Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 55, No. 12, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 16, 1952 Page: 8 of 8
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I SwMtwater Reporter, Texas, Wednesday, January 16, 1952
os BRIEFS
Mrs. 0. H. Ludwick, 1010 Oak,
has just returned home from Tem-
ple where she had been for three
weeks undergoing treatment for
virus flu and complications. She
will be confined to her home for
pome time yet.
Mrs. John Cox Jr. and Mrs. Gar-
land Roberts went to Lubbock Wed-
nesday to visit a nephew who is to
receive overseas assignment soon.
Police Chief and Mrs. J. E. Mc-
Coy were in Abilene Tuesday af-
ternoon for the funeral of Police
Capt. Charlie Harkey. veteran
member of the Abilene police force.
Chief McCoy served with Air. Har-
key when he was on the Abilene
force some 10 years ago.
Dorsett Risinqer, brother-in-law
of Mrs. W. B. Wetsel Sr. anti son-
in-law of Mrs. Palmer Hodges,
left Wednesday morning after a
visit here with relatives. He was
accompanied by his mother, Mrs.
Kate Risinuer, now of Sulphur
Springs and formerly of Sweetwa-
ter. Risinger is with the United
Fruit Company in Guatemala and
will soon return to his duties there.
A delegation from the First Evan-
gelical Methodist Church here at-
tending the district Evangelical
Methodist conference in Dallas
Tuesday included Mr. and Mrs. J.
C. Morris. Mrs. Jesse Hemby. Mrs.
Ira Moore. Mrs. J. D. Shackleford.
The Rev. George R. Wilson, pas-
tor of First Baptist Church of
Sweetwater, attended the three day
evangelistic conference of Baptist
leaders in Fort Worth this week.
Cate-Spencer Ambulances
Dial 1717
Savage Fighting
In Indo-China
HANOI, French Indo-China, Jan.
16—(UV_Twelve thousand Viet Mihn
Communist rebels were hurled
back, with losses described as
"terrible.” in a savage attack on
French defenses southwest of this
capital of Tonkin State.
Fifteen battalions of the Com-
munist troops, about one-third of
them green conscripts, threw them-
selves in waves in an attempt to
overwhelm the French garrison at
Hoa Binh. French fortress 35 miles
southwest of Hanoi at the gate-
to the rich Black River delta.
The conscripts took losses up to
half their number in the battle,
French officers said.
U. S. Casualties
WASHINGTON, Jan. 16 HR — An-
nounced American battle casual-
ties in Korea now total 104,383, an
increase over 299 since last week’s
report, the Defense Department an-
nounced today.
The total casualties included 17.-
948 deaths, 73,900 wounded. 10,-
970 missing, 174 captured, and 1,-
391 previously missing but return-
ed to service.
TYLER-
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cannot justly be said that Smith
County can now convert the square
to private use.”
The county, the opinion said,
may abandon the courthouse, but
the entire square “must remain
impressed with the right of the
public to use it for general public
purposes; it cannot be diverted to
private uses.”
Hale Boggs Leads
Louisiana Rate
NEW ORLEANS, Jan 16-<liv-
Returns from Louisiana’s Demo-
cratic primary Indicated today
that a runoff will be necessary to
decide the governor’s race, which
featured a battle between the two
powerful long factions.
Congressman T. Hale Boggs, who
was supported by U. S. Sen. Rus-
sell B. Long, held a commanding
lead over the eight other candidates
with about one third of the returns
in, but was not expected to obtain
the necessary majority.
Robert F. Kennon, a long-time
lone political foe, was running sec-
ond in the vote counting, with Gov.
L. Earl Long’s choice, former
District Judge Carlos G. Spaght,
in the third spot.
Kermit Parker, first Negro to
run for the office since recon-
struction days, and Lucille May
Grace, the only woman ever to en-
ter a gubernatorial primary in
Louisiana, trailed badly. So d'd
patent medicine manufacturer
Dudley J. LeBlanc.
Bonds And Check
Reported Missing
An 80-year-old man reported to
Sweetwater police officers Tuesday
the theft of 14 $100 defense bonds
and a $1,015.03 check.
W. R. Patterson of Annona, Tex-
as told officers that he spent Mon-
day night at a residence here on
Elm Street. Sometime during the
I night, he said, someone took the
bonds and check from his coat poc-
ket while he was asleep.
Policemen are investigating the
theft.
U. S. Sabre jets
Hit Red Fighters
8TH ARMY HEADQUARTERS,
Korea, Jan. 16—HR—U. S. Sabre-
jets damaged two Communist MIG
fighters today in two 10-minute air
battles at 30,000 feet over north-
west Korea.
Thirty-six K-86's of the 4th Fight-
er-Interceptor wing tangle(j with
part of a formation of 80 of the
swept-wing MIG-15's in one of the
dogfights over "MIG Alley.” The
remainder of the Red fighter group
was tackled by 22 Sabres of the
51st Wing.
The claims boosted the 5th Air
Force’s score to 164 MiG's de-
stroyed, 31 probably destroyed and
341 damaged.
TRUMAN-
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the defense production law which
permits a percentage mark-up by
distributors.
“To achieve our stabilization ob-
jectives, these defects in price con-
trol legislation should be corrected
and the law should be strengthened
when it is extended,” he said. "We
cannot afford to gamble further
with inflation.”
He recommended continuance of
a “firm wage policy” but he ad-
| vocated nothing more stringent
than regulations now in effect. In
fact, he looked with favor on wage
adjustments to allow for increases
in productivity, but suggested that
they be “carefully limited and
firmly administered.”
MARKETS AT A GLANCE
liy I'nitrtl l’r»*s.s
Stocks higher in moderate trad-
ing.
Bonds irregularly higher.
Cotton futures steady.
Grains in Chicago: wheat, corn,
oats, rye and soy beans futures ir-
regular.
DRESSES
J
m
Only
When Purchased With You
Dress or Suit.
Make Your Choice From Ou
Large Selection of Styles.
Blouses
Reg. to $12.95 Reg. to $7.95
J50 2
Lilli Ann Reg. to $93.50
Suits.......$65
SKIRTS
Reg. to $13.95 Reg. to $12.35
$1 $4
Gloves. Belts, Hose, Hats,
Slips, Blouses, Bars, Cos-
tume Jewelry.
TABLE
Gowns, Belts, Sweaters, Kid
Gloves. Taffeta Petticoats,
Play Shoes, Wool Jersey
Blouses.
TABLE
Hats, Jewelry, Gowns, Slins,
Blouses, Skirts, Sweaters,
Bras., Gloves.
Costume Jewelry
50c - $1.93
BETTER JEWELRY
i Price and Below
60-15 Reg. 2.25 to 2.95
Nylon Hose.......1.25
n* FRENCH ROOM
Naxt to Western Union Sweetwater
Regular Values To
$37.50 First Dress
Your Choice of Any
Second Dress On The
Rack For Only.....
Buy Them By The Pair For Yourself
Or Bring A Friend
Here Is Another French Room Close Out Sole Sen-
sation! They Must Move Out—Our Doors
Must Close. Hurry! Hurry!
MARKETS
LIVESTOCK
FORT WORTH, Jan. 16 — (IP» —
(USDA)—Cattle 1,500. Slow, cows
mostly 1-1.50 lower; 2 and more
lower for three days; other classes
steady to weak; good and choice
slaughter steers and yearlings, 29-
33.05; utility and commercial. 21-
28; over 100 steers averaging 1097
lbs., weighed up at 36; utility and
commercial cows, 19-24; canners
and cutters, 14-18; few cutters at
19; shelly canners down to 12; bulls,
19-27; medium and good Stockers,
25-31; low good and choice 745 lbs.,
steers, 31.25; stocker cows, 19-24;
low young cows, 26.50.
Calves 500. About steady, trade;
good and choice slaughter calves,
29-33; utility and commercial, 21-
28; medium and good Stockers, 25-
32; few choice lights, 35.
Hogs 1,400. Butchers mostly 25c
lower; sows and pigs steady; choice
160-175 lbs., and 280-380 lbs., 16.75-
18; sows, 14-16; feeder pigs, 10-14,
Sheep 2,500. Slaughter lambs ful-
ly steady; slaughter yearlings un-
sold; slaughter ewes and feeder
lambs scarce; good and choice
shorn slaughter lambs, 27-27.50; fall
shorn and wooled slaughter lambs,
27.50-28; choice wooled club lambs,
29.
PRODUCE
FORT WORTH, Jan. 16 — (IP) —
Wholesale Prices: unchanged from
yesterday; hens under 4 lbs., 20c;
14 lbs., and over, 23c; light fryers,
25c; heavy fryers, 31c; old roos-
ters, 14c; hen turkeys, 35c; tom tur-
keys 25 lbs., and up, 36c.
Eggs: large Grade A, 45c; medi-
ums, 40c,
Demand: Hens, fair; fryers,
good; turkeys, fair; eggs, fair.
Texans May Agree
To Compromise On
Mexican Laborers
WASHINGTON, Jan. 16—IIP) —
Rep. W. R. Poage (D-Tex.) said
today the Texas Congressional del-
i egation will support a pending bill
i to strengthen penalties against
Mexican wetbacks, if a couple of
! changes are made.
Prompt passage of an anti-wet-
back bill is essential, Poage said,
because President Truman has re-
fused to allow negotiation of a new
Mexican labor contract until the
legislation is put through. The pres-
ent labor contract expires next
[ month.
Poage, after informal talks with
members of the Texas delegation,
told a reporter the Texans will sup-
port the wetback bill if a provi-
sion is eliminated which would give
the government authority without
a warrant to search a ranch for il-
legal Mexicans. The bill is pend-
ing in the House Judiciary Com-
mittee,
"With that provision out,” Po-
age said, "and changes in a few
words, we believe we can support
the bill.”
He said the bill also should be
changed to specify that a person
must "knowingly” aid a wetback
to be guilty of violating the immi-
gration law. The bill would make
aiding or recruting wetbacks a fel-
ony punishable by $2,000 fine or
five years in jail, or both. At pres-
ent the crime is a misdemeanor
punishable by a $2,000 fine or five
years in jail.
Poage said Texans are not op-
posed to tightening wetback penal-
ties and pinning responsibility on
any one who recruits illegal immi-
grants.
But he said the bill should be
worded so that a driver who picks
up a Mexican on the highway will
not be guilty of a felony if the hitch-
hiker turns out to be a wetback.
“Otherwise all the Mexicans will
be walking,” Poage said.
Poage said the bill, which is a
remodification of the entire immi-
gration law and is 162 pages long,
will be ready for House action be-
fore spring.
Poage said the next battle is to
get a better contract with Mexico.
He said the present contract is
“impractical” and the following
provisions should be eliminated or
modified:
1. The farm operator must sup-
ply the workers’ blankets and sacks
for picking crops.
2. Operators must pay $1 a day
subsistence on days when the Mexi-
can cannot work because of bad
weather, even though it is Sunday
when he wouldn’t work anyway.
3. A worker is paid as a "learn-
er” for the first 48 working hours
and is paid on the basis of the av-
erage picked by the crew as a
whole regardless of what he him-
self picks.
4. Red tape, which Poage claims
lets only big operators take ad-
vantage of Mexican labor.
COLD RECEPTION
WASHINGTON, Jan. 1G—ItPI-Pre-
Many Towns Enter
Ice Melting Test
Throughout U. S. A.
By Tutted Pres*
Chambers of Commerce through-
out the land called for localized
heat waves today to see whose sun
could slim down a cake of ice the
quickest.
The cities were competing in the
“Sunshine City Derby.”
Competing cities dragged chunks
of ice into the most promising hot
spot in town and then posted
guards to see how soon the sun
would melt the blocks down to 100
pounds.
Galveston. Tex., already claimed
the title. The local Chamber of
Commerce said a "blazing sun"
had dwindled its chunk of ice to a
slim 83 pounds.
But competition came from vari-
ous sunny spots across the nation—
although some were noted more for
steady deep freezes than winter
sun-bathing.
Plucky Glenwood Springs, Colo.,
kept its ton of ice in the ice house
while citizens shoveled seven feet
of snow off the roof.
Los Angeles, a pre-handicap fa-
vorite, was still in the running for
the crown by competing Chambers
of Commerce charged cheating.
California rain beat down on sev-
en 300-pound ice blocks until only
150 pounds or so remained.
The Los Angeles Chamber claim-
ed the rain-melting technique was
fair procedure. They said that the
quickest way to get ice cubes out
of a tray is to spray them with wa-
ter.
Loyal citizens of Corpus Christi,
Tex., stood around their ice block
to encourage the sun. They report-
ed their ton already had reduced
to 100 pounds.
Mayor Samuel Johnson of St.
Petersburg, Fla., entered the con-
test 414 hours late. He noticed the
mercury was 80 and rolled out a
block predicting ''we'll still beat
them all.”
Al Carlsbad, N.M., the Chamber
of Commerce said that the dry
winds of the Southwest would off-
set any advantage of other cities.
But in El Paso, Tex., the local
sponsors said Carlsbad "must be
using phnny thermometers or have
all the politicians in the state on
hand if their air is hotter than
ours.”
Oil Allowable In
Texas Increased
AUSTIN, Jan, 16—(TP)—'The Rail-
road Commission today boosted
Texas’ oil allowable production for
February 134,105 barrels a day,
to a total of 3,076,141 barrels.
The action, following a state-
wide oil proration hearing, put
Texas fields generally on a 22-day
producing basis for February, with
the huge East Texas field observ-
ing an 18-day schedule.
The state generally now is oper-
ating on a 23-day schedule, and
East Texas has been producing in
January on a 19-day basis.
However, the sharp increase in
allowable production resulted in
shifting from a 23-day production
scheduled in a 31-day month to 22
days in a 29-day month.
February allowable production of
natural gasoline and distillate was
estimated at 391,560 barrels a
day.
Moscow Restricts
Foreign Travel
MOSCOW. Jan. 16—!IP>—’The for-
eign ministry has notified diplo-
matic missions in Moscow that
travel in the Moscow administra-
tive district is confined to a 40-
kilometer 125 mile) radius, it was
announced today.
Diplomats were further denied
access to some additional restrict-
ed areas inside the 40-kilometer
zone.
Previous restrictions had limit-
ed diplomats to a radius of 50 kilo-
meters (31 miles) without special
permission.
W. E. MAXSON DIES
GALVESTON, Jan. 16—(IP)—Wil-
lis E. Maxson, 87, retired vice-
president and general manager of
the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe
Railway, died today.
Maxon, regarded as one of the
outstanding railroad men of Texas
during more than 55 years service,
suffered a heart attack Jan. 4 and
died in a Galveston hospital.
MARIE’S BEAUTY SHOP
Phone 2841
Julitte Marglen Manicure. Pro-
tects nails from splitting,
cracking or peeling. Also in
resale size.
Merle Norman Cosmetics
PHONE 2 141
sident Truman’s bid for more than
$5,000,000,000 in additional (axes
left Congress today on this warm
spring-like day.
Chairman Robert I,. Doughton of
the tax-framing House Ways and
Means Committee stressed (l.at
"it’s an uphill fight to increase
taxes. There is strong sentiment
throughout the country that taxes
are high enough."
Thanks
To our friends for the many
kind deeds and works of sym-
pathy during our recent sor-
row.
The Leach and
Webster Families
♦ TRACY
Last Time Today
Cartoon Melody
and
Novelty Short
Thursday and Friday
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3.95
Sale Of Robes
Pretty corduroy, quilted and
silk robes at very special
prices chenille robes.
Values to 5.95 »
2.95
• New Spring Coats, Suits and
Cottons To Show You’
RESCUERS-
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banks. Check dams were washed
out, railroad tracks awash and
highways flooded.
The same storm took the form of
snow in Northern California and
Nevada, locking up the Sierra
Mountains in a snowbound grip
where even snow vehicles had to
give up the fight in many spots.
Schools were closed, thousands
were marooned, including 1.400 ma-
rines in winter training at Picket
Meadows, Calif., and all transpor-
tation halted.
New Storm
A new storm, one of a series
which has lashed the far west since
last weekend, headed down from
the Bering Sea off Alaska to add
fresh damage to the area. It was
due to strike tomorrow.
At least two persons drowned in
the Los Angeles area, and police
were searching for others.
Lila McCall, 23, was swept to her
death in Montrose when she step-
ped from a car into waist-deep wa-
ter. She caught beneath rf parked
car, where she drowned.
Wall of Water
Gile Steele, 44, a costume design-
er at Metro-Goldwyn Mayer film
studio, drowned in West Los An- J
geles when a 15-foot wall of water j
sweeping down from a mountain- j
side engulfed his car. The wave j
knocked the auto 150 feet off the
highway.
A woman in the car behind his j
Park
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Wednc-sday-Thursday
Open 6:30—Show 7 D. M.
Super Musical Comedy
Starring June Haver
Mark Stevens, Gale Robbins
Admitted Free
All Ladies In Chevrolet
All Under 12 And Over 65 Years
drove into seven feet of water and
was rescued by police.
The lowlands around Santa Bar-
bara and Ventura, about 100 miles
north of Los Angeles, were hardest
hit by the floods. Bus and rail
traffic was stopped, and aboul 20^,
persons fled their Ironies.
The storm drenched the region
with 5.35 inches of rain yesterday.
The storm poured 2.06 inches of
rain on Los Angeles by nightfall
yesterday, bringing the season to-
tal to 11.90 inches, compared with
a normal 5.77 inches for the date.
San Francisco itself caught rain.
The total there was 10 inches great-
er than the normal for the period^
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Thursday and Friday
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Open 6:30—Show 7:00
Last Time Tonight
A Strange lie! A Strange love!
Also
Mighty Mouse Cartoon
and
Short Subject
Thurs. Night and Fri. Night
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Sport Short 't
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Disk Jockey
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Conquest of Cheyenne
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