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Buy The Brazosport Prom Ads In The Daily PACTS REVIEW VOL. 41, No. 92 All the Brazosport News Every The Top World Hews FREEPORT, TEXAS, TUESDAY, JULY 7, 1953" United Press Wire Service HARVEY H. HECKER, the retired civil engineer, World War 1 and Spanish-American war veteran and "fugitive" from the Ohio Soldiers and Sailors hotrie In Sanduuky, from his prefabricated mail order boat at the yacht basin at 79th street on the Hudson river in New York after a voyage from the midwest An outboard motor gives him 12 rhph. The Hecker left Sandushy last October, fluffed down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, across the Gulf of Mexico and up coastal waterways to New York, He plana to travel on up the Hudson to Albany, N.

take the Brie barge canal to Lake Brie, and so on back to Sancluskjr. (International Hotinilflwto) Senate OKs Millions In Federal Aid For Farmers WASHINpTON-OB-The Sen- ings would have only delayed the Senate floor before the end of the ate Agriculture committee Tues- emergency legislation. dav iirianimnnslv a approved by day unanimously approved legislation to provide' hard-pressed farmers and ranchers of the southwest drouth bowl with millions of dollars of government credit. The committee 7 approved the bill, drafted by the Department of Agriculture, in jig time and without public hearings. Chairman George D.

Aiken R-Vt. said.hear- Fiesta On TV The climax of the Freeport Jaycee's sixth annual Fishin' Fiesta will be televised over KP. HC-TV next Monday on the "Texas In Review" program. The events of the final day of the three-day Fiesta were televised in part, including some of the prize-winning catches as they were being'landed. The program starts at on Channel 2.

Ex-Freeporfer A Freeport 'native sen, J. S. Wejboan has been promoted to assistant division manager in the Houston geophysical department, the Texas Company-annouc- ed today. Welboan is a veteran of 17 years with the company. of By THELMA WILLIS Seen Hither and Yon: The death of JACK SPENCER came as a shock to all for Jack seemed to be one of those fellows would always be around to tell where the jsh were biting who was out in the Gulf fishing that day who caught anything who eot seasick or most anything else you wanted 'to know our condolences to (he family.

A. T. DEERE family back from a Fourth spent in the City of Roses Tyler, of course visiting with his mother, brother and family. A tiny knock at the door a small boy crying "j' sc lost I don't know my name and I don't know where 1 live" tears streaming down while he toyed with a small airplane and a paper picked up from someone's yard a kind lady coming up to take him to all the houses on the street until his "mummy" was found. Our thanks to ALLYNE BOX for a very beautiful poem written in memory of our dad wish space wpuld permit the printing of it here, for it said a lot of things we couldn't friends like ALLYNE are hard to find.

VERNON SLAGLE in the hospital and feeling "awful low" with that fever nothing much worse 41 in the House Agriculture cotniml- tee, would provide a multi-million credit program for farmers and ranchers, primarily in the' drouth area of the Southwest. But the Senate committee knocked out a section setting up a new method of subsidizing feed and seed shipments to drouth area farmers. At present this is being done through the President's emergency fund. The proposed bill would have shifted the financing to the Department of The" House Agriculture tee approved the bill Monday within hours after Secretary of Agriculture Ezra T. Benson testified that the credit is urgently needed by farmers and ranchers in 300 counties in, the Southwest that have been declared disaster areas.

It may come up for House floor action Wednesday. Aiken said hearings would only delay action pn the legislation which he hopes to have on the The measutt, sponsored by more than. SO senators, would create a new "disaster revolv- 'ing fund" within the Department of Agriculture for emer- 9 and ranch, loans and to subsidise shipments of 'ow- cosi feed and seed to drouth The" legislation would provide: 1. Government loans of $50,000 or more to "established" stockmen who have a "reasonable chance" of working out their financial plight: he w.quld be hand. the Farmers "Home Admin- near interest led fstrati6ft''fttd of 5 per 'cent, 2.

"Economic "disaster" loans to farmers arid ranchmen in official ly designated drouth areas who are also hit by falling would, be a short-term credit that could not be obtained locally. 3. Subsidized feed and seed shipments to drouth area farmers and 'This assistance is now being rendered through the president's emergency Clute Council To Discuss Suit For De-Incorporation Toniqht Clute City' commissioners will meet tonight with City Attorney Alton C. Arnold to discuss the suit pending against the city on its incorporation, H. Bascom Simpson, city clerk, said today.

Simpson said thai the anti- incorporation forces, led by W. T. Ware of Clute City, had indicated the suit questioning the legality of the city's incorporation, would not be dropped in spite of a recent 310 to 210 vote favoring the incorporation. The suit was originally schert uled to be heard in district court July 6, but was put off for an indefinite period because of a heavy courts docket, Simpson said. Attorney Arnold said the court had indicated a trial date would not be available'until August 19, at which time a definite date could be set for the hearing.

Also scheduled to be at tonight's meeting is M. T. Garrett, vice- president of the Garrett Engineer- Firms To Close During Rites For Spencer H. A. Jorgenson, president of the Brazosport Chamber of Commerce, said today that a number of local business firms as well as the Chamber, will be closed from 1:30 to 3 p.

m. tomorrow for the funeral services of Jack Spencer, who died Sunday. Services for Spencer will be held at the Fir.st Baptist Church in Freeport starting at 2 p. with the Rev. Phillip R.

Brown, pastor, officiating. Burial will be in Restwood Memorial Park. THE WEATHER Partly cloudy and continued warm. Low 76, TIDE TABLE HIGH a. m.

LOW at. ing Company of Houston, whose firm obtained the water and sewage contract at Clute City. PRICE: 5 CENTS Whopping Majorities Elect Badge, Boston, Arrington Completion Of 4th Street Paving Near Uuhappy housewives who live on the north side of West 4th Street from the 1200 through the 1600 blocks will be happy to learn that paving of the street will soon be completed, G. O. Norns, county commissioner said today.

Welcome and cooling rains during the past 10 days delayed completion of the paving. Mr. Norris said that the street must be re- bladed, rolled and watered before blacktopping can be applied. A company employe said if dry weather holds the paving crew should have the topping down within the week. The paving and resnaping of the five blocks of West 4th Street is part of a $10,000 appropreation by the County Commissioners Court for local street improvements.

Dust raised by passing vehicles and carried north by the preval- ing wind has brought protests from housewives. Today a tank truck is sprcad- inc water in the dug up street and rollers are packing the shell. The water keeps the dust down and the paving crew should move in soon after the rolling is completed. Merchants In L. J.

Sponsor Free Shows For Kids Throngs of children arc expected to be on hand Thursday to enjoy the first of a series of matinees at the Lake Theater sport- sored by the merchants of Lake Jackson and free to the children. The show Thursday will be "The Great Mike" starring Stu Erwin and Alfalfa. It will be free to all children through high school age, but John Huebel, show owner, says that the theater will be filled only to seating capacity. Mrs. Julia May, Jack Nowlin and Ernie Rea are serving as the steering committee for the participating merchants.

Each week there will be a full show which has been carefully selected, plus a cartoon. Also scheduled is a That project so far has been I wcckl Wiz show for the young- stymied by the pending incorporation suit. Area Lions At Annual Meet In Chicago Representatives from three Bra- zosport'Lions Clubs are in Chicago today awaiting the opening Wednesday of the annual four-day International Lions Club convention there. The delegates from area clubs include K. S.

O'Neal, Freeport; C. C. Childress, Clute City; and Cecil Calvert, Velasco. Lake Jackson did not send a delegate. The convention will get underway Wednesday with a gala parade.

'The Conrad Hilton Hotel will be official headquarters for Texas delegates, but the actual convention will be held in Chicago Stadium. The number of delegates sent to the convention by each club is determined by th club's attendance. Each delegate will be furnished passes to a baseball game, a boat cruise on Lake Michigan and sight-seeing excursion which takes 'in many nationally famous spots and museums. Several outstanding sneakers, will address the convention. Festivities will close Sup- day with the election of new International officers, for the coming year, BUJLLJmH Wally Burkemo of Franklin and Felice Tacaa ol it.

Charles, 111,, were all even with par 38s at the ulna' mark in match lor the PGA golf iooshjp at Birmingham Country Club today. sters present participating and receiving prizes given by the merchants. There arc no tickets for Thursday's show, but after this week, tickets may be obtained by the parents at any Lake Jackson business establishment at no cost. There will be only one show Thursday, but if the crowd justifies it, two shows will be shown on later Thursday matinees. New tickets will be given each week for shows on the following Thursday and the shows arc not confined to Lake Jackson youngsters, but may be attended by any child of the area having a ticket.

Badge Gets 438 Votes; Boston, Arrington 425 The election of commissioners of the Brazos River Harbor Navigation District returning George Badge, Frank Arrington and E. L. Boston to office is all but official. With all but two of the 22 precincts involved in the election reporting returns, Badge compiled 438 voes, while Arrington and Boston received 425 each, an unofficial tally showed today. youth is still In Coma After Cycle Accident Seventeen-year-old Cecil Lee Brooks, who was critically injured in motorcycle mishap at Surfsidc Beach Saturday, was removed from John Sealy Hospital in Galveston last night to a Lubbock hospital by his parents, Mr.

and Mrs. C. L. Brooks, of Lubbock. The youth has not regained consciousness since the crash that marred the Fourth of July at Surfsidc.

The driver of the motorcycle, Samuel Castillo, was unhurt in the accident. Castillo told Deputy Sheriff J. B. Summers, the investigating officer, that he struck a log and lost control of the motorcycle. Young Brooks was thrown clear and was believed to have sustained a head injury.

0' The Irony Of It HARTFORD, George McCrea wns being given 9 to 15- year prison sentence for breaking and entering and lar- cency, someone sneaked out of courtroom with his coat. One question about the election to be answered, however, would the fact that one precinct in the District did not take part in the election affect its legality? This question arose when it was learned that no ballots were cast in the Liverpool voting precinct No. (i. A clerk in the County Clerk's office in Anglcton said today that no vofcng was done in Liverpool because the election judge failed to show up to supervise the balloting. It was doubtful, however, thai this would affect the legality of the election.

The three incumbent commissioners were returned to office by almost unanimous consent of the voters who turned out on the July 4th holiday to cast their ballots. The threat of a write-in vote that might have been effective in light voting because of the election falling on a holiday failed to materialize. Only six write-in votes wore cast in all of the precincts. These were cast In Brnzoria voting precinct No. 4 for Carlos Carlton.

returns' were taken as a resounding vote of confidence in the policies followed by the present board which have resulted in remarkable progress in the affairs of the district, particularly in regard to the new port project in Frccport. Clute Citv Shooting Victim Remains In Serious Condition Claude McNccse, 40-year-old Clute City man, who was shot twice in front of a Clute City tavern late Friday afternoon, remained in serious condition at Dow Hospital, hospital authorities reported this morning. Released under $1500 bond in the shooting was Elbert Andrew Shelton, operator of the Rocket Taxi Service of Clute City. In a written statement to Sheriff's Investigators Cecil Wingo and K. D.

Kyle, Shelton said Friday that McNccse had followed him outside Yoevonne's Cafe on the Lake Jackson-Clute road for a talk. Witnesses told Sheriff's officers that Shelton was seated in his automobile and McNoese was standing near the car door talking with Shelton when the first shot rung out. The witnesses said McNccsu staggered and turned when a second shot was fired. Police Beat By DICK SMITH The report to the Freeport cops about a prowler the other night on 2nd netted nawthin 1 A housewife got slightly panicky when she heard strange noises outside her bedroom window and her husband called the local gendarmes. They got their in minutes and went over the back yard with a fine tooth comb and came up with nary a footprint or a bent blade of grass.

ON THE HOOF The Brahma bulls are back at Surfside the tie-up. Beach. For a while last week after the two-way bridge may be re-installed ut Surfside in two weeks. Nothing official, understand! But the big question remains: Why weren't the general repairs on the two-way bridge made during the winter months before tho tourist season started? Thousands of weekenders arc tied up in traffic jams every Saturday and Sunday because of the existing bridge conditions. And the Sun Fest Day had to be cancelled this year because of column mentioned that more than a score of them were prowling around beach houses, they disappeared.

Now they are back, and a little boy was chased by one of them this morning for a distance of a lew feet, but the lad made it back to the steps of his cottage. Some residents are oiling up their rifles. Period! MOPI SURFSIDE An unfounded rumor has it that the The county cops, including Freeport Constable John Lee, have been out in force during the past week, patroling Gulf Blvd. and Highway 288 from Vel- asro northward. No mercy is being shown reckless drivers and speeders, and Velasco Justice of the Peace George Brock has been levying heavy penalties.

record shows today that arrests have abated, and the crackdown against traffic violu- ort is paying oil. Shelton, in his statement, told officers that he shot McNeesu with a German Luger. Tho second bullet punctured McNcesc's left lung, entering only four inches from his heart. The first shot merely grazed his left arm pit. Shelton, recently divorced and the father of seven children, was charged before Velasco Justice of the Peace George Brock, with assault wilb intent to murder.

Freeport Police Nab Houston Car Thief Freeport police today arc holding a 22 year-old man for the auto theft division of the Houston police department. The 22 year-old former Hilands resident was captured here Monday after he was seen abandoning a 1950 two-toned Huick in the 200 block of Cedar. A witness became suspicious of the man when ho carefully wiped off the ear before walking off. The witness called police. Police Sgt.

n. E. McCoy and Patrolman E. W. Kclley investigated.

They checked with the Houston police department but the car had not been reported stolen. After having the car pulled to the police station. Police Chief A. J. Schamerhorn again checked with Houston.

As ho was talking with Houston police, the owners of the automobile entered the Houston station to report the car stolen. Hfi'iJon nnli''" njso savl the man had been charged with auto theft in Houston, the chief added. GOP Relief "Postponing Disaster," Johnson Says WASHINGTON OP Senate Democratic leader Lyndon 13. Johnson said Monday Secretary of Agriculture Ezra T. Benson has and should use authority to set up a $118 million program, using customs receipts, to stabilize the cut- tle market.

The Texas Democrat said Benson's aid to the drouth area tc date is "merely postponement of disaster" and inadequate to meet the emergency. IUCKY FRANK PROCTOR, 11, shows the flooded storm sewer walked Into In Baltimore, to be swept 750 teat and disgorged uninjured tta Herring Hrwaa wading (International Soundphato) Star Spangled Smiths Have Often Moved, But Always Come Back To Freeport By PAT DAVIS seems thai we always come back to Freeporl." are the words of Mrs. Dclbcrt C. Smith 1500 West. 7th.

Houston is the original home of the Smiths, but they moved to Freoport in J1M2. Then Mr. Smith's work took him lo Canada for II months. They were back in Freeport in 19-13. It was November of that year when a storm badly damaged their home.

They moved back lo Houston until they could build another house. Now they are back in Freeport for (i years, and are a and have two children, planning to build a home in Lake i H. and Jimmy, 3. Mrs. Jackson.

They have purchased Thompson's mother, Mrs. Dianna lot, but Mrs. Smith told me thai I Mouncy, and her grandmother, she was somewhat reluctant lo I Mrs. Alma are visiting her. 'Dow.

They have two children, Ray, and Rulhie, 13. The Witts' home was originally iti Houston, but they have lived hero for 2 years. Mr. and Mrs. J.

T. Lewellen, lf)02 West Oth, entertained nine quests over the -1th of July holiday week-end. The Lewellens have ll)roo children, Dee-dee, Jerry, it, and Cheryl, 3. Mr. and Mrs.

1'aul M. Thompson, West Uth, are from St. l.miis. Missouri. They have lived in Freeport build they always end up hack in Kreopnrt, anyway.

The Smiths have two daughters, Judy, 10, and Vivi.m, 11. Eight year old James Bolk'ii. is the only son of Mr. and Mrs. J.

W. Molten, 1507 West 7th. Mrs. Moonoy has secured a teaching position at An.ulcton and she and her mother will make their home there. Mr.

and Mrs. Willie Kristof's son Donald Carlson, 13, is visit- iiif, his grimdmother in Louisiana. Mr. Kristof is an electrician at James is painting the picket fence Dow, and they have lived in Free- as his summer project. His parents have nicknamed him "Tom Sawyer" because of his tactics in persuading the neighborhood boys lo help him witli this chore.

James plays on a little league bateball farm team and is a member of the Cub Scouts. Mr. James O. Sharp, 150:) West 7th, is an accountant for Dow, and his wife has worked in the school administration office port at 1502 West 7th, for a year and a half. Mr.

J. II. Jordan, 1510 West 7th, is an electrician at Dow and his wife works at Sellers Insurance Company. They have 2 sons, Jimmy, Hi, and Steve, ti. Jimmy is looking forward to making a trip to Colorado with the Boy Scouts this August.

Mr, and Mrs. A. A. Crawford, 151 fi West 7th, have four children, for the past two years. She has Henry, 1(5.

Hubby, 13, Betty, 11, worked in the tax department and und Jerry, The Crawford family has been in charge of tickets to the school football games. The Sharps have a 14 year old son, Jay Dee, who plays left field on the Facts-Review Warriors Little Liwv.u; team. Dr. R. G.

Cariton and family, 1527 West Oth, took part in the Fishin' Fiesta exclusively for they just weren't bil- The Carltous' 15 year old twin daughters have summer jobs. Carolyn is Working ut the Hra- zo.sport Flower Shop, and Laura- lyji is working at the Brazosport swimming pool. Their son, Raymond, 17, is employed in the afternoon ut radio station KBRZ, and he goes to summer school in the mornings. Raymond plans to make radio work his vocation. Mr.

Raymond Witt, 1515 West 9th, is an engineer at DPW end his wife is a telephone operator at enjoys watching TV and are especially fond of quiz shows. Mr. Crawford is employed as a salesman for the National Biscuit Company. The L. I.

Nowburn family, 1531. W. 7lh, also likes TV shows. Tho Newburns have 4 daughters, Irva Noll. 13, Alice Ann, 11, Mary Jo.

10, and Tuni Kuth, 8. Mrs. Nowburn is proud of the fact that she makes all her clothes, the rhildrens clothes, and even sews some her husbands sport shirts. October 16, 1950, was the date that Mr. and Mrs.

Paul Blackburn of 1511 West 7th, moved to Freeport. Mr. Blackburn is an operator at Dow and his is the bookkeeper at Western Auto store in Freeport. They have two SODS. James, and BMtch, 10.

They bojjf their vacation to.