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THE WEATHER
Patly cloudy, little change in
temperatures this afternoon, to-
night and Fraiday. Widely'scat-
tered thundershowers in vicinity
this afternoon. Lowest tonight
■ i1 '
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Coleman Daily Democrat-Voice
DOW JOKES STOC) AVE.
near 66.
Yesterday’s high, 98; low, 62.
United Press Leased Wire'
NEA Feature Service
DOW JOKES STOCK AVE.
30 INDS 166.77 UP 1.13 '
2(1 RRS 43.26 UP 0.36
15. UTILS 34.29 UP 0.64
VOLUME
1. NUMBER 180
Petitions Ask Council to Offer
COLEMAN, COLEMAN COUNTY, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 1949
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(WEEKLY VOL. 67. NUMBER 48
'Home-Rule’ Plan for Vote
Pfc. Whitfield
To Be Sunday
Pctitons asking the city com-
mission to appoint a commit-
tee to study and draw a home-
rule charter type govern-
ment for Coleman are being
circulated in Coleman today,
following a unanimous request
for such action by a meeting of
501 citizens at the district court-
room last night.
the meeting, a representa-
tive group of citizens,' unanim-
ously went on record “to peti-
tion the' city commission to
appoint a charter commission."
Motion was made by Fred. B.
Rudolph and seconded by
Flank Stevens.
Required number of signa-
tures, 10 percent of the quali-
fied votes, are expected to be
secured by tonight and will be
turned to the commission Fri-
''Pay. Petition committee mem-
bers are John B. Howell, Frank
Stevens, Clyde McClellan and
John Norman.
Presided over by B. B. Nun-
nally. last night’s meeting heard
a comprehensive review of the
. features of home-rule charter
government b.V Mayor R. E.
Murphey, who promised “full co-
. operation of the city commission
in giving the people an oppor-
tunity to voice their decision 'in
this matter “
Tentative program outlined by
the group and Murphey would
have a 15-man committee work
out pf the requirements of a
carter type government over a
period of several months, with
open forum discussions at var-
ious turn to ascertain public
’.'Opinion on desired features.
Within a specified time per-
iod, “probably 90 to 120 days”
■the commission would be asked
to have the proposed charter
ready for clearance through Aus-
tin by late fail, and for submiss-
ion for vote in a city election pro-
bably, late this year.
- If the home-rule is approved,
the tentative plans would call for
the new type governmet to be
installed next April 1| just prior
to city elections, when un en-
larged group ff councilmen
would be named to the govern-
ing group.
Term: <>f the three city comm-
issioner,; now in office expire
next April. ,
“We have long felt that Cole-
man lias reached a population
and development point where a
more modern form of city gov-
ernment is needed,” Nunnaily
stressed at the meeting, “and
are pleased that this idea found
such strong following In this open
meeting,”
“We want alt the developments
in this matter brought to the full
attention of the piople of Cole-
man, who will have the voice'in
its construction ail'd its accept-
ance or defeat, and are asking
our information mediums' to Co-
. operate in this job.” Nunnaily
further stressed.
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mo.
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GUARDS WHEAT WHICH IS DUMPED ONGROUND—Frank Cain of Happy. Tuxas.
spreads blanket as he prepares for night cf guarding 30,000 bushels cf wheat. The wheat was
dumped on the ground after the first two days of the heavy harvest had begun in the Amaril-
lo area. (NEA Telephoto)
Reburial service for. Pfc.
Emuel Whitfield, 25, who was
I killed in action d Korbetha, Ger-
many, near the city of Metz,
| will be held Sunday at 4:30 p.m.
from the First Baptist Church
j of Coleman. Ris nynains are due
I to arrive here at 5:20 a.m. Sun-
day.
The son of Floyd Whitfield of
Bangs, Emuel Whitfield was
born on July 19 ,1919 at Eddy,
County as a; child. Before his
! entrance into he service, he was
| engaged in, farming.
' Texas, and came to Coleman.
I Survivors include his father •
three brothers—Elvin Whitfield
and Eldridge Whitfield of Cole-
’ man, and Jesse Whitfield o f
! Odessa: two sisters—Mrs. Elsie
Smith of Kerrrut and Mrs. Floyd
Ewing of Coleman A grandmo-
ter, Mrs. Elvin Whitfield of San
Angelo, also survives.
Rev. Levi Price, pastor of the.
First Baptist Church, will offi-
ciate at the services.
Burial wll be in the Coleman
cemetery. Wright's Funeral
• Home is in charge of arrange-
ments
Texas Rent Decontrol Bill
Gets Governors Signature
Rains Cause Brief Stoppage
In County’s Grain Harvesting
BULLETIN
AUSTIN', lex., June 23—(U-
Pt—Gov, Beauford Jester today
signed into law statewide rent
decontrol for Texas
AUSTIN. Tex . June 23—'UP)
Rains, ranging from light,
showers over the county .to 1.15 i
inches in Coleman, apparently
had caused little real damage
to county grain crops, still re-
maining to be harvested, repm t.-
today indicated.
Governor Be;
. '®f Winters Rodeo
Delegation
Visits Coleman
16 Children From I.O.O.F. Home
Will Present Program Tonight
Twenty<six boys and girls
from the I. O. O'. F. Home For
Widows and Orphans of Corsi-
cana, and their superintendent,
Conley Lovelace, and Mrs. Love-
lace, arrived in Coleman at 2
p.m. today. Object of the visit
is to present a varied program
tonight at 8 o'clock in the Cole-
man High' School auditorium.
There will be no admission
Colton Crops
At Muleshoe Are
charges, as ail expenses are be-
ing met by the Odd Fellows or-
ganization. The group will be
guests in the homes of various
townspeople here.
Program
A welcome will be extended
by Mayor R. E. Murphey. The
program will include folk danc-
ing, vocal and instrumental se-
lections, skits, square dancing,
tap dancing, acrobatic stunts,
and readings.
A large attendance is antici-
pated.
And Fort Worth
Grain Markets
Damaged By Pai.jjKf'1
KV ITVIT^n PRESS I "
Disaster Suit
GALVESTON, Tex., June 23—
(UP)—A hint of sabotage in the
Texas City disaster in which 512
persons, died had entered the
$200,000,000 damage suit against
the federal government today.
Joseph Cash, special assistant to
Attorney General Tom Clark, said
Odd Fellows And
Rebekahs Hold
Instruction School
On Tuesday, a District School
of Instruction was held in De-
Leon for members of the 1. O.
O. F> and RCbekah Lodges.
A balloting demonstration .was
given by members of the Cole-
man lodge. Those who had
part in the demonstration -were:
Mr: Anna Wells. Mrs. Bessie
Jameson, Mr... V. K. Samford,
Mrs. Alvie Blanton, Mrs. George
Koenig. Mrs. Frank Brewer,
Mrs. Edwin i’owler, Mrs. R. B.
Renfro;1 and Mr. and Mrs. Jack
Gandy.
BY UNITED PRESS
A localized cloudburst at Mule-
shoe in the Panhandle washed
out "several hundred” acres of
cotton late yesterday, as the
north and western portions o f
Texas got moderate, cooling
showers.
Reports from Muleshoe t o
Amarillo today said the rainfall
measured 7.5 inches within a 45
minute period. It fell over an i
area of about 28 square miles- tff sabota
about seven miles long and four ammo„ium nitrate
miles wide.
Howard Cox at Muleshoe said
roads in the area were blocked
because drainage was poor in
the region. He doubted that the
cotton could be replanted sue- ,, ,, ,, ...
cessfuliv because of the lateness |ble ljre,wbich
of the se&son.
Elsewhere in west and .north
COLEMAN COUNTY, June 23
—GRAIN:
The price of No. 1 wheat rose
Jo $1.75 today, compared with
yesterday’s $1.72 per bu.
No. 1 oats showed an increase
of. four cents per b., today's
price being .62.
No. 2 oats brought ,60 per bu.,
compared with yesterday's .57.
No. 2 barley remained un-
changed at .80 per bu.
FORT WORTH, June 23-(UP)
—(USDA1— GRAIN.
Estimated grain receipts to-
day include wheat 322, corn 7,
oats 22, and sorghum 5. Total
356 cars.
According to U. S. Department
i of Agriculture's. Production and
I Marketing Administration sor-
I ghums lost 5 cents, per 1 0 0
pounds anti wheat 1-1-7 cents per
Most of the county experienc-
ed a few minutes of strong wind,
and a brief heavy rain late
yesterday afternoon, with a spat-
tering of hail. Hail fell for only
a minute,
Rains fell again Wednesday
night, with little wind With an
estimated 60 per cent -if t h <
county’s small grain crops har-
vested, the storm clouds were
particularly . threatening, bu*
failed to do any considerable
damage, reports fron. mot: ..
the county indicated Thursday
It was apparent that harvest
would be delayed one to . :w<
. tr.i
Burkett
Rocky nod:
Valera:
Santa Anna:
Gouldbu'k:
Fisk: ,
(nleman:
uford Jestei. a
id, will decide to-
lde rent decontrol
The
governor, it was inoicatcd
nounce that he is either
or v etoing the controver-
The
the m
Brady Announces
July Jubilee
green light for fiction
ensure was. given the e-,-
'• esterday after Attor: i
Price Daniel said tl e
s legal.
passed
\ ernor'
house and seriate have
n
rier
legislation. The go-
tgnature was the only
enactment into law
Jester
ace
thre
Me
Jgh
County Agent Leaves
For Range School
;ht the ruling on its
I legality after national housing
expediter Tighe Woods flew to
Austin earlier this month from
Washington to urge the governor
to veto it Woods said he believ-
ed the bill illegal because of an
amendment to ' allow cities to
r'('-establishment control a f ter
staewride decontrol had been
effected.
A delegation from Winters
came to Coleman at 12:30 noon
Tuesday to invite citizens here
to attend the annual rodeo, to-be
held at Blizzard Field, Winters]
on June 23, 24, and 25.
They used an army loudspea-
ker, brought their band, and
paraded down Commer'ial Ave-
nue. Stopping at the Hotel Drug,
the band played several selec-
tions and events scheduled for
the rodeo Were announced.
They made special mention of
the matched roping c o n t est |
which will feature the well-
known ropers, Rex Beck and
Dan Taylor. Bronc riding, calf
roping, cutting horse contest,
cowgirl events, palomino cigar
race, quadrille, bull riding, and
Shetland pony race are other fea
tures of'the show.
County Agent Herman Jcnl.i
left today for Sonora where
| will take a three weeks' cour
i in the study of grasses a
rang* management.
Previous!'- the governor had
indicated he would sign the. gill
pur.xi
Th;
Tut
Paul Newton, assistant county
agent, is in charge during Mr.
Jenkins' absence.
High School
ind the Brady
furnished mu-
Belly Jo Loveless Chosen By
Brownwood As Fiesta-cade Queen
if it was ruled legal However,
I a spokesman said last night the
governor was not ready to com-
1 meat and that he wished to
j study the ruling overnight be-
fore issuing a statement.
I Under the constitution. Jester
I has until midnight Friday to. act.
j He may sign, it veto it or let
Polio Victims
Increase In
San Angelo
shipments of
at ordnance
plants where it was produced.
Cash then asked Dr. Melvin A.
Cook, Professor of Chemistry at
the University of Utah and an ex-
pert on Explosives, if it was possi-
off tiie Tex-
as City explosions could have been
ret purposely.
Cook admitted it war.
'tin
bushel. Corn and oats eased _
slightly, but barley held un- «*'ANGELO Tex.. June 23-
changed j fU.Ri—Five new West Texas polio
1 No I hard wheat sold at $2- '«**» were l,nder tlea,ment' loda-v'
03-3-4 to 2-11-3-4 ner bushel, bulk, bringing the number ol stricken
in carlots, freight and tax paid Fersons 111 lhe Ilation's worst ep‘-
to Texas common points. No. 2 flemic of llle “ea'’ t0 208
wheat moved at $2.02-3-4 to $2.- I The uew cases were admitted to
10-3-4.
U. S. B-29's Will Drop
Live Bombs In Joint
Maneuvers With RAF
i nc*r
win-
con-
beer namet
Brownwood
Fiest i.-cade
The For:
show is to
ton Field or
iy 23
downt
This recent
Loveless to. I
“Miss Brown
of-town even
jiieen
No. 2 white corn closed at SI .-
73-3-4 to $1.74-3-4, No. 2 yellow
corn $1.62-3-4 to $1.63 3-4 and No.
2 barley $1.05 to $1.10.
No. 2 yello milo .realized $2.-
20 to $2.30 per hundred pounds.
No. 2 white bats brought 85 to
‘85-1-2 cents per bushel at Gal-
veston arid 82-1-4 to 83-3-4 cents
at Fort Worth.
WASHINGTON. June 23-<U-
P)—Air force B-29's will drop
live bombs to give realism to
joint maneuvers with the Royal
Air Force in the United King-
dom starting Saturday, a spokes-
man said today.
The England-bused superfor-
tresses will drop the live bombs
before reaching the exercise
areas.
Defended targets in the maneu-
vers will be bombed” onlv with ...
radar signals. Results will be | contest
evaluated on the recently-devc- : rrtei
loped, mobile radar bomb-scor- A u
|ing device. Unilcec
Operation orders for. the man-1 less is
euvers call for groups- of 12 to 48
B-29’s to make several bomb-
ing attacks each day. Twelve
jet F-80 shooting star fighters
will be used both as intercep-
tors and escorts jir barious
times.
Two B-29 groups, including,
the 509th 'atomic bomb" out-
V Jo Loveless,
Vtis selected as
regatta queen
1 Brownwood,
as visiting queen of
to Fort Worth's
it become law without his signa-
ture.
a s
Daniel ruled that the provision
for reinstatement of controls af-
ter the bill becomes effective
was ' wholly dependent upon the
actual existence of some great
emergency “
The federal housing expediter,
according to the ruling, could
not recontrol rents anywhere in
the state under existing law.
However, cities would be allow-
Thc event will be preceu- cd to establish their won rent
a parade on July la in 1,
Worth.
Worth centennial
be held at Farring-
July 16 through Ju-
wn Fi
inor entitles Miss-
• designation of
rod” at all out-
requiring a
including the Miss Texas
at Galveston this sum-
| control, program if an emergen
cy was' shown V>exist.
■The Rural Electrification Ad-
Shannon Memorial Hospital $5x1*
night. One patient was discharg-
ed.
Seventeen new patients have en-
tered Shannon since Sunday mid-
night. * ^ ______ ___
The epidemic showed no sighs of. fit', noware stationed in Knglan
subsiding.
It was learned that Shannon
Hospital Mas planning Id add more
nurses to iris staff during the pol-
io emergency. »
None of the respirators at the
A tudent at Traleton State
e a Mi.- - !.• ni •
less is recognized as a talented
singer. She is the daughter of
Mr. and Mi> 1) E. Loveless of
Coleman 1
Texas, rains were general.
Thev. measured 1.80 inches at! Thp fire re,wr«1 to wa*.u»> one
Bfownwood, 1.51 at Temple, .96 al)Cilf<t tllp wmnonium nitrate-lari-
at Bridgeport/ .93 at Weather- ™ French ship Grand. Camp. The
"ford, .83 at Waco, and .80 at ship exploded, retting off explcs- . ministration reports that almost Hospital was m use last night, in-
Eastland. ' iotis In 1118 chemical plant area a- *61 per cent of Tennessee farms' f lien ting there were no patients in
Other reports include: Ballin- long the T^xas pity water front.' I now have electric power.- critical condition,
gey and Lampasas, .69;. Waxaha-; Plaintiffs in the suit are seeking ]
ehie, .60; Brady, .51; .Lubbock,, to show the April, 1947, disiaster j
'.48; San Angelo, .42; Sherman, was due .to negligence on the
Texas News
In Brief
Under present operation of
the rent control law, Texas ci-
ties may decontrol rents .on ac-
tion of the local governing unit,
after approval by the governor.
Odessa Has New Chief
ODESSA! June 23 • iUPi J.
J (Cubby) Heat >n was'Odessas
,.ne\v police chief today.
He was named at a stormy
city council meeting,
.39; Abilene, .24; Mineral Wells, part of the government in its fail-
.20; Junction, .07, and Midland, ure to label the ammonium nitrate
.03. as an explosive.
Dutch Air Liner (rashes In
Bari Harbor; 24 Reported Dead
BULLETIN j bly” have been a Kim plane
AMSTERDAM. June 22— (U- j chartered to the United Nations,
pi—Officials of the Royal Dutch i But the Rome office had not
Airline said today that 27 per-j been advised of any un-eharter-
sons were believed to have been ; ed craft due in this area today,
aboard the transport which ; The line provides and operates
crashed into the Bari llarobr, I the un' planes used in this re-
BARI, Italy, June 23—(UP) — J gion.
, -—--—— Latfcr the' Italian air force
A four-engine arr liner identified ] zone hadquarters at Bari said
as a Royal Dutch Airlines Trans- j four mutilated bodies had been
port crashed in flames into the I taken from the sea in the area
sea off Bari today, and all where the transport went down
OAK
Friday and Saturday
June 24-25
"THE PALEFACE"
Bcb Hope, Jane Russell
aboard were reported killed.
Italian officials said there
were no survivors. The number
aboard the ig transport was
not determined immediately. Un-
official reports circulated soon
.after the crash that 15 bodies
had been recovered
some 1.500 feet off the main pier
of Bari harbor.
An air force spokesman said
the tail assembly bearing the
Dutch Kim insignia broke free
from the fuselage during tl\e
fall.
Early unofficial reports said
Admission 35c and 9c
Lionel Webb, Rome represen-1 most of the victims were believ-
| tative of the Dutch Kim Line, I ed to be Greek and Turkish
[said the transport “might possi-1 passengers.
Reasons Given
The governor said he signed
the act because it, “according
to a clear and well- reasoned
opinion of the attorney general
and the answers therein to the,
question in my request for an
opinion, is a valid and constitu-
tional law."
-However, he said, “as I sign
jhis bill I appeal to the fairness
of .Texas landlords.”
1 also point out that if Jarnh '
lords, by charging inordinate ,
rents cause-of contribute to a
housing emergency, house bill 8-
98 stresses that the existence of
a 'housing‘.emergency authorizes
the governing body; of a city
or. town to enact local rent con-
trols." ,
.".-The weight of the law and
the force, of the action of the
legislature," the governor said,
! Heritor:, and said ajte'rward that w. 'expressing the attitude, “if
i he planned to resign. . '■ pTexrms against federal regale-
C-.ji 'r l A ■ tions anci controls in time o f
Mills Captured peace preponderate in favor of'
’AUSTIN. Tex.. June 23—(UP)'[ my signing the, bill." ,
The State Liquor Control "With possible exceptions ’
Board- arymuried today that its jit is my considered belief that
j officers captured 11 illegal stills. Texans generally" do riot want or
lost month, with a capacity of: need a continuation of rent con-
j 455 gallonsof moonshine liquor 1 trots.
Titus countv accounted for! “This belief," Jester added,
four of .the total, while fwo weie "leads me to ai prove the de-
i found m Grimes county onr j control measure despite the con-
each in Henderson, Dallas, Har- trary recommendations of the
; risen. Marion and Harris coun-1 federal housing expediter and
j ties , j (be knowledge that, most unfor-
Revenues for Mn\. the board | tunately, some adjustment pains
j reported, totaled $903,853. Most .p-e inevitable '
of the revenues were received “Some 20 Texas cities have al-
|fron sales of liquor, beer and ready decontrolled: their exper-
j wine stamps. : jences apparently have not been
j,Unhappy. Thes,e successful 'Cx-
for training. The 36th fighter
group of F-80'S' is stationed at.
The maneuvers, ending'July5
3, will be the-second joint war
j games which the U. S. Air Force
! has staged with8 the, Royal Air
j Force. A much smaller, number jAV,,-hoCir
J of U. S. plants partieiapted ip V|sl"rft.a,
j.the first, last^summi. j . Councilman' Bill Hale would
not vote on the motion to hire
MINE BLAST SINKS SHIP OFF COAST OF FRANCE—Survives of lhe cross-channel ship
Princess Asirid. which sank after hitting a mine, crowd a rescue vejpwl and clino to its side. The
doomed ship, background is alreadv listing. Five persons were killed and 20 injured in th?
disaster. (NEA Radio-Telephoto)
AFL Makes Inroad periments in a return’to unedn-
DONNA, June 23--(UP)— Un trolled housing in Texas are en-
ion certification was Tending to- j cduraglng.”
day for employees of the Taro- However, before the law can
min., Canning "Cm here become finally effective, it must
The 149 workers voted yestcr- j first be certified by Tighe E.
day in favor of having the citrus I Woods, national housing expedi-
cannery workers and food pro- ter.
cessors' union (AFL) for their ! Barring an attempted block by
bargaining agent. Washington Rent Discontsol
It was the AFL'* firjt inroad ‘ would become final in Texas TO
into the lower Rio Grande Val- days after adjournment of the
ley's citrus industry. legislature.
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