Mt. Pleasant Daily Times (Mount Pleasant, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 198, Ed. 1 Tuesday, January 5, 1960 Page: 1 of 4
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MT. PLEASANT. TEXAS. TUESDAY, JANUARY 5, 1960
NUMBER IM
PRICE 5 CENTS ,
VOLUME 40
spread Snows
25 Killed as -
0
and abroad set out today to as-
worldwide outburst of anti-sem-
there with continuing snow.
felt in West Germany, where
to 5 more inches of snow will
unabated at midafternoon, and
no
in Texas on top of up to 2 inch-
Well before noon, the flakes
of state and localihit areas
across a temporary bridge and
organizations were being held
session, and that a new gover-
Unjustified
Mandatory inspection of live-
branding is not mandatory in
lation has shifted from West to
BOSTON #Fires lulled almost
serious subject now.”
More than 30 per cent of fire
- C-C Sets March 18
By Fumes Monday
Political experts say the Dem-
blase which burned a work room
ture
Morrison hel a 65,000 vote
LaPrade said names were being
dropping up to 6% inches at one
point and more than 3 inches
Sir Christopher Steel, British
ambassador to Bonn came home
demonstrate that the interna-
tional anti-Semitic movement
World
Briefs
Fireman Bob Simpson was ov-
ercome by fumes believed to be
pital Several other firemen
were temporarily overcome by
the femes
er East,
on, Ariz.
r college
lcollege
eeks
Post
F PR-
x.—13,500
atc's 28-8
as State.
ton—only—7—
any bowl, - .
t Prairie
7-10.
76th District Grand
Jury It Adjourned
Nine indictments were return- i
exas from Border to Border
generally to the northern por ,...--------------_
tion. The Wichita Falls Weather itism.
The white flakes poured down Bureau forecaster predicted 4 Political repercussions were
and in Britain, where anti-Ger-
man feeling still remains strong
from World War II.
— about 45 miles an hour.
The engineer was among those
killed, and his helper was ser-
iously injured. ---—
There were about 1,000 pass-
engers on the train, most of
them factory or office workers
on their way to jobs or students.
stock sold m Texas went, by the
boards this week saving sellers ■
8 cents per bead
The Agriculture Department
ruled the practice is unjustified.
| Traylor Russell said Tuesday
1 The decision grew out of a
Aroused officials in America rd with anti-Semitic incidents.
The two are the National Youth
of German and the League of
Nationalist Students.
In the United States the na-
tional director of the Anti-De-
famation League of B’nai B’rith
announced plans to go to West
Germany next week Benjamin
R Epstein of New York said
he would seek a "full complete
Council meeting Jan. 25-26 in
Amsterdam. -___
Another American Jewish
leader refused to dismiss the
smear campaign as strictly “the
work of "holligans whose taste
for violence has been excited by
the incidents in Germany."
Rabbi Joachin. Prinz, expell-
withheld pending arrests of those
indicted,
LaPrade said a special 85-
member venire o fjurors has
been called next Monday for the
trials of Rufus McGill and Rich-
ard Kin, Negroes Both are
charted wit hmurder. -
Services Wednesday
For Mrs. Johnson .
’ Funeral services will be held
at 10 30 Wednesday morning at
the Center Grove Church at
Christ for Mrs Elsie Mae JO
son Basil D Shilling will con-
duct the services, with burial la
the Center Grove Cemetery. ..
Mrs Johnson, 71, died at 1
p.m. Monday at her home sa
the Daingerfield, Highway, She-
was born Oct. 18, 1888 in Mount
Pleasant tt
She is survived by her hus
band, Mannon Johnson, Mount
Pleasant; son, Glenn Johnson.
Tennessee: one grandchild: and-
two sisters, Mrs Jewel Exum.
Dallas and Mrs Charlie Burk-
halter, Austin.
report and then present it to
the B’nai B’rith International
hearing in Fort Worth last I
April As a result, the 0 I. Col-
Try Sales Barn here diccontin-
tied the inspection and ‘fre to
dav Russell said ?
I The decision, by Will Rogers, a 45-million-dollar transaction,
examiner, was made because ____
SWASTIKA MARS NEW YORK SYNAGOGUE — A policeman
helps clean off a swastika found painted on the wall of Temple
Emanu El fashionable synagogue on New York’s Fifth Ave-
•continued, the decision said
reported today
____._________"I ask every Texan who be .
insurance law—now a’raging is- lieves this program is necessary the Weather Bureau warned except for far West Texas,
for "our children and for the “
■ The Weather Bureau forecast fromWest Germany for special
talks British officials privately
REACH AGREEMENT IN STEEL DISPUTE—Steel Industry Negotiator R. Conrad Cooper,
left, shakes hands with Union President David McDonald as an agreement is reached in the
. eight-month steel contract dispute at the end of a 22-hour negotiating session in Washington led
by Labor Secretary James P. Mitchell, center. (AP Wirephoto)
—___._______-----— --:— ---%--—--—
ale the segregation issue in the
in the first primary But the is-
sue suddenly loomed large when
State Sen Wililam M Rainach,
leader of the staunch segregat-
PAY YOURSELF FIRST with
■ 1st National Savings Account
(Adv.)
annual Chamber of Commerce
membership meeting and ban-
quet, it was announced Tues-
day by President George W 1
Stone
W F McCurdy director of '
public relations for Sears Roe-
buck and Company in Dallas,
has been secured as speaker,
for the dinner •
Tickets will be $2.50 each and
are to go on sale about Feb. 1. 1
Adenauer after the apeparance
I of the first swastikas and slo-
gans in Bonn itself
far and three special sessions
Texas, the governor warned,
“must face the fact that a bal-
anced budget and public school
improvements will require some
additional taxes "
if consid-
1 to be a
sioner of
me. but '
me who
omething
d in this -
fe. I am
ildren in -
e-Baptist
relief was in sight until to- fall along the Red River Valley the ■ -campaign was begun by
neo-Nazis on Christmas Eve,
geratic second primary/show come by fumes
. down figures to be a close one |
1 In the Doc $ first primary, s
I record turnout of 842,609, Long’s
ticket was soundly trounced
| Since then, the 6-year-old gov-
ernor bos faded from the pic-
Fireman Overcome For Meeting-Dinner
March 11 has been set for the
Rr The Associated Preen %
HOUSTON- Directors of Pure
Oil Co have approved a propos-
al for the acquisition of Wood-
ley Petroleum Co. of Houston
in what oil sources term at least
ported by two teen-agers at 7:20, ____.___
pm, was undetermined, al-ed on forgery counts, three for
though Fire Chief Otis Falls child desertion and one for L
said the fire started near a gas swindling District Clerk Allen
stove.
Simpson was overcome by the
deadly fumes in the attic He
was carried down by other
firemen and rushed to the hos-
Funeral services were held at
2 pm Tuesday,at the First
Raplisi Church for b. l. tee.
71. Rev Harvey D Lewis, pas.
for of the church, was the offi-
dating minister, with Rev L
E Lamb of Daingerfield artist
ing.
Burial was in Masonic feme
Mr Lee died at 1 a.m Mon
day in a local hospital Man-
ager of Duke A Ayres for 35
years, he was born Oct 24. 1R88
voters for the public schools were missing after taking off in I with freezing weather over natioinal standing of West Ger-
‘ the bad weather:------. much of North Texas, many’s government, a partner
The Highway Department and . Rain fell where snow didn't, in the North Atlantic Alliance
The West Germans took their
"That went over with at
hush,” he commented, when no between deLesseps 8 Morrison,
immediate reaction appeared four times elected New Orleans
Then he got it—plus audience mayor, and Jimmie H Davis,
Italian Train
Jumps Track
MONZA. Italy I - K jammed
10-car commuter train sped into
- a sharp curve today and the lo-
comotive and five cars hurtled
from the rails into a tangle of
wreckage.
Some five hours later 25 dead
had been counted, the Trans-
port Ministry announced, but it
- was believed more bodies would
be found. The ministry said a-
, bout 100 persons were injured »
The accident occurred in den-
se fog about two miles north of
■ the station in this auto-racing
capital of Italy. Monza is about -
10 miles northeast of Milan •
The Transport Ministry said
preliminary investigation indi-
rated the accident was caused
by the failure of the engineer to
observes 6-mile-an-hour speed
limit set for the stretch where
) the derailment occurred. The
train appeared to be going
against travel in the heaviest- where clearing began during first court action, sentencing a.__.
the morning man in Berlin to 10 months in ed from Germany by the Nazis,
One woman died in a wreck jail for painting anti Jewisn slo-
on a Fort Worth “street slick gans on two doors and a sho
The train was pulled by an
electric locomotive It—sped
nue. Similar smearing of the symbol of Nazi Germany has
appeared on places of worship in West Germany and London
recently.(AP Wirephoto)
Winter's most widespread state highway department work- — eu r
snows in Texas swept the state ers on the scene said, was south BY THE ASSOC IATED I RESS their had been directly connect-
from border to border Tuesday, of the Canadian River in the
Panhandle.
They reported 3 to 5 inches sess and. combat the sudden.
’Highway "Dept. Says Anti-Semitic
Traveling Dangerous A ■ u
BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS , Heaviest snow before noon, 1s | w 6m Pas I h Cl od
, WASHINGTON — President
Texas, because the cartie. Dope- Eisenhower's choice of Brazil
as a starting point for his Feb-
East Texas: and because less ruary ” trip l0 South America
ners and Newman's Book Store, ed by a 76th District Court
were damaged by smoke and grand jury Monday, which ad-
journed until Feb. 4.
Five indictments were return-
who rose to governor in 1944. Morrison blunted the setback,_______.__.
Morrison, 47, is a polished, I bypicking up the support of the someone in need of help and be es.
-- has fourth and fifth candidates L considerate enough to offer as
< ampaigned feverishly to be the State Comptroller William Dodd ance the seret Said
- ------See CIVITANS, Page J
said in a statement issued at
on ■ Font ,oru an wo sou .... ... ... ——-______his home in Orange, N. J., that
with ram. while three fliers window He is Rolf Wollny, 23. The suspects “the attacks are
were missing in the rugged Big an unemployed clerk. part of 8 co-ordinated effort to
Sixteen members of extremist
tender he is revolted hy the out-
break of anti-Semitism in his
,i ne country Hendrik van Dam,
CROUDS s police 220 net secretary general of the Ger-
man Jewish Council, called on
still flourishes."
In West Germany, Chancellor
Korrad Adenauer told a Jewish
from burning plastic in the
HAPPY DAY — Mrs Margaret Maur, wife of a Jones &
Laughlin Steel Corp employe, joyfull tosses her laundry in
the air after she hears the nationwide steel dispute has end-
+ed The Pittsburgh, Pa., housewife has more than one reason
, to be happy. She has M children at home. (AP Wirephoto)
MICROFILM SERVICE & SALES
-00 B0X 8066
DALLAS TEXAS
ines
______, .Fire, which broke out at the
ing segregationist candidate, Hat Box on East Third Street
most of the state's newspapers, Monday night, sent s Mount
and Protestant North Louisiana Pleasant volunteer fireman to
a hospital after he was over-
his audience with him, and
tening
item “Strange America."he. - . .__, .
said A To think it was found may decide who does the step
ed to escape high taxation," ping
nor coming into office in 1961 __________
would lack the necesary exper-Christ when they met for their I most been reached at some
fence to finish the program he regular noon luncheon at Alps points. Most of North Central
. u__________believes Texas needs. Cafe. J Texas is expected to have haz- RUIGU
Daniel said he was sure Texas The governor listed these oth Bolton said our nation needs ardous driving conditions by
er Hems of unfinished busi-, three things collectively -that morning Cone 9
for better schools and other ness” as hoped for achievements, can only be attained by each ofAtlanta Snowing in Bowie
in a third term: as individually Atranta w onowine -
heerite enforcement n. 2? the speaker, said. - coub ... porno that is ex
. See PRICE DANIEL Page: need to use more courtesy in pected to turn to sleet or snow
our everyday living Too many, Tuesday Night driving will be
people run roughshod over hazardous
everyone, else to accomplish Paris Snow through the dis-
Itieir goals in day-to-day living, trict. the heaviest being in La-
, a hearty welcome is remem - mar-Pannina Red River and
bered by those who receive -
them and require so little effort -
on our part to speak a word of C-C Will Elect New
' merce man used a collection of NEW UALRY ***** * ye welcome when we meet people Orcrore * MXMha
tried Truisms to ne together a voters Saturday pick the man third with 143.000 votes, on the street, whether we know Officers at Meeting
series of anecdotes which kept who will step into Tame, ack Morrison and Davis cagily—them or-not. Bolton said. Election of new officers of the
Jis.: Gov. Earl * Long much trav. bargained for his endorsement I Secondly, Bolton stressed. Chamber of Commerce will to
eled shoes.... Davis offered to sponsor a state we need more consideration held at the Jan. 13 directors _____
Segregation is one issue that sovereignty commission with for others." If we love thy nei- meeting, it was decided by di than 20 per cent of cattle sold is may an effort to dramatize
Rainach as head. Morrison of-chbor as thyself, then we can- rectors Monday branded Russell said his announced program for ev- "
— fered Rainch’s campaign man-mot help but practice considera- Officers for the new year are—Since a majority of East Tex-er improving relationships with
The choice. for governor lies ager. Rep. John Garrett, the tion of our fellow individuals " being elected early this year. s’ cattle raisers consider mand- N Ameer 1 informed sour.
-----... 1-— . ..— — important post of House speak- The Golden Rule to practice is says the C-C office, in order atory inspection of no real value said today
er actually consideration of others, that each officer may attend or service, and since inspection ‘ ’____
________________________After suspenseful silence Rain-he said the Feb. 4-5 East Texas Institute is not worth enough to Texas BOSTON Fires killed almost
comment that taxation is a|rural-bred hillybilly songsterbacked Davis I. Everyone would be a better, for Chamber Presidents, Offi- as a whole to warrant the man 950 people , month in the Unit-
individual ire would_nd cers and directors to Nacogdoch- datory a cent fee. R is being dis- ed States during 1959, the Na-
* rional Fire Protection Assn.,
jun bayou lands where be'
stumps in French.
Davis, 53, appears deceptively
reserved, politically shrewed
He has the backing of the lead
Item: “Arbuckle" means cof-
fee — “to all but you voting intelligent politician. He
sters, to whom it means Fatty" ■ . _’‘ _________.______
Item “One of my better talk state’s first Catholic governor and former Gov James A Noe
(See PITTSBURG Page 3 in 90 years, drawing strength Long’s running mate
--------I---------------------'from his sprawling metropolis ---------------
g - and Southern Louisiana's Ca-’
casualties were children and
more than half the estimated
1 11,300 fire deaths occurred to
homes 1 .
, AUSTIN—Atty Gen. Will Wil.
son said today he would make a
"political, broadcast” over a
statewide radio nework Jan 12
1 Wilson is expected • say then
- whether he will run for govern
i or against Price Daniel, who an
nounced last night he would
seek a third term
, metal grinding against metal
I The second coach, filled with 7
workmen turned upside down maagaL < /
The third car hurtled into the PITISOITO 1.1
1 air and landed on the roof of a ■ ELS * %
at the Hat Box He was reported
io be improved Tuesday morn-
ing at the hospital
i lead over, Davis as they led n. Firemen said two other ad
candidates Mnrrhon got r-Rn^1"'***?^
1 • votes 10 Davis' 214,000
But Davis pulled atactical | water. Cause of the blaze, re-l
coup at the otuset of the runoff
campaign, quiekly adopting a
I segregation plank.
| Both candidates had soft oed-
- is.Bend country after taking off
______. Dahar Dallas in foul weather.
.... - ___...... ,______He blamed" selfish interestes. expenditures per child KODG1 I DOHON Weather reports by distriicts in West Berlin after they staged
schools and colleges, and ade- pressure, groups and powerful The governor said he would include: an outdoor meeting Saturday
*---*----5---5----—--------1--IL Fort Worth and Dallas: Snow and sang Nazi songs
general in the Fort Worth area. West Berlin took steps to ban
PSA AIICMVAL with hazardous driving condit- two radical rightist youth
ions A Weather Bureau bulletin
The Civitan Club Monday in late morning predicted snow--:--------------—-—
heard Robert Bolton of 2 to 4 inches north of Fort sa a L .
minister of Southside Church /Worth, and that total had al-Livestock inspection
two-story factory 100 feet from a -
the tracks A few survivors Manaerl
1 lu I IClUwv’ 13 r.
many injured, shouting for help * .
The fourth coach flipped on Cl.L could balance its budget, pay
its aside and oree LlUID speaker needed services and start a long
again. A 27 foot T range financing program with
had knifed through the coach.. During the next 10 years, 2500 out using the last resort’s gen-
stabbing through a’ catholic-new industries will locate in LISA 8
priest and two other passengers. Texas, S M Patterson, Pitts-L . -
The fifth coach skidded on its burg Chamber of Commerce, s
left side for 100 yards. Many of manager told the Rotary bDeGreOdTOn Issue IVidy
its passengers were bruised Tuesday, at Alps Cafe 10 *
====--* matthat Decide Louisiana Race
See 3 KILLED. Page: don’t dream of today." - - -
, ,The veteran chamber of com- NEW ORLEANS 'P Louisiana Tionists finished a surprising
LL Lee Services ------
Are Held Tuesday
Price Daniel Asks Voters neeeeretkniinnenouh ^ “ during the morn-
-------— - A hicles passed over it, turning
D _L: . , £. 1 a M 1. . m highways and streets at some penetrated as far south as Fort
TOT I 1 places into what one man called Worth with light steet and snow
A * ■ "-------■ ----------" ■ ----an ice rink." %-----——— The wecthar-noirem forenact
: AUSTIN fP - Gov: Price Dan- lines now followed by the State era’l sales or state income taxes. The weather indirectly caused temperatures of 10 to 20 degrees_
iel wants a third term and the Highway Commission He made another direct plea two deaths, and- three, fliers | in the Panhandle by morning, expressed concern at the inter-
backing of Texas voters to He suggested there may be to voters for the public schools were missing after taking off in with freezing weather over natioinal standing of West Ger
shove unfinished major parts of some’ changes needed to correct and colleges
his'program all the way through possible "inequities" in the auto
the Legislature. i
He answered the reelection sue,
question that has kept many L The governor listed a dozen'preservation
political hopefuls on the edge of items of unfinished or half- fin- operation of our schools to join
their chairs in a statewide ap- ished business left hanging by in a crusade which will make Pa m
whipped into the curve at about peal Monday night for public the 1959 Legislature. Higher Texas schools and colleges sec-T WHANK FORM
45 miles an hour, support, teachers pay and other school ond to none in the nation," he Y IIUIIJ vel
A reporter, a passenger in Daniel said he wants Texans improvemetns is the No. 1 plank said He commented that Texas
—— the fifth car of the train, felt to join him in what he called a in his reelection platform .now ranks 32nd in total school
the train's brakes grab just as ‘crusade" for better public He blamed “selfish interestes. expenditures per child. !
it entered the curve. schools and colleges, and ade pressure , groups and powerful The governor said he would
The locomotive hurtled off quate and equitable long-range lobbyists" plus the lawmakers’have preferred to end his service
the rails in a terrific scream of state fiscal program, and water | preoccupation with taxes as the as governor a year from nowe at
board reorganization along the reasons for the 52nd Legisla- the close of his second term. He
H ------—— ture’s failures. It held one regu- | : dded that he now feels the job
can not be finished at a special 1
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