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MIBUBHKD SIX DAYS
A WBBK FEATURING
LOCAL NEWS
Breckenridge American
UNITED PRESS Wire Scnrk*
Devoted to the Dissemination of Information and Upbuilding of Stephens C ounty
NEA Feature Service
WEATHER
Fa'r this afternoon, tonight and
Saturday. Not so cold this after-
noon. A little warmer this after-
VOL. 3 NO. H
BRKCK KN Rl DG K TKWS
-FRIDAY. JAN. «.
PRICK 5 CENTS PER COP*
Floods Irive 500
Families Outdoors
And Three Killed
TKRUE HAl'TK, Ind. Jan. ft
lUJtl—Floods drove ".(Ml families
from their homes, claimed thiv«'
lives and swelled over thousands
of acres of rich Indiana. Illinois
and Missouri farmland today.
Red Creess workers cared for the
homeless ajid National Guaids-
meii were alerted for possible
duty along rampaging rivers and
stream*.
The Wabash River and its 111i- j
nois and Indiana tributaries were i
in "major flood," weather obser- •
vers said.
The Aiucrican Red Cross said
the floud was more severe than
the high waters which wreaked
widespread damage in January.!
l! 4S>, and the worst since Mav.
1943.
Rain falluig in the three-state
area today threatened to send the
overflowing streams and rivers to
still higher crests.
Near Newton. 111., Miss Haiuia'
Derler, >, apparently was drown-
ed when she was swept from her
horse iiilo floodwater of the An-
drew River while rounding up cat
tie.
Mrs. William J. Phelps. 25, of
Lebaiiuu, luA, drowned when the
ear in which she and her husband |
were riding was swept into the
Merumeg River by. a flash flood :
near Steelvillc, Mo.
Charles T. Hardy drowned when '
his car was carried loo yards
downstream by vicious currents of
!
Man Found With
Throat Cut And
inpe Mout Rett T ruman Key T o Prosperity
A verdict ol suicide was return- H
Jobs. Production Held By
I'd today in the death of J. K.
Sanders, IS2, who was found dead
in his room at the Tl' Rooming
House here yesterday afternoon
about •"> o'clock. The body was
found by Sanders' landlady who
called officers. Sanders, laborer
and oil field worker, had lived
here five or six months, but was
unemployed at the time of his
death. He had lived most of his;
life in Stephenville, and was born
in Jack county. . (I. K. Kadane & Sons & Harry
Officers report that when they: Ueaumont of Wichita Falls have
reached the rooming house, they I staked the No. S Del afosse ( '('
found Sanders with a knife wound | as an offset to Strawn production
in his neck. A rope tied around his j in the Kadane-Beaumont (Strawn I
neck was also tied to the head- j Field in Shackelford Countv 11
board of the bed. He had managed , miles west of Breckenridge.'
Slated depth is 2,lull feet with
DeLafosse Well
Staked: Stephens
Well Abandoned
V :
to take up the slack by bracing his
foot against the he-ud board.
I Sheriff Tom Offield and other of-
• ficei*s estimated that he hael been
dead some five or six hours. Jus-
! tice of the Peace L. T. Woodall
i rendered a verdict of suicide by
i strangulation. Sanders had a little
I over in his pocket. He left no
I suicide note.
Funeral services will be- held at
j (he Baptist Church in Morgan
I Hill in o'clock Saturelay morning,
j with Rev. Ernest Rippetoe and
I Rev. C. (j. Herndon officiating.
rotary. 475 feet from the east and
825 feet from the south lines of
Sc.rtion 1552, TK&L Survey.
In Throckmorton County four
miles northwest of Murray, Wichi-
ta River Oil Co. has completed t'ne
No. II W. T. Donnell with a poten-
tial of 102 barrels of 40 gravity
oil in 24 hours on pump.
The production wa« from the i
Strawn sand at 2,8.'t8 5ft feet .after
a .'it>-i|u;wt shot.
Location for the new producer
the Bourheuse River near (ierald.
Mo.
The most serious flood was on
the Wabash and its tributaries.
About 100 families took refuge
in ic National Guaid Armoiy and
either buildings at Wabash. Ind.,
where- the bog river crested at
nearly 23 feet early yesterday.
Thirty families flee! their homes
around Logansport, where the
Wabiesh was dropping today.
Downstream from the surging
j THAT MAN IS UAi'K. AtiAIN--Don't look now, but that's Ben llogan,
once king of the fairways, chipping from edge of loth green at Riviera
! Club >n Santa Monica. Calif. This was a practice round for his first
I tournament sine- an auto accident last February. (NKA Telephoto)
THHtl COtlPU II OK NEK
CElEMtATE GOLBEI NEHHK
Sanders is survived by his wife, j is 1,200 feet from the
two daughters, Mrs. John Spindor j east lines of Section
of Breckenridge, and Mrs. H. F. Survey.
White of Brownwood; three sons, l R. W. Fair & Don L. Choate
Loman Sanders of Haydn, Ari- 12 M. C. Lee is to be a north
i zona, Frederick and Cay Sanders,
! both of Stephenville; his mother,
j Mrs. Sarah Sanders of Brecken-
| ridge; one sister, Mrs. George
Vaughn of Walnut Springs; two
j brothers. O. C. Sanders of Ari-
| zona, and Lnn Sanders of Kilgore;
i and eleven grandchildren.
crest, 25 families were evacuated1 r,.|,i,iri
at Attica, Ind.. when the rising
river Kpiuyjt over a levee, and Ml
were- driven to highlands at Tei re
Haute.
Mr. and Mr-
N. Parks Str.
II Van
celebrati
•e\. ::i I
d their
>f a large saw.
The couple had six children, three
wedding aiinnersary with l«>ys and tnree girls. One girl died
Hie* Cagers Win
Ovfr Woodson
Hreckenridge High School A
basketbaH team won a 41-®' vic-
tory over the Woodson High A
team at the Breckenridge gymnas-
ium last sight. The Woodson B
team defeated the Brefcken ridge B
team 29-24 to even things up.
High poiut man for the Breck
A's was David Buchanan with E
points. Jack Gunlock ran a close
•eevend by tallying up l.'l points for
the team. The Woodson A team
high point man was R. Suilivan.
who rolled up 8 points in favor
of Woqdbon. Score at the half -was
18-8.
In a close, exciting game, the
Woodson B cagers came from a
low point position at the half, to
roll up enough points to beat the
Breckenridge team by a score of
25>-24. Score at the half was 18-11
in Brefckeuridge's favor.
High peeint honors went to J.
Forrest of Woodson, who scored
points. Breckenridge high point
players were Bobbie Drake Keith
and Rouald Robbins. each scoring
8 points.
Woodson Cagers
To Open Play FrL
The W oodson Cowboys enter in-
to conference play at Weinert
Friday night for I960 basketball
open house at their home Sunelay.
A large host of friends and neigh-
bors, 243, attention the celebration
to add their well wishes to the
couple.
Yancey. 77, and bis wife, the for-
mer Miss Mo i lie Robertson. 75,
were married at Throckmorton
county seat, January 1. I!#«> . They
ha«l known each other for about
ten years, and had "gone steady"
about a year betore they wen-
wed. At the time. Yancey livid on
a farm near Eliasville, and Mollie
1 in infancy, at the age of 2. Their
children arc Mrs. George Martin
and Mrs Karl King, both of Brec-
kenridge, Norman Yancey of Fort | won a victory over se nate
Worth, Clyde Yancey of Dallas, "
and Perry (Pat) Yancey of Wich-
ita Falls. They also have 12 grand-
children. and 15 jgreat-grandchild-
reii.
Mrs. Yancey has as her hobbies,
kfepuig house and crocheting. A-
inong her many beautiful pieces of
handwork are three bedspreads and
three table-cloths. Lately, she says,
lived on a ranch at Crystal Falls.; she hasn't done too much crochet-
south and
!«!, TE&L ,
No. I
of;-1
set to production eight miles north-
east of Wooelson, fi.'!0 feet from
the north ami 7!W> feet from t lu-
east lines of Section 2,.''.58, TK&L
Survey.
Project! d depth is 4,775 feet |
with rotary.
Fr«d M. Manning, Inc., is to i
! drill the No. K R. A. Brown L- nit j
| K as a northeast offset to pro- I
duet ion as a northeast offset to
i production five miles northwest of I
Throckmorton. 2,0.75 feet from the I
west and 1,48ft feet from the south j"
[ lines of Section 244, BBB&C Sur-1
I ve v. i
| Slated depth is 4,100 feet with j
|rotary. |
. . - In Stephens County nine miles!
m- ... • . . , . ; west of Breckenridge, McElroy i
Miss Blau w.-mted to hear the, uallc|, has plugged and aban-1
Senators debats yesterday and she; tlu. N„ 1K L v Martin!
insisted that her dog come with; wi|dcat l>040 feet from the north1
"er- j and I,OSS feet from the west lines ;
When she appeared at the sen ' ,,f Section 1514, TE&L Survey. j
ate gallery entrance, guards told | Total depth is 4.520 feet.
Power To Curb
Time Payments
Asked Of Solons
First Dog Hears
i Debate In Senate
"MKR< V D< )< TOR MAV LOSK MEDIC
Hermann Sander pause during an inter, o
New Uampsliire. to fondle their pel d-'i
indicted by a Grand Jury in the "mercy''
roto of Manchester, N. 11.
A I
Dr
I'KRMI I
- ith Hie
. "Taffy". The Do.
le.il h of Mi A hbi>
(NKA Telephoto)
and Mrs.
i1 Candia,
•tor
C.
was
B«>r-
WASHINGTON, Jan. « lU.Rt-
Miss Anita Blair, blind fre'elance
lccturer from Kl I'aso, Tex., and
her seeing-eye dog. Fawn, have
prece-
Improved Housing; Gasoline Plant
And New Tenants And Oil Bought
Are Announced By Ibex Company
•r Hi
.ninooue'e-
"We were neighbors," Yancey
recalls. "We only liveel about 8
or 10 miles from each other."
Mollie had moved to Stephens
countv from Parker county in a-
ing because of rheumatism in her
arms.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Yancey are
in gooel health, however, and look
many years younger tnan their
b«>ut 18S!>. and Yancey had settled seventy-odd years. Mr. Yancey still
in the county in 187S. coming from
Tarrant county. The couple were
her about the chamber's strict
rule against having animals in the
gallery. They tried to dissuade her
mind but she refused to budge. j
"I want to make a record that
I was dismissed from the gallery
just because seeing-eye dogs
aren't allowed here," she said, j
"And 1 will not leave Fawn out-
side under any circumstances."
The guards appealed to senate-
loves to play his fiddle. His wife
recalls that they could cut a fancy 1 Sergeant-at-Arm"s" Joe- Duke who
very fond of square dancing, and figure "8" when thye were young- . decided the 11-year-old German
Mrs. Yancey says that even now er. In her youth, she says, she | shepheitl could accompany Miss
when she hears a good tune, she : liked to dance better than eating., Blah. jnt„ th(, gal|erv.
can hardly keep her feet still. Among the many beautiful pres- j^e thus became the first dog
was in popular demaind as cuts the couple received were in history to hear a Senate debate.
He listened to an hour of argu-
ments about China policy... and
a yip.
Yancey was in popular denuund as ents the couple received.
a fideller for country dunces, and wrist watches, and a combination j
is still quite adept at playing the radio-phonograph. 1
instrument. Among those attending the cele- ; didn't let out
The newlyweds rented a farm a
bout 4 miles west of Woodson
where they liveel a year, moving
from there to a farm in Young
county, living there several years,
then moving near Crystal Falls.
In 11MI4 they moved to Grahajn,
where Yancey clerked for the John
D. Morris Mercantile Co., moving
from there to Kfiasville where he
riigni
honors. The Cowhovs boast a seven years, he again moved to a
Friday night for I960 basketball farm near Crystal Falls, coming
strong Class B team this year, to Breckenridge in l!>l'i where he
Wooelsoo has showed well against has been ever since.
such teams as Graham. Avoca and Here, he bought out the black-
r. With the polished l>an,smjth gh
of (tuards D*e Jones and sta,)(Ls 1>p,.ratm|t ,t ten years. H.
became e-ounty blacksmith, a job ne
helel four years, then going into
a business of his own on
North Breckenridge which he
operated a gin for Conipton Bro-
thers in 1! 04 In l!H)5, the Yancevs do better the next fifty,
leased a farm at Murry, and in
l!«o~ Yfcrcecy worked as a black-
smith at Crystal Falls, an occtt
pat ion he- was to follow for many
years. After being a smithie for'
bration was Mrs. Yancey's son, Lee
Snow of Breckenridge.
Another daughter, Mrs. Willie;
Hopper, lives in Kl Monte, Calif.
At the open house, when one of j
the local ministers commented to
Yancey on how good a life they j
had led, and all the things they'
had done and seen, Yancey retort-
ed. "I haven't done so good this fif- A Lewis. I'lattsbunT V
ty years, but I m g-omg to try to Y.. c„nimander-in-chief of the Vet-
erans of Foreign Wars, accompan-
Livestoeb
FOKT WOKrti, jail, fi u'.iri—
(L'SDA) —Cattle 50; nominally
steaelv.
Calves 25; nominally steady.
Hogs 75; Butcher hogs steady-
to 25 lower than Thursday, sows
steady, pigs scarce. Good and
chioce 200-270-pounds 15.75. 'Med-
ium and good lightweights la.00.
Sows 14.50 down.
Sheep H50; shorn slaughter
lambs steady, other classes scarce.
Good shorn slaughter latnbs with
No. I pelts averaging around 95
pounds 21.00.
An improved downtown building On the lieel
i and changes of locations for two ' nu-nt of the pu. -Ii
I lejcal places of-business are found i lips gasoline plant
i in an ;-,nnounct?inent today by Ar- Guy Ewing and aat.x-iate^s comes
• thur Miller, who after building half f aiHiouncenient from l^-ster Clark
a million dollars worth of homes! of the purchase «>i the I'hillips
heii- last year, opens the new year (plant at Ibex by the recently or-
i with business district building. ! ganize-d Ibex company.
j The Giles Tire Service-, occupy- ' lark said that the Ibex comp-
i fng the building on the corner of al:-* 's W'"posed of th«- Street In-
' Kast Walker and Baylor Avenue, wstment ( omtiany of Graham,
i will move to the corner of East}'L Bruce- and il. I.. Street, and
Walker and Merrill Avenue, and hi^s,'!r: . , ,.
Tne TrammeU Furniture & Ap- Th. y took over he gasoline plant
ties.
(1iuii-
The work of
renovating the Th(. ()M p. ,„|,„,tj,(l, amounts to fami!ie.s then should average >1-
building: now occupied by Giles about 4." 0 ro r,oo ban-is her day a year more income than t* -
expected to be completed in Febru The run of the- gasoline plant is daj. lie said.
ary. the work to take about :*!! days i.ono gallons per day. The plant For the most part. Mr. Truman
at an estimated cost of $15,000. and gathering system now are- the aiought the- inf'ution sc; re vv.-
The building wil! be made in con- property of this new operating over. But he asked Congress t >
NATIONAL VHV
TO VISIT HERE ON JAN. 11
verting the service station into a company,
ljiodernestic-front furniture store. These two
Newcastle. With the polished ^a'J smith shop where IVrinev's now ,
handling of (tuards l*e
David Sullivan and the uncanny
shooting e f Cupt. Jerry Harvey
the Cowboys expect to make the
game fast and furious for all op-
ponents. , ,.
Woodson mewts I'aint Creek on m.uiaged l-> years
its home court Monday night''" |®~> opening up a
January 9 in what preemises to be- in his beick yard on N. l arks which
a lively contest. Volley-ball also | h.- still operates. For his : nnivers
will appear on the- sports menu at ar>. his son presented him with
this (late. a sign for his shop, in the form
Preacher Tells
Of Conversion
The largest crowd of the- we-ek
attendee! the revival services last
night at the Rose Avenue Baptist
Church to hear Evangelist B. B.
Crimm preach on "The Four Hu-
man Elements That Enter Int* a
Successful Revival".... He said,
Give us Cooperation,' enthusiasm.
ied by Julian Dickenson, Texas
VFW commander, will make a fly-
ing tour of Texas State January
10-15, reaching Breckenridge the
morning of Jan. It. With Com-
ijii'Tider-in-Chief Lewis at the con-
trols of the "Spirit of the VFW."
a four-place Navion plane- bought
for him by the national -organiza-
tion, the two VFW leaders will
a special program at the $80,000
home of the Lubbock post. This
latter function will he highlighted
by the commander-in-chief giving
the VFW membership obligation to
a class of more than 100 candi-
dates.
From Lubbock the VFW lead-
ers will .fly to Breckenridge for
a noon engagement with the Bii-ck-
enridge VFW post, and during the Miller,
afternoon stops will be- made in
Abilene and Sweetwater. Fisher
Plans call for the driveways to be
glassed in all the way from the
sidewHk to the ceiling with heavy
glass doors on the north. The red
brick finish on th outside oi the
building will be changed to a light-
green finish to contrast with fin
ishes of other buildings in the
block.
Coupled with the announcement
bv the landlord. Karl and Jinuny
Tra mmell, he-ading the furniture | %
firm to occupy the- new ([tiart'-rs.: |-||f TilYIQS
I give the federal reserve board
'leaIs of 1'hillips gi eater authority over bank creel-
been in the inak-' its, as well as power over install
both being recently, m nt buying which ha.; reached
ecorrl highs.
Otherwise his legislative recom-
mendationi were echos fix-m his
■State of the Union message this
week: continued rent co.'itiol: uiore
j social security; the Brana in F- rm
Man, etc.
The President said tri<- econoi.iv
I iodav is "strong" with "pric s
{ down so.-newrtet . . . btisitiess pi
i ceeding with good pi t fit prospect . ''
I a;id employment and production
pronert'-s h;
ing sone time
consn.nati-d.
Clark in stx-aking of the deal
saiel h,- o-.vn d a small part of the
stock of the Ibex company. The
plant at Ibex and I"roduetion de-
partment employs I" or 12 men.
San Antonio Mem
said they would add several lines I
of home furnishings to their lines! s.\N ANTONIO. Jan. (i <U.E— moving up again after th
and make a big improvement to j sa„ Antonio's first traffic death! 1949 decline.
match the efforts expended by of t|u. m.w v,.._lr w, urrid last! On wage-s and price-.
'night whi n the victim was struck dent anel his advisers
1111(1-
■e wnicn ne W(>r|t and prayer and we can win." veteran to a
\ancey retired The waiting audience listened "nfaniaation. was a bomber pilot
saw shop | attentively to the story of his con- ^he 8th AAF during World War .
version. He went on, "It was in I und is making all official visits for a special me-eting jn the be-au-
answer to my niothe*r's prayer throughout the nation in
visit 12 widely scattered Texas County Memorial Post 5072, Rotan,
cities during the six-elay period, will entertain the national and state
A reception is being planneel for VFW commanders that night,
him here by the local post. Otis Henry Po*t 2549. Texar-
Lewis, the first World War II kana, will be- host to Commander-j
veteran to head a major vetera-ns , in-Chief Lewis at noon the follow-
ing day, Jan. 12th, and that night
the VFW le-aders will be in Luikin
"Th.-
GREAT BRITAIN RECOGNIZES
GOVERNMENT OF RE D CHINA
that I returned home after having! "1t-
run away five years before. I had
a praying mother, and e>ne e f my
| first ivcollections of early chiid-
; ho«.d was praying at mother's
i knee. | ■ ran away from home at
1 the age of 1.1, became a cow pun-
S <-her and worked with the toughest
outfit on the Mexican Border. One-
day. while riding my pony, my
I moth
tiful club and home- of the Lufkin
VFW." post. Hamilton Smith Post 797,
The commander-in-chief will set Port Arthur, will entertain the
his plane down in Denisem t'ne flying VFW officers at noon Jan-
morning of January loth and the nary loth.
first official function f his Texas 1 During the afternoon tile com-
tour will be a spe*cial lum-heon in mander-in-chief will fly to Austin
his honor at noon that 'day with for a conference with < e>v. All -Ji
VFW Powt 277:!, Denison, as host. 1 Shivers, a niembe-r of the Port. I
That aflrronon the nation's VFW Arthur post. Governor Shivers will 1
leader and Commander Dickenson make the New York VFW leader j
of Texas elui -
Low Rent Housing
Units Approved
WASHINGTON. Jan. K <U.R
The public housing administration j lying in th
has approved applications of 17
cities for t1*" total of 1.725 units
of new low rent housing.
The cities, units approved, and
preliminary loans re-quested in
eluded: Olney, Tex.. 50 units. $20.
000, and Canyon, Tex., 15 units,
$K,000.
• no less than three times by three , labor and mam gem< nt
; different motorists.
The first car that struck O. M.
; Mobley. 51 never stopped. The
; driver of a second car apparently)
was una wan
the IV
COUIISe
to take
easy.
"Prices now seem at. or near i
stable level consistent with con
tinued expansion of business a-
hi had struck a man 1 tivity," Mr. Truman said.
street but did stop1
|-vrii -Is.
he
A third car
mist
the !
was falling
•cident.
driver stopped |'WOTSt Cold WCVC
Losing Str^rgJh
first statewide e.,i.(
l«'gan li-sint" i'
shortly aft
hit the Iwiely. but
immediately.
Traffic !ii\e.,t iga'or Max '«;'r-
cia. Jr., saiil the l>..«|y was mangled Th
almost beyond recognition. A light j ,,f (|1(
at the tfone of;
season
Kan
arim-i
« -xp
LOND**N, Jan. K 'U-f—Cireat ( hemle-el by Mao Tse Tung. Mao
Britain t<iduy grunted full diplo- i now is in Moscow to negotiate re-
matic receeguition to th«- Chinese j vision of the Sino-Soviet
ComnUMHH# regime and broke re-1 treaty of friendship.
lations with Generalissimo (hiang Five- non-Communist nations
IUI-Shek's Nationalist govern- n„w hav„ r„COKnttt.,i th(. (-hin^,
D*J*: . , .....:fonimunists. Burma. Irwiia and
Tlu* tuarlied the firs i aj« ^ranted ii*c >jjnitioii
brenk in Angle>-American accord ^ dnniininn „f r,.v_
on foreign policy in a quarter e,f ^ f,l||nw„{ Knl.ul,-S in ah.
a fntury. U. S. Secretary of n„uncin(t ^..^jtion t-lav.
Stale Dean Acheson said only yes- .. . V . , ... .. ,
terdav iu Washingtem that it was Bevtns note to t hou r.n-Lai
"premature" to consider re-cogni- said that Britain was "re-ady to
ti„„ „f the Chinese Communists establish diplomatic relations
at all* j (with th- Peiping regime) on a
Forvtsn Secretary Ernest Bevin"f eepility. mutual b.-nefit1
sent a to Peiping saying the j "d mutual respe ct for territory
de-cisi«n to recognise the Com-1 a,,d se>ven*ignty.
munist regime was taken because- The foreign office announced
the Communists were "now in ef- j simultaneously that recognition
fective control of by far the ^great-1 was being withdrawn from the
est part of the territory of China." I Chinese- nationalist government
Tne Mat* was addressed to Chou | which has be-en driven from the
En-Li i. foreign minister of the t mainland of China to the island
Chinese Communist government • of Formosa.
mothers face came ud before me. wj(| fjy t„ t,ubbock Tor a program 1 an honorary citizen
I couldn't rest. I told the wagon arranged by the Lubbex-k ing this visit.
b..ss I w:is going home. As the'VFW post, the state's largest. This Following this c
the cowboy preacher re.nt.n.ledjpn ram wi„ irH.)udt, ;l djnner in -*
ISS5 Uzz "n; ^„thp h'fVf t'T'-',
. ht-filce int., m4 ,.e tKu at Hilton hotel, Lubbock, and
KN toil FMMT MVIKG
NT IF R0CKKS TO PUMS
grip today au.l
j for all of Texas w
; unlay.
The mercury dipped
(i above at Dalha-i in
: handle at the B:"ii :i. i
, te-n reading and it « a
jrillee, but by tetueo row
•I e-l
!•
P
a
1.1
l. ohuri i
:i at \
afterie
more seasonable weather « ,t.
the "cowboy
his me
marv
ience broke intei tears and at the
close- of the service, many came
forwarel for prayer.
Tonight, the preacher's topic-
will be "Scrapping the Devil" and
with that wifl tell the companion
story to his conversion and how
he entered the ministry.
Services each evening beginning
at 7 p.m. Mr. and Mrs. L. C.
Messei- are in charge of the music.
CAP Unit Meets !
nere ■ omcpRT
The Civil Air Patrol unit meets
here tonight, at the City Hall at
7:30 o'clock. Atl members and
prospective members are urged to
i attend.
Births Outnumber
Deaths in 1949
Births greatly outnumbered j
CHICAGO. Jan. ft. " T>_A new j e.,st. i
cold front moved out of the Rock- treme :iouth«>
ies into the Norther n Plains and i be balmy,
an ice storm glazed a wide he I' i The mrrrur
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from Pennsylvania southwestward ' early tiwlay at Pembina and Grand, day.
Hiferewe Lewis -
and Dickenson will fly te> Victoria
for a program being urranged by
the Victoria VFW pe>st for the-
night of January l.'ith.
e >n«mander-inchiers visit to to Ark;lnsa,- t(Mhiy.
TVxas will bp concludcd by his e * . • , n ,
' •«" JS, AXSUZJFJttt!
ilies from their homes in Indiena,
Illinois and Missouri and taken
thi-ee lives.
Califomians suffereel in unac-
customed cold weather, while
easterners saw their June-in-Jan-
uary weather replaced by me re
seasonable tempe-ratures.
However, the eold wave which
swept across the western thre.-e-
fmirths of the nation earlier this
week stalled before it reached the
seen.
Til" still br-<ke thioogt) ||,|-
t* i a i m-t- . in i h*- p\., iii'trning over sect ions of We-t
ast were expected t' and North Central Texas and the
| ice-coated highways were du<- t->
ipr. d to 21 below ' lose their coverings during th-
Forks. N n. Snow
forecast fo the D:kol
lirl S were
is and Ne-
ing of the Setuthern Conference.
_ ^ made up of some 14 Southern
deaths in Stephens count#- during I states, in Galveston January 14th
1941). according to recorels com- and T5th.
piled here by Justice of the Peace
L. T. Woodall. Nearly twice as " —
many babies were born during the
year, than residents of the county
who died.
A total of 220 births were re- 4 SlElC® 1QA9
corded in Stephens county, and. wleewV rV
lift deaths were listed. The lar- j „
gest number of births for the yearj TAPACHLLA, Mexico, Jan. ft
was in February, with 25 record-: 'u-'® — Tacana volcano in nearby | Atlantic seaboard and the eastern
ed, while September was the next 1 Guatemala erupted today for the Gulf coast. The IT. S. Weather
favorite, with 24 being born in I first time since 1902, forcing j Bureau at Chicago said no ex-
that month. farmers to flee the threatened area. | treme cold was in prospect in the
Reel Cross workers ca reel for
hiind" -ds of hooieleiis as the Wa-
bash River and dozens of sniMler
streams overflowed rich farmlands
in the midwest. Thousands of
neres of rich farmland were unite:
water. *
Weather experts said the floods
wri-e the worst since t!M".
Two persons el-re-tied in Miss
Tile chill weather was ■ o r
nort'nern Louisiana today bring.ng
freezing rain to that aie". Some
freeaing rain -was reported ;,e T;
ler at 6:30 a. in. but it had stopp- d
an hour later.
Some? 24-h"ttr precipitation r--
ports included Tcxarkana ,2D iiie'-,
Waco and Beaumont .!! . Ansti i
and Tylei .17, S- u Antonio .'>9
and Houston and Palestine o.*>.
Yesterday's high was 55 at
Marfa and the lew maximum
ouri when flash fliwids swept their ...
automobiles into rivers. An Hli- Wichita Frils. The high miiii-
nois woman was lost and believed , nium was 4.1 at Browneville.
drovne-d when water from a| Highway crews sanded nil Is a-
broken levee swept her from her gain this morning in North Texas
horse while she was rounding up i but the tun was exnected to me'
cattle. the ice during the day.
By ML-; Kit I.MAN SMITH
I United Press White House
Reporter
WASHINGTON. Jan. !i <U. : -
; President Trbnian tuda> gave Cou-
' gi-ess his design for pro.;pi ritv m
j 1!).10 01,000,''00 jobs, the liij'jie.;-
production in history, and on I;.
: modest changes in wages and pi ic-
! cs.
| The job goal would he an in-
] crease ot more than J.iion.ooii o-.ei
last year's ;.verage. Only once h.>
employment actually touc'tied '• I.-
000,000. That was in the summer
of the ItMJJ boom year.
Mr. Truman said it. should !>••
P'.'Sv-ible t-> expand the economy
to provide for tvl.iuKi.oiiii jobs «itit-
'ii five ycara, and added:
"It v.ould go far toward our
goal of the complete elimination
of poverty . . . such prospects an
not fanciful."
His semi-; initial economic report
to th House and Senate contained
only one ne-w legislative propositi
affecting the general public -
power for the federal reserve board
to impose restrictions again < ii in
jti'.llment buying.
lie said his foi t licomin-r ia-.
program would "stimulate bu.-i
ness activity" v-.liih- still netting
the government a moderate rise in
revenue. Presumably the stimula
.tion would come from reduction •>;
; excise taxes.
j Along with tiie goal of <;i,ii0(.i.0ini
j jobs, the chief executive uige,|
! that the national output this year
; be steppe-.l up to an annual rate
of $277,000,000.00(1, seven per cent
| over l!)4!>.
Mr. Truman and his economic
; advisers insisted that these goal-
; were not slide rule- fantasies, but
-could be achieved if business, la-
i bor, agriculture and government
I pulleel together for a contiuualU
■ ■ of the Phil-[ expanding economy.
t Kiiasville by' Otherwree. ^they warmd that
business might hit another down-
turn in toe second half of I!>50
similar to the 1J>4!) slump which
they admitted "brought anxiety
and suffeiing to millions . . . "
Production and more production
was the key point in Mr. Tru-
man's designs for a prosperous
economy which wou'd grow better
and better with every year.
He said it should be possible t >
hike the national output to 5.'!00.
'* j 000.000,000 and employment to lit.-
•100.000 jobs by 11)55. American
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