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63RD YEAR
GAINESVILLE,.COOKE COUNTY, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1952
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NUMBER 106
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activity in 1953 will be
a floor
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Red Agent Kills Members
Of Plane Crew in Futile
Effort Reach Red China
Telephone Firm Offers
New Plant, Dial System
For Increased Local Rate
Sees No Plan
To Rush End
Korean War
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the door
hower ran far ahead of his tick-
et, there has been a considerable
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Judge Insists Housing Area
No Place to Rear Children
WEATHER FORECAST
Tonight and Thursday, fair
and cold, no important tem-
perature changes; 32-40 low
tonight.
Full weather report on clas-
sified ad page.
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shots . . . fired through the door.
“Diago spun half around, then
collapsed right in the cabin.
“I was told afterwards that the
—TOPICS
By A. MORTON SMITH
following the Eisenhower
slide.
More Conservatism
In Government
13. Although General
No New Business Boom
9. The long business boom fol-
lowing World War II was begin-
ning to run out of steam when
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HOUSTON, Dec. 31 (AP) — An
aroused judge, veteran of the
Texas bench, continued to insist
today that this city’s largest fed-
eral housing project was an unfit
place to rear children.
Dist. Judge Roy F. Campbell
cited 3,028 police cases which he
said had occurred since 1943 at
San Felipe courts.
He listed six parties involving
minors among the cases and re-
ferred to all of them as “crimi-
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- this week, we saw one of the
most impressive manners of
Pedro Perlas, to head for Com-
munist China.
“Captain Perlas objected and
the Communist fired two shots
into his head. Those were the
muffled noises I heard and that’s
why the plane seemed suddenly
out of control.
“It was OK again when the co-
pilot, Capt. Felix Gaston, took
over the controls.
“Right to the time he landed;
four and one half hours later, the
Communist kept his revolver
sticking into Gaston’s neck.”
Communist had gone
A connection between the Nile
and the Red Sea, in effect form-
ing a Suez Canal, existed at
several periods in ancient times.
under, and not a new stimulus
to, business activity.
10. Capital expansion will move
into a readjustment phase some-
time in 1953. This has been an
outstanding economic force be-
hind our long period of good
times. Nevertheless, I do not
now anticipate any sharp break
in business. If a slide starts it
should be gradual, not steep.
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lease, from Hiroshima in 1945 to
the Russian A-bomb explosion in
1949, was frittered away in idle
bickering. This time we will
have another “breather.” It may
be our last chance.
8. 1953 will be most important
in the struggle for World Peace.
We will need more than an H-
bomb to win the peace. We shall
need a great rise of spiritual
strength, which is not now evi-
gam in
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county agent, replacing B. T.
Haws as Cooke county agent.
Haws resigned to become Wich-
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“From your information, per-
mit me to say that I have no
fear of Washington.
“If you think Washington has
any authority over a state dis-
trict judge, you are grossly ig-
norant.
“If you were bluffing, I will
relieve you of the task. I shall
report it to Washington myself.”
The judge said his list of cases
was compiled from records of the
police department, crime preven-
tion bureau, county probation de-
partment, the sheriff’s office, and
the police morals division.
serious challenge to the B29s
with repeated firing passes. The
air force did not say whether
any bombers were hit. Bright
moonlight helped the Red pilots.
Bursting shells filled the air
around the bombers.
The Air Force gave no details
of damage to the Choak-tong ore
processing plant, a 105-acre tar-
get 25 miles southwest of Uiji on
the Yalu, and the 85-acre Wolly-
won supply center. The Air Force
said the plant processed graphite
before the war.
On the deadlocked battlefront,
big guns boomed before dawn.
Allied artillerymen drove off
small groups of Reds who probed
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and Wirephoto Service
the pilot, Capt.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 31 (AP) —
President Truman said today the
outlook for world peace is better
now than it was a year ago.
Truman explained, at his last
news conference of the year, that
he was referring to the outlook
for the cold war in all parts of
the world.
He said no new plain for
hastening the end of the Korean
war has been submitted to him.
But he added that obviously he
could not talk about such a plan
even if one existed, unless it was
something to be put into oper-
ation immediately.
Truman announced he will ap-
pear on radio and television Jan.
15 from 9:30 to 10:00 p. m. Cen-
tral Standard Time, to report to
the people on the state of the Na-
tion.
This address, he said, will con-
■ tain some material in addition to
. what he will give congress in his
formal state-of-the-union mes-
sage early next week. He will not
appear before congress in person.
The president began his meet-
ing with reporters bv expressing
sharp regret that Secretary of
Agriculture Brannan has had to
make additional resrictions on
imports of dairy products—as an-
nounced yesterday — under re-
quirements of the Defense Pro-
duction Act.
This is the wrong thing to do,
Truman said, adding that he is
not in favor of it at all. But he
said Brannan was obliged to im-
pose the new resrictions under
the law.
Truman avoided comment on
two controversial issues—General
Douglas MacArthur’ latest blast
at him and the status of diplomat
John Carter Vincent.
He had only a soft voiced no
comment when asked about Mac-
Arthur’s suggestion last week
that the president was using the
“bloody drama” of Korea “as a
means of self-glorification.”
MacArthur’s state ment
stemmed from Truman’s own
quoted remark to an interviewer
that the general “wanted to in-
volve us in an all-out war in the
Far East.” MacArthur retorted
that he had not proposed to ex-
tend the Korean war but only to
end it.
In the Vincent matter, Truman
said only that the case of the ca-
reer diplomat has not reached
him yet. His counsel, Charles
Murphy is known to be studying
the case.
A federal loyalty board • has
found there is a reasonable doubt
about the loyalty of Vincent, once
a state department China policy-
maker and now minister to Tan-
gier. It is up to Truman and Sec-
retarv of State Acheson to decide
whether Vincent should be fired
On other matters Truman sup-
plied these comments:
1. Prime Minister Churchill un-
doubtedly will talk with him
about such things as shoes and
ships, and sealing wax—a line
lifted from “Alice in Wonder-
land” to denote a variety of sub-
jects—when Churchill pays a
courtesy call at the White House
and has dinner with the presi-
dent, following his talks with
President-elect Eisenhower next
week.
2. If Sen. Robert A. Taft of
Ohio has his way, the country un-
doubtedly will get back on a
track it abandoned with the be-
ginning of the New Deal. Taft
said in New York yesterday, after
a meeting with Eisenhower, that
he expected a “progressive” Re-
publican legislative program
which “will put the country back
on the road we abandoned 20
years ago.”
3. The senate, said ex-senator
Truman, ought to find some way
to end filibusters. He declined
specific comment, however, on
plans by a group of northern
Democrats and some Republicans
to start a fight against the fili-
buster when the senate meets to
organize next Saturday.
At the outset, Truman declined
to make any predictions about
1953, saying with a smile that he
was neither a pollster nor a
columnist.
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TAIPEH, Formosa, Dec. 31 (TP)
—A Red agent fleeing the Phil-
ippines Tuesday shot and killed
two crew members of a passenger
plane in a desperate but futile
bid to reach sanctuary in Com-
munist China.
Nationalists air force fighters
forced the plane down on Que-
moy Island, a Nationalist outpost
just 15 miles from the Red main-
land.
The agent, Hung Tsu-Chun,
। was brought to Taipeh under
heavy guard tonight, along with
seven passengers who survived
the bizarre attempt at aerial
piracy.
Hung, 23 and good looking, ap-
peared unconcerned on his ar-
rival here. He smiled several
times and appeared in remark-
ably good humor. Police said he
was a native of Fukien, China.
During-the fantastic flight, the
plane flew over part of the main-
land. Communist anti-aircraft
opened up, but caused no dam-
age.
A final ironic touch was added
when the plane, a DC-3 of the
Philippines Air Line taxied to a
halt on Quemoy.
Miss Mary Alice Ireton, Bethel,
O., a passenger, said Hung ap-
parently thought the co-pilot had
landed in Red territory. He was
startled to find himself sur-
rounded by Nationalists soldiers.
Press reports from Quemoy
said Hung surrendered meekly.
Another passenger, Carlos Bar-
randa, 37, an insurance adjuster,
said trouble started just after the
plane took off on what was sup-
posed to be a routine trip from
Laoag in Northern Luzon to
Aparri, about 100 miles to the
east.
“About 15 minutes out of
Laoag I heard two muffled
noises,” he said. “I thought they
came from the engines, but after-
wards I realized they were shots.
Immediately as the shots were
fired, the plane plunged crazily
as if out of control.
“Then it righted itself.
“The next thing I saw was the
flight purser, Eduardo Diago,
kicking the door to the crew com-
Cox Burial To
Be on His Ranch
SWEETWATER, Dec. 31 (A) —
Ollie William Cox, 23, was to be
buried today on his Double Heart
ranch near the spot where he
flew his plane into the ground in
a fatal Sunday crash.
Meanwhile, complete solution
as to why Cox crashed remained
a mystery.
He told pleading friends via
ground-plane radio, “If you had
done what I did, what would you
do? You wouldn’t land. If I
come down I’ll lose my wife—
lose all my friends—I’ll lose ev-
erything.”
Churchill Sails
For U.S. Today
SOUTHAMPTON, England,
Dec. 31 (A) — Prime Minister
Churchill sailed today on the
liner Queen Mary for talks with
President-elect Eisenhower on
Korea and other world problems.
The 77-year-old British leader,
who also is scheduled to call on
President Truman later before he
takes a two-week holiday in Ja-
maica. was accompanied by Mrs.
Churchill.
The huge liner, which left port
here at 10:15 a. m. (5:15 a. m.,
(EST) is due in New York Jan. 5.
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1. Business will start the year
1953 in high gear. The pace will
slacken, however, as the year un-
folds, with total business volume
for 1953 smaller than for 1952.
The powerful supports of the
Great Boom — construction and
automobiles—will lose strength
as the year advances.
2. Barring World War III, 1953
will find business operating
under less government control
than any year since outbreak of
the Korean war. But don’t ex-
pect removal of price controls to
help profit margins.
Intense Competition
Predicted
3. Salient economic feature is
the fact that our productive ca-
pacity has now been expanded
to the point where, barring
World War III, output can take
care of both arms and civilian
needs.
actively at lonely Allied outposts
on the Western and Central
fronts.
At many points, and especially
in the rugged eastern sector, Al-
lied patrols barged into Red
groups and fought short, bloody
scraps by moonlight.
The Eighth Army announced
1,814 Red casualties inflicted in
the week ending Dec. 28, includ-
ing 1,092 killed, 711 wounded and
11 captured. In the final week
of 1951, Red casualties totaled
3,866.
A bright sun flashed off the
snow covered battlefront as the
year drew to a close. Tempera-
tures were higher, hovering in
the 40s.
plexion of congress. The margin
in favor of conservatism is not
measured by the slight excess of
Republicans over Democrats. It
results from the fact that sev-
eral Democrats can be counted
in the conservative column. The
emphasis will be on purifying
bureaus and commissions.
14. All government depart-
ments will be at the service of
the Republicans after January
20. Never before in the history
of the United States has a con-
servative government had such
a powerful bureaucracy at its
finger tips. In 1953 we shall see
the use of these bureaus to aid
rather than handicap business.
Hang Onto Your Job
15. Unemployment will be no
problem for the workers of the
nation during the early months
of 1953. The demand for and the
supply of labor promise to hold
in good balance. Later, however,
unemployment will increase,
reaching its highest point toward
the end of the year.
16. While employment runs
high during the first part of the
year, strikes will continue to
plague management. Unions,
however, will be cautious so that
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By The Associated Press I
EISENHOWER LUNCHES WITH GOP LEADERS—President-elect Dwight D. Eisenhower and
Senator Robert A. Taft sit with other GOP Senate leaders and members of the Eisenhower
staff at a luncheon meeting at Eisenhower’s headquarters in New York. Left to right: Sen.
Leverett Saltonstall of Massachusetts, who will be chairman of the Armed Services com-
mittee; Herbert Brownell, who will be Attorney General in Eisenhower’s cabinet; Sen. Styles
Bridges, of New Hampshire, unopposed as Senate President pro-tem; Eisenhower; Taft;
Gov. Sherman Adams of New Hampshire, Eisenhower’s special assistant; Sen. Milton R.
Young, North Dakota, member of the Agriculture committee; and Tom Stevens of the Eisen-
hower staff. (AP Wirephoto)
Ike and Taft
Are in Accord
NEW YORK, Dec. 31 (P) —
President-elect Eisenhower ap-
peared today to have satisfied
Sen. Robert A. Taft and other
senate Republican leaders on two
issues which threatened to cause
the new administration trouble
in congress.
The issues—(1) Procedure for
job appointments by Eisenhower
and (2) farm policy — were
threshed out at a 21-hour con-
ference the leaders had with the
general yesterday.
Taft told newsmen afterwards
he was standing by his Dec. 2
statement that Eisenhower’s se-
lection of Democrat Martin Dur-
kin as “incredible.”
Business and Financial Outlook for 1953 as Seen by
Roger W. Babson, Noted Economist of Long Standing
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nal.” Many actually were de-
meanors.
Included in the list he sent in
a sharply-worded letter to E. A.
Eversberg, Houston Housing Au-
thority director, were murder,
criminal assault to children, ag-
gravated assault, burglary, felony
theft, child delinquency, prosti-
tution and possession of narcot-
ics.
Eversberg said he didn’t intend
to take the judge’s remarks “ly-
ing down.” But he added he
would have no detailed comment
until he received the letter.
Judge Campbell released copies
to reporters before Eversberg re-
ceived it.
Residents of, the big housing
project, after tough talk at a
mass meting, recently asked the
judge to retract statements that
the place was an unfit one for
children.
“So far as I am concerned,”
Campbell wrote, “the remark
was true and I neither apologize
nor retract it.”
The 67-year-old judge had
made the original statement
about the project while hearing
a divorce and child custody case
in November.
He also took exception to a
notice he said the Housing Au-
thority recently posted at San
Felipe. Campbell said the notice
states that illegitimate mother-
hood, after tomorrow, will be
cause for immediate eviction.
“What greater insult could any-
one heap upon a father living in
San Felipe courts than this?” he
said in his letter.
Saying that Eversberg threat-
ened to take the matter up with
Washington officials if he failed
to retract his statement, Camp-
.jr bell wrote:
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To Form Cabinet
PARIS, Dec. 31 (P) — Rene
Mayer, the veteran radical —
Socialist politician, agreed today
to try his luck at putting together
a new French coalition cabinet.
He is the fourth to try since the
resignation of Premier Antoine
Pinay a week ago. His party, de-
spite its name, is somewhat right
of center. France’s humpty-
dumpty government fell apart
when Pinay resigned rather than
face certain defeat on his 1953
budget policies.
Mayer accepted the task after
a brief meeting with President
Vincent Auriol.
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An offer to construct a new
telephone exchange and install a
dial system in Gainesville was
dangled before the city council
Tuesday night by representatives
of Southwestern Bell Telephone
company at a special session to
further consider a requested rate
increase by the company.
The deal was prosposed by
Ray (Pete) Acker, Dallas, di-
vision superintendent of SW Bell,
who visibly impressed aidermen
with the best argument presented
to date for the proposed rate
hike.
Action of the proposition was
was deferred, but Acker said he
would be back at the Jan. 20
regular meeting of the council to
present a proposed ordinance in
regards to future rates and con-
struction commitments by the
phone company.
“I will commit to ordinance an
agreement to start a new build-
ing aid dial system, costing up-
wards of one and one-half mil-
lion dollars, within eight
months,” declared Acker. “I am
very anxious that any settlement
we make be clear-cut in order
that everybody will know what
is to be done. When we make a
commitment, we keep it. Last
year when we accepted the pres-
ent rate it was on the definite
understanding of our company
that we would not go on with a
dial system.”
After Mayor F. M. Aldridge,
Sr., reminded Acker that he un-
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has been done recently, it is
going to be necessary for per-
* sons who work downtown to
park their cars on residential
streets in close proximity to the
downtown area, and walk an
extra block or two to work.
But with the placing of new
* meters, quite a few residential
property owners have placed
“no parking” signs in front of
their property. According to
, CITY MANAGER HOMER BLY,
this action has no legal backing,
unless a drive-way, in use, is
involved.
If these “no parking” areas
are permitted 'to stand, the park-
ing problem downtown will not
be improved much.
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DEPORTATION ORDERED—
Serge M. Rubinstein, former
"boy wonder of Wall Street"
and convicted draft dodger, has
asked a U.S. District Court in
Washington to prevent his de-
portation. Rubinstein, a finan-
cier born in Russia and living in
New York, was ordered deport-
ed on the basis of his convic-
tion of draft dodging.
(AP Wirephoto)
By JIM BECKER
SEOUL, Dec. 31 (P) —Rumb-
ling artillery duels and Allied
air strikes opened the final day
of 1952 on Korea’s bleak battle-
front after B29 Superforts plas-
tered two vital Red targets.
A flurry of predawn ground
scraps ended at daybreak. No
major engagements were report-
ed.
Twenty-one Superforts from
Japan and Okinawa flew
through heavy Communist
ground fire and harassed night
fighters in their twopronged at-
tack. They dumped more than
200 tons of high explosives on a
sprawling ore-processing plant
near the Yalu river and a key
supply center near Sinanju. Si-
nanju is about 45 miles north of
Pyongyang, Red Korean capital.
Red night fighters offered a
New Officials to
Assume Offices
Here Thursday
Three new Cooke county offi-
cials will take the oath of office
Thursday to begin serving two-
year terms to which they were
elected Nov. 4.
They are Judge Shelby Fletch-
er, Sheriff O. E. Whisnand and
Tax Assessor-Collector R. I.
(Rafe) Piper. Fletcher and Piper
won the Democratic nomination
in the July primary and Whis-
nand defeated Emory Horn in
the runoff. Piper was unopposed
and Fletcher defeated incumbent
John Atchison. The latter will
be sworn in at Austin Thursday
as an assistant attorney general.
Also to be sworn in Thursday
will be Ray Winder, Gainesville
attorney who was appointed 16th
District judge by Governor Allan
Shivers to replace Ben W. Boyd
of Denton who was appointed as
associate justice of the Second
Court of Civil Appeals in Fort
Worth. An office is being pre-
pared in the Cooke county court-
house for Winder, a former
Cooke county judge and county
attorney.
Tom Blankenship will assume
his duties as commissioner of
Precinct 1, replacing C. T. (Colo-
nel) Martin, whom he defeated
in the second Democratic pri-
mary last August.
Whisnand announced Wednes-
day that his three deputies will
be Archie Nichols, who has
served as chief deputy for Horn;
Lewis Hillis and Claude C. Rob-
erts. The latter will serve as
jailer.
Two changes were announced
for the tax office by Piper. Jack
Evans will become a deputy to
fill the vacancy created by Pi-
per’s elevation and Miss Ida Nut-
ting will replace J. R. (Bob)
Little, who has announced his
resignation as a deputy in the
office, effective Jan. 1.
Mrs. Mary Jane Sparks, now
employed in the county clerk’s
office, will become Fletcher’s sec-
retary.
Another change in the court-
house family will find Gerald
York, former assistant Dallas
. were expected to add to the ter-
, rific carnage on the highways.
( The day started with 132 al-
j ready dead from holiday violence
. in the state. Of the total, 77 had
died in motor vehicle crashes.
Already there had been at least
! 33 homicides and suicides.
The State Department of Pub-
lic Safety predicted a total of 202
i dead, including 105 from traffic
accidents and 42 for the homi-
cide-suicide classification.
Highways slickened by rain
and fogged over windshields
were receiving a large amount
of the blame for accidents.
Drunken driving apparently con-
tributed its share to the toll. And
speed certainly was a factor.
Among the latest victims of the
holiday violence were the follow-
ing:
The Rev. Paul Anton Michal-
ka, 36, pastor of the Sacred
Heart Catholic church at Crosby,
died Tuesday in a traffic acci-
dent near Houston. Officers said
his car bounced across an inter-
section, into a ditch and rolled
on into a field.
Cleatus Earl Duncan, 67, was
fatally injured Tuesday night
when struck by two cars in Fort
Worth after he had gotten off a
city bus. He was crossing the
street when hit by a car and
thrown into the path of another
car.
Mrs. Stella Akins, 34, Denver,
Colo., and her four-year-old
daughter, Valerie, were killed
Tuesday in the mist and rain
near Centerville, Southeast Tex-
as. Two cars collided and . then a
truck hit one of the cars.
Rad Ted Miller, 34, Ladonia,
was killed Tuesday near Green-
ville when a truck skidded into
the path of his car during a
heavy rain. The truck driver
said he put on his brakes to
avoid hitting another car that
had stalled on the road.
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11. Big credit expansion has
been a powerful “shot in the
arm” for business during the
past two years. I predict that in
1953 loan repayments will be-
come more important than new
credit advances. This could
handicap over-all business un-
less advertising expenditures are
increased.
12. Under an Eisenhower ad-
ministration I do not look for
expansion of our money supplies
as a result of increased deficit
financing. Thus, another stimu-
lating force will be absent next
year despite the better confidence
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TVHE CITY HAS PLACED
L parking meters in a large
number of locations on the mar-
ket square as well as in a num-
ber of new locations on business
streets in close proximity to the
court house square.
We believe that this move-
ment, while oprosed by some
persons, will provide parking
space for a great many more
'" downtown shoppers, because
previously, motor vehicles were
left parked on these streets for
(hours at a time.
But we think that two addi-
tional steps should be taken in
the near future.
One is the placing of meters
a around the court bourse which
is legal according to a recent
The successful businessman next
year will be the one who can
control his costs and stay out
front in his market.
5. I strongly urge my business
friends to get out and sell, and
sell hard next year; but hire the
Strikes in
Violent death in Texas in-
creased rapidly New Year’s Eve
and climbed toward a possible
record as celebrants jammed
traffic-cluttered streets and high-
ways.
Knife and gun play at dance
Keep the green light burning . . .
don’t cause the’ red light to burn
for you.
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warning motorists of a traffic
hazard.
A new bridge is being built
across a small stream and while
the work is in progress, there
is one-way traffic with meager
protection from going off the
bridge. i
But down the road in each di-
rection from the bridge are
large signs which read: “Sudden
death, 1,000 feet.” (
We observed that motorists
quickly slowed down after read-
ing the sign. And the one-way
traffic was handled by a regu-
lar traffic light, letting traffic
from one direction move for
awhile and then reversing the
flow.
court decision, and which is
now awaiting the action of the
commissioners court on a peti-
tion presented by business me.
The other is the discourager
ment of the placing of “no park-
dug” signs in front of residences
by property owners in close
proximity to the business dis-
trict.
When additional meters are
placed on business streets as
4. The handwriting is on the dent,
wall against inefficient opera-
tors. Their days are numbered.
derstood that C. L. Stewart, for-
mer division superintendent, had
promised a dial system for the
city when an increase was grant-
ed in 1948.
Acker admitted that there had
been considerable misunderstand-
ing oyer Stewart’s letter to the
council at that time and added
that the statement was “weak.”
However, he denied that the let-
ter constituted a definite commit-
ment.
“If the council accepts the
proposal, Acker said an interim
rate increase of $1 per month
on business phones arid 50 cents
across the board on residential
phones would be requested by
the company. The remainder of
the rate increase would be nego-
tiated to go into effect when
dial service actually goes into
use.
The phone company has asked
for a rate increase of approxi-
mately 33-1/3 per cent on most
local service. Such a rate, if
granted, would hike the cost of
business phones from $7.50
monthly to $10 and a single
party residence phone from
$3.75 to $4.25.
“If we are granted an increase
here, we plan to establish four-
party circuits at a monthly rate
of $2.75 per phone in order to
protect those in lower income
brackets,” Acker continued.
These four-party circuits would
be installed immediately after
the ordinance is adopted.
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Much more effective, to be
sure, than flagmen.
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the Korean war gave it a new
lease on life. However, the stim-
ulus of defense spending is al-
readv fading. Barring further
international • troubles, defense
ers” will find fewer jobs as 1953
moves along.
War and Peace
6. My forecasts for 1953 are
made on the assumption that
World War III will not strike
during the year. However, I want
to make it clear that “all bets
are off” the day Stalin dies or
retires.
7. The H-bomb gives us an-
other lease on time. Our first
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