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VOL. 54—NO. 190.
SULPHUR SPRINGS. TEXAS, MONDAY, AUGUST II, l*»S2
6 PAGES- 6 CENTS
MEMBER ASSOt IATKD PRESS
Repairs Completed to Water Line
Health Education Program
To Follow Clean-up Drive
Proclamation
With final plans for the kickoff
of a county-wide clean up drive
iidar completion, .Chamber of
Commflh^ officials Monday map-1
ped plans for a follow up, program |
of Health Education.
The clean-up campaign opens 1
Wednesday.
Avery Mays, chairman of the ]
Jayeees’ clean-up committee, urg-
ed all truck owners who have ve-
hicles available for trash pickup
Wednesday to. register at the
Chamber office as soon as pos-
sible. The trucks will augment the
city and county trucks.
Along with the clean up of trash
WHEREAS Wednesday. August 18, has been designed ns it
County-Wide Clean-Up Campaign Day and
WHEREAS it is vitally important for every citizen to do
everything within his power for the prevention of diseases and the
correction of unsanitary conditions.
.NOW I HEREFORK be it proclaimed by the authority vested
in me that August 18, 1952, be and the shine is hereby designated
as the day of cleaning up and removing all unsanitary conditions
possible, and the cooperation and assistance of all Sulphur Springs
citizens is requested toward this end.
II. W. MORRIS. Mayor.
Attest: W. M. FRANCE, City Secretary.
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4-Hour Break Leaves
City Without Water
A break at the heart of the city’# water wvatern Mon-
day morning completely shutolf Sulphur Springs' water
aupplf for nearly tour hours until repairs were completed
at I 2 :‘M p m.
Most citizens were unaware of the disruption in ser-»
I t ice until the 25(1,000 gallon tower on Maui street drain-
ed Will (timer, water treating plant superintendent,
■ said the tower lank emptied two hours and forty minutes
| after the break occurred at Ho’tO a ttt.
The line was broken some 20 feet in front of the
treating plant on Main street. A drag line making an **x-
Ma'Htmn for an extension To the water treating plant xys-
Item struck the line.
19-Year-Olds
May be Drafted
i '■'W-c,.- ~~J?.
(Ry Associated Frsu)
Washington, Aug. 11.
nnd refuse about homes and husi- creased needs for manpower in
ness houses, drive officials hope*bc nation s armed forces may
fly and cockroach breeding loca-j mean ‘bat draft boards will have
tions will be sprayed. A city-wide j to d'P into the reserve of 19-year-
fogging with insecticide U%danned : °bls.
HE GROWS "SAUCERS’* UNDER GLASS I'hyricid Noel W Scott may have di,co\cird the cxplana
| tion for some of the flying saucer stories. At left, he watches the growth of » "flying saucer" within
a bell jar at the Army engineer's, research and development Idboiatoiy, at Foil lichen, V* By piodoc-
[ing a paitiul vacuum ill the jar,'“fteott reproduces conditions believed to exist in the stiatosphere, He
j then introduces minute quantities of ironized air, and many of the weird light* seen in ievent weeks,
------- - end reported as flyilig saucers, result. At right at a two of the "saucer" effects produced dining the
A selective service spokesman,,?xp*iinHMrta. fi- ... .*
who doesn’t want his name used, i -----—:................T-----22™—
told of the possible dipping into j
later in the week. Several rural
communities also are expected to
use the city owned fogging ma-
chine.
Gerald Stephens, manager of
the county Chamber, said the
Health Education meetings would
he scheduled later in the week.
Dans are for two to he scheduled
In Sulphur Spiings and other
meetings In all rural communities.
Representatives of the State
Health Department will conduct
the meetings and probably present
health and hygiene films prepared
for polio prevention education.
GOP Parley "
Set Tuesday
At Nt. Pleasant
As far as known, no local draft
board has yet called 19-year-olds.
Young men of 20 and older still
are being used to fill the draft
calls across the nation.
Robber Killed
3-Days After
Prison Release
the younger group.
The army announced today that
it was stepping up its draft call
because the young men called
i when the new diaft law went into
; offect in 1950 are now leaching
the end of their service period.
The call for the month of Octo-
I her is for 47,000 mod—117.000
more than for September. The
| highest call this year was for 58,-
000 men last January. The total
dropped to 10,000 for June.
UN Planes
Smash Big
Red Plant
CASTS GLOOM IN REPORT
Ridgway Doubtful
Of European Goal
(Rtf Ammtu >«(*•! /’’**• I
Houston* A7g7‘n .-A man who
had been freed from the state I
prison at Huntsville only three
I tty. A»s**r>«lrtl J*ira$)
Paris, Aug. II. A pessimistic
JSeoul, Koiea. Aug. II.-Allied ’‘T;0*1 com*w ts,d*y from General
a~1p . " fighter bombers have Wasted a‘Kid,fWB> °n tb# ‘Ul* of "" Al*
Washington, Auir. 11. — The b»«sNorth Korean chemical plant
army has increased its call-up of with high explosives and fire
| draftees foi thy month of October.! bombs. <)ru* hundred and fifty
! Forty-seven thousand will he call-; P|anP* tool< I'“rt 1,1 ‘be trowvn-
led—compared with .’MUMMY fm! tinted attack on the plant in a
The increase is necessary, says
the army, because tqen inducted
days ago after sewing two yonr,, w'!Ynr^th‘‘'n‘7 of'U,I), aU
for robbery ha* met the sudden i tourg
death that sometimes is the re-| Wjth thc 0(,toh),r fi)fUrC( thU
makes a total of 932,000 men call-
ward for crime.
Robert Brown,, 25, of Pearsall
lied power in Europe.
The supreme commander Iihh
told a Paris news conference that
he is doubtful whether the West-
ern alliance will round up what it
SO,00<r for I tr»t«U attack on the plant in a th(» yeaj 60 divis-
town about 30 miles northwest of lonil and planes,
the battered east, coast pqrt of Ridgway’ducked an inqu.it y ...
IVonaan. -Returning pilots **l4f**fdlng him* from the British
the plant was left a muss of „u,| Flench that they won’t aeeom
Haines. j p|i»h their rearmament goal* be ■
As the truce talks were recess-1 cause they haven’t the money He
ed for one more week, ground said this Is something beyond his
fighting also was bitter, although; headquarters- something for the
I j i, ' , , e't up by the army since induct- on a local scale. The hardest: government level
! t1.iPPedJin.^0 th.e HoU,'i!>n, home I ions began in September, I960.
Vest Pocket
War Underway
Republicans in thc ten-county| Mr. and Mrs. James Pinkston and,
First Congressional District. | their three children at 3:30 this
which includes Hopkins County, morning. He held what appeal-
will decide Tuesday on an oppon-! f ’l to be a long-barreled rifle as
ent for the Democratic nominee; be stood at the foot of the Pink-
foi the district’s seat in Congress.; rtons’ bed. He demanded the
Wright Patman won the Demo- ! woman’s purse and her husband's
cratic place on the general elec-i *v«'let and promised not to hurt
tion ballot in thc July primary | anyone if they obeyed.
election. I As burglar departed by a Manila, Aug. 11.—A vest pock-,
Leading contender for the Re-j • ear door, Pinkston quickly jump-, <;‘ war is being fought today' on p ¥J f|
publican nod is Robert Hoague. | ed out of bed, seized a .22 caliber J"!'. Island in the Philippines. U6ll6 ilUlQ6/ /,
32, former mavor of Linden. | rlfifr from a closet and went in The Philippine government has 1 — ,
W- J. Harris, of Sulphur, Pur*uit’ turncd loose pianos, artillery, ami Xtrirlrpn UMh
SpriJl/ and district chairman,! Brown, meanwhile, re-entered 1.M0 infantrymen with blood-. Mil iWIKGU FI 1111
will open the convention Tuesday ‘be house. For an instant’Pink- bounds, against a moro mountain-
in Mt. Pleasant. j “‘on saw his silhouette through a
window. He fired twice. Brown
fPv Atmorlmlrd ITfui
light of the day raged around a As for the often advertised sup-
hill known a* .Siberia Hill on the| rr-w capons, the Allied supreme
Western front not far from the commander commented that it's
Panmunjom truce site. I he hill: too hard to evaluate them or to
has changed hands five times in say whether they will permit a
two days. UN fighter bombers /xcdgetiun in in/antrymen. Ridg
lashed at it today with flaming! Way added, however, that he fav-
garoline, rockets, bombs and ma-i or* two year's conscription some
chine gun fire. U, S. Mui'lies'thing which thc European coun-
tries are to talk about in Paris to
i took part in the giourni fighting.
I Hy 1 a***. .*Grf /’<••»)
Washington, Aug, II. -Chief of
.Staff General Omni Bradley says
tii* NATO powers wont teach
their goal of fill divisions hy the
end of 1952, But the General add-
id they will ‘‘approach It."
Genet al Bradley made the state-
ment Sunday, lie said hr expects
the 11 hirnainent of Europe to fall
short of the goal set by the Lib-
son < onfeicme last February
Itiadlcv drclan d "we have aeroin-
pliched a lot " He said “frrtalntly
aie much belter off now than we
were u year ot two years ago "
The general added "if something
should happen, we could offei con-
siderable resistance.''
$200,000 Fire
Damages Store
At Wichita Falls
City Water Crew
Doe* Fast Job
Fast woik hy city water de-
partment woi Wars yeas eontbln-
ed with luck Monday morning
to testore the city’s water sup-
ply-
Water was pumped bark into
the line* at 12..111 after a break
near the plant cut off the sup-
ply for foot hours,
“Everything went Ju«t right,"
said < lly Manager Arvll I’st-
'(on. "Ill we would have been
without ivatyr for syveral mote
hours,"
Tempers Flare
In Heat; Affray
Charges Filed
The hrst apparently brnugh*
flai* up »f tempers among eU4-
fens during the week end.
As the temperature soared to
104 degrees (the year's hottest
day I Sunday, Corporation Court j
got fjie cases of affray. In Jus j
tire of the I'cace Court, members
of the sheriff’s force filed one
( H-o of simple assault. ( minty '
Attorney Nell Mi Kay prepared an.
nggiaiated assault, charge for j
Count) Court
Thiee Negroes taken Into run-1
tody by City I’atrolmeu Sunday
afternoon in the East End Mic-
tion each pleaded guilty of af-
fray rhatges. Fines in each rase
amountad to |2ti. Two white men
weru charged 113.50 apiece for
the same offense.
The simple assault rase In Jus-
tice Court Involved a man who
police claimed struck his wife Of
As the water drained out of
mains, the city’s ability to fight
fire went to nothing Hopkins
County Memorial Hospital was
caught without a reserve supply.'
Hospital Mil
Hospital Administrator Hamid
Warren said "It put us in a bad
fi* for awhile " A delivery was
underway In the maternity, ward,
attendants reported. A major
operation scheduled for 1 30 p,
m was postponed
Vt'lillr pumps started feeding
water back into the city system
at 12 30, city official* expected
pressure to remain low until
Tuesday morning *
J «*per M ills, * w at er superinten-
dent ' who directed repair work,
said a 30 inch piece of pipe was
split and fitted over the break in
the eight inch line Two clamp*
were Installed to hold the plgte
until more permanent tep*frs.san
he made
Working with Mills were Hugh
Davis and Earl Lancaster, mem-
bers nf the city force, and work
e,rs on the Hoffman and Border*
Co, construction Job at the water
heating plant.
Mills explained pressure will be
slow lo build up in the lines. .Ser-
vice w*a« restored first to the
aiea along Mam street between
The Ismgfnlm* didn’t hslp
mailers mark when Ike shutoff
of malar servos forced many
air looting mills owl ml aclinw
Monday 1 he tempsralisra jump
ed from 96 dogrees al nonn In
100 plus Iwn hours lalar. Sun-
dny SSI Iks hottest day ml tko
year, arenrding lo Wsolhar Bu-
reau obsorsor Ralph Hill, who
recurded 104 degrees. The law
during tils ntgkl was 7*.
the plant and water lower. The
rest of the system connects at the
tnwer, which furnishes pressure
for all lines. Water Will feed har k
into the mains before the tower
Local delegates to thc conven-
tion arc Harris, JaelPSicklcs and
cer boss and his private army of
300. The attack was launched be-
fell. fatally wounded, in thc din-; l".uw’ il tbe Moro —
Polio Saturday
(ounly chan man
fold.
Or. J. L ctsw-jl*V2~mi™:i-c* »*~ '*-*0 •' <f *»*-«.
H h ,,di, ,nu,, th,>d “ 61 JiutltiaMhomi-l ""H"‘ UP »" ll1—1 on Jol® j wiT rtri.’lton with !-,l2U"2„2
whose name is Datu Kamlon—re- ■ ,
A second
son of
of
morrow, and something which it
looks like they will npt adoptr
As foi the inirspcits of ano-
ther European war;
General Ridgway had this to
say; i-
"There is no irliablc evidence
known to me that the threat of
aggression against the West ha*
Eugene (1<.miniRhrq,”
fiews also charged the second I lank fills us.
man. whose case is scheduled in! Supply M.mtslasd
county court, gni Into trouble | Although the pump* were shut
fiRtiiuffii v».jfh hi«i wifi*, j »»ff th*» piunt lrtrniMR<lii»t«*!y f*»I-
(iullty Judge Wayne Gee! lowing the break, water supply-
levied an 1*0.90 fine against a i w a* maintained through the «tor-
downtown Wichita •L’Pbins County man who pleaded ! age tank. Service completely Mop-
guilty Monday morning to driv-;ped when the water in the lank
: mg while Intoxicated. The man was consumed,
was attested Saturday afternoon It *’•* the first time service
by Highway Patrolmen on Bute!‘**<1 been completely disrupted
Highway lil near tha Martin
Springs community.
«- f/)^ A$»*>fStcit /’fr#|J
Wichita Fall*, Aqg. II— Fire
has caused damage estimated a*
•200,000 tu a
Falls stole.
The blaze l* believed lo have
started in or nvar an air .condi-
tioner.
-J
im ording to the candidate, “on
thc fact Patman’s political phil-
osophy is toward socialism.”
Hoague is a native of New
Hampshire and married a Linden
girl, Buena Mae Hill, while she
served as a Navy nurse during
World War H. Hoague is a vet-
eran of Marine Corps duty.
Harris disclosed the convention
probably will endorse Alvin Lane
of Dallas for the state GOP chair-
man’s job.
Mrs. Owens Dies
Al Ml. Vernon
Violent Deaths
Claim 15 Texans
Center in
111 ZlWCUOf Pr,Ml
Dallas, Aug. II—At least
another airman, suffered only
minor injuries, and John McGuire,
live, have been lost in Texas over | n ,lw of Sheppard Air Base, thal CwiWr are reported to be imprev
the week-end due to traffic acc- drjv„ of the w§ un^urt.1 ----- ----- - -
dents, gunfire, drowning and the, lMg%n dje(, . „inton ho,p|Uj
IPU,‘ '* of head and internal injuries.
the Polio Treatment
Tylei Saturday. >
He became ill while attending
the funeral of his brother, Lyn-
dall, 15, who died earlier in the
week after he was stricken with
the disease.
Gene also Is s student in the j
Sulphur Bluff school system.
Two polio patients from Hop-;
kins County in the Treatment l
* I
ing. Jimmy Couch, 17, has been *
moved to th® convalescent ward.
remains paralyzed, j
Corn and Wheat Daring Robbers
Forecasts Pared
Judge Refuses
To Extradite
Accused Slayer
Nine deaths occurred on th* |, A Mid,*t0WI1 Ohio. Navy air- TroY ***
highway*, four from gunfire one Corpus Christi; .improvement,
from drowning and one from kj|,rd in"; motorcyc|e ^. year-old si.fer, Alice,
\ Mrs. Ophelia Owens,
/osident of Sulphur Springs, pass-
ed away in the Mt. Vernon hos-
pital Monday morning following
an illness of heart trouble.
Funeral services will be con-
ducted at the First Baptist Church
in Mt. Vernon Tuesday afternoon
at four o'clock with burial in the
cemetery there.
Mrs. Owens, "ho was employ-
ed with the Chuck Wagon here
for a number of years, has a hpst
of friends in this area who will
be grieved at her death. She had
been making her home in Mt, Ver-
non with her daughter and farn-
heat.
The latest highway death report-
ed is from Victoria. Kmello Mar-
former ‘ine*> about f>5, was killed by a
car as he walked along the Port
Lavaca highway late last night.
No charges have }>een filed against
the driver of the car which struck
him.
The totals do not include fatali-
ties to Texans outside the state
or violent deaths since midnight
this morning.
Four Texans in an automobile
which went out of control, over-
tourned and burned near Hinton,
Oklahoma, suffered different
fates.
Killed was 25 year old Vernon
Logip of SAn Angelo. John Blake
18, of 8hcpparii Air Force Base
dent 60 miles northwest' of his! s?r'ou* condition.
; base. Mai cello Allen Woodward;
went ne'er the handlebars and |
struck a bridge ratling and died
before arrival at a hospital.
A 16-year-old Waco,boy, Mal-[
colm Hodges, is feared diowned;
today in Waco's Cameron Park!
w here the Bosque and Brazos:
river* meet. A friend, Eddie |
His left leg
Albert*, ||, also has; Coal
His seven- Buffalo, Aug. II, A Federal
is etill in a judge has refused to extradite to
ily, Sheriff and Mrs. Junior Tittle, j at Wichita Falls, received a brok-
for the past year or more. en collar lion*. Robert Gribhs, 19,
Jack Porter
Says Eisenhower
Approves Plans
Italy one of the principals in a
j cloak and daggei murder case. It-
aly had asked exti edition of 30-
| year-old Carl G. i.<> Dolce of Ro-
1 cheater, Ne* York, in the slaying
of Major William V. Holohan, hi*
commanding officer in thc office
i of strategic services. *>■" .)
But Federal Judge John Knight
, has issued a 12-page opinion in
Buffalo, New York, ruling that
Lo Dolce can’t Ire extradited be-,
<»« raesM Pf mi
Washington, Aug. II. The Ag-
YicuMure Department today fore-
cast this year's com crop st 3,-
135,689,0011 'bushels arid wheat at
1.298.389.000 bushels.
For corn, this was a de< tease of
229.4310.000 bushels from the 9,-
365.089.000 forecast a month ago.
It compares with last year’s crop
of 1JI4I.429.0M.
For wheat, thc forecast was a
decrease of 59,6.10,000 husiiels
fi urn the 1,249,019,000 estimated
a month ago It compares with
9*7,474,000 bushels last year,
WEATHER
(tty tiMRMfrl Preys!
North-Central and West Texas:
Partly cloudy tonight wtid tomor-
row, widely ucatteied afternoon
and evening thundeishowers, no
East Texas: Partly cloudy this
afternoon, tonighl and tomorrow.
Smith, almost lost his life attempt- i ,w* Aumrmir* P-<•»«/
ing to rescue him hut was rescued' Denver, Aug. 11-—A Texas Re
in turn by Sidney Tinble of Ran 1 publican, Jack Porter, has talked'cause the place whrre the crime
A search for Hodges body i*! P**gn in Texas meets with the Holohan was slain during a **-
being made. General's approval. eret mission behind the German
A Fort Worth man’s body is Porter *ay» he and Alvin Lane lines in Northern Italy in 1941
being sent from Houston today "/ nnd former represent*- ( In Washington, the Italian rm-
tive Ben Gill of Pampa will meet haasy says It will now be up t»
with Kisenhpwer and his aides lat- \ the Italian justice ministry to de
er today to discus* the prospect of ride whether to appeal from Judge
(th* GUP carrying Southern states. > Knight's ruling.
Stage Hold-up
lo Kilgore Home
ifly Aysoetmltd P>*ssi
Kilgore, Aug. Il — Hearch for
three men who pulled a daring
holdup in Kilgore Katurday night,
obtaining rash and jrwela valued
at 117,690, Is being conducted in
various parj* of Texas today ap-
parently without tangible 'result-
so far.
■ The victims arc an elderly Kil
gore couple, M*. aad Mrs. Bam
Andrews, who run • loan business
from th«lr home.
The bandits gamed entrance to
the house hy pietending lo be i^e-
livei Ing a icgislered letter. They
Imund Andiewts with wire and
Mrs. Andirws with a sheet and
took ca-h and jewsliy of an un-
determined amount. E-timates
range fiom 12,600 to *17,600.
since the winter of I960 when sit-
in' storm knocked .out electriral
power. A fire engine pumper wax
used until power was restored to
I the regular pumps.
Mills said the claw of the ditch-
; ing machine knocked s hole in
! the pipe Water pressure split the
; pipe about 16 inches. The Con-
struction rompany crew romplet-
; ed the excavation around thc
| bieak, The pipe is some four feet
under thc surface of the ground..
Plant superintendent Glover
planned to Imost the 60,000 gal-
lons an hour production thiough
the lines until full service waa
restored After tests were com-
pleted, officials believed the re-
pair elainpe would withstand the
normal amount of pr«*»ure vent
through the line.
Jordan King s
Reign Ended
f/i* iMS-W/rg Pmttl
Amman, Jordan, Aug. II—The
parliament of Jordan haa decided
to end the reign of A'bug King-
Talsl and to proclaim his son,
The men SOre blue lumdanas. crowiy princc Hussein as King.
Dailn- and Harris county authori-
ties are among t*ho»e advised to
he on the lookout for the trio.
following a verdict of suicide in
his death in a hotel room. He was
52-year-old Lon Allen.
widely mattered afternoon thun- tington say* the robbery was well
ilcishowcrs, not’ much change in planned and perfectly executed,
trnqieratute*. But they may have made a
South Central Texas—Clear to slip.up that could be their undo-
paitly cloudy tpnight and tomor- ing. Two footprints in ,the dirt
low, not much change in temper- j outaide the house have lieen dis-
etuje*. covered, and ca«t* havg been made.
Both Houses of Parliament con-
vened to hear reporta about Kink
Talla’s health The government re-
Kilgore police rhtef Otis Whit- commended that Talal’s reign he
ended.
Talal ha* been reported ment-
ally ailing. Reports reaching Bei-
rut predicted the government
meeting to sudy the king’s health,
and the subsequent abdication
win,
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