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VOL. LXVI, NO. 101
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Associated Press (AP)
United Press (UP)
PRICE FIVE CENTS
„ .14.95
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Community
Chest Rally
Set Tonight
---HOW ARE YOUR REFLEXES?=This query goes along with the- usual academic questions
at Abilene high school these mornings. Students are shown, above, taking hearing tests:
Hands raised and eves closed, they listen to a buzz signal from an audiometer operated
by Mrs. Laura Wells, extreme left. When they cease to hear the sound, they drop their
hands Others in the photo are Vadene Keene, seated next to Mrs. Wells, and students, left
to right, are Mary Lee Smith, Eldeen Crain, Shirley Clark and Yvonne Brewer. (News photo
by Don Hutcheson).
Abilene civic leaders gather at
the YMCA at 7 this evening for
a "pep rally" building up to the
forthcoming Community Chest
drive scheduled in October.
Paul M Ireland, campaign di-
rector, said 300 persons are invit-
ed to attend. Among them are di-
rectors and officers of the YMCA,
YWCA, Boy Scouts of America,
Girl Scouts, Salvation Army, ser-
vice clubs and chamber of com-
merce.
Chest president Joe Benson will
preside. E. P. (Doc Mead will be
principal speaker. Other speakers
will be George Barron, Dr. Truett
Walton, the Rev. Harlie Woolard
and Dr. C. E. Adams.
San Angelo Quota
Trimmed to $47,500
__SAN ANGELO, Sept 26.—(Spl)
Walkout Injunction
Order Is Dissolved
___________________I
Union Leader
Free as New
SCHOOLS GO SCIENTIFIC ADA Dromicac
Device Checks OPAPromises
Pupil's Hearing Mealincrease
ed away in a corner on a stool be- ACniTAIC
neatha silly dunce cap. Such cases 1 Iii\ijiinij
go to the counsellor, for there is I 1 VPPHM
usually something wrong and the _
trouble must be ferreted out. 1 SANTA FE. N. M.. Sept. 26—(PP)
“Counselling without facts is—Paul Porter, national director
pure quackery and we get the of OPA, said today that an order
facts through these tests,” de- is being prepared in Washington
dared the soft-spoken Mrs. Smith to make more meat available to
as a group of students entered .hospitals and similar institutions,
her office to await their turn at “ - ' 4- - 1
Bv JACK DURHAM
. Scientific methods in education,
moving in to replace the dunce
cap and hickory limb, are not only
making Johnny a brighter boy
these days but are at the same
time throwing light on many prob-
lems now known to have been
bungled by educators in the horse
and buggy days.
—Total quota in the Community
Chest drive of San Angelo and
Tom Green county this fall will be !
$47,500.
Quota for this year’s drive was
set only after several meetings of
the board of governors. The board
cut the amounts asked by partici-
pating agencies in almost every
case The original amounted to
$53,053.
In Tom Green county the
Bov Scout budget is not in-
cluded in the Community
Chest. The annual budget is
approximately $13,000.
The total of the Chest's
goal here would be approxi-
mately $60,000 if Boy Scouts'
needs were included.
Of last year's $73,028.25 quota,
$35,624 went to national agencies.
This year all but the $5,000 asked
by the USO will be spent in Torn
Tieup Starts
PITTSBURGH. Sept. 26——
The Allegheny county common
pleas court today dissolved its
stern anti-strike injunction-crux
of the city's three-day-old power
strike — and dropped contempt
charges against 10 union leaders
who had defied the injunction.
Dissolution of the injunction
was requested by the city in an
attempt to settle the industry-stif-
ling walkout, which had caused a
virtual “business holiday'’ in the
steel capital.
In dissolving the injunction, the
court's order said: “All proceed |
ings thereunder are hereby dis-
solved” One of the judges said
later this included the one-year
jail term imposed on George L <
Mueller, president of the striking'
union, for contempt of court
through refusal to end the strike
BLIND MAN GETS
20-YEAR SENTENCE
OKLAHOMA CITV. Sept.
26.—(AP)—District Judge Lu-
cius Babcock today sentenced
Orbit T. Guthrie, 42 year-old
blind second hand store deal-
er. to 20 years in the peniten-
tiary for the slaying of his
former mother in-law.
Guthrie was convicted Sept.
17 by a district court jury of
first degree manslaughter in
the shooting of Mrs. Elizabeth
Hinds last March. The state's
principal witness was Guth-
ries divorced wife—Kather-
ine Hickman—also blind
At his trial, Guthrie plead-
—ed self defense-------------
Green county.
The 1947 quota is divided as fol-
Take, for instance, the system
of painstaking tests now in prog-
ress at Abilene high school under
the direction of Mrs. Edith C.
Smith, counsellor to the 1,300
Gludents enrolled there.
For the first time in history,
every high school student is being
given hearing and e- digh? tests
as pert of the school’s vocational
guidance program
Coupled with the hearing and ... .
seeing tests, students are also put hear the sound,
through a system of I. Q. ratings,1
preference tests and personality
tests which unerringly point to
the traits of the teen-ager Invalu-
able information obtained from
Dach student through these tests
serves not only as an aid to the
educators but in many instances --------------—
to the child as well, through the dent to hear better from one side
correction of certain defects that
seriously affect their schoolwork.
Porter, here to attend a region-
al conference of OPA officials.
lows:
Community Service Assn. $15,000
Crippled Children's Soc. . 5.000
Salvation Army ----- 6.000
King's Daughters ........4.000
San Angelo Nursery School 7.500
Girl Scouts..............5,000
USO .........-.........5,000
the audiometer for hearing tests, al conference of OPA officials.
Five students were sent into a said packer* would be directed to
sideroom where an audiometer set aside the same amount of meat
was being operated by Mr*. Laura for hospital* that they delivered
Wells, city school nurse, and during the base period in 1944.
Vadene Keene of the Abilene- He declined to elaborate on the
'Taylor County health unit. With plan, saying details would be an-
arms ‘raised and eyes shut, the nouneed in Washington, perhaps
students listened to a fading buzz today.
signal. Individual arms went down
when the student could no longer that he opposed a 60-day suspen-
hear the sound, z sion on meat and other scarce | | A I
Maybe some arms come down foods, saying he believed such a |
too soon—soon enough to indi- suspension would result “in just UlTVOl ~OD JVM
cate bad hearing. After further, what we've been going through.”
The suspension would bring a Contract for the construction of
"price holiday" and perhaps more steps in the pedestrian underpass
immediate meat supplies, but would at Abilene high school. South 1st
result in reduced supplies over the and Grape, has been let to the A.
T. Bontke Construction company
and work will begin Friday morn-
tests. recommendations are sent
the parents that the family physi-
cian should be consulted. Or IT
may be possible a shift in class-
room seating may enable a stu-
of the room than the other
• %
He declined to elaborate on the
Porter told a press conference
long haul, he said.
TOTAL 547.500
City Contracts
What, you say, is a coun-
sellor? Briefly, he or she, as
the case may be, is an adviser
—trouble-shooter might well
be another word.
The dull student or the mis-
chievous character is no longer
Whreatened with the limb,or stash-
The veteran and expertly train-
ed Mrs Smith, who recently com-
pleted her fourth summer ferm
of study in counselling guidance
at the University of Southern
California, has records galore at
Please See TESTS. Pg. 11. Col. 3
Atomic Control
Vote Due Today
"Responsible livestock people and work will begin Friday morn-
and packers have told me private- Ing. Street Commissioner Tom Me
ly,” Porter said, that a temporary *----4 Thyredey
suspension would "strike a pretty
severe blow" to the meat industry. --------,
Breeding stock might be market- sector of the underpas swill enable
ed as result of the higher prices, students to reach westbound buses
without having to cross through
I South 1st street traffic.
Commissioner McWhirter said
the city was doing the dirt and
graveling portion of the step-con-
struction work and that the entire
project would be ready for use by
next mid-week.
The project maks the first in a
campaign by city commisisoners to
eliminate traffic hazards at all of
the city's schools.
Whirter said Thursday,
Construction of the steps on the
north side of the South 1st street
LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y., Sept
26.—P)—Scientists of the United
"Nations atomic energy commis-
- . sion were ready for a showdown
. vote today on their report on
. atomic energy controls, with Sov-
iet Russia holding the key to a
unanimous vote.
The scientific and technical
committee of the commission,
made up of scientists from each
of the 12 nations on the commis-
sion. was summoned to meet in
secret session at the United Na-
I Mions headquarters here at 1 p.
(CST).
Members of the committee were
I represented as agreed that some
final action must be taken on the
report, which was adopted after
18 meetings, mostly in August,
and which has been awaiting the
formal approval of Soviet Russia
for about three weeks.
he said.
House Democratic Leader McCor-
mack of Massachusetts yesterday
demanded that OPA ceilings on
scarce foods be suspended 60 days
to give "our hospitals and our citi-
zens' enough to eat.
'Collusion' Charged
Against Packers
WASHINGTON, Sept 26—0—
Charging that "collusion" among
packers is depriving the people of
New Shipping
Threat Looms
Next Monday
. . BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
A walkout by street car operators orator, have
started today in this strike-harass- Pacific coast ship operators have
ed steel capital, already in the grip declined an invitation from See
_ of a power strike now in its thirdretary of Labor Lewis B Schwel-
TRUMAN GETS STATE FAIR KEY—President Truman day.
(left) receives from Attorney General Tom Clark in Wash- Other strikes were threatening bor peace cun.cre.ce ...... ...
ington a diamond studded gold key to the opening day of the in apaprent sympathy with the Washington designed to head off
State Fair of Texas at Dallas Oct. 5. The key is a gift of the walkout by the power workers un
Dallas junior Chamber of Commerce. Incidentally Clark ion. The strike on the street car
was scheduled to leave Washington today by plane for Dal-
las, where he will stop while enroute to California for sev-
eral speaking engagements. (AP Photo).
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O'Danie
B’wood
elps
roup
WASHINGTON, Sept. 26 P) 1 “However, we checked and
W O’Daniel (D Tex) learned that the army board on
Senator W. Lee ODaniel (Tex) July 26 had decided to declare
says he plans to leave for Texas Camp Bowie surplus, added O’Dan-
this week but before he does he iel. “That didn't leave the general
hope* to receive some word from much of a leg to stand on
the war department on a request O'Daniel said he told Bowman
of Brownwood citizens for continu-that he would want to take the
ation of Camp Bowie as a mili-matter up with Secretary of War
tary center. ' Robert Patterson if the Brown
The Texas senator said yester- wood request was rejected. The can
day that he and Mrs 0 Daniel senator said he was not aware of
would leave for Texas by automo- • conference the Brownwood dele:
bile probably Friday or Saturday, gation had had with Patterson re:
He will spend a few days at his garding Camp Bowie hours be-
ranch near Aledo; visit Fort Worth fore the meeting with Bowman,
and Dallas, and then travel over The Patterson conference nain
the state He said he had receive which Patterson agreed to have
the t0 speak the Camp Bowie situation reviewed
was arranged by Myron Blalock
Texas Democratic national com-
system of the Pittsburgh Rail-
ways company, main method
of public transportation in the
city, was called suddenly at 3
a. m., and left thousands of
early morning riders without
transportation. The company
announced all ears had been
withdrawn from service.
An official of the AFL Amal-
gamaten association ex street, elec-
tric railway and motor coach em-
ployes said the wakout of 3.000
trolly operators and service work-
ers resulted from a dispute he
tween the association and the rail-
wavs company
Both the Pittsburgh Railways
company and the Duquesne Light
Co , whose production of electrical
energy to an 817 square mile area
has been reduced to 40 percent
by the power strike, are subsi-
diaries of the Philadelphia Com-
ed numerous invitations
but had made no engagements
The senator Tuesday accompan-
ied Mayor Wendell Mayes and oth- mitteeman._____________________
ersof a Brownwood delegation to - , , - car
a conference which he had arrang- Thirty for Eator
ed at the war department with ureNGOCA Tenn Sept
Brig Gen F A Bowman . CHATTANOOGA Tof
General Bowman told them the 26—PW. G. Foster, editor of
presidential economy order in Aug the Chattanooga News Free Press
ust necessitated closing of Camp for more than 11 years died to
Bowie, said O’Daniel.day of a heart attack. He was 81.
‘Thirty’ for Editor
Greece, Despite War, Spreads
lenbach to attend a maritime la-
peace
conference Friday in
a nation-wide strike by ship en-
gineers.
The new strike threat to the na-
tions still groggy waterfront comes
this time from the CIO marine en-
gineers beneficial association,
whose 15,000 members man the
engine rooms of virtually all the
ship* in the American merchant
marine.
Their leaders now are counting
a nation-wide authorization vote,
with first returns showing heap?
sentiment In favor of a walkout
next Monday unless ship operators
grant the men a 35 per cent wage
boost
Union lenders already have
agreed to meeting with represen-
tatives of the shipping companies
on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts in
Schwellenbach’s offices
But the Pacific-American Ship-
owners association last night an-
nounced they would prefer to iron
out maritime difficulties with
meetings on the west coast.
The association’s announcement
came before it signed an agree-
ment with the AFI. Sailors Union
of the Pacific placing government-
approved wage increases into ef-
fect
New York port members of the
marine engineers voted 1 084 to
125 yesterday to strike after expir-
ation of contracts with ship opera-
tors Sept 30. In Houston, Tex.
members voted 353 to 14 to strike,
while in Norfolk Va., They voted
by an 8 to 1 count in favor of the
strike
The CIO engineers did not bene-
fit from wage raise* won by both
Union Pacific Crash
Kills 4, Injures 50
VICTORVILLE, Calif . Sept 26
urn—Four persons were believed
to be dead and 50 to 75 injured
after the locomotive and the first
live cars of Union Pacific parson
ger train No 3. the westbound
transcontinental limited from Chi-
cago, went into the ditch two and
la hall miles east of here this morn-
ing. i. oatrilman AFL and CIO seamen in the re-
California highway patrolman cent maritime strike which ended
Walter Terry, at the scene of the alter * crippling 16 day shutdown
merectopeld s^ diner ears D in of American seaports.
11-car train remained on the track I
He said stretcher cases would GI Cab Company Asks
number between 50 and 75, and at . .
that time 30 to 40 had been placed Franchise in Dallas
on flat cars and removed to the
Victorville railroad station DALLAS. Sept 38.—(UP) The
Terry said bodies of two dead Dallas city council today was con-
had been removed from the wreck- sidering a servicemen organiza-
ed cars, and two more bodies could lion's request for * taxicab Iran-
be seen in the wreckage. | chise.
stomic tests, was reported to have .-----------
agreed to the scientific commit meat. Chairman Sabath iD-III) of
tee's report as an individual. But the house rules committee asked
he was said to have informed the today for an investigation of an
committee that he must obtain of-"apparent conspiracy" to violate
ficial approval from Moscow be- the anti-trust laws
fore Russia would be committed "This is a strike of organized
to the report—and that official greed against the American peo- BY L 8. CHAKALES tude of war
approval so far has not been com- ple,” he declared in a telegram ATHENS. Sept. 26 - The Athens Wt close
municated to the committee, from hi* Chicago hospital room to Greek government completed to- pletely Saturday morning to thel
An informed source said that Attorney General Clark The pack-day its plans for welcoming King kings reception anduidPdra"
the report, which contains no rec-ers have contended they are un-George II back to hia throne des-nounced that all permits frgamr
ommendations, would come out of able to obtain livestock supplies pite fierce border fighting and ing arms had beensuspended the
----------------------------------------—civil strife in northern GreecePolice said ersonsAre the
which Premier Constantin Tsal-route of the parade marking nerl
daris says has reached the m.gni monarchs o ene would not"be
I permitted to circulate and that I
any person was liable to search
i All persons were lor bidden in.
watch the parade from rooftops or
I terraces for a depth of about 100
yards from the route of march,
which will begin at Faleron Bay
and continue to the Greek cathe-
dral in the heart of Athens
Welcome Mat for King s Return
1 8 CHAKALES tude of war. .declined comment on a statement
rutle 26P)= The Athens will close down com by a British foreign office spokes-
AIlENO DCPL 15 . - e-u - aenin a far the l A s 1
man that the British forces would
be used “in the last resort.”
the committee regardless of Rus-
sia’s stand
The report was said to deal with
broad measures of control needed
to harness effectively atomic en-
ergy It was reported as making
no attempt to resolve the differ-
ences between the United States
and Russian plans for atomic en-
ergy control.
Houston Speculates
On Negro Candidates
HOUSTON. Sept 26— (UP)— ,
Prof S P Alexandrov, the Rus- ‘Let Me Go Back
sian scientist on the committee, ... e
who came here from the “Bikini To Texas, lke Says
g
THE WEATHER
V. s DEPARTMENT or COMMERCE
WEATHER BUREAU
ABILENE AND VICINITY Partly
cloudy with probable occasional light
rain showers this afternoon, tonight and
possibly Friday morning. Little change
in temperature
EAST TEXAS Mostly cloudy this af-
ternoon, tonight and Friday scattered
showers In all except northeast portion
gentle, moderate easterly wind# on
th WEST TEXAS: Partly cloudy to cloudy
is afternoon tonight and Frdiay wide-
W scattered showers except in Pan:
handle this afternoon and over most of
“Maximum temperature for the 24-hour
period ending at 6 • m 584... .
Minimum temperature for the 24-hour
ing at 6 a. m. 69
* Temperatures
1 Thur Wed Tues Wed
AM Hour PM
ABOARD QUEEN MARY at Sea.
Sept 28.—(UP)—Gen. Dwight D.
Eisenhower, asked to comment on
speculation he might be named
United States ambassador to Lon
don. today replied with a smile
“Just let me out of what I am
in now. and let me go back to
Texas."
Speculation about negroes running
for offices in the city election de-
veloped in Houston today after
Milton King, negro, obtained two
application blanks to file for posts
on the November ballot.
E R Coffey, chairman of the
; city’s Democratic executive com-
mittee, said anyone was permitted
to fill out the application blanks
but that doesn't mean necessar-
ilv that the committee will accept
all applications.” He said residence
| and ownership of property require-
ments must be met.
NEWS WEATHER RHYME
Pittsburgh in new strike grip.
O’Daniel planning Texas trip;
Greeks plan big King welcome spree.
Rayburn stung by Texas bee;
Meat is grabbed by army's claim, ,
Blind man assessed in murder blame;
Rainey cites two-party plan,
State grocers honor local man;
Atom control vote is set,
Predicted showers may come yet.
—Jack Durham.
UNSETTLED
Housing Parley
At VFW Tonight
I Plans of financing and con-
structing a low-coot rental housing
project tor Abilene with Clayton
M Leach Post No. 2012. Veterans
of Foreign Wars, incorporated as
a non-profit organization, as spon-
sors will be discussed at a meet-
ling at 8 o'clock tonight at Three
Acres clubhouse
Board of director* of the VFW
have voted unanimously to spon-
sor the project, which is to be
constructed with building material
from Camp Barkeley.
John Griffin, representing the
VFW directors, said he had been
in contact with Federal Public
authorities in Fort Worth today
and was notified the VFW’s tele-
graphic application for 31 build-
ings had been received. Formal
application blanks are enroute
here. Griffin said.z z
Business men and civic leaders
have been invited to attend to-
night's meeting when further de-
tails and developments will be
outlined
it
A€ *'
The king was to arrive at an
airport on the Peloponnesus and
then board a destroyer for the
journey to Piraeus, the port of
Athens
(In London, a source close to
the king, summoned home by a re-
cent plebiscite, said the monarch's
return was expected to stabilize
the tense situation in Greece. He
was expected to depart for Greer
either today or tomorrow.)
Greek army corps, meanwhile,
were conducting virtually military
operations to put down the rebel
lious opposition in Thessaly and
Macedonia, the major trouble"
spots, but although an estimated
30.000 British troops were dispers- |
, ed in those areas there was no indi- |
cation that they were involved in
the fighting
informed British sources in Ath
ens said the British forces were,
being reorganized, and that one of
the two divisions in the region
was being withdrawn from Greece.
The headquarters of Maj. Gen.
Kenneth Noel Crawford. com-
mender of British troops in Greece, |
IN STRIKEBOUND PITTSBURGH—Crowds gathered in the lobby (foreground) and
across the street at the city-county building in Pittsburgh to await the deadline set by the
court for calling off the power strike. Today the strike was still In progress, and a street
car operators tieup was added to the general confusion. (AP Photo). /
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