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Sweetwater
Invitation Golf
Tourney, April 23-25
Dedicated To The Welfare Of S weetwater And Surrounding Area
57th Year Number 90
Full Leased United Press Wire Service
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McCarthy And Aide Are Blasted
By Secretary Stevens In Probe
DISCUSSES POINT — Sen. McCarthy, right, discusses a point of interest with counsel Roy Cohn as
Senate Investigating Subcommittee began hearings in McCarthy-Army row. Left to right: Army Secy.
Robert Stevens; Asst. Chief of Staff Maj. Gen. Robert N. Young, Cohn and McCarthy. (NEA Tele-
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OIL
ROUND-UP
By ALLEN BAKER
US Air-Lifted French
Paratroopers Arrive
The Cambrian trend, found so
far in four Nolan County fields and
two Coke County fields in the past
10 months may eventually reach
to south-central Stonewall county
and produce a million barrels per
well ultimately, the Texas Oil and
Gas Journal predicts.
This fastens attention on several
tries around Trent, four drilling
rigs in the "EA" Cambrian field
southwest of Nolan, the Reaves
well at Blackwell and expansion of
White Flat and North Dora.
In Lake Trammell Country, Skel-
ly has No. fi Evelyn S. Cox ready
tor completion with 5'<4 'inch casing
set at 5.465 feet
No. 5 Cox is at 4,773.
No. 1 Reaves well on the south-
west side of Blackwell, being drill-
ed hv Ray-Harris, was reported at
6,080 feet Friday.
Gardner sand topped at 5,770 feet
was four fret higher than in the
Kirk well and the Gray sand was
five feet higher.
The big Kirk producer, now
agreed by oil authorities as a part
of the Cambrian trend with the
Wilberns dolomite fixed as the pay
zone, did not lind oil showings un
til the lower zone which No. 1
Reaves is soon to expect.
No. 3 Brooks Ranch well is at
7,002 feet south of here on High-
way 70, having made seven drill-
stem tests. It has several zones that
may make production, oil men say,
the most promising in the Missis-
sippi chert, just above the Kilen-
burger.
There was an oil show in the
Canyon sand, a slightly show in the
reef, a good show in the Mississip-
pian
Test from 5185-80 had 20 feet of
011 and gas cut mud; from 5184-95.
00 feet of oil and 120 feet of oil and
gas-cut mud From 6010-88. 630 feet
of salt water From 0811-51, 150
feet of oil and 120 feet of oil and
gas-cut mud From 6,804-76, salt
water.
Top of the Mississippi chert was
6839; Ellenburger, 6,907. Both were
low compared with Brooks No. 1
and Lewis No. 1
Sinclair's Santa Fe lake test
north of Sweetwater was making
continuing tests with no shows re-
ported. The well is said to be about
6,300 feet deep.
Union No 1 T. I). Young was re-
ported "fishing" for lost pipe at
6.160 feet. Kathleen Baker No. 1
was at 5.399 feet in shale.
King and Herring wildcat test
south of North Dora was last re-
ported at 5.540 feet.
No 1 Williamson test of Nors-
worth.v was at 5,645. Test in Gard-
ner from 56.18-35 was reported re-
covering 180 feet of slightly gas-
cut mud and 720 feet of salt water.
No. 1 Parker near Roby was
drilling at 880 feet.
In North Dora, Skell.v has two
rigs running. Chicago Corporation
No. 3-TXL was at 1.460 feet. Boyd
ft-6 of Skell.v was "fishing" at 5,573
feet. Skell.v was building roads for
location on the Adrian property in
section 51.
No. I Franks test by Wrather
near Hylton was at 1,650 feet
Wrather's new llutchins test is
building roads for location.
No. 1 C A Douthit test will be
drilled in Fisher County by Lloyd
H. Smith. Inc.. of Houston, in block
176-2-H&TC. This is six miles north
east of Rotan, on a 2,000-acre block
No 1 Douglas Reddin, about five
miles northeast of Trent on a farm-
out by Humble Oil & Refining to E.
B Ellis and others, is being start-
ed by Rhodes Drilling Co. It Is
in section 27. block 18, T&P, to go
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HANOI, April 23 — UP— Hun-
dreds of French paratroopers, air-
lifted half way around the world
by American planes, began arriv-
ing Friday to bolster the battered
defenses of Dien Bien Pliu where
a French communique revealed a
new disaster threatened.
A terse French communique said
that an entire French company has
been surrounded by the Red at-
tackers in the middle of the for-
tress" vital airstrip.
The reinforcements which reach-
ed Saigon Friday are the vanguard
of approximately 1,000 men being
ferried to the battle front from
French bases in France and North
A Trim.
Shortly after their arrival, the
French high command announced
I hat rebel Grm Vo V ". vnf Giap';,
forces, after a day and a'night
fighting, had isolated and sur-
rounded a dug-in French company
which was defending the "key
northwest hinge" of the defense
perimeter.
An estimated battalion of enemy
troops was entrenched on the air-
strip after Fierce hand-to-hand
fighting at Dien Bien Pliu.
The first airlift plane to reach
Saigon discharged 200 lully-equip-
ped colonial officers and men.
Four more planes were Hying
the linal lap ol the 12.000-mile em-
ergency mission, between Colombo.
Ceylon, and Saigon. Three others
Work On Underpass
[liters Fins' S'ages
With formal opening of the new
million-dollar-plus Lamar Street
; underpass tentatively set for about
I July 4th, workmen were busy on
the final details this week.
Friday tractors and power shov-
I els were at work on the old pave-
1 mont on Locust street between
'I'irst Street and the alley, tearing
: it out.
This pavement, in front of the
old city hall, built in 1909, was one
I of the early paving projects here
ANNUAL BANQUET
were reported refuelling at Colom-
bo.
The first of the big planes
touched down on a steel-mesh run-
way and taxied to a high screen
where each unloaded some 200 par-
atroops and fighting equipment.
They will be rushed as fast as
French transport planes can be
made available to Dien Bien Phu,
where French union defenders
were fighting with Communist reb-
els in the center of the main air-
strip.
The airlift, which started in
Paris only four days ago, was the
longest in military history. By
using double shifts of American
crewmen, the pilots stopped only
lor refueling.
Reports from Dien Bien Pliu said
r o | the Communist Imio-Chuia rebel!;
of! had sent assault spearheads to a
distance less than 2.000 feet from
the heart of the bastion.
The double - decked, bus - like
Globemasters made a 3.000-mile
run around India after Prime Min-
ister .lawaharlal Nehru had re-
fused to permit them to fly over
the subcontinent.
Reports at Colombo, Ceylon said
Burma also had refused landing
rights to the American planes.
But reports from Karachi. Pak-
istan said the big airlift transports
landed aiid refueled at Karachi
with the lull co-operation of the
Pakistan government. These re-
ports said the planes set down se-
cretly at Karachi for the last stop
before beginning the 3,000 mile de-
tour around the Indian subconti-
nent to Colombo, Ceylon.
THE WEATHER
SWEETWATER — Temperature,
high Thursday. 63 degrees; low
Friday morning, 57 degrees. Bar-
ometric pressure. 30.20 rising
slightly Relative humidity, 50 per
cent. Instrument reading, mostly
cloudy, unsettled, slightly warmer.
Rainfall, .35 April total. 2 69 in-
ches. Total for 1954, 3 78 inches.
| WF.Si TEXAS — Partly cloudy
through Saturday with widely scat-
tered afternoon and evening show-
ers and thunderstorms. Turning
cooler in the panhandle Saturday.
GENEVA PARLEY
Settlement
Of Two Wars
Is Problem
GENEVA, Switzerland, April 23
—UP—Nineteen nations meet here
Monday, in an atmosphere of ten-
sion and furious last-minute man-
euvering, to try to settle two wars
in one conference.
They will try to reach a peace
settlement in Korea—to supplant
the present armistice—and to stop
the fighting in Indo-China.
Late pre-conference maneuvering
has included;
Secretary of State John Foster
Dulles' dramatic flight to London
and Paris to try to form a 10-na-
j tion united front against Comrau-
! nist aggression in Southeast Asia.
The savage attacks of the Indo-
| Chinese Communist rebels against
[ Dien Bien Phu in an attempt to
win a big victory and influence
negotiations.
Russian Propaganda
The American air lift of French
troops to Indo-China.
Russia's propaganda designed to
make it appear that Communist
China goes into the conference as
a big five power, instead of an
outside nation which is being in-
vited to attend.
The line-up in the conference is
Communist aggression against
Democracy.
Hopes of the Western delegates
are not high as they start to as-
semble here. Soviet Russia and
Red China ore the two key coun
tries on the Red side. Neither has
shown any sign that it wants peace
—or can afford it. Revolutionary
Communism must always have en-
emies. foreign if not domestic, to
survive.
But the Western powers believe
I peace in Korea and Indo-China is
| worth trying for. The alternative
I to peace in Southeast Asia, they
| fear, may be a third world war.
This will be the first time the
great Western powers have sat in
a top-level conference with Com-
| munist China.
The United States agreed to take
that this would not imply recog-
nition of the Peiping Red regime.
Red China Recognition
Korea and Red China have in-
dicated they will try to make the
conference a sounding board for
propaganda speeches on all major
causes of "international tensions."
Russia is expected to try at
every opportunity to get diplomatic
recognition of the Chinese Reds,
and their admittance to the United
Nations, as the price of peace.
< Witness Testifies Cohn
'Declared War' On Army
WASHINGTON, April 23 —(UP)— Army Secretary
Robert T. Stevens testified Friday that Roy M. Cohn declar-
ed "war" on the Army last Oct. 20.
(John's declaration, Stevens said, climaxed weeks of
unsuccessful efforts by Cohn and Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy,
R-Wis. to get an officer's commission for G. David Schine.
Stevens testified about the war declaration on the sec-
ond day of the Senate Investigating subcommittee's tele-
vised hearings into the quarrel between the Army and Mc-
Carthy and Cohn, his chief counsel.
The secretary testified Thursday I
that the McCarthy-Cohn efforts in
behalf of Schine, former unpaid
subcommittee consultant, constitut-
ed a "perversion of power."
Specific Occasions
Friday, under examination by
special subcommittee counsel Ray
H. Jenkins, Stevens told of what he
said were specific occasions when
McCarthy or Cohn sought favors
for Schine.
Backgrounding these occasions
was an investigation McCarthy was
making of alleged espionage at
Fort Monmouth, N. J., the Army's
secret radar center.
On Oct. 20. Stevens said, he flew
to Fort Monmouth for an inspec-
tion accompanied by McCarthy,
Cohn, and others, including two |
other senators.
They visited various installations
Stevens said, and came to a super
secret laboratory which only high-
ly cleared persons could enter. Ste-
vens said he ruled that only he and
the senators could go in.
Cohn Was Incensed
Cohn. he said, was incensed He
quoted him as saying:
"This means war Don't they
thjnk I am cleared for classified
fnttumation? I have access fo FBI
files when I want them. They did
this on purpose to embarrass me
We will really investigate t h e
Army now."
Under questioning by Jenkins.
Stevens also testified:
1. McCarthy asked him on Sept. I
16 to use Schine's "special qualifi- I
cations" by giving him a commis-
sion or making him a special as-
sistant in Army intelligence. This
was after Schine's application for
a commission had been rejected
McCarthy made the request at a
meeting in the home of Schine's
parents in New York.
2 On Oct. 2, with Schine's in-
duction as a private a month away
Cohn asked Stevens to permit him
to escape basic training. Stevens
said he told Cohn that couldn't be
done.
CONFER — Army Secy. Robert Stevens, seated, confers with H.
Struve Hensel, assistant Secy, of Defense, as Senate Investigating
Subcommittee began hearing into McCarthy-Army feud Thursday
in Washington. (NEA Telephoto)
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weetwater
ide Show
By ROY SCUDDAY
Jaycee Officers To Be
Installed Saturday
Dr. Medlord Evans, academic
dean at McMurry College, Abilene,
will be the guest speaker at the an-
nual Sweetwater Junior Chamber
of Commerce Installation banquet
at 7:30 p m . Saturday, at the
Skv Room of the Blue Bonnet
Hotel.
Newly elected officers of the
local Jaycee club will be installed
and Caffey Welch, recently select-
ed as Sweetwater's "Outstanding
Dr. Medford Evans
Young Man of 1953" will be pre-
sented. The Outstanding Young
Man program is sponsored yearly
by the Jaycees.
Officers to In installed include
Robert Law, pre dent; Dr. 7.ane
Jones, first vice pres. ' nf Bob
Romer, second vice president; Bill
Norred. treasurer; P ul Zanowiak,
secretary: Jim Pearfon. Joe Liner,
S 11 Estes and K rm't Wilson,
directors for two year terms and
Ray Shannon, director for one
year term.
Dr. Evans, as guest speaker, is
an atomic energy expert, having
been a training instructor for the
Tennessee Eastman Corp. of Oak
Ridge and was chief of training for
the Atomic Energy Commission in
Washington. D. C.
A book. "The Secret War for the
A-Bomb." was written last year by
Dr. Evans and was published last
fall by the Henry Regnery Comp-
any, Chicago.
He received his A. B. degree
from the University of Chatta-
nooga in 1927. and his Ph. D from
Yale University in 1933.
George Etz, master of ceremon-
ies for the dinner, announced that
the public is invited to attend the
banquet, and that tickets, costing
S2 per plate, will be on sale at the
door of the Sky Room.
Special music will be furnished
during the banquet by a group
from McMurry College.
A dance will follow the banquet.
Dickenson Called
"Rat" By Fellow
Korean Prisoners
WASHINGTON, April 23 —UP—
The Army offered recordings of
Communist broadcasts Friday as
evidence that Cpl. Edward S. Dick-
enson was a Red collaborator while
a war prisoner in Korea.
Col. C. Robert Bard, chief pros-
ecutor in the court martial of the
Crackers Neck, Va., mountaineer
said the recordings were of Dick-
enson voicing the Communist line
in a broadcast to UN troops and in
a Christmas message to his moth-
er.
Dickenson, who first refused re-
patriation and then changed h i s
I mind, is accused of collaboration
and informing on fellow POWs in
Communist prison Camp No. 5 near
Pyoktong, North Korea.
Four former fellow prisoners tes-
tified Thursday about incidents in
which they felt Dickenson "ratted"
to their Communist captors.
Sgt. Lyle VV. Jacobson, Butte.
Mont., called the slight young cor-
poral a "rat" who informed on the
escape plans of himself and seven
I buddies.
He said he caught Dickenson
eavesdropping outside their billet
and the next morning he. Jacobson.
was called before a Chinese Com-
munist leader whom the prisoners
called "the skull."
"He threw it (the plot) right back
in my face, more or less as if he
had been there himself." Jacobson
said.
Asked whether that convinced
him that Dickenson was "a rat."
Jacobson said, "No, 1 knew it be-
fore then."
Another Cool Front
Heads Toward Texas
By UNITED PRESS
One cool front disintegrated as
another one headed toward Texas
Friday and in the interim Wichita
Falls was soaked with 1 22 inches
of rain.
The generous fall encourage
farmers anew in the important
wheat section, although they said
it was too late to save all the crop.
The cool front which set off
spotty thundershowers inched
along a little then began dissipat-
ing along a Texarkana to Junction
to Del Rio line
In the meantime, a new but weak
cold front was coming down across
the Rockies and weather forecast-
ers said it should enter and cool
off the Texas Panhandle sometime
Saturday.
Measurable rainfall for 24-
hour reporting period ending at
6:30 a. m. was confined to the
frontal line. Del Rio got 24 inch,
Abilene .18 and Mineral Weels .08
TOP GOLFERS VIE
OPENS HEARINGS — Temporary chairman Sen. Karl Mundt. left,
of Senate Investigating Subcommittee, uses ashtray to rap for
order as he tried to start hearing on McCarthy-Army feud. At right
is Sen. Joseph McClellan ^D-Ark.l, ranking Democratic member
of Subcommittee. (NEA Telephoto)
FBI is Ordered To Run Down
Cheats In Home Loan Rackets
The Production Credit Associa-
tion of Sweetwater had a real ball
! at Sweetwater Park Wednesday
| noon. A "come-one, come-all"
barbecue was served to some 1.250
| persons, in connection with the
Association's annual stockholders
j meeting, and everyone of the stock-
holders present at the meeting,
i plus their families, must have been
there
There werr. pecjtyit V trips in cars.
J on park benches, on the grass, on
I the ground, on 'he curbs around the
i ?v),id.s. even in the trees. Every-
I where the eye could see. there were
I people.
There were Grandmothers and
' grandfathers, toddlers and babes
1 in arms There were farmers and
ranchers, there were businessmen,
attorneys and lawmen There were
schoolgirls, housewives and secre-
t aries.
v a Iked. rode, cam?' in
| u heel-chairs, and were carried,
j One Future Stockholders, atje ap-
proximately four months, was seen
busily at work on a bottle of milk
rather than a beef sandwich, curl-
■ ed tip peacefully in a pasteboard
box. while mom and pop attended
i to their own culinary needs.
WASHINGTON. April 23 —VP- I
President Eisenhower has ordered '
the FBI to run down the "swind-
lers. cheats ; nd crooked sales-
men" involved in a home improve-
ment loan racket that swindled
"thousands" of home owners an-
nually. Senate investigators were
told Friday.
Assistant Attorney General War-
ren Olney made the disclosure in
testimony before the Senate Bank-
ing committee.
Olney. in charge of (he Justice
Department's criminal division, in-
dicated that criminal prosecutions
may result from the "very wide-
spread" home improvement loan
frauds. He listed several criminal
laws which "may have been violat-
ed" by the high-pressure dealers
and salesmen
Olney said he had no exact idea
of the total number of homeowners
who have been defrauded, but that
it "runs into thousands a year."
Since the government backed
home improvement ln,ui program
started in 1035. be . fi there have
been "a meat many thousands" oj
cases.
Under the procram home own-
ers get loans troni private hanks
for home improvements These I
loans are guaranteed bv the FH \
In many cases, it has been brought :
out, the workmanship .-i"! mater
ials which went into th«> improve-
ments were fat hHov ^t.mdard and,
below the amount oi *lv loan
Olney fold ho.' In n pre.--aire
salesmen known as "d\namiters"
or "suede .-hoe ho\ . complete
with Cadillacs and l.mcy lothinu.
would sell "shoddy repairs" to
homeowners at ' f xorbitant
prices."
Olney said he fit f heeamr
"aware" of fhe>c home improve-
ment loan frauds last spring. The
first complaints came from the
west coast, but an investigation
showed the practices "-surprisingly
widespread" including nearly all
parts of the country
Postal Department
Sweetwater Invitation
Tourney Gets Underway Seeks Applications
For Postmaster Job
JOHNSON TO SPEAK
COLLEGE STATION. April 23-
UPi— Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson D-
Tex. will speak at Texas A&M Col-
lege's senior ring danee banquet
May 15.
Bv HARRY NOBLE
Sports Editor
The 20th annual Sweetwater golf
tournament got underway this
morning at 9 o'clock with the tee-
itig-off of the 18-hole pro-amateur
meet which will be completed to-
day.
Approximately 4(1 local golfers
are entered in the pro-am, along
with some 35 out of town players.
The Sweetwater linksmen are
expected to hold their own in the
tourney although they are playing
against some stiff competition
from Fort Worth. Dallas. San Ar.-
gelo, Midland and Coleman.
At 6 a.m. Saturday morning the
amateur tournament will get un-
derway. Previously, tee-time for
this tournament had been announc-
ed at !) o'clock but due to the large
number of entrants the time had
to be moved up some three hours.
The amateur tourney is a 72-hol"
meet with 36-holes Saturday and
the same number again Sunday.
Prizes ranging from golf clubs
to fishing takle are being given to
the winners in the tournament and
each winner will have his choice
of the prizes
A large crowd of spectators was
at the first tee-box watching the
linksmen get underway this morn-
ing. and witnessed some excellent
drives made by many of the sub-
par shooters entered in the pro-am
meet
The team trophy, which is now
in the possession of Sweetwater,
will be vied for during the tourna-
The Postal Department has post-
ed a bulletin on the post office
bulletin board announcing an ex-
amination for Postmaster for the
Sweetwater post office.
Closing date for applications is
May IS. 15154 The office pays an
annual salary of $5,870.
The bulletin sets forth the duties.
ment and the players from Sweet-1 requirements of an applicant, citi-
water who will be defending the zenship. ace and physical erquire-
right to keep the trophy at the lo- j ments, veteran preference and
cal cluh house will be Grady Nor- other requirements
ris. Ralph Neal. Clyde Southworth ' It also tells how to apply and
and M. C. <Hcdt Alston Six teams | where to obtain application forms
are expected to compete for the and where and when to file.
trophy
Tonight at 7:30 there will be a
barbecue and dance at Lake Inn
for the entrants and their wives or
guests. For those who have enter-
ed the amateur tourney the ad-
mission will be free for themselves
and their wives but for those who
would like to make the fete but
have not entered the tourney
there will be a charge of $2.50.
This price pays for two persons.
Some idea as to the amount of
I or k I dispersed during the barhe-
cie: 75ft pounds of heef: four 30-
sallon drums of lemonade, and an
' unestimated amount of beans and
• bread The serving was done in an
; amazingly brief time and in a most
j efficient manner, under the guid-
ance of Austin Jordan and Jess
j Craig of Blackwell.
It was a real, old-fashioned Tex-
as barbecue, iliat you read about
hut seldom see these days.
With the fishing season rapidly
approaching, Wade Wills, one of
our town's most enthusiastic dis-
ciple.- of Izaak Walton was seen
limbering up his casting arm the
nl her day. He was standing on the.
I sidewalk in front of his hardware
store, making some practice casts
out nit" Third Street.
He a as heard to mutter some-
thing about catching ' just as
many here as I will in the water."
Which brings to mind a story
brought back from New Orleans—
ih" city where anything can hap-
pen—by a friend of ours who shall
remain anonymous. He insists it
happened to him. and knowing
New Orleans, who are we to say It
didn't?
He happened to stroll through
Jackson Square, a beautiful park
in the Old French Quarter, one
day and witnessed a very curious
spectacle
Two men were sitting on a park
bench. One of ihem was apparent-
ly alseep, with his hat pulled down
over his eyes. But the other man
was going through all the motions
of a man fishing with a easting
rod. complete with wrist snap and
operation of a reel His hands,
however, wi re completely empty.
Our hero tiptoed up to the bench,
and. tapping the sleeping man on
the shoulder, said. Pardon me,
sir, but I think you had better
cheek on your friend He seems to
be having some difficulty," he said,
pointing significantly at his temple
with a forefinger.
The man glanced at him, looked
over at his friend, still busy with
bis casting rod. then said to our
friend, "Yes. I know. I told him he
wouldn't catch anything with that.
I guess we'll try somewhere
New Galveston Enrjztneer
WASHINGTON. April 2." —np~
Maj. Gen S. D Slureis Jr . army
chief of engineers. Friday announc-
ed that Col Willard 1'. Met'rone.
assigned to office of the assistant .
chief of staff in Washington, will ? .,
become Galveston. Tex., district j else.
engineer in August, succeeding j And with that the speaker began
Col, James D Lang, who will be vigorously pumping his arms back
given an overseas assignment. I See SIDE SHOW Page 8
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