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64TH YEAR
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GAINESVILLE, COOKE COUNTY, TEXAS MONDAY, MARCH 1, 1954
NUMBER 157
FIVE CONGRESSMEN SHOT
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in a big pool of blood.
sprayed across the house floor 1o
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men who had been firing a Ger
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of
the word, with the two men
sha ring the outside chores and
charged with
the
women working together in
right side
killed there Saturday night when
non.
overturned
the
th of Gainesville on the Old
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at $95.
fine qualities of this dual
milk at the present time.
in
Cooke, Grayson and Denton
of
neighbors.
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man Luger automatic.
In today’s shooting.
a stretcher.
Davis, hit
Other congressmen standing
nearby said they thought many
that time of President Truman.
One of the Puerto Ricans and
dom for Puerto Rico,
fired at random from
Flurry of Traffic Mishaps Boosts
Violent Death Toll in Texas to 19
Dow-
Was
the
David H. Smith and David R.
Smith families. The latter is the
county operating a daily whole-
sale and retail raw milk delivery
route. The dairy bam is spotless-
ly clean and the interior glistens
with a fresh coat of white paint.
It features a walk-in freezer to
Rep. Rogers (D-Colo) said he
thought the gunmen and the
woman waving a flag were shout-
mishap,
learn.
coming from a high-speed Rocky 1
mountain cold front that should i
reach the gulf coast by nightfall. I
I door
to the
N 1947 THE CITY COUNCIL
. passed a zoning ordinance for
sion on the outskirts of Belton.
Pablo Bustamente. 34, and his
two Puerto
attempted
into Blair
Short horn.
The Smiths have one of the
He estimated there were 20 to 25
shots altogether.
pre (gram encompassing farming,
da rying and livestock operations.
Fallon also was reported to
have been hit in the leg.
Chinchillas for oreeding in the
United States were first shipped
from South America in 1923 and
most were used to increase the
number of animals, with pelts for
furs still relatively scarce.
and East Texas.
This norther wasn't expected to
who wielded pistols
: seized.
automatic pistols as the men
and woman shouted for free-
l
; Bentsen, since
I hey struck targets.
CHURCH LOSES Puerto Ricans Blamed
I
Long Live Mexico.”
“Viva Mexico.”
— TOPICS
By A. MORTON SMITH
.21,
Total damage to the two cars
was estimated
a car he was driving
Erkel Lee Baker, 3
A man identified by police as |
Wash Harris. Jr.. 35' of Dallas
WEATHER FORECAST
Tonight and Tuesday, in
creasing cloudiness, much
colder; low tonight 3B-49.
Full weather report bn clas-
sified ad page.
Puerto Rican. w o u n d e d.
150 acres of pastureland in the
army camp area for beef ani-
mals.
Most of the cultivated area is
devoted to oats, alfalfa, sudan.
wheat and vetch — the Smiths
have done no row cropping in the
past two years.
“Alfalfa and vetch are my fa-
vorite crops,” says the elder man,
who is especially “sold”’on the
latter versatile legume as a soil
land.
James E. Miller, 7. was fatally
injured Saturday when a car hit
him as he crossed a highway at
Waco.
Sgt. M. L. Daniel, about 40. be-
lieved to be a member of the
U. S. Army Training detachment
at Texas A&M college, burned to
death Saturday night when fire
leveled his home at College Sta-
tion.
Clarence Allen. 69. was shot to
death Saturday night in his fash-
ionable home in Highland Park, a
Dallas suburb. Police quoted a 37
year-old salesman as saying he
shot Allen after a struggle for
possession of a .38 caliber revolv-
er. "I shot him because he threat-
ened to wipe out my family,” po-
lice said the younger man told
them.
Frank R. GArcia, 34, San An-
tonio, was killed Saturday night
when his car failed to make a
curve and overturned on Highway
90 west of San Antonio.
ner of the visitors’ gallery I
while the house was debating ' landed in the floor and ceiling
a Mexican farm labor bill.
a White House guard
| killed in the battle The
temporary residence ai
period when he was employed as
a bookkeeper for Lone Star Gas
company.'
Father and, have worked
together since the young man
so few of them
in the leg, re-
causing an accident.
Mrs. Tom Stobaugh. 25 of
route 1. city, was driver of the
other car involved in the acci-
' dent, which occurred at the in-
tersection of California and
Commerce streets at 10:30 a. m.
Sunday.
Two men and the woman
The twin northers bore down
on Texas after weeks of mild
February weather in which trees
began budding out far ahead of
time.
grade A dairies in Cooke
same house. The two neat
w a s mated that 25 to 30 shots were
One of the gunmen
M. Smith, who still resides the county. Not through chance,
northwest of the city, started the | but because of a two-year pro-
family off in the business some j gram of cutting and spraying
50 years ago w hen he traded pesky mesquites, which once
a pocket watch for his first j abounded in the area.
Pfc. Ralph F Ellington, 21. Co-
lumbus. Ga., attached to Fort
Hood, Tex., was killed at mid
waited until the congregation
started singing so the sound
would cover the noise of his
movements.
On Nov. 1.
3
Rep. Van Zandt
The house was immediately I
recessed. The senate, in session (ing
across the capital, directed that . -5
I oth father and son are among [fords and Brahmans in addition ; dominating the picture, permits
the leading Milking Shorthorn to his favored Shorthorns. ? issued during February by Build-
breeders in North Texas, and David H. Smith now lists a ing Inspector W. C.* Simpson
thee share a mutual regard for herd of 50 Shorthorns with 15 in reached $106,165.
the
and. holding
than his father, and he has 84 I January and February 1953.
head of cattle including Here- With home building again
Floyd Tommie
(R-Pa) cati-
hands, fired
man.
Ignacio Diaz of Dallas
a dance in his underpants
j .The father, i who remains a
dedicated bookkeeper, keeps ac
curate and detailed records on
every phase of the farm opera-
tion everything from the num-
ber of mesquites desroyed to the
number of pounds of milk pro-
duced by his herd each month.
His records reveal that 8.353
at an intersection.
Friday night in a hotel room at ;
Houston. A suicide verdict was re-
turned. Peace Justice Tom Maes
were from a kneeling position.
By ZEIN NAGATI
KHARTOUM, Sudan. Mar.
1 brandishing steel-tipped spears
protect the milk along with other mesquitetrees were sprayed last
modern innovations. (Continued on’Page 8)
years, even during
coast. j Authoritative sources reported
However, the weather bureau | the Sudanese police chief Brig
said Panhandle snow flurries Martada El Mahdi, among the
tossed off by the Canadian north I victims.
er probably would be so light The ■
theyd leavelittle moisture on the than‘a0.000 demohstrators nagre
austy plains. ating for and against Naguib
massed in the capital. Members '
The elder Smith wouldn’t know'
what to do without his dairy ani-
mals. He has been engaged in
the milk business for the past 26
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‘P) Police bullets beat off a|_
to । wild attack on the British gov-I when he attempted to reload
•a! ' ernor general's home today by his gun
helling Sudanese tribesmen 8
ly drew
Speaker Martin of Massachu-
setts. presiding, ducked for cover
with other members and visitors.
But Martin resumed the ros-
trum a few minutes later, asked
the members to take their seats
and formally recessed the house.
A group of men. apparently
FBI agents, moved into the cham-
ber some time later. Several seat
cushions, ripped by the bullets,
were inspected and a search made «
for bullet slugs.
“I think a lot of those shots
must have been blanks.” said
This norther was expected
their way
uncle. Primo Bustamente, 70.
was shot to death in Dallas Fri both of Vernon, were killed Sun-
day night. Police sought another dav when their car rammed into
Foster H. Snodgrass, 35, a brick
11. of Odessa mason who moved from Brown-
monstration here for Puerto
Rican independence in recent
Ushers in
New Month
By The Associated Press
A one-two punch of cold air
hustled toward Texas Monday he
hind winds that got March off to ,
a gusty, dusty start
Snow flurries and bitter tem
peratures were forecast for the j
Panhandle Monday night and ]
Tuesday. The U. S. Weather bu :
reau said the cold weather would i
rout balmy temperatures in the 1
rest of the state Tuesday.
Winds spilling out of a low-
pressure trough across the Pan- l
handle were kicking up West
Texas dust before noon Monday.;
Visibility was reported down to
one-half mile west of Abilene,
with dust clouds scudding across
THE NEED FOR off-the-street
parking was not as urgent then
as it is today. And the more
off-the-street parking space that
may be provided on a business
lot today is important, regard-
less of where a building sits on
the lot.
Therefore, it seems to us that,
construction of business build-
ings should be simplified by
providing that a business struc-
ture may be so placed on the
lot to provide a maximum of
parking if that be the desire of
the builder.
Any ordinance to best serve
a community needs to be re-
evaluated from time to time
pt the pro-independence Umma !
party brandishing spears and । Rican
shouting anti-British and anti- to shoot
Egyptian slogans, marched on
said an autopsy showed traces of night Saturday in an auto colli-
rat poison. “ "
at least
For Random Shooting
From Gallery of House
WASHINGTON. March 1 (AP)—A group of men and a
woman—shouting "Free Puerto Rico"—fired pistols from a
house gallery at congress members today and hit at least five.
In milling confusion, the members first ducked, ran, then
turned back to aid their injured colleagues.
Spectators grappled with the pistol wielders in the gallery
and police leaped after them.
The lawmakers wounded were: Alvin M. Bentley (R-
Mich). Ben F. Jensen (R-Iowa), Clifford Davis. (D-Tenn).,
Kenneth A. Roberts (D-Ala.) and George H. Fallon (D-Md.)
Bentley was struck through the chest. He dropped to the
house floor apparently seriously injured.
Jensen also was on the floor —------
26, of
Building Permits
For February Hit
$106,165 in Qty
was old enough to begin helping Gainesville’s building boom
with the farm chores. However, continued to set a steady pace
each has his individual farm ani- ’ during February as building
mals. The younger man tends permits issued here were high-
more toward beef production er than the combined total for
Salem, who once
caped through a small
which gives access 1
space under the pulpit.
Police theorized the
on y son of Mr. and Mrs. David
H. Smith. His own family con-
Saint Jo
passing on
By JACK JOYCE | He is the third generation of builder, hay and silage.
The Daily Register’s Farm'the family to go in for Milking Their pastureland is among the
Family of the Month award for 'S h o r t h o r n s. His grandfather.; cleanest and mos) attractive in
February goes to two families H. M. Smith, who still resides' the county. Not through chance.
By The Associated Press
A flurry of traffic smashups
claimed a dozen lives and pushed
the state’s weekend violent death
toll to at least 19.
Three persons were shot to
death at Dallas. A man died in
a plane crash. There was one
suicide, a drowning and one death
in a fire.
Clarence E. Jones, Wichita,
Kan. airport operator who moved
to Corpus Christi six months ago.
was found dead Sunday in the
burned wreckage of his private
plane seven miles east of Elgin
in South Central Texas. Jones
crashed during a duststorm Sat-
urday en route from Ardmore,
Okla., to Corpus Christi.
Alford William Thedford, 40.
Dallas, was shot to death early
Sunday in a Dallas tavern. Police
held the 27-year-old operator of
the tavern, who said his pistol
discharged while he was attempt-
ing to eject Thedford.
G. E. Harper, 45-year-old em-
ploye of the Lone Star Gas Co.
at Ranger, was killed in a high-
way accident at Thurber east of
Eastland Saturday night. His car
smashed into the rear of a truck
loaded with hay.
The body of Lester O. Bush. Jr.,
San Antonio employe of the Mis-
souri Pacific railroad, was recov-
ered Sunday from Lake McQueen-
ey near Seguin where he drowned
last Saturday. Bush fell from a
boat into the choppy waters dur-
ing a sandstorm.
Charles William Deerman. Jr.,
34, of Beaumont was found dead
Rep. Walter Judd (R-Minn), a
physician, said one bullet entered
Bentley’s body on the left side
below the heart and went through
to the right side. He said the
bullet may have penetrated the
stomach, liver and one lung
Judd who was at Bentley’s side
shortly after he fell, said there
was not very much external
bleeding, but there may have
been considerable internal bleed-
lower temperatures greatly, after i in a demonstration against vis- i
it sped w'hat the weather bureau iting Egyptian President Mo-
called an “Arctic outbreak” from ! hammed Naguib.
Canada. At least 20 persons were re-
Forecasters said this one uniported killed. including the Brit-
usually cold for March -should ish police commander, Col. H S
bring freezing temperatures by I McGuigan, and six of his men.
Tuesday to all of Texas except More than 100 persons were
the extreme south and the gulf 1 wounded. 30 of them critically.
Farm Family Honors for February
Msmma-ruMGo to Father and Son Combination
AMARILLO, Mar. 1 (P) —
While the Rev. Hal Upchurch I
led hymn-singing in Temple
Baptist church here yesterday,
a thief stole the $870 Sunday
school offering.
The bold culprit, who offi
vers said apparently made his
plans well, swiped the money
while hidden in the floor un-
der the pulpit.
He had cut a hole in the
floor of the rostrum, directly ,
under the pulpit. From be-
neath the floor he was able
to reach up to a shelf in the
base of the pulpit, where ush-
ers place the offering. He es-
eventually tried. convicted and
was sentenced to death in the
electric chair. But Truman com
muted the sentence to life im-
prisonment.
While Bentley lay on the floor
of the house near the speaker’s
platform, two members of the
house who are physicians. Reps.
Miller ‛R-Neb‛. and Fenton (R
Pa. > attended to him as best they
could.
Rep. Roberts (D-Ala. was car-
ried from the chamber on a
stretcher.
Rep. Van Zandt (R-Pa.. who
rushed from the chamber, said
bullets zinged past him. He said
Reps. Fallon and Roberts were
hit
Van Zandt said bullets were
all spectators deave its galleries. I
looks over part of his flock of Hampshire sheep.
a trailer truck parked alongside
was U. S. 287 ten miles east of Ver-
) Cold Wave
BUT ONE PHASE of zoning
needs to be brought up to date.
When the ordinance was drawn
up, it provided areas of the city
for expansion of the business
district, and set forth areas for
light industry and for heavy in-
dustry.
Business buildings could be
placed in areas definitely desig-
nated for residential construc-
tion only through the agree-
ment of citizens living in the
immediate areas.
But in all business districts,
the ordinance provided a min-
mum distance a business build-
ing could be constructed from
the front property line.
Receiving the honor for a long
redord of conspicuous success in |
agricultural achievement are the two
HONORED BY REGISTER—Sharing honors as the Daily Register's Farm Family of the Month
for February are the David H. Smith and David R. Smith families. Mr. and Mrs. David R.
Smith are seen at upper left with their two children, Bobby Don, 16 months, and Charlotte
Marie, 3 months. In upper right hand photo, David H. Smith, left, and his son are shown
with two of their fine Milking Shorthorn heifers. The two Mrs. Smiths work together, bottom
right, in packing a home freezer with tasty tidbits. In lower left hand picture, elder Smith
and at the same time create
ample business and industrial
areas.
Many are the cities and towns
today which still do not have
zoning ordinances ana witness
drunkenness.
The mishap occurred about
12:35 a. m. Sunday after Poston
turned off Dixon street on to
Main street.
In another Sunday morning
fired altogether
Rep. Bentsen < D-Tex) was
। standing directly behind one of
the wounded congressmen. Davis
i (D-Tenn).
In a collision involving-three
vehicles at 4:45 p. m. Saturday.
John W. Renfro, 17, of 929
North Taylor street, was
charged with driving without a
driver’s license and hitting a
parked car.
The incident was in the 600
block of North Denison street
as Renfro was driving north in
a truck. He reported that the
vehicle went out of control and
smashed into a parked car
driven by Mrs. Peggy Hott, 20.
of 514 North Denison street.
The impact threw Mrs. Hott’s
car into another parked vehicle
owned by John C. Robertson of
518 Denison street.
Total damage to the three
cars was estimated at $370. with
damage to the car driven by
Mrs. Hott set at $300.
residential construction. There
is nothing civic leaders can do
but hope that zoning will even-
tually be put in effect.
How well the zoning ordinance
has worked in Gainesville could
be determined only by a sys-
tematic check of what has taken
place.
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Charges Are Filed
In Three Weekend
Traffic Accidents
Charges were filed in Corpo-
ration court against drivers in-
volved in each of three weekend
accidents, accounting for an es-
timated property damage of
$590. No injuries were reported.
Heaviest hit in court was
Charles Turner Poston, 17, of
932 North Taylor street, who
was fined $50 for “drunkenness
; in a car" < Driving while intoxi-
the prairie before gusts as high
as 50 miles an hour. - - . - --------
March was ushered in with ' ' : mained in a seat, being treated the gallery
blustery weather in Gainesville , Cum J -pAeA npuAm by a nurse, after the wounded speaker, and seized one
Monday morning and skies werejoUUGIIC3C UIIVCII were removed to’hospitals. men whe had heen firine
partly clear. The temperature ; 1
reached a low this morning of । A.,.. Cham* LI., .£i
33 and had risen to 55 at noon AWay rrom 110016 Ol
Sundays high was 57. The bar- •
ometer was rising at 29.76. DwiH*eL £AIMAI
The weather bureau said Texas’ I DEIEuli UOVCTEOE
first taste of cold weather was I
road inside deactivated Camp
Bowie near Brownwood.
Amateur Boxer Killed
Leonard A. Hays, 22. Bullard,
Tex., was killed early Sunday
when the car in which he was
traveling alone hit a bridge abut-
ment on State Highway 69 south
of Tyler. Hays represented Tyler
in the welterweight division in
the State Golden Gloves boxing
tournament in Fort Worth re-
cently.
Buster Bogie. Greggton, was
killed Sunday when the car in
which he and B. F. Vanderslice,
46. also of Greggton. were riding
struck a bridge abutment about
two miles north of Pittsburg on
State Highway 271. Vandefslice
was hurt.
Werner Karl Gmohling, 19, a
German seaman. was killed Fri-
day night when struck by a car
north of Pasadena. Tex. It hap-
pened shortly after the youth and
four friends left their ship.
hoi nes, however, are located only
a few feet apart.
7 he Smiths moved to their
pre sent 438-acre farm three miles
sis’s of his wife and two small
children, Bobby Don, 16 months,
and Charlotte Marie, three
me nths.
7 he farm represents a coopera-
tiv family effort in every sense
put pose animal.
A s proof of the prowess of his
ani mals, young avid proudly
exh ibits a shoe box filled with
var colored ribbons won at shows
I cated when filed in c o u n t y did
court) It was the second simi- to win Sudanese support' for
lar offense for Poston within Egyptian plans, was one of the
the past two weeks. On Feb. 15 men who helped engineer Na
he was fined a total of $60 in . guir‛ ouster last week
Corporation court for drunken- 1 ’
ness and speeding.
Poston was arrested after his
car went out of control and ran
up on a high curb, on the south
side of the Schad & Pulte build-
ing in the 100 block of East
Main street. A parking meter
was damaged and damage was
estimated at $125 to Poston’s
car.
A companion was fined $10 for
owe. where Naguib was being
entertained after his arrival by j
plane from Cairo.
Sudanese police. commanded
died Friday night w hen his car I wood to Dallas about a year ago.
overturned 25 miles south of Mid- was killed Sunday when a car
overturned on a curve on a paved
De i ton road in 1942, after being
dis blaced from their holdings
noithwest of Gainesville by the
est ablishment of Camp Howze.
a 21-year
Fifteen permits were issued
Of the 438 acres in the farm. [ for new' single family dwellings.
300 acres are in cultivation with | accounting for $72,350 of the
the remainder in improved pas-: February total.
tures. The Smiths also still have Other permits for the month
included: addition to six single
family dwellings, $2,765; repair
to one dwelling, $400; four new
private garages. $1,300; one new
car port, $200; three new busi-
ness buildings. $6,800: additions
to two business buildings, $1,-
600; one new church building.
$20,000; and one dwelling moved
into the city, $750.
Building permits for January
1954 were $61,550.
who through cooperative effort
the erection of business and in- hale developed an outstanding
dustrial buildings in areas that,
definitely should be reserved for
cou nties and at the State Fair of
Tei as.
— . „ . —. . ------_ .. ,
and brought up to date when
net essary. Surely it should be
ma ie as easy as possible for a
bui der to construct a business
str icture, at the same time
saf guarding the interests
ma ny of their homemaking
tas ks, though they do not live in
by British officers, first tossed
tear gas grenades at the press-
ing crowd and then opened fire
with their guns when the tribes-
men charged with outthrust
spears. The seven slain police-
men fell before the spear
charge.
Naguib came here with Egyp-
tian Guida n c e Minister Slah
Salem for the inaugural session
today of the Sudan's first parlia-
ment. After the fighting, the
governor general announced the
ceremony would be postponed
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