The Orange Leader (Orange, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 39, Ed. 1 Sunday, February 16, 1947 Page: 1 of 8
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WEATHER
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ing cloudiness and widely scat-
tered showers Sunday night and
Monday. Gentle variable winds
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VOLMUE XXXIV
MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
ORANGE, TEXAS, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1947
NUMBER 39
j SAILOR IN PHILLY
l WANTS TO EXCHANGE
J FOR DUTIES HERE
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A sailor stationed in Philadel- •
■ phia. because of difficulties in- {
J volving the maintenance of his i
• wife and child, is attempting to
[ effect a swap of duties with
• some sailor stationed in Orange ■
S and' who might prefer the Phil- J
J adelphia station. He is Earl i
i Hogan, Jr., fireman first class, J
! stationed aboard the USS Cas- J
i cade, AD 16, "Z" Division, Phil- ,
J adelphia Group. Atlantic Re- J
J serve Fleet, U. S. Naval Base, •
It Philadelphia 12, Pa, Anyone J
J here of a like rating who would »
■ like to attempt to make the ex- *
J change of posts of duty was re- J
VETS REMINDED
THAI* DISCHARGE
PAPERS SHOULD
GO ON RECORD
(See Editorial on Page 6) > ■
The City of Orange has suffered
a 15 per cent drop in Its good fire
insurance credit, a local insur-
ance dealer pointed out Saturday.
A wire service’Teport Friday
had stated the rate would remain
the same.
The new; credit for low fire
losses, the agent pointed out, is
1(1 per cent, whereas „the credit .
previously given this city was 25 , | Quested to write Hogan at that i
per cent. I • address.
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These credits, , the insurance
man explained, are based on
losses over a five year period. He
attributed tipe drop to several
heavy losses incurred during the
past five years,’together with the
probable reduction in total a-
mounts of premiums paid here
because of the end^of war. ship-
building activities.
In pointing out the .reduction,
. the agent rerfiinded fire insurance
purchasers that no part of the in-
crease in their premiums will re-
sult from the reduced credit goes
to the local agents. "Our fees,"
he noted, “are set up according to
the base rate, from which the
various credits are subtracted and
we stand to gain nothing from
the higher fire insurance prem-
iums. '<
Father of Orange
Man Dies Friday
Charles Raum, 111 Dewey, left
Friday night for East Port, Md.,
after receiving word of the death
of his father, a minister, who died
of heart attack. The Rev. Raum
had been seriously ill for several'
weeks and Raum had been at
his bedside recently, returning
-home last week after it seemed
his father's condition was all
right. ----
Meetings of Two Union Groups
On Strike Situation Set for Today
State Authorizes
Work on Hiway 87
In Deweyville Area j
I Additional work pointing toward
I hard-gurfadlng of state highway
j 87 for its entire distance wus auth-
orised by the state Highway de-
I pa'rtment in Austin Friday, the
J Associated Press reported.
,T The department directed that
[ steps be taken to provide drainage
! structures costing 5158,000 from a
| point 10 miles south of Bleak-
Wood to Dewejyville, all in Newton
county! This work is preliminary
to paving.
This road connects Galveston,
by Way of Port Arthur and Or- j
ange, with the northeast Texas j
area,
LET S DO
j SOMETHING j
ABOUT IT!
I I
J A. F. BURNS J
Leader Staff Writer
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A CASE OF SINK OR SWIM—
yes or no—do or don’t — take it
or leave it with all the rest of.the
positive—negatives that may be
thought of, are now facing the
Orange people. If people would
become interacted in inaugurat-
ing a new program of progress to t
the extent that they would be !
bound together in their efforts j
like the people of cities and local-
ities in Europe that were being j
bombed from the air by the ene- j
my during the war,'Then things j
would happen in a great way. i
The future happiness and wel- 1
fare of 6ratige in all respects is 1
actually at stake at this very time. !
LDSAI./:
A NEED OF COOPERATION in
a great way is necccssary on the
part of all those property owners,
whose possessions have to do with
the right of' way that are to be
traversed by new highways un-
der the present road program. At
the present time
an “urgent appeal is be-
ing made to the citizens whose
properties border the Cove road
to remove all obstacles that would
hinder the work of building a
new first class section of highway
from the lower end of Border
street to the du Pont plant. This
work should not be hindered in
the least in view of the fact that
every day in the delays thus far
has been costly both to the Du
Pont company and to the com-
munity as a whole.
Orange county veterans of
World War 11 Saturday were re-
minded ‘ by County Clerk Joe
Runnels, Jr., himself a veteran, of
the importance of placing their
discharge certificates on record in
his office.
“Many times a person loses his
original discharge or its get muti-
lated to the point of illegibility.
When this happens,” Runnels as-
serted, “it becomes very import-
ant that he be able to secure a
certified copy quickly and eas-
ily”
Many occasions arise, especial-
ly in connection with securing
veterans’ benefits or employment,
when the discharge or a properly
certified copy must be pradumLjifcjs time during
the county clerk pointed out. If
the certificate is of record in the
county clerk’s office, such a copy
may be secured on an Hour’s no-
tice. ”
When the discharge is placed
of record it must be left with the
county clerk for about a week,
Runnels said, in order that it can
be transcribed onto the proper
records. However, he said, a
copy may be obtained quickly for
use during the period while the
original is left in his office.
Runnels recalled that a great
many veterans of World War 1
encountered serious difficulties in
connection with the collection of
bonus payments and other mat-
ters because they were unable to
produce their original discharge
or a properly certified copy.
“This will not happen to any of
the veterans of the last war,”
Runnels declared, “if they will
take the time to place their dis-
„ ORANGE SHIPBUILDING SPECIALISTS LEAVE FOR PHILIPPINES—Pictured, above is the first j authorized along the coast
group of Orange shipbuilding specialists who will go to the Philippine Islands to_supervi.se u repair pro- Sabine Pass, in the Nechos
NEW FIELD EXECUTIVE The
apointment of Robb L. Hohstudt of
Marshall to the vacant post as field
Additional improvements on j Scout executive for Orange county
this highway are in progress or j was announced Saturday. Story
near ! follow:
river i
gram on U. S, Army and Navy vessels in that area. Snapped just before boarding the train here last week, area south ol Orange and north
they are, left to right, front row, J. EC Outlaw. Allen E. Daley. Burr G. Johnson, Jr.. Hector H MrUsakand j t,( Orange toward peweyville. A
Alton W. Fowler; back row, left to right, Clifford C. Arnold, Olcar E Smith. James C. O'Neal, Perry M. recent bid letting for the latter
(Photo by T. L. Gunn) >, ' section, however, was postponed
. ‘ | When none of the bids submitted
j proved acceptable,
Work on the unfinished sections
j of highway 87 also is in progress
j in Sabine county, south of Hemp-
| hill. The road already Is paved
[ from its northern terminus to a
point about ten miles north of
Blue and Cfarl T. Crane.
Cattle Froze To Death By The Tens of Thousands . . ,
Oldtimer Recalls Big Freeze of '95,
Which Oecured At This Time of Year
It Gets Cold in
Alaska, Too, Says
Orange Lad There
Mrs. W. B. Simmons. 712 Cher-
wrote her son, Pfc. Robert B.
By A. F. Burns
Leader Staff Writer
Shirt * sleeved Orangeries, en-
joying the balmy weather of the
past couple of days, ate being re-
minded by oldtimers here that at
February in
1895, 52 years ago, there occur-
red one of the worst freezes in
the recorded histo/y of this area.
F. J. Pavell, native Orangeite
and one of these oldtimers, Sat-
urday recalled that back in mid-
February of ’95 there was three
feet of snow on the ground, with
drifts running up to 15 feet deep,
a coating of ice on the lakes and
streams, the thermometer*-- drop-
ped below zero, ai\d a rough time
was had by people and animals
alike.
Started Feb. 13
On Feb. 13 of that year, Pavell
said, the snow started falling j
“‘like.shelled corn poured out of j
a sack.” Balmly weather had
prevailed for a period prior to 1 facts concerning the weather,
of the freeze, the old- i whicl1 »how thal thc weather got
! Hemphill in Sabine 'county. The r , Frtckel‘
I impaved strips all lie between ' executive.
Orange and the northern Sabine _ rhf appointment Is effective
Monday. the annmmcemedt
COURT REJECTS
PROPOSAL FOR
BUYING HEALTH
UNIT BUILDING
[ The commissioners court, in a
j special meeting Saturday, reject-
. „ ... „„„„„ I ed the offer of thc Federal Works j <>l“ the eastern and northern port- j
slmmons, stained at'Anchorage; | Age,y to W» Oirange tounty • the j .•»«* of ttt 0. * tfcwgh Orange
Funeral Is Today
For Wm. R Black
Scout Executive
Named for County
Rohb L. Hohstadt, - Marshall,
has been appointed field Scout
executive, senior capacity, Sa-
bine Area council, Bray Scouts
of America, to serve Orange coun-
ty, it was announced Saturday by
county line.
When Completed, highway offic-
ials have pointed out, the load
will bring a great deal of traffic
southbound from points through-
Alaska, reporting on the “cold
snap" we had in Orange a lew
week* ggo'. “The thermometer
was down to 26 this morning," she
wrote.
building at Second and Cypress
streets housing the City-County ■
health unit.
The building, erected ear ly in j
the war on property belonging to ]
the city, has been declared sur- i
This was amusing to young j plus by FWA The city, which had
Simmons. “You say you have j first chance to purchase the
cold weather in Orange,” be re-[ structure, turned down the offer
plied. “The same day you had several weeks ago.
25 above zero, we had 47 below”’
! In newspapers published at
| Anchorage and forwarded to His
parents here were these interest-.
beginning
timer stated, and cattle were in
the lowlands where the grass was
green.
"Kit”'
“After the cold spell
.... .... ....._ w__________| Pavell remembered, “cattle started
charge certificates of record With I dying by the tens of thousands.
even colder than the day he men-
tioned:
_ “Evidence of the current
ily residence in Bessmay this af-
ternoon at 2 o’clock. The Metho-
dist pastor there will officiate
Burial will be In Antioch ceme-
tery under the direction of Fui
my office.”
MARCHING TIME IN MARCH
appears to be very promising for
Orange and Vicinities since there
Church Post Here
Assumed Saturday
By Coleman Young
Coleman Young, former song
leader and educational director
for the Silsbee Baptist church,
and previously with the Calvary
Baptist church Ur "Beaumont, in
the same capacity, assumed a
similar portion with the First j
Boptist church here Saturday. i
Youny is a student of Lamar j
college, Beaumont, and is to
spend a portion of his time on
his studies until the term closes,
after which he is to devote full
time to his work here.
■Young is a student of Lamar
ist, song director and instructor,
has planned to devote much of
his time for a few weeks to train-
ing the several choirs that are to
be organized for this church.
The new educational director
will be associated with Her. W. I
Corkem, the pastor.
Tuny
Mother of Former
Orangeite Dies
Relatives here received word
today of the death in Terrell of
___________________ Mrs. J. M. Darst, who died of a
arc prospects for ‘several problems j heart attack. The deceased is the
to be straightened out before the mother of Tom J. Darst. son-in-
law of Mr. and Mrs. Louis P. Ulm
of Orange and former employe of
Consolidated Steel Corp. here who
is now living in San Antonio.
( He said the railroad company had
j to send men to a point near the
i Taylor’s bayou crossing to re-
j move the carcasses of animals
j which had frozen to death on the
j tracks before trains could be run
) along the route.
Cattle Dammed Bayou
Also in the Taylor's bayou area,
! where he was trapping at the
time, Pavell recalled, there was a
coating of ice on the streams but
it was too thin to support j title
weight of cattle apd mi
drowned when they
through the ice while drifting ,
with the storm. In one spot, he j
stated, so many dead cattle clog- I
ged the stream that the water
level was raised appreciably a- j
bqve the spot.
Many sail - powered boats on
Sabine lake ami the river also
got into trouble during the freeze j
because of ice coating the waters, I
the oldtimer asserted. , He said
there were between _ 300 and 400
boats of this type in'the lake and
streams in the area at the time
and and they had trouble navi* j
gating.
Lost 35,000 Head
J. B. Scales, another Orange
county native, corroborated the.
statement of Pavell about cattle !
losses. He said his mother's fam-
ily alone lost 35,000 head in the |
freeze.
Originally constructed at a cost
estimated al about $25,000 and
riow said to Ire worth a good bit
more, the structure, it was under-
stood, was offered to the city and
county for about $15,000.
j Failure to the city or county to
j purchase the structure, it was j |er f.lnerai home.
Inoted now means the building j Mr. Black served in the post
i i i wb* k® offered lor public sale j ,ijTrie in Bessmav for many years
. ,, . ! with first priority to government |inor Ul h|g retirement several
appeared-In police court Monday.agencjeg thento quiwi-pub!le
by one prisoner recuperating from j organjzattons and fina||y to pri-
a frozen foot and frozen hands, j vate jnterests
and another prisoner who came j The ofIc,. \0 the t.ountv wa*
voluntarily to police headquar- transmlUed through Courtty Judge
ters for shelter. . . the first man | Sjd j Cf|i|lav^ who pul_
chasing the building. Among othpr
stated, Hohstadt comes here
from- Tyler, where he has served
for the past three and one-hall
years As field Scout executive for
the East Texas Area council, BSA.
Married and the father of two
daughters, Mary Anne. H, and
Georgia Alice, I 1-2 Bphatodt will
make his home in Orange a* soon
as living quarters can be secured,
Frlckel stated.
According to the district exec-
utive, Hohstadt is a professional
Funeral services for William Stouter who entered thc work as
Rawls Block, 77, retired puelmas- t an assistant Scoutmaster In Kil-
ter at Beesmay, who died in the gore where he was associated
Frances Ann Butcher hospital ’with a finance company. He re-
het% Friday afternoon at 415 j cWived- Stout (mining on the
o'clock,-Will be held frum the fam- S< luff reservation In *Mendham,
was charged with disturbing the: j
peace when, according ,to testi-
mony, he climbed, into another
person's bed at the Hill hotel to
get warm . .
j arguments advanced by the judge
in presenting the proposal to the
; commissioners was that sale of
j the building to other interests
“Alaska Airlines and Pacific j might well mean the health unit
Northern flights were halted when [would have no place to operate,
temperatures dropped to more j The structure was put u|>-«ri-
than 60 degrees below, zero, . finally as part of a program to
“. . . mountain climbers report- | maintain the health of persons
broke | ed thermometers reached 72 be-j connected with (lie wai shipbuild-
low zero and some that the mer-iing activity here and their famr-
cury had stuck. . .’’ lies.
years ago.
Survivors are the widow. Mrs.
Sue 11. Black; four sons, Kelly
arid W. If Black. Jr., both of
Bessmay, C. Black of Beaumont
arid Bert Black of Silsbee; a
daughter, Mrs- Hazel Finnel of
Orange, and two brothers, Haish
and Robert Black, addresses un-
known.
N .1 , and has seated as an in-
structor on the National Scout
t.coders-Aquatic school staff and
assisted in the direction of the
East Texas council (lamp Torik-
awa during the toast three sum-
mefs.
Hohstadt and his family are
members of the Episcopal church.
Frlckel said.
Insurance Firm
Here Announces
New Partnership
It is estimated that U. fi plants I
Carpenters Local
And Laborers Slate
Sessions in Morning
A special called meeting of
members of Car penters Local Un-
ion 2007. AFL. will be held in
Hjt; union offices in the Labor
temple. 109 Fifth St . this (Sun-
day) morning at 10 o'clock, it wax
announced Saturday by H. B.
Clem, business agent. 4
Matters pertaining to the strike
situation at the Du Pont plant
here will be discussed. it ' was
stated, and every member of the
union was requested by the an-
nouncement to be present.
I-a borers to Meet
Almtost simultaneously, V. E. x
.Meant, business agent. Construc-
tion and General Laborers Local
Union 373. AFL. announced that • |
a meeting of members of that
organization will be held in the
union offices, 307 'Orange Ave„ '
this (Sunday) morning at A:3(l
o’clock.
“Heard'said that very import-
ant matters' which have come up
as a result of the strike situation
In the Sabine area will be dls- jjj
cussed at the meeting and urged
that every member of the labor-
ers union attend.
In the meantime, a spokesman :
for Carpenters Local Union 2007
said Saturday morning that noth-
ing for publication came out of-
the meeting of representatives of
labor, industry and the Associ-
ated General Contractors held In
Beaumont Friduy.
A meeting of carpenters and
millwright union representatives
and an ACK” committee also was
held Friday but no results of
the session could be learned here.
Hitttaiien SUM Gloomy ,
carpenters and millwrights at
the Du Pont plant on January 21
continued , unchanged Saturday.
There still was no information a-
vullable ' tn .the public which
would tend to provide any ray of
hope for early removal of the car-
penteiV picket line at the Du
Pont plant which have been up
since the morning of January 22
or the picket line of the Port Ar-
thur painter's union, which were
placed fit the plant a few days
after tire carpenters and mill-
wrights walked out.
The economic situation here. It
wss reported Saturday, growx
mofe serious daily, Many fami-
lies, it has been noted, are having
to cash in bonds accumulated
during the war to pay current
expenses while the wage earner
is idled by the strike. Others, it
is said, have no immediate means
of support and are treroming in-
creasingly destitute.
Rent Nltuatlen Worsens
While the housing authority
i ha* made no statement on the
.! II. David, owner and operator |
will turn" out enough floor and I of *h* Orange Insurance Agency at [ matter, it is reliably reported
wall tile in 1947 b. cover 85(1 j 205-B Fifth St , Grange, for the lh»t a great number of occupants
average square city blocks.
shipbuilding concern
i past 19 years, has announced that
ins son-in-law w A. (Bill) Mc-
The Diesel motor was ■ adopted j Grory end son, Julius H. David,
to ocean transport by a Danish ! have been taken, into the
i agony as pafffiers.
j J H. David, Sr, has operated the
Orange Insurance Agency since
i March 1st, 1928 handling a general
; line of insurance, representing a
| strong tine of stock insurance com-
panies He has resided in Orange
j for 37 years.
W. A. (Bill) McGrory was eni •
of public projects hero have on#
or more months unpaid rent ac-
crued and are facing eviction lan-
der the term* of their rental con-
tracts. However, there has as
yet been no report of action a-
gainst these.
Business men continue to re-
port sales at their lowest point
since the war’s beginning.
.... ■
end of February or the first of
the following month. Surely the
strike of carpenters and mill-
wrights will have been settled in
some manner by that time to
.permit only 2,000 men to return
to their work, and in the mean- i
POLICE REPORT
Five persons were brought be-
thne the stockholders of the Con- ! lore City Judge A. H. Prince Sat-
soilidated Steel Corporation, Ltd.,
will meet to affirm the transaction
involving sale of the Orange plant
to the United States Steel corpor-
ation subsidiary, the Columbia
Steel corporation. Then the "go-
ahead" signal w ill no doubt be
given.
urday morning as a result of
work done by the police depart-
ment through 24 hours ending at
8 a. m. Saturday. Included in
the list of offenders were two
NORMALCY i
NEW YORK-(AP)-If you walk
into the right drug stores around
time* square you may see candy
counter signs that say, “Nickel
Candy Now S Cents."
ployed by the agency as bookkeep-
er in August, 1943 until called uvo
service in May, 1944. He served
with the U. S. Navy until Apul,
1946, when he was honorably dis-
charged and returned to Oruiige
where he resumed his •oture ’tion I nn i k |/xr II ll/'C
with the agency UKANot JUILt . .
Julius H. David, Jr., .t native! Richard Eddlrman wiping his
born citizen’ of Orange, was lorm- i mouth on the end of the tablecloth
erly employed by the Phillips Pe- j at Optimist dinner—AP Stale Ed-
11oleum Co. al Kansas City, Kana- j itor Jack Rutledge at Leader office
as. until March, 1944, when tie cn- > Friday reading proof on hia col-
lared the U. S. Navy in winch be
POINTS FOR PIGEONS
Chicago. (AP) — Pigeons fly-
ing around Chicago’s loop—and
there are thousands--are steering
clear of the North Western rail-
road station when they want to
take a rest.
On the station’s ledges and win-
dow sills workmen are inatalling
devices known as “pigeon repe 11-
ants.” They consist of upright
u-shaped wire prongs which are
fastened two inches apart on a
wire frame.
Chief Engineer E. C. Vanden.
burgh said the devices cannot in-
jure the pigeons. But, he added.
i served until May. 1946, when he
umn, "Texas Today”, which he
wrote in Dallas earlier in the week
and Mrs. Rutledge getting her
hair “done” at the Marcella Beauty
Shoppe Circulation Manager
Greer acting as "copy boy” Fri-
day .....Mrs. Rubs Brown all agog
J. H. David, Sr has been for the over prospects of attending for
past 21 years secretary-treasurer the first time the Mardi Grae in j
and general manager of the Or- i New Orleans ,.....Mrs. SM J. Cail-
ange Investment company, Is ac- j level wearing a lovely Camellia
lively engaged in the real estate [ in her hair Thursday night .....
|was honorably discharged and re-
; turned to Orange and was eihpoly-
ed a* a solicitor in the agency. He
is a graduate of Orange high
school and the University of Texas.
charged with drunkeness, two they can prevent the birds from
for disturbing the peace, and one sitting, in comfort on the ledge: ,
with simple assault. and tills.
AS MASONS BURNED RETIRED BONDS ON TEMPLE- -H. A Beck. Secretary of Madison Lodge M6,
AFAAM, applies a match to a specially-built incinerator containing the retired bonds issued by the lodge
when its temple here was built 25 years ago. Witnessing the event, at which thd'building was declared to
be debt-free, are. left to right. Navy Petty Officer H. M Sedorust F A Francis, tiler of Madison lodge; an
unidentified visitor: Bigg Marshall; an unidentified member of the lqdge: and R. Bruce Evanixm. grand
master of the grand lodge of Texas, who was guest of honor and spoke during vhe ceru/nomex.
] and loan business. He expects to
! devote moat of hi* time to the. af-
fairs of this company.
Mrs. Freda McDonald, owner of
the Marcella Beauty Shoppe, and
Mrs Pauline Elliott leave May
for Houston to attend the South
(Photo by T. L. Gurm).|Texaf Paauty show
Marjorie Hart bicycling
hours straight in <um
for the first time le ‘
having tremble in
cat that he couldn’t
her to the bus *top on h
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