The Daily News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 54, No. 273, Ed. 1 Sunday, November 16, 1952 Page: 1 of 14
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44 American Servicemen
Killeo in Airplane Crash I
FIRST KOREAN SNOW—A* tn* Korean war drag* into It* third
FOR ROCKWELL PLANT
Harnann — (Jen. Matthew H. Ridgway, Supreme Commander of
NATO force* in Europe, takes a critical sip of thick, sweet Turkish
coffee. It was served to him during a lull in inspection of Turkish
niilita;y post* along the Turkish-Bulgaiian border, (NEA Telephoto).
Sewer Extension
Planned to East
Another section of sewer ex-
tension, authorised in the 1951
bond fund election, went on the
planning: beards Saturday.
City Manager Arvil Patton said
study was underway of routes foiv
extension of the system along U.
8. 67 in the east part of the city.
The proposed line will extend to
the Sulphur Springs Foundation
plant, which is leased to the Rock-
well Manufacturing Co.
The project will include instal-) down in collections Saturday as
iation of pipe and construction of j the drive entered its fifth day.
Community Chest
Collections Lag
Alter Good Start
Community Chest fund cam-
paign officials recognized a slow I pers of Japanese make."
iKm AtimnaUd Prm)
Tokyo, Nov. 16 — Forty-four
passengers and crew men died Fri-
day when a U. S. Air Force plane
crashed into a 2,000-foot moun-
tain 20 miles east of the Korean
capital of Seoul.
A Far East Air Forces head-
quarters announcement in Tokyo
said rescue mews founu the plane
Saturday and that there were no
i survivors of the crash.
| The 0-119 Flying Boxcar was
carrying soldiers back to Korea
after rest and recreation in Japan.
There was no immediate expla-
nation of the cause of the crash.
The», announcement said the
flight ceiling was 8,000 feet the
last time the plane) was heard
from Friday afternoon. .
The crash was one of the worst |
in the Korean theater since the
ktni't t n u WAF i
The ilot of the twin engined 1 vv'nter' Allied artillerymen prepare their self-propelled gun for action
plane*reported to the mntroMow- ■» th* first fnow of thc bit,*r Kor«‘"n * bl“»ke‘ lhr
er at Seoul that he was coming in ground along the 156-mile battle line. (NEA Telephoto).
for a routine landing.
There were scattered clouds at
1,200 feet, the Air Force said. It
was possible the plane bored into
one without the pilot realising
there was a mountain in his path.
There were 37 soldiers aboard.
The search began almost imme-
diately when the plane failed to
arrive.
A rescue crew . reached • the
scene Saturday afternoon, Korean
time.
Death Swift.
An eyewitness account has been
given by reporter Patricia Scott
of the English language Nippon
Times published in Tokyo. Miss
Scott, who accompanied a search
party, says some of the men ap-
parently tried to bail out just be-
fore the crash. The wreckage
was in two sections, about 100
yards apart.
Miss Scott says it was a piti-
ful sight. She writes: ‘‘As I
walked through the wreckage, !
found many Christmas presents
that the fellows had bought in
Japan. One of them was a little
pair of pink pajamas for a child.
One duffle bag contained a lady’s
wrist watch and a small record
player. I also saw several pairs
of embroidered satin ladies' slip-
Lake Completion Date
May Beat Spring Rains
Five-Year-Old
Ailacked by Dog
In Good Shape
The rendition of five-year*
old Michael ( lark, who wa» bit-
ten on the fide by a dog twice
bin sue. w as reported good by
Memorial Hospital attendant*
Saturday.
Clark, son of Mi. and Mr*.
Brown Clark, was bitten Friday
by a pS-pound hound in Weaver,
| The child and ht* grand lather,
Sam McCord, of Weaver, were
visiting u neighbor's home when
the doM attacked the child.
It was believed the dog had
been vaccinated against rabies
last spring.
Foundation WorkK SS
Nears Completion Await Decisions
Eisenhower Asks
Amateurs to Aid
Political Fight
Pouring of a six-inch concrete , Attention of county rnilk pro
floor for the Sulphur Springs In-1 ducar* will be turned next week
dustrial Foundation building east to hearing* on the proposed new
of the city is expected to take two milk order for the Fort Worth-
more months, a construction com- i Balias milkshed.
iii ill Hm
HIGHBALL! — rharles F!elect,
er, t, is having th* time of hi* 1
young life being chief engineer
I of the model railroad system on
display in a Washington, I)
a lift station near the eastern end
of the line.
The connection uuth the present
system tentativelvAset at the in-
tersection of Oli^Fefferson and
Jefferson streets. 9
“It’ll be two month* before we
start construction, though,” Pat-
ton added.
Sherman Blast
Kills Worker
(Ht AiMKialriJ’itu)
Sherman, Nov. 15—One
Combined collections from three
phases of the drive mounted to
15,337.73.
Drive chairman Weber Fouts
urged volunteer workers to make
every possible effort to complete
their contacts and report collec-
tions as soon us possible.
At the same time, Howard S.
Smith, 'Community Chest presi-
dent, called for Hopkins County
The reporter adds that there
could have been no suffering.
Death was swift.
American Legion
Boosts Members
In Drive Here
The largest American
pany foreman said Saturday. I A bearing I* scheduled for pro-! department store. Toy depart
The building will house a branch lluc*r** distrlbuto.s and adminial-1 want official* wise ... the way*
Installation of the Rockwell Mann- Tuwday at the Jefferson ; of boys of all ages, have design
factoring Co. The Wood Fabrics j ,,0.t‘1 ,n ,,hI,h: , . H ,he *° ,hM‘ *Wtom
, tion Co. subsidiary of the Knowl- DiscuastoiUBf new proposal* in operate all the t.ain*
(H* A**oauttd Prr»»> !*„. Cn ftiua th* htftftl. WUR Cftttl* F HUH)' Ht H ‘
Augusta, <»a., Nov. 15.—Presi- "n , _ , meeting of the Hopkins County’ • ** • m,
-*—•—............ .... undpr cowtruct,OB* Milk pioduce.s Association. Th* A mat Stevenson
group of Grade A dairy re presen v vudwaa
EXT:lh" *ZT. ''"'.Says Newspaper
A demonstration on cleaning of T __ • » ■
milk vessels also was given dur-
ing the afternoon meeting.
Members also learned that J. 0.
. Woodman, manager of the North-
he is sure hi* administration will i n<>w underway, i* the next step, east Texas Milk Producers Asso-
be able to count on the organiza-1 Ninety-four slabs, each measur-1 elation, which represents dairy
tion's support during the next! ing 36 by 36 feet, will form the | men thioughoul the area, will at-
four year*. i floor for the building. Twelve had tend the healings. Joe Haln, Hop-
Williams, by the way, said he! bean poured Friday. kina representative, and Jess Wal
The concrete work, along with ker, secretary of the county nr-
plumhing installation, are the only ; gnnization, also plan to attend
phases of work now underway. ' The proposal di awing chief in-
Erertion of structural steel, the I ten at is action which would in
dent-elect Eisenhower wants the ,lin>' , ,
nation’s amateur politicians to Estimated completion date on
keep up their active interest In *840,000 plant la around the
government. The General Issued ,**•1,1 n,,|I summer,
the statement after a conference Work on the building found*
in Augusta, Georgia, with Walter tlun, initial stage of construction,
Williams, who served as chair*! I* 95 per cent complete, ll.amld
man of the Citizens for Eisenhow-| Miller, construction foreman, said,
er Committee. Eisenhower said j The pouring of concrete slabs,
Help Beal Him
Sulphur Spring*' new 555-
itcre water nwfveir w ill be
r**dV to store away spring
raintall if prevailing favor-
utile working conditions con-
tinue a few mitre months.
With earth work on the
{downstream side of the 241X1-
foot dam aitoms White Oak
neck virtually completed, rmi
tractors hope to start oarly this
week OH the lug job of laying a
sU-ltu lt apt on of reinforced eon
crete over the entire dam and Its
appro*, he*
"If we don't ge| too much lain
from now on, we will In- out of
her* In March,"the project super-
intendent foi Contra*tan lloff-
| mao A Border* said.
Big eaith moving ma< bines have
been chugging and grinding furl-
oualy over the stretch of ground
immediately below the dam in a
• ush to complete remaining dirt
work in that ai»a and clear the
way to start large-scale concrete
pouring this week.
About til feel below the dsm,
workmen are completing a con-
crete footing hustling w ith steel
Two-Year Supply
Completion af the new White
Ook reservoir will give Salphor
Springs an estimated two yaars'
water supply storage capacity,
The now reservoir, which
will intrees# total storage ca-
pacity by almost 21, timet,
will held appresimalely 710
millien gallons Capacity of the
present nearby storage resor-
vair is 120 million gallons The"'
Main street reservoir holds
some 16 million gallons
Thel’s a total of million
gallons.
Average normal daily con-
siuaptioo her* it ostMwalod by
City Mtnager Arell Fallon as
•00,000 g.lions.
That figoeot oot slightly
more than a three year capaa-
ity, hot evaporation loss from
the shallow now laho will ha
heavy and the Iwo-yoar figure
was agreed upon ae a logical
adjostmoat.
t
discussed with Eisenhower in a
general way the possibility of his
I getting a cabinet job. However,
| Williams declined to say flatly
! whether the President-elect of-
fered him such a job.
Coaforences Planned.
Washington officials are talk-
ing about Tuesday’s conference
between President Truman and
Pi esident-elect Eisenhower. Ac*
(Hu Pimm
Tucson, Nut 15 The Demo-
cutlir pi evidential casualty nf the
election, Governor Stevenson, ha >'
given hi* first new* maf prance
Strict' KlMIlMWM1 heat him,
Stevenson I* vacgltoning brief-! Ur-in r»,l This wall will be the
ly at a friend’* larnh south ol l'»wer t-dgu of the lug concrete
Tucson, Arizona. He talked with “I'Wi, whu h wiii extend over both
newsmen III an adolic building 'Du ** and the top of the dam and
‘'In^Thv nrl' « mbe,ehip in Hopkui,
sented by the Chests 1953 pro-1 ig
Post
Legion
County
gram. Success of the program hin-i'”"'r 1B ***** *01 1
| ges on the campaign attaining the 1 Post Commander Jim Carroll
Chest quota of $8500. The 1953 i predicted the sharp increase in
program is formed on the basis membership as a result of the con-
11 of that goal, Smith declared. He j rentrated campaign conducted
has been killed and two others j explained the full program could! during October. The local post
critically Injured in an explosion, not |,e earried on without the co- passed its new member quota set
and fire in the Vegetable Oil Plant opeation of every citizen during (hy the Legion’s district head
of the Kimbell Oil Mill at Sher-1 (j,e campaign for funds.
. , _ i_ construction is not | crease the size of the milkshed. i which 2«o years ago »«• used a* . "w l,,to the flat on the upatirani
Bottler* have proposed to include " po*t for trading with the la- *•»*-
Wichita Falls, I'alo Pinto County Idiani, I be flat Stretch of gtound be
and lh counties in East Texas in Btevanson was not too precis* l"'* .l(”’ ** I'artuularty nil
the milkshed. The l»< al assix ia- j on just what be plan* to do aftei
tion ha* taken s neutral view to- hi* term s* governor MM »ui at
waid the measure. (be end of this year. Hut he av
If the inn ease is Included in he’ll do all he can to help thy lie-
a two-thirds j mocratie party bernme ■ power'
scheduled until aftei January I.
The company’s steel quota is sche
duled during the first quuiter of
1953.
Reinforcing steel foi the entlrs
project already is at the plant site.
fouling to present plans, the two i Htockpiling of gravel, which will
men will have two meetings—the form the base under the concrete | . , ’ , . . , . i ■ » - •
fust brief and private, the second! floo., also is underway at Ute Got-; .H"v. ful" ^t*,lllf'nt *"’1
in the cabinet room with advisors I ton Belt spur, which extend* from Uirymw^tn i, sp. live ,n |, more important lor lh.
I
man.
Arno)d Conway, 33, of Acme,
died of injuries three hour* after
the explosion. Conway, who had
rtarted to work at the plant yes-
terday, is survived by his wife
and three children.
Critically burned were Glen
Moore, 24, of Sherman and Lloyd
D. Waggoner, 32, of Gainesville.
Fire Marshal Cecil Burris says
cause of the explosion, which bad-
ly damaged the roof and wall of
the corrugated iron building, has
not yet been determined.
ADMirrjffto u. s. ,
1 quarter*.
The Special Gifts collection to-1 A total of 157 new membeis
tal amounted to $4,335 Satur- j hatrg paid 1953 due* in the Hop-
day, Walter (Punk! Helm said, kins County Legion, Carroll dis-
Helm has been in charge of the ' closed. Potential membership for
speeial gifts section of the drive ! 1953. including the present 200
the past two' weeks. I members, Is over 360.
Two other phases of the drive, i The district quota was 154.
which are underway in the busi- The membership went over 400
ness district and residential area,, in 1946.
also showed slight gains Satur- i „ Mmbanh{p contwti a
,Uy T' I*''team composed of World War I
port. Withi $4-.65 reported by the jVC(eratlg enrolled 84 members to
business district team of Jimmy j thf „ retrj„t(,re4 by „ World
present. It’s believed the Presi-
dent will urge the General to
name Tiis top eabinet officers at
ollce -o they can start to work.
It’s also believed that Truman
will make sure that Eisenhower
is informed on majoi world prob-
lems.
Secretary of State Dean Arhe-
son will of course be present |
(Continued on Page Eight)
the main line to the plant site.
Worker* unloaded two tail cars
of gravel Saturday.
Currently, 27 workers arc em-
ployed in the concrete and ear-
in fi«« *, in iht* ofiiy
IC#t buck into (Hiwtfr,
st. a* before they could be ad-j party to be useful now, he be
milted to the present milkshed than for it to try to wm
A total of 18 piopostal* make |(((l k An«i be add* that be
Up the new milk aider. Most of useful,
the items ilarify teims In the ex- j way it l ari*
i Isting order, |
nentry work at the plant. Miller, , „ . , The newsmen asked Stevenson
’ ; a 1 Another proposal calls for ad- j whothei he thought that the net.
__jdition of July and August to the j paper* had helped to beat him In
base-building period. The eui rent, u>, „al(, h(.
l.a.e penod, which fo» m* the has hp ostimntad that 92 pe, cent
IS foi milk quotas, extend* fiomj„f American press wa again-1
Octuber through January. jblfni thol4J(ht thu h-1,
WEATHER
Lie May Remain
Another Year
notable to living hogged dow n dol-
ing wet weather, and the contract-
or'. are rushing to gel I mu rvte
over this area while good work-
ing conditions prevail.
Far Ahead el Schedule
Thy whole project, winch was
started about Kept. i, t> running
fai sin .id of the 300 working ,lu>
schedule provided in the rants set
doe to the perfect constructin'!
wvnthvr during th« period.
Removal of timber from the
reset voir area is well advanced,
although a cousideiaide amount
remains to b« burned
Bitiiaied a short (listani e up.
rtream from the city’s prc.enl
small i .on icle detention ilam and
Friday’s mer-ting hare the present
tf* lurnn-nf **--rrf New York, Nov
NORTH tKMKA LTkxah S"i>d«r ant- at the United Nation* say
Psrlly rlou.lv snd SMiar „ |Z ha. -seed hi* will- b-V ***" W*» <,,n'
wrail ThXAS Uol*r HiiMler 1 rygv# Ida MS axpressau ms ■■ f
SOUTH CKNIKAI. i kx as ftmuisr ingnets to stay on for another;
vsriiv Chudv with widely weltered stow- _____ Bmetary Gancral
A third proposal, if aceeptrd, something to do with how the «l*e- stoiioo, about two mile*
will slandaidize the method of j tion turned out.
payment for milk to dairymen, j
In
Sevoral members pointed out
(Continued on Page Eight)
French Penal Colony
Escapee Wins Break
by a
: War II veteran team. The losing i»ru»«-
’team will be host at a dinner for
i the winners.
Carroll urged member* to use
the October drive as a spring-
board for a year round effort *o
! obtain new members for thei
American Legion. Post officials I
! still have tbeir own goal of 500;
members, he said.
cm. I >’var •*
KAKT TKXAK Kun.l»y -ratter.-* -hew-, (f th*
*” Of Ifcundendwwvr*. Coaler Is sortO- „ hin auCcess<M
FOR KOREAN ACTION
(H> lelsd prrssl
El Paso, Nov. 16.—A man has)
entered the United States at El i
Paso and is beginning a new j
phase of existence that closes a
30-year adventure story.
Ha is Rane Balbenoit, who es-
caped from Devil’* Island, the
French penal colony off the coast
of French Guiana, after being
convicted In France of burglary.
He had made four unsuccessful
attempts to escape, but in 1985,
| be had recovered hik health hut
in 1940 he was ordered out. He’
went to Mexico.
The next year — 1941 — hej
swam the Rio Grande. He served
s 16 month jail term for illegal
entry’ and on release settled iaj
Lucerne Valley in Loe Angeles.
But in May laat year deporta-
tion proceedings were reopened
and Beibenoit returned to Mex-
ico. After two months in Juares,
American officials advised him he
American Pitots
IFait to Bag Red
Jets Last Week
Gen. Clark Requests
Additional Troops
Russian* and the Wert “»’* TAXES Catileilieil
tin him alid'RmUll. *
i Dealt Severe
| Blow by Drouth
Allies Dump
Fire Bombs
On Enemy
m$ .4 «*»* •«(«'/ fmm/
f Iht Atmn mifS ( .Seoul, Koh?*, Nov. I ft
Long 8*»ch, California, N»".! tmtl | ThundcijeU ban- rai-
^*b*’ National Reclamation, flt,d „ui a coAccntiatwd raid on
Association's 21st convention has a Communi-t assembly aica
northwest of tbc city limit*, tl.e
new itain is ten feet high and ten
feet wide on the top.
A spillway area sia in. ben lower
than thr remainder of the dam
will rarrv the normal overflow on
down White Oak. Thut will place
tiie watt-i level *u inrhe* below
tbc top af the dam when the ra»
ervoir is full.
Flaads Over Entire Dam
Dunng period* of fiouR rrert*
in the creek, water will -weep
over the entire < onrratc coaled top
of the dam.
Walter depth over most of the
Amen- resetvou will be .hallow due to
the barrier* imposed by the pre-
en. *• ifpetreani of the l otton Belt
railroad track* and Highway it.
adjourned it* »e»»ion» at lA>ng jn North Korea Swooping dow , Need to avoid Hooding thee rout. .
limited the height to which the
iBv Am
Seoul, Korea, Nov.
after serving 16 years, Beibenoit j could enter the U. S. an a non-
made good HU escape in a small
boat with several other*.
He walked through Central
America and Mexico to the Unit-
ed States. Immigration authori-
ties allowed him to remain until
quota Basis- He boarded a plane
imltd PtMu>
15—No A-
merican planes were lost in Air
combat in the week which ended
yaaterday. But during this time
three American planes were tort
to enemy ground fire or other
cause*.
During the week no Russian
Beach. California, with a graphic mr«i their taiget* at 50 fool |c
(Ht Prtu) Cr would then be faced with an pictuie of the drought effaet ahthc jaU dumped thoO.aml* dam cold be imilt.
Chicago, Nov. K> - A J hictgo | iiwkwmrcl deebion. 4#On the ow» |Jv«»iitoc*k h**rd« in thw Soilthweit uhaoImjv on Wtitr will «ttl4*i an intiki tow*
ncwf«|>aner (Sun-Timea) wf« «en* bnd/’ the dinp*U*h «ay», “th«* and Midwent. the an*a H^tuming |>i!oi«i *at«l *r nhovr the dam and then flow
eral Mark Mark ha* requeued K1.rierMj j*. «rcu.*touted to filfhtmg, Sio*aKem naid the laek of rain rnoie than 70 building* were da*! by gravity through an td iurh
the Defense Department to send' d w4nnjnK walli the tough way. ha* caused liquidation of stock in j »troy*d There were mdication* outlet pipe endet the
him three or four more Americanly the j,agt( KUenhower ha* put Texas and ha* caused fear* of a that ammunition store* also wen downstream
division* far use in Korea. Andiniueh 4rua4 in Clark’s military hay shortage in the Midwest, i hit ,in th« raid,
the story ihys our Far Eastern; judgement." A man from Amarillo It
commander in chjef will make the «Qn tbe other hand," the Chi-||, Cross, agricultural agent foi
dam and op
present city
to the
pumping farilitiee.
In oihei air activity, Sa 11 r jet»: « then will be pumped into the
shot down an enemy fightei neat preaant adjoining municipal stwr-
at El Paso and rejoined hi* fam-i made MICS were shot down. This
By in California where Belbe-,j* the first time in nearly 15
noit ha* a small dry goods store, months that a week has gone by
He plans to apply for U. S. dti-! without a mig claim by Allied pi-
zenship at once. I lota.
same request when president-elect j CBg0 ,tory adds, “ElsenhowerKama F# Railroad, said the bright MI(. ..
Eisenhower visit* Korea. , speech** in the recent election ,pi»t in the picture 1* Irrigated! (Jn<(' ^ ’
The story came from the pa-! campaign stresred the need to 1* j farmland. Cross -aid Texas snd
pel’s Washington bureau and was ducr the number of American-Oklahoma have 2-mlllion^ acre*
written by correspondent Freder-1 troops in' Korea.” i under irrigation,
kk Kuh who said; “according to| It’s understood that a finsl de- The liquidation of cattle in lex
a reliable .ource, Clark made it eiaion on Clark’s rejuewt may a* ha* cut stock down to littloHrg Red troop* toward th. RorUi-1eomptatton of th« dam will flow
clear that his aim ia to prepare1 await the inauguration of the new more than breeding animals, the ern end of »nip*r ridge Th* South ‘ on through the outlet pipe to the
th* first allied kill in
On th* giourtd. South Korean
j ialaatrywoR, once again m po«-
session of pinpoint hill, aie driv-
age reservoir and from there iuto
the Main street reservoir adjoin-
ing thr water treatment plant.
Outlet Ready Now
Any water which should collect
In the presently dry creek Itefore
a new major offensive against the
Chinese and North Korean Com-
munists."
The story added that Eisenkow-
suminixtrstiori However, th* Joint 1 Amarillo rq*n Korean* ireaptured pinpoint hill I pumping station sit#,, whore it can
chiefs are expected to discus And if the drought continue* > ^ be Rut into circulation.
Clark's message within the next another 60 days th* word for It tot the loth time in a month af»| ^ V*.,,-. ---------——
week or *0. will b« grim. Iter 86 hours of bitter fighting. (Continued on I’ogc Eight)
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Frailey, F. W. & Woosley, Joe. The Daily News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 54, No. 273, Ed. 1 Sunday, November 16, 1952, newspaper, November 16, 1952; Sulphur Springs, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth815788/m1/1/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Hopkins County Genealogical Society.