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tas, Wednesday, August X, 1951NUMBER 110LadytMayorJElectedTo Govern City FridayBy Winston BodeKerrville will have a lady Mayor on Friday. She is tall, blonde Belinda Dowd, age 12, who appeared at Tivy gymnasium this morning in blue jeans and white T-shirt and was voted a one-daytenure in the city's highest office amid cheers and catcalls that marked one of Kerrville’s most turbulent elections.Voters were boys and girls inthe Summer Recreation Froj The Recreation Program, in con-fSTALEMATE OVER BUFFER ZONEfMAY BRING END TO TALKS ASr iBOTH SIDES HOLD TO DEMANDSPOSSIBLE KOREAN COMPROMISE LINEDespite the present deadlock an eventual compromise on a Korean demarcation line is considered likely by military observers. Some U. S. military men speculate that a good line could be laid out from the west coast along the Imjin river, which is about ten miles south of the 38th parallel and winds up to a mile or two south of the parallel across country north of Uijongbu; north-northeastward to the western end of the Hwa-chon reservoir; along the reservoir eastward over the heights to Yanggu and thence eastward to the cast coast. lt;AP Wirephoto Map.)By ROBERT B. TUCKMANU. N„ ADVANCE HEADQUARTERS, Korea, Aug. 1—lt;/P—United Nations and Communist truce teams refused again today to budge frdm their stands on where to establish a buffer zone across Korea.Vipe Adm. C. Turner Joy, Chief U. N. Delegate, talked for an hour and 13 minutes telling the Reds what was wrong with their demand. It was the longest speech made in the 16 Kaesong cease-fire talks.oThe Communists want a buffer zone back along the 38th Parallel, the old political boundary line between North and South Korea. That js inferior terrain for military defenses.Since this is a military armistice,’' Joy told the five Red Generals, “we are interested only in military realities/’again Thursday. That will be their 17th session and the 7th at which creation of a buffer zone was the paramount issue. The meeting was set to start at 11 a.m. (7 p.m. Wednesday, CST).A possibility the Red negotiators might then propose a recess of several days was suggested by Communist propagandists outside the meeting hall. Such recesseshave broken two previous deadlocks.FLIGHT T TOMEET THURSDAYjunction with Radio Station KEVT, has arranged for its members to take over city offices and the radio station this Friday, August 3, Mayor Bullard, other city officials, and KEVT manager Dean Turner have promised full co-operation in the citizenship project.PLATFORM DID TRICK The cool-eyed Miss Dowd, daughter of Mrs. Queen Dowd, 433 Water St., conducted a masterly campaign today on a platform recommending -that high school open after Christmas, to run through February 28, Loud shouts and applause greeted her election.A large flock of eager, spring-legged boys and gins gathered in the early morning shade of Tivy gymnasium at 9:00 a.m. for the elections today. All had been present this summer at the Summer Recreation Program sessions in sports and crafts directed by Foster Miller, Tivy coach. This year’s program will conclude with Friday's activities.GIRLS HAVE SAY Voting was done by a show of hands. A large and vigorous contingent of girls had its say, not only in putting m two female officials, but in placing its favorites among the male candidates.Kerrville will also have a woman as police chief on Friday. She is Cathy Ramsay, a brunette who states she will recommend the maximum punishment for offenders violating restrictions during the water shortage.The water shortage was a chief concern among several of the youthful officials. Spencer Brown, elected city manager for the day, said he would recommend that home owners be given a break and allowed to water three days a week instead of the present two.“FIRE CHIEF” WARNSTaking his cue from the fouchy fire situation that has resulted from dry vegetation and a low water supply, burr-headed, freckle-faced Wilbur McDaniel adjusted his “nigger-shooter” on his neck and rehearsed this announcement for Friday, when he will become Fire Chief: “Do not smoke in bed, or else 111 have to get you a little wet!”Four city eouncilmcn were chosen to take temporary office day after tomorrow. They were Joe Archer, Tommy Daniels, Namaan Butler and Francelle Robinson.youthful flavor in Kerrville, for not only will youngsters be calling the shots from City Hall, but they will also be very much in evidence over Station KEVT.- Boys and girls are then scheduled to take over the regular programs of newscasters, sports announcers, man-on-the-street interviewers, and disc jockeys.Friday’s KEVT schedule, then, will contain the following changes:7:00 a.m. Local News, Don Bernhart; 7;05 a.m. Earle Brew-ton's Stock Market Report, Byron Riley (to be done from Brew-ton's home); 7:15 a.m. The Johnny Hill Show, Jerry Wright; 7:30 a.m. World News, Wayne Inman; 7:45 a.m. Devotional Hour, Eddie Farrell; 10:00 a.m. Between Us Two (Poetry Program),1C€The regular meeting of Flight “B” 9858th VART Squadron,Kerrville Air Force Reserve Unit, will be held August 2 at the home of Darrell Lochte on the old Junction Road. All reservists in the organization are invited toAH the youthful officials will gather downtown at 10:30 a.m. Friday morning and proceed to the City Hall, where they will be greeted by Mayor Bullard and other bona fide city authorities. Their respective posts of duty will then be described to the boys and girls, and they will be asked to “sit in” for the day, with officials offering advice, or as one wag has put it, taking tips, as the occasion arises.YOUNGSTERS ON AIR Friday will definitely have aEllen May Sproutt and Frances Taylor; 10:30 a.m. Man-On-the-Street Program, Norma Taylor. Interviewer; 11:00 a.m. Tempos of Today (Disc Jockey Show), Meta Strauss and Helen Cockrell; 12:15 p.m. World News, Brad Rhoden; 12:30 p.m. Big League Ball Games, Jack Bushong, Jimmie New .and Bill Bartholomew, Sportseasters; 3:30 p.m. Corral Call (Hill-Billy Disc Jockey Show), Colleen Thomas and Ruth Ann Shelbum; 5:45 Sports Cast Round-Up — featuring interview with Tivy Coach Foster Miller, who will sketch prospects forthis fall’s Tivy Antlers; announcer, Gerald Robinson; 7:08 p.m. World News, Henry Nie-haus.Manager Turner promises something absolutely new in radio entertainment on Friday (though he doesn’t know exactly what .it will be yet), and urges everyone to tune in to KEVT then.Meanwhile, better toe the line on watering your lawn—these kids miss nothing.!Free Movies.LuncheonSet To Honor SummeiPlayground Youngsl'sMembers of the Summer Recreation Program will be admitted to u special free showing at the Arcadia Theatre Friday morning, manager Norman G. Hines said today.Friday, concluding day of the Summer Recreation Program, has been set aside as a time to honoi youngsters who attended sessions at Tivy High School campus.Manager Hines said the free movie on Friday will be a West era film accompanied by an arraj of cartoon shorts.He said the showing will h( between 10:30 a.m. and 11:00 a.m. and will follow a “man-on-the-street” radio broadcast to be con ducted from downtown Kerrville Friday morning by a Recreatior (Continued on page 7)
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