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Democrats in the role of chief
campaign author of the Commun-
program will be rebroadcast three
home in Keene, Tex., five miles !
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deep ravine. The car was so bad-
greater efforts
to
ers
highway guard
farm ownership
We were much better off than 1
in front of the station.
Highway Patrolman Bill Gard-
Garner is the second traffic fa-
12 yearling heifers in the
herd.
WE HAD READ an article by
R Stewart,
were painting. They were
ble but dama
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Farm Tenant act, which author-
ized 100 per cent loais to out
hospital in Fort Worth recover-
ing from compound fractures of
both ankles suffered Friday when
he fell from the roof of a house
which he and the traffic victim
was killed Sunday night when
she was struck by a car near her
we did
verses.
807 South Grand avenue, from
whom Gamer had recently pur-
chased the new car.
ence Joseph Miller, 36.
Two men from Lackland Air
radio ICBS! from Chicago.
His talk is scheduled for 10:15
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in the Valiev View school d
f. A rabid, sports fan.
The third Iatality in a South !
Dakota family injured in a head j
an automobile collision Saturday '
afternoon southwest of Gaines-
vile occurred early Sunday morn-
great cir-
sey coast
posts and overturned.
The mishap was at the north
end of Hillcrest boulevard where
Her father, Lt. Burdell Merle I he was riding crashed into a con-
Krueger. 29. died in a Gainesville crete highway marker and turned
hospital shortly after the acci- over several times on highway 77
dent and her bi other. Jeffrey. near the south end of the Red
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Upper Elm-Red Soil Conservation
district and has completed his
original program laid out by the
SCS. All of the cultivated acre-
age is terraced and waterways
Hays community
farmed most of his
he had also done a
vehicles involved escaped injury.
Most serious property loss was
avy officials said the plane
I only enough f '
toward pervisor, estimates that the Ves-
tal farm is now worth $30,000.
may
n in
east of Valley View hear the Den-
ton county line.
Mr. Vestal was reared in the
our members of the Bedford
to the national convention.
That’s one of the reasons Gov.
Shivers and George Sandlin. state
Democratic executive committee
chairman, issued weekend appeals
town™
TOPICS
By A. MORTON SMITH
, in summer and vetch during the
winter months. Prior to entering
standing tenants in order that business five years ago Vestal suits obtained from feeding si-
they might become farm owiers. has improved his herd rapidly i luge and feels that it is essential
-* ■ - - . .. ""..... to a good dairy program.
to Texans to
The Republ
big a delegat
can muster. I
also will deter
at the 1956 r
presidential e
The Republ
stir up their
while the Dei
rich. • .21
Then came the market crash.
Li
from England, the Euro-
tinent, North Africa and
loween party and a trailer-truck
overturning that killed seven per- Martinez
sons headlined the violent death I Aguirre
toll in Texas over the weekend. Garcia Trevino. 31; and Jose Gon
The Bedford Vestals, who were , Operate Dairy
tenants themselves 15 years ago.
now have a fine 150-acre farm 1
t To Turn Out
Trarric in Force
paint-
ing the home of Loxley Cochran.
Mrs. Mary Vanderbeck. 32, of
1505 East Broadway was fined $5
for negligent collision after her
car struck a parked pickup truck
at 10:40 a.m. Saturday in the 100
block of West Pecan street. The
brothers, Tom Gamer of Dallas.
John Gamer of Valley View and
Lawrence Garner of Woodbine,
and seven grandchildren.
Garner resided. at route 3.
Gainesville, and was born Nov.
16. 1898. at Woodbine
Funeral services have been an
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from Patuxent River Naval Air
station, Md. At the time it was
300 miles at sea.
JOHN J. RASKOB in a national
ly circulated magazine that ad-
vised every person to put his
spare cash into stocks.
At the time, a utility company
was engaged in a stock-selling
campaign such as were quite pop-
ular in those days.
So we invested $10 in a $100
sham of stock with the promise
to pay it out at the rate of $10
per month. We thought we were
well on dur way to becoming
a great many persons because;
we were never without work dur-1
ingothe leggthy dopressbrnmean «farm under the Bnkhad -Jones
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It may not have been just what
the farmer and rancher ordered,
but weatherwise November made
search today for a big .
transport aircraft missing <
the Atlantic with 42 persons.'
ha not been heard from in
late Saturday on a fligHt frol
Maryland to Africa via the
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hoping that apathy
Democrats will help
GOP candidates. ,
and has
Hfe. though
stint in the
member* of
ducers asso-
Former Tenants Honored as Register's
Farm Family of the Month for October
The success story' of the Daily servative when it is noted that ‘mnroved neetorelone h •he
Register’s Farm Family of the the FHA books still list the land
Month for October is one to in- value at the pre-war level. John
emir, , n 1i An,. +,4 / I r Fe,ntaahA- An-e M"LT A c,1. 1
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e county
i are named to the
Saturday Traffic Gainesville Painter Is
Win Family Killed as Car Crashes
> vote,
ans also want as
strength as they
eir vote Tuesday
line their strength
tional Republican
ans also wish to
numbers to vote
pickup was owned by Fred Hen-
derson. 52512 North Weaver
street. Damage to the latter ve-
hicle was negligi
to the car was estimated at
"2o‘>
L admmhge
to vote.
However, the vote in Tuesday’s,
election is the first step in the
chain toward representation of
Texas Democrats in the 1956 na
tonabprazdenoteihe Democratic
candidate for governor — Allan
Bedford, Jr., 11. take active palts
in community life in addition j to
their daily chores on the farm,
which is located five miles south-
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WE WERE
¥ AST FRIDAY’ WAS the 25th
M anniversary of the stock mar-
ket crash.
We remember quite well the
effects of that event which oc-
curred October 29. 1929.
zales Carrizales.
Two auto accidents Friday
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The missing plane carried 21
assengers, including two women.
Madrid clover, vetch and alfalfa.
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Colo,, and Mrs. Nina Ruth Bleu-
ler of Pi
Myrtle Blair and Mrs. Frank Mil-
Three traffic accidents were
also reported in the city during
the weekend, but occupants of
ler, both of Gainesville: three
is survived by a son, Grover Gar-
ner of Dallas; two daughters.
Mrs. Pauline Williams of Denver.
curred.
The Kruegers lived at Sioux
Falls and were en route to San
Marcos where he was to take a
special flight training course.
They had.only recently returned
from Germany, where he served
with the Air force.
, +3 0
OT ONLY dis-
turn of affairs
$10 investment,
hly disillusiond
King money in
kina place of
a year or two.
highway 82 and a recently con-
structed road to the former high-
ning off the pavement on a curve | way 7 7 business route intersect.
Minter said he became confused
Harry Culberson Whitesell III.
20. and Robert Eugene Johnson.
23.
20: Paul
; Manuel
1hW.,uarn paid out thevamaymArX-S8naSmd"mgemas,zhitafhrrstxonammiertmhne gmion w in Krueger
were one of the first eight fami- steins with a sprinkling of Jer-■ Vestal cut 145 tons of silage car. Feightner was not injured.
lies in Cooke county to purchase seys and Guernseys. They have! from 28 acres of corn this year ”* ■ - - - — -
‘--------ie" he Danlh—> ‘nnn 30 cows, 12 springing heifers and and put it up in his trench silo.
‘ 12 yearling heifers in the herd, which has a capacity of 165 tons.
Since entering the grade A He is well pleased with the re
to march to
a culvert on U. S. 81 north of 1
Kyle. Hays county. They were j
rs from among Demo-
ablican and Constitution
didates, but also will
1 proposed amendments
He constitution.
mendments include jury
C women — a proposal
defeated Im 1949. Worn
■ throughout the state
i working hard this year
to get it passed.
r proposed amendment
Mit use of surplus mon-
e Confederate Pension
a new state office build,
istin. The fund has well
when he came to the intersection
and lost control of the car. Dam-
age to the vehicle was estimated
I at $600.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 1 (4’
Control of Congress appeared to
be hanging in a narrow balance
today as President Eisenhower
and Adlai E. Stevenson prepared
part
- _ — —----tem-
perature change- Lowest to-
night 35-45.
2ull weather report on clas-
sified ad page.
ites Stewart’s
activities. He has been Su
school suverintendent of the
ley view Baptist church for 1
- ‘Mrs. vestal taught sho
11 years in the former MtF
and Hickman schools in C
to the Azores.
I The weather bureau in New
York said water temperatures in
the search area ranged from the
mid-50s up. To the south the sky
was clear, but in the northern,
1 cooler parts of the ribbon of
ocean there were thunderstorms
At least 29 persons died as
Eat shop at 10-East Elm street
Other- survivors include one
daughter, four sisters and two
brothers.
Arrangements are pending at
Vernie Keel Funeral home.
crashed into
,............- painter, was killed i
on himself. Sunday when the car in which I
A headon auto collision near he was riding overturned at the j
ffomstwasusndayxkillepeadourreRoreRircordesion Highwa) 77 peal ta "-.voter.
Mrs. Monica Miller, 32, and Clar.i p,.. <n., og ...eg " --
Roy Sanders. 26. was stabbed Vice President Nixon, cast by th'
ito death in San Antonio Satur T " ""
Force base. San Antonio, weredaxinan, argument following al
killed Sunday when their car hit minor traffic collision.
with burial in Nelson Grove
! cemetery near Woodbine. J. H.
Sanchez, 29:
CBS and radio Mutual ABC ap
fourth for the city and county.
Garner’s nephew. Roy Bruce of
1105 Mill street, is In St. Joseph’s
THE STOCK WE HAD pur
chased began to decline on* the
market. Down. i down. down it
wentBut we were making our
monthly $10 payments oni ft.
We made that final $10 pay-
ment just about the .time the
$100 share of "
A boy-girl argument that ended ! Miguel Morales Virgen, 50: Refu- Okla., was shot to death Sunday
in death for two after a Hal-gio Navarro Lavios; Tiburcio at a cafe in Sunset. Montague
I Bernal Herrera, 37: Francisco county.
Democrats and Republicans Trying
GondMsatherStartTo Stir Up Texans to Go to Pol
* ' By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS thi — .
Both Democrats and Republi-
cans Monday tried to stir up Tex-
ans with the urge to go vote in
Tuesday’s general election.
They had varying reasons.
» The general election usually has
[rubber-stamped the nominations
made in the Democratic primaries
in the state, and most of the
Democrats don't take the trouble
not have financial re
S.
e hot only will choose
S. D., all of whom arrived herel ____ . c
Sunday morning, came to rest_on the edge of a
The bodies of the victims were ; . ..
shipped to Sioux Falls this morn yba tteredthatH ighway Patrol
ing bv train for funeral services man BillGardner had to crawl
land burial ' 1 into the vehicle and with great ............. p-p.., ______ ....
| Mrs Floyd Feightner 50 of -difficulty lift Garner out the rear I at 3:20 a.m. Sunday when a car
wynnewood. Okla., is reported to window. driven by Charles Jackie Minter,
he' improved in Gainesville sani- Mrs. Garner was thrown clear 24. of route 1. Garden City, Kan.,
tarium where she is undergoing I of the car after it struck the
treatment for serious chest and j marker. An attendant at the
back injuries received in the nearby Sleepy Hollow service
wreck. She was riding with her station witnessed the accident,
husband in the car involved in I and said Mrs. Garner apparently
1 • — • - - - -- । lost control of the car after run-
improved pastureland with the
remaining 100 acres devoted to
_____ __ _____ g crops which tie-in with the dairy
spire and encourage tenant farm D. Cunningham, county FHA su- program. These include corn for
* . "e ii i 2 * thi “ "Ie silage, hay and oats, sweet sudan
Krueger car became loose, caus-
ing a heavy house trailer being
towed to swerve the ear into the
opposite lane. Mrs. Krueger was
driving when the accident oc-
ner. who investigated the acci- -----. — ------- ----.........
dent which was on Farm Road 51 tality of the year in Cooke coun-
in Denton county, said it appear 1 ty outside of Gainesville and the
ed that the trailer hitch on the
William E. Bennett, 44, of Dal-’ . Republicans were regarded na-
las, was killed Saturday near j tionally as fighting an uphill bat
Denton when his car collided I tle to retain their present slender
with a truck control of the Senate and House
a beautiful start in Texas.
The sun beamed down brilliant-
-e,
Against Highway Marker
Henry Luther (Jack) Garner. In addition to his wife. Garner
ingin a local hospital when Mar 54 Gainesville painter. was
cia Krueger. 5. succumbed to in- killed about 1 o'clock Sunday
juries. morning when the car in which
transferred • to the now missing
plane and started out again.
A vast Navy and Coast Guard
search for the plane started early
yesterday after shore bases failed
to receive the regular hourly
flight report. : 7
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Lynn Krueger, 18 months, was j river bridge.
killed in the mishap. The demolished vehicle was
Mrs. Darlene Kreuger. 26 wife driven by his wife. Mrs. Delores
and mother of the victims, was Garner. 40. who escaped with a
released from Gainesville sani; lacerated hip and rib injuries,
tarium this morning and she and /Both she and her husband were
her three year-old son. Reggie. , taken to the sanitarium in a Geo.
iwho was not hurt, wereto return j Carroll and Son ambulance.
torhoyEr SrnanLL He was pronounced dead on ar-nounced for 2 p.m. Tuesday at
Kruegers Barents M m Geo. J. Carroll and 800 chapel
Herman ‘k’Kl of ‘Sioiux Fans . The . force of . the impact ..........
and her brother and wife. Dr and ; knockedthe heavy cone rete out l , m - .
Mrs. A. B. Bunkers of Canton. 1 line ofLTexas back some 10 feet 1 C hism will officiate,
and the new 1955 Studebaker Three City Mishaps
Vestal family. Upper photos, Vestal is shown with part of his d airy herd and Mrs. Vestal is seen at work in her yard. Voncille
is shown embroidering towels as gift for a friend and Bedfor d, Jr., proudly shows registered gilt given to him by Gainesville
Kiwanis club. (Boyd & Breeding phqto)
stay home,
among the
elect some
head of the 1
H Congressional
Acting Fire Capt. Delbert H. , . , .. - ■ .
Sherfy was killed Saturday night to wind up a blistering campaign
in a fire engine-automobile col-- ith appeals for the voters to
lision in Houston, turn out in force tomorrow.
5.
and one shot into his head. She
died instantly and he died about
three hours later.
The big truck, carrying 85 mi-
grant farm workers from Plain
view to Eagle Pass, overturned
shortly before dawn Sunday five
miles northwest of Del Rio.
Six of the men required med
ical treatment and three of them
were considered seriously in-
jured. The driver of the truck.
Rayford Lynn Hewitt. 17. Plain-
view, was charged with first de-
gree negligent homicide.
The seven victims, all from the
_ The the second at-
and torth across a tHeyuhalnaAenierThzhervatu me
day in another plane but had te ciati
turn back 2% hours later when asen
the plane developed trouble. They
VESTAL FAMILY—Pictured at their dairy farm five miles sou theast of Valley View are
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a staunch believer in legume
'crops for soil,building and graz-
ing and has seeded Hubam and
ilg Resister
| ist-in-government issue. Nixo n
Mrs. Atha Davis French. 82. I speaks from Denver. The pro-
gram is scheduled for 9 p.m.
IEST. For the West Coast the
traffic took 23 lives, shootings 5 - ..........- .
and 1 person was stabbed to I night at San Antonio left three
death j persons dead. The victims, all
Leland Hoyt Hendrix, 23. Ty- from San.Antonig were.Ray
ler glazier, and Miss Bobby Ruth mond Devila, 48; Rohert, Ga re a
Mumford. 27. were shot to death Er" 11 months; Johnny Williams
early Sunday in a car parked inbk .1 »<;n ...
front of Hendrix’ house. A verJohn Bertrand Miller. 67. was
diet of murder and suicide was Kiued a -Y er ,,
returned when struck by a car while walk-
. ... ,, along a street.
A girl who was in the back seat ; A 71 year-old m;
of the car wnnessed the shootmg | year-old estranged
and said Hendrix and Miss Mum Crand S clinc S -tu
ford, quarreled. Then Hendrix officerssaid w as '
fired five shots at Miss Mumford
According to records in the through the artificial breeding j
local office of the Farmers Home I program. He is one of the fore- ‘
administration, the net worth oft most boosters in the county of
the Vestals in 1939 when they ’ this means of herd improvement j
bought their farm was $2,194. To- ■ and cites big increases dn milk
day their net worth is set at $18,- i production to back up his stand.
857 and that is undoubtedly con- i Fifty acres of the farm are in
. : - are sodded with Bermuda. He'is
northern part of Mexico were Clyde Bryson. 37, of Altus.
’, 2eg,
"35,.
Ion, the Artificial
29 Violent Deaths in
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For Missing Navy Transport ' psnow has20 acres an winn
NEW YORK, Nov. 1 (A)— The carrying an extra complete crew Family Active
Navy threw 200 planes and 25 to the Azores to pick up another Mr and Mrs Vestal and their
surface craft into wide-ranging plane, two children. Voncille. 17, and
search today for a big Navy The four-engine Lockheed ~ *
2% Super-Constellation was last
•• 11 heard from at 11 p. m. Saturday,
two hours after it had taken off
He is a cooperator with the
'p.m., »EST».
I Democrats busied themselves
with what National Chairman
Stephen A Mitchell called a
"walkathon" in an effort to coun-
ter the "10 times 10” telephone
drive initiated by Eisenhower
Saturday.
Democrats were urged to walk
to the homes of 10 neighbors and
ask them to vote. Republicans
were asked to telephone 10
friends and urge them to go to
the polls. There was no accurate
indication of the effectiveness of
either campaign*despite claims
of widespread success. Telephone
companies generally reported
normal traffic, with increases in
some areas
Democrats conceded privately
that they had been hurt in some
critical races by the charge that
many of their candidates were
“left wing.” Atty. Gen. Brownell
said Saturday night that if Dem-
ocrats win control of congress
the new chairmen of committees
which deal with corruption and
communism would be a “new
kind of 5 per center--they sup
ported the president's program
only 5 per cent of the time. He
did not name them. Brownell said
the “big reason” for having a
GOP congress is that “in this
field of communism there is
much to be done by our federal
government.”
Democrats remained confident
(Continued on Page 8)
Heart Attack Fatal
To Clarence Stewart
Clarence O. Stewart. 62. died
suddenly following a heart at-
tack at 12:05 p.m. today at his
home. 1017 Ritchey street.
He was a gauger for Sinclair
•Oil and Refining company, by
whom he had been employed for
many years. His wife, Mrs. Lois
Texas; 23 in
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....... ......... city bus_killed 49year-old Mrs and take over up to half a dozen
Fridav night Pauline Ellis in Dallas Saturday. ! GOP governorships
” ' gThree members of a Sioux I Eut there remained an air of
, Ealls.S. I “ family were killed uncertainty, generated hy dis
A 71 year-old man and his 49- Saturday near Gainesville in a /putes over rhe efrrectivoness c
- 1" « r . 1 wife .died at two-car collision on a farm road .Strenuous last-minute campaign-
Grand Saline Saturday in what Dead were B M Kreuger, 29.ji ng by Eisenhower and the depth
• > , . a murder and ! and his son, Jeffrey Lynn, about I of penetration of what the Demo,
suicide. Sheriff Forrest Sides 2, and Marcia. 5. crats called “Red smear" charges
salt 1O. B Brown shot hrs wife; Henry Luther Garner, 54, a against some of their candidates,
then turned the .32 caliber pistol Gainesville painter, was killed, From the White House tonight
Eisenhower will beam a television
ly on the whole state, tempera-
tures were mostly mild after the
nighttime chill was baked off,
and there was no rain.
Weather observers expected it
to stay that way at least through
Tuesday. *
Gainesville had 58-degre, fair
weather at noon today. Last
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mated that
, hours later.
Stevenson, the 1952 Democratic
I presidential nominee, w h o has
said Eisenhower has joined in a
GOP chorus on the issue of do
mestic communism, speaks by
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