Mt. Pleasant Daily Times (Mount Pleasant, Tex.), Vol. 31, No. 29, Ed. 1 Monday, April 24, 1950 Page: 4 of 6
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Prosecution Closes
Case In The Trial Of
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Pennsylvania Lines
Order Halt To Long
Haul Passenger Runs
THROWN FROM CAR she was driving when It was struck by a truck.
Lisa Forgrove, 10, grimaces with agony as she is placed on a
stretcher in New York. She is suffering fractured ribs and hips and
Mr. and Mrs. James Ard and
sons returned to their home in
Haskell after spending the week-
end with relatives and friends.
hogs, chickens, dog or cat,
cow and no work animals.
He tills the rocky soil with
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Natural gas from the rich fields of East Texas and water from
Lake Cherokee are combined under the direction of men and
machines to produce electric power for the progress of East
Texas and the southwest
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push plow. There’s a pool of wa-
ter near his house. He dammed
a little stream to make it.
Asked why he quit the world,
Gilbert said he left the U. S.
Army 22 years ago and bought
the tract of land on which he
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Graham
of Dallas spent Sunday in the
home of the latter’s brother. L.
W. Cass.
FRIENDS IN NEED
ELKHART, Ill., (P) — Luck for
Maurice Tierney took a brighter
turn when fellow workers got to-
gether to help him remodel his
house. Tierney has had misfor-
tune dogging his steps ever since
he fractured an ankle at the start
of the prqject last March. Since
then he had appendicitis, and la-
ter a dislocated shoulder.
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Southwestern will continue to plan and to build ahead to
assure plenty of electric power for every need.
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MEDICAL BILLS!
Knox Lee plant represents an investment of millions of dol-
lars, belonging to many people. These investors and the men
and women of Southwestern Gas and Electric Company have
faith in the future of the southwest. Faith enough to build a large
new power plant and miles of transmission lines.
CHICAGO, (AP)— A letter ad-
dressed to the Chicago police
commissioner set forth: “I do not
know how to make out my income
tax. I made in 1949 $1,223.19 and
$15.20 was withheld out. Would
you please figure this out for
me? In reply, a clerk told the
writer, a woman, that some other
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he relights it by beaming sun-
light through a magnifying glass.
He wears only britches and a
cap. He made them from cotton
he grew, picked, ginned, carded
and spun into thick cord.
He makes “coffee” from dried
okra. Home-grown wheat and
corn are ground into meal and
flour by mills he built himself.
The only sweet in his diet is mo-
lasses, which he makes from the
juice of sorghum he raises.
Gilbert lives on vegetables ex-
cept for possums and squirrels
he shoots occasionally. He has no
E LECTRTCITY from the new Knox Lee plant is now furnish-
ing lights and spinning electric motors on the farm, in the home
and in business anil industry.
One 47,000-horsepower generating unit is in operation and
erly next year another similar sized unit will be installed to
increase capacity to 94,000 horsepower.
With two generators installed Knox Lee plant will have a
capacity for supplying the entire electric demands of an average
city of 175,000 to 200,000 population. Each unit burns gas at
the rate of 9 million cubic feet every 24 hours, an amount equal
to the total consumption of an average city of 25,000 population
on a winter day. A total of 45,000 gallons of water is pumped for
cooling purposes through each unit every minute.
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'It Pleasant. Texas, Daily Times Mondas Evening, Apri ’’4. 1950
A peaked leather-soled shoe
called the Cracowe was consider-
ed the height of fashion during
the Middle Ages. Its point was
so long that a chain tied around
the knee help up the toe.
PHILADELPHIA, April 24 (A”)
—The Pennsylvania Railroad, act-
ing in advance of a threatened
strike of locomotive firemen, to-
day ordered a halt of its long
distance passenger trains and all
its western freight service to-
nig it.
Walter S. Franklin, president
of the nation’s largest railroad,
said the move was taken to “as-
sure that no passengers are left
stranded short of their final ter-
minals of their trains.”
“Long distance passenger trains
will cease operations on an order-
ly schedule,” Franklin said.
Under his plan, PRR will halt
nearly all its long distance trains
tonight. Some will make their
last runs early tomorrow morn-
ing.
The strike, called against seven
rail lines, becomes effective at
6:00 a.m., EST. Wednesday.
All of the PRR’s vast network
of freight operations will be halt-
ed at 12:01 a.m., EST, tomorrow.
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WASHINGTON, April 24 (P)—
The government finished present-
ing its perjury case against John
Maragon today and the defense
immediately asked a “judgment
of acquittal” for the one-time fre-
quenter of the White House.
Maragon’s lawyer, Irvin Gold-
stein, still was arguing that Fed-
eral Judge Jennings Bailey should
order his client acquitted when
court recessed for lunch.
The government abandoned one
of four charges that Maragon lied
to Senate investigators last year
about his business and financial
affairs. It dropped an accusa-
tion that he perjured himself in
saying that $5,000 he got from his
mother-in-lalw last year was a
loan. The mother-in-law is ill
and could not be brought here
to testify.
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bills or loss of income if you
should be disabled by sick-
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up, freedom from financial
worry may actually speed
your recovery. Accidents do
happen, sickness can strike.
Medical payments and loss-
of-time benefits can protect
your family from a financial
blow. For complete details,
get in touch with ...
C. L. Duncan
Insurance Co
WINNSBORO, Tex. (P)— One
of the world’s wealthiest hermit
lives in the middle of the Tide-
water Oil Field, a few miles east
of here. He is Ledger Gilbert, 51.
His 26 acres are worth an es-
timated $75,000.
Yet he lives in a log house he
made himself and he buys noth-
ing except rock salt, the kind
cattle lick.
When oil was struck in his
neighborhood, oil men needed to
lease his small acreage to com-
plete a 40-acre tract for develop-
ment purposes. Gilbert finally
signed a lease when the oil men
promised no wells would be drill-
ed on his property.
He wouldn’t accept any lease
money. "Keep it for me,” Gilbert
told them.
His home has no gas, plumbing
or electricity. Jus* a fireplace.
He won’t even buy matches.
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WASHINGTON, April 24 (A)—
The government today asked a
two-week postponement of the
strike set for Wednesday on sev-
eral major railroads.
Francis A. O’Neill Jr., chair-
man of the National Mediation
Board, made the requert in a
telegram to David B. Robertson,
president of the strike-threaten-
ing Brotherhood of Locomotive
Firemen and Enginemen.
O’Neill offered the board’s “ser-
vices” during the proposed two-
week truce period to settle the
dispute at issue, the union's de-
mand for assignment of a second
fireman to diesel locomotives.
The government request for the
strike postponement came at a
time when the four major rail-
roads to be affected iwere cur-
tailing services in anticipation. of
the walkout.
The strike is set for 6:00 a.m.,
local time, Wednesday, on parts
of the Pennsylvania system. New
York, Central, Southern Railway,
and the Atchison, Topeka and
Santa Fe.
O’Neill said Robertsc n and his
top union aides probably will con-
sider the government request at
a meeting in Chicago this af-
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Gilbert is an educated man,
reads books on chemistry which
he keeps in a cabinet in his
shack.
He never goes any place now.
His contacts with civilization
have not been pleasant, he said.
Three or four years ago, he
bought $3 worth of groceries and
got food poisoning. More recent-
ly he ate a carton of ice cream
someone brought him and he said
he believed it permanently af-
fected his eyesight. Last winter,
he wanted some magazines and
went to the home of a neighbor
where a member of the family
was suffering from mumps.
That was the last straw, for
Gilbert came down with mumps.
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DETROIT, April 24 (A)—' The
CIO United Auto Workers Un-
ion had a “new approach” to
disputed issues on the bargaining
table today as negotiations in the
91-day-old Cinrysler: strike re-
sumed.
The union had indicated yes-
terday it was willing to go at
least halfway with Chrysler
Corporation to snap what federal
mediators have termed a “hope-
lens deadlock."
No details of the new union
suggestion were made known
w hen the company and union
wound up Sunday’s day-long ne-
gotiations.
Non-economic issues apparent-
ly were snagging a settlement
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Cross, G. W. Mt. Pleasant Daily Times (Mount Pleasant, Tex.), Vol. 31, No. 29, Ed. 1 Monday, April 24, 1950, newspaper, April 24, 1950; Mount Pleasant, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1552985/m1/4/: accessed August 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Mount Pleasant Public Library.