Stephenville Daily Empire (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 85, Ed. 1 Sunday, December 31, 1950 Page: 1 of 12
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STEPHENVILLE, ERATH COUNTY. TEXAS, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 81, 1*80
conflict,
Korean Redd. ]
puah back the
border. Then,
_____; dt the world beat farter and fears of World War m grew
__ U. N. forces, outnumbered and ouiequipped at the beginning of the
to a comer of the Korean peninsula around Pusan by the North
cents and a steady flow of supplies enabled the U. N. troops to
„ — all the way to the Yalu River on the Manchurlan-Korean
l the ame suddenness, an overwhelming force of 600,000 Chinese Con-
S&nss&;
nUled over the Yalu to reopen the war. causing the second major U. N. retreat
tar In Korea. Above, Marines file past a flaming buhdlng in^noopplng-up
part ofNovember 1950.
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rn Ten the
WORLD..
HAPPY Naw Year is perhaps
the beat way to start th«
column for todhy. And that is
st ws want to do with
for one and all. young
rich or poor, friend or
fofc tba earning year may be one
know hwt twelve month# From to-
one of
15 U. S. Jets Whip
40 Russian Planes
■ have been treated Wnffly dur-
ing I960. Without any igtm of
unusual business activity the rec-
ord will show that there has been
a high degree of progrese all up
and down the line. For that we
are all thankful, of course. Mean-
while, we are emphasising our
sincere wish for all that U good
and wise for the people of this won-
derful country. +*^*m*° \ ^
REATH County Will not forget
the good work of Highway
Commissioner A. F. Mitchell of
Corsicana. This successful busi-
ness and civic leader has been on
the commieMoa for about two
yean receiving, appointment from
the late Governor Seauford Jester.
At ope time he was an engineer
with the deportment and that
knewMgh'hdC fitted him will for
the tasks ha is nbw performing.
A FM road that wne up for con-
sideration two years ago between
Dublin and Llngtarille received his
personal attention with the result
that the project was completed
without so many Jong delays that
frequently come up when the
mission has such a mass
Of detail
from
to attend , tor It
this angle that WgWtoMR (to-
serves another appointment and
as we are conostned wk >oqld be
pleased to see Governor Shivers
keep him on the job that be haa
been doing so w*8;V .politically,
the appointment belongs to Bast
Texas and Corsionoa seems gee-
that q&K
f with Mr.
tor®. Sound
ate
of
«r
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U3f
airport will more than
likely be submitted to property
taxpayers of the city
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Wfl
Dec. 31. KB—
Jets defeated
more than 40 R'usslan-buih Mig-lfi
jets Saturday In the biggest ferial
battles at the War while on the
ground the Chinees brought up
heavy artillery and tanks u the
zero hour neSVaj.
One enemy plane was shot
'down'Sad another probably de-
stroyed to An early morning bat-
fto^the 18tK and
toetodfdm?
It U. S. Saber jets. No American
planes were lost iq either battle.
Uk Army Pulled Back
It was disclosed the main body
of the 8th Army had pulled back
south of the 38th parallel, with
only a small blocking position jut-
ting north of the border on the
qn*t coast, and some patrol activ-
ity north of the parallel.
, and some pat
f »®rth of the parallel.
early morning bat- The ghp between the massive n«
ssms Sanam Pk“
defense line ynm naerly dosed.
Gen. Ridgwsy in Command
tt. Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway,
new commander of the United Na-
tions ground forces in Korea,
called for “dogged determination
in attack and utmost tenacity in
ense”
more than 40 Russian-built planes
clashed at 600 miles an hour with
Eckhardt
deers for
Airlift
has been flying
Alrlinea fer a gambm* tt years,
has volunteered to fly with the
American air lift to Japan and
possibly other potato in that xone.
He left the U. S. coast on Decem-
ber 23. His wife, Mrs. Bobbie Dean
Eckhardt and daughters, Kitty and
Paulette, were with Mrs. Eck-
hardt’s father and mother, Mr.
surd Mrs. H. M. Everett, for the
holidays. Their home is 3619
Shelby Drive, Fort Worth.
Captain Eckhardt did a lot of
flying during World War II, serv-
ing With the sir lift across the
Atlantic and to Grennland. Though
Captain Eckhardt is yet e young
mkn, he has many hours experience
in the air.
Captain Eckhardt is the son of
Mrs. NOrine Eckhardt who former-
ly had ranching interest in this
section, and who is new carrying
&tacN"* h "*
to meet the severe trials
imu.
The Communists were reported
dug in on th6 north and western
banks of the Imjln River 27 miles
western sec-
miles below
and preparing to bridge
imuxs oi me iinjin m
north of Seoul ip the
tor and about three
<be border and prepari
Captain Paul G, Eckhardt, who
with t}M» American *DOtDD^^' *n“ p™p“
- af .-Ttr- it. In the ,ea*t they were attack-
IKE TO TALK
Win TRUMAN
i: Washington, Dec. 80. KB— Gen.
Dwight D. Eisenhower today sche-
duled strategy talks with Pros!
dent Trnrosn and other government
leaders here next week before fly-
ing to Europe to get North At-
lantic defense planning under way.
The conferences will be only
the prelude to a series of swift
moves which will take Eisenhower
to every country in Western Eu-
rope allied with the United States
in building a steel barrier against
Communist aggression.
.'Attend
Services Sunday
rnment to Take Over All
Copper Supply for War Needs
NEW OFFICIALS
TO TAKE 0A1R
ON MONDAY
County Clerk Elmo White will
administer the oath of office to
four newly elected Erath County
officials and ten who retained their
offices tomorrow, New Year's Day.
4,The Commissioners Court, head*d
by County Judge Dale Harbin, will
convene to approve bonds and
other matters.
The newly-elected are: Albert
O. Cragwell Jr., tax assessor-col-
lector; Mrs. Ed Bryant, county
treasurer; Lewis Roberson, county
superintendent; and Bob Allen,
commissioner precinct No. 1(
Holdover Officials
Holdover officials are: Elmo
White, county clerk; Dale Martin,
county judge; R. E. George, sher-
iff; J. W. McMahan, district clerk;
Sam Cleveland,, district attorney;
W. T. Graves, justice peace pre-
cinct No. 1: G. H. Williamson,
county attorney; Son La Baume,
commissioner precinct No. 2; Roy
Fallin, commissioner precinct No.
3; and D. Compton, commissioner
■precinct No. 4.
Henry Gilbreath and Jim Wals-
worth are expected to remain as
deputies in the tax collector’s of-
fice. Tentative arrangements place
Mrs. S. A. Turley in the office
of the county school superinten-
dent. No other changes have been
released.
New Year’s Day
Will Find Meet
cording to City Secretory Mickey
JfMgjM.,. .. ." y v
TWO: The court house—for
the purpose of swearing in coun-
ty officials.
THREE: Most business houses.
The banks and the postoffice
will be closed.
Condition Wreck
Victim Same
There has been no improvement
hi the condition of D. B. Tate, 68,
Lubbock, who suffered multiple
injuries in a wreck near Granbury
Wednesday afternoon, Mrs. Larner
Devis, Stephenville Hospital, re-
ported Saturday morning.
wife and two daughters
here Wednesday night.
Elizabeth Ewing, one of
recent auto
377 and 67,
pitol, but her
condition is improving nicely, it
was reports^, Saturday.
RETIRED CARRIER DIBS
Bonham, Dec. M. 1*1— Funer-
al services for Benjamin Wil-
liam Johnson, believed to be
Bonham’s eldest native resident,
will be held here this afternoon.
Johnson died yeetferday, at the
age Of 78.- He haul retired as a
city mall carrier IjT 1926.
JAMLCii C
^ Tate’s
the foui^srjctims of a
crash at Qtahways ;
is still in tw hospita
proving
Safety Council Br
Week-End of Viol
(idnight j
George
n 'toft!
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Safety officials braced for gto-
other rath of violent deaths as
the New Year weekend got into
full swing in Texes.
The long holiday feriod has el-
ad y c6st 147 lives In Texes, end
were expecting another
outbreak of fatoHties with the be-
ginning of the New Year's week-
end.
V v *hlt
other
died from miscellaneous |
1'' t
Mat group was the death
J late Friday of six-week-old Glenda
Locke, of McAllen, who mp-
drowned in e bathtub at
K V '
Gore, Jr., 19, end Evon
both of Honey Island,
Friday.
’ t -tailV
m.
fori the count ends at midnii
Motoley.
Among other victims wne> |
Watkins, Negro, who fell 76 feel I
to bif- death Friday while dSLI
mantling a surplus natural
tank at San Antonio. A verdict"o}
i accidental death waa
Beatrice Higgins, flVe-year-eld|
rned to i
1 at their
John White
Take State
Oath
af
for
aths
»rt. The fire ap-
[ when the children
.stove, causing sn
stors skid. Right
sped.
Killed
Smith, 41, of
[fed instantly when
collided head-on
Wen by William R.
lien six miles south
was hospitalized
considered ser-
Let's cross the threshold
with confidence and hope.
STEPHENVILLE
Daily Empire Empire-Tribune
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WILL AFFECT PRODUCTION MANY
ITEMS USED IN AMERICAN HOMES
By ROBERT F. LOFTU8
UnIM Prm Staff C«rrr.paa4cnt
Washington, Dec. 30. — Government controls reached
right into the American home today to get copper for the war
factories.
.. .Starting March 1, there will be no more copper for coffee
pots, door knobs and window screens, belt buckles and fancy
buttons, frying pans, picture frames, bird cages and hundreds
of other familiar bul non-essential products.
National Production Authority Director William H. Harri-
son ordered all of (he^nation’s too-small copper supplies set
aside for defepse industries and the key civilian plants that help
keep the arms factories running. __ ‘
Reaper Greet New Year
By UNITED PENS
Highways were dangerously slip-
pery over a wide portion of the
nation Saturday but Americans
crowded aboard planes and trains
for their annual New Year’s holi-
day trips.
Bus and automobile travel was
curtailed somewhat by the bad
road conditions and it appeared
that the weekend toll of traffic
dead might be below the 668
killed during the Christmas holi-
day.
In the first hours of the week-
end holiday, casualty reports were
comparatively light. Forty deaths
Were reported nationwide, 29 of
these in traffic.
The National Safety Council had
predicted that 330 persons would
Austin, Dec. 80.
White of Wichita
bis^ oath of office as
coming
the sto
fy Dibrell, 64-year-
in a wagon-train
nan, while Frank
. was killed
hit s horde near "
Bond County,
ell, 66 - year - old
ae killed whin he
path at on auto
Nome.
deaths included
wounds receive.!
W ADDITION
S MONDAY'
Greenway Addition on the Dub-
lin ftpd wRl be officially opened
January 1, 1951, by the Smith and
Young DevolMtoent Corporation.
A field office 'will be located on
the Dublin RoaA leading into the
addition. Information Uwy be ob-
tained at the Qeid office about
construction and procedure for
owning one of these FHA homes,
said 0. T- Young, ope of the de-
f the new addition
mltnunt Approved
commitment space for
l been approved. The
iue, winding street* have
through the opea ter-
plans have been' com-
pleted to lay materials so con-
struction can begin en the homes.
The approximate pries range will
lie somewhere around $7000 and
will vary according to the choice
sjt.jot floor plan.
velo
die in traffic from 6 p. m. Friday
until midnight Monday.
Year’s Toll To Be Record ’
The council reported Saturday
that the nation’s death toll for
1950 in highway accidents probably
would be the highest in nine years,
killed during the first 11 months
of the year and estimated that
the final toll would be 36,000 or
more. That total was topped only
five times previously, in 1934, 1935,
1936, 1937 hnd 1941. .
Statisticians said the 1960 death
toll was 10 per cent higher dur-
ing the first 11 months than dur-
ing the same period last year.
Heavy Snow in Midwest
The weather was l seasonable
throughout the country. Over a
wide > section of the Eastern Sea-
board, chilly nights were glazing
highways, making them slippery.
LATE
WIRE
FLASHES
Br UNITED TRESS
MOTOR EXPRESS
Edinburg, Dec. 30. (UN — The
Lower Rio Grande moved toward
a solution of its slow mail service
today with announcement of over-
night mail bus service from San
Antonio. Valley postmasters said
they signed a contract with Union
Bus Lines to haul mail nightly, be-
ginning Jan. 1, from San Antonio
to Edinburg. They said the new
set-up would surpass by hours
what they discribed as “molasses-
slow” rail service for mail.
Childress, Dec. 30 . KB— Pic.
Huey P. French, 15-year-old boy
who Joined the Array last March
because he didn’t like school,
has boon reported missing in ac-
tion in Korea, his parents said
yesterday. Mr. and Mr*. D. H.
French of GhiMreos were notified
by the adjutant general's office
that their son had been missing
in action since Dec. 4.
BACK TEXAS BUILD LAKE
Glade water, Dec. 30. KB— Pay-
ment of $67,539.85 in delinquent
taxes yesterday will enable work
to begin next week on Lake Glade-
water, Mayor Carl Bruce said.
Rotarians Debate
American Way
Vs. Communism
Paul Cunyus was in charge of
the program at the regular Rotary
Club n\eeting Thursday noon at
the Long Hotel.
A divided group—one appointed
Communist, one appointed Ameri-
can—questioned each other about
their own systems. Cunyus was
mediator.
Guests were Lee Campbell and
Edwin Keller, Dublin; J. L. Brown,
guest of his son, G. O. Brown;
and G. H. Lile, Dallas, guest of
Reecie Jones.
Battle in Congress
Over Foreign Policy
Japanese Student
-
L ' ‘X . 'f
Mm. Boae Rhader, troth County
WMU President, announces that a
from Baylor
Ikemoto, will
speaker at the
w the First
Ih Dublin, Monday,
t. at $ o’clock.
are urged to attend
'•'* s’ -
Washington, Dec. 30. KB— The
congressional foreign policy dis-
pute flared anew today.
John Foster Dulles, who was
named Republican adviser to the
State Department in an effort to
reestablish bi-partisan harmony,
touched off the latest exchange
of views by warning that the na-
tion would be imperiled by aban-
doning its European Allies.
Dulles, speaking in New York
last night, partially disputed for-
mer President Herbert Hoover's
demand that the United State* cut
off troops and dollars until the
Western Democracies take positive
action to vr 4 rd off a Russian at-
tack. • ...
Demos Side With Dulles
Although party lines were not
drawn clearly, most Democrats
sided with Dulles. Sen. Brien Mc-
JMahan, D., Conn., said Dulles an-
swtffed Hoover’s proposals which
he termed "a recipe for disaster."
However, Son. Janies P. Kem, R.,
Mo., said Dulles failed to answer
Hoover’s “main point:” that Amer-
ica’s Allies should not recsive Au-
thor aid until they show they are
willing to defend themselves.”
Eleswhene in Congress:
RFC — Sen. J. William Ful-
bright, D., Ark., said he will in-
troduce legislation giving the Jte-
-aJSfCL.1
gle
4PM though
President Truman favors the cur-
rent five-director system. Fulbright
said his Senate banking subcom-
mittee “probably” will continue
to investigate the recent RFC
shuffles in several regional of-
fices.
Byrd Answers Truman
Budget — Sen. Harry F. Byrd,
D., Va., replied to a verbal slap
by President Truman and said he
knows enough about the federal
budget to' know that the nation
“faces financial chaos” unless
spending is trimmed to essentials.
He said the nation would be bet-
ter off if the president “could
comprehend this basic fact.” Tru-
man told his news conference n,<mt>1'old ^ mt 0desM ^c-
Thursday that Byrd doesn’t know
much about the budgets,^
Crime — Chairman Estes Ke-
fauver, D., Tenn., of the Senate
ing committee urg-
laws be tightened
bettor checks qa^hovrii
criminal*. He warned that organ-
ized rackets exprt a “sinister and
dangerous influence.
BULLETIN
Dallas, Dec. 30. KB—Wichita
Fall*’ Ceyotea today became “good condition."
(be first team to repeat as state
Class AA champion since 10M
by beating Austin’s Maroons,
Corp., a sin- 84 to 13, In the conference title
at Dal-Hi
Hits Little Red Wagon
After Match 1, he said, the
familiar red metal that folks see
mostly in its brass alloyed form
will be banned for all non-essential
purposes. Some manufacturers
may have to shut down if they
can’t find substitutes. Harrison
said they can appeal in case* of
extreme hardship and he will try
to help them, particularly where
a lot of people may be thrown out
of work. _
But he made no promises.
The copper order was the sec-
ond hard blow at civilian life Ip
24 hours. Friday, Harrison set
up a practically complete alloca-
tion control over cobalt, a
scarce metal which consu
hardly evef see but which ]
a big part in their way of li
Among other things, it go*
to the magnets used in radic
television receivers. Those ii
tries will be hit, and color
may go into mothballs for i
tion of the emergency.
Things to Get Tougher
And, things are going to get
tougher for the home front as the
defense program moves into high
gear. ^ „
More and more strategic and
scarce metals will be token off th«
civilian market in the months
ahead. Automobile phoductii
probably will be cut down by
to 33 per cent in 1961, although
that still would put some 6,000,
000 new passenger cars in the
showrooms. Tires are relative!
scarce and will have less natukai
rubber in them. But the tire mnk
ers still are getting a big supply
of rubber and there should be no
real pinch next year. Rationing
of gasoline is still regarded as
highly unlikely.
Fewer New Homes
Tighter credit restrictions will
cut down the number of new homes
and apartments built in 1951, and
the distilling industry may havo
to switch a big part of its pro-
duction to industrial alcohol for
the synthetic rubber program. But
there won’t be any shortage of
whiskey. Cigarets also are plentis,
ful, and smokers don’t have to
worry about quelling up in trggt
the tobacco shops as they did at
times in World War IL.^ ' ’ I
Effect of th* new copper eOh-
servation order m»y not be felt
to any marked degree for some
months. But householders will no-
tice it by mid-summer when they
start looking for replacements for
thM window screens, lamp shades
an<r other home trimmings.
Women probably will be the
first to spot the change. New
dresses, jewelry and clothing ac-
eesaories made after March will
be minus all the brass curlicues
that now add that extra touch.
2 Held in Baby
Kidnapihg Case
, Houston, Dec. SO. KB—The Fed-
eral Bureau of Investigation said
today that two gypsies sought
for the kidnapping of a tv
m
were arrested yesterday at Crow-
My, U-
A. F. Lortoa, Jr., FBI agent In
citarge of the Houston Office, said
Robert W. Stanley and his wife,
Mary, #ere arraigned today before
the U. S. commissioner at Opel-
oMas, La. '
Federal kidnapping charges are
on file against the two at El Paso,
and state charges at Odessa, the
FBI said.
Lorton Mid the baby, found hi
a motel with the woman, was in
The baby's toother, Mrs. Bartil
Ybarria of Odessa, said the baby
wsa taken from her by s gypsy
woman who
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