Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 51, No. 214, Ed. 1 Tuesday, September 7, 1948 Page: 1 of 8
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Tf Weather
High Monday, 104; low this
morning, 69; barometric pres-
sure, 20.86, steady. Partly rloudy,
somewhat unsettled, some cooler.
Sweetwater Reporter
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Sweetwater, Texas, Tuesday, Sept. 7, 1948
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Rain Report
Sweetwater Are*
I,ast 24 hours None
This month SI
Last Month 8 78 Inches
This Year
Number 214
Hope Strong
,For Early
End Of Slrike
By United Press
Hope developed today for
early settlement of the two
strikes strangling com-
merce along the west coast
but the truck drivers strike
) at New York City still
seemed stalemated.
A walkout that would cripple
long-distance telephone com-
munications was threatened.
The CIO Association of Com-
munications Equipment Work-
ers announced at Chicago that
it would strike Sept. 17 unless
an agreement is reached with
Western Electric Co. on a new
I wage contract. Negotiations on
the contract continued.
In San Francisco, a spokes-
man for 30,000 striking mari-
time workers expressed hope
for a "major break" in the
strike that had ships tied up in
ports along the Pacific.
And representatives of
the CIO oil workers union
were scheduled to meet this
afternoon with Shell Oil
t Company officials to dis-
discuss settlement of the
strike that has idled 15,-
000 of the union's members
in California.
But in New York, no one was
optimistic about an early end
• of the truck drivers strike.
Housewives were beginning to
feel the effects of the strike.
Some 3,500 truck drivers in
New Jersey joined the 10,000
• New York drivers on picket lines
today. Grocery supplies in many
many chain stores were getting
low, milk deliveries were cur-
tailed, and newspapers were
faced with newsprint shortages.
One newspaper, the New York
Mirror, was forced to publish
only a 16 page edition loday,
without advertising.
On the west coast, the news
~ was better. A union spokesman
3 said the five striking longshore
unions, which ordinarily deal
with one of two employer
See Strike On Page Eight
B.C.D. Seeks Help
In Opening Federal
• Office Spate Here
The Board of City Develop-
ment wired Omar Burleson, con-
gressman from 17 district, re-
questing his assistance in exped-
iting the opening of offices in the
basement of the Sweetwater U.
S. Federal Post Office.
Plans were drawn, and the re-
quests were submitted to the Fed-
eral Works Agency for govern-
. mental approval about two weeks
" ago on this project. An outside
entrance cut in the brick wall
and partitioning of office space
are all the main changes that
need to be made.
The need for this office space
has been brought to a head by
the setting-up of the Selective
Service Office once again. This
federal office has temporary
quarters in the court house.
Other federal services that
I might behoused in the new base-
ment quarters include Soil Con-
servation Service, Production
Marketing Association and Fed-
eral Loan Security.
Installation Tonight
New officers will be installed
tonight at the regular meeting
of the American Legion. The
meeting will be held at 7:30 p.
3 m. at the Legion Hut.
Charlie Paxton will be the
installing officer.
Military Governors Reported Near
Agreement On Blockade Of Berlin
Colorado City Boy
Killed In Car Crash
LONG LIVE THE QUEEN—After abdicating her throne in
favor of her daughter, former Queen Wilhelmina leads the
cheers from the balcony overlooking jammed Dam Square
in Amsterdam. Watching are Juliana and her consort, I'rince
Bernliard. Wilhelmina told nearly 100,000 subjects, "I am
proud to cry with you, 'Long live the queen.' " (NEA Radio-
Tele photo).
Local Students Go
Back To Classrooms
School buses were running
again Tuesday morning and
Sweetwater's scholastic popula-
tion reluctantly trudged back
to school for registration in pre-
paration for the start of classes
Wednesday.
There was more enthusiasm,
however, as youngsters began to
meet in groups and get the
swing of the new .year and new
activities at Newman High
School.
Registration Tuesday morn-
ing reached a total of 418 with
2i> or :i0 more expected before
the total enrollment is com-
pleted.
Figures on other schools were
being compiled.
Football Season Is
Ushered In At Lions
Club Noon Luncheon
Tuesday was football day at
the Lions Club luncheon at the
Blue Bonnet Hotel "Skyroom"
with Coach Pat Gerald and As-
sistant Ken Newton and the "A"
squad as guests. George Etz and
Al Brandt were in charge of the
program and Ivan Flynn pre-
sented Coach Gerald for the prin-
cipal talk.
Twenty-two members of the
' A" squad were guests of the
Lions at the Tuesday luncheon.
They included:
Centers — James West and
Douglas Day; left guard—Don
Peeples and Joe Baulch; right
guard — Raymond Rodgers and
Jack Matthews; left tackle—Har-
vey Gray and Bill Summerville;
right tackle—Jerry Long and L).
C. Andrews; ends—I.eRoy Hand,
James Muns, Riley Cross and
Charles Curry; quarterback —
Benny McElroy and Billy Hoop-
er; fullback—Tom McMillan and
Jack Pace; Halfback — Jimmy
Ronemous, Chas. Cathey, Tom-
mie Gill and John Cox.
Coach Gerald said; "We have
some good boys this year and the
outcome of the season will de-
pend on how they develop." He
appealed to Lions to help in pro-
See LIONS On Page Right
Schools Al Roscoe
Begin New Year As
(50 Are Enrolled
ROSCOE, Sept. 7 (Spl.)—Ros-
coe schools opened Monday with
a full enrollment, around 650
students. Parents, teachers, and
students gathered in the high
school auditorium for an open-
ing address by Superintendent
Olaf G. South, after the invoca-
tion given by the Rev. Raymond
Van Zandt. The superintendent
asked the cooperation of all in
"making this the best school
year Roscoe has ever known."
Principal J. M. Boston made a
short talk to grammar school
pupils.
Superintendent South intro-
duced the faculty with "justi-
fiable pride." They are:
1st grade: Mrs. Ruby Ander-
son and Mrs. Amy South. 2nd
grade: Miss Nellie Gordon. 2nd
and 3rd grades: Mrs. Cecil Don-
aghey. 3rd grade: Mrs. Maud
Prosser. 4th grade: Mrs. T. C.
Ruhmann. 4th and 5th grades:
Mrs. E. C. Schneider, 5th grade
Mrs. Olin Hastings. 6th grade:
Mrs. Max Wright. 6th and 7th
grades: Mr. Olin Hastings. 7th
grade: Miss Ruth Hopper. 8th
grade: Miss Margaret Worthy;
Mr. R. C. Dill and Mr. J. M. Bos-
ton.
High school faculty: Mrs. L.
G. Anthony, Spanish and His-
See SCHOOLS On Page Eight
Welfare Office Makes
Plea For Clothing
The Sweetwater Welfare As-
sociation is asking for clothing
for children of all ages anil for
mattresses and bedding.
Those wishing to make dona-
tions should contact Mrs. Juanita
Hodges, director, by dialing 2223
(hiring the day or 22.r>0 after 5
o'clock.
Carl DuBois, 10, was killed in
a Labor Day crash at Colorado
City and several minor auto-
mobile crashes near Sweetwa-
ter marred the Labor Day week-
end.
Labor Day traffic was
lighter on highways in this
district than in several
years, according to the high-
way police and local author-
ities.
One fatality was reported, the
death of 10-vear-old Carl Du-
Bois of 228 E. Sixth, Colorado
City, in an accident near Colo-
rado City Monday about 5:30
p. rn.
Young DuBois and his mother,
Mrs. Billie DuBois, were riding
in a car driven by James Hen-
ry Neill of Loraine when the
car's right wheel dropped off the
edge of the pavement and ap-
parently overturned as Neill at-
tempted to pull the car back on
the road.
Neill and his wife were in-
jured in the crash.
The accident occurred a
half mile west of Colorado
City at the intersection of
Highway 80 with the com-
press railroad switch. The
car overturned and crashed
into the railroad signal
light at the crossing.
District Highway Patrolmen
T. T. Brady and Jess Reid and
Deputy Sheriff Jess Thomas of
Colorado City investigated the
accident.
An added note of tragedy was
given the Labor Day accident
by the fact that young Carl
DuBois' father was killed in a
traffic accident in New Mexico
last year.
Funeral arrangements are in
charge of the Kiker Funeral
Home in Colorado City.
No injuries were reported in
two other traffic accidents over
the week-end.
A car overturned on "9-Mile
Hill" south of Sweetwater Sat-
urday, without serious damage
to the car.
A lumber truck and a
stock trailer were Involved
in an accident just outside
the city limits on the Roby
highway at noon Monday,
the truck being badly
damaged by fire after the
See CAR CRASH On Page 8
Rustic Political Boss Explains Why
His Domain Favored Lyndon Johnson
*l SAN DIEGO, Duval County,
Tex., Sept. 7 (UP) — George
Parr, 47-year-old multi-million-
aire and self-styled rustic politi-
cal boss of 18 Texas counties, ex-
plained today why his domain
favored Lyndon Johnson for
United States Senator, giving
him a 2 to 1 preference in the
run-off primary.
At his Moorish-style palatial
home here, Parr told Houston
Press reporter Ben Kaplan that
the 27th Senatorial District sup-
ported Johnson "because he Is
our friend."
The official canvass showed
48,255 for Johnson and 24,034
for Coke Stevenson. The key
county, Duval, went for Con-
gressman Johnson 4622 to 40. In
four previous elections, this tier
of South Texas counties, com-
posed of a sizeable percentage
of Latin-American laborers,
went for Stevenson.
Parr, son of the fabulous
Archie Parr, who was better
known as the "Duke of Duval,"
admitted that a district attor-
ney's race in Laredo had a lot
to do with his repudiation of
Former Governor Stevenson.
"We supported Jimmy Cazen
for district attorney in Laredo
because he was our friend,"
Parr said. "There was a vacancy.
Coke could have appointed him,
but he didn't."
A short, affable man who
neither smokes nor drinks, Part-
can be a determined enemy of
those who cross him.
He was certain, he told his
interviewer, that Stevenson's
statements concerning the block
vote in Duval County were not
made with good grace.
"Has Coke ever personally
asked me to support him in his
previous campaigns? Yes. He
has personally asked me to do
this, and I did. I never heard a
complaint from him then about
the block vote in Duval County."
Block vote or not, said Parr,
the election in his county would
stand up under anybody's inves-
tigation.
"The Duval County run-off
was as clean an election as ever
has been held. It will stand in-
vestigation by anybody and 1 in-
vite investigation, for that mat-
ter," he said.
Parr discounted he influence
See JOHNSON On Page Eight
Police Department
Has Rather Quiet
Labor Day Week-End
The Police Department re-
ports a quiet Labor Day week-
end, with only minor arrests
made, and no major accidents.
One person paid a $5 fine for
having no operator's license;
two persons paid fines of $14
each for affray; and three paid
$14 fines for drunkenness. Three
other arrests were made for
drunkenness, and of these three,
two have pleaded guilty, but
have not paid their fines and
the third case has not been set-
tled as yet.
One person was arrested for
driving while intoxicated Satur-
day night. He was transferred
to the county, where he pleaded
guilty and was released on $250
bond. His case will come up
later.
A Mexican man was arrested
Saturday night for the posses-
sion of wine and beer for the
purpose of sale. The case has
been transferred to the county.
Holiday Death
Toll Reaches
492 In Nation
By United Press
Holiday accidents killed 492
persons during the three-day
Labor Day week-end, a final
tabulation' showed today.
The death total was a
sharp drop from the all-
time high of 621) killed dur-
ing the July 4 holiday this
year.
But traffic accidents took a
substantially higher death toll
than the 260 predicted by the
National Safety Council. A
United Press survey showed
that of 492 accident victims, 302
were killed in automobile acci-
dents. Of the rest, 62 drowned
and 128 were killed in miscel-
laneous accidents, including al-
most a dozen small plane crash-
es.
At least 3!) Texans lost,
their lives in accidents and
violence over the Labor
Day week-end, a United
Press survey showed today.
Highway mishaps claimed 17
lives, while seven persons died
as the result of shootings.
A plane crash at San Antonio
killed three, and a rooming house
fire in Wichita Falls burned to
death three others,.
The latest accident victim was
Leonard Morgan of Houston,
killed yesterday in the collision
of a pickup truck and a pas-
senger car 14 miles east of
Franklin.
Klve other persons were
injured in the accident, two
of them seriously.
The most serious traffic acci-
dent during the long holiday
cost the lives of three men early
Monday nine miles west of
Bandera.
The victims, killed when a
truck overturned, were: Ben
Watts, 29, soldier at Fort Sana
Houston, Tom Exum and Stan-
ley Dixon, Jr., 20, both of Me-
dina.
Kem Grady Howell, a two
year-old Texarkana boy, was
killed by a hit-and-run driv-
er Monday afternoon near
Center.
Four drownings were report-
ed. A 13-month-old baby, Bill
John Thurston, drowned in a
bathtub at Pampa: Lloyd Jar-
rett, Amarillo, drowned in Lake
McLellan while swimming; Ros-
coe P. Trinkle,.30. and Florence
Thompson, 30, drowned in the
Trinity River near Houston
when a boat capsized while they
were fishing.
The highwav death toll was
short of the pre-holiday fore-
cast of the State Department of
See TRAFFIC On Paeg Eight
Wilhtirn C. Hill
Object
Wiiburn C, Hill is
New Minister Of
Church Of Christ
Wiiburn C. Hill, new minister
for the Church of Christ at |
Fourth and Elm has assumed his
new duties here, having filled
the pulpit at both services Sun-
day.
He comes to Sweetwater from
a successful ministry at Brown-
wood with the Austin Avenue
Church during the past four
years. Prior to that he was at
Stillwater, Okla., for eight years
teaching religious education at
the Oklahoma A&M College and
serving as minister at the local
Church of Christ.
A native of Oklahoma, Hill fin-
ished high school and junior col-
lege in Cordell. He received his
B.A. degree from Abilene Chris-
tian College and his Master's"
from Oklahoma A&M.
Sunday morning a large con-
gregation greeted him as he
preached on "Progress." The
Hills have three children—Ira D,
14; Jim Tom, 9, and Avanell Sue,
I .
The minister's home at 411 Elm
is being completely remodeled
and redecorated.
The new church program in-
cludes Sunday evening classes
for young people at 6:30, evening
worship at 7:30 and Wednesday
mid-week services at 7:30 p. m.
City Formally Cut In Two
Between East, West Areas
BERLIN, Sept. 7 (UP)—Germany's four military governors
were reported Hearing or at an agreement tonight on lifting the
Berlin blockade, even as the city formally was cut in two between
the east and the west.
Amidst the seventh conference of the governors, officials in
attendance reported this probably would be the last session be-
fore the Berlin question was referred to the Big Four govern-
ments for final action.
Rumors and qualified reports had persisted for days that the
Berlin blockade would be lifted soon. Soviet propaganda sources
have hinted at Sept. 15 as the
most likely date.
Elsewhere in the German
tangle, Communist and pro-
Communist party elements met
at the riot-marked city hall to-
night. It appeared to be the first
organized meeting of a quasi-
government for the Soviet quar-
ter of Berlin.
A few hours earlier the Com-
munist leadership had an-
nounced a complete split with
the legal city government,
which had been chased from
the city hall in riots yesterday.
Calling themselves the
"Democratic bloc," the Com-
munist front group pledged
support to the Communist
winter relief program for
Berlin. Huge floodlights and
grinding movie cameras
gave the meeting an atmos-
phere of staged unreality.
The western commandants
were reported drafting a letter
to Maj. Gen. Alexander Koti-
kov, their Soviet counterpart,
demanding an explanation of
Russian "inability to preserve
order" in the Russian sector.
Well informed American
sources said the letter register-
ing the formal protest of the
western powers against the riot-
See BERLIN On Page Eight
Loser May
To
Final Count
today
know
Disabled Veteran
Injured On Highway
Richard Roylston, disabled war
veteran on his way to Tuscon,
Ariz., to enter the University of
Arizona, was injured Tuesday
when his car overturned on
Highway 80 about 13 miles east
of Sweetwater. His home Is in
Tennessee.
The accident occurred about
9:30 a. m. when a rear tire blew
out, according to reports of high-
way patrolmen. The car over-
turned and then righted itself.
Roylston's twin brother, Robert,
was driving the car.
The injured man was brought
to the City Hospital for treat-
ment and observation.
Our Police Chief Says—
Five thousand five hun-
dred and ninety persons met
death during the year 194V
In accidents occurring at
street Intersections. Some
of the drivers involved
were relying on their pos-
sessing the right-of-way
over vehicles approaching
on cross streets. Right-of-
way is a poor excuse to
comfort bereaved ones.
Fight for your rights, bu?
not on the streets and high-
ways.
Church Of God
Pastor Assigned
To Tyler Church
The Rev. George M. Blooming-
dale, pastor of the Church of God,
Pine and East Fourth streets, is
being transferred from Sweet-
water to Tyler, where he will be
pastor of the Church of God
there.
Reverend Bloomingdale preach-
ed his farewell sermon Sunday
night. He and hib family, which
includes Mrs. Bloomingdale and
two daughters, Inez and El Dora,
will leave here Wednesday for
their new home.
By L'nited Press
Speculation was rife
that Texans would not
even by next Monday who would
go to Washington as the next
Junior Senator from Texas as
the result of the Aug. 28 run-
off election.
The Democratic State Execu-
tive Committee meets at Fort
Worth on Monday to canvas of-
ficial county returns in the hec-
tic race between Coke Steven-
son and Lyndon Johnson.
The official canvass is
expected to show Johnson
the winner, as did the unof-
ficial tally of the Texas
Election Bureau.
The final report of the bureau
gave Johnson a lead of 162 votes
out of nearly a million cast.
The bureau's final report in-
cluded complete returns from
all. counties and more than 163
'of >*he 2jW counties reported
their returns as official.
It appeared likely that the
loser - apparently Stevenson
would contest the official re-
sults.
Johnson claimed victory
by a substantial majority.
Stevenson maintained pulv-
lie silence. An intriguing
mystery developed when
both Johnson and Steven-
son separately visited Gover-
nor Beauford H. Jester in
Austin. .None of the parti-
cipants would divulge the
conversations.
Johnson, in eight minutes of
a scheduled 15-minute radio ad-
dress, told Texans that he was
asking only for a "fair and
square deal according to the law"
at the State Democratic Con-
vention in Fort Worth Sept. 14
■ JayCees Sponsor
Big Dance Tonight
About 2000 merry-makers are
expected to .be on hand tonight
for the gala Bob Wells dance
being sponsored by the Sweet-
water Junior Chamber of Com-
merce. The dance will be held
in Hanger No. 4 at Avenger
Field.
The advance sale of tickets has
been brisk, according to Mel
Harp, JayCee president. Tickets
are still available at Waffle
Shop, Bowen, Armor, and Cal-
endar Drug stores, and also from
Moe Reich.
The proceeds from the dance
will be used by the JayCees for
and said that it was "imperative I 1 he upkeep of the Boys Ranch
that all my friends be present." j near Abilene and other civic ac-
Johnson, a veteran of 12 years j tivititSs of the local organiza-
in the House, snapped back at tion.
Fire Department Has
Several Minor Calls
A blazing motor truck on the
Roby highway near the edge of
Sweetwater, a trash fire at Beall
and Hailey, a mattress fire, and
a false alarm made up the fire
department's activities over the
Labor Day week-end. The only
loss of consequence was damage
to the motor truck.
allegations that he had received
block votes from varoius coun-
ties. He referred to what he
termed block votes "delivered
behind the locked gates of the
Big King Ranch where not a
single vote went to Lyndon
Johnson."
"Everything was serene last
week until Lyndon Johnson took
an unofficial lead of 17 votes,"
he said. "Then the charges be-
gan to fly. Most of the talk was
about block votes in one county
in Texas."
Johnson traced the history of
Duval County's returns in pre-
vious elections and said that in
previous years "mv opponent has
accepted the vote of that coun-
ty
All JavCees are requested to
wear their JayCee ties for pur-
pose of identification, according
to Harp.
Circling The Square
TWO ARRESTS MADE
Two Mexicans were arrested
j this week-end by the Sheriff's
j department. One paid a fine of
j $14 for fighting and the other
$14 fine for drunkenness in Jus-
I tice of the Peace Court. They
| were picked up near Lake Tram-
! mell.
Truman And Stassen Trade
Blows As Race Warms Up
DETROIT Sept. 7 — (UP) —
Harold E. Stassen, Minnesota
Republican, said today his speech
tonight opening his party's 1948
national campaign would be an
"answer and counterattack" to
charges made by President Tru-
man on a Labor Day swing
through Michigan.
Stassen, acting as spokesman
for his party and its presidential
nominee, Gov. Thomas E. Dewey
of New York, said that he pre-
pared the address in Flint last
night after listening to tran-
See STASSEN On Paeg Eight
WASHINGTON, Sept. 7—(UP)
—Smiling and happy, President
Truman returned today from a
labor Day political swing through
Michigan and Ohio and prepared
fora 'lighting" nation-wide cam-
paign starting Sept. 17.
Mr. Truman planned a vigor-
ous, bare-knuckle battle against
the Republicans in what he
termed "the most important pol-
itical campaign since the Lin-
coln-Douglas debates."
He accused he Republicans in
seven speecchs yesterday of
See TRUMAN On Page Eight
D. M. McElroy, executive
secretary of the Alumni and
Ex-Students Association of
Texas Tech, will be in Sweet-
water to address a meeting
of Tech Ex-Students at the
Blue Bonnet Hotel Pioneer
room Wednesday at 7:30 p.
m. The former Tech football
player will also be guest
speaker at the JayCees' noon
luncheon Wednesday. His sub-
ject will he current progress
being made by Texas Tech.
The Reporter acnnowledges
with appreciation the words of
thanks received from the County
Democratic Committee with re-
ference to aiding in collecting re-
turns during the night of the
election. It was with the help
of County Chairman Clif Bos-
well and the various prescind
judges that we were able to
tabulate the returns within 45
minutes after the polls closed
. . and, incidentally, these
figures have stood-up and have
been sent to the State Com-
, mittee for ratification next Mon-
; day. The Reporter and Boswell
i together have received some-
i thing like eight calls from both
Johnson and Stevenson, as well
as the Texas Election Bureau,
to be sure Nolan County's fig-
ures were correct.
The man who started the
Piggly- Wiggly has a new
type grocery store called
the "keedoozle" (key does
all). The shopper carries a
key and inserts it by the
desired merchandise in a
show case. This records on
a tape the article and the
price. Slie gives the key to
the clerk at the door. He
totals the price uhilr the
goods are handed to her.
She has no bundles to carry
until she walks out of the
store, so writes Hastings
Baker . . . J. M. Lawrence
hasn't been contacted about
whether or not be intends
to install the system at his
Piggly-Wiggly store.
* * *
One local citizen predicted
Sunday following the election
when Coke Stevenson was lead-
ing Lyndon Johnson something
like 2.000 votes in the Senate
race that Johnson would emerge
the victor . . Leland Glass can
give full particulars.
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