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THE WEATHER
Temperature, high Friday, 102,
low Saturday morning, 70; bar-
ometer, 29.84, steady. Partly
cloudy, unsettled, not much
change In temperature.
Sweetwater Reporter
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Utest Reporter News
6:25 P. M. Each Week Day
8:15 A. M. Every Sunday
1240 On Your Dial
52nd Year
Farmers Are
More Hopeful
* About Crops
Grain Moves—Even
Fruit- and Melons
Good—Cotton Grows
Fully aware of the old saying
"this country can promise more,
etc.," farmers over the whole
4> Sweetwater area are optimistic
after days of sunshine and hard-
work.
Grain is reaching the final
harvest stages with a good crop,
though below early expectations.
Cotton has grown rapidly in
the past week and many farm-
ers who have been fighting
weeds say "we can see the fence
rows again."
Cattle, sheep and pastures are
** in good shape. There is much
work for the cowmen because of
prevalence of screw worms.
All crops are in fair shape.
The peaches, plums and pears in
orchards are bearing unusually
heavy this summer. The berry
crops are good.
Dorsa Allen of Longworth.
who goes in for raising pedigreed
watermelons from Georgia seed,
s.has several acres promising to
* be ready by the latter part of
July.
Some of the best wheat is
around Champion where one
field promises to make 25 to 27
bushels.
F. A. Teeters who is farming
the Jake Gray place five miles
northwest of Roscoe reports a
wheat turn-out of about 16 bush-
els on the best spots.
Sweetwater Joins
In Effort To Make
Pioneer Permanent
HOUSTON, June 25, — The
Civil Aeronautics Board today
announced that its examiner,
-James M. Vernon, will conduct
• a hearing at Austin on July
18 on the board's show cause
order proposing to extend the
certificate of the Pioneer Air-
lines for an additional five
years from Nov. 1, 1949.
All 25 cities in the Pioneer
system, including Sweetwater,
have announced that they in-
tend to be represented at the
hearing. Practically every city
on the Pioneer system has pe-
titioned the CAB to he allowed
•to intervene in order to present
its case.
All of the routes and cities
rerved are to be vitally affected
bv the Austin hearing and con-
siderable community interest
in the proceedings is expected.
Sweetwater Board of City De-
velopment is working on peti-
tions setting forth the impor-
tance of maintaining this high-
type airline service here at the
(^transportation center of West
Texas.
Coplon Trial Goes
To Jury This Week
WASHINGTON, June 25 (UP)
Judith Coplon's espionage trial
moves into the payoff round next
.week when a federal Jury will
fjldecide whether she was a Rus-
sian spy or the victim of a fan
tastic frameup.
The 28-year-old defendant may
make one more trip to the wit-
ness chair for a friendly re-ex-
amination by her counsel, Archi-
bald Palmer. Rut her real ordeal
ended yesterday when she ex-
ploded under a raking cross-ex-
amination by Prosecutor John
W. Kelly, Jr., and screamed
.that "I was framed."
'Buy It In Sweetwater'
Continuous Full Leased United Press Wire Service
Sweetwater, Texas, Sunday, June 26, 1949
'Dedicated to Service'
Number 151
SEAL DESIGNED FOR TEACHING PROFESSION—Miss
Flora McReynolds, a teacher in the Ada, Oklahoma school
system, has designed a seal she hopes will be adopted by
the teaching profession through the United States. The seal
is being considered by teachers associations in 17 states.
(NKA Telephoto).
Help For Backward
Lands Is Improbable
WASHINGTON, June 25 (UP)
—House leaders said today there
is little prospect o.f acting on
President Truman's program to
aid underdeveloped areas of the
world at this session of Con-
gress.
Although the plan received
tentative support from many
Congressmen, the leaders point-
ed out that it was sent to the
capitol at a time when Congress
already is behind in its work.
Mr. Truman unexpectedly sent
the plan's blueprint to Congress
late yesterday with a warning
that action is needed now to
carry out the U. S. promise of
a better economic future for
democratic countries.
He recommended that: Con-
gress appropriate up to $15,000.-
000 so the United States, actipg
both on its own and in coopera-
tion with such international
agencies as the United Nations,
could spread technical knowledge
to countries needing and want-
ing it.
The export-import bank be au-
thorized to guarantee invest-
ment of private American capi-
tal abroad--guarantoes that
would assure the investor a fair
return on his money but that
would not ask for special privi-
leges for American business.
Truman warned Congress that,
without U S. aid, undeveloped
foreign countries "may fall un-
der the control of those whose
Urgent Effort Made
To End Berlin Strike
BERLIN, June 25, (UP)
The Western commandants of-
fered tonight to pay the strik-
ing Berlin railway workers their
entire salaries in western marks
if they would go back to work
by next Tuesday.
The offer was marie in an ef-
fort to prevent what one of the
commandant's called bleeding
the city to death.
The westerners already had
invited the Russians to a meet-
ing to discuss means of carrying
out the limited agreement on
Germany, reached by the Big
Pour at Paris.
philosophy is hostile to hu-
man freedom, thereby pro-
longing the unsettled state of
the world and postponing the
achievement of permanent
peace."
Mrs. J. P. Narrell,
Mother Of Mitchell
Sherilf Is Buried
ROSCOE, June 25, (Spl.)—
Funeral services were >>eld
Saturday at I p. m. in the Lone
Wolf Church for Mrs. J. P. Nar-
rell, 78, who died Friday at 5
p. in. in the Loraine Hospital,
where she had been undergoing
treatment for 11 weeks. She
had been ill for sometime prior
to entering the hospital.
A native of Georgia, Mrs. Nar-
rell was born O'Della Abercrom-
bie on July 8, 1871. She lived 18
years in Georgia and 18 years in
Alabama before coming to Tex-
as in December, 1900, with her
husband. The Narrells settled
seven miles north of Loraine in
the Lone Wolf community,
which has been the family
homeplace since that time.
Mrs. Narrell continued to
live on the place until two years
ago, when she went to live with
a daughter, Mrs. B. L. Kimble
in Clyde. Her husband was kill-
ed in a car accident in 1914, and
a week later her 18-year-old son
accidently shot himself.
Officiating ministers at the
funeral Saturday were the Rev.
E. Leslie of the Hermleigh
Baptist Church, the Rev. Way-
land Boyd of the Loraine Bap-
tist Church, and the Rev. C. B.
Thompson of the Lone Wolf
Baptist church.
Pallbearers were
F rank Stewart, Elbert
Stewart. It. .1. Hale, Jim Martin,
Plez Beaty, and Frank Beights.
Interment was in the Lone
Wolf cemetery.
Survivors include three
daughters, Mrs. Joe Wheeler,
Sweetwater: Mrs. Jess Bolinger,
Abilene, and Mrs. B. L. Kimble,
Clyde; three sons, Sheriff J. N.
(Nick) Narrell of Colorado
City; W. H. Narrell and E. A.
Narrell. Loraine; Hi grandchild-
ren and five great-grandchild-
ren.
School Bills
And Highways
Take Surplus
Lobbyists Backed
Measures—Hate
New Tax Prospect
AUSTIN, Tex., June 25, (UP)
As the threat of a new tax for
Texas loomed increasingly large
Capitol observers were turning
their attention today to lobby-
ists.
Members of the "third house,"
traditionally opposed to any
new tax, faced the problem of
supporting two projects, both
of which they helped to father.
These were the Gilmer-Aikin
Education Program, and the $30,-
000,000 Colson- Brisco Rural
Road bill.
The 51st Legislature conven-
ed with an estimated $100,000,-
000 surplus in general revenue.
But $80,000,000 of that amount
was eaten away in the Gilmer-
Aikin program and the rural
road bill, both backed by a ma-
jority of the lobby.
Money for both projects—for
the next two years— was easily
covered in the $10,000,000 sur-
plus.
But that money represented
funds built up during five un-
usual war-time years.
The $100,000,000— tagged as
a surplus—was washed out
with the passage of the educa-
tion program and the rural road
bill.
Since January, Texas has been
sliding into a period of declin-
ing revenue.
As a compromise solution to
the financial tangle, the Senate
last week adopted—and Gov.
Beauford Jester endorsed—a res-
olution providing for a $20,000,-
000 bond issue.
Tile money, to be paid back
at 2 per cent interest, would
finance the multi-million dollar
eleemosynary building program
and other state construction.
Texas would buy its buildings
on the Installment plan.
The alternative appeared to
be a new tax bill.
One other route was open.
That would be for the state to
go on deficit financing, and let
the Legislature vote Texas into
the red.
"Fourth Jubilee" Is Set
* * * * * * * * * *•
Fireworks, Fun Saturday
4;
THREE DIE IN REFINERY FIRE—A spectacular fire followed by explosions at the Perth
Amboy, New Jersey, California Refinery Co., claimed the lives of three workmen. Blasts and
flames did over half million dollars damage to the nsnhalt plant. (NEA Telephoto).
Kiwanis Plan For
Record Crowds At
Public Celebration ^
Next Week-End
Record crowds are expected
here Saturday night for the an-
nual public "Fourth O' July"
celebration sponsored by the
Sweetwater Kiwanis Club at the
Mustang Bowl.
A full evening of entertain-
ment for the entire family is
planned, concluding at 10 p m.
with a massive fireworks dis-
play.
Fireworks will be handled by
the fire department to insure
safety.
One of the major entertain-
ment attractions will be a "Tiny
Tot Revue," in charge of a com-
mute headed by Dick Hougham
and Grady Calendar. Entries for
Tiny Tots will be taken up
through Thursday.
Games, music, contests, bowl-
ing and fun for the whole fam-
ily have been arranged on a big
scale, committees report. Ad-
mission to the grounds will be
10 cents. All proceeds will go to
the Kiwanis Underprivileged
Children's fund.
One In Five Attending Church
Says Local Pastor In Appeal
Only or.p person out of every
Wive attends church in Sweet-
water, the Rev. Robert E. Bow-
den, pastor of the First Church
of God, said in a strong appeal
for increased church attendance.
He gave this information on the
subject, after a careful check:
"Recently we made a reason-
ably thorough check up on
church attendance for Sunday,
June 19. The following figures
Jrclude all the churches, includ-
ing Colored and Spanish church
feoers. The figures could not be
wholly correct in the strictest
sense. However, we do believe
we are within the range of 100
either over or under. It's my
honest opinion that we are over
in our figures since we had to
estimate the attendance in a few
instances.
"On June 19. which was Fath-
ers Day, our Sunday school at-
tendance was 2789. For the 11
a. m. service for the same day
the attendance was 3556. These
figures are revealing to our
Sweetwater folks just where we
are in this responsibility of
church attendance. The Sunday
night services would not he more
than 50 per cent of the morning
services. I believe we boast of a
population of 16.000. If we have
only 15,000, which we say is a
conservative estimate; and we
will say that those who are em-
ployed on Sunday, such as rail-
road workers, the workers at the
Gypsum Mill and Gulf Refinery,
telephone operators, cafe work-
ers and filling station employes,
hospital folks, and those who are
sick and unable to attend church
would total 1000, which I believe
is a very liberal estimate, that
will leave 14,000 folks who could
attend church if they would.
"This totals up like this: one
out df every five attend Sunday
school, ard one out of every four
attends church on Sunday morn-
ing. In other words, only one
fifth of our population attends
Sunday school, and only one
fourth go to church on Sunday
morning. This is based upon the
attendance of June 19. This the
pastors say was a very liberal
estimate in most instances. In
fact, one pastor said he had to
bring in extra seats and had a
record breaking attendance for
the 11 o'clock service. Other
pastors were not so well blessed
with an over-flow attendance.
See PASTOR, Page 8
Randolph Scott Is
Backing Rotan Test
ROTAN, June 21 - Reports
here are that Randolph Scott and
Author Cameron of the movies
are financially interested in the
Cameron-Scott No. 1 Rex Glad-
son oil test four miles cast of
Rotan. The 6.200 foot wildcat
will try for the Ellenburger.
Blackwell
Area Gets
Third Test
A third oil test in the Black-
well area in the vicinity of the
proposed Oak Creek reservoir
has been located, it was learned
Saturday.
Th:fc latest test, by Humble
Oil, will be back from the shore-
line of the proposed lake ar.d
Congressmen Feel Concern
On U. S. Attitude In China
WASHINGTON, June 25 (UP) i policy in the Far East i
The Nationalist's government's | tragic failure.*'
blockade of Communist-held
ports was seen today as furn-
ishing a key to the administra-
tion's whole attitude toward
China.
Several senators said that
is "a very
j !n additon, a bi partisan bloc
of 21 senators vesterday called i v,
■ upon Mr. '1 rum.-in to withhold | uj."P*g'..
Efforts To Form
Slav Group Into
Communist Front
WASHINGTON, June 25 (UP)
House spy hunters tonight called
the American-Slav Congress a
Communist front seeking to weld
10,000.000 Americans into a fifth
column in case of war with Rus-
sia.
The charge was carried in a
well above the elevation of the of the administration to
observe the blockade would be
the "first step" toward eventual
lake level.
Tt will he the Odom No. 2,
about half way between the
No. 1 Sallie Odom producer
and the Barnsdall Oil Company
wildcat that has just been start-
ed.
The new test is two and three-
fourths miles northwest of the
discovery well. The Felix Sosa
recognition of the Chinese Com-
munist government.
The Nationalists have sub- j
mitted details of its blockade j
plans to the State Department
and without comment. The
Martime Commission circulated I
the note among ship operators
yesterday.
Diplomatic observers said it is
.loomatic ^'oenition of the House uiiAmerican Activities
Red fvgimft. Th v asked for as-' i.1, tra??Vf h,story
suranees of U. S. "friendship and j ^ Ui*
assistance" for the tottering T^nre^o. t said the Congress is
seeking to place 10,000,000 Amer-
icans of Slavic descent behind
"Russia's ambitious designs for
world empire." At the same time,
it said, it seeks to incite them
"against the land of their adop-
tion."
survey contains 4,300 acres be- j strictly up to President Truman
ing an old Spanish grant. This whether or not the U. S. govern-
new location is 660 feet from ! ment recognizes the blockade as
the west lire and 8,250 feet from a legal weapon of the National-
the south line of the survey. It ] ists in their fight against the on-
is a mile and a quarter due east rushing forces of the Chinese
of the Barnsdall test. Communists.
A large bloc of influential sen-
ators is deeply concerned about
the administration's attitude to-
ward China. Even Sen. Arthur
H. Vandenberg, R., Mich., leader
in the bi-partisan foreign policy
program, charged that the IT. s.
Nationalist government.
Boy Scouts Leave
For Summer Camp
On Chartered Bus
Aged Swindler Says
He Nabbed Millions
CHICAGO, June 25 (UP) —jSolomon with all his wives look
Sigmund Engel, aged master j like a piker."
swindler, boasted today that he The dapper, international con-
bilked scores o>f women of mil- j fidence man. captured here ves-
lions of dollars during the last jday in a trap set by a suspicious
50 years and could "make King j widow, is wanted in many cities,
An increasing number of re-
.... ■ a < ■■ ■ ports poured into the Chicago I
Wiman Is Installed
As Lion President
At Roscoe Program
Approximately 30 Boy Scouts
and three scoutmasters left
early Sunday morning by Grey-
hound Bus for the Buffalo
Trail Scout Ranch. The boys
will be in camp one week.
Henry Norris, scout executive
here, had left for camp early
and was on hand to greet the
Sweetwater scout representa-
tives on their arrival.
Scoutmasters making the trip
with the hoys were Edgar Gar-
ner, Bill Rice and Chunky Rit-
ter.
Czech Reds Broaden
Warfare Upon Church
PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia, —
June 25, (UP)— A campaign
against the Catholic Church was
broadened today with the pub-
lication of a charge that the
Vatican was "serving western
capitalism in its fight against
Slav socialism."
The Czech socialist organ
Svobodne Slovo said the "anti-
state activity" of Archbishop
Josef Beran and his colleagues
was "dictated by the enemies of
our country."
—
Circling The Square
It's grand to meet up with old
wartime buddies . . . for instance
George Thompson was thrilled |
Friday when Otis West, one of j
his Navy buddies from Kings-
Senators' Opinion On War
Dangers Will Govern Size
Of Future Defense Budget
police headquarters on Engel's y.'r"e: '^xas' ,'1'm ,? vis''
■ West, along with his wife, was
on his way to Amarillo, and "just
activities in winning women's
j hearts with promises of riches
and then disappearing with their ! Thompson",
savings.
"Eighty isn't too old to charm
women," Engel said. "Look at
I King Solomon and his 1,000
Ernest Wiman was installed I wivps j couW make it j ooi if
they let me out of here."
Police estimated that he mar-
ried 49 of his victims.
had to stop over and
as new president of the Roscoe
Lions Club at a special "ladies
night" banquet in the cafeteria
of the Roscoe High School on
Thursday evening.
Sam Furr of Olney, district
governor of Lions- International, I
was the installing officer. Other
new officers installed included j
George Parks, first vice-presi-
rient; Dr. J. W. Young, Jr., sec-
ond vice- president; T. A. Sing-
leton, secretary- treasurer: Olaf in regular bi-monthly session
South, lion tamer, and Felix, Monday at 6 p. m., it was an-
Dooley, tail twister. I nounced Saturday.
The board of directors for the Among matters for considera-
tion will he plans and specifica
The Albany Fandangle was
a great show according to A.
C. Bishop and Mr. and Mi>.
HI Etz who attended the af-
fair on opening night ... a
similar setup is what local
citizens are interested in for
Sweetwater.
City Commission
Will Meet Monday
The citv commission will meet
new club year includes one
newly elected member, Orvil
Cranfill; retiring club president,
Dr. T. D. Young, and V. I. Block-1
tions for sewer lips extensions
in various parts of the city. Oth
er,' Felix Dooley and Clyde Jay. er routine matters will be han-
Dr. T. D. Young presided j
over the meeting until the new
president, Ernest Wiman, was
installed.
The entertainment of the
evening was a reading by Mrs.
Vernon Blocker. She gave a
Dean Franks, Roswell ace
pitcher, had 5 wins, no loss rec-
ord until Friday night when the
Swatters, backed by the pitch-
ing by Marv Christensen, messed-1
up his record to where it now
stands 5 wins, 1 loss.
—o—
Ladies . . . yon might get a j
washing done free Monday.
Look elsewhere in thin paper
for opening announcement of
the Lamar Washateria.
Several local city officials and
Sweetwater citizens will head for
Austin first of the week to look
■\fter the interests of the city in
hearing
WASHINGTON, June 25 (UP)
— Uncertainty over Russia's
visit] plans for the future had a Senate
group worried today about trim-
ming the 815,000,000,000 defense
budget for the 1950 fiscal year.
Chairman Elmer Thomas. D..
Okla., of a Senate Appropri-
ations sub-committee on military
spending said:
"It all depends on what the
committee members think about
the danger of war." "If
they think there is no darker,
they will be conservative and cut
the bill. If they think we face a
national emergency, they will be
liberal."
Congress, meanwhile, was
racing against time in an effort
to pass as many money measures
as possible before the end of the
1949 fiscal year at midnight,
June 30.
Labor — Administration
spokesmen in the Senate began
to make cautious predictions of
victory in their battle to kill use
of injunctions in National Emer
the House resumes its housing
debate Monday. And Democratic
leaders hope to pass their bill
Tuesday. The bill calls for con-
struction of 1,050.000 public
housing units, but Democrats
have agreed to cut this number
to 810,000 to conform with a
Senate bill.
The legislation would also
provide for a slum clearance pro-
gram and a farm housing im-
provement plan.
monologue of a Sweetwater wo-
man talking to the director of
the pageant planned for Sweet-
water next August. The woman
was interested in getting her
daughter a place in the cast of
the pageant.
Approximately 65 Lions and
their guests were present for the
meeting.
The city will be represented |oontinued hearing before * the «ncy strikes. Observers said
Tuesday at Austin at the con- ; stats Water Board Tuesday the decision on whether the ln-
tinued "hearing on Oak Creek j coming ... we hope this will I junction will be written into the
before the State Board of Water : he the last and the board will | administration's Taft-Hartley
Engineers. j grant the permit for the Oak | repealer still depends on a hand-
CRAMH IS FATAL
LE GRANDE. Ia., June 25,
(UP)— An elderly Florida wo-
man was killed and three oth-
ers were injured seriously to-
day in a head-on auto crash
near here.
The dead woman was Mrs.
Elma Kilmer, Fort Lauderdale,
Fla.
Creek dam.
—o—
Hoes anyone have a five
room house for rent ... a
nice young couple Is moving
to Sweetwater to make It
their permanent home, hut
before they can do so they
"Just gotta have a house".
Call the Reporter If yon
' know of one for rent.
Unsettled Weather
Likely For Texas
A sharply falling barometer
late Friday after a year's rec-
ord temperature of 102 degrees
produced a brisk wind, sand-
storm and dashing shower early
in the evening.
A noon Saturday, the temper-
ature here was only about 88
degrees, reflecting the general
cooling off.
An unsettled weekend was
forecast for most of Texas with
thundershowers promised in
West Texas. Laredo had 2.38
inches of rain late Friday and
I ful of doubtful Senators. The , _ t ,Ir .. . . . .
Senate has agreed to vote on the i ^Worthgtrt mUcb
, issue Tuesday.
rain with some lightning.
Honsing — Republicans and
! Democrats were agreed on some-
thing at last: All substitutes for
the administration's public hous-
ing measure face almost certain
defeat. Consideration of the sub-
istitutes will be taken up when
TO OUTLAW MAHKIMi
BIRMINGHAM. Ala.. June
25, (UP)— William Beck, speak-
er of the state house of represen
tatives, today predicted that the
anti-masking bill will be a state
law by noon Tuesday.
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