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VOLUME XVIII, NUMIER262
LEVELLANP, TEXAS
Associated Prtss (AP) Laasad Wira Servica
PRICE: Daily 5c —Sunday 10c
TUESDAY, JULY 12. If40
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Sundown liquor vote called Aug.
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Johnson challenges Kennedy to public debate
g '• '*• ; • ,
Petitions
wets
TO HELP RESTORE ORDER
Move seen
Congo requests as try to
iroops from UShal+ blitl
(AP)—The Congo government to-
day asked the United States to
send an armed force of 3,060 men
to help restore law and order in
the strife-torn republic.
Reporting this to the Associated
Press, Belgian Minister Ganshof
van der Meersch said the plan was
that Americans would serve with
Belgian and Congolese troops un-
der a joint command.
A Day
In The
SUN
By ORLIN BREWER
It is not intended at present, he
said, that there should be one su-
preme commander of the force.
Van der, Meersch said U.S. Am-
bassador Claire Timberlake has
been asked by the Congo govern-
ment formally to pass its request
for the American troops to Wash-
ington as quickly as possible.
In Washington, State and De-
fense Department officials de-
clined to make any comment on
the reported request for United
States troops.
Units of the U.S. 24th Infantry
Division based in West Germany
have been on the alert for several
days, awaiting a possible call tc
the Congo. The 3,000 men request-
ed would constitute more than a
regiment.
The sending of American troops
A local option election, as long
anticipated, has now been called
for Sundown. Will the community j into the Congo, one of the richest
vote wet? and most strategic countries of
Some officials are saying, but not Africa, would have tremendous
for publication, that the chances of political repercussions.
Sundown voting wet are pretty Presumably the Congolese and
good. Here’s an example of the ! the Belgians are aware of this,
thinking: and feel that the emergency is
A total of 285 persons voted in
iifj'',1 si.
for instance, that 300 vote in the
such that the risk is justified.
The
BELLETIN
LOS ANGELES — Sen. John
3 Kennedy and Sen. Lyndon John-
son were scheduled to meet in
a face - to - face clash at 3
p.m. today after Johnson man-
euvered the Massachusetts sen-
ator into a public debate.
CBS was to carry the debate.
By JOHN CHADWICK
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Serf:
Lyndon Johnson, trying to stave
off Sen. John Kennedy’s high-
balling bid for the Democratic
presidential nomination.. chal-
lenged him today to a face-to-face
debate of the issues.
Seizing on a request from
Kennedy for a chance to appear
before the Texas delegation,
Johnson proposed that the two
argue the issues before a joint
session of the Texas and Mass-
achusetts delegations.
Johnson told a news conference
he was sure Kennedy could find
the time “if* his work is done.”
This was an obvious gibe at
Kennedy's claim that he already
is assured of enough votes to
• swiminatioa on the
first or second ballot.
Kennedy was at jl breakfast
meeting of North and South Caro-
lina convention delegates when
WmM. mt&Mmd
m
is intended to be tried only in
Leopoldville, the capital, and the
local option election and the 95 per , j^gtadi, Boma and Bakongo areas,
cent of the people who signed the j Mgjadj an(j Boma are the coun-
petition vote wet. j try s two mair> ports Their main. I Johnson made public his chal-
Wet forces would need to pick up ^ (enance js essential for the life 1 lenge. Kennedy declined to say at
only 58 to 60 additional votes a- j nf newj independent state. Ionc-e whether he would accept,
mong the people who didn't sign The Bakongo area home of tbe | Johnson said he received i
the petition in order to turn the | Bakongo tnbe js principally I telegram from Kennedy Monday
city legally wet. 1
MAP PLANS FOR COUNTY TALENT CONTEST
W. C. Floyd presides over a committee meeting in which picture, from left are Mrs. Jewel P. Robinson, J. B.
initial plans for the second annual Farm Qureau talent
search in Hockley County were outlined. Others in the
Crawford, Mrs. Floyd, and Odell Frazier, local Farm
Bureau service officer. (Staff Photo)
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DESPITE
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Ci*er
o0o
Unknowns in this sort of
thinking, however, are whether
most of the people who favor
legal off premises sale of alco-
holic beverages signed the pe-
tition. or whether a good many
who will vote wet refused to
sign because of business or per-
sonal reasons. Also, its ques-
tionable whether 306 votes
would be the top limit nf eli-
gible voters in Sundown.
He don’t know of anybody
who has checked for sure to
determine just how many peo-
ple will he qualified to vote in
the Aug. 6 election — which
is now less lhan a month a-
way.
oOo
Yrtu've seen the convention on
television, and heard the prognosti-
cations of the experts.
around Leopoldville.
in Canadian dam meet c°!!te?L „
LEVELLAND REPRESENTA- be lowered to 26 12 because of the . month by Lubbock and some other j eau hoping to be able to produce
meeting of the Canadian j difference in distance from the j cities participating in the project, another state winner as it did las
, saying he would appreciate an tives at a mreu m „„ volwUJ<111|u„ll>„,vv ... ............. — _______ r------r_ . .
; rt;:.'"1 *.....* ^! a.-**and ,he *m“n‘ "wa,er 5 isrz'zxrz'z,
Kennedy’s telegram sa.d he was „et rate difficulties involving this 1 This proposal was rejected by the j 28 50 cent rate for both Brown-i county - wide talent contest
! “most grateful for the support and Lanu.sa aild Brownfield set-1 northern cities, which refused the I field and Lamesa, the other rates The contest will be held July 28
friendship of my Southern friends j u d’ bu{ sobd progresS was ma<je j 9 mijl per thousand gallon increase ; per thousand gallons were Lubbock t at the South Plains College auditor-
in 195*'’ when he was backed by L {)lher rea]m, which could lead for them this would have necessi- j 17 33 cents: Plainview 13.95 cents; hum, with evening school director
T,.Un.»n unsuccessfully, for the', _____ti„> ; Rnrver 12.79 cents: Pampa. 13.30 Robert S. Burks as master of eere-
WASHINGTON (AP) — Unem-
ployment rose by nearly one mil-
lion in June as record numbers of ! Kennedy was grateful for the
summer job-seekers poured from j support of his Southern friends at | no Part of ,he ,16 m,lll.on '.n new i
school into the labor market, the : the 1960 convention
to the eventual construction of the ! tated. j Burger 12.79 cents; Pampa.
Canadian R™ ^
Levelland offered to accept pro- -----------P • I Tbenew f]gures inchlded irJ Teens of Anton, won a state - wide ...... .................
of 285 cents per 1.000 gal- contest- *ent on to natlonal made a statement to fhi* effect.
I convention to draw rave reviews rouiiiicGioiuciic ,iin i v..
Johnson
vice presidential nomination
Johnson fired back with his '
challenge-to-debate telegram say , ,r
saving he was happy to know : y u "... i-
ing after new concessions last-1
MEMBERS OF THE Hockley
County Commissioner* Court Mon-
day ordered a local option liquor
election for the city of Sundown.
The election will be staged Sat-
urday, Aug. «, just 25 days from
the date of the order, with voting
taking place at the city hall in
Sundown. —■- —•
Ordering of the vote follows care-
fully planned efforts by Sundown
wet forces dating back to the
time of presentation of a starter
petition to County Clerk Grace
Clingan in mid-May.
COUNTY OFFICIALS said it
was apparently only the second
local option election in county his-
tory.
The only previous election on
which County Attorney Bill Boed-
eker has records in his office was
staged on Dec. 28, 1949. In a
county-wide election et that time,
a total of 1,935 citizens voted, re-
jecting legal sale of alcoholic be-
verages 1,493 to 330.
FOUR SUPPORTERS OF THE
election. Joe Brides. TV. Thom
pson, Leroy Mueller and Leroy
Standifer, attended the meeting in
which the election was ordered.
Also on hand for the session
as observers were Rev. Weldon
Franks, president of the newly-
organized Hockley County Loyalty
League, and Rev. Haskell Rogers,
vice president of the organization.
Both ministers are from LeveHand.
Although the league was organi-
zed to conduct liquor elections
wherever they might occur in the
county, there was an indication
that the league might leave active
opposition to the Sundown election
to the Sundown members of the
league. One local minister has sug-
gested the league might follow
this course, although the officers
of the organization have not yet
thousand gallons —- giving this city j
creases
( subsidies offered by Lubbock to
ur »ep.n™. — - ■■ --1 HHrSS:
| But unprecedented numbers of j wire added. ^ suggest Th* new ra,es- SivinK Lamesa
them found work waiting, with the ! Johnson went on
and Brownfield all the benefits of
Red Cross
worker in
city today
result that total employment I that the Texas and Massachusetts , subsidies< were proposed bv
soared by 1.400.000 to 68.579.000. , delegations have a joint session ^ H|)1 (>f ^ of Reda.
the highest level in history. i and that he and ! mation in Amarillo. The 27.26 rate
This was about
greater than a year ago. The com-
parison excludes Alaska and Ha-
How would it look to you if you ; waii. which were not counted in
were in Los Angeles, equipped with ] 'he Bureau of Labor Statistics
press passes so that you could size tabulation last year,
up the situation for yourself? The over all labor force, civil-
K. W Wells of Anton, a Hockley ian jobholders and jobseekers
County delegate to the state con- | combined, rose bv 2.300.000. of
vention. finds himself in this sit-! which all but about 100.000 were he will have between 500 and 600
uation in the big convention city j boys and girls 14 to 19 years old. ballots on the first ballot, with
at the present time. ■ The unemployment rate, after; 761 needed to nominate.
He's been furnished credentials allowing for seasonal trends, rose Kennedy, to inquiries by
of a working newsman by the Lev- from May’s 4 9 per cent to 5.5 per j porters, wi* ^ ^ ^ of ^ntatTves^Kre^d t7pu't the propo- j Cross housing advisor also >s slat-1 project.
| Ions for Lubbock; 1 cent increase
; for O'Donnell; Vi cent increase for
; Slaton, and 1-10 cent increase for
5 Plainview, with the provision that
! Plainview would accept 175 billion
'gallons of water instead of 134.1
billion gallons during a 50-vear per- 2g
iod, beginning after the dam and
{ pipelines are constructed.
there.
COMMISSIONERS SAID they
. ... j found “everything in order” eon-
The county farm organization will | cerning ^ p«Utiong> ^ -mor.
contribute $100 toward sending the ,han e h ,igonUuns" to diet-
county winner to the State Farm a(e CJ,m of
Bureau convention later this year. det<.rmined that a total
Deadline for entries will be July of 91 signatures would have been
.... , , „ , ... necessary to eall the election. The
Admission of 35 and 75 eents will j
i petition had 98 signers, but one
| be^charged r. : ffcaa jvoided b^ jhe court because
DESPITE THE DIFFICULTIES 1 Committees named to help with (he sjgner failed to sign his name
change m the relative delegate | res, ^mholdj. K Lea and May- ^ of hjgh wa(er )an Dam project began to take : term, of the election, and issuance
\Jf A Hnn T>nrt ! ^ ^ jllOT 11C6I1SFS
strength of hiinself and Kjjto j I!fi
■the delegates gathered here tain the same rate differential in!
since
for their convention
rates between the cities when the ' effort* to reestablish themselves '
Aftorneys retained by the auth- Matthews of Anton, D<^ Redding I oyed are c>refu|]y regulqted by
rate reductions, however. , Ann | P^a“ ' ?^
Since Levelland had received Miller, wall be in Levelland authority and the U. S ’
through Wednesday, then will re- and between the authority and ; , d
member cities to pave the way for I work on door prizes.
The Texan said he still thinks: other two cities asked for further |
authority and !Bl11 Pickard, all of Levelland, to
no relief from the new rate pro-j through Wednesday, tnen will re- > al,u y I ■ j-----:—
re. ; posal and to help get the project turn to Slaton Thursday and c«nie j „n the entire ! Members of the Decorations com*
off high center, the local repre- back ,0 Levelland Friday. A Bed | __^ mittee will be Mrs. Martin Cuba
elland Daily Sun News and he I cent. I i"« '* ",c V „ • . . . t • . | H . arrive ... the sometime A resolution asking Hill to update Mrs. Odell Frailer. Mrs. Coy Phd-
made his firs, telephone report The unemployment rate, after it. I want to read what this lSjSa 0 01a o . , , ,p k )o advjse Jnd ald re- all figures on construction costs of l'Ps- Mrs. nv aj •
home Monday just a bit ,00 late allowing for season trends, rose all about and I’ll have something , ^ was. of cou^ ^ )f) repairmg water damag- »h* dam. aqueduct reservoir and Marvin Stroope. Mrs. S roope
for our Monday afternoon edition, from May s 4 9 per cent to 5.5 per to say later
I
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The wire services sav Ken-
nedy has the nomination all
locked up.
Monday afternoon. Wells re-
ported “It doesn't look too fav-
orable for Lyndon.” But he
added that although many peo-
ple think Kennedy has it in
the hag." it isn’t in the bag
yet.”
Wills declared that Johnson
is “going to get a lot more
votes than the papers and rad-
io* are telling.” At the time
i»f his call. Wells said esti-
mates showed 606 vote* for
Kennedy and 459 for Johnson.
-“If it goes to the third bal-
lot, we've got a chance," Wells
asserted. As an example of
later ballot support for John-
son. Wells asserted that Sen.
Harry B y I d said Kennedy
would receive IS votes to seven
for Johnson, two for .Steven •
non and one for Symington on
Hte first ballot.
tDAY IN SHE UlN^Pafg b
cent.
Total unemployment
4 423.000.
j The rate compared with
(JOBLESS UP—Page 2>
ed houses.
1 “When Brownfield and Lamesa! Mrs. Bob Ford, executive sec-
Kennedv and Johnson met face j likewise,
was ■ to face a few minutes Jater as When
Kennedy was leaving and John- rejected the plan, but spoke of a,retary
the'son was arriving at the Carolina 127 26 rate for their cities. Level- Cross said that the organization
(DFBATE SET—vPagp 2) land insisted that its rate should will help residents try to pu
their houses back in as good a
shape as they were before "
Miss Miller will advise and aid
the needy residents in securing
food, clothing, bedding and other
I materials which might have been
| destroyed by water. Mrs Ford
(PROGRESS MADE—Page 2) also be in charge of posters.
of the Hockley County Red ANTON MAN REPORTS FROM LA
Nikita warns flight resumption
might spark outbreak of new war
Slight chinks appearing
in solid Kennedy front
Named as election officials were
C. J. Akin, election judge; and
helpers Mrs. A. R. Brown, Mrs.
O. J. Norwood and Mrs. E. E.
Smith.
Your
Vue
said that the aid would be pro-
Bv DALE JOHNSON
SEN. JOHN KENNEDY
HAS
Bv STANLEY JOHNSON ment. Khrushchev had charged
MOSCOW (AP) — Soviet Prem- the flight of the RB4? recnnnais-
ier Nikita Khrushchev warned to- sance plane shot down July 1 by
day that resumption of American
U2 spy flight over the Soviet
Union would “heat the existing
tension to boiling point and bring
matters to the outbreak of war."
The Soviet Premier gave this
warning at a Kremlin news con-
ference in answer to a question
about the possibility nf renewal
of U2 flights He did not elabor-
ate.
liitfi'fri m an opening state
vided bn the basis of needs qf; plenty of support, possibly enough
plane—,1st Lt. John R McCone. [ each individual family to be nominated on the opening
38. of Tonganoxie. Kan , and 1st MRS. FORI) Mid that at the j ballot, but some slight chinks are
Lt. Freeman B Olmstead. 24. of peak of the evacuations, more beginning to develop in his
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a Soviet fighter demonstrated that
U.S. policy is aimed at “provoking
a serious military conflict.”
He also declared that this “oew
act of perfidy” had demonstrated
that President Eisenhower’s as-
surance in Pans that the U2
flights over Soviet territory had
been discontinued was “not worth
a bad penny.”
Khrushchev claimed the two sur- j But he added that no firm decision
viving oiewmeo of the American i (NEW BAR—Page 3)
\ . I
Elmira, N.Y.—had admitted their
plane “was to have flown along
the northern frontiers of the Sov-
iet Union on an espionage mis-
sion.”
Khrushchev said he thought the
Soviet Union would take the mat-
ter of the RB47 to the United Na-
tions—first to the Security Council
and then to the General Assembly.
than 100 persons were fed at the
Red Cross shelter, while as many
as 90 were provided sleeping fac-
ilities All of those were Negroes,
coming from about 40 families.
The Red Cross center which had
been established at Carver School
was closed Monday morning af-
ter most of the Negroes receiving
shelter there indicated that they
wanted to return to their homes.
(RED CROSS—Page 3)
solid
front.
That’s the opinion of an Anton
man, K. W. Wells, who is attend-
ing the Democratic National Con-
vention in Los Angeles.
In a telephone report to the Lev-*
elland Daily Sun News at noon.
Tuesday, Wells said that earlier
estimates of 800 votes for Kennedy
on the first ballot had been revised
and dropped to only 741, just e-
nough for nomination.
Some states which formerly were
considered solidly pro - Kennedy
have begun to show some signssof
swinging to other candidates, thus
reducing Kennedy's strength some-
what, but not to a dangerous ex-
tent. Wells declared.
THE ANTON MAN, WHO WAS
a Hockley -County delegate to the
state Democratic convention said
that he had just attended a caucus
of Washington delegates and that
some of the representatives of that
state were beginning a shift to Sen.
Lyndon Johnson.
Wells declared, that the move was
prompted in part by a talk by Rep.
(KENNEDY FRONT—Page 3)
By CLIFF ALLEN
Levellanders will have the op-
portunity to save some real mo-
ney on wearing apparel this week.
Cobb's Dept. Store and Bob’s Fam-
ily Shoe Store are both staging
bona fide Clearance sales on mer-
chandise that are for all member*
of the family. We suggest that
you and your family shop these
two stores for your present needs
for clothing and shoes.
DSN
The DSN Jor yesterday carried
ads for both Cobb’s and Bob’a
Shoes but we Will remind you that
the sales will both start Wednes-
day. Shop early for the finest se-
(AD MAN’S VUE—Page 3)
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