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"NORTH CEKTRAL TEXAS COMMUNITY DAILY NEWSPAPER"
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vol- 35 NO. 29
BRECKENRIDGE, TEXAS—THURSDAY, FEB. 10, 1955
PRICE DAILY 5 CENTS, SUNDAY 10 CENTS
TWO DEAD—Air Force personnel stand ankle deep in foamite chemical as they search wreckage of
li-.'iti atomic bomber for victims after the huge ship crashed and exploded while coming in for a
landing at Curswcll Air Force Base, Fort Worth. Two crewmen died in the crash. Eighteen* others
escaped with minor burns and bruises. (NEA Telephoto)
Scouts To Climax
Boy Scout Week
At Dinner Friday
Climax of the observance of Boy
Scout Week in Breckenridge will
be Friday night at Legion Hall
when parents night and a corut of
honor will be staged.
Jodie Baker, Scout leader, Thurs-
day requested that all Cubs and
Boy Scout.s ami their families be
present at the hall at 6:30 o'clock
for the sack lunch supper, the
court of honor to follow about 7:30
o'clock.
Scouts have been wearing their
new Uniforms all week and doing
their good deeds in observance of
the week, but mostly they have
been preparing for Friday night.
Baker said Also they have deco-
rated a downtown store window or
two.
Joe Galbraith, Brown wood, new
Scout executive, will make his first
public appearance here at the din-
ner. All committeemen of Scout
troops are asked to be present to
aswist in the program. Scouts have
been preparing a number of stunts
for the occasion.
George Jo>dan will be master of
ri remoniea and W. W. Rogers will
conduct the court of honor.
M h k M-ichen is furnishing the
coffee for the dinner and Mr.
linker said Coca Colas will be
.- vaihible. The mothers are deco-
rating the tables.
Father Of Breck
Resident Dies
Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Hark rider
Thursday morning received a mes-
tas.- telling of the sudden death in
Shaw Oklahoma, of the father
t>f Mi 4. Ifarkrider, C. S. Carter.
Mr. Carter was 56 years old. The
family address is 532 West Fourth
St rt-'-t. Shawnee. Besides Mrs.
Hark rider tw o other daughters
jmrvive, one in Coropaton Cali-
fornia. and the other in Ada, Okla-
homa. Funeral time had not been
decided. The Hark riders were to
leave for Shawnee Thursday aft-
ernoon.
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SEEN or HEARD;
By C. M. H.
In the Raker heirs lawsuit order
w * made lhat trustees file an c-
rountmic and it was ruled the
tru-slees have the right to partition
the property—the case >s appealed
. . VFW members to meet loniRht
for chili feed and regular session
.... Mrs. K. E. Con lee returned
home from hospital in Abilene.
The bi-district Teachers Associa-
tion will meet in Throckmorton to-
night—Jodie Baker is president...
Local school daily attendance, low
because of illness, had risen some
Wednesday, but not back to nor-
mal ... A. H. Miller said the rodeo
this June will be a junior rodeo.
Congratulations to Mrs. P. D.
Irvin on her 80th birthday today
. . . Inforamion is that the coach-
ing applications have been boded
down to about a dozen—Chesty
Walker or Phillips has withdrawn
his . . . George Jordan said some
hope gathered at Austin for return
of biologist Bob Hambrk to Pw-
sum Kingdom Lake.
Lester Clark at church meeting
last night when fire alarm sounded
telephoned Bob Whitman to ask if
It was his office, then found out
from his wife it was a house he
owned on the Dickie lease . . . Aim
McArron, TCU student from here,
pledged Kappa Kappo Gamma, a
national sorority . . . And. Glen
Doty said after getting out of the
car twice today and having his hat
blown off he started leaving it hi
the car;
Thought For The Moment: The
busy have no time for tew*—
Bjrwp.
Reds Warned U. S.
Supports Formosa
By WARREN DCFFEE
WASHINGTON, Keb. in — i
The Senate's overwhelming ap-;
proval of a defense treaty between
the United States and the Nation-
alist Chinese gave Red China re-
newed warning Thursday that this
country will fight to defend For-
mosa.
The treaty with Chiang Kai-
Former Resident
Joins Faculty Of
Tennessee School
Information has been received
that Ctyde Goodnight, former
Breckenridge resident and son of
Mrs. T. M. Goodnight, has joined
the faculty of the Tennessee Tem-
ple Schools in Chattanooga, Tenn.
He is teaching courses in history
in the college.
Mr. Goodnight holds the Asso- i
eiate of Arts degree from Burleson j
College, Greenville, and the Bach- i
dor of Arts degree from Howard;
Payne College. He also holds the j
Master of Science degree from j
Southern Illinois University, Car- j
bondale, III.
He has previously taught at th -
Moark Baptist College and Camp
beflsville Junior College.
The Tennessee Temple Schools,
founded in l!Ml> by the Highland
Park Baptist Church of Chatta-
nooga. under the leadership of Dr.
Lee Roberson, have grown to in-
clude the Bible School, the Col-
lege, and the Temple Baptist Theo-
logical Seminary. All three schools
are Southern Baptist in their de-
nomintaional preference and have
in attendance students from 34
states and eight foreign countries.
Appliances Show
Is On At Gurneys
Miss Dorothy Cardwell, home
economist for Westinghouse, is to
continue with the demonstration of
the 1955 Westinghouse appliances
Friday at the Guiney Electric
Company located at 117 South;
Breckenridge Ave.
Miss Caldwell was on hand j
Thursday from 9 a. m. until 5 p. !
m. to give demonstrations to vis- |
itors in the Gurney store. Free!
coffee, cookies and snacks are giv- i
en to those registering for the door
prize, it was stated.
The 1955 Westinghouse ranrre
features a new giant size oven with
op to 25 per cent more storage
space and a double broiler. An-
other feature is the plug in units
which are exclusive on Westing-
house ranges.
New in the 1955 refrigerator is
the twin juice fountain and the pas-
tel color trim.
Shek's government cleared the
Senate Wednesday night by a
whopping 64 to 6 bipartisan vote,
far more than the required two-
thirds majority, and was sent to
President Eisenhower for his sig-
nature.
The treaty is narrower in scope
than the special authority for For-
mosa's defense voted by both
houses of congress to President
Eisenhower earlier.
Authorizes Defense
That action authorized the Pres-
ident to defend not only Formosa,
ana the Pescadores Islands, both
"f which are covered in the treaty,
but a'so any other Nationalist-held
islands off the coast of Red China
he deems vital to Formosa's de-
fense.
But the treaty is permanent
while the earlier resolution is a
temporary measure to specifically
meet the present Formosa crisis.
The resolution expires when the
President feels the Formosa situa-
tion has stabilized sufficiently.
The six senators voting against
the treaty were Dennis Chavez
(D-N.M. 1, Albert Gore (D-Te m.)>
Estes Ktfauver (D-Tenn.), Herbert
H. Lehman (D-N.Y.), William
Langer (R-N.D.l and Wayne Morse
(ln<L-Ore.).
Restrictions Defeated
The treaty was approved after
the Senate defeated efforts to tack
on formal restrictions to specifi-
cally exclude the islands of Que-
:n«y anil Matsu from the territory
covered and turned down a pro-
posal to specify that the treaty-
dots not involve the question of
Formosa's legal soverignty, which
was left in doubt by post-war
treaties.
In its report on the treaty, the
foreign relations committee said
the administration had given as-
surances that the treaty involves
neither of these questions. But
Morse, Langer and Lehman want-
.•d this spelled out.
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Four Admitted To
Local Hospitals
Local hospitals report four ad-
missions and two dismissals dur-
ing the past 24 hours.
Entering the Breckenridge Clin-
ical Hospital as medical patients
were Roy Nunley and Howard
Chapman, son of Mr. and Mrs. Bob
Chapman. Theresa Stewart was
dismissed.
Mrs. W. A. Williams was ad-
mitted to the Stephens Memorial
Hospital as a surgical patient and
Charles Hester entered as a medi-
cal patient. W. H. Coffman Jr.
was discharged.
Salesman Quizzed
On Rape Of Girl
NEW YORK. Feb. 10 (tlR—
A young clothing salesman with a
scratched and bruised face under-
went intense questioning by police
Thursday about the sadistic rape
slaying of pretty Anne Yarrow.
The man. Angelo (Mike) Morelli,
27, was picked up by police Wed-
nesday en a tip he had dated Miss
Yarrow, 23-year-old New York
University graduate student,, last
Saturday night. The body of the
girl—strangled, raped and muti-
lated—was found the next day in a
bleak apartment on the lower East
Side.
Morelli, dark-haired and stocky,
told police he spent Saturday night
at a movie. In bars and with a
prostitute. He claimed the injuries
to his face were inflicted by the
prostitute who became enraged
Wjna they ergued over Iter fee.
Newspapers Help To
Moke America Better
Place To Live—Ike
MEDFORD, Mass., Feb. 10
il.'.P)—President Eisenhower said
Thursday community newspapers
help make America a better
place to live.
The President made the state-
ment in a congratulatory letter
to the Medford Daily Mercury,
which this year observes its 75th
anniversary.
The letter, addressed to Mer-
cury editor and publisher David
Brickman, said:
"The community newspapers
of our nation perform a unique-
ly valuable function. They help
draw the attention of our citi-
zens to local events, local gov-
ernmental developments, and
local commercial activity.
"In so doing, they help to
make American commttnities
better places in which to live.
For the results can be unfortun-
ate indeed when people fail to
keep a vigilant eye upon condi-
tions in their own immediate
neighborhoods and cities*"
Council Plans
To Observe 4-H
Week In County
The Stephens County 4-H Coun-
cil met Monday, February 7, in
the district courtroom with co-
chairman Tommy Lou Lenoir and
Larry Garrett, presiding, to make
plans for National 4-H Club Week,
March 5-15.
The group decided to have an
exhibit in the window of a local
store, special newspaper articles
on 4-H club work, radio programs,
and assembly programs to cele-
brate the week. Climax of the week
of special activities will be a Fun
Festival in the high school audi-
torium on Thursday, March 10.
The council voted to pay $.30 for
expenses of an adult leader to at-
tend the Longhorn Recreation Lab
to be held February 13-20, in
Kerrville and announcement. was
made of a County 4-H recreation
night on Thursday at the Ameri-
can Legion Hall from 7-9 p. m.
Committees appointed for the 4-
H week activities included for the
window committee. Author Math-
iaa, chairman; . Sumaneha Boyd,
Elain Keith, Joe Bob Jackson,
Nancy Brown, Carolyn Vick, Gwen-
alee Keith and Tommy Lou Lenoir.
Mike Fredenburg is to be chair-
man of the committee working on
special newspaper stories with
members to be Roger Broyles, Jo
Ann Keith, Wanda Lewis, Floyd
Swaim, and Billy Ray Mathias.
The radio broadcasts committee
will be composed of Charles Wal-
lace, chairman;; Dale Keith, Dav-
id Boyd, Delores Fullbright, David
Kuperman and Sumaneha Boyd.
Woring on the assembly pro-
gram group is to be Ruth Lewis,
chairman; Barbara Height. Danhna
Williams, Larry Garrett, Dixie
Anderson and Tommy Sealey.
Members of the Fun Festival
committe are to be Judith Rrann-
on, chairman. Gait Brown, Sandra
Hudiow, Bobby Knight, LaJuana
Knight, Pat Boyle9 and Ceroid Mac
Machen.
Attending the Monday meeting
were 33 council members, Tom
Joyce Cunningham, county Home
Demonstration Agent, and Bryan
Swaim, agricultftre agent.
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Injuries Fatal
DALLAS, Feb. 10 (OH>—Cecil J.
Griffin. 28, died Wednesday nrght
of injuries received in an automo-
bile accident more than a montii
ago.
Griffin, who lived at 317 Jim
Miller Road in Dallas, was in-
jured Jan. 1 when his car over-
turned northeast of Seagovitle. He
suffered head injuries that proved
fatal.
Griffith served in the Marine
Corps during World War II and
in the Korean War.
INTO TEXAS; SNOW ON PLAINS
Troops Removed
From Tachen In
Port At Taipei
By EARNEST HOBERECHT
TAIPEI, Formosa, Feb. 10 (HE)
—The first regular troops to be
evacuated from the Tachens under
protection of the U. S. Seventh
Fleet arrived here Thursday and
Americans said the whole opera-
tion was miles ahead of schedule.
Original Navy estimates said the
evacuation would take 10 to 14
days, but it appeared likely the
mass movement would be com-
pleted by this weekend. The re-
moval of the Nationalist garrison
was the final and most crucial
phase of the pullback.
Vice Adm. Alfred M. Pride,
Seventh Fleet commander, denied
rumors $1 million worth of artil-
lery ammunition would be left on
Tachen and said his ships would
stand by until everything of value
was removed. The reports origina-
ted over a garbled message say-
ing "cease operations" instead of
the intended "complete opera-
tions."
Chiang Denounces UN Efforts
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek,
in a statement released Thursday,
denounced United Nations efforts
for a cease-fire in the Formosa
Strait and again called for sanc-
tions against Soviet and Red Chi-
nese aggression.
Chinese Communists, remark-
ably silent during the removal of
civilians, were coming more and
more into the open during the final
phases of the operation. Observers
speculated that if the Communists
attacked at all they would do it
now.
The first Tachen troops, number-
ing about *800, arrived aboard two
Nationalist landing ships. The
LSTs also brought in 700 civilians
and Nationalist sources said they
were being evacuated from Nan-
chi Island to make supply prob-
lems easier for the defense garri-
son.
Nanchi, about 150 miles north of
Formosa, may become the Nation-
alists northernmost outpost. A
high government official said "in
our understanding Nanchi is in
the same status with Quemoy and
Matsu."
Home On Lindsey Catches Fire Second Time
ONE HOME COMPLETE LOSS
ANOTHER DAMAGED BY FIRE
Fire caused heavy damage to the
Sam Petty residence two miles
north of Breckenridge Wednesday
night and in two blazes Wednesday
night and early Thursday destroy-
ed the home of Mrs. Ethel Lindsey
at 1004 West Lindsey.
Firemen received a call to the
Petty residence, owned by Lester
Clark, which is located on the
Dickie Lease, at 6:54 p. m. and
when they arrived the blaze had
already traveled into the attic, it
was stated.
Fire Chief Bob Mace said the
fire caught from a heater in one
of the bedrooms of the five room
home, and that the bedroom and
kitchen were judged a complete
loss, with heavy smoke damage to
the other three rooms.
According to information receiv-
ed, Mrs. Petty had prepared the
evening meal, placed it on the table
and come into Breckenridge to get
the children from the picture show
when the fire started. Both the
house and the belongings of Mr.
and Mrs. Petty were covered by in-
surance. Chief Mace reported.
Thursday morning, Clark prais-
ed the local fire department for
their fast action in saving part of
the house from the blaze.
The first fire call to the Lindsey
residence came at 8:07 p. m. Wed-
nesday when the blaze originated
in a clothes closet Chief Mace re-
ported that damage to the three
room structure was confined to the
bedroom containing the eloset and
smoke damage to the other two
rooms.
He stated that at midnight he
and three other fire officials made
a complete survey of the house
and could find no further trace of
smoldering embers or smoke. The
second alarm was received at 4:45
a. m. Thursday and upon arrival
firemen found the house enveloped
in flames, with a total toss result-
ing.
Mrs. Lindsey was not at home at
the time of the blazes and Chief
Mace reported that he had not been
able to contact her at noon Thurs-
Mr. and Mrs. Boyd Humphreys
are parents of a baby boy born at
8:25 p. m. Wednesday, February 9,
in the Stephens Memorial Hospital.
At birth the baby weighed seven
pptmdf pud ten oraces,
day. However her grandson, Tru-
man Bojrgs, said she was at the
home of an aunt or sister near
Breckenridge and that the damage
is covered, at least in part, by
$2,500 worth of insurance.
John Pointer Is
Boxing Champion
A Breckenridge boy, John Point-
er, has been named lightweight
boxing champion of the Third
Marine Division in Hawaii and in
addition was presented the "Most
Outstanding Fighter" award from
Maj. Gen. James P. Riseley, com-
manding officer of the division.
Pointer won the outstanding
fighter honors by virtue of a sen-
sational upset win over a KO ar-
tist. Gil Tankara, in the Third
Division Boxing Championship fi-
nals held recently at Camp Okubo.
An article recording the boxing
bout said that Pointer met his op-
ponent "blow for blow" in the first
round and continued in the second
quarter with both fighters "bang-
ing away" in close quarters. Near
the end of the second round Point-
er began to take command over
the tiring Tankara. In the final
round Pointer kept up the fast pace
to win by unanimous decision.
Many in Breckenridge remem-
ber Pointer who was the district
featherweight champion in 1953,
winning the title in the annual
Abilene tournament. He advanced
to the state finals in Fort Worth
before being defeated. A 1952
graduate of Breckenridge High
School, Pointer was cheer leader
for BHS during the 1951 football
season.
Sweeney-Griffin
INSURANCE AGENCY
122 W. Wiliams Phone 269
PRESENTS
THE WEATHER
Cloudy with snow flurries and
much colder Thursday night.
Low tonight 18, low this morn-
ing 31, high Wednesday 79,
.
WOULD NOT HESITATE—Pres. Eisenhower told newsmen Wednes-
day that he would not hesitate discussing with his advisors a new
invitation for Soviet Marshal Georgi Zhukov to visit the United
States. The President talked warmly of 1945-46 friendship with
Zhukov shortly after the Russian Army leader was named Soviet
Defense Minister. (NEA Telephoto)
Plant Employes
Attain Perfect
Safety Records
Employees of Lone Star Pro-
ducing Company's Brooks plant
and Lone Star Gas Company's
compressor station at Breckenridge
have attained perfect safety rec-
ords representing 705,228 hours of
work without a lost-time accident.
Notice of the accident-prevention
accomplishments has been receiv-
ed from A. W. Breeland of Dallas,
assistant personnel director in
charge of safety for Lone Star.
Averaging 30 employees, the
Brooks plant accumulated 577,193
accident-free hours in eight years
through December, 1954. Jack L.
Fizer is superintendent of the Lone
Star plant.
The Breckenridge compressor
station, with an average of 11 em-
ployees, amassed 128,035 hours in
five years without sustaining a
lost-time accident. The plant su-
perintendent is C. L. Bridges.
Mr. Breeland lauded the Breck-
enridge personnel for their day-in
and day-out efforts toward acci-
dent prevention.
"Your safety records," he said,
"reflect Lone Star's constant pro-
gram of training employees on the
importance of safety—not only to
protect their lives but the lives of
the men, women and children who
represent the public you serve."
Mr. Bretand pointed out that
105 other Lone Star units in Texas
and Oklahoma attained perfect
safety records through December,
1954. These records range from one
through 26 years and their cumu-
lative total is 457 years.
A framed certificate pointing up
the accident prevention records
will be presented to Breckenridge
employees at their next regular
safety meeting. They will bear
Signatures of President D. A. Hul-
cy and other Lone Star officials.
School Census Of
New Students Ends
John Culwell, Breckenridge
school superintendent, announced
Thursday that the school census
for the 1955-"'' school term has
been completed with 1,599 white
scholastics listed and 66 colored
students.
He said that the listing of chil-
dren from the age of six through
eighteen on the census for the past
year showed 1,601 whites and 60
colored.
According to Mr. Culwell there
are 136 whites and five colored
children, who will be six before
the opening of the 1955 fall school
term as compared to 135 white and
seven colored last year. %
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College Exes To
Observe March 31
Plans are now being made for
a get-together of North Texas
State College exes on North Texas
Day, March 31, ft was announced
Thursday.
Included in the plans for the
activities for the day will be a
special program on North Texas
over Tadio station KSTB. NT day-
is celebrated annually by exes and
graduates in towns throughout the
state with parties, dinners and lo-
cal radio .broadcasts.
Exes interested in NT day activ-
ities ale asked to contact Miss Ann
Youngbtood, phone 145, for further
Dual Producer
Completed In
Rickels Field
Ab-Tex Drilling Co., W. D. Fra-
zell and J. E. Connally of Abi-
lene completed No. 2 Rickels Es-
tate from the second Conglomerate
in the Rickels Field three miles
northeast of Ivan, making a dual
producer.
The well, in Section 8, Block 2,
SP Survey, previously was com-
pleted flowing- from Conglomerate
perforations at 4/108-12 feet.
Now, from 4!> perforations at
4-082-92 feet, it has a daily po-
tential of 137.87 barrels of 42.7
gravity oil, through a 20-64-inch
choke. Packer was set on easing
and 390 pounds on tubing. Gas-oil
ratio was 790-1. Casing is set on
bottom at 4.145 feet.
In the same field. Jim-Lee Drill-
ing Co.,, Inc., of Lubbock staked
No. 3 E. E. Hughes as a new
project spotting 1,263 feet from
the north and 330 feet from the
west lines of the south half of
T&NO Survey 1. Proposed depth
is 4,200 feet with rotary.
Graham Brothers of Graham No.
1-D L. C. Link is a new- produc-
er five miles southeast of Caddo
in the regular field. Location is in
Section 52, Block 4, T&P Survey.
Daily potential was 29 barrels of
40 gravity oil, pumping from open
hole at 1380-88 feet. Pay was top-
ped at 1.869 feet.
A. A. Thomas of Midland No. 1
Shalor Copeland is a new project
three miles west of Strawn in the
regular field in Palo Pinto county.
Slated for 1,999 feet with cable,
it spots 1.935 feet from the south
and 150 feet from the east lines
of AB&M Survey, Abstract 25.
Cold Nave Hay
Set Record Low
En Route To Pen
DUNCAN, Okla., Feb. 10 H'Pt—
Bill F. Hanson, who escaped from
jail at Seymour. Tex., on Jan. 28,
was en route to th? Oklahoma pen-
itentiary on a 15-year sentence
Thursday—his 22nd birthday.
Henson broke out of the Texas
jail after being sentenced to 20
years in Seymour for armed rob-
bery.
Duncan Night Police Chief Capt.,
Virgil Zachary recognized the sto-
len car Hanson had parked here
and arrested him at the home of
his sister Tuesday.
The mercury here took a tmuble
from 73 degrees Wednesday after-
noon to 31 degrees at 7 o'clock
Thursday morning and still was
falling in a threat of the coldest
weather of the winter. Predictions
indicated the temperature might
drop as low as 15 degrees by Fri-
day morning.
A bone-chilling Canadian cold
front tore across Texas Thursday
and the weather bureau issued cold
wave warnings for all the South-
west. There was snow in the Pan-
handle.
Temperatures dropped sharply
and rapidly behind the front, which
ripped into the Texas Panhandle
late Wednesday night and at mid-
morning Thursday was as far south
as a line extending from Tyler
through Austin and Junction to
Salt Flat.
Forecasters predicted the front
will reach the Gulf Coast by Thurs-
day night.
The weather bureau, besides the
cold wave warnings for the state,
issued "advise stockmen" warn-
ings for West Texas. Temperatures
as low as zero in the Panhandle
and five degrees in the South
Plains were predicted for Thurs-
day night.
Snow at Amaritlo, Dalhart
There was light snow reported
at Amarillo and Dalhart, and fore-
casters said the snow misrht ex-
tend as far south as Lubbock.
High winds were general all over
the state behind the cold front.
Amarillo and Childress reported
gusts of 50 miles an hour, Dalhart
to 43 and Fort Worth to 38.
Small craft warnings were hoist-
ed from Brownsville, Tex., to Lake
Charles. La., for south winds 25
to 35 miles an hour, shifting to
north late Thursday or Thursday
night.
Cold wave warnings were issued
for West, East and North Central
Texas and the west and north por-
tions of South Central Texas.
Cold to Continue
Forecasters said the cold will
continue through Friday, with only
a slight increase In temperatures.
At Brownsville, chief forecaster
John Hagan predicted low temper-
atures of from 30 degrees in Starr
county to 39 at Brownsville for
Thursday night, and farm experts
said extreme cold would damage
tomatoes, com, cotton, cabbage
and lettuce.
Hidalgo County Agent J. A. Os-
walt said there are "lots" of spring
tomatoes in Valley fields that
could be damaged.
Low temperatures in the Valley-
Friday night may be even colder,
Hagan said, if a low pressure sys-
tem in the Gulf devolps strongly
to pull more cold air in.
Zero to 19 Degrees
Low temperatures predicted for
Thursday night were zero to 10 de-
grees in the Panhandle, 5 to 15 in
the South Plains, 15 to 20 else-
where in West Texas, 15 to 25 in
the north portion of East Texas. 22
to 32 in the south portion of East
Texas, 12 to 22 in north centra!
Texas, 18 to 28 in part of South
Central Texas, 26 to 36 in th-1
south portion.
The temperature dipped to 14 de-
grees early Friday at Dalhart and
to 16 at Amarillo.
Childress reported a low of 25.
Wichita Falls 30, Midland 34, Wink
and Abilene 35, Mineral Wells and
Fort Worth 36. Dallas 41, San An
gelo 42, Del Rio 45, San Antonio
52, Waco 55, Laredo and Beaumont
56, Houston 57, Corpus Christi 61
and Brownsville 63.
Reuther Would Nominate Meany To
Head Merger Of Top Labor Unions
By CHARLES NOLAND
MIAMI BEACH, Feb. 10 <ELP.>—
AFL President George Meany con-
venes his executive council Thurs-
day to ratify a historic merger
agreement with the CIO and end
almost two decades of labor
squabbling.
Meany and CIO President Wal-
ter Reuther signed the historic
merger agreement Wednesday af-
ter conferences with top leaders of
unions affiliated with the two
great labor organizations.
Reuther said he would "gladly"
step down and nominate Meany to
head the huge new labor force of
more than 15 million workers.
The merger, which would give
labor a powerful voice in the 1956
elections, is subject to approval by
the AFL and CIO executive units,
conventions of both bodies and
finally by a joint convention late
this year.
Mtany said be expect* tfee API#
executive council will quickly ap-
prove the pact and predicted "we
will go into 1956 with a united
labor movement."
The CIO executive board meets
.to ratify the merger Feb. 24.
An indication that the merger
pian also may meet challenges
from outside labor's ranks was
given by Henry G. Riter III, pi es
ident of the National Association
of Manufacturers.
Riter, in one of the first publi-
cized reactions to the plan by a
management spokesman, said in
New York the proposed merge i-
would constitute a "dangerous mo-
nopoly" and as such "should be
outlawed for the same reasons that
business monopolies have been
He said that although the mer-
ger "could have the beneficial ef-
fect of eliminating costly jurisdic-
tional strikes throughout the na-
tion" he felt that "monopoly" als?
"i always costly to tit* pwfo." j,
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