The McGregor Mirror and Herald-Observer (McGregor, Tex.), Vol. 64, No. 45, Ed. 1 Friday, May 1, 1953 Page: 1 of 8
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The McGregor Mirror
AND HERALD -OBSERVER
VOLUME SIXTY-FOUR
McGREGOR MIRROR, Mr GREGOR, TEXAS FRIDAY, MAY 1, 1953.
NUMBER 45.
Season for Little League
Opens Monday Night
On City Park Diamond
All four McGregor Little
League teams will make their
appearance at City Park during
the opening week of the 1953
season which gets under way
Monday, May 4.
Opening night will pit Mana-
ger Dave Gulley’s 1951 champion
Green Sox against Manager R.
T. McMullen’s 1952 champion
Blue Sox. Game time is set for
7:30 p. m.
On Tuesday night the Ameri-
can Legion, managed by Lester
Horstman will meet Lawrence
Fathke’s Red Sox.
Then, on Friday night, May 8,
the Green Sox will vie with the
Legion.
The McGregor Lions Club,
sponsors of Little League this
year, and League President Lee
Ardell say everything is in readi-
ness for a big season. The teams
are ready to go, and members of
the Lions Club, together with
other volunteers, have been busy
getting the field into shape. Per-
manent anchors are install-
ed for the bases, new and better
backstops have been construct-
ed, the field has been leveled and
filled, bleachers have been paint-
ed, concession stand has been re-
vamped and home-run fences
have been repaired.
New this year will be ah elec-
tric score board, which should
be ready for the opening game.
City Announces Compromise on Codes
In Valiant Effort to Please Citizens
The league has also purchased
its own public address system.
President Ardell urges people
to attend these games and sup-j
port the league with their dona-'
tions when the hat is passed each
night. For these donations and
the concession stand are the
league’s only means of support.
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BANK DEPOSITS SHOW
MARKED INCREASE
Deposits of McGregor’s First
National Bank have increased
some $250,000 since this , time
last year, the financial statement
appearing in this week’s issue of
The Mirror reveals.
Deposits at the time of the
call on April 20 were $3,192,839.-
40. Other increases over this
time last year were noted: $45,-
in^rease in loans; $25,000 in
capital structure; $550,000 in-
crease in investments in U. S.
Bonds and Municipal bonds, and
an increase in total assets of
about $272,000.
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The many frineds of Mrs. C.
B. "Weiss are happy to know that
she is getting along nicely after
being carried to Hillcrest Hospi-
tal last Thursday. Mrs. Weiss
fell and broke her pelvis bone
while at the cemetery with her
daughter where they were doing
some work on the family plot.
This-That and the Other
‘‘BY GUM”
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A scientist asserted this week
in Clevenland that there were
plans now in being for a machine
which would reproduce iteslf.
As described, the machine would
collect parts from its environ-
ment and assemble them to pro-
duce a second machine of the
same type, which would then
collect parts and construct a
third machine, and so on. In
other words, the machine might
be placed in an area with all the
materials necessary for the pro-
duction of like machines and
set in motion. Thereafter, the
machines would be reproduced
and the multiplication rate
would become a fantastic one as
long as the raw materials supply
held out.
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As far as we are concerned, we
see little to excite the interest
in this prospective era. We sus-
pect that life, in this machine
age, would be reduced to a
rather statistical and mathemat-
ical evistance. And, as for playin8
bridge or canasta with some of
tl;e new machines which will be
able to perform in this field,
we’ll take vanilla. And playing
canasta or bridge with a ma-
chine is not our idea of stimu-
lation, remarkable as might be
the machine . . . Thus we can con-
clude that we were born at
"liibout the right moment in the
world’s history and not forty
years too soon.
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It is evident that one of Presi-
dent Eisenhower’s primary aims
is to remove what he calls the
shackles from private enterprise
to turn over many operations
which have been conducted by
the government to private in-
dustry and to encourage indus-
trial expansion and incentive.
This is in line with his cam-
paign promises in 1952, when he
promised voters that he would
halt what the Republicans term-
ed a creeping socialism and eli-
minate government interference
with free enterprise.
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Today is the first day of May,
and as the year 1953 wears on,
business men are seaching for
an answer to the quetion wheth-
er and when a recession will
overtake them. Last year (the
last half) of 1953 was widely
predicted as the recession year.
That time is rapidly approach-
ing. And there ar ngiessshrdlu
ing. And there are signs to
make business men nervous. In-
ventories are building up, there
are some price cuts and civilian
production has now caught up
with demand in most fields. But
these surface signs provide little.
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Savings are unusually high at
present, xand investments by in-
dividuals in securities in the last
year have been high, jt }s true
that mortgage debt and install-
ment buying debts have risen
sharply also. Nevertheless the
result of the last twelve months
does not justify concern, but
optimism. . . Many of the ex-
perts still expect some decline in
business late this year.
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As we see, farmers can expect
high price supports into 1954.
Some tax relief will be voted
this year. The dollar is now
buying more. Thus when read-
justment occurs, the * economy
will be found in good position to
survive it. The readjustment
may begin late this year, but the
important thing is that it looks
like it will be a readjustment
such as that of 1949, and not a
depression. It may be milder
than has been predicted.
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McLennan County Electric Cooperative Receives Fifth Safety Award
Employes of McLennan County Electric Cooperative, Inc. were recently awarded their fifth
plaque for 50,000 consecutive man-hours without loss of time due to accident. This boosted to 250,000
the number of accident-free hours compiled in multiples of 50,000 by the local rural electric organi
zation since 1947. '
Project Manager Raymond Hampel and his employes are pictured above looking on as Neal
C. Deshazo Jr., of Employers Mutual Libility Insurance Co., presents the plaque to Raymond Mat-
tiza, construction foreman. #
Employes are (left to right) Joe Bob Walters, F. C. Luedtke, A. A. Haney, Hampel, Bill Wal-
ters, Deshazo, Raymond Hampel Jr., Buster Morris, Mattiza, Ernest Amelunke (face partially hid-
den), Eddie Witt, Bert Cummings, Sam Terry, C. W. Clemons, Mrs. Maureen Garrett, Mrs. Mary
Marsh and Mrs. Katherine Baker.
Sunday May Bring Better Television
To McGregor, Set Owners Hope
The some 100 television
owners in McGregor are
ing their fingers crossed.
Sunday, KRLD-TV (channel
4) in Dallas, is going to increase,
its power three times. And by
mid-Mav, KTBC-TV (channel 7)
in Austin, will boost its power
from two kilowatts to ten (100,-
000 watts).
Already receiving a fair to
good signal from these- two sta-
tions aproximately fifty percent
of the time, McGregor viewers
are hoping that the increase in
power. of these two stations will
boost reception here to three-
quarters-—or maybe all— of the
time.
If the increased power doesn’t
bring in these two stations as
expected, then McGregorites may
have several more months of
spasmodic reception.
"The next chance for relief rests
with C. A. Weatherbv of Hamil-
ton, who is planning a ultra high
frequency (channel 34) station
in "Waco. Weatherby says if his
equipment arrives With no fur-
ther delays, it will probably be
in service by September.
Announcement also was made!
Wednesday that Bell Publishing
Co. of Temple is planning to
build a 100,000 watt station near
Eddy. This station would be
KCEN-TV and would broadcast
over channel 6. No tentative date
w a s given as to when it
might be ready, but it would
naturally be some time.
The only other possibility rests
with channel 11, which has been
allocated to Waco, and for which
Radio Stations WACO and
KWTX have been in dispute for
more than a year. The FCC is
hearing contested cases now, bul
Waco is 38th on the list,—and
only 15 have been cleared.
IvWTX claims to be the first
set (to apply for
keep
channel 11, and
claims it should be given the
channel for this reason. WACO,
on the other hand, claims it
should be given the channel be-
cause it has requested a much
stronger station, 53,000 watts, as
compared to 9,900 for KWTX.
Neither applicant will yield so,
nothing -can be done but wait for
the hearing.
-McGregor, meanwhile, contin-
ues to be on the fringe area of
about every station in the state.
At present local viewers receive
part-time signals from six sta-
tions, with possibly WBAP-TV
ACCIDENT VICTIM
Funeral services for Charles
(Bubba) Haley, 48, vioitim of a
ear-truck collision here Tuesday,
were held at 2 p. m. Thursday
in the First Methodist Church,
with the pastor, Rev. Henry Price*
officiating. Burial was in Harris
Cr.eek Cemetery.
> Haley was pronounced dead
on arrival at a Waco hospital
10:40 a. m. Tuesday. He was car-
ried to the hospital by Amsler’s
ambulance following the * colli-
sion of the car in which he was
riding with an ice cream truck
at the intersection of Highways
84 and 317.
Haley and his aunt, Mrs. Mar-
gie Beebe were driving to the
McGregor Cemetery with Charles
F. Hoester, a Waco monument
salesman, to place markers on
the graves of several relatives at
the cemetery. The car, which
Hoester was driving, heading
north, and the ice cream com-
pany truck from Temple, head-
ing West, collided at about 10
See WRECK, Back Page
(channel 5) Fort Ayorth, KRLD-1
TV (channel 4) Dallas and
KTBC-TV ('channel 7) Austin be-
ing the best stations. At times,
however, depending on the at-
mospheric conditions, Galveston
(channel 11-) or Houston (chan-
nel 2) may come in best. WFAA-
TV (channel 8) Dallas, seems to
be the weakest of the six.
The Mirror wrote fetters to
several of these stations recently,
asking about their plans to step
up their power in the future.
Here, briefly, are their replies:
KTBC-TV, Austin explained
that since they had gone into
operation last Noember, they
have been using an “interm”
transmitter, loaned them by RCA
which is manufacturing the sta-
tion’s permanent transmitter.
The transmitter has now been
received and is being installed.
By mid-May they should have it
ready for use, thereby “greatly
improving and extending fringe
area pictures.”
WBAP-TV, Fort Worth, wrote
that they had no immediate plans
for increasing their power.
' KRLD-TV, Dallas, revealed
that they would increase their
poAver three times on May 3, ex-
tending their fringe 'area con-
siderably.
WFAA-TV, Dallas, told of its
application for construction of
a tower 1,747-feet ^ in height
(more than 300 feet higher than
the Empire State Building) and
an increase in power from 27,1
kilowatts to 316 kilowatts. This
would give McGregor 100 per
cent reception, the station mana-
ger stated. Application was made
last November and approval has
not yet been granted, but it is
expected in the near future. The
station manager estimated one
and a half to two years before
such service could be ready.
At the public - hearing held by
the Board of Commissioners of
the City of McGregor on April
27 in the City Hall, a large num-
ber of citizens turned out to dis-
cuss the Electrical Code and
Building Code. Opinions were
freely expressed, predominantly
to the effect that the Electrical
Code should be repealed and that
the fees as proposed in the Build-
ing Code were still too high.
Many objected to the various in-
spections called for under the
Building Code and several ob-
jected to having to get a build-
ing permit for anything, regard-
less of whether a fee was charg-
ed for it or not.
Discussion was opened upon
whether or not it was desirable
to retain the ,Zoning Ordinance
and the consensus of opinion was
that it should be retained.
The Board of Commissioners,
after weighing the opinions of
the people as expressed at the
meeting have enacted what could
be termed a compromise. The
Electrical Code has been repeal-
ed in whole. The Building Code
has been amended reducing the
fees for permits, where they are
required, which, outside the fire
zone, is only where new construc-
tion or remodeling that will
change a structure exceeds $100.
Elsewhere in The Mirror appears
a detailed notice of the amend-
ment as made to the building
ordinance, as published by the
City.
In order for the City to ad-
minister the Zoning Ordinance
it is necessary to require a plot
plan of new construction, or re-
modeling where the building is
to be enlarged, to be filed with
the Building Department of the
City so that it can be determined
that the proposed construction
meets with the Zoning require-
ments.
Likewise, it it felt that outside
the fire zone, at least one in-
spection should be made to see
that the actual building has con-
formed to the plot plan as
Therefore, in order to avoid any
hardship, an inspection is re-
quired when the foundation ex-
cavation has been made and the
forms set. In this way, if it is
found that the construction does
not conform to the Zoning Ord-
inance, then the change can be
made at, the least possible ex-
pense to the owner.
The Board of Commissioners^
has tried to reach a compromise
complying as far as possible with
the wishes of the people, yet
bearing in mind the fact that-they
have the responsibility for plan-
ning for the future growth of
the City. Certainly tliere is no
way in which they can please
each and every person and still
do what they feel is best for the
community. The action taken as
nearly approximates this happy
condition as the divergent opin-
ions of the Citizenship will per
mit.
It is sincerely hoped that the
Board of Commissioners will re-
ceive cooperation of the people
in making these ordinances work-
able.—Board of Commissioners.
NU PI CHAPTER MEETS
The Nu Pi Chapter of Beta Sig-
ma Phi met at the home of Mrs.
Jamie Anderson Monday even-
ing. Present were Quata Clem-
ents, Lillie Kirk, "Wilma Williams
Mary Beth Reese, Mary Weiss,
Freda Price, Nellie Frost, Nor-
ma Hering and the hostess,
Dorothy Jean Anderson.
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