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NUMBER 49
62ND YEAR
Heavy British Voting
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100 Longshoremen Drive Through
New York Waterfront Picket Lines
Russian, Egyptian
Diplomats Confer
At Length In Cairo
Bring Much Needed
Moisture to Texas
County Attorney
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hit piers in New Jersey, Boston
and Albany, and threatened to
more, and Chester, Pa.
appeal was made to
and extreme east
portions tomor-
row. Moderate
north to northeast
winds on the coast,
becoming east to
southeast tomor-
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waterfront today when some 100
longshoremen drove through the
strikers’ picket lines.
The sortie, led by a supporter
of President Joe Ryan of the AFL
tight military and naval control Egypt broke off her 1936 treaty
of the Suez Canal zone, reiterat- with Britain 11 days ago.
to 33.00; stocker cows 20.00
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Hogs to $1 lower; choice
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18 Deathless Days
IN COOKE COUNTY
(Outside Gainesville)
LONDON, Oct. 25 (AP)—An unprecedented surge of vot-
ing in the British general election today cooled some of the
pi e-election optimism, in the Conservative party, one of its
officials said.
312 Deathless Days
IN GAINESVILLE
Keep the green light burning
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Crippled Korean
Railway System
Heavily Bombed
EIGHTH ARMY, Korea, Oct. 25 (A’)—Planes pounded the crip-
pled North Korean rail system today in one of the war’s most con-
-----centrated attacks.
center of the shack. He said the money in the other
jars was almost welded together by deterioration and
an accurate count was not possible.
Blocher’s heirs include two sisters in Kansas.
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PATIENTS REMOVED FROM BURNING HOSPITAL—This is a scene of orderly confusion
at the entrance to St. Paul’s hospital, Dallas, Tex., early Oct. 24 as nurses, Catholic sisters and
volunteer workers calmly and effeciently evacuated patients and furnisings from the burning
building. The fifth floor of the west wing of the building was destroyed by fire and for a
time it was feared the fire was out of control. All of the some 250 patients were out of the
building less than an hour after the fire was discovered. (AP Photo)
HAVE A
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By
BOYCE HOUSE
LUBBOCK, Texas, Oct. 25 m—The fortune of
Joshua Blocher, self styled the “Old Devil of Bailey
county”, was found yesterday three inches beneath
hte dirt floor of his Progress, Texas shack.
An estimated $10,000 in $100, $50 and $20 bills,
some mildewed and stuck together, was found.
Blocher 85, was found brutally beaten to death
in a cotton field near Muleshoe, Aug. 13. Charges of
murder with malice were filed Oct. 4 against Lester-
Douglas Stevens, 50, and Thomas Livesay, 29, both of
Amarillo.
Blocher founded Progress, but was never able to
build it into his dream city. It is still a tiny town on
the South Plains.
Stevens and Livesay have accused each other of
killing the old man. They admitted they got only 13
cents off Blocher.
Aged Man Found
Dead in Home Her
E. L. Glover, 80, of 307 We
Scott street was found dead
his home about 1 o’clock th
afternoon by his daughter Mil
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was last seen alive about 7 d. J
Wednesday. Justice of the Peal
Clyde J. Matherly returned I
verdict of death due to natur
causes at an inquest shortly aft
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rather than strain their vocal
spread to Philadelphia,
. Temperature—Today noon 61;
low last night 49; barometric
pressure 30.18.
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CAIRO, Oct. 25 (A)—Russia’s
envoy to Egypt met for 90 min-
utes last night With Egyptian
foreign minister Salah El Din
and Cairo newspapers erupted to-
day. with banner headlines on the
news.
Salah El Din said after the
meeting he and Soviet Minister
Semen Pavlovitch Kozyrev had
discussed “Egypt’s support of
Russia’s demand for appointment
of a Russian judge at The Hague
internatidal court and other
questions concerning Egypt.”
The independent newspaper Al
Ahram said Salah El Din, asked
whether Russia had offered
Egypt arms, replied that arma-
ment affairs were not discussed.
Britain, already maintaining a
scaled down,” he added.
A conservative official said
the number of people who cast
Bailey county Sheriff Hugh Freeman said .search , -Estimates.othe expected
for the money started Monday. The first jar contain- Tory majority have been
ing $6,000 was fiund yesterday afternoon about in the
light rain tonight and Friday.
High today, 70, low tonight, 53,
F ' high Friday, 73.
By The Associated Press
Shipping—A wildcat strike of
AFL longshoremen, now 11 days
old, paralyzed the port of New
York, and made idle some 30,000
of the east coast’s 65,000 dock
workers. The strike already has
at a Hudson river pier where the
liner Coronia had just docked.
Fistfights broke out. There was
shoving, yelling and gouging. No
one was seriously hurt, police
said.
Virtually all piers in the big
port of New York, including New
Jersey docks, and in Boston al-
ready have been shut down by
the strike.
A total of 122 ships have been
immobilized, some of them with
perishable cargoes rotting in the
holds. Tons of other freight was
piling up on docks at the rate of
$25,000,000AM) worth a day.
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NEW YORK, Oct. 25 (AP) — A
brief but spirited scuffle erupted
on New York’s strike becalmed
filling the 12 vacancies in the
Texas house of representatives,
including the one in Cooke
county, to be voted on November
13, would result in case the pro-
posed amendment to the state
constitution having to do with
pensions was adopted by the
people of the state in a special
election on the same day.
The amendment would elimin-
ate all requirements as to citizen-
ship and as to residence in Texas
for eligibility to receive old
age assistance, aid to the blind
and aid to dependent children
and would authorize expendi-
ture of an additional $7,000,000
per year for these public assis-
tance programs.
If this amendment is adopted,
a special session of the legisla-
tion to enact necessary legisla-
tion to put it into effect would
be required.
Now, the thought occurs that
should this amendment fail to
pass, there would be no special
session and the legislators elect-
ed would be such in name only,
until the end of their terms
next year.
Two men were talking. One
said, “My wife explored my pock-
ets last night.” His friend asked,
“What did she find?” The hus-
band replied, “About the same
as any other explorer — enough
material for a lecture!”
The young lady said, “All
extremely bright men are con-
ceited.” The young man said,
"I‘m rot.”
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FORT WORTH LIVESTOCK
FORT WORTH, Oct. 25 (AP) —
Cattle strong. Good and choice
slaughter steers and yearlings
31.00 to 37.00; common and me-
dium 20.00 to 30.00; beef cows
21.00 to 28.00; good and choice
slaughter calves 30.00 to 34.00;
common and medium 21.00 to
29.00; good and choice stockers
30.00 to 37.50; medium and good
stocker steers and yearlings 27.00
Bankers and Press to
Discuss Soil Saving
Claude Jones, chairman of the
bankers committee of the Upper
Elm-Red Soil conservation dis-
trict, has called a meeting of the
bankers and representatives of
the press within the district to
be held Friday at 4 p.m. at the
Turner hotel.
This meeting is called to dis-
cuss matters having to do with
soil conservation in the district.
Slight Damage Reported
In Two Wednesday Fires
Two fires were extinguished
with slisht propertv loss Wed-
nesday afternoon. At 2:22 p. m.
hot grease on a stove at Butch’s
Steak house, 110 N. Rusk street,
caught fire and damage the stove
and a portion of the wall. A grass
fire was extinguished about 3:40
p. m. on the Walter Lang place
near the Training School.
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Absentee Balloting
Opens for Special
November Election
Absentee voting in the special
state election on Nov. 13, opened
Wednesday, reports County Clerk
Tom Blount.
Absentee ballots may be ob-
tained at the county clerk’s of-
fice. Deadline for casting absen-
tee votes is Nov. 10.
In addition to the five state
amendments to be voted on
throughout the state, Cooke coun-
ty voters will select a represen-
tative to fill the vacant 46th Dis-
trict seat in the state legislature.
The vacancy was created by the
resignation of Austin Westbrook,
who moved to Wichita Falls after
holding the post only a part of
one term.
Candidates for the representa-
tive post are Richard S. Stark and
Cliff C. Gardner, both of Gain-
esville.
Gardner held the offfice for
four terms. 1042-50. vrhen he was
defeated by Westbrook. This will
be Stark’s first attempt to gain
a public office.
The five constitutional amend-
ments to be voted on in the spe-
cial election are:
1. Increase expendable funds
in veteran land fund.
2. Increasing size of old age
assistanre fund and relax rules
to qualify.
3. Retirement and disability
pensions for county employes..
4. Additional authority to in-
vest money of universities perma-
nent fund.
5. Increasing tax authority, from
three cents per $100 valuation to
50 cents for creating rural fire
districts.
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_By A. MORTON SMITH —
T HAS BEEN OUR under-
• standing that the need for
CQQKE COUNTY FREE LIBRARY
GAINESVILLE, TEXAS
to 280 lb. weights 19.25 to 19.50;
lowest price since December,
1950.
Ewes steady to 50 higher; good
fat lambs 29.00; odd good yearl-
ings 27.00; cull and utility
slaughter ewes 10.00 to 13.00;
good ewes 15.00.
Gainesville Produce
Prices paid by Gainesville
wholesalers to farmers and other
producers:
Butterfat: No. 1. 58 cents.
Hens: Light 18 cents; heavy
23 cents; roosters, 15 cents.
Eggs: No. 1 candle, 50 cents;
Turkeys: No. 1 toms, 20 cents;
No. 1 hens, 25 cents; No. 2’s and
old toms, 15 cents.
Green cowhides, 17 cents.
No. 2 candle 25 cents.
Pecans 15 cents.
over all the state. Light but
steady rains were falling over
most of East and South Texas.
Driven by southerly winds, the
rain was expected to move north-
ward across the state during the
day.
It’s the kind of rain needed to
break the worst Texas drought
since 1917-18.
At least five to ten inches of
slow falling rain is needed to
break the drought, Louis P. Mer-
rill, southwest soil service chief,
said yesterday.
In many areas there is virtual-
ly no sub-soil moisture. Slow
gentle rains spread over several
weeks will help restore under-
ground moisture, Merrill said.
But a three or four inch soaker
might produce so much runoff
that more rains would be needed
to help build sub-surface mois-
ture.
Only Southwest Texas includ-
ing the Rio Grande valley area
has received sufficient moisture
to brea kthe drought, Merrill re-
ported. The driest part of the
state is in the Dallas and Fort
Worth area, the soil chief said.
Weather bureau said rainfall to
date there was 11 inches less
than the normal annual fall of
36.11 inches.
Points reporting rain falling
early today were Beaumont, Luf-
kin, Alice, Palacios, Austin, Co-
tulla, Del Rio, and Big Spring.
Overnight rainfall at Alice
amounted to .21 of an inch. La-
redo had .18, Brownsville .12 and
Wink .11. Light rains were re-
ceived at Midland, Corpus Chris-
ti, Victoria, San Antonio, Cotul-
la and Lufkin.
Temperatures ranged from five
to ten degrees higher than those
of Tuesday. The maximum was
an 81 at Presidio white Big
Spring with a 43 had the over-
night low.
ballots between 7 and 9 a. m.
was “much greater than last
time.” The majority of these
early voters would be Socialist
government supporters, ballot-
Large Load of
Liquor Seized
Wednesday Night
Liquor patrons of the supposed-
ly bone-dry areas of Oklahoma
are due to go a bit dryer as the
result of some altert law enforce-
ment Wednesday night by Walter
Sparks, state officer with the
Texas Liquor Control Board.
Sparks, whose territory consists
of Cooke, Denton and Grayson
counties, was cruising on high-
way 77 about 7:30 o’clock last
night when he spotted a suspi-
cious looking panel truck about
four miles south of Gainesville.
He followed the vehicle into
the city and stopped the driver
at the highway 77 overpass over
West California street. A search
revealed the cargo of approxi-
mately 60 cases of assorted brands
of whiskey, valued at about $2700.
Clarence Charles Garretson, 47
driver of the 1949 Chevrolet
panel truck, was arrested and
confined to the Cooke county jail
where he is held under a $1,000
bond, charged with transporting
liquor in a dry area. Sparks has
also asked that a bond of $2500
be set on the panel truck.
Garretson who gave his address
as Oklahoma City, did not reveal
his destination, but it is believed
that he was headed for the Okla-
homa capitol city.
This is the second big haul of
illicit liquor made in the past
week by Sparks, who seized a
truck loaded with 205 cases of
beer last Wednesday in Grayson
county.
The liquor seized here last
night will be taken to Dallas to
the district office of the liquor
control board, where it will be
auctioned off to legal dealers.
Most of the funds derived from
the re-sale of such liquor goes
into the state old age assistance
fund.
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Wave after wave of fighter
bombers roared down on Red
rolling stock. Fifth Air Force of-
ficers said the Reds were sur-
prised and had no time to get
their trains into tunnels.
Nine locomotives and 99 rail-
cars were destroyed. Nineteen
locomotives and 129 cars were
.damaged.
Three brief jet battles were
recorded during the day. One
RuRssian made MIG-15 was dam-
aged. There were no reports of
Allied looses.
One F-4-U Corsair crashed
and burned in Red territory
after being hit by ground fire.
The pilot died.
A comparative lull fell across
the battle fronts as truce talks
resumed in Panmunjom.
Some sharp action came
southeast of Kumsong on the
central front. Tank-supported
infantry seized a Communist-
held hill despite strong Red re-
sistance.
Troops stormed the high
ground as American tanks hit
the Chinese entrenched in their
bunkers.
South of this peak, other Al-
lied foot soldiers maintained
pressure against Chinese forces
clinging to the tip of a high
ridgeline mostly occupied by the
Allies.
Southwest of Kumsong a tank-
infantry force probed almost a
mile deep into Red defenses be-
fore turning back.
Elsewhere patrols probed Red
positions. All met small arms
and mortar fire.
Ten MIG-15s made one firing
pass at F-84 Thunder jets during
the aftrenoon. They fled to their
Manchurian base before any
damage was inflicted to either
side.
ed her detemination also not to
be forced out of the vast cotton-
growing sudan to the south.
In the Sudan’s capital, Khar-
toum, British civil secretary air
James Robertson told the legis-
lative assembly today Egypt’s
cancellation of the 1899 condom-
inium agreement was invalid.
The agreement set up joint
British-Egyptian control of the
Sudan, which Egypt now claims
as hers' alone.
The Egyptians talked just as
determinedly. Salah El Din said
Egypt must prepare for a “long
struggle” against the British she
is seeking to oust from the Suez
canal zone and the Sudan.
He spoke before the national
pact committee, organized after
Truman to “stop the strike,” as
cargo valued at $250,000,000 piled
up awaiting shipment. Some 122
ships were idle, 114 of them in
New York. Federal mediators are
in New York. Rank - and - file
strikers stood firm in their de-
mand that the new contract be
junked and another one nego-
tiated.
Milk—A strike of 15,000 AFL
drivers and dairy plant workers
, cut off nearly all milk supplies
from 12,000,000 consumers in the
three - state metropolitan area
of New York. The strike was
called by five locals of the AFL
teamsters which demanded a 20
per cent wage hike. It affected
some 200 companies serving New
York City and vicinity.
Mediators attempted to settle
the dispute.
Breweries —An agreement was
reached today to end the 24-day
dispute that made 5,000 CIO
workers idle and disrupted pro-
duction at the huge Anheuser-
Busch brewery in St. Louis.
Three other St. Louis breweries
also have been shut down but
there was no immediate indica-
tion of how the agreement will
affect those plants.
Atomic energy—-Strikes slow-
ed operations at atomic energy
_• commission plants in Oak Ridge,
Tenn., Hanford, Wash., and Pa-
ducah, Ky. At Oak Ridge, 120
AFL painters struck yesterday
after dismissal of a worker for
excessive absenteeism. ' On Tues-
day. 370 electricians and 160
plumbers struck over unrelated
union jurisdictional disputes.
Railroads—The 75,000 members
of the Brotherhood of Locomo-
tive Firemen and Enginemen
were told by union officials to
plan for a possible nationwide
strike. No date was set. The
brotherhood has been campaign-
ing for a 40-hour work week and
higher wages for two years.
Rubber—Strikes of CIO United
Rubber workers halted opera-
tions in plants of the Ohio Rub-
ber Co. in Willoughbv, O., and
Conneautiville, Pa. The strikes
were over a new contract.
Electrical —Nearly 4,000 em-
ployes in two of the three plants
of the General Electric corpora-
tion in Fort Wayne, Ind., have
quit work in protest over a
change in methods on the job of
one man.
chords.
President Rigler announced
that the annual ladies’ night ban-
quet will be held on Tuesday
night, Dec. 11. Joe Leonard, Jr.,
Bob Lynn and William Powell
were named as a steering commit-
tee to initiate plans for the meet-
ing.
F. E. DuBois and Elbridge
Campbell were appointed to se-
cure appropriate signs to be
placed on highways near the city,
advising traveling Rotarians of
where and when the Gainesville
clubs holds its luncheon meetings.
Rigler urged Rotarians to do-
nate blood for use in Korea, when
the bloodmobile arrives here next
month. He also directed attention
to the financial campaign to be
made for Girl Scouts on Nov. 5.
Bill Lackey and a group of high
school seniors appeared before
the club and called attention to
the chili and pie supper to be held
tonight in the hish school cafe-
teria. Proceeds will go into a tra-
vel fnd for the senior class.
Visitors were Rotarians Drew
Calhoun and Emory Barton. Den-
ton and P. S. Watson. Whites-
bero: and Rovce Calvert Dallas.
Former Congressman Ed Gos-
sett of Dallas will be guest
speaker at the Rotary meeting
next week.
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Sullivant, president of Cooke
County Bar association, has beer
appointed a member of a special
committee of the State Bar el
Texas, it was learned here today!
The appointment was made by
Cecil E. Burney, Corpus Christi
president of the state organiza
tion. I
Purpose of the committee is
to coordinate the work of the
state bar with that of local bail
organizations and to keep the
state headquarters advised coni
cerning local conditions and ael
tivities. |
The committee is headed by
attorney Park Street of S a 1
Antonio, who is chairman of thl
state bar section on local baE
association activities. It is coml
posed entirely of presidents o
local bar associations in variouB
parts of the state. |
Mostly cloudy and a little warmer,
occasional rain east of the Pecos
Valley this afternoon and to-
night. Tomorrow, partly cloudy
and cooler in the Panhandle.
•Oklahoma — Increasing cloudi-
ness and strong southerly winds
today and tonight. Warmer in
central and east. Tomorrow,
mostly cloudy and turning cooler,
with scattered showers.
Lake Texoma — Lake level,
612.20 feet; temperature of the
water, 70; barometric pressure,
30.23 rising. Winds east 12 mph
today, south 10-15 mph tonight
Increasing cloudiness, occasional
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GAINESVILLE, COOKE COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY AFTERNOON. OCTOBER 25, 1951
Rotarians Enjoy
Musical Efforts
Of Club Members
The efforts of several groups
to provide a similarity of “bar-
bershop” music vere tolerantly
accepted by Gainesville Rotar-
ians Wednesday, because there
was nothing else to be done —
the singers were members of the
club and it was the regular meet-
ing date. There had been no re-
hearsing and the embryo Carusos
were called on without previous
notice.
John Campbell, Gainesville
band director, who was accepted
into full membership as a Rotar-
ian at the meeting, had charge
of the musical program. He was
introduced by Rev. W. D. Craig.
“Singers” summoned by Camp-
bell, four at a time, were Paul
Campbell. Ben Hendley, Roy
Wilson, Malcolm Garrett, Louis
Rigler. Ralph Buckhingham,
Joseph Carroll, Bob Brannan,
g-
AND THERE SEEMS to be a
strong probability that the
amendment may not be approv-
ed by the voters next month.
While the proposal calls for
the expenditure of $7,000,000
more annually for pensions if
needed it removes the citizen-
ship requirements, which would
make possible for elderly per-
sons and the blind from other
states to come to Texas and
begin drawing pensions without
qualifying by periods of
residence, as citizens of the state.
It may readily be seen that
such a situation might reduce
instead of raise the pensions of
citizens of Texas, because they
would have to share the pension
funds with all the newcomers
to the state who might come
here from other states.
Aliens from other lands would
also be eligible to receive Texas
pensions under the proposed
change — people who owe no
allegiance to this state or nation.’
It now appears that the au-
thors of bill were not the friends
of the pensioners or prospective
pensioners, or they would not
have proposed making Texas
pensions available to all comers,
whether bona fide residents of
the state or not.
ing before they went to factories
and industrial plants.
“Every indication is that they
(the Socialists) have succeeded
in getting put a big vote,”' the
official said.
Between 9 a. m. and noon, the
source said, the polling appeared
to be running two per cent
greater than in the 1950 election.
Conservatives said they were
confident that these ballots were
“at least evenly divided, if not
favorable to us.”
The source, who asked not to
be identified, said “estimates of
the majority have been scaled
down now. They are talking
about 35 to 45 seats.”
This estimate, in fact, was the
one held by independent an-
alysts during the past four days.
Conservative supporters had
talked of majorities from 70 to
100 seats.
Winston Churchill said he has
filed suit for libel against the
London Daily Mirror. The Con-
servative party central office
said the statement came from
Churchill’s London home. It
read:
“A writ has been issued on
behalf of Mr. Winston Church-
ill for alleged libel contained on
page one of today’s issue of the
Daily Mirror.’ ”
The exact nature of the libel
was not stated.
Prime Minister Attlee and his
family were among the first
dozen people to vote at West-
minister. The Labor party chief
cast his ballot shortly after 8
o’clock. He said “I never pro-
phesy.”
Election experts said the total
vote might exceed even the rec-
ord set last year when 28,769,477
(85 per cent) of the nearly 35,-
000,000 registered voters cast
ballots.
They based this forecast on
the fact that both parties have
conducted intensive drives and
on the belief that the funda-
mental issues have become so
fiercely controversial that few
ballots would go unused today.
From Buckingham Palace
came word that King George
VI, still 'recuperating from a
major lung operation, will re-
main awake until midnight to-
night to get election results. His
doctors have sanctioned the late
hour for this occasion.
Both major parties issued
confident statements predicting
victory. Public opinion surveys
ended with the Conservatives
still on top in graphs and charts
—but with the lead over labor
greatly narrowed in the final
hours.
Final messages from both
Churchill and Attlee tersely re-
phrased the.central issues. These
were:
Whether to continue the vast
Socialist experiment in state
control over business and in-
dustry or whether to restore the
Conservatives and return as’far
as pssible to a system devoted
to private enterprise.
9,
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$15,395 DamageSui
Ends in Hung Jun
A verdict was returned in
$15,395 damage suit tried Tues
day and Wednesday in 16th Dis
trict court as the jury returne
at 11 a. m. today reporting tha
they could not reach an agree
ment. I
As a result of the hung jur
the Suit will probably be cal
vied over to the January teril
of district court. I
Glenn Wheeler, the plaintiff i
the suit, charged that he suffere
injuries and that his automobi
was heavily damaged April j
1950 in a collision with a cj
driven by Paul Rivoire, J
Wheeler also charged that the al
cident was due to negligence cl
the part of the defendant. I
Members of the jury wer
O. H. Cason, C. J. Hinzman, Joli
Gray, Ken Heath, Raymond I
Otto, J. J. Weimer, Fred Henri
gan, Tim H. Osborne, John Hui
eycut, C. E. Lipton, Archie l
Pond and R. W. Wallace. I
Attorneys for the plaintiff we
Neilson Rogers of Sherman ail
Ray Winder of Gainesville. Ai
torneys for the defendant we]
Tom Unis of Dallas and L. g
Henry, Jr., Gainesville. B
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