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COOKE COUNTY
RED CROSS FUND DRIVE
Feb. 27—March 31.
GAINESVILLE, COOKE COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 27, 1952
(TWELVE PAGES)
NUMBER 182
62ND YEAR
Guenther Testifies
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On Foreign Aid Plans
SUED BY McCarthy—Sen.
the WSB recommendations, the. William
story
By A. MORTON SMITH
said
was told Eisenhower plans
Powers, Europe) before the Re- testify.
publican convention.
Lamar county.
stunt
Business Leaders Believe 1952 Will
Shivers was there.” She said she
told school officials to deal out
bones would run so fast:
• date in 1951
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Top Level
Steel Talk
Is Dropped
New Cold Front in Texas
Brings Thundershowers
To Relieve the Drought
16 Passengers of Plane
That Landed in a Wheat
Field Arrive in Dallas
Troops Redeployed to New
Positions In Mock Battle
A
The chamber of
showed cattle
(D-
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con-
commerce
feeding
it
to
All of the passengers described
the two hostesses as the “plucki-
est girls they had ever seen.”.
The two — Dorothy Currey of
the
where
COOKE COUNTY FREE LIBRARY
GAINESVILLE, TEXAS
TOWN—
—TOPICS
17 Deathless Days
IN COOKE COUNTY
(Outside Gainesville)
Traffic deaths to date in 1952 ...5
when the plane landed in Kan-
sas.
The pilot, Capt.. Jack Stanford,
Dallas, still up in Kansas, told
Braniff people here “this is one
time our safety training program
really paid off. The passengers
and my crew cleared the plane
like they had rehearsed it.”
- An Oklahoma delegation sev-
eral weeks ago had asked the
commission to shift the location
about eight miles east of the
presently planned site.
Sen. Aikin insisted the $660,-
000 structure should be built on
grasses.
The scene has become rare in
drought-ridden Texas.
A MSA spokesman said later
the chamber’s statement gave a
“misleading impression.” He said
there is a lot of. difference be- i
tween unextended and obligated ।
funds, and that although the ad- I
ministration will have unspent
funds on hand, all of it will .have I
been obligated. I
Although it is unusual for two
separate senate committees to
handle the same legislation, the
armed services group has a two-
fold interest in hearing Gruenth-
er: (1) It wants to examine him
to find out what effect the pro-
gram of military help to Europe
will have on the American pre-
paredness program, and (2) It
wants to size him up personally.
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Ike to Resign Soon,
Says Chicago Paper
CHICAGO, March 27 (P— The
Chicago Daily News said’ today
Training School
Escape by Two
Thwarted Today
The latest escape attempt by
inmates of the Gainesville State
Training school ended within an
hour today after two girls who
climbed over a fence were ap-
prehended by County author-
ities.
The girls were caught in the
McGRATH IN WITNESS CHAIR—Attorney General
J. Howard McGrath (right), with Assistant Attorney Gen-
eral Joseph J. Duggan beside him, testifies in Washington
at the first open hearing of a house judiciary subcommittee
that is looking into his department's operations.
(AP Wirephoto).
that General Eisenhower will I
resign his European job “at any :
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Ore., woman enroute to Oklaho-
ma City.
Passengers here said she was
one of the “pluckiest” they had
evei’ seen.
They said she grabbed a maga-
zine, rolled it around a rope to
protect her hands, and slid down
to the ground. Then two men
grabbed her to get her away
from the plane and she said “I
WEATHER FORECAST
Tonight and Friday, partly
cloudy; cooler today.
Full weather report on
classified ad page.
By MARTHA COLE
DALLAS, March 27 (AP) — Six-
teen of the 45 passengers aboard
burning airliner that landed in a
Kansas wheat field yesterday ar-
rived in Dallas today “feeling
wonderful.”
“Sure we were scared,” said
D. B. /Downey, Houston. “I just
sat there, waited and wished and
said my prayers. The pilot was
wonderful.”
An army doctor, Col. George H.
Lage, Portland, Ore., who de-
livered twins just the night be-
tration, (MSA) and other mutual
security agency officials in exe-
cutive session today.
■ - The U. S. Chamber of C o m-
merce, in a statement yesterday
formally opposing the foreign aid
bill, accused the senate commit-
tee of giving the Truman admin-
istration a 9-to-l advantage in
time alloted to witnesses.
It said high-level spokesmen
such as Secretary of State Ache-
son, Secretary of Defense Lovett,
MSA Director W. Averell Harri-
man, Gen. Omar Bradley and
Gen. Gruenther were given nine
days — and “ample time” — to
Traffic deaths to same
date in 1951 .....
But, said
the chamber, the
Texas Delegation Seeks
Red River Bridge Site
North of Clarksville
AUSTIN, March 27 (AP)—A Texas delegation headed by state
Sen. A. M. Akin, Jr. of Paris today urged the State Highway com-
missiin to stick with its present proposed site for a Red river bridge
between Clarksville, and Idabel, Okla.
Traffic injuries to same
date in 1951 .....
: Wood, assistant deputy director'
of the Mutual Security adminis-
Westchester apartments,
moment now” according to in-
formation reaching the paper
“from sources usually regarded
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more punishment. She said she
had heard of no ban on whip-
ping and that she objected most-
ly to confinement in Wither-
spoon cottage, a detention cen-
ter for girls classified as trou-
ble-makers.
Governor Shivers said today in
Austin that he had made no
statement or recommendation to
anybody at either the Gainesville
or the Gatesville State Training
schools about discipline.
Shivers said the only statement
he had made on the subject was
at a press conference in Austin
following his inspection of the
school. At that press conference
he said that he thought there
ought to be strict discipline, but
that it was a matter of policy for
the State Youth Development
Council to determine.
Conn) is defendant- in a
000,000 “libel, slander and
ton's charges that McCarthy
had committed perjury, fraud
and deceit of the American
people in pressing his commu-
n i s t s-in-government charges.
the site almost due north of
Clarksville because Texas has
built a road to that point. He
also said both states previously
have agreed to that location.
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_ A Grayson county delegation
“ asked for, and received, assur-
i ance that the highway commis-
! sion will push a $2,400,000 im-
provement program on U. S. 75
in and adjacent to Denison as
FORT HOOD, Tex., March 27
(P) _ Battle action in Operation
Long Horn today was static over
much of the long front, with
troops being redeployed to of-
fensive and defensive positions.
The 82nd aggressor division
had its parachuted brigade
linked with its ground attackers
to form a solid front against the
47th division, a national guard
outfit from Montana and Minne-
sota.
While the action in the U. S.’
biggest air-ground maneuvers
slackened, a short, chunky um-
pire with the 47th waited for a
decision that may send him back
to the Philippine islands to cele-
brate “Bataan Day:” The umpire
is First Lt. Jose Calugas of
Leon, Ilo Ilo, the only Filipino
to win the Congressional Medal
of Honor. He got it for extreme
gallantry on Jan. 16, 1942.
This, he said, is what hap-
pened that day when he was
cited for the nation’s highest
military decoration:
The sound of the guns died ab-
ruptly. To Mess Sergeant Calugas
it was an awesome and worri-
some silence.
“I don’t know what happened,
so I decided to go see. If every-
body is gone, I think I can mess
up the guns so the Japs can’t
use them.”
“I asked some of my men if
they wanted to go, and they said
no. So I started out. I ran across
an officer of the Philippine
Scouts and asked him if he
wanted to go along, he said okey.
“We went to the guns and the
major was there. He wanted to
know what I was doing there
without -my kitchen. I told him.
But he said the guns had already
of Japs. So I stayed as a gunner.
“We fired at the Japs for four
hours. We knocked out one bunch
of enemy artillery before we ran
out of ammunition.
“I went on back to the kitchen
and started cooking breakfast.
'That was the last breakfast Calu-
gas cooked. They made him a
front line man. After the Ameri-
can forces surrendered, he made
the “death march” and was re-
leased by the Japanese ten
months later, a sickly Filipino
they figured could cause them no
more harm.
“I rested up for about four
months and then joined the
guerrila forces on Central Luzon
under Maj. Harry MacKenzie and
Maj. George I. Palmer,” Calugas
said. He fought with the guer-
rilas until American forces lib-
erated the islands.
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date in 1951 .....
didn’t think my
submit his resignation as chief
of the North Atlantic Treaty or-
ganization to President Truman
through Secretary of Defense
Lovett. '
“The general will explain,”
the newspaper said, “that his
political position makes it de-
sirable that he leave SHAPE
(Supreme Headquarters, Allied
Benton (above)
(By The Associated Press)
How will 1952 business stack
up when the final returns are
in?
Despite sales figures that lag
behind 1951 and slumps in a
number of important civilian in-
dustries, many business leaders
look for it' to compare well with
most recent years.
They expressed this opinion in
responding to a state-by-state
survey by the Associated Press.
Some of those reached would
make no predictions; some said
they couldn’t see beyond June.
But the majority indicated con-
fidence that current troubles in
most lines would be overcome
and good levels of business
maintained to the end of the
year.
Views of the future were
brightest in states where agri-
culture, defense manufacturing
and production of basic mate-
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without any dateline,
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WASHINGTON. March 27 (AP)
—Gen. Alfred M. Gruenther, top
aide to Gen. Dwight D. Eisen-
hower, goes before a third con-
gressional committee today to
support the $7,900,000,000 foreign
aid program.
The senate armed services com-
Mittee called Gruenther for a
closed-door hearing. He appeared
previously before the senate for-
eign relations and house foreign
affairs groups.
Today’s session will give sena-
tors on the armed services group
a chance to size up the man
prominently mentioned to suc-
ceed Eisenhower as supreme
commander of allied forces in
Europe.
Chairman Richards (D-SC) of
the house foreign affairs com-
mittee said yesterday after hear-
ing Gruenther that the general
would make “a good man” if
Eisenhower leaves the post to run
for president.
Richards conceded Gen. M a t-
thew B. Ridgway, the top Amer-
ican commander in the Far East,
is in the running but Gruenther,
as Eisenhower’s chief of staff,
has the best knowledge and ex-
perience for the SHAPE job.
Richards said he felt that ulti-
mately a European should take
over the supreme commander’s
post—something Gruenther him-
self has advocated—but he did
not think the American people
were ready to accept that now.
Richards’ committee today
hears Undersecretary of State
David K. E. Bruce in closed ses-
sion on the foreign aid bill. The
chairman said yesterday he
hoped his hearings could be
finished by the Easter recess.
The Senate Foreign Relations
group, which hopes to end its
hearings Friday, will have Tyker
A. C. Ater, Sante Fe
Official, Is Dead
Allen C. Ater of Galveston,
passenger traffic manager for the
Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe rail-
road, died of a heart attack in
Galveston Thursday, according to
word received by C. L. Traylor,
local Santa Fe passenger agent.
Mr. Ater was well known in
Gainesville, having visited this
city on a number of occasions.
Services are to be held at 2
p. m. Friday from Malloy and
Son Funeral home in Galveston,
Rev. Edmund Gibson, rector of
Trinity Episcopal church, offici-
ating.
spiracy'l suit Sen. Joseph Mc-
Carthy (R-Wis) said he has
responsibility for a serious strike-
will be on the companies.
Wilson talked for 20 minutes
this morning with economic
stabilizer Roger L. Putnam at
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fect ” states now suffering sizeable un-
tinue good but with some level-
ing off. Major aircraft plants in
southern California have five
billion dollar backlog.
Georgia—Retail stores expect
a slight downward trend but
nothing to be alarmed about.
Illinois—Expect 'stronger con-
sumer buying in a month or so.
Iowa — Department store ex-
ecutive says “people will be buy-
ing freely, come spring.”
Kansas—Large wheat crop is
indicated and could keep retail
business at high levels.
. Louisian a—Manufacturing
prospects are bright, with in-
creased output and employ-
ment, particularly in the con-
struction field.
Maine—The Associated Indus-
tries of Maine says it looks as
if textile slump has reached its
limit, but won’t guess when
anticipated pickup will start.
Maryland—Business men more
wary of making predictions than
usual. Most think 1952 will be
good, but not equal to 1951 or
even 1950.
Michigan — Detroit Board of
Commerce says “unemployment,
already high, may rise slightly
in the second quarter, but should
decline steadily thereafter.”
Compare Favorably With Recent Years
Ohio—Continued high level of
business activity expected.
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THE CONSOLIDATION o f
schools in this county is in keep-
ing with the trend all over the
state.
Ten years ago, there were 6,159
school .districts in operation in
Texas, while this year there are
only 2,492, a decrease of 60 per
cent.
If the decline continues, before
long we will have one independ-
ent district in each of the four
commissioners precincts, a n d
eventually the Gainesville school
system may be county-wide.
A county-wide school district
could furnish much better school-
ing that could otherwise be pro-
vided for the students of the
county as a whole. But such a
possibility must await the build-
ing of many miles of roads, in-
cluding some in sparsely settled
sections of the county.
WASHINGTON, March 27 (A)
—Defense mobilizer Charles E.
Wilson dropped plans today for
a top level parley of govern-
ment officials concerned with
the threat of a steel strike
April. 8.
Instead, he talked separately
with the various price and wage
control executives and ruled out
any announcement today of
what he may do next to head off
a strike.
Wilson has declared the rec-
ommendations of the Wage Sta-
bilization board, proposing a
17 1/2-cent hourly pay increase
and other benefits for the CIO
steelworkers are inflationary
and too high. This statement
stirred up wrathful retorts from
CIO President Philip Murray
and the union declared that if
the steel industry doesn’t accept
Truman Asks
Authority on
Foreign Aid
KEY WEST, Fla., March 27
(AP)—President Truman today
asked congress for extended au-
thority to subsidize foreign re-
lief shipments and said he
planned, to ask later for power
to continue guarantees of pub-
lishing investments abroad.
The Mutual Security agency
now ’ has such powers—as did
the old Economic Cooperation
administration which it replaced
—but authority expires June 30.
Legislation is before congress
to authorize the president to
designate any government de-
partment or agency to continue
subsidizing relief shipments.
In identical, letters to Chair-
man Connally (D-Tex) of the
House Foreign Affairs commit-
tee, the president urged passage
of this measure, and added:
“At an early date there also
will be submitted for the con-
sideration of the congress a re-
quest for authority to enable the
government to continue the
work of guaranteeing invest-
ments in informational media
enterprises.”
The president said authority
for both purposes is needed to
support “the Mutual Security
efforts of the free world.” He
said “it is essential that these
activities be carried on after
June 30, 1952.”
His letter was largely a re-
port on legislative authority Mu-
tual Security Director W. Aver-
ell Harriman will need when
some of the power he now has
under old ECA legislation ex-
pires June 30.
“The congress, in the Mutual
Security act, reaffirmed the
proposition that the Mutual Se-
curity efforts of the free world
should not fail because some co-
operating countries can not' now
provide all the physical and fi-
nancial resources required for
defense mobilization,” the presi-
dent wrote.
understood Governor Shiversfore he got on the plane, said
■ * ‘ ‘ 0e • --- “nobody got panicky. We didn t
have time to get scared. The
crew was wonderful.”
wooded area northeast of the
school by Deputy Sheriffs Arh-
ie Nichols and A. E. Cogburn
about 7:45 o’clock this morning
to end their brief escape.
Nichols reported that he
sighted the two girls and after
shouting at them they stopped
and were returned to the insti-
tution. Both suffered numerous
cuts and bruises from running
through the weeds and brush in
the area.
The second of four girls who
ran away from the school Mon-
day night was apprehended
Wednesday in Fort Worth near
the home of an aunt. The first
of the Monday escapers caught
was a Gainesville girl who was
taken into custody in Dallas
Tuesday night by Highway Pa-
trolman Lester Robertson and
Chief of Police Lewis Theobald.
The 16 year-old girl found in
Fort Worth Wednesday told re-
porters that the “campus hasn’t
been the same since Governor
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41, San Antonio 59, Brownsville
65, Laredo 64.
Meanwhile, the drought con-
tinued to worry residents of the
state. In the ranching area
around Del Rio, where only sev-
en-tenths of an inch of rain has
fallen since Jan. 1, the First
Baptist church opened its prayer
meeting last night to all de-
nominations who wanted to
pray for rain.
Val Verde county ranchmen
were estimated to be spending
$20,000 daily for feed usually
furnished by pastures. Now the
pastures are almost arid waste-
lands. Last year’s rainfall was
half of normal. So far this year,
it’s less than half of normal.
To permit drougth-hampered
farmers two more weeks to take
advantage of any additional
moisture; Agriculture Commis-
sioner John C. White yesterday
granted a 15-day cotton-planting
extension to farmers in four Rio
Grand valley counties.
White’s action moved the
planting deadline from next
Monday at midnight of April 15
in Willacy, Hidalgo, Cameron
and South Starr counties.
Stringent planting and plow-
ing deadlines are designed to
combat pink bollworm infesta-
tion in the four counties. The
new planting deadline, White
said, will have no effect on the
plow-up deadline, set n®w at
Aug. 31. )
Not all the state was suffer-
ing from the drought. Some 1,-
000 persons yesterday toured
green winter pastures in North
. filed. McCarthy said in Wash-
, they, both live. Then, he,ington the suit is based on Ben-
had a talk in his own office with --
rapidly as possible.
Denison Mayor A. C. Casey
and Albert J. Martin, chairman
of the Denison Chamber of
Commerce Highway committee,
reported all right-of-way pur- l
chased and cleared from city |
limit to city limit.
“The thing we want to urge
and plead is for you to arrange
for completion of this project,” |
Martin told the commission.
“Everybody knows that U. S.
75 is one of the main arteries of
the United States and the prin-
cipal north-south road as far as
the central part of the United
States is concerned, from Cana-
da to Mexico,” replied Thornton,
adding:
"Knowing the imnortonon
this project, I’m sure a great I
portion of it will be ncluacu 11
the next (federal-aid) pro-
gfam.”
He said State Highway Engi-
neer D. C. Greer would submit
within six weeks, engineering I
plans for 1953 projects to be I
built with federal-aid funds I
which congress is expected 'to j
vote this year.
Thornton viewed the $1 mil-
lion Katy 'overpass and ap-
proaches from Munson St. to
Crawford St. as the “No. 1 proj-
ect” and elimination of the bot-
tleneck at Iron Ore bridge be-
tween Denison and Sherman as
No. 2.
By The Associated Press
A cold front, perhaps the last
of the season, brought showers
and thunderstorms to Texas to
give slight relief to the length-
ening drought.
Rain fell today at Mineral
Wells, Big Spring, Abilene, Mid-
land, San Angelo, Junction,
Waco, Wichita Falls, Fort Worth
and Lubbock.
The new cold wave brought
light rain to Gainesville and at
noon Thursday, the mercury
stood at 40 degrees, which was
the early morning low. Precipi-
tation which began early Thurs-
day morning continued at noon,
and had amounted to .18 of an
inch at that time.
Rainfall totals for the 24
hours ending at 6:30 a. m. in-
cluded .18 of an inch at Tex-
arkana;. Abilene reported .07;
Austin .02; Waco .17; Fort
Worth .01; Palestine .09; Snyder
.20; Wichita Falls .12; Lubbock
.03; Lufkin .04; Tyler .20.
Blowing dust appeared again
in West Texas and reduced vis-
ibility at Big Spring, Wink, Mid-
land, Marfa, and El Paso. Mid-
land’s visibility dropped to one
mile long before dawn today.
Winds up to 46 miles per hour
scooped up the dust at Big
Spring where visibility was
three, miles before daybreak.
Temperatures behind the cold
front dropped about ten degrees
but nowhere in the state today
was the cold intense. Dalhart’s
26 degrees was the only record-
ing below the freezing mark.
Other pre-dawn temperatures
included: Amarillo 35, Lubbock
37, El Paso, Dallas and Tyler
46; Austin and Houston 55, Mid-
land and Lufkin 44, Texarkana
466 Deathless Days
IN GAINESVILLE
Keep the green light burning . . .
don’t cause the red light to burn
for you.
Traffic deaths to date in 1952 ...0
Traffic deaths to same
Maurice Helman, Seattle, said
“sure I was one of the lucky ones
off the plane. It wasn’t bad at
all. I’ve been in rougher land-
ings on the field. When that
plane landed we all jumped out
and ran like hell.”
The passengers had been taken
to Amarillo, Tex., in buses. Some
of them took other planes from
there. The group which arrived
here came in a special Braniff
DC-6.
From Amarillo the plane went
to Oklahoma City and dropped
among other passengers, Mrs.
U. G. Duback 69, a Portland,
employment in such industries
as textiles, automobiles and
shoes.
Government economists i n
general expect in the remainder
of 1952 a gradual rise of income
and production. Defense spend-
ing is expected to be a' strong
stabilizing factor. Military de-
liveries now running around
two billion dollars a month may
rise to a 3 1/2-billion rate a year
from now.
Here are comments on the
business outlook in various
states:
Arizona—Retail sales may top
1951 by ten per cent.
California—Business will con-
committee plans to jam all non-
government witnesses — includ-
ing itself and 14 other organiza-
tions and individuals “represent-
ing the tax-paying public” — in-
to a one-day Friday session.
In addition, witnesses Friday
will be limited to 10 minutes
testimony each.
Opposing “grandiose foreign
aid spending” as a threat to the
nation’s economy, Chamber
President D. A. Hulcy said no
new funds are needed because
when the current fiscal year
ends June 30 the administration
will have $7,900,000,000 in un-
spent foreign funds left over
from previous years — the same
amount it is asking in new
funds.
Nathan P. Feinsinger, WSB
chairman who has upheld his
board’s recommendations as un-
inflationary and justified. Price
stabilizer Ellis Arnall was listed
for a later, separate talk.
A spokesman for Wilson’s of-
fice of defense mobilization re-
fused to confirm or deny that
he plans to keep hands off the
steel wage dispute for the pres-
ent in hopes of progress in
union-management negotiations
which started yesterday in Pitts-
burgh, and resumed today.
The situation was such that it
even appeared possible that,
with President Truman due back
from his Florida vacation in late
afternoon, someone in the mo-
bilization hierarchy may quit
soon.
Daingerfield, Tex., and Betty
Murphy of 1 4 3 9 Lombardy,
Houston — were the last to leave
the blazing plane. They made one
last check before they jumped
to be sure no passengers were
left on the plane.
“The passengers were so calm,”
Miss Currey said. “One man at
the back was yelling ‘isn’t he a
wonderful pilot!’” Miss Murphy
said “it was as orderly as if we
had rehearsed it.”
Both girls said on arriving here
today, that they were scared
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Benton has demanded Mc-
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ate. Last week he offered to
waive congressional immunity
from suit. (AP Wirephoto).
TT IS EASILY conceivable that
I in the not too distant future
the Gainesville public school sys-
tem may serve all of the school
children of Cooke county.
The reduction of public Schools
in the county has been so great
in the past 35 years, that it is
conceivable in that many years
or less there will be but one
school system in the county, de-
pendent largely on whether
there will be hard surfaced roads
covering the county.
* * *
THIRTY-FIVE years ago there
' were 88 public schools in opera-
tion outside of Gainesville with-
in the boundaries of the county.
Obviously, many were poorly
equipped and taught a minimum
of grades.
But in 1917, the last year there
were so many schools, the first
consolidation occurred. S y c a-
more, Rocky Mound and Mount
Gilead were combined with Dex-
ter to form the first consolidated
district in the county.
For years, Dexter operated as
a consolidated school district, but
as the population in that section
of the county rapidly declined,
the district returned to common
school standing and last Friday
the county school board consoli-
dated it with the Callisburg dis-
trict and Dexter is no longer a
separate entity in school circles.
* * *
THERE WAS STRONG opposi-
tion to the school consolidation
program in its earliest years and
there were only eight additional
mergers during the period from
1917 to 1930. The nine consolida-
tions at that time had involved
26 districts.
As another decade passed into
history, 19 additional districts
had gone into mergers and from
1940 to 1947 there were 36 com-
mon districts which passed out of
the picture.
At that time, there were nine
consolidated common districts
and three independent districts
outside of Gainesville, a total of
12.
As of now, there are four inde-
pendent districts and seven com-
mon districts operating schools,
and one common district which
is sending all its students else-
where.
Oklahoma — Industrial output
now at record high expected to
be maintained.
Pennsylvania — State College
Bureau of Business Research
says: “Industry may show a
slight gain, but it won’t be over
a couple per cent. Heavy indus-
tries are carrying the load. Soft
industries, such as textiles, cloth-
ing and furniture, are definitely
slumping and will continue to
slump during the remainder of
the year.”
Tennessee — Predictions indi-
cate fairly good retail volume,
good manufacturing activity for
rest of year.
Texas—Petroleum output re-
mains good with crude produc-
tion and refinery operations
currently at all-time peak.
Utah'—Business will continue
to be good unless defense pro-
gram is curtailed. Approximate-
ly 23 per cent of all persons em-
ployed in Utah work for gov-
ernmental agencies.
Virginia—Furniture producer
sees 1952 as “no shortages, sta-
ble prices, hard selling.” Gen-
eral outlook is for “fairly even
keel.”
Washington — Indications of
improving manufacturing and
agricultural picture.
Wisconsin—Some Milwaukee
industrialists predict slackening
of production this summer or
fall unless the government steps
up its defense contracting as
present orders are filled.
Wyoming — Employment is
higher than either 1951 or 1950,
and labor shortages are expected
in agriculture, construction, and
the oil industry.
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. Minnesota — Farm income
should improve in the summer
and fall.
Nebraska—Manufacturing and
retail expected to approximate
1951.
New York—Industrial- activity
expected to maintain high level.
North Dakota—Prospects de-
pend on continued high farm
prices, good crops, expansion of
oil industry.
ington Park, Calif., a half-broth-
er of L. L. Allbritton, Jr., of 524
South Dixon street, was killed
Tuesday in an automobile acci-
dent near Henderson, Ky.
In addition to the local man,
survivors are, his wife, his par-
ents, one brother, Jim Allbrit-
ton, Stephenville; and two half-
sisters, Mrs. J. R. Seals, Dallas;
and Mrs. C. C. Collingwood,
Washington, D. C.
A longtime resident of Hunt-
ington Park, Allbritton was re-
turning from Baltimore, Md.,
when the accident occurred. A
tire on the vehicle blew out
causing it to go over a high em-
bankment, crushing Allbritton.
Allbritton was alone in the
car, but a friend in another ve-
hicle was traveling ahead of the
accident, but looked back and
saw dust arising from the scene.
He investigated and summoned
'help.
L. L. Allbritton, Jr., flew to
California Saturday to bring his
father, who is ill, back to Texas.
They will remain in California
for the funeral which will prob-
ably be held Friday or Satur-
day.
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