The Abilene Reporter-News (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 75, No. 191, Ed. 1 Sunday, January 1, 1956 Page: 11 of 70
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THE ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS
Abilene, Texas, Sunday Morning, January 1, 1956
'YOUNG MAN'S GAME'
Veteran Test Car
Driver Quitting
Appointment May
End Bitter Fuss
Over Postmaster1
APPLETON, Wis., Dec. 31 m
A prominent young Republican
businessman and active party
worker was sworn in today as act-
ing postmaster in what likely will
be the end of a bitter controversy
involving Sen. McCarthy (R-Wis),
over who should or should not hold
the post.
Francis H. Sumnicht, 34-year-old
engines on member of the Republican County
2 Executive Committee and a young
.....I Eames, who has been transfer- Republican national committeeman
Im quitting, said Danny red to the engineering division of I among other party duties, said he
Eames, chief test driver for Dodge, Dodge in Detroit, does not expect was notified late yesterday that
“A man’s reflexes slow down. It’s to miss the thrills of test driving, he would be sworn in today,
no good to keep driving after that." “In my new work maybe I can He was sworn in by Co h
A 37-year-old man whose special-1 A native of Long Beach, Calif.,
ties are breaking speed records and Eames Is a product of the West
, smashing up cars to discover their Coast’s teenage hot-rod groups who
weaknesses said in Abilene Satur- build and race stock _
day thit test driving is “a young special automobile chassis ” .
man’s game.
not expect was notified late yesterday that
ular assistant postmaster who
served a month as temporary act-
ing postmaster during the furor
over the permanent selection.
Sumnicht is understood to be the
choice of the Republican patronage
organization. Sen. McCarthy has
called him “a good man.”
It was Sen. McCarthy’s choice of
Thomas Miller for the post vacated
by retiring Stephen Balliet that
touched off the uproar. Newsmen
called attention to court records
showing that Miller had been con-
victed of violating state gambling
laws and the National Prohibition
Act, and as a result he never was
sworn in and his nomination was
withdrawn.
The new postmaster will serve
in an acting capacity pending con-
firmation of the appointment by
the Senate.
Britain Acts
To Halt Flow
Of Armaments
Eames, who recalls 10 ‘‘serious"
track smashups in addition to the
intentional ‘‘rolls." stopped briefly |
in Abilene before going to Dallas
where Dodge is sponsoring the Cot-
ton Bowl game
"In my new work maybe I can He was sworn in by H C. Ostby,
contribute to making cars safer,”, postal inspector from Green Bay,
he said. I to succeed Edward Pirner, the reg-
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, The quiet-spoken stock car driver j
brought with him the 1956 Dodge! %
. car he-drove to 307 endurance and
‘ performance records in September' 1
at the Bonneville Salt Flats in i
. Utah.
1 92 MPH Average . II
I He alternated with two ther driv- '
---------i ers in the record run oi 14 days
CHECKING THE RECORDS — Danny Eames, left, chief and nights during which the car
test driver for Dodge Motors, shows some of his endur- averaged 92.86 miles per hour for
ance and performance records to Fred Lee Hughes
vice president or Pred Hughes Motors, 289 walnut St.
Eames stopped off in Abilene Saturday on his Way to the
’ Cotton Bowl game at Dallas. (Staff photo)
31,224 miles.
— The average speed was-it
miles per hour, ta world record:
during the first 10,000 miles of the
run," Eames said. “We drove on
a 10-mile circular track."
Five world records, including two '
Jaguar records, fell to the Bonne-
ville car in the Triple A American
stock car meet. . - -
After his discharge from the ,
Navy in 1945, Eames started driv-
ing Midget racers, but later realiz-
Military Career Unpopular
With Americans, Poll Shows
WASHINGTON. Dec 31 (P — The summary comments that I ed that there, was more money in
. The Pentagon issued a public military service “does not carry driving stock cars.
opinion, poll-tonight which confirm great prestige" It says that theHe became a test driver for
ed its suspicion that most people best educated group of the adults Chrysler in 1951 on the Pacific
don't like military service as a surveyed "hold a lower opinion of Coast; before starting to work for •
career.___ both officers and enlisted men Dodge in1953.__
The survey, conducted by Dr. than do those with less education.” I Eames said he was sometimes i s
George Gallup s public opinion sur- Some of the reasons given for nervous before the beginning of a s
veys under a $19,500 contract with the disfavor toward a service ca- run, but that he “calmed down” s
the Defense Department, was reer are the ones the Pentagon once the race got started. Once a D
made to determine the attitudes already had discovered in its re- car reaches its peak rate, a driver' H
of adults and teen-agers about life cruiting and reenlistment efforts— loses all consciousness of speed. ■
n a uniform, pay too small, lack of adequate he said. 5
A Pentagon statement aid "the family life, less opportunity to ad- Close Call 3
windings will be used as a basis vance than in - civilian life, too He' experienced a near-fatal ac- H
for actions designed to correct any much discipline and regimenta- cident on a five-eighth mile, as- | ■
public misconceptions revealed by tion phalt track in Oakland, Calif., I H
be study Where do people get their ideas where a front spindle on his car j R
wo volumes about life with the armed forces? T broke in the course of a test run. 9
Two vokimes—complete with in- A total of 49 per cent of adults! The car climbed a 72 degree R
tricate tables and recordings by and 64 per cent of teen-agers said bank on the track and plunged H
something called a scalometer," they formed their opinions from through the rail into a parking lot ■
as well as samples of comment—, people who had been in service." below. Eames was hospitalized for | H
. showed: Twenty -three per cent of the adults three months as a result of the M
, Civilian adults class an officer had their own service experience, accident I
in the armed services as 7th in a Newspapers w ere listed by 12 per ----------------------— -■■ 1
ist of 19 occupations, an enlisted cent of the adults in forming opin- | •
man 16th. Teen-agers rank an offi-ions, television 4 per cent, maga-Arehhithon York
cer along with a college professor, zines 3, radio and motion pic RTSHP I WIRT
in 4th place, an enlisted man, 14th 1 tures 2
------—------2nd Top Anglican
Leader, Succumbs
YORK, England Dec. 31 m—The
SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATIONS
- OFFICIAL STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL CONDITION OF
_ - . Archbishop of York, Dr. Cyril
SOUTHWEST SAVINGS and LOAN 1 Foster Garbett, cied in his sleep I
s today after a long illness. The
80-year-old bachelor churchman
ASSOCIATION
At Abilene, State of Texas, as o' the close of uciess oi the 30th
day of December, 1955 »
ASSETS
j was one of the great figures of
| the worldwide Anglican commun-
ion. -
| As Archbishop of York, he was
the Church of England's second
ranking prelate under the Arch-
bishop of Canterbury, Dr Goef-
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4 Accrued interest receivable on above 'unless included)
5 Advances for taxes, ins. etc on above 'unless included'
6. Second mortgage loans
__7. Loans secured by shares of thus association __-
8. Accrued int receivable on share loans (unless included)
9. FRA Title I loans ......--....................
■ 10. Unsecured loans 'Personal Loans) ......
11. Real estate sold on contract................
1’ Accrued interest receivable on real estate sold on contract
13 Real estate owned ....................
14. Stock in Federal Home Loan Bank ...................
• 15. U. S. Government obligations ....................
16. Other investment securities ........ .........
17. Accrued interest receivable on investments ........
versy.
161 .16066j ‘He pl.-nrid to retire early in
9.341.68 1956. He iirde.-ve.it a major opera-
tion last Ma and never fully 1c-
I covered.
22,305.21
15,112 52
He could have become Arch-
bishop of Canterbury. Winston
Churchill offered him the post in
1945 on the death of Archbishop
Temple, but Garbett declined.
18. Cash on hand and in banks .. ........".............
19 Office building, less depreciation 2
20. Furniture, fixtures and equipment, less depreciation
21 Deferred charges .....
TOTAL ASSETS .
CAPITAL AND LIABILITIES
Garbett’s death may bring to a,
head a controversy in the Church |
20,400.00 on its attitude to divorce His suc-
1 cessor must be appointed by the
5,000.00 Prime Minister, and Anthony
, Eden is a divorced man. Since the
243.328.48 Church officially frowns on divorce T
some churchmen have been saying
450 56 a change is due in the appointing
5.213 47'1 41- system.
* 4 In church affairs Garbett sym-
pathized with the Anglo-Catholic
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Pledged shares:
• Securing real estate loans , ......•.„■.
Securing short term or personal loans
Advances from Federal Home Loan Bank of Little Rock
Borrowed money - ...'...
—Dividends-deelared—and unpaid—4 - --------------
Taxes accrued and unpaid on real estate owned ........
Accounts payable --------
Loans in process
Advance payments by borrower for taxes and insurance
Other liabilities ..........
LONDON, Dec. 31. (P — Britain
today embargoed all surplus war
goods in a move to halt the under-
cover flow of used armaments to
the Middle East.
Hours later Liverpool longshore-
men reported 250 tons of military
supplies were waiting there to be
loaded on an Egypt - bound ship.
Dockers said the supplies included
arms, ammunition, tank treads,
by a British army depot in Here-
ford.
A War Office spokesman said,
as far as he knew the shipment
consisted only of vehicle spares,
and radio equipment.
- Some dockers called la their lo- .
cal member of Parliament, Mrs,.
Bessie Braddock, for advice on .
whether they should go on working.:]- 1
Mrs. Braddock told them their un-j.
ion must decide.
The government ban on surplus
exports came .after Conservative
and opposition Labor party news-
papers alike called for an end of
Britain’s part in the international
traffic in second-hand armaments.
They demanded a public probe into
what several papers said was a
“scandal.” 1
Most complained that hundreds."
of obsolete British tanks have been
submachine guns, tank gun bar-reconditioned in Belgium and then
rels and vehicle spares consigned I sold to Egypt.
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j Sheriff Bus Rollans. completing
STATE OF TEXAS, His first year in that office, with
COUNTY OF TAYLOR _ I still another year to go of his pres
We, Noble Loving as President, and Maurice Brooks as Secretary of ent term, announced Saturday that
the Southwest Savings and Loan Association located at Abilene, Texas, he will be a candidate for re-elec
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Noble Loving, President
Maurice Brooks, Secretary
Arch D Batter
Morgan Jones Jr.
Directors -
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 30th day of December, 1955.
Hazel I, Allen. Notary Public ...............Taylor County, Texas
sheriff will be for four years
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fice a year ago, succeeding veteran
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(Bogue) Wilkins, who had held that
post for 16 years.
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