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M
•—BRECKENRIDUB AMERICAN—SUNDAY, FEB. 10, 1957
★ EPSON IN WASHINGTON ★
ttord Work as Hall's Aide
Made Alcorn Chairman
BY PETER KDSON 1
NEA Washington Correspondent
WASHINGTON—(NEA)—Fifty-year-old Hugh Meade Alcorn of
Hartford, Conn., takes over the toughest political job in the
cpuntry Feb. 1. That's when he becomes chairman of the Repub-
lican National Committee, succeeding Leonard A. Hall ol New York.
Alcorn's new job will be to elect a Republican-controlled Congress
in 1858. Even the staunchest Republicans admit that isn't easy. <
' Mr. Alcorn can't pass that miracle, he-can, of course, step
TOWn. But if he succeeds, his next job will be to elect Richard
MUhouse Nixon as president in 1960..
Incidentally, Vice President Nixon took little part in the selection
of Alcorn as GOP national chairman, although Nixon has, more
interest in who holds this job than any man in town.
Nixon was kept informed of the various moves, to make Alcorn
bead of the party when Hall stepped down.
Nixon's acquaintance with Alcorn was slight, since the two men
cane from opposite ends of the country—Connecticut and, Cali-
"fornia.
But Nixon had no candidate of his own to oppose Mr. Alcorn.
MEADE ALCORN is actually Len Hall's personal choice for the
:hairmanship. It was Hall's recommendation which really influ-
enced President Eisenhower's suggestion to th national committee,
meeting in Washington after the inauguration, that he "would be
very happy" to have Alcorn as chairman.
J The wisdom of selecting an easterner as national chairman at
this particular time is questioned by many political observers. The
Republicans did all right in electing congressmen andt senators in
the east last November. Where they fell down was in the west. A
western national chairman, familiar with farm belt conditions,
' might therefore have been a more logical choice,
' WHAT WON THE NOMINATION and election for Alcorn wa
the job he did under Len Hall as vice chairman in active charge
of the committee on arrangements for the Republican national
convention. In San Francisco last year. That shew, went off so
smoothly that the whole party gave him aeclaim.
t Behind this national showmanship, however, Alcorn has a real
20-year grounding in practical politics. He was assistant state's
attorney for Hartford County, Conn., for seven years and state's
attorney for six years more. He was Republican chairman of the
town of Suffleld, Conn., for five years and ran a successful organi-
zation. He became state chairman of the Bisenhower-for-President
movement in 1952 and became the state's national committeeman
the next yeer.
y Last year he was chairman of his state's delegation at San Fran-
cisco. And in the campaign he is given a large part of the credit
lor electing E. H. May Jr., as GOP congressman from Connecticut's
first district, defeating Democrat Thomas J. Dodd.
*
HE IS STOCK if and of medium height. He is literally a tair-
haired boy. He wears horn-rim glasses, t
k* At Dartmouth he was New England low-hurdle champion and- a
Phi Beta Kappa. Then he went to Yale law school.
i Today he is rated a crackerjack lawyer, and fairly well to do.
He is the new type of Eiscahower "cew Republican" young state
political boss. <
He analyzes his own position as the new GOP chairman with a
favorite story about a farmer watching a golfer for the first time.
The golfer drove into the rough, then got stymied by a tree and
caught in a sand trap before he finally got the ball on the green
.and sank it in the hole. <
- "My, my, my!'^ observed the farmer. . "Ain't he in an awful fix
ncv."
jhorloqt Of Futl
AncTThey Called
You Can Place Your Confidence in
BLAKE JOHNSON
INSURANCE AGENCY
Blake Johnson Sr.
Since 1926
Blake Johnson Jr.
Strong — Experienced - — Reliable
Prompt, Considerate, Efficient Insurance Service
Phone HI 9-4477 — Highers Bldg.
Total claims paid by our agency last year—$246,495.78
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Service,
Conmunith Open
Students Whoop
As Stoek Bought
Price Goes Dp
By DOC QUIGG
United Press Staff Correspondent
NEW YORK (U.RI— Brokers,
messengers, and Klerks looked .up
startled from their scurrying on
the floor of the New York Stock
Exchange when a group of stock
puchasers in the gallery let out
a warwhoop.
This was a' soprano warhoop.
It c,-ime from the throats of 21
members of the sixth grade of the
Fox Meadow public school in Scars-
dale, N. Y.
They had just bought, with rath-
er hard earned garage - cleaning,
snow - shoveling, leaf - raking
c.ish, one share of RCA stock.
They had watched from the gal-
lery as the purchase was made.
And when the next RCA price,
32 flashed on a gaint screen
the 11-year-olds -10 boys and 11
girl
men
-piped a scream of excite-
Bought In Teacher'sN'ame
Because- they were minors, the
stock had to be in the name of
their teacher. But they had work-
ed to raise the money, had studied
various companies, and h'ld had
classroom visits from some brok-
ers and a banker before making
up their minds what to buy.
While this group was at the far-
young end of the scale, there does
seem to be nyirked trend of great
er interest among'teen-agers in se-
curities. In Portsmouth, Ohio,
seven high school classes formed
their own investment club and
bought two shares of Detroit Steel.
Applied Lab Technique
In Nyack, N. Y.,,a high school
social studies class decided to ap-
ply the laboratory technique to the
stqck m/irket. They-.- brought rn
nickels, and dimes, appointed study
uommittes, read reports — and
came up with one share of Amer-
ican Zinc. The president of the
company came from St. Louis la-
ter and addressed them.
In Union City N. J.. 90 seniors
are . buying through the monthly
investment p!,in. In Keene Valley,
N. Y.. a hi^h school teacher wrote
that' the students were forming
their own investment club.
Thirteen states and the District
of Columbia now have passed
atoek-gifts-to - minors legislation
permitting an adult to serve as
custodiin of the stock, with the
youngester's name on the certifi-
cate also.
Hoped Sate WW
Save ICT Company
DALAS (U.I!)— ICT Insurance
Co. President James G. Cage said
Friday he believes a wealthy Tex-
an will buy controlling interest
,ind save the company from bank-
ruptcy.
Cage said he thought the
chances for the sale were "excel-
lent." .
An Austin district court issued
a temporary restraining order
against the ICT Insurance Co.
Thursday .after State Insurance
FLOWERS
FOR EVERY
OCCASION
Cut Flowers—Pot Plants—Sprays—Gifts & Gift Wrapping
Granberry Flower Shop
MRS. BOB PADGETTE, Owner
118 W. Williams Phone ill 9-4033—Nights HI 9-4246
ALLEY OOP
wax, keep it
clinical, jones,
if only fdr
■your own .
saj<e!
sharp as a
mississippi
river bow
gambler he
is. too.'
he's childlike ,
and naive... \
but i never
know what's
coming next...
he has the most
i know
a good
wi^v to
rnd out.'
hnw d'ya
think he'd
make a good
foker
player?
amazing
mind ive
ever met
up with
never
know n
TO look
at him.
sou
found out
oops Guru:
a lad, eh?
Im TJB * U * Fa.
(f twr •
that's dr. jones'
SOOOPLL BE
PROBABLY THE
MOST INTERESTING
fWlENT WE
EVER HAP-HERE.
PSYCHOLOGICALLY,
ANYWAY
depends on who
read*' to
leave the
hospital
tomorrow,
you spy?
OPINION..HE|H
OOP ARE PLaH
iNQ POKER RIGHT
r/ WITH OOP? —\ VtXl THINKS
I WHY, THAT MUST \ THE BABY/ jSPft
YES
AND WE'RE
SORRY TO
SEE HIM
GO,TOO!
BE LIKE TAKING
CANCY FROM
A BABY/
KERRY 4RAKE
hold the ^kerry/here's something j
wire. ABB!.. i want you TO check on.' j,
from now on mj
YOU'RE 60NNA ^4 AROUN0! i GOT con-
S AVNE. m15tek1 nect'ons ; -IN CITY
butt LIKE left/ 7\take HOME. mister
balto's juke boxes.' j-an' wikethbm/
a
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NEW YORK (UB>— A serious
fuel shortage in the Greater New
York area was imminent today
following the collapse of negotia-
tions in the nine-day tugboat strike.
As reports of fuel oil shortages
poured into police headquarters,
fuel distributors warned that oil
supplies were reaching a critic.il
stage. , .
Distributors agreed that their
supplies will be ehausted by early
next week. But a spokesman for
the oil industry said a sudden
change from the relatively mild
whether the area has been exper-
iencing would result in "utter
•hios."
Hundreds of appeals already
have been received for fuel, in-
"luding four from hospitals and two
from homes for the aged. Near-
ly 300 were received from apart-
ment houses.
o
Conference Asked
On Oil Situation
AUSTIN ittl?> — Gov. ' Price
Daniel wants President Eisen-
hower and Lt. Gen. Earnest O.
Thompson, senior, member of the
Texas Railroad Commission, to
dispups Texas' .stand on petroleum
uroduction. ,
ln_ a. telegram tp the President.
Fi-'dav. Daniel urged him to meet
with Thompson, who heads the
state's oil regulartoy.v board, to
hear the general's "suggestions
for ways and- means to provide
additional oil supplies."
Dinniel said • Thompson is- "rec-
ognized as the world's outstand-
ing authority on oil reserves and
proper conservation provcedures
•?md has had experience in help-
ing to meet the nation's need for
oil in past, emergencies."
o
Gas Main Blowout
Cuts Down Coffee
MOUNT PLEASANT, Tex. (UB>
—A-blowout-on an eight-inch gas
main left the towns of Mount
PleaF.'int, Mount Vernon and Wiri-
fielc'. all in deep East Texas, with-
out gas Saturday.
The blowout did not cause any
real suffering, because the weath-
er was mild. It came at 7 p. m.
Friday, after most persons had
eaten dinner.
But it caused thousands of per-
sons trouble .it breakfast today. At
the Stevens hotel in Mount Pleas-
ant, a waitress brought down an
elpetric nercolator.
NEW YORK The 16th
national convention of the Commu-
nist Party—and the first in seven
may be the liveliest debate of its
history.
Major issue before the four-day
meeting is a new constitution
which declares a certain inde-
pencience from Moscow and allows
that difference of opinion may be
tolerated in good Communist cir-
cles.
Considerable difference of opin-
ion has already been expressed
about the constitution, the draft of
which was first made public last
September in preparation for this
week's convention. .
The 300 delegates will meet in a
lower East Side ballroom because
it failed in attempts to obtain
convention space in hotels and halls
in. the midtown area.
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"If it's insurance, we have it"
110 South Rose
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'Couldn't sleep, w* all
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Y., RusmII, Ky. "But,
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the very first day!" mum am*
For millions who suffer torture of
sramps and nervous tension every
aionth, an amazing new tablet has
oeen developed that brings greater
relief than aspirin I
Raiiaf Ih 3 awl •( 4 Tsitadl
For 3 out of 4 women tested by-
doctors. pains and crtunps were
stopped or strikingly relieved. Tfoto
new discovery oners more relief
than aspirin because it contain*
not Just 1 or 2 ln^ecUenU but *
unique combination of medicines
that act on the cause of distress.
Called "Lydia Pinkham's Tab-
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Commission allegations that the
comnany was some $4 million in
the hole.
The commission said, however,
that $1.5 million would make the
company solvent agnin. The com-
mission gave the company until
Feb. 19 to raise the money. If it
doesn't raise the cash, the com-
pany will be placed in receiver-
ship for liquidation.
There ' are IS,000" stockholders,
mostly labor union men and union
locals, holding some 1.5 million
shares.
CAPERS & HARRISON
Heating Plumbing Air Conditioning
Complete Refrigeration Service
Repair Service on all make Appliance*
Hickman 9-2598
R. V. CAPERS WALTER HARRISON
NIGHT PHONE HI 9-4022
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Entered at the Post Office in Breckenridge, Texaa a* aecond-claaiJ
matter wider the Act of Congress, March 3, 1879.
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BACK PIPE. DAD1 HOW-PS
THOSE STOPS COMING?
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5E PESTS PONT
PIN0 ME f OK TWO
PAYS I MAV STILL
MAKE THPfT DEADLINE
Inc. T.M. B««. U.l. fit Off
6EW IT; I SAID'. CWJ'TT V6AM? WELLi
V0U SEE rift TRYING TO / YOU'VE ROBBED YOUR
WORK IN PEACE *m LAST BANK. FOR
QUITE PS SPELL
5TRAMGER!
a
HEY, SHERIFF!
WE found that
cartoonist HlOtW
in th' barn:
wolilp you y dun no..
recognrb/thev was
them- bank v w8arin'
great scotts
so those pests
have missed me
already! well,
thev (wist NOT
find me VETI
PAD, THAT
COMMOTION
WE HEAR IS THE KALLIKAKS
SWARMING OUT OP THE HOUSE;
SNIFFING LIKE BLOODHOUNDS!
MASKS!
^SHERIFF
eriv-.v:
U.S. Pat. Off
MAKY WOUTI1
5MECKER AND i NlBBLER?- • OH.THAT'5
NOT AIL I DOI.^'MALSO A THISTLE
SPUDOER.TRAM 5PRA66ER AND
HONT LOADER!
here he comes now. with the
charging machine he took home
LASTNIGHT TO REPAIR!
TO CLEAR UP THE MV5TERY!
if vou ask me.shtll. idsav
thft jim5mepi0ah liv/grkinft
overtime at the job of
I CERTAINLY NEVER
HEARD OF THESE
OCCUPATIONS. JO!
BEIN6 A CHARACTER!
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