Stephenville Daily Empire (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 2, Ed. 1 Wednesday, September 6, 1950 Page: 4 of 6
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THAT’S
Daidt Empire
TIMC
... ‘ I AJUKMluHHH WHopHi
$135,000,000,000 for Defense '
The defense of the United States might cost as much as
$185,000400,089 up to July 1, 1988, according to the testimony
of high ranking officials before a congressional subcommittee
In July. Ttaf testimony has just been made public.
It revealed that the president’s original request for $10,-
489,976,009 kitltded an estimated $4400,000,000 for current
costs in Korn and $6400,000,000 for a "basic build-up” in the
armed forces of the nation. ' • §L
Seere^fy of Defense Louis Johnson expressed the opiniffii
that the
force Texas schools to toaoh Ne-
gro and white children in the same
classrooms.
Dr. G. D. Flemmings, president
•f the Fort Worth branch of the
NAACP and a national director,
said the suit would be filed "just me
soon ee the attorneys can prepare
the necessary papers.”
Said Flemmings: “We hope to
break down the segregation bar-
campaign was a “six or eight months proposi-
tion” and also declared that the original decision not to defend
Korea had been made on a level other than the military. He
pointed out that neither General MacArthur nor the joint chiefs
cf staff had expected to be called upon to defend the Republic,
of Korea and that the policy waa “top echelon.”
General Omar N. Bradley, chairman of the joint chiefs of
staff, emph^lifted that the greatly increased funds would pro-
vide the armecj forces with "a ready, highly mobile, stand-by
Tight Situation in Korea
On Monday of last week, Lieutenant-General Walton H.
Walker, commanding our Eighth Army, discussing the situation
’We are terribly outnumbered.”
set the stage for the edit.
Euless school officials, refused
the request of some 60 Negroes
in Korea, said
On the same day, in Washington, Army officers tracing the
campaign on the maps in the Pentagon, definitely located, for
the first time, three additional Korean divisions moving toward
the battlefront.
News reports which have come from Korea have made it
almost impossible for the people of this country to keep up with
what has happened. We have been given a mixed diet of opti-
mistic and pessimistic stories, together with narratives about
the heavy losses of the enemy and the plight in which our fight-
ing men found themselves in desperate situations.
*lt might be well to check over the general situation and strike
something of a balance. The situation has improved considerably
in the last few weeks, with our strength greatly increased. With-
out going into the specific details, there is now a grand total of
quirementa ftfr manpower and material waa not a make-shift
plan, occasioned by Korea, but a long-range program worked
out by the joint chiefs of staff.
Another interesting item was contained in the release
of the Juiy testimony. Jt related to the Navy’s call for Reserves.
Admiral Forrest P. Shermap, chief of naval operations, told the
constitutionality of the Texas hrw.
around 100,000 Americana, including supply troops and air
force personnel .The enemy, however, maintains the initiative
and we continue to fight, on the whole, a delaying action which
has been successful if somewhat costly.
In two elements of warfare, the air and the water, we have
clear-cut domination. Marine, Naval and Air Force fliers have
hampered the enemy on the battlefield and materially handi-
capped enemy supply operations. It is thought, with our air
strength, that we now possess superiority in fire-power.
On the ocean, the seas are under American control. It is
worth noting that, without this, nothing would be possible in
Korea. The Navvy, according to Admiral Forrest Sherman, chief
of naval operations, has a war force in Korea of 150 ships and
90.000 men.
The enemy, in addition to superior numbers, has good
weapons, including excellent tanks. The North Koreans have a
192-mm gun, which outranges our 155-mm howitzers by about
5.000 yards. Apparently, the enemy has plenty of mortars and
automatic weapons. Moreover, the North Koreans are, as a rule,
tough, well-trained soldiers, skilled in infiltration and apparent-
ly able to secure valuable information as to our movements and
intentions.
the Civil War battles, and
acknowledged defeat. I
sd with his ,£amily at the
taut rate of eight dollars
per month. Good beds and plenty
to sat, served by as fine a cook
as you could find then or any other
time.
Beside the mercantile firms and
the drug store and saloon, there
was a livery stable, a hotel and
depot. While some of. the folks—
mainly the boys—were wild, yet
they were true blue and ready to
do a good deed when they saw
the need. Alexander for a year,
and longer perhaps, when I was
first ther^ had no church organi-
zation functioning. Revivals were
held occasionally.
Then she had s town and no
churches. Now there is no town.
One lone two-story rock building
that stores hay, marks the spot.
Two filling stations on the hill
HARMAN W. NICHOLS
There are signs that the home-front war on ‘‘Communism”
is developing into a witch-hunt, with senseless injury to innocept
persons.
' .
'V Vd ' '
The silliest public suggestion: an ultimatum to Soviet
Russia in the present state of our national defenses.
Atlantic City, NJ., Sept. 6, <W—
Some of the hurts left the tired
little body of Madeline Frampton
of Paulsboro, NJ.
Madeline,
lady and taking my departure, I
stepped along very proudly, oc-
casionally, glancing down into the
pall to make aure that the peach
and apple was still, safely tftore.
In my mind I could just see how
mother’s face would beam When
she saw what I had' the pail
for her. (We had plenty of fruit
on the little farm heme where we
lived, but it was always-, a thrill
just to have something .to 'take
home to mother anyway.) ,*
Overtaken by two Raffia**
Soon after passing from the city
end entering upon the homo road
two boys on horseback from the
city overtook me;, they rode up' be-
side me, and Seeing the peach and
applo In the pail they asked me
where I got them, and when I told
them that Mrs. Stringfeilow gave
them to me, they wanted to kpow
why 1 didn't oat them, and I told
them I was taking them to mother.
They laughed in derlsiop at me,
and said they were going to take
them away from me; (they
Letters From
Readers
11, saw the future
Miss America from a front row
seat yesterday. She couldn’t miss
seeing her because all of the love-
lies entered in this year’s contest
paraded right past her. And bless
their hearts, every one waved.
Madeline took each wave person-
ally. It was special for her and
somehow most of the misery of
living with polio seemed of small
consequence. ~ A •
The child was one of 16 extra
special guests of the Miss America
pageant committee. She and her
little pals were from the Betty
Bacharach Home 'for Afflicted
Children at Longport, NJ. It’s a
non-profit organization that draws
no color line and takes all the
house will hold. Everybody had a
good time watching the big beauty
show get under way.
A sui-prise guest among the kids
was Pat Carr, who once had a mild
case of polio. Pat is now 21 and is
well and able. She is a "graduate”
of the home.
But getting back to Madeline. I
pulled her ear most of a hot after-
noon and what do you think ? She
gave me a winner—her choice. .
“I like Miss Colorado” she said.
The kid was talking about Bar-
bara Jean Norrish, who looked
right pert in her evening gown
aboard a fancy float in the parade.
Barbara is a handy one with the
violin in the talent division.
Madeline, being from New Jer-
sey, had to turn local oir me.
“I also like Miss New Jersey,"
she said.
That would be June Elizabeth
Stephens. Madeline didn’t seem to
give a never-mind about the fact
that June was bore in Chicago and
calls New Jersey home.
The girls themselves are up to
their pretty ears in some pretty
serious business today. The first
preliminary contests go on tonight.
Those appearing in the competition
for evening gown are Miss Arkan-
sas, Miss Colorado, Miss Florida,
Miss Illinois, Miss Iowa, Miss Ken-
tucky, Miss Maine. Miss Maryland,
Miss Montana, Miss New York
State, Miss Oregon, Miss Pennsyl-
vania, Miss Puerto Rico, Miss
South Dakota, Miss Virginia, Miss
Washington, Miss Wyoming, and
Misfc Indiana.
Dolled up in bathing suits will
be Miss Alaska, Miss California,
Miss Chicago, Miss Delaware, Miss
District of Columbia, Mfts Georgia,
Miss Kansas, Miss Michigan, Miss
Mississippi, Miss New Jersey, Miss
New Mexico, Miss North Dakota,
Miss Oklahoma, Miss South Caro-
lina, Miss Tennessee, Miss Texas,
Turks Ready to Fight
above the town and one church
building is all that remains of the
dead town.
Two things stand out vividly in
my memory of the Wright hanging
—one was the wails of his folks,
who were permitted to visit him
in the jail and see him march off
to his doom—the other was, in his
rambling remarks, he made one
point—when he told the crowd that
whiskey was his downfall and ad-
monished every one to let it mlone.
-M. W. Rogers, MJ>„ Rule, .Tex.
•The autocrat is the man who thinks that the well-to-do
should rule the earth and its people.
The -trouble with too much news, in this day and gener-
ation, is that it only tells what other people think is the facts.
Owen B. Moore, sergeant, 24th Division, wounded in Korea:
“I’ve been to hell and back.” ►
Turkey will defend herself against any aggression, declares
Selim Sarper, Turkish representative to the United Nations, who
points out that while his country hopes to become a member of
the North Atlantic defense treaty, it can mobilize a total of 2,-
000,000 men for its own defense.
The fighting quality oT the Turks is well known. Conse-
quently, there will be the immedjate suggestion that the Turks
be provided with modem war equtprftiMga^ that-their fighting
men can help defend the liberties of the western world. Back of
the idea is the naive belief that the western world can defend
,its civilization without fighting those who attack it.
While it is well to look to Turkey for assistance, the free
nations of the world must get lid Of the idea that they can leave
their fighting to other peoples. No country will long deserve its
liberty and freedom if it is unwilling to fight to preserve them.
To arm the Turks, or any other mass of people, to fight our
battles would mean, when the fighting ended, the victorious
army would be powerful enough to have its way in a large por-
tion of the world.
Our Idea of an optimist is the cotton mill owner who,urges
the ladies to wear cotton hose.
keeping a cemetery clean and nice,
but they can’t do much about it
if there are more who will do
nothing. Some people seem to care
no more about the plot of ground
where their folks are buried than
they do about that much land down
at the back of the field.
I think that every cemetery in
this country could be kept in fair
condition, if 75 per cent of the
people would do what they could.
Just forget the 25 per cent who
do not do anything, but do not
forget the graves. It is bad enough
to die when you have loved ones
and friends.
I have been helping care for a
cemetery for the past 12 years,
and we have kept it in good condi-
tion. I have handled every penny
of money used in the working of
the cemetery since August 25,
1938, when wages were 20-cents
per hour. Many still pay only $1.00
per year, while several pay five.
These people have different ideas
as to the time to pay. Some are
ready to pay in January and some
pay at a later date. Many nevpr
pay.—Jim Turn bow, 519 Elm St.,
Dublin, Texas.
. were
each as large if not larger Than I,
I was ten years of age.) One of
them then jumped from his horse
and started toward me.
Good Diplomacy ,
I knew that if I grappled with
•them the peach and apple would be
mashed in the tussle, so quick
as thought I decided to try a bit
Rejects Preventive War
In France, the Communists are conducting an intensive
campaign to persuade the French people that they will serve as
cannon-fodder for the Western Allies in the next war and that
France will be dragged into it by the agressive action of the
United States against the Soviet Union.
Consequently, the Communists eagerly publicized the speech
of Secretary of the Navy Francis P. Matthews, which has been
repudiated by the State Department. To answer the Communists,
the French Defense Minister, Jules Moch, told the French people
that France will make every effort to be prepared to meet any
attack upon her but that France will not take part in any sug-
gestion such as Mr. Matthews suggested.
The French defense minister pointed out that Communist
aggression in South Korea had awakened the conscience of the
world, creating international tension which explained the will-
ingness of France to accept additonal burdens for defense.
of cunning diplomacy, and I said,
“Well boys, don't you have any
good things like tltyi ^to eat at
home? Aren’t your parents able
to buy you any peaches or apples
to eat? Do you haye to slip out
and take them away front some1
one if you get any good things to
tory I continued: “And say boys,
what do you suppose y6ur parents
and everybody else will think and
say about you when they learn that
you double teamed on a boy out
on the public roadway and took a
peach and an apple away from him
that he was taking to his mother?"
With an air of humiliation the
boy turned back to his horse, and
when you cook on a modern uutumutk
as he mounted he said: “Ah, we
don’t want your old peach and
apple?” and with a very badly
beaten appearance they rode away.
A Diplomatic Victory
(By Jesse Alton Tiner)
This is a true experience of the
writer, and is given as a new sea-
son’s story for the children.
An Errand to the City
Once upon a time, when the
golden summer sun was shining
very brightly, when there were
clusters of beautiful wild flowers
on every hand, while the sweet
south wind was blowing softly,
and the little birdies wore singing
their pretty songs of love; while
father was driving the horses
plowing in the field, • and while
the other children were busy hoe-
ing cotton; while Mother was in
the kitchen churning so that we
might have more good old butter-
milk to drink, and plenty of butter
to go with our mo lassos; That very
afternoon mother sent me on one
of my daily ernuids that of taking
a little wooden pail of eggs to a
fine lady in the eity.
My home was one mile out from
the city public square.
When the lady had emptied the
pail and returned, she presented
me with a tumble* , of delicious
lemonade; after the lemonade and
my dbe thanks, she gave me the
pail, and in the pail waa a large
ripe juicy peach and a Mg red
•PPl«. /, v j\ , f
After very nicely thanking the
The writer when thinking of*
this little experience oftimes won-
Imagine being cool, relaxed end rested after preparing a lavish
seven-course dinner. Sounds like fiction, but it’s fact . . , with
a new electric range! Cooking electrically is now a small matter
of turning a switch. You fust prepare the food ... set the auto-
matic oven control that maintains an even, uniform heat . . „
and dependable, low-cost electricity does the res*. No fuss, no
bother • • . perfect results every time. Your kitchen remains
'degrees cooler, because your electric range is insulated to keep
heat huide. Then, too, its high-speed cooking units are in direct
contact with the cooking vessel, so very little heat escapes
around or up the sides. No wonder, the hajtyuest, be*t cook$
choose modern electric ranges!
dera; If men and nations would
only think and use wise diplomacy
at the right momenta, many great
troubles, conflicts, and wart might
be averted.
Dear Sir:
I note in the Graham Leader of
recent issue an article copied from
your paper relating the incident
of the Tom Wright hanging in
November, IBM.
I witnessed that hanging. I was
n young doctor located at Alex-
ander, and through the courtesy of
Sheriff Tut Hume, secured a pass
to see the hanging from the inside,
Miss Utah and Miss Vermont.
Coming forward with the, talent
are: Miss Alabama, Miss Arisons,
Miss Canada, Miss* Connecticut,
Miss Hawaii, Miss Idaho, Miss
Louisiana, M is a Massachusetts,
Miss Minnesota, Mias Missouri,
Miss Nebraska, Miss Nevada, Miss
New Hamphire, Miss New York
City, Mite North Carolina, Mlaa
Ohio, Miss Philadelphia, and Miss
but viaitod Dr. Day who waa one
of the official doctors to witness
and certify to the death of the Vic-
tim. He was busy in his office, and
when we went to the jail, we were
too into. The door was locked and
we had to witness what waa to be
seen from the outside.
Those were pioneer days in
Erath county. Some of the folks
were wild and wooly. Alexander
boasted of the only saloon on the
Texas central road West of Waco.
She had several mercantile houses,
a drug Store run hy a fine old
southern gentleman, C. C. Oliver,
Wisconsin.
We’ve about run out of states on
this one. As a matter of fact we
have. Rhode Island and West Vir-
ginia did not enter.
But my little girl friend, Made-
line Frampton, doesn’t seem to
mind. She’s rooting for Miss Colo-
rado and Mias New Jersey—and if
you are keeping a summer book
you all can write that down.
Mario Cabre, who says he feel* the same way about
a star Ava Gardner when off the set at he doss In front
•.cameras, to shown with the Hollywood actress In a
from the new picture, “Pandora and the Flying Dutch-
Cabre, who first drew attention as a lively rival to
X Sinatra, recently wrote a volume of love poems dedi-
cated to the gorgeous Ava.
tIXAl P0WIR A LIGHT
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