The Abilene Reporter-News (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 71, No. 184, Ed. 2 Monday, December 24, 1951 Page: 29 of 48
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Private Car,Built for Burnet
Of 6666 Fame, Now Lake Cabin
ROARING SPRINGS, Dec. 24. -
IT - A private railroad car built 1
for one of the Burnetts of the famed ■
6666 ranch of West Texas has ended 1
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Springs bought it for $1,000.
Back in 1917 it cost $30,000 to
build.
In 1920 the Burnetts sold the car
to Sam Lazarus, then president of
the Quanah, Acme A Pacific rail-
way. Then Charles Sommer ac-
quired the car when he became
president of the line Sommer re-
signed as president only a few
weeksaga .
There are 80,000 pounds of steel
hi the 70-foot-long coach.
Braselton got with it the furni-
ture. air conditioners, bedding, sil-
ver, linen, glassware and dishes.
The car provides sleeping quar-
ters for ten, has a large dining
room, a club room and a fully-
equipped kitchen. •
Braselton plans to move this
ghost of former splendor to a site
in the mountains or near a Texas
fishing lake. -
But the World War II veteran
also smiled and added that in the
event of a rift in his home life,
he'll have a "dog house, with a
earpet”______________________
GHOST OF FORMER SPLENDOR—Back in 1917 this pri-
vate car was built for one of the Burnetts of 6666 Ranch
fame for $30,000. S J. Braselton of Roaring Springs, above,
bought it recently for $1,000 and is transforming it into a
f ishing ca bin.______
got a job to the contracting fowl-
Man. Md probably never a would
have joined the Bureau of Internal
Revenue if the “depression hadn’t
come. Like many ethers, be sud-
denly found himself out of work.
Looking for another job, he ap-
plied, among other places, with the
collector of internal revenue at
Dallas, Thomas, then collector,
asked him if he could get a rec-
ommendation from his Congress-
man or Senators.
Me he couldn’t, Dunlap replied.
They wouldn’t know who bn was.
As it turned out, he got a job in
the tea office anyway — a tempo-
rary one, however — but to ex-
celled and waa constantly promot.
He had joined the Texas Nation-
al Guard as a private in 1923 and
had risen to major when to waa
called into active duty in 1*41.
WAS BRIG. GENERAL
He rose to brigadier general dur-
ing the war, and waa in charge of
the top secret planning of the pro-
posed invasion of the Kurile Is-
lands — the link between Alaska
and Japan — although in the and
the invasion was never necessary.
Earlier, he aided Mexico in pre-
paring her military force after she
declared war against Germany
and Japan. Ha won the Legion of
Merit from the V. & and the Mod-
al of Merit from Mexico.
Dunlap doesn't belfeve the tax
scandals will cause Americans to
try to cheat on their taxes next
January.
Life Insurance
Chief Resigns
DALLAS. Dec 24. a—w. C. Me-
Cord Friday announced his re-
signation as president of South-
land Life Insurance Co. and the
sale of his stock interest in the
firm for $1,400,000.
He told members of the home
office staff at their annual Christ-
maa luncheon that to plane to de-
vote his time to hie other business
interests.
McCord eaid that John W Car-
penter, Southland Life’s board
chairman, had been elected his
successor at a special meettag of
the board during the forenoon.
Carpenter then announced that
McCord’s brother-in-law, W. H.
Francia, Jr, a Dallas attorney,
and Ted B. Ferguson, Jr., vice-
president of Texas Power A Light
Co. had been elected directors of
the company.
Carpenter is board chairman of
Texas Power A Light and president
at the Dallas Chamber of Com-
merce.
McCord's 28,000 shares of stock
to Southland Life have been sold
to an unidentified group of in-
vestors, according to the announ-
cement. President since Septem-
ber, 1942, McCord headed a firm
that grew fo be one of the 50
largest life insurance companies in
the nation under his management,
it is the third largest among those
with home offices in Texas
Carpenter has been board chair-
man of Southland Life and as-
sociated companies since 1930.
THE ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS EC
Abilene, Texas, Monday Evening, Dec. 24, 1951
tate and favorite residence. It is in
the Fens of Norfolk County, close
by the North Sea.
Before Christmas day a dozen
near relatives will join the party
at Sandringham
All the princes and Princesses,
dukes and duchesses of royal blood
will be therewith two exceptions.
The Duke of Windsor, who gave up
the throne now occupied by bls
brother, never attends these family
sessions. Princess Mary, the Kina’s
lister, also will be absent.
NO POLITICAL APPOINTEE
| Connally - O'Daniel Squabble Set Stage
' For Texan's Rise in U.S. Tax Bureau
Reporter-News Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, Dec. 24. — John
B. Dunlap, a Texan who never
went to a precinct meeting in his
life and almost missed landing his
first government Job because he
had no political connections, has
wound up on top of one of the
most politically explosive events
in American history. ...
Dunlap took command of the
Bureau of Internal Revenue—with
a nonpolitical appointment — just
as the tax . fixing, tax - evading
scandals began to pop. He Imme-
diately launched a campaign to
clean up the agency, and he is
spending 12 hours a day at the of-
fice until every case of wrong-do-
ing is uncovered and all wrong-do-
ers are fired.
Although the tax revelatoins of
the King Investigating Committee
could become the most serious po-
litical scandal ever uncovered
Punlap characteristically doesn't
view it from a political level.
“I have a job to do in cleaning
out the small element within the
Bureau of Internal Revenue which
may be guilty of wrong doing,”
Dunlap said. "I am going to see
that the job is done.”
Political currents have played a
big part in shaping his career.
He might not be Commissioner
of Internal Revenue today, for ex-
ample, if Sen. Tom Connally and
former Sen. W. Lee O'Daniel of
Texas hadn't become involved in
an open fight over Texas patron-
age in 1946.
When the late W. A. Thomas,
brother - in - law of House Speak-
er Sam Rayburn, died., opening the
Job of collector of internal revenue
at Dallas, President Truman took
Connally's recommendation and
named Herbert Arnold, a career
man in the office, collector. Ar-
nold required Senate confirmation,
and likely would have received it
under normal conditions.
Irritated, O’Daniel announced he
didn’t know Arnold, but he would
fight Arnold's confirmation be-
cause Connally was getting all the
patronage. He demanded commit-
tee hearings on Arnold.
During the long hearing, 0 Dan-
lel brought out that Arnold had
bought and sold several new auto-
mobiles shortly after the end of
the war when cars were difficult
to buy. O'Daniel wondered openly
if Arnold waa using his high inter-
nal revenue office to get cars when
others couldn't.
The Senate never acted on Ar-
nold because he asked the presi-
dent to withdraw his name.
Bather than risk another Con-
nally - O'Daniel fight, a compro-
mise was reached to elevate Dun-
lap, who had been in the Dallas
office since 1934 and held the high-
est Civil Service job there, to act-
ing collector. In 1949, Dunlap was
named collector by regular ap-
pointment and started the climb to
the highest position with internal
revenue in Washington.
DALLAS PRODUCT
Dunlap is 48, a strong man phys-
ically, with a bald head, round
face, quick and alert grey eyes,
well - organized mind and has a
friendly and unaffected manner.
He was born in Dallas, and it has
always been his home.
His wife means it two ways
when she signs her name Mrs.
John B. Dunlap. Her name is also
John, oddly enough, and her maid-
en name was Bullard. She la called
John, as he ii. She grew up in
Houston, and they met as class-
mates at Southern Methodist Uni-
versity, where he psid his way
with odd jobs and starred on the
track tesm.
As if two weren't enough,
there's a third John B. Dunlap in
the family, a son. But he carries
the “junior” designation, and is
happily called Jack. He la a sopho-
more at Texas A&M College. A
second son, George, 15, is in junior
high school here
SMU GRADUATE
Graduating from SMU, Dunlap
We have sincerely appreciated your patronage
during this past year. We wish for you and yours
the very best to come in the New Year. Thanhs
again.
MR. and MRS. GLENN H. MOORE
GLENN MOORE
ELECTRIC
3901 S. First
Phone 4-8678
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Royal Family Plans
Christmas Gathering
LONDON, Dec 24. (—The Brit-
ish royal family's biggest Christ-
mas get-together since the second
World War will be held this year
at the great Sandringham estate of
ailing King George.
The King, Queen Elizabeth,
Queen Mother Mary, Princess Eliz-
abeth and her two children. Prince
Charles and Princess Anne left Fri-
day for Sandringham.
This is the King’s personal es-
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