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TUB ClIERO RECORD, Friday, November If, 1956
Editorial
Castles - By The Million!
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Just as It once became a fact that almost every family
rould own a car, it now turns out that practically every
family can own a house.”
This “astonishing discovery”, borne out by the fact
that In the past ten years one out of four non-farm fami-
lies has moved into a new home of Its own, 1s hailed in
the November Reader’s Digest as “the biggest change in
American living since Henry Ford developed the assembly
line", i
TAKING SOME OF THE SORENESS OUT
mmvofis
>} WXI MOWUCTON
Anti-freeze is in order for au-
tomobiles as at today and ga-
rages doing a land-office business
in same.
Plants also coming in for their
Equally important, this revolution is being brought share of protection, with all sorts
Social Welfare flavor", and on private ol ®weir®®® displayed.
about without the
money — not tax money. "It's a business," writes Wolfgang The colored turkeys in the TUr-
Langewtesche. In the article titled, "The'Idea that Built ^ w^hi4rV%irehLe*^*fdr
Ten Million Houses". “A builder puts up a batch of houses hi* Thanksgiving dinner may
— ten or 100 or even a whole town. He does this on specu-
lation. for buyers unknown; and in competition with other
builders who do the same. Anybody may build any number
of houses. Anybody may buy any house he can afford .. .
And a million buyers sign on the dotted line".
There Is no Government subsidy Involved, explains
Mr. Langewiesche, except In the case of ex-servicemen,
who "can borrow a little more money a little more cheaply
than the non-veteran can Also there’s "some public
housing — welfare minded. Government-subsidized In the
European pattern", but not enough to change the broad
picture of what 1$ happening over the nation.
At the bottom of this amazing expansion In
ownership Is a gimmick called “mortgage Insurance” pro-
vided by the Government — which does not lend you mon-
ey, but promises the bank or other commercial lender that
you'll pay it back. By this means, you can borrow up to
purchase one from the Turkey
Trot committee. Contact Frank
Sheppard. There are only 6 left.
Catherine Kennedy having
lunch with Kathleen Halsell
where we lunched Thursday, and
we discovered that si. is the sis-
ter of Virginia McCurdy of Cuero.
She had been over for the recent
festivities yhich she would haw
been creditable for Corpus Christi
where she lived until a year ago.
Watch the Sunday Cuero Rec
o«l which will carry an an-
nouncement important to the
home housewives of Cuero and DcWiti
county.
Compliments on all sides from
Victoria people who * attended
the big parade on Monday
Many expressed regret that their
wandered “wha’happened."
didn't have the answer.
and
We
P3 percent) — Instead of the former maximum of two- \city was not represented
thirds — and take 30 years to pay It back!
Thus a $10,000 home may be bought with a down pay-
ment of from $275 to $1200 and monthly payments of; Home Hint for Today —A noted
around $72.50 and this payment includes repayment of the h<*n« laundry expert gives this
DAILY CROSSWORD
X. Mine
entrance
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(Vietnam)
13. Command
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19. Flagstaff
f«e*f>
20. Capital
(Mass.)
S3. Curved lines
34. Heart-
shaped
20. Unhappy
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31. Wheel track
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IS. Likewise net 38. Dotty
IkMWef
. school aa chore
si. law
39. Solicit
38. Uoedia
brewing
r firtamA-
40. Synthetic
ruby
41. Qtetasent
42. Change
43. Mad
of Umo
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of earth
DOWN
1. Italian tenor
loan. Interest, fire insurance and real estate taxes. For nyi°° tric0*
DAILY CBYFYOQUQm — M hmrU work tta
AXYDLBAAXI
to LONOriLLOW
One letter simply atawda far another, hatht
far the these L’s, X fbe the two Oi, etc.
trophies, the length and formation of tut
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TB Christmas Seals
Are Now In The Mails
this you caiy get two bathrooms, three bedrooms, washing ! Wash in hot water, with aoapj Ninety-throe thousand pounds j tuberculosis control. Because
machine clothes dryer and refrigerator. <*■ detergent suds. White tricot of TB-kflling material will go {money brought in by those bits
Mr. Langewiesche raises the age-old question of the I** j thw”«fa Unc,e *“'» m,U tod®y,of 3 000 TB associations
morality and wisdom of enjoying a new home (or anything preferably only on. day. Due ® Te«* 1 *>* the country' "orkinK s,ow,y
-«,•««< to. h.« p.w .or
need hot water, plenty of soap or; State.
ca decided this question in the case of the automobile
And an average million new home purchases a year for detergent and thorough rinsing
tl e cast decade would seem to bear this out. to th**a
A home of his own is probably the average man's most
audacious dream. And If fulfillment Is here, as It would
appear, it will bring with it more responsible citizens, a
decline in Juvenile delinquency and a dramatic closing of
the gap in that Constitutional “pursuit of happiness”.
10 and 20 Years Ago
Fora Record Files..
Nav. It. INS
Mrs. Ira Hope was recuperat-
ing from an Illness in a San |
l new patients. Last year, more
(new cases of TB were reported
. in Texas than were found the
' year before.
Tuberculosis is still a threat as
I proved ty tne fact that the na
Of!tion spt>r>J« V600 miK or. each
I year to -••• and contr • it.
Tutvn uioms is stltl a threat as
, roved ty ‘he fact ih*»l tile av»r-
„ge pa*ic.it vends i> months in
the h <spitnl before his case is
a half-century ago, tnc nations m*rke<1 an^*ted-'
No 1 killer. Tuberculosis Is slul a tlireat
By itself the material will not! Today, because of contribu-' " hen men and women refuse to
MU tuberculosis, but It provides tions of the voluntary TB move-; he hospitalized or leave a hos-
menf. research and medical | P*'al before them cases are non-
knowledge have been able to! infectious, and go buck into
cut the death rate from the di-! everyday life, infe-tsng others
68 per cent in Texas in! w*fb the disease,
the last ten years. j So. welcome your Christmas
Perhaps from the comfort! Seals, your own individual pack-
Texans have derived from that age of TB-kinning materials,
scaled-down death rate, com-
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Yesterday's Cryptequete: BUT EVIL IS WROUGHT BYL
WANT OF THOUGHT, A3 WELL AS WANT OP HEART—J
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' a means of controlling the di-
, aease which yearly causes more
! deaths than all other infectious
j and parasitic diseases combined. I sease
(That disease is tuberculosis.
pounds are
j Those 93.000
j Christmas Seals.
In the 50 years since the first
of
, bright bit
Urconquerable Mrs. L. H. Kershaw were ex-
„ . . . pec ted for a visit with her mo-
The brainwashing of the Roman Catholic Primate or tber Mri prances Vanzura -
Pu; gary, Joseph Cardinal Mindszentv. began in a Buda- Gobblers lost to the Seguin
r-?r prison cell on the day before Christmas, 1948. About Matadors 19 to o - Victoria i
s>x weeks later. Cardinal Mindszenty was convicted on bjTrobS^eviuJ \
charges of treason, disloyalty to the government and vlo- 21 to 0 - Reiffert Noll killed the
lation of the currency laws. He was sentenced to life im- first deer in the Cuero area -
Mrs. Frank Kunetka was eleet-
prisonment. ^ pr„iden, of the cuero Coun-
The trial before a Communist "people's ’ tribunal was j ci] women — Rev.
recognized throughout the free world for what it was,
barbaric attempt to discredit and destroy a man who had receiv(£ f43 inches ot found stnm out He waited ,m-
declined to bend his neck to a dictatorial government. But’rain _ Cudahy purchased 1 4001 patently, his mind unable to ig-
the phony people s tribunal reckoned without the people., turkeyi from Wallace Turkey SatCw*iri^ng,mside i°l
_____ ___ gummed paper'placency has set in. But not' The Teton mountain range, in
Angelo hospital — Chief and appeared on the American I enough has been done to keep! Wyoming, has II peaks of major
much has haDDened to I the disease from nulling down'rank.
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CHAPTER 19
| cil of Church
a Randall Williams became pastor ^ASSON drove to the West End
1 somewi.ere else and start again."
“What'll you do then?"
“Leave him alone. More or less
And it reckoned without the courage of the man
fought to beat down.
After several years of imprisonment, the cardinal was
It had Ranch.
On the one side were Perry's past,
and on the other were his future,
victims Which must he, Casaon
Nov. 14, ISM ______ _____________________
Mr. and Mrs. Gene Brown of | Duker, Jettison to save the other?
moved to a chateau and offered his freedom if he would Mercedes and Mr. and Mrs. Os-1 Strutt looked tired when he
promise to go to Rome and not return. He refused. He
taken back to prison After a time the Communists said their father, A. E. Brown — T.
E. Allen of Fort Worth was a
j home. All he did was to stare
| twice at the blackmailer in such
a way that Perry would notice,
alone. For a week or two. Then Once he lifted his tankard as if
watch him sporadically.” I to go over to Mm but put It
'There’s another factor." said down again.
Casaon. "Perry’s own watching is The neat night he pretended no
done in two stages 1 learned hesitation. As soon as Parry waa
Cuero business visitor -
Reiffert Blackwell. Mrs.
Mrs.
Harry
they would let him out if he would agree not to preach or
sperk In public. Again he refused.
Meanwhile, the people had not forgotten their cardinal. 'Putman and Miss Elanor Smith |
Nor had they ceased praying. And now he Is free oncejdrovc 10 Victoria to attend s'
more, and triumphantly unfettered by any agreements and^Mnn Juihis^W*
with his captors, although he has been forced to take i Jockluch Jr ^ Houston were
j visitors in Cuero — Gu* Bold!
sanctuary in the American embassy.
Cardinal Mindszenty's behavior exemplifies the free Q^^tcli[^Uor<:0^r^lty *** ^
man’s Indomitable resistance to tyranny. It is a hearten-
; Montgomery' journeyed to Bal-
ing story in these times when freedom Is on trial every- las to view the Texas Centen-
where in the world.
(Euprn Srrord
nial — Mr. and Mrs. Rudolph
Jones motored to San Antonio
'or the day,
came In.
“Well?" he asked.
"We know as much as she
does," Casson replied. Despite his
previous resolve to tell Strutt all
that Mrs. Gordonstoun had told
him, be could not bring himself
to do it. The unsolved computa-
tion still wove in his bead.
*T told her what wa knew. She
confirmed It
man."
“What name did be use ?”
“She wouldn't* talk," Casson re-
plied.
Strutt stared at him. Then he
looked away.
"Blast them.” he said viciously.
“They never talk. They think of
their own precious skins.”
There was a crash ss the metal
that from Mrs. Gordonstoun. He
must have watched her house
until late one night and from
dawn the next morning. . . ."
"... so she did talk?" Strutt
Interrupted.
“Not enough," said Casson and
went on: "Now. when I t olio wed
Perry he was never in the Square
later than six. Therefore he must
have watched her tor the first
time some weeks or months ago.
settled, Casaon walked over to
him and aat down.
“I hope you don't mind my but-
ting in." he said, "but I'm sure
I've seen you before." Perry stif-
fened and teemed about to move
away, but Casson went on cheer-
fully, "It was Christie's, wasn't
it? I often go there, you know.”
Perry eeemed to relax a little.
“I have '-een to Christie's.” he
replied. It waa a prim voice,
T EXXNGTON, Ejr.—For a city man,* hiv life
JLl bounded on the north by the newest bo 1 mot
drifting across the bar ot Twenty-One c 1 on
the south by tha latest Cola Porter song.,t .is to
the place to bo when autumn comas.
Hare the brittleness of the asphalt jungle'f idea;
hen tha desperate race for the buck goes up to
the sky in the smoke o'f burning leaves. < The
wrinkles never go away from tha city iw’i
brain for good, but hero they make a fair try.
The city man is In the presence of his be .tern
This la horse country.
On other mornings, you have tat around tha
racetrack kitchen and looked at joche and exer*
else boys from behind the steam of a cup of
coffee; you have hung on tha rail and watched
a colt helling down the stretch at Kceneland In
tha early autumn sun. This morning, you cilmD
Into a car and head out for the big breeding farms, the Calumets
and Elmendorfa and Normahdya and Greentreat. You have oM
friends to see.
The friends are pot-bellied and four-footed and you saw them leaf
in the winner’s circle at Saratoga or Belmont However. befone yOU
catch up with them, you sit around briefly and talk a ltttla wttlj
people like old Ben Jones, the man in tha white hat ;
Jones la sitting In tha training bam of Calumet’s vast, spit Y
Citotisn
Just alt horse.
polish farm, amiably watching yearlings sauntering through tM
shed, and you make a little hone talk with him. You hold OS .4*!
your wallet Mr. J. is the greatest trainer of thoroughbreds B
whole dodge—and as a hors# trader, he’s just a atop behind-. If
David Harum had tried to trad* with old Ben, he wouldn’t hays'
known what hit him.
• o • •
"I think what he does is this.1 prim and punctilious.
First: he watches his victim to | “So you're a fellow
_____________ ____ ______ ___ ____________ _______ __ thus!set."
She Identified the ' establish a time and a place when said Casson. “That's splendid. Iff
tha alleged crime took place. He always exciting to meet anothei
lets this imagined event—imag-, civilized being in the middle of a
ined at a real time and a real i desert of barbarism”—he craved
place - fester in his mind (or hia arm to indicate the saloon
some weeks. ..." j bar. “The civilized are rare." he
. . fester tz the word ..." | rattled on. praying that Perry
. . until, to him. It has be- was as vain as he calculated he
come real, ectual, utterly con-! would be, “and the barbarians are
vincing. Second: he watches ms many. No eense of beauty among
victim’s house to see what the. them, ao rare perception, no ex-
AFTER A WHOLE, you lan along to the barn where the atulD
are kept A man opens a stall gate and telle you to taka a loak al
this old bum and you do. The old bum la Ponder and ha coekt DM
head and stares Indifferently at you . . . And the memories begin
to bleu and bum.
It la 1949 again and there Is Olympia out on tha head and «|
_ —
ChurchIU Downs with 100,000 drunk and hysterical people yelling,
and Capot cutting him down at a mile—and then, from out of tha
tornado of dust and horses, Ponder running over them at tha wild
and taking It alL
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Q I am of the old frontier.
Movies and TV show pioneer
men in heme* wearing their
pistols. Th 1 was not my exper-
ience.
A. Nor was it the experience
of the border, in general. Be-
piitoled men were very punctil-
ious about entering dwellings
while under arms. Gun-belts
were usually loft outside, per
haps draped over saddle horn*
It v. a* considered, as you sug
ge*t a grosv vioia'.on of cour-
tesy and hospitality. Could have
been dangerous, too.
<C 3336 by James Farber)
alder it the duty t people like
ua to keep those things olive. In
fact we're responsible for civili-
sation. Don't you agree?”
Perry Winked once, very quick-
ly, like n frog.
"1 do," he eald. His eyes were
t-own.
"My line’s pictures,” Casaon
continued. "1 don’t buy for my-
Merit Badge
on the opposite wall. (to strike, to measure up any poa
"Forget it, Cass." said Strutt sible pitfalls. That was what 1
"I'm vexed. I'm irritated. I’m saw nim doing in Montpelier
homicidal. I want to beat tnat Square.” 1
little rat'a head until ha whim-' "Probable," Strutt commented,
peri.” j “But, if we follow him in the
“Fine." said Casson. “But take second stage, nil we would knots
It easy." la the etrect he had picked. We'd
"You understand. Casson. that only be able to guess the victim."
this la a case for full tnvestura-1 “You can do more than guess ...............
tion. That means for a proaecu- at the victim. 80 far they have (*d|d.~hut
tion—if we can get one ?" all banked at Oamman a. (f you | rmn>t ,Wml tt_ However, I've
“You can’t. Not on present evi-, know the street you can find out fol B Dumber Hch mends and
dene*. There Isn't any. None of which of the reel dent* banka . ^ for »kem i emgs pick
the victims will talk" (there. The one that doe* la the n not that It's often.
suhpeon. them. Make them victim " I but "the profit's good when it hap-
talk " "It’s not certain that 1 could Porcelain too: Rockingham
'ind Chelsea."
are a dealer?” Ferry
asked in his flat voice.
“Lord, no,” Casaon laughed.
„ . "I’m a writer. I'm just doing n
1 he,t Maefnrlane. book about the architecture ot
I "Macfarlane is your unknown J Chiswick. 1 taka my own photo-
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"They'll deny everything.”
“Yellow-bellied . . ." Etrutt be-
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“I’m worried shout the future
find out.1
"1 know," said Casson. "Infurl- j -you
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re-becoming Begot or Martin
"How? I can’t arrest him. You
know that”
“Frighten him off. Let him
know that we are after him, that
we'll get him ui the end If he
goes on plsying his pretty little
tricks. Make him retire.”
Stratt made a noise like n
tough, ft was without humour.
"No criminal retires," he ob-
eerred. "Warn him off and one
fine day he'll disappear and go
quantity," said Casson slowly. | graphs. I must show you
"Perry is stlU mine. I'm going time. You could probably help
back to Chiswick. I’m going to me " Perry seemed alarmed by
get into Perry’s mind. Cm going this oblique offer ot collaboration.
to pull It to pieces; slowly, care-
fully, completely.”
• • •
Casson mounted his attack In
the HKeplry Arms. He stayed at
j the bar, talking to Pater, wnde
| Perry drank his pint and went
He made a few politely undistin-
guished comments, drank up hla
beer, and left.
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