The Mexia Daily News from Mexia, Texas • Page 1

WEATHER FORECAST North Central Texas Partly cloudy through friday with widely scattered showers. Mexia area continued warm, scattered showers. VOLUME LV1 ftoe THOtlOMf DAY -A HOME-OWNED, INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING THE PEOPLE 6ft YEARS UNITED PRESS FULL LEASED WIRE SERVICE MEXIA, TEXAS, THURSDAY, SEPT. 9, 1954 NEA COMPLETE FEATURE SERVICE in; Two Years Of Cotton Control Due President Plonning Disposal Of Farm Surpluses Abroad WASHINGTON, D. At least two more years of stifl federal crop controls will be required to get present cotton surpluses down to workable levels, an Agriculture Department official estimated today.

He said continued federal crop controls in 1955 and 1956 seem likely, despite the comparatively small crop in prospect on this year's acreage allotments. The estimate is low because of drouth damage. The official, who declined, to be quoted by name, added that cotton belt pressure for relaxed acreage alolmunts against next year, if successful, would almost guarantee two more years of cutback controls. Picture Could Change Greater than expected export demand or more serious crop losses from drouth could change the picture, the official said, He said it now looks like it will take two years to whittle down present record surpluses of about 9.6 million bales to a more satisfactory for million bale reserve level. Wednesday's cotton report showed that drouth cut 1954 crop prospects 848,000 bales from a month earlier, down to 11.832,000 bales.

Crop estimates took sharp reductions everywhere in the cotton belt except in the far west. In Denver, meanwhile, President Eisenhower today laid down new United States policy for the "orderly and gradual" overseas disposal of farm surpluses up to a billion dollars during the nevt. throe years. The chief executive issued a statement of policy which will govern the disposal of farm surpluses. Surplus commodities worth $700 million may be sold abrpad under present laws for foreign" currency and $300 million in surplus commodities may be given to friendly nations of friendly peoples in event of national disaster or famine.

The president promised that the United States would not dump its surpluses suddenly on the world markets but would proceed in an orderly and gradual way. Slight Relief Due For North Texas From Hot Weather By United Pren Spotted showers continued to spatter widely separated sections of Texas today and a weak cool front crept southward out of the upper Panhandle and northern Oklahoma to promise slight relief to North Texas heat sufferers. The shower pattern will be about the same as yesterday when some areas of Fort Worth recorded up to 1.60 inches and other portions not to drop. Widely scattered showers fell across the top of the Panhandle last night, but none were reported at weather bureau stations. The cool front was expected to reach the South Plains and Red River boundary by tomorrow morning, but stall along that line without being felt very deep into the state.

Overnight low temperatures ranged from 59 at Dalhart to 79 at Galveston. Temperatures yesterady to reach t'he 100 degree mark anywhere except at Presidio where J02 was posted. Only measurable rainfall at U. S. Weather Bureau stations was .07 inch at Laredo and .05 ut Beaumont.

Mexia had a high of 97 degrees yesterday and a low last night of 73. The forecast for the Mexia area is clear to partly cloudy, continued warm through tomorrow, with some scattered showers possible. AVA GARDNER ADMITS HURLING MARTINI GLASS KIO DE JANEIRO (UP) Ava Gardner said today she lost her temper and threw martini glass in dispute with the manager of the Gloria hotel early yesterday before she moved out. She blamed the incident on her "Irish temper" and nervousness resulting from wild receptions given her by crowds that greeted her at the airport and the hotel lobby upon her arrival, a leg of the daddylonglegs The Champ Of Tonkin WATER USE BAN IS LI BY MEXIA COMMISSIONERS Patience finally paid off for James Iglehari, (left), an engineer on the USS Bayfield. one of the U.

S. Navy ships evacuating refugees from Red Indo-China. He was awarded the "biggest benrd" title in all of Tonkin. An unidentified admires Jim's beard. (NEA Teleph.oto.) is a seized, sheds Hit it and this harmless creature scurries seven.

away on Morris Fuforian In Mexia To See Building Progress Morris Futorian, of Chicago president of the Futorian Manu- 'acturing Company, was in Mexia yesterday to observe the progress on the building that will house he Futorian Furniture Corpora- Jon of Texas. Mr. Futorian, who returnee Monday from Europe, was accom- to Mexia by A. E. (AD Swenson, of Dallas, vice-presi lent -of the Futorian company'.

Mr. Futorian says he is looking orward to moving the local firm nto the new building, which ocated just north of the Mexia ity limits alongside Highway 14 ie said he hopes the move can made by Nov. 1. He said the nien are doing a ine job on the building.and the vork is progressing faster than ic expected. Ray Goodson, of Mexia, is general contractor for the $150,000 building.

In a talk with representatives of the Mexia Industrial Foundation, Mr. Futorian, remarked that sales of Futorian furniture all over the country are good. Mr. Futorian also paid a visit to the furniture plant, which is located in temporary quarters in the building at the corner of McKinney and Palestine streets. The Futorian president left for Chicago last night.

Church Work Asked By Dallas Man In Talk to Mexia Men Mexia Presbyterians were urged to "make your churchmanship count" by Walter West, business manager of the Highland Park Presbyterian church, Dallas, in a talk here Tuesday night. "Serve, give, and pray," Mr. West suggested. Even in a church with as large a membership as the Highland Park Presbyterian church, which has almost 5,000 members, it is difficult to get more than a small percentage of people to work, he said. Mr.

West was introduced by Jack Spencer, program chairman, for the meeting. Several Fairfield visitors were present, including the Rev. Bill Loessin, pastor of the Fairfield Presbyterian church. H. A.

McGilvary, president of the Presbyterian men's group, presided at the meeting which was held in the church building. WASHING MACHINE FIGHTS BACK WHEELING, W. Va. Officers raced to the home of Mrs. William Ball Wednesday to find the woman hysterical, a washing machine revolving on the basement floor, and a collie running ahead of the machine.

They quickly liberated the tail of "Rex" from the washer belt and peace was restored. TRIAL DATE SET IN EXTORTION CASE DALLAS (UP) James and Ralph Jones will be tried Sept. 20 on federal charges they tried to extort $200,000 from 20 Jewish families last June. In addition to setting the trial date, Judge T. Whitfield Davidson granted a defense request for a.

psyebjgtrjc Junes. examination of Murder Trial Opens Monday Morning In Limestone County GROESBECK (Spl) The trial of a Limestone county farmer, who is charged with murder in the death of his wife, is scheduled to begin Monday in Grocs- beck. County Attorney Joe Schultz says the trial of Ray Wilson, of Billington, will be held in the 77th 'District court before Judge Clarence Ferguson and will start at 9 a.m. The man's wife, Mrs. Doris Wilson, died in a Waco hospital on the night of Feb.

25 of a hea'd injury. She had been admitted to the hospital about four days before her death. Wilson, the father of two children, ages two and six, was arrested and charged and then're- leased under $3,000 bond, the county attorney says. The defendant will be represented in court by Attorney Carl Cannon, of Groesbeck, and Bowlen Bond, of Teague. Representing the state will be Mr.

Schultz; L. M. Seay, assistant county attorney, and L. L. Geren, a Groesbeck attorney.

Mr. Geren was secured as a prosecutor by the family of Mrs. Wilson. The county attorney says 150 men have been summoned for the selection of a jury. President Ready To Lay Pfans 1 6 1 For Opposing Red Aggression southeast Asia treaty conference Death Toll Might Climb To 1,000 In African Quake ORLEANSVILLE, Algiers (UP)-rTho worst earthquake in modern North African history ripped apart this city of 20,000 early today in 12 seconds of collapsing buildings and jack-knifing streets.

French authorities said the official toll of bodies recovered by noon was 100, but that it was feared the death toll throughout the valley would reach 1,000. Authorities said that at least 800 bodies still lay trapped in the smoking ruins of this city, 100 niles southwest of Algiers. Uncounted thousands were inured, many with fractured skulls. All of Algieria was mobilized rush help to 50,000 citizens in Orleansville area. Half of Orleansville itself was destroyed.

FOUR AIRMEN HURT IN HOUSTON CRASH HOUSTON (UP) An Air orce training plane with 13 persons aboard crashed and burned ust after takeoff at Ellington Air Force Base today and at least our persons were injured. The injured mien, removed from he burning plane by fellow passengers, were hospitalised at the air base. REP CROSS BOARD POSTPONES MEETING The annual meeting board of directors of the Lime stone county Red Cross chapter at the Gibbs Memorial library las been postpone until the night of Sept. 16 because several of the directors could not be jresent next Monday night, Chapter Chau'inan W. T- Mow today, DENVER (UP) President Eisenhower prepared to lay extensive plans for opposing Red aggression at home and abroad in meetings Sunday with 11 top officials of the government.

The President plans to confer first with J. Edgar Hoover, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Attorney General Herbert Brownell. The three will then hear reports from, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles who is Ravburn Sees roue to ashinn frm tlie Victory For Congress BONHAM (UP) Rep. Sani Rayburn, House Democratic minority leader in Congress, predicts he will get back his former job as speaker of the House next January when the 84th Congress convenes. Mr.

Rayburn, rcnominatcd to his 23rd term, said last night at a farmers' meeting in Bonham, his home town, that the Democrats will regain control of both the House and Senate. Mr. Rayburn cited the Republican farm and foreign policies as two major issues in the congressional campaign this fall. "When the people of the United States return the Democrats to power," he said, "we will throw out low supports for farm prices and restore the 90 per cent." He said farmers should join a farm organization and "stand together." "If you do not stand together ypu will be in the same situation as in the early forgotten man with no purchasing power." On foreign policy, Mr. Rayburn said the Republicans "criticized everything we did, but they have not changed the Truman-Acheson policy, except to administer it so badly that we have friends now than at any time since the birth of our country," he said.

In Harrisburg, mennwhile, Adlai Stevenson ripped into the Eisenhower administration's and domestic. The 1952 presidential aspirant told 3,000 guests at a $100 a plate dinner here that the Republicans have given the nation slogan policies instead of foreign policies. SHALLOW TEST IN LIMESTONE A pay test for oil is reported being made four miles northwest of Thornton by the Hamman Oil and Refining Co. and the BBM Drilling the depth being 1,219 feet. The well is the No.

1-A. A. Gunter in the TC survey, and is in the area of No. 2 Norris. A recent Wolfe City sand producer brought in by W.

A. Reiter and others at feet. in Manila where he signed United States-inspired mutual se curity pact. Later the same day Mr. Eisen howcr will hold a history-mak ing session of the National Secu rity Council and confer with oth er government heads.

The meeting will also be at tended by Allen W. Dulles, head of the super-secret Central Intelligence Agency; Rowland Hughes, director of the budpnt and Lewis Strauss, head of the Atomic Energy Commission. The secretary of state was due to arrive in Denver Sunday, from tht; Asian conference which brought about the eight-nation pact binding the free west and cast together against further Red ag gression in southeast Asia, American and Nationalist Chinese jet fighter planes escortet Secretary Dulles through danger ous skies today to a meeting with Chiang Kai-Shek. Mr. Dulles 'plane landed a noon today, and before going to lunch and a conference with generalissimo, he said the Unitec States would not be intimidated by Red Chinese threats to For mosa.

AJ. Mr. Dulles reached Taipc from the historic SEATO confer onco at Manila, officials said Na tionalist Chinese planes had at tacked the Chinese mainland op posite the island Quemoy for the fourth straigh day. CAMPAIGN EXPENSES ANNOUNCED IN AUSTIN AUSTIN (UP) Allan Shivers has reported $285,121.69 in Democratic primary campaign expenses, as compared with $279,722 listed by his unsuccessful opponent, Austin attorney Ralph Yarborough. POLIO CASES ON DECLINE IN TEXAS AUSTIN (UP) Polio cases declined to 129 last week in Texas, the State Health Department reported today.

The week's total was 31 under the number of cases listed for the previous week. A. S. Johnston Sr. Funerol Services In Mexia Tomorrow Albert Sidney Johnston 71, a resident of Mexia for past 32 years, died early this morning after a lengthy illness.

Funeral services will be held at the First Methodist church in Vlexia tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock with the Rev. Cecil Ellis, pastor, officiating. Burial will be in the Mexia cemetery with the Corley Funeral Home directing arrangements. Masonic services will be held at the-grave. Mr.

Johnston was born on May 9, 1883, in Caldwell county near Lpckhart He moved to Mexia in 1922 and was in the dairy' and laundry business. He was a member of church and the Masonic lodge. Besides his wife; Mp, Jftdlcy Johnston, of'Mexia, Survived by a son, Albert Sidney John-, ston Mexia; a daughter, Mrs. Herman Focke, Mexia; and three grandchildren. Also surviving are two sisters, Mrs.

Hugh McGee, Lockhart, and Miss Nola Johnston, Lockhart, and four brothers, Charlie ston, San Angelo; Ashley Johnston, San Bruno, Calif; Joe Johnston, Marlin and Grady Johnston, Long Beach, Calif. The English statesman, Edmund Burke, first referred tq the newspaper profession as the Fourth Estate. Speculation On Romance Of Princess Is Continuing LONDON (NEA) the question of the marriage of Margaret, England's princess, is the subject of conversation at home and abroad. Her faithfjyti people were convinced that the celebration of her 24th birthday recently at Balmoral Castle, ther would be an official announcement. But the great day came and went and nothing year itish wondered, nut whether she byt she would marry brilliant Group Captain Peter TownatnC year another candidate's name crept into tbat of Jl'vear ad' dition to what is Hnown as the "Margaret set" in London.

The title of baron which Cohn will inherit is only two old, but the family fortune dates back to 1798. In that yew- Charles Tenant took out a patent for a bleaching powder for cotton which was to save'00 per cent of costs then Involved. The Tenant fortune grew with the great industrial expansion in England. Lord Glenconner now it the head some 2.3 cpmpaniea producing chemical and representing a capital running into of mJUiontt People who lay claim to inside information say that it quite that Margaret not gi- First Graders In Mexia Eighty-five first graders have enrolled in the Ross Avenue elementary school in Mexia for the 1954-55 school year and the total enrollment at the elementary school is up from 541 to 577. Among the first graders are those pictured above.

They are. left to right. Qulnton Reynolds, Shirley Clendenon, Carolyn Ann Asher, Troy Alan Miller, and Richard Sanderson. (Daily News Photo. Times Announced For Community 'Clinic'In Mexia Times have been set and discussion leaders selected for the "community clinic" to be held in Mexia three days next week during local "Progress Week," sponsored by the Chamber of Com merce.

Mexia; citizens are invited to attend the discussions and to give suggestions for the improvement of Mexia. The Chamber of Commerce will use the suggestions in drawing up ts program of work for the future. All discussions will be held in he air-conditioned conference room at the Southwestern Elec- ric Service building. Times and discussion leaders are as follows; Tuesday: 10. a.m., Thurman Kerr, 3 p.m., Woodrow Perkins.

Wednesday: 10 a.m., Nolan Boyd, 3 Rufus Price. Thursday: 10 a.m., Aubry iVanklin; 3 p.m., for ladies, Ruth iogers; and 7:30 p.m., Harry acobs. Gene Womack is general chairman of the clinic. Programs at the Mexia Lions lub on Tuesday and at the Hoary club on Thursday will be on he subject of community Plans are also being made ask for suggestions from Mexia High school students. Atomic Submarine Near Completion, US Navy Reveals WASHINGTON, D.

The Navy announced today that he U.S.S. Nautilus, the world's irst atom-powered submarine, will be commissioned Sept. 30: First sea trials for the revolu- ionary craft are expected to fol- ow in a few months. The Nautilus will be able to sail ubmerge-d around the world ut refueling. That is not true of ny other submarine ever built.

The Nautilus will be commit ioned at Groton, where it IBS been under construction for nore than two years. It is 300 feet Limestone County Pig Show Planned Af Groesbeck Soon The Limestone county swine will be held at 10 o'clock on the morning of Sept. 18 on the used car lot of the Ford Motor company in Groesbeck, County Agent M. H. Brown Jr.

announced today. For the first time, adults will be allowed to enter their animals but the animals entered by adults will not compete with those' entered by 4-H club and FFA boys, W. f. Ross, of Marlin, who is recognized as one of the leading swine authorities in the state, will judge the show. Mr.

Brown says, the judging should be completed by noon and the animals will be released at that time. While most animals Jn the show will be registered, the county agent says that registration papers are not required for entry and all breeds will be accepted. This show is sponsored annually by the Scare Foundation, the Lions club of Coolidge, and" the Chambers of Commerce of Mexia and Groesbeck, Mr. Brown says that Limestone county has some of the best swine in the state and this show will feature the best stock in the county. A few of the animals will be for Kale but most are beini exhibited only so an auction wil not be held.

A hog calling contest will pre cede the'judging of the show. On Way To Get Bigger Supplies Water restrictions in Mexia were lifted completely by official action of the City Commission last night, ending a series of voluntary and com-' conserve water hero during the summer drouth. Watering of shrubs, flowers, and lawns is now permissible every day and at all hours by action of the commission. A ban on "the washing of sutomobUes recently after being in effect only a brief Commissioners met for over three hours in the Gibbs Memorial Library building last night, the entire session for the most part being concerned with Mexia'a water-shortage, Mayor- W. W.

Mason and lha four commissioners were all present, including Wallace Welch, Herman Hltt; Fred, Wright, and Wyatt HaytcK Expert advice on water development was obtained in a contract made with Nicholas -Rose, outstanding Houston water geologist. Discuss rbtxipt commission also discussed financial problems at length with W. V. Riley, of San Antonio, re" presenting the Hanson-Davidson bond firm which has handled bond sales for Mexia in recent years. Information brought out in the lengthy discussions indicated thai Mexia probably will not be in a position to sell at a favorable fate of interest as many tax bonds as might be required pay for large-scale 7 water Continued effort is to be made! to solve the financial difficulty, while at the same time the city McCarthy Charges He Is Hindered In Submitting Defense ong and weighs 2.800 tons.

'Westinghouse Corp. made the powerful nuclear en ine. Navy the the first of a whole fleet of eremoity indicating that a ship joined the DCTBATcb LAKE OKTAIMO TpRQNTQ abandoned hjr attempt swim acroes Luke Ontario early today. WASHINGTON, Sen. Joseph McCarthy charged today he had been "precluded from submitting a defense" against one of five censure char.

ges under study by a special Senate committee, Sen. McCarthy made the charge on the basis of a ruling by Sen. Arthur V. Watkins, com mittee chairman, who held Sen. McCarthy and ut not present evidence other senators besides McCarthy, nao! sought and got from government workers, At a brief closed session, special censure committee mously upheld Sen- rwlfng.

Sen. McCarthy's utt Edjvard fmmtl mkt feels the kers should give him of wrong-doinf, TOKYO office drilled ity by City miles of pipeline, of ing and other 1390,000. Mr, datlonwa. ia's present and other i Monroe the comm.