The Sunday Spokesman (Pampa, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 110, Ed. 1 Sunday, April 17, 1955 Page: 1 of 36
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The Weather
The SunDfiY SpoKesman
PAMPA AND VICINITY: Partly
Expected law 4B; high IS de
Pampa's Own Newspaper
(Weather Map on Page Six)
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Ur llBllrd Press
PAMPA, TEXAS, SUNDAY MORNING, APRIL 17, 1955
THIRTY SIX RAGES—PRICE TEN CENTS
Oil Import
80 Crazed Inmates
One Bull’s
Admiral Says Formosa
By FRED HAMPSON
t’T A I *
Here We
(Yawn)
Go Again
Vaccine
Arrives
By Plane
Damage to rooms from which
enough to keep the 7th Fleet out dations by Hardin and Dean of
- —0 ~ a T D Pnlhnrt in
(<Continued on Pace Two)
Marilyn McDaniel, slide
is argued, control of sea and air
over the Formosa Strait and even
over Formosa itself can be won
Crowder said he told Riley:
“Now. I think you will get more
consideration from the board (the
state hospital board, whose mem-
bers the rioters had demanded to
see' if you’ll throw down your
weapons and act like men.”
The rebellion began at 9:30 a.m.
If It comes from a hardware
ttore we have it Lewis Hardware
-(Adv.)
We wanted all MavericK lans io -w
see exactly how the puzzle looked nfi?‘7
If other Maverick fans feel that >"■" °“£***"
p.m. Moments later he walked
through the gate and up to the
building held by the rioters. Riley,
who had demanded to talk to a
Texas Ranger, appeared.
While thousands of alerted Na-
tional Guard troops, state high-
way patrolmen, law officers and
others watched from the surround-
ing fence. Crowder talked to Riley.
. , As a man grows older and wiser
’toe talks less and says more.
Three of the students expelled
Saturday were athletes.
The university’s board of re-
gents backed up stern recommen-
Mrs. I. U. Bryant, who lives in the
Cities Service gasoline plant camp
five miles west of Pampa on the
Amarillo highway.
The letter from "Aroused Sub-
tendants' permission.
Crowder Arrives
Capt. Crowder, a big. impressive
The Publisher would appreciate
comments from others as to wheth- I
RUSK, Tex., April 16 *
Eighty crazed inmates
tai, where it will remain locked up I
until it is distributed on a school-
by-school basis.
Dr. Gates said that all children
whose parents have filled out the
permission slips will be vaccinated.
However, he feared that ciildren
whose parents have not yet
signed tne slips may not be vac-
cinated.
Irving Votes Bock
School District
POLIO VICTIM Mike Miller looks into the cabin of the
Cabot Company airplane which Saturday brought Salk
polio vaccine for Gray County first and second grade
school children. The vaccine is said 90 per cent effective,
the same percentage as in other immunizations which are
used. Mike is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Miller of
Pampa. (Spokesman Photo)
SALK VACCINE for Gray and Hemphill
Counties, arrived by Cabot airplane about
3:45 p.m. Saturday from the State Health
Department at Austin. Standing by the
plane a few minutes after its arrival are,
left to right, Logan Owens, chairman of
in utuigctvus xiiuauun exists in me Pride pointed out that the fleet rioted today at the Rusk State
'Formosa Strait area, but the dan- has commitments from Japanese Hospital and held a superin-
I ger is frequently exaggerated. U.S. waters almost to the Indian Ocean tpndpnt and two other non
7th Fleet commander Vice Adm. ' and must think of other dancer ana IWU Oiner per-
the Hemphill County polio board; Harold
Miller, Gray County chairman of the Nat-
ional Foundation for Infantile Paralysis;
his son, Mike; and Ralph Prock, the pilot,
who flew the vaccine from Austin.
(Spokesman Photo)
Student Affairs J. P. Colbert. In when inmates jumped Dr. L. D.
addition. the governing body I Hancock during his morning
The riot leader. 6-foot Ben Riley,
a teen-ager from Topeka. Kan.,
held an ice pick in the back of the
Charles W. Castner, as he bar-
gained with the drawling, slow-
talking Texas Ranger.
Talk to Minute*
They talked about 20 minutes on
the sun-drenched steps of the hos-
pital's maximum security building.
Then Riley threw down the ice
oick and a big knife from hjs
VOLUME 4 — NUMBER 110
dress and was
pa ”. We would
or gentleman who
ter would drop by the
office and inspect the p
fact, see just how tl
handled. We would
show them the other
a chance. We’ll look for your ex-
planation in Saturday’s or Sunday s
paper, as we re sure there are
many others who also want an ex-
planation on this.” the letter con-
tinued.
Actually, we reproduced the puz-
zle to remove any doubt as to
whether Foster had won or not.
We wanted all Maverick fans to
R IRVING, Tex., April 16 A>-
Voters in this booming suburban
Dallas community voted by a
whopping majority to recreate the
Irving Independent School District
but differed sharply on who would
run the show.
It was the second round at the
ballot box for voters nere who only
three weeks voted to abolish the old
independent school district and
thus, indirectly, the school board
„ that kicked out Supt. John A.
<fBeard.
This time, the voters gave a
majority of the seven-man board of
trustees to the Citizens Committee,
backers of Beard, but the “non-
partisan” camp claimed two mem-
bers and a tie for the seventh posi-
tion.
of Formosa Strait?
"If the job was important
enough—it was. (
Ike. Nixon
Youngsters
Got No Shots
AUGUSTA, Ga., April 16 2P —
President Eisenhower’s headquar-
ters said today his three grand-
children and Vice President Ni-
on’s two daughters never have had
Salk polio vaccine shots.
James C. Hagerty, White House
press secretary, told newsmen any
report that the children did re-
ceive the vaccine is "completely
inaccurate and without any basis
of fact whatsoever.”
Hagerty was told by a reporter
that a newspaper had been told
the Eisenhower grandchildren and
Nixon's two small daughters got
Salk shots early last month.
The newspaper’s report—never
printed—was that one of the phar-
maceutical firms which makes the
polio preventive had reluctantly
agreed under pressure to furnish
the vaccine.
Hagerty said he had talked by
telephone to the mother of the
President’s grandchildren, Mrs.
Barbara Eisenhower, at her home
at Ft. Leavingworth, Kan.
"She said none of the children
ever has had the vaccine shots,”
Hagerty told a news conference.
The press secretary added that
he also had been in touch with
Miss Rose Wood. Nixon’s secretary
and was told by her that the Nixon
children have not received Salk
shots.
ing; Ted Swindle, boys senior de-
clamation; Edgar Ethridge, boys
extemporaneous speaking; and
At that signal, other riot
walked from the building and
threw onto the steps a frightening
collection of clubs, bats, scissors
and other weapons.
Castner, unhurt, was freed. Also
freed but beaten up, were the other
hostages, ward superintendent
Clyde White and attendant Bill
Curtis. ,
Less than an hour later Castner.
White and a member of the state
hospital board returned to the in-
mates' ward to talk face-to-facc
jls'fth them about their complaints
Wanted More Area
Castner said the rioters* mam
complaints were that they didn't
have a recreation area such as
that provided in the maximum se-
curity building for white inmates.
The two maximum security build-
ings. one for white and one for
Negro inmates, are off to them-
selves and surrounded by the 12-
foot electrified fence inside the
McLean Publisher Elected
Panhandle Press Group Head
out of school and make it stick weren't allowed outside as often,
Coeds described the rioters as and they could't bathe without at-
"a bunch of thugs." •—J—•-•----*—*—
The most serious injury was a I
We read the above editorial in
the AMERICAN CATTLE PRO
DUCER and felt that the message
and reasoning" contained therein
were of vital interest to all of us.
All of us have to live with our-
selves. so it is up to each individual
ato see to it that the lives in good
companv.
According to the Dodge City, Kan-
sas Globe; ’To be successful with
pigs, chickens and cattle-raising,
says an expert, one must convince
the beasts he likes them. Wonder
if it would help much if the crit-
ters knew the boss liked them broil-
ed and served with mashed po-
tatoes?”
The Spokesman has been unfair,
we would like to hear from them.
The letter from “Aroused Sub-
scriber" is the only complaint The
Spokesman has received.
Actually, we had rather drop the
puzzle entirely than cause any mis-
understanding.
The publisher thinks folks enjoy
working the puzzle and the cash
prize has been offered to stimulate
interest in a game in which there
is no obligation or cost to anyone
and also as a measure of reader
interest in The Spokesman
enougii—<1 was, say. the defense passed a resolution "deploring and round. Riley then telephoned Cast-
of Formosa -we could go in there ' condemning the sorry conduct and
and we would. Of course the cost I violence.” '
We usually go along with any
recommendation to cut the co^j of
government. But there are some
services which properly belong to
the government, and one of these
is the inspection of meat a service
to protect public health. A Hoover
Commission task force has recom-
mended to Congress a system of
meat sampling to take the place of
our present inspection of every ani-
phal Such a sampling inspection,
says the task force, “would con-
tinue to permit the tracing of ani-
mal diseases to their origins and
transfer back to producer some of
the burden for asssuring meat qual-
ity.” That’s a strange line of rea-
soning. You certainly take a long
chance on finding an isolated dis-
eased animal when you inspect one,
or 10, or even 50 out of 100 car-
casses. The bad carcass could just
as well be the one passed over.
jAnd the primary purpose of the
government inspection while it
traces origin of disease- -is to pro-
tect the public from any possible
diseased carcass. Our present sy-
stem pf inspection gets back to the
source of ALL diseased carcasses,
which the suggested "spot-check”
method would not do. The task
force has certainly missed the
point here. The coqt of maintaining
federal inspection is $14 million a
year- for a federal service that
certifies healthy meat for 160 mil-
lion people. WE MIGHT SUGGEST
there are more logical and less
dangerous ways of cutting down
government spending.
underrate the enemy. But the But University Chancellor Clif-
problems are enormous, costly and'ford Hardin said guilty students
time consuming.” will have to foot the bill.
Assuming that such an airfield |
net could be built and maintained,
could the Reds control the coastal
air and the air over Formosa
Doctor
Held As
Situation Exaggerated Hostage
RITQU Tav Ar>r-tl
'Aroused Subscriber' Thinks Winning
Maverick Puzzle Entry Was Not Legitimate
Bulletin
By FRANK M. CARTER
Don't let yesterday’s balmy day
fool you—we’ll have another cold
snap sometime within the next
four or five days—and that should
be the last until next winter. We
also siiould have some good mois-
ture between the 10th and the
lath of May probably the 11th or
12th. (That’s about all our crystal
ball shows in the way of weather
for the immediate future I.
dent of the Panhandle Press Asso-
ciation in Amarillo Saturday.
Other officers for 1955-56 selected
at the conclusion of the two day
meet are Arthur C. Haley, Canyon
News, vice president and Harold
Hudson. Ochiltree County Herald,
secretary-treasurer. Directors for
two year terms will be S. B. Whit-
tenburg. Amarillo Globe-News;
Gene Alford. Moore County News;
R. B Haynes. Miami Chief, and
17th Fleet commander Vice Adm. I and must think of other danger
' Alfred M. Pride said today in an I points, imponderables and possi-
interview. j bilities. In this area he expressed
I Adm. Pride considers the recent h>gh regard for the potential of
& I completion of the airfield at his own forces and those of the
lLuchiao. 220 miles north of For-1 Chinese Nationalists. He does not,
I mosa, by the Chinese Communists think the Chinese Reds, who hold
^4It's important to know where we
stand, but more important to know
■ dwhere we’re going.
KNOW WHERE YOU’RE GOING
AND STAY WITH THE TOP O’
TEXAS: IT’S THE BEST PLACE
ON EARTH.
„. LINCOLN, Neb.. April 16 -UP—
blockade Foochow, but Pride does Seven students were expelled Sat-
not agree with those who say it Is urday for their part in a "panty
impossible. The Foochow field i raid" that turned into a riot in
seems to be finished but as yet' which seven persons were injured,
has no jets based on it. fbe disorders Thursday night
“The Nationalist air force will .drew a severe reprimand from the
have to protect the ships (supply-1 state legislature and a threat of
ing the Matsus) and that won’t I prosecution from county officials,
be easy," he sail "I would say The troubl negan with a fra-
ttiis developing sanation around ffrrntty-aororffy water fight (
.^‘^lildun^f « into a raid on a women’s j
iJt thpv 1 dormitory and * sorority nouses
Chinese Nation where male students filched un-
o?ie»l°'^.n|thnIL|thaCiiCH,nefa<1 fiihl I mentionables. then blossomed into
.alists will need all the fa. t fight- . property destruction and violence,
jers they can get. i The four - houi demonstration
Would he defend the Matsus? wound up on Lincoln's Main street
Adm. Pride parried this inevitable where students marched shouting
for tquestion with "No comment." —We want beer. We want beer."
Could he defend them? resolution was introduced in
, "We have great capabilities," he the state legislature condemning grounds of the hospital on the
said. "We can do many jobs. But the "disgraceful" action, calling northwest outskirts of this east
| remember we have to pay a price for the guilty students to be boot- Texas town. —
be j and under some circumstances the | ed out of schoql and for senators
By FRED HAMPSON 'would be higher but we could do I
| TAIPEI, Formosa, April 16 ?P—• 1 it.’
A dangerous situation exists in the
Lester Campbell, publisher of the I Mrs. Eula Ann Kennedy. Chillicothe
McLean News, was elected presi-1 Valiev News: Roy Craig. Stamford
*— 'American and Ben R. Ezzell. Cana-
dian Record.
The program concluded with a
luncheon by TV station KGNC at
their studios. Part of the luncheon
program was televised and a news-
cast and weather report were
broadcast from the dining room
improvised from a studio.
The convention opened Friday
morning at the Herring Hotel and
was attended by newspapermen and
American
Cancer Crusade
Start* Today!
Three Pampa High
Students Win First
Places At Canyon
Three first places were won by
Pampa High School students in In-
terscholastic League competition
Saturday at Canyon. ' '
Joanie Robertson took first place
in girls extemporaneous speaking-
Jo Crinklaw, first in ready writ-
ing; and James Pickett, first in
number sense.
Both boys and girls debate teams
won second place. Members are
D. I. Wilkinson, Lloyd Brum-
mett. Mary Lynn Miller and Helen
Ruth Stewart.
Other second place winners in-
luded James Vicars in slide rule.
At State Hospital
Injure 13 In Riot
uh import
Slash Vote
To Be Close
WASHINGTON, April 16 *
—Both sides today predicted
a close vote in the Senate Fin-
ance Committee on the pro-
posal to cut the nation’s oil
imports—a key issue in the
battle over President Eisen-
hower’s foreign trade pro-
gram.
Sen. Smathers (D-Fla», who op-
poses the oil quota amendment,
said he believed it might be
adopted in the committee by one
vote, 8-7.
But a committee member sup-
porting the proposal, who declined
use of his name, said "as of now
we lack the eighth vote" needed
to win.
The Finance Committee, which
has been working for a month and
a half on the foreign trade bill
passed by the House, plans to start
voting Tuesday on numerous
amendments.
The bill extends the reciprocal
trade agreements law three years
and "ives the President new power
to cut tariffs 15 ner cent.
Chairman Bvrd (D-Va» would
like to complete work on the
measure and report it to the floor
by the end of the week.
But he declined to predict the
outcome of the voting other than
to say "it is going to be a tough
battle."
The Virginian, who is generally
supporting the President’s pro-
gram, said he hoped he could per-
suade a sizeable majority of the
committee to agree on a bill and
then stand behind it on the floor.
A key point in the strategy of
the supporters is to beat off all
amendments designed to give re-
lief to one' specific product. They
believe that if one gets in, it will
be impossible to head off a flood
of amendments.
The oil quota amendment, spon-
sored by Sen. Neely (D-WVa) and
16 other senators, is regarded as
highly important in this strategy,
because it has perhaps the most
potent support.
It would limit all oil imports to
10 per cent of domestic consump-
tion. Thia would mean a sub-
stantial cut in crude imports and
heavier slash in shipments
ounfry of residuaLoil. This
■ft over from the*refining
process and is used for ihdustrial
fuel.
Lined up behind the amendment
are oil, coal and railroad interests,
the latter because some coal-
hauling lines have lost much busi-
ness and blame it on residual fuel
oil imports.
The oil industry is split on the
amendment; independents support
it but the giant companies with
foreign holdings oppose it and say
they will voluntarily limit imports.
anything else. Mr. Foster had the additional dia-
"We knew a city resident would tinction, in correctly solving the
win -out of town folks never have 1Ja8t p^e & being one of two win-
ners in the whole nation of the
twenty-nine newspapers that had re-
ported their results Saturday. The
only other newspaper reporting a
winner was the Birmingham News-
Post Herald with one winner out of
100,296 entries There were 12,730
entries in The Spokesman con-
test.
We have received a letter of
criticism about the Maverick puz-
zle.
A reader who signed a letter to
The Spokesman staff "Aroused Sub-
scriber” says he is not pleased
with Mr. Foster’s solution. "He
definitely has a "D" in the puzzle
(for the word PAY) and there is a
“P” above the blank space Did he
place the "P" or did you?"
In the reproduction of the puzzle
as it appeared on the front page of
Friday’s Spokesman, the word
could pass for either a "D" or a
"P”. However the bottom point of
the letter shows clearly in the ori-
ginal puzzle as a “P”. Additional-
ly, the puzzle as it was received
had the extra "P" above the word
Apparently Mr. Foster wished to
make It clear that he meant "P"
and not "D".
Never Altered
No puzzle is ever altered after it
is received. And the original puzzle
as Mr. Foster submitted it is avail-
able for anyone to see.
Also "Aroused Subscriber" says,
"We can tell that the word “near-
ly” had been "neatly" with the
"T" converted into an "R”. Mr.
Foster may have changed the "T” ______________ _
to an "R” but it is definitely an er the puzzle should be continued or
"R" and certainly could not be
Enough Salk polio vaccine
l>300 Gray County first and second i
grade children arrived by Cabot
airplane about 3:45 p.m. Saturday. I
The first vaccinations will be | and under some circumstances the ed out of schoql and for senators I Earlier, Riley and other riot
about 2 p.m. Tuesday at Carver price is higher than under others.” to take another look at the uni-, leaders had told newspapermen.
School Dr Joe W Gates countv i The Nationalists have criticized versity’s 1955-57 budget request. whom they demanded to see, of
.hot „hii the P°licy which has allowed the One state senator got caught in. other complaints. They said at-
health officer, requested that chil- Reds to begin building a maze of the mob while visiting the campus, lendants beat them with rubber
dren who will be vaccinated eat a airfields along the coast without He said: "They ought to kick hoses, they weren’t given the
light lunch the day they are to be molestation. From these fields, it about a hundred of those buzzards same food as white patients, they
inoculated. *------- —1 —•• • -------- -----
The serum was taken from the
airport to Highland General Hospi- Adm Pride e with this?
lol ninnen (S'lll Irw'lczwi im I ■
"The Reds have built some broken nose suffered by a male _
fields remarkably fast in Chek- student trying to stop destruction j nian. arrived from Dallas about 3
lag,” he replied. "But when of sorority house property. Eight--
you look at a topographical map | coeds were hurt trying to protect
of Fukien and northern Kwangtung their unmentionables and other
you realize that it is a strategic clothing, jewelry and cash.
Sb to put a network of fields and I One coed saw $50 of her money
ises through such a long thick' tossed on a bonfire in the middle
swath of mountains which have no! of the street,
railroads and few roads. How will Damage to rooms from which
they supply them? Can they de- money were stolen and furnish-
fend them from counterattack? I jngs destroyed, has not yet been
won’t say they can’t do it. I don’t!estimated.
sons hostage at knife-point
for six hours before giving up.
At least 13 persons were in-
jured.
I mosa, by tne Chinese Communists minx me vninese neus, wn<> noia j The rioters, all Negroes, SUT-
I three months ahead of schedule the initiative, will strike except I rendered their hostages, gave
as a sobering development. This where they are pretty sure they j Un their knives baseball bats
field, on which Red jets now are can win and at the moment scjs8ors and weaDOng
within reach of Formosa, to say nothing looks sure for them scissors ana otner weapons
nothing of the Nationalist-held off- What worries Pride is the ’ nib- ■ ana returned to their rooms
shore islands, gives the Reds much : bling process" the Communist ■ after a dramatic doorstep
broader capabilities in the For- tactic of never attacking anything! talk with Texas Raneer Cant
mosa Strait. But it takes more that looks in itself worth fighting ~ . Crnu/dor ’
than an airfield, he said. for, but always nibbling at some|°rrv .’ _
To challenge the Nationalist Chi- seemingly trivial outpost.
nese control of the air, Red jets
must go out and fight -must not
only attack Chiang Kai-shek's 1
planes, navy and supply ships, but
.must cut supplies to advance Na-i
i tionalist bases on the offshore is-1
lands by bombing Formosan ports
land airfields.
These would be acts of war
which would bring heavy rvta.iu-i
tion. he said.
Luchiao and the much closer <
field at Foochow, 160 miles across
the Strait from Formosa, will
make the Nationalist supply prob-
lem difficult for the Matsus which
Just Enough
There is just enough vaccine to
go around for the first shot. Vac-
cine for the second shot, two weeks
after the first, will be obtained in
plenty of time.
Dr. Gates explained he asked for
1,300 cc’s of the vaccine and only
14 cc’s over that amount was sent
from the State Health Department
at Austin. Each shot requires 1 cc
and there always is a chance in
mass vaccinations there will be
some waste. Approximately 1,251
children had permission to get the
shots at the last official count but '
more were expected to be signed
up-
The county health officer stressed
that the vaccine is from a killed
virus and is triple-tested for saf
ety. He said one woman had called
in the mistaken belief that chil-
dren who were vaccinated got a
light ce -e of polio. This definitely
Ik not true. Dr. Gates said.
No Reactions
He also said that the report on
use of the Salk vaccine shows there
are no reactions to the shots.
Local physicians and nurses are
giving the shots in all county
schools Highland General is fur-
nishing syringes and needles.
Baker and Sam Houston Schools
will be scenes of the vaccinations
Wednesday afternoon. Thursday,
the shots will be given at Horace
Mann. iJimar, Holv Soul's Catholic
and St. Mathew s Episcopal Church
Schools. Grandview students also
will be inoculated at Lamar.
Friday, the shots will be given at
Woodrow Wilson. Hopkins and Le-
fors. "Make up" shots for children
who missed because of illness or
some other legitimate reason will
be given from 8.30 to 9:30 a.m.
Saturday at Highland General.
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