The Abilene Reporter-News (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 68, No. 48, Ed. 1 Sunday, September 26, 1948 Page: 2 of 92
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2 THE ABILENE, TEXAS, REPORTER-NEWS
Abilene, Texas. Sunday Morning, September 26, 1948
Boys Ranch Trio Is Granted
‘Another Chance’ by Judge
Winters Town Hall
Membership Drive to
Continue This Week
rate entertainers, musicians, and Winter’s Car
speakers to Winters this fall and ***" Y
winter. After the membership drive
closes, no tickets to individual per-
formances will be for sale, and
programs will be open only to
holders of memberships, which are
HO for rial, 0 for single, and
$3 for student cards.
Market Active
WINTERS. Sept. 26. (RNS) —
Car sales were good to Winters
for the week of September 17-24,
according to registration figures
in the office of John W. Norman,
Boston has been called the
“cradle of American journalism.”
WINTERS, Sept 25. (RNS)—The
Town Hall membership drive,
which was scheduled to close on
Saturday, will be continued into
next week, according to the see-
retary of the organization, Gilmore
Sanders. Sanders said that sales
were going well, but that some
people who had expressed a desire
for membership had not yet been
contacted.
The Town Hall group will briar
five programs consisting of first
agalaat incarceration to the reform-
atory. One said he thought it would
do the boys no good. Another said
they needed more attention. One
suggested the elder boy, apparent-
ly the worst offender, be urged to
join the Navy.
Manager Goens of the Boys
Ranch said he thought he could
handle the two 13-year-old lads
but that the oldest boy would need
such supervision that he could not
give
Still another advocate said, “I
hate to give up. He’s no worse than
some of us were to boyhood, to
fact, 1 always had to the back of
my head to run away and thought
my father was mean to me. la
there something we should have
done we haven’t done?” he asked
as he approached the three lads.
The lads then were asked by Judge
Caffey if they knew anything
wrong. The all shook their heads
or remained silent.
RICHEY ASKS CUSTODY
It was then that Richey an-
nounced:
“I'll take him (the oldest lad)
to my house and keep him. He
may run away — I don't know. But
I've still got confidence In him.
I don't know that I can keep from
stealing - but they 'the reforma-
tory) won't help him down there."
Judge Caffey then interposed:
"If placed with you it'll be tempo-
rary."
Another ranch advocate said he
believed if the boys were kept busy
they would be happy. “I don't
think they are bad boys - they did
this on the spur of the moment
Maybe we've not given them
enough to do. We have boys to our
school- who ire just as bad." be
concluded.
The boys expressed a desire to
speak to Judge Caffey alone, and
were taken into his office and in-
terrograted.
Then he announced he had de-
cided to let the two 13-year-old
lads go back to the Boys Ranch
"If they repeat again, then we'll
bring them to and let them go on
to Gatesville,” Judge Caffey told
a reporter.
"Temporarily the older boy —
(who is 15 and rather large for
his age) will be turned over to Rie-
hey, with the understanding that
he may enter the Navy later or be
placed to another Boys Ranch
where condition and circumstances
would be altered."
After the disposal, Richey told
a newsman that the lad he was
taking was not "so bad. He haa not
had a fair chance. His mother died
when he was I months old. 1 still
have confidence to him and that’s
tt . reason I'm taking him Into my
own home. I believe he can be
brought out of his trouble with
kindness and attention,” he de-
clared.
By HAMILTON WRIGHT
Reporter-News Staff Writer
Three boy. who figured in ear
theft and housebreaking after run-
ning away from Boys Ranch last
week w I I I be given "another
chance,” Judge Wiley Caffy ruled
Saturday aftr the lads were ques-
tioned their law Infractions re-
viewed and several men Interested
to their welfare heard.
The eldest of the trio. 15, was
given a temporary home by Ben
Richey, prominent in juvenile work
in Abilene. The other two were
returned to Boys Ranch with the
understanding another single es-
capade will result in their be-
ing brought instanter before Judge
Caffey and transferred to the State
Reformatory at Gatesville
The trio, who ran away Thurs-
day, allegedly stole a car at an
auction barn here, smashed it into
a truck of cedar post near Brown-
wood, then took a car at Zephyr
after raiding a kitchen of food in
a vacant farm home, and were
token into custody by State High-
way patrolmen at a filling sta-
tion at Lometa.
HEARING CONDUCTED
Judge Caffey, juvenile judge,
presided at the 10 a m. hearing
in the courtroom Saturday. Facing
him were the three boys, father
and mother of one boy, and Juve-
nile Officer Phil A. Diltz. In the
courtroom were about 15 Boys
Ranch supporters and spectators.
Diltz read from the in., action
files of the lads. Each of them
deputy
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September 27
through
October 2
- Natalie Whalen, 38, of Chicago, holds
Linda, 18 months, after revealing a
-he agreed to pretend to be the mother
by another woman. To make the story
even stranger, Linda’s real mother, a 29-year-old widow who
had given Linda up for adoption, promised to give Mrs Whal-
lighter. Faith, 3 months, because Joseph Whal-
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en. 41, was the child’s father. The woman later refused to give
up the second child. Mrs. Whalen, now suing her husband for
separate maintenance, will take him back if she gets the baby.
(NEA Telephoto).
AnnualL
65,000 Church
Members Rapped al Conference
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 25. 0
Aa annual average loss of 65,000
enurch members who become “in-
active" is a "scandal on the door-
atop of our churches," more than
4,500 delegates to the 95th annual
assembly of the Disciples of Christ
were told Saturday.
G. Gerald Bias of Indianapolis.
Ind., general diractor of t h e
church’s three - year membership
drive, addressed the representa-
tives of 7,844 churches in the Unit-
ed States and Canada in the as-
*****427 Ao:
as the Christian Church. The con-
ventfoe ends Thursday.
During the convention a report
will be made byha joint committee
on the possibility of uniting the
church with that of the Northern
Baptists.
The Rev. Travis A. White of the
First Christian Church, Lubbock,
Tex . said:
"The church is facing Increased
competition and opposition.
Achievements measured in terms
of the past are no match for pow-
ers of darkness that challenge.
••Evangelism haa Ra place but
our evangelism comes to less than
nothing if those we bring Into
church become a burden rather
then the power they might be.”
The largest flying bird is the
Trumpeter Swan, which weighs
about 35 pounds.
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1 TD PINE ST.
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had bad marks for several offenses
ranging from shoplifting, stealing
saddle and bridle to riding
"borrowed" horses and various
other infractions. Urged to speak
for themselves the three boys said
they had nothing to say. Then
Judge Caffey said:
‘Personally I don't feel like the
boys ought to go back to Boys
Ranch. I don't think the ranch has
proper influence over them. They
are’ not satisfied there."
‘Time after time we have been
lenient and returning them may
hurt the ranch. They have shown
no appreciation. Why hurt the Boys '
Ranem*
SPECTATORS SPEAK
Than Judge Caffey asked any
present to speak their mind. G.
Seogin, city plumbing inspector
and a boys' worker, got to his feet
and replied:
“I don’t think the fact they do
not appreciate the care should be
taken into consideration. I believe
the Boys Ranch would take them
back again. I’d hate to see them go
to the reformatory. They're still
young — there's a possibility of
making something out of them.
Personally I hope something can
be worked out.”
Others erose, voicing protest
The United Press received a false
report of the Armistice of World
War I three days before it actually
took place.
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