Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 53, No. 109, Ed. 1 Monday, May 8, 1950 Page: 1 of 8
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SWEETWATER, TEXAS, MONDAY, MAY 8, 1950
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Number 109
11-Way Race
.Winds Up With
G.O.P. Winner
Panhandle Election
Unrepresentative,
Timmons Declares
$ PAMPA, May 8 — Ben H.
Guill, Pampa broker and former
school teacher, was elected at
the first Republican congress-
man from Texas in 24 years in a
race split 11 ways for the con-
gressional seat vacated by Eu-
gene Worley in the 18th Con-
gressional district.
Guill said he would go to
Washington as a "protesting
Avoice." Guill received 8,151 out
%f the total of 35,845 votes cast
but was high man and won the
election.
J. Blake Timmons, Texas leg-
islator from the Amarillo dis-
trict and formerly public rela-
tions man in Sweetwater during
the WASP program, ran third
in the race with 6,598 votes.
Timmons said: The tail wag-
ged the dog. The results show
■2xhe Panhandle is still 80 per
cent Democratic. With the Dem-
ocrats split 10 years, the Re-
publicans were finally able to
win."
Guill acknowledged that this
was a factor in the victory.
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Committee Meets
HOUSTON, May 8 (UP)—The
Republican State Executive
-committee, flushed with victory
in the surprising Panhandle
Congressional election, will meet
here Tuesday to select a new
national committeewoman.
The vacancy was created ear-
lier this year by the resigna-
tion of Mrs. Lena Gay More of
Brownsville, who now resides in
Austin.
The inside track, GOP specu-
lators believed, is held by Mrs.
♦Carl G. Stearns, wife of a Hous-
ton attorney.
J. C. Penney Co.
Store Is Robbed
Looters broke into the J. C.
Penney Company store Sunday
night and took about $100 in
merchandise, according to store
-.manager Lov Roberson.
Entrance to the building was
gained by cutting a screen and
breaking open a window over
ihe awning.
No money was missing and
the only merchandise missing
was sport shirts, medium size;
trousers, size 32; and shoes,
size 8%.
Roberson rliscovered the loot
jot) about 8 a. m. Monday when
he opened the store for busi-
'ness after finding sport shirts
and trousers scattered over the
floor.
Horace Hawkins, assistant
manager of the store, was in
the building at noon Sunday
and didn't notice anything out
of the ordinary. So, apprently,
the break in was made some
time Sunday night.
IJesk drawers in the office
«vwere open but no money was
taken, Roberson stated.
"From all indications, the
• yegg needed clothes for person-
al use since no other merchan-
dise was molested," Roberson
said.
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IN TEXAS TORNADO'S PATH—Tom Waugh stands by a demolished cooling tower at the
Public Service Company's power plant, Perry ton, Tex., after a mighty tornado ripped through
the Texas panhandle. One person was killed and 13 others injured at Perryton during the
storm. (NEA Telephoto).
Five From Baylor
Killed In Crash
WACO, Tex., May 8 (UP)—A young Baylor Divinity
student and his fiance, an ex-student at Baylor, were among
five persons killed today in an automobile-truck collision
| near Memphis, Tenn
Census Work For
Sweetwater And
Areo Completed
Census work in Sweetwater
and Nolan County has been
completed and just as soon as a
little "missed persons" cam-
paign is staged and the final
tabulations made at the dis-
trict office in Abilene, figures
will be released for publication,
according to Supervisor John
Tippett.
Tippett urged that "anyone
who thinks he has been missed
in the county, to fill out the
form which is being run in the
Reporter from time to time,
and mail it to the district office
at Abilene.
Tippett made no statement
with reference to the total num-
ber counted, but every indica-
The dead, as identified by
Baylor University authorities,
were:
David Leroy Figart, son of
Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Figart of
Lexington, Ky. (Baylor author-
ities believed that young Figart
was ordained as a Baptist min-
ister at Lexington Sunday).
Miss Betty Louise Pearson of
Waco, Figart's fiance. Friends
of the couple said they were to
have been-married May 26.
fcss Jeanette Boyd, daughter
of William G. Boyd of Dallas.
James Percival Langley, Jr.,
son of Mrs. Clements, of Hous-
ton.
James Robert Nelson, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Cecil T. Nelson of
Dallas.
Figart's landlady in Waco said
the young people left Waco for
Lexington last Monday.
Excuses for campus leaves,
tion is that the figure will not filed with the dean's office, in-
be as large as most everyone dicated that the young people
believes. 'See CRASH On Page Eight
Truman Assails Isolation
Policy In Train Speeches
ABOARD TRUMAN TRAIN, May 8 (UP)—President
Truman said today that the next few months will determine
whether there will be a third World War.
The President told a railroad station crowd at Gales-
burg., 111., that if Isolationists have their way, there will be
another war.
Former Resident,
N. S. Dodds, Dies
In Mississippi
Word has been received here
of the sudden death of N. S.
Dodds of Edinburg, Miss., former
resident of Sweetwater.
Mr. Dodds died of heart at-
tack Saturday evening at his
%ome in Edinburg. He was a
plumber by trade and while liv-
ing in Sweetwater, was employ-
ed by Western Windmill Co.
He has a daughter, Mrs. T. H.
^ Nelson, 601 W. Ninth St., Sweet-
water, and sister-in-law, Mrs. I.
B. Jarvis, Sweetwater. Another
daughter, Mrs. Harvey Simpson,
lives in South Carolina.
Also surviving are his wife, a
son and a daughter-in-law of
Edinburg, two sons-in-law, T. H.
Nelson and Harvey Simpson,
and five grandchildren.
Funeral services were set for
Monday at 2:30 p. m. in Edin-
p, burg.
POIiKH AHK REFPGK
FRANKFURT, Germany, —
May 8, (UP) — Six officials and
employes of the Polish consu-
late walked out today and ask-
ed the west German govern-
ment for asylum as political re-
fugees.
The Poles also asked asylum
for two dependents of one em-
ploye, the consulate chauffeur.
Carl Jamison
Rites Set For
4 P. M. Today
Funeral services for Carl
Jamison, 03, former resident of
Sweetwater who died at his
home in Mountain View, Calif.,
on Friday, were set for 4 p. m.
Monday at the Johnston Funer-
al Home Chapel in Sweetwater.
Mr. Jamison, who had been
with the civil service as a ma-
chinist in the Navy for the past
eight years, had been working
on the Pacific coast for the past
few years.
He was born Feb. 14, 1887 in
Dallas County and moved to
Nolan County in 1900. He was
married to Erna Dressier, Dec.
25, 1012.
Survivors are his wife; two
daughters, Mrs. Antonio Calla-
way and Mrs. Erna Murray; a
son, Carl Jr.; five grandchild-
ren, all of Mountain View.
Calif.
He was a brother-in-law of
Leo, August, and Arnold Dress-
ier, Miss Margaret Dressier and
Mrs. J. P. Ayler, all of Sweet-
water, and Mrs. Tom A. Car-
lisle of Blackwell.
Services at the Johnston
Chapel were to be in charge of
the Rev. C. F. Powell, pastor of
Lamar Street Baptist Church,
with burial in Sweetwater
Cemetery.
Pall-bearers were to be Jake
Gibson, Bob Christopher, Drew
Aldredge, Fred Penton, Bob
Yoakum, and Mack Lamm.
The Weather
Temperature, high Sunday,
96 degrees; low this morning,
67; barometer, 29.94, steady.
Slightly cloudy, unsettled, not
much change in temperature.
Relative humidity, 64 per cent.
He said it depends on de-
cisions which the U. S. must
make in the next few months in
its relations with the rest of the
world.
If the U. S. reneges on its Al
lies as it did after World War 1,
he said, there will be another
world conflict.
To halt Communists, he said,
the U. S. must support Demo-
cratic nations in Europe.
"I am not afraid of losing the
peace," he said. "International
cooperation is the key to world
peace."
Mr. Truman assailed the
"cheap" but "dangerous policies"
of "isolationists." He said they
would let Russia "swallow up
the rest of the world," precipi-
tating World War 111.
The President said the pur-
rose of his trip was a report to
the American people on "what's
happening since you honored
See TRUMAN On Page Eight
Showers Over
Area - - Small
Twisters Hit
After a sultry and cloudy
weekend, Texas should cool off
slightly today with scattered
thundershowers, the U. S. Weath-
er Bureau said today.
The showers were predicted
for the northeast and central por-
tions tomorrow. A few thunder-
showers will hit the east portions
of the Panhandle, south plains
and the El Paso area tonight.
The showers would break a
dry streak reported for the last
24 hours in Texas.
The hottest spot in Texas yes-
terday was at Presidio, where
a 101 reading was recorded. Gal-
veston's 82 degrees was the
state's coolest.
Dal hart and Salt Flat had a 53
degree reading for this morning's
low minimum, while Cotulla,
Brownville and Victoria had the
highs of 77.
The Weather Bureau said no
dusting was reported in the last
24 hours, and winds were run-
ning only 15 to 25 miles in the
western part of the state.
Two Twisters
Two freakish tornadoes struck
about one and one-haff miles
east of McLean in Gray County
late yesterday but lifted and dis-
appeared before they did any
damage.
The first funnel dropped into
a pasture but traveled only a few
feet before it bounced back into
the sky and disappeared. A few
moments later the second tor-
nado struck in the center of
Highway 66 and began moving
west toward McLean.
Boyd, Meador, former mayor
of McLean, said the twister came
to within a mile of the small
northwest Texas town, then
lifted.
He said that the tornado trav-
eled nearily one-half mile on the
normally busy highway but that
no cars happened to be in the
area where the storm struck.
Heavy sheets of rain followed
close on the heels of the two
twisters and Meador estimated
two inches of rain fell at McLean
in slightly more than 30 min-
utes.
Retail, Wholesale Trade
Here Is Up By 14 Million
Chuck Wagon
Makes Hit At
Lions Meet
Oklahoma Mattered
OKLAHOMA CITY, May 8
(UP)—Oklahoma wound up a
wild-weather weekend today
with tornado and hail damage,
roads closed by high water,
and wheat farmers rejoicing
over long-prayed-for rains.
The elements quieted down a
bit this morning, but the
weatherman said showers and
thunderstorms would begin
again during the day and con-
tinue into the night. Some of the
See SHOWERS—Page 8
Man Sentenced For Motor Theft;
Two Rape Cases Ask Dismissal
In 32nd District Court Monday,
Judge A. S. Mauzey presiding,
Elvin Stephenson of East Texas
entered a plea of guilty to
charges of stealing boat motors
here from Roy Prim, Jr., at Lake
Sweetwater. The motors were
recovered at Longview. A two-
year sentence to the state prison
was assessed.
In this terms of district court,
two cases charging rape were
dismissed by the court at request
of the prosecuting witnesses. In
the second ease, heard Thurs-
day, District Attorney Eldon
Mahon insisted that the prosecut-
ing witness take the stand. She
stated that she had instituted the
proceedings, had told her story
to the grand jury, but she has
since married the defendant in a
ceremony in another county and
wanted the case dismissed. She
declined to testify or press
charges. 1
In civil court Monday, the
damage suit of Roy Chapman,
Roseoe, employee of the R. S. &
P. railroad against the Texas
and Pacific railroad for $5,000 al-
leged damages went to trial.
Chapman's petition alleged that
he was en ruute liome to Roseoe
from Snyder when his car was
struck a t a crossing. He alleged
that a flagman with the train
motioned that it would be safe
to cross the tracks, then as he
was on the tracks motioned him
to stop. He alleged negligence
in not providing crossing lights
and other safety measures.
Census Reports
Show Heavy Gain
Over 1939 Total
In Nolan County
A preliminary Federal census
report on retail and wholesale
trade in Sweetwater and Nolan
County released Monday show-
ed a gain of 232 per cent as
compared with a similar census
census made in 1939.
Retail trade totals were esti-
mated at $19,642,000 for the
year 1948 when the count was
made. Wholesale totals were
placed at $29,973,000.
Observers said that the fig-
ures reflect a tremendous in-
crease in the volume of business
here, the importance of the lo-
cal market, and gain in its popu-
larity as a trading center.
Better Markets
Stores have greatly increased
their lines of merchandise in all
fields and have been able to
keep prices lower in many in-
stances than the bigger towns.
Of course, the gain from $5,-
878,000 in 1940 and $7,585,000 in
1930 to $19,642,000 reflected the
inflation in price levels and
other factors in addition to the
growth of population and the in-
creasing popularity and service
of the local shopping center.
The biggest gain was in food
lines. Next was automobiles
which includes much higher
prices on cars and replacing
cars after the war. A 1949 cen-
sus would show a far greater
sale of automobiles than the
1948 count. The building trades
showed a substantial gain in
1948 due to increased activity
and higher prices. However a
1949 or 1950 count would far
surpass any 1948 estimate.
Report Expected
W. A. Hazelwood Jr. of the
Texas Employment Commission
office said that the figures are
about in line with the expect-
ed estimates. He has recently
unofficially estimated Sweet-
water alone for use in indus-
trial surveys at 14,500 popula-
tion compared with 10,367 in
1940; 329 industrial firms com-
pared with 246 in 1940; total
employment at 5,229 compared
with 2,885 in 1940; payrolls
conservatively at $7,750,000
compared with $2,367,000 in
1940.
The Federal census figures re-
leased do not include manufac-
turing, transportation, and
many other lines and only some
of the special service groups.
Retail Totals
Retail sales in the county dur-
ing 1948 aggregated $19,642,-
000 compared with $5,878,000 in
1939, ($7,584,000 in 1930), the
census reveals.
Wholesale sales in the county
reached a total of $29,073,000
in 1948 as compared with $9,-
493,000 in 1939.
The service trades included in
the Census of Business record-
ed receipts totaling $943,000 in
1948 compared with $288,000
in 1939.
Employment in the county al-
so rose on the 9-year period be-
tween 1939 and 1948 for the
above trades. Establishments in
these trades reported a com-
bined total of 1,509 paid em-
ployes for the workweek ended
nearest Nov. 15, 1948. This com-
pared with a total of 1.060 em-
ployes reported for the week
of Nov. 15, 1939.
Preliminary Figures
These preliminary figures
have been derived from a Cen-
sus report on Nolan County,
which includes data for the city
of Sweetwater. Final figures,
superseding the preliminary
data for Nolan County, will be
included in a bulletin for the
State of Texas to be issued in
several months.
Similar data will be made
available this year in prelimi-
nary from and final ,form for
each of the counties and states.
A single copv of the preliminary
release for Nolan County as well
as an order blank for other area
releases may be obtained by
writing to the Bureau of Cen-
sus, Washington 25, D. C.
Trade Groups
The preliminary census by
trade group was listed in the
first report as follows:
Retail trade- 293 establish-
ments, $19,642,000 sales and re-
ceipts. Active proprietors of un-
incorporated businesses, 299.
Paid employes for weekend end-
ed nearest Nov. 15, 1948, 1,070,
including employees paid for
less than full week. Full week
employes, 887.
Food group — 57 establish-
See BUSINESS On Page Eight
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THE JUDGE STEPS OUT—-Judge Roy Bran steps impatient-
ly out of his special airplane at Chicago, having completed
an 8000-mile air tour of 30 states. The Judge is a 1200-pound
Hereford steer that won grand championship honors and sold
for $11.50 a pound at the 1949 International Live Stock Ex-
position in Chicago. With the prize steer are United Air Lines
pilot. Captain R. E. Parcel, K. J. McLaughlin and handler
Henry Gilgillan.
E. B. Ellis Among
Candidates Up For
District Governor
Sweetwater "Chuck Wagon
Gang" fed more than 500 Lions
Convention guests in Mineral
Wells Sunday night as the Dis-
trict 2-E meeting opened with
the Sweetwater Lions Club as
host.
Scores of Lions from Sweet-
water and her neighboring Lions
Club friends took the lead in en
tertaining as the convention got
under way.
E. B. Ellis of Sweetwater was
among those being boomed for
| district governor.
Ivan Flyn, president of the
Sweetwater Club, opened the
first session of the annual con-
vention, held in Mineral Wells
with Sweetwater as host city,
due to the crowded hotel situ-
ation in "Sugartown."
Welcoming Talks
Mayor George Barber of Min-
Jeral Wells and formerly B. C. D.
| manager in Sweetwater, and
Mayor Lester Reeves of SWeet-
j water were among the welcorn-
j ing speakers at the first session.
Monday afternoon, a parade
US Joins Against
Indo-China Reds
PARIS, May 8 (UP)—The United States promised
France military and economic aid today to fight "the men-
ace of Soviet Imperialism" in Indo-China.
Secretary of State Dean Acheson, Foreign Minister
Robert Schuman and their assistants conferred for nearly
five hours in the opening phase of Western Big Three talks
the cold war.
[ with C. W. Tarter of Sweetwater
as general chairman was a fea-
! ture of the annual meeting.
The Chuck Wagon scored a
i "hit" with its unusual type of
j meal service and received much
acclaim from the convention
| visit' ■
Slight Accident
Several of the members re-
j turned Sunday night. The only
I mishap of the whole excursion
I was the "junior" Chuck Wagon,
a two wheel trailer, lost a wheel
on its homeward trip Sunday
night.
on
After the meeting Acheson is-
sued a statement. It said the
U. S. government considered the
situation in Indo-China warrant-
ed arms and financial aid both to
French forces there and to the
semi-independenet Indo-Chinese
states.
"Foreign Minister Schuman
and I have just had an exchange
of views on the situation in Indo-
China, and are in general agree-
ment both as to the urgency of
the situation in that area and
as to the necessity for remedial
action," Acheson said.
"We noted the fact that the
problem of meeting the threat
to the security of Viet Nam,
Cambodia and Laos free states
in Indo-China, which now enjoy
independence within the French
union, is primarily the responsi-
bility of the French government
and the governments and peoples
of Indo-China.
"The United States recognizes
that the solution of the Indo-
Chinese problem depends both
on the 'restoration of security
and upon the development of
genuine Nationalism, and that
United States assistance can and
should contribute to these major
objectives.
"The United States govern-
ment, convinced that neither na-
tional independence nor demo-
cratic evolution can exist in any
area dominated by Soviet imper-
ialism, considers the situation to
be such as to warrant its accord-
ing economic aid and military
equipment to the associated
states of Indo-China and to
France in order to assist them
in restoring stability and
mining these states to pursue
their peaceful and democratic
development."
7,640 Chest
X-Rays Made
In Survey
One thousand, six hundred
and forty Nolan County chests
were X-rayed in Ahe chest sur- j
vey completed here Saturday
by the Beta Sigma Phi mobile
X-ray unit of the Texas Tuber-
culosis Association.
The survey was sponsored by |
the Nolan County TB Associa-
tion, and was a free service paid
for by the proceeds from Christ-
mas health seals in past years.
The turn-out for X-rays was
particularly encouraging on Fri-
day in the Negro and Latin-
American section of Sweetwater,
according to county'TB officials.
Nearly 300 pictures were made
while the unit was at Emilio Car-
ranzo School in that section.
A large number of pictures
were also made on Saturday,
when the unit was on the north
side of the courthouse square.
Reports on the X-rays are ex-
pected within three or four
weeks.
Hubert Ralson
Dies; Rites
Set Wednesday
Chiang Appeals
For U. S. Support
TAIPEI, Formosa, May 8—
(UP) Generalissimo Chiang
Kai-Shek called today for sanc-
tions against Russia.
He said there is a danger of
another world war breaking out
in Asia. The best way for the
democracies to prevent it, he
said, is to give the Chinese na-
tionalists enough help, before it
is too late, to drive Commun-
ism from China.
The generalissimo met visiting
U. S. correspondents in a press
conference which lasted almost
two hours. He made a frank ap-
peal for American support. He
said Russia was guilty of aggres-
sion in China,
Hubert Ralson, 18, of Amaril-
npr. j lo, native of Sweetwater, died
!' 0 j Sunday in New Haven, Conn.,
' of severe head and chest injur-
ies which he sustained in a
collision on Friday, April 28,
near New Haven.
Young Ralson, son of Mr. and
Mrs. John Ralson who moved
from Sweetwater to Amarillo in
1942, was a scholarship student
in Yale University. He was salu
tatorian of his graduating class
at Amarillo in 1949, and also
lettered in football, basketball,
and track.
His parents flew to his bed-
side shortly after the accident.
Surgery was administered on
Friday to relieve brain press-
ure which was causing continu-
ed unconslcousness, but, it was
not successful.
Hubert tvfts an only child.
His father was a traveling rep-
resentative of Steck & Com-
pany. When they lived here,
the Ralsons built their home at
1110 Josephine. Hubert receiv-
ed his early schooling here.
Planning to attend funeral
See RALSON On Page Eight
'Non-Communist'
Oath Is Upheld
By High Courf
WASHINGTON. May. 8, (UP)
The Supreme Court to-
day that the non-communist
oath requirements of the Taft-
Hartley Labor Law are consti-
tutional.
Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson
delivered the majority opinion.
Justice Hugo L. Black dissent-
ed. Justice Robert H. Jackson
entered a partial dissent. Jus-
tice William O. Douglas, Tom
C. Clark and Sherman Minton
did not take part.
The law requires that nation-
al and local union officers must
swear they are not communists
before their unions can use the
services of the National Labor
Relations Board in such matters
as collective bargaining elec-
tions and unfair labor practice
cases.
They must swear not only
that they are not party mem-
bers but also that they do not
believe in the illegal overthrow
of the government by force.
"Clearly the constitution per-
mits the requirement of oaths
by office holders to uphold the
constitution itself," Vinson
said.
"The obvious implication is
that those unwilling to take
such an oath are to lie barred
from public office. For the
President, a specific oath was
set forth in the constitution
itself. And Congress lias detail-
ed an oath for other federal of-
ficers. Obviously the framers of
the constitution thought that
the exaction of an affirmation
of minimal loyalty to the gov-
ernment was worth the price of
whatever deprivation of indi-
vidual freedom of conscience
was involved."
Guam Evacuated
In Storm Path
GUAM, May 8, (UP) — Ships
and planes began evacuating
Guam today in the face of stead
ily increasing winds from a ty
phoon last, recorded 225 miles
southeast of Guam with a velo-
city of 92 miles an hour al its
center.
The navy closed down Apra
harbor and some housing areas
were ordered evacuated under
a "condition two" alert. Depen
dents of Air Force personnel at
Anderson and Northwest. Fields
were told to take shelter.
A weather reconnaissance
bomlier left this afternoon to
scout tlie tvphonn cciitrr v. hit h
is expected to hit Guam at 10
a. m. tomorrow
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