Cleburne Times-Review (Cleburne, Tex.), Vol. 44, No. 141, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 28, 1949 Page: 2 of 12
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Margaret Litteral help* point up
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- Hester repled. "He told me I could
oulred, "am I getting too much?"
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from his drawer, wind* it.
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Orange Juice Texsun.... 46 oz can 29c
Catsup Stokleys...
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Ab. 65c
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FAYERS om
27c
Preserves Mother Hubbard 2 lb. jar 35c
BABY,
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WEEK
France is the largest wine-pro-
ducing country in the world
Planet* have been discovered by
mathematical calculation
asaociates relate, "you become as-
sociated with a chair. The next
. time you come up you either sit .
In the same chair or Rewell call*
you by the name of the man In
...
i who had shown interval in his wel-
fare.
Heater said he accepted Lord’s
• Grapefruit Juice Thrift 46 oz. 19c
Bignet
Fruit Cocktail.... No. 2% can 33c.
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Frsh
BRAINS
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2 Lb. Neuhoffs
PURE PORK SAUSAGE .
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Wapeo
Peaches .............
Wander Whip
Salad Dressing
Neuheffs Ready te Eat
PICNIC.......
Cloudy days are rare in Hawaii
because of the Trade Winds which
blow the ' cloud* to tea.
Ftoridn •
ORANGES
Lb............8c
with monntonous regularity These
____ - _____ |eonstant upheaval* have finally
the anemic • mail. arouned wtotkholdrs to the "bat*
tie of the proxiew," which I* shap:
Pet er Carnation
MILK ........
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Tomato Juice .........No. 2 can 10c
White Swan
Prunes ................No. 212 can 19c
Watching, wondering... testing foods... becomes a thing of the past once you
own an electric range! You simply prepare food for cooking... dial the desired
temperature... and leave the rest to electricity. Controlled, even heat MtioMttictlly
assures perfection.
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Clean, cool and quick, too! Cooking the electric way cuts down on the time you
spend in the kitchen... adds extra hours of leisure to your day. Economical to
operate... an entire meal for an average family costs but a few cents to cook elec-
trically. Switch to dependable, accurate electricity for automatically perfect results!
COFFEE 51s
SYRUP White Karo
Bordens Eagle trend
MILK ..... .........
p led into this place, and then
chulin’t.get out," crusty old Sew-
ell Avery once told his Mont-
True American
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aged vy and ven a yurs
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Blackeyed Peas 2 No. 2 edns 25c
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Pork and Beans 2 No. 2 cans 25c
, Mayfield
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1 runshine. The safety pin wam
invented in 1849 by Walter
Hynt of New ‘York, who sold
his ratent for SWO. .
Clyde asked. i --
"No, sir," said Hester, "I didn't." j Methuselah li supposed to have
I Hester testified he took one of lived 969 year*
have the car if I would be niee to
him and then wouldn't let me
have it."
“Did you Intend to kill him?"
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offer but, subsequently, the dean
Polar Bent J Ne. ? Cems
HOMINY ., 25c
know ke will never retire under
fire, as the army learned to its
chagrin,
in 1944, Avery refuded to com-
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w b4ek to haith. This'
month a dissident group of stock-
holden may attempt to roverse
th bnnana peel and do what
SPECIALS
Raider arly Juns •
PEAS ..........
Ward Stockholders May Fight Him to Accomplish What the Army Couldn't
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ued he yearned to end the rela-1
tionship and notified Lord he
Sterling
Tissue Fine ........
habitually entered his bedroom and
cajoled him Into participating in
pen erted act*
mevelt and the War
He carres both a wrist watch
and a pocket watch During the
interview he wind* first one, then
the other Next he take* a clock
ren the V. B Army couldn't c:
crotee - sepnrare 74-year-old
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vention of the safety pin. So
Lord; sald Hester, told him.
heirs no more than
edYater if a heart attack could
have caused .Lord’s death, Yater . ....
replied. “It was not probale." It’s pin-up time in Texas with
dumn you,” Avery In-
Hester, 18, la i* tini bar
murder of DrrJohn W UH.
dean of the Texas Christian
v/0udb
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The purae-lipped, seir-asxured
Avery’* tenacity is not shared by
hl* associates; under the Avery
regime, they hav hit the skids
Ing up for the annual meeting of
the Mg mad order and march—-
dising company on April 22
Those who oppose Avery1* poll-
de* are hopeful he will step
a oouazn
to pay less to the government?” I
"In other word*,” Avery re-
torted, "if I got nothing I wouldn't ,
have to pay any taxes." . That ,
ended further discussions of hi*
worth in the । ompany
Chair* play a big past in the
Avery legend.
"Once you enter hl* office," hl*
Ward had for year* been known
a* a "Morgan company "
At this same time, th* Massa-
chusetts Investment Trust, which
hold* 104,000 charge* of Ward',
common dock, expresded dissatis-
faction with the turnover. The
Boston trust hasn’t changed It* 1
attitude, and thi* month returned
It* proxles with instruections that
none of It* atock be voted for
again He deerritoed how Lord fell
on a bed, but got up and stazget-
ed Into a rear bedroom where Hes-
ter said he struck him again
"You'll have to be nice to me it i “Tell the jury just why did you
you want money," hit Mm," efense Attorney Al Hugh Grotius, a Holland jurist.
When he wa* IS, Heater contin- Clyde naked la known a* the Father of the the Tdct as she MU*'in El Paso
League of Nations. « sunsHine•nf» nin wam i
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Avery
Controverslal Sewell Avery came
to Montgomery Ward in 1931 from
the U R Gypsum Co, where he
had jumped from eastern sales
manager to president in four
turned the plant to It* owner*
Ward shnreholders are not com-|
plaining about Avery** ability to
make money for them Less than
three year* after taking hold of
the-compnny reins in 1931 he had
trantformed a S3.0fMl.n00 net loss
into a similar net profit "Mon-
key Ward* has been a hundsome ,
money-earner ever since.
But what grieve* maey of them
I* the stendy flow of topflight tol- !
ent from executive poxts in the
firm Just recently the Inst of
Ward'* 10 vice precident* re
signed A year ago, President Wil-
but O, Norton and five other key
executives resigred after a di*
Agreement with Avery over 41. .
vision of authority
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him from the building But
day* later he was back at
dsk when the government
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BABY FOOD ...............2 cans 15c
dy WILLIAM 0. GABBY Board Chainnan Avery from
HE A Staff Conrespondent chait,
CHEAGO—(NEA — “I banana
asked the
received a inal arbiter is a wall clock,
would have
"Isn’t it true," he
chairman. "If you
smaller nalary you
PICKLES Concho.............. qt. 23c
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TEA with glass................ M4 Lb. 33c
RICE River......................2 Lb. box 29c
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wanted to jota the U 8 Navy, 2— Thursday. April 28 1949-CLEBURNE TEXAS TI WES-M. VIEW ■
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- Lord • r ng and 50 cetts in ca*
been ahd ter ** premses in the car
' whih he iter abandoned after 4
—-tenee Tor broke dow n Hr hitch-hiked to Cal:
I—ratty Graduate School whoze Later, he teatified, Lork asked iomia.whereheuazarestedandi
body min**J ionely cabin him to'workfor him as * handy- "eyou sasaihe was born Dee. .
gnqneypumurarehdni tozuiHlea"ieaqnraanarheugseca to return tz"hom xMoohnbommme
■ tart night that Lord wa. . sexuni aher lord had pronisee him their andg wen“e 1- me. !
■ pervett-a a qo2g hue O. pevious retations wouie be ehane He was aransferred to another
E ble #Ai0 O 126 IoFce9 ham lo €( p,", umAn yannnog wAap his I
■ ubmit to an unnatural sexacton Pomisea Allowance xor. X. L*d then mov -
E the day Hester attacked Mm with He revealed Lor gave him an ite 6. “tiKgon". Cor.
■ a metal pipe allowance of KO. but later tola ’* "
■ But Hester sald he did not know him again. “You'll have to be nice 1At., aia h. wn. exvellea
■ LLord was dead, until he was ar- to me if you want money . “ . J? Wm. when Ne
E resred .severni day* later in Los On March 5 Better snid, he Iromi scorsic he had had miet
H : Angeles at the home of .a sister asked Lord if he could use the car WAS, i Iam . Gih
H Hester said he first met Lord for a 'date' with a Fort Worth rel,Uon* -«
■ in a Fort Worth theater five years girt. -oE‘va2, TiNon coun.
1 Mm whenhe nenn offered togive Lou?- hecouidiuse the i ty healt, testnet earller
E Ta Bill Time C“Arierxnrda,h‘"talivrrnea to ehatlord hadbeenastruek on the
■ .He tentir ied.h ehad wX tothe tet him have the car, and Hester Death he snid, have been
• theater to kill time while Fort followed him into the cabin pl"N wNr, •• -htecainy "
B| Worth juvenile authorities were ”1 had a metal rod in my hand caued.mby. hAEK,. IKni
• diwcussing his prospective adoption and I hit him," Hester said. “I iici . cMiKEon rthese
■ by an unidentified Austin couple don t remember when I picked up Thedorensc mntmnaten it would
the metal rod,butI had it in my claim Lord died of a heart attack
hand when I nil mm. or as a result of striking hi* head
i agaist a stove while falling
Hestet *ald he followed Lord in-
to a middle bedroom and hit him
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‘NEW POTATOES......3U». 19c
TOMATOES Fancy Carton .. 19c
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LETTUCE (not by 1b.).... ec. 12
GREEN BEANS Fresh .Lb. 19c
CELERY large stalk.............. 15,
pe,ume
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In the wake of Norton* dapar The majority of shareholders pres-
ture, two J l* Morgan official, ent agreed he wumn’t: But there
resigned a* Ward directors, which war nt lemt qne In the audience
startled stoekholders because who held a different view.
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ygar* He *1111 retain* board chair- , whose chair you are sitting."
manahip at U A Qypkum In ad- "If there'* no one in the office,’’
ditton to hl* post at Ward they, recount, "he'* likely to lis-
A few year* later, n stockhold- . ten to" your argument, then re-
er questioned the .wisdom of pay- ply 'Ye*, that'* so, perhaps, but
Ing him a salary of $100,000. then Charley there, and Joe and .
Avery pointed out that taxes re- ! Jim agree with me Th* Charley*, ,
duced his income by $70,000, He Jima and Joe* are disconcertingly '
went on to explain that, should ‘ empty chair*."
the eventual come to pass he He hat, It is claimed, a couple
would, after ihhetitance taxes had of disturbing habile which are
ben deducted from the balance, I likely to keep interviewa brief.
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EENACIOUS CHAIRMAN Avery refused to give up
ht« seat even when the army showed up to evict him
", in 1944. Thes two soldiers carried himout of his
Montgomery Ward office, but Avery was bnek in hla
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Proctor, Jack. Cleburne Times-Review (Cleburne, Tex.), Vol. 44, No. 141, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 28, 1949, newspaper, April 28, 1949; Cleburne, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1562839/m1/2/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Johnson County Historical Collective.