The Levelland Daily Sun News (Levelland, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 165, Ed. 1 Sunday, July 9, 1961 Page: 2 of 12
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A — PAM TWO
TH1LIYBLLAND DAILY SUN NIWS, LovodoiKi. Tens
'Sitting on the edge of heaven'
PASADENA, Calif. (AP) - Ethel
Water*, who cay* she is sick, broke
and jobless has this message for
her friends who worry about her.
“I have never been so happy
in all my life. The Lord has his
inns wrapped around this big fat
sparrow. I’on sitting on the edge
of Heaven.”
Except for an occasional televi-
sion appearance, the 61-year-old
350-pound singer and actress has
been out of work for five years.
“If I tried real hard I might be
able to rustle up 15.” she told an
interviewer.
Miss Waters made such pictures
as "Cabin in the Sky" and “Mem-
ber of the Wedding," for which she
received an Academy Award nom-
ination. Songs she helped make
famous included "Am I Blue?” and
"Stormy Weather ”
Her autobiography. “His Eye is
on the Sparrow,” was a best seller
10 years ago.
Row white - haired. Miss Wa-
ters has a room in the house of a
Pasadena family. She says she
suffers from high blood pressure,
diabetes and heart trouble. In May
1960. she suffered a heart attack
which hospitalized her for months,
and has limited her activities ever
since.
“When I go to bed at night I
never know if I’m going to hear
{he birds singing in the morning
again." she said. “But I'm not
afraid to die. In fact. I'm kinds
looking forward to it. I know that
the Lord has his arms wrapped
around me."
Miss Waters says her religious
beliefs forced her out of show
business.
"I got good offers from famous
men," she said. “They wanted to
give me thousands of dollars to be
in their plays — but the plays
were dirty, and blasphemous, and
old Ethel told them that they
weren’t fit to be seen by decent
people,
“Sweet child, they were mad.
They don’t like it when you tell
the truth about them, so they
stopped sending scripts to me and
Carolyn Rister
betrothal told
Mr. and Mrs. John Rister, Route
1,/ Levelland, are announcing the
engagement and approaching mar-
riage of their daughter. Carolyn
Louise to Dale Panzer, son of
Mrs. Thelma A. Panzer, 3415 Au-
burn, Lubbock. The wedding has
been scheduled for Aug. 3.
ITHIL WATIRS
Sick, Brake, But Happy
then the agents stopped trying to
get work for me. They’ll tell you
that I ’retired,’ but any retiring
Higher education
commission board
swearing scheduled
AUSTIN (AP) — Seven new
members of the Texas Commis-
sion on Higher Education will be
sworn in Monday when the com-
mission opens Jts regular quarter-
ly meeting.
Taking oath from Judge Zollie
C. Steakley, associate justice of
the Texas Supreme Court wil lbe:
Elizabeth Koch, San Antonio; Jes-
se Cooper, Dumas; L. L. Duckett,
El Campo; John E. Gray, Beau-
mont; Ralph Logan. San Angelo;
Julian Montgomery, Austin; and
Watson Wise, Tylfr.
The 15-member board was cre-
ated by the 1955 Legislature to
serve as a coordinating agency
for public higher education in the
state. - ,
that was done wasn't voluntary.”
Miss Waters says she made sev-
eral fortunes during her many
years on the stage and screen.
“Darlin,’ I lived good for a long
time," she said. "I had a nice
home, and big cars, and avory
thing that money could buy. Rut
Lord, was I lonely. I used fliat
money wrong. I tried to buy
friends.”
Miss Waters also had troubles
with the Internal Revenue Service,
and the memory of them bflngs
on gales of laughter.
"I sold everything I owned to
pay off that bill,” she said. "I
sold my house, my car, and every-
thing else. But I paid ’em. I don't
owe a cent to anyone.”
And she broke into another Boom-
ing laugh, when she said;
“Oh, precious, if half the people
that owed me money would pay it
back. I'd be a rich woman afain.”
Blame put
Redden fined $200
City police arrested Johnny Red-
den early Saturday morning and
charged him with drunk and dis-
turbance following a fight at the
Rainbow Inn Cafe in north Level-
land.
Redden was recently given a
two-year probationary sentence in
district court for assault with a
prohibited weapon. Police Chief
G. T. Arrington said additional
charges are pending against Red-! rubles,
den. He was -fined $200 in city! <Th« United States expects
_ spend more than $43 billion
Ad Man's vue
Continued from page one
pear on page three of section B.
GET
As a part of the observance of
the Civil War Centennial (1961 -
1965), Paxton Insurance Agency
has been running an ad as seen
in today’s Sun News with pictures
of Abraham Lincoln and Robert
E. Lee. Free facsimiles of insur-
ance policies of these two men
plus large reprints of their pic-
tures are available to you. Just
contact the Paxton Agency or write
and they will be sent to you
RESULTS
An introduction is being made to-
day of the manager of the new
Plains Bowl which is being built
on West Avenue. He is Joe Ha-
gin. You’ll see by the Plains Bowl
ad that organization of leagues,
teams, etc. is now underway for
the new bowling facility.
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$1,954,000,000 in additional defense
funds — mostly for 10 more
missile-firing Polaris submarines,
a bigger arsenal of long-range
Minuteman rockets and a strong-
er capability to fight limited or
guerilla-type wars.
The 1961 Soviet military budget
is to rise by 3,144,000.000 rubles—
about $3.5 billion by Russian
evaluation — to 12,399,000.000 (jone |0
counties
to
on
defense this year, but grounds for
! comparison are slight. Western
Hunting of deer
with dogs is still
OK in 7 counties
AUSTIN (AP) Y" Hunters in
seven East Texas counties can
continue hunting deer with dogs.
The Game and Fish Commis-
sion turned down Friday a pro-
posed regulation prohibiting hunt-
ing deer with dogs any where in
the state. The present regulation,
which the commission let stand,
allows dogs to be used in Hardin,
Jasper, Liberty, Newton, Orange,
Polk and Tyler counties.
Witnesses said the proposed
change would undo much work
win respect in those
for the state's game
laws.
“From time immemorial people
have hunted with deer dogs in
my district — and to be frank,
experts consider the Soviet budget [ thev might continue to do so,’
figures misleading. Many ex-: Rep Sam Collins of Newton said
penses of the armed forces are|
buried in all locations ostensibly
for civilian production.)
The decision to cancel cuts in
the armed forces means at least
some of the 1.2 million men whom
the Supreme Soviet decided in
Hardin County Atty, Dwayne
Overstreet said that in his county
"this is more important than
South Viet Nam, Laos or Cuba
right now.”
“To make this move would
cause the citizens to want to
January 1960 to discharge over|return from commission regula-
a two-year period will stay in uni-
form. The Soviets said their
armed forces at the outset of the
reduction program totaled 3,623,-
000 men.
Surgeon is claimed
SAN ANTONIO (AP)—Dr. Gus-
tav Pagenstecher, 67, a surgeon
here for 28 years, died Wednes-
day at Fulton, near Rockport.
He was the former dean of the
Santa Rosa Hospital School of
Nursing and chief surgeon at
Robert B. Green Hospital.
tory authority to control by Legis-
lature," Hoard Hargrove of Sils-
bee, president of the East Texas
Wildlife Conservation Association
said.
No change was made in the
regulation prohibiting hunting
with deer dogs
Two local stylists
to enter contest
Two Levelland hair dressers, Del-
vina Gage and Don Cheek, were
, j among five contestants selected to
represent the Lubbock school in a
contest in Fort Worth to be
sponsored by Isabell’s University.
The Lubbock team will compete
with teams representing the six
other Isabell’s beauty ichools in
the August 6th contest.
Mrs. Gage and Cheek won first
at a contest held at the Lubbock
school Thursday night. The winning
team at the Fort Worth Competi-
tion will receive an expense-paid
trip to Acapulco, Old Mexico.
Sunday, July 9, 1911
Tax crisis
Continued from page one
lar session in January new money
estimate* were only $300 million
to $300 million.
The 56th Legislature finally
quit in 1969 after 301 days of
wrangling over taxes and spend-
ing in one regular and three spe-
cial session at that time the $185
million tax bill passed was be-
lieved large enough to wipe out
a $34 million deficit and finance
$960-1961 operations.
In calling Monday's special ses-
sion Daniel limited the order of
Tnlkiness to "the general appro-
priations bill, public school im-
provements and sufficent econ-
omy and revenue measures to
provide for these expenditures,
including the escheat (abandoned
property) bill,”
Daniel told The Associated
Press Saturday he also definitely
plans to ask the special session
to tighten Texas lobby control
laws.
Daniel said he felt many of the
special sessions called in Texas
would have been unnecessary ex
cept for lobbyists’ influence.
“Their instating against any
compromise is responsible for the
failure of the legislature to reach
agreement on many of the most
important bills.” he said.
Calvert’s latest estimate was
based on estimated revenues,
minus tax credits, the general
fund deficit, a $75,469,906 founda-
tion school fund deficit and a
$4,341,544 available school fund
appropriation outstanding.
The January astimate was re-
vised downward by a $3.6 million
increase proposed in public wel-
fare payments in 1M3-63, a de
crease in estimated franchise tax
receipts, a new law paying the
Texas education agency out of the
foundation school fund, a decrease
in the estimate of unexpended ap-
propriations this biennium and a
decrease in the omnibus tax
clearance fund estimate for gen-
eral appropriations.
The senate - passed tax bil,
based on a general sales tax with
a number of exemptions, (HB334)
was estimated to have a revenue
raising power of $343 million. It
was killed in the house by speak-
er James Turman’s tie—making
vote on the last day of the session.
There was no indication of any
let up in the sales tax fight.
The oeganization known as
Citizens for a Sales Tax an-
nounced that a statewide post
card poll showed $.360 persons
favoring a retail sales tax and
1.SU favoring some other type of
broad base tax. Tom Sealy. chair-
man of the group, invited legis-
lators to inspect the returned post
cards. He said the next largest
vote in the poll was 35$ voting
against a sales tax but offering no
alternative. A total of $37 voted
for economy with no new taxes.
Another organization. Citizens
for Fair Taxation, headed by J. E.
Connally, state Democratic chair-
man, has not announced results of
its statewide poll on new taxes.
A special 19-member tax study
committee named by Daniel re-
ported this week that it believes
“some sort of retail sales taxa-
tion, whether it is general, special-
limited or selective, is the most
feasible means of providing the
main portion of a broad based
plan sufficient to meet the needs
of our state.”
The committee made only a
generalized report, leaving the de-
tails to the governor and the legis-
lature.
Rep. Henry Fletcher, Luling,
announced he will have a 1 per
cent general retail sales tax bill
ready to introduce in the special
session. His bill covers all retail
sales except motor fuel. Fletcher
said the state comptroller est-
ates the bill will bring in $123,-
437,385 a year, about $2 million
more than the 2 per cent sales
tax in the bill (HB 334) approved
by the senate in the regular
session.
Fletcher said he yvill ask a 1
per cent increase in old age
assistance to offset the 1 per cent
sales tax the old folks would have
to pay under his bill.
Engineer pickets
halt loading of
Port Arthur ship
PORT ARTHUR (AP) - Two
engineer pickets stopped the load-
ing of a grain ship Saturday in
seeming violation of the national
restraining order against a mari-
time stride.
Wayne Jones, a spokesman for
the Marine Engineers Benevolent
Association, would not say why
the pickets were put up, or
whether national qr local issues
were involved.
“All I can say is that it is
something that is just breaking,”
said Jones. He referred all ques-
tions to the New York office of
the union.
Ship loading, scheduled to be-
gin at 11 a.m., never started
when International La£shore-
men’s Association members re-
fused to cross the picket line.
The ship involved is the Senti-
nel, listed as owned by the Pan
Ore Steamship Co., New York,
and under Panamanian registry.
The •engineers are one of the
unions prevented from striking in
a temporary injunction issued
Monday by U. S. Judge Sylvester
Ryan in New York.
Joe Tunnell, assistant U S. at-
torney, reached at Tyler, Tex.,
said the government is not a
party to the restraining order,
and any contempt proceedings
would have to come from the
shipowners.
James Flanagan, local agent
for the line, said any action
would depend on instruction from
the company’s New York office.
The Sentinel was the only ship
berthed today at the Cargil Grain
Elevator docks.
Traffic deaths arc up
AUSTIN (AP)—The Department
of Public Safety said Sautrday
traffic deaths in Texas this yaar
are up 6 per cent over the same
period in 1960.
This year 1.066 persons have
died in 859 fatal accidents, com-
pared with 1,010 deaths in 280 fa-
tal crashes last year at this tim e
Fatal accidents are up 5 per cent.
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Get year vacation trip htsaranco horn.
Outboard Boats. Motors, A Trollon
Nationwide Claim Service
VISIT AT BAIRD
Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Wood Sr.,
105 West 10th, Levelland, have
just returned from a visit with her
sisters and families, Mr. and Mrs.
F. T. Abernathy and sons Gary
and Ronnie, and Mr. and Mrs.
Arthur Burleson, at Baird. They
also visited with Mr. and Mrs.
Randall Ivy and sons. Mrs. Ivy is
a niece. The Levelland couple also
got in some fishing on Baird Lake,
but rain interrupted these activi-
ties.
Some 4,900,000 Americans visit-
ed Canada during 1960, while
700,000 went south of the border
to Mexico
Sky jumpers
Continued from pa go one
Heisz, who had missed her target
area considerably because of ef-
forts to delay the jump for
photographer in a second plane
admitted to being "a little wor-
ried” when she saw she was going
to land near parked farm machin-
ery and a highline.
But she had another jump safe-
ly behind her, each day moving
closer to the "veteran” status of
many of the male members of the
Lubbock Sport Parachutists Club,
some of whom started their jump-
ing as paratroopers in the service.
WHAT WOULD CAUSE ANY-
body to take up parachute jump-
ing as a weekend hobby, most of
all, the mother of six and eight-
year-old boys, as Mrs. Heisz is?
"It’s the most exciting thing I
ever did,” is the way Mrs. Heisz
explains it. And the landlubber
who watches a skydiver fall a
thousand feet from a plane like
a- swimmer coming off a high
board can readily believe it.
THE MEMBERS OF THE
group are just typical people who
go in for thrills. Examples:
Dej Hiemott, Monterey art tea-
cher at Lubbock and president of
the club. He started jumping as
a member of U.S. airborne forces
in 1953.
He should have passed the 100
jump mark now.
S-Sgt. Richard Nicholas of Reese
Air Force Base, with more than
76 jumps behind him.
A 2 - c Theodor* Kroes, two
jumps.
Tech junior Pete Pedtrsen, an
accounting major, nine jumps.
Mike Porter, Levelland air port
employee, who got the fever after
the club started coming to Level-
land "because the people are
friendly, they have the best drop
area any where around here, and
they let us."
BEGINNERS USE A STATIC
line. But after they graduate from
this, they begin delayed falls.
A stop watch and an altimeter
attached in view of the jumper
on his second “reserve” chute up
front help him know for certain
that he’s fallen far enough, or
too far, for that matter.
But the jumpers insist that
there’s almost no chance for mis-
haps.
What about those people you
read about in the newspapers who
Heavy rains fad I Day in the Sun
Thunderstorms built up a
cross the northern half of Tex
as Saturday after torrentia'
rains and around Cisco, East
land, Anson and Stamford.
Up to 24 inches fell witjiin
an hour in that West Texas
area where U.S. 277 waa flood
ed for a time.
Light rain fell at Texarkana
and Waco.
Heavy rains also fell at As-
permont and Old Glory, in
measured only a trace.
Neatly half of all the citizens of
Kansas live on farms. The state’s
rural population percentage is one
of the highest in the United States.
didn’t open their chutes?
"Well, maybe they didn’t want
them to open.”
SKYDIVING ISN’T A HOBBY
for paupers. Hiemott, for instance,
uses a war surplus chute which
is worth about $100. The cost
ranges up to $600.
It costs each member from $3
to $4 per jump, not counting dues,
depending on how much time they
log in making the jump.
MRS. HEISZ, A RAILWAY
claims agency clerk, admits to
working, not only to support her-
self and her children, but “to get
more money to jump.”
Her children don’t watch her
feats now, but they did see her
first jump.
‘They think R’s the greatest,”
she said.
Continued from page ono
lie head doctor at the Wichita
Falls state mental hospital.
Which is sorts the way wo
fee about Eudy. Wo wish him
the best. But we’ll be trying
to delay as long as possible
any professional services ho
might render us.
oOo
Jim Turner, Slaughter gasoline
plant employee from Levelland
who underwent very serious sur-
gery «t the veterans hospital at
Big Spring on June 2S, is now off
the critical list and can have
visitors.
Mrs. Turner says Jim would
welcome visits from local friends
at room 503. Visiting hours are
from 2 to 4 p.m. each afternoon
and from 7 p.m. to 8:30 Tuesdays,
Thursdays and Saturdays. Visitors
aren’t allowed at other times.
SPORTS BULLETIN
(AP) — Angela Mortimer, 39,
was crowned the first British
queen of the Wimbledoa
courts since 1937 Saturday —
but only after Christine Tru-
man saw victory literally slip
from her grasp in the first
all-British final in 47 years.
Miss Truman slipped and
twisted her leg daring the cru-
cial second set and finally was
UNDERGOES SURGERY
Jerry Boudreaux, an employes
of George C. Price Funeral Home,
underwent lung surgery Friday at
Methodist Hospital in Lubbock. H#
was reported in satisfactory con-
dition Saturday morning.
YOUTH
SHOP
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NOW IN PROGRESS
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