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“WITHOUT OR WITH OFFENSE TO FRIENDS OR FOES WE SKETCH YOUR WORLD EXACTLY AS IT GOES" — Byron
VOLUME XV, NO. 177-
PRICE DAILY 5c, SUNDAY 10c
LEVELLANO, TEXAS
Associated Press (AP)
FRIDAY, JULY 20, 1956
REPUBLICANS TO MEET SATURDAY
Hockley's Precinct
Conventions Slated
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By ORLIN BREWER
News is out that the 1966 Presi-
dential election is almost certain to
toe the turning point in the battle
between the sexes. For the first
time in history, more women than
men are expected to cast votes.
What this means is that the pres-
ident of the United States may
now — and in the future — be
elected because of the resonance
of his voice or because he has the
prettiest dimples, with almost no
consideration given to his mental
equipment or stature as a states-
man or leader of men. All he has
to be is a leader of women.
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Tins may be an excessively
grim view of the situation.
In this great land where
practicing psychologists read-
ily admit that a husband is lia-
ble to get a MU for a new hat
or new dress simply because
his wife is “in the dumps,”
it’s probably completely unfair
to assume that women would
elect a president because of
the shape of his noggin or be-
cause they like the childish
way he tugs at his ear lobes.
They make their choice on a
more logical basis.
For Instance, it is said that
a considerable majority of the
women In the work! have a
strange mystic faith and at-
traction for men with bald
heads.
We can’t report authorita-
tively on this because we can
stUl feel a bit of fuss on oar
» few of oar
w
that most tender feminine
hearts reach odt With Instinc-
tive kindness for someone who
has been sick. It is easy to
make the fearless prediction
that Mr. Ike will be re-elected.
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Some strategists, who have had
better than average opportunity to
analyze female frustrations, sug-
gest that the best political move
Adiai could make would be to
shave off that surry fringe on top
and have his appendix removed.
Even Gov. Shivers admits that
nobody can beat Ike in Texas,
which is considered an admission
by most he-man Democrats that
•the governor considers women
have taken over in Texas.
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There are some folks who
will argue immediately that
this is all wrong. Joe Blow will
contend that his wife asks him
how to vote on every office and
that he carefully prompts her
just minutes before she walks
into the polling place to mark
her ballot.
The other day there was an
attractive young Levelland
wife and her husband mark-
ing absentee ballots in the of-
fice of the county clerk.
She wanted to sit next to
her husband so she could see
how to mark hers. Clerk’s of-
fice employes are reported to
have refused her this right and
she was reduced to the em-
barrassed state ol deciding be-
tween candidates she knew
nothing about.
Definite proof, you say, that
Ameriran men control the vot-
ing of their women?
Not at all. Women will al-
ways take suggestions on those
minor offices where a man has
to flip a coin to make up his
own mind. But take your ad-
vice on whom to elect as gov-
ernor or president? Never.
She’s • liable to tell you she
finds the mole on the cheek of
another candidate! just absol-
utely Irresistable.
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For instance, our wife almost
ahvays nullifies our vote on any
election of major officials.
She says that it’s absolutely stu-
pid to assume that a man will
make an outstanding president
simply because hrs name spelled
backwards is "nosnevets,” an an-
cient Hindu word meaning "noble
nose.”
•Hockley County’s Republicans
will gather at 7 p.m. Saturday for
their precinct conventions, with
possible candidates for local pre-
cinct and county offices the big
item on the agenda, Jack Blair,
Hockley Republican Chairman, has
announced.
All Levelland precincts will meet
in the district courtroom while
Sundown Precincts 23 and 24 will
meet at the high school in Sun-
down.
Blair pointed out that candidates
will not be nominated until the
county convention on Aug. 4, the
some day county Democratic Con-
vention will be held.
But the precinct conventioners
will name delegates to the county
convention, who will be charged
with the responsibility of nomin-
ating any candidates for die party.
This procedure is standard for
all parties in Texas which polled
less than 200,000 votes in the last
gubernatorial i&ce.
The Democrats, on the other
hand, will hold a primary election
on July 28 and conduct their pre-
cinct conventions on the same day.
Blair said that the Republican
county convention will also elect
a county GOP chairman and Re-
publican precinct chairman.
4Ie said that there is no an-
nounced candidate for county GOP
chairman at the present time.
Blair listed chairmen of pre-
cincts which are expected to be
represented at the Saturday night
gathering is:
Mrs. Nancy Kiser, Precinct 11;
E. V. Williams, Precinct 12; Rich-
ard Mason, Precinct 21; Paul Mc-
^.illy, Precinct 22; C. E. Shoemake
Yecihct 23; Robert Waggoner,
’recinet 24; C. J. (Jack) Murphy,
Pi-ecinct 41; and Dick Munster-
man, Precinct 42.
represented
by chairmen. He invited interest-
ed persons for any other precincts
to attend, however.
He said the meeting would be
wide open with everyone welcome.
Hail, Rain Hits;
More Showers
Seen for Area
(More thundershowers were fore-
cast for the South Plains area Fri-
day after a brief interlude of se-
vere hail and welcomed rain fell
in Hockley County Thursday even-
ing.
Hail battered about 140 acres of
cotton crops in an area south of
Anton and rains to an estimated
four to five inches fell there.
•Heavy crop damage by hail was
also reported on farms north of
Smyer, with hail standing six inch-
es deep on the ground in some
places.
The immediate Smyer area re-
ceived about an inch of rain, as
from one-half to .3 fell in the area
east and north of Smyer.
Whiteface reported about 1.3 in-
ches of rain and a little damaging
hail within about a five mile rad-
ius.
North of Levelland, around the
Chick Schmidley farm, rainfall was
measured at about one and one-
half inch. Heavy hail also fell in
this area, following the north edge
of the county to Oklahoma Flatt
community, but creating the most
damage near Littlefield.
All of the northwest portion of
Hockley County reported from .29
to 1.4 inches of rain.
Artie Forehand said that a total
of .29 inches rain fell at his home
southwest of town. A good shower
fell in the Levelland downtown
area.
In the neighboring county of
Lamb, Littlefield farms were bat-
tered by hailstones up to an inch
in diameter in a strip two miles
wide and eight to ten miles long.
From three to four inches of rain
fell around Littlefield. Rains up to
an inch and a half fell in the Lub-
bock area.
'Lightning killed a Mexican farm
laborer, Aguirre Compos, as he
worked in a field near Littlefield.
of Texas, the weather
y. More dMan-wumx
tightening restrictions on water
use. Temperatures Thursday rang-
ed from 84 at Amarillo to 107 at
Presidio. Temperatures before
dawn ran from 62 at Lubbock to
89 at Waco.
House Finance Committee
Demands Shakeup
REAL BOMB WOULD HAVE KILLED 1,750,000 TEXANS
Sirens Wail
'For Disciplinory Purposes*
"Not Unusual to March Recruits In
Marshes," Says Marine Instructor
By BEM PRICE
PARRIS ISLAND, S. C. 'A-A
senioi Marine drill instructor said
today it was not unusual to march
recruits into the marshes and
waters of this training base for
disciplinary purposes.
The testimony came from S.Sgt.
Edward A. Huff of Chicago in the
court-martial of S.Sgt. Matthew C.
McKeon.
McKeon, 31. ol Worcester,
Mass., is on trial for marching
3 74-man recruit platoon into a
tide swept creek "to teach them
discipline.’ ’Six drowned.
In the course of his testimony.
Huff, who was McKeon’s superior
in the training of the ill-fated
platoon in connection with their
lack of discipline that ’If you don’t
snap out of it I’ll take you down
to the swamp.”
Huff, who har, been relieved of
his duties as drill instructor re-
plied: "I did."
Huff’s evidence came imme-
diately after the law officer. Capt.
Irving N. Klein of New York City,
ruled that the training metnods of
Marines will be admitted as evi-
dence.
Whether those methods had any
bearing on McKeon’s conduct in
leading a 74-man recruit platoon
into marsh - bordered Ribbon
Creek in which six drowned has
become a sharp issue in the trial.
For the 31-year-old former drill
instructor’s attorney, Emile Zola
Berman of New York City, it was
a major victory.
In his ruling the court’s law of-
ficer, Navy Capt. Irving N. Klein
of New York City, said the evi-
dence would be admitted to indi-
cate whether McKeon was acting
in a reasonable or unreasonable
manner when he led the march.
Huff, asked by the defense to
evaluate McKeon’s performance
as a junior drill instructor, re-
plied, “Sgt. McKeon is to me an
outstanding drill instructor.”
The deeply tanned witness also
Continued On Page Five!
Primary Election
Tally Board Ready
Results of tile Saturday, July 28
Democratic primary will be post-
ed on an election board erected on
the north side of the courthouse,
despite an executive committee
"uling to the contrary, a candidate
for county office announced Fri-
day.
Deocratic committeemen voted
last year to discontinue use of the
election board. County candidates,
however, agreed to share the ex-
pense of re-painting the board and
installing lights.
The board, with space for tabu-
lating votes for each candidate,
was erected Thursday.
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Sirens wailed throughout Tex-
as Friday as men, women and
children scurried for safety in a
nationwide A-oomfo test.
The A-bomb attack by an un-
named enemy was make-believe
but if it had been the real thing
an estimated 1,750,000 Texans
would have died.
Five Texas areas actually
were "bombed ’ but many others
took precautions against the fall
out of nuclear material and help-
ed handle evacuees from other
cities.
At 7 a.m. Friday a sabotage
alert was sounded at Strategic Air
Force bases to warn that enemy
action of some sort was expected.
At 9:16 a.m. the "yellow alert”
was sounded, the signal that "un-
identified aircraft” had entered the
air defense rone.
Immediately the State Defense
and Disaster Relief Organization
set up a state control center at
the Department of Public Safety
in the Austin area.
"We’re underground and every-
thing is working out fine,” a rush-
ed radio operator reported a few
.minutes later.
Some 2,000 military dependents,
wives and children of Air Force
personnel began an evacuation of
Bergstrom Air Force Base near
Austin to an area near Bastrop.
. Houston and Harris County civil
alert “Lemon Juice” was flashed
over radios. Civil defense head-
quarters at the Houston City Hall
quickly shifted to “somewhere
near Fairbanks” and key civil de-
fense zone control personnel were
mobilized by telephone.
The Harris County government
shifted to a secret headquarters.
A 200-bcd hospital was set up
in the Deer Park school, staffed
by doctors and personnel of the
Harris} County Medical Soc.ety to
treat ‘ "casualties” of the raid.
Blood ba....o were set up.
A red alert was scheduled to
sound in the Austin, Fort Worth,
Continued On Page Five)
Levelland Takes
National Alert
In Quiet Stride
•Although Levelland was not fully
participating in Friday's "Opera-
tion Alert” — a mock nuclear
bomb attack conducted by the Fed-
eral Civil Defense Administration
— the city’s civil defense set-up
is sufficiently developed so that
“we could go into action pretty
quick should we have a real enemy
attack,” Jimmy Bearden, local civ-
il defense administrator, said Fri-
day.
Lubbock was not included on the
official tar ret list, Bearden ex-
plained. but conducted its own
emergency relief measures follow-
ing a mock invasion of Reese Air
Force Base.
Levelland police department ra-
diomen received calls Friday morn
ing from the Lubbock and Reese
area, asking that they put out a
"calling all cars” bulletin n the
Levelland area, informing them of
Continued Or. Page Five)
Kashword Prize Hits $875 Next Week
Field of6,500M isses Jackpot
Splinters on Benches
Problem for Nudists
SAN BERNARDINO. Calif. (ff>
Delegates will watch to avoid
splinters on the benches today
when 800 nudists gather for the
Western Sunbathing Assn, conven-
tion at Oakdale Ranch In nearby
Cajon Pass.
•A field of some 6.500 Kashword
Puzzle entrants failed to produce
a winner in the $850 jackpot con-
test this week and none of the con-
testants missed under three words.
Kashword puzzle contestants
needn't become discouraged how-
ever, since the jackpot still stands
$50 short of the “lucky” $900 jack-
pot won by Doug Davis last fall.
Very few contest entrants had
all three key words - LEAR, LOVE
and BAND - correctly.
Meanwhile the jackpot climbs
still higher, offering $875 in prizes
and bonuses to Kashword enthusi-
asts. Today’s Levelland Daily Sun
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News carries the puzzle blank and
Wednesday is still the deadline
for submitting entries.
The more difficult clues in this
week’s puzzle are explained here:
CLUES ACROSS:
2. An Arab HORDE could cer-
tainly be an impressive sight. The
HORSE might be a worn out crea-
ture quite incapable of looking im-
pressive.
6. A gentle CAT, as opposed to
a vicious one. yes; but surely ev-
ery PAT is gentle.
7. The clue calls for a good part
suitable for a man making LEAR
Continued On Page Five)
4-H MEMBERS AT WORK — Mrs. Martin Cuba, a Farm Home 4-H Club adult lead-
er, offers friendly advice as members of several county 4-H clubs work on colorful leath-
er “beanie” hats during Thursday afternoon’s Rally Day crafts program. Around the
circle, starting at left front, are Jessie Pool of South Elementary; Freda Pointer of
Ropes; Lome Wells of South Elementary; Tammy Elledge of Sundown; Don Payne of
non Brldwefl o^Ropesvifr^ Linda Kee'trf^wSs^ementary and Linda Sc*by'of^opes^
ville. (Staff Photo)
ATTENDANCE BELOW PREDICTED NUMBER
Rain Dampen! 4-H Rally Day
ProgramofUS.
Mock Attack
In Stagnation
Zoning Board Ready
To Present Proposals
The Levelland zoning and plan-
ning commission Friday appeared
ready to present final recommen-
dations for a city zoning ordinance
to members of the city council.
Commission Chairman E. W.
(Bill) Boedeker said that only a
couple of instances of working
changes in reference non-conform-
ing uses remain to be ironed out.
He said he and City Attorney
Frank Kiser would complete this
work either Friday afternoon or
Saturday.
The woixiing changes have to do
with gins within the city, which
may be required to make struc-
tural changes in their buildings in
order to accomodate new mach-
inery and keep their equipment up
to date.
The problem was pinpointed by
board member C. B. Edgar in a
meeting of the zoning board at the
city hall Thursday afternoon.
An ex-ginner himself, Edgar
pointed out that year-to-year struc-
tural changes would be almost in-
evitable for the four gins now op-
erating in the city.
General practice with zoning or-
dinances is to zone gins out of the
city because of the fire hazard
and dirt and dust problem.
The same procedure is being fol-
lowed with the Levelland ordin-
ance, which would leave the four
gins within the city in a non-con-
forming category — Industrial —1.
Under general provisions of the
ordinance, no non-conforming es-
tablishment of a lower category
can enlarge or make structural
changes, and in the event of dam-
age by fire or storms up to 60 per
cent of the total value, the non-
conforming units are not permit-
ted to rebuild.
The zoning commission is trying
to work out some provision where-
by gins will be able to alter their
structures to provide for installa-
tion of new equipment.
Boedeker says it hasn’t been de-
termined whether making a spe-
cial hardship exception for the gins
will prove legal, but every effort
possible to aid the gins will be
made.
The commission gave its approv-
al to a 21 page booklet of zoning
iccuinenJations prepared by the
engineering firm of Parkhill, Smith
and Cooper in a meeting in which
Engineer S. C. Cooper warned that
“any ordinance is just as good as
its enforcement.”
City Attorney Frank Kiser is ex-
pected to prepare the official zon-
ing ordinance from the zoning rec-
ommendations after they receive
the approval of the city council.
Baby Delivered After
Death of Her Mother
By CHARLINE DID WAY
Sun News Stair Writer
About 200 Hockley County 4-H
club members retreated ’to the
shelter ol a building at the Fair
Grounds Thursday as a late after-
noon rain brought a half to out-
door activities at the annual Rally
Day program at City Park.
Most of che day, however, 4-H
youngsters enjoyed swimming in
the city pool and team relay games
on the park lawns.
Levelland, Ropesville, Pep, Pet-
tit, Sundown, Whitharral and the
Farm Home community clubs
were all represented as 4-H’ers be-
gan registration at 1 p.m.
A general assembly and sing-
song followed with Karen Schwab
and Jacqueline Cuba leading the
group singing.
While several club members took
a cool dip in the city pool, others
SAN ANGELO iff)- A premature'i weT0 teaming up for relay races
girl was delivered by a Caesarean
operation yesteiday a few minutes
after her mother. Mrs. R. M.
James of Ballinger, died of polio
in an iron lung.
The baby weighed three pounds.
The infant “has as good a chance
as any premature baby,” doctors
said.
and games, conducted by Albert
Simnacher.
Throughout the afternoon, cold
drinks and candy were sold at a
concession stand operated by club
members Larry Deinel, Jackie Bal
lew and Charles Macha.
School buses and cars transport-
Continucd Cn Page Five)
Move Puts Egypt's Nasser on Spot
Bold New Shift in Policy is Seen
In Withdrawal of Egypt Aid Offer
WASHINGTON iff) — Over ad-
ministration opposition, the House
Appropriations Committee today
called on the Atomic Energy Com-
mission to speed up construction
Of government atomic power
plants.
The committee majority
demanded a shakeup in the com-
mission. It said the United States
is "bogged dovn in inexcusable
stagnation” in the race to develop
commercial atomic power and
singled out AEC Chairman Lewis
L. Strauss for special castigation
as the man primarily responsible.
The views were embodied in a
stinging report accompanying a
bill financing the AEC. The report
was drafted by Chairman Cannon
(D-Mo). It was expected to draw
a quick rebuttal from Republican
members.
It asserted that the United State
is behind Russia end Great Britain
in atomic power and said "the
Russians and the British are going
to have atomic electric power
sooner than this country.”
The committee moved squarely
into the middle of a hot congres-
sional fight by recommending 400
million dollars to put into effect
& • program of government con-
struction of atomic power plantf.
The program—but not the
WaSTin.'
House Rules Cbmmlttee
by a 5-4 count.
The committee took cognizance
of claims that private industry is
able and willing to keep this coun-
try ahead in the atomic field. It
s»ki none of the atomic reactors
now in use have been built by
.private electric companies and
raid the evidence “overwhelming-
ly forecloses any suggestion that
the time is ripe for private indus-
try to take up the task.”
”A mere statement of the at-
tendant risks defeats any such
proposition,” it said. "TTus tran-
scends any issue of private power
ro. public power. Neither group is
in a position to undertake the risk
of insolvency. The operation and
construction of commercial plants
(by the government) will thus pro-
vide information that can be ob-
tained in no other way.”
The committee said “the inher-
ent dangers" in the operation of
an atomic power plant “are awe-
some to consider," and no one can
suy that an atomic plant “will not
get out cl control.”
No private operator “dares take
suoii a cnance,” it added.
"The problem goes way beyond
the possibility of explosion, as in-
dustrial explosions are known to
». The problem is the escape of
radioactive gases or waters into
the surrounding terrain. This de-
terrent alone is of such magnitude
that only the government itself is
in a position to go ahead with the
vital problem at hand."
•Because the outbreak of an
atomic war “could render the en-
tire earth, or a large portion of
uninhabitable,” the committee
said, “it follows that an interna-
tional agreeent to outlaw A-
bembs and H-bombs as weapons
of warfare is a logical prospect."
(Continued On Page Five)
By WILLIAM L. RYAN
A I* Foreign News Analyst
The Ameriean-British withdraw-
al of offers to help Egypt finance
her ambitious Aswan Dam project
indicates a bold shift in Weste.n
policy toward the Arab world. Ii
is a severe biow to the leadership
claims of Egypt’s President Ga-
mal Abdel Nasser.
Washington and London have
ed Nasser's apparent inclination
to play the Eastern bloc against
the West as a form of polite diplo-
matic bludgeoning. The impor-
tance of the oil reserves and the
strategic communications lares of
the Middle East was such that
Egyptian gestures kept first one
side and then the other running 'o
Cairo. This greatly increased Nas-
ser's stature in the Arab world.
CROSSROADS
REPORT
announced to Cairo: If you want I But now the chips are down, and j
to do business with the Commit- Nasser faces the necessity of mak j
nists — go ahead and do it. | ing his choice.
It is obvious that Nasser al- i He has suffered several other
ready has had serious second j blows to his prestige recently. The
thoughts about permitting the j Soviet sale of oil to Israel, as well
Russians to send in floods of tech-
nicians and others to help Egypt
with her Aswan program. It is
probable that his advisers, too
have warned him of the implica-
tions of tying himself and Me
country economically to the Soviet
apron strings.
Western statesmen have regatd-
as other Soviet moves, indicated
to him that he could not count on
automatic Soviet support for ad-
ventures that could lead to a dan-
gerous war in the Middle East.
His meeting at the “neutral sum-
mit” with Yugoslavia’s Tito and
India's Nehru produced only a
lContinued on page five)
I note that our Supreme
Court does considerable decid-
ing on ImfMrrtant matters with
a 5 to 4 vote.
With four of them hollering
that it's the wrong thing to do,
the other five ran shift a hew
around that hasn't been med-
dled with for half m century,
and U|met the lives and plans
of millions of people.
But down here at the local
level in our district courts, It
takes it men smart enough to
get together on what is Justice
before you eun send oae ornery
citizen up for chicken ntonlng.
D. E. SCOTT
Crossroads, U. 8. A.
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