The Abilene Reporter-News (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 75, No. 178, Ed. 1 Sunday, December 18, 1955 Page: 4 of 86
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MAJOR CAMPAIGN ISSUE *
Dixon-Yates Controversy
Unloaded in Texan’s Court
strep cmusouch a scale to a Ivine
One thing Sen. Lyndon B. John
son didn’t want to do when he
came to Washington this week for
the White House conference of
Democratic and Republican Con-
gressional lenders was to nold a
press conference.
'The Messiah1
Set Monda
By LESLIE CARPENTER
Reporter-News Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, Dec. 17 — One
of the most politically explosive is-
sues of the Presidential election
year has been unloaded in a fed-
eral court here over which a dis-
tinguished Texan presides
Marvin Jones of Amarillo is chief
judge of the U. S. Court of Claims
—the court into which the Dixon-
Yates power interests went a few
days ago to sue Uncle Sam for
$3,534,778. The suit is the out-
growth of cancellation of the Dix-
oo-Yates contract by the Atomic
Energy Commission after a stormy
controversy fanned by scandal-hun-
gry Democrats.
Judge Jones, who served many
years as a Texas Democratic Con
gressman and was chairman
of the House Agriculture Commit-
tee through most of the Franklin
D. Roosevelt Administration, left
for Texas to spend the Christmas
holidays immediately after the suit
was filed. He had not read the
briefs when he left—and, as would
be expected of a judge, he had no
comment to make about the case
Democrats view the Dixon-Yates
hassle as a major campaign issue
—and are elated that the power
companies involved have chosen to
go into court As a result, the is-
sue will be kept alive through the
1956 election. No sooner had the
vious political reasons. They are
I greedy ebout the amount of po-
tential political key to be har-
vested.
Anderson didn’t say so, but the
Democrats’ biggest hope is that
confidential White House maneuv-
ering in the Dixon-Yates control
, versy can be forced into the open
A in court. A Congressional commit-
tee has previously failed in its ef
fort to quiz Presidential Assistant
Sherman Adams about his role in
the Dixon-Yates contract. The pos-
sibility that Adams could be sub-
poenaed to testify in the court
looms.
Four other judges sit with Judge
Jones, who presides, on the Court
of Claims. The Dixon-Yates case
probably won’t go to trial for at
least six months, it appeared at
the court
But Johnson's office was flooded
with calls from reporters wanting
a chance to see Johnson. Finally,
Johnson told his secretaries to in
form anyone who called that be
would be in his office for a visit-
not a press conference—at 3:30
that afternoon.
When Johnson arrived at 3:30,
he found 70 reporters jammed into
his office In fart, they all couldn't
get into the room About a half
dozen had to stand outside the
door.
Johnson found that be not only
had a press conference on his
At Stamfor
STAMFORD, Dec 17 (RNS) -
Public presentation at “The Mes
siah" by a massed chorus of
voices from surrounding towns will
be given at St. John's Methodist
Church at 7:30 p.m. Monday.
The Christmas section of “The
Messiah" is being presented for
the third consecutive year under
direction of Rev. Rudy Wendel
pastor of St Paul's Lutheran
Church of Sagerton.
The presentation is sponsored by
the Stamford Ministerial Alliance
The chorus will be composed of
hands, but also the largest one to - —-
he held at the Capitol since Con- voices from Stamford, Sagerton.
gress adjourned Rule, Avoca, Lueders, Old Glory,
Reporters found Johnson in good Ericksdahl and other communities.
humor -and they were pleasantly
surprised to note how healthy and
trim 'he has slimmed to 175
Rule, Avoca, Lueders, Old Glory,
Bradford Moritz will be the pian-
ist and Richard Bouchett, organist.
W. E. Mayes will be narrator.
Soloists will be Mrs Vernon
Wofford, soprano; Sammy Scifres,
tenor: Rev. Wendel, tenor: W. E
Mayes, bass; Roylyn Flowers,
alto; Mrs. A. B. Olson, soprano:
Mrs. Emma Pannell, soprano,
Yvonne Peterson, alto.
Others who will sing in the
chorus are: sopranos. Dorothy
Bredthauer, Jeanette Helm. Billie
Hewett, Mrs. J. Roy Ludecke,
Lanette Smith, Mrs. Bill Stanhope,
Mrs Anton Teichelman, Sharon
Tucker; tenors, Terrell Berry, A.
E. Bredthauer, Walter Bredthauer,
Melvin Vahlenkamp; altos, Mrs
Charles Clark, Lillian Neinast
Lorette Neinast, Mrs. Herbert
Nierdieck, Mrs. Henry Peterson.
Mrs. Frank Reves, Mrs. George
Rollins, Mrs Herbert Valkenkamp
Mrs. Rudy Wendel; bass, Ernest
Bredthauer, Elton Higgs, Fred
Kupatt, Rod Latta, Arnold Reimer,
Bill Stanhope, Anton Teichelman.
The service will open with sing-
ing of "The First Noel" and will
close with the "Halleluiah
"Chorus."
A A * THE ABILENE REPORTE’
Abilene, Texas, Sunday Morning, December 18, 1955
Ballinger Banker
Takes Kleberg Post
BALLINGER, Dec. 17 (HW) -
Jim Williamson, for four years an
employe of the First National Bank
of Ballinger, has accepted the posi-
tion of cashier of the Kleberg Na-
tional Bank of Kingsville, Texas.
He will assume his, new duties
Dec. 27.
Before joining the local bank.
Williamson spent 10 years in the
merchant marine, rising to chief
mate. During that decade he
voyaged round the globe many
times and became familiar with
most of the world's ports. Before
entering the merchant marine he
attended McMurry College, Abi-
lene.
Mrs. Williamson, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Lynn of Bal-
linger, was reared here. For the
last 10 years a member of the
local schools, and once taught in
Abilene schools.
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... ia the middle
suit, aimed at recovering out-of-
pocket-expenses connected with the
contract, been filed than Demo-
crats vaulted into the act.
Sen. Clinton P Anderson (D-NM)
promptly said he will demand that
the Democratic - controlled Con-
gress appoint a special counsel to
defend the government in the suit.
The Democrats don’t want the case
in the hands of a Republican out
of the Justice Department for ob-
February may belong to Wash-
ington and Lincoln — but January
is definitely Sam Rayburn's month
in Washington.
The birthday of no other living
person sets off as much celebrat-
ing in Washington as does that of
the Speaker of the House's on Jan.
6. The Texan will be 74 then.
Mr. and Mrs. Dale Miller of Dal
las already have invitations out to
several hundred Texans and other
Capital VIPs for the annual birth-
day reception they give honoring
Rayburn. A number of smaller get
togethers are also planned, and
they will keep Rayburn on the
move to be able to attend them
pounds) he looked after his July 2
heart attack. Many hadn’t seen
him since before his illness.
. "What will be the first thing on
the program when the Senate
comes back?" one reporter asked
"The prayer.” Johnson replied.
A prayer opens each day’s meet-
ing of both the Senate and House
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business on Rayburn's birthday for
a long series of speeches by Dem-
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men praising the Texan and his
long public service It is an af-
fectionate salute otherwise never
Booth Mooney, Sen. Johnson's
ace public relations man, will
leave the Senator's staff on Dec.
31. Mooney, who is from Dallas,
will continue to live in Washing-
ton but said he is not yet at lib-
erty to announce his new employ-
ment.
Mooney was publicity director of
the Stevenson-Sparkman cam; i ign
in Texas in 1952. He went to work
for Johnson in March 1953.
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Christmas is the time to restore
the magic in your life. To make
yourself half-believe again that
there is a Santa Claus.
I mistrust pious folks who shake
their heads and warn that Santa is
taking the place of Christ in Christ-
mas. They forget that Christ was a
human and the fact that he became
a human is the reason there is a
' Christmas. When 1 was a boy the
| idea of God was overpowering and
vaguely fearsome. But Christ was
a warm being who could under-
| stand that toys and wheeled goods
were important to a boy's celebra-
tion of his birthday
And I shy away from those who
cry loudly about commercialism in
Christmas. I think that commer-
cialism, like charity, hits them too
1hard in the pocketbook. You can't
Christianize a tightwad. If you ask
him for help in the building fund
he says his money goes to the mis-
sionaries. But when the time comes
to help the missionaries he says
there's too much to be done right
here at home.
not-harmful. Don’t you know a lot
of people Tiever get out of their
weather-conditioned cars except at
Christmas?
Mankind was created to do.
Christmas is the one season which
makes us do something. We be- 7
grudge it, but we spend money on
presents. Even if they are for our-
selves. We shop because, well,
everybody is shopping. We send
cards, crammed with false senti-
mentality if you will, but we send
them. There is something to say
for form if it makes us do good
things even for a little minute
I don't like for people to be blase
about Christmas. I like for them
to be childish, naive, simple, up-
set, giggly, anticipatory and excit-
ed. I like for clerks to excuse rude
customers because "it's Christ-
mas." I like for waitresses to wear
little bells and holly on their white
uniforms. I like for policemen to
put a Christmas tree in the station.
I like doorways-framed in cedar,
houses, trees, bushes lighted and
|decorated.
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The
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"Roll Call," a new fortnightly
newspaper published for the city's
Capitol Hill area, noted that the
initials of several members of Con-
gress spell words. Two Texas Con-
gressmen were included in the
group — Albert Thomas of Hous-
ton (AT) and the state's lone Re-
publican legislator, Bruce R. Al-
ger of Dallas (BRA).
The same issue of the newspa-
per reported that Rep. Olin E.
Teague of Bry an has some of the
prettiest women in town on his
secretarial staff.
Pat Holt of Gatesville, clerk of
the Senate Foreign Relations Com-
mittee, recently returned from a
Far East tour as the tra eling
companion of IB-year-old Sen. The-
odore F. Green (D-RI). a com-
mittee member.
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MEXICO CITY, Dec. 17 m-An
attractive young school teacher is
Mexico City's first woman taxicab
driver Celia Badillo Navarrete was
one of 212 persons given temporary
licenses to operate their own cars
as taxis during the Christmas rush.
Celia drives a 1948 model
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1 "Oh, that's not Christmas That's
not the real Christmas" a lot of
people say. Why isn't it? Aren't
we saying "Joy to the World?"
We're letting the rest know that in-
side regardless of all the things we
This year most of the big stores
have quit doing free gift wrapping
' and 1 think it's a good thing. You
I appreciate the gift more when you
handle it and tie it up yourself, side regardless of an the thing .
Xomoen S to done Have SARA Of reallS’ToVe
you can do yourself. That's why a
merchant has more trouble with
wealthy shoppers than he does
poor ones. They are hiring you to
take care of Christmas for them
and you can't do it.
Christmas isn't easy. It shouldn't
be You should get “bushed" from
pushing and tugging about the
stores The frosty air should make
your skin tingle and get hurt-but-
them
“That ye love one another" was
the thing Christ emphasized most
when he was on earth
Buying, giving, shouting “Merry
Christmas", singing carols, giving
parties, putting up a tree are all
part of our way of doing what He
asked us to do.
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