Cleburne Times-Review (Cleburne, Tex.), Vol. 46, No. 306, Ed. 1 Monday, November 5, 1951 Page: 1 of 6
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. CLEBURNE, TEXAS, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1951
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d artillery in pouring death ami
destruction on Communist troops
inched on two hills west of
An 8th Army communique said
listance between the
person.
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next to impossible.
Think hew much suffering such
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20 Texans Die Violently in Weekend Accidents
the loss when he opened the bank
and two sisters.
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Peace Negotiators Present
Unique Armistice Plan
Allied
two
traini
ilton
and
and
em slopes of the Rocky mountains
Kansas and Southern Missouri.
Ohio led the nation with 17 weath-
er deaths, 13 of them on icy high-
ways and four caused by fires.
A private plane was caught in a
blinding snowstorm and plunged in-
to Union lake near Union City.
Mich., killing three persons. The
pilot, Clifford Potter, 35, was res-
HOME
EDITION
a traffic hazard at
Street has caused.
There can be just one reason. -
lie street as too narrow
170 delegates and Bt
for the two-day set
vention will close
election of officers I
Fires Claim RESIGNS POST
Most Lives
i registered
I. The con
Veteran Sergeant
» Leaves for Camp
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ported 41 at midnight. New Or-
leans had 42, Tampa 46 and Miami
64.
At Detroit, police said an eight-
month-old baby boy was frostbit
sen in its crib because his sales-
man father failed to pay rent on
the Allied troops were "reported
heavily engaged with the enemy"
north of the 38th parallel.
Brig Gen. William Nuckols, UN
briefing officer, said that under the
UN proposal the cease-fire line
might be “anywhere in Korea," de
t on how far either side ad-
tween the opposig armies, to be
occupied by neither aide. In ex-
change, the UN had offered to with-
draw from Korean coastal islands
. I—The Communists rejected a
UN proposal to make Kaesong a
neutrsi city in a buffer sone be-
at mid-day.
Lest Ground Retaken
hon. Then UN infantry storm-
the enemy positions.
Sgt. Hamillon is a veteran of 41
months foreign service in Toyko,
Jspan. He entered the service Jan.
23, 1348 and received his basic
coast The Allies gained 2,000 to
3,000 yard* northwest of Kansong
and seized a hill south of Kosong,
46 miles north of the 38th parallel.
UN troops on the central front
epulsed a light communist attack
southeast of the former enemy
a Communiat proposal to make the
Communist version of the present
battleline—still not definitely defin-
ed- the cease-fire Une
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Drowning Victim
Funeral Pending
Funeral services are pending for
Harrison G. Smith, 71. 212 South
Main Street, who drowned in the
Brazos River Saturday.
Smith apparently slipped into the
water when he attempted to take
in a fishing line, according to
Shorty Holson, who discovered the
body. Smith had been fishing in
the Brazos River, north of the Me-
ridian highway bridge. for several
week* A throw line, partially out
of the water, was found near the
spot Smith was believed to have
lost his footing.
Smith was a retired barber, who
moved to Cleburne from Georgia
when he was a small boy. He was
the son of William Pinkney and
Mollie Smith,born at Hall County, ;
Georgia, September 16, 188. He is
survived by his wife, four brothers
Miss Baker will be out of her
lassroom for weeks, as a result
Lt the accident last Friday night.
Such teachers are needed badly Of
course, her place will be filled by
Ln able substitute, but this works
a hardship on the young charges,
No two instructors teach alike.
Ml of the 30 or 40 pupils under
the instruction of Miss Baker will
be working under a handicapeven
after Miss Baker restums to her
post...and all of this caused by a
street that would be a disgrace to
t good cattle trail.
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BULLETIN
LAI VEGAS, Nev., Nov. 5 (
—The 11th atomic explosion in
the United States was set off
Monday at the atomic proving
grounds of Frenchman's flat.
Observers said it, possibly was
an air drop.
None of the motorists was given
caets lor any traitic violations, a
ket which indicates the drivers
ere not to Diame for the acci-1
ents Neither were the pedestriaus.
Then what was to blame lor all
i uese oihs. and many others,1
eceiving injuries tram traffic ac- I
ing at San Antonio. Sgt. Ham-
plans to make hi* home
DALLAS, Nov. 1 IIP Miss X, who
. . mgm m
can’t remember her name or where pending
she’s from, checked Into Parkland 1 vanced while truce negotiators
hospital Sunday with nothing but a | were trying to agree.
Front dispathes said counter-at-
tacking Doughboy* recaptured all
lost ground, however.
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Amnesia Victim
Found in Dallas
much more it will cause ip the
future, unless the street is widen-
Afi ef this, to say nothing of
the wonderful improvement to
the city and increased value of
property, mokes the Henderson
Street project a must emergency-
just one life lost as a result of
the narrow passageway, would be
a very deer price to pay for delay
in making the improvement.
talk about as they await the pt
man’s visit each day?.BE
BRECKENRIDGE!’ will be the «
Every man,women end child in
Cleburne should put their should-
ers to the wheel and keep them
there until Henderson Street is
widened and mode safe for the
tremendous toad of traffic.
A prefect so vitol to the lives
of individuals and for the future
development and growth of Cle-
burne, should be pushed to the
Nth degree.
When should work start on the
project?
It should have started 10 years
ago, not in the next 13 years.
Head • Lines
By Clyd. Menu
- REV. JQNES WEATHERS
Rev. Jones W. Weathers resigned
as pastor of Field Street Baptist
Church Sunday.
The resignation was accepted by
members of the board of deacons
in a called conference, B. J- Jack-
son .chairman of the board an-|
nounced today.
Rev Weathers had served as the
| Sth ARY HDQs, Korea, Nov.
5 An United Nations planes, artil-
. Irry and (roops smashed al Com-
1 munist force* on the western front
| Monday in retaliation for Sunday's
'Strongest tank led Red attack in re-
t ent months
Allied F-Sb Shooting Star jota and
F 51 Mustang* teamed with mass.
Emp<«ye* Open Meet
AUSTIN. Nov.’s a Members of
Highest temperature reported to
the state Monday was 82 degrees
at Presidio, while the lowest max-
imum was M degree* at Childress.
,u Amarillo had an overpight low
of 28 degrees, lowest in the stat,
and other minimum* ranged up to
66 degrees /. Galveston. Other
low* included 31 degrees at Dal-
hart. 32 at Childress,
CHANGE IN THE WEATHER—Chicagoan Jule Per-
due finds a winter wonderland where a flower gar-
den thrived only a few days ago. The city's 14-degree
weather was typical of the early-season cold blast
that swept over much of the nation, bringing record
her daughter, Sandra Kay Moore,
2, and Mrs. Moore’s two grand-
children, Robert Eugene Watts, 2,
and Mickel White, 3.
Found Dead In Creekbed
Walter R Wilcox, 41. and Mrs.
Elva Spurlock, 41, both of Waco,
were founddead Sunday morning
in wreckage of their car in a creek-
bed near Waco The vehicle had
overturned, and police theorized
that both had been killed Saturday
night
Four Dalhart teen-ager* were
killed early Saturday when their
car collided head-on with a gaso-
Nue transport truck. They were
Chester Dye, 17; his step-sister.
Rogene Jones, IB; Bowdry Bloxom,
16. and Helen Freeman, 15.
Mrs. Dorothea Cararas, Shreve-
port. was killed Saturday near Car-
thage when her automobile over-
turned- i , LA . ... .
Mrs. Y. C. Johnson, 40, Archer
■ “key terrain features" west of
Yonchon following the enemy at-
tack. but front dispatches said UN
North Main Street takes care ot
s much traffic as Henderson Street
et a pedestrian-auto accident is
inheard of on North Main Street.
[ Did you ever have somebody
Hep from the curb and from be-
ind a car parked at the curb into
rour traffic lane? Unless you have
oom to swerve your auto, to keep
rom running the pedestrian down,
vedestrians step out into the path
>• oncoming autos. Th* only ming
i driver cen do is to appiy hi*
Betty Myres Is j
Contest Winner
Mi** Betty Myrea, cleburn High
school student, waa winner in a
recent essay contest, .sponsored by
Louis Armstrong, local real entate
dealer- pox
The essay, writtort on thesubject
“What the Bill of Rights Mean*
to Me,"will be entered in the Fort
Worth contest for tinal judgtngA
total of 104 essays were written by
student* in the Fort Worth schools.
First second and third place win-
ner* will receive' savings bond* of
3100, 350 and $25 denominations.
The contest was sponsored by mem
ber* of the Texas Real Estate As-
sociation. .5 2 2.28
ee Za .dato
this morning.
Burglar* forced their way in the
back door and knocked the knob
off the bank vault The money was
taken from about 10 of 50 custo-
mere' boxes in the vault. The loot
included >1.200 of the bank’s
money.
The main bank safe, located in
the vault, apparently was not tam-
pered with, authorities said.
Brown county Sheriff Ray Mas-
ton said tracks at the door showed
more than one’ man participated in
the burglary
Texas Ranger Clarence Nordyke
joined Masten in the investigation.
A postal inspector was en route
from Fort Worth, leading to belief
that postal funds were involved.
The burglars dumped $50 In pen-
nies from a sack they found to the
vault
The communique said
units hsd withdrawn from
ation Monday opened their sixth
annual meeting with an estimated
oom ter two lanes of traffic on
he narrow artery. Currently, the
itreet is carrying the equivalent
f traffic on a tour-lane boulevard.
*
| units had recaptured all lost
, ground by last midnight (3 a."m.
Sgt. Arvie G. Hamilton, after via-. Sunday cat).
Hing friend* and relatives here for Three new light Communist prob-
the family apartment for one year
and the landlord cut off the beat.
The apartment had no windows
Seven persons were killed and
four others injured when two cars
crashed head-on near Deming, N.
M Police said there was so little
left of the cars they were “not
worth pulling in."
UN Wants Truce Line to
Be Where Fighting Halts
PANMUNJOM, Korea, Nov. 5. (U.R—The United Na-
tions gave up its hunt for a compromise cease-fire line
Monday and proposed instead that the opposing armies
merely stop fighting wherever they may be when a Ko-
rean armistice is signed.
The surprise new UN proposal in effect would con-
vert the battleline at the time of the signing into a cease-
fire line and permit each side,to hold on to whatever ter-
ritory It may capture in the meantime.
" Cleburne, after eompletin his to
of duty to the Air Force.
1.5tmomrirmentmE
Jersey Awarding
Set for Nov. 24
The Cleburne Rural Youth Dairy
Program will stage an awarding
of 20 registered Jersey heifer*. Nov.
24, Emmett Brown, director an-
nounced today.
Of the heifers to be awarded, 18
will bo dividend animals from the
program, three were purchased by
boys participating In the program
and one original sponsorship. Some
of the money used by the boys to
purchase the three heifers resulted
from the sale ot registered bull
calves, produced from the original
sponsorship cow*. R. L, and Dr-
Larry Willis will provide funds for
the purchase of the original spon-
sorship heifer to be awarded, Nov.
24.
Committee for purchasing heif-
ers to be awarded is composed of
Bill Sander*. Walter Holliday and
Walter Pou.
resigned to accept a call as pastor I
of the First Baptist Church at '
Brownfield.
Rev. Weathers was highly 1
praised by the board of deacon*
and by members of the congrega-
tion for his Christian leadership
and further growth of Field Street
esday with i Miss Bowers was the 11th person
adoption of ■ in Johnson County to die from
burns since Jan L
joined the church. The church
donated and expended >312.941 24 ,
to all causes. The church building 1
was remodeled, redecorated and
air conditioned. The educational
building was remodeled and refur-
nished. An Allen electric organ was
tration of the th Army line south-
wut of ratichoa. 200
f
4
move in here Friday night.-JC
TEMPLE GRAVES, noted so
em newspaperman, will be
next speaker for the local KN
and FORK CLUB here on Fue
night, November 13.
Pretty ALICE ANNE ESPY
toring in from West Texas to sp
the week-end with friends...Ct
seller ORAN SMITH JR. wai
to a friend on a downtowniatn
..Blithe MARY NELL MARI
shopping for some fancy grace
early. .
Logal motorists are still tun
right on red traffic signala de
town, conmitting the violatiq
"running e red light."—An ot
stationed at any downtown in
section might write a flock at t
ets as a definite educational m
TU R NS R0"ALorsweNooni
The lowest temperatures in the During the time Rev Weathers
-e- — — ---d-d in Minneenfa 'served as pastor of Field Street
Baptist church, 1,157 new members
cued by two men who witnessed
the crash and launched a rowboat. Baptist church as the result of his
Yeggs Get $1,500
From Texas Bank
BLANKET, Nov. 5 an—/The Blan-
ket State bank was robbed of an
estimated >1,500 in cash by week-
end burglar*. in CLEBURNE for the Kmain
Cashier S. E. Lacy discovered । of the week ...The JACKETS wi
the loss when he opened the bank a win badly over the BUCCOS w
FORMER RESIDENT DIED
Samuel Lewis Clark, former se-
creta ry of the Cleburne YMCA, di-
ed at his home in Berkeley, Calif.
October,!, it was learned here to-
day. Clark was a member of Cle-
burne Lodge NO. 315, Ancient Free
and Accepted Masons. ,
City, died In a two-car collision
Friday night In Electra.
Death Ruled Suicide
The death of Mrs. Carolyn Kel-
ler, 60, whose body was found near
her husband's grave in San Antonio
Sunday waa ruled a suicide.
A ditching machine fatally crush-
ed 35year-old Henry H. Snow, a
construction worker, near Leander
in Williamson county.
George William Saltzman, 60, Ba-
ton Rouge, died of shock and ex-
haustion after a small boat he and
his son occupied overturned in the
inter-coastal canal at Galveston.
Harrison G. Smith, 71-year-old rev
tired Cleburne barber, drowned in
the Brazos river ft milea east of
Cleburne Saturday while fishing.
- Alfred B. Dewevall, 64. Weather-
ford, was struck and killed Sunday
night by an automobile on U- S.
Highway 80 in west Tarrant coun-
ty.
the last 15 days, will leave tomor: ing attacks southwest of Yonchon
row for Wright Patterson, CW "rn Ehenstern front. the 8th
Dayton. Ohio, where he will reportArmy communique said, UN force,
for duty in U, S. Army Air Force , pushed their deepest spearhead in
' * North Korea still farther up the
weathermen said , ... .
Snow was general along the east- pastor of F ield Street Chure
- ■ ch for the last seven years. He
The death toll caused by,
a vast, pre-winter cold wave
mounted Monday as the
frigid weather blanketed
the nation from Maine to
Oregon and south to the
Gulf of-Mexico—with no re-
lief in sight
At least 17 deaths were attribut-
ed to the weather. Traffic acci-
dents caused 138, 16 persons died
la fires caused by overheated
stoves, seven drowned two froze
to death and 14 died in miscellan-
eous mishaps
Crop damage was extensive.par-
ticularly in the south where the
unseasonable cold spell hit cotton
and citrus crops.
The Chicago weather bureau said
it could foresee no end to the frosty
wei-ser. The forecasters said scat-
tered locations might get some re-
lief from the cold, but it would be
only temporary.
Mere Snow en Way
A near-blizzard that whipped
across the north Central States Sat-
urday howled up into Canada and
more snow was on the way, the
a,
■ ha.t L2
stronghold of Kumong 29 miles
north of the 38th parallel.
In the air, Sth Air Force fighter*
and bombers destroyed 225 Com-
munist supply vehicle* out of 1,400
attacked Sunday night and early
Monday. The heaviest enemy traf-
fic was along the western route
from Manchuria through Pyong-
yang, the North Koreal capital, to
the front.
More than :240 Communist and
UN fighter plane* tangled in dog-
fight* Sunday. The UN plane* shot
down two MIG-15 jet fighter*, pro-
bably destroyed two more and
damaged eight without loaa to
themselves. '
Biggest Attack In Months
The Communists hurled elements
of a 10,000--man division. 20 tanks
and three self-propelled 'guns
against an eight-mile segment of
the UN,line west and southwest of
Yonchon Sunday In their biggest
attack In recent month*.
UN aircraft, roaring In to sup-
port the beleaguered ground force*
knocked out alx tanka and one self:
propelled gun. The tank*, flrat used
by the Communiats in battle since
last spring, were believed to be
Russian-bullt T-34«.
The first aad heaviest Red st-
tsck drove a wedge between two
Allied units west of Yonchon, the
second drove the Allies from two
hills west southwest of Yonchon,
and the third msde a alight pene-
and the Dakotas. Bismarck. N. D..
registered five beiow. Grand Forks
and Jamestown. N. D, each regis-
tered one below.
Cold weather records were shat-
tered across the nation. At Chicago,
the temperature was expected to
drop to 10 degrees, almost 14 de-
gree* below the previous record
for Nov. 5 established in 1901. - purchased as a memorial to mem-
The frigid weather stretched far ber* of the church who served for .
to the south. Jacksonville, Fla., re-1 their country during World Wars
I and II. A new brick Fellowship
building was constructed and the-- _ _
pastor's home was modernized , low temperatures for so early in the fall. (NEA Tele-
and redecorated.
Permanent possession of the ter-
ritory, however, would be led to
the decision of a peace conference.
Gives Up Claim
The proposal also apparently
meant that the UN is giving up
for the time being its claim to Kae-
song, northwest invasion gateway
to Seoul. Kaesong, three miles
south of the 38th parallel, is sit*of
the Communist trues delegation'*
base camp and the UN ha* agreed
that it shall be free from attack
However, there I* nothing in the
agreement to atop the UN, if It so
deaired, from advancing north to
cut off Kaesong and make It an
(■plated island in the middle of the
UN lines
U. S Maj Gen. Henry I. Hodas
made the sweeping UN proposal
at a meeting of a joint armistice
subcommittee, Tbe Communists
presumably will renly at the next
subcommittee mooting at U a. m,
Tuesday 8 p. m. Monday, cat).
Red Proposal Rejected
i Hodes tried the new tack after:
L—Th* United Nations rejected
Miss Edith Murle Beker, third
rade techer et J. N. Long
tehee I. received a broken tog toet ‘
Friday night when she stopped .
rom the curb near her home en
terrew West Henaerson Street.
• tew monms aago, e tiv-yeaar-
child stepped into me street .
m west Henuerson end received I
i fractured skuii.
A tow ween earlier e little
irl started trom bar home to bt.
aul’s cnurch en narrow last
tenaerson Street. She > was struck
vy an auto and received minor
njuries. Miss Bakar and the tour-
rear-old boy were also struck by
h
UN Planes, Tanks
Stagger Reds in
Retaliation Blow
JHowd, ^)o(La
IMF WEATHER
CLEBURXE A VICINrrY: Coo side rable
cloudiness and colder Monday night A few
anow flume- in the Panhandle and South
Flam- late Monday.
the state hsd passad Childress
Wichita Fallas at mid-morning
wa* expected to move, as far south-
east as the pald area by after-
noon
Burned Fatally
Miss Emma Bowen. 69, of
Burleson, died in a Fort Worth
hospital Sunday morning from
burns received Saturday.
Miss Bowen' clothing caught
Fire as she warmed in front of an
open gas heater. Witnesses said
Miss Bowen ran into the yard in
an attempt to extinguish her flam-
ing clothing.
tube of lipstick.
The girl walked Into a Dallas
filling station Sunday and said
■he'd lost her memory. She wa*
taken to the hospital, where doc-
ton said she was a victim of am-
Mala.
About 17, she wore ■ red cordu-
roy skirt and a gray cotton blouse
trimmed In red She was without
a coat and had nothing but the
lipstick in her pockets. ,
Under the influence of sodium
amytal, she told doctors she had
a cousin named Harvey Uselton at
Galveston. But she told doctors at
one time that she lived in Dallas
and another time aaid she had
never been in Dalia* before.
The 100-pound brunette laid she
had a purse but didn't know where
■he left IL It contained her dri-
ver’s license and social security
card.
The girl, five-feet five-Inches tall,
with green eyes, is apparently well
educated and In good health, hos-
pital attendants said.
Leroy Wertz, 13. Kermit Engelke.
13. waa his passenger.
Wreckage Found
Wreckage of a missing T6 train-
ing plane from Goodfellow Air
Force base was found Sunday near
San Angelo. The instructor-pilot (
waa identified as Lt. John D- Webb
23. of Albany, Cal. His student was
not identified
Benjamin David Spector of Or-
ange was fatally shot by accident
while hunting on the intra-coastel
canal near Orange.
John Ray Taylor Jr., Carthage,
waa shot to death on a Longview
street Friday night during an argu-
ment between four men. Police
said. murder charges were filed
against Worth Gregory. Longview.
A Negro woman and three small
children died Saturday when their
small house was destroyed in a fire
at Wilson. The dead were Mrs. No-
vela Moore, 48, of Round Bock;
Blizzard Moving
In On Panhandle
Will Fizzle Out j
By UNITED PREsS
A near-blizzard moved into the
upper Texas Panhandle Monday,
but weather observers didn't think
it would penetrate very aeeply Into
the state.
Northweatern Oklahoma report-
ed a sleet and anow storm early in «
the day and the snow extended aa
far south as Clinton.
In Texas, anow was falling at
Dalhart in 30-degree weather de-
spite a forecast that didn't call for 3
■now there until Monday night. i
However, the Dallas weather bu-
reau aaid the anow probably woul
not extend much farther seuth than 4
Dalhart. .
The Mid front which waa pro-
ducing the second torm of the
winter to the northern reaches of
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What do cuties, MILDRED HEN-
SON and BETTY EWIS, find to
MAIL CALL—At Chunchon, Korea, great stacks of mail bags wait alongside the
tracks after being unloaded from the "Rd Ball Express" mail train. Trucks from
front-line units pick up the mail for distribution to the troops. (Exclusive NEA-
. Acme Telephoto by Staff Photographer Hisao Egoshi.) (NEA Telephoto)
Motorists do not have • chance — W SI
— Pre-Winter Cold Snap Leaves^
•kes. Unto** there is plenty of.. ■ An
=, 117 Dead; Crop Damage Heavy
STH YEAR, NO, 306
By UNITID PRESS
At least 30 persons died violent-
ly in Texas during the weekend,
with nine of them traffic victims
and six plane crash fatalities.
At least four planes crashed over
the week end, but four persons
escaped serious injury when their
single-engined private craft devel-
oped motor trouble and crashed
just off the mail street in Grand
Prairie Sunday..
Deaths were reported in the oth-
er three flying mishaps
Raymond Powell. 30: of Sunray
and 38-year-old Oscar Gerlach of
Memphis, Tex , were killed Sunday
when their Taylorcraft stalled at
low altitude and crashed nine
miles southwest of Dumas
Two New Braunfels youths died
Sunday when their light rented
plane fell in a field east of Luling.
Sheriff’s officers said the pilot was
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