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Newspaper
Bonham Daily Favorite
Location
Bonham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1950
Page
6
The report notes Congress remains preoccupied with issues beyond Korea as House leaders tackle a tax bill and arms funding. President Truman orders focus on the crisis, while McCarthy mobilizes anti-Communist pressure and calls for actions against state department officials.
Bonham scouts held a Tuesday meeting at 7 30 p m with business items and new members Duane Epperson and Richardson joining. James Fitch was named guide and Winifred elected secretary while Norris Barnard and Jim were named on a committee to arrange drinks at ball games. The next troop meeting is set for July 11 with fourteen-year-olds invited.
A Chicago hospital reports Howard Tucker recovering after a kidney graft from a deceased donor. Doctors say the operation, the first of its kind here, could provide treatment for kidney disease if the patient continues to improve.
Partly sunny this afternoon and tonight with widely scattered thundershowers. Not very warm tonight near 68 degrees. East Texas sees generally mild conditions with a few thunderstorms in the far north. A cooler trend develops along the Red River, with moderate coastal winds tomorrow.
Luxury liner Excalibur carrying 114 passengers and about 130 crew collided head on with Danish freighter Colombia near Lower Manhattan. Excalibur, sinking forward, was evacuated as Coast Guard craft pursued rescue. Colombia burned and grounded near Sand Flats of Brooklyn amid clear weather.
The Senate and House sent a one year compromise draft bill to enactment after conference committee action. A moderate earthquake near 7200 miles from Berkeley registered by UC instruments but its epicenter was undetermined. The Excalibur sank after colliding with a freighter in New York Harbor. 114 passengers were rescued with no injuries reported. Divers search Lake Michigan for Northwest Air Lines DC 4 wreckage near Benton Harbor with limited body parts recovered. Frank Erickson begins a two year bookmaking sentence after leaving the Manhattan House of Detention for Rikers Island. he is shackled to a thief.
Representative Mendel Rivers of South Carolina a member of the House armed services committee says that dropping an arm bomb is now in order to end the Korean war He predicts one atomic bomb on North Korea s largest city would end the conflict He adds unless Russia backs down World War Three has begun in its incipient stage
The Bonham Jaycees will hold a meeting in the Jaycee Hall Thursday at 7 p.m. to install the newly elected officers for the coming year. All members are requested to attend the installation ceremony.
The Atomic Energy Commission awarded 45 000 dollars to the University of Texas to accelerate nuclear physics research at the Research Center directed by J Neils Thompson. The grant covers housing for a 4 000 000 volt generator to be housed in two steel tanks weighing 20 and 10 tons respectively. The project, part of a contract at Oak Ridge, will take about one year to assemble the generator and perhaps another year to tune it.
New Orleans police captured Edwin Fitzgerald 23 a jobless seaman five minutes after he robbed Mr and Mrs Lloyd Shultz of Longview Texas in the French Quarter on Royal Street Fitzgerald handed over the wallet and papers then returned $10 and explained they might need it to get home The arrest followed Shultz shouting stop as Fitzgerald fled near a block away from the scene.
In Snyder Texas the wild well of Borden County shoots a tower of flame for 17 days. Pan American Holley Number One near Snyder June 10 remains unextinguished despite explosive charges. Drillers pursue a directional well to cross the Holley shaft and relieve pressure.
Fort Worth markets show cattle slow and uneven with various weight classes. Slaughter steers and yearlings mostly 18 to 28, cows 12 to 20, stockers 24 to 27, calves 15 to 28, and hogs rising with barrows and gilts largely 20 to 21.50, bulk sows 15 to 17, feeder pigs 15 to 17.50.
The Dun and Bradstreet wholesale food price index climbs to 9604 the highest level since January 1949. The barometer shows an eight cent rise over the past week with the current figure at 5.69 compared with 5.69 a year ago. The gain reflects advances in wholesale prices for 12 of the 13 foods used in the index.
Pat and L L OBrien of Monahans reject proposed terms from their attorneys and Texas Electric Service. The case seeks payment for water rights used to cool turbines on 26 000 acres. District Judge Dick Dixon ordered testimony to begin tomorrow in Dallas.
FCC counsel accused KMPC of failing to list 18 political speeches by Thomas E Dewey and John W Bricker in BBC given logs. The hearing compared September and October 1944 logs with a 1948 disclosure, noting speeches not on the FCC list.
The State Department says the United States has asked Russia to use its influence with North Korea to stop the Korean War. The note was delivered to the Soviet Foreign Office in Moscow by the American Embassy, but its contents are not disclosed.
Constantine Lodge No 13 AF and A M meets tonight for Fellowcraft and possibly Master Degrees. New officers installed include Wm Logan as Master and Leslie Eubanks as Senior Warden. retiring Master Buster Cole praised for service. An observance for July 4 is planned next Tuesday.
Nutley New Jersey police hunt a man described as a mad barber who has cropped several children's hair into ragged crew cuts. Parents report the amateur clipper claimed to be a student at a nearby college.
President Truman cited peace through the United Nations as the reason for military aid to South Korea. Secretary Acheson called the North Korean attack unprovoked aggression and stressed UN unity, while John Foster Dulles described the US as a policeman stopping international murder. The Nationalists on Formosa reportedly suspended operations after the president's request.
United Press reports North Korean forces have captured Seoul and Inchon while threatening Suwon and the key air field near the Han River. Despite losses of two American planes, crews are reported safe as Allied air power targets Red troop concentrations and supply lines around Maenan and Suwon.
Texaco filed unfair labor practices charges against the Oil Workers International Union and Local 228 in Port Neches and Local 23 in Port Arthur. Complaints accuse mass picketing threats and violence during a 12 week walkout and allege pressure on a worker’s wife to be fired.
AUSTIN Texas June 28 UP Gubernatorial candidate Case March states the State Federation of Labor endorsed him for governor with contributions totaling three thousand dollars. March says he will be in San Antonio again today and will move into South Texas Thursday and Friday.
Hale County and Plainview show major growth from 1940 with Hale County up about 50 percent and Plainview around 70 percent. The 12th Congressional District also gains about 46 percent, ranking as the state’s second fastest growing district, while Fort Worth boosts its numerical rise.
Hidalgo County census officials report the area, one of Texas' densest farming regions, has grown by about 64 000 people in the last decade, rising from 106 058 in 140 to 169 942.
The Air Force states the Dayton area sounds were not explosions but sonic reverberations from high speed jet fighters. Similar reports of strange sounds come from California test zones where jets are tested.
State Health Officer in Austin reports 107 new polio cases in Texas last week raising the year total to 824. Dallas County leads with 19 new cases. ten counties report their first cases of the year. statewide counties count is 214. last year at this time 7 cases across 89 counties.
A 60 year old woman who delivered a child this week died of polio. She was hospitalized after labor and had extensive medical care. The report notes the tragedy occurred at a hospital but provides few clear details beyond the cause and timing.
Miners at a Alaska firm receive an hourly wage boost to three dollars and zero cents per hour. The increase positions the workers among the highest paid in the world, affecting about 100 hundred-fuity miners employed by the company.
In Ventnor New Jersey the new curfew siren reportedly warned youths at 9 45 pm but parents complain it woke babies and will be silenced amid public concern over the piercing whistle and curfew enforcement.
A Missouri court order requires Missouri State University to admit three Black students, a ruling described as precedent shattering and linked to Supreme Court goals of equal education. The decision opens access to Missouri University and its branch engineering school at Rolla, with broader implications for state colleges in Missouri.
The United Nations Korean Commission advised Secretary General Trygve Lie that it has relocated from Seoul to Tokyo amid mounting tensions. The announcement came at Lake Success on June 2 as the panel shifts operations to a more secure base.
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