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VOLUME LI
ORANGE, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 13, 1953
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NUMBER 113
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PANMUNJOM (AP)—The
Search parties working through the night found ten more
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high school, college and youthful
Air Force men
they tore at the huge mound of
Solomon Johnson—Swimming
Jock Buifey==Teephones
(Story, photos by Ralph Ramos)
com-
Spokesman Dale A Waltz told
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Second and Park streets near the
pany’s contention again/ Jbat the
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and develop
C. P Smith associates did on the । Smith explained, would come la
Meantime, the city has taken
worked with police Captain Alton i
Williams and
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Peveto in today’s investigation
Conditions for Successful Form Life Outlined by Brown
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other members of the commission
(See RATE HIKE, Page S)
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Businems Life Alee Hard
Must Satisfy Family
To make e farm a succeas, end
“you have to satisfy the whole
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200 Jets Total for State Is 97:
Pulverize Storm Danger Slacks Off
Red Center But Weather Stays Rough
Johnson Asks: Did Survey Cover Future Needs?
No Further Action on Waterworks Deal
Waco Tornado Death
List Climbs to 88
School Tax Equalizers
Named; On Job Today
company was not mi
return on its invest
“We want to gn
and construction. He said his peo-
ple were going to help boost de-
(See NEGRO POOL, Page 8)
want to i
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Peterson
tion- Brown commented, “I don’t
believe any farm should be ted
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saying. "
talk al
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wanted the city to know
weren't complaining.
"Ive got eight kids.”
disclosure that he had been con-
cerned for years over the fact that
“fewer people---fewer boys” want
to live on the farm nowadays
That's their privilege, he add-
ed. “but if I had my life to live
to one source of cash income be-
cause at times that one may be
lean "
He turned twice to the subject
of family living, emphasizing that
as being of prime importance to
the happiness of those who till
RUFFLED nr British
WASHINGTON (AP) — Rep.
Short (R-Mo) said today Congress
is tired of taking “dictation from
our so-called allles." He made the
remark in joining angry congres-
sional reaction to statements in
the British House of Commons
Tuesday that some Americans do
not want to settle the Korean
war.
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more about spacing of oil wells,
the unit system blocking out the
city for drilling.
Consolidated, in a letter to the
city commission, noted that spac-
ing was a matter for what it call-
ed “serious consideration."
Surety Benda is issue
Its other recommendations, all
concurred in by Ohio Oil com-
his brief appearance
henever you want to
it it we are ready ”
Mayor Pro-Tem Howard
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request to resume operations
That
survey of the system as it is now. commission with heading up the
Study of the expanding need, survey, explained he awaits in-
Norwood Manor citizens—there
were 10 of them—appeared in a
group last night; it was their sec-
making
which
$500.
City Commissioners Sid John-,
son asked questions Tuesday night
” ' " “ ——" ' — ■ Story in Column 5
THE Orange Leader
Branded by Reds
Called For As Step Backward
I Johnson, “but not one of them or
I I have ever put a foot in that
I pool. But, we’re ‘not arguing about
J that’*
Segregation Is Expensive
; Then, he added, “We know seg-
gregation is an expensive thing.
We don’t want a subsidy. We are
walking on our own feet and want
to pay our own way. We know
we can’t build a pool right now
and we are willing to wait a year
or two or three.”
But Johnson wanted the city
commission to take positive action
toward eventual construction of
Wreckage Finally
Licks Volunteers
Probing Pool Hall
By WKLBUR MARTIN
WACO (AP) — They pulled
some more boy, out of the tor-
nado-flattened pool hall Tuesday
night.___
Twenty . four hour, before,
around 10:30 p. m. Monday, I had
raced through pitch dark street,,
waded through knee-deep water
plunged over broken glass and
tangled power line, to reach the
pool halt
"Say, they’ve got some guy,
trapped up there in a pool hall,"
a youthful rescue worker had said
a'moat casually. “And some are
alive . . . They’re talking to the
guy, trying to pull them out.”
It seemed Tuesday night when
I went back again down the same
dark streets that all of it happen-
ed a long, long time ego.
The frenzy of more than 100
ond appearance before city
mission.
over I’d rather live on a farm ’
than anywhere else ” , the soll
wreckage was like the challenge
each had hurled some time:
“You ain't so tough I can lick
you!”
The wreckage finally did lick
them.
Six persons survived after be-
ing buried under that awful mass
of wood and stone. Around 17 did
not. There may be more. No one
knows how many.
Lonnie Murphree was the first
(See WRECKAGE, Page 8)
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' UN command today handed
• the Communists a new blue-
print for an armistice in Ko-
■ rea. It was a sweeping 11-
• point plan for exchanging prison-
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Negro Pool Latest Proposal
For Korean Truce
Out of Norwood Manor’s cry for
city maintenance of two small
park areas new city policies are
in the making.
Norwood is getting attention
placed on its park areas but at
the same time Commissioner Sid
Johnson is calling for a definite
plan for park expansion.
First he wants the city to make
up its mind on what share of the
load of park building it will car-
ry; secondly, he wants new sub-
divisions to include dedication of
park areas in their platting.
City commission took the atti-
tude Tuesday night that its policy
Paul Vandervoort didn't like
that so well. “We’ll wait until
September and the children wot
MORE ‘SITTING NEEDED —
City council chambers needing
chairs for citizens . . . Last ighr
33 visitors . . . four sat on the
floor, three on a table, one stand-
system. He asked of Garrison I a later survey.
! Smith: “Did your survey cover. Meantime, the city has taken
; the expanding need In the city" J no further action on its water-
Smith replied that the survey works study. Commissioner How-
did not. He said it was only a . ard Peterson, charged by the
Farm life, he pointed out, "is "To make e farm a success. ang
always going to be hard to a cer- J make a future of it* be insisted,
tain extent, but so is business You! - - — * •
was at home, ill, city commission
Tuesday night failed to take sc- -
tion which would name plumbing ZJ
contained approximately
’ 4 ,
Able Kemble— inspectors
-— has ben appointed and tackles the tough job ahead ehostdr.
Ing tonight.
Members of the board are H. U. McGill Sr., local businessman;
Hamilton High, Du Pont supervisor, and Edward P. Godwin, shipyard
a door glass. reached inside to
unlatch the door and pry loose a
hasp.
Deputy Sheriff W S Wagner
; buying from Gulf States Utilities I
’ company.
| Principally, he was concerned
with the engineering survey which 1
maintenance of the parks areas
by regularcity crews.
Waltz said the Norwood people
wanted $500 worth of equipment
installed. But, Peterson explain-
ed the city didn’t have the money
right new. He did feel, however,
that aid could be considered in
- the next budget.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The
House held another round of de-
bate today on the tidelands con-
troversy. with Rep. Halleck (R-
Ind) calling on the members to
pettle the long-argued question
“once and for all."
The first two measures to be
acted on during the day was a
bill declaring federal control over
the continental shelf out beyond
the states’ seaward boundaries.
Passage would send it to the Sen-
ate. f
In line for action immediately!
after the outer continental shelf
bill was a measure recognizing
states’ ownership of the lands be-
neath the marginal sees within
their historic boundaries.
n who suggested delay,
haven’t had a chance to talk
it it," he said. "I presume the
formation from bond attorneys be-
fore moving further.
The next step will be to send
out letters to bond houses seeking
proposals on financing. Commis-
sioners gave Peterson and Mayor
Sid Caillavet authority to go
ahead with that matter.
| ORANGE JUICE |
QUALIFICATIONS—For mayor
pro-tem. Howard Peterson's de-
scription: “The man with the least
hair and that’s me." . . .
STARLIGHTERS’ THANK —
Mrs. Mattie Roberts says thanks
for street markers installed Tues-
oay . . . Next step, folks’ll have
to number their houses . . .
DUE FOR CHECK-UP -Mayor
Sid Caillavet’s "fu" condition has
him worried enough to take a
City hospital bed tot a check-up
will be to bear the full load of
park developments, at least up to
certain minimum standards.
Roselawn To Be First
As for requiring recreation areas
in new subdivisions, commission-
ers indicated Roselawn probably
would be first to come under the
rule. Commissioners planned to
City Park Policies Shaping Up
(Story. Photo, by Raidh Ramosi ask Roselawn developers to in- '
elude a recreation area i the next
portion brought to commission
for annexation.
ail down and talk it
morning The money was tone.
Police sald the burglars broke
' The People Speak Their Minds, the City Fathers Listen | A11 j es
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4. Maintain a happy home by
equipping it with modern con-
veniences and by making avail-
able to the wife and children in
about the waterworks system
which the city is talking about
midnight hour
Southwestern Bell Reminds City Fathers
It Has Request for Rate Hike Pending
Southwestern Bell Telephone company wants a phone rate increase
and reminded city commissioners of the fact again Tuesday night.
Local Phone Manager Jack Bailey, backed up by District Manager
John Peveteaux of Beaumont, made a plea for early consideration of
a rate increase request.
Patrolman John
“They ought to inspect
ers of war, last big roadblock to
a truce.
The Allies would free 34,000
North Koreans who refuse to go
home and—■on certain conditions
—give temporary custody of 14,-
500.balky Chinese to a five-nation
commission made up of Sweden
Switzerland, Poland, Czechoslo-
vakia and India.
The Communists called the pro-
posal a “step backward” and said
the Allied attitude “threatens the
prospects of the whole armistice
negotiations ”
The broad plan—a counterpro-
posal to one advanced by the
Communists — is based on the
longstanding Allied position that
no prisoner will be sent home
(See ARMISTICE. Page 8)
all be back in school," he argued
He advocated the city putting out
the money right now.
He was stalled off at least un-
til a special May 26 meeting
when commissioners said they had
not yet had a chance to talk the
matter over among themselves.
Bailey made the phone com-
Action Is Deferred
On City Inspectors
Because Mayor Sid Caillavet
called the rate in-
He recommended that etty com- A
mission follow Commissioner Sid
Johnion’a '1?' for carmtrking 23 A tax equalization board for the Orange Independent
per •-nt - delinquent t vec- trict has deen appointed and tackles the tough job ahead
tions for Negfo pool construction.
accountant.
They meet for the first time
today at 7 p. m. in the school tax
office.
The job they’re undertaking is
a big one: Valuations in the
school district must be upped from
the present 19 million dollars to
at least 23 6 million.
Trustees decided several weeks
ago that a 4 6 million dollar in-
crease would be necessary to
bring the district’s budget into
balance for the next fiscal year.
Three million of the jump will
be necessary to pay operating ex-
penses of the new George D
Jones elementary school, slated
for opening in September. The
remainder is needed because of
a reduction in state aid caused by
(See SCHOOL TAX. Pages)
farmed ”
On the subject of dversifics-
must work hard to make either
suceed "
The speager urged against sow-
.ing seed on land without first de-
termining through scientific tests
and the experiences of others
whether that particular piece of
ground will produce the desired
crop.
Successful agriculture. he de-
clared. rests “hot on the size of
the farm but on how productive
it‘is and how scientifically
legs and youtnrul , *
Monday night as House Debates Again
hu” mouind of On Tidelands Iasue :
DEMOCRACY WAS HARD AT WORK FOR TUE SDAY NIGHT'S CITY COMMISSION MEETING
Norwood Manor Folks Had a Petition Ta Pretent and a Few Words To Speak
Agreement Is Near
On Oil Ordinance
There doesn’t appear to be
much difference of opinion be-
tween city commissioners. Con-
solidated Western Steel division
and Ohio Oil company over the
city’s proposed regulabory dil and
gas drilling ordinance •
But city fathers want to iron
out one major point before mak-
ing changes and approving an
ordinance. They want to learn
. Johnson offered the help of the
Ud Aity’s Negroes in pool fund raising
Mrs. Ella Donna Sullivan (s
Injured in Fall Down Stain
Mrs. Ella Donna Sullivan, 1204
Sixth street, caught the heel of
her shoe in the Landrum building
steps Tuesday morning, fell down
the steps and fractured her left
ankle.
City hospital today reported
Mrs. Sullivan, a public stenogra-
phs, was resting well and the
ankle had been aligned without
difficulty. . I
heads of the drivers instead of
the cars,” he asserted.
Hardeman offered an amend-
ment to exempt from inspection
cars operating exclusively in the
owner’s home county.
Sen. John Bell of Cuero, spon-
sor of the bill, said that was the
“silliest amendment” he had
heard in his 17 years in the leg-
islature.
The Senate rejected the amend-
ment, 19-10.
Taxicab Argument
Isn't Finished Yet
The last of the taxicab argu-
ments hasn’t been heard.
Mrs. Andrew Denino, former
operator of Diamond cabs in the
City of Orange, wants her per- - —---. „
mits back 1 pany, suggested changes to bring
They were revoked by city the city’s ordinance in accord with
commission some months ago state regulations and with prac,
Mrs. Denino had words for the ! tices already adopted as standard
city commissioners on the sub- in the area.
ject Tuesday night. She claimed; Commissioners generally went
Mayor Sid Caillavet had given i aJong with Consolidated’s letter,
her the go-ahead sign several Only differing point was over the
months ago; that she had spent j matter of surety bonds.
BULLETIN
AUSTIN (AP)—The Home
voted 77 to 67 today to end the
Iegislative session at 12 noon
May 17. The Senate will have
to agree to the date before it
is final.
and smashed a Communist
troop and supply center near
Sinanju on the Yellow sea.
Earlier, Sabres destroyed two
MIGs and damaged a third .in
aerial battles over North Korea
Fighter-bombers dive bombed
the troop center only 60 miles
from a big Red MIGIS base at
Axtung. Manchuria. None of the
Russian-made jets came out to
fight
in a morning raid, Sabre dive
bombers blasted Red troop con-
centrations north of the western
and central fronts and slammed
explosives at an earth dam below
Sukchon on the west coast
On the grounds, counterattack-
ing South Kogans won back Out-
post Texas and two nearby small
hills in brjef early morning fights
About 160 Reds overran the ROK
position in the second predawn
attack in two days on the east-
central front.
Debate Is Renewed
On Inspection Law
AUSTIN (AP— The Senate
renewed debate today on a bill
passed by the House to modify
the 1951 auto inspection law.
Sen. Dorsey Hardeman of San
Angelo attacked the need for any
such law and said speed not me-
chanical failure, was the real
reason for bad wrecks.
bodies in rubble heaps in
downtown Waco. This ,
brought the toll here .to 88.
Nine were killed by the Mon-
day tornado at San Angelo,
300 miles to the west.
The swollen Brazos river did
not reach a predicted near-flood
stage this morning. By dawn the
water was rapidly subaiding.
Tired, grimy workers—some
almost at the point of exhaus-
tion—still dug doggedly into
heaps of rubble that had been
modern store buildings before
Monday’s big ’Blow. Gnnt cranes
and mighty bulldozers -roared
and groaned as they hacked at
the tons of debris. j
No Bodies in Baar meat l
Workers burst through the tan-
gled, twisted mass late Tuesday
night into the basement of the de-
molished. five-story R T. Den-
nis building, where it had been
feared from 30 to 50 bodies would
be found. There was none there.
Portable generators, huge
searchlights and earth-moving
equipment were rushed to the
(See STORMS, Page 8)
the Norwood folks’ story and pre-
sented their petition asking that
the city assume responsibility for
the parks.
. Mayor Pro-Tern Howard Peter-
son responded for the city com-
mission. He checked with City
Attorney E. L. Reid to determine
that the city had already gone
through the formality of accepting
the park areas.
Want Equipment
“We already have the parks.”
explained the mayor pro-tem.
Then he instructed City Secretary
Charles Cottle to reflect the fact
in his minutes and to call for
-me =
mits in writing if she wanted the; ter. . . .
city commission to reconsider her Onlooker Oscar Beadle brought
i------t -t-- _________ up the matter of space regulations
—it was after City Attorney He argued that the ordinance a
E L. Reid explained she had lost written would do no one any good
her permits by her failure to dor unless they were owners of acre-
business. She had closed her cab age He contended city lot owners
company several months ago be-
cause of illness. . • {See DRILLING, Page 8)
(api N... ,n WACO (AP)—Rains and wind slacked off over Texas to-
' , T, , - . day. The death count from two tornadoes Monday climbed to
inI. wunderae 98 but possibility ef more twisters now has “expired." Rain-
" •T swollen streams threatened some flooding.
"as >1 U » BUM .n .Mt
Thursdsy’s tides Sabine—high •« 2 40
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"."2.220 ’ mi low*na* m Ads must get that .hop lots of 1 for diversion which are enjoyed
8 H reunaar asn.m.e euatomen—Alvin’s shoes won’t I by urban dwellets
w - 1 • • be ready until Monday!" I Brows opened his talk with the I
O r a n g e’s uncomplaining
Negro citizenry thinks the
F time is ripe for city dads to
E start thinking seriously about
Ms a swimming pool for them.
As Solomon Johnson put it at
BR Tuesday night’s city commission
2 meeting, "We are suffering from
| taxation without participation.*
He was speaking about the city’s
852 municipal pool which is being
s I paid for out of Negro tax dollars
sg as well as the tax dollars of
I whites. •
# But, Johnson and his delegation
85 of almost two dozen Negroes
By GEORGE A. McARTHUR SEOUL “ - —
PANMUNJOM (AP)—The Sabre jet ‘
fighter-bombers roare deep
into Northwest Korea today
Farm life can be just as pleas-
ant and as profitable as city life
but there are certain conditions
which must be met to make it
such.
Speaking at the first annual
father-son banquet of the Lutch-
er Stark high school Future Farm-
ers at Amorita chapter Tuesday
night Edgar Brown Jr set down
those conditions as follows:
1. Take advantage of modern
scientific knowledge in the field
nt agriculture and learn what
the available soil will and will
not produce.
3 Diversify; don’t be depend-
ent on a single source of income
Keep Home Life Happy
3 Work hard but take time ’
out often for recreation
His plea was supported,by let-
ters from four Negro drganiza-
tions.
Johnson observed that the city
needed more taxes to care for its
growth and said the people whom
he represented had full knowledge
of that need.
Fears Bonds Would Fail
He didn’t,want the city to try
to build the Negro pool via the
bond issue method, fearing fail-
ure. "Why the people didn't even
vote for a hospital as badly as this
city and county needs one.”
and electrical inspectors for the
city's inspection division.
Mayor Pro-Tern Howard Peter-
son put action off until a ressed
meeting on May 26 at whch time
he hoped Mayor Caillavet would
be in attendance to make his rec-
ommendations. /
Plumber Abe Kemble, who said
he spoke for the area plumbing
contractors, argued that plumbers
had been working illegally be-
cause of the city’s failure to have
a plumbidg inspector.
This/act was later denied by
INSPECTORS. Page 8)
| Today's Weather |
Dsta From C. S. Westher Bureau •
Local forecast Bhowers tonight Thurs-
ay Cloudy probabfy with light r»ln. low, (
est tempersture tonight ST to 60 degrees
hlgh Thurday 70 degrees Northere
Peterson held off any compmis-
sion action, however callig for
a report from the city recreation
commission. City fathers want
that report before their next meet-
ing.
Meantime, Mrs. Billie Garrett
reminded city das there are an
average of three children to every
home in Norwood Manor Spokes-
man Waltz added the information
(See rfY PARKS, Page 8)
Burglars Get $500
From Amuny Store
Nighttime burglars smashed
into Amuny’s liquor store at
family and make it satisfactory
for yourself
This involves providing the wife
with modern household conveni-
ences and giving her and the chil-
dren access to movies and other
entertainment enjoyed by folks in
the city..
Brown advised against sun-to-
sun. seven-day-a-week labor It's
no longer necessary to successful
farming, he declared. because ma-
chinery and science have tea med
up to rut the farmer s working
hours to somewhere near those of FUTURE FARMERS HOLD DADS' BANQUET
(Sea IFA BANQUET, Page 8) Superintendent Chandler, President Hubbard, Speaker Brown
with the city.",
do that we mi
ie pleaded. “To
be able to justify
expenditures
our investors.”
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