The Vernon Daily Record from Vernon, Texas • Page 2

Auq 23 1954 VXRNON DAILY RECORD, Vernon, I II A JJ LI I Mitchell Adds New Fuel To Atomic Power Fire Called "Calf-Teria," this unit portability plus adjustable height that mama cow provide for her youngster. A hungry call tests the chow being held by three-year-old Tommy Belcher at a Miami, dairy. Chicago. Stephen Mitchell, Democratic national chairman, suggests the Ehenhower administration cither delay or withdraw its lOT-million-dollar power plant contract in the TVA area, i Mitchell said yesterday in firing another round at the so-called Dixon-Yates "If there merit in the istration it would not i harm to it long enough to focus congressional scrutiny. "But if the whole doal is the shoddy deal it appeals to me, the i winest and most courageous he for the administration to withdraw it and admit a mistake Mitchell spokr at a Democratic rally in suburban Park Forest south of Chicago.

The administration said Saturday it was pushing toward an start on the project to supply private power to the Memphis. Term area over lines owned by the Tennessee Valley Authority. Yesterday the head of another group said its proposal would have saved the government 150 million dollars compared with the Dixon- Yates contract Walter von Tesckow said in a I'LL BET THEIR FACES WERE RED Waynesboro, There were plenty of firemen around when fire broke out in a lobby sofa of the Anthony Wayne Hotel at 4 a. m. today.

The Waynesboro Fire Department was called to the scene and soon had things under control. The hotel manager told them he had allowed a man arriving late for a convention to nap on the sofa and the man had fallen asleep while smoking The convention was the 53rd annual meeting of the Cumberland Valley Volunteer Firemen's Association with headquarters at the hotel. Weekend Car Accidents Fatal to 1 5 Traffic accidents took at least 15 lives in Texas during the weekend to push the State's violent death total to 24. Four persons were shot to group tried to enter the bidding on death, one was stabbed and one the contract but was committed suicide. record made public last gome of the latest reported Saturday said Mitchell, deaths: with the Atomic Energy Commission personnel.

We will have not re rived a detail of their analysis of our proposal, which we were; Administration spokesmen denied previous hints by Mitchell that President Eisenhower's friendship for golfer Bobby Jones had anything to do with the con-j tract award. Jones is a director of one of the firms. Mitchell declared however, that for the Republican party have focussed the discussion" on the Eisenhower-Jones part of the controversy "instead of discussing the merits of the Dixon-Yates 1 The question," said Mitchell, not whether President Eis- enhower is an honest man, The question is whether the deal he personally ordered into effect is a good deal. If it is a raw deal, then the mere fact that it was ordered' by the President does not make it right," Mitchell said the Von Tresckow 'Pauper's Oath' Dropped From Federal Drouth Aid referred to what the letter called I which claimed Austin, UP Officials at thejment of Agriculture officials, K. State and Federal level today believed they had ironed out one troublesome spot in the Texas drouth relief program elimination of what some call a pauper's oath.

Still apparently unsettled, however, is the problem of rising hay prices, which some ranchers claim wiped out Federal aid effects. Agreement on eligibility requirements was worked out yesterday in a conference between Gov. Allan and two U. S. Depart- "shows that no call for bids was statement in New York he pver made- To this 50 thr group "was treated as Interlopers mv knowledge, no specifications a well-set program to do busi- 10,1 thp exist Not onlv ness ith before the competition with Dixon-Yates Atomic Energy Commission.

but it was stified. He said his groups estimated Mitchell and Von Tiesckow both cost of construction of the steam- generating power plant was pressures tween 90 and 100 million dollars, to I on the on nejghi)or to death Sunday and compared with 120 milliod in what 1 psckovv group Mitchell said the himself. The dead are he called the fir st Dixon-Yates I had mentioned in a letter to gpjvey his wife, Rosella, 'the AFX an engineering firm of! Gibbs and Hill would handle some phases of the work, "Within eight da Mitchell added, "such pressure was brought to bear on Gibbs and Hill Mrs. Jack Hamm, 27, Forney, was killed in a car-truck crash Sunday near the entrance to Carswell AFB at Fort Worth, Mrs. Lola Juarez, 44, Waco, was killed in a head-on crash south of Waco Sunday.

Police said an 81-year-old Waco man shot his wife and a JL Scott and McLeaish. Proposal and 107 and 112 million in their second proposal. State Agriculture Commissioner Von dec)amJ John C. White said granted only one meeting tees now will have discretion in granting Federal aid. Gov, Shivers' office said "no financial sta ments or pauper's oaths ai quired." The conference followed complaints by White, Gov, Shivers and Sen.

Lyndon Johnson. Home Town- (Continued from 1) nounced that a joint meeting of Baptists Ordain IwoVHS Grads ity companies with which Gibbs and Hill do business that engineering firm told Von Tresckow it could no longer act as his en- i tm i i ginners in Districts 16 and 15 will They said previous eligibility re-j I Pauline four' Tresckow in his state- quirements were too severe and! nient: "As soon as it became pub- degrading. next knowledgi that and Hill The Kt deral aid program aim-1 ed at helping stock raisers main-1 A TC ,1 dinner ho served the The A officials said local Farmers Home Administration jPxas 50, and a neighbor, G. B. Darwin, 73.

Three Lackland AFB personnel were killed in a two-car collision near San Antonio Saturday, Kill, i ed were WAF Alfreria Johnson, through various other pnvate util-; l. 22. San Antonio, and AF Jac- I.Iarvin Rogers and Robert Flynn, both Vernon High School graduates, were ordained as ministers Sunday afternoon in ceremonies at the First Baptist Church. Dr. E.

James, pastor, directed ceremonies. Assisting him were other ministers erf the First Baptist Church and the Wilbarger-Foard Baptist Association. Rev. Oscar Mayo, pastor of the Second Baptist Church, was council moderator; Rev. Homer Thompson of Lockett, clerk; Rev.

B. Fitzgerald of Thalia, asked the questions; Rev, P. AJy of Crowell, ied the ordination prayer; Rev. David Deason, student at Southwestern Baptist Seminary in Fort Worth, read scripture. Both young men graduated from Baylor University last Spring and! (0 27 more counties.

committees expected to use their best judgment in determining eligibility and are to be guided by the policy that the fact an applicant has money in the bank or good credit does not disqualify The Federal officials declared members of the trade should recognize that they have some definite responsibilities to help make the program work effectively otherwise the Government will have to find other ways of getting this assistance to the farmers and This appeared to be a reference to complaints that hay dealers had raised their prices since the Federal program got under wav to the point that it wiped out Federal aid. The U. S. hay help is in the form of part payment of freight charges- usually about $5 of the $10 per ton transportation costs. Stockmen and ranchers in 42 of 254 counties now are eligible for drouth aid.

Gov. Shivers recommended that aid be extended o. New York City were our engineers, we were advised by them by letter that Mr, Dixon was calling their customers and that if they continued with us they feared a substantial ioss of business, Jay C. Stiliey, executive vice which could not afford. They piesident of the Association, withdrew from the project for this will be principal speaker.

Others reason. prominent in (he industry will be i "When this withdrawal became in attendance. public the Atomic Energy advised us that they did IX AN EFFORT to fill its ranks net wish to meet with our group. quelyn Bautilier, 20, Lowell, Mass. S.

Sgt. Ralph E. Beaupre, Kanka- juries. An Arlington man. Malcolm E.

McKeehan, 22, was killed early Sunday when his car left the road on the outskirts of Dallas and turned over several times. Meredith Elmer Carter, 59, cleaning shop operator at the Houston suburb of Green's Bayou, shot his wife to death Sunday and then fatally wounded himself. Mrs. Ethel Claire Speyrer, 29, Leonville, mother of three children, was killed early Sunday when thrown from a car in a traffic accident near Baytown Teenagers Face Jury Indictment For NY Killing New York. The state today will ask a Brooklyn grand jury to indict for first-degree murder four teen-age terrorists who allegedly tortured and battered harmless people just for Police said two of their victims were killed.

The shocking reports of the foursome brutality brought vigor to a police campaign already started against Over the weekend more than 600 persons were rounded up by police on he lookout for hoodlums and toughs. Police also had their eyes open for any would-be imitators of the kill-for-thrill Rang. One alleged band of Imitators was caught only after its victim, Joel Ewen, a 19-year-old student, stumbled into a police station with his face covered with blood. He reported he was set upon by three youths, the leader of whom jelled at his victim: "I'm Koslow, the thrill He referred to Jack Koslow, 18. already jailed as the alleged leader of the four who policc say prowled Brooklyn parks viciously beating helpless men and, in one case, horsewhipping two young girls.

Koslow is now being held for assault. His three buddies Melvin Mittman, 17; Jerome Lieberman, 17; and Robert Trachtenberg, under indictment for homicide in the death of one of the victims. All four are reported by police to have admitted taking part in the second death, for which the 'first-degree murder indictment is sought. attorney, Murray Cutler, said over the weekend he planned to ask Brooklyn County Court to transfer the youth from jail to Kings County Hospital for psychiatric care. A similar request made in Stale Supreme Cuurtrtast Friday was turned down.

The Koslow imitators who attacked Ewen were identified by police as Anthony Fcrrentino, 21, N. and Frank Lyons, 20, and Eugene Mooney, 23, both of Brooklyn, They were held in $5,000 bail each on third-degree assault charges. MULTIPLE Although she's allergic to mooey, Dorothy Schrank, of Omaha, claims that money is not root of all evil as far as concerned. Working as a cashier! 10 years ago she learned she handle money without getting fingers." Next, she developed an allergy to sunshine and found it difficult to avoid the sun. Now conftnedi to a hospital with a heart also allergic to tha medicine.

M. B. Conroy, rice harvesting with qualified and career minded Only after obtaining another firm1 contractor, was crushed to death personnel, the Army continues to of engineers were we granted the by a Sunday while eut- authoriie enlistment and re-enlist- 1 opportunity of meeting with the ting rice seven miles south of Bay ment in a wide choice of initial Atomic Energy Commission I City, Texas, assignments, according 21 Feared Dead In Airliner Crash now are enrolled in seminaries. Rev Rogers is at Southern Baptist Seminary in Louisville, and Rev Flynn is at Southwestern Baptist Seminary. Gov, Shivers was advised that his recommendation for an increase from 60 cents to $1.20 per hundredweight on the grain program would be given close consid- This Summer they have been; eration by directors of the Corn- filling pulpits at the Vernon mis- mcKlity Credit Corporation.

sions of the First Church. Parents are Mr. and Mrs. E. D.

Rogers of Vernon and J. Flynn of Vernon and Mrs. Flynn of Waco. $1,000 Bond Set For Motorist Braniff Airliner Crashes, 11 Die of Vernon, was released, Monday on $1,000 bond after being booked in Justice Court on second offense of driving while intoxicated charges. He was arrested Saturday night a Highway Patrolman, while driving on V.

S. Highway 287 about five miles south of Vernon. W. L. SMITH, son of Mr.

and Mrs. W. R. Smith of the Northside community, who has been employed this Summer with a Southwestern Bell Telephone Company construction crew, suffered a crushed foot in a freak Mason City, Iowa A Bran- James Cliiton Riggins, about 'in a blinding storm, crashed on a farm south of here Sunday and 11 of the 19 persons aboard were killed. The tw in-engined plane was demolished but did not burn.

Witnesses said it bounced 500 feet scattering debris, after first hitting the earth. Ten were killed in the crash at Plainview Friday. He and the 11th died shortly after ar-1 receive! medical treatment in to Sfc. Aubry Bailey of the Childress! Army Recruiting Station, Sgt, Bailey listed the following choice of assignments as being available, on a quota basis, to qualified applicants for enlistment in the Regular Army: Adjutant general's corps, armor, medical service, artillery, chemical corps, corps of engineers, finance corps, infantry, military police corps, ordnance corps, quartermaster corps, signal corps, transportation corps, regular Army un- assigned and airborne unassigned. It was pointed out by Sgt.

Bailey that the Army maintains service schools io train personnel in all of these branches. The Army Recruiting Station, located at 221 Avenue NW, Childress, is open daily, except Sunday to furnish assistance and advice to both men and women interested in a military career. REDWOOD SIDING is being used in the attractive new' home of the R. H. Hoffmans on Texas Street, in Castiebury Park.

Work on the newest addition to the Park was started about three weeks ago. The home will consist of a large living room and plav area, kitchen, two bedrooms and two baths. Market Quotations Markets A Glance New- York, STOCKS Lower, aircrafts strong. BONDS Irregular; changes narrow. COTTON Lower; beneficial rains in cotton belt.

hedge selling. CORN Lower; heavy receipts. OATS About steady; light trade. HOGS- Butchers steady to cents lower; top $23.25. CATTLE Uneven; mostly cents higher to 50 cents lower.

Chicago Grain Futures 25 50 Chicago. Oft- Wheat: High Low Close Sept 2.10?*2.11-114 Dec. .2.162.144 2.144 March 2,15 2.15% May 2.10 2.104' July .1.98 1.974 1.98 Corn: Sept. .1.634 1.62 1.634-4 Dec .1.54 1.532.53*4-4 March 1.57% 1.56** 1.56** May 1.58 1.57** 1.57%-* July 1.584 1.584 Oats: Dec. .744 .744 March .76 May ..75 .744 Local Attorneys Endorse Brewster Members of the Vernon Bar Association endorsed the re-election of Associate Justice Few Brewster to the Supreme Court at a recent meeting.

They were joined in their endorsement Monday by ail former members of the Supreme Court. In letters to the judge, the former justices lauded Judge Brew- stersi long service to the people as County Attorney, District Attorney, Disti iet Judge and as a member of the- Supreme Court. rival at a Hampton. Iowa, hospital. of the injured were in fair condition and two were critical, The plane apparently struck a power line while buffeted by wind, hail and rain.

It was only minutes from the Mason City airport. The north bound plane was Flight 152, a DC3 bound from Memphis to Minneapolis, according to Braniff headquarters in Dallas. The plane had made stops at Little Rock, Fort Smith, Muskogee and Tulsa. Joplin and Kansas City, and Des Moines and Waterloo, Iowa, prior to the crash. Rare, Large Pearl Brought to Japan Tokyo -A 25-carat natural pearj, as large as the first joint of a thumb and valued at about $4,000, was brought to Japan from the South Seas.

Kyodo News Service reported today. Kyodo said the pearl is about twice as large as the average and Shivers Bockers Name Speakers Warren Pruitt, chairman of the Wilbarger County Shivers for Governor Committee, announced names of two local men who will speak over Vernon Radio Station KVWC this w'eck in behalf of Gov. Shivers. Judge J. Rouse will speak only a few such pearls are found at 7 p.

m. Tuesday and in a century. bock, where Mr. and Mrs. Smith were li couple came will be at the home of her parents, Mr.

and Mrs. Willis B. Smith, on Indian Street while he is convalescing, BIRTHDAY greetings to: Ann Glazener, 16 year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C.

L. Glazener, 3229 Wichita. Nancy Douglas, nine-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs, Leon Douglas, 2816 Bismarck. Mrs.

Jack Creager, 1904 Wood. Miss Fern Hodge, 2316 14th Street. Linda Rainwater. 2. daughter of Mr.

and Mrs, Clois Rainwater, 3925 Gordon. Mrs. Hazel Earnest, 2214 Paradise. Worth Livestock Fort Worth. cattle and calves active, strong.

calves 13.00-19.00; medium to good stocker and feeder steer yearlings 13.00-17.00; common kinds 12.00 stocker cows 8.00-11.00. Hogs 700; butcher hogs 25c lower; sows about steady. Choice 180250 pound barrows and gilts 23.50; other weights scarce; sows 14.0018,50. Fort Worth Cash Grain Fort Worth, Wheat No. 2 hard 2.50-60.

Corn No. 2 white 2.02-06. Oats No. 2 white 9.1-93, Sorghums No 2 yellow milo 2.63-68 per 100 lbs. Produce Market New York.

steady, unchanged. Eggs steady, unchanged. Chicago. Butter steady to firm. Creamery 93 score A A 589459; 92 score A 90 score 56-56! 89 score Austin.

Poultry steady; South and East Texas 26; Waco 25; Corsicana New York Cotton New York. UP cotton prices were 30 cents a bale lower to 10 cents higher than the previous close, Oct. 34.08, Dec. 34.34 and March 34.75. Amsterdam, Netherlands, Royal Dutch KLM airliner from New York crashed into the North Sea off the Dutch coast today and all 21 or more persons aboard are feared to have perished, the KLM line announced.

The airline said there were 12 passengers, mostly Americans, and nine crew members aboard the plane. The plane was flying from New York to Amsterdam and was on its final leg from Shannon, Ireland, when it went down. Earlier, fishing vessels reported sighting a big oil slick, liiebelts, a raft and other debris from a plane. One vessel was reported to have found debris about 16 miles northwest of Ymuiuen, Amsterdam's seaport. The airline office in New York said a Mr.

and Mrs. had hoarded the plane at. Shannon. Their address was not available. Bourland Kin hold Reunion About 60 descendants and other relatives of the late T.

B. Bour -1 land were present Sunday at the annual reunion in Childress City Park in his honor. The five surviving children of the original 11 were present. They are Mrs. T.

C. Clement of Wellington, Mrs. Gladys Tooley of Amherst, Mrs. A. R.

Weaver of Littlefield. Mrs. Hattie Goldman) and T. P. Bourland, both of Vernon.

Others present were Mrs. Bill Jefferies. Littlefield; Mr. and Mrs. -Lester Wellington; Mr.

and Mrs. Earl Clement, Dumas; Mr. and Mrs. Bill Weaver, Amherst; Mr. and Mrs.

Pat Moore. Clovis, N. Mr. and Mrs. Barney Gibson and Mr, and Mrs.

Leonard Burt, Electra; Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Weaver, Lubbock: Mr.

and Mrs. Kenneth Underwood and Mr. and Mrs. Van Underwood, Petersburg. And Mr.

and Mrs. Wendell Gene Tooley, Mr. and Mrs. Pat Tooley and Mr. and Mrs, H.

A. Blevins, all of Chillicothe; Mr. and Mrs. O. D.

Bourland. Mr. and Mrs. C. A.

Bourland, Mr. and Mrs. W. Tom Smith, Mr. and Mrs.

W. B. Bourland, Mr. and Mrs. A.

M. Bourland and Mr, and Mrs. Ulys Bourland, all of Vernon. HOSPITALS DEATHS NEW BUILDING SET Mexico City. UP) A new im- 10.50, good and choices laughters Tie new building will be built to calves 50c or more higher, selling I handle increased tourist trade and at 13.50-17.00; common to me- normal travel increases, Lie.

Fran- dium 10.00-13.00: stocker steer cisco Castellanos said. Mrs. McCurdy Attends Meet Mrs. O. O.

McCurdy, manager of the Vernon Retail Merchants Association, has returned from Austin, where she attended the annual Association Management Institute last week. The Institute was sponsored by the Retail Merchants Association of Texas and the National Association of Credit Bureaus in co-operation with the University of Texas Division of Extension. Mrs. McCurdy took these courses: Human Relations. Retail Merchants Association Management, Business Law, Business Communications and Credit Bureau Fundamentals.

Instructors were university professors and men connected wdth various credit associations. Wichita rites were said Monday morning here for W. E. Raines, 80, a retired lumber man, who died unexpectedly Saturday at his home. Wichita services were held Monday afternoon for Mrs.

Mary Ellen Bebout, 66, w'ho died Saturday. She had lived here about 40 years. Wichita Falls. former Wichita Falls High School athlete, Edwin House, 28, was buried here Monday afternoon. He died Friday in Grand Junction, of injuries received in a plane crash in Utah on Aug.

7, ERNON LINIC-HOSPITAL Admissions: Mrs. Nora Gunn. Mrs. Jack Graham. G.

F. Martin. Dismissals: Mrs. Kenneth Hiuei Lawrence Norris. E.

E. Ketchersid. L. W. Henry, Births: Mr.

and Mrs. R. B. Pearcy, a boy. CHRIST THE KINO HOSPITAL Roberto Crus.

Dismissals: Mrs. Bevie McGill. Mrs. Patsy Wilkinson. Miss Elizabeth Hester.

Miss Anita Ernhart. Fred Halencak. SHIPMAN CUNIC HOSPIT Admissions: Cherry Casey. Negroes are relatively immune to cancer of the skin. PUREa 209 JH Listen To Elmer Lee TODD President of Texas United Penson Association Speaking In Behalf of ALLAN SHIVERS TUESDAY August 24 6:15 A.

M. KWFT 620 ke Statewide Broadcast (Paid Political Advertisement) EXECUTION SCHEDULED Mexico City, State, one of the few Mexican states with the death penalty, is scheduled to execute this week a man who raved a 4-year-old girl, strangled hei and then tossed her Nichols at 12:40 p. Wednesday. body into a river. GOSPEL MEETING Thalia Church of Christ AUGUST 22-29 Preaching daily at 10 a.

m. and 8 p. m. by W. L.

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