The Orange Leader (Orange, Tex.), Vol. 52, No. 8, Ed. 1 Sunday, January 10, 1954 Page: 1 of 26
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Two-Way Industrial Dea
rmy— Mattingly Acquires Marine & Petrokui
, And Disposes of Interest in Leviagstea
West Orange Plans
$475,000 School
Expansion Project
Starting March 1
A two-way industrial transaction in which*!*. A. Matting,
ly acquired most of the stock of Marine and Petroleum Sup.
ply Co. and the stockholders of Levingston Shipbuilding Co.
took over Mattingly’s stock in the shipbuilding firm was an*
nounced yesterday.
Ed T. Malloy, president of Levin gston. made the ass*
—— = nouncement The value of fan
JK#1| A him mm terests exchanged in the deal
Oil! Ml mV was not disclosed.
_ ' I Malloy «ud that Mattingly,
l_ formerly vice president of
|C KfPRIArAn Levines<°". had severed his con-
■ 9 I I Vliai VU nection. with the shipbuilding
_ > _ ■ firm and will devote full time to
F T II management of the supply com-
I Or Trouble reuined ownership
of the tract of land at 87 Main
/ ® HJt’ Sunday, Jan. 10 the land to Mattingly “for a num-
(AP) — The U.N, field com- her of years ”
mander said yesterday his Stockholders of Levingston who
Eighth Army is “waiting Sin™ ^r*ct,orVot
Story, Photos by RALPH RAMOS
West Orange schools launch
a major construction program
on March 1 pointing toward
eventual establishment of a
high schooL
The new structures, first of a
planned expansion, will cost $475,-
000 and school officials hope to
move into classrooms at the open-
ing of the fall term of school this
year.
Supt. Mrs. Mildred Crawford
said theTiew buildings’ comple-
tion will see the West Orange sys-
tem extending its teaching facili-
NEW HOUSE OF LEARNING
Construction Starts in March
ties to the ninth grade. It has
taught only through the eighth in
the past.
"Each year thereafter,” Mrs
Crawford explains school plans,
"wo hope to advance a grade un-
til we have a full high school pro-
gram.”
There's a Big ‘If*
Of course, there is a big “if" In
the West Orange planning. The
high school program will be in-
augurated if the scholastic growth
isn’t so great the school’s new
facilities are overburdened.
And, school officials fear that
might happen.
Right now West Orange is ex-
periencing extreme overcrowding
with some of its grades morr
jampgcked than any of the rest
of the county’s schools. Mrs.
Crawford explains she has classes
(See SCHOOL. Page 7)
Malloy said. He added:
“All of the stockholders and
directors of Levingston have ex-
pressed to Mr. Mattingly their
sincere appreciation of effective
work that he has done for Leving-
ston throughout the many vears
that he was associated with it
and wish him every success la1
his new venture.”
Mattingly, a certified public ac-
countant, tax specialist and ef-
ficiency expert, came to Orange
near the start of World War II
and has been associated with
Levingston for most of the time
since. He also maintains a private
practice as a CPA,
Marine A Petroleum Supply
Co, organised *
ORANGE, TEXAS, SUNDAY, JANUARY 10, 1954
Member Associated Press
VOLUME LI I
by Levingston
(See MATTINGLY, Page •)
Edward Survives
Second Operation
Little Edward Ray Thornal yes-
terday successfully withstood a
crucial four-hour operation In
Beaumont’s Martin de Porres Hos-
pital to relieve pressure on his
brain caused by the accumula-
tion of fluid.
Surgeons said the 9-year-old
son of Orange Policeman E. E.
(Bud) Thornal was still in “very
critical condition but is doing as
well ea could be expected.”
The child is recuperating from
a critical eight-hour brain opera-
tion In which surgeons removed
pert of a malignant turner from
his brain. Doctors hope to anratt
further spread of the cancerous
Restudy Of
Reservists
Setup Due
REPORT
Orange-Built Docks
Handle First Ore
ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 9 (AP)—A taxi driver’s feud
against a farm family blazed up today in an afternoon of gun
play that left, three dead and lour wounded.
The dead:
Walter Clark, 36 the taxi driver, cut down by a posse’s
. — — bullets when he tried to shoot
T"T it out with them.
Rose Tossing Brings Mrs. Lorraine E. Schultz,
Houw. Cwuj. D,w»
U,fu*ON, Jan. 9 t 1 point blank range In their home,
men tossed a rose to her suitor Tjje wounded"
--and he spilt his pants picking ■ Herman Joseph Schultz Sr., 31.
'l "I>' . f husband of Mrs. Schultz, shot in
It happened tonight at the the shoulder during a crossroads
Sarf.eis Wells Opera House. encounter with Clark.
“1 must have made a rather, William N. Brown. 23. brother
long stretch,” tenor Rube r t!of Mrs Schultz, shot in the foot
Thomas explained later. "I fell at the same time. _
somcthing of a draft but 1 still: Theresa R Schultz, 2. daughter
didn’t realize they’d gone.” I of Mr. and M,rs. Schultz, cut on
The audience did. So did the the head, apparently as the killer
stage manager, who brought of her mother and grandmother
the curtain down. fled, ■—-----
- Officer Shot in Arm
'id Opening Slated Fairfax County Police Pvt. Den-
Fnr HitzHwav Protect* <See FEUD> ,1d8e fi)
The firat ore ship to be loaded
at Orange-built docks went down
the Orinoco River yesterday,
bound for the new Falrleit Works
of U. S. Steel at Morrisville, Pa.
The ore shipment, firat out of
U. S. Steel’s Venezeulan nates,
culminated nine years of Moor
and an investment of 170 oAiin
dollars. t '•
Loading dock* for the ores fat
up on the Orinoco River 91 allies
from U. S. Steel's Cerro Bolivar
mines, were completed last *ye«r
at the Consolidated Western Steel
Division plant in Orange.
Bv GARDNER L. BRIDLE <
WASHINGTON, Jan. 9 >
(AP)—President Eisenhower !
today ordered a “new ©p-
proaeh” to military reserve
policies which eventually HKHk ' V-‘-
may divide the nation's suiiii is.'o B93H|L
these two categoric-:
1. An ’'immediately oaHgVl
reserve" consisting o! wrU-i1 1 r AKSi&j
men who would be ready lor ,m- mBBBDHR v' lBnl
mediate military service.
2. A "selectively callable re- j. WOOD FAIN
serve” composed of men who
would be subject to recall or de- <i , m . . a
ferment on the basis of occupa- VCl6r(M jCOUlST IS
tion, special skills, age, marital
CUr-** *““■ - ”lh" To Be Speaker Here
In correspondence released by ■
the White House. Eisenhower j J- Wood Fain of Woodville, a
agreed “in general’’ with rocom- member oi the executive board
mendations along these lines sub- °* the Trinity-Necbes Boy Scout
THE GAMBLING CASE—John
oung, the DA. in Austin this
People from throughout tha
Sabine area have rallied to help
the stricken youth’a family meet
hospital bills. Public contributions
last night continued to pour in at
the police station.
Officers, Underworld In
Grim Race for Witness
DETROIT, Jan. 9 (AP)—Detroit and Canadian authorities today
were locked in a grim raca with the Detroit underworld to find Don
Ritchie, a 33-year-old Trench Canadian, the fleet-footed “key wit-
ness" to tiie solution of the 194$ assassination attempt on Walter
Reuther, CIO president
Ritchie eluded three police guards at a downtown Detroit hotel
Fridays and fled into hiding in-------“---- _
w k O'Brien, Draft Call Is Issued
admittedly afraid the underworld _
would catch up with Ritchie first. Car 09 Alt T■■Afllmf
was reluctant to identify the Ca- ■ VI JLJL QII I UChllUY
|naRe.ch^h.‘t8 MrhoC^o'Brien JgL*
finally told newsmen “that’s the grange, Jaspcrand Newton Coun-
witness. It’s up to you If you want ?£*"*?*&
to publish his name—I don't want Tv^.n'
Llhc responsibility of putting a chie‘ Clerk Mra. Lausen Cox an.
j bullet' through that man’s head." nounced Saturdw.
O’Brien earlier told newsmen The Orange County group of
! Ritchie represented his case H wtllleave from the Greyhound
against four men named a* con- Station Tuesday at 6:40 a m.
spirators in the 1948 assassina- It includes Kenneth Burch. Har-
tion attempt. vest Robertson. Clarence Moor#
The four are Carl Rend.. 35;
Santo Sam Pcrrone. 56; Peter
I/mibardo, 61: and Clarence Ja-
cobs 48. Warrants have been is- Gardnier. Harold Hugh
sued against four other men in Breaux and Vessle Lamar Mon-
the case, but police have not dis- ™e of Orange. Fi nesrt Charles
closed their identities. Penkert Jr HePrv W(BMn Mc"
01.1,1 _____rvRrl.n In tyre and Daniel Stephen Chance
JSSSt th" £^3* Vidor '^Harold Louis Wybto
nnei(Of three "assigned to the °fNewton County In-
in a stenographlcally recorded ^uctees leav.: from ttwUataa Bua
statement to police and released ^u^orL®*
by the prosecutor. Ritchie identi- » m- include John Harvey
4k. ***..,crassr.nW lemons Jt. of Evadale and Homer
Water Districts To
Elect 12 Directors
SPADEFU! OF PROGRESS
Banker McFarland
New Bank Building
Under Construction
Orange's commercial expansion
' L Taxpayers in three Orange
I* jL movement districts Tuesday will
‘ ' County water control and im-1
' n* elect 12 directors from 18 candi-
on dates who seek posts on the three
rson boards at Vidor, West Orange and i
ange jjrj,|g{. (Jity.
of H. E. Davis, secretary, and;
Kige.! Wallace Stephenson are seeking
w-i.l j reeled ion to the board of Dist rict
arm 1 at Vidor while L C. ^IfCullar!
1 {or and Luther L Smdh are new'
base candidates. Holdovers on the!
nent | board this year afe H. L. Wright,
1006 | president, W. -Frank Woods, vice
87. presidentj^ahd Malcolm Brown, j
start . s, . The First National
Bank’s two-storv structure at
Green and Fifth streets is under-
way.
Groundbreaking ceremonies Fri-
day marked the beginning of
heavy construction and tomorrow
pile driving crews begin putting
All fiife directors are seeking i down the foundation piling for
reeleetion in District 2 at West the structure.
Orange. They are Horner Miller,! H. J. Lutcher Stark, speaking at
I resident, D. W. Davenport, Jack the groundbreaking, pointed to
Dardeau, Edwin Turner and Percy other new commercial building in
Godwin. The new candidate is the immediate future when he re-
Monroe Parish Jr. j ported the nearby Naquin House.
Three incumbents are seeking on the northeast corner of the
reelection in District 3 at Bridge same intersection would be razed
City. They are Otto Engcbreston, in preparation for construction of
J. L. Bourque and J. D. Baker, a national dry goods store.
New candidates are W. F. Box, j Witnessed by 150
George A. (Ham) Laughlin and! One hundred and fifty people
J. G. Edgerly. P. It. Crim and gathered on the old Stark home
Jack Turner are retiring from the
District 3 board this year. 1 (See GROLNDBREAKING, P. 6)
SCHOOLS — After a round of
most of the county’s schools the
report isn’t good . .. Where is the
money coming from to teach the
oounty’s rapidly increasing flock j
of children? . . .
—Almost every school in the
county is crammed beyond its
•opacity . . . Orangefield is the
notable exception, plenty of
room out there and not too much.
prospect of increased growth ...
We’re told that efforts to
hulld are thwarted in Orange-
(See RAMOS, Page 6)
fied Jacobs as the “triggerman”
in the assassination plot.
Ritchie said he received $5,000
(See WITNESS, Page 8)
Pistol Shots in Cabin
Land Shooter in Jail
£uy C. Vickery Jr. o£ 1205
Wren way was free under $100
bond today after firing four shots
from a .38 calibre pistol inside
Cabin 11 at Len’s Courts in the
300 block on 13th street yester-
day at 1:25 p. m.
The cabin was occupied by Lee
Palmie and Monty Hale. Vickery
Kdltor's Note: Cpl Claude Estfh*lbr,
the Kermit. T*r, soldier who recently
w*b r* leased by his own request from
a pro-Red camp In Koras, hss since
liven only two Army-supervised pres*
conferences. Tester ft sy ti* Trot in* first
pas* from a'’Tokvo Army hospital and
whils outside wrote down exclusively
for The Associated Ptmui his inner-
most feelings about what he did.
■ airy Division, near Unsan-Ni, 60
miles north of Pyongyang. On
. Nov. 1, 1950, the Chinese attacked
our company. We were one of
the first outfits to be hit by the
J Chinese. We didn’t even know
I that they came into the war.
1 We were five days wandering
• around up there with nothing to
eat or drink. We had a lot of dose
calls.
Fight Before Surrender
Op the fifth day we were at the
base of a mountain when the
Chinese walked right up on us.
We gave them quite a fire battle
for half an hour.
Our lieutenant. Lt. Arias from
California—I don’t know his first
ii name—finally told us we were
outnumbered and said he'd leave
ATROCITIES KILL S8.60S
WASHINGTON. Jan. 9 (A) —
Sen. Potter (R-Mich) said today
that more than 50.000 persons
died in Korea as a result of Com-
munist atrocities and he asked
that the United Nations find a
way to,punish 'the criminals re-
sponsible.”
wag, arrested at his home shortly
after the incident and lodged in
jaiL He was freed under bond at
7 p. m. and will appear in corpora-
tion court to answer to a charge
ot discharging firearms within the
By Col. CLAUDE BATCHELOR
TOKYO, Sunday. Jan. 10 (AP)
—I was a pro.
That’s what they called me
up at camp five because I got
along with the Chinese and made
friends with them: because I be-
lieved that what I was doing was
rHht and wanted to help my peo-,
pie. -
I understand a lot ofc folks back
In the states resent my coming
back. On the other hand I have
received a lot of letters from peo-
ple congratulating me. I greatly
appreciate their sentiments. How-
ever. there seem to be some circles
that resent my coming back.
Some Are Angry
That’s funny because when we
were up there in the non-repat
camp everyone wanted us to come
home. Now that I’m back it teem#
that some of them are sore. Okay.
I made a mistake. I was wrong in
•oote of the things I did. But I am
limits.
V|ckery at present is under in-
dictment by the grand jury
chOIKUd with gambling in connec-
tlwrwith the grand jury’s raid on
the .Southland Club near Vidor
last spring.
| Today's Weather |
P»U Tnm r.S. Wnthtr Barcu •
tonal lor,can: Cloudy sod turning
eoidor, with occasional rains today and
trmorrow High today, about SS degrees.
Hocteeilr winda, X to JO oillct an hoar
many a tides: Soblno—high at T:SJ am.
and 1.35 pm., low at tt:M a.m. and
1- Ipy m.: Bolivar—high at S:X a m.
hnCiao pm., low at 1.14 a.m. and 1:55
p.m. Tomorrows tides: 8abln*—high at
T:M a.m. and S:M p.m low at 1:14
a.m, »nd 1:10 p m.; Bolivar—high at
HOC a m. and S:M p.m.. low at 1:11
skftw and sunset today. 7:IJ am
and 1:14 p.m. Wrnrtw and ■ unset tomot-
—w, I.U sjb. apd tJ* pa.
it up to us. After some coiifusion.
we decided to surrender.
On the way north, I got to be
buddies with Eldon R. Bradley of
310 S. Chapin St, South Bend.
Ind. He was feeling low. He asked
me to talk so I talked up a steady i
Stream.
Eldon and I made a pact that if!
one of us was killed he would tall,
the other’s folks about U 1
Well, mrnr Atari m prtansi mmm i
(See BATCHELOR, Page •) J
BIGGEST DAT EVER—City polfeimen yesterday licensed 2U btcycles for a record day, Asst.
Chief L. B. Hayden said. He expressed the department's appreciation “for the excellent cooperation
we have received in this means of safeguarding bicycles against theft.” A repeat performance ot the
drive to license ail bicycles in the Orange area win be held at City Hall next Saturday. So far this
year 413 bicycles have received their tags from the city police department. (Staff photo by Ralph
Ramos). •
BATCHELOR
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Browning, J. Cullen. The Orange Leader (Orange, Tex.), Vol. 52, No. 8, Ed. 1 Sunday, January 10, 1954, newspaper, January 10, 1954; Orange, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth557033/m1/1/?rotate=180: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Lamar State College – Orange.