The Rockdale Reporter and Messenger (Rockdale, Tex.), Vol. 81, No. 48, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 17, 1953 Page: 5 of 24
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SCAN KING
By NWNS
Both Republicans and Democrats have some new
campaign “wrinkles" as they prepare for the 1954
Congressional election.
At stake in this important mid-term contest will
be control ot Congress for the following two years
and a favorable position for the 1956 Presidential race.
So neither party is going to overlook any bets.
Each has plans to do some raiding of the other's pri-
vate preserves. Congressional Quarterly was told in
interviews with party planners.
Republicans are’already engaged in a frontal at-
tack on the Democratic South. They are also going
after the vote in the big cities—a vote which has been
pretty generally Democratic in the past.
The Democrats are preparing to do some intensive
organizing in usually GOP territory. They want to
cut into the huge vote the Republicans have been roll-
ing up in llu> suburbs, and are after GOP rural districts
of the Midwest.
As the major parties start the 1954 campaign they
are on virtually even footing, so far as the House seats
are concerned. The Republicans have 219 members
and control the House. There are 215 Democrats and
one independent. All 425 House seats will be on the
election block.
GOP strategy calls for a spirited 1954 Congression-
al campaign in the South. The Republicans plan to
put up nominees in most of the 38 Congressional dis-
tricts carried by President Eisenhower in the 10 South-
ern states and border Tennessee.
While the GOP leaders are inspecting voter pros-
pects in the big cities, Democratic leaders are taking a
long look at the rapidly growing suburbs. The Re-
publicans jumped in quickly to organize solidly there.
Chairman Stephen A. Mitchell of the National
Committee thinks Democratic prospects in such areas
are good if they can minimize social pressures to “vote
Republican.”
Cutting down high GOP election percentages in
the suburbs would pay off for the Democrats, particu-
larly in tight, state-wide races. They were encouraged
when they recently won a number of municipal elec-
tions in suburban Connecticut and New York com-
munities.
The Midwest is getting special attention from both
parties. The Democrats are confident that they have
their best opportunity in years to score in farm dis-
tricts because of failing farm prices.
Delighted to win the rural Ninth Wisconsin dis-
trict for the first time in history, they interpreted the
outcome of the recent special election there as a slap
by farmers at the Eisenhower Administration’s farm
program.
Democrats also consider their chances excellent
to pick up seats in Midwestern industrial areas, where
their Congressional nominees did well in 1948.
The President polled over five million more votes
than did the 1952 GOP Congressional nominees. He
carried 295 Congressional districts; the GOP won
only 221 House seats. GOP leaders will try to per-
suade all of those who voted for Mr. Eisenhower in
1952-to vote GOP in the 1954 Congressional contests,
with a plea that the President needs a Republican
Congress.
As for Democrats, they say it is already “time for
a change” from “big business government," “give-
away" programs and falling farm prices.
THE BLAST THAT SHOOK A NATION
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Yegua Philosopher:
j. I. Foresees Real Trouble for Russia,
SIk> Is Starting to Loan Her Allies Money
Editor's note: The Yegua
Philosopher on his Johnson
grass farm on Yegua Creek
detects a crack in the Iron
Curtain, he claims this week.
Dear editar:
In the cold war fought with hot
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♦ hi* niihll<ibi>r
words
with
Russia
these
days,
lota
of people got
into the
habit
of thlnkin all
the blunders
are bein
made
by us,
that
the Russians
are almost all-
sceiu
a n d
every
thing’
comes
o f i
accordin
to
their
ule.
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CLIPPINGS
By Bob Grcunwald, Mgr.
Police Accident
Reports List
$2,150 in Damages
Traffic accidents investigated by
the Hockd.dc police during the past
week were recorded as follows:
Saturday afternoon, u collision
at the corner of East Bell and
Green Streets involving a 1950
Plymouth driven by McCurin Har-
well and u Chevrolet pickup driv-
Cil Nslth sTl it a I llt>
ages estimated at $1,150 were in-
flicted on tin' vehicles No charges
were filed.
Saturday evening, a collision in
the 500 block of Ackerman involv-
ing a 1040 Plymouth driven by
Andrew Kirk and the parked 1953
Ford owned by Melvin Cook. To-
tal damages were estimated at
$700 to the vehicles. No charges
were filed,
Wednesday morning, Ernesto I
Garcia driving a 1040 Chevrolet'
hit the back of « 1952 Crysler own- j
ed by J. II lA'Wis on east Highway]
79 Damages to both vehicles)
were estimated at $300 Garcia
was charged with careless driving.
DvcomUr 17. 1953
Milam Farmers
Vole in Favor
Markel Quotas
Milam county went with the ma-
jority of voters in the Central Tex-
as counties Tuesday Noting over-
whelmingly for marketing quotas
during 10;>4 Vote by polling
boxes was not immediately avail-
able but the county total were as
! follow s:
Cotton voting: 800 for, 02
against -represents a 92% vote in
favor of quotas.
Peanuts: For 90, against 2—rep-
resenting a 97’ favorable vote
for quotas.
Bishop Hines
Visits Episcopal
Church Here
ROCKDALE {?•*.) REPORTS*—b
was included in the Confirmation,
plus confirmees from St. Thomas*:
IV J Choat, Glenda C’hoat, Charles
Cothmn, Jr., Joan Cotham, Jack
Nettles. Frank J. Janocha and
Phyllis Janocha.
Reporter Ads Get the Grapes
some response but not nearly as
much as w.' had hoped. Perhaps
by the time these words arc t t int
ed, our Tanglewood Storm Fund
will have had enough subscriber-!
to do some re d good. Funds col-
lected will be used to replace what-
ever furnishings possible.
Tl • Kt Uev John K. Hines,
Bishop Coad jutor of the Diocese of I
Texas, conferred the Order of
Confirmation and delivered a ser-|
mon at St. Thomas’ Episcopal.
Church, Wednesday, December
j Oth at 7 30 p. m. This is a quart-]
Inly visitation made by the Bishop
J Coadjutor to the Rockdale Church.
I Follow ing the service an Inform-
Checks should be made out to!'1* reception with light refresh-
the "Tanglewood Storm Fund * aml|m"M,'; u’<s l)y thto St. Francis
maije l or delivered to Mthor thel(Jui!d, » newly formed women’s
Chamber of Commerce or thol organi/ it ion ol St. 1 homas . Mem-
Rockdtile Reporter office. 'x’l-. ■">'< friends of St. Thomas’
greeted Bishop Hines in the Parish
Kay Theater
nnrKDALE
i Thui s-Fri Sat .
December 17-18-19—
"Stalag IT1
William Holden and
Don Taylor
-COMEDY Be CARTOON—
Sun.-Mon , Dec. 20-21 —
"My Darling
Clementine"
Linda Darnell - Henry Fonda
Victor Mature
—CARTOON -
Forcing entrance into the U. S.
Treasury vault would take sever-
al days.
Hull.
A delegation from St. Christo-
pher’s Episcopal Church, Killeen,
Tues Wed . Dec. 22-23 —
—FAMILY NIGHTS—
—Each Family - 50e—
"Snow White and
the Seven Dwarfs"
—CARTOON—
Matinee Every Day
The Tanglewood twister was al-
most week-old news by the time
bles, about 250 million dollars, and i ] drove out to the scene,
has shipped her a lot of free food j Much of the clearing work had
and has also agreed to postpone j already been done by neighbors
payment of loans previously made. j and friends of the folks whose
Personally, I’m glad to hear this, homes had been swept away. In-
What it means is that Russia Is stead of roofless bare walls, seat-
on tha way to loaln it* allies. tered belongings and twisted)
One of the foremost lessons of wreckage .there^ were neat piles or
to joso himhvr stacked near foundation i
t>o loun ! footinus which no longer bore any I
weight.
history is that the way
friends among nations is
em money, then postpone the pay-1
meats when they come due. Ship!
em a lot of food, and you set a j
program in motion that generally I
leads to unfriendliness, on uccount
of the only way you can keep up I
their friendship is by send in em
more food after that, then more
after that, and the minute you let
up, they turn on you.
Hence as fur us I can see it’s
good news that Russia i goin into
the loanin business.
it. We don’t j Also, I noticed in another paper
but Russia makes| where the Russian government has
us other countries,; lost its title to two estates on Long
Island because of failure to pay
the taxes. As 1 understand it Iho
Russians bought the places to live
in while attending the United
Nations meetings, and while the
Russian big shots aren’t in the ha-
bit of payin taxes, the rule only
applies to estates in Russia, not in
the United States.
Loanin money to your friends
There’s nothin
hear about it,
as many busts a
maybe more.
The reuson I know’ this is that
every once in a while a little in-
formation leaks out from that
ruthless country.
The other day I was out here
lookin over a newspaper, 1 forget
which one it W’us, it doesn’t mat-
ter, the difference between lots
of dailies is that one of cm prints!
Drew Pearson on page 4 and the
other one exerts its individualitty
and prints him on page 2, and ran
across an item that convinced me
Russia is slippin.
Accord in to this item, Russia is
now nankin loans to some of its
allies. For example, she has just
i loaned North Korea a billion ru-
Approaching one of the two
homexltes Unit had been hit.
I found Mrs. Virgin Albritton,
an elderly widow’, alone, claw
hammer in hand. pullinK nails
from salvaged lumber. She said
she was tired hut had “lots to
do" and stopped only long
enough to answer a few <|iicm-
tions. She was joined a few
minutes later by her daughter
and another tarty, and the three
of them went about the jolt at
hand, almost as (hough they
knew they could rebuild the
house in a matter of hours.
The average person probab-
ly would have given up In dis-
pute long before and waited
for someone to come along and
help solve a desperate situa-
tion. Hut not Mrs. Albritton.
She was helping herself with
a strength and a faith seldom
, A , A small amount of insurance
.uni Tallin to pay your taxes are p|lls financial grant from the
: .vu of the best ways I know to hit Rt) j Cr( . ......-
the skids. Everything s not a* place her lost home but will put
sound in Russia as Russia pretends, vvalls and a roof above her once
Yours faithfully, again. House furnishings and
J. A. | other belongings will not be re-
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More borax is produced in the Last week, Bill Cooke In his
sou lb western United States than: column appealed to the public foi
iri any other part of the world. ■ voluntary donations. We’ve had
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Cooke, W. H. The Rockdale Reporter and Messenger (Rockdale, Tex.), Vol. 81, No. 48, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 17, 1953, newspaper, December 17, 1953; Rockdale, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth694012/m1/5/: accessed June 30, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Lucy Hill Patterson Memorial Library.