Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 53, No. 156, Ed. 1 Sunday, July 2, 1950 Page: 1 of 30
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EYES ON THE PACIFIC—Strange Pacific Island names that became familiar symbols of
battle in World War II—lwo, Okinawa, l.e.vte, Guam—appear on your newsmaps again with
the full outbreak of a shooting war involving American fighters in South Korea. The Newsmap
above covers the extensive Far Eastern frontier, emphasizing again the great distances that
must be covered to operate naval and air forces against an enemy on the Asia mainland.
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Cheers Greet
Troop Loaded
U. S. Planes
SOMEWHERE IN SOUTH
KOREA, July 1 (By Telephone to
Tokyo) (UP)—Grim-faced, bat-
tle-equipped American soldiers
arrived at this base on troop
tra.in$ today and headed for “no-
man’s-land” with the cheers of
Koreans ringing in their ears.
The arrival of the U. S. infan-
trymen was a happy sight for
Koreans and Americans. They
formed the vanguard of much-
needed ground troops committed
to push the north' Korean Com-
munists back to the 38th parallel.
The first solemn GI’s with bat-
ile packs were rushed by air
from Japan. Further airlift
operations were hampered today
by heavy clouds and rain. Most
of the rest of the infantrymen
will come by ship.
The men had been trucked
from duty stations throughout
Japan to an American air base.
Throughout the night, big trans-
ports flew under unbrellas of
fighter planes to bring the men
to Korea. After they landed, the
men went aboard trains and were
brought here. They will go most
of the rest of the way in tradi-
tional infantryman fashion—on
foot.
Millions Travel
For 4th Holidays
By United Press
Half the nation was on the move today, enjoying a long
Fourth-of-July holiday in nearly perfect weather.
City dwellers hit the open road for picnics, fishing trips
and relaxation at resort areas. Farmers and rural residents
passed them on the highways as they headed toward big1
cities to see the sights.
Free Hand For
MacArthur Is
U. S. Answer
By Lyle C. Wilson
WASHINGTON, July 1,
(UP) — White House plans for
a cheap victory in Korea have
been abandoned as the seventh
day of fighting t*egins
This latest reversal of policy
is one of two which astonished
Washington in tlie past five
days.
it was made in response to
Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s re-
quest that President Truman
give him men, tools, and au-
thority to knock out the south-
ward communist thrust in Ko
rea.
There was every confidence
here today that MacArthur
would succeed with the freer
hand now granted him. But
there was anxious realization
that there must lie more bad
news from Korea before things
begin to improve.
iio|>e for u cheap or easy
victory was abandoned official-
ly with announcement that
ground forces would be com-
mitted to tlie Korean fighting,
that MacArthur’s bombers could
range into Northern Korea and
that the shoreline would be
blockaded.
Advocates of "cheap war” or
"cheap victories” have argued
that they can he won from the
air or sea without pushing
ground troops up to the muzzles
of artillery and small arms. Mr.
Truman’s orders Tuesday to
use force in Korea limited Mac-
Arthur to air and sea power
and barred hipi from attacking) —--
the North Korean communist Nolan and Fisher County corn-
area. missioners have recently confer-
Bad News red on plans to ask for the high-
Lifting of these restrictions way designation from Sweet-
was followed shortly last night) water north. In addition to the
by news that there had been ’■’isher County commissioners at
another serious North Korean i .t.i-.. Pi Saturday were Nolan
breakthrough which sWWJtly. County Judge N. 1). Peeves,
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PACIFIC MANEUVERS-—During amphibious lauding maneu-
vers at Chingsuki Beach near Yokosuka, Japan, under the
watchful eyes of Admiral Radford’s infantry, dash through
Hie surf. These landings were jtirt of the huge Pacific man-
euvers held shortly before the outbreak of the war in Ko-
rea. (NEA Telephotos).
Fisher County
Highway Urged
AUSTIN—Fisher County Judge U. S. Branseum of
Roby headed a delegation from Fisher and Nolan Counties
in a plea to the Texas Highway Commission Saturday to
ask for construction of u highway connection between
Sweetwater on U. S. Highway 80 and U. S. Highway 180 at
Hobbs Consolidated School. !------
Branseum pointed out to the1 gm a m
commission that development of |<r
the Snyder oil field, together Y%l % 19
with normal growth of the area’s
farm and ranch needs, had out
distanced tile present highway
system.
Fireworks,
Boll Game
At Jubilee
The annual Kiwanis Club
July Fourth Jubilee here Tues-
day night will be a many-sided
attraction, starting at ti:.’iO p.
m. President R. E. Connelley
of the Kiwanis Club and Busi-
ness Manager Frank Meeks of
the Swatters said Saturday that
the starting time for the first
baseball game has been chang-
ed from (i to 6:30.
A dazzling fireworks display
including die American Flag,
Niagara Falls, rockets and many
other features will be presented
between the two ball games.
Kiwanis committees will man
the concession stands for the
game. Proceeds of the Jubilee
and ball game will he shared by
the Kiwanis funds for under-
prvileged children’s programs.
With 3(5,000,000 cars expected
on the highways during the long
weekend, the death toll from traf-
fic and other accidents began
rising. The National Safety
Council expected 385 persons to
die in highway crashes by Tues-
day midnight.
The accidental death toll start-
ed rising early today with a total
of 68 persons killed across the
nation on first count. Of the to-
tal, 47 were killed in traffic,
8 by drowning. 6 in plane
crashes, and 7 in miscellaneous
mishaps.
Two couples died when their
light plane crashed on its take-
off at St. Paul, Minn.
The Pennsylvania and New
Yoi k state presidents of t lie Fly-
ing Farmers organization were
missing and feared dead on a
flight across Lake Michigan with
their wives.
Over most of the nation the
weather was slightly cooler than
normal but skies generally were
sunny.
The cool temperatures were
expected to hold down the num-
ber of deaths from heat prostra-
tion, which killed 57 persons tim-
ing last year’s three day holiday,
and from drowning, which ac-
counted for 277 deaths last year.
The MM!) Fourth-of-July week
Illness Fatal To
Mrs. Hampton;
Rites Set Today
Funeral for Mrs. T. H. Hamp
ton, 7.1, will be held at the First
Christian Church at 5 o’clock
Sunday afternoon.
Mrs. Hampton, a resident of
Sweetwater since 1912 and a
leader in Eastern Star work
here, died at her home, 405
Hickory, at 8:30 Friday evening.
She had been ill since suffering
a heart attack a week ago.
Born Maude Bula Ozment in
Greenville on Sept. 23, 187(5, Mrs.
Hampton and her husband liv-
ed at Clyde for a time before
moving here. He died 20 years
ago.
Mrs. Hampton belonged to the
Sixtli Street Methodist Church.
She was a past matron of the
Eastern Star Chapter here.
Surviving are two daughters,
Mrs. Nina Phillips of Big Spring
and Mrs. Lance Thompson of
Sweetwater; a son, R. R. Hamp-
ton of Sweetwater; a grandson,
Marvin Hampton of Sweetwater;
See ILLNESS, Page Eight.
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end claimed a record total of
804 lives. In addition to deaths
by drowning and from the heat,
traffic accidents killed 321, air-
plane accidents 18, and miscel-
laneous mishaps 131.
The traffic situation was com-
plicated this year because many
workers must return to their
jobs for Monday.
But many firms — including
General Motors, Ford, Hudson
and others at Detroit—gave their
employes Monday off for an in-
interrupted holiday.
Airplanes, buses and railroads
See HOLIDAYS, Page Eight.
was forcing our side baclc .
♦under tense eircumsttftifces
the Senate whipped through au-
thorization for *1,222,500,000
for foreign military aid includ-
ing $16,000,000 for South Ko-
rea. Some Senators complained
See U. S. Page Eight.
J. J. Robbins In
Abilene Hospital
J. J. Robbins, pioneer resident
of Sweetwater, who has been in
Ranger at the home of his
daughter, Mrs. Lillian Cutbirth,
for several months, Is reported
critically ill in an Abilene hos-
pital.
He was moved from Ranger
to Abilene Friday by a Wells-
Snyder ambulance (Roscoe) and
Saturday was reported resting
fairly well. The Robbins home
here was 507 Cedar. Mrs. Mark
Haddox and Mrs. Eula Watson
of Sweetwater are also daugh-
ters of Mr. Robbins.
'Aycock Memorial, Nursery
Dedication Today At 4 P .M.
By Marian Pendergrass
Dedication services for the
$25,000 Lang Aycock Memorial
Nursery, Fourth and Pine, will
be held at 4 o’clock, this after-
noon.
Invitations have been sent to
civic club presidents and mayors
and commissioners of Roby, Ro-
tan, Snyder, Roscoe, Colorado
City, and Abilene, and to Nolan
County commissioners and city
officials.
The dedication will open with
invocation by the Rev. Donald
L. Erwin, pastor of the First
Presbyterian Church. Glenn Rus-
sell, chairman of the board of di-
rectors for the new nursery
school, will give the welcoming
address which will lie followed
by introduction of out-of-town
visitors.
Mrs. Lang Aycock will be in-
troduced and will present the
tieed to the property to the
nursery board. The speech of
acceptance will l>e made by
Mayor Lester Reeves. The bene-
diction by the Rev. J. Edmund
Kirby, pastor of the First Metho-
dist Church, wW close the cere-
mony. ®
Following the dedication ser-
vice, open house will be held
until 7 o’clock with members of
tlie Business and Professional
Women in charge.
The completely modern
nursery is ready for occupancy.
However, completion of the
fence is impossible until addi-
tional equipment arrives. The
nursery school will not be mov-
ed from its present meeting
place In the old high school
building until the fence is fin-
ished so children can play safe-
ly in the backyard.
Landscaping for the new nur-
sery is victim of the water short-
age and this part of the program
lias been postponed until the
situation becomes more favor-
able.
The school now operates as
a non-profit charitable organi-
zation, chartered by the state,
and authorized to accept gifts
and endowments.
Since its establishment, the
See AYCOCK, Page Eight.
Commissioner Raymond Bishop
and Sweetwater BCD Manager
A. C. Bischop.
For more than 20 years the
people north of Sweetwater and
southwest of Roby have been
working to try to get all-weather
roads. This is a heavily populat-
ed farming area, seriously handi-
capped for a good road.
The road proposed is approxi-
mately the route of the old
Sweetwater-Roby highway. It
goes out the oil mill road here
north, near Claytonville and
Gannon and intersects the Roby-
Snyder highway (180). There it
See HIGHWAY, Page Eight.
MacArthur Faces i
Tough Job With
Korean Situation
WASHINGTON, July 1 (UP)
—Top officials here agreed to-
day that Gen. Douglas Mac-
Arthur has been given the tough-
est sort of military job, but they
expressed confidence that he will
save South Korea.
In addition to having to take
over the losing side in the fight-
ing. MacArthur was confronted
with an extremely difficult sup-
ply problem and bad weather.
The immediate task facing the
colorful 70-year-old general is to
stop the tank-spearheaded ad-
vance of the North Korean Com-
munists. lie must then shove
the invaders back north of the
38th parallel which marks the
border between North and South
Korea.
Informed military sources
would not speculate on how long
it might take MacArthur to clear
the Communist invaders out of
South Korea. But tliev indicated
See MACARTHUR Page Eight.
Candidate
For Office
Robert S. Calvert, a native
son of Sweetwater and Nolan
County, is a candidate for elec-
tion to the office of Comptrol-
ler of Public- Accounts, an office
Id- ha- held since tlie death of
George Sheppard, another na-
tive of this area.
When Sheppard went to of-
fice after his appointment in
1930 he prevailed upon Calvert,
who was then First Assistant
Cashier of tlie First National
Bunk here, to go with him as
chief Statistician and head of
the Central Accounting System
of the department.
Calvert was later promoted
to.Chief Clerk and Acting Comp-
troller in tlie absence of Shep-
pard. He also assisted Shep-
pard in the reorganization of
the department into a modern
business office.
Upon Sheppard’s deatli in
January 1949, Calvert was the
choice of the late Governor
Beauford Jester as the person
best qualified to direct the ac-
tivities of the office and ap-
See CALVERT Page Eight.
Infantry Division On
Way By Air And Sea
WASHINGTON, July 1 (UP)—A navy spokesman said
today that sea movement of United States troops from Japan
to Korea is underway He did not know if any of the troops
being transported by ship have arrived in Korea. He said
the troop ships are being escorted by U. S warships.
Robert S. Calvert
LANG AYCOCK MEMORIAL NURSERY, a $25,000 monument to one of Sweetwater’s early
residents, will be dedicated this afternoon witha program at 4 o’clock, followed by an open
house under the direction of the Business and Professional Women. W’. R. Griffin is archi-
tect for the modern nursery school at the corner of Fourth and Pine. Alston Construction
Company is the general contractor,
AMERICANS MOVE l’P
TOYKO. Sunday, July 2 I UP)
American soldiers returned to
day to Suwon, 10 miles from the
Korean war front, while U. S
combat troops rolled into fight
ing formation south of the Com
munist-threatened city.
There was no indication how
soon the vanguard of the Ameri
can fighting force, airlifted here
yesterday from Japan, would
move up to the battel line.
12 Planes falsi
As the soldiers moved north,
the Far East forces announced
that 12 U. S. planes—fighters,
light bombers and transports—
have been lost since America be-
gan air operations against the
Communists in Korea.
Rain hampered all military
operations today, but. the air
Force announced that B-29
Superfortresses, bombing by
radar througli heavy clouds,
scored “good results" in raids
on Communist-captured Seoul
and enemy positions along the
Han River.
At latest reports, the battalion
of infantry flown here yesterday
was reported to be some 60 miles
south of Suwon, it seemed prob-
ably that these troops would
move northward soon for the
first clash between the Ameri-
cans and the invaders.
Draft In Korea
As the Americans moved in,
the Communist radio reported
that "all citizens”—presumably
including women—between the
ages of 18 and 36 in territory
controlled by the north Koreans
are being drafted to reinforce
the Communist armies.
A communique issued early
today by Gen. Douglas MacAr-
thur’.- headquarters here said
the \’° i -luinsts who broke
througl- along the Hr i River Fri-
day ’’are now concentrated about
10 miles north of Suwon.”
Transport Crashes
A C-54 transport crashed into
a hill northwest of Puson and
killed all 23 Americans aboard.
It was the biggest mass casualty
figure for Americans in the Ko-
rean war, as far as is known.
The U. S. Seventh Fleet was
ordered to step up its attack on
Communist beachheads around
the south Korean coast. Some
quarters expected carrier planes
to go into action, backing up the
naval guns.
South Korean sources reported
that the south Korean govern-
ment executed 90 to 100 top Com-
munists before the capital city of
Seoul was abandoned to the
north Korean army.
Reds Claim "Plot"
The Moscow press continued
to denounce the American inter-
vention in Korea. One publica-
tion said the United States and
secret pact calling for the in-
Nationalist China had reached a
vasion of the Chinese mainland
by Japanese. American and Chi-
nese Nationalist troops.
The U. S. Army flew in a bat
talion of American infantrymen
normally about 1.000 men—dur-
ing last night and early today.
As fast as the planes unloaded,
the troops moved up to the Kum
River It) to 25 miles 10 to 25 miles
north of Taejon and dug in foi
the expected Communist attack
More infantry to bring the
American ground force to full
division strength of about 15,000
men were or will Ire soon on
their way by ship
Gen. Church, the American
commander in Korea, said a
complete division would be in
Korea within three days.
Tokyo Kepoits (Said
Kain slowed the airlift of
American fighting men from
Japan, but some planes carry-
ing troops in full battle gear
were still getting through early
today.
The greater part of an infan-
try division was on the way to
Korea by ship to reinforce the
airborne advance units.
Lines Drawn
TOKYO, Sunday, July 2, —
(UP) — Battle lines were
drawn as tlie Korean war ended
its first, week today and it seem-
ed likely communist forces
would clash soon with Amer-
ican troops lieing rushed from
Japan.
On the Fourth of July. Amer-
ican soldiers probably will be
fighting to preserve freedom as
they once fought to win inde-
I»endence for the United States.
While the Korean war itself
was important, the big ques-
tion was whether this struggle
would touch off another world-
wide conflict.
Much depended on what the
Russians would do. So far they
appear to tie taking a hands-
off position insofar as actual
participation is concerned, tho-
ugh the North Korean^ are us-
ing Russian made tanks and
planes.
informed quarters here be-
lieved the Russians would stay
out of active participation in
the war.
The Korean war is wet and
dirty. The roads are bad. Radio
and telephone communications
are practically nonexistent.
Head For Front
TOKYO. Sunday, July 2, —
tl’P) — U. S. fighting men in
full battle array rolled north
from Taejon. Korea, today to-
ward communist-threatened Su-
won to reinforce South Korea’s
battered army.
Combat troops reaching Tae-
jon by train, boarded trucks at
once and rolled north toward
the battle line to take up ad-
vanced position as rapidly as
they can be deployed.
Circling The Square
Billie McCracken
Dies; Services
To Be Held Here
A two-month illness was fatal
at 8 p. ni Friday to Miss Billie
Marie McCracken, 28, in the
veterans’ hospital at McKinney
She was the daughter of Mrs
Mae Curtis. 408 West Avenue D.
and John McCracken of Big
Spring,
Miss McCracken’s body was to
be received in Sweetwater by
Patterson Funeral Home at 3 a
m. Sunday. Funeral services are
set for 2;30 p. m. today at the
First Presbyterian Church with
the Rev. Donald Erwin officiat
ing.
A former WAC who saw ser-
vice in New Guinea and Manila
during the war. Miss McCrack-
en will receive full military
graveside services with the VFW
and the American Legion in
charge. Interment will be in
Sweetwater Cemetery with Pat-
terson Funeral Home in charge.
Miss McCracken was born Dec.
11, 1922, in Sweetwater and was
reared here.
During his high school years,
she was an outstanding tennis
player. She was in the WAC for
two and a half years.
Surviving in addition to her
parents are a brother, James L.
McCracken of Sweetwater, and
her paternal grandmother, Mrs
Betty McCracken of Abilene.
Don’t miss the Kiwanis July
tth Jubilee at Sportsmans
Park Tuesday beginning at 6
m. See a double-header ball
game and witness a gigantic
fireworks display and 4lh®r
entertainment.
Mrs. Bonnie Byrd, the young
lady who adorns the cashier’s
stand at Bowen's, is from Okla-
homa and "proud of it,”
The Department of Public
Safety reports that 100 people
will die violent deaths during
the July 4th holidays. Why not
set the goal at none and work
toward that end? “Wishful
thinking." you say. Yes, but if
til would think and work along
the same line, perhaps there
would l>e no deaths.
lss-al golfers participating in
Ihe Abilene Invitation golf tour-
nament, now in progress, are
George Thompson, Pat Gerald,
Dr. R. O. Peters, Red Alston
and E. V. Lovvom . . . they’ll
give a good account of them-
selves.
A thought well worth con-
sideration . . . the basis of good
business practice is the Golden
Rule. Your bread will come
back buttered and with jam on
it, if you do things over and
above the dollar mark.”
The Weather
Temperature, high Friday,
89; low Saturday morning, 67;
barometer. 30.18, steady. Scat-
tered clouds, unsettled, contin-
ued fair, no change Relative
humidity, 56 per cent.
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