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tar! BRECKENRIDGE AMERICAN
WEATHER
Cloudy, warm; scattered showers
through Saturday. Low tonight 58,
low this morning 54, high yester-
day 60.
UNITED PRESS Wire Service
Devoted To Home Town News and Building Breckenridge and Stephens County
NEA Feature Service
VOL. 33 NO. 94
BRECKENRIDGE, TEXAS -FRIDAY, MAY 15, 1953
PRICE 5 CENTS PER COPY
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Small Rainfall
Adds Week To
Water Supply
In the face of prediction for
clearing .skies issued by the weath-
er hureuu Thursday, Breckenridge
Friday morning entered the sixth
straight day of rainfall, the gauge
at the water plant reading an addi-
tional .04 at 8 o'clock, and that
Lake Daniel .10, and placed anoth-
er week's water supply in the lake.
Total rise of the lake daring
this period was reported at 8'a in-
ches. This is estimated approxima-
tely five weeks added supply. The
fact that with such a small amount
of moisture falling as a slow driz-
zle a slight rise is shown verifies
the statement of Don Berry made
tun days ago that rainfall there
after w otild stage a quick runoff,
Hid add to the city Water supply.
Total tain frill for the six days
reached I,St* and for the entire
CITY RECEIVES 1.18 RAINFALL
M FIFTEEN MINUTES AT NOON
Three Spending
Programs Given
Ax By Committee
WASHINGTON', May 15 «U.R>
The House Appropriations commit-
tee which spared farm programs
fi otii its .economy ax voted Thurs
day to slash federal spending fur
Training Center
Of Reds Blasted
By Allied Forces
Hv KOBKRT IDK h
SF.Ot'I,. M • IIi.P \. arh
a'Ml Cuited Nations fight ''i -bomb-
ers di' a> r«-d a R«-d army truining
center nn Korea's weirt rna.-t Fri
day whil. -< tut V A Of.'I .ran Sa
brejets .-hot down th n-.. t'otii-
niltlits' MIG* and da ".aged five.
i ' ,pj. ,|.. ...J.t V, I a „< A p
pie Valle. Calif.. shot down his
1 lith MH. !."■ I., tuise hi- score to
within on. kill of the world's jet
record held by <Y.p\ Manuel ,1.
F-' nami •! , of \1 ;m . Kin.
The shuttling relays of Sabres,
Thundeij. t. and Mefeork hurled
bornbtt and napalm for to Hours on
the train ng renter neai <"hinan*.p .
Fifth Air Force heudnujirter*
said th' I N warplanes destroyed
nearly HH> buildings and damaged
2f .
On the ground, Turkish infant
rymeri killed or wounded IIM ''bin I
*w in M'puising a 1 ..'.oo^maii attack
against V- if a- li' • and tie on'p..-' |
positions guarding the shortest in
vsision route t« Seoul.
South Korean tioop, recaStured
Texas Hill and '«' other advance I
position* after aim Chine:-, over-
ran :JX H"K ■'•ifp^wtis the f'nk
h*lt River s.'ctoi .,f the ea t cen-
tral front.
Delfiyed reports from the area
. MM the Chines,- still held three
nutpe> t positions.
The heavy ground fighting fol-
lowed a near-record Communist
artillery si n d mortar barrage
Thursday. The Reds pounded the
155-mile battlefront with 30,004 >
rounds, the largest number fired
since Oct. K.
At sea, the l". S. aircraft car-
rier Boxer returned to Korean wa-
ters Thursday for the fourth time.
Th«- 27,IX) -ton carrier launched its
fighter-bombers in heavy attacks
against targets on the east coast
of North Korea.
AID FOR STORM STRICKEN
AUSTIN, May tf> U.P <;..v
George M. Craig of Indiana Friday
advised Gov. Allan Shivers he was
Uppe i ing to the people of his state
to contribute to relief funds for
Waco and San Angelo tornado vic-
tims.
SEEN or HEARD
C. M. H.
By
Kepnrt was heard on *treet i f a
storm this afternoon that was be-
tween here and KaMland but a call
to Eastland and Morton Valley
failed to gain any report of a
storm . . . Because of the rainfall
and cold weather opening da> for
swimming has been moved from
May 17th to May 24lh.
R. C. Madcley said digging in
bare ground revealed moisture it-
bout « inches deep, digging thro-
ugh sodded grass showed moisture
up to 1* inches . . . Flob Elliott
says lie finds it easier to say my
wife than my fiance.
Overheard a husband'* side of a
conversation of a man and wife
this morning and all we heard was
"Oh . . . yeah . . . unh-hunh . . .
•II right . . . good bye" ... AH
Senior's essajn on city industries
expected judged by tonight—the
American will run a number of
them from day to day.
American Insurance company of-
fice water damaged during rain
and water ran onto floor in Anth-
ony's today noon .. . . Dr. H. E.
Griffin of Graham in speaking of
waste "f soil etc told Lions today
"we bavv gone through twenty
years of hurrah."
Rill Black slyly showing pho-
tograph of Joe Gracey'a son wear-
ing an A AM cap (Joe's all Texas,
yon Know) . . . Two fined $15 in
city court for vagrancy and one
915 for being drunk . . . Square
Dance (tub to meet tomorrow
night .... and everybody so happy
over that bard rain.
Waco Objects To
Bulldozer Damage
>tat.«
SE.'sUUsVby.thi;
ted." over'!.? lost
WACO. Tex., Mav > I' Mav-
or Ralph Wolf -f this tornado-
stricken city Kndav quieted arigrv
merchant.- •• ho claim..,t build"<• i i
rfpjf ihg up th- ir property by
rest ricting military uper.it'oi;. to
u'eiuj where bodies might still he
hurteil.
Some merchant.- whose partiallv
demolished buildings and stocks
were lipped up by bulldM-Hrt- seek
ing bod11 !« had complained that sal
■ merchandise and1 equipment
was b.-ing ruin-d. It was reported
that. sum. -tor.' owners had threa-
ts ne.i law siiits against the city.
Thus far, III! bodies haw. been
.e..iv,rid More weie expected! to
be found Friday,
The Texas death toll from Mon
day's storm?, stood ;i' 122. includ-
ing lo killed ;it San Ang"io, HMi
County Project
Staked; Throck
Deep Try Slated
G. A. Hloomquist, Cisco, -faked
No. t Dun Choate as a t,200-foot
project in Stephens County Bloom-
quist Luke Sand Field 12 miles
northwest, of Cisco, 2.2fiO feet from
the north and -TH) feet from the
-ast lines tof Section 4W, SI' Sur-
vey.
I'erini & Sartdefer, Abilene and
Breckenridge, staked a wildcat in
Shackelford County Thursday 11
miles northeast of Lueders.
It will be No. 1 Hendrick Ranch,
45© fe-'t from the north and 150
feet from the west lines of Sec-
tion 158, Block 1, ETRR Survey.
Projected depth is 1,1)00 feet with
cable tools.
Harry Hines No. I Nail, Section
138. ETRR Survey, wildcat Id mi-
les northwest of Albany, has heer.
Completed for a daily gauge of
25.82 barrels of oil on pump from
open hole at l,K23-3i feet.
W. C. Wainwright. Wichita Falls,
staked a northern Throckmorton
County wildcat four miles north-
west of Elbert as No. I Folk Cou-
nty School I^mds.
It will be a 5,0tM>-foot project 330
feet from th.- north and west lines
of Section 27, Folk CSI. Survey.
'I'rohftbil
2 City Connected
Babies Announced
Mr. :md Mra. John W. Tipton
r>f Snyil^r annoum*** thr arrival «>t*
t !> pminri .son, St^pln'n Kimhrrly.
horn at p. rn. ^Mav l.'t in a
Snyder hospital. Mrs. Tipton i the
lormer Marjorie Bunkley. Maternal
grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. H.
I,. Bunkley, Sr. and paternal
grandparents. Ml. and Mrs. C. R.
Tipton.
THOUGHT FOR THE MOMENT:
There can be no rainbow without
a cloud and a storm ... J. H. Vin-
ceut.
Mi. and Mrs. G. A. Heneger are
the parents of an 8 pound 2 ounce
baby girl, h.irn at 4:22 p. ni.
Thursday in the Breckenridge Clin-
ical hospital. The baby has not
been named yet.
Guerrcmt Resigns
College Post
SHERMAN, Tex., May 15 'U.FT.—
Dr. W. B. Guerrant, president of
Austin College since 1943, has re-
signed effective Sept. 1. his 14th
anniversary with the college.
The resignation, submitted
Thursday, said "because of the
physical inability to meet the rig-
orous schedule demanded of me as
president of the college, I feel it
would be best for the college and
for me that the board secure a
younger man for the work."
During Guerrant's administra-
tion, the size of the student body
more than doubled, the faculty was
•nlarged, five buildings were erect-
ed, the curriculum increased, and
an indebtedness of several hundred
thousand dollars paid.
help
f-
Ittg
i ll. I! pi.qji
''hod'es m
I take re
up their
the
•!">n-
"Wn.
liabilities!' for: l>.
Mav.i Vi.'.'l I
•||. , did lilt .va
••leaped up quirk
little possibility
wreckage, f hi i
sibility 1'or cl->an
areas.
Fie s:iid the mil:itar>' petsorinel
.vould leave as soon as the likely
spots u.-re searched, and civilians
would take, (iv. r. II- • tnpha.-iy d
that civilians had al.way.- been in
control and that th. city had never
been undei' maitial law.
"They've done th.-ir job," he .aid
of the titiiitary. "Th > most we
|f the ittat< Thursday, hut while
many streiiius were swollen there
I won little danger of serious fleod-
j fag t,"titled Presi> reports said.
I The ' orps of Army Engineers
tgT ed no .-eiinus flooding was
J e>;p.-f f.r i| .ilthoiigh ihe Sabine is nut:
jof its banks tnd som-' of the Trin-
,t> ill'. . trtbut.mes flooded Thuis-
j fa,'. Heavy / a ins, although not ex-
I pec, d. (- mid 'change ftte picture,
| engineeis said.
Pressure Area Moves East
I The continued w r M-i th ;jfi is be-
i (Continued On Page 'li*
ppiopri
Guyton's Jewelry, your authoriz-
ed Keepsake Dianwnd, Hsr^ilton,
Oaep ud '«n|ii« Watch daalar.
i*<iti|,d ask of tin
-iii persons w hi
in the wreckage
' iry men were
live job as long
•d "Hut rhev'i
do
ere dead O
He ; aid th
• tiling 'to s!
If
ill
>P'
work. VVo11 said
Clean-up Operations Continue
Till •• arch and cl< in up •; i;..
tions went ahead full force at
•law n Friday after a night-time
lull. One crew worked through the
night at debris around the Joy
Theater and a cat'", hut for the
first time since the Monday storm,
most operations halted for n time.
Mourners kept up steady proces-
sion to and from funeral homes as
the task of digging out, burying
the (tend, and recuperation continu-
ed. Schools were to reopen Mon-
day—except for the one that was
demolished.
Texas Gov. Allan Shivers tele-
graphed President Eisenhower yes-
terday asking for a "preliminary
allocation" of $2,4:56.1)00 in federal
emergency funds. Damage in Waco
was estimated at $50 million by
William L. McGill, state chairman
of the disaster relief committee.
San Angelo damage estimates var-
ied million to $5 million.
Besides the emergency alloca-
tion. th<> President was asked to
invoke public law 875 under which
stricken Waco could receive up to
$5 million federal aid if matched
bv local funds.
Resides the damage and the
deaths, some .'<2n persons were
injured in the Waco storm and l.'iO
at San Angelo. Waco hospitals re-
ported 200 still under care.
Two Parades Same
Time Embarrassing
HOUSTON, May 15 <U.R Hous-
ton's city councilnien love a pa-
rade just like anyone else maybe
■veil better.
When the Rotary Club asked
permission for a downtown parade
for its junior baseball league, the
council agreed.
When the Elks, who'll have a
four-day state convention here
usked permission for a downtown
parade, the council agreed.
Friday, red-faced councilnien dis-
tnvered they had granted permis-
sfon for the two parades at the
same place at the same time, both
on June 4.
They will, meet again next Wed-
nesday to straighten out the mat-
ter.
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Another Student
Of Stephens County
Wins College Award
Among the winners of the 195:1
Engineering Drawing competi-
tion at Texas A. and M., D. R.
Flournoy of Breckenridge is list-
ed as winning second in class B
of the four dtyisions of the an-
nual competition.
The winners were announced
by W. E. Street, head of the
Engineering Drawing Depart-
ment. Flournoy, who was award-
ed a portable drafting machine
and scales from the Dletzgen
company, entered in Class B. a
practical engineernig application
of descriptive geometry.
He is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
E. A. Flournoy, of Necessity,
MWWWMMMAWMMMM
Insanity P!oaded
By Sex Mad Negro
BRIDGEPORT, Conn.. May 15
li.P' The defense case in behalf of
i. Negro handyman charged with
tabbing and stiangling a Westport
mother afti i i se\ orgy was due
to wind up Friday in superior
■oiirt. Rut t|v case was not ex-
pertefi to go to the jury until Tues-
day.
The wife of William Davis, Jr..
£), testified Thursday her husband
•ras "very gentle"' -a man who
doesn't have a ijuick temper.
Davis' sobbing wife tolift. the
eoui} hei husband had a "very
peat. able nature," to bolster the
def 'is' >,'intention that the slaying
of Mrs. I'enriv Coats Evans was
not premeditated and that, Davis
was temporarily insane at the time
Mrs. Evans died.
Four Patients To
Local Hospitals
Reports from the local hospitals
named the following four patients
admitted during the past 24 hours:
Stephens Memorial—Mrs. Tom-
my Tosh and H. H. Rogers, medi-
cal. Leslie Potter, four-year-old.
surgical. Mrs. Johnny Allen and
baby were dismissed.
Breckenridge Clinical—Mrs. G.
A. Henegar. medical.
•proved billion
bill I ,r the IV54 ru-
inning July ,1. The.
committee cut, federal grants fm
schools and collerRR, hospital con-
11
structiou, ni
public health
i!tl«nietidei| I:
1 rum in.
The iSasu
edica
,„..„..th. and
iwTevels'i'ee-
er Pre-iident
d #t.1; billion
for the new"!v - i - • ,tr'| Depai t.m'irtl;
of Hi altli, Welfare and IMiicatii.m
neadeil by Mis. Ov. 'a t;'ul,p Hobby ;
#254 million for the Labor Depart-
'me it., and -Mo n.illion- f",r th!'<;•
separtite labor ligencii^sS
The Labor Department-'* fund-
"•'.ere cut i-12 million oil 14.7 pei
cent below the Truman recommen-
dation. and $80' million, or Ht.T per
cent below th- Eisenhower esti-
mate. New and lower estimates of
fund's needed for unemployment
compensation for veterans and
others made possible the deeper
cut.
The committee granted in full
the $1.3 billion the Truman budget
had estimated would be needed to
finance giants required by law for
public assistance programs. It said
Congress had no control over that.
Excess Profits Tax
Continuance
WASHINGTON, May 15
House and Senate leaders predict-
ed Thursday that President Eisen-
hower will ask Congress next Tues-
day to extend the excess profits
tax for six months.
The lawmakers say it would be
bad politics to give big business a
tax hreak before individual income
taxpayers.
The excess profits tax is due to
expire June 30. A six months ex-
tension would have it die on Jan.
I.
Although there was widespread
belief Mr. Eisenhower would ask
for the excess profits tax exten-
sion, GOP leaders insist the Presi-
dent has not disclosed his plans to
them.
GOLF PAIRINGS I
TOURNEY ROUND
Final eighteen holes of the City
Golf Tournament will be played
Sunday, the team lead, by E. D.
McDowell with a 281 taking the
lead last Sunday.
The quartet led by F'eck Helling-
hausen with 285 pushed that of Mc-
Dowell, but in this team play fif-
teen or twenty strokes can easily
be overcome, making it most any-
body's game.
Time for teeing off by teams has
been announced as follows:
No.!)—I o'clock, Guinn Ferguson.
R. V. Carey, W. A. McNallen, Bill
Rogers. Score incomplete.
No. 15—1:07, Walker Castleman.
Bruce Snider, W. T. Isbelt, Ernest
Rice. .Score incomplete.
No. 12—1:14. Leonard Schwind,
Bill Pitzer, Bill Creagh, Bob
Bo wen. Score 320.
No. .'{—1:21, E. J. Nelson, Mike
Rice, Wallace Gullahorn, Doug
Anderson. Score 31.1.
No. 13 1:28, B. M. Brown, Bus-
ier Walker, Joe Hanna, Jimmy
French Fighters
Break Up Reds
HANOI, tndo-China, May 15 <U,R"
French fighters and bombers
broke up a concentration of 2,000
Communist Veit Minh troops as
they prepared to launch an attack
in force against the vital Hanoi
delta, the French high command
said Friday.
Twenty - six Bearcat fighter
planes and six B-2K bombers caught
.he* enemy force just before the
scheduled attack and "played hav-
oc" with the Red concentration,
the French said.
The high command said the reb-
els were planning to send two bat-
talions against an undisclosed out-
post on the southern edge of the
rice-rich Red River delta in a ma-
jor action planned for Thursday
night and Friday.
The air attack which rained the
operation was ordered on Informa-
tion from a Communist officer who
deserted the Vietminh forces
Ferretl. Score 305.
No. 10—1:35. Bob Cunningham.
Don Hellinghausen, Wayne Webb,
Claude Addington. Score 304.
No. 7—1:45, Robin Rorhinger,
Jim Christie, Russ Carter, Pete
Paine. Score 304.
No. 6—1:52, Oliver Wragg, Ray
Anderson. Bill Rhodes, George
Fagg. Score 300.
No. 1—2 o'clock, Paul Smith,
Winter Wood, F'hillip Brown, Mac
Machen. Score 2!)!).
No. 4—2:07, Blake Johnson,
Larry Knight, George Wragg.
Aaron Mehaffey. Score 297.
No. 2—2:14, Ross Elliott, Bill
Black, Grady Camp, Charlie Deere,
Shotgun Henry. Score 296.
No. 8—2:21, Thomas Powers, O.
H. Reagh, A. C. Andrews, Marvin
Powell. Score 294.
No. 14—2:28, Otto Spratt, Jim
Rominger, Bob Roth, Bryan Swaim.
Score 288.
No. 5—2:35. Peck Hellinghausen,
Joe Gracey, Billy Moloney, Leon
Stanley. Score 285.
No. 11—2:42, E. D. McDowell,
L. E. F'ate, L. W. Brooks Jr., Bill
McCoy. Score 281.
City Contributions
To Storm Victims At
$28 From 8 Persons
Three more checks for the
storm stricken have been received
by the Chamber of Commerce,
the three contributors designat-
ing that the checks were to be
equally divided between Waco
and San Angelo.
This makes a total of $28 re-
ceived to be forwarded.
The three new contributors are
Lena Loudder, R. H. Guinn, and
I. E. Kirkland. In all eight con-
tribution have been received.
Any one wishing to contribute
may send their checks and it is
asked they designate whether
for Waco, San Angelo or both.
"si#**
POISON A l rEMIT—Joyce Hayden looks on as her husband Robert
takes notes during testimony n I Angelas by Richard La Force who
i.> accused of attempting to poison Haydeu. La Force testified that on
.-everjil occasions he had been intimate with Mrs. Hayden and he con-
fessed to the poison attempts to save her from being suspected of try-
ing to poison her husband. (NEA Telephoto)
Social Security
Benefits Are Up
In Stephens Co.
Social security payments totaling
$10,529 went to 298 persons in
Stephens county in December, 1952.
according to Ralph T. Fisher, man-
ager of th" Abilene social security
office.
For the IB-county area serviced
by the Abilene social security of-
fice, payments in the amount of
$ 185,239 were sent out in Decem-
ber, 1952 to 5,H28 persons. This
is an increase of more than 40',
over the December, 1951, amount,
and represents an annual rate of
approximately two and one-quarter
million dollars. *
Slightly less than half of the
persons receiving payments were
retired workers. Most of these are
persons between the ages of 85 and
74 who have retired from work
covered under the Social Security-
Act; it also includes persons 75
years of age or over who can re-
ceive payments regardless of whe-
ther they have retired. Wives over
K5, widows over rto and in some
cases dependent parents also re-
ceive payments.
About 30C' of the persons receiv-
ing payments, however, were under
age >5. These include children un-
der the age of 18 of a retired oi
deceased worker, and the mothers
who have these children in their
care.
Changes made by the 1950 and
1952 Amendments to the Social Se-
curity Act accounted for a consid-
erable part of the increases, both
in the number receiving benefits
and in the amounts of their pay-
ments. In 1950 the law was chang-
ed to include millions of people not
Covered before, and to make it eas-
ier for them qualify for pay-
ments. The I9t>2 changes also in-
creased the amounts of the pay-
ments, gave social security credits
for military service after the end
of World War II, and provided that
a person can be considered "retir-
ed" even though he is earning as
much as $75 a month.
Last Freed ROW
Leaves For Home
TOKYO, May 15 <IJ.fr,—The last
American repatriated prisoner in
Japan left by plane Friday for thi
United States.
Capt. Zach Dean of Douglas,
Kan., and his wife took off from
Tokyo International Airport at 8:2«
a. m. (5:28 p. m. est) Thursday.
Dean has been under medical
treatment here since he was freed
in the prisoner-exchange at Pan-
munjom, Korea, last month. His
wife, Abigail, whom he married
.only two months before his cap-
ture, worked fn Tokyo with the
American Red Cross.
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Buy your seat coven at the
Wfcfte Aoto Store.
Club Boys. Girls
Stage Big Party
At Legion Hall
Fifty-six 4-H Club boys and
girls from all over the county met
Thursday night for the regular
monthly recreation program at the
American Legion Hall.
Harpersville and Redgap provid-
ed cookies for the occasion and
cold drinks were brought out of
4-H funds.
Extension agents Tom Joyce
Cunningham and Bryan Swaim
were assisted in conducting the
program by Miss Cecil Brown, Mrs.
C. C. Keith, Mrs. Buddy Broyles,
and Mrs. Tom B. Lenoir.
Starting the evening with a com-
petivy game "Hunter, Gun, and
Fox" boys and girls formed lines
iind worked from that formation
into "The Grand March" and as
groups were formed in "eights"
junior leaders took over the re-
sponsibilities as group leaders for
the games the rest of the evening.
After refreshments were served
the entire group formed in doub-
le circle to do the "Patty Cake
Polka" until 9 o'clock.
Junior leaders for the groups
were:
Gwenna Lee Keith, Ray Jones,
Joe Bob Jackson, Tommy Lou Len-
oir, Arthur Mathias, Fay Jones,
Bobby Thompson, Regina Robbins,
Johnny LaForge, Gail Brown,
Glenda and Linda Cockrell, Rosk
and Ralph Proctor.
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Two Tornadoes
WEST POINT, Miss.. May 15
iU.R;—Isolated tornadoes Thursday
struck two northeast Mississippi
localities, injuring two persons, and
struck in a rural area near Ath-
ens, Ala. No deaths were reported.
Authorities said the tornadoes
damaged some dozen homes and a
few other structures in what wea-
ther officials called isolated occur-
rences of the twisters. There had
been no tornado alert.
Fall Continues
In State; Some
Roads Closed
A gullywasher type of rainfall
descended upon Breckenridge to-
day shortly before noon, following
which report from tho city water
plant was that 1.18 was received
in the fall that lasted about fif-
teen minutes.
This fall followed a slow drizzle
-lining the morning that further
lUgna-n.ted local rainfall reported
[during the morning hours.
A call I" Lake Daniel at noon
brought the report that a hard
I shower als" had been received
there "and it • is still, raining." It
as added tin- fall at the Lake
was accompanied by some hail.
Tlv manner in which the rain
came is expected to put all appre-
ciable addition of water into the
lake.
Meanwhile, about the time of
the shower here state reports from
the United Press showed rain fall-
ing elsewhere and riwrs rising,
changing the state weather report
picture.
Rains splashed across the state
and the result was rising streams
and flooded roads in some sections
of thi' state, tile report said.
Tin' State Highway Department:
said State Highway .'!4 was closed
from Italy to F.nnis in Ellis coun-
ty because of high water at Cham-
bers Creek three miles east of It-
aly. Traffic was re-routed from
Italy over l". S. 77 to Waxahaehie
and C. S. 287 to Entiis.
In the Houston district, the de-
partment said Farm Road 85 in
Kaufman county and Farm Road
in'.)" from Willis to Montgomery
were closed due to higher water.
All other highways were report-
ed open except for downtown Waco
where traffic is routed around the
Waco loop.
Rains during Thursday night and
Friday morning were causing ot.li
er streams to rise. Although th.'
Corps of Army Engineers foresaw
no serious flooding, the Sabine is
out of its hanks and some of the
Trinity River tributaries flooded.
Deadlock Tightens
On Peace Move
By ROBERT VERMILLIOX
PANMUNJOM, May 15
The Korean truce talks faced a
breakup Friday unless either the
Cnited Nations or the Communists
made a major concession on repat-
riation of war prisoners.
The deadlock on disposition of
North Korean and Chinese prison-
ers who refuse to return to their
Red-ruled homelands became com-
plete.
UN and Communist truce negoti-
ators agreed only, at a one hour
and '20 minute meeting, that their
proposals for repatriation were
completely contradictory.
The prospect for the next meet-
ing, at II a. m. Saturday (8 p. m.
Friday est) is continued bickering.
There are just two possible
courses—a major concession by
one side or the other, or an an-
nouncement by the UN that there
will be an indefinite recess.
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Rio Grande Dam
Proposal Studied
WASHINGTON, May 15 <U.R>—
A Reclamation Bureau recommen-
dation for construction of Wagon
Wheel Gap Dam on the Rio Grande
in south central Colorado has been
3ent to the governors of Colorado,
New Mexico and Texas for review,
Secretary of Interior Douglas Mc-
Kay announced.
The report also went to the Agri-
culture Department and Army En-
gineers, for comment before being
forwarded to President Eisenhower
for submission to Congress.
The 430-high concrete dam would
be the key water control structure
in the Rio Grande division of the
San Luis Valley reclamation pro-
ject.
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A Proclamation
Whereas, Saturday, May t«, 1953
has been designated in Brecken-
ridge as "Scotchlite for Safety"
day and on that day, members of
the local Jaycees will be stationed
throughout downtown Breckenridge
to place scotchlite tape on car
bumpers desired by owners, to so-
licit funds needed for repairing
and painting street markers of our
city: and,
Whereas, this project, futly en-
dorsed by City officials, is to put
red reflector tape across the rear
bumpers of as many Breckenridge
automobiles as possible in a na-
tional safety campaign, sponsored
by Jaycees, and is proving a na-
tional success in reducing the num-
ber of accidents of parked cars in-
volved in accidents at night.
Now, therefore, I, P. M. Faulk-
ner, Mayor of the City of Brecken-
ridge, do hereby issue this procla-
mation, calling upon the citizens of
our entire community to contribute
to this worthy cause, so that this
day may succesfulty demonstrate
that the citizens of our community
appreciate and fully support the
fine work being accomplished
through this project.
Witness my Hand officially on
this 15th day of May 1963.
(Signed)
P. M. Faulkner
Mayor, City of Breckenridge,
Texas.
Always BEAUTIFUL SHIRTS.
Phone ft at Breckenridge Steaa
Laundry. ,
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