Murray State's Digital Commons The Ledger & Times Newspapers 5-12-1953 The Ledger and Times, May 12, 1953 The Ledger and Times Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.murraystate.edu/tlt Recommended Citation The Ledger and Times, "The Ledger and Times, May 12, 1953" (1953). The Ledger & Times. 1295. https://digitalcommons.murraystate.edu/tlt/1295 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Newspapers at Murray State's Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Ledger & Times by an authorized administrator of Murray State's Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. MODTDAY, MAY 11, 1053 Ted Ford Sykes Medea /SUM MI Regal Kenteolry CogsansemIty Rgarspaper roc 1947 Andrea Sykes Mrs. Oscar Tabers We Are Mrs. John L. Williams Weather Mrs. Galen Miller Thurman, Sr. aer, Jpe Thomas Thurman Helping To L KENTUCKY: Stensers and Mrs. Ralph Tidwell thunderstorms.. this afternoon Sammy .16e Tidwell Build Murray and tonight. Low tonight' 58 Mrs. Bessie Thomas to 64. Wednesday mostly Mr. Bob Thomas Each Day cloudy, turning cooler west Mrs. Bryan Tolley portions by afternoon arid Harold Tolley east pertion at night. Charles Tolley Mrs. O. G. Thomas Haod- Mrs. R. H. United Press YOUR PROGRESSIVE EIOME NEWSPAPER Mrs. John Trotter IN ITS 74th YEAR Murray, Ky., Tuesday Afternoon, May 12, 1953 MURRAY POPULATION - - 8,000 PS Jennifer Trotter Vol. XXIV; No. 113 Mrs. E. A. Tucker Mr. Bruce Tucker Mrs. Richard Tuck Elizabeth Tuck Donna Lou Tuck iS Mrs. Ets - T. Ilia , Mr. Richard Tuck Mrs. Emma Valentine Mr. Van D. Valentine VICIOUS TORNADO Valentine LEAVES Mrs. Van D. OVER 50 DEAD Emma Ruth Valentine Mrs. C. L. Vaughn Farmers Dc Theodore L. Vaughn Surpassed Want Subsin ATOMIC CANNON IN NEVADA TO FIRE FIRST A-SHELL Mrs. Rosa Vaughn Waco, Texas,Flattened By Mr. C. L. Vaughn As Way Of LO.° >ey Mrs. N. E. Vincent 1947 Florida Mrs. John C. Winter NEW YORK May 12 taltes. Wind, Many Are Injured Mrs. J. N. Waggoner retary of Agriculture a. 'Pe Prentice Lassiter. • Mrs. Benson said Monday night ttsee• Waldrop Storm, Airman MeCARE Mrs. Burie heves American farmers do By FRED A. thing and burying some injured Waldrop United Sue • want "to depend on Subsidies a Press Staff Correspondent :•live, they pulled out one brick Solon P. Darnell WACO. Tex. May 12 4 UP Mrs. Robert Latimer, an Air Force way of life. at a timetand scooped out mortar Waldrop Tornado alerts were issued Mrs. H. T. first lieutenant stationed at Con- However, he said that because today an dfragments of bricks with Griffin for the second time in a wide sec- shovels. Mrs. Ed nally Air Force Base in Waco, farm prices and costs of operating Waldrop' , tion of Texas as rescue workers Parker Mrs Mattie Tex., was caught in both a 1947 farms rise and fall at unequal rates They also propped up beams Waldrop astor5n2adollod‘s Mr. H. T. hurricane in Florida and Monday's a program of price support and t leby with jacks to keep them from fall- Wallis • left which Mrs (Singles tornado in Waco. In this dispatch storage is necessary for the econo- ing lower. A bulldozer and a power Wallis hit.wrecoveredr ec kaWagceo and San Angelo late Carolyn written for United Press he tells mic health of farmers.• shovel waited in the street, but T.- Wallis Monday. Mrs is ea his experiences_ .derina _OW The cabinet members spoke at, officials were afraid to use them. Gingles Wallis Forty-four bodies were recovered Mr, :tornado, which he said -far sur- the -21ih anniverify direa er aarlharts At San Angelo the Red Cross Wallis Mr. Pat passed" the hurricane. National Conference of Christians 190 horn een Mr, _Laverne Wallis Tex.. 190 files to the west At least By LT. ROBERT LATIMER and Jews. Clarence Francis, chair- 164 damaged. The twister there Laverne Wallis 250 injured were counted here Mrs As Told To United Press man of the board of eGneral Foods also damaged Lake View -where 500 Wallis and 150 at San Angelo, for a total lish Kay WACO. Tex. May 12 UP/- Corp.. received the conference's to 600 children were at classes Wallis of 400. Mrs Pat There was no indication of the Gold Medal for. "distinguished when the storm hit. Jane Wallis Tornado warnings were - issued s Polly Mary presence of a tornado when my service in the field of human re- Leo Sides, radio dispatcher for Wallis . Monday a few hours before the Jack wife and I sat clown to dinner in tenons." the State department of public Kim Wallis first storm hit San Angelo in west , ar the Piccadilly Cafeteria after park- Benson said he and President safety at SanAngelo. aced more Will Ward • Texas about 3 pm. At 4:30 p.m. Mrs. ing our car in front. Eisenhower believe, "the principles bodies were expected to be found Herman Ross Sc tornado hit- downtown Waco, a irdom Mrs. minutes later I remarked of geonsmic freedom can be ap- THE ATOMIC CANNON, capable of tiring an in the wrerkage and that some of Five atomic shell 20 miles, flge the tlest atomic shell ever fired this month. The Mrs P. F. Waterfield plied to farm problems without Is shown on weapon Is on city of Mt& population. the injured to my wife that the heavy rain arrival at Nellie airbase in Nevada. ft is scheduled to, knight cars. Assembled it Is 84 were xpcfed le die. Mrs. Eugene Hughes ft. long. f Ditereustfossni SoundphotO The U. S. Weather Bureau 1.11- - which had been slanting down leading to a farm depression." Guards were stationed every 100 Frank Berry sued two additional tornado warn- Mrs obliquely into Austin Avenue was "We believe that the develop- yards throughout the stricken area. Mrs. Phillip Bertrand Ings today, the latest covering en now almost horibontal. being driv- ment of modern agriculture has Cooper he reported, because there had Mr. Edwin Waterfield Encouraged area bounded by Tyler, Lufkin, en by a strong wind, nearly par- placed the family farm an a vul- been some lootisg. A torrential Korea Vets Get Laugh From Yoakum, Del Rio-Eagle Pass and Mrs. Harem West nerable Preparations relict with the ground. economic position because Over. TVA Outlopk rain and heavy hail storm over. Steven Luther West Junction. Tex, during the We jumped up and ran to the farm prices and income rise and remai'n "flowed- the streets of San Angelo Wilkinson der of today and early tonight Mrs. Sally window to see a heavy sign, fall faster than (arm costs and WASHINGTON May 12 11./131- after the tornado. Mr. Sam Calhoun May Ralph Wolf of Waco "con- probably from the Raleigh Hotel, other prices an the national econo- Hamburger Packing Debate Sen. John Sherman ,Cooper Nearly Ready Gas from ruptured mains poured Ava Williams servatively' estimated damage at rt Mrs. shoot down the street, just above my." he said. Kri said today, after brsakfast- out over the Areckage at Waco, Mr. Robert Williams with Eisenhower $10.000,000.000. Two hundred auto- the ground, and crash into the 'Therefore, a stable general price ing Preddent at creating such a fire hazard that Mrs Walter C Williams. Jr. RI AL KAFF But Sgt. 1st Class Dwayne mobiles, either destroyed es badly ;arriaon car parked:. just behind my own. level and programs of price sup- the White House, he is "more loudspeakers constantly warn ed Sheryl K. Williams Untied Press Staff Correspondent I Dearth. 31, of Waterloo. Ia.. who For Classic damaged, were counted in a 36- More snip gyrated • loose in a port and storage are needed to encouraged" about Tennessee Val- rescue workers and onlookers not Walter Craig William! IlL WESTERN FRONT, Korea May was disinterested in the 'burger ley appropriations block area. Tons of bricks fell on es • matter of seconds, whirling in the help assure stability of farm in- Authority for to light cigarets. Mrs. Walter C. Williams. Sr. 12 (JP -Combat veterans .laughed controversy, took sides with Rig- one and squashed the top to with- iman streets. come and prices in the interest fisael year 1954. Preparations for the fifth annual Guests were routed out of the Mr. Walter C. Williams, Jr. today at the battle raging in the gle as a hatnburger hater.. in three feet of the ground. Across the way. I saw a shower or all our people." las he left the executive man- North-South high school All-Stara 11-story Roosevelt Hotel, for fear United States over whether to pack "They put too much grease in "I don't know Civil Defense Director Sam des Mrs. John L. Wiiiiams of glass, almost a cloud, as the He said a price support program doe. Cooper sald. basketball game' to be played in the gas would collect in the hotel hamburger. horizontally or ver- the hamburgers." Dreath, a front- Meredith said "there are perhaps Peggy Williams slant-back windows pf a bakery also should include incentives for if we will get all we want, but I the Murray State gym here Satur- and explode. Meredith said the* Wally in C-ration cans. line mess sergeant said. They part it." 100 to '150 • dead .. they ..have! Bonnie Williams shop exploded into fragmants. One production shifts to balance supply believe we will get of day night June 13, are - virtually whole business area of Waco-56 ought to drain most of that grease Re did not qute the President Just begu- nto dig." Mrs. Once Wilson by one, plate glass windows of and demand and avoid excessive "Are you kidding" a 25th Intim-.