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P-JBLT8HED EVERY FRIDAY AT STEPHfc>IVILLE. TEXAS
FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 2, 1951
RUFUS F. HIGGS
BILL POTTER
Owner-Publisher
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ASSOCIATION
Job For All
The country remains confused as to what must be done if
the danger of still more inflation—a danger which grows in-
creasingly' critical as the expanding armament program pro-
gresses—is to be prevented.
We have been led to believe that the whole answer, praetjr
tally speaking, lies in economic controls and laws which say
that the producer and manufacturer and retailer can charge
onTy so much for this article or that. Here is a perfect example
of putting'the cart ahead of the horse. Controls, no matter how
wisely administered, deal only with symptoms and never with
the disease itself.
The best economists are in general agreement that the fight
against inflation must be carried on on a broad economic base.
The primary weapons, they believe, must include a sound fiscal
policy; iron-fisted economy in government; increased produc-
tion; stimulated savings, And sensible restraints on credit. This
program, it is clear, is only partially in effect now. The very
magnitude of non-essential government spending alone is the
best friend inflation has. And the Administration has stub-
bornly battled every effort to cut costs, no matter how modestly.
- It is futile and dangerous to seek scapegoats for inflation—
manufacturers or distributors or .farmers pr workers or any
other group. It’s easy to alibi and pass the buck, but that
solves no problems. Every element in the country must share
in the task of fighting inflation and accept the inevitable
financial sacrifices involved. And the government must take
the lead—a thing which it has disgracefully failed to do
up to now.
Bad to Worse
wtdous 1
is rihudl.i
lfused pro
As recent news stories from \^Hjous parts of fyie country
have shown, the beef situation is rltjudly going from bad to
worse—due to the incredibly confused problem created by pre-
sent price ceilings and price control policies.
For a considerable period of time, the number of beef
animals which the established, law-abiding packers have been
able to buy has been far below normal, and far below the
need^ of consumers as well. Moreover, livestock prices—which
are governed by rules so complex as to confound even the
experts—have reached a point where, in many case*,, the packers
who abide tby the law must operate at a loss if they Operate
at all.
Something of a new high in the confusion was reached in
the latter part of September when the Army found it couldn’t
obtain 13.000,000 pounds of dressed beef it needs in the domestic
market. A number of major packers informed the Armv that
they couldn't get enough beef to handle the orders of their
regular customers. Another was that filling the Army’s bijf
order, under present regulations, would entail nrohibitivi
losses. Army officials announced that they would buy beel
abroad if they couldn’t buy it at home.
All in all, the beef problem has presented’ the nation with
a practically perfect example of how price and other controls
always gum up the works, hurt the consumer and the reputable
business alike, and create problems far worse and far more
complex than the problems they are supposed to solve. Appar-
ently the government just hasn't learned the economic facts
of life.
PARAGRAPHS
THE COMMIE MARCHING SONG
—by— i
BILL
POTTER
CLAIRETTE
Mr. and Mrs. Grady Wolfe, Mr.
.and Mrs. Homer Lee, Mr. and Mrs.
Frank Johnsdn and Misses Eunice
and SNola Lee took supper with
Mr. and Mrs. George Lee <rf Steph-
enville Saturday night honoring
Mr. Lee on his birthday.
F. M. Richbourgh of Po/t Natrh-
es visited the past week with his
parents Mi. and Mrs. C. I). Rich-
bourg.
Mr*. Haskins of Sisketon Mo. is
visiting her son. Harry and family
and daughter Mrs. Fielding Haley
and family.
Burt Salmon of Odessa is visit-
ing his sister Mrs. Jossie Alexan-
der and Mrs. Eddie Sherrard. Mrs.
Salmon is in a Waco Hospital.
Russell Mayfield and wife came
in a few days ago from California
where he is station in the army.
They are visiting their parents and
friends.
1st Sgt. Dal Wheeler who has
been in Korea has been visiting his
wife and son while on a thirty day
furlough.
Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Ricpbourg
■pent a day and night laSt week
with their daughter and family
in Fort Worth.
A good crowd attended the wed-
ding shower Saturday night itv
honor of Mr. and Mrs. Melvin
Self who were recently married.
The couple are residing in Mon-
tana.
Miss Nadine Harris of Fort
Worth a former resident of this
community was recently married
to Mr. Bill Williams of/ Fort
Worth.
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Harvey and
son visited Sunday with Mr. and
Mrs. Bud Harris of Stephenville.
Mrs. Horace Roc and son of
Mineral Wells spent part of last
week with her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Roy Harvey.
The H. D. had* a Halloween
Carnival Monday night at the
school building. The proceeds will
go to the club funds.
Sunday guests in the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Ross Danner in
Belmont addition were her broth-
er, N. B. I.oudder, her sisters Mrs.
Opal Hackworth and Mrs. Bill
Pierce, Mr. Pierce and their son,
Bobby, Fort Worth and Dwight
Mclnroc of LiBbrty. The men to-
gether with Pat Danner of Borger
attended the prison rodeo at
Huntsville.
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HOWDY TO YOU!
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INTERESTED?—Wanna win
some of the 110.000 prize money
for just fishin’? Hun? Or you
might even get one of those two
all-expense trips to “glamorous
Havana” if yore plumb lucky.
There’s a catch (not fish) to it.
You gotta go down to Corpus
Christi and angle in their mid-
winter extravaganza which be-
gins Nov. 1. All this stuff was
in a press release from a com-
mercial airlines outfit what want-
ed us to print it all. ,If yore
thinkin’ about casting some line
into the Gulf for a try at the
prizes, we’ll tell you what airline
to ride if you’uns will come by
thisaway.
BACK IN 1883—remember?—
well, Upshur Vincent, Sta*-Tele-
gram outdoor writer, writ a piece
n while back about Lake Thurber
dam being completed and filled
with water. Vincent recollected as
how Big Lake Thurber was the
scene of hooking some of the big
black bass that lived hi the waters
there. Said for about 40 years
the Thurber lake furnished most
of the black bass caught in Texas
and weights ranging from 7 to 8
pounds was common out here in
£rath. Any of you'uns remember
'diem there days?
BEAT BRECKENRIDGE!—Be
at Break an ridge! Back the ’Jack-
ets! On to victory! Rah, rah,
rah!
THURSDAY THINKING—For
(hose less fortunate than us, let’s
G-I-V-E to the 1951 Community
Chest.
REVIVAL TIME—With the
Methodists in their meeting this
week, and the Baptists getting
rtarted Sunday, it seems timely to
report the influence of Billy
Graham on a New York writer
who specializes in reviewing the
theatre. In a recent syndicated
column we noted the closing para-
graph of the New Yorker's
column. It was so strikingly out-
of-place in the entertainment
column that we reprint same with
a courtesy by-line to Alice
Hughes: “Each of those three
events (N. Y. stage show reviews
in the previous paragraphs) had
a revival qualitv. but not one of
them equaled the fire-and-brim-
stone frenzy that came over my
radio last Sunday night when
Preacher Billy Graham of Greens-
boro, N. C. larruped uway at our
sins. Wow! What a jet-speed
medicine -man! Everyone in hear-
ing range stopped doing what he
or she was doing, and listened
to that preacher man.”
BEAT BRECKENRIDGE!
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY—Bein’ as
bow Nov. 3 falls on Saturday and
this scribe will be busy with
many a detail and some loss of
sleep from the Breckenridge jaunt
we’re saying “Happy Birthday" to
L. E. Roberson, countv superin-
tendent of schools. Send him a
card!
HEADLINE H U N T — "Anti-
Truman Confab Uncertain of
Strategy" was one headline of
note. Now he's got the opposi-
tion confused, too!
BEAT BRECKENRIDGE!
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BYE, NOW!
Put Toy Lizards
fn City Hall to
Chase Pigeons
NEW ORLEANS. Oct. 31, IW—
Equipped with a fire truck and
two dozen toy_lizards, officials
here set out today to rid the old
eity hall building of its haughty
tribe of pigeons.
The mayor, commissioners and
other city employes Jiave suffered
for years from the pigeons' “dive-
thc eaves.
Mayor Delesseps MorriaonV de-
cided this week the birds had to
go, and dumped the problem in
the Spiple lap of the building cus-
todian, Adolph Dantagnan.
Dantagnan found tome informs*
tion in his files from Dr. Winstoa
Hamilton, a Baptist minister from
Washington, D. C., who once lived
in New Orleans. Toy lizards plac-
ed strategically in the pigeons'
nests would turn the trick, accdrd*
to the minister.
THE GHOST OF THE McD0W HOLE
By MARY JOE FITZGERALD CLENDENIN
“No, the ghost doesn’t bother
me; but I often hear thee death
watch.”
"You mean, some ’un’s gonna
die?” We asked as our eyes grew
as round as saucers.
“Course not, son. Who ever
heard of a beetle predicting some-
one’s death. That's just a lot of
nonsense.”
“But ma says that when you
hear the death watch some 'un
always dies."
“That’s what most people think,
but that’s just a superstition. Did
ySVxjtVer see a death watch.”
“No sir."
“Will, the death watch is a
brown beetle that makes his tick-
ing noise, probably, in much the
same way . that a cricket makes his
noise.”
We told dad what Charlie said
when we got home, but didn't con-
vince him that it wasn’t a sure sign
of death:
It rained that night so our daily
trip to the McDow was ended for
the time.
About a month after Charlie
told us about the death watch some
men looking for cows stopped by
his cabin. With the intention of
asking Charlie about the cattle
they called to him and knocked at
the door, but got no answer. It
was a hot day and yet both win-
dow and door were barred from
the inside. Someone was evidently
in the house, so they called again,
but still no answer. The men began
to get anxious. Finally they got a
pole and prized open the door.
There lying in the middle of the,
floor, gazing with a horrified stare
at the top of the house was Charl-
ie. Charlie Atchison had made his
last coffin.
"Ye Gods! Sech a expression!”
Everyone was stunned. Some-
one was conscious enough to re-
move his hat. That broke the spell,
then another added in a hoarse
whisper,
"He shore must a been hurting.”
“Hurting, nothing! Charlie’s
done been scared to death.”
“Yea, either that or he's been
murdered.”
"Now, Jim, you know he couldna
been murdered. Weren’t the door
and winder barred, and they aint
no floor to crawl through.”
“One of us ought to go fer ole
Doc Harvy. It's proper that he
see the body afore we move it.”
"I’ll go fer Doc. My horse is
fresh.”
The rest of the men waited
around in the yard until the busy
for a markej, up it came. No one
was ever able to make heads or
tails of the maps.
Someone got the idea that Chari*
ie’s spirit would come back to show
his friends where to find ' the
money. Several men made different
attempts to stay in the cabin in
order to contact the ghost, but
they found the place uninhabit-
able, too. Neither the spirit of
Charlie Atchison,.'nor ghosts of
the men who were hanged com-
peted with the ghost of Jenny.
Her reign was supreme in Spirit
Kingdom. y
The money found in Ctfarlie’s
trunk and in his pockets amount-
ed to the great fortune of five hun-
dred dollars. As some of the gold
pieces dated back a hundred years,
many people believed that the
maps were to Spanish' treasures,
or the silver mine the men had
searched for years before. One man
decided that a map located a spot
on Alarm creek five miles away.
He and hfk brother dug all over a
twenty-five acre plot. At least one
of these men accidently profited
by the map. While he Was digging;
a salesman of Mexican lottery
tickets sold Him a ticket for his
last dollar. That ticket drew five
thousand dollars, probably he was
the only Texan to ev.er win in a
Mexican lottery. I wonder if some
of those old maps or copies of
them are not today laying forgot-
ten In some old trunk in some
attic?
I believe I am safe in Raying
that every hundred acres in five
miles of the McDow has had sev-
eral holes dug on it as a result of
the maps left by Charlie Atchison.
The old silver mine place, as it
was called for years, was nearly
dug to pieces at one time; the sil-
ver shaft must have been dug dur-
ing or just after the Civil War, it
was about half a mile south of the
McDow. About thirty five years
ago the owner of the farm the
shaft was bn had it filled up so his
stock would not fall in. But the
mine can still be located.
(To Be Continued)
Out of town relatives and friends
here to attend funeral rites for
Mrs. John White, Friday, were
Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Jarrott, Wichi-
ta Falls; Mrs. T. A. Jarrott Lub-
bock; Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Moss,
and Mr. and Mrs. Halbert Jarrott,
Fort Worth; Mr. and .Mrs. Gene
Zennella and foster son, La June
and family, Dallas; Billy C. But-
ler, Houston; Mr. and grs. Mc-
little doctor could be found and Afee, Wichita Falls arid Mrs.
brought back, but he was unable Maud Blackwell, HubbitrdL
to enlighten us. There were no I
bruises on the body. Everyone tru- 1
ly believed that Charlie had seen
the ghost,__
On the little wooden table the
men found the remains of 'a glut I
and an unfinished letter. “Dear ‘
brother, I sit myself—We didn’t
even know that Charlie had a
brother; hut since he was writing
by the feeble light of a gludf the
message must have been of the
uttermost importance. In an old
trunk under the bed the men found
three hundred dollars in gold piece*
together with several peculiar
maps. Naturally the rumor start-
ed that Charlie ha<F some buried
money, and perhaps he did. People
took to the ground like moles and
for years the ground for miles
around was excavated in spota.
If a rock or plant looked at all like
it might have been placed there
Margaret Can’t
Laugh at Dad
NEW YORK, Oct. 31. W— Mar-
garet Truman can laugh about
anything but her daddg, comedian
Jack Barnett reported today.
As the writer of the songs Jim-
my Durante sings on his monthly
television show, Barnett was put
in charge of rehearsing Mias-Tru-
man for her appearance with
“The Schnozz” this week end. He
never’” ran~ifrt^such an important
lis^if “don’ts” fn his life in work-
ing up material for the president's
pretty daughter.
( Barnett said he> was completely
overawed, for a day or two, when
swarm of secigt service men
Owed up with Margaret for
heir first date to talk over the
soWpL Miss Trung|r) handed out
rormiHUuljaeitt*, but her agent
took Barnett aside and read the
rule*.
“He rattled off things I’d not
be allowed to get humorous about
and they all concerned Mr. Tru-
man," Barnett said.”
"At first I felt sorry for Mar-
garet. It’s tough on a kid not be-
ing able to rib her old man.”
First, Barnett was warned to j
write no material centered about '
where Margaret might be living
late next November.
Next, there were to be no gags
about having a papa who was only
a so-so piano player.
Above all, he was forbidden to
make merry over any of the cor-
respondence Margaret's daddy has
had.
“I talked to Margaret after-
wards and said I couldn’t under-
stand why she had to be so tough
on this matter,” Barnett said, "be-
cause she made a few appearances
on radio where her old—I mean
Mr. Truman was joshed a little.”
Barnet said Miss Truman ex-
plained those ribs got in the script
because she didn’t see the joke
until the program was over.
Mr. and Mrs. D. N. Sharp of
Anthony, New Mexico, spent the
week end here in the home of her
sister, Mrs. Fred Winn. Joining
the group Sunday were the ladies’
father, W. R. Merrell, Huckabay;
their brothers C. N. Merrell and
son' Carl Gene who reside on the
Mineral Wells highway and Mr.
and Mrs. Autrey Merrell and
daughters and Mi%. VVrqn'i daugh-
ter, Mrs. Ralph dVNbs, ldr. Jones
and their two children, Mr. and
Mrs. Sharp were enroute to Camp
Gordon, Ga., to viait their ion,
Stanley who is stationed there.
Ralph has visited in Stephen-
ville several. timea’wrtlT'hli cou-
sin Jack Winn.
WEEKLY CALENDAR
JACK ARTHUR THEATRES
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John Derek—Donna Reed in
“SATURDAY’S HERO”.
FRIDAY—SATURDAY
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‘TIER 23”
SUNDAY THRU TUESDAY
D»sn Marlin—Jerry Lewis In
“AT WAR WITH THE
ARMY”
WEDNESDAY—THURSDAY
Alan La44 In
“WHISPERING SMITH"
STARLITE DRIVE-IN
prid ay—Saturday
Rabatt Rvait—Ctetr* Tr*»*r in
’’BEST OF THE
BAD MEN"
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Dana Andrews—Satan Hayward in
“MV FOOLISH HEART’
TUESDAY—WEDNESDAY
Paal Han raid la
“LAST OF THE
BUCCANEERS”
TUESDAY ONLY—DUCK NITE
Mickey Rooney—Tarry Moor a In
-HE’S A
COCKEYED WONDER"
FRIDAY—SATURDAY
RanMpk Sett In
“SANTA FE"
SUNDAY—MONDAY
Martnrat O'Brton In
“HER FIRST ROMANCE”
TUESDAY ONLYt-BUCK NITE
Jean Parker—Rnaaet! Hayden in
“ROLLING HOME”
WEDNESDAY—THURSDAY
Rafcart awf—Betsy Drake In
“THE SECONB WOMAN"
OAK DALE
Mrs. Johnny Bomer and chil-
dren hve returned after several
days visit with her parents Mr.
and Mrs. Harris of Ozona.
Mr. and Mrs. J. C. White of
Stephenville attended church at
Oak Dale Sunday evening.
The W. S. C. S. met for their
regular session last week. The
next meeting will be Thursday,
Nov. 1.
Mr. and Mrs. Bud Stoker at-
tended a family reunion at the
home of their mother, Mrs. J. E.
Shelton of Stephenville, Sunday.
Mr. Jimmy Dale McCoy of Ste-
phenville visited friends in Oak
Dale over the week-end.
There is a revival meeting in
Progress at the Oak Dale Metho-
dist Church this week. Rev. Rich-
ard E. Hull of Waacum, Texas,
is conducting the services. Ths
public is cordially invited to
tend the meeting!, held each even*
ing at 7:30.
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MEfcL— Here’s a bargain for you. Choice
of over 75 pairs of A11 Wool Slacks. Reg.
$9.75 to $13.75 Values.
Sizes 28-42, Hardly any two pair alike. A
broken lot of good merchandise to close
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