Breckenridge American (Breckenridge, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 141, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 8, 1954 Page: 2 of 6
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^-BRECKCXMDGE AMERICAN —T H I RSDAY.
JULY 8, 1434
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Tickets now are available at the Chamber of Conuneret
otfice for the eoaamanttv breakfast at the V. M. C. A. Men
day morning. F. E. Coldwell of the Federal Reserve bank
Dallas, will be the speaker, and those attending should fino
it well worth their while. We would like to see a large crovvv
——to show a Da Halite how Breckenridge people turn out in
the interest of the welfare of their town ami community.
A surprise announcement may, or may not lie ready. If
not thiai.time, maybe the next.
A-<hamber of commerce committee also has been work-
ing on p indusrial project that if secured will put Brecken-
ridge over the top in the size of the payroll. Sometimes i:
appears a little encouraging ami sometime.; not. That is about
all we can say about it at present.
Here is a letter received by Arthur Miller from Mrs. E.
S. Solenberger, Albuquerque, N. M.. that should make Breck
.nridge feel added pride as well as make Arthur Miller want
-o open the window and throw out his chest:
"Please let me extend to you the sincerest compliment,
of a passer-through of Breckenridge. Because of your fort
tight and your encouragement your city has been enhanced
by a wonderful physical development while the wholesale
community spirit engendered by it is evident to even an out-
s der. My three sons and I, were driving from Virginia Beach
Va., to Albuquerque. N'. Mex., to make our home here with a
T avy father, we were driving via Carlsbad Caverns. Suddenly
v e saw -your pool, drove to the next Texaco Station where we
v ere told that we could swim and how you had originated it.
We stopped at the Motel of Mr. and Mrs. Rowe, who added
more information about the wonderful project that welded
the townspeople together. Then as nay three sons enjoyed tlie
water I sat on the balcony and had the pleasure of meeting a
good half dozen residents, all of whom told me of your won-
derful work.
-With the world as it is today—that Is as interpreted
by news headlines and radio broadcasts, it is heartwarming
to encounter an undertaking such as yours. May I extend you
jest wishes on the further development about which I was
told several times."
Red China may lie admitted to the UN despite every
effort of the Cnited States to prevent it, and when that hap-
pens the question will be what will the United States do.
President Eisenhower is opposed to withdrawing from
rite UN but a number, influential in congress, are fur doing
so and there is a possibility congress may vote to withdraw.
If the Cnited States withdrlws it will present a situation
similar to that right after World War I when the United
states wihdrew from the League of Nations. The League of
Nations shortly became sterile. Such will be the case with
the I N.
If the United States withdraws, England eaL be greatly
to blame. The British will go to extremes to hold their trade,
it seems, and in this case threaten to sacrifice the UN for
trade with communist nations. France also can be blamed for
not using force enough to win in Indo-China. If the United
States withdraws from the UN Russian dominance will either
winn all the way for Russia, or will strangle the organization
to death. The later in all probability to be the case.
There still is a chance for the UN to be a word court for
peace, but not if the United States Withdraws.
While the al>ove picture niav.he to Russia's liking, it is
said that Russia is having troubles, at home that offer free
nations some comfort. This is a rising discontent of the peas-
antry over their lot in life that is leading to hunger.
As a result of their treatment the peasants are shirking
work on the collective farms, stealing from them, and giving
more of their time to raising their own gardens whieh they
ire permitted to have. This is causing a food and provender
shortage in Russia, which is beginning to' be keenly felt.
Russia is said to have millions more people to feed, the popu-
lation grow ing at the rate of three million per year, far less
livestock than a decade ago, and their crops are growing
shorter year by year.
Harrison Wood in his lecture to the Woman's Club here
said the present Russian government will fall in at least five
years. His idea is that the army will take over. The picture
of crop conditions in Russia also carries with it that the peas-
antry will not revolt, but the situation may reach the stage
that the army may decide soon that now is the time to take
over. That will be a bright day for the world when it does.
Crash Fatal T«
Four Probed To
letermine Cause
KANSAS CITY, Kan., July 8
(EE)—The Air Force began an in
vestigntion Thursday into the
crash that killed its pilot and three
other persons.
The new F 84-F Thunderstreak
dove in a residential section with
in two blocks of Kansas City busi-
ness district Wednesday, less than
half an hour after it took off on
its first Air Force flight.
The dead were Ulenti.fi.-d as 2nd
Lt. John H. Capeies, Bergstrnm
Air Force Base, Austin; Gertrude
Lankford. Edna Hoffman and Karl
Redwine, all of Kansas City. Ca-
peies home is Casper, Wyo.
Five other persons and three
firemen were injured as the plane
plowed through one house, across
a street and used car lot and into
another house, where it exploded.
The first house collapsed against
another, and the fire damaged two
more.
The plane was one of four built
by General Motors Corp., and be
ing ferried from Fairfax Air Force
Base to Bepgstrom. They took off
just before 10:30 p. m. est, and
Cuiales' jet crashed at 10^52 p. m.
The Fairfax contrbl tower re
ported one of the planes radioed
it was in trouble shortly after the
take-off. The tower chief said the
pilot reported he was flying at 6,-
000 feet, but having trouble ele-
vating the nose of the plane.
"We advised him to land at near
.by Olathe. Kan., but he never did
respond," the tower chief said.
TWENTY YEARS AGO TMAY
Jent at the cafe. Mr. Johnson was
scalded over the lower , part of his
jody as he was preparing an urn
>f coffee and lost his footing caus-
ing hot water to splash'over him.
Rev. Carl Collins, president of
the Breckenridge Rotary Club, re-
God to forgive you and I forgive
you, too." -
South fiortion of Stephens County
received a drenching shower bring-
ing relief from the torrid heu
wave.
Claude Johnson, operator of thi
Johnson Cafe on East Walker, was
very painfully burned in an acci-
turned from Detroit, Mich, where
tie attended the S°tary Inter-
national convention- There were
10,000 delegates attending from
til over the world.
Mrs. M. M. McMiehaet was hon-
ied at a miscellaneous shower
given by hex" friends. The McMi-
chael home had been destroyed
by fire.
The Miller Hotel was undergoing
a complete remodeling.
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outburst.
As a police matron supported
her, the ashen-faced woman cried
that the prison years ahead is "a
sacrifice terrible for me bat I do it
for a great ideal."
"I did not expect yon to give me
this opportunity to speak—for
which I thank you," she told the
judge. "I love you and I love the
world and I love God ... I ask
The American b authorised to an-
nounce the following candidates far
itfict, subject to Kto-Bemoeratfe
Party Primary in Jnly.
STATE LEGISLATURE
73th District
Mack Allison, re-election
DISTRICT ATTORNEY
Stephens and Yoong Cawntiaa
E. H. Griff-n, re-election
DISTRICT CLERK
Stephen* County
Walter B. Clift, re-election
J. A. (Jim) Crowley
J. E. (Ed) Norton
SHERIFF. Stephen*
Tom Offield, re-election
II. A. (Al) Ramsay
Chase Booth
COUNTY COMMISSIONER
Precinct 1
J. A. "James" Bryant, re-elect! jii
H. B. (Hyram) Slaughter
COUNTY COMMISSIONER
Precinct 2
I. L. "Doc"
C. L.. "Cfcarencfe"" <
R. H. Grace
M. H. (Hub) Keith
COMMISSIONER
Precinct 3
S. L. "Sam" Jones, re-election
COMMISSIONER
Precinct *
George* B. Manldin
Mrs. Geo. L. Ketley, re-election
M. F. (Reese) Ftmderbcrg
A. W. Tipton
COUNTY JUDGE
J. W. Morrow, re-election
COUNTY CLERK
Ben Grant, re-election
COUNTY SCHOOL
SUPERINTENDENT
Mrs. T. M. James, re-election
COUNTY TREASURER
Clyde Speer, re-election
TAX ASSESSOR AND
COLLECTOR
Robert E. Hood, re-election
Inran Lewis
CONSTABLE: PRECINCT 1
C. F. (Fritz) Rodder, re-election
JUSTICE OF THE PEACE
Precinct 1
W. T. Fincher
L. T. Woodaii. re-election
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