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ORANGE, TEXAS, tUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24. 1946
•GLUME XXXIH
NUMBER 226
tendencies toward misconduct. The
fire department mefnbers also aid-
ed in the work of seeing that the
jjest of order was observed.
INTELLIGENT DISCUSSION of
all subjects, especially those of
such vital importance that face
Orange at this time, is imperative
and at hardly any time are argu-
ments justified. Those who enter
into discussions should weigh well
their expressions with the view of
Bessie Heights Well Producer!
Outstanding Group
Of Artists Offered
Music Lovers Here
I
wonderful purpose in view of the
fact that many problems that will
come up in this locality must be
thrashed out in that manner.
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Community Concert Association Drive Under Way
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Story In Column 2
Weather
Partly cloudy, showers this af-
ternoon and tonight and Wednes-
day. Gentle to moderate east to
northeast winds on the coast.
points that should be brought out. ange Community Concert ussoci-
school of ti'uining tending to at ion were fired just night at its
qualify good citizens in regard to ; kickoff banquet in the f’eat-uck
logical discussions would sene a j room of the Grove in Louisiana.
The meeting wits presided over .
by Slade Brown, president. Mjs.
Tom Williams, general chairman,
instructed the workers as to pro-
CONTINUED COOPERATION
on the part of all groups of pub-
lic officials, and various represen-
tative groups is almost as neces-
sary at this time as it was during
the period of the' last wur when |-Hotel,
the destiny of the country was at
stake. There has never been a time
in the history of the 110-ycar old
town that the situation having to
do with the future was more cri-
tical than it is at this time. Truly
the destiny of this city and county
is now in the process of being
shaped as the place undergoes
cedurc and methods of issuing the j,
memberships. Mrs. Williams im-
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Wildcat 1$ Rated
Most Important
Oil Discovery In
Past Ten Years
nounci'd that check-up meetings j
will be held on Wednesday and
Eriday afternoons at 5:00 o'clock
at headquarters in the lloiland
Artists Named
Brown introduced Mi's. Amelia
Sperry, representative of the Co- j
lumbia Concert Sen ice, who dis-1
cussed artist availability. Among j
artists discussed as available to
Orange concert lovers were Helen
JepsoiY, Walter Cassel and Fran-
| ces Ycend, in joint recital, Mona j
Irak
li
i § m jpi
changes that will make it unrec- | Paulee, Albert Spalding. Patricia
ognizable to those who saw it only
■ few years ago.
BANG’S TEST
DAIRY HERDS
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Dr. II. 11. Key, director of the
Oriinge City - County Health Unit,
, announced today t^at steps are
being taken to give the people of'
Orange a safer raw milk supply.
A cooperative agreement of the
Texas State Department of
Health. Slate Livestock Sanitary
Commission and the local health
unit in recognition of the possible
danger of undulant fever from
drinking raw milk have notified
all lojCal dairymen that “All Grade
A milk that is to be consumed ravy
shall be from herds or additions
thereto which have been found
free from Bang’s disease".
AIL dairymen with a permit to
sell Grade A Raw milk shall
have their herds tested and a
certificate of the test on file at
thp. Orange City - County
Health Unit before a permit can
be renewed, Dr. Key said. Ail
permits for Grade A Raw milk
arc due for renewal on or before
March 31, 1047, he stated.
Dr. Key further stated that ac-
coiding to the report of John E.
Wheeler, local milk Inspector,
that several dairymen have al-
ready had their herds partly test-
ed. Two dairymen have had a
complete test and have offered
their certificates for filing, he
said: They are Ten Acre Dairy,
Crip Trahan, owner, and J. N.
Tliyhsli Dairy, Bridge City*
When other dairies have had
their tests completed, their names
will be released for publication j
by the healUv unit, the director j
announced.
Travers, Mildred Dilling, Zadel :
Skollovsky, Appleton and Field, j
dUo pianists, and Karen Branzell.
, “These arc only a few of the
magnificent artists available to i
1 us this year". Miss Sperry—re- ;
marked.
I » Tickets Delivered
Lake Charles and Port Arthur
ust completed the most suc-
cessfuTWaimpaigns in their his-
tory. whilst indicates the increase
ing dema nR»4ee- soad..4ftartrtin
this area as well as throughout
the country as a whole", con-
cluded Mrs. Sperry. Headquar-
ters have been established in the
Holland hotel lobby for the week
of the drive. A telephone call to
number 668 will bring a member
of the committee to deliver your j
membership card.
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c.»m«iim: Cornero Stralla, inset, “admiral ' of his erstwhile luxury gumb-
ip, ••'HSeXux," anchored off Long Beach, Cat., is a sad man again, for this time his enterprise has
met'^p^w^Jhe U. S. government. The gambling craft is shown as a .Coast Guard vessel keeps a
watefffOI eye ovIFTtrhaving^eizcd ahd towed it to Long Beach hnnbor. The action was based on fact
that the ship was licensed tor'colBttwiite-irade.^but^hadn't' done any of same. (Inf. Soundpiioto'
If Women Saw More of What Their Men Are tike ln Wo^
They Would Do More To Stop Them, Lions Club Here Told
me MOVES
TO WEED OUT
CHISELERS
"If a lot more women had seen j tourists' paradise almost over- [
what their men are like in the j night into a mammoth military j
thick' of a war, they would make | base and, incidentatlyi created an j
‘a greater effort to keep thorn from i enormous ’m ersupply of men and I
a bail slate in (rUlattrtn.
i After two years in
Waiting Period
Extended On Vets
Who Buy Homes
Veterans who buy housing units
for their own occupancy must
hereafter wait four months be-
fore Ihey.cun evict tenants, Jumes
T. Brown area rent director, said
tbcf&y.
‘•'“In the past area rent directors
were allowed to waive all or uny
part of the waiting period for a
veteran under special circum-
stances,” Brown said.
"The new rule from Washing-
ton sets a -uniform four - month
waiting period in cases of pur-
chase by veterans of tenant-*occu-
pied housing. Veterans will have
a two - month preference over
non - veterans,' who must wait
s six months.'
(THU LE TWO THANKS
HELPERS IN SALE
Members of Circle Two of the
"Tirst Presbyterian church, Mrs.
Alan B. Cameron, chairman, wish
thank ail those who contrib-
The Texas Uncmploy*i
pensation Cbmmissiof? is stepping
up its endeavors to weed u small
| group of chuftjcrx not ot\thc vet-
i erans' allowance program, it was
| disclosed today by W. T. Wright,
i Beaumont, TUCC Supervisor,
j A fraud unit composed of TUCC
1 investigators lias been detailed to
gather evidence on violations of
the penal provisions of Title V
of the G. I. Bill of Rights, Wright
reported. ---* ------,.
Fine Provided
Public Law 346 provides a max-
imum fine of $1,060 and up to
one year in prison for fraudulent-
ly claiming or receiving either
unemployment or self - employ-
ment allowances under Title V of
the G. 1. Bill, the supervisor
pointed out. As agent in Texas
for the Veterans Administration,
the TUCC gathers evidence of vi-
olations and turns it over to that
authority tor prosecution of vio-
lators through Federal courts, lie
said.
Wright stated that.TUCC exam-*
iners had uncovered some cases
where v derails allegedly had
been working full time but claim-
ing unemployment allowances and
hud found a few instances where
apparently the former servicemen
were claiming self , employment
payments when not Self - employ-
.cd. When knowledge of an al-
leged v iulation is received by the
Commission, payments to the vet-
erans are immediately suspended
peudirfg investigation, he declared.
Probe Under Way '
Technical nature of the evi-
dence returned by the VA neces-
sitated thaClhe fraud unit be set
up to assist the regular staff
of examiners. the supervisor
pointed out. He said that fraud
investigators this week were a!
worl^ in three Texas cities.
happening.
, _ _____ ... Bermuda,
thus. Mrs. Jimmy Dyke. Bril- j Ki)jd Mrs. Dyke, she returned to
isli bride of a former American j England, where she spent the rest
Army officer, Monday night sum- j 0[ ljM» war working min volunteer
|med up to members or flic Qr- ] uso wm.k,,,.. ,, was at a UfiO
| ange Lions club an ObaeryaUon} dance liir American service men,
drawn from days of ministering sht. lt.|ak,t|. ,h„t she met Captain
|as a volunteer Red Cross worker , Jalm.s 1)ykp who sht, sill(, con.
lent Com-! *’° d,c British and trench evac* : vIneed her that .“he was Ti good
uces from Dunkirk. ! person and that Orange was the
Speaking on the subject, "War j host place in.the world to live."
in England," Mrs. Dyke traced
step by step the manner-in which
Rio conflict slowly transformed
the British people from the win- [ n di^k
forts of peace to the horrors of
all-out war.
Fled lo Canada
Humorously at times, but al-
ways, with a background or suf-
TeringX discomfort or inconveni-
ence, the speaker narrated for
club members her first ludicrous j and prospects
efforts to fit herselt into the Eng- : year.
lish defense ^system. Then she j . Six New Members
told how, out Tit regard tor the j Six new members were intro-
safety or her small son she fled jduced at the meeting by Lion
to Canada and later went to Bcr- j President O. C. Gammuge, wiio
muda via way of thb U. S'. 1 officiated. These are Harry H.
In connection with, the latter
journey, Mrs. Dyke t'tiKpw the
meeting info an uproar oi\sevcral
occasions with humorous anec-
dotes generally revealing consid-
erable resourcefulness on her |;
in getting around war time
tape. v
lletiirncd to England
Continuing in her iminilablc
manner, the speaker retd tod how
While she was in Bermuda. Yan-
kee ingenuity transformed that
SCIENTIST TO
LECTURE HERE
THIS EVENING
Mrs. Dyke, admitted that she did
like the city after afulv mg here
following a trip from England as
land on a small British
tanker made in order to expedite
her and/aI in the U. S.
Follotving the talk by Mrs.
Dykeydiwdiks' - Conover. head
coatdjr of the Orange high school
loomull team, told the club
something of the potentialities
tor the team this
WO't
it'd
Smith. F. S. Newman, J. M, Wil-
son, J- Frank Bell, C. A. Chick
Thomas and Joe M. Powett.
, Guests introduced besides the
speakers were J. J. Kelly. John
Dullahan, Joe Fisher, Joe Tona- I
hill. Frank• Beauchajnp. K. H.
McGill, D. 0. Vance, D.
and Lawrence McKinley.
The meeting was attended by
about 05 persons, one of the
largest groups ever present lot a
regular meeting of the club.
I„ F Livingston, noted demon-
strator and lecturer will appear
at the Stark high school auditor-
ium tonight at 7:30 when lie will
disclose -some of the wonders of
science which helped to win the i
victory in World War II. but un- i
til now had not been made pub-
lic
Tracing liu* development: ol
chemical industry of which his
company, the E. I. duPoiit de Ne-
mours. had a major role, Llctna-
ston will demonstrate such here- |
toforc top - secret" items as the
explosive civil.
Arrangements lor Ins appears I
ance in Orange, where the du- j
Pont company has under con- 1
struetion south of town the mam-
moth nylon sajt plant, have been |
perfected by* the Chamber of j
Commerce in cooperation with to- ■
Cal officials of duPont.
W. A. McNeill, manager of the
chamber, stated that this free i
demonstration and lecture is free <
to the general public. He staled j
Bringing, in yesterday of The
I To* n V'VII No. I Cl. M. Adcock
r ■> "d, 1 of v‘e'1 located on -the
| •br'htvert , T ink of the .Bessie
II«d«W« dome jn soutliw ;st T.»r-
j op*’,*’ county, pioved to be what*
[ is described as the most import-
i uflt Gulf const oi| discovery in
i the last ten years. Drilled by the j
I Hinkle drilling company on a
ft 'em - out tor the Shell Oil coin- '
! pliny. flit- drill stem test vcstcr-
i day showed a 170 barrel per day
I-production.
The wildcat was perforated id
8774-07711 with 24 shots.
Pressure Was 2715 pounds a;
the-top of an eight-inch -choke
and a quarter -inch choke at the
bottom. There was a water cush-
ion of 22U0 feet. Fluid hit at five
and one - half minutes after tin
j tool was opened.
Offset Well line
j The gas - oil ratio was ItiMM) ru-
I oil. The gravity ol the oil was
| 54.4 and the crude wus of a deep
1 black color.
More than a dozen major com-
panies turned down the wildcat.
Gulf Oil eomuuujy. luMcqsvgr, «uu-,
tributed heavily to the opei'afioit,
holding land in tfie vicinity, tiulf
will be forced, ucciadlng to re-
•^THift, ty make a direct offset west
•Of the iopnimo,.
The well was dri(TeflT»n.-ii JOOff-
licre block obtained from ShelT’+fteeig killed in
for whom the well was pul-down
8500 feet, where it was almost u-
bandoned until Gulf entered flic
operation. The well was drilled
to 8951 ffeet. which, according to
; veteran oil scouts here, Is the
deepest over, reached in oil well
drilling in Orange county.
Four l*ay Zones
It showed four principal pav
zones in the lower Frio or Hack-
i berry fornuilion. with a total id
more than 120 lect of sand show
BULGARS TO
BE DEPRIVED
OF FRONTIER
ARMY POSTS
Paris. Sept jjf( AP) Tin
peace iu;mnii (.'nw'-jjfiHtazy com-
mission voted today to detortffy
the southeastern border of Sluv
Europe, aituplmg a Greek amend-
ment to the; Bulgarian treaty
which should shear Bulgaria of
frontier fortifications.
The vote was 11 to seven, with
three absent ioiis,
ll came as the four power for-'
. rign ministers eon mil vvas ur-
.vrriving in ; rnnghig to discuss Italian colonies
bride nnd ether disputes holding up the
latuiwi : progress of the conference.
The pi'0|sisitloit is lo dentilitaf-
i/.e Hu buna's lltb-mlle frontier
With Greece "lo the same extent"
as, Italy's frontier With Yugosla-
via. Only Brazil and the Slav
delegates op|Mised the move.
a war - bride
Maria
BLAMES ABM'.
New York aboard
transport, Mi's.
Oddi, shown with her xurvivin
twin, F.«#eros, Substantiate
chur . es made try her hofttMU fi
Maj. Victor i.. Ocgti of Wcstove
Field, Mass., that the tlicr tvVi ,
died a,, a .insult of "shockdig'"
Army treatment and "Crimitc,
oej.llgenee" in Naples, indy,
(While awaiting sfdpinent tr th.-
United Stales, (liilcrnutinnaU
Bodies of Airmen
HIGHWAY MEH
J
Removed From Ship Q|i| % ROUTE
Near Mexico City
Mciiico City. Sept, 'it (APJ<
The Codies of five U. S. navy pci
Sonnet and a Mexican naval of
tlie crash of a U.
S. embuffsy naval plane Friday,
; were taken to a funeral establish-
j ment While arrangements vverv
j made for their flight home
It was understiaat the l««lie
j of the five U. S. filers Would he
t returned to tin* U. S. by plain
j They were;1 C'vmilr. Robert JW ,
'Gayett; l.t, Conulr. Raymond P
| .Becker, medical corps: Chief A
vlation Radinmun Lee E. Pleas
| uni; Chief Aviation Machinist'
—... ........— — -- ------ ------ | Mate Cii^-I E. GUI. and Aviation
ing fur ptobuble oil or gas produe- I Pilot 1st Class Charles if. Cleary
Il-.t.
lion.
Prodticriou m the Bessie Heights
dome has been at the 5,000-foot
zone, The success of the new
well is expected to spur deep
Tlie Mexican, Naval Lt. Octa-
vio Diuz dc Rivera, aide to Gavett
will be buried here.
Hit MohifUhr
The plane, which took off i mm
*4 .v.'atf * ’
Mayor Hayuuiitd Sander.* lint •
been advised by letter from De-
witt C. Greer, state highway en-
gineer. Hurt the engineer and
JoJm C. Rrrldilt, chairman i»f tftc
stale highway commission, plan
lo visit Grange soon in regard lo
the promised new route tor high-
way V. S. U0 »
Greer vvus in El Piiso ut «ti|c
time tlie letter ,was written,* hut
said h« wait attempting to arrange
the Orange V isjt 'with Itcddilt.
T In view of the letter, the mayor
stated, the delegation which hud
planned tit-go from here tu Austin
on the matter will wait a few days
at ieusl before making the trip.
Krloralton Proposed
The state proposed to relocate
highway 90 along a route at the.
; northern city limits of (Range
I with a view eventually to convert*
' mg it into a superhighway. This
plan lias met with serious oti-
drilling on the flanks of many ol j here Friday morning, nppurentl.. ' ,
lhe Tex i- and l.ouisiana coast crashed iplo the metintabor’It’hlHi"tittFl ,- ,
sum*md Mexico Sity- while trylnz •»*» •HH-iators,. a-
leasiug and royalty , ,,y low - hanging storm l,“,“ “venue, present reute
domes.
• Oil land
trading continued briskly in Gr-
ange today.
Former Orange
Man Found Dead
In Hotel Room
Clyde Lee Riddle. 42. salesman
and former resident of Orange.
Was found dead in his naan at the
Kdson hotel in Beaumont yester-
day afternoon about 5 o'clock.
According to Justice of the Peace.
clouds. Indians from a village two
hwt/r tyy rough Hail beyond the
- town of Texcoco. 30 milts lo th
' ca/it. notified local officials of thv
lost plane's location Saturday, and
i tl/ie Texcoco chief of police went
back with them that evening and
I guarded the plane until help in -
j rived yesterday, . ________
U. S. Embusijy’officials sUpei-
! vised removal of the bodies from
tlie wrecked craft, rtmt they were
| brought to the military hospital
j here last evening.
ol the highway.
Pui igisc of the delegation vvhggii
is lo go from here to Austin,-"4t
ha-, been .mnoiuoiced. is to ubtfjjii
men- mfnrmatiim com ernmg -4tn*
sillie s proposal. ’* ^
• Early Action Asked
The mayor said he leels ttfiAt
the desired mtormgtion can per-
haps be 'obtained from ihi high-
way department engineer “'(d
chaifman if they make their, v isit
soon enough to permit the early
action i cqnested by the stat^ on
endorsement "in pi'hTetple" oi[ its
proposed routing of (lie road.
Army Announces
New Enlistment
Program Today
io thank all those who contrtb- ; Two person* were fiiied for the
Titcd in any way to the success of ; offense of speeding, two tot vio-
thc rummage sale held on Friday
and Saturday.
The proceeds
be used in the
As of the Hie will
buftcvolence* spon-
sored by the circle,
, - A
.......
lating passing regulations and
causing accident and one tor
druukenest in Justice of the
Peace J P Swain’s court Tues-
day.
According to recruiting officer,
T-Sgt. Kirby of the U. S. Army,
whose office is in the court bouse,
the Army has announced .1 new j
enlisUnent program in winch a I 11
former army, navy, marine at j
coast guard may etlhst in tlie reg- j
,ular army. t
Auy former member of the
armed forces, who held a rating
at the time of his discharge, may
receive the equivalent rank by
enlisting tor a three - jrear peri-
od, it .was siated. provided the
that it is one of the most inter- ,---------------------- — . .
D. Brings . ;i<K| fascinating exhibitions j Horace Blades, who held an in- I
ever brought to Orange quest, the man hail been dead ten !
----------—— or twelve hours before his body 1
Dinner Meeting .......... |
C _ i. C_ ,, rtf. „ L Mr. Riddle was a brother to
ror VlHJlYlUvf" ,— ^ Mrs. Jin k Bradley of Oraqge and
, . had lived iiere several years. Ivav-
A regular meeting of the direc- ; *
___, _____ . ... , .. , tors of the Chamber of Commerce
Stale college freshman j wits' be held in tlie HoJland iiotel
dining room Wednesday night at
7 o’clock it wax announced today
by the manager. W. A. McNeill.
It was stated that matters of great
Importance will came up at that
NEW APPROACH
Manhattan, Kas. <AP) A
t Kansas
! rented a tandem bicycle, got on
alone and pedalled away. A few
minutes later he reappeared witji
a sign attached to the vacant seat
reading:
"Help Wanted. Female.
ir.g attended the Orange public
School*. Papers on tit* person in-
dicated that his permanent aci-
dic** at the time of hi*-dcalh was
Houston He was in 'Beaumont
tor several weeks cm business, it
was stated.
Other survivor* include his
The promotion worked. He came j tor,* to be present. White,' Va'.'’'twqothm-^ters. Mr*.
Haywood Kinney, Baytown. Tex-
as; Mrs. S. R. Bari-ett, Glen White,
one brother. H. T. Riddle of Hub-
bard. Texa*. 1
a comely bihndc
providing half the leg -work.
c ----.........-y*". 'I
applicant' ha* held his military
occupationdl specislly number
long enough,
Hasting*. Neb. (APj — An ab-
sent -i minded Hastings amateur
photographer left some films at a
shop tor developing, hut forgot
to leave his name.
He got the prints back, how-
ever.
He was traced through hi* au-
tomobile license number, viribte
i in one of lit* -napsitots. -■
Scout Training
Course To Open
A University of Scouting begins
tonight at 7:30 o'clock at Curr jii- arrival of
nior high school, according to an- i
nouncement today by E. L. Barker, j
chairman. This will be a train-
ing course for all cub and senior
leader* and cemmiHeTmcB. it
staled. .
Mother of Vidor
Mon Dies Monday
In Orange, Cal.
Mix: Katherine Smith, about fin,
mother Yif.Byrufi Smith, Jr. of Vi-
dor. and former resideni of Or-
ange county and Beaumont tor 35
years, died yesterday in her home _____, ,
In Orange, California.
Meeting On Fire
Station Tonight
An (rtiv.'i heai iiig on ihe propa-
Sttl lo locate ihe new central fire
station, ol the cotner of S</veiifft
und Elm streets will be held tv-
night at 7 30 o'clock in tt*e city
lndI, Mayor Raymond- Santjer* liui
The body was being held at the
Bruasurd (uiteral home (lending
relative*.
Two person* were tie Id for af-
fray and one for drunkaUe** by
the Orange city police department
through Monday and .Monday
nigh:
to information received by rela
lives. She had been a resident of
California to*' the l>a*( six years.
The body is being forwarded to
the Carroll - Wallace Urn end
home in Beaumont foi funeral ar-
rangements. » It was understood
tfiat burial will be in a Beaumont
cemetery. —-
Other survivor* include one so-
ter. Mr*. Muck McCracken *»f
Orange. Calif., two brother1*, Jim
Wolxon of Alice and Mack Wi -
s»n of New Iberia. La., u niece.
Mr*. R. D. Mapes and a nephew.
Gene Billingsley, both of; Beat,,
mont and two grandchildren..
All iieisou-. interested in the
matter are invited to-be present
at the meeting and to, offer uny
objection* to the presently pro-
laixed local ion or te suggest other *£
lonilaidc locatioiv*. / the maYot .-3:
sod. }
T
l N( OMMI NH’ATIVE
Chicago, iA^i -a rui-diiiaiai R.
Jcm like, wiio/celebrated lrt» Wth
bin inlay yc*/eixtay. toki h»s gtM*.'
«»t thrill t«jf life, v'' .,
It ’ wax disclosing to
worker*. Upon hi* relic
82i teai he had n wooden
lie kepi tin secret ft
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