The Abilene Reporter-News (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 72, No. 30, Ed. 2 Thursday, July 17, 1952 Page: 3 of 30
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Coleman, Snyder, Ranger
Rodeos Open to Big Crowds
Estimated crowds of 15,000 per.
sons attended rodeos in three West i
Texas towns Wednesday night. 1
A crowd of 7,000 crowded into
the stadium at Coleman for
the first performance of the 15th
annual world championsship Cole-
man Rodeo.
Snyder’s first night performance
of the annual Scurry County Rodeo
was unreeled Wednesday night
with a record entry of 250 contest-
ants, making the show one of the
largest in the history of the coun-
"At Ranger, a crowd of 3,500 per.
sons thronged the Jaycee Arena
on Wednesday night to witness the
opening night performance of the
Ranger Jaycees’ Rodeo.
Parades opened the rodeos in the
three towns. A two - mile long
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parade wound its ways through 1
downtown Coleman streets led by
the Hardin - Simmons University
Cowboy band and the six white
bones.
The show at Coleman will con-
tinue through Saturday night.
Seventeen floats were used in the
Snyder parade that moved through
the downtown area at 8 o'clock.
Rex Beck of Talpa led a field
of 20 calf ropers when he roped
and tied a hefty Brahma calf at
Coleman to 10.6 seconds. The
nearest any roper could come to
this time was the 12.5 seconds
marked by Doyle Riley of
Ballinger.
Mrs. Jerry Dusek of Van Court
outrode all of the other girls in
the Coleman cowgirl flag race. She
made the fast time of 12 8 seconds.
Bulldoggers had a rough time in
the first round, and the 10.6 sec-
onds turned in by Buddy Groff of
Bandera was low for the night.
At Ranger, L. N. Sikes of Mexia
topped the calf ropers with a time
of 13.7 seconds
H. J. Alexander of Waxahachie
walked away with the steer wrest-
line in 4.2 seconds.
Mrs. Wilson McBride of San An-
gelo won the cowgirl barrel race
with a time of 19I seconds.
Bareback bronc riders were Ira
Akers of San Antonio: Bob En-
zler of Auburn, Calif. Red Nixon
of Breckenridge: and Paul Gould
of Sweetwater.
Saddle bronc riders were Dutch
Tavlor of Albany and Billy Howyle
of Georgetown.
Ira Akers of San Antonio was
the only bull rider.
Tadlock Rites
AtRobyToday
THE ABILENE REPORTER NEWS 3-A
Abilene, Texas, Thursday Evening, July 17, 1952
Demos Bring Back
Prohibition With
ROBY. July 17 - Funeral for
U. M Tadlock 61, Hamlin hard- Taxes Official Savs
Sanchez, of Honolulu, lived near
Air Force bates In New Mexico.
Texas and California while posing
as the wife of S. Sgt. Ronald M.
Carpenter, who has been arrested
in California on similar charges
The official said the imperson-
ation was disclosed through a rou.
tine fingerprint check after San-
ware merchant, will be held IdAUDy VIIIVIMI 0913
TherndBy Methodist Church. The CHICAGO, July 17. IB—Demo-1 chex was arrested in Corpus Chria-
Rev Roy Patterson, pastor, will erats were told today that they ti, Tex on charges of vagrancy
Al trrhina tha naana Sanchdr
officiate. e
Burial will be in the Roby Cern J are -.-.----
etery under the direction of through taxation
Weathersbee Funeral Home of Ro- *----* *
tan.
Tadlock, who operated an army
store in Roby until last summer,
died Tuesday afternoon in the Vet-
erans Hospital in Big Spring after
a short illness.
He was a World War I veteran
and a Mason and was also a mem-
ber of the Methodist Church. Tad-
lock was born at Crawford, Tex.,
May 10, 1891, and had lived in
West Texas all his life.
He married the former Lucy
Virginia Walker May 7, 1923 in
Fort Worth.
Pallbearers will be Boyd Neves,
C H. Carriker. John Ashley. Don
Randolph, Forrest Tefteller, and
R. E. Barber. .
Survivors include his wife of
Hamlin: four sons, W. H. and Don
Alec of Hamlin: U. M. Jr., of
Odessa: and E. M of Abilene:
one daughter, Mrs. Katie Ann
Cooper of Hamlin: two sisters.
Mrs W. A. Jordon of Fort Worth
and Mrs. John S. Gates of Fort
Stockton; and three grandchildren.
restored legalized Liquor — but now and disturbing the peace. Ranches
me bringing back prohibition was held in the jail’s women’s div-
trougn taxation - Aision while the fingerprints were
Thomas J. Donovan of New York,being checked. ________________
representing the alcoholic bever- - ■ ■
age industry, said taxes have be-l The Venezuelan boat billed night
come so high that bootlegging is heron owes its name to a beak like
almost as prevalent as it was dur- an inverted boat.
ing prohibition.
“For millions,” Donovan said,
■prohibition has been restored by
taxation."
The Resolutions Committee heard
Donovan's plea. That group is
trying to write a Democratic plat-
form and most of the witnesses
today talked of better housing, a
farm program, civil rights.
Donovan said these are tremen-
1 dous problems, all right, but —
“As a businessman, I feel there
is no problem more important to
this nation than the problem of
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WASHINGTON ( — Averell Har-
riman, mutual security administra-
tor, reportedly has recommended
to President Truman that U. S. aid
to Denmark not be cut off because
the Danes sold a tanker to Russia.
16 Policemen Hurt
TOKYO (Sixteen police were
injured Wednesday when Commu-
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police at a Red peace rally in
Nara, near the ancient capital of
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He said the platform should in-
clude a plank calling for the re-
duction of all “excessive taxes.”
Man Admits Posing
As Airman's Wife
ALBUQUERQUE, N. M. ( A
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