The Orange Leader (Orange, Tex.), Vol. 51, No. 126, Ed. 1 Sunday, May 31, 1953 Page: 1 of 28
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Flood Cost to
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scholstic tou nt to 1 peacetime
record of 10,819 pupils. Schoo!
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students from last year’s total of
“I believe we can make bus
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tic jump to a
Mrs. Rosa Jones
work to th. county.
(See CITY BUSES. Page 2)
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Peace Talks Resume
Monday;CrisisNear
Tension Mounts As
Ike Holds Sudden
Only one division war yet to
be namied by Stringer, that was
Western Steel division and Lev-
(See NEW HOTEL. Page 2)
They had been under obseryation
at th. hespital since Thursday
and are now being treated in th.
whole communities . . . And none
In the path of the Sabine’s great-
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from this greater danger . . .
Take the Deweyville area, hard-
o ward.
leither has the bulbar type of j
which the Allies presented the
Reds a new truce plan objection-
able to South Korea. ,
“In disobeying my order.” ex-
Big Jump In
School Count
Is Reported
A big crop of post-World
War II babies will parade for
thority would like to have your
name.
Authority President John W.
Simmons is asking all who aid-
ed to send him a letter post
card care of the Orange Cham-
ber of Commerce.
He figures there might come
a time when there will be an
opportunity to give recognition
to all who assisted in the job of
levee which saved the major
part of Orange.
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Besides the “port-war babies"
REPORT
FROM
RAMOS
the first time to Orange coun-
ty’s schools next September
—,e"e
In dollars and cents Orange eity and county are heavy
losers as a result of the battle which citizens won against
by County School Supt. J B. Ped-
show an overa! increase of 895
with a reputable brand of insec-
ticide and start spraying. Cover
Orange’s Old Timers gathered
Saturday in their annual reunion
and 86-year-old Jesse Peveto still
rules as oldest of the oldsters.
Runner-up for old timer honors
(See PEAc TALKS, Page 2)
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Ralph Ramos
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HOTEL SOLICITORS IN STRATEGY CONFAB
Sales Manager Stringer and Director Shoffner
General Campaign For
Hotel Opens June 12
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Rhee said that Maj. Gen. Choi,
Duk Shin risked court marti
rather than go to the session at
SC
even higher growth.
More Six-Year-Olds
Each of the county’s 10 districts
showed • gain Th. Orange dis-
triet’s jump of 422 was the largest
while Mauriceville’s increase of
- , .ws a new idea I picked
| up in th. Leader Want Ad-
Md mote accurate, tool"
traced for .more of whet some
regard as “Bargaining power at-
tacks in th. west.
Many officers saw a close
between the abruptly powerful
Red assaults that captured Car:
sen. Elko and Vegas outposts and
the truce talks due to resume
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screen doors and screened wih-
t
Orange merchants turned •e
eye toward th. weather and
lathers day when they chose
their Greater Value day special,
to offer area resident. Monday
when they again obuerve Greater
Value day.
Shoppers who scan through to-
day’s pages of The Orang. Leader
will get a pictorial view of re-
cently contrived methods of com-
bating the heat of summer.
Though stm three weeks off.
Fathets day shoppers will see that
merchants had family budgets in
mind with the different items they
are offering in today’s advertise-
ments which would "appeal to
father."
Ladles too cah find something
for themselves and their children
in th. reduced Greater Value day
prices quoted by local merchants.
Greater Value day was initiated
by local merchants over two years
ago and has proven successful to
both shoppers and merchants. in
its beginning store managers
agreed their specialised items
.would Include articles in demand,
and not merely to nd their
shelves of surplus of out-of-sea-
son items.
growing construction
inereased industrial
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ge,
hz.n
was forced at gunpoint to carry
i a
streets durinz the hizh "Mrs, Henty Pachar again took
"Wherever it showed up. streets hoereundonpshtetts8 thrs"pchar
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stood first in the ne for dinner.
There were mor* than a dorm
octogenarians at this year’s re-
cnion: two score septungenarians
and more than 100 youngster* in
" Anie Btand
was basing the time of her life
renewing old acquaintances. She
voy#"
WEENT
FoRTUrE
the joint Consolidated-Leviogstom
group. This unit will handle all
solicitation among Consolidated
OLO TIMERS WHOOPED IT UP AGAIN SATURDAY IN THEIR ANNUAL REUNION..
Arthur Cochran Wos "Emcee" Extreme Left Oldest Woman, Mn Pocher .. In Loud Shrt Mayor
Caillavet Talking I. Oldest Man, Peveto
night. x
The Reds captured Carson early
Fridsy morning and held it
agatnst three counter-attacks by
Turk and American troops
Chese-quarfer fighting, much of
it at bayonet and clubbedzrine
range, raned on Elko and Yegas
for more than 24 hours before
the Turks and Americans with-
drew just before midnizht Friday.
Mundt (R-SD) said Saturday
"a whole new line, of argument"
against trade with Red China.
had been opened up by a Nor-
wegian-British shipping firm s
statement that one of its vessels
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disease, the hospital Mid. and
ar its onset has been not too
three was the smallest
A noticeable gain was reported
in the number of six-year-olds
who will enter school in Septem-
ber. List year’s census figure
showed 1,010 of that age while
this year’s figure show. ! 229 for
an increase of 219. These children
were born in 1947, after many men
returned to their homes from
lives at 810 Park avenue. ’
Not far behind Mrs Pachar was
Mrs W B. Boswell, 8a, of 202
’ Bradford Bruner eddition. who
' was uninterested in the orchid
presentatior to Mts. Pachar and
Monday at Panmunjom.
They believed the Reds might
tie showing mitaty muscle in
an effort to gain "face" and add
bargaining power at the truce
table So there was an alert foe
more such savage attacks else-
where along the 155-mile front.
The UN field commander, Lt
Gen. Maxwell D Taylor, said
there was no threat posed to th*
main line by Chinese Red seizure
ihedisqutea outposts since. ! Thursday andcrridar Koli ha
thl^rn'^'o^Al^ on ! 1 *«* Wiua 30
! guns and warplanes kept up their
Heavy blasting at three outpost
I ills-captured by Reds from Amer-
Thus far commissioners have
been concentrating on cleaning up
the Brownwood area. Commis-
sioner Peveto said today that th*
other th re* commssioners have
thrown their equipment and man-
power into the job, helping him
put flood damaged street* back
in, condition for traffic-
high-level talks in Washing-
ton and a South Korean I
threat of open revolt.pre- and helpswell the count’s
vailed as the UN truce team pre- . ., ______________
pared to go to Panmunjom Mon-
ComJSs1,think abot its new census figures, Telased1
Somewhere, someone gave me
some information . . . At lease
Current Figures
Greatest gains were noted in the
Orange, Vidor, Bridge Cit. West
Orange, Bancroft and Little Cy- ;
press districts Smaller increases
were reported from Cove. Mau-
riceville, McLewis and at Orange-
field.
Current school census figures,
with each district’s gain over last
building and preserving the
“That levee prevented what
could have been a serious health;
and-day work on the levee, they •
fell victim to polio. /
City hospital announced Satur- I
day that the cases of Melvin Ar- i
thur Coleman Jr. 30, of 444 Har-
rison courts, and Victor 8 Bowers,
25, of 324 Sproston courts ha»
inforced Communist battalion—
about 800 men — struck a UN
position north of Kumhwa at 1
a. m. It said some 200 hit an-
<4 her Allied position nearby at
•he same time. The Reds broke
off both attacks before daylight.
Chinese knocked South Koreans
off several outposts on a 20-mile
sector of the central front in *
6 500-man attack Wednesday
right The Republic of Korea
troops quickly grabbed back all
but a few of the positions. Hand-
severe is 78 Saturday she was meeting
HospNtal Supt. Mrs Bess Scho- again students she taught a half
field said case histories of both 1 century ago. Among some of her
men show * "history of exheus- i ex-students were Arthur Coch-
boom and
• service pay for itself that way.”
! was O'Brien’s comment Saturday
i as he disclosed the facts of a sur-
of Seoul.
Fifth air force fighter-bombers
Saturday hit the three wester
front outposts with more than a
quarter miHion pounds of bombs
pnd flaming jellied gasoline.
Allied artillery and mortar
pounded tha smoking hilltops that
' Turkish soldiers held before the
Chinese hit in waves Thursday
it found a way into my notepad
... A health mrvey has indicated
that 50 per cent of the Deweyville
area folks suffer the despondency
and absence of energy attributed
• to hookworm . . .
There pre several cases of
amoebic dysentery, one of the
most dreaded of all maladies,
equally as serious a bodily wrong
as.typhoid . . There are scatter-
ings here and thereof other ail-
ments of the human body all of
which are contracted either di-
rectly or indirectly by -flies, mo-
squitoes and cockroaches
is it any wonder sanitarians
are worried about the plight of
(See RAMOS, Page 2)
OLD MAN RIVER . . . He’s had
his way and at a terrible cost . . .
Uncounted hundreds of thousands
of dollars, the bill is far from
paid . . .
Flood waters slowly recede. in :
job’ already \ investigation . of the flood atea. o we • --
The Hurculean task of lexee | “These dirty fringe areas can tive for almost a month under
building was in Ehlers' estimAx vitally affect the health of the; normAl conditions ” "
tion the factor which saved mil-~ity rea (which Ehlers noted to
lions of dollars in the cost of san- he unusually clean by compari-
The county-Mid* increase
amounted to eight per cent, and
Peddy predicted that future scho-
lastic census figure* will reflect
TEXAS’ DISEASE WAR ACES MAP BATTLE FLAN FOR POST FLOOD CLEAN UP FIGHT
Jefferson County’s Thompson, Engineer Von Zuben, Dr. Key (standing). Engineer Wilson,
Engineer Ehlers (seated) _ _
_ - ships engaging in
Health Measures in Flood Areas Pushed
A .S. oein. to stuff is displayed. “It should be I city people daily,” he continued.
Orange . whagbtuitgainstnsnin " Mles and roaches," As an immediate precaution.
S sk " with Mayor s MX i Old Timers Stage
M. Ehles, state Unitary engineer Caillavet. Ehlers suggested that T0‘ 1 -
He was on handyto supervise an area-wide elean-up campaign reupsor von e should have a good AwwsnI nkenrunnen
the planning forOlenge’s fight be mapped. I yezune i0° advisedT “Fil Mt Annual Ubservance
against disease and peshlence and "I have noticed unusual •----- -----
was quick to command Nhe com- amounts of filth in fringe areas. "j
m unity far having done ‘ major Ehlers reported after a personal
after 7 p. m." daily ... the
request of Harold O’Brien
who is struggling to lift the
Orange City Bus lines from a fi-
nancial quagmire.
O’Brien will forward that re-
quest to Orange Citv commission
at its very next meeting
be better than $30,000 "
Already the mayor had the
figures on cost of sandbags
The city, he said. paid out
$24,000 for burtad bare alone. The
cost per bag varied from eight to
13 rents but most cost 11 cents.
The mayor said there were a lot
of costa to be addd to those fig-
ures
County Commissioner Casey
Peveto whose Precinct 1 bore the
brunt of flood damase feared to-
day that Brownwoed. damage
alone will cost almost $30,000.
Removing Levee
The task of removine the levee
thrown up along Bilbo street
proved to be a major undertaking,
the levee which emergency Volun-
teer hands hurled up against the
flood in 18 hours la defying re-
moval.
Peveto hired 10 trucks on Wed-
nesday and they’te still hauling
dirts as fast as they can, trying
to clear ths street Peveto said it
is being dumped back into the
hole it came from, at Knox and
10th streets where a highway de-
partment bulldozer is pushing it
back into the ground.
For the most part, though, com-
missioners said they couldn't tell
Reds During Cold Rain
lean and Turkish soldiers in the
sears heaviest attacks Thursday
and Friday nights. _
Allied troopi nevertheles5
The Orange Leader
^ber A.soc.otad Fret. ORANW. TEXAS, MMhUf MAY >1, 1W * **“
est hit of any Sabine river com-
munity from Mineola to Orange
. . . Sanitation there is normally
at a low ebb its people are
rural, its facilities are reminis-
cent of the dark ages . . . scarcely
a sanitary toilet in all the country-
aide .
Flood waters washed oat their
privies . . . human waste has
been scattered across whole
communities ... It has seeped
into wells, It will stand in
stagnant pools which already
are smelling like thick, scummy
•Id polywot holes . . .
Deweyville has reason to fear
this mess . . . Reason to fear it
even worse than the flood which
has struck and is passing . .
GENERAL LOSES JOB
MEXICO CITY. (AP) — Brig
Gen. Antonio Cardenas Rodri-
guez, chief of the Mexican Air
}orce who punched a news ho-
tographer several weeks ago, lost
his job Saturday.
LEAVES FOR LONDON
WASHINGTON, (AP) — Adm
Robert B. Carney. who has been
designated as the new chief of
Naval operations, left by air for
London Saturday to attend the
coronation of Queen Elizabeth.
Names Are Wanted
Did you help fight the rloodt
If so. th. Sabine Kiver u-
plained Rhee at a l
ceremony of the Korean Naval
academy at Chinhaie. “Choi said
year are as follows
Orange 4.778—422. Vidor 2,017
—140. Bridge City 787—85. West
Orange 758—00, Little Cypress 784 .
—88. Bancroft 485—58. Orange- . ——------,
I.eld 264—10. Cove 441—13 Mau- Delegate is Praised
ncevile 198—12, and Mauriceville » . ,
307-3. For Wrong-Doing
cent, Peddy pointed out He Mid j __________________________
iesasen, will Shw a number of AX Flood Fighters’
out-of-county students attending
the Mauriceville end Vidor schools
- and perhaps some duplications
caused by students moving from
one district to another.
Mrs. Rose Jones, 77. died in her
residence at Oraneefjeld Saturday
about 9:30 p. m. She had been Ul
several months.
Mrs Jones had been a resident
of Orangefleld for the past 18
years Prior to then she tesided
in Sour take She was a member
of the Christian church.
Funeral services will be held
in Fuller funeral home Monday at
10 a m. and burial will be held
in Bland cemetery.
Survives Include two daugh-
ten. Mu J D. Noblee of Orange-
field. and Mrs. George W. Hyland
Sr. of Amelia; three sons, Morri-
son. Harold and Bruns Jones,
three granchidren and four greet-
grandchildren.
iKr mat comossE
WASHINGTON (AP)—Pred-
dent Eisenhower may have to
accept a watered down version
of an excess profits tax extension.
If he gets one et all. Several
members of the key House ways
; and means committee stressed
I this point Saturday in advance
1 of hearings on the ontroversial
issue, starting Monday.________
Orange's hotel campaign, designed to raise more than a million
wu. n dollars toward construction of 150-room hotel, wax toeing the mark
le veralimnerease amounted . todxenzaatmzis Mmazgrsrie s’lrmger announced the names of
to Sightiy_more.than."cht.re managers and captains of five of the six divisions to take part in
I r r ■' ■ ...... general solication of funds apd
“ > was organizing th* sixth squad.
‘Forced at Gunpoint’
Claim Shakes Probe
WASHINGTON (API —Sen
much now as it was then," ex-
plained Ehlers “Ths phase of
flood fighting calls for strict
sanitation measures.”
He wenton to say that the
measures being taken in the Or-
ante and Deweyville area were
the same as followed in the clean-
flood last week.
Mayor Sid Caillavet said Saturday he had no way of know-
ing yet what the flood cost to tha eity would be This he did
know for sura, thought “It'll ’
Bus Service Conference With
t D A I J Principal Advisers
est flood in 93 years is immune I Q Se ASKed By ROBERT B. TUCKMAN
aww "" SEOUL (AP)—An atmos-
No bus service on Sundays ~ phere of crisis—accented by
or national holidays, none high-level talks in Washing-
g---e-gae-am
"-t . ^ ■ ... -
PUSAN. Korea, Sunday (API —
President Synman Knee said Sat-
urday that South Korea’s truce Shoffner, who has
delegate disobeyed orders in boy- many general sales campaigns
totting last Monday’s, session at ' similar to this in Orang*, thinks
Panmunjom — then in th* next , the program is off to *n un-
breath praised him for doing it. ! usually good start. Said he; “Ev-
eryone has appeared willing to
work toward construction of this
hotel Few persons hate turned
down our requests that they serve
on solicitations committees.”
; Stephenson has said the advance
solicitation has been ncouraging. ___
At the same time, Chairmen Ex.FoRNEST EWARPS.a.
Stephenson called upon all mem- SEOUL, (API — Chinese.Red:
bers of the executive committee threw fresh pre-dawn *ttacks a
to meet Monday at 3 p. m. in th* Korean central front in *gd.
campaign headquarters at Front drizzling rain today. South M0
and Fifth streets, 4 xean troops beat them off in two
Shoffner. who has directed and one-half hour, of heavy
I nienting
The UN command said a re-
"That means.” Shoffner con-
cluded, "that most people realize
the need for a hotel in Orang,
Eraduation ' and indicates a general willing-
ness te support one.”
Industrial Group
These aivisiog, their captain:
and workers (eight men will
serve on eech of five teais) will
be called into a general strategy
1 conference on June 5.
Stringer and his crews of so-
lictors are under the direct super-
i vision of E. H. Shoffner of Har-
risburg. Pa . who is associate di-
’ rector of the Orange hotel cam-
paign.
Meeting Set Monday
: Up to this point in the hotel
campaign members of the execu-
tive committee have been solicit-
ing stock participation from ma-
jor investors. $1,200 and upwards
And General Chairman Homer
— , . ; “KMers" showed W concern ’ was 85-year-olg Oscar Myers who
be unusually clean by compari- over the amount of Mmtary jliyes out on Bout* 2. Peveto IS
soh." sewage which backed into city I a city fellow, living at 402 Orang*
Eesidenta’ Aid Asked ______ _mig
---- „ “Th, and dirt in these period.
Situation and lota of disease, . fringe areas affects the people in —Wherever it showei
Ehlers observed. , I the city through files and roaches must be diinfected,
Ehlers called, thongh. for a The peoplewho live in it work
continuation- of the spirit which in town and nake contacts with (™ -A-lrAs-om
defeated the flood j - — “— -X- —- - — - " ■■-------—
Mayor Figures City To
er $30,000
Communist troops. .
"This is terrific," exclaimed
Mundt, acting chairman of the
Senate investigations subcommit- [
1 tee “It shows that ships going
into Red China ports subject
| themselves tq blackmail ' that as a eitizen of the country
He also said it meant Ehat ; h would rather face a court mar-
we. an. ... tiki than attend a meeting where
make themselves, patmmunan I dishonorable proposals are dis-
auxiliary fleet of Communist "
China because, If the Reds need U’’M
them to transport troops, "they; Rhee then said that Choi s ac-
can draw a gun and force them! ton amounted to high patnot- I
to do it.” ism."_________________-
City, County Heavy
what the damage would be until
flood waters are down*
Harold Carter of the Vidor pre-
cinct said he had considerable
damage in the Rose Citv area
where water was still waist deep
in some sections. I _ _
Orange sector believes he Nas “est Dies Saturday Night
eral bed washouts but won't be
able to tell that, either, until high
water from Adams’ bayou recedes:
Even Commissioner Ernest
Walla* has flood troubles Several
of his roads tn the lowlands in
the county's western portion are
still inundated.
up after major MiMissippi river
floods
Principally Ehlers ordered de-
contamination of everything the
flood had touched There is
contamination everyplace the
flood has hit," Ehlers explaired
He commanded extra prerau-
“now or never4' truce plan. . —
in Washington Saturday, Pres- j Y;
ident Eisenhower held a sudden 5
20-minute conference on Korea]
with Secretary of State John j .— =—
Foster Dulles. Defense Secretary Peddy attributed th* huge scholas-
j ^J^wi^h hisdeciston re- EomhssoArmnd .S3- oJf ......m " ‘ -ine conatruetien
sulted. . . staff. A White House source later
According to O’Brien’s audited : deciined to say whether th* topic
figures, the Orange bus system : discussed was diplomatic, mili-
has been a continual loser fori tary, or both. .
more than two years. This vean ' .There were unconfirmed ru-
he contends, the loss is alreadx mors circulating in Seoul that
greater than In the past year and South Korean President Syng-
a halr. man Rhee had carried opposition
Sunday Losses Heavy of his government to the plan
But, even with his proposed re- one step further by sending a
duction of bus service. O’Brien personal appeal to Eisenhower,
makes it a point to let the fact _2d (c
be known that Nis proposed dally | , A.threat ol, blgodshed acting
1 H^ld^
mg $78.35 per day for the past i dia: Sweden .and
two Tears They show an overall! Although, the plan ha not
loss of $1800 in 1951, almost the " been made public, except through
2.E3
*2v
5%
"That determinate and wi- Two Flood Fiqhters Pay Heavy Price
lingness to fight is needed as J ..
t.om" while ‘they
in ’ he job o: hnipi
dike which saved
j Two Riverside addition higb-
I bors. both young m*n. paH a
heavy price for their part in me ,
successfut firht to save theih det
homes from floodwaters qf th* G Ne
Sabine river ) ” at M by night- J tRe
their dirty path of shambles the ।
waste of a rich agricultural, m-
ustrial and commercial area stays j mm ■ ■ ■
a stinking mass of contamination. j (m geI meg I fl
d^^W^t^riood vUlDdCK in
which, damaging though it was
ir.- physical property cannot be-
gin to count up to the danger
now existant to the health of
were engaged rana, John Thorntn Lindsey,
ling to build th* Pete Dobbs Mrs W L Dowling
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