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Buy The Krazosport From Ads In The Daily FACTS REVIEW All the Brazosport News Every The Top World News VOL. 41, No. 94 FREEPORT, TEXAS, THURSDAY, JULY 9, 1952 United Press Wire Service Hoisting Engineers Call For Picket Lines Monday Picket lines are scheduled to go up in front of approxi- ately 15 Brazosport construction companies Monday morning by some 300 members of the Hoisting and Portable Engineers Union, Local, 450, Ramsey Searcy, local business agent for the union said today. "So far as we know at the present time," Searcy said, "the picket lines will go up unless something unforeseen arises before Monday." The PRICE: 5 CENTS union business manager said that plans for the picket lines did' not necessarily mean that a strike would be called. "We only plan to set up those lines in accordance with standard union procedure," Searcy said.

Negotiations between the union and the Gulf Coast Construction Employers. Council of Houston which represents the local contractors have been underway for some weeks The 300 operators of winch trucks, draglines, bulldozers and tractors, are asking for a 50- cenl-an-hour wage increase and other benefits, a union spokesman said. The union members took a strike vote one week ago by secret ballot to determine if their bargaining committee would be authorized to call a strike against the Employers Council in the event negotiations fell apart. The last meeting between the two groups was held Tuesday, with both sides still in dispute when the meeting adjourned later the same day. Mr.

Searcy told the FACTS- REVIEW this morning thai he knew of no other scheduled Facts IN Brief meeting with the council, and that a notice had gone out to all members that picket lines would be established Monday. A local contractor said that his and other construction and equipment companies would be forced to shut down in the event of a strike being called by the operators. Approximately 700 more members of the same union from Galveston and other neighboring counties, are involved in the same dispute. NEW YORK radio and advertising executive Leonard F. Erikson (above) is new chief of the Voice of America, with instructions to "reorganize the entire radio effort" of America's overseas information program.

Erikson la a vice president and director of McCann-Erikson, advertising agency. (International) Star Spangled E. B. Johnson Is Veteran Of Three Branches Of Uncle Sam's Armed Forces Feature Times "Sangaree" 1:15, 3:21, 5:27, 7:33, 9:20 p.m. TRADEWIND DRIVE-IN "The Girl from Pleasure Island" 10:00 p.m.

SURF DRIVE-IN "Stars and Stripes 10:00 p.m.' Horn Goes Too The FACTS-REVIEW inadvertently omitted the name of Boy Scout Jimmy Horn of Troop 42, Freeport, in the list of Brazos- port Scouts who will leave tomorrow for the National Scout Jamboree in California. Our thanks to E. C. Karisch, instilutional representative of Troop 42, for bringing Jimmy to our attenlion. Eagles Meeting The Brazosport chapter of the Fraternal Order of Eagles held its regular weekly business meeting last night at the Eagle Clubroom on Highway 288, President Leland Tipton announced this morning.

Fifly-nine members attended the meeting to vote and pass on house rules that had been introduced at previous meetings. The Brazosport aerie has grown to more than 200 members since its was closed April 12. Police Beat By DICK SMITH YEGGS OVER burglary was reported in the Bra- zosport area this morning. This time someone crackecj into the Silver Palace, a tavern on Gulf Boulevard, during the night Mary Jackson, owner and operator of the cafe, said she was missing about $100 in cash, taken from a bottle on the bar and a piggy bank, in addition to three silver dollars she always kept in her cash register "for luck." Two cartons of cigarettes were also stolen, Entry was apparently gained by prying open a rear window. Claude McNeese, who was shot in the left lung during a squabble in front of a tavern on the Clute 'l City-Lake Jackson Road last week, is still in seriou condition at Dow Hospital.

ji Elbert Shelton is free on $1500 bond after being charged with as- sault with intent to murder in the shooting. Mr. E. B. Johnson, 1118 West 7th, has served his country in three branches of the service.

In 1926 he left his home in Abilene, Texas, to join the Navy. He was out in 1828 and it was that same year thai' he joined the Coast Guard. Discharged in 1933, he was happy with the novelty of being a civilian. three years later he enlisted in the Air Force Reserve, and served until 1940. In 1942 he decided to try the Navy again, and stayed in until after the war in 1945.

During his last hitch, he served aboard the-U; S. Dyson. In 1946'Men Two-Lane Surfside Expected Back In 3 Weeks Johnson, was the bowling champion. Kansas City He has won (i fix two gold medals and prize money in various bowling contests. The Johnsons have two sons, Joel, 12, and Richard, 15.

Mr. C. E. Burridgd, 1107 West 7th, is a machinist foreman at the Freeport Sulphur Co. He has worked with the company for 30 years.

The Burridges own a summer cottage at Quintana and enjoy weekends there. Their children are Earl, a senior at Texas University; Melvin a high school senior; Charlene, Hasal, 10; and two married children, Charles Burridge and Mrs. Tonnesen. Mr. and Mrs.

B. H. Smith, 1115 West 7th, and 'their two boys, Dick, 12, and Joe, 7, have just returned from a Irip to Dallas and DeLeon where they visiled relalives. Mr. Smith enjoys building and flying model airplanes, and Mrs.

Smith uses her spare lime doing handwork. Mr. Sam Price, 1130 West 7th, is a Missouri Pacific conductor. Mrs. Price has a nursery in her home, and takes care of 5 other children besides her own.

Damian, 12, Justin, 11, Farrald, 9, and Harry 4. The oldest boys are DAILY FACTS-REVIEW carriers Mr. F. B. Patterson, 1126 West 7lh, is a 30-year residcnl of Frceporl.

He is looking forward lo his retirement from the Freeport Sulphur and plans to move to a small farm, have a garden, some chickens and specialize in white faced cattle. The Pattersons have one married son, Michael, who is now living in Clute City. Mr. and Mrs. George Cours, 1122 West 7th, are eighl-year re- sidenls.

of Frceporl. They have Iwo children, Cynthia, 6, and Larry, 2 Mr. Cours is superintendent of the machine shop at Dow. Visiting the Cours now are his mother, Mrs. G.

Cours, and her father, Mr. S. F. Tobias. Mr.

J. E. Grain, 1114 West 7th, is a machine foreman at Dow. The Grains have three children, Mrs. M.

C. Carson, Terry, 20, and Dianna, 13. Terry is a sophomore pro-medical student at Texas University. Mrs. Grain does oil painting, and Mr.

Crain enjoys growing flowers. Mr. John A. Posey, 1J10 West 7th, works in labor relations at Dow, and his wife is the secretary of the First Methodist Church. They have one 11 year old son.

John Posey Jr. Mr. Ben E. Townes, 1102 West 7th, is a clerk at Dow. The children, Laura, 18, Thomas, 13 John Paul, 11, Catherine, 9, anc' Ronnie, 4.

Laura is in her second year of nurses training in Hquston. Thomas and Catherine are entering Junior Olympics, John Paul is on the Cubs baseball team, and Ronnie is a bur collector. Mr. Lowe is a pipe fitter foreman at Dow. Mr.

and Mrs. O. Vallot, 1111 West 7th, have four children. Two sons -are in the service. James 23, is in the Navy and Richard.Zl.

is in the army stationed in Japan. They have one married daughter. Mrs. H. L.

Banks, and one son living with them, Victor, 6. Mrs. Vallot's hobby is cooking and her specialty is chicken gumbo. Mr. G.

G. Garrett, iiill. Wes! 7th, is an area engineer for Dow ThQ Garrctts have two children Pat, 9, and Richard, 5, Mrs. Garrett enjoys sewing and Mr. Garrett likes yard work.

They arp contemplating a vacation to Oklahoma in August. Stone Appointed Investigation Committee Member House members were on a committee appointed by Speaker Reuben E. Senterfill lo look into charges made aginsl certain El Paso county officials. Rep. Joe Pool of Dallas was chairman of the group.

Others were Robert V. Baker of Houston, Stanton Stone of Freeport, Joe Pyle of Fort Worth and Jesse M. Osborn of Muleshoe. The charges were made by a woman inmate of Ihe Texas prison syslcm while the Legislature was in session. Sentcrfilt also named Reps.

Tom Joseph of Waco and Carlton Moore of Houston to a "seeing eye dog committee," to study the advisi- bility of training dogs for the blind at one of the slalc inslilu- lions. Bapfisf Board To Vote New Secretary of Ihe executive board of the Baptist General Convention of Texas will meet Friday to elect an executive secretary lo succeed Dr. J. Howard Williams. Members of the BGCT's 191- member board will ballot in secret to fill the post, the top executive position among Texas Baptists.

was secro--' tary would be chosen from Dr. J. Woodrow Fuller, now assistant secretary; lir. Forrosi C. Feezor, BGCT president and pastor of Waco's First Baptist Church; Dr.

A. B. White, vice president of the Church Loan Association and a former assistant secretary; Dr. James H. Landes, Wichita Falls, and Dr.

E. S. James, Vernon. More Polio This Year Than In 1952; Epidemic Hits New York WASHINGTON IIP! The Public Health Service said today that 4,680 polio cases have been reported in the first half of this year as compared to 4,176 in Ihe similar period last year. The service said 625 new cases were reported in the week ended July 4 as compared to 620 cases in the same week of 1952.

Texas reported 81 new cases and Oklahoma reported 41. Meanwhile, an infantile paralysis epidemic spread in two New York counties today as preparations were made to protect 35,000 children under 10 years of age in the greatest mass gamma globulin inoculation in history. Three deaths have already been caused and 50 cases reported -in Chemung and Steuben counties. Three new cases were reported Wednesday night. The innoculation plans in New York coincided with a statemcn lhat the public has been "oversold" on the value of gamma globulin as a polio preventive, according to Dr.

David B. Rutstein of Harvard medical school. The professor of preventive medicine said in a radio address Wednesday night that "the most we can say for it is that it's all we have in the absence of a developed vaccine." He predicted effective vaccine against polio would fee developed within the MX! five to 10 years. "While many hopes are placed on gamma globulin by many people, experimentation in the last two years suggests, but doesn't prove, thai a person i. protected during the second and third weeks after injections," Dr Rutslein said.

"Afler the third week the evi dence is very tenuous." He said Ihe infection "seemed to be milder" if a person becami ill within a week after a gamma globulin injection. One Lane Temporary Bridae Has Been Bottleneck For 11 Weeks The two-way bridge at Surfside Beach, dry-docked two and one-half months apo for general repairs, is scheduled to be put back into operation before the end of this month, according to Hardy Clcvenger, bridge tender. A single-lane bridge replaced the two-way span last April 16, when W. E. Kay, foreman of the Texas Highway Department maintenance division, said repairs would take about six weeks on the double-lane span.

Since that time 11 weeks have passed and the single span still bottlenecks traffic to Surfside. The general repairs included re- placing waterlogged planking and strengthening the structure, which had been mauled on previous oc- cassions by tug boats passing through the canal. The last time the double-traffic span was hit before it was dry- dockcd, was on January when ii Houston tug, "East low- ing two barges, smashed the approach ramp and ripped out 20 pilings. Al that time the briclg? was out of commission for alums' a week before it could be used for automobile traffic lo and from Surfside Beach. The single-lane bridge has been hit twice by the same lug since it replaced the two-way span.

On May 16, this tug, "Duke," under charter lo the Alamo Barge Line Company of Houston, smashed the approach ramp and lore out 73 pilings. The bridge was closed lo beach Iraffie for six days while the structure underwent repairs. Three weeks later on June "Duke" smashed into Ihe shaky single-traffic span while the was 1 canal traffic. At that til the bridge was- slruck broadsiTfij and thrown bacl on its reverse cables. The bridge tender's shack in the ccnler of the span was smashed and knocked into the canal.

However, only 'one day was re quired to replace the damage done in thai most recent collision. Since the start of the tourist i season in May, thousand of weekend motorists going to and returning from Surfside Beach, have been stalled for hours at the approaches to the one-way span. It has been estimated by a Texas Highway Department survey that more than 60 per cent of the traffic at Surfside Beach comes from outside Brazoria County, with nearly 45 per cent of that total coming from the Houston area. In recent weeks, according to unofficial sources and from operators of cafes and taverns on the bench, tourist, traffic has seriously WESTERN UNION PLANS OFFICE IN L. JACKSON Freeport Fire Townes have three children, Ben Department answered a call to the new school building on S.

Locust St. shortly after 11:30 a.m., today but no damage was reported. Turned out to be some burned insulation on a wire. Edward 10, Priscilla Jane, 6. and Susan Annette, 4 Mrs.

Townes has a collection of miniature pitchers and glass swans. Mr. and Mrs. F. W.

Lowe, 12310 West 7th, have five active Freeport Legion To Elect Offictrs The Ralph Hanson American Lesion Post of Freeport will elect new at their regular meeting at p.m. Thursday. Commander Mark Powell urges all members, especially the present officers, to attend. A dinner and entertainment program are other features ol ths meeting. Western Union open an office in Lake Jackson, the city's Business Men's Association learned at their regular meeling Wednesday al the First Presbyterian Church.

Mrs. R. D. Willis reported lhal a telegram from E. C.

Ellis, district manager for Western Union had confirmed a verbal conversation in which the company agreed to establish an office in Lake Jackson, if the association would find a suitable business to handle it. Several firms announced their interest, and President Holmberg requested Mrs. Willis to make the selection. According to Mr. Ellis, the agency would be established just as soon as proper facilities had been secured.

The association now has a mem bership of 54, it was disclosed by C. R. Emerson, membership chair. man. The group also voted to ex tend honorary memberships to the managers of the Chamber of Commerce and the Brazoria County Chamber of Commerce.

The pastors of the city are also honorary members. Dr. E. R. Wright, president of the Brazosport Library Association was present to explain the efforts being made toward establishing a library in Lake Jackson and requested that the group appoint a committee to contact the merchants to obtain memberships at $25 each.

Dr. Wright said that they hoped to raise $500 through individual memberships and $500 through commercial memberships, which, added to the $1,000 given by Dow Chemical Company, would enable them lo purchase six or seven hundred new books. They expect to obtain about 2,000 books from individual donors. Hay Holmberg appointed Mrs. Comalee Speed as chairman of the committee will) Roberta iJansby, Gale Douglas, Rev.

Guice Stewari and Rev. Noah Phillips as members. Charles Martin, chairman of the "Brasoria Day in Lake Jackson" announced that celebration Would be held in conjunction with the formal opening of road sometime in September. Jack Reid, chairman of the Endowment Committee, a committee for conlributions, reported on its activity. The idea of the commit- tee is to have each member ton- tribute lo the fund, which would then be distributed the various I worthy causes by the committee.

This would eliminate individual firm contributions. The activating of such a fund committee has not been voted on by the membership. THE WEATHER Partly cloudy and continued warm. Low 76. TIDE TABLE High p.m.

and'' 1:10 p.m. Low 11:10 a.m. and 9:49 p.m. abated because 01 the inconvenience of the one-way traffic span. Additir nally, heavy-duty trucks contracted to haul sand the Dovv Reservoir now under construction near have been prohibited from crossing the narrow bridge lo the beach.

Only lightweight trucks arc permitted to cross. Three weeks ago, the Brazos- port Chamber of Commerce announced that the second annual Sun Fest Day was being cancelled this year because of the risk and delay involved in many thousands of tourist trying to cross the bridge to the beach. "Wo simply cannot chance so any people being stranded over there in the event something unforeseen happened," II. A. genson, president of the Chamber said in making the announcement at a meeling of the board of directors.

"And Ihe thought' of getting those people back to the mainland over thai one-way bridge, is enough in itself to can- eel Sun Fcst for this year," he added. Sun Fesl Day has been put off until 1954, to await the completion of the new Surfside bridge which has been under construction since lasi year. The new concrete and steel span is expected to be completed by the summer of States Gather Forces To Fight Tidelands Act i Attorneys general from 1ft or Hi states plan to confer here Friday on ways to help Arkansas wage its court fight against the tidelands law. Tom Gentry, Arkansas attorney general who filed a suit contesting the consilutionality of the act Wednesday, said Alabama, Missouri and West Virginia would be among the states represented, lie said Silas C. Garrett, Alabama attorney general, would be in charge of the meeting.

The suit asked the federal dislrict court lo throw out the law giving coastal slates tille lo offshore lands out lo their historic seaward boundaries along the continental shelf. It also sought to restrain the federal goverment from tinning over gas and oil royalties to the states. Arkansas argued that proceeds from minerals in the ocean bottom lands belong to all the people of the United States, rather than just the coastal slates. Lord Britain John Foster Dnllci United Slates Georges Blilault France EXPLORATION of global questions, Including Ihe waves of unreit In Iron Curtain countries, will lie the problem of the "Little Big Three" foreign ministers (above) In Washington July 10. (International) County Women Elect Four For Civil Defense School The women of County are ready and willing to assume (heir responsibility in Civil Defense and Disaster Relief program, training will be paid for by the county.

Mrs. H. C. Slite of Lake Jackson, who is State Civil Defence was obvious Wednesday eve- chairman for the Home Demon- Ming as nearly 7ft attended a meeting at the Courthouse in Angleton. The meeting was called by County Judge Jack Harrison to elecl four persons, one from each pre.cinctj to nitond a week of schooling on Civil Defense in Slillwater, Okln.

Elected were Mrs. E. M. Sanders of Chile City, for Precinct I with Mrs. Hill Jenkins of Lake Jackson as alternate; Mrs.

Homer W. Adams of Old Ocean, Precinct and Mrs. Thelma llutchins of Alvin was the delegate chosen by Precinct H. Her delegate is Mrs. G.

K. Hurton, also of Alvin. Miss Mary Ella Radge Uraoria was elected from Precinct 4 with Mrs. J. P.

Hrannen of Sweeny alter- i nale. Expenses for the week's Clute Child's Case Diagnosed As Polio James Russell Vance, 7-year- cild son of Mr. and Mrs. C). C.

Vance ol Clute City is in the Ilednecroft in Houston Inday, following a diagnosis "1 polio. il became ill lakcn lo ilrilgerrull ease was diagnosed stration Clubs opened the meeting and briefed Ihe women on its purpose, after which A. T. Deere Lake Jackson spoke to the group. Mr.

Deere said that ft() per cent of the nation's population, as well us XI cent oL-lhc in- i dustries were located in (i7 strategic locations which were well, known to the enemy. "We must build up our Civil Defense quickly and there is a place for everyone in the work, with women capable of assuming a major role direly needed, "Mr. Deere said. Miss Picrnice Hurst, county librarian told the films and books available on Ihe subject and discussed the civil dcfep.se set-up in Lake Jackson. She described the under the chairmanship of Schneider, who was appointed by Mayor Win.

D. Colegrove. According to Miss Hurst, Lake Jackson is the county's only city known to have such a coin, plete civil defense set-up. of Blarney Ity TIIKLMA WILLIS to Joe Tod, chairman for the Naiion.il roll" Kinmdatioii, this is the Iliirtl case reported in the county Ibis ycai. Aubry Dean Eveisnle, 11! Damon was admitted to Jefferson Davis Hospital June- liV anil i still in the hospital.

The oilier case was seven months old James David Click of abeaii.s released from Ihe hospital. The women really turned out for Ihe Civil Defense meeting in Amileton last night must have been 25 or more. In- cliuleil in the group were FI.OH- KNl'K STKANG GKUTIE MUCKEUiOY KATIE 1UN- YON l.KK KKITll HETTY i KLK1N SYMIL 11ANSKN NAN JKNKINS MliS. AL- HEliT rnl.KMAN MKS. E.

iM. SANDKHS MKS. H. W. OKAY MliS.

WAKE LOUISE POl.SON. Quiet Returns To East Berlin As Reds Free 50,000 Strikers BERLIN IIP! An uneasy peace returned to East Berlin Thursday Eusl-Wcsl Iruffic moved normally, housewives Ii on streets where three weeks ago tommy guns most of 100,000 striking workers returned to their jobs. The strikers virtually hud paralyzed industry throughout East Berlin and the entire Russian zone Wednesday in support of their demands tot Ihe release of thousands of anli- Communisis imprisoned for taking part in the June 17 rebellion against Soviet rule. East German Premier Otto Grolewohl's press office announced Wednesday night that the. "over-whelming majority" of persons arrested in connection with the revolt had been released.

Thursday the strikers, their demands met, started back t'i work. West Berlin Police President Johannes Stumm suid every lurgu East Berlin factory hud been ul- feeted by Wednesday's sinlown demonstrations. The Communists iliil not announce the exact number of anti- Comnuinists released, bill western officials estimated some fiO.lHlll were arrested after the The lied regime's actions wer. aimed at appeasing hundreds 01 thousands of workers in the troubled Soviet An estimated Kasl Berlin workers and tens of thousands i-lsi-where Ciimrmmist-ruU- Germain Weil nesila.v joined in a ance campaign of MUlowns, slowdowns and strikes. The demonstration were Hindi fin emu the il g.iVi-rnnuT.i to release fellow-workers after the June l'i revolt anil to lifl restrictions on traffic between the western and eastern sectors of this divided city.

The Russians were reported to have moved a full division of tunki back into East Berlin, apparently as a warning to workers unuihcr Seen Hither and Yon: JACK WAI.TUIP saying thanks to UKV. NOAH for the about the use of the night depository at the bank which saved the Haptist Church quite something in the recent would-be burglary. MAY getting all set for her first session as new prexy of COMALEE SPEED and her husband TOMMY getting set for their formal opening Saturday in their new location. MAC HOLT of the W-kiscu Jaycees promising some major news announcements shortly on a project underway by the dub they are interested in the Life i fur the beach, (oo. PAT coming up in her mother's footsteps she's the daughter of FRANCES L1ND- VE1T who has always done more her share of civic work PAT wjs elected alternate- from Precinct 4 for the Civil Defense i training HULON FULTS "lows as how" it sure is hot in Washington I and Constitution Hall where more than 5000 attended the National Red Cross convention isn't air- conditioned wonder why en -DR.

E. R. WRIGHT I bard to establish a library in.