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requst on ita member banks.
principal points of disagreement
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ed in seclusion since last night Her
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Opera Star's Walkout
Blamed On Bronchitis
Group To Study
Racial Problems
prime subjeet in a great many
cities. A youth center is not aa or-
ganization which will run itself. It
Donation* Needed .
For Family •
counter revolutionary, the week-
ly church paper said.
previously, i
sign your nt
if you ask.
F A youth a
ence or the
HOUSTON - A crime com
mission of 73 civic and business
leaders seeking the reasons and
cures for Houston's crime rate is
being organized hero.---—
Thes tormy soprano still was
being roundly criticized by news-
papers and member* of parlia-
nent. Excited street crowds gath-
ered outside her hote.
a request by management for a
no-strike olause.
Schools Get New
Telephone Numbers,
The Mount Pleasant schools
have been assigned new telephone I
numbers as follows: West Ward.
PA 44161; fart Ward, PA 4-22U;
South Ward, PA 4-4536; Junior
High, PA 4-3684; Booker T. Wash-
ington High, PA 4-4504; Booker
T. Elementary, PA 4-4503; and
Sunrise Elementary, PA 4-3145
These numbers will remain the
same day or night
The High School numbers are
PA 4-3682 or PA 4-3683. These
numbers include the superinten-
dent's office, high school prin-
cipot. cafeteria .agriculture, home-
making; choir, assistant superin-
Fuchs was last reported about
300 miles from the pole.
The tractor train was joined en
route by two dog teams which
were fiown in, each driven by
two New Zealanders These Were
left at Depot 700 when Hillary
this same basis
i. well withhold It
AUSTIN In The State Hank
ing Department issued a call to-
day for the condition of all state
banks as of the close of business
Dec . 31.
South Pole Reached
By Hillary's Group
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' DALLAS t --The Federal Re-
serve Hunk said today Texas de-
prtment store sales gained 24
"per'"cent in the week ended
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WASHINGFON in The comp-
troller of the currency today is-
sued a call for a statement of the
condition of alb national banks
at the close of business Tuesday,
Dec 11.
The Federal Deposit Insurance
Corp issued a similar call on in-
Others attending the breakfast
were Mrs. A. C. Hoffman, Robi land
Butler, "John Summers. Joe Dan
Bright, Lewis Riddle, Frank Mar-
shall, George Sandefur, Marvin
Amerson. Epps Griffin, Morgan
Payne and Danny Richardson.
Manfull Speaks
Al Opening Of
March of Dime:
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Service Director Mviris Schwartz
said today the Texas draft 'quota
tot February would be 641, the
most since July of 1457.
Italian opera houses operating
Socialist Deputy Luigi Renato
Sansone demanded that Premier
Adone Zoll tell me Chamber of
Deputies “what the government
intends to do.-, to prevent a
recurrence of such an undignified
procedure." The government has
to reply to the question but need
M( M imnmediatelz.
the never-ending daylight of the
antarctic, summer. -The party'
da inta made in writing that per-
sons have been denied the right
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husband, manufacturer Giovanni
Battleta Meaeghini, was with her.
Italy’s newspapers and music
critics almart unanimously refused
to accept the opera Stagsr's expla-
nation. They said she had kt her
temper, art bar voice.
Almost every bnadline Md critic
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shouted.
The American soprano refsed
to continue last night after the
first act ’ of Bellini’s. "Norma."
Thebe Had been a few eatenHs
and whistles from the balcony She
insisted she had lost her voice; .
Her physican. Dr. Umberto de
Martini, came to her defense to-
day He said she had a high lever
and bronchitis and would have to
stay in bed for two or three days.
He said her fever was 103 de
AYS TASTY DIVID ENDS— Tommasino, pet cat of Milan, Italy, family
“Survival is’ not enough,” Di
Manfull, Chamber of Commer
manager, said Friday morning
Hotel Stephens at the "kicko
breakfast" for the March of Dim
Fund drive.
"More than 300,000 American
are now living that have felt- th
sting of polio and one out of ever
three can be be ne fitted through
modern rehabilitation or "Opera
tion Comeback," which has Hee ।
brought about by the "Forwar
Look" over the past two years.'
Manfull said. "Even though polk
has been reduced by Salk vaccine,
there were still 7,500 new cases in
1457 and $18,000,000 would be need
ed this year for patient care alone
if there weren't any new victims."
By President Friday
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WASHINGTON "eAgriculture
I Department chemists have discov-
ered new insecticides which are
. less harmful to animals than
any now in genera use.
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asked tor donations of household
articles and clothing for the Les-
ter Thompson family. AThe
Thompson home ws destroyed
by fire Thursday morning and
all contents lst.
. Donations may be taken to the
local fire department.
OUR thanks to a woman reader,
who asks that her name not
be printed, for an interesting dis-
cussion of, a problem she thinks is
important, to our city.
mrndg.caM; mmTaalecm vhm*ne a r mem - . ueKnd myrmeerimemrenatometaMagruet
“•fab writes;
"Thank you for the privilege of
a few words.
. "I believe more people would
move here if we had a youth cen-
ter, a point of entertainment for
the teenagers. There are a lot of
parents that will drive 50-60 miles
to work in order to live where the
./ family will have a pleasant place
to live.
"This center should be made at-
tractive to all wage groups and I
believe the city would be richly
rewarded—by new families. Chil-
genrt-etnyingoff the streets (as
though they were lost) and we
would have less ‘petty crime.'
"The floor space and arrange-
ment I have not thought about but
I thought of a small study whgre
God' would be exalted. Have Bi-
bles and reference books where
there can be studying done if de-
re b« ms of President Eisenhower.
The President grected the men
ars in his office and stood by
hile his chief assistant, Sherman
dams, administered the oath of
WASHINGTON UT A top-rank-
ing economic negotiator, Mikhail
A Menshikov, has been accepted
as the new Russian ambassador
United States.
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The Tyler Community Concert
.Association'- will present Jean
Maderia, contralto, Monday night
- at 7:30 at, the Civic Center in
Tyler.
base.
Hillary was to wait for Fuchs
at the 700-mile point. But on
Christmas Day he radioed that he
was "hell-bent for the South Pole.
God willing and crevasses per-
mitting."
with this reade _ __
—hear from you, as we have written
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PARKING LAWS VIOLATED—Thi» railroad boxcar rammed
through a barrier and came to'rest jutting into, a sidewalk, on
one of Birmingham's busiest streets. Sign beneath says, “Park
Parallel 2 Hours This Block. The boxcar was there longer than
I that . (AP Wirephoto)
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me snow surface was harder.
They slept dring the "day" when
the air was warmer.
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AUSTIN. Minn, i — Humane
Society today obtained a tern-
norary court 1 order restraining
• e vou'hful Austin rocket society
from using live mice in, its
Mousenik space experiment*.
The restraining order was re-
buestd by the state and national
humane societies Which charged-
•> e teenage group has caused un-
necessary, inhumne, and cruel
treatment and death to at least
e-white mice. - '' ' tezm
The court order restrains the
rocket MtelOty. mode up W science
pupils st Pa elli P’rochfal Higb
Schopl here ‘ from using mice or
other live anmals in its experi-
ments -: ' •
The society has used mice,re-
cently in small rocket experi-."
ments, but discontinued the use
of live animals when the weather
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DALLAS tEX/
"Give them the diplomas for the
.mot ary doctorates, ' Eisenhowet
imposed with a grin. He began
anding out signed commissions
ted up in blue riboons.
Directing the members to chairs
round ills desk, and even hauling
ne up for one lo use, the Presi-
tent sat down and began confer
ring with the members about tiw
ufficult task they have ahead.__.
Taking the oath of office launch-
ed the commission members on a
20 months study of the nation's
touchy racial problems. But they
still are subject to confirmation by
the senate.
On the commission are three
Southerners and three Northern-
ers—one of the latter a Negro To
PONTIAC, Mich ( — Former said he and Marvin-Amerson have
findsit worth the trouble in getting the dark g een oval objects out of the jar for they sure taste
good going-down. At the end of it all, Tommasino settles back’ in a chair, devouring the last
morsel , •-t (AP Wirephoto)
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out Ort. 15.
After more than 1,200 miles
across the antarctic continent.
Hillary radioed that he and his
tractor party of four other New
Zealanders had arrived at the
pete with only one drum of gaso-
line to spare.
"We were rutting it rather fine
due to the very soft snow," he
reported.
Hillary's party followed much
of the IJ40-mite route of Capt.
Robert F. Scott of the British
navy, who raced Roald Amundsen
of Norway for the pole in the
Antarctic summer of 1911-12.
Amundsen won by a month, be-
coming the discoverer of the
South Pole Scott's five-man party
perished on the way back to the
coast at Me Murdo Sound
Hillary set out Oct. 14 from
Scott base, his camp near Me-
Murdo Sound His original desti-
nation was a point 700 miles in-
land in the direction of the pole
Traveling by snow tractors,
Hillary's expedition deposited
caches of food and fuel for a
British party led by Dr. Vivian
Fuchs which is pushing toward
the pole from the opposite side
of Antarctica south of South
America. Fuchs is trying to make
the first overland transantarctic
n‛di
It quoted a Communist broad- apartment, where she has remain-
cast from Hangchow. < ' ‘ ---------*- —
ROME un— Prima Donna Maria
Meneghini Callas' walkout on the
Rome opera and a glittering
pening night audience was blam-
ed by her doctor today on a bad
fires car be reached by calling
PA 4-3682 for the- superintendent,
assistant, superintendent, agri-
culture room, and choir building
For the principal, cafeteria,
Brice's Gym and the homemaking
cottage caB PA 4-3683. -
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back about 10 cents,"
declated i. g-L..
Monday.
Reds Rear rest
Catholic Rinhop
HONG KONG ( — Red China
has re-arrested Bishop Joseph Hu
of Taichow and sentenced him
and two other clerics to long pris-
on terms, the Catholic Sunday
Examiner reported today.
■ The 75-year-old bishop, who
March of Dimes undertaking next --"Via la Cllas da Roma" -
Callas get out of Rome - some
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Adams Opposes
Federal Aid
To Education
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, East, and North Central Texas:
Increasing cloudiness and warmer
this afternoon and tonight. Sat-
urday considerable cloudiness
with occasional rain.
PAYING BILLS’ - Dm your
First National checking account.
(adv.)
The
World
Today
LONDON im- The treasury an-
nounced today that .Britain's vital
gold and dollar reserves rose by
aamuiulloa dollar a Pecember
and now stand at 2% billion dol-
lars.
The Firemen's Auxiliary has tendent and Brice's Gym. .
For out of school hours the of-
blamed the ‘walkout on irritation
over the catcalls and whistles.
It was the first time in the Rome
Opera's history that a perform
anew was not completed. The New
York born singer, heretofore one
of Italy's musical idols, finally fled
in tears through an undergrqund
passageway to’escape 1,000 irate
music .lovers jeering outside the
opera house.
Miss Callas dented the catcalls
caused her to quit, telling 11 Mes-
sazgero’s critic. "Whistles do not
frighten, me If-I had really been
in proper condition, I woul Nave
reacted to the whistling by sing
tag as I haw w-.ei sungtUefun
Today the singer was' in her
hotel room and refused to ree
newsmen oraspeak on the tele-
phone. Her husband, retired man-
ufacturer Giovanni Battista Me-
neghini, said two doctos wete to
see her today and "’we will not
know what plans we can make un-
til after they have examined her.
The operatie fiasco immediately
ter. we feel confident a way will
be found to provide it. ‘ trip, hoping to end up at Scott
He examined her this morning -hit the floor of the Italian Parlia
ment, whose appropriations keep
Six-Man Civil Rights
Commission Sworn In
pi
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erz Wed be lad ttrom which he andhisparty decided to go on to the »ole
Most of the trek was made in
De fense Secretary Wilson saxa it. refused Lo-become.membe-iano,
> name a that he had once refused to sign
an application for Smlth-Hughesr
WASHINGTON U—The new six ing some sort of middle ground
aan Civil Rights Commisaion was on racial and rights problems,
worn into office today in the tien coming up with some kind
-5 IEne —W hj
ark's general wage increase and would be a mistake to — _
single military cmef of staff over
• the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
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He cited the history of the
1916 Smith-Hughes Act for help-
ing with vocational education.
"We were assured then that
frurral aid .did not mean federal
control But today, a state pro:
gram, to qualify, must meet fed-
eral’’requirements as set out to a
He NEA has 70,000
members in America, but only
about three in Titus County He
control of education, I favor our
48 systems, even’ though some
may net, be all that would be
desired." . ,
wng sured banks. TheFederlReservs
Board followed up with die same
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traveled,at "nighjwhenem- 'AUSTIN UP
peratures dropped a lite and
NEW YORK ft Long distance
telephone workers in 42 states
have voted to strike at -midnight
today, a union spokesman said. -
"The vote is definitely for a
strike," said Mira Elaine Gleason,
national director of the long lines
district. Communications Work-
ers of America (CWA).
. The contract between the
American Telephone and Tele-
graph Co. and the union ends at
midnight. A strike would involve
about 25.5(h) Bell system rm
ptayas They are mostly traffic
operators and plant craftsmen
who maintain long-distance
equipment
A CWA spokesman said the
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Serving A Progreeeive Four County Area of Northeast Texan
KVCKLMm •—Sir Edmund I
Hillary, first man to conquer Mt
Everest, the highest point on
earth, today reached the South
Pole, at the bottom of the world
He radioed the dramatic news
to Scot base, the Roas Sea point
lar collected. M cents goes to pa
tient aid. 12 cents to research, 10
cents to public education, • cents
to chapters. 5 cents to medical de
patment services. 5 centa to ad-
ministration, 1 cent tn vaccination
promotion and 1 cent to public in
formation," Manfull said.
Campaign Chairman Winston
Ward outlined duties of the Fund
Chairmen and deicribed the activi-
ties that will take place during the
drive which will be conducted all
during the month of January
These activities will include a
Mothers March, Teenage Record
Hop. Telethon. Talkathon along
with the conventional means of
of ci nstructive report and recom-
mendations by Sept 0, 1959,
The big question is whether the
mmissin can produce some-
thine Me North can accept and
he South can tolerate.
One immediate need la to find a
staff director, who will be chief
tministrative officer and shop-
keeper for the- ommission at a
ary of $22,500 a year. The
President will make the appoint-
-nt after talking it over with
lie comm «u>n The staff direc-
tos s nomination, like those of the
ommission members, is subject
o Senate confirmation.
The ci mmission is a product of
« compromise civil rights law
'ongress enacted in late August
firit lestslatinn in . thia
ontroversial field in some 80.
years Largely, the commission
was set (ip as a tact-finding, study
ad adv sory agency.
Congres gave it specific eu-
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was imprisqred in 1455 and later
released, was seizedtagein re-grees last night when aha refused
cently on a charge of being a
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"We can’t have federal aid to
• educatien without federal control,
and I fear fedsral control," James
Adams, county school superin-
tendent, told the Kiwanis Club
Friday m Hotel Stephens.
"A single system of textbooks,
. of what and. when to teach, is
bad; an tact atisone of the worst
things that could happen," he
said. "Instead of bureaucratic
money. It will require the pres-
ence of adult supervisors at all
t mcs it is open.' It almost surely
will demand the full time of a pro
. fessional who will plan the activi-
ties of the center so that there will
. be something there to interest all
the young people' who will want to
visit it
• A youth center will not be uni-
versally applauded There will no
doubt be those who believe; in all
sincerity, that such a thing is not
to be desired. Their views must
be taken into account, for they live
here, too.
The idea of a reading, room, or
study room, with the presence of
Bibles and a room where God can
be exalted, no doubt, will hold a
great deal of appeal to some, leave
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* That's the way it is to a democ
racy, that's the only way it can be.
But, if a majortiy of our people—
or even a good segment though it
be a minority—favors a youth cen-
aid in a school in the county.
•You ll ntice Im nqt there any
longer," he edited. --
Hi- urged Kiwanians to notify
their Congressman and Senators oi
their convictions, ll they oppose
federal aid to education.
President B. E. Keeves said in-
stallation of-officers will be held
next week. Joe Dan Bright was
present to enlist members for a
The favorite expression of teen
agers seems to be that "there's
nothing to do in this town." And it
doesn’t seem to matter too much
in what town the teenager lives.
Well,, just incase the teenager is
right, maybe we ought to give a
lot of serious thought to providing
a place where there will be some-
thing to do. '
Whatever is your opinion, we'd
like to bear from you. If a wom-
an writer who has no children
thinks the idea of a youth center
mm isagoodonei whet is theithinking
of a mother on the subject? Or a
father? After all, who's more con-
cermed with children, than par-
ents?
It is a fact, as someone has said,
that there are no delinquent juven-
iles. only delinquent parents? It
so, is failure to provide some sort
of a youthrcenter a drift in the di-
rection of parental delinquency?
We welcome your ideas.
' "Should this room change tiw
course of the life of our youth,
would not our efforts ba well paid?
*1,1 have no children.)
"Sincerely"
What do you think? Do you agree
' MT. PLEASANT. ttXAS. FRIDAY. JANUARY X 1W '
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—--Atem said the National Edu-
caton Association (NEA) is the
most active and the strongest
advocate of federal aid for educa-
tion He quoted a 1934 NEA re-
port which aaid the American
capitalistic system "is decadent,
and should be supplanted by a
collective system."
—Ane—he said (fee -1453 White
House conference on education
was strongly suggestive of alien
opinions being -offered as con-
victi ns of small groups which
met during this conference.
"When the 160 leaders of small
(10 to 12) groups reported their
groups a* favoring federal aid
to education, a number spoke up
to say this was not true in their
particular group."
He said the idea for a con-
ference was suggested by a wom-
an whom he would not suggest
was a Communist, but whose ut-
' Teranres- were applauded by
■Communists. • •
In connection with the .1463
conference, Adams noted, that
taat Titus C ounty text hers were
on record as opposing federal
aid to education. The program,
he Mid, calls for collecting taxes
from all the states to pour money
into poor states for education.
No one has suggested, he added,
that Texas needs any help on
thia More. At least no one la
Texas. ,
“The idea is to plant the idea
that money originates from
Washington. This unT so. It ori-
ginates with taxes from all the
people. And of' each 31 we send
to Wasnington, we would get
lational origin. 1.
The commission also is sup-
posed to survey present federal
laws and policies to determine
whether, they afford proper pro-
tection for civil rights, and to
assers legal developments which
may deprive people of constitu-
■tonal rights. ■
’ Chairman of the commisaion is
Iohn A Hannah, president of
Mt. higan State University
The Negro is J Ernest Wilkins,
anistant seeretaryof labor for in-. -
ternational affairs The, third
Northerner is the Rev. Theodore
M Hesburgh,. president of the
Eniversity of Notre Dame
' The three Southerners are all
lawyers.' Two of them, John S
Battle ct Charlottesville, Vb . and
Doyle F. Cariton of Tampa, Fla,
ft rmrriv were |i virhjh of then
states Robert G Store, Rie third,
is dean of Southerh Methodtit
University’s law school.
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