Brenham Banner-Press (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 82, No. 42, Ed. 1 Friday, February 28, 1947 Page: 1 of 6
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Late entries in the "Richard”
contest floating into our office
today come from Willye Lou
Eichler. Carmine; Ann Lee
Koon, Brenham; Annie Prxbor-
ski, Route 3. Brenham; Jeanette
Busse, Brenham: Shirley Spray-
berry, Brenham; Mrs. ■ E. O.
Schiechte, Route 1. Hufamith;
Sudie Lu Schaer, Chapel Hill;
Wm. Bosse. Brenham; Bruce
(Continued on page six)
County School Superintendent
W. O. (Chick) Dannhaus has re-
ceived the following letter from
State Representative J. A.
Luedemann in response to a
petition from Washington coun-
ty school teachers: "This is to
acknowledge receipt of the peti-
tion signed by the teachers of
Washington county in which
they request my support in rais-
ing funds for rural aid equaliza-
tion that ia pending in the legis-
lature by taxing natural re-
sources.
“Will say in regard to.this
that I am a co-signer of the
bill which will ta\ oil. gaa and
sulphur. I believe as you do
that this would take care of the
teachers’ salaries fend at the
same time place the burden
where it should be instead of
increasing the maintenance tax
on the local school districts.
"In regard tp the $55.00 per
capita, you no doubt know by
this time that the bill passed in
the House yesterday . . hope
that you will get this informa-
tion to the teachers who signed
this petition, as it Js almost im-
possible to write each 'one indi-
vidually.
"I assure you and the teachers
of Washington county that I am
happy to support legislation In
their interest and if at any time
you have any subject that you
are interested in, kindly let me
hear from you.”
"Killing dogs is bad enpugh,"
says Herman Stolz of Old Wash-
ington, “but what do you think
of a fellow who shoots hogs, es-
pecially "since they are bringing
30 cents per pound?” Stolz re-
ported someone shot six of his
hogs Monday night, within 100
yards of his fence line-
- » • •
From T. M. Spence, general
manager of the Southern Pacific
Lines in Texas and Louisiana,
we have received the following
letter.-of publjZ interest: . ,
“Mr. J. C. Carter has referred
to me your letter to him of the
1st instant in which you suggest
that a more spectacular warn-
ing device be placed at the inter-
section of this company’s main
track and State Highway No.
36 (Booth Austin Street), Bren-
ham.
"Please be advised ’mat it
is our information the Texas
State Highway Department is
considering inauguration of an
extensive program for installa-
tion of ‘protection devices at
railroad grade crossings, and in
compliance with their request we
have included data on the South
Austin Street crossing at Bren-
ham. In the meantime, we will
again caution our enginemen in
making movements over this
crossing To be on the alert,
sound all required warning sig-
nals and see that speed of trains
is not permitted to exceed the
6 MPH authorized by City or-
dinance.”
BRENHAM WEATHER
February 28.
Maximum 43
Minimum 3*
7 a- m. 38
Rain 25
LEIJDEMANN’S LETTER
f-
FINAL RICHARD ENTRIES
1
2 JEWS KILLED *
*
total of 181 persons attended
A
on
III
Practice Bowling
Set Due For Elks
At Alleys Monday
DEATH CLAIMS
JOE MIKESKA
IN HOUSTON
Passes* Curve Where
24 Persons Killed
Ten Days Ago.
HOOVER SAYS
$350 MILLION
RELIEF NEEDED
J. H. ATKINSON
WILL COACH AND
TEACH AT BUNN
Principal At Cypress-
Fairbanks To Come
Here In Fall
Urges Caution To
Foreign Affairs
Committee
Explosions Believ e d
From Bombs Or
Land Mines
Bills Given Friendly
Committee On
. Appropriations
Lodge) for many years and was
also a member of Bonn of Her-
from a food survey of Germany
with - a recommendation that thia
country spend nearly $500,000,000
to feed the German people.
: At
Houston Man Is Dead
- And 10 Passengers
Injured
CREW HELPLESS
I
Hot Lunches In
County Continue
Through May 15
SOLONS DEFY
JESTER ON TAX
LEGISLATION
El Centro, California, was chief
■pilot of the plane.
It was the longest flight ever
made by a fighter plane. On its
take-off last night from Hickam
Field. H o n o I ul u, Hawaii, the
strange twin-fuselaged plane car-
ried the heaviest load ever lifted
Into the air by a fighter plane. And
it was- the first non-stop flight by
any kind of a plane from Honolulu
to New York.
The pilot and his co-plfot. First
Lt. John M Ard, Inglewood, Cal-
ifornia. were tired but happy as
they slid from the cramped cock-
pits where they had sat for near-
ly 15 hours.
ALTOONA. Penn., Feb. 28. (UJ!)
—A Pullman coach broke loose
from the Pennsylvania-Railroad's
Sunshine Special on Cresson Moun-
tain. today and ran wild for three
and a half miles as women passen-
gers prayed and a heroic porter
tugged helplessly at the emergency
brake. ’*
The porter, L. Keys, of near
Houston, Texas, was killed, and
ten passengers and a flag man
AUSTIN, Feb. 28. Legislators
contending it will take more tax|
money toapay for expanded state
services and increased teachers
pay won the first clear-cut text of
The next dairying short course
will be held March 27. when the
local floor Is of medium set size. ' subjec t will be "Producing Clean
and alao the (act that it will be '
WJiham J Tinker of Longview
nir* been named, [-«■ Governor Dan
Moody as state game. flat. and'"
•yxtrr commissioner, succeeding
F. F. Hubby of Waco, who resign- •
'rd Wti name will be sent to th*
senate soon for confirmation.
Tucker, who was reared in Bren-
ham and educated at the public
schools and Blinn College, ia an
overseas veteran of the World
War, ranking a« captain. He was
formerly editor of the -Brenham
Press and Brenham Messenger As
a sportsman he is well known as
former .president of the Texas Di-
vision. Isaac Walton ’ League of
America. His father. George Tuck-
or .is one of the veteran sports-
men and troopahootcrs of the stats.
— st
Announcement Is made by Lee
Herbst, agent, Santa Fe Railway,
that street crossings on the rail-
way will be repaired and placed
In good condition at once, many
complaints recently having been
received regarding the bad con-
hot plate; Gilbert Keim. 12 dinner dition of the crossings on Alamo,
plates and aluminum milk pail. | Main and Peabody streets.
Meet In Tourney
Opener Saturday
The host Brenham High School Cubs will meet Burbank
of San Antonio at 1:00 o'clock Sntunlay afternoon in the
ofiening game of the Region 7-A buHketball tournament to
be heloHt the high achool gymnaaiupi, with the Taylor Duc'xh
and Lockhart Liona following up at 2:3i).
Am the set is one of the most I "
important affairs ever held on the ■ ■ || 1/ Bapfxms zi
MILK MEETING
HAS TOTAL OF
181 PRESENT
Diatomaceous Earth
Found In Idaho
M OSCG W. ^daho T.FI — The
geology department of the Uni-
versity of Idaho made a million-
dollar discovery in southern Idaho
when It dug up deposits of diato-
maceous earth, the miracle min-
eral of modern Industry
Geology professors believe that
business initiative, and technolog-
ical "know'how" is all that Is
needud to place Idaho among the
leaders In providing the nation’s
requirements for diatomaceous
earth It is used as polishing pow-
der, ax .an absorbent for nitro
glycerine in the manufacture of
dynamite, in the preparation of
dentifrices, and In the manufac-
ture <i( non-conducting and sound*
proof materials.
The greatest
County School Superintendent
W. O. Dannhaus has received of-
ficial word from Austin that
schools in Washington county can
continue their hot lunch program
until May 15 of this year.
Funds for this purpose were ex-
pected to be depleted by March 1,
| but arrangements have been made
i to continue financing of the pro-
gram. Dannhaus said he was in-
formed.
Fathers Night To
Be Observed Monday
By Alamo PT A
Refugee Ship With
1350 Aboard Is
Grounded
WASHINGTON, Feb. 28. (UP)-
Former President Herbert Hoover
said today congress would be Justi-
fied in appropriating an additional
$350,000,000 for foreign relief if
the program is kept flexible to re-
capture any uhneeded funds.
■The 71 year old former chief
executive told the house foreign
affairs committee that it ia the
interest "not only of ourselves but
the world that we stop, look, and
listen," before any further spend-
ing for foreign relief.- .
were injured when the car Jumped
the tracks and crashed into an em-
bankment.
The car eame uncoupled when
the express; running from New
York to Texas, stopped at Gallit-
zin Tunnel to drop a "helper” loco-
motive after climbing the eleven
and a half mile mountain grade,
The crew members stood help-
less as the Pullman broke away
and picked up speed to race down
the mountain. The car sped past
Bennington Curve, where ten days
ago the Red Arrow Express leap-
ed the tracks to plunge into a
gully and killed 24 persons.
Railroad officials said they had
not been able to determine why the
car became uncoupled or why its
brakes failed to set automatically
when the air hose broke. *
defiance to his statement to a
revenue and taxation subcommit-
tee that he still thought it un-
necessary to levy more taxes.
Both House and Senate adjourn-
ed until Monday.
The Senate passed a measure by
Senator T. C. Chadick of Quitman
to allow claims for compensation
for occupational diseases to be
made under the workmen’s com-
pensation act.
Representative Woodrow Bean
of El Paso county precipiated the
tax fight In the House by mov-
ing that his bill proposing a levy
Fathers Night and Founders
Day will be observed by the Alamo
Parent-Teachers Association with
a special meeting at the school-
house at 8:00 Monday evening,
when Mrs H. L. Steinbach will be
leader of the program on "Grow-
ing All the Way Up."
All members of the PT A are
urged to attend this meeting and
a special invitation is extended to
fathers of Alamo children to be
present.
Prior to the general meeting the
executive committee will meet for
a brief session at 7:30.
taxes. More specifically, It was rnan Lodge.
He was a faithful member of
the Czech-M orsvisn Brethren
church of Wesley of which his
father was one of the organizers
and this little church wax always
close to his heart. -
On January 22, 1883 he was
married to Theresa Adamek at
Wesley where he continued to re-
side until after the death of his
wife Msy 30, 1944. At the time
of his death he made his home
in Houston with his two daugh-
ters, Mrs. Bruno Frnka and Mrs..
Geo. E. Ayres.
He Is survived by five daughters,
designed to raise $25,000,000 an- Mrs. Ed. Bormann of Wesley,
nually on oil. gas and sulphur be Mrs. Mary Baker of Fort Worth,
removed from the revenue and Mrs. Samuel B. Clash* y of Los An-
taxstlon committee. (Continued on page six)
Cubs And Burbank
JERUSALEM. Feb. 28. (KB—
A series of powerful explosions
rocked the harbor area of Haifa
today a few hours after a refugee
ship carrying 1.M5U uncertified im-
migrants was grounded off the
nearby Palestine coast.
Two Jews were killed and one
British 6th Airborne trooper and
one Trans-Jordan Forcex man were
wounded seriously when explosions
wrecked the safe rooms of Barkley
Bank in the heart of the Haifa
area.
Three blasts in the xerfea were
believed to be from bombs or land
mines timed to explode as the ship
entered the harbor.
local floor, the winner will emerge!
Into the state meet at Austin.
March 6-8. and a crack at State
Class A title This entry into the
state affair will be determined In
the tourney finale to be reeled off
at 8:30 p. m„ following a third
place game between the afternoon
losers at 7:00.1
The opening afternoon tilt looms
as a nip and ttfck battle, with!
Burbank throwing their tail, close j
shooting aggregation against thej
smaller Cuba who possess speed |
A bowling practice session will
be held at the Germania alleys
Monday night at 7:30, and all
bowling members of the Elks Club
are urged to attend
Another tournament , win be
started in the near future. The
Reese Lockett quint took the in-
itial series by nosing out a two
out of three game win tn the last
set held Monday night.
The general public 1s Invited to
attend and watch the rollers, and
plenty of seating space ia provid-
ed.
Crew members of the C-54 that landed In the Arctic wastes of Northern Greenland to rescue the crew
df a crashed B-20, are guests of President Truman at the White House. Relating to the President de-
tails qf the heroic rescue are Lt. Bobby Cavnar, Okmulgee, Okla., (seated rlg|it> and standnlg left to
right are: Lt. Fred Sporer, Dalias, Toxas; Lt- William A. Seward. Jr„ Stoneham, Mass..("apt. Herbert
G. Dorsey, medical officer; Pfc. Charles Erchak, Healsville, Ohio; T-Sgt. Walter L- Hustus, South Port-
land, Me.; and T-Sgt. John H. Schuffert, New Castle, Pa. <NEA Telephoto). . *
home soil may help thg green and
white.
In the second afternoon round.!
Lockhart Is generally conceded a
win. ax their district was consider-
ably stronger all during the sea-
son campaign, than that of Tay-
lor's, snd the Lions should pull,
sway handily for an easy victory.]
The (kicks took a drubbing from
the Thrall quint in a practice af-
fair Tuesday night, 27 to 20
As game time nears, pasteboards
still are going at a fast clip, with
sellouts for all sets almost assured
The student ticket rale ended
Thursday afternoon, and dishing
out to the general public started
this morning and will continue 1
(Continued on page six)
Many Prizes Given Thp K^test dep«nu of tn*
Out To Those ! *~ '“””1 “ ““
Attending
A. W. Nhannon, principal of I
Brenham High school, rc|x>rt<-d j the one-day dairy abort course ut
thU afternoon that there will *
l»r a limited number of ticket*
for both the afternoon and night
MWaliHM that will <••,<>» rale
at the gymnaalum box office be-
fore game timK Part of the al-
lotment of <lu<at« sent to Nan
Antonio were returned, axxurlng
a few last minute rant*. Doorw
at the gym will often at 12:30
,«hSI | (br , <n« after n<on> Set, anu t> SO
tfbv -i>.^ fnr the nlgtR'ac-. Jon/ ■ *
western states of the United
: States, while some deposits have
been found in Wales and Bohemia,
The only other location in the U.
S„ where It is found to any ex-
fen t is near RWtmond, Va. At
present, California and Oregon
j dominate the industry.
Prominent Wesley
Resident To Be
Buried Sunday
Joseph Mikeska, 84, of Wesley,
commissioner in Austin county for
20 years, died nt 10:30 a m. Thurs-
day in Houston, at the home of
his daughter, Mrs. Bruno Frnka
of 1000 Missouri, Hyde Park ad-
dition-, He had been In falling
health for the past five months.
Hm was a retired merchant and
farmer, and was well known for
his civic work in Washington and
Austin counties. -sK
Born AugUst 18, 1862 near'In-
dustry. Texas, he wax a IJfe-long
resident of Austin counter. His
farming interests extended in both
Austin and Washington counties.
At the age of six he moved with
his parents to Wesley where his
| father, Peter Mikeska established
i a general mercantile business. Af-
[ ter the death of his father he
operated this, same business for
over fifty years He received his
■ education In private schools and
j Brenham High school and studied
; law in a prominent law office in
pay wmi me Altai uwtuv vcni tra , '
the session in the House of Repre- -' *"?***",.**• Ber'"’d
- 1 'n the Texas State Legislature
‘ j “ ! administratlbn of Gov-
ernor O. B. Colquitt, was County
Commissioner of Austin County
-".ft'pcrTvr. tri
active in all polFttrat xm.’
affairs of both Austin and *tvaxh- „
ington counties. He served as vice and a tricky passing game
president of the grand lodge of the th.
James H. Atkinson, principal of'
the Cypress-Fairbanks consolidat-
ed schools, was elected by the
Blinn board of trustees as physi-
cal training teacher and coach
for the year 1947 to 1948. He will
also teach a class in science and
teach during the summer term.
His work is to begin with the fall
semester.
J. H. Morgan, who has been
acting as coach at Blinn. has asked
to be relieved of his coaching du-
ties. but will continue as a merti-
ber of the Blinn faculty.
Mr. Atkinson was reared and
educated in ' Georgetown, Texas.
He graduated from Southwestern
University and has done'graduate
work in the University of Hous-
ton.
He was formerly coach at the*
Llano high school. From there he
entered service as a volunteer in
World War II in the Army Air
Corps, serving 4’4 years, 3’4 of
which were over seato. When dis-
charged he held the rank of Lt
Colonel.
He married a WAC who was al-
» — -----so a Lt. Colonel In the army And
Mr Hoovw \ J^^I'Servki 2’4 years over seas. They I
- - have a little son seven months old.
They will 'move to Brenham In
August.
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sentatlves Thursday. . ! ^ri'^ the**"
The House voted by unequivq;cal I
majorities to remove two bills pro- j
praing natural resources levies
from the revenue and taxation
committee^ putting them in what
may be a more friendly appropria-
tions committee.
It thus flatly challenged Gov-
ernor Beauford H Jester’s cam-
paign promises of expanding state
services without imposition of new
Happy to be a future niece of
Uncle Sam is Marly Duffhaus,
who survived four years in a
German c.ncentratioa camp.
The French youngster is dic-
. tured as, hugging her big dfoll,
’she recenpy arrived in tfew
York. She and her parents will
be cared toi by Catholic Com-
mittee for Refugees until they
find a home.
the American legion homo Thurs-
day, sponsored by the Chamber
1 of Commerce.
Included in the number were stu-
1 dents In the veterans* vocational i
! agriculture school.
I). H Walters, chairman of the 1
i dairying committee of t.he Cham-
I ber. presided at the meeting, ami'
presented a program on mixing
[dairy calvex He wax axsixted by
. B E. Todd. ; .
, County Agent Joe Frubese, ax-
As'sisted by Henfy GraboW ami r. V
" -■)'• Antbnlo club Is used to I Krueger, dtoctMaed pasture hn-
Czech-Slovak Benevolent Order of < longer courts used in thotr city, I provements ' <
the State of Texas <S. P J. S T | the Cubs may have a slight ad-1
vantage from thia-point, as thej
Milk ”
A feature of Thursday's meet-
ing was distribution <>f prizes..
Each woman present received a
track of flour and a gla.M pitcher,
ami each man had his choice of the
twn.
' Fred C- Jeske received a cash
prize of $7.50 donated by Holl*
Hardware Co, as winner of a
contest in which it was brought
out that there are now AO Grade
A dairies operating in Washington
county.
Other prizes, donat’d by the
Chamber of Commerce, were dis-
tributed as follows: Gilbert
Broecker, 12 plates, cups and
saucers; Mrs. Clarence Goraaler. I
Rescuers Visit President Truman
BRENHAM - -
’20 YEARS AGO TODAY
February 28. 1927
(From Banner-Press Files)
COACH BREAKS
FROM TRAIN IN
PENNSYLVANIA
HAIFA HARBOR
IS ROCKED BY
HEAVY BLASTS
The ______
SPECTATOR
SHOOTING HOGS NOW
RR WARNING SIGNALS
Happy Landing
1
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AND 3.S MINUTES
. PILOTS HAPPY
Emergency Landing
At LaGuardia Field
Ends Triumph
Load-Was Heaviest
. Evpr Lifted By
4 Army Plane
NEW YORK, Feb. 28. <1T.P1 —
Streaking In to an emergency
landing at La Guardia Field the
army'a P-82 Twin-Mustang plane,
Betty Jo., luday completed the first
non-xtop flight from Honolulu-
5,051 miles in an official elapsed *
time of 14 hours and 33 minutes-
With only aixty gallona of gaso-
line in her tanka the plane touch-
ed down here at 10:08 a. m. Cen-
tral Standard Time. .' a
Pullman Runs Wild On Mountain And Heroic Porter Killed ™iES™ hours
I'.
P-82 FIGHTER PLANE MAKES FIRST
HAWAII-NEW YORK NON-STOP FLIGHT
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BRENHAM * -
The City of Hospitality
BRENHAM, TEXAS, FRIDAY, FEB. 28, 1947.
VOLUME 82
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ternoon. tonight and Saturday. Oc-
casional rain and warmer In east
and south portions tonight. Sat-
urday. colder, rain near upper J, ...
coast.
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