Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 58, No. 25, Ed. 1 Sunday, January 30, 1955 Page: 1 of 24
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Eisenhower Signs
Historical Fight
For Formosa Pact
WASHINGTON, Jan. 29 —UP—
President Eisenhower Saturday
signed the fight-for-Formosa reso-
lution and declared it is a step
*to preserve the peace" in the
lace of threatened armed Commu-
nist aggression.
He said the resolution shows the
world that Americans are united
in their determination to "help a
brave ally"—Nationalist China —
to block Red China's aggressive
aims.
The history - making resolution
By Allen Baker
Location of No. 1 Harry Rotan
on section 5-Z-T&P, two miles south
of Nolan, has been staked and drill-
ing contract is being let this week-
end by the British-American Oil
Producing Co.
This is the northernmost well of
a 60 well string of producers in a
narrow, straight line to the north-
cist corner of Oak Creek Lake. The
ori wells are concentrated in the
hills and ravines about eight miles
northwest of Blackwell but they
run in a straight line, with some
skips now, from Nolan to the lake
with several fields on the east and
west sides.
No. 1 Rotan is directly north of
the No. 3 R. R. Petty Canyon reef
well brought in by Humble Oil &
Refining Co. a few weeks ago on
section 6.
'British-American cl«s<?e a least,
deal for 294 acres including the
Rotan, C. M. Lister and Cora Mc-
Kee places with drilling obliga-
tions.
was signed at a 7:30 a. m. est
White House ceremony attended
by Secretary of State John Foster
Dulles and top cc 'gressional lead-
ers.
Mr. Eisenhower reasserted this
country's intention to support a
United Nations' effort to "end
present hostilities in the area."
Blank Check Authority
The resolution, passed over-
whelmingly by the House and Sen-
ate. gives Mr. Eisenhower blank
check authority to order American
armed forces into battle, if neces-
sary, to defend Formosa and the
Pescadore Islands against threat-
ened Red Chinese invasion.
After signing the resolution, the
President and Dulles then acted
to dampen the steadily-mounting
tension that had built up in the
capital during debate over the res-
olution.
Mr. Eisenhower flew to Augusta
Ga., for a 48-hour vacation, and
Dulles left by plane for the Ba-
hamas for a one-week fishing vaca-
tion.
The State Department, mean-
while, acted to bring up to date
the latest assessment of the Far
Eastern situation. It announced
that chiefs of U. S. diplomatic mis-
sion." in the Far East will assem-
in Manila late in February and
early in March for an exchange of
views.
Dulles to Attend
Dulles, who will attend the Feb.
23 Bangkok conference of nations
which signed the Manila pact, will
have an opportunity to attend the
high-level briefing.
Mr. Eisenhower used 12 pens to
sign the fateful resolution and then
distributed them to the congres-
sional leaders as mementoes of
the occasions. He said:
"I am deeply gratified at the
almost unanimous vote in the Con-
gress of the United States on this
joint resolution. To the members
2 Houston Men Charged
In Society Bomb Killing
QUESTIONED—Pretty salesgirl, Estelle Gardner, right, attempts
to cover her face from photographers as she leaves New York
police station where she was questioned in strangling of financier
Serge Rubinstein, left, Miss Gardner said that the 46-year-old
convicted World War II draft dodger took her nightclubbing Wed-
nesday night. Rubinstein was found bound, gagged and beaten to
death Thursday morning. (NEA Telephoto)
Plans Proceed For Formosan
Cease-Fire Discussion At UN
Despite Red China Rejection
UNITED NATIONS, Jan. 29—UP
—The western powers went ahead
Saturday with plans for a United
Nations Security Council meeting
Monday to discuss a Formosa area
cease-fire despite flat rejection of
the idea by both the Chinese Na-
tionalists and the Communists.
Communist China will be invited
to send representatives to New
about an armistice in the Formosa
area, maintaining that the.v had
the right to reconquer the Chinese
mainland—the same way the Reds
do it—by force.
Despite the flat opposition of both
belligerents, there was not let up
in UN efforts to get a cease-fire.
Sir Leslie Knox Munro of New
Zealand, Security Council presi-
York to argue the case before the j dent for January, was expected to
United Nations, which has repeat-: take the lead in inviting the Reds
edly voted against seating the Chi-
nese Reds as UN members.
Peiping radio broadcast another
tirade against the United States
Saturday, vowing to "strike back
with heavy blows" if U.S. armed
forces "dare attack Communist
to "liberate"
The Rotan well which some
think will start development of
an important new reef field is lo-
cated 330 feet from the south and
1320 feet from the east lines of
section 5.
It is about two miles north, air-
from Nolan townsite. The well
is east of Highway 53 and south of
Farm-to-market Road 126 that runs
cast to west through Nolan to
Merkel.
Hunt Oil Co., Dallas, is making
another try at confirming its new
TVB Ellenburger oil pool recently
discovered near the C. E. Boyd
ranch home northwest of Nolan up
on the 2,500 foot high "Divide"
area.
JThis well, No. 1-59-T&P C. E.
Boyd being drilled by Penrod Drill-
ing Co., is a northeast offset to the
the discovery well, 1-44.
location is 660 feet from the west
lines and 1,700 feet from the south
lines of 59-X-T&P.
The southeast offset to the dis-
covery well was a failure. Uncon-
firmed reports are that a fault
line was encountered which cut off
the Ellenburger and Canyon sand.
^A similar puzzling but highly in-
teresting fault was struck west of
Nolan and south of the Boyd ranch
in the Lewis oil test.
Faults are an interesting part of
the geology in this area. Apparent-
ly a fault line cut off the Cam-
brian production near the C. J.
Roberts discovery well of EA
Cambrian field but there have been
no public statements on the sub-
ject and what the oil companies
know is still speculation sa far as
i^e general public knows.
One of the most interesting
faults, or dislocations of the rock
strata, was found three miles south
of Lake Sweetwater and north of
the Boyd Ellenburger strike, in
the recent Bugg test. Further drill-
ing is expected when more infor-
mation is gathered.
Reports are also current that the
Herring-King dry hole northeast
of the Boyd home place hit a fault
e. Many think that oil might be
found on one side or the other and
tests in the area Just north of Dora
are rumored.
Three miles southeast of Black-
■well and a mile north of the West
Fort Chadbourne Gray sand field
Is the No. 2 Charles Copeland test.
This well is being drilled by War-
ren Petroleum Corporation and
Humble Oil & Refining jointly, to
►'down 6,500 feet.
•Location Is 560 feet from the
southwest lines of Joel Holleman
survey No. 306. The well is to
the west of Oak Creek Lake.
No. 2 Copeland will be a Cam-
brian wildcat test, a mile and a
half southwest of the Cambrian
strike on the Henry place on the
northeast shore of Oak Creek Lake.
However, It is separated from the
Hendry well by a dry hole.
West Fort Chadbourne Gray Sand
OIL Page S
Charles Lee Snyder,
Roscoe Child, Dies
Charles Lee Snyder, 3Vi year-old
soil of Mr. and Mrs. Charles F.
Snyder of Roscoe, died in Young
Medical Center at 5:45 a. m. Sat-
urday.
The child had been ill since
about Christmas and had been
hospitalized in Dallas and Abilene
at various times. He was admit-
ted to Young Medical Center a
few hours before death.
The body was prepared by Cate-
Spencer Funeral Home and was
taken Saturday afternoon to Mule-
shoe, where funeral services and
burial were planned for some time
Sunday with the Singley Funeral
Home of Muleshoe directing.
Charles Lee was born July 13,
1951, in Friona. Surviving are the
parents; a younger brother, Wil-
lard; the grandparents, Mr. and
Mrs. F. L. Snyder of Muleshoe and
Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Kemp of Por-
tales, N. M.
:lei',rate Stand
of the congress and to their ead-
ers with me here today, I *ish; forces attempting
publicly to thank them for their | Formosa. ^
t reat patriotic service.
"By their vote, the American
people through their elected repre-
sentatives, have made it clear to
the world that we are united here
at home in our determination to
help a brave ally and to resist
Communist armed aggression.
to send representatives to the de-
bate, with India p" lying a promi-
nent role as go-between.
Munroe made it clear that the
UN debate does not involve For-
; niosa or the nearby Pescadores{
■ Islands, which President Eisen-
hower has been given congressional
I permission t>- defend, ift- said the
I debate will .je confined to the i
3 Are Hurt
In Accidents
Here Friday
Three persons were injured in
two separate automobile accidents
here Friday afternoon, with two
of the three still confined to Sweet-
water Hospital. None of the in-
jured persons were seriously hurt.
Two of the three injuries occur-
red in an automobile accident on
Lamar Street at 2:55 p. m. Friday.
A 1954 Chevrolet pickup, driven by
Jerry Leon Fry, 16, crashed into
a 1948 Chevrolet parked at the
curb on Lamar Street, near the
Alabama Street intersection.
Margie Fuliwood, 13, 910 W.
Louisiana and Eugene Forbes, 16
of Longworth, passengers in the
truck, were injured in the crash,
and taken to Sweetwater Hospital
in a Patterson ambulance.
The parked car, owned by Jim-
my Whitworth. was unoccupied. !
Fry was unhurt. All three occu- j
pants of the pickup were students, j
The pickup was going south, and j
Fry told investigating policemen
that he was arguing with his girl j
friend and looked away from the
street. Both cars were badly
damaged.
The Fuliwood girl received a
badly fractured right arm above
the elbow, an attending physican
reported, but said that she was in
good condition. She was still in '
the hospital Saturday evening.
Forbes recived several super-
ficial lacerations of the face and
neck. He was in the hospital over-
night and was released Saturday
morning.
Judge Crane
Gets Bouquet,
Bestows Kiss
Judge R. C. Crane, pioneer
Sweetwater resident, and bio-
grapher of early days of West
Texas, was recepient of a bou-
quet of flowers from a group
of graduating nurses at Sweet-
water Hospital last week.
Judge Crane, who will be 91
Feb. 16, has been a patient at
the hospital for 22 months, and
is affectionately called
"Speedy" by hospital employes
and attendants, because of his
habit of taking morning and
afternoon constitutionals down
the hospital corridors, visiting
other patients and speaking to
all employes.
Following the capping cere-
mony of the new nurses, they
presented the graduation bou-
quet to Judge Crane, who be-
stowed a kiss to each grad-
uating nurse.
Ex-Son-ln-Law Of Murdered
Woman Arrested By Rangers
SA.\T ANGELO, Tex., Jan. 29—UP—Texas Rangers and
police routed wealthy Mrs. Helen Harris Weaver's former
son-in-law and a jobless carpenter's helper from bed in
Houston, Tex., Saturday and arrested them on charges of
murdering Mrs. Weaver with a bomb planted in her auto-
mobile.
An informer turned in the two suspects. They got a
quick questioning in Houston and were rushed to San An-
gelo and locked up in the Tom Green county jail. A Ran-
ger plane flew them part of the way.
The ex-son-in-law is Harry L. Washburn, 38, who was in-
dicted three years ago on a charge of threatening Mrs. Wea-
ver. 52 with a gun. The unemployed carpenter's helper is
\ Carlton G. Henninger, 37. They are both from Houston,
\ Tex. Both are charged with murder.
Houston Police Capt. Cecil Priest said he had asked La-
i redo, Tex., and Nuevo Laredo, Mex„ police to try to find a
| Mexican cabinetmaker who is supposed to have said that a
i killer could be provided for $1,500.
— — , Houston police held John McKin-
Red Retaliation Dared
In Tachen Evacuation
TAIPEI, Formosa, Jan. 29—UP | Nationalists, to carry out the evac-
—American ships will dare Red uation.
| mines and torpedo boats in carry I Pride's fleet, reinforced by new
ing Generalissimo Chiang Kai- carriers and cruisers, was massed
Shek's troops off invasion-threat- j north of Formosa ready to send its
At the same time the Nationalists ! uesHon" of hostilities'in*the" area Tht sepond accident, involving a
reiterated their "Irrevocable" op-1 o|1Ucertajn islands off the coast of tn.ck\.nd a pedestrian, occurred
position to UN attempts to bring j majnland china "
To Adopt Agenda
The Security Council meeting
expected to be taken up by
Deadline For Poll
Tax Purchase Near
Poll tax payments in Nolan Coun-
ty took a gentle spurt Saturday,
and the total was expected to
climb on the final day of poll tax
payment on Monday, Jan. 31.
A total of 2.187 poll taxes and
924 exemptions had been issued
Saturday, and it was expected that
a heavy rush of last-minute tax-
payers Monday would push the to-
tal to over the 2 500 mark.
County Tax Collector L. E. Mus-
grove stated Saturday that he
would keep his office open Monday
"until they quit coming," and esti-
mated that it would be around 9
p. m. Monday before he closed his
office and sale of poll taxes will
cease.
A telephone campaign by various
civic clubs and organizations dur-
ing the latter portion of the week
spurred 'he poll tax drive Friday
and Saturday. As 1955 is an off-
election year on the county, state
and national level, the final total
of poll taxes purchased is expect-
ed to be well below the election
year levels.
$600,000,000 PER YEAR
Seismograph Crew Vital
Link In Oil Industry
the adoption of an agenda and the
sending of the invitation to Red
China. It has been announced the
invitation will not be vetoed by
either the United States or Nation-
alist China. The council then would
adjourn for sufficient time to al-
low the Communists' representa-
tives to arrive here.
at 5:40 p. m. Friday at the Nance
Pontiac Co. A 1953 Chevrolet
pickup truck, driven by Joe Eper-
iz, 35, 1016 W. Third, was backing
out of the Nance Pontiac Co. and
struck a pedestrian, Mathew Shep-
pard, 79, who lives at the Morgan
Hotel.
Sheppard was taken to the
Sweetwater Hospital by a Patter-
son ambulance, where he was
treated for a fractured wrist. He
was being retained for observation
Saturday.
Gas Industry Important Part
Of Oil Development In Area
Expansion of the gas industry is oil. This is also known as "casing
one of the major by-products of oil I head" gasoline and "natural gas
development in the Sweetwater
area.
In addition to the many miles of
oil lines laid from wells to the
main trunk lines in the past few
years are many miles of gas lines.
The new White Flat gas process-
ing plant is a huge and efficient
plant of various oil producing
companies under operation of Hon-
olulu Oil Corporation.
Rowan and Hope built a half mil-
lion dollar plant at the airport
gasoline.'
Two other products produced in
great quantity are the liquified pe-
troleum gases, notably butane and
propane. These products which re-
main as liquids at pressure slight-
ly above atmospheric pressure
have a wide market in areas where
natural gas is not available through
pipelines.
Texas furnishes a large propo-
tion of the carbon black of the
nation, production coming from
here to process gas from nearby the burning of sour gas. Some such
Seismograph exploration which
precedes oil drilling operations it-
self Is said to be a $600,000,000 a
year item for Texas' oil-hunting
operations.
Nolan County and adjoining
areas covered by crews maintain-
ed in Sweetwater for a number of
years now have had an average of
six crews living here.
These have included various
types of seismograph crews with
one large airplane carrying a
World War II magnotometer over
the earth, making records of a
formations thousands of feet deep
in many instances. This enables
them to spot the domes or syn-
clines, and the faults in strata un-
der which oil or gas may be trap-
ped.
Sometimes there are said to be
interferences unHnr the surface
that Interfere w' li seismograph
records but this is very uncom-
mon.
One new method being employ-
ed in the mountains on North Do-
ra field just south of White Flat
oil field is to drop a huge slab of
magnetic attraction, row upon steel from a high derrick and let
row as the plane flew over West
Texas.
Huge sums are spent in the
whole daily hunt for oil with some
41,000 Texans employed in drilling
operations. Men are employed on
rigs and In service units, drawing
a calculated annual payroll of
more than $180,000,00.
Farmers, ranchers and other
land owners receive from oil op-
erators more than $70,000,000 a
year in lease money.
For field work in exploration the
"old reliable" instrument is the
seismograph. A crew of geolo-
gists will drill a series of shallow
test holes, place their charges and
explode them in rotation. The pat-
tern of underground echoes is re-
corded on their seismograph.
With this chart, they can obtain
an uncannily accurate "picture" of
the thickness and shape of rock
the seismograph instruments re-
cord the shock.
A somewhat similar instrument
is the gravimeter that indicates
changes in the earth's gravity
caused by rock layers ot different
density.
Radar is sometimes used, but
the newest "private nose" employ-
ed by oil detectives is the scintil-
lomter. This revised Geiger coun-
ter is used to detect atomic radia-
tion. It is towed under a low fly-
ing helicopter to pick up and chart
faint halos of radiation that out-
line the boundaries of most oil
fields.
If this instrument lives up to its
early indications it may reduce
some of the expensive drilling in-
to likely shaped formations that
turn out to be dry. Oil men are
keeping their fingers crossed on
this new gadget.
wells. This efficient plant is con-
sidered a likely center for gas from
other fields within a 15 mile radius.
One of the biggest plants is Lone
Star Producing Company re-pres-
suring plant near Oak Creek Lake.
It extracts fluids from naturals gas
used in repressuring Fort Chad-
bourne Odom Lime oil wells.
Northwest Hylton oil field south
of Nolan and other Nolan county
oil centers are reported planning
re-injection gas plants.
All of these vast, complicated
pipe lines and plants add to the
oil industry's investment, employ-
ment and future.
Lake Trammell's series of oil
pcols already has one gas process-
ing plant.
There -are some big gas fields al-
ready uncorked and then re-sealed
for the present in this area, notably
south of Lake Trammell in the
Decker (Group 4,000 oil field)
area.
While natural gas serves princi-
pally as a fuel, in gas form, it has
had sensational development as a
raw material for the production of
both by-products and entirely new
products. Increasingly it is being
processed here and elsewhere as
well as burned as a fuel.
A gas processing plant has long
been in operation on a small scale
near the Eskota oil field.
A new $7,000,000 plant in Coke
County just over the Nolan County
line at Silver has led to the Santa
Fe railroad's application to build
a 20 mile spur southwest from
Maryneal. .
The first product of gas proi.
ing was naturrl gasoline which
came readily from "wet" gas pro-
duced from wells also producing
plants are planned in the San An-
gelo area.
Administrators
Of Area Schools
Hold Meeting
Nolan Counts school administra-
tors met Saturday morning in the
office of County Superintendent
Caffey Welch for a discussion on
the present study of accreditation
and self evaluation now being un-
dertaken by every school in the
state.
The study is an attempt to im-
prove the instructional program
and to better meet the needs of j
the community, Welch stated.
Attending the meeting were Olaf
South, superintendent of Sweet- j
waer schools; John White, New-:
man High School principal; Thom-
as Whittenburg, Heagan Junior
High principal, Ken Newton. East-
ridge elementary school principal:
T. P. Fowler, Uooker T. Washing- '
ton principal; R. W. Johnson, Ros-!
coe superintendent; John Boston.
Roscoe elementary principal; ;
Royce Sallee, Roscoe High School
principal; F. B. Porter, Divide
principal; George Stoepler, Black-
well principal; P. H. Buster, High-
land principal; Viola Benson, coun-
ty supervisor and Welch.
ened Tachen Island, authoritative
United States sources said Satur-
day.
American carrier-based planes
from the U.S. Seventh Fleet and
U.S. Fifth Air Force Sabrejets
from Formosan bases will sweep
the skies clear of Red China's So-
viet-built MIG jets in the evacua-
tion operation, the sources said.
At a base "somewhere in For-
mosa" it was revealed Saturday
that American fighter pilots have
been ordered to "pour it oil" any
Red plane firing on them over the
Formosa Strait. Fighter planes de-
fending Formosa and the nearby
Pescadores Islands have been in-
structed to give "hot pursuit" to
attacking Red planes even if the
chase leads over the Red-held
mainland.
No 'Privileged Sanctuary'
The order would end the "privi-
leged sanctuary" status which
Communist pilots used in the Ko-
rean war when they retreated be-
hind the Yalu River, which was
out-of-bounds to American pildts.
It was reported that Adm Felix
Stump, commander of the U.S.
naval forces in the Pacific, was to
arrive in Formosa to direct the
showdown with Red China that was
expected within the next two days.
President Eisenhower signed the
Formosa defense resolution in
Washington Saturday and said it
showed the world that Americans
are united in their determination
to "help a brave ally and to resist
Communist aggression."
The resolution was signed while
Vice Adm. Alfred M. Pride's Sev-
enth Fleet awaited orders to steam
into the East China Sea and evacu-
ate the Nationalists from Tachen.
200 miles north of here.
Would Use 'Heavy Blows'
The Reds have said they would
"strike back with heavy blows" if
American forces "dare attack us."
a threat which spurred the United
Nations efforts to seek a cease-fire
formula.
Pride was scouring the Pacific
Saturday for landing craft and
transports and landing craft into
the Tachen beaches.
The Reds are reported to have
mined the waters around Tachen
heavily. But informed sources said
the greatest danger to American
landing craft will probably be the
| nis, 45, an air conditioning install-
j er, and James Fife, 35, a con-
j struction worker, but did not
; charge them immediately. McKin-
nis was the informer and may get
a $10,000 reward offered by the
j Weaver family.
Mrs. Weaver, a descendant of
pioneer West Texas settlers and a
j social leader, was murdered Jan.
119. When she pushed on the starter,
1 nitrogel, packed around the floor-
boards and wired to the ignition,
I blew parts of her car half a block
and horribly mutilated her.
Suspicion first alighted on Wash-
j burn, because of his trouble with
i Mrs. Weaver tMve years ago. He
l apparently was cleared and inves-
j tigators told Harry L. Weaver, 67,
! an archeologist, rancher and archi-
! tect who was her second husband,
I that he was their No. 1 suspect.
But the facts Saturday indicated
Travel Films To Be
Shown Monday Night
For March Of Dimes
A special March of Dimes show-
ing of travel films in the Europe
and the Holy Lands will be staged
at the City Auditorium at 7:30 p.
m. Monday, with all funds re-
ceived to be donated to the polio
fund drive, chairman Roger Eaton
announced Saturday.
J. T. Marlin, minister of the
Fourth and Elm Street Church of
Christ, will present a two-hour
showing of films taken on his re-
cent journey through Europe and
the Holy Lands, including Egypt,
the Mediterranean area and other
sports and scenic and historical
interest.
No admission will be charged for
attendance to the showings, but
free will donations will be accepted
from members of the audience.
Eaton stated.
A large audience viewed pre-
vious presentation of similar filma
shown by Marlin. Films to be
shown Monday night have not been j
shown here before, Eaton said.
The movies are one of several
campaign promotions to push the
drive toward the $8,000 quota set
for Nolan County, Eaton said. Sev-
eral other types of fund-raising
promotions will be staged within
the next few days.
Wednesday will be "coffee day"
in Sweetwater for the March of
Dimes campaign now under way,
ships to be used in the evacuation j it was announced by Merlin Toler.
hit-and-run Red torpedo boats from j that Weaver, far from being a sus-
mainland bases. j Pect, was the intended victim and
[ that Mrs. Weaver was killed be-
cause she tried to start an auto-
mobile that the killers suspected
her husband would try to drive
away in.
"That's wonderful! Wonderful!"
Weaver said at his ranch home, 20
miles north of San Angelo when he
heard the news. "I suspected Wash-
burn did it.
"I was the intended victim.
Washburn wanted me out of the
way. I was a man. He couldn't
handle me. If he could have killed
me, he could have bullied Mrs.
Weaver out of all the money she
had.
"I am positive that was the rea-
son."
Warrants for the arrest of Wash-
burn and Henninger were issued
in San Angelo at midnight by Jus-
tice of the Peace J. B. Holberg.
Then before dawn. Texas Ran-
gers and Houston police—Houston
is 350 miles to the southeast —
routed the suspects out of bed.
Ranger Ralph Rohatsch and Dis-
trict Attorney Aubrey Stokes of
San Angelo took charge of Wash-
burn and Henninger and returned
them to San Angelo. On the way,
thc.v stopped in Austin, the state
capital, long enough to fingerprint
and photograph the suspects.
of some 10,000 beleaguered Nation-
alists from Tachen. Despite the
fact that some 20,000 civilians also
will have to be taken off the is-
land, American sources said it will
take "only three or four days" for
the American Navy, aided by the
chairman of this annual event.
Toler reports that all of the cafes
contacted so far will participate by
placing a March of Dimes jar on
their counters Wednesday and all
money taken in from coffee served
will be deposited in the jar.
Insurance Agency
Opened By Guest
The Norvin O. Guest Agency re-
cently opened offices in the Levy
Building and will represent a num-
ber ol old line insurance compan-
ies in the field of general insur-
ance. according to N. Guest, own-
er of the organization.
Prior to entering the insurance
business here. Guest was an in-
dustrial engineer and followed that
profession for 15 years.
"I believe Sweetwater is a good
and progressive city and when my
wife and I decided to settle down
in one location, we chose this
city," he said.
JUSTICE COURT
A trucker was fined $15.50 each
on counts of no trailer brakes and j
no commercial operator's license
by Justice of the Peace Leonard
Teston Saturday on charges filed
by Highway Patrolman Herman
Seale.
PLAN STRATEGY—Vice Adm. Alfred M. Pride, second from right, commander of US Seventh Fleet,
goes over strategy with staff officers aboard flagship, USS Helena off Formosa. New naval units
from Pacific coast are on way to give Admiral's already powerful fleet even greater strength. Buildup
of fleet and air strength in Formosa it firm warning to Red China that U. S. intends to carry out
evacuation of Tachens, military observers say. (NEA Radiophoto)
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Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 58, No. 25, Ed. 1 Sunday, January 30, 1955, newspaper, January 30, 1955; Sweetwater, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth284349/m1/1/: accessed July 4, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sweetwater/Nolan County City-County Library.