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PUBLISHED SIX DAYS
A WKKK FEATURING
LOCAL NEWS
VOL. 30 NO. 1
Breckenridge American
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UNITED I'KKSS Wire Scrvic*
Devoted to the Dissemination of Information and Upbuilding of Stephens County
NBA Feature Service
WEATHER '
Generally fair and very cold to-
night. Lowest temperatures her*'
6 to 15. Thursday fair, not quite
M> cold.
KRECKENRHMiE. TEXAS
■ \VKl>\KSh.VY, JAN t, !!•:.
PRICE 5 CENTS PER COPK
Rotarians Take
Stock Of Past;
Laifefifibre
Members t>f the ri>tur> club
a round table discussion at their
noon luncheon yesterday <>f the
work accomplished during the past
year, what could and should be
done in the coming year. Member*
were high in their praise of A W
Whitfield, now ill hi the local h".--
pital, who has not misled a Rutary
meeting in 21! year*. Time and time
again, member* held him up t* an
example of the lojaltv and punc-
tuality for the club. Member* d>
cided to visit him a few at a tune,
and to figure a way so that h«
would not de counted as absent due ,
to hi* illness.
R. I. McArron, master of ceie-
nionies, called on Counts Kay, who
said that nnr of the things to be
thankful for is the fact that no |
member had died during the pre-
ceding year. Ray commended H. R.
•Shackelford, club president, on his j
work during the six months he has !
been in office.
The work of the Air Scout troop, j
sponsored by Rotary, was review-
ed by Hubert Tolle. past president
of the club, who reported that tliej
troop building would .soon have a
new roof ami new sides, wit'n mon- i
ey for the project to be raised in
February. The main job of Rotary j
during the coming year, he states,'
ohould be to raise membership. j
Jim Wilke rson, program chair j
man, asked that during the coming
year, members suggest good pro-i
grams, to facilitate the work of the !
committee. Frank Roberts spoke on
the value of friendship and com- !
radeship found in Rotary, and held
up as an example of gi>i>d Rotar
ian. A. W. Whitfield.
Others who spoke included Tom ,
my Drake, Charlie Derre, W. V. j
Dowel 1, Homer Tudor, and K. J.
Nelson.
Fred Day. formerly with the
Veteran's School here, was u guest
at the luncheitn. < I i I be rt Webb was
welcomed as a re. ctivated member,
and Don Crenshaw was welcomed
as a new inembe
told that C
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Truman Paints Glowing Picture
Of lks. FutureT o Congressmen
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HEAVIEST WINTER BLOW HITS
TEXAS: SKIES ARE CLEARING
Ills
Hiy
t lie
TRL'MAN Willi
his Congressn.ual
legislation h> I,• ■ |
are examining at
including the St.it" ■■f
Vice I'residi lit Uarkle
it.v Leader Si ott l.uca.-
Majority Leader John
"1*1® • I 'M I:" 1'icsident Truman meets with
'"in" . 1 tie White House t" discuss with them
i ' I;• i.itgh Congress. 'I'ne manuscripts they
various iii"ss.iRe., the President will deliver.
th
l iiioii and the
and tie 1'i' sident
Speaker of the lb
W. McCormack.
liudget messages. Seated are
. Standing are Senate Major-
use Sam Rayburn, and House
(NEA Ttlephoto)
GOLDEN WEDDING ANNIVERSARY
CELEBRATED BY LOCAL COUPLE
* Mr. and Mrs. 1. \ l.oekliart, 812
K.ist Htillnm, *-<• i« brated their
golil-n wedding anniversary at
their home ln >e Sum!. y, with all
theii six childrt n attending, as
I well as many friends and m igh4
bors who dropped in during th>
i day. The watch party and celebra-
tion enteniled into New Year's
day. The two have lived in Breck-
j enridge sine
a papei
'• ; eni.idge since 192!!. when- Mr.
Wumen. another | ktckhart works a a paper han
er.
"I can still hai
rooms a day," Mr
member, is ill at his home
Accident Series
Reported Here
A series of ueidents has beseigt-d
Hreckenridge since Monday, with
most of tnem minor. About 8:2u
this morning pickups driven by Ft.
J. Johnson and L. (). Thomas.
both of Breckenridge collider! H's
miles south of Breckenridge on the
Eolian road. The road was icy, and
Thoma's car got out of control j Crane. Lockhart had
He suffered slight head injuries, t his girl, and his t'utiu
Considerable damage was reported attending th
to both pickups.
Three minor accidents occurred
Monday. Mrs. Evelyn Johnson of
Breckenridge and Henry C. Lip-
straw of Dallas were involved in
an auto collision on Wa.'ker street !
Monday morning at At 3:3M
Monday afternoon, a White Top
cab driven by Chester Allison :
backed from the curb on West
Williams, and collided into a car
pajx i ill two
l/M'khurt says, on
The Lockharis wen married De-
Cumber .".I, |KV!t in Mi" I'resbyter-
ian rectory in C:me, Mo They
had been neighbors most >.f their
life but hail never dated until one
and a half years before they mar-
ried.
Mrs. Lockliart. the former Nan-
nie Springer, was dating a local
merchant, and Mr. Lockhart was
tlatinu another girl. <>n one par-
ticular evening a group of young
people were to meet at a designa-
ted plat.- to go to a party in
late with
vvif.- was
pa it \ with th>
Revival Meeting
Interest Grows
tV,Afis Hiv enmiriK and then* is
intei«\st iti th** m*'*-tings #l
, . ^ tv. , ,i .\veiiu<* Itnptist Church, it
by Charlie fierce, damaging [ w;ls llMjay. Th,. niluK,,
list. Rev. B. B. Crimm. spoke last
night on the 2-lth Chapter of Luke,
it $41). No damage was reported to
the cab.
About 10:20 Monday nighty a car
driven bjr B. L. Procter on E.
Walker stalled. Archie Satterwhite.
driving the car behind Procter, tri-
ed to pass on the right, ran into
I "meter and a car parked at the
curb, belonging to H. D. Burnett.
Approximately $200 damage was
reported to Satterwhite's car. $12
to4>rocters, and $10 to $15 to Bar-
nrtts.
chant. \ group of the boys, includ-
ing ill'- merchant, planned to have
Lockhart's date go with another
hoy. Wh'.n he arrived late, Lock-
ha t found-that his girl was al-
readv in the wagon with another
boy. Much to his chagrin, every-
one was giving him the "horse
laugh." Nannie and the merchant
had not gotten into the wagon yet,
and when she realized the prank
they had pulled on Lockhart,
Nannie left the merchant, took
L'ickhart's arm and said, "Come
they can't do this to you."
That was the beginning of their
courtship.
Both came from large families,
and both lived on farms. Mrs.
Lockhart was the daughter of a
1'resbyterian minister. Following
the wedding, the couple set up
housekeeping on a small 40-acre
farm in Crane. They lived on a
farm until moving to Brecken-
ridge. Lockhart also working two
years as a brakeman on the Miss-
ouri Pacific Railroad.
On moving to Breckenridge,
l,ockhart was employed by the
Texas Co., for six years, and then
took up paper hanging. Both are
in good health, although Mrs.
Lick ha it has arthritis in her knee.
He is 7«: and his wife is 70 yeans
«f age. When asked about his
health. Mr. Lockhart replied:
"Ain't nobody in any better
health than I am."
He is very proud of the fart
that they own their own home, are
nn|e p. tide lit, and don't owe any-
one a penny.
The six children who were pre-
sent for the celebration included
Mrs. H. J. Vick of Lockhart, Tex-
City Commission
In Short Meeting
The City Commission Tuesday-
afternoon let a grass least- on LMKl
acres to J. T. Roberson for anoth-
er year at $1 per acre of land, re-
serving the fishing rights to the
to weep its way back to
ity Co ,ra ,
luyiA IiihI.
3IIwlT meCTinq Prof and Mrs. L. X'. Messer
in charge of the singing and
young people's groups. Services
begin each evening at 7:iMl p.m.
The public is cordially invited to
the services.
_ Tonight, the Kvangelist will
land located around Daniel Lake. | speak on "What is a Revival?"
The contract, let under the same Thursday night, he will speak on
terms as a previous contract, also "The Four Human Elements that
reserved the right to sell the land. Knter Into a Successful Revival"
This constituted the business of | and in that sermon will tell the
the meeting yesterday of the; story of his conversion.... from
Council. cow puncher to pulpit.
as, Mrs. A. R. Knox of Bay town,
continuing his message of "Tarry- Mrs. L. G. Hanson of Basile. La.,
ing" He said, "Th. Bible is a Koy T. Lockhurt of Houston, Will-
spiritual book and no one can un- ;am Lockhart of Port Arthur,
derstniid it unless he has a spin- Chester i/>ckhart of Graham.
tual mind. In this day .>r programs for the celebration, Lockhart's
we have turned over the tcarhmgi sister sent a ham from Missouri,
in our Sunday Schools to |teopIe -pf„. children presented their Dad
who stand well socially rather and Mother with Ftgin wrist
than ^people who really have reli- watches. Lockhart had broken his
Kion." j a few days before, and had said he
"There are just two tilings to! was just lost without it.
preach. . . .repentance ami remis-'
sion of sins. The greatest need of j * o
Texas is to repent in sackcloth and # _ _
ashes. The greatest need of Am.r- ' C<XSMQ IS KIM HI
Stephens Wildcat
Casing has been run in the Paul
& William Moss No. I W. M. Cox,
Stephens County wildcat four mil-
es east of Breckenridge, •'!•(() feet
from the west and 1,700 feet from
the north lines of section 2067, TE
&L Survey.
Pipe was set at U,380 in the
Cadilo, with total depth of the
well measuring .'1,419 feet. Oper-
ator plans to perforate and acid-
ize.
Easterners Bask In Sunshine
While California Area Cold
CHICAGO, Jan. 4 Eastern-
ere basked in record-breaking tem- j
peratures today while wintry
storms, cold and floods buffeted the
midwest and west.
California was chilled and in Los
Angelea, smoke from smudge pots I
in the fn> t-threatened citrus grov- i
e8, clouded the street®. Tne smoke
cut viaiUihjr to one-sixteenth of a
mile at 8m Bernardino airport.
The naUiiii third of the country j
enjoyed temperatures like those of
early apring. But a cold front,
which was accompanied by blitz-
ards in the Dakotas, western Min-
nesota, nd the Pacific northwest,
waa tw*k eastward slowly. Bos-
ton, on the usually chilly New
England Coast, had a morrning
temperature of 61 degree*, a rec-
ord for this date.
Traffic was jammed for three
hours on C.'nicago's high-speed out-
er drive as moisture which accum-
ulated during three wet days,
blocked switches on Memorial
bridge and prevented operation of
barriers. Thousands of motorists
were delayed.
Temperatures dropped into the
20's in the lush citrus belt of
Southern California, threatening
the area's multi-million dollar
crops. Smudge pots burned throu-
ghout the night in t'ne orchards
and many were left burning long
after sunrise as the mercury foiled
to rise. Estimates of crop dam-
age if any were not expected to
be available for several days.
Indio, in the heart of the Coa-
chella Valley agricultural district,
the nation's date-producing center
and the scene of vast grapefruit
and vegetable ranches, recorded a
minimum of 17 degrees.
Rain fell in a narrow belt from
Texas to Eastern Michigan, while
snow fell in most parts of Illinois.
Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa ana
Missouri.
Very cold weather was general
throughout t'ne plains states with
sub-zero temperatures reported as
fur south as Southern Kansas.
Readings of 30 to 38 below xero
were general in North Dakota and
Montana, the weather bureau said.
Forecasters also reported a storm
which iad left a five-inch blanket
of snow in Oregon p.nd Washington
had moved eastward into Idaho and
Montana.
I By UNITED PRESS)
of the seasoan at Texas today with
Winter threw its heaviest punch
a frigid, enveloping mass of ail-
that toppled the mercury to an
unofficial eight below zero at Dal-
hart and left a white cover of sleet
over approximately half the state.
And, the worst was yet to come
except possibly in the Panhandle
where the new record lows for the
season were expected to be about
equalled. However skies were
clearing in West Texas.
Traffic and communications
were not seriously hampered by
the onslaught, but highway and
city street travel was considerably
slowed by the sleet cover that ex-
tended throughout an area rough-
ly behind a defined line extending
from the Red River through Bon-
ham, Tyler, Waco, San Angelo,
Big Spring and the New Mexico
border.
By S:."[0 a.m., the front, which
toppled temperatures as much as
20 degrees in two minutes as it hit
was betwen Houston and Galves-
ton along the upper coast, Hearing
the Alice-Corpus Christi section a-
long the lower coast and Laredo
on the Middle Rio Grande.
At that hour sleet was begin-
ning to show at Tyler in deep East
Texas and light rain was fulling
at Texarkana, where the mercury
had reached the freezing point.
In contrast to Dalhart's six-be-
low reading at 8 a.m., Brownsville
in the lower Rio Grande valley had
a sultry 70 degrees, 71 at Alice, (M4
Beaumont and Corpus Christi, t>8
at Galveston and 66 at Laredo.
Minimums reported to the U. S.
Weather Bureau up to fi:.'<0 a.m.
included six below at Dalhart, one
below at Amarillo, five above at
Clarendon, seven above at Lub-
bock. 10 at Childress, 12 at Wich-
ta Falls, 14 at Sherman, la at
Abilene, U> at Mineral Wells and
Fort Worth, 17 at Big Spring, IJJ
at Midland, 23 at San Angelo, 24
at Dallas and Guadalupe Pass, 20
Palestine and Austin, .'13 at •Bryan.
!io at Texarkana, 37 at Lufkin, 40
30 at Salt Flats, 31 at Marfa,
at San Antonio, 40 at Presidio and
at Wink and Waco, 27 at Junc-
tion, 28 at El Paso, 29 at Tyler,
47 at Del- Rio. Readings along the
coast were in the fiO's.
This was in marked contrast to
yesterday's highs which included
52 degrees at Dalhart, 55 at Ama-
rillo, (>4 at Lubbock and Childress,
69 at Wichita Falls, 70 at Abilene
73 at Fort Worth, '78 at Browns-
ville and a hot 83 at Laredo.
biles on inclines and city busses j
were op'-ratiim without much s>'in-;
blance "I regular .schedules.
There was very few reports of
damage I" 'telephone, telegraph;
ami power lines ltecau.se of a lack j
of freezing rain. Most of the pre |
cipitalion fell in ihe form oft
sleet, mi .veil with traces of SOII1V. I
The only highway reported dik-
ed was I'. S. 77, a major north-!
south artery, just north of the lied
River border near Ardmore, Okla.
The Ked River Valley section i
seemed to be the worst hit by I
sleet and snow with the cover in j
that area ranging up to 1.5 inches j
in depth.
The fast-moving norther was ex-1
pec ted to topple readings to a j
round 22 degrees at Houston I" j
night ami similar readings in us- I
ually balmy South Texas might i
bring some exposure deaths.
How Truman Got
Answer To Family
Income of 2,000
WASHINGTON, Jan. 4 <U.R)
—Average American family
incoine has been rising stead-
ily in the United States.
It is understood statistics on
which President Trumaji based
his estimate of a possible
$12,000 family income by 2000
A. D. were federal figures sup-
plied by the Commerce and
Labor departments.
They are said to have shown
that the average for 1935-36
a as *2,61.10; for 1941, $3,400,
for the present, $4,200.
Mr. Truman believes the
present figure could be trip-
led in the lext 50 years.
The dolU-.rs are in terms of
l!t|S purchasing power but it
was explained that would vary
little from purchasing power
tula v.
RAILROADS ME ORKKD TO
CURTAIL PASSENGER SERINE
WASHINGTON', Jan. 4 "'-IN— immediate action in all sections of
The government today ordered the country," the ICC said,
railroads that have less than 26 Passenger traffic on the affect-
dav's supply of coal to curtail coal ed roads is to be cut to one-third
burning passengers service by t less than it was on Dec. 1.
one-third. i The order was more drastic
The order issued by the Inter- thitii a similar one issued by the
state C ommerce C ommission lie-1 [cc in October, during the coal
comes effective at ll:o9 p.m. local; strike, which required a 25 per
time next Sunday, Jan. 8. It will j eent cut.
remain in effect for two months . , , ..
t hat order was rescinded Nov.
20, when the miners returned to
a three-day week.
A wildcat strike of United Mine
Workers in Illinois spread to tw-o
additional mines today as the na-
tion's coal shortage prompted the
Interstate Commerce Commission
to cut servicc of coal-burning
unless revoked.
The ICC ordered all railroads to
make the .'US I -3 per cent cut pass-
enger service on their coal-burn-
ing trains when their supplies of
coal dwindle to 25 days or less.
The ICC said that soft coal pro-
duction, as a result of the three-
day work week ordered bv John L. . ,
I.-V is, is "insufficient to relieve"! linger twins,
emergency conditions in railroad - new walkouts,
supplies of coal.
"An emergency exists requiring
Divorces Nearly
Equal Marriages
plus shut-
down of two mines because of
floods, boosted to 16,500 the num-
ber of idle UMW members in Illi-
I nois and cut further into the
j state's dwindling soft coal produc-
tion.
At Washington, the ICC ordered
all railroads seriously affected by
| the shortage to cut off one-third
| of their coal-burning paasenger
! trains, effective Monday. It was
expected that the order would af-
; feet between 36 and 40 railroads
' at the start, mostly in the south
and east.
pected to hold fairly firm behind
the front throughout the day and
plunge much lower tonight.
For example, the Dallas-Fort
Worth area was expecting lows n-
round three to five degrees above
zero by tomorrow morning and
highs of around 20 degrees during
the day today.
Freezing weather waa expected
deep into the lower Rio Grande
Valley tonight. *■
Light snow flurries were fore-
cast for portions of West Texas
and West-Central and Northern
East Texas before the clouds move
out.
Even behind the front, tempera-
tures continued to edge downward
during the early morning from the
6:30 minimums.
Childress dropped from 10 t<>
seven, Dallas from 19 to 18, Big
Spring from 17 to 15.
Icing conditions on highways
was spotted with some areas re-
porting clear roads. Portions of
the Panhandle were clear, as was
the Childress area, but in general
highways were reported icy and
dangerous from Abilene and the
Vernon-Wichita Falls area east to
Tyicr-Kilgore and south to Waco.
Dallas and Fort Worth streets
were dotted with stalled automo-
ed the strikers to return to work
next Monday.
The walkouts took another big
, j chunk out of national coal produc-
, I lion. Illinois produces about 11.2
j per cent of the nation's soft coal.
Marriages were slightly ahead
of divorces in Stephens county
last year, although more divorce
This momnig> lows were ex- ^^^^'^ere''wen-''Ken-1 -L MW "^cials yesterday offer-
ees to wetl filed in the county1
clerk's office during the year l!>49j
and there were 61 divorces grant-
ed in district court here during th«
same period. A total of SK divorce)
suits were filed, six were dismiss-
ed and tin- others have not. been
decided a.s yet.
Perhaps one of the main causes |
for a lag in marriage licenses is
a new marriage law which went I
inUt effect a few months ago. Ac-i
cording to the provisions of the |
law, couples must undergo a medi j
cat examination and blood tests j
which are then sent to a state ap- T\vn more displaced persons
proved laboratory, before they can f.Mintl a 'home in Brecken-
a m.ijoi (vi,. a|Kj Jaroslaw
Moderate Tax Raise,
New Laws Proposed
By LYLE WILSON
United I Yes's Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Jan. 4 if.Hi—
President Tinman forecast to con-
gress today a one trillion dollar
natioiia! production iu 2000 A. D.
to raise the real income of the av-
erage American family to $12,000
or better.
He said it could be done on these
conditions:
I. The nation's productive power
continues to increase in the next
50 years at the rate 'achieved since
1900.
2. "We follow the right policies."
Except for this spectacular mid-
century glimpse into the future,
there was little new in the presi-
dent's message On the State of the
Union for application to the pre-
sent time.
Speaking in person before a
joint session in the House cham-
ber, Mr. Truman scarcely budged
from his left-of-center program of
a year ago which he described as
a "fair deal" and his opponents
have decried as socialism, "stat-
ism" and the "handout state."
Congress balked before at many
of its major provisions and Mr.
Truman's warmest supporters ad-
mit privately that the legislators
will do so again at this election-
year session which may be the
hottest in many a year.
He asked again for repeal of
the Taft-Hartley Law, for contin-
ued rent control, Civil Rights and
for an extension of selective se'
vice authority. And he renewed
requests for passage of the Bran-
nan farm program, or something
like it, expanded social security
and some form of national health
insurance.
He proposed a "moderate" tax
increase, which he said he would
explain in detail later. It evidently
would be accompanied by reduc-
tion ill wartime sales taxes. The
proposed increases apparently
would be in taxes on corporation
and individuals in higher income
brackets.
Mr. Truman conceded that his
program requires "large expendi-
tures of funds" and was unable to
say when the budget actually
would be balanced.
But he was confident of the fu-
ture:
"We have met and reversed the
the first significant downturn in
economic activitiy since the war,"|
he said. "Government programs
for maintaining employment and
purchasing power have been of
tremendous benefit. As the result
of these programs, and the wis-
dom and good judgment of our
businessmen and workers, major
adjustments have hern made with-
onl widespread suffering."
Mr. Truman said our present'
national production is at tli" rate
of $225,000,000,000 annually ami
could be increased nearly four
tinies over iu the next 50 years.
"Allowing for the expected
growth in population," lie contin-
ued, "this would mean that the
real income of the average family
in the year 2000 A. D. would b<
about three Mmes what it is to-
d-j.."
The president was said to have
based that portion of his message
on statistics described as showing
that the average income per fam-
ily today"is about $4,200.
Standing before congress at. mid
point of the 20th century, Mr. Tru-
man surveyed the past ami ftilim
in terms of enthusiastic confi-
dence.
He renewed this country's pledge
to support the United Nations ami
forsaw the day when the UN will
control weapons of mass destruc-
tion and possess forces to preserve
the peacc. Meantime, he said, tli"
United States will maintain a
strong, well-balanced defense."
The president reported that for-
eign perils are decreasing. Seem-
ing to base his optimism on anti-
communist developments in the
Continued On Page 2
COUPLE FRO! GERMANY H
TO WORK II THOMPSON HOME
i - issued licenses. This is
step taken by the state in combat-j
ting venereal disease in the state.
However, for many couples it is
much easier and quicker, since th
results of the test necessitati
Lyseczko arrived in Breckenridge
; from Munich, Germany December
_ i 26 to work in the home of Claude
a ; Thompson, postmaster. hTompson
wrote to the New York headquar-
Refugee
informa-
Transients Held
To Lay Out Fines
Two transients are being held
by the city to lay out a $2.r> fine on
a vagrancy charge, Chief Eason
reports. The two, who gave their
names as Jess B. Davis of Elko,
Nev., and David D. Humphrey of
Shreveport, La., were picked up twecn the
Sunday afternoon by Eason and! nloves
Constable Frit* Rudder. Both' — "
claim to be 46 years of age.
Police are checking to see if the
two are wanted in any part of the
country. Though penniless the two
had several new safety razors,
and others articles, including a
new Parker '61 pen and pencil set,
several men's gold wrist watches,
all brand new.
• Sunday, five transients paid $10
fines in City Court on charges of
intoxication. One Indiana man
paid a fine of $10 in City Court
Tuesday on charges of intoxica-
tion.
delay of about three days, to go. • . r c
across the state line and marry in ters of the International Refugee
Oklahoma. During the Christmas Organization requesting
season, however, the marriage li-jtion on s--unng a middle aged
cense business picked up, with jcoupte to work in his home. He
many couples choosing the yule-' heard nothing more about it un-
tide setting Tor their weddings. til just before Christmas when he
,, { the couple were coming. Perhaps
i received a wire nqtifying him t'nat
! couple expected to be sent to
| as surprised as Mr. Thompson, the
; couple expected to be sent to
Michigan to work on a fnrm.
The young couple, far from mid- i
December 2:5, coming via Chicago
in New York
Texas Picketing
Law Is Softened
mount, the couple had to spend
:(5 marks for their apurtment.
There is nothing much to buy, and
that is very high.
When they arrived, they were
very unexpected, and they have
spent tlv- past few days, painting
and fixing their furniture itnd
rooms. They seem very happy
with their new position in Ameri-
ca.
As to what they think of this
country anil the people who live
here, Frieda savs, "It is too soon
to tell."
Rayburn Reveals
Budget Is Cut
By $800,000
WASHINGTON. Jan. I <U.I! -
Speaker Sam Rayburn revealed t'.<
day that President Tiuman's bud-
get for fiscal 1951 will call for
government expenditures of "a lit-
tle above $42,000,000,000.
Rayburn told a news conference
that Mr. Truman has cut the bud-
get 'So that it is about $1.8tM),lill'i,-
000 below the spending figure for
current fiscal year.
Rayburn, revealing for the first
time details of Mr. Truman's bud-
get recommendations, said the V
President and his staff have shaved'
$3,000,000,000 off the current years
spending for defense and fox'- ,'i
rid. f V ~-
But, Rayburn said, about v, t
200,000,000 of this will be ..fief '■
up in new domestic spending pro-
posals.
Sprtiding for the current fiscal
year has been estimated at "S4-.
500.QW.000. This does not quite
1ib«> wit'n the figures given by Ray-
burn for the cut. Hut he did not
attempt to explain the discrepancy,
if any. One possible explanation
is that the spending figure for
the present fiscal year will run
about $43,800,000,(1(10 instead of
$43.500.000,000.
Asked about Mr. Truman's esti-
mate of revenue, Rayburn said that
would be cleared up in noth'r mes-
sage.
, After saying th.-.t the budget f'.r
the 1961 fiscal year would be about
$1,800,000,000 below that for tins
fiscal year, Ray bun. told re port ct ■:
"I hope the Congress will allow
this to be and will go along
with t'ne President."
Rayburn said that contrary to
the widely acceptable belief of oili-
er members, it has not been defi-
nitely decidrd yet that the 1951
appropriations bills will be con
sidered in one package. Rayburn
said that may have to be determin-
ed by a caucus of House Demo-
crats.
Th.
AUSTIN, Tex.. Jan. 4 tU.fi>
Stae Supreme Court today struck
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down a portion of Texas secondary I <j|c.aget|f arrived ...
picketing law and softened the I to Wjchita FttI,s, where they found
blow of an injunction which halted j themselves stranded the day after
an Amarillo union from picketing*; (Christmas. A Mr. Thompson who
Caught In CaM
~ ~\AS, Tex., Jan. 4
55-degree drop in temper
The court declared unconstitu
tional a provision of the law which
prohibited picketing unless a "la-
bor dispute" existed directly be-
employer and his em-
To t'ne extent," the opinion
said, that the law "restricts the
meaning of a 'labor dispute' to
a controversy between an employer
and his employes and prohibits
picketing except where such con-
troversy exists, we think that the
statute is in conflict with the 14th
amendment (of the U. S. Consti-
tution) . . . and that the statute
must yield."
Throck Child Sick
From Kerown*
worked for the Santa Fe in
Wichita Falls happened to know
Claude Thompson, called him to
notify him of the couple's plight,
and bought their ticket on a bus
anil sent them on to Breckenridge.
Jaroslaw, 35, and his wife,
Frieda, 25, do not speak a word
of Knglish. He is Ukranian and
comes front Poland, while his wife
is German. They were married
three years ago, shortly after Jar-
oslaw was released from a Nazi
concentration camp. He had been
confined to the camp by the Ger-
mans in 1944, and was released by
the Americans May 5, 1945. Woun-
ded in the leg. Jarsolaw was be-
ing treated in Munich where he
was employed as a machinist in
a machine factory.
The couple met in an apartment
house where Jaroslaw lived on the
THROCKMORTON — Jan. '
(Spl—Patricia Boyd, lfi-month-old ; fourth floor, and Frieda lived with
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Floyd, her family on the fifth floor. After
Boyd of Throckmorton, is recover-! a brief courtship of aix months
DALLA
Dallas'
atures from 75 degrees caught j ing" in a "hospital, where she was the couple married. They have no
police in the lurch today. i t:«ken Thursday night in serious: children.
The police radio broadcast to j condition. The child drank a small; It is very bad iirGermany now,
all squad cars: amount of kerosene at her home, i Jaroslaw reports; For his Job in
"Keep your engines running. X-rays were made Friday of her;the machine factory, lie received,.,,,. •_ !t k . . ,
There is no anti-freeae in the rad-llunga, showing a small amount of ,50 marks a week, a little over |20 **!:, from malignant tumors of both eyes, it is hoped . n operat
iatore.' ' the kerosene had entered the lungs. I-in American mraajr. Of this a-1 wU1 prevent blindness and save the child's life. (NEA Telephoto)
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CHILD HOPES FOR MEDICAL AID TO PREVENT BLINDNESS—
Mrs. Louis Reno carries 11-month-nJd daughter. Sheila, from plane at
New York City, after arriving from El Monte, California. The child is
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