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T
PUBLISHED SIX DATS
A WEEK FEATURING
LOCAL NEWS
BRECKENRIDGE AMERICAN
WEATHER
Mostly cloudy, a tittle warmer this
afternoon, tonight and TucMUy.
Lowest tonight near 34.
UNITED PRESS Wir* Scrrte*
Devoted to the Dissemination of Information and Upbuilding of Stephens County
NEA Feature Service
VOL. 31 NO. 276
BRECKENRIDGE. TEXAS—MONDAY. NOV. la. 1951
PRICK S CENTS f'KK COP*
the
OBSERVER
WEATHER KEPI>RT
FOOTBALL W AILS
KNOX UNCONSCIOUS
SEEN OK HEARD
UNUSUALLY COLD W EAT ti-
er which dropped the mercury to
15 degrees here Sunday morning
had abated to 22 d*gl- V- day
morning, but that stii! >« ten de-
grees below freezing. High Sun
day was only 51.
Prediction today was that it w.U
warm up further today and to-
night.
BRECKENRIDGE AGAIN VII ST
*o out of town to play bi-district
football. Hard luck, the sixth tin
in a row. There is one consolation.
If we beat Midland and m< <-t
Longview next, Longview will ha'*"
fo come here for we went there the
last time.
Five representatives from each
school met at Sweetwater yester-
day.-A coin was tossed as to who
roiiId cull and who would flip-
Frank Monroe of Midland tossed
and Joe Hanna did the calling,
while the four other repp sent a-
tives and the superintendent of
Sweetwater schools looked on.
Sunt. J. F. Bailer said.
(*o:> rh Robb'ns however, remind-
ed that we play Brownwood m xt.
To which we mieht add that
has defeated Midland this season,
if we remember correctly.
I
"ROOK IF'
center, lanky
hills to join ti
tality. is set n
visit to 17-year-old Cai
Houston. Tex., to Ft.
she had written him a
newspaper accounts of
taught him everythinir
i ncyclopedia.
M< M N I
KKR PA Y> A VISIT I'vt. Peter Granger
fiom New Mexico, who wandered out of the I
.<! greatly impressed recruiters with his men- :
school in Waukesha, Wis., where he paid a|
\midon. left. Grainjfer. en route from Ft. Sam i
-.id'-. Md.. stopped off to visit Carol because j
'sympathetic and sincere" letter on reading,
lis unusual enlistment. The recruit's father
ie knew in their mountain cabin, using an i
(NEA Telephoto)
Smartine und*-r the fact that
! Breckenridge io.st the sixth toss in
a row yesterday and w!ll play Mid-
there on D> cember I, Coach
KENNETH KNOX. GRAHAM
high school halfback injured in last
Fridav night's game aga rise Hrec-
ken ridge, remained in a critical
condition in Baylor Hospital in
Dallas today. L'nted Press report.-
sad.
Young Knox, co-captain of h,s
team, suffered a severe head in-
jury in the second quarter of the
game, got up and started to v. alk J;,111"
away from the play and fell un- Oniper Robb.ns th.s afternm.n was
nseioua to trv niake th - Buefcaroos fur-
" Baylor" attendants said today he j Ret the Midland incident ami im-
still was unconscious. He was tak- P'es* lRhat :h" ,nf"
en to Bavlor Saturday after sp-nd- rame will be w.th Brow iiwo.hI.
ing the night in a Graham hosp.tal. Rep resent t!ves of Midland and
Graham cnoth Donald Orr said Breckenndge met at Sweetwater.
X-HVK d,,S no skull fracture. •>>' Breckenndge w,11 --present
bur that doctors had diagnose,! the th - dirtru-t^ and the die was cast
brumd brain." that made Midland the seat of that
' ' ' : game.
THIS IS A MOST BKBrt-i Kut should we fo to Midland fol-
BRECK LOSES TOSS AND WILL
PLAY AT MIDLAND, BUT NEXT
BROWNWOOD, SAYS COACH
Throckmorton
| Doctor Dies Of
Stroke In City
Funeral services for Dr. J. E.
Harrell. *o. Throckmorton physi-
cian. who died in Breckenridge Sat-
urday evening, were to be held at
- o'clock this afternoon in the
Throckmorton Methodist Church,
Rev. P. S. Pettijohn officiating.
Pi\ Harrell Had come to Breck-
inridge Saturday morning to see
l>. T. Bowles about some business.
Mr. Bowles was leaving-for Ft.
Worth with a group of young peo-
ple and left Pr. Harrell in his of-
fice with some paper to write a
letter.
Later A. M. Jones, downstairs in
his office at Sears-Roebuck heard
him groaning upstairs and investi-
gated. Dr. Harrell had suffered
a stroke. He was taken to Mem-
orial Hospital where he died that
evening.
Pr. Harrell had practiced medi-
cine :n Jack. Young and Throck-
morton counties for over half a
century.
He was a native of Paris and
;i graduate of the University of
Louisville in Kentucky. He began
practice at Antelope in Jack
county in 1897. and in 1906 moved
tc Throckmorton.
From to 1918 Dr. Harrell
!:ved in Olney and was instru-
mental in helping bring the old'
GT&W Railroad through Olney
in P.HO.
He returned to Throckmorton
in I!) 18 and had lived there since.
He had been retired for several
years and devoted his time to the
management of ranching interests.
Surv-ivoirs are a daughter, Mrs.
, J. L. Young of Fort Worth: two
sons, Reagan of McAlister. N. M..
ind Pr. Fred Harrell of Olney.
NEW ATOMIC SHOT FIRED TO
TEST EFFECT ON UVE ANIMALS
injury sh a
RFGRET-;
ah'e incident, for the Bur karoos do ,
not play dirty. Listening to fans
since Friday night the dirty play
was muchly the other way round
to hear them tell it.
So much imj that we wonder if
there might be something the j
Quarterback flubs of the two
towns, if Graham has one. can do
to change the aspect. Maybe a
slow running of the film of the j
game to show- what w i taking]
place, and records made of any
fouls by both sides, roach Robbins
has t generally understood that
boys who play dirty on his team
do not get to plav lonir. There was
some talk today that Coach Orr of.
Graham apologized to f'oach l:-i>
b'ns for the play of his bovs, bu'
Robbins said this morning that he j
did not.
Robbins said Graham "just quit
playing" went to foul tactics.
Hearts Of Kids
Broken By Theft
Of Famed Deer
WEST WILLI.N'GTON, Conn.,
Nov 19 I P- The celebrated gum-
chew.ng deer of Tolland county
has been kidnaped by steak hungry
Hunters.
A frail of blood and signs of a
-itrusg'e .ere all st te police hail
to iro today as they searched
for B-iinbi the deer who loved
three things - chewing gum. people
and rides n his master's convert- ■
hi". H" I ked to watch television.
MARTHA McCI.AIN. DAUGH-
ter of Mrs. Vida M-'Clain of Rreck-
enrtdge, is climbing up in the ad
vertiainc world. Shi- has be.-n nam- - to the har to release the
.-d production manager of Taylor ..!«! buck for the dav.
Noi-sworthv, Inc.. • f Dallas n re- The chi'dren found Bambi's n«ek
organization and the changutg «<f istrap lying in his stall. It had been
the name of what was formerly J. cut.
B. Taylor, Inc. Woodw"rth. who let the kids
In announcing the change Miss bring Bambi nto the house while
McClain was named as an • xecu- j they watched television, said. "I
lowing a loss to Brownwood it
would not be a very happy situa-
tion. Coach Robbins said, and there |
is danger of losing to Brownwood. j
Main reason for this is return to
the game of two star Brownwood:
backs. These are Bobby Loverett
and Don Erp.
Both have been out for some
t:me, Loverett, the track man and
fast runner in football has beui
out for five games since he broke a I
collar bone playing against F1 1
Paso. Erp is another fast back;
field man. the two to boost the!
moral and pow er of the Brown- :
wood team no little.
The 1951 Texas schoolboy foot- ]
ball campaign ends for all except
a few choice teams this week.'
with five playoff berths to be set-1
tied n classes AAAA and AAA
and bi-district eliminations sched-
uled in the AA and A title races.
Champions or playoff reonsen-
tatives already have been determ-
ined in 11 of the Ifi district# mak-
ing up the upper echelons of the
far-flung Interseholastfe League
empire, although six of these
teams still have games to play
this Week.
Decisive games this week w!ll
come in Districts 4 and 5 of
AAAA and 4 and 8 of AAA.
Th'-v are Fort Wor^h *rUn,rton
Heights vs. Fort Worth Poly, Dal-
las Sunset vs. Dallas Wilson. Wa-
co vs. Tvler and Wichita Falls vs.
Mc Allen'in AAA.
A victory or a tie would give
Arlington Heights and Sin -.-r 'heir
while a loss would throw
into ties and vrive the
Wife Quizzed
About Taxes
ST. LOUIS, Mo.. Nov. 19 <UJ5—
Treasury agents today were ex-
pected to ouestion a nretty 27-vear
old strawberry blond whose hus-
band has been missing since short-
ly before tax leins of $40I4X)0
were filed against their property
Aug. 30.
Ag ents seized the uei sonal prop-
erty of Mrs. Alma Walton Hrlfrich
Saturday and sealed her room in
the swank Park Hotel. Her hus-
band. Carl, 51. was formerly a
wealthv coal dealer in East St.
Louis, III.
Hill Is Taken
On 3rd Bay Of
UN Offensive
By WARREN P. FRANKLIN
United Press Staff Correspondent
8th ARMY HEADQUARTERS,
Korea. Nov. 19 <U.I9—A United Na-
tions division captured another hill
todav on the third dav of an of-
fensive southeast of Kumsong on
the mountainous Korean central
front.
The UN troops struck north at
dawn against light tu moderate
enemy resistance after beating off
three successive Communist coun-
terattacks ranging in strength.
from a company to a battalion.
The advance put the allies near-
ly four miles north of the points
where they crossed the Pukhan
River in ass'ult boats on a nine-
mile front Saturday.
However, a Chinese battalion
which had been enveloped bv the
fast-driving allies in their in:tial
onslaught Saturday* apparently es
raped through a grip in the UN
line.
The UN drive threatened to
flank Kumsong. rubbled former
Communist headquarters town 29
miles north of the 38th parallel.
Although Kumsong was abandon-
ed by the Reds, thev still dominate
part of it from hills to the north-
east. north and northwest.
The offensives also may serve
as a spur to Communist truce ne-
gotiators trying' to decide whether KF.Y WEST, Fla.. Nov. 19 U.R'
to accept a IN offer to make the : pres|(ient Truman todav prepared
present battleline a cease-fire fine j u strong restatement of his fair
MILES
S IS
PYQNUT A
YANGOOK
KOKSAN
SINGYE
CH0nJIN~
yanggu^h
■ ■
■hwachon
KUMCHON
YAMG-CX
YANG
CHUNCHON
KANGMUNG
TRUCE LINE WITHIN 30 DAYS?—The Newsmap above indicates
the buffer zone (stripe-shaped area) along the battle line in Korea,
where UN negotiators at Panmunjom propose to halt fighting if agree-
ment on remaining issues can be reached within 30 days. The Reds ten-
tatively accepted the dramatic proposal (NEA Newsmap)
Truman Prepares Service Program
Strong Statement
On His Fair Beal
if agreement can be reached on
fhe remaining armistice terms
within 30 days.
B-2H light bombers and allied
fighters smashed at more than 1,-
400 Communist supply trucks be-
hind the enemy lines during the
night and destroyed at least 105 of
them.
The 5th Air Force reported that
gun camera films showed that two
American Sabreiets destroyed four
She and her husband left town I Russian-built MIG-15 jet fighters,
a few days before the Fast St.! probably' destroyed another and
I ouis internal r
filed liens on their „ . .
and in St. Clair and Madison coun- field at Uiiu. just south of the
ties in Illinois. i Yalu River Manchurian border.
re ine r.asi .si. piiwuuirv me*
evenue collector I damaged three in a strafing attack
ir property here I Sunday on a new Communist air-
Airmen Warned
Not To Come In
150-Mile Range
By ROBERT BENNYHOFF
United Press Staff Correspondent
LAS VEGAS, Nov. 19 fU.R'—'The
first "shot" of a new series of
nuclear explosions designed to test
the effects of atomic weapons on
equipment and animals was fired
today at Frenchman's Flat proving
grounds after a four-day delay be-
cause of adverse weather condi-
tions.
The atomic energy commission
announced the explosion was deto-
nated at 9 a. m. (PST) (noon).
Five minutes after the explosion
no atomic cloud was visible over t-
he iest site. In past explosions the
huge, billowing atomic cloud was
visible wit hen seconds after th
blast.
N"o shock wave was felt in Las
Vegas. 75 miles southwest of the
test site, and no explosion was
heard.
The explosion apparently was
set off at ground level, rather
than by air drop as were the last
four nuclear explosions of the first
series concluded two weeks ago
today.
Tip off that today's explosion
probably was ground detonated
came in a warning issued to all
airmen earlier by the atomic ener-
gy commission.
The AEC warned airmen only to
Rev. J. E. Montgomery stated i fly n„ closer than 150 miles of the
today that a large crowd is expect- test site between the hours of 7
ed at the Thanksgiving serv.ee,! :l. m. ;intl g n. m. (PST). There
joint service of local protectant j were no restrictions on flying be-
churches, to be held at the First " —
Christian Church Thursday morn-
ing at 7 o'clock.
Mr. Montgomery, pastor of the
host church will preside. The fol-
lowing program for this occasion
was announced today:
Organ Prelude—Charles Kiker
For Thanksgiving
Here Announced
COMMIES TO GIVE ANSWER
tive of the coin pari v. Miss McCain
i* a graduate of Texas State < ol-
lege for Wom-n at Ihnton and
the Breckenndge High School.
Congratulation# Martha.
TODAY WERE RECEIVED A
photograph mi1 Med in Korea on Or.
tomer 28 of Lt. Col. Edwin Sayre.
■win of Mr. and Mrs. A. N. Sayrr
of Breckenridge. beinir congrntu
lated by Lt. Col. Hal D. McCown.
commander of the 17th "Buffalo
regiment, after being awarded the
Silver Star Med* V*' hi'# kidnaper.
action at a cereiTMi> held r *ct ntly reward.
{Continued «n Vatr Tt "They've broken our hearts
too.
Kai Woodw.-ird, Bambi's owner, oertn.-,
said that his three children went | 'neir rac -s
17-month- nlavoff spot to their opponents.
Waco * nd VVhita Fa"s i'-ust w'n
to tie Texarkana for the 5--* AAA
lend, necessitating a coin flip to
decide- which of the three would
go into the playoffs.
The AAA teams are tied for
their respective district leads and
the "a no- winners automatically
get the nod.
Ray plays Corpus Chrisfi M'ller
Lamar meets Houston Milhv. M d-
hind engages I'lainview. Brecken-
ridge meets Brownwood. Oand
I Prairie plavs McKinney :>nd Tem-
I pie meets Bryan this week.
(Continued on Page 21
think he was hit with a hammer
The condition of the ground Indi
. ated that Bambi put up qu:te a
struarirle."
Although the deer w;ls keot ill
the bar nights, he roamed freely
about the Woodworth farm duiing
the day. Townsp ople came freq-
uentl\ to watch as Bambi romned
on the lawn wi'h Wood worth's
dogs and three children.
"I can't pay an awful lot,"
Woodworth said as he offered a re-
ward for the apprehension of Bam-
But it'll be a decent
By RICHARD A PPL EGA TE
United Press Staff Correspondent
PANMUNJOM. Korea, Nov. 19
U.P'—The Communists promised
today to give their answer Wed-
nesday to a United Nations propos-
al designed to end the Korean war
by Christmas..
The Communist delegation's re-
quest. the joint armistice subcom-
mittee adjourned until 11 a. m.
Wednesday (9 p. m. Tuesday EST)! rest of the armistice terms, in-
to await the Red reply. The Com-! eluding an exchange of war pris-
munists already have indicated oners.
If there were no agreement w'th
they may accept the proposal.
However, it was believed the
enemy delegates wished to contact | was more than liberal. Actually,
higher authorities in Pyongyang.
Peipintr and perhaps Moscow be-
fore givinsr their final answer.
The UN proposal would gr: nt
the Communist demand that the
prsent battleline become the cease-
fire line provided an agreement
is reached within 30 days on the
deal program for delivery
Washington tomorrow night.
Mr. Truman will interrupt his
Florida holiday tomorrow to fly-
back to Washington for a speech
before the Womens* National Dem-
ocratic Club. The President will re-
turn to Key West by plane Wed-
nesday morning.
The speech w;'s in final stages
of preparation today. Wh:le it was
not expected to contain any po-
litical bombshells, members of the
staff here at the Little White
House said the President would
underline his determination to
st'ck by his fair deal program next
year.
Mr. Truman will take off from
Boea Chica naval air station to-
morrow morning. arriving in
Washington in time for lunch. He
will speak at a dinner tomorrow-
night, then return to Florida by
plane on Wednesday, bringing
Mrs. Truman with him for a trop-
ical Thanksgiving. _,. . , , . , ,
The use of the word "tropical" Ti* conducted by Rev
to describe the weather here today (V £ Comer, which opened last
Thirteen KHed
in Texas Traffic
(By UNITED PRESS)
in a month, the provisional cease-
fire line would be adjusted to rov-
i r any advances made by either
side in the meantime and the next, here,
step would be up to the truce ne-
gotiators.
The Communists asked more
the thermometer was in the low-
sixties. making it too cold for the
President to iro swimming.
Instead of his usual beach rou-
tine. Mr. Truman stuck close to a
driftwood fire :n the winter White
House and worked with the staff
on his sneech.
The President left his quarters
only long enough to attend pre-
Thanksgivtng services at the nnval
station chapel. He listened intently
to the sermon bv Lt. Cmdr. Harold
F. Menges of Ft. Worth. Tex., a
Protestant chaplain for the Navy
tween the 150 mile radious and
Alburqueniue, N. M., as there were
in the four previous tests when a
four-engine B-50 from Kirkland
Air Force Base, N. M. was believed
to have dropped the bombs.
Tile atomic energy commission
announced last night, after the
Invocation—Father W. V. Albert i blast had been tentatively schedut-
Hymns of Thanksgiving i erf and postponed four times, that
Prayer—Rei. H. H. McBride weather conditions were favorable
Bible Reading—Rev. T. W. for t|„, blast.
England.
Hymn
Bible Read Rev. W. H. Mage.
Special Music Joint Choir
Doxology | (f y UNITED PRESS)
Preachinsr—Rev. W. F. Shipp j Texas generally had another cold
Hymn—America The Beautiful , night last niirht, but the weather
Benediction—Rev. R. E. Wright, bureau says it is going to warm up
some today and tomorrow.
This morning it was cloudy over
South Central Texas as far up as
Austin and San Antonio and from
Brownsville up the coast to Hous-
ton. Elsewhere, it vva generally
cU-ar and cool.
The low this morning was 19
Warmer Weather
Large Crowd At
Church Revival
night attracted a larire crowd at | degrees at Dalhart with the high
the Rose Avenue Baptist Church. minimum reading of 41 reported at
Rev. Comer, known as the "Dixie Brownsville. Amarillo, Wichita
Fireball* 'is held one of the most Falls and Texarkana had 23. and
unusual evangelists preaching to-jit was 25 at Fort Worth. 28 at
day by those of his denomination.! Abilene, Waco and San Angelo; 29
The singing and music is said to j at Tyler and Dallas; 30 at El Paso
be an outstanding feature in his land Biu Spring: 35 at Austin and
l services. Mrs. Nan Frazier, pianist.! :!8 at Houston.
is the artist. ' The hiirh yesterday was <>0 at
Last night the evansrelist Brownsville, and Texarkana bad
brought the message "Dn We Need the low maximum with a top read-
a Revival?" Services will be held nir of t4 degrees.
each morning at 1" a. m. and , The weath. rman said slowly ris-
nightly at 7:3o. All are inv-ted to temperatures wilt be the gen-
attend.
Five Deer In Local Plant But Many
More Believed Killed By Hunters
The Douglas Anderson locker cidents, but several persons have
nlant has five bucks which were , been trespassing on private land
brought in Saturday and Sunday, anrf hunting at night by the use of
but the lucky parties don't want; spotlights.
to suy where the kills were made. | Th(,r(1 a!V (1,ff,.r;ng views on the
J. B. Russell got a 4 point buc ,. scarcity of deer in some areas. C.
brought — " * ~~ —■
Otis Ruth brought n a 5 point.
Jack Robinson got a 4 point, and
Pat Stuart pulled down an 8 point.
All these men are from Brecken
ridge. Guy Ellis, of Woodson got
his Saturday, a 5 point.
A good many parites are still out
looking for deer and still more
have come in report ng no luck.
Many claim to have seen several
deer, but mostly does.
M. A. Powell was in Mason over
the weekend with a party of six,
only one of which got his buck.
Powell says very few of the hunt-
ers in that area are having any
luck this year.
Sheriffs office state's they have
,-eceived no reports of hunting ac-
G. Erie says deer are feeding at
night while the moon is full. Next
week, with the moon getting dark
again, should see better hunting,
he says.
Fite swears by the advantage
of a scope, claiming he might have
got a dee yesterday, on a long
shot, except for the scope he uses.
Other hunters maintain it is much
easier to sight swiftly without this
a i«l. „
Huntt rs are required by law now
to have permission from the owner
before hunting on his land, and
g:tme wardens are apt to take a
man into court unless he has this
permission in writing.
Italians Aided In
Flyina Relief To
Rood Swept Area
Thirteen persons including: three I (|UMtjons ubout the UN proposa
victims of a train-car accident | ciuntr today's subcommittee ses-
Midland were killed in week end, ,;„n- which lasted one hour and 15
traffic mishaps and six others died rninutes.
in shootings for a total of 19; jn rep|v. U. S. Mai. Gen. Henry
deaths, a United Press survey j j. Rorfes re emphasized:
1. That the war would continue
until a complete armistice has
ROME. Italy
S. and British
joined Italian
mercy flisrhts
Nov. 19 tUJC—U.
Air Force planes
aircraft today in
over flood-swept
northern Italy to drop emergency
flood supplies to famine-threatened
towns.
An American amph'bfou* plane
parachuted supplies to several
towns south of Treviso. A British
RAF Lancaster bomber from Mal-
ta and Italian aircraft made sim-
ilar food drops on the isolated city
of Adria and nearby towns.
An estimated 10,000 of Adria's
normal population of 35 000 were
still in the city, cut off from es-
cape by the flood-swollen Po River.
Italian marines in eight-ton am-
phibious craft and a fleet of small
boats fought the raging waters on
voyage after voyage to carry ref-
ugees to safety.
Continuing heavy rains kept the
Po's waters swirling through scor-
es of towns and thick fog hampe r-
ed rescue work.
More than 100 persons have been
killed in the two weeks of storms
nnd floods in northern Italy and
•ipproximately $330,000,000 i a
damage has hoi n caused, accord-
ing to unofficial estimates. Th<'
floods are the worst on record in
northern Italy.
showed today.
Lester Flannigan, 42. a Midland
automobile salesman, Paul DMIon,
. 3(>, a postoffice clerk, and Dillon's
daughter, Pnula. fi. all of Midland,
were killed last night when Dillon
! drove a car he was demonstrating
into the path of a freight train
within the Midland rity limits.
Mrs. Dillon was injured critically.
Other traffic depths included
(irady Mozell Hill, 29, an Austin
I Carpenter, killed in a headon col-
lision on the Dallas highway north
of Austin, early yesterday, and
S-Sgt. Robert C. Atkinson, 4fi,
army engineer attached to Wolters
Air Force Base. Mineral Wells,
who \>t's struck by a truck near
Mineral Wells last night.
James Joe Sloan. 27. of Houston
w as shot to death by a 17-vear-old
high school bov who told police
he thought Sloan "'as about to
shoot his father. The boy was
charged with murder in the slay-
ing.
Collection Stolen
At Texas Church
DALLAS, Tex., Nov. t
While the Rev. Joe Frederick
I nn.ached at the South Dallas
| Christian Church yesterday, a thief
was at work in an anteroom off
i the main puditorium.
The intruder fled with $280.68
been agreed upon and signed. This
would include arrangements for
an exchange of war prisoners and
for appointment of a commission
to insure compliance with the truce
terms.
2. That the cease-fire demarca-
tion line and demilitarized buffer
zone would be tentative and pro-
visional until the complete armis-
tice agreement has been signed.
Hodes said the Communists ask-
ed their questions with apparent
sincerity 'in contrast to some of
the propaganda speeches we have
had at earlier meetings."
WildcatTest
At Necessity
A wildcat location has been stak-
ed on the Necessity townsite as L.
E. Gilbreath of Breckenridge No. I
Necessity Townsite.
Slated for 2,200 feet with rotary,
drillsite is 210 feet from the north
and 300 feet from the east lines
of the southwest quarter in the
southwest quarter of Section 17,
Block «, TAP Survey.
Operator has filed application
to plug C. H. Echols, et al. No. K
Langford, Section 122, HATC Sur-
vey, wildcat six miles northwest
|—more than half of it in checks—
collected for missionary work at! of Ranger, at 2,975 feet in lim
earlier Sunday school classes. (and shale.
Women's Club To
Present Speaker
The Woman's Club will present
Miss Edith Brisoc. assistant pro-
fessor of art at TSCW and nation
ally known lecturer and designer,
Wednesday at the Woman's Club.
Games will start at 10:00 a. m.
and luncheon will be served at
12:30, followed bv Miss Brisoc's
talk "Design for Modern Living."
Resen tions may be made with
Mrs. Monroe Veale at 77 or Mrs.
Clara Corbett at I415-J before
Tuesday noon.
Countv Mai Route
Extended S'west
Postmaster Claude Thompson
announced today authority has
been received to extend rural mail
delivery route No. 2 in the south-
western part of the county.
This will be from th# present
route about fourteen miles south
:ind southeast and hack in north-
erly direction to rejoin the old
route at the Red Gap school. This
extension has been sought for some i rnercstse in expenditures. Treasury
| time. officials said.
era! trend over the next 3.H hours.
It will be cloudy on the coast and
partly t^oudy over the upper half
of the state tomorrow.
Higher Taxes For
Mexico Predicted
MEXICO CITY, Nov. 19 'U.Ri
Higher 1952 taxes were predicted
foe Me-xirnn* today to offset a
$450,000,000 federal budget. th<-
larirest in the nation's history..
Additional taxes will he needed
to covi r an estimated $5ft.000-,0i 10
Mary Pkkford To
Return To Screen
NEW YORK, Nov. 19 <U.R -
M ary Pickford, onetime "America's
Sweetheart" will return to the
screen for the first time since
1933 in a production of "The Li-
brary."
The film will be produced by-
Stanley Kramer for Columbia Pic-
tures and star the silent screen he-
roine in a role Miss Pickford. now
58, called "an almost sacred re-
sponsibility."
Details of the plot were not re-
leased in the announcement of Miss
P>ckford's return to the screen is-
sued by Columbia. The story, writ-
ten by Daniel Taradash and Elick
Moll, was reported to concern the
influence of a librarian on a group
of young persons.
Itisa
iss Pickford is the wife of band
leader-television host Buddy Rog-
ers. She was divorced from the late
matinee idol Douglas Fairbanks,
Sr. in 1935.
Acheson Warns UN World Tension
Has Risen To "Bangerous Point"
By R. H. SHACKFORD lined it last week, the Soviet mill-
United Press Staff Correspondent j ister said he could not "restrain
PARIS, Nov. 19 'U.fi:—U. S. my laughter."
Secretary of State Dean Acheson Acheson formally presented the
warned the United Nations today three-power program to the UN
the world tension has reached a political committee today as a
dangerous point" and offered the
west's step-by-step disarmament
program as a way back to peace.
Jules Moch of France, with Brit-
ain and the U. S. A. co-sponsor of
the disarmament plan, also pleaded
for its adoption so that "the atom
bomb won't boom anywhere—and
I mean anywhere—in the world."
Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei
Vishinsky had been expected to
reply to the western delegates in a
speech later today. But neither he
nor any other delegate was prepar-
ed to speak after Moch, and the
debate was adjourned until to-
morrow.
Vishinsky is expected to reject
the western disarmament plan cat-
egorically. When Acheson first out-
challenge to the Russians to prove
their propaganda statements that
they really desire peace.
It calls for creation of a new
12-nation disarmament commission
to replace the present UN com-
missions on conventional arma-
ments and atomic energy. Like the
old commissions, it would comprise
the II memben-s of the security
council plus Canada.
The committee would work up
plans for :in arms and troops cen-
sus, an inspection system, progres-
sive disarmament and an ultimate
ban on atomic weapons.
"The conflict in the world is ris-
ing to an alarming state," Acheson
said.
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