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week Cabinet Quits fell Bloc
CHANGES MADE
IN GRID PLAY
ARE RELATED
BRECKEmUDGE
i
Duke Monroe, registered na-'ional quarteih^rse, i> shown
tere wearing Uis blue ribbon ind silver pUujiie, which he
^fon at the "Top *0 Texas'\iorse show at Pauipa.
; Astride i> A. R. Knight,owner and trainer, who lives
south of Breckenridge, breed-ar of registered i|Uurterhorses
Puke Monroe won the blu«- rib'-xm as champion two year old
performance stallion. The pla- |ue was awarded him for
third place in the best stallion >f show class.
Even the closest followers of
•ho gams mny njt realize that in ,
less thun three weeks Btcckon- !
ridge will play its first football j
game of the season, this on Fri- '
day. September 12 at Abilene. ' i
Meanwhile a" the coaches meet- i
i"g in- El I'aso a number of
changes wet j made in the playing
; rules. Somj that will be most :
noticeable *o the fans follow; '
In a kick or try for extra point.!_
the ball is dead, and there
American:
Import Of
Action Mot
Clear
VOL. 27—NO. 191
BRECKENRIDGE, TEXAS SUNDAY, AUGUST 24, 1947 PRICE 5 CENTS PER COPY
Observer
MEN AND HORSES
MAN IN ACTION
ATOMIC ENERGY
SEEN OB HEARD
T
'! f* a man a nurse he can
ride" .seems to appeal to some
tlung inherent in every man.
atter what civilization has
to him. (Add give him a
appeal seems to l;e universal.
vVe noticed in different par-
ts of the
COUNTY SOIL
SAVING WORK
UNDER WAY
Ic no more scrambling to kill the | LIONS LOOKING
TOWARD TIME
FOR CANTEEN
Apparently u committee
1 from the Breckenridge Lions
j Club and other city represen-
; tatives have iu mind to give
: Breckenridge a first class teen
} ball when tha kick Is blocked
the county soil
- *** —die rule stated that both sides
j could not be off-side for one
; player or side must have been off-
side first, so the official had to
; ctecld; which one- —now they say
<hat bc:h sides can be off-s'de
and the play can be called in that
Technicians assisting the manner- offsetting hoth penalties.
Lower Clear Fork of the Braz Subs Wcn t RePort
os Soil Conservation District 71,0 most drastV change in rules | canteeu.
have l>een working for the ')r ",abIy wil' b{V tha* substitutes j At the meeting of the Lions
past ten (lavs helping Henrv wi" no lonfr",r report the refer-j Club Friday noon contract was
Compton, Rancher in south- Z wh™/he>' s° f° the game, entered into to place chew-
west Stephens count v. in de- ,.'Py w" J*st p° n(anltap tbj i g gum veuding machines ov-
iMl/natter what civ,lizatur, his sloping a plan for the conser- y;r on th* shoulder hat they er the city, the proceeds to
XutJssasTJr. <** .
Mr. Compton has had «„«t ^£1^™ T*/*?
cou.Vtrv that men of the steeper cultivated land time out. And provided the game j ^hil^wSlei6 Pete Parson*
have theu- own likings for a! on the ranch terraced lor is not delay-d. if so. there will b-i r>-,V r J Ttl^L-:
particular kind of horse, but many years, and stated that rime ou; or ? penalty, a player j p , ?, I . , ,y
Everywhere a horse is wanted, j his fields. woukl have been may rn'er and the otb?r playerj le Wlir<l
In Connecticut it must he a' washed awa.v years ago if this cm* off. n they do ft and clear
horse to drive. In Kentucky u piet-autioii had not neen taken befot the bail is snapped, if morei , mmittte
horse that can run, in Wiscou- Soil conservation service pers- than one player is sent in. t'mo wc.re ""V^1 a co
Sin a horse that can pull. In1 omiel have checked the terrace out will be called in certain cir- this matter -
Stephens county a quarter-; systems thoroughly and have cumstances. i The program at the mee -
horse that can. be trained for I recommended minor changes Mor? elbow room will be ha<i | 'ng consisted of an address y
a roping or cutting horse ! in outlets and diversions ter- i s year from tb~-side-lines, as Rev. W. V. Bane, who discus-
! races to eliminate small breaks the. ball now is placed 17 l-v yards sed the potentiaities of atom-
no occuring. away fr.m the side-lines, instead j ic energy.
THEN THERE Ifc> THE , order to iret even graz c(t ,hc I5 as last year. when the He pleaded educatiouoa the
gaited horse. The walking! throughout his pastures, fc8l! is down less than 17 1-3 yards I dest.ructivne* of the atomic
horse, etc. The northwest Ar- J^ou^hout ;o the a*. u * brought out. ibomb, as advocated by Efc-
kausan wants a lei.ne ee - - Tcchuieians staked quarterback, in the T for- steill and ether SCienttttsWho
walking liorse. auJ llesigned spill- "ia on- can not p8*-' tetw-en his nave said that unless war is
!"*?s to a backf'eld man and no: eliminated this civilization
grass.
': Cutwell. E. R. Maxwell, Jack
Merrill and Marion Huggins
jS3
Defense Treaty
Stand Is Quit
By Argentina
PETROPOLIS, Aug. 23 (UP
—Argentina officially aband-
oned today her stand that the
interAiuerican defense treaty
should differentiate between
aggression within and from w
without the western hemis-^nown that the government
ATHENS, August 24 (UP)
-The government of Premier
Masimos Dometrios resigned
en bloc today sifter an intra-
ptu-ty .squabble had touched
oft demands for a reshuffle of
ternal problems.
Party leaders maintained at
a meeting that at least a par-
tial reorganization of the gov-
ernment was in order to en-
hance Greek prestige abroad
and piovitle the machinery for
facilitating the handling of in
tena problems.
The import of the cabinet
resignation and the intents
which prompted it were not
clear immediately. But it was
phere.
The Argentines still insisted
however, that the methods of
dealing wit'i continental and
extra continental aggressors
should differ.
In an official statement Ar-!
gentina admitted the right of
individual and collective self
iefense action against any out
long had I <-en more ci less dis
turbed by dissident elements
within cabinet meetings.
The eruption of the intra-
(•abinet differences into a gov
ernment crisis came at a tini2
when the American aid mis-
sion headed by Dwight Gris-
wold was getting set for its
first substantial operations in
BILL ODOM CHECKS HIS -4^ Bill Cdorn. left, famous
round the world solo flyer,checked over his P-47 plane in
Dallas with his supervising neehanic T. Carrol Salle, Dal-
las, Texas. Odom will fly the mongrel" P-47 in the Bendix
Air Race. Later in a converted B-32 he will attempt to fly
round the world over the polos...; (NE* V TELE PHOTO)
Some one has said that a:
water a- 'l'gs
die «. 50 frequeucy rain
fall the moit iiitense rani^a^ f()r IOUgh:nt and other unsports-
b«k for - oth„ ^ frequency r«n ^
feels far superior to the man
011 foot.
The sign of ultimate back-lever recorded
wardne s is
take corn to mill on a mule.
.^FIFTEEN CIVILIZATIONS
Hnve come and gone Rev. W.
V. Bane remindeii at the Li-
is Club yesterday.
Borne of these peoples have
been almost obiterated. There
is sufficient evident e that
they were great in many ways
we Cannot equal. We cannot
jhuke Egyptian brick, Damas-
eivilizations a^eady have iier-
ished from the earth. He in-
dicated that the old Egyptians
Meet Teachers Of
City Schools For
Ensuing Year
Nifty Fights
Set Hand In
Legion Bouts
good man on horse hack i, ' "> 1 ' k dam „.ithout « o. ,r tpl„ to worry j vviu be destroyed.
the exception oi science teachers
for Junior High, which is cxp.cted
to he filled shortly.
I fere are tiie teachers:
High School principal. G.- L.
Keahey. Jun.:r High principal. L.
1R- Tatum. East Wprd principal.
spillways are inexpensive t<> ri-> rjlayer was out for quite a' machinery of today could pla-!Lcroy R^hinjf. Soulh Want prin-
constiuet and are gootl insur- while and out on a s-retcher. ee there. I•'pal. A. H. Smith, North Wftnl
ance against the loss of $1,0W> stringent rul?s wer^ interpreted . The r omb cannot remain I Pr'nci.nal- M. A. Smith,
structure. about players, even a foot bait! secret. Scientists say other na- j Hi«h School Te chorS: Mrs.
Ed F rd rancher in extrc- plaj ir c n not participate in a j tians can discover it without'John F- Bailey. Mrs. Nell Cites,
northeast Stephens eottit- calf scramh'-. or serve during %-a- putsi.le assistance. He told ofiCarl W' Cook- &o!'n W. Curo
" u alau constructing new ra .f n as « life guard, etc. enter, the make up of the atom its|Mrs. R m t t
t. k« and repairing old ones>«*y c>nr?sts ^hat wouM; protons and electrons, and'Mrs-
are measuring fcHnS hSm 9 Premium or a prize. how the bomfo in a aGCOIK{ re-!
condivt.
Uu. - . ,. Elbow jabbing Is prohibited, this
It seems amusing during tnis ,r an cffcrt .Q correct abusos 0f may have h:ul some knowledge
dry spell to talk about excess thc pasf whpn ;h,. elbow was ] of atomic energy for there are
water in tanks, yet adequate ,o uko 0,t. a pIay?r sometimes; stones in the pyramids that no
P i Boxinar un,Ier ausPice-
S and Supt. J. F. Bailey announces tho Ameri,;„„ Legion, spiced
tha. aIi positions filled with w.ith ^ m.wcomers> 5,.ew
a fair crowd at City Hal! Fri
day evening, prohablv the
I est bout from a spectators
standpoint being that between
Datid Ariffith, Breckenridge
TAA title holder and Burel
fechnicians
R. H. Gu'nn, T. M. James
G. L. Kcahcy, Mrs- Dale
Harb'son.
watersheds, making soil bor-
acus steel, and there is no i :njrg and designing the dams
L f A. _ T* _ n_ _ ® ' . . ■ J 1 n i11ir
—o-
side aggression without wait-! Greece. _ . , _
ing for consultation- I ^ also coincided with Guer-
But in the case of continen-l j^a w' rfarc in the northern
tal aggression, the statementi ***** °" « P^cepti-
said, collective measures sho-[ ! mounting scale.
aid be ta!ten only after consul J 0
&e£ tt. "embeK 01: New Caddo lime
There was every indication
that a sub committee would
' e able to draft a compromise j
between the United States and i
Argentine views. j Opening of a new Caddo pre
-o t duction area in Stephens coun
Protest Of Death threo miles southeast of
Opened In County
Made To Moscow
V/\SFtINGTON August 23 <U.R>
—The S'ate Departmen-t today in-
structed U-S- ambassador Walter
R. Sm'Ui in Moscow to protest cli-
Eolian. lias been indicated i,y
the S. D. Johnson and Acme
Die and Machine Co., No. 1
Ethyl Loudder, 467 feet from
the north and 1,024 from the
east line of T E & L survey
P ctly ta the Sovie- Fo"c'gn Of-; 2260.
fico against tb« death sentence j Topping the Caddo at 3,298
impcaecton a Bulgarian anti com-, feet. the well was drilled to
munist leader.
Previous U •
S. protests over
Robertson a new com^toThe!^, trla' °f, ^"nl1 TtSe
rillfi; 1 'ea er- Nikoln Pe* kov. were made
to ai^ist Mr. Ford in making
his plans i'or construction. As
soon as equipment becomes
available Mr. Ford Ls extreme an<)
, . lv anxious to complete tne er iarge newspapc.r,
qrdinary animal instincts and, r.lCe system on his cultivated du,es on rH n„wsprint ;hcy have
cravings? they probably r,''v land. imported sine? 1939 was rejected
machinery today, Rev. Bane
«tated, that can place the enor
mous stones in the pyramids.
* Wonder what those people
thought and felt, besides the
Freedom Of Press
Threat Revealed
BUENOS AIRES August 23 <r.K> I e{| js
An a" tempr to have La l*rensa [
la Nac'ont—Argentina's two i
pay customs'
J. E
Alton
Griffith won but Robertson1
showed excellent form.
Bill Tabor, Cisco, met Clay-
i.cn C'tts, another TAA champ,
.n a all round good fight that
was called a draw by Referee
Sam Matlock. In the third
round Otts drove Tabor throu-
gh the I'Opes.
Criidgington, dist
to the Sov et member af the Allied
Controt C mm'ssion in Bulgaria.
Fetkov was convicted of treason.
O
Russians Promise
To Free Scldlers
ched such a feeling of securi-
Othor ranchers who have hy la Prensa yesterday as totally
ty that they thought nothing| nia<j4, application to the Soil; without legal justification.
could touch them, much less J,onServation District iut who 1 The newspaper Charged that the
destroy them. J , n0^ |t)e€n reached on the attempt was a veiled move to-. Minimum
It seems there is a plan for , fur iUS,istance by the wards curtailing the freedom of' Sun Sets
general advancement in the;S>l-u n xv hhn nfn« 1 t :—
| leases energy that naturally it j _Mrs- E- R- MaxwoH,
I w«>ufd take five billion vears'Kcwsom* Lesp'e RaMIff, _
j to release. The I vest defense: R'*n- C00?01" Rtbb:ns. Mrs. Mac! Robert Crlidgingl
i against the bomb he condud- Mrs. J*rances Baker, Jim'Met iiantam champ,
a man of God. IW. Wllkerson. " "
Junior, High f.li-ol Teachers:
Mrs. Nona Cole Baggett. Mrs. A
E. Boyd. Mrs. V- rna Mae 0"u ch-
field, Marynell White, LaVerit?
Davis, Ola Frasfer.
Jewel FUrr, O. L. Hur:~y. Su-
Harr's. W. B. McDowell, Mrs.
Sanf F^1U!on' JanV"c Rogers Mrs' (and Baggy Tipton. Cisco^An- . t pni,tart#i
M I'ie Slaton. I.. mltnd knnckout "1381 111
WEATHER
Partly cloudy, widely scat-
i tered showers.
Maximum JM.&
Mcheme of things entire, man
technicians are P. W..Pitzer,|'he press
H. L. Robertson, M. E. Dan-,
Sun Rises
68.0
7:11
6:05
is the agency for carrying it, • d Coo(ly a„d the
out but he-can certainly bring, " • Brothers ranch
about ome awful setbacks atj * w n ro \er-^ ^
Htwon. Right now he is tinker
ing with an atomic bomb that Babies Boni
v.an devastate the earth any.
tmte. Yet a .power that can! HoSDltal Patiellt
hamesseil for uses surpas-;
*^ng the fondest imagination.'
■Wonder which way man vvfil
go this time, •
SOS Sent For Camp Work
The Bobby Holder Memorial; are lacking to hire the work
Camp, located on Scout Island1 done. Those present at the
Mr> ami Mrs C. D. K'ser arc
in Possum Kingdom Lake is
rapidly ntaring completion.
Chairman Eugene Thompson
of the builJing committee re-
torted that high material and
labor costs have necessitated
meeting Friday night agreed
to furnish the nets., ary tru-
cks for the work and be on
hand to aid iu the clearing
work; but due to the short-
ness of time it was pointed
£v*r runX afivbeb>ou^s.WCborn! expenditures in excess of the! out that a large group of men
seven f ^ has i money raised for the camn.1 :i.«t « w«ni.i t-®
but loial business men are mak
HORRIBLE picture yesterday. Th"1 young lady
be the gocalted highly tx jn named Kloyece Lynn. ..
nations warring oh- Repor's from the Breckeniidge) |t g apaoKeinents to have the
blotted out the other cUnte also show Mrs. H. R Lips l building completed next week
leaving a few of the so- a surgical patient.
camp,! and bOvs would be needed to
savages oil the fringes ( Tot? Gracey called this morn-
itiward the future, lng to say he is a grandfather.
so that it will be read}- for
! use ou Labor Day during the
t wore once called savages
ya know
(tea said the man-
nay htTt to start mak*
en agoia,if the worst
to wont But It Is poo-
"(Continued on Page Pour)
Dot is. now Mrs. Paul Campbell,
Is th? mother of a seven pound
boy, bom in Ft. Worth Tuesday.
Mother ar. J b b? are doing ftne-
Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Taylor Jr-
are the * perm's of a baby boy
born at Stamford Saturday morn-
tag..
<fc feVA' ; -hi ^
boat rnees which will lie held
there.
("resident C. K. West issued
an appeal for manpower to do
the necessary -clearing work
to make the camp ready for
usfe. Debris, rocks and brush
must be removed from the is-
land and leaches, but funds
finish the job. The only time
when both trucks and man-
power could be available was
found to be this Sunday after
noon. The committee asks
that the men and boys of the
community meet at the YMC
A at 1 p. m. Sunday afternoon
and bring axes, rakes, weed
cutters or other tools they
mighft have for the work.
SEOUL, August 23, <U.R> —Thr>
U. S. Army, ,-vnnounced today
that the Russians had promised
. r ariil Bil-^ 0 'omor—w the three Amcr-
:?llu kyra new .Tomer to the1 'can s0'idters iheV ***** Aug.
ling, met end a knockout was __
scored by Crudgington, altho- c ® " " he released at m
- - a.m. at Yohyon-Nt, the town on
the ho'vler betwren the Soviet
! and American- occupatian 2on."s
where they were picked up, the
An ekiub'tion bout was stag| announcomeiit ^sal.I.
ed 1 etwee a , Bob Gallagher, q
ugh Husky put up a good fight "'"1' 8 y°n-N ,
until the l'rtal third round
blow.
Elementary trachcrs: Ellnbcili
B'ckn?ll, Mrs. Lillie H. Hazet,
Mrs. Alda Belle Hes'- r. Miss
Emma T. Hop<? Mrs. W. A.
Shannon, Frank Camp. Mrs. Mae
Wh'ttingf-.n, Eth?l D. Brown
Hat tip Ru;h fuifon. Myrt'? Gr:'en.
Mabel Perry. Mrs. Sydney
Smith, Mrs- A'thur Simpson.
Beulab V/atson. Mrs. Haskell Key
Mtn. R. E. L- v. Mrs. Eva long
Bobo. J. D. Railsback. Mrs- John
Roberts. Mrs. .\. H. Smi'h, Mrs.
G. W. Switz^r.
Bcoker T. Washington School.
R. D. Hearn. principal. Mrs.
Edd'e, Peart Jackson, Mrs. Mae
Floyd.
Greece Aid Halt??
On Time. Report
v;thei- third round knockout
was scored by Gallagher.
Two newcomers to the - ng
were Snuft'y Morales and Eil-
iord Treadway, Morales took
the fight by one point after
Treadway Inst his wind follow
iu;r a Line showing in the first
Dean Morales and Ben Tabor
als.} staged a lively exhibition
battel.
—o- —
Two Cars Stolen;
One Recovered
3,f>74 and irtade an initial flow
of 131.06 barrels iu 12 hours
Official gauge on the new pro
ducer is to be taken about
Monday.
In Throckmorton county,
five miles northwest Tltroc
kmorton, unintended location
has been filed for the Fred
M. Manning Inc., No. 1-K R.
A Brown, projected EUenbur-
ger test. The new location is
t,6o<i feet from the south and
560 from the west line of sec-
tion 261 BBB&C survey.
I o
Storming Strikers .
Stopped With Guns
\
DETROIT. August 23 <U.R> —
Striking CIO auto mc%'>an'c3 to-
day dsm'mded a police investiga-
tion of managements show of
firearms 'o bold them a* bay
wfeen they utormefl .•! strikebound
au'i dealership.
Approximately 200 p'eke's. part
of 2.500 CIO Un'tecl Auto Wr>rkers
against enr dra*?rs in
Kills 19 Miners
ANNIFIELD PLAIN EN-
GLAND, August 23 (UP> —
A midnight explosion deep ,
North mine killed 19 coaf min' „ "g . . . , . „
North mine killed 19 real min f£ro£ . brt\ , \C f ^
ers today ami raised to 125 ^.^' , ^ nn" l*™
the one week death toll in the' m buiMin" v^sV-*
North England coal field,. ' °m bumn y^
The last of the 19 bodies As they advanced howver. hay
was removed fiom the mine caw two srtr~rv'sors
out midday. Five men were The crcwdi stopped and police ar-
injured seriously. i rived.
She tiff OUls Jackson rcpoi^d
Saturday that a car b:to;iging -to
J. W. Watkins stolen August 13-
has been i--tiV2red near Stamford
by Patrolman Keith VVhitt.
i— I Friday a pick-up belonging to
WASHINGTON August 23" (U.fD' Sam O- Sullen of Caddo was
- State Department officials said stolen. T'ae car was parked near
today the ultimate success of' the the FUst Nat'onal Bank.
S.:OCOCO,COO program to aid!. In be h ins'ances, keys were
. Grcxe's econo.ny may welf de j left tn the autcs.
Those who have cars or pick* penr on bow fast mtutary supplies! Sheriff Jackson aga'n cautions
LABOR TO CONFORM to LAW
WASHINGTON, Aug. 13, t , ., .
(UP) — Chairman Fred A. la Pr kgntation. "The leaders
Hartley, -fr.. ef the house la- u'511 tflen l:c Poking for every
bor committee predicted to-iexcUs- ltnf'c'r tRe sun to con-
day thatv* runk and file revolt fmm to its terms.*'
ups and can take, extra ptwsen
(Continued on page 4)
will force reltietant union lend
er> to fall in line with the
Taft Hartley act.
"When nnion members un-
derstand what this taw means
to them, there will he a revul-
Hartle.v described as 'brazen
effrontery"' the threats of cer
trfin AFL and CIO unions to
ignore the law which became
fully effective this week. He
recalled similar attempts rna-
sion against the leadership/*! dy by some industrialists to
can be funnelled Into the ancfent r cftlicns to remove k-y Jttwn thefr the New Jersy republiean J by pass the Wagner aet when \
Mediterranean kingdom.
parked cars.
who is co author of the new i it was first enacted.
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