Brenham Banner-Press (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 91, No. 215, Ed. 1 Tuesday, October 30, 1956 Page: 1 of 4
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VOLUME 91
BRENHAM, TEXAS, TUESDAY, OCT. 30, 1956
NO. 215
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By British And French
CEASE FIRE ULTIMATUM SENT
Soviets Attempt To Trick Rebels
WILL ORDER IN
TROOPSUNLESS
FIGHTING ENDS
General War Feared --
REDS SENDING
2 2
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THOSE RUGGED DAYS
EARLY PRESS BOXES
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PRESS APPRECIATED
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Forces
=warnemm—-
IS’-
will send troops
into the Suez
d*ug
WednedyD: 30 p.
By JOSEPH W. GRIGG
playing field was roped off and
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Egypt to within 12 miles of the
in maintaiming order.
mmmee
Reply Deadline Given
"‘The
annual Halloween Carnival sponsored by
not complied with this de*
‘British and French .forces will
I
Bakery Shop
(Continued on page four)
A homemade bakery shop will
Paretn - Teachers' Association, is
Fireman's
Park.
and by laws, any ten members
o
Back To Amber
The intersection of South Market
and Tom Green streets was a two- |
Texas
quest for clemency.
stop
first
Calendar of Events
MEETING POSTPONED
Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Loesch
(Continued on page 4)
munities. Derrick said the polls
Wednesday Is Cash Day In Brenham— Be Sure To Attend
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Egypt's Russian
Planes In Action
and Israel have been asked to
answer this communication within *
met, vi-
x inlent
At the University of Texas,
there was some semblance of a
press box at old Clark Field.
It was on the roof of the grand-
stand and to get into it, you had
to climb a ladder and wiggle
through a trap door. You al*
• most had to be an tathleteto •
make it. The press box would
find Ruby Perry. reside
Court Street, in Housron.
The fataity was the
As Eden spoke, the battle sit-
uation in the Egyptian - Israeli
conflict was fluid.
The new feature is one of many
concessions and entertainments
that will be offered.
Mayor Reese B. Lockett will
new coach who didn’t know us
grabbed us by the back of the
neck and escorted us off the
field. He apologized later, but
by then we had concluded to
cover the games from the side-
lines..
sforms, hail and du • •
the state.
to get a new , nop int
rejoiced, •
h! ndin
The <
m. .Mrs. Martin urged parents
(Continued on page four)
Israel announced that both the
(Continued on page 4)
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The
w as
Many Areas Get Rain--
More Cold Air Drives Into State
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the Brenham Elementary School P-TA at
, Fireman’s Park Wednesday night. From
left to right, are Theresa Urbin, daughter
of Mrs. Tony Urbin; Barbara Brinkmeyer,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Willie Brink-
be a featye when the annual
i Halloween carnival, sponsored by
i the Brenham Elementary School
Egypt, Israel Given
Until 10 p.m. To
Halt‘War’
ing of the nominating commitee
Monday afternoon.
President R. D. Barnes, whose
intersection of of a head injury.
The
-rael’s lightning drive which had
carried 126 miles inside Egypt
and only 12 miles short of the
( Suez Canal. Air raid alerts sound-
t
SPECTATOR
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THEN AND NOW
A
' Texa
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her of the board when his succes-
sor as president takes office.
, ' The
i i ains
having defective brakes. | dead on arrival at St. Jude Hos.
Chief of Police Arthur Stern-
Davidson. Both were knocked i
the pavement.
In those days, every man was
for himself. He kept his own
play-by-play and was careful
to see that nobody else in the
board of directors of the Brenham
Industrial Foundation at a meet- I
Egypt sent its Soviet - equipped
Air Force into action ’against Is-
October 30:
Called meeting Brenham Com-
mandery No. 15, Knights Temp-
lar. 7:30- p.m., Masonic Temple.
Hallowe’en party, Chappell
Hill school, 6 p.m.
Pilot Club Civie Night chicken
barbecue. Lange Lake. 7 p.m.
October 31:
Bluebonnet Garden Club will
h-HrmSr
By PHIL NEWSOM
United Press Foreign News Editor ’
Board of the various celebrations here, and
Station in 19M whtm Texas met*
A&M college “tfier. Robert
the State of .Texas for 60 years aS
representative of the Galveston-
Houston Breweries.
—-e--Le
timera
in the plush comfort provided
there for the'press, radio and
television representatives, our
’ thoughts went"back to'the ear-
lier days of foo.t.ball. We could
not help bOtVOAfYast the at- ,
titude toward the press then |
with that which is" apparent i
now. We started reporting foot- I
ball games when we were in
t '
' i
of the foundation may place in |
nomination the name of any
member ih good standing not
nominated by the committee by
submitting the member's name
over their signatures to the pre-
sident within ten days from pub-
lication of the names of the
nominees. Ballots will be mailed
to the foundation memberships
before November 15.
Members, of the nominating
committee were Sidney Haas,
chairman;' Herbert. Schroeder,
Robert Appel, Tom Whitehead
and R. D. Barnes. .
Henry Lehrmann, who was lo-
cal distributor for Southern Select
: beer, and Mrs. Lehrmann attend-
ed the funeral.
........... re- became known to many local
His mother. 1 people. He died in Memorial hos-
BULLETIN
VALLETTA, Malta (UP) —
Britain's Mediterranean fleet
cancelled exercises today and
and was warned to stand by.
berg said • Herbert A. Muchow
this ; V
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evacuating the bloodstained dnpi-
| Suez Canal. An official announce!-
-rownin Of Ou ,
FUN SPocKs
ping in the Middle
■ mperatu < s slightly. It ms moy-
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GIRL FOR LOESCHES
the field. We got almost as
much exercise as the players,
and certainly as much as the
officials. We followed the same
Regular Sons of Hermann meet- bchinc a fromt that loo ' 1
demic of t rn idoes
of' pital at Houston Sunday at the
1 age of 81.
Brenham Weather
C l o u d y to partly cloudy
and cooler tonight. Wednesday
partly cloudy and cooler. Low
tonight 56, high tomorrow 78.
Readings for 24-hours up to 7 a.
m. today: Max. 34, Min. 61, 7 a.
m. 67, Sunset 5:37.
governments of Egypt
By i NITFD PRE Ss
econd cold front dro
■ today, leer-han 1.
rael quit fighting -by-dmeanamnin
Ga
n h9R;
k ' 9
JERUSALEM (UP) - Britain
— --------- —----- ------ aged of the local ASC office.
the newsmen wes, at. College in 11 Communities
. .ASC rural committeemen will are 7,547,503
hold the elections in 'he ll com-
NOMINATED AS
BIF DIRECTORS
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Ballots To Be Sent
Members Before
Nov. 15
street and Hog Branch. ■ -
The twins lived, with their
r miles , as mut h .,
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BULLETIN
VIENNA (UP) — Artillery
a Hit small arms fire broke out -
anew in- Budapest today and
the Hungarian Air Force
• threatened to attack Soviet
troops unless they withdraw
from the city within 12 hours.
New Drive Opening
To Crush Rebel
men! said Israeli forces had cap- .
lured the Kusseuma 'Road june-
tion, about six miles west of the !
Israel l ■
dese i t.
high school, at a time when
the high school had no stad-
ium or even a grandstand,
During that period he visited
Brenham many times, attending
r skles behind it and dropped
The Post Office, and three
Brenhram blanks will close for'
torms. driving hail
dust torms erupted.
pressbox got hold of his mate-
rial. The first time we ever no-
ticed an effort on the part of
the athletic‘officials to assist
»ld front left part
Ed Boettcher, Louis Hausman.
•and Reese B. Lockett were nom-
inated for re-election and Leon
Simank as an addition to the
Mrs. Gene Martin, president of was ticketed following the fatal
According to the ■constitution, the association, said Tuesday mishap at the intersection ef
■ • - ----*-- ---h-- that homemade cakes, pies and
tneapubinc.be otfered for sale Red Light Goes
tal and that natinalist rebels
were joining the Hungarian army
When the two fronts
ous winds, tornadoes.
P ' ' A
, Wha/AH . .
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Referendum Set Dec. 11 - -
Texas Cotton Quotas
be worked out-in the near future.
Up Slightly Over 1956 a• 1 "
---------- ' j moving -vehicles coming ■ off the
tormgesomcdirector.owicloxim-held Wednesday at
ing across the Czech border into I
W arpund st ihnKcrmumunisi."ma
right out on the field, behind ( again to trick the rebel army in- I .-
the offensive team, scribbling i to laying down .its arms. „ . , i3i
our notes as bet we could as The Communist - controlled Bu- | --
we walked or ran up and down I dapest Radio announced 1
morning that Soviet troops were
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first Tront
over thous
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Brenham Banner-Press
Member of the United Press, The Greatest IVorld-IPide News Service
system in reporting the North in maintaiming order.
-Texas-State Teachers tollege-But United Press Correspondent
games, even though it did have 1 (Continued on page four)
—fourmenare
The driver of a garbage truck East Alamo and Da vidson streers Thanksgiving November 29. thus
that stuck and killed a six-year- j Monday at 2:50 p.m. making that date the unanimous
old negro youth Monday after-1 The truck struck negro twins-, choice for Brenham.
noon has been charged with Roy and Ray Perry. Roy was Assisant Postmaster T. O
m. cst to-
the ve t, collided with a flow ofI The US. Weather burou issued
The annual groyver referendum will be open from 8 a.m. to 6 p. hill in that block toward the Ele-
for Washington County cotton ' m. mentary and High Schols. ;
farmerswill be held December 11 I prior to the election, cotton al- Red stop lights renriin on Tom
in eleven rural communities. । lotments for next year for the Grecn on both sides of Market I
The elecrion covers the exten- individual farms will be sent out I
sion of federal marketing quotas 1 through the mail. Derrick said,
to cover1 next year’s crops of up- The mailing will be about the
much les; a press box. The
WW-kj 0/3 L,m
crown a Hallowe'en queen, to a. ... . wa a .G- ,
be determined by the penny-a-way stop intersection again Tues-granaparente Fe L n, sj,
vote method. The crowning is. day. £ an r . K And .MY
scheduled at 6 p. m. following a 1 _ May or Reese B Lokett said the -Garret,,. Their Parents, Milton
concert by the Brenham High State Highway Department had " 1 ' 11
SChool band at 5:30 p.m. • recommended that, the red stop
The food booth and all rides light for traffic coming into Bren-
and concessions wil open at 6 p ham from- Houston
^■TACarniLi After Fata 1 A cc i d e n t
- - As We sat -in -ithe-press box —==
at Rice Institute the other night
oal mg hem DMa Henry Aronstein
■ ■ ■ The’twins The 291 is the date of the murderofaesonora, Tes., woman Buried In Houston
were crossing Alamo street from annual Texas-A&M football game ‘ E. rlire ,1m ;,a 1. 1.- -----
and the date the city of Brenham to m-X anv las « t „ Funeral services were held in
| and Washington County schools ,. ' , . He Houston Monday for David Aron-
The accident occurred on a por. I will close. Blinn College will also "m P"oe" dead "t - 06 i stein who traveled through o ut
tjon of the newly paved portion observe the 29th holiday.
of East Alamo between Kober
land and long staple types of first week in December, prior to ing scheduled for Thursday night
^^-n County farmers rot rasjnoneoren
approved the election lastyear.have been increased by 136,610
by aslarge, F v 61 to24, acres over the 1956 allotments by
according to Earl Dertieku.manthe Agriculture Department
I Total allotment for the state Brenham arc the parents of a girl
acres. | horn at the Milroy Hospital Tues-
individual allotments will bechhy at L am. She weighted six
(Continued on page four) pounds, seven and a half oundes.
'.^ye^ sbtt-eqenppe-iTFSTce-went into aezrh-ay Suea’cni. 8m
hold some 15 or 20 persons,
■; tightly wedged between a 12-
inch board which served as a
7 , seat, and another board that
J Vs^rved as a desk. Into this
makeshift were packed report-
ers for the two Austin papers,
The Daily Texan, the three
press services, and the so-call-
ed state papers such as the
Dallas News, the San Antonio
Express, and so on. And then
there were usually two or three
telegraph operators . sending
out play-by-play accounts of
the game by Morse code. There
were student correspondents
for various out-of-town news-
papers. So you see, the press
box was always pretty well
packed. In fact, the athletic
business offfce eyed the group
in the press box, figured out it
must be losing $25.00 to $50.00
a game on admissions for this
crowd that came in free. Ath-
letic Director L. Theodore Bel-
mont issued a decree that
henceforth there would be no
more passes — that newspaper
men (therewere no radio or
television men in those days)
would have to pay their way-
in for the prjvilege of report-
ing the games. We were news
editor of the Austin American
at .that time and we sent back
East.”
The W e House announcement
the word to Belmon t th at if
there were no passes, there
would be no publicity. Other
news men backed us up. Before
the week was out the decree
was promptly rescinded and
the time • honored custom <4
■ admitting the press without
charge was resforec.
> vrlerei . ' -
Ready ’ For The Carnival ! reiTensoraeist "5 I
A “gypsy”, two "witches” and a “sail- meyer; Karen Sue Henslee, daughter of Ara) neng hrsusut STu.toS last-minute prblemof filling the
or," are all dressed up and ready for the Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Henslee; and Emilie Saui Ar.brasdeeme toi/m campaign gap. 12 hours," Eden said.
Graber, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Fred bilization and Iraq said she would Mr, Eisenhower announced ne, if one or both of these nations
Graber. Misses Urbin and Brinkmeyer both I enter the fight if it continued. Jor- Was ' ed,to chinge his plans had
are members of the seventh grade and dan pr tested to the United Na- 36.0 ihe,mddle East crisis, mand by that time, Eden said.
Misses Henslee and Graber are sixth grad- 1 (Continued on page tour) andesaid i, Te turnoooevents, ‛ - -ce :—
ers (Staff Photo) 1 -------------------- . 'day eaves ounqopiicm, in’ tint ervene in whatever strength
: A 11 Nr A the interest of working for peace, may be necessary to secure com-
______• _ All oW Aoree but to remain at the White House pliance.".
- h - - — * b i Wedne da; ' ■ leal with the situ*
Truck Driver Charged' On Nov. As ’
— ’ Thanksgiving
• • • n- I T T ,
Bingham Has No
Final Statement - — „ ----
I ed twice in Cairo during the day.
Before Execution indicating Israeli planes also were
i aloft.
Bingham was convicted of stab-
Frank J. Kubitza, president of bing Mrs. ■ Jo Lambert to death
the Washington County State He appealed the conviction to the-
Bank, said the three firms had . Texas Supreme Court.
agreed to closeon the 29th since’ Monday
that was the holiday being ob- In - . ,, , , .
served by the city. Pardons and Paroles domed <a
Due to there being five Thurs. . ,, ,
days, in this year's month of Mrs; Myrtle, Mac, Bingham
Brenham streets this year. The November, the National Thanks- . J? alde , said he had tured to re-
.. . be changed last fata] accident victim was giving date is November 22. But 1 11 ion in prison and had 1 been
back to an amber caution light. I Ich, Cofr.. it... .. 1 od ’ . " . • bantized
M. I." lia . ir.r.onn Comlee Harris, who died many communities are observing oped
nnheumnyor,said. the Hrhway ‘Nov ember 10, 1955 as a result of the 29th, traditional holiday in His family remained in front of
par men a recommended a injuries sustained when the car connection with the football the prison all . evening, in hopes
stoprand-g0 .signal light- a.reguhr । in which he and three her per. game of a last-minute deky in the exe-
traffic bght of green, amber and J sons were riding was struk by a The State Legislature find the cution.
red, instead, i ■ • , ,■ truck at the intersection, of South State Department of Education Asked if he bid any final statc.
m A *i i aid no ' ' ci ~n n as m Market and Stone Stie, is N. vem- approved November 29 of. ment, Bingham told the warden,
made, but that something -would bet 9 1955. ficia Thanksgiving ioliday.
TRGAPSJACK
INTO HUNGARY
The old coll $ nt m
broadside across the state ,
United Press Staff Correspondent :
VIENNA (UP) Strong Soviet *
tanks units were reported pour- ‘ ''
f i point and whea farmi
i against Israel’s lightning thrust into the Sinai, Desert and
. said its land forces “are presently advancing to mop up” , ,
the Israeli invaders f , and F rance nounced today they -
I - Neither side would call it a wan* ’ will send troops imto the Suez
But in the.capitals of the Western world there was fear ....
that- Israel’S't nustrallegedly to wipe out Egyptian com- qeuze
i mando bases, might be the spark to touch off the long- ighti.
I feared general war in the Middle East. * 1 The Anglo - French ultimatum
Mere were the principal devel was dischsed by British Prime
ments: IIT TO mAnNNn ■ Minister Sir Anthony Eden in a
I l. Egypt decreed general mo- IKI Ih LIIMl LIB formal report to the House of
bilization and claimed that her 11114 IU I VIIUL• | Commons in Lndon.
airforce hid hot down two enemy rA A A AvmT Ii ' -Eden had conferred with French
Phines and destn yed 12 armored Illi A Mi Ll HIG Premier Guy Mollet <and their re-
qirs It. said losses had. I U UHIVLL 1110 spective foreign ministers in the
ecDinf " ted on the Israeli fori as British capital before he made his
and that the Israeli attack hall T A I T AC C Dp Dm [ grave statement against a back-
een. brought t a .complete L UHLLABZLLUt ground of, fighting, on Egypt’s
i standstill. . ' Sinai Peninsula.'
I , 2. Israeli reports said Israeli * Eden said communications had
oreeihadstruckbmilesinsideMiddle Elast Crisis!been sent tv Cairo and Tel Aviv,
to within 1” mile of the Causes Change asking the Egyptian and Israeli
-d9ed nd8e i governments to “stop all warlike
In Plans I action by land, sea and air forth-
___• with and to withdraw their mili-
uu d g steadiy towrard the norkh ;
. ontral area of th state and
: ’ hould reach the arc., by night-
rom । . ill, the weather burcau said. ।
By UN FT ED PKf-ss taryfonces to a distance of 10
Prestdent EiSnhower -today miles-from-theseanal:"
220 2neEs scaa
anetey--- .
v m moist a r flowying northward severe weather warnings as Mon- M^^.Sdder?^^
ft hm the ii day s cold front stormed across Kev a
Collision Is Milhty i Texs. ’ trio . ,, . . —.
? f . . . , , Hallowe’en Carnival, Fireman’s
Powerful winds t. re down an Park, 6 p. m. Elementary School
oil derri k at Forger. P-TA in charge. Public invited.
and Tomad tunnels played .around November 1: •
. The golden spread” of the p in- j Ladies’ Circle, Grace Lutheran
} handle but none touched ground Chun h; meets at 2:30 p. m. at the
Dust Cuts.into El Paso church.
Winds were clocked at 81 miles ; St. Pauls Lutheran Ladies Aid
per hour at El Paso, where dust . meeting, 3 p.m. church basement,
cut Visibility to zero late Monday. . First Baptist Church Training
Fkailstoms reached as far south . Union covered dish supper 6:45 n.
(Continued on page four) m. 2 ’
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