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Without Charge Jack Hamm of Waco, Texas draws and paints in ink, charcoal, watercolors, pastels, oils or with airbrush. He teaches nine commercial-art courses at Waco's Baylor University, and he has been commuting by air to Houston (160 miles) to run a chalk-talk television program which last week won a prize as the most entertaining TV show in the city. To Hamm, these are just sidelines. His most important job costs him more than $100 a week...
...most of the fire was directed at Price Boss Michael V. Di Salle, whose 18% rollbacks of livestock prices start going into effect next week. On short notice, Di Salle was hauled before the House Agriculture Committee to defend his order. Who, asked Cattle Congressman W. R. Poage of Waco, Texas, will bear the brunt of the rollbacks? Won't it be the ranchers? And what immediate relief, asked another representative, can consumers expect? For hours Mike Di Salle took it on the chin, supplied generalities rather than facts & figures. Finally, he stepped wearily down with the comment...
ARTHUR J. A. KOERNER Waco...
...best working soldiers in the 27th last week were young (26), blond Captain Martin Merchant of Ilion, N.Y., and Merchant's lead platoon leader, Lieut. Doyle D. Lummis of Waco, Texas. For four long nights, Merchant, Lummis and their men had held the most advanced position on the "bowling alley." Each night, they had heard the enemy tanks, trucks and self-propelled guns approach with a roaring and purring of motors, and a babble of voices. Each night, Lummis and his platoon sergeant had calmly told the artillery and mortars in the rear to get ready, warned the platoon...
...chow, learned to speak Chinese as he learned English. After grade and high school at American schools in Honan Province, he went to the U.S. to college, studied journalism and history at Texas' Baylor University, in due time broke into the newspaper business as a reporter on the Waco News-Tribune...