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Number 295
TRUK TO SPIRIT OF CHRISTMAS—Carl O. Olson, right, 27.
of Alameda, California, received a real Christmas present at
San Rafael, Calif. After a month of training he was present-
ed with a newset of eyes, a dog ti lined by “Guide Hogs For
The Blind.” The 10th graduation of this organization had
its exercises in the form of a Christmas party. (NEA Tele-
photo). ____ __
Recognition Asked
For Spain, Israel
LONDON', Dec. 10—(CI'J-
Former Prime Minister Win-
ston Churchill recommend-
ed in the House of Commons
today that Britain recognize
the governments of Israel
and Spain.
Churchill spoke In the House
of Commons on the second day
of debate on foreign affairs. The
leader of the conservative oppo-
sition ranged the whole field of
controversial situations in the
world.
Recommending recognition of
Israel. Churchill said the .lews
had set up a functioning govern-
ment, they had a victorious
army, and they had the support
of both Russia and the United
States.
“These may be unpleasant
facts, but can they he disputed?”
he’asked the House. “It seems
to me the government of Israel
cannot tie ignored. We should
send a representative to Tel Aviv
without delay.”
“No British or Americans were
killed by the Spaniards,” he said.
“The indirect aid we received
from Spain throughout the war
was of immense service.
“Spain refused to facilitate the
movement of Hermans to take
Gibraltar and to enter Africa.
It cannot lie said that Spain in-
jured us or the United States
in the late war. Then why
should he say the Spanish peo-
ple must he treated as outcasts
just because they are governed
by Gen. (Francisco) Franco?
’“I say there is far more liber-
ty in Spain under General Flan
e'o than in any of the countries
behind the iron curtain.”
Churchill said Russia was the
“greatest topic of all.” But he
denied iliat he advocated a pol-
icy of war. The Soviets have
labeled him as No. 1 warmonger,
lie noted that he had said fre-
quently that Hie west should try
to reach a settlement with Rus-
•sia before the Soviets have the
atom bomb.
lie said it was a “Iremen-
ibnis event" that the 1'tilled
Slates might be about to give
military guarantee to west-
ern Europe.
“The United States may now
he prepared to do what they
never before dreamed of doing,
to give a guarantee to western
Falrope against aggression,
coupled with military cal la Itera-
tion," lie said.
Questions On
Lake .Plan To
Be Discussed
KXOX To Broadcast
Special Program
Tonight At 9:30
.lunior Chamber of Commerce
water committees will have an-
other discussion program over
Radio Station KXOX tonight at
<1:30 o'clock, it was announced to-
day.
Much interest was created in
the all-out discussion Thursday
night hut some questions arriv-
ed late. They will he answered
tonight.
One of ihe most common mis
understanding about the water
issue, it iias developed, is the
fact that there are two proposi-
tions on the ballot.
This is necessary because the
city water works now has $-40,-
000 in revenue water works
bonds outstanding. It is neces-
sary in proposition No. 1 for the
voters to approve retirement
of these bonds. Proposition No.
2 is to vote $2,451,000 in bonds
for the new construction. This
is merely a legal technicality but
it is necessary for the people to
vote authority to issue bonds to
pav off the $-19,000 in old bonds
and then also to vote to issue
$2,451,000 for construction bonds.
To get Oak Creek lake it is
necessary for a majority of the
voters to vote “for” both propo-
sitions.
The confusion about the two
propositions grows out of the
fact that to begin with the city
was considering two lake sites.
However, when the present elec-
tion was called the city commis-
sion was considering ONLY the
Oak Creek site. There is only
one proposition to lie voted upon
so far as the lake site is con-
cerned ,
The two propositions on Iho
ballot Saturday are (1) to issue
$49,000 in new water works
bonds to take up oustanding old
water works bond and (21 to
vote $2,451,000 for the new lake.
It is necessary to vote for both
because the old bonds must he
retired before any new bonds
can he issued.
These and other questions will
be discussed fully tonight on the
radio program, the committee
announced. Additional inquiries
are invited.
Youths Shaken Up In
Accident At Crossing
Three boys were slightly in-
jured Thursday night, when the
car ir. which they were riding hit
a parked oil tank car at the rail-
road crossing in the 100 block
of the 12th street. The accident
occurred at 8:05 p. m.
Bobby Mullins, the driver of
the car, suffered leg and head
lacerations. The other two occu-
pants of the car were Eugene
ilpnderson, and Donald Barrett.
All three were taken to the
Sweetwater Hospital in a Wells
munist: they did not know that {ambulance. They were given
espionage war involved. I first aid treatment and released.
Ex-Communist Spy
Resigns Plate As
Editor Wilh Time
NEW YORK, Dec. 19, (UP)—
Whittaker Chambers, former
communist spy courier, an-
nounced today he had resigned
as a senior editor of Time Mag-
azine.
Chambers, a key figure in the
espionage investigation, made
the announcement through bis
attorneys, Minton <fc McNulty.
lie said his resignation had
been accepted by the magazine.
Chambers statement follows :
"I have offered my resigna-
tion as a senior editor of Time
Magazine. It lias been accepted.
Both of these acts became im-
perative when 1 recently began
to make revelations about com-
munist, espionage. When Time
hired me in 1939 its editors
knew that I w as an ex com-
Committee Tampering
In Spy Case Charged
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WASHINGTON, Dee. 10 (UP)
Attorney General Tom Clark
insisted today that he “just told
the truth” in charging that the
House Un-American Activities
committee is tampering with
the government’s own Commun-
ist spy investigation.
His statement was made af-
ter attending the weekly cabi-
net meeting with President Tru-
man. He would not say whether
the spy investigation was men-
tioned at the cabinet meeting.
But then he added:
"I’m filing everything in
pumpkins thes edays so I can
locate it.”
lie referred to the microfilm
copies of secret state depart-
ment documents which were
found in a pumpkin on the Mary-
land farm of a reformed Com-
munist Whittaker Chambers.
Shortly after Clark’s new crit-
icism of the committee the com-
mittee called another public
hearing in its spy investigation.
And it was learned that the
FBI sent the state department
periodic reports on Alger Hiss
during his 10 years with the de-
partment.
There was'no indication as to
what was in the reports. But
there is no evidence they caused
alarm among state department
officials,
The First scholarship student,
sponsored hy the Navy League,
to enter the N. H. from Haipan
gets Ills initial glimpse of
America. He’s Si-years-old
Antonio Tenorio, pictured
on arrival in San Francisco.
Antonio ,whose previous edu-
cation has all been Japanese,
will study at Marquette Uni-
versity, Milwaukee.
B-50 Refueled
Explosions Claim
Heavy Loss 01 Life
Al Topeka Plant
TPEKA, Kan., Dee. 10—(UP)—
The death toll in the explosions
which smashed the Tecumseh
Power Station of the Kansas
Power and Light Co., said he
felt sure that no more bodies
would he found.
In addition to the If! injured
workers sent to hospitals, about
20 were treated for minor in-
juries at llte scene.
The explosions late yesterday
cut off electric power to this
capital'city of 90,000 persons for
more than two hours.
The cause of the blasts still
had not been determined.
Workers said they had smelled
gas at the plant for several days,
and it was believed an accumu-
lation of coal gas might have
exploded.
The two thunderous blasts
were followed hy fire. Some of
the dead were killed Instantly hy
the explosion or crushed by
heavy steel lieams hurled down
on them. Others were burned.
Kiwanis Christmas
Party For Children
Is Planned Dec. 23
Gulf
Discuss
Proposed Water Supply
CHICAGO, Dec. 10, (UP) —
A B-50 homlier, refueled in flight
by smaller B-29 Superfortress
bomljers, lias completed a 9,400
mile non-stop round trip to
Hawaii, Air Force Secretary W.
Stuart Symington disclosed to-
day.
The flight was made on Dec.
7 the same day that another
Air Force homlier. the six-en-
gined B-36, made an 8,000 non-
stop flight over roughly the
same course. The B-30 flight
was made without refueling.
Symington told a luncheon of
the Executive Club of Chicago
that the flight of the B-29 was
“much more significant” be-
cause it demonstrated the pos-
sibilities of aerial refueling.
During the flight, B-29’s—es-
pecially adapted to serve as
aerial tankers—made three re-
fueling contacts with the B-50.
The big four-engine plane ear-
ned a “sizeable useful load of
bombs” and dropped the bombs
midway in its flight.
Both the B-50 and the B-36
flew over roughly the same
course from Carswell Air Force
Base, Fort Worth, Tex., to the
Hawaiian Islands and return.
Tin* B-50 is smaller than the
1 {-:!(> which is the Air Force’s
largest land plane. The two
(lights were conducted as sep-
arate operations.
The Air Force said in Wash-
ington that tlic B-50 has a range
i i 0,000 miles with a 10.000-
pound bomb load. Its 9,400-mile
Bight was made in slightly more
than 10 hours while the B-36
Bight took 3(1 hours.
Symington described the B-50
as the “latest, fastest and high-
est flying long-range operation-
al homlier in the Air Force.”
The Air Force said it will con-
tinue development of the oper-
; tional use of the air-to-air re-
r.iueling technique.
Barnes Eirihusiaslit
Over Possibilities
For Oak (reek lake
.V-sIstant General Mana-
ger Bonner Barnes of the
Gulf Oil Corporation, Pitts-
burgh, Pa., met with the
city commission this morn-
ing and discussed at length
the various phases of Gulfs
participation in the Oak
Creek project to the extent
of $1,000,000.
Previously it had been an-
nounced he would be in Sweet-
water Dec. 13, hut later he
found it possible to be here soon-
er.
Barnes told a representative
of the Reporter that he felt en-
thusiastic about the water situ-
ation in Sweetwater “because it
is necessary that we have plenty
of water before we can do any
expanding.”
Four proposals, prepared hy
the city engineers fiscal agents,
City Manager Hans Thorgrim-
sen, and the city commission,
with reference to Gulf’s contem-
plated purchase of water from
the city, were submitted to
Barnes and discussed at length.
Any one of the proposals offer
a basis by which Gulf can pur-
chase water and any one of
them would he acceptable to the
Barnes staled that it would be
about the lirst of the year before
Gulf could make a complete
study of the proposals and de-
cide which one it will accept.
In charge of the meeting was
Mayor J. C. Pace, Jr., Commis-
sioners present were Lester
Reeves and Dalton Hill.
EVACUATION OF SHANGHAI—Arms laden with toys and
supplies for his family, Crvl Joe E. Humphrey, S3, of Biis-
tow, Oklahoma, leads the way up the gangplank of the Army-
transport Republic for evacuation to the United States.
Signs of growing panic in the city as the Communist drive
continues has made the situation of Americans in Shanghai
increasingly dangerous. (NEA Telephoto).
Nephew Backs Up
Chambers Story Of
Stolen Documents
WASHINGTON, Dec. 10 (UP)
(UP)—Nathan L. Levine, neph-
ew’ of Whittaker Chambers’
wife, today corroborated Cham-
bers story that 10 years ago he
gave Levine a sealed envelope
which Chambers said contained
stolen State Department docu-
ments.
Levine told his story to an
open session of the House Un-
American Activities Committee.
He said he didn’t know what was
in the envelope.
But Chambers, self-confessed
former spy, has said the enve-
lope contained secret documents
taken from the state department
and passed to Soviet under-
ground agents.
Levine said he had known
Chambers for approximately 15
years. He said that Chambers
had lived in “morbid fear of be-
ing liquidated by the Com-
munists.”
Levine already has appeared
before a federal grand jury at
New York which is investigating
espionage.
He said Chambers instructed
him that if anything happened
to him the package was to be
given to Chamber’s wife, Esther.
If anything happened to both
Chambers and his wife, Levine
said Chambers told him that as
i attorney he would know
what to do with the package.
Christmas Music On
Program For Tonight
The Kiwanis Club's annual
Christmas party for the children
was set for Thursday, Dee. 23,
at the dub’s luncheon today at
noon at the Blue Bonnet Hotel.
It will be held at the First Meth-
odist Church basement in the
evening.
Torn Porter was program
chairman and M. B. Templeton
county agricultural agent, dis-
cussed the crops of this six
county area which mount in the
millions for cattle, cotton, sheep,
swine, grains, sorghums and
other products.
Visitors included Sid Pass of
Abilene and Doyle Fraley of
Sweetwater.
In response to a letter from
Cal Farley of the Boys’ Ranch
at Old Taseosa, individual mem-
bers of the dub raised a Christ-
mas gift of $45 to be forwarded
to tlic ranch,
Christmas carols sung by a
mixed chorus from Newman
High School, under direction of
Miss Marie Hill, will feature a
special program tonight on the
south steps of the court house
tonight at 7 o’clock.
This 30 minute program will
be timed with turning on the
lights of the Junior Chamber of
Commerce silver Christmas tree
and formal presentation of spe-
cial Yuletide scenes around the
square.
A novel effect of "music from
the heavens" has been provided
for this season by Kelly Radio
and Appliance in cooperation
with the JayCees. Loudspeakers
atop the court house will ampli-
fy carols, chimes and special re-
corded music by direct wire
from the Kelly office during the
evenings and at times during
the evenings and at times dur-
ing the day.
A scenic display on the south-
west corner of the square, spon-
sored by the Business and Pro-
fessional Woman's club, was de-
signed and made by members of
the drawing and woodwork
classes of Newman High school,
H. D. Bankston, instructor.
Drawings were by Pat Purcell
and Billy Adams.
Other beautiful Christmas
scenes on the square are by the
Catholic Women's Altar Society
and the Creative Arts Club.
Under the JayCees’ tree will
be St. Nicholas and his rein-
deer in silhouette.
J. L. Lewis, 84,
Pioneer Resident
Of County, Dies
Jerry Lee Lewis, 84, resident
of Nolan County for 48 years,
died this morning at 8 o’clock at
his home in the Nolan-Divide
community. He was a farmer
and stockman.
A native of Little Rock, Ark.,
ho was born on July 14, 1864. He
came to Nolan County from Hill
County, Texas, He was married
in Hiil County to Miss Josie
Lennis, who died in 1904. In 1921,
he was married to Miss Zadu
Street in Abilene.
A members of the Nolan
Methodist Church, he had been
cn the board of stewards there
for over 25 years.
Funeral services will be held
at 2 p. m. Saturday at the Nolan
Methodist Church with the Rev.
Wyatt Shanks of Snyder and the
Rev. L. H. Hooper, Nolan pas-
tor. officiating. Burial will lie in
the Nolan cemetery with nep-
hews serving as pallbearers.
Well-; Funeral Home is in charge
of the arrangements.
Survivors include his widow,
Nolan; two sons, J. O. Lewis,
Nolan, and E. F. Lewis, Sweet-
water: three daughters. Mrs. N.
C. Egger. Nolan; Mrs. H. D.
Wells. Sweetwater, and Miss Fay
Lewis, Plainview; two sisters,
Mrs. Della Beall, Waco, and
Mrs. H. Allen, Sweetwater: 16
grandchildren and five great-
grandchildren.
Saturday To
Be Eventful
Day For City
Citizens Ballot On
Authorizing Water
Project For Future
Sweetwater votes Saturday on
authorizing a $2,500,000 water
works bond issue for construc-
tion of the Oak Creek lake proj-
ect.
Committees have been hard at
work to inform the public of all
the ramifications and the signi-
ficance of this election.
\fter 16 months of intensive
study, it is recommended that
tile dam at Oak Creek will pro-
vide Sweetwater with ample wa-
ter for her future needs at low
cost.
The proposition to be voted
upon is to issue water works
bonds to be repaid from reve-
nues of the water department.
The election order itself states
the bonds cannot be considered
an obligation affecting the tax
rate.
The ballot will have two prop-
ositions. They are in reality one
vnd tE*e same thing. Legally it
is necessary for voters who want
the Oak Creek project to (1 >
vote for a proposition to pay off
$49,000 in old outstanding bonds
with new bonds and (2) to vote
for a proposition to authorize ad-
ditional $2,451,000 bonds for the
construction.
The election voting place will
be in the foyer of the municipal
building.
Those eligible to vote are qual-
ified voters who have rendered
real estate or personal property'
on the tax rolls
Polls open 8 a. m. and close
at 7 p. m.
Approximately 2,500 property-
owners are in the city. Counting
the vote of man and wife, 5,000
votes are possible.
A large vote is being urged
to get a full expression of the
will of the people.
Russia Unhappy Over Human Contributions For
Rights Proposals At U. N. Goodfellow Funds
Now Reach $1,157
PARIS, Dec. 10, (UP) — Rus-
sia attempted today to block
United Nations approval of the
universal declaration of human
rights as the General Assembly
vent into its last 48 hours of the
Faris meeting.
Soviet delegate Andrei Vish-
insky bitterly attacked the clause
giving everyone everywhere the
luflit to freedom of opinion and
expression in a long debate on
the declaration which kept the
General Assembly in session un-
til early this morning.
As soon as the assembly has
finished with the human rights
Oeclarution it is scheduled to
take up Palestine and Korea in
that order. There were grave
doubts that final action could be
taken on either liefore ad-
journment tomorrow night.
The security Council also was
hlocked on its plan to meet to-
day to consider Israel’s appli-
cation for United Nations mem-
bership at this session.
The scheduled meeting was
cancelled when it was announced
that Philip C. Jessup, the only-
man in Paris who can under
American law cast a vote for
tne United States Council, had
been admitted to a hospital suf-
fering from bronchitis.
The Goodfellow Fund lias
grown to $1,157 as the result of
$52 in gifts reported by noon to-
day.
Contributions include:
Balance.......... $1,105.00
C. E. Mays, Jr., .. 5.00
Mrs. George \Y. Smith 5.00
Annie B. Aycock . 10.00
B. A. McPherson .. .. 10.00
Vandervoorts .. . . 10.00
Broughton Motor Co. 10.00
Wilkinson Grocery .. 2.00
n
Total
$1,157.00
Phone Union Makes
Coercion Charges
Against Company
ST. LOUIS, Dec. 10 (UP) —
Charges of unfair labor prac-
tices were filed against the
Southwestern Bell Telephone
late yesterday by a union repre-
senting almost 50,000 of its
employes.
Filing of the charges with the
National Labor Relations Board
climaxed a day of rapid-fire de-
velopments in contract negotia-
tions that began last April.
The union sought an NLRB
ruling against the company
shortly before union counter-
proposals to a company wage
offer were submitted at a bar-
gaining session last night. The
union demanded a flat $6 a
week increase for its members
in Missouri, Oklahoma, Kansas,
Arkansas and a small part of
Illinois adjacent to St. Louis.
Earlier, the company proposed
raises ranging from $2 to $6 for
workers in various classifica-
tions and asserted that union ac-
ceptance would necessitate rate
increases for Bell subscribers.
Everett E. Cotter, general
counsel for the Southwestern
of the union, Communications
Workers of America, said the
coercion of employes was the
basis for the allegations filed
with the NLRB. He charged that
company officials tried to bar-
gain individually with employes
before the union had time to
consider the management's of-
fer.
Cotter said that switchboard
operators had been called from
their boards in groups of four to
eight by supervisors here who
discussed the company’s terms.
A similar procedure was fol-
lowed in East St. Louis, Dallas,
Tex., and Springfield, Mo., Cot-
ter said.
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Baker, Allen. Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 51, No. 295, Ed. 1 Friday, December 10, 1948, newspaper, December 10, 1948; Sweetwater, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth714123/m1/1/: accessed May 6, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sweetwater/Nolan County City-County Library.