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DALLAS, TEXAS
. VOLUME 91
.BRENHAM, TEXAS, MONDAY, JULY 23, 1956
NO. 144
BRAZOS VALLEY TOUR
IRRIGATION BOOMING
Campaign Takes Holly woo
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The 279-to-126 roll call vote sent the
measure to the
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the drive to adjourn
A
As che legislitors
(Continued on page 6)
Sabotage In
Ce.
tifted
the man stalked his
victim on
a
Sunday at a Chicago beach.
estimated $that-the cost-of
dsss
xhse Bumimei >■ L'
the same-per bale-as non-irri-
"When- yeu find sugar in your:
R. E. Barker, 70, of Ranger,
gated cotton.
ly one state left te-ehees
-dele--bushes ■ from which tin
kriii'i had
nominee, has known first - ballot
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were released.
A
Absentee Voting
vin Reddehase, A. F. Wiede, Har-
said Lindley. a tourna-
l
Calendar of Events Deadline Friday - -
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Weekend Weather
gne
"eer-
di
perintendent said he w atched help-
■ lessly through field glasses while
BRENHAM
The City Of
Hospitality
her testified.
In another to
Sergeant In
2nd Week
July 23:
Max. 103
Mln. 72
7 a.m. 75
(Continued on page six)
R. . Barker, 70,
DR. OSCAR BOCKHORN
Legion Commander
SWING INTO
HOMESTRETCH
Splash Party and Weiner Roast
Meet at Church. 7 p.m.
Ladies Auxiliary to the Bren-
ham Country Club meeting 8 p.
Senate where it faced certain death in
He Got Licked
For Last Time
July 21:
Max. 102
Min. 72
7 a.m. 74
July 22:
Max. 101
Min. 72
J a m. n
m.
dndications are
FUTURE_
NOT NERVOUS—MUCH I’
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Tuesday at 5 p. Police
old Rudloff
Jr.
Mrs. H. A. Moncrief
President Of
Auxiliary
Dr. Oscar Bockhorn and Mrs.
H. A. Moncrief will head the Post
end Auxiliary, respectively, of
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EscsasK
number of farms in 'the Brazos I
bottoms that have been prac- i
ticing irrigation this year, but
It appears this is something-
Field Day Set
Near Henderson
“Davy Crockett” MC
On Daniel’s
TV Show
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campaign today as the six aspi-
rants to the state’s highest office
swung into the last week of cam-
paigning. *
Sen. Price Daniel had the mov-
ieland angle lent to his campaign
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L J thathas been quietly. develop -
ed over the last three years.
Experts who addressed the
Parker of "Davy €rockett* fame.
Parker will serve as master of
cergmonies on a statewide televi-
sion broadcast for Daniel originat-
ing in Fort Worth tonight., •
Parker, a former University of
demonstration at Fairgrounds,
' p.m.
ed by the Auxiliary to thake over
’from Mrs. W. G. Alsobrook.
The newly elected officers will
be installed at the next meeting
on August 17.
Other Officers
Other post officers elected are
as follows: Carl Wendler, first
vice commander; H. A. Moncrief,
second vice commander; Howard
Kruse, adjutant; Albert Hueske,
finance officer; William Schroe-
der, service officer; John Kay.
sergeant-at-arms; Rev. O. K.
Oelke, wchaplain; and the follow-
irg members of the executive
committee. Melvin Addicks, Mel-
tional farmers to go into the Soil
Bank We had several in the of-
fice this morning and expect
more this week," Derrick said.
The ASEloffice staff is ready to
discuss the program with farm-
cruit was no; standing arrectly ‘at
attention.
apartment as:A previous witness -hagt
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Texas student, praised Daniel for gress. .
his leadership in recovering Texas i
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originally set for July 20, farm-
ersi,now have until through this
Friday to" take part in the pro-
। gram.
"The drouth is causing addi-
d
a question by de-
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f e n
a killer stalked a w .man bather
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-a
Huntsville today in his pensonal
investigation of last month’s car
bombing of Brady attorney Sam
McCollum III.
Holmes, ■who has offered a $50,-
000 reward in the case, revealed
Sunday that’ he had received a
new tip in the mysterious case. He
has spent much of his campaign
time investigating the bombing.
Candidate J. Evetts .Haley was
in deep South Texas.
He charged Sunday in Mission,
Tex., ithat Daniel “didn’t prose-
cute boss George Parr-wh en he
had evidence as attorney general
to do it.”
He also lashed out at • W. Lee
O’Daniel, charging that ■ the for-
mer governor and U. S. senator
has promised to pass "the public
s e, Barber said that such
Guard Back
From Camp
$6,000 Richer
Through last Friday, a total of,
126 W a hingt n County Colton1
growvers had applied for a total of
tidelands and for his nationwide I final week of work, the future, of I
crusade against the narcotics traf-
Tin- United Press tibulation j.
based on ascertained first ballot
(Continued on page 6)
fic.
The Fort Worth native said on
arriving from Hollywood Sunday
that his interest is "all in Tex-
! 13th produced by the piosecution
Eg a °---- 1 in. its attempt to send McKeon o
r. r. A. during the prison for a maximum -ix years
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smackings had occurred when a
witched from his
— ------------• Baptist Church in Ranger. Burial
and Tom Whitehead,* was in the Evergreen cemetery
in Ranger.
Testify McKeon Slapped Men
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Sm ■ ef
Completing the Auxiliary’s
slate of officers are the follow-
ing: Mrs. Tom Whitehead, Jr.,
first vice-president; Mrs. Carl
Wendler, second vice-president;
Lorine Maass, treasurer; Miss
Catherine Kopycinski, recording
secretary; Mrs. Harold Rudloff,
corresponding secretary and re-
porter; Mrs. Bernadine Kiecke,
Chaplain; Mrs. Melvin Redde-
nase, sergeant-at-arms; and Mrs.
F. W. Mieling, historian.
By Acclamation
Officers of the Post end Auxili-
(Continued on Page Three)
Thursday night or Friday p=
peared to be the likeliest adjourn-
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amount applied for each irri-
gation is 3% inches of water.
Irrigated cotton requires more
frequent poisoning. Irrigated
cotton requires poisoning 16
timeseyear, while non-irrigat-
ed cotton can gefbywi’seve
en poisonings. However, it was
A crowd gathers in Chicago's loop other persons were injured incltling the
districtatthe site where an auto crashed attendant parking the car, who told police ,
through the wall of a parhing garage dur- the gas pedal s/ruck at the top of the park-
ihthurert“hnanknudnrozpjpathrsanoorarte -ingfamp. INEA Telephoto).
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ONE INCIDENT
CAME BEFORE
United Press Staff Correspondent •
WASHINGTON- (U.P>—House Republicans and northern
Democrats overrode southern opposition today and over-
mi i.. j President iconhesesaeivil rights
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Maloof said he replied: "yes,
(Continued on page 6)
The
SPECTATOR
North Side beach, where she wa-
sunning herself.
ggEosa
epex
NC
MRS. H. A. MONCRIEF
To Hood Auxiliary
DR. BOCKHORN
HEADS LOCAL
LEGION POST
curred just before the 31-year-old
Marine- recruit drill instructor
marched 74 members of his
platoon into the salt waters of Ri-
hon Creek to "tench them di cip-
line. Six men died.
The witnesses were Pvt. Melvin
Barber and Pfc. John Maloof, both
f New York City.
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Brenham Banner-Press
Member of the United Press, The Greatest H^orld-B^ide News Service
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gas tanks, when- two winches are PFC Henry E. Hermann receiv-
ruined within an hour or so, they (Continued on page six)
with 116′2 votes. Gov. Averell Har-
Mdda Y-—-
Pedestrian Killed By Auto From Above
- a- -- ™ a.l wEArEEw: . a _
I"" r" ar t r cloud an warm
through Tuesday and widely
scattered mostly afternoon thun- , .
dershowers. Low tonight 73, high
tomorrow 98. Readings for 24-
hours up to 7 a.m. today: Max.
103. Min. 72, 7 a.m. 75, Sunset
7:20.
By UNITEDF PRESS . Ix
L^V7fon^r"of 1 folly wood* waif Di
July 24:
| Brenham Fire Department
' meeting. Extinguishing of oil fire
F. F. A. Convention Delegates
Brenham Kiwanis Club President James Lehmann,
left, presents Donald Boecker, Brenham F. F. A. Chapter
president center, and Alvin Janes, with a check to help
defray their expenses as delegates to the ’State F F A
Convention in Dallas July 25-27. This is the second year
the Kiwanis Club has sponsored delegates to the State
j F. F. A. Convention. They also sponsored three circle gilts I
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Civil Rights
Bill. Passes
a..
gales,. Adlai E. Stevenson holds a, sprung.
.substantial lead in first-ballot Police estimated......the woman
strength for the Democratic presi-was in her late 30‘s. They .said
denti 11 nomination. her short, had been ripped off and ‘
A United Press tabulation show-' the rest of her clothing was disar- 1
ed Jhat Stevenson, 1952 Democrat ranged
Carlton warned that more re-
search is necessary on the irri-
gation problem. He pointed out
that large sums of money are
now being spent on facilities,
without knowing the extent
of the water supply. He said
it is assumed that the source of
the underground water in the
Brazos valley is the river itself.
' Extensive irrigation may de-
plete this underground supply
and force the farmers to rely
on surface water instead. In
fact, Reclamation Engineer
Burleigh, also of College Sta-
tion, said that any long-range
plan for irrigating the Brazos
valley and its tributaries
would have to be based on
the assumption that surface
water will have to be used. The
Brazos River Authority has a
plan to place a series of dams
along the river to generate
electricity and also to provide
water for irrigation.
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While in the Navasota area,
the party visited Washington
State Park and the Anson Jon-
es home. The news writers on
the tour expressed great inter-
est in the project to develop the
park and make it'an historical
shrine, and promised their help
in telling the people about it.
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George R. Moorman, candi-
date -for district attorney in
next Saturday’s primary, was
receiving a lot of kidding to-
day. "Oh, I’m not nervous.”
Moorman told his friends yes.
terday at the start of the final
(Continued on page six)
the local American Legion for'
the coming year-
Buddy Wright Post No. 48 elect-
- - . _ MiirTtr- -RoHrhr>rrr commanded ci Pieg At Ra
—mzm5asdwcingirizatedssnttomisabauteday-wighio«sueceeFonWw6
—A— the same-per bale-as non-irri- head, Jr. Mrs. Moncrief was nam- -
im at the club house.
July 26:
Consolidated Funds, Board of $17,859 from 576 acres put in the
I Directors meeting, 7:30p m., St. .Soil Bink.
Anthony Hotel. General meeting Additional acreage was expect-
at.Pm-. - e to go.inter the files of the ASC
.u 1Y 27it 1 . office this week with the exten:
tun Night for the Young Peo- siop by the government of the
iPleuandHobo Party, 7:30 P' m. devdline. iBank agrements ara’foir
al Fun Baptst Church, I Although the deadline Waal (Contaued on page Lix,
or as being behind the closing of
the extravaganza.’ Monday urged all Firemen to be
He did say, however, that a I present. The demonstration will - ................
chemical analysis showed that two -be by Eddie Hugo, Lilburn Nej-riman of New York his 1391 vote
winches used to raise the big top nast and Ernest Schmid. Jr. whojtied up for the firs' ballot
were burned out, almost simul- attended the recent firemen's, Only Virginia, with 32 conven-
taneously, because of corrosives, school at Texas A&M College.
as" and that he has invested his
money in Texas.
. Holmes Probes Bombing
Another gubernatorial candidate
Austin contractor J. J. Holmes, |
planned a trip to Houston and
The tour-of the Brazos River
Authority and a group of news-
paper men through the’ Brazos
we--" - "a «er2g
-- im mne sgocgne yi somretmag
sew in agricultyr in this are^- a.
That is irrigation. We had no-
ticed an increasingly l arge
=ItsseemedmkkersemeemewashKlanspHroh Wagner vm haw
iryingta-sabotag-bic-eiveusmMheLBmi
- ga:hering at Harry Moore’s
plantation near Navasota Fri-
day noon predicted the entire
valley will be irrigated witnin
a few years, with vast profit to
m -theptuehreerrand theradjacca.
communities. ’
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And why shouldn’t the farm-
ers irrigate in ‘the face of fig-
ures quoted to show bottom
land that once produced one
bale to the acre now produces
three when irrigated? And un-
der, present drouth. conditions,
the yield on some of this choice
land, not irrigated, has been
cut far below one bale to the
acre. Irrigation first got under
way on a reasonably large
scale in this area in 1953. That
year,“ some 55 farmers irrigat-
ed 4000 acres of land. This,
year, 389 farmers are irrigating
49,000 acres. It is esimated that
in the next two years the num-
ber will grow to 700 farmers
with 114,000 acres. C. C. Carl-
•ton, area conservationist, told
the group that the Brazos river
bottom has 325,000 acres which
can be irrigated, and that the
Navasota river bottom has
50,000 such acres. Yegua creek
can also be used for irrigation,
he said.
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this week.
Leadens of both houses were
confident they can wind up the
On Back of Hend
i "I have seen him smack a per-
! son on the back of the. head,” Bar-
% eUfwgrene
2 j
be r of absentee ballots issued by told Broadway to drop the knife. •
the office will surpass the 125 Broadway dared him to shoot
vates in the primary two years and fell dead with six bullets in
ago. As of Monday morning. 117 him.
ers whether or not thy partici-
pate. Derrick said. He added that
if should lie stressed that the Son
sspihisThsxGmmms"mmaeim
forced down he final Shul,^ Ci^em^^ i
Mt Greatest. Show on Earth. Edward Meyer, Robert L. Peters.
.Miichael.!Eurke, exccutive secre- Eugene Lehmann and Thomas
tary the Ringling Bros., and clay; Pfc. Marcus Mallard. Lar.
Barnum and Bailey Circus, now ry Rinn, TaVis Overmans
41gits winter quarter here, said. Henry Herrmann. Jr., and Edgar
^4 MeXe bad' a lot Lof trouble, but ", Mueller, Jr.: and Privates .A. C
wasimere than labor trouble, bad sehumann. Etroy rsleib Eigene.
weather and poor crowds. ' Schulte. James' Pohl Weldon
DEATH MARCH'
Agricultural and forestry'com-
mittees of Chambers of Com-
merce. county agents vocational
agricultural teachers, and other
Interested agricultural leaders
are invited to attend a Special
Field Day Program on the Ex-
periment Farm of the Texas Re
search Foundation, one mile
South of Henderson on Highway
79, Wednesday from 8 to 10 a, m.
Specialists will show progress
made on grasses and bother crop
planting since last January.
Leaders of agriculture foresee ex-
cellent results fair East Texas
fmm the type being done on thia
experiment farm.
Water for irrigation in the
Brazos valley now comes from
two sources — the river itself
and shallow wells. A total of
850 wells have been drilled
since 1953. The average depth
is 60 feet. Average production
is 750 gallons per minute. A
well and pump cost about $3,-
000. Pipes and irrigation ditch-
es, of course, add’ to the cost.
Carlton estimated the average
cost per acre for power and la-
bor is $3.00, irrigating four
times a year. The average
father of Mrs. J. W. Ball of Bren-
ham, died suddenly of a heart
attack at his home Saturday
morning.
Mr. Barker was retired from
the oil business and was a mem-
ber of the First Baptist Church
of Ranger.
Survivors include his widow of
Ranger; one son, Dr. G. R. Bar-
ker of Cleburne; and four daugh-
ters, Mrs. N. E. Landers of Ran-
ger, Mrs. G. E. Allison of Sweet-
water, Mrs. J. T. Harris of Lub-
bock and Mrs. Ball of Brenham..
Funeral services were held
Sunday at 3 p. m. at the First
kF - - t
..ri
A i
death." - wTV: +e-I— Charles E.
p. , , Broadway, 22, bragged early to-
Police,, several sus- day that "no one in the world can
p ' d. he murder, but all whip me" and promptly got lick-
। ed twice by a disabled war vet-
eran during a tavern brawl.
J But Broadway wouldn’t give up
Tn C1c police said, and-returned with a
- • —.°55 1 —KSddY knife, cutting the veterans, John
' lion vtes, still must choose its del- ' - 1 Simons, 28, on the arm. Then
egates .This will be done Friday. Absentee voting for Saturday's he started belligerently for Si-
Arkansas Democrats Saturday primary, election ends wih the mons -friend, • Henry F. Lindley,
eh se 52 delegates, cath with a close of County Clerk Charles E. 40.
I half-vote. They were uninstructed Wiede’s office
. persons were on the absentee Lindley was charged with mur-
list. . dor.
ment date. But there was’ nothing _____
certain about it; there never k "Brenhm’sNationaf Smara unit---
in the hectic closig days of Con- "ot*------ ‘----- -
business of the 84 th Congress ' by
.. , .. m - this weekend so members can
in the person of native Texan Fess join fully in conventi n and cam-
'paign planning.. ,
ed to the Texas gubernatorial’
are investigating the possibility of
sabotage. ' -
Burke also refused to say wheth-
er he suspected organized labor or the Washington County’ Fair
just a disgruntled circus perform- l grounds
Fire Chief E. W. Pflughaupt
McKe n is on t rial by general
court mrial, accused of involun-
tary manslaughter, cruelty, and
drinking vodka on the day of the
fatal march.
The witnesses were the 12th an
ment target marksman land expert
that the num- skeet-shooer, drew a gun and
are not just accidents. It couldn't
have been an bad luck.” Fire Demonstration
Burke refused to comment fur-t G.L..I rm,...... ,
ther on the possibiliy that some- Scheduled Tuesday
one was trying to shut down the —.— 1,
circus, but he hinted that officials1 A demonstration on the best nomine, has knoun first hdinti ,
methods for extinguishing an oil " ’ nes , " r ' ballot A b ok found near her body con-
.fire will be a feature of the reg- strength of 411 voles at next tained a marker on whi h was in- . . .
tularmeetmgoftheBrenhamFire monhs netiene neminetng ce- s ribed, 4 "prayer for a happy mr-sron tp,
I Department Tuesday at 8 p.m al vention in Chicago. It takes 686', d h " 51- ’
• ..... - votes to win nomination.
Steveson's nearest riyal in
known firsit - ballot strength -is
Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-Tenn.
that McKeon took "one or two or
three"3 drinks of . vodka around
...... Bps toy said th. nn . d noon last April 8. The manch took
Dr. Arthur Kirk Besley, 55, su- behind a clump of bushes hh. place between 8:30 and 8:45 that
perintendent, of the Norwegian- ing his position eah time the ^t
American os pit a), said he woman moved. He peered through Maloof said McKeon had order-
----— the glasses in horror as the man cd a. field day" — barracks.
Stevenson Holds . 1 "d S - ''N'- .
1 Substantial Lead ..........
—=Calrst Ballot E —u =-m---m Hs,
SP3-CtimonEBiczinget# wasmOroNInwom-TT nnd smi Nreka -
ped at him: "Iton't you know how |
To stand "at at enfton?" -
Soil Bank Is Popular
s As Drouth. Continues
The Social Seeurity Represen- , " " " " • •
tative will tie at the County
Court. Room at in am. j Counly ASC Office Manager
I First BAptist Church 1178" Club j Earl ‘Derrick said Monday that
the prolonged drouth has caused
returned from two weeks sum- /
mer camp at North Fort Hood ' i I
tackled thq Sunday about $6,000 richer. ; , 1 /” > 1
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foreign aid and public housingamount paid to the 85 enlisted '
were the two big issues, remain- men and-six officers for the spe- i
ing to be settled. The house is tecialduty, according—tecaptai —
take up the big housing bill later' Elro Kunkel, commander of the
this week. local Company' "B," 386th Arm-
Elsewhere in the adjournment ored Engineer Battalion.
drive: . | The Guard fetched Brenham
Appropriations— The House ; Sunday about 11 am.
passed and sent to the White1 , unkel said, he was well pleas
House a bill carrying $1.6 billion 1 ed WIth.the Guard s showing at
for military construction projects camP;. 15 unit recewved a spe- and one circle Jersey heifer for the 1
and a variety of unrelated govern- cleney ardaornoukstanding onl; past year. (Winkelmann Studio Photo):
award of its kind made in Texas - ’ - - - —
-SSllan mvm pr-gnn Doctor Watches Killer
m: mis • ! ham unit was selected for the — a 1 <xrr _ _
cw<ms closing ..... Stalk Woman Bather
RpinA D-oLA Several members of the Unit ■___ ------
•5111} 1 LvUvU werc given qualification badges'
' . _____ , for firing the rifle, carbine and CHICAGO (UP)- A hospital su-
additional farmers to sign up for j
Soil Bank aid.
and there was no indic tion how
they would vote after casting their
i first ballot for a favorite son,
i probably Sen. jdhn L. MeClollan
(D-Ark.). a
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United Press Staff Correspondent
| PARRIS ISLAND S. C. (UP)
Two survivors of the Pan is Island
j "dea h march” testified today
they had seen Marine Sgt. Mat-
thew C. MeKeoh slap his men.
. But on cross - examination one
of the witnesses admitted that
McKeon did not slap him to inflict
pain. •
One of the slapping incidents oc-
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