Stephens County Sun (Breckenridge, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 16, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 18, 1946 Page: 1 of 8
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Farm and Home, and to Every Legitimate Interact
ur Breckenridge and Stephens County
Proposed New
Lake to Give
Another Big
Water Supply
Water Body
Vol. 15-
Dance of Salome Causes School Uproar
BRECKENRIDGE, TEXAS, THURS, APRIL 18,1946
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Beverly Cort. 16. in her costume taji the (lar,-e ot S.iloijie ol the Seven
Veils, which caused sudh an uproar from the school officials of De-
troit, Michigan. She ignored an order to cover the costume wit-i
flacks for a performance of a student .show in the school auditorium
•150 students of Lincoln High went on strike when Mrs. Stella Kosk',,
civic*, teacher, ordered Salome to dress up. i.N'KA PHOTO i
CALL FOR *305
TALKING TO SELF
DOGS
VACCINATE
HEARD
School Hill
Moves Toward
Abilene Meet
BOARD MEETS TONIGHT;
BIG BAND CONCERT;
FOOTBALL PRACTICE
; Activities on School Hill today
were moving toward the Inter-
scholastic events at Abilene Sat-
urday, what to do by way of re-
storing the agricultural building
which burned Monday, and a
triple band concert here.
A meeting of the Board of Ed-
ucation will be held tonight to
' discuss the agriculture building.
Meanwhile, these students have
been doubled into high school
quarters.
Members of the one-act play will
go to Abilene this afternoon to
practice for their competition
there on Saturday afternoon. Also,;
Coach Cooper Bobbins will take
■ four track and field men to be
1 entered in this regional . meet.
These are Connie Mac Hood, shot
put and discus; Arlie Ray Miler.
' Eugene Off ield, pole vault and 880;
and Charles Stewart, 440.
The Albany, Cisco and Breck-
j enridge bands will he combined
for concerts here at 2 o'clock i i
the afternoon and 8 o'clock in the
evening on April 25. There will !
be 125 pieces. A downtown parade j
will precede the concerts.
Meanwhile, football practice is
progressing. Coach Robbins said
the number our in Uniforms io
holding up but they are a little
1 green and game fundamentals are
being worked on. Blocking has
been majored in the past few-
days.
The newly planted grass is giv-
ing promise for fall but at pre-
sent; the boys are practing in most-
ly gravel.
packing House Workers Urge O PA Extension
A 30-man delegation from the CIO Packing House Workers Union arrive in Washington, D. C.. to
protest against job layoffs and to urge extension of price controls. A spokesman for the group which
arrived, charged that "packers are not buying livestock in order to create an artificial meat scarcity
IT must have a touch of spring
in it from what we heard of
this morning.
Bob Ross of Amarillo now in
TrurksToHaul
EIGHT TONS HAULED
TUESDAY; DOWNTOWN
INSPECTION
The trash hauling day proved a
big success with over, eight tons
of trash being hauled by the
trucks donated by the business
men for the day and with the
work being done by Boy Scours
from Junior High. Some of the
piles of trash were not hauled be-
cause of lack of time.
Greece Is Asking
Bulgarian Area
LONDON. April 18 <U.8>—OfCi-
«;ial Greek sources said today that
Greece has demanded of the Big
four in the peace settlements an
area of 4,150 square miles of
Bulgaria, about one-ttath of that
country.
In a memorandum to the big 1
four on territorial elaims, Greece
also asked for 950 square miles ol
and knock off OPA."
Legion Manager
Freed Of Charges
TESTIMONY SHOWS BEER
WAS HELD THERE BY
MEMBERS
ABILENE, April 18- Luther
j Kroth, manager of the basemen'.
i club of the American Legion, was [ a house south of Breckenridge
j found guilty of possession of beer j district attorney Ben J. Dean said
for purpose of sale late yesterday today.
by a ju-y in county court *vhic!i Complaint was filed against John
deliberated less than 20 mcn'JVes Massey and Howard Knight, an-
after receiving the case. other youth 'being released.
The club was raided Marctf*9 by The buTglarfesr ire" alleged to
Sta{e Liquor Control board men have been committed early Mon-
Joe Backues and George W, Con- | clay morning. Mr. Dean said
nell, and Deputy Sheriff Jim Gree- nearly all the missing loot has
ley. The L-men testified they sei- i been recovered.
zed 882 bottles of 12 ounce and , Mentioned as recovered were a
32 bottles of 32 ounce beer. Ninety 1 shotgun, radio, lather jacket, cig-
Two Youths Are
Arrested; Loot
Is Recovered
Complaint has been filed
gainst two Breckenridge young
men in connection with the bur-
glary of a- store at Necessity and
bottles were on ice and 792' bottles
were in a back room. .
Three cases of beer raposcd on
counsel's able in the courtroom.
At one time a bottle from each
case was opened, a nd an L-man
took a sip,pronounced it. ' alcholic
beer. In answer to Defense* Attor-
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Calf Show Plans
Adopted By C-C
COMMITTEE VOTES IN ,
FAVOR OF SOIL
CONSERVATION
Members of the agricultural
committee 'of the Breckenridge
Chamber of Commerce in its meet
■ing last night voted in favor of
continuance of the soil conserva-
tion movement and made further
plans for the next calf show here.
Opposition to the soil conserva-
tion were pointed to. but the com-
mittee believed1 the benefits deriv-
ed warrant its continuance.
Albania, an official source report- ney E. T. Brooks, Connell, liquor
cd. This was the first revelation of j control district supervisor, said he
Greek territorial claims. was not ^ chemist.
The League of Nations today
service in Tassau,' Switzerland, "greed to furnish ttiem for anu|h-_v
called Miss Nelda Wood, of Brectv- pick-up daj in order that the rest
enridge, his fiance, last night, of the trash collected by property
They talked for an hour. The bill t owners
Chairman W. W. Rogers an- "Otad i,s dissolution, effective at
nounced today that the business ""drngbt tonight.
men donating the trucks have
The action took only a few min-
utes.
was $305.60. Miss Wood was re-
ported as saying the call was
worth f-
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ON'T know what the weather
had to do with C. (Ript Sel-
lers. oil ell driller, showing up in
Breckenrid^t dftei*' a scige of
drilling in th* Gordon area. The
nearest ranch house is seven miles round
away, it .seems. A friend reported \ that the city trash trucks continue
t){ \ uui/i h<v rltH nr l thinlf m in hp hi-Kinrl schedule flue to the
can be hauled away.
The committee has selected
Thursday, April 25 as the frnaI
trash hauling day in the campaign
The trucks will lie
the boys to finish collecting all
the trash missed last time and
everyone who was missed is asked
to be patient until the boys have
had a chance to make this second
Mayor Brewster today
One-Billion-Dollar
Loan1 To Russia
Rip said he did not think
much about it at first when
got to talking to himself; but
so to be behind schedule due to the
lie 1 unusual amount of trash being
he placed in the alleys, but. that, all
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got to answering his own ques-
tions he thought he had better
come in for a while.
SPRING also causes to swell up
in many men a desire to grow
things. W. J. Neighbors has re-
turned from Florida and Key
West where he and Mrs. Neigh-
bors and their son, Woodrow, vi-
sited for fifteen days.
Today he exhibited four gree:
coconuts on « stem thai weighed
37 pounds. But he also -brought
along a lemon tree with blooms
and lemons on it and a papaya
plant. He plans to keep the trees
inside until warm weather, then
put them out side and build a
house around them to see if they
will develop fruit. The family li-
ves at 506 South o'Cortnor street.
trash in the alleys will be picked
up as rapidly as possible, provid-
ed that it is placed 'in cans or
other containers ' that will per-
mit loading. i
It was said that George Bing-
ham expects to /pen downtown
inspections tomorrow.
NEW YORK Even the USSR'
around with 5 is likely to be cultivated due to
Washington's belated recognition
of the need to throw its immense
bargaining power into the rapidly
developing contest for world lea-
dership. / . .
"Evidence is spreading," appro-
val for a SI billion loan to Mos-
cow will be forthcoming as part
of the new drive to enhance U.
S. economic power abroad and
tempt Russia into some political
deal acceptable to Washington.
In his testimony Connell said he
also seized two bottles of Whisky i
A member of the club, Frank i
Bailey, testified dues were $1.20
a month.
" Yes, I had a case of beer
there," he testified.
He explained how he got it. "We
paid $5 at the office to a girl, who
issued a card. We look the card;
and was issued a bottle of beer,
the card being punched once for
each bottle." He said his transac-
tion was made on about March .1.
Marcus Miller testified ho
was a member of the uclb, paid
dues/gave §5 and was issued -i
card. In reply to a query by Ash,
Miller said he did not bring his
own beer- only gave $5 for 24
eight-ounce bottles. On cross ex-
amination he said he did not see
Kroth.
Connell, returned to the stand
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a rets, candy, sugar and salt;
The two arrested were in jaii
this morning,'
Iran Challenges
Britain On Oil
TEHRAN, April 18 <U.R>—Iran
today- challenged the British pro-
tectorate over the oil rich Bahrein
island in the Persian gulf and as-
serted that she considers the is-
land an integral part of Iran.
The oil production of Behrein is
shared by Standard Oil of Cali-
fornia and the Texas Company. In
addition to oil Bahrein—a law
lying sandbar 27 miles long and
10 miles wide- is the center of the
rich Persian Gulf Pearl industry.
The government announcement
did not indicate what means Iran
proposes to employ to enforce its
decree. Bahrein now is administer-
ed by an Arab sultanate under
British protection.
Properties used for fair and
rodeo purposes, still onwed by the
organizations, are to be moved to
the new rodeo site east f town
and the next calf show held, there.
rPizes totaling $500 were ap-
proved1, the top F. F. A. or 4-H
Club calf feeder to get $100, the
other prizes graduating down from
that.
There will be no sale of calves
here, the animals to be taken to I
the Ft. Worth Fat Stock Show for j
that purpose and the boy feeders j
given a trip to the show.
Doyle Graves is chairman of the j
committee, nine other members,
being in attendance.
WATERSUPPLY
DISCUSSED BY
TWO FACTIONS
WATER COMPANY CHIEF
TO LATER OFFER
BEST PRICES
Four hours of discussion of the
local water situation between R.
L. Bowen. president of the Com-;
^munity Public Service Company,
and the committee from the Breck
enridge Chamber of Commerce
yesterday afternoon resulted in
Mr. Bowen saying a meeting of
; the board of directors would be
! heid to determine the best price
| the company could offer for water
j to be distributed and the lowest
price it could sell its distributing
system for.
No hint of the price the com-
pany would ask for its distribut-
ing, was given, it was said, and the
two faction are at not at the halt
way point to the sum that is
asked by the committee to distri-
bute the water.
The committee told Mr. Bowen-
that Breckernidge is going ahead
to build a- dam, for the question
of continuing use from the present
water supply is out. That. Che
waiter is bad and: will get worse
progressively.
Mr. Bowen, it was said, appeared
to think the proposition might be
stymied at one or two points, but
the local committee was of the
opposite opinion.
The three propositions St- the
situation again were set-forth:
That the Community Public Ser-
vice Company buy the-Wiiter from
the new source of supply and
distribute it; that the company
sell to the local committee; or
that the local committee put fit
its own lines for distribution. Al
the same time it was explained
that the committee did not care
to gq into the water business.
The dam proposed will be on
Gonzolus creek about 8 1-2 miles
south of town, this site being sel-
ected after surveys had been mad«<
for a supply from tl>is creek .and
from Big Sandy'and Hubbard. '
Sales Oil
Truman Will See
Navy Maneuvers
Elks In Contract
For Four Sales
Fojlowing the meeting of the
Elks lodge last night it was said
today that purchase of the Phil-
lips Petroleum Company building
is in contract.
Also in contract is the sale of
the house now occupied by Louie
Clark to Mr. Clark and sale of
the garage at the rear of the
brick building to Alex Kime.
• Phillips employes will retain of-
fices in the building temporarily.
The local Lodge is purchasing the
building for a home, their present
Edwin Harold Rogers is home, J quarters being in contract for sale
discharged atter 16 months ser-1 t0 Arthur Mill'er
vice overseas with t.he army as a * : ^ ''
corporal. He was assigned to a fUmpforv WnrkilKT
base post office in England and ^ V*i0rK,nS
France. He trained at Camp Ab- NCXI Saturday
hot, Oregon. He received his dis- The South Prairie Cemetery, 2
charge Tuesday at, Camp Chaffee, I miles north of Ivan, will be work-
Arkansas, and arrived Home Thur- ed- by volunteers Saturday morn-
Rogers Home From
European Service
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HOW TO DODGE
TRUMAN VETO
IS EXPLAINED
SOME OBJECTION.
AMENDMENTS
WASHINGTON, April 18 f§§|S
A rebellious House today passed
and sent to the Senate an amend-
ment-riddled price control brll
despite warnings by economic stab
lizer Chester Bowles that it would
staart the nation oh an inflation-
ary "joy ride to disaster."
The final vote passing the bat-
tered bill was 355 to 42.
It was one of the worst legisla-
tive defeats suffered by President
Truman, who had requested i on ■
year extension of price control
without crippling amendments.
The measure would extend the
price control act only until next
March 31. It carries a series of
amendments which administration
supporters said would "wreck"
price control.
The amendments, provide tor
elimination'of meat subsidies on
.Tune 30, with a corresponding rise
in prices, termination of all price
rollback subsidies on farm pro-
ducts next Dec. 31, and a guaran-
tee of cost plus a reasonable pro-
fit to producers, distributors and
retailers on all items.
,A spokesman for the office of
economic stabilization said that if
congress enacts the house version
or similar "unworkable" legisla-
tion before June 1, there is "a
damn good possibility" that Mr.
Truman will veto It and ask con-
gress to start over again on a bill
more acceptable to .the adminis-
tration.
But if congress sends a bill to
the White House after after June
I. it was said,' there; would not be
enough time for congress to work
on a niw| extension bill because
the present act expires June 30.1:;
that case, Mr. Truman would be
faced with the difficult choice of
being compelled, to accept what
congress offered or letting the
price control -law expire.
The:votes fbr a decisive modifi-
cation of price control were taken
by a coalition of Republicans and
farm bloc Democrats who turned
a dead eiar to . warning by OPA
Administrator Paul: Porter that
the action amounted to "repeal of
price control." The majority ' of
the house, however, felt it was
time for a lot less price control.
Administration - leaders looked
to the senate to eliminate some
of the drastic house provisions and
salvage price control legislation
in something nearer the form
sought by Mr. Truman.
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sday morning.
Rites Sunday For
Former Resident
Avery Elbert Loving, 89, died
in Los Angeles. California, at the
Santa Fe Hospital at 6:16 p. m.
tery at Eolian.
He is survived by his 'wife and
daughter Sharon. His father and
mother, Mr. and Mrs. W. R.
Lov ing .Jr. and one brother, John
Loving, of Eolian.
Kiker Funeral Home is in
charge of arrangements.
Fall Of Chanchun
Appears Imminent
CHUNGKING, .April 18 <U.
Manchurian dispatches said the
fall of Changchun to a communist
alist. defenders, appeared at hand
today.
EASTER MUSIC PROGRAM
WASHINGTON, .April .18 (lf.K>-~
President Truman will leave Sun-
day for a brief, cruise in the At-
lantic to observe maneuvers by a
navy aircraft carrier task force,
the White House announced today.
Mr. Truman and members of
his immediate staff will leave here
•R' at 4 p. m. Sunday aboard the pre-
sidential yacht Williamsburg.
Monday morning at Hampton
Roads, Norfolk, Va., the president
will hoard a big new carrier, the
USS Franklin D. Roosevelt, and
sail about 8 a, m. into the Atlantic
He will spend Monday and parts
of Tuesday witnessing maneuvers.
TO HONOR MOTHER CABRINI
DENVER <U.R)—The Denver City
council has agreed to change the
name of one of the city's streets
or a public institution to "St. '
Francesca" in honor of : Sister j
Frances Xavter Cabrtni, formerly
ing. Everyone interested is urged
to 'be there.: - - V'J 1
TOWN GETS FyHST POLICE
DUXBURY, Mass (U.RU-For the
first time in hisLory Duxbury has
a- police force. The townspeople
have voted in favor of a force to
consist of a chief and four patrol
of Deliver, who has been chosen men. They also agreed to appro-
for canonization by the Roman priate $1,200 for a police cruising
Catholi#. -jhurch. car
BRECK PARTY TO SPA CITY
The choir of the First Meth-
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Tuesday, April 16. His body is odist Church will present an Eas-
boing returned to Texas and will i te'r Program at 7 o'clock Sunday
arrive at Cisco at 12 noon Satur- morning in the Church auditorium,
day. It 'will lie in state at the re-: The entire program is devoted to
sidence of his mother, Mrs. W. R,' cruxlffcation and resurrection of
Loving. Eolian, Texas front ,1:00
p. m. Saturday until 2 p. m. Siin-
day.
Mr. Loving lived at Eolian for
note received today and sig-
ned "Ball Players" read a.;
j. follows: ^
^••Breckenridge has lots of good 3 fo Borger.
jf Wll players who. want to P^>'■ where h(, re!iit,ed i6 years, moving
T\ball if they can find a spun. •; ;ihen/ to San Francisco, where he
rhHs lived since. He was employed
orsa«iizing and already are puija.n,, b thy c M o. Oil Company.
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ian Sunday at 3 p. m. with in-
terment in the Battle Creek ceme-
Christ in music and will include
familiar Easter hymns as well as
a nth em s commemorating the
theme of "Christ is Arisen."
First section of the program
pictures the cruxification with the
Prayer in the garden of Gethse-
manc, then t.he famous Passior,
Chorale by Bach : "0 Sacred Head
now wounded," The Stainer An-
them "God so Loved the World,
that He gave His only begotten
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Son closes this part.
The resurrection scene is dep
ieted in an anthem by the Wo-
men's Choir with Mrs. Lester
Clark as soloist. The midnight
watch by the Marys and the ap-
proach of the angels to announce
that the Christ was arisen front j
the dead. "Joy Dawned again on
Easter Day" and "Come, Ye Faith-
ful, Raise the Strain" are also in-
cluded in this part of the prog-
ram.
The program closes with the
theme of Adoration of the Lord
with two briiliante Anthems: "In-
flammatus" (When Thou Comest)
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Ft. Worth Livestock
Cattle 1,600 calves 450. General-
ly steady. Few lots medium and
low good beef steers and year1-;!
lings 14:50-16,00. Good and choice
killing calves 14.50-16.25.
CLUB ADDS LANDING FIELD
CHICAGO (tfR)--Skycrest coun-
try club at Prairie View, III., near
here, is the first local club to pro-
vide a private landing field for
member's planes. Skycrest. is owiti
ed by Gene Dyer, radio magnate.
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Simon Michael, Artiat
"Breckenridgej Day" at Mineral
Wells is being planned for Breck-
enridge when local citizens and
boys and girls from, the schools
visit: the Exhibition of Pointings
by Simon Michael at the new
Community Center, North Oak
Avenue, Mineral Wells on Friday
April 26.
Approximately 60 canvases will
be shown, 45 of them Texas sub-
jects painted in this locality. Sce-
nes from ranches, and painting3 of
individual animals common to tie
area—the thoroughbred Hereford,
the Duroc pig—are among his sub-
jects but the majority of the can-
vases are landscapes. Many of
them show Scenes around Possum
Kingdom and along the Brazos
River.
Included in the axhibiton also
will be four decorative panels
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Hoover Recalled
Fur Famine Aid
WASHINGTON, April 1 (U.PJ- .
President Truman today asked
former president Herbert Hoover
to interrupt his world-wide fam-
ine inspection trip and return im-
mediately tb' report his "eye wit-
ness account of. the necessity foe
greater assistance from this coun-
try to starving nations- .
Mr. Hoover is now in Cairo. Ho
will speak from there tomorrow
night on a radio program with
the president in a world-wide
broadcast about the acute inter-
national food situation.
Mr. Truman today asked Hie
honorary chairman of the famine
emergency committee to return
home immediately. , .
"An urgent need has developed
in this country," Mr. Truman sai i
in his message to Mr. Hoover, "to
bring forcibly and dramaticaliy to
public attention, as a spur to the
food for famine effort, the fagts
about conditions in Europe which
your visit and inquiries have
brought to light." .
Firemen Answer
Call Into Country
Breckenridge firemen yesterday
afternoon abtiut 4 o'clock answer-
ed a call to the W. H. Green
town where a truck burned.
Firertien this moirniiig did not
estimatethe^ damage but said it
wga badly duaagetl
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