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Lake At Westbrook
Scene Of Drowning
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KUUS FALL FLAT—This while leghorn hen owned by Mrs.
Charles Valek, of Valley View, u Cleveland, <)., suburb, lays
flat eggs. Buf every now and (hen, the bird lays a normal
rounded eng. Mrs. Valek doesn't know what to make of it. The
healthy hen seems to think nothing is odd at all. She cackles
just like other hens and for just as long. Mrs. Valek says
she is going to i>ut a flat egg under a setting hen to see if it
hatches a flat chicken. A neighbor suggested it might produce
a chicken puttie.
Sweetwater Area Boys On
Trip Arrive In Oklahoma
By A. O. Bishop
OKLAHOMA CITY. May 31—
Memorial Day was the beginning
of a wonderful trip for 24 buys
and three sponsors leaving
- iweetwater on ... Men-d&y ."'Kit;
mile educational trip sponsored
by the Sweetwater Livestock and
Fait' Association. Every boy on
the trip thought of sacrifices
made by fathers, mothers, sisters
anil brothers in order that he
might make the trip and of the
people who made the trip possi-
ble. Every town through which
we passed was flag-draped In ob-
servance of Memorial Day. Our
first day was a good day.
All 24 boys are fine. They
come from eight different pub-
lic schools and five counties. Hy
coincidence there are 12 F. F. A.
and 12 4-11 boys. The youngest
is 12 and the oldest 17. Their in-
terests are as different as ages.
Rome are interested in swine,
others lambs while still others go
in for dairy cattle and beef cattle.
They believe in Texas and are
showing just how nice and appre-
ciative a Texan can be. Every-
thing's going along on schedule
the first day out.
We started off with a wonder-
ful break/ast at the White Ele-
phant Cine served to the boys
and their parents courtesy Levy
Bros. All of the boys were on
time and the luggage was loaded
on the chartered bus. The bus
is marked bv two large signs,
leading "3,000 Mile Educational
Tour FFA and t il Clubs, Sweet-
water, Texas". The sign, still in
place when we reached Okla-
homa. have attracted a lot of at-
tention along the way and here
in Oklahoma City.
The fathers and mothers were
just as excited over the trip as
the boys. After taking three
movie and still shots of the
group, we pulled out for Rob.V
In Roby we met B. L. Connel-
ly of the Roby National Farm
Loan Association a member of
the committee in Robv which
•were responsible for sending four
Fisher County boys on the edu-
cational tour.
The next stop was Stamford,
home of the Texas Cowboy Re-
union. We circled the square
and stopped and took pictures
of the Memorial Day services.
We plan to take pictures in a
number of places along the route.
There were lots of evidence of
the recent rains and hail north
of Haskell. Crops' were good
where they had not been dam-
aged by the storms. Practically
every stream of any size was
half full of water.
Cirass was good everywhere
and several of the boys said how
he would like to have his cattle
on this grass. The alfalfa was
fine where it had not been dam-
aged.
Luther J. Wilson, county agent
of Fisher County who is on the
11 ip, conducted a name contest.
M. H. Ternpleton rould name
pvery boy. Freddie Max Sltiart
of Robv could name all but four
of the boys on the trip.
Lee Roy Goolshy of Roby was
elected leader of the group; Al-
vin Hackfeld. Loralne, assistant
leader and .limmy Guthrie, No-
lan, sergetint-at-arms. We ate our
lunch in Wichita Falls, 200 miles
from home. After traveling in
88 degree heat the lunch in an
air-conditioned cafeteria felt
good to us.
We arrived in Oklahoma City
on schedule at <> p. m. We-were
ill given double rooms on the
22nd.;.ml 23rd floors of the Ok*
homa Biltmore Hotel in Okla-
homa City. Ail of the boys were
instructed to meet in the Coffee
Shop at 6:30 in the morning. We
arrive in Stillwater Tuesday
morning.
The 24 boys on the trip are:
See BOYS On Page Six
Students In Snyder
School Favor Idea
Of Student Council
SNYDER The younger gener-
ation is ready for democracy re-
sponsibilities here. Snvder High
School students voted 85 per cent
in favor of a student council,
with 12 percent voting "maybe."
The must common definition
of a "student council" was "a
student governing body that
works out school problems with
the aid of the school authori-
ties."
Most of Ihe voters favored se-
lection of council members by
secret ballot.
Big Spring Man's
Body Recovered—
On Fishing Trip
Charles Colgen, 21, of Big
Spring drowned Monday night
at 10 o'clock when a boat cup-
sized on the Gregory private lake
at Westbrook, 28 miles west of
Colorado City.
Colgen's body was taken from
the "tank" at 7:4!) a. m. Tuesday
morning by Ihe Big Spring fire
department. A four-foot drag
was used to pick up the body.
• Colgen and two other Big
Spring men were fishing in the
private lake, owned by Dick
Gregory, ex-sheriff of Colorado
City, Monday night. Colgen and
one of the men went out in the
boat to set out a trout line. When
the boat capsized, he went un-
der twice and failed to come up
the third time. His companion
swam to shore where the third
fisherman was waiting on the
bank.
A call came into Colorado City
for searchers at 3:30 a. in. Tues-
day. At C a. m. a call came to
the Sweetwater fire depatment
for drags. Chief A. C. Forgay
and Assistant Chief Jack Shipley
left for Westbrook with the
equipment.
The body of the drowned man
was retrieved at 7:45. The
Sweetwater firemen had just ar-
rived at the scene when the Big
Spring group picked Colgen up
out of three-feet of water. The
body had evidently floated some
distance.
Chief Forgay was told that Col-
gen had drowned at 10 p. m.
Colgen is survived by a wife and
baby.
97 Degrees
Hot Monday
The official weather guague
Sv.'iV'lwJter reached 97 degrees
Monday afternoon, the highest of
the year according to weatherman
M. C. Manroe.
Any doubts in the minds of
the public that summer had ar-
rived were dispelled yesterday
when the mercury boiled into
the high 90s throughout the state
and hit 108 degrees at Presidio.
Dallas had a 96-degree reading,
typical of many parts of the
state. It was the highest read-
ing in Dallas since Sept.6 when it
was 99 degrees. Low maximum
vesterday was 80 at Guadalupe
Pass.
The weather bureau forecast
partly cloudy for East Texas and
generally fair for West Texas
with not much change in temper-
atures.
MEMORIAL DAY TALK
The Rev. Donald E. Erwin,
pastor of the First Presbyterian
Church, gave a talk on the im-
portance and meaning of Mem-
ial Day services at Tuesday's
Lions Club luncheon at the Blue
Bonnet skyroom.
Cleo Tarter, in charge of the
weekly program, presented the
speaker.
Eisler Slips Behind
Iron Curtain Shield
Ity I'nitcd Press
Communist agent Gelbart
Eisler made sine of his escape
from American Justice today
by flying to communist Czecho-
slovakia, safe behind the iron
curtain.
His arrival in the Soviet satel-
lite country coincided with re-
ports that ton communist lead-
ers of the eominform nations
were holding a strategy meet-
ing somewhere in Czechoslovak-
ia. Among them is Georgi M.
Malenkov, one of the top men
in Russia's politburo.
Eisler slipped away from Lon-
don to Prague in a regularly-
scheduled Czech Airlines plane.
He rode to the London airport
in a closed car and his name
did not appear on the passen-
ger list.
Despite all the stealth, how-
ever, his departure was strict-
ly legal. A British court last
week refused an American re-
quest for his extradition to the
United States and set him free.
The United States called him a
fugitive from justice and ac-
cused him of perjury.
Oilier foreign news included:
LA PAZ, Bolivia, — The Bo-
livian government proclaimed
a state of siege to combat labor-
political unrest marked by a
week-end of strike violence in
which two Americans were kill-
ed. The council of ministers de-
creed the emergency after
workers in six major tin-mining
areas' joined 2.0(H) miners at
the Patlno mine in the Catavi
area in striking.
PARIS —r The American,
STREAMLINER: Former President Herbert Hoover, here tes-
tifying before a Senate committee on government spending,
linided the 12-niaii bi-partisan commission oil federal reorgan-
ization.
The lloover board's recipe for streamlining llncle Sam
will save tax pavers $3 billion a year, it is claimed, provided
it is whole-hearted and fully adopted, he believes.
Mitchell County's
Farm Outlook Fine
Vet Bill Up Again
British and French foreign min-
isters met privately to decide
their next step in the light of
Russia's flat rejection of their
proposal for a union of east and
west Germany. They will meet
with the Soviet foreign minis-
ter later today.
BUMiR.ABK — Yugoslavia
charged that Hungary has cre-
ated a "state of dispute" with
^ ugoslavia by ordering the
Yugoslav repatriation mission
to leave Hungary.
SHANGHAI — The Dutch
ship Molenkerk will arrive in
Shanghai tomorrow with com-
munist permission to renew
Shanghai's shipping service
with the outside world.
Clues Very Few In
Apparent Lynching
Of Georgia Negro
IRWINTON, C,a„ May 31 —
(UP)—Authorities today dug
two bullets from the battered
body of 28-year-old Calib Hill,
Jr., after the sheriff here said
they were the only clues in the
apparent lynch slaying of the
Negro prisoner.
Sheriff George W. Hatcher
said he was out looking for his
gun in the pre-dawn hours yes-
terday when the your.ig Negro
.See CLUES On Page Six
COLORADO CITY, May 31—
Although excessive rains have
retarded planting and required
<ome replanting, Mitchell Coun-
ty's agriculture outlook this year
is one of the brightest in many
years, according to County Ag-
ent Joe Cowan.
There is a good small grain
acreage doing unusually well
and the cotton acreage expected
will set an all-time record. Al-
though this county's cotton av-
erage is about 80,000 acres in-
tention to plant figures show 95,-
000 acres for 1919.
Alfalfa is exceptionally good,
Cowan said. Earl Brown, for ex-
ample, got 80 bales to the acre.
Abruzzie Rye and hairy vetch
are doing so well in the sandy
country that "we are beginning
to believe these crops are going
to be Ihe salvation of Mitchell
county, the farm agent com-
mented.
Pastures and livestock are in
very good condition. Numbers
are low due to previous drouth
years and the lower rate of graz-
ing is helping the ranges. "We
are learning fast that a man is
not rich according to how many
head of cotton or sheep he has,"
Cowan said. "It's the number of
pounds of meat produced per
acre and not the number of head
grazed per acre that .is import-
tan t. Fewer cows can actually
produce more pounds of beef."
Congress Seeks To
Speed-Up Action
On Major Measures
WASHINGTON, May 31 (UP)
Congressional leaders, shooting
for a mid-summer adjournment,
conferred with President Tru-
man today on the order in which
they will tiring up their big back-
logs of administration bills.
They discussed the prospects
for action on the Atlantic Pact, |
repeal of the Taft-Hartley act.
and other "must" legislation.
Speaker Sam Rayburn of
Texas said House leaders defi-
nitely expect the labor commit-
tee to approve and send to the
floor "some kind" of a Taft-Hart-
ley repealer and minimum wage
bill.
Rayburn predicted passage of
new labor and minimum wage
bills before this session ends—
some time in August if the ad-
ministration time-table holds —
but he wouldn't say when.
Chairman David E. Lilienthal
of the Atomic Energy Commis-
sion was notified to appear be-
fore the joint congressional
committee tomorrow to answer
charges of "incredible misman-
agement."
Searching Inquiry
Into B-36 Program
Opens In Congress
WASHINGTON. May 31 (UP)
-—The House Armed Services
Committee today authorized un-
animously a "searching investi-
gation" of the air force's B-36
bomber program.
The committee asked the
House for subpena powers and
$50,000 to carry out the inves-
tigation.
Chairman Carl Vinson, D.,
Ga., said the inquiry will cover
not only the procurement and
performance of the controversial
six-engined bomber, but also
will go into the whole air force
concept of strategic bombing.
"We will let the chips fall
where they will," Vinson said.
"This will be no whitewash in-
vestigation. We will find guilty
myone who ought to be found
guilty. We will exonerate any-
one who has been wrongfully
charged."
The committee went into ac-
tion as result of charges of ir-
regularities in the purchase of
the B-36. The plane is manufac-
tured by Consolidated Vultee
aircraft corporation, of which
Defense Secretary Louis John-
son formerly was a director.
Both Johnson and Symington
have denied any irregularities in
the B-36 program. Symington
said the stories about him were
false and that he welcomed a
chance to prove them so.
Loan Measure Is
Just Single Vote
Short In House
AUSTIN, Tex., May 31 (UP)
—A $300,000,000 loan proposal
for World War II veterans, fall-
ing only two votes short of
adoption a week ago, edged
closer today but lost by a single
vote in the House.
The constitutional amendment,
sponsored by Rep. Miller Wal-
ker of Beaumont, received 99
votes in the lower chamber,
just one shy of the required
100 votes necessary for submis-
sion.
Twenty members voted
against the proposal.
However, there were indica-
tions that sponsors would seek
to reconsider the action in an
effort to snare the 100th vote
needed to ser.d the measure to
the Senate.
Walker's plan calls for the
state to issue bonds up to $300,-
000,000 to finance loans up to
$5,000 for small businesses or
homes for Texas veterans of
World War II. Loans would be
made on 4 per cent interest, pay-
able in 10 years.
The proposal was attacked by
Rep. Sam Hanna of Dallas, who
charged that "just because you
say 'veteran' you stampede dowr.'
here to vote."
The Walker measure, Hanna
said, "doesn't have a snowball's
•hance in hell of passing the
Senate." He termed the plan a
"handout."
Walker charged that "it's the
same old tune every time a bill
comes up here affecting the vet-
eran. A lot of people in the lob-
bies of these hotels," he said,
"are against everything for the
veterans."
SKEKS COMPROMISE
WASHINGTON, May 31 (UP)
— Speaker Sam Rayburn planned
to confer late today with attor-
ney generals from California,
Texas and Louisiana in an ef-
fort to get an agreement in the
Tidelands oil controversy.
Rayburn told newsmen that
he is acting as mediator in look-
ing for "an area of agreement"
which will protect both the
states and the federal govern-
ment in the tangle over the oil-
rich coasts.
Texas Holiday Death Toll
Was 26--Nation Had 390
B.v United Press
Six children were among nine
drowning victims in Texas, a
survey which began at 6 p. in.
Friday and ended at midnight
last night disclosed today.
The nir.n drownings brought
to at least 26 the number of
violent deaths recorded in
Texas during the long Memorial
Day week-end.
Six persons died in traffic ac-
?idents and II other fatalities
were attributed to miscellan-
eous causes.
Among the latest drowning
victims were Carl James Stran-
han, 5, who drowned ir.i a three-
loot deep irrigation canal at
Brownsville, and Charles Es-
pree, 21, Houston, who drowned
in a deep bar pit near suburban
Jacinto City. Both these deaths
iceurred yesterday.
Traffic crashes, drownings
and other accidents killed 390
persons during the Memorial
weekend, a final United Press
count showed today.
Highway accidents killed 217
persons, just two more deaths
than the National Safety Cour.
:'il had predicted in its pre-holi-
lay warning to motorists. Ninety
persons drowned and 83 others
died in miscellaneous accidents.
The toll of 390 deaths marked
a sharp decrease from the 1948
and 1947 tolls, but the number
if highway deaths was slightly
higher. Auto accidents killed 212
persons In 1948 and 206 in 1947.
Secret Balloting
Plan Is Approved
By Texas House
AUSTIN, May 31—The 51st
legislature today prepared to
take final action on the last of a
trio of battle-scarred tyilmer-Aik-
in educational reform bills.
Sponsored by Sen. Ottis Lock
of Lufkin. the bill would estab-
lish a minimum foundation pro-
gram and set up a system of de-
termining local support totaling
$45,000,000.
Lock's bill also would increase
minimum pay for " teachers to
$2,400,000 yearly.
Both the House and Senate re-
fused to close shop for the Me-
morial Day holiday yesterday.
Each house approved a secret
ballot plan offered by Rep. Boyle
Willis of Fort Worth after a
conference committee report
was adopted.
As finally approved, the bill
Would require each voter to leave
his ballot stub, with his name
signed on it at his voting pre?
cinct.
The district clerk would hold
the box of stubs, which could
be opened only by court order in
event of an election contest.
Proponents of voter registra-
tion legislation pushed a measure
by Rep. Frank Oltorf of Marlin
toward action on a 97-26 vote.
Olthorf's plan would become
effective only if the Texas elec-
torate approves an anti-poll tax
constitutional amendment now
before the legislature, or if Con-
gresss enacted an anti-poll tax
bill applicable for federal offices
in Texas.
Opponets took issue with sec-
tions of the Oltorf bill which
would require prospective vot-
ers to state their political party
membership in registering and
keep Republicans from voting in
Democratic primaries or vice
versa.
Civic Music Members
Meet Tonight At 7:30
Richard McGuirk, who was
here last fall for the Civic Music
membership drive, is in Sweet-
water today and has called a
meeting of the membership of
the local association for 7:30 p.
m. tonight at the Blue Bonnet
Hotel.
Plans for the membership
drive next fall will be discussed
and an election of officers for
next year may be held. A short
meeting is predicted, and all
members are invited to attend,
according to President Larry
Hubbard.
ADOPTS FAMILY—When four of her five kittens were taken
away, "Midnight" didn't brood about it. Instead the Mack cat
adopted two baby rabbits and is mothering them along with
her remaining kitten. She's the pet of Eleanor Dask, 13, of
Riverdule, 111.
New Snyder Highway Link
To Big Spring Promising
SNYDER, May 31—Prospects
for start of construction work on
Highway 350 from Ira to the
Colorado River soon are greatly
improved, according to County
Judge Edgar Taylor.
Right-of-way has almost been
completed, only one sTnall strip
of land remaining unsigned. Cost
will be about $30,600.
Highway 350 has been buffeted
around for the past six or eight
years. Work on the 'important
link between Snyder and Big
Spring to Vealmoor and contract
is epnding on the strip from
Vealmoor to the river.
The highway, Snyder's sixth
Acheson Refuses To
Consider Eisler's
Party Delegation
PARIS, May 31 (UP)—Secre-
tary of State Dean Acheson to-
day rejected a Soviet proposal
that representatives of the Ger-
man people's congress, of which
Gerhart Eisler is a member, be
invited to present their views to
the Big Four foreign ministers.
Acheson told Andrei Vishins-
ky of Russia:
"I do not believe for one min-
ute that these 2,000 delegates
(to the people's congress) in
any way represent the people of
Germany, or even the people of
the Soviet zone of Germany,"
Acheson said.
The people's congress yester-
day named a committee to come
to Paris to seek ani audience
with the foreign ministers. Also
yesterday, the elusive Commun-
ist agent, Gerhart Eisler, was
elected a member of the Con-
gress.
"1 do not believe," Acheson
told the council, "that tliis dele-
gation of German people could
or would express any views
whatever except those expressed ]
by Mr. Vishinsky.
major road, will be routed south
on Avenue S to a point near
the city airport and south across
Winston Brothers pasture to Ira.
Opposition Builds
Against Truman's
Health Programs
WASHINGTON, May 31. —
tt'P>— A spokesman for one
of the Blue Cross Hospitaliza-
tion groups today urged Con-
gress to pigeonhole President-
Truman's Health Insurance
Program pending a study by an
impartial fact-finding commis-
sion.
Meanwhila, a group of Re-
publicans came forward with
what they described as a "pro-
gressive" substitue for the Pres-
ident's health bill.
It tallied generally with ad-
ministration plans for support-
ing new hospital construction,
medical education and research,
but it differed widely in its pro-
posals for health insurance.
The administration bill calls
for a compulsory health insur-
ance program financed by pay-
roll taxes. The new Republican
plan calls for voluntary insur-
ance systems, empowered to
levy up to 3 per cent of salary
for health insurance.
In the case of low salaried
workers, the government would
make up the difference be-
tween what the insurance sys-
tem provided and the actual
medical attention cost.
MARKETS AT A GLANCE
By United Press
Stocks lower in moderate trad-
ing.
Bonds lower; U. S. govern-
ments did net trade.
Curb stocks lower.
Cotton futures lower.
Grains in Chicago: Wheat,
corn, oats and rye lower; soy
beans irregular.
First Car Of Wheat Comes
Here From N. M. Williams
ItAILKY NO-BILLED
FORT WORTH, Tex., May 31
(UP) The Tarrant County Grand
jury today no-billed Norman D.
Bailey, 52, former Dallas police
captain charged with attempted
bribery of City Councilman M.
M. McKnight.
Bailey was alleged to have of-
fered McKnight a $500 weekly
gambling payoff.
Sweetwater's first load of I
1949 wheat was received Mon-
day afternoon by the Moore-Eid-
son Grain Co. elevator from N. |
M. Williams, who farms south of |
the city.
It was 61 pound test weight
wheat with 13.69 per cent mois-
ture. Reports are that there will
be scattering loads within the
next few days but the main har-
vest will not get started until
perhaps next week.
Nolan, Scurry, Runnels, Fish-
er and some other counties in
this area have better than aver-
age wheat this year with Itie
east Fisher county and Hamlin
area wheat unusually good.
E. K. Willis, manager of the
Farmers Elevator at Roscoe,
said that wheat in the Roscoe
territory is good and much of it
seems to have recovered from
rust. There are a few patches of
Westar that look so good that
they may make 35 bushels, Wil-
lis said it is reported.
Box cars are in readiness on
every siding in this section and
along the Santa Fe north.
There is much discussion of
need for storage space with all
the terminals filled or promised.
Roscoe interests are discussing
building a large grain storage el-
evator but it could not be com-
pleted in time for the grain ser-
ghum harvest, according to re-
ports.
This Landlord Is
Friend For Kids
GLOVERSV'ILLE, N. Y., May
31 (UP) — I^ew Brott is a land-
lord who likes children.
He advertised his five room
flat for rent this way: $70 for
adults; $67.50 for adults and on#
child; $65, adults and two child-
ren; $62.50, adults and three
children, ar.d a flat $60 for a
family with four children.
"Alcoholic stains and cigaret
burns do damage. Dirty little
finger marks wipe off. 1
was a kid once myself," Brott's
sign read. _
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