Breckenridge American (Breckenridge, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 155, Ed. 1 Wednesday, August 8, 1956 Page: 2 of 6
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Prove Brazos River Dams Feasible
EDITOR'S NOTE—-United Press
Houston bureau Manager John
0 llton has been looking into the
j Brazos River Authority's water
! conservtution plans ami the opposi-
tion to them. The following dis-
patch is the second of a five-part
SEEING WHERE THEY'VE BEEN — Rumbleseats strapped
to their fathers' bucks make s ue there Ere r.o slip-ups when
the t>,t> unci papas arrive in New York aboard the liner Stock-
holm. Martti Kyamalainen, left, carries his 11-month-old
daughter, Weija, while Arvo Laliti provides the 1 ij.lt: I <z daugh-
ter Seija, one year. The quartet is bound for new homes in
Can jda.
By JOHN COLTON
I'niied Press Staff Correspondent
HOUSTON <l'.R> — The Brazos
River Authority proposes six
dams, to cost iltfl million to har-
ness the "feast or famine" river
• for water-thirsty west central Tex-
as.
More than $1 million has already
been spent in surveys t > prove the
' plan feasible, and the U. S. Corps
i of Engineers is studying the proj-
i ect's tie in with federal flood con-
trol plans. However, a buzz-saw of
; opposition has sprung up frjm ir-
i l igationists and power interests
j Irrigationists would buy the wa
I ter; utilities would buy the hydro
electric power. Sales if water and
| power would finance the dams.
Arguments for Project
Proponents of the project—anil
; they include farmers, ranchers,
bankers, lawyers and publishers—
argue that the future of the Brazos
Valley, which splits the state in
the middle, is at stake.
They argue that the Brazos basin
covering one-sixth of Texas aijd
containing 1.25 million persons-—
j one-sixth of the state's population
—needs to boost its dependable wa-
ter supply 10 times.
A University of Texas survey
estimates that .'18 million acre-feet
if water an acre-foot is .')2">,8(mi
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Drost Family Given Succor In U. S.
Find Themselves Americans Now
[ By EVERETT R. KRWIN ( new life in America for their rhil-
rlilted Press Staff Correspondent dren, there were years of night-
CHICAGO <l'l! J ihn Drost said maie living under first the Nazis
today that his son;, are "real Amer- and then the Communists in their
ican boys." 1 native Czechoslovakia.
H - said it with pride in his voice) Arrest by Gestapo
and a ifUiet smile in his eyes. It
By HARM AN W. NICHOLS
Cnited Press Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON U'.Pt — What's
new in Washington:
John Foster Dulles, the world's
busiest traveling man. is always
rest him. He fled acrd iss the Aus-
trian border to the American zone
and, by means of messages smug
jiN-d bacK and forth, began plan
ning with his wife to get her and
their sons out of Czechoslovakia.
Leaving one year-old Ge irgia be-
hind with his grandmother, Mrs.
Drost and Rudy, then 5, slipped
under the noses of the Reds and
made it across the border.
in a hurry. In fact, when he took
off for London to look int i the Suez
business, he forgot to kiss his wife
goodbye. His plane was warmed
up and ready when he realized his'
error. The secretary if state open-
ed the door and rushed down the
ramp to give Janet Dulles a fond
smackeroo. She had one coming,
too. The secretary haiU scant no-
tice of his trip and he, (ifiight her
under a dryer at the hair dressers.
His travel kits needed packing
and the phone at home, was busy.
Janet called out emerguhiy to the
telephone operator aH.8[ git Eric,
the butler, on the bell. She was at
the airport 15 minutes ahead of
"a- plain he thought it was the
lit ~t thing any dad could say abotu
his sons.
Thev like hamburgers and hot
ri< f.'< and all those things just like
«'\ei;, American boy," he said.
"Rudolph is a Boy Scnrt anil
George is a Cub Scout, and they
have lots of friend. Neither has a
sign of an accent.
"I think they'll make good Amer
ican citizens. I've dreamed about
that."
Before Drost, 47, and his wife,
Doris. :*. >. be^ari to dream .ib iut a
Winn Hitler's troops marched
into Czechoslovakia in 19.'Stf, Drost
was a practicing lawyer in Bin i
and his wife was a kindergarten
teacher. His asociations with lib-
eral Czechs led to his arrest by
the Gestapo in 1943, a short prison
term and forced labor in a fac-
tory.
With the liberation of Czechoslo
vakia in 1945. Drost re ipened his
law office. Three years later the
Communists took over the govern-
ment. They confiscated all Drost's
assets, some $60,000.
Friends tipped Drost that the
Communists were preparing to ar-
Presbyterians Help j takeoff.
Church World Service sponsored '
the family's trip to the United; Dorothy Cox. who has one of the
States and sent the Drosts in to sweetest voices on Capitol Hill,
to the Ravenswood Presbyte ! now answers the phone: "The vice
rian Church on Chicago's north president's office, Mrs. Charles
side : Thomas Donnelly." Her new Hub
"We'll never forget what the peo-1 by js the Washington manager of
pie of Ravetnswood Church did." ;t tool company, one of her bosses.
Drost said. "They started us off. The other one is Richard M. Nix-
found an apartment for us, gave' lin.
us furniture, helped us with food.!
saw that the children got started! Wilson dropped the word at a par
in school " ! ty the other night that he "still
Despite his doctor's degree, Dfost sijuirms" every once in a while
started to work making meat balls when he has to spend a few bi!
in a canning fact irv. Then he 1 i«>n dollars of the taxpayers' mon-
switched to a job inspecting parts
in an organ factory. N o w he's
doing work in keeping with his
background, as administrative as-
sistant of St. Paul's Evangelical
and Reformed Church. He is think-
ing of studying law again.
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BRECKENRTDGE INDEPENDENT FIRESTONE DEALER
ey. He recalled, during the con-
versation, about when he was
making £iin a month, and got tin
increase to #Hli when he got mar-
ried.
Wils in said that when he re-
tires he may write a book which
he would like to call "Mainsprings
of Human Behavior." He had in
, mind, he said that when you work
for the government, there are
"other things to be considered be
sides the money you make."
A bystander at the party asked
the secretary if he planned to
make any "political" speeches dur-
ing the upcoming campaigns.
"No," he said. "But I'm going to
make seine speeches."
The I'nited Mine Workers J iur-
nal likes the one about the throat
specialist who remarked that smok-
ing makes a woman's voice harsh.
"If you don't believe it," he said,
"just try flicking your ashes in the
i UK"
More than a lot of Army folks
were disturbed when the order
went out that regulation footwear
would In- black sh ies instead of
brown. 1
But now i.n sale on most bases
is a complete kit which "dis-
guises," dyes and provides pol-
ish for shoes "of any color," in-
cluding brown ones that now
have to show up black.
gallons will be needed for future
municipal, industrial and agricul-
tural use. An engineering report on
the BRA's six day project by Am-
bursen Engineering Co., Houston,
puts the initial supply of water
available at 7(10,000 acre- feet, and
1.5 million acre feet ultimately.
Current Supply
The current dependable supply of
water from the Brazos is 42,000
acre-feet.
Other reports show an average
six million acre - feet of water runs
into the Brazos each year, but 90
per cent of it goes to plant and
animal life, runs into the Gulf of
Mexico, or is evaporated.
Ilarry Burleigh, U. S. Reclama-
tion Bureau water engineer, esti
mates that this "waste" water—
ir a good part of it—if properly
darned, would irrigate 370,000
acres of land between Waco and
Richmond, where only 49,000 acres
are currently under irrigation.
Such irrigation, Burleigh said,
would mean increased profits of at
least $50 an acre to lower Brazos
farmers alone.
The publication "Motorist" tells
about a fellow who went into an
automobile club office in Massa
chusetts. The young man wanted
all of the travel maps and tour
books for a trip to the Middle-
west. He insisted on detailed in-
f >rmation about the route he want-
ed to take. When the travel coun-
selor had finished, the customer
asked: "Is this ernute heavily trav
eled?" The counselor assured him
that it sure was. "It'd better be,''
the young man replied "I'm hitch-
hiking."
Lavant Is Fired
Second Time For
Racy TV Ad Libs
By ALINE MOSBY
HOLLYWOOD il*H>—Oscar Le-
vant has been fired for the second
time off local television because
of racy ad libs and cracks about
Richard Nixon, but Oscar's down-
fall will insult in viewers around
the country at last getting a cen-
sorv-d version of his jokes.
Levant's station and his carpet
sponsor pulled the rug out from
under the wit after his final show-
featured some ad libs about Mari-
lyn Monroe ihat brought howls of
laughter from the studio audience.
Hut it also brought some objecting
phone calls and letters from view-
er.-".
The producers of the show, the
Ross Danzig agency, came up with
a solution: Film the show, clip out
the double entenderes and syndi-
cate it around the country.
Levant admits that might not !>;•
such a had idea because even Le-
This month lU Stale of Iowa and the ra.lroads o*r,
memorate the 75lh anniversary ol a legendary deed
ol heroism performed by a girl ol 15 - Kale ^Ke!Uy,
who* lather had been se<lion loreman.
Torrential rains lor a week had brought to lood stage
all the streams in her neighborhood Then a doudbur*
on the night ol July 6. 1881. The railroad had sent^ou
a pilct engine to test the track. Through a as o
lightning. Kale saw the locomotive drop through a
bodge into the churning waters ol Honey Creek.
With a Chicago-bound passenger train due in an hour,
this young girl went out into the darkness and the
iiorm She made her perilous way on hands and kntei
across the long Des Atones River br.dge and hr,<,ny.
bleeding and exhausted, to the first railroad station ,.a
I lime to warn ol the danger and evert diwsler.
vant agrees I^evant is unpredic-
table. i
"I always am dumfounded at
mv ad libs,'" the pianist said.
"I'm like a middle-class James
Joyce. 1 iK-ver know what I'm go-
ing to say. I was a little out of
line on my last show. It was shock-
ing. I was stunned.
The sponsor also cringed at Le-
vant's weekly iibes at Nixon such
:is, "We have had the age of the
common man. Nixon embodies the
age of the commonplace man."
More Levant cracks that broke
the sponsor's back: "There's no
truth to the vicious rumor that Nix-
on suggested installing a 10th cen-
tury painting with roses on the
Paris green ceiling in Eisenhower's
bedroom "
And. "Nixon is a man of enor-
mous charm. God knows he needs
it."
Levant claims he was only try-
ing to be amusing. So do several
viewers who protested his being
fired.
Oscar needled others on his
show, including himself. Once he
called himself "the intellectual
equivalent of Elvis Presley." I'rts-
ley he dubbed "a young man with
built-in agony." Another night l.e
said "I'm not a celebrity—I'm a
worldwide figure."
Levant, brooding in his office at
MGM studio today, lamented that
the irony of his being canned f-.t
racy ad libs is "I'm the most cul-
tural person of anybody on televi-
sion." . „
"I talk more poetically about sex
than any straight man on TV,"
he said. "Words are a passion of
mine. Sex just happens to be a
medium with which to express
words."
Delayed Christmas
GRAND ISLAND Neb. iU.P>—
The family of Dr. John Yost here
had a stretched-out Christmas.
One of the doctor's sons hid some
presents before Christmas, but he
did such a good job no one was
able to find them.
TOTEM OF CUTIES-Four
Kendziorra sisters peek r round
a corner aboard the USNS
General Langfitt. They'd just
arrived in New Ycik from
Germany. The girls, together
with their' parents end a
brother, will settle In Win-
chester, Va., where their father
was a prisoner of war in 1044,
From top to bottom, they are:
Gerhild, 19; Brunhild, >2;
Helge, 22; and Ellen, 25.
Feels Even Better than He Looks !
Ever notice how a man looks when he takes th*
wheel of his new Cadillac and heads for his
favorite highway?
Take a good look the next time yon have a
chance—and we think you'll see a happy manl
There's just no mistaking the pride and satis-
faction that show in his face ... or the happiness
and contentment that reside in his heart.
And, as any experienced Cadillac owner can
testify, he Jcels eveiy bit as wonderful as he looks!
For a journey in the "car of cars" is both a
marvelous tonic for the spirit... and a wonderful
opportunity for physical rest and relaxation.
It starts the instant he slips into the driver's
seat and rests his hands on the wheel. Those
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... and he is surrounded by beauty and luxury.
Even before he sets the car in motion, some of
life's care and worry seem to go out of his day.
And then comes the miracle of Cadillac per-
formance. It's an inspiration just to sit at the
wheel ... to look out over that graceful hood ...
and to watch the miles flow gracefully by-
And how fa-tit it all is. Just a gesture of his hand
on the steering wheel and the car follows effort-
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the accelerator and the car answers instantly to
the command. Just a nudge of his foot on the
braking pedal and the car comes to a smooth, safe,
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Sound wonderful? Well, we sincerely urge you
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Why not stop in and see us soon?
CITY MOTOR COMPANY
115 N. BRECKENRIDGE
PHONE 116
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