Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 55, No. 277, Ed. 1 Friday, November 21, 1952 Page: 3 of 8
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Lowest Rainfall
In History Was
October Record
AUSTIN, Nov. 21—UI'—Texas
had the lowest recorded rainfall in
its history last month, according
*4o W. A. Cunningham, professor of
™hemleal engineering nt the Uni-
versity of Texas.
Cunningham told 100 persons at
a water conference sponsored by
the University of Texas Law School
that rainfall throughout the state
averaged only .03 inch.
The two-day conference con-
cludes Friday. Speakers on Fri-
day's program included A. P. Rol-
lins, member of the Texas Board
of Water Engineers; Dr. Frank
Jessen, professor of petroleum en-
gineering at the University of Tex-
as; R. Richard Roberts, Houston
attorney, and Victor Bouldin, an-
other Houston attorney.
Average Rain 31 inches
Cunningham, who spoke Thurs-
day, said average annual rainfall
for the state was 31 inches.
He said drouth and lower stream
flows generally "last much long-
er" than do the higher flows ac-
companying floods and spring run-
"In periods of drouth," he said,
"many, if not all, of the streams
of the state would cease flow al-
together, if it were not for the in-
flux of ground water and of water
under controlled flow from the
lakes and reservoirs behind im-
pounding dams."
He said most rivers "could sup-
port additional reservoirs."
Many Wells Are Dry
Trigg Mitchell, of the Austin of-
W'ice of the U.S. Geological Survey,
^aid. "The current drouth has re-
duced the flow of nearly all un-
regulated streams of Texas to zero
or historically low flows and thous-
ands of shallow water wells are
dry."
He added that "the hauling of
water for domestic, stock and com-
mercial uses has become common-
place in portions of East Texas,
as it is in many sections of West
Texas."
/k The drouth, he declared, "em-
phasizes the fact that every sec-
tion of the state experiences se-
rious water shortages, that water
demands are increasing, and that
engineering and associated legal
procedures for developing new or
expanded water supplies from both
surface and ground water sources
are more complex."
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Robber Gives In
To His Conscience
DENISON. Tex,, Nov. 21—UP—
Dcnison police freed an armed
robbery suspect Friday after the
man who was robbed said the real
robber came back Thursday, gave
him his money back and said he
was going to start attending Sun-
day school and church.
"My conscience hurt me so much
f couldn't sleep," the trailer court
owner, George Holmes, said the
robber told him. He said he let the
20-year-old youth go without call-
ing police after talking to him
more than an hour.
Then he called police and told
them they had the wrong man.
They released the suspect.
The gunman held up Holmes with
a nickel-plated .38 caliber revolver
last Saturday, took $65 and threat-
ened to kill both Holmes and his
wife.
When he came back Thursday,
he told Holmes: "If you want to
turn me over to the police I won't
resist."
"He told me he had disposed of
the gun," Holmes said. "He plans
to start attending church and Sun-
day school regularly and become
a useful part of his community.
Trautman Reports
Attendance Fair
In Minor Leagues
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Nov. 21 —
UP—Minor league baseball's head
man backed the alarmists against
the wall with facts and figures Fri-
day showing that the decline in at-
tendance figures is not as serious
as it might seem.
George M. Trautman, president
of the National Association of Pro-
fessional Baseball Leagues, attri-
butes the greatest decline in atten-
dance to the fact that some 2,000
players are now in military ser-
vice.
With 43 leagues operating at the
beginning of the season and all
finishing, Trautman pointed out
that attendance during the past
year was 2.7 per cent less than in
1951.
Some 25,301,253 persons paid to
see minor league baseball last sea-
son according to Trautman. Of this
24.024.373 were for regular season
games, while the other paid admis-
sions were for league playoffs.
Coyote Tries To
Hitchike Ride
In Maj! Truck
DBUMRIGHT. Okla., Nov, 21
—UP—A 25-pound coyote that tried
to hitch a ride in a mail truck
was dispatched Thursday by an
alert mailman, who wielded with
special delivery the only weapon
handy—an automobile jack.
Dempsey Rose, who operates the
Star mail route from Cleveland,
Okla., to Oklahoma City, said he
first tried to kill the postal in-
truder with a mall sack. Blows
from the sack only made the
snarling animal more determined
to ride first class, Rose said.
"He jumped in the back door of
my panel truck about 1 a.m. while
I was stopped at Jennings," Rose
said.
Jennings is a rural community
north of Drumright where Rose
makes a mail pickup regularly.
"I thought at first it was a big
dog," Rose said, "and I took after
him with a mail sack."
The mailman said he knocked
the animal out the rear door of the
truck, but it hopped back in. By
then. Rose thought he had a wolf
on his hands.
"I floored him again witli an-
other swing of the mail sack," said
Rose. "But he had steel springs in
his legs. He sprang up and bit me
on the leg and hand."
Rose then grabbed the heavy
steel jack from the truck's tool
box with his right hand, and kept
swing with the mail sack with his
left. Cancelling the unwanted mail
came quickly once the jack came
into use.
For the remainder of Rose's
route, the coyote was just another
dead letter. The postman deposited
it at the state health department in
Oklahoma City.
D. C. Grouver, bacteriologist
there, said the animal was a full-
grown, and possibly rabid, coyote.
"He'd take quite a bit of postage
if sent by parcel post," Grouver
said. "He weighed around 25
pounds."
Biack, Byrd Are
Rookies of Year
NEW YORK. Nov. 21 —UP—Joe
Black of the Brooklyn Dodgers and
Harry Byrd of the Philadelphia
Athletics, two giant kid pitchers
with the physique and determin-
ation of mules, were named the
major league Hookies of the Year
Friday.
Black, who won 15 games and
saved 15 more while losing only
lour as the greatest relief pitcher
the National League award in a
breeze, lie got 19 out of the 24
baseball writers' votes.
But Byrd barely won out in the
American in a close three-way bat-
tle. lie received nine votes to
eight for catcher Clint Courtney of
the St. Louis Browns and seven for
catcher Sammy White of the Bos-
ton Red Sox.
The only other National League
players to receive votes were relief
pitcher Hoyt Wilhelm of the Giants
with three, and shortstop Dick Gro-
at and third baseman Ed Mathews
of the Braves with one apiece.
Editor Named to Seminar
FORT WORTH, Nov. 21—UP—
Sooners Reject
Bowl Bids; Grudge
Grows for Huskers
NORMAN, Okla., Nov. 21 —UP
—The University of Oklahoma had
virtually closed the door Friday
on any chance the Sooner team
had to play in the Orange Bowl
New Year day but university Re-
gents whipped up a real grudge
battle for Saturday's game with
Nebraska in the process.
The regents Thursday backed the
football team's decision not to vio-
late a Big Seven Conference rule
banning post-season games but one
regent bitterly pointed to Nebras-
ka for the conference's refusal to
relax the bowl ban.
Quinton Little, of Ardmore, was
the only dissenter in the board's
5 to 1 vote not to bolt. Little told
reporters that "Nebraska is just
mad—that's a'!" and made some
other commch. about Oklahoma's
next opponent that he would not
allow printed.
Sweetwater Reporter, Texas, Friday, November 21, 1952
Blackwel Man On
USS Fran E. Evans
U. S. PACIFIC FLEET (Delay-
ed) (FHTNC)—Returned to the
United States from the Far East
last week aboard the destroyer
USS Frank E. Evans, was Spur-
geon C. Smith, fire controlman spc-
ond class, USN, son of Mr. and
Mrs. S. P. Smith of Blackwell, Tex-
as.
The crew of the Evans set what
it believes to be a record in recov-
ery of personnel from a crashed
airplane.
Watching the helicopter from the
attack carrier USS Princeton crash,
they rescued the pilot and one
passenger from the sea and return-
ed them to the Princeton via "high-
line" breeches-buoy-transfer in one
hour—complete with medical treat-
ment, hot shower, and their own
freshly laundered and pressed
uniforms.
Fisher County Wildcat
Normanda Oil Corporation and
Estil S. Heyser Jr. and Claude E.
Heard of Dallas will drill a 5,700-
foot Fisher County wildcat oil test
2'/4 miles northwest of the two-
well Carriker Ellenburger pool and
one mile northeast of the one-well
Sandy Hill Canyon pool.
It is No. 1 Bert Rushing, 1,980
feet from north and west lines of
section 75, block 1, H&TC survey.
Train Derailed In Spain
MADRID, Spain, Nov. 21—UP—
Four persons were reported killed
and 45 injured Thursday when
three coaches of a southbound
Madrid-Seville express train jump-
ed the tracks and overturned near
Vadollano.
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FRONT RUNNER—Tony De-
Spirito is running well ahead
of the schedule which the 17-
year-old hopes will bring him
a new national record for win-
ners in a year. The mark is 388.
The Lawrence, Mass., phenom-
enon, currently at Lincoln
Downs, R. I., gives you a
closeup of his form aboard
Dietionless. (NEA)
Congressman Expects
Removal of Controls
OKLHAOMA CITY, Nov. 21
—UP—A top Republican member
of Congress says most price and
wage controls will be allowed to
die next April 30.
Rep. Jesse P. Wolcott (R-Mieh.i,
due to be chairman of the House
Banking committee in the new Re-
publican-controlled Congress that
convenes Jan. 3, predicted here
that the goal of the GOP adminis-
tration will be to "arrive at a real,
instead of a false, prosperity."
He spoke before the Oklahoma
Home Builders Association Thurs-
day night.
Wolcott said the only exceptions
to the end of controls might be on
the use of alloy metals, key de-
tense materials.
Mother Accused Of
Beating Her Baby
HOUSTON, Nov. 21—UP — A
grand jury has been asked to in-
dict a 29-year-old mother for al-
legedly tying her 10-month-old
daughter to a crib and beating her.
Dr. C. A. Dwyer, county psy-
chiatrist, asked that the woman,
Mrs. Louise Morris, be indict-
ed after giving her psychiatric ex-
aminations. She is being held in |
the county psyeopathic ward on a |
lunacy charge.
Officers said Mrs. Morris tied
little Janie Mae Morris to her crib
then beat the infant with a card-
board box. When the father, John
Morris, 34, came home from work
and tried to interfere, he said Mrs.
Morris beat him away.
The child is in Shrine Crippled
Children's Hospital where, Dr.
Dwyer said, "I do not know wheth-
er the baby will live or die."
GRAPELAND, Tex., Nov. 21
—UP—When eight Grapeland
men *ent deer hunting on their
1,300-acre lease, they took along
a cook, Major Johnson, and he
took .'long a gun "just in case."
The eight hunted all day, but
returned meatless. They found
the cook with an eight-point
buck. It had wandered by the
kitchen.
Teen-agers In Berlin recently re-
leased 24,000 balloons to float into
the Soviet zone, each lettered
"Freedom for all Europe" and car-
rying a post card addressed to the
sender, who announced himself a
member of the Federation of Eu-
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Baker, Allen. Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 55, No. 277, Ed. 1 Friday, November 21, 1952, newspaper, November 21, 1952; Sweetwater, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth283985/m1/3/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sweetwater/Nolan County City-County Library.