The Abilene Reporter-News (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 73, No. 185, Ed. 2 Friday, December 18, 1953 Page: 2 of 30
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2.A THE ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS
Abilene, Texas, Friday Evening, Dee. 18, 1953
Top Airman Due
or C-C Banquet
A top Air Force official will be
invited to be the main speaker at
the annual Abilene Chamber of
Commerce banquet, the board of
directors decided Friday to their
regular meeting.
W. P. Wright and the national
defense committee are to invite the
speaker, according to C-C Presi-
dent Elbert Hall.
The C-C re-evaluation program
has netted 310,751 in increased Juei
since it was put into effect, C-C
Manager Jae Cooley reported. The
C-C has a good chance of reach-
lag the proposed $22,000 increase
in the annual budget, Cooley said.
The response from firms contact-
• ed has been “exceptionally good,”
he said, and several firms have
even boosted the amount recom-
mended by the re-evaluation com-
mittee.
Members of the board have work-
ed in contacting the some
500 members of the C-C to request
their raising their dues.
Hell expressed his appreciation
to those who hove cooperated in
the program.
French Robertson was appointed
chairman of a committoe to nomi-
nate candidates for the coming
election of board members. Other
committeemen are J. C. Hunter
Jr., Joe Benson, Gilbert Pechacek,
and Nib Shaw.
The board named Pat McDaniel,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs Herman
McDaniel. 1017 Santos St., sod s
member of the Range Riders, to
represent Abilene at the Fort
Worth Exposition and Fat Stock
Show Jan 30, which has been de-
signated Abilene Day.
Miss McDaniel, who has rep-
resented the city st seven differ-
ent events during the past year,
will be Abilene’s Cowgirl Sweet-
heart st the stock show.
CITY COMMISSION
TO MEET TUESDAY
City Commission will hold
its next two regular weekly
mootings on Tuesdays rather
than Fridays to avoid holl-
They are to meet at s a.
m. Tuesday, Dee. 22, in lieu
of Christmas Day: and will
meet Tuesday, Dec. 29, In-
stead of New Year’s Day.
BAD REPORT CARDS*
Parents Pick Up
2 Runaway Girls
The parents of a couple of run-
away teen-age girls from Forrest,
Ark., who were apprehended by
juvenile authorities here Thursday
morning, said reports cards must
not have been “as good as they
IN ABILENE
Chest Still Short $8,200;
Sewage Disposal No. 1 Need
aesee cumocemans
Thursday netted only $1,540.50 of
a hoped-for $9,000, Sam Hill, gen-
ed Faapstsn ee-chatrmnan report-
Chest drive, Bill said, end some
still remained to be contacted.
Navy to Close
should have been,” when they
came after the girta, 13 and 15,
Friday.
Dead in Bed
Air Base Wafer, Gas Line
Bids to Be Opened Jan. 21
Bids on a contract for the water
and gas distribution systems of the
Abilene Air Force Base are ten-
tatively scheduled to be opened
Jan. 21 in Fort Worth. It will be
the fifth contract to be let at the
base.
This was announced Friday by
Fred W. Johnson, project engineer
of the Abilene AFB, who said the
Fort Worth district, Corps of En-
gineers, will advertise for bids Dec.
The water distribution system
will include approximately 65,000
feet of various-sized pipes up to 11
inches in diameter. The contract
also will call for a 500,000-gallon
elevated water tank and 50 fire
bydrants.
The gas distribution system
will include approximately 32,000
feet of various-sited pipes up to
10 inches in diameter.
Earlier the Fort Worth office had
announced two other scheduled bid
opening dates. Bids on the sanitary
sewer system are to be opened
Jan. 8 1a Fort Worth. Bids on the
aviation gasoline and jet fuel bulk
storage system will be opened Jan.
12 in Fort Worth. Bids on the first
dormitories will be opened Dee.
Johnson explained Friday morn-
ing that the sewer system is -a
pretty good-cited job,” including
nearly seven miles of sewer lines
up to 21 inches in diameter.
The gasoline and jet fuel storage
system will include four 20,000-bar-
rel capacity tanka, pumping equip-
ment, considerable grading under
ground piping and other work,
Johnson said.
The Chest total stood at $81,-
804.74, somewhat short of its $90,-
000-goal as the campaign entered
its third month.
About two dozen solicitors,
whose firms donated a day’s time
for them to participate in the
“clean-up" drive, visited some 300
firms listed under general solicita-
tion who had not yet been con-
tacted or had not contributed. Hill
said.
Forty-four of these donated to the
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^Boltos and Pitts) denied the bur-
During an Interview Thursday
afternoon with a newspaper report-
er in the Taylor County jail, the
three escapees - Bolton, Pitts and
Tarlton — said that they and Gil-
breth had been in Los Angeles.
Calif., on the day the Rotan bur-
glary occurred.
The trio told the newspaper re-
porter one reason they broke out
of jail was thst they were not
guilty of the Rotan burglary, yet
were being held.
Paulk said he has received rec-
ords of past criminal offenses of
which the three escapees have been
convicted.
Prior to being picked up Nov.
30 in Snyder concerning the Rotan
burglary, Pitts had been out of
the state penitentiary at Huntsville
only 46 days, Paulk said. Pitts had
served three years of s five-year
sentence given on conviction of a
house burglary st Athens. Paulk
said.
Bolton was released from the
penitentiary at Huntsville to Jan*
uary, after being confined around
three years, Paulk said. Bolton had
been sentenced to serve five years
in Dallas County for ear theft and
burglary. Paulk said
When Bolton escaped, he was
on probation and had bine more
months to serve, Paulk said.
Tarlton had been given a five-
year suspended sentence la Ver-
non on conviction of car theft,
Paulk said.
Tarlton's sentence bad been as
sessed in 1950, the officer said.
Tarlton meanwhile had served a
six-month jail sentence in Snyder |
on conviction of driving while
drunk. Tarlton completed the DWI
term last spring, Paulk said.
Radar Warning
Test Is Success
OTTAWA un-Canada’s defense
research board said today that
the “McGill fence,” a Canadian-
designed early-warning radar de-
vice to detect enemy planes
striking screes the Canadian north,
has been tested successfully.
The board’s annual review said
the hush-hush barrier, which even-
tually will supplement joint Ca-
nadian-American radar chains in
the far north, was the outstanding
accomplishment of the board in
1953. Its details are secret.
Other major 1953 accomplish-
meats listed in the review were:
1. Firing of a working model
of Canada's air-to-air guided mis-
sile, which would be fired from a
plane at another aircraft.
. 2. Development of a gas mask
far northern operations which will
not cloud over in extreme cold.
3. Development of a self-
propelled diving bell for undersea
repair work, finding equipment
loot overboard from1 ships and use
aa a water taxi for divers.
Residents ‘Arrest’
Youth as Prowler
A 17-year-old Negro boy re-
mained to city jail at noon Fri.
day, after a group of residents to
the 600 block of North 13th. ar-
rested him Thursday night as a
prowler suspect
The ease is tentatively slated to
City Court at 9 a. m. Saturday.
Bond of $25 has been set.
Police received s cell Thursday
night from the group of citizens
that they had ’ caught a prowler.''
Officers took him to custody.
Little Chance Seen
For Rain in Area
Clouds covered this area Thurs-
day, but they were slated to bring
no rain with them, the U. S.
Weather Bureau reported.
They did bring warmer weather
than the past few days with a low
of 45 forecast for Friday night
and high Saturday near 60. Fri-
day’s high was to be near 50.
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U. S. Navy recruiting offices to
the Abilene Federal Building will
be closed Monday. Tuesday, Christ-
mas, and New Year’s days, ac-
cording to Chief Petrick Johnson,
recruiting officer. They will be
open Wednesday and Thursday.
Sewage Disposal
Modern sewage disposal facili-
ties were cited as the major need
for Abilene now by the Abilene
Chamber of Commerce public
health committee.
At the first meeting of the new-
ly organised committee. C-C Man-
ager Joe Cooley was authorized to
prepare a resolution to that effect
to present to the Abilene City Com-
mission, J. E. Storey, chairman,
said.
The committee also offered to
cooperate with other C-C commit
toes working directly with the
city to arouse interest in this need.
Storey said.
Educating citizens to the need
for adequate facilities will be one
of the committee's major projects,
Storey said.
The committee asked that the
city make available to them cop-
ies of existing city ordinances deal-
ing with sewage disposal and other
sanitary controls so that they may
be better equipped to work on the
problem, Storey said.
2 Thefts Reported
Two thefts and an incident of
either loss or theft were being in-
vestigated Friday by city police.
Phil Burkett, O0 Cypress St.,
said Thursday that someone stole
a 1949 Mercury tire and wheel.
J. D. Appleton, 2733 South Sec-
ond St., reported both license
plates stolen from his pickup.
Euell Porter, Hardin -Simmons
University music teacher, told of-
ficers that a Webster tape record-
er was missing from the H-SU mu-
sic hall. He thought it might hsvs
been borrowed, but hadn't been re-
turned.
$100 Carport
F. W. Harlow received a build-
ing permit Friday morning from
the City Engineering Department
to erect a carport at 1357 Cypress
St.
Cost is estimated at $100.
They arrived in Abilene about
• a.m. Friday by car to pick up
the girls after being notified by
Juvenile Officers Jack Landrum
and J. T. Sparks.
The father had waned the girls
about their report carda before,
he told Landrum. That was “all
they could figure out," Landrum
said.
“The parents were very, very
nice," Landrum said. “I juat can’t
figure out why (the girls) would
do so.”
They were picked up here by au-
thorities Thursday morning after
slipping away from their home at
Forrest, about 30 miles west of
Memphis, Tenn., sad hitchhiking
across Arkansas and Texas.
They were trying to hitchhike a
ride to Los Angeles, Calif., when
they were picked up. Landrum
said. They told him they wanted to
go to Hollywood and become mod-
els.
When they left home, they had
$6, and still had $5 when arrested,
be said.
"We had no trouble getting over
the road,” the elder girl said.
"Everybody we asked gave us a
lift.”
The girls were cousins, Landrum
said. Ths elder girl’s parents had
taken the younger into their home
two years ago. He said he advised
the parents that they should be
separated.
“The attitude they had was piti-
ful-even for an adult-but pitiful
for their age," he said. “You just
wonder what in the world can be
done with a child like that."
He said the parents appeared to
be well-fixed, er, at least, didn't
“sppear to want for anything.”
"They carried on an Intelligent
conversation and knew they had a
problem on their hands." Landrum
said. "I think that mother will
straighten them out.”
The girls "were not happy at
all to see their parents,” Landrum
said. They told Landrum they
would be back.
The elder girl, the daughter,
spoke for the pair most of the time,
Landrum said. He described her
as very “dominant.”
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Patsy Inez Williams, seven-
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The child had been sick with a
cold test was otherwise all right,
a funeral home spokesman quoted
the parents as saying.
Funeral arrangements are In-
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Patsy was born here May 22,
1953.
Survivors include her parents;
two brothers, Jerry Bob, 5, and
Raymond James, 4; one sister,
Peggy Ruth, 2. all at home; her
maternal grandmother, Mrs. F. C.
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$61,800 in Damages
Sought After Crash
C. T. Chaney, 64, of Jones Coun-
ty filed suit for personal injury
damages of Ml ,800 in the 42nd Dis-
trict Court Thursday against Bar-
ney R. McAfee and John R. Smith,
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the tractor on U. S. Highway 83-84
and struck the tractor, which car-
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causing Chaney to suffer total and
permanent disability._________
Mrs. M.T. Harrelson
Dies; Rites Pending
Mrs. M. T. Harrelson. 30, of 1M2
South 17th St., died at 1:15 a.m.
Friday at Hendrick Memorial Hos-
pital.
Mrs. Harrelson was born Mary
Louise Mullaney on Msy 13, 1923,
to Lancaster, N. Y.
She was married to M. T. Har-
relson in El Paso to 1946 while
they were both in the armed serv-
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tenant in the Army Nurses Corps
during World War II. The couple
moved to Abilene to 1946 following
their discharge from the service.
She wss a member of the Sacred
Heart Catholic Church to Abilene.
Funeral arrangements are in-
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Survivors include her husband;
her father, George A. Mullaney of
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George J. Mullaney of Burnt Hills.
N. Y. and James E. Mullaney of
Chester, Pa.; one sister, Mrs Hel-
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