Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 56, No. 2, Ed. 1 Sunday, January 4, 1953 Page: 9 of 20
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SwMtwater Reporter, Tmi, Sunday, January 4, 1953 3
Virginia Reeves
Host For Party
Virginia Reeves entertained Mon-
day evening with a holiday party
at the home of her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. H. D. Reeves, 1217 Beall.
Guests were Rosemary Morris,
Penny McBride, Nan Williams, Vir-
ginia and Margaret Reeves, Ger-
ald Pitts, Robert Williams, John
Lee, Ranny Kirgan, Morgan How-
ard, and Dan Purrington. Games
and dancing were diversions. Sand-
dwiches, relishes, and cookies were
served with bottled drinks.
No matter what the focal point
of your living room may be—piano
or fireplace or desk—be sure your
lamps are arranged to light it to
good advantage.
Call ELBERT FAGAN
For First Class
PIANO TUNING
— At —
McCreight Music Co.
11$ W. 3rd Phone <733
Home of Fine Pianos
NEW I. USED
SOLD - RENTED
Social Calendar
MONDAY
Evangelical Methodist Women
to meet at 9:30 a.m. with Mrs.
Weatherford. 202 Lamar.
Ruth Circle of First Methodist
Church to meet at 7:30 p.m. in the
church.
TUESDAY
Fundamental Baptist Women to
meet at 9 a.m.
Progressive Club to meet at 3
p.m. with Mrs. J. T. Allen at radio
station.
BH Chapter, P. E. O., called
meeting at 2 p.m. with Mrs. Dan
Burkard, 909 East Third.
Zeta Kappa Chapter, Beta Sigma
Phi, to meet at 8 p.m. at Blue Bon-
net Hotel.
WEDNESDAY
Women’s Bible Classes: I.amar
Street Church of Christ at 9:30
a.m.; Fourth & Elm Street Church
of Christ at 10 a.m.
Women’s golf at 1 p.m.
THURSDAY
Self Culture Club to meet at 3
p.m. with Mrs. Elmer Wright, 810
Crescent Drive.
SATURDAY
Sweetwater branch AAUW to
meet at 2:30 p.m. in St. Stephen's
Mission Hall.
MILLETT-
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stead of trying to make them over
according to her own standards.
She accepts her friends as they
are without worrying about, or dis-
cussing, their shortcomings with
others. She is not always trying to
get them to change their ways for
their “own good.”
Add that to the fact that she al-
ways seems delighted to be with
a friend, however briefly, and to
show genuine interest in every-
thing the friend has been doing,
and you have the reason why many
peopie of all sorts consider them-
selves to be Sue’s good friends.
Complete Mock Magic Chef Ranges
Servel Refrigerators
Crosley Refrigerators, Freezers,
Dishwasher And Radios
Whirlpool Washers
JONES HARDWARE & APPLIANCE
113 W. 3rd Phone 4200
(Wool Bureau Photo)
OUTSTANDING ABILITY In
the art of sewing at home has
won Miss Mary Ann Almqulst,
21, of Redwood City, California,
the coveted Senior Class first
place award In the National
Finals of the sixth annual “Make
It Yourself with Wool” Contest.
Miss Almqulst, who receives a
Singer mahogany console sew-
ing machine presented by the
Singer Sewing Machine Company,
took honors for her suit of brown
wool gabardine which combines
checked and solid-colored fabrics.
Hospital Notes
Sweetwater Hospital
Friday admissions to Sweetwa-
ter Hospital included Mrs. Johnie
Lou Woodard of Roby; Mrs. Bess
Carey of Roscoe; Mrs. Beulah
Scuddy of 901 Oak: Mrs. J. T. Stan-
ford of Route 1, Sweetwater; Mrs.
Elmer George Shed of Route 1,
Sweetwater; Mrs. J. T. Allen of
the radio station.
Dismissals included Mrs. Wm.
D. Hancock, Baby Odaka, Sarah
Eiliott, Mrs. Jack Forgay, Mrs.
Whatley, Mrs. W. R. Neal, Mrs. O.
H. Stribling.
Young Medical Center
Friday admissions to Young
Medical Center included Renn
Mark Taylor, son of C. V. Taylor
of 610 Lubbock; Roy Thos. Havens,
son of the Rev. Roy R. Havens of
707 West Sixth; Mrs. Joe A. Moore
of Bryson; Mrs. J. A. Frith of 302
West Avenue B; Mrs. J. L. Pat-
terson of Hermleigh.
Dismissals included G. L. Wall.
i 113 E. 3rd
Phone 4368
WHITE SALE-CUT PRICES
72x99” LONGWEAR Muslin Sheets with
132 threads per sq. in. Sale-priced, 1.72
81x99” LONGWEAR Muslin Sheets. 132
threads per square inch. Price cut to 1.75
81x108” LONGWEAR Muslin Sheeis. 132
threads per square inch. Price cut to 2.07
42x36” LONGWEAR Muslin Pillow Cases.
132 threads per sq. in. Reduced to 43c
QUILTED MATTRESS PADS, full sire.
Bleached cover and filler. Reg. 3.93, 3.S7
QUILTED MATTRESS PADS, twin size.
Bleached cover and filler. Reg. 2.93, 2.67
81x108” Better Muslin Sheets. Now 2.54
42x36” Better Muslin Cases on sale at 50c
Cannon Twin Fitted Sheets, reg. 2.49, 2.34
Double Fitted Sheets, Reg. 2.69, 2.54
Oood Iron Pad-Cover Set, Reg. 1.79, 1.34
Better Iron Pad-Cover Set, Reg. 2.19, 1.64
Best Iron Pad-Cover Set, Reg. 2.96, 2.24
Good Iron Board Cover, reg. 79c Now 57c
Better Iron Board Cover, Reg. 89c, 67c
Beat Iron Board Cover, reg. 98c, Now 74c
30" Flour Sacks, reg. 25c ea. Now 5 for $1
FRINGED BEDSPREAD—lowest price
ever. Solid-col. wide cotton chenille. J.97
PEPPERELL BLEND BLANKETS. 25<“r
wool, 75% rayon. 72x84 in. Reg. 6.93. 5.97
SHEET BLANKETS. 70x95”. Selected
Amer. cot. Creamy white. Reg. 2.29, 1.97
BATH TOWELS. Cannon’s Hialeah, our
usual 98c quality. 24x46 in. On sale at 78c
FACE TOWELS. Match Hialeah towels.
16x26-in. size. White Sale priced at 44c
WASH CLOTHS. Match Hialeah towels.
12x12-in. size. White Sale priced at 22c
Special-Plaid Terry Bath Towels now 39c
Cannon Bath Towels. 22x44”. Special 58c
Cannon Face Towels. 15x26”. Special 32c
Cannon Wash Cloths. 12x12”. Special 15c
Dish Cloths. Reg. 6-for-59c now S for 49c
Kitchen Towels. Reg. 3-for-$1. 3 for 88c
Sheet Blankets, 80x95 in. Reg. 2.53. 2.27
Cotton Plaid Blankets, Reg. 1.89. 1.67
Pastel Sheet Blanket. Reg. 2.98. Now 2.67
36” Bleached Mus. Reg. 35c, now yd. 29c
36” Unbleached Muslin. Reg. 24c. Yd. 19c
CATCH-ALL—
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. . . And that super-duper dif-
ference In Lamar Street since its
widening—how they do get that
paving down these days, once the
road bed is ready for it!
THE GEORGE SMITHS church
going with their son, RALPH,
whose work now is just 90 miles
north of home . . . LT. DON LAM-
BERT looking handsome in his
uniform . . The “Moving to Pe-
can Street” sign on AMON WAT-
SON’S Venetian blind place across
from the post office . . . The traf-
fic hazards of the post office half-
block about going-to-work and go-
ing-homc-from-work time.
Little ANN FORESTER, here for
Christmas with her parents, the C.
B. WHORTONS, getting a "flying"
visit Sunday from her big SMU
football co-captain husband, BILL.
He was just back from playing in
the East-West All-Star game in
San Francisco on Saturday (his
side, the West, lost by one lone
point!) and en route to Mobile,
Ala., for the Senior Bowl game
Saturday.
Little JERRY THOMAS LA-
NIER. 2-year-old son of the R. A.
LANIERS, Blackwell, who doesn’t
share most people's feeling about
riding down the hospital halls on
“one of those wagons,” Jerry
broke his leg and had to have X-
Rays at Sweetwater Hospital
where it was set. He liked riding
the wagon to the X-ray room so
well that he cried when they took
him off!
WHAT I WANT FOR
CHRISTMAS, 1953
I know what I’d like to have for
next Christmas—I’d like to have a
physical and mental constitution
capable of keeping the “Christ-
mas Spirit” at a pre-Christmas
pitch after Christmas Day is
over.
It’s really a shame the way we
all chop Christmas off as soon as
the gifts are opened, the dinner
eaten. The day atfer Christmas
there’s not a fcarol to be heard
around the square, hardly a one
on the radio. And in the evening
the streets no longer look like
Christmas cards. Just a few lights
gleaming here and there.
If we'd have a few carols around
the square after the Christmas
buying is done, and a few in the
stores themselves, maybe the car-
ols that are played so much while
the Christmas buying is underway
wouldn’t lose their effectiveness
because of the feeling some people
have about “commercializing” the
Christmas spirit by means of car-
ols.
Remember, one of the events
which most of us think of as hav-
ing happened on that first Christ-
mas F.ve didn’t happen, in fact, un-
til quite some time after the Nat-
ivity and the singing of the angels
to the shepherds. That was the
coming of the Wise Men, who were
following a strange new star across
desert sands for days, weeks, may-
be months, after the Christ Child
was born.
We’ve every reason to have the
“Christmas Spirt” in true Christ-
mas season style for a long while
after Christmas—but of course, be-
ing human, we will need some new
constitutions if the feat is to be
accomplished. The ones we have
now will barely survive what now
comes ahead of Christmas and on
it!
Teenagers Jailed
After Four Days
Spree On Highways
FREDERICKSBURG, Tex.. Jan.
3—UP—Two teenagers who vexed
the highway patrol for four days
were back in the Gillespie county
jail Friday.
The youths, James llayter, 18,
and Emerson Clapper, 16, of Waco,
were captured in a highway patrol
road block Thursday night near
Blanco, Tex. The highway patrol
said they stole a pickup truck and
forced the owner of the truck to
drive them to Blanco.
Earlier Thursday, the patrol said
the two youths robbed a Lutheran
ministei at Stonewall, Tex., of two
rifles.
Hayter and Clapper escaped
from the Gillespie county jail
Wednesday by crawling through
an air duct. They were being held
on charges of stealing a patrol car.
Before the patrol car was stolen.
Waco authorities had placed a hold
order on them for stealing a car
Monday in Waco.
The car stolen in Waco was found
near Johnson City. The youths
abandoned the Waco car while of-
ficers were searching for them and
stole patrolman Tom Cary’s car.
The patrol car was found aban-
doned later near Kerrville, Tex.,
just before the two walked into
the Kerrville police station and
gave themselves up.
The patrol said that shortly after
the pair broke out of jail Wednes-
day a farm home in Gillespie coun-
ty was burglarized.
Will Of Man O'War
Owner Is Disputed
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 3—UP—
A Kentucky attorney said Friday
he would contest the will of the late
Samuel D. Riddle, owner of the
famous race horse Man O’War, un-
less a suitable agreement was
reached on the claim of 21 heirs
of the turfman, including two Tex-
as brothers.
An inventory of the estate filed
at Media, Pa., after Riddle's death
on Jan. 8. 1951, valued the property
at $2,953,417, but attorney Rodes
K. Myers, of Bowling Green, Ky.,
claimed the amount would be
closer to $4 million.
Riddle's will left the bulk of his
fortune for the establishment of
a hospital at Media, Pa., and for
the care and maintenance of Man
0’War’s burial place in Lexington,
Ky., and a statue of the horse at
the Riddle farm there. Myers
claimed that the money was to be
spent at the discretion of the trus-
tees of the estate.
Myers, who said ho was lieuten-
ant governor of Kentucky from
1939 to 1943 and a former state
senator in that state, declared:
“The will was left indeterminate.
There is nobody to account to, and
the courts have no control over it.
It was an unnatural disposition of
property.”
Myers said he represented
Thomas E. Riddle, a 106-year-old
Confederate war veteran of Aus-
tin, Tex., Mack Riddle, 92, of N’o-
cona, Tex., and 19 nieces and
nephews of Riddle.
Newspapers Sold
By G. McCarthy
HOUSTON, Jan. 3-UP-Oilman
Glenn McCarthy announced he has
sold his newspaper publishing firm.
News. Inc., to the Dallas firm of
Dallas Rupe & Son for an undis-
closed sum.
The firm publishes the Citizen
Newspapers, community weeklies
in the Houston area.
Fred Nahas, a business associate
of McCarthy said the sale had been
made because McCarthy's inter-
ests are so widespread he has too
little time to devote to his publish
interests.
Nahas said the newspapers had
increased in value from $100,000 to
more than $1 million since Mc-
Carthy organized them five years
ago.
(0 Killed When
Bandib Raid Air
Base In Columbia
BOGOTA. Colombia, Jan. 3 —UP
—Nearly 60 persons were killed
and more than 100 wounded when
"bandits” attacked the Palanquero
air base before dawn on New
Year’s Day in a vain attempt to
seize arms, ammunition and food,
it was announced Saturday.
Lt. Gen, Gustavo Rojas Pinilla,
commander in chief of the armed
forces, said “more than 50“ ban-
dits and seven members of the air
base garrison were killed in the
clash. One raider was captured.
Among the attackers killed in the
battle was the “notorious murder-
er Benito Cely, who had terrorized
farmers in the region” (about 80
miles northwest of here), Rojas
said.
(Official statements did not iden-
tify the bandits, but it appeared
likely that they were members of
the opposition liberal party, which
has been waging increasingly fierce
guerrilla warfare against the gov-
ernment for the last six years.)
January Will Be
Hand Signal Month
For Safety Move
AUSTIN, Jan. 3—UP—Gov Al-
lan Shivers Friday designated Jan-
uary as ‘Hand Signal month in
Texas,” and reminded drivers that
“courtesy in an automobile is more
important than in the drawing
room.”
The hand-signal program, spon-
sored by the Texas Safety As-
sociation. is based on the theme
“right turn — hand up, left turn
— hand out, slow or stop — hand
down.”
Shivers said that “courtesy at the
wheel is a potent weapon in the
war against death and destruction
on our streets and highways.”
“If all drivers were courteous
while at the wheel,” he added,
“our traffic toll would be tremen-
dously reduced. One of the most
obvious and helpful displays of
driving courtesy is the conscien-
tious use of hand signals.”
Hearing Aid Expert
Comes To Sweetwater
WEDDING-
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of the bridegroom from Sweetwa-
ter.
Mr. and Mrs. Timmons, Mrs.
Yates, Miss Yates, and W. O. Tay-
lor of Sweetwater went to Bryan
on Christmas day and the Timmons
hosted the rehearsal dinner that
evening.
The bride was graduated from
high school at Bryan, attended
Texas State College for Women at
Denton and Sam Houston State Col-
lege at Huntsville. Lt. Timmons
was graduated from Sweetwater
High School and received his de-
gree and commission last June at
Texas A&M College. He went into
service in August.
Look Out Below!
Fun around the house
Hoax Message Sent
To Try To Hold Oil
Execution 01 Two
WALLA WALLA. Wash., Jan. 3
—UP—Turman and Utah Wilson,
Camas, Wash., brothers, were
hanged early Saturday at Washing-
ton State Prison for the kidnap-
slaying of 18-year-old Jo Ann
Dewey just as a hoax telegram,
bearing the name of Sen. Warren
G. Magnuson and asking that they
be spared, arrived in the warden’s
office.
The telegram arrived four min-
utes after Utah, 22, had been
dropped through the gallows trap
door and just one minute before
his 26-year-old brother was pro-
! nounced dead by the prison doctor.
An unknown person or persons,
apparently making a desperate
11th hour attempt to save the con-
victed killers, apparently sent the
telegram. It read:
"Herewith is ordered a stay of
execution of Wilson brothers by
emergency decree presidential au-
thority delegated through me as
United States senator from Wash-
ington.”
Magnuson’s Name Signed
The telegram, sent from Seattle,
Wash., was signed “Warren G.
Magnuson.”
Prison officials said they had
: proved the futile message to be a
hoax .
Sonotone's Hearing Specialist,
J. S. Tinkle of Abilene. Texas,
comes to Sweetwater tne sec-
ond Wednesday each month.
Mr. Tinkle will be in Sweetwa-
ter January 14th. Any of your
friends or family who have a
hearing problem are welcome
to consult Mr. Tinkle, free of
charge, and to get an Audie-
metric test and “picture” of
their hearing. Come to the
Blue Bonnet Hotel January 14th
10 a.m. to 1 p.m. No charge
and certainly no obligation. If
you cannot come, write for in-
formative book, 810 Mims
Bldg., Abilene, Texas.
Moe/L Tips
{ 'Change my Oil ”
We go all out to please every-
body.
can, unfortunately, turn
into a long stay in the
hospital , broken limbs,
medical treatment . , .
a wad of money out of
daddy's wallet.
Why not guard yourself
against such a slide "in-
to the red" NOW? Ask
us about Personal Acci-
Building Slows Up
DALLAS. Jan. 3—UP—Residen-
| tial building in Dallas was slower
during 1952 than in any year since
1949, a survey by the Dallas Power
& Light Co. showed Friday. The
survey said that 7.935 new homes
were built last year, 1.800 fewer
than in 1951.
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Baker, Allen. Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 56, No. 2, Ed. 1 Sunday, January 4, 1953, newspaper, January 4, 1953; Sweetwater, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth749390/m1/9/: accessed July 10, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sweetwater/Nolan County City-County Library.