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BRECKENRIDGE, TEXAS—MONDAY, APRIL 14. 1952
THE
OBSERVER
WEATHER REPORT
SUNRISE SERVICE
AIRLINE DATA
SEEN OR HEARD
A
RAINFALL OF .07 OF AN
inch measured Sunday morning,
added to .16 registered Saturday
/ng made a total of .2:'. of an
/for the weekend spell.
Cmpcraturcs this morn:tig were
reported as 37 low and high Sun-
day •>!>. Ra.jher hard to believe
\va i the mercury reading of 42
ij. grees Sunday morning.
The singers at th« sunrise serv-
ice Sunday morning will scarcely
believe it was colder this morning
than Sunday morning.
A LARGE CROWD ATTEND-
ed the sunrise service in spite of
rather unfavorable weather, and
Rev. Willis Plapp delivered an ad-
drey.-- highly appreciated.
The majority of those attending
sat in th>-ir cars because of the
h.rp north wind, but the new-
loud speaker system carried the
music to th"m in a manner th. t
In "ught high praise afterward:-.
All connected with this program
ari- to fx- commended.
The sunrise service was the be-
ginning of a day th: t yaw the
rhtin he. here filled for the special
Ka.-te.- programs, an altogether
: pte'ndic* day.
MXDAME STEPHANIE HAS
predicted what the headline in th-'
rirecken ridge American will be
1u . da> afternoon. M. dame Steph-
anie magician, will be presented
at the high school under sponsor-
ship of the W oman's Forum Tues
day evening at 8 o'clock. There
she will unlock a box, take out *
capsule 'inl read her prediction
of what the headline in the Ameri-
ca" would be.
Sunday morning a group gather-
ed at Rouen Drug Store saw* her
nut the capsule in the box and
have some one lock, it. She then
v.ri ;>pe<l .-vtd tied and sealed the
b< x. which now on display In the
window at the drugstore. W- d<
not know how she can precidt it,
when that, !•= about the last thing
we. h.i will write the headline,
would attempt to predict.
GEORGE JORDAN IS NEAR-
ing completion of a big <ob at 'he
Chamber of Commerce office. This
is compilation of exhibits n eded
to pn-sejtt in favor of airline «erv-
iee here for the Pioneer Airlines
hearing irt Dallas on May 13.
Today 22 of the apu rent 2fi
J.tires had been completed. On.
pair fur examples, consists of a
e :.[J,-showing the locution of Rrec-
k'nudge. A mass of information
show ng the growth here from 1 !*• •'■)
te l; 4M I.' carried. He must com-
d' te the dat.i long before the
hearing dates, so others may have
copies.
STORY GOING THE ROUNDS
h' t-e recently is that of a man with
tkrt i- who found the family
yChick Saks on the b, ak of the
river pushed over into the water.
He called the three boys togeth-
•M 'Hem ,v,e «torv of George
Washington refusing to lie about
the cherry tree, and asked, "which
on «t you boys did it?" One of
th" boy* held up hi' hand.
The father took the boy away
and gav. htm a go,>d whipping. As
the sobbing l >v wiped his eyes
th> father told him he was proud
of him fot not lying.
"Rut. father", the hov said
"George W.-ishington's father did
whip him foi telling the truth.**
".V son, that is true," the fath-
et replied, "but you see George
W ishington's father was not up in
the cherry iree when George cut it
down." *
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TIIOI'GHT FOR THE MOMENT:
The small courtesies sweeten life;
th< greater ennoble it. —Bovce.
SEEN OR HEARD: A sister of
' " mi Hall of Rreckenridge died in
/o at the weekend, funeral ser-
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ABANDON BATTLE
saving Sioux City. Iowa,
"1 years. John Eastwood,
Arthur, right, and Mrs.
More than 1500 families
CITY—Hope-
Ill the worst M ssouri
North Si-iiis City, S.
F. Benton, from their f!
have already moved to higher ground.
(NEA T
e abandon, d for
i'er fiood crest in
, rescues Mrs. B.
-marooned cabin.
■photo)
Johnson Breezes To
Take Medalist Title
Blake Johnson, Jr., breezed by
a field 'if 31 other golfers at the
local course yesterday afternoon te
tak> the medalist crown in thi.
year's qualifying for th • City Golf
"1 ourrament.
Johns/in wasn't the only thing
breezing by ysterliy. judging by
the high scores turned in.
Golfers prefei to think of th«
Meetings Held
On Steel. W. E.
Strikes Today
<B> UNITED PRESS!
Steelwork rs and industry of-
rici.Js were Scheduled to sit down
for another round of talk-: in
W ishingt-m today. Actir.g Defense
M >biliiei John Steeiman called th
-es-ioti fat 2 I. ri. EST. 1 p. i
OST( but officials -aid it may not
break the deadlock.
Informed source* say if :• -et-
tlement of the steel dispute Cnl'lt s
soon, it aiai hinnv on two outside
developments. The sources art
watching for a possible govern-
ment c ommitment to Dig steel al
lowing drier increases to offset
proposed Wage increa e . and a
Republican-led drive to inv.- itigat-
President Truman's power to seize
the industry.
Senate Republican leader Style?
Bridge? of New If i- ipshire, sup-
purtwl by Senut ■ Tuft of Ohio,
ravs he will introduce a resolution
today calling on the Senate ju-
diciary commi'tee to inv.-stigat
the legality o* taking over th
stee! mills.
Federal peacemaker-:, trying to
end th- walkout by Western Elec-
tric installers and distributors in
<3 it at s, are meeting in New-
York.
The Western Electric walkout is
preventing full resumption of ser-
vice ip Ohio. Some Ohio workers
are refusing to cross the picket
lines of their fellow-union mem-
be'-< in Western Electric.
The head of the CIO Communi-
cation Workers, however, says the
Ohio telephone settlement m:.y
speed up negotiations in the West-
ern Electric dispute and Bell
company strikes in three other
states.
Golf Club's Non-Playing Members
Toasted As A Necessary Bank Log
Drums have been sounding for
Rr«-ck< rtridge Golf Club the last
(i-\ days, extolling its merits for
golfers and its value as r. civic
organization, but behind those
drums is a very important story.
Those drums could not have
sounded so loudly had it not been
for the many non-playing members
of the club, who for so many years
hr.ve supported this organization
and never played a round of golf,
L. W. Brooks. J... declared today.
The many golfers realize that
without thif support over a num-
ber of years, there would be no
golf course in Breckenridge. The
tremendous increa«e in operating
expenses over the past years has
brought this quite plainly to the
goiters' attention.
What have the golfers done a-
bout it? They have not stood still,
they have brought the non-playing
members into the program.
The first rourse of action was
to persuade the non-players into
trying out the course, getting t
feel of the fever that draws men
and women out to "chase the little
white ball." Thi? has been accomp-
lished through extra-curricular ac-
tivities such as "Scotch Four-
somes.'" This mode of play is
teamwork with a man and woman
as partners. Each shot is played
alternately until the nine holes
have been completed. Another type
of play is called "monkey golf. '
Four persons comprise a partner-
ship and each person is assigned,
or draws by chance, the club he or
she is to' play with th- «ntire
round. Every shot is w-ith a dif-
ferent club. Sometimes a player
finds himself putting the ball with
a driver,.or trying to tee off over a
lake of water with a putter.
It ci\n't be taken seriously and
thus it gives the non-playing mem-
bers a chance to play a round
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if hurricane pro-
justifying their
than spectacular
wind Sum!.,;.- as
portions when
some' hing less
scores.
Johnson's prize winning round
lasted fa iv 79 strokes, s^yen over
p ii for the Course, but still was
good enough to be six strokes be-
low his near ,-t opponents, E. D. I
McDowell and Paul Smith.
Though qu I'ifying began Satur-
I y a -v ift-Mown rain scared en-
tries i ft" the course until Sunday
iv!u- ■ 34 golfers, iVn-Tuding two
women', turned in scores.
Johnson made hii 7!) with a 45
for the first round, a.id a tight-
ener! (I .v a :!4 on the second nine
Ladies M d:.' -t Day will be at
he golf cour-e tomorrow, the reg
ular Ladies Day ; t the course.
Qualifying for both men and
women will go on until next Fri-
day. That night pairings will be
made and flights drawn for open-
ing of th first r iuihI ne\t day.
Here : re tue scores turned in
yesterday:
B M. Brown. t>". L. W. Brooks.
94. Jin Derrick. NS. Guinn Fergu-
son X8, Paul Smith 85. Ray An-
derson 98 F. J. N-lson. M , L. W.
Pate .v ['ii| \\ .;ton, 89. Buster
Walke.% 9o. ii ■- Elliott, 89. Bryan
Whetst .i . 92. Joe Pa- ■. 93. Boh
Whitman. '..'2. T. I. Isbell. 94. E. D.
McDow -1. 85 lle'o I itZ' r. 9.'f.
Jan • Cor! y. 94. Charlie F<>\, 89
Jira Rorringer, 90, R. V. Carey. 94.
W. P. C 'man. 8ri. F. J. Chris-
tie. Leon Stanley. Htfi, Bill
Houghton. 98. Bob Hickey. 98
Rus-eli Cartel. 98. J. A. St. John.
88. Bob Cunningham. K . George
Dickev. Jr., !<!, i!iil Rogers. 110
and Blake Johnson, Jr.. medalist.
Ladies were Mi . B. M. Brown.
106, and Mrs. T. 1. Isbell. V22.
Freight Rates
Raise Granted
The 1: 'ersta'e Commerce Com-
hiission has allowed the nation's
railroads to increa >e their freight
lates an average of seven to eight
per cent. It's estimated the move
will up the nation's transportation
bill bv SW>78,000,ne® a year.
Actually the ICC authorized a
15 per cent increase over what
rates were last August. But today's
inert-use replaces hikes on nine per
cent in eastern territory — that's
the- area north of the Potomac and
Ohio and east of the Mississippi
Risers, and six per cent elsewhere
granted in August. The new in-
crease. like the ones given last
August, was granted only through
Febiuary 28, 1954.
A number of water carriers and
freight forwarders who were part-
ies to proceedings before the ICC
may put similar increases into ef-
fect.
There were some exceptions to
the general authorization. Different
increases were made, in rates tin
fresh fruits and vegetables, sugar,
grain, coal and many building mat-
erials, including sand, graved and
stone.
Wood County
Judge Dies at 81
By UNITED PRESS
A former state representative
and Wood County juMge. Ben
F.
Cathey, h-'s died at «T\home at
Quitman, Texas. Jud| J • hey had
served as assistan,
arms in the state
four years. He w:
judge from 19t3«RAL HOME
Cathey died yestJtphone 870
RWK-
County Included
in Plans For 173
New TV Stations
WASHINGTON. April 14 (Spl)
—Stephens County can look for-
ward to its own television on a
new station which may be built
und« r a plan of the Federal Com-
munications Commission, in Brec-
k*n ridge.
The FCC plan, which has jmt
been adopted calls for 173 new-
stations in Texas. Most of them
will operate in the Ultn'-High
Frequency range, which is an un-
tapped sretion of the radio spec-
trum. Use of this UHF band and
expansion of the present Very-
High Frequency service should
eventually permit nearly 2,000 new-
television stations in every section
of the nation. The 108 television
•stations now operating in the
United States are in the VHF
ranee.
"The adoption of the UHF plan
in eoniunction with the expansion
of VHF means the beginning of a
truly nationwide television service
with visual entertainment and
education brought to remote areas
miles from the nearest cities,"
stated Dr. C. B. Jolliffe, vice pres-
:dent and technical director of the
Radio Corporation of America,
wh'ch nioneered the development
of UHF television. "We are ready
to build the transmitting and re-
ceiving equipment to bring about
thi« nation:'! television service."
The FCC decilion to use UHF
for television is based on years
of scientific research and on fi^lc*
test' conducted by RCA and the
National Broadcasting Compa"'-
a* Bridgeport. Conn., where in
'94't thev built the country's first
L'HF television station to operate
on a regular basis. These field
tests, Di-. Jolliffe reported, showed
•hat UHF when properly alocated
geographically and properly used,
was comparable to service provid-
ed bv present VHF broadcasts.
When new stations are built,
home television receivers will fol-
low quickly, judging from the ex-
perience o f present television
areas. Based on the national pat
tern, Texas can anticipate more
than 1 250.000 sets a year or two
after the new str.tions begin ope-
ration, with nearly 2,000 sets in
!>tephen6 County alone.
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Smithvflle Next
To Try For Rain
Bv UNITED PRESS .
Th" <>|<1 Dioblem of rain is due
for some studv at Smithville, Tex.
The Lower Colorado River Author-
ity is meeting with ranchers and
farmers of 2K counties in the Colo-
rado watershed on April 22 to
set* what might be done about
eoaxing some rain from the clouds.
The Smithville Chamber-of Com-
merce. the Bastrop County Farm
and Ranch Association and John
Ij. Public will study the problem
under the agricultlral program title
of "milking the rain clouds."
Surah Robinson Irwii;
of the Daughters of tin
w Revolution met in regu-
"t week in the home
"■•ristiansoii. with
•o-hostess.
iity was
una.
PERSONALS
Mi.-s Hilly Cari ton of Sundown,
l"t x:,s :iml YVayiio Carletou of Lub-
bock, Texas were Easter guests
;>t' their parents, Mr. and Mrs. C.
\\. Carleton.
his afier-
ow. Low-
74,000 FLEE MIDWb
IN RECORD HIGH
and Mrs. Carey Hightower
Easter guests, Mrs. High-
uarenta. Mr. and Mrs. Tom
I Tommy, aiul
; all of Burkett.
. C. Kelley hnd
their daughter,
i>f Midland and
Mr. and Mis.
Jdren of
'Mrs. II
IN
line Entries In
Track. Literary
Regional Events
Breckenridge 'High School has
entries in seven literary events of
the TIL Region 2-A contests to ht
held at Tarleton State College
April 19.
At le; st two track and field
event entries have been disclosed.
The literary entries are Joe
Latham, senior boys declamation;
Joan Gandy, junior girls declama-
tion; Jimmy Campbell. ready
writers; Betty Smith, typewriting;
Eva Nell Vick, shorthand; Dale
Flournoy, Johnny Potts, and Maize
Adney, slide rule; and cast of the
one act play, "Fog In the Valley".
The track entries rre: Ted Vick-
ers, 100 yard dash and 220 yard
dash: and Thurmon Andress, dis-
cus throw. Both boys won again ;t
competition in the district meet
in Graham April 5.
Competition in literary events
will be completed by noon except
for the one c^t play competition
which will start at 7:"0 p. m. Sat-
urday in the Tarleton auditorium.
Breckenridge and Abilene Hi h
School are the competitors in the
one act play.
Track and field eve'nts will be
held on M 'mori: 1 Field at Tarle-
ton with the preliminaries in the
morning and the finals in the
afternoon. Breckenridge has two
entries in girls tennis: Mary Mar-
tin anH Eloise Huffman in doubles
and Nancy Duncan in singles.
Tennis matches will b" nan off on
cie'oi'i court--. Golf competi-
tion will be on the Stephenville
City Course.
The sixteen schools which have
entrants in the Region 2-A meet
are Abi'ene. Brownwood, San An-
gelo, Sweetwater. Breckenridge,
Graham, Stephenville, V e r non
Wichita^ Falls. Wertherford, and
six Ft." Worth Schools. Arlington
Heights, Cartel Riverside, Techm-
c:U. North Side, Paschal, and Poly-
technic.
Hospital Patient
Is Found Slain
Bv UNITED PRESS
A patient at the Austin State
Hospital has been killed by an-
other inmate with en i'-on rod.
Hospital officials said Will Allen,
of Brazoria County, was struck on
'he he-d yesterday by another pat-
ient. The victim's bodv was found
on the Austin hospital grounds.
His skull was fractured.
TAFT-EISENHOWER BATTLE ON
FOR N. J.; TOM CONN ALLY OUT
P«'itical forces of Senator Taft
of Ohio and General Eisenhower
fire a closing volley in a bid for
victory in the New Jersey presi-
dential primary.
The Taft-Eisenhower duel to-
morrow is expected to attract
nearly a million out of a possible
two and one half million voters in
New Jersey. A forecast of mild
weather 4S expected to add to the
turnout.
Political observers generally a-
groe the state will go Eisenhower.
Governor Alfred Driscoll has given
the General his personal endorse-
ment.
But the observers say while Taft
may lose the presidential prefer-
ence vote he Could wind "Up with
some of the 38 GOP convention
delegates in his corner. The dele-
gates are not bound by the show-
ing of candidates in the popularity-
vote.
Harold Stassen also is entered
in the three-way Republican race
in New Jersey but he is given little
chance of victory.
On the Democratic side. Senator
Estes Kefauver of Tennessee is
unopposed. A bloc of 36 Democrat-
ic convention delegates will be on
the market.
Closer to home Senator Tom
Connally, for 35 years a congress-
man or senator from Texas has
announced he will not seek re-elec-
tion to the senate.
The veteran Democrat has seen
presidents come and go dating
back to the time of President Wil-
son.
He has been serving on Capital
Hill for 35 years but when he
walks down this year he won't be.
back.
He has announced that he will
retire, that he doesn't want to
:age in a taxing campaign in
er to seek six more years of
enga
oide
Mob Throws Bricks
TUNIS, Tunisia, April 14 <U.R>
—A screaming mob of nationalist
agitators threw rocks and a home-
mad- gernade at palace guards in
front of the Tunisian primier's
home today.
-••ie* were reported.
senate duties.
The colorful chai'-man of th
Senate Foreign Relations, who will
be 75-years-old in August, made
the surprise decision in a formal
statement "to the people of Texas"
last night.
While Connally had not formally
declared his candidacy for re-elec-
tion he would have faced a stiff
battle for the nomination from
Texas Attorney General Price Dan-
iels.
Will Conduct
Revival Here
The Assembly of God Church
will begin a revival Monday night
at 7:30 p. m. The evangelist is
known as "The Teenage Evange-
list", he is Bud Chambers of Mid-
west, Oklahoma. He has been
preaching since a boy fourteen
years old. He is a graduate of the
Southwestern Bible Institute,
Waxahachie, Texas. He is now
nineteen years old
CHAMBE1
Evangelist Bud Chambers plays
several different musical instru-
ments and sings many gospel
3ongs that he has composed and
written. I'astor W. H. Magee and
his congregation give nil a wel-
come to these revival services.
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FEATT-TRFS) DUO with the Hai din-Simmons L'nivei;;ity Rhythm
Ranch Hands when th • western musical group appears in l!ieckonridgi
Friday morning, April 18, w ill be Slier, y Nail, left, and Tiavis Kelley.
The Ranch Hands, along v.ith a larny group of Hardiii-Sim.nons
tudents, will stage a musical show to help boost tin Sixth Annual
H-SU Intercollegiate Rodeo to be held ia Carl Myers Memorial Arena
April 24-2G. , 4
Western Muska
Show Coming To
Advertise Rodeo
A western musical show featur-
ing the Rhythm Ranch H:\nu- wili
be in Breckenridge Eridav morn-
ing. April 18, to publicize the
Sixth Annual Hardin Simrio: .
University Intercollegiate Rodeo
which will be held in Carl Mv.-is
Memorial Arena April 24-2o. A
short western jamboree will be
given on tho main streets.
The Ranch Hands is one of the
newest musical groups on th,
h.rdin-Siminons campus, having
been organized early this yea; bv
a group of varsity footballer; liv-
ing in Cowden-Paxton Hail, athlet-
ic dormitory.
Only one member of the nint-
man band is not a footb ill ph'j ei
He is Don "Lopin* " Logan, fea-
tured vocalist with the group.
Other members of the troupe in-
clude Sh?rry Nail, Loving: Travis
Kelley, Bandera; Bill Davis. M m-
phis; Jimmy Riddle. Wichita
Fidls; Maurice Waguespack. Des-
trehan. La.; Pat Tone, Monahans:
Jake Col'ins. Fort Worth, and
George Mi.se/. Chicago, 111. Naii
and Kelley are billed n< the .' a
ture i ttrnction of the band, each
playing the banjo, guitar and man-
dolin.
More than 125 cowboys and
cowgirls from more than ii dozen
western states are expected to
Darticipate in the tlyee-di-.y rodeo
which will have matinee: Friday
and Saturday at 2:30 and nieht
shows Thursday. Friday and S ~.t-
urday. A parade through down-
town Abilene will get things roll-
in-- Thursdav nfternoon.
This year's show is expected to
be the biggest in the history of the
3chool. with six cowboy events and
two girls' contests slated. Featur-
ed attr,-.-tion of the show will be
a cutting horse conte-.t.
Local Telephone
Strike Fnds: Big
Natl Break $ho
leloplione oT>-r::iors ii'-re ie urn
•<1 to their j 'bs Sntuiday night at
10 o'clock. :'iid t,Kl:iy bus'iies;' i>-
limed more to no;. ■>! as us louiii
f local st iAice.
o -voik ca'ne afte
CotiiL in Midland
.jo ary reslr.-'.'ning
;a;i-.ft pick, ting
workers oi the
workers \ he
the t WA had
Fired Arlinoton
Teccher Is Dead
Rv UNITED PRESS
The English professor who said
he was forced to --(.sign from A i l-
'"cton Stat College for telling
di'tv stories in c'ass is dead.
The 48-year-old professor, Ken-
neth Rockwell, died at his home'
at Arlington last night. Doctor?
say dent.h came from natural
causes. Rockwell had been ill for
f.e"- ral davs.
The professor said he was forced
to resign his English teaching job
at Arlington on March 1 without
•i hearing, on charges three
students that h" told improper
s'ories in c'ass. The college pres-
;dent. Dr. E. M. Henrfoid, denied
Rockwell's report on the enforced
resignation.
The board of directors of Texas
■* &M College, of which Arlington
Stnte College is a branch, had set
a hearing for Rockwell on May
Since his resignation, the former
professor had been selling hooks.
>e mad
Th- --turn
the District
-•ranted u t>
>ider Satuulay
S«" VV' Sl. I .lee; .
CWA. T vephone
.vere members of
•efused to cross the picket line
• the broth* r union.
Th-- Midland «-«uit order was
isked by Southweste: n Bell, which
ilso aske i :"5o(i,00f/ damage a-
■piim-t the CWA. A hearing on a
lenranent injunction was set for
^"•ii 21 at 2 p. in., prtss reports
said.
Western Elec tic is the mr.n'.i-
'acturing subsidiary of the Bell
Telephone Servie ■.
Al ohter hig break in the tele-
phone strike ear.'c today.
i h> conimunie: r'on woikeis and
the Ohio Bell Telephone Company
lign-il an ngi oement this morning
•tiding the v e, k-o!d vaikout over
wage demand^ by in,000 pi-.one
-,vo«kers in Ohio.
The settlement follov.-i <1 a maia-
Lhon negotiating session that be-
gan yesterd.-r- morning ar.d the re-
sults could also ;o t a pattern foi
-alting the entire 43-tsate st. ik • by
teleohone workeis.
Th-- strike of 30,0<X) A. F. of- L.
telegraphers against Western
Union no-,' is in its eleventh day
and t'<i sett'ement is in s:ghf. But
federal nmdiator J. R. JIandelhaum
has scheduled a meeting in W.-ieh-
ington with company n«gotietorf
•odi>" in an effort to break the
deadlock.
City Hit
Hardest; Heroic
Rescue Efforts
Tic country's two biggest rivers
are spreading muddy torrents of
deitiaction through the midwest.
Both the Missouri and the Missi-
ssippi : re reaching toward record
flood crests and it least 40.000
persons have been driven from
their homes by the high waters.
The Red Cross estimates that, in
all close to 74,000 people in seven
midwestern states have been hit by
th floods.
So fa., the Missouri h:-,s done
th< most damage.
It has now churned past Sioux
Citj. Iowa, at 24.3 feet. It's ex-
P"( tei' to creep up to almost 2o
feet when it crests at Sioux City
late;- today.
Fleeing in advance of the wat-
ers. vholc riverside communities in
Iowa, ami Nebraska have been
turned into ghost town,, with the
entire populations evacuating,
leaving only armed guards behind.
Th< evacuation is the greatest
In the historj of Iowa and Nebras-
ka. People fled veste(jdey by auto,
truck, train and on foot, looking
like escaping r?fugeees in a w->r - .
zone. Foi them, this was the only
Easter parade.
Sonn ."0,0t'0 persons were forced
to evacuate in two cities .".'one.
Omaha. Xebrasl-' and Council
Bluffs. Iowa. And people in South
Dakota, Minnesota, and Wisconsin
:.'so have felt the flood.
But the focal point is Sioux
Citj Iowa on the flooding Mis-
souri. An heroic train crew has • :
mad hourly trips across the river :
to bring refugees from the low-'
ty• nt. cpMimunities in Nebraska a
cio ■ to higher ground behir',L'' 1
Si.ni: City. ■'
( omnared to its riverside sin '[J1-
urbs Sioux Cit> is well off so far
Floodw:'.ter-. have covered the wat .
erfront and are lapping at streets
100 wuds from the business dist-.
net. but nearbv suburban towns
lu.v • been comj-Ieteiy desereted by
re. idenfs aad covered by muddy
flood W-lt:".
Ai- the Sioux City airnort, rl-
ready partly flooded, workers are
fight'ng to throw un dikes to save
some of the runways. Th^v are
under old rs to save the field at
all cost; because it m: y be the
only airport a' ailable in th" area
once the flood covers the cities (n
th • south.
Thi flood waters p-te a double
menace. In "ourlng through the
Missouri V: I't y, thev are swei p-
ing hue-e piles of debris before
then, thus forming a water-now-, _
eri d batterin" ram to hammer ;ii
bridges and other structures down-
stream.
According to the latest, reports,
th" Mississippi, which joins the
Missouri at St. Louis, has not
r«> It d the oronortions o^ the
MWouri flood. However, it ha-;
driven about 7 ooo oersnns f'-> ei
h" ie's in t1-" twin city area of St.
Paul and Minneapo'^s.
Up where the Mississippi he-
gins. in northern M:nne-.ota. "old ..
man river" is far above flood st V""
and a record crest ef 21.25 feet ,ti
noited al Sorth Paul. T; r
high waters of the Mississp>->i also
are threatening p- rts of Wiscon-
sin.
Through the flood zone, resco-
and rc'iet' workers have been ha*«l
at it for two days or more. Army
"ngineers have bom flown in from
New Orleans to help and another
flood fighting t.".:k force from th ;
t'nirmeo.s is expected today.
Two governors. William Beards-
lev of Iowa and Sigurd Anderson
of. South Dakota, have asked for
federal heln. Governor C. Elmer
Anderson of Minnesota said he al-
so may appeal. And Govern or Vol
Peterson rf Nebraska has drclared
•i state of emergency in t'P Ner
hr- .-k-i fToo 1 zone. l V o
Britain's Peers Take Vulgar (v
Dollars But Balk At Formic
By ROBERT MUSEL
United Press Commentator
While a number of Britain's
peers nowadays belong to the
Labor party, they have balked, at
east for th's year, at forming
a union among themselves.
The purpose of the proposed
union was to discourage down-at-
hcels owners of stately homes from
engaging in chiseling, cut-throat
competition for the tourist busi-
ness.
The idea was "brought or." as
'he English say, by Sir Harold
Wernher, who owns r.n imposing
pile with the quaine name of Luton
Hoo. built in t7<>2. Sir Harold.was
abetted in his idea by Princess
Margaret's dancing partner, young
Lord Montague, whose home at
Beaulien, sometimes called Bewley,
goes way back to the 13th century.
The Earl of Warwick, who owns
tings, or
the tea-
gandei .
portrai.,
cient
cumul
centu
41.00
I 1 *95.00
..as ready 1095.00
'o fix a s'
1175.00
get in n.
, take a
family plate,
ancestor*, the i to
and other stuffrfcl.s
fes of thercl?mbh^t0r^°n"
the .la lin... of one of 5 i™*
great families. • from
There wasn't any siig ! ^
do anything about ex;-: textiles!
that would have put'ih.i
union in competition \\i*i ,c*tiles.
ious red tape dispells J,1? orders
of the government. ™'on flol-
knows, most peei-8 at * ®J' Rus-
enoug'i by governmentthe
nowadays. i«el*.gett-
The Duke of Marlboro ™® with
not relish any more
(ContHued on Pa tXS
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