The Levelland Daily Sun News (Levelland, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 269, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 20, 1960 Page: 1 of 6
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The Weather
Temperature reading! (or the past 24
hour period ending at noon today:
Maximum 84
Minimum 60
Noon reading 81
Precipitation for year 21.87
Precipitation year ago 14.09
FORECAST: Partly cloudy through Thurs-
day With widely scattered afternoon and
evening thundershowers. Low tonight 60
to TO.
Z!2?Levelland Daily Sun News
“WITHOUT OR WITH OFFENSE TO FRIENDS OR FOES WE SKETCH YOUR WORLD EXACTLY AS IT GOES”—Byron
VOLUME XVM, NUMBER 269
LEVELLAND. TEXAS
Associated Press (AP) Leased Wire Service
PRICE: Daily 5c — Sunday 10c
WEDNESDAY, JULY 20. 1960
Congo cabinet asks Soviet troops
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MAY START IN 1961
Thousands watch Brownfield rescue in horror
Four feared
dead in fire
at elevator
College gets go-ahead
on 2-year RN program
THE DIRECTOR OF THE
gtate board of nursing examiners
has given South Plains college a
verbal go-ahead on a possible pro-
gram for a two - year Registered
Nurse training program at the col-
lege to help alleviate a critical
RN shortage in this region.
Apparently only a final decision
by the college board of regents
stands in the way of the program,
which could bring an estimated 90
CONFER ON R. N. PROGRAM
Officials of South Plains College confer in Lubbock with
Julia Kasmier, head of tha sfata board of nursing examin-
ers, and Methodist hospital administrators in Lubbbck con-
earwmg a possible new two-year Registered Nurse training
program hare starting in 1961. From left in thf picture are
Phil Carter, Methodist hospital administrator; Robert S.
Burks, Nathan Tubb, Miss Kasmier, Dr. Thomas M. Spencer,
eed Mrs. Pat Williams, assistant director of nursing at Meth-
odist hospital.
A
In
Day
The
SUN
By ORLIN BREWER
Levelland got a certain amount
of publicity out of its recent flood-
ing. It rated a banner headline in
the Abilene Reporter News and a
3-col black 48 point head in the
San Angelo Standard - Times.
But it was in the small print in
the San Angelo story that we took
a beating.
Alton Logsdon, one of Level-
land’s most dedicated fishermen,
picked up a clipping for the edi-
fication of Chamber of Commerce
Manager Bob Walker and this
scribe. W'e quote from it:
The purpose: To bring about
the approval of enabling legis-
lation which would permit es-
tablishment of a junior college
at Hobbs.
The college here has been
chosen primarily because it is
Texas newest college, and al-
so, no doubt, because it has
been unusually successful.
New Mexico, at present, has
no Texas - type junior colleges.
oOo
With the Republican National
Convention virtually on us, there
full - time nursing students here
for training within three years.
The nursing students would at-
tend school with regular students
on a full year - round (12 month)
basis, completing their training
here with an Associate of Arts de-
gree, the same degree received by
other graduating students.
THE PROGRAM, IF LAUNCHED
would probably start here in the
fall of 1961.
South Plains College administra-
tors have just completed a round
of conferences with Miss Julia Kas-
mier of the state board of nursing
examiners and officials of both Lev-
elland hospitals and Methodist hos-
pital in Lubbock. All have agreed
to cooperate if the college launch-
es the program.
Miss Kasmier toured the local
campus and pronounced physical
facilities of the college sufficient
at the present time to launch into
the program.
SINCE THE STUDENTS WOULD
attend classes with other college
students as they receive their basic
courses, along with specialized
nurse training, College President
Dr. Thomas M. Spencer held out
the hope that the program could
be virtually self - supporting.
He'quoted Miss Kasmier as say-
ing that if the college decides to
enter the program, it will need only
to secure a director of nursing in
time for her to outline the course
of study and purchase necessary
texts and equipment preparatory to
opening the school of nursing in
the fall of 1961.
Miss Kasmier said it would not
be necessary for her to visit the
campus again until she did so to
pass on accreditation of the new
(Ctl.LEGE GETS—Page 2)
CROSSROADS
REPORT
BROWNFIELD, Tex. (AP)-As
thousands watched in horror, a
gravely injured man clung to a
window high in a burning grain
elevator Tuesday and begged:
“Help me! Help me! I’s burning
to death!”
After two hours of desperate
maneuvering, a helicopter finally
dropped a cable and a former
steeplejack descended to
him.
The drama followed two thun-
dering explosions which ripped
giant grain storage elevator and
sent flames raging for hours
through the 180-foot high struc-
ture.
Three men died and another was
missing and presumed dead. Five
others were injured.
One of the victims, Paul Aiken,
about 32, of Brownfield his
clothes flaming, leaped 50 feet
from near the top of the elevator
to a landing in an attempt to
avoid burning to death. He died
a short time after arriving at a
hospital.
Others listed as dead were
Royce Lawhom, about 59, and
Henry Nix, about 24, both of
Brownfield.
Missing and
the debris was
unknown, of Brownfield. Elevator
Mgr. V. N. Lewallen said Burden
was working in the elevator at
the time of the explosion “and I
don’t see how he could be alive.”
Damage to the structure, owned
by the Grady Goodpasture Eleva-
tpr Co., was estimated by Harvey
Boles, division manager for the
company, at between $750,000 and
a million dollars.
Firemen blamed exploding
grain dust for the disaster.
The helicopter that saved Phil-
lip Reeves, of Cotton Valley, La.,
came from Reese Air Force Base
at Lubbock, 35 miles northeast of
Here. Donald Ethington, ex-
steeplejack of Brownfield, assisted
(ELEV ATOR FIRE—Page 2)
U.S. said
'shocked'
by action
NEW CHURCH ARCHES GO UP
Arches for the now $60,000 First Presbyter-
ian Church et 1219 Eighth, started going up
Tuesday. The laminated wood supports, built
especially for the church, were shipped here
from the Pacific Northwest. Inside the mod-
Rockefeller aims blitz
at Nixons nomination
Bv JACK BELL
CHICAGO (AP) — Gov. Nelson
“The latest evacuations were at ! *s a" effort to create a broad base
Levelland. 30 miles west of Lub- ! of popular grassroots support for
bock. High water forced 16 fam- | Sen. Barrv Goldwater of Arizona
dies — 13 Negro and three white— j f°r president of the United States,
to seek shelter in that town of possibly with the hope that he’ll
2,000 people.”
The story goes ahead to sav in
the next paragraph that most of the
18 families driven from their homes
at Slaton were able to return. Then
adds thoughtfully, “Slaton has a
population of 6.500.”
All of this goes to prove that the
folks down in isolated San Angelo
(it wasn't a wire story) haven’t
heard about Levelland’s 1930 cen-
sus yet. There were more than 2,000
souls (and roughly an equal a-
mount of people) here then.
oOo
Some representatives from
Hobbs, N. M., have been visit-
ing the campus of South Plains
College, and they’ve expressed
an interest in turning out a bro-
chure on the college for distri-
bution to members of the New
Mexico state legislature.
BULLETIN
CAPE CANAVERAL. Fla
(AP) — The Navy for the first
time, launched a Polaris mis-
sile from a submerged sub-
marine today.
The nuclear-powered George
Washington fired the missile as
she cruised underwater about
39 miles off Cape Canaveral.
The stubby rocket broke
through the waves, ignited an
instant later and streaked to-
ward its destination, more than
l.lit miles down the Atlantic
missile range.
land the vice presidency or be in
line for a high Republican post
under the Nixon administration.
We’ve seen indications of fM* ef-
fort in the amount of propaganda
for Goldwater which has passed
over our desk.
The latest is a letter written in
(DAY in the SUN—Page 2)
Dear Editor:
My dilapidated neighbor
says he notes that before the
Democratic Convention, all the
candidates were bragging a-
bout their good health, but most
of them are now sick.
Says Mr. Kennedy ought to
have left a little more margin
for being puny, else if he's
elected he won't have any ex-
cuse for golfing, fishing or oth-
er acrobatic loafing.
Says, anyhow, even a Presi-
dential candidate had better
be careful about advertising his
robustious condition, or some-
body is liable to put a lawn
mower handle in his hands.
D. E. SCOTT
$4,083 spent toaid
flood victims here
THE RED CROSS h a s disburs-
ed a total of $4,083.92 to aid fam-
ilies forced out of their homes by
recent flooding here. Mrs. Anne
Ford, executive secretary of the
Hockley County chapter, reports.
Mrs. Ford says that a total of
48 families have been aided. Ex-
penditures went for food, clothing,
building repair, household furnish-
ings and medical care.
The medical care item was
glasses for one Latin American
man who lost his glasses i the
water.. Nobody has been hospital-
A. Rockefeller’s strategists aimed
a well-heeled blitz today, at the
nearly impregnable wall Vice
President Richard M. Nixon has
built around the GOP presidential
nomination. ,
A Rockefeller strategist said
the decision had been made to
place the New York governor's
name in nomination before the
Republican National • Convention
which opens Monday.
*zed- j This move was reportedly ap-
FORD estimates that re- j proved by Rockefeller personally
habilitation work of the Red Cross jn a conference with his leaders
is two-thirds through. ! which preceded a personal ap-
She says that she hopes to fin- j pearance before the party's plat-
Eleven men killed, 30 are injured
as two destroyers collide in fog
By PATRICK MCNULTY
LONG BEACH. Calif (AP)—
Patrick Medeiros, bow lookout
aboard the freshly refitted des-
troyer Collett, peered anxiously
into fog as thick as cotton candy.
His ship seemed to be gliding
blindly through a cloud
Suddenly Medeiros screamed in-
to his microphone: "Ship dead
ahead!”
An instant later the newly paint-
ed bow of the Collett smashed into
the destroyer Ammen. a kami-
| kaze-scarred veteran on its way
to the boneyard.
Then Medeiros, 19. of Honolulu,
j heard the awesome sounds of
J disaster at sea—frantic shouts, the
clanging of bells, death screams,
the hiss of steam, and the rip and
Itear of steel.
Medeiros escaped with a bruised
thigh, but 11 other Navy men died
in the collision Tuesday. At least
20 others were hurt, but only six
were hospitalized.
The Ammen, heading for San
Diego and deactivation, had just
unloaded her explosives at nearby
Seal Beach. Otherwise both ships
could have been blown out of the
water.
The 376-foot Collett left her bow
anchor embedded in the Ammen’s
twistedrsuperstructure and carried
off a crushed Ammen seaman in
the fang-like wreckage of her own
bow
When the bow lookbut first
j yelled, the Collett's skipper,
Cmdr. AT Ford of St. Peters-
: burg. Fla , shouted from Ihe
I bridge: “All engines back full.
Right full rudder.”
Too late. The Collett, apparently
in a turn, struck the Ammen’s
port side below the waterline just
astern of amidships, then slid up
and smashed into the superstruc-
ture Those killed were all aboard
the Ammen and had been working
in two offices above deck.
“Stop engines,” ordered Cmdr.
Zaven Mukhalian, captain of the
Ammen.
The damage control party quick-
ly went below and secured water-
tight doors. The Ammen looked
sadder than when a Japanese
suicide plane crashed into her
during the Battle of Okinawa in
1945 She listed 11 degrees to port
but did not sink
“Thank God we unloaded the
(ELEVEN MEN-Pagc 2)
ish this work by the middle of
next week and close down the
disaster headquarters at the cafet-
eria at Carver School at that time.
Ruth Ann Miller, Red Cross field
worker from St. Louis, and Les
Clark, Red Cross building advisor
from St. Louis, have been divid-
ing their time between Slaton and
levelland in directing rehabilita-
tion work.
Miss Miller, currently in Slaton,
will return to Levelland Friday
and Saturday,
Most of the families helped by
the Red Cross have been Negroes.
Out of the 48, Mrs. Ford says only
five or six have been whites or
Latin Americans.
No official totals on the num-
bers forced from their homes
here have been compiled, but it
is now figured to be well over
fifty. There were apparently eight
or ten white families which didn't
seek aid.
The families were forced to leave
their homes in the vicinity of
Twelfth street and in the flats in
north Levelland when continuous
rains pushed water levels in sur-
face lakes above normal highs.
Mrs. Ford says all families have
now returned to their homes ex-
cept for a couple of Negro fam-
ilies in the flats. Flood refugees
were housed in Carver school
for several nights, but most re-
turned to their homes or sought
shelter with friends or relatives
after a few nights.
form committee Tuesday.
The governor has said he is
available for a draft but doesn’t
expect one to materialize.
The objective of the move ap-
Bv ROBERT N. LINDSAY
LEOPOLDVILLE, the Congo
(AP)—The Cabinet of the Congo
government voted today to ask
the Soviet Union to send in troops
with tts> purpose of keeping order
and bringing about evacuation of
all Belgian troops.
Actual delivery of the request
apparently was being delayed
pending further discussions in the
United Nations tonight.
The appeal also invited troops
from “any other country to the
Afro-Asian plan,” presumably the
nations that attended the Bandung
conference in Indonesia in 1955.
That would include Red China.
Making the announcement, at a
after the Cabinet meeting. Pre-
mier Patrice Lumumba said the
mission of these troops would be:
1. To effect the peaceful evacua-
tion of Belgian soldiers from the
Congo.
2. Assist in maintaining order
in the country in conformity with
government’s decisions.
3. Prevent all foreign aggres-
sion.
* In Washington, the first reaction
of officials to Lumumba’s step
was surprise and shock. «=*•*'
Top officials of the State De-
partment hurriedly convened to
review the new situation and Jg-
fused immediate comment.
Many U. S. observers felt Tues-
day that the Congolese Prime
Minister would not carry out his
threat to invite Soviet troops to
his country in view of the rebuke
he got from his own Senate and
from Bunche.
The communique said the Cab-
I inet decision was made because
i the Belgian government refused
to withdraw its troops from the
! Congo in conformity with the de-
peared to be an attempted con- cisions ,of the Unit(id Nation8 S*-
vention stampede such as sup- j cunt>' Coulnc‘1 a"d of.the Con8®
of Adlai E. Stevenson j government It also said the U.N.
at the Los trooPs in the country bad failed
ern gothic structure, the exposed beams will
form the roofline of the church. Now that
the beams have arrived, construction on the
new building is expected to progress rapid-
>y- ►
porters
tried to engineer
Angeles Democratic National Con-
vention. Its chance for success
seemed little greater than the
abortive Stevenson push,
astic supporters were talking in
But Rockefeller’s most enthusi-
terms of collecting upwards of 300
votes on the first ballot. This
claim had Nixon’s backers shak-
ing their heads in incredulous
amazement.
Leonard W. Hall, Nixon’s cam-
paign manager without title, said
that as a result of primary, con-
vention and individual action
around 1,100 of 1,331 delegate
votes stand publicly committed to
(ROCKY AIMS—Page 2)
to effect the withdrawal of the
Belgians,
The Belgians agreed to a U.N.
command request to pull out of
Leopoldville. They already have
begun withdrawing.
The Belgians already have be-
gun turning over patrol duties to
the swelling U.N. force in Leo-
poldville. but other units still
(SOVIET TROOPS—Page 2)
8-day pattern retained
for state oil production
Your
AD-
MAN’S
Vue
By ED OVERHOLSER
AUSTIN (AP) — The Railroad
Commission retained today the
current statewide oil alowalbe of
2,630,069 barrels a day based on
an eight-day producing pattern.
The major oil companies were
about evenly split in their recom-
mendations before the oil regula-
tory agency at its monthly pro-
ration hearing Two companies, in-
cluding Humble, the state's largest
buyer, recommended the 10-day
pattern and five others asked for
a 9-day schedule, which would
have raised the allowable by 177,-
521 barrels a day.
Six others recommended keep-
ing the current schedule.
Jake Hamon of Dallas led a
group of independents who asked
that the commission continue the
current schedule. Hamon said the
industry is guilty of “compounded
insanity” in the last few weeks
through heavy refinery runs which
have added to the existing sur-
By J. C. HOWELL
Elizabeth Hudgens, manager of
The Hub is announcing the an-
nual summer clearance of that
store in an advertisement on the
back page of this issue of the Sun
, News. There will be outstanding
seconded by , bargains throughout the store. Be
North Texas — ^and ear]v Thursday morning
plus of gasoline stocks.
He said crude oil products are
still well above the desirable level.
Hamon's recommendation for
eight days was
spokesmen for the North Texas
and West Central Texas Oil and | fnr £st selections
DSN
Gas Assns. The continuation of the
8-day producing pattern makes no
change in the daily allowable in
August because both July and Au-
gust have the same number of
days.
Chairman Ernest Thompson re-
ported crude oil and products total
638.600,000 barrels compared with
a desired level of 599.500,000, a
surplus of more than 39 million
barrels.
Gasoline stocks at 201.300.000
barrels are nearly 27 million bar-
rels above the level industry exec-
utives have recommended.
Humble said it wniitft mtprl fn rti
Had a nice visit with Henry Wil-
son and J. W. Hood of the Superior
Gas Co. Tuesday. They now hava
four retail outlets fnr El Paso
Dixie products here in Levelland
and have a new station under con-
struction at the corner of College
Avenue and Cactus Drive. They
are making plans for a big salet
promotion in the near future. Watch
for an announcement.
ADS
We can't understand what “kick”
A YONE — teenagers, grown-upe
orj Mist kids — gets out of destroy-
it would need to1 rn; nr damaging public property
buy 100,000 barrels a day above; si <ch as street signs We note
what the company already is com-, many instances here in Levelland
(8-DAY OIL—Page 2) (ADMAN'S VUE—Page K
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Brewer, Orlin. The Levelland Daily Sun News (Levelland, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 269, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 20, 1960, newspaper, July 20, 1960; Levelland, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1153470/m1/1/: accessed July 7, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting South Plains College.