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1 Paso Herald Post HOME EDITION PRICE FIVE CENTS The Newspaper That Serves Its Readers DELIVERED BY CARRIER JOe PER WEEK EL PASO TEXAS MONDAY JANUARY 5 1953 VOL LXXIII NO 4 'GLASS' AROR SAVES LIVES IN Resin impregnated glass cloth bonded in layers and fashioned into body-contoured plates is the heart of the armored vest which is credited with saving hundreds of American fighting men in Korea from serious injury or death The material manufactured by Westinghouse at its plant at Hampton is made into plates which are sewn into nylon vests so that they overlap like fish scales Each vest weighs slightly less than eight pounds When shrapnel or "low velocity" projectiles hit the vest the layers of plastic "delaminate break rapnel or low velocity" projectiles velocity' ana act as a shock absorber Abo ock absorber Above bullets from a 45-caliber pistol ricochet or are im bedded in the vest Below left at top a 45-caliber slug fired from 20 feet is flattened upon im-pact with a plate of tha typa issued in the vest At bottom is an X-ray view of the bullet being stopped by the plate Below right Marine Pfc Ralph Barlow of Redondo Beach Calif wears the jacket which stopped the lethal piece of shra pn he is holding New Court Shifts Boundary Lines Changes Totals Pendell Voices Objection to Plan Commissioners Court today redistricted the County commissioners' precincts to equalize the population of the precincts The action was taken over tha objections of Commissioner George Pendell of Precinct 2 The Court took about 3S00 voters out of Precinct 1 and put them in Precinct 2 Precinct 2 was extended into the City south of the Southern Pacific tracks to Union Depot Double In Population Precinct 3 was more than doubled In population The western boundary was extended to tha middle of Ysleta putting Socorro in that precinct The voters in the new precincts: Precinct 1 18000 Precinct 2 11000 Precinct 3 2000: Precinct 4 14000 Before the Court's action the voters in commissioners precincts: Precinct 1 22500 Precinct 2 8000 which catches air pollution parti- TheJ yeara oldInd Island' 7f pan 3 from Italy 1 from Syria and Precinct 3 50 Precinct 4 9500 tv lived there for a year It was a The youngest new citizen la Silvia from Great Britain There waa' moton wai made by Com- Plant's Manager Says It Is 'Harmless' City and State health inspectors are preparing to take samples of yellow smoke pouring out of the Standard Oil Co smoke stack to determine whether it is the source of bad odors of which El Pasoans have complained Dr A Quebedeau of the State Health Department and Harold Tillman sanitation engineer with the City-County Health Unit will make the tests Dr Quebedeaux Is scheduled to arrive here within two weeks Cm Special Equipment The experiment will require special equipment which Dr Quebe- deaux will bring from Austin He recently eet up 24 testing sUtions to trace air pollution here This test consists of bottles par- tially filled with distilled water clef The distilled water is then "wmy Mrs Yanagawa said: wonderful day for me I've i1vd lon 1 we11 what thi country has to pan 2 from Italy 1 from Syria and Precinct 3 950 Precinct 4 9500 "an wss made by Cor 1 and given a chemical analysis to determine what the particles are Results of that experiment will be known within 10 days as soon as samples from the 24 testing bottles are analyzed at Austin Says It Is Harmless Mr nilman said fail department has received several complaints about Standard's yellow smoke Mr Tillman said the samples will be taken directly from the stack Paret Standard's vice-pres- County Engineer Frank Cook was Victor Apodaca Alameda ave- Ident here said the smoke is by Commissi on- Bin vniT! Ta A rnnrfi bar operator and professional i 0f stay of execution was offered "dani jthorlty over the engineering depsi fore Commissioner Henry ton a charge of receiving and ood an irstate shpment and carbon dioxide Tha smoke contains hint oil Kef lonlv to odor he said It diffuses before it wkTnnfZvZ msche the ground because of thee roT nd bridge fund to1 Judge Irving Kauf high stack he laid Keep a Chart Cut Off by the Enemy! It Takes Years Off Your Life When They Sneak Behind You each precinct commissioner Mr Cook was made accountable The Health Unit is maintaining a to Commissioners Court chart to pinpoint smog aress here' "It's not likely that he will fire The chart shows who complained i foreman without discussing it with the person's address nature of smogithe Commissioner or odor reported date and hour Gwge Carpenter said when he Thi chlrtWill have raiment'? propojal in the 1 11 man who Presided at their trial Marshal George Brown id he wouId rant th" if they handed Apodaca an arrest wqr- filed with the Federal Court by rant the -nattily bonds- aturday order stating they wllpman walked into the hearing room ke the application for executive of Commissioner Diflon wilh At- clemency torney George Rodriguez and an- Kjjufman announced his decision other attorney at 1025 a urlde-Slyi juares had not been seen by i0" Apodaca ot the Southern Pacific which is ddntknow ny0T1 wathe eastern boundary of Precinct me- Precinct 2 then extends south of After he wa fingerprinted rad the Southern Pacific tracks into tha madr of him at City to the Union Depot County Jail Apodaca waa returned to the hearing room and arraigned on a charge of receiving a box of Bliss spur line and the main line The dividing line between Precincts 2 and 3 is the Carlsbad cutoff and the Zarsgosa road North stolen baby apparel shipped from Hilb and Co at Denver to Hydes boundary is the same ai it wai be-Tot Shop at Midland (ore the Court acted States Supreme Court The motion for the stay of exe cution was a last-ditch move by defense attorneys to save the pair now doomed to die in Sing Sing's electric chair at 11 Jan 14 County Survey Chairman Named Roy Hoard today wu named chairman of a committee to look into the County's affairs mlttreiU Ide George Carpenter of missioner Pmdnct 1 five per cent of tha population has been represented by 25 per cent of the he said '1 think it is time we changed Now la tha Time City and rural areas should have equal representation ia tha Ume for us to demonstrate to the taxpayers of El Paso County that we truly are a representative body and that we really do intend to give El Paso County a fair and equal represen- tation" Three Commiasmners now represent sizeable parts of the City Precinct 1 takes in an area from Cotton avenue east and north to I the Southern Pacific tracks The Boundary Une The eastern boundary of Precinct is Cotton avenue and its extension to the New Mexico line The precinct is bordered on tha tracks to the Union Depot and then by the Mexican border The precinct includes all of the County In the Upper Valley Precinct 3 starts at Ysleta and runs to the intersection of the Ft of the Carlsbad highway tha The one abjection to the action was raised by Commissioner Pen-(Centinned on Page 4 Col 3) Sun Carnival Edition Still on Sale Copies af The Herald-Pest Ban Carnival Edition still are available They may be purchased at the Circulation Department counter Yea alee may fill cut and mall in the order blank an Pag 4 Hundred! of servicemen and servicewomen from the El Pom area will receive a full account of the 1952-53 Bun Carnival In the Sub Car-nlvel Edition tf The Herald-Poet being moiled oversea a Inside Your Herald-Post Weather Forecast: Continued fair (Details on Page 17) Pago Ann Carroll 28 Comic 25 ran word Paula 25 Dr Conner 16 Editorials 18 Eleanor Roosevelt 12 Foreign Beene If Frances Glacier 18 Markets 24 Othman 15 Prgler i 13 People 6 Radio Programs 17 Side-Bar Bcmsrin IB 8 porta 13-19 Stokes 16 Women's News 13-13 from all walks of lif Committee will see if by Mka Dipp of 515 County's affairs are being run ini ttWh Commissioner Clifton set bond will make its recommendations to the Court It will be Pndini Churchill Sees Chance for Peace being made By ilMaeiarcd Ptcm NEW YORK Jin Winston Churchill said today that resisting Communism in Korea has more to improve the peace than anything The British prime minister arriving here for talks with President-elect Eisenhower said the danger at World War III receded during the last He told a news conference aboard the Queen Mary that tha1 Korean War mains "that Soviet aggression has been resolutely and fully confronted" Arrange Meeting Shortly thereafter arrangements were announced for the British prime minister to meet with President-elect Dwight Elsenhower this afternoon The announcement said Churchill and Eisenhower will meet at the home of Financier Bernard Baruch where Churchill is staying on his visit here The two will dine together tonight As a prelude to the meeting Churchill told a shipboard press conference that resistance to a gresslon in Korea had helped lessen the danger of third world war Against Extending Wir That has been the greatest event of the past five he Mid The 78-year-old British leader said his country was against any extension" of the Korean yin and she is not moving about na going under ether on Nov 18 Her Ha expressed distress with Amer- much as she did yesterday last consciousness was in the hos- lean trade tariffs and aaid the United States had failed to folly hare its atonic information with Great Britain part City's attempt to control1 "ifeS 'wuiiiuiuBiuiicr i-Eiiucii mend control measures to the Cityj -Commissionere Court was at Council based on the surveys now faujt Commissioner Wallace Fields said authorized Mr Pen- dell to pave a lot of new roads in new subdivisions without giving him more money think this new plan will put a stop to Sleeping Girl Relaxes After Trip to El Paso Carla Johnson 17 unconscious the Johnson home at 3723 Sacra since Nov 18 waa more relaxed mento street today She wee a coed at the Univer- Her mother Mrs A John- sity of Houston when aha became ami said her condition is improved ill She has been unconscious since' i i aiLu is Carla moves a great deal when pital room If her mind is com-' she is restless When relaxed she pletely cleared when she awakens 1 moves little she will wonder at ones how she! "I am glad to be home and Ujhappeni to be in her bedroom ati scream Then I noticed I struck a little girl with my a temporary commit- ts Judge McGovern named mij tnd its function will end after hai made thif Kpart Hoard chairman of the nd there a ays i 11 I Hill Becomes Island Encircled by Reds By JIM LUCAS Icripvi-lfvirl ftaff Writer PORKCHOP HILL Korea Jan It takes 10 years off your life when they sneak in behind you If you stop to think you know as scared you are Any Red that deep In our territory must be But you don't stop to think All you know is that finally got you An hour ago if you had wanted to you could have walked off this hill a free man Now you cut off For 45 hours you've been atop Porkchop Hill a friendly little peninsula The enemy was on three sides of the hill close enough to hear you walking in the trenches Dose but far enough away so you could get mail from the United States daily Dose but safe because you were with friendii Enemy An Around But now there is gunfire where none ought to be Tha wily Chinese have sneaked In behind you Now your secure little peninsula has become an island with enemy on all four sides' You and it really doesn't matter anyway that there's only six of them You're willing to believe the worst You think the whole Communist army la on tha road you came here and you cant go back Cut off It isn't a very friendly road at bnt Tha Reds couldn't see it but they had it zeroed in It was so pockmarked with mortar shell holes that you always had to bo read to dive for the ditch A Hateful load And when it aa it did tha day before and thawed and re -froze as it did last night and this it waa a hateful road But even so it wu our road It wu our way out Cut off The country which at dusk had been friendly wasn't friendly now It wu an alien oppressive land It wu worse than that Tha enemy was down around the smokepots And thou pots had been our protection That's where we laid down a smokescreen from dawn to dusk so tha Chinese could only guess but never real-(Continned on Pago i Col I) Sabre Pilot Bags MIG in Air Battle By AttociaUd Frtm SEOUL Jan 5 An American Sahrcjet pilot bagged the first Communist MIG-15 jet of the year today in a battle 35000 feet above Northwest Korea Tha ground war was stalled by tha bitter Korean winter Tha 5th Air Force reported the Bed jet fighter was shot down in flames by 2nd Lieut William Bowman of Sarasota Fla hii first kill Bowman was in a -flight of Sabres flying a protective screen for fighter-bombers striking through snow flurries at Communist supply targets Pilots reported destroying st least 70 Communist vehicles On Sniper Ridge some 175 Chinese stormed up the slopes of Pinpoint Hill under ear-splitting artillery cover They hit the ridge position in two wives but dropped back after less than an hour leaving an estimated 35 dead and 20 wounded Juarez Vayor Names Chief of Detectives Pedro Garcia new Juarez mayor today announced appointment of Armando Quevedo Mar-tines chief of police detectives Quevedo Martinez formerly wu chief of detectives in Torreon He succeeds Bias Molina Previously Mayor Garcia appointed Gen Pablo Cano Martinas chief of police Inspector to succeed Jesus Joss Chavez Armen-darix -LITTLE A girl shouldn't always bo flattered if a man looks at htr twieo- Maybe he just couldn't believe what ha saw tha first time The property was assertedly stolen while Santa Fe Trail Transportation Co truck was en route to Midland on March 1 1951 Merchant Charged Frank Tabbah 33 prominent Ysleta merchant wrs ar- rained nn similar charge Sat- releYed at $5000 this defendmt -has been in Mexico the past few "I just wanted to express my Mr Broaddus Mid The father A Apodaca of Ysleta and a son-in-law A Sanchez signed the $5000 bond A preliminary hearing for Tabbah and Apodaca has been set for 3 Friday Apodaca was sentenced to four years in a Federal prison after he was found guilty by a Federal jury at the beginning of the plvlou ljopr-ylr meeting when he gave a itatcment1'ncewl11 uPheld by the U- s-or policy to the Court Circuit Court of Appeals at New "I want commissioners precincts lOrleans I would like to recommend redistricted so that they are more1 higher bond be set for the de-nearly equal" he Mid would 'fondant" Assistant District like to have the County tax as-! Attorney Francis Broaddus said sesior tell the court how value- Bond la Signed tions for land are set" -x think this $5000 bond plus the Commissioners Court then P- 17500 appeals bond is sufficient" proved a redistricting proposal and gaid Commissioner Difton Mr HoVrt'sTommittM wiil nniin4 innounica isirr Consider Salerv Hike 11 por PollCG Court Judge Police Court Judge Lanier may a uiarr increase Mayor Hervey have Carla Mrs Johnson1 home Mid "The Houston hospital inj Her heart stopped beating for Peace Onlleok Geed Churchill declined to Indicate what subjects Ms talks with Eisen- which Carla wu a patient waa'eight minutes while she was be-really a home to me while I was ing operated on for appendicitis bower will cover The meeting hu there but after all there la no During that time her brain wai been labelled an onejptace like own home I think cut off from oxygen supply Doc- but British government spokesmen we will get into the routine of car-'tors say the will remain uncon have Mid it may touch on a vlde ng for Carla at home very scioue until nature has brought her range of international questions Mrs Johnson is assisted by two brain back to normal U7tt (n numnni eMn-i Churchill told newsmen that pros-nurses and Carla's grandmother 'Hia Herald-Post today received ZW) thief TAKES RIFLES pect for peace this year "certain-'Mra William A Johnson two checks for the Carla Johnson ud A bureler ooened an ly are not less encouraging than! Her physicians here are Dr Medical Treatment Fund: $5 tram ther firaTat back door to enter the home of they were in Floyd and Dr Branch Craig Mre Jones and $5 from Mrs wmtamMo 3715 KemSrtreet To a newsmaa who wanted taj When Carla wakes from her long A Ramsdale The Herald-Post request of Hervey ttewilltam Moore at know whether the danger of world she will wake in the bedroom will accept contributions to the-JJ'd salary is set by tha Dtyand itoletwo a pane (Continued an Page CoL 2) jjha occupied for maqy years in fund (CnunrtL last April on charges of buying stolen property The 45-year-old bar operator also faces a state charge of receiving and concealing whisky stolen in an.