Murray State's Digital Commons The Ledger & Times Newspapers 5-17-1952 The Ledger and Times, May 17, 1952 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 17, 1952" (1952). The Ledger & Times. 989. https://digitalcommons.murraystate.edu/tlt/989 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]. 111 •I •e, • • •••• • • • • • •••••••••••• • 1,112 Selected As Best All Round Kentucky Community Newspaper for 1947 WIPE OFF. DON T WASH Why Not OFF SOILED SPOTS ON Mite-. Weather Eggs with clean shells Do All Wipe Off, longer. don't wash •-e, Kentucky - sev lorere d toiled spots. Washing removes -le Your Shopping storms in west portion :hi retective fikn nature provalaa : afternoon and early timighi; the egg. In Murray high today 00 to 85: low to- [night 55 to 60; Sunday mostly cloudy and cooler welv showers: r.• YOUR United Press PROGRESSIVE HOME NEWS- PAPER FOR OVER 't== HALF A CENTURY Murray, Kentucky, Saturday Afternoon, May 17, 1952 MURRAY POPULATION — 8,000 Vol. No. 118 • HUGE - • FOR THE LUBRICATION „, US CHRISTI FIRE• PUT OUT YOU WANT • THE PROTECTION NEWEST JET BOMBER GIVES U. S. A-BOMB MASTERY • 11.1 NEED 1Seen & Heard Ike-Kefauvei '1;1 Strike Millions Of Gallons Of Gasoline Around in In- Oregon 'low Close To Explode in Furious Blaze Friday • By United Prew General Eisennes-er end Senator Settlement By United Press They watched a third tank ex- LMURY Kefauver have won easy victories The fire that 'hreatened a city plosion rip actoss the farm this as HENDON in the Oregon presittential pri- - - - out. morning sending flames some- manes. By United Press The multi-million dollar blaze t housaild. feet into the sky., loamy RurLhing has grown abeut The nationwide oil strike :r in a petroleum Service Station It means both can put-same ad- mov- tank farm at ,Cor- 'The blast lighted up downtown a feet since the last time .v.ie Fzi.V log closer to settlement but the pus Christi, Texas, was •snyud 200 North Fourth ditional delegates ih their conven- Corphus Christi for several min- ban slow because contet out this morning. ion pocket-delegates pledged to Pace is utes and sent smoke billowing is Telephone 82 terms must support them to, the prudential be okayed by tank- The hero - a chemic,,Yealled far as 20 miles jo the north in le-s and-file union numberr. Z foamite. Ralph 'ateCnIsta• using .iynaniite nomination. than an hour. e The CIO oil unipn ancrthe. Sin- Supplies of. the precious fire- tj take down the wall at the Gfieral'ElTenhower came out on Maus- ...lair Company has reached agree- fighting liquid ran 'out last night. They watched the fire as it near- len-McDevitt cJinic. top in a field of five other Re- there which if approved by 'the And the men ed another gigantic tank-2 ktor- publican contenders With nearly who were winning men themselver/would ;end 10- the battle against age place for 80-thousand barrels ervice Since ene-third of the returns in. the the inferno fell 1886" thousand'of the 90-thousand strik- back helplessly. bulldozers couldn't do the jot'. retiring Atlantic Pact Comman- of crude oil. Thi; was the great- ing oil workers back to work. ITH der has piled up 30-thousand-240 est danger. Officials _sairl that if the The tentative contract provides tauentollice-like-to-stahel t t've t ii a • -270 or tank exploded, it would send flam- ntally supervised such •a Governor Earl Warren of Califo ing crude oil across the surface plus shift differentials. of a nearby ship channe: and t I' haven't had time iatoly. ma, his closest rival. ntv Man •,` But some Sinclair workers ir- General MacArthur has receiveel might engulf the entire port. dicate it is no ail that they wish. ity stores in town will close three-thousand-755 •votes-Seryiefor But then, this morning-relief. They are questioning certain con- 1.,y afternoons hegint•ine Wayne Merse of Oregon one-thous- Dies today Five big truces carrying the tract points. The questioning has At and-604 - Harold Stassen one- needed foamite roared with police Ditnity, sprung up among 430 Sinclair em- thousand-180 and Lawyer William escort at 70-mile• an hour from ployees belonging 'o the Sinclair, Houston-some miles away. Murray is rapidly becoming Schneider 187. Senator Tat:-who 24l Economy Iflyomihg local. Displeasure also The Hospital They arrivcd at about seven •I with various 'drive-inc. was nit entered in the primary_ was indicated in East Chicago, 11- - nreeiyad..00ls..a haristtai4.1aL...w o'clock. Fire-fighters immediately hooked a big pipe extending 40. Tkatis ,supposed to be 3 sagn in votes. Me vie awl ago .11_ „missed hill Funeral Home ton, Texas f„• :see hrir"..of • • of- tar nrelerent• away this morning at 1:15 a m. • vote. Eio-nhower will get most, the largest buriUng tang,• _Th.en - gas coqtinues to felt by -*rifler grr-Inntere-of-ORS. -4444111.. :hurchili, Owner if not allot alon be !•' e Magni artffir7"" Nolte* they have sprouted all the 18 GOP conwintion death came at the Murray Hospital delegates airlines, private plane.; and miii- In less than an hour the battle over Paducah. • at, stake. For the Demo- expected to give the U. S. superiority *Yet and is attributed rit,ui.iner sem lee e tory aircraft. The bites: suspension AMERICA'S NEWEST "global" superboriber the eight-Jet YB-52, to complications. was won. The fire was out. crats', Senator Kefauver o! Ten- speed from long range, is shows Mr. Outland -of domestic flights was announced Russia for a number of years In ability to deliver atomic bombs at jet was the son of Mr. Fait the cost was heavy. rifIlillre Lassiter putttrig sieseee-welWiatAkie 11-lictr-actalitic down. Smaller wheels are at wingups and Mrs. Elreus Tr5ns -World oliarlener- In -New trr takeoff atttMerh-wIth eight-wheeLdandem landin# gear still ,Outland , of Min.- Seventeen firemen were Mine- et ha building on North 15t. convention delegates. Mph. The -let-bomber has a wingspai. ray route, six. York. It says it will cut but 18 In flight Gower, it is whiffed along at probably faster than-600 He is eurviveel by ed,-three listed es critical. street We-se.been He has rolled up a popularity presum. All but wishing he would flights on Monday.. 153 feet, tail height of 48 feet. Although USAF has not released all details, his parents: one sister Mrs. Edw us vote at 22 thousand-456 to four- of 185 feet. length of two vi•ere burned durinicthe explo- g,, ahead and finish the building But motorists planning a Sun- 50,000 pounds of bombs and has 8,000-mile range. (international Sounelatiotes Ahart of Alain: and two nrothe-s thousand-417 for Supreme Court "bly it could carry sion this morning. dae 'drive can st.11 get virtually C. W. Outland of Detroit and Jaunts Justice William Douglas and three- They %uttered. blisters 'on their There was a car parked in the all the gasoline they want. Ronald Outland of Murray route thousand-671 votes for Gevernria faces even though they -were at d 14. the other day. sideways. dispute, CIO_ six. Adlai In the steel Presi- lead 100 feet from the fire. -.1,4• Us of the cartoon the Stevenaen of Illinois Both Letter To Editor The funeral ui dent Philip Murray has accused City Man I I will be "held at the Officials say there is no way Douglas and Steyencon had been Battle Tough • aatesepost. Commerce Secretary Charles Saw- Poplar Springs Baptist Church at entered without of telling joist how many tanks on their .consent. 2:00 o'clock tomorrow Rev. yer of what he terms an "almost Dear Mr Williams: with the farm were destroyed. P slice lei NI% crawf•rd has " Harrold Lassiter. fine 'elec- unthinkable degree of bias" against Away and Rev. Ralph say, however, that the fire wipe4 .: • •,t roses now bloornIng Passes Paratroopers T. McConnell in. Nation Observes the s.eel anion. Pfreae accept our sineereat -awe officiating. out the Southwestern Refinery and • I his home Burial Murray is sneered by a tele- pression of gratitude for :he big will be in the Barnett Oil Crimpane's number three .re- cemetery.' • Armed Forces Day gram from Sawyer who is the part you played in the seeuri • fining unit. It also deetrayed up to What started out as fun for ;he nominal boss of the steel industry Friday of On His cousins will act as pallbsarers. On the New Home for the Callo- Koje Island )5 tanks and the General American ;ii. is turning alto serious bus- under government operation. The way County Health Department. Friends may call at the Max H. Tank Storage Company's two-story With Talks, Parades Churchill Funeral Home telegram reported that moradie until toe I office building • It has been Battle-toughened American para- damage occured it, the steel mills Herman Clanton. are 64, passed a source of much funeral hour. At one time flames also threat- hrppiness to us troopers arrived on Koje !stand to. I We planted about three malt of The country- obse: yes, Armed during the brief steel strike. away yesterday at Ile45 a! m to receive such --- ened a ?musing development hid leai,s fine cooperation day to help restore control aye- ter them in a flower gar- Forces Day today- a day to give Miurray told the closinc steel the Murray Hospital.