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THE MEXIA (TEXAS) WEEKLY HERALD
THURSDAY ULY 1. 1948
The Mexia Weekly Herald
POLITICAL
THURSDAY, JULY 1. 1943
NUMBER 27
Published by The News Publishing Jompany, Mexia, Texas
Every Friday
GENE WOMACK
Business Manager
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Publisher's Notice
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tation of any person, firm or corporation, which may appear in the
columns of this newspaper will be gladly corrected upon due notice
si sanu. being given to tha editor at the Office, News Publishing
Company Building, Mexia, Texas.
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Mass Medicine
Suppose, next time you feel ill and want a doctor, this
happened:
You have long been a patient of Dr. Smith's, and you
call for an appointment. However, a new regulation has gone
into effect saying that Dr. Smith can't take care of you any
longer, and you must go to Dr. Jones.
You call Dr. Jones. He can't give you an appointment for
a definite hour, unless your case is strictly of an emergency
nature, so you'll have to wait your turn in his ante room. You
arrive and find it crowded. When your name is called he
can give you only a few moments of time, make a hurried
diagnosis, and then prescribe some government-approved
medicine. He hustles you out,, because many more patients
are waiting, and the law says he must care for them, at a
stated fee per head, whether he can provide adequate atten-
tion or not.
This gives you a small insight into the way socialized
medicine, run by the government, works. The patient is
simply a number, to be assigned to this practitioner or that,
under a so-called panel system. A doctor's pay and progress
depends on how well he pleases his political superiors, and
whether he's got a cousin in a position of authority. Under
mass medicine, patients are treated pretty much like a group
of motor cars coming off an assembly line.
If we ever weaken our system of private medicine, that
will be in prospect for the United States.
—Industrial News Review.
U. 5. Jei Fighters to Army Expects to
Make 1st Iransocean Induct 250,000
Flight Next Week By June 30,1949
The Mexia Weekly Herald has
been authorized to make the fol-
lowing political announcements
subject to the Democratic Pri-
maries.
For Representative
A. ROBIN HENDERSON
(For Re-Election)
JASPER A. BYRD
For District Judge 77th Dist.
H. FOUNTAIN KIRBY
For District C'.erk
A. B. SIMS
For County Treasurer
PONEY WEBB
For Sheriff
CHARLIE SHREVE
(For Re-Election)
BILL GREEN
For Commissioner-Prec. No.4
ED PRATHER
D. E. (Boss) MEW
For Constable —Prec. No. 4
JOHN H. RAY
Justice of Peace
ROY KIRTON
JOHN R. HUGHES
HORIZONTAL
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opera star
14 She is a —
15 Vegetable
16 Smoke deposit
17 Arrive
19 Sad cry
20 Type measure
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21 Happen
23 Upon (prefix)
24 Compass point
25 Samarium
(symbol)
26 Written form
of Mistsr
28 Hebrew deity
29 Decree
31 Flower
33 Decay
34 Chill
35 Charm
37 Staggers
40 Either
41 Down
42 Boy's
nickname
43 Preposition
44 Part of mouth
46 Persian coins
51 Musical
direction
52 Leave out
54 Sound
55 Ogle
56 Indigenous
58 Most minute 4
60 Slopes
61 Originates
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2 Rose
gradually
3 Heroic poetry
4 Facility
5 Sodium
(symbol)
6 Formerly
7 Plant part
8 Hastened
9 Toward*
10 Greek letter
11 Bulky package
12 Russian
warehouses
13 Blushingly
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CROSS-WORD
I'UZZLE
18 Note of scale
21 Fought
22 Realms
25 Reprove
2" Ran
30 Anger
32 Born
35 Law makers
36 First
38 Most recent
39 Begins
45 Aloe fiber
47 Followers
48 Negative
49 Opposed
50 Harness part
51 Observed
53 Metal
55 Falsehood
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WASHINGTON, June 29 (UP)
—American jet fighters will
make their first transoeean flight
next week and conduct limited
maneuvers in Germany, the Air
Force announced today.
Sixteen P-80 Shooting Stars
from the 56th Fighter Croup will
make the 5,200-mile trip from
Selfridge Air Force Base, Mt.
Clemens. Mich., to Furstenfeld-
bruck, Germany, spanning the
North Atlantic via Labrador,
Greenland, Iceland and England.
They will leave about July 7.
The 600-mile-an-hour fighters
will be accompanied by two
bombers, fitted ou for rescue and
weather reconnaissance work,
and three transports carrying men
and supplies.
While in Germany, the planes
will be in charge of Lt. Gen. Cur- j
tis E. Lemay, theater air force i
commander. The P-80's are sched- |
uled to leave Selfridge, under
direction of Col. David C. Schil- ;
ling, 56th Group Commander and j
wartime 8th Air Force ace. They
will be in Europe about two
weeks.
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Stevenson, Evans
Receive More
Labor Support-
FOR TWORTII, Tex., June 28
(UP)—Additional labor support
was held today by U. S. Senatori-
al candidate Coke Stevenson and
gubernatorial candidate Roger Q.
Evans, following their endorse-
ment by the Texas State Council
of Machinists.
The council .endorsed the same
slate of political 'candidates for
state balloting this year as was
approved earlier by the State
Fedeiation of Labor (AFL).
Selection of Corpus Christi was
announced for the Jan. 25-27
meeting of the council, with of-
ficers to be named at that time.
Around 100 delegates attended
the week end meeting of the
council here. < • ' • j
WASHINGTON, June 2!5 (UP)
— The Army announced today
that it expects to induct from
225.000 to 250.000 men from July 1
to Juno 30, 1949 under the peace-
time draft law.
The draftees, a*,ed 19-through-
25 will serve for 21 months.
Inductions probably will start
about Sept. 22.
About 30,000 men per month
will be inducted into the army.
Secretary of Army Kenneth C.
Royall gave the figures at a news
conference as he disclosed plans
for the new draft machinery.
The "somewhat limited im-
mediate requirements" of the
Navy and Air Force probably wilt
be filled by volunteer recruits,
Royall said. The army will get
most of the draftees.
The program is planned to
bring the army's present strength
of 542,000 to 790,000 by July 1.
1949 in accordance with the pro-
visions of the Selective Service
Act. The law authorizes a maxi-
mum strength of 837,000. How-
ever, it does not carry appropria-
tions for mole than 790,000.
The draft act provides for
registration of those IB-through-
25. Selective Service said local
boards probably will begin regis-
tration Aug. 16,
The army expects to get 110,0110
eighteen-year-old volunteers in
the next, year, Royall said.
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Tickets for July
Merchants Meet Go
On Sale Tuesday
C. R. Noles, chairman of the
regular • Bi-Monthly Merchants
Meetings, said today that the
tickets for the July 6th meeting
would be on sale tomorrow. Noles
pointed out that these meetings
were not confined to merchants
and urged that all men and wo-
men interested in the progress ol
Mexia attend. The regular meet-
ing will be at the J. & V. Cafe at
7:30 p. m. next Tuesday, July 6th.
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WILL ALLIES LEAVE BER-
LIN?—Marshall Vassily D.
Sokolovsky, of the Soviet
Army, has proclaimed the end
>f four-power administration
of Berlin, and for the first
time outsiders believed that'
the Western Allies would have
to get out of the city sooner
or later. The Russians also
placed an embargo on food
from their zone to feed the
American, British and French
zones. (NEA Telephoto.)
Social Security
Has Mew Schedule
On Visits io Mexia
Beginning with July, R. R.
Tuley, Jr., manager of the Waco
office of the Social Security Ad-
ministration, will be at the Texas
Rmployment Commission in
Mexia on 2nd and 4th Wednes-
day of each '.lonth at 10:00 a.m.
to take claims tor benefits under
the Federal old-age and surviv-
ors insurance program and to
supply information on the sys-
tem, the News was notified this
week. The first such visit under
the new schedule will be on July
14th.
Tulev alsb announced that the
new address of the field office,
after June 30, would be 206 N.
6th St., Waco, Texas. This new
location is in the recently com-
oleted Home Abstract & Title Co.
building.
The Federal social security pro-
gram, which applies to workers
;n industry and commerce, pro-
vides for the payment of monthly
benefits when the qualified em-
ployee reaches age 65 and retires,
for eligible members of the work-
er's family, and for the survivors
of insured workers wro die at any
age. .
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To Re-Open Air Basee
WASHINGTON, June 28 (UP)
—The Air Force said today that
it plans to reactivate the follow-
ing Air Force bases during the
next year.
Bases to be reactivated in-
clude: Clovis, N. Mex.; Enid, Ok-
la.; Hobbs, N. Mex.; Lubbock,
Tex.; Matagorda Island, Tex.;
Perrin, Sherman, Tex.; Topeka,
Kans., and Waco Tex.
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Complete Peace Suggestions
RHODES, June 28 (UP) —
Count Folke Bernadotte said last
night he had completed his "sug-
gestions" for a peaceful settle-
ment of the Palestine problem.
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Pampered Farmers
If the folks in our town were
less tolerant, they'd lie really
burned up over that nationally cir-
culated article on "pampered farm-
ers," describing them as living off
the fat of the land.
From where I sit the farmer is
anything but "pampered." If he's
better off today than twenty years
ago it's because he's worked hard
to improve the quality and quan-
tity of his production.
Take Bert Childers, for example.
Bert is up at four in the morning,
to get the milking finished—and
ploughing or harvesting, depending
on the season, until sundown. In
the evening he finally relaxes with
the missus over a moderate glass
of beer.
And the farrrjpr today's not only
temperate in his habits, like Bert's
evening glass of beer ... but toler-
ant in his opinions. So he'll prob-
ably say of that article, "somebody
got the facts wrong," and just
let it go at that.
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and I'd certainly hate to see them change that!"
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WHEN YOU GET PAID
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COMES WORK--NOW
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1948 HONORARY AWARDS
BATHERTOP. HORACE J.—Few
man are more deserving of this
[ignal recognition. Throughout the
past year you at no time cut a box-
lop, worked on a prize slogan or
dropped everything to try for a
jackpot. Take a degree of Doctor
of Extraordinary Willpower and
help yourself to a glues of beer.
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MOOSEJAW. BASIS H.--U Is a
pleasure to see you in today's line
of honorary degree takers. So far
as we know, you are that outstand-
ing example of manhood, an Ameri-
can who, having his old car to dis-
pose of, let his neighbor have lt it
a low price Instead of conniving with
slick operators to get twice what
It was worth. Take any degree that
fits, and won't you stay for lunch
with the faculty?
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CARP. OSCAR W.—On numerous
occasions you were observed stand-
ing in the doorway of a bus in the
rush hour. Asked to forward,
you did so. A degree is not enough,
Oscar. Name your wish and you
shall have lt.
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WIGGLESWOSTH, PRENTICE
K.—The university crowns von d
man amang men and a citizcn ex-
traordinary. Although In a posi-
tion by a little skulduggery and a
mild twisting; of conscience to get
money from the government, you
bothered to realize that Uncle
Sam is b=lng gypped right and ictl.
that lie is in a haie up tc his
neck and that he is too good a guy
to swindle. You also openly ex-
pressed concern about the gov-
ernment's financial future, even
dropping the funnies to analyze
the situation. Vou get not only an
honorary degree but strawberry
ice cream with chcrrics.
♦
CRUI.1METT, TIIADDEUS R.-
Vou are an American workingman
and union member. We have th#
positive proof that, instead of blind-
ly following a wild-eyed ieadiH'
when you were convinced he was
wrong, you voted the other way at
the special meeting. You wore
heard to make the statement on
your feet and in a loud voice. "1
could be right, too." Take a box
of cigars as you ro out 'and help
yourself to the chicken sandwiches—
all white meat.
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TlirPER, HALLOW AY C.—Wc
want you to take a degree print-
ed on special gloss paper ar.d
also $1,000 in cash. Called before
a committee of the United Stairs
congress in a time of national
crisis to answer the simple
question, "Are you a member of
the Communist parly?" you did
so. You did not demand to read
a long statement. Furthermore,
you showed up without 'your
lawyer. Get up there nearer the
head of the line where you he-
long!
COOKSEY, GERALD K. H. —
What are you doing away down
here? We meant to honor you
first. You shot a composer of ra-
dio jingles on sight. See us in the
dean's office later. We're throw-
ing a special party.
Officials Report
First Registration
To Be On August 16
WASHINGTON, June 20 (UP)
— The first registration under the
new peacetime dralt will be on
Aug. lti. National Defense offici-
als said today.
The delay is necessary, they
said, in order to give the propos-
ed 4,000 draft boards throughout
the nation a chance to get organiz-
ed.
These officials estimated that
by Aug. 30 the first questionnaires
will be in the moil to draft-eli-
jible men in the 19-through-25
ige group. After they are classi-
icd, the oldest of the 1-A's will
>e called up first. Burring P"
emergency, however, nobody will
oe inducted before Sept. 22.
Meanwhile, the Army, Navy
md Air Force p:anned to an-
lounce, probably Monday, that
hey arc throwing open their
•anks to enlistments by 18-year
lids for one years' service. An
18-year-old can escape the 21-
no'nth draft by enlisting for 12
nonths and then serving six years
n the reserve.
Army Secretary Kenneth C.
loyall will announce at a Mon-
'ay press conference how the
i ,rmy plans to handle the draftees.
He is also expected to outline a
plan for handling 18-year-olds
that will include some of the fea-
tures of the experimental univer-
sal military training unit at Fort
Knox, Ky.
The army will train 110,000 of
the one-year enlistees, the Navy
36,000 and the air force 15,000.
The army will increase in size
from 548,000 to 837,000, the Navy
from 468,000 to 066,882, and the
Air Force from 382,000 to 502,000.
Royall clamped the lid on Na-
tional Guard recruiting yesterday
on the ground thai the army
hasn't enough money to pay more
men. Those eager to escape the
draft by volunteering in the Guard
had boosted its enrollment far
over the 341,000-man quota dur-
ing the past' week.
Highlights In
Careers Of
GOP Nominees
A TIP TO COLUMBIA
Mind your books
And students be
Or Ike will put
You on K. P.
Zeke Clay Says:
Tex Willoughby and the wife are
on speaking terms again but there's
still a cold war going on between
them.
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The Chet Eppergills who have
been social outcasts for yeara
bought a television set last week
and now are the most popular folk's
ln town.
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Even Gadsby's boy, who has grad-
uated from two universities, has
'returned home but has to phone thu
garage for help in fixing the lawh
mower.
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Doodie Kimbell fell Into enough
money the other day to . have < hjs
gas tank filled, and is thinking if
having his auto washed at.a pubua
garage. "
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Will Kippey w|ll open bids on Io
shave and haircut next week.
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The stock market has had its bigi
gest rise In eight years nnd nobudy
Is more frightened than the fellow
who finds his (tuck Is up a dozen
points.
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|"Ashen faccd and close to col-
lapse he trembled as his counsel
pleaded for clemcncy, saying he
lacked the strength to resist temp-
tation."—Newa Item on a rent
gouger's prison sentence.
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That was no tremble; it was juet
the usual "shake." -
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We Just heard a fellow explain-
ing his despondency by saying thai
he had just popped the quaatton
and his girl "Gromykoed ma.." !,
EL PASO, Tex., June 28 (UP)
—Delegates to the south central
jurisdictional conference of the
Methodist Church today urged re-
peal of the draft as soon us the
present emergency is over.
London's Dock
Strike Called
Off by Leaders
LONDON, Juno 29 (UP) —
Lenders of the London's wildcat
dock strike called it off today and
urged the 19,000 strikers to go
back to work tomorrow.
The strike strategist decided to
call it ciuits after the government
had declared a state of emergency.
The move gave the Labor Cabinet
swi-eping powers to break the
strike and replenish the country's
dwindling food supplies.
The first break came when be-
tween 2.500 and 4,000 strikers at
the Surrey docks shouted down
a strike committeeman and voted
almost unanimously to go back
to work.
More than 5,000 strikers at a
mass meeting in Victoria Park
approved a proposal to go back to
work tomorrow, providing there
would be no victimization, Union
leaders already had given that as-
surance.
After learning of the London
action, dockworkers at Liverpool
who had walked out in sympathy
also voted to return to work to-
morrow.
Truman Signs Bill
Appropriating Money
For Flood Control
WASHINGTON, June 28 (UP)
— President Truman signed
a bill appropriating more than
half a billion dollars for flood
control projects and maintenance
fo rivers and harbors.
Nearly 300 such projects were
included in the $641,575,666 meas-
ure — known as the Army Civil
Functions Bill. Also included
were appropriations for return
of war dead, upkeep of national
cemeteries, and maintenance of
the Panama Canal Zone und the
Alaska communications system.
The Rivers and Harbors and
flood control projects account for
90 Der cent of the total appropria-
ted.
Piesident Truman originally re-
quested Congress to appropriate
more than $737,000,000 for Army
Civil Functions.
About half of the total ap-
propriated is for flood control
projects.
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Helen Keller
To Rehire from
Public Life
ADELAIDE, Australia, June 29
(UP) — Helen Keller, blind and
deaf American who has been a
wculd figure for nearly a half
century, announced today that
she plans to retire from public
life.
Miss Keller who is 68 years old
snid she would end her public up-
pearunces probably after touring
Japan this September. After that
jshe said she again would start
Work on a biography of Anne Sul-
livan, her first teacher. The orig-
inal manuscript was destroyed in
a fire.
To Complete Withdrawal
HAIFA, June 29 (UP) — British
withdrawal from Palestine is ex-
pected to be completed tomor-
row. The last contingents of
troops, with their equipment,
were embarking today from this
evacuation bridgehead.
Thomas t. Dewey
Highlights in the life of Thomas
E. Dewey, 1948 Republican presi-
dential noinee:
Born — March 24, 1902, Owos-
so, Mich.
Graduated — University of
Michigan, A. B., 1923; Columbia,
LLB, 1925. .
Married — Frances Eileen Ilutt
of Sherman, Tex., and Sapulpa,
Okla., in 1938; two sons, Thomas
E„ Jr., and John M.
First public office — Selected
as Assistant U. S. Attorney for^
Southern District of New York,'
1931.
First Notional recognition —
Successful Special Prosecutor of
organized New York City crime
in 1935.
Election victories — Defeated
oowerful Tammany Hall opposi-
tion to win office of New York
"""untv District Attorney in 1937.
Elected Governor of New York
in 1942; reelected in 1946. •
Election losses — Lost gover-
norship of New York to Gov. Her-
bert II. Lehman, Democrat, in
i 938; lost presidential campaign
to late Franklin D. Roosevelt in
1944.
Political victories.— Won Re-
publican nomination for Presi-
dent in 1944 and 1948.
Political loss — dropped the
Republican nomination for Presi-
dent in 1940 to the late Wendell
L. Willkie.
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Gov. Earl Warren
Thumbnail sketch of Gov. Earl
Warren of California:
Turned down chance to serve
as Dewey's running mate in .1944.
Had said he was not Interested in
Vice Presidential nomination.
Governor of California since Jan.
4, 1943. Good vot" getter. In last
gubernatorial primaries was
nominated by Democrats as well
as Republicans. Born in Los An-
geles 57 years Sgo. Married and
father of six children. Tall and
bespectacled. Practiced law in
Oakland from 1914 to 1938. World
War I veteran.
George Copeland's
1946 Dodge Stolen
Thursday Night
Local Police authorities today
reported the theft of a blue 1946
Dodge 4-door sedan belonging to
George Copeland of Mexia. The
automobile was stolen between
I he hours of 8:00 and 10:00 p. m.
Thursday night while Copeland
was visiting in the home of John-
ny Benson at 607 East Main
Street. The automobile was left
parked in front of the house.
Copeland had the car keys in his
Docket so the thief, or thieves
evidently wired across the
switch of the car.
A state-wia? Police radio
broadcast was made at 10:15 p.m.
Thursday notifying Police Offi-
cers throughout Texas to be on
the look-out for the car. The li-
cense plates of the car are Texas
CM 4747.
This is the second automobile
theft in Mexia in the past two
weeks. Saturday night, June 12, a
j 1938 Ford Coach belonging to
Russell Richardson was stolen
from the vicinity of Barker's Fur-
niture Store. Richardson's car has
been recovered.
Swimming Pool
Open Every Day
Except Saturdays
It was renorted today that the
Municipal Swimming Pool in
Hughes Park will be open every
day except Saturdays for the re-
mainder, of,'.the summer, The
hours will oe 1:30 p.m. until 9:30
p.m. each day.
The local pool is drained each
Friday night at which time it is
thoroughly cleaned. It is left
empty on Saturdays to get the
full benefit of the sun's health-
ful rays on the floor of the pool.
It is refilled on Sunday mornings
and treated with chlorine to in-
sure clean and sanitary water
for the people of this area to
swim in.
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Reparations Cut
BERLIN, June 29 (UP) — Rus-
sia hns cut reparations demands
on the Soviet zone of Germany
by almost half, Walter Ulbricht,
boss communist of Germany and
economic chief in the Russian
zone, announced today.
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