Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 57, No. 201, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 26, 1954 Page: 8 of 20
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Motfier Drops Child
Into lake As Oilier
Tots Stand On Bank
MERRIFIELD, Minn., Aug. 26—
UP—A young mother handed her
shoes to her two little daughters
and then, taking her six-week-old
baby in her arms, waded into Pel-
liean Lake and dropped the child
into the water.
Sheriff Roy Wickland said the
mother, Mrs. Archie Sanders, 27,
admitted what she had done when
the drowned baby's body was
found washed onto the shore
Wednesday night.
The mother had first spread an
alarm that the baby was kidnaped
from her bassinet. But Wickland
became suspicious because the
mother was too calm and the two
daughters, aged 4 and 6, told him
"mommie had taken them swim-
ming."
Mrs. Sanders became hysterical
as she told how she took little Jan-
et Ruth from the family car and
walked into the lake with her. The
two daughters, Sharon and Phyllis,
stood on the shore holding their
mother's shoes.
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MARKETS
KOllT WORTH, Aug. 26 —UP—
USDA—Livestock:
Cattle 2X00. 2Mostly steady
to choice slaughter steers and
yearlings 18.50-22, utility to com-
mercial 13-17.50; utility cows 9-
10.50, commercial scarce, canners
and cutters 6-9, mixed cutter and
utility 9-9.50, shelly canners under
6, cutter, utility and commercial
bulls 8-11.50, lightweight canner
bulls 7-8. Medium to good stocker
and feeder steer yearlings 13-17,
choice scarce.
Calves 600. Steady to strong.
Good to choice killer 15-18. Few
choice to 18.50. Utility to commer-
cial 9-14.50, culls 7-10, medium to
choice stocker steer calves 13-20.
Hogs 100. Butchers fully 25c low-
er. Sows scarce. Around 50c lower.
Bulk choice 180-250 lb. barrows and
gilts 23. Few other weights and
medium grade lots 22.50. Sows 14-
18.50.
Sheep 1,000. Mostly steady.
mAbout 400 head choice - prime 99-
lb spring lambs ordered in at 21.
A few cull-good spring lambs 8-
17.50. Yearlings 8-12. Few aged
wethers 8-10. Cull utility ewes 4-5,
feeder lambs scarce.
OIL
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pleted the well, has staked a one
location east stepout, to be No. 1
A. J. Barbee.
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STRANGER THAN FICTION —He was the first Chinese in
West Point, a general, a senator and president of a university.
Fate's wheel turned and Ying H. Wen, above, now runs a laundro-
mat in Washington. The business itself adds a further touch of
Irony since it was the traditional trade of the Chinese of the
past—though his "laundry" is strictly modern with 20 automatic
washers. The 67-year-old general was a student at Virginia
Military Institute when appointed to West Point, class of 1909.
Id China he had an outstanding military and political career.
Breaking with Chiang Kai-shek in 1951 he fled back to the U S.
A friend staked him in business. Son Patrick is also a dis-
tinguished military man. A graduate of V. M. I., he is now a
major on Formosa.
A new test announced here last
week in section 46, 19, T&P sur-
vey, the No. 1 M. Hogue, is being
drilled as another test of the
Strawn in the Fred Goodstein pool
just south of Trent.
Location for Mayme Hogue No.
1 is 1,220 feet from the north and
800 feet from the east lines of the
section.
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LAST RITES—As high ranking churchmen and laymen look on,
final ancient rites of the Catholic church are said for Bishop Joesph
P. Lynch in Sacred Heart Cathedral, Dallas, Wednesday. Bishop
Lynch served a Roman Catholic diocese longer than any other
living American bishop. (NEA Telephoto)
The oil test in the edge of Trent
is reported very close to the ex-
pected pay level.
No More Rain Chance
For Area At Present
by UNITED PRESS
Texas continued to warm up j
Thursday and meteorologists said j
the only rain left in the state was '
along the lower coast from Corpus j
Chrlsti to Brownsville and in ex-
treme West Texas.
None of the showers, however,
are of consequence, a weather bu-
reau spokesman said.
The only rainfall measured for
the 24 hours ending at 6:30 a.m.
Thursday was .13 inch at Midland
and .07 at Victoria.
Low temperatures early Thurs-
day ranged from 61 degrees at Salt
Flat to 81 at Dallas and Wichita i
Falls.
Amarillo had a low of 66, El
Paso 67, Midland 69, Lubbock. Luf-
kin and Presidio 70, Brownsville J
73, Corpus Christi, Austin, Hous-
ton and San Angelo 74, San Anto-
nio, Del Rio and Beaumont 75,
Laredo and Tyler 76, Waco and
Abilene 77 and Galveston and Fort
Worth 79.
No place in Texas reported a
100 - degree temperature Wednes-
day, but Wichita Falls came close
at 99.
Mineral Wells had 98, Abilene,
Del Rio, Tyler, Lufkin, Presidio
and Texarkana 97, Waco, Fort
Worth, San Angelo, Junction and
College Station 96. Dallas and Vic-
toria 95, Beaumont 94, Austin and
Brownsville 93, Houston 92, Lub-
bock 90, Amarillo 89, El Paso and
Galveston 88, and Salt Flat and
Dalhart 87.
L. M. Benedum's No. 1 Sliger
well in section 189, north of Hylton,
was due to start coring for com-
pletion Thursday.
This well is a southwest offset
to C. L. McMahon's No. 2 Sliger
and is south of Wrather's Sliger
well.
| The Wrather well found both the
Goen and Fry Sand but is produc-
j ing in the Fry sand, having found
! the Goen formation tight.
A 216 barrel producer through
; 18-64th inch choke has been com-
! pleted in the Judge Gail (Swas-
tika i field northwest of Hamlin in
the No. 3 W. L. Boyd well in sec-
tion 191, block 1, BBB&C survey.
The well had three per cent water.
Near the two Hendry oil tests on
the northeast edge of Oak Creek
lake, No. 1 Chas. Copeland has
I been started by setting 10 3-4 inch
casing at 499 feet. The project was
shut down for reports. R. H. K.
| Drilling Co. has the drilling con-
tract.
World's Top Jet Pilot
Killed In Sabre Crash
Other than the moon, no earth
satellites have been discovered to
date. Scientists think that the
earth satellites may follow rapid
orbits near the equator, thus es-
caping notice by sky mappers in
northern countries.
No. 1-A Hendry well is reported
drilling ahead at 4,585 feet while
the No. 1 Hendry is completing in
the Gardner.
No. 2 Sliger of C. L. McMahon
near Hylton is still working for
completion, swabbing perforations
around 5,001-007.
EDWARDS AFB, Calif., Aug. 26
—UP—Capt. Joseph McConneli Jr.,
the world's top jet ace, fell to his
death in a seat ejected from a Sa-
brejet because he was flying too
low to give his parachute time
to open, the Air Force believed
Thursday.
The 32-year-old air hero, who
shot down 16 MIGs in Korea to be-
come the first triple jet ace in his-
tory, was killed near this desert
test center Wednesday when he
lost control of the F-86 Sabrejet
he was testing and was ordered to
bail out.
The wreckage of the plane, a
modified version of the jet with
which he scored his 16 Korean
kills, was strewn on the sprawling
desert 12 miles northeast of Rog-
ers Lake near this Air Force test
base.
A board of officers was appoint-
ed to investigate the crash soon
after the famed flier's body was
found crumpled beside his ejection
seat, a half mile from the shat-
tered plane. His parachute was un-
opened.
No further details were released
concerning the crash, but Air
Force officers speculated that Mc-
Conneli was flying at an extreme-
ly low altitude when he ejected
himself from his plane in a para-
chute-seat.
McConneli was relieved from ac-
tive flight status May 19, 1953, the
day after he scored three MIG
kills to boost his total to 16. He
had 106 missions over Korea and
had asked to stay for 25 more.
Grocer Kills Thief
First Week At Store
HOUSTON, Aug. 26 —UP—A
young grocer who went into busi-
ness only a week ago shot and
killed a Negro bandit Thursday
while looking down the muzzle of
an old .45 cal. "thumb-buster."
The dead bandit, shot once
through the heart, was identified
as LaFayette Scurry, 31,
The grocer, Bobby Joe Black-
wood, told police he was closing
his store at 12:30 a.m. when the
Negro slipped up behind him, held
a gun on him, and demanded the
$50 in receipts he had in a box.
Blackwood said he dropped thp
box and reached for his .38 cal.
j snubnose revolver and fired point-
blank. The Negro dropped his gun
and fell dead.
A "rubber" stamp made of
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men to see where the impression
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FORT WORTH, Aug. 26 —UP—
Produce:
Poultry: Light fowl 14, heavy
fowl 19, roosters 10, light fryers
10, heavy fryers 25.
Eggs: Medium 36, large 39.
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Police Hunt Woman
Who Shot, Robbed
Lady Watching TV
ARLINGTON, Tex., Aug. 26—UP
—Officers in the Fort Worth-Dallas
area were on the alert Thursday
for a mannish-looking, short and
heavy-set woman who shot and
robbed an Arlington housewife
Wednesday night.
Mrs. Roland A. Turck, 50, wife
of a retired grain dealer, was shot
four times as she watched televi-
sion in the bedroom of her home,
just across the street from the
State Highway Patrol radio sta-
tion. She was robbed of about $60.
Bullets passed through both Mrs.
Turck's upper arms and breasts,
lower left arm and left hip.
Attendants at St. Joseph's hospi-
tal in Fort Worth, where Mrs
Turck is being treated, said Thurs-
day she suffered only flesh wounds
anfJ COI,dition is not dangerous.
"This is one of the most fantastic
shootings I've ever heard about,"
Arlington Police Chief A.B. Cribbs
said. "It's completely crazy. The
bandit must have been a screwball
or high on dope. A normal person
wouldn't have pulled such a stunt."
Cribbs said he also is convinced
the bandit, described as "rough
and dirty," had an accomplice who
waited outside. The chief said he
didn't know whether the accom-
plice was a man or woman.
Mrs. Turck's pickup truck stolen
Irom .behind his home after the rob-
bery, had not been found Thurs-
day morning. But an identification
card holder, ripped from Mrs
Turck's billfold, was found in a
ditch about four blocks from the
Turck home.
Council Of Churches
Attacks Capitalism,
Godless Communism
EVANSTON, 111., Aug. 26—UP—
The World Council of Churches
criticized western capitalism as too
materialistic and communism as
too Godless.
But the council's second assem-
bly broke up in heated debate over
a broader theological issue 011 the
meeting's main theme—"Christ the
Hope of the World."
The twin issues at Wednesday's
session overshadowed the election
of six new presidents of the inter-
national organization. The voting
took place after controversy over
whether a lay delegate should be
included in the slate.
The new presidents are the Rt.
Henry Knox Sherrill, Protestant
Episcopal bishop from New York;
Archbishop Michael of the Eastern
Orthodox Church; the Very Rev.
John Baillie of the Church of Scot-
land; Methodist Bishop Sante
Uberto Barbieri of Buenos Aires,
Argentina; Mar Thoma Juanon, of
the Mar Thoma Syrian Church and
of Malabar, South India; and Ger-
man Evangelical Bishop F. K. Ot-
to Dibelius of Berlin.
A show of hands approved the
report criticizing communism and
capitalism, indicating that the
| council had not changed its views
since its first meeting at Amster-
dam in 1948, when a similar stand
was taken.
The report, prepared by an ad-
visory commission of eminent
theologians, eritized capitalism for
placing too much faith in man's
ability to finds his own salvation.
Communism, 011 the other hand,
(violates Christian rules to a great-
j er degree by attempting to substi-
| tute worship of the Communist par-
I ty for the adoration of God, the re-
port said.
The assembly vote sent the re-
port to member churches for "stu-
dy, prayer and obedience." How-
ever, the delegates could not
agree to do the same with a com-
panion messgae attempting to give
council's message to the Christian
world. ^
The assembly of churchmen took
011 the aspect of a heated political
convention as delegates tried to get
the floor to express their objec-
tions.
Funeral Services "
For Appie Dickson
To Be Held Friday 1
Funeral for Appie Dickson, 66,
who died at 2:45 a. m. Thursday
at 801 Fisher, will be held at 3 p.
m. Friday at the Greater Zion Bap-
tist Church with the Rev. R. L.
Washington officiating.
The body will then be shipped to
Alto, Texas, for burial. Patterson
Funeral Home is in charge of lo-
cal arrangements.
Mrs. Dickson was born Oct. 2«
1887, in Raleigh, N. C. She came*
to Sweetwater eleven years ago.
She made her home with a son,
Robert Devereaux, at 507 Fisher,
but was at the 801 Fisher address
when she died.
Surviving are three sons—James
Hassell, Robert Devereaux, and
Willie Dickson, all of Sweetwat-
er; a brother, Scott Barnes of Luf-
kin; a sister, Vindora Gibson of
Huntington, Texas; one grand
child, several nieces and nephews;.
GUATEMALA CITY, Aug. 26 —
UP—The military junta govern-
ment has ordered the registration
of all known Communist sympa-
thizers in Guatemala as dangerous
persons, and decreed death to
Communist terrorists.
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