The Levelland Daily Sun News (Levelland, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 142, Ed. 1 Tuesday, February 14, 1961 Page: 1 of 6
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THE WEATHER
Temperature reattongi for the put 34
hour period ending at noon today:*
MINIMUM n
MAXIMUM T1
NOON READINGS At
PREC1PATION FOR YEAR .« Inch*#
FORECAST: Clear to partly cloudy and
mild through Wednesday Low tonight IB
to north to 90 In eoutheaoC High Wednes-
day to to 75.
Ibs Levelland Daily Sun News
"WITHOUT OR WITH OFFENSK TO FRIENDS OR FOES WE SKETCH YOUR WORLD EXACTLY AS IT *0ES‘
VOLUME XIX, NUMBER 142
Associated Press (AP) Leased Wire Service
LEVELLAND, TEXAS
PRICE: Daily 5c — Sunday 10a
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1941
Soviet demands Congo withdrawal
CHURCH, BUSINESS PEOPLE GATHER IN AUSTIN
Task force
fight racing
By DAVE CHEAVENS
AUSTIN (AP)—A task force of
church and business people or-
ganized today for a finish fight
against Rep. V. E. (Red) Berry’s
plan to legalize horse race betting
again in Texas.
The Rev. Jimmy Allen, secre-
tary of the Christian Life Com-
mission of the state’s Baptist Gen-
eral Convention, said Baylor Uni-
versity President W. R. White
would speak out against the pro-
posed constitutional amendment
at the public hearing tonight.
H was the first word of organ-
ised opposition on the issue that
has drawn huge crowds to the
Capitol in many a past contest
between followers of the horses
and their stem opponents usually
led by ministers. Dr. White is a
veteran warrior of the recurring
battle.
Rev. Mr. Allen said the team
would include Arthur Smith of
Dallas, an economist with the
First National Bank there, who
will speak against parimuted
legalization and horse racing as
an adverse business factor.
Berry, self-styled retired gamb-
ler who won his seat in the House
partly on a platform urging re-
turn of horse racing to Texas,
also-says he will flood the com-
mittee with testimony from
Chambers of Commerce backing
his proposal as an economic
TASK FORCE PAGE 2
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BY ORLIN BREWER
An and to a story of personal
tragedy for a well • known Lev-
elland man has been written into
the official records.
Justice of the Peace Earl Ford
Monday afternoon returned an in-
quest verdict in the death of James
Hatch, ruling that Hatch "died
from drowning.’’ .
Ford said that Hatch "probably
had a tainting spell, fell and hurt
Ms nose. I think he crawled over
to the bath tub to bathe his face.’’
As Ford visualises it, it was this
final effort on the part of Hatch
which resulted in his death. The
fall would also explain the blood
on the floor.
All of it adds ap to a time of
Intense sorrow for his family and
his friends.
*-’5'
Independent • minded group ef
men and women who’ve indica-
ted they don’t mind breaking
with tradition of the past,
hold a special meeting Tues-
day night to discuss employ-
ment of school principals, aa
assistant school business man-
ager who would serve as a pur-
chasing agent, and other ad-
ministrative employees of the
school.
This action was item No. It
•h last Thursday night's agen-
dum. but trustees decided they
wanted to clear the air with
a little frank discussion about
each job and each individual
involved.
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The Levelland Daily Sun News
will again be on hand at the meet-
ing, as it has in the past, when
business of interest to the wel-
fare of the schools is being con-
sidered.
This does not mean that every-
thing which is said or transpires
will be printed. Responsible jour-
nalism does not necessarily dic-
tate that it should.
Much of the preliminary dis-
cussion which leads to final ac-
tions will be bypassed because of
the highly personal nature of what
will undoubtedly be said
On the other hand, the final ac-
tions — the end result of these
discussions which affect the pub-
lic — will be published. This is as
it should be. and what the school
board expects.
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This newspaper has enjov-
DAY IN THE SUN PAGE 2
SPECIAL SESSION THREATENED
Daniel issues
bill ultimatum
By GARTH JONES
AUSTIN (AP)—Gov. Price Dan-
iel gave the legislature today the
ohoice of immediate enactment of
his abandoned property bill or a
special session later.
The governor's plainspoken ulti-
matum came in a special mes-
sage to legislators still tied up on
Your
TT.
REPORT
Dear Editor: (
I note that everywhere you
look there is another interview
with some professor of eco-
nomics, giving us the Word
on how come the economy is
sick or isn’t.
My fog - bound neighbor
says what we need these days
is some way to tell which of
these disagreeful experts'
testimony has got aay author-
ity.
Says we could tell If their
economic opinions are any
good if they'd just sign their
names with both titles and fin-
ancial net worth; like, say,
John D. Theorypitcher. Ph. I).
$17.25.
D. Ik. SCOTT
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By KEITH BUTTERFIELD
Boosty Morris, of Morris Motor
Company, and his wife leave Lev-
elland this Thursday for a four -
day trip to San Francisco bv jet.
Boosty won the trip as a member
of the Plymouth All - Star Sales-
man Club. As the leading sales-
man in the region during 1960. he
becomes a member of the Dia
mond Chapter which entitles him
to the expense-paid trip
DSN
On fhe very back page of this
newspaper, you’ll see mid - week
grocery specials offered by Lewis
Super Market. Barney Lewis uses
the Daily Sun News medium to
present these items weekly for
your double stamp dav shopping
ADS
We’ve noticed the past few days
that Larrv Hobgood has- returned
to Cobb’s Department Store in
Levelland after spending several
months in a department store in
Lovington, N. M Larry has as-
sumed the duties of shoe depart-
ment manager here.
GET
, A surprising fact emerges from
a recent study in grocery mar-
kets. Special displays at end of
gondolas accounted for less than
3 per cent, of store purchases, al-
though they occupied equivalent of
59 linear feet of shelf space. The
same amount of space on the grew-
lar shelves accounted for about 6
per cent of purchases in test
stores. It is curious, too, reports
Valentine’* Day with controver-
sial committee hearings.
The biggest committee crowd so
far was expected tonight for a
public hearing on a plan to legal-
ize horse race betting.
A hearing on Daniel’s proposal
to seize abandoned property,
funds or deposits is set for Thurs-
day afternoon. Similar plans
failed in the last two legislatures.
“As governor, I feel as strong
about protecting the state’s inter-
est in this property as I did about
preserving our rights in Texas
tidelands,” said Daniel, a long-
time tidelands crusader in both
Congress and the legislature.
He added that
could be passed “at this regular
session of the 57th Legislature in-
stead of requiring the call of a
special session for this purpose.”
“If we fail, I would have no
other alternative,” he said.
Daniel estimated the bill would
bring in $17 million the first year
and $2 5 million a year thereaft-
er. The first year’s income has
been dedicated by Daniel to eras-
ing a part of the state's $63 mil-
lion deficit.
The House postponed a fight
over a proposal to prohibit state
income or pay roll taxes.
At the request of the author,
Rep. Marshall Bell of San Anto-
nio, the House voted unanimously
to debate the controversial con-
stitutional change Feb 28.
There were no comments today
on the action, apparently the re-
sult of a behind-the-scenes con-
ference held Monday by Speaker
James Turman and his floor lead-
ers
Bell’s measure would give Tex-
as voters a chance to ballot on
writing a permanent provision
into the state Constitution outlaw-
ing state personal or corporation
income taxes or pay roll taxes.
The Senate spent most of the
morning on routine motions and
local bills.
Valentine’s Day tempers were
touchy after way-in-the-night com-
mittee meetings. There was a hint
that the crowded U S. senatorial
special election campaign may
elbow taxing and spending issues
out of the spotlight, at least tem-
porarily.
The odds were against any few-
these researchers, that when you j er hurt feelings at the end of to-
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READING OF SPACE TRAVELLER
A fur hatted Muscovite reads a copy of tha Russian news-
paper Pravda in the Soviet capital telling of the Russian
"space station" hurtling toward the planet Venus.
(AP Wirephoto via radio from' Moscow)
Need for unemployment
aid greatest since '30s
WASHINGTON (AP)-The need
to do something about mounting
unemployment is more urgent
than at any time since the great
depression of the 1930s, House
Speaker Sam Rayburn, D-Tex.,
said after a conference with Presi-
dent Kennedy today.
Rayburn added, that Secretary
of Labor Arthur J. Goldberg re-
ported at the conference that he
has found the situation worse than
he had expected.
, Goldberg reported to Kennedy,
other members of the Cabinet and
Democratic congressional leaders
at an hour-long White House ses-
sion which concentrated on the
problem of joblessness and eco-
nomic recovery.
As Goldberg did Monday night
after a meetfng with Kennedy,
Rayburn said the President will
have something to say about the
PROBLEM PARENTS PRODUCE PROBLEM CHILDREN
Auto-associated troubles rated
as major difficulty of students
AUTOMOBILE - ASSOCIATED
troubles are the number one prob-
lem of the public schbols in Lev-
elland today, counselor W O Tip- |
ton told members of the Levelland |
Kiwanis Club Monday. But he said
that most of the problem stud-
ents, regardless of the immediate
cause, stem back to "problem par-
ent* ”
Tipton said that the vast majority
of the students cause no difficul-
ties for the schools or for their
parents, but some 3 5 per cent
cause such a stir in the commun-
ity that they demand a great deal
of the attention.
TIPTON SUGGESTED THAT
I if parents are going to allow a
I youngster to have a car the par-
ents should buy it for him and
furnish the money to supply it
with gasoline.
He said that students who have
to make payments on cars and
earn money to buy gasoline may
end up in serious trouble during
financial slumps.
He said that money problems
over an automobile often cause
students to get behind in their
work, quit school to hunt for a
job. or interfere in some other
wav with their good behavior.
- "They'll steal before they'll give
that car up." Tipton declared and
warned that parents might be
rudely surprised if they simply
shrug i. off with a my boy would-
do t do that" attitude.
I Tipton said he isn^P’hecessarily
suggesting that a car in itself is
evil, or that no student should be
allowed a car of his own. But he
said the parents need to have the
| discipline at home to control its
| use.
I "If you want to save your boy
through the teen-age years, don't
turn loose of him," he said.
Parents who lose control of their
children have a very difficult job
regaining control. - t
TIPTON LISTED A NUMBER
of “don’t*” for parents in connec-
tion with their children:
“Don’t try to do the child's
thinkinp (A don’t do this or don't
do that ill eventually cause the
AUTO - TROUBLES IribbE t
unemployment situation at his
news conference Wednesday night.
The conference will be broadcast
Jive on nationwide television and
radio.
Newsmen asked Rayburn wheth-
er he got the impression today
that the administration regards
the unemployment problem as
more urgent than had been an-
ticipated.
Rayburn replied he didn’t want
to speak for the administration,
but that in his opinion the prob-
lem reflects "the most urgency
since the great depression" of 30
years ago.
The White House session was
held as Senate Democratic Leader
Mike Mansfield of Montana
pushed for fast action on the eco-
nomic program Kennedy said is
aimed at "putting millions of un-
emplyed back to work."
Mansfield said he has asked the
chairman of the Senate Labor and
Finance committees to get hear-
NEED FOR PAGE 2
Sundown man
pleads guilty
Earl Lewis was given a five year
suspended sentence in 121st Dis-
trict Court Monday afternoon after
entering a plea of guilty to mur-
der without malice.
Lewis entered his plea after the
j indictment was reduced from mur-
| der with malice. He was accused
in the Sundown slaying of R. C.
Bagley on November 6. 1960 He
is the second Negro within two
days to enter such a plea, Ray
Hunter Monday pleaded guilty to
killing Jeff Williams here.
* Members of the venire who
were called Monday but excused
will return Wednesday at 10 a m.
for selection of a jury to hear a
civil suit styled Homer Johnson vs
Zeari Robinson, a trespass to try
title.
of UN chief
LONDON (AP) — The Soviet
government today officially with-
drew its recognition of Dag Ham-
marskjold as U.N. general secre-
tary and demanded that all for-
eign troops get out of the Congo
within one month.
The Russians demanded the
United Nations censure Belgium
in the slaying of Patrice Lumum-
ba, the 4 deposed Congo Premier.
A note distributed by Tass also
demanded the arrest and trial of
President Moise Tshombe of Ka-
tanga Province for Lumumba's
death.
“Dag Hammarskjold must be
dismissed from the post of secre-
tary-general as an accessory to
and organizer of the murder of
the leading statesmen of the Re-
public of the Congo, which has
tarnished the name of the United
Nations,” the Soviet government's
statement said.
Tass reported that the Soviet
government declared that for its
part it will maintain no relations
with Hammarskjold and will, not
recognize him as an official of the
Unted Nations.
The statement said all Belgian
troops and other personnel in the
Congo must be disarmed forth-
with and removed from the Con-
go. It asserted all military units
and gendarmerie taking orders
from Tihoinbe and Congolese
Maj. Gen. Joseph Mobutu “must
be immediately 1
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UNDER WRAPS
This sad looking figure is Katy, a basseff hound owned by
Chris Teeter of Detroit, who relaxes under e blanket follow-
ing a bath in New York’s Madison Squara Garden. Katy will
compete in the annual Wastminister Kennal Club show in
the Garden. (AP Wirephoto)
ment said.^ehould immediately ar
rest Tshombe and Mobutu and
bring them to trial as Lumumba’s
slayers. ^
Tass said all foreign troops
should be withdrawn “so as to
give the Congolese people the pos-
sibility to solve all their home af-
fairs themselves.”
The situation which Hammar-
skjold now faces is similar to that
faced by his predecessor, Trygve
Lie, after the Soviet Union refused
to deal with him because of his
condemnation of the Communist
invasion of South Korea
Lie, however, continued to serve
from the time of the Soviet non-
recognition in. 1950 until Novem-
ber 1952. During that period the
Soviet Union addressed all com-
munications to the U.N. secretari-
at rather than to the secretary-
general.
Hammaskjold’s second five —
year term expires in April 1963.
He has declared he has no inten-
tion to resign.
T A ltT ASSESSOR
Havana tight-lippad
over rebel landing
HAVANA (AP) — The gov-
eminent kept tight-lipped to-
day on reports that a large
anti - Castro force landed on
Cuba's northeast coast and op-
ened a second front in Oriente
Province.
Authorities also refused to
comment on rumors sweeping
Havana that a battalion of Fi-
del Castro's militiamen defect-
ed during fighting in the Es-
cambray Mountains and went
•ver to the rebel side.
Train crash kills woman
SAN ANTONIO (AP)—A South-
ern Pacific freight train hit a car
driven by Miss Lucille Vivion, 46,
Monday, killing her.
Watkins takes over
as superintendent
.3
SWon no serve as k school pur-
chasing agent ind accouqjj»n$ for
the business office.
MARCOM TOLD THE BOARD
that on the basis of the siz»of the
school operation, such a position
likely should have been recomm<'>
Watkins planned to move the | ded to the board several years i*-
superintendent’s office out of the I go.
high school building to the down- He pointed to other schools of
collector O. R. Watkins Tuesday
began his first day as acting su-
perintendent of schools and sche-
duled his first meeting in this
role with trustees Tuesday even-
ing.
town school business office, effec-
tive Wednesday, until a new su-
perintendent is hired by the board.
Mrs. Glen Leatherman, the su-
perintendent's secretary, will also
move to the location on Avenue
G, and the superintendent’s tele-
phone will be transferred there so
that calls to the old number will
continue to reach the top adminis-
trative office.
Former Supt. and Mrs. O. W.
Marcom left for Pasadena, Tex .
Monday evening, where Marcom
begins his work Wednesday as aca-
demic dean of east Harris Coun-
ty’s new San Jacinton Junior Col-
lege.
Mrs. Marcom has resigned her
position as a first grade teacher
at Whitharral, leaving this post to
be filled early this week by the
Whitharral school board.
IN TUESDAY S MEETING OF
the school board, trustees plan to
consider action on a group of ad-
ministrative recommenda-
tions made by Marcom last Thurs-
day night before he left the su-
perintendent’s post.
Marcom made recommendations
concerning employment of school
principals and other administra-
tive personnel, but school board
members delayed action until Tues-
day so that they would have a full
meeting to discuss each position
thoroughly.
One of the key recommenda-
tions called for the creation of an
assistant business manager's post,
with the individual filling this po-
similar size who are now operating
with purchasing agents. He ex-
pressed the belief that the office
could be created with an eventual
saving to the school through more
careful and systematic purchasing
of school supplies.
MOD nets
$2,314.07
The county’s 1961 Mareli ef
Dimes is being cltosed oat
with contributions totalling $K*
314 9. rf
MOD treasurer Claud Tiptoe
reported contributions totalling
this amount have been depoait-
ed in the First National Bank
for the new March of Dimes.
Only a partial breakdmru on
contributions were immediate-
ly available. Tipton said he
had deposit slips showing $1S6.«
92 contributed by the schools,
$418.25 by the Mothers March,
$23.75 by Country Club heae-
1 fits. $271.72 from the radio-
thon. and a National Beard
Roadblock $937.
Jack Setser was chairman
of this year’s county - wide
MOD drive. Harold Roberts ie
chairman of the Hockley Coun-
ty chapter of the National
Foundation.
TRADITION HUNDREDS OF YEARS OLD
Valentine's day of love, romance
When that sweet little thing on
the comer opens her valentine
Tuesday and reads their messages
of love and affection, she may not
know it, but she will be carrying
on a tradition that is hundreds
of years old.
And, while the custom of send-
ing the highly artistic and flowery
worded messages is aancient, no
one know* exactly when o r
where the whole business was
started.
The name Valentine’s Day,
come from a martyred Roman
Catholic Bishop. Saint Valentine
who was killed in 270 A. D.
One legend says that the practice
o. sending the notes came direct-
ly from the bishop bqpause it was
his custom to go from house to
house, leaving food on the door-
step of the popr.
Many of the old legends that
try te explain the moderi^day ob-
servance of Valentine’day Day
are connected with ancient Ro-
man holidays.
A festival of the Romans, which
took place during the middle of
February, was the celebration of
Lupercalia At this time, so the
story goes, each of the young"
men in the celebration drew the
name of a young lady from a box.
This girl was supposed to be the
center of the boys affections for
the coming year. Some say that
this is where the day comes from.
Another Roman legend saya
that all the birds in the land mat-
fcd on the 14th of February and
that the practice of sending «f.
fectionate verse originated on this
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