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El Reno, Oklahoma, Thursday, December 4, 1952
Vol. 61, No. 237
Three Chinese
Attacks Halted
By ROK Forces
Defending Troops
Roll Grenades Down
Slopes of Pinpoint
SEOUL, Korea, Dec. 4 —(U.R)—
Parka-clad South Korean infantry-
men rolled hand grenades down the
ice-crusted slopes of Pinpoint hill
today, smashing back three Chinese
attacks against the key height of
Sniper ridge.
The ROK troops fought through
a rain of potato-masher grenades
and exploding satchel charges to
recapture Pinpoint hill from the
Reds last night. It was the 18th
time they have retaken Pinpoint
hill since Oct. 14, when the battle
of the Kumhwa ridges began.
The Reds held the height less
than a day, winning possession of
it shortly after midnight yesterday.
Snow Slows Enemy
Temperatures fell to a new low In
the Sniper ridge area of the cen-
tral front, freezing the snow, to a
jagged dirty crust that slowed the
movements of attacking Red in-
fantrymen.
The Reds continued to pour in-
fantry waves from their tunnels
and caves of the Yoke on the
northern tip of Sniper. But the
ROK troops, again firmly en-
trenched on the crest, beat them
off.
UN fighter-bombers ranged the
white-covered battlefront again at
dawn today with the lifting of the
cloud cover over the Korean penin-
sula.
Allied warplanes smashed for the
second straight day at Red supply
areas north of Kumhwa and Chor-
won, anchor cities of the Reds'
“iron triangle.”
Strongpoint Leveled
“We leveled their strongpoint
from one end to the other,” said
First Lieutenant Kingsley G. Pur-
ton, jr., Birmingham, Ala., after
one series of low-level attacks. “In
fact, we almost blew the top off
the hill.”
Twelve American Sabrejets tan-
gled with 30 MIG-15 Jets in a
wild melee over Mig alley in north-
western Korea. Captain Robinson
Risner, Oklahoma City. Okla., shot
down one MIG.
Evaluation of gun camera film
disclosed that First Lieutenant
Charles E. Bennett of Quinton,
Ala., damaged a MIG yesterday.
B-29 Superforts attacked during
the night, dropping 150 tons of
explosives on Communist troop and
supply areas deep in North Korea.
Barracks Are Bombed
One Superfort flight bombed
troop barracks and supply stacks
at Taeyung, only 30 miles from
the Manchurian border. Other
bombers blasted a seven-acre mili-
tary headquarters area at Sunchon.
north of Pyongyang.
American Sabrejets bounced ma-
rauding MIG Tights yesterday and
shot down two of the Red Jets over
the Chongchon river.
Fighter-bombers flew 142 sorties
against Sniper ridge yesterday in
support of counterattacking ROKs
on Sniper ridge. It was the second
heaviest air. attack since the be-
ginning of the Kumhwa campaign
A detailed analysis of aerial
photograph at far east airforce
headquarters showed that B-29 Su-
perforts knocked out two Commun-
ist airfields in the Nov. 28 attack
on Sinuiju and Ulju, twin cities
flanking the Yalu river.
Third Largest Raid
Thirty-four Superforts rained
more than 250 tons into the tar-
gets, all within sight of the Man-
churian MIG base at Antung. It
was the third largest B-29 effort of
the war.
Action elsewhere along the 155-
mlle battlefront was light. Raiders
killed or wounded 14 Reds south
of Panmunjom on the western
front in the heaviest action.
Probe Is Asked In
Illegal Wheat Deal
WASHINGTON. Dec. 4 —(/Ft—
The agriculture department has
turned over to the Justice depart
ment a case involving the unauth
orized sale of some two million dol
lars worth of Canadian when
abroad under the U. S. export sub
sidy program—limited by law to
U. S. wheat.
The question for the justice de-
partment is whether the Canadian
wheat was exported under subsidies
inadvertently or in a deliberate
effort to collect hundreds of thous-
ands of dollnrn of subsidies illeg-
ally; and, if deliberately, whether
agriculture department employes
were Involved in a conspiracy.
Royse Returns From
State Sheriffs’ School
Sheriff Tiny Royse was back on
the Job today after attending a
three-day sherlff'a school at the
atate crime bureau in Oklahoma
City.
The school Included talks on law
enforcement, and activities of other
law enforcement bodies, Including
the FBI, state crime bureau and
state highway patrol.
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OOOH, LOOKY! CHRISTMAS TREES!—It’s that time of year a;ain, when good little girls are better
and little boys try their best. With Christmas less than three weeks away, downtown El Reno is becoming
more and more a fairyland for lots like little Patricia Ann Morerield, who, woman-like, can't make up
her mind as to which pretty Christmas tree she likes best. Pats parents are Mr. and Mrs. Marion
Morefield, 1105 West Warren. She will be three years old in April and she wiU gladly tell you about her
10-month-old sister Pamela Sue who had to stay at home.
Land Is Donated
For U. S. 81 Job
Effort Made to Get
More Right-of-Way
A mile and a half of right-of-
way, along the route of a proposed
improvement project on U. S. 81,
north of El Reno, has been donated
to the project through the chamber
of commerce.
The disclosure was made Wed-
nesday night by B. T. Conway,
chairman of the chamber's traffic
and transportation committee, at a
meeting with owners of property
along the route, in an effort to
obtain the remainder of the right-
of-way needed.
While the state highway depart-
ment is scheduled to open bids
Dec. 16 on the rebuilding of 1.8
miles of highway, located beyond
the North Canadian river bridge,
it has long been the department's
policy not to purchase right-of-way
for such projects, but only to ac-
cept donations.
No Fonda Available
Conway said a mile on the east
side of the highway has been don-
ated by Phil Cornell. Oklahoma
City, owner of an alfalfa farm
along the highway, and the half
mile strip was donated by the
Concho school.
Conway explained that the
chamber of commerce has no funds
available for purchase of parallel
right-of-wTay, and that unless all
needed land Is donated by Interest-
ed persons, money could be raised
only through subscription by city
merchants.
Meanwhile C. A. Stoldt, state
highway director, termed the strip
the roughest spot on all of U. S.
81 in this state.”
New Strip Wider
The repair job. estimated to cost
$259,788, would replace present
paving, measuring 18 feet in width.
The proposed new strip would
have a 24-foot concrete width when
completed, and In addition would
be 20 Inches higher than It Is now.
Under highway department plans
the old paving will be smashed
Into small chunks and used In the
sub-grade, and the new paving will
be laid eight-inches thick.
Eight foot shoulders will be built
of gravel eight Inches In thickness
and given a single bituminous pav-
ing.
Weather
State Forecast
Mostly fair tonight and Friday.
A little colder in the east and south
tonight. Little change in tempera-
ture Friday. Low temperatures to-
night from the 20s in the northwest
to 35 in the southeast. Highs Friday
from the 40s in the northeast to
53 to 60 in the southwest.
Indians May
Make Change
ToAASports
El Reno’s Indians, currently
playing in class ’A’ football and
basketball, may go into double-A
competition next year, pending
approval of the state highschool
athletic association.
Coaches and school officials of
all member schools in the 2-A
league voted for the classification
change at a meeting Wednesday in
Chickasha.
Conference members are El Re-
no. Chickasha. Duncan, Lawton
and Putnam City.
Jenks Simmons, highschool ath-
letic director, said ruling on the
change will be made early In Jan-
uary.
In addition to the move for
change in conference classifica-
tion. Putnam City's representatives
asked that their school be allowed
to withdraw from the conference.
The Pirates, long the underdog
in district 2-A. apparently will
seek a conference with more equal
competition.
If Putnam City is allowed the
change, conference representa-
tives voted to Invite Ardmore into
the loop. Simmons said.
Other business settled was com-
pletion of date schedules for spring
activities, including baseball, golf
and track.
Dutch Meyer Quits
As Coach at TCU
FT. WORTH. Tex.. Dec. 4——
L. R. "Dutch" Meyer quit today as
head football coach at Texas
Christian university after 19 years
in the Job. He will be succeeded
by his chief assistant, Abe Martin.
The little man who gained nation-
al fame with his razzle dazzle foot-
ball teams will remain as athletic
director.
Meyer's resignation was not en-
tirely unexpected. For several years
he had been thinking of retiring
as coach.
Five EHS Bandsmen
Attend State Clinic
Five members of the El Reno
highschool band left today for Still-
water where they will participate in
the 21st annual state band clinic.
They were Jerald Bremseth, Eddie
Williams, Ewing Inlow, Johnny Oz-
mun and Denny Byers. They were
accompanied by Melbern Nixon,
highschool band director.
Oroups from state highschool
bands Will rehearse together Thurs-
day and Friday, then will play In a
mass concert Friday night with the
Oklahoma A. and M. college sym-
phony band and a symphony quintet
from Oklahoma City.
Nixon has been selected to lead
one of the march numbers in the
mass concert.
Employes of UN
Given Warning
Lie Says Questions
Must Be Answered
UNITED NATIONS. N. Y„ Dec. 4
;—(U.R)—Secretary General Trygve
Lie warned a group of close-
moutheci Americans employed by
the united nations they must de-
cide today whether they want to
answer senate committee questions
on Communism or lose their Jobs.
Informed sources said Lie handed
down the talk-or-be-fircd ultima-
tum in letters sent to employes who
had refused to answer certain
questions asked by the McCarran
internal security sub-committee.
Lie said he wanted the unwilling
witnesses to notify him by letter
today they had informed the Mc-
Carran group they would answer
questions they previously had
ducked.
Lie Heeds Advice
The informants said Lie was
heeding the advice given last Sun-
day by a team of three eminent
jurists who recommended the firing
of any employe belonging to the
U. S. Communist party or refusing
to talk about alleged subversive
activities in this country.
Lie turned to the jurists for their
opinions last month after he had
fired one reluctant witness, sus-
pended another and given “special
leave" to almost a dozen more.
The ultimatum was revealed only
a few hours after the international
monetary fund, an agency of the
UN. announced in Washington it
had fired its $20.000-a-year secre-
tary, Frank Coe. for refusing to
tell senate investigators whether he
had belonged to a warxiinc spy ring.
Grand Jury Enters
A grand Jury in New York also
issued a presentment Tuesday
charging there is a "concentration
of disloyal Americans'' in high UN
positions.
The grand Jury also charged that
the Justice department had inter-
fered with its investigation. Shortly
afterward, Chairman Frank L.
Chelf (Democrat, Kentucky) said
his house sub-committee investigat-
ing the Justice department had
begun an inquiry immediately into
the grand Jury's charges.
Special Meeting Set
By City Councilmen
A special meeting of the city coun-
cil, to consider awards on bids open-
ed at the council's regular monthly
meeting Inst Monday, will be held
at 7:30 p.m. Monday in the city hail
council chnmbers.
City Manager C. A. Bentley said
It Is unlikely that councilmen will
select a new member to succeed Lu-
cius Babcock, Jr., who resigned this
week.
Head of Wage Board
Resigns in Protest Of
Increase in Mine Pay
New Industry
For El Reno?
ItTakesTime
SPONSORS of El Reno's Indus-
trial Foundation need not be
disturbed that the city has not
attracted new industry “over-
night,” the foundation’s board of
directors was told Wednesday
night at a called meeting in the
city council room.
Don Anderson, manager of in-
dustrial development for Oklaho-
ma Gas and Electric company and
an active worker with the Oklaho-
ma Development Council, told the
group that additional industrial
development here must necessari-
ly be a long-range program.
"Major industry has too much
invested in established sites to re-
locate without thorough consider-
ation and Investigation of pros-
pective new locations,” he pointed
out.
He urged the foundation board
to continue its search for pros-
pects. To encourage further action,
he furnished the board with a list
of several hundred prospects which
had been compiled from a
recent northeastern tour by the
Oklahoma Development Council.
A NDERSON'S talk followed re-
ports to the board by Warren
C. DeMoss, president, and Jim
Bass, secretary, on activities of
the $100,000 foundation which was
incorporated in May.
The board also heard a report
by L. C. Gadberry, real estate
Chairman, on various sites for fac-
tories and warehouses now avail-
able in El Reno.
Anderson told the board not to
overlook the possibility of new in-
dustry developed locally. He
named several thriving industries
which have originated in the
southwest, saying that the large
industrial cities of the northeast
are now receiving competition
from the south and southwest.
ADDITIONAL industry in El
Reno should be suited to the
city’s employe level, he said, and
pointed out that a recent survey
by the El Reno foundation reveal-
ed that common un-skllled labor
was not plentiful here, although
there appeared to be a better sup-
ply of skilled and semi-skilled
workers, especially women.
The fact that El Reno has a
shortage of unemployed speaks
well for existing business, Ander-
son added. He gathered from the
survey that El Reno's surplus of
potential employes is of a higher
type and capable of earning a
better wage than some lower-pay-
ing Industry requires.
To continue study of the list of
prospects in the hands of the
foundation. DeMoss appointed a
study committee, consisting of Ed
Freeman, chairman. Morris Stock
and Earle E. Garrison.
Additional business of the meet-
ing was a report by Dow Damron,
chamber of commerce manager,
on the fall conference of the Okla-
homa Development Council, re-
cently held at Stillwater.
Christmas Display
Set Monday Night
El Reno's whiteway lamps will
be turned off for a short time Mon-
day night, in order to focus atten-
tion on the city's new Christmas
decorations which will be turned
on for the first time that night.
The announcement was made to
day by Mervil J. Meyer, chairman
of the chamber of commerce retail
trade committee.
Lighting of the Christmas deco-
rations will officially launch the
holiday season here, and city mer
chants are scheduled to keep their
stores open for business until
8 p. m.
Meyer said festivities will Include
performances by the El Reno high-
school band, and activities by
highschool pep clubs.
Man Pleads Guilty To
Drunk Driving Charge
Frank Edward Denney, charged In
county court with drunken driving,
entered a plea of guilty before Judge
Roy M. Faublon Wednesday.
He was sentenced to five days In
the county Jail, and ordered to pay
costs of the action, the Jail sentence
to begin on Doc. 2,
Truman Says He Hiked Wage
To 'Make Job Easier' for Ike
WASHINGTON, Dec. 4 —(AP)— President Truman’s
wage board chairman quit his job today in protest over
the president’s approval of an extra wage boost for coal
miners above and beyond the recommendations of all top
defense agency officials.
Archibald Cox, chairman of the wage stabilization board,
waited only overnight to resign. He made no formal state-
ment, but told a reporter the White House might have some-
thing to say this afternoon. The Truman action, while
counter to recommendations of his stabilization lieutenants,
did assure a year of peace in the coal mines.
The president yesterday approved the full $1.90 daily
wage increase for John L. Lewis’ 375,000 soft coal miners
because, he said, he does not want President-elect Eisen-
hower to have a coal strike crisis on his hands when he
takes office.
The move averted an almost certain strike, but it opened
the door to a boost in coal prices to consumers and touched
off unrest among public members of the WSB.
One W’SB member also said Truman's decision would
have a “terrific and disappointing effect’’ on unions which
in the past have accepted
WSB reductions and now
have wage cases pending be-
fore the board.
Coal miners themselves—whose
basic daily wage is boosted to $18.25
—were reportedly jubilant. One top
United Mine Worker official at
Pittsburgh said the move “undoubt-
edly averted a strike." John Busa-
rello, president of UMW district
No. 5, said his men had been
getting “itchy” over delays.
WSB Lowered Hike
Lewis had negotiated the $1.90
increase with industry, but the
WSB had cut this to $1.50 on the
grounds that any more would
"irreparably damage" the stabiliza-
tion program.
Lewis and Harry M. Moses, presi-
dent of the Bituminous Coal Oper-
ators association, appealed the WSB
decision to Economic Stabilizer
Roger Putnam.
But Putnam refused to overrule
his board. And Defense Mobllizer
Henry H. Fowler also refused to
change the WSB decision. That left
it up to the president—and his
circle of advisers.
Crisis Seen Averted
Truman's decision to grant the
full $1.90, announced in the form
of a letter to Putnam, said the
“probable consequences” of a failure
to do so would be a disastrous coal
strike which would create a "crisis"
for Eisenhower.
Putnam, announcing the presi-
dent's decision to newsmen, said:
“This is not the decision I would
have made. It is not the decision
I would have recommended.”
The decision indicates that a
similar contract signed by Lewis
and the hard coal industry, now
pending before the WSB, will also
be approved. This would lead to a
price increase of between 80 cents
and $1 per ton on hard coal, the
type used by home owners for heat-
ing.
OG and E First Firm
To Make Tax Payment
The Oklahoma Gas and Electric
company became the first firm In
Canadian county to make a pay-
ments on its corporation taxes, this
week when it paid the first half
of the amount due.
Miss Helen March, county trea-
surer, said the first half of the
company's taxes, due the last of this
month, amounted to $44,959.77. First
half of all taxes become delinquent
Jan. 1, and the second half on
April 1.
E. D. Freeman, OG and E district
manager, said that the taxes in-
cluded those on the Mustang power
plant, assessed at $6 million.
Miss Mnrch said that a total of
$273,141.72 in personal, ad valorem,
intangible and corporation taxes
have been collected to date.
Eight Men Ordered
To Report for Draft
Eight Canadian county draft reg-
istrants have been ordered to report
for induction into the armed serv-
ices Dec. 12.
The group included four El Reno
men, Alvin Lewis Morse, Dean La-
Mar Albers, Jesse David Nance and
Paul Edward Kastner. and one
former El Reno resident, William
M. Anderson, Jr., Moline, 111.
The others were Curtis Reeder
Trent, Calumet; Gregory Henry
Rother, okarche, and Simon Leroy
Cnssel, Yukon.
Adlai, Truman
Agree Not To
War for Profit
WASHINGTON, Dec. 4—WP>—
Adlai Stevenson said today he
and President Truman are in
complete agreement not to wage
war on Dwight Eisenhower's pro-
gram simply for party advantage.
And, he told reporters at a
White House news conference,
the Democratic party’s two major
problems are to wipe out a deficit
of more than half a million dol-
lars and to "serve the public
interest."
Stevenson spoke to newsmen
after conferring with President
Truman at the White House.
He made no major pronounce-
ments at the news conference,
but chatted amiably with re-
porters who plied him with ques-
tions about his political future
and that of the Democratic party.
The Illinois governor did say
these things:
1. He has no immediate plans
for the future other than to take
a long rest and possibly to travel
abroad.
2. He knows of no plans for a
change in the top leadership of
the Democratic national commit-
tee.
3. It is up to the Democratic
leadership in congres to serve as
"the instrument of being con-
structive and a wholesome in-
fluence in our public life.”
Donnelly Resigns
Post in Germany
WASHINGTON, Dec. 4—(**>—
Walter J. Donnelly, a career diplo-
mat for nearly 30 years has resigned
as U. S. high commissioner to
Germany, administration sources
disclosed today.
These sources, who asked not to
be quoted by name, said Donnelly
Informed President Truman that he
wishes to enter private business.
The nature of that business was
not known.
The 56-year-old diplomat has
been the top ranking American
official in West Germany since
July 18, when he was named to
succeed John J. McCloy.
His job has been much the same
as that of ambassador, although he
does not hold that title because the
Germany peace contract has not
yet gone Into force. Donnelly holds
the rank of personal ambassador.
When the peace contract goes
in effect, the high commissioner
post will be ended.
Republicans Say
Ike Slipped By
Shunning Taft
Durkin Appointment
Still ‘Incredible’ In
Foremost GOP Circles
WASHINGTON, Dec. 4 —(U.R)—
Key Republicans agreed today that
Eisenhower headquarters made an
'incredible” blunder in not tipping
Sen. Robert A. Taft on the pending
appointment of Martin P. Durkin
as secretary of labor.
They denied, however, that an
open split had occurred between
president-elect Eisenhower and the
Ohio senator.
The word "incredible" used by
Taft in blasting Eisenhower's ap-
pointment of Durkin, was bandied
about in GOP circles, but in a dif-
ferent context. There was general
agreement that the Eisenhower
camp should have given Taft notice
that he was being handed a bitter
pill to swallow.
Brownell on Spot
One result of the Taft blow-up,
according to several Republicans
who did not want to be quoted by
name, was to make it more probable
that Sen. Styles Bridges of New
Hampshire will grab the senate Re-
publican floor leadership to head
off a battle for the post between
Taft and pro-Eisenhower Republi-
cans.
There was a good deal of finger-
wagging. started by Taft himself,
in the direction of Herbert Brown-
ell, jr.. Eisenhower's attorney gener-
al-designate and a close adviser on
cabinet appointments.
Taft Slight Seen
Even staunch Eisenhower men said
the usually suave Brownell should
have passed advance word to Taft
that an AFL official, who was a
Democrat to boot, was being named
secretary of labor.
Taft's friends said it was Brown-
ell who got Taft's recommendations
of two other men for the labor post,
and. actually got Taft to do spade
work on investigating the fitness of
some of those suggested for cabinet
posts.
No War Foreseen
Both sides were in agreement that
Taft's blast does not mean open
political war.
The Elsenhower men said it re-
moved for good any suggestion that
the incoming president is "Taft's
man."
Taft men said that they still be-
lieve that Eisenhower is in dead
earnest about getting along with
Taft. They said Taft means it, too,
and they are betting that hereafter
there will be better liaison work be-
tween tne two.
Bulletin
ATLANTIC CITY. N. J., Dec.
4—(fi—The CIO today elected
red-haired, 45-year-old Walter
Reuther as its new president,
succeeding Philip Murray who
died in San Francisco on Not. 9.
Harper Resigns Post
At County Courthouse
Vincent Harper, appointed assist-
ant county attorney, effective last
Monday, turned In his resignation
late Wednesday, after holding the
position only three days.
In a written resignation he ex-
plained that the "work involved Is
more demanding of my time than
I had originally anticipated.”
He asked that County Attorney
James V. Phelps act on the resig-
nation "forthwith and with dis-
patch."
Phelps said the resignation had
been accepted, and that he had no
immediate plans to name a suc-
cessor.
CIO Agrees To
Merger Talks
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. Dec. 4—
(iP)—The CIO convention today
adopted a resolution calling for
renewed merger negotiations with
the AFL, but the CIO's leaders
apparently had their fingers crossed
about them being successful.
"We'll welcome a sound unity
with the American Federation of
Labor," CIO executive vice president
Allan S. Haywood told the conven-
tion. "But there will be no Munich
pacts. We've built a home for labor,
too, as well as the AFL.
"We want unity, but we’re not
going crawling to the AFL, under-
stand that."
Previous efforts to merge the two
big unions groups have failed be-
cause of Inability to agree on terms.
Renewed unity talks recently were
suggested by George Meany upon
his being elected AFL president.
TO RETURN ON WEEK-END
County Agent Riley Tarver,
attending the International Live-
stock Exposition in Chicago, Is
expected to return to El Reno this
week-end.
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