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Jaycee
Brownwood Bulletin
BROWNWOOD, TEXAS, MONDAY, JULY 20, 195®
EIGHT PAGES TODAY
General Rains Raise Lake Level
Weatherman Calls
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For More Showers
ad
--3"
farflung area
Three Injured
HEADING FOR DENVER
Long Nightclubs
Sunday Evening
hotel until early today
Long watched scantily dad cho-
Time* ran an editorial inviting
to raise watermelons The gover-
Speaker Carr Urges House
oke to Plano.
himself on the trip. He said he
would
to leave him alone until he ar-
Rain Fails
Khrushchev Cuts
To Pass Tax Bill To Senate
Scandinavian Tour
AUSTIN (UPD- House mem-
lifejackets.
House "we have two major proj- 1 vide revenues necessary to keep few hours earlier in the day.
bill and a tax hill."
on natural gas returned to the
proposed 180 million dollar tax
pected to go to a joint House-
the 56th
Senate
Traffic
Problem
Aired
with Danish officials about the the girls flag race in 44.2 sec-
HOUSTON (UPD- Chy traffic
George Epperson of Cherokee
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Civil War Starts
I
In Oil-Rich Iraq
I
NORTH
ists to surrender, but some of them
and joined the Communist rebels.
WEST
Ing a “large number" of notables
EAST
spread
SOUTH
broadcast said. Al thia very mo-
2
t
a
Tri-Regional
Here Aug. 1-2
Thunderstorms Cover
Wide Area Of Texas
spotlight when the House voted
by a narrow 76-72 margin Thurs-
day to instruct its conferees to
work for such a tax. But time j
ran out without agreement on a
2.40
5.60
3.00 I
to the final detail. Top-level Soviet day night, Ben Bogan of Beau-
officials—including chief of secur- mont was third go-around win-
and two consecutive 30-day spe-
cial sessions.
rus girls prance around on a port-
able ice rink at the La Cucara-
5.00
4.34
1.51
3.70
May...... ...........
Lake Brownwood Dam
De Leon .............
Bangs ..
Coleman
He came to Texas for a rest
after being in and out of three
mental wards and suffering what
doctors said may have been one
. 2.60
. .83 .
. 1.80
The 63-year-old governor, who
is "resting" in Texas, announced
that be is scrapping plans to go
to Monterrey, Mexico, and is go-
ing to Denver. Colo He changed
his mind about a Monterrey trip
Brownwood (Official) .
Total to date in July
Total to date in 1959
Total to date in 1958
Average to date......
Belle Plain...........
Filtration Plant ......
Woodland Heights ...
Bluffview ............
Pecan Station........
Thrifty...............
1.06
3.58
22.69
17.53
15.67
1.25
1.06
.70
his hotel about 3 a. m. cst. spent
an hour telephoning and was up
again by 8 a., m. today.
Field near Fort Worth said heavy
•bowers were also falling at
Grapevine today while moderate
to heavy showers were reported
from Rockwall and Carrollton to
Eagle Mountain Lake in North
Central Texas Light to moder-
ate rain fell ta an area eactend-
ing from Ennis to Benbrook Lake
southwest at Fort Worth. Rains
fell from Waco to Denton. Heavy
space as possible."
Last week, the Tyler Courier-
Water began rushing over the Lake Brownwood spill-
way at 10 a.m. today for the first time since Oct, 15, 1957,
but no serious flooding was expected from overflow water
in Pecan Bayou unless a hard fast rain should fall this af-
ternoon.
Weather forecast for today calls for partly cloudy with
scattered thundershowers.
Heavy rams up to five inches since midnight north of
■--------- Brownwood caused the rapid
reaching from San Angelo north-
eastward to Fort Worth and into
southeastern Oklahoma.
The downpours hit hard at Lam-
kin which caught 3.50 inches, and
Ennis where 3.15 inches fell in
less than two hours Fort Stockton
in normally arid West Texas got
three inches.
San Angelo got 1.66 inches. La-
gun a grand swing through Den-
mark, Sweden. Norway and Fin-
land
The trip had been planned down
MICRCFILM SERVICE
P. C. B:X 8066
DALLAS TEX.
Blanket........
Comanche.....
Zephyr ........
washed out but roads leading .out
of the area were still passable
at noon today.
Flood waters were endangering
only one building, a tool shed
containing several motors and
Where It Rained
SUNDAY TODAY
the surprise decision was due to
a bitter press campaign against
the visit and threats of anti-Soviet
demomstrations.
The move, coming lees than
three weeks before the start of the
tour, was a diplomatic shocker
that indicated a possible major
turn in Soviet policy.
San Saba .......
Bend...........
Brady..........
Brookesmith ....
Locker area.....
Richland Springs
Goldthwaite ....
Winchell .......
Aa an example, he eited traf-
fic on Telephone Road feeding
into southeast Houston. A dozen
years ago M was a major and
traffic- clogged trafficway. Then
the Gulf Freeway was complet-
ed, but its daily flow of traffic
has edged upwards past the 100,-
000 mark until now during traf-
fic peaks cars often are stalled
bumper to bumper.
As a result, Maier said he re-
cently logged 14,176 cars over a
stretch of Telephone Road during
a 24-hour period. This, he pointed
o* la about the load the street
Carried before the freeway was
completed.
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5.00
or more slight strokes.
' Sunday E. M. Pooley, editor of
WEATHER FORECAST
BROWNWOOD AREA: Portly cloudy
with scattered thundershowers and con- _
tinued worm through Tuesday. Low to-
night 68, high Tuesday 87.
Maximum temperature here Sunday
74, overnight low 69. Sunset 7:43, sun-
rise 5 43.
Lamkin Hit Hard
The Department of Public Safe-
ty said a tornado sighted near
THE UNINVITED
WINONA, Miss. (UPD — Little
Mary Bryan had one too many
guests at her third birthday par-
ty dining the week end. A 10-foot
king snake joined the festivities
la the living room. A neighbor
clobbered the uninvited guest
wth a baseball hat.
By BRYCE MILLER
EL PASO, Tex. (UPD - Gov.
Earl K. Long of Louisiana follow-
ed up a Sabbath visit to a Baptist
church with a steak-and - cham-
workers using greppling hooks to-
day renewed theta efforts to re-
cover the body of a Mission man
daowned in the Rio Grande less
tham a mile from Anzalduas Dam
NO COUNCIL MEET
No city council meeting will be
held today due to the absence of
Mayor W C. Carpenter and City
cation punctuated by outbursts of
profanity and threats
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3.50
5.00
.10
.25
2.00
BEGINS FLOWING
At 10 30 a.m.. about five inches
of water was flowing over the
spillway at the lake. The lake
level was rising rapidly.
Two 24-inch service gates at
the lake were opened at 9 30 am.
to let water into Pecan Bayou.
The lake level at 11:45 a m.
was 1,425.8 feet, representing a
4.6 foot rise in level since Friday
at 10 p.m. when the lake measur-
ed 1,422.2.
BEIRUT, Lebanon (UPD— Two
Cairo newspapers reported today
that a Communist uprising in Iraq
against the government of Premier
Abdel Karim Kassem , in the oil
city of Kirkuk was still raging and
pagne supper in a Juarez night- days in Texas, with side trips to
club and didn’t get back to his New Mexico and Mexico, inava-
there.
The death toll was estimated at
between 50 and 100 persons
A clandestine radio calling it-
self the Voice of Free Iraq also
reported today the’ fighting had
LAST TIME
The last time water ran over
the spillway was on the night of
Oct. 14 and morning of Oct. 15.
1957, when only a small amount
went over. The last major over-
flow was in June, 1957.
Water rose from a foot below
the top of the spillway early this
morning to overflow stage by 10
a.m.
merited editorially that "the pa-
pers in this part of the country
are disgusted with Long." and
added that his paper would print
any news of the terrible-tempered
politician’s doings ta "as little
is the first anniversary of the up-1 ment a military reinforcement ar
rising against King Faisal - rived... and joined the patrol in the
STOCKHOLM, Sweden (UPD — I Worf of the diplomatic snub
Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev arrived in Scandinavian capitals
today abrumpuy canceld a ached- in a series of notes leas than
uled tour of four Scandinavian na- three weeks before the unpredict-
tions A formal Soviet note said able Soviet chief was to have be-
that the Communists were hang- the semi - official Middle East
ing a "large number" of notables News Agency reported ta Cairo
to pass a tax bill to the Senate
thia week.
As weary lawmakers entered
the first full week of the third
special session. the House work-
ed on an appropriation bill for the
coming biennium starting Sept. L
LAKE BROWNWOOD SPILLS OVER—Rains ranging from five to eight inches
which has fallen in a two-day period over watershed of Lake Brownwood has
filled the lake to the point of flowing over the spillway. Two 24-inch service gates
were opened this morning to let excess water run into the Pecan Bayou.
(Staff Photo)
and that Communist* there had
made "another" attempt to cap-
ture the city.
(Conflicting report* received in
London from the British embassy
in Baghdad Indicated that "the sit-
uation in Kirkuk now seems to be
calm," a British Foreign Office
spokesman sadd.)
Most of the happening* in Iraq
were veiled by heavy government
205 Vote For
Consolidation
program for the Khrushchev visit I onds on four runs.
engimeer Eugene Maier' warned repeatedly had stressed that the C-- =-—=
The major fighting was report-' fight. The armed force* succeed-
ed confined to the city of Kirkuk ed in forcing most of the Commun-
where an army brigade mutinied == — =====, = === = —==
the El Paso
.....3.60
.... 3.75
.... 3.00
। rives.
The governor said he will go to
Denver in his automobile. He did
not say what route he will take.
Long ha* spent the last nine
hill.
Thus far this yqar,
legislature has *wohed nene uau i
180 days—through a 120-day reg-
ular session which ended in May,
today the Houston automo-
bile population would reach a sat-
uration point within two years
unless more roads are buitt in a
hurry.
Maier said the city now needs
over 560 miles of new road*. it
needs to acquire 110 miles at
right-of-way and to widen anoth-
er IX miles in order to keep up
with the growth expected in the
next two years.
Unless this ta done immedi-
ately. he medd there will not be
enough driving space for all the
vehicles expected in Houston
“We're fast reaching the satur-
ation point on too many thorough-
fares already," he said, “and no
amount of engineering or traffic
controis eon raise theta capaci-
Herald-Post, com-
Equipment in the
Reports today said the Reds held
large areas of the city and had
seized an arms depot
Army Leadership
Two Cairo newspapers, the gov-
ernment organ Al Gomhouria and
Al Shaab, reported fighting was
across the top of Iraq from Kirkuk still under way in Kirkuk and that
of A nah
ecta before us—an appropriation state government in operation
eensorship but the government
confirmed Sunday night that the
OB July 14 to seize control. July M
cha (cockroach! nightclub with
evident enjoyment. He returned to
to the city
after the new biennium starts
Galbraith reported Monday
morning that the scouts were in
no danger.
hope no further force would be
necessary.
Heavy Baghdad censorship kept
most of the details from the out-
side world. but reports reaching
Cairo and other Middle East
capitals said anti - government
(See CIVIL sa Page »
program should not
crowded.
managed to escape."
The Middle East News Agency
reported the Communists in Kir-
kuk executed a number of persons
and dragged them through the
streets. But in London the Iraq
Petroleum Co. announced its 590
British civilians were safe
Decries "Blind Fanaticism"
Kassem. In a radio appeal to
the nation, asked Iraqis to avoid
"blind fanaticism" that might
weed to further civil war He
warned that his government
would "settle accounts" with the
Communists and other anti - gov-
ernment force* but expressed
To Dampen
Rodeo Crowd
COLEMAN—More than half an
inch of rain failed to keep Cen-
tral Texan* away from the final
performance of the 22nd RCA
rodeo here Saturday night. A
crowd of about 6.900 persons
was present.
In saddle brone riding Satur-
Independent School District.
Burkett voted 83 to 9 in favor
of consolidation and Coleman
voters balloted 122 to 1 for the
merger.
Students in the northern part
of the Burkett district will be
permitted to transfer to the
Cross Plains Independent School
District, school officials said.
■ • II J a J at 5.6 inches at mid-morning.
Lie Undetected enTwo-dayatota for the week-
“The chair would ask you to Sept. L
arrange your affairs so we could Early House action was expect-
get some tax bill to the Senate ed on a *2.400.000.000 spending
this week," Carr sand. A House program for the next biennium,
committee scheduled an after- appropriating some 332 million
noon meeting today, resuming it* dollars from the depleted gener-
task of drafting a tax measure. al revenue fund. The bill was ex-
Laredo Maa Sponsors Bin
Rep. W. S Heatly of Paducah,
chairman of the House Appropria-
tions Committee and sponsor of
COLEMAN—Voters in Burkett
and Coleman gave approval to the spending program, estimated
consolidation of the Burkett the bill would require about 180
wood. was moved to higher
ground early Monday when rite
ing waters of the lake threaten-
ed their campsite.
The troop, sponsored by the
Church of the Good Shepherd,
early this week
Conferees have been working
on the appropriations bill during
the previous two special sessions
--------- — —- ------ „„ 0— but did not report a spending
School District and the Coleman million, dollars in taxes. program to the Moor, waiting fr
A Laredo lawmakers. Rep. Os- action on taxes.
oar Laurel, announced he will :___________________________________
ner. Texas Kidd of Fort Worth
had best average.
In steer wrestling, Jack Faver
of Fort Worth was second go-
around winner in 9.1 seconds.
Gayle Kirkpatrick of Burkburnett
had best average with 24.3.
Second go-around winner in
calf roping was -Rex Beck of
Talpa, in 13 9. He also took best
average with 29 6.
In bareback brone riding,
Eddie Kuaid at Oklahoma City
and Ira Aker* of Baird tied.
Quaid had best average.
Betty Dusek at Vancourt took
VOLUME 59 NO. 238 5c PER COPY
sponsor Gov. Price Darnel's tax
program in the House. The bill. | [ |«g
which includes a severance bene- Inenma Hitt
ficiary tax of one-half cent perIIIVVIIIV I III J
1,000 cubic feet on natural gas-
aimed at gas pipelines-would LI:.L
bring in some 180 million dollars. kArnrn Hin
Senators met for about two NVVVIM IIIUII
minutes and recessed until 3 p.m. ____
The House Revenue and Taxa- WASHINGTON (UP! • — Income
tion committee, headed by Rep. of Americans rose to a record
V. L. (Bo) Ramsey of Beckville, high in June, for the 10th time
set a 2:30 p. m. meeting to con 1" 12 months, the Commerce De-
sider all tax bills introduced in partment reported today.
was accompanied on their en-
campment by the Rev. Samuel
____S. Monk, scoutmaster, and Al
more than King, assistant scoutmaster.
District Scout Executive Joe
nor responded that be
wiU take until Wednesday to leave when he was reanty.
reach there and asked newsmen _______________
bers today debated a *2.400.000.- ing of some 332 million dollars and spending measure* early this ported last Thursday — as the
000 spending program and were: from the deficit-ridden general week second overtime session ended— building had been placed high
urged by Speaker Waggoner Carr revenue fund. is the same as! Early Committee Action that they felt a tax bill could be enough to prevent damage from
— * previously passed by the House He asked that the legislature agreed upon if they had two or rising waters.
three times. * rescue the state "from the brink three days time. Those conferees
Carr reminded members of the of financial disaster." and pro- had been assigned the bill only a
Sunday over
Conference Committee
Rains drenched wide areas of
Texas today in the wake of heavy
downpours blamed for at least
eight deaths Sunday.
Scattered showers and thunder-
storms today extended from Cen-
tral Texas to the Edwards Plat-
eau near Del Rio and along the
Gulf Coast from Corpus Christi
northeastward.
Skies were generally clear over
the rest of the state except in
East Texas where cloudy to part-
ly cloudy weather was reported.
Temperatures ranged from 55
at Alpine in the Big Bend to 82
at Corpus Christi
Violent weather brought death
to at least eight persons Sunday
Lightning hit a 14-foot sliff on
Trinity Bay near Baytown, killing
a Highlands. Tex.. boy and injur-
ing his companion. The lightning
bolt killed George Welborn. 17. It
injured John Henderson. X, of
Houston
Newsman’s Kia Killed
Traffic smashups in driving
rainstorms killed seven persons.
The victims were Mrs Allen
Duckworth, 46. and her son Allen
McEwen Duckworth. 14. both of
Dallas: Adolfo Alcala. 39. of Har-
gill. Frank Nelson, 18. of Hous-
ton. Elder Hardeman, 65-year-old
Fort Worth Negro; Mrs. Rober-
teen K Standard. 32. of Killeen
and James Graf Beck. of Ciboll.
They died in five separate smash-
Bp* during heavy rains. 1
Radar reports from Carter
rise in the lake level. Rain
since midnight at Lake
Brownwood was measured
rain, were oootea rom .Lone.:said he will leave todaz Long to leave Texas and go home
rams were reported from Hoon for Denver and wants to lose" — — -------- —
-L- Ba Diann . . -- * -a __ ... ’
redo had .X and Brownwood .61.
Rains measuring .66 inch fell at
Texarkana while Waco had 22.
Other mintmum temperatures
included Amarillo 60. Marfa 63.
Abilene 67. Dallas 73. Brownsville
78 and Galveston 80
Torrential rains dumped 2.15
inches al Carrollton in North Cen-
tral Texas in less than an hour
early today Rainfall at Kaufman
measured 1.31 inches in the last
24 hours.
after a second newspaper criticiz-
ed him.
Going by Car
the House by noon. Six tax mean- Personal income* of all kinds hit
ures, studded with sales taxes, an annual rate of *382.900.000.000.
were introduced last Friday as This was *1.600.000.000 higher than
the session opened. May incomes.
Gov Price Daniel la a hard- Most of the rise came in wages
hitting speech to the legislature and salaries, reflecting an in-:
Friday pledged a continuing fight crease in jobs that lifted employ-
to enact a tax aimed at natural ment to ■ hstoric high last month,
gas pipelines, urging a higher For .the first six months of 1959.
levy than he previously recom- the department said, inomes ran
mended at an annual rate of $376,400,000,-
Daniel Gets Help 000. In all of 1968, a recession year.
m. . —v- wages, salaries, proprietors' in-
Ssdi s"sdrvem”ss
cubic feet, which would raise an . , of"hichs mprise person
.. 2 . ’ _ .... a ..___ a _ al income—totaled 5359,000,000,000.
estimated .milliondollars dur On a per capita basis and after
ing the next two fiscal years. The .Muindae "m .n .________
proposal calls for a higher levy allowing foncsome smal. inereases
than Daniel s earlier suggest, on in pricezoincames inutheufirstahalf
of a three per cent of value tax. o1nn0toppedstheaxestm8nperiod
Daniel was joined in his battie x.pencene thesdeparomen said,
by the Texas Independent Pro- iealargesm.PATou. satns.were
ducers and Royalty owners Asso- b‘^' stnneclaz
ciation and the Texas State AFL. ploymeNttspurted 61,326,000 stom
"Te governor asked lawmakers Magso.that.a.recomd
to act speedily and solve the persons held in
states financial problems within
10 days to two weeks — which
SCOUTS MOVE
Boy Scout Troop 78. on a
—__. . .. . week-long encampment in the
The severance beneficiary tax Flat ROCk area of Lake Brown-
The measure, calling for spend- would require floor action on tax House and Senate conferee* re-
tty and protocol—already had
gone over the ground.
The Khrushchev bombshell
threw the Geneva Big Four talks
into turmoil. Western diplomats
had no means of knowing whether
it indicated fhe Soviet chief might
be ill or whether some important
new cold war move might be in
the making
Sources close to Danish Premier
H C. Hansen sate the Danish
government tentatively believed
the cancellation might be due to
health reasons. They pointed out
that Soviet authorities negotiating
SEARCH FOR BODY
MISSION (UPD — Volunteer
Beaumont Sunday apparently
caused no damage. The rains fell
be too won in matched roping with
290.3 seconds on 12 calve*.
RAPID RISE
Heavy rains in Central Texas
and the Lake Brownwood area
caused the rapid rise in lake
level over the weekend.
Two-day totals showed 8.71
inches of rain fell at Thrifty and
similar amounts at Byrds.
The two-day total for Brown*
wood is 2.65, with slightly heavier
rainfall reported on Belle Plain.
3 85 inches, and at the filtration
plant, 2 98 inches.
Rising lake water* washed
away part of the banks at Dyess
Air Force Base Recreation Area.
One area road was partially
For 4 Hours
VILLAHERMOSA, Tabasco.
Mex. (UPD—A violent cyclonic
windstorm Sunday night destroy-
ed eight small houses, damaged
fifteen more, and injures seyen
persons, five of them small chil-
dren
The year-and-a-half and five:
months infants. Freddy and
Weaver Escarpi were blown
through the air in a hammock
that landed atop an almond tree,
whence they dropped to the
ground.
The wind also tore loose a ham-
mock in which Nora Estela Tos-
ca. 6. slept, and hurled her about
100 feet away.
Two other children and two
adults were injured in the col-
lapse of a bus wayside station.
Manager Jack Broad, according Sunday. The victim was J.
I to Virgi Gray, city secretary. . Moore.
the Communist-led 2nd Brigade of
the 2nd Division had bibwn up a
number of bridges.
The Voice of Free Iraq in a
broadcast monitored here said
Iraqi armed forces had defeated
"previous criminal attempts" by
Communist agents to seise the city
of Anah. It said the latest attempt
came Sunday night but was foiled
by an army patrol.
"The Communists opened fire
and the patrol retaliated," the
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