Cleburne Times-Review (Cleburne, Tex.), Vol. 44, No. 274, Ed. 1 Monday, October 3, 1949 Page: 1 of 6
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44TH Y^AR, NO. 274
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CLEBURNE, TEXAS, MONDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1949
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They're Gunning For Success
'Good Neighbors'
Work For Farmer
Personal Property
Listings Zoo-Like
Brooklyn, N. Y, said the bus driver, 1
another airman, was unsure of the |
way and that the laughing, joking
passengers had shouted directions. 1
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FATAL SHOOTING
HOUSTON, Tex.,
A 2-year-old Latih-
in a hospital here j
like to see
farmers be-
lt this time
small frame
Firemen «
pull Mrs. Grant out of the house.
When the flames subsided, there
was nothing left of the life's sav-
ings but ashes--and one melted
nikel
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eluded 11 dogs, vadlued at —
168 hogs, valued at $3,060; 324
sheep, at $6950: Md horses
and mules, at $15,150 and $20,-
Gilbert said they were hedi
Crystal Mountain, five mea
towering Mount Rainier, whe
mishap occurred. -----fetF
BOATMAN DROWNS
SEOUIN, Oct. 3--3UR--Theodore
Fire Destroys
Life's Savings
Lowly Peanut Gets Lots of Attention Now
The once lowly peanut would fill out the kernels and takes a sample of the nuts. The into a bag. The nuts remaining
give the crop a better grade.
Government inspectors will
grade all peanuts produced here
this year. Heretofore, the pea-
pounds of the nuts,
the test is made.
its are poured from
on a flat-topped ta-
which came into Ito own during
the war yuan, is receiving a
great deal of attention as one
of the nation's major crops to-
day.
Local peanut growers breathed
a little easter at noon today as
threatening rain clouds light-
ened Growers have had ideal
-----FATAL MITCH-IIKE -----------------------------
Crooner Buddy Clark Dies When
Plane Crushes On Paved Street
the penona property roll for
a toted of $1,126,610, a check
revealed today.
Other porsonal propertr.in-
this country.
But no one wants to see seurity-
mindedness dominate our whole
thinking. Democracy has been de-
CRASH VICTIM DIES
•SAN ANTONIO. Oct 3-.R. A
victim ot a train-car erash at a
grade crossing last night died today
to bring San Antonios traffic fa-
talities to 35 for the year.
The victim was Fred Gess, 62.
The engineer of the Southern Pa-
cific train said the car was stalled
on the track at the crossing and
be was not able to stop the train in
time to avoid the collision.
have planned to stage the parties
every two weeks. A total of 13
games will be -played during the
evening, with the guests receiving
many valuable gifts.
Court Justice
Badly Injured
YAKIMA, Wash, Oct a-a
Supreme Court Juatice Wilam
Douglas was reported to "sati
tory" condition today at It Bl
bath's Hospital where he was to
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different sacks, scattered through
the load. To obtain the sample
the inspector, equipped with a
galvanized bucket and a sharp
pocket knife, climbs on the
truck and, ripe open bag after
bag of the peanuts and scoops
several • double handfuls into
the bucket The bucket wfU hold
Sound Alarms
CORPUS CHRISTI, Tex,,
Oct. 3—• The Texas Gulf
Coast battened down to-
day as a hurricane with 90-
mile-an-hour winds hurled
giant tides against the
shores and drove shipping
to cover.
WASHINGTON, Oct 9-U.R—Mra
Lillie Mae Grant made only MM
a week as a charwoman in the Navy
Department's Building ‛1, but she
managed to save a little of it each
week'. . ’ ______._______d
She tucked away her slim savings
under four layers of linoleum in
the' kitchen ot her home. She didn't
bother taking the money to a bank
because it was "too ‘Iconvenient."
Her hoara grow to $3,700 la 11,
910. $20 and $100 bills There were
a few coins, too.
Then yesterday while Mrs. Grant
and her nephew were changing a
fuel container on the oil stove,
something went wrong. Fire broke
out and quickly swept through the
left arm, body bruises, and cuts.
The phot. James Hayter, 27- -
cuts and brulses.
All are expected to recover.
The plane was out of gas when
it cracked up.
"We knew about a minute and
a half befor we crashed that we
were going down," Hayes said.
"The pilot mumbled something
about a tael line. Then ho told
us to tighten our safety belts.
"A few seconds later he yelled:
'Hold on tight!'
"There was absolutely no con-
versation after that. Nobody said
a word."
The plane sheared off treetops,
plowed through telephone wires
and crashed Into the empty in-
tersection, scattering wreckage
for two blocks
"People would yell out, 'turn
left,' or 'turn right,' " Grisolia said.
"Just before we were hit, someone
said, ‘turn left,' and I closed my
eyee because I was sleepy.”
Thrown from Bus
shrown tom the hus
The bus driver, identified tenta-
tively as Gordon C. Crimin, was
pinned in the wreckage and torches
had to be used to cut his body free.
• Hall said he was picking up speed
after clearing Ontario when the
bus appeared at the grade crossing
near Ontario International Airport.
The bus stopped, he said, and then
started "creeping slowly forward
toward the tracks."
"I began to blow the whistle,".
Hail said. "When I mw that it wasn’t
going to stop, I slammed on the air
brakes but it was too late."
The train, the Union Pacific Railroad’s "Pony Ex- t
press," slammed into the bus at 73 miles per hour as
Engineer A. A. Hall of Los Angeles slammed on the
brakes in an attempt to halt it.
The Impact tangled the bus wreckage on the front 1
of the engine and torches had to be used to cut it away. '
Some vicitims were Impaled on the engine. Mangled :
bodies, legs and arms littered the right-of-way for 500
feet.
The bus, en route to March ‘Air Base, was onia
side excurision to return the girls to their homes at
Ontario and Upland, Cal., after the day's outing at Corona
Del Mar, a nearby beach.
Sgt Peter A. Grlaolla, >1, of
bullet woundc received m a cafe
fight s week ago.
Cipriano Castilid was found on
a sidewalk outside the cafe, and
police have hunted a man who re-
portedly argued with Castillo just
before gunshots were heagd.
Appears Unhurt
OKLAHOMA CITY, Oct 4 (U. -
.Lieut. James R. Risner, 24, Air
National Huard flier missing since
last Thursday, rode into Tampico,
Mexico yesterday on horseback to
report that he had landed his fuel-
less /lane on a beach some 100
miles south of Brownsville, Texas.
Risner was reported missing
Thursday afternoon on a routine
navigational flight from Will Rog-
ers Field, Oklahoma City, to Corpus
Christi, Texas, Naval base. He
missed Corpus Christi by a few
miles and kept flying until his gas
supply gave out, he told his fami-
ly here by telephone late yester-
day.
Jchnsea County tax
iow S,160 autos registered en
2d
a been graded by the
il buyers. The testing
Ing will be done by the
mt men at a neutral
vhich Win be located at
of South Main Street
have been tested at the
rowers Supply Ware-
V. Dzlewas, 01, of San
drowned in nearby Lain
late yesterday when he ws
into the lake by a collioi
speedboat with an outbog
boat piloted by a 17-yearro
youth. The Seguin youti____
to swim to shore. The body of t
San Antonio man was recover
two hours after the abeident
"Nolmgrmeewasroportga.
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Texas coastal area prepared
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in the summertime when there was
no snow on the ground." Gilbert
said. .
Labor Picture
Vacate Town Remains Dark
admirably represents the will to
succeed, to fight against odds for
small gains, to exert energy and.
wit to the limit of individual re-
sourcefulness.
In many quarters of the world the
big cry now is "security" in Bri-
tain the aim is to protect the citizen
from the cradle to the grave. He is
cushioned against adversity when-
ever and wherever it may strike.
America itself is pushing toward
an ever larger welfare program.
Fair-minded full-hearted people
must acknowledge that the average
citizen needs safeguards to soften
the blows of an ill-fortune he may
neither be able to anticipate or to
combat alone That basic principle
has long since been accepted in
had been rented for a public meet-
ing Sunday,
The Cooke county sheriff's of-
fice isaid the witnesses moved in-
to the residential section of the
town, playing records and attemp-
ting to sell magazine subscriptions.
"They talked insulting to peo-
ple who wouldn't buy them, and
that caused a lot of ill-feeling to-
ward them," one deputy said. “And
they raised a banner in the main
part of town which said ‘Hear the
Only Light'.”
The sheriffs office said that
none of the men was hurt.
"One of the men had his face
taped up, but I understand he got
a couple of teeth loosened or
knocked out in Oklahoma a few
days ago."
spewing wreckage and bodies along
the tracks as it screeched to a stop.
Railroad officials Mid the warn-
ing signals at the grade crossing
were still operating when they ar-
rived to investigate the crash.
O. L Englund of La Crescenta,
Cal., drove up to the crossing min-
utes after the accident. He saw "15
people lying around, only five of
them alive.”
Bodies Sonttered
"There were pieces of bodies scat-
tered everywhere and pieces of th4
bus, none of them so big you couldn't
lift them," he Mid. "I mw one man
lying against a post, bones sticking
out from his body. One fellow had
his noM and mouth in a pool of
blood. I moved his head so he could
breathe."
The seven girls on the trip, only
two of whom survived, were mem-
bers of the March Air Force Base
Service Club, a group that enter-
tains airmen.
Fireman F. K. Sweeney Mid the
train's speed was normal for the
straightaway. Many train passengers
hardly were aware of the crash.
The grim crash scene brought
gasps even from hardened police and
ambulance crews. (Some bodies were
horribly mutilated and the clothing
had been torn completely off many
of the dead.
Injured were taken to San Antonio
Community Hospital in Upland,
Cal., and the dead to the Mark B-
Shaw Mortuary in San Bernardino
and Draper Mortuary in Ontario.
This to Newspaperboy Wook. It's
just one at countless specin! “weeks”
that crowd America's calendr r to
overflowing. Why single this one
out Im puriculek, ultention? • ev .
Peshaps because rawaboys have
always played a unique role in the
American story of accomplishment.
Everyone has read tales of political
figures, businessmen. leadeis in
many fields who started their bread-
winning careers by hawking pa-
pers from corner newsstanda As
a legend they rank with th- "log-
cabin to White House" traditin.
Lots of Americans today woul
probably like to dismise this sort
of thing as 'corny" and outworn.
We think that would be a mistake.
Strip thenewspaperbpylesend of
any sentimen:al heroics that may
have become natached to il and you
still have something of solid merit
for Americans'to ponder.
The youngsters taking in pennies
ONTARIO, Cal., Oct. 3 —AU.R.—Seventeen air force
mn and their girl friends were killed when their G. I
bus driver heeded a shouted command to "turn left” and
drove in front of a highballing passenger train, assurz
vivor said today.
The dead included 11 airmen, 5 girls, and the chap-
erone who accompanied them on a beach party from
March Air Force Base. The bus had a capacity of 32 pas-
sengers but it was not known how many were aboard.
Five persons were listed as injured, at least one in
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The parties will be staged for the
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on the table era divided again : ed to atten the event
Into four sections Finally, one Officers of the local Legion Poet
veston, the Weather Bureau issued most the smallest scale imaginable,
storm warnings elsewhere along - - -- "
auditorium and the money they
had paid for its rental was refund- MAiceinn Flier '
ed Saturday night. The auditorium VY-9u9 « nci
Pretty and cuts Ci
WINTERS doing a vple
job on a school project
members Mt fob their tl
meeting tomorrow nigt
Hall at 8 o'clock.
MARYLYN MAXWE
classy chassis, boardin
bus for DaUas on an
errand . . A local g
happiness in regard to
The cotton gin at Coyingtpn is op-
erating M hours per day tri an ef-
fort to keep up with the heavy in*
flow of cotton brought in by farm-
ers in the Hill and Johnson .County
area. W-8..
So far, the gin has been able to
turn out 90 to 100 bales Of ginned
cotton every 24 hours. Another gin
at nearby Mayfield, operating 12
hours daily is turning out M bales
of ginned cotton
Some of the fields in the Coving-
ton area, white with cotton, remain-
ed untouched this week, due to a
scarcity of pickers. Producers, who
have been fortunate enough to get
pickers report one-fourth to one-
half of the cotton in' their fields
harvested. A few small growers
have completed picking on their
acreages.
Light rains, which fell in the area
Sunday night and Monday, are ex-
pected to do little damage to the
cotton crops. The light showers will
tighten the staple in the bolls and
keep it from stringing out and fall-
ing to the ground, a condition which
would have occurred if the com-
munity had received a heavy rain
political, economic and social frame-
work within which he can flourish
M a resourceful, free-swinging, self-
reliant person.
The newspaper boy is that kind
of fellow. He's oh the lowest rung
of the ladder to success, and it's
a long way to the top. But he'S
there by his own efforts. Nobody
guarantees him a fixed annual in-
come or a certain volume of busi-
ness What he geta be geta by hust-
ling and shouting his wares.
So long as youngsters still have
the win to step out on their own
and scrap for pennies at newsstands
or on delivery touten, America will
have at least one strong essurance
that the "revolution of the indi-
vidual" isn't over.
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Covington's Gin
Works Overtime
the coast.
Squally weather was reported all
along the coast with Galveston
reporting a soaking 3.73 inch rain
and Beaumont 1.88 inches. Winds
ranged from 15 to 85 miles per
hour in gusts and were due to in-
crease steadily along the coast.
It was cloudy and rainy over the
eastern two-thirds of Texas but
ciear and cool in the far west
where temperatures this morning
dropped as low as 45 degrees at
Wink. It was 75 at Brownsville at
6:30 a. m., the highest overnight
minimum. Yesterday's maximum in
the state was 93 at Presidio.
The driving rain in the Galves-
ton area, weather- conscious resi-
dents in lowland areas moved to
resort hotels behind the sea wall.
The city auditorium, Galveston
county courthouse and all school
buildings were turned iitto shel-
ters for evacuees. Many farmers,
too, moved their livestock behind
the seawall after vacant lota were
put at their disposal.
The train crashed into the bus , Douglas was accompanited on the ,
mountaineering expeditfon by Elon
Gilbert, his boyhood friend.
"Bill wanted to see the scenery
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PrTTSBURGH,. Oct 3-4uw—An-
thracite miners returned to work
today ending a two-week work-stop-
page, but .the nation's labor pic-
ture remained dark with nearly
1,000,000 men idled by steel and coal
pension strikes
The 71,000 hard coal miners went
back to work in the Eastern Pennsyl:
vanta fields to relleve a growing
coal shortage alond the Eastern Sea-
board. The men were ordered back
by United Mine Workers otficiuls
in fear that a prolonged strike
would kill off the anthracite mar-
keL
Re-opening N ol the anthracite
mines will not case the shortage of
soft coal and prospects for early set-
tlement of the contract disputes in
steel and conk are not #ood
Every business and Industry In
the country eventually will be af-
fected if the strikes in the two
basic industries continue.
Government ofticidis Mid they
were virtually powerless to cbm
the spreading impact The wtvikes,
occurring almultaneously for the
first time in history, packed the
greatest single wallop ever dealt the
American economy.
Soldiers, Girl Friends Perish
When Bus Driver Turns Wrong
saaibed M the "revolution of the
andividul."if the individual is
truly the key figure, the natloh must
do oil th m power to maintain a
broken ribs and • deflated riuh
lung when his horse reared and
flung him down the slope yester-
day.
Dr. W. Schuler Ginn said the
blood plasma was being kept on
hand, but no transfusions had been
mde.
In severe pain, Doalas was
brought to the hospital here 77
miles from the scene of the aeci-
dent by a Washington Stae Patrol
ambulance. • 14
joined the party at the last min-
pte.
"We had already chartered
the plane," Hayes explained. "We
told Clark about it, and he asked
if he could go along.
“I found out we had an extra
game ticket — so we took him." .
Peyton’s assistant, George Has-
kin, inapected the wreckage Sat-
urdsy light apd was inlorvtew-
ing witnesses and victims today.
The injured incuded: Hayes, 44,
shocks and bruises; his wife,
Sally, 28, possible fracture and
severe ankle gash; Jennings
Pierce, 52, western division head
of Station Rotations for the Na-
tional Broadcasting Company,
concussion, shock, body bruises,
and left eye hemorrhage, and
Frank Berend NBC western divis-
ion sales manager — fractured
HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 3 (UR--Croo-
nor Buddy Clark, 38, wU a iant
minute hitch-hiken on the small
plane that a ca rti e d • mlM
to hit death whoa it crashed in 1
a Log Angeles street, a compan
ion Mid today.
Clark was killed and five others
were injured when the
plane ran out at gas and crashed +
as thoy-tetumnod’Saturdesinightf
from the Michigan - Stanford',
game at Palo Alto.
James N. Peyton, regional chief
for the Civil Aeronautics board,
refused to say whether the plane
was overloaded but said that
"normally" five passengers was,
considered capacity for the twia-
engfoed Cessna.
Newcaster Sam. Hayes, who was
injured only slightly, Mid Clark
ARLINGTON, Texas. Oct. 3 (U.P—
The corn wgB gathered and the
fields plowed today on the place
at Dick Thomas on the old Al-
vin Watson tarm south ot hare
—thanks to the "Good Neighbor"
POlCY•
Thomas Buffered a broken log
• in two places when kicked by a
bone. But neighbors came to his
aid as farm work mounted. While
Thomas lay in bed, neighbors
converged on the farm to gather
the corn and plow the ground.
orably in detail and. care, with now
a physical examidation given a mon
person by hl. tamiy physician en, t
I. l ,
BIX DAYS OF FREEDOM—Frank Grandstaff, center
leaves Tennessee State Prison at Nashville for Big
Spring, Tex., to hear his “Big Spring Cantata” play-
ed at the 100th anniversary celebration of the com- .
munity. Serving a (life term as a habitual criminal,
Grandstaff was granted a six-day “furlough” to at-
tend the ceremonies. At left is Big Spring druggist
“Shine” Phillips, who led the movement to grant the
convict his brief freedom. Sheriff R. E. Wolf, right
of Big Spring, is Grandstaff’s official guard until his
return to prison. (NEA Telephoto)
Texas Gulf Coast Battens Down Again to Await Hurrica
Coast Cities
a hurricane which didn't hit the
mainland. It loot its force in the
gulf after threatening the Mexi-
-an coast.
Galveston, customarily the har-
dest-hit by Texas hurricanes, main-
tained a serene atmosphere early
today. Most townspeople recalled
that their last hurricane, In 1947,
proved a minor storm with no loss
of life
But others remembered the big
blow of September, 1900, which
claimed 6,000 Jives and did $20,-
000,000 damage as sturdy winds
of 120 miles an hour blew water six
feet deep over the downtown area.
In addition to hurricane warn-
ings from Corpus Christi to Gal-
832 worth of cattle.
Only livestock for breeding
and stockor purposes is ren-
dared for taxes in the county.
Dogs must be valued tor court
protection, otherwise softs
cannot be filed by their.own -
ers.
Miscelu
Veterans, Jehovah's Sectists
Battle Briskly in Gainesville
ments and machinery,
780; Merchandise. 8794.11
GAINESVILLE, Tex. Oct.
3—<«*—A large contingent
o f Jehovah's Witresses
fought members of Gaines-
ville Veterans Orgizations
because they were not per*
mitted to assemble in a
Junior High School audi-
torium, authorities said to-
day.
The tree-tor-all batUe took place
outside the -school Sunday after
members of the religious sect de-
clined to accept the veterans’ invi-
tation to leave town.
Vets Ob) sc tad
An eyewitness said the veterans
objected to remarks made by-the
witnesses and took exception, to
the methods they used in trying to
Mil subscriptions to the sect’s ma-
gazine, the Watchtower, in down-
town Gainesville Saturday.
He sold that t magazine sales-
men first sought to mH subscrip-
tions for one year and, falling to
attract customers, offered con-
tracts for shorter period.
Some of the salesmen were wil-
ling to sell single copies, while
others were giving them away.
Spokesmen for the sect said they
were told they could not use the
Tragedy Stalks Gay Beach Party
When Train Hits Bus, Killing 17
pound of peanuts is taken from
the sample and used to compiete
the testing.
The nuts are then checked for
sound mature kernels, other ker-
nels. damaged kernels, foreign
material, moisture end temper-
stars.
Actually, the once lowly pea-
nut receives a physical examina-
tion by the government inspec-
tors, whieh would compere tav-
Regular Bingo
Parties Slated
Members of the local American
Legion Post will stage the first in
a series of bingo parties Thursday
night at 8 o’clock at Legion Hall.
FISHING TRAGEDY .
BAY CITY. Tex, Oct 3—UP
A week-end fishing party tragedy
left three persons drowned today.
Hive persons were rescued when
a small bopt sank near Culder
Bridge, 14 miles from here.
Drowned to the accident yesterday
were Henry Lewis Sr., 47; his son.
Henry Lewie Jr. 39, and the elder
Cleburne TIMES-REVIE
United Pzeaa Full Laased Wire Servica — NEA Telophot picturos — Estabushed 1004 — Pubushad Dally Excopt Saturday
The hurricane was centered 135
miles southeast of Brownsville.
Texas, at 8:45 a. m. CST. Gale ,
winds were expected to strike by
noon and were to grow to hurri-
cane force late today from here
to Galveston according to a special
Weather Bureau bulletin.
Tides are expected .to become:
"dangerously high" along the Tex-
as and Louisiana coasts this after-
noon and tonight, the Weather Bu-
reau said.
Residents of iowiana areas were
warned to flee from their homes
before dangerous tides sweep in-
land. ' '
। The hurricane, the second to
I threaten the area within ten days,
I caused rough Beas over most of
I the northern Gulf of Mexico.
I Red and back hurricane warning
I flags flew In the danger area from
here east, Gelvestn.And.the. .
Weather Bureau‛s latest advisory
warned that winds would quickly
increase to gate forces.
The Ude began rising abnormal-
ly after midnight.
The Port Isabel coast guard sta-
tion. northeast of Brownsville, re-
ported a distress call via short-
wave radio from a Sun Oil Com-
pany employe stationed at lonely
El Toro Island, a sandspit 65 miles
north of the port town.
A coast guard ship put out im-
mediately into the choppy seas to
bring the marooned islander to
I the mainland.
I "Any kind of hurricane at all
I would completely cover that is-
I land in no time," a coast guards-
I man said.
The ar reaching storm, which
I yesterdaj sank six small fishing
I boats near Ciudad Del Carmen,
I Mexico, was accompanied by gale
I winds fanning out 300 miles to the
I east and north from its center.
I Besides sinking the fishing craft
I in the gulf as It progressed north-
I ward, the hurricane beached four
FULL DATS BOOKS .
KINGSVILLE, Texas, Oct (UJO
— Texas A A I co-eds should have
no trouble keeping their date
books filled this faU. ■ ■ d
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