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Brenham Banner-Press
BRENHAM..
The City of Hospitality
Member of the United Press, the Greatest World-Wide News Service
VOLUME 89
NO. 71
BRENHAM, TEXAS, MONDAY, APRIL 12,1954
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STATE OUTLAWS COMMUNISTS
Million Dollar Rain Falls On Half Of Texas
Na New Building Now
PANHANDLE,
bale
SMALL DAMS NEEDED
Four Deaths Blamed
JOHNSON ASKS ADVICE
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By UNITED PRESS
2,000 Persons Attend Mass Funeral
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Ehlert Bill Gives
top
$20,000 To Blinn
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Meyersville where the road flares
past records.
Betty Jane Schwartz was the
_ heavier rains will come in thunder-
included
a yellow straw bag with match- tempore, speaking against a large
DENVER, April 12—UP- An Air
. Just Alike
To Open Here Tonight
Of Holiday Friday
business meeting.
Window Complex
townhall complex."
ili-
Li
Publie Relations Expert
Sunset 646
7 a.m. 68
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Miss Schwartz
Wins 1st Place
In Dress Revue
day under the leadership of Sen-
, ators George Moffett and A. M.
Hedick reports the plans for the
highway 90 already have been fin-
ished and approved. He says if all
SEEK APPROVAL
OF WARNING
TO RED CHINA
Lindbergh Group
Inspecting Sites
For Air Academy
right-of-way is secured in time, the
next possible letting date for a con-
“You are the personal repre-
sentative of your organization
and of everything for which it
BUNN YOUTH
1ST IN STATE
RADIO EVENT
Half of Texas reveled Monday
over rains worth millions of dol-
lars. It was still raining at some
points and weather forecasters pre-
dicted more rain in other sections
Monday.
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The blessing of rain was not un-
mixed in Hidalgo county, in the
lower Rio Grande Valley. There
"several thousand acres” of farm-
land were still under water from
a torrential rain Friday.
Typhoid innoculations were re-
sumed in Alamo, where a total of
more than 4,000 persons already
had been. innoculated, and three-
year-old Yolanda Paloma of Ray-
mondville died of injures she suf-
fered because of the rain.
She was fatally injured Sunday
when a truck smashed into the
rear of an automobile that had
been stopped by a flooded road.
Her mother, who was in the auto-
mobile with her, was instantly
killed.
Yolanda’s was the fourth death
blamed on the rain in the lower
Rio Grande Valley. Three other
persons, making a total of seven.
ent funds in the State Junior
College appropriation.
The deficiency was created by
the increase in enrollment in the
31 public junior colleges.
It was expected the bill would
be considered by the Senate Mon-
Junior College Thursday and Fri-
day with 19 junior colleges of
Texas represented in the various
events.
Dulles was trying to seize from
France the command of the Indo-
China war.
As Dulles and Eden met, the
DORTMUND, Germany, April It
—UP—Erna Seippel, St, was being
Legion and Auxiliary Scheduled
for Friday has been postponed,
because of observance of Good
Friday, according to Commander
Hoffmann Reese.
The meeting will be held at
7:30 p.m. on April 22, Reese said.
Friday will be observed as an
official holiday In Brenham.
tint pastor from Caldwell, who
serves the old Baptist church nt
Independence as student pastor,
won for Blinn College first place
in men’s radio speech.
Robert A. Hasskarl, Jr. of Bren-
ham. placed third in men’s ex-
Lutheran 10 a.m.
American Legion and
Washington County Commissioners decided Monday to
repair the county jail rather, than build a new one as sug-
ing flowers. Her shoes were white
kid pumps and the gloves were
white nylon.
She will represent Washington
County in the District 4-H Girls’
Dress Revue at Rosenberg in
August.
Ora Dean Meyer from the Bur-
ton Sr. 4-H Club was the second
winner in the senior girls dress
revue. She modeled a brown and
tan two piece salyna sut. Her acces-
sories were tan.
Geraldine Dannhaus, Pleasant
Hill 4-H girls, and Janet Guel-
ker, Burton 4-H girl, tied for first
place in the Junior 4 H dress
revue.
Geraldine modeled a white eye-
and the state building plan, was
approved last week,, along with a
126 million tax proposal to finance
the pay raises. .
Seventeen spending bills which
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The Weather
SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS -
Mostly cloudy through Tuesday
with scattered showers and thun-
dershowers. No important temper-
ature changes. Moderate to local-
ly fresh easterly winds on the
coast.
Blinn Students Win
Honors At State
Tourney
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MEMPHIS, Tenn., April 12—
UP—Mrs. Betty Hough and
Mrs. Clara York, 25-year-old
twins, gave birth to babies 11
minutes apart at the same hos-
pital recently.
WATER BIG PROBLEM
REPORT NOT ENCOURAGING
Negro Man Hurt
When Auto Flips
Dulles Meets With
Anthony Eden
Of Britain
Washington to the new cutofrap-
proaching the Brazos River bridge
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lured a tulip neckline and un
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On Rain Storm
- In Valley
agreed on repairs—mainly new heating ahd plumbing sys-
tems—and were due to hear Sheriff Tiemann H. Dippel's
storms later Monday.
The Dallas-Fort Worth watershed
got the biggest drenching Sunday
and Sunday night. But official U.S.
Weather Bureau rainfall totals
showed healthy, life-giving falls of
1.75 inches at Lubbock, 1.27 at
Amarillo, 1.25 at Abilene, 1.81 at
San Angelo, 1.17 at Midland and
1.05 at Borger.
Some rainfall reports were high-
er. In the Dallas watershed, Rock-
(Continued on page six)
$126 million U.S. Air Force aca-
demy.
The party of military officers
and civilians arrived here late Sun-
day from Enid, Okla. They said
they would meet with Gov. Dan
Thornton and other Colorado offic-
ials before departing on the inspec-
tion trip.
The selection committee, led by
Brig Gen. Charles A. Lindbergh
and Gen. Carl Spaatz, former Air
Force chief of staff, refused to see
■newsmen Sunday night. They ar-
out from a 16 foot to an 18 foot ।
pavement. 1
' Highway Resident Engineer Bert
Aikin, Jr.
Blinn President Thomas M. Spen-
cer was in Austin Monday in the
interests of the bill.
to right, contain Mrs. Harvey Lee Blum, 29; Lnda, 2, and Judy Diane, two months (in two small cas-
kets); Harvey Lee Blum; and Mrs. Ed Blum. The funeral had been delayed pending the arrival Sat-
urday of the only surviving son, Vernon Blum, who was stationed with the Air Force in Germany.
Rev. George Reck, pastor of Zions Lutheran Clurch of Houston, delivered -the sermon and Rev, R.
J, Weber of Zionsville served ase liturgist. Tire American Legion and VFW Posts conducted military
services. (Winkelmann Studio Photo,,___‘ . ' - ■ - —-r--——, 4.....—
•lent before Texas. I think the
answer to that question is wa-
ter — water for people; water
for crops; water for stock; wa-
ter for industry.
For most of our state, 1953
was a year, of drouth. A few
facts tell the story. Texas had
50 to 75 per cent of normal
rainfall ... far West Texas
only 25 per cent. Amarillo had
the driest period in the history
ef its weather station; the Rio
Grande ran dry at Laredo for
the first time in record books;
San Antonio had one of its dri-
est years since 1925.
I have followed the Weather.
Bureau reports closely. The ear-
ly reports for 1954 are not en-
couraging. Only parts of East
Texas have received 50 to 100
per cent of normal rainfall. Far
West Texas went'down to 25
per cent of normal in the 13
weeks that ended March 15.
’ Central Texas could boast of
23 to 50 per cent normal.
Water is not just a farm
problem. It’s a big city prob-
lem too. Weather Bureau re-
ports on 17 Texas cities for the
week ended March 15 showed
only two — Galveston and,
Houston — with any rainfall
at all. It was insignificant. The
other 15 cities chalked up a
score of zero. All should have
had some rain on the basis of
A negro man injured under an
overturned automobile for some-
lime late Saturday afternoon es-
caped with Only a bad cut on his
lip and bruises, and was released
after spending the night in a
Brenham hospital.
Emmett Harold Spencer, 22, of
2321 Rosewood. Houston, turned
over at a curve about one mile
from the city on Farm-to-Market
road 389 about 6:45 p. m. Satur-
day. Reports say it took 20 men
to pull the auto off the driver
after his car came to rest against
a telephone poe.
Brenham merchants, now in the
midst of preparations for their
first a series of monthly bargain
days, will take heart from the
report of the first of a series of
similar events held at El Campo
last Wednesday.
, Merchants there joined in a co-
operative advertising venture, of-
fering outstanding bargains, just
as is planned here. The follow-
ing article from the El Campo
News tells the result:
"Very successful" was the term
El Campo’s merchants used to
Bi GAa
h. Womack
ation to put a paid adult probation
and parole system into operation,
and $644,000 in appropriations for
public junior colleges.
The spending bills faced two
major hurdles.
First, there was -no assurance
sufficient money would be avail-
able to pay for all the bills, and
(Continueo ou page six)
Calendar Of Events
BOTH HOUSES
APPROVE BILL
INFNALRUSH,
20-Year Prison Term
And $20,000 Fine
Included
public statement said, that a new
jail was a definite need. Dippel
today had no comment on the com-
missioners' decision.
The board disclosed that all right
of-way, for the connection from Old
Eden, Pravda, the Communist
party newspaper,* charged that
Big Ideas
MANHASSET, N. Y., April it -
UP—Burglars with big ideas broke
into a swank department store
here and stole a truckload of wom-
en's apparel valued at $25,000.
The loot included suits, coats and
sweaters. In every case the small
and odd sizes were left and
the racks were stripped of the
large sizes.
plans for building a new jail later
when the permanent improvement
fund is in such condition as to pay
for a new jail without voting a
bond issue.
Dippel had agreed with the find-
ing* of the grand jury and in a
Were killed and 10 injured in auto-
mobile wrecks near Wichita Falls.
Reports from Floyd county said
the rain there was "worth mil-
lions” and had proved a lifesaver
to wheat farmers, cotton farmers
and ranchers. Floydada reported
more than two inches of rain since
Sunday, and it was till raining.
The rain that fell over the week-
end in West Texas, The South
Plains and the Panhandle was the
most impressive in six months.
Dallas reported 2.08 inches in the
24 hours ended at 6:30 a.m. Mon-
day, the most since April 28, 1953,
when 2.61 inches fell.
More Rain Reported
Some points reported continuing
rain Monday. They included Bor-
ger, where 1.05 inches fell up to
7:45 a. m., and Wichita Falls,
where 1.25 inches fell. But fore-
casters said the best prospects for
tee.
Two changes in the measure
were made by the confeces. -
One deleted a provision that an
injunction could be issued in eon- '
nection with labor disputes, if the-
Issue of communism was part of
the dispute.
The second change reduced the
appropriation to the department of
public safety for enforcement of
the act from $87,500 to $75,000.
Both House and Senate had giv-
en previous approval to the meas-
ure, but the Senate balked last
week at approving House amend-
ments in the law—an action that
sent the bill to conference cgmmit-
tee. i ----------------- —
The Communist control bill
version in Texas. Sponsored by
Sen. Rogers Kelley of Edinburg,
it provides maximum penalties of
20 years in prison and fines up to
tract to cover construction would
be the middle of May.
July 1 Completion
Work on the Old Washington cut-
off, which will lead in a Northwest-
erly direction will be done by state
forces, rather than on a contract
basis. It is expected the road,
about one-half mile in length, will
be completed about July 1—around
the date the new Brazos bridge is
slated to be opened.
A house bill sponsored by W. J. Ehlert, representative of
I Washington County and providing for the payment of $643,-
000 to meet a deficiency in the Public Junior College appro-
priation, passed Friday by a vote of 112 to 13.
Under the bill, Blinn Junior College of Brenham will col-
lect approximately $20,(MX) to which it is entitled by act of
ipecial session of the Legislature, but could not have
because of insuffici-. -------——------—---—-
AnD co. .
DALLAS, TEXAS
has been secured,. and that only
five pieces of property remained
to be gotten on the 6.5 mile stretch the last s
on highway 90 to be widened to a Ellccta '
24 foot width. That stretch is from i conectem
WHAT IS TO BE DONE? Sea
water into fresh water is pos-
sible but will not be feasible on
a large scale until some time
the future. Rain making is still
in the experimental stage . . .
and cannot be done anyway
without clouds. The only possi-
ble answer. is store up water or
starve! In the "fat” years, we
must save the precious water
that will take us though the lean
years.
This means heavier concen-
tration on-small dams and up-
stream water projects Texas is
a “big” state and many of its
problems can be solved only
through "big” projects. But the
“big” water projects do not
meet the needs of all our peo-
ple. We need thousands of
small dams in the upland areas
—dams that will not only store
water but give Texans protec-
tion- against the flash floods
that do so much damage and
wash away the soil.
We have had many surveys
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LONDON, April 12 -UP- U.S.
Secretary of State John Foster
Dulles held an urgent meeting
with Foreign Secretary Anthony
Eden Monday and. sought to win
British approval of a warning to
Red China to stay' out of Indo-
Senator Lyndon B. Johnson
' has sent out a letter stating
that it is his belief that water
is the No. 1 problem for Texas,
and asking Texans' views on
the subject. Although parts of
Texas have been blessed over
the weekend by rains, the
problem of drouth is not yet
ended, and, in fact, it appears
to be increasingly important
to us from year to year. For
that reason' Johnson’s letter is
very timnely, and we reprint it
here: ,
A West Texan asks what I
* By 0. B. LLOYD JR.
AUSTIN, April 12 — UP- The
Texas legislature Monday approv-
ed a measure outlawing the Com-
munist party, sending the bill to
Gov. Allan Shivers for his signa-
ture.
The Communist control act won
unanimous approval of the Senate
and 127-7 adoption by the House,
as lawmakers rushed - compet ion
on other measures before sched-
uled adjournment Tuesday night.
Shown voting against the bill in
the House were Reps. Maury Mav-
erick Jr. of San Antonio, Edgar
Berlin of Port Neches, Anita Blair
of El Paso, Ellis Carter of Orange,
Doug Couch of Denton, A. D.
China. .
As Dulles and Britain’s
Public Relations Class XiX*
April 12:
Pilot Club installation of offi-
cers, banquet, 6:45 p. m. Hotel St.
Anthony.
AAUW meeting, 7:45 p. m. at
the home of Mrs. Albert Stone.
April 13:
Building and Loan Association
directors meeting 3 p.m
St. Ane’schapter, Woman's
Auxiliary of St. Peter’s Episco:
pal church, will meet at Bird
Parish house, 3 p. m. Mrs. J. J.
Marek and Mrs. C. A. DeWare,
hostesses. St. Elizabeth’s chap-
ter, 7:30 p.m., Mrs. A. F. Wiede
hostess.
Meeting of Brenham Ladies
Lodge No. 11 at the Sons of Her-
mann hall, 8 p.m.
April 14:
Elks meeting. Installation of of-
ficers, 8 p.m..
Apru IS:
Maundy Thursday Communion
service at St. Paul's Lutheran
Church at 7:30 p.m.
Sona of Hermann Lodge No. 5.
regular meeting and initiation
1’30 p. m . Sons of Hermann hall.
April IB:
at 9 a.m. and Good Friday Com-
munion service at 10:15 a.m. at
St. Paul's Lutheran Church.
Gdod Friday services at Grace
4-H girls' annual dress revue
which was held at the city hall
Saturday.
Miss Schwartz, from the Sandy
Hill community, modeled a yel-
low salyna dress with 5 tulip
neckline.
She wore a yellow leghorn hat
trimmed with white daisies and
Other* in the party were Lt.
Gen. Hubert R. Harmon, special
assistant to the chairman for aca-
demy matters; Merrill C. Miegs,
vice president of the Hearst Corp .
and Dr. Virgil M. Hancher, presi-
dent of Iowa University, all mem-
bers of the committee, and Col.
Max Boyd, information officer for
the Air Force, and Col. A. E. Bou-
dreau. recorder.
In Texas the committee looked
over sites at San Antonio, the Fort
Worth-Dallas area, and around
Lake Texoma. Members avoided
social contacts and speaking en-
gagements. wasting little time on
their cross-country tour.
crowded the sidewalks and- fill
ed the stores while other custom-
ers sought scarce parking space
and drove bumper to bumper
about, downtown streets.
Shoppers were waiting in their
cars before stores were open.
Forty-three local merchants ac-
tively sponsored the Bargain Day
which is a project of the Retail
Merchants committee of the
Chamber of Commerce and Agri-
culture.
One large retailer remarked
that the day was a success in
every way. The merchants re-
ceived a good volume of business
and theeustometsk
got some real bargains. Another
(Continued on page six)
xAtierdng thohmeetinair,nstritt ; Force committee zoes to Colorado
warway
on a tour of highway 90 to discuss
the moving of several buildings
along the proposed new right-of-
way.
The commissioners canvassed re-
turns of the recent school elections,
approving the balloting.
WEST TEXAS County votes
GETRAINSTO Repair Jail
about her
Blinn captured one first place, SX Prundslsorandtate x*
one third, two fourth and two tions.
. _____ ___________ . ____ fifth places. In addition to the Gov. Allan Shivers' $37 million
first plaee winner of the senior debateteam reaching the semi- • spend ing program, calling for
questioned Monday
French cabinet in Paris held an .. ____ .
emergency session to decide on Brenham.to a poin just North of
b • , MnvoneuIla ahanA +he wAnA flewne
let embroidery dress which fea- who also attended the state
.—. . " . speech executives’ luncheon a n d
$145,740 appropri-
The meeting of the American rived here at 6 p.m.
_____ , describe their first monthly Bar
Police said Erna had broken'gain Day Wednesday. April 7.
more than 100 windows in me town- ; People converged on » Campo
hall sihce ate lost her job there i from every point in the trade
recemitly. k. area and beyond. Shoppers
gested by the March term grand jury.
Meeting in regular session at the, court house, the panel
finals. । teacher and state employe raises.
Rev. Hal Machat, young Bap:
. . . many projects. But we
haven’t licked the problem yet!
I Is going to take all of us —
aty meeting postponed. The iitet
ing will he on April 22 at 7:30 p.
m. at the American Legion home.
Crowds Jam El Campo Stores
For First of "Bargain Days"
diplomat began their talks at 11
a.m. (4 a.m. cst), Laborites de-
manded that Eden stand firm
against American'pressure.
The morning meeting with Eden
was the first of two sessions with
the foreign secretary scheduled by
Dulles. They meet again in the
afternoon and Monday nigh! Dulles
stands. What the public thinks of
your organization will depend
upon what people think of you as
an mdividual."
"To every person, YOU are the
organization. A moment's care-
lessness, discourtesy or inatten-
tiveness by any one of us may
erase the good will which it has
taken years te build.”
The above expressions are
quotes from the theme of the
public relations course to be of-
fered the people of Brenham and
Washington County by the Uni-
versity of Texas, Division of Ex-
tion through S. H. Womack, In-
structor, in cooperation w J t h
the trade development commit-
tee of the Washington Courty
Chamber of Commerce. The
course will be taught for four
nights beginning Monday, April
12. Classes will last two and one
Half Heuts begthHiHg at T:30 p.
m. each night at the city hall
(Continuea on page six)
AGENT HERE TUESDAY
The regular visit of the social
security representative to Bren-
haf, etas, will be on Tuesday
at the Texas Employment Com
mission at 9:30 a.m. -
The
S PE UM OR
ideas on the plan later in the
day.
Then, according to County
Judge Richard Spinn, {the
commissioners will make a
tour of the jail and dgcide
just what should be done Imme-
diately to improve the ‘deplor-
able conditions” described by the
grand jury in its report. ......., _
The commissioners said they
understand the roofing also is in
bad condition, and that that will
be one of the first items for re-
pair; . .
New Jail Later
Recently, Spinn, In a statement
made before he had discussed the
| matter with other county officials,
said it was his idea to make Im-
; provement now, then formulate
reached on Dulles' wish to t a k c
“united action” against aggression
in the Far East now and Eden’s
desire to wait until the Geneva
। conference ends.
Downer of Center and Curtis Ford
of corput chrnti. ~............
Final action on the measure—
An estimated 2,000 persons attended the mass funeral Sunday afternoon at the Zionsville Lutheran 20°yearinmrisunmndPrnt t5
Church for the five members of the Blum family killed April 3 in an automobile accident. Pictured $20,000 came on a report by a
are the five caskets and some of the banks of flowers at the church cemetery. The caskets, from left House-Senate conference commit-
ta. I, _
working together—to get some-
thing done. About 300 years ago,
a very wise man said: "God
helps those who help themselv-
es.” I think this is Just another
way of saying that the Al-
mighty will respond to our own
faith, confidence and courage.
I am working in close coop-
eration with the Government
agencies that are involved in
Soil Conservation; Flood Con-
trol and Reclamation. There are
some fine men In those agen-
cies — men who have dedicated
(Continued on page two)
Blinn College speech students $20,000 upon conviction,, and would
made an excellent showing atPrlasntaPrsonbnconvicted '
Tournament, held at the Temple , The anticommunist, bill is the
• • - - — " last piece of legislation listed in
the governor’s program for the
special 30-day session, called pri-
marily to provide a $402-per-year
France’s policy when the Ameri-
can diplomat arrives there Tues-
day.
Informed sources said they be-
lieved a compromise would be
number of entrants, and Dorothy
Deiss of Brenham was rated
fourth in women’s extempore
speech.
Blinn’s debate team, Barney
Eixman of Rosebud and Charles
Pribilski of Brenham..reached the
semi-finals in men’s debate, los-
ing to Wharton.
David Buratti of Brenham plac-
ed fourth in men’s dramatic read-
ing, and Raymond Spitzenberger
of Giddings took fifth place In
men’s poetry i n t e r p r e t a tion.
Gene Collins of Houston placed
fifth in men’s oratory.
The Blinn entrants were accom-
panied to Temple by their speech
instructor, Mrs. Paul Burgess,
Brenham Weather
(Readings for 24-hour period ending
at 7 am.
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Minimum 64 Minimum 68
7 a.m. 68 7 a.m. 69
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Apt 12 o -2:
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