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'♦* VOL. at—No. 54
THURSDAY. MARCH 4, 1948—
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U. S. Will Pay In Blood Unless Steps Are
Taken to Halt the March of Communism
ALABAMA GOV KRNOR IVAMED IN PATERMTV SUIT—Gov-
ernor Jim 1'nlwm of Alabama met reporters in W'a>hintrton but
refused a direct comment un a paternity suit filed against him.
laying, "I'm in a political campaign in Alabama and I have -teen
these tactics in other political campaigns." He in in Washington
lo testify on tidelanda legislation before a Congressional com-
mittee. (NEA Telephoto)
The
Observer
JAMBOREE TIME
SQUARE DANCE
CEMETERY WORK
SEEN OR HEARD
WITH MARCH 29 AND SO TEN-
tatively net for the Jamboree show,
hieh ib becoming an unnual event
looked forward to here, Charles
kikei aaid this morning that addi-
tional voicea in the ladies chorus
will be needed.
the
Billy Muth has agreed to be in
r dhow again this year, which
brings
the Ha
back his popular music on
mtnond organ.
Colder Weather
Is Predicted In
Western Texas
While the thermometer register-
til 35 degrees this mornine com-
pared to 28 degrees yesterday mor-
ning the Thursduy morning pre-
diction was for u drop of temper-
uture to the middle twenties was
predicted for the Breckenridge
urea.
North and West Texas today-
were promised a mild dose of the
two types of weather that punished
the North and Deep South yester-
day.
As heavy snowfall tapered off in
the North and rain marched up-
ward from the Gulf of Mexico in
the South, Texas was promised a
Wheat Shoots Up
Limit Allowed
On Stock Mart
CHICAGO. March 4. <U.R*—May
wheat shot upward the full limit
! on the Chicago Board of Trade
today after Secretary of Agricul-
ture Clinton Anderson announced
that the government is "feeling
[ its way back into the market.
Anderson announced lute yes-
l terday that the government is go-
■ ing to feel its way bock into the
j grain market by buying flour for
| export. The government has
j bought no wheat or flour since
1 prices broke a month ago today.
Anderson said at a news con-
ference that he has invited flour
! millers to submit offers to sell
flour to the government.
Anderson also said the govern-
ment plans to export 9-million
bushels of raw wheat this week.
Meanwhile a survey of United
Press showed that' retail prices of
most basic foods have stopped
dropping and that the grain mar-
ket has recovered as much as 50
per cent of the loss it took in the
big price break which began a
month ago.
Wrecked Auto Is
Police Mystery
ABILENE. March 4—The Sher-
iffs department Wednesday was in-
vestigating circumstances surround
ing a burned 1946 Oldsmobile, two-
door automobile found east of Lake
Kirby, five miles south of the city,
tarty Wednesday morning.
The car struck a tree, turned
over and came to rest in a borrow
pit about 100 yards from th > tree,
I'he riff H. T. Fleming said. The
car burned. Locul firemen went to
the scene.
No occupants were in the car
when it burned. Fleming said,
tn the vicinity Sheriff Fleming
Military Aid Is
Needed To Fight
Reds Declared
little of both—but not enough to UIMj Deputy G. L. Fox found sornp
hurt.
A weak rold wave was moving
southward front the Panhandle.
Early /last night Arnarillo and
t'ampa had truces of snow. More
snow wtito predicted for today, a-
long with cloudy, colder weather, in
! the Panhandle and South, [Mains.
iThe Weather Bureau said rain
portion of the Pecos
WHILE THE SINGERS ARE
getting ready for this big show
Mrs. Blake Johnson said yesterduy
that square dancers here ure cut-
ting their eyes at the Texas Square
Dance festival to be held in Austin,
April 15-17, inclusive.
This will be in the great Gregory ,. ,. •
gymnasium. Mrs. Johnson said u £,ul(J fu" col,U'r w*«ther '«>.
number of K<iuar« dancers form uPP*r
her* may attend, and probably a ^ ^ h „ u
good tea... taken along for eihi- ^ Weather Bureau ... Dallas
lition purposes. Entry blanks have ^ '"w clouds would hang over
been received by Mrs. Johnson to; virtually the entire state.
be filled out if dancers from here !
ere to attend.
THE CHRISTIAN HERALD.
current issue, hus an article con-
cerning Father Jim McClain and .. , .
hie work in Central West Texas. WASHINGTON. Man h 4.
The article is written by Stewart House Republican tax spokesman
Does, former editor of the East- \ were reported ready today to set-
land Telegram. tie for an income tax cut of about
In it the question so often asked ! a billion dollars a year,
the minister why he quit such a! The house hus approved a bill
lucrative job as Dr. I. O., with the to reduce taxes by more than a
attachment of national fame to en- billion. The senate, which witl de
ter the work he now is in ?—is an
s we red in the article that "life on
Lower Ten Slice
May Appease GOP
the radio seemed to have no pur-
pose."
SUE STINSON. SOCIETY ED-
itor of the Rieckenridge American
state* that last year she saw Gov.
James E. Folsom of Alabama in
action when he was putting into
practice his theory of kissing "ev-
ery baby sixteen years old and old
bate the bill later this month, is
expected to put the ^mount of
If the democrats won't go along
lets make it :i campaign issue and
take it to the country, he told re-
porters. "1 want to go the limit
erf""Sue flew" with Miss Lynn Mc- it and ill support the highes
Clain of Lufkin. Miss Texas of
tax relief.
However, acting Sehate Repub-
lican leader Wherry said he was
men's and women's apparel and
i. Gladstone bag. but norfe con-
tained papers to identify owners,
tn the car was a tool box which
bore the name "Gallagher." Still
luter, Fleming found a woman's
bluck shoe nearby.
A man and woman were being
t;uestioned by police Wednesday
in connection with the incident.
Sheriff Fleming believed the car
was traveling at a high rate of
speed when it struck the tiee.
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Romanian King
Fled Communists
LONDON, March 4 <U.R*~-Mich-
ael of Romania proclaimed today
that the Communists forced him to
"abdicate under stern threat of
plunging his country into a blood
bath, and thut he still considered
bimself to be king in exile.
Michael broke the silence he has
maintained since he gave up his
throne on the last day of 1SM7, a
few hours after he left the conti-
nent for the first time and on the
eve of his departure for the United
States.
The deposed Monarch served im-
"FRIENDSHIP MUTUAL ASSISTANCE, POST-WAR COLLABORATION:" That was the title of
the Soviet-Csech treaty signed at this ceremony in the Kremlin, where Czech President Benes shakes
hands with Mikhail Kalinin (left), late president of the Supreme Soviet, while Stalin and Politburo
member Kliiuent Voroshilo\ watch in the background. It was a prelude to a secret pledge to respect
Czech independence—and the prelude to a double-erots.
WASHINGTON. March 4. itj.Pi
Lt. General Albert Wedenieyer,
former commander of Americau
troops in China, said today the
United States "will pay in blood"
unless steps are taken now to halt
the murch of communism.
Wedemeyer, now the army's
planning chief, said that American
economic assistance to other na-
! tions must be backed by military
! aid if the "vast movement" of com-
munism is to be stopped.
Specifically, he urged congress
to give militury as well as eco-
nomic assistance to the striferid-
den Chinese nation.
Testifying before the House
Foreign Affairs committee on the
administration request for $670,-
000,000 for economic aid to China
Wedemeyer broke sharply with
Secretary of State Marshall over
the question of military aid.
Interview Reveals Double Cross
Of Red Against Czechoslovakia
By IIAL LEHRMAN
Written for NEA Service
(Copyright. 1948. by NEA Service. Inel
Communist seizure of power in Czechoslovakia through polic;
terrorism and threat of a general strike was a flagrant double-cross
by Soviet Generalissimo Joseph Stalin.
A wartime secret pledge by Stalin guaranteed that Czechoslovak
indtpendenct, democracy, and ties with the West would be scrupul-
ously respected by the USSR ami Chechoslovakia's Communist Party.
18> tt cau now be revealed that the
Soviet dictator gave this solemn
willing to support the full amount plicite notice that he was out to
of the house bill. tegain his throne when the time
1947, to the annual air show at
Harlingen. Sue said the Alabama
governor, who was down there, met
the plane and "kissed every girl
within five feet of him." Seems
Sue, too, was in the prescribed
IMs.
..SAN DIEGO, CALIF., BOASTS
the largest neon-lighted mural in
the country, says Electrical World,
and besides that, it uses browns
and tans, rarely seen iu neon light-
mural, whieh pi«tui sa typ-
ical western scene, advertises a
drive-in theater and has a movie
screen on the reverse side. It is
63 by 58 feet sad uses more than
2.000 feet of cold cuthode neon
tubing of various sizes. Some of
tbe tubes are of two-color glass,
one sMe illuminating the picture
jf mnt the other turned outward.
WORE IS PROGRESSING ON
the planting of tree* and shrub-
benr in the Breckenridge Ceme-
tery, The firm of Carter and Mc-
.> Gregory has brought in a crew
- ef workmen and machinery and
the plan devised by the landscape
engineers Is shaping no. It is
mod to note that the landscape
includes extensive work in
rr parts of the Cemetery,
y will trees be planted but
and shrubs- of every de-
will be laid throughout
m Paata)
n mount
Republicans on the Senate Fin-
ance committee appeared more In-
terested -in passing u bill thai
would survive a presidential veto.
Tee Many Watchdogs
COLUMBUS. O. 'U.*_An infall-
ible burglar alarm foiled a thief
|>olice reported. The burglar broke
into the Paw & Feather Shoppe.
"The noise made by the aroused pets
proved too much, so the thief fled.
is right. Under the circumstances
of his abdication he said he did not
consider himself bound in any way.
Mother Of Breck
Resident Dies
Information was received here
today of the death of the mother
of Mrs. W. L. Knight, Mrs. Jack
Rippletoe, in Wichita Kansas.
Funeral services wilt be held to-
morrow afternoon in Enid. Okla-
homa The body today was in the
Byrd A Snodgrass funeral hpme
in Wichita. Mrs. Knight had been
at her mother's beside for about
ten dyys.
Fifty-One Students of North Word
Moke Honor Roll For Post Period
Report fron: North Ward re-
ceived today show fifty-one stu-
dents on the honor roll for the six
weeks period hist ended. Their
names and grades follow: ____
4th Grade A Honor Roll—Laura
Adams, Betty Sue Harrison, Kath-
erine Schwind.
4th Grade B Honor Roll—San-
dra Warnock, Carol Bryan Atchi-
son. Jo Claire Welch, Claude
(Mickey) White, Redah Thomas,
Mary Sue Compton. Tony Andres*,
Shirley Boggs, Keith Russey, Betli
Smart, Jsnell Tiner, Patricia Ellis,
Ned Kenhey. Ruby Beaut hamp,
Howard McDonald, Martha Pil-
grims, Terry Sparks, Bill Taylor.
Fifth Grade A Honor Boll-
Shirley Sparks, Judy Brown, Patsy
Pearson, Chariio Jo Harvey.
Fifth Grade B Honor Rotl—
Clyde Harris. Patsy Huskey, Jane
Jacobs, Judy Sawyer, Maurice Cot-
tins, Janice Wuggoner, Patsy Halt,
Eula Sue Hendriekson, Shirley
Copeland, Peggy Hall, Rena Cor-
ley, Willartf Stovalt, Dorothy
Thomas.
Sixth Grade A Honor Roll—
Joyce Raye Witchcr, Mary Lee
Sharpe, Betty Ann Lowe, Mary
Gayle Russey, Gwenda Compton,
Patty Anna White.
Sixth Grade B Honor Roll—
Bonnie Bufkin, Linda! Lusby,
Yvonne Of field, Joan Gandy, Pey-
ton Huchingson, Alice Marie Par-
ish, Bulla Fae Wallis.
Social Security
Numbers Need To
Be Kept Always
Two h^uds are better than one,
says the proverb, but the Social
Security Administration points out
that two social security numbers,
like too many cooks, may spoil the
troth.
"When you multiply your social
security account numbers, you
stand a good chance of dividing
your future benefits." Ralph T.
Fisher, manager of the Abilene so-
cial security office said today.
Only wages posted to the account
of the worker involved are consid-
ered when a claim is filed. Unless
the applicant can furnish a record
of all account numbers he has used,
some wages on which he has paid
social security taxes won't be count
ed.
Fisher said that every effort is
made to combine atl the worker's
accounts. Even so, in many cases,
the amount of benefit is smaller
because wages have been posted to
accounts which the applicant has
used and on which he doesn't have
a record of the number. In rare
instances, so much of the worker's
wages are credited to these- "un-
known" account numbers that the
total work credits shown on the
"known" account numbers, ure not
enough to ntuke any payment possi-
ble.
"Future social security benefits
cau best be protected," Fisher said,
"by asking for a 'duplicate' to re-
place the card which has been lost
or worn out. Remember that one
card may not last a lifetime, but
one account number will."
o
Alliance To Stop
Reds Is Sought
! WASHINGTON. March 4 <U.* —
Senate President Vandenberg to-
day sought by efforts of a republi-
can bloc to saddle the European
Recovery Program with an out-
right military atiance against Rus-
sia.
There were indications the pro-
posal would not muster enough
votes to pass but it nevertheless
promised to enliven Senate debate
on the ERP bill.
Republican whip Wherry told re-
porters the military alliance was
necessary, through use of the Sov-
iet's veto power. He said the Unit-
ed Nations bnt working and the
sooner we know it and get out of
it the better."
The controversy raged around an
ERP amendment saved by Wherry,
Sen. Bait of Minnesota and several
other GOP revisionists.
Under the proposal the U. S.
would seek to establish outside of
the UN an alliance of states witl-
ing to act against aggression or
supervision on the majority vote
of a supreme council* No one
nation would have • veto.
big
guarantee in person to Eduard
Benes during a private Kremlin
meeting with the Czechoslovak
President.
At that very moment, Czecho-
slovak volunteers, fighting shoul-
der-to-shoulder with the Red
Army, were smashing forward
against the Germans on the East-
ern Front toward Vienna and
Berlin.
Fifteen months later, this writ-
er heard the story from the lips
of Benes himself. Czechoslo-
vakia's venerable Chief Execu-
tive told it to ;ne in a two-hour
interview I had with him iu
Prague's Hradcany Castle—palace
of theold Bohemian kings.
Benes told me that if anything
ever happened like the events
which materialized this week, "I
would resign and the nation
Increased Pay To
Veterans For Full
Time Students
Only veterans in schools, col-
leges and universities pursuit.?
full-time courses of education witl
be entitled to increased subsistence
allowances under a law signed Sat-
urday by President Truman. Vet-
erans Administration Dallas Keg-
inoat Office said today.
Part-time students, on-the-job-
trainees and others will not be en-
titled to the increases, the VA rul-
ing held. The bill signed into law.
S.I:i94. amends the Servicemen:-'
Aeadjustment Act (G. I. Bill) and
the Vocational Rehabilitation Act
(Public Law 16) for the disabled.
The new payments will be at
the monthly rate of #75 for a vet-
eran without dependents. $105 for
u veteran with one dependent, and
$120 for u veteran with more than
one dependent.
The higher rates are applicable
to periods on and after April I.
However, since subsistence allow-
ance checks ure nut due until the
end of the month in which the vet-
eran is in training most of the
eligible veteran-students will re-
ceive their first checks ut the
higher rates on or shortly after
PHILI1' WILLIAMS, shown
above, Americau violin virtuoso,
will appear at the Breckenridge
High School auditorium at 8(15
p.m. Thursday, March 11 under
the auspices of the Breckenridge
Concert Association. This will
be the third in local civic con-
cert series.
* * #
Famed Artist
Will Be Heard
Here March 11
Renowned us having one of the
.cost brilliant und perfect tech-
niques in this present day of vio-
linist Philip Williams, concert
violinist will be presented in a
program here on next Thursduy,
March 11, at 8:15 p. in. in the
Breckenridge High School auditor-
ium. This is sponsored by the Brec-
kenridge Concert Association.
Witliun.s, who has been acclaimed
tliroughout the country for his pro-
found scholarship and musicianly
virtuosity, is known us a "wonder
„ - ...... , child'* to the musicians of his early
He said that he was a personal vouth. while still in his early teens
admirer of Marshall but that "we he became the pupil of the well-
apparently have an honest differ-: known Ottaker Sevcik with whom
e'x'e of opinion" over military as-, he studied ut the Bunch Conserv-
sistance. story of Music in Chicago. Later
"I don't think dollars alone will he won the Muster Scholarship of-
fered by Cesar Thomson, entitling
him to three years private instruc-
tion under this distinguished maes-
tro. Then came three years of dil-
genera! science, Spanish, speech,
world freogniph.v, health automo-
bile driving, nutrition, and art. ,
The text book committee is corn-
May 1. 1 posed of Superintendent John F.
Veterans taking any of the fol- Bailev, Mrs E. R. Maxwell. Miss
lowing types of training are not |jt vvei Furr, Mrs. John F. Bailey,
entitled to the increases, but WUt|Ctnra Lee Welch. Mrs. Frances
continue to receive subsistence pay- Baker, and Mrs. Dale Harbison,
ments at the old rates of $(.5 a ussisted by a sub-committee made
month for those without Jepen- Up of other teachers who teach the
dents and $90 for those with de- jM which uew books are
to be adopted. These sub-commit-
tee members will be called on to
stop the spread of communism
anywhere in the world," he said.
Text Books Are
Sein? Selected
vvlllg VvlvwlvU
There are twelve teachers busily
reading and evaluating about 85
new. text books to be used next
year in the Breckenridge High
School. These books t are beauti-
fully bound and attractively made great "Concerto in E Minor
up and are such as any adult Mendelssohn.
would enjoy reading. From these o
85 books the text book committee
and sub-committee will select t7
as being most fitted to the need
of Breckenridge boys and girls.
Among the books under considera-
tion are economics anil world his-
tory which require close study to
be sure that they contuin no doc-
trines or-teaching which might be
dangereorus to our American way - ... , ....
of life. Textbooks for other sub- Ihe tm!'" wi" .^e a decided In-
jects to be adopted are EnHish. Clei. ! population as approxi
igent study with the late Paul Ko-
inanski. which Williams earned by
virtue of winning the coveted Jul-
liard Foundation scholarship in the
Graduute School.
After a recent concert in Dal-
las. the newspaper critics reported
*'Mr. Williams left violinists in the
audience gusping!"
The program here will include
works by Krt isler, Spalding. Bloch.
Rimsky-Korsakoff, an<l Dehussy.
Mr. Williams wit) also paly th«>
by
Whitney
Itself For Dam
WHITNEY, March 4—The small
ion....unity of Whitney is at tast
seeing the fulfillment of plans
which began 24 years ago, the
harnessing of the Brazos River,
would support me."
At that time—June, 1946—dis-' pendents:
closure o? tht Statin-Benes con-: 1. Part-time institutional train-
versation might have caused!ing. inject certain books In their field
servious difficulties, between Pra- 2. Institutional on - the • farm ^ muke recommendation to
*UToday, however, the danger of1 3. Apprenticeship or other on- th« Kenera!i committee. The sub-
y. - tlte-job training. (For which vet- committee members are T. M.
erans receive compensation for pro- i . ' ,," i
ductive labor.) i well ^ L- Keahey, Mrs. Noll
4. Combination or cooperative Cates, Carl Cook, Ola Frasier. Les-
training in which students attend P,e Ratliff, Cooper Robbins, W. B.
school part time and are emptoyed McDowell, Mary Netl White.
"einbarrssing" President Benes is
unhappily over. Thi Communists
.are in the saddle after a virtual
coup d'etat, master-minded on th-.>
spot by Valerian A. Z<-rin. Soviet
Deputy Foreign Minister, who ar
rived suddenly in Prague just
before the current crisis flared up.
There is nothing further to bo
gained by concealing the story of
another broken Soviet promise.
Now it can be told.
The Kremlin interview took placo
in March, 1945. The Germans weru
still in Prague. Benes was flying
frjm London to head a provisional
government set up in the Slovak
town of Koisice, in an aiready
liberated eastern portion of his
"country.
Troubted about Czechoslovakia's
future as a neighbor of the Sov-
iets, Benes went far out of his way j
to stop off in Moscow for a con- j
ference with Stulin. The conver- j
sation, as recounted to me by the
President while we sat in his
spucious, crystal - chandeliered
Hradcany offices, went as follows:
"Mr. Stalin," Benes said. "I
have complete confidence in the
government of the USSR. We
have signed an agreement for
non-intervention in domestic af-
fairs, and I know you will keep
it. But I am worried about our
Communists."
"Do you think I should speak
to them?" Stalin asked.
"No>" replied Benes, "that
would be an intervention in our
domestic affairs. I can only tell
you there In no party in Czechos-
lovakia which could be used
against the Soviet Union. We
have no choke. Some day Ger-
many may rise again. Germany
is our mortal ememy. Our Com-
munists have no need to fear
that any party win ever go
against Rassia. We shall remain
(Continued On Pige Three)
part time, usually in a related field
5. tnterneship und residency tra-
ining.
6. Graduate training under a fel-
lowship requiring a reduced credit
course-load because of services ren
<Jered under provisions of the fel-
lowship.
Eligibe veterans now in school,
who are entitled to $75 or $105
under the new rates, will not have
to apply for the increased allow-
(Continued «n Page 3)
Baby Girl Born;
One New Patient
One baby born i>nd one new pa-
tient admitted was the from
the Breckenridge Clinic today.
Mr. and Mrs Neul 'W-een a*e the
parents of a baby girl, born this
morning. She weighed six pounds.
R. G. Stoker is a medical patient.
Girl Scouts Plans For Camp
This Summer Are Enlarged
Plans for a two months camp
of Girl Scouts at the Heart of
Texiis Camp at Lake Mineral Wells
were made there this week, when
representatives form over the elev-
en county area met to discuss the
program, meeting at the Baker
hotel.
tt was announced thut some ad-
ditional features would be made
to the activities—and that horse-
manship and riflery would be two
new courses given. The council s'lso
set up the budget and worked out
other business plans for the camp.
There are eleven towns in this
Heart of Texas area: Breckenridge,
Graham, Battenger, Coleman, Brady
Goldwaithe, Brownwood, Comman-
che, Jacksboro, Stephenvitte and
Minerat Welts. Their officii'! cathp
is at Lake Mineral Welts Rotary
Club.
At the meeting was Miss Bobbie
Wash, area director, from Brown-
wood, and the following chairman,
and co-chairmun from their respec-
tice towns—Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Carlton, Stephenville; Preston Pate
r"ommanche: Mrs. R. D. Boyers,
Mrs. Anna Wells, Coleman; Mrs.
Ned Mabry, Breckenridge; Joe
Crumbie, Mineral Wetls.
Also at the meeting was Dr. H.
A. Zappe, area chairman who pre-
sided; Mrs. Llano Parrish. secre-
tary of the Minerat Wells Girl
Scout Council and Fred Purnell,
publicity director for the area, alt
of Mineral Wells.
The area council is planning for
tight weeks camp, one week for
each group of girls of around
fifty—and they say it is the finest
girl scout summer camp to be
found in the Southwest—and not
excelled by many in the whole
country.
Ptans to make it larger and even
better are in the making, it was
stated hen recently.
mately 2.000 workers and their
families move in when construc-
tion gets under wuy in April.
Whitney today is operating un-
der boom conditions. Streets ure
being paved, curg and gutter work
are under way and work on ex-
tending the sewage and water sys-
tem has begun. The building of a
modern hotel in the Woodland
"ark i<ddition is being planned.
O. T. Smyth, of Cleburne and
K. A. Smith of Whitney have pur-
chased lands around the lake shore,
which will bu developed into a
public recreational center. They
plan to have playgrounds and sum-
mer homes.
"It will give the people in the
surounding areas a place to go
uh^ch will be un-surpassed in the
entire Southwest," says Mr. Smyth.
The Whitney Dam is one of lo
major projects contemplated by
The Brazos River Conservation and
Reclamation District in its mas-
ter plan designed to control floods
in the Brazos watershed and to
harness those waters for beneficial
uses of the people of Texas.
Patrol Cut Off,
Seven Killed
JERUSALEM. March 4.
Jewish officials reported '■h"* 'h"
Arabs cut off a Haganah Patrol
north of Jerusalem today, captured
7 of its men and killed them when
British forces approached to in-
tervene in a running battle.
Six survivors of the Hapnn ili
dawn patrol Into Arab territory
near Ataroth along the Nablus
road reported that all of their
comrades were slain by Arabs
identified as Irak volunteers who
surrounded and overwhelmed then*.
Arab headquarters at Ramaltah
in a report on the battle, said 5
Jews were killed in a four hour
fight.
o
Queen Coronation
On Friday Night
Highlighting the school year ac-
tivities will be the coronation of
Gerry Guthrie as Buckaroo Queen
of 1948 at the high school audi-
torium at 8 p. m. Friday.
Besides the coronation of the
r.ueen, her court which witl include
school favorites elected by popular
vote of the student body witl be in-
troduced end a entertaining must-
cat program given.
This to open to the public with
no charge and everyone is invited.
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Hall, Charlie. Breckenridge American (Breckenridge, Tex.), Vol. 28, No. 54, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 4, 1948, newspaper, March 4, 1948; Breckenridge, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth133089/m1/1/: accessed April 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Breckenridge Public Library.