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VOL. LXXII, NO. 149
Che Abilene Reporter-32e1 SUNDAY
"WITHOUT OR WITH OFFENSE TO FRIENDS OR FOES WE SKETCH YOUR WORLD EXACTLY AS IT GOES"—Byron
Associated Press (aP) ABILENE, TEXAS, SUNDAY MORNING, JANUARY 4, 1953—FIFTY TWO PAGES IN FIVE SECTIONS PRICE DAILY Se, SUNDAY 104
GOP Senate Puts Off
Fight Over Filibuster
* BILLS INTRODUCED
Tax-Cutting Moves
Off to Quick Start
Rule Showdown
Slated Tuesday
REPUBLICAN SENATE LEADERS CONFER—Senators Robert A. Taft of Ohio (left).
Styles Bridges of New Hampshire (center) and William Knowland of California confer be-
fore a caucus of Republican senators preceding the opening of Congress. Taft will be ma-
jority leader of the 83rd Congress Senate. Bridges will be president pro tern and Know-
land chairman of the GOP policy committee. (AP Wirephoto)____________________________
Abilene Grows in Area,
Population During 1952
By EARLE WALKER
Abilene forged ahead to new
heights in population and area,
and kept a rapid pace of business
activity during 1952. .
It had an estimated population
gain at 2,210 in the 12-month per-
tod. bringing the unofficial figure
for Greater Abilene to 58,939, the
Chamber of Commerce: said. In
Holiday Deaths
Lag in Texas
crease in the past five years was
placed at 5.867—from the 55,072 of
1948. -
These population estimates were
made by the C-C by multiplying
the number of electric meters in
use by 3.4, a basis accepted by
the U. 8. Bureau of Census.
1.11 MILES ANNEXED
Annexations during 1952 hiked
the area of the city by 698.2 acres,
or 111 square miles, establishing
the new total of land within the
corporate limits as 7,536.2 acres,
or 11.75 square miles.
The city’s area has had a 75.8 ,
per cent gala since the end of
World War □. The territory an-
compared to the $162,924,638.79 of
1351. These clearings provide an
accurate barometer of business,
since they are all the checks han-
dled by the local banks.
POSTAL RECEIPTS SOAR
Postal receipts for 1352 up to
noon Dec. 31 Exceeded by $78,021.-
94 those of the entire year 1951-
$708,470 compared to $630,448.06
By GARDNER L. BRIDGE
WASHINGTON, Jen. 3 W—Tax-
cutting moves got off to a rapid
start in the new Congress today,
but they face a long and perhaps
stormy trip through the legislative
mills.
A number of Republicans and
Democrats called for tax relief of
one kind or another. The emphasis,
however, was on cutting govern-
ment spending first.
The key measure, providing for
an 11 per cent reduction in income
taxes for most persons starting
June 30, came from Rep. Reed
(R-NY), who becomes chairman
of the tax-writing House Ways and
Means Committee.
Said Reed: ,
"We can have the tax relief pro-
sided in my bill and also achieve
our major goal of a balanced bud-
get ... the present high individual
income tax rates are presenting
an segments of our people from
realizing a higher standard of
Using."
Accounts served by the City
Water Department showed a net
gain of 771 during 1952, hiking the
total in service to 14,449. There has
been a net increase of 4,145’ at
By The Associated Press
The happy holiday harlo
Christmas and __
most over—and the 181 persons
who died violently in Texas were
far fewer than expected.
The latest Associated Press tab-
bings and various other forms of
violence accounted for the rest.
The epunt., started at midnight
Dec. 23 and will end at midnight
Sunday. For a period from mid-
night Dec. a until midnight Jan.
1, the Department of Public Safety
predicted 302 persons would be
killed L 55 in traffic accidents, 42
by suicide or homicide and 34 in
other types. __.
Fires claimed a lives, including
a 95-year-old Teague woman, Ader
verken#
vexed during that interval (since
January, 1946) measured 3,250.1
acres, or 5.08 square miles.
Bank clearin
a new all-tim_
brisk business activity. For that
year they totaled $171,813,798,97,
in 1953 were at
high, indicating
counts in the past five years —
since Jan. L 1948.
Lone Star Gas Co. reported a
net gain of 730 gas connections in
1952, bringing the total served to
16,560. The increase during the
last five years amounted to 5,008,
" Utilities Co. had. a
Gusty Winds Leave
State; Skies Clear
By The Associated Press
Gusty winds that have been
whipping around Texas street cor-
ners the past several days blew
themselves out Saturday leaving
skies clear and temperatures mild.
The outlook for Sunday was for
continued fair weather and little
change in temperatures.
The Saturday high was 67 to
Corpus Christi, with a low max-
Imum of 50 in El Paso.
tag served as the year closed was
17,385. There has been • gain of
4,884 in the five-year period 1948
to 1952 inclusive.
Southwestern Bell Telephone Co.
estimated a net geta of 1,800 tele-
phones in Abilene during the past
year, boosting the total to 22,116.
The increase in telephones during
the last five years was 9,217.
BUILDING TOPS IKI. *
Construction suthorised to build-
tog permits during 1952 was $647,
415 more than that of 1951, and
the number of permits the past
See POPULATION, Pg. 1A, Col. 1
Clemmons.
The latest reported deaths m-
“M Linda N. Riges, 44, died
Friday night in a Pasadena hes-
pital of injuries received New
Year’s night. _
Mrs, Chester Owens, Elgin.
whoM two small children burned
to death Friday, died in an Aus-
tin hospital Saturday of burns re-
ceived when she tried to light a
wood in a stove.
Ray Samuel Echols, 2, died in
a fire that destroyed a home on
the outskirts of Waco.
Ruben Roberto Salinas, 30, Mc-
Allen, killed when a pickup truck
hit a telephone pole to Hidalgo
County Jan. 1.
Lu gust Vince Kostroun, 41, Fow-
lerton, died Jan. 1 of injuries re-
ceived in an auto accident in Wil-
aon County Dec. 31.
Buford E. Totton, 33, Plainview,
died of gunshot wounds st his horns
Dec. 25. Justice of the Peace W.
J. Lewis returned a suicide ver-
diet.
Henry Earl Barrett, 21, Pales-
tiae, waa shot to death Dec 21
to Houston. Justice of the Peace
W. C. Ragan ruled justifiable hom-
icide.
John E. Perkins, 71, DeKalb,
died of self - inflicted gunshot
wounds Jan. 101
Television Okayed
For Inaugural Ball
WASHINGTON, Jan. 1 Un—The
Republicans decided today to give
the public a peek—via televiaion
and radio—at the hard-to get-in in-
augural ball on Jan, 20.
Tickets to the Inaugural ball are
by invitation only, but even the
big shots have to pay. Admission
price with the invitation to 311 A
box Mating eight costs 8300.
NEWS INDEX
SECTION A a
Texens in Congress......Pege 4
on .............. 10-11
SECTION B
1952 in Review.......Pages 1-6
Duiles New Quarterback........2
Werid Forecast for ‘53 ........3
, The Veep Bows Out...........4
Bosks 1......... : 7
Amusements ...___-.........8-9
SECTION C
New Year’s Brides........Page 1
Feshionebly Specking..........4
Newcomers ***** 5
Editorials..................10
SECTION D 144
fanea:.........*.$
Marketer Radios Church News . 10
HITCHHIKES ACROSS
Texas GI Goes AWOL From
Soft Job to Fight in Korea
FORT KNOX, Ky., Jan. 3 -
"Reports that an Army corporal
from Texas went over-the-hill from
a soft job here and hitchhiked to
the front-line hills of Korea were
confirmed today.
Officials at Fort Knox, after
checking their records and the
Pentagon in' Washington, filled to
the details of the 11,000-mile A.
W. O. L Jaunt of Cpl. Robert von
Kuznick from hero to Seattle, Yo-
kohama, Pusan, Seoul and the
front lines.
A spokesman for the Seventh Di-
vision, in Korea, yesterday, told
of the corporal who said he made
his way to Seattle, after leaving
here on a weekend pass, hid on
a ship and finally ended up in a
tank outfit on the front lines.
Cpl. von Kuznick said they
didn’t ask any questions there,
they thought he was a replacement
and were happy.
Today the Army had this to add,
after checking:
.1. He was reported absent with-
oot leave Oct. 30, 1951, and was
reported back on duty Dec. 24,
1951, in Korea He was A. W. O.L.
less than two months, and the
Army has no record at any dis-
ciplinary action Uken against him
for his unauthorised trip
2. Although he gave four differ-
ent hometowns to various people
during his travels, the Army lists
II as Dallas, Tex.
3. Von Kuznick was an assistant
in the Instructions and Information
division of the 23rd Armored En-
gineers. 1
He was drafted from Dallas,
May 10, 1351
Tides, ROIC
Bills Offered
By Burleson
Reporter-News Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON HE
diced three pieces of legislation
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which would give Texas what she
haa long believed was hers —full
ownership and control over the
marginal seabed.
Burleson also dropped a resolu-
tion in the House hopper which
would re-recognize the complete
legality of the resolution under
which Texas was annexed to the
union to 1845. A third measure he
introduced would permit two eol-
leges to the same vicinity to par-
ticlpate- in the same ROTC pro-
gram. Passage of this bill would
permit students at McMurry Col-
lege to take part to the Hardin-
Simmons University ROTC pro-
gram.
Burleson introduced the bill to
reconfirm the legal standing of the
annexation agreement because
former U. 8. Attorney General J.
Howard McGrath stated before a
congressional committee last year
that he believed the agreement
was void because Texas seceded
from the union during the Civil
War. In doing so, Texes lost all
privileges under the agreement,
McGrath maintained, reasoning
thst Texas came bock into the un-
ton after the war on‘the same
footing and with no more righto
than any other state. The title to
millions of acres of Texas lands
are involved in the annexation
agreement, SS is Texas’ unique
right to divide itself into five
states.
Sen. Price Daniel hod also hoped
to introduce the same tidelands
bill si Burleson on the opening day
of Congress but was presented
from doing so because of the par-
liamentary situation in the Senate.
He and Sea. Lyndon B. Johnson
will introduce ft next week.
ho added, “have placed their trust
in the Republican party.”
Reed, to a speech prepared for
House delivery, raid his tax cut
bill would reduce federal income
by $1,800,000,000 in the fiscal year
starting July 1. from an estimated
69 billion this year.
President Truman’s proposed
budget for ths next fiscal year, due
to reach Congress Friday, to ex-
perted to call for expenditures of
around 80 billion dollars. Truman’s
figure may be revised by Presi-
dent-elect Eisenhower after the
White House changes hands on
Jsn. 30.
Rep. Halleck of Indiana, Repub-
lean floor leader in the House,
says the No. 1 job of the new Con-
gress is to cut government costs,
and hs says it can be done without
endangering security or hampering
government services.
Rood’s proposed income tax re-
duction would have the effect of
bringing it six months closer than
a law already passed by the last
Congress.
PROFITS TAX CUT
In addition to voting an 11 per
cent income tax cut effective next
Dec. 31, the last Congress also pro-
vided for an end of excess profits
taxes yielding an estimated 2% bil-
lion dollars a year, effective June
30.
Rood made it clear he doesn’t
want to permit a big tax reduction
for business June 30 and make In-
dividuals wait another six months.
A Democratic committee mem-
ber, Rep. Boggs of Louisiana, told
a reporter he shared this view but
said he also thought excise (sales)
..2224/scnrts
mittee member, Rep. Dingell of
Michigan, came a bill to repeal
the 20 per cent amusements tax.
Dingell said this levy is bringing
“devastation upon the motion pie-
tore industry."
Rep. Simpson (R-Pa), still an-
other committee member, offered
a bill to grant relief to business
firms suffering hardships under
which say firm which feels it is
being unduly penalized could seek
relief before S federal board.
The big question appeared to be
whether Rood’s income tax cut-
ting bill would be pushed through
in s burry, so as to give the Senate
plenty of time to set by June 30,
or whether members would insist
on a broad study of the whole gov-
ernment financial picture before
acting. ____________________________
\ By DOUGLAS B. CORNELL
WASHINGTON, Jan. 3 —T
GOP rode back into power in tl
new Congress today and quickly
shoved over until next week a
Senate fight over filibustering rules
that would have disrupted opening
day harmony.
For the most part, the 83rd Con-
CD N. WISHCAMPER
... succeeds Hal Sayles
gress did UtUe but swear in mem-
bers, elect .the men who will
control it for two years, and run
through a few moments of debate.
Yet it was what Senate Chaplain
Frederick Brown Harris called
•This day of destiny.” For it
brought forth the first official
transfer of power in the change
Wishcamper New
Managing Editor
which will end a 20-year reign of
the "New Deal, Fair Dear’ Demo-
cratic administration with Gen,
Dwight D. Eisenhower’s inaugura-
tion on Jan. 20.
GOPs JUBILANT
For the Republicans, who have
held the whip-hand to Congress for
only a brief two-year break stern
1930, it was a day of open glee and
jubilation. Democrats concealed
any show of gloom, and even
tossed out a cocky prediction or
two that this new rise to power by
the OOP is only temporary.
Even now, the Republicans have
only a shaky one-vote margin in
the Senate and a ill-vote edge in
the House. That means they may
have to rely on the help of South-
era Democrats, which they have
had in the past, to put across the
incoming administration’s legisla-
Krueger’s Daughter Fears Seeing
'People I Know' at Trial in Tokyo
By WILLIAM C. BARNARD
TOKYO, Sunday, Jan. 4 m —
The slender, gray-eyed daughter
of a famed U. S. geooral waited
through hours of frightened misery
to her lonely prison cell today.
Tomorrow, Dorothy Krueger Smith
goes on trial for the murder of
her husband, a high ranking offic-
er in the Far East Command.
She wore a pair of faded blue
flannel pajamas and a blue cor-
duroy bathrobe, issued by the
Army hospital in which she haa
been confined since the fatal stab-
bins of handsome CoL Aubrey D.
Smith last Oct. 3.
“Will I have to see people?"
she asked her defense counsel,
Lt. Col. Howard s Levie. “Will
people I know be there?”
“People will be there but you
will not have to look at them,”
Levie told her. Later he said:
“Mrs. Smith appears to be not
so much concerned about what
the court martial may decide as
she is about the idea of seeing
people."
The attractive 40-year-old moth-
er of two children Is the daughter
of retired Gen. Walter Krueger of
Soa Antonio, Tex, He led the vio-
torious Sixth Army through the
Pacific war.
The trial, before an 11-member
general court, will open to a small
courtroom at Hardy Barracks,
Tokyo. There will be space for
only six newspapermen and an
estimated 20 spectators.
An Army medical board eon-
eluded that Mrs. Smith was able
to distinguish right sod wrong st
the time Col. Smith wss sisin.
“The defense holds thst the con-
clusion reached by the medical
board was erroneous," Levie said.
“We hope to convince the court
at this,” f
Smith, 45, decorated veteran of
both World War II and the Korean
War, was the chief of plana and
operations for the logistics section
of the Far East Command.
The fatal stabbing took place at
midnight to the bedroom of Me
home.”*
A Japanese maid told authorities
she found Smith trying to staunch
the flow of his own blood. The
maid said Mrs. Smith set on as
adjoining hod to a stunned, wide-
eyed aise, clutching a hunting
Smith died of hemorrhage ■ «rr
hours later in an Army hospital,
and Mrs. Smith was formally
charged with murder by Gen.
Mark Clark’s headquarters.
Levie to a former New York
City attorney and has served on
the United Nations armistice staff
in Korea. ---.
Two Waes stand constant guard
outside Mrs. Smith’s hospital quar-
ters. Her area consists of two cells,
each about, 6 by 9 feet with errant-
colored walls and steel mesh
doors. She is forked in one or
the other of the cells at all time*.
One cell has a bed and a chair,
and the other has two chairs and
a tabla.
UN Bombers
Pound Reds
By FORREST EDWARDS
SEOUL, Sunday, Jan. 4 (n—Al-
lied light bombers hunted down
Communist trucks and trains
across the snowclad waist of North
Korea last night and big B29 Super-
forts slammed home bomb attacks
on two big Bed supply centers.
The night raids came on the
heels of a smashing daylight blow
at another Communist supply cen-
ter In the northwest. The daytime
raid left the supply area a amok-
tog wreck and provoked about N
MIG jets out of their Manchurian
sanctuary.
The Fifth Air Force said Ka
Sabre jet pilots damaged six MIGs
to 1S separate air battles which
erupted across the cold Northwest
Korean skies.
Ground fighting slackened Satur-
day and early Sunday along the
frigid battle front.
An Eighth Army staff officer
said not a single shot was fired
Saturday and early Sunday to the
west. It was the first time in more
than a year, he said, that the un-
easy west had slumbered through
more than 34 hours without artil-
lery, mortar or small arms duels.
The Reds probed briefly la five
below zero weather last night at
four points along the Central and
Eastern Fronts. All were turned
back quickly.
The daylight attack Saturday hit
a supply center near Sunchon, 30
miles northeast of the Red Korean
capital of Pyongyang.
Pilots from four fighter-bomber
wings first plastered the Sunchon
supply area with high explosive
bombs.
Appointment of Ed N. Wisheam-
per as managing editor of The
Abilene Reporter-New* wa* an-
nounced Saturday by Publisher
Howard McMahon.
Wisheamper succeeds Hal
Sayles, who has resigned to de-
vote his full time to other business
activities.
A member of the editorial staff
of The Reporter-News since 1936,
Wishcamper will assume his new
responsibilities on Jan. 17. He has
ban assistant managing editor
since last March.
Wisheamper came to Abilene to
September, 1934, to enter MeMur
ry College aa a freshman. Two
years later, while still carrying a
Truck Strikes
Coleman Han
COLEMAN, Jan. 3 (RNS) — A 7-
year-old man was in serious con-
dition at Overall Memorial Hospi-
tal here Saturday night after be-
ing struck by a hit-and-run truck
driver.
Dave Knox suffered a crushed
fog and severe abrasions and la-
cerations.
The accident occurred at 6:45
p.m. at the intersection of Pecan
and Neche* St. Neche* St. la U. 8.
Highway 83 leading to Abilene. The
truck waa traveling north.
An unidentified woman told other
persons arriving shortly after the
accident that she witnessed K and
Mid the truck did not stop after
striking the man.
. Police Chief Les Taylor la at-
tempting to contact the woman. He
also alerted highway patrolman
in the Abilene area to watch for the
track.
Knox’s body wM dragged about
10 or 15 feet.
fun college load. Wishcamper join-
ed the newspaper staff and work-
ed at night on the morning edition.
He also found time to edit the
college newspaper. The War
Whoop, for two years and to take
part in many other campus acti-
vities. He held membership . in
Ko Sari, college men’s social club.
NAVY VOLUNTEER
He was graduated from McMur-
ry in 1333 and that year advanced
from reporter to night telegraph
src." smutTP Nw
service. Wisheamper started as a
yeoman second class and was dis-
charged in 1945 as a chief special-
ist Most of his service was in the
Seventh Naval District in Florida
where he served la pubtle rea-
Ho News EDITOR IN Ng
After his discharge he returned
to The Reporter-News staff as a
city editor. 1a January 1946, he
was elevated to the part of news
“WSheamper holds membership
In the Texas Associated From
Managing Editors Association and
has been assigned important com-
mittee work for the organization’s
continuing study program this
year.
He is a member of the Salvation
Army advisory board, and has
membership in the Abilene Cham-
ber of Commerce and the Kiwanis
Club.
He else is a member of the Uni
versity Baptist Church.
He was born to Oklahoma City
on Dec. 30, 1917, a son of Mr.
and Mrs. A. F. Wisheamper Sr.
The Wisheamper family baa Brad
to Shamrock since 1909 and Ed
attended public schools there.
He was graduated from Shamrock
High School in 1334 and was vale-
dictorian of his class.
Wishcamper’s first teste of news-
paper work came in a high school
senior English class which eon-
tributed a school page in the Sham-
See EDITOR, Pg. 9A, Col. 3
five program.
Aside from curtain raising for-
mallties accomplished In a spirit of
complete joviality, there were brief
inconclusive skirmishes in both
Senate and House over proposals
to change the rules under which
they operate.
SHOWDOWN DELAYED
Nineteen senators lined up be-
hind a maneuver pointed at getting
a change that would make It easier
to crush filibusters and obtain ac-
tion on such civil righto legisla-
tion as a fair employment prac-
tices, anti-poll tax and anti-lynch-
tag bills. But by agreement with
the GOP boss of the Senate.
Robert A. Taft of Ohio, a show-
down was put off until Tuesday.
And there to every sign that
when it does come, backers of the
change will be swamped by a line-
up that has bad things pretty much
its own way in Congress for years
— a coalition of Republicans and
Southern Democrats.
of a
In the House, supporters of a
project to curb the power of the
rates committee to bottle up ma-
jor MBs couldn’t muster, enough
strength to force a vote.
TIME LIMIT
What they want to do is write
into the rates a provision that
would, in effect, put a 21-day limit,
on the time the rules committee
See CONGRESS, Pg. 9-A, Col. 4
‘52 Business Good
Outlook Brightens
Business was satisfactory in 1952,
though in some respects slightly
less good than in 1951, eight Abi-
lene leaders said in interviews
Co—“1952 was s much better bus-
iness year considering the drouth
than most people anticipated. All
told, our own business held up re-
markably well."
Don Wooten, president of E. O.
Wooten Grocer Co., a wholesale
grocery firm—“Our business in
1952 was comparable to 1951 with
some increases. However, there
Recently the Red Cross gave Analany
Mrs Smith a small radio She ARVIN)
cherishes a miniature Christmas
tree given her by friends, though
“it made me very homesick for
my family.”
“The best present I received,”
she said, “was a pair of new por-
traits of my children.”
Her counsel said Mrs. Smith
attempted suicide last year while
en route to Japan aboard the troop
transport Mitchell.
The Reporter-News extends its
apologies to O. C. Bloss of Abilene
for a reference to s court story
to Saturday morning’s edition to
the "O. C. Bloss murder trial.”
It was his brother, Buddy Bloss.
Who was tried and acquitted on a
charge of murder to 42nd District
Court. The Reporter-News regrets
.. this error. -
last week.
They were optimistic over the
outlook for 1953.
Three of those interviewed said
the volume of business here held
up surprisingly well last year, con-
sidering the extended drouth. One
reported thst the final quarter of
1952 was greatly hurt by the cumu-
lative effects of the lack of rainfall.
The statements follow:
O. D. Dillingham, president of
Banner Dairies—“1952 was about
normal with us; we have no com-
plaint with the year. We believe
1353 will be better, inasmuch aa
people have confidence that things
win level off and the dollar be
stabilized. We feel that the Incom-
tag national administration will
have a great deal to do with sta-
bilizing the dollar.”
Price Campbell, president of
West Texas Utilities Co.—"I‘d say
the first part of 1352 was good
with the exception of the time
they had the oil field strike and
had to shut down the pipelines
out here. The last quarter has
shown less gain than any quarter
that I know of in the past 10
years. That la due to the drouth
which extended over the last sev-
eral years and which finally caught
up with us. There was no ginning
to speak of: purchasing power and
credit to the smaller towns fell
off. I expert to see things Improve
as soon as we get rain.”
Ed S. Stewart, Jr., partner to------_
I the Abliene Candy Manufacturing l optimistic for 1954.
was an additional squeeze sa pro-
fits from higher taxes"
W. W. Haynes, manager of Uni-
versal Motors—“1952 was a very
good year for us, but hardly SI
good as 1951. I noticed more sates
being financed and buyers asking
for more months in which to pay."
J. R. Fielder, partner in Fielder-
Dillingham Lumber Co.-’I would
say 1*52 was kind of an average
business year. It hasn’t been as
good as the year before, becasue
things slowed down in the fall
when it ent so dry.”
BUSINESS CENTER
Dodge Named
Budgel Chief
NEW YORK, Jan. 3 un-Presi-
dent-elect Eisenhower today chose
Detroit banker Joseph 1L Dodge to
serve as federal budget director in
the new administration, and asked
him to sit in at Cabinet meetings.
Dodge, 62, and a Republican, baa
been Eisenhower’s Bacal liaison
man with the outgoing Truman ad-
ministration since Nov. 9, four
days after tbs general’s election to
the presidency. X
to thst connection, Dodge bao
bora working closely with the man
be will succeed as budget director,
Frederick J. Lawton, gathering In-
formation for Eisenhower so the
badgel which President Truman
will submit to Congress next mF
"That document will deal with
proposed federal spending for the
fiscal year starting July 1. It re-
portedly totals around 80 billion
dollars.
Dodge and other Eisenhower
aides ere known to be already at
work trying to find ways to cut
the Truman budget after Eisen-
hower takes office Jan. 20.
THE WEATHER
SERE
1" ML T WM
Wee ras — Party
colder in the panhandle 1
the
day.
George L Minter, Jr., partner 2
In Minter Dry Goods Co.-’I u.
think 1952 has been a very satis- 2
George L Minter, Jr., partner
factory year and one that had a
sustained volume which may not
have been apparent at the outset
because of drouth and other local
conditions. Most businesses have
had a good growth and gone for-
ward. Abilene has continued to de-
velop as a business center, reeog-
sized as such over tbs territory.”
John Ray, co-owner of the Me-
Lemore-Ray Drug Co.—*1952 was
a good year. I don’t think it was
up to 1951 in all respects. We did
a nice business"
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The Abilene Reporter-News (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 72, No. 149, Ed. 1 Sunday, January 4, 1953, newspaper, January 4, 1953; Abilene, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1652249/m1/1/: accessed June 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Abilene Public Library.