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I Paso Herald Post HOME EDITION The Newspaper That Serves Its Readers PRICE FIVE CENTS EL PASO TEXAS MONDAY MARCH 16 1953 DBLXVXRED BY CAfUUEB FIX tin SSTUMa llBicorpioratoirs Circulate Petition Tell of Dust Damage Postpone Caused by Plant Northeast El Paso residents today asked Commissioners Court to Investigate Hugh rock quarry on the side of Mt Franklin and to take all possible step to close the quarry if it is found to be nuisance and a health menace County Engineer Frank Cook and Commissioner George Carpenter of Precinct 1 were authorized to investigate in the area look at homes said to be damaged by blasting and check on the dust Gil Myers of 3005 Jefferson ave' nue told the Court the quarry presents four problems Objects to Dust "The first problem is the dust" he said "People in the neighbor hood complain of dust colds hay fever and minor displeasing irritations of the nasal tracts Dust in the air has put my wife under doctor's care "The second problem is the trucks Trucks from the quarry are a threat to life and limb They do not observe traffic regulations They go through atop signs and they speed "The third problem is the blasting It frightens people and it cracks homes Mountain Scarred "The fourth problem is the fact that Mt Franklin if being scarred The neighborhood is being spoiled "The solution to all these problems is to take the quarry out of the City limits move it up near the Army's firing rsnge where it will be in good Maj William McClain of 3101 Van Buren avenue told the court his daughter missed four and one-half months of school last year because dust caused bronchitis My home has been cracked by Commissioner Wallace Fields the blasting" he said "A home put asked if the Court planned to do up just seven months ago has been anything about discrepancies in cracked by the blasting The owner other brackets "The tax collector of the home is a atone mason and tella me that all types of property Court Increases Fai Valuation To $110 an Acre Tax Assessment Raised From $65 Commissioners Court today in a surprise move upped the ad valorem property tax valuations of rural farm lands to $110 an acre The motion to chance (hr valuation was made by Commissioner Wesley Smith of Precinct 4 It was seconded by Commissioner George Pendeil of Precinct 2 Fields Balks At the beginning of the year the lands were valued at $55 an acre Commissioners Court in January raised the valuations to SA5 an arrr or 65 per cent of the market value Sir Smith fa id am unhappy about the tax structure 1 move that the tax assessor and collector be instructed to raise the valuations on farm lands to $110 an acre'' second the motion" Mr Pendeil said quickly MARINES HONOR Behind the lines "somewhere in Korea" the Scripps-Howard fanned war correspondent Jim Lucas repares for a bit of social-side action He is pic-tured center accepting membership in the First Marine Air Wing Far Eastern Press Club Jim is surrounded by Marine flyers whose exploits his dispatches have recounted 1st Lieut Martin Boyle of Kansas City presents him with a membership card Jim Lucas7 Korean War Stories Are Available in Free Booklet FAITH IN THE SOUTH Jack Porter of Houston right Republican national committeeman talks to Herald-Post Washington Correspondent Marshall McNeil as he leaves the White House after a conference with President Eisenhower Porter said the President wanted to have the Republican Party strengthened in Texas and had "faith in the South" Peace Meeting Held Propose To Stndy Law 31 Signatures Are Sought by Group A petition seeking postponement of the Ysleta incorporation election for 60 days was being circulated today In the Lower Valley Proponents of the plan to make the Lower Valley a city agreed to circulate the petition at a "peace" meeting isle Saturday of proponents and opponents The election now is set for Saturday March 21 Serb 31 Signatures It was ordered by Couniy Judga McGovern after he received a petition signed by SI Lower Valley residents asking that people in the area vote on the incorporation issue The new petition bring circulated today seeks the signatures of 31 persons a majority who signed the original petition Joe Clark hacker of incorporation agreed to seek signatures for the petition asking postponement according to Charles Gaither in whose office Saturday's meeting was held Wants Law Studied Robert Kolliner opponent of incorporation lust week urged postponement to give Valley residents time to study the present status of the Ysleta Independent School District in view of a new slate law protecting its schools from El Paso encroachment Opponents agreed to defer an all-out ranipaign against incorporation if the necessary 31 signatures are obtained on the postponement petition Opponents of Ini-nrpnralinn say they hope that within 60 days proponents ran lie convinced the new law pi elects Ysleta schools and makes incorporation unnecessary and that the election can ba dropped entirely Board Mrets Today Befnra the new law was pissed the El Paso Independent School District automatically extended its authority over areas annexed by El Paso Under the new statute Ysleta schools could operate within El Paso The Yslcla School Roard meets at 8 ni today to study the new Tom Rogers President of Chosen of in Korea a copy of this booklet-something that will make him proud and do a job for his morale how: It will fit into the usual or 10 inch business envelope" Address an envelope to your serviceman just as if you were writing to him yourself Make sure his APO address is written clearly Put your home return address on the envelope Send or bring this empty envelope to From Korea" to The Herald-Post The Herald-Post will place a copy of the booklet in the envelope that you have addressed and mail it to your serviceman for you That's all there is to it The Herald-Post is offering this pub-lice service to families of servicemen as a means of letting our fighting men in Korea know how their story is being told er who lives with the men he writes about and goes into battle action with them He has touched the hearts and stirred the imagination of millions of newspaper readers with his powerful reporting and his stories of the human side of the war For such top-notch reporting Veterans of Foreign Wars honored Lucas in Washington on Feb 17 by presenting him the organisation's General Omar Bradley Gold Medal the third honor to be conferred on him since he started writing about American fighting men during World War 1L Lucaa himself wasn't there to receive it since he is still in Korea on his third mission of covering the war The medal was accepted in his behalf by Walker Stone editor-in-chief of the Scripps-Howard Newspapers If you'd like to send your man Do you have a member of your family or a friend with the American fighting forces in Korea? If so you'll want to send him a copy of from Korea" a booklet that has Just been published by The Herald-Post The 32-page booklet contains 14 of Scripps-Howard War Correspondent Jim Lucas' outstanding dispatches from the fighting front There is no charge for the booklet American fighting men in Korea have frequently expressed the feeling that the story of "their war" isn't being adequately and realistically told to the American public If your serviceman in Korea hu ever expressed this or if you think he'd like to read this collection of Jim Lucas' dramatic want to send him a copy of "Report from Kotea" Jim Lucas is a frontline report ere not equally assessed" he said 'Do you intend to do anything about Ths Judge Smiles Commissioner George Carpenter of Precinct 1 joined with Mr Smith and Mr Pendeil in voting fbr the motion Mr Fields voted against it Couniy Judge Hugh Me Govern a broad smile on his face also voted for the motion Property in the County Is now assessed for ad valorem taxea at the following per centage' of the market value: farm land 11 per cent suburban homes 15 per cent City homes 20 per cent business property 25 per cent personal property and utilities 33'i per cent Tom Rogers general manager of the Consumers Ice and Fuel Co today was elected president of the Chamber of Commerce Mr Rogers wlin has been first vies president succeeds Retiring President Whyburn The election took plnce at a meeting of the CC Board of Directors at Hotel Paso del Norte Mr Rogers long hai been active in Chamber of Commerce and other civic activities He is a former CC director He headed the 1951-52 Community Chest campaign He hHS been director-general of the Southwestern Sun Carnival Awn He has bren a local chairman for the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis member of the board of the Salvation Army and of the board of Goodwill Industries In 1944 he was chosen "Outstanding Young Man of El by the Junior Chamber of Conimerre He is a past president of the Southwestern lee Manufacturers Assn Mr Rogers was bom and reared in Frankfort Ky He graduated Bombers Spring Trap on Red Trucks Defendant Is Freed In Identification Mixup There was a rare ease In County Court-at-Law Saturday Fred Hatfield was acquitted of a charge of aggravated assault The charge was filed against him last Sept 25 while he was city policemen he said it was a well built house and shouldn't have cracked" Dost All Over Area Harold A Cook of 3100 Van Buren avenue told the court there ia dust ell over the area "As I drive to work I see great clouds of dust from the quarry settling all over the neighborhood' he aaid Jack Niland attorney fbr the complaining residents told the court this is just the beginning of the fight "We don't expect this court to remove the quarry he said "We do went you to investigate conditions up there and then take whatever steps you can" County Judge Hugh McGovern told the residents the court cannot dose the quarry "The County owns an undivided one-third interest in the land" he said "If we find it is a nuisance and a health menace the County could sell its land but then the other owners could keep the quarry running Could Join In Suit "Thu court enjoin the quarzy It doesn't have the power to shut down the quarry The County could join with you people in a suit in district court but that Is about as far as the County could go" Couniy Attorney Ernest Guinn said all Commissioners Court can do is sell its land "This court find that the quarry is a nuisance end then shut it down" he said "That is up to a district court" Harold Long attorney for Hugh McMillan said the dust problem would be ended within a short time "maybe by the end of this week" "As soon as we can we are going to shut down and install a water he said "That wifi end the Bus Manager Promoted Williams manager of the El Paso City Lines here has been promoted to district superintendent He will have charge of all West area lines of Pacific City Lines parent company and will have headquarters at Oakland Calif Tom Rogers Saunders of El Paso and Roswell They have two children Tommy Jr and Rarbaia Ervin Schwartz was elected will lama will Ifrom the University of Arizona jfirst vice president Biuoks Travisj legislation hara hv wilal wmiamf in 1932 He came to El Paso and second vice president War-j The El Paso School Board may rJiif "rillwent to work for Consumers Ice'nock re-elerlcd trrasuicr dismiss the measure at its regular Unes He waa formerly ciiy'Lfoes waa il-ctcd general man- meeting at 730 tomorrow supervisor here leaving El Paso Mrs Rogcis is the former Lucillciagcr Mayor Pledges three years ago to go to Glendale The Williamses are not related tv United Prem SEOUL March American and Australian fighter-bombers turned a rugged mountain road into a flaming death trap for Communist supply trucks today in the biggest single blow against Red vehicles in months Red trucks were jammed bump-er-to-bumper along a five-mile stretch of road on the east coast as Meteors Thunderjets and Marine Pantherjets swooped down on the convoy The Allied warplanes destroyed two-thirds of the ISO trucks in the convoy At the same time other Thunderjets set a vital Communist rail center afire while Sabrejets flying protective cover knocked down one Communist MIG-15 An 8th Army officer said ground action showed a "marked increase' last night and early today South Korean infantrymen turned back two sharp attacks against an outpost on Rocky Point on Sniper Ridge while an American patrol fought a bitter battle with Chinese Communists in no-man's land identification of Hatfield by Mrs Hord had ever been made If that is so why did the County Office file complaint? Car Was Stopped The incident that led to the charge took place at 10 on Sept 25 at El Paso drive and Highway 80 East Mrs Hord charged that Hatfield then a city policeman and off duty flagged down Mrs fiord's car in which aha was riding with her son Roy 17 and demanded to know "What do you think you are doing?" She laid Hatfield pulled her son from the car and beat him She interfered She said Hatfield then got in his car and drove away No Annexation Of Ysleta Mavnr Ilervev today assured Ys-lei a that the Cily has no intention "waLer for working ar- annexing the Lower Valley town a water tor caiicne wuiiuhr ai )0W unM rUted to do rangement with the County today urged a Court of Inquiry Yima reidrntj be held to Investigate the entire district Asburv manager of the He xid Paso does not have the farilitirs or money to provide mu- Thf odd part about the case waa that although the case waa called for trial Mrs Lucille Hord of 3320 Sacramento street was asked before the trial started if she could identify Hatfield from a group of men in the courtroom Flck Wrong Man She picked the wrong man Langford Hatfield's attorney later cross-examined her about her having picked out the wrung men in the courtroom and Judge Ward threw the case out of court Mrs Hord insists that when she was asked to pick out Hatfield in the courtroom before the trial started Hatfield waa not in the courtroom Redic assistant county attorney handled the case for the County Why a Uneup?" "While 1 didn't personally see Hatfield in the courtroom" Mr Redic said "Langford Hatfield's attorney says he was in the court- ee room Why Hatfield placed on trial in the usual manner in view of his having been charged in the case months ago? Why waa a run in the courtroom before the trial? Mr Redic said that no positive A charge of simple assault against Will It Short Water? Mr Myers wanted to know if the filter would use drinking water that would otherwise go on to his i Bv rnfiini Hnei serein Contempt Williams eame to El Paso tn November of 1951 He and his family live at 909 Bolivia street Mr Williama will leave El Paso in a few days Film Writer Fined For of Congress Paso county Wer Control end District Attorney WilllamlmP'v'm'nt 'So- 1 V'rvices in Newman area sched- Clayton Saturday that Mr Gaith- result of a campaign in which iuled for annexation soon by House VAmericanAvi- 960M gallons of Valfty charged that poor management by a cltj ties Committee wfef County for loads oflhe diMm insulted exorbitant pv Buchman who was found guilty'1 ft and sewer rale I still he- Citv h- no pUn to nntx of contempt of Congress last week I Mr Gaither lieve this In he line 1 Ysleta" Mr Hervey said "If we was sentenced by Federal Judge TWnta Board Inquiry arieemeut to pay for S-iO 1(10k ysleta in now it would take Blake Kennedy who placed him I District Attorney Clayton plans a worth of water to he ued on a fom fvi 0 f) yParg (0 break under a $1000 bond during the one- Court of Inquiry to investigate the public mad ha hen questioned ronlinuf( pire (o year probationary period ireport if he finds that a law might "The water di drift ha? inrd Before the refusal to testify have been broken on the hulk of its hiisiric-s by nial: Buchman had appeared once before Although a Court of Inquiry IT the committee and told of belong-' would center on the watcr-caliheihjj 1 lh ing to the Communist Party from' agreement Mr Gaither's attorney mv 'M lhe hnad 1938 to 1945 'urged the investigation to M- inther phases of the dis'ricl opera-' Has His hrrka Hatfield is still pending for the alleged beating of the boy He Resigned During Inquiry The Horda at tha time of the incident were returning from the Bronco Drivein Theater The arreit of Hatfield was brought about through Mrs Hord jotting down a license number as the car sped away home "Wa are without water every summer for various lengths of he Mid "If the quarry is going to use our drinking water there'll be trouble I asked Harlan Hugg general manager of the City Water Department about that and Inside Your Herald-Post Here ia what is really rare about he Hid he couldn't assure me that the case: Hatfield resigned from i we would have enough water with the Police Force on Oct 12 1952 this filter in there" as result of Police Chief Mr Long said no one had com' investigation of tha Hord clash in- plained to Mr McMillan about the cident operation of the quarry Several residents said they had phoned again and again with no results "Well we have received no letters" Mr Long Mid Control Trucks Mr Lorg Mia the trucks were not controlled by Mr McMillan "They are independent contractors" he Hid Income Stragglers Line Up at Tax Office Lines of income tax payers con rOrcs them Marshal Tito Arrives For Visit to Britain jtinued at the Internal Rave- Weather Forecast: Partly cloudy (Details on Page 13) Page Ann Carroll Comics Crrwword Puzxle Dr I Conner IS Editorials IS Farttgn Scene 18 Frances Glazier 14 Marketa 8 Othman 88 Feepla regler Radio Frograma SS Kuark IT Side-Bar Remarka It Sperta Stakes News 14-15 i "Fin innately I ic'ained my The Court of Inquiry shouldn't' raneelled clinks and dirt nil's stale- County Auditor Haight today was he confined to one but should menu rni remind previous instructed by county Commission broad-sweeping" Mid Dovle cal purrhanx of the water The dis Bv United Prem LONDON March Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia Communiam'nllt oHic the US Courthouse'V'flnd' l'court that hMounmoMy'Mch S'kthe Gaither' tarne or bnhrr' Im eAnaeSkiMW ekjtna1 No I heretic arrived in Britain to- today Director Gaither said the district day for a five-day state visit under the mort widespread security measures for an individual since the Itrict manae-r approved ibis rale (he aire as he has approved all 0lJ aiP fan thal he has The allocation generally will of M'rms Mr 'based on each bank's percentage rv sub-lanli'e mv ongiral rnaige i Lons said -of caoital investment a recom- district has on ait hai lHn that the until midnight Vaughan Clarke jud-e McGovern pointed out the mended by the El Paso Clearing Cn'y been at District A'loriicy1 office conduct' war- collector Mid quarry is in the City limits jHouse Assn In a statement released today court of mqmrv This appears The Yugoslav president Hiied up! Fifteen employes today helped City Council could take The County budget totals around Director Gaither said to be an exrelleni iHm in ihrft all (Continued on Pag 2 Col 5) SI 8 million I "1 wos elected director of the El0f activities of the Dis- Irirl should he brought out into the the river Thames at first light PtANirrs On SHAT SCOTT kyCMT too SEC I tEAPlhOT For Your Pleasure Presto! And up nuu more egg for The Little People to color than you've ever seen! This bit of magic and the story of (ho Resurrection will keep you interested every day In our Easter Klory-slrlp The Magic Egg Starting Today On Page 13 aboard his warship Galeb Seagull escorted by four Royal Navy torpedo boats Britain's security forces were mustered to insure tho Mfety of tho most noted "deviaUoniit" since! Leon Trotsky Russian Communist1 leader murdered in exile in Mexico: shortly before World War II Tito was scheduled to be greeted by Prime Minister Winston Church-' ill the Duke of Edinburgh and some paopla'l kids don't seem to Foreign Secretary Anthony Edenj bo oil there Westminster pierl open The people ore entitled to know what is being done Wilt Contact A Jan 21 1952 a motion was unanimously adopted bv the directors tnat a pamphlet be printed and 'mailed with the water bills shnw- mg the condition of the water district To date over a year later 'this has not been done and a Court i of Inquiry may be ore wav of get- 'ting all nf the fan before the) people i D'-trict "ornev I repoit-j (Continued a Pag 2 CoL Ij I Herald-Post's You'll find another on the Comic Page today and every day It is one of collection of strips designed to please every member of the family.