The Abilene Reporter-News (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 73, No. 314, Ed. 2 Tuesday, April 27, 1954 Page: 17 of 24
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IN ABILENE
Delinquent Draft Registrants
May Face Federal Charges
THE ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS
Abilene, Texas, Tuesday Evening, April 27, 1954
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turned over to the U. S. district
attorney in two more weeks, Geor-
gia Singletary, clerk of the Tay-
lor-Callahan County draft board,
said Tuesday.
Unlessthe delinquent registrants
notify the board of their present
addresses, they will be subject to
action by the district attorney’s of-
fice. She said
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as delinquent now, the local board
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lected by Puerto Rico’s orchid growers as queen of their
fourth annual orchid show in San Juan, April 24-25.
Ugly Duckling Gets
Eyes of Iron Miners
ST. PAUL, Minn. (n—A once
ugly duckling is taking the first
bows of this tardily opening Great
Lakes iron ore shipping season—
and may be taking the last ones
years hence.
The first cargo pushing toward
the Eastern steel mills today is a
load of taconite—once despised
poor relation of the rich Mesabi
iron range.
But you can make steel from
taconite-even if it costs more to
extract its iron. And this year the
iron and steel industry's closest
attention—measured by new invest-
ment dollars-may be paid to
taconite, although its share in steel
making may be small for some
time.
The chance for another top year
for the traditional iron ore cargoes
on the lake is fairly slim right
now. Steel companies with offices
here say that some marginal iron
mines in the Mesabi range in
northern Minnesota may not open
at all this spring.
And over the horizon of tomor-
row are pointing the prows of iron-
ore-laden craft from Labrador and
from Venezuela to challenge the
long reign of the Mesabi.
Taconite is a hard red rock with
iron in it. But the iron has been
so hard to pry loose that its
mother rock had little appeal to
the iron and steel masters so long
as the Mesabi range could be
tapped easily for its huge store of
rich, freely handling iron ore.
From the Mesabi has come most
of the nation's iron for generations.
And there's lots more there to be
mined and shipped down the lakes
to the steel mills that flourish near
the coal fields. Steel making re-
quires both iron and coal and must
be brought together cheaply.
But two world wars with their
huge demands for iron and steel
have shown the nation that even
the Mesabi iron range isn't inex-
haustible. And the iron industry
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has looked two ways: to Venezuela.
Liberia and Labrador, where it
found new iron deposits; and to
Minnesota’s plentiful but stubborn
taconite.
The industry has finally devel-
oped a process for crushing the
hard rock and extracting the iron
ore which it says is economical.
Steel companies, with an eye on
the day when taconite could be
their chief sources, particularly in
wartime, are investing millions in
developing the process and build-
ing the plants needed. The first
18,000-ton shipment of taconite is
now on its way to the iron foun-
dries. Taconite is shipped in the
form of small pellets of very high-
grade ore, extracted in the Minne-
sota concentration plants from the
low-grade rock ore.
The Great Lakes ore fleet car-
ried a record 93 million tons of
Mesabi ore last year. This year
a total of 73 million tons is es-
timated. Operating well below ca-
pacity, steel mills appetite for iron
has been pickish of late. And
stocks of iron ore, brought down
last fall before ice closed the lakes,
are still piled up—some 15 per
cent higher than a year ago, and
represent a five-month supply.
Big steel companies only
now are sending out their first ore-
laden ships, about a month later
than last year, although the lakes
have been freed of ice.
Some iron miners look with sus-
picion on the proposal to open the
Great Lakes to ocean traffic
through the St. Lawrence. They
know that big deposits of Labrador
iron are about to be tapped, and
that a railroad to bring them to
the north bank of the St. Lawrence
will soon be completed. Some fear
the competition of that Labrador
ore with Mesabi ore at the Lake
Erie ports near the steel mills.
But advocates of the St. Law-
rence project point out that the
water distance would be about the
same for either ore cargo; and
that the Labrador ore would first
have to travel by rail from the
mine to the boat.
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Australia, New
Zealand, Set
To Aid French
WASHINGTON m-Australia and
New Zealand were reported today
to have expressed strong interest
in joining the United States in pos-
sible "united action" to save Indo-
china and Southeast Asia from
communism.
Both governments were under-
stood to have stopped short of a
firm ""yes” only because of Brit-
ain’s refusal to adopt a like course
until after the current Geneva con-
ference with Red China and
Russia.
But Australian and New Zealand
interest in the plan put forth by
Secretary of State Dulles is re-
ported strong enough that Amer-
ican officials are hoping the two
will persuade Britain to join up
rather than split the British Com-
monwealth.
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Dulles was said to be pressing
his united action plan at Geneva
even though informed American of-
ficials regard the fall of the Indo-
china stronghold of Dien Bien Phu
as only a matter of time.
The loss of Dien Bien Phu to
the Red-led Vietminh, they said,
would make all the more imper-
ative united action to rescue In-
dochina.
Just last night, 12 key members
of the Senate and the House, both
Democrats and Republicans, were
given a State Department fill-in on
Indochina and other world trouble
points. The briefing by Acting Sec-
retary Walter Bedell Smith was
based on messages sent by Dulles
from Paris and Geneva.
Coming away from the briefing,
several of the lawmakers com-
mented that “things look dark all
over."
One of them, Sen. H. Alexander
Smith (R-NJ), said in an inter-
view the "next few days will be
of vital importance to the West."
Smith, chairman of a Senate For-
eign Relations subcommittee on
the Far East, said the coming day
or two "should tell the story at
Dien Bien Phu.”
Britain’s willingness to join Au-
stralia, New Zealand and other na-
tions in a united front against Red
encroachment in Southeast Asia
could open the way for free world
countries to reinforce French
Union forces with military units of
their own.
Dulles advocated the “united ac-
tion” approach in a speech March
29. Later he issued specific invita-
tions to nine countries with inter-
ests in Southeast Asia.
Thailand accepted. The Philip-
pines indicated it would join.
France and the three Indochina
states—Laos, Cambodia and Viet
Nam—have informally hinted at
acceptance.
Britain's membership, however,
is regarded as crucial to the plan’s
success because Dulles reportedly
does not believe the United States
should “go it alone" if other allies
refuse to participate.
In London, the British were re-
ported to have rejected for the
present any idea of direct inter-
vention in Indochina. But inform-
ants indicated Britain may send
more troops to Malaya and per-
haps stage a show of naval force
off Indochina.
who will be Rated as delinquent
soon. Miss Singletary said.
A registrant to delinquent if he
fails to notify the board of a
change of address so that the
board can keep in contact with
him, she explained.
“He must let us know of a
change of address as matter what
his classification is, even if he’s
4-F or over 26,” she said
Reclassification of 4-F‘s to go-
ing on right now, and the board
has been unable to contact some
of them. Miss Singletary said
She urged all registrants who
have not done so to inform the
board on their present address.
“We do everything we can to
locate a registrant before we re-
port him to the district attorney,"
she said.
Join Honor Society
New members will be inducted
into the National Honor Society
of Abilene High School during an
assembly in the school’s audi-
torium at 9:30 a. m. Thursday.
The society has about 70 mem-
bers who were chosen on the bas-
is of character, scholarship, lead-
ership and service. The faculty
sponsor is Odell Johnson
Sanitation Helper
James H. Moore, Route
Grape St., will begin work as a
temporary city employe Wednes-
day.
He is assigned to the Sanitation
Department as a helper.
4,
Hancock in Austin
City Manager Austin P. Han-
cock is in Austin for a meeting of
city managers.
7 New Houses
Construction of seven new resi-
dences was authorized by the city
Tuesday morning.
Total cost is estimated at $56,-
900.
Gerald Lawler took out permits
for five of the houses. Those will
cost $11,000 each — a total $40,000.
Lawler's residences are to be at
3190 South 20th St., 3142 Fulton,
3118 South 20th, 1974 Ballinger and
3128 South 20th. They will be
frame, one-family.
A. C. Goldsmith will erect a
frame, one-family residence, 1101
Burger St. Cost is 88.000.
Reuben Rouse is to build a
frame, one-family residence, 918
Westmoreland St., 38,900.
Permit to alter a frame, one-
family residence, 1042 Cedar St.,
was granted Betty Ingle. The proj-
ect will cost $500.
Sorosis Schedules
Musical Program
Member* of the Harmony
Club
will present the program for the
Sorosis Club meeting at 4 p. m.
Wednesday at the Abilene Wom-
an's Club.
Also on the Wednesday program
will be selections by a string
quartet, vocal numbers by Mrs.
Horace Mahan, piano solos by
Mrs. James D. Murphy, two pi-
ano numbers by Mrs. Roy White
and Mrs. Murphy and vocal se-
lections by a trio, Mrs. Paul Gra-
ham, Mrs. Clyde Fife and Mrs.
Robert Hobbs.
Tax Suits Scheduled •
By City During May
City suits will be filed in May
against property owners who
haven’t made arrangements by
April 30 to pay their delinquent
taxes.
That warning was given Tues-
day by City Assessor-collector A
W. Curlee.
Both real and personal property
accounts are included.
COURTESY OF JUNIOR CLASS
McMurry Seniors See
Selves in Grade School
McMurry College juniors left
their crystal ball in storage Tues-
day and pulled out the photo al-
bum instead for a backward look
at the college seniors.
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MAJ. JULIEN LEBLANC
- .. after promotion
Recruiting Station
Head b Promoted
Julien LeBlanc is a major now.
The commander of the Abilene
Army and Air Force Recruiting
and Induction Main Station has
been promoted from the rank of
captain.
He’s in the Air Force, in which
he has served nearly 14 years.
Maj. LeBlanc came here as sta-
tion commander in November,
1952. Immediately before, he had
been head of the recruiting main
station at Alexandria, La.
The 32-year-old Air Force man
resides at 3117 South 11th St. His
family consists of a wife and four
children. He is a member of the
Jaycees, Knights of Columbus and
Sacred Heart Catholic Church. He
takes an active part in Little
League baseball affairs, and has
two committee jobs in Cub Scout-
ing.
LeBlanc joined the Air Force at
Barksdale Base, Shreveport, La.,
July 3, 1940.
His service included 30 months
of combat in Europe during World
War II. Since the war he spent
six months on Guam and two years
in the Philippines.
H. J. Evans, Snyder
Woman's Son, Dies
SNYDER, April 27 (RNS)-Hen-
ry Jackson Evans, middle-
aged Panhandle man and son of
Mrs. Ettie Evans of Snyder, died
at 10:30 a.m. Monday in Colby,
Kan., of a heart attack.
A Bell Funeral Home ambulance
brought the body here. Funeral is
pending, but will be held in the
First Baptist Church here.
Survivors include his mother; his
wife of Panhandle; one sister, Mrs.
Earl Davis of Snyder; four broth-
ers. Floyd of Amarillo, Elmer of
Snyder, Elgin of Abernathy and
and G. F. Jr.
2 Army Recruiters
Win Promotions
Two Army enlisted men on the
staff of the Abilene recruiting-in-
duction main station have been
promoted.
Donald H. Jolly and Wilson E.
Walters were advanced from pri-
vate first class to corporal. The
change was effective April 23.
Jolly is a clerk-typist. He has
been with the Abilene station since
Dec. 17, 1953. With four years'
prior Army service, 1948-1952, he
re-enlisted in November, 1953. He
came here from Houston.
Walters is assistant personnel
psychologist. He enlisted in
March, 1953. After basic at Fort
Dix, N. J., be came to the Abilene
station June 21, 1953.
Quick Brown Fox?
ORANGEBURG, S. C. un —There
was no gun handy when a fox
(bowed himself near a residence
here. Caldwell Brown picked up
a tire pump and took off on foot
after the animal — caught it, too,
and killed it with the pump.
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Mon. Thru Thurs.
Open 2 P.M. to Midnite
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SPEBSQSA
(Barber Shop Quartet Society)
SOUTHWEST DISTRICT
QUARTET CONTEST
Outstanding quartets from
5 States; New Mexico,
Oklahoma, Arkansas
Louisiana, Texas.
SAT. MAY 1st
2 p. m. & 8 p. m.
Radford Student
Life Center
Reserved seats on sale at
Melody & Record Shop, $2. One
Ticket admits to both after-
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GENEVA aSoviet Russia re.
plied today to American proposals
on President Eisenhower’s plan
for an atomic pool for peaceful
purposes.
The content of the Soviet reply
was not disclosed, but informed
sources indicated that no import-
ant progress had been made in
the exchange.
The note was handed to U.S.
Secretary of State Dulles by So-
viet Foreign Ministar V. M. Molo-
tov in a half-hour conference at
which the two statesmen also dis-
cussed problems related to the cur-
rent Geneva conference on Far
Eastern issues.
In a flashback, they gave a view
of the 45 present seniors in their
grammar school days, In place of
the usual class prophecy.
it was part of the traditional
Senior Day program in Radford
Memorial Auditorium, put on by
the juniors for the senior class.
Bartell LaRue was master of
ceremonies far the program,
which was directed by Jim Jowett,
junior vice president.
It followed a breakfast at Har-
per's Cafe far the senior*. Senior
girls wore the traditional white
dresses for the formal program.
They changed to blue jeans aft-
erwards, however, far a picnic at
Lake Brownwood.
Royce Peterson, senior class
president, Is in charge of picnic
arrangements, assisted by Eddie
Hodges, vice president.
Also honored with the seniors
Tuesday was Mrs. Ethel P. Trice,
class sponsor.
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Riggs Shepperds
Returning to Texas
Riggs Shepperd has resigned
from the REA to become super-
intendent of Medina Electric Co-op
with headquarters at Hondo.
He has been assistant Rural
Electrification Administration dir-
ector for the past three years. He to
well known in Taylor County.
In his new job, he will super-
vise co-op activities in a 19-coun-
ty district.
His wife and their son, John
Riggs, 13, will remain in Wash-
ington, D. C., until the end of the
current school year. His wife is
the former Jerry Baze, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. John R. Base, 871
Cedar St.
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