Brenham Banner-Press (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 89, No. 166, Ed. 1 Tuesday, August 24, 1954 Page: 1 of 6
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Brenham Quiz
Calendar Of Events
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Price Increases
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American Cancer Society.
Infuriated
MAJOR LEAGUES
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Yarborough Reports
He's Out Of Money
Record ASC
Vote Counted
Brenham High
Re gist ration
Begins Aug. 30
Shivers Asks Aid For
Washington County
And 13 Other Areas
were cast in the annual Wash-
ington County A. S: C. election
Monday to determine community
the county convention.
The gathering is scheduled for
the District Court room next Mon-
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Eighth tirade, Friday,
tember 3.
COMMIE BILL
SIGNED INTO
Braniffs Widow
, Dies Of Cancer
TOKYO, Aug. 24 —UP- Pollce
arrested a m a a swimming fully
clothed in the moat outside the
Imperial palace Tuenday.
They mid the recent heat wave
apparently had gone to the young
man’s head.
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Kleke, .Adolph Boehnemann and
Henry Breslet, Ehrig T. Neutzler,
tie.
Gay Hill (84 ballots) —Albert
L. Thielemann end Erwin Keim,
Gua Korthauer and Henry Pelke-
meyer, tie; Walter H. Hueske.
Independence (67 ballots) —
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Dulles Urges
French Okeh
Ends
Regime With Bullet
By UNITED PRESS
Gubernatorial candidate Ralph
Yarborough moved into the Hous-
ton area Tuenday with hat in hand
for dime-and-dollar" contributions
to "fight a million - dollar cam-
tics
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Says Don’t Be Gloomy
About French
Situation -
A adms.,
compel witnesses before congres-
sional cdinmittees and federal
By MEREIMAN SMITH
DENVER, Aug. 24-UP—Presi-
dent Eisenhower urged the Amer-
ican people Monday night to keep
Republicans in Congress next fall
to advance "peace abroad, great-
er security, and greater and great-
er prosperity."
He said Americans should not
be discouraged by gloomy predic-
tions about Europe for the French
are truly laboring for peace and
deserve continued support of this
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Hedick says the opening of
bids on the inside-the city pav:
ing will be September 14 or 15,
and that construction will begin
LONDON, Aug. 24 -UP-* Mos-
cow radio announced Tuesday that,
Soviet scientists have invented" an
atomic clock.
It said the atomic clock was nec-
essary because "clocks Which are
synchronized by the constellations
of stars and the sun are not ex-
act enough for certain highly tech-
processes"
them immunity from prosecution
for any statement that might be
incriminating.
The other two measures provide'
ed stiffer penalties for. harboring
fugitives and make it a crime to
jump bail.
H. J. Weishuhn, 63. a well-
known county mail carrier, died
suddenly at his residence at 615
Clinton street Tuesday at 5:30 a.
m. - •
He was born in Fayette County
May 27, 1891, the son of Emil and
Emma Bogt Weishuhn. He was
educated in the Fayette County
schools an later attended Blinn
College.
Mr. Weishuhn moved to Bren-
ham in 1910, spending the re-
mainder of his life here.
He was married to Miss Mag-
gie Burnes December 4, 1913 at
Brenham. He had been a rural
mail carrier for about 15 years,
also serving some 15 years with
the county in road construction/
The deceased was a member of
the Brenham Fire Department tor
many years. He belonged to the
First Christian Church of Bren-
ham, and was a member of the
Brenham Lodge, Sons of Her-
mann.
Survivors include his wife, Mrs.
Maggie Weishuhn; one daugh-
ter, Mrs. Reed Johnson of Beau-
mont and the following sisters
and brothers: Mrs. Betty Nimsk
of Houston, Mrs. Billy Burnes of
Brenham, R. C. Weishuhn of La
Grange, Mrs. W, E. Suter of Jas-
per. Gus Weishuhn of Houston and
Gilbert Weishuhn of Houston.
Also surviving; are numerous
nieces and nephews. One daugh-
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H. J. WEISHUHN
In His Early Forties
MAILCARRIER
H. J. WEISHUHN
DIES SUDDENLY
Mrs. Antonie Landgraf Hueske,
84,' widow at William Hueske,
died at her home in Brenham
Monday at 6:15 p.m.
Born in Germany, January 3,
1870, daughter of the late G. W. -
and Tillie Jeske Landgraf, she
came to America with her par-
ents at the age of 12. They set-
tied in Washington County
where she spent the remainder
of her life.
She was baptised and confirm-
ed in the Lutheran faith In Ger-
many, and was married to Wil-
liam Hueske, November 11, 1908
In St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in
Brenham by Rev. G. Langner.
Her husband preceded her in
death February 3, 1825. — —
Mrs. Hueske was a member of
the Eben-Ezer Lutheran Church
of Berlin and of the Ladles Aid
and Missionary Society of Berlin.
Winfield, Sr., and Tony Derkow-
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MRS. W. HUESKE
DIES AT HOME
AT AGE OF 84
August Mt
NCCW meeting 7:30 p. m. St.
Mary's school auditorium.
Ladles auxiliary to Fire Depart-
ment regular monthly meeting 8
p.m. City Hall.
August 25:
Story Hour for children 4 to 10.
9130 to 10:30 a. m. at Library.
Sponsored by Social Science De-
partment. - .*
Elks meeting 8p. M. at club
for the base has been completed
at Chappell Hill, and the hauling
of the asphault surface is due
this week.
Ready For Bass
The grading ad structures on
the Pond road, to be FM 1697,
have put the project in shape for
the base course which is due to
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. BAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 24-UP
— A tall, dark romantie patron at
ots Drive-in stole a kiss from
waitress Vivian mewart Monday
and it infuriated her.
While kissing her, the patrgn Mt
ed Bar wallet containing $5.
NEW YORK, Aug.24 —UP— Al
Newman, a partner in Rosoff’s
Restaurant, received a check for
11 70 in a letter from a man who
said he and his brother slipped out
of the restaurant eight years ago
without paying their bill. • ,
Td like to pay off now," the
man wrote, "and apologize for try-
ing to-beat you out of the check"
- Newman said the same tw9
meals now would cost $5.50, '
each community will serve as de-
legates to assist with arranging
the A. S. C. program for 1955, ac-
cording to Earl Derrick, manager
of the local office.
Above Last Year
The vote total was 352 more
than last year, when 584 ballots
were counted. Derrick says that
as far as he can determine, the
figure constitutes a record.
Chappell HiU cast 213 votes,
while Greenvine had 102. Third
highest total was registered at
Salem, where 99 voters figured in
the selecting of that area's com-
mittee.
Derrick reports there were sev-
eral ties, and that positions will
be determined likely by draw.
The election results (commun-
ity, chairman, vice-chairman, re-
gular member, first alternate and
second alternate, in that order):
Burton (91 ballots) — John
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mann of Brenham.
Survivors include two daugh-
ters, Miss Thusnelda Hueske and
Miss Edith Hueske both of Bren-
ham and a brother, Charles W.
Landgraf of Brenham. Three step
children and three brothers
preceded her in death. Also sur-
viving are seven step grandchil-
dren and five step great grand-
children.
Funeral services for Mrs. Hues-
ke will be held at the Eben-Ezer
Lutheran Church of Berlin Wed-
nesday at 3 p. m. with Rev. Ray-
mond Wolf, officiating. Burial
will be in the Landgraf family
lot in the Prairie Lea cemetery by
the side of her husband. • The
Simank-Buske service is in char-
ge of arrangements.
Pallbearers will be Fred Kleke,
Theo. Schumacher, August Pah-
meyer, Louis Hold, F. W. Pan-
konien and F. J. Kubitza.
August 26:
Rainbow Girls' meeting and in-
itlation atasonie HaU. 730 Pm
By W. W. COPELAND
RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug. 24 -
UP— President Getullo Vargas, 71,
committed suicide Tuesday with a
bullet through the heart
His death ended a crisis-ridden
rule which had extended over parts
of nearly 25 years. It followed by
■only a few months an unsuccess-
ful attempt at his impeachment,
and was the direct result of the
murder of an Air Force officer in
which his aides appeared to. have
had a guiding hand.
Vargas left a note which said:
"I bequeath my death to the ha-
tred of my enemies. I regret I
was unable to do all I wanted for
the humble."
Vargas' suicide automatically
turned the proud owner of a
Degree Certificate showing that
he passed the school courses
with honors. Cecil Williams,
Sales Manager of the Uncle
Johnny Mills, 'planned the
three-day school, and arranged
for it to be held at the beau-
tiful Yacht Club on La Porte
Bay.
August 30 at 9 a.m. according to
Principal G. L. Keahey.
All students whose last names
begin with A through N will reg-
ister on successive mornings by
classes, while those with names
starting with O and ending with
Z are scheduled to report at 1:30
o’clock in the afternoons. School
opens September 7.
The schedule:
Seniors, Monday, August 30..
Juniors, Tuesday, August 31.
Sophomores, Wednesday, Sep-
tember 1.
Freshmen, Thursday, Septem-
ber 2.
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By DONALD L GONZALES
WASHINGTON, Aug. 21. (U.P)—Secretary of State John
Foster Dulles Tuesday appealed to France to approve the
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Sales and Service School at the_
Houston Yacht Club, and re-
he "deeply regretted" that France
at the recent sixehation Brussels
meeting had decided against going
along with the other powers who
have signed the European Defense
Community (EDC) treaty. The
treaty provides for West German
rearmament under a supra-nation-
al European army.
In a formal statement and in
informal comments, Dulles dearly
indicated that he placed the blame
on France for,the possible failure
of EDC. He expressed his hope
that the French parliament will
approve the project in its sched-
uled vote next week. But he drew
a line between hope and expecta-
tion.
Dulles said the EDC treaty em-
bodies principles "which are vital
to the perpetuation of peace and
freedom in western Europe."
He said some comfort can be
taken from the fact that five of
the six EDC signatories 'stood
firm for these basic principles" at
the Brussels meeting. And he noted
that the five had been “flexible"
with respect to carrying out these
principles in the face of French
proposals to curb EDC..
Dulles said he was aware that
the EDC treaty had become high-
ly controversial in France and he
did not minimize the difficulties
Customs office to be moved. The
town of Presidio was not flooded,
however.
The floods were worst on the
northwest side of El Paso. That
sector got the waters that came
raging down the side of Mt. Frank-
lin, Two streets were flooded up
to two feet deep Monday night
Road equipment was rushed to
clear away silt and debris that
covered the smelter road and from
Highway 80. Hundreds of automo-
biles were marooned Sunday night
in that area.
Water covered the floors of
many homes, damaged the foun-
‘dations of houses and upset auto-
mobiles. The pavement cracked on
some streets.
Otherwise, clouds and Intermit-
tent rain dropped temperatures in
Texas Tuesday.
Alice, at an even 10, was the
hottest Texas point Monday. El
Paso* reported a 71 for the lowest
reading.
Absentee Voting
Will Close Today
Absentee voting in the runoff
election slated Saturday ends at
5 p.m. Tuesday — the closing
time of County Clerk Charles E
Wiede’s office.
Up to 10:30 a. m. Tuesday, a
total at 106 absentee ballots
had been issued. This is consid-
ered heavy for a second primary.
A. total of 125 absentee votes were
cast in the first primary.
A local election and one state
runoff is providing the most In-
terest for county voters. W. O.
Dannhaus and Edward A. Kruse
are seeking the County School
Superintendent’s job currently
held by Dannhaus and Allan
Shivers and Yarborough are to be
featured on the state slate for
govetnor.
CX President emphasized these WilI Fuchs, Walter Kleke, M C
By ALFRED E. MENN
• Brenham 1885:
It is said It is useless for the
other towns in Texas to try to
encourage the removal of Bay-
lor University from the present
beautiful and healthful location
In Independence. as the people of
Washington county will never
Oconsent to it. ,
A movement is now being made
(in 1885) to build a tramway, or
street railway, to Independence
if this is done, there will be no
occasion for the removal.
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'spending more than a million
dollars in his second primary bid
for a third term." Ry contrast, he
said, his campaign has been fi-
nanced mostly by average Texans
who "can spare a dollar or two
in behalf of good state govern-
ment." — —e
-Yarborough urged his supporters
to send their dimes and dollars to
his headquarter* in Austin'.
This campaign is a fight be-
tween the average Texan at aver-
age income and the big operator
with unlimited funds to spend ‘in
re-electing the present governor,"
Yarborough said.
The Austin attorney said he had
(Contmued SB page six)
DALLAS, Aug. 24 —UP-Mrs.
E. T. Braniff, 67, widow of the
late founder of Braniff Internation-
al Airways, died Tuesday of can-
cer.
Mrs. Braniff's husband was kill-
ed only last January in the crash
of a private plane. After his death,
Mrs. Braniff was elected vice pres-
ident of the airline which bore his
name.
Friends said Mrs. Braniff had
known since last fall that she had
cancer, but had continued to be
active in many activities. Her hus-
thoughts in a point by point sum-
mary of the achievements of the
83rd Congress just completed and
asked that the 84th Congress be
allowed to continue the program.
We’re at the midmark," he
said. "We're going to get lots of
things that have not yet been
done.”
special Points la Mind
Specifically, Mr. Eisenhower
mentioned hopes of reducing the
voting age, providing health "’re-
insurance, revising, the Taft-Hart-
(Continued on page six)
KEEP COP IN
CONGRESS, IKE
URGES NTION
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mem and delegates re Ghappeli Wit GKU haHots) —
Rpber Schaer;. Milton Routt, Na-
than L. Winfield, Jr., Nathan L.
Outlaw Red
Party
DENVER, Aug. 24 -UP—Presi-
dent Eisenhower Tuesday signed a
bill theoretically outlawing the
Comnupist _ party, _ saying the
Amaeen A-tl,
to eliminate organizations purport-
.ing to be political parties but ac-
tually dedicated to overthrow of
the government by violence. .
The bill strips the Communist
party and its ‘front” .subsidiaries
of all legal rights and privileges.
The new law also forces Commu-
nists to register with the federal
government or face heavy fines or
jail terms. The measure, one of a
series of administration - backed
Communist control bills, also
places new restrictions on Red -
infiltrated labor unions.
Mr. Eisenhower issued no for-
mal statement when he signed the
bill, but spoke informally to report-
ers on the front steps of the Low-
ry Air Force Base administration
building, the site Of the Summer
White House offices.
Both Herbert Brownell Jr., the
attorney general, and J. Edgar
Hoover, head of the Federal Bureau
of Investigation, had contended
that outright outlawing the Com-
munist party would only drive it
further underground and make it
harder to watch.
The bill in its final form was
opposed by only two members of
Congress. It was approved in the
Senate 79 to 0 and in the House
265 to 2. Dissenters were Reps.
Abraham J. Multer (D-N.Y.) and
Usher L Burdick (R-N.D.)
Mr. Eisenhower last Friday sign-
Registration will begin at be' hauled this week.
Brenham high school Monday,
E 1945, at the conclusion of my
military service, I was very
i happy to return to “my city"
[ and begin my business here.
We have had excellent civic
leadership and a vigorous
Chamber of Commerce, whose
-accomplishments have - been
I " most note worthy, and have
, met the approval of the ma-
jority of our citizenry in most
» ases.
But now—we have advocates
• to construct a By-Pas^round
our city and divert the flow of
I traffic, not to our business, but
around them. I. and other Bren-
I ham merchants feel that this
is a most disastrous and suici-
dal step to make.
• Have we not been making
every possible effort to build
our businesses, to make them
I more appealing and more ef-
' ficient? We have an organized
Industrial Foundation and a
“Trades Day” to get new enter-
prises and people into our trade
area. Then why should the
"By-Pass", our most valued po-
tential of all — “The Daily
Transient Traffic?”
f / Naturally, those establish-
| ments who would suffer the
'greatest from diverted transient'
I traffic are the Service Stations,
Restaurants, Hotels, Motels,
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AUSTIN, Aug. 24 —UP—Wash-
ington County has been Included
in a group of 14 East and Central
Texas counties asked to be desig-
nated as drouth disaster areas by
Gov. Allan Shivers.
.Earlier, Agiculture Secretary Ez-
ra T. Benson listed 42 counties as
disaster areas, and Shivers previ-
ously asked that 27 more be add-
ed to the list.
The counties recommended
Monday for incluslon in the fed-
eral teed program were Angelina,
Ell|s, Gonzales, Harrison, Jasper.
Kerr, .Marion, Newton. Rains,
Rusk. 'Smith, Upshur, Washing-
ton and Woods.
BRENHAM, TEXAS, TUESDAY, AUG. 24,1954
paign‘ of slander" while his oppo-
band had been a director of the nent, Gov. Allan. Shivers. made a
Lt. Elrq Kunkel, local Na-
tional Guard commander, has
been promoted to the. grade of
• Captain. The promotion was
announced today by Colonel
Kay Haisell II, president of the
Federal Recognition Examin-
ing Board in Bryan, Texas. Col.
Halsell is also the 386th Arm-
ored Engineer Battalion Com-
mander. Kunkel successfully
passed the examining board
Monday evening. Capt. Kunkel
announced that no word has
been yet received from the Ar-
mory Board as to awarding of
the contract for construction of
a new National Guard Armory
in Brenham. Bids were open-
ed in Austin today and word on
awarding of the contract is ex-'
pected momentarily.
• • • _____________
Arnold Loesch of Arnold Lo-
esch Produce Company in Bren-
ham attended the recent Un-
cle Johnny Dealer-Employee
ed three other measures designed
- to crack down on Communist sub-
Elson H. Dempsey writes us
the following discussion of the
proposed Brenham by-pass:
I have been a resident of
Brenham since 1932, and have •
always felt a keen sense of
pride in its progressiveness,
neathess and hospitality. In
about a month later. Property
owners have furnished the curb
and gutter, and the state will
furnish the paving without
charge.
Bids for the widening of High-
way 90 from Brenham to a point
just past Meyersville were open-
ed last week, and totaled aTRJQT
8185,500. according to Hedick. He
says that the monies appropriat-
ed for this project were not
enough, and that the State High-
way Commission will have to act
on the matter.-
Hedick reports he has no idea
as to what their findings will
be.
The engineer adds the low bld
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NATIONAL LEAGUE
New York 101 000 001—5 11
Chicago 100-000-000—1 ( 6
Willie Holle, Reinhardt Lohmey. J a. . .. J. .
er. John Kruse, Arthur Sander Ladies Lodge of the Sons of Her-
and Edwin Seeker. - - - -
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The City of Hospitality
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made Vice President Joao Cafe
head of the state.
Promises Proteetion
* He called upon Brazilians to
"render Dr. Getullo Vargas the
honors he deserves" and said that
as 'my first commitment, I prom-
ise always to give the humble the
protection which Vargas always
gave them."
Only- a few hours earlier, in a
meeting with his cabinet and high
ranking army and air force ofi-
cent which broke up at dawn, Var- —
gas had agreed to take a 90-day
leave of absence from his office
as an alternative to demands that
he resign.
The next the Brazilian people
(Continued on page six)
y
Two highway jobs within the county are nearing comple-
tion, and the opening of bids for paving on state highways
inside the Brenham city limits where proper-curb and gut-
ter have been furnished is expected in September.
Highway Department Senior Resident Engineer Bert
Hedick reports the by-pass route at Chappell Hill should be
completed in about 10 working days, and that the Flag1
Pond road, from Burton to near the fishing and camping
spot, should be finished in about 20 days.
' . ' ~ The hauling of crushed rock
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quick swing into West Texas.
"I've run out of campaign
funds," the 51 -year-old Aust in at-
torney said. I scraped the barrel
last night to pay for radio and tele-
vision time ain Dallas and Fort
Worth."
Yarborough, here lor rallies at
Texas City, Galveston and a ma-
jor speech to be broadcast state,
wide, at 8 p.m., aocused Shivers at
Lightning Strikes Brenham Residence
. Brenham firemen battle a blaze at the home of Ernest Haskins, negro, at Kerr and
Nelson streets, after the residence burst into flames after being struck by a bolt of lightn-
ing during a small electrical storm Monday afternoon. Rain totaling .90 of an inch fell on
the city during the storm, which began about 3:30 p. m. The house was badly damaged, but
Fire Chief E. W. Pflughaupt reports Haskins had insurance. (Staff photo).
, WRENHAM WEATHER
Partly cloudy through Wednes-
day with scattered showers and
thundershowers. Not much
change in temperatures, ead-
Ings for 24-hours up to 7 a. m.
today: Maximum 97, Minimum
a--maT f Sun* •
A record number of 998 ballots F. Holle, Wm. Stlz, Willie A.
Bgse, Louis Grebe and Wilie
day at 10 a. m. Chairmen from
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। El Paso Cleans
Up After Flash.
I Floods Roll By
By UNITED PRESS
El Paso and the sector above
the city cleaned up Tuesday from
the worst deluge in 13 years. Dam-
age was estimated in hundreds of
thousands of dollars and there was
a chance of more rain.
The rain totaled 3.5 inches in
, two days. Twenty - five families
were driven from their homes and
’ 50 acres of (farmland were ruined.
Flood waters at Presidio, down
the Rio Grande from El Paso
about 175 miles, forced the U.S
courts to testify agal
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