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PHIL KAKNER GENERAL INSURANCE
The Mexia Weekly Herald
THIS LAND OF OURS
. History records the rice and
fall of nations, they thrive and
grow, become greut and power-
ful, wax rich and strong and then
after attaining this predominance
over other nations, they then re-
cede, cease to prosper, become
corrupt then gradually mold and
fall the prey to some other na-
tion who has grown to be more
powerful and then it's this new
nation's time to rule awhile, tin-
law of survival of the fittest con-
tinually takes it's course.
Babylon, Egypt, Greece, Rome,
Spain, Great Britain and others
have all had their dny and today
in history it seems to be America,
the richest ;ind apparently most
powerful nation on earth, a land
compared with most of the other
nations right now, verily flowing
in milk and honey.
So now as we are at the peak of
our power and prominence, vir-
tually sitting on top of the world,
let's meditate, recapitulate and
consider or review the cause that
had made us so great and power -
ful i(i comparison with the
other'feeble nations of the world.
Surely we are not supermen,
a chosen race, for men through-
out the world, given equal oppor-
tunities, seem to be just as smart
and progressive as we so let's
never assume this attitude.
When nations grow rich and
powerful as we now find ourselv
' 'cs, how long they will remain that
4 way depends entirely on how
wisely they maintain their vigi-
lance and good business manage-
ment the core of which is their
organized government and all it's
functioning branches. This era
might last a lev/ decades or it
*- might last a thousand years all
depending on the wisdom and
• management of it's leadership,
which, in our case, is steered or
• guided by the will and direction
of the people themselves.
Many other countries have al-
lowed themselves to bo • ulerl by
powerful factions or dictators
who were alert and took advan-
tage of the indifference of the
masses and thereby gained their
power in this manner. Surely
this could not happen to us, but
what are we, the average citi-
zens doing about it? Are we tak-
ing any interest in the admini-
stration of our government, local
itate and national? We must not
go to sleep on the job and leave
this important duty up to the
. other fellow, this other fellow
might be a Communist, so we
must be ever alert and vigilant
and take an active part or inter-
• est in our governmental affairs
lest selfish and evil forces infil
irate into same.
In this great Democracy of
ours it is the duty of every indi-
vidual citizen to help steer the
course of our government by tak-
ing interest in same by expression
of ideas and sentiments and by
the proper use of the ballot in
careful selection of the ones we
place in positions of trust as our
representatives and let them
know from time to time just what
we want them to do, what wo ex-
pect of them and in that way our
government policies will hi• the
people's policies and they will be
sound and good. In this way only
can we continue to live and
prosper and remain a land of the
free... .ADIOS.
Your Friend
Sassfrass Sam of Texas.
VOLUME L
A FARM NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF AGRICULTURE FOR THE RICH BI-3TONE EMPIRE
MEXIA. LIMESTONE COUNTY. TI ZAS, THURSDAY. JULY 1. 1948
NUMBER 27
Market
; COTTON
I DALLAS. June 30 (UP;
J proximate prices of cotton in
I Dallas market as reported f
I to the Agricultural Mark
! Service for basic middling lots
brokers' tables and F. O. B. F
! las trade territory, flat; basis
i eulated on closing of 32.67 on Oct.
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Focke Turns over
Jaycee President's
Post to Tyrus Bain
Herman Focke hands
Truman Signs Bill
For Army, Air Force
Retirement Benefits
WASHINGTON, June 30 (UP)
—President Truman has signed a
bill which establishes foi 11>« ■
first time a system of retirement
benefits for army and air force
reserves.
The president, in approving
the measure yesterday, called on
the regular armed services to
work with the reserves "in full
partnership in maintaining a
vigorous and effective national
defense."
"As a civilian who has been a
reservp officei* for many years.
I call upon the reserves to ac
cept their responsibilities and,
in the fullest measure, to live up
to the opportunities which tlii.
legislation gives them," the
president said.
The president was an artillery
captain in the first world war. He
Herman Focke presided ovei
the meeting of the Mexia Junior
Chamber of Commerce Thursday
night at the J St V Cafe* for the
last time of the year. At the close
of the meeting he presented the
President's pin to the newly-
1 elected Jaycee head, Tyrus Bain.
1 Oz/.ie Edwards, in turn, presented
Focke with the past president's
pin.
Focke, during his year as Presi-
dent, proved a capable leader.
Under his leadership the Jaycees
are ending one of their most j
successful years in Mexia since
the local group was organized by
Sid McKinnoti and Ozzie Ed- :
wards in early I94li. During j
' Focke's year as President, the an- '
nual Fiesta de Mexia celebration
was revived here and the 1 S)47 ,
j fiesta \frtis one of the most gala |
affairs that has been presented ■
in a number of years.
The Jaycees again proved their
wisdom in naming Ty Bain as
Focke's successor. Bain is not
only a new Javeee President but
is also new, head coach at Mexia j
High School. He proved his lead-
ership ability with his State
Championship Tmek team this
spring. He is also a person with
an endless amount of energy for
he has taken ovet the duties as
director of trie Mexia Summer
Recreational Program, a job that
requires most of his time every
day. Ty never does a iol> in a
liaphaza'd fashion so the local 1
Junior Chamber of Commerce
should have an excellent year
undci his leadership.
Thursday night's Jaycee pro-
gram consisted of reports from
I various committee chairman con-
j corning Jaycee activities for the
j voming months.
Harold Kendrick, Fiesta de
Mexia chairman, guv a general
report on the coming celebration.
He said that the plans for each
of the activities ate going along
nicely.
Billy Smith, chairman of the
Americanism committer . reported
that the plan: are complete foi
the celebration to be held July
5th at the Rodeo Grotini!.. Ticket,
were parsed out to each of the
members for this event.
During the evening's program
the Jaycee honored the mem-
bers of the Mexia High School
... Jaycee reins to Tyrus Bain
! Regional Championship football
I team and the members of the
I State Championship track team.
, Most of these boys who are in
i Mexia at the present time at-
1 tended the meeting. President
Focke introduced Benny Altinan,
Chairman of the Awards Com-
mittee, who in turn presented
j Coach Ty Bain. Bain presented
I good footballs to the members of
the football team and pencils or
pens to each of the members of
the track team. Bill Hurley, who
won the State 100-yard flash
event and was a member of the
Stat" championship 440-yard re-
lay team, was presented with a
pen and pencil set.
Sid McKinnon introduced John
Ben Shepperd, President of the
United State Junior Chamber of
Commerce, as a guest of the
Mexia Jaycees. Other guests were
Leonard Tidwell, President of
the Mexii. Retail Merchants Asso-
ciation; Eddic Folz, President of
the Mexia Rotary Club and Jim-
my Blair, President of the Mexia
Lions Club.
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Last Rites Held
For Soldier Killed
In France in 1944
Funeral services wer ■ held Fri
day afti moon at 3:00 p. m. at
the New Hope Church foi Pfe.
Ernest T Ifngeis, son of Mr. and
Mis. Judge Rogers, Rt. I, Jewett,
Texas. Rogeis was killed in ser-
vice in Noimandv, France, June
lit, llttt. Rev. Van Sickle and
Rev, Phelps conducted the
services. Interment was in the
New Hope Cemetery with the
Riddle Fun' ral Home in charge
of the arrangements.
Rogers Was with the 90th In
fantry Division at the time o'
his death. He went into service
said the
stituted an added incentive for
well-trained men to remain ac-
tive in the reserve forces for a
number of years.
retirement benefits con-j at Camp Barkloy in March, 1011
and remained there six months.
He was then transferred tp tlu
f)0th Division. He was wounded
in the Normandy invasion or
June Hi, 1044 and died two dnyt
later.
He is survived bv his parents,
and one sister, Mrs. Walter Cox
ol Farrar.
He was 20 years of age when
he was killed.
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L. M'. Gardner Dies in Waco
is*
George Copeland's
Stolen Car Found
Friday Evening
George Copeland's 1946 Dodge
sedan which Was stolen from 607
East Main Street Thursday night
was recovered by the local Polite
Department Friday evening at
10:30 p. m\ four miles east of
_ on the Teague highway,
j'ef of Police A. B. "Boss" Mc-
said that one of the local
man had chased another
to the county line and dis-
covered Copeland's car just in-
Limestone County. It was
oh the side of the road,
Kenzie said that
Word was - received in Mexia
today W the death of L. M. Gard-
ner, 57, at his home in Waco on
Thursday.
Mr. Gardner has been an em-
ployee of the Purina Feed Com-
pany since 1920 and was well
known in this area.
Funeral services are to be
held at Wilkirson-Hatch Chapel,
at 10:30 .a.m. Satiyday. Burial
will be in Rosemound Cemetery
in Waco.
Baptist Conference
Service at Prairie
Hill Friday Night
KOSSK. June 29 fSpl) The
Limestone Baptist Workers Con- j
tereiiee, will be combined with |
the county wide pre-simultaneous j
revivals campaign, for the gen- j
era! conference of men and wo-
men. to be held Friday evening,
July 2 with the Prairie Hill Bap-
tist church. The Rev. Tilson May-
nird, pastor of the Emmanuel
Baptist Church, Waco, will preach
the conference sermon. A con-
ference of the pastors of the as-
sociation will be held prececding
the general conference, with Rev.
Mr. May nurd discussing with the
pastors, purposes and plans for
the promotion of stewardship
campaigns in the local churches.
Others to appear on the program
arc: Rev. Ted Badger, Tehua-
cana, and Rev. Stanley Howard,
Monger. The Executive Board
and tin Woman's Missionary Un-
ion will hold sessions.
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One Killed, 18
Injured in Bus,
Truck Collision
DALLAS, Tex,, June 30 (UP)
One person was killed and 18
others were injured today when
a Texas Motorcom.'h bus and a
heavily loaded truck sides wiped
on the Fort Worth Pike at the
western outskirts of Dallas.
Willie C. Davis, 25, Fori Worth
negro who was driving the truck,
died at Parkland Hospital little
more than an hour after the
crash.
Eighteen other persons, all of
them passengers on the bus,
were hospitalized for treatment
of injuries of varying degree.
Mrs. Alice Steen of Burling-
ton, Kans., one of them, was in
"poor" condition at Parkland
Hospital. She suffered internal
injuries.
Davis was admitted to Park-
land in critical condition. At-
tendants said he had suffered
internal injuries.
Dick Hiett. of Dallas, driver of
the bus—bound from Fort Worth
to Dallas—said the truck driven
by Davis was west bound, but
was traveling in an east-bound
lone on the four-lane pike.
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Work Progressing
On Rural Roads in
Limestone County
County Engineer Mack Jones
said today that at the present
time the Road and Bridge Depart-
ment of Limestone County is
working on first priority loads
only. The first priority roads, as
was designated by the Commis-
sioners Court during the Novem-
ber, 1047 session, when Jones first
went to work for the County, are
those rural roads used by school
busses and rural mail carriers.
Second . priority roads are those
used by school busses, but not
mail carriers, while third priority
roads are those used bv mail: car-
riers, but not school busses. All
the other roads of the county arc
•classified as fourth priority roads
and will not be worked on until
the roads in the first three classes
are repaired.
Several weeks ago the Engineer
asked the people who owned land
| alongside the first priority roads
j to clear the brush and to donate
1 sixty feet of right of way to
1 the County. He said that the
j County could not afford to pay
I for the right-of-way. According
ot the Engineer the people have
i been cooperating with him one
hundred percent. At the present
time the Road and Bridge Depart-
ment has built twenty-five miles
of rural roads by reshouldering
and opening drainage ditches.
The county is working this
week on the asphalt roads in the
Mexia vicinity and will have the
work completed by the end of the
week except for the roads where
the landowners have their fences
too near the pavement for the
workers to build drainage ditches.
Jones pointed out that as soon as
the people move their fences the
County will get to work on those
roads. i
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Last Rites for
Wm. J. Bryant on
Wednesday Morning
New Officers Are
Installed at Lions
Club Tuesday Noon
Jimmio Elair complt tes term
las President ol the Mexia Lions
Club and turns gavel over to . . .
Murray Cox, WFAA
Community Clinic
Speaker Wednesday
Murray Cox, Farm Radio Ad-
visor of Station WFAA, lead a
discussion at the Mexia Commun-
l ity Clinic Wednesday evening.
! Around 35 farmers and business
: men of Mexia and this area were
I in attendance.
J. W. Elliott, C. of C. presi-
j dent, opened the evening's meet
! nig and introduced Sid McKinnon,
I secretary-manager, who told ol
( the importance of C. of C. work
in a community. McKinnon ex-
plained the different phases of C
of C. work and told the group
I that the basic economy of this
| area is agriculture. He explain
j cd that 80 to 85 percent of the in-
come is derived from agricul-
ture. McKinnon said that there is
I a great need for added coopera
I tion between the mral and town
people.
j Elliott, said that an effort is
i b< ing made to establish an inter
lest in the C. of among all
Bodies of Two
Soldiers of This
Area Being Returned
The bodies of Pfc. Bennie L. I
Black, son of Ben Black, Route
i 2, Mexiq, and Pfc. William B. ;
I Holder, son of Mrs. Ruby C Hol-
| der. Route 2. T< ague, arc among 1
j those of 5,734 Americans wro lost j
! theii lives in World War II in
Europe and the Pacific, being
returned to the United States I
aboard the U. S. Army Transports
Sergeant Morrison E. Crain and
the Greenville Victory. Black was
killed in the Pacific while Holder
died in Europe. Both were in the
Army.
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Services Saturday i
For Hugh A. Dozier,
73,of Tehuacana
Funeral services for Hugh A.
Dozier, age 73, were held from j
the Tehuacana Baptist Church
Saturday aftt rnoon at 3:00 p. in, !
I contracts, New York:
Middling
Staple Basis Prico
13/16 50 off 32,15
7/8 35 on 32.90
29/32 190 on 34.55
15/16 325 on 35 90
31/32 360 on 36.2.')
1 inch 410 on 36.75
1 1/32 460 on 37.25
1 1/16 510 on 37.75
Strict middling 30-40 higher.
Strict low middling 100-125
lower.
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LIVESTOCK
citizens, as lie told the group that j wit|, the Rev. Ted Bad get
the organization is not just for a
lew businessmen.
i Elliott introduced Murray Cox,
j Cox said; "We will get a healthy
| agriculture program when every-
i one begins considering farming a
business and the farmer a busi-
nessman." He explained that town
people are just as dependent on
farms as are the farmers. Cox
| told of the importance of soil con-
servation and pointed out that
our population is increasing but
that we are getting very little
increased production per acre on
! our farmers. During his talk Cox
touched on the dall y industry and
i stressed the importance of sup-
porting tin Soil Conservation Dis-
tricts. Following Cox's i 'Ik a
i round-table discussion was held
concerning various agriculture
programs foi this area.
in
ffi-
thc
in Georgia on Or- I dav's average. Top
He has resided in I and choice 180-270
. . . Ralph Jones, newly-elected
President, at Tuesday's meeting
Wm. J. Bryant, pioneer resi-
dent of this area, died at a local
hospital at 12:00 p.m. Monday
night. Mr. Bryant had been ill
for some time.
He was born in Fairfield, the
son of Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Bryant
He moved to Mexia as a young
hoy. After receiving his law de-
gree from Texas University he
returned to Mexia and entered
the practice of law, Later Mr.
Bryant moved to Wortham. where
lie has lived for the past 40 years.
He served as Mayor of Wortham
for many years.
Survivors include: a brother. ;
Captain Leon Bryant of Hous- I
ton; three nephews, George Brv '
ant of San Francisco, California,
Jack Bryant of Olympia, Wash-
ington, and Billie Bryant of Ja-
pan.
Funeral services were con
ducted Wednesday morning at
10.00 o'clock at the Corley Fun- ,
eral Chapel. Rev. A. W. DeGuire j
was in charge of the services.
Interment was in the Mexia 1
City Cemetery. Active Pall Boar j
ers include: J. W. Elliott, Claude '
Nussbaum, R. J Harper and .
Hugh Everett, all of Mexia, and j
Franklin Simmons, E M. Strange, >
J. P. Stubbs, R. D. Pounds, of
Wortham and Judge Lex Smith of ; will be difficult
Teague. All members of the Bar ■ I leers to equal
Association of Limestone and the out goim
Freestone County are named hon- ' that he, and th>
The members of the Mexia
Lions Club Tuesday, meeting for
their regular weekly luncheon,
saw their new officers and di-
rectors for the coming year in-
stalled and heard an interesting
talk by Rev. E. If. Gordon, pastor
of the First Methodist Church.
Joe Thompson
Dies in Groesbeck
Tuesday Afternoon
| dating. Interment was
j Coolidge Cemetery.
Dozier, who died at his home
: in Tehuacana early Friday morn
: ing, was born
tober 27, 1874.
Limestone County 31 years, and
in Tehuacana for 28 years.
Besides his wife. Sarah A. Do-
ziei, he is survived by two sons
and four daughters; Clifford,
Houston: Boyd, Tehuacana; Mrs.
| A. D. i lodges, Coolidge; Mrs
i Frank Wilson, Coolidgi ; Mrs. Jim
I Howell, Donnie and Mrs, Barney
| Graham, Coolidge. Also surviving
I are one brother and one sister,
Frank Dozier of Atlanta. Georgia,
I and Mrs. Lillian McMekin of
Washington, Georgia. Seven
! grandchildren and one great
■ grandchild also survive.
Pallbearers were Jim Howell,
Arnold Hodge, Chester Harrison,
Billie Hodge, Frank Wilson, Ray
! Hodge and Sammy Howell.
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Negro Arrested
After Car Wreck
Here Wednesday
The new officers and directors
were installed by Lion Harold
Nussbaum. The officers included
Ralph Jones, President; W I),
Blunk. 1st Vice-President; W. L.
Sewet I Secretary -Treasurer: 1 lei -
man Baty, Lion Tamci, and Leon
Flatl, Tail Twister The newly-
elected 2nd Vice President, Steve
Heather, was not present for the
installation.
i Joe Thompson. prominent
] raocher and stockman oi Lime-
' stone County
I Groesbeck at
I afternoon. Mr. Thompson was a
member of a pioneer (Jroesbock
family. He operated a grocery
Groesbeck for 22
m 11)45 to devote
cat t le : aisinc
include his wife, the
Anna Baker; one bro-
Thompson, two sis
Annie Marion (lallahvi.
Louisa Unfiled, all of
Willie
gro, vva:
Warren, Tehuacana
; arrested at 12 45
Ne-
in
' business
1 years, n
- his time to
Survivors
foi mer Miss
tlier, J. W.
(ers, Mrs
! and Mrs.
<;
E
orary Pall Bearers.
The outgoing President
(Jimmie) Blair, gav? a short talk
in which he said he hoped that the
Lions would continue the good at-
tendance th"y had today in sup-
porting the new officers during
the coming year. The attendance
today was larger than ii has been
at any time during the past year,
according to the Secretary, W, L
Scwell. After his talk Blair turn
ed the gavel over to the new
President. Ralph Jones. Jones told
the Lions that in his opinion, it
loi the new of
the good work of
officers but said
officers under him
p.m.
died at his home in j Wednesday afternoon by City
3:30 p. m. Tuesday Policeman Raymond Fessler af-
ter being involved in an auto-
mobile accident at the intersec-
: tion of Carthage and Denton
Streets in the west part of Mexia.
He was arrested on two counts.
[ failun of having a driver's li-
cense and failure to yield right-
of-way to the other car.
Warren was driving north on
Denton -tree! in a 1934 Ford se-
■ dan and Edward White, Wor-
! I ham, was driving a 193!) Chevro-
let i tan west on Carthage when
they ran together. Both automo-
biles were damaged considerably
Warren was released on reeog
nizanee and ordered to post bond
for appearance tn City Court
j Saturday morning.
GRAIN
(iroesbeck
Services will be held at the
Ilolcomb William: ('hapel in
Groesbeck Wednesday aftei noon
ell and Rev Olen Waldrip will
at 4:00 p. m. Rev. Maggart How
officiate. Bui lal will be in tIs
Falkenberry Cemetery in Groe;,
beck.
nt
i nd
in;
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Rio Grande Out of
Banks on Mexican
Side of Border
Loveland Takes Post
WASHINGTON, June 30 (UP)
— Albert J. Loveland today was
sworn in as Undersecretary of
Agriculture.
Swearing in of Elmer H. Wene.
Vineland, N. J., poultryman and
state senator,, was put off until
later this week because of press
of his duties in New Jersey.
Last Rites Held
Today for Vernon
White of Oletha
Funeral services wwc held at
3:30 p. in. Monday afternoon from
the Church of Christ in Groes
beck for Vernon White, 47, ol
Oletha. The services were con-
ducted by the Rev. Malcolm
Smith and O. C. HartscU. Inter-
ment was in the Glcnwood Me-
morial Park in Groesbeck with
the Connally-Shelton Funeral
Home of Groesbeck in charge of
the arrangements.
White died in a Groesbeck hos-
pital at 9:30 p. m. Sunday night
without ever regaining consciou-
ncss after un accident at his farm
Friday afternoon. No one saw the
accident so it is not known just
how it happened. His family
thinks that a horse he was riding
fell on him.
White was born on March 1.
1901 and lived in the Oletha com-
munity all his life.
Besides his wife, White is sur-
vived by his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Cai White of Oletha; two
daughters, Meldene, Oletha, and
Imagene, Fort Worth; three bro-
thers, Arnold and Jess of Oletha,
and George of Groesbeck. and
four sisters, Mrs. Georgia Cox,
Mrs. Walter Henderson, and Miss
White, all of Oietha, and Mrs.
Neal Gossett ol Hico.
will do
etl the
Blair.
their best
program
lie th.cn turn-
back over to
n
Blair introduced A. Allbrigbt
. the Program Chairman for the
11 ting. -Mlbright in turn inl.ro
ducerl Rev. Garden. Gordon told
the Lions that a preacher has a
definite job to do in a community
and pointed-out that it takes work
to accomplish the job even though
some people don't think that a
preacher evci works. "The minis
tor's work," he said, "falls into
two categories." The first one he
said is that the preacher has to
let the Lord take abode in his
(preacher's) body so that he can
walk among men and show them
that Christ lives in the hearts of
men, His second job, he said, is
to walk with God so closely that
he can define the scriptures to the
people. He pointed out that the
preacher has to be able to m-
terpret-the scriptures concerning
every day problems that the peo-
ple bring before them.
Guests of the club today in-
cluded several Boy Scouts of
Troop 70, T. E. Drummond of
Waco and Miss Barbara Ann Price,
recent graduate of Mexia High
School. Miss Price was chosen by
the Senior Sponsor, high school
principal and the superintendent
as the. graduate to 'receive the
Westminster College scholarship,
awarded by the Lions Club.
Joe Cannon was named as the
outstanding Scout of the Region
during the raecnt encampment at
the Heart Circle T Ranch at Fort
Parker State Park.
HIDALGO June 30 <I'P> -Tin
Rio Grandi was out of it banks
on the Mexican side of the border
near Reynosa today and Weather
Bureau officials predicted it
would crest here tomorrow at
23.5 feet.
Rains thai averaged as much I
as two inches in communities
along flu' border yesterday wen
not expected niatci ially to aflecl
the flow of the stream, which ha:
wrought untold damage and suf-
fering in its worst flood in la
years.
Automobiles wore lined up
nearly bumper to bumper yes
terday us residents of the lo.Wc-i i
Valley converged on Hidalgo t"
watch the flood.
Hidalgo cafes began selling out
of soft drinks early last night and
restaurants ran short of food.
Heaviest rainfall - two inches
— fell at Rio Grande City. Most
of the lower Valley citrus and
cotton lands received npproxi
mately an inch of rainfall.
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Denies Syrian Charge
CAIRO, June 29 (UP) —
American authorities today eatc
gorically denied a Syrian charge
that a United States warship fir-
ed on Arabs in Palestine, and the
Arab League uccepted the denial
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Dock Strike Ends
LONDON. June 30 (UP)—All
28,000 London and Liverpool
dock strikers went back to work
today, ending a stoppage that
cut the nation's meat ration and
tied up exports worth at least
$72,000,000.
The 63 miles of docks here re-
ported business as usual for the
first tixiie since June 12.
Father and Three
Children Die in Fire
TOPEKA, Kan., June 30 (UP)
\ young father and his three
mall children were burned to
death today in their farm home
near the Auburn community.
The mother escaped from the
two-story frame house.
The victims were: Garland
Valentine, 33. a son, Duane, 7,
and two daughters, Winona
Grace, 5, and Lorna Louise, l'u. | $1.12't $1.13'i.
FORT WORTH, June 30 (UP)
j — (USDAi -- Grain:
Estimated grain receipts '
Fort Worth Wednesday includ'd
377 cars wheat*. 9 cars corn, 3 earn
; oats. 1 ear barley. 40 cars sor-
ghums, and 3 cars hay. Total 433
cars.
Accord in e to U-. S. Depart n
of Agriculture's Production
Marketing Administration, gr.
registered only minor or
j changes.
No. 1 hard wheat with ortlu
. protein sold around $2.42 p
bushel, hulk, in carlots, fre.g
and tax paid to Texas comm
points, and wheat with 13 p
cent protein $2.42. No. 2 orde
wheat moved at $2.41, and 13 r
cent $2.41
No. 2 white corn closed
$2,87. No. 2 vellow corn $2.4!)'
$2,51 ' ■>, and No. 2 barley • l ,
$1.75.
No. 2 yellow milo rev! •
$2.R2 3.04 per hundred pom id
No 2 white oats brought SI.I
$l.lti per bushel at Galveston yi
LICE.'
Spray Birds
Quickly
Easily
WITH
'or Ixtarnal ParailtM
• Poultry ond Stock
Use this revolutionary, nnr
Sethod of cootrolIiDK lice,
itsprcy to tprsytd dinctly tn
Hrrdi while oo room. Quick,
convenient, economical to
ul«.Effective on livestock, full
directions on container.
KendrickS-
FORT WORTH, Tex,, June 30
(UP)—(USDA)— Livestock:
Cattle; 4000 Uneven, slow,
with some of sharp advances of
past two days erased. Medium,
and good slaughter steers and
yearlings 25.00-34.00 load at
34.00 weighing 1,206 and three
loads 1.196 lb steers 33.25, load
lot at 30.00. Common grade 18.00-
24.00. Common to good beef cows
17 00-22.00, canners and cutters
1100-17.00. Sausage bulls 15.00
22.00. Stocker steers and yearl-
ing: 27.50 down, stocker cow.
17.50 down.
Calves: Uneven, slow, some oi
sharp advances of previous two
days lost. Good and choice
slaughter calves 26.00-30.00, com-
mon and medium 17.00-24.00,
culls 14.00-16.50. Stocker steer
calves 28.50 downward.
Hogs: 1000. Steady with Tue: •
28.00, good
lbs 27.50-
28.00, few 280-350 lbs 26.25-27.25
and 150-175 lbs 25.50-27.25. Sow:
22.00-23.50. Stags 20.00 down.
Most feeder pigs 22.00-24.00,
some heavyweights to 25.00.
Sheep; 8300. Active, strong.
Good and choice spring lamb:
topped at 28.00, medium shorn
24 00-27.50, common and medium
20.00-24.00. Common and medium
shorn yearlings 16.00-22.00. Med-
ium and good shorn aged sheep
9 50-10,50. culls 8.00-9.00. Feeder
spring lambs 22.00 down, feeder
yearlings 20.00 down.
• # ♦
PRODUCE
FOR TWORTH, Tex,, June :m
(UP) — (USDA) — Wholesale
dealers egg and poultry prices to
producers and truckers delivered
Fort Worth. Egg market steady.
Candled basis: Grade A white-,
large 45, mixed mostly 42. Grade
R 38-40. Grade C 33-35. Current
receipts loss off, cases returned,
mostly 11.10, few higher.
Live poultry market about
steady. Per lo oe- % '•? «s mostly
25-26'. few 27. Light 22-23. Roost-
ers 12-15. Fryers local mostly 40-
42.
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