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Houston.
Refinery Worker
Oilfield Mercurv
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Lake Houston
John Lewandowski
CONROE, Tex (UP) A Bay-
of Chappell Hill of which the was
The Brenham Pilot Club”
eg8-Inthe Dast the
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urday at 8p.m. at the American
has
Legion Patio at Fireman’s Park.
Mr. and Mrs. Martin Wellbrock
The other former Brenhamite
are invited to attend.-------
=erboy-bomnat the Milroy Hospital
Major Leagues
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Dog Is Mind Reader,
New York
Professor Convinced
NATIONAL LEAGUE
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were pass-
Calendar of Events
college professor it can read
REDS SENTENCE PRIEST
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August 22:
An"".een
XalewisimWe
both fresh
Lutheran Brother.
niversity, announced her conclu-
court in Prague, the Prague Ra-
receiving approval of such a move
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The City Of
Hospitality
City Audit Reveals —
Light, Water Plants Show Profit
Advance In
Costs
Boston
Cleve.
WASHINGTON (UP) The cost
of living rose to an iall-time high
006 000 '
200 020
000 000 000—0
NHA ler pupils on Uk basis at Pjcho-
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of the status fiscal year Sept 1:
After today, no school d i strict
can legally integrate without first
CASES FILED
IN HOUSTON
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Columbus
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Bren ham I n dustrlal Fou nd ation [Win spon-e klr aoe- _; BT ACE5024BROCKs» —I-oaviarya in tarest, i-t-.
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noon: N w Z, 1 p.m. to 4
Fellowship supper of
Minshall Printing
Contract Cancelled
MAIN LINES IN
7 COUNTIES TO
BE IMPROVED. ’
and salt water come up from $1.65
to $2.15. and hunting licenses rise
from $2.15 to 5315. ■
Automobile license plates will
a member.
Survivors include his widow;
Everybody is taller in the morn-
Ing and shortest at the end of the
Mrs. A. F. (Buddy) Knittel,
who was injured in a three-
way automobile accident near
Burton last Friday, is reported
improved at Milroy Hospital. "
Her condition is now listed as
"fair.” Mrs. Knittel is suffering
from n broken pelvis and com-
pound fracture of the leg.
SON FOR SPRATBERRTS
Mr. and Mrs. B A Sprayberry
dons Wednesday after a three-day
test of the floppy eared pooch,
which answers to the n a m e of
Cookie.
"There is no doubt that Cookie
can guess what number is in our
owner’s mind, but ft is hard to say
iust how she is able to do this,"
seven-tenths of no per cent above
the previous record peak of Au-
gust 1952, and 2.3 per cent above
the level a year ago.
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hood meeting, 8 p.m. at church.
August 23:
Registration for Brenham High
School 1Gth grade. Names begin-
ning wi A to M, 8:30 am. to 12
Blinn College, will end Monday
at 9 am
The event, sponsored by the
Brenham Rotary Club, is a city-
wide barbecue to honor Spencer
who served as head of the local
k
The July advance was one-half
f one per cent.
The bureau said substantial ad-
vances in food prices'and in the
I
Map Shows Gas Pipeline Improvements
ance of $6,994.70, at the end of
the past fiscal year.
Youth Dance Set
At Legion Patio
ar Enuin8 L5nnuarY. -0, 1-5, —1EnL and ■ OWeT System aC-
according to the annual audit re f count ant. said the drop in prof-
leased by Mayor Reese B. Lockett, it could be attributed to increas.
THfe power system had an op- ed operational costs and the fact
mie Si ne’itkeisma y
‘Put-up Or Shut-up’
Proposal Given
Russians
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his parents at the age of one.1
and spent the remainder of his
life there. He was educated, in
aaston. " . —
Survivors include his mother,
(Continued on page 6)
Hot Seat
It was hot in Hutchinson, Kan., so little Leslie Bray
decided the way to escape the heat was to shed her
clothes and go for a bike ride. However, judging from the
be purchased from the Roy Wiese
Drug Store and the office of F.
L. Amsler.
Greenwade said the barberue,
A -lag affair, would afford all
of Dr. Spencer’s many friends an
opportunity to extend wishes for
success in his new job.
in Levelland. Jipencer was also
president of the Brenham Rotary
Club.
guez. His body was found a half-
hour Inter. -
A salesman for the Sun-Up Ice
Cream Compny in Houston. Reed
left Brenham with his parents at
I the age of one year. His residence
in Houston was at 617 West 21st
tai, also rise.
A raise of $399 a year will go
to an « timated 75,000 state teach-
——he
—-zmare3Sam--
milas-of- enistng-
—line- remove, Siqekimre sarin '
262- - ux-urw-T
terkan Churoh at 6:30 pm. Fire-
man’s Pari . . _ _ I L _4
including Segregation Acts - - -
Over 100 Bills Become Law Today
/ Eogl Loka ,
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sion comes into being, wiping out
the split in responsibility between
the secretary of state and the In-
surance Commission, Gov. Daniel
said it is one of the most import-
ant bilks passed by the Legisla-
ture.
A law requiring labeling of egua
“FGontnued on Page 6)
. iy“- ' '■ 125
m.
St. Saul's
Existing Liges
•Proposed Deletions
• " Additions
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r • to mi.
expressionon the face of the two-year-igmiss, she dis-
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The public works department
was ordered to prepare specifica-
tions for new bids for the job.
Miss Minshall, a woman print-
er, earlier had charged that
Councilman George Kesseler had
The
SPECTATOR
MRS. KNITTEL hhese
Confesses Stealing
logical and social factors, none of
which have a direct bearing on
race.
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proiri. v
Ovonentscfe *-
warnig wfe une bilk:
' IM^I IRA „edhM--Lda-e M=MI P"ST we MAe
ture, and the remainder.- nH-mm-—Pisiiig,
ey bills. take effect at the start
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GRIMES
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cd they would be challenged in
gthe courts. ......... ____
•rnmong-th-ether. *ilin g
Mayor Qscar Holcombe cast the Reed drowned at 5:40 p.m.
only vote in favor of letit ing Miss "
Minshan retain the' printing con- ‘who drowned was Emmett Yeary,
tract. Two of the six councilmen who went under in the Gulf of
were not present at the meeting.
for $2 085. Childres; said he was
selling it for only $1.50 a pound.
Sheriff Will Willette, deputies
and oil company special agents
wereworking on the thefts since
the first repoits-dArtwEan—ag.w-3*
Childre s was arrested when his
car was seen leaving _________________________
field and was stopped at a road-
block.
Childress, had 170, pounds of _____
mercury in the car. He said he""
had tapped some 18 to 20 meters.
He said he learned h w to tap the
airline as possible, from Sealy to
Brenham, via Bellville.
The line from the Texas East-
em transmission line to Eagle
Lake will be replaced. It is ex-
pected that construction of a new
line to Columbus may be delay-
ed pending the granting of a
scsx se-
HOUSTON—The $56,666 build-
ing code printing contract of Miss
Mildred Minshall was cancelled
-Wednesday by the Houston City
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ry:mh “ ‘ - m t**a-
NEWEST ARMS
PLAN MAY BE.
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been unable to give a
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i Reed was the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Allen Reed. He belonged to the
Bethlehem Lutheran Church of
Houston.
Reed moved to Houston with
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Mrs. Mary Moszkowicz of Chap-
pell Hill and Mrs. Oswin Bag-,
well and Mrs. Wallace Zivert,
both of Houston; 28 grandchil-
- s--raranz huuuthreesonsJoelewandowski and
> .Officers ■ investigated sald-pelfmiandLeonJLWandow
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DAVENPORT, Iowa IUP) A 10-
year-old cocker spaniel whose cate-
gory is mathematics has n nvinced
HAS GONE UP T‘‘k“ Sales
EVERY MONTH «
FOk 11 MONTHS ‛
addition, 12 miles of line will be
replaced in the Eagle Lake area
and other lines improved.
The new . line e o m,i n g into
Brenham will still be a four inch
line, but there will be additional
pressure from an inch-eased sup-
ply of gs to assure constant
pressure for peak loads during
hphrmpn’sgg.
Principal source of s supply
will come from the Texas East-
ern Transmission Company line,
which bisects the locn] distribu-
tien sompew’s territory
October 1 has been set as the
date for completion of the work.
The accompanying map shows
improvements to be made in the
local system. % a
West of the Brazos river, gas"
will be purchased from Texes
Eastern, taps to be made near
Peters and between Eagle Lake
and Columbus. Thirty miles of
neiv .line will be built, as mearly—
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Floyd -Reed, partner in the
insurance firm of Holleman &
Reed has gone to Hartford,
Conn., where he will attend a
five weeks' course in insuran-
ce sales and counselling, con-
duated by the Aetna Insurance
Co.
All boys and girls of teen age of Brenham are the parents of a
He was married to Miss Fran- previous year. ,
cos Jezorski on November 4,"1896 The total income of the water
at St. Stanislaus Catholic Church ' and sewer system was an in-
e "2: . he —3 (Continued on Page 6)
seeking to rid itself of the utlc
"Murdertawn, U.S.A." .moved to-
day to crack down on loose bales
of pistols and guns by pawnshops
and other firms.
Warrants issued by Peace Jus-
tice Dave Thompson were to be
served on eight persons-who tes-
tified at a special court of inquiry
Tuesday that they had either
bought or sold pt tols illegally.
A newspaper reporter, John
Davis of the Hou ton Post, was
among those « rdered arrested.
Davis bought a gun without get-
ting a certificate of good charac-
ter as required by an old Texas
law, and wrote a story about it.
Judge Thompson’s action was
inspired by ia drive of the Houston
Junior Chamber of Commerce to
cut down crime in Houston by en-
(Continued on Page 6)
into buckets like a woodsman col-
lecting sap.
- Police said Childress’ arrest
possibly chared up a part of a
series of similar thefts throughout
the East Texas oilfields. They
said they had complaints of large
$
Tomball Field
Takes Life Of Dies In Semproniusi
. Last Rites Friday
EX-Brenhamite , ( , -—■ _ oi
j John Lewandowski, 81, of Sem- rwni expenses zor ule year
"—- pronius, died at his home Werl- were $94,423.49 and the revenue
Drowning c him d the seco id for- nesday at 6:30 p.m, ' totalled $140 023 12
mer Brenhamite within four days Born December 20, 1875, in Po 1 _____I’ - >•
when Virgil Reed, 21, stepped into land, he came to Texas at the
a deep hole in Dike Houston and age of 17 anding at Galveston. He
disappeared Wednesday after-
Music will be furnished by a Thursday at 7:19 a. m. He weigh-
Nickelodeon. ed nine pounds, nine ounces.
which will force taxpayers to
deeper, but.others willcause
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Kan. City
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______ _________________- ‘ cost 10 per cent more, the pro-
in a local option election, accord-' reeds being used by the highway i
gan.
Mrs. White, who has made a
study of extra-sensory perception,
began conducting tests on Cookie
Monday. Mrs. Duggan had written
the Duke laboratory claiming she
had di covered that her dog oould
read her mind. •
During the tests, Mrs. Dugzan
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ounces, on Wednesday. The
couple have another child, a
daughter. Karen. Mrs. Sprayberry
is the former Miss Patsy Koon,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. E.
222-2---- dime- -n . -
.......,— ----—.— a-------•___________\ . _____..i'- —)— . franchise to operate in that city,
Both the City of Brenham Mu- erating profit of $108,767.37, down 1 that the revenue did not include Mr Blackbird said.
nicipal Lizht and Power and the $7,195.97 from the $116,263.34 of monic . received from securities The present pipeline,'running
Water and Sewer Systems show- the year before. 1 that were cashed in the previous, (Continued on Page 6)
ed a profit for the past fiscal T. W. Sterling. Municipal fiscal year.
year ending February 28, 1957; Light and Power System ac- | The ligat firm’s operating rev-
enues t les of power) amounted
to $341,963.86.
Sterling said the power system
Another Brenham woman is
, stil listed as being in v e r y
critical’ condition in the new
Hermann Hospital in Houston.
She is Mrs. C. D: Dallmeyer
who suffered a hemorrhage
near her brain recently while
visiting with a daughter in
Houston. Mrs. Dallmeyer's con-
dition is said to be slightly im-
proved. and she is semi-consci-
ous. Mrs, Dallmeyer’s address
is Room 559, Hermann Hospit-
al. Houston.
C-t Hnge icreaxes
• rhe TiV ing eosf"EFeasemnas di
ing to one of the segregation
laws The other gives school
bdards powers to assign and twens-
The university expert figures
Cookie apparently has an "extra-
ordinary” sixth tsense which en-
ables the do; to read minds.
dio announced today.
The broadcast said the Rev.
Vaclav Philipek. of the Silesian
Order, was accused of directing
an illegal spy organization in Mo-
ravia. The radio claimed Philipek
had received "espiomage instruc-
tions" from the US Intelligence
W ice Lu die T-,cu.
HOUSTON I UP)
most fight* in Texas Senate
” hfstoryi Eecometlavemuehune
Today is the 90th day aref ‛0
end of the 55th Legislature. A few
memures took effect upon receiv-
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Brenham Banner-Press
Member of the United Press, The Greatest World-Wide News Service
Project Will Mean
More Pressure
For Brenham
A $00,0d main line improve-
ment program in-the s —stwasare-.
area served by Texas Southeast-
ern Gas Company got underway
this week following the lotting
of a construction contract to H.
& K Construction Co. of Sinton,
Texas on Tuesdiy, according to
Roy Blackbird, president.
Approximately-41 mi l e s of
in July, the Bureau of I abo ■
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college for ten yearsaHAxecent,
ly resignedfohead the new
the 11th consecutive monthly in- | Hockley County Junior College
crease. - 1 • ■ •• " ■ -
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PISTOL SALES
versities, and fees at professional
a -R gave *i~1, e-lt us meica n uen-
The net profit of theyator-andltown./Tex. refinery worker t:___
sewer system was $15,599.63, an confessed to », profitable racket,___________
Y increase of $4,541.46 over the f tappin gas meters in th- oCn-
$1,058.17 of the year before. roe oilfield to drain off valuable
Ptal expenses for the y e a r mereury ... c.,.
------- J , The man. Jolin Van Childress,
Brenham Weather
Clear to partly cloudy with little
change in temperatures through
tomorrow. Low tonight 70, high
tomorrow 96 Readings for 21-
hours up to 7 a.m. today: Max.
96, Min. 68. 7 a.m. 73, Sunset
6:55. '
cf “conditions" attached to it.
However he agreed to study it.
Th- new plan presented to the
Soviets calls for a two-stage halt
in nuclear weapon testing for a
two-year period.
Tests would be halted when a
larger first - step agreement is
(Continued on Page 6)
department to help cities and
counties pay for highway right-
of-way.
Easic tuition tees wil up
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0 By O. B. LLOND JR.
j United Press Staff Oorrespondent
210 020 10x-6 10 al.AsnaU". pMoaston.10
V •00 Ow2 9 1 tion acts which stirred one of the
। 29. who lives in Baytown but
, .. . 1 works ip Houston, was charged '
The number of light customers with theft of more than $2,000
inarearrom "28,23. or mercury he drained M
then settled in the Sempromius 81, according to the audit. Cus.
Community where he spent the tomers used 22.180.671 kilowatt
remainder of his life, engaging hours of
power, an increase of
in farming, 1$2,286,522 kilowatt hours over the
from $25 to $50 a semester at
state supported colleges and uni-
er . ...
4
Mexico at Crystal Beach Sunday
mornihg-Searchersstil havenotdren and 30 great grandchildren...... .
located his body.Wednesday,, ' (Continued on Page 6) RWW BrnNim. '
Horn here September 28, 1336,- _____ _______
The sale of tickets for the bar-
"becue at the Brenham Country
• Club next Tuesday hnoring Dr.
Thomas M. Spencer, president of
that about 1,300,000 workers under
labor contracts containing escala-
tor clauses will get wages in-
creases ranging from one cent to
six cents an hour. Th se ncreses
are based on the cost f living
index. The bureau said the bulk
of the workers will get increases
of about three cents an hour.
Wage increases will go to work-
ers in the automobile industry,
farm equipment, electrical appli-
fences particuharly Westinghouse
-local transit, metal work, and
trucking, the bureau said.
Some of the increases are based
on quarterl adjustments and
some on six-month adjustments.
The cost-of-livirg index for July
rose .to 120.8 per cent of ayerage
1947-49 prices. The July index was
3.2 per cent high than for July
1956.
Fruit Up 2 Per Cent
The prices of fresh fruit rose
2.1 per cent because of seasonal
factors, the bureau said. Oranges
went up 4.6 per cent to an aver-
age of 58 cents a dozen. The
price of watermelons dropped 16.4
per cent because of increased
supplies.
The aging but nimble-minded August 22:
rgupuzpme a the weu+m."mhn-ue a02eoumx02-a"3ods
ology" Taboratory at Duke tions, is ownedby Mrs. JaneDg-’-
B. P. Greenw Ude. new president
.. .. , . . ... of theBrenham Rotary Club urg
lOther Eoodsand’sem is s‛ groun e*-p+ -wh-plamtatterathe
were-the-nrincinal auuses f, the • — ------,---------------a -2
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Peimba
Food Prices Rise
. H. E. Riley, chief of the divi-
sion of prices and cost of living,
shid th- price increases ranged
across the board, except for a
slight decline im apparel and no
change in h using. H said the
rise in food prices was seasonal.
Riley did not holdkout much
hope for a decrease in liw* cost-
of livin’ in August.
"A slight increase or a slight
decline for Au just would not lie
surprising in the cost of food,”
Riley said.
Bacon prices paced the advamnce
in ficod costs, rising 7.8 per cent.
Roundsteak rose 3.2 per cent and
frying chicken 2.9 per cent. Prices
of all fresh and canned fish also
jumped. Eg: prices 'increased
from an average of 48 cents to
54 cents a dozen.
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Vempsteod . -
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Food prices rose,one per cent
during tlic month, reaching a now
all-time high. Food prices now are
HARRIS
We are pleased to learn that
the Texas Southeastern Gas
Co. will rebuild its supply line
serving Brenham, and that fa-
cilities of the Texas Eastern
Transmission Co. will be used
to give us a larger and more
dependable supply of gas. While
domestic gas consumers have
rarely suffered in the past,
larger industrial users have
been handicapped during se-
verely cold weather. The im-
provement program should as-
sure ladequate gas for indus-
e*a.S Ca ve
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Cromn 325 33 a week. Tment Wednesday by a Communist psychology' "laboratory i
A separate Securities Commis- court in Prague, the Prague Ra- I*
thefts of mercury, value at $5
a pound, from fields as fr away
as Palestine, Tex.
Childress admitted making three
By DONALD J. GONZALES
United Press Staff Correspondent
’ WASHINGTON (UP) Informed
sources said today if Russia re-
jects the latest Western offer to
halt nuclear te ting for two years,
disarmament talk will drop off
am ng the Allies.
The new proposals appeared to
be a put-up or shut-up test of So-
viet intentions.
If Russia wants a first-step
"package" disarmament agree-
ment. American officials believe
that the initial pact can be signed
and put into operation by Septem-
ber, 1958.
There is a strong suspicion in the
Ei enhower administration that the
Russians are less interested in dis-
armament,-and are hunting a way
to end the negotiations by putting
blame on the West for a new dis-
armament failure.
The United States strategy, how.
oxer, is to continue as long as pos-
sible with the disarmament nego-
l tiations to smoke out Russia’s true
■ intentions.
In London, Soviet Foreign Min-
ister Valerian Zorin bitterly at-
tacked the new proposal because
noon. •
Reed was swimming with a
girl companion, Delores Rodri-
______BRENHAM, TEXAS, THURSDAY, AUG. 22,1957 ~ ~—
$400,000 Gas Co. Job Begun
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( .s ■ L- A- , f -"--it, ,
Cost of Living At All-Time High
K—
firm commitment on gas sem-
(Continued on Page 6)
City Tries To Erase
‘Murdertown’
Title
. 1%
had $84,475.20 invested in treas-
ury securities and a bank bal-
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