The Abilene Reporter-News (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 71, No. 184, Ed. 2 Monday, December 24, 1951 Page: 17 of 48
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STILL GOING: Now it costs 36
cents each time it travels.
Ex-McCulloch, Gouldbusk
Teacher in Tax Sleuth Role
Reporter-News Bureau
WASHINGTON, Dec 24.—Texans
have taken over the two most im-
portant jobs at the Bureau of in-
ternal Revenue as the big clean-
up of the scandal-ridden agency
gets underway.
The head of the bureau is John
B. Dunlap of Dallas, and this week
be named a fellow Texan chief of
the Intelligence Division of the
bureau.
The post went to Frank W. Lohn
a veteran of 24 years with the
Bureau of Internal Revenue, who
was born at Waldrip (McCul-
Loch County) 53 years ago. Lohn
once served as deputy clerk of the
McCulloch County Court at Brady,
and was principal of Calf Creek
I false McCulloch County) school
and superintendent of schools at
Gouldbusk (Coleman County).
Lohn joined the Internal Reve-
nue Bureau as a special agent
in the intelligence unit in Febru-
ary. 1927 and has served in the
bureau since.
“Mr Lohn is taking over an
agency of the bureau which is
most important in the current
drive to eliminate tax frauds and
purge the bureau of all unfaithful
employes," Dunlap said. "He has
been selected with these ends in
mind."
ASK FOR PLENTY
Kids Aren't Bashful
In Santa's Letters
‘Frugal’ Buddies Make One
Yule Card Lost 22 Years
Packing 'Em In
SAIGON, Indochina, Dec 24. —
The film "Gone With the Wind.”
even though it's ancient now as
American movies go, still is draw-
ing crowds at cinemas in Saigon.
A single seat costs $3.50.
Santa's small fry correspondents
aren’t a bit modest in preparing
their Christmas lists.
Maybe it's a sign of inflationary
times. The sky is the limit for the
kids’ ideas
There’s often a western flavor to
the gift requests. Lots of kids want
to be cowboys, and some of the
girts, too. Only a few aspire to be
cops and firemen. If their Santa
Claus letters are an accurate
guide.
One Abilene youngster is gonna
go into the heavy machinery busi-
ness as well as ranching. All be
wants is: “an electric train, a big
cattle truck, a steam shovel, a
tractor, a cowboy ranch, a farm
with animals, a junior bicycle, a
football, a baseball and bat and
baseball glove."
I Another little Abilene boy wants
a cowboy hat, gun, holster and
boots. For these things he “will
try to be a good boy," but he
makes no iron-clad promises
His sister, likewise, says “I’ll
try” to be a good girl.
Elaine must be a nurse’s daugh-
ter. She wants a nurse cap, white
nurse dress and nurse cape.
Susan probably has been im-
pressed with the economic prob-
lems of the day She wants noth-
ing but “a cowgirl suit or anything
you can afford "
Another little girl asks a long
list from Santa, then adds he can
"bring a tie for Daddy."
Santa really had to scratch his
head over one piece of mail de-
livered at the Abilene poet office.
It was as follows:
“Dear Sharon:
“I am writing to tell you that
we are to practice our song ter
the play at 3 o'clock Tuesday. The
play la to be the same Tuesday
night and then we are to have our
tree on Wednesday at 2 "
And Sharon probably got an odd
piece of mail, too, in the mix-up
Two Abilene youngsters really
had a sincere request to make of
Santa for Christmas.
Each opened the Santa letter like
this:--
“Please let me have my sister
home from Gonzales Polio Hospi-
tal for Christmas."
Have 'Rich Racket’
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaya.
W — A Malayan leader says Com-
munism in Malaya is "nothing
more or less than a fabulously
wealthy racket. -
W. M. MacLeod, member of the
THE ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS E p
Abilene, Texas, Monday Evening, Dees 24, 1951 2-P
Council of the Malayan Associa-jungles were collecting somethi
tion, said he estimated conserva-like $3,300,000 monthly from 1
lively that the Communists in the I sale of stolen rubber.
Seasons Greetings
To All
The LAUNDROMAT
517 Oak,
MR. & MRS. JOHN W. SICKLES
Owners.
Ph. 4-9696
CONSHOHOCKEN Pa (NEA)-
James Morrison, of Roxborough,
Pa , started something when he
sent, a Christmas card to R. Lin-
coln Hain, in Conshohocken back
in 1930.
The card has just made its
22nd annual journey between the
two old friends.
When Morrison first mailed the
Public Housing May
HH $ (Billion Pace
PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. 24. —
Federal spending for public hous-
ing may soon reach a rate of near-
ly $1 billion annually. Norman
Strunk of Chicago told the Oregon
Savings and Loan League's recent
convention.
L "This increased pressure from
the subsidized housing program will
mean the difference between hold-
ing or not holding the line on con-
struction costs and prices in many
communities," said Strunk, who is
executive vice-president of the U.
S. Savings and Loan League.
He cited Congressional appropri-
ations authorized for 92,300 family
dwelling units in 13 months ending
July 1, 1952. "At a maximum cost
per unit of 38,450," he said, "It is
possible that an outlay for construc-
tion alone will total $780,000,000.
This is exclusive of land cost.”
somber-hued, oval-shaped black
and sepia greeting card to Ham.
he added this postscript: , Be-
cause of the Great Depression. I
had to make use of an old calen-
dar for this card.”
Hain put the card carefully
away. When Christmas, 1931.
rolled around. Hain mailed the
card back to Morrison. “I’m only
folk-wing your example of fru-
gality, but I’m going you one
better,” he wrote.
Since then, the card has gone
back and forth between Roxbor-
ough and Conshohocken, some
half-dozen miles apart, with a "To
Bob” or a "To Jim,” added each
year to the growing signature list.
When the card made its 20th
trip two years ago, the co-owners
decided that from then on It
should travel only as a registered
piece of -mail
That decision, Morrison says,
shot his original economic plan
“full of holes." It costs 36 cents
to mail it now. __________
School Desks Needed
PICTOU, N. S., Dec. 24. 1* —
Need of additional space in the
town schools was forcibly pointed
out in reports to the school com-
missioners. In one grade 9 class
there are 50 desks and 53 pupils
Two of the extras use the teacher’s
desk, while the third is a "floater."
using any that happens to be va-
cant that day._____________
To us, it means the time and opportunity to tell you we have
appreciated your patronage—and WANT YOU TO KNOW IT!
Thanks!
A
Abilene Concrete Co.
“Where Quality Comes First”
BUCK BRADDOCK & EMPLOYEES
301 South Fifth
Phone 2-9633
RRY CHRISTMAS
CHR
Once again we welcome the op-
portunity of sending along our
GREETINGS to the many friends
throughout the area we serve. If
we have been of service to you
during the past year, we have
417 Mesquite
We Wish to Extend...
... Our Very Best Wishes
for° Merry Christmas
and a Healthful and Prosperous
New Year
Abilene Kitchen Center
2417 South-7th St.
Phone 4-5121
PRy c
*
TERRY CHRISTMAS
achieved, in a small measure, the
goal planned a year ago.
Please accept our sincere best'
SEASON'S GREETINGS. May
your Christmas be a happy one.
T. WILSON TRANSFER & STORAGE CO.
Ph. 2-3284
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The Abilene Reporter-News (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 71, No. 184, Ed. 2 Monday, December 24, 1951, newspaper, December 24, 1951; Abilene, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1648763/m1/17/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Abilene Public Library.