Statesman, Salem, Ore., Tues., Dec. 27, 55 (Sec. Ill) 7 'Braggingest Texan' Has Another Book Ready About Texas, of Course By HAROLD V.. RATUFF t and for House to Worn known ai FORT WORTH. Texaa lit-Boyct braggingest Texaa of them all. House, an angular, sober-faced Medet Texas man who looka more like an under- "Texani at heart are really mod taker than a humorist, haa brouaht est," ha says. "But when we tell out hit 14th book-end like 11 eth ers it i about Texas.. , - This one la titled "You CanAl way Tell a Texan (But You Can't Tell Him Very Much)" and it's lull of stories, moat of them of ancient vintage, about the Lone Star State. House decided long ago that peo ple like to read the stories ihey already have heard more than those that are new. Hit view has been given substance by the sale of more than 300,000 books con- the plain, unadorned-untouched truth about our incomparable state we are accused of exaggerating." Question that and be will set out to prove it: -' "It is an actual fact that the King Ranch sprawU over a million acres and ia so huge that there's a month's difference in the grow ing season of the northern and southern edges. "The Texas Capitol is higher than the national Capitol. Texas produces more oil than aimng the tales Texans have been ,tt th, rMfof natlM combinei Hearing irora oirm. , j "Brewster County is bigger than It is the provocative nature of the two New England states put his writings that has caused his together, with the District of Co books to sell all over the nation lumbia thrown in. "Texas AAM College ftfrnUhed friends, and one with bo water at more officers to the Army In World War II than West Point did and Eisenhower; in command of the Allied armies in Europe; Mac Arthur, in command of the Pacific armies; Nimlti, in command of the Navy, and OveU Culp Hobby, in command of the WACs, were all from Texas. , Battle After War "The laat battle of the Civil War was fought in Texas, weeka after Lee's surrender and naturally the Texana won it. . ." "But Texans," House thinks, "are going to put more and more emphasis on the' unfavorable type of story about their state and tell fewer like the one about the Texas billionaire who has three swim ming pools: One with cold water for his rugged friends, one with warm water for his less hardy his friends who can't Fire Causes Over Million Dollars in Damage 1 tl'.t jr. LOWELL, Mats-While their fire engine stands loaded down with Icicles, firemem stand la a sea of ke pouring water en a general alarm fire that caused more than a million dollars damage early , Monday. Tern firemen were Injured during the four hour blaxe that completely gutted a three Building Business block. (AP Wlrephote) ji , College Lad SlaysSelfi Girl's Fiance LUBOCK, Tex., W-A college sophomore shot and killed his girl friend's fiance, then himself Sun day after falling to talk the couple out of marriage plans and having his own suit rejected. Justice of the Peace George McCloskey returned a verdict of murder and suicide in the deaths of I. C. Enoch Jr., a chemist at the White Sands, N. M, Proving Grounds, and Gerald Witherspoon, 21, a student from Hereford, Tex. Justice McCloskey gave this ac count: The Lubbock girl, Barbara Car penter, had beert dating both With erspoon, a Texas Tech student, and Enoch. All three an members of prominent area families. Saturday, Witherspoon called Mia Carpenter and she told him she was engaged to Enoch. Witherspoon met the couple at the girl's home here Sunday and sat in the living room with them, trying to talk the couple out of marrying. He produced an en gagement ring and offered it to the girl. She refused it. Witherspoon then asked the two to step outside the house, where he pulled a pistol and ahot Enoch twice in the stomach and once in the throat. Then be shot himself in the right temple. Both were dead en arrival at hospitals. Services were held for Enoch Sunday night and the body was sent to Jackson, Miss., where the family has relatives. Plans for Ike Suite Form ; SAN JNCISCO (JrArrny En gineers are drafting plans for a suite for possible use by President Elsenhower at San Francisco's Let termau Army hospital. The suite would be available should the president attend the Re publican national convention here next summer and need place to rest. "Letterman Is ble to take care of the president or anybody else, as it is," Maj. Gen. Paul I. Robin son, the hospital commandant, said Sunday. "But because of the se curity and the secret service and all the other preparations neces sary, we thought it would be well to have a special place ready." He aaid the total cost of the suite "should not exceed a few hundred dollars." Church Leader Busy on Tour NEW YORK un-Dr. Eugene Car son Blake, president of the Nation al Council of Churches, left Thule Air force Base,' Greenland, Mon day en route to another ' base at Froblsher. Canada, a council spokesman said. Blake, accompanied by aides, left in a plane piloted by Lt. Gen Glenn O Barcus, commanding gen era! of the Northeast Air Com mand. Froblsher is some 900 air miles from Thule. . Blake's Yuletide tripe has taken him to seven far north service bases where be conducted services for troops. He is expected to ar rive in New York City by Dec. 28. Blake's two-week trip has cov ered 6,100 miles thus far. ' Soviet Patrol Boat Seize Nippon Craft ? TOKYO u-Russian patrol boats Saturday aelxed two Japanese fish ing boats off Etorofu in the Soviet held Kuriles, Kyodo news service said Monday. Eight other boats escaped, the Agency said. Crew members who fled safely aid the Russian patrol boats fired at the escaping craft with signal Carts, damagta tome. ' First Baptism Noted Below Antarctic Rim WASHINGTON OH - The Navy received word Monday of what it believes was the first baptism ever performed below the Antarctic circle. ' Dispatches from the ships of "Operation Deepfreeze'' said Char lei M. Slaton, 37, Chief Machinist's Mate In a special construction unit with the expedition, was baptised into the Catholic faith aboard the cargo vessel Wyandot. Chaplain John C. Condit offici ated in the Christmas Eve cere mony as the ship made its way through the ice pack to a rendez vous in the Ross Sea with other units of the fleet. Seven fellow Chief Petty Officers of the con struction unit were honorary spon sors. Slaton's wife, the former Flor ence -Worland, - and ' their three children were already Catholic. They live at (3 E. Forrestal .Ave.) Quonsetf Point,' R. f. Slaton Is a native of Hialeah, Fla. New Postage Issues Added -Ebr '56 Debut WASHINGTON UB - The ' Post Office Department 'Monday an nounced 10 additional new postage issues for 1956, making a total of 17 scheduled for next year. The new items Include four honoring the fifth International Philatelic exhibition which will be held in New York City April 28- May C. These will be a 3-cent com memorative stamp, a 2-cent postal card, a 6-cent air mail envelope and an 11-cent souvenir sheet. The souvenir sheet will be a com blnation of an 3-cent and 3-cent stamp of the Statue of Liberty series mounted in a folder with an Inscription honoring the inter national exhibition and bearing a facsimile of Postmaster General Summerfield's signature. The other new Issues Include a 3-cent Labor Day stamp; a 3-ccnt 200th anniversary of Nassau Hall (Princeton University); a 3-cent Booker T. Washington centennial; and a aeries of three 3-cent wildlife conservation stamps. The seven stamps previously an nounced for IBM are a l'-i-cent Mount Vernon; 3-cent 250th anni versary of the birth of Benjamin Franklin to be issued at Phila delphia Jan. 17; 7-ccnt Woodrow Wilson to be issued at Staunton, Va. Jan. 10; 9-cent Alamo; 10-cent Independence Hall; 20-cent Monti cello; and a $5 Alexander Hamil ton. The first day sale cities for most of the new issues remain to be selected. , . . Japanese Place Expedition Fund TO K YO 1 The government Monday set aside $1,300,000 for remodeling the Soya Maru. which will carry Japan's expedition in the 1957-88 International Geophysi cal year exploration of the Antarc tic. The Sova. a 2208-ton lighthouse supply ship, will be converted into an icebreaker, capable of crushing through ice three feet thick. Its cruislne distance will be in creased from 4,000 to 1,000 nautical miles and its passenger capacity from 70 to 130, the Maritime Safe ty Board said. . NICE GIFTS! NEW YORK orV-ChrUtmas after math note: A pet ahop In a bus terminal sold 22 baby bos constric tors, gift wrapped , to go under Christmas trees. . ' Death Claims Noted Doctor PHILADELPHIA -Dr. Thomas A. Shallow, noted Philadelphia sur geon and former president of the International College of Surgeons, died Monday in Jefferson College after a lengthy illness. He was 69. A faculty member of Jefferson Medical College, Dr. Shallow was director of surgery at the suburban Delaware county hospital from 1937 to 1947. He also served on the staffs of a number of other hospitals In the area. ' ,, ' He was one of the founders of the American Board of Surgery. His widow, Myrtle survives. THIEF, BE CAREFUL NEW YORK UN-Police bJvc warned a thief who stole -a black leather bag from under a stairway to be careful. The bag contained a pound of arsentic, half a pound of phosphorous pasta and several other poisons. It belonged to an employe of an exterminating firm. tua.ee FACE-LIFTING OTTAWA -Canada's Parlia ment buildings are getting a 1250. 000 face-lifting. Scorea of workmen are busy painting. Installing fluor escent lighting and putting m semi automatic elevators for the session opening Jan. 10, aU, for swim." The reason Texana are1 going to teu more unfavorable stories about their state. House says, is because "the truthful stories which really depict the genuine glories of Texas are making so many people dis satisfied with a fate which con demns them to live in places so much less favorable than wonder ful Texas." House has written more books about Texas than any other per son, yet he was born in Arkansas. But so what? He wrote three books on the Ranger, Tex., oil boom and wasn't even there when there was a boom. House started writing In 1935, but it was 1943 before he stirred up any ripple In the publishing , world. He did it with "I Give You Texas," full of stories. It sold 130. 000 copies, many of which went overseas to Texana fighting the war, -. " .,. ! 4''' Tell Talk , Then came "Tall Talk from Tex as" and "Texaa Proud and Loud." His only books not devoted to Texas are "Cub Reporter," about hia newspaper days on The Mem phis Commercial-Appeal, and a collection of funny stories from all over the - United States,' called "Laugh Parade of States." Carl, Sandburg haa described House's writing as ". , . that pe culiar blend of valor and Swagger which is Texas." John Gunther haa said: "It's impossible to de scribe Texas without borrowing some of House's stories."' House never went to college bfit found that no handicap in turning out books that the people would want to read. He was born In Pig gott. Ark., where his father was a printer and editor of a weekly newspaper: spent his early boy hood in Texas, then grew Up in Memphis where he got his journal-' isticexperience, and came back to of a lawyer friend, fearful of a Fort Worth barber ahop and if the) Texas in 1920 Dally Editor In 1921 he went to Eastland, Tex., as editor of the daily news paper. It was at Eastland that he broke the story of Old Rip, th homed frog that lived In a corner stone for 31 years. The courthouse at Eastland was being tors down when he heard from Ernest Wood the story of the horned frog of how Wood, while county clerk 31 years before, had put the lizard in the cornerstone. Wood believed the frog would still be alive. House waa dubioua, but saw the possibilities of the story. To the newspapers of the nation went the tale of the horned frog that soon would show whether it could exist buried in concrete for three dec ades. Thousands of people were pres ent the day they opened the cor nerstonebut not House. He .tad sneaked away and into the office! hoax. But he beard a shout from , barbers laugh he put them in a the direction of the courthouse. 1 book. The shop Is a oina out of The frog was alive. I business, however, and Houae So they named it Old Rip and It fears it may put a crimp in hia was taken on a national tour ty Will Wood, son of the man who bad buried it in the cornerstone. The frog even reached the White House book writing.- In his latest book, a couple of famous Texans are named. Ac cording to one House story the where Sen. Ear le B. Mayfield of . fabulously wealthy Sid Richardson Texas had arranged for President was in Washington and received Calvin Coolidge to see it. Wren Office Wood went to the wrong office and before he discovered his mis take he had kept the President waiting 10 minutes. That was prob ably the only time In history that the President of the United States was stood up by a frog. Old Rip lived nearly a year. 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