Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 58, No. 202, Ed. 1 Friday, August 26, 1955 Page: 1 of 8
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FOR KEEPS—Airman Daniel C. Schmidt and his wife, Una, em-
brace after their reconciliation in Portland, Oregon, Wednesday
night. The former POW of Red Chinese who returned home to find
his wife married to another man, said "everything has been
straightened out" and he and Una plan to stay together "for
keeps." (NEA Telephoto)
Moroccan
He Won't
Sultan Says
Quit Throne
AIX LES BAINS, France W) —
Sultan Mohammed Ben Moulay
Arafa dropped a bombshell into
the French - Moroccan conference
£ here today with a statement that
he does not intend to quit his
throne.
The statement was released by
the Sultan's chief of protocol, Si
Abderrahman el Ilajoui, generally
regarded the power behind the
Moroccan throne in Kabat. El
Hajoui conferred with French min-
isters this morning, immediate-
ly on his arrival here from Rabat.
The Sultan's refusal to leave the
throne gravely complicates efforts
% of French Premier Edgar Faure
to settle the Moroccan crisis in
a deal with Moroccan Nationalists
who have been demanding Ben
Arafa's removal.
An agreement under which Ben
Arafa would leave the throne had
been reported by high French of-
ficials as all but set.
Spectacular
Fire Sweeps
Ranch Land
A spectacular fire of undeter-
mined origin swept through more
than a square mile of the Dill Pace
ranch southwest of Lake Sweet-
water in the cedar hill country
Thursday afternoon and night.
Fire Chief A. C. Forgay sent T.
L. Berry, who was reared in the
area where the fire raged, and
Paul Hartman to the scene with a
fire department booster truck after
conference with city officials.
The fire truck could not leave
the highway but was credited
with having done much good in
preventing further spread of the
fire.
Thursday evening the National
Guard Company sent a number of
men to the scene after Command-
er Ernest Fredeck obtained per-
mission to call the men to help
check the blaze.
The big fire was reported to j
have swept across nearly a fourth j
of the ranch.
The blaze seemingly started !
near the road through the ranch
and spread quickly.
Lush, high grass was being de-
veloped on the ranch and was not
being grazed heavily because of
the battle in drouth times to get
grass growing again.
The fire swept through the high
grass and burned many pushed up
cedars on the land. Many who
went to the scene said that the
fire scene at night was one of
many glowing, red tree stumps.
Sweetwater airport manager Ce-
cil Kinerd flew over the fire and
helped in surveying the situation.
It is believed that a heavy wind
would have fanned the fire to
cause much more serious dam-
age.
Segregation Portion Of State
School Financing Laws Voided
Reduction in Taxes Favored
Balanced Budget
Expected To Bring
Decrease In Levies
Late Bulletin
African countries which are mem-
bers of the United Nations.
Britain has always stood firm
with France in opposing U. N.
intervention or even discussion of
the situation in French North Af-
rica. France similarly has backed: NEW YORK 'B — Secretary of
up Britain's refusal to submit to State Dulles, with President Eisen-
U. N. examination of affairs in hower's authority, today offered
some of ther troubled colonial ter- ! Israel and the Arab states an
ritories. The two countries con- j American security treaty guaran-
tend that the Questions are matters ! teeing their frontiers if they will
of internal jurisdiction. j join in making a permanent peace.
65-YEAR OLD COMPETITION
Philandering Hubby Pastes
Wife in Eye For Being Nosy
LONDON Iff)—Iraq has called on
Britain to act with other big Allied
nations to halt what it called
£ "French hostilities" in Morocco,
British government informants re-
ported today.
Other countries reportedly ap-
proached by the Baghdad govern-
ment include all the Asian and
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OIL
Round - Up
By Allen Baker
f A very important new test on the
R. R. Petty place south of Nolan
on Highway 53 was indicated Fri-
day with the driving of a stake for
a new well, 200 yards back of the
Petty home.
This is on the British-American
Oil Producing Co. lease that has
been in the limelight this year and
is being watched with interest.
The drilling location is reported
to be 2,900 feet from the north line
and 800 feet from the east line of
^ section 6, block 2, T&P survey.
The indicated continuation of I
NEW YORK i/PI—A tall, willowy,
blonde found her 29-year-old hus-
band in another woman's room at
2 a.m.
The other woman was 65-year-
old grandmother.
The wife hit the tiny, gray-
haired grandmother over the head
with one of the husband's shoes,
leading to some bandaging.
The husband, trousers in hand,
ran out the back door of the Brook-
lyn rooming house where all three
live.
The wife went to bed.
She woke up two hours later
and heard noises in the kitchen
the three share. She peeked in —
and there was her husband with
the other woman again.
The husband punched his wife
in the eye for butting in, and
she got a shiner.
He was locked up on an assault
charge.
That's the blow-by-blow account
Funeral Services
For A. A. Ronemus
Held 4 P. M. Today
Funeral for Alfred A. Ronemus,
54, whose home was at 204 Bowie
and who died at 1:30 p. m.
Thursday in Sweetwater Hospital,
was to be held at 4 p. m. Friday
in Lamar Street Baptist Church.
Ronemus, who was employed as
a crane operator for U. S. Gypsum
related by the wife, Mrs. Katherine
Luther, before Magistrate Anthony
E. Maglioin Brooklyn Felony Court
yesterday.
By FRANK O'BREIN
WASHINGTON I/Pi—Sens. George
I (D-Gai and Millikin (R-Colo) said
; today they will favor tax reduc-
I lion next year if the administration
j approaches a balance budget in
I the fiscal year ending next July 1.
Secretary of the Treasury Hum-
phrey said yesterday that "bar-
i ring some unforseen development,
j we think that we should and that
we can balance the budget this
I (fiscali year." But Humphrey said
it was "entirely too early" for him
to talk about tax cuts.
George, former chairman and a
| veteran member of the Senate Fi-
nance Committee, said in a tele-
phone interview from his home at
Vienna, Ga., that he thinks it "en-
tirely possible" the budget will be
balanced.
Millikin, also a former chairman
and top Republican member of the
committee, said that he will favor
tax cuts when the budget is within
"approximate" balance.
George said any tax cuts should
be limited to individual income
See TAXES Page 8
Saturday Funeral
Services Scheduled
For James H. Byrd
Funeral services will be held at
10 a. m. Saturday at the First Bap-
tist Church in Snyder for James II.
(Daddy) Byrd, former Scurry
County sheriff, and father of Char-
lie Byrd, 801 Crescent Drive, who
died at 1:30 p. m. Thursday at
Young Medical Center. He was 87.
Although born in Bedford, Ten-
nessee, he came to Texas in Janu-
ary, 1890, and settled in Limestone
County. He married Lizzie Brooks
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and
SKIRT: What
shouldn't hide behind
a woman won't.
(Copyright General Features Cor-
poration).
Sarver Tot Escapes
Serious Injuries
When Struck By Car
Judge Ruies
Integration
May Proceed
BIG SPRING, Tex. (AP)—
Dist. Judge Charlie Sullivan
today ruled void segregation
portions of Texas' school fi-
nancing laws and said in ef-
fect that public schools
could go ahead immediately
and desegregate if theyWant-
ed .
He denied three injunctions
sought by a Texas Citizens Council
that would have prevented desegre-
gation in public schools here and
that would have prevented state
funds being paid to schools that did
integrate.
The s'.:it here had been regard-
Gary Sarver. two-year-old son; ed as the !:rst clear test of the
of Mr. and Mrs Paul VV. Sarver slate's school laws which provide
of 402 West Colorado Street, es- for pa men! ■ to school districts on
caped critical injury by a car very
narrowly Thursday evening about
7 o'clock, police reported.
He was struck by a car driven
by Everett Cassady of Sweet-
water on West Colorado as he
started walking across the street
at an angle.
The child was rushed to Sweet-
a separate white-Negro basis.
The ruling came about an hour
and 10 minutes after the hearing
started.
A shirt-sleeve crowd of some 150
comfortably filled the 118th Dis-
trict Courtroom.
Only one X \gro was present. He
was U. Simpson Tate, regional di-
rector f< r the National Assn. for
water hospital by a Cate-Spencer Advancement of Colored People,
ambulance. Examining physicians; Ross Carlton representing the
said that he sustained a broken Texas Citizens Council that brought
leg and other injuries.
! the suit, said the case would be ap-
The wife was in court, charged in 1893 at Kossee. Texas. They
with felonious assault for clouting
the grandmother, Mrs. Florence
Lavis. The grandmother was in
court to press the charge.
The judge advised Mrs. Luther:
"I think you should move away
from that place. You are faced
with heavy competition. You have
one beautiful shiner now. You
wouldn't want another."
The wife protested: "But at least
my husband should get a younger
woman."
The judge paroled the wife tor
a hearing Sept. 7.
As the two women left the court,
moved to Snyder from Mart in
1905.
He served two separate terms as
sheriff, first from 1918-1922, and
later from 1926-1928.
Burial services will be in Dunn MIAMI, f la
Cemetery under the direction of on Hurricane
OFF TO PAGEANT — Miss Arkansas, left, Cherie Bowers from
Helena, and her chaperon, Mrs. Tom Allen, wave goodbye to
friends in Little Rock as they leave for stops in Chicago, Washing-
ton, and New York before arriving in Atlantic City for the Miss
America pageant Sept. 5. (NEA Telephoto)
Storm Points At US
As SauaDs Stir Gulf
; niv. ouii, ouiu nit v-oot. uuiu uv ap-
Cassady, who is employed at the pealed to the Texas Supreme Court.
Critz Service Station on Broadway | He said the appeal would have to
here, said that he was driving ■ wait the final judgement to be en-
along West Colorado at a mod- tered bv Sulnvah.
| erate rate .speed when the child j Sullivan said he would take un-
j started across the street in front der advisement and answer later
| of him in a way that he could not j the constitutionality questions
avoid striking him. i asked.
He said that little Gary had! Before the hearing on the suit
; come out from behind a parked ' began, State Atty. Gen. John Ben
car and apparently was going Shepperd filed an intervener's suit
across the street to join a play- j In it he asked that no state pay-
mate on the other side of the: ments be made to desegregated
i street. \ schools.
He said specifically that the Big
! Spring Independent School District
See SEGREGATION Page 8
Bolger Funeral Home and Rev.
G. M. Cole, pastor of the First Bap-
tist Church of Snyder.
Survivors include his widow, 2912
Ave. U, Snyder; three daughters,
Mrs. Jessie Hanson of Rotan, Mrs.
L. C. Oschmer of Crosbyton, and
Mrs. Elmo Herring of Dunn; two
,4*i _ This advisory j and west of the center. Latest re-
Edith was issued I ports indicate some decrease in
by thf Weather Bureau: ! the central pressure.
On the basis of plane reconnais- . . . , ,
sance this forenoon Hurricane hurricane is expected to tn-
Edith has been relocated at ap- crease slowly in intensity and to
proximately latitude 25.5 north. ; continue moving between west-
William E. Howard,
Prominent Roscoe
Resident Succumbs
longitude 83.3 west, or 970 miles
southeast of Cape Hatteras, N.C.,
at 11 a.m. EST.
The storm is moving between
ROSCOE — William Edgar How-
ard, 70, well-known Roscoe resi-
dent who had spent practically all
of his life here, died from a heart
attack at his home here, 503 Cy- j istrator
press Street, Friday at 7:30 a. m. I hospital,
He moved to Nolan County as a
Henry Taylor Takes
Administrator job
At Dallas Hospital
Henry
northwest and northwest at about ; child two years of age with his par-
sons, Jack Byrd of Snyder and
a policeman walked between them , Charles Byrd of Sweetwater; three j west-northwest and northwest at 12
to keep them apart. j sisters, Mrs. Eva Newton of i m.p.h. and highest winds are esti-
In Coney Island Court — some ! Westbrook, Mrs. Etta Billingsley j mated at 80 m.p.h Hurricane winds
distance away — husband Eddie of Esteline and Mrs. Ada Copley of extend out about 70 miles in the
was held in $500 bail on an assault i California; one brother, Paul Byrd northeast quadrant and gales ex-
charge lodged by his wife because j of Westbrook; ten grandchildren, tend outward 150 miles to the north
i of the black eye. I and four great-grandchildren. and east and 75 miles to the south
10 m.p.h. for the next 12 to 18
hours.
Ships near the hurricane should
exercise caution.
North Dora oil field, just south of j Company, had been in the hospital
White Flat in the mountains, on six \v.eeks;
west toward Lake Sweetwater in i Born May 5, 1901. in Missouri,
section 57 is attracting much inter- j Ronemus came to Sweetwater in
1928. He married Miss Stella Whit-
worth here on Nov. 11, 1930.
Surviving are his wife; one son,
Jimmy Ronemus, of Sweetwater;
one daughter. Mrs. Gordon Jones
nf Sweetwater; three grandchild-
est.
This well on the Boyd ranch is
said to have found oil shows in the
Strawn reef, the Odom Lime and
the Cambrian.
The Odom lime pay is viewed as
new pay in that area. The well I ren. „ . ,
w is a three-quarter mile west out- .
post to North Dora field.
It is about four miles south oi
Highway 80 through the White
Flat oil field—up in the mountains.
amar
Street Baptist Church was to of-
ficiate for the funeral service.
Patterson Funeral Home was to
direct interment in Sweetwater
Cemetery. Pallbearers were to bo
No. 1 Jack Perry oil test three j Si Heffner Larry Mims, Lester
miles northwest of Sweetwater is Dyer, Glendol Ammons, Roy Bur-
down below 4,000 feet, approach- nett, and Lawrence Hennington.
Ing the interesting last stages.
No. 1 Chas. Nunn north of here
on the Claytonville road is also
. ftill below the 5,000-plus mark
where wells of these type are to
be watched closely.
The Perry rig is attracting con-
siderable interest from friends of
the Perrys and the public and also
from the rattlesnakes.
Lghts of the rig attract the
snakes and several have been
killed each night as they roll up to
See OIL I'agc 8
Two Autos Are Damaged
In Intersection Crash
A 1949 Jeep driven by Waddy Mc-
Claitdy Hayes of 204'i West Louis-
iana Street had about $50 damage
Tuesday when it was in collision at
Avenue D and Throckmorton St.
Neither Hayes nor John Herrera
of Abilene, driver of the other car,
was injured. Herrera had about
S50 damage to his car, investiga-
ting police officers estimated:
ents when they came here from
Tennessee.
He was a retired rancher and had
been a rural mail carrier for the
past several years.
On July 4, 1911, he was married
to Miss Euphie Smith here.
Mr. Howard was a member of Tf^. c.omT,lt,!e.
the Roscoe Church of Christ.
Survivors include his wife; one
son. Billy J. Howard of Houston
46-COUNTY WHiNG DING
Texas Political
Underway With
Season Gets
Big Barbecue
NEW ORLEANS Uti — The U.S.
Weather Bureau today warned of
a low pressure area in the middle
Gulf of Mexico carrying squalls
and winds of 20 to 30 miles per three grandchildren—Charles How
hour toward the Louisiana coast, aid of Houston and Sharon and Su-
The bureau issued the following Tsa" RJ e Roscoe: one brother,
advisory at 6 a.m. (CST): Lei a nd S Howard of Roscoe; three
, . sisters—Mrs. L. B. Allen of Sweet-
There is a weak low pressure [ „.ater Mrs c A Roberts of
Taylor, former admin-
at the Sweetwater
has accepted the po-
sition of administrator of the
Medical Arts Hospital in Dallas
and will begin his new duties Sep-
tember 1, it was announced here
yesterday.
Taylor will continue as chairman
of the Texas Hospital Association's
Council on Association Develop-
ment and also as chairman of the
The Medical Arts Hospital is
fully approved by the Joint Com-
mission on Hospital Accreditation,
hence he will be eligible for ad-
vancement to membership in the
American College of Hospital Ad-
ministrators.
Mr. and Mrs. Taylor and son,
MiHe, moved to Sweetwater in
area in the middle Gulf of Mexico Kingsville, D. L Lindsay of San ??pten)?e,!L °.* \ daughter
By CLAYTON HICKERSON
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
A 46-county barbecue, slated as
a harmony rally, was to kick off
the p'-"-election year's political sea-
son Friuay iiit;ht
The big Democratic Party
gathering at Henderson had set
rumors to buzzing over the state—
some that would not be stilled until
the last day for filing of candida-
cies in 1956.
The big question remained "Who
is going to run for governor?"
And there were a lot of answers,
some undoubtedly correct.
Dr. Howard Bryant, Tyler oilman
and middle-of-the-road Democrat,
did much of the arranging for the
Friday night affair at Henderson
and dubbed it a harmony affair.
But when questioned he admitted
that some of Gov. Allan Shivers'
staunchest supports had not been
invited and were not expected.
"They don't live in the East Tex-
as area," the Tyler physician ex-
plained. He pointed out that a lot
of Ralph Yarborough partisans,
too, had not been invited. Dr.
Bryant talked as if the party might
develop into a James P. Hart-for-
governor rally, but he denied that
was the purpose of It.
He repeatedly has told newsmen
that Hart, former chancellor of the
the rest of the
University of Texas and one-time i Lyndon Johnson
state supreme court justice, would I summer.
merely discuss his "ideas and ; The Senate democratic leader
ideas ' at the barbecue. Hart ap- | arrived home Thursday to finish
parently then will await the re- recuperation from a heart attack.
I He was in high spirits and pre-
dicted to old friends that his doc-
Diego, Calif. Two Sweetwater wom-
en. Mrs. Joe Bowen and Mrs.
Frank Murchison, are nieces of
i the dect-ase.
His only daughter. Mrs. Betty
| Jane Rose, died in 1951.
with winds locally 20 to 30 miles I Funeral services will be held
per hour are expected over the j Saturday at 2:30 p. m. at the
northern Gulf of Mexico and along ' Church of Christ here, conducted
the middle Gulf Coast during the j by the minister. Bill Haynes, and
centered about 200 miles southeast
to the mouth of the Mississippi
River at 6 a.m. (CST\ and it is
moving west-northwest about 10 to
12 miles per hour. A few squalls
Mary Catherine, was born in the
Sweetwater hospital in November
of last year. The family resided
at 1304 East 12th and were mem-
bers of the First Presbyterian
church.
action from the voters
Other speakers at the kick-off
barbecue include Mrs. Wayne Wag-
onseller, widow of the iatc state
senator from Bowie. She has been
mentioned as a possible candidate
for her husband's senate seat and
as a gubernatorial bet. There was
little chance, observers felt, that
she would make any announcement
Friday night.
Jimmy Phillips from Angleion,
the state senator regarded as a
certain candidate for the Democra-
tic gubernatorial nomination, was
also expected to make a speech. It
was an even bet that Phillips
would discuss State Atty. Gen.
Shepperd—another possible guber-
natorial candidate—whom phillips
has been attempting to needle for
several weeks.
Shepperd is ill in an Austin hos-
pital with what was described
Thursday as an appendicitis at-
tack.
Although, the Henderson rally is
only one of several set over the
state for Democratic Party follow-
ers, the main trek for party faith-
ful probably will be toward the
Stonewall, Tex., ranch of Senator
Vet's Land Fund
Raised By State
tors would allow his return as
Senate floor leader in the session
starting in January.
Dallas organized labor units
were to open a three-day seminar
Friday at Southern Methodist Uni-
versity. Ralph Yarborough and Dr.
J. A. Beard were scheduled for the
principal addresses.
Yarborough is the Austin attor-
ney who pushed Gov. Allan Shivers j Court
into a hotly-contested runoff elec- 1 Dist. Judge J
next 24 hours. Small craft from
Pensacola, Fla., to Galveston,
Tex., should remain in port."
Circling ttie square |
The top 20 tune= of country and
western music will be played from
Station KXOX Saturday from 11
to 12 a. m. Co-Sponsorers are No-
lan Furniture Company. Metzgers.
enee Rose. F. C Childers and Jesse j and Broadway Cleaners Hear the
Lemoine Lewis of Abilene.
Interment will be in Roscoe Cem-
etery, Wells Funeral Home in
charge of arrangements.
Pall-bearers will be: Hark Han-
ey. D. S. Riggs, Clyde Ater, Clar-
Faust Sr.
Hillbilly Hit Parade.
Reading For Fun Club
AUSTIN W—Another $178,822.44
was recovered for the veterans . _ _ . ,
land fund by the state yesterday Members To See Movie
in a judgement in 53rd District <
Members of the Reading For Fun
Harris Gardner I club, of the County-City Library,
tion last year before losing the j rescinded purchase by the state xv'" be guests at a free motion pic-
Democratic nomination Beard is ; of Zavala County land from Frank ture at 10 a. m Saturday at the
the Irving, Tex., school official J W. Young, trustee. The land was | Texas Theater.
whose dismissal by the school i resold to 28 veterans, whose pur- : Sponsored by Lester True and
board set off a long, heated school ; chase contracts were also can- 'he Rowley United Theaters, a li-
controversy in the Dallas County
boom town.
Emphasis at the SMU seminar,
labor leaders have announced, will
be on organization for political ef-
fectiveness, something that Texas
labor circles often have lound miss-
ing in recent years
Saturday, the Dallas Democratic
Organizing Committee holds a bar-
becue to line up 1956 campaign
Workers. And on Labor Day, Sept.
See TEXAS Page 8
elled by the court. ! brary card is the only admission
The 'attorney general's depart- j necessary. Children having lost
itlent contended false represents- 'heir library cards may obtain a
lions were made to the veterans Pass to the movie by contacting
land board in the transaction.
Young's attorney, Dan Gibbs, did
not contest the state's case.
it was the third such judgment,
bringing the total veterans land
funds recovered to more than
$300,000. Action is still pending in
another 18 recovery suits seeking
return of about two million dollars.
Miss Marie Haney, librarian, prior
to movie time Saturday.
The Weather
WEST TEXAS — Clear to partly
cloudy and warm through Satur-
day with isolated afternoon and
evening thundershowers.
Reliable information has it that
Billy Martin is now raising "first
class worms". He points out that
many people raise thoroughbred
cattle so "why shouldn't I raise
thoroughbred worms", he says.
Bill Jamison. of Jamison's
Hatchery and Barbecue, says
there's nothing to the rumor that
he plans to sell his property on
East Broadway for a new con-
struction project,
"I heard the rumor, too," Bill
says, "But if I have plans to move
I don't know anything about it."
Moe Reich and George Ett, as
soon as they get together on a
street corner or a civic club meet
ing, began comparing notes on
their recent vacation to Las Veg-
as, Nev. ... Or maybe comparing
depleted pocket-books.
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