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Get Yaur Car Inspected Now! cet mhm ammim ptw Tnm wnsphote ui on itatera aartos TWENTY-FOUR PACES IN TWO SECTIONS SAN ANGELO TEXAS FRIDAY EVENING AUGUST 1 1952 FORTY-EIGHTH YEAR NO 78 (Five IFadtors For IProffilis Cwift fifty Mtmlftfi AERIAL PHENOMENA North Concho Deal To Be Forerunner Coast-Guard Gets Photos Of Four 'Flying Objects' of the paper companies' customers to abut down Retail profits were off 27 per cent this year But in recent week! trade fhas picked up and merchants expect to do better from now on Building material providers also affected by the steel strike report profits as a group off 26 per cent The oil companies were 10 per cent ahead in profits in the first three months of this year but some of them had a strike 'And profits for the aix months are only three per cent ahead of a year ago Aircraft makers with fat defense orders forged ahead by 41 per cent The airlines had a bad first quarter but a better second quarter and Just about broke even for the entire six months PARTY HARMONY Walter Rogers left rear former' chairman of the Taft-for-President forces ond Alvin Lane right rear listen attentively while vice presidential nominee Richard Nixon tells reporters during a short stop- over between planes in Dallas he is confident the GOP will carry Texas in November The California senator was en route to Columbus where he delivered a major address WASHINGTON Aug'l UL-Coast Guard headquarters today made public a photograph of "unidentified aerial phenomena" taken by a 21-irear-old Coast Guard photographer The photo clearly shows four round objects Each appears to have two Identical shafts of light extending across its center and protruding at the forward and rear ends The lights are in a formation The coast guard said it has no opinion a a to the cause or source of the "objects" and was releasing Nixon Opens Drive With Honest Government Call County Deaf To Wage Hike For Its Employes presidential nominee a "captive candidate" of the CIO big city bosses and President Truman CAPBTIVE CANDIDATE "Despite his good intentions and I do not question his good intentions" Nixon said "Gov Adlai Stevenson is a captive candidate "He is Jack manHe is Jake Arvey's man and the man of all the other big city machine He la Harry man" Jacob Kroll of Cincinnati la national head of the CIO Political Action Committee Jacob Arvey la the Chicago national committeeman of Illinois Stevenson's state and a Chicago political power Nixon said Eisenhower knows that his first Job in Washington is to clean up corruption others can't do he said He added that Eisenhower would clean the Communists out of Washington The California senator said the record of the administration tha Hist case lone la enough to disqualify it from being returned to power in Washington at the present time" Nixon referred to Alger Hiss former State Department official imprisoned for perjury in denying he-turned over secret government papers to a Communist agent "If you want a change you have no choice but to vote Republican in November" Nixon cried By SAM DAWSON NEW YORK Aug-1 Business is making 11 per eent less profits Ibis year than last blaming strikes rising costs taxes controls and savings-minded customers More than two-thirds of the first 327 leading corporation to report their first six months earnings are trailing last some of them falling drastically behind The only industries to show gains as a group are aircraft utilities and oil Worst bit are textiles and steel Still only eight of the 327 reported a loss for the first half And 99 were able to show gains over a year a few setting record in profits NET PROFITS SHRINK -But many companies that set records in sales volume found net profit after taxes had shrunk below a year ago A survey of the S27 corporations shows total net Income this year of 11982512304 against 2223-279061 for the same companies In the first half of 195L The 28 railroads in the list broke Just about even with last year The utilities gained seven per cent But the 287 industrials dropped 12 per cent behind a year ago with 212 of them showing declines in net profit Not since the first quarter of 1951 has business as a whole been able to a gain in profits over the same period the year before Profits hit their peak at the start of 1951 and have shrunk ever since large part because new and higher tax rates went into effect for business in April 1951 DIVIDENDS HOLD UP Yet the dividend rates have been holding up The New York stock exchange reports' that cash payments on common stocks listed on the big board set a new high in the first six months of this year with gain of six per cent over payments In the first half of 195L There are wide differences among industries in the profit pattern Textiles show up down 58 per eent this year from a year ago in recant weeks however business has picked up for them and they hope to show gains in the present quarter Four firms in the textile field operated in the red in the first half One airline one appliance and two coal companies also reported a BCt JOSS Steel on the basis of 29 companies in the steel and iron were off 46 per cent Only three of the top ten companies hava reported so far STRIKE HURTS STEEL The steel strike starting June 2 gets much of the blamq for their drop With the price hike Just granted the steel milia expect the second half of 1952 to have more pleasant results Makers of containers suffered a 39 per cent drop as a group partly because the steel strike also upset their business Paper and pulp aa a group was off 30 per cent profit-wise They blame a alow down in demand for packaging Intensified by the steel strike which caused some Stocks Commodities And Market Trends Stock and Commodity market trends as reported by the Uhlmann Grain Company Hotel Cactus (12 noon CST) Industrial averages up 8 cents on a volume of 640000 shares 1 Wheat unchanged to cent higher corn to fe cent higher oats to 1 cent higher lard unchanged to cents lower cottonseed oil unchanged to cents higher wool unchanged to cent lower cotton unchanged to 30 cents a bale higher Chicago grain sorghums 1 to 2 cents higher 3 Enable UCRA to undertake an extensive storage development pro-gram upstream on the South Concho River the Middle Concho Riv-cr Dove Creek and Spring Creek 300000 ACRE FEET The city eventually will own all new dam properties constructed by the UCRA The vait undertaking considered the most vital step in San Angelo'a economic life will get under way when a contract ia consummated Bryant said he could give no probable date when the contract will be negotiated The total program Bryant added will mean the Impounding of more than 300000 acre feet of water 30 times Lake Nasworthy'6 eapacily which presently would pass through Ran Angelo on the way to the Gulf of Mexico The commissioner said sites will be picked finally after preliminary surveys by a consulting engineer firm to be in the Joint employ of the city and UCRA At the present stage of deliberation bet wren Bryant and Frank Cannon vice chairman of the river authority a 50-year contract with a renewable clause ia contemplated RAISE NASWORTHYT Hie S47fl228S2 figure represent half the amount of money UCRA owes the government for the conservation (80400 acre fret) of water in the North Concho Lake The city under proposals made would pay 83968571 a yeav for the water These figure include the 3 per rent interest attached to the UCRA Indrbtednea to the federal government The city will have an option ta buy the other half of the conservation pool on the same terms Raising of Nasworthy or constructing a new dam there should give that lake a storage eapacily of 150000 acre feet aa compared to lu present impoundment of 13 000 acre feet Both Bryant and Cannon guesied that Nasworthy presently hold about 3000 acre feet of useless Illation CIVIC ATTRACTION Development on the other streams will follow engineering findings according to the commissioner These new dams to catch West meagre rainfall should place San Angelo in a highly favorable position to attract industry and tourists enthusiasts of the big program believe UCRA will never have any claim on the physical properties of the new dam program The river authority both Bryant and Cannon agree wants a return of Its capital investment and any "surplus" or excess water "Both the city and the UCRA board are of the opinion that a healthy farming district ia even more Important than Bryant observed He and Cannon emphasized that the run-off flow "ia ia-tended for the farmers" NON-PROFIT AGENCY Added Bryant: we have to supply the city then we must conserve water for the farmer which in turn is of benefit to the community aa a whole" Disclosure of contract detail today signifies the crystallizing of talk which have been going on for many weeks Bryant has bees serving aa a one-man committee for the City Commission ia ironing out detail of the program And Cannon represents the river agency a stale organization created two decade ago to develop Colorado River streams Bryant said the "reason for detailing with UCRA la that it ia a non-profit stale agency which will not claim ownership of any physical properties" after compia-itlon of the project the picture only because of the widespread public interest in aerial phenomena The picture was snapped by Shell Alpert Salem Mai Air Station photographer The Coast Guard said Alpert sighted several brilliant white lights through the air station's photo lab window at 9:35 am July 18 Alpert watched the lights which to be wavering" for five or six seconds before attempting to photograph them By the lime he nad focused his camera the lights were dimmed down" A public hearing on the budget will be announced shortly after that date and the tax rolls will be completed about Sept 15 the commissioner continued They previously had announced their intention of leaving the county tax rate at its last year's figure of SO cents per $100 evaluation have 8U0 more tax receipts to put on the rolls this year than last" the county tax office reported The commissioners began preliminary discussions for splitting up the cumbersome Lake View and West Side voting boxes whose aize slowed down returns to the Democratic primary election Although no definite action waa taken today the commissioners promised some relief to the problem "within the month and said everything would be in ahape by the time poll taxes become payable OcL 2 HAULING WATER la other problems the commissioners announced they bad county trucks hauling water to drouth-stricken communities all over the county la the greatest volume ia history Is probably the worst hit area among those short on water" said Commissioner Johnny Lochaby we're hauling water all over the county with county trucks" The commissioners also Indicated they planned to make another try for i water well at the courthouse despite their first salt producer Hut they hadn't gotten down to a final discussion of a new well at noon Road expenditures by precincts from the period Jan 1 through June 30 baa been: Precinct 1 84886S01 Precinct 2 $5032453 Precinct 3 $3987367 Precinct 4 $3749432 with a total of S177-35843 County Auditor Hackler makes financial reports only quarterly but he said today that most county depart mrata were in good ahape financially at the month's end Next regular meeting for the commissioners court will be Aug 11 Commons Okays German Army For Defense LONDON Aug 1 The House of Commons approved today ratification of eontrarts with the West German Republic permitting It to raise troops for western defense The vote waa 293 to 253 A few minutes earlier the House rejected 294 to 2H0 a labor proposal which would have delayed ratification on the ground that another effort first should be made to reach a four-power agreement with Russia on the German problem A city commissioner today revealed "there has been a meeting of minds" between the city and the Upper Colorado River Authority (UCRA) on purchase of water behind Kan Angelo Dam Bryant disclosed that a contract being drawn" will: Provide the city with the right to buy one-half of the UCRA'n water in North Concho Lake at a coat of 147622852 tha amount UCRA owes the federal government for the storage 3 Permit the UCRA to the South Concho watershed" as It applies specifically to Lake Naa-worthy This meana UCRA either will raise Lake Nasworthy Dam or build a new dam between the present one and the Santa Fe Railroad bridge Tax Hearings Run Smoothly Two Complain Tax hearings by the equalization board of the Lake View School District continued smoothly this morning la the fifth day of public sessions The board commended Lake View cltizena for their understanding on the controversial tax problems which hava faced the district during tha laat two yean since the Ehrenborg appraisal resulted in higher evaluations on property Through noon today 166 persona had appeared before the board requesting lower rrnditiona Only two appeared displeased with the board's decisions concerning their property The board offered to conduct a physical In spec lion of these persons' property but the owners refused to allow inspection of the premises The board conducted physical inspections of 22 pieces of 'taxable property Thursday afternoon Final decision on whether this property should maintain Hi present evaluation had not been made today Prior to the opening of hearinga Monday morning not Ires had been sent to more than 400 persona who had objected to renditions set on laat year's tax rolls Less than half at the number appeared before the board to discuss their property values No hearing will he held thl afternoon The equalization board will be in session between am and 13 noon Saturday morning for it laat hearings Alice Boosts Reward For Patrol Slayer AUCK Aug 1 (Ft Alice businessmen today announced they' have raised a reward of $1000 for arrest and conviction of the man who slew senior Border Patrolman Edwin Wheeler Wheeler' recent death at first was thought to be a simple automobile accident It waa labeled murder when en Alice mortician found a bullet hole in the Alice head The businessmen deposited the reward money in escrow in a local bank and said they would welcome additional contributions First Dam Flush City COLUMBUS Aug 1 Republican Sen Richard Nixon of California opened his vice presidential campaign last night with a call for prosperity based on peace and honest government The running mate of Gen Dwight Eisenhower delivered a fighting speech to a cheering state Republican convention And he told an overflow audience in the 2 845-feat Palace Theater that will be a fighting candidate for president "right down to election day" -Ike was more determined than ever about that Nixon said he heard what the Democrats in the Chicago convention were saying about him" It was the 39-year-old first political speech since his nomination July 1L He flew here from Dallas Tex and left for Denver Colo conference! with Eisenhower today and Saturday PRAISES TAFT Sharing the a peaking program at the one-day convention were Arthur Sumraerfield of Michigan the new national chairman Sen John Bricker of Ohio nominee for re-election and Charles Taft of Cincinnati gubernatorial nominee and brother of Sen Robert A Taft Nixon whose fsther came from Vinton County Ohio told Ohio Republicans still smarting over Sen Angelo Gets Better TV Channel Spot WASHINGTON Aug 1 IjF A television channel has been assigned to Temple Tex by the Communications Commission The commission announced yesterday Temple would get VHK6 In addition it said a Channel 3 assignment will be substituted for the Channel 6 spot at San Angelo Tex Additional commercial station applications included the television broadcasters Beaumont UHF Channel 3L San Angelo is tha beneficiary in receiving Channel 3 as a substitution says a local radio station man Channel 6 and other similar very high frequency outlets arc set aside for smaller communities the radio man explained It had announced previously that San Angelo was under consideration for Channel 3 This will mean the local area will not have to depend on high frequency power to 'obtain its television shows when as and if TV becomes an actuality here The Ttom Green County commissioners were fighting a battle of drouth taxes and elections today and holding their own fairly well with all three Hearing a 1953 budget-request from the county librarian the commissioners announced a policy of no salary raises next year drouth has pulled In our belt 'way past the comfortable stag the commissioners declared "Wa can't raise me salary without raising a lot more Unless it goes to raining around hero we'll have to do lot more culling TIGHT WITH MONEY They finally tabled the budget request for more study but Indicated they were going to be tight with the dollars in making out the 1953 county budget due for completion by Aug 15 Civic Theatre To Help Day Nursery Fund The San Angelo Civic Theatre plana to be part of an to the San Angelo Nuraeries The theatre board of directors in a special called meeting Thursday night voted to designate the coming production of of the Frying Pan" aa a benefit performance to the nurseries But the nurseries were Hosed today at least for the month of August because of lack of funds Forty per cent of the net profit from the three-act comedy will be earmarked for fund to reopen the nurseries Mrs Bonnie Baits county health nurse called the benefit plans moat gracious She said if enough enthusiasm is put into tha plan the nurseries will receive their much-needed windfall Youth organisations were being contacted today by theatre and nursery officials to help sell tickets to the show Booths will be set up downtown Proceeds from of the Frying Pan" originally were slated for the building fund A last-mlnute solicitation from mothers of children eared for by the nurseries and ethers Intereated in the problem resulted in the directors voting to support the inititution The comedy directed by Miss Martha (Nlcki) Nicholas and currently in rehearaal at the Civic Theatre workshop and rehearsal hall will be presented Aug 12 13 and 14 at San Angelo College auditorium Cast in the play are Frank Manilas Janet Turner Brenda Beck Rosemary Wilhelm Joe Hearn Jean Capahaw Betty Tup-per Woody Groves and Dr Reilly Taft's loss of the presidential nomination to Eisenhower that Taft was greater in defeat than in victory" Nixon said it was hard for Americans to enjoy their privileges and liberties while "our boys" are fighting and dying overseas not prosperity built on peace rather than prosperity built on war?" he asked not prosperity and honest government in Washington at the same time?" Nixon who spoke without a prepared text termed the Democratic Stripling And Dies To Talk On Red Expose taiiirl-TIwi Item Benin MIDLAND Aug 1 Robert Stripling Midland attorney and former counsel of the House un-American Activities Committee said today he plans a Dallas conference with Martin Dies' Democratic nominee for congressman-at-large Stripling said the conference will regard new information on subversive activities" He said Dies former chairman of the House spy-chasing panel had requested the conference Stripling doesn't expect the conference to materialize in "the next few He added he was "too busy to go to Dallas Stripling declined comment on the disclosures Diea announced that he would make soon -Dies said in Dallas this week that "it's premature to reveal what I have right now However it will be a well-documented factual case I'm whipping it into shape i Woman's Scream Worth Dividend CORSICANA Aug 1 UH-A Negro scream may bring her a dividend check from her bank Mrs Mattie Jones yesterday foiled a Negro robber in his attempt to rob the First National Bank of Richland 10 miles south of here Iha ran screaming from the bank wjiile the Negro was farcing Cashier Jim Richards at platol point to fill a piper sack with money This frightened the Negro and he fled leaving behind his loot between S2500 and 63000 going to recommend to the Insurance company that Mattie Jones be given a check" Richards aid "She kept the bank from being robbed" Texas Farm Income Down AUSTIN Aug 1 Texas farm cash income for the first six months of 1951 dropped to 5 17 million dollars down nine million dollars from the comparable period a year ago the University of Texas Bureau of Businas Research reported today THE WEATHER a wxsTHFn si'seac anoklo BAM AKCiELO AND VICINITY: Puli Cloudy with tew widly antlered elier-nooo or mnlni Uisndrrshawrrs this afternoon tonisbl and aoturdoy Continued warn Hih Friday ofi-rnoon ft low Friday aifht ft Hsh txpre'-d aoturdoy SS WEOT TEXAS: Clear to portly cloudy Friday Friday nlslil ond Saturday Widely trail red afternoon ond evening liiui derthowsra Mol muck chants In temper-auiret EAST TEXAS: Partly cloudy Friday Friday nltht and Saturday Widely oral-I red moaily afternoon ihumerabowere Mot much change la tcmporouiro Ocnilo to mod rite aouth and eeuiheaat winda oa Iha coeat Governor Of Chihuahua To Visit Angelo Gov Oscar Solo Maynex of (he Mexican state of Chihuahua will atop overnight in San Angelo on his tour of the Big Bend Trail to the Dallas State Fair and Chihuahua Day according to Claude Meadows Sr president of the Big Bend Trail Association Meadows who is a member of the Good Neighbor Com miss ion and an honorary consul of Mexico invited Gov Maynex to visit the State Fair on Chihuahua Day Oct 14 The high-ranking Mexican official will be here Oct 12 The following day he will stop at Stephen-vllla where he will be honored with a banquet at John Tarleton College Plana to promote the Big Bend National Park and the extension of Highway 87 across the border to Ojinaga and Chihuahua were discussed recently by Meadows and Judge Curtis Hancock of Dallas Judge Hancock was the first chairman of the Texas Highway Commission 35 years ago and is active in supporting the Big Bend National Park The highway extension has been designated by Mexico's President Ruiz Cortinex as of my major projects" Meadowa added Weather Still Dry May Change I August Waters Stream front owners as a "sanitation" project began Thursday the dam gauge showed a lake level reading of 184980 felevation above sea level with the lake volume 194 aero fed 1 GRAPE CREEK RISE This morning despite the drain-off through a tcnth-of-an-inch and then 3-tenths-of-an-inch openings of the floodgate the lake gauge read 185060 representing 227 acre feet of water That compared with 185072 feet and 232 acre feet at 5 o'clock Thursday afternoon A amall flash rise from the head waters of Grape Creek was rrpon-sible for the lake "rising even while it was being lowered" Sykes explained The unexpected Thursday rise reached three feet for a time at the Reed Crossing at the head of the lake and had dropped to six Inches at 5 o'clock probably will release more than the requested 50 acre feet and still have more than 200 acre feet id water left in the lake" Sykes said "That'll leave the water level all right for tha fish planted this year by the federal and state hatcheries" The lake contained 372 acre feet of water after its first channel-spreading fill-up several months It was the same old weather ito-y for San Angelo Friday except hat temperatures were not expected to hit 100 A conservative 08 was onecast for Friday and Saturday ind there were possibilities of a ew widely scattered showers the leather Bureau here said And even if a shower or two a me down the bureau said it vould be of "no material benefit" the sun-baked area Rains ranging to more than an inch fell at some coastal and South rexas points but they were acaUetv id Light showers fell around Aua-in while traces were reported in West Texas Victoria reported 125 inches in he 24 hours ending at 6:30 am Friday Brownsville had 19 inch Corpus Christ! 27 College Station 47 and Palacios 32 Less than a icnth of an inch fell at Houston ind Beaumont Around Austin rain-'all up Jo 14 Inches occurred Less ban a tenth of an Inch tell at Nest Texas points including Big Spring Marfa Tort Stockton and tiptoe Del Rio on the Rio Granite had 31 inch Highest temperature reported Thursday was 104 degrees occurring at Eastland Graham and Quanah But the picture may brighten ilfc the asset of August August says the weatherman has an average rainfall of 229 inches and could be called a watery month since several floods (the Ben Fick-lin flood In 1882 and the bigger one in 1906 occurred in this month S-95 SO FAR The trouble comes though when the total rainfall of the year so far la compared with the annual average figure San Angelo has an annual average of 2199 inches So far this year it has gotten a total of 595 That leaves 1604 inches yet to be gotten before the area is even average Rainfall in San Angelo hasn't been up to average since 1949 when it topped it with 245L The area got 1527 tnchea In 1950 and 12 inches in 1951 In the temperature department the weatherman says July waa a little bit below average Last month had a mean of 831 againat tha atanding mean of 83S August has an average of 934 degrees and tbinga have cooled down considerably by- September which has an average of 751 degreea But the dayi an beginning to shorten the bureau says Sunrise and sunset are both backing up about a minute a day but ll'i still a long way to the first day of fail Sept 22 9 The first water released from the fledgling North Concho Lake were easing through downtown San Angelo early this afternoon Requested by the Upper Colorado River Authority to let out 50 acre feet of water to the North Concho from ita stagnant status in the central part of the city the Corps of Engineers started a (low release early Thursday A temporary Corps crossing Just below the dam had been washed out this morning but the water holes were so low down below that the lake water was Just beginning to creep out of the tong 14th Street Crossing lake at mid-morning FOOT FINAL RAISE A small lake above the Sixth Street Dam and then another above the First Street Crossing must be raised before the flow reaches Johnson Lake Hie larger channel lake beautifying Santa Fe Park through the center of the city Spectator should get to see the water in definite action for the first time this afternoon when the Corps raises the big dam floodgates a full foot Just before dosing it again said Sykes resident engineer When the flushing operation requested by city officials and liver- OUTDOOR Resident! of earthquake-shaken Arvin Calif favor outdoor living until ossured their homes are safe from further quakes Mrs Frank Reed left and Mrs Hazel Showers make up the beds on the front lawn of their homes as they move their living quarters to the outside Mrs Reed said "I'm staying outside 'till the big one hits' Another after-shock of the big tremor which rocked the area 11 days ago awakened jittery Southern Californians again July 31 4.