The Orange Leader (Orange, Tex.), Vol. 52, No. 124, Ed. 1 Sunday, May 23, 1954 Page: 4 of 32
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RISING STAR, Tex. (AP) — Politics can be
aimole.
—— Mack Gibson announced himself a candidate for
justice of peace at Rising Star, the onlY candidate
for the post that had been vacant two years.
Last week the County Commissioners Court
hastened the day for him and appointed him justice
of the peace.
Two Filipino movie stars receptlv persuaded
a Red Huk guerilla squad to surrender after a
chance meeting on a lonely mountain road. Did
thev promise the squad members roles in the
movie play to be based on the incident?
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The Orange Leader
Samri B. Qu Drier -...........- ■ '—Pi
i. Cullen Browning - ---
Mn /earn Deei •____________Society
E. r KrtOterh_______—Artv.rtnm* I
B. rn. Reels___........._Olrcnlsllon V
I*. R. i Bobi McHugh ---Sports
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BROTHERS PLAN MAP
SCHENECTADY, N. Y. (AP)—
John and Robert Moran have
combined their hobbies into a fish*
in* service for anglers. John, a
fishing enthusiast, and Bob, an
artist, are publishing a series of
"Wilderness Fishing Maps.” pin-
pointing the best New York fish-
ing waters, stocked streams and ■
access routes. They have traveled
8,00 Omiles in the Adirondacks to'
gather their information.
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tillered Jan. 1. ISOS, ot Post Ofttcs, Orange. Tams, as
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And now the killer escarre sups
QUIETLY INTO THE COLISEUM TO KEEP
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ham-Smith.
“I wanted to be a dramatist,”
she admits.
Since that repeatedly failed to
work, she at last turned to other
fields—happily for her and her
readers. Her first book. "Florence
Nightingale,” seemed such an un-
likely topic that several publish-
ers said no to the Mss which was
promptly, grabbed by McGraw-
Hill and sold a gratifying 20,000
copies. The new book, “The Rea-
son Why.” is about the charge of
the Light Brigade in the Crimean
War. A third book is growing out
of the groundwork done on these
two. says .Mrs. Wodham -Smith, a
smallish, white-haired, spry
housewife, mother and author at
the moment enjoying her second
trip to the United States.
W.G. Rogers
OFF THE BOOK BEAT—"I’m
sure The AP got it,” says V.S.
Pritchett, recalling a story he as
a newsman once missed in Spain.
It was long ago, he was a fledg-
ling reporter. "I could never be
convinced It was so important to
be prompt with news. I remember
once being some four hours late in
finding out about an admiral who
was ousted under Primo de Rivera.
I ju*t let it go. I was wafting an
something else."
That’s the one The AP got
Now Pritchett la one of England's
literary lights and the books he
writes demand attention. His latest,
published by Knopf just after
CAN I HELP IT IF THE TEA LEAVES
AND CARD READING* AND——
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Prifchett returned to England, is
a link with the period of this
reminiscence; it is called "The
Spanish Temper ”
He is not now bullish on cre-
ative writing; it wasn’t possible to
beguile or nag him into very high
praise of his current writing in
his country, ours, or Spain.
• • •
He was followed to our shore*
by a compatriot who’s written an-
other book now much discussed.
This writer is Mrs. Cecil Wood-
WOMAN CATCHES 8-FOUNDER
ESPANOLA. Ont. (APY—When
It comes to ice fishing the women
around here take no back seat to
men. Mrs. Julia Romaniaki caught
a 9-pound Great Northern pQerrI
Mud Lake.
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EDITORIAL RAGE THE ORANGE LEADER
Moment of Meditation
SUNDAY, MAY 23, 1954
. ~ jit Personality Sketch:
Today's Birthday I Bridge City Chamber Head
Is a Man Who Likes To Build
Watch ye, therefore, and pray always,
that ve may be accounted worthy to escape
all these things that shall come to pass, and
to stand before the Son of man. Luke 21:36.
Rep. Dies Answers a Question
Rep. Martin Dies, who did a superior job
of ferreting out Amercan Communists for
•seven years, has answered a question which
many of us are asking nowadays.
The question: Do we need any congres-
sional investigating committee or should we
leave the job to the FBI .and other enforce-
ment agencies?
Dies’ answer, made in the House of Rep-
resentatives earlier this month, is that we
do need such a committee..
It is his thinking, however, that there
should be only one group, a joint Senate-
House committee made up of iWmakers
who have “sufficient legal experience to
know how to conduct a proper inquiry.”
Thpre is, the former Orangeite contends,
no justification for three or four committees
competing with each other in this work.
As a step toward setting up a joint com-
rpittee and eliminating the existing rivalry,
duplication and confusion. Dies has introduc-
ed a suggested set of rules that, if adopted,
ijot only would accomplish these objectives
but also would save the taxpayers thousands
of dollars.
In his remarks commenting on the need
for continuing the investigation of Com-
munists by lawmakers. Dies admits that
much of the criticism directed at existing in-
vestigations is justified.
: At the same time, he points out that there
ere many things that a congressional com-
mittee can do which an enforcement agency
Cannot do.
! A committee can subpoena records and
witnesses and take testimony under oath.
It can disseminate useful information to alert
and inform the public. It can prod indifferent
officials to increased vigilance.
But a committee cannot and should not.
pies reminds, take the place of enforcement
agencies. Its primary purpose is to gather
facts as a basis for necessary legislation and
to inform the "public.
I And he concludes: Those of us who pro-
fess love of America must avoid at all costs
and under all circumstances the fatal error
of employing the tactics and methods of the
Communists in our efforts to combat com-
munism.
DANIEL F. ALLAN. bora May
It. 1873 on a farm near Cape-
town. South Africa. The Prime
Minister of the Union of Soqth
Africa has ag-
gressiveiy
pushed white su-
premacy and ra-
cial segregation
_____ laws i wh i c h
L tAp/V. .JBJF have received
v . world - wide no-
tice. W a s a
preacher
(ore
poll", i
■I JHHHI the leader of the
N a t i o na 1 i s t
party. Has fought
for the Union to become a re-
public independent of common-
wealth ties with Great Britain.
'Tailor-Made' Transportation
“Tailor-made” transportation is one of the
biggest factors in the economic development
inf Orange County and this asset came in
for some discussion in a Maritime Day mes-
sage last week.
Speaking at a Maritime Day luncheon
in Albany, New York, Chester C. Thompson
of Washington, president of the American
Waterways Operators, Inc., pointed out that
tailor-made transportation can find not only
new buyers in every market place but can
bring new buyers to every market place.
He defined tailor-made transportation as
“that freight carrier offering a service with
inherent advantages to the particular ship-
per.”
Not every American community striving
for industrial growth can offer such service
because not every such community has both
coastwise and deep sea shipping facilities.
Oronge County has both and needs only to
match the efforts of completing ports in pro-
viding physical facilities for water shippers
to have full use of what Thompson described
as the “inherent advantages of water trans-
port” resulting from its ability to handle
bulk cargo in mountainous quantities at low
cost.
Thoughts for 1954 Graduates
Here are a few thoughts for the hundreds
of young Orange County people who will be
graduating from high school this month and
who face the choice of beginning a career
or going to college. They come from “Trends
in Technology and Employment,” a recently
completed study! by the Council for Tech-
nological Advancement
The council iays that mechanization and
technological changes are upgrading jobs
in the United States.
The demand! for brawn declines but the
higher the vocation in terms of education
the greater the demand for recruits.
Able executives, engineers, scientists,
physicians and research workers are too few
in number to meet demand. Skilled crafts-
men are dying and retiring faster than re-
placements we being trained.
Technological advancement increases'the
opportunity for use of talent and special
training and puts a premium on education.
CAM Cl r UAL AN
Cow Bayou Philosopher:
History's Top Event
Came When Credit
System Discovered
EDITORS HOTS Ttt* Cow B»yoti
FhiSonopber dJAcufses history thi* week,
• fi»l4 88 Iftlto known to him ms some
of ms own un-worked farce. 4 . ....
Dear editar:*8
I was readin inJt. .magazine the
other day which got in my mail
box by mistake and which I have
put back in for proper mailin with
the exception of two or three
pages I tore out on account of
some information they had I may
need later on, where a bunch of
historians have been sizing up all
the major events in history as far
back as it goes tryin to decide
.which have been the greatest.
Out of 25 great historical events,
these experts picked the discovery
of America as the greatest, [*“
some of the others being the
covery of movable "type, the dis-
covery of the steam engine, the
discovery of the electric light bulb,
the perfection of the atom bomb,
the discovery of the magnifying
glass, etc.
Now I’m not an expert and I'm
not sure what happened in the
world yesterday, not to mention
a hundred years ago. and can’t
speak with any authority, but
while I will agree that the dis-
covery of America was a mighty
important event, especially for
the people of Europe who other-
wise would have had a hard tune
tryin to borrow money, the Ind-
dians Columbos found over here
themselves wasn’t much hand at
makin loans, still I can sit down
out here and list some other things
which were even more important.
For example, I put the inven-
tion of installment buying ahead
of the discovery of America or
the light bulb cither. I guess the.
discovery of America had to come
first, but you eliminate install-
ment buying and this country
wouldn’t do enough business to fi-
nance England more than a couple
of weeks.
The atom bomb is a fine instru-
ment, but it’s way behind the
rocking chair as far as I’m con-
cerned. There may be a few fine-
ly-attuned minds which can get
real pleasure out of splittin an'
atom, but they ain’t nothing com-
pared with the number who have
mastered the pleasures of the
rocking chair.
The discovery of the magnifying
glass, which brought on the micro-
scope, was a fine thing, but about
the main thing it’s done is enable
man to find out more things
that’re wrong with him.
Also, the invention of movable
type was a fine thing, it beats
writin with a hatchet on a cave
wall, but it wasn’t no ’un-mixed
blessing; for ever word of truth
that’s printed these days there
must be 5,000 of the other kind,
and a man that reads everything
winds up more misinformed than
he was when he started out, at the
rate of 5.000 to 1.
What constitutes a great histor-
ical event depends on your view-
point. I doubt if 10 years from
now anybody on a quiz show can
tell you who Private Schine is,
and if they don’t control them
atom bombs, they may not be able
(to tell you where Congress is.
Yours faithfully,
J. A,
A fellow who likes to build is the first president
of the Bridge City Chamber of Commerce ■ . Austin
■ Floyd. • ’ . y
He's developing Central Terrace Subdivision in
his,' community and he has ambitions toward the
I overall development of
the town, a good in-
tention for a chamber
president, say his fel-
low* officers.
Floyd also is a teach,
er in Bridge City
School and is junior
high school princioal.
He is a native of Na-
cogdoches County, re-
ceived his B.A. degree
at Stephen F. Austin
College and his M.A.
at the University ol
Houston.
When Bridge* .City
was known as "Prairie
View” in 1929. Floyd
came there to teach as
principal of the then
Prairie View School.
Until World War II
he taught there and in
1941 went to Con-
Orange where he was
employed in the layout department and taught a
blueprint school. Iii 1946, be returned to. Bridge
City School.
His interest in bui'ding is not confined to homes
... he is helping build a, new Church of Christ in
Bridge City. He is a member of the Orange Church
of Christ.
He likes fishing and hunting and horseback
riding but is too busy for them. Hoping for a break
in a busy schedule, he is keeping his horses.
Mrs. Floyd also is a teacher and received her
B A. and M A. degrees in the same universities as
her husband. They have two children, Mrs. Tummy
Dodson and Judy Floyd, both of Bridge City.
Floyd
solidated Western Steel
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Life Abroad:
i? Skipper of Old Sailing Barge
Is Fading Reminder of Past
By COLIN FROST
LONDON (AP) — Ebenezer Shrubshall Is a
sailor with a difference. Never in his life has he
tasted strong.drink—coffee, tea or cocoa.
Ebbie is skipper of the Kitty, one of the last
sailing ships to trade fh British waters. Properly
ca'led a spritsail barge, the Kitty is a seagoing
ship with all the grace of the days of the wind-
jammer.
More than * thousand sailing barge* once
plied between the Thames River and Britain’s
coastal ports. Now only 30 are left. They toe will
go to the breaker’s yard as their old skinpers die.
Youngsters these days don’t stiek with the life .
afh»at.
Ebbie told hi* story as he steered the Kitty down
the Thames bound for Ipswich on the east coast
wlffTTDO tons of maize. John Burford, mate, deck-
hand and ship’s cook all rolled into one, stood in
the bows, tending the foresail and keeping watch
for other shipping.
“I started when I was 12 as mate to my old
father," Ebbie said. “His father was a sailorman
too. Now I’m 66 so that makes 54 years afloat.
“Not so many years ago probably a hundred
barges would be going down the estuary on this
tide. Today we might see a couoie—and we might
not. Cargoes aren’t so easy to find for the sailor- 1
men. Too much competition from the motor bar»es,
“The trouble H that these days everybody
wants everythin!* In a flaming hurry.
“We might get around to Ipswich for Instance,
in a couple of days, given a fair wind. On the other
hand, if the wind stays around in the east, we
mighf take a fortnight. And if we do, there won't
be much money in it for Ebbie.
“We get paid bv the cargo. Half the freight
money goes to the barge owners and half to me
and my mate. Fair wind and a quick voyage and
we’re in the money. Foul wind and a long drag
and we don’t get much butter on our bread.
“Still. I don’t smoke and I only drink water
so 1 get by all right. I recond mV 0"l» ><t
choco'nte biscuits—I can always eat a fey,* o’
them.”
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Browning, J. Cullen. The Orange Leader (Orange, Tex.), Vol. 52, No. 124, Ed. 1 Sunday, May 23, 1954, newspaper, May 23, 1954; Orange, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth557255/m1/4/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Lamar State College – Orange.