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VOL. 37 NO 2^
BRECKENRIDGE, TEXAS—SUNDAY, FEB. 10, 1957
PRICE DAILY 5 CENTS, SUNDAY 10 CENTS
BHS Homemaker
Of Tomorrow Is
Frieda Warlord
Thf* Betty Crocker Homemaker j
of Tomorrow in Breckenridge High
School is F ieda Warford. daugh i
ter of M-. and Mrs. S, K. Warford,
3t f► South Lo'Afil.
Sh>- rci'civ d the highest score in i
a * titter, examination on home-j
making kn-m ic,iL>-- md attitudes, i
Community Breakfast
To Draw Large Crowd
A lance attendance is expected to hear Jimmy Recce. a nationally
at the Chamber of Commerce spon- j known race drivt-r. speak. on high-
sored Community Breakfast to- j way safety^ Hubert Houset ot tne
morrow at 7 o'clock in the YMCA • Chamber of i.wmmniv said Satur-
Boy Scout Work
Is Described To
Lions Members
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LOCAL OIL m CONCERNED
OVER PROBE OF PRICE HIKE
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tit* Itooij ;i!e-(^ f'riday
■iVijrht m W«>i T- \ would add to
A tn .stute I'ark biouyht in-
ho (uatj<<n tlvtt the lake there had
Fifun at least t< tt leet, in Caddo
i ieek nine !•• !. and still was ris-
ing. At Luke Ihtnnl thf* flow of
watec j.e.i vs itli a three-foot
rise. ICHAirg watei thiep feet, two
inches be «>«• tht; i«p8lvv,iy.
t>!her Waters Kecede
A call to the T. l\ liobertson
ranch at Crystal Kails stated the
waters roreiletl Friday afternoon,
and crossing could be made to
H i ev.-kenraltfe. 'S he w.aters that "got
,over the countiy" at Klia.svillt? Sat-
urday morning weru receding.
l-'rijlay night the Clear t ork of
the Hjuzos was on the highest
rise s nee !!! ii the Tt ubj st c-
! tion t>f West Texas, but then it "
[appeared doubtful the full crest
1 would reach the- an a. It is expect-
! ed hnwrvei*. to keep water flowing
i into 1 'o.-.-an; Ksngdoni, The lake
I iheie is far from full, bat boat
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Queen, Duke On
2nd Honeymoon
LISBON*. Portujsil T.Pt— I'ortu-
gii"so authorities said Saturday
they were taking discreet rneasurt
es to ensure Queen Elizatbeth II
and the Ouke of Edinburgh com- j
plete privacy next week for their j
two-dav "second honeymoon."
The British royal couple will be
reunited .it the windswept airbage j
of Montijo on Feb. 1(5 and then
will "disappear" from the eye* of
the world for two days tojrether
before they start a state visit here
on Feb. IK.
It was. understood they would
spend the time as Ruests of the
Duke of Paimella in his 40-room
country home overlooking the se.i
off the Arrabida coast 30 miles
south of Lisbon. The Duke of Fal-
mella is former ambassador to the
Court of St. James.
The separation of the queen ,'ind
h >r husband—more than four
months—has been the longest
since their marriage. Prince Phil-
ip left F.ngland Oct. 14 for the
Australian Olympics and ,-in around
the world cruise.
Seen or Heard
By C. M. H.
Waters nf Possum Kingdom re-
ported muddy Saturday, first time
in years Mr. and Mrs. John F.
Bailey had car damaged in slide
into another on slippery pavement
at Wichita Falls, but neither in-
jured Hubbard Creek board of
/*>—--ra to meet at Abilene Club
ing at 10 o'clock.
' f\\ j&ldo Bereti, cousin of Otto
Ldorf, to fly in from Buenos
ires, to visit him Mother of
Jrs. P;>ul Williams, ill in Stephen-
Vllle, reported improved Mrs.
James Blain, 301 N. Parks, has
b female Collie pup she will give
away.
bfcrt Hoover and his party who
served as coordinators of relief for
some 40 countries affected by the
war. Ball was presented ;i medal of
honor after the tour.
Gilbert Ball returned with an
honorable discharge in December
of ll 4fi but in February, 1950 was
called back into service and was
stationed at Mobile, Alabama one
year and in Hawaii for three years.
During the time he was in Hawaii,
he was assigned some of the most
important missions to Kikini and
Eniwetok. He served as instructor
the last year he was there.
After two years of civilian life,
Capti'in Ball was called into ser-
vice again. He reported to Ard-
more, Oklahoma to fly the new jet
engined troop planes.
Captain Ball was born and rear-
ed in Stephens County and is a
graduate of Breckenridge High
School. He married the former Miss
May Hope. Dec. 11, 1943. She too,
graduated from Breckenridge High
School. The two have two daugh-
ters, Rebecca aged 9 years and Ju-
dy aged 6 years. Mrs. Ball, the
two girls are presently residing in
Denver City.
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Officer Hurt
HOUSTON (I'D— A 27-year-old
traffic officer, going home after
investigating a collision, was criti-
cally injured Friday night when
his motorcycle jumped a freeway
esplanade in a fog.
The officer. James M. Tyler,
not only was badly injured about
the head and body, but was shot
through the hips by his own serv-
ice gun as his body struck the con-
crete.
Part of Tyler's scalp was peeled
away, his back was injured-and a
leg was broken.
Annual Dinner
Of Boy Scouts
Between four and five hundred
attended the annual Scout banquet
at Legion Hall Friday night when
awards were made, and Bill Mur-
ray, member of Kailroad Commis-
sion, addressed the boys.
Frank Pellizzari directed impres-
sive opening and closing ceremon-
ies with Jack Merrill presiding.
Murray, introduced by Lester
Clark impressed upon the boys
parts of the Scout oath stressing
the need for a boy todo his best in
duty to God and country, keep
physically fit, mentally alert and
morally straight. A need for keep-
ing physically fit was shown in the
fact that over fifty per cent of
Americans were found unfit for
the armed service, while in Europe
the percentage was much lower.
With troubles in the East brewing
over oil, much depends upon the
younger generation, Murray said.
E. K. Maxwell was chairman of
the court of honor, many awards
being made to Cubs and Scouts,
and ten and fifteen year pins
awarded Scouters. Irvin Jolley was
cited for a 40-year pin to be
awarded when received.
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Congratulations
Mr. and Mrs. Jr. B. Harrell, Jr.
of 407 S. Harvey, are parents of a
baby girl born February 9 at 5:00
a. nt in Hendricks Memorial Hos-
pital, Abilene. The baby weighed
six pounds and nine ounces.
Bill Maner said not all polio
funds in. but he thinks it will to-
tal something like $5,000... .Troy
Boone. Boy Scout field executive,
took. away. a. copy. of. Friday'#
Brecenridge American to show how
much publicity wa given Scoot
talk made by Bill Murray Jack-
ie Comelison, Breck Student, made
■II A's and B's at Ranger Junior
College first semester.
J. M. Harris, brother of Mrs.
Clyde Baker serving .aboard USS
Vulcan, Norfolk, promoted to chief
inetalsmith No fire runs, no ar-
« rests Eleven key# strung on
wire, one a house key, turned tn to
American for owner First
Christian Church has new carpet-
ing. ... And. this spring like weath-
* er*probably brief, had the red birds
Si singing.
For The Moment:
Masons To Celebrate With Dinner
The Masonic Lodge will celebrate
its 78th Anniversary and honor its
past masters, February 12,-with a
supper and program at the Lodge
Hall, beginning at 6:30 p. m. fol-
lowed by a stated meeting at 7:30.
Speaker for the occasion will be
Rev. Fred F. DeVaney, Pastor of
the Oak Lawn Baptist Church of
Waco.
Rev DeVaney, Past Master of the
Masonic Lodge of Regan, Texas,
became a Master Mason and Royal
Arch Mason in 1944, and a Knight.
Templar in 1945. He has since
affilated with the Whitney Lodge
and Royal Arch Chapter, served
as secretary of the Whitney Lodge,
and District Deputy Grand Master,
High Priest of the Whitney Chap-
Thought
lne°o!f,,fortifteatioii . -1
are the republican
Horace
REV. DeVANEY
CHECK OF RAINFALL REVEALS
BENEFITS OF SOIL PRACTICES
Chapter. He is now serving as
Chaplain of the Order of High
Priesthood. He is a member of the
Scottish Rite Bodies of Dallas, and
Past Patron of the Order of East-
ern Star. .
All area Masons are invited to
tund thi# «bnrow«.
Farmers and ranchers in the
Lower Clear Fork Soil Conserva-
tion District are extremely happy
over the recent rains. Wherever
two or more people stop to talk
the main topic is rain.
The rain has varied from four
and one half inches to six inches
over the district in the last week.
The question most frequently ask-
ed is how much rain did you get?
But the most important question
is how much of the rain stayed on
your farm or ranch, soil conserva-
tionists declared Saturday. The
Soil Conservtaion Service tech-
nicians have checked the penetra-
tion of the moisture in several
places.
On the A. H. Davis farm neaT
Ivan several checks were made.
The cropland on the Davis farm
had been plowed in the same way.
All the cropland had been broken
and chisled twice. Some of the land
had Madrid sweet clover growing
on it last year. Where clover was
grown last year the technicians
and Davis dug thirty-eight inches
deep and never did find any dry
soil. They estimated the moisture
to go at least four feet down.
When they had dug about twelve
inches deep the soil was so wet that
water was seeping into the hole
they were digging. Not fifty feet
away on the same kind of soil
where no clover had been grown
the moisture had penetrated to a
depth of thirty inches. Moisture
penetration checks were also made
on Davis's pastures. The soil in
the pastures was all the same type.
On a bare spot where there was
no grass or dead litter the rain
had gone down six inches. On an-
other spot where there was no
grass or dead litter, but a few
small winter weeds were growing,
the rain had gone down twenty
inches. Where there was a good
stand of grass and the ground was
covered with dead litter, the mois-
ture had penetrated more than
forty inches. Rainfall checks were
made on the Sam Ball ranch Wed-
nesday. About two and one-hajf
inches of rain had fallen at this
time. Sam has four- hundred acres
of rangeland that has been pitted.
All the pits were full of water,
giving an impression of thousands
of tiny ponds. On the land that had
not been pitted the moisture had
gone down four inches.
Lester Clark had chisled two
hundred acres of rangeland on the
contour. The chisel furrows are
eight feet apart. The moisture had
penetrated down thirty-six inches
under the chisel furrows, and had
gone down only three inches be-
tween the chisel furrows.
Father Decides
Marines Are Ok
PARRIS ISLAND, S. C. (EE)—
A father w'ho came to this sprawl-
ing Marine Corps recruit center
to look into charges that his son
was beaten during boot training
prepared to leave Saturday after
calling for an end of "brutality"
but praising the corps as a "good
outfit."
Nelson R.Porter, 44, of Hart-
ford, Vt., said he felt like a
"squealer and betrayer" for mak-
ing public his son's charges that
he was beaten over the head with
a steel bar and forced to march
with sand in his mouth during his
boot training period.
However, Porter said he saw a
one-and-one-half inch fresh scar
on his son's head four weeks ago,
apparently as a result of the at-
tack. His son, 18-year-old Pvt.
David LeePorter, said In a let-
ter to his father'that he was boat-
en for entering a drill instructor's
room without removing h t.
Banquet Tickets
Purchase Asked
Plans for the annual football
banquet are proceeding, Ed Ger-
hardt, president of the Quarter-
back Club, said Saturday, and it
appears Legion Hall will be packed
for the occasion on Feb. 18.
Gerhardt asks that Quarterback
members pick up their tickets at
once at the Chamber of Commerce,
for after that sale will be thrown
open to the general public.
Football players of the schools
will be guests as usual, but this
year the program is changed a bit
the young folks to have charge of
the program. Kenneth Satterwhite
will be master of ceremonies.
Jerry Tubbs, O. U. All-America,
and former Buckaroo star center,
will be the speaker.
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Tickets are now available for the
Chamber of Commerce Community
Breakfast, Monday, February 11th,
Y. M. C. A. at the Chamber of
Commerce office, 75c —Adv.
BLACK
INSURANCE
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THE WEATHER
Partly dandy with little
change in temperatures through
Sunday. Low Saturday night 58,
high Sunday 80. Low Friday
night SI, high Friday 78.
.first since lit53, and we have had
one cut, Clark recalled, and. we
cannot keep producing oil at the
price we are getting when steel
and everything else has gone up.
Object of testimony of oil pro-
ducers will be to substantiate their
claims that a raise is necessary.
Bill Pitzer, past president of the
West Central Texas Oil & Gas
Association, said he did not see
why there should be so much con-
cern over a small raise.
Bruce Street of Graham is pres-
ident of the WCTO&G and he and
others have been conferring on
the matter since the order was
issued Friday.
United Press reports stated the
chairman of a joint Senate oil price
inquiry Saturday praised the Jus-
tice Department for ordering the
jury oil price investigation.
Hut he charged the government
should have acted to forestall the
price increases in the first place.
Sen. Joseph C. O'Mahoney,
chairman of the joint Senate in-
quiry by the Anti-Monopoly and
Public Lands subcommittees, told
the United Press:
"The evidence that has been de-
veloped so far in our. investiga-
tion shows that the government
was advised in advance that there
would be price increases."
U. S. District Judge Albert V.
Bryan Friday summoned a grand
Search Is Opened
For Missing Man
KEMAH, Tex. <U.P>— A Coast
Guard search was launched today
for a 32-year-old f 'her of four
children who went fishing Friday
and failed to return home Friday
night. ,
The missing man is Charles L.
Lebaron. His failure to return
home left searchers in a quandary
because he didn't tell his wife
where he was going to fish.
. Mrs. Lebaron said he took his
boat motor and said he was going
to the bay and rent a boat.
Searchers were checking some
20 fishing camps in the San Leon-
Kemah area of Galveston Bay to
see whether Lebaron had rented a
boat from any of them.
The bay was shrouded in fog
Friday night and early today.
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Dallas
Rums To Dm#
DALLAS — Charles C. Cole-
man, Jr., about 35, a commercial
artist, was burned to death Satur-
day in his garage apartment.
Fire Chief W. W. Watkins said
only the living room vfes burned.
Watkins said a divan was destroy-
ed and Coleman's body was found
beside it.
Frank Raiser, 17, broke the door
down and tried to get in but the
boat and smoke forced him back.
He called the owners, Mr. and
Mrs. M. A. Williams, who live in
front, and they called the fire de-
portment
Student Winners
in Eiks Contest
Are Raney, Knox
Bennie L. Hart, Exalted Ruler
of local Elks, announces today lo-
cal winners in the annual National
Youth Leadership Contest. The win-
ners are James Raney and Janis
Knox.
James and Janis were selected
as the community's outstanding
young leaders since the contest was
open to youngesters under 19 years
of age. Boys and girls compete in
separate divisions and were judged
on leadership, Americanism, and
citizenship appreciation, preser-
veranqe, stability and resourceful-
ness,, and sense of honor.
Exalted Ruler Hart said that
the local winners have been en-
tered in the state contest conduct-
ed by Texas Elk's Association. Win-
ners in the state contest will re-
present Texas in the National Con-
test. Each state winner, boy and
girl, receives a $100 defense bond.
National awards are identical for
boys and girls. They are first JpVice
$1,000 bond; second place S$600
bond; third place $300 bonds.
James is an honor student in high
school, active in music, scouting,
church and club work. He has re-
ceived several good citizenship a-
wards.
Janice, also an honor student,
takes an-active part in many school
and church activities. She also pi
ticipates in local community prfl|
jects. She is president of the Jun-
ior Forum and state and national
president of the Future Business
Leaders of America.
The local contest was directed
by the Elks Youth Committee head-
ed by Paul Christenson, who has
announced that a $25.00 Savings
bond will be presented to <yich win-
ner by the local lodge.
! m 'r; S\ val her
v, eat tie 1 headci for Tex-
to kiii'Cfc the edge off
e ietiipi > juui es that have
the Red
Weather to recast et's said the
cold air, which a moving low pres-
sure center is letting into the
state, will ill op temperatures 10
or la degrees.
Since the lowest reported Sat-
urday the state was 45 at Lubbock,
the chances of it freezing in even
the most northern sections of the
state were not great.
Forecasters saut the only place
the cooler weather is likely to
bring rain in East Texas.
Farmers and ranchers in West
Texas will reap immediately one
benefit from the rains they ell-
joyed earlier in the week. The
changing weather will start the
dust blowing in the Panhandle and
South Plains.
It if hadn't been for the rain,
the Panhapdle and South Plains
might have^Sd their first big dust
storm of the season.
Floods Drain Away
Flood waters in the area north
and west of Abilene drained away.
There was fog and low clouds ear-
ly in the day along the-upper
Texas coast.
Forecasters issued a wind warn-
ing for Saturday fishermen on
Betton Benbrook, Grapevine, La-
von, Garza-Little Elm and San An-
gelo reservoirs ond On Lake Whit-
ney.
The warning said winds "in ex-
cess of 25 miles an hour" are ex-
pected until further notice.
Minimum temperatures ranged
from Lubbock's 45 to Corpus
Christi's 69. The only rain report-
ed in the 24 hours ended at 6:30
a. m. was a trace at Galveston.
<ext to honesty, your best j,
Trammell-Swanson Insurance
Agency
Phone HI 9-4421 for Oxygen
Equipped ambulance *
Satterwhite Funeral
Local National Guard Unit Seeks
25 Enlistments In Week In February
With the formal opening of the
new armory on February, 17, the
local national guard unit will work
toward an enlistment of 25 new
members during the week of Febru-
ary 17 23 inclusive. The local unit
will also be taking part in the na-
nationwide drive to enlist 15,000
young men who have had previous
military training, or who agree to
take basic training with the regu-
lar army.
In announcing the local goal,
Captian Tom Seely said that parti-
cular emphasis will be placed on
reaching the parents of the young
men of the community who are
faced with mititary obligations. It
is our intentions to show our local
citizens how these ymmg men can;
best fulfill their obligations by
serving in the national guard he
By enlisting in the National
Guard a young man may receive
his initial military training with
the local unit, or with six months
program of federal service in the
regular army. In this program he
wilt be able to serve with his
friends at home, earn extra money
to build up a retirement pensioii,
and have an opportunity to learn
new skills which may be valuable
to him in civilian life.
Beside his instruction in soldier-,
ing and technical fields, the Guards-
man can attend regular army ser-
vice schools and receive pay while
doing so. Also, home-study exten-
sion courses can be taken, opening
the way to faster promotions.
P For further information parents
are invited to cat! Hi-ckman 9-4021
or visit officers at
guardsmen will call,
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