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DEATHS AND FUNERALS Mrs. Willie Watson Mrs: Willie Watson, widow of John R. Watson, of Paris, died Wednesday in Dallas at the home of a daughter, Mrs. J. R.

Cothran, 2708 Carlisle, after a long illness. 'The funeral, Friday at 10 will be held. in Gene Roden and Sons chapel, and burial will be made in Evergreen Cemetery. The Rev. C.

G. Nichols, First Assembly of God Church pastor, will officiate, and grandsons will be pallbearers. Mrs. Watson, the former Miss Willie Summers, was born in Little Rock, June 22, 1872, and had lived in Lamar County since she was six months old. She was married in 1893 1 Mr.

Watson, who died in July, 1946. Since then she had made her home in Dallas. Surviving are these, children: J. M. Watson, 530 NE, Paris Mrs.

Cothran, Mrs. T. C. Nowell, Mrs. C.

D. Lynn and Mrs. B. K. Cummons, all of Dallas; 12 grandchildren and 17 great grandchildren.

Otis Cole Otis Cole, former manager of Lamar Cotton Oil Company's gin here, died of a heart attack Wednesday in McAllen, where he moved about a year ago. He was connected with a ginning concern there. The funeral was arranged for! at 4 p.m. at Corle Funeral Home in Corsicana, 'his former home, burial being made there also. Going from Paris to attend the service were Mr.

and Mrs. Jess McMinn. Mr. Cole leaves his wife; one daughter, Mrs. Dwight Tho a Fort Worth, and one grandchild.

Gavin H. Hill Paris News Service HONEY GROVE Gavin H. Hill, 26, son of Mr. and Mrs. R.

B. Hill here, died Wednesday in the MARKETS roosters; 10c per pound. Paris Rabbit Market Fort Worth Livestock FORT WORTH -Cattle steady to 50 lower: good and choice slaughter steers. and yearlings 18.00-25.00; common and medium 8.00.16.00; good and choice slaughter calves 13.00-17.00: and medium 9.00-13.00: stocker calves 10.00- 16.25: yearling stockers 16.00 down; stockOT COWS 8.00-12.00 Hogs 400; 25-50 higher; choice 190-240 15 25.75-26.00. Sbeep steady to 50 lower; good and choice spring limbs 17.15-19.00; utuity and good slaughter yearlings 12.50-14.00; slaughter ewes 5.00-6.00; breeding 7.00; feeder lambs 12.50-14.50.

Fort Worth Grain WORTH (API- No, 1 hard, Corn, No. 2 white, 32.15-25. Oats. No. white, cents.

Sorghums, No. 2 yellow milo, Milk MILK: No price quoted. Federal Milk: Marketing Order 43 prevailing price paid in July: Grade $5.616 per 100 pounds testing 4 per cent point under 4 per cert. per cent a and riinus 7.8 cents per butterfat, plus 7.8 cents per point over For manufacturing purposes paid In the last half of July: $3.35 per 100 pounds testing 4 per cent. plus 6 cents per point over 4 per cent and minus 8.375 cents per point under 4 per cent.

Dallas Spot Middling: Dallas, 32.40: Galveston, 32.65 Houston, 32.70: New Oricans, 32.65; Memphis, 32.65. POULTRY, EGGS EGGS: 30-43 cents. POULTRY: Broilers, cents; heavy hens, 18c: light hens, 12c; White fryers, to wounds. 23 cents colored fryers, to 519 pounds, 21 cents per pound: bakers. 7 cents per pound.

Injured Officers Slay Assailant JACKSONVILLE, Tex. -Two Cherokee County officers were wounded a gun battle yesterday in a private game preserve but fought back. and killed their assailant, John Butler, 73. Sheriff Frank Brunt and Constable Pete Bailey of Wells, 32 miles south of here, were called to evict Butler from the preserve called "'Hicks' Pasture." When they approached Butler he wounded both officers with the same bullet. They killed Butler.

His body held several bullets. Bailey was wounded along the edge of the chest. The bullet then lodged under Erunt's shoulder blade. Neither was in serious condition. Justice R.

W. Anderson of Alto ruled that the officers shot in selfdefense. Brunt later gave this account from his hospital bed: Emmett Hicks of Wells had called him to eviet Butler. Hicks sald their hunting club had hired Butler recently as caretaker but fired him last weel- He had threatened people with a rifle the club had given him. Hicks said Butler had refused to give up the rifle when he was fired and bad also refused to move 'rom his qu ters on the preserve.

Brunt and Bailey drove into the preserve and suddenly came upon Butler AS he drove over a hill. "Fir I drove by," Brunt said. "I was sort of surprised, coming on him 50 sudden. Then I turned around and drove back by him. I stopped the car and Balley and I got out," he said.

"I told Butler. we were peace officers and asked him to put down his gun. He raised his rifle and started shooting. His first bullet passed through Bailey and hit me," Brunt said. School Event! HENDERSON, Ky.

-For the first time since 1906, the City of Henderson is to build a new public school. The citizens voted tax on themselves for the special purpose, 1 veterans hospital at McKinney. The funeral, Friday a't 2:30 p. will be held in First Baptist Church, and Cooper's Fun er a 1 Home will make burial in Oakwood Cemetery. Grant Funeral Paris News Service COOPER- The funeral Roy Grant, 55, of Pecan Gap, was set for Thursday at 5 p.

m. in Pecan Gap Baptist Church, McDonald Funeral Home making burial in Oaklawn Cemetery, Cooper. Mr. a Grant died of a heart attack Tuesday near Littlefield, while 011 the way to New Mexico. ARMADILLO NOT CAPTIVE LONG They had him but he got away armadillo that is.

Lynn Putman, 601 17th SE, pan said the armored animal had heen bothering rabbits he keeps In his backyard. Mr. and Mrs. Putman joined forces with a quartet of young Parisians, Bob Swaim, Dick Rudy, Ben Killebrew and Scott Lewis. last night captured the critter after a lengthy chase.

"Stone walls do not a prison make." And neither does a box weighted down with mesh wire and a heavy rock, especially for an armadillo he was nowhere in sight this morning. 20 Soldiers Die In Boat Accident FT. BRAGG, N.C. M--Twenty soldiers, many of whom could swim, drowned within sight of comrades on shore here yesterday! when a training boat capsized in a reservation lake. The post public information office said late last night it still did not know how many men were aboard, Only two of the sur.

ivors were hospitalized. Neither was in serious condition, of the survivors were helped ashore. Others swam the 100 yards to safety despite their bulky fatigue uniforms and nonswimmers' panicky efforts to grab them, The men were members of the 406th Engineer Brigade. Most were basic trainees. They were on an orientation ride on the mile-long lake in a boat consisting of two 14-foot-long assault craft.

together end to end. It went down in about 10 feet of water. Otto Edwards, Ft, Bragg safety director, said the normal load for such a boat is only about 25 men. Army: officials in Washington said they it was the worst training accident, not Involving aircraft, since World War II. Edwards said it was the biggest single accident toll he had seen in 12 years as safety director at 27 Army installations.

The boat dipped water when it turned to go back to shore. It tipped over after some of the men became panicky, the PIO reported. Edwards said he understond about half of the men could not swim. The swimmers were hampered by their loose-fitting clothing, combat boots and ammunition belts with attached canteens. Army medical corpsmen ureid for hours to revive the victims after their bodies were pulled from the water and lined up on shore.

Fines Total Over $5,000 For Motorist CHICAGO (A) Fines totaling more than $5,000 were assessed against a motorist yesterday and the judge said the penalty was the highest ever made for traffic offenses in the United States. Jerry Leverson, alias L. J. Borwen, 27 was fined $5,349 on 71 traffic violations, must of them speeding. Police had hunted him for more than a year but said he had eluded them by changing homes and jobs frequently.

Leverson, a car polisher and father of three children, was unable to pay the fines and was taken to the city jail. He faces a sentence of more than. nine years if he works his fines off at the rate of $1.50 a day. Municipal Judge Joseph Butler fined Leverson on each charge and said: "Ordinarily, when a man has to serve a lot of time in Jail I feel sorry for him, but this time it's a pleasure "You have no respect for the law, the police, or the courts. And I have no respect for you." Squad Car Prank Charges Filed Charges of driving A vehicle without the consent of the owner have been filed in Lamar County Court against one of the youths who allegedly swiped a Paris police car this week.

Nugent Reid, former Sweetwater youth now living in Paris, is named in the charge. Police identified Reid as one of the two boys who drove the patrol car away from a Paris cafe as a prank while the police were sipping coffee. It wag. located three hours later. Honeydew melon, pineapple, and make A pleasing fruit salad hecause of their contrastIng colors, textures and flavors.

Freed Powderly Gl Gets Home Today Sgt. James Vaughan climbed off a bus at the Paris station Thursday morning and dashed into the waiting arms of his parents. Thirty-two horror-filled months in a Communist prison camp were behind the slender Lamar Counti- an, and tears of joy washed them away, Only a trace of a smile crossed his grim face at first. But when his mom and dad broke through the crowd, he broke into a grin. Sgt.

Vaughan, a 21-year-old derly GI, was sort of tired. Since Sunday he had been riding a bus, all the way from California. He couldn't get airline reservations. Three brothers, one sister, aunts, uncles and cousins by the dozens HOSPITALS ST. JOSEPH'S HOSPITAL Admitted: James Allen Reeves, 8-year-old son of Mr.

and Mrs. James Allen Reeves, Ili Mrs. F. P. Thompson, Cooper: Mrs.

R. G. Easley, Detroit; Mrs. J. T.

Evans, 615 Grand: Mrs. Wylie Traylor, Cooper; Danny G. Ballard, Telephone: Mrs. Vernon Harris, Sumner; J. 0.

Cooper, Johnstown. Dismissed: Mrs. L. B. Johns, 1120 Fairfax; Mrs.

C. B. Deupree, Hugo, Lester Smith, SunRay; Mrs. John Eason, 1014 E. Washington; R.

B. Dockery, RoxEmmons, Honey Grove: 0. G. Smith, Clarksville; Mrs. Lloyd Brown, Rt.

Mrs. James Tomblin, 267 30th NE, and infant daughter born August 22. SANITARIUM OF PARIS Admitted: Mrs. Margaret Greenlund, 731 E. Sherm James T.

618 W. Kaufman: Joe Mayes, 858 19th SE; Mrs. C. M. McWherter, 420 S.

Main; Mrs. Corene Bell, Deport; Mrs. Ben. Noel, Valliant, J. M.

Smith, Hugo, Okla. Dismissed: Cullum, 202 W. Washington; Mrs. J. Fullingim, Antlers, Mrs.

Louie Ellis, Honey Grove. Ardmore Adds To Sooner Loop Lead By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Ardmore Indians pulled six games ahead in the Sooner State League Wednesday night by with only five days of the season remaining. McAlester. clipped Shawnee 6-5, dropping the second-place Hawks another: game off the pace. Ada defeated Lawton 74 and Pauls Valley picked on Gainesville 8-1, miring the Owls even deeper into the cellar.

Gene Fedak's 10 walks were his undoing in Lawton's loss while Joe Hochevar, Pauls Valley hurler, jammed the Paris bus station to greet the liberated prisoner of war. Also there were City Manager John Perryman, Chamber of. Commerce Manager Eruce Williams, Chief Milton Moon of the Navali Recruiting Office and T-Sgt. Ray Sanders of the Air Force Recruiting Station. But the official welcoming party never got to say a word.

Relatives took care of the greeting. Only seconds after he alighted from the bus, Sgt. Vaughan was hurried into a auto and out of the crowd. First on. the list was 8 visit to his grandmother, Mrs.

John Dunnam, whose health wouldn't allow her to meet. the bus. Then Sgt. Vaughan was going home to a little house down the road from Powderly, There'll be fried chicken for supper. That's his favorite en dish.

And Saturday night, the folks are giving him a big "'Welcome Home" party at Wade Park. Out near Roxton, Dessie Lee Heath heaped her modest table high with fried chicken, peas, okra and iced tea Wednesday. Her boy came home, too. Long months of anxious waiting ended for Dessie and her family as her son, Pfc. James Connally, finally returned to their little share cropper home per He was released two weeks ago from a Communist prison camp.

Connally, lean and gaunt from 28 months as a Communist captive, walked down the road, past the tall cotton to: his old home Wednesday. A long bus brought him from California. He was the first Lamar County prisoner of war to be liberated In Korea. Hurricane Believed Recurving in Ocean MIAMI UP -Hurricane "Carol" developed 138-mile winds today. and began a recurve which storm forecasters believed would keep it over the open Atlantic, away from all land areas.

"It is a small storm wrapped tightly around a tiny center only three miles in said Grady Norton, forecaster in the Miami storm warning center. "But It has a real kick to it. It is, bending toward a more northwesterly course and from present Indications will bypass, the Lee: ward Islands and Puerto Rico. "Conditions indicate that it will swing to the east of Bermuda and remain well away from the mainland. Of course, should it stall over the Atlantic, the pattern could change and new predictions would be in order." Teen-agers never get tired of this party dessert: Roll balls of ice cream 'in chopped nuts and surround with chocolate or BRIEFS AND PERSONALS The steak fry scheduled by the Past Patrons and Past Matrons Club, OES, for Thursday night at Lake Crook has been postponed.

A hay meadow accident has placed Danny G. Ballard, TeleTexas, youth in St. Joseph's' Hospital with a broken arm. He was resting well Thursday. will be taught again year at Paris High School and Paris Junior College with Mrs.

R. A. Partlow as the teacher. The classes are sponsored by Paris Ministerial Alliance. Dr.

William S. Hendricks, Angeles, spent a few days in Paris with his parents, Nelson and Elta Hendricks, 1011-11th NW. coming here from Lawton, Registration Due Tuesday At College Registration starts Tuesday at Paris Junior College. Dr. J.

R. McLemore, president, said that freshmen and other new students will meet in the main auditorium at 9 a. m. Tuesday for orientation prior to registerin g. Sophomores meet Wednesday at 9 a.

m. in the auditorium. 1 Enrollment for night sch ool will be Wednesday at 7:30 p. Dr. McLemore said.

Classes begin Thursday at d. m. Night classes will start' Thursday night at a time to be arranged during registration. Dr. McLemore this norm all en enrollment is expected year, but pointed out that it might be boosted some by returning K.orean veterans who may now attend school under a new G.

I. Bill. Rev. Richardson To Speak at Meet A brotherhood meeting will held Friday night at 7:30 at Glory Baptist Church; with all men of the community invited attend. The Rev.

Robert S. Richardson, minister of Central Presbyterian Church, will be the guest speak-! er. Each one attending is asked to bring sandwiches or cake for a supper which will precede the meeting. Three Lamar Children Are Ruled Neglected A 62nd District Court jury found three Lamar. County children dependent and neglected here Wednesday.

Proceedings had been brought about by the state to declare the children dependent and neglected, All three of the children had been placed in private Lamar County homes by. the State Wel fare Department pending the: out where he stopped to see his grandmother and his sister. Mrs. Lois Lenzner, 1189 E. Tu-1 dor who has been employed by Sherwin-Williams Company 1 in Texarkana the past five months, has resigned and has returned to Paris to make her home.

She transferred to Texarkana from the Paris store. The swimming season of Paris Golf Club will wind up with a meeting Monday at 3 p.m. under direction of Mrs. Ted Beckman. The entertainment committee of the.

club will otter prizes for winners of the various events scheduled. Children of all ages who are members of the club are eligible and are asked to register by Saturday either at the pool or by calling Mrs. Frank Sherman, 977-J. Personals Mrs. R.

L. Hicks of Dallas visiting her mother, Mrs. M. B. Hames, 1863 W.

Kaufman St. Mrs. W. L. Russell, 810 West Houston Street, has returned from a trip to Bay City, Tornonto, Canada, and St.

Louis, Mo. Miss Vivian Joyce Kins1o daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Kinslow, 418-13th SW. left Tuesday for Dallas, where she will attend Rutherford Business College.

Miss Lucy Rainey of McAlester, and Mr. and Mrs. Malvin Handy and Mr. and Mrs. Aden Long of Fort Worth 'have returned home after visiting Mr.

and Mrs. Joe Early, 2925 Lamar Ave. Police Await Autopsy Data In Slaying DALLAS -Police of suburban Highland Park awaited autopsy reports and planned to question an East Texas man today in the slaylast week of Miss Selma Adele Ullman. Chief W. H.

Naylor said he had insufficient evidence to file a charge against a middle-aged woman who collapsed yesterday after hours of grilling. The woman had appeared voluntarily and, distraught and mumbling, said she wanted to. talk. Witnesses said she mentioned the electric chair, money, and "keep my family out of it." Miss Ullman was found beaten to death: on the floor of her fashionable. home in fashionable Highland Park.

Police indicated she was killed last Wednesday, eight days ago. The distraught woman, sleepless for ad days, collapsed in near hysteria yesterday after about seven hours of questioning by police and undergoing lie detector tests. now become charges of the court and are subject to adoption, Testimony' in. the case took two days and the jury brought in its stopped the Owls on four hits. mel sauce.

come of the proceedings. They verdict Wednesday. AT TON OF RUBBER ANYONE It you enjoy spending money you'd like lions of dollars with local people and local of the Golden Empire, spending many milthe joh of General Purchasing Agent for industry. Many of these are outfits that S. P.

Southern Pacific. attracted to the territory in the first place, He spends over half a million dollars every thus making it possible for S. P. and everyworking day. body else to place more business in the West.

Our revenues are large, but it takes a lot of This illustrates the rapid industrial growth money to run a railroad, A deal goes of our Golden Empire. right out again for goods, materials and Our purchasing affices at Portland, San supplies to keep the railroad running, moving our Francisco, Los Angelos, El Paso, Houston passengers happy and your freight and New Orleans buy from several thousand smoothly. Some of the thingswe spend the money for are either staggering or peculiar or both. Golden Empire More than a million and a half new cross ties every year 2.000 pounds million of assorted barrels The PACIFIC rubber bands million nearly gallons 16 of creosote SOUTHERN of oil two LOUISTANA scores of new diesel TEXAS locomotives thousands of freight cars. These are just a few.

REW MEXICO And a lot of the money goes for things you UTAN ARIZONA wouldn't ordinarily think of in connection NEVADA with a railroad, like two thousand dollars CALIFORNIA worth of parsley. Moreover, under S.P.'s OREGON vast modernization program, we bought several hundred thousand dollars worth of local and individuals. All told, our electronic switching and communication concerns totaled over 140 million dollars equipment last year. last purchases -an important factor in the econalso bought more than 90,000 tons of of the area we serve. yearWe angle bars and tie plates -or about omy Well, this is new rail, 1,800 50-ton carloads.

People say that money saying, talks. "It's a pleasure to Southern Pacific it needs buys within tremendous the eight quantities states do business with you!" one of our ways of of the things I SYMBOL OF WESTERN PROGRESS President, HEADQUARTERS: SAN FRANCISCO AND HOUSTON 345 D. J. RUSSELL, A. CRAFT, Executive Vice President, HOUSTON THE PARIS NEWS, THURSDAY, SEPT.

3, 1953 Come OUR PRE- LABOR DAY TIRE SALE ENDS MONDAY BUY NOW And Receive TRADE IN ALLOWANCE FOR YOUR OLD TIRES Sixe 6:00 16 Goodyear DELUXE 1195 Plus Tax TIRES Reg. 20.10 And Tire Old PAY AND 1.00 PER TIRE DOWN 1.25 WEEKLY GE Washing Special Here's What You Receive This Week End With the Purchase of This GE Washer 1 Case Tide Twin Rinse Tubs Yes, Washer, Tide And Tubs All For $129.95 Which Is the Price of Washer Alone OR. With the Purchase of This Washer We'll Include. FO CUTES ID 1 Case Tide Laundry Cart Plastic Lining Clothes Pins ALL FOR $12995 Which Is Price Of Washer ON EITHER PURCHASE PAY ONLY AND 13.00 Down 2.50 Week GOOD YEAR SERVICE STORES GOOD YEAR TIRES Lamar Phone 120.