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he would enter the national event.
The winners in the final competi-
tion will receive valuable scholar-
j ships and prizes
miist have cost a pretty penny. And
how pleased the giver must have
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bonds maturing in 35 to 50 years.
Four day« to gol
Christmas Lighting
Contest Deadline
Is Dec. 15
Th€ Daily SpoKesnmn
"Pampas Own Newspaper"
The Weather
PAMPA AND VICINITY: Coolor
and windy Saturday. Friday’s
maximum temperautro, 54 de-
grees; low, 27.
(Weather Map on Pago Seven)
VOLUME 4 — NUMBER 2
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PAMPA, TEXAS, SATURDAY MORNING, DEC. 11, 1954
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EIGHT PAGES—PRICE FIVE CENTS
One Bull’s
Bulletin
-By FRANK M. CARTER
HARVESTERS 91, CLOVIS 48
We ordinarily think of our State
Agricultural Schools as institutions
where only college students are
trained. This is certainly not thg
case as was trflly shown by the
Fourth Annual Texas Farm and
Ranch Credit School for Commer-
cial Bankers held the first of this I
week in College Station, and sport- j
Stored by the School of Agriculture,
w Agricultural and Mechanical^ Col-
lege of Texas, at College Station.
Mr. B. D. ROBISON, vice-presi-
dent of the First National Bank,
tells us that this meeting was not
only the most interesting, but the
most informative meeting that he
■has ever had the pleasure of at-
tending. Almost every phase of
agriculture yvas covered in this
four-day session. The following
^terns were on the agenda:
^ The Agricultural Outlook for 1955
The Cotton Situation and Outlook;
The Beef Cattle Situation and Out-
look; Federal Milk Marketing Ord-
ers; Carcass Characteristics of
Beef Steers (Demonstration); Live
Animal Grading of Beef Steers;
Beef Cattle Management Prae-
ties; Silage; Dairy Management
Practices; Federal Legislation and
Programs for 1955 which included
Acreage Allotments and Market-
'.ng Quotas; Commodity Loans and
•Price Supports; Texas Agricultural
Conservation Program; Changes in
Income Tax and Social Security
Laws Affecting Farmers; DIS-
CUSSION OF SOILS: What does a
Soil Profile Show; Soil Testing;
COMMODITY PRODUCTION AND
MARKETING PRACTICES AND
PROBLEMS: Poultry and Eggs:
Rice; Wool and Mohair; Fruits and
Vegetables; Swine. FARM AND
HOME DEVELOPMENT: Basic
-Purpose of Farm and Home De-
•velopment; The Farm as a Busi-
ness; The Farm Budget; The Role
of the Bankeu in Farm and Home
Development; and a final discus-
sion on the Outlook for the Future.
We know that most of these
items listed above are boring to a
good many of you—we only give
it to you to show what is being
done by schools in the State of
Texas.
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41 While we're talking schools, we
would like to have you read an
article recently published In the
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR,
in case you haven’t seen it.
"Here is a story with a moral,
the first chapter of which we
can only deduce: A couple of weeks
ago a mother—a father- -was din-
ing in a great New Yorjr hotel
where a state teachers’ convention
was in progress. She, or he, notic-
ed two teachers sitting at a nearby
•table and felt somehow impelled
to drop a pebble of gratitude into
a great pond of need. The second
chapter is reported news: The two
teachers finished their luncheon
and asked the waiter ^for their
checks. No charge, he told them,
and when pressed he handed them
a note. Don’t take any money from
these teachers, said the note. I
have two boys in school; I owe so
much to the teachers. And, added
the watier, no tip, please. That’s
Amy little token of the same. That
Wwas the pebble. And the ripples?
The story was spread from the con-
vention platform. Also, no doubt,
from the delegates assembled to
thousands of teachers back home,
and perhaps, by some newspapers,
to thousands more. It would be our
guess that many a teacher hear-
ing of it, bending a bit under to-
day’s added burdens laid on by
over-zealous critics, looked up, as
did Elisha's servant, and glimpsed.
& if but for a moment, the hosts of
w people like the most of us around
here. And the moral? A very old
one put in modern terms; Never
sell your pebble short if it’s a good
one. The pond you drop it in
be bigger than you think.’’
Butler Says
Ike Integrity
Undisputed
WASHINGTON, Dec. 10 A
Lawyer Is Skeptical
Suicide Deepens
Hagler Mystery
FORT WORTH, Dec. 10 A»-The
suicide of Frank A. St. Claire has
added one more strange note to a
weijd Oklahoma torch slaying.
St. Claire was the state's star
witness in the case against David
F. Hagler Jr.
Last night at his home in Irving,
Tex., the ex-used car salesman put
a bullet in his head.
Clyde Mays, St. Claire’s attorney
in Fort Worth, said he didn't
believe his client killed himself.
Justice C.M. Cantrell said he
did and returned a verdict of sui-
cide.
Mays said hg just didn't know of
may
A Los Angeles teacher training
her class in the use of proverbs
said: “Cleanliness is next to—
what?” A little boy exclaimed
feelingly, "Impossible!”
The world’s most handicapped
people—those without a sense of
humor.
STAY WITH THE TOP O’ TEX-
AS: IT’S THE BEST PLACE ON
EARTH.
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Safe-Driving Day
Is Mostly Night,
Drivers Warned
The Texas Safety Association,
Inc., reminds you that next Wednes-
day, December 15. will be S-D
day (safe-driving day). It might
just as appropriately be called-
safe-driving night.,
Actually, December 15 is one of
the shortest days of the year. From
midnight to midnight on December
15 there will be more than 14 hours
of darkness, less than ten hours of
sunlight.
It’s possible to travel safely aft-
er dark, but more, difficult. The
wise old owl can do it, but he
keeps both his ’’headlights’’ burn-
ing. A one-eyed owl would run into
trouble—and a “one-eyed” driver is
inviting trouble, too.
Be prepared. Check your head-
lights —also your taillights, stop
lights and directional signal lights.
Don’t forget to dim your lights
when meeting or following others
after dark.
And here's another word to the
wise: Slow down after 'sundown!
any reason why St. Claire would
take his life.
But a neighbor, O.E. St. Clair,
no relation, said his friend was
despondent: out of work, believing
he couldn't get a job because of
the case's publicity, faced with
foreclosure on his home.
He quoted St. Claire as saying,
"Life was getting too much for
him.”
Hagler is charged with murder
in the death of an unknown man
near Davis, Okla., Oct. 10. At first,
it was believed the corpse was
Hagler.
Since then officers have had
clues that apparently identified the
body as that of half a dozen miss-
ing men. Each time the supposed
victim has been located. The latest
instance came today when William
Reed Matthews was found in a
Veterans Administration hospital
at McKinney, Tex. He had been re-
ported missing by a friend who
said Matffiewft’ TMWWpthJli»tallied
with that of the corpse.
St. Claire told police Hagler had
told him about Oct. 1 that Hagler
planned to get a body from a
morgue for $500 and burn it as
part of a $200,000 insurance swin-
dle.
... He told police Hagler's story
sounded like a joke to him and
he paid no attention to it.
The fruitless hunt for the identity
of the charred corpse found in a
burning, wrecked station wagon
has at times turned to Europe.
Hagler turned up" a few days
after the body was found. He told
of being on a drunken spree and
of not being able to remember
much of anything. His movements
have been traced into Oklahoma
early in October.
". . .It's awful that his life ended
that way," Hagler said today of
------ A1 —
Chairman-elect Paul M. Butler of
the Democratic Nutional Commit-
tee said today he will never ques-
tion the "loyalty or integrity” of
President Eisenhower, but re-
serves the right to call attention
to his “failures."
Butler told a crowd of about 50
reporters at his first Washington
news conference that nothing "per-
sonal" was involved in his state-
ment last Sunday at New Orleans
that the President "lacked the ca-
pacity" to lead and unite the Amer-
ican people.
"As I have said," he
"I will never vilify the
as Sen. McCarthy has
but all the roars of Chairman Hall
and other Republicans will not de-
ter me from calling attention to
the failures of the President."
Butler said Democratic spokes-
men have consistently treated the
President with courtesy and con-
sideration, adding:
"Mr. Eisenhower would be a
happier man if he were, treated
as well by his own party."
The 49-year-old, slightly built
South Bend, Ind., attorney, elected
at New Orleans last Saturday to
succeed Stephen A. Mitchell, read
a lengthy statement, then submit-
ted to questioning.
One reporter, mindful that
Mitchell was hand-picked as chair-
man by Adlai Stevenson, the par-
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New Blas.J Of
Cold Air Due
A new cold front, bringing strong,
gusty.winds, will hit the Panhandle
about 6:30 a.m. Saturday and
carry moisture to all portions of
Texas except the western part,
forecastscrs said.
It may mean a white Christmas
for some of Texas.
The high temperature in Pampa
Friday was 54, the low, 27 de-
grees. The midnight reading was
14. The barometer was falling at
29.86, indicating agreement with
vthe forecasters of a change.
Dr. Sheppard
Raps Police
In Testimony
CLEVELAND, Dec. 10-UP- Or.
Samuel H. ' Sheppard • chargef
his trial Friday that police tri
get him to confess to his v
murder by implying that he was
not the father of her unborn child.
Pale but composed, Sheppard
told the jury that only his convic-
tion that "Marilyn is in my comer”
had enabled him to bear the ordeal
since her death last July 4.
He said he had told police
Marilyn was expecting a baby and
that they both were happy about
it, but that detective Peter Beck-
er "questioned the fact of my being
the father of the baby."
Becker also examined his arms
for needle marks' and demanded to
know if he ever took narcotics
for medication, Sheppard said, and
"’I told him certainly not, except a
bit.”
Fighting for his life in the second
day of his appearance on the wit-
ness stand, Sheppard went back
over the events of the day Marilyn
was murdered. He closed his eyes
and spoke haltingly as he described
how her body looked when he
found it, and said. that the hours
that followed seemed as if "it was
all a terrible nightmare or dream.”
After his arrest on July 30, he
said, police hammered at him con-
tinuously, seeking a confession.
They also tried to get him to plead
to manslaughter, he said. One de-
tective, Harold Boyette, would
question him quietly at length
about irrelevant matters and then
suddenly shout: “Sam! why did,
you do it?" Sheppard told the
jurors. Then, he said, Boyette
would mimic an axe swing, clasp-
ing his hands over his head and
bringing them down sharply while
he repeated, "down . . . down . . .
down."
Marilyn Sheppard was beaten to
death in her bed, and the state has
argued that Sheppard killed her in
a quarrel about his attentions to
red-haired Susan Hayes, a pretty
former laboratory technician in the
clinic where he and his brothers
practiced with their father.
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ONLY TWO WEEKS until Christmas,
but that is a long, long time, these two
young sonti of Mr. and Mrs. Weldon
f 6.13 Dtum Drive, jww thii.’;iny,
Ricky, 5,
Ricky, 5, left, and Terry, 6, just sat down
in front of their newly decorated Christ-
mas’ tree Friday night and thought about
Santa Claus. They probably were not
alone in their joyous thoughts, though,
for throughout P?mpa, where only a
week ago sales of Christmas trees were
slow, a young forest has started up in
Ibj? Vi 1 lg rooms of homes, ^nd this
weekend will see countless dthers decor-
ated as willing and exuberant yoiirtgsters
help parents adorn trees with shimmer-
ing tinsel, colorful ornaments and pretty
lights. (Spokesma’n Photo)
East Or West,
Maverick Still
Hard To Catch
Maverick fans can take some
consolation in their failure to
come up with a winner this week
from reports of other newspapers
around the country that carry the
puzzle.
Of sevente.cn newspapes report-
ing results, only four had winners.
Three of these, the Minneapolis
Star & Tribune, the Durham, N. C.,
Morning Herald and the Madison
Wis., Capital Times had one win-
ner each. The Denver, Colo., Post
had six winners out of 40,000 en-
tries. The Minneapolis paper had
82.048 entries, Durham 22.Q86 and
the Madison Capital Times
went merrilv on his way and so
did the $175 prize.
But another $25 was added to
the Christmas bonus awaiting who-
ever ropes and brands the little
critter correctly this time. The puz-.
zle appeared in Friday's Spokes-
man. The prize is now $200. En-
tries must he in the Spokesman of-
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Weary Postal Crews
Battling Usual Mess
If It come* from a hardware
store we have It. Lewis Hardware
-(Adv.)
- Buy her glass furniture tops for
^Christmas, Home Builders Supply.
—Adv.
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 10 T A
tireless trouble-shooter for Santa
Claus is busier than ever this
year and earl.er, too unscram-
bling the mess caused by sloppy
gift wapping.
This patient, indispensable
Christmas helper is, of course, no
less than Uru^o Sam himself. Pre-
cisely, the post office.
His is a plodding, an unclamor-
ous, generally anonymous’ often
frustrating, yet enormously vital
job. Just let it stop altogether,
even for a day in a season like
this, and the public really would
get a jolt.
Year after year the Post Office
Department says plpase pack.
Teed Is Top
Area Orator
Dan Teed, sftn of Mr. and Mrs.
Arthur M. Teed, is the winner of
the Junior Chamber of Commerce
Region 1 "Voice of Democracy
contest.
" The 16-year-old Pampa High
School student scored highest with
his speech on democracy in region-
al competition. Jack Alien, of Per-
ryton, regional JayCee president
advised J. C, Hopkins, local Jay-
cee president, Friday.
Teed, a junior, entered the re-
gional contest after having won
over three other finalists here Nov.
30
A recording of his speech will he
entered in the state contest.
wrap and tie your parcels care-
fully; mark fragile goods boldly;
put names and addresses both in-
side and out: and don't send mon-
ey in unregistered letters or tuck
cash in with the Christmas card
And year after year it comes to
j the same thing-tin all-out salvage
j project lasting well into the new
year.
If the tons of stuff spilled out
j of broken bundles in a metropoli-
I tan post office do not quite sug-
j gest a vast rummage sale in Bed-
I lam, that’s because the trouble-
shooter is so good at his job.
j . The rush and crush started in
| headlong fashion this season, tum-
J bling into the thick of Thanksgiving
j festivities and building up nightly
j in December's first days. Already
' the allotted areas in the Philadei-
\ phia General Post Office are
stacked with gifts gone wrong.
! Glancing around at random, one
| sees a broken train set. a forlorn
Cinderalla gown, an artist’s kit, a
praver book, a child's pocketbook.
j silverware, jewelry, games, all
! manner of bits and pieces from
I toyland.
It's all rather melancholy. The
; obvious care in choosing pres-
ents, the eagerness in giving, the
i effort spent on inner trimmings
j fancy paper, ribbons and bows—.
] are so often wasted for want of
good stout cord, that last sure
touch for security's sake. As one of
the staff said, showing that a man
needn’t lx* prosaic simply because
i he works in a post office. "It's like
| a depot of broken dreams."
He spoke no more than the truth
U.N. Votes
To Condemn
Red Chinese
UNITED NATIONS. N.Y., Dee.
10 2P ’(’he U.N. Assembly by the
smashing vote of 45-5 today con-
demned Red China for jailing 11
Amercan airmen as spies.
It appealed to Secretary General
Dag Hammarskjold to do his ut-
to obtain their release and
that of hundreds of other U. N.
■rsonnel captured in the Korean
ar and still detained by Peiping.
Hammarskjold immediately ac-
cepted the responsibility, saying,
"I will do all in my power to serve
the interests of the organization."
He already had set in motion the
machinery of his office but he de-
clined to indicate what steps were
being taken. It is known that he
regards this case as perhaps the
greatest challenge ever to face the
secretary general since the U. N.
began work in 1946.
Stubborn Soviet bloc* resistance
to the resolution and its repeated
claims the airmen were "spies"
who got what they deserved indi-
cated the Red Chinese, as of the
present, will ignore the U. N. ac-
tion. An Irtdian attempt on a ten-
tative basis to see what could be
done has been firmly rebuffed by
Peiping.
Onlv the Soviet bloc members
voted against the condemnation,
which was contained In a resolu-
ton put up last Monday by the
United States and its 15 U- N. part-
ners in the Korean War.
$x countries, Afghanistan, Bur-
ma, India, Indonesia. Yemen and
Yugoslavia, abstained. Four other
members, Costa Rica, El Salva-
dor. Saudi Arabia and Syria were
absent but Syria had served notice
it was opposed to the condemna-
tion. The others said nothing.
The vote came at 3:50 p.m., aft-
, er hours of day and night wran-
| gling between the East and West.
It was the second time the U. N.
Assembly has condemned Red
China, which has sought a seat in
the U. N. as -a "peace-loving’’
country.
On Feb. 1, 1951, more than two
months after Red Chinese hordes
poured into the Korean Wnr
against the U. N., the Assembly
voted 44-7 to find Communist China
guilty of aggression. On that vote,
the Soviet bloc of five plus India
and Burma voted against the reso-
lution of aggression: Nine couTitrlOa
abstained at that time—Afghan-
istan. Egypt, Indonesia. Pakistan,
Saudi Arabia. Sweden, Syria, Yem-
en and Yugoslavia. In today's vote,
Egypt. Pakistan and Sweden
switched to the column condemn-
! inc the Red Chinese.
The furore in the Assembly on
the airmen arose several davs aft-
er Peiping announced in a Thanks-
giving Day broadcast that 13
Americans had been convicted as
spies. The group included 11 air-
men and two civilians. Henry Cnh-
; ot Ixxige Jr., chief American dele-
gate, on the onlers or President
. Eisenhower and Secretary of State
' Dulles, brought the case here last ‘
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Dam Officials
In Washington
WASHINGTON, Dec. 10 A> -Two
Amarillo men conferred today with
Asst. Interior Secretary Fred Aan-
dahl on the proposed 85 million
dollar Canadian River dam and
aqueduct system which would serve
11 Texas cities.
S.B. Whittenburg, publisher of
the Amarillo Globe - Times, and
Thomas Thompson, of the paper's
editorial staff, met with Aandahl
as spokesman for the Canadian
River Municipal Authority.
The water storage and distribu-
tion project was authorized four
years ago by Congress but no
money for construction has been
appropriated. The legislation called
for repayment of 95 per cent of
the project’s cost by water users,
industrial, agricultual and domes-
tic.
Rep. Rogers (D-Tex), one of the
main congressional supporters of
the project, said after talking with
the two Amarillo men following
their visit with Aandahl that thev
discussed the over-all picture of
financing.
He said he is willing to Intro-'
duee legislation calling for federal
financing of 25 per cent of the
project cost. The towns and cities
'n the Texas Panhandle and High
Plains, including Amarillo and
Lubbock, would finance the re-
THE NATIVITY SCENE, planned and constructed by
pupils at Sam Houston Elementary School tot the holi-
day season, was lighted in special rites Friday at 7 p.m.
when more than 200 children joined in singing the tra-
ditional Christmas carols led by Mrs. Mildred Sullivan.
Part of the singing group is shown at right. The photo
above shows the Three Wise Men (at left), the manger
scene, the angels, the shepherds who came to worship
the new-born Child, and the star that guided them.
(Spokesman Photo)
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