The Abilene Reporter-News (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 69, No. 160, Ed. 2 Wednesday, November 23, 1949 Page: 3 of 14
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| Big Spring Junior
| College Bonds Win -
BIG SPRING. Nov. 23.—Over- TOT WInIeIS
whelming approval was given a
$350,000 bond issue for Howard
County Junior College buildings |
in a special election here Tues-
Civic Leader
Wednesday Evening, Nov 23, 1949
married to Ed L. White Aug. 27,
1907.
Twenty years ago she moved
to Winters to live with her broth-
er. B G. Owens.
Survivors include, besides the
brother, one daughter, Mrs. Man-
owens Scofield of Cottage Grove,
Ore.; two sisters, Mrs
Jared, Sr . of Abilene, and Mrs
I os . Karla Melson of Tulsa, Okla.; and
The count with only one small WINTERS. Nov 23 —Funeral for several, nieces.
Box out. stood at 984 to 203 in favor Mrs. Lula O. White, 71, prominent
of the bonds. Winters church and civic leader.
The school district has $510,000 ,
in funds on hand to add to the was to be held at 3 * m Wednes-
day.
project
STORK NEWS
day at the First Methodist Church
The Abilene, Texas, Reporter-News
Final Rites Staled
For A. B. Street
Last rites were to be held at
M A. 2 p. m. today at Elliott’s Chapel
of Memories for A. B Street, 69,
Clyde man who died here Tuea-
day at the home of a sister, Mrs.
Blanche Crabtree, 1034 Vine St
ister of the Highland Street Church
of Christ, were to officiate. Burial
was to be in Elmwood Memorial
Park.
Active pallbearers were to bo
Glenn Garrett, W. D. Dawkins,
Silas Dunlap, A. B. Boyd, G. L.
Fox, and Jodie Vick
Honorary pallbearers were to be
Frank Vaughan, Paul Smith, Fred
Wittman, Jess Blanton, W. O.
Cope. James Blanton, Seymour
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here. The Rev. T. B Granger,
pastor, was to officiate, assisted
by other local pastors.
Burial was tp be in Northview
Cemetery under direction of Spill
Funeral Home.
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Two babies were born at Hend- Mrs. White, who suffered a
rick Memorial Hospital Tuesday stroke of paralysis three weeks
night and Wednesday morning: ago, died at 1 p m Tuesday in
A boy to Mr. and Mrs. David the Winters Municipal Hospital.
H. Rudd. 742 Merchant St., at She was an active member of
9:57 p. m. Tuesday, the Methodist Church, having
A girl to Mr. and Mrs. Thomas served as a steward at one time.
W. Landry, 1749 Oak St., at 2:35 She had been president of her
a. m. Wednesday. : Sunday school class for the last
--------—----------------------10 years and had held various of-
i McKinney Oilman's
1 Rites Set Today
SNYDER, ABILENE, AND BIG SPRING GET TOGETHER—(Left to right), C. T. Mc-
Laughlin of Snyder, 0 D. Dillingham of Abilene and R T. Piner, Big Spring, were vitally
interested in the West Texas water picture. They discussed the situation at the WTCC con-
vention banquet in Fort Worth Tuesday night Piner is head of the Colorado River Muni-
cipal Water District. (Staff photo by Don Hutcheson).
SHORTAGE OF STEEL
Auto-Makers Suffer
. Strike Aftermath
DETROIT Nov. 23 (Delayed operation and Studebaker has an-
effects of the steel strike will hit nounced it will close on Nov. 30.
the nation's automobile industry
hard next week.
e‘ With but few exceptions the
Thus weekly production will
i tumble sharply to probably not
more than 50,000 vehicles. And the
factories closing tonight for the plant closings added to those al-
Thanksgiving Day holiday will
remain idle until perhaps Dec. 12
or later
Ford, Hudson and Studebaker
ready down will bring temporary
idleness to an estimated quarter
million automotive workers. _j
and a few branch assembly plants
of other companies around the
country will furnish all the motor
vehicle output next week.
Ford will cut down to four days’
In several instances unemploy-
ment will be relieved by the con-
tinuance of parts fabricating work
Even ‘n many plants. A number of car
makers about to swing over to
T-P Strike
Mediators
See Progress
3
DALLAS, Nov. 23 (PLA strike
similar to the one
new model production also have
kept a substantial number of their
employes at' work on plant rear-
rangement. inventory, and parts,
service and sales operations.
Excepting for Pontiac, all the
General Mmotors shutdowns coin-
cide with the completion of 1949
model production Pontiac swung
over to 1950 model output
WILLSON
(Continued from Page 1)
each of the affiliated cities.'Those
for the Abilene area were:
Abilene—Price Campbell, G. C.
McDonald, Ed S. Stewart; Albany
—J. Carter King, Jr.: Anson--A.L.
Thompson; Aspermont — Ralph
Riddel; Baird—J. Rupert Jackson
Jr.: Ballinger—W. O. Wallace;
Big Spring—G. H. Hayward; R W
Whipkey: Breckenridge—Frank S.
Roberts; Bronte—Robert Knierim;
Brownwood — B P. Bludworth, I
Wendell Mayes: Cisco-J. J. Cal-
laway; Colorado City-Frank H.
Kelley; Coleman —B. B. Nunley
and John C. Grammer; Eastland
—W B Pickens: Hamlin-Haskell
W. Carter; Knox City-C. A. Wil-
son; Lueders—L. H. Thomas: Mor-
an-Floyd C. Pool; Munday—WE
eTBraly; Ranger-D. D. Pickrell;
Rising Star—W. J. Herrington;
Roby—W. D. Nevens; Rochester-
T. R. Smith; Roscoe—C. D. Ma-
two loney; Roton-Lance M. Davis;
Rule-Morris Neal: Santa Anna—
weeks ago and carried on until it
exhausted its steel stocks. O LCheaney: Seymour—S. A
The ‘same is true also of the Mitchell: Snyder—Judge
Edgar
various Chrysler divisions, of
which all but Plymouth already
that recent- have closed down for new model
Taylor: Stanton—Cecil Bridges
Stamford—C. C. Westfall: Stephen-
ville—E J. Howell; Sweetwater—!
ly tied up the Missouri Pacific for operations Plymouth, benefiting Hal C Etz; Throckmorton—Henry-
45 days threatens the Texas & by the diversion of steel from the L. Smith; Winters—John Q. Mc-
Pacific Railway Federal union other divisions, has continued a Adams.
and company officials are trying to fairly high output rate It will -----
bead it off. close its assembly lines after Fri - |
Officers of four railroad brother- day of this, week , . Palomino Exhibitors
hoods. T&P officials and FederalAlready closed also are Ford’s Return From Houston
Mediator Robert F Cole met yes- Lincoln division, the Nash plants
terday at Kenosha and Milwaukee and Dr. M. T. Ramsey and C. E
"We believe some progress has Willys Overland at Toldeo. Pack- Botkin, president and vice presi-
been deandsome PENto ard attributes its shutdown next dent, respectively, of the Texas
9 P mas . nd We hope to week to a suspension of operations Palomino Exhibitors Association,
Cutionam the PobeM HVO V/DE BriEES Manufacturing C° ’ “*
ed," said C H Smith, vice presi. - PPL_______________
dent of the Brotherhood of Rail-
way Trainmen IATAA
The unions involved are the III
Brotherhoods of Engineers. Fire- Ww I ww
men and Enginemen, Conductors.!
and Trainmen. The conductors and , (Continued from Page 1)
trainmen have taken strike votes. . — .___u , . .
They delayed counting the votes and 28 othenelWest. Central Tensas
however, because the mediator 0 ’ 0 their water require-
towns, of their
ments.
* has entered the dispute.
Union spokesmen says the griev-
ances closely parallel those which -
caused the Mo-Pac strike. The dis- Manager Boyd J. McDaniel, esti-
Abilene's statement —signed
Mayor Hudson Smart and
by
City
mated that by 1960 or sooner the
pute does not involve wage in- ..
creases, pension benefits or other present water suuply here would
usual causes of labor-management be very inadequate It estimated
at Causes management that by 1960 the population would
Among them the four unions be 74,000 and by 1980 would be
Among them, the four unions 180,000. It predicted that the per
say, they have 1,200 grievances, eapita daily consumption of water.
The trainmen and conductors have now 149 gallons would rise by 1960
808 and the engineers and firemen or sooner to 160.
1100. .CAN’T FINANCE
B C. James, T& P personnel di-
rector, said "We have settled some
of the cases and we will continue to
talk until mutual agreement."
have returned from Houston where
they attended a committee meet*
ing to plan for the 1950 Houston
Fat Stock Show and Livestock Ex-
position.
Beware Coughs
From Common Colds
That HANG ON
Creomulsion relieves promptly bec ause
it goes right to the seat of the trouble
to help loosen and expel germ laden
phlegm and aid nature to soothe and
heal raw, tender, inflamed bronchial
muc ous membranes. Tell your druggist
to sell you a bottle of Creomulsion
with the understanding you must like
the way it quickly allays the cough
or you are to have your money back.
CREOMULSION i
forCoughs,Chest Colds, Bronchitis
DALLAS, Nov. 23, (—Funeral
services were planned today for
J. H. Merritt, 68. McKinney bank-
er and oilman. He died yesterday.
He was a former chairman of
the board of the Federal Reserve
Bank of Dallas, former president
of the McKinney Chamber of Com-
merce. and at the time of his
death was five president of the Mc-
Kinney Board of Education.
fices in the Women’s Society for
Christian Service.
Mrs. White was also a member
of the Winters Civic Garden Club,
the Winters Home Demonstration
Club, and the Volunteer Firemen’s
Auxiliary. She was a former di-
rector of the Runnels County Tu-
berculosis Association and took
an active part in Red Cross work. j
■ Mrs. White was born Lula
Owens, March 17, 1878. in Sulphur
Springs but moved to Leonard!
with her family at an early age. |
1 She attended school there and was
John F. Nunn’s
Funeral Friday
BALLINGER, Nov. 23 —Funer-
al for John F Nunn, 71, Big Lake
resident who died in San Angelo
Tuesday, will be held in the New-
by-Davis Funeral Home chapel at
10:30 a. m. Friday.
The Rev. R. A. Scranton, re-
tired Baptist minister, will offi-
ciate.
Burial will be in the old Run-
nels County Cemetery.
Survivors include the widow.
Mrs. Elizabeth Coulter Nunn of
Big Lake; two daughters, Billie
Nunn, student at Trinity Univer-
sity, and Joyce Merle Nunn of j
Big Lake; and six brothers, Gar-
land of Ballinger: Hal and J. A. |
both of San Angelo; Charlie of Big |
Lake, Roy of Kent, and Austin
Nunn, of China Valley. Ariz.
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Abilene Man's
Father Dies
STAMFORD, Nov 23 (RNSI-
M. E. Beaver, 82, a longtime resi-
dent of Kent County, died this
morning at the home of a son.
Clay, at 2341 North Third St. in
"Abilene, like most cities, would
find the financing of a water sup-
ply of this nature very difficult,
the statement said, “since the
drainage areas to accommodate a
supply of this size would be far
removed”
Other towns of Abilene’s trade
area who filed statements of
water inadequacies were: Albany,
Aspermont, Ballinger Benjamin.
Big Spring. Bronte. Cisco. Cross
Plains. Eastland, Hamlin. Haskell.
Lueders. Moran. Munday. Ranger,
Roby, Roscoe. Rule. Santa Anna.
Seymour, Snyder. Stamford.
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He had been ill for three months
Funeral will be held Thursday ,
at 2 p. m. at Girard Kent County. “
in the schoolhouse. Lloyd Cannel •
Church of Christ minister from
• Big Spring, will officiate
Burial will be in Girard Ceme-
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Mr. Beaver was born in Mis-
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the former Minnie Pearson in
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The couple moved to Kent Coun-
ty 40 years ago and farmed until
Mr Beaver retired several years
,ego. He had been a member of
the Church of Christ since young
manhood.
Survivors include the widow:
four sons, Rollie Beaver of Gir-
ard Clay of Abilene, Chester J.,
of Fort Worth: Hubbert of Lub-
bock: five daughters, Mrs. Joe
Ratliff of Ft, Sumner, N M : Mrs.
D Ray Jones of Pilot Point: Mrs.
John J. Smith of Port Lavaca:
Mrs. Jess Craig of Tiler and
Mrs J P Stephens of Littlefield:
228 grandchildren and 24 great-
“grandchildren.
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