The Daily News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 51, No. 78, Ed. 1 Friday, April 1, 1949 Page: 1 of 12
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THE EVENING NEWS AND THE MORNING TELEGRAM CONSOLIDATED IN ISIS. ABSORBED THE DAILY GAZETTE IN 1924.
|L. 51—NO. 78.
SULPHUR SPRINGS, TEXAS, FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 1949.
Twelve Page* — tw Seetlea*
MEMBER ASSOCIATED
O-GROUP AIR FORCE DECLARED A “MUST9
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Gilmer-flikin Bill
Backers Claim Win
|»» r'» Mailenc”, *ay* William Ray Hart rove, T <.**»#. and-j
Be hwemetivt *ngir>*e>, **. he hand* a biact rat, “Cinder II," to-
Bn* Wendt, li-yearold Qxford, Louisiana, girl. The evi nt, one
“'lAlHOft-tn Oxford** hi*torj;,,»a* brought about by a tetter {
(Bn AttoctaUd Prim)
Austin. April 1, — The Texas
House of Representatives quit un-
til Monday without final action
on the Gilmer-Aikin School Bills,
hut backers of the new education
plan are shouting victory.
They based their claim on the
defeat of a proposed amendment
to Senator Jim Taylor's reonrani-
intion hill that would have sub-
stituted an appointive hoard of
education for an elective body.
The ill-member elective body---
which would appoint the State
School Superintendent—is called
for in the original Taylor mea-
sure.
The vote which defeated the
crippling amendment was 87 to
58.
Earlier today, the Gilmer-Aikin
plan baekers won a round when
they, beat down an effort to post-
pone further eonsid*ration of the
Taylor mea*u»v«vuntii April 13th
The vote killin'; that motion to
defer action-offered by Repre-
sentative Sam Hanna of Dallas—
was « to AS. '
The adjournment until Monday
mean* the school bills wilt not be
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Hj|*riefi# urote the railroad/^king that they replace her cat.
Hr*, after fat waa killed by a pasting train, .(NEA Telephoto).
School Trustee
lection Satur4py
r, B-nt I '
I'ctjon of tr..*te*. to the! A Htl J
■2k SHS: Over Thousand
dent School I* -tnc-t Xrill V!|IaJ L.,
ltd tomorrow. Voting plar 160 DY
tur Springs f«» the County \ _ #
Wheat Poisoning
owl board win be a* f«l*,
IPiecinet 1. City Hall; Pre-j ’ *9,saaWdJVasy
7 and *, t eurt House; and tmtiiilu. April I.- 'Cheat poi-
bt 4, - Chamber Of ' Com-1 mining has killed more than a-
I thousand head of cattle in Texas.
Rural High School; Eastern New Mexico and Okie
siding elections include homa. Thirty four couniiea In the
re, Como and Saltillo, j trt-state area have been canvas
candidate*- are running >n j **d t,v an Amarillo newspaper
Iter tC« e Rural . t Daily News.)
Dl*t»;,t They ar<- J “-j Eeavm-t Inaaes appear to
Avery Hammond, Frank ^ ^ jj^ Castro and Raa-
|*nd George Bark. jalasil Counties of the Texas Pan*
' **“ **** handle. A hundred head or more
D.rtrfct, l*a£*d «od m each of those.counties.
8, Carey are seeking ew?- ^ /", TvT.
■ , • The aatntal mwq laabad out
h« Como Rural High Dlwl rather suddenly thle spring. De-
luhonia Coamnn and Joe "pit* its name—wheat poisoning
are running. , f --if* generatiy believed to "be
| u.( County Board, F 0. > att<wd by an unbalanced mineral
get and Ale* Bure arv content in fetd. The gtcsicet In*-
f .. r pivml|cr*«t-large, ^ jt n». |valnr,|. -,-ejned coin-
u'nh^k*uit in fWa^tltident with the fast growth of
Precinct 4, J. L. Voting [ wheat after a mid-March warm
mod- ' * ; apeil.
;, ,rn men wh<» srtll be un-j —» .......... ....../
in the Sulphur Springs;
b nt School iistrict raw1
up for debate again until next
Wednesday. That’s the next day
Senate bills can be considered un-
der rules of the Texas Houw.
American Cancer
Society Opens
Annual Drive
Jester Endorses
Water Laws Study
Between Sessions
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(Bn 4miuM Print
Austin, April t.
Jester has given his support to a
proposal tp study the State sur-
face water la'vs between sessions
of the Legislature.
ihe proposal is contained in a
resolution introduced yesterday
by Senator Rogers Kelley of Hi-
dalgo,. It asks that an 18-man
commission be appointed to study
the water situation and to make
recommendations for the next
Legislature. ,
Today, Governor Jester says!
“1 'hope the Legialatuie will ap*
prove Senator Kelley’s resolution;
Water is our most important r«|
source: water conservation an|
flood control are two of o
closely related and most urgen1
problems.”
i>-;. (Bn Auociated Prut)
Amarillo, April 1. — Wintry
weather in the Panhandle caused
a number of accidents today.
At least two persons had been
killed and three others injured on
snow-swept highways.
A. 7-months-old baby; son of
Mr. and Mrs. Richard McNeaiey
of Phoenix, Arixona, was killed
when thrown from the McNea-
jfey*i car. The Highway Patrol
Governor^ **>’* the McNealeys’ automobile
The Governor adds, “If we de-
lay in making an intelligent ap-
proach to this subject, we may
well have delayed too long.”
Jester says he had hoped the
present Legislature could pass a
“fair, helpful and effective water
code”.
"However," the Governor con-
tinues, “it stems there are still
(juestions to he answered. I
j hope the Legislature sees fit; to
* establish a water code > ^omis-
sion tb report at the next ses-
sion,”
Local Reridenis
Urged to Observe Negro Man and
Cancer Week Wile Held Alter
Downtown Fight
(Bn AimrCttd ffttm)
Washington, April 1, — The
American Tamer Society wants
14 and on* half nWpn dollars to
fight cancer—the second worst
disease killer of Americans. The
drive open* today, Friday, April!
I st, an official of the campaign
said In Washington that cancer
probably will kill -200,000 ihw-
son* in the United States this
year Th# statement waa made by
Mrs. Ovtta Culp Hobby of Hous-
ton, Texas, wartime WAC Com-
mander.
Meanwhile, American and Can-
adian government official! are
joining ih a campaign of cancer
education. The object of the ed-
ucation drive ia to acquaint the
public with research in the field,
and to get more recruits to fight
cancer.
Jury Commission
In Session
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- | those who now die of cancer
The jury commission for Hop-; ,ould be saved through early de-
km» Countv met at 9 o'clock Fri- i teetkm and treatment.
2 Dead, 3 Hurt
On Snow-Swept
W-Tex Highways
hit a strip of packed snow on the
highway and overturned. The ac-
cident happened four miles west
of Conway, in the Panhandle.
Mrs. McNeaiey is in a hospital
in Groom.
Kenneth Kahn, of Burbank,
Calif., was killed ten miles west
of Vega, Texas. His car skidded
and overturned on a snow cover-
ed highway. Mrs, Kahn was in
the car at the time of the acci-
dent, but she was not injured.
Another man, Carlton Buck,
about 45 years old, is in the
Amarillo Veterans Administra-
tion Hospital. He was injured
when his car overturned between
Bushland and Amarillo.
The Highway Patrol says all
three of the accidents happened
within 16-minutes of each other.
The first was at 8:50 a. in. and
the other two have been set at
around nine o'clock.
Hopkins Bull
Grand Champ al
Greenville Show
“Mastermgn Standard Su-
preme”, Jersey bull owned by
Dan Harness of the Oak Grove
community, was- crowned Grand
Champion of the Jersey males
Friday at the Greenville Livestock
show. Another entry, “It’s Ve-
nus!’,. owned by Mr. Harness, was
named Reserve Champion Fe-
male by judges at the Greenville
show.
Harness stated that there were
very few entries from Hopkins
County, and to his knowledge, his
animals were the only ones to win
any honors. The show will last
through Saturday, with the Jer-
sey division being held Friday.
Vandenberg Says Needed
To Win a Quick War
Windstorms Hit
Pennsylvania and
Florida Areas
(Bn AnveMtrd Prut)
Severe windstorms struck north-
western Florida and Southwestern
Pennsylvania late Thursday, in-
juring two persons and damaging
at least ten buildings. One person
was injured at N’iceville, Florida.
The other was injured when a
twister cut across the Pennsyl-
vania region from Balsinger to
Uniontown.
Three-Way Wreck
Injures Woman I
Thursday Night
An automobile wreck two miles
east of Weaver Thursday night
involving three vehicles caused
one woman to be hospitalised, but
attendants at the Longino Hospi-
tal, where she was taken, report-
ed that she was not thought to he
seriously injured. The" woman,
Mrs. Hattie Simmons, aged 60,
was from Lynchburg, Va., and
she suffered a chest injury and
lacerations.
The mishap occurred about
10:16 p. m., on Highway 67 when
1939 model pi<jcup driven by
of Sill
M. F. Jones of Siltillo, and a
1947 model automobile, pulling a
trailer, driven by Carl Johnson
of Mt. Pleasant, sideswiped each
other. The pickup overturned on
the highway, but Jones, aged 70, itv
was uninjured. The 1947 car and
trailer remained In an upright po-
sition.
Shortly thereafter, a 1942
model coupe, driven by John A.
Simmons, age 31, of Lynchburg,
(Continued on page eight)
Hoover Board Urges U. S.
Quit Money-Lending Game
Burt C. Waits, chairman of th>
local drive, Has issued a call to
all residents to observe April as
Cancer Control Month. In sn ap-
peal. he pointed out that an aging
population is aggravating the
problem of cancer control because
a larger number of people are
reaching the "cancer age". He
added, toe, that cancer now ran**
second aa national killer of chil-
dren, according to statistic* com-
piled this year.
Mr. Wail* asked for a redoubl-
ing of efforts by local citizens in
meetihg thi* problem and point-
ed out that at I cast one-third of
d*y morning in the court house
to -elect jUrort for the April and
July term of County Court.
The April teim of court is dtt*
to begin Monday.
Ryucf Bevis, W, A.
sfc, W R*) Hanna, B. D.
( T; T. Sapaugh, John
IdLand J . C Tapp.
Is Court
irses Case of
lan Bank
Fear Bloodshed in
N. Y. Taxi Strike
(Ih Ammirnud Print
New York, April 1. —New York
11 jty b- being patrolled by a »j»e-
j rial regiment of 22-bundred po-
liecnten because of the taxicab
| strike. The police are under ro-
i railed gravest (meigency orders.
Hbt of Civil Appeals at *«««» only once before~-i«. the
U has reversed the n»1- d"V* ****** 11
■S Judge Charles i city-wide taxi strike began early
in favor of the Appellee | today, and a union leader charg-
Ta.ui rendered judgement <•< that guns have been given to
. lhp Quitman bank on! so-called scab driver*. Both
I 'check on,« huh payment i sides predict Woody violence by
m rtouped ‘ ’ j the other. A taxi union started
LAiMwIlant Quitman bank th- strike in a drive for mog-
* fJnted by Seller* * fan- j nition.
_t»|phuf Spring* and T. C.j --------------------------
tM'4'ESiDJlA. Memben
Galveston and Ramey &
Sulphur Spring*.
!ATHER
* air Annmnd P"*>
rexto“-lncreasing cloudt-
hower* in the ex-
d near the coaat
To Meel Saturday
.-grtly cloudy *•«-
There will it X meeting of the
D.H.l.A, memberx Saturday al
the Chamber of Commerce office,
A luhcheou will held *t SeBer’e
Cafeteria at 12 o’cldek. and a
buaiafaes. meeting vriH follow at
one o'clock in the Chamber of
Commerce; *
The appeal asked for active co-
operation with the American Can-
cer Society during its April ed-
ucational and fund-raising drive.
The drivj opens here April 20th
and Mr, Wait* stated that com-
mittee* were being formulated
for the purpose of handling the
campaign and would be announc-
ed at a later date.
Johnson 4-H Club
Girl Wins Top
Honor in Texas
4 Bn IwtiMO Pm*1
Dallas, April l,—An Alvarado
-^Johnson County—girl i» » hap-
py youngster today. She is 16-year
old Barbara Deli Dean. She won
the highest honor the Texas Home
Demonstration Association ha* fo.v
4-H Club Kiris. She was the win-
ner pf the Maggie Barry Award
at College Station.
A yhar's scholarship to-any state
college goes will* the award.
Ideal Weather
In Local Area
Brisk, tprlngdike weather pre
vailed in the Sulphur Springs
area Friday, Weatherman Ralph
Hill repnrmd that tfao early morn
temporatur* raiding waa- 41
Survivor* include the husband;/degree*, while the noon reading
A negro man and his wife were
in Sheriff Rasure’s “hotel” Fri-
day morning following a Thurs-
day night altercation in the
downtown area. The two were
involved in a knife fight, and the
negro .man suffered a slightly cut
egr. The woman was not hurt,
the sheriff’s foree reported.
A local white man was charg-
ed with assault and battery by
county officials, and was held in
jail Friday morning. He alleg-
edly provoked a fight with a
neighbor after a dispute arising
over a fence which . separated
their property.
City police picked up a
(Bn Anoehted Print)
Washington, April 1, — The
Hoover Commission issued the last
report today of an i 8-installment
series of recommendations on gov-
ernment reform.
The report was so snarled by
dissenting opinion than on one
subject—Public Power—it could
offer no recommendation which
had the backing of a majority of
the 12-member commission.
However, a majority agreed that
( onsre** should be asked to put % the words of the review, some-
times duplicate private and muni-
cipal lines.
(Continued on page eight)
Bulgaria Arrests
100 on Charge
Of Spying
the government out of the money
lending business and eliminate 30
government agencies, either by
merger or liquidation. The com-
mission urged that the major
source of, credit, thjc reconstruc-
tion finance toleration, be re-
organised. If the commission has
its way, the R-F-C will become
merely a guarantor of private
bank loans.
Led by ex-president Herbert
Hoover, members of the commis-
•te(rro; sion said that waste, favoritism
and corruption arc invited when
the government make direct loan*
to firms and individuals in the
housing, farming and industrial
field. But on this subject as well
as op proposed curtailment of
federal power, Secretary of State
Dean Acheaon was in sharp dis-
agreement
However, the commission agreed
that rent control now managed by
Final Riles for
Mrs. Jenkins Held
Al Emblem
Funeral aerriem for .Mrs. F.ulc*
Jinkin*. 50-year-old Emblem resi-
dent, were held at 2 o'clock Fri-
day afternoon at Emblem; with
interment in the. Emblem ceme-
tery. Rev., Short conducted the
service-'- ' ,
Mr*. Jenkin* was bom Lorenc
Baird Qrti 24. 1898 in the Emb-
lem community, the daughter of
Willie and Mottle Baird. She wax
married . to Kales Jenkins on
March 3, 19!«, The deceased war
a member of the Baptist f’hurch.
Mrs, Jenkins succumbed Thurs-
day night after a brief illness.
Pallbearer* - included Lester
Glosstm. Allen Deaton. J. C. Fer-
rell; Hsrlcn Craig, Connie Kurbo,
and Allen Cross.
(Bn Amur mud print
Bulgaria reportedly has arrest-
ed about one-hundred persona in
a spy ring. Some of the suspect*
are said to i>e in high govern-
ment positions.
That's the report from Yugosl-
avia’s official news agency, which
adds that the spy group- is not
linked to that country. Yugonlavm
has had strained relations with
neighboring countries still in thi-
ll usstan-con trolled Kuuinform.
her mother, Mr*.’ Mollie Baird;
three sons, and five dafgfltters;
auj o«* brother a ml four ;,Uers.
Unemployment
Takes a Drop -
(Bn. Anntoid Pres**
Washington, April 1. — The
Censiii' Bureau announces that
the number of the nation'* un-
employed ha* taken a drop. Dur-
ing March, unemployment drop-
ped 64,906 after rising during
the housing expediter, should In-
brought under the government's
Central Housing Agency.
Because of its deadlock on pub-
lic power, the commission wound
up by making no formal recom-
<Bu Attonaud rremil
Washington, AioU.J 'General
Hoyt Vandenberg says the United
State* must have a 70-group air
force to win a war in a hurry.
The Air Force Chief of SU*flTT
told a Senate Armed Services
subcommittee today that ip the
event of war the Air. Fort* jufa
would be to hit an aggressor hard,
to defend the country and to sup-
port other American forces. And
Vandenberg says the air arm cam
do it—if it gets what it wants—
70 air groups. If vve do not win
air supremacy at once in any
future war and hold on to it,
Vandenberg says it is going to be
mighty tough for the ground for-
ces. Vandenberg’* advice was
echoed by Assistant Secretary for
Air Eugene Zuckert.
• The Senate subcommittee is~’
holding a hearing today on the
70-group bill which already has
passed in the House. Senator Vir-
gil Chapman of Kentucky'and
Senator Chan Gurney of South
Dakota suggested (wo changes in
the measure, one to get uniform-
in long time contracts for
planes, ships and special arma-
ment, the other to include the
navy in authority to develop
guided missies.
Railroads Waul
More Money for
Carrying Mail
(Bn Aimtotd Prim)
Washington, April J, — The
nations railroads have asked for
more money for carrying the mail.
They asked the Interstate Com-
merce Commission for a greater
temporary rate increase than they
now receive.
The carriers seek a permanent
boost of 80 per tent in their pay
for hauling mail. Last year, tho
I-C-C granted them a temporary
increase of 26 percent. Now, tho
mendations on that subject But carriers have asked that the tem-
each faction wrote its own view.
A bloc of five headed by Hoovur
urged that the government end its
hydroelectric operations at dams
—instead of putting up transmis-
sion and distribution lines which
New Oil Location
In Pickion Field
Scheduled Soon
A revision in the drilling sche-
dule in the Pickton oil field has
been made, and drilling will be-
gin on the T. S. Gibson No. 1-B
following completion of the A. K.
Jackson No. 1.
The location, which will lie dril-
led by the Humble Oil Company,
will be on a 96-acre tract in the
William B. Jordan Sumy No.
80715, owned by T. S, Gibson,
of Sulphur Springs.
porary increase be made 46 per
cent for the period of June 24,
1948, to March 24, 1949. and
they asked a temporary increase
of 60 per cent effective March
24th.
Golden Wedding
April 3 for ihe
Jim Wagners
Open House will be held at tit#
home of Mr. and Mrs. Jim Wag-
ner, 112 Goodman avenue, Sun-
day afternoon, April 3, from two
to four o’clock, for friends of the
family in observance of Mr, and
Mrs. Wagner's Golden Wedding
anniversary.
The children of Mr. ami Mrs.
Wagner, Mr*. W. V. Bennett of
Saltillo and Joe and John R. Wag-
ner and families of Sulphur
Springs, will be pre*ent with
their parent* for the occasion.
Russia Denounces North Atlantic Pact;
Says No Intention to Attack Anyone
(Bf AnnnalrH Ptrti)
Moscow, Apri) 1—-The Kremlin
ha* blasted the North . Atlantic
Tact.
T h c official Soviet News
Agency. Tass, relayed the Russian
position that the alliance is open-
ly ' aggressive and i* directed
against Russia. The Kremlin ad-
ded that the alliance breaks the
United Nation* Charter as well
as four other International
agreement*.
According (o Tas.-, the Russian
Foreign Minister has dispatched
these conclusions to . the seven
sponsoring nation* of the Atlan-
each of the four previous month*, tic Treaty. They arc the United
At-the same time, the number of - States, Britain, France, Belgium,
' Canada, The Netherlands and
Luxenihou
wa* 69 degrees.
High temperature reading
Thursday waa 61 degrees.
employed increased 479,000. Sec-
retary of Commerce Sawyer took
a look at the figure* and said it
appeared to him tirfkt the uptrend
in unemployment has been atop-
ped. . . .
tussia
The Russians make the (mint
that they alone among the Big
Four were not invited into the
eoafi rcaec. .
is;
The Kremlin charged that the
treaty runs counter not only to
the U.N. Charter, but to the
Yalta and Potsdam agreements
and the Anglo-Soviet and Franco-
Soviet treaties.
The protest i* in the form of
a memorandum to the seven
Western nations. At one point
it say* that Russia is excluded be-
cause the treaty is directed
against the Soviet Union.
The merttorandum adds that
Atlantic power nations arc effect-
ing extensive military measure*
that cannot be justified hy the
interest* of self-defense,
The memorandum si so (mint*
to, an increaae in armed forces,
a plan for utilising the atomic
bomb, stockpiling' of *1011110
weapons and the building of a
network of air and naval faaaea.
Amt tin statement goe» on lu to the treaty.
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charge tint a combined Brilish-
American staff is being retained
in Washington from the last war.
The Russian* further^ charge that
a Western Union defense set-up
already is established outride F*>
rit wild that a Defense Commit-
tee m planned under; the new
treaty. : t'. . .
The memorandum states: .“AN
this coatrifatue* to intensifying
an\ie(y and alarm, and to the
whipping up of war hysteria in
which all sort* of instigators 'Mf
iww war are so interested.”
The Russian memorandum
that the anti-Koviet
the Atlantic Alliance aro j
lest. And the reaaoit;
R11 a 11 u din (tat tHi t
•w a* —- *-
anyone . . , and
ein. France or the
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