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CONSOLING KISS—Sen. Robert Kerr (D., Okla.), cheers Mrs.
Shirley Malone, 17, with a kiss at a “consolation” luncheon given
for the Muskogee, Okla., girl by Oklahoma senators and congress-
men, in Washington. Shirley thought she had won a nation-wide
essay contest, with a tour of Washington as a prize, but judges ruled
•that her entry had been largely taken from a magazine article, and
cancelled her tour. Shirley explained she hadn't been told the
entry had to be original. Gallant Oklahoma solons have promised
her a “specially conducted” White House tour. (NEA)
New School Measure
Is Up For Hearings
AUSTIN, Feb. 9—UP—An unof-
ficial “teachers week” began in
the Texas Legislature Monday.
Some 1,000 school teachers
swarmed into Austin for Monday
night’s Senate F.ducation commit-
tee public hearing on a $34 million
bill which would give members of
toe profession a $000 annual pay
ruse.
Across the second-floor Capitol
rotunda in the House of Represen-
tatives, the lower chamber’s edu-
cation committee scheduled hear-
ings Tuesday night on two educa-
tion measures, one a direct slap at
the powerful Texas State Teachers
Association, which rallied support
for the salary boost measure.
The Senate committee session
Monday night was expected to
draw the biggest crowd of the
viree-\veek-old 53rd Texas Legisla-
ture. Charles Tennyson, executive
secretary of the TSTA, said some
1,000 teachers were expected for
the hearing.
Introduced by Aikin
The pay raise measure was in-
troduced by Sen. A. M. Aikin of
Paris, longtime legislative friend
of education who co-authored the
Gilmer-Aikin public school educa-
tion reform program.
V
Lowlands Prepare
For High Waters
AMSTERDAM, Feb. 9 —UP—A
seven-nation helicopter fleet was
mobilized in emergency readiness
for new high spring tides which
threaten further disaster to flood-
wrecked Dutch coastlands.
Allied officials said the helicop-
ter armada will be based at Woens-
dreeht on the flood perimeter to
meet “any contingency” requiring
their use when the tides start to
swell the North Sea again next
weekend.
The fleet will include at least
40 copters—19 American, 11 Bri-
tish, four French, two Italian, two
Belgian, one Swiss and one Dutch.
The official storm toll for all of
.> Europe stood Monday at 1.858 —
* Holland 1,305; Britain 436; Belgium
20; and Germany seven.
Its passsage by the Legislature
would all but insure a new tax bill.
The Aikin bill, which would raise
teachers’ base pay from $2,400 to
$3,000 a year, would cost $34 mil-
lion.
And while Gov. Alta.i Shivers has
recommended that teachers be
granted a cost-of-living salary
boost, neither he nor the Legisla-
tive Budget Board included in-
creased salaries for either teach-
ers of state employes in the sep-
arate “balanced” budget they pro-
posed to the Legislature.
The House Education committee
scheduled hearings at 7:30 p.m.
Tuesday on a controversial bill in-
troduced by Rep. Doug Crouch of
Denton prohibiting requirement of
membership in the Texas State
Teachers Association as a condi-
tion of employwment in public
schools.
It" also will hear a measure by
Rep. DeWitt Hale of Corpus Chris-
ti which would permit Del Mar Jun-
ior College at Corpus Christi to of-
fer certain course and degrees at
the senior college level.
Membership by public school
teachers in the Texas State Teach-
ers Association is now voluntary
and there is no such requirement
as apparently anticipated by the
Crouch bill. The Denton lawmaker
also has introduced a bill which
See SCHOOL—Page 8
Opposed
Taft Says Slash
Now Would Not
Be Wise Move
WASHINGTON, Feb. 9 —UP—A
House drive to cut taxes on July 1
ran into formidable Senate opposi-
tion Monday.
Senate Republican Leader Rob-
ert A. Taft said it would be “un-
wise” to reduce taxes at all this
year, and indicated he may sup-
port an extension of the excess
profits tax due to expire at mid-
year.
House GOP leaders, while agree-
ing with Taft and President Eisen-
hower that spending cuts must
come first, favor letting the ex-
cess profits tax die on schedule.
They are hopeful that personal in-
come taxes can be slashed on the
same date.
The Senate was In recess Mon-
day and toe House had only “rou-
tine business” on its calendar.
Both chambers were marking time
because many Republicans were
out of town for the traditional Lin-
coln’s birthday speechmaking.
The major congressional devel-
opments came away from the law-
making chambers—in committee
rooms and at the White House.
CONFERENCE
President Eisenhower held his
second regular legislative confer-
ence with GOP leaders of the
House and Senate Chairman Wil-
liam F. Knowland (Calif.) of the
Senate GOP policy committee ex-
pected the White House talk to
produce a priorit” list of “must”
bills tor this session.
DULLES
The Senate Foreign Relations
subcommittee on Far Eastern af-
fairs called on Secretary of State
John Foster Dulles to appear as
soon as possible for questioning
about the new administration’s
strategy for stepping up pressure
on Red China to end the Korean
war.
FARM
Sen. Karl E Mundt (R-S.D.)
joined the ranks of farm state sen-
ators demanding that Secretary of
Agriculture Ezra T. Benson take
immediate steps to cope with fall-
ing farm prices. Munst asked Ben-
son to publicly assure farmers the
government will take “positive
steps” to aid them.
PATRONAGE
Some GOP congressmen, after
waiting 20 years for a chance to
pick postmasters, learned that they
have to let their patronage plums
fall to Democrats. Civil Service
rules limit the choice of a post-
master to the top three applicants
in a competitive examination and
in some Republican districts, all
three eligibles are Democrats.
Snow Forecast
In West Texas
By UNITED PRESS
Weather forecasters warned Mon-
day that snow — heavy at some
points — will roll into West Texas
Monday night with strong winds
and below-freezing temperatures.
That was the only area in the
state for which snow was forecast,
though showers were predicted for
nearly all of Texas as a cold front
moved south.
Sharp drops in temperature were
predicted at all points as the cold
front rolled across them. Showers
Monday night and Tuesday were
predicted for East and south Cen-
tral Texas.
howers before dusk and Monday
night, with locally severe thunder-
storms, were predicted for north
Central Texas. As for West Texas,
forecasters said the weather would
be so bitter ranchers should pro-
tect their stocks.
Pick 3rd pgh: The low minimum
temperature,
A spokesman for the U.S. Weath-
er Bureau said the front would
cover the state before nightfall.
Temperatures were expected to
See SNOW—Page 8
LOCKNEY PASTOR
REPORTED KILLED
IN PLANE CRASH
BULVERDE. Tex., Feb. 9—UP—
A single-engined plane crashed and
blew up in the hills six miles south
of Bulverde Monday, killing four
men. One was tentatively identi-
fied as a clergyman.
The clergyman was the Rev.
J.R. Naylor, pastor of the Lock-
ney, Tex., First Baptist Church.
The other victims were Rhea
Mitchell, the pilot, and his brother,
Glen, and George Turner Jr., all
of Lockney.
They left Plainview about 5 a.m.
for Port Isabel on the lower Texas
coast to go deep sea fishing. They
were to have met T. B. Mitchell,
the father of two of the victims,
at Port Isabel.
The plane, according to rescue
11 Point Program Agreed
By Ike's Administration
33 Lives
Lost In
Tragedies
By UNITED PRESS
The weekend casualty list in
Texas soared to 33 Monday with a
two-automobile accident and a
home fire each accounting for nine
lives for the biggest toll.
Fourteen persons, including the
nine who died in a shattering two-
automobile headon collision west
of Weatherford late Saturday
night, died in highway accidents.
Eleven burned to death, nine of
them in a fire that destroyed a
three-room frame house near Lin-
dale where thev slept.
Col. Wilbert Moore, 26. of Camp
Polk, La., is charged with the Sat-
urdav night shooting death of Shir-
ley Bolden. 40. a man. The shoot-
ing occurred in a Houston tavern
after an argument.
Jay Gould Murphy. 67. a retired
Houston firemen believed to be a
resident of Fairbanks, Tex., died
Sunday when his car went out of
control on Tomball road and crash-
ed into a lake. A wrecker had to
pull the submerged car from the
lake before the body could be re-
covered.
Linda Marie Bartetl, 21-month-
old daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
George R. Bartell Jr., of Seminole.
Okla.. was killed in a freak auto-
mobile accident at Lufkin, where
her parents had just moved and
san. jsa ws? A*- ** »«»
were half obscured by mist and
the explosion blew pieces of the
plane a quarter of a mile. Bulverde
is 20 miles north of an Antonio.
Mrs. A. W. Friesenhahn, a farm-
er's wife who lives nearby, saw the
plane disappear over the hill and
heard it explode. He said she and
her family first noticed the plane
when it was about “three quarters
of a mile high.”
The plane started to glide down-
ward, she said, and went over a
hill. As it disappeared, she heard
it explode. Her husband, Alfred,
hurried to the scene.
“There was nothing I could do
when I arrived,” he said. "The
wreckage was widely scattered and
burning and I counted four bodies.
The men apparently had been kill-
ed instantly.
“Another farmer soon arrived at
the scene and notified authorities."
Wildcat Test South And
West From Claytonville
A wildcat oil test to try out the
southwest-northeast line indicated
by the big Claytonville pool, will be
drilled by Seaboard Oil Co. a mile
and a half southwest of present
production.
It will be a new Ralph Collins
Ranch well 660 fet north and 1980
feet south of section 48, block Y.
T&P. This Is two miles north and
east of the dry No. 1 W. A. Sloan
testh of Hunt Oil Co. near Bernec-
ker. It is a mile and a half south
and section of Seaboard’s first
Collins well which failed.
At the White Flat field, east of
here, No. 1 Beckham has found
Communists Say U. S. Policy
On Formosa Threatens War
I MOSCOW, Feb. 9—UP—The offi-
cial Communist party newspaper
Pravda said Monday President Ei-
senhower’s decision to “de-neutra-
lize” Chinese Nationalist forces on
Formosa threatens to exend the
war in the Far East.
The Pravda article by Victor Ko-
rlosov was the first official Soviet
comment on Mr. Eisenhower's re-
cent order to the U. S. Seventh
Fleet to stop shielding the Commu-
4 nist Chinese mainland.
The newspaper said the new
American administration’s foreign
policy was counter to pre-election
promises to end the Korean war.
Pravda also attacked the Euro-
pean trip of U. S. Secretary of
State John Foster Dulles and Mu-
tual Security Administrator Harold
F,. Stassen as des>ned to restore
the West German Army for “mil-
itary adventures.”
Since his inauguration the Soviet
newspapers have not attacked Mr.
Eisenhower. Pravda’s attack was
not directed personally against the
American President, but against
the foreign policy of his Republi-
can government.
"The course of the American
multi-millionaires toward continu-
ation and expansion of the war con-
tradicts the will of peace loving
peoples for the preservation and
consolidation of peace,” Pravda
said.
“The reaction of the European
and Asian countries to Eisenhow-
er’s statement on Formosa, and
also Dulles' demands on West Eu-
ropean countries, has produced a
new and sharp division within the
Anglo-American block.” it said.
“Such is the immediate result of
the policy of extending the- war con-
ducted by the American ruling cir-
cles, a policy which contradicts the
basis of vital interests of all man-
kind,” the newspaper said.
in the Ellenburger and is trying
to complete in two and possible
three pays. At the John Aycock
well of Barnes Oil north of Lake
Sweetwater, tests were being run
in the Swastika before going on
down.
At the airport, Seaboard Turner
May No. 4 is still shut in waiting
on storage. No. 5 will be started
Tuesday. Rowan & Hope No. 2
Turner May is down to 2765 and
their No. 3-A city well is down to
3425 feet. R. E. Gracey No. 1 is
working deep in the reef and oil
men expect casing to be set to
try to make some kind of well.
In the Billie Hanks Field, A-9
of Seaboard has completed at
313.43 barrels in 24 hours through
15/64th-inch choke, with cutting
pressure 710. A-10 is drilling and
A-ll has been staked. In South
Trammell, Sun-Seaboard No. 9
Stone is down to 2130. At Robert
Lee, Seaboard L. M. Stone wildcat
is drilling at 5782 in shale, expect-
ing a show soon.
Mrs. Kendrick's
Sister Injured
Mrs. A. S. Kendrick of 901
Crane was making preparations
to leave either Monday or Tues-
day for Denton to attend her sis-
ter. Mrs. Ada Raley of that place,
who was seriously injured in a
car accident near Denton Sunday
afternoon.
Mrs. Raley, who is 78, sustained
a broken hip, a broken shoulder,
and other injuries. She is in a
Denton hospital.
Mrs. Raley had'’frequently vis-
lleA here, and was to have romc
nut here the weekend of Feb. 1
with the Kendricks’ daughter, Mrs.
1. F. Truett, and Mr. Tniett of
Fort Worth, but dtd not get to
do so. Her husband is dead, and
she has no children.
Dulles Mildly
Optimistic But
Sees Troubles
WASHINGTON, Feb. 9 —UP—
ecretary of State John Foster
Dulles returned from Europe Mon-
day and reported immediately to
President Eisemhower about
mildly optimistic” prospects for
European unity.
Dulles and Foreign Aid Adminis-
trator Harold E. Stassen, who ac-
companied him on the 11-day tour
of European capitals, spent an
hour with Mr. Eisenhower at the
White House.
“1 am encouraged by the situa-
tion in Europe, but see difficulties
ahead," Dulles said as he left the
pret this as meaning I’m mildly
optimistic about the situation.”
as a pipeline worker Monday
A truck driven by Willis Sco-
by of Pasadena and an automo-
bile driven by Jerry F. Marguilies,
34, of Houston sideswiped as both
traveled north along Highway 59
lies car went out of control, skid-
ded some 200 feet into a service
station where Linda Marie was
standing and struck her, hurling
the child about 20 feet.
Scoby was charged with murder
with a motor vehicle and Margu-
lies was charged with negligent
homicide.
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Calvin mosely
of Fort Worth, Mr. and Mrs. Ar-
vil Hubert Bingham and their six-
weeks-old infant, also of Fort
Worth, Lester E. Roberts of Hico,
Mrs. Mosely’s twin brother, and
three Wolters Air Force Base air-
men, Pvt. Curtis Houghton, Pfc.
Garcia Martinez and Cpl. Roose-
velt Jones were killed in the
Weatherford automobile accident.
Fire started in a three-room
house at Lindale shortly before
midnight Saturday and reduced
the structure to ashes within min-
utes and before the Lindale fire
department was called to the scene
by a passing motorist. Justice of
the Peace Martin Lilly said the
nine persons sleeping inside died as
they slept.
New City Maps
Now Available
A supply of new maps of the city
of Sweetwater has just been re-
ceived, by the Board of City Devel-
opment, Manager A. C. Bishop an-
nounced Monday.
The new maps indicate all streets
and zones within the city limits, he
said, and they may be obtained by
anyone wishing one of them.
CHRISTMAS IN FEBRUARY — Karen Carleton, of Lawrence,
Kan., above, waited a long time for her Christmas party. The nine-
year-old girl, who entered the hospital last October for treatment
of a brain tumor, was promised that Santa would pay her a visit
as soon as she was well enough. Sharing her belated Christmas
is her hero, Kansas University’s Charlie Hoag, who was in the
same hospital for treatment of an injured knee. (NEA)
B-29s Blot Out
50 Acre Center
Tax Legislation
Not In List Set
Up by Leaders At
Capita! Breakfast
WASHINGTON. Feb. 9 —UP—
President Kisenhower and Renub-
Hcan concessional leaders Mon-
day agreed on a “must” legisla-
tive program for this season
Senate GOP Leader Robert A.
j Taft sa*d tax legislation was not
included in a Il-nnint list because
the President and h's leaders have
made no final decision on tax pol-
j lev.
Taft said, however that tax leg-
islation would definitely be passed
at this session.
The 11-point nroeram:
1 The reorganization bill al-
ready passed.
2. Appropriation bills to clear
the House and reach the Senate
not later than Mav 15.
3 Hawaiian statehood.
4 Taft-H.artlev amendments.
5 Limited extension of controls
and allocations dealing with ma-
| terials required for the defense
program and critical defense
areas.
6. Legislation relating to Tide-
lands oil.
7. Extension of the reciprocal
trade law.
8. U.S. customs simplification.
9. Extension of old age and sur-
vivors insurance to cover groups
[presently excluded.
10. Extension of temporary aid to
| schools and critical areas.
11. Adding two commissioners for
: the District of Columbia.
The program was announced by
j Taft and House Speaker Joseph W.
| Martin Jr., after a two hour meet-
| ine with Mr. Eisenhower.
Taft said discussion of taxes
| reached no definite conclusions.
| He said the President still feels
there should be no tax reduction
until the budget ra in balance. Taft
said Monday they left a 50-acre
Red army supply center near
Pyongyang “cratered and smok-
ing" in an attack in which they
dropped 220.000 pounds of bombs
on 150 buildings and supply stacks.
The target for Sunday night’s
raid was about eight miles south-
west of the North Korean capital.
Eleven B-29’s flew through the
coldest temperatures of the year
—45 degrees below zero—to carry
out the huge attack.
“Fires in the target area cast a
glow over the surrounding coun-
ping their bomb loads.
Three Red night fighters made
passes at the B-29's, but did not
fire. Anti-aircraft fire was “meager
to moderate.”
Elsewhere in the air, Navy pi-
lots attacked an airfield under
construction north of Pukchong
and bombed a large cliff at Hung-
nam. causing “tremendous” land-
slide which “completely covered”
a bordering railroad track and
tunnel.
Hil And Run Case
Investigated Here
The 11 per cent income tax re-
duction is scheduled to become ef-
fective next Jan. 1. By moving toe
expiration date up to July 1. it
would mean a 514 per cent income
tax cut for this calendar year.
In the three weeks since Mr. Ei-
senhower's inauguration. Congress
has passed only one major bill—a
measure giving the President pow-
er to put reorganization plans into
effect, subject to a congressional
veto.
[ On the ground, North Korean sol-, With much of its attention still
j diers threw an unsuccessful 200- [ devoted to confirming nominees for
man attack on an Allied main! executive jobs, it is unlikely the
line position between Sandbag Cas- Senate will pass any more major
tie and the Punchbowl Sunday I legislation until next month. Both
night. j the House and Senate are marking
Supported by heavy mortar fire, time this week because of the an-
the Communists hit UN positions
at 7:50 p.m. (4:50 a.m. cst Sun-
day), but were thrown back 30
minutes later by artillery, mortar,
machinegun and
For the second time in as many
weeks, city officials are preparing rifle
to repair the women’s cell in the j rifle jjre
city jail after it was torn up by Allied tanks on the central front
prisoners. Two young girls, arrest-
ed on charges of vagrancy, admit-
ted wrecking the cell Sunday night
after another woman had torn the
steam radiator from the wall sev-
eral days ago.
nual exodus of GOP members to
make Lincoln week speeches.
Both Taft and Knowland expect
the next major bills before the Sen-
ate to be legislation to grant state-
hood to Hawaii and to establish
state ownership of submerged coas-
tal lands. Knowland said he expect-
ed those bills to reach the Senate
The girls appeared before the
city judge Monday morning and
continued their bunker-busting
campaign and reported as de- [
stroyed or damaged 75 bunkers, 21! floor in March,
caves, 14 observation posts, three i The House must start soon,
tunnels and 12 gun positions. j ahead of the Senate, on appropria-
Gen. James A. Van Fleet visited j tions bills and legislation to extend
fighting men of the Eighth Army | the reciprocal trade law. Other
for the last time Monday. He was i bills sure to be on the program m-
pleaded guilty to the charges, ad- j accompanied on his three-day tour j elude measures to amend the Taft-
J. D. Bradshaw Is
Buried At Roby
At Monday Rites
Funeral services for J. D. Brad-
shaw, 69. prominent Fisher county
farmer who died here at Sweetwat-
er hospital Saturday night after a
short illness, were set for 3 p. m.
Monday at the First Baptist Church
in Roby.
Mr. Bradshaw, who was toe fath-
er of Mrs. J. Paul Turner and Mrs.
Tess Marchant of Sweetwater, had
lived in Fisher County for many
years and was long an outstanding
citizen. He was born Jan. 30, 1884
in Kentucky and was married to
the former Annie Stewart on Nov.
29, 1911, in North Roby community.
Survivors are his wife; his two
daughters; three brothers—George
Bradshaw of Pentdleton. Tex., F.
E. Bradshaw of Temple, C. P.
Bradshaw of Lodi, Calif.; one sis-
ter, Mrs. William Cass of Dallas;
one granddaughter, Sue Marchant.
Services at the Roby Baptist
Church were conducted by the pas-
tor, the Rev. J. T. Campbell, as-
See FUNERAL—Page 8
THE WEATHER
WEST TEXAS — Locally heavy
snow. Strong winds and consider-
ably colder in Panhandle and up-
per South Plains with lowest tem-
peratures 20 to 28 Monday night.
Bidders Here On
Cement Plant Job
Root and Brown, Austin Bridge
Co., the Latex Corporation and var-
ious others have been here during
the past week preparing bids
the expansion of the Lone
Cement Plant.
The contract is scheduled
let between Feb. 17 and 20.
mitting wrecking the cell. Their
fine was fixed at $50 each.
When they were unable to pay
the fines, they were returned to
jail.
The police faced a heavy week-
end with the jail crammed to ca-
pacity. Eight charges of drunk-
enness, one of speeding, one dis-
turbance, one of hit-and-run driv-
ing and one of driving while in-
toxicated were filed. | James Harry <Pappy) Scruggs,
Fines of $ 4 each were assessed vek,ran Gu,{ Refining Pipeline Co.
in the drunkenness charges. The (southern Division i employe who
speeding charge drew a $10 fine is retirmg atter 3f; years service,
while the disturbance charge re- j was honored at a steak banquet giv-
sulted in a $14 fine. jen by his friends from all over the
The defendants named in the hit- solnhern division here
by Lt. Gen. Maxwell Taylor, who j Hartley labor law and to extend
will take over command of the i government controls over rents and
Eighth Army Wednesday. I the allocation of critical materials.
Gulf Pipeline Employes
Honor J. Harry Scruggs
and-run and DWI charges were
being transferred to the county
authorities.
The hit-and-run case is alleged
to have occurred on Fisher street
night at the Blue Bonnet Hotel Sky
Room.
Mr. Scruggs, who has been an
outstanding civic leader at Roscoe
The proposed school teachers’
basic pay increase bill backed by
Gov. Shivers would cost the Sweet-
water school district an additional
$21,000 a year, local school men
said Monday.
A group from the local Class-
room Teachers Association will
join the teachers’ group at Austin
tonight to oppose this legislation.
Included will be Ben Brock, who
Is president of the local CRTA and
Mrs. Brock and Caffey Welch of
the association.
A statement received from
Charles H. Tennyson, executive
secretary of the Texas State
Teachers Association, by County
'•"'orntendent R. C. Dill, and oth-
er educators here Monday said
that plans for easing the critical
classroom shortage will be seri-
ously handicapped if local school
Star | when a Mexican boy hit a car oc- 1 for many years was paid high trib-,
eupied by a Negro, but failed to utes {W his feU°\\-workeis at Hu
to be I stop. He was arrested on East surprise party in Ins honor.
Broadway. ! J. A. Young of Roscoe, Gulf em-1
..........■——-I ploye, was master of ceremonies. [
Each man present at the stag
party of some 66 gave a testimonial j
paying tribute to Mr. Scruggs.
Chief Clerk R. L. Chesser of the 1
Houston superintendent's office
said that Mr. Scruggs "has been
the best trainer of any man the
Gulf system has had.”
Roscoe District Foreman L. O.
Taylor said "he has not only been
a great teacher of clerks but he has
of the best trainers
contact with his fellow workers.
He went to work for Gulf in 1911
at Saltillo, worked for 18 months
for the railroads, and returned to
Gulf in 1917. He has been at the
Saturday I Koscoe plant since 1929. Mr. and
’ Mrs. Scruggs have one son, Dr.
James Harry Scrugs, occulist at
Waco.
Succeeding Mr. Scruggs will be
See GULF-Page 8
Circling "the souk
Shivers' Bill Would Be
$21,000 Expense Here
districts arc required to pay a big-
ger share of the minimum founda-
tion program.
"Local schools already arc pay-
ing more than 40 per cent of the | been one
cost of public education in Texas,”
Tennyson said, "although those
who want to re-arrange the school
financing pattern cite only the fig-
ures showing that local schools
pay about 20 per cent of the min-
imum foundation program cost.
They fail to cite the cost of cur-
rent operations and repayment of
bonded indebtedness.”
The big difference in percent-
ages i^s in the fact that the mini-
mum foundation program does not
■ present total school costs. Local
school districts must pay many
additional expenses themselves, in-
cluding tne cost of new buildings
See BILL—Page 8
Now that controls have been lift*
j ed, Tom Crowe has turned in bis
1 gas ration coupon book. “I noticed
by toe papers that controls had
been lifted so I thought 1 had bet-
ter turn in my old coupons,” he
I said.
A few of the "crying towel” guys
around town have just about dec.id-
of ed to give up the idea of “talking
district foremen.” up a depression,” and are going to
Community Leader make an effort to promote their
Mr. Scruggs has served Roscoe businesses . . . let’s all join them.
and community in many capacities ; -
Who is the great “Wizzard” of
Sweetwater. It is understood that
someone can pick a card at ran-
dom from a deck of plaving cards,
call a certain number and the “Mr.
Wizzard” can and will Identify
the card . . . mystifying isn’t lt?
as well as his company. He was j
on the school board ten years, a
member of the board of stewards !
of the Methodist Church for 20
years and held every office in the i
Masonic lodge.
The group presented the honored [.
guest with a big 21-inch-screen! --
i cstinghouse television set and Business must not be too bid in
many Individual gifts were present- Sweetwater . . . at a recent dress
td, after many jokes and warm sale an unidentified woman’s dress
tributes. Mr. Scruggs said he had was sold to another customer while
no regrets, had enjoyed his lengthy i the woman w»s in the dressing
service but would be sorry to lose 1 room trying on another drtjs,
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Baker, Allen. Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 56, No. 33, Ed. 1 Monday, February 9, 1953, newspaper, February 9, 1953; Sweetwater, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth749871/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sweetwater/Nolan County City-County Library.