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EIGHT THE CORSICANA. (TEXAS) DAILY SUN, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1954 Cortfteatta SBailp Pirbllnhn) Brerj Afturnnon Biwpi flnn LIOHT POBLISHIMO CO. Snn Bnildlnt 106 Sonib Main Alfo Piibllnlifr. SEMIWRKKIV MORN1NO MOHT 'IA I'KIJ I'KKSS AM) WORTH AM AND MABTIM Mn A A Worthsm Lowr? MtrUi Owoerr Sun "id Semi-Weekly Urn Imnt A. Woriham Marltr DArt-Y SON BUILDING niBl 4-47(14 MtlotlHl TEXAS DArLY PRBS? LEAGUE Hew York Chtc-ago Cllj Sin Atlanta SI r.milt Sin Subnerlntlon SJ 80 DM month S16.0U pel in HO Corelcana and Nararro Connljj Out of Counu.

SI .76 our month S17SH Ibc Cunocutia HuH Offli i-mifi Plapp mall mattpi Hi Ibv fuhlu- Anj erroneous reflHctiun upon the unar meter. Minding or reputation ol per ten. ttrtn or corporation whlcli may nar In the columns of Paper will 6. iluilj corrected upon due notice of unit being firen to the editor peraonalb the Office ol Snn Bnlldlnc CorW cftna Member, of The A.nutlaled frern Thr Atiociaud entitled ejclu to the use for repubMcaMorj of all local printed In thlf oewnpaoer ell ai AP diBpaicaei CORSICANA, NOV. 2, 19M MORE MEAT FOR THE POT tors will be able to understand what is interesting to them as plain folks, and will make not a mere succession of dreary "hist'ry books" but a collection of live and stimulating interest to the whole American people.

HOME FOR JOKES Want a funny story for a speech? The Museum of American Comedy at Riviera Beach, will fill any order for jokes listed under arious heads, and props of 'arious sorts used for gags. Charlie Chaplin's cane is ne example. Of course opinions might differ. A request for jokes on a particular subject might result in wisecracks which would never fetch a smile. The customer presumable has to take his chances.

But the museum would seem to have the makings of a very useful institution. There are safer ways than driving recklessly if you iust must prove that you are a fool. If anyone doubts that the old melting pot has ceased to melt, let him note the current brew. Women are their hair mop- fashion in a conscientious facsimile of the Italian street boy's guileless charm. Sports enthusiasts along the are toodling highways in breezy English cars singularly debonair with right-hand drive.

The incorrigible American tourist has found a new friend in the sturdy German Volkes-Wagen with its low gas diet and conservative speed. Japan and the Orient have contributed the basis from which all the low simple lines of modern furniture are derived. Americans have exuberantly adapted the bright, the colorful, the luxurious, the practical from all the cultures they touch. This is a healthy, vigorous sign of an alert and mobile nation. The American's quick tourist curiosity as well as the delight he experiences in discovering and absconding with everything portable from the countries he visits is an encouraging step towards world friendship.

Each object or idea he brings in bespeaks approval and acceptance. Both of these are prizes all men strive for. The European, the English, the Asian and the South American are helping to feed the great bubbling pot. Though there be a duty on objects, the economic tourist knows that ideas are still tariff free. And keeping the melting pot in mind, he can bring back the meat, the bone, and the gristle of other men's thoughts and wisdom to add to our heartv broth.

ADAMS REVIVAL Our knowledge of American history is to receive an important addition. The papers of four generations of Adamses are to be published. The Massachusetts Historical Society, Harvard University and Life magazine will undertake the 15-year task of editing pages of letters, diaries and other writings. Only the interesting material will be published. Everything else will be microfilmed, so historians may see for themselves whether anything of value has been left out.

The papers are the writings of two presidents, John and his son John Quincy; John Quincy's son, Charles Francis, United States minister to England during the War Between the States; and his four sons. One of these was a younger Charles Francis, president of the Union Pacific Railroad and builder of the Kansas City stockyards; one was another John Quincy, active in Massachusetts Democratic politics; and Brooks and Henry Adams, both historians. Henry's autobiography, "The Education of Henry Adams," is one of the best of its kind ever written. The materials used will stop at 1886, when the elder Charles Francis died. This will leave out data gathered by the third Charles Francis, President Hoover's secretary of the navy.

Future historians will profit much from the materials made available by this great enterprise. Americans will hope that the edi- Edgar A. Guest The Poet Of The People "This home Is kept for laughter and for fun," we used to say. "We don't like fits of temper for they always spoil the day. We don't like stupid quarrels and all arguments we shun So children just remember here we laugh and we have fun." They would battle on occasions, as the best of children do.

They'd be difficult at table, but the cure for that we knew. Their mother simply asked them what within this house is done? And the answer came back promptly: "Here we laugh and we have fun." The years are long and many and the laughter's not so gay, And the fun is not so merry since the mother went avay. But whene'er we get together, long before the meal's begun, I remind them all: "Rcmemher, here we laugh and we have fun." Copyright 1954 by Eldgar A. Guest Literary Guideposi By W. G.

ROGERS THE SACRED FOREST. By Pierre-Dominique Gaisseau, translated from French by Stcpheri Becchcr. Knopf. Early last year four Frenchmen fired with a curiosity much like the curiosity that killed a cat set out for the land of the Tom: people, in upper part of West Africa you'll easily when you know it's inland fr Liberia and the Ivory Coast. Gaisseau, his brother-in-law Jean Fichter, and Tony Saulnier am Andre Vircl were armed not with guns but with pad and paper, cameras and recording machines.

They wanted documentaries of the magic and secret rites that go on undei the thick cover of the forest adjoining every village. They had been promised chance to enter into the primitive mysteries, but they found it took a lot more talking before the promise was kept. They shared native life; they even underwent a painful tatooing by thorn and knife to persuade the Toma that white though they were, they were at heart the brothers of the blacks. They got most of what they went arc they aroused enmity; some natives who befriended them, and they themselves, seem to have been in danger of losing their lives, and black magic, or something, laid deathly cold hands on them at night, tossed them out of their sleeping hammocks, and at the end struck two of them with violent illness. To some natives they were busy, body intruders; "a white man is a white man and a black man is a black man." they said.

But from our point of view, they were scientists. They tell us what wo didn'i know before about our kind, anc our relaions with nature, and our ethics. Witty, awesome and thrilling, this conies straight out of the land of the Bogeyman. W. G.

Rogers THE POTTS FAMILY A BOV'S-EVE VIEW By LEE PAPE Ma was thinking to herself serious, saying to pop, Honestly, William, I meen seriously, yot couldn't ask for a better crowc of women than our reguler weakly bridge game. That's nice to know, but as a matter of fact I wasn't thinking of asking for a better crowd of women, pop said, and ma said. There's never a word of bickering or even a thought of argewing. I admit Sally Jardin has a sharp tongue occasionally, but If she uses it too freely she gets as good as she gives, so peace and harmony is the generel rule instead of the rare exception, ma said. You cant beet peace and harmony as a generel rule, pop said and ma said.

We're all so careful of our appeerancc, that's anothei remarkable thing. I defy you to find even a mussed haniterchiff amung the 4 of us, she said. If I ever do. I'll assume that some jelliss outsider threw it in pop said, and ma sal Kitty Summers cant help the fact that she was born without a color sense and sometimes her clothes clash to the high heavens, so wouldn 1 you say she ought to have, enougl' intelligents to rely on better judg mentss than her own' Yes. I might nay that, if I was cor ncred.

pop said, and ma said, Mos important of all, we're all sucl go i players, even if Maud Hew' conception of bidding is a shatter ed relic of the stone age. Well, only hope they are equally com plimentary when they talk abou me. she said. I'm sure they are but you neve know about women, unless yot know about women, pop said. And he laffted to himself am went behind the sports page.

frotetled ft; tht Uroruv Uautirw Adami Serrtw ONE-PLAY-CHARLIE GETS INTO THE GAME CHAPTER I RAN back into the front room, lifted Judy from the divan and laid her face clown on the floor, trying remember what I knew about artificial respiration. I knelt over icr with my hands on the small of back and began to swing slowly backward and forward, regulating the pressure of my hands. Her body was limp beneath me, but I kept it up until the sweat ran down my face, and 1 kept thinking that it was no use, that she was dead. But I kept on, I don't know how long, and at last I heard the screech of brakes and the sound of flying stone. Light swept past the front win- downs, a car door slammed, and feet pounded on the porch.

Dr. Anthony Mazzini burst into the room, carrying his bag, his eyes wild in his dark face. He had thrown his tweed overcoat over red-striped pajamas, and his shoe laces were untied. He saw what I was trying to do, and he said, "Good, good," and pushed me away. I stood up.

He knelt beside the still form of the girl, and his hands went over her swiftly. He muttered something, and began the respiration motions I'd been making, "Blankets," he snapped at me. "And and black." I got both items quickly. I went to the phone and asked he operator for the Homer Hollis residence. Sandy answered and I knew that she hadn't gone to bed, hut had been sitting downstairs in the darkness.

Quickly I told her what iiad happened, and asked her to take my car and come to Judy Kirland's. She asked no questions, but said simply, "All right, Jim." "I think she's coming around" the doctor panted as I joined him again. She still looked dead to me, but I wasn't a doctor. "Close," he breathed. "Too close." He lifted her.into his arni3 and pulled one of the blankets over her.

It was then that I 'jaw her eyelids quiver. He saw it, too, and suddenly he laughed, a wild, crazy sound. He held her close, folding the blanket around her, and he said softly, "You crazy little fool, you sweet little idiot." He kissed her cheeks and her eyes. I turned away, thinking that I would get some coffee for myself, but his soft voice stopped me. "Bennett." I turned and looked at him.

"Thanks." hn said. "You don't have to thank me. Sandy Hollis is coming over. I called her." "Good. She can stay with Judy tonight." "Somebody hotter stay, with her," I said.

"She might try it again." He frowned. "How di I you happen to find her?" I looked at him steadily. "I wanted to see her about a personal matter. She didn't answer my knock, and I came inside. I found a note in her typewriter, and I smelled gas.

She was upstairs in a bedroom, the door and windows looked. I smashed the door and found her on the bed with the gas turned on." "Note?" he said, with a puzzled frown. "What did it say?" "Nothing about you." "I wasn't thinking of that," he said quietly. He looked down at Judy Kirkland. She had a little color now and appeared to be sleeping peacefully.

"She'll be pretty groggy for a while," the doctor said, as If talking to himself. He looked up at me. "Let me see the note." I moved around the room closing windows. "Let me see it." I shook my head. "I'm sorry.

I'm turning it over to the sheriff." I paused, and then added. "It's a confession of murder. She killed Rex Bishop, and she tried to kill Ralph Hollis." "You're crazy," he said. "Why would "People kill for a lot of reasons Jealousy is one of them." "But I know she never really loved Ralph Hollis." he said "Maybe not." I said, "but he spurned her, if you'll pardon the expression, and she couldn't stand that. If she couldn't have him, she didn't want anyone else to have him, cither.

Dog in the manager stuff. The psychologists have a name for it." He looked bewildered. "But why did she try suicide?" "Remorse," I said. "Self blame. Reaction to what she'd done, maybe fear of discovery.

Who knows?" Once more I heard a car in the drive, and saw the lights flash across the windows. "That'll Sandy," I said. He said desperately, "Let me talk to Judy you call the sheriff. Will you promise to wait until I can talk to her?" "All right," I said. Sandy came in looked quickly at the figure of Judy Kirkland.

"She'll be all right," I told her. "Thanks to your friend, Bennett," the doctor said with a trace of irony. Sandy untied a red woolen scarf from her head and took off a loose gabardine top coat. Except for stockings, she was completely dressed in a red skirt, black sweater and saddle oxfords. She looked like a high-school freshman.

The doctor said, "Sandy, would you bring some more coffee, please." He bent over the divan. Sandy gave me a puzzled look, and I shrugged. She entered the kitchen, and I went up the stairs. At the landing I glanced hack. Dr.

Mazzini had turned ami was watching me. He looked away quickly, and I went on up to the hall and down to the room where I'd found Judy. I closed the window I'd unlocked and opened. There were two windows, and the other was locked with the same type of catch on the inside. The quilted cover on tho bed showed the long, slim depression of Judy's body.

She had lain quietly, waiting for death. Her fingerprints would be on the gas value, if I hadn't smeared them, and on the inside door knob, and the key. I moved to the door. The bolt had splintered the casing, but the key was still in the lock. I got down on my knees, dropped a handkerchief over the key, and turned it.

The bolt slid hack, and I removed the key. It was an ordinary house key with an open ring at one end, a slender old-fashioned key, unlike the short, flat modern ones. I stood up, moved over beneath the ceiling light, held the key in the handkerchief and inspected it carefully. Just a steel key, rather dull and a little rusty. On the inside of the ring a tiny something glinted in the light.

I squinted, and held the key closer, thinking that I need glasses. The object was a yellow speck, a tiny flake of something. It disappeared when I touched it, and I cursed softly. The laboratory boys would scream and tear their hair nt my clumsiness. But there weren't any lab boys within a hundred miles, and it probably didn't mean anything, anyhow; just a minute fleck of yellow something on the inside ring of the end of an old- fashinocil key in the lock of a room where a driven and remorseful girl had turned on the tras and waited in quiet despair for the long sleep.

I put the key back in the lock for the sheriff to examine, if ne wanted to examine it, turned off the light and stepped out into the hall. I took two steps toward the stairs before I heard the whisner of sound behind me. I turned, but far too slowly. A dazzling light exploded behind my eyes, and then there was nothing, not even blackness. 'To Be Coiitinucd) Navarro Aggies Elect Officers COLLEGE STATION, Texas Nov.

2 (SpU-Harvey T. Helms of Corsicana, has been elected president of the Navarro County A. and M. Hometown club. Ho is majoring in veterinary medicine Other officers elected include Bob McCormick.

vice-president Douglas Van Grantncr. treasurer both from Corsicana and Freddie 13. Eastland, Emhouse, secretary and William R. Barnes, Barrv parliamentarian. BUTANE AND PROPANE GAS SERVICE APPLIANCES SYSTEMS Farmer's Fuel Company 7tb Avenue At 12th Street DIAL 4-5671 of the armed forces nursing services is the Air Force Nurse Corps.

It started in July, 1949, when the Air Force acquired many r.urses from the Army Nurse Corps. Like the Army and Navy Nursing Corps, the Air Force Nurse Corps is very much the same as any civilian nursing service. The one characteristic, difference Is that Air Force nurses nurses care for patients in planes in the air as well as in hospitals. Though many professional nurses arc attracted to the Air Force Nurse Corps hoping to become flight nurses, Col. Verena Zeller, chief of the Air Force Nurse Corps, says this segment of the Corps is limited to a little over 100 specially trained nurses.

However, she says many are trained to provide for emergencies. Flight nurses are the only women who wear the silver wings of the Air Force. Col. Zeller, who was commissioned in the Army's Nurse Corps in 1936 and served in Manila and in World War II air evacuation for the Military Air Transport Service in this country and abroad, says all Air Force nurses have a unique opportunity to serve in various parts of the world during their two-year term of duty. About one-third of the Corps' total current strength of 2,500 is now serving overseas, in the Far East, Africa.

Arabia. Europe, Alaska, the Pacific islands. This year Air Force Nurses were assigned to Spain for the first time. Four are on duty at the U. S.

Air Force Base at Thule, Greenland. As in the Ai-my and Navy Nurse Corps, all Air Force nurses are commissioned in the grades of second lieutenant through captain. Starting pay for 2nd lieutenants is the same in all armed forces units, $220.30 monthly with an annual quarters allowance for those without dependants of $820.80 and for those with dependents, and an annual subsistence of $574.56. Promotions denend on vacancies. There is a 5 per cent pay in crease every two years.

Qualifications for all three Nurse Corps are essentially tile same except that the Navy's age limits are from 21 to 40 while the Army and Air Force Corps are from 21 to 45. All must be U. S. citizens, graduates of accredited schools of nursing, and have current registration in the United JUDGE IS CONVINCED L. Webster, 30.

denied a police charge that he drove at 50 miles an hour across the 16th Street viaduct with one arm around a woman. Webster told Municipal Judge J. Joe Rawlinson his companion was his wife and it "is not logical" that a man would drive through town with his arm around his own wife. Judge Rawlinson agreed and dismissed a charge of earless driving. FORECASTER BERATED WAUKEGAN, 111., Nov.

Kyritsis, a Waukegan, 111., fisherman, who predicted a mild winter becuusc Lake Michigan perch were near shore, has taken a verbal lambasting. Said a tceth- neighbor, when the mercury dropped to the 20s dur- inf a snowfall: "The perch made a sucker out of him." THE WORLD TODAY By JAMES MARLOW WASHINGTON, Nov. No matter who wins today's or the 1954 hasn't been the kind Pres- dent Eisenhower had in mind. In 1953 he indicated he wouldn't 3e very active in this year's campaign. But he was.

In 1953 he expressed home Communists-in- government wouldn be a campaign issue this year. But it was. Only last week he said he doesn't consider today's elections a vote of confidence in himself or his administration, but Vice President Nixon already has interpreted it that way. Nixon Forces Issue Nixon, congratulated by Eisenhower for the active role he has played in the campaign, las called in public speeches for a "vote of confidence" in the Pres- dent. In response to a news conference question Oct.

21, you take part in the congressional campaign next said: He did not intend to make of the an agency to use in par- occu- puying this office was president all the people He had no in- of going out and getting nto partisan struggles in any dis- or state. Naturally, this didn't make Re- lublican politicians happy. And in lis next news conference, a week ater, Elsenhower said he wanted see a Republican Congress elect- id in 1954. But when asked that day if he felt it would be improper for him to issue a request for election of a Republican Congress, Eisenhower said he wouldn't say what form any statement might take but he doubted a mere request along that line would be effective. Answers Help Pleas By the time the 1954 campaign was half over Eisenhower still had planned no more than thsee speeches and showed no signs of wanting to go into individual states to plug for candidates.

Then Republican politicians beat a path to his Summer White House in Denver, asking for help. After that, bit by bit, Eisenhower got deeper into the compaign. By the time of today's balloting, Eisenhower had campaigned more actively in a mid-term election than any other president in modern times. He had pleaded for a Republican Congress and had flown into individual states. Eisenhower expressed hope Reds- in-government would not be an issue in 1954 at a news conference Nov.

18, 1953. Sen. McCarthy (R- Wis) promptly said it would be an issue. In the early weeks of the 1954 campaign Eisenhower seemed right, McCarthy wrong. It may have been an issue locally in some contests for Congress.

It was not a. national issue until late in the campaign, injected by Nixon an-i others. Today's Birthday: By AP Newsfeatures RICHARD B. RUSSELL born Nov. 2, 1897, in Winder, son of the state's chief justice.

The senator from Georgia is a key personality in the Democratic senatorial lineup. At 33 he was elected governor, the youngest ever chosen by his state. Went to the Senate Jan. 12.1933 and has been there ever since. Although all of his 12 brothers and sisters are married, Russell remains a bachelor.

One Word Led To Another By ARTHUR "BUGS" BAER PEOPLES CHOISE This Is my day off because I only vote the straight Fusion ticket. Fusion means a coalition of two weak parties to parlay a nuisance value into a compromise. A candidate who has both the Demmies and the Republicans voting for him should get the duke. But somehow or another he misses. Because even fused parties still have the habit of not counting the other side's votes.

Usually, Fusion is packed loosely with splinter organizations figuring to follow the gravy train with a bent spoon. That bright argosy of reformers put forth to sea on the crest ot a reform wave. And swims back. I have been following municipal and state politics since I've been nose-high to a cash register. And I find reform- lasts until the reformers discover the combination to the stashaway.

Then they improve each shining little office tapping the bee tree. I am morose to state that suffrage has not improved political conditions an economical iota. Municipal funds evaporate like smoke on the horizon. There is too much homework with what belongs in the office. There's no Fusion in our town today.

Maybe the Parole Board was lax in its late autumn estimates. Yet conditions have been TNG Armory Bids Slated Nov. 29 Bids will be received November 29, 1954, for proposed construction of service center maintenance shop and facilities for the Texas National Guard at its armory in Corsicana, according to an announcement. The work will consist principally of the construction of a service center maintenance shop building, oil and greases storage building, concrete washing slab (30x32), concrete foundation for and erection of government steel lubrication rack, hardstand parking area, security fencing, 20-foot double swing gates, and concrete curbing. fi Work will commence within' 1C calendar days after the receipt ol notice to proceed and shall be completed in 180 calendar days.

Interested bidders are requested to make application at once for plans and specifications to United States Property and Fiscal Officer for Texas, Camp Mabry, P. Box 5218, West Austin Station Austin 31, Texas. outclassed, in self-funding jeopardy by only a fish on a seal's nose or a butcher's thumb. We are rather thankful thai there is no reform wave. It gives the town a bad name.

We have seen the light. Sometimes it's green and sometimes it's red. But we can always differentiate Election Day from our other important holidays. The saloons are closed. Tomorrow we will know the score.

It will be no pitcher's battle. Everybody's catching. (Copyright. 105-1. Feature! Syndicate, Inc.) Strength For The Day By EARL t.

DOUGLASS THE HORIZON A young man told me recently that he had trobule with his until he joined the navy. On duty ho discovered that there nothing which Improves the quall-- ty of one's vision so much as look- Ing out over broad expanses of water intently for an object one cannot quite see. If such an experience is good tor physical eyes, it is to be especially commended for the eyes of the soul. Nothing else does our soul so much good as peering out to the horizon, trying to sec something that is only slightly visible. Religion is primarily a matter of faith.

If we will not accept religious truth until it has been proved to us, we shall probably never accept it. We believe in life after death. On the dim horizon of life there Is evidence that such a hope is justified, and the more we train our eyes to catch the outlines of that hope, the stronger does our spiritual vision become. The more we seek for spiritual truth, the more docs our desire Eor spiritual truth increase and the deeper do our spiritual capacities become. The more intently we search for this truth the better do the eyes of our souls become.

The more we want to know about prayer, the more we will know. The more intent we are on discerning the will of God, the more will we discover that will. Peer intently toward the horizon. It improves the vision. It Happened 25 Years Ago Today (From the Files of the Corsicana Dally Sun) Corsicana high footballers were to clash with Waco high school in Waco today, and a special train was carrying local fans to the McLennan county capital.

The Daily Sun promised a football extra after the game. There had been 77,546 bales of cotton ginned In Navarro county as of Oct. 18. An injunction had been asked against the location of the proposed lateral road from Corsicana to Emhouse. The petition alleged the proposed location of the road would destroy 25 oak trees which enhanced the beauty and value of North Corsicana Methodist Church property.

Mrs. M. W. Sims of Bryan arrived here to spend a month with her daughter, Mrs. C.

H. Mills. Miss Edith Benton of Corsicana was a member of the vested choir at College of Industrial Arts, Denton. Charles Barnaby was given a Halloween party by his mother at her home, 610 West Fifth Ave. Hotel Navarro Coffee Shop GOOD'FOODI A Open 6 A.

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