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Uforo Page 12 Te FUNDS CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE Baker, cited a similar condition existing in Waco as the spur Saturday, May 24, 1952 said Baker. Business firms were persuaded to adopt the payroll deduction plan, which is realty only feasible, he pointed out, in a one-drive operation. It enabled workers and executives to spread a larger gift out over 12 time. Then there was an increase in WEATHER CONTINUED FROM PAGI ONI Baker recalled that 30 years ago the Community Chest ldf-a tharMt "out to raise. This established as the answer to a nf'ed for one drive for all needs.

But our growing sense of responsibility for those who need help and with our Increased knowledge of diseases and their preventives, the great national health cancer, heart, ilsy Consumer, OPS In for Trouble On How Prices By OVID A. MARTIN Associated Farm Writer WASHINGTON Hog prices are making a quick change that threatens trouble for consumers Police sent Joe Atchison, who an(j government price control United Fund raised operates his own wrecker for ficials. 900,000, which was $275.000 more Buck's wrecker service, to clear For seven m0nths prices of this streets on Herring. Atchison said important meat animal have been he found a lot of cars stalled at discouraginglv low Twenty-first and Herring, pushed standpoint of producers. But er bureau had a brief hailstorm with quarter-inch hailstones).

All over Waco, street intersec-i tlons flooded. Streets ran curb to curb with water when three-fourths wous OII in an rain less than an which drove local civic leaders to the numbed of persons giving 100 houi about 6 p. m. Lakes formed try to follow the lead of Hous- Qr more 3 55g to Fund in the low areas. Cars stalled ton and 60 other compared to 2,459 to Community everywhere, in combing ail these appeals in Chest one.

cerebral palsy ization, presided at the meeting, up outside the Community a N. Wolff pronounced the Tne Red Cross, too. gr larg Attending were Waco was 70 per cent more than the 1950 Houston Community Chest mm had produced and 20 per cent to the curb- helped some of more than the 41 separate cam- drivers get started. Then he paigns of 1950 had raised for he cruised around, looking for other samo agencies. flooded intersections.

He found an- Walter G. Lacy chairman JJ.f cars drowned out inflation officials, of the Waco Union Fund organ- markets are in the midst of a shift that before the summer is over may bring complaints from consumers and wails from anti- as a fund-raising operation. Fund directors and mem- IODiem L. 1 So, he said, otd nr boards of all local revived on a larger seal. health, welfare and character- many good causes, so many sep- hlliifiinB, appnrie9 arate drives for public support, building United Fund was conceived in De- at Twenty-fifth and Alexander.

Cars Stalled Everywhere porter, got stalled at Twenty-fifth and Alexandpr, walked out in foot- deep water to the home of Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Ward.

He found their garden just about to wash away. Atchison got his car started again. Caulfield said the rain was 11L ai i so harcj that Pvon with windshield Farmers produced a record peacetime pig crop last year. i a xt rp i Prices dropped as the fattened pigs Tom Caulfield, News-Tnbune re- started movinK to market in volume. One reason was the low price of lard, a major pork product.

Aggravating this situation from the producer standpoint were advances in feed prices. I Tit wipers working furiously he could 11211 MctJllllff, In Price Squeeze Many producers found them- troit and is being adopted more and more widely as the modern answer. In Houston, "we developed a will to succeed, a wholehearted desire among al segments of our population. a tremendous on-j I intersections where high water slaught of public said expectedly Friday at 6 p. m.

was stainng cars. Traffic was re- Baker. when he went out on the porch of ported turning back from at least It did the job. his home at 1808 North Fifteenth two other places because water duction of pigs last pigs In 1950, for example, 154.000 thp nrnerpss of thp (was overflowing the curbs. marketed this only Houstonians gave to Community t0 the I Stalled traffic was reported at Chest.

In 1951, 220.000 of them rainstorm. He apparently suffered Thirty-fourth and Jefferson, mmnot see half a block. Everywhere in a PJ squeeze and i he found cars stalled, he said. ahead of Hugh C. McClung, 58, died un- Police received calls from four schedule.

Marketings during the I first four months of this year were about 16 per cent larger than in the like period last year. Yet pro- Bills Boosting BU Group Votes to Continue Disable et Restoration of Old Campus Ppikmu OK I JL Historial Society, in an ical state park, to sustain WASHINGTON, May 23 the I onianiental trees, shrubbery and ident Truman signed today twoj rPstoration of the original campus fiowprs which the members of the bills increasing pensions to disabled at dependence bv securing funds Texas Garden Clubs plan to put veterans. They are expected ulti- for treatment of the 8 live out there next fall mately to cost the government oak trees that dot the grounds, and more than four hundred million erect a native-stone 50-foot monu- dollars a year. on the grounds honoring the Dr. E.

B. Thompson New Chief Dr. E. Bruce Thompson of the Truman said he approved the memories of the three founders of I Baylor history department was easures ith great reluctance, the institutions and the presidents elected society president of next 1 to veterans and de- who both Baylor University year, ant pendents of the Civil, Indian and an(j Baylor Female College while I whatever Spamsh-American wars are boosted thev were located in Washington sary for 1 per cent. mamins subscribed to United Fund.

a heart attack broadened the base of our Save On That GRADUATION GIFT! off on watches Jewelry. off on diamonds. TOWNE JEWELERS 410 AUSTIN AYE. Funeral services will be held at 4 p. m.

Saturday at Wilkirson and Hatch Chapel with Dr. W. W. Mel- Twenty-fifth and" McFerrin, ana 2400 South Fourth Street. A car at Twenty-first and Herring was marooned for more than half an hour because water was ton officiating.

Burial will be in i so high wreckers couldn't get in Moody Cemetery. Mr. McClung had just finished Free Yourself FROM Tobacco Habit If you want to stop smoking can't, try world no-to-bac Lozenges. See how quickly no-to bac may help stop your craving tor tobacco. Get a 7-day supply of no to bac today If you can quit for 7 days, you ve woo half the battle.

Satisfaction guaranteed or money back. 7 supply $1. (For heavy makers 1 6 days' NO-TO-BAC AT ALL FIVE DRUG STORES UH NUYMT supper and had gone out on the porch to see the storm. The fall bruised his nose. He was dead when his wife, a teacher at West Junior High School, reached him.

Mr. McClung had been to the doctor Friday about a heart condition. Since 1945, Mr. McClung had been in Loan Guaranty with the Veterans Administration here. Before joining the staff, he was with the Biuebonnet, Ordnance Plant in McGregor.

He had lived in Waco for the last 15 years, and was active in the Masonic Lodge and Karem Shrine. His wife, Mrs. Florine Fox McClung. grew up in Moody. Survivors include his widow: a six-vear-old son, Hugh Fox McClung of Waco; his mother, Mrs.

Guy McClung of Dallas; two brothers'. Dan T. McClung and Rufus McClung of Dallas. to pull it out Branch Overflows Culvert Mrs. Ruby Buffy, 3116 North Tw'enty-fifth Street, said a small branch overflowed a culvert near her home.

The wras backing up into driveways and lawns and blocking the street betw-een McFerrin and Edna, she said. Barrons Branch at Fifteenth and Brook Avenue got level full, but it started going before overflowing at that point. about 7 per cent Furthermore some farmers have bred fewer sows this year. Surveys indicate pig production may fall 10 per cent below last year. These two developments are expected to show up in greatly reduced supplies of hogs in the months a sharp increase in price.

Producer priccs have been as low as $16 per 100 pounds in recent months but are believed likely to go as high as $25 or $26 this summer. Would Demand Price Such an increase could be px The Senate this week approved President Truman's nomination of Jesse L. Gandy (above) as postmaster at Meridian. Gandy, office administrator for the Farmers Home Administration in Meridian, is also chief of the Meridian Volunteer Fire Department. Also approved by the Senate as postmaster was Billy 0.

Jones of Kosse. measures Payments to veterans and who served both Baylor University year, and was authorized to take er steps he deemed neces- carrying out these re- per cent tj Countv. maining projects at Independence Pensions for widows of World Frank' Burkhalter, retiring Mrs. F. O.

Maxwell of Waco is Wars I and II and the Korean con-1 president, reported that the tall I new vice president of the society flict veterans who died from non- Corinthian columns which stood in while Miss Doris Goodrich Jones, service causes receive increases front 0f the old administration Waco, succeeds Dr. Joe Carl Mc- from $4- to $48 monthly, ith cor- building at Independence, had been Elhannon as secretary, responding increases for depend- fully restored and paid for during 1 Resolutions of appreciation of ent children. the past vear and that funds were the character and service of the The second bill, estimated to cost in providing a water late Pat M. Neff and Mrs. A.

$4.1.800,000 next year, raises income svstem, in what is now an hist or-1 Wood, presented by Mrs. Maxwell, limits beyond which payments may I were adopted. not be made in non-service-connect- Judge E. E. Townes of Houston, ed disability and death cases.

vice president of board of Present limits are $1,000 for a trustees and chairman of the Hous- veteran without dependents and $2.500 for a veteran with dependents, or for a widow with children. They are increased to $1,400 and $2,700 respectively. Truman told Congress he would joint committee would investigate not have signed this bill there were available any other practical1 CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE ton unit of the board, presented a paper on the of Baylor at Independence to Church and Luncheon at Comput means of lessening economic pres- sures upon those veterans and their dependents who have come to rely on pensions as their chief means of WACO HALL Groesbeok Woman Hurt When Trampled by Cow GROESBECK, May 23 Miss Eva Anglin, 72, was severely injured today when a cow knocked her down and apparently trampled her while she was working in her flower garden. She sustained several broken ribs, multiple serted, to make an honorable bruises, ruptured blood vessels, and shock. Mr.

and Mrs. Jim Smith, neighbors, heard Miss Anglin call out CONTINUED PROM PAGE ONE living and build a noble life. In addition to the 598 graduates, pected to put the Office of Price 'or conferred honorary doctor came her aid. They called Stabilization under pressure to set degrees on seven. Doctor of Law c.

Shelton, hose funeral chapel ceilings on live hogs. The demand degrees were awfarded Carr P. i is on one side of Miss Anglin for such ceilings may come first Collins insurance pvppu- i home. Shelton took her to the hos detour in around the slaughterers themselves, al- pital in his ambulance. Smith Eleventh and LaSalle intersection thouKh they are in general opposed ilVP- William laming, Port yie cow ran away when they ca here water was more than a It0 Price controls.

rancher and oil man, Ralph D. up foot and a half deep. Pittman, Washington, D. C. at- said came Atom Test Likely Today LAS VEGAS.

May 23 scientists, harassed by bad weather and equipment failures, indicated Friday they might try to fire the 18th nuclear device to be tested on thp Nevada desert Saturday morning. REMOVAL NOTICE We Have Moved Our Offices to 620 Professional Building WALTER V. FORT CO. INSURANCE WALTER V. FORT CO.

REAL ESTATE DIAL 3-1462 before the fall of 1953. Higher prices this summer and smaller production of pigs this be expected to encourage an increase in pig production a year from now. REPUBLICAN Wilson Creek was running full i Pork Products, hut the slaughterers in the 3100 block on North Twen- saV are not enough to ty-fifth Street and the water was I permit, them to pay anticipated backing up in the vards. hog prices. Mrs.

Bill 3105 North At present production trends and Twenty-fifth, said the w-ater had prospects, pork supplies and prices completely washed away a flower I may not again match recent levels boasted, so far, one thriving zinnia. The creek runs beside Mrs. home. Her neighbors, Mr. and Mrs.

Bill Thurston. 3109 North Twenty-fifth, also said the water had covered the yard. Bill Thurston, 3109 North Tw'en- ty-fifth, said a little branch wras running around his house. He said the culvert was stopped up with silt. Thurston said every time it came a heavy rain the wafer spilled over i the culvert, filled the street, and i then started backing into yards.

He said the overflowing had been reported to city officials several times. Herring Avenue a River Herring Avenue was described simply as river. Many another i street fit the same description. All the ran into lowr drainage i spots, like East Waco, Eleventh and LaSalle, and others, where the I lakes were formed. From all around Central Texas CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE BLANTON'S acsts ROSES ideally suited for smart home decoration glowingly beautiful in a 'nice assortment of colors.

Saturday Special per dozen ties where the Ike faction figures it has a clear majority. The Taft people, too, have claimed a majority, but released any figures. McLean Thursday night in San Antonio said he expects to vote against seating Eisenhower-pledged delegates from Dallas, Houston and Fort Worth at the state convention. is expected that Marrs McLean will vote to seat all bolting Taft Porter said in a statement handed newsmen. came reports of heavy thunder- his opinion, no one is a Republican torney; Robert B.

Reed, president Billfold Owner; of San Marcos Academy; J. K. i i Wadley, Texarkana lumber and Kllliolfl oil man; and Wr. T. White, superintendent of Dallas public schools.

The degree of Doctor of Divinity wras given to Rev. Stanley E. Wilkes of Houston. In a baccalaureate address Friday morning, Dr. Wilkes pointed to truth as key to real freedom." He added that is the magnet of the human mind, ever drawing us onward and Police balanced their ledgers on pocketbooks Friday, one lost and one found.

But they had not located the owner of one they found. Mrs. Robert Olson reported at Before the program and business i- session members of the society had Le Blanc that ir the junch in the Colonial Kitchen of Mexican national program broke the Union Building, down entirely (it Is extended un- Many members of the society July 31). it cou.d contribute to a potential loss of 15,000 year- for the meeting of the round farm workers in Texas. Horn Coming Association in the Cota, local TEC disclosed the anticipated need for-------------------------------------------------pickers in the Waco area this; fall.

He said that a program of recruiting workers on a basis will be started in this area. In general, the means 1 that local workers are picked up by buses or trucks at certain points for work in cotton fields. Cota added that the present estimate for cotton acres in Mc- County is 135,000. rains may boost the acreage to the goal of 150,000 he added. Le Blanc suggested that TEC officials start a program to keep permanent workers on the farm.

He added that the gas station is the biggest competitor at present to year-round farm wrorker. can hardly find one to hire any Le Blanc added. Because of Acid Stomach? showrers. flooded creeks, washed- out crops. Hamilton had 1.2 inches in less than an hour.

Mart reported an inch of rain in the community and four inches in the vicinity. The rain was described as a Some cotton was w'ashed out, Christmas Creek east of Mart left its banks. Farmers had to remove cattle from flooded lowlands. The Leon River, the new dam is being built at Belton, the Colorado (which flows into Buchanan Dam), the Bosques (flow into Lake Waco, which already was full), and the Brazos watershed above Whitney Dam all got rains that would increase the lake supplies, assistant weatherman Wooden said. 11 A Similar Situation Weatherman Anderson earlier unless he is for Bob Taft for Democrats Growling Texas Democrats have a first- class row among themselves, but the Republicans are more vocal.

The Democrats are expected to end up with two conventions Tuesday at San Antonio one a faction favoring a delegation loyal to any Democratic nominee and the other siding with Gov. Shivers for an uninstructed delegation. And while the broad party squab- 1 overshadowed individuals, there was considerable sniping among the candidates. At Houston, Ralph W. Yarborough, candidate for governor, accused Shivers of using the Truman administration as a whipping boy to cover up his own record.

In county conventions at Fort McCLUNG HIGH C. Hugh C. McClung. 58. dird unexpectedly 2 p.

m. Friday that her billfold had Friday at 6:15 m. at his home at 1808 North Fifteenth Street, been either lost or stolen from her Punerai services win be held at 4 p. m. rvircp at thp Tpvas Flprtric Bus Saturday at Wilkirson and Hatch Chapel Electric with Dr.

W. W. Melton ofiicntinf. Burial Lines Station. will be in Moody Cemetery.

A few minutes later, Mrs. Rob- Survivors: his widow; one son. Hugh Fifty-nine sraduating Air irre Milam. 2208 Maple, called to Fox oi waco; ROTC cadets were Riven com- report findmE a billfold, with pa-. Ruiu.

ct h'th missions in the Air Force Reserve pers and pictures, but no money, 0f Dallas as an added feature of Friday in lying Dnv- ers license found in the pocket- Tom A- c- book bore the name Charles I BrK1 Staley, 122 North Mill, Flora, 111. Officers were still searching for the lost billfold and missing owner. i i Worth, Dallas and Houston, Taft 1 tn Iwh backers and named dele- onr.tu.. .3 u.mr. 1 7 jnLoc I ijgations of their own to the state attack by an element in Bellmead a 1 Saturday and convention.

The Texas Supreme and La Vega school district which commencement exercise. The oath of office was administered by Col. H. Paul Dellinger, professor of Air Science and Tactics. In other features of the exercise, John R.

Claypool, spring quarter president of the senior class, announced the gift of a new flagpole to the university. The 50-foot staff is mounted in a terrazzo of the Baylor seal md is located directly in front of Pat Neff Hall. President White led in induction of the new graduates into the Baylor Ex-Students Association, and T. E. Sanderford of Belton, president of the association received them.

A response was voiced by R. H. Dildav, permanent president of the class. LA YEGA CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE Take 2 TUMS Before Retiring Do you lie awake counting sheep at night? Then feel "all next morning? If your stomach churning up too much almost sure to happen. Try eating 1 or 2 Turns before you go to bed.

See if you fail asleep more fresher when vow awaken. Always keep on hand to banish acid indigestion gassy fullness. Millions of Americans do. Get a roll today. Onijr 3 tt 2St TUMS TUM5 THI BOSQUE CONTINUED PROM PAGE ONB ators in Waco said there wrere several communities, including Dublin and Brownw'ood, where telephone lines out, and calls had to be routed around flooded areas.

Elsewhere storms and heavy rains ripped across the state. At the Henderson County town of Brownsboro, winds tore off the roofs of business houses and tomato sheds. No injuries were reported. The storm lasted about five minutes. Thundershowers w'ere expected to sweep the Central Texas area for another 24 hours, assistant C.

C. Wooden said early Friday night. That would mean rains through most of Sat- though they be so great, and are 'urday. driven by fierce winds, yet are they I Jt was a stormv weather situa- turned about with a very small ftion throughout most of Texas, helm, hithersoever the governor Oklahoma where 10 were killed in listeth." a tornado) Arkansas, and other She read on. The chapter con- Southwestern sections.

tinues. so the tongue is a little for the Graduate Orchids 3.00 up Gardenia 1.50 up Carnation, Roses, other corsages Place Your Order Today member, and boasteth great things. Jov Nomination Okehed Behold how- great a matter a little fire kindleth. I WASHINGTON, May 23 Superintendent Shelton is under Senate Friday approved the nomi- tack by an element in Bellmead nation of Vice Adm. C.

Turner Joy. Qur.Ho*- a v. i twuvemiuii. uir i mid La Vega school district which former chief negotiator in the ko- nff Woct film min Court refused to rule these bolt- says his policies are those of a die- truce talks, to be superin- off in West Texas from the mam -ng factjons out of contention in a tator. Another element defends his of the L.

S. Naval decision that indicated the matter policies. The fire is burning bright- academy, was strictly a party affair to be ly. settled by the party. The anti-Shelton faction is cir- Ficrlit For McLean, long a figure in the I culatinsr netitions askinsr for thp rp.

ms Ip.IIl low, moved south into Mexico and started all the stormy weather. Behind the lowr w'as a cooler air mass that kept spilling over aloft, at the 8.000-foot level and above, i The cooling air chilled the warmer, I moisture-laden air and set off the 1 thundershowers over a wide area. The front was moving so slowly I that the effect was expected to continue. Truman Boards Yacht WASHINGTON, May 23 President Truman left aboard his yacht, the Williamsburg, Friday i for an overnight trip to Annapolis, and a day of sports with the midshipmen and the cadets from West Point. WEATHER national Republican Party, charged that the Eisenhower majority in Texas is an majority.

made up of Democrat newcomers to the precinct meetings, should be Porter said. McLean may culating petitions asking for the re- call of seven school board mem- ers, who support Shelton and who fired Grimland. This faction has called a mass meeting for Monday night at 7:30 at the school. Grimland, who went to Spur Friday to see his son Charles graduate, is salve his own conscience by nis i quoted by his friends as saying he meandering reason, but he will not will back for the meeting. Presi- be able to convince the.

public that he honestly discharged his duty, Porter Counterattacks TEXAS WEATHER East and South Central Texas: Consider- i cloudiness with scattered thunderstorms Saturday and in south portions Sunday. No important temperature changes. Fresh in Harris Countv (Houston) and locally winds on the coast, about attended Re- mostly southerly. North Central Texas: Considerable cloud- publican precinct conventions, so iness with scattered thunderstorms Satur- W'ho is Mr. McLean to question i day Sunday partlv cloudy.

No important whether or not any of those 20,000 cloudy Saturday people 1 had voted Republican pre- and Sunday, widely scattered thunder- viously? As a matter of fact, a showers tn Panhandle Saturday. No im- number of former Democrats, dent P. N. Hallmark of the school board says he will be there with a written statement from the board explaining why they let McLean has been one of Grimland out. those who has been loudest in voicing an invitation to people to i desert the Democratic Party and come into the Republican Party, and.

when it happened, and not to I his liking, he is now joining Henry 1 Zweifel national committeeman! from Fort Worth) in trying to throw them right out Porter said, than 43,0001 people voted Republican in 1948 Equal Railroad Rates WASHINGTON. May 23 South cleared the final hurdle today in its long fight for equality of freight rates with the North. The Interstate Commerce Commission ordered into effect May 30 a uniform system of classifications of freight throughout the county together with uniform rates except in the territory west of the Rockv Mountains. portant temperature changes. frei In Rear of Store Dia! 2-2541 1019 Austin NATIONAL WF.VTHER Observations taken at 7 30 m.

Central Standard Time May 23: Station Amarillo Atlanta. Brownsville Denver. Colo. Little Rock, Ark. Los Angeles.

Calif. Nashville. Tenn New Orleans La. New York, Y. Oklahoma City St.

Louis. Mo. San Antonio Washington. D. HUh Low Rain .00 S365 .00 S2 .00 5S.64 42 1 43 53 1 20 57 .00 75 .00 60 1 S5 7362 142 5S .00 7S .00 S963 .00 Sfi 29 1 1 55 .00 56 3 OS so 70 Trare 74 62 .00 SO .00 eluding at least one former member of the state committee, actively worked in the Taft campaign I in Harris WASHINGTON, May 23 np tne Sen.

gov- wwwwwwwi ii si Wan. LANE CEDAR CHEST! a if its members refuse to work under government seizure of a plant for national security reasons. But Morse quickly added that he thinks organized labor is not to maneuvpr itself into a no-work position under such cir- I cumstances. Albuquerque 2 flights daily 6 1 8 min. Phone 4-4618 for NEXT TIME DOWN ON ANY LANE CEDAR CHEST Al Advertised In LIFE ioneer AIR LINES is noma pa sama stars STRnnON-STRICKU ron mi DIAL 3-5381 4th ond Austin Dial 2-8381 WE CASH PAYROLL CHECKS Saturday Specials Children's Cowboy Boots Reg.

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