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Portis Sims of Gainesville and
Mrs. Frank Greever of Yuma,
Arizona; one son, O. C. Jirasek of
Sanger; several grandchildren.
Christmas Presents
Taken in Burglary
Of Robert Lee School
at 4 p. m. Thursday in the Geo.
J. Carroll and Son Funeral chap-
el. Other arrangements are in-
complete.
Mr. Jirasek was born April 17,
1864. He is survived by seven
daughters, Mmes. Emma Bernard
The president said that by gen-
erous sharing of material goods
the United States has restored to
many peoples faith in themselves,
in freedom and in certain triumph
of confidence over fear.
The president also said that
social progress must not be for-
gotten in the search for peace
and security.
One million insects have been
classified by scientists.
the Soviet Union had their his-
toric names changed—there were
Mount Stalins, Stalin boulevards
and Stalin Cities.
Over almost half the globe the
traditional preparations for
Christmas were dimmed almost
into oblivion by the new joy over
the birthday of Russia’s premier
—called “inspirer of creation” in
one Moscow newspaper headline.
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DETROIT, Dec. 21 (P) — Dynamiters made an attempt to blow
up the CIO United Auto Workers’ headquarters last night.
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Markets To Be Closed
Saturday and Monday
NEW YORK, Dec. 21 (P)—Fi-
nancial and commodity exchanges
throughout the United States will
be closed Saturday Dec. 24 and
Monday Dec. 26. Several com-
modity markets will take an ex-
tended holiday and close at noon
Friday, Dec. 23.
Gainesville Produce
Prices paid by Gainesville
wholesalers to farmers and other
producers:
Butterfat: No. 1, 52 cents.
Hens: Light, 14 cents; heavy, 20
cents; roosters, 10 cents.
Eggs: Current receipts 30 cents.
Fryers: 28 cents.
Native Pecans: 20 cents.
Green Hides: 15 cents.
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BOYCE HOUSE
The evangelist was conducting
a revival in an Ozark mountain
community and at the climax of
the sermon, he shouted: “All that
want to go to heaven, stand up.”
Everybody stood except one
boy. The preacher said, “Well, all
that want to go to hell, stand up.”
Still the boy remained seated.
By this time, the revivalist was
indignant and he exclaimed, “My
boy, you didn’t stand up on either
proposition.”
“Naw, sir,” the youth drawled,
“Arkansas is good enough for
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ored Christmas gift paper, was
found at a side stairway of the
union building.
Two fuses had burned to with-
in an inch or less of the explo-
sives before they sputtered out,
harmlessly.
Except for two night workers,
the union building was empty.
However, lives were imperiled
in a neighboring General Motors
building.
As a result, authorities were
confronted today with a new task
his father-in-law, Charles Avery.
Then Robert shot himself, and he
died.
George had been given the pis-
tol as a souvenir.
Yesterday, he stalked silently
into the D. O. Donham Hardware
store about 12:35 p. m. Miss For-
ston was sitting at a wrapping
counter. He shot her in the back,
witnesses said, and fired twice
more as she fell and lay on the
floor. Then he stepped away and
shot himself.
The young couple had dated in
school here, but recently they
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FORT WORTH, Dec. 21 (A)—
Cattle 1,200; calves 700; very un-
even; demand slow and weak,
prices steady to 50c down; good
and choice steers and yearlings
$24 to $25; common to medium
kinds $15 to $22; beef cows $14
to $16.50; canners and cutters $9
to $14; bulls $12.50 to $17; good
and choice fat calves $20 to $24;
common to medium calves $14.50-
$19; culls $13 to $14.50; stocker
calves $17 to $23; stocker year-
lings $17 to $21; stocker cows $14
to $17.
Hogs 800; butchers steady to
25c lower, late sales 25-50c down;
sows and pigs steady; good and
choice 200-270 lb. butchers $15.50
to $16; good and choice 160-190
lb. $14.25 to $15.25; good to choice
290-350 lb. $14.50 to $15.25; sows
$13 to $13.50; feeder pigs $10 to
$13.
Sheep 500; receipts were mostly
feeder lambs, fully steady; other
classes poorly tested; medium and
good feeder lambs $20 to $21.25;
few medium grade slaughter
yearlings $18; common to medium
slaughter ewes $10.
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replace that shown above, which appeared on all posters in public
places for many years. It was hard to realize that the mainstay
of their nation was growing old. How old he really looks is diffi-
cult to know. The picture at the right distributed in this country
this year appears to be almost identical with pictures from Russia
in 1946.
and its leadership.
Within less than two years
would-be assassins have tried to
kill two of the UAW’s prominent
Reuther brothers.
Walter Reuther, president of
the UAW, was shot by an un-
known assailant in April of 1948.
He almost lost the use of an arm.
Victor Reuther, the union’s ed-
ucational director, lost an eye in
a similar shotgun attack last May.
Both of the shootings still are
unsolved.
Police immediately linked last
night’s incident with the attempts
on the Reuthers’ lives.
There is “no doubt” of it, ac-
cording to Inspector Joseph A.
Krug of the police special inves-
tigation squad.
Krug said he was convinced it
was a deliberate attempt to blow
up the building.
STALIN, THE SYMBOL, no
longer looks like Stalin, the
man who is 70 years old today.
Russians got a shock sometime
after the war, when new pic-
tures of their leader began to
By The Associated Press
A norther which brought snow
to the Panhandle was expected
to veer to the east today and miss
central and south Texas.
The weather bureau said at
mid-morning that two cold fronts
were in the state. One, coming
from the northwest, caused sub-
freezing temperatures in the Pan-
handle and was expected to bring
low temperatures to the Red
river valley today and tonight.
Another front, described as
cool, moved from the west to the
east this morning, dropping tem-
peratures somewhat and causing
light drizzle at several points in
North Texas.
Forecast for West Texas was
for partly cloudy weather and a
few snow flurries in the Panhan-
dle this afternoon. Temperatures
are expected to drop to 12-22 de-
grees in the South Plains and the
REGARDLESS OF HOW much
Christmas leisure and pleasure
you plan for the coming week-
end, remember that in order for
you to so enjoy yourself, there
are going to be many, many per-
sons who must forego Christmas
pleasures.
Otherwise, you would not have
heat, light, telephone service, fuel
for your automobile, and numer-
ous other services, considered
commonplace and to be expected
regardless of the season of the
year.
These people, who go about
their tasks cheerfully in spite of
the fact that their fellow citizens
are enjoying leisure and good
times, deserve to be remembered
at Christmas time and apprecia-
tion expressed of the services they
render.
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HEY SANTA, HOW ABOUT ME?—Rodney, a reindeer at the
Lincoln Boundary Park zoo, Chicago, nuzzles up to Santa Claus at
the zoo, getting in his bid for a spot in the second string of St.
Nick’s fabled reindeer team this coming weekend. Santa seems
to be giving the bid some consideration. (AP Wirephoto).
Lake level, 613.20 feet, tem-
perature of the water, 55; baro-
metric pressure, 29.73, steady.
Partly cloudy and falling tem-
peratures this afternoon and to-
night to a low of near 28 by
Thursday morning; partly cloudy
through Thursday with high in
the middle 40’s. Winds west 25
this afternoon, becoming north-
west early tonight and north 15
late Thursday.
CAROLERS VISIT LEUKEMIA VICTIM—Good Fellow carolers make a non-scheduled stop at
the home of three-year-old Bobby Joe Kolic (seated, center, on father’s lap), son of Mr. and Mrs.
Michael Kolic, Gary, Ind. Bobby is a victim of leukemia. The carolers are steel workers 50 weeks
of the year. The remaining two weeks they are ambassadors of Christmas cheer. (AP Wirephoto)
Last summer, George’s brother, had broken up. Miss Forston was
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 21 (A)—
President Truman said today
there would never be another war
if the peoples of the world, “sick
of blood-letting,” could have their
way.
But while captive peoples “are
made to respond to our handclasp
with a mailed fist, we have no
choice but to stand ready in self
defense” he declared.
The president spoke at Arling-
ton National cemetery, accepting
a Carillon memorial to the war
dead from the American veterans
of world war II. Allied diplo-
mats from many nations, and
high ranking military and civilian
officials were in the audience.
It was only coincidence that
Mr. Truman spoke on the birth-
day of Soviet Russia’s Premier
Stalin and he did not mention
Russia by name.
But allusions to the Russian
threat to peace were plain and re-
peated.
By EDDY GLMORE
MOSCOW, Dec. 21 (P)—Russian
leaders hailed Joseph Stalin on
his 70th birthday today with a
massive celebration, and the So-
viet leadership took the occasion
to renew Russian claims that
Communism and capitalism can
exist together in peace.
Georgi Malenkov, deputy prime
minister and considered close to
to Stalin, sounded the peace key-
note in Pravda, the official news-
paper of the Comunist party, by
laying heavy stress on previous
statements by the prime minister
that peace was possible between
the two ways of life.
At the same time the peace
theme was underscored by the
announcement of the presidium
of the supreme Soviet that it had
established, in the prime minis-
ter’s honor, an international
Stalin peace prize to be awarded
each year on his birthday, be-
ginning next December.
The special 12-page edition of
Pravda honoring Stalin today also
carried an article by Vyacheslav
M. Molotov, former foreign min-
ister, who relinquished that post
to devote himself to the duties of
deputy prime minister.
While Malenkov spoke of peace,
Molotov lashed out against the
United States and Britain, charg-
ing them with preparing for a
new war, and with planning
world domination “with the help
of any aggressive means, includ-
ing the atom bomb.”
Workers under Communist rule
tration, which would see that the
document is not inconsistent with
provisions of the government
deed which transferred the air-
port to the city. Finally, he con-
tinued, the contract would be re-
ferred to the council for approval.
The committee reported several
weeks ago that the same airport
facilities had been leased, effec-
tive Jan. 1, to Emmett Fette of
Muenster. Fette was to have paid
a monthly rental of $50 or 10 per
cent of his net income, whichever
was greater. Mr. Bradshaw was
not available for comment Wed-
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Traffic Disks Ordered
Other council action Tuesday
night included approval of a plan
to buy 200 plastic disks for trial
use in marking downtown traf-
fic lanes and parking zones. The
200 would cost $52.
Aiderman R. C. Livingston ob-
served that the city had spent
about $2,000 in the last two
months in painting street mark-
ings. And, lie pointed out, the
markings are fading.
According to the manufactur-
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STRIKE IS POSSIBILITY
ST. LOUIS, Dec. 21 (AP).—The 50,000 union em-
ployes of Southwestern Bell Telephone company have
authorized a strike by a margin of about four to one,
a union official announced today.
A final tabulation of ballots returned here after a
vote conducted by mail has not been completed, but most
of the ballots have been counted, he said.
The official, Vice President Frank P. Lonergan of
Southwestern division 20, CIO Communication workers,
said earlier there is “a definite probability of a walkout
before Christmas.”
Union officials hold that a strike may be legally
called at any time after approval of such action by the
membership.
Negotiations between the union and company were
broken off last Monday.
The dispute over a new contract remained dead-
locked, despite efforts by government conciliators who
planned to confer with both sides today.
Panhandle and 20-32 elsewhere
tonight.
The East Texas outlook was for
much colder with a few snow
flurries in extreme northwest
portion this afternoon. Tonight’s
minimum temperatures were ex-
pected to be 20-28 in the Red riv-
er valley and 28-32 in remainder
of the northwest and extreme
north portions tonight. Showers
were expected in the far east this
afternoon.
Gainesville experienced a 36-
degree drop in temperature from
Tuesday aiternoon's summer-like
76 degree weather, to the low of
40 Wednesday morning.
The arrival of the cold wave
was heralded by a heavy down-
pour of rain soon after daybreak
Wednesday, the precipitation
amounting to .05 of an inch. The
sky was overcast, but the sun
was trying to break through the
clouds at noon on the shortest day
of the year, and the official first
day of winter.
15 at Dalhart
Temperatures dropped to 15
degrees at Dalhart just before
dawn. Amarillo had 19 degrees
at 6:30 a. m. Snow was falling at
both places.
Clarendon had 26 degrees and
Childress 32 degrees early this
morning and a freezing drizzle
occurred at both places.
El Paso, in the far eastern tip
of the state, had snow just before
midnight, but the skies cleared
later and the temperature was
reported at 30 degrees.
Rain fell during the night in
parts of north and East Texas
ahead of the norther.
The winter season’s official ar-
rival isn’t until late tonight but
there was much wintry weather
over wide areas of the country
today.
It was cold from the upper Mis-
sissippi and Missouri valleys and
the central plains states westward
to the Pacific coast. The center of
the icy blasts was in the Dakotas
and Minnesota. Temperatures in
North Dakota dropped to 20 be-
low zero.
A storm in Texas created freez-
ing rain over many parts
of the Texas Panhandle, Oklaho-
ma, Kansas, Missouri and West-
Central Illinois. The icy precipi-
tation was expected to extend
over much of the north central
region by tonight as the cold air
from the west moved eastward.
The east and southern states
had mild weather.
Winter made a freezing debut
in Southern California.
Some sample pre-dawn lows:
Palmdale 21; Beaumont 24 and
Indio 25.
There were no reports of dam-
age to the multi-million dollar
citrus crop. Growers were on the
firing line early last night in the
“battle of the smudge pots and
the wind machines.”
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COVINGTON, Tex., Dec. 21 (A)
A stocky, dark-haired youth died
early today from a pistol bullet
he fired into his head after kill-
ing his beautiful childhood sweet-
heart.
“Now that pistol has figured
in two tragedies,” said Sheriff
Charles Garrison. “I think I’ll
take it and throw it in the deepest
well I can find.”
George Clements, 19, pumped
three bullets into blue-eved Mari-
lyn Forston, 17, yesterday. She
died instantly, and he shot him-
self. He died at 1:25 a. m. in Me-
morial hospital at nearby Cle-
burne without regaining con-
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--By A. MORTON SMITH--
VOUNGSTERS OF TODAY who
I look to Santa Claus for their
Christmas toys want no remind-
ers of the late war.
Of the more than 200 letters to
Santa that have been relayed by
The Register, and the kiddies’
messages published in the col-
umns of this newspaper, none has
made a request for toy soldiers
or tanks or other implements of
warfare in miniature.
Many of these youngsters were
war babies — born while their
daddies were in uniform, and
they and their families have no
desire to bring back memories of
the great conflict in play.
And because there is no de-
mand for war toys, the stores of
Gainesville do not have them.
Register reporters, making a
survey, found one store had a
tank that “shoots fire,” and an-
other had a tank that “shoots
sparks.” But outside of these
two items, none of the dozen, or
more toy stores in Gainesville
had anything that was a reminder
of war to offer the youngsters.
Kiddies have asked for BB guns
and cowboy outfits and six-shoot-
ers, but they are more interested
in “hunting like Daddy,” or play-
ing cowboy, emulating the movie
kind, than they are in playing
soldier.
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Dear Children,
Mother Claus has knitted me
a new pair of socks. They are
bright red and very big. I
think I shall hang one up for
Christmas. Maybe I will find a
big apple in the toe. Maybe I
will find a new penny. I won-
der who will fill my sock for
me? Somebody always does but
I never know who! I think the
elves fill my sock for me. I
really think they do.
While I am out Christmas
Eve bringing toys to children
everywhere, those merry little
elves are busy filling my
Christmas sock! Aren’t they
good to me? I wonder what
they will bring this year. I
did mention to Teeny Weenie
Elf that I needed a new red
quill pen. Do you suppose I
will find one in my Christmas
sock? I hope so.
Love, SANTA CLAUS.
The city council airport committee and Tim Osborne have agreed
to Osborne’s leasing the hanger and two other buildings at the mu-
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The console-type Carillon has
been installed in the cemetery’s
amphitheatre out of sight.
The ceremony was part of a
busy schedule for Mr. Truman’s
first full day at the White House
since his return from Key West,
Fla., shortly after noon yester-
day.
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Temperatures—Toda noon, 48;
low last night, 40; high yesterday,
76; high for year, 107; low for
year, 4; barometric pressure,
29.22; rainfall, .05 of an inch.
East Texas (including Gaines-
ville) — Cloudy and showers in
east portion, colder in north and
west portions except much colder
with a few snow flurries in ex-
treme northwest portion this aft-
genius Stalin,” promising greater
production, greater loyalty, great-
er struggle for peace and greater
purges of Communism’s enemies.
Birthday gifts poured into Mos-
cow in an unending stream of
freight cars, trucks, carts, air-
planes and sleighs.
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tains in every corner of the vast
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A number of Christmas pres-
ents were among the objects
stolen from the Robert E. Lee
school by burglars who are be-
lieved to have ransacked the
building between 9:30 and 10 p.
m. Tuesday.
Superintendent Roy P. Wil-
son, reporting the burglary,
said it was the third time in
three weeks schools had been
burglarized, the J. M. Lindsay
and the J. Frank McMurray
schools having been broken
into the same night.
The superintendent said it
appeared from the behavior of
the burglars that they were
youngsters. He said one student
of the Lee school reported to
the principal she saw a light in
the building about 9:30 p. m.
Tuesday.
Entrance was obtained by
breaking out a glass panel of a
door and reaching through to
turn the latch.
Superintendent Wilson ap-
pealed Wednesday to citizens
living in the vicinity of public
schools, to notify police when
they observe anything suspi-
cious going on at the build-
ings.
Texas Wesleyan college in Fort
Worth. Clements, a native of
Covington, had come back to this
Central Texas town of 500 from
Fort Worth, where he lived with
his parents.
Last Summer’s Shooting
Last summer’s shooting involv-
ing Roberts Clements occurred on
June 13. He killed Avery, 68, in
a family quarrel at his father-in-
law’s farm home at Itasca. After
fleeing to his grandparents’ home
north of here, Robert, then a sol-
dier at Camp Hood, shot himself
to death as officers surrounded
the house.
“This boy, George, came and
got the pistol,” Garrison said. “I
didn’t want to give it to him, but
he insisted on it. And the Clem-
ents boys’ mother insisted it be
given to George as a souvenir.
“I feel awful bad about it.”
Miss Forston’s mother, Mrs.
Frank Forston, said she didn’t
believe her daughter and George
were really sweethearts.
R. F. Clements, George’s father,
said at the Cleburne hospital that
George and Marilyn had been go-
ing together “off and on” since
grammar school days in Coving-
ton.
Visit Not Unusual
He said there was nothing un-
usual in George’s visit to Coving-
ton.
Mrs. R. L. Donham, wife of a
partner in the store, said George
entered as Marilyn was sitting at
a wrapping counter after buying
Christmas cards. He didn’t speak.
Mrs. Donham said George went
by Marilyn to a toy counter,
faced around, put a gun at Mari-
lyn’s back and shot. “It was the
loudest toy gun I’d ever heard,”
she said—and then she realized it
was real.
D. O. Donham, senior partner
in the store, said “he shot her
once or twice after she fell on
the floor.” George switched the
pistol to his left hand and shot
himself in the left temple, Don-
ham said.
He was taken 12 miles north
of here to Cleburne.
After the shooting, Clements’
car was found parked outside the
store with the radio blaring. Resi-
dents said he apparently was
waiting for Marilyn.
George’s father said that since
the recent breakup, the youth
had dated other girls in Fort
Worth but had stayed home most
of the time.
Miss Forston’s parents live two
miles north here. A brother,
Charles, formerly was registrar
at TWC. He is on leave from
the TWC faculty to work on his
doctorate at Indiana university
and is home for the Christmas
holidays. Another brother, Mar-
ion, is a teacher at Orange.
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28 in Red river valley and 28-32
in remainder of northwest and
extreme north portions tonight.
Thursday partly cloudy and
colder in southeast portion. Fresh
to strong southerly winds on the
coast shifting to northerly late
this afternoon or tonight.
West Texas—Partly cloudy and
much colder except a few snow
flurries in Panhandle this after-
noon. Fair and colder. Tem-
peratures 12-22 in South Plains
and Panhandle and 20-32 else-
where tonight. Thursday fair
and cold.
Louisiana—Mostly cloudy and
warm. Showers in north and
west portions this afternoon.
Showers and colder in north and
west and much colder in extreme
northwest portion tonight. Thurs-
day partly cloudy. Showers east
portion. Colder and fresh to lo-
cally strong southeasterly winds
on the coast shifting to northerly
on west coast late tonight and
east coast late Thursday.
Oklahoma — Freezing rain or
drizzle west and north except
cloudy in Panhandle, rain south-
east, much colder today. Cloudy
east, partly cloudy west, colder
east and south tonight. Thursday
partly cloudy and warmer. Highs
today 28-32, except in 40s extreme
southeast. Lows tonight 20-30,
except 15 in Panhandle.
hair’s breadth. A package of dy- Frank Jirasek, 85, Dies
After Extended Illness
Frank Jirasek, 85, retired farm-
er, died at 2:15 p. m. Wednesday
at his home at 906 North Com-
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BECAUSE YOU WORK UN-
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is no excuse for not getting your
late shopping for Christmas done
in Gainesville this week.
Stores will remain open until
8:30 p. m. tonight, tomorrow
and Friday night.
But Christmas even, though it
falls on Saturday, will see the
stores close at the regular week-
day time of 5:30 p. m.
That is only fair to the store
employes who work hard all
week to take care of late shop-
pers, and who deserve some time
on Christmas Eve after working
hours to prepare for their own
Christmas observance.
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