotikov, by a
civilian commissioner. Similar
changes were announced for the
three Soviet zone provinces of
Brandenburg, Saxony and Thurin-
gia.
It was believed the Russians
were, withdrawing occupation con-
trols to pave the way for removal
of Soviet troops, leaving control of
Germany in the hands of the Com-
munist-dominated East German
government.
However, the Russians would
leave behind the East Germany
police army of 40,000 men to take
over their occupation tasks.
Significant developments which
point to an early Soviet-East Ger-
man peace treaty were:
Reds Make Concessions
1. The puppet East German gov-
ernment's acceptance two days ago
of i the controversial Oder-Neisse
line as Germany’s eastern frontier.
2. A reduction of 25 per cent in
Soviet Control Commission staffs,
“We told the story here a year implying that German leaders will
ago,” Mrs. Wolfe said, “but how be given more freedom,
this late date I ’
Cunyus and his Stephenviile com-
mittee will organize the school
districts of Stephenviile, Selden,
Duffau, Three-Way, Bluff Dale,
Morgan Mill, Huckabay and Oak
Dale.
Each community will have a day
to report for X-rays, but since the
unit can handle 1,500 persons
daily, any person unable to report
on the correct day may do so at
his or her convenience.
Ninety people will be needed to
serve on the assistance committee,
and thirty-six people will be need-
ed on the hostess committee.
TRAGEDY OF SNAKES HAPPENED
BUT NOT IN THIS TERRITORY
Giddings, Texas, had a car accident
in Brinkly. One day later, near
Brinkly, two small boys, 7 and 9,
were playing ball. The ball rolled
under the house and the younger
boy went under after It. He was
bitten about the face by rattlers,
as was his brother who went under
after him. The father pulled both
boys out, put them into the car,
and started to drive to Memphis, 30
miles away. In his haste, he ran
over his small daughter and killed
her.
it popped up at
can’t imagine.”
KING OBSERVES BIRTHDAY
LONDON, June 8 (UP)—King
George VI celebrated his official
birthday today by conferring hon-
ors on luindreds of persons in the
British Empire, including a radio t"haY'hsd b<£n'cut into*the ba“nk‘by
quiz master and a steeplejack. He j t r
FT. WORTH BOY
DIES IN CAVE-IN
FORT WORTH, June 8 (UP) —
A 14-year-old Fort Worth boy died
today in a cavein of a small tunnel
he and two companions were dig-
ging during a swimming trip at
Eagle Mountain Lake.
Bobby Jones suffocated from the
cavein as he and two other boys
played'ina sand bank .
The trio had been swimming
when they decided to extend a cave
created seven new barons, giving
them seats in the House of Lords,
and made 29 men knights, entitling
them to the title of “sir.” Actually
the king won't celebrate a birthday
until Dec. 14,'when he will be 55.
But he traditionally awards honors
on New Year’s Day and on his
official hirthdiy, which is cele-
brated in June.
water.
The Jones lad was trapped and
covered by sand and dirt when the
bank gave way.
The two other youths called for
help, and B. W. Bentliff, lake cus-
todian, and other workers rushed
to the scene. They removed the dirt
covering the Jones boy and applied
artificial respiration to no avail.
Alamo City Claims First
Pair Nesting Flamingoes
Death’s Shadow
Hanging Oyer
Shelton Clan
FAIRFIELD, III., June 8 (UP)
The shadow of violent death hung
over the shrinking Shelton clan to-
day.
Backwoods feuds over cattle and
land were dogging the steps of the
Sheltons, authorities and neighbors
believed.
The ambush slaying of Roy Shel-
ton, 60, yesterday was generally
blamed on relatively small-time
disagreements. But authorities did
not rule out the possibility that it
stemmed from the family’s gang-
land activities of the roaring 20s or
more recent gambling interests.
A coroner’s jury returned a ver-
dict that Shelton died “by gunshot
hy some person or persons un-
known."
A .401 calibre bullet, fired from a
bear rifle, shattered Shelton’s spine
as he drove a tractor in the Pond
Creek bottoms. He fell under a disc
which mangled his body.
CENTRAL TEXAS
METHODISTS IN
8 5TH SESSION
SAN ANTONIO, June 8 (UP)—
A pair of flamingoes nested today
for the first time in captivity.
Fred Stark, director of the
Brackenridge Zoo, said the two tall,
brightly-colored birds completed
their nest several days ago and the
female had laid an egg Monday.
“As far as we knbw, and we’re
still checking records, this Is the
first time in history that flamin-
gave
Cecil
Texas University Ready
For First Negro Student
8 (UP)-r-The of Austin, was temporarily delay- City, announced that he v
irepared to-
Texas prepi
Negro stu-
Council Meeting
It Postponed
A meeting of the city council,
scheduled for Wednesday nifht.
June 7, has been postponed until
Friday night, June 9.
Representatives of a housing de-
velopment company were slated to
appear before the councilman.
LEGION TO ELECT
Officers of tho Turnbow-Hlgi
Post, American Legion, 240, w
be installed at Hntfcllatfon cere-
monies at the Legion Hul
tonight.
AUSTIN, June
University of
day to receive the first
dent in its history to study in
unsegregated classroom.
Summer session at the univer-
sity opened today. Horace Lincoln
Heath at Waco will start his first
class tomorrow.
Heath, M, paid his fees and com-
pleted enrollment for graduate
courses in American political the-
ory and constitutional law yester-
day. He is a candidate for a doctor
of philosophy degvee in govern-
laljB,
His entrance followed a U. S.
Supreme Court ruling this week
ordering the university to admit
another Negro, Heman Marion
Sweatt of Houston, to the state law
school. Sweatt plans to enroll in
September. v,
7:30 -Admittance of a third Negro,
25-year-old John Saunders Chase
Austin, was temporarily delay-
ed while university authorities
checked his high school credits in
mathematics and physics. Chase
seeks a master or science degree in
architecture.
However, Registrar H. Y. Mc-
Cown said Chase .“can be consid-
ered enrolled.” The delay, he said,
was purely technical, and if his
high /school credits she
deficiency, the method
up” the necessary work would be
decided by a faculty committee of
the college of engineering.
Two other Negroes also sought
information about mathematics
courses but a university spokesman
said he doubted they would be
admitted since the courses they
want ere offered at the Texas State
University for Negroes.
One in Oklahoma U.
At Norman,. Okla., Malcolm
Whitby, a Nogro from Oklahoma
would be
willing to live with foreign stu-
dents at International House while
attending the University of Okla-
homa.
• Whitby applied for admission to
non-segregated living quarters yes-
terday on the strength of another
Supreme Court ruling this week
that the races must not be segre-
gated on the campus.
Garner Collums, director of stu-
dent housing, said he would admit
Whitby to the International House
dormitory for foreign students if
President Georg# L. Cross directed
him to do so.
Whitby favored the idea because.,
“they already have 29 nationalities
living there and the name suggests
the very essence of democracy.”
He said all students at the school
had been “friendly and fair.”
goes have nested in captivity in
the United States and probably in
Europe,” Stark said.
Stark looked upon the egg-lay-
ing accomplishment as equivalent
to a mother giving birth to sextu-
plets.
Rarer Than Quintuplets
“This certainly is rarer than the
birth of human quintuplets,” the
zoo director remarked.
Stark said he had not given
names to the mating flamingoes
“because all of them in the zoo
look alike."
“But since these two are making
zoological history, we might give
them names,” he laughed.
Stark said the doings of the
flamingoes had a contagious effect
on other members of their species
in Brackenridge Zoo.
Two more female flamingoes
have completed nests, and another
two pairs are constructing nesting
places.
Stark pointed out that flamin-
goes had mated at Hialeah, E)a.,
but “that’s not in captivity.’’ Those
in his zoo previously had started
construction of nesta, but never had
completed them.
UNEMPLOYMENT DROPS
AUSTIN, June 8 (UP)—Texas
unemployment dropped to its low-
est level of the year on June 1, the
Texas Employment Commission re-
ported yesterday. There were 33,-
656 persons seeking unemployment
pay on that date.
Bishop William C. Martin^Dal-
I las, called the 85th annual sfession
of the Central Texas Mnhodist
| Conference to order in tlte First
I Methodist "Church, Fort Whrth, at
10 a.m. Wednesday, June 7.
Bishop Martin set the theme for
the conference and conducted the
opening worship period at 9 a.m.
He will preach the conference ser-
mon Sunday at 10:45 a.m.
After the roll call of delegates,
secretaries, committes1 and boards
were to be elected. The Sacrament
of the Lord’s Supper was admin-
istered and a memorial service was
held for those ministers and wives
who died during the year. The
memorial address was delivered by
Dr. Erwin F. Bohmfalk, Corsicana.
Superintendents Report
The afternoon session began at
2 p.m. and reports were heard from
the 10 district superintendents.
Proposals of the planning commit-
tee concerning the work of the
churches in the future were made,
and a report was made on the Com-
mission on World Service and
Finance.
The evening service will begin
at 8 p.m. with Dr. Eugene L. Smith,
(secretary of the foreign division
i of the General Board of Missions,
New York, preaching.
An estimated 625 officials, dele-
gates, and 3,000 visitors met at
the conference.
Ministerial appointments for the
ensuing year will be made at 2:30
p.m. Sunday, June 11.
3. Closing of Russian-operated
East German concentration camps.
4. An announced end to prisoner
of war repatriations.
5. Return to German ownership
of 24 factories seized by Russia.
These acts all remove from pos-
sible peace treaty talks a number
of controversial subjects which
could easily embarrass Russia.
The Soviet-German news agency
ADN identified Kotikov’s success-
or as Sergei Alexeijevitsch Dengin
and said he would have the title
of Soviet control commissioner for
Berlin.
Similar changes were announced
for the three Soviet zone provinces
of Brandenburg, Saxony and Thur-
ingia.
The changes will turn control of
Berlin and the three provinces
over to civilian representatives of
the Sqvtfet Foreign Ministry. Com-
bined with a recent 25 per cent cut
~H(» Control Commission staffs, the
move was considered a Soviet ex-
pression of confidence in the Com-
munist-controlled government of
East Germany.
Senate Unit Passes
Draft Extension Act
m before any man
be inducted. >
group vdted to si-
lent to induct men,
WASHINGTON, June 8 (UP)—
The Senate armed services com-
mittee today unanimously approved
a three-year extension of the draft
law with no strings attached.
The present law expires June 24.
The House had voted a two-year
extension, but required that both
houses of Congress must pass a
joint resolution before any man
actually could
The Senate
low the president
if he sees fit, without consulting
Congress.
Elsewhere in Congress:
AMERASIA—Tne Senate for-
eign relations subcommittee pushed
ahead with ite search for the per-
son who ordered the delay in prose-
cution of the 1946 Amerasia stolen
documents case. James K. Varda-
nian Jr., former naval aide to
President Truman, denied a sug-
gestion that he is the man. The
subcommittee said it will question
him anyway tomorrow.
U. S. Troops Ready
MILITARY AID —Sen. Cibot
Lodge Jr., R., Mass., said if another
war broke out, United States'troopa
would be fighting in Weatern Eu-
rope within a “very short time."
und, and a varied prognam has But he said if the nation continues
en arranged. ita arms aid program, the chances
n'
Home Coming at
Gordon Sunday
People from all over the state
are expected to be at Gordon Sun-
day when Gordon holds its annual
Home Coming.
Judge Ernest Belcher will make
the principal address at 11 a.m.
There will be dinner on the
were good of averting another
world conflict.
ATOMIC—The congressional at-
oihic energy committee is consider-
ing a full investigation of recent
statements on atomic weapons. One
member said public discussions re-
sulted either from someone over-
exercising his imagination or some
loose talking. “Either way,” he
said, “we would like to know the
apni'P rt
Opposes Welfare Plan
REORGANIZATION—Sen. Rob-
ert A. Taft, R., O., announced his
opposition to President Truman’s
plan to create a cabinet-level de-
partment of Welfare and predicted
it would be killed in Congress. The
plan, submitted last week, would
set up a Department of Health,
Education and Security headed by
a cabinet official to absorb the fed-
eral Security Agency, the Public
Health Service and the Office of
Education.
CRIME—Chairman Estes Kefau-
ver’s Senate crime investigating
committee has received figures
showing that some 50,000 persona
get narcotics from illegal peddlers
throughout the nation. The Tennes-
see Democrat said the data came
from Harry J. Anslinger, federal
narcotics commissioner who also
gave the committee the names of
aa 800-member narcotics ring.
yes-
W. TEXAS YOUTH
DEAD IN WAKE
OF TORNADO
Br UNITED PXKU
As least one person was dead
today in the aftermath of a weath-
er disturbance which struck the
Monahans area in West Texas
terday.
A twister knocked part of the
roof off a combined filling station
and general store in the little com-
munity of Royalty and tore down
telephone poles on a half-mile
strip along State Highway 82 lead-
ing to Monahans late yesterday.
An hour after the tornado
struck, a bolt of lightning struck
and killed Billy Cleghorn, 17, mem-
ber of a prominent Grandfalls fam-
ily, as he was helping round up
cattle on a ranch owned by Harold
B. Eudaly.
Eudaly sustained severe shock
from the same bolt of lightning
which killed the Cleghorn youth.
Sabine on Rampage
The Sabine River was on a ram-
page at Orange. The river lapped
near the top of levees ‘ protecting
the homes of some 6,000 persons
and National Guardsmen and
Army engineers patrolled the dikes
to watch for sand boils. The flood
crest was expected tonight or to-
morrow.
Temperatures generally ranged
near the 90s with a high of 107 re-
orted at Presidio. The lowest maxi-
mum yesterday was 84 at Pales- *
tine. Overnight 'lows ranged from
78 at Presidio to 62 at Amarillo
and Guadalupe Pass.
At mid-morning, the U. S.
Weather Bureau in Dallas reported
generally fair conditions over the
state, clear in the Panhandle,
South Plains and West Texas and
partly cloudy to cloudy over the
rest of the State.
Mid-morning temperatures in- t
eluded Lubock 78, Ek Paso 77, Ab-
ilene 78, Fort Worth 78+ Dallas 78,
San Antonio 78, Brownsville 84p
Houston 80, and Texarkana 74.
TRAIN FIRE KILLS 3
GLASGLOW, Scotland. June 8
(UP)—tFlre broke out in the
Birmingham-Glaaglow Express
near Gtaaglow tonight. Firat re-
porta said at least five persons
were burned to death.
.J
Upcoming Pages
Here’s what’s next.
Search Inside
This issue can be searched. Note: Results may vary based on the legibility of text within the document.
Tools / Downloads
Get a copy of this page or view the extracted text.
Citing and Sharing
Basic information for referencing this web page. We also provide extended guidance on usage rights, references, copying or embedding.
Reference the current page of this Newspaper.
Stephenville Daily Empire (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 199, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 8, 1950, newspaper, June 8, 1950; Stephenville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1133098/m1/1/?q=%22~1~1~1~1%22~1: accessed August 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Dublin Public Library.