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Denton Record-Chronicle
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WEATHER
Cloudy and Cold
EIGHT PAGES
AMNociated Prean leaned Wire
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BLACK-EYED PEAS FOR I Al K
Texas'
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to
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on
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"Unquestionably "
end holiday period
cent
fool nail teams
a
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15
black-eyed peas tomor-
20
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25 percent to 15
It was dropped during the
1725
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sweeping general assembly
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VOL. XLIV NO. 117
President Ends World War II Hostilities
Probers Against
Barring Bilbo,
I ague Cleaners
Plant Damaged
By Eire Today
( hampion Ninth Texas
Football Team To Be
Honored at Banquet
Denton Is On The March
America’s Best
“Home Town’ City
gas-man'
ieeent <
teach
Point
special
to
has
they
And
IKE’ SAID WILLING TO
RI N EOR PRESIDENT
percent
Eeased wires
percent
Wire and equipment service —
8 percent to 5
Billiard and pool tables and bowl-
ing alleys $20 per year per table;
$20 a year per alley, to $10 a year
per table. 10 per year per alley
nine
three
I roin
will
inclined
viaducts
So far little
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Streets Slipperx
Dr. Koger Hebard
Accepts Baptist
Church Pastorate
UP Act in
1 at cd the hl^h w ar 11 npusi d excises
should bo trimmed to specified
the term!-
Motorists Warned Of
Slick Highways As
Freeze Continues
injured of
Will'll
into
lines.
I he snow blanket extended from
i the north and west boundaries
co.istal areas On the coist. the tem-
peratures dropped to near-freezing,
and heavy rains fell
The warmeat spot In Texas today
I lentou s f n si
gl yiats blanketed
W 1111
crusade
came
pen
tin I
i uni
ton lawyer
lion and naineu
ton.
day. diil erase from the statute
laws ♦
Sii 11 others will automatically die
......... I
Inear future." his formal statement. ' chuich in Harlingen for almost
' three years, has accepted a call
said that hU action would terminate church here and will assume
the lite of the Smith-Connally Antl-
Strike act fix months from trxlay. ]
Hie time has come, Mr Truman
said at one point during an
change with reporters, when
executive branch should give
some of the flowers exercised during
the w.ir
Back to Peacetime Basis
in
to j
. majority report with the Senate
I when it convenes Friday.
Asked whether this meant that
I he favors the seatiiig of Bilbo, El-
‘i nd-
u hit h
I icw \p;i |M I
Wr a 1st i
cost I
, jxjund,
That
Byrnes Will Eal
Texas on New
Harpool.
Jr were
a rrunge
Of Denton C-C
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be trimmed
levels six montlr ufu
nut Ion ol host Hit les
These spei ml excise levies now
are yielding about $1,400,000,000 an-
nually
I
1'hese are the
effective under
| as ot July 1
| Liquor from 1
Direr tors at an earlier meeting
expressed dissatisfaction with pres-
ent telephone service tn the city
but decided to confer with officials
m sev-
en v this
la rge
slip
sidewalks :md snowball lights
snow fall
in
do
the
lished b\ t
nii'-sioii is
|U. S. Asks Priority
For Atomic Problem
d
will be
annual
banquet
I -. ion
tee on arrangements lor
I D
W
Cloudy, continued
cold, occasional snow except In
Panhandle. South Plains and El
Paso areas this afternoon, scat-
tered snow flurries in Pecoa val-
ley and eastward tonight; lowest
temperature tonight 10-18 In Pan-
handle and South plains and 18-
26 elsewhere. Wednesday partly
cloudy, not quite so cold.
MONDAY TEMPERATURES
High
low
Snow '7 a m i
mI by Action
31 —(A I’) — President Truman
hostilities of the second World
Shannon got his second ol'
He left De.iton
at 2 o'clock tn
at camp
morning
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1 Ihe
what
id to the fly. J C . but
when you
puli-
com - I
■nil- j
Worst Fr<;B
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•nd
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lines discussed
a recent meeting
will confer with
i.eu
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the Lower Colorado
Authority reappointed two
o! the education board,
Nation s Tax Bill
holdover dire< tors and 15 new di- |
rectors elected by members re-
I’resident to Welcome
.New Year on His Yacht
WASHINGTON. Dec 31
The omv president will succeed
D Miller, president of the Den-
ton County National Bank, who
served during 1946 Whisenant will
'succeed Cross as first vlce-pre.si-
I dent and Boyd will follow Claudel
IKtlc I Castleberry in the second vice-|
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about red)
B
new spa per
member
Houston
George S
DENTON AND VICINITY; Cloudv
and continued cold, rain and sleet
or snow with low temperatures 16-
24 tonight; partly cloudy, not
quite so cold Wednesday
EAST TEXAS Cloudy and
tinned cold, rain in extreme south,
rain or sleet in remaindtr ot area
except snow tn north portion this
afternoon Rain or sleet in south-
east portion tonight, temperatures
16-24 in north, 24-32 in south
portion except near 32 in ex-
treme south and Immediate coas-
tal areas Wednesday partly
cloudy, not quite so cold Moderate
to fresh northerly winds on the
coast.
cent to 20 percent,
15 percent to 10 percent
Transportation ot persons
percent to 10 percent
Dues and membership fees
per<ent to fl percent
Initiation fees 20 percent to 11
Electric light bulbs and tubes—
20 percent to 5 percent
Domestic telegraph, cable or ra
to 15
WASHINGTON Dec 31 .45
The Times-Herald '.aid tiaiav
In a copyright sti.r ytliiit Ge.i
Dwight D Elseli.iowi r w.r, re
(girted ready to run for Presi-
dent In 1948 if the people want
him
Elsenhower, the 1 inir .-Herrld
nwW. ia said to have told IrienAs
d u r I n g Informal di' cusslons
while on a fishing trip ctf Miami
over the holidays that 1 will
run for President if the people
w ant me to run "
The friends weie not identi-
fied
measured three
accoidmg to Paul
weather recorder
Experunebt
Bureau said.
These are some of the low read-
ings today Pampa 10 Lubbock 13.
formally Amarillo 10. Abilene 16, Big Spring
I 16. Wink 18. Wichita Falls 17, Rock
I Springs 17. Junction and Salt Flats
iu a . - • "" —
cutive to
flic third
for
Ut voiuciaiiijM* rass near rj |
Paso
I i It I I >i «“» 41 ~ i 1 ’ ’I
The Stale Highway patrol warned ] cloudy and lontiniu-d
i motorists to proceed witti great I and
caution" if they had to use the Ice-
glazed highways. But Chief Joe
Fletcher said it would be better not
to drive at all unless trips were es-
sential
( AGE-( HEWING PANTHERS REMOVED — I’lirm*
ftreiloin-loving' panthers who chewed their way out of
a cage while en route to Los Angeles by train from Dal-
las, are moved by Trainer Rex Regan from a baggage
cat back into a cage itpon arrival at l-os Angeles. Dr
Noble llamiter, trainer and shipper of the animals, had
flown to El Paso and prodded them into the empty car
alter they got out of their cage as the train was near Big
Spring, Tex. (Al* Wirephoto).
>
United Btetw remlutton
> put atomic control at
_______ th* I"
4 A request from the Ftralgn
Ministers Council for Uw MMBtty
Council to start conaMefhMB «
Trieste, over which the United Na-
tions wLU have general eupervM
With the major buainem out
the way. Johnson paid
•tlte delegatee of Mexico.
The Netherlands whom
today They wlfl ba M
morrow by Colombia,
Belgium
Bx THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Blinding snow mid ice glazed
highways provided a new menace
tor Texas holiday celebrants, boost-
ing the ten day toll to a known 93 1
• * 1 - I Savs Chairman
highways I
Bradley C ,
WASHINGTON. Dec 31 —<AP
Chairman Ellenaer <D-La' in-
today that democratk-
of course
from 5
WASHINGTON Dec 31 • AP'
President Truman's proclama-
tion terminal Ing hostilities may
automatically reduce the nation'
I hit
above 1 after
El
in
Texas|
groes from voting tn the Mississip-
pi senatorial election.
■ Ellender told reporters after a
9t)-minute meeting of the commit-
tee that he and the other demo-
45. | cr*tk
| Julius Jones. 45. Myrtle Lee Jones.
with about 35 degrees No frost was I reported
retorted, for the weuther was windy
Churchill i who wrote back he* en-|
joyed themi. to President Roose- day
V eal s
of j morning, bringing
from 1 cent for each ; 23. all of Dallas
Ten persons I
i death.
I wounds.
I two by drowning and seven from I L- ------— -
other causes during the long year- Gender replied;
■ 1 j ____i___■ ' ‘'T Irxniixxct inno
dead
The first traffic accident today
directly attributed to icy 1
occurred near Marlin
Linthicum, 35 son of the Marlin
First National Bank president was ! dlcated
members of the special campaign
I .1 ____ _________..411 4^11
ina leads the nation
, Georgia is sec ond '
( peas to one and sundry. Torn goes
' further Once in St Louis he con-
duced a poll, found six of ten I
persons he stopped knew about the
good luck tradition of eating black-
| eye peas on New Years. Another
time he wired a protest to a St
Louis restaurant because he found
no peas on the menu While in
France, he tried the get the French
to eat them — and the French,
very hungry, agreed willingly —
if he’d supply the peas
Well, tomorrow's New
_____ * 7 Have you stocked up on the
ve'lt, Kate Smith, and Rose Bowl I good luck pen? Thousands have
killed almost instantly when his
car spun dizzily on a bridge ap-
I proach. hurling him and a woman
T' e: ■ *
passenger to the ground
One person was L "
eral injured when a truck crashed i
five miles west of San Saba last ‘
Fa tally injured was Andrew |
18 ol San Saba
two deaths boosted
i traffic toll from Dec 20 to 62
An autoinobile-bus collision
Dallas last night was fatal
throe They were Tom Kinney. ■
Butane gas-man' Allen said.
Well, tills recent cold spell and
snow should teach ice-man El
Williams that he can't have things
bis way all the year-round
Day
until one lost and
blackened the name of the black
eyed pea
Incidentally, in California
call cm black eyed beans
Ihe Department of Agriculture is
no help in deciding the issue — It's
either a bean or a pea to them
Centerville used to stage a black-
eye pea festival, being in the heart
of the East Texas black-eye pea
txlt It was promoted by Henry
Fox It grew so big that 8 000 I dio dispatches 25 percent
people used to crowd the town of
1.000 '
war
In addition to sending black-eye
tomglit was
old. with ram
sleet or more snow and low
| tenifierutures uf 16 to 24 depieas
Cloudy and slightly warmer weatliei
was forecast toi Wednesday
Highways Slippery
All highways leading from Den-
ton were pronounced slippery and
dangerous while bus schedules I*
tween Denton and Dallas were can-
celed after a Dixie-ounshlne Trall-
’ ways- bus slid into the ditch south
Directors voted to have a ban
quet in honor ol the NTSC Eagles,
Lone Star Conlerence champions
and winners of a pre-ChrisCmas i
Optimist Bowl game in Houston I
from College of Pacific —..
ton High School Broncos and the I
/....I I... I I « . . . . 4 . *»« I>1 I I >/ » ) I 4 t , .
I and cloudy
Relief is still a
Deals | for North Texas, probably longer for !
and 1 the southern area.
u
ban .
c members. Senators May-
bank of South Carolina and Elmer
| Thomas of Oklahoma will Jlle a
Lave burned to ;
died of gunshot
m plane crashes.
died almost immediately of head injuries.
of Marshall, a Marlin resort visitor, the other
if the car, was hospitalized hut not critically hint.
Highways so. '.Ml and 290 in the Pecos, Van Horn and
♦ Alpine areas are completely snoW-
blocked. the State Departmem
Public Safety announced
Public Safety Director
ing possibilities of various plans
suggested by members
LAKE SUCCESS N Y . Dec 31
—(AV The United States in a sur-
prise maneuver proposed today that
the United Nations Security Council
give top priority to the atomic en-
ergy problem In its quest for world-
wide arms limitation.
Herschel V Johnson. United
States delegate and chairman of
the council, laid a brief resolution
calling for the council to tackle
the whole problem of general arms
limitation with the utmost speed
The council, with Soviet Russia
in agreement, decided to take up
the arms resolution at a meeting
to be held not later than ne»«
Tuesday
| At that time It will have before
I".
s:i< w t
grees
I and it
I was 19
Dr Hebard will till the vacancy
left by Dr Frank Weedon, who
resigned in September to assume
a position with the Baptist State
Evangelistic Board.
The new
as-grown
row f
of the Big Four
Elmore Torn’ of Longview, self- |
appointed ambassador-at-large for
black-eyed peas, sent him a sup-
ply He sent enough for the others
too. Byrnes promptly wrote back
"Of course, coming from South
Carolina. I know about the time- ■
honored custom of serving the dish
you mention on New Years, and
I look forward to enjoying your
gi(t at the appropriate time
Popularizing black-eyed peas has
been a liobby of Torn's ever since
he tasted his firzt dish on a South
Carolina plantation back in 1928
He and the plantation owner
dropped in on a Negro family
After partaking of a meal of sweet
potatoes, ’possum, and other deli-
cacies. out came the dessert —
black-eyed peas served with corn
pone and pigs jowl.
The black-eyed peas. Torn says,
has been the poor man's food for
19 I centuries. But It’s gone a little high
30 I hat recently, mainly because of
V
resolution calling for world-wide
arms limitation and reduction of
armed forces.
2. The Russian resolutions Mk-
ing quick Implementation of the
assembly proposals
3 The 1
set king to 1
the top of the list
‘.SS^TMBritish Auto Makers
Have Full Order Booku
LONDON. Dec 31—OPk-British
auto makers who manufactured
360.000 vehicles in 1946. In an all-out
effort to capture world markets, re-
ported fuller Qun ever" order
books today and plans to increase
1947 production without changing
prewar designs
$6 a proof .
Carages and the jxilice depart-
ment reported numerous vehicles
skidding into (.itches or stopping
and being unable to get sufficient
traction to move No other acci-
dents were reported Ly noon today
Traffic signals acre turne J oil
over the city to prevent lieavi
trucks from having to come to a
complete .-.top and then being un-
able to move, thereby blocking trat-
Sec SNOW Page 2
Firemen Injured As
liking tut I Bill Pumper Overturns
I HOUSTON. Dee 31 -<AP>
firemen were injured, two serious
ly. when a big pumper speeding
to n fire collided with an automo
bile and overturned yesterday.
Planes Grounded
Traffic was snarled hi Dallas and
Fort Worth on Inclined streets,
j underpasses and viaducts Airline
traffic was grounded „.... .....
j damage was reported to iced power I of"LewisvlUe’"The bus was attcmpl-
,, , . . . . lines. l() ss a iurKl. truck which had
*0*0 "i" r''1*!.' *' <l rC.rSUwa * snow blanket extended from skidded blocking the toad, when
an< ' ow ’ ' t a i gt s i tile north and west boundaries to I the heavy vehicle lost traction and
within 100 miles of Gulf of Mexico slipped into the ditch without turn-
ing ovei No passengers were in
Jure;!
Other buses still scheduled t
running from 30 minutes to
traffic was
■ highways
I aillo
noi t !i
l io' i'll
R B
bu< k mighty quick
< i) December 26
the afternoon, arriving
mound 4 o'clock m the
By nine the following morning, he
had his 8-point buck In the Ice
house
mav
oi return Io the White House
tile midnight will,ties blow.
S<*i ret.irv (Ti irles G
Victim of Icy
1 1947 tax bill by approximately $700 IIin ays Is 93rd
(HX; (XM)
Colin F Stain rxjM-rt ol the
joint congrv.vslonal (oinmH tee on
I internal revenue
that under Mr
in
president's post
President Miller this morning an- >
nounced the appointment of a com-
mittee of Fred Minor R B New j
man and Torn Harpool. Jr . to in-
vestigate telephone service in Den
ton along lines discussed by di
rectors in a recent meeting The
I committee will confer with olfi-
I cials of the Texas Telephone Co
of Year Grips
Texas; Sm / Blocks Highways
Bv IHE ASSOCIATED TRESS 4
The old year bowed out today with the coldest weather of 1
191G jrrippiiiK Texas from border to Girder, blanketing so
I much of the state with snow that the Highway Department
I warned motorists not to drive unless absolutely necessary.
Ilie first fatality blamed on ice-glazed highways oc-
[ curred near Marlin early today when a car driven by Bradley
(’. Linthicum, 3.'>, spun dizzily out of control, slapped a truck
twice, threw two occupants to the floor of a bridge, whirled
100 feet down the road and endt*d upright in a ditch. Linthi-
cum died almost immediately of head injuries. Miss Fay
! Rogers of Marshall, a Marlin resort visitor, the other oc
cupant
Hl< 'ell is
I t lu- 1 'ini
Attempts to
Inu > lor ;i nut ion
sluverv. tear anil
Loot tiaili t.ntli
slllv propaganda
, publisher of the Den
| ton Record-Chronicle, w :v. elected
a letter published j president of
in Oklahoma Game a.id Fish News
t.> J (' Oliver, editor of the Mc-
Cur'aln County'Record at Valliant.,
who savs this We long for the Bell Roofing Co
day whoi the bird hunter and the I v,< e-president
hunter will understand each .;--------"
and iializc that the tox is
protector ot the bob white in-
we real-
investigat mg committee will
the Sena'e they know of no reason
to bare Theodore O Bilbo from a
killed and sev- I Senate seat.
The committee Investigated
| charges that Bilbo Intlmtated Ne-
A fire early today severely dam- j
aged the cleaning plant and boiler
room of the Vogue Cleaners and j
■furriers plant at 721 North Locust I WEST TEXAS;
Si when a possible electrical short
< aused the blaze tn a metal build-
ing behind the plant
J H Barrow. proprietor, said
that the main building In which
clothing was kept was not dam-
aged by the fire and all clothing
within was safe
Damages were set at approxl '
mately $500 bv Barrow. who added I
that he expected repairs to be'
made so as to reopen for business I
in about a week I
I football teams from Pilot
I and Lewisville w ill be
I guests at tile banquet
E J Williams. Ben Ivey,
| Headlee. Tom Harixiol, Jr
R I. Selby, Jr were named
< ommiter to arrange the
quet
New otfii
presented at an annual member
ship meeting and banouet of the
into tile heart of | chamber to be held . ion Commit , 19, Texarkana 28. Wa”o 23. Austin
fox j tee on arrangements lor the ban- !
lie j quet is M D Peni y. Stanley Mon- j
; roe and R W Bass
A committee will be named by
Cross to select three additional
rti<’ saving m tlie lust half
1947 will be about $700 000 000
are the <ntbacks to be 1 night
tlie i>io< lamution, I Htmt.
Safety Director Homer
Garrison said State Highway Patrol
rars with two-way short wave
r idios are on the alert throughout 1 Dunkle
that urea \ B( I(lt.
The snowfall was more widespread ] Station,
than on any other day of the year
I >west temperatures also set a new
low for 1946 four degrees
z.i-ro at Guadaluix' Pass near
the nation whose God
Psalms 12-3
improve on Gods
have produced |
ultimate ruin
and liberty lol
I our tconomy and our government.
I lack to a peacetime basis as quickly , The new pastor, his wife and
' three children, will reside In
Only yestetd iy Senator Wiley iR- , churc h parsonage 418 W Oak
A member of the state executive
board ol the Baptist General Con-
j vent ion of Texas. Dr Hebard is a
graduate of the Southwestern Bap-
tist Theological Seminary in Fort
' Worth with both the master and
' doctor of theology de*grees He was
, pastor at Breckenridge before go-
ing to Harlingen
By JACK RUTLEDGE
Associated Press Staff
Secretary of State James
Byrnes probably will be eating Tex-
■own black-eyed peas tomor- I ls
for good luck Bo may others pound pretty
J boy
But cost alone won't keep it off
i the poor man's table It's a short j
'■rop. taking but three months to j
grow Anyone can produce it
It grows almost anywhere
the Panhandle, in East
where it's major crop, in the low i
| er Rio Grande Valley where they i
grow two crops a year
South Carolina leads the nation
on production.
and Texas third. Torn says. Last
I year, about 250,000 acres of Texas
land grew peas The take was over
three million dollars, because you ]
can grow about a ton to the acre
Further, the vlnea help enrich the
soil
Since Torn began his
back In 1937 when he
Texas, the black-eyed
gained a lot ol renown
At his own expense Torn has
sent choice packages to Winston
W '
I Ittll-
i base,
would return home and begin to
look up reglsti atlon papers on a
t1 w toy hounds Another thi.ig he
might h in n is that m terntorv I chamber directors to serve with 15.
where Hie lioun.ls chase the fox. ‘
'lie largest bunches ot birds are
found Reason the fox killed the'cently
nits, gophers and field mice and,
moles that destroy the quail eggs E
When through with tins let him j '
write the United States Agricultural
Department and get fit .t hand in- .
toimntlon on lilii diet ot the fox I
Uncle Sam will send you
paniplih t t lull w ill i xplam
thing vnud like to know
lox
We still say the bird hunter and
the tox hunter will be trlen I . when
they both know more about the
quad and Ihe lox
I iiesduy morning The snow, it is]
ix'lieved at 11 Oclixk Tuesday, was
around 5 Inches and still falling.'
It may be a boon to-grnin. but the
cattli and sheep men will not be so
pleased with it since it means more
feedstuff to lw given livestock. The
rabbit hunters may like the snow, i
too, a>. they can Hail cm bv their I
track' Pot-sh<xitmg quail hunters, |
toe, may find it to their
we hope not
taxi skidded into u A
City Transit Co bus at the inter- F.
I section of Chestnut and Avenue D Charles
about 9 a tn
Mrs Jeanette long. 1209 West
fSvcamore a pusscnget m the cab.
received a slight cut and was shaken
up in the accident She was treated
at the Elm Street Hospital and
Clinic and returned home
Floyd S Young. 40, route 1, driver
of the bus. told City Officers Jack
Harrison and LeKov McDaniel that
the accidi nt wa unavoidable 1 In
but. was parked at a bus stop
when the cab. driven by Wei.ion O
Willingham. 18. 1308 Mvttle St .
skidded when trying to get out ol
deep ruts while traveling at a slow
rate ot spe< d There were no pas-
j sengers in t he bus
The I
Texas'
In 1937 it cost one
, today Is six cents.
That's the price the grower gets
The retail price today
cents to 9 cents a
high for n pixir
heavy snow
t lie
I IIIOIOIIIK. Vlll<X*llX V.H.1 it >»
quota of skidding automobiles
jxrv
7 lie
inches at 7 a
official
Agi null ural
lint drills continued to fi^ll
until about 11 a m tile meicurv
t a low ot 1!) dir'iees eatlj to.lav
a high ol "I was recoided
Monda v
Tlie lorecu-t
six months from tixlay unless Con-
gress acts to continue them One of
these is the Smltli-Connally Anti- : j
Strike act under which the gov- I ,
ernment has seized stt ike-bound I
plants and mines
Another is the law under which
wartime leases ot silver held or j
owned bv ihe United States is per-
mitted . '
In a few Instances. Mr Truman 1 <
said, statutes affected by the proc- j f
lamatlon give the government cer- , '
tain powei s lie believes should be
ii iitJnued m |a-a > time, or ut least'
lor Ihe remainder el the perlixi of
reconvei sion
In tlie.se instances, the President
said, he will ask Congress for ad-| >
ditto.i ll leglsl itioli
I Und< t questioning as to whether
I this was a step In his protlllM* to
[ctsi'reral ■ witti the Rapublican-con-
\\ ASHINGTON. Det .
ended ttxiav the period of
\\ nr.
He left intact, however, the states of emergency declared
j by the late President Roost veil before the United States
went to war and he said that today’s action dr»es not end
"Hie state of war itself.”
Recommendations will g<> to (’ongreSM in ’he near fu-
ture, Mr Truman told a news conference, with respect to
| cancelling the national emergency and ending the .state of
i waj.
His proclamation ending hostilities, effective at noon to-
• books at once 20 wartime
tlif TSCW board
Edw lu
W<u th mid 8
Wlul I cubin g. Amarillo,
publisher Ihi' new
bi W F Hamblin,
yer replacli
of Yoakum
Two Reappointed}
Houston LawvtT
\ew ISC ’\X Regent}
AUSTIN 1-x Dec 31 'AP,
Gov Coke R Stevenson today an- i
nounced nine appointments, three
>ach on the Board of Education,
ti.. f t »»U / ii,. Wivor AiitKiiT*-
17. San Antonio 28. Corpus Christi
31. Galveston 35. Beaumont 33
Houston 31. Laredo 33. El Paso 20.
Tyler 26 Dallas 21
Three Inches al Gainesville
Gainesville reported 3 Inches of
today, with a low of 16 de-
Brownwood had two Inches
1 was still snowing The low
Vernon said one meh of
i snow covered the ground and more |
was falling in 18-degree tempera-
ture Raids were icy but still <>pen
Snow was four inches deep at
| Midland, and Southwest Texas cat-
lielands were covered with drifting
.now three feet deep in places
Ranchers said the snow would be
veneflcial to winter range grasses
An early morning snowfall iced
bridges and hillsides in Dallas, and |
long lanes of traffic piled up
lines were over a mile long
rlple underpass, known as
auslest auto turnstile, was clogged
Buses unable to negotiate slippery
.nclines unloaded passengers in the
Irinity river bottoms Thousands
were late for work Many walked to
own
Dixie Trailways reported that
Highway 77 was blocked between
Vrdmore and Marietta. Okla., and
jetween Dallas and 1-ewisville
I liquor
i gallon.
Furs, luggage. Jewelry mid toilet
preparations from 20 per cent of
retail price to 10 percent
Admissions
5 cents to 1 cent for cm h 10 cents
I Cabarets 20 percent to 5 per
I cent
Wines—varied reductions accord
I ing to type
Beer—from $8 a barrel to $7
Telephone—long distance 25 per
local service.
Bv ft J
'I lien has lx en much argument
between tox hunters mid quail
hunters .is t<> tlie depredation done
tv the lox 1 here an- so many fox
and ipiml hunters m this county
ttlal tlie t'»lloWillg should be ot In-
teresi to ImiIIi. as well as those who
like .aitduol life
olivet ot Valliant, Okla
ir tlie tollowing clipping
we presume in be trom the!
<>t which he is editor |
1 ead
tiousion, ...................—• • — ‘•7 .........- ,r“'n 30
Tlie Den- wa,i Lower Rio Grande Valley, ' hour late. Dixie-Sunshine official.',
- 1 By noon today, the bus
from McKinney was over one hour (
Gate and had not arrived m Den , , (|W1 r Colorado River Author-|
t"11 ity ail’d the board ol regents ol <
. ... I Otherwise very light traffic was iexiis HIlth. College for Women nt |
Weather I slowly moving over the highways |j(.np,|1
Howevei. Gainesville police Hullo ip,, governor made all new no-
ri ported that all highways north pointments on
and west ot that city were closed Rlv,.r Authority, reappointed
with heavy snow drifts numbers ol the education I
One Minor Aciidenl and also reappom ed two member.
One [xisoii was slightlv injured of tin- TSCW board
, in mi accident early today when a New men. -its ot the IX'RA are
| City Cub Co taxi skidded into u A B Spues, Austin business man.
the inter- F A Anum Flatonia lawver and
F Crisi, Blanco rancher
and business man
Slcvcllsoli ii appolided Di Air -
M 1 -oni:. Valiev Mills physl-
i. mid Plul M Stevenson. Hoiut-
on the Board ol Educa-
.einon D Single-
Dallas insurmii e ex
replace Maio Stewart as
board member
Reapixiinted io
ol icgenls were
Phillips ol Foil
... tlie Deuton Chamber
| of Commerce for 1947 at a meet
| ing ol directors Monday night
| C P Whisenant, manager
was elected first
and Dixie Boyd,
lox hunter w ill understand each ' business manager of North Texas
othei and realize that tlie fox is:^’1,te College, was named second
a protector ol tlie bob white m-I vice-president R W Bass, vice-
stead Ot bls Inemy Now we real- 1 Prwldent and .ashler of the First
ize that the Dud made Hie lox for i
a pui|>o.se and tiiat each animal , an<i
we have He created, and we do no! i reele. ted
..pposi the fox hunter having Ills'
sport at all. but we would like lor I
Editor Oliver to tell us just where-
he ever saw a red fox protecting a I
•single quail The fox. we grunt does
not take the toll of quail that the
old house ent does which gets out
and hunts but it is hard for us
t<, iM'lleve Hie lox Will protect
qiiml mid it reminds us nt .
the spider
we do agree with you
monthly magazine
u g.inie and fish
a fine magazine
Grove. Oklahoma
If Iditot Butler of the Grove Sun.
iiild drop down
Dixie go w Uli us on u
listen to Hie hounds,
return home and begin
up registration papers on
ox hounds Another thing
Ii ai n is that m
■ tin- liound' chase
buiiches of
Reason
and
items
1 The
$9 to
I
( . . .. .. .... - .... . .. .V. ...... ....
trolled Congress, the President said
that tins was cooperating with Con- I
gress
Stair of War Not Ended
i The president emphasized th it the |
' termination of the period of hostlll- |
lies did not have the effect of <
j terminating the state of war itself
Nor. he said, does It terminate the 2
j states of emergency declared by |
President Roosevelt on Sept 8, 1939,
und Muy 27. 1941
Wltli resjiect to the termination
ot tin- national emergency and the ,
! state o! war. I shall make recom j Roger D Hebard who has
| inendationa to the Congress in Ua been pastor of the First Baptist
'near future." his formal statement.' chin ch in Harlingen for almost
read to the reporters, concluded | y -“
Among other things the President to become pastor Of the" First Bap
mmlil Vila lu-Lion would terminate *1-1 Smmm.bkM will
the pastorate Jan 15
Havitig been guest speaker for
the church here for several Sun-
days. Dr Hebard was given the
cai) by the congregation several
weeks ago and Sunday presented
this resignation to the Harlingen
..... .. ... 'church
Baek to Peacetime Basis
Ihis Ls entirely in teeplng with1
i the policies which I have consistent- .
; ly followed," he said i reading from
ins statement i in an eflrot to bring
I lie heaviest snow of manv years
, ... . . , ' culls oi me lexus leiepnoue v-o
slain d fulling in De,iion at mound. , , . ... .
,.,..i...„i . and present requests ot the < ham
midnight Monday and heavy snow . , ’ . , .
, , , , . , i .. . 7 ' her lor improved telephone ser
got stinted nt alound 3 oclocki
I iiesilnv mornmv The snow H is
D
I'XJMIt ol (lie
committee on
told rejKirt ers
will Unit under Mr Truman s action,
law- excise levies including those
Barron ' liquor. Jewelry, furs, luggage and
i many other consumer
be cut back effective July
tax on liquor will drop Hom
$6 a proof gallon
The reductions were made man-
datory m the 194.1 wartime Rfven-
whi< h Congress stipu-
President Truman will see the new
year in tonight aboud the White
House yacht Williamsburg " at the
Washington Naw yard Tlie Presl-
I dent mav s|x nd Ihe night on the
Pl esident la 1
1 R‘ iss .a id
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Denton Record-Chronicle (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 44, No. 117, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 31, 1946, newspaper, December 31, 1946; Denton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1312984/m1/1/: accessed July 9, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Denton Public Library.