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The Weather
Tsmpersture readings for the pm*
’4 hour period ending at noons
Minimum M
Maximum 67
Noon reading SO
Precipitation tor Year 1.P4 m.
Precipitation year *ao .S to.
FORECAST: Snow flurrleo to aorthem
Panhandle in afternoon Clear to cloudy
thru Thursday. Low tonight la KTa over
South Plains.
Ihs Levelland Daily Sun News
“WITHOUTOf WTTH OfFINSITO WINDSOt FOB WIJKYTCH YOU* WORLD IXACTLY AS UGOBS” —Byron
VOLUME XVIII - NUMBER 131
LEVELLANDp TEXAS PRICE: Doily 5e Sundoy 10c
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1960
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State assesses damage after storm
A Day
In The
SUN
By ORLIN BREWER
This country is living in an auto-
economy, with nothing in the phy-
sical world yet as much of an in-
fluence — H-bombs, airplanes,
rockets and sputniks not withstand-
ing — as the automobile.
Both the problematic adults and
their probfem children are geared
to automatic transmissioned autos.
How to deal with the problems
which result — physchologically
and physically — are among the
greatest crises of the age, rival-
ing the dangers of Communism
and the threats of a hydrogen holo-
eost.
Autos have put the kids on the j
highways and streets, with this
automobility and the idle hours a-1
Wealthy brewer
possiblevictim
of kidnap plot
GOLDeALColo. (API — Adolph
Coors in. wealthy brewer-and in-
dustrialist. vanished fntfh his
blood-flecked car on a rural road
Tuesday, touching off a vast man-
hunt in the Rocky Mountain foot- i
hills west of Denver.
Sheriff Art Wermuth said Coors
may be a kidnap victim.
FBI agents, lacking immediate
Jurisdiction, were poised to enter
the case. Sheriff’s deputies afoot.
In Jeeps and on horses were Joined I
today by low-flying aircraft in the
search.
Coors’ carry-all wagon, its mo-
tor still running, was found on a
small wooden bridge which spans
a shallow creek. Blood was found
on the bridge railing and on thp
seat of the vehicle.
The missing man’s glasses and
baseball-type cap were found on
the creek bank below the bridge, j
Coops. 44, left his foothills home
at 8 a m. for the 12-mile drive to
the Adolph Coors Co. here, where I
he is board chairman. His auto |
was found nearly three hours later
b> the driver of a milk truck.
Undersheriff Lew Hawley said j
there were tire and footprints in i
the area around Coors' turquise-
and-white carry-all.
"But frankly, the ground there
is so rough it would be almost im-
possible to tell if there had been |
any struggle." he added
Coors -is the eldest of three j
brothers who operate the Coors
brewery and the Coors Porcelain
Co., whose products include mis-
sile nose cones.
The brothers are grandsons of
a German immigrant who found-
ed the firm in 1874. It now ranks
14‘h nationally among brewery
firms, on the basis of production.
Coors is married and the father
of four children—Mary Brooke.
18; Cecilly Grant. 16; Adolph IV,
14. and James Grant. 10.
His wife, Mary Grant Coors, was
to 1 of the finding of Coors’ cap
and glasses and the bloodstains.
“She took it very well.” said
Hawley. The undersheriff said
Coors has no known enemies, and
was in good health and spirits
when he left his home.
Coors, a native of Golden, is a
graduate of Cornell University,
where he majored in chemical en-
gineering.
mong the greatest contributors to
the youth problems today. High-
way accidents killed 37,800 people
in 1959 and injured several mil-
lion.
All of this — along with so many
good things we probably couldn’t
begin to count them — were
brought on by the automobile,
which was such a novelty in 1896
that the Bamum and Bailey Cir-
cus displayed one as its main oddi-
ty.
oOo
Today there are more than
SO million passenger cars trav-
eling on the world’s roads. And
about M million are owned by
Americans.
That's enough cars to take
every man, woman and child In
the U. S for a Sunday drive
at one time. . . with room left
over for all the people of Great
Britain and France. And even
then, there would be li million
empty seats.
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Here are some other Interesting 1
facts about automobiles:
England tried to discourage the ;
use of cars in 1865 by passing the I
Red Flag Law. The law required
that someone carrying a red flag J
in the day time and a lantern at [
night walk ahead of any steam car- j
riage traveling on the highways, j
The first president to ride in a
car was William McKinley. He was
taken to a hospital in an electric {^
ambulance after being she* by an 1
assassin In 1901.
A Cadillac was driven up the
steps of the Capitol in Washington,
D. C., in 1905 to prove the car’s
power.
The average car lasted 6.5 years
in 1925. Today it lasts more than
12 years. The average 1925 car
travled 25.750 miles before it was I
scapped. The average car today
travels 110,000 miles. «
Private passenger cars In the j
U. S travel more than 500 billion
mile* a year. . a distance greater |
than 2,700 round trip* to the sun.
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Our friend Bob Johnson, the
Pan American engineer, not the
irrigation specialist so many
people here know, tells ns that
the Stanley Steamer In 1907
would outperform • most of the
cars on the road today. It could
do better than 200 miles per
hour, hut like a rodeo outlaw,
was a horse nobody could ride
and hence lost out to the more
docile rombustion engine.
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The first American motor vehir
cle was demonstrated in Philadel-
phia in 1805. Called the "Orukter
Amphibolos.” or "amphibious dig-
ger." this 40,000 - pound monster
was a combination steam wagon
and flat boat. It was built by Oli-
ver Evans to help dredge Phila-
delphia’s harbor. . . A "taxicab
army” helped change the course
of World War I. In 1915 when Par-
is was in danger of being captured
by Germans, the military governor
SPEAKER CONGRATULATED
Joe Salem, Methodist layman who told of
his experiences on a 19-day visit to the
Soviet Union, is congratulated by Harold
Combs and P. J. Marcom, members of
METHODIST MEN TOLD
Methodist Men, for whom he spoke. In
the background is Mrs. E. A. Jenkins, wife
of the Methodist Mens’ president.
(Staff Photo)
Soviet people
can be trusted
CROSSROADS
REPORT
A PROMINENT AREA METH
odist layman, once lost cn the
streets of Moscow and unable to
speak the language so that he
could find directions back to his
hotel, told members of the First
Methodist Church he felt safer
there than in any European city
he had visited.
Joe Salem, a Sudan drygoods |
merchant and area Scout leader 1
for many years, said he might ev- j
en have “felt a little safer than [
on the streets of New York City.”
growing despite the fact that ehur- j
ches can do no social or benefi- J
cient work and can have no Sun-|
day school, since the government
does all the schooling — indoctri-
nating the youngsters in its own
godless philosophy.
Cheeks were wet as Americans J
sang gospel songs for the Rus-1
sians then departed by bus, he
said.
Salem said that a Russian boy
of about 15 kissed him on the
Dear Editor:
I see where President Ike
■ays this Inflation virus can
be licked If Industry and labor
will just go In for a little self-
denial and start cutting prices
Instead of all the time raising , nio.
name.
My bargalneer neighbor says
everybody he trades with
charges too much, and he hopes
they will pay some attention
to the President's preaching.
Three dead
as1 duster'
slams area
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Thick clouds of blinding, chok-
ing dust and winds at hurricane
force lashed TAxas Tuesday blow-
ing a child to her death under
a bus, ripping apart buildings and
overturning trailer homes.
Tliree deaths were caused by
the fierce winds and dust. Blinded
motorists crashed their cars into
other vehicles. Property damage
across a 600 mile stretch of Texas
ran into the tens of thousands of
dollars.
Gusts of wind up to 80 m.p.h.
threw persons to the street. The
dust, floating miles high in the
sky, seeped into homes, made
eyes red and sore. Texans spit the
fifty sand from their mouths.
The dust and sand filled the sky
with a redish haze and the lights
of low flying planes could be seen
in mid afternoon. The dust and
wind reminded many Wegt Texans
of the black days of the dust bowl
back in the 1930s.
Peggy Bums. 8, got off s school
bus at Cleburne and wag blown
under the5 moving bus by a gust of
wind. The child died when the
rear wheels of the vehicle crushed
her.
A 12-foot high brick wall toppled
on ■» 11 parked ears at^ Texarkana,
Tex., Tuesday night when the
storm pushed into that East Tex-
as city. There were no injuries.
A raging dust storm was blamed
for the death of Joe Lee Martin.
34, who died when his tractor
plunged over the edge of a pit
near Matador.
A private plane crashed on a
hillside five miles east of Alpine
during a dust storm killing An-
thony Frank Spann of San Anto-
msaa
WIND DAMAGES BANK SIGN
Tuesday’s high winds took their toll cm a large sign atop
the Levelland State Bank, as seen above. The big sign
was blown over during the storm. Damage is estimated
at close to $1000 by bank officials.
DUST WHIPPED AT 70 m.p.h.
Damage from winds
less than expected
A record low pressure area that
covered most of the country from
(STATE STORM — Page A5)
of the city commandeered 700 taxi-1 the embalmed bodies of Lenin and
cabs. He filled them with 3.000 Stalin, he rated his “spiritual ex-
troops and sent them to the banks ; experiences" as the highlight of an
cheek "and I kissed him back.”
Salem was guest speaker for the | Salem said that in Yugoslavia,,
monthly meeting of Methodist j he learned there were 23 Metho-
Men Tuesday night in Fellowship j dist churches, but only three prea-j
j Hall. It was also a ladies night j chers and cne deaconess to serve i
j session- I (SOVIET PEOPLE — Page A5) !
i SALEM, WHO VISITED THE------
Soviet Union two years ago, ^id data ny C DC A M CD CAVC.
j (hat he learned in traveling 3,500 j 1 eAK I JCCAACK I),
miles in 19 days within Russia that I
[ “the Russian people can be trust-!
i ed" as individuals.
He said it was a Russian Uni-1
versify student who came to his
resuce in Moscow. The student no-!
ticed him wandering aimlessly,
asked if he could help him and j
then walked with him close to a j
mile to a place where Salem caught (
a taxi to his hotel.
The speaker toured the Soviet j
with a group of Methodist minis-
ters and laymen, and although he
visited the Kremlin and locked on
Says. in fart, he would like
it if Mr. Eisenhower would sort
of take a shot of his own med-
icine, and maybe put on a big
Hale in Washington, so we could
enjoy a little out-prlce govern-
ment.
D. E. SOOTT
Situation quiet
in Hockley jail
LEVELLAND HOMEOWNER*
and business operators have re-
ported damage running into hun-
dreds of dollars — but less than
might have been expected — fol-
lowing a howling sandstorm which
raked the area Tuesday, pushed
by winds up to 70 miles pier hour.
Plate glass windows and roof
shingles seemed to be the biggest
casualties from the blow, although
no estimate was available.
SPOKESMEN FOR CITT In-
surance firms said damage report,
ed to date was not too large, al-
though other reports may be forth-
coming. -
Shingles on many city residen-
ces blew loose and flapped in the
wind, or else sailed through the
air.
Residents climbed on roods to
I ALL SEEMINGLY WAR QUIET
at the Hockley County Jail Wed-
Core of power' can
be tapped for peace
down.
Bank officials estimated total da-
mage at "close to $1,000,” although
a definite figure will not be known
until an estimate on the value of
the sign can be secured.
nesday morning as rebellious pri- \ Bank representatives said the
soners evidently had calmed com-, roof of the building at Ave. H and
pletely after Monday’s flooding of! Austin also was damaged,
the jail, and the resulting clean- \ The sign toppled about J p.m.
up Tuesday. ! Tuesday at the height of the storm.
“I haven’t heard anything out of j
the largest single damage estimate! try and tack down the shingles or
came from Levelland State Bank repair television antennas which
where a large neon sign was blown had been broken by whipping in
the wind.
ROTARY DISTRICT
Floyd A. HemphijI of
of the Marne River, where the
French stopped the Germans. ... I counties.
Smog was no problem with the
electric cars that were popular at
the turn of the century. But World
Book Encyclopedia reports that the
cars lost favor because their bat-
teries had to be recharged after
they had traveled about 100 miles.
. . . . The invention of the electric
self - starter put the woman driver
on the road. The old hand crank
was the major obstacle to a wom-
an's driving.
entire tour which included eight
Governor! tap the core of this potential for
Amarillo j human understanding."
told the Levelland Rotary Club ROTARY HAS AS its chief ob-
Tuesday that just as it was onee | jective world-wide understanding,
throught that the energy at the j the district governor said, but he
"heart of the atom” couldn't be stressed that the global civic or-
tapped, people have been resisting ganization isn’t interested in world
the idea that all mankind basical-
HE SAID HE WAS EMOTION-
ally touched by worship services
in the Baptist Church in Moscow,
in Methodist Services in Belgrade
and at the American Protestant
Church in Paris, where his son,
husband of the former Leila Pax-
ton of Levelland, is a deacon.
Salem said there are some 530,-
000 Baptists in the Soviet Union
today and that the denomination is
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ly has common hopes, common
ideal and desires which are es -
sential to the establishment of
world peace.
The former Littlefield Superin -
tendent of schools, paying his of-
ficial visit to the local club for
the year, said that every man |
seems to have “a common core I
of cosmic power.”
"Just as we finally tapped the
core of our physical environment
irt the heart of the atom, we can
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District Governor Floyd A. Hemphill (standing, left) is
shown here with officers and committee heads of the
Levelland Rotary Club at a club assembly meeting. Be-
side Hemphill is president Walter Reed. Seated from left
are R. M (’m others, Hal Joplin, J. Spencer Ellis, J. G.
Stacy, Harry Mathews and Ted Woolery.
federation or anything of that na-
ture.
He said that peace will come
when men come to understand
men and every country has e -
nough men within them working
toward international peace and co-
operation.
"We have found that men under
the most strained conditions can
come together under the name of
Rotary harmoniously . . . Rotary
has no barriers, no creeds, no dog-
mas, no limiting principles which
make it unacceptable to any man
anywhere.
"The men who live Rotary and
who understand Rotary are firm-
ly convinced that Rotary is doing
more for international understand-
ing than any other institution work-
ing today," the speaker said.
“People in other lands,” he
said, “reveal to us every time
(Rotarians meet together) that
they are just as eager to have
world peace as we are.”
"WE CAN’T LEGISLATE peace
or international understanding. It
will have to come as a result
of human contacts in ernest ef-
forts to develop understanding.
"Rotary has exhibited proof of
the possibility that men can und-
erstand one another when they
work together in earnest,” the
speaker said, adding that Rotar-
ians, because of their membership
in Rotary, have a special capa-
city to promote this understand-
ing all over the world.
HEMPHIIJ.’S SPEECH was rat-
ed as one of the best devoted
to Rotary principles heard here
in recent year*.
. An educator for the past 30 years
Hemphill has attended the Univer-
(ROTARY SPEAKER—Pag* Kb)
them (the prisoners!” Deputy Pat
McCulloch said Wednesday morn-
ing.
MEANWHILE, SHERIFF WF.IR
Clem and Deputy J. N. Poteet left
Levelland Wednesday with two pri-
soners bound for the state peni-
tentiary at Huntsville.
One of the prisoners, Jackie
Wheeler, was an active participant
in the rebellion earlier in the week,
although the other. Billy Joe Burns
evidently was not actively in-
volved.
Wheeler. 18. is under three year
sentence for burglary, as is Bums.
Several other prisoners facing
penitentiary terms remain in the
jail awaiting removal to Hunts-
ville.
AT LEAST ONE CITY BU8I
ness reported two large plate glass
windows broken. Dale Self rX Self
Insurance at 1509 Ave. H, said
two of the panes were blown out.
with damage probably running $200
to $300.
Self also had windows blown out
several weeks ago, along with
other businesses in the same block.
This time, Self said he heard the
glass crack and had everything
The Coast Guard responded to
the Petri's distress calls and be-
gan evacuating crewmen by heli*
copter. Fourteen of the 40-man
m
mm.
By 1. C. HOWELL
Wonder if people who don’t like
muddy, rainy weather like weath-
er like we had Tuesday better?
DSN
We’ve heard of the wind being
so strong it blew the plaster off
the walls but Tuesday was the
first time we actually saw it hap-
pen. When the wind blew the front
door of the Sun News office open
it actually blew plaster off the
wall, blew everything off the desks
and counters and filled the room
with fertile soil.
ADS
We learned recently that Har-
per Brown, fromer owner of
Brown’s Cafeteria and a long -
time resident of Levelland. has sold
a portion of his acreage on the
Littlefield Highway and is now in
the process of building a summer
home down near Lake Texhoma.
Guess ha is getting sat up to do
Sailors battle
to save wino'
tanker on binge
SAN FRANCISCO 4AP)—Saflow
fought the sea today for the aeverv
million-doilar Angelo Petri, the
world’s largest wine tanker.
A powerful storm that raged to
from the Pacific Tuesday left the
520-foot 21,800-ton tanker power-
less and rudderless—adrift off the
Golden Gate.
Her anchors finally caught hot-
which would be damaged moved I *<>rn 3.7 miles from the San Ftan-
before the windows gave way. He cisco coast, directly west of the
said glass was scattered over the I c*ty s Fleishhacker Zoo.
inside of the building but no ma-
jor damage was sustained on the
interior.
Some damage was done to an
unfinished addition at Ray’s Hatch- j crew had been afted from tot
ery on the Littlefield Highway, but heavily rolling vessel when Capt
Edward A. Lehn Jr., of San
Mateo, Calif., decided he might
be able to save his ship and
cargo — million gallons at
bulk -wine.
Two Coast Guard cutters and
two sea-going tugs steamed to th«
Petri’s aid.
The storm was still raging.
Waves 30 to 40 feet high were
crashing over the rolling decks.
The Petri, with a 30-foot draft,
was in less than 40 feet of water.
Two sand bars were nearby.
"Even under ideal condition?,
it would take sharp navigation to
get her through that without
trouble,” a Coast Guard man said.
"As it is, it's real werk just keep-
ing her from getting slammed on-
to a sand bar.”
One of the tugs, the Sea Cloud,
fired a tow line to the tanker.
While the second tug, the Sea.
Wolf, was preparing to fire A
second tow line, the first line
parted.
The Sea Wolf got its tow line
to the Petri and it held. But See
Cloud was unable to send ancAher
line over and the Sea Wolf wa*
unable to haul the tanker through
the gale alone.
Capt. V. F. Hellmer, command-
er of the cutter Taney, then
decided to shoot a line from hit
327-foot vessel and attempt to
the Petri back into San
just any time he gets
his fishing
ready.
GET
Barney Lewis out at Lewis Sup-
er Market tells us he was really
well pleased with the results he
got from advertising his special
sale in the Sun News last week
end. He had a character named
Kernel O t h o Upinbucket and a
clown around the store all day
both days then on Saturday he
had a big Indian on hand to en-
tertain children of shoppers who
visited the store.
RESULTS
Notice the Palmer Brothers are
making improvements in Level -
land again. This time it appears
they are in the process of giving j haul
their dry cleaning establishment i Francisco Bav. Apprceches wera
a face lifting. They are putting j difficult and the Petri was having
a new brick front on the building j trouble raising its anchors,
and making other repairs and im-1 Hundreds of spectators lined the
pnovements according to M. G., the Laach in a pouring rain to watdi
establishment. i (BAILORS BATTLE—Page At)
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