Stephenville Daily Empire (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 151, Ed. 1 Sunday, April 2, 1950 Page: 5 of 8
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GRIDIRON CLUB POTS SHIVERS MID
LEGISLATURE ON SPOT IN TAKEOFF
FORT WORTH. April 1 (UP)—.
The song hit. “Mule Train," be-
came “Gravy Train” last night
addition of the new division an ab-
solute must for the stock show.
"And because of the premium
members of the Fort Worth Grid- .prices horse meat steaks have been
iron Club put Gov. Allan Shivers bringing on the Fort Worth mar-
put Gov. Allan Shivers
and the Legislature on the griddle.
City and county officials bore the
brwlt of the good-natured roasting
but other personalities also were
spotlighted when .the newsmen-
turned-aetors did a skit on “doc
tors in the welfare wonderland.1
District Attorney Will Wilson of
Dallas was called to the stage by
Roaatmaster Walter Humphrey,
editor of the Fort Worth Press,
and cautioned to keep Dallas slay-
ings within Dallas county. Ha was
then presented the upper half of a
manikin, liberally sprinkled with
red paint.
In a skit entitled, “Salve for the i
Taxpayer,” the chorus sang a ditty
urging taxpayers to “get hep and
get happy with the Shivers Shag."
The governor was called to the
stage to join in singing the song.
Rosas From Houston
A delegation from Houston’s
Press Club, which anticipates put-
ting on a gridiron there, also was
ringing on th# Fort Worth mar-
ket, Deen believes that the Fat
Horae Show will get great support
from buyers ..."
The gridiron listqd its “ring lead-
ers” as Humphrey, chairman of
roduction and script; James A.
yronf director; Ed Lally, musical
director; Jim Edwards and W. L.
Redus, arrangements, and Willard
Barr and Paul Ridings, Yellow
Jaundice editors.
About 500 persons attended the
invitation affair at the Blackstone
Hotel.
Woman to Die for
Killing Daughter
Over Their Lo
ver
asked to appear on the stage. The
group, led by George Carmack, edi-
tor of the Houston Press, was
handed scripts and aongs and told
to go into action.
The song the Houston group
sang went: r '
“If we scut a rose to you, for
evety stink in otfr bayou
“You'd have a room full of roses,
“If we sent a rose of white for
every time McCarthy fights,
“You'd have a room fi
_ „ ., April J. (UP)
Mrs. Elise Plante-Dube, 45-year-
old hopsewlfe, was under sentence
inouy to die on the gallows July
7 for shooting her 19,year-old
[daughter, Irene, in a quarrel over,
‘the affections of a<man they both
loved.
A 12-man jury delibarated 70
minutes yesterday before finding
the impassive brunette guilty u
the gunshot slaying at a drinking
party last April 5. Witnesses said
she shot her daughter at
blank range after arguing
their lover.
full of
rTh,
pregram of the show was
priated In the form of a newspa-
per: It was called “The Yellow
Jaundice.”
Poking fun at the recent rumpus
raised over the discovery of the
said of horaemeat disguised as beef
in Houston, Dallas and Fort Worth
The Yellow Jaundice, incidentally
printed on yellow paper, carried
this sto 17:
Fat Harass Added
“Announcement was made today
of the addition of a fat horse divis-
ion for next year’s Southwestern
Exposition and Fat Stock Show.
“8tock Show General Manager
Edgar Deen said the increasing
popularity in the Southwest of the
horse as a meat animal has made
(Hiint
about
Waco Ensign is
Crash Victim
QUONSET, R. L, April 1 (UP)
—The Navy has identified two
pilots who were kitted in an air
collision Thursday as Ensign Hen-
ry F. Hite Jr. 22, of Waco,, and
Ensign John Hall, 22, of Hamburg,
N. Y.
The two officers were members
1 of the 33rd Fighter Squadron
which was preparing for a trans-
fer to the Mediterranean area.
Their ships collided while they
were flying in formation and crash-
ed in flames near the village ef
South Hamilton.
There are 400 rooms in the Texas
capitol building.
THE WORLD'S FINEST
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and Westinghouse
Expert Installation
Moser-Nichols Furniture Co.
$
MAJESTIC
Sunday and Monday
“TWELVE O’CLOCK HIGH”
With Gregory Peck and Hugh Marlowe
(Adults, Young People. Children — Excellent)
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday
“NANCY GOES TO RIO”
In Technicolor
With Ann Sothem and Jane Powell
(Adults, Young People Children — Excellent)
Friday and Saturday
“FATHER IS A BACHELOR”
With William Holden and Coleen Grey
RITZ
Sunday, Monday and Tueaday
“GIRL IN MY DREAMS”
With Elyse Knox .
Wednesday and Thursday
“COVER GIRL”
With Rita Haywdfth
Friday and Shturday
“ZAMBA”
With Jane Vincent and Jon Hall
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PALACE
Sunday and Monday
“NIGHT TRAIN TO MEMPHIS”
With Roy Acuff
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday
DOUBLE FEATURE
“FLAME OF YOUTH”
With Bafbara Fuller and Ray McDonald
ALSO
“GAY AMIGO”
With Leo Carrillo
Life Savings of
Farmer Restored
By Contributions
DALLAS, April 1 (UP)—The'
William Hagedorn life savings,
lost last week In an automobile
damage suit because of a legal
technicality, have been fully re-
stored.
Fellow Texans, a few out-of-
state residents, chipped in R2.862
which more than covered the $2,-
(132.20 the wrinkled old German
immigrant lost as a result of the
law suit.
Tha Dallas Morning Naws, in a
series of stories, detailed the Lock-
hart farmer’s troubles. An Austin,
Tex., couple suffered injuries two
years agq when they ditched their
car to avoid striking a mule near
Hagedorn’s farm. They brought the
suit.
Although Hagedorn didn’t own
the mule, he failed to appear in
court to deny its ownership and the
Texas Supreme Court ruled he
must pay damages. His life sav-
ings were taken from him.
Vet* Dying for
Lack of Space
In VA Hospital*
WASHINGTON, April 1 (UP)
Rep. Paul W. Shafer, R.. Mich.,
said today veterans are dying “all
over the country” because they
cannot get into hospitals ordered
closed by the Defense Department.
Shafer cited the case of Lloyd
W. London, 54, a World War 1
veteran and father of two children.
Shafer said Landon was refused ad-
mittance to the Percy Jones Army
Hospital at Battle Creek, Mich.
Shafer says Landon applied for
admittance on March 1, the day he
became sick, but was told he had
to go to Dearborn because Percy
Jones Hospital had been ordered to
accept no patients after Feb. 1.
Landon was unable to get into
the hospital at Dearborn and “ex-
hausted all his resources,” Shafer
said. Dr. A. M. Glddings, a Battle
Creek physician, said Landon must
get into a hospital, and on March
6 the Veterans Administration de-
clared Landon’t Case to be an “em-
ergency” and he was finally admit-
ted, Shafer said.
Mental Patient
Charged With
Murder, Arson
PHILADELPHIA, April 1 (UP)
Nicholas Verna, 26, a convicted
arson charge today in the deaths
was held without bail on a murder-
arsoon charge today in the deaths
of 10 fellow patients in a Are at
Balle Vista Sanatorium.
Vetfta, a medically discharged
war veteran, was held for the ac-
tion of Montgomery County Coro-
ner Winslow J. Rushing shortly
after the 10th victim of the blase
died in Montgomery - Hospital in
nearby Norristown, Pa.
After the hearing, Verna was
committed to the county prison in
Norristown. Before the hearing, he
was confined to the State Mental
Hospital in Norristown, where he
had been transferred from the Vet-
erans Administration’s Valley
Forge General Hospital. Verna had
been taken to Valley Forge follow-
ing the sanatorium fire last Wed-
nesday night.
Weather Okay on
April Fool’* Day
By United Preet '
Normal weather for April 1 pre-
vailed over Texas today and not
much change in temperatures were
foreseen for the next 25 hours.
Yesterday’s high was 96 at Pre-
sidio with Texarkana reporting the
low minimum of 62 degrees. Over-
night, temperatures ranged from
70 at Brownsville to 35 at Dalhart
and 44 at Osona.
Beaumont reported .05 inch of
rain and Waco .03 in the last 24
hours.
At 8:80 a. m., the Dallas Weath-
er Bureau reported fog at Waco,
Abilene and San Angplo. Winds of
25 miles per hour were reported at
Lsbboek and 30 at Childress.
SILVER-PLATED BATHTUB 0*
HERMAN GOERING UNEARTHED
REGENSBURG, Germany, April
1 (UP)—German workmen today
dug up a silver-plated bathtub In
which the rotund late Keichmarshal
Hermann Goering used to bathe.
German police said the flittering
tub was the most pretentious item
yet recovered from a treasure
horde valued at fl,000,000 found on
the grounds of Goerging’s Felden-
•teiti castle near here.
The hunt, directed by the U, S.
High Commission, also has yielded
36 crates..of gold, gold-plated can-
dlesticks, l'fiu bottles of fine rare
cognac and numerous art treasures.
Pope Miw Receives
20,000 Pilgrims
VATICAN CITY, April 1 (UP)
—Pope Pius granted a general
audience to 20,000 Catholic pil-
grims in St. Peter’s Basilica today.
The pope spoke briefly in five
languages. He exhorted the pil-
grims to seek the fullest spiritual
benefits from their Holy Year visits
10 Rome.
The |H>|>e seemed to -be in good
condition. His voire was strong and
clear. ■ ,
Picked by Ezio Pinza, star of stage and opera,as Mary Hardin-Baylor college’s most beauti-
ful are these eight students whose pictures will be featured in a section of The Bluebonnet,
school yearbook. In order of their selection, the beauties are (top) left to right; Billie Co-
hern of Pharr; Babbie Wilborn of Houston; Felois Speed of Alvord; Maria Bane of Tem-
ple; (bottom) Patsy Coffman of Fort Smith. Ark.; Hannah Liu of Hongkong, China; Glen-
ella Grant of Fort Worth, and Janie Henderson of Belton.
J200 MILLION WATER PROGRAM III
WEST TEXAS PROPOSED BY W.T.C.G.
Three Die Violent
Deaths Overnight
SAN ANTONIO, April 1 (UP)
Three violent deaths occurred over-
night in San Antonio, police re-
ported today.
An 11-year-old boy, William
Hayes, drowned in a pond in a
park after he fell from a rubber
raft Firemen recovered the body
about midnight after a five-hour
search.
Manuel Moran, 37, a West Bide
tavern operator, was shot to death
in his tavern. A 41-year-old man
waa taken into custody.
John C. Dempsey, 27, waa killed
laat night when Mb car collided
with one drived by Abel Gonzales,
also 27.
The Hayes boy waa the second
drowning victim this year in San
Antonio and Dempsey’s death was
the 12th in traffic.
ABILENE, April 1 (Spl.) t-
Sigiiificance of a |200,000,000 do-
mestic and irrigation water de-
velopment program sponsored by
the West Texas Chamber of Com-
merce and West Teras Domestic
Water Association iff cooperation
with the Bureau of Reclamation
was highlighted in a news letter
released from J. M. Willson, WTCC
president, to the 130 directors of
the WTCC-WTDWA.
The letter also transmitted a
brief prepared by the domestic
water rights committee of the
WTDWA for President Truman’s
Water Resources Policy Commis-
sion which recommended that the
federal water laws be amended to
recognize “inadequate water as a
menace to the national welfare”
and that “municipal water be given
first prior use in federal water
projecta, and established as a
criterion for dam building.” ^
Commenting on the muncipa! and
irrigation water program for West
Texas, Willson commended the
work of management and officers’
committee, Homer D. Grant of
Lubbock, WTDWA president, and
of the association for rapid de-
velopment of the projects.
Group Meetings Held'
Five group meetings have been
held during the period, March 1-15,'
at Abilene, Big Spring, Eastland,
Knox City and Quanah in pursu-
ance of the multi-city reservoir
program instigated by the WTCC
last year when the Bureau of
Reclamation was invited to survey
the watersheds of the Brazos and
Colorado rivers for dam sites to
serve all West Texas communities
in need of water. A further study
of the Red River basin was launch-
ed at the Quanah meeting on March
16, when the Upper Red River
Basin Water Development Associa- I
tion was organized.
The letter cites proposals for a
600,000 acre foot reservoir on the
Colorado River near Robert Lee
to cost |43 million, serving Snyder,
Big Spring, Odessa _and Midland;
an 311 million project near East-
land for that dty and Ranger,
Cisco, Gordan and De Leon; an en-
largement of Lake Brown wood to
serve the additional needs of other
cities in the area and added irri-
tion storage, and a reservoir to
located on California or Paint
Creek with a capacity of 60,000 acre,
feet to deliver water to 30 com-
munities lying in the area from
Spur to Throckmorton and from
Truscott to Anson. An irrigation
reservoir on Double Mountain Fork
near Rule was also proposed which
would irrigate 30,000 acres extend-
35 miles below the dam.
or to launching the studies
on the Brazos and Colorado River
watersheds, the Bureau of Recla-
mation processed the Canadian
River project near Borger to pro-
vide a 2,000,000. acre foot reser-
voir serving cities south to Lamesa.
Cost of the reservoir and pipe lines
is estimated at, 386,000,000.
All municipal water project costs
are based on present laws covering
the work of the Bureau of Recla-
mation which provide for a 60 year
loan at 2 per cent interest and are
calculated to fully repay the gov-
ernment on those terms.
Loans Without Interest
Under provisions of the proposed
new federal water policy recom-
mended to the Truman Commis-
sion, government loans could be
sured without interest which would
greatly reduce water rates to the
cities and at the same time return
to the government its capital ex-
penditure. The federal government
would still be repaid far more than
on - its present $40 billion water
proeram, the letter states.
“We have, therefore,” W’llson
concludes, “a 3200,000,000 water
devek pment program that will
solve many of our municipal water
problems for 60 years to come,
that will give us a 700,000 acre ir-
rigation project, and will return to.
the government all of the money
advanced for their construction,
operation and maintenance.
“Certain organizations and spe-
cial interests,” he continued, “have
Attorney Suspended
For One Year A
HOUSTON, April 1 (UP)—Pas-
adena Attorney H. T. Miller was
suspended from practicing law for
one year by District Judge Phil
Woodruff today, as a result of
.charges that he accepted fees from
women for divorce suits which he
never filed.
Judge Woodruff said that State
Bar Association prosecutors Earl
Cox and Jay Foster had not estab-
lished grounds for disbarment,
which had been requested by the
state.
However, Woodruff told Miller,
“I hope that after your suspension
pqripd is up, and if you return to
the practice of your profession,
that you will aonduet yourself as
counsel should. when you offer
yourself for the service of the
public.”
A jury last week answered in
the affirmative to issues submit-
ted by the judge.
Two Indicted in
Sugar Bowl Death
(UP)
Quar-
been, and still are, criticizing the
leadership of our management and
officers committee in launching
the multi-city dam program; in or-
ganizing the West Texas Domestic
Water Association; and in secur-
ing the aid of the Bureau of Recla-
mation, but when judged by co-
operation being extended by our
cities arql by the largest member-
ship response in our organization’s j Day. “Knockout drops” were found
—Night olub owner Carlo
tararo and party girl Lucille Cotta,
23, who sipped B-drinks with Rob-
ert E. Dunn Jr. the night he got a
lethal mickey finn, were .indicted |
for his murder today.
Dunn, a Nashville, Tenn., con-
tractor, met a drugged death in a
strip-teaser’s dressing room at the
I.atin Quarter Club on rowdy Bour-
bon Street at 5 a.m. New Year’s
in his brain.
history, it appears that our efforts
to develop adequate water supplies whelming a
for West Texas is meeting the over- of our region
pproval of the people
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LANSING, April 1 (UP)— An
armada of state police ears with 60
armed trooper* roamed Central
Michigan today for two bandits
who wounded four policemen in a
roaring gun battle last night.
Both of the quick-triggered ban-
dits wars believed wounded when
they were surprised attempting to
crack the safe of n capital city
super market
Roadblocks wars set up on all
roads leading out of Lansing and
45 squad ears swept tha surmund-
Ing area.
One officer waa shot four times
whan police rushed tha baudits in
tha store. Another waa winged in
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Stephenville Daily Empire (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 151, Ed. 1 Sunday, April 2, 1950, newspaper, April 2, 1950; Stephenville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1133125/m1/5/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Dublin Public Library.