Breckenridge American (Breckenridge, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 183, Ed. 1 Tuesday, September 7, 1954 Page: 2 of 6
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2—BRECKEXRIDGE AMERICAN* TUESDAY. SEPT, 7, 1954
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THE OBSERVER
Jto fHim IF HALL
Breckenridge enjoyed the holidays without a traffic
accident injury, survey of local hospitals and ambulance
operators revealed Tuesday. Doyle Wagner had his car
ftaraaged when it turned over near Vincent's corner, but
v aguer did not "get a scratch", he said. Wagner said he went
to sleep.
Both Texas and the nation were below estimated deaths
over the weekend although Texr.s led the nation with 25
Thirty deaths had been estimated for Texas and 390 for
the nation. The national toE was 335.
It is good to ssee the traffic carnage turn downward.
With human nature never changing we are prone to credit
better and wider highways for the change for the better,
although many are doubtless learning to keep more alert.
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Showers Stated
in Wistern T ?t
By UNITED PRESS
Thundershowers felt Monday
and during the night in the South
Plains and the Panhandle and a
ftw scattered showers were re-
ported Tuesday.
Junction got .61 inch of rain
Monday and Amarillo fot .08, Dal-
hart JJt and Luhhock a trace dur-
ing the night. Rain was still fall-
ing Tuesday northeast of Amarillo.
Outside the Panhandle and
South Plains, rains fell at Laredo,
which got .75 inch—the largest
measurement in the state—and at
Port Arthur-Beaumont, which got
.01.
forecasters said the outlook i?
for little change: Clear to partly
cloudy with widely scattered most
ly afternoon and evening thunder-
sshowers. Temperatures will con
cinue about the same.
Low temperature? earlv Tue.«-
lay ranged from 61 degrees at
Marfa-Alpine to .81 at
Christi and Galveston.
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Traffic Sou It ion
Breckenridge enjoyed the holiday mostly hunting and
fishing, with a number going out of town to Visit friends
and relatives.
A. H. Miller estimated from 1,500 to 2,000 heard the
band concert, witnessed the swimming and diving contests
at Miller Park, and a number of teen agers remained for
the dance.
This corner took off bird hunting and fishing. Had
fine luck, but manr of the birds are small. Asked' if we
are shooting too early in this area and reply we got was that
it is a late crop, or n some cases a second hatch.
Crappie fishing was good at Possum Kingdom Lake,
as to numbers, but not nearly so many large ones were
caught as during the previous week.
MORE THAN HE BARGAINED FOR—Tom Elliott, 10, Batavia,
til, has a rou;o time trying to calm his hog tor judges at tne
Market Hog Sho-.v in Chicago, IlL Children from Indiana and
Illinois shov. ed some 640 hogs they fed and fitted as 4-H and FAA
vocational projects. - Tom was the youngest exhibitor."
There were 64 tickets sold and 34 present at the com-
munity breakfast Monday morning. Apparently many
bought tickets then forgot to attend.
There was one thing noticeable. That was the interest
displayed when suggestions and criticism were asked
written down by those present. Heads went down over
pencil* all over the breakfast room.
Names of those making the suggesstions or critic-
isms are not known Neither did the person making either
have to stand up and talk about. This is believed to have
given much freer rein in the matter, as many suggestions
and criticisms were received.
However, it might be said no money is made on the
breakfast and the purchase of a ticket is nothing like the
help the presence of the purrhaser would be.
Story going the rounds in town that tickles our funny
bone is about two drunks.
The men had the same room in a hotel but with sepa-
rate beds. They came in considerably pickled and got in
bed together. One .of the men called out:
'"There is some one in bed with me".
The other answered, "and with me, too".
-"What do vou sav we kick them out?"
. "Okeh".
; So, the kicking started. One man got kicked out on the
floor.
"Kicked my man out on the floor", one kicker shouted.
"I got kicked out", the other answered.
"Well, HI tell you what you do", the grinning kicker
said, J'yon just come over here and sleep m bed with me".
Indoor Sport
MILWAUKEE —CO
recently made herself a hat trim-
Mr an 1 • f«**d with pheasant feathers. Every
Mrs.. Frank Powiing h.-tv - a bird ! time she wears it, the dog cornea to
dog that gets Bractit-e without | 3 "point."
lesrijlg the house. Mr". Dnwting
C-C Receives-
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gram with trees, shrubs, etc.; con-
.tiiiie to ^xpiore Breckenridge;
Obtain more industry; inaug-
urate a county unit system for
roads; improve health and sanita-
iion by cleaning up and setting a
■tandard for garbage and waste
paper containers; obtain more vol-
unteer workers on civic projects;
Have stricter law enforcement
on traffic with public information
to back up police department.
Several Duplications
Some ot the suggestions were
turned in by more tnan one person.
These reDent€<"' "*ug°'e«i: "-e-
for street paving, completion of
additional water supply, traffic en-
forcement improvement, .lUtiauz-
ed loans and health and sanitation
improvement.
In answer to the question about
ridge, these reports were turned in:
r^r uaiiic regulation Dy lau-
tq i ***ore *"*"u r*'° ib*' —«-v~ t-
signs; city finances; downtoWn
,eea ivi- more activity
by retail businessmen in all phases
vi voii,rauuity wot k., poor tourist
hospitality program and need to
make tourists feel welcome;
jtreets ai.d town generally needs
clean-up program for papers, de-
bris. etc , water and sewer line
extensions; cleaner streets; lack of
industry; out of town retail buy-
ing; hard to get acquainted; too
much "hard time" talk; not
enough paved streets; lack of co-
operation of community projects;
informed public opinion on the
city's place in national affairs; and
too much "lip service" and not
enough action by members who
leave the work to a few.
Suggestions To Be Divided
It wns pointed out bv George
Jordan, Chamber of Commerce
manager, that all of these sugges-
tions may not be adaptable to
Chamber of Commerce activities.
Those that are not will be referred
to the City. County, schools or civic
eluhs, as the case may be.
Purpose of the Breakfast pro-
gram was to obtain suggestions
that will assist the Chamber in pre-
paring its program of work for
1!)5!>, it was reported.
"Discussion W?" was originated
hv Don Phillins, president of Hills-
idale College in Michigan.
A businessmen's teacher appre
riiition banquet is to be held at the
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American Legion Hall on Monday,
Sept. 20, at 8:30 p. m., it was, au-
iienncetl at the Community Break-
fast.
Kurpose of the dinner is to wel-
ocme new public school teachers
iu to tecogttize pusL
services ot returning [turuua aj.m
lo ei.aoie nusinestuueu and teacn-
ers to know each other batter.
Eaeh businessman and his wife
wui oe personal nosts to one teach-
er ana ius or ner wit«e or to two
unmamea teacners, u was report-
ed. fevsons wtto \vu n to De nosts
nave been asked to can tne cnam-
«e ui couuuei.ce lor fitithci ae-
Laits about tne dinner.
Aaron Kuperman announced a
meeting ot tu«e community Chest
for Monday, Sept. 13, at tue
i. al. c. a. ihe nieetlTH, wnich la
open to the public, will hear re-
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Chest agencies ana plana lor tne
■oumig yeai.
PORTLAND, Me. — <UP Char-
les H. Merrill has the parking
problem licked. Although not dun
at his desk until a.m.. he drives
to tfevni shortly after 7 a.m. and
mitts "plenty of curb spnet* " Wha'
does he do for two hours? "I sleep
at my desk," said Merrill.
Practical 'Greeting
MILWAUKEE — rt!J>> Eight-
year-old Susan Bordsen gave her
mother a practical greeting card
that was hand-lettered in crayon,
"Good for 10 diahwaahings.,, Be-
low were 10 squares with this di-
rection: "Please check as used "
Honolulu, Hawaii's mid-ocean
capital, ia a boom town, says the
National Geo g r a p hic Society.
Beach-fornt lami costs more than
$2 a square foot. Since World
War II, 2a 0i,o i,e,v houses liave
been built.
Holiday Toll In
Texas Totals 401
25 It Traffic
By UNITED PRESS
Texas' celebration of the Labor
Day weekend was a bloody one.
A total of 40 Texans died vio-
lently, 25 of them in highway ac-
cidents. including a family of five
migrant farm workers who were
killed Monday in a train-truck col-
lision near Hearne. There were
seven drownings, five homicides,
and three death from tnisclelaneous
causes.
The Texas Department of Public
Safety had forecast, before the
three-day weekend began that 30
persons would lose their lives in
liighway accideuts. That compared
with the 27 who died over the La-
bor Day weekend in 1953 and the
32 who were killed in Fourth of
July weekend accidents on Texas
oads.
Frank Sarabio, 36, Tahoka, Tex.;
his wife. Maria, 41, and three of
their chilldren were killed in the
accident near Hearne. Two of the
i'hildren, Albert, 17, and Dominga,
three, were riding in the trucks's
•ah with the parents and were
burned to death. Another dangh
ter, Genoviva, 14, had been riding
'm the beck of the truck and was •
thrown out and killed'.
A 23-year-old- Dallas woman.
Mrs. Elrena Harris, was killed
Monday night when she' fell or
i Jumped from the third floor labor
room of the Parkland hospital
I Mm Harris, a was - t
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eight pound, six and one-half ounce
baby boy whose condition was re-
Doetors performed a Cue;. t i
O^eta a.. .11. U I'ly tlell
r; k.
ported good.
Another unusual death during
the weekend was that of Mrs. Allee
Blaekwell, 38. Fort Worth, who
was shot and killed Monday night
in a Fort Worth movie theater
which was showing "Dragnet." Her
male escort said his pistol slipped
from his pocket and discharged
accidentally.
POLK. Neb. — Residents
were awakened from a quiet sum-
mer lull recently by whnt sounded
like a pre Fourth of July celebra-
tion. Investigation showed that the
I etty intner " were blasting the old
cement standpipe erected in 1908.
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Bodies of Twelve
Americans Found
SHANNON, Ireland, Sept. 7 iP.B>
— itie bodies of iz AMeturans lull-
ed wturu a Roy at Dutcn hx.i i air-
onev ciasned tuto tne River Shan-
non wul be fiotvu to the United
states Fiiday, the airline said
luesday.
The bodies, together with those
of the 16 other persons kilted in
Lhe stm-etnexptained crash Satur-
urday, lay m the adnuiuitrative
KCA1 oft ices at Shannon airport
Tuesday. The non-Americans will
be flown to Amsterdam Tuesday
night.
Salvage workers were trying to
raise the wreckage of the KLM
Super-Constellation from a mud-
hank in the middle of the Shannon
estuary, one mite and a half from
the airport.
The mudbank is above water at
low tide, but the clinging black
mud has hampered salvage opera-
tion.
Twenty-fire of the dead were as-
phyxiated by gasoline fumes after
the crash and three drowned in
the rapidly rising tide. Twenty-
eight other persons aboard the
plane were saved.
SEATO Finishes
'Monroe Doc trine'
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MANILA, P. I., Sept. 1 (KB)—
SEATO
eight-nation
nctic
con-
its
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t<T~Asia-
tic "Monroe Doctrine" treaty at a
formal ceremony at 4 p. m.
Wednesday.
II. S. Secretary of State John
Foster' Dulles was reported to
have placed the Monroe Doc
trine" label which hammered out
the last details of an agreement
designed to protect southeast Asia
against Communism aggression.
Tre conference agreed Tuesday
to drop the word "Communist"
from a clause defining the type
of aggression the eight member
nations will guard against.
The United States will sign the
treaty with the reservation that
it interprets the pact as being de-
signed to halt "Communist aggres-
sion."
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