The Orange Leader (Orange, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 68, Ed. 1 Sunday, March 23, 1947 Page: 1 of 6

                                
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MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
ORANGE, TEXAS, SUNDAY, MARCH 23, 194?
NUMBER 68
NEW ICE PLANT pjna| Decision By Commissioners
RSS On Health Unit Building Purchase
Expected in Meeting on Monday
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FACES OF "TEXAS MOTHERS” FOR 1947—Pictured above are the
"Texas Mothers” for 1947, chosen by voluntary vote under sponsorship
of the Golden Rule Foundation of New York. Above left is ' Mrs.
George T. Jester, the state's Number One Mother of the year. At top,
to her right is Mrs. W. E. Boswell, second place winner, and b£low,
right, Mrs. Mattie D. Crow, who won third place. Balloting was by
telegram and letter through Mrs. Dollilee Davis Smith of Cleburne.
The three ladies above were sefected from among hundreds of nomi-
nees.    (AP Photos) -
“Seals of Friendship” To Be Mailed This Week
As Annual Easter Seal Sale Gets Under Way
Construction has been started
on a new ice plant here at Divi-
sions nd Market streets, E. S. Bar-
bei, iilunager, Orange Ice com-
pany, announced Saturday.
Completion of the new plant,
at a cost "between $60,000 and
$90,000" 'is expected in about two
months, Burker said. It will hate
a capacity of 25 tons of ice a day,
he stated.
Building housing the Ice mak-
j ing equipment, it was announced,
i will be 34 by 56 feet and con-
structed of corrugated iron and
■ wood. An adjacent structure, of
; tile, also will be 34 by 56 feet and
will house offices and frozen lock-
ers.
All equipment for the new
plant has arrived and is ready tor
| installation, it was stated.
Barber has been connected with
the ice manufacturing and sales
business here for a number of
years.
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Additional Orders
For Shrubs Listed
RED CROSS
DRIVE STILL
IS LAGGING
Charles Arsenault
Will Head Council
The Community council held its
annual election of officers this
Week, naming four new officers
and two new directors to' serve
the next year. They are: Charles
Arsenault, president, Mrs. N. J.
Athas, first vice president, Mrs.
Albert D. Bates, second vice pres-
ident, Rozelle McKehney, secre-
tary, Mrs. Bess Paddlefuid. treas-
urer anti A. H. Prince and the
Rev. L. R. Condrey, serve with
old members on the board of
lectors,
Approximately 4,50(1 letters
bearing "Seals of Friendship” will
be mailed early this week to peo-
ple of Orange county as part of
the fourteenth annual Easter seal
campaign.
Each envelope will contain 100
Below is listed another group of Ed T. Malloy, acting chairman
orders for red hibiscus shrubs, {or the 0r,ng« Counly Red Cross
which were submitted prior to! drive announced ,oday that the
the deadline of Saturday, March j c)R)cens Hf Orange county are a
15. Anyone else wishing to pur-
chase the shrubs may contact a
florist, it was announced, for the
Orange county committee of the
conducted the drive, already has
drawn up its report. The orders
In this week’s meeting the
council voted to endorse the plan
for extension of Lamar college,
Beaumont, into a four-year school
and the purchasing of the build-
ing on Second street by the coun-
ty it’ommissioners.
of the 1947 Easter seals. These Texas? Roadside council, which
are beautiful stickers depicting a
former crippled child carrying his
crutch under his arm and walking 4oH6w'
unhandicapped up a beam of star-
light to his star of destiny. The
addressee of each envelope is Frank M Colburn, for whom one
requested to remit a dollar or of the elementary schools was
more for the seals or to return 1 name He was lost in action while
di- ^em *° ‘Lie senders.    {serving with the air corps in the
j The 1947 goal for Orange in j Pacific.
the Easter sale distribution for ; Mrs. Ollie Howard, 1 plant in
crippled Children is $5,000, F. W. i memory of her husband, S-Sgt.
Hustmyre, president
long ways off in reaching their
goat of $20,200.00 for the Ameri-
can Red Cross. Only 437 contri-
butions have been made thus far,
amounting td $3,656.13, in ' the
county that has near 40,000 citi-
zens, the chairman asserted.
Orange county has excelled and
become noted nationally in the
Mr. and Mrs. George Colburn, j
Sr.. 4 plants in memory of a son, | ()ast for iRs generous contributions
toward worthy causes, Malloy
LET'S DO
SOMETHING
ABOUT IT !
of the Or-
ange Society lor, Crippled chil-
dren, announced Sitturday. The
drive will open Mondaypnd close
April 6, Easter Sunday.
The Orange society will join
more than 2,000 state and local
member societies of the National
Society for Crippled Children and
Adults in the 194%-campaign to
provide funds for the otherwise
untnei needs of crippled children
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J! ami adults.
IMPRESSING THE VISITOR
with the real values of the com-
munity and making him enjoy
the welcome atmosphere should
be the purpose of'every Orange
Citizen who would desire to play j
his role on the score of good sales- ]
mmiship. During the coming
months Orange will no doubt be
Part [ of funds realized from
the Easier seal campaign in Or-
ange county will be placed in the
treasury of the local society for
use in assisting crippled children
in this county. The rest goes to
the national foundation for use in
aiding
level.
Ollie Howard, killed in the Battle
of the Bulge, Dec. 18. ’44; Mrs.
H. Sokolsky, 2 plants in memory
of Harry B. Ready, killed in ac-
tion; Mrs.« Caggic Bowman, 1
plant to honor a son, Robert E.
Bowman and one plant in memory
of, Charles Donnaud, who lost his
lifc'during the war; Harvey Ba-
ker, 1 'plant in memory of two
buddies, Eugene Wise and Billy
Heard, who frist their lives in bat-
tle as members of the I. Co.,
410th Infantry;
C A. Bochme, 5 plants^to honor
4 sons, Lawrence H., who served
in the Infantry, Leroy, the Cutest
Guard, Charles, the Army and-
Wilbur, the navy, and one daugh-
ter, Ruby Boebmc, who served in
the Coast Guard; Mrs. Jerome
cripples on the national j Burton^4 plants in memory of J.
| E. Burton, grandson, reported
, .. i killed in Germany; Mrs. Vertis
Assisting ,n preparation of the L,    g me
seals for ma.lu.g were the OpU. j p. 'Hurton. kiiled in Ger-
......... .... .......of‘ 1-many, and 2 plants to honor a son-
privileged to receive and enter- 0 s.lnK 011    a",    "    {in-law, Charles Ray Wilcox, who
lain numerous groups of the fin- I    ofT'cc'    served 4 years in Europe,
est poo file that the world has pro- i f,res-sed and slufTed, letters ,0' Mrs. Ethel Goodman, 2 plants
dttced. If the people as a whole rn!*l "lJ\ Jn non~ ‘"using areas, .p memory of a son, Douglas Don-
will determine to become more i    thc*a*t‘w® PrePa/fd ft* aid Goodman, killed in Norman-
pttblic spirited there will not be ; ^u-h will be delivered within , dy jn ,Jurie of M,,s. Robert
.. i.i.iim. makmo ih» niico u/hn will 'le Pi'o ic ousing eve opmcn i. gotfman 2 plants in memory of
Barney Gunn is chairman in brother ^ D Goodman
charge of the ma.l campatgn. and 2 p)ants    twQ o(her
j brothers, L. J. and E. C. Good-
] man; Mrs. W. E. MeCorquodale, 2
plants in memory of a soft. Lt.
who lost
his life on a submarine in the
I South Pacific in May of '44, and
14B111S1 sei iuua [/taguca    %»»    -    2 plants to honor another son,
eliminate the tremendous destruc- j,ive secretary, Texas State Teach- ^lan. wbo served in the coast ar-
idn of property by the pests. While ^rs association, will address a
it has never been the case that    meeting of the Orange Edu-
eeery rat in the country could be | cation association and the Associ-
ate awav with, it is possible atiqn of Childhood Education here
I.    TursvrTav nioht
a visitor making the pl^ce who will
receive an adverse impression.
EXTERMINATION OF RATS
fty all means should be on the
front ranks of things that should
be done.by Orange citizens as a
means of promoting better health
conditions, to protect the place
iqjainst serious plagues and to
TSTA Secretary To ................... ..
Address Teachers 'i
B. B, Cobb, Fort Worth, execu-
te reduce the number by the thou-
sands if the effort to destroy them
ie-continued on a systematic basis.
Tuesday night.
The meeting, to be held in Carr
iunior high school auditorium be-
ginning at 7:30 o’clock, will be
TEMPORARY TO PERMAN-
ENT is the general trend in Or-
ange where nearly every one ar-
riving now has previously pro-
cured permanent employment be-
fore perfecting plans to locate.
&n investigatioh of records at
tills time will show that a large
number of families arrive here Temple, Tex., March 22. (AP)—
every week to establish homes in    j    Jhe    Southwest    Taxicab    Opera-
lieu of one or more members of    <    tors    association    yesterday    elected
each group having secured some A. E. Johnson, Austin, president,
permanent avenue of making a : W. W. Pike. San Angeio. and J.
living. In the meantime, the city’s jJL Taylor, Temple, were elected
tillery on the Aleutians;
Mrs. Ada Liston of Orangefield
2 plants in memory of a son, Mar-
tin Liston, reported killed in ac-
tion in Italy, and 1 to honor an-
other son, Ed Liston, who served
in Africa and Italy; Mrs. Merten
Peveto, 1 plant in memory of a
WOMEN’S DIVISION
HAS RAISED $975.43
Mrs. George Colburn, chair-
man of Women's division dur-
ing the Orange County Red
Cross drive for 1947, announc-
ed today that $975.43 had been
turned in to R. R. Allen, drive
treasurer, by the various com-
mittee members of the Wom-
en's division covering the
house to house canvas in the
city.
The captains and their re-
spective divisions reporting
contributions, thus far, are as
follows;
Division 1
Mrs. F. H. Roberts    $117.35
Division 2
Mrs. Ross Evahn    153.00
Division 3
Mrs, Lloyd Palmer    117.00
Division 6 '
Mi’s, penham    184.36
X; Division 9 .
Mrs. El ridge Davis    69.25
Division 10
Mrs. M. B. Norths    131.00
Division 14
Mrs. Jules Sanders    42.94
Division 12    \
Mrs. Olncy Black    160.53
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stated, and it Is up to the good
citizens of our community not to
injure such a record.
"If each person in the'county
will gfve as much as 30 cents, we
can raise our quota of $20,200.00
before the drive ends March 31st”,
Malloy pointed out. "Workers
are in the field now obtaining
contributions and pledges for this
drive. If you have not been ap-
proached, do riot wait; send1 your
WHEN LAWMAKERS VISITED HERE—The scenes above, made during the recent visit here of
members of the state legislature demonstrate visibly that a good time was had by all. Byron Simmons,
extreme left above! one of the official greeters, was caught by the photographer enjoying the last crumb
of a slice from one of the cakes provided by wives of city officials during the reception. Next to him,
Mayor Raymond Sanders grins widely at Representatives Charles M. Conner and Claude Calloway as
they wade into coffee, cake and doughnuts. Booklets held by the two lawmakers are “Orange" brochures
passed out by Ruth Lundy, secretary of the Chamber of Commerce In the picture below, Matt Love,
president of Lamar college. Beaumont, Ic-ids the parade of legislators up the steps of the municipal
building for the reception. Just behind him is Mayor Sanders and surrounding arc several members of
the legislature whose happy countenances reflect the great time they were tjavtng.
(Photos by T. L. Gunn)
PICKET LINE TO Piano Team Will Be Community
„ |.p    i Concert's Last Artists This Season
AT DUPONT JOB
Waiter Monroe, secretary. Port
Arthur Building and Trades
council, announced late Saturday
afternoon that the boilmakers.
who have been off their Jobs for
about two weeks, will post pickets
at the DuPont plant here Mon-
day morning. Other crafts in the
construction division are expecl-
Cd to honor tire picket lines.
Baby Dies From
Injuries Received
In Explosion Here
R. E. Cartwright, Jr., two-year-
The Orange Community Con-^
cert association will present as its
.final concert of the 1947 season
the young America duo-pianists,
Whitteroore and Lowe. They will
appear at the Stark high school
auditorium March 28. at 8:15
o’clock on Friday evening
Both members of the teupi come
from the west: Arthur Whittemorc
was born In Vermillion, South !
Dakota; Jack Lowe in Denver,
Whlttentore’s mother was a j
singer but his father was a na- !
tionally famous football coach, j
This was one instance, however, j
where an athletic father approved
of a musical career for his sbn:;
and there was not talk about sissy i
stuff. VVhtltemore laughs now
when he tells about bis first pub-
lic appearanes—playing for mov:
ies in hts home town while he was
still in public school; and pokes
mild lun at t(ie college shown for
which he wrote pop tunes, He also
ARTISTS TO APPEAR
AT MUSIC BALCONY
D C. Littlepage, manager.
Gem Jewelry Co., Saturday
received a letter from Whitte-
more Si Lowe, famous piano
team which wilt appear here
next week for a Community
concert, advising they will ar-
rive early enough to make a
personal appcuranco at the
Gem Jewelry Music balcony.
During this appearance, Little-
page said, the two artists will
autograph records and albums
and answer any questions con-
cerning the Community con-
cert or their work in general.
The appearance will be made
some time during the after-
noon of the date of the conceit
in Stark high auditorium.
granted him both bachelor’s and
maslerui degrees- It was at East-
mar that he met Arthur Whitte-
(See RED CROSS on Page 2)
School Ballot Places
Close After Tuesday
J. F. Hammers, county school
open to the public and the attend- ijrolher-in-law, Ira Lee Peveto,
ance of all interested in school
matters has been requested.
Milton Bass Named
To Taxi Assn. Post
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population is gradually swelling, j vice presidents and Milton Bass, j 6 plants to honor the following: 2 j Dr. Duncan Blades with the Navjr
f*»----- ; Beaumont, secretary-treasurer. sons, Lt. Col. J. W. Simmons, who j reser.e; Mrs. W. J. Power, 1 plant
killed while sen ing with the 5th
army in Italy, 2 in memory of 2
cousins, Joe Peveto. and Alvoid
Peveto, who lost' their lives in
the service, and 3 plants in honor
of 4 brothers and 3 brothers-in-
law who served; Mrs. Cleve Har-
rison, -2 plants in memory of a
nephew, Nolan Hare, who served
,with the Navy and lost his life in
the Pacific, an dto honor, ail other
nephews who served;
Mr. and Mrs. Byron Simmons,
-    . ./as heard as soloist with the stu-
old Negro, died in a hospital here deht Symph.»ny while he was at
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visitor in the Cartwright home, | y l0 rahi his master's degree In ta'e *«" ^'r<i -l *rP
St.,.. Mot/finlH 19 tsftnPMi Irpi'f.*    ..    tl? UOCl Ofl thl* rilulO fl®*-
^In^ thfsJf’coSfteg ^ve    "O'-kv Whittcmorc has some or-
su^u-n^t^.7^icw^ tratryjn4! tQ makc Rretn lh’eST;r‘o^to’hTc,^ tS‘I!!£S
tpcssgsis    ' T'ia-rrj:
trustees will close Tuesday. Tnc <jr] tUU are ,n (he hoapitai un. i    Both Are Composers
or . ur y, p , ^cr treatment for burns received Jack Lowe's first musical ex-
: in the explosion. Both are ex- ! perience was at the age of six. He
pected to recover.    ■ saw a toy violin in a Sears Hoe-
The accident was the second of buck catalogue and begged for it
election
will be for trustees in ell common
and independent districts outside
of Orange, he stated. Application
blanks for place on the ballot may
be had at Hammers’ office or the
office of the county judge.
with the Anehorage Army band,
three nephews, Capt. Walter C.
Beneke, army,air corps. Joe S,
Beneke. navy air corps and Joe
Hamlet Blades, who served over-
seas with the Marine corps: and
The Atlantic is the saltiest i The group voted to hold its next
Indian, and j
at Sweetwater Aug.
served 4 -1-2 years with the army j to honor a
, and Pic. Robert B. Sim-
jr,
Roy Bit Power,
the army in At-
its kind to occur here in recent
weeks. In the first, a young
white ghl was slightly burned.
The1 recurrence produced a new
warning from E. L. Barker, as-
sistant fire chief and public rela-
tions officer, concerning this
method of kindling fires. “When
a person pours kerosene or any
other inflammable into a hot stove
he fires his life in his hands,"
Barker declared. "It should nev-
er be date, under any circum-
*0 persistently that his-pertnts fi-
nally bought it for him. He sawed
on it for two years until his .par-
ents decided he was in earnest a-
bout it and gave him some lessen*.
He played in the Denver Civic
symphony when he was fifteeeri
and still in high school. It was
while he was a student at Colo-
rado. State teachers college that he
became Interested in the piano
and ini composing. Some of his
compositions won him a scholar
• their own arrangements and have
j ebiprgcd the !wo-punw„ repertory
' considerably.
(.entertained Gl’s
Released from the Navy on Jan-
uary 6, 1948 after.three and a half
years’ service, Whittemore and
Lowe spent the rtext three weeks
arranging and recording M Vic-
tor, eight 'numbers for the href
album ever to be matte by two
pianos with orchestra Of dance-
able music. They then embarked
on u concert tour that carried
them through New England, the ;Jvave
Middle West and pdrt of the S
before returning to New York In
The commissioners court is co-
llected to make filial decision
Monday on the proposal that the
county buy the health unit build-
ing at Second arid Cypress streets
in Orange. A special meeting of
the commissioners has been called
for ten o’clock in the morning foi
further consideration *bf the prop-
osition, it has been announced by
County Judge Sid J. Caillavet.
Before the court when it meets
Monday, will be letters and reso-
lutions from civic groups repre-
seutiujhii cross-section of much of
the county's population. All of
these made public >thus far favor
purchase of the building.
Endorsed by Connell
Assurance of virtually solid
support of the proposal was had
Saturday when the community
council announced unanimous en-
dorsement of the purchase in its
meeting Thursday night. This or-
ganization has representation from
virtually every civic and service
group in the city.
Rozelle McKenney, president of
the Pilots club, announced Satur-
day that she hud polled the direc-
tors of that group and found a
“substantial majority" to favor
the proposition. She said the Pi-
lots will be represented at the
commissioners court meeting Mon-
day.
Endorsed by BPW
Latest endorsement to the pro-
posal came Friday night. The
newly - organized Business and
Professional Women's club, as Its
first official action, authorized u
letter to the commissioners court
requesting that the purchase be
made.
Discounting the possibility that
one of the two commissioners who
have gone on record as being def-
initely opposed to buying the
health unit building will change
his mtnd, final outcome of the
proposition will depend on T. R.
(Tick) Granger, commissioner for
precinct 3. When the matter last
'#’» discussed in an open meet-
ing, Granger was the only unde-
cided member of the court, If he
decide* to vote for the purchase
and the other members stay by
their previous expressions, Char-
lie Holden, commissioner, priyinct
1, will sote yes with Him.'' Bill
McOuire, precinct 2, and Noah
Crosby, precinct 4, will vote no.
resulting in a* tie.
Favored by Judge
Judge Caillavet is known to be
very much it) favor of the pur-
chase and if called upon to break
a tie, will vote yes.
Under the proposal, the county
would acquire the building at a
cost of about $16,000. Original
cost of the structure was over
$34,000 and It is presently esti-
mated at a value In excess of
$40,000.
Under the terms offered by
Federal Works Agency, which
own* the structure but must dis-
pose of It in order to comply with
the federal statute which made its
construction possible, the county
may either purchase the building
for cash or lease lt with a pur-
chase option, Under the latter,
all rental paid eventually would
apply on the purchase price. 1
Prospective Buyers Opposed
If the county decides not to buy
the building, it will be sold at
public auction under sealed bids.
Several individuals and groups
are known to be interested in bid-
ding on it. Only open opposition
expressed to purchase of the
structure thus far has come from
an attorney representing one of
these groups.    ,
The structure first was offered
to the, city because it gave the.
land on, which It is butlt. How-"
ever,' because it already had obli-
gated itself to purchase the hos-
pital and other federal-ownod
properties here, the city govern-
ment rejected the proposal for fis-
cal reasons
At present tfie building houses
the city-county health unit and
I office* of the Orange County Tu-
berculosis association. Included
in the health unit set-up are thm
typhus control office and sanitary
inspectors’ offices,
ing Is sold to private
other quarters must _______
these.
Fear Leas af AM
j Persons closely
the. public health
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