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The Galveston Daily News from Galveston, Texas • Page 26

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10-B--ffljt dnlr.lnn Sunday, Dec. 13, 1959! Dr. Dan Smith Will Head St. Mary's Medical Staff Dr. Dan R.

Smith will serve: as president of the medical staff. of St. Mary's Infirmary Ior coming year. He succeeds John McGivney. Other officers of the medical staff named to serve with Dr.

Smith are: president-elect, E. J. Lefeber; secretary-treasurer, Dr. E. S.

McLarly Jr. Dr. Smith was born ir Augusta, and has made his home in Galveston 1946. following a term of service in the United States Army during World War II. He received his doctor of medicine degree from the University News of Men in Service By DICK ZUE1KE '80 Per Cent of S.

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Smith has been medical staff member of St. Mary's Infirmary since 1949, with a leave of absence in 1955-37 to serve with the United States Air Force. He in Galveston with his wife and two children, a son and a daughter. Select Your Whitman's Panqburn's CANDY at WRIGHT'S Wi havi big assortment of GIFT WRAPPINGS, CARDS, SEALS AND ALL THE TRIMMINGS including CHRISTMAS TREE LIGHTS lovely gift sets by Coty, Max Factor, Yardley, Ltnthtric Old Spice and ofheri Sec Our Toys for Girls and Beys Win a big LIONEL TRAIN WRIGHT'S Nothing to luy Juit cemt in refisrer DRUG STORE PRC.V; SO S-351 We Dtlivir 33rd Ave. 39th A Ave.

OV' T-Sgt. JOHN J. SMITH son of Mr. and Mrs. John 1127 43rd street, and husband Mrs.

June Smith, 216 Wisconsin' League City, has been signed to the 640th Aircraft Con- i trol and Warning Squadron in Newfoundland as officer in charge of the 1 Radar Maintenance section. i His organization is one of a series of remote radar outposts of the U. Air Force Defense Command's "Pinetree i which stretches roughly along the U. S. Canadian boundary and is; designed to give an early warn-' ing any possible attack by I enemy aircraft.

The sergeant is a veteran of World War If. His citations include the Good Conduct, World' War II Victory, Korean, United; Nations and American Defense medals. KKNNETH G. LAWRENCE I airman apprentice, USN, son of Mrs. L.

E. Nye, 724 Fourth' avenue North, Texas City, recently graduated from the Aviation Familiarization School at the'. Naval Air Technical Training I Center, Memphis, Tenn. Purpose of the two-week school i is to prepare for specialized training in one of the many aviation technical fields. Army Pvt.

ROMEO son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred V. i i Munoz 7107 avenue 2 cently arrived in Germany a is now a member of the Third Armored Division. Munoz.

18, assigned to Co. of the division's 33rd Armored, entered the Army 1 last June. He is a 1959 graduate of Ball High School. Marine Pfc. WII.BERT J.

I.A- FL-EUR, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joel Lafleur. 919 14th avenue North, Texas City, is serving on the staff of the commander of Carrier Division Five aboard the attack aircraft carrier USS Midway, operating with the U. S.

Seventh Fleet in the Far East. The Midway is expected to return to the States next spring. MIKE K. DA jadioman second class, USN, son of Mrs. Hattie L.

Nash, 2904 Anderson street. La Marque, and husband of the former Miss Addie R. i Thompson, is serving at the U. S. Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Davis reported to Guantanamo Bay last month from the U. S. Naval Station, Subic Bay, Philippine Islands. Before entering Uw Navy in February, 1955, he attended Central High School. Marine Pvt.

RICHARD L. BOB-; ITT, 610 Studio drive, La Marque, recently completed recruit train-, ing at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot, San Diego. Calif. The U-week course included instruction in all basic military subjects and infantry weapons. Upon completion nf training, new Marines are assigned to a unit for further infantry training or to one of the Marine Corps schools.

Army Pvt. JUAN ROL-IIGUEZ. whose wife, Diana, and Mr. Mrs. Sabap Rodriguez, live in Alvin, is receiving eight weeks of advanced individual training at the Artillery and Missile Center, Ft.

Sill. Okia. training is due to end this Friday. Rodriguez, 23, who entered the last August and completed basic combat training at Ft. Carson, is being trained to service and maintain the 105 millimeter howitzer, a light field- artillery weapon.

He attended Lamar Consoli: dated High School. Rosenberg. FRANK E. FORD chief nuclear USN, son of Mr. and Mrs.

Frank E. Ford. 4614 avenue and husband of the former Miss Betty J. Hussey, Texas City, is serving aboard the world's first TALOS guided missile cruiser USS Galveston. operating out of Norfolk, Va.

MAJOR MANNY HALFANT, a native of Galveston, has become a staff training officer lor ths 3275th Air Force technical school in San Antonio. Major Halfant has smed in Tripoli. Bermuda, and Korea. He was personnel staff pfficcr with the Air Force Advisory Group in Seoul. Korea, fiom 1953-59.

He has spent 19 years in active and reserve service, holds a B.S. degree in education from Columbia University, and is mtder of the Air Force Comineir n''nn Medal, which he received for outstanding duty while personnel deputy for the 55th Air Division. Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. Major Halfant is a brother of Mrs. Toby Bazaman and Jake and Abe Halfant.

all residents of Galveston. He is the son of the la'p Mr. and Mrs. Louis Halfant. Aid Loans Said Unrepaid NEW YORK Nearly 80 per! mercial farmers, "who account cent of the farm price-support for nearly 80 per cent of all "loans" made by the government! product sales yet receive nearly last year arc still listed as per cent of crop-price repaid by the Commodity Credit, fits," This group constitutes only! Corp.

the Committee for Con- 27 per cent of the total a stituliotiiil Government charged numbers, here, "On the other hand, 56 per 'Die committee cited COC fig-1 cent the fa population re- ures showing that of a tola! of I ceive onl about 7 er cent 82,060.930,000 in loans made for the annual outlay for crop-price, fiscal 1958, producers 1 repay- supports. Yet their need is far ments as of May 31, 1359, date Staler than most other recipi- of the most recent report, amount-1 ents who not really need sub- od to only $421.358,000. sidics at For fiscal I95f), of a total of Farmers who receive the in loans made, re-' eral leans stand to gain whether payments as of May 31 amount they sell above or below the to only $585.612,000. market price, said DeWitt, since The next realized piofiram loss, loans arc on a "heads-I-win-tails- on price-support operations for you-lose" basis. That is.

If the fiscal 1S59 as of May 13 totaled: sale would net more than the S702.M5.485, according to CCC fig-1 amount of the loan they simply ures. sell and then repay the loan. If "These shockingly wasteful the sale price would not top the (arm subsidies which is what' loan, they keep the "loan" and too many 'loans' turn out to be! let the government have the crop. are needlessly penalizing rural He cited the soil bank program as well as urban taxpayers," said as particularly wasteful, since it Joseph DeWitt, trustee of the I actually pays farmers for not committee. "They're taking 20 farming.

cents out of every tax dollar A farmer can get an average spent 'lor non-defense government' of $13.50 an acre for productive needs'. farm land which he does not "Worst of a the program! farm," he said, "Thus a farmer doesn't really 'help the farmers who allows 100 acres of good HITCHCOCK--Members of Our; U(; Ghinaudo are co-chairmen I Lady of Lourdes Altar Society and wU te ass stcd Mcsdaniea will hold a Christmas dinner and! 1 i Clarance Coulston, H. J. Holland, party with the revealing of secret sisters at 7 p.m. Dec.

21 in Landry ha Jolm Catholic Hall on Highway 6. JTibaldo, John Anderson and Mrs. i Mrs. Frank Trapani and Miss.Jack Fassella, president. intended help.

Ironically, the recipients of farm subsidy dollars benefit in proportions ex- crop land literally to go to grass can collect $13.50 annually for it Is it any wonder that many a actly opposite to their need." i ers have taken advantage of this I DeWiti filed the highly mech- Alice-in-Wonderland situation to anized and efficient major com- retire and go off lo Florida?" Soil Conservation News MOST OF YOUR GALVESTON MERCHANTS WILL BE OPEN EVENINGS ON THE FOLLOWING DATES IN 17 18 19 21 22 23 STORE HOURS 9:30 a.m. 'till 9 p.m. ON THE ABOVE DATES Causes Big Discord In Fort Worth FORT WORTH (AP)-A painting of a nude, as big ab life and almost as graphic, stopped down- town pedestrians-- or forced them to move quickly by-- on W. 7ih i St. Saturday.

The painting is in a big window of the Ellison Galleries. It shows a woman lymx on her back, holding a sheet of music in her hand. The sheet covers not 2 thing. ft ii by a New York artist. Ben Johnson, and is called Sonp." Also in the window is a sign saying: 'This painting was rejected from the Fort Worth Art Assn.

beinK What do you think? Oimc in!" Also on display is a telegram to Robert Ellison Jr. from artist Johnson. It says: "Am shocked that somi-on? 'n Texas considers them as superior in judgment to the i ing a of us a who crralctl man and woman without clothes. Lf-t us remember a man was banished from the Garden of Eden because he became am- scinus of what he considered his and his wife 1 nakedness, ih'-rciiy presuming in sit in of his creator Garland Ellis, of art association said I-. 1 1 i wasn't sticking lo ihc a i when he put up "We i reject Hi' 1 pi'- 11 Wf didn't hav room for it a WAS all." said Ellis.

"And word 'vulgar' is Bobtw 11i- i a form i i p.ilntffl for years but -om- ladc.s i i they KM' ui heck "'I he supplies Mi.in lh: mwy us and can'l rv- subjccl I i i i i I i i 1 i on fl i a in i Coliseum." "'lln: s'jnn." ly 1 I I 1 for a tnnv. prii '-ft at LOFTY Al'I'HOAUI TAIPEI, f-nrrrmsr. A Miss FwiK Hmil-yinn. IX. 'in-' Capt.

Perennial grasses on idle rice- land mean better rice crops and better grazing, according to Homer Jean Moore and P. B. Wollam and 50n, who used an airplane to seed 1200 acres of Tall Fescue grass on the Briscuc Canal Farm near Alvin. Grasses such as Tall Fescue produce a massive root system which does an excellent job of conditioning and improving the while the land is not in rid 1 Rice fields seedrd to improved grasses will produce from 50 to 150 pounds more beef per acre High Altitude Jumper Says All Was Well N. M.

(AP)--A confident Capt. Joe Kittinger descritx-d his second record ieap from the thres-. hold of space as veing very com-. fortable. The Air Force officer's jump from balloon gondola at an altitude 01 74.700 feet went off a mote than his first hijih jump Nov.

16. At that time a small parachute designed stabilize his fall failed to But Friday the jsx-foot stabilizing hlospomrd out after IS seconds, it did littlr to slow his fall but did krf-p him from sp ning during the lorvj drop. "It's a little more difficult when you're spinning around uu your Kittinger said. "This jump more enjoyable. I i time I fell very comfortably." Kminger.

31, is jiimpr for the Air Force aeto 'aboratories at Wri, 1 Air Df-velnpmcnt Center. Ohio. From thf jumps lh" Air Forrf hopt-s tn find oui a goes on inside a man's brain and body when he tremendous distances through bitter cold and rhin air. Dow Chemical Announces Two New Ventures FR KK PORT--AnMfiimcejnfMit nf Mv fonmiiifjn nf a now compnny lion 'if a n-v i i has made by Dov. i i i IK-W fjimpany is Ocutsch'; I)'A 1 i i i GMRA.

corpur- a liCiUiquarlcrs in Ousseldorf. i '(he Vimipany will In- tHKliK.i; and nf oil wells to npciJttors. 'Hi'- oili'-r ivw vt'ntiii'f 1 SodcM i i i i i r' i will I i I i i ones in Italy. than rice fields permitted lo grow up in weeds. Soil Conservation Service technicians assisting the Brazoria- Galveston Soil Conservation District are helping Moore and Wollam in planning a sound conservation program on their rlceland.

A. E. Novak and tons. Allen Joe and Henry, are seeding their land that was in ricr this year to Hubam clover as a soil improving cover crop. Novak is using seed that was combined this summer from a 90 acre field on his farm near Danbury.

"When allowed to grow and reach maturity, the Hubam clover root system will help loosen up the riceUnd soil." states Novak. C. E. Zwahr has recently completed leveling 200 acres of rice- land on his farm near Danbury. 0 J.

T. Looney of Dickinson, J. II. Blackweii, F.uftenr LeComple ami Jerome Peltier ntar Alvin are leveling riceland between rains for next year's rice crop. 0 0 The Alvin DrainaRt District No 3, Pearland Drainage District No.

4. and Iowa Colony Drainage District 5 are doing a pood job of maintaining drainage ditches i draglines. Effectiveness of drainage ditches is increased with proper maintenance practice. l.cr Oli.s Slander has recently staitcd clearing 6'iO nf tin- rifsirahle brush and trees from his 22(1 acre stock farm located one mile south of St anger is a Cross vi I IP cutter mounted on a heavy bull dozer type tractor in his clrarinp operation. After ck'aring and preparing a good smihed, ho to establish improved pasture 1 Soil Service technicians are assisting Stanger in plannine and applying good conservation practices on his farm CONTMHS OF FIRE KWDMT FLOCK WD ADHESIVE SNOWIT Home Flocking Kit contains Flock Adhesive 'Gun, Flock, Adhesive Glilltrs.

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