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Reporter, Texas, Thursday, April St, 1958'
Baptists Will Study Need
For Sunday School Expansion
Texas Baptists, who for the first
lime this year reported an enroll-
ment cf more thain one million in
their Sunday Schools, will study
the problem of providing enough
space to care for their needs, dur-
ing the annual Sunday School Con-
vention to be held April 25-27 in
Midland.
Andrew Q. Allen, Sunday School
Liberate Receives
$50,000 Per Week
For Las Vegas Show
LAS VEGAS. Nev. — CP—Lib-
erace became the world's highest
paid night club entertainer
Wednesday night in a S2.000 silver
lame suit with matching tie, hair,
shoes and piano seat.
The famed television matinee
idol, smiling his all. opened the
$8.5 million Riviera hotel in this
gambling capital with a supper
club show for which he was paid
$50,000 a week.
Liberace's outfit won him the
honor of the fanciest dressed male
star to appear in Las Vegas. Mar-
lene Dietrich electrified the resort
town with her bare bosom dress
and Terry Moore with a clinging
black gown last year.
Liberace equaled the honors for
the men in a silver suit designed
by famed Paris couturier Chris-
tian Dior.
For his finale, the pearly-
toothed pianist bounced out before
500 applauding tourists and cele-
brities wearing a 10-pound black
jacket embroidered with 1000,363
shimmering bugle beads.
Mario Lanza would have
equalled Liberace's unprecedented
salary, but he was floored by
laryngitis and alleged stage frigit
before he could open two weeks
ago at the New Frontier hotel.
"I am the only performer to be
paid S50.000 a week in Las Vegas
who has opened." Liberace
quipped to his audience.
He played boogie-woogie, class-
ics and hill billy tunes, first at
a gold piano and then at a black
model with a S1500 transparent
plastic top.
In the audience were his cur-
rent girl friend, ice queen Sonja
Henie. and his ex-girl friend, dan-
cer Joanee Rio. Joanne said she
was in town for her father's stage
shows at the New Frontier hotel
"and I came to hear Liberace be-
cause I love his music."
Fort Worth Man
Is Suicide Victim
HOUSTON, April 21—CP—James
R. Raiborn. 67. a retired Fort
Worth business man. was found
shot to death Wednesday at the
home of his daughter, Mrs Gracie
Lee Price.
A rifle was found beside Rai-
born's body Justice of the Peace
W. C. Ragan returned a verdict of
suicide.
secretary of the Baptist General
Convention of Texas, has announc-
ed that during the past year Sun-
day School enrollment in BGCT
churches reached 1.015,093. a net
gain during the year of 85,184.
One of the convention speakers.
Dr. W. A. Harrell. head of the De-
partment of Church Architecture
for the Southern Baptist Sunday
i School Board, has predicted that
Texas Baptist churches will invest
5300,000.000 in new church build-
ings during the next seven to ten
years. During the convention Dr.
Harrell will encourage 4.000 pas-
tors and Sunday School workers
from every section of Texas to re-
turn to their home churches and
make plans for Sunday School ex-
pansions to meet population in-
creases.
In discussing his presentation to
the convention, the church building
authority said. "Baptist churches
can reach as many people as they
will provide for in their buildings.
Not only will more buildings be
needed, but Texas Baptists must
train more teachers and Sunday
j School officers to take care of
[Urgent needs."
During two Vacation Bible School
conferences. Dr. Sibley C. Burnett.
VBS secretary for the Southern
Baptist Sunday School Board, will
remind the convention messengers
that Southern Baptists during 1954
spent more than one and one-half
million dollars to minister to child
life in the summertime in their
churches.
New goals to exceed the average
daily attendance in 1954 Vacation
Bible Schools of 2.000.000 pupils
will be set for the summer of 1955.
Every phase and age group of
the Sunday School will be discussed
during three general meetings;
three sectional meetings for ele-
mentary workers, for youth and
youth workers, and for adults and
administrators: and four periods
of meetings by different depart-
ments of the Sunday School.
Special conferences include re-
creation, visual aids, library, ele-
mentary music, adult music, and
church architecture.
A youth rally scheduled the op-
ening night at the Calvary Bap-
tist Church is expected to attract
1.000 young people and adults who
work with young people. Other
meetings Monday evening include
conferences for elementary work-
ers and for adults and administra-
tors.
Dr. W. Marshall Craig, former
pastor cf the Gaston Avenue Bap-
tist Church. Dallas, and now en-
gaged in evangelistic work, will be
the principal speaker for the ral-
ly. A C. Wimpee. associate secre-
tary of the BGCT's Brotherhood
Department. Dallas, will also be a
featured speaker. Mr. Wimpee will
use magic tricks to illustrate his
message. "The Truth for Youth."
Other convention speakers in-
clude Dr John W. Raley. presi-
dent. Oklahoma Baptist University.
Shawnee: Dr. Carl Bates, pastor.
First Baptist Church. Amarillo:
and Dr. Robert E. Naylor. pastor.
Travis Avenue Baptist Church.
Fort Worth.
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CAN'T KEEP A GOOD WOMAN DOWN — .Not daunted by her close brush with death last year,
Pat MeCorrmck fights her first bull since Sept 6. 1954, when she was seriously gored. Her "come-
back* fight took place in the ring at Nuevo Laredo, Mex.
Rites For Rudd
Held Thursday
Final rites for John L. Rudd. 42.
former Fisher County resident who
was found dead in his car at De-
troit, Mich., last Sunday, were to
be held at 2:30 p. m. Thursday at
the First Baptist Church with the
Rev. A. L. Patterson of Funda-
; mental Baptist Church officiating.
Interment in Sweetwater Ceme-
tery was to be directed by Cate-
Spencer funeral Home with Gary
Carson. Pat Yoakum, Jack Hart-
man. Steve Stephens, Buck Rudd,
and Dwayne Redden as pallbear-
ers.
MARKETS
COTTON
Noon Cotton Prices
By UNITED Press
New York: May 33.16. up 9: July
33.44, up 6.
New Orleans: May 33.17, up 12;
July 33.47, up 11.
1955 Futures
New York: May 34.15, up 13; July
33.67. up 8
New Orleans: May 34.12. up 7;
July 33.55, up 1.
Stevenson Rites
Slated Thursday
Funeral for Willie E. Stevenson
of Sylvester, who died Tuesday at
his home on the eve of his 65th
birthday, was to be held at 2 p. m.
Thursday at Longworth Methodist
Church. The Rev. Delton Fisher,
pastor, and the Rev. Virgil E.
Potter of Longworth Baptist
Church were to officiate.
Interment in the McCaulley
Cemetery was to be directed by
Cate-Spencer Funeral Home. Pall-
bearers were to be Edgar Harris,
Jim Fincher, Robert Hulsey. Wal-
ter Douglas. Thurman Douglas,
and R. L. Meyers.
Purina Representative
In St. Louis Meeting
Jack Meholin. who has been sent
here from Fort Worth by Ralston-
Purina Company as a sales depart-
ment employe in this territory,
will go to St. Louis soon for a two
weeks special training course in
feeding advisory service. He is a
former Palo Pinto County ranch-
er
Mr. and Mrs Meholin and child-
ren have moved here to make
their home, living at 1705 Pease
Street. The three daughters are
Jan. 5: Melinda. 4: Jill, 2.
POULTRY x
FORT WORTH —CP— Produce:
Poultry: Fowl 4 1-2 lbs and up 20
cents, under 4 1-2 lbs. 15. roosters
10. fryers 26.
Eggs; Medium 2S. large 33.
LIVESTOCK
FORT WORTH -CP— USDA—
Livestock:
Cattle 700. Steady: Slaughter
steers and heifers in small supply;
few commercial and good light-
weight yearlings. 14-19; beef cows,
11-13: canners and cutters, mostly
8-10.50: bulls 14 down; stockers
scarce.
Calves 200. Steady: commercial
and good slaughter calves. 13-19:
choice scarce; cull and utility, 9-13:
load 277-lbs.. stocker calves to 24
for steers and 21 for heifers: these
dehorned and very gaunt.
Hogs 400. Butchers 25c to 40c
lower: sows steady to 50c lower:
choice 190-250 lbs.. 17.35-17.50: lat-
ter price sparingly: few heavier
butchers and mixed weights. 16.50-
17.25: sows mostly 13-14.50; a few
to 15.
Sheep 3.400 Spring lambs steady:
shorn slaughter lambs strong, or
1 00 higher for week: other classcs
scarce and untested: good and
choice spring lambs, 2.050-22: cull
and utility springers, 15-20. latter
price for lambs carrying some
good grades; good and choice 8^-93
lbs., shorn slaughter lambs. No. 1
& 2 pelts. 18: utility and good shorn
slaughter lambs. 15-16: culls. 10-12:
few good shorn slaughter ewes. 6
Stock Battle
Grows Hotter
CHICAGO —CP— Financier
Louis E. Wolfson Thursday ac-
cused his arch-rival. Sewell L.
Avery, of trying to rule him off
the ballot when stockholders de-
cide who wins control of Mont-
gomery Ward and Co. Friday.
Wolfson issued an angry state-
ment attacking every feature of
Avery's struggle to keep control
of the mail order empire and de-
scribing his latest moves as "a
pitiful climax to Mr. Avery's ca-
reer."
Wolfson's statement was an ap-
parent reaction to a suggestion by
a Ward lawyer that he and two of
his associates might not be eligi-
ble to sit on Ward's board of di-
rectors.
The attorney, John MacLeish.
said Wolfson and the associates
are already directors of two paint
and paint products companies
which are in competition with
Ward's.
The Clayton anti-trust act for-
bids persons from sitting on
boards of competing companies.
MacLeish said.
But Wolfson retorted that "noth-
ing that Sewell Avery can do will
keep Louis E. Wolfson off the
board of Montgomery Ward."
Second Annual Oil
Lifting Course Set
For Teth Campus
LUBBOCK—One of the main
speakers at the second annual West
Texas Short Course on Oil Lifting
Methods at Texas Tech April 21-22
will be Floyd C. "Bo" Cummings,
Tulsa. authority on hydraulic-
pumping units.
Cummings will talk on "Long
Stroke Pumping Cnits" and the
pioneering work done by Axelson
Manufacturing Company in the
hydraulic pumping field. Current-
ly on special assignment at Axel-
son's Mid-Continent Division office
in Tulsa, Cummings is a native of
Oklahoma.
He attended the Georgia School
of Technology and Oklahoma A&M
. College and joined Axelson in
1936. serving at Midland as field
representative in West Texas and
New Mexico until 1950. After an
assignment in Ponca City, Okla..
he was appointed Export Repre-
sentative for the company in Los
Angeles. He returned to Oklahoma
and his present position in 1953.
More than 500 persons are ex-
pected to attend the two-day
course, according to Prof. W. L.
Ducker. head of Tech petroleum
engineering department. Primary
purpose of the course is to ac-
quaint operating personnel of the
oil companies with the latest en-
gineering techniques, Ducker said.
The short course, which attract-
ed more than 300 oil workers its
first year, is staged by the pro-
ducing companies in cooperation
with the Tech petroleum engineer-
ing department.
Members of the short course
steering committee are: Ducker.
chairman: Ray Diekemper. Ala-
mo Corporation. Lubbock: Fred
Gipson. Continental Oil Co.. Mid-
land: Neal McCaskill. Atlantic Re-
fining Co.. Midland: M. L. Master-
son. Stanolind Oil and Gas Co..
Lubbock; J. L. Sanders. Magnolia
Petroleum Co., Big Spring: T. C.
Williams, Honolulu Oil Corp..
Midland: Fhilip Johnson, secre-
tary, Texas Tech College; Rex
Johnson, secretary, Texas Tech
College: Rex Brown. Southwestern
Public Service Co.. Lubbock: and
Eldon Anderson, Lone Star Gas
Co.. Midland.
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Retirement Pay
Asked President
WASHINGTON —CP—A Senate
committee urged Thursday that
congress provide former presi-
dents with retirement income of
S22.500 a year and other benefits.
The purpose would be to relieve
presidents of financial worries
about the future while in office and
to help them maintain the dignity
of that office after they have left
it.
Arguments in support of the pro-
posal were contained in a Senate
Post Office and Civil Service
committee report or. legislation
approved earlier this week.
The committee said the Ameri-
can people rightly expect the
President to dedicate himself with
a consuming and single-minded
purpose to discharging the duties
of his office."
School Nearing End
End of the 1954-55 school year is
just four weeks away for at least
two schools in Nolan County, Coun-
ty Superintendent Caffey Welch
said Thursday.
Highland and Divide schools
dose May 13.
Sweetwater, Blackwell and Ros-
coe close May 27.
More Eggs. Less Chicks
AUSTIN. April 20—UP—The U.
S. Department of Agriculture re-
ported Wednesday that 12 3 mil-
lion chicks were produced by Tex-
as commercial hatcheries in
March.
That was 12 per cent fewer than
for March, 1954. But Texas hens
laid a total of 329 million eggs in
March. 4 per cent more than for
a comparable period last year.
Attlee Seeks
To Oust Eden
LONDON -UP-- Labor party
leader Clement R. Attlee. who
once defeated Winston Churchill,
flew back from Canada Thursday
and took immediate command of
the opposition campaign to oust
Prime Minister Anthony Eden's
conservative government in the
May 26 general elections.
Attlee sped to a Labor party na-
tional executive conference im-
mediately after his plane touched
down on an 8.000-mile dash back
to Britain to hammer into line the
divided Socialist party's wavering
ranks.
OIL
td
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It will re-inject gas into the
ground through a producing oil
well "killed" for that purpose.
This will utilize flared gas to
maintain pressure in the field
Some natural gasoline is extract-
ed from the gas in the plant.
Therrell G. Burwick of Blac^
well, well-known resident of thw
area, is in charge of the new com-
pressor plant. A new home is be-
ing built for him on the lease in
section 28
Funds for Building Sought
FORT WORTH. April 20—UP—
Dr. M. E Sadler, president of
Sexas Christian University, said
Wednesday a campaign to raise
$1.5 million to reconstruct two
buildings at TCU will begin soon.
The buildings are Mary Courts
Burnett library and the adminis-
tration building.
Federal Deficit
Is $5.1 Billion
W ASHINGTO N —UP—The
government's deficit for the cur-
rent fiscal year was S5.138.000.000
at the end of March.
It is officially estimated the defi-
cit will be S4.5 million at the end
of the fiscal year Jung 30.
The Treasury said the govern-
ment took in S42.095.000,000 and
paid out S47,233.000.000 in the first
nine months of the current fiscal
year.
The overall national debt at the
end of March was S274 billion. The
President estimated in January it
would be S300 million higher on
June 30.
Mary Sunshine Cook No. 1 well
being drilled by R. S Brennand
J. five miles south of Maryneal
'section 76-1A-H&TC' is reported
in lime and shale around 4,500
feet deep.
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per piece and up
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Texas Railroad Commission hat
announced consolidation of five oil
fields in northwest Coke County,
bordering Nolan County.
The field will be the Jameson
Ptrawn1 field, composed of Ful-
ler-Coke, Fuller-Coke South. Ful-
ler-Coke southeast, and Fuller-
Coke north.
Consolidation does not include
the field and the one-well Jame-
son Caddo field.
Jameson Strawn field was open-
ed in January. 1952. with the ac"g
ditional pay territories being ad-
ded later
No. 1 McLeod well near the
White Flat field and the Roscoe
Ellenburger field opened on the
Ater place south of Roscoe both
were brought in during July, 1949.
and ran considerable 'ime before
they were depleted.
Airplane seismograph work and ^
other such work is reported to
have indicated for some years .
now that the Jameson field soutl r
of the Maddox. Sears. Paramore
and other ranches is part of an
oil trend crossing Nolan County.
Earlier oil tests in Nolan
County around Roscoe are being
rechecked with all of the oil ven-
tures and prospecting now under
way.
Skelly No. 1 Cooper drilled in
August, 1950, stopped at 7.376
feet.
This was a mile west of the N't
1 E W. Wiman test.
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No 1 W L. Witherspoon in 33-
24-T&P six miles northwest of the
Roscoe Ellenburger pool and a
mile north of the Janus switch on
the T&P near the Nolan-Mitchell
line, has these tops reported as
elevation 2.385 feet: San Andrews,
1.000 feet: Clearfork. 1.523 feet:
Winchell. 2.430: Canyon, 5.345.
Caddo. 6.960: Missippian, 7,012;
Ellenburger. 7.036 feet. •'
GUARD
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set up at headquarters in the Ar-
mory Building.
Major Ross B. Hill, of Abilene,
battallion training officer, made
the inspection of the local unit's
operation. The drill was secured
at 11:30 p. m.
"I was very pleased with cr
part in the operation. It went off
with a minimum of trouble and
♦difficulty, and the men perform-
ed and responded in fine fashion,"
Fredeck declared.
No preliminary warning was giv-
en the guard units concerning the
date or time of the operation.
Other company officers are Lieu-
tenants Taylor Carrigan, Kenneth
Neel Eddie Isaacs, Bobby Harper
and Warrant Officer Dewey Nelms
Timely Visit
HEBRON, Conn. —UP—Firemen
who went to the home of First
Selectman Winthrop S. Porter to
discuss an addition to the fire
house had to postpone the confer-
ence. Porter's chimney was on
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