Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 53, No. 13, Ed. 1 Monday, January 16, 1950 Page: 3 of 8
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Airline Application Gives
Rosy Outlook For Snyder
SNVDttK — Jan Hi, — f.'imli-
r,Mental Air Lines toda.\ filed f<ir
an "exemption order" with the
Civil Aeronautics Hoard in
Washington which upon approv-
al would grant the airline irn
YUGOSLAV DELEGATE-Dr.
< Ales Bcbler, above, ex-partisan
fighter, has presented his cre-
dentials as Yugoslavia's dele-
gate to the UN Security Coun-
cil. Russian delegate Jacob
Malik is expected to challenge
Hebler when he appears at the
first Security Council meeting of
the new year, carrying one step
further the Russian-Yugoslav
diplomatic war in the UN.
-Relief Client Gives
Benefactors Famous
Painting In Payment
BAY SHORE, N. Y. (UP) — A
woman relief recipient, dead for
13 years, more than repaid the
Suffolk County welfare depart-
ment for its charitable aid.
.lust before her death In 1937,
the woman turned over to the de-
partment an oil portrait of
fleorge Washington. The paint-
ing, stored for 12 years in the
cellar of a welfare branch office,
now has been identified as an
original by Gilbert Stuart and
worth between $8,000 and $10,-
000, a department spokesman
said.
The department said the paint-
ing was put on display in the
office a year ago. An art restorer
saw it last month, and recogniz-
Ang it as a work of value, re-
ferred it to an expert who pro-
nounced it genuine.
The woman v. ho gave
painting to the ueaprtment
not identified.
4 he
was
WKKKLY WOOL RKV1KW
Highlight of the Texas Wool
and Mohair trade the past week
was contracting of Smooths
wool and the spring mohair
rV'iP-
• The USDA said contracts for
S-months wools in Texas called
for 60 cents a pound, grease bas-
is. This would cost about $1.45
to $1.1? per [>ound on a clean
basts, delivered to Boston.
Mohair contracts showed
firm prices on adult mohair and
two to three cent gains over the
previous week on kid mohair.
Most offers, said USD A, stood
at 57 to 58 cents for adult and
jt 77 to 7.S cents for kid. How-
■'ver, only small lots were
bought at these prices.
Some 12-months Texas wools
were sold on the open market
in Boston the ixist week at an
estimated clean cost of SI.50 to
$1.55 per pound. Handlers in
Texas asked the same price for
12-months wools and some sales
were reported in that price
range.
Boston reported fair business
tii foreign wools, but turnover
of greasy domestic worsted
grades was slow.
RIGSBY TRANSFER
ft STORAGE
Local and Lone Distance
Moving. Packing, Storage
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SPECIAL
Beautiful 2 bedroom house
on Josephine with large FHA
loan established.
mediate authority to provide air
service to the fast-growing city
of Snyder, in the center of the
"booming" Scurry County oil
field, it has been announced by
Robert R Six. president of the
airline.
The exemption order would
allow Continental Air Lines to
link the Scurry County oil field
with other imjmrtant centers of
oil activity already on the air-
line's system during tlu- period
of time required for final dis-
position of an application with
the CAB. for more formal and
permanent authority to serve
Snyder, Six said.
Continental Air Lines Would
serve Snyder and Scurry Coun-
ty as an intermediate point on
the airline's route between Mid-
land-Odessa and Wichita Falls,
Texas, with virtually no addi-
tion to mileage to the airline's
route, the application points out.
Continental's flight -l> and Hi
fly almost directly over Snyder
between Midland-Odessa and
Wichita Falls on the airline's
I utsa-FI Paso segment.
"Snyder, Texas, as the coun-
ty seat of Scurry County is the
center of tin- greatest interna-
tional oil discovery since the
c.a.-it Texas Field was brought
in during the early 19:S0\s," Six
said, "and the city's population
has trippled in the space of a
year to approximately IS,000."
Six pointed out that Snyder
and the Scurry County Field is
sorely in need of fast air trans-
portation service linking it with
other major oil centers in 'Tex-
as, Oklahoma, Wyoming and
Colorado, many of which are
presently served by Continental
Air Lines. Because of oil activi-
ty, Six said that a strong com-
munity of interest exists par-
ticularly between Snyder and
I'ulsa. Oklahoma City, Wichita
Falls, Midland-Odessa, San An-
tonio, San Angeio, El Paso,
Hobbs, Denver. Dallas, Port
Worth and Houston. Continen-
tal now serves all of these cit-
ies with the exception <>t uallas,
Fort Worth and Houston and air
service to those cities can be pro-
vided by a connecting schedul-
ed airline at Wichita Falls.
The application to the CAB
points out that the Scurry Coun-
ty Airport located at Snyder
will be completed soon and will
be adequate for scheduled air-
line service. It added that funds
are available locally to complete
airport improvements.
Continental's application to
the CAB presented other start-
ling facts in support of immed-
iate air service for Snyder, Tex-
as. and the Scurry County oil
field. It pointed out that enor-
mous proven oil reserves in the
amount of two billion barrels
are definitely known to exist,
with estimates that the oil re-
serves of Scurry County will
eventually prove to be 'in ex-
cess of 10 billion barrels.
The application pointed out
that 300 producing oil wells have
been completed in Scurry Coun-
ty as of January 1, 1950 and 110
wells are in the process of drill-
ing. A minimum of 2,000 wells
will be completed based on the
present known extent of the
field, and the actual number
may substantially exceed that
figure.
"The magnitude of the Snyder
and Scurry County oil develop-
ments is brought into proper
perspective when it is realized
that estimated reserves of the
field amount to nearly a third
of the known oil reserves in the
United States," Six said.
Continental's application said
that bank deposits in Snyder's
only bank during the past year,
the Snyder National Bank, have
risen from $7,000,000 to over
$15,000,000 during the past year
and a second hank, the West
Texas State Bank opened its
doors for business on January
13.
"When the number of oil wells
m progress and projected in
Scurry County are considered,
the prosperity and purchasing
power incidental to Snyder's de-
velopment is obvious," Six said.
PLAN VOT HOSPITAL
OKLAHOMA CITY, (UP) —
The Veterans Administration
has announced final approval of
an $8,000,000 general hospital to
be constructed on state-donated
an $8,000,000 general hospital to
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Eight New Autos
Arrive For Use
At White House
HIS BUDDIES PUT THE HEAT ON—Gas heat in the new house he is building cost vetc.:..
coal miner Charles Waichekauskas of 'Collinsville, III., his job, but he and his v.'ifc look ow tr.3
r.ew home proudly. Waiehekauskas, a miner 37 years, ran into trouble with his union t-ud his fcllcv/
worker;; because the house is heated with gas instead of coal. He discharged v/hen the other
miners refused to work with him.
WASHINGTON; (UP) —The
White House is getting eight
new automobiles--long, black
limousines.
Press Secretary Charles G.
| Boss said that the Ford Motor
Co., under a lease arrangement,
i would replace eight five-passen-
jger l.incolns now in the White
House motor pool. There are
more than 20 vehicles in the
I pool.
He said the larger cars were
requested because they are bet-
tei for cen mnial processions in-
volving the President and visit-
ing dignitaries
The White House has been
leasing automobiles since 1910
from varicuA companies. Ross
said a con tract with General
Motors expired about a year
ago and the business was switch-
•y ; ed to Ford.
*d- -< • -iffii'i Ross said no special ornamen-
*•««? tation had been ordered for the,
%T* * ' eteht new cars.
■ ; On a report that the interior
H! instruments on the new cars
would he gold-plated, Ross said
"if the Ford Company has seen
fit to embellish them, that is
the company's concern."
The car used most, frequently
by President Truman is a Pack-
mi limousine.
HALF-CEMTUftY
World-Wide Shipping
Firm Is Organized
Gulf
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CAMBRIDGE. Mass.. (UP) —
Slope climbing is a compulsory
-object for most Harvard fresh-
lines, newly organized j men until .Ian. 18. All freshmen
living above the ground floor in
seven non-fireproof dormitories
must be able to lower them-
selves twice down a 12-foot rope
in the gym. The program, con-
ducted by the university safety
patrol, is designed to enable stu-
dents to escape in case of fire.
N E W Y O H K. (UP)
shipping
berth agents and chartering
brokers, announced the start of
a new worldwide ocean freight
service from all principal Gulf
ports
I Gulf Shipping Lines, represent
f team ship
j trig independent
on a non-conference pasts,
schedule regular sailings
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AMERICAN MINIATURE —This new lightweight car, built to
sell for about $500, was introduced in San Diego, Calif., by its
designer, T. P. Ball. The car weighs only 775 pounds, has a top
speed of 45 miles an hour and can get 45 miles to a gallon of gas.
Hall says. It is built largely ot aluminum alloy and plastic materials.
TAX BOOKS lit RNED
POTENZA, Italy (UP)—Tax-
tired citizens of the town of
Ar.zi near here stormed the city
j hail and burned all the tax lists.
They especially were annoyed ;
General offices of Gulf Ship- i b-v vvtlat called th<J "exor-:
ping are located at Houston, Tex.. I bitant" family taxes approved:
with branch offices throughout I recently by the municipal eoun-1
the country. 1 eil.
Arthur, Lake Charles. New Or-
leans and Mobile to ports in the
West Indies, the Persian Gulf'
and the Orient.
CITY IN RUINS was the bustling metropolis ot San Francisco
(population 350,000) following the great earthquake that struck oh
April 18, 1906, and the disastrous Are that followed. Because the
city's water system was destroyed, firemen were helpless to halt
the blaze that reduced four square miles of the city to ashes. Some
500 persons were killed in the disaster, and tens of thousands were
left homeless. Property damage was estimated at $350,000,000. The
Army and the American Red Cross did heroic relief work. This
view of the stricken city, taken from the tower of the ferry building,
looks-directly up famed Market Street. Before the ruins were cool,'
crews ot workmen were on the street, laying temporary car tracks
to begin the mammoth task of rebuilding.
Try A Reporter Classified Ad
Federal Judge Apologizes For
Part In Old Cat And Dog War
By Harnmn W. Nichols
WASHINGTON, (UP)— Toby,
land near the University of
Oklahoma Medical School here.
The 10-story, 500-hed hospital
will lie erected within two and
a half years, Roy E. Guard,
chief architect for the VA, esti-
mated.
but in his opinion he favored the
dogs over the cat, mentioning
things like "it was a dog that
last name Reedy, probably Is the I licked the wounds of Lazarus in
only tomcat in history which i his rags;" "Bin Tin Tin was a
" tar." Only one line about
ever got a personal letter from
a Federal Judge.
Toby, whose master is George
E. Reedy, Sr.. a radio commenta-
tor. got mad as a tabby when the
papers carried a story about a
decision handed down by Judge
Marvin Jones of the U. S. Court
of Claims. The case concerned
Mr. and Mrs. C. C. M. Pedersen,
who worked for the state depart-
ment awl wanted to return home
from Turkey in 19-15, They got as
far as Cairo and were stopped
because Mrs. P. insisted on cart-
ing along two dogs and a cat.
Judge Jones finally awarded
the couple a pittance in per diem
payment on account of the delay,
Medical Officers
Needed In Reserve
For Special Duty
AUSTIN—An immediate ur-
gent need for Organized Reserve
Corps Medical officers of any
grade except Generals to par-
ticipate as umpires in "Opera-
tion Portrex" has been announc-
ed by Colonel Oscar li. Abbott,
Chief of the Texas Military Dis-
trict.
"Operation Portrex" is a joint
war game of the Army, Navy,
Air Force and Marine Corps dur-
ing February and March. Par-
ticipants can be expected to be
released from duty to return to
their homes between March 20
and 30.
Latest developments in under-
sea warfare will undergo tests
,it the very outset of the war
games. An "invasion" by troops
aboard transports, with convoy
of warships, must expect subma-
rine as well as air attacks as it
heads out from Norfolk, Virginia.
Originally umpires will be bas-
ed at Camp Lee, Virginia but will
make their maneuver camp on
the Island of Vieques, six miles
off Puerto Rico.
Colonel Abbott stated in his
appeal to ORC Medical Corps of-
ficers that no restrictions on the
military occupation specialty
have been placed on this latest
quota of Reservists. The date
of reporting has been extended
to January 23rd, but it is re-
quested that all interested appli-
movte
I a cat. Viz:
"The cat also has been a favor-
ite pet with many people."
That singed Toby's whiskers;
j He sat down and wrote himself
(a letter to Judge Jones.
j Toby, one of the biggest cats
j you ever saw, ts a Tiger-Persian.
When he isn't eating the left-
over beef from the tables of the
National Press Club, he costs
George S3.77 a week for cat-nips,
not including the nips of 20-vear-
old Napoleon Brandy Tobv pre-
fers instead of milk.
Anyhow, the big puss took the
judge's opinion apart, point by
point. Discrimination against
cats. Scales of justice tipped to
•'an alarming degree" in favor
of dogs. Character witnesses for
dogs and none for cats. Dogs to
watch the house! They're sissies!
Ever hear of a back tracking
watch cat?
Toby poured it on. claiming to
speak for the 21-million cats in
America. "Cats that might even
influence a vote or 10 here and
fhere."
The judge thought it over, sat
down and addressed a formal let
ter to Tony, starting out "Hon.
Toby Reedy, % George Reedy."
Judge Jones allowed that the
cat had a point well taken.
"I apologize," said the court.
'Truth to tell. 1 was presented
with a problem. Here were two
outstanding stars, both entitled
to top billing. In view of the
cold war that litis so long existed
between the feline and the can-
ine, and which sometimes breaks
into open hostilities, they could
not be billed as co-stars.
"... 1 realize that through the
years the cat, in addition to his
many other accomplishments,
has been the guardian of the
king's commissary and at the
same time has done continuous
service as kitchen police.
". . . You may rest assured
that when an opportunity comes
again I shall pay adequate tri-
bute to the felines and to you es-
pecially."
As additional salve, the judge
sent along a can of the best cat
food money can buy, plus an
autographed copy of the above
decision.
Irritation of Externally Caused
PIMPLES
To gently cleanse broken out skin,
then soothe itchy irritation, and
so aid healing- use time tested
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TRUMAN fS TARGET
CLARK AGENCY
WASHINGTON, Jan. 10, (UP)
Republicans in Congress start-
ed snipping at President Tru-
man's budget here as soon as it
reached the Capitol.
"The size of the deficit shows
that the President's talk of
cants expedite their applications
nearest Organized
through
Reserve
flee.
the
Corps
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economy and budget balancing
in his State of the Union mes-
CLASSIC ALBUMS
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Through the Month ol January
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McCRWHn MUSK & APPLIANCE
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ing," saW Sen. Robert A. Taft, R„
O. "His long list of spending pro
ects makes any balanced budget
m possible""
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Baker, Allen. Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 53, No. 13, Ed. 1 Monday, January 16, 1950, newspaper, January 16, 1950; Sweetwater, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth290415/m1/3/: accessed May 6, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sweetwater/Nolan County City-County Library.