The Daily News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 56, No. 27, Ed. 1 Tuesday, February 2, 1954 Page: 1 of 6
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VOL. 56.—-NO. 27.
March of Dimes
Collections Pass
$4,500 to Date
March of Dimes funds went
over $4,500 Tuesday with reports
of collection* from several phases
of the money raising campaign.
General chairman Weber Fouts
said the fund ' amounted to $4,-
659.59.
Latest contributions were bro-
ken down like this:
Austin Elementary school
$121.23, senior high $191.07, and
Cedar Grove school $14.60.
Business district and special
gifts drives produced an addition-
al $126.55. ~
An additional $19.20 was add-
ed from parking meter dimes.
Rural programs netted $10 at
Arbala, $21.77 at Nelta, $35.56
at Union. $21.62 at Ridgeway,
$18 st North Hopkins, $12 at Bra-
nom and $22.80 at Cumby.
Deadline Nears
For Candidates
For City Posts
The deadline neared Tuesday
for candidates to file for posit-
ions on the City Council.
There are only two positions
to lie filled and only two candi-
dates havo filed, Joe. D. Avin-
gcr and Graydon S. Johnson.
The council is expected to cer-
tify the candidates at a session
tonight and order the printing of
election ballots.
The election is scheduled Tues-
day, Feb. 16.
Retiring councilmen who do
not plan to seek e-election are
Henry Mahaffey and Raymond
Barton.
Dragline Bought
For Precinct 2
For $12,598 Net
County commissioners court
Monday afternoon authorised
purchase of a $13,220 dragline for
Precinct 2.
Hobbs Equipment Co. of Tyler
wax low bidder on the dragline.
Six bids were considered, and the
Hobbs price was accepted upon
a motion by Commissioner W. T.
(Bill) Miller, Precinct 2.
Miller, Commissioner Raymond
Stewart and County Judge Wayne
Gee conferred most of the day
with equipment company repre-
sentatives.
The actual purchase price,
Judge Gee explained, will be $12,-
559 after a five per cent dis-
count is awarded.
It’s the first dragline purchas-
ed by the county in the last five
years.
— Bids ranged from Hobbs offer
to $20,715.
Delivery of the dragline is
scheduled within 10 days.
Barnes Named
To Federal Post
Washington, Feb. 2 « —• The
man who has been serving as act-
ing administrator ef the SmaU
Business Administration, Wendell
Barnes, was nominated by Presi-
dent Eisenhower today to be chief
of the agency.
Barnes took over as acting ad-
ministrator last fall after Eisen-
bowar aanaptad the rexiyn*tjon. nf
William Mitchell without explana-
tion. Barnes is a native of Ponca
City, Oklahoma.
Japan Inquires
Of Whereabouts
Of Red Diplomat
Tikyo, Feb. 2 <*—Japan asked
the American embassy today if it
knows the whereabouts of a Rus-
sian diplomat-spy the Soviet mis-
sion charges was kidnaped by U.
S. intelligence agents.
The foreign ministry said it had
not received a reply. A spokesman
for the embassy refused to ac-
knowledge receipt of Japan's re-
quest for information.
The delay in answering the for-
eign ministry could be an indi-
cation the embassy may know
where Yuri Rastovorov is.
An American source who can-
not be identified said yesterday
Rastovorov asked the U. S. for
political asylum and probably is no
longer in Japan. He could be on
the American military base of Ok-
inawa or even en route to the
U. S.
Rastovorov presumably has val
liable information on Russian plans
and espionage in the Far East.
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Dulles Charges
Threaten World P<
Councilmen Slate
Meeting Tonight
CELEBRATE—The Brdgett quadruplets of Galve-ton, Texan, celebrated their 15th birthday Feb. I
with a small dinner party for 12 girl friends. For their birthday .present, they received two new
seta of furniture for their over-sixed room at the W. Ellis Badgctt homo. Left to right: Jeanette,
Joan, Jereldine, and Joyce. (NEA Telephoto).
Yankee Ingenuity
Saves Taxpayers
Tidy Naval BUI
Boston, Feb. 2 (ft—Yankee In-
genuity paid off today for John
H. Nolan, civilian employee of the
Boston Naval Shipyard.
He received a meritorious award
of $795 for a suggestion that al-
ready Am gave* the taxpayer} chairman
$661,100 in the handling of ma-
terial for warships.
In presenting the award, Cap-
tain P. D. Gold, captain of the
yard, read a citation from the
Secretary of the Navy:
“On behalf of the Navy, I wish
to commend you for resourceful-
ness and the initiative that you
have displayed in submitting this
suggestion. The Navy appreciates
this valuable contribution which
increases so materially the effi-
cient operation of the Navy’s
work. I hope that you will contin-
ue your endeavors and will submit
other constructive ideas.”
Asked what he would do with
the money, Nolan said: >
“It will go to a needy family, the
head of which is me. The bank and
I own a house and it will take
bite out of the mortgage.”
Local Trades
Day Changed
Contrary tn customary prreed-
ur«, tomorrow will not be Good
Neighbor Value Day in Sulphur
Springs.
The big monthly shopping
special will be staged Wednesday,
Feb. 10, instead.
, The change from the first to
the second Wednesday in each
month was voted recently by the
Chamber of Commerce merch-
ants committee. The later date
is designed to avoid interference
with the first of the month rush
in local business houses and with
" ‘the holidays observed here, most
of which fall in the early part
of the month.
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Coastal Liner
Strikes Rock
In Far North
Seattle, Feb. 2 *1 — Coast
Guard headquarters in Seattle
says a passenger liner belonging
to the Canadian National Rail-
road hag hit a rock in the North
Pacific between British Colombia
and Alaska. The vessel is identi-
fied as the SS Prince George
which asked the Coast Guard to
send a tug but did not send any
general SOS. There is no indi-
cation how many passengers and
crewmen are aboard the liner.
The accident occurred in Sey-
Ambitious Agriculture
Program Gets Underway
Eight Chamber of Commerce
sub-committees Monday gave
themselves a month to get an am-
bitious 20 point agriculture pro-
gram underway.
Agriculture department mem-
bers, meeting with chairman Duke
McKinney Monday afternon, map-
ped plans to prepare preliminary
repurta and surveys on 20 sep-
arate projects adopted for sub-
committees. The groups will sub-
mit initial reports on projcdls
at a March 1 meeting.
Every sub-committee accepted
one or more projects, ranging
from establishing a farmers
wholesale market to setting up
a farm field day to spotlight pas-
ture improvement programs.
Subcommittees and projects
adopted include:
Farmers Market, Roy Harry,
work for increased
acreage and adequate markets for
truck crops, with special emphasis
on cucumbers, sweet potatoes,
watermelons and sweet corn; and
establishing a farmers wholesale
market.
Youth Committee, Bob Lemon,
chairman — support a youth dairy
and livestock program; sponsor
land judging contests.
Crops Improvement, Wylie
Williamson, chairman — improve-
varieties of new crops.
Poultry Committee, Rowland Ed-
wards, chairman
study to possibilities of expanded
broiler and egg production pro-
gram; and study increased tur-
key production.
Livestock, J. J. Spencer, chair-
man — continue to work toward
further development of livestock
industry i n Hopkins County
through cooperation and assist-
ance to Livestock Association and.
other agricultural agencies.
Dairying, Drue A. Connally,
chairman — continue to work to-
ward further development of
dairy industry in Hopkins County
through cooperation and assist-
ance to Dairy Association, DHIA,
Artificial Breeding Association
m.d other agricultural agencies.
Pasture Improvement, Estes
Hargrave, chairman — work for
pasture improvement and silage
storage program; encourage use
of cover crop and soil building
crons; cooperate and work for
county soil improvement council
which would work with govern-
mental agencies, business and land
owners and arrange demonstra-
tions, lectures and educational
films on all phases of agriculture.
Conduct at least one farm field
Chapman, chairman — launch act-
ive campaign for more rural tel-
ephones; sponsor home orchard
program; make arrangementa for
selection of a “Hopkins County
Farm Family of the Month;”
sponsor program to encourage
people of the county to identify
farms, ranches and homes with
appropriate names; assist com-
munities in local projects and or-
ganise a Chamber of Commerce
fnrmers council to consist of
chamber members from rural
areas; support program for more
farm to market roads and hard
surfacing of other lateral roads;
encourage formation of commun-
ity organisations.
97 Car Owners
Obtain New Tags
On Opening Day
4,157 Purchase
Poll Tax Receipts
Before Deadline
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A total 4,157 poll tax receipts
ware issued through Tax Asses-
sor and Collector Dillard Vender-
griff’s office, the county official
said Tuesday.
The figure reached week old
predictions. It was still below the
number of poll tax |>aymcnta re-
corded in the last state wide elec-
tion year, I960. The receipts
totalled 4,952 in 1949 for the
1950 election year.
American General
Flies to Inspect
French Outpost
Hanoi, IndoChina, Feb. 2 UB—
Lieutenant General John W.
O’Daniel, commander of U. 8. land
forces in the Pacific, flew to Dien
Bicn Phu today to see how the
French in that rebel-ringed strong-
hold are utilising war equipment
supplied by the United States.
O’Daniei made a three-week
survey of IndoChina last summer
to study the uses of U. S. military
aid. That aid, running at the rate
of a half billion dollars a year, has
since been increased.
Communist rebels arc attacking
in five different parts of Indo-
China. The Reds apparently are
trying to take over enough terri-
tory before the spring rains to
force a negotiated |»eare with the
French, Red leader Ho Chi Minh
has thrown nearly alt his eight re-
gular divisions into the winter
campaign.
In one of the new attacks, the
rebels are threatening the royal
laiotian capital of Luang Prahang.
Another fight is going on in cen-
tral Lsoh.
French army sources say that of
all the sectors involved in the new
The 1953 payments for 1954, ....... .................________— ......................... T
With customary reluctance, car
owners didn’t furnish rushing
business for the county auto reg-
istration office Monday, the first
day for issuance of 1954 vehicle
license tags.
Ninety-seven passenger cars
wer* registered. And, about half
g^imroughl ’Mjjjj had *l'c*,l>r been ><--
Deadline on registration of ve-
hicles is March 31,
previous period
year which attracted only 2,374
poll tux purchasers.
The 1962 presidential election
year, however, boosted sales to
6,209. r
The poll tax total doesn't re-
flect the actual voting strength
of the eouny, however. Exemp-
tions swell the number of eligible
voters.
mour Narrows, a winding and day on pasture improvement and
fxst-TUnrtng eftannerat flood tide, sot) eohsernrttoit.
The Prince George is a 860-foot
liner which plies along the west
coast from Puget Sound to South-
east Alaska.
Final Riles Set
For Mr. West
Final rites for John R. West,
father of Mm. Graydon 8. Johnson
of Sulphur Springs, will be con-
ducted at 10 a. m, Wednesday at
Sparkman-Brand Chapel in Dallas.
Mr.- West died Monday.
, Dr. Glenn Flinn and Dr. Aisle
H. Charlton will officiate at the
riles. Entombment will be in Mill-
crest Mausoleum.5 l .
Mr. West, for many years coun-
ty surveyor of Dallas county, is
survived by two sons, John R.
(Jack) Weet, Houston, and Robert
West, Dallas; and two daughters,
. John W.
Mrs. Johnson, and Mrs.
Donaho, Corpus Ckrieti.
grandchildren and one
grandchild also survive.
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Eight
greet-
Robbery Victim
Rolls to Phone
To Call Officers
Denison, Feb. 2 W — Two ban-
dits held up the R and R filling
station two miles north of Den-
ison before dawn, and left the
night attendant, Elvic Weger,
bouud hand and foot about 100
yards from the station.
But this didn’t prevent Weger,
about 22 years of age, from no-
tifying authorities. Although his
hands and feet were tied, he rol-
ered the 100 »m«’*cnt«, Includes 4
ling station. He managed to edge
his way inside, and knock the
telephone off the hook, telling
the operator to send the author-
ities. y-
Sheriff Woody Blanton of Den-
ison says about *150 w as taken
by the two bandits, one described
lunsci vauun. ---1as -short ami .wi,., *»._ .. ms payroll xor a tunc, aiuiougn
Rural Improvement, Joe. N. tall and slender. ^ -did. jqo jvprk and indeed had
Building PenURs
Total $27,100
Construction on one residence!
pnd two businesses sent January
building estimates in Sulphur
Springs to $27,100.
The figure is from nine per-
mits issued during the month at
T. D. Parkins, tractor sales
sjore^frattle structure on Tennes-
see, $6,000. - ,
Earl Featherxtbhe, enclose porch
»t residence on North Davis, $800.
Pratt Parking Co,, addition to
plant on Magnolia, $7,600.
Eddie Wakefiqid, addition one
room to building on Greenville
highway, $1,800. *
« ... » J,"* Aaberdft, remodel Mail**
iaat year figured $52,-[building an Main, $4,000.
M. C. Bailey, remodel aad add
one room to residence or
$599, ^ • ■■
A M. Fate, addition o# wash
rack to kulMing on Gilmer, $500.
Jack Sickles, five room frame
residence on MeCsnn, $4,000.
City Hall,
The January, 1954, total vu
nearly a SO per cent drop under
the corresponding month of 1963.
Building estimates in the first
month of
**** 1 m
Permits were iasded for the fol-
lowing, construction during Jan-
uary:
Tom Witigo, addition car port
and bath to residence on North
Davis, $2,090.
Republican Solon
Charged With
Padding Payroll
Washington, Feb. 2 (Jt —- Rep-
resentative Ernest Bramblett,
member of (Congress from the 13
district of California, went on
trial toay in Washington, charg-
ed with payroll padding and ac-
cepting salary kickbacks.
He i* accused of keeping his
wife on the office payroll for
one year, and of listing a clerk
who did not work and turned over
all her salary to him.
Brumhlctt is serving his fourth
term in the House. He is a Repub-
lican, a native of Fresno, 53 years
old. He is married and has three
sons. Their home is Pacific
Grove. The 13th District, which
City Councilmen faced the light-
est business agenda of several
months tonight in the first regular
February Council meeting. >;
The aessioti opona at 7:06 in
City Hall.
Acting city manager Roy
Hantes listed only two items for
discussion, plus the presentation
of monthly bills. ‘
Hemes plans to present the
monthly Corporation Court report
showing city poliee activities for
January. The report turned in by
Court Recorder J. M. Pickett
Tuesday morning revealed 36 ar-
rests during the month and a to-
tal $696.25 collected in docket
fines and parking violations.
Fourteen persons Were lodged
in jail during the 81 day period.
Councilmen also will be shown
a proclamation recognising 1954
a« special observance of the 26th
anniversary of "Toxn, Our Tex-
as” as the state song.
Frank Lausche ~
Asks Filth Term
Columbus, Ohio, Feb. 2 III •—
Governor Frank lausche has filed
as a fifth-term candidate for
nomination in the Democratic pri-
mary election next day.
Ray While, the Governor’s sec-
retary, submitted petitions to the
Berlin, Feb. I (AP) —Sec-
rotary of State Dulles took
up the Ruwtian challenge in
the Big Four Berlin meeting
May — and charged Unit
it in the one-man rule of the
Communist world that
threatens peace. He said the
Soviet Union control* the
force* of 800 million people
—> and that this is a far
greater danger than the
Wentern Defensive Alliance.
The Western Alliance was de-
nounced yesterday by Soviet For-
eign Minister Molotov, who re-
posted all the familiar charges of
American imperialism and war-
mongering. ----------------......................:
That was Molotov’s answer to
western proposals for free elec-
tions as a prelude to reuniting
Germany. He called instead for a
world conference and a pease
treaty, and a weak Germany.
DuHee’ reply today was regard-
ed as ths beginning of a Western
attempt to see whether Molotov is
willing to make any concessions
at all.
Saws ap Point*,
The Dulles rejoinder ran to
about 20 minutes and sounded tike
a courtroom summation.
He went back to the days of the
Nazi-Soviet pact of 1939 for a
direct quote from Molotov. Molo-
tov — In 1939 — said it was fool-
ish and even criminal for the West
to fight Nasi Gcmisny.
Now — Molotov insists Germany
hi the great menace.
“We ail make mistakes,” said
Dulles.
He also said it seems to have
been a mistake for Russia to pre-
vent the Communist world from
sharing in the Marshall Plan. Per-
haps then, said Dulles, there would
ho fewer refugees fleeing Corn-
delta. But the rebels, with all
their strength, appear to hsve no
chance of smashing the French
defenders or of taking' any great
number of fortifications.
Dallas Airman
Killed in Crash
White presented the
in the absence of Lausche who
wax in Cleveland fir a ceremony
during the visit of President Celal
Bayar of Turkey.
lice guard for every 86 persons.
In West Germany, the riffle la N*
to one.
I Summoning these points, Dulles
again called on Molotov to sup-
counties —• Monterey, San Luis
Obispo, Santa Barbara and Ven-
tura.
A jury of eight women and four
men is hearing the case.
Prosecutor William Hitz said :
Bramblett had a Mrs. Colga •
Hardaway of Senta Barbara on
his payroll for a time, although
Dallas, Feb. 2 itf
Foree lies identified one Texan
aai' being among the seven of-
ficers and men missing after the
crash af a C-46 transport plane
in Japan on Sunday, lie is Air-
man Second Class William Adams
Junior son of William Adams and
Mr*. Rosie Bell of Dallas.
Cattle Market
Steady Monday
More favorable weather brought
a larger marketing of animals at
the Sulphur Springs Livestock
Commission Company on Monday.
The market remained steady on
all classes of cows and calves as
710 head were offered.
Good and choice fat calves sold
from $16 to $19, with plain and
mediums goings at $12 to $15,
and culls from $10 to $12.
F'at dairy-type cows sold front
$9 to $12, tanners and cutters
brought $6.50 to $9, and bulls
demanded from $12 to $14.50.
position, is expected to face state
auditor James A. Rhodes in the
November 2 election. Rhodes fil-
ed for the Republican nomination
yesterday amid indications he
.. would be unopposed for nomine*
T’^ A,tion.
Delaney Denied
Parole Appeal
Washington, Feb. 2 Of*-—1The U.
S, Parole Board has denied a new
parole application of Denis W.
Delaney, He's the imprisoned for-
mer collector of internal revenue
for Massachusetts. Once before,
the Imard rejected Delaney’s ap-
plication for parole.
Last July, Delaney was sen-
tenced to prison for one year and
one day for income tax evasion
and bribery.
never been in Washington.
Car Inspections
Moving Fader
Austin, Feb. 2 Wl — Texas
automobile owners are moving a
little faster now in having their
cars inspected to comply with
state law.
In San Antonio about 70,000
of 200,000 have,been Inspected.
Auto inspections are reported as
moving at a steady pare in Cor-
pus Christi. An increase in inspec-
tions has been noted in Houston,
Dallas and Fort Worth.
The deadline is April 16 for
having ear lights, brakes, head-
lights and home checked end an
inspection sticker pitted on the
windshield. ' ’'
Vinttor of Public Safety, Hom-
n Garriaon, warns that the pen-
alty for not having a car inspec-
tion sticker is a fine of one dol-
lar to $200 plus court costs.
Lausche, who lacks primary op- P°£ Uwmany.
Exilei from the three Baltic
states which are now In the So-
viet Union have made a Special
appeal to the Big Four Foreign
Ministers Conference in Berlin. A
group called the Lithuanian Lib-
eration Committee, in Bonn, West
Germany, dispatched a note to
the conference, asking for inde-
pendence for the three Baltic
states. The Lithuanian group spoke
also fur exiles of Estonia and at-
via. . ‘
Local Groundhog,
As Legend Goes,
Sees Shadow
A Hopkinx County Groundhog
promised Tuesday that sunshine
and 60 degree weather were only
temporary.
If the legend of Groundhog's
action holds Water, then Sulphur
Springs is Iq fur some rough
sledding the next six weeks.
That’* according to the story if
a Groundhog sees his shadow on
February 2, he’ll crawl hack into
his hole to escape six weeks of
br.d weather.
With only a scattering of clouds
in the sky, Groundhogs are go-
ing to he mighty scarce around
hark until the middle of Match.
The bright sun provided a mild
winter day, and brought temper-
atures to 63 degree* at noon,
night went to 44, and the
imum reached 68 degrees.
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that enabled them la grab a
73-year-eld burglary seeped
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That’. Cold
Lyons, Franca. Feb. 2 —
It wa* so cold la Lyons yeslor-
doy that lea cloggod tho trum-
pet* of a military band trying
to play tba French national an-
them. And in tba Paste area,
tba cold froae wine in tank
MIG SHOT DOWN—fh# Air Force announced Monday that UJ.
Saber jet tighter* shot down a MIG-16, one of a large formation
that attacked an Air Force RB-45 flying a reconnaissance mission
off tha Korean waat coast Jan. 22. None of the U. A aircraft waa
lost. Type of plane* involved war* U- S. Saber jtt, top, and Rus-
sian MIG-15, bottom. (NEA Tvlaphoto).
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Frailey, F. W. & Woosley, Joe. The Daily News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 56, No. 27, Ed. 1 Tuesday, February 2, 1954, newspaper, February 2, 1954; Sulphur Springs, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth813500/m1/1/?rotate=180: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hopkins County Genealogical Society.