The Orange Leader (Orange, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 39, Ed. 1 Sunday, February 15, 1953 Page: 1 of 36
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The Orange Leader
VOLUME XL
Member Associated Prean ORANGE, TEXAS, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1953 • 36 PAGES — PRICE 10c NUMBER 39 ^New°SI|^^ndtraoJIlSl€
. ^National airlines, said a DC8 with about 43 persons aboard
walApore than six hours overdue Saturday nitrht on a flight
MONKEY ON A BACK. If
there’s a back for the monkey
to climb on in this taxi row
it belongs to the city commis-
sion . . . The city’s taxi ordi-
nance provided that back .several
years ago and neither conditions
nor writing have changed the
responsibility . . .
Now, first, about this Diamond
Cab business .,, . Where Mrs, De-
ri in o wants to start operating
again alter just this past week
paying up cab fees which have
been in arrears . . .
The ordinance, had the city
commissioners. mayor or city
attorney consulted it. prescribed
plainly that taxi permit fees
are, to quote the ordinance,
“payable for any year not later
than the 19th day of January of
any year.” This past week would
R»Ve been the week of Feb. 8.
a month past the deadline for
this year’s fees because the or-
dinance says “such fee to cover .
the calendar year" . . .
What to do about it, that’s where
the monkey starts digging in
This is what the ordinance say.,:
“Should any licensee or any of his
agents . . . violate any of the pro-
visions of this ordinance, the city
council MAY (note that MAY)
by resolution terminate or su-
spend all or any of the licenses
theretofore issued to such persons
to operate a taxicab in the city of
Orange." . . . Doesn't seem to
leave much doubt there, does it?
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Something Practically Unheard Of in Warfare
Navy Names Ships Slated
To Hit Red Port This Week
Construction mS&SSJ Chiang Due
Waste Cited Astonishing Show
Of Military Daring
THIS TAXI BUSINESS. A taxi
driver in Orange, there are 23
w orking daily tor the Yellow-
Checktr combine* is earning about
S35 weekly, tiblng a 12 hour, seven
day week stint at the wheel of his
cab . . . Those are the figures
cab drivers put out just yesterday
The cabbie drives a vehicle
owned by the cab company which
provides the maintenance and the
oil , . The driver and the cab
company divide, on a 50-50 basis,
the cost of gasoline . .. After this
the drjver end the company split
tile monies that’s left . . .
Nek |f business was as good
i need for additional cabs
would warrant, (he cabbies say
they'd be busy as bees and hap-
py, even welcoming more cabs
.... They make money when
things are booming, they admit It
. . . But right now they spend
half their time idle ... A casual
check every once in a while at
the cab stand shows one to two
cabs there most of the time. . .
This eombine has permits for 15
cabs, one permit has not been,
activated two cars are not op-
erating, excepting as spares . . .
If that information from Yel-
low - Checker and observation
means anything, there probably
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AUTO LICENSE HEADACHE — Almost 2,500 people have
asked that license numbers be reserved for them. Tax Collector
Fred Force and Deputy Collector Lermn Rector have signed uo a
stack of them, getting ready for the opening of auto licens sales
on Monday. “Were snowed under; no more pleare,’’ was Force’s
plea Saturday. (Staff Photo by Ralph Ramos).
Horse Racing, Jury Service for Women,
Auto Inspection To Occupy Texas Sokms
AUSTIN (AP) — Tlie Legislature jumps into horse racing, Jury
service for women, a pmsddential primary and repeal of auto inspec-
tion law next week. Those are among bills set for public healing.
Emphasis continued on preliminary study and action on bills last
week. A bill to raise toughers’ pay $000 a year won committee ap-
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BETTER BUSINESS REPORTED
DALLAS (AP)—The Federal
Reserve bank .of Dallas reported
Saturday department stores of
five metropolitan areas in its dis-
trict averaged 8 per cent better
business in the week ending Feb. 7
than in the corresponding week
of 1952.
Chest Members To Hold
Annual Meeting Thursday
Members of the Orange County Community Cliest—and that's
everybody who contributed to the agency during last year's fund-
raising campaign — will hold their annual meeting Thursday at 7
p. m ih the basement of the First Methodist church It’H be a dinner
mceung with the meal priced at $1.75 a plate. E. 51. (Preacher)
is In charge of ticket-----------
up for floor debate tills week.
The measure if passed could bring
a need for new taxes.
Another measure forbidding the
parks board to finance building
of pltwh hotels for lease to private
companies in state parks also was
approved by a House committee.
The parks board promised to fight
it bitterly on the floor.
Outstanding action on the.floor
brouaht House passage of a new
loyalty oath bill. It went on to the
Senate. The bill requires state em-
ployes to swear they have not
By Senators
By EDWIN B. HAAKINSON
WASHINGTON (AP) — A
blistering Senate report Sat-
urday charged needless waste
of hundreds of millions of dol-
lars and time and efforts of
thousands of Americans in con-
structing overseas military bases.
The much - censored document
was released by Senators Long
(D-La) and Morse (Ind-Ore), for-
mer members of the armed serv-
ices committee which investigated
the mutibilliou - dollar overseas
defense planning program.
The two senators called for a
complete overhaul of the project
and questioned whether even then
it, would enable this country and
its allies to retaliate against a sur-
prise enemy attack.
Challenging the “adequacy at d.
wisdom of this nation’s high-level
planning,” the two-man report
aimed most of its criticism at Air
Force leaders.
It dealt equally harshly with
some European allies, who were
said to be gouging this nation and
Its servicemen on supplies an i
necessities.
The desire of other allies to co-
operate or even to fight to defend
themselves was questioned with
these words:
“It is bur feeling that the United
States has made a fundamental
mistake iu departing iom the
wound principle th«f the only peo-
ple wLr.^doserve freedom are
those willit g to fight for it.”
This was in a section assailing
agreements with Allied nations on
locations for U. S. military base.;.
“In many of five agreement '
consummated up to this time, opr
government has been asked to
contribute altogether too much
and our allies too little,” the re-
port said.
U. S. Aid In
NavyBuildup
By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER
WASHINGTON (AP)—The
United States is planning to
probable lineup of ships that strengthen Chinese National-
wili bombard the !t*d Korean port ist naval forces substantially.
By ELTON C. FAY
WASHINGTON ( A P) -
The Navy did something un-
heard of Saturday night. It
announced in advance the
. , PBBPPPI Anderson said the plane.
due here at 5:25 p. m„ oa a, two-hour flight from Tampa,
carried about 40 passengers,
;three pilots and two steward-
esses. The Coast Guard, which
began searching the Tampa-
New Orleans flight route, said
plane was last reported at 4:45
p. m,, about 1.30 miles due cast of
the mbuth of the Mississippi river.
T^e Mississippi empties into the
Gulf of Mexico about 90 miles
south of New Orleans.
Search Craft Out
“We’re not saying it is lost,”
Anderson said. “There are many
things that could have happened
to it. It could have landed any
number of places, its radio could
be out."
The Coast Guard here said one
PRY plane left St. Petersburg,
Fla., and two others left Biloxi,
Miss., an 85-foot patrol boat left
from the mouth of the Mississippi
and a 1 mi-foot buoy tender left
Mobile. Ala., to head for the route
taken by the DCS in event an alert
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of Wousspi Monday,
“Ships which will probably be
at Wonsan next Monday, Feb. 18,”
the Navy announcement said,
"include the ■ destroyers USS Do
Havi n and USS Samuel N. Moore.
"Conducting mine sweeping
operations in the harbor add., sur-
rounding area will be the USS
This will unable them more
effectively to disrupt shipping
destined for Red China.
Officials said Saturday that the
buildup is provided for in the
present program military and
for Generalissimo Chiang Kai-
shek. The chief limitation is the
ability of the Chinese navy, now
Gladiator and. LSii Dextrous, as-g hodgepodge of small craft
sided by the fleet tug USS Takel
ma and the landing ships USS
Whetstone and USS LST 901."
C barred and Broken City
Such a public announcement
which was contained in a two-
year summary of the, siege of
Wonsan, would have erased mili-
tary security officers of .mother mlttees it
H u o in 4 > • ••m.it,. T)..r
day to turn pale. But evidently
in this case the Navy feels the
Red* are In no position to retal-
iate, even if given such specific
in formation.
Describing the siege of Wonsan
as the longest nnd one of the most
effective blockades in American
naval history, the announcement
laid:
“What was once a flourishing
fort of 100,000, an important rail
and highway terminus with rail
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DK. FRANK HUBERT
Will Address Graduates
Graduation Speaker
For Stark Selected
Dr, Frank Hubert, director of
the division of professional stand-
......,, .. aids of tiie......Texirw,. Educmioit
two strong trend* uiil developing ' tfsertev and former director of
L, VS 1. i* unriAnrlniW* ‘ orltiMOtiivti nnrl Hni>>„l
to destroyer size, to absorb new
equipment. The expansion there-
fore will be slow because it re-
quires extensive training of per-
sonnel. 'x
From what can be learned di-
rectly or through Information
coming from congressional com-
seems apparent mat
in Eisenhower administration
studies of new policy moves in
the Far East.
One is a reluctance to under-
take any of the more dramatic al-
ternatives such as a blockade or
a large expansion of the war in
Korea both because of strong Al-
lied opposition and bteauie of the
further commitment of American
forces that would be required.
The other trend is that the nd-
secondury education add princi-
pal of Butcher .Stark high school
here, will deliver Ibtj commence- ■
Went address for l-uteher Stark
high school’s gi actuation exercises
on May 20 at 1! p. m. in the schod
noditenium, Supt. C. O. Chandler
announced Sutuirfttjr,
Paint Service Store
Enlarges Quarters
(Picture «mi P«ue S)
Grand mwning of what the
Sherwin-Williams company calls
the “moat up-to- late” paint serv-
ile center In this :»r,ya 1* an event
of Monday at 701-703 Division
street In Oran|e.
The new store I* double the
size of its predecessor, located
next tloor.
local manager G. B. Eaves has
ennounred special gifts for the
ladle* on opening day Monday. To
the first 300 ladle* Sherwin-Wil-
Ham* will give miniature ivy pot
plant*.
In a drawing five ‘ gallon* of
SWP glosj white houag paint and
four gallons of deluxe flint wall
paint, Super-Kemtnne, is to be
given.
Eaves said Saturday, In an-
nouncing *h* grand opening “In
order to progress with Orange we
lines ami roads connecting north, *>mutration favor* maximum dls-
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tor o( tlie prufesadtmal standards
division for the state department
of eciucation as well as ior TEA.
He also i* executive secretary for
ei'gagvment of United States and the state board of examinei'S for
\V,-,it.re force* from the Asian ‘teacher education,
conflict as rapidly as possible
v ilhout any samtiee of major in-
tcrest. (See 8. Pwfl
| Dr. Hubert rose laigcily in tin.
Furious Air Battles End Scoring Lull
Rotary To Observe
34th Anniversary
SEOUL (AP)—Furious air bat- one M1G damaged. The 10 planes
tics between 17 Sabres and 27 are twice the requirement fur nee.
Communist MIGs Saturday end- Allied air blows stepired up all
ed a six-day nou-r.-oring streak across Korea as skies cleared af-
The Orange Rotary dub wit!
have its first president as princi-
, . . -a , pal speaker at the 34th birthday
been members of any Communist .meeting Tuesday at noon in the
or other subversive organization Holland hotel.
Childers
sales
Principal business of the ses-
sion, arrangements for which
made by a committee made up
of J. B. Quigley, Childers and T.
D. Sells, will be the election of
nine persons to the 27-member
board of directors.
Members of Board
The directors whose terms ex-
pire this year are L. J. Lewis, G.
C. Hoover, Cecil Beeson, C. II.
Meeks, T. D. Sells, Helen Carr,
H. B. Whitehead, W. N. Levine
and Childers.
Their successors will serve on
the board with the following
whose terms expire in 1954: Le-
land Morrow, Quigley, D. B.
Campbell, Rev. Herman Morgan,
Ward Stephenson, Homer Steph-
enson, Mrs. H. J. .Tanson, Mrs.
Harry Singletary and H. S. Pe-
tercon.
And the following whose terms
expire in 1955: U. J Colburn,
John Christian, George Craft,
George Hood, W. J. Robinson,
Grover Die. Tom Yerby, J. N.
Doak and L. C. McC.dlar.
To Honor Drive Heads
Nominations for the nine di-
rectors’ posts to be filled at the . „____ ,
f meeting will be offered by a com- Tcx“ ^ber whose
mitte composed of Homer Steph- whlleL Sivlng cus-
enson, Reverend Morgan and
(See 1. Paw t)
Guilty Plea Doesn’t
Save Man From Trial
Beverly Garrett, who entered
a plea of guilty Saturday when
charged with aggravated assault
and battery committed with a
deadly weapon, will go to trial
in county court Feb. 16.
District Attorney John O.
Young asked for trial to bring
out the jacts in the case despite
Garrett* plea. Garrett was be-
ing held for trial under $1,500
bond.
In other county court action
Saturday, County Judge Charlie
Grooms fined Felton Brooks $50
and costs of court on his plea dairies
of guilty to a charge of driving cent
during the past five years, or al-
low* them to explain anwilting
membership.
The civil rights question was
raised over another Communist
control bill and final action was
delayed in the house until Mon-
day.
It would permit issuance of a
search warrant'for seeking Instru-
ments or equipment that could be
used for sabotage, or literature
indicating a person is a member of
a Communist or Communist front
organization.
Women come first when their
bid for a chance to serve on juries
will be heard Monday at 3:30
The dub was dfganized in 1919
With H, J. Lutcher Stark at the
helm in tlie initial year. Rev.
Herman T. Morgan, today’s presi-
dent, announced Saturday that
Stark had accepted an invitation
to be Tuesday's anniversary day
speaker.
Topic Of Stark's address was
not announced in advance but it
is expected to follow the pattern
of and expand upon the points
about the future of the city and
county covered In his Jan. 1
speech at the courthouse inaug-
ural ceremonies.
Stark has made available vast
expanses of land for industrial
Deiore tne House commit- plants in Orange county and, to-
tee on constitutional amendments. gether with Mrs. Stars, is cure
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Orangeite Slashed
In Beer Hall Fray
James McCamv, 39, was
stitched up at City hospital Sat-
urday night following a beer hall
cutting scrape and then Jailed
after refusing to say who whittled
on him and announcing, “I’m go-
ing to go Set 'im myself toMor-
_ , against the swift ReJ jefs afiri Ter several day* of heavy clouds
<h> <M-.nv b* ,l>' ?! sc^rs at- priKjUC0C| tht, Korean war's third and poor visibility. Fighter bomb-
r VI double ace. er* flattened 36 buildings, (te-
Frent sheet. Saturday about 9 Tb„ mh .^r hn:v ,mlouj,mj stroyeri five H<d gun positions,
one MiG shot dbwn and one dam- sealed three railiold tunnel*, et).
t.in, ..rf'.re,. «'«wi m I he fierce encounters near rails in 15 place*, cratered roads
iZn L *■ hn1.0 m-Lu Manchuria border and cred- and dumped ton* of bombs on a
attendant “Id he WM cut iwctty tho kul to CoI noyal Hcker mil bridge and two Red supply
d'. »* McKinney, Texas, commander centers, headquarters said.
of ,,K' 4,h Fightgr wiug. On tlie ground Allied infantry-
w^nn^admilero iffjLj ' *** brought Baker’* record to men toHred back five Communist
' i.0m<ttcri J€ SC nine MIGs and one propeiler- probing attack* Ijefon- dawn, in
CMcOn Jailed Lloyd LeBlanc. driven Red Hgbtor, destroyed and the largest action, Eighth way
Crowley, La., and the wohnded------------ -----------—
man’s brother. Tommy McCarver,
after the cutting, which police
said was done with a pocket
knife.
The officers remained uncer-
tain, however, about who wielded
the knife and since (he victim
wouldn't talk were holding all
three while trying to get to the
bottom of the matter.
The McCarvers live at 1101
South College street in Orange.
At present Dr. Huttert is dim- hRV« a*W more oersoumd and
vili have the store department-
alized so that we can carry •>
larger and more complete line «f
waEbaper, floor covering; Vene-
tian btiwlsi decorative occe**o»ieii
and custom mixed cteots.
said several now depart-
■S would be announced In the
hear future.
tr<x>ps defending to) advance po-
sltion near Old Uatdy on the
western front killed of -wounded
70 Reds of some 175 attacking
175 attacking Chinese, headquar-
ter* announced.
The Rods were beaten off to
five hours after cutting off the
defender* and tenipoiarily block-
ing Allied attempts to reinforce
the position.
The Chinese also (truck Irthtty
at three central front . positions
and ope other point on the west-
ern sector on the first day of the
Chinese New Year—the “Year of
the Sanke." All of the attacks
were repulsed.
1 Mi*'.*
1 •
while intoxicated.
BEATY FACING OPERATION
Hunter Beaty, Orange insurance
underwriter and school board
president, will undergo a major
operation at a Houston hospital
next Saturday. His family said he
will be “up and about” this week
prior to the operation.
DALLAS Ml/.K PRICES CUT
DALLAS (AP) — Four major
announced today a one
a quart cut in retail milk
prices.
rentjy occupied mainly with (lie
development of downtown busi-
ness properties in Orange. His
speech Tuesday may touch on
plans along that line.
The talk will be taae-rccorded
by KOGT for broacatling.
GILES SEEKS TIDELANDS
AUSTIN (AP)—Land commis-
sioner Baseom Giles left Satur-
day for Washington tq plug for
recovery of the tidelands for Tex-
as. Giles Is chairman of the school
land board.
Former Texas Barber Talked His Way To
lecture Platform; To Be RMA Speaker
tinners a trim or a shave led first
to newspaper column writing and
finally to the lecture platform
dailies throughout the state.
His first talk was before the
Heame Chamber of Commerce
banquet. That led to other speak-
ing appearance* and subsequently
Today's Weather
^Dan Fraai f. S. Kulbo Barcaa
Local forecast: Fair and bmI today;
I>Wheat temperature near *8 degrees. Mon-
day. partly cloudy and mild No
vlnda. Id to It tn'les- an hour, becoming
r°TWday's^ tides: Sabine—high at l id a. a
and 4:4* p a., low at *:*d a. a. and
• :M p. a; Bollcar— high at 4:M a. m.
and 1:M p. m.. tosr at 11 :IS a. ac. and
11:41 p. m. Monday s Odes: HsWia M«ti
at 4 *4 a. a and »:** p. on, |»« at
10:23 a. m. and 10:M p. m.: 1
at *;» a. m. and «:M
12:0* p. a.
Sun Uses today at t:M a. a. seta at
s es p. a.: Meetday a
sunset, (:M p. m.
#H1 be principal speaker at next to platforms all over the nation.
Friday night’s annual membershu
banquet of the Orange Retail
Merchants association.
A few years ago Cayce Mooie
. wa* his barber shop in
73.17^ Heanic when the editor of the
newspaper there dropped in for a
haircut and some of Moore's
famous barber-shop philosophy.
Readers Laved Him
“You know,” the editor re-
marked, “you ought to write a
column for my paper."
Moore, did. and within six
months, excerpts from his column
bad been reprinted in meet large
p. to,. Ibw St
New Directors
Orange RMA members will get
a sample of Moore’* brand of
humor in their Holland hotel
meeting starting Friday at 7:30
p. m.
The program also wQl include
introduction of three new direc-
tors, according to Mrs. Anne
Knox, RMA secretary, who an-
nounced plans for the banquet.
Mrs. Knox said members de-
siring to make reservations may
contact her at the RMA office.
8-4344. Tickets will be priced at
|L25 a plate.
CAYCE MOORE
Barber Shop Talk Pays
County Dimes Total
Climbs To $16,251
. Orange county’s 1953 March of
Dimes fund Saturday stood at
516,251.62, according to Treasurer
Herbert Jourweay.
The figure includes *825 raised
among officer* and men of the
Texas fleet here.
The amount is the largest ever
raised in this Lion* club-sponrered
campaign in Orange county, ex-
ceeding by approximately $4,000
the record-breaking subscription*
of last year.
Several score civic organiza-
tions throughout the county co-
operated with the Orange Lions
club members in staging the 1953
March of Dimes.
C. O. Chandler, Orange .school
superintendent, was general chair-
man and R. R. (Dick) Eddleman,
sale* manager for Paul Gasow
motor*, co-chairman for this
year’s campaign.
Flu Report Shows
Decline This Week
Flu apparently is on the decline
in the Orange area, according to
indications of the Orange City-
County Health unit’s weekly re-
port of communicable diseases.
Saturday it shewed only 49
case* were reported here during
the past week. It wa* one of the
lowest flu reports this year.
The report showed 18 rape* of
measles, 18 of chicken pox. four
pneumonia and two gonorrhea-
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Two New Officers
Are Hired for City
Two new policemen joined Or-
ange police fmee Saturday to be-
gin work on the midnight shift as
squad car patrolmen.
Police Chief L. 3. Hayden
named them today to Vue Hilliard
Guillory and Josh Griffith. Gull-
lory has had previous experience,
Griffith none as a policeman.
Chief Hayden said the addition
of two men would enable him to
increase his city coverage durim.:
the critical hours of from U p. un-
to 2 p. m. each night. It will per-
mit the operation of two-man pa-
trol car*, eliminating niressitv for
a policeman answering call*
alone.
With the return of all members
of hi* staif, several had been ill
the past two weeks. Chief Hay-
den said he would .return to hit
two motorcycle daytime patrol
Work thi* week.
Perry Barras and Raymond
Harper will man the motorvyciv
patrols.
Meantime. Chief Hayden *aid
he had asked Mayor Sid Cal Have;
to check with the highway de-
partment on installation of traf-
fic warnings on 16th street in an
effort to slow down speeding traf-
fic on the newly opened Highway
87 route.
DELINQUENT TAX COLLECTORS — Local attorneys Poyntz
Dunn (standing ) and Fred Trimble went into conference Satur-
day with Mayor Sid Caillavet to discuss the
' lax collecting politic*. Dunn and Trimble have
contract to collect an estimated $300,000 in unpaid
will start immediately. (Staff Photo by Ralph
Korean Conflict la Not
War, High Court Say*
PHHADELPHLA (AP) — Tte
Pennsylvania Supreme court
ruled Saturday that the fighting
in Korea—legally or constitution-
ally—is not war.
In a disputed 4-2 decision (he
court ordered the Pennsylvania
Mutual Life Insurance company
to pay ‘beneticisrie* of two sol-
diers killed while in the uniform
of the U. S. Army. One died in
Korea, the other in a train crash.
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