The Graham Leader (Graham, Tex.), Vol. 74, No. 30, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 2, 1950 Page: 3 of 18
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Form* USAFI
General Education
Development Teat
With tlM Eighth U. 8. Army in
Tokyo, Japan.—Corporal Edward
L. Menders, 20, aon of Mr. and Mrs.
E. W. Meadera, 018 Kentucky,
Graham, Texas, haa successfully
passed the, USA FI general educa-
tion development test at the high
school level
Assigned to duty with Heavy
Mortar Company, Eighth Cavalry
Regiment, First Cavalry Division,
Corporal Maulers took the above
mentioned tests at the army edu-
cation center in Tokyo. The *uc-
Pythion Siltori
Install Officers
Pythian Sisters met Monday
night, 7:80 o’clock in regular farm
with the following officers in iheir
chairs: ME.C. Laura Smith, Past
Chief, Billie Sarsfield, Protein,
Treasurer, Bertha Caldwell; ‘Man-
ager, Bertie Plemmons; Pianist,
Bernice Brown; Protem Excellent,
Jr„ Adele Edwards; Excellent Sr.,
Barbara Caldwell; Secretary, Ag-
nes Sarafield; Protector, Pearl
Pray; Guard, Zonita Pemberton;
press correspondent, Sudie Mayes.
After the business meeting the
following officers were installed
Continued Cold*
Washington News Letter
By Congressman Ed Gossett
• THI GRAHAM L1AP1R, THURSDAY, MARCH
Dongor Signals For
Other Infections
There la hardly anyone who
hasn’t caught cold at one time or
another and besides making you
feel miserable they steal your
time and money, declares Dr. Geo.
W. Cox, State Health Officer.
They fool you loo, because the
early signs are often the
out of every f^ur who had this di-
sease died. Today thanks to the
‘'muscle drugs'
many are saved.
It is most common in late winter
and early spring.
The most frequent victim of
broncho-pneumonia are the aged,
the invalid and the baby.
water. If the cold is severe,, con-
sult your physician.
Another enemy is pneumonia, an
acute infection of the lungs. Virus
pneumonia is the most rommon of
all pneumonia today. It may oc-
tUr at.,.“ny *nd tiaualiy ap-
pears in local outbreaks instead of
far reaching epidemics. In any
case of pneumonia, good medical
care and nursing play a great role
in recovery.
—Lobarm»eninnni« in Ky ,t
bacteria, not a virus, and ia very
I WASHINGTON, D. C„ Feb. 24. -
I —As predicted in last week’s n
I newsletter, the House this week
I passed the eo-called Fair Employ- Ai
I amt Practices Commission Bill, D
| (FEPC). The Washington Star
| .headline read: “House Passes
Toothless FEPC Bill.” While the „ F
I bill passed by tlw House was a For
milk toast affair,^t is exceeding-, "ou
V dangereu*. Onft a Fair Em-
I ployment Practices Commission is .
created, it will ia coma way or an- lt*n|
other acquire teeth. The agency !} f
would be staffed by negroes and f“tj
radical members of minority fj* ,
troupe. They would write adminis- VT
tretive rulings and administrative *?r *
orders, and would acquire in one £°U
way or another more and more
power. The agitation for this legis-
Istion has from the beginning been ; on
fomented by agitators and trouble ter*’
makers. The philosophy back of
this legislation is totally absurd, m
It assumes secondly, that any seg-
Although many farmers dislike
crows because they destroy corn,
these birds also help the farmer
by eating many insect pests. Scien-
tists have estimated that crows
will eat nineteen bushels of in-
sects In one season on the average
same as
- -----------— ....losses.
Long continued colds may pave
the way for an attack of pneu-
monia, tuberculoaia, or a chronic
infection of the nose, throat, ears
or ainuaoa. Do your best to keep
in the chair*: Mgr., Berime Plem-
mona; Protector, Pearl Gary, and
Guard, Zonita Pemberton. After
the initiation the meeting ’cloaed
in regular form.
eoaaful completion of theea testa
credit* him with an army high
STONE’S GNOCERY & MARKET
IS THE ONLY INDEPENDENT
; Grocery and Market -
IN GRAHAM ;
Giving Green Stomps
regation ia diacrimination.
While tame good people, of
Crsoaulaioo ratines promptly because
it goes right to the seat of the trouble
*> b*lp loosen and expel getm laden
Phlegm aad aid oaturs to sooth* sad
hml raw, tender, inflamed bronchial
mucous membranes. Tell your druggist
to fell you a bool* of CwomnHon
with th* understanding yon must like
th* wny it quickly afiapa the cough
or you art to hay* your aaonay hack
eourae, flavor FEPC, it la curious
to not* that avery communist in
America enthusiastically aupporte
Rev. and Mrs. V. A. Duncan
wars Stamford visitors Monday.
They also visited relative* in Has-
kell
COMPARE OUR PRICES,!
hire and fire, what he shall pay,
how aad under what conditions
promotions are to be made, then
onr fine enterprise system will be
as dead aa the dodo. What we have
left might ha called democracy but
It will not ba distinguishable from
communism.
In this connection, w« might
note Hint the Solicitor General of
the United Stages, Ia., the attor-
ney who repmtents1 the Depert-
flnant of Justice in matters before
the-8u»rewe Court and the Con-
gress, Mr. Philip B. Perlman, ia a
Irtrong advocate of FEPC. Mr.
Perlman Is the gentleman primar-
tion in public housing projects,
Supreme Court asking the Court
to hold "separate but equal’’ facil-
itia* in Interstate Commerce to be
•VMwful His most recent brief is
I TV *"«ett ease, you will recall,
I chases from Texas. It’s the case
■ where n Negro by the name of
I Sweett tried to enter the Univer-
I City of Texas. Although this suit
|ts between Teams, and no official
ySsMmeelf Ists'fli'' case and
files a brief in which he asks the
Gantt to outlaw all segregation in
Taxaa schools. Thaos rad a, th* pro-
fseeional da guodera, and many
miagnidsd idaallata contend that
pven though Negro schools are
bettor and eunorior to white
school*, they still constitute dis-
crimination and should bo outlaw-
ed. They seek to monopolise, if
pot to bastardise Americans. They
do not recognise racial pride and
parity as n virtue, but rather con-
demn it ns n vice. In my opinion,
Mr. Perlman ie n dangerous wolf
in sheep’s clothing. If he were ab-
solutely honest he would doubtless
praise the Russian system of gov-
ernment. In one of hie briefs he
eitee with apparent approval Rus-
sian writings and publications
which condemn segregation.
POWERFUL NEW CNGINES!
GREAT FOR NEW CARS!
bettor teaching than do the whites.
Ho explains this by saying that
the highly alcfflad and highly edu-
cated Negroes go into the , teach-
ing pnifaoaloa, whereas it is dlffl-
to got a foil staff of white toech-
Ore who are equally well trained.
Thorn to soon to get under con-
struction, at Falcon, Texas, s gi-
gantic dam across th* Rio Grande
river. This dam will be approxi-
mately 80 miles below Laredo and
180 miles aboeo Brownville. It is
agriomant between our country
aad Mexico. It will cost between
40 end 80 million dollars. Mexico
will pay 4t% of the cost and will
got Ot% of the water. It will have
mndL to do .with flood control and
with a stable wntqr supply for a
anhntointlal portion of the Rio
Grande Valley. My colleague. Con-
gressman Lloyd Bontaon, of Mc-
Allen, tolls mo h* has just intro-
Ant a hill for the relocation of
six small towns that will have to
ha moved to make way for the new
fadm These six small town* win
ho satnUnoi into one town under
Vo MH which will provide funds
Cet GUM’s greatest gasoline-terrific power In every drop!
for their removal. One of these
towns is Zapata, the county seat of
Zapata eoUnty. The present court
Quinine
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