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UNITED NATIONS. N. Y„ Jan.
K til—Secretary General Dag
Hammarskjold held his first con-
ference with Bed China's P-emier
Chou En-lai Wednesday on U« fate
of II jailed U. S. fliers, and then
attended a cocktail party and din-
ner in his honor.
Peiping radio disclosed the red
carpet treatment being accorded
the CN official and his party but
made no mention of the reason for
his visit. k
"The cocktail party proceeded in
a friendly atmosphere, the broad-
cast said
Hammarskjold met with Chou
less than three hours after arriving
in Peiping as the first step in his
mission to win freedom for the II
airmen jailed as "spies" and other
UN personnel still held by the Red
regime.
4 Hammarskjold definitely was
getting the same lavish treatment
accorded by Red China to other in-
ternational visitors including Brit-
ain's former Prime Minister Cle-
ment Attlee, India's Jawaharlal
Nehru and Burmese Premier U Nu.
Chou, however, did not meet
Hammarskjold at the airport as he
has other visiting foreign digni-
■ taries.
But three officials of the foreign
ministry, also headed by Chou,
welcomed Hammarskpokl and his
k stx member mission on behalf of
- V the Peiping regime.
Also present at the airport were
diplomatic representatives of non-
Communist and Communist nations
which recognize Red China.
Peiping radio, official voice of
Red China, waited until its regular
5 p. m. broadcast to announce
Hammarskjold's arrival and first
meeting with Chou.
The broadcast said Hammarsk-
jold and three members of his dele-
gation met with Chou and four
officials.
"Premier Chou En-Lal received
UN Secretary General Dag Ham-
marskjold at 4:30 this afternoon,"
the broadcast said.
"Present on the occasion were
Ahmed S. Bokhari, undersecretary
of the Cnited Nations, Per Lind of
the executive office of the UN sec-
retary general and Humphrey Wal-
dock. professor of international
L' ""Also present were Chang Han
Fu. vice foreign minister; Chiao
Kuan Hua. assistant to the foreign
minister: Tung Yueh Chien, direc-
tor of the department of interna-
tional organizations and commerce
and Wang Cho Jo, chief of protocol
of the foreign ministry."
Bokhari is from Pakistan. Lind
from Sweden and Waldock from
Britain.
The Peiping broadcast gave no
details of the meeting.
, 1,000 MPH Speed
DAYTON. Ohio. Jan. 5 Lt.
Col John Paul Stapp, who recent-
i Jy set a rocket sled record of 632
MPH, said Wednesday he hoped
to break U*M> MPH soon.
The Air Force colonel told the
Dayton Daily News In a telephone
interview from El Paso, Tex., that
he thought the IJWO mile speed
w.v possible.
Tlie Air Force announced Dec.
27 that Stapp set the record on
Dee. 10 at the Holloman Air De-
velopment Center in New Mexico.
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* SEEN or HEARD
By C. M. H.
CliM of Mr. ami Mrs. My
Dim*, Ft. Worth, grandson of the
CKartie Dunne here, severely horn-
ed ahowt face and body by water
fraw a coffee pot .... Tentative
date for Chamber of Commerce
banquet set for Friday week hat
not definite yet Lt. Tommie
Migmt to get out of service at
Ft. SHI Thursday—ban been over-
Snpt. John Culwell says Bucka-
roo football schedule still has one
open date, either October 7 or 14—
Grand Prairie made another en-
gagement .... New faces in the
tax assessor-collector's office are
Walter Brown and Mrs. Oxell Dav-
enport .... Sheriffs department
and city police report no arrests.
Jimmie Ferret rnamdn that any
one intradhtg to go into military
service should do so before Jan. 31
a Gl rights out after that date
.... Will whoever teak a newa-
rack from in front of
_ cafe p leant return it—it
belonged to George Bmm% rente
boy . . .. L. D. Hawkins said weak-
en who da not pay poll taxes in
of averting Jwry service are
Grady Slaughter said no one has
admitted presenting him with five
dogs "and they are still there
being fed" Bill Maner said it
will lie March 1 before
building elevator is work-
ing . • . • And. this kind of weather
is what the older folk saed to call
« "weather breeder" bnt nothing
much is happening by way of a
coM norther.
IT- N. SECRETARY TO MEET REDS—Following a private confer-
ence at Paris airport French Premier Mendes-France right gave his
best wishes to U. N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold, leaving
on his mission to Red China where he hopes to win freedom for
American fliers held by the Reds. Neither would comment on the
secret talk they had during the Secretary's brief stop-over at Paris
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DEMOS TAKE OVER CONGRESS WITH
PRAYER MB PUDGE TO COOPERATE
Ptwne Co. Dedans
Rate Offer Of City
The city council in regular ses-
sion Tuesday afternoon acted upon
several important matters in about
a four-hour meeting.
Representatives of the Bell Tele-
phone Company appeared before
the council to ask if the compro-
mise offer of the city was the final
answer to their request for a raise
in rates and when told that it was,
declined the offer.
The compromise raise in rates
agreed to by the council amounted
to approximately half the amount
requested by the company, and in
addition certain improvements the
company would agree to make. No
indication was given of what the
next step by the telephone comp-
lying ""
any will be, thus leav
the mat-
Shower Of .06 Of An Inch
Of Great Benefit To Grain
Breckenridge received .06 of an
inch of rain early Wednesday
morning as a weak Pacific cool
front eased eastward across Texiis
bringing light showers, but only a
slight drop in temperatures.
That amount of moisture ordi-
narily would not be considered of
great benefit, but due to the fact
that it came when the ground is
softened by the recent melting snow-
it is of great benefit to small grain,
and with continued warm weather
pastures growths will reach bene-
ficial stages.
The front sent the mercury only
to 52 degrees here Wednesday
Ries Seeks Old
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Probe Committee
By MILTON MAGRCDER
WASHINGTON'. Jan. 5 <r.P —
Rep. Martin Dies is trying to re-
gain his old s«it on the House Un-
American Activities committee—
but the odds are all against him.
Democratic leaders seemed de-
termined to pass over the fiery-
Texas Democrat in filling the lone
party vacancy on the nine-man
investigating group.
Dies headed the committee for
seven stormy years before he de-
cided not to run for re-election in
1945 because of his health. His
Communist-hunting kept him and
the committee on the front pages
before and daring World War II.
He put in is bid for his old seat
when he returned as a Texas
member-at-lnrge two years ago,
but he was balked then by the ab-
sence of any democratic vacancy.
Rep. Francis R. Walter (1> P;i. .
the incoming chairman, told news-
men he doubts if Dies will have
any more success this time". Wal-
ter and some other Democratic
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morning compared to a low of 50
Tuesday morning.
The front left a 33 degree read-
ing behind it at D.ilhart in the up-
per Panhandle for the state's low-
est reading Wednesday morning,
but ahead of the front tempera-
tures generally were in the 60s
and ranged up to 70 at Browns-
ville.
Half Inch At Amarillo
A naif inch of moisture was
measured at Amarttfo, ,4f> inch at
Lubbock, .OH at Abilene, .OH at
Wichita Falls and .05 at Mineral
Wells and Victoria. Downtown Fort
Worth got .10 inch before the 6:30
a. m. measuring time, but none had
fallen at Amon Carter Field weath-
er station at that time.
As the front hit the weather
bureau, it dropped temperatures
only four degrees from 64 to SO.
At 8 a. m. it ranged along a line
extending from the Dallas-Fort
Worth area south to Waco and
southward to San Antonio, but
it was expected to be out of the
state by Wednesday night.
Cool air from the Plains States
was expected to push in behind the
first front to lower temperatures
a bit more by Thursday morning.
The two fronts, however, have
clearing skies behind them and the
precipitation was expected to be
short lived in the state.
Snowstorms Elsewhere
Meanwhile, if'dismal fog blanket
cloaked the Central Ohio and Mis-
sissippi River Valleys Wednesday
while an icy snow storm struck in
the west.
The western snowstorm caused a
four-engine transport to overshoot
the runway and crash at Ogden,
Utah, and a plane flying low under
Texas Solon Wi
Delay Parr Cases
MISSION. Tex., Jaw. 5 CPt—A
young attorney who is a member
of the state legislature has throw n
a monkey wrench into prosecution
of cases against political boss
George Purr and associates by
pleading legislative immunity.
Rep. Eligio De La Garza's im-
munity plea would delay start of
some 70 Duval county cases until
about the end of next June or
later.
De La Garza told United Press
Tuesday night he had been engag-
ed as one of the team of attorneys
to defend ParV and his iissociates,
and that as a member of the legis-
lature he would plead immunity.
Case Uncertain
About McCarthy
WASHINGTON, Jan. 5 if.Pi—
Sen. Clifford P. Case, who cam-
paigned on a promise to try to
remove Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy
from his investigative role, said
Wednesday e hits not decided
how to carry out his pledge.
The New Jersey Republican said
in an interview that he still feels
he should try it.
But most observers think the
freshman senator's chances are
slim. He is bucking Senate rules,
precedent, :ind the traditional re-
luctance of seniority conscious sen-
ators to tamper with a colleague's
committee assignments.
Case could get his chance soon
after taking his oath of office
Wednesday. He was made a mem-
ber of the GOP Committee on
Committees which scheduled an
afternoon meeting to consider a
reshuffle of Republican committee
posts. McCarthy also was made a
member of the 15-man group.
a heavy overcast crashed and kill-
ed four persons near Animas, N. M.
Elsewhere in the nation a 200-
mile wide band of rain and drizzle
stretched from Texas to the ' Al-
leghenies, thunderstorms hit Okla-
homa and Kansas, and tempera-
tures dropped to 10 to 20 degrees
below zero in Montana.
The Midwest fog cut visibility
to zero in parts of northern Illinois
and to one-lfith of a mile at Indian-
- fContimied on Face 2>
ter open.
Bids were opened on moving a
new water tank to be stationed
near the North Ward School, which
would give the city an additional
400,000 gallons in storage, but be-
cause of an obvious error in one
bid no action was taken. The tank
to be installed would serve as a
booster plant and would -be used
in summer when water use is at a
: peak. The bid that caused the
delay in aetion indicated an error
of about $24)00, City Manager Glen
Doty said. The bidder will be ask-
ed if the figure indicated was in-
tended and if not the contract will
be given to the next lowest bidder.
The tank was secured from Otto
Bendorf for $2^00*.
A report made showed consid-
erable progress on the water sys-
tem being furnished the north part
of town in line extensions and
other improvements.
The council approved a paving
contract form, simitar to the one
formerly used, in prder to proceed
with paving needs that now with
the new machinery acquired by the
city can be had at about two-thirds
of the cost of paving in the past
year.
Plan for perpetual care of the
old part of the Breckenridge Cem-
etery was discussed. The ceme-
tery has been cleaned up and
greatly improved and the council
is considering ways and means to
keep it that way.
Mr. Doty will go into the mat-
ter of how many tots are to be
considered and prepare a schedule
that will determine the amount
owners of the lots will be charged
if perpetual care is adopted
Time Ti
Backward For Barfcley
FORMER VKE PRESIDENT IS
m only mm senator
Christmas Call From Japan Arrives
At 3:30
m. Sunday, January
2, Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Carlton of
115 South Harding received what
Mrs. Carlton termed a belated
Christinas present—a telephone
call front their daughter. Miss Ev-
elyn Carlton, who is teaching army
dependant* in Japan.
Though the call came through
in the early hours of Svnday here.
In Osaka. Japan, the source of the
call, the time was 7:30 pi m. Sun-
day. Mr*. Carlton said that Miss
Caritfeon jhnd the cull prior to
Christmas but because of so many
overseas calls (hiring the yule sea-
san the call was not put through
until after the New Year.
Miss Carlton said that she spent
Christmas at a ski resort. She
sailed from the United States in
August of 1964 and is to return in
June of this year.
A graduate of Texas State Col-
lege for Women in Denton, Miss
Carlton taught in schools at Piim-
pa. Sundown and Eagle Pitas be-
fore going a* a teacher to Japan.
By JOHN A. GOLDSMITH
WASHINGTON, Jan. 5
Time turns backward Wednesday
and Alben W. Barkley—the Veep—
takes his seat as the "junior" sen-
ator from Kentucky.
For Barley, taking the Senate
oath marks the resumption of a
career of public service that spans
half a century. For most of the
last 40 years he has been on the
Washington scene.
But no since March 4. 1927, has
he raised his right hand to become
a new senator from his state.
To Do Best Job'
"My main objective is to do the
best job I can," he said when ask-
ed about his role in the new Con-
gress.
The jovial, 77-year-old Kentuek-
ian warmed up for his new assign-
ment Tuesday by following the
traditional advice for freshman
senators. He attended a party
caucus and kept his mouth shut.
Later, in a chat with newsmen,
he recalled many other caucuses
when a leadership role required
that he take a more aetive part.
But he said the change suited him
fine.
Barkley has "indicated" to the
Senate Democratic leadership that
he would like to serve on the fi-
nance .and foreign relations com-
mittees—two of those regarded as
choice. But he commented that the
decision is up to the Democratic
steering committee.
Reminds of Yarn
When a newsman commented
that Rarkley's qualifications as a
former senator, congressman and
vice president, surely would be
recognized, the Veep said that
would be gratifying. And it re-
minded him of a story.
This one was about the illiterate
Kentuckian who had been elected
sheriff because of heroism in a
murder case and asked the county
Rudder To Gobi
As New Land Chief
AUSTIN. Tex., Jan. 5 (ItPl—J.
Earl Rudder, Brady rancher and
commander of an Army reserve
unit, was to be sworn in Wednes-
day as the new land commissioner
and head of the veterans land pro-
gram that has been under fire
Rudder, a hero of the Normandy
invasion and at 44 a farmer, ranch-
er and businessman, was named
Tuesday by Gov. Allan Shivers to
succeed Bascom Giles.
Rudder entered politics last
spring. He became a state Demo-
era tic executive committeeman.
The former Texas Aggie football
placer and Brady coach was
praised by Shivers a® "one of the
joans aw fe T<
judge to "qualify" him For serviieS
in his new job.
"I can swear you in, but all hell
can't qualify you," the judge said.
Giisigbt Area
Has Nell Staked
Fletcher Oil and Gas Drilling
Corp. of Dallas staked No. I S. G.
Tomiinson as a 4,000 foot rotary
wildcat one mile south of Gunsight
in Stephens County.
Location is 330 feet from the
south and 2,280 feet from the west
lines of Section 446, SP Survey.
Anderson-Prichard Oil Corp. of
Oklahoma City No. 4 Travis County
School Land will be a 4,700-foot
rotary II miles north of Throck-
morton in the Travis (Strawn)
Field
Location is 330 feet from the
south and east lines of Section 35,
Travis CSL Survey.
Spears Drilling Co. of Brecken-
ridge No. 2 George Dickie will be
a regular field project one mile
southwest of Woodson.
Slated for 3450 feet with rotary,
its spots 990 feet from the west
and 330 feet from the south lines
of the north half of TE&L Survey
686.
Long Vigil After
CHICAGO, Jan. 5
Mary Louise Goudy's daily vigil
was over Wednesday.
Her husband, who was injured in
a Pecos, Tex., automobile crash
three years ago and never recov-
ered consciousness, died Tuesday.
Mrs. Goudy had sat by her hus-
band's bed side at the Hines Vet-
erans Administration hospital ev-
ery day.
Mrs. Goudy, her mother, and her
husband were all injured Jan. 19,
1962, in a headon collision.
Goudy, a retired LaGrange, III.,
building contractor, remained in a
coma until his death at the age
of 50.
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PRESENTS
THE WEATHER
if etnteaaay.
Thursday fair and continued
omL Low tonight 32, taw thm
morning 52, high yesterday 73.
ARRIVES FOR SENTENCING—Joseph S. Petersen, Jr., former code
clerk in the top-secret National Security Agency who pleaded guilty
to spying for a foreign power Dec. 22 shown as he arrived at Federal
Court in Alexandria, Va., for sentencing. Petersen received a seven-
year prison sentence. Mrs. Petersen accompanid her husband to
court. (NEA Telephoto)
Rotary Is ToM
Of Benefits Of
RoySeontNerk
Members of Boy Scout Troop 63,
sponsored by the Rotary Club,
were special guests at the regular
weekly Rotary meeting on Tuesday
at the Y. M. C. A.
Jim Cooper, district scout execu-
tive, was guest speaker for the
day. He gave a brief history of
scooting in this area and "told
something of what scouting means
to a boy.
He said that scouting teaches a
boy in three fields; that of civic
responsibilities, outdoor living and
religion. A sponsoring club can
aid the troop leader and help with
the advancement of the troop.
Cooper said. He said it was the re-
sponsibility of a sponsoring club to
furnish a meeting place for the
troop and to provide transportation
to annual camps for the boys.
According to Cooper a recent
survey shows the average troop
leader spends an average of 400
hours each year in scout work. Bill
Wilson, troop master of troop 63,
was introduced and he in turn in-
troduced his junior assistant, Neal
Hitchcock.-
Troop members attending were
Larry Kimberlin, Jimmy Browning.
George Rowan and David Howell,
all charter members of the troop;
Jimmy Wright, Gilbert Jones, Dale
Shockley, Wayne Anderson, Butch
Crossland, Eugene Maxwell, David
Grounds and Ronnie Martin.
Five Patients To
Local Hospitals
Local hospitals report admitting
five paitents (hiring the past 24
hours and dismissing six.
Edna Peart Farris entered the
Breckenridge Clinical Hospital for
surgery and medical entries were
Mrs. Douglas Tucker and G. H.
lies.
Stephens Memorial Hospital re-
ports admitting Albert Gentry and
Mrs. R. D. Banks as medical pa-
tients. Dismissals were Charlie
Weatherby, Mrs. Rex Eubanks and
baby, Mrs. Mat Caton, Mrs. Alice
Zahn and Mrs. Floyd Bird.
Lake Cabins Bond
Issue is Approved
AUSTIN, Tex., Jan. 5 (EE)—A $5
million bond issue to build lodges
and cabins at Texoma, Atlanta and
Inks Lake state parks has reciev-
ed the approval of the State Parks
Board.
Gordon Shearer, executive secre-
tary of the board, said the bond
issue would cover full development
at each lake, including the struc-
tures, parking areas and swim-
ming
Plans call for 100-
room. resort-type lodges at Inks
and a 65-room
Lake and Texoma.
lodge in Atlanta Park.
Shearer said all lodges will have
individual cabins built around
them, but the number of cabins
has not been determined
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AUSTIN, Tex.. Jan. 5 (EE)—Dr.
Dysart Holcomb, dean of engineer-
ing at Texas Tech, Lubbock, was
named Tuesday by regents of the
University of Texas System as
President of Texas Western Col-
lege nt EI
15,
succeeds, effective Jane
Dr. Wilson H. Elkftis, who resit
last year to become president of
tte University of
Service Agents
Of Farm Group
Select Breck
A group of service agents of the
Texas Farm Bureau representing
counties in District Three of which
Stephens County is the center, met
Wednesday at the Burch Hotel for
the first meeting of what is to be
a monthly program here.
E. C. McMurry of Nocona, farm
bureau supervisor for the district,
said the Wednesday meeting was
to plan the year of work. Mr. Mc-
Mtyry said that in the near future
he hopes to move to Breckenridge
to direct the district bureau work,
which includes 41 counties.
Austin Crownover, state director
of sales for the farm group from
Waco, was special speaker at the
Wednesday meeting. Those attend-
ing were service agents who aid
the members on needs in insurance
and other service needs.
Counties represented at the
meeting wre Baylor, Bosque,
Brown, Callahan. Coleman, Co-
manche, Eastland, Erath, Mon-
tague, Taylor, Parker, Welbarger
and Young.
Job Here Slated
The L". S. Civil Commission has
announced examinations for Sub-
stitute Clerk-Carrier at Sl.fiHi per
hour for employment in the Breck-
enridge Post Office.
Further information and appli-
cation forms may be obtained at
the Post Office or from the Re-
gional Director, Eighth U. S. Civil
Service Region. Room 809, II14
Commerce Street, Dallas, Texas.
■ —
Eastland Grows
EASTLAND. (Spl.)—The * first
new member has been enlisted by
the newly organized Eastland pa-
toon of the Abilene Marine Corps
Reserve United as B. J. Levins of
Eastland.
According to Captain H. C.
Schryver Jr., who is in charge of
the unit, the new enlistment makes
a total of eight reserves who meet
each Monday evening in Eastland
at the American Legion Hall.
IkeToOvHiw
Program Before
By RAYMOND LABR
WASHINGTON, Jan. 5 «CJR>—
The Democrats took over com-'
mand of Congress Wednesday with
a prayer and a pledge to cooperate
with Republican President Eisen-
hower in the two crucial years that
lie ahead
Harmony was in the air as the
84th Congress convened at noon
with the traditional opening day
formalities. No legislative business
was transacted
Four hours before the Senate
and House were gavetled to order,
legislators joined Mr. Eisenhower
and cabinet members at the Na-
tional Presbyterian church and
prayed for divine guidance for the
new Congress.
The change of command—from
Republican to Democratic — was
the highlight of this opening day.
It was the first time since the
Republican-controlled 80th Con-
gress of 1946-4S that the political
party which controlled the White
House was not in power in Con-
gress.
Ray burn Takes Over
Rep Sam Rayburn of Texas took
over a familiar job in the House—
speaker.
A Republican—Vice President
Richard M. Nixon—called the Sen-
ate to order, but it was the Dem-
ocrats who were in control with
Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson of Texa.;
as majority leader and Sen. Walter
F. George of Georgia as new Sen-
ate president pro tempore.
Johnson has pledged that the
Democrats will follow a policy of
supporting Mr. Eisenhower when
they think he is right and opposing
him when they think he is wronsr.
But he said they are not just "going
to oppose just for the sake of op-
position."
Nixon administered the oaths to
34 senators, including some old and
new faces on Capitol Hill.
The entire membership f the
House took the oath en bloc from
retiring House Clerk Lyle Snader.
a Republican. There is one vacancy
in the 435-member House.
Gather in Prayer
The swearing in ceremony was
followed by the formal election of
Rayburn as speaker suceeding
Rep Joseph M. Martin Jr. of Mas-
sachusetts and of George as Sen-
ate president pro tempore. This
put Rayburn and George—in th it
order—in the line of presidential
succession directly behind Nixon.
Earlier, members of Congress
gathered in prayer.
Both the Senate and House
(Continued on Page Two)
Thanked For Work
The Buc karoo Band Boosters
Club met Monday evening. Januar-
3, at the high school band hall
a regular monthly meeting with
Irvin Lewis, president, presiding
Club officers gave reports and «
Mr. Lewis expressed thanks to
each officer for the service render
ed in the various offices since the
organization of the booster elnb
in the falL Mrs. G. B. Greiner.
social chairman, thanked the par-
ents of band members for then- co-
operation in preparing food for the
after-thegame parties sponsored
by the booster club following each
home football game for local and
visiting band members.
The group discussed several furuT
raising projects and several in^ei
ested merchants expressed then-
views on planned projects.
Next meeting of the booster club
is to be Monday, February 7, in th*
high school band hall.
Democrat Victors Olflini Spoils
By FRANK ELEAZER
WASHINGTON. Jan. 5 <EE)—
About BOO congressional jobs, some
of them pretty cushy, were up for
grabs Wednesday as Democrats
reclaimed control of House and
Senate from the Republicans.
Two years ago it was the same
thing, only vice versa. Turn the
rascals out is still the rule on
Capitol Hilt. It's a rule as old as
Congress, and nobody is about to
change it.
Take the Capitol police. Last
March 1 the House was shot up by
assassins. Members raised a hoe
and cry for better protection. The
House passed a bill to create^ a
professional police force. It died
m the Senate.
So the 159 Capitol police
nesday, as usual, were
either for new jobs or
Democratic sponsors in their pres-
ent $4>000-*-year posts. Tfceir Re-
publican chief, Capt.
Broderick
William J
(?6„000), was packing
mementoes, presumabl-
couple of .35* caliber
it of tl
the House walls
away his
including
slugs dug out
after the shoot;
The order of Wn, ess m both
houses as the new congress con-
vened included hiring new top "f
ficials who actually were picket
Tuesday in Democratic caucuses.
For the ousted Republican clerks,
sergeants-at-arms, chief doorkeep-
ers, and a few other top. job hold-
ers, there were soft landing spots:
Minority Jobs, with related titles,
but lesser pay. In a typical case.
$8,494 yearly, instead of $t2.34£
For the smaller fry there is
nothing except the hope of getting
real friendly, rest fast, with a
Democrat. Ofle congressional source
long familiar with such matters
sail maybe & to 19 per cent usual
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Breckenridge American (Breckenridge, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 3, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 5, 1955, newspaper, January 5, 1955; Breckenridge, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth134969/m1/1/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Breckenridge Public Library.