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In Try for Quick Knock-Out
Volunteers May
Beat Draft Call
Washington, July 28, (UP)—Military leaders hoped today that
their new draft call would spur voluntary enlistments. * .
They said enlistments have increased substantially since the
outbreak of the Korean war, but still are “not enough” to meet
the manpower needs cf the expanding armed forces.
The Defense Department yesterday asked Selective Service to
furnish 100,000 men in September and October, 60,000 in each
month. The total includes the 20,000 men originally called on
All «f the men will go into the
Army. They will be used to build
u4to full strength the 10 regular
Army divisions as well as any Re-
serve or National Guard units that
may be called to duty.
The Army gave no indication of
the number of draftees it will need
after October.
Pall Strength Sought
The expanded draft call high-
lighted a hectic day in the adminis-
tration’s drive to put the Army,
Navy, Air Force and Marines at
full strength.
There were these other develop-
ments:
President Truman signed legis-
lation extending all enlistments
for another year.
Chairman Carl Vinson, D., Ga.,
of the House armed services com-
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m it tee disclosed that the Air Force . . ^ _ _ - _
plans to expand from its present U. S. Mobilization
48 groups to 68 groups in one year
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and to 69 groups by January,
He said it also plans to add 136,000
men' in its present 648,811 man-
powei total
The Arisy extended all overseas
tours of duty for six months, ex-
cept In the Far East where Gen*
■ tral Douglas MaeAitiMir has srbi-
trary authority to rnus hh troops
as long as necessary. ‘■>4
■'** Tri-
bounced it would need an addition
al 236,978 civilian workers to
carry out Truman’s $10,500,000,000
mobilisation program.
The Maritime Administration or-
dered 80 more Victory ships out
of its Mothball fleet, bring to 66
the number of cargo veaaels to be
activated in the present emerg-
ency.
The Defense Department asked
Congress to pass legislation auth-
orising dependency allowances of
$76 a month to wives of enlisted
men, plus an additional $26 a
month for each child.
V(The Navy and the Air Force
have 6ot as yet made any ealla
upon Selective Service. They are
trying to meet their new re-
i remen ts only with volunteer
spcialists and trained veterans.
At a dance
Draft — Army calls for 80,000
more draftees in September and
October, bringing to 100,000 the
number ordered up to date.
i JKhlWtments President Truman
signs lagtslatioa extending all an-;
Uatments another year.
.Air • Force — Plana to expand
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NEW PAPER PLANT
Tyler, July 28 l»—The Tyler
Morning Telegraph and Colrier
Times extended ato invitation today
to the public to inspect their new
publishing plant. Calvin Clyde Jr.,
assistant manager of the daily
newapapara, said the entire build-
ing would be open to the public
Sunday between 2 and 6 p.m. “A
carefully conducted tour awaits all
visitors,” the young newspaper
executive said. Music will be pro-
vided during the visiting hours.
Refreshment* will be served and
a radio broadcast will originate at
the streamlined new plant.
CRASH KILLS COUPLE
Liberty, July 28 (IP—A Dallas
couple was fatally injured in a
collision near here Thursday, and
two others were hurt seriously.
Olin W. Gaston was killed almost
immediately, and his wife died two
hours slater in a hospital here.
Their car collided with one driven
by Frank B. Seal of Houaton. Seal
and a companion, Vernon Lee
Sermon Sunday __
For Summer
Graduates SHS
Stephenville High School summer
school graduates will be special
guests at the service Sunday morn-
ing, beginning at 10:60 a. m., in the
First Methodist Church.
The graduates include: Charlsie
Am Baker, Jack Thornton and
Richard Little.
ONE MORE DAY
TO GET X-RRY
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X-rays were made of 402 Erath
county people Thursday, July 27,
bringing the three-day total in
Stephenville up to 1,617. In addi-
tion, 1,706 X-ray* were made in
Dublin July 10-22. With Friday
Agreement Ends
Dublin July 10-22. With Friday —^ «. ..
and Saturday totals yet la be add- 1 LO. iJulKC
groups by Jan.
Alew plans to add 186,000 m<
bring its strength to 684,000
GI.I. Allowances—Defease De-
partment asks Congress to pro-
vied enlisted man monthly depen
dency allowances of $76 for wives
and $26 additional for each child
Mothball Fleet — Maritime Ad-
ministration orders SO more Vic
tory ships put Into service, bring-
ing to 66 the number of cargo Ves-
sels taken out of mothballs.
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sd, total County-wide X-rays have
reached 8,813. -
The survey was off to a good
start Friday morning, with resi-
dents from Bluff Dale and Steph-
enville reporting.
■| Open to All Saturday ,
Saturday will be run-over day
for 9tephenville residents. All per-
sons who have pot had an X-ray
are, urged to report Saturday. In
addition, residents of Huckabuy
and Oak Dale are to report that
day. ' .. »
Saturday la the last day the
unit will be in Stephenville, and
officials hope that the unit will
be worked to capacity.
Workers at tbe unit Thursday
ware Mmsa. J. M. Howler, Chalk
Mountain), Walter Smith, Pony
Creek; K J. Howell, Mattie Wal-
ker, E. A. Blanchard, A. J. Span-
gler, G. 0. Ferguson, Mary Man*,
Doyle. Graves and L. V. Laird,
Stephenville.
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Children’s Pony
Show to Be New
Rodeo Feature
A new feature will be added to
this year’s pre-Madison Square
Garden Rodeo which is to be held
in Dublin August 28, 24, 25 and
26. This will be the pony show for
children under the age of 10 yaara.
All ponies wHl have to be 66
inches in height or under. Prises
totaling $200 will be offered.
Each year the rodeo directors
and Everett Colburn have had at
least one feature of the rodeo that
people of this area could partici-
pate In. This year’s pony show
should be tops. The hundreds of
small ponies and smal
Texas will ha
to be given du
There will be four
1 The judging will be
Port Arthur, July 28 flit—An
agreement signaling a 60-day truce
in the 114;day strike at the hugs
Texas Company refinery here was
to be signed today by representa-
tives of Texaco and the Oil Work-
ers International Union (CIO).
Home 3,000 of 4,500 striking
workers of Local 23 met last night
and voted overwhelmingly to re-
turn to work while negotiations
am resumed in. the contract dis-
pute. The unionists were expected
to be back on the job within a
TO WED BETTE DAVIS
Hollywood, July 28 flP^-Attorney
Manuel Ruix Jr., said today that
actor Gary Merrill obtained a
“quickie" divorce in, Juarex, Mex-
ico, today and was planning to
marry Bette Davis immediately.
w The pastor, R*v. «kp.
will deliver the baccala
JL Hankla, monies.
ureate ser-
mon on toe subject “Personal In-
fluence in a World at Large,” using
as his text (Isiah 6:1, 8) “In tha
year that King Ussiah died, I saw
the Lord. I heard the voice of the
Lord saying; ’Whom Shall I Send?’
Then said I, ‘Send Me’."
A religious film, “Ambassadors
,for Chriat,” will be shown during
the* evening service, banning at
7:46 o’clock.
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was
against the 1st Cavalry Division
position southeast of Yongdong.
The dismounted cavalrymen gave
some ground but .were reported
holding on in “savage” fighting.
Miss Roberson
Wins Bathing
Review Contest
A capacity crowd saw Mary Tom
Roberson of Stephenville named
“Miss Recreation of 1960” at the
city recreation hall Friday night.
Sponsored .by local 'merchants and
the city recreation program, the
bathing review featured 88 lovely
misses.
Peggy Lindley was second place
winner, and Jo Ann Herring was
winner of third place.
A green-draped runway extended
from the stage at the recreation
hall, and the beauties paraded be-
fore the judges and crowd. Roger
Gideon served aa master of cere-
Texas Mast More Than
Double Its Draft Call
Austin, July 28, (IP—Texas has
been ordered to increase ita ini-
tial draft call from 1,006 men to
2,513, state Selective Service head-
quarters announced today.
Under orders from Washington,
the men muat be delivered, ready
for military training, “not later
than Sept. 80.”
The change in the draft call fol-
national orders increasing
the original September call from
20,000 to 60,000 men.
Changes Old Quotas
A state headquarters spokes-
man said new individual quotas for
the 187 local draft boards of
Texas would not be immediately
available. '
“But they will ccrtainly.be ready
sometime next week,” he said.
Defense Costs Alone for Next
Fiscal Year to Be $35 Billion I
Washington, July 28 AT)—The
cost of re-arming to fight the
Soviet Union if necessary is be-
ginning to come olit of tha fog
here.
Defense costs alone for the next
fiscal year (starting July 1, 1961)
will be about $86,000,000,000 if
wa go all-out for preparedness. If
non-defense spending continues at
its present pace that would add up
to an overall bur get of just more
than $69,000,000,000.
During the succeeding year or
so defense costs are scheduled to
rise to $40,000,000,000 or even
$60,000,000,000. There would have
huge cutbacks in non-defense
b®ost- He will propose another big foreign aid, including the Marshall
' Plan. Last week he ashed for $10,-
600,000,000 more defense dollars.
Although the Marshall Plan
originally was a«t up as a Euro-
pean economic recovery project,
Marshall Plan funds and ail other
foreign aid spending now is classi-
fied as national defense. Therefore,
this year’s national defense item
already stands at $28,700,000,000.
Within that figure is $1,222,600,-
000 worth of arms for our friends
in Europe. That figure is due to
jump by $4,000,000,000 annually
for the next three years. It will
work this way:
We now are urging oar Euro-
pean friends to increase vary sub-
stantially their own national de-
fense- spending and production.
They already have given us figures
on tha maximum effort they could
make. But our experts say their
reported maximum is not thair top
limit at all.
So We are urging that they go
much higher on their own account.
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hike after the elections. If he gets
no more than the first $5,000,000,-
000, the treasury will be in the
red for about $16,000,000,000 in the
next fiscal year at the projected
rate Of spending for defense.
A $60,000,000,000 national de-
fense budget on top of the non-
defense budget would make gov-
ernment costs in a year or so near-
ly $80,000,000,000. The World War
II high—in 1946—waa $98,700,-
000,000.
All of these are the figures of
responsible officials who know
wb4t they are talking about in
. .. _ . _ terms of defense costs. They do
tr*
will be deeided
ALLIES HOLDING MOST PLACES ON
FRONT HIT OUTNUMBERED 4 T01
By UNITED PRESS
The Communists threw their heaviest punch today in what
probably was the showdown battle for Korea.
Gen. Douglas MacArthur reported the massed Communist in-
fantry and artillery maintained “heavy pressure” all along the
front in an all-out effort to drive the Americans out of Korea.
The Americana and South Koreans generally were holding.
But on the south end of the battle line, the Communists thrust
within 55 miles of the Asserican base port of Pusan, and on the
central front 800 enemy troops drove a wedge between U. S. and
South Korean forces.
MacArthur said in his midnight communique that his troops
were “holding firm” and trying to close the breach.
The big Communist drive was The main Communist effort was
along the Taejon-Kumchon axis as
the invaders attempted to com-
plete the conquest of South Korea
before American reinforcements
can arrive.
Field reports sent from Korea
before the midnight communique
said the Americans, outnumbered
four to one, fell back 20 to 26
miles on the south coast and up to
five miles near Yongdong under
the blows of some 45,000 Commu-
nist troops.
Commies Break Through
The North Korean 16th Division
drove a wedge between the Sixth
South Korean and the U. S. 25th,
the communique reported. It hap-,
pened in the area of Ichon-ni, 27
miles northeast of Yongdong.
The Communists threw about
800 troops through the breach into
the rear area of the American
lines.
“Friendly troops are now hold-
ing firm, and are trying to close
the breach to restore their defen-
sive positions,” MacArthur report-
ed.
He said the main weight of the
Communist onslaught was along
emy troops and armor were press-
ing “concentrated assaults”
against the U. S. First Cavalry
Division.
“After losing some ground in
the Hwanggan area, the deter-
mined troops are holding their
positions in a savage fire fight,”
the communique said.
Three Red, Divisions
At least three Communist divi-
sions were reported fighting in the
west-central sectok, “determined to
overwhelm the locally inferior
United States troops,” MacArthur
reported.
Allied air forces gave the ground
troops close support. Late reports
did not say what tflrn the weather
had taken, but the Communist
drive was launched in a heavy rain.
With the Korean rainy season still
going strong, the Air Force effort
was hampered.
Allied naval forces continued
what MacArthur described as sat-
uration bombardment along the
east coast, “and the results were
considered effective.”
A spokesman at MacArthur’s
headquarters said earlier that the
Communists seemed bent on forc-
ing a decision before the United
Nations forces could get set for a
counter-offensive.
“The enemy seeks a decision,”
the spokesman said. “He will do
anything at all this time for a
break-through.’’
He said the situation may get
worse before it gets better, but
said he was sure the Americans
would be able to hold a beachhead
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War Bulletins
Washington, July 28, dfl—Com-
munist North Korean forces are
reported to be recruiting 60,000
Korean women “for use in the
combat area,” a military spokes-
man said today.
With U. S. 26th Division, Korea,
July 28, Oi—American front line
officers said tha North Koreans
threw “weary, scared, hungry
kids’’ into the muzzles of the UB.
guns in the cannon-fodder launch-
ing at the big attack now going on.
G.I.s who directed the fire that
mowed down the attacking Com-
munists said it was a slaughter
m
Tam dollars was given for first
prize. Second prize was five dol-
lars, and third place winner got
three dollars.
Ten of the 38 girls went into the
semi-finals in the conteat. They
were Lucile Keith, Katherine But-
ler, Frances Carlton, Jo Ann Her-
ring, Paula Holleman, Maudie Key,
ftggy Lindley, Carolyn Martin,
Geraldine Mayfield and Mary Tom
Roberson.
ALLIED POWER FOR BERLIN — U. 8. High Commissioner for Germany, John J. McCloy
(hands on rail) takes a look from the roof of Power 8tatlon West, in the British sector
of Berlin, which provides western Berlin with electricity. The plant, completely destroyed
during the last war. was rebuilt with ERP funds during and after the Russian-Imposed
blockade. With McCloy are plant employees who guided him on his tour of Inspection.
UN Ponders Russian s Decision
Return to Security Council
Earlier quotas, announced last
week, will be changed under the
new order.
Texas now has 70,726 men classi-
fied as 1-A and available for im-
mediate military service, accord-
ing to the latest figures from
state Selective Service headquar-
ters.
NEW BUSINESSES
Auatin, July 28 (VI—Dallas 1
all Texas cities in adding new
business firms last month, newly-
released Texas Employment Com-
mission figures showed today. A
total of 48 new firms were report-
ad in the state, 18 of them in Dal-
las. Houston waa second with five.
Lake Success, N. Y., July 28 <W
—The United Nations Security
Council, alive with speculation
about Russia’s dramatic announce-
ment that it would end its 29-week-
old boycott next Tuesday, met to-
day to discuss the first report
from Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s
unified command in Korea.
There had been some specula-
tion following the notification by
chief Soviet Dogate Jacob A.
Malik that he wodid assume the
council presidency in\Jiis regular
turn next week, that the Russians
might make a surprise appearance
But the council, after wafting
until 16:49 a.m.—19 minutes past
its scheduled starting time—met
with the Soviet- chair still vacant.
The meeting adjourned one hour
later. No delegate had mentioned
the Russian decision during the
session.
Second Meeting Monday
It was reported that the council
was scheduling another meeting
for next Monday, the day before
Malik is due to return, to consider
the problem of getting relief to the
Ex-Dublin Girl
Queen De Leon
Peach Festival
Kathleen Sanders, a former Dub-
lin girl, was chosen Queen of the
Pfearch and Melon Festival in De
Leon and was crowned at 8 p. m.
Thursday.
A parade opened the Festival late
Thursday, and was witnessed by
the largest crowd in Dc Leon Fes-
tival history. Watermelons will be
sliced each day at 2:30 p. m.—all
for free. An old-fashioned square
dance is scheduled for 8 p. m. Fri-
day, with the Light Crust Dough-
boys providing the music. A new
automobile will be given away Sat-
urday night.
hundreds of thousands of refugees
who have fled southward in Korea
before the advancing armies of
Russian-supported North Korea.
It also was reported that mem-
bers of the council planned a pri-
vate, informal meeting later today
to review the resolutions which,
in Russia’s absence, authorized
ighting sanctions against the Red
Koreans. The review was planned
in order to make sure there were
no legal loopholes which Malik
might be able to use to advantage.
Scouts Describe
Jamboree Trip
Two Boy Scouts, Oren Ellis Jr.
and David Cunyus, described the
tr ip to the National Scout Jam- j
boree at the noon meeting of the
Lions Club Friday. The boys were
introduced by Elbert Pollan.
Guests at the meeting were John
A. Morris of Fort Worth and Jack
Arthur, Crosbyton, new owner of
the local theaters.
Oren Ellis Jr. described the train
trip to Valley Forge, Pennsylvania,
and David Cunyus described the
stay at the encampment with
47,000 Scouts from all the states
in the Union und 14 foreign coun-
tries.
The trip to Valley Forge was a
long and tiresome one. The boys
made stops in Fort Worth, Wich-
ita, Kansas, Chicago and Washing-
ton. In Washington, they took
buses for a tour, and lunched in
the Pentagon Building.
An average day in the camp at
Valley Forge began at 0:30 a.m.
Each boy had a special duty, and
all helped cook, carry water, or
clean up the area. President Tru-
man and General Eisenhower made
speeches.
On the return trip, the Scouts
visited Philadelphia, New York,
Niagara Falls, Detroit and Chi-
cago.
As delegates gathered in the
lounge before today’s meeting, few
professed any strong opinion as
to the course of action Malik will
follow when he returns. The pre-
vailing early Sentiment, however,
was that he would attempt to ex-
ploit the situation to the fullest
to reap a propaganda harvest
against the UN’s Korean effort.
“I am not going to make any
statement at this, time,” said Am-
bassador Warren R. Austin, chief
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College Moves
Museum to
Main Building
The Tarleton State College
museum, which includes the Wil-
liam Edwin Dyess collection, is
now housed in a room on the first
floor of the administration build-
ing. At present available for visi-
tors to see any time during the
day, the collections had previously
been kept in the college library
where crowded quarters made dis-
play difficult.
The Dyess collection includes
many personal belongings of the
late Tarleton war hero, who came
from Albany. One of the most in-
teresting items is a mess kit car-
ried by Dyess on the Bataan Death
March and used throughout his
subsequent imprisonment. On the
kit Dyess carved names of his fel-
low prisoners and other data which
proved valuable after his escape
from the Japanese.
In addition to more than 50
articles which belonged to Dyess,
the collection contains foreign
flags, insignia, clothing, currency
and other war trophies given by
veterans of Stephenville and other
Texas towns. The museum also in-
cludes numerous papers, items and
articles dealing with Tarleton’s
early history.
Congressmen Now Favoring
Baruch’s All-Out Program
Washington, July, 28, im—
The Senate today approved leg-
islation to damp strong security
controls on the nation’s water-
fronts and oent the bill to the
White Houee.
With 1st Cavalry Division, Ko-
rea, July 28, Mi—An American
plan to counter-attack the advanc-
ing Communists misfired late to-
day. The U. 8. task force found no
enemy where a Mg buildup had
been reported by pilots and other
sources a few hours surlier.
Washington, July 28, flf*—A high
Army spokesman, basing his pre-
diction on information from Gen.
Dougla* MacArthur, said today
that “we’re sot going to be thrown
off tbs peninsula” of Koras.
Washington, July 28, (W—Sen.
John J. Sparkman, D., Ala., said
today he is "thinking very serious-
ly” of sponsoring the Baruch total
economic mobilisation plan in the
Senate.
Sparkman and a growing list of
other congressmen are coming
around to the view that the Baruch
plan may be better than the Tru-
man plan. The House and Senate
will decide.
Bernard M. Baruch, New York
financier who played a big part in
the mobilisation of World War I,
believes the country should adopt
complete economic and manpower
controls right now—price controls,
wage controls, rationing, etc.
President Truman belietee his
milder control proposals—calling
for credit curbs and control of ma-
terials—are sufficient for the time
being. Some Republicans, among
them Son. Robert A. Taft, 0., be-
lieve the Truman plan too drastic.
Baruch Plan Tougher
Some others, however, among
them Sen. Irving M. Ives, R., N.Y.,
lean toward the much tougher
Baruch approach.
Sparkman said the Baruch plan
will be put up to the Senate bank-
ing committee, which is working on
the Truman plan. Chairman Bur-
net R. Maybank, D., S.C., said,
however, that the committee will
finish work on the White House
bill before it votes on the Baruch
proposals, if they are offered.
Ives, a committee member, said
the Baruch plan will get “very
serious consideration.”
The House banking committee
defeated the Baruch plan by one
vote and approved the Truman
plan. The House, bo waver, will get
a chance to vote on the Baruch
recommendations.
Will Go to Senate
If the Senate committee re-
jects the Baruch substitute, it ap-
peared probable that it will be
offered on tbe Senate floor.
Other congressional develop-
ments:
Recess—Senate Democratic lead-
er Scott W. Lucas asked tbe Sen-
•.j-•
ate to hurry up and pass the ap-
propriation bill for this fiscal year
and wind up work on President
Truman’s requested new legislation
for meeting the Korean crisis. He
wants the Senate to embark on a
program of three-day recesses in
lieu of adjournment, which he
said is now out of the question.
Three-day recesses, he said, would
enable senators “to come back at
a moment’s notice” to deal with
any emergency.
Army 8ise to Be Increased
Army—Chairman Carl Vinson of
the House armed services commit-
tee said the Army will increase its
strength to 884,000 men. The
Georgia Democrat said the Army
will take on 240,000 additional
men as rapidly as possible. He
added that the Army will invest
an additional $1,661,943,160 in
new tanka, guns and other weap-
ons.
After 1962 . . —Rep. Harold D.
Cooley, D., N.C., has asked Demo-
cratic leaders to let him push a
resolution to study what Europe's
economic situation will be after
Marshall Plan aid ends in 1962.
Cooley said tbe study should start
this yaw.
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