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TEXAS
FRIDAY, APRIL 3, 1959
lOCl ETY
Raynal 1st graders
organize Blue Birds
First graders in Mrs. Jo Ellen
Fisher's room at Raynal school are
organizing themselves in Blue
Bird group this week. All girls
end adults who wish to join are
requested to bring registration
card and annual dues of $1.00 to
the meeting April 3rd at 2:30 p.
m.
Nice Blue Birds met with Mrs.
Jack Crow, Mrs. Waldo Stogsdil
and Mrs. Jack Burrows for an
Easter egg hunt.
Precious Blue Birds met with
Mrs. Lewis Gorrell and Mrs. H.
E. Teague and made flowers, us-
ing pipe cleaners, colored Kleen-
ex and net.
Best Blue Birds met with Mrs.
Ethel Lou Johnson and Mrs. D.
J. Cirkles, and made Easter gifts
of ceramics.
Bonnie Blue Birds met in the
home of Cahrlotte Coonrod for an
egg hunt. The leaders were Mrs.
Jack Coonrod, Mrs. Olin Seal, and
Mrs. H. D. Meek.
Eager Blue Birds me'. with
Mrs. Henry Smyithe and Mrs.
Lawrence Backest for an egg hunt
at the home of Alonn Itateman.
Chirping Blue Birds met with
Mrs. Howard Linn and Mrs. Leon-
ard Melson for a candle of polite-
ness party.
Courteous Blue Birds met with
leaders Mrs. J. C. Reynolds, Mrs.
Tom Cobble and Mrs. Johny Cox
to color pictures for Easter.
Ta Ha Fa group met with Mrs.
H. E. Jones, guardian, to tour the
telephone company. The girls
were instructed in how to make
long distance calls.
Kio He Da group met with Mrs.
H. B. McMahan and began to
make plans to work on Wood Ga-
therer rank and the annual pro-
ject.
HEW SUIT?
flt all!
Will
LONNIE SCHMIDT
Craysonite wins
coveted prize
given by state
COLLEGE STATION—Lonnie
Schmitt, a Grayson county 4-H
boy who persuaded his father
back in 1959 to turn the farm
s-he^p flock over to him, recently
was awarded the state's most cov-
eted 4-H award. Young Schmitt
will be one of the four delegates
It's Just
SANITONE
DRY CLEANED
That means ALL the
dirt's removed so that
both the look and feel of
newness are fully re-
stored. Try it and see!
EXCLUSIVE AT
BRABANT'S
MASTER
CLEANERS
626 W. Main
Phone HO 5-7600
Sandra's wardrobe
consists of 21
pieces in "Gidget"
Sandra Dee's wardrobe in Co-
lumbia Pictures' "Gidget," in
which she co-stars with Cliff Rob-
ertson, James Darren and Arthur
O'Connell at the Rialto theatre in
CinemaScope and Eastman Col-
or, consists of 21 costumes. Of
course, two are simple print
dresses and 18 are bathing suits,
probably the biggest collection of
latest model swim suits ever worn
hi a picture by a single star.
PERSONALS
Mr. and Mrs. B. A. Willis and
'son Benny, 1000 West Gandy,
spent the Easter weekend in Hot
Springs, Arkansas, with Mr. Wil-
lis' mother, Mrs. Ed Willis.
Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Bates and
daughter, Paula, of Fort Worth,
have returned home after a visit
here with his grandmother, Mrs.
L. V. Bates, 913 W. Day.
Mr. and Mrs. John Lynch and
children, Jonnabeth and Stephen
of Wichita Falls, and Mr. and
Mrs. Leslie Ratliff and daughter
Mary Gail of Tyler, have return-
ed home after an Easter holiday
visit with their mother, Mrs. Her-
man Krattiger, 1322 W. Wood-
nrd, grandmother, Mrs. G. T.
James, and aunt, Mrs. Ralph Ells-
worth, 1317 W. Sears.
Ray Cox Anderson, 1001 West
Sears, spent the Easter holiday
w:th his friend, Ralph Miller and
family in Dallas.
Miss Anita Dunkelberg has re-
turned from Kansas City where
he spent Easter weekend with her
mother, Mrs. Ralph Dunkelberg
and grandparents, Mr. and Mrs.
Bay Foudray.
I.R.S. seeking
agent, will hold
exams June 24, 25
The Internal Revenue Service
will conduct the first written ex-
amination in several years for spe-
cial enrollment to practice as an
agent before the Internal Reve-
1'iom Texas to National 4-H Club
Conference, according to an-
nouncement released by the state
4-H club office. He will be in
Washington, D. C., for the con-
ference from June 13-19.
Other delegates are Kinan
Kurk, Swisher county; Laura El-
len Horn, Lubbock county and
Joan Barton, Ward county. Funds
for their all-expense trips to the
nation's number one 4-H meeting
will be supplied by the United Gas
Pipeline Company, said the an-
i.ouncement. Visits will be made
by the delegates to spots and cen-
ters of historical and cultural in-
terest in and around the nation's
capitol city as a part of the con-
ference program.
Always a highlight of the week
in Washington are the trips to
the White House and Congress.
For the first time since the Na-
tional 4-H Club Center in Silver
Springs, Maryland, was acquired
several years ago, all or parts of
the conference program will be
held there.
Sheep of the Suffolk breed have
been Lonnie's passport to fame in
4-H club work. During the 10
years he has been a 4-H member,
he has also developed into an
outstanding leader. He is the son
of Mr. and Mrs. Johnie Schmitt o!
Dorchester and currently is a
freshman student in the Univers-
ity of Oklahoma, where he is
studying aeronautical engineer-
ing.
From the original farm flock of
20 grade ewes, Lonnie developed
one of the state's top 4-H sheep
demonstrations. Lambs and breed-
ing animals from his registered
most of Texas major livestock
flock have won championships at
shows and fairs, and breeding ani-
mals from his flock had gone to
Jamaica and Korea. Those going
to Korea were a gift from Lonnie
and his sister to 4-H club members
in that country.
The state winner is a graduate
of Sherman high school where he
was an honor student. He is a
Gold Star boy; was the 1955 state
sheep production winner, a trip
to National 4-H club congress,
Chicago; and he holds many other
awards on the county and district
basis. He has served as the chief
observer of the Dorchester ground
observer corps post and repre-
sented all Texas 4-H youth on
the Texas youth civil defense ad-
visory council.
He has served his local club in
many official capacities; also as
chairman of the county council
and district vice chairman and
delegate to the Texas 4-H club
council. Lonnie was active in
school, church and community af-
fairs and during his senior year in
high school learned to fly and be-
came the owner of an airplane.
In the concluding paragraph of
his state winning narrative, he
says, "I would like to give credit
to my parents and sister for the
needed assistance and encourage
ment they gave me. I could not
have completed my demonstra-
tions without their help. I also
owe much to my county extension
agents, leaders and friends who
helped mo in so many ways. I
tried to be a good member and
will always have a spot in my
heart for 4-H and what it stands
for. It is a great organization
and one which I am proud that I
had an opportunity to belong."
Yes, dear;
we're getting
along fine
MAKES YOU WANT TO CRY that so many families need kitchen
phones and don't have them. Instead of having to grab baby,
dash off to another room to answer when the phone rings, why
not take calls right in the kitchen? Let baby go on eating while
you talk. Black or choice of 9 decorator colors; wall-type or table
models (one-time charge for color). Call the telephone business
office.
IXTINSION PHONIS COST *1.00 A MONTH PLUS INSTALLATION
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COMMODORE HAI11ELD
Trinity River
dubbed little
Miss.' in 1930's
By Donald Warman
A hulking, eccentr c visionary,
dead a dozen years now, has be-
come a major figure in a simmer-
ing river battle he never fore-
saw.
Behind the present dispute
about Trinity River water rights
lies a single word that arouses a
hope as old as the first white set-
tlement on the Trinity shores.
The word is navigation.
You hear it mentioned often
along the river these days. And
when Trinity River people talk
about a water route to the sea,
they talk about Commodore Hut-
field.
They called him crazy, but he
finally persuaded them that their
shallow, muddy stream was ac-
tually a seaway passing through
one of the potentially richest re-
gions in the world. He taught
them that their towns and cities
could be major shipping ports.
A towering, often puzzling fig-
T.E. A. hands out
figures on program
educational plan
The Texas Education Ag«ncy
has sent figures to Sen. Ray Rob-
erts on cost of Senate BUI 6. This
measure, known us the Education-
al Improvement Program, is rec-
ommended by Hale-Aikin groups
throughout the state. Approxi-
mately 50,000 persons have serv-
ed on the various educational
committees.
Texas State Teacher Associa-
tion estimates indicate the pro-
gram would cost the state approx-
matcly $83% million per year,
but the Texas Education Agency
predicts a cost exceeding %122
million. Local school districts
would provide $20 million of this
amount. The state would pay an
additional $4.8 million for in-
creased teacher retirement.
The price tag for each item in-
cluded in Senate Bill 5, as re-
ported by the Texas Educational
Agency, is listed below:
1. Provide program for gifted
students—$1 million.
2. Strengthen special services
and provide driver education—
$2.6 million.
3. Strengthen Administration
—$5.7 million.
4. Strengthen Instructional
Program, including 180 days of
instruction and five days of teach-
er in-service education—no cost
estimate.
5. Provide state minimum
salary for teachers, raising Bache-
Ohio votes to
maintain its
death penalty
COLUMBUS, Ohio — A com-
mittee of the legislature Wednes-
day killed Gov. Michael V. Di-
Salle's efforts to abolish the
death penalty in Ohio.
The new Democratic governor
nue Service on Wednesday and
Thursday, June 24 and 25, 1959,
according to M. O. Tessman, Spe-
cial Enrollment Examination Co-
oidinator for the Dallas District
covering the 143 counties in the
northern half of Texas.
Mr. Tessman said the examina-
tion will be a two-day written test
conducted simultaneously in the
offices of District Directors of
Internal Revenue and is the first
to be given under the new exam-
ining procedures which were an-
nounced last fall.
The examination is open to
qualified persons who seek spe-
cial enrollment under Section
10.3(e) of Treasury Department
Circular No. 230. This circular is
contained in the Internal Revenue
Bulletin for February 1G, 1959,
Details of the education and expe-
rience requirements and the pro-
cedures for special enrollment
are contained in the Interial Reve-
ue Bulletin for March 16, 1959.
Copies of these Bulletins may be
obtained from the government
printing office, Washington 25,
D.C., for 20c a copy.
Mr. Tessman said, "In general,
applicants with college degrees
or persons with four years of spe-
cial accounting experience qual-
ify. Persons interested in taking
the examination must file an ap-
plication on Form 23 with the In-
ternal Revenue Service Director
of Practice, Washington 25, D.C.,
on or before May 1, 1959. All ap-
plications must be accompanied
by an examination fee of $25.00
which is not refundable whether
or not the applicant qualifies for
enrollment."
Goings on at
P.A.F.B.
O o
Mrs. Ralph Elliott and Mrs.
Burgess Buchanan of Sherman
ran away with the pack at the
1'errin Silver Wings duplicate
tourney, as they scored 168 V4
points to grab north-south hon-
ors, defeating Mrs. Jan Stewart
and Mrs. Bev Barber by 16 tal-
lies.
Finishing third, north-south
were Mrs. B. J. Gruver of I'errin
and Miss Lois Blount, Denison,
who garnered 145%. Fourth place
went to Mrs. J, W. Bannister and
Mrs. Martha Robinson, Sherman,
who totalled 139.
At east-west, Mr. and Mrs. Fred
Honea of Sherman matched 162
to edge Mrs. T. Jack Berry and
Mrs. Leon Rice, Denison, by a
half-point. Third place winners
were Mr. and Mrs. William Schif-
lett, Denison, 154V4 ; and fourth,
Mrs. H, L. Brown and Mrs. Ro-
bert Goble, Sherman, 147^5.
Results of Sunday's duplicate
session of the Perrin Silver Wings
duplicate club were as follows:
North-South—Mrs. Ralph Ell-
liott and Jim Henderson, Sher-
man, 60'/ii Tom Moore and C. L.
Crews, Sherman, (54).
East-West—Mrs. Fran Deavers
and Mrs. James Redmon, Denison,
48; Wayne Scott, Denison, and
T/Sgt. H. S. McGregor, Perrin,
46.
ure, the commodore climaxed a
fanatb career of exploration and
adventure in preaching the gospel
oi Trinity navigation.
A savant whose huge girth was
usually swaddled in blue work
clothe i and whose waist-long
beard hid his squinted face, Basil
Muse Hatfield, "discovered" the
Trinity during the early 1930's,
when he was 65. After a lifetime
of traveling the world, he settled
on the river near Liberty and nev-
er left it again.
"What I found here," the ven-
erable prophet liked to relate,
"was a little Mississippi. There's
the best oil land in Texas, fortunes
in lignite and wood— a whole un-
developed empire going to waste.
"I decided to make them recog-
nize that river in no uncertain
hind of terms."
He did. Before he was done, he
had put the Trinity seaway on
every front page in the nation, ex-
actly as he had intended.
In 1933, as commodore of the
purely fanciful Trinity River
fleet, Basil Muse Hatfield built
a scow christened (with Trinity
Water) "The Texas Steer" and
embarged from Grand Prairie. He
navigated 500 river miles to Ana-
huac, then up the Mississippi to
the Chicago World's Fair.
Five years later he led a group
of Sea Scouts in motorboats from
the river's mouth to Fort Worth
on a perilou., trip during which
they v.rc unheard from for sev-
eral ilivs as they moved through
ti e win ; ng, boggy reaches of the
in Idle r.ver.
Then he brought a 70-foot tug
with barges part way up-stream
from Anahuac. He had made his
point.
Commodore Hatfield's deep, in-
quiring mind turned to other as-
pects of his "little Mississippi"—
to its wasted mineral wealth.
Sloshing waist-deep on the lower
shores of his river near his home
at Romayor, in Liberty County,
the 77-year-old visionary was
gathering samples of silt content
when he contracted the infection
which was to kill him.
The commodore's dreams about
navigation were not lost on the
people of the watershed. As far
north as Dallas and Fort Worth,
where he often visited and talked
to anyone who listened, he spread
the message that the future
growth of North Texas depended
on opening the water route.
At this moment, Dallas-Fort
Worth comprises the largest land-
locked industrial center in the
world. It is estimated by plan-
ners here that stagnation of the
area at about its present eco-
nomic level is inevitable if barge
transportation is to be withheld
from the upper river.
The federal government listen-
ed raptly to the commodore, too.
The river has long been declared
by engineers to be entirely navi-
gable. A study of Trinity canal-
ization directed by the Army
Corps of Engineers has been in
progress for a year.
Only this month Brig. Gen, Wil-
liam Whipple of the corps' Dallas
branch was in Washington for
House Appropriations Committee
hearings on a $200,000 appropria-
tion to complete the studies.
But, river observers point out,
it is highly unlikely that Congress
will authorize a start to construc-
tion of the Trinity seaway while a
curcial sector of the river is lock-
ed in what might be years of le-
I'al battling with Houston.
< Thus, when the talk along the
Trinity turns bitter, it is partly
because the watershed remembers
Commodore Hatfield, his river
fleet and the viijon he imbued in
them,
lor Degree to $4000 and Masters
Degree to $4200—$88 million.
6. Allot foundation units on
current average daily attendance
basis—$8 million.
7. Increase allotment for main-
tenance and operation of schools
—$14.4 million.
8. Provide $380.00 more per
bus to meet the cost of transpor-
tation.
—$3 million.
9. Provide sick leave for all
teachers—$2 million.
10. Set up regional film librar-
ies——$250,000.
11. Establish a pre-school pro-
gram of not more than four
months for non-English speaking
children—$800,000.
It is my belief that the legisla-
ture is willing to accept most of
the Hale-Aiken recommendations
as a basic guide for educational
improvement. Endorsement of the
program, however, does not mean
immediate adoption of this $122
million measure.
In the final analysis, a compro-
mise must be reached between our
reeds and our willingness-to-pay.
Until public funds are available
to finance the whole program, the
legislature must deal with the
most pressing problems. An in-
crease in beginning teachers' sal-
aries is urgent, but it would not
be surprising to see some of the
other special programs submitted
in separate bills after amendment
of the main proposal. Alternate
legislation has already been sub-
mitted for teacher sick leave and
driver education.
Thus, the speed with which
these widely-supported education-
al measures are adopted rests
with the public. The legislature
is able if the people are willing.
Along The
kowrar, haa oi
went home to the executive man
tion where he could eee visible
proof that rehabilitation works
ir. the presence of the eight con-
victed murderers who serve on
the mansion staff.
The defeat was the first in the
legislature for DiSalle, who was
federal price stabilizer during the
Korean war, since he was elected
governor last November by a rec-
ord-breaking vote.
3 appear* in pardon
The defeat came within 24
hours after DiSalle had broken
tradition and personally appeared
before the house judiciary com-
mittee to plea for his bill to end
capital punishment. DiSalle refer-
red to the mansion staff in his
plea to the committee and asked
"What would we have gained if
these men had been electro-
cuted?"
The committee killed DISalle's
bill to end capital punishment in
Ohio by a 14-3 vote. Then it kill-
ed another bill which would have
allowed the death sentence only
if it was specifically recommend-
ed by the jury, present law pro-
vides the death penalty will be im-
posed unless the jury recom-
mends mercy.
Vote hope lim
The only hope for abolishing
capital punishment in the state in
the present legislature is in a res-
olution in the state senate, which
would submit the question to the
voters in November as an amend-
ment to the constitution. Little
hope was seen for passage of the
resolution.
The committee, in its final act
before adjoruning for the Easter
recess, killed two bills dealing
with capital punishment on six
roll call votes, a voice vote and a
show of hands.
It is traditional that convicted
murderers staff the governor's
mansion. Prison authorities point
out that persons serving a life
term make the best prisoners be-
cause their hopes of parole are
slim and they can gain freedom
enly by having an excellent pris-
on record.
ir.ade that the grandmotherly im-
age of Mrs. William Wagner, as-
sociated with pies since she first
started to sell them during the
Civil War days, is in for a
change. The new advertising pro-
gram is to replace her visage on
packages with a new trade mark.
It will be a symbolized mother
and daughter serving fresh pies
from the oven. At last our
names are again to be "writ in
water"—or pies—a symbol of
what man used to be.
O A changing world
Within the life of this writer,
there have been five wars, three
or more new states added with a
corresponding change in the num-
ber of stars in the flag of the Na-
tion. We did not take on Cuba,
so you see what a close call wo
had from another civil war. Tak-
ing on these states that lie so far
from, us and so close to a war-bent
or like nation is bound to get us
either stocking other parts of the
world with our boys as a stand-
ing army or we shall have our
machinery so far from the source
of power that the long belts con-
necting will find our power unit
serving less than 10 per cent
efficient. A long belt and a pow-
erful machine have no business in
being separated by a considerable
distance. That's so because a
farmer always builds his chicken
roost near the back door and a
loaded gun.
S Advertising gone hog-wild
"Will songs, sex and humor sell
margarine?" This is the question
posed by "Printers' Ink," an ad-
vertising journal far ahead of its
day in thinking and analyzing
powers. It introduces decollete
costume, evening tails, and ascot
ties and Cantab. A collars and the
usual corsage and buttonhole
flower. A man is pictured in the
first of the series of the seven
various facets of the ad. The
man in the ad first appears in his
evening pajamas, lying on his bed
with a package of "NUCOA" in
his hand. He falls to sleep and
the scenes in his dream form the
background of the ad. In rapid
Luccession the scenes take on the
decidedly decolletted woman with
raised hand blessing the holder of
n package of margarine. He is
in immaculate dress to match the
occasion of the packaged goods
of merchandise. The scene
changes several times In the 2-
minute film of the dream to carry
cut the dramatization, winding up
with the announcer Joining In the
scene with the trio, all waving a
package of NUCOA. No wonder
the heading is the question, "Will
songs, sex and humor sell mar-
garine?"
STATE
SUN • MON • TUB - WED
BRIGITTE BAUDOT
"The Girl in
the Bikini"
Interesting change
proposed on Senate
Bill No. 66 by Smith
The fact that there is urgent
need that legislation for prohibit-
ing executive sessions of govern-
mental bodies is being pushed by
the Texas Press Association. The
following report from the PRESS
Austin news source is shown in
how Senate Bill 66 is being push-
ed:
"Section 1. All meetings of
.state boards, commissions and
councils, county commissioners'
courts, school boards and boards
of directors of political subdi-
visions of the state, shall be open
to the public at all times and rec-
ords or minutes of the meeting
Fhn.ll be open to public inspection.
Any such board may have closed
meetings for the discussion of ap-
pointment or matters which if
made public might adversely af
tcct the public security or the fi-
nancial interests of the state or
its political subdivisions.
"Sec. 2. Any public official,
who shall hold or participate in
the holding of any meeting, or
withhold from public inspection
the records or minutes of the
meeting, in violation of the provi-
sions of Section I of this act shall
be guilty of a misdemeanor, and
upon conviction thereof shall be
fined not less than One Hundred
($100.00) Dollars nor more than
One Thousand ($1,000.00) Dol-
lars, and shall be guilty of official
misconduct for which he may be
removed from office as provided
by law.
"Sec. 3. If any part whatever
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AGES WELL — Generalissimo
Chiang Kai-shek, 71, president
and long-time boss of National-
ist China, is shown in Taipei,
Formosa, in « recent picture.
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BACK IN THE FOLD —Lin
Yutang, an avowed pagan for
some 30 years, has re-embraced
Christianity. Reason given by
the 64-year-old world-renowned
scholar-philosopher-author: he
believes that Christianity is the
only civilizing influence that
can save the world.
cf this Act or the application
thereof to any person or circum-
stance should for any reason be
held to be invalid, such invalidity
shall not affect or invalidate any
portion of the remainder of this
Act, and it is hereby declared
that such remaining portions
would have been enacted in any
event.
"Sec. 4. The fact that there is
an urgent need for a law prohibit-
ing Executive Sessions of govern-
mental bodies creates an emer-
gency and an imperative public
necessity lhat the constitutional
rule requiring bills to be read on
three several days in each House
be suspended, and said rule is
hereby suspended, and that this
Act shall take effect and be in
force from and after its passage,
and it is so enacted."
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