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NUMBER 91
GAINESVILLE, COOKE COUNTY. TEXAS, MONDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1954
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seemed to be feeling the strain of
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TOPICS
By A. MORTON SMITH
ably with other cities and towns
over the state according to a sur
"Dr.
might
"Some of the letters present
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e plans to eliminate Christmas entirely.
le schools of Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary.
no acc
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t hours on a
Walnut Bend
Dr. Sheppard
Denies Writing
weekend.
Irene Parramore of 725 Beattie
street is confined to Gainesville
The compan
turned to Gair
ing some two
An Alaskan bull moose may
weigh 1,800 pounds.
By RELMAN MORIN
CLEVELAND, Dec. 13 (P) -Dr.
Joe Ware, re-
lie after wait-
irs at hk car
al police and
showed a slight improvement.
Any change for the worse in
his condition would be the first
since the collapse which brought
him near death on Dec. 2. He
tion today that he wrote a letter
to his wife in 1950 regarding di-
vorce.
He said the letter simply in-
formed her that he had taken a
girl to a dance.
The cross-examination began
Two Women Hurt
Slightly in Series
Of Auto Accidents
Two Negro women were slight-
ly injured Sunday evening in one
of four traffic accidents reported
nt reported in
proat
shou
E. Stassen, foreign operations administrator, center, was the principal speaker at the meet-
ing held in Washington. (AP Wirephoto)
mated at $10.
The other'!
the city was i
at the interse
nue and Calif
A car drive
library facili-
extension divi
hanged Sunday in his cell at Vic-
toria. Milam was accused of slay
ing Lavaca County Clerk Joe
Good south of Hallettsville last
June.
John Soto, 24, burned to death
in his three-room house east of
Victoria Sunday.
James Sites, 26. of Corpus
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WEATHER FORECAST
Tonight and Tuesday, fair;
warmer Tuesday; low tonight,
Full weather report on clas-
sified ad page.
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Young Arkansas Mother Is
Bludgeoned tO Death 111 Home 1 n nd nee Gainesville over the
th. vehicles were
and had stopped
t a traffic light
a hay wagon. Another was found
head caught between an
Dr. Hoversten back to Cleveland
I with me,” Sheppard said. “Dr.
Hoversten was quite upset about
it.”
"I said Marilyn and my father
from early morning chores at the ban
wife, hit ton, Stevie, 20 monthse ane
a fine winter picture in the new-fa
View, III. Prairie it a few miles west
of Adiai Stevenson, about 40 miles
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He Shows Improvement
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es and devotion received from all the time. Sheppard said.
vey of municipal
ties made by the
sion of the Texas State library.
oClockSatundavtntshtsthnoygha
Vnation but
Harvev Hancock, 19, of 418
South Commerce street, became
lost Saturday afternoon in
rugged country near the Red
river, and a hunting companion
and Hancock's family became
concerned because of the -near
whe itn
driven by
traveling
"And he advised you not to' problem Marilyn and I ever had
send the letter, didn't he?" Ma- was the minor one of Marilyn's
hon asked. having lost some of her sexual
"That's my impression.” Shep-1 aggressiveness following the
pard replied. 'birth of Chip.”
nittee has let each
make its own how-
lost for some I
hunting trip in
section was
event of
een any-
Chip is Sheppard’s son, now
seven years old.
"She'recognized this and it was
being improved in various ways,”
Sheppard said.
“Didn't Hoversten advise you
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trial. The stale accuses
SATISFACTORY comparisons
cannot be made with some cities
and towns nearer Gainesville's
population, due to the fact that
some of these cities have college
libraries, which overshadow their
Today's Chuckle
Toast: “Here’s to our wives
and sweethearts—may they nev-
er meet!”
(Copyright General Features Corp.)
himself Later, he said, he told 1
from me than someone else.”
Mahon then brought out the
fact that Sheppard had talked
with his father by telephone
shortly afterwards.
“Did you talk with your father
Hoversten said Marilyn i curate that he was ho:
In 1952, Hoversten did join the
to j staff in Bay View hospital oper-
about divorce?” he asked.
Sheppard said that was not
Accidents in
Texas Take Lives
Of at Least 17
By The Associated Press
Accidents in Texas over the
weekend claimed at least 17 lives.
A boy fell into a tub which held
only two inches of water and
died.
A man was killed in a fall from
books, approximately one for ev; said the Pope was having diffi
ery resident of that city on the culty ingetting foot! down and
Hunting Is Found
By Search Party
A Gainesville
-enged Portland,
Fla., challenged
nville and St. Pe-
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woman Raid
nging 1
“The reason he advised you
was because it was mentioned in
that letter about divorce?”
"No, sir. that’s not correct."
Sheppard said Hoversten had
a date to a hospital dance but
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was unable to keep it. Sheppard to fvigei a
said he took the girl to the dance hon asked.
municipal collections of books,
and others have libraries that are
comparatively new.
Gainesville is a pioneer in the
library field so far as the smaller
cities and towns of Texas are
concerned.
As early as 1903 there was a
public library with a nucleus of
400 books furnished by the XLI
club, with the late MRS. SUE
MeKEMIE as volunteer librar-
ian. The library was kept open
one day a week at first, and later
on afternoons of each weekday.
THE LIBRARY was moved to
the city hall and MISS GERTHA
LOCKARD was the first paid li-
brarian.
She was succeeded by MISS
LILLIAN GUNTER. who suc-
ceeded in getting a grant from
the Andrew Carnegie foundation,
for a library building which was
opened Oct. 10, 1914,
Miss Gunter also took the lead
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as Sherman, Grayson county ____
seat, has a library with 20,972 liable, from within the Vatican
ppard's me astray.”
him of
I never
the two osteopaths could live and
His wife was in Cleveland at study together.
• time Shennord enid. "Was there any further discus-
The accused man admitted he sion concerning a divorce be-
Motorists and pedestrians in
communities across the country
are being alerted by newspaper
stories, radio broadcasts, modem
Paul Reveres in sound
sanitarium for observation of
possible back injuries received
when the car she was driving
overturned after colliding with
another vehicle.
Inez Jones, 301 South Schop-
meyer street, was treated for leg
lacerations. She was a passen-
ger in the Parramore car.
C. M. Smith, 61, of 808 South
Weaver street, was the driver of
the other automobile. He was
given a ticket for failure to grant
right of way by Highway Patrol-
man Bill Gardner, who investi-
gated the mishap.
The collision occurred at 6:15
p.m. Sunday, some three miles
east of Galnesville on highway
82. Gardner said Smith appar-
ently pulled onto the highway in
front of the other car. Both ve-
hicles were traveling west. The
women were reportedly returning
from church in Sherman.
Charles Edward Ray, 45, of
Dallas, escaped injury about 8:15
p.m. Saturday when he lost con-
trol of his pickup truck and the
vehicle turned over on its side.
The accident was four miles
found about 11
Nation Heads for Extraordinary Test
Of Driving Ability on Wednesday
By WILLIAM J- GONWA Y pleas through loud-speakers —i Seattle challenged Portl
wild ideas,” |
tersburg.
Mayor Fred Hervey of El
Paso, Tex., called upon Phoenix
Ariz., to match accdent records
Wednesday in what has been
dubbed the “first annual Safety
bowl,” Frank Murphy the Phoe-
nix mayor, accepted. Austin,
Tex, Albany, N. Y., and Sacra-
mento, Calif., were invited to
join in the competition.
St. Joseph, Mo., this week is
engaged in a fewest-accidents
derby with Topeka, Kah., Spring-
field, Mo., and Lincoln, Neb.
A 24-hour highway law en-
forcement program, to be han-
dled by 8,000 state and local po-
licemen, will be in force in Mas-
sachusetts.
Church bells will toll a remind-
er at 9 a. m. in Tampa, Fla.
Civil Air Patrol planes equipped
with loudspeakers will fly over
Tampa at 11 a. m. to sound warn-
“nfarzic wiU halt at 11 a. m.
for a minute of prayer in Nor
folk, Va.
A wrecked automobile and a
casket will be on display in the
downtown district of Schenecta:
dy, N. Y. A demolished car will
B gdozydecthal lawn
basis of the 1950 census.
McAllen has about 14,000 books,
Corsicana has 33.000. Brown-
wood 14.000 and Orange 25,000.
SCANTY CHRISTMAS IN
COMMUNIST EAST EUROPE
VIENNA, Dec. 13 (AP)—Christmas will not
amount to much for 70 millions in Communist East Eu-
rope this year.
Communism supposedly has let up a little in its per-
secution of the church and there are supposed to be
more luxury goods available in the state-run stores.
But all indications from the Communist press are that
Russia’s Communist satellites are going ahead with
Elsewhere in West Texas Ama
rillo had 21, Lubbock 22. Chil-
dress 28. El Paso 27, Wink 23.
Abilene 25. Salt Flat 23 and Mid-
land 24.
Dallas had 28. lowest this fall.
College Station had 33, Lufkin
28, Mineral Wells 29, Austin 36.
San Antonio 38. Junction 22 and
Laredo 39.
Along the coast, readings were
mostly in the 40s. Houston had
41. Brownsville 47.
The outlook was for continued
cold with another big freeze
Monday night. Clear skies were
forecast.
Skies had cleared before dawn
Monday except for a band of
overcast in East Texas from Luf-
kin to Galveston. No rain was
reported.
Gainesville experienced the
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Dellacqua (substitute secretary
of state* took place today as
usual.”
Official reports in the past
have been inclined to minimize
the seriousness of the 78-year-old
Pope’s condition.
Later, two highly placed Vati-
can sources said the official bul-
letin had been toned down at the
request of the Vatican secretariat
of state. The sources said that
as originally written it was
"somewhat less optimistic.” The
two informants said the Vatican
newspaper. L’Osservatore Ro-
mano. also had been asked to
eliminate unoptimistic references
from its daily editorial.
L’Osservatore wrote:
"The holy father, whose condi-
tion is slowly improving. has
been made particularly happy by
all the professions of good wish-
Romania and Bulgaria, the children are being taught
their parents are wrong: The Red star of Communism,
not the Star of Bethlehem, is the important thing.
Family celebrations of Christmas are being discour-
aged.
There will be fir trees in the streets of Warsaw.
Prague and Budapest, but they will be known as “New
Year’s trees,” or “winter trees.”
There will be parties for the kids in schools and in
the halls of Communist organizations. But they will be
held around Jan. 1. In them, the children will see
films about the Soviet union and puppet shows in which
American soldiers and bankers are the “bogeymen.”
There will be special holiday radio programs for
children but mostly devoted to the Communist concepts
of “peace and friendship.”
The exchange of gifts is being frowned on. Gifts,
said a Polish newspaper, are “decadent capitalism.”
Czech mothers have been advised not to send packages
to their soldier sons. “They have already enough to eat
and packages will only spoil them,” said the newspaper
Odborar.
_____ trucks,
parades, posters and handbills.
President Eisenhower pro-
claimed S-D day. It is sponsored
by the President’s Action Com-
mittee for Highway Safety.
The purpose is to reduce traf-
fic accidents greatly to show that
it can be done. The reduction has
not been specified. The goal, at
ih and, at best.
BRINKLEY. Ark.. Dec. 13 (P)
-A young mother was bludg-
eoned with a four-foot piece of
stove wood yesterday in her bed-
room
Her husband, Milton Fuller,
said he found his 28 year-old
wife, her head smashed, dying
beside her bed shortly after
dawn. He said he had been doz-
ing in the living room when he
heard a noise and entered his
wife’s room. He said he saw her
body topple to the floor.
She died two hours later In a
brinkley hospital.
north of the city on highway 77.
Ray told Gardner that he was
blinded by headlights of an ap-
iching car and ran off the
____alder of the highway. Damage
was slight to his pickup, which
was loaded with sweet peppers.
Cars driven by Chris C. White.
30, of 502 South Rusk street and
Sterling Pemberton, 53, of 402
South Denton street, were in-
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gdsggsa
There are approximately 27,000 has made a slow, but steady,
books in the local library, where gain ever since
even to pause and pray.
An Associated Press survey
shows what many communities
have done and plan to do.
Washington, D. C., put on a pa-
rade of wrecked cars and 46
caskets, each representing a 1954
traffic fatality in the District of
Columbia.
Cars equipped with amplifiers
are touring the Seattle area,
spreading the safety gospel.
Traffic officials In San Diego,
Calif., circulated 100,000 safe
driving pledges and arranged a
parade of crash-crumpled autos
for today.
School kids brought home safe
ty letters in Proyidence, R. I.
Literature is bdHg distributed
through schools in Kansas. Truck
and bus stickers and 10,000 arm
bands have been issued in Miami,
Fla.
Reminders in poster, bumper
strip or leaflet form have been
passed out in Madison. Wis.,
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ITHERE ARE approximately
I two books for every Gaines-
MARSHALL HONORED BY AMVETS—General George C. Marshall receives a silver helmet
from Rufus H. Wilson, right, as the AMVETS, an organization of world war II and Korean
war veterans, honored him for his world war II service as the army's chief of staff. Harold
yesterday's big event—consecra-
tion of his good friend, Msgr.
Giovanni Battista Montini. as
archbishop of Milan.
A Vatican communique issued
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library, according to MRS. CAR- t Reliable informants in the Vati- parts of the world.
RIE HUDSPETH. county librar-1 can said Pope XII was somewhat I
ian. । weaker today, but a later official.
This figure compares favor-1 statement said his condition
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"U CHRISTMAS
wrote a letter to her at that time, tween you and Marilyn?” Mahon
He said he discussed it with a persisted.
volved in a minor collision at
10:40 a.m. Saturday at the inter-
section of Commerce and Cum-
mins streets. Total damage to
the two automobiles was esti-
possibly didn't understand the
innocence of the situation. Dr.
early in the opening session of Hoversten wasn’t trying to lead J
get some
d testified.
1 ated by the Sheppard family. For
a time he lived in the home of
the accused man.
Sheppard recalled a conversa-
tion in which divorce was dis-
cussed, but he insisted the sub-
ject was brought up by Hover-
; sten. He said Hoversten at that I
time was in process of getting a
divorce himself.
“I told Hoversten that Marilyn
was the finest girl I could ever
find anywhere. I felt our situa-
tion was ideal for me.”
He quoted Hoversten as saying
that if Sheppard got a divorce,
Coldest Weather of Fall
Season Is Experienced in
Texas; Two Deaths Occur
By The Associated Press I slick highwa y. The other
The coldest weather this fall drowned when his boat capsized
gripped most of Texas Monday i in high wind.
after a weekend uorther un-: Before sunrise Monday the
loaded snow and chill rain. mercury sank to 14 in Dalhart
F reezing temperatures knifed at the top of the Panhandle. That
deep into Central and South Tex was the state’s lowest.
Her two children, Mary Helen,
5, and Kathy, 18 months, were
sleeping in the next room when
the attack occurred.
A huge manhunt was launched
for a tall man with one shoe
missing. Bare footprints were
found in the back yard, near a
wood pile, where it was believed
the killer had picked up his
weapon. Police Chief Frank Hen-
derson said barefoot mud tracks
were found on the kitchen floor.
State police issued a pickup or-
der for a six-foot white man
wearing a khaki overcoat and
believed to be minus one shoe.
At the same time, Henderson
said “five to eight” Negroes. all
former employes of the Fullers,
were jailed.
Henderson said one of the Ne-
groes wore a bloody shirt. which
is being sent to Little Rock today
for examination by the state
medical examiner. The Negro,
Henderson claims, said he bled
on the shirt Friday when he got
a nosebleed.
Henderson theorized that the
motive of the slaying was rob-
bery. and that Mrs. Fuller was
killed because she awakened and
recognized the intruder.
The Fuller family physician,
Dr. W. L. Walker, reported Mrs.
Fuller had not been raped, but he
said there was a chance rape had
been attempted.
Fuller, owner of an automobile
agency in this cotton country
town of about 4,000 persons, said
he had awakened about 4:30
a.m., gone about three blocks
downtown for a cup of coffee
and the morning papers and then
returned and fell asleep.
He said he had had a brief
conversation with his wife before
he left. asking her where her
keys were.
Newsboys and an unidentified
Negro woman gave state police
their description of the wanted
man. Two white newsboys told
one story to police and a Negro
boy in a separate talk gave sub-
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pontiff as usual devoted much of i rfic claimed five lives
his time to prayer and work. Au-) A “susecra ay inS case
diences withMsgrs.Domenico/John SMPam, 36 wa" found
Tardini (prosecutor of state for -
ordinary affairs i and Angelo
haveamspecimn" lowstantwins
mRivatry.ofth sort assocjated
football has sprung up
“I told Hoversten the only
' beating his wife, Marilyn,
j death last July 4.
I As he closed the direct exam-
ination, Sheppard's lawyer. Wil-
| liam J. Corrigan, asked him dra-
Pone Renorter Weaker but
I Vlrw IlVUVI I W lIVUllVI Will . Sheppard hesitated a moment
. nI. A and then said:
QHficia Karaman# Kave human itritibaxe succumbedto
>> B I 11. |l|l JlOldlldll hJUlJ Opening the questioning.
“ “ “"•5 [Stated Atty. John J. Mahon went
Christi drowned when a small
boat capsized in Corpus Christi
bay Sunday.
Malcolm Lopez, 30. was killed
in a fall from a hay wagon on his
farm near Conroe Sunday.
Johnnie Hatten, 12, died Sunday
at Dickinson after he fell into
the shallow tub.
John Harleaux. 27. of Houston
was shot to death Saturday night
He was found near a liquor store
where the owner, Garland Henry,
reported firing at three men who
had tried to hold him up, Percy
Pork, 27, was shot to death in a
Houston cafe Saturday night.
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Bipartisan
Policy Talk
Set Tuesday
WASHINGTON, Dec. 13 (P—A
meeting of President Eisenhower
and Re p u b l i c a n congressional
leaders took an unexpected turn
today with a 45-minute discussion
of foreign affairs.
The president called the GOP
leaders to the White House to
outline the administration's 1955
I legislative proposals. Eisenhower
j had indicated in advance—though
he did not say so specifically—
the meeting would deal with do-
mestic issues.
In announcing plans for the
meeting at his news conference
last Wednesday, the president al-
so disclosed Democratic leaders
who will be in charge of the new
congress will join Republicans at
a conference tomorrow7 to discuss
foreign policy.
The chief executive pledged aft-
lter the November elections, which
gave the Democrats control there
1 would be bipartisan consultation
i on international affairs.
At that time the president also
said he intended to confer with
i the Democrats on domestic is-
i sues. Since then the White House
has placed less emphasis on that
, phase of the program.
An hour and a half after the
I start of today’s meeting with the
j Republican leaders. Secretary7 of
1 State Dulles left the White House
and told newsmen he had just
spent 45 minutes briefing the
GOP chiefs on foreign affairs. He
I declined to provide any details.
In response to questions, Dulles
said Secretary of Defense Wilson
took over as the speaker when he
left.
Republican Senate Leader
Knowland of California, who has
split with, the administration on
some foreign policy questions,
said in advance of today’s meet-
ing he expected its scope would
be limited mainly to domestic
issues.
Knowland said also the legisla-
tive proposals put forward by the
president may determine whether
the GOP wins or loses in 1956.
Eisenhower was expected to re-
peat some of the rejected or
never-acted-on proposals he made
to the GOP-dominated 83rd con- -
gross. ' "
Ore. Tam
Miami, Jaci
that Hoversten advised him not “Well, did he give it to you?"
to send the letter. | “I would say it was more ac-
as.
At least two deaths were
blamed on the weather. One vic-
tim died in a car wreck on rain-
nation’s mobile millions today
headed for an extraordinary test
of their ability to drive and walk
safely for 24 hours.
The test comes Wednesday. It
has been designated Safe Driving
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