The Levelland Daily Sun News (Levelland, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 177, Ed. 1 Monday, July 24, 1961 Page: 1 of 6
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O'-UME XIX. NUMBER 177
Associated Pros* (API Leased Wirt Service
LEVELLAND, TEXAS
MONDAY. JULY 24. 1941
Farm girl escapes family slaughter
A Day
In the
SUN
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By ORLIN BREWER
You find out information about
Levelland people in itrange pla
ces. sometimes.
We spent the weekend in Tulia
and found Levelland veterinarian
Dr. Gilbert D. Lindsey in the hos-
pital there with a heart attack.
Dr. Lindsey had taken his child-
ren to Tulia to spend sometime
with their grandparents and was
stricken with severe chest pains
Friday afternoon. Doctors diagnos-
ed his case as a heart attack, al-
though initial tests failed to indi-
cate heart damage.
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When we visited him at his
room in Swisher County Hos-
pital, Dr. Lindsey was actiag
like anything but a heart pa-
tient, swinging his arms a-
bove his head and relaxing in
bored acceptance of what had
happened to him.
“I feel like I could get right
■p and walk out of here with-
out any ill effects,” be said.
But doctors tell him he won't
be able to put his feet to the
floor for about a week.
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Bill Glassford and Eddie Irwin,
co - owners and publishers of the
Morton Tribune since 1952, have
sold the Morton Tribune to Cal
and Gene Snyder of Denver City
Both men are former Levelland
residents, at one time employed
by the Levelland newspaper.
They had owned the Morton pa-
per with Max Daley, now a Cali-
fornia resident. Daley purchased
the Tribune in March of 1952 and
in November of the same year
Glassford and Inaa —h—d ost
Levelland men have operated
the paper since that time.
Ge/e Snyder is moving to Mor-
ton this week to operate the Mor-
ton paper. Plans of both Bill and
Eddie are indefinite.
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Levelland enpermarkets are
going after business with new
advertising programs, if yon re
been noticing the ads in the
Levelland Daily Sun News.
One “grocery etore” which
Isn't advertising, however, is
the surplus products center,
which has been open since the
recession days of the Eisen-
hower administration some
years ago.
Old age pensioners automati-
cally qualify for the free sur-
plus products, but most of
those receiving the stable
foods products are Latins and
Negroes.
County Judge Lewis Owens
says that about 909 persons
were given aid of this sort
last month.
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A good many Levelland residents
will be interested in the story on
page 3 of today’s Levelland Daily
Sun News concerning the final
solution of a 20-year mystery a-
bout a pastor and a rose.
Dr P. D. O’Brien, subject of
the store, received one of those
re cs w hile conducting a revival at
the First Baptist here.
Or O'Brien is well known local-
1' In addition to the revival, he
h -"oken before a Rotary in-
s''1! t on banquet and was gradu-
ation speaker for this past year's
Levelland high school graduating
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Levelland guardsmen head for camp
Thus* threu pictures show Levelland National ■Guardsman,
who arrived in North Fort Hood Sunday, as they prepared
to leave on the trip. Above (left), the unit stands at ease
with guardsmen silhouetted against a late afternoon sun as
they'get instructions prior to departure. At right, lead Jeep
end other vehicles ere lined up for road as men puf tarp on
truck. In picture below, local guardsmen Al Ehrler and Jake
Delrymple chat with battery commander Capt. Glenn-Curry
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of Lubbock. The men will return to Levelland on Aug.yb—if
they're not frozen on active duty because of the current in-
ternational crisis. (Staff Photos)
WITHOUT TROUBLE
Farm bill
passage
foreseen
WASHINGTON (AP) -
field of Montana says he expects
the Senate to pass the rewritten
omnibus farm bill without major
changes or controversy.
Debate opens in the Senate to-
day.
The bill was altered by the Sen-
ate Agriculture Committee, which
slashed many of the controversial
requests of Secretary of Agricul-
ture Orville Freeman.
A companion measure has
cleared the House Agriculture
Committee and is slated for early
House action.
Sen. George Aiken. R-Vt.. said.
“They are enough alike so we
should be able to get a confer-
ence agreement without too much
bloodshed
Both committees knocked out
Freeman’s key request that the
secretary and representative farm
groups be authorized to draft their
own federal programs subject to
congressional veto.
Both the Senate and House bills
would authorize an emergency
wheat program for the next crop,
requiring a 10 per cent reduction
in planting to qualify for slightly
higher government price supports.
Other common features of the
bills include:
A one-year extension of the
emergency corn and feed grains
program now operating, under
which farmers must cut acreage
20 per cent to qualify for price
supports.
A three-year extension of the
National Wool Act and its incen-
tive payments to increase domes-
tic production.
A three-year extension and an
FARM RILL—PAGF 2
SPEECH SET TUESDAY
Kennedy back in capitol
to ready major address
Bv DOUGLAS B. CORNELL
WASHINGTON (AP)—President
Kennedy, after another weekend
on Cape Cod, returned today to
the White House to tie down de-'
tails of the majdr address he will
make to the nation Tuesday night.
That speech, to be broadcast
nationally on television and radio,
will reveal what measures he has
decided are necessary for the na-
SINPUL GAME?
Minister, bingo crowd
stage unruly dispute
Bv EDDY GILMORE
LONDON (AP)—"Bingo.” laid
the Rev. Cyril Blount as he faced
400 enthusiastic bingo fans, “is a
greater sin than sex immorality.”
“Rubbish,” shouted a woman in
the audience.
“If this craze is not curbed,”
continued the Methodist minister,
“I am appalled to think of the
sorrows it can bring to family
life.”
“Nonsense,” yelled a man who
was fanning himself with a bingo
card. “Bingo is not gambling.”
“Then why don't you play it
without money?” demanded the
minister.
Harlow Sunday at the invitation
of Jack Wilding, one of the pro-
moters of a game that js sweep-
ing Britain
Back at his church. St And-
rews, 12 members of the congre-
gation prayed for the conversion
of the bingo players.
"Bingo,” said the Rev Mr.
Blount, “is a great sin because
it's the worship of a false god—
and an expression of greed.”
Ignonng a chorus of derisive
“boos,” the minister drove home
his point by saying he knew of a
wife and mother two—after play-
ing bingo—had only 8 pennies (10
The Rev. Mr Blount had gone I cents) left from her housekeeping
W a crowded kali at suburban I MINISTER, BINGO-PAGE 2
Negro mother,
five children
perish in fire
By ROBERT GREEN
LOWELL, Mass. (AP) - The
mother and five children of a des-
titute Negro family of 12 perished
early today in a tenement house
fire.
The father and the other
five children suffered, variously,
shock, burns and cuts,' but none
was in serious condition.
The mother. Mattie Merllonan.
about 30, had saved herself and
at least one other child. But
against the pleas of neighbors she
desperately plunged back into the
burning building to try to save
others and died when a fiery
staircase collapsed beneath her.
In addition to Mrs. Merllonan,
the dead were Willie James 9.
Bobby Rav 8. Gee 4, Ivy 3, and
Pamela 11 months.
The father. John ,1. Merllonan,
34. was taken to St. Joseph's Hos-
pital to be treated with his sur-
viving children John J. Jr. 14,
Mattie Ruth 13. Dale Lee 11,
NEGRO MOTHER-PAGE 2
tion to face up to the Soviet threat
to Berlin and world peace. He
will tell Congress on Wednesday
what action he hopes it will take
to carry out his decisions.
The grave decision on how to
back up Kennedy’s notice to Mos-
cow that Berlin will be defended
at all cost was hammered out last
Wednesday at a meeting of the
National Security Council.
Kennedy went to his summer
home at Hyannis Port, Mass., for
the weekend to work over his
speech revealing that decision.
But he got in some relazation too
on Cape Cod.
He had no appointments sched-
uled today and aides said he
planned to spend the day working
on his speech.
ONE YOUTH DROWNS
Rains up to 7 inches
flooding San Antonio
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
flooding in San Antonio and left
a youth drowned Monday. Some
residents said they thought a
small tornado accompanied the
heavy downpour.
Trees and power lines were
downed, especially in southeast
San Antonio. Hundreds of trees
fell in a 30 block area.
The Weather Bureau warned of
of the city.
peeted
cades at intersections made haz-
ardous by high water and blamed
the hard rain and slick streets for
a rash of auto accidents.
The new rain came after about
125 families returned to their
homes after being forced out by
flash flooding the previous night.
Swept off a San Antonio bridge
and drowned was Denny Dalrym
flooding on the Nueces River west j pie. 16, of Waco. An uncle, B. J.
of Uvalde.
Rains of up to six inches sent
the Nueces on a 20-foot rise south-
west of Rocksprings and 3-foot
rise was reported at Camp Wood,
northwest of Uvalde.
Camp Wood caught 3.50 inches
and the Mayes Ranch southeast
of Rocksprings measured 6 inches,
the Weather Bureau said.
San Antonio rain guages caught
as much as 7 inches of rain down-
pours Saturday and Sunday night,
with the heaviest rainfall hitting
the south, west and east sections
Ropesville youth
put on probation
following knifing
A Ropesville Latin American
youth, accused of knifing another
Latin near the Evans grocery sev-
eral days ago, was placed on pro-
bation and released to the custody
of his parents after a Juvenile
Court hearing Monday morning.
The fracas between the youth
and four other Latins made a
shamble of the store and resulted
in six men beinrg jailed.
Judge Louis Owens said the
hearing revealed that the youth’s
action was largely a matter of
self defense.
Spending bill is tossed
to conference by Senate
By DAVE CHEAVENS
AUSTIN (AP) — The Senate
threw the 12.5 billion spending
bill into joint conference commit-
tee today and awaited formal sub-
mission of the 1328 million not-
enough tax measure
A technical error in the reve-
nue bill as approved by the House
Saturday temporarily delayed its
formal referral to the State Af-
fairs Committee.
Chairman Wardlow Lane, how-
ever, called a meeting of the
State Affairs Committee for this
afternoon, at which time he said
it would be set for public hear-
ing This probably will be on
Wednesday. It is a neceaaary step
in processing the measure.
The House, after hours of wran-
gling, haggling and amending, fi-
nally managed Saturday to send
the insufficient revenue bill across
the Capitol to the Senate, where
it faces certain sharp revision.
If the money-raising bill fol-
lows the usual well-beaten path
of rax measures in the Texas
legislative process, the Senate will
sharply revise the House version,
and a final effort to write a bill
will be made in a joint inference
committee.
Opinion split among legislators
and observers of the legislative
scene on whether the deficit-eras-
SPENDING BILL-PAGE 2
Dalrymple, 35, of Waco was pulled
to safety.
Less violent flooding but suffi-
cient to cause severe cotton crop
damage occurred near Trent, just
HIGHJACKED
Airliner
forced to
fly to Cuba
I MIAMI, Fla. (AP)—An Eastern
! Air Lines prop-jet Electra was hi-
jacked on a flight to Tampa today
and its pilot was forced to fly to1
Cuba. The plane carried 33 pas-
sengers and a crew of five.
The plane landed at Jose Marti
Airport near Havana, the Miami
airport reported.
Last radio contact with the pi-
lot, W. E. Buchanan, was with
Aeronautical Radio, Inc., an air-
lines radio pool firm in Key West.
Buchanan said he was changing
course and was flying to Havana
at gunpoint.
The plane was Flight 202. It
left Miami International Airport
at 9:05 a m. (EST) on a regular
flight to Tampa.
Aboard were 21 paying passen-
gers, 12 Eastern pass-carrying
employes and the five crew mem-
bers. the airline said.
A U.S. jet fighter plane based
at Homestead, Fla., near Miami,
accompanied the airliner to a
point three miles from Cuba, ac-
cording to an officer of the North
American Air Defense Command
at Colorado Springs, Colo.
NORAD headquarters is the
nerve center for aerial defense of
the United States and Canada
First indication that something
was amiss came when the $3Vi-
million plane went sharply off
course on the radarscope.
An airline spokesman said the
passenger list had been turned
over to the border patrol and the
U.S. Immigration Service.
In the last two years, nine
passenger planes have been hi-
jacked between Florida and Cuba
Seven were Cuban planes which
were forced to land in Florida
in two days sent Noodle Creekout
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homes.
By Monday morning, a few
thundershowers still were scat-
tered east of Mineral Wells, west
of Waco and in the Junction-San
Antonio area, and along the Rio
Grande and the coast.
Official rainfall totals for the
24 hours ending at 6 a.m. Mon-
day, most of which fell Sunday
or Sunday night, included:
Presidio 07, Brownwood 05,
Austin .01, Texarkana .55, Hous-
ton 1.41.
CROSSROADS
REPORT
Dear Editor:
I note that Mr. Richard Nix-
on takes adversity well, and
is now trying to get into a
tougher racker — the news-
paper columning, or profession-
al knocking business.
And in one of his early
pieces he writes that the De-
mocrat administration is set-
ting a world's record for big
talk and little do.
But my self-winding critic
neighbor says it is illogical to
accuse JFK of doing nothing,
when he is already a cincb
to take the World’s Heavy •
weight Spending title away
from the Republicans.
D. E SCOTT
Midlander kills
4 children, self
MIDLAND, Tex (AP) - A 1S-
year-old farm girl seriously
wounded with a bullet wound in
the stomach ran IVt miles in the
mud to a neighbor's house before
dawn today and cried out:
“Daddy has shot the boys!”
Officers rushed to the Fred Mil-
ton Kinsey home, northwest of
this West Texas oil center, and
found Kinsey and three boys and
a girl dead.
All had been shot to death. Th#
children were in their pajamas
while Kinsey was in khaki trous-
ers and a green sports shirt.
Mrs. Kinsey was reported living
in Fort Worth.
Officers said they found a note
which read in part: “The kids
have to go. They'll have a better
home. Mother is coming.”
The wounded girl was brought
to Midland Memorial Hospital
where her condition was de-
scribed as serious.
The dead included three boy*
and a girl. They were J. D. Kin-
I sev, 17; Johnny 13; Jay 8; and
Liily 7.
All of the children except John-
ny had died from a single bullet
wound in the chest. Johnny had
five wounds in the heart.
Kinsey, 58, died of a pistol
wound in the forehead.
sey. Midland officers said she ap-
parently escaped through IfHbatfe
room window and fled in hdr
nightclothes to spread the alarm.
Police said the shooting appar-
ently occurred around 2 a m. _
A report received here ^419
Kinsey once was a mental patient.
Bodies of two of the children
were found on a bed in a front
room. Bodies of the other two
children were sprawled in a back
room of the modes frame home.
Kinsey s body was slumped on
a sofa.
Officers said they also found a
.22 caliber rifle in addition to the
pistol. They said the rifle was
hanging on a wall. It had jammed
but officers said it apparently had
been fired recently.
Remains of the Sunday evening
meal and a set of dominoes were
found on the dining room table.
A pet dog could not be coaxed
from under a bed where two of
the children’s bodies were found.
The wounded girl was brought
to Midland Memorial Hospital
where her condition was described
as serious.
Justice of the Peace David M.
Ellis rushed to the farm home to
hold an inquest.
The girl awakened Mrs. Jacob#
and her son, Bobby, 17. Bobby
opened the door.
“Bobby, I’ve been dtot,” said
the girl. „
Mrs. Jacobs asked, “Who did
it?”
“My daddy, and I think he shot
the boys.”
The girl then told how she waa
awakened by a noise and saw her
father standing over her and hold-
WOUNDED TEENAGER—PAGE i
OVER WEEKEND
Eight arrests made
by Levelland police
CITY POLICE HAD A BUSY ing for investigation and were re-
time over the weekend, making
eight arrests — one of them a
second offense DWI charge.
Jose Hernandez, 61, arrested
early Sunday morning and charg-
ed with drunkeness. paid a $25
fine Monday and was released.
Vemer L. Pace, 26, posted a
$1,000 bond in Justice of the Peace
Court on a second offense of driv-
ing while 'intoxicated. Bondsmen
were given as R. P. Pace and
David Parsons.
Pace was arrested by city of-
ficers at 5:25 a m. Sunday on Col-
lege Ave.
TWO COLORED MEN WERE
AIRLINER FORCED—PAGE 2 Arrested in the flats Sunday morn-
leased Monday with no charge#
filed.
A fine of $25 was paid by Mar-
shal Sims, 58, after he was jail-
ed Sunday afternoon, and two Lat-
ins, Neiol Salzido and Jose Crux
were incarcerated Sunday night.
Cruz was charged with drunkeness
and paid $2.> on a plea of guilty.
Salzido was still in custody follow-
ing charges of no driver’s license
A COMPLAINT TO POLICE BY
a city man resulted in the jailing
of Doyle Carlton. 38. Carlton
pleaded guilty to changes on be-
ing drunk and disturbance and was
fined $50 in Corporation Court
Monday.
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Brewer, Orlin. The Levelland Daily Sun News (Levelland, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 177, Ed. 1 Monday, July 24, 1961, newspaper, July 24, 1961; Levelland, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1137097/m1/1/?q=%221961-07%22&rotate=270: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting South Plains College.