Mt. Pleasant Daily Times (Mount Pleasant, Tex.), Vol. 31, No. 193, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 29, 1950 Page: 1 of 4
four pages : ill. ; page 21 x 16 in. Digitized from 35 mm. microfilm.View a full description of this newspaper.
Extracted Text
The following text was automatically extracted from the image on this page using optical character recognition software:
Volume XXXI
NUMBER 193
• t"22
-r’k
6s
Settlement
e *
:" 5
=
-g,,-
1
■
aa
aried workers will receive an ad-
begin at 10:00 a.m.. and will form
ditional $15 as their allowance at the high school.
or
County Committee
The proposed building program I Negro students in Sunrise Addi-
the building and will be for the in Sunrise.
the
i
1
J
no
was
A
eemnmMw
n
NOVEMBER 1950
1
19 20 21 22 2
26 27 28 29 30
Chinese Reds Swarm Through
Breaks In Retreating UN Lines
$300,000 School Bond Election
Is Set At City Hall December 12
Hihgway Department Is
Upheld On Wage Stand
Steel Prices Expected To
Follow Wage Increases
UN Gloomy
On Korean
Living Costs
Soar To All 1
SHOPPING DAYS
till CHRISTMAS
Titus County Among
Those Designated As
Disaster Loan Areas
Air Academy Board
Not Decided On Site
City Employee Dies
In Pittsburg Wreck
Early On Wednesday
Chennauli Believes
Chinese Anxious To
Fight Communism
Oil Workers At Port
Arthur End Strike
• LEASED WIKI
■ING FEATUEES
(P) a INS. PICTURES
was
more
The board of trustees of the
Mt. Pleasant Independent School
District has set December 12 as
the date for a special election in
which a proposed $300,000 bond
issue will be submitted to the
Is Time To Keep Chin
Up And Mouth Shut
claim that the trial court had
jurisdiction in the case.
The Supreme Court’s action i
SEOUL, Nov. 29 (AP)—"Now is
the time to keep your chin up
and your mouth shut,” South Ko-
rean Defense Minister Sihn Sung
Mo said today.
He made the remark when ask-
ed to comment on Allied military
reverses in Northwest Korea.
MT. PLEABANT
THE MUB or
NORTHEAST TEXAB
for
na-
“a
BAT
4
L
more than 200,000 men was re-
ported using tanks for the first
time.
A spokesman at advanced Unit-
ed States Eighth Army headquar-
ters said one Communist column
had cut wtihin 30 miles of the
former Red Korean capital of1
Pyongyang.
He said the Red force was near
Sinchang, northeast of the old
capital, but did not disclose its
size.
At least three other Red Chi-
nese columns were reported roll-
ing down through the Tokchon
gap in wide sweeps against the al-
lies’ exposed right flank.
This was where Communist at-
.acks earlier had crumpled three
South Korean divisions.
Another Chinese force was re-
ported attacking for the first time
on the extreme left flank, but the
spokesman did not give the lo-
cation.
.0 I
f II
LJ
ba
”2
■
smam
gn
Sc •
1
8
15
,1.2
.-s
h
"e,
I '
DALLAS, Tex., Nov. 29 (P)—
Gen. Carl Spaatz and other mem-
bers of the Air Force academy
selection site board looked over
the Grapevine Lake area in Den
ton County, but had nothing to
say of their impressions.
The five-man group is inspect-
ing 29 proposed locations for the
Air Force academy which will
compare with West Point and An-
napolis with posisbly 2,500 stu-
dents.
Spaatz told reporters after the
trip to the 9,000-acre area yester-
day that the board would have
no comment until all sites are
inspected.
721
Ht. pleasant Aaily Uimes
____________________Mt. Pleasant, Texas, Wednesday Evening, November 29, 1950
MPOUl
building, consisting of six class-
rooms and additional toilet fa-
cilities for girls.
The construction of a new high
school for Negroes in the vicinity
of the present Negro school, with
six classrooms, bookroom, prin-
cipal’s office, boys and girls toi-
lets, dressing rooms, gymnasium-
auditorium combination and stage
and dressing rooms.
The erection of a two or three
teacher school for elementary
The Weather
East Texas—Fair tonight
and Thursday. No important
temperature changes.
will consist of the following,
Brown said:
The addition of eight classrooms
to the west ward building, four
of which will be built on to the
south end of the building for use
entirely by the first grade, and
will include toilets, coat rooms,
storage rooms and cabinets. The
other four rooms will comprise
a wing added to the west end of
PITTSBURGH, Nov. 29 (P)—
The mammoth United States Steel
Corporation today made an un-
disclosed wage offer to the CIO
United Steelworkers. Union Pres-
ident Philip Murray promptly
called his top policy makers to-
gether to consider the proposal.
The log-jam in the current steel
negotiations broke suddenly with
Murray reporting he was calling
both the USW executive beard
an dthe wage-policy committee
into session.
"Big Steel” then confirmed it
had made an offer. Officials
would not elaborate.
Negotiations on the union’s un-
disclosed pay demand have been
in progress between “Big Steel”
and the union since early last
month, neither side has ever
# PORTARTHUR, Nov. 29 (P)
—Local 23 of the Oil Workers In-
ternational Union, CIO, began
work yesterday under a new one-
year contract with the Texas
Company.
The ontract ends a year-long
dispute between the 4,500 work-
ers at the Texaco plant and the
company. Workers were on strike
116 days, but went back to work
while negotiations continued.
pouring in
a clear-cut approval of that claim.
The unions may seek a rehearing.
Two major El Paso County
highway projects have been de-
layed for about a year pending
outcome of the litigation.
poperty taxpaying voters of the
dirstrict. The bonds, if approv-
ed, will be used for a building
program. Trie election will be
held in the city hall.
According to Ray D. Brown,
school superintendent, it is the
purpose of the bond issue to ful-
fill the growing needs of com-
munity education, and the needs
are distributed throughout the
school system, and each indepen-
dent project is urgent.
The Rangcrettes. 60 girls in
all, are nationally known for
SEOUL, Nov. 29 (A)— Two Am-
erican divisions escaped south
across the icy Chongchon River
in northwest Korea today, but
Chinese Reds swarming through
a wide gap threatened to trap a
big allied force.
The Chinese offensive mass of
for the period between December
1 and next March 1, to be paid at
the close of the quarter next
March.
General Motors is granting its
workers the maximum allowance
based on the rise in the cost of
living index between July 15 and
October 15, having agreed with
the CIO Auto Workers Union to
incorporate a new rental adjust-
ment advocated by the Bureau of
Labor Statistics in compiling the
index.
The case may be different for
other workers whose contracts
also contain the cost of living
formula. In the event their em-
NN
A Chinese Red attack
WASHINGTON, Nov. 29 (P)—
The Agriculture Department to-
day designated 27 counties in
Texas as “disaster loan areas”
under its farm-aid program.
Farmers in these counties suf-
fered severe damage this year
from adverse weather and insect
pests. Those unable to obtain
credit elsewhere may obtain fi-
nancial aid from the department
to carry on farming operations
until new crops are produced.
The counties are Anderson, An-
gelina, Camp, Cass, Cherokee,
Franklin, Gregg, Harrison, Hen-
derson, Hopkins, Huston, Marion,
Morris, Nacogdoches, Panola. Ti-
tus, Polk, Rusk, Sabine, San Au-
gustine, San Jacinto, Shelby,
Smith, Trinity, Upshur, Walker
and Wood.
Previously, thirteen other Tex-
as counties were designated on
September 13 as disaster loan
areas.
g of two to three cents an hour.
The new index, covering prices
as of October 15, was 174.8 pei
cent of the 1935-39 base period,
4 an increase of 0.6 per cent since
' September 15.
It was 0.2 per cent higher than
the previous peak of 174.5 in Au-
gust and September, 1948.
General Motors Corporation,
first of the major auto manu-
facturers to adopt the cost of liv-
ing formula for its workers, an-
nounced immediately 357,000 of
its hourly-rated workers will re-
ceive an additional three cents
an hour. The boost will be ef-
fective with the first pay period
beginning after December 1.
so 3
t,“
-aak.a 2
ARMY LENDS A HAND—Some of Uncle Sam’s organized reserved
armored might joined in Pittsburgh, Pa’s., operation snowlift. A
Sherman tank is shown pulling a stalled trailer-truck out of the
snow and up a hill in the west end. Many more stalled cars and
trucks are behind this one. ( APWirephoto).
The Kilgore College Ranger-
ettes and the Kilgore College
Band are the leading attractions
The proposed bonds will be
paid off in annual installments
over a period of 32 years, at a
guaranteed interest rate not to
exceed 2.9 per cent. However, the
district will make provisions
whereby the bonds can be paid
off sooner if surplus funds are
on hand.
The proposed issue will not
raise taxes at all, the board of
trustees said. The district now
has a tax rate of $1.50 per $100
assessed valuation. Under the
law, 50c if this rate can be used
for paym. its of bonds. The pro-
posed bonds and all other debt
requirements of the district can
be paid with the 50c tax rate, the
board said, even allowing for poor
collection years.
The Titus County PMA an-
nounces the election of the fol-
lowing to serve on the county
committee for the coming year:
John T. Rust, Chapel Hill,
chairman.
Fred Traylor, Mt. Pleasant, vice
chairman.
A. T. (Buck) Blalock, regular
member.
Ernest Benson, Blodgett, was
chosen first alternate member
and A. B. Young, West New Hope,
second alternate.
The delegates making the se-
lection were Freeman Bridges,
Eli Roach, Wm. R. Price, R. R.
Cameron., Lenton Roach, John B.
Smelser, Sam Rust, A. T. Bla-
lock and Fred Traylor.
The new county committee will
meet Friday of this week, the
date on which they will begin
their duties for the year.
2ey '
%2
SUN MON TUI
5 6 7
12 13 14
- F--
*
the direction of Miss Gussie Nell
Davis and Miss Peggy Crowder.
Immediaately following the
parade, on the north side of the
square, the Rangerettessill pre-
sent a program, especially de-
signed for the Mt. PleasantflOm
signed for the Christmas program
in Mt. Pleasant, to the rhythm
of the Kilgore band.
tion, with the building consisting
of a surplus army barracks build-
ing to be moved to the site, as a
temporary structure until better
facilities can be provided.
Improvements to the interiors
of the present junior and senior
high buildings.
Purchase of future building
sites for a south ward school and
for the Negro elementary school
mounted by 200,000
troops, with more ।
-F
—eg
‘e.
gr wii
33848 8 388882828888
Approximately 80,000 GM sal- foxtthsatnnuay. ShrestmrsaParad
steadily from Manchuria.
The spokesman said six Chi-
nese armies now have been iden-
tified in Korea. Elements of one
Chinese army known to have been
in central China a week age, he
said, were attacking the Eighth
Army’s northern front.
The first observed Chinese Red
tanks were reported across the
Chongchon, rumbling from the
west on Kunu .eastern anchor of
the shrunken allied line.
Kunu was the escape gate
through which United States 25th
and Second Division troops pour-
ed after crossing the Chongchon.
The Reds were attacking from
three sides. Kunu’s fate was in
doubt.
The United States 24th Division
last was reported in the Pakchon
area north of the Chongchon,
guarding an escape route over
the Anju River bridge on the far
west or left side of the allied line.
The Eighth Army spokesman
said no enemy contact was made
Wednesday in the 24th Division
sector.
This seemed to indicate that
the “large enemy forces” reported
hitting the extreme left flank
might already be across the
Chongchon, somewhere near the
Yellow Sea.
The spokesman described the
situation along the Chongchon
line as “extremely fluid” and
“very obscure.”
He said the allies were trying
to stabilize their lines against a
concerted enemy attack.
Allied warplanes, grounded
Wednesday morning by bad wea-
ther, roared over the front
throughout the afternoon in close
suport of desperate ground troops,
but a heavy smoke haze over
the eastern flank hampered air
activity.
The spokesman said the Chinese
may have set fires to conceal
their movements.
Roads leading south from the
“The trial court in refusing
the temporary injunction after a
hearing found against respondent
(the unions) in its allegations as
to arbitrary and unlawful actions
on the part of the highway com-
mission.
“Our holding that the action
of the highway commission in
determining and ascertaining the
‘general prevailing rate of per
diem wages’ is final and not sub-
ject to review by the courts in
this proceeding, makes unneces-
sary any discussion of the other
points of error assigned by peti-
tioners (the state), and finally
disposes of this couse.”
The Third Court of Civil Ap-
peals had upheld the unions, who
argued the case was a test of the
commission’s minimum wage
scales throughout the state. The
highway commission appealed to
the Supreme Court mainly on a
AUSTIN Tex. Nov. 29 (A)—
The Highway commission’s right
to fix prevailing wage rates on
road jobs without being subject
to court review was upheld to-
day by the State Supreme Court.
It upheld a trial court judg-
ment which had refused to grant
an injunction asked by the El
Paso Building and Construction
Trades Council against the com-
mission.
The unions contended that the
prevailing minimum wage rates
for highway work in El Paso
County were the union scale of
95c to $2.50 per hour. The com-
mission argued that its determi-
nation of 75c to $1.65 was the
true scale.
Associate Justice Meade F.
Griffin’s opinion quoted the law
which reads: “The term general
prevailing rate of per diem wages
shall be the rate determined up-
on such rate by the public body
awarding the contract, or au-
thorizin the work, whose decision
in the matter shall be final.”
“We fail to see how more clear
language showing the intention
of the legislature could have been
used,” Justice Griffin wrote.
LAKE SUCCESS, Nov. 29 (A)—
United Nations circles privately
expressed forebodings today on
the chances of localizing the bit-
ter Korean fighting in view of
the Chinese Comunists’ unyield-
ing attitude.
This feeling previaled even in
those non-Communist delegations
that had urged bringing the Chi-
nese Reds to Lake Success in
the hope some conciliatory agree-
ment could be worked out.
Peiping’s spokesman, Wu Hsiu-
Chuan, blasted many of those
hopes in the security council yes-
terday when he made it plain
the Chinese Communists had no
jintention of withdrawing from
Korea. Informants felt is sting-
ing attack on United States poli-
cies in the Orient widened the
gulf between Mao Tze-Tung’s re-
gime and the non-Communist
world.
India’s Sir Senegal Rau, who
has been expected to take the
lead in conciliation efforts with
the Chinese Reds, said he had no
plan to confer with the Peiping
representatives today.
Britain, which like India rec-
ognized the Peiping regime, also
has no intention at this stage to
contact the Chinese Reds here.
The British here were closely
watching the outcome of the for-
eign affairs debate in their House
of Commons.
The grave concern here over
Korean developments was height-
ened by receipt of a communica-
tion from the United Nations
Commission for the Unification
and Rehabilitation of Korea,
which said in part:
“We began our meetings here
on Monday, following a tumult-
ous ovation from the people of
Seoul. We had high hopes and
still have them, but now we are
faced with grave news and we
have, of course, considered it. We
are maintaining touch with the
civil and military authorities, but
। we have lost sight of our goal
and we are considering future
action.”
Although it appears unlikely
a showdown can be reached this
afternoon, the United States
wantis the security council, as
soon as possible, to make a find-
ing on American charges of Chi-
nese aggression in Korea and thus
put on record the “conscience of
the people of the world.”
made any report of progress
The USW executive board cus-
tomarily meets following a ma-
jor pay settlement. Its approval
is required before any new con-
tract can be signed.
The action of the executive
board must be ratified by the big
union’s wage-policy committee
The group has been called to a
meeting tomorrow.
Union officials refused to con-
firm that an agreement has been
reached on the union’s demands
for “a very healthy and substan-
tial wage increase ”
The wage-policy committce
group puts the final stamp of
approval on such momentous mat-
ters as signing a contract with U
S. Steel or going on strike On
occasion, Murray his given the
public the results of the execu-
tive board’s meetings, but he of-
ten keeps the decisions a secret
until after the wage policy com-
mittee meeting.
Government, industry, labor
and the general public have been
their colorful, unique drills and
an honorary one, and composed
of girls in the Kilgore College.
They have performed a number
of times in. the Cotton Bowl and
Sugar Bowl, at the East-West
football game in Chicago and a
number of other outstanding ev-
ents in all sections of the United
States. .This drill group is under
TMU PA
2 3
9 an
shrunken front were jammed
with refugees. Allied convoys
rolled down clogged highways.
Trucks, jeeps and heavy weapons
inched along bumper to bumper.
The retreat across the Chong-
chon at Kunu was made under
massive Red attacks.
AP Correspondent Tom Lam-
bert, with the Eighth Army, re-
ported at 6:43 p.m. (3:43 a.m.,
CST) that the river-crossing
withdrawal in the eastern sec-
tor was all but complete, but a
Sotuh Korean division to the west
was still north of the river at
latest reports, along with the
United States 24th.
The ROK First Division was
fighting on the 24th’s right flank,
with its back to the river.
Homer C. Compton, City of Mt.
Pleasant employee, was killed
shortly after midnight Wednes-
day morning when his automo-
bile crashed into a bridge on
Highway 271, three miles south
of Pittsburg. Cause of the ac-
cident has not been determined.
Compton was alone in the car
at the time of the accident, which
completely demolished his car.
He sustained a broken neck,
crushed skull and numerous cuts
and abrasions about the head and
body.
Compton was born in Red River
County and was 26 years of age.
He is survived by his wife, Mte,
Flo Nell Compton; one son,
Wayne Compton; his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. C. A. Compton; one sis-
ter, Mrs. Ruth Phifer; and two
half sisters, Miss Lorene Comp-
ton of Amarillo and Miss Eura
Compton of Hugo, Okla.
Funeral arrangements were
completed for 2:30 o’clock Thurs-
day afternoon at Old Union
church, under direction of Rev.
Cleo Pate, Rev. Hull Horton and
Rev. M. M. McWaters, with bur-
ial in the community cemetery. I
Pallbearers for the final rites
include Mutt Swofford, Ernest
Swofford, Pete Irvin, Marvin
Bynum, Jack Rice, Tom Elliott
and Bud Elliott.
use of the upper elementary
school.
The construction of a home-
making cottage between the pre-
sent senior and junior high
schools, to be equipped with lab-
oratories for cooking and sewing,
a laundry and a living-dining
room combination arranged in
such a manner to be ideal for
public demonstrations.
The addition of a new wing to
the rear of the junior high school
The Eighth Army said the
ROKs at noon Wednesday were
holding off enemy attacks.
It was from this bridgehead
north of the river that a 110,000-
man allied force launched Gen-
eral MacArthur’s proclaimed “end
of the war” offensive only six
days ago.
The offensive stalled after two
days when United Nations forces
ran into masses of surging Chi-
nese Communists.
General MacArthur warn d
Tuesday: "We face an entirely
new war.” He called upon the
, United Nations and all govern-
ments to seek a solution to the
growing crisis.
There was hope ol salvaging
enough allied manpower and ma-
teriel to set up a winter defense
line and hold off the Chinese
somewhere in North Korea.
Military authorities considered
such a defense could hold with
allied superiority in the air and
in firepower against Chinese who
had depended at the outset on
the swarming weight of their
lightly armed foot soldiers. Now
Red tanks are reported in battle.
ployers do not agree to the rental
allowance, amounting to 1.3 per-
centage points in the index, they AE I f A ■ a:
will receive only two cents an MarKei ASSOClaiOn
hour increases, based on the ac-1
X rseann Has Been Announced
The figure on July 15 was 172.5
per cent of the 1935-39 period.
BLS reported that the main
groups of commodities going in-
to the family budget of moderate
income families were higher on
the average during October.
[ to
. 5, ghe
l.-skk----
"T-
9
federal government was pressing
for an early settlement and that
both sides were in agreement on
wages, but waiting for the corpo-
ration to make up its mind about
raising prices.
Steel executives of many com-
panies have said repeatedly that
any substantial pay hike will
force them to raise prices.
Time Highs
WASHINGTON, Nov. 29 (P—
The government’s cost of living
index today rose to a new all-
time high. Nearly a million
workers whose wage contracts
are tied to the rise and fall of
the index will receive a pay hike
ede 1N 2ge g .2 B ITX- 28
~.. . 4-2 . > , g
g . pgasg
3.", pg’enedimusdsdaca
*89 WinaabE3
watching the negotiations
their possible effect on the
tion’s economy.
There have been reports
i
SWEETWATER, Nov. 29 (A)—
Maj. Gen. Claire Chennault said
here today that “400,000,000 Chi-
nese are opposed to Communism,
and if I could equip the Chinese,
they could overcome the Com-
munists.”
The famed flier who organized
the Flying Tigers, said the Chi-
nese still will fight with the Un-
ited States, although they have
been “alienated ... as a result
of our foreign policy of waiting
for the dust to settle.”
Earlier, he was asked in Dal-
las if he would head a military
mission to arm and train anti-
Communist Chinese if the job
were toffered. "Certainly, I
would like to, under General
MacArthur, of course,” he re-
plied.
Chennault said he favors the
proposed Asiatic defense pact
which would parallel the North
Atlantic pact. He said the United
States should furnish the arms,
training know-how and direction
with the Chinese furnishing the
manpower.
aasaearas
Upcoming Pages
Here’s what’s next.
Search Inside
This issue can be searched. Note: Results may vary based on the legibility of text within the document.
Tools / Downloads
Get a copy of this page or view the extracted text.
Citing and Sharing
Basic information for referencing this web page. We also provide extended guidance on usage rights, references, copying or embedding.
Reference the current page of this Newspaper.
Mt. Pleasant Daily Times (Mount Pleasant, Tex.), Vol. 31, No. 193, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 29, 1950, newspaper, November 29, 1950; Mount Pleasant, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1483280/m1/1/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Mount Pleasant Public Library.