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5 CENTS PER COPY. No, 91 PAGE 1 ret Home Boy Winner In say Contest he second time in the past of menths a Sweet Home has brought honor to his unity by winning literary holastie acclaim, st to achieve himself was in Anthony Matusek, Yoa- High School graduate who a sehelarship to A, and M. ige. Now word - reaches us Dennis Brenek, eleven-year- son of Mr. and Mrs. Ed. iek of Sweet Home ,has been ded a prize of-a $25 Savi lin the KTRH Farm Essay nnis Won sixth place with his y on the subject ‘How Radio Best Serye the Farm andj Farm Home.’* In commenting this essay, George Roesner, HT Farm and Raneh Dir ator di: “Your essay contained v excellant ideas whieh et to use in future farm pro- site nning contests is nothing to Dennis, who, in 1946, won istered pig with ap essay ed in the Sears-Roebuek con- Again, in February 1947, he ed a calf in the Hallettsville Club Show, and out of 12 s awarded he took fifth Ss, Brenek ‘is Sweet Home’s ae Growing ateurs’ Display cellent Form akum softball teams showed of good playing in the games sd at the Bulldog Stadium week. to teams, organized by mezehants and concer 1, are composed of member: amateur standing who he some previous experience wi L-lot or seheol ball pla; some of the >pl 2 shown such expert _ ball- dling and sportsmanship that hard to believe they are not éssionals out ef place. The chants who organized these as ave certainly deing their ‘© toward providing recreation lities for the young people of community, and are to be plimented on their fine work. er merchants or concerns who h to organize a team may n all the particulars from ph MeMaster at the Firestone re on Lott Street, or from R. C. McClendon at Lack’s ociate Store on West Grand. boys or men wishing to play one of the teams may make ligation at the Firestone Store, k’s, Rohan’s Service Station, amilton’s Jewelry Store, de- | ding on the player's choice of eam to play with, eres 15) plenty of room for good , $0 anyone interested is ed to contact one of these y one game: is eduled for next w ight, when The Fire 1 tangle with the wales Dr. Peppers, Tuesday ht Lack’s Associate Store will y, but their opponent has not n named yet, Also, on Thurs- night the Firestone team will in play a game, but no team been stated to oppose them Qn Friday night of this week, ame will b» played, but the ns who will participate have heen listed yet. hese games will start about each night. Everyone is in- 1 to come and cheer for his No admission will be charg- definitely se A eS YURITY MAN BU HERE mae il H. Davis, ficld representa- ¥ San Antonio Social Seeu- fice, will be in Yoakum at ty Hall at 8:30 am. Wed- , duly 23, 1947, for the we! , and that | ITS “FIRE BAL! ed with the flying sauce: others are just plain dis Flying balls of fire circled a wide area around Palestine, and some nesroes, believing the end of the world was near, begau praying, A white man grabbed a vifle and shot at the myster- ious objects. Sheriff Paul Stanford of An- derson ‘County described them as | orange basketballs of ‘fire Revealing Flying Disk Data May Bring Prosecution Anyone willfully communicat- ing information bearing on the | defense or security of the nation! — even in time of peace — is subject to a fine of $10,000 and imprisonment of 10 years, accord- ing fo Assistant United States District Attorney Joseph .W Cash. Tf the present mystery of fly ing disks are connected dar or guide missile experiments, the law might apply, he said, The law applies whether the information is released accident- ally, ‘‘through gross negligence,” or ‘‘with intent to injure the U- nited States or aid some foreign nation,’ according to the act. The Atomie Energy Act of 1946 provides even penalties for revealing rmation, Mr. Cash said. Public Law 585 of the Seventy-Ninth Congress provides death or life imprisonment, after due process of law, for disclosing atomic information with intent to injure the United States. For accidental disclosures a fine of up. to 420,000 and im- prisonment up to 20 years are provided, Mr. Cash pointed out. NES uy Set as Gas Truck Hits Local Station A ible alee truck of the Texas Consolidated Transport Co. van into a heavy pipe upright in front of Rohen’s Service Station . doing some damage to station and more to the The truck was ‘town, along West Grand, and turned into the tion, As the driver ent the cab back to swing the trailer into position, the cab skidded into the steel pipe roof support on the right of the truck, bending it considerably. ‘The tinck itself suffered a bent bum- per and a smashed fender, A gasoline pump directly behind the upright was net damaged by the erash. eoming from ——_ Lions To Make Farmer Award The Lions Club has announced that at/its regular ‘noon meeting Tuesday, July 15th, it will pre- sent to Lee Pargmann of Route 15, the plaque for the Outstanding Farmer for the Middle Guadalupe Basin Soi] Conservation District. The plaque is given each year to the farmer from each conser- vation distriet, who has eontribut- ed most to the soil conservation projects in the particular di The award is sponsored by a num- ber of organizations, among thom the Lions Clubs of towns, Sinee the Lions do play ap active part in sponsoring this a- ward, the local club is given the \ privilege of presenting the plaque to Mr. Pargmann, | Representatives of the Soil Con- servation Service will be present to make short congratulatory and explanatory speeches on the giv- ing of the annual award, the various purpose of receiving claims and discussing Old Age and Survivors Insurance with all who wish to contact him. Dayis will not be able to fur- nish information concerming Old FIRST ITS FLYING DISKS — NOW ” PEOPLE SEE t was the first time the aevial cbjects were reported in that a- rea, Residents of fhe Brushy Creek community, 15 miles north- east of Palestine, called Sheriff Stanford about 8:30 last night, saying 12 balls were flying in a straight line over the community. Then, they reported, the balls formed a eircle which began mov- ing toward Palestine. By 9 p. m. hundreds of Pales- fine spectators reported seeing 25 many as three balls in the sky at once, moving in a eirele. Sher- iff Stanford discounted any sug- gestion that the balls originated from a spotlight. Bud Everett, druggist, chased them for a better view. He said they finally disappeared about 11. p.m. Mrs. Horace Valenting said she saw two perfectly round balls that ‘‘nearly seared me to death" when they appeared over her home: She s%ig—-lep seemea (> be playing with each other, the way they jumped around. Her husband and Lee Chayers shot a box of .22 rifle bullets without any effect on the objects. Mrs, Valentine said neighbor- ing neero families thought the world was coming to an end, and began praying as the balls of fire gamboled overhead. Mrs. Lorens Shrader, Big Springs reported she saw a fi red ball streaking overhead last night. Mrs, Marian Reed, farm wife, found what she believed was part of a flying disk, It landed in her back yard while she was hanging out the clothes yesterday atter- noon. She admitted she was frightened, She deseribed it as a round. piece of tinfoil eight inck- es wide, scorched or burned a- round the edges. Both sides were shiny, but one side was marked with black, stenciled lines a anar- ter-inch apart. She said the tin- foil dropped straight down from the sky. She lifted it with a. stick, put it in a tin can, and droye . five miles to Gunter, 20 miles sonth- west of Sherman, Scores crowded about to see it. At Melissa, Collin County, Mrs. Marie Killian and Mrs. Kay Craft reported seeing a strange objéct 40 p, m. yesterday. Charles Calhoun, and his fath- er, W, J. Calhoun, prominent Grayson County farmers, said thi aw a disk yesterday near Sherman. eg Cuero Reale See Flying Dise Cuero has Die produced it5 first flying dise, Tt was reported by Mrs. P. W. Haak of 410 Stockdale street, and both she and her husband saw it. However, Mrs. Haak’s flying dise is no particular mystery to her, She thinks she knows just what caused it. Tt was simply a reflection frort an airplane, she said. Sitting on the por husband abont 4 p: Sunday, Mrs. Haak said she heard a strange noise from the sky, and leoked up, Soon an airplane came into view, high in the clouds. was very small, but plait cernable ag a plane, she said. ft was coming from the east. Soon it turned north, atid jas after that a perfect dise Was vis- ible some distance from where the plane disappeared into tie clouds. h with hér The dise appeared bright and very silvery. Tt appeared to Be smaller in sizé than an ordinary © steering wheel of a ear, Mis. Haak reported. Tt seemed to bé “ floating’? across the heavens. She called her husband’s ° at- tention to it, They both saw it. After about five seconds the dise was gone, The plane and the sound disappeared. Mrs. Haak is convineed — tha flying saucer was reflected from the airplane. This theory also las been advanced by others. The flying dise mystery has the nation in a dither with reports coming from all sections on the strange objects. Mrs, Haak’s e planation is as reasonable as any yet put forth, and may be the Age Assistance pensions, solution to the ‘“phenomenon,’?