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GAINESVILLE, COOKE COUNTY, TEXAS, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 8, 1950
61 ST YEAR
NUMBER 9
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Rodeo Thrills Big
Crowd; Attendance
At the Fair Soars
Gainesville Produce
Prices paid by Gainesville
wholesalers to farmers and other
producers:
Butterfat: No. 1, 50 cents.
Hens: Light, 16 cents; heavy 18
cents; roosters 12 cents.
Eggs, candle basis: No. 1, 40
cents; No. 2, 22 cents.
No. 1 turkeys: 20 cents.
A major enemy of nursery
stock in the northeastern states
is the grub of the white-fringed
beetle.
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Slate for Car Dealer
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Marine Corps League Asks
Ouster of Secy. Johnson
WASHINGTON, Sept. 8 (A) — The Marine Corps league today
demanded ouster the of Secretary of Defense Johnson, but defeated a
similar proposal that Secretary of State Acheson be fired.
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A business man, replying to a
letter from an insistent creditor,
wrote, “I want to pay this bill but
if Gabriel was to blow his trum-
pet now and I was no better pre-
pared to face my Maker than I
am to pay this account, I’d go to
hell as sure as shooting.”
A thrilling exhibition of rodeo sports was witnessed by an en-
thusiastic audience of more than 1,000 persons in the rodeo arena
at the Cooke County Fair grounds Thursday night, as attendance
claimed for two days that the
communists hold Taegu.
The town Yongchon, 20 miles
east of Taegu, changed hands
twice Friday in bitter fighting be-
tween North and South Koreans.
Two Red tanks roared into Yong-
chon, important highway junc-
tion, Thursday night but were
driven out Friday.
An American field officer said
Friday night that if Yongchon is
not actually in Communist hands
it is under Red control.
CARRIZOZO, N. M., Sept. 8 (A)—A prison in-
mate’s confession in a 10-year-old death previous-
ly believed a suicide yesterday brought murder
charges against the prisoner and another man.
A Texas druggist and the prisoner were accused
of slaying a man who said on his deathbed he
shot himself.
Made to appear a suicide and accepted by many
at the time as such, the killing was all but for-
gotten by residents of nearby Ruidoso, southern
New Mexico resort town.
Hounded by the crime he said he committed,
Glen Thornton went to Warden Lon Walters of
the Arizona state prison and told a story which
at first had officers astounded and skeptical.
An investigation followed. Leon Todd, Mineral
Wells, Tex., and Thornton were charged with the
murder by Sheriff S. M. Ortiz of Lincoln county.
They were accused of the fatal shooting in August
1940 of William Henry Hewitt, 30, Ruidoso, store-
keeper.
Todd waived extradition. He was quoted by Or-
tiz as admitting former residence in New Mexico
but denied knowledge of the slaying.
Thornton contended he was paid $100 cash to
get rid of Hewitt and promised $500 more whcih
he never received.
Dying in a Ruidoso doctor’s office, Hewitt first
said the shooting was an accident then whispered
that he shot himself.
AP Newsfeatures
45 cal. pistol is magazine fed
and recoil-operated. It weighs two
pounds without the magazine and
has a range up to 1,650 yards.
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THE REASON WHY Gaines-
ville has a larger percentage of
students as compared with the
population of the city is that
there are more students from
rural communities attending the
local schools.
Actually, there is no higher
ratio of students in Gainesville
than in the cities included in
this comparison. But Gainesville
draws her scholastic population
over a larger area of the countg
than do the other cities.
New Assistant Pastor
At Muenster Church
MUENSTER, Sept. 8 — Rev.
Cletus Post, O.S.B., has arrived in
Muenster to take up his duties as
assistant pastor of Sacred Heart
Catholic church.
A native of Arkansas, he was
ordained to the priesthood in 1939
and has been associated with Su-
biaco college academy as a teach-
er, athletic director and assistant
prefect.
On a number of occasions in
the past he has visited Muenster
to participate in the Christmas-
New Year services.
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BOYCE HOUSE
Texas Cotton Crop
Of 2,775,000 Bales
Is Latest Estimate
WASHINGTON, Sept. 8 (P) — Texas 1950 cotton crop was es-
timated at 2,775,000 bales today by the Agriculture department. This
was a decline of 225,000 bales from the August 1 forecast.
A sharp decline also was fore-----
TRUMAN ‘CORRECTS MISTAKE’—President Truman (standing right) makes a personal apol-
ogy to members of the Marine Corps League at their annual convention in Washington saying that
when he makes a “mistake, I try to correct it.” He referred to his statements in a letter to a con-
gressman that the Marines were merely the navy police force and had a “propaganda machine that is
Horse Downed by Brahman,
J. Johnson Sprains Ankle
John H. Johnson, 401 East
Broadway, suffered a sprained
right ankle when the horse he
was riding was bowled over by a
Brahman bull in the Cooke Coun-
ty Fair rodeo arena Thursday
evening. The horse was skinned
up somewhat.
Henry Cotten Delegate to
State Legionnaire Meeting
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Cotten and
daughters, Patricia and Betty, and
her mother, Mrs. Jennie Blood-
worth, left Friday afternoon for
Galveston.
Mr. Cotten is a delegate of the
local post to the state American
Legion convention to be held
there Friday and Saturday. Five
thousand Legionnaires over the
state are at the meetings, some of
which will be held at the $2,000,-
000 pleasure pier.
Speakers will be the national
commander, George N. Craig of
Brazil, Indiana, and Governor Al-
lan Shivers.
The Cottens will return Sunday
evening.
8,000 Lives Lost
Galveston Flood Occurred
Fifty Years Ago This Day
GALVESTON, Tex., Sept. 8 (P) — Just a half century ago today,
one of the world’s greatest disasters struck this island city.
People still don’t know exactly how great was the toll. Some say
as many as 8,000 were killed. Other estimates drop as low as 5,000.
Population before the storm struck was 30,000.
The staggering loss of life came from a hurricane accompanied
by a tidal flood.
Property damage was estimated at $30,000,000 back when a
dollar bought a lot more than now. Great sections of the bustling
port city were razed.
Today a great sea wall protects the city from a recurrence of
the disaster.
The first warning of the hurricane came Saturday, Sept. 8, when
winds increased. Before long, the wind had pushed water across the
city and it was 14 feet deep in the streets. Houses crashed. Screams
of terror and anguish were heard above the roar of the wind.
The wind blew at a steady 125 miles per hour with gusts up to
an estimated 200 miles an hour.
Later, decaying bodies set up a great odor. Attempts were made
at burial, but that was impossible. Some bodies were burned on
great funeral pyres. Others were taken by boat and buried at sea.
Bodies were still being found in the wreckage six weeks later.
The storm had destroyed about 3,600 houses. On the beachfront,
1,500 acres were a tangled wreckage. One 18-block section had been
swept clean of houses.
Galveston feels secure now. A hurricane of even greater inten-
sity hit the city in 1915 but because of the seawall’s protection, not
a life was lost.
HAVING A LARGER percent-
age of students in school means
that facilities must be greater
and there must be more teachers
to take care of the teacher load.
This presents additional prob-
lems to the administrative heads
of the school system, to be sure,
but the presence of more rural
students in our public school
more closely knits this city to its
rural population, which is a good
thing for city and country alike.
Man Admits 10-Year-Old Murder,
Accuses Another as Accomplice
cast for the nation. Proauction
was estimated at 9,882,000 bales.
A drop of 426,000 bales from the
forecast a month ago.
If the department’s forecast is
carried out, it will be the smallest
production for Texas since 1946,
when only 1,699,000 bales were
harvested.
The Texas decline probably re-
flected poor growing conditions
in some sections and heavy insect
infestation.
Fears that production will be
less than usual per acre and gov-
ernment acreage controls have
been reflected in a price rise
which saw some cotton futures
contracts go above the 40-cent
mark.
Four per cent of the Texas cot-
ton acreage has been abandoned,
the Agriculture department re-
ported, bringing acreage to 6,912,-
000. Production is forecast at 193
pounds per acre with the condi-
tion of the crop 70 per cent of
normal.
The national figures compares
with 16,128,000 bales grown last
year and with a ten-year (1939-
48) average of 11,599,000 bales.
Production is down from last
year largely because of the ef-
fects of a government control pro-
gram designed to prevent the ac*
cumulation of a burdensome sur-
plus. But the government had not
sought such a drop. Some farmers
did not plant all they were en-
titled to under the program.
Nevertheless, reserves from
past crops assure ample supplies
of most.grades and staple lengths
until the’ 1951 crop is harvested.
In addition, the government to-
day restored strict controls on ex-
ports of cotton.
In a report accompanying the
crop forecast, the census bureau
said 863,633 bales of 1950-crop
cotton had been ginned prior to
Sept. 1 compared with 1,247,576
bales to the same date last year
and 1,444,355 two years ago.
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Here is just one more in-
stance where a classified adver-
tisement in The Register
cleaned the slate for a used car
dealer
Said he: “Well, that one ad
did so much good that there
are few cars left to sell and I’m
still getting calls from last
week’s ad, but I’ll have some
more soon.
The Register “brings ’em back
alive” with classified ads. Any
article described adequately,
and advertised long enough,
will sell 1 hrough the classified
medium. If you had 100 peo-
ple working for you at $10 a
day each, they could not reach
as many people as the $1 ad
will reach in one issue of The
Register.
Makell
FORT WORTH LIVESTOCK
FORT WORTH, Tex., Sept. 8
(P)—Cattle 500; calves 400; beef
cows $20 to $22; canners and cut-
ters $14 to $20; sausage bulls $19
to $24.50; good and choice slaugh-
ter calves $26 to $31; common to
medium calves $20 to $25.50; culls
$18 to $20; stocker calves $24 to
$31.
Hogs 250; butchers 25c higher:
sows strong; pigs unchanged;
good and choice 190-200 lb. butch-
ers $23.25 to $23.50; good and
choice 150-180 lb. butchers $21 to
$23; sows $17 to $20; feeder pigs
$20 down.
Sheep 400; steady; slaughter
lambs, yearlings scarce; few cull
to medium ewes $12 to $13.50; old
cull ewes down to $11; few me-
dium to good feeder lambs $25.
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168 Communicable Disease
Cases Reported in August
Two-thirds of the 168 cases of
communicable diseases reported to
the Gainesville - Cooke County
health unit in cool, wet August
were influenza.
The unit’s latest monthly report
lists the following county cases
reported by physicians last month:
Influenze, 11 cases; dysentery, 14;
virus pneumonia, 13; virus x, 11;
gonorrhea, six; roseolla, five; two
each, mumps and poliomyelitis;
one each, infectious hepatitis,
meningitis, typhus fever, whoop-
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“Murdering a guy isn’t so easy to do,” said the
prisoner in his confession. “You just do it on the
spur of the moment and regret it a million times
later.”
The prisoner’s confession told this story:
Hewitt threatened to commit suicide over a
quarrel.
After drinking with Thornton for several hours
in a Ruidoso cabin, Hewitt picked up a rifle and
held it to his chest, again saying he was going to
shoot himself.
“I set my glass of whiskey down,” related the
prison inmate, “stepped up to him, and pulled the
trigger.” Hewitt died several hours later.
Ortiz and State Patrolman Herb Douglas, who
investigated, said the story related by Thornton
checked with “certain known facts,” but was
vague on many points. Thornton claimed the facts
were somewhat hazy in his mind.
Thornton is serving a four-to-five year sentence
on two chargeswof issuing bogus checks.
Sheriff Fred W. Foreman said today in Palo
Pinto, Tex., that Todd had not discussed the case
with him except to say he formerly lived in New
Mexico but knew nothing about the case.
Foreman reported that Todd had lived in Min-
eral Wells about six months but he said he did
not know where Todd had resided previously. His
wife was with him in Mineral Wells.
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The Johnson resolution asked
President Truman to replace the
Defense department chief “with
a competent and far sighted
statesman.”
The organization of Marine vet-
erans also adopted resolutions
urging:
1. That the president “take
immediate and drastic action
to oust every known Commu-
nist sympathizer, leftist and
fellow traveler from the State
department or any other de-
partment or government office
where they may be found.”
2. That congress pass legis-
lation providing for member-
ship of the command of the Ma-
rine Corps on the joint chiefs
of staff.
The resolution asking the dis-
charge of Secretary Johnson
passed with only one dissenting
vote—that of retired Brig. Gen
Robert C. Kilmartin of Washing-
ton.
When the resolution proposing
Secretary Acheson’s removal was
submitted, Kilmartin gained the
floor to remind the league that
“President Truman asked our
support and we ought to give it.”
Explaining that he had wished
to speak before the Johnson reso-
lution came up for a vote but was
unable to gain the floor, Kilmar-
tin reminded the league that
President Truman had pointed
out that criticism of individuals
in his cabinet was criticism of
him.
Clay Nixon, Seattle, league
commandant, supported the
Acheson removal resolution.
Nixon said Senator McCarty
(R-Wis) has “put the finger on
Reds in the State department and
there are still a lot of them in the
Secretary of State’s office. Ache-
son has a lot to account and apol-
ogize for. I hope you vote to get
rid of men who counsel wrongly.”
The Acheson resolution was easily
defeated.
Earlier, two ex-Marines in Con-
gress urged that the lawmakers
greatly increase Marine corps
strength and give it equal rep-
resentation in the joint chiefs of
staff despite Mr. Trumans’
wishes.
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Refrigerator Stolen;
Trail Sort of Cold Too
His new refrigerator was miss-
ing from his kitchen when he re-
turned home Thursday morning
after an absence of more than a
month, Roy Sluder reported to
the sheriff’s office today.
Sluder’s house is about three
miles southeast of Gainesville
near the Canaday schoolhouse.
The back door had been forced
open, and presumably the refrig-
erator—purchased bv Sluder in
July—had been trundled through
it. Sluder left his home Aug. 2
to go to Slaton to work at a cot-
ton gin.
Sheriff’s deputies A. E. Cogburn
and Archie Nichols and Gaines-
ville Policeman Glenn Raborn in-
vestigated the burglary. But—
they report—the possibly month-
old trail of a stolen refrigerator
is sort of cold itself.
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By RUSSELL BRINES
TOKYO, Saturday, Sept. 9 (P)
—Allied troops hacked out slight
gains at opposite ends of the rain-
lashed Korean warfront Friday
against dangerously rebuilding
Red forces.
Little fighting took place on
the whole 120-mile battleline.
Americans surmised this meant a
North Korean building during the
lull for a new offensive smash.
A U. S. 8th Army spokesman
said the Red drive by 50,000 men
on Taegu, main allied base on the
central front, had “petered out,”
probablyfrom lack of supplies
and sufficient manpower for the
present.
The Reds had pushed to within
seven miles of Taegu before the
U. S. First Cavalry division and
South Koreans broke the back of
their drive.
General MacArthur’s Tokyo
headquarters summary early Sat-
urday confirmed this general pic-
ture of the front. It said in the
northern sector enemy pressure
continued but had diminished
while the defense front remained
intact.
Allies Hold Yongchon
Near the east, it noted that al-
lied forces continued to hold
Yongchon and advanced against
slight enemy resistance.
General MacArthur’s headquar-
ters warned of a possible new
offensive either in the southwest,
north or east.
The buildup seemed greatest on
southern coastal, approaches to
Pusan port, chief allied base in
Korea.
In Masan port, 27 airline miles
west of Pusan, allied authorities
ordered removal of all civilians
not needed in the war effort..
This was a precautionary
measure in the face of a reported
offensive buildup to the west and
threat of infiltration by Red
agents ordered to stir up trouble
among the 75,000 population.
Five thousand were evacuated
from Masan in the first batch
Friday.
Battle mountain, a rugged peak
about 12 miles northwest of Ma-
san on the southwestern front,
was retaken Friday by the U. S.
Infantry division. It was the ninth
time the peak changed hands.
Friday night the Reds plastered
the mountain with an artillery
barrage. Communist infantry
struck immediately afterwards.
American and South Korean
troops gained a few yards near
the east coast in their efforts to
close a five-mile gap in their
lines. AP Correspondent Bill Ross
at the front reported the U. S.
and South Korean troops opened
separate a tt a c k s through the
murky weather to try to close the
gap.
The hole remained after hasty
battlefront patching had sewed
together a bigger hole punched
out by a Red breakthrough ear-
lier in the week.
At dusk the doughboys had
made little progress. They were
halted by rugged terrain plus
the drenching rain which reduced
air support to six sorties Friday.
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I Taegu, threatened by 50,000 of
the 130,000 Reds on the battleline,
appeared safe for now. The Reds
were stopped north of it by First
Cavalrymen and South Koreans.
The Americans counterattacked
but had to withdraw from gains
made on a hill north of Taegu
when expected air support did
not arrive because of the weath-
er. Red resistance on the hill was
sharp.
The Red radio in Pyongyang,
North Korean capital, has
During the Christmas shopping
season, a young man entered a
book store and said, “I want a
copy of Iliad.” The salesman
TRAFFIC TICKET PLUS
GIRL, COP-ROMANCE
DALLAS, Sept. 8 (AP).—When Miss Dean Wil-
liams, a pretty 25-year-old office worker, made an illegal
left turn in her car, a cop nabbed her permanently.
Involved was a $1 fine, a cup of coffee and a practi-
cal joking lawyer.
Sparks flew during the curbside meeting between
Miss Williams and Officer Homer MacNamee, 32, two
months ago. She got a ticket anyway. She turned it
over to a lawyer in the office where she works, but she
paid a $1 fine.
The attorney as a practical joke arranged a meeting
between Miss Williams and MacNamee. The officer
was in civilian clothes. He invited the young woman for
a cup of coffee. She accepted.
“I didn’t recognize him at first, but then all of a
sudden it struck me that he was that darn cop,” she said
today.
But a dinner date followed. Love blossomed. They
were married last Monday—in the home of the practical
joking attorney.
“Now every morning before he goes to work,” Mrs.
MacNamee said, “ I tell him to think twice before he
gives another woman a ticket.”
60-Man Venire
To Report Monday
In District Court
Sixty men have been summoned
as a venire for the second week
of the September term of the 16th
district court. The veniremen are
to appear in district court at 9
a. m. Monday.
Set for hearing Monday and
Tuesday are two divorce cases
which may require jury trials.
On the venire are:
From Gainesville—F. A. Miller,
E. P. Shelton, Roy Davis, Paul
Morgan, Hugh Wilson, Weldon
Strader, M. F. Chilcoat, George
Walker, John A. Popp, William
Flusche, Carl Lemons, Clarence
Cotton, Elbridge R. Campbell,
Jake G. Biffle, Jr., Earl Bentley.
From Pilot Point area — Earl
Shipley, V. L. Cook, Ernest Huey,
A. J. Riley.
From Sivelis Bend—C. H. Bush,
S. J. Embry.
From Dexter—C. F. Lile.
From Muenster—Dexter Dowd,
T. J. Wimmer, J. A. Klement, Tony
Felderhoff, Richard Cain, Al Wal-
ter, Joe Wyatt, L. F. Moon, John-
nie West, Al Vogel, William Hav-
erkamp, Herbert Muerer, Ed Hiss,
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From Valley View—L. B. Cloer,
W. R. Vestal, Howard Springer,
Homer Roane, F. M. Hollings-
worth, T, R. Couch.
From Lindsay—J. C. Kupper,
Ben Hermes, Nick Block, Bruno
Zimmerer.
From Saint Jo—B. C. Redman.
From Woodbine—J. D. Bomar,
F. E. Hickey.
From Collinsville—Ed H. Dove.
From Whitesboro area — John
Hawkins, P. B. Cunningham, Roy
Ayres.
From Era—Fred Knight, H. J.
Holland, Doyle Selby.
From Greenwood—J. F. Lucas.
From Forestburg—A. P. Sutton,
Roy Atteberry.
From Rosston—Weldon Penton.
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--By A. MORTON SMITH--
RAINES VILLE PUBLIC schools
• have a greater responsibility in
providing educational facilities
and instruction to students than
some of the neighboring cities
near the population class of this
city.
In Gainesville, the scholastic
enrollment for the 1950-51 term
represents 20.2 per cent of the
total population of the city. In
Ardmore, the school population is
17 per cent of the total and in
Denison it is 18.7 per cent of the
population as shown by the 1950
census.
We have reason to believe that
Sherman, Denton and other cities,
whose scholastic enrollment for
this term is not available as yet,
would stack up with Ardmore and
Denison.
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tomer said, “Homer.” The sales- day, 82, low, 59, high Saturday,
man inquired, ‘Homer who?”. 84.
SEVERAL CITIES have been
unfortunate of late in holding
elections for changes in municipal
government and bond issues, and
we have reason to believe that
the warfare in Korea and the un-
settled conditions of the world
generally, have had a bearing on
the lack of desire of the citizenry
to make changes or spend addi-
tional money at this time.
In Ardmore, this week, street
and sewer improvement projects
were defeated 8 to 1 and 5 to 1.
Over in Greenville, a proposal to
write a new city charter was de-
feated and Denison recently lost a
decision seeking a bond issue for
public improvements.
There are cities, however, that
are going ahead in spite of dis-
couraging factors. . This week,
Carthage approved a $495,000
bond issue for water and sewer
system and street improvements.
Clerk Issues 98 Nuptial
Permits Here in August
The Cooke county clerk’s office
issued 98 marriage licenses dur-
ing August—one more than in
July.
As usual, Oklahoma couples
took more than half, 51, in Au-
gust.
The other licenses were
granted to couples geographical-
ly classified as follows: Gaines-
ville twosomes, 16; other places
in Texas, 27; New Mexico, Kan-
sas, New York and Tennessee,
one each.
A man 76 and a woman 70 were
the oldest couple granted a li-
cense. A man 18 and a girl 15
were the youngest twosome is-
sued a nuptial permit.
continued to soar.
Paid attendance Thursday was
2,473, nearly 1,000 better than last
year’s fourth day attendance of
1,554. The attendance for 1950 is
now 1,287 ahead of last year,
despite the sharp drop in Labor
day attendance this year as com-
pared with 1949 because of the
rainfall during the evening.
With a second performance of
the rodeo and the first game of
the Wichita Falls - Gainesville
playoff series of the Big State
league, as dual headliners tonight,
the largest attendance of the week
is anticipated. Last year, the fifth
day produced a paid attendance
of 3,838.
Both the baseball game and the
rodeo are scheduled to start at
8 p. m.
The grounds of the baseball
park were put in first class con-
dition Thursday by scores of
workmen, after the rain of Sun-
day and Monday resulted in
wagon wheel ruts being cut in the
outfield and adjoining grounds.
Playing Field Repaired
Wayne Wallace, general chair-
man of the Gainesville Centennial
celebration, said Friday that the
playing field “is in better shape
than it has been this season,” and
he added that low places in the
outfield which have existed since
the field was built, have been
eliminated.
The fast rodeo performance of
Thursday night is expected to
cause rodeo fans to turn out in
even larger numbers tonight, and
the basball fans are expected to
set a record attendance with
Wichita Falls and Gainesville tied
one-all in the first play-off in
which the Gainesville club has
ever participated.
The Bill H. Hames shows will
be open throughout the evening,
and the Flying LaForms will
present their high aerial act at
10:30 p. m. as a free attraction on
the carnival midway.
All other attractions will be in
operation, and exhibits of live-
stock, poultry, agricultural prod-
ucts, home demonstration and
club girls handiwork, will be
open to the public throughout the
afternoon and evening.
All judging has been completed
and ribbons designate the winners
in all department.
Attendance has been large in
the main exhibit building where
the commercial exhibits are on
display, and there has been much
interest in the exceptionally large
farm machinery show.
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Proposal Made to Organize
Farm Bureau Unit in Cooke
Jack Mahan of Gainesville at-
tended a sub-district meeting of
the Texas Farm Bureau Federa-
tion in Sherman Thursday.
Mahan says a proposal was
made at the meeting to hold a
meeting in Cooke county next
spring possibly to organize a
county organization of the fed-
eration in this county.
Joe Carter, Democratic nomi-
nee for state senator from this
senatorial district, addressed the
Sherman gathering of represen-
tatives of Farm bureau organiza-
tions in Grayson, Collin, Fannin
and Denton counties.
Texoma Report
Lake level, 616.94, temperature
of the water, 79, barometric pres-
sure, 30.00, steady; fair weather,
winds north 12 to 15 today
southwest 15 tonight, Sunday.
almost equal to Stalin’s.” (AP Wirephoto)
T. A. Keys Recovering
From Automobile Wreck
Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Key, who
were injured in a car wreck
which occurred late Sunday aft-
ernoon near Sanger, are reported
improving as well as can be ex-
pected in a Denton hospital.
Mr. Key is the son of Mrs. T. A.
Key, Sr., and brother of Mrs. Paul
Schad, 809 South Dixon street. He
suffered a cracked pelvis, exten-
sive body bruises, shock and lac-
erations in the wreck. Mrs. Key
was thrown on a fallen live wire
and suffered slight burns. She
was expected to be released from
the hospital Friday afternoon or
Saturday.
The couple, who had been visit-
ing here, were returning to their
home in Fort Worth. The driver
of the automobile who hit the
Key’s car, drove away from the
scene of the accident, but state
police have his license number.
Mr. Schad said.
Both Mrs. Key and Mr. and
Mrs. Schad have been in Den-
ton at the bedside of the acci-
dent victims.
Temperature—Today noon 77;
barometric pressure 30.02.
East Texas (including Gaines-
ville)— General- -
ly fair this after- j
noon, tonight •
and Saturday. A “+~
little warmer-
north portion
this afternoon.
Cooler extreme
northwest p o r-
tion Saturday.
Gentle to moder-
ate mostly
northwest winds
on the coast. irw/
West Texas— CLOUDY
Clear to partly cloudy this after-
noon, tonight and Saturday.
Slightly warmer Panhandle.
South Plains, and upper portions
of Pecos valley eastward this aft-
ernoon and tonight. Cooler Pan-
handle and upper south plains
Saturday.
Louisiana: Fair this afternoon,
tonight and Saturday. Gentle to
moderate northwesterly winds on
the coast.
Oklahoma—Generally fair to-
day. tonight and Saturday, cooler
northwest Saturday. Highs today
middle 80s, lows tonight middle
50s.
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