Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 58, No. 189, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 11, 1955 Page: 8 of 16
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BRUSH, Colo. —UP— A sizeable
flood crest on Beaver Creek moved
■lowly northward toward this East-
ern Plains market center Thurs-
day, Inundating hundreds of farms.
More than 10,000 acres of farm
land were under water at midnight,
and 150 farm families were evacu-
ated from low land immediately
south of Brush. At least one per-
son was presumed dead, and dam-
age to crops and hay stacks was
heavy.
The flood was caused by cloud-
bursts Wednesday south of Brush,
around the farm communities of
Woodworth and the town of Last
Chance, on U.S. 31. A flood crest
of 20 feet built up on Beaver Creek
before it overflowed and Hooded
60 farms around Gary.
Two other creeks which run
northward and join Beaver Creek
below Brush were running high, ■
increasing the threat to Brush.
The Rev. Nathan E. Escott of '
Marion, Ind., and his wife were
trapped in their car on a bridge
on S.H. 71, nine miles south of
Brush, when Beaver Creek washed
out both approaches. The car
was swept from the bridge.
The Rev. Escott climbed to the
top of the car and clung to an
overhanging branch until firemen
in a boat rescued him. But his
wife had been carried away, and
was almost surely drowned. Fire-
men set a watch on the creek at
Brush for the body.
Adlal Confident
Of Presidential
Ballot Over Ike
Prospectors Hit
Southern Mexico
Seeking Uranium
OAXACA, Mex. —UP— Uranium j
fever has broken out in Oaxaca
state in southern Mexico.
Hordes of prospectors swarmed ;
over the mountains Wednesday and
Thursday in search of uranium
and large numbers of claims were
being staked out on deposits of mi- i
ca, feldspar and quartz containing '
radio-active elements; as well as
colombium, tantalum and rutile, j
the mineral from which strategic
titanium is extracted.
Most of the deposits reportedly ;
were being found near "Dead ;
Man's Gulch," just outside an area
set aside by
CHICAGO —UP— Adlai E. Stev-
enson will announce within the
next four months whether he will
run again for President. If he
makes the race he thinks he can
beat President Eisenhower.
Stevenson made the promise and
prediction Wednesday night after
a dinner held in conjunction with
the 47th annual governors' confer-
ence.
It was the 1952 Democratic pres-
idential candidate's most straight-
forward statement to date on his
political plans and on the chances
of defeating Mr. Eisenhower.
Talk of Stevenson's future has
dominated the governors' confer-
ence, even though his only connec-
tion with it is that he happens to
live in a Chicago suburb.
Stevenson brought the conjec-
tures to a boil Wednesday night
with a flat statement to about 100
newsmen that "I shall tell you
what I am going to do, and why,
1 sometime before the end of No-
| vember, possibly before."
j Stevenson, titular leader of the
| Democratic party, defended him-
self against charges that he is be-
' ing "coy and indecisive" about his
; political future.
He also scoffed at any sugges-
! tions that "I am afraid to run
■ against Ike."
But Stevenson still refused to
! say whether he has made up his
1 mind about making a second bid
for the White House.
The former Illinois governor set
i the deadline for announcing his po-
litical status after two days of
huddling with Democratic gover-
: nors attending the conference.
Questionable Economics
GROTON, Conn. — UP— Joe
Harmon Nixon has been fined a
total of $111 during the past two
years for driving without a license
—enough to buy a license for 37
years.
EXPERIMENT—The Argonne National Laboratory built this Borax I reactor on the Idaho desert
near Idaho Falls, to conduct 200 experiments on so-called water-boiler reactors and their safety char-
acteristics. Debris was hurled more than 80 feet into the air when reactor was deliberately destroyed
to test safety standards. Power inside increased m ore than 10-million kilowatts in 1/10 of a second.
Runway explosion came when thin safety rods we re withdrawn. (NEA Telephoto)
Plans For
Forerunner
Satellite Believed
To Space Travel
Commaless
ROBINSON, Kan. — UP— One
edition of the weekly Robinson In-
dex came out without commas. A
plant accident ruined the comma
matrixes on the Linotype. An em-
ergency supply was ordered, but
the federal govern- ! period matrixes were sent by mis-
ment as a national reserve.
i take.
EDITORS: Willey Ley is one of
the nation's best-known authorities
on the subject of interplanetary
travel. His book, "Rocket Missiles
and Space Travel," is considered
the standard work on the subject.
He was born in Germany and was
one of the founders of the German
society for space travel. He has
been a United Stales citizen for
more than 10 years. In the following
dispatch, Ley analyzes the signifi-
cance of the Washington unnounce-
ment on plans for a satellite
By WILLY LEY
As Told to United Press
HIGHLANDS, N. J. —UP— The
decision to launch the first aitifi-
cial unmanned satellite opens the
age of space travel to man.
The satellite announced recently
is likly to be small and compara-
tively simple and will be launche 1
in such a way that it won't last
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long. But, it will be the first step
into space and will be tollowea by
more just as the first airplane led
to more and bigger airplanes.
The second satellite will no doubt
be bigger, more elaborate and long-
er - lasting. The third or fourth may
well carry a television camera to
show us what the planet Earth looks
ake when seen from space.
By that time, a man-carrying
rocket ship will be launched into an
jrbit around the earth and after
that engineers will begin to plan
manned space stations.
Speedy, Gravity Balance
Rocket experts have known since
1925, when there were very few
such experts that an artificial satel-
lite was a technological possibility
but needed the development of
large liquid fuel rockets to become
reality.
In principle, the problem is not
very difficult. If a rocket, or mis-
sile, is moving outside earth's at-
mosphere with the velocity of four
and one-half miles per second,
about three times as fast as the
fastest missile has accomplished so
far, it will not return to the ground, i
It is by no means outside the !
earth's gravity but the speed of j
the missile and the gravitational I
-second stage behind. Only the third
stage will reach space, the first two
will fall to the ground or more pre-
cisely into the ocean where they
will do no harm.
There are various types of rock-
ets and take-off boosters in exis-
tence right now which could be
combined into a three-stage rocket
capable of going fast enough. The
important thing, however, is not
the third stage going into space,
but the payload carried by the
third stage. This so-called payload
will be a package of instruments,
all of them hooked up with an auto-
matic radio transmitter so that the
messages from the instruments can
be received on the ground even
though the rocket is unmanned.
These instruments will tell the
ground station or stations to what
extent the skin of the missile is
heated by the sun. When the mis-
sile enters the shadow of the earth
as it must on its revolutions around
the planet the instruments will re-
port how quickly the skin temper-
ature drops. The instruments will
report the number of cosmic rays
hitting the missile and will report
the impact of particles of cosmic
dust. (Larger meteorites are too
rare to worry about.)
At least the first of the artificial
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This Friday
Friday, August 12 is the final
day for entries in the city ten-
nis tournament, according to
Dalton Hill, City Recreation
Director. All interested are
urged to turn your names in
to Hill, Patten's Sports Shop,
or Don Anly at the Reporter.
Phone numbers and addresses
are needed so tournament offi-
cials can negotiate business.
pull of the earth, will balance each j satellites will be placed low enough
other. The curve described by the
missile and the surface of the earth
will form two concentric circles.
Only if the missile is placed at a
height where there is still a small
imount of air resistance left, would
it lose both speed and altitude. In
other words its orbit will not be
a closed circle but a tight spiral _ ^
and when it reaches sufficiently J |je giighyy disturbed by the bulge
so that there is a little air resis-
tance left to slow it down. Scientists
are interested in how quickly it
lowns down because that is an in-
dication of the amount of air left
at a height of say 200 miles.
If the missile is put into an orbit
that goes over the poles or very
near the poles, its path will
Headon Collision
Claims Six Lives
CLINES CORNERS, N. M. —UP
— A heavy semi-trailer truck load-
ed with frozen produce collided
headon with a car near here late
Wednesday, killing all six persons
in the car, including two small
children.
The tragedy occurred as New
Mexico officials opened an all-out
drive to halt traffic fatalities which
have soared at an alarming rate
for more than a month.
The six victims, all Negroes,
were identified by state police as
Robert Emmanuel Singleton, 40,
Mary Caroline Singleton, 21, Mrs.
Harriet Smith, A1 Singleton, a
baby, and Josie Singleton, about
10, all of Ruston, La., and Lillie
Mae Clark, an adult, of El Dorado,
Ark.
Neither the truck driver, Ralph
J. Riley, 33, nor his assistant,
James Crow, were seriously hurt.
Both were from Kansas City.
The impact on collision was so
great that the ear was "smashed
into the ground" and the truck
stopped atop it, State Police Chief
Joe Roach said. It required about
four hours for workmen and a
squad of wreckers to separate the
vehicles so the victims could be
removed from the car.
Riley told Roach he topped a
slight rise on U.S. 66 about three
miles from here and saw the west-
bound automobile approaching in
the wrong lane.
Riley said he waited until the
car was within 50 feet of him and
decided the driver must be asleep
so swerved info the wrong lane,
served back into the proper lane
and met the truck.
Sweetwater Reporter, Texas, Thursday, August 11, II
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US Attempting To Harness Bomb
Between Big Four World Powers
dense layers of the atmosphere it
will burn up like a falling star.
Three-Shot Rocket
To put a missile into such an
orbit will need what rocket engi-
neers call a three-stage rocket,
around the equator, where the
earth is somewhat bigger than
from pole to pole. That this will
happen can be predicted but scien-
tists want to know the degree of
the disburbance. Knowing this pre-
, ,. ; cisely will give us a better idea of
three sections all independently > (j)(, exact shape of the earth,
powered. As the fuel supply ot me xiie artificial satellite is going to
liit;l stage becomes exhausted tne |)e ;l major peaceful scientific ac-
second stage will take over,^ leav- . compjjsiimentt but its main impor-
which means a rocket consisting of
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Bigamy Charge Set
Against Decorator
HOUSTON —UP—A district court
jury tooK only two hours Wednes-
day night to acquit a 45-year-old
Victoria, Tex., interior decorator of
a charge of having one wife too
many.
The charge of bigamy was
Sidney Coe, a former Boston man
whom the state contended left his
first wife in Boston in 1948 and
married Mrs. Martha Grissett, 43,
of Victoria in 1949 under the name
of Harry P. Collins.
Mrs. Grissett, in business with
Coe, or Collins, in Victoria, said
he had received a letter telling
him his first wife had divocred
him, after which she and Coe were
married.
When Coe found out he had not
been divorced from Mrs. Laura
Coe of Boston, he obtained an an-
nulment of the second marriage in
January, 1953.
he gave his first wife
powers of attorney and a divorce
waiver when he left her and
changed his name to go into busi-
ness. He said he married Mrs. Gris-
j sett "because I thought I was di-
, , . « , i vorced.
Island, Anyone. i ..| ()10 annulment when I
LACONIA, N. H — UP—There's 1 found out I wasn't," he said,
an island for every day in the j The trial was in District Judge
year at Lake Winnepesaukee. Of ; Ed Duggan's court.
its 365 islands, 274 are habitable, i
GENEVA —UP— The United
States announced Thursday that it
has been "working for a consider-
able time" to harness for peace the
tremendous power of the hydrogen
bomb.
Adm. Lewis L. Strauss, chair-
man of the U.S. Atomic Energy
Commission, made the disclosure
in answer to questions at the Unit-
ed Nations Atoms-for-peace confer-
ence.
"But there has been nothing in
the nature of a break-through,"
Strauss said.
The formal American an-
nouncement made official a race
to harness the H-bomb between the
United States, Russia, Britain and
France.
Control of the power of the hy-
drogen bomb, scientists said,
would give man a source of power
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third stage which will leave tn • wjjj |3e manned artificial satellite I waiver wher
I will be a manned artificial satellite
and eventually travel through
space.
MARKETS
COTTON
By UNITED PRESS
NOON COTTON
New York: Oct. 33.60 up 3, Dec.
j 33.73 up 1.
New Orleans: Oct. 33.63 up 7;
Dec. 33.75 up 13.
1956 FUTURES
New York: July 33.25 down 3;
Oct. 33.61 down 10.
New Orleans: July 33.24 down 3;
Oct. 32.60 up 2 to 4.
SPECIAL HOSIERY SALE
Friday & Saturday
99c
(Reg. values to $1.95 pr.)
Hose taken from
our regular stock
of nationally
advertised brands!
All sizes in good fall shades;
you will want several pairs
at this SALE price!
Use our very
convenient charges
and our fall lay-away
small deposit plan!
PRODUCE %
FORT WORTH —UP— Product-
Poultry: Fowl 4 Ms lbs. and up 19
cents, under 4% lbs. 14, roosters 10,
! fryers 26.
j Eggs: Medium 26, large 30.
POULTRY
AUSTIN —UP—SDA—Poultry:
South Texas—Steady. Supplies
adequate for a fair to good de-
mand. Off quality discounted. Trad-
ing normal. Broilers - fryers 2'/^-3
lbs., 27c.
East Texas—Steady. Supplies
adequate for a good demand. Trad-
ing normal. Broilers - fryers 2"2-3
lbs., 26c.
Waco-Corsicana—Steady. Sup-
plies fully adequate for a fair de-
mand. Trading normal. Broilers -
fryers 2'k-3 lbs.: Waco 26c; Corsi-
cana f.o.b. plant 27c.
the equivalent of the force of the
sun itself.
Strauss was asked if progress
has been made in that direction.
"Progress certainly has been
made, from the scientific view-|
point," he said. It was then he
added there had been no "break-
through."
Some 300 newsmen attending the
conference peppered Strauss with
questions. Most of them he said he
was unwilling to answer.
At the opening of his press con-
ference Strauss said he had not
answered a question on America's
role in "thermonuclear" develop-
ments because it would lead to oth-
er questions and he did not havef
I time to answer them.
j "I repeat the question," a re-
I porter said.
"The reply is brief and affirma-
j five." Strauss said. "The AEC is
\ and has been working on the sub-
ject for a considerable time."
He said control of nuclear fusion
S is "one of the great projects" now
being studied.
Getting Requested Support
Strauss said the project is re-
ceiving from the United States gov-
ernment the amount of financial!
| support requested by the AEC.
Strauss was asked if the United
States has any information indicat-
ing whether any other nation is
I as far or further advanced than
j the United States in the drive to
' harness the power of the hydrogen
bomb.
"We haven't," he said. "It is not
a subject of this conference."
But the race to achieve that his-
toric goal became the biggest un-
official subject of the conference f
at its opening on Monday when
Dr. Homi J. Bhabha of India pre-
dicted the power of the H-bomb
would be controlled and put to use
within 20 years.
LIVESTOCK
i FORT WORTH —UP— USDA—
I Livestock:
Cattle 800. Steady; commercial
I and good slaughter yearlings 13-
19; load good heifers 18.50; mature
! steers scarce; over half the run
! comprised cows; beef cows mostly
j 11-12; canners and cutters 8-11;
i shelly canners 7.50 and less; bulls
j 10-13,50; few medium stocker steer
i yearlings 13-16; good carce.
Calves 350. Steady; commercial
and good slaughter calves 13-17;
j few choice 18 and better; cull and
I utility 9-12; medium and good
j stocker steer calves 14-19.
Hogs 250. Active; fully steady
; with Wednesday's average; offer-
ings mainly barrows and gilts 190-
| 250 lbs. with mixed U.S. No. 1 to
i 3, 16.50-17; some mixed 1 to 3s
j around 170 lbs. butchers, 16.25;
1 choice sows 12-15.
i Sheep 500. Generally steady on
the small late week supply; good
to choice slaughter spring lamlps
17.50-19; utility and good 14-16.50;
few utility and good shorn slaugh-
ter yearlings 12-15; few utility and
good shorn wethers 7.50-12; shorn
slaughter ewes 5 down.
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OIL-
(Continued from Page 1)
It is in the Bernecker lower
Strawn field, 1,998 feet southeast
of No. 6 Aiken well, now complet-«
ing. No. 7 Aiken is a northeast off-"
set.
Two of the five W. G. Graham
wells staked by Rhodes Drilling
Company in the Eskota (Noodle
Creek) field have been completed
on the pump. Location of No. 2 is
in section 10, block 19, T&P survey.
It's daily potential is 91.57 barrels
of 38 gravity oil and 80 per cent
water.
Production is from perforations ^
from 2,603-08 feet. *
No. 2-A in the same section com-
pleted for 96.51 barrels of 38 grav-
ity oil and 80 per cent water.
Second pay, lower Flippen sand,
has been opened in the Inkum,
Southeast (Cisco reef) field seven
miles southwest of View with com-
pletion of Skelly Oil Co. Mp, 1 Clyde
Parmelly in 10-2-GC&SF.
It was finaled for a daily pump-
ing potential of 44.16 barrels of A
salt water with gas-oil ratio too ^
small to measure. Production was
through perforations between 2 -
782-96 feet.
Union and Smith No. 1 Beatrice
K. Stone south of Lake Trammell
has started drilling with Tuesday
reports giving depth at 60 feet.
A Dry Answer
LA SALLE, 111. — UP— A house-
wife telephoned Mayor B. D.
Bruno during a heavy rain to ask, ®
•What's the best way to keep wa-
ter from coming into my house?"
"Don't pay your water bill."
Bruno replied.
KOUTS, Ind. — UP— Edward
W. Rosenbaum and his sister,
Mrs. Emil Pulaski, service Kouts!
only two rural mall routes. They
have a total of 82 years of serv-
ice.
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