Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 57, No. 175, Ed. 1 Tuesday, July 27, 1954 Page: 1 of 8
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Dedicated To The Welfare Of Sweetwater And Surrounding Area
57th Year Number 175
Full Leased United Press Wire Service
SWEETWATER, TEXAS, TUESDAY, JULY 27, 1954
NEA Telephoto Service
Price Daily 5c, Sunday 10c
Commissioners Order
Check
An Inventory of local fire-fighting
equipment was ordered by the
Sweetwater City Commission Mon-
day night, following receipt of a
letter by Fire Chief Ace Forgay
from the State Insurance Commis-
sion, concerning fire rates for the
city of Sweetwater.
Chief Forgay read the letter at
<£ the meeting of the City Commis-
sion, held Monday night at the
commission room in City Hall. The
letter referred to a previous re-
quest by the Insurance Commis-
sion in 1950, for a complete inven-
tory of «fire-fighting equipment,
plus revision of the city building
code and erection of a sub-fire
station to serve the eastern por-
tion of the city.
The letter was written by G. C.
Hawley, chief engineer of the
0 fire insurance division of the State
1 .surance Commission, and in the
letter Hawley stated that unless
a complete revision of the city's
building code was made, a 2-cent
increase in the key fire rate for
the city is in order, and unless an
east side sub-station is built, a 1-
cent increase is in order.
Letter To Commission
Mayor Don Smith was authorized
to reply to the letter, stating that
the inventory of equipment will be
^started immediately, and that a
study of the other portions of the
recommendations will be made
OIL
ROUND-UP
By ALLEN BAKER
The newly designated South
Roscoe field has gained its sec-
ond producer, a one-location east
extension, with completion by Un-
ion Oil Co. of California No. 2-74
T. D. Young.
4 It has reported a daily flowing
^potential of 691.08 barrels of 40-
gravity oil plus 3.8 per cent salt
water and two-tenths of 1 per cent
basic sediment. Gas-oil ratio was
1,350-1.
Production was through a half-
inch choke and perforations be-
tween 6,558-66 feet in 5'/2-inch cas-
ing, cemented at 6,586 feet, the
total depth.
Location is in section 74-23-T&P
survey, six miles south of Roscoe.
The field opening has completed
•WMay 17 for a daily flowing poten-
tial of 504 barrels of 40 gravity oil
from between 5,529-6,602 feet.
Texas Pacific Coal and Oil Co.
is reported to have farmed out a
location on the Sears Ranch east
of Sweetwater to Eastland Drill-
ing Company for an early start.
A. E. Hrbacek is reported work-
ing on location. Drillsite may be an-
nounced soon.
% No. 1 R. C. Watts test, two and
a half miles southwest of the Hat
Top Mountain pool near Hylton,
flowed 321.10 barrels of 42 gravity
oil, plus 40 per cent of water, on
latest 24-hour test of this Gardner
lime prospect for Nolan County.
Flow was through 18-64th inch
and five eight- inch chokes and per-
forations from 5,406 to 5,412 feet
after 250 gallons of acid.
Gas-oil ratio was 1,107-1. Test-
ing is continuing.
Location on No. 1-A R. It.
Jordan is being prepared by Sea
board Oil Co. for an early start.
This test is 467 feet from the south
and east lines of section 20. block
Z. T&P survey, with proposed
depth 6,500 feet.
soon after the arrival of the new
Sweetwater City Manager, Gar-
land P. Franks, due to assume his
position here on or about Aug. 15.
Dan Shipley, city engineer, was
appointed by the commission to
serve as acting city manager until
the arrival of Franks next month.
Present acting city manager John
Williamson will leave Saturday to
take over his new position as fi-
nance director of the city of Green-
ville, under citv manager Henry
Nabers, who left here June 30 to
take over as Greenville city man-
ager.
Claude Scales appeared before
the commission to request that his
lease for grazing rights on por-
tions of land surrounding Lake
Sweetwater be renewed on its ex-
piration date of July 31.
At an earlier meeting this year
the commission voted not to re-
new any grazing leases on city-
owned land, due to the poor con-
dition of grasses due to the pro-
longed drouth.
Inspection Authorized
After considerable discussion a
motion by E. B. Ellis on a sugges-
tion by Mayor Smith, was passed,
to request the Soil Conservation
Service to inspect the area under
discussion and make a report to
the commission concerning its con-
dition. The health department will
also be requested to check sani-
tary conditions on the land around
the lake, which is a source of city
water.
An amendment to a previous mo-
tion to furnish water for Trent and
the Payne-Johnson gasoline plant
at White Flat was passed, follow-
ing a discussion with G. B. Evans,
representing the Honolulu Oil Co.,
which has considerable production
in the White Flat field.
A previous motion had offered
water for sale to the town of Trent
and to the gasoline plant for 25
cents per 1.000 gallons, with Trent
to construct a pipeline from Trent
to the east side of Sweetwater.
Raw Water Offered
The amendment offers raw water
for sale from Lake Sweetwater at
a rate of 15 cents per 1,000 gallons,
with a pipeline to be constructed
to the lake at a point to be desig-
nated by Sweetwater officials.
The installation of two-way radio
equipment for the Civil Air Patrol
was authorized. The equipment is
furnished the CAP by the federal
government, and CAP personnel
will operate it.
A $75 per month increase in
funds for aid to meat inspector
Dr. Bud Alldredge was authorized,
due to vacations and increased in-
spection loads.
The purchase of additional fire
hose was authorized following
opening of bids.
Present at the meeting were
Mayor Smith, commissioners Ellis,
Hez Hawley Jr., Bob Horton and
Roy DeBusk, Shipley, Williamson
and city secretary W. H. Whaley.
U S Files Two Protests
Over Attacks On Planes
RELAXES—Governor Allan Shivers relaxes at his Woodville, Tex.,
farm after receiving a 17,158 vote lead over Ralph Yarborough in
Texas Democratic Primary Saturday. Lead is insufficient to
renominate Shivers without runoff which will be held August 28.
(NEA Telephoto)
Shivers Leading
By 22,500 Votes
DALLAS, Tex., July 27 — UP—
About 6,000 votes in Saturday's
Democratic primary would have
saved Gov. Allan Shivers from a
runoff with Ralph Yarborough. re-
turns final except for a few thou-
sand votes showed Tuesday.
A new tabulation, issued at 11
a. m. by the Texas Election Bu-
reau gave, trom all of the state's
254 counties, including complete
returns from 235: Shivers 661,922
votes; Yarborough 639,336; Arlon
B. (Cyclone) Davis 16.095; J. J.
Holmes 19,873.
Bob Johnson, manager of the
Election Bureau, said he expects
that the last returns—the bureau
will make only one more tabula-
tion — to give .-Shivers a slightly
smaller margin than he has now.
He said about 6,000 votes would
Sun Oil Co. No. 1 L. L. Medlock
test In the North Roscoe field open-
ed recently by the Beaver well is
reported drilling below 6,100 feet
shale.
Harper and Huffman No. 1 Sears
south of Maryneal is reported
around 5,700 feet deep in shale and
lime.
Sun Oil Co. has filed application
to drill its No. 1 J. F. MeCafae test
one location southwest of produc-
ton in the McCabe (Pennsylvania!
field in Mitchell County near the
Nolan county line, 21 miles south-
east of Colorado City.
Location is 660 feet from the
north and east lines of the north-
west quarter of section 5-1A-H&TC.
No. 1 Jack Yarbrough test on the
cast side of White Flat multipay
oil pool is at 5,250 feet, reported
looking promising for a producer in
the Strawn pay.
Weather Bureau
Watches Clouds
NEW ORLEANS. July 27 —UP—
The Weather Bureau said Tuesday
a suspicious area of thundershow-
ers is bunched in the Gulf of Mex-
ico just off the southeast Louis-
iana coast.
The bureau said it will watch
develo p m e n t s in that area
closely. It said, however, that there
have been no developments since
Monday in the "weak circulation"
area and that conditions have not
yet become squally.
The area under observation is a
few miles southeast of Burrwood
at the mouth of the Mississippi
River.
A bureau spokesman said the
condition merits attention at this
time of year, although there is
nothing to indicate that the forma-
tion of a hurricane is approaching
at this time.
Horace D. Wells
Funeral Services
Are Set Wednesday
Horace D. Wells, 62, resident of
Nolan County and Sweetwater
| since 1914. died in Sweetwater Hos-
| pital at 2:25 a.m. Tuesday. He had
| been ill for the past few weeks and
i was re-admitted to the hospital
late Saturday.
A carpenter by trade. Mr. Wells
home was at 308'4 East Ninth.
Funeral services will be held at
2:30 p.m. Wednesda y at the
Church of the Nazarene on Oak
Street. Officiating will be the Rev. I
Carl Bunch, pastor. Nephews will |
be pallbearers, and interment will
be in the Nolan Cemetery with |
Cate-Spencer Funeral Home direct-:
ing.
Wells was bom in Van Zandt j
County on June 30. 1892, and came j
to Sweetwater in 1914 with his par-
ents, the late Mr. and Mrs. W. R.
Wells. He married Miss Iva Lewis
of Nolan in a Sweetwater cere-j
mony on March 26. 1919.
Surviving are his wife; two dau-
ghters, Mrs. Vern Smith of Dallas ;
and Carolyn Wells of the home
here; a son, L. D. Wells of Califor- I
nia; two sisters—Mrs. T. P. Bar-j
nard of Waco and Mrs. L. C. Hillis I
of Roscoe; a brother, W. O. Wells i
of Irving.
A daughter died in 1933
have saved Shivers from a runoff
Aug. 28.
The new tabulation only increas-
ed the margin of the other winners.
I Sen. Lyndon Johnson, the Senate
I minority leader, was renominated
easily in contrast to the 1948 elec-
tion, which he won by only 87 votes
! out of more than one million.
Johnson had 863,961 votes to 343,-
828 for Dudley Dogherty of Bee-
1 ville, a wealthy rancher and oil-
man.
Two of the 19 congressmen, all
Democrats, who sought rcnomina-
tion were defeated according to
j the unofficial returns.
Rep. Wingate Lucas of Grape-
I vine trailed Mayor Jim Wright of
Wealberford b' more than 12,000
j votes in the 12th district with the
; counting not finished.
Complete returns from the 19
j counties of the 16th District in
j West Texas gave State Sen. J. T.
Rutherford a narrow lead over
Rep. Ken Regan of Midland, 25,-
j 241 to 25,072. Regan said he would
wait for the official canvas before
! deciding whether to ask for a re-
count.
Rep. Sam Rayburn of Bonham
! won re-election to his 22nd term
from the Fourth District by a
| four to one margin of A. G. Mc-
| Rae, also of Bonham. Rayburn got
30,698 votes to McRae's 10,113.
Building Permit
Issued By City
To Texcrete
A building permit for erection
of the first part of the heavy
machinery and protecting sheds of
the new Texcrete Company of
West Texas was issued by the city
comptroller's office Monday after-
noon.
The permit for $100,000 for initial
construction work was obtained in
the name of Texas Industries, Inc.
The new concrete masonry plant
will be between Fourth and Sixth
Streets with the old Santa Fe rail-
road station to serve as a display
room and office.
Monday, Frank Locke, who is
construction superintendent, and
other representatives of the com
pany met here with local and
area Santa Fe officials.
E. A. Tusha. who is district
freight and passenger agent at
San Angelo, and traveling freight
agent C. W. Sheppard of San An-
gelo were joined here by R. II.
Deitker of Amarillo. general freight
agent of the Panhandle and Santa
Fe.
Construction of the new plant
here will be largely sub-contracted
and employment of labor for the
project will come through these
contractors at a later date.
However some of the equipment
was beginning to arrive Tuesday
from Corpus Christi.
It will require about four months
to set up the new plant here but
some production will get started on
products before the plant is fin-
ished. This company has a plant
in San Antonio similar to the West
Texas plant being established here.
The new plant is expected to em-
ploy from 25 to 35 men when it gets
into full operation.
BULLETIN
TOKYO, Wednesday, July 28
—UP—Communist China gave
the United States "serious
warning" Tuesday to "stop
immediately ... its provoca-
tions" or "suffer the conse-
quences." The message was
broadcast by Peiping radio.
WASHINGTON, July 27 —UP—
The United States has filed two
"strong protests" with Red China
over the attacks on Allied planes,
the State Department announced
I Tuesday.
State Department Press Officer
| Henry Suydan said the twin pro-
! tests were transmitted to the Brit-
i ish government for delivery to the
Peiping Communist regime,
i He said it was "possible" that
the texts of the notes would be
j made public, but not before the
j United States has word they have
| been delivered.
| Suydan said that the State De-
partment had asked the British
government "to pass on to Red
China our strong protests both
against the firing by Chinese Com-
munist planes on the British air-
liner which cost three American
lives, and a similar firing on Unit-
ed States rescue and search planes
engaged on a huroaaitiuia^i mis-
sion."
"There are two protests," he
added.
Chinese Squawk
The Peiping Radio said China
for her part has protested "most
strongly" against the shooting
down of two Chinese planes by the
American Navy patrols.
One of the protests was under-
I stood to demand that the Commu-
nist Chinese put an immediate stop
| to attacks on rescue and search
| planes patrolling the area of the
| British airliner's crash.
The three Americans were killed
when Red aircraft shot down a
| British airliner off the Chinese
I coast July 23. Three other Ameri-
cans were wounded. On Sunday
US Fighters Patrol
Hainan Danger Zone
ON BEHALF OF US
Eden, Britain Protest
Red China Air i
, ' "EA Cambrian" field now has six
completed wells with the recent
Ivmipletion of a quarter-mile south
fjetension to the pool, No. 1-11 TXL
Til section 15, block Z, T&P survey.
, This well on the land leased at a
premium by British-American just
•outh of Humble's two offsets to
the C. J. Roberts well has a calcu-
lated daily potential of 248.46 bar-
rels of 50.2 gravity oil on 12 64th-
lnch choke, from open hole at 6,030
feet to 6,082 feet. Gas-oil ratio was
468-1.
LONDON, July 27—UP—Foreign
Secretary Anthony Eden said Tues-
day Britain is protesting on be-
half of the United States against
Red China's attacks on American
planes over the China Sea and the
deaths of Americans on a British
plane shot down by Chinese fight-
ers.
He told the House of Commons
Britain also is making another pro-
test of her own against Commu-
nist threats to fire upon search
planes off Red-held Hainan island,
in the South China Sea, where a
British airliner was shot down last
Friday.
Ten lives—three of them Ameri-
can — were lost in that Chinese
Communist attack.
"I have been requested by the
United States government to ask
our charge d'affaires in Peiping to
convey a protest both on account
of the six American citizens
board the British airliner and for
wanton interference with the
search operations, Eden said.
The American protest was rout-
ed through Britain because the
United State.,, unlike Britain, has
no formal diplomatic relations with
Red China.
Eden said that on July 23, after
the British airliner plunged into
the sea, British authorities in Hong
Kong radioed 'he Communist White
Cloud airfield at Canton, eiving de-
tails of the number and type of
rescue planes that would be search-
ing the area of the crash.
An hour later, he said, the Chi-
nese Reds replied that a British
Sunderland flying boat in the area
would be allowed to remain, but
that any other warplanes which en-
tered 'the search would be fired
upon without further warning.
Huse Fund Now
Totals $180.25
The Reporter's John Huse fund
drive reached $180.25 Tuesday fol-
lowing donations received through
the mail and at the Reporter office
Monday afternoon and Tuesday
morning.
Checks and cash totalling $65
were received, which will be donat-
ed to the Joe llu.se family. John,
18, a son, died Friday night, fol-
lowing burns received in a trash
burning accident Thursday.
The father, Joe L. Huse, is care-
taker at the city dump grounds.
Donations may be mailed to
"John Huse Fund," Box 750, Sweet-
water. or may be delivered to the
Reporter office.
Latest donations include;
Citv Office Employes $22.50 j
Earl DeBusk 5.00
Bernard Stracener 5.00
Mrs. Curtis Hester 5.00
Anonymous 8.00
King's Daughters Class, Lamar
Street Baptist Church . 10.00 !
Men's Bible Class, Funda-
mental Baptist Church . 10.00
Previous donations $115.25
Total $180.25
BJ Service Inc.
Will Open Plant
In Sweetwater
BJ Service Inc., oil field supply
company that is a subsidiary of
Byron Jackson Company, wili open
operations in Sweetwater, and will
employ about 10 men and operate
some six trucks.
Announcement of this was made
Monday night by T. E. Wideman,
chairman of the oil committee of
the Board of City Development at
the BCD meeting.
Location site has not been decid-
ed upon definitely, it was stated,
but it will be on trackage here on
one of the sites of the T&P or Santa
Fe railroads.
C. R. (Curt) Cross of Midland is
division superintendent and Jerry
Orman of Midland is division sales I
manager.
Part of the local plant is being
moved here from Hobbs, N. M.
The plant will distribute oil field j
cement from here over this area. I
The weight batcher to be set up on j
the trackage here will weigh 9,400 j
pound batches into 100 pound \
sacks.
Home office of the company is
Paramount Boulevard, Long Beach,
Calif. W. T. Box is general man-!
ager of the company.
HONG KONG, July 27 — UP—;
j U. S. Navy jets with orders to be j
I "quick on the trigger" escorted ;
American commercial airliners j
j past the danger zone near the Red I
I island fortress of Hainan Tuesday, j
None of the Communist fighters
| in the area challenged the escort,)
j having lost two planes in a pre-
j vious fight with sure - shootingi
| American pilots.
However. French and Indian
j commercial pilots reported sight-1
; ing planes of various colors in j
I crossing the zone where Red planes I
I shot down a British airllnei lastj
| Friday.
The French pilot saw four
j "greenish khaki" colored jets about
| 100 miles off Hainan and the In- j
I dian aviator reported seeing four
"black" jets about 20 miles away
! from the Red - held island.
Capt. Max Weber of Great Bar-1
| rington, Mass., flying the same ]
, route in a Pan - American DC6B, j
! said "four silver United States
! navy jets" followed his plane for 1
about three minutes when it was j
120 miles off Hainan.
British Foreign Secretary An-j
: thony Eden told the House of Com- |
i mons that Royal Air Force officers
in Hong Kong were satisfied the .
four jets that looked over the Air I
France Constellation were Com-
munist MIGs. Eden said the MIGs \
seemed intent only on identifying
the French plane.
The Constellation's pilot, Capt.
Jacques Brugger, said in Tokyo
that his navigator, a student of
aircraft recognition, was "fairly j
convinced" the jets were MIGs. ;
"I think they just wanted to make
sure who we were.'' he said.
The jets' role of protecting
American aircraft, was disclosed
as:
1. The State Department pre-
pared to file a formal protest with
Red China, condemning the Pei-
ping government for the attack by
Red planes on U. S. navy bomb-
ers which were searching for vic-
tims of the British airliner crash.
The bombers returned the fire and
shot, down two Red Chinese planes.
2. U. S. diplomats and American
Air, Army and Navy aides held
secret meetings at Hong Kong,
presumably to discuss the recent
acts of Red Chinese aggression.
3. Civil air transport delayed de-
parture of a DC-3 which was char-
tered to take several Americans
to the Indo-China port of Hai-
phong.
Officials in Washington said the
shooting down of the Red fighters
which had attacked the mercy
mission would lift American pres-
tige in Asia at the right psycholog-
ical moment. U. S. prestige had
fallen considerably when the Reds
scored a victory at the Geneva
conference.
j two Red planes attacked American
aircraft flying cover for rescue op-
erations in the area. These attack-
ers were shot down.
On the Sunday incident Secretary
of State John Foster Dulles said
j Monday that the United States
would protest "most vigorously
against this further evidence of
: Chinese Communist brutality and
their belligerent interference with
a humanitarian rescue operation
being conducted over the high
seas."
Dispatch of the U.S. protest was
confirmed here after British For-
eign Secretary Anthony Eden told
i that the British were communi-
cating the protest to Red China.
State Department officials learn-
ed of Eden's remarks from a
i United Press dispatch
Expect More Protests
1 Further details about the U.S. pro-
test are expected later.
The Sunday attack created a fur-
l or in Congress. Sen. J. William Ful-
! bright (D-Ark.) called for investi-
gation to determine whether the
Chinese Communists are trying to
! goad the United States into war.
Fullbright said "iV the attack was
I deliberate and the Chinese Com-
munists wish to have war, they
| can have one. This country is not
going to back down from a chaK
! lenge."
Rel/tion Drop to New Low
Informed sources said President
Eisenhower's top advisers general-
ly feel the incident will not lead
to war even though the Navy at-
tack bombers sent two Communist
fighters spinning into the South
China Sea and U. S.—Chinese re-
lations dropped to a new post-Ko-
rean low.
Experts pointed out that there
has been a long series of East-
West plane incidents which have
produced charges and counter
charges but no serious moves to
ward anything like a major mili-
tary conflict.
WEATHER
SWEETWATER — Temperature,
high, 108 degrees; low, 80 degrees, j
Barometric pressure, 29.95, falling !
slightly. Relative humidity, 45 per 1
cent, increasing. Instrument read-1
ing, clear to partly cloudy, contin- j
ueel hot.
WEST TEXAS—Clear to partly I
cloudy and hot with isolated thun-
dershowers through Wednesday.
108 Registered
Here Monday
A torrid 108 degrees was reg-
istered in Sweetwater Monday,
for the highest reading of the
year, as the searing heat wave
headed into its fourth consecu-
tive week without relief.
Monday also marked the 21st
day that the temperature has
climb-od above the 100 mark
during the month of July, and
the 17th consecutive day the
mercury has reached the 100
degree mark or higher, accord-
ing to records of weatherman
M. C. Man roe.
The low for Monday night
was a warm 80 degrees, afford-
ing little comfort for sleeping
citizens Monday night, unless
air conditioners were employed
throughout the night.
A slight increase in humid-
ity, plus a slowly falling baro-
meter gave promise of slightly
decreasing temperature, but
not enough to make any appre-
ciable dent in the heat wave.
Big Spring Riles
Are Set Thursday
For Local Woman
Mrs. M. M. Madison, 58. long-
time resident of Sweetwater, died
in Sweetwater Hospital Tuesday at
8:30 a.m. following a heart attack.
She was stricken ill at her home.
1010 Oak Street about 4:30 a.m.
Mrs. Madison underwent major
surgery about six weeks ago but
apparently was on the road to re-
covery when she was suddenly
stricken ill.
She and her husband, well-known
T & P. employe here, have long
been active in Oddfellow and Re-
bekah work and have assisted ma-
terially in the Oddfellow's Orphans'
Home
Funeral services will be held
Thursday at Big Spring at the Eb-
erly-River Funeral Home at an
hour to be announced later. Rebe-
kah rites will be held.
Mrs. Madison was born in Big
Spring on Aug, 15. 1895. She was a
member of First Christian Church
here.
Surviving are her husband; a
daughter, Mrs. Tom Hamm of Abi-
lene: her mother, Mrs. W C. Bird
of Big Spring; two sisters. Mrs. H.
D Cowden and Mrs. E E. Brind-
ley of Big Spring: one brother, H.
E. Reagan of Cutbank, Mont,.; a
grandson, Gene Reagan who makes
his home here in the Madison
home.
One son, Reagan Madison, died
June 23. 1953.
KNOWLAND ANGERED
WASHINGTON, July 27—UP
—Republican Leader William
F. Knowland Tuesday angrily
accused filibustering senators
of holding up the Senate "at a
critical pericd in the nation's
history." He shouted a pledge
to do everything possible to
break the delay.
Movie Ador Sues
Insurance Executive
DALLAS, July 27 —UP— Actor
John Carroll has filed a damage
suit against a Dallas insurance ex-
ecutive, asking $205,000 for inju-
ries suffered in an altercation last
April in the Shamrock hotel at
Houston.
The suit, filed in a state district
court, alleged that the Dallas man.
Virgil K. (Boi Howard, attacked
Carroll while the latter dined in
one of the Shamrock's fashionable
dining rooms last April 8, striking
the actor with his fist.
The resulting injuries, the suit
claimed, have kept the 48-year-old
Carroll from work in the entertain-
ment industry—movies, television,
radio and concert stage—and also
have kept him from operating his
horse farm and private club.
The suit asked $150,000 actual
damages, $50,000 exemplary dam-
ages and $5,000 for medical fees.
Howard expressed "amazement"
at the suit, but refused to make
any statement "until I have had
some time to think It over."
ANGEL OF MERCY—Lt. Geneiveve Galard-Terraube, heroic French nurse who staved with the wound-
ed at Dien Bien Phu, holds bouquet of roses presented to her on her arrival in New York Monday.
Seated beside the "Angel" as they leave the airport is Frances P. Bolton, Republican Representa-
tive from Ohio. (NEA Telephoto)
New Guard Armory
Near Completion
Sweetwater's new N ational
; Guard Armory, a more than $65.-
! 000 project near the entrance to
city park is due to be completed
this week, Don Smith, architect
i said.
Robert L. Guyler of Crystal City
I is contractor on the job with a
number of sub-contractors hand-
ling various phases of the con-
j struction.
| This new home of Company K,
'Tllirflt* infant# 3Bth Division, has
its own grounds, the city having
deeded the former baseball park
j site to the Armory.
The new Armory will be an im-
portant public building and an at-
tractive addition to the city park.
I Commander Hez Hawley Jr. of
j Company K said that as soon as
1 the armory building is accepted
by the state board and turned over
j to the company, moving in of
| equipment and supplies will be
i started.
Beautification of grounds will
| also be started.
It is planned with cooperation of
i the Board of City Development to
hold an open house at the armory
for the public, probably early in
September.
Maj, Gen. Carl Phlnney. com-
mander of the 36th division and
Col. E. A Simpson who is com-
manding officer of the regiment,
and a number of other dignitaries
will be here for the open house.
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Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 57, No. 175, Ed. 1 Tuesday, July 27, 1954, newspaper, July 27, 1954; Sweetwater, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth284192/m1/1/?q=%22Sweetwater%20%28Tex.%29%20--%20Periodicals.%22: accessed May 21, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sweetwater/Nolan County City-County Library.