Corpus Christi Caller-Times from Corpus Christi, Texas • 24

12B CORPUS CHRISTI CALLER Thurs- June 10 1948 WATERMELON EATERS New Discovery May Show Way To TB Cure HEAVILY ARMED GUNMEN Texas Sisters Kidnaped Taken to Mississippi LVv -r 'i Agent Takes Special Delight In Trapping Duval Coyotes pi Mrs Enchon said after the men left they asked the operator to notify police i By JAMES ROWE Caller Staff Writer James Galloway took a special pleasure in trapping nine coyotes this week coyotes that were feasting on bis favorite summer watermelons The veteran hunter of predatory animals who Is district agent for NEW ORLEANS June 9 (UP) Texas sisters one of them only 14 told police today they were kidnaped at Goose Creek Monday by two heavily armed gunmen who took them to Mississippi Throughout the two-day ride the sisters said they were held prisoners During the drive they said the men shot at telephone poles along the road The sisters identified themselves as Mrs Georgia Enchon 22 and Lois Ann Chesser 14 both of Goose Creek Last night they stopped at a tourist court in Mississippi Mrs Enchon said and when they asked the owner to call police the gunmen "pointed pistols at us and robbed us of 810 Then they drove PALO ALTO Calif June 9 (P Discovery of the hidden process by which tuberculosis germs destroy body cells was announced Wednesday by a Stanford University scientist The findings may give medical 'science new opening for attacking the disease It also may point the way toward new methods of combatting allergic reactions such as those caused by poison oak and poison ivy The substance which gives the TB germ its destructive power is wax-like matter composed of starch and fatty acids said Dr Sidney Raffel bacteriologist in the Journal of Infectious Diseases This substance called a lipid Is a component of the TB germ It is not the substance which does the actual destructive work The destructive part of the germ is a protein It causes a delayed allergic reaction which destroys ceil tissue eat all they want Most of the time they waste any They bite into them if they don't want to eat" Coyotes in southeastern Duval County have even gone to eating peanuts Galloway added "The farmers told me they were doing a lot of damage to their peanuts digging up the young peanuts and eating them" he said This too is a coyote crime in books A native of East Texas Galloway long ago became fond of peanuts boiled roasted or any other way known to men But his voice lacked either the regret or Indignation registered when he spoke of watermelon-eating coyotes The crime of eating peanuts you sensed was a misdemeanor in view as compared with the felony of watermelon thievery The Corpus Christi-Aransas Pans waterway project cleared one more hurdle when the Senate Public Works Committee yesterday approved a bill to authorize 8132444-000 of rivers and harbors and flood control projects The local channel will be widened from its present 250 feet to 400 feet and deepened from its present 34 feet to 36 feet when funds become available Byrd Harris director of the Port of Corpus Chris-ti has announced The bill allotes 82250000 for the project Congress must appropriate funds later for the projects South Texas countie for the Fish and Wildlife Service bureau of predator control wasted no time in rushing to southeastern Drval County to cope with a colony of watermelon-eating coyotes Those coyotes were just eating up watermelons all over the place" Galloway said his voice tinged with regret "1 set some traps and caught nine coyotes In two nights That just about stopped that watermelon eating" He digressed for a moment to speak of his Irresistible attraction for ripe watermelons You know they sure do raise fine watermelons in that part of the you can get to either by going out from Benavides or from Falfurrias Big melons sweet as can be Why the first morning thought I'd eaten a pretty big breakfast but when I got out in the field early in the morning and saw the dew shining on those melons just like frost just pass them His mouth worked Involuntarily as he relived the experience "There just anything like a good cool melon right out of the field 1 eat them when they come out of an ice box but they never are nearly as good" He returned to the watermelon-eating coyotes coyotes are aa smart as they can be They never pick out a sorry melon or one that ripe They always pick the best just the kind that like to have They bite into them and WON KING HIGH HONORS Among top honor winners at the recent Henrietta King High School commencement exercises in Kingsville were Mary Louise Chidester (left) daughter of Dr and Mrs Chidest-er and Pauline Korges daughter of Mr and Mrs Korges Industrial Safety Health Codes Urged BE WISE about where you send year drycleaning Skilled workmanship is a matter ef pride with us We are specialists In the care ef yecr clothes Every now and then we run into a guy with a fond memory that buttermilk back on the farm! he burbles to drink it right out of the churn-gallons of it Boy I like to get hold of some of that real country buttermilk again!" when got him We take him right in and introduce him to a glass of Grisham's Churned Buttermik just like grandma's only better And we tell him how Buttermilk is made in Mother own way slowly and carefully from selected pasteurized milk And how Grisham's actually churns it in great stainless steal churns that are cleaner and more efficient than the old earthenware job with the wooden dasher used back on the farm And when he's had a gulp of that fresh-front-the-farm flavor he can tell by the -it's CAMERAS AND PHOTO SUPPLIES ONE DAY EXPERT PHOTO FINISHING McGREGOR'S FTUDIO A PHOTO SUPPLIES ISIS CMwl Otw IS rnn la SmMn Caraaa CkfM PEERLESS CLEANERS 1332 Staples Dial 5-7575 announcement of his candidacy for a second two-year term Jester said that Texas had 874 industrial accident fatalities in 1947 This was an 86 percent increase over 1948 he added "How long will Texas stand for this wanton waste of life and Jester asked "In my judgment this situation calls for the most comprehensive and courageous consideration and action AUSTIN June 9 (UP) Gov Beauford Jester pointing to "deplorable distinction" in 1947 in topping the list in industrial accident deaths called today for adequate industiial safety and health codes The governor campaigning for redaction urged that authority be placed in the State Bureau of Labor Statistics for establishing such codes "The absence of provisions in our statutes for adequate industrial safety and health codes constitutes definite neglect in providing for the present and future well being of our industrial workers our industrialists and the general public" he said In a statement ampifying the NEW PUBLIC BONDED WAREHOUSE NOW OPEN Complete wareneuoe advice GET PEP Bond of $500 Set for Woman Held in Death GALVESTON June 9 (A Borid for Margie Dee Carreon 23-year-old Houston woman charged with murder in the death of a Houston cab driver Merion Metts May 21 was reduced from 52500 to 8500 Wednesday Justice of the Peace Emil Schenk of League City set the bond following an examining hearing during which Dr Schofield autopsy surgeon testified ft was possible for a man to cut off his own breathing and he so intoxicated he grand jury Bond was made immediately after the hearing by De-wouldn't struggle against it The case was referred to the fense Attorneys Sam inter and Sam Wilbamson of Houston Mrs Carreon was found In a taxicab between La Marque and Dickinson Tex with the dead man She claimed she had come to Galveston following an argument with her husband and had done some drinking with the cab driver She said she had never seen the driver before she hired him to bring her from Houston to Calves ton An autopsy report of death due to asphyxia was returned by Dr Schofield Dr Schofield under questioning by Byron Gonwell assistant Galveston county attorney said there was no evidence that would indicate death from natural causes He pointed out however that a air supply can be cut off either by flexing of the neck too far forward or by the head being tilted too far back Later he testified that it is possible for a man to get in' this position without being forced into it If the person was greatly under the influence of alcohol his i flexes might be dulled to such an extent that he would make no effort to bring his head back to normal position the doctor said BROWN LAIN STUDER Insurance Agents 521 Wilson Bldg -Tit in anf art's Acaaey" EH! 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Ba raarwlf aaaia If addad Edit Sava alataad dawa raur trtaa aad vital's itd sa a raw druostat aad as far Caritiaa ttmulatinc tablets Haas am ara obtaining remarkable taula anta lb la amatias fanaala lAdvj Gararaod Mgr Part At at No Alameda Box T14 Phone 3-tni Lloyd Bentsen Opposes Valley Canal Project WESLACO June 9 (UP) Lloyd Bentsen Jr candidate for Congress from the 15th District in a radio speech tonight voiced- the first public opposition to the proposed 5H9 million reclamation bureau gravity irrigation canal project for the Lower Rio Grande Valley Bentsen said he was firmly against "anj proposal of the reclamation bureau for a gravity canal that would impose on the tax payers a reimbursable debt of 8117 million or any figure that even approaches it" He charged that bureau insistence on a high-line gravity canal involving the generation of 12000 kilowatt hours near La Joya could seriously hamper construction of the Falcon Dam by impairing Mexico's rights to an equal share of hydroelectric power as provided by international treaty The former Hidalgo County judge who was me of the youngest county judges Texss ever had challenged his three opponents for the seat being vacated by Rep Milton West to quit side-stepping the issues and using the water question in the Rio Grande Valley ns a "political He said the gravity canal was a "local issue which must eventually determined by the individual taxpayers affected by it" TEMPORARILY Halt DDT Spray In Hidalgo EDIXbUltG June 9 4lPi The question of flies today halted perhaps temporarily plans for spraying DDT by planes in Hidalgo County A mystery man who said he was Birton of the Public Health telephoned Comm Mirshon of the Corpus Chris-ti Naval Air Station who was preparing the aerial spraying and announced: "I don't want aerial spraying It will kill all the flies in my experiment" Plans for spraying were halted while officials tried to track down Burton" and his flies Dr James Watt in charge of a Public Health dysentery fly control project is nearby Pharr quickly disclaimed "Dr Burton" and said the spraying was okay "I have enough flies in cold storage to experiment with the rest of my life" explained Watt who added however he didn't think aerial spraying was the answer to polio Hidalgo County Judge Milton Richardson who once before was stymied in lus plans for aerial spraying said he had been advised by the county health unit director that "spraying is the thing "If this Dr Burton is worried about Richardson said it's all the more reason why wo should kill the flies "I personally know of 18 babies taken to the hospital with dysentery and every one of them was taken out dead" COUNTY NEAR-BY" MORE INDEPENDENT EXPERTS SMOKE LUCKY STRIKE REGULARLY THAN THE NEXT TWO LEADING BRANDS COMBINED S50S Mti highway Isa walla windmills rrsmroirs and laraa aar-than tank fane craned fenca Ona hall Royalty rasa read If you aro looking for a cattle ranch In a cattle country do not fail to i Una one Price S300Q rue il'Vl'lflR An impartial poll covering all the Southern tobacco markets reveals the smoking preference of the men who really know tobacco auctioneers buyers and warehousemen More of these independent experts smoke lucky Strike regularly than the next two leading brands combined CROW REALTY 891-182 Wilson Bldg Dial 5491 Union Becomes Party MEXICO CITY June 9 tP Mexico's powerful right-wing National Sinarquist Union has become a legally constituted politieal party under the name "Fuerza Popular" (Popular Force) Party Paul crown Brake Service Wheel Balancing Trailer Springs A Specialty 1494 Agnes Street Dial 2-8197 S100000 building cost DIAMOND WATCH HOSPITAL On Famous SO FOR YOUR OWN REAL DEEP-DOWN SMOKING ENJOYMENT SMOKE THE SMOKE TOBACCO EXPERTS SMOKES BtUNG YOU WATCH IN FOR A Railroad Watch Inspector 424 Starr Ph 2-5151 For smooth effortless mowing PINCOR has everything you've ever wanted in a Power Mower I Four cycle HP 20-inch cut hand adjusted cutting height to all steel built-in sharper er chain wheel and reel drive lifetime lubrication and many other 15950 FLOOR FURNACES If you act before July 31 See our demonstration this week Easy terms arranged GILLESPIE APPLIANCE CO 402 Chaparral Dial 2-SS1S MAI'S 415 Mesquite Dial 4549 FREE DELIVERY AAAA Sea These Fans IN OPERATION la ear new showroom: Ceelair Attic Fans Coo lair Coolalr Window Fans Emerson Industrial Pedestal Emerson Celling Fans Hunter Ceiling Blowers FAC Cowl Fans General Electric Oscillating Air Fie Automatic Ceiling Shutters FANS ARE OUR BUSINESS WAVEIRMIEIL4MHS RED RIPE SWEET IN COLD STORAGE VAULTS COME OUT TODAY AND SEE FOR YOURSELF 2000 WATERMELONS ICE COLD CANTALOUPE OPEN DAY AN IT NIGHT SOVEY PRODUCE 202 STAPLES DIAL 2-4021 RICKY SYQIICXG MEANS FOND Dial till So 1599 Ayers so nd oasy on th raw round so firm so fully paclcod.