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City of Orange—Traffic Calendar far 1950—Wrecks: 37; Deaths: 0; Injuries: 10;-Damages:
The Orange Leader
MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
ORANGE. TEXAS. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1. 1950
8 Pages
S ASKS
AROUND TOWN
THESE DAYS
Weeks Ahead of Schedule
Shangri-la Floral Gardens To
y Be Opened to Public Sunday
I By Vera Price Browning
SHE’S LOOSE
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acrORD POLL TAX
It looks like Orange county
may have a record number ol
qualified voters during 1950, ac-
cording to Fred Force, county
tax assessor-collector, who esti-
mated this morning that when
all poll taxes are counted, there
probably will he at least 11,000
He said be still has a stack of
poll tax orders to lie filled out!
and mailed, but an exact figure;
should be available in a few days j
He also mentioned that the num-
ber of persons who receive ex-
emptions will add to the total
Force and his office crew stayed
in their office until midnight j
last night accommodating per- i
sons who wailed until the last
minute to qualify themselves as
voters.
The fabulous Shangri-la a/.alea and camellia gardens of
Mr and Mrs. H. J. Lutcher Stark in Orange will be open to
the public next Sunday—six weeks ahead of schedule Visiting
hours were announced by the , ,
.......... i », c „ „ tance traveled to see the famous
owners as 1 to 5 p. nr. i , . ,
„ .. , r , , grounds becomes farther as its
Continued warm and fan , 7
weather in this area has brought 1 a™C s,,rea< s
Shangri-la is not just another
f
the eight-vear-old haven of na-
ture into springtime glory Mr
and Mrs. Stark said they would
like everyone to visit the garden |
before rain or a possible freeze
destroys its beauty.
Already tourists have been I
looking through the hedges by ;
the fence as they passed along
Sixteenth St. where Shangri-la ,
la located, for a glimpse within I
A riot of blooms can be seen |
through the greenery. i
Everything is in bloom from
the huge 130-year-old Formosa
to the tiny, wild plants
More than 25.000 persons en- j
tered the gates of Shangri-la last 1
year in March and early April, an J
unusually long blooming period. 1
The total of visitors to the garden 1
increases each year and the dis
FAMILIAR FACE
Your writer walked through a
courthouse door this moinmg
that's been closed for the past
few months, but the office was
empty. The door leads into the
county home demonstration ag-
■ ent's office, and Mrs. Dorothy
ii V* > Marsh is supposed to be occu-
pying that room, but she wasn't | Hughes. 64, of 801 Park, are
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B. F. Hughes' Final
RHes Incomplete
Funeral services for B.
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complete pending arrival of rela-
tives and will be announced later
by Noguexs funeral home.
Mr. Hughes died Tuesday
morning in a Galveston hospital.
He had been a resident of Orange
about 10 years.
He came here in 1939 as dis-
trict manager of the Texas Pru-
seemed dential Life Insurance Co. after
be at the “old grind" serving as superintendent of the
wasting any time in her old job.
She was down at the school
house af Bridge City, where they
were moving into a new school,
and catching up on the 4-H club
v> there. She came in later, though,
was worried about the work
_ wtll have to do to catch up
for the months the office has
been vacant. But she
pleased to
* again.
azalea garden." It has all the
naturalness of an undisturbed
sanctuary of wild beauty. And
that is just as the owners planned
it.
Aside from flowering peach,
white and pink dogwood, bot-
tle bush. English boxwood—and
of course hundreds of the
chosen azalea and camellia—
there is aa abundance of wild
life In the 22 - arte garden.
There also is a lovely lake alive
the year round with ducks,
geese, water turkey, swan and
other creatures. Coupled with
the squirrels, mink, otter, rab-
bits and muskrats, which go
unmolested on land, these non-
chalant little people. In some
Instances, steal the show away
from the flowers.
The owners of Shangri-la have
collected azalea and camellia
bushes from the states of Cali-
fornia, Florida, Georgia. Alabama,
Mississippi and Louisiana and
' from France. Selecting the proj-
, oct as his hobby some thirty
years ago, Mr. and Mrs. Stark
I have become authorities on their
' transplanting and culture and
personally supervise the work.
Soil for the plants is a mixture
of peat moss, transported from
Holland, and shredded top soil.
The result la a breathtaking
beauty which the owners open to
the public each season and which
the public never tires of visiting.
GOVERNOR SAY!
STATE HOSPITALS
BIG MO FREED FROM 8II7D—Tugs churning the waters of Chesapeake buy near dawn today
Deed the battleship Missouri from a mud bank where she was grounded Jan. 17. The Navy set the
official time for freeing of the giounded warship at fi 16 a m. Orange time. This photograph was
taken yesterday during a first unsuccessful attempt to fiee the Big Mo. The ship is proceeding to
Portsmouth for drydocking and repairs. (AP Photo)
At the same time he
he would open the
slashing some present
ations If the special
the hospital Job dons
FruMa •t Nsgtaat
Shivers, In his first
the legislature since he
governor, said Texes |
"reaping the bitter
ORANGE county. _
BIG RTAKR IN FLAM
Orange
sMeraMe
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Last-minute Contributions to March of Dimes Are Pouring In
Last minute individual dona-1 the following churches and orga-
tionx amounting to $158.50 were
made here Tuesday to the March
of Dimes, sponsored locally by
the Lions club.
nlzations:
The Mt. Sinai Baptist church,
$15; the Mt. Zion Baptist church.
$11.26; Salem Methodist church.
A total of $5326 was turned *1°: Civic Betterment league, $5;
over to General Chairman E. L.
Barker by Craddie E. White, the
Lesamadi Art Guild’s Social Ac-
tion committee chairman.
The amount represented dona-
tions collected by the guild from
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CAB LICENSES
Taxes and new licenses for
aomething-or-other come around
w almost as regularly as charity
drives. The newest thing at the
present is automobile licenses,
and the first one was sold in
a Orange county this morning to
V. O. Prince, whose 1950 num-
ber Is JF 6950. Fred Force said
the tax assessor-collector's office
has received about 12,000 plates,
and the deadline for legitimate
old plates Is April 1. After that
date, you’d better drive down
dark streets or fork over with
the new license plate money.
Stock Show Opens
Today at Houston
HOUSTON, Feb. 1—(A*)—The
18th annual Houston Fat Stock
__ , Show and Livestock exposition
, uanr 1950. This figure represents
I' ll more cases and $420 more
00M AOE ASSISTANCE
The State Department of Pub-
lie Welfare reported to County
*| Judge Sid J. Caillavet today that
i $22,544 was paid to 721 persons
in Orange county during Jan-
company in Kansas City, Mo. for
25 years. He was a member of
the National Assn, of Under-
writers.
In Kansas City Mr. Hughes was
a member of the First Baptist
church and the Ivanhoe Masonic
lodge No. 446.
Survivors are his widow, Mrs.
Lillian Hughes of Orange; one
daughter, Mrs. Marvin S. Schack,
and two grandchildren. Gary
Hughes and Donna Sue, all of
Kansas City; his mother, Mrs.
W. F. Hughes of Los Angeles,
Calif., and two brothers. E. W.
Hughes of Casper, Wyo. and Jud-
son J. Hughes of Los Angeles.
Jaycees to Sponsor
Home Talent Show
than was paid during the pre-
vious mohth. But a problem the
mals brought by some 2,000
1 youngsters.
.... . I The official opening event—a
___f„r! downtown parade - wasn't sched-
uled until three hours later, at
10 a. m., however.
Roy Rogers and his troupe
were to begin the first of 19
rodeo performances this after-
noon. Guests at the first perform-
ance were some 5,0000 under
privileged children and 4,000 par-
ticipants in the morning parade.
During the day, judges were
checking boys' class steers, fat
chickens and turkeys, lambs and
swine.
. the increasing demand for
payments throughout the state to
S; dependent children, and there
Ic-.' baa been no increase in the ap-
propriation for them. It said the
5 lb number of dependent children
ip MX increasing, thus the payments
1 la each of them are decreasing.
The state budgets only $3,000,000
annually lor the children, while
flf .gin oid folks get $31,000,000. The
acts a budget for needy
Mill at $1,000,000 for a total of
A 935,000.000 for needy persons.
E CABTH tremor recorded
ROME, Feb. 1—4-0—A *harp
f'fL earth tremor shook Reggio Cala-
M, brla in southern Italy yesterday
' The shock caused no damage nor
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The Orange Junior Chamber of
Commerce voted last night to
sponsor a home talent show here
this spring for the fifth consecu-
tive year.
President Hal Wray will ap-
point a group sometime this
week to assist the general steer-
ing committee—composed of Bob
Martin, Vaughan Seastrunk and
James Mallory — with arrange-
ments.
Melvin Wilson of Port Neches
spoke on “Why Inter-dub Rela-
tions Are Vital to Junior Cham-
bers of Commerce" at the Tues-
day .flight meeting.
Past president qf his dub, Wil-
-son was named the "outstanding
young man” of Port Neches in
1948.
A report of a recent Jaycee
convention was given by Leland
Morrow, and Frank Warren re-
ported on Saturday's Barter
theatre production, sponsored by
the club.
GoVMINMRt Pl0B»
j the Texas Polio hour from 4
^Go«N»ty's Finances
Are in Good Shape
l>esamadi Art guild, $5; High
Hatters club. $2; St. Paul's
C M E. church, $2. and Mt Ol-
ive Baptist church, $2.
Velma M. Jeter also contribut-
ed »l.
Sol Cook, Welngarten stores
district manager, brought in the
first amount realized here from
the Texas Polio hour from 4 to
[SoundsProbable,Huh? |
T$L£.
Willie says when you stand in
of a teletype machine and
the report on temperatures
t <£»
railroad man dies
HOUSTON. Feb. 1~GP>—Fun-
eral sen ices were to be held to-
day for Henry M. M*yo, 87. for-
mer assistant to the president of
the Southern Pacific railroad.
Mayo, who joined Southern Pa-
cific in 1898 and retired in I9.'.\
died yesterday.
Unfairness to Negro
Students Is Alleged
LUBBOCK, Feb. 1—W>—Dis-
crimination against Negro stu-
dents is alleged In a suit against
the Lubbock independent school
district and others.
The suit, filed yesterday, was
styled Gwendolyon Ann Butler
and others vs. R. W. Matthews, j
superintendent of schools, Lub- h|rinrn’
oLmaI JIaIaIaI ' ** —1 *
The Senate Agriculture commit-
teetoday adopted a “hands off”
stand, toward Secretary Bran-
nan’s plan to "dump" 50.000.000 1
bushels of surplus potatoes
Chairman Elmer Thomas (D-
Okla) said the committee was not
approving or disapproving it but
had “refused to go on record as
a matter of principle.”
Brannan has authority under
present law to destroy the pota-
toes but he sought the committee’s
advice at a session yesterday.
Privately, some of the members
looked on it as an attempt to
unload a “hot potato” on them.
They talked it over behind
closed doors today and Thomas
then announced the committee
was not taking any action.
Brannan said the department
plana to “dump” all of the 1949
surplus locally where they are
raised, “unless Congress directs
us to do otherwise." By doing
this, he said, the government
would save about $15,000,000 In
transportation costs it would have
to pay if the spuds were moved
to consumer outlets like indus-
trial alcohol plants.
The potatoes coat the govern-
ment an average of about $1.25
a bushel under the price support ! equipment was taken out of the
program. Counting throwaway precinct funds in the past, so the
and other potato operations on money collected from their sale
which it took losses, the go era- or rent goes bark to the different
ment stands to lose a total of funds.
$80,000,000 to $100,000,000 on last He said road and bridge funds
County Auditor James F. Houl-
ihan made his annual report to
Orange county's commissioners
court today and said: "Gentle-
men, your're -in pretty good fi-
nancial shape."
His report showed there was
$97,174.18 In all operating funds,
which compares with $89,941.82
the county had Jan. 1, 1949.
Operating funds took in $409,-
575.69 during 1949 and disbursed
$402,343.33, he said.
Building, salary and jury funds,
along with Road and Bridge
funds for Precincts 3 and 4
showed increases. But minor de-
creases were noted in the general
fund and road and bridge funds
for Precincts I and 2. although
the decreases were small.
Minor differences were noted
in the amounts of money taken
in by \ arious road and bridge
precinct funds, and Houlihan ex-
plained these receipts were due
to individual precinct activities,
such as selling small strips of
land, renting large machinery,
selling old trucks and others. He
said the money to purchase stir4>
5 p. m The contribution, total-
ling $53.50, represents 10 per
cent of sales made during the
hour plus donations made by
employes.
Ten dollars of it was given by
Mis. Stella Borden, employee at
the store at Park and Ave C,
who had a granddaughter strick-
en with polio and helped by
the March of Dimes.
,( Little Cypress*school turned in
$WH.80, and the remainder of the
$158.50 was given by individuals.
Mrs. Myrtle Mattox gave $1 and
Mrs. F. H. Farwell gave $5.
Rmx4 CoIImiMmm
According to t,. J I^wis, treas-
urer, about $1,960 was collected
during the March of Dimes street
drive, conducted downtown for
the past nine or ten days.
This amount tops last year's
figure by over $900, Lewis said.
year’s crop.
It lost nearly $250,000,000
1948’s crop, however.
Money Bilk Put
In Senate Hopper
AUSTIN, Feb. I—(Ah—Three
money bills for state hospital and
youth council support totalling
$20,675,128 were introduced in
the .Senate today.
The appropriations bills were
introduced by .Senator Howard
Carney of Atlanta, chairman of
the finance committee. They
were referred to thia committee
and a hearing was set for Mon-
day at 2:30 p. m.
They will not follow the usual
routing to xub-cominittee, * indi-
cating sjieedy action.
VFW to Meet Today
At Gilmer Home*
Plans for the Veterans of
Foreign Wars District 2 conven-
tion to be held here March 11-
12 will be discussed by the local
post at a meeting today at 7 30
p. m. at the Gilmer Homes com-
munity center.
The district Includes about 10
posts in this area.
By Dave Cheavens
AUSTIN. Feb. 1—(AP)—Gov. Allan Shivers
the Legislature for quick action on special
taxes to relieve the “unthinkable” condition* in state hosptti
j and special schools. r4a
Orange Has Spring A'*• “,n
Weather As Mach
01 State Freeies
Beneath Ice Coat
Much of Texas shivered to-
day beneath a glittering man-
‘le of ice which choked off
communications, curtailed the
flow of electric power and
made travel hazardous But
here in Orange it was spring-
time
Wiille the stale's not them cities
reported temperatures at or be-
low freezing, the mercury in
Orange remained In the high 70a.
Trees, flowers, grass and shrub-
berry were bursting forth with
flowers, buds and greenery weeks
ahead of schedule. Gangs of boys
for several days have been swim-
ming in the bayous.
It may be a Mt eeeler here aa
the norther ptaaea MB the
Weather bureau nukes ne fere-
raat ef near-freexlng tempera-
ture*. A freese here saw would
he ruinous to tree*, flowers sal
shrubbery.
In the northern pert of the
state, according to The Associated
Press, the ice storm extended
fjom Abilene And Wichita F*U*
on the west, eastward to Paris
and beyond. It gripped ■ thick
belt of counties — three deep—
along Texes' Red river border.
Southwestern Bell Telephone
Co. said 662 circuits were out In
the Ice. area and that 43 towns
were Isolated from telephone
communications. Many cities had
no power.
There waa ne relief In eight,
the Weather bureau said. Con-
tinued freeling rain waa pre-
dicted far bath Beet and West
Texas.
Meanwhile the state highway
patrol issued repeated warnings
to motorists. The patrol said ice
had formed on pavements in the
areas around Denison. Sherman
and near Abilene. Bridgea were
Icy all through the ice storm area,
the patrol said.
long era at
tunate wards. Ha aM tha 1
hospitals and
“pitifully
all Texas is doing i
tlms of tuberculous li
them a place to Uva-ar.
ten—to die "
“I can think of Mi
or purpose lor whtd
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Chisholm Is Given
Two 99-year Terms
BFAUMONT, Feb. 1
Kary T. Chisholm of Houston was
given two 99-year sentences here
today for the armed robberies of
Beaumont liquor stores last
spring.
Yesterday the 21 - year - old
youth received a life sentence for
the murder of Lee Bonura In
Bonura’s liquor store last May 21.
Chisholm fares other armed
robbery charges in Houston, Dal-
las and San Antonio.
would get more money from auto.
on 1 registration fees and from fines . 1 Badge!! Quads to Celebrate
The officers salary fund will be;]|th Birthday With Party
- ....... boosted by fees of office, and an
COTTON STALES BUST ©lTT amount yet to be appropriated bv
DUBLIN, Ga., Feu. 1—(/Pi— ; the state. The officers salary fund
Coming Up ..
state—Amarillo. Knights
FT; Sun Antonio, 40; Houston. 52 | hall. 7:30 p. m
TODAY
of Columbus,
read stories of iceolated
It’s hard to believe,
■Ily with Orange's tempera-
ranging in the 70s.
. Rut. when you think of all the
bt Mr that's floating around—
* the Gulf, of course—it's
understandable, the bird .
council
Eagles,
bock independent school district,
and others.
The suit alleges the school dis- j
trict failed to offer similar and i
comparable courses and subjects i
for Negro and white pupils.
U. Simpson Tate and C. B.
Bunkley, Dallas attorneys repre-
senting the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored
People, filed the case with U. S.
| Commissioner Olive Fluke.
This winter has been so warm , is expected to hISo be hiked If'1"' inyjtfd to the
and sultry that last year’s cotton | more constable arrests, since
are busting out with new 1 those officers have been placed
'on a fee basis.
Fraternal Order of
Aerie hall, 7:30 p. m.
Order of DeMolay, Masonic
temple, 7:30 p. m.
Veterans of Foreign Wars, Gil-
mer Home* community center,
7:30 p. m.
THURSDAY
Holland
Optimist elub. Holland hotel,
to mostly cloudy with oc- I2;is p. m.
K! wants club, Airport cafe,
•:W p. m.
little cooler
rtf’
Some Want to Ban Liquor
Ada in Newspaper, Radio
TEMPLE, Feb. I -0P>-8enalor
Lyndon Johnson is being asked to
help obtain a lew banning liquor
advertisements ia newspapers and
on radio stations.
About 300 members of 115
Baptist Sunday School associa-
tions passed a resolution last
night asking Johnson to support
their program.
High Schools Here ta Be Open to Public
For lyewing ef Acthrify During April
Stark high and Carr Junior I ringing of a bell
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■Hi
high schools will be open to the |
public for an evening of activity:
scheduled for April. Exact date
is to be set and plans completed
by the teaching and administra-
tive staffs through cooperation of
the Carr-Stark PTA
Tentative plans for the semi-
annual open house were an-
nounced today by Supt. C O.
Chandler. The program outline**
as follows:
Doors open at 4:45 and 7 p m.
all teachers In their respective
rooms to meet the parents and
friends of students.
8:30 — Everyone assemble* In
the Stark auditorium at the
Si' % / !>■ r ; l Jj > ..y: kwll
wttniii
8:45 to 9:43—Auditorium pro-
gram to include a square dance.
GALVESTON, Feb. 1—(/Pi
The Badgett quads arc 11-years-
oid today—and children only are
party.
Their parents, Mr. and Mrs W.
Ellis Badgett, said they don't
want any photographers or news-
reel men wandering in They
want Jeraldine. Jeanette. Joyce
and Joan to have a normal little
girls' party.
There'll be a prize for the kid
who wears the loudest plaid skirt.
After a few games, hot dogj will
be served.
Group to Inspect
Texas Fleet Here
An official party, headed by
j C'apt f\ Moore, will make its
semi-annual inspection of the At-
lantic Reserve fleet. Texas
gjttfup, today and Thursday.
The inspection group arrived
in Beaumont Monday from New
Yoik They expect to leave from
Beaumont sometime Thursday
Other members of the party,
besides ("apt. Moore, are Capt. P.
J Memo. Urndr K. V. Bloomer,
Capt J f). Burns, Lt. Cmdr. H.
Miller, Lt. Cmdr. J W. Raymond.
Lt J G. Kaiser and Lt G. S.
Hall
taxes at
told a joint
and Senate on
the special aax
Shlveix first
cial. additional
levy an «M
gas, sulphur
and wine,
cards, automobiles
carbon black, radios
insurance ronyantes
companies and utlll
This weald
emergency
state
and
tkms, and to pat a
building pfegraca.
Than he asked the
to "give
eration to the board’s
dation for a long-nm
program.” The hoop
has asked for « mUlio
year for Oils purpose.
Third Eaggaal
Shivers' third suggi
_ that the Income from
fA*) — ]evtM “be used for tt
exclusive purpose o
these necessary
"The tax prog
based tax which
ly and as fairly .as
common burden of our
problems sad our comm
the governor said. The
his revenue-raising
would he the existing
tax law passed by the 4Ut
lsture- - il||&
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QUIRINO LEAVE*
BALTIMORE, m—
sr*;
hospital last tOOhX,
operated en Jen. 16 tee 1*8
of a kidney stone.
Bus Will Leave Orange
one-act play, band music, style Sat|jrday for V nf „
Oringrites who will attend Sat-
urday classes at the University of
show and other entertaining fea-
tures.
Refreshments by the PTA.
The open house programs con-
ducted by the teachers and stu-
dents of Stark high and Carr
Junior high each fall and spring
are growing in popularity among
patrons of the school. Several
hundred ere In attendance each
time when parent* and teachers
become better acquainted arid
work dime by students Is placed
on display.
Orange Fire Department
Official.s Attend Meeting
I ORANGE Jtt!
Very nice letter
OJ from CHARLES 1
disclosing his
Orange where he
the teaching staff •«#<
the fact he hes • to
friends behind.
XEROS likewise bei
PILOT CLUB
elated over wonderful
from Orange women
Four Orange fire department ’! the three-day Cancer d
Houston this term will leave here
Saturday at 6:45 a. m. to register
at the college
Starting the next Saturday,
Feb. II. the bus will lenvc here
official.s are attending a meeting
of the Sabinc-Neches Fire Chiefs
Assn, in Port Neches today. They
are city Chief E. L. Nance, city
Fire Marshal E. L. Barker. Navy
m. for Houston. The: Chief F.arl Riggs and R. E. Scar-
at 4 45 a.
bus makes up at the Mary Ann
cafe on Green Ave
Further information alanit the
classes mav lie obtained by con-
tacting Mis. S. P. Hanson hv
dialing 2285.
brough, city equipment engineer.
The association devotes itself
to iiians for mutual assistance
among cities and industries of the
area in the event of major fires
or disaster*.
TODAY'S PET PEEVES (
uted): (1) Inconsido
who fly those model
West End park on I
Sunday. They do no*
nerve rucking It *r
living in that i
Should bu art
hi biting ipeh J
limits. (2) T*
old 1
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