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FAIR AND
WARMER
VOL LXXII, NO. 62
, 4A
The Abilene Reporter Jews
"WITHOUT OR WITH OFFENSE TO FRIENDS OR FOES WE SKETCH YOUR WORLD EXACTLY AS IT GOES -Byron__________
Alocieted Prem (AP) - ABILENE, TEXAS, TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 7, 1952 -EIGHTEEN PAGES IN TWO SECTIONS
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Adlai Accuses Ike of Giving
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By JACK BELL
SAGINAW. .Mich P Gov Adlai
E. Stevenson of Illinois today ac-.
cused Gen. Dwight D Eisenhower
of giving "comfort" to Soviet Rus-
sia by labeling American prosper-
ity as war-born.
Stevenson, the Democratic pres-
idential nominee said in an ad-
dress prepared for the opening of
a five-day campaign four here that
“there is no greater disservice the
Republican candidate could do
America in its world role than to
suggest that our economic strength
at home is a war prosperity."
When the general speaks of our
prosperity as being war-born, who
can gain comfort except the So-
viets. who shout to the world that
we have undertaken our defense
program, not to insure peace, but
to prevent a depression at home
by waging war abroad?" the Illi-
nois governor demanded He add-
ed:
•‘We expect this kind of talk
from irresponsible and isolation-
ists. but not from a man who was
formerly looked upon as an under: 1
standing leader in world affairs."
Stevenson, scheduled to arrive
here by air about noon from
Springfield, II, thus prepared to
take the offensive against his op-
ponent. busily campaigning in the
Pacific Nori west
cause of the defense program but
in spite of it,"
“It has been maintained for the
simple reason that our great pro-
ductive power has increased total
national output by more than the
defense burden has increased," the
Democratic nominee said
ines in
a W
sr
Stevenson’s prepared Saginaw
speech was only a preliminary to
TIED TO WAR a major address he has scheduled
Eisenhower’s statement on which tonight in Detroit on all phases of
Stevenson teed off was made in, the Communist threat internal and
anks Win
Series,
several speeches At Philadelphia external The speech will be tele-
on Sept 4, the general declared, vised and radiocast (10:30 pm, ■
that today our initiative, imag- I EST. CBS'.
ination and productive system are DETROIT SPEECH
once more tied and shackled to The Detroit speech was billed as
war and the prospect of war, the climax oi an afternoon of
adding: motorcade campaigning through
"Our economy is a war economy- Ypsilanti. W a yne. Wyandotte. M
. Our prosperity is a war prosper- Ecorse and River Rouge in the
ity." highly industrialized area of Mich- a
Not so. said Stevenson instead, igan. ■
he contended that our high stand- In his Saginaw text, Stevenson H
ard of living has been maintained i said that "the idea that a huge ■
since the Korean outbreak not be- military establishment is necessary
i for our prosperity is repugnant to | a
every impulse I have.” M
He said the American economic I H
future is bright, contending that I I
annual outlays for farm and in- a
dustrial equipment should rise 15 M
per cent, railroad equipment 30 per 2D
cent and truck manufacture 60
per cent.
"We shall need about 20 per cent
CAT SAVED FROM CONCRETE — A half-grown cat al-
most lost one of her nine lives when children buried her in
wet concrete at a construction project in South Bend, Ind.
Workers found the animal a few hours later, still alive
EBBETS FIELD
BROOKLYN 1 Hodges, but Reynolds retired the
uncer-
ps the
is that
rificed
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nd the
ed are
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veteran
d later
his ap-
Oct. 7 PP _ Mickey Mantels pow-
next two batters without further
erful bat and clutch pitching by Al-______.... ,.__________________
lie Reynolds and Bob Kuzava pro- The Dodgers scored in the fifth can we produce enough to meet the
pelled the New York Yankees to on a double by Billy Cox and
their fourth straight world base- single by Peewee Reese,
ball championship here Tuesday
afternoon, as they defeated the
Brooklyn Dodgers, 4-2. in a dra-
matic seventh game of the world
damage.
more steel, 30 per cent more
| construction equipment and 30 per
cent more metallic ores," he said vIuiAUa ----- ---- --------- -
Production of electric power and They chiseled her out and a veterinarian is attempting to re
equipment should almost double ' 1 " 144 2-14 11 -bt
The Illinois governor said the
real problem of the country is "how
i demands of the second half of the
move.the rest of the cement lie said the feline will probably
survive her mummification. (AP Wirephoto) _ -
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series.
Mantle slashed a home run in
the sixth inning for the winning
Yankee tally, breaking a 2-2 tie and
starting Righthander Joe Black, the
starting Dodger pitcher, to the
showers. In the seventh Mantle
singled Gil McDougald home from
second for an insurance run Me
Dougald had singled and gone to
second on Phil Rizzuto’s sacrifice
bunt.
The Yanks scored their first run
on a double bv Rizzuto and a single ,
by Johnny Mize in the fourth. The
second score came in the fifth on
a home run by Gene Woodling
Allie Reynolds got starter Eddie
Lopat out of a jam in the fourth,
after Lopat had loaded the bases on
successive singles by Duke Snider
Jackie Robinson and Roy Campan-
ella. Snider scored on a fly by Gil
and can
ict that
I States
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nk that
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private
Ir. Tru-
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judge in
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FRS
rement.
Chest Drive
Kick-off Set
ForOct. 15
Kick-off of the general solicita
i lions division of the Abilene Com-
| munity Chest's 1952 fund raising
drive is set for 7:15 am Wed-
nesday, Oct 15, at the YMCA.
7 Hill Positions
Lost in First Rush
SEOUL Wednesday Oct 8 A—A | lery barrages against the hills, then
push by 15 000 Chinese Commu- | sent fresh troops charging up the
Allied slopes which already were rar
i peled with an estimated 1.200 to
1.300 Communist dead, front re
nists which oven an seven
hill positions in the first onset ear-
I ly today rear hed defenses of one |
of two heights guarding the road
to Seoul
' Team captains and all workers
| participating in the drive will meet
for coffee and doughnuts and to | and
receive final instructions on means
of conducting the campaign
W L Sibley, campaign chair-
man. emphasized at a Tuesday
i morning meeting of team cap-
Contused reports from the front
some 50 miles north of this Korean
Capital said the penetration was
1 made on White Horse Mountain
..... Allied counterattacks were
trying to seal oft the breach.
The Reds appearer) to he letting
up on their assault on nearby
Arrowhead Ridge in order lo con-
centrate on the White Horse posi-
ports said.
Front line officers called this big-
gest Red assault in a year a "lim-
1 ited offensive." It so far had been
unable to dent the main Allied po-
1 sitions but there was no letup
At times it was a melee of tanks
artillery and mortar barrages and
bayonets as the Reda beat in cease
less waves against the Allied lines
I across two-thirds of the 155-mile
i front
tains
of the general solicitations
The hill positions that fell were
relatively minor Allied outposts
stretching from one position near
the armistice town of Panmunjom
100 miles northeastward.
MAIN PRIZE
The main prize however, was
White Horse Mountain and Arrow-
head Ridge near Chorwon, which
is about 45 miles north of Seoul
These heights command the road
lo Seoul and here the Reds threw
■their greatest punch.
Front reports said the attacking
Chinese wore gas masks There
was no explanation given. The
Reds repeatedly have accused the
Allies of using gas in Korea and
I possibly they had begun to belleye
their own propaganda. The Allies
• crsnv MORE | insist they never have used gas.
MOSCOW Delegates to the AP Correspondent Milo Farneti
19th Congress of the Soviet Cum- reported from the front that a
munist party have been told that roaring artillery barrage power;
Gen Dwight D. Eisenhower is an ed today a assault The Reds
“imperialist” and warned that pumped 1.200 rounds an hour at
American troops are close to Rus- each of the heights before the in-
sia’s Far Eastern frontiers
The attack on the U S Republi-
tion.-
Possibly 400 or 500 Chinese < om-
, . thmmigh the per.
division that the 1952 goal is the Ivs — h the per.
i munist troops cut through the Del
same at the 1951 was - $84,501 ...........--Til Tanises the
There are seven agencies which imeter "I the hill • defen e •
| will participate in this year’s hud- front reports said, in heavy artil- 1
get They include the A......ne Free The Reds poured "’ heavy
Milk Fund, Taylor County Girl
Scout Association, YWCA, YMCA. A
Chisholm Trail C.....cil of Boy 1 AnArARf
Scouts, Salvation Army and A NGU HOI
lene Chapter of the Heart Asso-
citation.
Frank Meyers, Ji and Oliver Q i asae Tale
P Howard are co-chairmen of the PleIdOS 100
general solicitations division POV9RVE " V*
SI Addington is chairman of the
The Reds poured in heavy artil-
Ike Not Qualified.
| 20th century?"
Score bv innings RHE Stevenson tore into the Republi-
Yankees 000 111 100 4 10 4 i cans for what he said was the
Dodgers 000 110 000-2 8 1 GOP attempt to contend in elec-
Lopat Reynolds (4) Raschi (7) tion years “that they believe heart
Klopat € and Berro Black and soul in all «f the things they
Kuzava and Dtild, Didth-7. L Tut t paSui:
Roe 6. Erskine (8) and Camp-tried to break He said Republi-
anella 1 cans had voted against the inter-
ests of the farmers, laborers, bus-
Play-by-play
.....FIRST INNING , u lican party is aimed at “abundance
YANKEES: McDougald slapped for the few with indifference for
Blacks first pitch to Reese who the mass of people ••
threw him out. Rizzuto bunted and in foreign affairs it lead, to in-
was tagged out by Hodges. Mantle decision and obstruction, with the
went down swing No runs, no hits- risk of its grim sequel, war."
no errors, none left. .. . Stevenson declared. “In domestic
DODGERS: Cox struck out. affairs it is always too little and
Reese flounced to McDougald, who too late obstruction and mistrust
threw over Mizes head. Reese of everything that ‘- been won
reaching first safely on the error for the of people.
Snider struck out Woodline made. Now Ido n°. PPE the gen-
| eral (Eisenhower: of deliberately
wanting these things," he contin-
ued “If the truth must out, I
haven't the foggiest notion what
Truman Decides
major gifts division
| Jack Levering is chairman of
the oil industry division.
Decision was reached at the .
Ike Imperialist
inessmen. consumers, housewives. ABOARD TRUMAN TRAIN Oct
our children, the old folks and 7 IP— President Truman declared pull our troops out of Korea in the
i our free friends abroad.” I today he made “a very serious
He said the heart of the Repub- I mistake when he once thought
‘ Dwight D Eisenhower qualified
when "he joined in the decision to Tuesday morning session to con-
duct the residential solicitations |
on the night of Thursday. Nov 13 |
Mr. .I I. Pritchett is chairman .
first place ”
Truman has acknowledged be-
for the presidency
He declared that the GOP nom-
inee has "betrayed every principle
about our foreign policy and our
national defense that I thought he
fore Eisenhower’s story in his
book. “Crusade in Europe," that
of this group
.terry Morgan is chairman of the |
he told the general at
believed in” he once told a news conference.
“It has been a sad experience he thought the general was a Dem-
for me.” Truman said in a speech ocrat
In bitter language. Truman re-
a running catch of Robinson’s
See SERIES, pg. 2-A. col. 4
Ike Ignores Adlai,
Feuds With Harry
hr as an individual stands for His
view serins to change as on tide-
lands oil, social security, farm
price supports, foreign assistance
defense as he learns more about
life in America from his advisers."
Stevenson ridiculed Eisenhower's
pledge to restore the "integrity of
the dollar."
By DON WHITEHEAD
ABOARD EISENHOWER SPEC-
IAL —Gen Dwight D. Eisen-
ideas about the development of
Western resources which he said
would mean "the full use of private
hower was virtually ignoring Adlai partnership” In reclamation pro-
Stevenson today to feud with Pres- grams
ident Truman over which party He turned thumbs down on a
would do the most for the Pacific
Northwest in water power devel-
opment.
The GOP candidate drew a bead
on Truman as his prime target of
ridicule and scorn while pushing
through Washington Into Oregon on
his 28-state transcontinental drive
prepared for delivery to a trainside
crowd at Colorado Springs Cole
Truman said the President "has
the awful responsibility" of decid-
ing whether to use the atomic
bomb and must be a man "who
can stand up to the political pres-
sure when he has to make tough
decisions."
WIN VOTES
He also accused Eisenhower of
trying to win votes "by playing
upon the casualties and sacrifices
in Korea" and talking about
‘blunders’ that led up to Korea
WITH TEEN-AGE CASANO|VA
resources plus a local-state-federal A ___r 91 AY 1 Lil
Mother of 3 Cools Neels
The accent against Truman
caused one wag to comment
"If he keeps this up he might
beat Truman
His schedule during the day
called for him to make talks at
seven cities and towns in Wash-
Ington and Oregon with the major
speech at Portland. Ore at 1:45
p m. (PST) The talks were
scheduled for Tacoma, Centralia
and Vancouver. Wash. and Port
land. Salem, Albany and Eugene.
Ore. 4
Last night in Seattle Eisenhower
referred to Truman as "an expert
in political demagoguery" giving
the people a course in nonsense
fiction.” And he called the Tru-
man regime a "whole-hog" gov-
ernment operating on the theory
that "the federal government must |
do everything for us and to us "
5.000 CHEER
The crowd of some 5.000 that
federally controlled Columbia Val-
ley authority which would be sim-
ilar to the Tenessee Valley Au-
thority
“The present administration's an-
swer to further resource develop-
ment," he said is the valley
authority, a kind of super-govern-
ment blueprinted in Washington,
D C., and manned from there
You don't need more super gov-
ernment."
WHOLE-HOGGERS
And then he referred to the
whole-hoggers who want a Col-
umbia Valley authority, a Brannan
Plan and socialized medicine’
Rather than a federal Columbia
Valles authority Eisenhower ar-
gued. there should be a “new inter-
state body" in which state mem-
bers would have equal authority
with federal members in working
out navigation and flood control
programs __
jammed the Civic Ice Arena
cheered lustily. Eisenhower
heamed An additional 5.000 per-
sons were seated in a high school
football stadium nearby, listening
to the speech through loud speak-
ers.
The crowd cheered again when
Eisenhow?r said of Truman's at-
tacks against him and the Repub-,
licans 7
“You have been conducted
through an underworld of Imag-
inary devils.”
He went on lo outline his own
WHAT'S NEWS
ON INSIDE PAGES
GOT A SPARE BUCK? Demo Not
ional Comm ittee Chairman Mittheli
reports the Demos hove o problem
Money not enough, that is See
boot 5.A
CORNERSTONE OPENED Charte:
members of St Pool Methodist
Church have opened the corner
stone of the church’s old auditorium
which is being torn down See page
1.8
MISSING ON PAYDAY * new
elected Texas congressman so for
has failed to appear in Washing-
ton even for payday See poge
7.B
Potsdam employes gifts group
Sibley emphasized at the Tues-
day meeting that some firms and ________
individuals had moved from Abi- ran presidential candidate was
..........4-- - made yesterday by A. N Snech-
kus secretary-general of the Lith-
uanian Communist party, who took
issue with Eisenhower’s recent I
remarks about liberating the peo-
ple of the Baltic States.
(Eisenhower, speaking to the_____.___-__
3 American Legion Convention on ready for the assault
Mark Aug. 25, lifted the Baltic States
and other Soviet satellites as once
Independent but "now suffocating
under this Russian pall." He said
| America "must tell the Kremlin
that never shall we desists in our
aid to every man and woman of
I those shackled lands who seeks
refuge with us, any man who keeps
burning among his own people the
flame of freedom or who Is dedi-
cated to the liberation of his
in 1945 he would support him for
anything he might seek, specifical-
ly including the presidency, mui, :-----------,. mibaien and
he once told a news conference. lene since the 1951 campaign and
.'that though others have moved to
Abilene that every contributor
needs to at least match his 1951
— — -- I _contribution for the campaign to
peated the question he said people be successful.
were asking: "Didn't von once Those attending the meeting In-
think he Eisenhower was quali-Ieluded: Meyers, Sam Hill. Sam
fied to he President: Waldrop Elmo E Cure
SERIOUS MISTAKE Manly. Ira Allen Jr Dr J A
“That is true," the President Wolfe Gene Estes, Vie Baldridge
said “I did" Then, he told the Dick Van Hook Morgan Wendell
Bedichek. Howard Mr. Pritchett
Color ado voters .
"But I made a very serious mis-
take when I thought he had the
and Sibley
qualities needed for the highest
office in this country- I knew he
would have trouble in political life,
as all military men do. separat-
ing the wheat from the chaff, and
1 the political phonies from the men
who are really working for the
good of the country.
• But I thought he would always |
stand up for the things he believed
in—for the things his whole career ]
had been dedicated to achieving”
Grand Jury
Nears Verdict
fanhy took charge
The first Red onslaught Monday
night gained the Reds some ground
at isolated points.
Fighting was brutal The Reds
threw men, tanks and artillery into
the battle, spread over two-thirds of
the 155-mile battlefront.
But the Allies had known for
three days of the attack and were
The U. S. Eighth Army said the
massive Red assault captured
seven hill positions. But the Al-
lied defenders stood their ground
at most place * The Army added
that many hundreds of Reds were
In Jail After Romance
In a hell - for - leather swing
NEW BRAUNFELS. Tex P I don’t see where I did anything through Utah yesterday and en
The euro may not work but “Lover wrong." Thelma said. "I always into Colorado today . Truman
BOC.S has gone to reform school brought him home to his mother made a slashing attack on four
and Thelma is in jail for 60 days, Thelma was accused of contribu- senators harking Kivenhower lol
In an effort—by authorities—tol ting to delinquency of » minor the presidency
break up their torrid romance Horace, the husband, sued for Key Democratic officials told
Thelma is 27-year-old Mrs Hor- divorce and custody of the three reporters they are counting on the
ace Henderson, mother of three children Berthie 6: Betty 2 and President s "give-em-hell" presen-
and "Lover Boy” is a teen-aged a ten-months old son tation of the issues to trainside
Casanova whom authorities do not Theira’s sentence plus $27 for crowds not only to stir up interest
name ... court costs, was dealt out by Judge among the voter, but to lav down
Said Thelma of "Lover Boy $ J T Fuches after pretty little the issues for candidates within
irate mother "I hope she % satis- Theima and Lover Boy" repeated the states
fied now she's got me in jail, ly disobeyed his warnings and -------.
The mother didn’t like it when broke a court order not to be seen Truman told a crowd at Ride that
her boy stayed out two or three with each other in public.
nights in a row with the petite
| blue-eyed blonde and it was she
who made the complaint that got
Thelma behind ban and sent
the boy to the Gatesville State
tation of the issues to trainside
School for Boys.
In Alice
ALICE, oct. 7 P A grand jury
investigating the slaying of Jacob
S Buddy: Floyd Ir. killed in
what is believed to have been a
bungled political assassination plot
was believed near reporting indict-
| fellows ")
I Snechkus told the Communist .
Congress " It is in vain that the
imperialist Eisenhower barks at
the Lithuanian people in the hope
of enslaving Lithuania."
Another speaker. A P. Yesimov
of the Khabarovsk region-3511
• miles north of the Soviet-Korean
frontier told the 2 000 party dele-
gates “Communists and workers of
men’s today
The jury began its probing yes-
terday It also was charged by
Dist Judge Arthur A Kirin of
Brownsville to look into any elec-
tion irregularities that might have
a bearing on the Floyd murder
Moving into Colorado last night !
his present tour is “only the lie
It she still loved Horace ginning" and that a lot more of
. Rot ■ Thelma the Republicans will be Worrie d
or preferred Lover Bov Thelma before 1 finish reading the terrible
answered . . Republican record to the Ameri-
"Well. I’ve got 60 days to think can people from one end of the
it over. country to the other “
country to the other
Party officials w ho € limbed
aboard the presidential campaign
train at Grand Junction, Colo.,
informed this reporter that they i
told the President his presence is 1
5A
MOBILE CHURCH ON IKE TRAIN — Gen. Dwight D Eisenhower handy clasped and
head bowed attends church aboard his campaign special train during a Sunday stop at Liv-
ingstone, Mont Conducting services is Dr A W. Syms, Episcopal pastor at Livingstone.
With the GOP candidate in his train "pew" are (left to right) Rose Woods maid to Mrs Eis-
enhower; Mrs Eisenhower: the Republican candidate, and Sen. Zales N. Ecton (R-Mont 1
| (AP Wirephoto) - -
killed.
Allied warplanes roared over the
front today hitting the Red lines
Pilots said they destroyed two Red
tanks and about 80 bunkers.
One Allied outfit fought and
died to the last man in defending
a vital hill The number of men
presumably not large, was with-
held
the Far East constantly remember
that American imperialists, greedy
for world domination, are in the
neighborhood of the Far Eastern
boundaries of our great home-
case. .
Judge Klein yesterday turned
down a motion that the giand jury
be dismissed.
Young Fiord was shot to death
theenight of Sept 8 in the garage
I of his home Officers and his fath-
| er prominent attorney and politi-
cal leader Jake Floyd Sr called
the fatal shooting « bungled at
tempt on the life of the elder Floyd
Nago Alaniz Alice attorney and
Mario El Turko) Sapet San An
| tonio bar ownei have been 1
■ charged with murder Neither is
accused of actually firing the shots
in supporting his motion that the
needed to stir up the party organi-
- zation and chart the issues on ,.. r ,
1 which to fight out the campaign grand jurors be dismissed Defense
Attorney Percy Foreman Houston.
I tried to get the jurors to say wheth-
er they were for or against politi-
| here
THE WEATHER
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WEATHER RI Ri 41
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VICINITY
Fa
an
. Mostly cloudy Tuesday
me south portion Partiy
night Preih to stroni
a st winds on the coast di-
e thesday
ITRAL TEXAS Mostly
et Tuesday Partly cloudy
and Wednesday A little
night Fresh to strong
st • nds on the coast di-
NIRA TEXAS Partly
- ro1 T jesday and Tue
, day partly cloudy and
SEEK WEAK POINT
A front-line Allied officer indi-
rated the Reds may have been
seeking a weak point where their
| troops and tanks could pour
through to the south. Had they
succeeded, he said, they might have
cut off the entire Seoul area.
Wave after wave of fanatical
Chinese began hitting the Western
and Central Fronts last night The
land ■ biggest force, nearly 6,000 men, ran
Announcements at the party Con straight into an Allied trap and was
gress said nearly 42 million adults badly mauled ..
youths and children in the Soviet The main Red blow hit White
Union now are enrolled In the three Horse Mountain and Arrowhead
principal Communist organization, Ridge, two Allied-held hills near
(The authoritative British States Chorwon. The Reds opened the
man’s Yearbook gives the 1946 floodgates of a reservoir in an un
population of the Soviet Union as successful effort to cut off Allied
about 193.200.000.) I reinforcement
Change Approved
In Electrical Code
cal kin pin George Parr
No witness admitted that he wa
against Pan but mine would say
he had ever supported Parr-bar ked
candidates One juror testified he
once gave money to the anti-Parr
faction
City commissioners in a called pointed out that the city could not
meeting Tuesday morning agreed fact merely tipon what the cost
on a change in the controversial
city electrical code The change will
be formally voted at the Friday
: meeting of the Commission
I The change would require con-
would be, but on what was needed
for safety
OPTION FOR BUILDERS
dint to be used in future wiring in
attics which
1 Have a Lopi pitch of le * than
three inches per foot and
2 Have a clearance between the
top of ceiling joist and the bottom
of the rafter- at the highest point
of less than 18 inches
P A Under the present code adopted
1 0 I iall Over this summer t he re is no pitch re
LUU PUR MTCly quirement but the peak clearance
has to be at least 36 inch
Mercury Rising MALCOM’S PROPOSAL
1 1 This compromise plan was sung
Abilene got a touch of winter gested by I Floyd Malcom newly
weather Monday but temperatures elected city commissioner, who
were due to begin rising Tues- will take - office officially Friday
day Oct. 17
The weatherman predicted a Mayor Ernest Grissom and the
Malcom and Mr Alister stressed
that the contractors now would
have an option the could comply
with the pitch requirement in de
signing their houses, or they could
add the cost of a conduit
MeAlister Galbraith and Camp
bell agreed that the change to the
code was satisfactory. and each
expressed belief that it would solve
most of the present controversy.
Connor Elliott city building in
pector pointed out that there prob
ably woud still be disapproval
from the group which is t I
roofs on a 21-inch pitch per foot
Mr Alister said this would not be
as good construction as the three
inch pitch requiring more brae
iig and that it would make the
wiring near the eaves less accessi-
ble
WF TEXAS Partly clouds Tuesday The weatherman predicted a Mayor Ernest €11om *
Tup da % and Wednesday Wa • high of 65 to 7Q degrees for Tuex- other three commissioners a' know-
w. :.....Tatarie • • ' “h contrast 16 the Monday ledged agreem.....With the plan ar I Malcom pointed out that the con-
TEMPERATURES high of 59 degrees ter it was disc......d ■’ an open tractor, could design their houses
MA PM ' Tow temperafire for the 24 hour- meeting with Albert McAlister, to comply with the three-inch pitch
period ending at 6 0 a.m Tues building contractor Gene, Gal- and avoid any extra cost of buying
2 , day was 39 degrees the coldest braith electrician and George conduit
Mit’s been in Abilene since April 14 Campbell architect $150 INCREASE
» * 5: 5 when the mercury dropped to the Galbraith and 4 ampbell had an Contractors had protested that
A A ■. same level nounced their backing of the pros- the conduit would add $150 to the
The weatherman said the tem ent code at a meeting of the com- cost of construction.
se perature would -ho a gradual mission last Friday, but MeAlister Contractor Hud Crow had pro-
M Sanient Noon, " rise until Friday oi Saturday He was not present for that meeting tested at the Friday meeting that
r '. si’ ' ” **” said in that time the high tem-Several other building contractors the provision in the code require-
| naro ** - ■ , 28.5 perature would lie around 80 oi ' had protested the code, saying it ing one circuit for every six out-
Relative humny, PT * 2 heut 85 degrees A little cold front added additional cost to low-cost .lets in a residence and one circuit
period snaing a * o m v, from the north is due in again homes. . a
Minimum temporal - e 34 p-dav or Saturday he said. I Commissioner BinX Walker I See CODE, P9 1, CO 3
I period ending at 6 30 a.m., 39 IEuiday or paturoe), ne
ing one circuit for every six out-
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The Abilene Reporter-News (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 72, No. 62, Ed. 2 Tuesday, October 7, 1952, newspaper, October 7, 1952; Abilene, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1649008/m1/1/: accessed June 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Abilene Public Library.