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Corpus Christi Caller-Times from Corpus Christi, Texas • 4

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4 Corpus Christi CALLER TIMES Sunday Jan 4 1948' Seven Killed in Highwayj01d Clothes For Europe Drive To Gain Okay on School Aid Plan Begins OHIO GOVERNOR MARRIES physician secretary INDIANAPOLIS Ind Jan 3 iflV-Handsome Gov Thomas Herbert of Ohio and Miss Mildred Helen Stevenson climaxed in marriage today an interstate romance that began in a doctor's office They wete married in McKee Chapel of the Taljcr-nacle Presbyterian Church before a group of relatives Accident South of Bishop Mishap Described as One Of South Worst WOMEN DROWN Collected Almost lOOU pound of toed clothing have been collected l-15 members of the Christian Endeavor youth group of First Christian Cirirrh in the thtee-dav unmiiiv WASHINGTON Jan 3 A campaign to win corgm-i- M'Jtial approval this year of a S300 program ('rue sieve Avery arruiVgemrids or aid to public schools was opened today by the chairman said last night National Education Association Toe clothing being collected Companion to authorize the program have been families of appr0ved by he Senate Labor and Public Welfare Cocnmit-tee and a House education and labor subcommittee To tolerate ignorance within our own nation is to invite disaster said NEA Exec- ntivfb rnitarv WTtarrf r10 ni'lion Ihf BtCPnd Xiard million and thereafter the Gr en ii a statement allotment Would be 300 to aid the needy I urope Avery said Final collections expected to ahove the total veight well over the half-ton mark will be mde today Persons vho wish to contribute clothing are asked to tali 2-3324 or 5984 The clothing is to be assorted Nueces County's 1948 traffic death toll stood at seven last night with the year but three days old Four men died instantly in a headon truck-car collision late Friday about half a mile south of the city limits of i Bishop on Highway 77 and three others died a few' hours: later in Kleberg County Hospital resulting from what High- way Patrolman Sgt Sam Gardner described as the most i serious highway mishap in i this area in recent years and friends including Gov and Mrs Ralph Gates of Indiana Then the Ohio governor and his state's new lady" went to a wedding breakfast The ceiemony culminated a courtship that began in a office in the spring of 1946 Gov Herbert now 53 had gone there for treatment of a leg wound suffered in World War I The new Mrs Herbert now 40 was the secretary of the governor's personal physician Dr Edward Harlan Wilson This is the second marriage for both 2 School Districts Held Tardy on Pay Requirements -The public srhoois car not American child full million The money would We pontioned among the state tunty to pr-pair for te duties Cordng to toeir uidividual nUas of democratic cit uetunip unless ard would be spent bv state7u! helps hcrites according to state reguU-The National Eoucatioti A- tors 1 is the passace The DrofMwrf of kouin hich Will rrovid tor an annual appropriation cf tr the amount which $300 million by the federal gov-1 Cccg-ess err men to art public school If eSLLS BUPPOrt are loocxyt teachers Spmd on emergency ntaadard billions of doUars ni--ch of communism abroad but 'rtifirates: sal-res are so low in state thjt leather ae- Texas Holiday Period Death Toll at 234 AUSTIN Jan 3 Texas took stock today of the 234 persons who diad violently during the holiday period from Dee 20 to Jin 1 a toll that came to aix more than the pre-holiday predictions made by the department of public aafety and the Texas Safety Association i Biggest slayer was trafTic with 1 106 persons dead on the streets and highways Seventy-eight pr Head Listed Dead are: Maruel Cavaos 25 2022 Caldwell Corpus Chrisli Guadalupe Mendoza Jr 21 Kingsville Manuel Gonzalez Rodriguez 22 Kingsville Donaciano Ri era 24 Kingsville Manuel Montalvo 21 Kingsville Gregorio Zapata 22 Kingsville Santos Gonzales Ozuna 22 and packed today and tomorrow rl the church and will to New Orleans to be shipped overseas by the Church World Service Live Oak Coimlv Court To Open Session 3Ioiidav CallrrTunr Nm Straw GEORUE WEST A new srsion court in the Judicial tiict opens at the Live Oak County courthouM here Momiav morning Judge Gayle ot Beevi'lei will tie on hand to pi eside over the hearings and impanel a grand Jury Other officials of the court m-1 dude District Attornev John Mil-1 ler of Sinton District Clerk Roger Umphrea or Ceorge West: Sher- iff Albert Smith of George West! and Harvey Harrell of Beeville i official court reporter be I Las cAit drops INTO RIVER KAUFMAN Jan Tna Dallaa women drowned In the enst fork of the Trinity River today when their automobile skidded on an I re-coated wooden bridge smashed through a railing and plunged I feet into seven feet of water The accident occurred at am IS miles west of Kaufman on Highway lik The dead were Sira Hen I' IJghtfoot IS and Sira Louise Parnell Witnesses to the accident called I he Kaufman fire department and members of the department rescued the trapped bodies from the automobile Only the radio aerial of the ear was above water The women were headed toward Kaufman 1 C81llWOlI I ItlllS Trip lo (lliinigo Mr and Mrs Earl Cantwell Sr 44S MacLeod are spending the weekend on their ranch near Bandera He will fly from San Antonio to Chicago on Monday to attend furniture markets and conventions Cantwell ia expected to return here the following weekend While in Chicago he plans to buy merchandise for the Cantwell Furniture Co which is to open here this sprirg in conjunction with the Cantwell Mattress Co His son Cantwell Jr will assist him in the business New York City claims the largest high school in the world It has 8000 pupils and 283 many nroper t' -e are -s arv M-es "II ou dm tr-i are such slums bkr a Itzok at New Pirchamg oo'ver i- than City It is a sJ examole' Th s'ra if so-msored be Tf: fR-Ohioi Smith (R- V-'L 11' Kil iD-Aa) Eoert Thorras (DUtahi eider D- AUSTIN Jan 3- The attorney general ruled today that two districts teacher salary' schedules did not meet the requirements of the per rapita pay bill and the attorne general's uulh on Ilighvv ay 77 and crashed hut the department of education pinion was asked in view of their headon into a second Alamo truck leported one had been cleared up protests to render a dec ision about 100 yards farther on inves-and expected the other to be in Daniel ruled solely on the teach tigators reported line soon a er pay bill and did not touch on Edward John Letterman 30 of Attorney General Price Daniel the constitutionality of separate Miller Courts Corpus Christi ruling stated the Texarkana and par scales for white and Negro 1 driver of the first truck was un- tonio vii-e piesirient of the State Hoard of Education The five school had protested Wood's disapproval of their seized- Kingsville The foor-door sedan in which the group was riding struck Alamo Kxptess truck traveling anwn died in miscellaneous mrei ent and there were 50 homicides Sinlon Kiwanis Club To Install Officers Jan 15 Cillrftir Xiwi ImlM INTON New officers of the Sinton Kiwania Club will be installed at a night' banquet here on Jan IS Smith will be installed as president succeeding Roy Moses Other officers and directors include Leo Owen vice president: Oscar Bard secretary: Ful-lick A Gingrich Bill Gavilt Bill Brewer Raymond Biggs Roy Moody and the Rev Arthur Rode directors injured Edward Emil Hartman 50 1009 Laredo was dismissed from Kleberg County Hospital in Kingsville after the accident but was admitted several hours later to Spohn Hospital Last night his was described as satisfactory En Rente te Dance The seven men fatally injured in the accident were believed en route from Kingsville to a dance con cut ion Cagle Pass Independent School Districts did not meet the S2000 minimum provision approved Abilene and Goose Creek and conditionally approved Pampa ILowrArJ i I A Woods stated that schedules of all the schools were with requirements except Texarkana and think going to straighten out their situation next week" Met Demands Woods said the school met ie-quirements of the act after the opinion had been requested by Gilbert tl Denman of San An- La and Chavez (D-NM) Rep McCnwen iR-Ohiol is sponsor cf i tite House bill The bills would authorize ap- ri opriatiais fsr the curpose cf more ncsrly equalising public i e'erentsy school and public ('ftllfr Ml Afltirt KINGSVILLE will b1 vitnr resumed at a am Monday at Tex- included ould be the Dis as AAI College following the Christ- inct of Columbia A'a-ka Hawaii mas holidays Dr Jones col- Rico the Canal Zone lege president said yesterday Stu-! American Samoa the Vi gin Is-dents began returning to the cam- l-rds and Gia-n pus Saturday he ad-ic-i The frrt year' appicpn Collrjre Clar4 Hr KrMimnl Alomluv at coard of trustees of everv school i in Bishop district shall pav their teachers on Funeral services for five of salary acliedule providing a men will be held today in minimum beginning salary of $2 Kingsville the Cage-Piper Funeral 000 annuallv ith increments for Home said last night Services for additional college training and the victims has been set rri'WY'Vr rjl I- teaching experience for Monday and are still pending 1U nil I I aIV The second rectum states that Services for Guadalupe Men- schuol districts whose revenues i r- will be held this mom-are insufficient to meet the pro- nf- The hour of the funeral Mr and Jlrv Weller ami isions of S2000 minimum pay i davghter Cunnie Ree and Oree vzu izimiii iuii i pry end increments must pay the i could not be learned last night nor could a list of survivors of AILWAVS teachers With the approval of the Texarkana Independent School District's teacher pay schedule expected next week the salary scales el Texas schools will have een cleared in accordance wiih the new law The piobicm if compliance with the law re-is with the first two rections of th act Daniel stated Section 1 requires that the highest salaries possible to all of heir teachers Darnel ruled that stl(- trirts meeting provisions of So-- Vrot I cr al of the State super tK- -i education Win Approval llorcr IIrf4 uiiablr m- tlv mi-t lie approved the state MIM TltedPp Iward nr pntaltr tor lack 1 iIh aw 1 I Hccreditation meaning grad-1 niust take an entrance ex-! entering allege Dane nnJ5 Tcxar I na an Fagle Pass did not com- Wllh either section He said 'bilene and voose Creek were in compliance but that Pampa a with Secfron and must tie approved by Wnuli nd the boaiii of education The ruling was not the final word on the situation however Daniel said -whether the salary schedules ow for consideration are in violation of constitutional cr staturoy law other than House Bill 300 is dependent upon a proper determination of questions which are not the ruling stated fart before I 0 ri)d it a the height cf folly at the trre to refuse to spend a tj complete the bul-home azsrtt the same rne in mind of forgotten American rev vark When kidneys woraTooOiten Arm tslimwl u4 tac 4 tmm Imww 1 tm asy rcnf Ttancgua wU ma Suue lintcit tee Sum Tfrrrsi ww Sjnrii Sixi ssa ai-n safe sit S- can areas lta-oeisa Ke aaS suer UrsUn Is no nave tsa tru eaw ef t-e rtratrsue cniSBJe mrC-nam eaCe Cnta uauadf on in aart real mmm un jmm vara- K-isa uiu mnr Hrsarirg mnmm tail iarB-a irn iu (rUi Srz Tina iuct irua tieipa 3 PN-na trln aaemraa mat rZrrw1 Rrpa lUif metl a -t iU a i teas seauNtitic krtrr rp Oat CnNi fr nr arurs lUir Ora rjl mm CwwU pum If aaaj Sara curiSNf um Ctam wafN paa S1ERMTG1 1 mi i OVER A MILUOS CUSTOMERS some of the victims be obtained Another service for Manuel Montalvo Is scheduled for 2 All of the services today are to Sa Martin Catholic Church in Kingsville Among Jm survivors is one brother Jesus Montalvo of Kingsville Itonhle Servl-e rr In lf lirll ior iinuriiin Rlvf ra 24 of Km-ville and Manuel Ckivazos at the church Another fm'r will he held at 4 for Gregorio Cl Zapata Survivors in -de his arents Mr and Mrs Julian Zapata of Kingsville live brothers and two sisters Cage-Piper Funeral Home was awaiting word last night from relatives of Santos Gonzales Ozuna 22 for exact time to hold funeral servite although tenta Mr and Mrs Weldon Dennis 323 Waco are the parents of a son horn Dec 29 at their residence 'It was Mrs Dennis birthday also REGULAR $2400 VALUE: laviaihla SllMlta Caiwslala SHI Vaaailaaliaa 13 85 riaiurday 89 le 8 ixoob DlA1 2-7444 roar aamr a TTtfR iiallas ANTOMO A l'l TIN aOlaiOM 24 YEARS AGO adopted the policy of selling better jewelry at lower ON EASY CREDIT TERMS TODAY with an outstanding organization of 26 stores a fully staffed New York buying office and a diamond-buying office in Antwerp Belgium Zale's continues to gie you low prices on finer merchandise sold at one price only cash or credit Shop Zale's for brilliant quality diamonds nationally famous watches gleaming silverware electrical appliances fine luggage and smartly styled jewelry Now as always come direct to Zale's and charge it There's neer an interest or carrying charge I Weller of Austin were holiday vis- itor in the homes of their parents Mr and Mrs Thornton 304 Indiana and Mra Evel-n Weller i Pa I mem Also visiting in the Thornton home were Miss Louise Carstens of San Antonio Mr and 1 r) ed bv the ipiiN iiuitl lecrea- a IT 1 La Armada Recreation Hall Word won revetted here teller- day of the death of Adrian Con-' trerss of Alamo He waa injured some time ago in a hunting acci- dent He is survived bv a brother Fred Contreras Sr of Hit Mea- tina and several mem and pe rhews l-'uneral aeivicea will be today Officer fr ISIS are lo be elect- ed Monday night in a meeting of Ladies Lulac Council 2k at George Evans School Mary Sanchez president announced yesterday The meeting will be at a pm Carstens of San Antonio Mr and Mr Ed Thornton and son of Pharr and Mr and Mm fVibhi- fnt of Beaumont Registration for conversational Spanish classes taught by him will bo conducted Monday through Friday at 1 o'clock at Northstda Junior School Room 108 Gregory Montoya announced yeaterday Thera will bo courses for beginner intermediate and advanced students ho said Classes wtll meat Tues- day and Thursday night of each: week New Youth Gluh To Be Organized Mrs Jackson of Austin national representative of the1 Townsend National Recovery Plan will organise a Youth Club of Latin Americans at noon todav at the home of Felix Trevino 200 Jasmin 1 Court Navarro Place Mro Jackson who is on an extended tour wrtll also address the American Townsend Club 3 at 1:30 pm today in Nueces County courthouse She will speak on Americanism and education of the masses The public is invited NEW KIND HEARING AID NEW! 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